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Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13
PRINCIPAL CITIES,

ssDaily. tDaily except Sunday.
2;4O p. m. train has fine reclining chair cars
and high back coaches through to Kansas
City and St. Louis, and Pullman sleeping cars
Abba to st. Louis and Kansas City. IL :09 a.
cars and coaches all new, to St. Louis 5:45 a,
NJ, has fine reclining chair through to Peoria.
or rates etc apply to.
h. T. Boyd, Alb, Cults,
, Agent G. P. and T. A
Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13

Consumption Il III III g RS!
White Wine 81 Tar s syrup. S=
TheS best cough remedy on earth.
cures q cold IN one day if taken in time.
,25 and Scots. # s5's # 4, s5 4
Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13
sssl M,a soc1ETlEs

~ UsTIN LODGE NO. IA, B. P.O, ELKs.
Heets on secord and fourth Friday EVENING"
Of each month at the new Elks' hall on Main St.
Visiting Elks are invited to meet with us. ~.
S@%& w. p. RosBAoH, Exalted Ruler. y
q. J.. SIKMONs, Secretary. IS r$sssy II s%3 4 I
T1IDEL1TY LODGE. NO. 80, "A. F. AND An
The regular communications of this lodge are
held In u asonic hall Austin, Mimi, on the drst
and I'd Wednesday evenings Of each month
& '&2-$%f, William TODn, ". n. &
q JOHN II. ANDERSON Secretary. s ase X . l#E}gg%a # gga
Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13

DoYAL ARCH CHAPTER, No. Il. 49,.
The stated communications of this Chapter are
held in Masonic hall, Austin, Minn., on the
second add; fourth Friday evenings of each
month WALLACE GREGs0N. n. r. H. P :
RI PARKR GOODWIN, Secretary. <. 1
Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13
IN EFFECT JAN. s, 1905

GONG SOUTH AND WEST FOR LYLE, MASON .
Cry, Fort DODGE, OMAHA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Birds Help the Farmer.

The department of agriculture has
recently completed an extensive inves-
tigation of the benefits and detriments
of birds from the standpoint OF the
farmer AS a result of this investiga-
ton by experts the department found
that birds were worth millions of dol
lars annually to the agricultural inter-
ests of the country. In only one in
stance did the court of inquiry find
against any species of the feathered
tribe. This offender was not the crow
nor yet the sparrow, both of which
have many crimes charged UP to them
by the farmer and the urbanite.
The bird which was condemned to
death was none other than the bobo-
link, perhaps one of the most popular
little birds in the country. Poets have
immortalized him in song, and story
after story has been written about
his gay dress, merry song and sunny
disposition. At first appearance in
the early spring he looks innocent
enough and those who have praised
him in the past, appear to have been
badly hoodwinked by the mischievous
little rogue The experts found after
long and careful TRIAL that the bob
olink behaved fairly we'll in the north
but when the frost begins to tint the
naples and beeches in this part of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22

the gambling games, the nasty side
shows and away from the disappearing
roustabouts While many of the neigh
bors kids" We're not allowed to go at
all. 1t was only a few years ago that
the circus was a rotten show. The
men of big business entered the show
business. Outfits We're syndicated.
Public demand was studied and the
clean circus was the outgrowth. To-
day the public regulation and discip-
line around big circus during per-
Torrance is the admiration of the
whole world. The clean circus is as
permanent in its business founded up
on public favor as is the manufacture
of cook stoves or the selling of calico.
The wave of the carnival in Iowa and
the troubles of the advance agent in
Marshalltown point out the way to
success for carnival people. The
modern circus shines brightly at the
far end of the avenue. There is a
place for the legitimate carnival in
the amusement business but it must
conform to the rules of all other legiti-
mate amusements or die. The illigiti-
mate is practically dead in Iowa, 1t
is dead in Marshalltown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Tia Salute.


rRichard Burton in the July Centuryl
We. about to die, salute you kindly
We, the very old. hail you, the
young,
Though the shows of earth we see
but blindly,
And a leaden weight is on our
tongue.
But our wan old hearts expand in
pleasure,
Watching how your spirits kindle
bright;
And we dream us back to springtime
treasure,
Old dim ardors, ghosts of gone de-
light.
We relive in you the chances. splen-
did,
All the buffetings and all the gains;
o the sense of time, and time un-
ended,
Ere the hope dies, ere the wonder
wanes!
How you love and fight and taste of
rapture,
How your sleep restores you to the
sun,
How the sweet of every hour you cap
ture,
Haughtily as heroes e'er have done!
We have lived and loved as you are
doing,
We are glad to see you run the race;
Half you seem ourselves-your work.
your wooing,
Your high stakes of glory or dis
grace.
Hail! Farewell! nor blame us if sad
ness
Clutches at cur throat the while we
gaze,
Brokenly thru tears upon that glad
ness,
Once was ours in exquisite old days.
Not one bliss nor belief would we dis
pute you,
Once for us as we'll the whole earth
sung.
We, about to die, against salute you
We, the elders, hail our brothers
young
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
SEEING THE TOWN.

Chicago news reports tell the story
of an Iowa stockman who, having talk
en- several cars of cattle to the city
market, started out to "see the town.
His sightseeing was of short duration.
Robbed of his money in levee resort
he slept night or two in box cars
then knotted handkerchiefs into a
moose and ended his troubles by hang
ing himself to a spike in the walls of Il
freight car. He had seen the town.
What had he seen? A few disrep-
utable gin mills, a few lost women and
soulless men, squalor, poverty of body
and soul, vice, crime and depravity.
He had not seen the magnificence and
beauty of the metropolis, it's art places
and theaters and parks, the infinite
charities of its hospitals, the helpful
ness of it's schools and libraries. Turn
ing aside from the grandeur of great
6 city he sought its purlieus and para
sites. He went down into the charnel
houses among the corpses of decency
and human progress to see life. 1t is
no wonder he suicided. If there were
nothing more in life than the cattle
man saw in his brief career on the
levee, self murder would become an
act of virtue. He simply repeated the
story, old as human life, of the wages
Of sin and their payment. He saw life
thru a FOOLS eyes and died as the fool
dieth.
1t is asserted by those familiar with
conditions in the city, that the most
loathsome of its vices live and thrive
on visitors from the smaller towns and
the country; men like the Iowa stock
man whose idea of seeing the town.
is to lose touch with common decency
and see only it's crypts of uncleanness.
The purveyors OF degradation lie in
wait and watch for the countrymen as
harpies of seaboard towns for sailors,
and they do not watch in vain. The
impression that men have not seen
''life" until they have seen its perver-
sion and depravity, made Sodom swarm
and kept Gomorrah populous. The
fools are never all dead.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
----------T -T-- ---
! The Strawpile


mediate between peas and alfalfa,
most nearly resembling some of the
wild peas, bu with ranker growth OF
vine.
This case also seems to furnish
strong evidence in support of the i'm
portance of bacteria though / can not
those furnished for the alfalfa found
the vetches more congenial.
OF course it is not wise to base too
much on one experience, and the main
object of this communication is to
urge enough Marshall county farmers
to undertake experimental plots this
season. so that a reliable test can be
made. My patch will furnish enough
inoculated soil for several bushels OF
seed Seedsmen advise from half to
one bushel per acre but / should say
four to eight quarts is plenty. While
the seed is expensive in pound lots, it
can be bought by the bushel for about
SIS. A club might be formed thru the
T.-R and l would gladly furnish suf-
ficient infected soil.
To sum up: The vetches show
great promise for furnishing an mex
pensive supply of high grade green
forage, four to six weeks before other
leguminous plants are available. This
growth is obtained as a catch crop,
sown in standing corn or on stubble
fields plowed Immediately after harvest
so there is probably no rental charge
against it. AS a soil improver this
seasons growth seems to indicate there
is nothing under cultivation equal to
it for this climate.
Now, brother farmers, of Marshall
county, Iowa, should be above asking
ito be shown" Let's settle the ques-
lions about alfalfa and vetches our
selves. A dozen men can easily do this
at insignificant expense, and the T.-R.
will be glad to aid us in arranging
cooperative experiments.
w. H. WILSON.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
THE CIRCUS AND THE CARNIVAL.

According, to all precedents this
should be the carnival season in Iowa
but for some reason the carnival does
not seem to be very much in evidence.
In fact the star of the street fair and
the carnival in Iowa is on the wane,
hut why?
A carnival agent visited Marshall
town this week to book his show and
found that the people did not want the
kind of carnival they had had before.
In vain did the agent protest that his
lions invested, as clean and as well
regulated as Barnum & Bailey's or
Ringlings' circus. The people of Mar
shalltown were afraid of carnivals.
They even asked the agent to deposit
a large forfeit with FOCAL bank to be
lost in case his show was unclean in
any of its performances. This he Of
fered to do and If he secures a date
with the consent of all consulted it will
be only because his show is clean and
harmless to public morals. clean as
Ringling's or as Barnum's.
And there is the moral. The time
was when the circus was disreput-
able show. Many comparatively young
men can remember when their fathers
held them tightly by the hand and
steered them to the main show, past
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
ALOsING VENTURE.

Hard times have fallen upon the press
agents, those genial buccaneers whose
| ingenious system of piracy in the
older days blistered the fingers of the
case compositor setting the ingenious
| ly worded advertising they palmed off
on the country editor as interesting
and timely matter Even the press
bureaus of big expositions find it hard
to penetrate beyond the editorial desk
to the news columns of the paper. The
country editor has grown wise. AS
eaus with the impression that the
editor outside the metropolis is an
easy mark may save much postage by
revising their opinion. He isn't.
Most county newspaper offices are
just now being favored with news and
editorial matter bearing upon the rail-
way rate question. A philanthropist
named Maddy is ostensibly the author
of all this kindness Utterances of
public men and others of whom the
average person never heard are worked
up into interviews and conclusions
drawn inimical to rate legislation. All
this without brain flag to the editor.
1t is noticeable that his stuff is meet
ing a chilly reception.
The motive of it all is patent The
reason why high priced railroad
organ is coming weekly to all the
newspaper offices in the country is
equally plain.
The county newspaper editors are
mostly lined up with the president.
His recommendations on the rate
problem are satisfactory and accept
able to them. They are not to be ex-
plotted by railroad press bureaus or
write copy expressing his own opin-
ions
Most of them are doing so and
these opinions clash with the ready
made editorial of the press bureau.
Time was when the interior editor
would have fallen prey to the astute
press agent. That time is gone with
the day of the lightning rod agent At
present the press bureau costs much
and accomplishes little. 1t is losing
money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
MORE EXPERIMENTS.
Will II. Wilson Gives Pis Experience
With Winter Netches.

with Winter vetcheS.
The vetches referred to in last
StraWpile are from small simple
packet of seed sowed In the summer
of 1902 between rows of sorghum that
was used as soiing crop. The growth
WAS not at all promising even after the
cane was removed and only a few
plants survived the winter. Some of
these were noticed in blossom in 1903;
but there We're no nodules found on the
roots and the growth was so spindling
the plaEt was judged unworthy Of
further considerations 1t appears,
however, that more seed formed than
were supposed and these were con-
si1arablY. scattered by numerous cross
Borrowings given last year in prepac-
irg the ground for alfalfa. AS The
alfalfa ep.outed the vetches also We're
obs rived coming up over quite am ex-
tended area; and at a remarkably
early period of growth the roots were
founI loaded with nodules, the growth
being 50 vigorous 1T hardly seemed the
same plant. Alfalfa and weeds we've
soon alstanced and it went into win
ter the best cover crop | have ever
seen. The only thing on the farm to
compare with 1T was a piece of early
soWn rye on soil In high condition, and
even that was not as heavy as the
vetches on ground in most unfriend
ly temper, as indicated by the alfalfa.
The favorable winter prevented any
real test as to hardness, but as the
snow melted there was found thick
blanket of tender, green forage of the
highest quality, especially adapted to
pigs and poultry. Single plants were
found early in May weighing Eve
pounds each or at the rate of twenty
five tons per acre (greem. 1t has been
in blossom more than three weeks and
is now setting seed pods. The flo Yer
is nearly the same shade as alfalfa but
more profuse. When in full bloom the
solid bank of rich purple is a beautiful
sight and it is also very attractive to
the bees.
The scattering plants have just been
cut with the alfalfa for hay, but fair
block of the best stand is preserved in
hopes Of securing scome seed. So far
as tried all stock eat it freely, green
or dry. Have no analysis at hand, but
seed catalogs claim it is superior to
any of the clovers, both for food and
soil improvement. Judging from this
one experiment it promises far more
value for most Iowa conditions than
alfalfa and in some respects has no
rival. If such growth can be obtain
ed by sowing in corn after last cultiva-
ton, reasonable calculation of the
value Of the growth that could be
turned under in time for the next
years corn or other crop would look
like a fairy story.
There are several vetcfes and fitches
grown in the old country, but the one
in question which is most used in this
country, mainly in Canada and in some
parts of the far west, is the vicia viii
losa, or hairy vetch, a hardy annual
that is. like winter wheat and rye, it
has to pass thru nearly dorm amt
winter period, but natures seed and
dies within a year. They seem inter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Topics Of the Times


Cuba lost great man and popular
hero when General Maxine Gomez
died. The history of the long struggle
for independence is written about the
heroic figure of the alien soldier of
fortune, who became the truest patriot
of his adopted country. Success rous-
ed no ambition to control and when
the soldier stood aside for Palma the
statesman. Brave and faithful, Gomez
has gone to his place among the great
emanancipators.
The Mississippi floods now begin to
interest the rest Of us, since the mud
dy waters are crowding in on to the
Muscatine melon farms.
To date the west gives promise Of
every man in business is no less pleas
ed than the farmer sweating in his
field.
The abstractors In convention at
Des Moines, could not do a wiser thing
than ask the legislature for a law
compelling all abstractors to give
bonds guaranteeing that their work is
a correct copy of the records. Most
western states have such q law now.
Iowa should have.
The country will rejoice II Elihu
Root should return to the cabinet as
secretary of the treasurer. No ADLER
official ever sat among the presidents
advisors.
Why can't man afford to hold a
cabinet position? Is there anything in
life that the possession Of millions can
bring more honorable or more crafty
ing than to be chosen by the president
of the United States to serve his peo-
pie at the head Of one of his depart
ments?
Thompson & Co, of Mount Jewett,
says the Bolivar On. Y) Breeze, are
aggressive country merchants. They
advertise to have on hand all of the
catalogs of the different mail order
houses and offer to duplicate any price
found in them and to save their GUS
toners the freight charges in addi-
ton. They find this method very effec
tive in holding their old customers and
gaining new ones. The mail order
house has come to stay, and It's bust
ness is built up thru advertising.
Talking about the m;la order house
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22

will not help. The country merchant
vertising and must meet competition
as he finds it, not as he might wish ii
We're. There is an evolution under way
in the business of selling mcrchan-
disc, and the man who stays in the
game must be aggressive and face the
music. In ten years there Will be
fewer stores in every country town,
and better ones.
In the suit of Norway against SWed-
en- for divorce, the usual statutory
charges were preferred. but the actual
ground is incompatiblity.
in Chicago break the fingers and tear
off the finger nails from a non-union
express driver. Is it any wonder that
the public rejoces because the stril
ers were defeated.
So long as any agreement out of
Russia must be obtained under duress
Japan does not purpose to let up on the
advance of her armies. Would any
business man do otherwise We're he
forcing a bargain in similar man.
ner?
A recent number of the Canadian
statement regarding certain imports
into Canada in 1904 which, under the
heading, Agricultural Implements =
included a list of twenty-one articles.
vaued at s2.934,594, of which s2,911,12O
worth came from the United States
and, s21,S42 worth came from Great
Britain, the imports from all other
countries being valued at only ST.
6S2
Rural New Yorker having suggested
that agricultural college professors
guise on farm for a few months and
get really next to what the farmer is
up against, the Livestock World calls
its attention to the fact that some of
the best college professors have farms,
hocks or herds of their own which
they personally work with enough to
keep them pretty closely in touch with
the real thing When a man is spend
ing his own money and working out
his own personal problems he ought
to lie able to get quite as close to them
as one could by donning the garb of
a regular farm hand for a few weeks
or months each year.
The announcement that the leaders
of the peace commissions selected by
Japan and Russia are each past 60,
ought to set Osler looking for a place
to hide the chloroform.
AS an example of public parsimony
may be cited the determination of
Polk county people to vote on 100000
in bonds to build Jail.
Tess-I actually believe some man
is calling upon Miss Passay
Jess-The idea! What makes you
think so?
TEST notice that instead of fast
ening her belt with ordinary pins as
she used to she's now using safety
ns.-Philadelphia Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Dv;no Of Famine

is. in its torments, like dying of con-
sumption. The progress of consump-
ton, from the beginning to the very
end. is iong torture, both to victim
and friends. when I had consump-
ton in it's first stages" writes William
Myers. OF Cearfoss, Nd. "after trying
different medicines and a good doctor
in vain, at last took DR.. Kings New
Discovery which quickly and perfectly
cured me-" Prompt relief and sure
cure for coughs, colds sore throat,
bronchitis, etc. Positively prevents
Pneumonia. Guaranteed at Mcdonald
& Mahcod Co.'s drug store, price so
cents and II per bottle. Trial bottle
free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
There seems to be no art of knowl
edge In fewer hands than that of dis
corning when to have done.-swift
How's Thjs7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
-33rnahlir1 Narsyalltnaub gna, g1re y 1905

in the farther west 1t has been the
New England of the Mississippi valley
feeding western cities and the trans
Missouri as New England fed New
York Boston and the whole west with
new blood. OF late Iowa has sent to
Canada more than enough people 10
cause the loss of one representative.
The loss of Iowa has not been With
out compensation. 1t has missed the
soualor and vice of great cities and
the fever of their fierce competition.
1t has kept the peace and thrift ana
health of life under the sweet air OF
heaven and on the fairness OF the
aarth
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Was WASTING Away.

The following letter from Robert r.
Watts, of Salem, Mo-, is instructive:
II have been troubled with kidney dis
ease for the last five years. lost
flesh and never felt we'll and doctored
with leading physicians and tried all
remedies suggested without relief. FL
nally I tried Foley's Kidney Cure and
less than two bottles completely cured
me and I am now sound and WELL"
e. A. Morgan,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
To Land AGENTS.

This is to call your attention to the
fact that the Iowa Central railway will
sell daily during the summer months
round trip tickets at one fare plus two
dollars to certain northern Minnesota
and Dakota points, limit for retur.
October 81. Low round trip tickets
also on sale daily to st. Paul and
Minneapolis after June 1.
For particulars call on agents, o.
address A. B. Cults. G. P. & T. A..
Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
Found a Cure for pyspspsia.

Mrs. S. Lindsay, OF Fort William.
Ontario, Canada, who has suffered
quite a number of years from dyspep.i
STA and great pains In the stomach.
was advised by her druggist to take
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets. She did so and says, Il find
that they have done me great deafo1
good. 1 have never had any suffering
since I began using them" Il trou-
bled with dyspepsia or indigestion
why not take these Tablets, get well
and stay well? For sale by all drug
pistS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-22
ow Rates to Portland, Ore, via Chi
caao Greet Western Railway.

Tickets on sale frequently beginning
May 23rd till September 10Th Also
very low rates to Seattle, Tacoma,
Eellingham and Everett. Wash, Vic
toria and Vancouver, B. c., and San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego,
Cal. For low rates. dates of sale and
other information apply to ]. r. Hard
ing. agent. MarshalltoWn.