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priced the poem above anything else
he had given her. ut is so fine to be
thought necessary" she had said.
In this manner he progressed through
FIVE of the nine packages. Each letter
seemed more desirable than the rest,
and every moment made a selection
less easy. This scrawl was a reassur-
ance which she had penciled on the
leaf of her programme at the theater;
that sheet of blue paper bore the first
words of affection he had ever received
from her.
At the bottom of the fifth bundle was
a long envelope with the name of a
publishing company on its upper left
hand corner. The postmark was over
two years old. Rejected manuscript"
Claxton concluded, tossing it to one
side CONTEMPORARY. That had come
back in the days when rejected manu-
scripts had not been half so rare as
good dinners or money with which to
pay rent Something approaching Gu
riosity made him pick up the envelope
again and draw the contents from its
mouth. The story that lay before him
was headed, From Frank Claxton, 211
West Twenty-irst Street." but the
type Enthusiastically belonged to the ma
chine which still remained a fixture
at Miss Carriers. The tale was one
that she had sent over his signature to
an editor of whose opinion she had felt
certain, and it had in consequence been
returned to him when that gentleman
had classed 1t as unavailable" II
thought you'd get check" Virginia
had confessed, land / knew you'd
spend it without considering why's and
wherefores. It's just like Phelps! He
was enthusiastic over the plot when 1
told it to him last week"
"Virginia," he had demonstrated, at
was like offering me charity"
Nonsense! 1 shouldn't have thought
Of handing you money. / simply wrote
a story for you that you might have
written yourself If you had taken
time
Taken time! Good Lord, how much
time he had taken that year in just
such discouraging unremunerative la
Dor! How unhappy he had been and
how awfully, awfully hard up! He
hadn't begun spending every evening
with her then, and he hadn't begun
selling whatever he wrote either. "No-
body ever did-at first" she had as
sured him.
For twenty minutes Claxton sat ST.
lently on his chair island in the middle
Of a sea Of letters. His fingers chung
to the rejected manuscript, but his eyes
looked beyond it into the past. All the
half forgotten history of his love for
Virginia Carter had been recalled to
him with wonderful vividnesS-her I'M
varying goodness, the sweetness of
their intercourse, the erstwhile strength
of his affection for her A ships clock
in the adjoining room struck 2, the
nautical fashion of saying that the hour
was 5, and with quick resolution he be-
gan clint bling into his evening clothes.
"Ive come to take you to dinner he
said to Miss Carter when she respond
ed to his pressure on the button at her
door.
$50 you were lonely, too7" she asked
him.
LONELY? BY George, and those let
ters"--
She was too clever a girl not to seem
surprised, and he could not look
through the sides Of her trunk into the
tray where reposed several packages
of his letters to her, unsearched, up-
touched, since first they had been read
and laid away.
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The Backbone.

When asked by her teacher to de-
scribe the backbone a Norborne school
girl said, "The backbone is something
that holds up the head and ribs apd
keeps one from having legs clear up3to
the neck."-Norborne Leader.
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Chronic Bronchitis Cured.

For ten years had chronic broncbi-
tbs so bad that at times | could not
speak above Whisper" writes Mr.
Joseph Coffman, of Montmorenci, Ind
Il tried all remedies availa BILE, but with
no success. Fortunately my employer
suggested tha' try Foley's Honey and
Tar. It's effect was almost miraculous.
and m now cured of the dis $3.50. On
my recommendation many people have
used Foley's Honey and Ter, and always
with satisfaction" Sold ny E K. Taft.
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Eyes, Hunter is really engaged to
Miss Roxley."
80 he was telling me. He says
she's not very pretty, but she's good"
Eyes, good for a million in her own
right. Press.
For A WEAK DIGEsTIoN-No medicine
can replace food but Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets will help you to
dig est your food. 1t Is not the quantity
of food taken that gives strength and
vigOr> to the system, but the amount
digested and sssimtlated. If troubled
With weak digestion, don't fail to give
these Tablets trial. Thousands have
been benefited by their USE. They only
cost quarter. For sale by E K. Taft
Ste ford Springs; q. F Cadv, Staff ,rd
Springs; g. Hall, Jr., & Co., South Will
lington.
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The coolest inhabited country is
Werchojansk, In eastern Siberia. The
daily mean temperature of the entire
year is 2.74 degrees below zero.
The surest and safest remedy for kid
ney and bladder diseases is Foley's Kid
ney Cure. Sold by E. K. Taft.
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Mothers! Mothers! Mothers I

How many children are at this season fever
ish and constipated. with bad stomach and
headache. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children will always cure. II worms are pres
emit they Will certainly remove them. At all
druggists. CSC. Sample mailed FREE. Address.
Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. j.
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Ancestors.

"My ancestors" said the man whose
name happened to be Endicott, "came
over in the Mayfower."
"And NINE" observed the man whose
name was Adams, were the original
occupants Of the garden Of Eden."-
Chicago Tribune.
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Enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusi-
asm. 1t is the real allegory of the tale
Of Orpheus; it moves stones; it charms
brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of
sincerity, and truth accomplishes no
victories without it.-Bulwer.
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Saves Him Money.

'Why do you always agree with your
wife in everything?" she said.
II find it cheaper to do that than to
quarrel with her and then buy dia-
monds to square myself"
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"You think a good deal Of your hus-
band, don't your asked the visiting
relative.
"You have the wrong proposition"
answered Mr.. Meekton's wife, with the
cold tones of the superior woman. Il
think for him"
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YES" says our host, this is the
skin of a grizzly bear that 1 shot In
the tropics"
But" we suggest gently, "grizzly
bears are only found in Colorado and
localities in that latitude"
II know" he replies proudly. But
l chased this fellow clean out Of this
country and shot him at last. 1 was
clean out Of breath when 1 got within
range Of him too."-Ch1cago Tribune.
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Manfed n Change.

She-Why did that brilliant woman
marry such a stupid man? He-Be-
cause her first husband was genius.
Detroit Free Press.
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Suffering frightfu'ly from In virn"nt
po'sons Of un iigested food, g, g. GRAY
son, OF Lula, Miss, took DR.. XII g's
New Life Pills, with the result" h.
writes, that was cured A lstoma"h
and bowel disorders give way to their
tonic, laxative properties Co. at A. G.
Eaten'e drug store, guaraht I'd.
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a Chattanooga Druggist's Statement.

Robt. j. Miller, Proy rietor of the Read
House Drug Store of Chattanooga, Tenn,
writes: There is more merit in FOley's
Honey and Tar than In any other cough
syrup. The calls for 1t multiply wonder
fully and we sell more OF 1t than all other
cough syrups combined" Sold by E, K.
Taft
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81 notice you never wear watch
with your evening clothes"
''No. l never have both out at the
same time."--CornelI Widow.
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Last Hone Vanished

When leading p ysici' n, said that W.
M. Smithart, of fekin, Ia had inculabe
consumption, his last hope vanished; but
DR.. Kings New D discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, kept him out Of
his grave. H. says: ''This great
specific completely cured me, and saved
my IT,. Since then, l have used IL f. r
over 10 years, al d consider 1t mary. l.
GUS throat and Iurg cure" St,ictIy
scientific cure for G ughs, Soc Throatt
nr Colds; III a preventive of Pneumonia
Guaranteed, 50c and 81 90 hotties ut a.
q. Eaton's drug store. T b tile FREE.
TIE Horse During the Middle Ages.
The Importance of the horse during
the middle ages, especially in the cru
sades and in the tournaments which
followed in the wake of the cruSades,
is significant. Fully half the glamor
and romance that surrounded the
knight belonged to the horse, for with
out the horse those daring deeds in be-
half of the weak and suffering had
never been done. The horse, however,
has had his reward, for the best fea-
ture of the middle age, outside the
church, is closely identified with his
name, lasting traces of which are seen
in the noble word "chivalry."
CHAMBERLA1N's CoUGH REMEDY THE
BEST AND MosT POPULAR - Mothers
buy 1t for croupy childI'n, raj road men
buy 1t for sevtr coughs end pliprl,
people buy 1t for In grippe" cav Moore
Bros. EIdon. Iowa. We Sc more Of
CHARACTERISTICS Cough Remedy than any
other kind. IT, aerms to have taken III
lead over several other good bra nds. "
There is No question but this medicine Is
the bes t that can be procured for coug IS
and colds, whether it be chilli or an
adult that Ia afflicted. 1t always cures
and cures quickly. Sod by E K Taft,
Staff RI Springs; H F. Cady, Staff ,rd
Springs; G. Hall, Jr., & Co, Sou'h vii
ljnnfon
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Pneumonia is Robbed of It's TerrOrs
by Foley'e Honey ard Tar. 1t stops the
rae king cough and heals and strengthens
the lungs. If taken In time it will pre-
vent an attack of pneumonia Refuse
substitutes Sold by E. K Taft.
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10 make knowledge valuable you
must have the cheerfulness Of wisdom.
Emerson.
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Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys
and bladder right. Don't delay taking.
Sold by E. K. Taft.
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Foley's Kidney Cure If taken in time
affords security from ell kidney and
bladder disease. Sold by E. K. Taft.
The Press., 1905-04-26
A TRAINED NURSE
After Years of Experience, Advises Women in
Regard to Their Health

Mrs. Martha Pohlman
Of So Chester Avenue, A
Newark, N. j., who is a y
graduate Nurse from the
Blockley Training School,
at Philadelphia, and for
six years Chief Clinic
Nurse at the Philadelphia
Hospital, writes the letter
printed below. She has
the advantage of personal
experience, besides her
professional education,
and what she has to say
may be absolutely relied
upon.
Many other women are
afflicted DIS she was. They
can regain health in the
same way. 1t is prudent
to heed such advice from
such a source.
Mrs, Pohlman writes: Y
~ am firmly persuaded,
after eight years of experience
with Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, that it
Is the safest and best medicine
for any suffering woman to
use.
Immediately after my
marriage l found that my
health began to fail me. Ibe-
came weak and pale, with Sc
we're bearing-down pains, fear
full backaches and frequent
dizzy spells. The doctors pre-
scribed for me, yet / did not
improve. / would bloat after
eating and frequently become
nauseated. / had an acrid diI
pains down through my limbs
hardly walk. 1t was as bad ca
trouble as l have ever known
Pinkham's Vegetable Compoun
cured me within four months.
time have had occasion to reco
q number of patients sufferir
forms of female difficulties, and
while it is considered unprofessi
ommend a patent medicine, I (
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham
Compound, for l have found t
female ills, where all other medic
is a grand medicine for sick wol
Money cannot buy such te
this-merit alone can produ
suits, and the ablest spec
agree that Lydia E. Pinkh;
table Compound is the me
sally successful remedy for
diseases known to medicin
When women are trouble
regular, suppressed or pal
situation, weakness, leuco1
placement or liberation of
that bearing-down feeling,
ton of the ovaries, backa,
ing Tor flatulence), general &
digestion. and nervous pros
are beset with such sympto1
Lydia E. Pinkham'S Veg
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Be Sure
Before Taking

A dose OF Medicine. II our name Is on
the label you are doubIy safe.
Prescription Work Is our speciality.
We always use the best and never sub
stitute.
The most complete line Of
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Frighttul Suffering Relieved

ia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where others Fa
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Avoid popularity; It has many snares
and no real beneft-PenA.
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The One
Letter
CLAIMING POLLOCK
CLAIMING POLLOCK

Copyright, 1904, by Charming Pollock
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20
A MILLION A YEAR.

Distribution of the enormous for
eign immigration is becoming a serious
question. Estimates for this year are
that more than a million foreigners Will
De received in this country and Allan
tic cities are worried and alarmed at
thru Syrians, Jews and Italians has
made colonies in the larger cities
which are replicas of the conditions
that exist in the countries from which
the colonists We're drawn. Some of
these are dangerous to law and order
and all are hotbeds for the fifth and
disease that flourish amid ignorance
and great poverty. And a million more
are coming this year, enough to form
senators.
Perhaps our national pride should be
ing and conditions here so different
that e. million persons should eNpatri-
ate themselves to live in the United
States, but it is time that the
ultimate prospect of this enormous
flow of wretchedness and ignorance
should be seriously considered Much
of this immigration is to be welcomed,
but more of it is to be cea-ed. If We
properly have exclusion laws against
,<b> o,;o+ o,d ;ndnc+r;o,,s Chinese Como
action against the flood OF vicious Eu-
>ropean cast offs is certainly not alto
gether illogical. Is this country able to
receive and assimilate in ten years ten
nillions of the sort of Immigrants we
ire now receiving?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20
The poukhobors Progressive Farmers.

Less than two years ago the whole
country was laughing at the eccentric
ity of the Doukhobors, a colony or
Russian peasants which the immiSra-
tions agents of western Canada
brought over from Russia Il few years
ago. We learned on our last trip
abroad from the director of quarantine
stations of the dominion some rather
interesting facts about these Doukho-
bors. He was summoned to Halifax
to receive a ship load of them during
very cold weather. Heated barracks
with bathing facilities had to be eX-
temporized to make this ship load OF
immigrants comfortable and in look
ing them over after being duly bathed
and dressed, he was surprised to find
that there were no children under
three years old. On inquiring the
reason he was told that they had
trouble with the Russian government,
which insisted on putting their sons
into the army and finally threatened
if they did not cease teaching their
sons treason to the Russian govern
ment they would take their children
away from them at three years old
and teach them loyalty to the car.
Their reply was that they would not
have any children And they did not.
Disguised with such an untractable
class of population, the government
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20

can't help saying that the kids have
as good right as anybody to swear and
eat tobacco. Most of our leading men
are setting them the example. The
men here. from old ones to young fell
lows, chew or smoke. and rip out a
damn or so when mad, and nothing
seems to be thought of the habit. Most
men after meal haul out a cigar or
pipe and smoke and poison the air for
everybody about them, and swell a
long the street, thinking, Amt l some?
Manly? Moro Well. the Shepherd
kids see that. and lacking experience.
judgment and sense, they effect the
same manly thing, and. having no
money to buy cigars or tobacco ana
pipe. they swipe a cud or cigar stub
that has been thrown away and ENJOY
the remnant and all the old women ana
old grannies of men hold up their
hands in holy horror, and say, How
depraved those neglected children must
be."-to be doing only what scores and
hundreds of adults are doing all the
time and are old enough to know bet
ter than to do so.
Why should any one be so stupid as
to blame child for doing what 1t sees
men doing? So stupid as to blame
woman for having the same habits as
man? Lots of women smoke and drink
LIQUORS and chew and cuss, and they
have as much. or as little right to do
1t as men have Have men monopo-
ly and cinch on everything? BY George,
we wish every wife and daughter
would smoke. chew, drink and cuss be-
fore her husband and father, If he has
those habits, and maybe he'd get a
shamed of himself, and spend the
whole of New Years day swearing OIL
and never swear on again. We say
that those little Shepherds, clean down
to the baby, have as good right 10
eat tobacco as the learned profession
that tried them has. and also have as
clear right to lie and swear ana
smoke and cheat and drink as we men
have. Why not? Just because it IS
unusual to see baby chewing and
smoking, or a woman, we say IL is
awful if children and women do what
their husbands and fathers and broth
ers do. We are very shallow and stu
mid folk. The good things should be
ON the free list and passed around SO
that all may enjoy them!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20
BUSINESS AT LEADING POINTS.


Dispatches from branch offices of r.
G. Dun & Co, located at the leading
| cities, indicate that the only drawback
| to trade lies i'm the protracted cold and
stormy weather. Boston reports that
| the late trade in heavy wearing APP
| parel is helped by the weather, and
| textile mills are busy, with propects
generally brighter. Manufacturers at
! Worchester are increasing forces, and
retail trade suffers from the weather.
| Textile machinery is more active at
Philadelphia and lumber is in good de-
| mand. but deliveries are difficult.
Hosiery mills, brick yards and other
manufacturers at Reading are busy,
but retail trade is adversely affected
by the weather and collections are
slow Heavy roads retard the dis
tribution of merchandise at Baltimore.
altho orders are up to the average. and
the spring outlook is bright. Cold
weather restricts business at Nashville.
sales being smaller than a year ago
and payments slow. Weather retards
business at New Orleans. but grain
exports are very large. Travelling
statesmen have returned to Atlanta
after doing Il very poor trade. and
payments are slow, as farmers are
holding back their cotton. Unseason-
able weather prevents outdoor work at
Louisville: business is quiet and COL
lections slow. ST. Louis reports sales
has delayed the arrival of buyers.
Staple lines are active at Kansas City,
and collections good, except in Okla
homa and Indian Territory. Extreme
.ly cold weather and heavy SHOWS at
st. Joseph placed an embargo on trade
in general. Retail trade is dull at
Cincinnati, except in heavy clothing,
and the wholesale dry goods trade is
quiet. altho fair orders are received
from traVellnS statesmen. lOleQO re-
ports retail trade quiet, except in
heavy clothing and shoes, and no i'm
provement is anticipated until spring.
Labor troubles at Pittsburg are being
adjusted, steel mills and glass factor
les are very busy, while jobbing and
retail trade is improving. Traffic is
delayed in Chicago by heavy weather,
but spring trade opens well, and labor
is more fully employed. Business and
collections at ST. Paul are affected by
weather. though returns are satisfact-
DRY on the whole Demand for spring
merchandise at Minneapolis is larger
than expected. but flour output has de-
creased. Omaha reports that January
business was or per cent larger
than last year. but current trade is re-
tarded by severe weather. Business is
more active at Portland. Ore, where
wheat sales have increased because of
the tax assessment on March /, and
three fourths of the wool clip is sold.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20

simple reason that thirty robes day
We're all that he could stretch and
scrape and cure. Latter he secuted for
the government in the Black Kettle
wars. Then he was made peace officer
in Dodge City in years stormy with
cowboys and staccatoed by careless
siX-shooteas. These occupations, like
Othello's. are gore The Indians, fat.
lazy. hopeless. on their reservations,
paint no more for war: the buffalo, like
the 40. is creature extinct; as
marshal, Mr.. Masterson is no longer in
request. While The western public is
in the daily habit of shooting at the
marshal, folk like MIR. Masterson have
wide-nung vogue When the western
public takes off it's guns, and most of
our shooting is done on Broadway
some deserving politician holds the
place and draws the pay of marshal
MI Masterson has quit the west and
does not want to go back
I'm out of that zone of fire." said
Mr.. Masterton, "and l don't care to
return. I've thrown my pistols under
the bed and the only hardware | carry
is a watch I'm tired of war; the feel
lllts HIS CItDl upon NE ike I1lOSSeS
upon sctone. When l was a young fell
low on the plains | used to fight In
dams as part of a days work. But
there came a change; as I grew older
/ improved in common sense. I not
iced this when the troops at Fort
Dodge wanted me to act as scout in
the Dull Knife campaign; / discover
ed all at once that I'd grown tired Of
fighting people couldn't surrender to.
You can't surrender to Cheyenne, no
matter how willing you may be; so |
wouldn't go. When President Roose-
Welt sent Zen Daniels to me with an
invitation to join his rough riders l
found that I'd gone a step further and
got tired of fighting anybody, and that
even the inestimable privilege of sur
rendering when licked was no longer
an inducement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20
gnms- Observation-Disclosures, gua Fehr1ary "a 1905

bility of good, In everybody and thing.
Why should amy one be shocked be-
cause those children talk the rough
est and most profane language, steal
apples, candy and the like, and eat to-
bacco, picking up extinct and cast-off
cuds on the street and smoke the stubs
of thrown away cigars? If tobacco is Il
good thing for a man to use, why be
so mean as to deprive a small child of
the luxury? And if swearing is Il no.
bic accomplishment. let the kids use
it, Why not? The evidence showed
that the daddy could not read or write,
tho he was raised in this county, and
the mother uses tobacco, and cusses
with facility. 1t is no wonder the
children take UP those habits, for all
children learn by imitation. They do
what they see their elders do. And
these kids saw paw and ma chew and
smoke and heard them cuss. and they
caught right on i'm purely natural
way. vet some folks stand aghaSt at
the marks of depravity shown by the
neglected creatures and don't know
what is best to do with them. We
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-20
Give Your Stomach a Rest.

Your food must be properly dlgested
and assimilated to be of any value to
YOU. If your stomach is weak or dis
aased take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t
dieests what you eat and gives the
stomach a rest, enabling it to recuper-
ate take on new life and grow strong
AGAIN Kodol cures sour stomach, gas,
bloa ting. heart palpitation and all di-
,astive disorders. L. A. Soper of Little
Rock XIV. writes us: I'VE feel that
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure deserves all the
commentator that can be given 1T as
it saved the life Of our little girl when
she was three years old. She is now
six and we have kept it constantly for
her but of course she only takes it
when now when anything disagrees
with her." Sold by all druggists.