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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
CITY BuLLeriN BOARDS.

A writer in a railway magazine
makes the suggestion that it would be
a good idea for every city, town, VII
lage and hamlet along the line OF any
railroad to put up a sign or two some
where in proximity to the railroad sta
town and whatever claims it has FOR
historic. residential and industrial IN
terest. Travellers often wonder, when
a train comes to a stop, what the town
is that spreads out before them, ana
wherein lies its excuse for being. True
the railroads are doing a great deal to
exploit and advertise the attractions,
scenic and commercial, of most OF the
more important places, but it wouldn't
be an altogether bad idea for the towns
to do a little something themselves, IL
only to set up bulletin o. facts for the
enliehtment of the passing traveller. 1t
is a good idea and one that cities
NAV we'll accept. A bulletin at the de-
NOT setting for the industrial needs and
advantages of the town is as sensible
an advertising proposition as black
hoard on the gate Of farmer who has
fine hogs for sale or card In the Win
dow Of merchant who is making
snecial prices. 1t doesn't fill the adver-
Using needs Of the town but It costs
little and helps some.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
Iowa Newspapers
ABANDONED" FARMS.

u
1t is said that a number of farms
in Monona county are this year
without tenants because renters
will not pay IS an acre for use of the
land. The same conditions may exist
elsewhere.
This land is worth from S75 to 500
an acre and even at that the rental OIL
S. is bringing but low rate to the
owners 1t is likely, however, that ul-
timately renters generally viii be aple
to pay the higher price, and the farm
owners are not apt to rent out their
land at loss. This is not going 10
result in the depreciation of the lana
in price, nor its abandonment for want
to Iillers.
Farm lands must be made more pro-
ductiye. They must be worked with
more intelligence, and farmers must
bring to their aid more scientific meth
DDS in cultivating the soil and caring
for their products. BY putting the
proper amount of thought into their
work and conducting their business
with intelligence. tenants will be able
to pay S. an acre more easily than
their shiftless prototypes of the past
have paid 50 or SO. 1t will be surpris-
ing how soon conditions will make IL
possible for the S5-an- acre-tenant TO
make more money than his antecedent
who has paid only half that amount
Intelligence and the application of
scientific knowledge to agricultural
operations will solve the situation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
!: LOOKER.ON in IOWA

Bows, Sept. Colts all corn, corn,
corn in Iowa. An outsider would think
we raised nothing else in this state.
Every one seems to forget the hay and
grass crop this year and every year
for that matter, our pasturage and hay
crop is worth more in dollars and
cents than the corn crop. A striking
object lesson in this line was seen in
the meat market here today. f. A.
Fisher was cutting up the hind quar-
ter of 2-year- old heifer, which was
fool fat" Tallow two inches thick
covered the inside, while the cuts of
the round steak were ali "marbled."
This heifer was fattened entirely on
Iowa grass, as we'll as ten more head
which Mr. Fisher purchased at the
same time. How many bushels of corn
would have been required to have fat
tened this bunch Of cattle. And yet
the good Lord gets no credit with the
average Iowa citizen for our splendid
grass and hay crop.
The Farmers Cooperative societies
are up against some business PROPOSE
lions that are interesting. Only GER
tain commission men will sell their
shipments on the Chicago and Peoria
markets. On the other hand there are
several commission firms that now
make speciality of handling farmers
products. and as there are now over
seventy-five elevators in Iowa oper-
ated by these cooperative societies,
it's a business worth looking after.
Again, some of the trust and combine
implement manufacturers will not sell
their machines to these societies.
Some of the coal dealers also re-
fuse to sell them coal, the same
being true of certain lumber
dealers. But there's another side to
this. Many machines outside of the
combines, thus find purchasers for their
goods in localities, where otherwise the
implement dealers are bound by an
iron clad contract, only to handle the
output of the trusts. So it works both
ways. The catalogue houses of Chi
cago are also feeling this "class feel
ing" to a certain extent, and in some
lines are now manufacturing them
selves the kind of goods certain manu-
facturers refuse to sell them. But
these big catalogue houses have an
advantage not possessed by the Far
mers' Cooperative societies. Mont
gomery Ward or Sears Roebuck can
and do buy the whole outputs of many
manufacturers. buy them at prices,
the small dealer cannot touch. Here's
another thing that is working into
business circles and that is newspa per
and magazine advertising. The news
paper or periodical that runs these
advertisements for these catalogue
houses. "takes it's life in its hands,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

business houses. There are plenty of
other ways to get hold of the names
of country residents and the mail or
der houses are able to send all their
advertising they want to and have t
reach its destination. If there We're
no other way for them to get the names
they would probably be sent to them
by farmers themselves, for they will
not enjoy being isolated from the world
on their farms.
If the small town merchants would
conduct intelligent campaigns to make
1T worth the while of the farmers to
deal with them, they would find the
real method to win success. They can
issue catalogues and sell as cheap and
as good goods as can the city houses.
The advertising columns of the news
papers can be used by them in max
ing their trade announcements. Pub
licity will bring them business if they
have the goods in their stores that
the people want to buy.
1t has often been demonstrated by
comparison that the mail order cata-
logues do not sell goods any cheaper
than the retail merchants of the couh
try towns do. There is no good reason
why a live and up to date business
man cannot prove this fact to his
country constituency and win their
trade from the faraway catalogue
houses.
1t is a survival of the fittest strug-
gle in the business world and if the
country merchant is to hold his own
he is to do it by adopting the methods
10 ~ ba Of
ropolitan dealers. He must advertise
and must have the goods and prices to
back up the advertising.
1t is absurd to expect to bar outside
competition by simply keeping those
competitors from knowing who lives
here in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

prices in Germany. Hitherto the agrar-
ians have contiived tosshut out Amer
lean meat, while transportation costs
and quarantine regulations exclude
live cattle. o-called liberal rules per-
NIT the Importation of whole slaught-
cred cattle, because the ayrarlan law
makers know that when such carcasses
arrive they are already spoiled. Inc
importation of half and quarter cav
casses in cooled rooms and unfrozen
is practicable from sanitary anu
economic point of view, but this Is
prevented by inspection laws that
amount to prohibition of the traffic
'.'The Washington authorities should
attempt to remove these barriers by
means of a commercial treaty. Ger
many cannot be fed on the products OF
its own agriculture. We need Amerl-
can meat and our frontiers must be
opened to 1T.
".Six hundred and seventy-one
butcher shops in twenty-eight cities OF
over 100, 900 population have been fore-
ed into bankruptcy by the meat famine
The consumption of horsetlesh in cities
has increased fourfold,'
AS Governor PACKARD has ou66SeeNN
in these columns the farmers OF tha
west need man in congress or the
senate, who will look after their inter-
ests with the same zeal that Aldrlch
and Grosvenor display in caring for
the protected interests of the east "A
little less time spent on presenting the
,mpossibilities of tariff revision and
voice now and then for something like
the treaties negotiated by Mr.. kas-
son under President McKinleys IN
structions, would contribute more TO
republican harmony, so urgently de-
sired by Mr.. Dolliver, than anything
that could be brought about in politics.
II would even stop the .alk of oppo-
sition to Major Lacey in his own party.
1t would come very near confining the
dreaded Cumminisn to state politics
and that ought to be worth something
ne an effort
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

Merchants and dealers are now very
inclined to boycott such publications.
The expressed theory is that such pub
LEGATIONS do not have the real interest
of the home dealers at heart or they
would turn down such contracts. 1t
gives one an idea of the extent OF the
number of these catalogues that are
sent out, when the writer was In
formed that in Odebolt alone, two
weeks ago, 1O4 of these big books We're
shipped in by freight to that town.
this at one time. In another
town to show the extent of this
business, dentist, one receiving
good patronage from home citizens.
not only buys his groceries and dry
goods of a Chicago catalogue house,
but actually ships in his breakfast
bacon. Probably the butchers of that
town have good teeth and don't pa
tronize the dentist.
There is an opinion that the exodus
of Iowa farmers into Canada, the Da-
kotas. Minnesota, Missouri and the
west has about ceased, but there is
still something doing. The writer is
informed that during the month of Au-
gust this year twenty nine farms near
Logan changed hands, this at big
prices. The incomers largely from IL
inois, the outgoers seeking cheaper
land in the above mentioned states.
A pessimistic merchant sees but lit
tie hopes of good trade in Iowa TINS
year, even with our big crops. he
says that thousands of dollars receiv-
ed from this crop aof 1905 will be sent
out of the state to pay for these farms,
bought in Canada, Dakota, ETC., two or
three years ago on time, and many
dollars now due on these farms VIII
be sent out of Iowa this year. Again
in his locality it will take all they get
for this 1905 crop, to pay up what they
owe for machinery and store bills.
"Man is of few days and full of
trouble" >S'~,
-. - Nv ex4rApApf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
MERELY 4 SUGGESTION.

II we could do SO without raising
the question as to whether reciprocal
treaties would harmonic with republi-
can doctrine some of us would like
to call Major Lacey's attention to the
opportunity just now afforded to ex-
tend a foreign market for American
meat products. The following editorial
in the Breeders Gazette will give him
the farmers view of this situation:
The loss to both America and Ger
many resulting from the failure of the
senate to establish reciprocal trade re-
lations between the two countries be-
comes more apparent every day. The
spectacle of $3.40 beef in the Chicago
market and a meat famine in Europe
co-existent ought to be enough to spur
not only President Roosevelt but En-
peror William into action. Western
cattlemen are complaining bitterly at
current prices and heavy losses are
being incurred daily. AT the same time
the hungry populace abroad is devour-
ing horsef1esh. Is there no limit to the
selflshness and greed of the big inter-
ests represented by the 'standpat' tar
if crowd at home and by the agrarians
of Germony who are Jointly responsible
for this miserable state of affairs?
THE following cablegram is from
Berlin, under date of September 10:
".American. farmers and packers can
secure rich -rade with Germany if
their government takes advantage Of
our raging meat famine said the edi-
tor OF the German Meat Trade Jour-
nal' today to the correspondent of
the Daily News" The whole father
land, with the exception of the agrar-
ian clique. would back American pro-
posals for saving Germany from star
walton.
".The United States could rescue US
easily If only the rulers of the two
countries were capable of showing
their mutual good will. Illinois farm
ers inform us that cattle are ridicu-
lopsly cheap there compared with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Why would 1t not be good idea
for the merchants and property own
ers of Oskaloosa to get together
and stay together-and talk over and
do something for the betterment of
the town. pertinently inquiries the Os-
kaloosa Herald.
To the Jefferson Bee ut looks
as if some powerful infld-
ence was at work in an effort to make
the tariff quarrel in the republican
ranks so bitter and all-absorbing as
rate legislation; which had the center
of the stage a few months ago. 1t
may be- suggests the Bee, that the
railways have concluded it is easier
to steer the public mind away from
dangerous subjects by a clever strate-
gy, than to block legislation in an open
fight. 1t is an old dodge, but it nearly
alwoys works when handled by skill
full political tacticians.'
The Grundy Democrat believes "a
democratic paper in Des Moines would
pay if it were made a real newspaper
AS a political organ it would make a
fiat failure because there is no political
pap in this state from which it could
draw it's nourishment."
mo one who is acquainted with
Congressman Lacey, of the Sixth dis
trict, is surprised at his denouncing
the biennial and proposed primary
election law" remarks the Scranton
Journal 1.-THE only surprise The Jour
nal received was the fact that he did
not attempt to vindicate the free pass
system with which he is evidently in
full accord and sympathy"
The Odebolt Chronicle says: "The
democratic national platform of 1892
denounced reciprocity as miserable
makeshift; Lacey denounces the great
policy of Blaine in even stronger
terms. According to the Sixth dis
trict representative, Blaine and Nc
Kinley were not entitled to member
ship in the republican party. mem
Der of congress from this district who
should utter such sentiments would
be retired from political circulation"
The Mapleton Press notes by adj
vices from Des Moines, Iowa, that
LATE Young, editor of the Des Moines
Capital, is returning from Manila. ac-
companied by Secretary of War Taft,
Miss Roosevelt and a number of sem
ators and representatives.
"Major Lacey is a man of ability
but his argument against primary
elections is very weak" declares the
Clear Lake Mirror.
The Dubuque Telegraph considers it
unfortunate that manual training or
industrial education is not more gen.
orally afforded in the public schools of
the country "1nasmuch as the great
mass of people are destined to be
workers they should be equipped with
practical as well as theoretical knowl-
edge in the schools" argues the Tele-
graph.
There are a great many consumers
coming to the conclusion that little
tariff ripping on the lumber schedules
would do some good" observes the
Webster City Freeman-Tribune. The
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
Topics Of the Times

When the rate regulation reciprocity
explosion takes place, the present place
Of not a few congressman are likely to
he represented by a hole in the ground.
Even those who differ radically from
Senator Foraker must admire and APP
preciate his straightforwa rdness. Ohio
knows where Foraker stands on the
rate question. Other representatives
Of the people who are wearing out their
trousers astride the fence might well
copy F'oraker's plainness of speech.
According to the Chronicle 100000
pounds of pop corn were handled dur
ing the past year by three dealers in
Odebolt. The value of the product
was nearly 100000 No other tow,
in the United States handled half as
much popcorn; and yet that crop is in.
significant compared with the field
corn grown in territory tributary to the
Odebolt market. The area planted to
pop corn did not exceed 1000 acres. Or
about the acreage devoted to field corn
on the Adams farm alone. 1t is prob.
able that more will be planted next
season than ever before. 1t is sure
crop and the consumption is constant
ly increasing, thanks to the fake break
fast food makers and -four adultera-
tors. This years crop is: nearly ready
to pick. The acreage is not as large
as last years.
Southern congressman of democratic
ante-cedents are willing to make a
hard fight to keep the Dingley tariff in
tact. And even the den ocratis of the
south are going to join the standpat-
ters.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
Which seems to support the con-
tention that the ultimate hope of demo-.
cratic success lies in the standpatters.
Time and special privileges bring
strange fellows to bed together.
Said Railway Rates to Tariff Bill,
.ewel meet this winter on the Hill
Said Tariff Bill, in quick response,
I'm after you, though, my dear AL
phonse.'' Washington Times.
The kite, according to ornithological
authorities, is declared to be extinct,
and it is practically so. But vigil
ance committee has nevertheless been
formed in Wales for the protection OF
the bird. A photographer recently
traced one of the only pair of kites
known to exist in South Wales to- a
cave in the mountains ard with lucky
snapshot secured a photograph. The
home of the pair is being kept Sc
cret.
The people Of the United States con-
sumo according to an official report
440,O00.o0O pounds of tobacco, the con-
sumption per citizen being $40 pounds
When women and children are exclud-
ed from the calculation, the rate per
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
THE BANKRUPTCY LAW.
rD,,h,,n,Ie Times

"The bankruptcy law allowed a man
in East Dubuque to have a good time.
This bright (?) young man filed pc
tition in the bankruptcy court at Free
port, ILL.,, few days ago, which listed
liabilities of s777.1O. Itemized he owed
$452 for liquors, s257 for cigars, $11.1o
for soda water and $57 to doctor who
fixed him up after folly had led him
such merry chase and created dlsor-
ders out of pursuit of pleasure. Those
who have been treated similarly by
the bankruptcy law can imagine the
feelings of the men who trusted this
young man. The sooner the bankruptcy
law is repealed the better it will be for
all mankind."-Oelwein Register.
Has the Register paused to consider
how much this young mans creditoSs
would have received if the bankruptcy
law had been repealed before these ac-
counts accrued?
Did the bankruptcy law enable him
to get any credit he otherwise would
not have obtained, or evade any debts
he otherwise would have been COM
PEELED to pay?
Does the Register know Of any mer-
chant at Oelwein or elsewhere who has
used the bankruptcy law to evade ac-
counts that otherwise would have been
collected?
Who is hurt If the bankruptcy law is
used frequently to square accounts
charged off by their owners years ago?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

male adult is seen to be very large.
AS many men do not use tobacco in
any form, the smokers and chewers
average an astonishing amount OF the
weed. In Belgium, however, the aver
age per citizen is still larger than in
the United States, being GIL pounds.
In Germany the average is 3.44 pounds;
in France 2.16 pounds, while in the
United Kingdom it is but 1895 pounds.
The United States gets $65,S32102 rev.
enue from tobacco, while France gets
$S1, O63, 900, and the United Kingdom
s63,9O6,OO0. Germany gets but $16,-
$4,000.
The first meeting of the executive
committee of the International Asso-
citation of Accident Underwriters since
the Muskoka convention was held last
week The committee considered fav-
orably the question of limiting the in
demnity for accident to total period
of seventy eight weeks, for total dis
weeks, and partial disability twenty
six weeks. This action on the part
of the executive committee disposes
Of one of the three important aues-
tons referred to it for consideration
by the convention.
Many Philadelphia families still OBJ
serve the old Quaker custom of asking
a silent blessing at the dinner table.
Out of Difference to visitors from the
City of Brotherly Love this unusual
custom had prevailed for a few days in
a New York household where dis
cipline in such matters had become
lax. The curiosity of the six-year-old
son of the host had been aroused by
the strange proceedings, and he had
also noticed that the Philadelphia folk
were excellent trenchermen. His moth
er had explained that their guests were
Saying grace" to themselves. But the
young hopeful had only very hazy
idea of what grace before meat"
should be.
One day he boldly asked the Quaker
City folk why they did not say grace
aloud
cit is our custom, my young friend,
said the visitor. But thee say it aloud,
and that will serve for all of u.s." Then
he bowed his head with due solemnity.
The little fellow thought a while and
then said:
God have mercy on this good din
ner. Amen!"
Warder of the Pit: Heat No. 1885,,
SAB with forfeited policies quick. Here
comes one who was president of lie
insurance Washington
Times.
According to what are considered re-
liable reports, the wife Of the Pittsburg
multi millionaire who recently asked
Pope Plus x. to pray that she might
become q good Catholic, was Mrs.
Charles M. Schwab, wife of the former
president aof the United States Steel
Corporation. The report from Rome
was that the Pittsburg woman present.
ed to the Pope a card on which was
written: Pray, Holy Father, that /
may obtain the grace of becoming a
Catholic Charles NJ. Sehwab is
member of the Catholic faith, but his
wife, by birth and training, was an
Episcopalian. 1t has long been rumor-
ed that she intended to become mem
Der of her husbands church.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
a. N~5-@~.-1
Arc You Engaged?

Engaged people should remember,
that, after marriage, many quarrels
can be avoided by keeping their diges-
tions in good condition with Electric
Bitters. S. A. Brown. of Benefits
vile, S. c.. says: For years my wife
suffered Intensely from dyspepsia,
complicated with torpid liver, until
she lost her strength and vigor, and
became mere wreck Of her former
self. Then she tried Electric Bitters.
which helped her at once. and finally
made her entirely we'll She Is now
strong and healthy. Mcdonald q Ma
hood Co, druggists, sells and guaran-
tees them. at soc a bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

lumber trust is getting into the class
of the steel and beef trusts. When
monopoly becomes so arrogant that it
shoves up prices regardless Of supply
and demand it is about time to file it's
fangs."
The Dubuque Times says it cannot
subscribe to the view that the state
census has given Iowa a black eye. 1T
ought to be starting point" the
Times suggests, lin favor of cam
paign of education for the development
of the manufacturing industries of the
state, since it establishes that our
hopes for the future growth of Iowa
in population must depend mainly on
such development"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

Goes further and further. Never
stops until you are well. That's what
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
do. great tonic. Makes rich. red
blood. firm flesh. 80 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30
a New Jersey Editor. Testimonial.

NJ. r. Lynch, editor of the Philips
hurg. N J.. Daily Post, writes: Il have
used many kinds OF medicines TOT
coughs and colds In my family Out
never anything so good as Foleys' Honey
and Tar. I cannot say too much IN
praise of It," Sold by B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-30

Foley's Honey and Tar is peculiarly
adapted for chronic throat troubles
and will positively cure bronchitis,
hoarseness and all bronchial diseases.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by B. A. Nor