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The Washington times., 1905-03-05
To Mansion or Hoyel He
Hastens With Equal
SWiftness.
No Driver Can OutcIass
Jesse in Skill Or
Daring.
Harry, His BuceplsHus,
IS a Very Lively
Veteran.

narrow for streteher TO go up or down
without dropping Elmer and his pain
upon the heads of the sympathetic
crowd which has followed the aoetor
into the house. Jerry brings the carry
ing belt therefore-an invention. by the
way, of the Emergency Hospital doctors
TO overcome just such difficulties me
driver sings the heavy canvass belt
over his shoulder, lifts the sick mar
into it and then carries him quickly
downstairs.
Everyone wants to lend a hand. In tns.
poorer sections of the eIown the people
are always willing TO help carry q
stretcher or do anything they can 70 aid
the doctors. Strange as It may seem this
is not the case IN the really respectable
portions Of Washington, where II Is
sometimes very hard to get even a corps
of speteher carriers
one old man who has the Unborn dread
OF q hospital which characteTizes the
ignorant.
GOOD thing If they does" says an
other. Elmer shore is the wust man an
ever see with razor"
He must "a varved you. Bill Jones.
The idee of taIkfn' Ike dat about poor
sick man.
The Washington times., 1905-03-05

This effort proved too much for him
and he sank back on the stretcher in
the bottom of the ambulance. But his
spirit is not entirely gone, and opening
one watery eye he says:
Doctor, you are a Scoundrel. sir!
The Washington times., 1905-03-05

yeQrs in the hospital ambulance where
the usual life Of q horse is two and a
half to three years.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
The State Indebted to Uncle Sam.

Ahe otdJe lnueOteu 10 Uncle sam.
The great State of Mississippi is in
dehted to the national government in
the sum of $1,000 The debt is OF
long standing and represents lost and
Wornout supplies issued over a period
of twenty or thirty years to the Missis-
sippi national guard.
10 adjust the claim in some way and
to Keep the records committed To his
care rs Acknowledgement of the State,
Gen. Arthur Fridge OF Jackson is in
Washington to conicr with the war de-
partment on the subject.
1t seems that for u number Of years
1t has been customary with former
Acknowledgements of Mississippi in
making their annual reports to the
war department to report military sup
plies without first taking an invoice to
ascertain exactly what property fur
nlshed by the government was on hand.
AdJutant-tfenera Fridge. however, de-
parted from the beaten path of his pre-
decessors by making a sort OF merchants
invoice, and the result discloses the
rather startling fact that the State of
Mississippi is in debt to Uncle SAM in
the neighhOrhood OF $4,000.
Under the law the government can
collect this sum, but whether the war
department viii enforce the statute or
not is the question Adiutant-G General
Fridge would like to find out.
One way TO collect the debt would be
for the government to hold the annual
appropriation Of $50. 900 which Missis-
sippt receives for the national guard I'M
der a provision of the Dick bill. But
will this course be either necessary
9r advisable? Gen. Fridge is DESTROYS
>f having the matter cleared up.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08

Johnny" said Mr.. Oldham. who was
counting a young widow, you are a
fine, manly little chap"
yes" said the widows small son,
scornfuily, that's the same chestnut
all the old guys spring that hang
around here tryin' 20 cop out ma
Cleveland Leader.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
Looks Promising,

but why do you think he may be q
real poet?"
mo magazine editor has ever accept
ed his verses" Houston Post
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
We Guarantee It.

Our guarantee is as good and as broad
and as strong as money and reputation can
make it. cAll we ask is that you give the
Hair Tonic a fair, square trial. 1t is an
honest preparation, and will do what we
claim for it. If it doesn't we return your
money.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
The Army and Navy.

In connection with our foreign policy the
president discusses the condition Of our
army and navy Considering the small
number OF our soldiers, he says, they should
be trained as nearly perfect as possible.
Continuing, he says: provision should
be made by sufficient appropriations for
naneuvers of a practical kind so hat the
troops may learn how to take care of them
selves under actual service conditions;
every march, for instance, icing made with
the soldier loaded exactly as he would be
In an active campaign. The number of
nosts in which the army is kept In m OF
peace should be materially diminished and
Inc posts that are left made correspond
inqlv larger. Promotion by mere
seniority can never result In a thoroughly
efficient corps Of officers in the hlghef
ranks unless there accompanies 1t a VIZ
orous weeding-out process. Such a weed
lng-out process-that is, such a process oil
selectton-.s a chief feature OF the four
years course Of the young officer at west
point. There is no good reason why 1t
should stop Immediately upon his gradu-
alton. After a certain age has been
reached the average officer Is unit TO DO
pood work below a certain grade. Provi-
eion should be made for the promotion OF
Intentionally meritorious men over the
heads of their comrades and for the retire.
nent Of all men who have reached a given
age without getting beyond a given rank;
this age Of retirement OF course changing
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
Your Hair Needs Help

to make and keep it strong and full anc
abundant and beautiful. 1t needs proper ane
intelligent care.
Some people wash their hair to death.
Some ruin it by the use of strong soaps
Others don't wash it at regular intervals
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06

the other men of-war remain loyal.
That they viii evince loyalty to the
point OF firing upon their messmates
In questioned by men who know tho
situation In the Black sea. and es-
recially the sentiments animating men
of-Warsmen.
Not an Isolated Case.
That the mutiny on the battleship
and destroyer Is not an isolated case
Is shown, 1t was pointed out by tho
punishment of eight mutineers at Sc
hastopol. In fact. several months ago
sepcrts we're received here stating that
the Black sea feet was in bad condi-
t'on. not only with respect to material
but personnel as well.
The men are dissa tisfied, not 80
much with their food--what they re-
ceive In service Is far better than they
get at fome-4as the treatment from
which they suffer The theory of the
Russian naval service Is that of faith
er and son. The same theory, the
stranger is told, is the practice in the
army. As a matter Of fact the men
are subjected oftenti,nes to the stern
est and hnrshest discipline. They are
punished severely for the slightest Of
fence. The result Is that few Russian
officers are popular with their men.
Reason for Revolution.
Under such conditions, 1T is not con-
sidered surprising that the men lent
ready ear to the revolutionary propa-
Eanda. There was no hope OF relief
IL the present regime continued.
According to official information
,.nro +hora ,yare fhirtv.f1ve officers and
600 men aboard the Prince Potemktn.
and three officers and more than 100
men on the destroyer. How the plot
ting was DONE and how the men fin
nally were drawn into the conspiracy.
tho circumstances which made the
crime possible. and whether the MUIR
ders were committed at night when
only the officers Of the deck were on
guard, are questions to which the au-
thorities here vainly seek to answer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
REV. wHBELDR Exp1.A1Ns.

Editor Times-Republican: In your
paper some ten days ago you had an
article about the German Baptist
Brethren holding an annual conference
at Folory. Ind, in which the conference
had up the use of telephones and de-
cided against the use Of them in their
homes, which is correct so far but it
should be stated Old Order Brethren.
as that is the name Of the organiza-
ton. The article does us an injustice
as we are the conservative German
Baptist Brethren and held our annual
conference at Bristol Tenn, and had
no such question before the conference.
1t is misleading for the reason that
people have been asking us when we
are going to take out our phones and I
was told Sunday that there was a m'in
In LeGrand said that at the first house
north of our church there was a 81 4
out, phone for sale. Now 1t so hap
pens that that Is where we live and
there has not been any such notice. We
have a phone and expect to keep 1t.
Telephones, like telegraph, electricity
and other conveniences have no special
bearing on the questions of Christian
ity: they are conveniences that are TO-
this life and do not reach beyond. /
have no doubt but that the use OF a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
BATTLE, OR CAR is DOOMED.
Diplomats Believe the Hour Has
Struck for Russ Autooracy.

Washington Special Either ma
val battle will he fought IN the Black
sea by the Russian battlcships against
the inutinous Russian battleship ana
torpedo boat destroyer. or the fate OF
the present government of Russia Is
sealed.
Ar action can only be avoided by the
iuutineers abandoning their ships, and
iris they are unlikely to do because
of the danger of immediate apprehen-
sion by the police either of their own
country or of Turkey.
This isethc sensational view of off,
ciala and diplomats In Washington.
based upon the information cabled the
state department by United States
Consul Heennn, of Odessa.
The consensus Of opinion was that
the severest blow which could be Civ
en- the autocraey had been struck. II
the batteship and destroyer be sunk
today and the mutineers killed or
drowned---tho only thing. Russian Dip
lomats say that can be done--a wave
of feeling viii sweep over the empire
which will mid materially the work or
the rcvolutionists
The destruction Of the ships can on
~ be accomplished IL the snilqrs on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
LIGHT FASTER THAN SOUND.
Some Everyday. Incidents That S.9
to Prove This Fact.

Some Everyday. Incidents That So
to Prove This Fact.
About thousand yards from the
window where sit is factory which
blows its whistle every noon. The
steam always comes from the whistle
some little time before the sound Is
heard. Yesterday / counted three sec
onds between the time when the first
steam was seen and when the sound
of the whistle was heard. The whistle
is heard when the weather Is foggy
or clear, hot or cold, windy or calm.
It is sometimes louder than at other
times, but it always takes three sec
onds to travel the 1000 feet from the
factory to my house.
We often hear also an echo of the
whistle, which comes two seconds later
than the first sound. This is the same
sound coming by roundabout journey
5000 feet away. 1t travels first 1000
feet to a hill beyond and then Is sent
back 1000 feet to our house.
A few days ago l heard band OF
musicians playing upon the street, and,
although they were far distant from
me, the high tones Of the piccolo and
the low tones Of the bass horn reached
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
Yaeatlon 1ours.

For the summer season Of 1905 the
railroads have undoubtedly arranged
lower round trip excursion rates to the
various summer resorts and to the
Pacific coast than any previous year.
The Iowa Central announces few OF
their rates as shown below from Mar
shalltown:
TO st Paul and Minneapolis $1,000:
TO Duluth $14SO; Denver. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo s2S.40: Salt Lake
city and Ogden $36.40: tickets on sale
daily after June /. final limit Oc-
tober 81.
To Denver, account Epworth Lea
que convention) 5000; tickets on sale
June 80 to July 4. Limit July IA. with
privilege OF extension to August on
payment Of fee of 50 cents
To Denver. account g. A. r. en-
campment) $14.S5: tickets on sale
August 80 to September 4. Limit Sep
tember IL, with privilege OF extension
to October z on payment of fee Of SO
cents.
70 Portland. Ore. (for Lewis and
Clark exposition) $4,000: tickets on
sale daily, limit ninety days; tickets
good going one route and returning
another. with liberal stop-over privi-
leges.
To California Correspondence as
low rates as to Portland.
To Hot Springs, Ark. One fare
plus two dollars for the round trip;
tickets on sale daily. limit thirty
days.
For full particulars call on agents,
or address A. 3. QUITS,
G. p. and T. A.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
DEALERS AND TINE BLANK PISTOLS.

The list OF casualties on July grows
a the reports come in. The cannon
cracker continued fits work and the
blank cartridge pistol reaped It's usual
harvest From now on for days the
death list from lockjaw caused by the
Toy pistols will swell quietly and the
little white hearses go gllmmering by
II Is a little hard to understand why
respectable dealers will insist In de-
nance OF ordinances and public opin-
lon on scattering such Internal con-
traptions as the blank pistol broad
casts among the children of their
townspeople and neighbors for tha
compare lively small gain that must
accrue from their sale. 1t is still hard
or to understand how parents bring
themselves to permit their children to
purchase these dangerous playthings
But they do 1t, one for pitiful profit
the other thru weak fondness and the
little procession with the white hcarsa
hi the u4du IOllOWS lHS a OulVA VA VuAJ
parade as night follows day.
II is a pity that the ghosts Of litt!e
ones slain for the profit on a toy piss
toll might not return to haunt the men
who sold them. It is also a pity that
everyone who sold them in defiance
OF law should not be arrested and
anulcted in fines more than he proflted
by their sale. It is the dealer who
needs attention. Most boys OF, July
would buy and blow up powder
house II they had the money and OPP
portunity and from appearances there
are dealers who would keep powder
houses on sale for Fourth of July ex-
blossoms II the demand made 1t profit
able
The dealer who sells blank pistols
has peculiar interest in the little
white hearse. The procession 10 part
" his and when he looks out atiit on
its way to the cemetery with some
mothers child. he should ACQUIRE a
memory to haunt him as long as he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06

me exactly togemer, showing that high
and low tones travel at the same speed.
During thunderstorm noticed Il
flash Of lightning aud counted ten
seconds before the sound Of the tlnn-
der was heard This showed me that
the storm was about 10000 feet Tor
about two niles away. A little later.
however, the time between the light
ming ana the thunder began to grow
less. and the noise Of tile thunder be-
caino louder which showed that the
storm was getting nearer. Finally a
dazzllng fash of lightning was fol-
lowed Immediately by a deafening
crush Of thunder, and ut the same time
the shingles dew from patch OF roof
OH barn near by 1t had been struck
by lightning and was soon III fames.--
st. Nicholas.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
THE WEARING OF BEARrs.
1t One limo a Tax WINS Exacted
For the Privilege.

1t One Tfmo Tux Wns Exacted
For the Privilege.
In days gone by the wearing OF
beard was privilege that had to be
paid for, the tax on every beard Of
fortnlght's growth being 3s. Id. IN the
gracious days Of Queen Elizabeth.
FOR over half a century the monarchs
Of Russia made their male subjects
who wore boards pay into the nutional
exchequer. This tax was imposed by
Peter the Great in 1905, the mobiles hav-
ing to disburse 100 rubles and the low
er classes kopecli. The tax on boards
was kept up by Peters four successors
on the throne of all tile Russias, and 1t
was finally repealed in 1862 by Cath
crime III. France, too, at one time i'm
posed beard tax upon the clergy,
which was paid by those who could
afford 1t, although the large majority
had to yield to the razor's onslaught.
In the fourteenth century shaving
was popular with young men. while the
old men were attached to forked
boards. The latter custom Is referred
10 Dy Chaucer, VINO III deScrlDlng an
assembly says, "a merchant was there
with forlked beard" Boards were
worn in various shapes and forms dur
ing the relgns Of Elizabeth, James l.
and Charles L., as the poems, plays and
other literary productions Of those
periods amply testify. In his "Anato
mic of Abuses Stubs alludes to the
barber who was accustomed to ask.
his client whether he wished his beard
"cut to look terrible to your enemy or
amiable to your friends, grim and stern
in countenance or pleasant and de-
mure."
William Harrison, q clergyman from
whom one gains many peeps at the six,
teenth century, refers to some Of the
styles Of boards at that period. If
face happened to be '.platter-like,"
long, slender beard would make 1t seem
the narrower II 1t be weasel beaked,
then "much hear left on the cheehcs
will make the owner locke like bow
died he'd and so grim g; goose. ~
London Standard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06

sible to raise their prices Is to 20 per
the machines they can turn out The
price for a good. durable bicycle In
England now is guineas. or about
$40. Some wheels of q fancy class.
with silver plate and the INST superb
establishment of the age, are sold as
high as G25 or close to $l22 In AM
erican money, but a very serviceable
and good wheel Is sold there at G6, or
barely $50.
1t is estimated that New oYrk City
spent $1,500,O00 in fireworks during the
day and night of July 4. In the light OF
this amount Of burning powder.
$500, 900, 900 canal doesn't seem so very
expensive.
The borough of Southwark, England.
is about to inaugurate the open book
shelf In It's public Libraries. Taxpayers
and others who register their names
as borrowers will be allowed to enter
the libraries and take down from the
shelves the books they require without
reference to the attendants.
In Hesse. Germany. tax has been
put upon bachelors who now have to
pay Is per cent more In taxes than
married men. and the bachelors claim
its worth the money.
80
DIR. Yung Wing, OF Hartford. Conn.
was the first oriental who was ever
graduated from an American college.
He took his degree at Yale In 'the
class Of 1854. In 1876 he was the CHI
nese minister to the United States.
DR.. Yung Wing is in his 18th year.
General .Negley, of Pennsylvania.
was a strict disciplinarian. During one
OF the winters OF the civil war he con-
Guided that q certain gunrdhouse was
altogether too comfortable quarters for
prisoners and ordered Colonel Marston,
who later won fame as soldier. law
wear. and statesman, to build IL dungeon
without 30 much as crack Or opening
anywhere so that It should be perfect
ly dark The dungeon was built with
four solid walls, according to THE Chi
cago News" One day General Negley
came over to inspect 1t. He was ac-
companied by Colonel Marston.
where Is the entrance" said theigen-
eral, land how do you get anybody into
1t ?" oh" said Colonel Marston. that
is not my lookout. I simply obeyed
your orders
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
ABOUT THE NEXT GOVERNOR.

Referring to editorials In the Spirit
Lake Beacon ana LeMars Sentinel
presenting Hon. George D. Perkins as
the. probable Eleventh district candi-
date" to succeed Mr.. Cummins. the
Register and Leader, while especially
d,sclaiming any purpose Of discussing
Mr.. Perkins candidacy properly pro-
tests against candidates. based OIL
congressional district lines rather than
on political leadership" and hopes "if
Mr.. Perkins Is to be a candidate that
"it will be as the advocate Of some
thing that is vital In the politics Of the
day and not to supply q compromise
in response to the humiliating sug-
gestion that the governorship is a
clerical office with which the great poll
icies OF the country are in no way In.
yolved."
The Register and Leader goes to the
root of the whole matter when it re-
calls that the issue in Iowa four years
ago was the liberalization Of certain
policies. The movement carried the
convention then and named the gov-
ernor. It has controlled the state adj
min!stration since and, as the Register
and Leader puts 1t:
Has announced that it proposed to
have the voice Of Iowa potent in the
halls Of congress for certain reforms.
This movement Is yet alive. 1t will
name the next governor of Iowa or it
Will allow II to be known. IN the par
lance of the political world, that 1T has
slid down the pole +ss The Regis
ter and Leader cannot allow these ap-
parently harmless suggestions Of 'har-
mony' and compromise and a COVER
nor who will attend to business and
let national affairs alone. to multiply
without frankly pointing out exactly
what they mean for the men who risk :
ed their political Judgment and politi-
cal fortunes in behalf OF the ideas
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-06
TERMS:
Tho Stranger on tho gill.


between broad fields Of wheat and corn
IL the Lowry home where was born.
The peach tree leans against the wall.
And the woodbine wanders over all;
There IN the shaded doorway still,
But STRANGERS foot has crossed the sill.
There 10 the barn, and as Of yors
! can smell the hay from the open door
And see the busy swallows thronB
And hear the peewee's mournful song.
But tho stranger comes - oh, painful
proof
His sheaves are piled to tho heated roof.
There IS the orchard, the very Trees.
Where my childhood knew long hours OF
easc
And watched the shadowy moments run
TIL my life imbibed more shade than sun.
The swing from the boughs still sweeps
the air,
But the strangers children are swinging
thsrei
There bubbles the shudy spring below.
With It's bulrush brook where the hslzels
grow;
Twas there found the caiamus roo.
And watched the minnows potsc and shoot
And heard the robin lave his wing
But the strangers bucket is at the spring.
Oh, 70 who daily CROSS the SILL.
step lightly. for love 1t still
And when you crowd the old barn caves,
Then think what countless harvest
Have pAassd within that scented door
So gladden. eySs that are no more.
Deal kindly with these orchard trees,
And when your children crowd their
knees
Thslf sweetest fruit they shall irnpart.
A. II old msnaof1es stirred their heart:
10 ypuel,ful sport still leave the swing,
Andsln sweet reverence hold the spring.
Tho barn. the trees, the brook, the birds.
The meadows with theiE lowing herds,
The woodhtne on the cottage wall
Ny heart sttll fingers with them all.
Ye strangers on my native sill.
! etAp Lightly. for love It stilbr
Thomas Buchanan Read.