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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
Important Decisions

KrIJ,1NG sToCK ON TRACK.

KILLING STOCK ON
PLAINTIFFS mule was killed by de-
PENDANTS train while on the right OF
way and track, going from the train
some distance before it was struck.
The view along the track was clear
for at least a quarter of q mile from
the point the mule entered the right OF
way. and, at the speed the train was
running, it was evidently far enough
from the mule so that, if action to-
wards slowing down a been easlier
begun, the injury could have been
avoided. Held, that defendant a
liable. st. Louis & S. r. Ry. v. Car
isle. SO S. w. 5S4 (Ark.)
JOINT PURCHASE OF PROPERTY.
Defendant proposed to plaintiff h a
thew purchase certain land, which de-
PENDANT said, could be obtained at a
certain price, when in fact, defendant
had a contract to sell 1t for much less,
and nave all tha he obtained above
this less sum as commission. Defend-
ant procured the property, representing
to plaintiff that he had paid the Jul
nrice. Plaintiff conveyed property to
defendant in payment for he latter's
%,,nnosed interest, Defendant in fact
paid nothing on the property, the
amount supposed to ave been paid by
him being merely the amount of his
commission. Held. that he convey
ance from PLAINTIFF to defendant was
without consideration. VS..
BRAY. So S. w. 419 (Texas.)
UNLAWFUL BUSINESS.
Defendant leased of plaintiff GER
tain property to be used as a retail
lio,,or saloon, and it was used for that
purpose until the passage of a local
option law prohibiting the sale OF
Ho,1ors in that county. The lease ran
for a period of five years, but this law
being passed about three years after
the making of the lease, defendant re-
fused to pay any further rent under
the lease. Held, the fact that the lease
provided that the property was to be
used for the purpose of conducting a
first class saloon, etc, did not prevent
efendan from conducting any legltl-
mate business therein; and hence the
fact that by the subsequent passage OF
a local option law, it became unlawful
to longer maintain the saloon, did not
authorize the defendant to abandon
the lease. San Antonio Brew. Co. v.
| Rrents. So S. W. 1858 (Texas.)
TELEGRAMS-DELAY.
Plaintiff sent a telegram to a relative
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Topics Of the Times

It hardly looks like the proper thing
for Mr.. B. Nelson to receive $4,000 in
San Francisco for an assault and bat
terry that would cost him $4.85 in Mar
shalltown.
The anti-cigaret law in Indiana Is
dead as a coffin nail.
This is the month Of the grape
From the kitchens aromas escape
That indicate mother is putting them
up
And using per grape of sugar one
cup. Atlanta Journal.
The threshing machine story Of the
man who fell in the cylinder and came
out as sausage, has started on lis an
nual round.
Speaking Of Osler and mentioning
chloroform Webster City has a barber
over 20 a Of age.
Prof. F. T. oldt, superintendent of
Dubuque schools, will establish classes
for teachers in the city schools The
plan Of the superintendent is to thu
effect that the teachers will meet at
regular times during the school year
to recite, the classes to consist Of stu
dies in literature and general hosiery
and a number of other branches not
yet decided upon. A like plan was adj
vanced several years ago and carried
on for a time and then the work laid
aside until circumstances were more
favorable to the progress of the class
of work. Now it is the intention of
Superintendent Oldt to give the teach
ers every advantage along educational
lines, and give them the opportunity
of growing and developing along in
tellectually. The teachers are most
enthusiastic owe the plan and are go
ing in to the work with energy.
Brown-Halloa! Your lady type
writer's left you, 1 see.
Black-Oh, yes. / have her notice to
leave. She wasn't a bit good-couldn't
spell at all!
Brown-was she riled when you
told her she'd have to go?
Black-Not a bit. I told her she
was so pretty that the clerks couldn't
get on with their work for admiring
her.
The Postal Union has Just issued a
return for 904, which gives some in
teresting figures as to international
postage. The United States send most
letters-4.1o 3, 900, 900 during the year.
Great Britain follows with 1887, 900. 900,
and Germany with 1,64S, 000, 600. France
sends S44, 900, 900, and no other coun-
try reaches 500, 900, 900. The use OF
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Dun's INDEX NUMBER.

Dun's Index Number Of commodity
prices proportioned to consumption
was 500, 1903 on September 1, against
SOS, 846 q month previous and $97,S42 a
year ago. The slight advance Of about
one-half Of per cent during the
~seasonable occurrence, and represents
the broadening demand Of an increas-
ingly well employed population, par
ticularly for articles Of clothing and
metals. Food products averaged de-
scidedly lower, owing chiefly to the large
crops and a more normal level for all
hreadstuffs, which are cheaper than
at any other time since the short corn
crop of 1901, with a few rare excep-
tons. Among the features of greatest
strength are all textiles and footwear,
although cotton receded considerably
from its highest position just prior to
September 1st. There Isl bright prom
Use of a return to liberal exports Of
grain in the more attractive prices
now quoted, which should more than
neutralize the adverse effect of the adj
vance of cotton on the total foreign
trade for the fiscal yea:. The rise Of
2.6 per cent above the index number
or September 1, 1904, is not greater
than seems warranted by the improve
ment in business, there being compar-
atively little evidence Of speculative
imitation in the commodity markets.
Such confidence as now exists i'm the
continued activity of almost every in
dustrial and commercial department is
bound to generate strength.
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THE LIMIT OF ECONOMY.

Something especially noticeable in
agricultural communities Is the almost
in%variable success Of foreigners. The
foreign-born farmer usually wins q
good home and competency out of the
soil. He is not a speculator, but q
saver, and his ability to ave is the
secret of his success. Some one has
observed that in Iowa the Scandina-
Wan can save money where an Ameri-
can fails. He buys the farm and pays
for 1t. Once settled he is hard to move,
but the German moves him by the
proffer Of an extra price. Then the
Bohemian outbids the German and
moves him. This the observer says IL
the last analysis. Nothing can move
the Bohemian from his farm but
death. Satisfied with it's possession,
contented with small profits and sav-
4ngs, he stays where he has planted
himself, adding little by little to the
estate he will leave to his heirs. be-
cause he can't take it with him. Cen
turtles Of poverty have given the Eu-
ropean peasant an inherited instinct
Of close economy and ceaseless labor
that wrests profit from a clay side hill.
and grows rich on a sand knoll.
Just nov with the completion and
fun closing Of much of the railroad
construction going on in his country,
the ''ginnies," or Austrian and Hun
earian laborers are returning to Eu-
-sopa for the winter months. These
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Iowa Newspapers
wHEN THE GIRLS GO HOME.
IClear Lake Mirror.l

Clear Lake is a different town this
week. "The season" is over. The sum
mer girl with the white dress and white
shoes has gone. The cry for ice cream
soda is stifled. September may be one
of the incest kind of months but the
children have to go to school and that
stops the outing. Many may remain
after the first week in September. but
the great majority go at that time.
This has been the best season Clear
Lake has had since 1901 and it has
been demonstrated that it is not the
close times which keep people away
from the lake but cold, wet summers.
Given a dry arm summer and people
will come for their outing. This year
the demand for cottages has been
greater han the supply, campers have
been numerous and the hotels have
done well. 1t has been, as we have
said, the best season since the dry hot
summer Of 1901.
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\ COST or WARS.

Two or three centuries ago, declares
the statistician of the New York Tri-
bune, it was discovered that money
for warfare could be secured more
easily and in larger quantities by
bonding the nation for it and taxing
the people to pay the interest. Wars
began to cost more. In less than 800
a Great Britain has spent IN war
fare Sc, ZOE, 000, 900. The revolution of
1858 cost $155, 900, 900, the wal Of the
3 Spanish succession, 100000, 900; the
Spanish war, 1926, 900. 900; the seven
years war, $685., 600, 900; the American
war of revolution, $725, O0O, 900; the war
~ the French revolution, $780, DOC, 900;
Ahe wal against Napoleon, $2,930,00O
1000. The Boer war cost Great Britain
in cash more than $500, 000, 200.
1t is estimated that the wars Of the
nineteenth century cost the world
I'll, 1922, 000, 900. A statistician has fig
ured that there are 1856, 673,600 sec
onds in a century. According to these
figures, the world paid out nearly Sc
q second in the last century for war.
Adopting Archbishop Usher's chro-
nology, which made the world 1904
years old at the end of 1899, the ma
ton spent IN the nineteenth century
Tor war an amount equal to nearly Sc
. minute since the creation. This sta
tistician has estimated that the worlds
population is 100000, 600 II this IS
correct the amount spent in wal be-
tween 1g01 and 1900 would furnish
each man, and child with
nearly SIS pocket money
The debts Of the chief nations of the
earth aggregate more thar $34, 000,0 00,-
900. It is believed that t.hree-fourths
OF this sum was swallowed up in war;
fare and preparations for 1t. Nearly
al the sum represented by the debts
Of Great Britain, France and Germany
was spent on warfare. These coup-
tries are spending annually in interest
on their debts nearly $39e, 600, 900. This
sum is in addition to the amounts be-
ing expended for the support of mill
fary ornaments. The amount appro-
priated this ear for this purpose by
Great Britain. in round figures, is
$860,oo0,0oo; by Germany, $217, 500, 900;
BY France, 5000, 200, 900; by the United
States. $195, 600, O00.-New York Tri-
So h,ne.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
THE NEW METHODIST HYMnAL.

The new Methodist Hymnal, which
is just now being issued and scattered
in car loads over the country, is the
remarkable seller among the books of
the year. 1t was placed on the mar
ket September first and 100000 have al
ready been sold. The ,hymnal is pre-
pared and issued jointly by the Meth
odist Episcopal church and the
used by other branches of Methodism.
Within the course Of a few months
when the churches have begun using it,
it will be used by more people in
church service than any other song
book ever issued. The editors of this
remarkable book are DR.. c. M. Stuart,
Of Carrot Biblical Institute, and Profess
sor w. F. Tillets Of Vanderbilt. Pro-
fessors Harrington Of Wesleyan, and
Lutking OF Northwestern, assisted in
the music.
-Four hundred hymns have been edit
ed out of the new hymnal, but the III
hymns, some Of them new mes, on
tanned in the new book, appear suffi-
cient for devotional needs. Charles
Wesley leads in authorship with 121
out of the III, and John Wesley's name
is attached to nineteen of the hymns.
Many of the hymns given place nave
never appeared in a hymn book. Ten
doxologies, twenty chants, the psalter
and ritual complete the $50 pages Of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Let our tongue cleave to the roof OF
our mouth and our right hand forget
it's cunning ere we denounce the wis
dom of such men as Blaine, Mckinley,
and Allison, for the advice of OF. latter
day corporation servers" exclaims the
Scranton Journal.
The Cedar Falls Record assures its
dependent ard the most wholesome
The young man or the young woman
who thinks life a burden on the farm
and pulls out for the town or city III
search of a soft snap is sure of disap-
pointment. Every town in the state
has a lot of proffigates about it, the
product Of a mistaken idea," declares
the Record.
$50 far the press of Iowa has not
sounded the loud timbrel in exultant
appreciation of Senator Titus four
year term theory" observes the Mason
City Globe Gazette.
Noting that the latest proposition at
Des Moines is free admission to the
state fair, the Dubuque Times admits
1t would swell the crowd and declares
the legislature would be- called on to
make good the deficit in receipts. But
would Des Moines be content with
this?" asks the Times, sarcastically.
"would not the modest community at
Raccoon Forks next demand that the
state treasury provide free lemonade
and cigars for the visitors"
The lowe. City Republican says
Major Byers will do for governor pro-
videdI he gives bonds not to put his
state papers into poetry. 1t declares
that, as a man, citizen and soldier, he
is so much better than his poetry, his
friends often wish they could eliminate
the last so that there would be nothing
to fear as to the future.
"Just keep your eye on Iowa's gov
%ernor," advises the Parkersburg
Eclipse. "If he doesn't come nearer to
landing in the presidential chat than
does Shaw we will surrender all claims
to being a prophet or a son of a proph-
ct"
m SneEaTuOdu 9tLlIIlel.I OSl SOl
siders hat When it publishes an ad-
v~ertisement for a railroad, a circus, a
merchant, or any other concern and
gets it's pay for the advertisement at
the agreed price, it is in no way COM
promised, bound or Influenced by such
advertising patronage.
1t looks to the Charter Oak Times
as if the best thing is to clothe the
railway commission with full powers
to correct any abuse, instead of tying
their hands and then telling them to
pitch in. The object Of the law is not
to work injury, or to butt in to the
affairs of the railroads, but simply tc
put the roads where a greedy man.
agement cannot rob its clientage. On
the other hand, it should correct some
of the p~resent-day abuses whereby the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12

asking that money be wired for the
transportation Of the body of her dead
son. The addresses of the message
resided three and one-hah miles in the
country from the destination Of the
message and plaintiff did not inform
the sending agent of such fact, nor ar
range for immediate delivery at the
addresses residence. The telegraph
on receiving the message af-
ter hours, when it had no messengers
available to deliver it, failed to deliver
the same until the next day. Plalnt1f1
brought suit for damages. Held, that
the company was not guilty Of negli-
gence making it liable.
McCaul VS.. w. u. 7. Co, 8S S. w.
1923. (Tenn.)
LDAsE-CoNsTRUCTION
Plaintiff contracted to let defendants
have the use for five years of so much
of a tract of timber land as they might
clear up. 1t was provided that the
clearing necessary should be the re-
moval of all timber except trees ex-
ceeding two and one-half feet in d1a-
meter and that plaintiff should have
the option after n year., to take
back the lands which had been cleared,
on paying defendants a certain sum
per acre per annum for each acre they
had cleared. Defendants partially
cleared a portion of the land, leaving
some trees standing which were less
than two and one-half feet in dame
ter. Held, hat plaintiff vas not en-
titled to retake the land under the op-
A.. I'LL o,,+ 6rot for1orino the
amount to which defendants were en-
titled for labor performed.-Bunch VS..
Williams, So S. w. 5s8 (Ark.)
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himself the trouble of %grumbling, and
the money was duly deposited IN No.

himself the trouble OF grurnbling, and
the money was duly deposited on No.
"a.
Alas! No. SO proved to be the win
ming mineral, and the lady gave a
little gasp of despair.
Serves you right" said her great
brute of a husband. "If you'd told the
truth you'd have won!"-London Tit
Bits.
The day Of yellow journalism is
past. A full page advertisement in he
New York Tribune announces, We
notice that the Evening World and
Evening Journal are printed OF pink
paper like the Evening Telegram-Im-
itation is the sincerest form of flat
terry" The Telegram should now
print every other column upside down
and make secure its journalistic lead
arcbir,
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TT TAKES OF TO BUY.
rsin11x CITY Tribune.l

TO those disgruntled s~tandpatters
who are wont to say Governor Cum
minis is in reality a democrat and has
the democrats with him, the following
editorial from this weeks Cherokee
Democrat is commended:
.'There never was a more corrupt DO
litical machine in Iowa n the Cum
minis machine, and every republican
politician knows it. 1t is not so very
long ago that Cummins' money was al
most as free as water. A lot OF THESE
fellows who know it best are nov
shouting for Cummins and reform.
There are a few Of them in Cherokee.
BY this time hell must be more than
half full of that sort of re%for1ners
When you hear them shouting for re-
form and telling the dear voters to get
into line it is safe to bet that they are
just like the other fellows-trying to
get control, crafty their wv ambi-
tions and feather their own nests
The only thing wrong with the fore
going is that it is not true. Other
wise it would be quite interesting,
particularly because of the confidence
with which the editor presumes to
classify the candidates for hades.
AS a matter of fact the Cummins
"machine" never did have any money
and V was corrupt. In politics as
in other affairs, money is the root of
evil. Those who have it are the ones
who are responsible for corruption. The
railroads nave money and there are
plenty Of things they want in politics.
1t is natural that they should have
been supplying money to control Iowa
politics during the past decade or two.
1t goes without saying that it hasn't
been contributed to the Cummins' ma
chine" which has consistently waged
war on the railroads and the railroad
lobbyist and political boss. Neither
the governor nor his political advisors
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
FAST CORN.
ITort Dodge Messenger

Fort Dodge MeSSeHSeI.I
Now then, gentlemen, here comes the
problem: When will our agricultural
scientists get us a fast trotting breed
of corr that will do the mile in sixty
days. We can then go to bed in peace
all September and allow the stars and
the moon to attend to their own bus
mess, frost or no frost. They used to
think a three-minute horse was n
years ago. Now they keep working un-
til they get the clip better than two
minutes, and the men who stayed up
nights thinking 10Y to do it never
benefited a soul on earth. II some
good young mar would stay up all
night at the agricultural college fgur-
ing out how he would make an ear OF
corn do as they made the horse do =
cut the mile time in two-he would
confer a real genuine blessing on us
for which all mankind would rise up
and forever call him blessed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
Got on Cheap.

He may well think. he has got off
cheap. who. after having contracted
constipation or Indigestion, is still able
to perfectly restore his health. Moth
ing will do this but DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. A quick, pleasant, and GER
tain cure for headache. constipation,
etc, 25c at Mcdonald & Mahood Co.'s
drug store; guaranteed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
Attacked by a Mob

and beaten, in a labor riot, until COW
cred with sores. a Chicago street car
conductor applied Bucklin's Arnica
Salve, and was soon sound and we'll
II use it in my family" writes G. j.
WEIGH, of Tekonsha. Mich, "and find
It perfect" Simply great for cuts and
burns. Only Csc at Mcdonald & Ma
hood Co.'S drug store.
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Doctor. Could Not Help Her

81 had kidney trouble for years."
writes Mrs. Raymond Conner Of Shell
ton, Wash, "and the doctors could not
help me. l tried Foley's Kidney Cure,
and the very first dose gave me relief
and I am now cured. I cannot say too
much for Foley's Kidney Cure" Sold
by B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12

are wealthy. In fact. the governor has
been in financial straits for four a
and has been greatly in need of money
with which to swell his salary sufh-
GENTLY to meet his living expenses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12

A tonic that makes rich. red blood.
Brings strength. health and happiness
to the whole family. Nothing equals
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea as a
tonic, 35 cents. McBride.& Will Drug
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Rates to Pacific Coast Cut $500.
Commencing September is, the
Iowa Central railway will have on
sale daily one way tickets to San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and
other points in the west and north
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12

Foley's kidney cure makes the dis
eased kidneys sound 30 they will elm.
mate the poisons from the blood.
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railroads are held up for free trans
portation and moneys not earned. The
curtailing of the powers OF the COM
mission would tend to destroy It's USE
fulness to both parties"
To the Knoxville Journal so long as
we have abolished annual elections 1t
would seem to be a wise thing to do to
lengthen the term of office, thus avoid
ing the necessity of electing an entire
new set of officers at each election.
Public business will undoubtedly be
better cared for that way. Some years
ago we went to the trouble of arrang-
ing matters so that a part of the off,
GERS should hold over because it was
believed that more efficient service
would be secured thereby. The same
argument applies now"
mo one who takes note of the peo-
pie who attend the fair each year can
be of the opinion that its success is a
matter which concerns only the city OF
Des Moines,'' asserts the Creston Adj
yertiser-Gazette. "The farmers and
the stock of Iowa are the peo-
pie who have the deepest interest In
the annual exhibit; the interest of the
Des Moines shopkeepersi is second
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$50 far the press of Iowa has not
sounded the loud timbrel in exultant
appreciation of Senator Titus four
year term theory" observes the Mason
City Globe-Gazette.
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LET u tongue cleave to the roof OF
our mouth and our right hand forget
it's cunning ere we denounce the wis
dom of such men as Blaine, Mckinley,
and Allison, for the advice Of our latter
day corporation servers" exclaims the
Scranton Journal.
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tho, whether it is done voluntarily for
a selfish purpose, or from actual ne
reSSitv