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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
HE HATED MUSEUMS.
rhorenu cataroGuea Them as til

Thoreau Cntalogued Them as the
Catucombs of Nature.
l hate museums There is nothing so
weighs upon my spirits. They are the
catucombs Of nature. One green bud of
spring. one willow catlin, one faint
thrill from a migrating sparrow, would
set the world on its legs again. The life
that is in a single green weed is OF
more worth than all this death They
are dead nature collected by dead men.
I know not whether | muse most at the
bodies stuffed With cotton and saWduSt
or those stuffed with bowels and fashy
fiber outside the cases.
Where is the proper herbarium, the
true cabinet of shells and museum of
skeletons, but in the meadow where the
flower boomed, by the seaside where
the tide cast up the fish and on the
hills and in the valleys where the beast
laid down its life and tie skeleton of
the traveller reposes on the grass? What
right have mortalS to parade these
things on their legs again. With their
wires. and, when heaven mas decreed
that they shall return to dust again to
return them to sawduSt? Would you
have dried specimen OF a world or a
picked one?
Embalmil,s is sin against heaven
and carth--against heaven, who bas
recalled the soul ana set free the selvile
elements, and against the earth. which
is thus robbed of her dust. | have had
my right perceiying senses so disturbed
in these haunts as to mistake q verit!l
bic living man for stuffed specimen
and surveyed him with dumb wonder
as the stran@est Of the whole collection.
for the strangest is that which, being
in many particulars most like. is in
some essential particular most unlike.
Thoreaus Journal in Atlantic
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
Lincoln,s Retort to Douglas.

Douglas, meeting Lincoln on one oc-
casion during the exciting campaign of
1860, made characteristically unpleas-
ant remark, saying:
why, Abe. | remember you when
you We're nothing but young clerk in
little western town. peddling out
goods at retail and selling liquor over
the counter y
Yes answered Lincoln, ''the only
difference between you and me was
that l was on one side OF. the counter
and you were on the other
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
TIne E1nmIfsl.,yoman.

Tho American or the French woman
never allows herself to be dauntea by
the fact tllat she has not been en-
dowel BY n&ulre with good LOOKS OF a
good figure SHE dresses as carefully.
carries herself rs grandIy as her beau
tiful sisters and indeed assumes rather
more of an air than they, with the
happy result that America and France
seem TO have no i'll dressed and no
really plain or ungraceful daughters.
we IsnglishWonen are TOO modest and
fancy we We altogether hopeless I'M
less We have good material on which
to work. Losftion World
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
The Era Of Noise.

What an age of noise this is! Do
you know any single human being who
is capable of being silent for an hour
at Il stretch? know two, and | value
them according to their rarity. Not
only does everybody talk, but almost
everybody talks loud. j went into q
shop the other day, and the clatter Of
conversation sounded as though the
place were full Of people Yet all the
noise was produced by three individ-
uals. Why should they shout? Lon
don Truth.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
Robert Louis Stevenson.

Here is Il pen portrait Of Robert Lou
is Stevenson. written by Dr. Alexander
a. Japp: Not SO tall probably aS he
seems at first sight from his extreme
thinness but the pose and air could Not
be otherwise described than as disiin
guishetl. Head of fine type. carried aeii
on the shoulders, and. in walking. with
the impression OF. being Il little thrown
back; long brown hair. falling from IN
der a broadish rimmed Spanish form
Of soft felt hat. Relnbrandtesgsie:: loose
kind of Iyerncss cape when walking
ami invariable velvet Jacket inside the
house
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
The cIs.se. In England.

In England the upper class CANDLES,
but does not drink; the middle class
drinks. but does not gamble, and the
low ar class both drinks and CANDLES.
1t is Characteristic circumstance that
1 tiie upper class makes laws to prevent
the lower class from gambling and That
the lower class is in favor, Of legisla-
st1on 80 prevent the ulp1r clAss Uom
AE1aking. ....-.4 4--....:....--..-4
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
Pann,k Own Iden

she7-Darling. we must elope. He
But surely your father has no obiec.
ti0iis To Sne-None whatever. He
s'1ggesfefs IN. e 6 - q E - III
b cheaper Philadeiphia Ledger.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16
.1ne Great ntmcnIfx.

"One-lfsilf Of the worlds happiness is
i oive,l When 4 person learns to mind his
own business
..Yes but It's the other half that
causes tie most trouble
.e4sziiiss " ilii:sss.. t 5 tia tia ~
&c Getting other people to mind 3theirsl"
Detroit Free Press. 44S5 s4
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-16

The first life Insurance policy Of
which the details are on record resulted
in il lawsuit William Ggbbons insllr
cd himself on June u, 1888, for E393
against dying in twelve months. He
the eIisgusfetl underwriters tthe cgln
pany Of those days, contested payment
on the pIea that he had lived twelve
E,le;:.t',:::5; Of twenty eight days each.
.-World's Work,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

the instance when he does not pay.
Thieves work together with the I'M
derstanding the loot will be divided.
No law will compel the division. Yet
the police say it is seldom indeed the
split isn't made. There is such a
thing as disgrace among thieves.
When a candidate for the legislature
In New York was helped with money
taken from life insurance Golfers, no
contract was exacted. No one would
dream of binding the candidate to give
what was expected in return. 1t must
be tacit understanding, just like that
of the thieves and the gamblers. The
transaction is outside the pale Of the
law.
Yet we seldom hear OF one who vho-
1ates this crude code Of honor. II he
does, he is likely to soon occupy a
political grave, and his act OF betrayal
constitutes the epitaph inscribed upon
the headstone by the wise ones.
A few years ago, a lobbyist who had
won a fight in the Iowa Legislature, at
a banquet celebrating the victory, with
glass lifted on high. enunciated this
basic principle of politics as he viewed
it:
IAN honest man is one who stays
bought"
But Senator Platt is an "easy boss
He wouldn't say things so harshly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27

3h per cent with politics. The same
statistician asserts that the incomes of
these women vary from 1000 francs
$4,000 to 5000 francs ($1,200.)
A Jewish newspaper tells the story
Of a rabbi who expounded and inter
preted the Jewish law to the faithful
observers for a stipend which junior
clerk would seorn. The learned man
was asked by friend how he was get
ting on. Slowly" he answered, with
a sigh IF 1t were not for the numer-
Gus fasts which our religion prescribes.
am sure my family would die of star
vation."
The Russian authorities have es-
tabIished greatly reduced rates on for
age and fodder grains to the provinces
where the crops failed last summer,
and have ordered that such shipments
hsall have preference In time over c.h-
er freight 1t has been the experience
in other seasons OF short crops that
the peasants have lost their stock for
want of feed, and then the next year
were crippled for hack of draft ami
mails. Low freights did them little
good because, wanting their turn on
lines overcrowded after harvest, the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
a cAeE or II.

Many More Like II In Marshalltown.
The following case is but one of
many similar occurring daily in Mar
shalltown. It is an easy matter to
verify It's correctness. Surely you can
aot ask for better proof than such a
conclusive evidence.
Norman Rambo, OF North Seventh
street, says: Mrs Rambo had much
and severe trouble from the deranged
condition of her kidneys. Physicians
said she had the incipient stage OF
Bright's disease. When after trying
4 half dozen remedies and probably
consulting a physician many find their
physical condition far from being i'm
proved; in fact. oftener the opposite.
When an unfailing remedy like that
which Mrs Rambo tested and proved
to be up to Its representations Is Of
Tered Marshalltown people would it
not be the height of folly to ignore
such valuable information? Here IS
proof Of 1t. Continuing, Mr.. Rambo
says: Doctors are expensive luxuries,
therefore when we learned of Doan's
Kidney PILLS got box at Mcbride
q Wilis's drug store for her. The use
Of the remedy was exceedingly bene-
Acial 70 her and the dropsical tenden-
cies shown by swelling and puffiness
Of the feet and ankles were removed"
For sale by all dealers. Price soc.
Foster Miiburn Co.. Buffalo, N. T., sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's- sand
take no other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
Topics Of the Times

Charles City is enduring an epidem-
ic of prairie Itch" a. disease with
which older settlers are more or less
familiar. However there are worse
epidenmics than the itch and Charles
City may be thankful that 1t is nothing
worse.
Edwin Markham's poem beginning
chou art the wind and 1 the Tyre"
seems to favor truth more than po-
etry.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has issued an interesting picture of
President U. IS. Grant and party TAX
EN- at Fort Sanders, point close to
the Union Pacific road. The picture
aside from its historical value is hand
somely printed and worth preserva-
ton.
The Teachers federation of Belgium
has compiled statistics which go to
show that boys from to years Of
age who do not attend school increase
in stature and in weight In a higher
ratio than the boys of the same age
in a school.
In Paris some patient person has
been collecting statistics about women
journalists. There are 600 of these. he
declares, who live by Journalism in En-
gland, as against 2,193 in the United
States and 1900 in Germany. OF the
latter OF per cent deal with literature.
1874 per cent with political economy,
10 per cent with pedagogy. 81 per
cent with science, ~ per cent with
fashions, per cent with history, 4 y
per cent with domestic economy, 4 Y
per cent with housing problems and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27

mans pay higher duties on certain ar
ticles than we require Of other coun-
tries which ship the same articles to
the United States. We have persist
ed in this policy for many years, and
Germany has adopted the only way
open to her to bring the matter home
to us. The German government is
the most active in the world in the de-
Tense Of It's own commercial and pro-
ducing interests. but is very liberal
with nations which give Germany a
square deal.
: Concluding. the reciprocity league
offers the following eminently prac-
teal advice: Write to your con-
gresham and ask him how the Ger
man market can be opened"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
TERMS:
the POINT Of THE STORY.

Fort Dodge has been much wrought
up over what seems a plain attempt
to cozen a young woman stenographer
OF that city into y Chinese harem. Inc
young woman had received flattering
offer thru correspondence Of employ
ment as a governess in prominent
family in China and had made ar
rangements to go to San Francisco on
her way to the lucrative jo'' IN the
flowery kingdom. A few days before
she was to start her suspicion was
aroused by reading accounts Of Amer
lean girls being sold into slavery In
China. She consulted her parents
who wrote the police at San Francisco
and received the reply that the firm or
bureau with which the girl had been
in correspondence had no existence.
The natural conclusion is that the TT.
Dodge stenographer barely escaped
living death in the hare,n VI some
yellow mandarin.
One point in this story sheds con-
siderable light on the success of the
procurers who are said to supply q
Chinese demand for American slave
girls. This Fort Dodge girl 1t appears
had made all arrangements without
consulting her parents or any other
friends. with her limited knowledge
Of the world and the traps that every
where lie in wait for unwary women
she ignored her parents and pushed
her head blindly into moose without
investigation or ordinary inquiry. It
was another case Of the spider and an
apparently headstrong fly susceptible
to fattery- and foolishly confident al
the one In the fable.
The young woman who despises
parental guidance and the advice OF
friends walks in dangerous path.
Her pursuers are not all Cinnamon.
Nine-tenths Of the tragedies that I'LL
the newspapers and horrify neighbor-
hoods trace directly to the false inde-
pendence that flouts parental authority
and takes its own way in headstrong
heedlessness. The Fort Dodge girl
may congratulate herself on the acct
dent that led her to consult her par
ents on the most important step of her
life and other girls similarly situated
,,,o1, ,,roHt hu fhA lesson
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27

perhaps you did not think Of those
who have been less fortunate than
yourself and will not have the good
things on their tables that will grace
your board on that day of thanksgiv-
ing and good cheer. 1t is not an easy
matter to be supremely thankful on
an empty stomach or ON one which Is
filled only with the plainest food,
while that of a ne!ghbor has the job
of digesting a Delmonico dinner. Right
here in Manson there are those who
will feel the pinch Of poverty this
Thanksgiving and will not have thu
little extras that will make your home
happy and your family comfortable
and really thankful. There is the SOL
dier's widow, trying to live on her lit
tie pension that this great government
saves from the grafters and doles out
to her and her kind every three
months. She will not have much OF
a dinner unless you help her. And
there ds the woman with the sick 1T
tie child and host of other little ones
to feed and care for, and the man
whose wife has been sick for months.
In his home there will be no good, k1na
mamma to prepare nice dinner 1or
the little ones. for mamma will still be
sick and wan and pale and helpless
on that day and somebody should see
that her loved little ones have a nice
dinner, too. Now, say, boys-which
means ment-let us see to 1t that every
needy family in this town has a good
dinner on Thanksgiving. What do you
say? 1t won't cost much. The money
that YOU would contribute to foreign
missions, or give to the pastors SAL
airy. or subscribe to aid liquor prose-
cutions, or chip in on a. key of beer,
will be a great help toward giving
needy people something to be thankful
for on that great and glorious day OF
national thanksgiving. Let's do 1t. Not
this church, that church. this aid So
ciety or that aid society but all to-
gett,er Look the field over, find out
the needy ones and then get the grub.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
GIVING THE REASONS.

In reply to the repeated assertion
that Germany has already ceased to
be customer for American food pro-
ducts, that only trivial amount Of
American wheat and flour and but q
small amount of meats were sold to
that country last year the American
Reciprocal Tariff league has issued a
reioinder in which it points out rea-
sons for The falling off of our sales of
food products while Germany took
large quantities Of cotton and other
raw materials. Admitting it true that
under the present German tariff we ex-
ported only a small amount Of wheat
and flour to Germany last year, the
league explains that this was because
of the unusual Snort wheat cr2p Of
1904. Our millers had all they could
do to supply Latin Ar. erica and the
orient, which depend entirely upon the
United States; and in keeping UP this
LIMITED export trade they had to bid
w prices OF wheat in this country to
a higher level than we have known
for twenty-five years, excepting in
Letter corner The United gates was
out Of the European market for year,
because we did not have the wheat.
The crop Of 1902 in this country was
large, and the farmers were sorely IN
need of market. Germany touk In
the year ending June 80. 1903, about
20 coo 900 bushels Of o,lr surplus, and
over million barrels of -four; equivsl-
ent to 100000 bushels Of our crop.
This year, from the crop of 1905, AM
erican farmers have IL surplus of nearly
200 0aO coo bushels. An enormo Is
a:,pIy.. Of both wheat and -four Is be-
ing shifred to Germany, or IS under
.or tract to be ds:iycrc.l at German
ror., pefore Mach list. WHEN the new
1 ,rin ftes into aife:.. After that da.s..
the German demand in SIR markets
WI ease ent:-,:v, and the effect will
10 iee"ls fel. by the producers OF t;1is
curry
1t is also true that Germany has al
ready excluded American meats, ex-
cepting a little bacon and salt beef,
and the new tariff will not make mat
tiers much worse. The domestic meat
supply of Germany, however, falls far
short OF the demand and that country
imports from Austria every year about
$4,000, 900 of live animals and meat
products. Germany buys some $15,000,-
ever people need lard they need meat:
There is no doubt that under a fair
trade agreement or treaty Germany
would take S5O,000.000 or more of our
live stock products. in addition to the
lard she now buys; and any one ia
miliar with conditions ir our great
live stock markets knows how sadly
this outlet is needed for our surplus.
Germany will exclude. by her new
tariff, all American products except
Ing raw materials because for many
years she has had just grievance
abafnst this country. Her complaint
is not that our tariff is high. but that
1t is unjust and discriminates against
German products. We make the Ger
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
IF WOMEN VOTE.
TWa1l Lake Rlada7

Editor Wolf, and others Of his
stripe, seem to think that all a woman
was created for is to be sort of
maid of all work and brood animal
combined. She is to have no voice in
the selecting Of men who make the
laws she must obey, the same as her
lord and master, without a word of
protest. She must put In her time
the religious duties of herself and
husband. We admit she would threw
"cold water" on just-before cleo
ton key party and similar ratif1ca-
ton party the next night after cleo
ton She would look out of place
with one Of those cheap election
cigars in her mouth given her as a
bride and to induce her to vote right
Fancy your wife dressed neat and
clean wading thru a lake Of tobacco
juice and trying to find her way thru
a cloud of tobacco smoke to the ballot
box! We must save her from such a
condition, it is only a fit place for
gentlemen, for they are used to the
filth and do not want any improve
ment. If women voted they nigh!
refuse to go around the corner on
election day and take a swig from one
of those bottles, for her votes sake. 1t
is claimed by some, who lack better
reason for opposing the right OF
women to vote that the women do
not want to vote. How do they
know this? 1t is now necessary to
hold political meetings in every
county. to employ bands, send out
thousands of documents, invest many
dollars for livery teams to bring vot-
ers to the polls, set many columns OF
type i'll the daily and weekly papers,
spend thousands and thousands of dol
lars for cigars. whisky and beer. and
do much personal work. to get the male
voters out to the polls. Why not take
the ballot from the men for the same
reason? If the women are not per-
mitted to vote because they do not
want to, why not take the right from
the men because they will not? II
women could vote 1t would sound the
death knell to the ambitions of some
rod nosed men, and that is the chief
reason why women are not permitted
to vote.
THE ESSENCE OF THANKSGIVING
manson Democrat
Thanksgiving Is coming. You knew
that didn't you9 But you were plan
ming only for the comfort of your own
home and family, were you not? Or.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-27
BUSINESS At LEADING POINTS.

grown to unprecedented proportions
and the marketing Of farm products
has become more general and heavy,
forcing traffic managers to extraordi-
nary efforts in transportation. Many
western sections continue to suffer
from a lack of adequate cars and there
are frequent complaints as to delays
in forwarding merchandise at interior
points. Weather conditions are still
very favorable to shopping in the lead
ing retail departments, and the buying
of necessaries novelties and Christmas
goods has made q good beginning.
Country merchants report that sales
are making satisfactory progress, but
colder weather is needed for a sharp
disposition of winter wear. Many inn
provements are being made thruout
the agricultural sections and these In
volve much consumption Of building
material, wire and other supplies.
Wholesale dealings are little easier,
parison with year ago in staples.
Orders continue coming forward by
mail for footwear, heavy clothing and
mems furnishings and mercantile COL
lections generally make good exhibit.
The discount rate for chioce CONNER
ci,ll paper is firm at 51s per cent, and
collateral loans bring 6 per cent. Sales
Of local securities decreased In vol
urnne, but the ten active stocks made
an average gain this week of SO cents
per share.
Minneapolis. "A further improves
ment in the supply Of freight cars
greatly assisted in the movement Of
merchandise, and Notwithstanding the
very heavy volume of business deliv-
cries are about normal. In different
lines of merchandise jobbers report a
very brisk demand, and orders for
spring goods are freely placed, with
prices holding firm and showing an
upward tendency. Retail trade has i'm
proved somewhat with colder weather.
Collections are fair. Lumber ship
ments for the week We're 6.976,000 feet,
against 100000 feet a year ago.
st. Paul = Business continues sat
isfactory. Recorder trade in dry goods,
clothing, hats, furs and furnishings
has slackened somewhat, but advanced
sales for spring are large and prices
firm Millinery mail orders are in fair
volume and advanced sales are in ex-
cess OF last year. Footwear continues
In strong demand and factories are
busy Groceries and provisions are in
steady demand. In wholesale drugs and
cl. amicals trade is fairly active. Hard
ware sales compare favorably with the
preceding year, and harness manufac-
turers are well employed. Collections
are fair.
ce.-Manufacturers Of large
machine tools are unable to keep pace
with orders. Manufacturers Of woolens
and worsteds are busy and prices show
an upward tendency.
Philadelphia = There is no general
demand for either fleeces or territory
WOOL but some fair-sized blocks Of
territories have been taken at full
prices. Stocks In the hands of local
dealers are steadily increasing. Man
ufacturers of textiles continue well
employed and spinners Of wooden and
.worsted yarns report orders in many
cases sufficient to keep their factories
steadily employed during the balance
Of the year.