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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
the GOOD ROADS GOSPEL TRAIN.

The Northwestern railroad has adj
vertised the itinerary of it's good roads
train in Iowa with d. w. King, a
Missouri farmer, as chief missionary of
it's gospel of better highways. Mr..
Kings text is found in cheap and
simple device invented-if the term in
vented is permissible-by himself This
device is a rude drag, two halves of
a log or two pieces of weighty wood
or iron, set in ~" shape Tar enough
apart to cover the beaten road track.
The drag smooths the road, knocks
down Jumps and fills the ruts A team
will haul it UP and down the length
Of roadside along the ordinary farm in
q few minutes. The scheme is similar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
Strikes Hidden R,acka.

When your shrip Of health strikes
the hidden rocks Of Consumption
Pneumonia, ETC., you are lost If you
don't get help from DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. j. w
McKinnon, of Talladega Springs, Ala.
writes: IT had been very Ill with pneu-
monia, under the care of two doctors,
but was getting no better when I be-
gar, to take DR.. Kings New Discovery.
The first dose gave relief and on. bot
tie cured me-" Sure cure for sore
throat, bronchitis, coughs and colds.
Guaranteed at Mcdonald & Mahood
Co.'s drug store, price SOC and 81. Trial
hottie free .t.sa .
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29

! LOOKER.ON in IOWA ;



Hubbard March 29.--Human nature
as has been often remarked is q queer
thing This occurs To the writer be-
cause of II chance conversation with II
grain dealer i'm one of our Iowa towns.
One would suppose that this class of
our business men would be Il unit in
favor of the now agitated question of
rate legislation. Not so This dealer
If he had his way would do away
with all state and interstate control
of the railroad corporations. He was
in business before there was any rail-
road commissioners, state or national,
and Gin those days, before there We're
any line elevators or railroad commits
sioners, we could make something.
had Il rebate arrangement that was
worth something and an annual pass
Could take my wife to Chicago free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
Iowa Newspapers

THE COUNTRY AND THE FAMILY.
ICedar Rapids Gazette.]
The newspapers all remark the de-
crease of rural population. The thing
must be remedied, and, the newspaD-
ers can assist in the right direction by
trying to make young people UNDER
stand the truth, and that is that the
man and the woman on the land, II
they are successful, are the most indie
pendent members of society, that their
| opportunities for rearing children in
| the right way are the most excellent
| in the whole world, and that therefore
they should be contented. The CLAM
our of life in the cities is badly dam
aged by the rent bill. the accounts
of the grocer and the butcher, and 9TH
err necessary items. The suburban viii
lage, inhabited by the small farmers,
ought to be an ideal location for those
who seek pleasure and profit.
49,
THE ASPHALT TRUST.
[Sioux City Tribune
The asphalt business has not earned
for its devotees in this country repute
for spotless virtue and unquestionable
integrity. 1T is commonly understood
that the asphalt trust was barely sec
ond for general rottenness to the ship
building combine. The proportion of
water to actual value waa about the
largest In any Of the great combina-
lions, and such value as there was, II
report may be believed, was acquired
by corruption in Venezuela.
When the asphalt trust goes after
contract for paving in an American city
it is considered time to set the good
folks praying for the town council. If
enlightened and vigorous Anglo-Saxon
commercial virtue is not to be trusted
In such relations, what should we look
for when the trust goes after the as
phalt deposits of the world, and has
only a weak, vaccillating government
and a hopelessly ignorant popu1ace to
manage?
HORACE G.. BURT AT BOONE.
[Boone News.1
No former Boone man has ever at
tanned the high success that has been
the lot of Horace G. Burt, superin-
tendent Of the Northwestern road for
many years, and citizen among us.
For that reason his selection as Roose-
velt's 100000 man" creates intense
interest here His early rise is prob
ably better known in railroad and bus
mess circles here than in any other
place where he has been located. Boone
knew the man as a bright railroad
man. an affable and approachable off,
cial and an indefatigable worker. He
was a common man, il, the sense that
he never had the slightest tendency to
feel his oats" altNho his rise was rap
i'd. He was business all thru, but he
always had time for a pleasant chat
or an encouraging word for those UNI
der him. AS a superintendent in Boone
he had the interests OF the city more
at heart, perhaps, than any other SUI
perintendent, and that is not detract-
ing any from the well known loyalty
Of our present superintendent, Mr..
Whalen. Mr.. Burt undoubtedly has a
warm spot in his heart yet for the
city which witnessed the beginnings
of his career The fact that he has
been mentioned for the succession to
the presidency of the road always
brought joy to the hearts of the peo-
pie of Boone who expected great
things from him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
Topics Of the Times

| Fort Madison and Hades it has been
confidently asserted, could never go
republican. Some hope for better con-
ditions in the latter place, however,
seems to be afforded by the news that
the republicans elected the mayor of
Ft. Madison last Monday.
The Boone Republican proof reader
dropped a letter from the name of a
former state officer making it read
rank Merriam" The error is entirely
typographical.
"And wouldn't the, world be better
off if some men and new women
would forego their duty to reproduce
their kind?" retorts the bachelor edi-
tor of the Cedar Rapids Republican,
cut to the quick by the proposition
to chloroform fncorrigible celibates.
If the editor is going ito try to get
out of it on that ground there is
nothing to do but agree with HIM.
An Indianola doctor who had driven
his horse twenty years, gave the ami
NAL recent burial, and will erect a
plain stone to mark the last resting
place of the faithful servant which is
certainly much better than selling the
old fellows hide for s1.5O.
SIS
Half a ton of coal to each individual
is stated to be the average the world
over. Iowa consumers are likely to
wonder for whom they bought the
other ten or fifteen tons last winter.
Cold storage of fruit in the United
States has grown to enormous propor-
tons. nearly 100000 barrels OF APP
pies having been stored last year. 1t
is found that if properly packed and
handled the fruit does not sensibly de-
teriorate.
A German society has for its object
the snatching of birds from women's
hats. A society organized on similar
lines and acting up to it's principles
here in this country would find use
for the wings.
The Vinton Eagle says that zone Of
the penalties of public life is to have.
small men nagging at ones heels"
One of the penalties of organized gov
eminent is the success of small men
in securing public office.
80
The Nebraska scientist who has
that eggs carry bacilli
probably made his discovery last win
ter when a dozen eggs contained the
germs of bankruptcy.
80
st. Petersburg, like other capitals,
publishes economic journals, and one
of them, of leading authority, says
that in many Russian provinces not
withstanding the, calamities from
which the country in general is suf-
fering, there is all unusual degree of
1t declares that the. finan-
cial outlook for the year is good and
that the revenues will be easily col
lected-a note OF encouragement sure
Of home welcome, whether it turns
out to represent the fact or not.
The other morning little Bobby
awoke and told about his wonderful
dream.
Il dreamt I want to Paradise" re-
lated Bobby.
'.And who was. there?" asked his
mother.
"All good people. Then dreamt 1
went to the other place."
and who was there Bobby?"
Nobody but truant officers and dog
catchers. News.
Sir William c. Macdonald, the mil
ionaire tobacco manufacturer of Mon
treal, has offered the Protestant COM
mittee of the council of public instruc- |
ton, of that city, a proposition to en-
dow an agricultural training college !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
THE MIRACLES Of TRANSPORTATION.

One of the most remarkable projects
in the way of railroad construction
that has been conceived is that con-
templated by the Florida East Coast
Railway Company. Surveys have all
ready been made, and the road will
doubtless be built. The object of the
proposed highway. is to create the
possibility of loading car in any part
of the United States and transferring
its contents without break Of bulk to
Havana.
The route as indicated by the survey
extends thru the everglades Of Florida,
thence from island to island of the
Florida keys until the city of Key
West is reached. Between that point
and Havana the car ferry is to be en-
ployed over the ninety mile stretch Of
water thai. intervenes. The carrying
trade Of Cuba is growing immensely
valuable and Key West is $50 miles
nearer to the Panama canal than any
other city in the United States When
that great waterway is completed the
contingent necessity of new lines of
tiansportat ton to its terminl is at
once apparent.
The nearest approach to the Florida
project is found in the Lucin cutoff
built by the Union Pacific across Great
Salt Lake in Utah, which consists of
wooden trestle twenty-six miles long.
Between the islands of Florida Keys
there forty miles of open water which
1t is proposed to bridge in the same
manner. A serious obstacle to be en-
countered in the southern project is
that of the fierce gales that rage on
the Atlantic, but the rock foundation
is firm, and while the work will be
very expensive it can be made stable.
The conception of this gigantic en-
terprise for which until a very re-
cent date, there was no demand, even
IL its construction could be accom-
plished without extraordinary expense.
affords striking example of the fire.
quency with which new ploblems in
cident to our rapid commercial pro-
gress present themselves and the
promptness with which they are soly-
oH
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
COOKS AND SALOONS.

Speaking to the w. c. T. U. of Chi
cago, DR.. David Paulson put the poor
cook into partnership with the saloon
and the undertaken. Poorly cooked
food, it was averred, creates a thirst
for alcohol and combined with indul-
gence Of the appetite it creates makes
the bank account Of the funeral direc-
tor joy forever. If DR.. Paulson is to
be accepted as authority the drunkard
Braces back to soggy bread and burnt
beefsteak as first causes.
The world Is full of fads and people
Nho ride hobby horses in public. DR..
Paulson's theory and Dr. Paulson be-
long to this class The truth Is that
the average housewife is competent to
cook all the average husband is able
to pay for at the butchers and the gro
Gerry store. Few men have occasion to
get up from their tables and rush to
the saloon for something to take the
bad taste out of their mouths
Generally speaking, the wife as a
cook is the equal Of the husband as a
provider. Good breakfasts go to
waste because Of the dark brown taste
accumulated down town by the head
Of the family the night before, oftener
than an antidote for badly cooked
meal is required at the hands OF the
booze dispenser.
There is an intolerable tendency to
seek excuses for the man who drinks
observable among reformers. Drink
ing men do not make their excuses
for themselves. They know why they
drink. The quasi reformer wants q
particular door before which to lay
the responsibility for the drink habit
The fact is that it belongs with the
individuals who we are attempting TO
excuse. Saloons and other temptations
to excess are Incidental. Each man
cultivates his own appetite for whisky.
Few men find the police court thru
their wives cooking.
It is time we ceased looking for a
loop hole thru which the drinker may
escape responsibility. We have helped
to make more drunkards by making
excuses for individual excess than all
the poor cooking in the world would
create in a thousand years. Let US
stop trying to find something to lay
drunkenness to and put the respon-
sibility socially upon the drunkard
when the law puts it legally. The fad
dists, more than the >cooks, need re-
forming.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29

"Mr. Dolliver is an even more for
midable antagonist under the primary
plan than in the present system of
election. No senator stands closer to
the people than Mr.. Dolliver," sensibly
points out the Shell Rock News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29
DANGERS of Pneumonia.

A cold at this time. if neglected,
is liable to cause pneumonia, which is
often fatal, and even when the patient
has recovered the lungs are weakened.
making them peculiarly susceptible to
the development of consumption. Fol-
ey's Honey and Tar will stop the cough,
heal and strengthen the lungs and pre-
vent pneumonia. B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29

getting off for hills or bad roads.
This too after big rain. Then 1t Is
that the people ride for pleasure. The
pleasure of riding over Iowa roads for
the past ten days after our spring
rains needs no mention.
~ ~ yz~el.5~-,.+'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29

The steamer Eagle, the first ship of
the sealing fleet which sailed March 13
returned to st. Johns, N. F., fully lad
en-, having $4,000 seals.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-29

The Omaha Bee notes that Iowa
newspapers are just now beginning to
speculate as to what laws the next
legislature will pass. The Bee says:
The speculative period has about
come to an end in Nebraska, and the
courts will later detenine just what
laws the legislature OF this state really
did pass"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
Cured Her Dinbetea.

Halo, Ind, Feb. 27th.-(SpecaD- If
what will cure Diabetes will cure any
form of Kidney Disease, as so many physi.
clans say, then Dodd's Kidney pills will
cure any form of Kidney Disease. For Mrs.
L. G. Bowers of this place has proved that
Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Diabetes.
Il had Diabetes" Mrs. Bowers says,
my teeth all became loose and part of
them came out. l passed great deal of
water with such burning sensations l
could hardly bear it. lost about 40
pounds in weight. l used many medi-
cines and doctored with two local doctors
but never got any better till started to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They cured me
so completely that in three years l have
had no return of the disease. / am a
well woman now, thanks to Dodd's Kid
ney Pills"
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all kidney all
ments from Backache to Bright's Disease.
Cure your Backache with them and you
will never have Bright's Disease, Diabetes
or Rheumatism.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
A FooL-KILLING.

DoEgediy trudgng the livelong day,
asked of each person met:
HAS the fool-kiler recently passed this
way2"
But the only response / could get
Was sweep of the arm and a jerk of the
head
Which seemed without speech, to con-
trive
A negative answer, as If each had said:
my neighbors, you see, are alive
1 finally met with an ancient man
A harmless fool, l was told
Who had long outlivcd the common span,
Yet was equally young and old,
For his simple soul was an open page
OF the book of eternal truth,
And his mind was stored with the wisdom of
age,
While his heart was the heart of youth,
"And why do you wish" said he, ITO find
Ttis fool-killer whom you seek?''
], answering, said: 81 have in mind
Some weasands he should tweak."
Then l read from the list l had carefully
made
or the fools who still exist
The fools of every different grade
Whom the fool-killer seemed to have
missed.
"But, son, said he, "is there not some plan,
Some educational way
OF killing the fool and saving the man
For better things some day."
1 felt in my heart the sting of shame,
And hung my foolish head
Then / knelt at his feet and begged his
name
"Tm the fool-kilcr. son." he said
Willis Brooks, in Youths Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
BOBBIE FULLER
AIDE DE CAMP
BY ALMA NJ. EsTABRooK

I was in the pine woods at Harbor
Point.
1--WE may call the matter concluded"
said Miss Rabb, with finality as she
stood up and looked toward the bay.
"Over my protestation," answered
the man, who sat gloomily thrusting
his heels and his stick into the cushion
of pine needles that covered the
ground.
at is quite absurd to imagine that
friendship can follow love-" she de-
clared, impatiently.
LET us stay on in the summer,
dear" he pleaded.
She shook her head sadly. "You
have ended it."
81 suppose you will want me to go
away" he said as they walked through
the darkening woods.
Naturally had supposed you your
self would wish it,
ooh, l will 60"
'What shall you say to Mrs. Hor-
TONI"
'Not the truth, you may be sure"
(Which is"
"That you are throwing me over be-
cause I am not at liberty to explain
to you certain matters which are not
my own"
At the steps of the cottage where
they were both guests he said good
night, and went off alone
She stood just a moment, and
watched him. then went in to the light
of the log in the great fireplace and
the circle of friends about it. At
breakfast the next morning she learned
that Robinson had gone.
He was obliged to change his
plans" Mrs. Horton told them. "He
spends to-day at Roaring Brook Inn,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
Bound to BE Damaged.

Apropos of the suits for damages that
are continually being brought against rail
way companies, relates the New York
Tribune, President Francis, of the st.
Lcuis exposition, said:
Many of these suits, of course, are
mere cases of unjust extortion. 1t isn't
often, though, that the victim of an ac.
cident is as alert and resourceful as a man
of whom ! heard the other day.
"a man and his wife were riding in a
car that was derailed. Crash, bang, it
went, and then buplp, bang, bump, down
a steep hill. The man howled with terror,
hut the car soon came to a stop. lie ex.
amined himself all over carefully, and
found that he was quite unharmed Then
he thought in tho same breath of damages
and of his wife.
"'Are you hurt at all, old grip he
asked.
I" No, thank Heaven!' the woman an.
swered.
Then, said the man, L tell you what
Let me black your eye, and won't we
soak the company hard for damagesl 1t
won't hurt you much. III just give you
one good punch"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
THE GETTYSBURG PARK.
Work Which Has Been Accomplished
During the Past Fiscal
Year.

The report of the Gettysburg ma
tional park commission states that
| Wright avenue has been completed
! from the southern base of Little Round
Top around the eastern slope to Round
| Top to the Taneytown road. 1t follows
the line of the left flank of the union
army. The survey has been made of
suitable route from the infantry battle
field to the cavalry field, two and half
miles northeast. The cost of the land
for road so feet wide will be $2,700.
At present the cavalry field can only be
reached from Gettysburg by q round
about course of four miles over hills
and rough ground. Several state and
cavalry organizations have spent much
money in putting up monuments, etc.,
on the cavalry field, and it is necessary
to connect the two fields.
The total length of the avenues now
completed is about 20 miles. Generally
the avenues are from 20 to % feet wide,
but about four miles of them are only
16 feet wide, since to widen them
would be to mar the face of the ground
and change it's appearance from that
at the time of the battle, Eleven ad-
ditional gun carriages have been set
up on the cavalry field to mark the
positions of the Louisiana guard ar
tillery, Breathed's Virginia battery, Nc
Gregor's Virginia battery, Jackson's
| Virginia battery, and Pennington's
union battery.
A bronze tablet has been erected one
mile west of Round Top, at the place
where the Fourth Alabama, of Hoods
! division, started the charge on Lit
tie Round Top. Post fencing has
been erected to the extent of 90
$50 feet and 1880 feet of stone
walls have been rebuilt, making over
four and three-quarters miles of stone
walls, as originally on the field.
In April and May S100 trees were set
out in parts of the battlefield, where the
trees and shrubs have been cut off to
restore it to the condition it was at the
time of the battle.
By order of Secretary Root, an eX-
hibit was prepared and sent to the st.
Louis exposition where it occupied 16
by 20 feet of floor space and $50 square
feet of wall. A feature of this was a
relief map, IA feet long by 10 feet wide,
representing "a square miles, or sub
stantially the entire battlefield, with all
of its features of a field and forest,
roads, buildings, streams and bridges,
just as it existed at the time of the
battle.
Through correspondence the ad-
dresses of over 500 survivors of the
regular commands have been secured,
and with them their statements regard
ing the positions of their regiments and
batteries.
By clerical omission battery E,
Fourth United States artillery, was
omitted in the act, but this was recti-
fed by a special appropriation for a
monument.
The state of Pennsylvania has ap-
propriated $150OO0, available in 1905,
to erect monument to her soldiers.
The state of New York has erected
monument to the Oneida cavalry at
Gen. Meade's headquarters.