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New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
4 MEAN TRICK on TIE DOCTOR.

DR.. William Osler tells this story about a
young physician:
"One rainy night in November he was awak-
ened very late by a loud ringing of his bell. He
put his head out of the window, and a voice said:
Doctor my wife is very bad with symptoms
of a fit. She's foaming and frothing at the
mouth. I've walked all the way here from
Gleddon. Can you come to her right away?'
The doctor said he would come and the
caller said he would wait and return, then, in
the doctors carriage. This was "a wise course
for the storm was furious and GleddOn was
six miles away.
Through the pelting rain, through the mud
and over the ruts the carriage jolted and in an
hour Gleddon reached At the outskirts
the Gleddonite said to the doctor:
"Il get out here. I want to get my wife's
sister You keep right on. My house is only
seventy yards ahead It's the second house on
the left
$50 the doctor kept alone and at the
second house the left he tied his horse and
knocked
But no one was sick there.
tried two other houses Still no one was sick
He tried some more houses on the right side of
the street, only with the same result.
And the Gleddonite, with his sister-in-law,
did not return.
Finally. after trying a dozen houses. the
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
THE FORCES.
Il. ID. JOrdan's Estate, Where MANY
Horse Shoe Winners Are Reared

The visitor to The Forges the estate which
Eben D. Jordan, of Boston, laid out about three
miles from his historic Plymouth Rock, would
have difficulty in conjuring up picture of the
starving band of Pilgrims. Here the atmos-
phere is of teeming fields and barns filled to
Overnowing. The Forges is the product of the
Imagination of a lover of horses, who had it
within his power to make his dream come true
1t embraces an area of one thousand acres of
land. on it is an attractive homestead in the
Elizabethan style. The house stands the
crest of a hill from side of which Plym-
outh Bay, a mile away, may be seen. On this
side it Overlooks the pond on which Daniel Web
ster took time to commune with himself and
supply his larder
More than once, it is said Webster peered
into the depths of Forge Pond to see if his bait
was still on the hook or if the fish were being
tempted to nibble, and found himself gazing into
the depths of his own deeply set eyes.
on the other side of the hill the house looks
out over the aptly named Eel Pond and a con-
Jderable part of the land comprising the es-
tate, In front of the house the ground slopes
)own to the stables and to the pond and on the
other side rises to the tree-clad hilltop on the
west. The terrace in front of the house is set
with flowers and shrubs.
Two or three features of the place are OF es-
pecial interest. 1t is the home of the Plymouth
hackney stud Mr.. Jordan has undertaken to
develop an ideal American carriage horse He
believes the best results will be secured by cross
Ing the English hackney with the American
trotting bred mare. While he does not claim
that he has entirely succeeded his horses carry
off prizes wherever they are exhibited. Last
gear he twenty-three first and eleven sec
,nd prizes in Boston, thirteen firsts and eleven
seconds in Philadelphia, eighteen irsts and four
seconds in Brockton, nine firsts and four seconds
at Newport, and twenty frsts and three seconds
Chicago Four championships were awarded
to these horses at Boston, one at Philadelphia
three at Brockton and two at Newport.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
SOLD RICH NINE FOR ~sONG."

Lead. 3 D.. July 30 (SpeciaD.-Mose Manuel
'he man who discovered the Homestake Mine
one of the greatest gold producers in the United
States, is dead. He was killed accidentally
While examining some mine pumps
1t was by accident that Manuel discovered This
vast wealth and then sold ii for the mere song
OF S'hGn No one ever begrudged Manuel his
luck because his generosity and kindness made
hih hked, but it has been a cause for wonder
'hitt so shrewd a man he could have been in
uuced TO give up such bonanza for a pittance
When standing the site now occupied by
the open cut of the great HOmestake Nose
Mahuei picked up a piece of quartz sprinked with
soid' ana said; Hank. this is surely a home
stake He had no idea of the significance of
MS own words, for the term 'honlestake'' was a
common one in those days signifying that a
man had found enough OF a claim to stake him
home.
The Manuel brothers. Fred and Nose with
thelr partner, Hank Harvey. had been prospect
ing IN the hills for several months before they
made their great find. From the first il was a
wonder, though in much different wav than
now What distinguished the find at first was
the great amount of remarkably rich ore which
could be panned with a profit and that was
found on top of the ground. Now the Home
stake is famous as having worked with a profit
the largest body of low grade ore in the world.
but at first specimens riot in the mine
1t is estimated that the Manuel brothers real
lied $4,000 in the ore worked before the nron
erty was sold to Senator Hearst for $4,000
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
EXTENDED VIEW FROM Mr.. JoRDANs ESTATE.

Another feature of The FOrges is the casino.
This was built by Mr.. Jordan for the use of the
neighborhood. The building contains audito-
rum where neighborhood dances may be held.
a well equipped stage and dressing rooms,
library and quarters for the local fire engine.
on Sunday religious services are held in the
auditorium.
The equipment of the stud includes of the
largest schools in the country On the tanbark
ring of the school are trained the colts upon
flock of Ansora goats is part of the economy
of the farm. They employed To keep down
the tough and persistent underground charac-
terstic of the locality. \ fine poultry farm full
of Wyandottes and a piggery for the breeding
of black BerI<shires promise be profitable ad-
junctS of the estate.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
4 NATURAL CURIOSITY.

Professor D. p. Cropp. of the University Of
colorado has invented machine to increase
the height from one to five inches and the chest
Sirth from one to four inches
1t is amazing" said Professor Crop the
other day. what an interest people take in any
change In their physique-the gain OF an inch
around the chest or forearm. the loss Of an inch
in the neck or stomach
L Know fat woman who spent July at tina
seashore. taking an ocean bath and a hot bath
daily. SO as TO reduce her weight
The day she to start for home she
entered a butcher shop and told the man to cut
her OF twenty pounds OF pork.
HE cut and weighed this great chunk OF
meat and then said:
Where madam. shall send it?
But the woman, as she feasted her eyes on
the pork. replied:
"'Oh don't send il anywhere l don't want TO
buy II. You see. have lost twenty pounds
since have been down here. and Just wanted
to see how much it Vas
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
CREDULITY OF WONEN.

Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission said the other day in illustration of
woman's credulity:
"A young man entered the drawing room of
the girl whom he was soon TO marry
The girl came down to meet him with a
severe frown on her pretty face.
John she said, father saw you this morn
ing going into a pawnbroker's with a large
bundle'-
John flushed. Then he said In a low voice:
Yes, that is true. was taking the pawn
broker some of my old clothes. You see he and
bis wife are frishtfully hard up
oh. John. forgive mer exclaimed the young
girl. How truly noble you areP"
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

young doctor drove back to Tecumseh. alto
gether puzzled. Why had not the Gleddonite
reappeared? Why had he himself forgotten to
ask the Gleddonite's name? Altogether a
hideous miX-up
The next evening the doctor received this
postal card:
Dear Sir: l was sorry to make you drive
me so far last night, but had to get to GIeddon
somehow, and there was time, and the livery
man said the weather too bad to let any
of his teams go out. So 1 worked a little trick
on you. doctor, which I hope you'll overlook, for
had to get to GIeddon, and couldn't very we'll
walk Yours gratefully ANON
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

the idea that the Scotch leave an Impoverished
country to find home in rich England No Of
fence IS ever taken at this joke
Il was lunching one day in London with a
rich Ensiishman and rich Scot. described
number of sightseeing tours that / had made
through the city. and then / said.
on, by the way, where Is the Caledonian
Asylum?'
The Enslishman looked at the Scot and
smiled.
g." HoOt. mon. y'are in it he said in y good
dialect" -' 81" q" 7'>'
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23
LONDON THEIR Asylum.

Charles ]. Bonaparte addressed in Baltimore
recently Scottish society called the Robert
Burns Club
Since DR.. Jonson ridiculed poor Boswell on
his Scottish BIRTH said Mr. Bonaparte the
english have poked fun at all your people. II
Is. though. good humored fun. based mainly on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

officers to the minor clerks, and in
cluded at least one senator, congress-
man and others of political influence.
1t is this gang of thieves in high and
low places that Secretary Hitchcock is
successfully pursuing; men who took
advantage OF the trust imposed in them
to rob the government of 35O, 100000
acres of its most valuable agricultural
and timber lands. How thoroughly
the administration is going to the bot
tom of the frauds is evidenced by the
indictments brought and the fact that
800 criminal prosecutions are pending.
The secretary is going the right way
about 1t when he attends first to the
greatest among the thieves. The de-
plorable condition into which the land
department has been permitted to de-
generate will be fairly atoned for by
an unwaverng pursuit of the criminal
officials and political grafters who
have been responsible for the degener-
alton.
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the average value per acre but 1886, OF
,,,ro +bon 60 lac. than in 1904

the average value per acre but $9.36, or
more than 50 less than in 1904
The cost of planting, cultivating and
harvesting corn and wheat the past
year has not averaged higher than
during the past six or eight years. The
cost Of labor has been high, but the
cost of labor has been high for sew
eral years past. Constant improve
ments in farm methods and labor
saving farm machinery have made 1T
possible each year for one man to tend
a larger acreage of crops than he
could tend the preceding year. The
application OF brains as we'll as mus
Gle to agriculture has made the farm
er's lot more pleasant one not only
In lessening the drudgery of farm work
but in increasing the yield per acre.
The tendency of prices of farm pro-
ducts has been upward for q number
of years, irrespective Of the amount
produced. The beginning OF the new
wear finds the farmer occupying an
enviable position, and the outlook for
his future most encouraging.
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CROP YIELD AND VALUES.

AS a rule statistics are dry reading,
but those issued by the agricultural
department late in December showing
the acreage, yield and farm value of
the leading farm crops for 1904 are
intensely interesting to those who are
engaged in agricultural pursuits. They
show that the year 1904 was one of
prosperity to, the farmers of the coun-
try at large, in spite of the fact that
there was a shortage Of some crops In
some sections. The most interesting
fact contained in these statistics is
that while there have been greater
yields per acre Of the leading farm
crops, seldom have these crops aver
aged as high in value per acre as they
did at the close Of the past year. Take,
for instance, the corn crop. The aver
age yield per acre was 26.7 bushels,
with one-tenth Of a bushel OF the ban
ner crop of 1902. But the average price
Of corn on the farm December j, 1904,
was Al cents per bushel, making the
average yield of an acre worth $11.75
to the farmer, whereas, on December
1. 1903, the average price per bushel
was 40.3 cents, making the average
yield of an acre worth but $1,000 to the
farmer. There Is a difference Of 81 per
acre. which goes a long ways toward
ir,ey ho 20 fnr la
expended on the crop. Going back
for series of years, 1t will be found
that in 1902 the average value of the
yield Of an acre Of corn was $l0.SO.
same as in 1908; in 1901 it was $1010.
and in 1900, 5000.
The same thing is true Of the wheat
crop in 1904. The average yield per
acre was 1875. This is the lowest in a
series of years, but the high price Of
the cereal compensated for the light
yield. The average farm value per
bushel of wheat December /, was 92.4
cents, making the value of the average
yield Of an acre s11.55. In 1902 the
average yield per acre was 1928 bushels
but the average price was but 69.5
cents. making the value Of the yield
per acre but sS.95. In 1902 the value
per acre was 80. In 1901. the year
Of the bumper wheat crop. the aver
age yield per acre was fifteen bushels,
or two and one-half bushels more
than in 1904. but the average value
nar hllshel WAS but GA cents. and
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THE FOREST RESERVE LAND FRAUDS.

The indictments for western land
frauds are touching high places when
true bills are brought against United
States senator, n land commissioners,
Secretary Hitchcocks fitness for his
position in Roosevelt cabinet that the
AK has been laid to the root of the for
est reserve frauds instead OF prun-
ing hook to the smaller twigs and
branches of great conspiracy to de-
fraud the public under cover of the
governments beneficence.
The system of the Pacific land frauds
has been about like this: Owners of
forest land under the forest reserve
law may, by preserving the lumber on
these lands, receive scrip from the
government permitting them to enter a
corresponding number Of acres of pub
lie lands. The promoters Of the frauds
acquired large tracts Of entirely worth
less lands in the vicinity of the forest
reserves by purchase at paltry prices
missioners and reserve officers man
aged to get these worthless tracts in
cluded as part Of the forest reserves.
This land they exchanged for scrip
much of which they sold to innocent
purchasers. More than one-t1ird OF a
million acres OF the better public lands
have been stolen in this fashion
and the full extent Of the frauds
may not yet have been unearthed.
1t was plain steal and in
order to conduct it successfully the
qualifications of the conspiracy spread
thru the land offices from the general
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THE CONGER FlAsCo.


IF Major Conger intended to come
| back to Iowa to take over the COVER
| norship and authorized the movement
which has resulted in so much pam
and unqualified expression OF opinion
inimical to his proposed candidacy 1T
is safe to assume that he is by thls
time considering some other disposition
of his time and services. If his name
was sprung without his approval and
collision, then the protested friends OF
the major have done HIM an irreparable
injury. There has been such general
and unqualified reputation of his sug-
sested candidacy that 1t can not fall
to affect his future political prospects
in a. marked degree. Without any doubt
the Conger suggestion came out Of the
camp Of his friends. So far as it's Ell
feet upon Major Conger is concerned
it might have come from his enemies
if he has any in Iowa. However, there
is more than possibility that Con-
ger knew nothing Of the attempt to
boom him for the governorship and
that his dignity and political self-re-
spect were sacrificed i'll his absence by
standpatters anxious for a sighting
shot at a target eighteen months away.
There is so little of modesty and so
much of assurance in the proposal to
go SO far afield for a governor that
the proposition itself locates the source
whence it emanated.
The Conger boom died a bornin be-
cause it carried an allegation of unfit
ness or unpopularity Of other men who
have lived in Iowa and have guber-
Material aspirations. The Iowa press
met it with cold disapproval or ridicule
and the best that standpat news
papers could say Of it was that it was
"inopportune." 1t was not an insult
to home candidates, as one paper puts
it, for any citizen has a right to ask
any office, but it was so patiently
feeler put forth by a coterie of self
servers that it had the effect OF an in
suit in arousing popular resentment
and eliciting public praise for the men
cere service to the state earned the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
A Grim Trsaedy

Is daily enacted in thousands of homes
as death claims. in each one, another
victim o. consumption or pneumonia
But When coughs and colds are prop
erly treated the tragedy is averted. +,
G.. Hu1ftlay, OF Oaklandon, Ind, writes:
My wife had the consumption and
three do tors gave her up. Finally she
took Dr. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which
cured her and today she is well and
strong" 1t kills the germs Of all dis
eases. On dose relieves. Guaranteed
at SO Ger is and 81 by Mcdonald & Ma
hood, druggists. Trial bottle free.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
: Topics Of the Times

DIR. Chadwick's Forthcoming book is
likely to be much less interesting thar
his wife's bank book
A Des Moines man stole a lump OF
coal and was sent to prison the other
day for one and one-half days. Luck
ily for him his criminal impulses run
toward soft coal. Anthracite for the
past three years has been grand lar
ceny.
But, honestly, do we desire the relief
from political discussion that the BIZ
ennial amendment was calculated to
afford?
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw pre-
sented his political and personal
friends in Des Moines, in Iowa and in
the nation with speaking photographs
of himself taken at Christmas time.
Keep speaking about the presidential
nomination in 1908 probably.
go
The Stratford Courier passed It's
thirteenth birthday last week. Judg-
ing from IT'S appearance thirteen Is not
an unlucky number in Stratford.
Doubtless all, including Captain Hull,
are willing now to await the arrival OF
Major Conger. But If he doesn't travel
faster than his boom has done he will
scarcely arrive before Jan. ], 1898.
A loan made by one Of the large In
surance companies of Illinois, goes to
show the high standing Of choice farm
lands with conservative money lenders.
The amount Of the loan was $4,000 for
ten years at AZ per cent, and the to-
tai amount of land securing the loan
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
Yu,rrs- 32et1hraI 7lars1a1ltn1r anua aaarp 1905

was $50 acres making an average loan
of $50 per acre. This loan was con-
summated in Mclean county, Illinois.
where farms at held at from $125 to
$3.50 per acre. 1t has formerly been
customary for loan corporations to linn
it their loans to from s35 to $40 per
acre.
So long as the Jefferson punch bowl
and the materials that go with it exist,
the democratic party will never be en-
tirely disinteyrated.
1t is announced that Hon. LATE
Young will 80 to Panama this month
to investigate con litfols Oh the isth-
mus. Mr.. Young has the faculty of
seeing things and telling them charm
lngly, and unless he has lost the long
slghtedness that he found so valuably
convenient at the time of thu Santiago
battle he will be able to get an excel
lent view of the canal without goini,
further south than Key West.
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right to raise their voices for popular
recognition.
1t is pity that the name of Major
Conger, who has always been given a
large measure of public approval,
should be hoisted as a political wealth
ercock by a gang of politicians who de-
sire to know the direction of the po-
litical winds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
Cured Hi. Mother of Rheumatism.

Cured His Mother Of Rheumatism.
my mother has been sufferer for
many years from rheumatism" says
w. III. Howard Of Husband, Pa. AT
times she was unable to move at all.
while at all times walking was palm
full. / presented her with a bottle OF
Chamberain's Pain Balm and after
few applications she decided 1T was the
most wonderful pain reliever she had
ever tried, in fact, she is never without
1t now and is at all times able to walk.
An occasional application of Pain Balm
keeps away the pain that she was for
merly troubled with. For sale by all
druggists.
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sink.ninn. ahixer,r1a Fits

or ague and malaria can be relieved
and cured with Electric Bitters. This
is a pure tonic medicine; of especial
benefit in malaria. for it exerts true
curative influence on the disease,
driving 1t entirely out of the system 1t
is much to be preferred to quinine, hav-
ing none OF this drugs bad after eff
fects. T.. s.. Munday of Henrietta,
Tex. writes: MY brother was very
low with malarial fever and jaundice,
till he took Electric Bitters, which
saved his life" At Mcdonald & Ma
hood Co.'S drug store. Price SOC: guar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
chamberlain's Cough Remedy Abso
IuteIy Harmless.

The fault of giving children medicine
containing injurious substances, is
sometin es more disastrous than the
disease from which they are suffering.
Every mother should know that Cham
berlain', Cough Remedy is perfectly
safe for children to take. 1t contains
nothing harmful and for coughs, colds
and Group is unsurpassed. For sale by
all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

Perhaps Major Conger expects to
capture that gubernatorlal nomination
by the aid of Christian Science" sug-
gests the Odebolt Chronicle. Mother
Eddy and all the faith cure newspapers
are out for him."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

'If the supreme court upholds the
soldiers preference law the veterans
will be entitled to annex all the APP
pointive positions created by the laws
of Iowa as rapidly as vacancies occur"
predicts the Dubuque Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
A Life at Stake.

II you but knew the splendid merit
Of Toleys Honey and Tar you would
never lie without it. A dose or two
will prevent an attack OF pneumonia
or la grippe. 1t may save your life. B.
A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

A report in a Des Moines paper that
an import mt fossil was found In Ne
vada, lea6s the Oskaloosa Herald to
wonder why a Des Moines paper needs
to look out of town for that species.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

James V. Arnott formerly of Wall
township, Fort county, ILL.,. died sud-
denly from near Laurel, Neb., from
blood poisoning, resulting from the
slight scratch of pail
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

candidates for governor are getting
numerous and somewhat active" notes
the Grundy Republican. 1T is going
to be a fight again between the pro-
gressive republicans and the standpat-
tiers. And the standpatters will not
Win"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07
Speedy Relief.

A salve that heals without scar is
Dewitts Witch Hazel Salve. No rem
edy effects such speedy relief. 1t draws
out inflammation. soothes. cools and
heals all cuts, burns and bruises. A
sure cure for piles and skin diseases.
DeWitt's Is the Only genuine witch
hazel salve. Beware of counterfeits,
they are dangerous. Sold by all drug
giSts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

Otto schnurrer. editor of the Ohio
Waisenfreund and a. recognized writer
on Catholic church subjects, was found
dead in his room at the Josephinum in
Columbus.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-07

Pneumonia and LaGrippe.
Coughes cured quickly by Foley's
Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes. B.
A. Morgan.