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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
AN IOWA FARM BOYS INDUSTRY.

IT would be an extremely interesting
and somewhat astonishing statement if
the number and kinds of furs, and total
amounts paid out for them in Iowa,
might be tabulated. Thousands OF
farmer boys and a goodly number of
semi professional trappers are now
very busily engaged reaping the har-
vest Of the sloughs and streams. Local
notices in county weeklies indicate that
the crop of muskrats skunk, mink,
coon and the few other marketable furs
is an excellent and profitable one this
winter. Two boys in northern Iowa
take two weeks camp life on the
shores of small lake and return with
400 muskrat skins worth from 10 to IS
cents apiece Another boy, from his
night and morning excursions before
and after school, sells $91 worth of
furs. and so on. When it is known
that a prime Iowa mink skin brings
as much as $3.50, the best black
skunk S225, ermine or white weasel
from 90 cents to 81. and the best Iowa
muskrat 1s cents, it will be understood
how an ingenious and industrious lad
may with a few steel traps start a
bank account that shall come handy
when ne 'begins farming for himself"
Lucrative trapping in Iowa is no new
thing. Many farm in the earlier days
of the state was paid for with the pro-
ceeds of Iowa furs. One of the larger
land owners in Wright county tells
how he, paid for the land and kept his
family by his skill in trapping. Then
prime mink brought 50. The fur
bearing, animals were abundant and
he often secured s25 in fur when he
went the eight or ten mile rounds Of
his line of traps daily.
Iowa furs, like Iowa hogs, and posi-
bly, an occasional Iowa primate, start
on their travels plain plebeians, and
come back aristocrats. Many an Iowa
mink skin has travelled east in a
musky i'll smelling bundle, to be
classed as No. SMALL" and sold for
81, to return in an express car lined
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
AMERICAN JUDGE IN CHINA.

L. r. Wllney to He First Head 0i
Newly Created Consular Court.
Judge Lebbeus e. Wiley Of St
Louis, who has been appointed by the
president to be the first Judge of the
newly created consular court in China
Is preparing to depart upon his mis-
sion, says the Boston Transcript.
II look forward with interest to my
work in China" he says. 1.-THE neces
sity for court for the protection OF
Americans in China has long been ap
parent This court will have jurisdic-
ton over oil commercial and civil pro
ceedings and by virtue Of treaty be
tween the United States and China the
right to appeal to the higher courts Of
this country. The personnel Of the
court will be judge appointed by the
president for ten years. district at.
torney, u clerk and marshal. The
court will have Jurisdiction over all
cases formerly tried by the consul gen.
eral. The headquarters Of the court
will be In Shanghai, but sessions will
be held in Canton, Hankow and Tien
tsin at stated periods and in such other
treaty ports as the exigencies Of the
case render practicable.
I'm all cases the Judge will be the
one to try the law and the facts. All
trials will be public and will be held
In the building of the American consul
general. II an American should be
found guilty of murder, the marshal
has authority to erect scaffold and
hang the offender. Jails will be pro
vided in Shanghai and all cities where
the court has Jurisdiction. An Amer.
lean need not obey warrant or sum
mons that does not bear the signature
Of the American consul. There is an
appeal from this court to the Ninth
judicial district, of which California
forms part. This is federal court
and not under the Jurisdiction Of any
state. One fact that is somewhat out
Of the ordinary Is that the court, In
stead Of being under the department
Of Justice, il under the direct jurisdic.
ton OF the department Of state"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

Newly Discovered Work Of Menander
A highly interesting discovery Is an
nounced from Egypt, says the London
Athenaeufn. NJ. Lefebvre, one Of the
inspectors in the service of the Egyp-
tian department Of antiquities, has
been fortunate enough to disinteF q
large number Of leaves OF papyrus
codex Of Menander, containing upward
Of 1900 lines. The publication Of this
most welcome discovery should enable
modern scholars for the first time to.
form an independent judgment on the
style and genius Of the famous comic
dramatist.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
GOT CLEVELAND IN A BOX.

Ex-President and Wife Laughed ~
Lew DOckstader's Jokes.
Ex-President and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land sat in box at the New York
theater the other night with Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Morton and DR.. and Mrs.
Bryant, says the New York World.
Mr.. Cleveland seemed to be well
again. He and his wife laughed heart.
lily at some fishing stories that Lew
Dockstader told. Mr.. Cleveland has
written some fish stories himself.
.I've done something the Republican
party never could do" said Docksta-
der.
whats thatT asked the oblisins In
terlocutor. 4
SCOT Grover Cleveland in a box"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
Preventing Abortion,
1.-THE st. Paul Farmer.1

Mr.. Fred Lohse, of Manila Grove.
Iowa, writes: II noticed in the Novem-
Der 18th Farmer that A. B., of Albert
Lea, Mimi, has had a bad epidemic
of abortion among his cows. As l
have had this same difficulty In my
own herd at two different times, and
finally got the upper hand of it, my ex-
perience may be of benefit to other
readers. The treatment which I adopt
ed was as follows: First kept the
cows that aborted separated from the
others. I then gave each COW about
thirty or forty drops of carbolic acid
in their salt twice week At first they
did not seem to like 1t, but they soon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
TelIina the Acc Of a Horse.


One OF our readers asks US for a
reliable way to detect the age of a
horse. He asks if 1t can be told by
Inspecting the joints of the tail. The
most correct and the most common
way of telling a, horses age is by the
teeth. This method Is not absolute
ly correct, but for all practical pur-
poses is reliable for telling the age
within a year. A horse has what we
call a full mouth or all the per
manent front teeth at the age Of
years. At years old we can see the
black cavities called "cups" in the
center Of the lower front teeth. At
s years old the cups disappear in the
two center teeth Of the lower jaw. At
Z years old the cups in the next OUT
side pair in the lower jaw disappear.
At 8 years old the cups in the center
upper teeth begin to go. The next year
the next pair go. AT ten years old
practically all the cups have disap-
peared and then the telling of the age
becomes more difficult A horses tooth
is curved in shape, and as the age
progresses and the tooth grows out the
slant Of the tooth becomes more pro-
nounced and after the cups are lost we
have only the slant Of the teeth by
which to tell the age. in regard to
telling the age of horse by the joints
of the tail we cannot state. Some men
profess to be able to determine this.
Altogether the teeth furnish the COM
monty accepted standard by which to
i,,doa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

with satin, and become the infinite
companion of wealth and beauty. Even
the Iowa muskrat and the common cat
leave the state simply rats, and cats,
to come again under new and splen-
did name, and get the money"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
The Automobile !. Rest Cure.

It is a mystery to me that enterpris-
ing manufacturers of automobiles have
so long failed to exploit the restorative
qualities of their machines, says a
writer in the Atlantic Monthly. But II
win come before long, for in the minds
Of thinking men there begins to dawn
a faint conception Of the untold pos
sibilities for good in this restless age
Of the automobile as rest cure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
He Died Anyhow.

He Died Anyhow. r.
This was the way a native physician
in India filed out death certificates:
II am Of mind that he died Tor lost
his life) for want Of foodings or on ac-
count OF starvation. Maybe also for
other things for comfortables, and
most probably he died by drowning
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
A Remedy.

"For some time past I've been buy
ing dozen eggs every week 1t this
store, and invariably md two bad
ones in every dozen. Something's got
to be done about II" said an kate
housekeeper.
.Well," said the new clerk naively
and with quiet smile, 'smebbe II you
only bought half a dozen you'd only
get one bad one. -Grocer's Literary
Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

!
offices are not gratis is because the
term implies something dishonest on
the part of the officers, which is not
now the case" declares metropolitan.
"But it is not honesty on the part Of
that Is costly and merely makes two
fat jobs for politicians"
"There will be a large majority of
the American popuace which will not
sit up to worry over the possibility of
an income tax after their Christmas
bills are paid" predicts the Grinnell
Register.
"An empty purse on Christmas
morning is, as a rule, wholly excusable
and at times creditable and even hon
orable. asserts the Council Bluffs
Nonparel.
'The ship subsidy bill looks like a
species of graft to man out in Iowa"
says the Parkersburg Eclipse. How
it looks to the man living in the east,
with ships to build or supplies to sell
ship building firms, is another ques-
ton
The interstate commerce commission
Seems to have barred the editors from
riding on passes, but who cares?' re-
marks the Centerville Citizen. "Think
how much better it will be to stay at
home and attend to business and save
money"
Suppose" inquiries the Cedar Falls
Record, by way of illustration. that
some other beast should kill his wife
up there In Butler county, how much
patience do you suppose the people
would have with the culprit?'
IF it hasn't come yet don't conclude
that you have been forgotten Chances
are the gift you sent hasn't arrived at
consolingly advises the Sioux City
Journal.
III people like Pine would only at
tend to their own business and permit
communities such as Berlin and Chel-
sea to do the same, we'd all be a lot
happier" argues the Chelsea Inde-
pendent. Beer don't hurt German
or Bohemian half as much as fanat-
icism does Pine and his ilk, and they
think they have as much right to drink
1t as they have to eat meat. So do we
ii anybody should ask you"
The Northwood Anchor demonstrates
against any parole for Bill Richards
the deputy United States marshal con-
victed OF conspiring with q paroled
burglar to rob an old couple who had
often befriended Richards. eff there Is
one villain whose crimes smell to heav-
en- more than all other crimes, 1t Is
the public official who consorts with
thieves and violates the law he is
sworn to uphold" indignantly asserts
the Anchor.
The Estherville Republican says:
"The object being to give each citizen
an opportunity to register his choice
for candidates without interference,
and have all parties Of all compilations
make their nominations on the same
day. No law can be formulated but
what will have some defects, but IL the
legislature uses the wisdom it should,
frills and ruffles will be cut off the law
that is passed and the plainest kind OF
primary law will be enacted This is
the kind the people demand and had
in mind when they registered their
choice last fall"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

The Iowa City Republican insists
that the legislature should abolish the
offices of state binder and printer.
when the state officers owned their
own plants and had money invested in
them, there was some excuse for the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK?

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers assure to know of the wonderful
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

cures made by Or.
Kilrner's Swamp
Root, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century
discovered after years
of scientific research
by DR.. Kiltner, the
eminent kidney and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

capital punishment is relic Of
barbaris1n, and should be abolished"
says the Alta Advertiser. 'The fear
of death deters few criminals"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
nova apIh lohs ANp NOTES.

The Woodbine Chronicle, remarkfng
that "our legislators in congress are
clamoring for a higher salary" recalls
that when they were making cam
paign speeches last fall they didn't
mention that they were too poorly
paid Time and place makes great
difference sometimes"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

became accustomed to it. then made
a solution of one tablespoon of car
bolic acid In one quart of water, which
I sprinkled over the cows. and gave
their rear parts thorough washing
once a week. l also sprinkled con-
siderable of this solution about the
stables and the places that they most
commonly frequented. Shortly after !
commenced this treatment the abortion
disappeared completely and I have
never been troubled with it SINCE"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27
Hog Notes.

'no9 NotoSs
Are you keeping a. record Of the per-
Torrance of each sow?
You will always learn something by
putting the hog on the platform scales
once in while.
Never drag dead hog over the
ground. PUT him in box and take
him off and burn the whole business.
According to the United States bull
letins a hogs manure is worth $1,000
per year. Are you getting a dividend
of dollar g. month on each Of your
hogs?
If you are after a profitable SOW.
better not pay so much attention to
the number in the herd book as to
good bone, good constitution, and big
filters.
When hog dung is in the form of
pellets 1t is a sign that they are con-
stipated Give them more exercise
and some laxative food for a few days.
from Ill to 113 days, altho old sows
sometimes carry their pigs from 112 to
1T days. In round numbers the per-
iod is sixteen weeks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

bladder specialist, and is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing lame back,
uric acid, catarrh of the bladder and
Briplit's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kiln,er,s Swamp-Roct is not rec
commended for everything but if you have
Kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found Just the remedy you need. It has
been tested in so many ways, IN hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved SO successful in every case that
SPECIAL arrangement has been made by
which ali readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have sample
bottle sent free by mail, also a book tall
ing more about Swamp-Root, and how to
firdoutif YOU have kidney or bladder trou-
bic. When writing mention reading this
generous offer in this paper and send your
address to DR.. Kilmer ST.
& Co., Binghamton, -! an ;;::s
Il. Y. The regular II \ +:
fifty-cent and one =
dollar size bottles are Homo OF swampRoos
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp Root, DR., Kilmer's Swamp Root,
and the address, Binghamton, N. y, on
every bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-27

IF it hasn't come yet don't conclude
that you have been forgotten Chances
are the gift you sent hasn't arrived at
the other end yet If you mailed It late"
consolingly advises the Sioux City
Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26
HOLD ON TO LAND
Warming Lest the South Become or
Fall into the Evil Plight of Ireland.

There is one property we do advise
people to hold. and that is land. 1t is
lust beginning to rise. and 1t Will
never come down again.
All the North. the cities n larger
towns of the South. are full Of money,
wanting safe investment: Capitalists
are losing faith in mills. manufac-
tories. stocks and bonds. They'll lose
more.
The unexampled farm prosperity or
the period has made the void respect
as never before the toilers Of the fields
The American Croesus of large IN
heritance and self Increasing fortune.
prefer safe investment to venturous
Speculation He is already a large
holder of city properties. He Will soon
go soft footed and sweet-voiced into
the farm buying business. He pictures
life on easy street for himself and his
posterity when they shall hold the
same relation to American farmer
that English landlords do to Irish peas
ants. Don't give any stranger an op-
ton on an acre. If there's money IN
the investment for him there's. more
money in it for you. And II n mus
or will sell let him give the first chanct
TO home folks.-Barnwell (S. CD Peo-
pIe.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26
EXCELLENT ADVICE. THIS
The Sumter Item and the st. George
Eagle Urge the Farmers to Raise
MuIes.

~
With ordinary ram mules command
ing the prices that they now do we
can not understand why South Carroll
ma farmers persist in paying the prices
rather than raise all they need at
home and a few to sell. Mules can be
raised in this county successfully as
has beer demonstrated al the state
farm. A sound young mule OF good
size is worth from $500 to $3.50. and 1t
has been asserted and un-contradict-
ed that the cost of raising a mule Is
not more than SIS at the maximum.
while under the favorable conditions
the cost is less than S50-Sumter
Daily Item.
The above are facts that are true
and plain to every right-thInking per-
along why so little interest Is taken In
such matters by our people. WHY not
go to a little extra trouble n raise
a mule or W. say every two or three
years? This can be done ON hundreds
Of farms in Dorchester county. And
YET If there Is a single farm in the
county putting forth any such energy,
It is unknown to the writer. We hope
this matter will receive due considera-
ton by at least some OF our most pro-
gressive planters. 1t is something of
no little Importance to our people and
IL the suggestions are followed. IL VIII
mean a saving OF thousands Of dollars
to the farmers IND taxpayers Of Dor
chester county.-St- Georoe Eagle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26

of land In half a dozen counties con-
sfcucus TO Wilmington and Will develop
IL by bringing large parties OF colo
nisrs from foreign shores and inteili-
gent growers from the North and
West the work of which has already
commenced. This factor alone it is
expected. in the near future viii! result
i'm a much larger development Of Vii
mington and all this territory.
1t Is sufficient 10 say Of the large
lumber interests here that they have
kept we'll up with all other lines and
ming on full time and finding a ready
market and good prices Tor their pro-
duct. There has been some falling OF
in the cross-tie industry. but the fact
Is not depIored. Millions OF feet OF
valuable timber AVE been Il and
shipped in this a whereas If the
timt.er had remained here. ii would
have peer manufactured into n more
finished product n would have
brought TO the territory all that was
in the natural
4 review of the progress OF a year
would be incomplete without a refer
ence 10 the large cotton exp~rtinS
business OF Messrs. Alexander Sprunt
& Co. 1t Is TO tiiem that Wilmington
Is due the honor of being the fourth
cotton port in the United states. When
the season shall AVE been completed
within a fev, weeks now. the record
will be the dispatch OF more than SO
ships TO foreign shores with an average
OF from $4,000 TO 1900 bales OF the
white staple each. For the winter
months this vast enterprise gives en-
ployment to more than 500 men. many
of them of the skilled class.
Alike. a eview would be Incomplete.
without n reference To the great i'm
terests of the Gas Line here. which
have increased from year to year since
the consolidation of the Plant Sys-
tenn q few q ago. 1t IS now
co~nservatively estimated that more
than 1000 men and boys are employed
in the company's offices and shops
here. the demand in all departments
being for more room. The latest
triumph in the railroad world was the
election Of Mr.. I. NJ. Emerson. a VIII
mington Ia to the office of president
of The road and the removal OF that
office to Wilmington. Heretofore all
the large affairs of the company have
been directed from offices in New York
and Baltimore.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26
YOUNG SHEPARD AUTO AGENT
Grandson Of William III. Vanderbilt i'm
business.

Elliott F. Shepard, grandson of the
late William H. Vanderbilt and 10 of
the late Colonel Elliott f. Shepard. is
demonstrating automobiles at the Arm
Dry Motor show and selling them for
a French manufacturing company.
He made the first sale recorded in
the show by disposing of a 35-horse-
power French touring car to his rela-
tive. William X. Vanderbilt. Jr. 1t is
TO be delivered in America for $500.
Mr.. Shepard is daily taking prospective
customers out for a drive and q prac-
teal demonstration. Even during the
bad weather which the motor shows
ave experienced Mr.. Shepard has been
at the wheel. and he has sold as many,
If not more. cars than any other sales
man or demonstrators.
Just how he became connected with
the automobile y IS not ex-
planned further than that his mother.
who was Miss Marguerite Louise VAN
derbilt. daughter of w. II. Vanderbilt.
is interested in the p a. NJ.
Archer, their American representative,
induced Mr.. Shepard to come to Amer
lea about two weeks ago. They met
IN Paris. where Mr.. Shepard has been
identified with the concern for some
time. Mr.. Archer persuaded him to
come here for the show and the Flor
ida meet. He will also go to Cuba and
to the Chicago show.
The fact that he has begun active
business life Is more than a surprise
TO many of Mr.. Shepard's old friends
Some of them have called upon him
since the show opened Just to see what
kind Of an automobile agent he has
' made of himself.
Last year, while touring in France.
Shepard's a struck a girl n killed
her. The subsequent trial cost the
young man a large sun of money. n
he was finally ordered to paw q fine OF
$4,000 and to serve three months in
prison. the latter penalty being SUBJ
s%equently remitted.-New York Special
to Baltimore Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26
Get at the Root.
The Wilmington Messenger sa

The Wilmington Messenger says:
Wake county seems to be having
trouble with her magistrates. The
grand jury has their conduct under
investigation. The judge has told that
body that If necessary for the purpose
OF making a thorough Investigation. ii
should sit a week longer. II would be
well for some OF the other counties ! n
the state to nave their grand iuries to
take the same matter IN and make fuii
search into the conduct of some of the
Justices OF the a Of our state.
which needs thorough overhauling."
Very true: but wouldn't the simpler.
saner plan be found I'm the exercise OF
more care in selecting magistrates
There is not a county in North Caro-
lima. We venture to assert. that has not
one or more magistrates totally unhc
for the position. Investigation after
their unworthiness becomes notorious
Is too much like locking the stable az
ter the horse has been stolen. GET
at the DOT Of the trouble. ard elect
none bat intelligent. well-bafanced
men magistrates. and there will be less
cause for complaint--Salisbury Post.