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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-05-12
CECIL WING FIFTY YEARS AGO
Bits Of News Selected for Careful Reading from Issue
May 10, 1856

the town. One half of the first
story, it is probable, will be occu-
pied by the new bank if it goes
into operation, for which it will
be admirably fitted by its loca-
ton and internal arrangement.
II not SO occupied there are per
SOS anxious TO obtain the rooms
Ior Offices at high rents. The
other sid" OF the first story will
pro1ably I've taken by the fire IN
surance Company. The second
story is to be a spacious public
laIl for public meetings, lectures,
&C.. OF which sort OF room the
town is greatly in need. The
third story will be occupied as the
lodge rooms OF the Odd Fellows
and MaSons.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-05-12
TOWN COMMISSIONERS OF
ELKTON.

At the town election on Mon
day the following Commissioners
were elected for the ensuing year ::
Jacob c. Howard, William
Torbert, Andrew Alexander, John
A. Rankin, William p. Strick-
land, Robert NJ. Walmsley and
Robert Cantwell. Six OF them
are Democrats and one Wing.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-05-12
FROST.

We had white frosts one or two
mornings this week.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
CHANGES IN FlARMls.
davenport Tamesl

AS it comes to be more and more
understood that there is money in the
right kind of management of farms
two tendencies Will become apparent
The farms near the market centers
will become smaller and the crops
more specialized. Farms remote from
the large cities will become larger
and in charge of them will be found
men of special training and marked
executive ability. The small farmer
who has been merely content to get
u living from his land will gradually
go over to the man with large capt.
tai with genius for directing farm
ing operations. In other words the
same tendency which long ago became
manifest in other industries will be-
come manifest in farming. Already
in the great west and northwest large
plantations where wheat and live
stock are produced on a large scale
have been established, and it is the
opinion of men in agricultural col
leges, who have been watching the
tendencies of the times, that this
change in farming conditions is sure
to come. When on the farm the
same care for details is developed as
has made successful the packing in
dustry, for instances, where it is said
only the hogs squeal is not utilized.
a care which presupposes an executive
administration separate from the per-
Torrance Of the actual labor so that
it will be in a position to criticise and
direct-when such care for details is
developed, farming will become even
more profitable than it is today. It
the tencency nf :he time is to large
may not be- a pleasing thought that
operations in farming, but unless the
economic movement has its eXcep-
tons. the time will surely come when
farmers with conspicuous executive
ability will realize that if they can
make money off few hundred acres,
they can make more money by direct
ing the operations on a thousand
acres.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11

in their care by depositors. When
loaned those funds should be secured
in some manner. Human nature is 50
frail that no man can be guardian OF
trust funds and loan them to himself
without warping the judgment of the
guardian. He should not try. In the
case of a bank the trusteeship is
compost The cashier the directors
and the employees are all part of it.
All are responsible to the stockholders
and the stockholders to the depositors.
No one is honest in the discharge OF
his duties if he sees another stealing
or in any way ieopardizing the trust
funds and keeps still about it. Silence
in such a case becomes completely in
the crime. Herring, il he knew what
Stensland was doing, and he says he
did, is guilty Poor kowalski, the pay
ing teller, probably did not know and
got his relatives to deposit in the bank.
Suddenly conscious of his unintended
guilt, he shoots himself. The blood Of
Kowalsk is on Hering's hands as well
as on Stensland's. They both did
!,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
SHALL WOMEN WEAR 0vERALLs2

THE battle for human liberty is never
done. 1t is unending and irrepressible.
Crushed and baffled at one point 1t
breaks out at another. Laughed to
scorn in Washington, where DR.. Mary
Walkers trousers met the pointed
finger of derision and the voice of
contumely, it rises uncomfortable in
the beet fields of Bremen county, Iowa,
where the female right to wear over
alls is assumed and denied. Here the
girls employed in beet cultivation have
ling skirt handicap on their earning
capacity. Men attired in bib overalls,
gauze shirts and straw hats, did more
work for more pay. Then the observant
and ambitious young ladies sought
overalls, wide, roomy and capacious.
They found them. They donned them.
Thus attired they regained equality
of accomplishment and wages. They
moved with free and unshackled
neither limbs. The dirt flew and those
who drove past the Bremen county beet
fields saw with curious eyes unusual
weed pullers: creatures with flowing
hair, maids from the waist line up and
hired men from the waist line down
the mermaids of the level prairie lands
First they wondered. then they gos-
slipped, and last, they criticised. Then
a movement to take off the overalls
was inaueurated, and the girls are,
naturally, all "hollering."
In these days of the divided skirt
and cavalry saddles for women, why
all this fuss over overalls? What APP
parel can be more. modest than the
wide and roomy overall of commerce,
with it's voluminous and enshrouding
bib? Certainly the tBremer county
girl in the beet field has in this re-
spect much advantage over her fash
ionable sister at the opera or the lady
in street apparel fashioned to display
:
those curves of beauty that constitute
good form What would the
critics have her wear, Mother Hub
bards or kimonas or peekaboo waists :?
When the motive behind this crusade
against overalls is finally revealed,
the time Worn prejudice of the one sex
against any attempt of the other to
wear the breeches" will be found at
the root of all the uproar. Bremen
county is largely German and among
Germans the muscaline prerogative is
carefully guarded and defended. For
the woman to wear the trousers" is
not at all uncommon metaphorically
speaking, especially among the dis
tinctively American. Many man
who talks loudly over the beet field
fence is oyster mum at home. Let
him cry "a bas the overall and give
him no heed. If the Women do the work
the overalls shall not come down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
A CASHIERS COMPLETELY IN CRIME.

Cashier Herring, Of the wrecked Chi
cago bank, pleads that he ought not
to be punished because he did not re-
ceive any of the money stolen from the
bank by it's president but merely ac-
cepted the forged paper and made the
entries as instructed to do by Presi-
thin to cast even shadow of consid-
Grafton. Men who are elected cashiers
of banks are not mere cash registers
They are officers of their banks, sworn
to do all in their power to assist in an
honest and safe administration of bank
affairs. A president may be the first
in command but no cashier can stand
idly by and see president or any 9TH
err officer or person steal from the
bank without such cashier failing ut
terly in his duty and becoming party
to the robbery.
The trouble is that bank officials Of
ten have to easy a conscience as re-
CARDS their duty towards funds en-
self, did not conspire deliberately to
rob the bank. He began by borrowing
to aid his private enterprises. Had his
deals been successful he would have
paid his loans and been looked upon as
a financier They failed, however, and
he became a thief. He couldn't pay
his loans nor his interest. The latter
kept piling up and more notes We're
needed to meet the account. Stenslanl
floundered. He attempted another
speculation in cooperative store be-
cause he needed some scheme of quick
and large profits in order to make good
the hole he had made in the BANKS
funds. SO he kept on until he had lost
millions and wrecked the bank.
Herring, in his confession, admits
that this sort of thing had been going
on for ten years. 1t must follow then
that he has been an eye witness to the
stealing of the banks funds for that
length Of time. He should have COM
planned to the directors when be first
saw Stensland use the banks funds in
private speculation. He should not
have waited for those deals ID turn
out A wrong was committed when the
funds of trust were being haZarded in
speculation by an officer of the trus-
tee. Herring, as cashier, was part of
the trustee bank. He should have re-
ported to the directors. So should
every cashier and every bookkeeper of
every bank.
Banks are trustees of funds placed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
ONE WAY no GET RICH.

One government department which
is beginning to attract general atten-
ton is the forestry service. UP 10
within the past decade the average cit
izen rarely gave thought to our for
ests. or If he did, simply thought Oh
them as illimitable and indestructible.
Later years, however, have in a very
practical way shown him the erron-
eous nature of his ideas. When he
buys lumber the growing scarcity OF
the pine is borne in upon him in
way to attract his attention. II he is
in. the market for posts or railroad ties
or telephone poles, he is soon made
aware that the big pine, spruce and &C.
OAR forests have given way to wastes
of denuded timber lands, and that g.
good fence post may be almost as
cheaply constructed of cement as pur--
chased at the lumber yards.
Somewhat of this deficiency the for
est service is planning to supply. Men
familiar with the sand wastes of Me-
braska and Kansas, and especially
those older men who teamed with oxen
thru the "Great American Desert" to
the gold fields of Colorado and the
west, know what waste of shifting
sand that section consists Of. Some
~ ct there
and some few cattle gain subsistence.
The wind washes the sand into great
waves or dunes. Twenty-Five years
ago. when the first ranchers went INFO
the country and plowed and planted
the COW men used to tell with glee that
after a wind storm the ranchers would
find all the potatoes that they had pat
into the ground piled UP in thick row
against the fence to leeward.
The forest service is changing all
this. In the territory under consider
alton which includes the Niobrara, the
Dismal River and the North Platte re-
serves in Nebraska, and the Garden
City reserve in Kansas, have been
planted, and are still being planted,
forests of honey locust, Usage orange,
Russian mulberry, red cedar and west
ern yellow pine; and besides this mil
lions of seedlings are being raised in
for use in other reserves. BY
this tree planting the shifting soil is
being bound together and held in place,
and a forest crop is being grown which
will in time be merchantable.
Under the Kinkaid law this land is
largely open to presumption in section
tracts. Let some of our young men
who are anxious to acquire a fortune
sit down and figure the probable re-
turns from $40 acres of Usage pests
twenty years from now, when each
post will sell readily for 25 cents. Put
the plants twelve feet apart each way.
Even in neglected hedges half dozen
10 to % cent posts are sometimes
grown What would $40 acres of Usage
posts be worth in 1925?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11

Now, at the zoe level. or just above,
there is the same difference. The for
eigners are certainly not going to buy
our product while we keep on putting
down prices. When the market hard
ems and looks more like stability they
will probably come in.
1t would seem that around 70 cents
there are two sides to the market. The
running away on the part of the for
eigners cannot go on forever. Some
day there will be big business quiz
city worked.
From 1900 to 1906 wheat in Minne-
apolis has covered an extreme range
from 605sc to 1929 Seventy cents is
not high for wheat. Considering re-
cent price levels, the increased con-
sumptive power Of the country and
other things. it is comparatively low.
1t is true the country has raised an
exportable surplus this year, and will
have to sell it, but it is entirely prob-
able that anticipation will drive prices
lower than they ought legitimately to
go, if indeed this has not already hap
pened A bull market or bear mar
ket always runs too far.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
lows Newspapers
NECESSITY TO CONFINEMENT
Mason City Times II erald.

A NECESSITY TO CONTENTMENT.
Mason City Times Herald
People envy oftentimes the man of
leisure. Leisure does bring with it
much of benefit. 1t gives opportunity
for culture and books, for study and
travel, for thought and observation.
But leisure that comes without effort,
which is perpetual and undisturbed.
tends to enervate and enfeeble. The
greatest endeavors of the world are
not wrought out by the leisure classes
but by the hard working, the pressed
for time. There is no happiness
sweeter than the rest after toll. There
is no misery more dreadful than the
long, stretched-out days of the do
nothing.
Ever try to loaf a whole day. Lay
aside all occupation and industry and
simply do absolutely nothing? Those
who have tried it say there is nothing
more wearisome. Imagine this list
less loafiing life spread over weeks
and months and years and the torment
of the damned is achieved. Heaven
is not place for dreamless rest = it
is not a Nirvann of nothingness. 1t
would not be heaven if it was des-
ert without some toll.
There is much pity wasted on the
workers of the world. The man with
the hoe comes in for constant COM
miseration. Work has it's compensa-
ton and it's blessedness Its physical
effects are appetite for food and sleep.
the enjoyment Of the easy chair
When this toll is for those we love,
that they may have food and rainment
and something beyond then there Is
an added blessedness in toll however
hard the labor. The sense of accom-
plishment, of doing something in the
world only comes to the worker. The
loafers know none of these.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
Topics Of the Times

Mr.. Eryan's endorsement of Hearst
as q presidential candidate is likely to
rise up and plague him. Mr. BRYAN
talked loo much in London. Already
democrats are finding fault with his
evident desire to have the assistance
of Hearst's yellow papers.
Mr.. Rockefeller owns so much of it
that when he talks of America it IS
hard to understand whether he is
stirred by patriotic fervor or merely
advertising his proprietary interests.
After having been forcibly with
drawn, Governor Yates is about to an
nounce his withdrawal from politics.
There are other states where the with
drawal of politicians of the Yates
stamp would be borne without tears.
Mr.. Porter's nomination was made
with the hope that southern Iowa
might go half and half"
In all this rush for the Bryan band
wagon. some one is que TO De stepped
on pretty soon.
Stolypin calls balls every time the
revolutionists call strike. He seems
to be "onto their curves"
Some talk is heard of morning
daily at Mason City. With two daily
newspapers, both above the usual
standard in towns of the Mason City
size, the prospects of another scarcely
seem effulgent
would Mark Twain, the founder of
the stand-pat school, be a stand pat
ter if he were living?" asks the Wash
ington Post Qnd) The question was
suggested by an interview with Elmer
Dover secretary of the national re-
publican committee. and formerly a
close friend and follower of Senator
Hanna. Mr.. Dover, who got his
stand-patism from Mark Hanna" says
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
The Price Of Wheat.
[ Minneapolis Journal.


After long-continued decline and a
loss of Is cents a bushel from prices
ruling when the government issued it's
first important crop bulletin of the
year, wheat has reached debatabie
ground For month it has been
scarcely possible to find in the daily
reports single item of influence upon
the side of strength. The country was
favored with a long period of good
weather. The winter wheat crop held
it's high promise, and when harvest
started it moved into the winter wheat
markets in quantity greatly in excess
of the movement year ago. Stocks
of old wheat were also larger and We're
a burden upon the market.
The prospect of free and early
movement of spring wheat was a later
consideration no less important. Prob
ably the last cents of the decline
might reasonably be attributed to an
ticipaton of this and an effort to an
ticipate it. Grain trade history shows
that speculatively such things are usu-
ally overdone. While the trade may
sell out in fear of an utter smash when
the additional burden of heavy
spring wheat movement is felt, it is
probable that when the thing actually
comes it will be found to have been
discounted.
We are getting down to level
where the Minneapolis flour mills ought
soon do some export business. 1t is
the old story of foreigners running
away. A month ago it was said that
on the basis of 75c wheat in Minneapo
lis export business in flour could be
done, but when this level was reached
the European buyers were found to
have retreated again, and as an ex-
port basis is question of one price
relative to another anu the particular
figure quoted means little in itself, the
millers were as far out of line for ex-
port at 75c as they had been at soc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11

the Post, warns the stand-patter to
have a care. Tariff revision, he de-
clares, is pressing rapidly to the front
for consideration. If not this year,
then in 1908 tariff revision will be the
paramount ISSUE
The reliability of the Marshalltown
the correctness of their prediction as
to the result of the republican state
convention last week. They printed a
perdiction a short time ago showing
the votes Cummins, Perkins, and
Rathbun would receive at convention
and they guessed it within one vote
Cambridge Leader.
A bronze statute will be erected to
the memory of Robert G. Ingersoll, the
agnostic, by the Ingersoll Monument
association of Peoria, H., in August,
1907, the anniversary of his death. The
commission for the execution of the
statute. which will cost $4,000 has
been awarded to Frederick T.. Tribel, a
New York sculptor. an intimate friend
of Ingersoll The statue will be of he
roic size and will depict Mr.. Ingersoll
standing and addressing an audience
in characteristic way.
Claus Spreckles will risk no more
earthquakes in San Francisco. He has
purchased the white marble mansion
of Isaac Stern at S5S Fifth avenue,
New York. and will become a perman-
enc resident. The Pacific sugar king
will be right in the millionaire colony.
his new property adjoining the resi-
dences of George j. Gould and the late
Charles T. Yerkes.
A new magazine is to be issued in
Des Moines in few days which will
be devoted to the general interests of
Des Moines and Iowa. 1t will con-
tain variety of material suitable for
each member of the family. Send six
cents in stamps for sample copy, to
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Ogilvie, 1907 Twelfth
street, Des Moines Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
Unnecessary Expense.

Acute attacks of collc and diarrhoea
come on without warning and prompt
relief must be obtained There is nc
necessity of mourning the expense OF
a physician's service in such cases il
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhoea Remedy is at hand. A dose
of this remedy will relieve the patient
before doctor could arrive. 1t has
never been known to fail, even in the
most severe and dangerous cases. and
no family should be without it. For
sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
THE COUNTY FAIR AGAIN
TSioux City Journal.

lolOuA lily JOul Ic1J
A movement which is exciting con-
siderable attention among agriculture
lists at the present time is the revival
of the county fair. Half a century ago
the county fair was matter of coruSe
in all well regulated communities. 1t
was the gathering place for the
farmers from all the countryside, and
was the annual reunion for old neigh
bors and friends. The exhibits often
were not remarkable. In most cases
they did not differ much from one
year to another. The same bed quilts
and wreathes of feather flowers drew
the same premiums from year to year,
and the most exciting events usually
were three-lninute race or buff
falo hunt AS the new districts in the
western states were settled the county
fair was instituted in memory of the
familiar institution back east" AMI
as proof of the development of the
western country But the character of
the affair remained much the same.
Late years have seen the decline and
extinction of the great majority Of
these annual exhibitions. The state
fairs. the national and international
exhibitions, have been visited by the
multitude, and after seeing the sights
at one of the larger fairs the little
country efforts did not seem worth the
while, and they We're allowed to die
from want Of support.
Practical business men, however,
have begun to see their mistake in al
lowing the county fair to lapse and a
general movement now seems to be
on foot for its revival. 1t has been
discovered that the county gathering
is one of the best places to bush bust;
ness. 1t is q good place to advertise
and also to effect sales. The visitor at
one of the mammoth exhibitions has
too many things to look at to have
anv time left for business. At the
county fair he can cover the spectac-
ular part of the show and then have
leisure to take advantage of the prac
teal side.
The new county fair is different
from the old 1t combines some of
the special attractions of the great
fairs The officers have learned from
the larger exhibitions many things
which have put life and interest into
their home efforts. The features are
educative in their arrangement and
present ideas valuable to those who
wish to learn. A fair can be made to
represent the features of special inter
est to the community which it repre-
sents and become an institution of
positive value. The new county fair is
likely to experience a fresh lease of life
under the new system of management
and may be made to play an import
ant part in practical agricultural edu-
ga tion
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
Excursion to Muscatine, la.

On Thursday, August 23Id, the Iowa
Central will run a popular excursion
to Muscatine, Iowa, under the aus
pieces of the Fraternal Bankers Re-
serve Society. Special train leaves
Marshalltown at 500 a. M, arriving at
Muscatine at 1880 a. m. Returning
leave Muscatine at II p. m. Round
trip rate only 50. Call on Iowa Cen
trail agents for particulars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11

The Centerville Citizen says of its
townsman: Claude Porter is a good a
man as the democrats could find in the
whole state, a fact that is borne out by
the action of the convention yester-
day. He will receive the support of his
party. he will make hot campaign
and will emerge therefrom not dis
gracefully beaten"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11

when the republican party is of the
opinion that the schedules need chang
ing they will be changed" declares the
Davenport Times, "but it denies that
the democratic party, the enemy of the
tariff and bungler with power, is
competent to say when the tariff
schedules ought to be revised"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-11
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