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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

agined destrier, level broomstlck
lance and crash against his foe in full
career midway in the lists? BY my hall
dome | visit not. If such there be foul
befall him for a craven and forsworn
knight Is there boy living who has
not stood with Warren behind Pres
colt of Pepperell in the redoubt on
Breeds Hill and charged home up Stony
Point with Wayne with empty muskets
at the point of the bayonet? Who has
not pushed the sinking Bon Homme
Richard, with it's fascinating foreign
name, against the gun ports of the
Scraps, while he cried I'VE have just
begun to fi.sht?' The Irish at Fontenoy
and at Marye's Heights, The Old Guard
at Waterloo, the English at Crecy and
Agincourt, Pickett's triple line at
Gettysburg, Ell Caney, Ratisbon, Their
mopolae Daniel Boone, Custer, Win
kelreid, Hale, and Horatius, the heroes
and victories of history, tradition and
fiction: if there lived a school boy who
has not deyoured the tales of the nero
ism and bravery of a heroic world with
shining eyes and a sorrowful sinking
at the heart that he was born too late
to sail the Spanish main with Hawke
and Drake, march thru undiscovered
,s.,,, l,,,e with naCoto tn tho shores of an
unknown and mighty river, or with
Bluff Cortez and all his men gaze
on the Pacific in a wild surmise, Silent
upon peak in Darien" if such boy
ever existed he was either too good
for ordinary company or a tale bear
ing little sneak without nlanliness and
without friends.
Back of us all, behind all the broth
erhood and Kindness and humanity that
200 generations have implanted, under
the crust Of civilization and refinement,
SINNERS the fighting passion of the
primitive man. We still put personal
courage among the highest qualities.
The "game' man will always nave
friends if he is man of character
and sympathisers if he is not. We like
a good fight and good fighter in fact
and fiction. 1t has been limited with
some degree Of authenticity that cler-
gymen often, in the privacy and soli-
tude Of their studies, read with inter-
est the result and sometimes the de-
tailed account by rounds Of the more
notorious pugilistic encounters. 1t may
be so, for mankind in the aggregate
loves a scrap and ministers are men.
where shall we draw the line? That
fiction laudatory Of criminals is essen
TALLY vicious all will agree, but what
of the stories where the good boy who,
in the ancient Sunday school book, was
the butt OF the bad one, turns to and
reforms the wicked youth via the
bloody nose method? How about the
story where the clean, manly hero Is
himself pretty fair shot with a re-
volver and disinclined to quit saying
his prayers at the command Of zone
Eyed Pete' and his compeers? What
OF the mission worker, who, under pro-
vocation, puts the chronic leader of the
disturbers Of his meeting out with a
left hook ia the jaw after page OF
lively description full of local color and
converts the whole gang into fairly de-
cent citizens as citizenship goes in the
Sums? How about it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
Iowa Newspapers
,.sa,,sls,,suus
CAN'T TAKE THE LAND AWAY.
[Decorah Republican,

There is quiet but steady exodus
from this part of Iowa toward newer
and less settled states. 1t is to be re-
GREETED, and with many may be a ser
ious business mistake, but it cannot be
emigrants have realized from their
farms cash sum they never expected
to obtain. The price yields them homes
in the new land Of (reported) milk and
honey, twice the size of these they
sold, or can be of advantage to them if
they are shrewd handlers OF money or
property. The land they depart from
remains. Someone will work it and
take the places the departing ones
filled.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
WHERE SHALL THE LINE BE DRAWN

y The secretary of the Y NJ C. A. at
Sioux City has barred from the tables
of the reading rooms of that institu-
ton one of the more popular magazines
OF the class that furnish fiction ithrillers
of the blood and thunder type. In Day
ton, o., the T.. NJ. C. A. has excluded
"a magazine that carries many whisky
and cigaret advertisements. The
Sioux city secretary is not prepared to
/ go so far but he win not stand for the
Argosy and its tales Of impossible adj
venture which he says are simply
/ fierce
Where shall the line be drawn? The
Tina gazine stories he refers to. are
scarcely vicious for in them as In the
western melodrama virtue triumphs
and vice apparently unconquerable
succumbs at the psychological Instant.
They are cheap, crude and common
but aside from the blood and swords
and stencil of gunpowder they are not
OF a vicious tendency. ITO Have. and
I to Hold" keeps its place on librar:'
shelves and would without doubt retain
4 It's standing even in the reading rooms
at Sioux City, despite its carnival of
Killing, -bravos. pirates, swashbucklers
and sword scnlping. Even good old
Robinson Crusoe, killed satisfactory
complement OF cannibals and the gentle
Friday hacked off heads enough to set
q Dyak up in business. 1.-THE Three
Musketeess;' have flashed their rapiers
Ito the delight of two generations. The
ten. .twent'. thirt' western drama
draws its enthusiastic audience to see
plenty of gun play and stage killing.
s.The Nirgiinan' and. THE Squaw
Man cali out different less demon
strative but no. less appreciative, as
setnhly to see an artistic delineation of
with his boots on. Peaceful people,
who WORK ten hours a day and scrap
1hpdly over a grocery bill or the neigh
IS predatory hens, seem to crave the
IldfInent of a little mimic man
fighter. That is the reason for the
osy, the Nickel Library, the be-
Ikered bravo with the corruga tons
his pistol stock and the handsome
man in the sheepskin CHAPS" who
pts so straight to the line of our de-
Where are we to draw the line
is it worse for a boy to read the
hly colored adventures of the penny
keadful hero than for child to come
home from play to which a refined
and educated mother had taken her,
fully convinced that she had seen
man killed, entirely satisfied that he
deserved killing and complacent over
Its accomplishment.
Breathes there boy who after read,
ing "Ivanhoe' failed to bestride an Inn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

If / were Santa Claus 1 would know
exactly what to give every boy and
girl. I would give them HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. It's the greatest
medicine in the world; never-ceas-
ing wonder. 35 cents. Mcbride & Will
Drug Co
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
THE TEACHERS SHORTAGE.


There is great scarcity of teachers
tiruout the state, and in this county as
we'll, and of course the new certificate
law is to blame in the minds of mis-
informed individuals and editors of I'm
reliable newspapers. AS a matter of
fact the new law has little if anything
to do with the present shortage. The
new law did not go into effect until
October 1. and the records in this coun-
ty will show that practically all the
certificates are granted each year be-
fore that time. We have not the data
at hand, but we are certain that this
year is no exception. Last spring when
we were short thirty teachers there
were between forty and fifty certificates
in force in this county, but the holders
thereof would not teach. 1t is not the
new law. 1t is easier to get a certificate
under the new law than under the old.
The standard, il anything, has been
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
In Desperate Straits

are many, who could be cured by DR..
Kings New Discovery for coughs and
colds. so cents and s1.00. Mcbride &
Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

clerk swelled and answered: why,
no, don't think any one ever told me
looked like Henry Clay" "Oh, not
Henry" responded Nye, mot Henry,
just common ordinary clay, you know
Weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

idends paid by leased lines from the
income they received as rent. The div
idends declared by the subsidiary
leased lines for the year 1905 were
about s35,75O,oOo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

/
accept transportation in exchange for
advertising should pass. The inter
state commerce commissions ruling
that this can not be done under exist
ing law serves no good purpose. AS
bride transportation is not more
effective than cash Advertising points
out the Dubuque Times.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says
Andrew Carnegie has turned states
evidence in the case of the People US.
Predatory Wealth
"The oldest inhabitant has a new
topic of conversation observes the
Clinton Herald. "He remembers the
time when fresh eggs sold for 10 cents
DOZEN
eff those who are disposed to COM
plain of the teachers certificate law
will wait until there is time for mu-
tual adaptation to the new conditions
the Jefferson Bee believes they will be
entirely satisfied. If they are not. then
will be the time to file protests and to
urge amendment, improvement, or re-
peal"
Because the prize winning steer al
Chicago was purchased by the Ames
college shortly before the show the Mt.
Vernon Record regards the victory of
the Iowa school as a "hollow one The
Upton Advertiser differs from the
Record on this point, and says the
fact is that there is only shade OF diff
ference between the steer which wins
the prize and many others which in the
opinion Of excellent judges may be even
better than the one which gets me
award. The real credit which comes to
Ames is in having man like PROBES
sor Curtis with the requisite Judgment
to know prize winning animal when
he sees one"
at is hard to get conditions to suit
everyone" remarks the Usage News.
Senator Allison is comparatively
rich man, at least well to do and that
in some quarters is considered sign
of improper connections with corpora
lions. On the other hand Governor
Cumimns is comparatively poor man,
and some claim that marks him as an
incompetent business man, unfit to be
trusted with the leadership In a great
business state like Iowa"
The Arlington News. speaking OF
capital punishment, admits that 1t
seems cruel to hang men. but when
1t thinks of such brutal betrayal and
deliberate murder as was witnessed IN
the Gillette case in New York it is led
to believe that hanging Is insufficient
punishment.
Now that but twenty names are
lacking to complete a saloon petition
for Colfax. the Clipper hints that the
names Of the signers to the petition for
saloon will be published, and that
some of the signers threaten to prose-
cute il this is done, and Its editor Won
ders why this should be so. Per
l1aps they are heartily ashamed OF what
they have done, and don't want their
neighbors to know that they are in fav-
Of of a whisky shop in their midst"
suggests the Newton Journal.
"what could be sadder day than
Christmas in the house where Santa
Claus does not enter? asks the Ft.
Dodge Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says
Andrew Carnegie has turned states
evidence in the case of the People VS.
Predatory Wealth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

"what could be a sadder day thai
Christmas in the house where Sants
Claus does not enter?' asks the FIT
Dodge Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

The Arlington News speaking Of
capital punishment, admits that 1t
seems cruel to hang men, but when
1t thinks of such brutal betrayal and
deliberate murder as was witnessed IN
the Gillette case in New York 1t Is led
to believe that hanging Is insufficient
punishment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21

"The Oldest inhabitant has a new
topic of conversation" observes the
Clinton Herald. HE remembers the
time when fresh eggs sold for 10 cents
a Dozen"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-21
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

IF it is necessary Representative
CARROTS bill permitting publishers to
accept transportation in exchange for
advertising should pass. The inter
state commerce commissions ruling
that this can not be done under exist
ing law serves no good purpose. AS
bride transportation is not more
effective than cash Advertising points
out the Dubuque Times.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13

Kitchens are frequently over
stocked. Early learn that this de-
partment should contain only
what is in actual use.
Never acquire the habit of
buying from peddlers, or your
room will be clogged with sell
dom-used articles. Before buy
ing, know why you are spending.
On the other hand, do not for
swear the extras which simplify
labor, such as vegetable cutters,
potato slicers, etc., says the Bos-
ton Herald. Keep your eyes open
for anything new that will per-
form a task better than you can
now do it. The kitchen-like the
mind should be a growing one,
be willing to incorporate new
ideas and to take advantage Of
all that the progress Of science
and skill make possible.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
CREDIT HERE ON EARTH.

An esteemed contemporary
points out the case of man who
had led an exemplary life, who
was so straight in his dealings
with the world that he leaned
back, but whose worth was not
appreciated until he died. Then
everybody in town turned out to
the funeral.
Isn't that human nature for
you? An individual lives a good
life, a firm does the square thing
always, a newspaper fights hon.
estly for the right and every
body and his brother take it as a
matter of course-though it is
not, by any means. The individ-
ual dies, or the firm fails for lack
of patronage, then everybody
mourns loud and long.
The time to praise a mans
virtues is while he is here On
earth. If he does the right
thing he is a shining mark and
he deserves to be patted on the
back and every mans hand ex-
tended to help him.
So it is with a firm. Don't
wait until they are dead. Floral
wreaths, though they cost $25,
do not support widows and or
phan. Selected.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
THE WAY TO SUCCESS.

The banquet Of the Tariff Re-
form Club, at which speeches
were made by former Governor
Douglas, of Massachusetts, by
John Sharp Williams, by Profess
sor Sumner, of Yale, and John
Dewitt Warner, marks, as Mr..
Watterson said in his letter of
regret to the chairman, 1.-The be-
ginning of a work which has to
be done all over again" It is
the admission on the part of the
wisest men of the party Of the
fact that a return to the militant
principles of Democracy is es-
sential to continue usefulness if
not to continued existence. It is
q recognition that not the least
of these principles, is a tariff
which gives to the manufactures
fair profit and to the consumer
fair return.
If the movement there set on
foot commands, as it should, the
intelligent support of the party,
it means the RELOCATION to the
rear of crack-brained theories
and theorists; the reapplicatior
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13

of proven remedies for known
diseases and the re-elevation of
a leadership which can meet hard
facts with harder argument.
It offers to the Democratic
party the one tangible hope and
justifiable expectation Of deserv-
eddy won success in 1908. It
means a direct attack on the
sources w h ic h have led to
the corruption which a Republi-
can Administration is now en-
gagged in "overthrowing" by
such pin pricks as Garfield re-
ports, when the whole system on
which the beef trust, the Stand
ard Oil and all other great pro-
tected industries have builded
should be combatted with dyna-
mite. It means that the people
who pay the freight are to have
a say as to how and when the
cars are to be run and to whom
and at what price the goods are
to be delivered. It means fewer
private fortunes running into the
hundreds of millions and more
American workmen and employees
who can pay their obligations
and support their families. It
means platform whose purpose
can be grasped and whose bene-
fits will not be questioned.
The Reform Club banquet fur
nished the Democratic party
with material from which to
fashion deserved success, if it so
wills. Louisville Times.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
FAMILY REUNION.
welI-known Couple at Miami CeIe.
brpta Their Forty.first Wed.
ding Anniversary.

Miami, June 2.-Mr. and Mrs.
j. G. Lindley of this place cele-
brated their forty-frst wedding.
anniversary on Friday June, -
The occasion was made more
pleasant by the presence of all
their children and grand-child-
rem, this being the first reunion
of the family.
The following persans were
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Lindley of
Lebanon. Mr.. and, Mrs. E. F.
Lindley and family, of Miami;
MIR. and Mrs. C. L. Lindley and
family, of Romine. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. w. Miller and family, of
Burdick. Mr.. and Mrs. LIP.
Freeman and family, of Men,
vile. O. MIR. and Mrs. C. A.
Thomas and family of Midtown.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Thomas of
Miami.
A bountiful dinner was served:
and those present showed their
appreciation of the good things, by
partaking heartily.
There are thirty-one children
and grandchildren in the family.
After the dinner some excell-
ent music was rendered; after
singing God be with you till we
meet again" the party borke up
hoping to hear many returns of
the happy event.
Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Mill
town was the only guest present
not a relation of the family.
LIE Roy FREEMAN.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13

The man who is not a good
judge, of horses and has no love
for them, but is a Judge of cows
and likes dairying, will be more
likely to make money in dairy
ing than in raising horses. But
the man who has a natural fond
ness for horses and is a good
judge of horse stock will derive
both pleasure and profit in breed
ing good horse stock provided he
starts right, keeps his sails fair
ly trimmed and sells whenk he
gets fair offers so as to prevent
his stock from accommodating and
becoming a burden.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
Trouble Increasing.

When your trouble with food-diges-
ton seems to be increasing, and various
pains, like stomach-ache, headache,
backache, etc., beset you; when your
bowels and liver seem continually out
of order, what you need is DR.. Cald-
wells (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It is
safe, pleasant, and far superior to all
pills or cathartic waters. Sold by DR..
]. N. Page, Columbia, and Page and
Moore, Cane Valley, at Soc and 81. 90.
Money back if it fails.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
CARE OF THE CHICKS.

AS soon as the chicks are all
out of the shells, the mother-hen
and her family should be placed
in warm dry quarters. There is
nothing so fatal to young fowls
of any kind as dampness. If the
quarters are cold but dry it will
be much better than if they are
warm and damp. Before placing
them in their new home it would
be best to dust the hen well with
insect powder, for whatever you
do keep the chicks perfectly free
from those vitality destroying in
sects lice.
The runs should be dry and if
possible made Of gravel or sand.
They should be so arranged that
the water will run off as fast as
it rains. The coops should be rails
ed a couple of inches from the
ground so the floor will not draw
dampness. Have all openings so
arranged that they may be close
at night or on cold and stormy
days. The coops should be clean
ed every day and given a coat of
whitewash once or twice a month
to keep them pure.
Place the drinking fountain
where it will keep cool and clean.
It should be changed often for
chicks like fresh water as well as
you do. They should be scalded
out thoroughly with boiling water
to which few drops of carbolic
acid has been added. This should
be done once a week. Remember
all these precautions are to pre-
vent disease, which is much bet
ter than all the cures that can be
written.
There is little choice in food
for it the chicks are strong and
healthy they can eat almost any,
thing that can be digested. Give
them variety and feed regularly.
We never like to feed by a sched-
ule, but always make such
changes in the diet as we think
best. Where the chicks have a
limited range they should be fed
on cut bone and meat occasional
ly to take the place of bugs and
worms they get on a wild range.
Do not let food remain in the
trough after they have had a
meal, for it will sour in a few
hours and be unfit for them.
Bowel trouble is nearly always
caused by either damp and cold
quarter or sour food. Cor. Indi-
ana Farmer.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
GENERAL News.

The political crisis in Austria
is again assuming serious phase.
Robert T. Rogers, awaiting
trial on a charge of murder, was
lynched at Tallulah, La.
Capt. Benjamin D. Terry, a
Confederate veteran and one of
Trigg county's most prominent
citizens, died at Cadiz.
Another portion of the main
crater of Vesuvius collapsed and
peasants fled in terror, but no
futher danger is feared.
Officials Of the Southern Rail-
way deny the report of a merger
of their road with the Monon and
the Queen and Crescent.
Seven bridge companies and
seven agents of the companies
were convicted at Norwalk, O.,
of conspiracy in restraint of
trade.
Judge Owen Thompson resign
ed as trustee of the Illinois Wom-
ans College because of the &C
ceptance of $25, 600 from Andrew
Carnegie.
Senator Tillman informed the
Rate Bill conferees that he would
not agree to the elimination of
the Jim Crow" amendment
from the measure.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, in
vetoing two bills, declares that
the laws delays in the case of
Albert T. Patrick are little less
than scandalous.'
Logan Powell, a farmer, living
near Owensboro, may die from
the bite of a copperhead snake
which attacked him while he
was pulling tobacco plants.
The Adair County news., 1906-06-13
THE LONGING FOR A FARM.

Senator Edward w. Pettus, of
Alabama, is eighty six years old,
and in a long, active life as law
yer, soldier and politician, has
garnered much ripe wisdom.
At the age. if ever, a man
ought to know what in life is
really worth while.
When asked by a young man
what vocation he would choose if
he were just beginning active life
the venerable Senator replied:
II would buy a finely located
farm, stock it up nicely, and SET
tie down to a quiet life Of peace
and plenty, with fields and or
chard filling my graneries, and
calm observation and reflection
developing my mind"
1t is an ancient phenomenon.
this yearning of the years that
are a little more than mature for
the Sabine farm.
Old age yearns for the vine
and fig tree under which to watch
the setting of the sun.
But old age wants it's farm to
be Sabine-that is to say, refined
and easy
Neither old age nor youth
yearns particularly toward the
cleaning out of stable nor toward
the milking of six cows by Ian
tern light after a long day spent
in jumping about behind a pillow.
There is everything in agricul-
ture to attract an old man who has
somebody to do the work for him
and very little to attract the youth
who has to do the work for some
body else.
Of all the panegyrists of the
bucolic life how many of them, if
they were born on a farm, stuck
to it?
Certainly not the greatest OF
them all, Quintus Horatius FLAG.
Gus. Horace was born on a farm
to be sure, and in after years
went back to another farm. But
he quilted the first at an early
age, and went to the other only
under circumstances which rend.
cred any familiarity with milking
stools and pitchforks unnecessa-
ry.
There are beautiful things said
in high praise of farming, but
they are said by men who have
others do their farming, for
them. The real farmers are not
much on penegyrics. Louisville
Herald.