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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
ynes. 92eanahiear Observation-Disclosures anuau amn 1906

ms progress along their respective
lines. On January 1, 1906, not quite
two years after the fire, it was shown
that Baltimore's volume Of business in
the preceding twelve months was
greater than in any previous year of its
existence. The grit, the enterprise. the
public spirit of her business men had
overcome all obstacles and had made
Il new record for this great commercial
city. Those who said Baltimore could
never recover its prestige and power
as n commercial, tinarcial and in
dust,ial center were abasled and dumb
founded
Ii has been Il hard fight, but fight
which has conducted with unfagging
zeal and unconquerable courage. 1t
has been waged so quietly, with so lit
tie blowing of trumpets. with so little
Dragging, that the world scarcely
realizes what has been accomplished in
Baltimore since the contlagration of
1904. The results which have been
achieved are a splendid monument to
the indomitable Will, the tireless energy.
the public spirit and the loyalty to
Baltimore of the men in all stations of
life who contributed to the rehabilta-
ton of this city They have given the
world an exhibition of the Baltimore
spirit"-the spirit which meets disaster
manfully and on ruin and desoation
builds an even greater prosperity than
existed before.
What other city has shown equal
courage and self-reliance in the face Of
such a disaster? Like John Paul Jones,
Baltimore does not know how to sur
render. and when called upon by a ire
mendous calamity to strike her colors
her reply was virtually that of the
great sea captain: II have not yet
begun to fight Such a city is bound
to get to the front and to keep there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
The MAKING Of a Juror.

The judge had his patience sorely
tried by lawyers who wished to talk,
and by men who tried to evade jury
service. Between hypothetical ques-
tons and excuses it seemed as if they
never would get to the actual trial of
the case SO when the puzzled little
sides jumped up the judge was exas-
perated.
"Shudge!" cried the German.
What is it," demanded the judge.
Il tink l like Ito go home to my
WIFE" said the German.
You can't retorted the judge. sit
down.
But, shudge,'' persisted the German,
Il don't tink make a good shuror.'
You're the best in the box" said
the judge. "Sit down.
What box?" said the German.
Jury box said the judge.
ooh, thought | vas a bad box that
peoples gets in sometimes"
NO" said the judge, the bad box
is the prisoners box"
"But, shudge," persisted the little
German, II don't speak good English"
"You don't have to speak ait ALL said
the judge. sit down.
The little German pointed at the law
yers to make his last desperate plea.
"Shudge." he said II can't make nod
dings of what these fellers say.
1t was the judges chance to get even
for many annoyances
"Neither can anyone else" he said.
"Sit down."
with a sigh the little German sat
down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
BaItimore's Rise from Ashes.
baltimore Sunl


The public is prone to forget, while
admiring the spirit of the people OF
San Francisco, that other American
cities, which have been almost over
whelmed by disaster have faced adver-
sity with invincible courage and tri-
umphed Take Baltimore, for exam
pie. On February and s, 1904. the
main business section of the city was
destroyed by fire. The catastrophe was
one of stunning magnitude, and it
seemed-at least to Baltimore's trade
rivals-that the city's recovery must
be very slow. while there We're not
lacking prophets of evil who said that
Baltimore would never be again the
great business city which it was before
the conflagration.
Undaunted by adversely the people
of Baltimore set to work promptly
and resolutely to rebuild their city. Of
fers of aid from other cities We're
gratefully declined. Baltimore felt able
to work out it's own salvation, without
help from its friends in all parts OF
the country. And having determined
to rebuild the city. the people decided
that the rehabilitation should be on
better and broader lines. Only three
months after the fire they votes:
for a loan of ss,ooo,ooo for dock inn
provements. This showed their deter
mination to have a city with the nee
essary facilities for trade by water
They approved propositions for the
widening of certain streets and the
opening of others. They We're resolved
that the restored Baltimore should
take rank among the most progressive
cities of the land.
And while this work of restoration
was in progress Baltimore's merchants
and manufacturers were steadily MAX
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
The King Drag and Good Roads.

ne Nif9 Ofs9 ana 1oou hoaaS.
BY Clarence d. Skinner. Assistant
State Secretary Good Roads Asseci-
alton, Topeka.l
The subject of Good Roads" is re-
ceiving attention. orators "orate.
editors edit" tho there are but few
workers at work" If the villagers
and farmers could be convinced that
their muddy roads could be trans
formed into smooth, rounded pleasure
drives within sixty days, they would
be both willing and anxious 70 try the
new Kansas Missouri Cooperative
Plan (so-called from the fact that
Missouri man applied the king Drag
to public roads, later a Kansas man
coupled up the drag with Kansas
co-operation," and for two years car
ried on successful eXperime nts) which
when brought to the atterton of the
State Good Roads Association, was
endorsed and pronounced to be the best
and simplest system yet devised The
following is a description of the Neigh
borhood Plan. as some call it:
Any public spirited farmer or VIII
lager may circulate paper of this
character stating that all those per-
sons living on a certain read or viii
lage street would pay from so to IS
cents per quarter to have their roads
kept in good order with a road drag.
lust as the business men pay for
sprinkling their business streets. When
a fair proportion have signed, these
parties will become an executive COM
mittee for the block or nelghborhood,
from which they select a president.
secretary, treasurer and a drag MASTER
only the latter, however. receives
compensation (oR about 25 cents per
hour): he is expected to smooth
certain prescribed road extending from
town to the farthest club members
farm. making a round trip with the
King Drag once or twice over the road
soon after each rain. This fills all the
ruts and breaks down the clods, leav-
ing it nearly, if not quite, equal to a
So. 900 macadam and at a cost of less
than $40 per mile. To meet this. each
member subscribes and pays to the
secretary-treasurer the amount de-
cided upon, from which fund the drag
is built and the drag master paid.
Expenses seldom exceed that rate
per year, altho it would be cheap at
So per The first club usually ex-
tends three or four miles from town.
Those living beyond soon see the adj
vantages of this systematic dragging
of the natural road and form other
clubs from three to five miles farther.
and so DIM until the whole section is
covered with net work of good, we'll
drained, earth roads. This movement
deserves the support of every COM
mercial club. newspaper physician.
merchant and farmer in the state. 1t
is cup to YOU" reader. to start the
movement in your section.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
: Topics Of the Times

Aside from the question of tainted
money, what disposition would Mr..
Perkins make Of the tainted delegate
The anarchists seem to consider Al
fonso's wedding a bomb affair.
Mr. Rockefeller may speel gentle
man with 81" but he isn't making
any mistakes in the multiplication ia
BILE
If the bill to cleanse money
passes congress that $4,000 ought to
go thru the mill.
Eastern apartment houses now make
their tenants wear rubber heels on
their shoes. To avoid noise or match
necks?
When Mr.. Perkins gets thru with Ed
Hunter perhaps the car could use
him.
Was Mr.. Herriott Perkinized?
The Burlington Hawkeye's insistence
that the state committee shall dictate
as to what delegations shall sit in the
state convention is one of the indica-
lions of the desperate plight of the
Blythe gang. The Hawkeye is very
close to Mr.. Blythe-so close in fact
that it is hard to tell when the Hawk
eye leaves off and the 20" boss be-
gins. 1t says whatever Mr.. Blythe per-
mits or orders. When Blythe takes to
rocking the boat things have come to
a desperate pass
"Allison delegation" the New Sha-
ron Star calls the INSTRUMENTATION
of Dubuque. Seem things" again?
When Amos Kendall was postmaster
general at Washington. so the story
goes. he wrote one day the postmaster
at a little station on the Tolnbisbee
river: you will please inform this
department how far the Tombigbee
runs up" to which the postmaster an
swered: II have the honor 10 inform
the department that the Timbigbee
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
BUSINESS At LEADING POINTS.

Business maintains wholesome prog
ress and mercantile collections i'm
prove The weeks aggregate trans
actions show the effect of the holiday,
and seasonable quiet exists in certain
lines, but a gain is noted in compar-
ison with the corresponding period Of
any previous year. Liabilities of COM
nercial failures thus far reported for
May amounted to s1o,971,s32, of which
s3.593,31s were in manufacturing, s4,-
313.1s7 in trading, and s3,065,427 in
other commercial lines. Failures last
week numbered 174 in the United
states, against 1913 last year, and 10 in
Canada compared with 20 year ago.
chicaso.-Trade conditions maintain
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
LAST OF THE IRISH REvoLurloNlsTs.

Michael Davitt, Irishman, agitaior,
reyolutionist and foremost champion OF
force as means Of achieving Irish in
dependence, is dead. Under the pres-
Hent peaceful and almost pleasant fela-
tions existent between the British gov
Eernment and Ireland it is hard to rea :
lize that only few years ago the irish
reyolutionist and the dynamitard We're
busy against England, landlords shoi
4down from behind hedges and evicted
&peasants starving and dying of expos
hire nv the roadsides and under the
hedges. 1t was in those days that Da-
witt was an acknowledged leader OF
1.-THE Irish He believed in force ana
Acounseled violence.
Perhaps Davitt was intolerant but he
Twas honest. AT any rate, he accom-
plished much. 1t was Davitt who or
gan!zed the Irish Land League, rallied
1.-THE masses of the Irish behind Parnell
and made home rule an issue. How
fIfar his audacity and fearlessness
may be credited with the reforms in
Ireland. is hard to estimate, but he did
much The movement to force decent
dwellings for Irish tenants is ore of
the effects of the old land league and
/ Michael Davitts courage and skill as
an organizer.
While the dream of irish independ-
ence last, Davitt's name will be re-
menbered. He had perhaps, more of
the real affection and confidence of the
Irish masses than any of the later lead
ers. He was distinctively Irish in
| thought and execution. and to the day
of his death his influence on great is
sues made itself felt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
WHAT WILL you DO WITH THE BOY 2

School is out. The educational fac.
tory is idle and the hands face three
months shut down. The boys arc
loose What are you going to dc with
your boy? Have you arranged g. pro-
gram for his employment or is he te
face three months Of idleness and take
] his chance against the mischief Satan
finds for idle hands to do? Is he to dc
something or nothing? To cultivate
strength or weakness? Lay around
town" and squander the three vacation
months or use them? What are you
going to do with your boy?
It is up to the parent more than it is
to the boy. It is as much a parental
duty to supply Wholesome recreation
and useful employment during the va
cation months as it is to support
schools and keep the boy in attendance
nine months in the year. The three
vacation months belong entirely to the
4 parents and the boy. No teacher SUI
pervises no school regulations restrain
The time when the boy and his father
come closest together is in vacation
What are you going to do with your
boy?
Nothing does the city4bred man or
youth more good than to get away
from the brick and mortar and get
- H. = NO NOV hoo 4
the land in vacation time. Find farm
where a boy can be useful ard plant
him there for al least six weeks of the
three months between May and Sep
s TENDER. Let him learn to work with
real things, learn the mystery OF
growth the lesson of the harvest and
: first knowledge of the prima
things. Let him know the dignity OF
hard work, the pleasure of WEAKNESS
the delight of sunrise to a life rebuilt
thru a night of profound slumber sue
ceeding day of toll. Above ALL bring
him in touch with real things, the
things that grow out of the ground and
live and move upon it.
Three months unrestrained play is
dangerous 1t is more likely to make
Jack worthless boy than short
age of amusement is to make him dull
Play is a sauce, condiment; work is
the red meat of life. Three months OF
utter responsibility is enough to
spoil any growing boy.
Find the farm Tell the boy stories
of your boyhood on the soil. Show him
the marvellous development that has
changed the face and nature of agri-
culture since you Tapped half" with
an eight-foot A drag on forty acres of
corn ground and thought the sun more
fixed in the western sky than on the
day Joshua triumphed over the Amelia
kites Interest him in nature. He will
gladly go to the farm, and the farm
will welcome him. If he is any good
he will stay long enough to benefit
himself, and if he is mo good, the
sooner you find it out the better. Send
the boy to the farm.
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Iowa Newspapers
Observation-Disclosures.
AslATEuR1sH DEVELOPMENTS
tRegister and Leader,l

LRegister and Leader
We must confess 10 some surprise
that MI. E IL Hunter should write a
letter. And We must confess to even
more surprise that any relative OF
Mi. Blythe should pay by cheek
Either circumstance suggests reckless
ness entirely cut of keeping with the
conduct of a careful campaign,
1T was General Butler who SAID lie
would rather ride hundred miles to
see a man than to write q letter The
merit of General Buffers point OF
view has hot been lost on the +. II
Hunters of latter day politics. ME-
Hunter did travel to see Mr.. kretsch-
mer He went as far as Washington
to see others. Why then should he
90 such an amateurish thing as to
write letter, and. worse yet, leave
it where college student could see
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kins takes pride in the fact that his
journal told its readers in advance Of
the coming of this logical develop"
ment' that something was likely L"
happen over in Dubuque? Not every
beneficiary of political treachery is so
frank in the disc 4ssion of it," remarks
he Courier
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04

river don't run up at all; it runs down."
In due course of mail came another
communication: "On receipt of this
letter your appointment as postmaster
will cease. Mr.. - has been appoints
ed your successor" To which went
the following. reply: The receipts of
this office during the last year have
been S4,37 and the office rent more
than double that sum; please TO kindly
instruct my successor to pay me the
balance and oblige.'
Suppose the Perkins propaganda
were Obliged to publish their formulate
for getting delegates. How would it
compare with the patent medicine
fraud?
Hyphenatad names are becoming so
popular in the higher circles of society
that some women have to use four or
five of them to display their family
connections. Sioux City Journal.
Fashionable in politics. too Wit
ness the Perkins Ed Hunter Blythe
kret schmer combination.
Booker T Washington tells of a Wall
street phil;,nthropst whose benefac-
tons are so carefully hidden that no
one outside of a very small circle sus
poets him. This is said to be the un
KNOWN WHO sent $4,000 to Mayor
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llwA tIlhLaks END N01fs.

The Lansing Mirror has the follow
ing comment on the gubernatorial sit
uation in Allamakee county, which, by
the way, is so-called Perkins territory:
We have yet to hear of one township
in Allamakee county that is not favor
able to Governor Cunlmins unless it be
Makee, and even there the opposition
may fall into the band wagon at the
eleventh hour, as they always do
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04

men to speak on protection and pros
perity and the general wickednesS or
disrupting the republican party. Kind
ly let us know what you can do for US
in our fight against Cumminsisin."
Have YOU heard such rot. The rail-
road people are afraid they will lose
story because the Mortimer have got
contrary. Isn't it too bad? And that
they shall, on top of ALL spoil valuable
time and ask Skandinavens for assist
ance, only to discover they have made
a. mistake and called up the wrong
number. Such as this is certainly sad.
especially when so much is at stake
The Norwegian voters of Story county
have, of course, long ago decided Wn,cn
way they ought to vote
If anyone should be in doubt, such
doubt will soon disappear il the Per
kins crowd can find speakers who Will
try and teach the voters what thcy
should do in accordance with state
ments made in the above letter.
To preach protection and prosper
ity." etc. as arguments against Cum
MINIS would be coarse insult to Nor
wegians as Well as other enlightened
voters. and ii would be absolutely use
less work among the Mortimer of
Story county They know that Cum
minis represents the same views and
PRINCIPLES that have been victorious in
Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dalio-
TIA. and which President Roosevelt
represents for the whole country They
know that Governor Cummins and his
adherents fight the same battle on
smaller scale as President Roosevelt
with the aid of congress for the whole
country. They know THAT the railroad
senators in Washington have rot been
satisfied 10 attempt to thwart the ef-
forts of the president but that they
have stretched their long arms into
Iowa They know that their efforts to
make 1t appear that protection and
prosperity is in danger, and that the
party will be destroyed. is only rubbish
and rot.
No one knows better than they that
the question is. shall the corporations
control the party or the party the cor
porations; If the people of Iowa shall
serve the railroads or the railroads
shall serve the people.
They know what they ought to do
here.
The Mortimer of Story county can
save the county and thereby possibly
the state for the peoples cause. and
they will do their duty
Let the Norwegian townships make
it unanimous for Cummins.
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SOCIAL HAPPENINGS.
1Chelsea independently

"A young man IdIHeI fNuDu CtliltC W
attend the dance Monday night and in
some way fixed it up with himself
that he was bad un." He paid fire.
quent visits to the artesian we'll and
after while he got to going good.
Late at night he concluded that his
lungs needed exercise, so he got out on
the street and said WOW, Just like
that, you know-andi then because he
was afraid some one in town hadn't
heard it he said it two or three more
times, and he was otherwise guilty of
rude and unladylike conduct. Marshal
Euchnel approached him and in gen.
tie tones told him that he was now
among real gentlemen who are not
accustomed to boisterous conduct and
loud and unseemly language. and that
While he did not wish to interfere
with his pleasure in any way, he must
ask him to restrain his hilarity. He
said he just simply would not restrain
his hilarity-not by any darn sight
and what was more there wasn't any
Siwash featured, frog-eyed SON of a
tapeworm within seventy-lfive miles Of
Chelsea who could make him restrain
his hilarity-and don't you forget it.
The marshal while ignoring the re-
f1ections upon his looks and his origin,
gets paid for maintaining order in
Chelsea and he maintains it. Accord
ingly he made bunch Of Mr. I<ubu
and carried him away and flung him
into the BOBBY hatch In the morn
ing he went against Mayor Stanek's
game and went shy s. and costs. 1t
will be worth that much to him if he
has any sense.
THE SKA1NDINAVEN'S ADVICE
TRANSLATION from the Chicago Skan-
dinaven.]
The Mortimer in Story county, Iowa.
are given very prominent place in
the campaign for nomination of COVER
nor of Iowa.
The section of the party which is
backed by the railroads and other
corporations, believe. or pretend to be-
lieve, that Story county will decide the
result of the campaign. These party
leaders have discovered that the Nor
wegians are rebellious and are now
setting the powers of heaven and earth
in motion to find some one who can
help them to get the Norwegian voters
in the fold. A letter to representa-
tive of Skandinayen reads as fol-
lows:
THE campaign is nearing the point
now where it will be decided in favor
of one side or the other by results of
primaries in this county. The county
has thirty-one delegates and the result
will be of great consequence for nom
nation of governor, and also it will
settle the strife over congressman in
the Seventh district, which includes
Des Moines.
's1'o many of us it seems that the
campaign centers on whether or not
we shall retain the republican princi-
pies in the republican party. The dan
ger so far as Story county is concerned
comes from the fact that the large
Norwegian townships-whicl for the
first time find are on the wrong side in
political fight. We need the right
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-04
Morgan in Chicago Tribune.

it? Mr. Hunter is either very con-
fident or very much ratified.
1t would have been easy to pay
those two young men in Chickasaw
their So each. to go back on their
instructions. in cash. Then they
would not have been compelled TO
admit the deal and boast that it was
the first time they had had oppor-
tunity to turn politics to good ac-
count. Mr.. Blythe should have seen
TO that. If he has any relatives in
Chickasaw who do not know better
than to pay by check, they are not
relatives on the Blythe side.
1t must be embarrassing to Mr.. Per-
kins to have the campaign take on
this amateurish aspect. Senator Jack
son and Will Parrott might better
have been retained. They at least could
have done no worse And if the money
had been forthcoming to their hands
they might have been able to drive as
good bargain as Mr.. Hunter has.
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