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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
FROM THE SMOKING CAR WINDOW.

To the desk man to whom four walls
and a familiar street constitute daily
physical environment, a railway trip at
| this period of the year is a revelation
and a mighty joy. Starting from Mar
shalltown, take daylight ride 25O
l1niles to the east over the Northwest
| ern, swing northward and westward
| home over the Illinois Central, and
watch the panorama unrolled over 500
miles of Iowa and Illinois corn land.
magnificence. The cornfields, o, the
cornfelds. mile after mile, stretching
to the horizon turning sere Ia the full
ness of fruition, heavy cared, sturdy,
prophetic, flash one after another into
| the lens of the car window with the
green lglimpses of luxuriant fall pas
| lures in between; the cattle in the
fields scattered and feeding Or grouped
| by the water tanks, or under the shade
trees; four square Swine in the yards
| by the big red barn; the white farm
houses with the wide porches set at
the head OF slopfng lawns amid trees
broad branching and outrageous; Or
chards gardens, people, homes. Five
hundred miles of happy prosperity. IL
linois or Iowa, it is all one the same
aountry, the same people, ana OF all
countries and all people the most mag
nificent, prosperous and content.
Men who came from Illinois," espec-
tally those whose youth was passed in
the crock River Valley" are prone to
remember it as lost Eden and cheap
en- other spots by comparison. Such
men need the panoramic trip alluded
TO. They will come back into Iowa not
only content, but proud and satisfied.
iowa crops are better, Iowa homes as
complete and beautiful, Iowa farms as
valuable, and Iowa towns buster. Mar
shall, Grundy and that north central
group of Iowa counties have little to
envy or learn of the Rock River Wall
ley. In this case comparison is not
odious, but equal. Given another dec
iade and Illinois may well shun the
comparison.
One thing the Iowa farmer may well
note after he crosses the river to the
east, and that is the general use of the
cornbinder We have still to learn.
The Illinois farmer saves more than
his Iowa congener. East of Clinton
the cornfields look like shocked grain
fields. The Illinois farmer cuts his
corn. shreds it and feeds stover. His
strawpile is often inside his big barn.
One hundred dollar an acre land is ten
wears old i'm Illinois. 1t is much young
er in Iowa.
A trip into Illinois would do the Iowa
farmer good and prove lesson against
wastefulness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Feeds Oats to His Hogs.

7 like good wheat shorts for feeding
with corn when not too costly. says j.
P. Fletcher, of New York. / have fed
great deal of this. For the last two
years shorts have been very high and
hard to get, so I have been feeding
ground oats. like oats nearly as We'll
as shorts I keep my hogs ON pasture
as much as possible, and have never
been able to make pigs do their best
without clover. supply plenty of pure
well water, salt the hogs regularly. Civ
ing all the ashes have, and in addition
burn and char the cobs that accumulate
from feeding corn.
There is such variation in results
of experiments conducted to ascertain
whether 1t Isl best to grind feed for
hogs that the individual feeder is left
to be his own judge and to ascertain
for himself whether it pays best to
grind the feed or feed it whole. MY
experience has been that young ani-
mails will chew their feed better than
old ones. and that almost any hog will
chew corn very well before it dries out.
While young hogs will chew dry corn
reasonably we'll, old ones are liable to
pass half the grains unbroken in their
weddings. Last year l undertook to
fatten a stag years old and after the
corn got dry he did not, from appear
(ances, break half the grains.
/ am now fattening a SOW about the
same age and the same is true with
her | am feeding her ground feed
now. however, and feel pretty sure that
it pays me to go to the trouble of
grinding it.
If the grains are not broken it is a
clear case that the animal will not get
much benefit from the feed and when
any considerable quantity of grains are
voided without chewing by the animal
it would seem to be the best plan to
have the feed ground. OF course it
will be some trouble and cost to grind
the feed, but if the animals are not
chewing their feed well the extra
trouble will be amply repaid in extra
gain from the same amount Of feed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

the unique government of the District
of Columbia is founded He lives OUT
side of Baltimore, yet he is able to APP
pear at trial in Baltimore in the
morning and be in Washington in time
to answer to the noon roll call of the
senate.
The Burlington Hawkeye protests
that it has refrained from abusing
Cummins now for almost a week, in
obedience to a request from the state
central committee and complains that
the T.-R.. Register and Leader and
others ought to be made to let up on
the boilers.
The probabilities are that great bus
mess syndicates preparatory to eN-
plotting Cuban resources, have consid :
cred the first step to be an American
protectorate as safeguard for their
investments.
Republicans can look with compla-
cency upon the conventions in New
York If Charles Z. Hughes is elected,
no finer man could ever ill the COVER
nor's office. If Hearst is elected he
will become formidable presidential
candidate, and should he win such a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
-Donaheu in, Cleveland Plain Dealer.

home. He tried every store Of any size
but failed to get what he wanted. GO
ing afterward to New York. he says
"if tried one shop tried twenty. Not
a place had ia hat. My itinerary
took me to Cleveland. I was thorough
ly ashamed of my old hat by the time
1 struck that place, made famous by
Cassie, and once more I started out 70
find tx hat. Nary one. l did not
make much of an effort in ST. Louis
because by the time I got there / was
almost without hope. However, i
managed to screw UP courage enough
to go into four places. They all had
up to 71h, but nothing bigger. Now for
the odd part of the experience. The
very first shop went into in Kansas
City furnished me the headgear l now
wear"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
A Question of Color.

Amongst the niceties of breeding
that have to be duly considered Is the
question of color How difficult it is
at all times of control may be gagged
by the number of articles on the sub
ject that appeared from time to tune
in the agricultural press An other
wise excellent animal may be entirely
marred by an unorthodox mark or
splash OF color that. innocuous in
itself. enormously detracts from the
beasts value, and may, indeed, render
it unstable as pedigree animal. In
whole colored breeds there is not the
same difficulty as in breeds of varied
colors, in which fashion is liable TO
change capriciously: but even in the
former it is not all plain sailing. In
Devons white is admissible about the
udder. but it must not extend forward
beyond the navel, nor be found on the
outside of the TANKS and Ia an ADer-
deem Angus shows broad marks OIL
white as sometimes happens, it be-
comes useless as representative OF
the breed. The stately Hereford has
not always been the 'white-faceN
amongst our cattle; fashion has made
1t such. for in times gone by the breed
included notified faces and grey body
color. and the extent of the markings
defined today by usage may in the fu-
ture be modified A hundred years ago
Ayrshires were much more notified
than now, and even black markings
were allowed. In the Highland cattle
there is great diversity of colors'
and black, once the favorite, seems
to have given way to yelloWlsh hues.
In Shorthorns-the red, white, and
roan-there is abundant scope for
taste and fancy. but fashion, that auto
cratic dame, now and again roughly
interferes. Just now Chill is asking
for red cattle. and Argentina for dark
blood-reds or dark roans, and these
countries, especially the latter. strong
ly support the markets, >others colors
are in less request. White as
groundwork for roam. is not objected
to. but yellow reds. light roans, and
red and whites are by some breeders
designated bad colors.' Yet two OF
the most noted Shorthorns of old would
thus have been banned. for Comet LOO
was a light roam. and Bates Duchess
list a red-and- white. Whites nave
never been very popular White must
be a very persistent color. or IN the
face of this prejudice, 1T would nave
been bred out long ago. Probably
it is that Shorthorns have way
back strain of the wild white cattle
in their composition that has ten
dency to show itself. at odd. unexpect-
ed times. Not that Shorthorns are
the worse for it. for all our breeds
must strain back to the wild cattle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
THE SOLDIER VOTE.

The Carroll Sentinel, referring to the
statement in the Scranton Journal,
that the republicans Of that city are
of the kind that We're baptized in the
blood of the union army, and there
fore loyal to the party, makes the silly
assertion that they are still being bap-
tized in the blood Of the same old army
because. as il claims. such old soldiers
as Perkins and Herriott and Rathbun
and Raymond we're sacrificed to crafty
the ambition of Governor Cummins.
The solicitude of the democrats, in
view of their party's record, for the old
soldiers would be pathetic if it were
not ridiculous. OF course, no old SOL
diers were sacrificed when the democrats
selected such battle-scarred veterans as
Claude r. Porter and John Dennison
to be their standard bearers The
they never fought make fine record
upon which to appeal for votes of the
veterans.
Even If it were true. which it is not,
that Governor Cummins was not
friendly to the old soldier, why should
an old soldier vote the democratic
ticket? What has the democratic par
ty in Iowa or the nation ever done for
the old soldier? 1t has opposed prac-
tically every measure designed to give
relief to the veteran of the civil war.
his widow and his orphaned child In
Iowa, as in the nation, every measure
of Importance affecting the old soldier
party, and no leader of his party has
been more JEALOUS in protecting the
veterans rights than has Governor
Cummins. A hundred official acts at
test his affection for the men who wore
the blue. He signed the preference law
and gave proof of his sincerity. even
tho he may have doubted the utility OF
the statute. by appointing old soldiers
tration will show. His fight for proper
recognition of the Iowa soldiers on the
Shiloh monument earned the praise and
gratitude of the veterans of the state.
No governor has done more for Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
NEWSPAPER MILEAGE AGAIN.

Insresponse to q list of questions sub
jmitted. to II by the railroad managers,
the interstate commerce commission
q has ruled a second time on the ques-
ton of newspaper mileage, that such
TRANSPORTATION can not be given in ex-
change for advertising, but that rail-
roads can carry, open accounts with
newspapers and newspapers can carry
open accounts with railroads, the ball
ances being settled periodically with
cash. Wherever newspapers have any
value as advertising mediums, and
wherever railroads do not enjoy such
monopoly of traffic as to cause their
managers to think that they can get
along without advertising, the open ac-
count method will accomplish every
purpose now served by advertising
contracts, Just as the T.-R. has predict
ed it could be accomplished.
Publishers should recognize, how
ever. that there is a growing tendency
among railroads to put their advertise
q ing business upon cash basis and eX-
act cash from all newspaper men who
would travel. For the past year the
roads east of Chicago have been adver-
Using on cash basis. AS fast as con-
solicitations occur, the necessity to hus-
tile for business: is minimized in the
minds of managers and during the
first few years the appropriations made
with the advertising agencies will be
small,
In time this will correct itself, how
ever. for railroad men will learn what
medicine men, breakfast food men, bis
cult and tobacco men have learned,
that advertising creates business. They
will discover that every dollar judi
ciously spent in advertising will re-
turn many dollars of new travel. When
that lesson has been learned by rail-
road men, the newspapers whose col
unns have real advertising value will
be money ahead under the new rate
law There is no occasion for news
papers to regret the law, even tho some
railroad managers would like to have
them do so. and might even furnish
editorial criticism already written for
them
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
TERMS:
Iu,t 4 Girl.

just q Girl.
Many throne has had to fall
For girl,
Just G. girl.
Many king has had to crawl
For girl.
Just 6. girl. ~
When d hero goes to war
He may battle for the right.
But tits likeiier by far
That he sallies forth to fight
For girl,
just 81 girl.
Papa murmurs, with dismay:
What! A girl!
Just IL glrl!'
All, but why the sadness there.
Why the bitterness displayed?
Some day some strong man will swear
That the great round world was
made
For O. girl,
Just IA girl.
Why did Adam take the bite?
For 8. girl.
Just girl.
Oh, would heaven still be bright
And would any good man care
To achieve 1t II he might
Never claim forever there
Just a girl,
Glorious girl
.-Corsicar Denocrat-Truth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

Make note now to get Ely's Cream
Balm if you are troubled with nasal ca
ta1rh, hay fever or cold in the head. 1t
is purifying and soothing to the sensi-
tive membranes that line the air-pas-
sages. 1t is made to cure the disease,
not to fool the patient by short de-
ceptive relief. There is no cocaine nor
mercury in it, Do not be talked into
taking a substitute for Ely's Cream
Balm. All druggists sell it. Price soc.
Mailed by Ely Bros, Sc Warren street.
New York
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Topics Of the Times

| Tt seems to me I never saw SUCH Tine
i weather in Iowa Bosh. We have
| spell of it every fall. There's about
| three weeks more of it ahead of us
now. You will never live long enough
to see better crops in Iowa, however.
Explaining the terrible race war In
| Atlanta, John Temple Graves says:
The Atlanta race riot is due to the Gu
mulative provocation of series of as
saults by negroes upon white women,
which, in number, in atrocity. and UNI
speakable audacity, are without par
lallel in the history Of crime among
1 southern negroes. There have been
eleven assaults or attempted assaults
within the past seven weeks. OF these
fends only four have been apprehend-
I ed, and seven have escaped scott free
and are now at large in the commune
ity. Eight of these assaults have been
| in broad daylight, and in most in
| stances in the open air. within a stones
| throw of other residences. In almost
| every case the woman victims have
beep mutilated and disfigured mon.
| strously, and the entire eleven efforts,
five successful and six unsuccessful,
have been made right In the city and
suburbs of Atlanta, the capital Of the
New South; the center of trade, ira
| dition, and politics; the heart of our
civilization, with white population
| nearly twice, as large as that of the
negro"
! Why is It that the foreman at 800
per month wears store clothes and
owns home, while the STRIPPING at S35
per month must wear tailor made
suits and spend 80 cents day at the
cigar store?
Talk about the Johnston letters.
/ They are nothing as compared TO Sen
ator Bailey's troubles in Texas. The
/ Shame of Texas to the extent of 500
| 600 copies is the circular issued against
| him by good government club in
! Houston.
William Pinckney White United
States senator from Maryland, who has
Lust passed his eighty-second miles
stone. has never been inside a saloon,
never smoked and never rode in a cab.
He framed the instrument on which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
The Farmers Workshop.

But few equipments on farm pay
larger dividends than a workshop ard
a set of carpenter tools. 1t is a big
mistake that approxmates extrava-
gance for farmer to send for me-
chanic to make minor repairs or con-
struct ordinary improvements on his
holdings A gate needs to be made.
door to a barn. the we'll inclosed for
cooling milk, and other ordinary i'm
provements which could easily be done
by the owner if he had the necessary
tools.
A workshop is wonderful converl-
fence and affords a place for profitable
work on rainy days The farmer needs
hayrack, an appointment that nom
professional mechanic could make II
he had the necessary tools. The har-
row needs repairs and other tools used
in operating q farm. and the owner OF
a workshop with proper tools can cut
down operating expenses materially.
The farmer, we will suppose. raises
sons and what boy does not delight in
using saw hammer and plane? The
majority of boys will display great
genius in makingNtoys as we'll as util-
ity betterrnents for the farm Step
ladders. ladders and other necessary
conveniences on the farm can easily
be supplied and kept in repair if the
farmer maintains workshop and set
of tools.
The farmers boys who have had the
lf-schooling of a workshop can build
all the stock sheds. poultry houses and
hog pens necessary to comfortably ac-
commodate the poultry and live stock
ON the farm. The workshop is con-
venient place to repair and oil har-
ness and paint the machinery used in
operating the farm. There is. in fact
no appointment so convenient and
profitable as we'll appointed work
shop with necessary tools on the farm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
The Strawpile


/ farmers themselves. II they can agree
on all the points necessary in cooper
alton and each one is willing to stand
his share in the enterprise they can
make ii so and that to a decided add
vantage to each. We believe in CO.
opera tion III many things on the farm.
Farsrers in these days of scarce labor,
when improved machinery is necessary
to care for the crops often find it a
great expenditure of money to buy the
necessary equipment. This machinery
after IL few days or weeks of work, as
it might be, are left idle thruout the
rest of the year. By several farmers
getting together and buying the one
machine it would be great saving to
each. We have seen this done very
successfully. OF course, if one man
thinks he knows it all and wants to
run everything there will be a hitch in
the cooperation plan which will insure
it's failure.
Farm machinery is not the only
thing that can be held in common. In
sections of the country where a GER
tain breed of live stock is raised by a
number of farmers they can get to-
gether and buy good sire, which will
not be great outlay of capital for
each one, ard they will still have the
benefit of the animal of pure breed
ing.
Farmers often cooperate in buying
fertilizer and other things in quantity
and thus save the middleman's profits
by getting it directly from the factory,
and dairynen often have cooperative
creameries which have been success
full.
But as to farmers cooperating in
the larger enterprises it is little
doubtful as the story of the failures
of such undertakings will testify.
There is usually one man in the COM
pany who tries to shirk or to be the
whole show.
In some of the European countries
farmers cooperate in various under
takings and do it very successfully,
but the farmers of the United States
are not living under the same condi-
lions as the farmers of those older
countries, so must not take them as
criterion. Before beginning in CO.
operative enterprise first study the
men and then the conditions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Pain from Burn Promptly Relieved
by chamberIein's Pain Balm.

A little child of Michael Strauss Of
Vernon, Conn.,, was recently in great
pain from a burn on the hand, and as
cold applications only increased the
Inflammation, Mr.. Strauss came to Mr..
James N Nichols, a local merchant,
for something to stop the pain Mr..
Nichols says: 1 advised him to use
Chamberlains Pain Balm, ,and the first
application drew out the Inflammation
and gave immediate relief. i have used
this liniment myself and recommend it
very often for cuts, burns, strains and
lame back, and have never known it
to disappoint. For sale by all drug
gists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Popular Excursion to tho Twin Cities.

On Sunday, Sept. Goth, the Iowa
Central will run their last popular ex-
cursion to Minneapolis and st. Paul.
leaving Marshalltown at II: SO a. m,
arriving Minneapolis, Sunday 900 a.
M. and st. Paul $50 3. m, at the ex-
ceedingly low rate of So for round trip.
Tickets good to return on any regu-
lar train not later than NO. 6, leaving
st. Paul 1925 p. M Minneapolis p.
m Monday. October LIST. This will
enable you to see all the points of in
terest around the twin cities.
A tourist sleeper will be attached to
train and those desiring reservation
can obtain same on application to
agents.
See bills or ask ticket agents for in
formation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

nomination his defeat would be certain,
ergo a republican assured for the next
president.
The wife of Sully, the one-time Cot
ton king of New York, has just evad-
ed the payment of a modiste's bill by
pleading the statute of limitations.
Seems to be somewhat of a sport her.
self
Cloth is now being successfully made
from wood. Strips of fine grained wood
are boiled and crushed between rollers
and the tilaments are spun into threads,
from which cloth may be woven in the
usual way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Warmers Hat.

Senator Warner of Missouri is Won
dering if the size of mems heads aver
ages larger in the west than in the
east. Senator Warner. who wears a I u
size hat. tried to buy new headpiece
in Washington Just before he started
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

The laxative effect of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets is so
agreeable and so natural you can hard
ly realize that it is produced by
medicine These tablets also cure in
digestion. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

Can Farmers Cooperate?
Just to what extent it is wise far
farmers to cooperate is a question. 1t
will depend to a large degree on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

at does not take much of an upris-
ing to arouse the war spirit in this
country observes the Cedar Falls
Record, commenting on the stir over
the possible intervention in Cuba.
1--WE may boast all we please about
our peaceful inclinations, but after all
the American people seem to enjoy a
lively scrap occasionally"
The Waterloo Times-Tribune asserts
that all the dissention in Iowa is con-
fined to the republican camp.
"Since the recent railway decision
the 2-cent fare idea appeals quite
strongly to the brethren of the press, "
remarks the Perry Chief.
The Atlantic Telegraph says that the
free advertising Mr.. Johnston is get
ting should prove beneficial, at any
rate.
The Northwood Anchor thinks ut
would be nice If all the standpat pa
pers would support Governor Cum
MINIS. out as long dS tley WON ~ 10 Il
comfort to have those papers placed on
record
"If the editor of the Sioux City Jour-
nal, who wanted to be governor, could
have accepted defeat with graceful &C
quiesence to the will of the majority,
he would have kept his place in the es-
TEEN of his party comments the
Traer Star-Clipper AS it is his course
causes a suspicion that he was mora
ambitious to boss than he was to BE-
governor. If that suspicion becomes
general he will be where McGinty
went, at the bottom of the sea-"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

"rhe saloon is different from the
church in that it does not feel the need
of a vacation" observes the Sioux City
Journal.