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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
ABOUT DARNEL.
Seeds of the Plant Are Not Poisonous
as Is Supposed by Some
People.

The seeds of the Lolium temulen-
tum, "darnel," poisonous darnel,"
have been reputed poisonous but this
quality is at least questionable, for no
other grass has gained such an unen-
viable reputation. In the specimen
shown in the illustration the flower
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
Advancement of the Farm.

The arrangement of the farm as to
fields, buildings and roads. is matter
that should count for more than it
does. A poorly arranged farm. says
the Farmers Review. loses money for
the owner by wasting his time and la
Dor. The arrangement must depend
largely on the kind of work being done
on the farm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
Care of oilclotb.

Oilcloth should never be scrubbed With
a stiff brush washed with strong soap.
Remove all dirt by carefully sweeping with
= soft hair brush. Then wash until clean
with tepid water and Ivory Soap. Rinse
with clear water to which has been added
dry cloth. ELEANOR r. PARKER.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
Character That Succeeds.


Mr.. Humphrey O'Sullivan. proprle-
tor of the Merrimack Clothing com
pany, member of the firm of O'Sulli-
van Brothers, and treasurer of the
O'Sullivan Rubber company, Lowell.
Mass, in letter to the author, says:
'Ycu ask me to designate the traits
of character in young man that
would prophesy success for him in the
retail business.
First and foremost, 1t all depends
upon the young man himself. The
ideal young man for such a career is
one who is born to succeed, who reads,
and believes that nothing can prevent
him from attaining success. His motto
is success, not money-that comes of
necessity, and is secondary consid-
Grafton. Such a man you cannot
hinder.
Given an average education. not
necessarily an academic one, he will
do any kind of mental work, perform
it well ana bide his time. He will be
patient. Seeing the stream of affairs
flowing in the wrong direction. he
will still be patient, set his teetn, and
say within himself, Some day | will
change the current of that stream
When that day comes he needs a big
amount of practical information, an
humble spirit. and level head. be-
cause then, for the first time, he real
ly begins his difficulty.
"A young man may inherit wealth
and education, possibly a business. II
I ho uyfah tn
would first get in touch with the
smallest details of the business. and
work up to the office, II deserved
it; and after | had worked in the of
fee, | would wait until the cleverest
man in the business was unable to at
tend to some particular duty. Then [
would happen to get beside it. do it
so much more satisfactorily to the
firm, and do 1t unostentatiously, then
relegate myself back to my ordinary
seat in the background
Selling Opportunity.
I'm the course of time the young
man who could thus act In an emer-
gency would be required to do it
again. The next time he would per-
form the duties as satisfactorily as
before. or more so, and again he
would retire to his place as a subor-
dinate. But when an opportunity of
tnat kind occurred again he would un-
doubtedly be given an appointment to
take charge of the position
What shall | do with my boyq
First give him an ordinary common
school education. Do not deprive him
of high school course. but before he
is through with that, we can deter
mine of what metal he is made. All
that is needed to-day in business. is
knowledge of a few things that are
taught in the high school, an. in po-
lite society; an even temper. oour-
teousness under all provocation. a
thorough knowledge of commercial
ism. bookkeeping, arithmetic and
grammar. History is good auxiliary.
the knowledge of the languages poet-
ry, and music. while they are not nee
essary. sometimes come In very
handy.
"Give me young man, who is a
good judge of human nature. with a
high school education and deter
mination to be leader. and ulti-
mately l will show you the Young
man who will be success in the re-
tail. wholesale. manufacturing. or f.
nancial world. IL does not make anv
difference to what field he devotes his
energy to, except politics, and II Won
ask me to pass my opinion on politics
| simply do not know anything about
it."
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21


M 5aroh6s'sss Is,ssis ETssiss ssssIps ssssg a; 4;
great mental depression was unable to at
tend tomy house work, and life became a bur-
den to me. Twas confined for days to my bed,
lost my appetite, my courage and all hope.
"Icould not bear to think Of an operation,
and In my distress tried every remedy which
l thought would be of any use to me- and
reading Of the value Of Lydia +. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to sick women decided
to give 1t trial. l felt so discouraged that l
had little hope of recovery, and when began
TO feel better, after the second week, thought
1t only meant temporary relief; but TO my
great surprise found that kept gaining,
while the tumor lessened In size.
"The Compound continued to build up my
general health and the tumor seemed to be
absorbed until, in seven months, the tumor
was entirely gone and a well woman. am
SO thankful for my recovery that ask you
to publish my letter in newspapers, so other
women may know of the wonderful curative
powers of Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound
When women are troubled with irreg-
ular or painful periods, weakness. dis
placement or liberation of the female
organs. that bearing-down feeling, in
flammation. backache. fiatulence, gen.
eral debility, indigestion or nervous
prostration. they should remember
there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles.
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unqunli-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such q record of cures of female
ills.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She is daughter
in-law of Lydia e. Pinkham and for
twenty-five years under her direction
and since her decease has been
advising sick women free of charge.
She has guided thousands TO health.
Address, Lynn, Mass
Remember that it is Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that is cur
ingwomcn, and don't allow any druggist
to sell you any i...n- - - its plaS~.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
For Painting Rough Woodwork.

A durable wash for painting rough
woodwork is made by shaking freshly
burned lump lime In hot brine. 1t can
be colored by adding dry stalners az
desired and may be applied with IL
ordinary whitewash brush.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
MEASURING HAY STACKS.
Pile May Be Accurately
Ascertained.

A good rule for the measurement Of
hay In stacks is recommended by the
Rural New Yorker. and is as follows:
Mean length. times mean width.
times mean height to shoulder; plus
length, times mean height of ridge
above shoulder. times one-.alf the
mean width at the shoulder equals the
volume
FIRST STACK.
Height.
Length Width to Shoulder.
ssx22xi0 equals $500 Gu. II. below shoulder.
Ssxilxl2 equals 5ois Gu. IT. above shoulder
1876
SECOND STACK.
bIxG xl0 equals 1890 Gu. II. below sh'ld'r
67xi2.oxls.5 squalls s9o6 Gu. II. above shld'-
23i5s
Where the stack has the inverted
V-shaped top, with the shoulders well
defined. 1T will be seen that the vol
ume above the shoulders is given by
the product of the length into the
height of the ridge above the should
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21

A straight life is the shortest dis
tance between honesty and honor
Saturday Evening Post.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
Grows Shorter.

A person usually begins to lose
height at the age Of 50. and at the age
of 80 has lost at least one and a half
inches.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21

lated; the young man and young
women also consult him. 1t IL easy
TO understand from this why the
storekeeper seldom makes a failure.
Statistics show that the fewest fall
ures are among them. The successful
storekeeper olten becomes the infiu-
entail man in some large retail es-
adjustment, his early training fitting
him Tor just such an exacting posi-
uon.''
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21

viii be lifted by the frost. Make the
post a little smaller at the top, as
shown In the first cut, with smooth
sides. says the Farm Journal. thcn
box it in as shown in the second Gus,
allowing the box to slide upward free
ly. The frost will lift the box, with
no chance whatever to lift on the
sloping post within.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21

A tennis suit should be tried In open
court.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21

For fexibility. smooth finish, stiff
ness and durability, Defiance Starch
has no equal-10c for 16 OF.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
FRosT-PRooF CEMENT POST
How a Shield May Be Made to Take
Up the Heaving of the Ground
by Freezing
A permanent foundation for build

lndation Tor build
ings is not always
feasible, and posts
m u s t be u S e d.
Their chief fail
ing is the likel'-
hood that the
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
INTERESTING LETTER
WRITTEN BYAN0TABLEWOMAn
Mrs. Sarah Kellogg Of Denver. Color
Bearer OF the Woman's Relief Corps.
Sends Thanks to Mrs. Pin<ham.
The following

The following
letter was written
by Mrs. Kellogg.
OF 1928 Lincoln
Ave-. d 9 n v er,
Col. to Mrs. Pink
ham, Lynn Mass:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham;
=" For five years /
was troubled with q
tumor, which kept
growing, causing me
intense agony and
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-21
FIRST STACK.
1876
23iS;

SECOND STACK.
BIKE Nl0 equals 1890 Gu. II. below sh' 'ldr
57xE.5xl2.6 squalls s9o6 Gu. II. above shld' r
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12
TRYING TO GET TOGETHER.

| Consul H. w. Harris, OF Mannheim
furnishes report of a recent meeting
of a chamber of commerce for the
Pfalz an important trade body, at
which the question of meat supply in
Germany was discussed. Following
an address by the president of the
chamber there was an interesting dis
cussion which was published, and from
which the following was taken by the
consul:
LAS is known, during the past six
months, the prices of meat have great
! ly increased until today for many fam
| lilies they are prohibitive. This will
require prompt remedy. To the
memorials which have already been
presented from numerous places to the
proper authorities, the reply has been
| in part that it is matter only of high
| err prices for meat, and not a meat
| famine. That is, however, only a war
of words. Every housekeeper is hav-
| ing the experience that it is really a
question of famine that finds it's eX-
preston at the same time in higher
prices
Moreover, it is not question of a
merely local evil. On the contrary, the
complaints are heard all over Ger
many, from which it is plain enough
that the condition is not one brought
about artificially by the dealers or
butchers. Indeed the butchers are the
class which especially suffer under the
present conditions.
"The Prussian minister of agricul-
ture declared in August that the meat
famine would be over in six weeks.
This prophecy has not been fulfilled
in the. slightest degree. On the other
hand, the famine remains as yet un-
view The supply in most of the mar
kets is small and confined mainly to
small animals. The entire present sit
uation clearly discloses the untruth of
the agrarian declaration that Germany
is in a position to fully provide for her
needs. If this view We're correct the
present famine could not exist
"This famine appears rather as the
result Of our present vicious legisla-
ton, which has prevented the importa-
ton of American meat. Our working
classes can not do without meat if they
are to continue able to compete with
foreign lands. With the present policy
Of fair words it cannot be done. A
practical and effective remedy must
be found"
American meat producers are trying
to get American meats into the Ger
man markets. German consumers are
crying out to get their markets OPEN
ed to American meats. Who is standing
between the man who wants meat and
the other who has it to sell?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12
the HYPNoTIsM OF. A SQUARE DEAL.

Sfandpat communities are not
numerous in northwestern Iowa. They
are especially scarce in the Eleventh
ties exists in that district it is par
tcularly noticeable. Standpat coun-
ties and precincts in the Eleventh
partake Of the distinction accorded by
a carpenter to sore thumb. They
stick out and make themselves felt
Mostly they are standpat thru the in
difference of the voters. They are
standpat by default.
Cherokee has been such a commun-
ity. A dispatch from that county seat
town the other day related how Gov
ernor Cummins, who had been invited
to address the farmers institute was
received. Every standpat and railroad
politician of big and little calibre from
a cannon to a squirtgun, got busy
cursing the farmers for bringing Cum
minis to town. The farmers were told
that any reference to politics by the
governor would result in the disrup-
ton of their society and no means of
soaring them and discrediting the gov
ernor was neglected. The leaders in
the institute were ratified. They met
the governor with temerity and re-
quested that he should not touch on
politics in his speech.
Mr.. Cummins could not see his way
clear to maxi. such a pledge but Of
fered to retire without speaking. His
proposition was not accepted by the
committee ard the governor rose to
speak to a worried lot of farmers. AS
the governor outlined his own and the
position of the progressives tim
idity changed to surprise, and
surprise was succeeded by con-
fdence. The farmers applauded
the square deal for Iowa and
at the close of the governors speech
the chairman of the institute rose to
commend the principles enunciated.
He told how he and others had been
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12
A LlrILE pRoBl EM IN 4PRoPoRTLoNs.'

The attention of the mathematician
! of the Ottumws. Courier is called to
the little problem of proportions" in
volyed in comparison of the famous
seventeen name petition from Wapello
with the Ida county petition favoring
the statewide primary bill, rate regu-
lation, anti pass, pure food bills, pre-
scented in the senate by Bleakly OF
Ida Here is an opportunity presented
the mathematical mind of the Courier
to throw off corl,scations like an emery
wheel. The Ida county petition con-
tAined 800 names of Ida county voters
senator's seat to the secretary's desk.
How long was that Wapello county
petition-the only anti-primary petit
ton vet filed with the legislature =
with its seventeen names inclusive of
the Blythe committeeman who circu-
lated it?
1t is entirely matter of estimate.
Surprising that it was signed in double
column and allowing one-third extra
space in consideration of the heaviness
of hand usually accompanying the
continued use of package, shovel and
tamping bar, ana such other tools gen
orally in. use on the section, sixteen
names could be written well within
three and one-half inches Add an
other one half inch for the seventeenth
name-it will be seen that seventeen
names will not come out even-and
we have four inches. This gives one
half inch to each name. Even a
crooked fingered section man should
be able to get inside it. especially If
offered little assistance.
Then here WI. are, four inches are
to thirty-six feet, as one is to los; as
three to 324, etc. Seventeen is to 500
as one is to .thirty-five plus. The
Wapello petition was probably written
on one sheet II would take somewhere
hetween thirty-six and forty three to
contain the Ida county signatures. OF
course the Courier might introduce the
twenty three names signed in epposi-
ton to the primary on the petition in
the. Wapelio county court house, but
the twenty three signers for balance
that and it need not complicate the
problem.
Not to speak of other petitions re-
ported from other counties where
9S per cent of the voters favor the pri-
mary; saying nothing of the personal
letters favoriny such legislation now
pouring in upon senators and repre-
sentatives, leaving that Essex, Page
county, petition out Of the question;
taking no note of the resolutions of the
farmers Institutes everywhere, but
simply combining its operations to the
Wapello and Ida county petitions, will
the Courier, whose forte appears to lie
in arithmetic, kindly figure out the
''proportions?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12

ton influences would be affected by
them in his official career to certain
extent.
Mr.. Perkins has always been known
as a good man rather than strong
man. He has been a trail follower
rather than trail maker. Forty years
of public life as editor. state SENATOR
immigration commissioner. United
States marshal, congressman and as
candidate for governor and United
States senator, prove that he naturally
goes in the line of least resistance.
1t was shrewd move for the stand
pat and corporation forces to make an
attack on the Eleventh district under
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Descending to irony as Mr. Wegg
dropped into poetry the Sioux City
Journay says Mr.. Blythe lis the tiger
celebrated in fable. He is the Poobah
of the stage. He is the DOGGY man. If
citizen anywhere in the state does
not say, Damn you, Blythe!' he is not
progressive and is probably rotten.
Those who do say it are of the elect.
That is the ISSUE"
Possibly with the celebrated Chilli
Gothic petition signed by seventeen
names in mind the Keokuk Gate City
referring to primary says: "Opposi-
ton to the measure among the voters
in the state, particularly in the rural
districts, is also growing"
Conceding that "Mr. Lawson paid a
compliment to Governor Cummins in
coming clear out here to interview
him." the Muscatine Journal goes on to
say "Cummins is worth half dozen
Lawsons and if Mr.. Cummins has any
insurance ideas they will not be inn
proved upon by any advice from Mr..
Lawson"
THE corporations and the profess
sional politicians who flourish under
the present slipshod caucus system are
the ones bucking the primary law
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12
Topics Of the Times


President Roosevelt's stand on the
rights of the enlisted man to occupy
a seat in theater despite the whims
Of swellheaded commissioned officers
is about what would be expected of the
author of the celebrated 'round robin"
His approval Of the sentence of the
court martial reducing Lieutenant
Taylor for insulting an enlisted man
by ordering him to change his seat will
not hurt the president with the COM
mon soldier or common people
Former United States Senator w. A.
Harris, of Kansas. is doing the Gin
cinnattus act by negotiating for thl
repurchase of the Linwood farm which
he sold while in politics. Why doesn't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-12

bounded by peanut politicians, threat
ened and worried; bid defiance to
| them and concluded that ".Fhis is the
kind of speech the farmers of north
west Iowa want to hear" And the
convention, hostile an hour before
yociferated it's approval.
| But the farmers held an evening
session after the governor had gone
The next morning brought another
dispatch. The farmers institute OF
Cherokee, the one that was to have
been disrupted by permitting the gov
ernor of Iowa to speak before it but
which the correspondents call THE
most successful farmers institute ever
held in this county," passed resolu-
lions. Here are the resolutions:
Resolved, That we, farmers OF
Cherokee county in institute assem-
bled, favor the passage by the Iowa
general assembly of the primary cleo
ton bill and the anti-pass bill, and the
resolution calling upon congress to en-
act railroad rate legislation favored by
President Roosevelt. These are mat
tiers of vital Importance, in our belief,
and will be of great assistance to the
people in their struggle against the
abuses of the government and the en-
croachment of organized wealth.
1t appears that these farmers had
not been standpatters any of the time.
They had heard the progressive move
ment lied about until they were afraid
of it and had permitted ceterie OF
corporate servers to speak for them
A candid statement of the case was
all that was needed. Cherokee had
been standpat by default. Judging by
the resolutions of the Cherokee Farm
ers' Institute it is not likely to re-
main so.
Governor Cummins is not hypno-
fist and the hard headed farmers of
Cherokee are not subjects for the prac-
tice of hypnotic art, The secret of
Cummins' power is the secret OF
Roosevelts LaFollette's, Van Sants-of
lie to govern it's own affairs 1t is
simply the hypnotism Of the square
deal that brings applause for these
men from hostile assemblys, and make
the Indifferent active in it's behalf. The
personal popularity of these men is
based on the principles they advocate.
They stand for free discussion of all
questions and abide the verdict of the
people. And these are the corner
stones of popular government. Mr..
Cummins was only instrumental in the
change in the sentiment of the Chero-
kee institute. The square deal did the
business. Another man in the Elev-
enth might have presented it as well
or better than the governor. The trou-
BILE with the other man is that he pre-
fers to Straddle it.