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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
rweEpLEoum AND 1wE1OLEoeE.

| Some metropolitan newspapers and
| METROPOLITAN readers find something eX-
tremely funny and amusing in the To-
| cal news of the country weekly paper
| Somehow, the announcement of Mrs
| Browns call ON Mrs. Robinson; the
| notice of Olson's new barn. or >the
| township correspondents note that
Jones has put in telephone, stirs the
exquisite nerve Of city humor. The
| New York Tribune is not often an Of
| fender, but in IL recent issue it pre-
sents as a ticker and incentive to
mirth, the following extract from the
Lebanon, Ind. Pioneer:
George Ferba cut wood for j. S.
| Wright this week.
There is quite lot of staw being
| baled in this locality this season.
Lon Guillion run lunch stand at
| the fair last week.
Joe Hatfield dug a we'll for F. c.
| Phillips last week.
| e. e. RAIDER is building fence for
| NJ. Waddle and will put up some more
vi, W..
RAYMOND Edwards traded horses
again last week.
Miles Ottinger is remodeling his
| barn.
Charles Swope and John Bexten
traded horses last Saturday.
Ludicrous isn't it? Simply side
splitting! What Homeric cachination
must have swelled past the Battery
| and re-echoed far out to sea when the
readers of the Tribune realized how in
tensely ard excruciatingly funny the
short and simple annals OF country
side may be!
On the same page and in the same
column, the Tribune made half col
umr1 revelation to waiting world as
follows:
Mrs. H. Fl. Flayback, of New York,
| has won the trophy offered by Mrs.
| G. B. Dana for the woman golf match
at Wyantenuck course, defeating Miss
Gladys Tefft in the finals
Mrs. Gustav H. Schwab, Miss Gran
ford and G. H. Schwab, Jr., of New
York, have arrived at the Hotel AS
| pinwall.
Robert F. Perkins is a guest of Dr.
and Mrs Henry P. Jaques at Home
Farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Gard. Of New
York. are guests, of Mr.. and Mrs NHar-
old Subway, of Pittsfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Morris are
in Ridgefield. Conn, where they were
-. death or Mr,
Norris father.
And so on. it was news to hundreds
of people who sought for it and read
1t with satisfaction, but Mrs, Flay-
backs victory is of less actual news
Importance to the New York Tribune
than Joe Hatfield's we'll digging on the
Phillips place was to the Lebanon Pr
oneer. And to the reader who has no
personal knowledge of Joe or the Flay-
back woman, the Pioneer breaks even
with the Tribune. So long as the FL
oneer gathers the news of the neigh
borhood, notes the building. palntliig'
well digging and other improvements
and the quiet commercial industrial
and social life of the community to
which it's holds a mirror of passing
events it breaks even with any other
news purveyor in it's special field.
There is more real news in the paint
ing Of Petersons barn than in all the
columns of slush devoted to Evelyn
Thaw and the degenerate who killed
man for her sake.
There is lack of courtesy in the Gus
tom Of clipping an excerpt from a
country news service to use for the
amusement Of FOOLS And lack OF
courtesy is lack of sense"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
! n,,eE EFFORT BY A SMALL MAN.

C,laude Porter may be an aWtul
rood fellow. in fact he has, that repu-
tation. but the Washington, Iowa, edl-
tor sized him about right when ne re-
marked that Porters home county was
plenty large enough for him. AS
democratic candidate for governor
Mr.. Porter opened his campaign WIN
a sneech at Ottunlwa Thursday even
ing. In full it would fill fifteen COL
umns of newspaper space. In eHect
II would not wad shotgun. In sub
stance it was ala attempt to attack
the administration of Governor Cum
minis and totally ignored the PROPOSE
tions set forth fol-. public consideration
in the platform adopted by democrats
at Waterloo.
Mr.. Porter commits the fatal error
common to men Of light weight IN
charging hammer and tongs at the I'M
material things. For instance 1T con-
4 sunoed about halt an hour of his time
IA show that the republican platform
itself did not certain an expressed de-
seription of the crisis that demands a
third term for Governor Cummlns. NO
os4rich hurying his head In the sand
4 could look sillier than poilelcai
sneaker who assumes that the people
NJ iowa have forgotten the issue that
was fought out in every county IN TINS
! state and resulted in the triumph OF
{ the Cumn1ins element in the republican,
Marty over the combined opposition
Of railroads and other corporate IN
\ fuences in politics.
Mr.. Porter came very near mahihs
4 h,,nself ridiculous when he took UP
4 the false and specjous charges OF eN-
trayagance made by the Ed Hunter
bureau against Cummins in the pre-
convention carapaign for the reason
+ that these charges had already been
tried on the people of Iowa ana hau
failed to convince even a majority OF
the. republican party. Their falsits
and speciousness had alreauS
proven to the public.
Likewise. did he waste his oreatn IN
attempting to belittle what Governor
Cn,nmins had done in raising railroad
assessments and otherwise protecting
the public interests from encroach-
ment by corporate greed when ne
knew that the whole state had just
witnessed the most desperate EFFORT
--,nade by railroads in politics TO
destroy cunn1ins for doing What ne
has done.
1t is true that the democratic party
has marched j small man up TO move
q huge mountain and 1t was not to be
expected that he would make much
Roadway, but there are things in the
democratic platform which, in skillful
hands. could be presented in fairly
convincing manner. The repetition Oh
Ed Hunters anonymous charges
against the Cummins administration
can only arouse ridicule for the cam
didate who attempts to campaign with
!, -,,,sfs5s sl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

rain, being frequently soaked to the
skin Summer and winter, regardless
of snow, rain or shine, he bathes his
feet in spring short distance from
his home three times a week.
Planting India rubber trees is fast
becoming a favorite enterprise for cap
italists. Groves are planted in India
which now begin to bear, producing
1909 pounds in 190506. Burma leases
land in lots of 1900 acres for rubber
tree groves. In Ceylon the cultiva-
ton of rubber is proceeding at a rap
i'd pace. In 1892 but $500 pounds We're
exported but in 1905 the expectation
was 140.l pounds. BY 1913 it is es-
timated that Ceylon will be exporting
S12,500,0o0 worth yearly. Java, Bor-
neo and the Malay states have gone
largely into the industry. Contra
America also has the rubber fever The
growing demand for rubber and the
stiff price make the ownership of a
grove of trees attractive.
Recognized -She-Thi is my por-
trait with my two dogs Do you rec
ognize me?
He Why, yes. That's you in the
middle with the hat, isn't it? Bon
Vivant.
On Investigation it proves that no
examination Of the wrecked Real Es-
tate Trust Company of Philadelphia
had >been made by the state banking
department for three years. or by the
board of directors for two and one-
half years. Three of the directors
Junkin, Porter and Henry, have adj
mitted that they had served at times
as counsel for Segal, the promoter,
whose operations caused the bank to
suspend. Four of the directors are
charged with having knowledge of the
immense loans President Nipple made
TO Segal Junkin, attorney and d.
rector of the trust company, was also
president of Maryland real estate
company, which borrowed s250000
from the Real Estate Trust Company
Together with Directors Benson, Henry
and Borden and President Nipple, Jun
kin took so per cent Of the loan to
Junkin's Maryland company for guar
anteeing it's bonds If the loan was no,
paid. Junkin's Maryland company did
not pay the loan and was foreclosed
by the Real Estate Trust Company
because Junkin and his fellow direc-
tors and guarantors did not make good
their guarantee.
This is fathers holiday;
Little Willie is at play;
Sisters making ragtime din;
Brothers nine goes forth to win.
Idle men on corners stand;
Hear the music Of the band;
East and West the unions say,
This is labor's holiday.
One all union rule ignores:
Just keeps busy doing chores:
Washes dishes, makes beo,
Cooks. that hungry folks be fed;
Doing in each dusty room
Ca.lesthenics with the broom
None to hint at strike or pay
For an eight-hour working day.
Union labels don't go here;
No one works but mother dear
New York World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

"The theory that politician will be
made over by trip around the world
has possibly some excuse" says the
Nevada Representative; but it is fool
ish. and it ought not to have been en-
tertained by either democrats or re-
publicans.
1t is manifest to the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil that "the democrats of Iowa
have an interesting time ahead of
them. Just what figure the Hearst
movement will cut in the state, under
the direction of Walsh, cannot be said.
Were it known how much Hearst
money is to be entrusted to the Iowan
an estimate might be made" suggests
the Council Bluffs paper.
1t appears to the Freeman Tribune
that IF the majority of the republic
cans of Black Hawk county preferred
to nominate some man other than
Mr.. Jarnigan, that is certainly their
privilege, and any fair minded man or
newspaper can find no just cause to
complain. Mr.. Jarnigan had no priori-
ty claim upon the nomination." argues
luG pIcSIudA- llOuIC. ANY SOOQN It.
publican was free to enter the race and
it lily becomes Mr.. Jarnigan and his
friends to whine and charge brutality
merely because he was defeated by a
man as deserving in every respect as
himself"
''The people who think it easy to
solve all problems by turning them
over to the government are theorists
who know nothing about the practical
difficulties of governmental admins
tration," declares the Fl. Dodge Mes
senger. mir. Bryan is an example of
them That he is an honest and we'll
meaning man may be readily conced-
ed; we do not doubt it, but he is not
a man of any practical business exper-
fence, and yet he is one of the most
commonly talked of men for the head
of the great governmental machine"
Perhaps ere century has rolled
around the right of the black to sit
on the same plane as the white will
be universally conceded" predicts the
Dubuque Telegraph.
The Sioux Rapids Republican Press
says that the papers holding out
against Cummins will have very little
influence in the election
The Cedar Falls Gazette considers
republican defeat mot too high price
to pay" for the restoration of the old
regime.
The Keokuk Gate City notes this
difference among others: The Eepu5-
lican party is making history while
Mr. Bryan and his political associates
are making promises"
When the people finally own the
railways, it is feared by the Des
Moines News that the news butcher
will have put his gains irretrievably
out of their reach.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Say what you may about Bryan, it
behooves the republicans to get a
popular republican of not too far adj
vanced age at the head of the ticket
in 1905" admits the Boone News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
Topics Of the Times

Wright county agriculturalists speak
of manure spreaders as farmers aut-
omobiles."
On government ownership Mr.. Bryan
has lost touch with the dispatcher and
is running wild" with prospects good
for a wreck ahead.
The September Pilgrim had for it's
leading display feature, an article on
THE Work of the Juvenile Court by
Judge Thomas Murphy of Buffalo.
There is finely illustrated article "on
the Fast MAIL" giving the, facts re-
garding our railway mail service, in
which $4,000 highly trained men give
their lives to hustling along the cor
respondence Of the nation. Real
Southern Hospitality" is an engaging
theme told in beautiful pictures and
realistic story. ",The Pixies Peak Cen
tennial," by Eugene Parsons, has a
timely interest. In its fiction, the
September issue is strong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

In next Sundays N. 7. World a Uni
ted States army officer who was sent to
Manchuria by this government to make
observations at the front during the
fighting between the Russian and Jap
anese armies tells how the war of the
future will be fought with motor cars.
airships and submarines on land, in the
sky and beneath the ocean.
William ID. Fouss of Drab, Blair
colunty, Pa, who is 81 years old, never
wore stockings until three years ago.
He has never worn underwear, gloves
or mittens, never used tobacco in any
form and never was sick day in his
life. He performs all the labor on his
forty acre farm, and never stops for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
Beats Am.

When your eyes are dim. tongue
coated, appetite poor, bowels consti-
pated. Electric Bitters beat all cures.
so cents. Mcbride g. WIN Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

"The theory that politician will be
made over by trip around the world
has possibly some excuse" says the
Nevada Representative; but it is fool
ish. and it ought not to have been en-
tertained by either democrats or re-
publicans.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

When the people finally own the
railways, it is feared by the Dies
Moines News that the news butcher
will have put his gains irretrieyably
out of their reach.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07


Even the most general survey of a
career so resultful; even the merest
sketch of character so forceful, cans
not be wholly devoid of interest The
subject of this sketch was born of
Scotch-Irish parents, in Carmichaels,
Pa, on Feb. is, 1850. He early learned
from his father the carpenters trade,
and at the age of IL was earning good
wages with hammer and plane. Ans
bilious to obtain an education, at the
age of II he entered Waynesburg Col
lege. Pa. He worked his way thru coll
lege, taking the four years course in
two, at the same time serving as tutor,
and filling in his vacations by teaching
a country district school. In passing,
it might be stated that his alma mater
recently honored him with the degree
of LLD.,-a degree also conferred upon
him about the same time by Cornell
College, Iowa. The future governor
spent the next four years feeling for
his place in the world and incidentally
fitting himself the better for effective
service at the bar and in public life
A short term as clerk and another as
express messenger sufficed him. He
then became self-taught surveyor
and railroad builder. Tho scarcely
more than mere youth, he was made
chief engineer of the Cincinnati Rich
mond & Fort Wayne railroad, and soon
after was rendered a position as chief
engineer of a branch of what is now
the Santa Fe system. But by this time
he had determined upon the law as his
profession, and in January, 1873, at the
age of %, he became a student in the
then we'll known law office of McClel-
ian & Hodges. Chicago. In 1874 he
married Miss Ida L. Gallery, Of Eaton
Rapids, Mich. and, strong in their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07

The Keokuk Gate City notes this
difference among others: The repub-
lican party is making history while
Mr. Bryan and his political associates
are making promises"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-31
MONEY FOR CHURCH WORK
United Presbyterian Assembly Appro-
PIRATES Ss2s.O00 for Different De-
partments and Adjourns.

RICHMOND, Ind, May 3O-Final ad-
journment was taken by the general
assembly of the United Presbyterian church
this evening. Before adjourning, various
appropriations for the coming year were
made as follows:
Foreign missions, $227, SIS; home missions.
$4,000; freedmen's missions. $500 church
extensions, $1,000; education and colleges,
$45 600; educational and beneficiary funds,
5000; ministerial relief, $4,000; general
assembly funds, $1,000; publication funds,
1900. Total appropriation, s628675. an in
crease of 1900 over last year.
1t was stated that $4,000 was needed for
the relief of the DENOMINATIONS interests
in California. committee of seven was
named to cooperate with other English
speaking denominations i'm North America
to secure a uniform version Of the Bible.
The constitution OF the church was
amended so that women are eligible as
deacons
The general assembly OF the United Pros
byterian church today signalized it's disap-
proval of tobacco by refusing to confirm the
nomination of Rev. John A. Burnett of Mon.
mouth, ILL.,, as general secretary of the
Young Peoples society Rev NJ. Burnett
is minister held in high esteem, but he
does not share the belief of the tabled
little Robert Reed" that tobacco is a
Therefore Rev. w w. Lawrence OF
Bellevue. Ill, was chosen general secre.
tary.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-31
LAKE MoHoNK CONFERENCE
Twelfth Annual Council on ArbitrA-
tiOI Gathers, with Notable
Large Attendance.

LAKE MOHONII, n. Y, May 3O-The
twelfth annual Lake Mohonk conference
on international arbitration opened today,
with an attendance of 800 diplomats. jurists,
congressman, clergymen, educators, editors
and philanthrOpists.
The opening address was delivered by
Albert X. Smiley. Mr. Smiley was fol-
lowed by ex-secretary OF State John w.
Foster, who delivered his adress as presi-
dent of the conference.
The following officers were chosen: Pres
dent. John w. Foster. Washington, d. c..
secretary, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Phila-
delphia; permanent corresponding secre-
tary, p. II. Phillips, Lake Mohonk. n. Y;
treasurer. Alexander c. Wood, Camden.
N. j.; business committee. John stiness,
Providence, r. l., chairman; publication
committee. DIR. BENJAMIN F. TrueblOod.
Boston, chairman; press committee, Albert
+. Hoyt. Albany, chairman; finance com
mittee, Warner Van Norden, New York,
chairman
DR. Benjamin F. Trueblood OF Boston
gave a review Of the last years work OF
the conference. This was followed by "a
discussion Of the cars recent invitation 70
the second Hague peace conference, led
by Judge ]. Stiness OF Providence. r. l.,
in which the omission from the proposed
program of the limitation OF reduction OF
armament was criticized by several speak
ers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-31
MICHAEL DAVITT is DEAD
Father of Irish Land League Expires
In Dublin Hospital After
Long Illness.

DUBLIN, May 30.-A notable career
closed tonight when after a long and pain
full Illness Michael Davitt died peacefully
and painlessly at 12 o'clock, In the pros
ence of his oldest son. Michael. and his
two daughters. who had devotedly attended
him through his illness and of many of
his most intimate friends, including John
Dillon. Shortly before his death Father
Hatton had been with him. Mrs Davitt,
who had as-beeH~ IN constant attendance on
her husband until few days ago. when
she herself was taken III. lies PROSTATE in
the same hospital, too weak to leave her
room. She has not yet been notified of her
husbands death. II is stated that Mr..
Davitt left written message but II So
its purport has not transpired.
The greatest sympathy has been dis
played by all classes of society during Mr..
Davitt's illness. Today the hospital was
besieged by anxious inquirers. John f.
Redmond, leader of the Irish party in
Parliament, was a frequent inquirer by
telephone from the House OF Commons and
gave up his proposed continental trip over
the Whitsuntide holidays owing to the
condition of his friend. the father of the
Irish Land league. After rally last night
Mr.. Davitt was able to speak to those al
his bedside, but soon showed that he was
losing ground.
Among the last callers at the hospita
tonight was Lord Hemphill on behalf OF
the earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutenant OF
ireland. and the countess of Aberdeen.
Mr.. Davitt retired from the representa-
ton of South Mayo In Parliament in 1899
but TO the last took keen interest n
the politics of his country.
Death was due TO blood poisoning, whicl
followed two operations for necrosis o.
the jaw bone, and spread so rapidly tina
all efforts to stay its course were un
availing Mr.. Davitts Illness began will
an insidious attack of toothache, TO whicl
he paid no attention until John Dillon urge,
l him TO have recourse TO medical advice
! For some time there were hopes for hi
recovery. but the state of his health, whicl
was undermined by the exertions at tn
/ recent general elections. greatly handi
I capped his progress
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-31
SOFT COAL MINERS SETTLE
KanARH, AxkH1SaE and Territory
Men Accept Offer Made
by Operators.

KANSAS CITY, May 3O.-soft coal miners
of Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory,
in conference here today, agreed to accept
the proposition submitted yesterday by the
Southwestern Coal Operators association.
The agreement must now be ratified by a
referendum vote OF the miners, but it Is
believed that today's action will result in
reopening the mines in the states named
by June TO-
The Missouri miners, representing district
No. 25, still stood out for the 1903 scale
verbatim, which means higher proper
tionate rate for machine mining than that
offered by the operators.
The conference was resumed later in the
hopes of persuading Missouri to come into
the agreement.
The agreement accepted by the Kansas,
Arkansas and Indian Territory miners, in
cluded in districts No. IA ana q, Is that the
miners return to work on the 1903 scale and
that a commission of three miners and
three operators and one referee, 10 be Sc
lected by the conference, shall consider and
settle all matters embraced in the opera
tors propositions. The operators are to re-
store the wage scale of 1903 for three years.
This scale is a slight advance on the price
the miners were receiving when the sus-
pension began but is not so large by about
8 per cent as they originally demanded.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. May SO.-The miners
and operators subscale committee today
agreed upon a report which, it is under
stood, includes paying the scale of 1908
machine differentials to remain on basis
of cents the miners to recompense oper-
ators for extra expense involved In the
employment of shot frers.
1t is believed the report will be accepted
by both operators and miners.