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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
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science has thus far been unable to ac-
count for, causes him to fail when he
tries to make pie. He may be a quick
lunch cook of exceptional Skill or he
may be a clubhouse chef with a
Partisan diploma, but when he reaches
that part of the menu where pie is eX-
pected he fails utterly
The harvest hands of Kansas are
crying for pie at the present moment,
and the safety Of the crops depends
upon the rapidity with which their
cry shall be answered. ADVERTISE
ments are inserted in all OF the lead
ing newspapers of all the towns of
Kansas and surrounding states which
offer unparalleled inducements to wo-
men cooks. And the chief qualification
demanded Of them that they be capable
of making the right kind of pie.
The aerated or denatured pie of
commerce will not do. The flat pie of
the quick lunch counter will not do
The pies that are wanted must have
interior departments which it will be
pleasure for the educated harvest
hands to explore.
There must be an average distance
Of an inch ard quarter between the
lower and the upper crush, and this
must be filled with some substance,
calculated chase away that tired feel
ing which is an almost Inevitable ac-
compartment of that feeling of honest
contentment which comes with the
consciousness of a days work well
done.
Little do American consumers of
70 odstuffs realize the important part
which pie plays in the nations econ
omy. We read much in the crop re-
ports Of the state of the weather, of
the probabilities Of rain, and the
probabilities of drought, but not a
word about the probabilities of pie.
And yet $4,000 harvest hands today
are meditating whether to fly back to
civilization and pie or to remain at
their posts of duty and save the crops.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
Meat For Poultry.

Not long ago the North Dakota ex-
pertinent station made some expert
ments with green bone feeding that
proved very conclusively that meat and
bone combined we have always
thought it was the meat principally
was a most important factor in pro-
ducing heavy egg yield. AT the time
we visited the station, the number Of
eggs from the meat and bone fed pen
was considerably more than double
what came from the pens without meat.
All observing poultrymen have noticed
THAT in no way could money be spent
to better advantage for poultry food
than by putting little, at least, into
meat We were not aware, however,
until a recent experiment by the Rhode
Island station that meat meant so much
to the growing chick. A late report
from there says:
The use of the proper proportion of
animal food will pay handsome profit
thru decreased mortality and increased
weight of the chicks. In feeding, bear
in mind that chicks in state of nature
spend practically all of their working
hours in search of food, and that they
do not fill their crops in ten minutes
every two hours. Feeding should be,
as far as the time of the attendant
renders profitable, continuous pro-
cess, but by no means a continuous
gorge.
The experiment which led up to this
conclusion was with an incubator hatch
of 219 chickens. These were separated
into lots of about fifty each and placed
in similar brooders. For thirty days all
conditions were kept alike except the
rations. Pen A was fed balanced IA :
ton of grains, meat and green food
The chicks grew and thrived, and
not one chick showed symptoms of di
gestive disorders. The deaths amount
ed to 3.9 per cent. In pen b ali animal
food was withheld; the deaths were ga
per cent, of which 10 per cent had
bowel trouble. Pen c was fed on grain
alone, all animal food and all grain
food being omitted from the ration;
the deaths We're 1921 per cent, of which
96.5 per cent showed digestive trouble
, In pen d all grain food was omitted;
the deaths of chicks were 63.7 per cent
of which s5.S per cent showed bowel
trouble All the living chicks We're
weighed al, the close of the test. and
| pen A showed the greatest average
weight for all breeds.
This experiment shows conclusively
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01

ents may be depended upon to see that
only actual sickness breaks the routine
of their daily toll. SO general has this
system become in the south that
northern mill operators complain of
the inability to meet the competition
of cheap child labor Of the south.
Exposure of these conditions is max
ing interest and advocates for
stringent national child labor law. Il
is scarcely question for debate when
the schools and kindergartens are
depopulated that cotton spinner may
make a profit. The grating of the
sweat shop system upon the cotton in
dustry of the south presages. if nos
amended, the decadence of the white
laborer there to a level of ignorance
tent than that of his colored predeces-
sor 1t must be taken into considera :
ton that the south is not Massachu-
setts and it's laborers not the descend
ants of men dignified by labor. Labor
in the south is the badge of the plebe-
ian. There is nothing in the sentiment
or the people of the old south to en-
noble toll or serve as foundation 20
the class who work with their hands.
1t is the old. old cry of the children
that Elizabeth Barrett Browning
heard and that other good women and
men hear today. THE young, young
children, O, my brothers, They are
weeping bitterly. They are weeping in
the playtime of the others, in the coun-
try of the free"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
Trust to Nature.

A great many Americans, both man
and women, are thin, pale and puny, with
poor circulation, because they have Ill
treated their stomachs by hasty eating
or too much eating, by consuming aic0-
holic beverages, or by too close confine-
ment to home, office or factory, and In
consequence the stomach must be treated
in natural way before they can rectify
their earlier mistakes. The muscles in
many such people, in fact in every weary.
thin and -blooded person, do their
work with great difficulty. AS result
long. The demand for nutritive aid y,
ahead of the supply. To insure perfect
health every tissue, bone, nerve and
muscle should take from the blood cer-
tain materials and return to it certain
others. 1t is necessary to prepare the.
stomach for the work OF taking up from
rich, red blood. We must go to Nature.
for the remedy. There were Gertaip
roots known to the Indians d Ms
country before the adventeuf the whites
which later came tote knowledge o..
the settlers and which are now growing
rapidly in professional favor for the cure
These are found to be safe and yet cer-
tain in their cleansing and invigorating
effect upon the stomach. liver and blood.
These are: Golden Seal root, Queens
root, Stone root, Bloodroot, Mandrake
root Then there is Black Cherry bark.
The medicinal principles residing in these
native roots when extracted with .glyc-
crime as solvent make the most reliable
and efficient stomach tonic and liver in
yigorator, when combined in just the
right proportions, as in Dr.: Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Where there
is bankrupt vitality such as nervous
exhaustion, bad nutrition - and thin
blood, the body acquires vigor and the
nerves, blood and all the tissues feel the
favorable effect of this sovereign remedy.
Although some physicians have been
aware of the high medicinal value OF the
above mentioned plants, yet few nave
used pure glycerine as q solvent ana
usually the doctors prescriptions called
for the ingredients in varying amounts,
Nth alcohol.
The sGolden Medical Discovery is .
scientific preparation compounded OF the
glyceric extracts of the above mentioned
Vegetable ingredients and contains no
alcohol or harmful habit-forming drugs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
Back Homo.


I've been UP In tn mountains
For little spell o rest;
Up where tn birds an trees an brooks
Are alwus at their best;
Away from tn din O. tn city's streets,
Away from tn rush o. trade,
Jest lollin' round in tn lap o peace,
An p'rhape I'd oughter stayed
A few days more. but l kinder felt
That, while twas nice t roam
Among tn trees an by tn brooks,
I'd like Z git back home.
There hain't no place for me like that,
Where I can set around.
KNOWN that own 1t all,
From tn roof down Z tn ground.
There's certain chairs that At my back
AS other chairs don't do:
There's bed that's been my friend fol
3E years
An lounge that suits me too.
like tn paper on tn walls
An tn pictures hansin' there;
] like tn carpets on tn floors
An TIKI scent that's In TIL air
OF homemade bread an bakin' beans
An other things that's good.
Cooked by tn sweet faced. gray hairet
girl
Who at my side has stood.
Strong an noble, like queen.
For moro than forty years.
Jointn In my laughter
An joinin' in my tears.
put my arm around her
An kiss her precious face.
She lays her head down on my breast
It's her far'rite restin' place.
stroke her snowy hair an think
That, while It's nice t roam
Among tn trees an by tn brooks,
ia ruther be back home.
Thomas Holmes in Trenton State Go
xette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
THE souTH,s NEW SLAVERY.

A notable agitator for Irish liberty
said that were an Irishman to b.
roasted another Irishman always stood
ready to turn the spit. His saying is
called to mind by the appearance of
one Miss Beeks of the national civic
child labor system of the southern
mil!towns. She admits that too many
children are employed in these mills
but considers it "debatable question
how far criticism of their employment.
should be offered. The state, she says,
has made no provision for the care of
the poor in the states guiltiest of laws
permitting steady employment Of
young children in mills and factories.
Her argument, while scarcely de-
fence of the system is an excuse for
it's continuation and will be taken by
many as an evidence that in her case
the commercial instinct outweighs that
| maternal instinct which usually pre-
dominates in womanhood. To most
women the daily employment of chill
dren from seven to twelve years old at
steadily laborious tasks could never,
under any circumstances, become
.debatable question:
II the reports of sociologsts and
writer's of greater and lesser note who
have personally investigated the con-
ditiens Of child labor in the south are
| to be credited, a system of child sav-
!! cry exists in the southern milltowns
| that parallels negro servtude. The
/ southern cracker, prolific to a degree,
/ moves into the mill towns to live at
i ease on the labor of his children. The
mills are alive with little boys and
|. girls that belong in the kindergarten.
1.-THE homes are full of stunted children,
sfphvsically and mentally undeveloped,
THAT the mill owner may make his
profit and the cracker parents get
Hsome good out of the family" The
Nwhite child is more profitable to the
amillmen than negro labor. Their par
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
TAKE THAT vAcATlok.

3s Now that Russell Sage mas gone.
perhaps there is not a man left who
does not long for vaca lion. Sage was
a grinder, dig" Thank the Lord
there are few like him. He found more
pleasure in keeping money than in
parting with 1t. There are many VINO
hate to part with money but only d
few who refuse to spend something on
themselves. Over every rightly organ
lied man the longing for outdoors
comes at times too strong to be re-
sisted, the smell of half forgotten
campfres out of the past into his nos
trils, the atavistic instinct that leads
men to the woods for shade and shell
ter and to the streams and lakes for
/; food and drink calls and beckons. If
he can he follows the call. Even nat
ural and acquired stinginess melts be-
fore this call Of the wild. Some of the
meanest men in the world go fish
= ing.
It may be possible to lose the desire
I for vacations along the waters and in
the woods. 1t is possible that long re-
preston of natural faculties may
encyst and destroy them as cave bats
become blind and cave fish eyeless.
Human feelings and desires may be
sealed away like the toad in the rock.
but no one will argue that the batrach-
! ian in the crypt is of any use to him
self and anything but detriment to
his environment And eyeless fish
and blind birds are curious rather than
useful.
so with Sage. He is not model
hut curio. He sealed himself in a
goldbeaters skin. He was the toad in
the rock. No wonder he felt no need
or desire for a vacation. No wonder
he lacked friends and everything else
but money.
Take vacation if you can. 1t pays
to keep fresh and retain healthful de-
sires and appetites. 1t pays to be
natural Think of world peopled
only by Russell Sages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
polly Madison. Trunk Rescu.d.


In the treasure room Of the White
House is an old trunk that belonged to
Dolly Madison This trunk had been
battered from attic to basement until
Mrs. Roosevelt discovered its historic
worth She had the relic renovated,
and now it is one Of the receptacles OF
the White House silver, says CORE
spondent Of the New York Press. The
old trunk held the wardrobe of the
beautiful Virginia girl. and on the side
it bears the words. Mistress Dorothy
Madison, care Of James Madison,
Esq" Just how old fashioned it is may
be CLEANED from the fact that 1t is not
covered with smooth leather, but
with reddish cowskin, with the fuzzy
hair showing. The trunk Is in remark
ably fine condition, considering the
hard knocks it has undergone. It was
in the White House at the fire and
bears signs Of scorching in several
places.
FrightfuI Loss Of Life
results from throat and lung diseases
DIR. Kings New Discovery for coughs
and colds is sure cure. soc and $1.00.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
LANGUAGE IN soBs.
london Lancet Calls Them Monosyl-
labfc Sentencea

london Lancet Calls Them MOnOsyl-
Liable Sentences.
If the average man were asked why
re sighed, groaned or moaned he would
lrobahty be at loss for u reply.
The London Lancet. however, whose
Columns seldom fail each week to add
the gayety of the nations, makes the
ause of these peculiar manifestations
IF discomfort perfectly clear, says n
london special cable dispatch to the
Chicago Inter Ocean. The Lancet says
There is no doubt that there are con
siderable mental comfort and relief OBJ,
tanned from series of long drawn
signs during period of sorrowful de-
preston or from noisy CALCULATIONS OF
the nature Of groans and means made
by n sufferer from such painful dis
order as acute dyspepsia or violent
toothache.
"Sobbing, signing, moaning and
grooming are, as It were, sentences In
a monosyllabic cosmopolitan language.
"These sounds are really the vocal
representation of certain overwrought
physical or mental states consequent III
general upon a longer or shorter period
of inhibition of the rhythmic discharge
of the respiratory center situated in
the spinal bulb. The diaphragm has
been fixed, the breath either volunta.
rily or involuntar1ly has been held or
has been shallow, while breathless In
Prospective attention has been paid to
some absorbing pain or sorrow.
"This condition Is markedly present
in patients suffering from melancholia,
who continually and deeply sigh. Ii
this expression of excessive psychical
stimulation is rapidly and vigorously
performed cry Of anguish or of fright
may result, whereas at the other end
of this series of phenomena is the feel
ing of wanting to sigh well known
among those who are run down in gem
eral health.
AT times these sounds are emitted
with the sole object of eliciting the
sympathy Of bystanders. This is nota
bly, the case with hysterical cries."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
white Sock. For Speaker Cannon.

White Socks For Speaker Cannon.
The people of South Carolina insist
upon supplying Speaker Cannon with
wearing apparel, says the Washington
Post. The latest contribution from that
state to the speakers wardrobe Is q
pair Of white yarn socks. They are the
gift of the "Kowie Courier force OF
Maryhall, $. c."
The socks are made of the same ma
terial as the galluses that were pre-
sented to the speaker some time ago.
With his new homespun suit, which
also came from South Carolina, and his
galluses and his new socks the speaker
is a walking advertisement Of the m
dustrieS of the state
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
MARSHALL FIELDS TAXES.

dubuque Telegraph Herald
The board of review Of Chicago has
made a formal demand upon the ex-
ecutors of the estate of the late Mar
shall Field, Chicago's merchant prince,
for s1,S00,OOO alleged to be due as adj
mitted back taxes. Refusal to pay the
amount will be followed by suit for
recovery. The board affirms its right
to go back for period of seven years
and correct assessments. The Field
estate probably will combat the asser-
ton of this right and seek to disprove
the Indebtedness. But as the city OF
Chicago will simply have to point to
the inventory as evidence of possession
the decision is likely to resolve on the
boards right to make back tax as
sessments for the period claimed.
Marshall Field was the country's
largest individual tax payer and paid
on more personality than any other
man in Chicago or in any other city.
Nevertheless, the board is satisfied
that for six years, when Mr.. Field paid
taxes on $2,5O0,O00 of personal prop
erty, and in the seventh year, when he
paid on $2,O00000 he possessed total
of ST., 900 900 in taxable credits, and
therefore avoided payment of taxes on
sos, 100000. The estate is now as
sessed on the basis of 25 millions in
personally. Mr. Field is also alleged
to have evaded taxes on an additional
so millions of realty for the seven
this realty for the purpose of inven-
tory having revealed the discrepancy
between such value and the value as
listed for assessment.
MIR. Field may or may not have been
guilty of consciously evading his just
proportion of taxes. The courts will
determine this question. But that tax
lodging is one of the commonest Of
lenses against the community, as we'll
as one of the most serious, is true,
and that otherwise respectable and
law abiding citizens are guilty of 1T is
likewise true, and deplorably so. The
burden shifted by the rich man whose
wealth is represented in part by Sc
curities which may be concealed from
assessors or tax inquisltors. fall upon
the shoulders of others, and unhappily
these are the narrow shoulders OF the
middle and poorer classes of society,"
The homestead owner as rule pays
on the full value of his lot and his
home. He can not cover up his pos
sessions nor easily deceive the asses
sor regarding their value. When 9TH
ers do not pay their fair share of the
tax burden. he pays more than his
share. and to that extent suffers from
Inequality, and is oppressed. This
view of the rights of others seems sell
dom to be considered by rich men.
whose purpose is simply to keep in
their pockets money which is the price
of perjury and treachery to the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
BETTER PIE FOR KANSAS.
A Macedonian Cry From the sunflower
States Wheat Fields.
from Chicago Inter Ocean.]

[F'rom Chicago Inter Ocean.]
While the demand for college farm
lands In Kansas is undated, and While
all able bodied collegians who are Will
ling to work are assured kind treat
ment. good wages. pure food, and sun
days to themselves in all parts of the
Sunnower state. yet the crying need OF
the moment is for women cooks in the
harvest camps
Men cooks have been tried the best
that could be induced to come, and
have been found wanting. They do
very we'll with the substantial foods.
but harvest hands cannot live and be
happy on substantial food alone. There
comes a time in the experience fevery
harvest hand when he feels a craving
for pie. and when nothing short of pie
that is fair replica of the pie his
mother used to make will satisfy him.
Some deficiency i'm the male, which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
.,x4k III Ehnes- s322e@n1h1iica,t Observation-Disclosures

part in such high handed proceedings
will, whether it gains or loses, as soon
as the excitement of factional strife
passes away, be regarded by progress
sives and standpatters alike, as an
enemy of the republican party"
The Waterloo Courier declares that
IF any attempt be made to make the
convention subservient to any com
mittee or machine. it may be depended
upon to rise in it's might and smash
the men responsible for it,
"v1hat does Mr. Blythe care for pre-
cedents when he controls the commit
tee?" asks the Mason City TimesHer-
aid "A man who can import vot-
ers from Omaha in sufficient numbers
to carry the Council Bluffs wards, who
thru Rock Island headquarters sought
to carry Davenport. and who has q
friend that Is federal judge and who
directs fellow townsmen to disregard
primary results in another county
has small use for mere presidents"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-01
THE SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT- AGAIN.

Turning, possibly in diversion, from
the undertaking of commerce, trade
and politics, the magazines have taken
up the Sunday supplement and are eX-
posing its vice and frailty to waiting
world AS in all other exposure the
magazines are following along on the
trail of the daily press and tanning
the dying embers where the bivouac
fires of the newspaper blazed tor q
day, working over the taiings thrown
aside by the hurried stamp mills that
grind furiously while the lead runs
high and move to another field at the
first indications of failing popular in
terest. The magazine follows the daily
paper as the farmer the pioneer. 1t
takes time to analyze and sift and
study carefully. 1t does better job
than it's predecessor. 1t attends to de-
tail and in this care and finish it finds
most of its influence, for the maga-
zine has become a large and potent
factor in the shaping of public opin-,
ion. The Sunday supplement has
grown gradually into a text book of
vicious influence. 1t has no ideals. Il
is made to sell. Its alleged fun is pura
mischief where it is not plain Stiffness
or worse Not a boy in its category is
the clean happy lad we all delight 10
meet. The boy of the Sunday supple
ment is not boy but an imp. He
runs to deviltry as the old time boy
of the Sunday school library did 10
pulpy sissyness. His amusements are
unhealthy, his play cruel and his fun
incipient scoundrelism. Sunday after
Sunday the supplement introduces into
thousands of decent homes that type
of gamin with whom parents strive
without ceasing to prevent their chill
dren from personal association. Long
ago the newspaper entered it's protest
against the Sunday Supplementary
continued to furnish it.
What real healthy fun exists in
weekly melange of dogs tricks that
would bring boy of decent family
sound thrashing or send him supper
less to bed? What is ridiculously fun
ny in gang Of incipient hoodlums
who beat, bedevil and maui a diminu-
tive colored child Sunday after Sun
day? In types of child villiany and
disobedience? Has American child
humor fallen to the ebb where its
laughter must be stirred by cruelty
and it's tastes satisfied by pictured per-
formances as silly as they are in-
structive in the lessons of the levee?
And worst of all these performances
are easy of imitation.
What effect must a continuation of
the present Sunday supplement have
on American taste not to speak of
morals? Are the daubs of flaring color
depicting the gambols and amusements
of the guttersnip artistic, funny or
only vicious? Beautiful pictures there
are in plenty. The magazines are a
riot of artistic printing, but the hide
Gus supplement carries its splashes of
paint and puerility into thousand
homes where the magazine enters one.
What will twenty-five years of the
Sunday supplement as it exists do to
the American people?