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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
"L0oKER.ON" BACK AGAIN.

Il After an absence of several months
'Looker-On in Iowa" appears agail
in the bulletin and on the editoria
page of the es-Republican MIR. A
P. Thayer whose chronicles and com
/ ments on Iowa men, events and places
have so many years been a welcome
feature of the editorial page. has been
for three months enjoying Il well-earn-
ed and needed vacation by :, Minnesota
lake. His articles have been missed
by the editors and by thousands of
| readers who have found his semi
| weekly letters "one of the best things
in the paper. They will welcome him
back again, much rejuvenated, full of
vigor fish and fish stories.
| With this year Mr.. Thayer attains
| his Times Republican majority. He
starts on his twenty first year of con-
| tinuous service for the Times Repub-
| lican. a record of long service that few
| field. He has been especially success
| full as solicitor and as somewhat more
| than solicitor. The management
| freely credits him with ideas and
suggestions, backed by the most per-
tinacious, land often red-faced argu-
lnent, that have contributed in no
sustained success of this newspaper.
For nearly a quarter century he has
given his best to the upbuilding Of
the paper in most loyal fidelity and
not less from pride and interest in it's
growth and welfare than for pay. He
has found one of the greatest salts
factions of his life in his share of re-
sponsibility for it's development from
obscurity to it's unique position as the
best, biggest and most widely circu-
lated newspaper in the world publish
ed in city the size of Marshalltown
In this evolution Mr. Thayor has been
no uncertain force
However, the management believes
it wise to offer word of warning to
Times Republican subscribers: Mr..
Thayer has been away three months.
Much work has been laid out and is
before him to do. Our subscribers are
cautioned and urged to avoid all men,
tipn of fish or fishing in his presence.
1t means delay in the newspaper bus
mess and cold meals to the subscriber
If you must talk fish with Mr.. .Thayer
don't tell the first story. Not that he
would deliberately take undue and
mendacious advantage of the oppor-
tunity but let us say, because his
piscatorial experience embraces every
thing from cells to whales and he is
possessed of tenacious memory that
always creates surprise, and upon oc-
casion has reused suspicion when ex-
ercised on the subject of the weight,
longitude and numbers of fishes Such
baseless suspicion sometimes attaches
itself without reason to travellers and
fishermen Even Marco Polo and Sir
John Vaudeville suffered under it and
Baron Munchausen, CULVER and Tom
Ochiltree are notable examples
So we say to our subscribers: 1t
will be better not to talk to Mr..
Thayer about fish.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
Iona Fish and Game Lam.

devices at any time.
To kill, trap or ensnare any beaver,
mink, otter or muskrat between April
l and November l.
To have in possession any game
birds five co days after the open
season on said birds closes.
For any railway or express COM
pany or other common carrier to
receive any game birds for trans
portation.
To use any swivel gun or any
kind of gun except such as is COM
monty shot from the shoulder to kill
ducks, goose or brant.
To hunt with dog or gun upon
any cultivated or enclosed land, or
islands that have been posted, with
out permission of the owner or agent.
To kill, have in possession or
under control any Of the harmless
birds of the state, except English
or European sparrows, great horned
OWL sharp Skinned hawk, Cooper's
hawk and blackbirds and crows.
To kill, MAIN, trap or in any way
insure or capture any deer, elk or goat.
For nonresident to hunt or kin
game birds, without payment of IL
cense.
To shoot or kill any live birds at
trap shooting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
LABOR nay 1906.

Labor could keep its holiday yes
. terday with thankful heart for the
past year, and hope for the future
1 II has enjoyed plenty long enough tc
forget the curse of'harq times. There
We re young men among those who kept
We sterday/ as holiday who have never
!. known what it means to be "out of
JOB and walk the shoes off their feet
in a vain search for another.
Wages are good. work is plenty,
Many workingmen who ten years ago
dreaded the landlords visit as the pre-
lude..to eviction own their own homes
and pay the groceryman in checks in
stead of promises. Labor Day of the
present year came as a crows to the
most generally prosperous twelve
months in the history of our country,
and best of all no shadow of impend-
ing trouble dimmed the brightness of
the ideal day.
Everyone could rejoice with labor
yesterday. The prosperity and con-
( A
tent of the men who work is the high
barometer OF good times. The pros
perity of the worker is the prosperity
of the community. 1t is the mainstay
OF business. His thrift is the back
bone of the banks. the merchants, the
grocers-all the varied trade and pur-
suits whereby men seek wealth ana
happiness and power.
Mutual dependence makes mutual
interests. The men who work with
their hands, those who work with
their heads and the others who work
Nth accumulated labor, are AL in the
same boat" They might all cele-
brate Labor Day in common and soon
or late they will do 81 Not war but
PEACE and mutual forbearance and the
sense OF mutual interests are the real
lessons OF Labor Day
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
For larger Lives.


In heaven. they say, is undisturbed and
perfect peace. and yet
Along our heartstrings, even there. q
tremor of regret
Mli.st sometimes wander into pain, il
memory survives
A s,rief that in this good, great world
we lived no larger lives
Goo moves our planet gloriously among
the starry spheres,
AMI nobler movements for our souls
throusgh these our mortal years
In widening orbits toward himself eter-
nally he planned
We creep and rust in treadmifl grooves;
we will not be made grand
Yet souls that win immortal heights un-
cloggtsd with self must move.
TIL, only thing that we can take from
earth to heaven is love!
To make ~ great like thee. o God, thy
spirit with us strives!
Enlarge our lives to take thee int Oh
give lis nobler livesi
Lucy Larcom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04

TWhat Hunters and Fishermen are No
permitted to do under the Iowa Law
To have or maintain for use any
net, seine, spear, trap, for the pur-
pose of taking fish and any seine
net, spear, trap or other contrlv-
ance is a public nuisance and can
be seized and destroyed
To take from the waters of the
state. any salmon or trout, be-
tween the first day of November
and the first day Of March.
Or, any bass, pike, crappies, pick
erel, catfish or other game fish be-
tween November Is and May Is.
Or more than. forty (40) of any
or all of said kinds of game fish in
any one day.
To use trot line between No
vember Is and May 10.
TO take from the waters of the
state at any time any fish Eek
cept minnows for baiD, unless by
hook and line
To use any shed, house or other
protection while fishing in or thru
the ice.
To fish in any manner with 800
feet of fish way.
To have in possession or catch,
kill or destroy any game fish less
than six Co inches in length
TO place in the waters of the
state, any dynamite or othfr ex-
plosive for the purpose of killing or
taking fish
To use minnow seine over five 60
yards long.
To take game fish fry for bait.
TO use more than two CD lines
with one hook upon each line.
To buy or sell or offer for sale or
have in possession for sale or trans
portation any fish unlawfully taken.
To maintain any dam or other OBJ
struction across any river or stream
without q suitable fish way.
To shoot, kill or take any pinnated
grouse or prairie chicken between De-
cember / and September l.
Or any woodchuck between January
l and July 10.
Or any ruffed grouse, pheasant,
wild turkey or quail between Decem-
Der Is and November 1.
Or any wild duck, goose or brants
or beach bird between April 15 and
September l.
Or any gray fox or timber
squirrel between January and Sep
TENDER l.
To shoot or kill at any time quail
on the public highway.
To destroy the nests and eggs of
any birds of the state.
To kill for traffic any game birds
Except wild turkeys, ducks, brant
and goose).
To kill in any one day more
than twenty five (25) game birds.
including duck, goose and brant.
To ship, either by express. freight
or any common carrier any game
birds including ducks. goose or
brant, either in or ont of state.
To have in possession at any
one time more than twenty-five (25)
game birds Except ducks)
To catch or take any game birds
with any trap, snare. net or other
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
Topics Of the Times

eff negro crime is to cease the ne
gro loafer must be gotten rid Of de-
clares the Atlanta Journal. The rule
should be set working both ways
There is no distinctive color line in
loafing and crime. The loafer. white
or black, is in the incubation stage of
crime.
Mr.. Porter's idea in starting the
campaign early is a good one. There
will be frost early in November.
The number of arrests in New York
City for 1905 was 1886. This is a
population considerably larger than
that of Providence, R. L., and nearly as
large as Minneapolis. Out of every
hundred persons in New York five
managed to fall into the hands of the
police during the year.
Farmers Bulletin No. 261, Of the
Department of Agriculture, on "The
Cattle Tick in Its Relation to South
ern Agriculture" makes an impressive
display Of the enormous losses in
ficted on the Southern cattle indus
try by ticks. A single female tick,
between April Is and October 10, will
produce nearly seven billions of ticks,
which so infest, stunt and kill cattle
that an annual loss is occasioned
amounting, it is estimated, to $780,
100000.
According to Neymarck. the French
statistician, the French people hold
stocks, bonds and other like securities
to the amount of s1S,6O0,0 100000, the
increase since 1890 having been about
$4,000 100000. Deposits in savings
banks increased in 20 years by 5000
100000; the number. of depositors by
100000. Mutual relief societies in
creased their holdings in that period
by S21, 100000. The deposits of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
AMUSEMENT BENEFICIAL.
Davenport Democrat

1t was scientifically determined
years ago that amusement is a REM
edy in the cure of the insane. In
most state hospitals there is fund
to be drawn upon to provide pleasure
for those under treatment. The re-
port of the Iowa hospital at Mt.
Pleasant shows that the means en-
ployed for diverting the mind OF the
patient are considered more success
full in curing mental alienation than a
resort to materia medica.
A we'll organized hospital theatre
cal company gives two theatricals
each week for the benefit and enter
tainments of the insane. Three other
nights in the week there is band
concert These things are regular the
year round. Then on Saturday nights
during the winter time there is al
ways dance. Besides this on We'd
nesday night there is regularly a
stereopticon entertainment, a lecture.
a calesthenic exhibition or orchestral
concert, and on Sundays from Sept.
to June 80 there is church. This
makes full week with something In
the line of entertainment every day.
Then as an auxiliary to this treat
ment OF entertainment the women In
sane are induced to Go fancy work.
The report shows that the fancy
work is not only an excellent treat
ment ut is also financial success
to the institution and brings in quite
G. revenue.
Diversion has as powerful preven-
tive effect as 1t has curative. An
ALTO pieces Davenport patient after
detailing his symptoms to q medical
practitioner waited for an inquisition
that should disclose other points of
a potpourri of physical misery. The
doctor asked but one question, What
do you do for amusement" The lack.
of diversion had sent the patient to
his physician, who knew the seat of
the difficulty and was honest enough
to keep the corks in his bottles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
COMMERCE WITH CUBA.

Commerce OF the United States with
Cuba in the fiscal year just ended was
greater than in any earlier year of the
trade relations between the United
States and that island. This is par
ticularly true of exports The imports
from the island fell slightly below
those of 1895, due to the fall in the
price of sugar. but the exports to the
! islands were 25 per cent greater than
in 1905, rs per cent greater than In
1904, and about 100 per cent greater
than in 1908.
The growth in the exports to Cuba
during recent years has been very rap
X i'd. The value of exports to that is
land had never reacher the 20 million
dollar lire until the year 1893, when
they were "a millions. In 1894 they
were 20 millions, then during the war
period they dropped as low as n mill
ions. but in 1900 again crossed the ~
million line, being in that year 26k
million dollars In 1908 they again
dropped to little less than % mill
ions. in 1904 81 millions, in 1905 IS
millions and in 1906, $47,763,6SS.
In imports the gain is less strongly
marked. Prior to 1895 the value of the
Imports into the United States from
Cuba ranged in most years from 90 to
20 million dollars, being in 1874 50
millions, and in 1898 rs millions. The
year 1905, however, made record
& slightly higher than that of 1874, the
total value of imports from Cuba in
1906 being $s6,S04,259. In 1906, the
fiscal year just ended, the value of
imports into the island was Ss4,979.-
831, a slight decrease as compared with
1905,
This fall in the value of imports
from Cuba in 1906 was due solely to
the fall in the price of sugar. The
five articles forming the bulk of our
imports from Cuba are sugar, tobacco.
bananas. OF these, the most impor-
tant by far is sugar, which amounted
in value in 1905 to 60 million dollars,
tobacco 1871 millions, cigars and Gig
arets millions, iron ore millions,
and bananas l million. Tobacco, Gig
ars and cigarets, and iron ore show
an increase in the fiscal year 1906, and
bananas show reduction OF less than
half Il million dollars while sugar
shows a reduction of over million
dollars in value in 1906, as compared
with 1905. The quantity of sugar in
1906 was. however, more than 3S per
cent in excess of that in 1905, being
2,7S1.9O1.3SO pounds, and the value
s6o,20s.14s, against 2,o5T s4.1s9 pounds,
valued at se4,366,1o4. imported from
the island in 1905
The principal articles form ag the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04

Bryan will be the nominee of his
party in 1905 and every indication al
this time points to his election as the
next president of the United States
| insists the Dubuque Telegraph.
IF man doesn't know what he is
good for the presumption is he is good
for nothing. concisely states the
Sioux City Journal.
nation of speculation and over-stren-
uous religious profession, The COM
bination is one at which bank deposit
tors may look askance.
The Creston Advertisers Gazette
says that no republican can allow him
sif to be diverted by other issues from
supporting his party's candidate for
congress without being false to the re-
publican national administration
1--WE should be glad to see repuhli-
cans supporting this platform and
ticket. We do not care to pursue a
rubbing in policy The latch string
is out" says the Glidden Graphic.
But there is not gong 10 De any
cringing. begging or sycophartic
appeals to those who persist in re-
tanning their soreness-at least not
In this quarter"
The boiling Iowa City Republican
has this to say or Senator Dolliver:
"The thermometer never went down
faster before an Iowa blizzard tnan
has republican respect for Senator
Doliver since the state convention.
The sentiment may be unjust, and we
think much of it is, but he went in
and meddled where he should have
kept out, and il he gets burned he will
have his experience for his trouble.
The standpatters of Iowa are not in
humor for foolishness from anybody"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
We rather think not.

we rather thlnk not.
1t is alleged that HE is in town yet,
and is about to get his old position
back. or one equally as good.
We do not say that one man is the
cause for this continued DOWNFALL but
we do insist, as we always have, that
originally, the girl would have had a
pretty hard time falling from grace all
by her lonesome
1t is absolutely disgusting the way
these matters are treated by Society
Every once in a while we see in the
press an account of some one being
picked up, but ION account of the
standing of the family, the mans name
is withheld" Then the name of the
woman in the case is printed.
Just stop and think of it. Isn't 1t
sickening? Would 1t not be nearer the
truth to say that I'VE do not publish
the name of the man. as we are afraid
we will lose some business; or that 1t
might hurt us politically; or that he
might come in and beat our head
off"
Any one of these reasons would be
very near the truth, and The Optimus
is ashamed of it.
We have no words of sympathy Tor
the denizens of the red light district.
They are a deadly menace to society
Hand the men out few punches such
as are handed the women. and im1ne-
diately change for the better will be
noticed We do not make practice OF
mentioning these things, but some
times it gets SO strong we can not help
It, and it may be possible that The
Optimus will turn over a leaf and mem
ton these matters each week, and If 1t
does. the men in the case Will get what
is coming to them. be they business
men, bankers or hoboes.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
THE TWO SIDES TO IT.

Ie<tuol lSstpluS Splliiius-J
The Optimus does not want to say
or do anything that will In any way
encourage any man or woman to do
those things that in the eyes of the
law and society are wrong. and on the
other hand we do not want to see any
one get the worst of ii. When a man
or woman has committed a crime
against society they should be dealt
with in manner commensurate with
the crime. But there is too much of a
tendency to be too hasty, and in some
instances to be positively unfair in the
treatment of these cases. Some months
ago young woman got into miNup
in the city and went to Des Moines.
She has returned within the past week
or ten days. and has been handed
bunch after bunch ever since her ar
rival.
But how about the imam" in the
case? Did he have to leave, town TO
escape censure? Was he turned down
by unfeeling society?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
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Iowa Newspapers
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MIR. BRYAN's CAUTION.
IRagjster and Leader.

[RegiSter and Leader
Every paragraph of the speech is
full of appeal in an apparently
nom partisan way to the advocates
of reform There is not Il word that
is calculated to hurt the feelings OF
any partisan. Ii there is voter who
can be made to believe that the repub-
iicans are hating in the course Presi-
dent Roosevelt has set out in, Mr. Bry-
an does not propose to make it impos-
sble for him to join by shocking any
of his prejudices. Age and experience
comes to the third great battle. as firm
in his convictions and purposes as he
was in 1896, but much more careful and
eonsiderate, and much more adroit if
less eloquent and convincing.
The speech is much more note
worthy for the care with which 1t has
been written than it is for eloquence.
Mr. Bryan is not at his best when he
is held down to caution of statement.
He is the ratural hero of the hust-
ings. President Roosevelt would have
put dynamic force into such speech.
because that is his talent Mr.. Bryan
never does unless he has free rein
and the inspiration of the hour. Mr..
Bryan can be very tame and uninter-
esting on occasion. His editorial
work has not been brilliant nor In
fiuential His letters from abroad
have been mediocre. But Mr.. Bryan
before the committees III the st.
Louis convention was a power this
country has rarely seen the equal of.
The end, as the beginning, of the
Bryan movement of 1908 is with the
republican party If republican lead
ers are wise there will be no more
in the Bryan program to attract voters
Two years from row than there WAS in
1886. If republican leaders are not
Aise every element of reform and dis
content may join to give Bryan the
most overwhelming victory since the
triumph of Thomas Jefferson. The sea-
sons will have something to do with
it. the workings of the national legis-
lation OF the past congress something,
but in the end the intelligent foresight
of republican leadership will be the
factor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04

Therefore, when your kidneysare weak
or out of order, you can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do ito
duty.
If you are sick or feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DR..
Kilmer S swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are we'll they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys.
The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
DR.. Kiln1er's Swamp-Root, the greas
kidney remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, and is sold
s; !: :: ::: Ell; E: = !;
have sample bottle Home Of swamp-aoos.
by mail free, also pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DR.. Kilrner & Co., Bing-
hamton, \. Y. Don't make any 1nlsteke,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the adj
dress. Binghamton. N. Y. on every bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04


"A number of reasons have been dis
covered in the vicinity of Burlington
why the Iowa anti-pass law is bad
thing"
Consistency thou art buckle ber-
ry," exclainns the Quimby Monitor
"On1y a few short weeks ago lot of
republicans were fighting Governor
Cummins, claiming that he was a
democrat; now they are threatening
to become democrats themselves to get
even with him."
IF picket should hang around
your farm, refusing to work for you
himself, and keeping other people
from doing so, the chances are that
you would get out the old shotgun
loaded to the muzzle and fill that
'picket's' hide full of lead, making a
regular mine of him if he didn't quit
the neighborhood," asserts the Ma
quoketa Record "Yet business men who
want to run their own business are
expected to put up with just that sort
of thing"
The Rockwell City Advocate says:
1--WE went into the contest for the
nomination of Geo. ID. Perkins with the
understanding that we would support
the nominee of the state convention.
Had Mr.. Perkins been nominated we
would now have been urging unity in
his favor. The rule that will not work
both ways is poor indeed
1t Is the opinion of the Ottumwa
Courier that Bryan has failed in ev-
erything except money making and
dominating the democratic party.
Those two things go together, hand in
hand. The life of one means the life
of the other"
The Dubuque Times "begs to advise
the next general assembly that the
need for a 100000 hog pavilion on the
state fair grounds is no more pressing
than the need for funds with which 10
offer more liberal premiums at Du
buque's Tri-Sate fair
To the Keokuk Gate City the
trouble with that big PHILADELPHIA
bank which went to pieces the other
day seems to have been an amalga-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04

lIdCGU 10 l11C KlUIlGyo,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood
that is their work,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by Over Work.

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
| 1t used to be considered that only
| urinary and bladder troubles were to be