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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-12-21

Insurance Commissioner Folk Of
Tennessee, aided by the commissioners
of Alabama, Arkansas and other states
is making hard fight against the old
life insurance companies for the il
legal use of money that rightfully be-
longs to policy holders for the purpose
of securing proxies to use in the cleo
tion of officers that are to their liking
and will continue in the old ways of
doing things. The commissioners of
a number of our other southern states
have been very active in efforts. to
protect the interests of their policy
holders and are deserving Of commen-
dation. 1t was hoped that the reve-
lation and investigations of the past
few years would purify the atmos-
phere around the old companies, but
apparently it is still as foul as ever.
This is a subject that should deeply
interest thousands Of Mississippians
who are paying millions annually to
these companies as premiums on poll
cies. Past exposures demand that
there be cleaning out of those in
charge of these institutions, but it
looks as if this would be impossible.
Proxies have been secured to such
an extent that it is believed that the
administration ticket put out by those
already in charge will be elected. In
that event, our people may expect a
repetition of the disgraceful and dis
honest methods employed in the past.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
WHEN THE FIGHT BEGAN.

Fred w. Lehman, noted lawyer OF
ST Louis, very prominent democrat
ana former Iowan, in an interview
Tuesday explained the origin of the
railroad fight against Cummins, when
he said:
''Rut, say, do you know when this
fight commenced? No; we'll, I'll tell
you. It commenced during the legisla-
tive session Of 1883. Mr.. Cummins had
been elected to the legislature because
OF prohibition. He had been attorney
for railroads. The lobby of that day
John Runnels, Judge Hubbard, J. w.
Blythe, Frank Meek and others
wanted to dictate to him what he
should do. They wanted to sit by the
side Of members in their seats and
write their passes Mr.. Cummins re-
fused to do their bidding. He told
them then and there that he was elect
ed to represent the people, and he
would serve his constituents. They
ouli not use him, and they turned
against him. That Is where the fight
commenced against Cummins. know
because was there and had personal
knowledge OF what was going on"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19

saw no flowers on stands near the
! siaughterers, nor was soft music play
| ing close by. Ladies did not stand in
white dresses. Nay, these latter do
not go into their own kitchens after
the wreck OF n four-cour dinner that
the little dailies call 'sumptuous, ele-
CANT" etc. The broken food on the
kitchen table and the soiled dishes are
more disgusting than a dogs cleanup
meal--he gets away with every scrap
and leaves not a wrack behind" as
the poet says, and the dog has the
decency to lick clean the plates and
saucers The average dog manages
wife and hired girl
Suppose you go into the kitchen of
your favorite hotel or restaurant in
Chicago Or, perhaps, kitchens nearer
home. Then report. Don't go into a
boarding house Kitchen If you don't
want to lose the poetry and charm
of the situation. Did butter ever come
on to your own table with long fine
hair in it? An oriole would just like
to get such hair, especially II 1t We're
bright red. or white. to weave into its
next for picturesque effect. Thunder
and lightning. don't ever go into the
pantry or kitchen or dairy house. IL you
are poet and want to stay one. The
F, fact is, the basis of all our lives is con-
| founded cheap and nasty We are at
bottom animals, and want to go to
heaven, mainly to get rid of our dirty
carcasses and the prosaic modes of liv-
ling. No wonder we put nice dishes
and flowers or the table to make us
forget how low the whole business of
keeping alive is, and have music play
ed in the next room to take off am
other chunk OF the curse.
The whole bloody business is dis
gushing, and for one. we want no death
and blood and murder either in our
diet, or our sport, or our theology.
Moses certainly knew what he was
about when he gave the Jews his opin-
ion about hogs and hog meat. And a
few centuries later Mohammed con-
firmed his judgment. The idea of kill
ing steer, heifer, sheep, lamb, pig.
hog, chicken. turkey. and what not,
and, instead of letting the carcasses go
back to dust, arrest the process for a
time, and salt down the corpse In a
barrel, or smoke it, or jerk it, or freeze
III IN cola storage room, aHu Soiis W
the grave yard every day to cut off
hunk of the deceased and fry or boil or
broil slices of the corpse pah! How
can human beings do that sort o
thing?
You are just eating corpse--that's
the size Of it. Mary Kingsley, OF Eng
land. was sent by "a London
institution to West Africa to gather
rare plants, and she boated up
the rivers and visited the natives. and
was well received by the cannibal tribes
and feared not. One night, very late.
her boatmen got her to a village. and
she begged for place to sleep In the
morning, in the dim twilight of her
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
the FIELD OF COMING FORTUNES.

Eastern journals are predicting very
apromising results from the visit which
sSecretary Of State Root will make to
sthe South American republics. 1t was
sthe presidents purpose to send as a
fdelegate to the Pen-lAmerican congress
Sthe ranking member Of his cabinet, in
Ahe hope that by giving such marked
Recognition to the republics of the
southern continent more intimate
scommercial relation might be culti-
waited which would promote trade for
The states with these Latin Am erican
people One of the ships Of the United
states navy has been put at the secre-
ssary's service and he will make as
Anuch conmotion as he can as he goes
Publicity and his speeches are to do
Mhe rest.
The idea Of soliciting business from
south America is based upon very
eorrect estimate Of the woeful ignor-
ance which ell-informed people in the
Atates have OF South American coun-
sries. An educated lady who was born
End raised in Philadelphia, but VINO
Aas spent her seven years of married
life in Chilli, recently told the Times
Republican editor that the questions
ssked OF her about the Chilian coun-
ry by intelligent friends in the states
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
was astonishing. She said that one
woman actually inquired seriously
whether they had moon and stars in

was astonishing. She said that one
woman actually inquired seriously
whether they had a moon and stars in
Chilli.
Yet there was country where en-
terprising business men from the
United States were getting rich in the
wheat milling business, where tn.
above mentioned lady's husband In
vested in farms at 500 per acre and
had native tenants farming on shares:
where he had been disappointed in a
drove of stocker cattle with he had
purchased from the Argentine ranges.
and had fed for market on his farm
on the west side of the Andes Not
only was his country so commonplace
as all this according to our standards.
but he and other milling friends of his
had consolidated their various mills
into milling trust or syndicate, and
one of his business errands in this
country was to purchase machinery
for an artificial ice plant, to be shipped
to Chill and installed in connection
with a creamery which he had just
taken on as side investment.
These things were going on in that
remote and, from our viewpoint,
strange land. while we wondered
whether the moon shown in Chill
largely because it would consume a
months time to make the trip to
Gillian port, so inadequate are our
transportation facilities in that direc-
ton.
The facts are that on the east coast
of that continent Argentine affords all
the range of climate which exists in
this country from Key West to Nova
Scotia. Argentine has vast prairies in
the temperate belt, where cattle kings
Craze herds on single ranches forty
miles square. Great cities are grow>
ing up modern in every detail. The
time will come within fifty years when
the tide of emigration and of specu-
iation will have been turned toward
South America. The new country and
mushroom fortunes will be located
there. Today business is conduted on
80 and SO per cent margins, and the
field for investment is a rich one, pro-
vided one understands the country and
the people. Men from the states must
become acquainted with the southern
moon and stars, however, before COM
merce will amount to much between
our people and our southern neigh
bors. The president hopes to start
campaign of education.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
kN ynYrs- 32ep,hlna1S Iatn,r anr, anpNly 1906

room, she awoke ad CROPPED arounh, ana
her hands collided with bits of human
anatomy hung up for use--here a part
of a mans leg, side meat tongue,
rouue meat. outlets, shanks for soup,
entrails for the dogs-the whole shoot
ing match was there, and all the re
mains" had been smoked. and the ma
,ives kept this cemetery for pantry and
kitchen. In their tribal wars they took
prisoners for the comissary, and did
not bury the dead on either side-that
was sheer waste-~they smoked the car
casses and ate them. Why not? It's
Just as respectable. laying education
and custom aside-as to make chow OF
beef or mutton or pork
When you kill something why don't
YOU let it go natures road to decay
and fall back to dust. instead of try
ing to preserve the remains that you
may at leisure eat hunk of corpse
|, which should by good rights have had
funeral?
We don't care how hard Roosevelt hits
the packing houses. We don't need to
live on corpses, or be dependent on live
cemeteries Your cold storage, and re-
frigerators and smoke houses are de-
vices invented to keep corpses from
visibly decaying. They say, to realize
tender meat, keep it awhile in re-
frigerator to mellow that is, to. de-
cay a bit. then chew the vile thing
while il is enroute to rottenness.
We suppose 1t is fair 10 say that
packery must stink-no help for 1t.
If you must have the odors of hello
trope carnations, roses altar of roses,
musk. cologne, tee, in your royal nos
trils. keep away from the shambles. The
stock yards perfume is sui generis, and
1t has very loud voice, or, rather, has
swift and powerful wings and can fly
far, and is abundantly able to advertise
itself.
1t is helpful bit of philosophy, this
feeding, and, the preparation for it,
cannot possibly be made entirely agree
able either to the senses or to the im-
agination. 1t is the penalty and dis
court we must pay for being mortal
When we shed the body, we shall have
fair show, and not until then. There
fore. the poet sang. II would not live
always" He yearned for a square
deal in the sweet bye and bye.
Finally, eschew corpse meat. What's
the matter with fruits and cereals?
They, at least, are innocent and beau
tiful and nourishing as we'll.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19

gain of at least S20O,000,000 over 1901
aa agricultural reached the enormous
total of $500 SIS, SODA gain of $780,
100000 over the preceding year. The
only record approaching this was made
In 1901, when the total for agricul
tural exports was 1857 900, 900. For
twenty years, in fact, our exports of
raw products have been practically
stationary, and our marked gains in
foreign trade have been due to the
rapid increase in value Of our manu-
featured exports.
A recent consular report describes a
cotton tree of India which produces a
fine quality of cotton and yields from
to 10 pounds of clean fiber yearly
for 20 years. AS groves of these trees
them would be large and profitable
The fiber is classed as fine white in
color, staple 1 v to / y inches long, and
will spin up to 60. Only recently has
the cultivation of this cotton tree been
entered upon. tho its existence has
been known for many years. 1t is to
be feared. however, that the hopes en-
tertained by the exploiters of 1ndia's
cotton tree are unduly optimistic. A
correspondent of the London CONNER
third of the cotton growing area of
India were planted with the cotton
tree the result in the second year
would be a crop in excess of that OF
America" There is little probability,
however, that one third of India's cot
tong growing area will soon be planted
with this wonderful tree. and less
probability that when planted it will
realize expectations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
smother;ne ouack With Ruckwheat.
Hoo Notes.

Never breed immature sows.
Avoid feeding corn during the sum-
mer months.
Cleanliness is the surest safe guard
against disease.
Keep salt and wood ashes out in the
hog pasture.
No show hog was ever made from
potato parings and water.
Let the boar run on grass as much
as possible this summer.
Feed the sows literally Remember
that the function of motherhood is
severe.
Cracked wheat is good for little
pigs. 1t gives them muscle, bone and
blood.
If you are too busy to disinfect"
don't be surprised il hog cholera pays
you q visit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
Topics Of the Times

y 3
Outside of sporting circles there
seems to be little demand for kings.
Whatever the alienists may decide, a
man who is sane enough to shoot
straight is usually sane enough to hang
straight.
Are you buying pure food or help
ing eat up the decoctions ON hand when
the law took effect?
1t is an open question whether Ed.
Hunters cold storage delegates will
keep until Aug. 1.
Mr.. Bryan.s assertion that the free
silver issue is only sleeping will scarce
ly bring him the enthusiastic support
of the gold democrats.
The duels following Dreyfus' vindi-
cation are lame affairs compared with
the battle royal of lying that preceded
his conviction.
The prospectus for the proposed
electric road between New York and
chicago promises a line $50 miles
shorter, passage ten hours quicker
and fare SO cheaper. Get your tick
cts for the electric!
Will Mr.. Bryan's statement that he
lost his political clothes while in swim
ming be construed to his injury into
an admission that he Is given to BATH
ing regularly?
The mosquito lit on the sleeping man,
And looked for a place to drill.
''The world owes me living" he said,
And at once sent in his bill.
Baltimore American.
Advocates Of sanitary laws govern
ing tubercular patients may find salts
faction in the statistics of the "mari-
time" district of New York state, where
sanitation and precaution have re-
duced the number Of deaths from tu-
berculosis last year, was trifle over
5000, or not far from % for every TO-
OOo This is almost as low rate as
prevails in rural France.
Senator, what do you think your
prospects are for bein re-elected?"
Fine" replied Senator Badger.
They've got to do it or I'll tell how
they elected me the first time."-Mil-
waukee Sentinel
Mrs. wilhelmina Patton Fleming, who
has been so successful as curator of
astronomical photographs for Harvard
University, has been elected a member
London. She is native of Dundee.
Scotland, and has been connected with
the Harvard Observatory twenty-sev-
en- years. She discovered her first star
in 1887. A partial list of her discov-
cries includes eight stars Of the type
Nova, eleven new variables and eighty
three stars in cluster which was sup
posed to contain but fifteen. Mrs.
Fleming modestly attributes her sue
cess rather to the equipment at the OBJ
servatory rather than to her own tall
ents.
The fiscal year 1so5-'ns broke all rec
ords in the American export trade.
Complete figures for the twelve months
have not yet been issued. but it is clear
that on the basis of returnsto May 81
for all classes of articles. and of re-
turns to June 80 for breadstuffs, pro-
visions cotton and mineral oils. our
exports will reach a total value Of
more than s1,7o0,ooo,e0o, showing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
Iowa Newspapers
WIN OR RUIN? NO!
davenport Times]

Some papers assert that it is the
intention of the anti-Cummins men to
force fight at Des Moines that will
cause rupture, pointing out that 1t
this is done it will leave them in the
control Of the state organization and
entitle them to the name OF regulars
w. E. Sherlock, alleging he is writ
ing for the farmers of keokuk coun-
ty, advises the use of brute force
Practical notice has been served by
w. F. Parrot that Governor Cum
minis will have to show cause why he
should not be restrained from naming
the Polk county delegation. w. E.
Sherlock says it would be better to lose
a few congressman and other officials
than to concede anything to those OPP
posing republican principles and then
he says Cummins is opposing republic
can principles.
When a great gathering of men as
sci . les the radicals generally are
turlsd down and turned down hard.
Individual opinion counts for little ex-
cept as it tends to mould the opinion.
of the mass. The republicans of Iowa
will not be stampeded. They will not
forget they are republicans first and
factionalists afterward.
When man goes into a political
contest he goes in with the under
standing that those who are in the
majority hsve a right to win. The
delegates are thinking. They are
scattered far and wide over this state.
Most of them will come to Des Moines
with the decision that whatever is
done there must be no split in the
republican party. for to preserve
that party is their first and most i'm
portant business. They will agree,
too, that the majority opinion is the
only opinion that has right to be
heard as the republicamsm of Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
CHECKERS COMING HOME.

The Orange City Herald contains the
4 announcement of Samuel D. Rinaker,
4 of Lyon county, as a congressional
candidate before the forthcoming re-
publican district convention against e.
H. Hubbard present congressman from
the Eleventh. The announcement lines
up the progressive republicans Of the
district against the railroad attorneys
system Of selecting republican nomi-
nees for state and congressional Of
flces The announcement presumptive-
" accuses MFR. Hubbard of endorsing
the Ed Hunter system and states an
undeniable fact when 1t says: IF so,
: he does not represent Eleventh dis
trict sentiment and recites other facts
I quite as SELF evident when it Declares:
The party in the district is strong
enough to preserve its integrity and Its
self respect In spite Of Sioux City. The
only support from the northern part
OF the state given Railroad Lobbyist
Hunter In his desperate endeavor to
split the party. comes from Sioux City.
and this great progressive district can
not be expected to stand idly by. thus
giving passive Endorsement to Hunter
and his piratical gang.
congressman Hubbard. with de-
sire to be reasonably fair, has long
been between the devil and the deep
sea Crowded out of a secure nest by
the local railroad politicians who have
been behind Perkins campaign, from
the snap caucuses in Woodbury. to the
Hunter scheme to disfranchise a ma.
joritv of state delegates, his activity
was marked He became part of such
anti-progressive sentiment as exists In
Z the Eleventh district He hurried to
and fro over his district with rapid re-
luctance, IN his forced efforts to line
the Eleventh up against Cummins.
1 He has seen ten of the thirteen coun-
ties DC his district rise in wrath to res
pudiate the attempt to foist a railroad
candidate upon a district as strong in
its demand for political reform as it is
in its republican majorities.
Mr.. Hubbard is not unlikely to learn
the lesson that has been taught in the
Eleventh on other occasions, that no
one man or coterie of men own the
Eleventh district. It is enthusiastic
cally for Cummins because Cumnins
represents It's own theory of state
government Cummins, standing for
the men and policies George D. Per-
kins has allied himself with, could
scarcely carry township in the ten
counties that stood by him against an
Eleventh district corporation candi-
date. Eleventh district republicans
know what they do not want and how
to get rid of it, and If Mr. Hubbard
finds himself alone this fall with a
few tail feathers and vain regret, he
can find such chilly comfort as he may
in the reflection that his own chickens
have come home to roost
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
Harvest Notes.

I'm buying binder Irvine remember
that the strength of the twire is meas
ured by it's weakest places.
1t is bad economy to use poor bind
ing Irvine, for what does 1t profit a
man to save. 10 cents on a ball OF
Irvine If he. his team, and binder are
delayed an hour day while he is
tinkering with poorstwine?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19

tIdNGU 10 ViIS- NN1hC >,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
iii the disorder OF
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
aud purify the blood
that &c their work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19

Excursion Tickets to Des Moines, Iowa.
Via the Northwestern Line, will be
sold July 80. 81. and August i, limited
to return until August 2. inclusive, ac-
count of republican state convention.
Apply to agents Chicago & North
western Railway
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
po Mt NeoIeot Your Bowels.

Many serious diseases arise from me-
glect of the bowels. Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets are pleas
ant and agreeable laxative They in
vigorate the liver and regulate the
bowels. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
BuRRELL AND THE BUTCHERS
washington, Ia. Pressl

And we want no beef since we went
thru Swift's slaughter house last fall
at the fat stock show. Keep your beet
hog meat, mutton-we'll take protose.
instead You can't very well have
Persian rugs and art squares laid down
near where bloody demons are cutting
the throats of domestic animals. We
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
Sheep Notes.


Make all changes gradually.
You won't gain anything by crossing.
Old pastures are often fruitful with
worms.
Sheep like upland pasture. They
need dry footing.
Wet or muddy yards are sure breed
ers of foot diseases.
What's the good of a salt box if
you don't keep salt in it?
Give your boy a lamb and he will
soon get interested in sheep.
Remember that the lamb crop de-
ponds upon the care of the ewes.
Give your sheep good feed and care
and they won't need condition powders.
Don't buy a new ram unless you are
sure he is better than your old one.
The farmer who tries to raise lambs
without roots and clover makes mis-
take
The lamb makes the sheep and good
care or lack of it produces valuable
animal or scrub.
Old pastures become distasteful to
sheep Give them a change every
three or four weeks.
Don't stack straw where the sheep
can get at it. They will fill their
f1eeces with chaff which will injure
the value of the wool.
See that the water trough, spring
or run furnishes plenty of pure fresh
water. Don't make your sheep drink
green slime this summer.
Keep an eye out for a good buck if
you need one this year. Don't wait I'M
til the breeding season is on or you
might not get just what you want.
1t isn't safe to buy show ram, he
is probably fitted up for the occasion.
You will get better results from one
that is we'll bred and in good thriving
condition. Good breeding and individ-
uality are the things that count with q
buck.