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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
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called "14-year- whisky" could be
made while you wait He explained
that he used alcohol and caramel with
navoring extracts and the coloring eX-
tracts according to the particular
brand of whisky he sought to make,
whether Scotch. rye or brandy. The
doctor said that blended whisky Is a
very poor substitute for real whisky.
He failed to add that the same head
aches and heartaches 20 with the one
as with the other.
The department of agriculture Is EN-
poying a mechanical smoker. with the
intention OF improving the quality of
cigar tobacco. The machine takes five
cigars at time. and smokes them
them with more regularity than hu
man being. 1t takes a ten seconds
even draw, gives a puff, and then waits
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
GET BUSY WITH THE ROAD DRAGs.

From now on there will be no dearth
of good roads talk. On the highways
question the state of Iowa is much like
the celebrated Arkansan whose roof
leaked. In dry weather 1t didn't need
mending and when 1t was raining it
was too wet to work. Here in Iowa
we drive merrily over the smooth
roads that obtain thru most of the
year and complain bitterly during the
spring breakup, when the bottom falls
out Of the black dirt roads. Once a
year the outlying farms are marooned.
While the mud endures we can't fix the
roads. When 1t dries up and the hubs
wear down, they don't need it. 1t is the
Arkansan at the crossroads over
again.
Within few weeks the dormant
winter life of the farms will spring
again into the most intense activity.
No one is buster than farmer getting
in crops. And just at this period of
activity is the time when the best work
may be done on the black prairie soil
that is the foundation of nearly ali the
roads of central Iowa. The farmers
can not be brought out to work the
roads when the oats remain to be
disced in, and the back forty is still
TO be plowed for corn. They are going
to attend to their own individual bus
mess first. The roads are general bus
mess and what Is everybody's business
is nobody's business.
However, every farmer can and
should insist that the township trus-
tees attend to the grading in the spring.
Every farmer can and should own a
King drag and use it to keep the
grades in condition. He owes that
much for the right to live in Iowa.
Last year the Times Republican had
a road drag built. 1t cost about S.. 1t
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07

"The primary bills are still dead and
the mourners are still multiplying in
numbers" remarks the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07

but from now on he will be as anxious
to take Delivers scalp as he is to get
Cummins'." The Freeman-Tribune jus
titles it's prediction by the course of
the Blythe propaganda heretofore,
which" it affirms, us determined to
crush every public man it cannot DOM
lneer and use to its own selfish advan-
tage."
The Clinton Herald points out that
every time postal rates have been low
cred, postal receipts have increased,
and suggests "the same law that
caused this no doubt would operate to
increase the revenue of railroads with
fares at cents mile" The Herald
commends it as IAN experiment worth
trying"
There is little likelihood now of any
legislation of this kind at this session,
but the question of the state primary
will enter into the campaign this year
in no uncertain manner" confidently
asserts the Grand Junction Blobe, and
advises: mo man should be elected
this year to eiether branch of the leg
islative body who is not pledged to
support a bill of this kind"
1.-THE primary bills are still dead and
the mourners are still multiplying in
numbers" remarks the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
The Fort Dodge Messenger feels sure
that "the government of the United
States. including the congress of the
United States, was never more clean
of corruption, never more truly repre-
sentative of the people and responsive
to their will than at the present time"
While 1t takes the people some
time to become fully awakened to their
actual needs, the Bode Bugle looks to
the coming election for "a splendid
vindication Of Governor Cummins and
the principles for which he has strug-
gled, and as stern rebuke to "spite
work. dirty corporate politics, and I'M
progressiveness.' Governor Cummins
stands for principle" declares the Blu
gle He stands for square DEAL
He stands with President Roosevelt,
LaF'ollette and other reformers Of the
day, against monopolistic graft and
greed. Geo. D. Perkins stands for
what?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07

was built of oak, shod with iron. The
build one quite as good for so cents.
The Times Republican picked out a
mile and a quarter stretch of newly
graded guinbo road. tho worst leading
into the city 1t hired a man with
team to go over 1t after every rain and
last summer was rainy. 1t cost the
Times-R Republican, paying top prices
for everything. about $50 TO put and
keep that stretch of bad road in shape
fit for speedway. There was no time
when 1t was not in good shape for
speedy travel Farmers trotted their
teams over 1t, but We're compelled to
slow down to walk the instant they
lesson in road keeping.
Let the farmers get busy with the
road drag. 1t is likely under ordinary
conditions that mile OF road may be
kept good at an expense for labor not
to exceed SIS during the season. Every
farmer should be willing to contribute
so much. Every township could af-
ford to furnish or pay for the drags
out of the road funds. Good roads are
certain to come one way or another.
Hard roads bear hard on the taxable
property of the farming districts and
one of the most certain ways to avoid
such taxes is to keep the dirt roads In
condition. Get busy with the drags!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
OUR VIEW OF COMMERCIAL TREATIES

| Illustrative of the narrow view
taken by reciprocal or favored nation"
relations taken by the United States
in its dealing with other nations /. N.
Stone, tariff expert of the bureau of
statistics. treats of the matter in an
zine. Our view of commercial treat
les appears to be opposed in one very
vital respect to that held by other
countries Thus the divergence of
views that has been especially marked
and notable over our commercial rela-
tons with Germany The Germans
have held that whenever Germany re-
duces any duties in favor of one coun-
try, it Immediately extends the same
rates to all other countries with which
1T has most favored treaties. On the
contrary, when the United States
grants reductions to foreign country
in return for similar concessions, these
reductions are not extended to favored
nations unless they reciprocate in a
similar way. Mr.. Stone endeavors to
indicate in his article to what extent
each government has held consistently
to its point of view Mr.. Stone points
out an inconvenient possibility under
the American theory:
There is another and far more inn
portant aspect of the question urged
by the advocates of unlimited most
favored nation treatment. Under the
American construction of the most
favored nation principle, a party to a
as to whether the provisions stipulated
therein for safeguarding its interests
will not be upset by some new treaty
subsequently entered into by the other
party with some third country. The
United States might, for example,
grant a reduced rate on textiles to
Germany; if it saw fit. after the con-
clusion of that treaty, to grant a still
lower rate on the same article to
France, this obvious discrimination
against Germany would be perfectly
legitimate under the American con-
struction of the most-favored- nation
treatment. and Germany would not be
able to get the reduced rate granted
to France except by new bargaining
with the United States. Although it
actually never occurred in the history
of this country, the possibility of such
discrimination, which is obviously at
variance with the spirit of most-favor-
ed-nation practice, is entirely out of
the question under the European sys-
TEN of unconditional stfavored-
nation treatment"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
Topics Of the Times

The Cedar Rapids Republican adj
candidate for governor Of the Fifth
district, Major Rathbun. The Repub-
leans interest in the majors candi-
dacy seems to be entirely expended on
the outlying counties from Linn. What
is the Republican doing for the major
in Linn?
A Milwaukee woman is asking dam
ages Of three quarters of million of
people who persuaded her husband TO
leave her. The rate seems to be too
high in Wisconsin. If the lady will
come over into Iowa she can get a
dozen better ones with half the money.
Senator Foraker says there is no
politics in the rate bill. Quite likely
from Senator Foraker's standpoint his
opposition to the measure is plain
business.
Despite all this talk of race suicide
"a new sucker is born every minute"
Sometime back in United States
history We're not one Longworth and
his fance pretty prominent people?
There is chance for the enterprise
ing American Snowman. 1t is reported
from Dresden that Germany will wit
ness public auction that is probably
unique. The house at Eisenbach in
which Martin Luther lived from 1893
to 1901, being then youth of from
10 to IS, is to be offered for sale, to-
gether with all the historical objects
and documents associated with Luther
and his period which it contains.
While the pure food bill was under
consideration by the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce,
the other day, DR.. Wiley, chief chemist
of the department of agriculture. gave
practical demonstration of how So
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
gllarrlr Z 1906

best / could.--John A. McCalPs last
estimate of himself
The above clipped from the daily
papers of ten days ago, is whole
sermon. But 1t suggests so much
that to use it as a text for longer
sermon by this scribe. is the purpose
Just now.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
DOlLIyER'S EXPLANATION.

Senator Dolliver in his interview has
shown us that men in high places arc
no more free from jealousy than are
the rest of us. 1t has long been nc
secret that the Washington delegation
WAS very largely opposed to Governor
Cummins. especially those occupying
the high places, for they knew what
the people of wisconsin did for La
Toilette and there is the danger of an
irresistible demand for Cummins fol
the senate. However, it was not very
grateful In Dolliver, after Cummins
had publicly given him the grandest
kind of a send off and Il free right OF
he favored Perkins for governor. The
explanation is fair enough. If Dolliver
pledged himself to Perkins before he
knew that CuInmins was coming out
as he says he did, it Is right that he
should stand by Perkins now, but his
remarks about boss of a faction
etc. will simply put ammunition into
the, war magazines of Governor Cum
MINIS enemies and the enemies of
Governor Cummins I'M state politics are
the enemies of Senator Delivers nor
thern Iowa friends.
The fact of the matter is that Dolli-
YER himself rises in public esteem in
direct proportion as he exhibits the
courage to fight for the principles
which Cummins fights for all of the
time. When he begins to play har-
mony and suppresses principles for
party peace, he sets his friends to
CATION to the last national convention
and without protest permitted Blythe,
railroad boss, to cast the vote Of
that delegation in opposition to the
presidents friends, his political stock
in Iowa went down. When he threw
himself into the thick of the presidents
fight against the Blythes of all states
and of the nation, he rose to the full
stature of a hero in 1owa's estimation.
Cummins. He admits that he stands
for the principles for which Cummins
stands. but he disapproves of Cum
Minis willingness to fight for these
principles yet Dolliver himself never
grows large in craftsmanship or pop
ularity until he is willing to fight for
them himself.
If Dolliver only knew it his place in
Iowa state politics is at Cummins'
his mouth shut. His greatest danger
is from J. w. Blythe, for that man can
not see why Elkins and Aldrich can
sit in the United States senate when
that right is denied him. Let the
Cummins' movement die in Iowa or
even pass into temporary eclipse and
Mr. Blythe returns to power. When
he has returned he will claim Mr.. Dolli-
ver's seat for himself and there will
De none 10 SAY MN nay. WI. plylHe
has plenty Of precedent to support his
claim to the right to represent his rail-
roads in the senate at the head of the
pie counter. Dolliver does not say that
he opposes Cummins, It's true, he
rather explains that he was pledged to
Perkins before Cummins became a
candidate and when some of Cummins'
friends were for Perkins, and that he
can't go back on his promise, but
Dolliver should have been careful to
have made this explanation in such
language as would not furnish ammu-
milton with which Cummins' enemies
could pour shot and shell into Dolli-
ver's own friends in northern Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07

half minute before 1t draws again.
Each cigar is watched carefully during
the process of combustion, and every
detail affecting the filler, binder. wrap
per, ash, and aroma is noted down.
the seeds of the particular plants usel
In the manufacture OF the cigars are
put aside for next years planting. In
this way the department is convinced
they will finally produce an unrivaled
tobacco.
For years has woman's wrong attire
Been ills upon her pressing;
But of those wrongs our glorious age
Will see great redressing.
Baltimore American.
Within the limits Of Cook county,
which means Chicago, there are 1,400
grass widows drawing annually $672,-
900 in alimony from former husbands.
The average number of divorces an
nualy is $4,000 and they cost the
county $4,000 year. And yet some
like that!
The man who at the latest Is receiv-
ing the encomiums Of press and pulpit
on account of his firm stand for pub
Lefty as to the affairs of the Mutual
Illinois Central, breaches of the "high-
err economy" in the March Arena. He
believes that waste is an American
characteristic from bottom to top. He
says that it is proverbial that what is
thrown out of our kitchens would sup
port frugal people In almost any
country in Europe. As to public at
fairs, he thinks there is not only waste
in administration, including graft
which is combination of bribery and
larceny but also asserts that our laws
are SO framed as not to get the best
use out of the taxes, citing the in
creased postal deficit. He concludes
that the breadwinners and taxpayers
suffer because they do not hold their
rulers to strict accountability. His
rect. Commenting on this Editor
Flower says Fish is impractical, be-
cause the financial resources of the
few very rich is such, that they can
ruin or silence directors who seek to
tIhwart their purposes.
Nothing is new under the sun. a
correspondent of the Boston Herald
writes: "It is true there are few
things new under the sun. Air beds
or what we call pneumatic beds, were
used by the Romans before the Chris
tian era. The most remarkable dupli-
cation of an old invention is the nickel
in the slot-machine This was first
in the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt,
for the purpose of supplying holy wa
ter that which had been blessed by
the priests, to the people who desired
it. The machine was urn shaped, with
a small cylinder inside, through which
ran rod connecting a valve at the
bottom of the cylinder with one at the
top. These were operated by lever,
which closed the bottom valve while
opening that at the top, when the CYL
inder would fill with a fixed amount
of water. To obtain the water cup
was placed at the outlet, a coin Of
three drachnae, equal to about IS
cents of our money, was dropped into
the slot on to a scale pan, in the end
of the lever; this opened the cylinder
at the top and closed the lower valve,
allowing the coin to slide off, the
weight of water closing the top valve,
opening the lower one and allowing the
water to run into the cup. This is the
basis of all patented slot machines Of
the present time, and dates back to
nearly 800 B. c."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
A Scientific Wonder.

The cures that stand to its credit
make Bucklens Arnica Salve a scien-
tific wonder. 1t cured e. r. milford,
lecturer for the Patrons of Husbandry,
Waynesboro, Pa, of distressing case
of piles. 1t heals the worst burns,
sores, boils, ulcers, cuts, wounds, chill
hlains and salt rheum. Only Is cents
at Mcdonald & Mahood's drug store,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-07
,CwA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Noting the moveemnt OF Iowa emil
grants to Northwest Canada the Da-
vcnport Democrat says: These emil
grants will lose in all that goes to
make up the comforts of home. Ihcy
will make sacrifices In the school facil-
ities their children have enjoyed. And
i'm other ways they will be losers They
are giving up certainty for an UNI
known quantity Those who turn their
backs on Iowa and the United States
are not to be congratulated.
TO the Webster City freeman-Trib-
une. the action of Senators Aldrich.
IGlkins and Foraker in trying to hunlil-
late the Iowa senator and discredit the
Dolllver-H Hepburn bill, shows conclu-
sively the influences that Will here
after be arraycd against him IL he peg
sists In standing up for the people
Blythe will move slowly and cautiously
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Always S(aunch
And True

The Denver Republican has al
ways avoided the iallacies ant
knaveries OF yellow journalism
md its steadily increasing Circula
ton proves conclusively that ii
policy of telling the plain Trutl
without exaggeration or misreprc.
'entation, standing last for thu
Right, !; heartily approved wit
growing force by the intelligen
Public to which it appeals.
To read it is a liberal Education
md the citizen who goes withou
t does a positive harm to himself
10 his family, and to the commu
nifty.
In no other way can the invest
nent Of 2H cents per day
for that is all The Republican
,osts any subscriber-bring such
rich results in that knowledge
which is both Power and Pleasure.
Information, instruction and en-
ertainment fill its columns and it
'avcs good taste in the mouth
/ the reader.
1t stards for Law and Order in
&c Statc-ior Peace, Prosperity
ID Happiness in the Home.
II you are not already enrolled
nong its splendid list OF Patron.
nd on your subscription and Civ,
fair trial at Is cents per month
.or Daily and Sunday.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Shells for Holy N'atsn

Trtdacna shells are very comnc-l,
used in churches in Europe for Ia.;
water basins and even fonts The
largest. perhaps, are those in use IN
st. Peters Rome. These shells attain
weight of 500 pounds (the two
valves together), the animal itself
sometimes being twenty pounds in
weight. The word "tridacna" is from
the Greek tridaknos (eaten at three
bites), nut who could eat a twenty
pound animal at three bites?-St
Nicholas.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Find New Rubber Tree.

" 10 reported that a new ki1d &
rubber tree has been discovered IN 0o
island OF Madagascar, said to coo4aia
much caoutchouc juice. which eaae
ulates upon being boiled, producing -
per cent caoutchouc of good quality.
The tree is called "Pirahazo" by tls
natives and attains height of over
orty feet. 1t is found in groves IN
he northwestern part of the island
ear Amboyo an dis marketed in 500.
ola. This caoutchouc has slight MIN
raj ingredients.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Last Shot Brought Death.

In the battle of the Sea of Japa
the Russian vessel Borodino contin-
ced fighting till she sunk. What was
practically her last shot struck the
Asahi astern, killing or mortally
wounding Lieut.. Morishita and seven
others. Lieut.. Morishitas leg was
shot off. but, using his sword as
crutch, he managed to reach the deck.
There he asked for some paper on
which to write farewell message to
the Japanese navy. He scrawled the
words: "Banzai, | die a glorious
DEATH" and fell back dead.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Invading Woman.

Women are to invade another OF
mems preserves. Women bailiffs are
now making their appearance. One
of the largest house agencies in Lon
don has applied for certificates for a
number of women men-in-possession, -
with the idea of employing them in
the large number of cases that crop
up in which the person levied upon is
herself a woman, or an elderly person
not likely to cause trouble to the
bailiff.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Hereditary Elephant catchers.

In the Batticaloa District of Ceylon
hereditary elephant catchers live.
These men follow the elephants in the
hide, and seize the oportunity of an
animal raising its foot to slip the
moose round 1t, and then take turn
round tree with the other end. The
victim is soon reduced to submission
by starvation.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
She Uses the SpooIs.

A young woman stenographer,
whose business experience has not
robbed her of her domestic inclira
tions. makes good use of the spools
on which her typewriter ribbons are
wound. She washes them well to re-
move any suspicion Of ink, and uses
them to wind baby ribbons. pieces Of
lace and other odds and ends on. The
spools are very well made. and fill
their extra role very well, indeed.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
WeiohinQ Pearls.

The method of weighing pearls diff
fers from that of other gems, they
being measured by their weight in
grains. The grain used is not that
OF the troy grain, but is four-fifths OF
Il, so that four troy grains are equal
to five pearl grains, and troy ounce
contains 600 pearl grains.-Baltimore
Herald.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Antarctic Area.

The Antarctic area consists OF two
continental land-masses of unequal
size-Queen Victoria Land and King
Edward VII Land-separated by q
marvellous barrier of fat-topped ice
bergs, and OF two seas extending far
to the south-the Ross sea and the
Weddell sea.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
An Expert Opinion.

Mr.. Andrew Lang says nothing is
drearier than talk about patent put
ters, patent clubs and patent cleeks.
A good player can play with any vari.
CIV, q bad player land the bores are
always bad players) cannot play well
With anything. .--.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
Europe's Largest Fla Tree.

The largest fig tree in Western Ev
rope is the one at Roscvoff, Brittany.
1t Is in the garden of a Capuchin con
vent, and its spreading branches, sup
ported by scaffolding. are said to be
capable of sheltering over 200 per.
sons.
The statesman., 1906-01-12
United States Forest Reserves.

The United States forest reserves
now number sixty-two. They lie chiefly
in the high mountain regions Of the
west and are Of primary Importance
in maintaining and protecting the wa
tersheds Of the irrigation plants build.
ing by the government.