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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
THE oDIum OF COMPARISON.

Comparison is odious, and especially
so when Iowa is compared to Missouri
to our disadvantage and to other
states to still greater disadvantage. An
Illinois paper finds it strange to hear
that Illinois is ahead of some other
states in the amount of improvement
given to roads Yet such is the fact
Illinois has improved s per cent OF
her roads. while Missouri has improved
only per cent of hers and Iowa only
/ per cent But s per cent it com
plains is very little by comparison
with Indiana and Ohio, which have
each improved more than SO per cent
of their roads. Even 33 per cent does
not indicate that the people of Indiana
and Ohio have done much, tho they
are ahead of Illinois.
How do we like it? Ohio with SO
per cent of road Improvement, Iowa
with per cent. And still we wouldn't
trade the north half of Iowa for Ohio
and half the territory east of Ohio. In
diana with 33 per cent, Iowa with l.
Still we wouldn't exchange an Iowa
cornfleld for forest of hooppoles.
What are we going to do about 1t?
Stay in the kindergarten class?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
HOME PLAYS AND THE SCHOOLS

Des Moines school and society cir
cles are in 1utter and a Chicago
boollman with an observing turn OF
mind and the inclination to talk is
the recipient of left-handed compli-
ments from female principals and so
cial leaders. 1t appears that society
in Des Moines put on recently one Of
those home talent plays or spectacles
which afford social favorites opportun-
ity to stand under spot light and. in
cidentally in preparation. practice and
rehearsal, make something doing for
those who find ordinary tasks ana du-
ties ennuye. Children We're needed
in the production and. ii may be sus-
pected, to insure large attendance
of their elders to a satisfactory show
in the box office till. They We're at
hand. They came, they practiced they
played, and THE House That Jacob
Built was biilded on the cornerstones
of social amateurs with those bricks
OF children. Then came Mr. Williams
butting in and saying things. He said
with good and plentiful plainness that
such plays were highly detrimental to
school work; that they took the minds
OF the children of their studies. etc,
etc In word. Mr. Williams, as q
school man, considered it Il bad prac
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
A REMARKABLE RAT STORY.
Manson Journal)

The writer will veuch for the fol-
lowing story concerning the cunning
of rats This Is no nature fake; 1t is
the truth. and plenty of witnesses can
be produced to confirm the story.
The writer. like everyone else with a
barn on his lots. is annoyed with rats.
A wire trap was used for a long
time in trying to exterminate them.
A large number We're caught in this
manner, but of late the rats have be-
come too cute They go into the trap
and eat the bait off, and then
stick their claws thru the trap and
pull down the lid and make their
egress just as fast as they got into it.
1t was thought If the lever that holds
the pan or plate in place was more
heavily weighted, they could not get
1t open so easily The weight that
holds the plate in place is a long wire
with twisted wire cone at the end.
Thru this cone was inserted a bolt and
on it were screwed six burs, and the
trap set as usual with the bait in the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
if THE PaRLoR CAR HAD GONE ON?

An Iowa railroad commissioner the
other day did very useful act ant
/ one that should assist to populariz'
| him, for the official who does his dut.
is generally popular after the bes
| fashion Of popularity. He had beer
riding in the parlor car on an Illinois
| Central train beyond FIT. Dodge. The
| parlor car stopped at the above men
toned station and the commissioner
was forced to take his CHARGES with
| the common herd that surged on the
platform and fought for precedence
and a seat in the day coach. A glance
showed him that the accommodations
were insufficient for the number to be
accommodated He hunted up a rail-
road official and served notice vigor-
ously, the news dispatch does not say
precisely in what words, but even had
he shipped the edges off a commando
ment the crowded passengers would
no doubt have supported him for lay
delegate to a general conference just
the same. Two more cars were pro-
duced from their comfortable resting
place on a switch track. People sat
down and got what they had paid for.
Now this is commissioning" as it
should be commissioned. 1t delivered
the goods in time of dire need Women
and others who had paid the legal rate
for transportation We're protected. Mr..
Eaton deserves the credit for doing the
right thing at the right time.
One terrible thought, however, OBJ
trudes itself. Suppose the parlor car
had gone on!
Perhaps the next legislature may
see it's duty plain to limiting railroad
commissioners to the ordinary coaches
when they travel. No doubt the com
missioners would accept the limitation
In the spirit of, improvement in which
it would be offered. With a commits
sioner in the day coach, no guilty rail-
road could escape. When he sat in a
pool of tobacco Juice listening to a
drunken maniac howl obscenity,
smelled all the mingled odors of that
abomination yclept the Smoker" and
watched the sunshine break and enter
thru dirty and unmanageable win
dow to light up the germ-loaded, dust,
discomfort would lend spurs to duty
and something would be doing. Not
all railroads run such cars, but enough
to offer period Of reasonable activity
to energetic commissioners.
Parlor cars are all right for aristo-
Gratis. They are not for workingmen-
and the members Of the Iowa railroad
commission are all working men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
in Atlanta Constitution.

position of the late Senator Sutton OF
Marshalltown that the power which
makes the regulations is responsible
for their enforcement. If the local au-
thorities will enforce the law of the
state well and good. II they will not,
the state must consider whether 1t
viii enforce the regulation itself or
modify 1t SO that its enforcement may
safely be entrusted to the local author
tiles There may be a question as to
whether statewide or local regulation is
the proper policy, but there can be no
question that regulation should be in
the hands of the public authorities and
not of the mob. The Davenport Incl
dent reflects discredit not on Daven-
port alone, but on the whole state, be-
cause the state has power to command
respect for its regulations, and there
fore responsibility for open defiance of
them. Politics is at the bottom of the
whole matter. Political exigency die
tated the law as 1t stands, and political
exigency dictates that there shall be
no attempt on the part of the state to
enforce the law itself or concede to
Davenport the right to prescribe it's
own regulations of the liquor traffic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

tice and said so. Now the women who
planned the production and three or
four women principals Of schools are
giving interviews that should incline
Mr. Williams to seek high and shelter
ing grass.
Nevertheless Mr. Williams was right
Amateur theatricals which require
large number of children, that include
night after night of rehearsal, more or
less study and a heavy call on nervous
force. are without question detrimental
to the school work, whatever other
effects good or bad they may nave. IL
would be an extraordinary child that
could remain unaffected by the glitter
of the stage lights and the excitement
of "being in the play and not ma
school work prosy. Society may rage
and school principals frown at Mr.
Williams but he said what everyone
knows, whether or not everyone says IT.
School work nowadays is almost
cruelty exacting. In how many families
does the student lamp fail to burn and
labor grooming and even tears m1nsle
above the next days task in geometry
How many children feel sure of their
grades? How many fail to work many
hours outside of the eight that are sup
posed to constitute school day! III
is hard. bruising work for the average
child to keep in the front ranks. VINO
shall say that a month or more OF
amateur theatricals is not a detriment
to the school work and a strain too
great for children?
Not that amateur theatricals are to
be condemned, but under the present
schol system choice seems necessary
between passing up the child Choir
uses and child spectacles and revis-
ion of the demands made by the
schools upon their pupils. Possibly in
some cases the benefit accruing to the
child from It's part IN the play may ne
greater but the fact remains un-
changed and prominent that the anna
teur play attracts the whole attention
and detracts from school work pre-
cisely as a merry round in opera
ton Just outside the windows of the
school house. 1t is matter for par
ents to decide.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
DAVENPORT AND IOWA.
Dubuque Times-JournaD


The other day citizen conducting
prosecutions against the saloonkeepers
of Davenport was caned by the irate
editor Of newspaper in that city, and
on Thursday this prosecutors attorney,
Captain Neal, was mobbed and drew a
revolver to defend himself, whereupon
he was arrested for carrying concealed
weapons, tho no member of the mob
was disturbed by the police.
A. c. Rankin predicted that just this
state of affairs would result if private
prosecutors attempted to enforce the
liquor laws in the river towns, and he
therefore contended for state consta-
bularly which would have the right to
carry concealed weapons and the pow
er to overcome the mob.
There is no getting away from the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
WHY NOT?

(Carroll HeraId).
Why not give the primary cleo
ton an honest trial? All the
objections urged against it thus
far are based wholly on imaginary
considerations. They have no more
force than J, if they We're based upon
construction of the sentences or the
derivation of the words used in the
act The law represents the demands
of large majority of the people and
was adopted after long and studious
elaboration. Good citizens ought to
be content to give it a trial before
denounctng it and assuming that its
provisions should not be observed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
Iowa Newspapers
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BASE BALL IN DENIsoN.
GDenison Review

During the summer Denison spent
in the neighborhood Of $1,000 to hire
u bunch of professional ball players,
some Of whom turned out to be little
better than bunco men. 1t was a sport
that gave no exercise to Denison boys
and did no good except to amuse us
during the hot season and separate us
from our coin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
Topics Of the Tires

Who in thunder cares about the Iowa
governorship? "--Washington Demo
crat.
From q democratic viewpoint the
grapes do look like sour ones.
hundred, fewer people will go to the
butchershops.
A Dubuque man has worn whiskers
fifty-seven years to satisfy an election
bet. Any person soft-headed enough
to make and keep such bet shouic
show exceptional fertility in hair.
A grandson has been born to William
Waldorf Aston in England However
the American people are not interested
in the multiplication of the William
Waldorf branch of the Aston family
and the British never did care.
Rabbi Barnet Wolinsky, 104 years
old, at the recent wedding of grand
daughter in New York, participated
the dancing. The old man had prob
ably just learned the Ping Pong.
Congressman Longworth wants the
embassy to Germany. If he is going t.
keep on talking about the presidential
succession his father-in-law will prob
ably send him to a country that doesn't
understand English.
In the design of the Mississippi
which is now undergoing her sea trial
there is singular combination of o.
and new ideas. Her speed and siz'
make her distinctly inferior to the yes
sells of the Virginia and the Connecti-
cut classes, but her primary battery
represents an advance on that of the
Virginia in one respect. Both battle
ships mount 12-inch and S-inch guns.
Those of the next smaller calibre are
6-inch rifles on the. vessel named for
the Mother of Presidents" The Mis-
sissippi mounts 7-inch rifles instead
and if she only carried four more 9
them than she does her offensive arm
ament would duplicate the Connect
cuts.
The Popular Science Monthly for No
vember contains the following article
"The Scope and Importance to til
State of the Science of National En-
genics." by Professor Karl Pearson
peter Kalm's Travels" by Spence
Trotter; "a Trip Around Iceland" BY
T.. P. Gratacap; "The Development of
Telephone Service" by Fred DeLand;
The Institute of France and Some
Learned Societies of Paris by Ed
ward F. Williams; Recent Views as to
the Origin of the Greek Temple" by
DR. Alexander F. Chamberlain; Fer
tility and Genius" by Charles Kassel:
The Problem of Age. Growth and
Death by Professor Charles S. Mi
not Mortality Statistics; The State
Universities.
What queried the young man, lis
the difference between white lies and
black lies?"
White lies" answered the home
grown philosopher, are the kind we
tell; black lies are the kind we hear"
london Opinion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
S,.snicin,,x Of IL
South Dakota Lands.

Cheap rates every Tuesday to the
greatest grain and stock country in the
world, where government statistics
show the production of wealth Is high
est. The Minneapolis & ST. Loouis
Railroad Companys new extension is
just completed.
Investigate this golden opportunity
before 1t is too late.
F.~ ,rsion tickets good for fifteen
days ,nly $40.
Descriptive folder on application.
Call on Iowa Central agents or ad-
dress A. B. Cults. G. p, & T. A.. Min
neapolis. MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

If there is anything more exasper-
ating and provoking than a
wheezy graphophone playing the same
tune seven hours at q stretch-well
there is nothing more eyasperating un-
less it is the same graphophone refus
ing to stop at the end of seven hours,
remarks the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
what is said of Council Bluffs
might with equal truth be said of the
whole state of Iowa. with perhaps scat
tering spots excepted observes the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

Nonpareil on outside investors. Those
who make money in Iowa are not re-
investing their gains at home, as Il
rule. They take their profits and make
their investments elsewhere. How
long will this last? How long can such
a thing go on? II a mine is worked
hard enough and long enough, it will
in the end be exhausted. If this heavy
drain on Iowa goes on long enough, a
like result is to be looked for. Per
haps we will never have the disgrace
and humiliation which now attaches
to some eastern states thru their
abandoned farms, but we are already
guilty of abandoning home opportuni-
ties"
1.-The state can get along without
Perkins" admits the Sioux City Jour
nal and adds: 1T may be said with
almost equal assurance that the state
could get along without Cummins."
The Dubuque Times Journal. com
menting on the announcement that the
action of the board Of pardons in par
don and parole cases will be kept Sc
cret, says: Presumably the commits
sion believes the ticket Of leave man
would have Il better chance if per-
mitted to go forth from the prison
walls without a brass band accom-
paniment."
Cassie Chadwick was crook. She
died in Jail The moral Is that there
are grafters and grafters and some OF
them run in hard luck sums up the
Ackley World.
The Davenport nullifiers are no bet
ter than any other sort of law break
ers,' insists the Carroll Herald.
The faithful Nevada Representative
says: The Fairbanks candidacy has
suffered thru the past few months for
want of sufficient amount of sensa-
tionalism: but at the same time 1t APP
pears that other candidates. which
have been promoted with any amount
of sensationalisn have in the mean
time had their rise and fall. The fact
however. is patent and admitted, that
everywhere Fairbanks has been giving
the impression of making good; and
IL is pam tfldl lie Is more SeIleTattS
acceptable in the party than is any
other man who is considered for the
nomination. The candidacy OF such q
man. once fairly started, has long odds
in its favor"
The Mt. Vernon Record predicts
that "Davenport's action in refusing to
enforce the prohibitory law. and In
man who had made himself
unpopular in trying to do so, will no
doubt make possible the passage of a
state marshal law at the next session
of the legislature"
Suspicious Of II.
No" said the capitalist, II don't be-
lieve this invention can amount to
much. I guess 1"ll not invest any
In it."
But" his partner replied. "it looks
good. People who have examined it
say it's one of the greatest things that
ever"
Its no use. There must be some
thing wrong about it, The inventor
seems to be thoroughly practical"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
cb.a, Rates T. Pacific Coast.

The Iowa Central Railway will have
on sale daily until October 18th, very
low rate one-way tickets to California,
Oregon, Washington. British Colum-
ia, Utah. Montana, Idaho and Mexico.
kat $500 below regular fare. Call
on agents for particulars, or address A.
B. Cults, G. P. & T. A., Minneapolis.
Mimi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

proper place. The trap was visited
twenty-foui hours later, when it was
found tha. the rats had taken the
burs off the bolt, every one of them,
removing the bolt from out of the cone
and had gone into the trap and eaten
the bait sls usual. a squirrel might
have done such thing, but we have
never before heard that rats We're adj
dicted to such cunning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

when you arrested him?
Constable-Yes your honor.
Judge-was it covered wagon?
Constable-Yes, your honor; it was
covered by my revolver.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

Covered All Eight.
Gtonliers Statesman
Judge-Mou say the prisoner was in
wagon trying to make his escape
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

1.-The state can get along without
nal, and adds: 1T may be said with
almost equal assurance that the state
could get along without Cummins."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

Cassie Chadwick was crook. She
died in jail. The moral Is that there
are grafters and grafters and some OF
them run in hard luck sums up the
Ackley World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

What queried the young man, lis
the difference between white lies and
black lies?'
White lies answered the home
grown philosopher. are the kind we
tell; black lies are the kind we hear.
London Opinion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

The Davenport nullitiers are no bet
ter than any other sort of law break
ars," insists the Carroll Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25

The Mt Vernon Record predicts
that "Davenport's action in refusing to
enforce the prohibitory law and In
mobbing man who had made himself
unpopular in trying to do so, will no
doubt make possible the passage of a
state marshal law at the next session
of the legislature"
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
Boss Murphy Wants a Recount.

Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall, returned to the
Wigwam on Saturday after having rested" as he
expressed it, in Albany. When interviewed by the
newspaper men, he expressed himself in favor OF a
recount Of the ballots cast in the contest between
Hearst and Mcclellan in 1905 He thinks the bial
providing for opening the ballot boxes, will pass In
Legislature.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
No Jap Fleet to Come.

The Japanese government has definitely decided
not to send the squadron of training ships to San
Francisco which has been under discussion for some
time She fully realizes the kindly sentiments which
prevail towards her on the part of government,
but she does not lose sight of the intense feeling
which prevails in San Francisco ITSELF
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
French Bishops Meet.

On Tuesday, in the old French chateau where
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette spent their honey
moon, the bishops of France holding an assembly
discuss the existing relations of Church and state
On Saturday the Pope addressed to them ency
clcal, in which he urged them to stand firm. He
said that the minimum concessions necessary to the
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
Brander Matthews Decorated.

Mr.. Brander Matthews, one of the most distinguish
ed literary men of America, who, with Andrew Carne-
gle and President Roosevelt largely responsible
for the movement in favor of simplifed spelling
has been given the decoration of the French legion
of honor. 1t was not for his simplifed spelling, how
ever, but for his service to French literature
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
The Frozen Northwest.

Fierce storms prevailing in western
Minnesota and. North Dakota Trains are from thir-
tysix to fortyeght hours late, and the is from
four to ten feet deep Up in Manitoba the blizzard
is said to be the worst that the Canadian northwest
has ever experienced.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17

acceptance of the separation law respect for
the Catholic hierarchy, which is indispensable
characteristic of Catholicism" freedom of action
and the inviolability of church property The same
note of protest and complaint which has marked
the recent attitude of the vatican through the
encyclical
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
Couldn't Gust New

little knot of antiadministration Republicans
started movement to insist that acting Chairman
Harry New of the national committee call meet
ing of the committee for the purpose of electing
permanent chairman to succeed George B. Cortel-
you who has resigned. Senator Scott of West Vir-
gnia, was leader of the movement, and it was ru-
mored that he either wanted the place himself
wanted to name the who filed it, all in the
interest of Mr.. Fairbanks candidacy. His petition
secured three signatures, and the matter was al
lowed to drop.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
Seven Pensions a Minute.

F0CVOIA O41S4O1Io
Friday was private pension day in the house of
representatives, and during the brief session. man
aged to dispose of six hundred and twenty-eight
pension bills, which at the rate of nearly seven
a minute.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17

Another Special Message.

President Roosevelt is to send to the senate
another special message relating to his action in dis
charging three companies of negro troops from the
regular army This message will accompany special
report of Milton d. Purdy assistant to the attorney
general, who was sent by the president to Browns
vile to get evidence that the charges against the
discharged negroes were true The special agent
seems to have found abundance of it. At the
same time the president realizes that he went be-
yond his constitutional authority in declaring that the
discharged negroes should not thereafter reenlist
in the army navy or obtain civil employment un
der the federal COVE -nment The latter portion of
his order will therefore, be rescinded
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-17
The Bailey Investigation.

On Friday the resolution pending in the Texas
house of representatives demanding an investigation
of the charges against Senator Bailey, intro
duced in the senate. The friends of Mr. Bailey have
been resortng to libustering tactics The legisla-
ture must begin baloting for United States senator
on January 22nd, and by delaying the proposed in
vestigation until after the election they hope to
evade it altogether.