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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
THE ADVERTISING PARASITES.

Secretary Wilson threatens prose-
cution and punishment of the firms
that are advertising foods, drugs, ETC..
as guaranteed by the United States
government" Since the pure food law
required the manufacturer to properly
label his products and assigned to each
a serial number, certain firms have
pointed to the number as proof OF
purity guaranteed by the government.
The fact is that the serial number
guarantees purity about the same way
that an automobile number guaran-
tees that the driver will comply with
the speed laws
This is not the only system OF sneak
advertising. Every advertising sue
cess has its horde of tmitators and
camp followers sponging whatever may
be had by deception that steers as.
close to open fraud as the lslxness of
the laws permits. If the name of Par
ker stands for the highest excellence in
an article made on honor ard adver-
tised at an expense of milliGnsy until
1t has become a household word Bar
ker" companies arise, other Parkers
with different initials get busy in the
to reap where others have
sown. The names of articles of merit
which have been advertised thoroughly
are Initiated as closely as may be and
miss the courts and the penalty for
of copyright 1t is a
porch climbing business, and belongs
with the adulteration of foods and
drugs, and the substitution of an in
ferior for a standard article Usually
the imitator and parasite is foisting a
cheap initiation on the people he is
able to deceive. The mere fact that
he is ready to leech upon The ideas.
hard work and expenditure of other
men, is sufficient condemnation of the
article he handles.
When any article is offered as "just
as good" the highest compliment is
paid the one with which it. is COM
pared. Perhaps, in many cases, it is
quite or almost as good. This being
true, it is quite or almost as costly.
II, however, it is an imitation in name,
The chances are that it is cheap
fraud. 1t belongs with the free" ara
ticles so generously offered in the So
called supplements of some of our
county weeklies. Sometimes it is pos
sible to get something for nothing, but
sven Whose most successful in this line
sooner or later do time"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

What would you call the club that
denomination? Anyway, his bosom
friend, Jacob Riis now belongs to It.
philadelphia Inquirer
The government Is instructng fat
people how to get lean and, the lean
how to get fat, but Taft and Cannon
don't seem to be using the system
much.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Duke of Orleans will gain a
more substantial glory in heading an
Artic expedition than in chasing the
phantom of a vanished divine right
New York World.
presidents office near the White
House in the last few days left by the
door and not by the window.-New
York Sun.
When she read MIR. Delmas' burning
appeal to the Thaw jury how Laura
Jean Libbey must have been torn by
epvy!-New York Press.
AS humorist Senator Penrose can
stir up more trouble in a short time
than Senator Tillman ever dared to-
Washington Post.
Every time we extend the glad hand
to spring we get the frozen NIT in re-
turn.--W Washington Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
live on $50 a month and still keep up
with the procession"

William e. Curtis in one of his let
ters, tells us that Swiss hotel keepers
are the best in the world, because they
are thoroughly trained in the business.
Hotel keeping is Il profession heredi-
tary in families. Generation otter
generation. when boy has graduated
from the high school he prepares him
self for the hotel business just as he
would If he intended to practice medt-
cine or chemistry. He goes Into the
kitchen of his fathers hotel, or some
other, and serves an apprenticeship
there; he is then promoted to the din
ing room and is carefully trained for
waiter, and finally graduates into the
office and becomes a steward, a prr-
chasing agent, room clerk, taking the
different branches Of the business one
after another, until he has learned
them all. Then he becomes candidate
for the position of assistant manager,
and finally reaches the summit of his
career as manager There are several
schools for hotel keepers in Switzer-
land where the different tricks of the
trade are taught. The most important
Is at Lausanne which usually has
from sixty to seventy-five students,
mostly sons Of hotel keepers. After
they have taken technical course for
a year and learned the theories of the
business they gain practical expert
ence as employees in the kitchens din
ing rooms and offices of the Swiss ho-
tells
How differently are we doing things
here in the west. Anybody here can
keep a hotel. No previous experience
is necessary All the qualifications
needed here is to rent or buy build
ing, get hotel register and print on
it rates So a day. The travelling public
want to pay that price. and so the inn
keeper accommodates them. We meek
ly take the room assigned us, because
if we kick there's the hotel door. AS
the Montana hotel man told a tender
foot that mildly demonstrated on the
bill of fare, ANY man that don't like
my hash is a damn liar" We all go
to the hotels and pay for what we
don't have. In Europe a guest pays
for what he has and generally big
price, but here our hotel patronage is
take it or leave it. but pay just the
same. One of these days the words
American plan or European plan will
have meaning as yet unknown to
the hotel guest Of 1907.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
Topics Of the Times

| But what is Mr.. Gilmore, who has in
vented process by which ha burns
two parts ashes to one of coal, going to
| do when he runs out OF ashes?
"A fellow at Ottumwa fell forty feet
from a railroad trestle while watching
a base ball game. but escaped unin-
jured. A little forty-foot fall wouldn't
| jar the fellow who gets his base ball
from aitrestle or box car.
Lyle. Mimi. is in serious guam
Diary. The election declared for sa
loons.S Then an agreement signed by
more than 200 of the better and most
prosperous farmers bobbed up to the
effect that when saloons are opened
in Lyle they would take their trade to
some other point. SO the town coun
Gil is wondering, with Mr.. Hartman,
where it stands.
= 1t is estimated by census experts
that the population of the United
States will be 100,O0O,oOo in Deem
Der. 1910.
Jennie--Pa, what do they call man
who has two wives?
PA bigamist.
Jennie-Pa, suppose a man has
more than two wives, what is he
then?
+ PA hopeless idiot. Now, don't
bother me with amy more questions
Illustrated Bits.
r. B. Anthony. the Republican NOM
mated in the First Kansas congress
district, to succeed Curtis, chosen Unit
ed States senator. is a nephew of the
late Susan B. Anthony.
Autoists on some of the eastern roads
are contributing to the purchase OF oil
to prevent dust on country roads.
Raising the dust to lay it, as it were.
England is adding to it's formidable
fleet the Indomitable, the first of new
class Of armored cruisers which are to-
be stronger than some battleships. The
Indomitable has a displacement of
1920 tons, is $50 feet long, is propelled
by turbine engines, and is to show a
speed of % knots at cost of $780,
900. She was launched on the Clyde
in March last. The cost of the new
classes of battleships and armored
cruisers puts minor powers out of the
race.
Young Howard Nesbit was willing to
forgive Harry Thaw and could use
$780, What an outfit that greedy old
woman and her son constitute.
.s@
Does that new Iowa "Anti-Death As
ISOLATION" mean to try to keep the
Shaw boom alive baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

We are won't these days to call them
good times because the producer
gets so much for his wares, whether
said wares are the product of brain or
muscle and in our Boosting to almost
forget the present bad times OF the
consumer The man working for wages
as a rule has received some of the
benefit of these good times in the way
of advanced pay for the labor of his
hands, but there are thousands of men
and women in 1907 whose income is no
more than twenty years ago. This is
especially true of the vast army of
clerks, bookkeepers and what is gen-
orally known as genteel occupations,
work that requires little muscle, mod
crate ability, good clothes and very
little soiling of hands and well kept
finger nails. Such employees can sigh
for the good old times when, accord
ing to an article in the New York Sum-
1.-TWO cents or its equivalent would
buy pair of chickens-in the four
teenth century. For the value of a
nickel one could acquire a goose fit
for Christmas dinner-in the four
teenth century.
"A penny would purchase a dozen
strictly fresh eggs-in the fourteenth
century; while for two cents the brew
err was compelled by law to sell three
gallons of beer, the equivalent to forty
eight glasses.
"A man could buy the finest fat sheep
for twenty-four cents, A cow was more
l,,,A
dollar and half would buy the best
in the market, while for a fat hog one
need only part with eighty cents.
wheat sometimes fell as low as
forty cents a quarter, tho after a great.
storm or in a time of grevious famine
it would rise as high as four or five
dollars a quarter. Still at these prices
a good many. pounds of bread could be
bought for a penny.
pasture and arabic lands were ride
ulously cheap-tWo cents an acre for
the former and Twelve cents an acre for
the latter being considered a fair an
nual rental Draught horses were
drug on the market at seventy-two
cents each and oxen at one dollar and
twenty-five cents. In the days of the
second Henry fifty dollars would have
equipped a farm with three draught
horses. half a dozen oxen, twenty COWS
and two hundred sheep. leaving
balance of two dollars toward the pay
ment of the rent. which would be per-
haps five dollars year.
"The other side of the story, so far as
the laboring man is concerned, comes,
in the following figures: Three cents
day was considered good wages for
an ordinary laborer. Even at harvest
time four cents was the highest
amount expected :.
"House rent was so low that the
Lord Mayor of London paid only $3.50
a wear to his landlord. The Chancellor
had an annual salary of 1912. When
a father sent his son to university
four cents a dav was looked upon as
comfortable allowance. with mar
gin for such luxuries as wine at eight
or twelve cents a gallon.
"a salary of $24 a year was consid
cred munificent King Edward vi
gave his daughter an allowance of
"a 30 q week with an additional s247.60
year. for the maintenance of her
eight servantsP
These figures of farm produce are
reading for the twentieth
century farmer. They have also a fas-
for the man in Iowa trying TO
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
THE LAST RESORT.

When husband and wife WHO have
lived together long enough to raise a
family meet in the divorce courts it
is always a serious matter. 1t means
the breaking up of home, the wash
ing of dirty linen outdoors, public rep
etition of words said in anger and in
the privacy of the home. To most men
and most women the divorce court is q
place of shame To their children it
is worse, because they lack tho slim
ulus of anger and love turned TO hate.
Next to death the worst that can come
to a home is divorce.
Children, we are told, must suffer for
the sins of their parents This holds
true in the divorce court If liowhere
else. The children suffer. Their Or
phanhood is peculiar. AS about the
divorced wife and husband clings the
odor of the divorce court, SO tine chill
dren of divorced parents live in their
own atmosphere.
The last resort for decent PEOPLE is
the divorce court. III fact, il is sell
dom that two decent persons reed set
tie their differences there To men
and women who desire to do right the
divorce court is a shame and !leterror.
They resort to 1t only when life has
become unbearable. and ever those
whose resort to divorce is justifiable
never lose its stigma.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
IOWA OPINIONS Ahp NOTES.

1.-THE real 'dementia Americana will
soon be found on the ball grounds p
says the Clinton Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
IMMIGRANTS IN GREAT DEMAND.

A slight decrease In its rural popu-
lation and most annoying scarcity of
farm labor in Iowa, has failed to stir
up any organized effort to relieve the
situation, but in all Of our southern
states the immigration question is
more prominent than primary law in
Iowa. Nearly every state south of
Mason and Dixon's line has an immi-
grafton agent at work In Europe So
Letting settlers from foreign lands.
Mr.. A. F. Trappe, secretary of the
Maryland bureau of information, who
went abroad to obtain farm and do
nestle labor, writes to Mr.. w. T. p.
Turpin, superintendent of the bureau,
that he will sail soon with eighty farm
laborers. He says:
Immediately after my arrival l had
a conference with the officials of the
North German Lloyd at Bremen and
then proceeded on a trip Of investi-
CATION in the agricultural regions of
Germany. There are hundreds of
families of good farm laborers who are
willing to go TO America, blat they We're
frightened by the many accidents at
sea during the last winter.
.'In little village east OF Hamburg /
opened negotiations with some of them
and was quite successful, when l re-
ceived the friendly advice that I would
be violating the laws of the land If
would try TO induce people to go to
Maryland Thereupon I boarded an
express train and disappeared over the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17

in word. unless express companies find
il; possible to pay the mulct tax" says
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Maybe,
tho, liquor houses acting thru the ex-
press companies, will be glad to pay the
mulct In that event this solution
would turn out to be no solution at all,
but depriving of the people of these
communities of the right to determine
the matter for themselves and would
establish saloons everywhere in the
state. Time will reveal the wisdom or
lack of wisdom of the new arrange
ment. 1t at least seems worthy a
trial.
Nevertheless" cautions the Sioux
City Journal, lit will not do to con-
clude that the secretary of agriculture
is not a good judge of whisky
The Woodbine Twiner suspects that
The new primary law for Iowa now In
force will no doubt be found III the IN
terest of the democratic wing of the
republican party to a large extent. Just
watch that 35 per cent clause and see
if it is not in the interest of our pres
ent governor. Still his friends may not
be able to work it as anticipated
The work of a legislature which
banished fractional lines and which
iegislated for Iowa with courage and
breadth of view is being reviewed by
factional press for fractional ends,
notes the Register and Leader, and
promises "if that is TO be the issue,
there is where the fight will center.
There will be no retreat from what has
been done. nor will anybody turn from
the course the state is committed to.
OF that there need not be the slightest
doubt"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
Bergman in Washington Star.
DEMENTIA CIRCULATE.
(Waterloo Reporter.)

few days ago our esteemed con-
temporary, the Courier, announced
that it was regularly going into 7sB
per cert of the homes of Waterloo.
The very next day our other esteemed
contemporary, the Times Tribune, de-
clared that each coming of the dawn
saw it enter 95 per cent of the homes
of our beautiful city. The Reporter is
not given to this sort of dementia cir
culato. but it is clearly up to US to do
something. and as the momentary
brain storm sweeps over us we have
this to say: The Reporter each even
ing as "the sun sinks to its rest" en-
tiers the homes of 1873 1-3 per cent of
the people of this hustling city astride
the Cedar river. This accomplish
ment of the seemingly impossible is
explained on investigation, by the fact
that the Reporter is so eagerly looked
for in I'LL the homes of Waterloo that
many subscribe for several copies in
order that the different members of the
family may read it at the same time,
thus avoiding the delay occasioned by
passing it around.
Now for the lunacy com mission.
SALOON MEN AND THE LAW
(Sac SUM-
The Sioux City Journal calls upon
the saloon men of the city to organize
and themselves prevent lawlessness
among the liquor dealers The Jour
nal thinks that the better element OF
the saloon men might easily FREEDOM
mate in such an organization, and
might do much to win public senti-
ment to their side. The trouble is that
the Sioux City saloon men have no
sympathy with the restrictions Inn
posed by the law. If they believed
their business morally legitimate they
could not consistently believe the re-
strictions to be right. Knowing that
they have business that no longer is
regarded strictly honorable at it's best,
hardened their conscences so that
obedience to law is with them only
matter of escaping punishment. I'M
der such circumstances not even the
pieadings of liquor dealers organs
saying nothing of reputable newspa-
pers like the Journal, will avail to
make the saloon men enforcers of law.
They would rather take their chances
with the police forke of the average
city, and make out of it all they can
than to turn reformers. A lawbreaker
is never very successful law enforcer.
Queer Sensations
in stomach back or bowels, are signs
of certain dangers. which Electric Bit
tiers are guaranteed to cure. so cents.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Has cured many that seemed almost beyond the
reach of medicine, that people ask, Why?
An examination of wellknown formula, from which
Hoods Sarsaparia is and always has been carefully and
scientifically prepared confirms the fact that it contains
those weknown and valuable medicinal ingredients which,
when nteigenty combined and properly administered,
are sure to bring about good results
1t is the properly balanced proportion, combination
have specific action upon the blood stomach liver Kidneys
and bowels which make Hoods Sarsaparlla peculiar to
itself and enable to produce results unequaed by any
similar medicine 1t when others fail Give it trial
Usual FORM liquid talbot form called sarsatabs 100 Doses 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17

enough TO let the. law stand. dry com
munities Will he dry indeed as we'll as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17
GOOD BLOOD CLEANSER.

Mix one half ounce Fluid Ex-
tract Dandelion, one ounce Com
pound Kargon, three ounces Com
pound Syrup Sarsaparilla. Take
in teaspoohful doses after your
meals and at bedtime. Also drink
4 plenty OF good pure water.
These ingre dents can be OBJ
tanned from any good drug store.
and are easily mixed by shaking
in a bottle.
This is said to be the simplest
though safest and most powerful
mixture known to purify the
Il blood and rid the system of acids
and other waste matter, which
produce, skin eruptions, sores,
boils and other diseases.
1t is recommended very highly
lin all Kidney and Bladder Attic
tons, overcoming the most
chronic urinary difficulties.
Now is the time to take it If
you wish to insure good. sound
health all summer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17

Nevertheless" cautions the Sioux
City Journal, lit will not do to con-
clude that the secretary of agriculture
is not a good judge of whisky"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-17

l.
soon be found on the ball grounds"
says the Clinton Herald.
To the Fort Dodge Messenger 1T is
apparent that the development of Cuba
would be much more rapid if the is
land was definitely under the full con-
troll of this country"
"The sentiment for the denomination
Of Theodore Roosevelt Is growing. and
when the time comes no other name
will be presented to the republican
national convention" predicts the Des
Moines Capital.
What is there to arouse a Taft fol-
lowing in Iowa." demands the Burling
ton Hawkeye. He is recognized as
an able man, but Iowa is for Roose-
welt. or else too close a neighbor of
Speaker Cannon to wish to ignore his
cleaims to the presidency. If neither
of these gentlemen becomes available
for The nomination, Iowans will be
disposed to go into executive session
and consider the abundance of excel
lent material within their own bor-
ders.'
Nov if the courts Will be Just good
enough TO let the law stand. dry COM
SIr Il tsalI
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-11-21

gain. both personal and communal, Is
more aud more becoming manifest IN
this country as well as in Norway,
the home Of the philanthropic system
ms described by its friends. Some or
the states have provided In subtle
way that schools shall bc maintained
in part from the proceeds ~ licenses
paid FOR the privilege of selling intox-
icating liouor as a beverage. and as
might he expected some OF the stanch
supporters OF the public schools. in
Guiding prominent women, champion
the traffic because that tranlc has be-
come the financial cornerstone of the
public school system.
A despatch from Montgomery. Ala"
printed in the New York sun of yes
tcrday. says that the advance guard
of delegation OF 500 Mobile women
has arrived at the state capital TO 20
before the Senate to oppose tho pas
sage of the state prohibition bill
which was passed by the House last
week
The delegation is said to be COM
posed OF the best women Of Mobile and
a glance at the names included would
tend to substantiatc this claim. one
of the leaders is Mrs. ". Scmmes Coils
ton. q daughter of Admiral Scmmes,
the great sea fighter of the Confeder-
acy. and another is Mrs Augusta
Evans Wilson. better known as Angus
Ia j Evans. the southern novelist.
The women all wear badges hearing
legends telling why they have visited
Montgomery and they promise to ho
very troublesome to the Prohibition
leaders in the Senate.
The prohibition bill is said to or
especially obnoxious to Mobile bc-
cause that county has been allowed 70
keep all liquor license money and as
a result has built up one Of the finest
school systems in the South The wo-
men say that If Mobile is deprived nj
the $4,000 u year which it gets fror
liquor and all of which goes to tn,
schools it will be impossible to educate
the 1900 children.
Tho remarkable statement is added
that there will be 40 school in Mo
bile for three days this week 50 as &c
allow teachers 10 come here 10 6pht