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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
WE ARE PROGRESSING.
(Burlington Hawkeye.)


Twenty years ago Iowa with the
rest of the country was duly shocked
by George Remnants writings and lee
lures, in which he ventilated Russian
prisons. Some time later we grew high
ly indignant over Butcher Weyler ana
his treatment of the soldiers of liberty
in Cuba. And quite recently there has
been much ado over the cruelty and the
brutality visited upon inmates of Rus
sian prisons.
We have the word Of some of the
most eminent officials in charge or
prisons and reformatories in our state,
that while we We're being shocked ana
thrilled by KEENAN, and We're cursing
Russia's despots and Butcher Weyler,
our prisons and penal institutions were
not much better than those of Russia,
and of Cuba Thus Superintendent
Fitzgerald, at present in charge of the
school at Mitchellville, recalls that not
so many years ago boys We're sentenced
to thirty-nine lashes if they had been
pronounced incorrigible by some one
who NAV or may not have known any
thing about it, The boys Were stripped
and tied to a table, face down. Every
stroke of the lash cut the flesh OPEN
and on this account no boy was consid-
cred strong enough to be given more
than five lashes at one time. When he
had recovered from his wounds he was
given five more, and so on until the full
thirtv-nine were administered" War
den Jones, of Fort Madison. stated that
before his administration it was GUS
tomary to inflict the most severe cor
poral punishment. Prisoners were
hoisted to the top of the tower by a
rope and then dropped six feet or so
at a time, catching them again with
the rope. and thus lowering them to
the ground. He stated that rarely, ii
ever. was prisoner able to go thru
that ordeal without being permanently
iniured for the rest of his life. Both
of these men intimated that there We're
worse atrocities than those that they
had related practiced before their eyes.
which they could not bring themselves
to describe.
The above statements We're made at
a conference of heads of state institu-
tions with the board of control quite
recently. 1t seems strange. almost un-
believable, that such atrocities could
have been perpetrated in Iowa just
few wears ago. Perhaps It might be
in order to institute an investigation
and hunt out and wipe out any YES
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
sCHMITz's sEvEREsT PENALTY.

Schmitz, mayor of San Francisco
and once. owner Of a magnificent oppor-
tunity to render service that should
link his name in honor indissoulably
with the history of the greatest time
Of need the west coast ever knew, took
a sentence of five years in the peniten-
tiary yesterday. He is only a common
felon to wear a number on his breast
and be forgotten except as a criminal
and convict. And only a few months
ago his opportunity for the exercise Of
and remembered was illinmitable. So
fallen, so lost. Friends gone, oppor-
tunity gone, hope gone. Schmitz is as
much out of the only world that Is
worth living in as tho he were dead
and buried beneath the ruins of the
city he betrayed.
The severest agony men feel is not in
the contemplation Of what they must
suffer but in the recollection of what
they have lost in opportunity. The
worst torture that comes to men is the
vain regret over what they might have
been. AS Schmitz faces the long term
OF years at San Quentin the knowledge
of what he might have done, of how he
might have served instead of betrayed
the people who trusted him, burns at
his heart like white hot iron. He sees
been, the truest and greatest man in
San Francisco, an officer with record
of probity and integrity built into the
new city and written into the story of
the greatest disaster of modern times.
And when he turns from the prison
that looms before him to his loss five
years of hard labor is only an incident.
He has lost mans life. And that is
a calamity beside which the crush OF
falling buildings is insignificant
The need Is for citizenship. Men like
Schmitz, weak men like Schmitz, are
the creatures of that sentiment which
trades manliness and good citizenship
and all that is best for temporary sue
cess and feels that it. is getting a fair
exchange. The need Of the time is citi-
zenship. The citizenship that recog-
nizes It's debt to the public as to the
individual, that refuses to divorce the
ten commandments from week day life
and puts service on a higher plane than
selfshness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
HOW JAPAN LEARNS.
PoIysIot Library Forming For Study
Of Western Civilization.


Japan is forming a vast circulating
library Of books In every language OF
the world for the benefit Of students
anxious to acquire the ideas Of west
ern civilization.
No fewer than $1,000 volumes of
scientific and educational literature
and wholesome fiction in twenty
languages have. already been sent to
Tokyo as a nucleus, says the London
Express.
The history Of this interesting poly
glot library is told by the Hon. Mrs.
Gordon, one of the prime movers.
about two and half years ago /
met Professor Takakusu Of Tokyo uni
versity, pupil Of the late Professor
Max Muller and director Of the College
of Foreign Languages at Tokyo" she
said.
"The valuable library Of Professor
Muller was offered for sale, and among
the bidders were the German emperor
and the British museum.
Professor Takakusu fortunately
found wealthy Japanese nobleman
who was willing to pay the price re-
quired for the whole collection intact
and so secured 1t.
This led to a request by Professor
Takakusu for more books to form O
circulating library. willingly agreed
to make my house depot and enlist
ed the support of friends.
",The response was excellent, and
several London publishers have shown
their interest by selling books at very
low rates.
81 have just heard from Tokyo that
the Japanese government has granted
site for great building to house the
books.
II have also sent to China n large
number of books, which were enthu-
siastically received by Prince Chin and
which are to be translated by order OF
the emperor and dowager empress.
COLLECTS of art are also required for
the adornment Of the library in Tokyo.
A copy of Goldie's painting of the
death of st. Francis Xavier, the great
Christian missionary to the japanese
and Chinese in the sixteenth century,
has already been dispatched to Japan,
and wealthy Chinese mandarin has
ordered another for China. The orig
inal hangs in the Church OF the Jesuit
Fathers in Farm street
1.-TWO years ago there were 1000
Chinese students in the schools of
Japan. Today there are fourteen thou
sand, and great authority writes me
that before long there will be from
100000 to 100000"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
VALUATION OF RAILROADS.

state Valuation Of Railroads; Some
of its Problems" is the title of clear
and lucid article by Charles Hansel In
the July 5 number Of The North Amer
team Review, on a subject of singular
interest at the present time, when
President Roosevelt is strongly urging
such valuation. The article is written
by practical railroad man who at the
Same time views the theme with states
manlike vision In his opinion the ma
manlike vision In his opinion the ma
jority of railroad men would welcome
state or federal supervision Of the
railroads" Some of his conclusions
are as follows:
There should be government in
spection of the accounting, of the
physical condition and of the operating
methods; and these inspectors should
be shifted continually, so that no man
might check his own work.
In order to accomplish this, it seems
necessary to organize the several state
railroad commissioners into national
body the chairman of which might
properly be federal appointee. This
national body could then formulate
regulations which would insure uni
form standards and could conduct all
the work outlined without involving
the question of state rights. All acct
dents could be investigated by the en-
gineers Of the several states and re-
ported to the national body, thus In
surfing uniform action and avoiding
large expense. The national organiza-
ton could formulate and recommend
legislation, so that we might have uni
form laws to govern the railroads.
1t is likely that this national body
would be of such great Importance to
each state that the best men would be
selected to serve upon it. BY this
means, the Importance OF the railroad
commission Of each state would be In
creased and the whole country would
be benefited. The railroads would know
exactly what was to be expected; and
while the road might be inter- state so
far as boundary lines We're concerned,
Its operation would be Simplified by
having the same conditions to meet in
every state. We should avoid any at
titude which would tend to throttle
progress in any of the details OF a rail-
ner as to invite capital to the building
Of much needed facilities; and we
should, and can, place a premium on
the honest and able administration of
every railroad"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Who is Happy7

The hunter, with his gun and dog;
The tippler, with his bowl of grog;
The miser, with his bags of gold;
The besgar, sheltered from the cold;
The maid, when beauty crowns her
queen;
In shawl of blue or gown of green;
The boy, with rocking horse and slate;
The girl. with paper dolls to mate:
The farmer, with his load of straw;
The cattle matched without a flaw;
Tile man, when first to congress sent,
With hopes of being president;
The lawyer, when his case is gained;
And clients purse has closely drained;
The doctor, when his calls and pills,
With ready cash his pocket fills;
The printer, when his jobs and stocks
The devil turns to golden rocks;
The parson, when his flock content,
Gives notice no more pews to rent;
Old age and youth. on sporting days,
Find happiness in games and plays;
The lover scars on wings of bliss
To find his heaven in mafden's kiss:
The actor. orator and clown
Is happiest when the house comes
down;
This tends to show, tho coarsely
strained.
How easy happiness is gained;
What little pebbles stir the deep
In human hearts, to laugh or weep:
What simple things. in childish way,
Can charm our sorrows for a day.
And give the soul it's need of rest,
TO be content is to be blessed!
st. Louis Globe Democrat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
THE JUST CLAIM OF GOVERNMENT.

Massachusetts new Inheritance tax
established by the last legislature is a
decided advance over the old law By
which per cent collateral inheri-
lance tax was levied. The new law re-
tains the per cent tax except on be-
quests to charitable, religious and edu
cational objects and upon legacies
amounting to less than $1,000. 1t in
creases as the degree of consanguinity
grows more remote. The new tax is
expected to add million and a half
to the income Of 100000 produced by
the collateral tax.
The first class includes father, moth
err, husband wife and children, has
$4,000 exemption and pays from 1 to
per cent on a scale ranging from $685.,
600 to above s250,000. The other class
includes brothers, sisters, nephews,
and nieces, has an exemption of $1,000
and pays from to per cent on a
scale from $4,000 to above 100000
The inheritance tax is certain to be-
come a source of large income in every
state and We are rapidly approaching
the English system Of Inheritance taxa
ton, or death duties. The tendency is
to make the tax heavier. The time may
come when the remoter heirs to large
fortunes will be forced to divide equal
ly with the state and national govern
ments. 1t is an easy way of raising
money for the expenses of government.
1t is not a hardship in the real sense
of the word for it simply requires a
part of wealth that the recipient has
not earned nor would possess except
perhaps by the accident of relationship.
We are coming to understand that the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable. For
a great many years doctors pronounced
it a local disease and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
ii incurable Science has proven ca
tarrh to be a constitutional disease
ease and therefore requires constitu-s
tional treatment. Hall S Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by +. J. Cheney & Co,
Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market 1t is taken intern
ally in doses from 10 drops to tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials.
Address: F. j. CHENEY & CO., To-
ledo Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton. ------. --.-----------
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
The PIow.

am a worker.
Sleep on and take your rest.
Though my sharp coulter shows white In
the dawn,
Beating through wind and rain.
Furrowing hill and plain,
Till twilight dims the west
And I stand darkly against the night sky.
I am worker, I, the plow.
I feed the peoples.
Eagerly wait on me
High born and low born. pale children Of
want.
Kingdoms may rise and wane,
War claim her 1.-THE of slain,
Hands are outstretched to me.
Master Of mea am /. seeming @ slave
I feed the peoples I, the plow.
I prove Gods words true.
Toiling that earth may give
Fruit men shall gather with songs in the
sun.
Where sleeps the hidden grain
Cornfields shall wave again.
Showing that while men live
Nor seed nor harvest time ever Will cease.
prove Gods words true, I, the plow.
". T. Boyson in April Everybody's.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
2en4hIira,r 9llarsIarltumm anaua au1p 1907

goes over legal documents or talks to a
visitor. He eats a chop or two, vege-
tables. drinks a cup of tea An un-
failing part of the midday meal is u
large apple He smokes several cigars
each day-long, light Havanas, for
which he pays 20 cents each At night
he takes dinner quietly and without
ceremony with his family
Redd-I see that man Finn has got
an automobile.
Greenland it was quite amusing
20 see him the first week he had it.
How soy
why, every time he'd blow his horn
he'd stop and look around. He used to
pedde fish, you know!"-- Ionkers
Statesman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
in Duluth Herald.

tiges of barbarism that may remain. 1t
is not pleasant, this revelation by
Messrs Fitzgerald and Jones. And
still, perhaps il is well that it has been
made. 1t will teach us to judge not or
at least not SO severely what others
may be doing. and to criticise not too
harshly the mana cement of penal in
stitutions in other lands. And then
again, it enables us TO rejoice and to
point with pride to the fact that these
things belong In the times that lie be-
hind us, and that nothing of the sort
is possible in the state OF Iowa today
That we are growing and progressing
in the very best sense OF the word.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Iowa Newspapers
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THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

Dubuque Telegraph Herald)
The few are bell weathers. The great
number are mimic sheep. The stroke
wave is infectious. One strike de-
clared, another dissatisfied workmen in
other lines law down their tools. One
lawyer resorts to a writ of injunction
to close up saloons, and in rapid sue
cession the same remedy is sought by
a congregation to prevent minister
whom 1t Is seeking to GUST from Of
floating at services: by employers to
restrain the deadly boycott of striking
workmen and their sympathizers, and
by others for causes often trivial.
The incidents are illustrative of the
power of suggestion. So a touch of
sorrow makes the whole world akin so
thought directed along a single line
leads to like conclusions with the mass.
Without tbs interesting psychological
phenomenon there would be little en-
thusiasm, slight hysteria and few
cheering crowds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Best Medicine In the World for Colo
and Diarrlnoea.

~ find Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy to be the best
remedy in the world" says Mr.. G. l..
Carter of Skiruln. Ala. Il am sub
iect to collie and diarrhoea. Last
spring it seemed as tho l would die,
and I think I would if I hadn't taken
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. I haven't been troubled
with if since until this week, when l
had very severe attack and took half
a. bottle of the twenty-five cent size
chamberlain's CoIfc, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, and this morning l feel
like a new man." For sale by all drug
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
KNEE DEEP IN SUMMER.
champion Chronicle)

champion Chronicle)
We are knee deep" in summer.
We have drifted from the seasons be-
ginning and are anchored where the
grasses. grow rank and tall, and where
the foliage is dense and dark and deep.
Insect life is keenly alive. Birds, that
just a few weeks ago tested their
downy wings, are now familiar with
every dell of the forest. The rushing
torrent of springtime has fallen to a
way over the pebbly shadows. In its
depths the living things of the water
llurk and in its shadows the trees and
skies above find calm reflection.
Save when the passing shower leaves
the air fresh and cool, we gasp under
the oppressive heat. The child comes
in from the burning sunlight at the
close of the afternoon and losses on a
feverish bed from burning skin that
met the suns rays bare. The cattle
have stood all day beneath the willows,
swishing their tails at the pestilent fly.
The seasons crops have been growing.
growing side by side with the worthless
weed. which the farm boy, lost beneath
his great brimmed straw hat, has been
cultivating from the stretching field.
Seeking the shady sides Nof the street,
the loafer sinks in his chair and falls
to sleep. or at the best keeps up a list
less conversation with another of his
kind. 1t is summer. The sun is a
great red orb of merciless fire. The
road is fine with dust and the country
side foliage is covered with white
spray which passing wagons have dis
turbed.
Fishing days swimming days are
these. They are not made for work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Topics Of the Times

In his latest public appearance Mt
Rockefeller creates the impression. that
he is an extremely modest man.
Funny why peace conference finds
1t necessary to formulate rules for that
man killing game called war.
Those patrons Of the prize ring who
Travelled many miles to see the Amer
lean bruiser put Bill Squires, the Eng
fish champion out in two minutes and
eight seconds, should enjoy the game In
order to feel that they got their mon
ey's worth.
DR.. Wiley's valuation of a baby is
$1,000. While a man wouldn't sell Tor
any such price he'd kick to beat the
hand on a taxable valuation half as
large.
If, as appears, none of the guests
touched those cocktails at the Fair
banks luncheon, imagine the condition
of the walters.
Advocates of Iowas new c. o. d.
law may find encouragement IN the
working of a similar measure In TEX
as. The Texas law requires the ex-
press companies handling G. Q. D..
packages to pay license tax of So
600 for every agency in the state where
such packages are handled. None OF
the companies have paid the prohibitive
tax. and the shipment of whisky INTO
dry counties has practically ceased. as
nearly all of it goes c. o. D.
The Cedar Falls Records booter
edition is credit to the Record ana
the city of Cedar Falls.
Mr.. Rockefeller's evidence indicates
that the generally accepted impression
connecting him with the Standard OIL
Company is entirely erroneous.
It is better to be a gate keeper in
an amateur size town than to be
professional ball player in Sioux city.
81 hate work." said Languid Lewis.
81 don't see Why" rejoned Humble
Harry. ITS a safe bet dat work never
done youse no harm"-Chicago News.
80
immigration into Germany from adj
iacent European countries now ex-
ceeds emigration to the Americas ac-
cordng to the German secretary OF the
interior. Great industrial prosperity
within the empire has checked the one
movement and stimulated the other 1t
is in the farming section, however, that
a real scarcity of labof is felt and the
German official attributes this to COM
pulsory military service. He says that
a youth taken from the pillow and given
a two years taste Of town life becomes
hopelessly alienated from rural pur-
suits and will do anything to avoid
returning to farm work. 1t is condi-
ton that is causing German agricul :,
tural interests a great deal of anxiety.
Governor Hughes Of New YORK
dresses carefully. Usually he wears
either a dark gray frock suit, or a
black suit with long cutaway coat and
a white waistcoat. His neckties show
Just a touch of color. In his personal
habits he is rather methodical. He rises
about Z, eats simple breakfast slow
ly, and gets to work by 8. frequently
his luncheon is carried into his work.
room and eaten from a desk while he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

protection and opportunity derived
from a stable government under winch
large fortunes may be accumulated and
enjoyed constitutes just claim against
such fortunes 1t is now question not
as to the justice Of the claim but of
the Just amount to be collected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

lily of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wallisx
of Rexburg, Fremont county, and
called for volunteers I'm the way OF
more numerous families. In its hasta
it awarded the palm to the Wallis
household, as the most numerous in
the state.
But it seems that the Wallis clan is
not yet to be seriously considered.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
No Race! Suicide in Idaho.
ada ho Statesmanl

There is no race suicide in Idaho.
The proud eagle of the mountains
isn't ia it w tn Nhe meek but ever
present stork of the prairie.
Ten days ago the Statesman men
toned the fifteenth child in the fam
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

Publicity, at times. is just as eff
fective as prosecution observes the
Centerville Citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened BY 0Yef- Work.

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
1t used to be considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
irl the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purity the blood
that is their work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09
Frost.
cleveland Leader.)

ICTeNtIdIlU LeduVTI
"Did you say you took in the James
town exposition? 2"
mo. I said as taken in at it."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-09

pay damages for the persons they Kill
in wrecks than to make the necessary
changes to prevent accidents, then the
prices paid for damages ought to be
greatly increased declares the Sac
Democrat.