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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

results in the United States, because
we have the advantage of all the les
sons which Europe has learned and
paid for in the course of a century of
theory and practice.
When the older men remember the
siN-board fences of practically clear
lumber which enclosed the fields of a
quarter century ago, splendid pine
boards nailed to real red ce-
dar fence posts, some idea Of
the wasteful extravaganza with
which we have used our timber
supply comes home to them, especially
when they pay $50 per thousand for
lumber that would have been dear at
$40 in those days and hear the dealer
say Fence posts? Yes, a good post
will cost you 90 to 25 cents
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
comprehension that it would fall mean

comprehension that it would fall mean
ingless upon our ears, much as If
father should attempt to explain to his
4year- old son the theorems Of New
ton. Perhaps the experiences of the
supersensnous universe are not capable
Of being conveyed by mortal language
st. Paul refers to visions and reveal
tons when he was seemingly caught
up to the third heaven, when he could
rot tell whether he was in the body or
separated from the body, and in that
Paradise he heard sacred things or
which no human being is permitted to
speak
"This may even be so, and yet 1t does
not solve the whole difficulty. NWhen
we ask whether, in all the years dur
ing which disembodied spirits have
purported to speak to US thru medl-
ums any important truth in science,
philosophy, or religion has been given
us thru them, the answer must con-
fessedly be Not one And, even more
more disappointing. it must be admit
ted that men, of high talent and cul-
ture when living, have seemingly fallen
into childish and foolish ways OF
thinking and speaking when supposed
" talking to us after death. We do
not write in a spirit of contention. We
are willing and more than willing that
the reality of the spiritual world and Of
Immortality shall be established thru
psychical research, IL it can be- But
lie our belief in the hereafter is to rest
upon anything that these revelations
have yet shown, we must admit that
we are leaning on a broken reed. Sci
sence is very far from proving immor-
tality We who accept it must believe
ON other grounds. and those mainly Of
religious faith. The evidence fur
nished by physical reaserch is too sus-
picious, fimsy irrelevant, and trivial
to furnish any firm standing ground
whatever. AT present, at least, we can
not walk by sight"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
AFA.,InE Of b FENCE POSTS.

Send me over a half dozen fence
posts. was the order given lumber
man the other day. Cant do II" re-
piled the dealer, Il haven't got q fence
post, and am wondering whenI will
get those have ordered" Car short
age has something to do with the.d deal
er's predicament, but fence posts are
becoming scarcer than cars. We have
annihilated the timber. Do you know
that it takes a hard search to find a
tree 100 years old? How many such
trees can be located in Iowa? Who
knows tree that has stood for a
century?
All timber has become scarce. We
have been wastefuIly extravagant.
Every person in the United States is
using over six times as much wood as
he would use II he were in Europe;
The country as whole consumes every
year between three and four times
more. wood than al Of the forests of
the United States grow in the mean
time, according to the statements of
the Forest Service. The average acre
Of forest lays UP store of only 10
cubic feet annually, whereas, it ought
to be laying up at least 80 cubic feet
in order to furnish the products taken
out Of it. Since 1880 more than 700,-
100000, 900 feet of timber have been cut
for lumber alone, including S0,0o0,00o,-
900 feet Of coniferous timber in excess
Of the total coniferous stumpage esti-
mate OF the census OF 1880.
The result is a. timber famine. This
country is today in the same position
with regard to forest resources as was
Germany $50 years ago. During this
period OF $50 years such German
states as Saxony and Prussia, partic-
ularly the latter, have applied policy
OF government control and regulati ton
which has immensely increased the
productivity OF their forests. The
same policy VIII achiele even better
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
For Sunday Reading. /
+ Al sorts Of Opinions. !
! !
Jones' Methods.

after a while, with solemn, irresist-
ible force, Jones called on these breth-
rem to rise in public, confess their
shortcomings, and kneel for divine
grace.
And they kneH. With groans and
sobs and tears these old bell-wethers
of the flock fell ON their knees and
cried aloud in their distress.
"And the little man in the short tail
coat was master of the situation.
Then what?
He turned his guns upon us sin
ners and he enfiladad us. He rakel las
fore and aft. He gave us grape and
canister and all the rest He abused
us and ridiculed US; he stormed at US
and laughed at US; he called us flop
cared hounds. beerkegs, and whisky
soaks. He plainly said that we were
all hypocrits and liars. and he in:i-
mated somewhat broadly that most OF
US would steal.
"Oh. we had a time of 1t. assure
you. For six weeks the farms and the
stores were neglected. and Jones, Jones.
Jones, was the whole thing.
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Cured Of rheumatism.

Mr.. VIM Henry, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, had rheumatism in his left arm.
THE strength seemed to have gone
out of the muscles, so that it was use
less for work. he says. Il applied
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and wrapped
the arm in flannel at night, and to my
relief I found that the pain gradually
left me and the strength returned. In
three weeks the rheumatism had dis
appeared and has not since returned"
If troubled with rheumatism try a few
applications Of Pain Balm. You are
certain to be pleased with the relief
which it affords. For sale by all drug
gists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
MERCILESS BUT HONEST
Cedar Falls Record

The young man, or the old one
either, who gets the notion into his
head that the business of this country
is conducted on dishonest principles
is harboring most dangerous delu-
sion The business world is CONNER
cially honest. While it is exacting and
cold blooded. it is nevertheless con-
Quoted along the lines of strict integ
rjty.
Shylock's demand for his pound of
flesh was no reflection upon his
honesty. The business world exacts
what belongs to 1t, but its exactions
are based upon correct and legitimate
business principles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
ginpz auh1rar 3narsta1Itnmm anua, Ar1il II 1907

two months he got what he expected.
After that he was put on a small sal
airy. He worked for chance to learn.
He was given the chance and he took
it, He had used it SO we'll that his last
promotion made him cashier Of the
bank in which he began as scrub boy
only five years ago He is getting 500
Il month now and he is hardly more
than started at that. He had learned
to wait and TO work and the compina-
ton is making a big man of him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

also convincing proof that the kidneys
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What TO DO.
Thore is comfort in the knowledge 20
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
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Iowa Newspapers
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PREFERRED JAIL
CLEANSING Mirror,)

One night last week, after curfew
had sounded. Night Watch Rettinger
saw a little boy on the street and told
him he must go home or be put in Jail.
All right said the boy. I'll so to
jail But why don't you go homer"
asked the officer Il don't want to-"
the kid replied; dads at lodge, mas
gone to the euchre party, brothers out
walking with his girl, and sis is rum
MIN the photograph. They left me
and the dog at home. I'll go to Jail"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
Topics Of the Times

President Roosevelt should fish OF
cut bait. 1t is time he made another
definite announcement.
Only one fool outfools thoseN who
constitute charivari party. the old
fool that shoots into the crowd.
The Jamestown Ter-Centennial ex-
position opened yesterday under very
different circumstances than Capt.
John Smith and the Powhatan-Poca-
hontas company opened years ago.
Secrecy in the transmission Of tele-
graph dispatches in China is to be
insured in the future by provision
for the decapitation of all offenders
revealing the contents of important
messages in transit. In the case OF
ordinary messages of commerce thus
revealed the penalty is to be ten years
in prison. Five years Imprisonment
is provided for those who know OF
the revelation of such secrets and
neglect to report the matter to the
proper authorities
Senator Foraker and his friends have
no more reason to expect Iowa than
the next prohibition nominee for pres
ident has to hope that he will carry
Dubuque.
Chairman Jaxon Is the latest COR
respondent of the president to stand
waiting for his fingers to cool off.
Chairman Jaxon should spell it with
a ''k."
All Spain will walk turkey" while
the stork walks Spanish"
Current Literature for May con-
tains such topics Of current interest
as "Taft and Foraker" "The Rich
Mems Conspiracy" besides much mat
ter not closely related to politics. The
magazine is among the best Of its
kind and the current number one of
its best issues.
Now Jersey is about to mulct trusts
$3.50 apiece. New Jersey never got
her fair share Of the swag, but she
seems to have walked up now.
mo" said his wife. Il will not need
A bonnet, not this spring,
Nor dress, nor any gloves,
In fact, not anything;
And I won't care to go away
And not leave the city smoke
And dust and grime"-then some one
knocked
And the man awoke.
Houston Post.
Colonel Temple as candidate for
governor Of Iowa and the state pri-
mary law smack OF incongruity
The finest thing about Roosevelt's
letter to Jaxon is that it said plainly
and unequivocally precisely what clean
citizenship has been thinking for some
time.
Gracious, Fanny" exclaimed a
mother to her little daughter, why
are you shouting like that? Why can't
you be quiet like your brother?
Hes git to be quiet" replied Fan
ny He's playing papa coming home
late"
And who are you playing?:'
20, I'm playing you"
90 I'm playing ou.'-Harper
Weekly.
After two months of probing, the
legislative committee investigating the
Pennsylvania capitol scandal has
reached the conclusion that Of the So
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100000 or more spent on furnishings
nearly two thirds represented over
charges. Six million dollars graft
ought to assist the taxpayers of Penn
sylvania TO arrive at Roosevelt con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

Women have decided that in case
they cannot vote, they will cut out the
"Stork7 proposition. Perfectly proper.
Take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
it is good for almost everything. So
cents, Tea or Tablets. Mcbride &
Will Drug Co
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

winter weather in Iowa that we have
had this April" muses. the Waterloo
Reporter, how. enthusiastic it might
be possible to become with our lot
''It is really wonderful at times to
observe how a second class postoffice
will influence first class statesman,
remarks the Mitchell County Press.
For our part" says the Glidden
Graphic, III LATE Young wants a place
at the mourners' bench we are perfect
ly willing that he be Accommodated
The Rockford Register predicts thai
unless a we'll recognized economic law
fails of operation the railroads of the
country will have to increase rather
than diminish their accommodations
and equipment as result of the enact
ment of 2 cent fare laws in number
of states. Under the new order there
will be fare and third excursions
every day
1.-THE matter of nominee has dis
turbed the national political pool fo-
some months, but just now attention
is turning to the character of the
City Times Herald "a clear-cut hon :
est stand for progressive principles is
demanded by the people and no
specious pleas for harmony at the
expense of principle will secure any
standing"
The Boone News-Republican hopes
that the railroads will do more
prosperous business than ever as pre-
dicted by the promoters of the reform.
They have certainly made less fuss ever
this sweeping change than in former
times they have smade over trivial
propositions. The indications are that
better feeling is to prevail between tha
people and the railroads.
Maybe the farmers oats were lying
idle in the ground for several weeks
this year to give the corn chance
to start with them in the race back
to the granary," ventures the Grundy
County Democrat.
Ask the man who thinks his town
is going to the dogs, IL he would be
willing to pay his share towards pur-
chasing muzzles," suggests the Clarks-
vile Star
THE absence of hog cholera in the
state and hogs selling for six dollars
a hundred is one large spoke in the
Wheel of prosperity" argues the Scran-
ton Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
THE "13" AND THE GROCERIES.
(OelWein Register.)

In CONVERSATION Friday with man In
this city who is up against quite a
proposition he told his side OF the
trouble that started him into difficulty.
He said that his wife is one of thir-
teen sisters-unlucky number, by the
way He further said that sometimes
pretty nearly the whole blank family
would come to visit them, and at such
times he had paid as high as 800 per
month for groceries. That would Jar
the average man somewhat. The old
proposition remains true, that when a.
young couple are married, if they pull
out and away from kith and kin there
is less chance for domestic squalls than
if they lived in the midst of them.
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ut is really wonderful at times to
observe how a second class postoffice
will influence a first class statesman,
remarks the Mitchell County Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

asedinentO or set
tlingindicatesai1
unhealthy con-
dition of the kid
neys; if it Stains
your linen it il
evidence of kid
ney trouble too
frequent desire
to pass it or pain
in the back is
- Al f.s1~>-A
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect It
How To Find Out.

Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours !;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

IL we could only cheer UP over the
reflection that one seldom sees finer
winter weather in Iowa that we have
had this April" muses. the Waterloo
Reporter, how. enthusiastic it might
be possible to become with our lot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
A bic, Problem.

IL lHc o9iSdtIOIi Army eiAiih'o "
become phiIanthropic, Regeneration of
society, adds the Advocate. at may be
entering on decadence," for st must
demonstrate its ability for inancing
and directing perplexing scheme of
philanthropy better than other philan-
thropic bodies" The paper further
fears that 1T may develop machine
too heavy for its devotees TO keep rum
ming. IF it does" we read. "and IL at
the same time its appeal to the souls
Of magdalens and of lepers loses its
urgent compulsion, there will be moth
ing ahead but that which has already
reduced Dowieism to distressing sa-
tire on the presumption of mistaken
enthusiasm"
Justification for this dark view of
the Arny's future seems to be found
in what this religious paper regards as
the failure of General Booths endeavor
propounded in Darkest England" to
redeem the slums. pauperism. and in
iquity of England" We read:
''He asked for 100000 to start with
and an endowment income OF s150,000
a year. He was going to buy land.
etc, etc, and undertake to turn upside
ioWH dliu SiGdH UP anu Lie
social regeneration of Darkest Eng
land At that time Professor Huxley
did his best to persuade the people to
withhold their peeuniary support from
such visionary scheme. He held that
religious enthusiasm was no guaranty
that the Army could cope with an eco
nomic and social problem so grave.
He was right. The London slums, the
submerged classes. pauperisn. crime,
have not. been touched with one ray
of light by the Arrny's main schemes.
Nevertheless the Army has been given
large sums of money"
TriviaIity Of Spirit Communications.
The triviality of communications
from the spirit world complained of by
nom believers has been treated by Pro-
fessor James II. Hyslop in a recent
number of The Journal of the American
Society for Psychical Research He
reminds the reader that great revela-
tons" must not be expected. The
problem at present engaged in by in
vestigators is a scientific one dealing
with evidence, he declares, "and only
the most trivial circumstances will.
serve as proof" If spirit claims
to communicate or to produce phenom-
ena not easily applicable by ordinary
methods it must prove it's identity and
must communicate little, trivial inci-
dents in it's past early life which can
not be guessed and which are not COM
mon to the lives of other people"
In commenting. upon this statement
Of Professor Hyslop The Western
Christian Advocate (Cincinnati) re-
marks:
We'll, let US admit this, and let us
suppose that identity has been, by this
time, sufficiently established, as. per-
haps,s it should have been if the COM
implications are genuine and not some
fresh exhibition of mediumistic fax
ism; then, why may we not now go
on and have something worth while :?
Why can not something be told us
about the nature and conditions of the
other world? Perhaps it may be i'm
possible to do this. Perhaps it is so
far beyond the range of our ideas and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27

For our part" says the Glidden
Graphic, IF LATE Young wants a place
at the mourners' bench we are perfect
ly willing that he be Accommodated"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-27
TAXING TERMINAL PROPERTY.

(COuncll BluftS NOnpdrell.)
The system of taxing railroads alone
on thei1s mileage is wrong Railroad
terminal property ought to be assessed
and taxed where it is found. This
is what the so-called terminal tax law
passed by the recent Nebraska legis-
lature seeks to accomplish. If Iowa
had such law this $3,47S,247 worth
of railroad property in Council Bluffs
would be assessed here right where it
| is, in its palpable bulk and subjected
to the same taxes which are imposed
upon other property located within the
city. That would mean $4,000 a year
to Council Bluffs. Under such law
our railroad property could neither be
made to disappear under the distri-
button method, nor be permitted to
escape the levy made where it is To-
/ Gated and which is applicable to other
property of the same location, and then
pay under a much smaller levy some-
| where else.
1t is a crude, simple proposition,
| and, with the influence of the railroads
| broken in politics, there is hope that
relief may now some day be had. But
| the eternal vigilance of the railroads
and the inertia of the public are mighty
factors to overcome.
LEARN TO WORK AND TO WAIT.
(Grundy Democracy
These prosperous times are spoilers
of young men. They grow in them an
ambition to get rich too fast. They
cultivate tendency for fixing the eye
at the top of the pole rather than on
the means of getting there They breed
spirit Of restlessness that drives out
habits of patience and stick-to-it-ive-
ness without which substantial growth
is impossible. They crowd out OF the
boy to desire to learn and leave in its
place an avaricious craving to make.
In short, they are encouraging young
men to build business careers without
a foundation.
Most of the successful business men
of today were willing to take time to
learn the trades or the lines of work
| they expected to follow. When they
applied for a place and got it their
first question was what am to do and
not what am to get as is the custom
now. The boy who begins to work to
learn something and sticks to it will
get his pay sometime and it will be
given him with compound interest to
| boot
An illustration: Two boys graduated
from an Iowa high school five years
ago. They We're both H. One of them
wanted to begin earning some money
right away He had an ambition for
the pay check. He took Job on the
draw line at 81 a day, He rides the
same wagon now at $40 a month. The
other boy wanted to learn something.
He needed money but he had learned
to fight back this need. What he want
ed was more important to him than
what he needed. One of the local
banks needed a boy to do errands and
to clean up mornings and evenings. The
17-year-old high school graduate APP
piled for the job and got 1t. He didn't
expect to get any pay and for the first
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An Iowa travelling man asks the
The Carlisle independent., 1907-06-27
Carlisle 3 Brinkley 1

The Brinkley base ball team came over last Friday with what had appearance of being the best lineup ever witnessed on the To- cal field, but our boys were too much for them, defeating them by the score of 9 to 1 Lemon for the locals did wonderful pitching and his support was the best witnessed here this season. The visitors are a clever set of boys, and, although they lost to Carlisle, they played fast ball and best of all they leave the rag chewing and chronic growing, so much practiced by many teams, at home.
 Hicks Mallory, representing Tom Morton Tobaeo Co.,, of Memphis, had offered a box of -Eselco 10c cigars to the first one If there be one) that knocked a home run, and Lemon, one of our champion stickworkers, was the lucky players, swatting one in the last half of the seveeth in ming. All the rest of our boys were in batting line and did ex- celent stick work throughout the game.