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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
NO FIRE PROOF CITIES.

| The United States geological survey
| has received reports from three emin-
ent engineers who made an exhaustive
study of the condition of buildings
after the fire in San Francisco. These
engineers are Prof. Frank Soule dean
of the College of Civil Engineering in
the University of California; Captain
John Stephen Sewell of the corps Of
engineers, United States army; and
Mr.. Richard L. Humphrey, expert in
charge of the structural materials d.
vision of the technical branch of the
geological survey and secretary of the
national advisory board on fuels and
structural materials "They reach the
conclusions" remarks the Engineering
Record, chat the lessons from the
Chicago and Baltimore fires have not
vet been learned, and that great
confagration with its attendant loss of
life and millions of dollars in property,
is possible in every big city in the
country"
mr.. Humphrey says in his report
that the defects of construction so
strongly condemned in San Francisco
ARE no worse than those generally
practsed turnout the United States.
The cause of this, according to the re-
ports, is the short -sightedness of
builders. who. seeking a large immed-
late return on estment, refuse to
pay for good construction. Fire statis-
ties in this country it is pointed out,
show the false economy in cheap con-
struction If individuals will not cease
to ut up unburnable buildings, say
the experts, it Is the duty of commun-
tiles to do so by law
In his report Captain John Stephen
Sewell says: "A conflagration never
yields comparative results, but from
such\ results as are available l think
that there is no question that the best
fire-resisting material at the present
time is the right kind Of burned clay"
This view is shared, apparently, by
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
Iowa Newspapers
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THE SPELLING BOOK.
(Traer star-Clipper.l


An Iowa normal graduate has come
to grief With his application for
position in the Usage schools he filed
first-classf Endorsements and recon-
mendations but did not get in when
the board found two mistakes in SPELL
ing in the first sentence in his applica-
ton. his hash was settled. 1t would
have paid him we'll had he been on in
innate terms with his spelling book.
This art, or accomplishment, has be-
come lately of greater Importance
than formerly. A typesetter who does
not know bad spell" when he or she
sees it may not hear the proof reader
say things" but dirty proof is not
much of a booster for it's producer.
To one who gets a position as stem
ogra pher or typewriter in an office,
good spelling is more important than
speed. No business man or woman
wants a poorly spelled letter or docu-
ment to be sent out or filed among the
office papers. A few mistakes of this
kind will generally set the writer look
ing for another place. Bad spelling by
bookkeeper Is very apt to make his
! job short one, and so on thru the
list We not long since received a let
ter from college student telling us of
his gratifying advance in Latin, Greek
and higher mathematics. We were
greatly pleased. but we did not show
the letter to his other friends There
We're too many '1oad spells" in it, If
We could get the ear of the students in
our school we would say: Make the
spelling book your most intimate COM
panion. Whatever you may or may
not learn, learn to spell.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
4 y,ps e1u1tira Observation-Disclosures gnnra aune 29 1907

wages for our teaching talent and now
there is a scarcity of teachers all over
the state. There is nothing which adds
to the growth and prosperity of a state
like strong educational system and
it is very poor economy to cripple this
system by paying starvation wages 10
those who are striving to build 1T up.
The Boone News epublican says:
The attempt to make the new prim-
AIRY law ineffective comes with poor
grace from newspapers which siren
uously advocate party harmony. For
what is calculated to promote har-
mony more than that the majority OF
the voters should have their Way
asks the Republican, and adds
that opposition to majority rule lis the
same old, stubborn, display of the
party bosses in the discarded caucus
system which went on the theory that
the people could not be trusted to
nominate good officers and that the
whole thing should be left to the few
who made a business of nominating a
profession. The best thing to do is to
stop picking faults in the new primary
law and give it a fair trial." continues
the Boone paper eff it turns out to
be a. bad thing, the next legislature
can remedy it, but from present indi-
cations it appears that the new law Is
too good and too fair to suit the taste
of those who believe that the people
are not competent to make their own
nominations"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29

"Not forgetting the income and In
heritance taxes, irrigation, the anthra-
cite coal trust, the railroad problem,
the outlook for wheat and corn, the
strained relations with Japan. the COM
mercial invasion of China, and the
various presidential candidates; with
all these and other great questions
in mind the Davenport Democrat con-
tinues to maintain there is nothing of
more absorbing and permanent interest
than the sweet girl graduate And this
is not intended to neglect her brother
altogether tho it must be admitted
that ne is of only secondary inter
est"
The Waterloo Reporter, referring to
the Adam Express Company's $4,000
900 melon, says: when public
service corporation can pay regular
dividends as good as capital employed
is in the habit of returning, and then
divide a 200 per cent profit, it is hardly
anarchy or populism to wonder if the
rates in vogue cannot be reduced to
the basis of rea sonable returns. If
such a situation confronted a railroad
the whole official directory that could
MT turn too fast would be hung on the
nearest crossarm or friendly branch"
1.-THE big stick will now proceed t.
stir up the contents of the milk cans
announces the Sioux City Journal.
"rhe explosion in the standpat
camp incident to the announcement o.
Cummins' candidacy for the senate has
simmered down TO monotonous
growl." notes the Glidden Graphic.
1t looks to the Muscatine Journal as
if "the school teachers of Iowa are
about to get what they are really en-
titled to in the way of salaries. We
have not been paying respectable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
THE LAW AND ETHICS OF GAMING.

Up at, Fort Dodge rich farmer
sought to become richer by "bucking
the board" His experience is not I'M
common. He dropped about $4,000 in
the various transactions that preceded
the cruel awakening from his dream OF
avarice. In the settlement he appears
to have given a note for $4,000 to the
firm thru which he conducted his
transactions When the brokers con-
cluded to collect he got hold of the
note. refused to return it and defended
a suit under the plea that during the
different deals there had been no in
tention of delivering the commodities
dealt in, that it had been simply gam
bling and under the statute the alleged
debt was uncollectible. The judge held
with him and the farmer won his
suit and saved his money.
Nobody has much use for a
"welcher" The man who plays should
expect to pay. Neither has anyone any
particular sympathy with sure thing
gambler who fails to make connection
with the Suckers coin. The farmer
would have taken the money if by
possibility he could have won it. His
antagonists would have taken his if
they could have put their hands on 1t.
1t seems to be about an even break all
around.
The law doesn't recognize a gam
bling debt. In this it agrees, it would
appear, with the men who make debts
of this kind. The ethics of gambling
grow very weak when the money is
not up Perhaps this is the reason
that the gentlemen in the checked
trousers and expansive vests refuse to
issue tickets contingently payable on
the result of the horse races until they
finger the money. Perhaps that is
why men who would lend another ST.
600 on his bare word insist that the
money must be up on S. bet.
The only new thing of Importance
developed by the Fort Dodge suit is
that. an Iowa court houlds brokerage"
transactions of this nature to be
gambling. That gambling debts are
uncollectible and that the average man
will "welch'' out of them when he can,
had long been common knowledge.
But if the "brokers'' are to be thus
classed and the law is Invoked what
is to become of their extremely profit
able occupation in Iowa?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29

the foremost building experts. The
steel frames of the largest and highest
structures under way in New York
and other cities are being protected by
hollow terra Gotta blocks, burned clay
products which keep the heat away
from the steel columns and girders
which they surround.
The general conclusions of the three
experts may be summed up in Mr..
Humphreys words: The only sure
way to remedy grave defects of this
character is to enact strict building
laws which will compel an Observance
of the essentials for fireproof con-
struction."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
TO YELLOWSTONE PARK FREE.

II was talking with 1flend OF lille
Yesterday" said a travelling man at
last Saturdays picnic, "snd he is go
ing to take his wife and daughter with
him on a delightful pleasure trip thru
the Yellowstone Park and out to the
coast. i wondered how he could af-
ford it when he explained that 1t
would not cost him a cent. You see,
he had just received a check for SS5o
from some insurance company, being
the matured value of an insurance
policy which had cost him $50 per
year for the past ten years, and he
said he had never missed the small
payments when made. | tell you II
more of us would save little each
year. we might enjoy some of the lux
uries of the wealthy" he concluded.
And it was all true; the average
travelling man is high salaried
worker, but nightly few ever try to
save. The same is true about salaried
men and wage workers everywhere.
This man who is going to the Yellow
stone Park free of charge was not try
ing to save when he took out his policy.
He was merely good fellow and took
the policy to help some other good
fellow who was selling insurance for
living. Having kept up his pay
ments because he didn't miss them he
now receives money enough for this
delightful and expensive trip just like
finding it in the street
He paid less than s cents per day.
Had he been willing to have allowed
his wife to put 10 cents per day in
the savings bank at per cent interest
he could have drawn out $3.50 at the
end of ten years. Any mechanic or
young man can spare % cents per
day from his wages and this in ten
years at a savings bank would roll up
a deposit of s1,125. IL young people
getting married could put away so
cents per day in a savings bank, when
the oldest boy was s or 9 years cd
the deposit would be sufficient to buy
and pay for $2,25O home, and then
the same small saving kept up after
the home was bought until the boy was
ready for college would put him thru
college and pay for his professional
course besides.
Travelling men can well afford to
save 81 per day Many of them start
in when they are 20 years old. If
travelling man would save 81 per day
for ten years, depositing in savings
bank at the age of 80. he would have
$4,000 to his credit ready to start in
business for himself On the other
hand, if he preferred to stay on the
road, that same 81 per day saved
would be worth $11 800 in twenty years
and the $11,300 invested at 5 per cent
interest would raise his income just
$3.50 per year from and after his 40th
Few people realize the rap
id growth of savings or the ease with
which the small amounts can be
spared.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
osKALoosArs REST ROOMS.
Golfers Weekly

| Golfers Weekly.)
Oskaloosa, Iowa, has many claims 10
| distinction besides a beautiful name
and the official residence of Kissiek,
patriotic instructor of the Grand Army
of the Republic. 1t has what Carbon
dale, Kansas, has not and what every
town needs-a rest room WHARF
farmers wives may stay while their
| husbands are indulging in man ia Tx.
Mrs. Ella w Peattie who crowns a
successful literary career by painsfaI-
| ingly reading these editorials, thus
writes of a glimpse she had OF this
| beneffcent chamber when she happened
to be in Oshaloosa one hot spring day:
| Il wandered about the town for to add
mirta and SO CHANGED to OBSERVE that
the farm women turned into the base
nen. of the city hall. The place was q
| rest room / think 1 went GoYr a
Sep or two into a beautifully clean
wb' tewashea room. There was a rug
on the cen7ent floor, and .h4.e were
| muslin curtains at the window. Half
| a dozen rockers and several other
easy chairs were in this room; the ia
BILE was spread with the latest maya
zines and the local papers; there were
few shelves of books on the WALL and
some more than agreeable pictures, and
clock which was really keeping time.
Out of this room opened an apartment
supplied with three long tables TWEEN
ty or more dining chairs, and a sofa.
The tables We're covered with clean
newspapers, and on them We're spread
the luncheons which the farm women
had taken from their baskets. Open
ing out of the sitting room was a large
toilet, generously supplied with clean
towels, soap. combs, etc. A motherly
woman presided over these rooms, and
supplied me with drink of water,
fan. and some excellent information"
The restroom idea in Oskaloosa
originated with the womans club of
the place. A delegation had visited
the town council and secured an APP
preparation and the attractive base
ment rooms II do not know the di-
vision of expense" writes Mrs Peattie, !
but. between the club and the coun-
ell the matron had her wage, the place
was heated, supplied with literature.
growing plants, and clean linen, and
not only the farm women, but the girls
from the telephone office, and the
stenographers from the city offices.
and the clerks from the shops. had
their place of meeting Here they
could enjoy that sociability which is
needed for the Christian digestion of
a meal and refrsh themselves. The
pictures We're reproductions Of master
pieces. The books were good enough |
for the best to read. The cradle was
dainty enough for anybody's baby. It
gave me, a sojourner. a very friendly |
feeling. 1t not only rested by body, |
but. what was much more to the
point, it warmed the cookies of my
heart. I fancy that the women's clubs,
which have, and realize that they
have, too little connection with reality,
often, would be only too glad to have
such an honest. disinterested, practical
piece of work to do, if only the idea
occurred to them. It's a piece of
beneficence of distinctly feminine
order. And any town could have Its
rest room-any town with merchants
who want the trade the women bring"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29

Just be Glad.
o, heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry so!
What we've missed of calm we could
mt
Have, you know!
What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrows driving rain,
We can better meet again
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When the tears fell with the shower
All alone
Were not shine and shower blent
AS the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With his own.
For we know, not every morrow
Can be sad
So forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away our fears.
And put by our foolish tears.
And thru all the coming years
Just be glad.
james Whitcomb Riley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
Topics Of the Times
Bought your coal yet?

Bought your coal yet?
If Roosevelt would consent his
nomination and election would follow
as naturally as daybreak.
Some people use their heads as an
opening wedge.
Difference for old age should not
prevent Gambling eggs.
The Christianized Monaghan turned
back at the Golden Gate is excusable
if ne wonders whether the exclusion
act extends to the gates of pearl.
A big navy and a big policeman
are pledges to peace.
When the officials of the navy de-
partment last week opened bids for
the construction of the two new great
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
Do Not Neoleet the Children.

At this season of the year the first
unnatural looseness of child's bow
els should have immediate attention.
The best thing that can be given is
Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy followed by castor oil
as directed with each bottle of the
remedy. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29

''The speech made by Governor Cum
Minis at Pittsburg recently is being
criticised by the standpat press, but
the criticism is all in the nature of an
attack on the governor, rather than an
answer to his argument" says the
Sheldon Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
that mo man in the United States
could get a longer and more fattering
obituary notice in the Iowa standpat
press right now than Governor Cum
Minis"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-29
TERMS:

Entered at the postotfice at Marshall.
town as second class mail matter
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A., B. 8 A. ROAD
NOW IN ATLANTA
TRACKS WERE LAID INTO THAT
CITY YESTERDAY-TRAlNs
WILL SOON BE RUNNING.
The A. B & A. is in Atlanta.

H1 -. i5- q 49, IS III AtldIiLd.
The tracks Of the road reached
that city yesteday. according to re-
ports received in this city and before
the end of the week they will be laid
up to the company's property near
the Terminal Station The work of
building the line into Atlanta has
progressed rapidly and the officials
were doubtless glad yesterday when
they saw the ails being laid within
the city limits.
It has not been announced when
the company Win inaugurate its
through trains fom Brunswick to At
lanta. but it is understood that the
trains VIII likely go on sometime
next month. It viii take some little
time to lever the tracks and prepare
them for trains
No announcement has yet been.
made rs to whether or not the road
will epter the terminal station. bur
it s more tnan likely thai such m
arrangement will be made
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Conductors chsnae.

Conductor G.adn has returned 10
the city ard WIN run or The snort
between Brunswick ana Iesup
while Conductor Fred Higgins. who
has been ga this run TO- some time,
has been transferred to Macon and
VIII now probably run between tEat
city and Atlanta.
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Col. Bennett Improving.

The many Brunswick friends OF
Col. John w Bennett the popular
solicitor Of the Brnn wick circuit
viii be glad 10 learn that ne IS now
improving In health and seems to be
ON the road to recovery. Solicitor
Bennett will be n the cit next
month to attend the superior court.
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cemmlssloners Met.

The commits .oners Of roaGs and
gcyenaes held short meeting at the
court ho1se yesterday al noon, TAX
ing up one or two matters. The new
furniture for the court house was
accepted.
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CITATION.

Georgia, olynn County
TO All Whom it may concera:
G. r. Briuson having applied for
guardianship Of the person and
property Of Annie Catherine Blain.
minor child OF A. G Blaih late of
said county. deceased. notice is Civ
en- that said application will be heard
1T my Office at 0 O'clock am on
The first Monday ia january 1908,
next. Horace Dart.
Ordinary
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Yesterdays Slipping.

Following is the record Of the
movement Of vessels at this port yes.
terday Arrived. steamef Ocmulgee.
Mason. New York: sailed schooner
Robert G. MeQuillan, Burfough. New
Haven.
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FOR THE BEST OAK and PINE
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J handle the largest assortment Of
pistols in the city II YOU c0ntem-
plating purchasing to keep thar burg
lar out OF your horse. call and see
me for prices
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

Neither the master. owners nor con
sineneea o, tne B,ftish steamship
Mariner viii be responsible tor ans
debt contracted bg the crew OF sale
steamship
r. q. M. stesrfan & CO.,
Cons Gaees.
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BATCH Of ITEMS
ABOUND THE CITY
BATCH OF LITTLE ITEMS GATH.
Erred DURING THE Day BY
NEWS REPORTERS.
Eaalee to Meet.

Eagles TO Meet.
The Glynn aeYie OF Eagles VIII hold
an Interesting meeting in their hall
this evening, at which the officers
elected last week will be initiated.
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| win gave gou BIZ money Oh that
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G., r I Or u
Eor Laiants and Children.
The Kind You Hage Always Bought
Gears sas n <<czz--
Signature u G<<<xS1TZAIE<a<


Either the master o@neis nor con
signees Of the British Steamship
I.inearin viii be respon ibie for ans
debts contracted 81 III crew OF SAID
steam hip.
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RUG SALE TODAY. LEAYv & co.
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RIG SALE TO-DAY. LEAvY & co.
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Rue SALE TO-DAY. LsAvY 6 60
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-05

in quantity and quality Of the grain
that is actually grown on the farm.
The very fact that there is large
wheat growing acreage from which
the crop must be at once rushed to
market, either for lack OF storage
facilities or the necessity of receiving
ready money, should be another all
sufficient reason why the farmer in
the humid sections, where the percen-
tage of grain grown Is always small
should stack his grain, let it go thru
the sweat, and give his less fortunate
neighbors chance of a market. Far
mers in the humid sections are gener-
ally forehanded, do not usually need
the money at once, have good storage
facilities, and why should they not
get the most money out OF the grain
they grow9 When they join in with
the farmers In the one-crop countries
and rush their grain to market or
even put it in the elevators where It
appears as visible supply, the immedi-
ate effect is to lower the price both
for the farmer in the humid section
and the farmer in the one-crop section.
There Is no need Of this, especially
this year. 1t is quite as evident now
as it will be six months from now
that the wheat crop Of the United
States will be very much less than
the crop of last year, and therefore it
is probable that the only export wheat
this year will he from the surplus
carried over from last year. Then