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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
TELEPHONES AND LOVERS.
lRegister and LEGGED


This placard was yesterday placed
on the drug store telephones in East
Des Moines, having for it's object the
encouragement of loving converse
lions which have become the bane OF
the drug clerks existence in that neigh
borhood
r. E. Whitney, whose store is located
at East Fifth and Locust streets, IN
itiated the plan, and had it concurred
in by a number of the other drug
gists.
I'VE have just tirde OF silly young
girls who come In here and use the
telephone for an hour at a time talk
ing silly love talk that drives US back
of the prescription counter to take
nerve tonic" said a drug clerk yes
terday. "a few days ago girl came
in here and called up some fellow,
holding the line for little short of an
hour. The conversation was so soft
as to be positively sickening and 1t
put an end to the drug store tele-
phone as the recipient of the mushy-
mushy love making"
eyes, we have put on the lid" said
A. F. Mitchell Of the Whitney store.
yesterday a young man came In mere
smoking cigaret and called up a
girl. The result was something aw-
full. Won't you let me kiss you over
the telephone, love?' he asked, and
then he puckered up his cigaret stained
lips and let a smack into that tele-
phone that you could hear all over the
store.
"This morning after that sign was
put up a girl tripped in and asked to
use the telephone. I assented and she
tripped merrily over to the counter,
but she spied that sign. She paused
for a moment and then said she had
the wrong telephone. 1t was good
stall and saves us one more of those
love sick conversations So far as the
drug store is concerned it's 'skidoo for
cupid -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
CAN NOT TOLERATE IT.
(Dem Moines Capital.


The Smith bill to punish wife desert
ers we believe is scheduled for consid-
GRAFTON tomorrow. 1t is measure
which ough. to become a law. A few
lawyers who make a speciality of di-
vorce litigation will doubtless seek to
prevent its passage with such specious
pleading as is always employed when
measure OF this character are being
considered It is possible to so frame
the law that no material injustice will
work against any one. The purpose
of the bill lis to end or at least mini
mize the number of heart-rendering
spectacles with which every community
is familiar of men wantonly leaving
the wives which they have sworn TO
protect and the children for whom it is
theirs to intake provision.
The legislature can render no more
substantial service to society than to
provide legislation which shall tend to
teach men a higher appreciation of the
sacredness OF the marriage obligation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
AEllnI WHO IS Thls2

no Won make this call over the tele-
r,hone? Yes? Then it may have been
YOU that the attorney meant WheIl
he stopped an editor on the street 10
ask public scoring of the telephone
caller who uses the above form OF
greeting "Ive been grouchy all day.
said he. People call my office and ask
"who is this % Then when they mo
the wrong number or the wrong man
they ring off in my ear without a word
OF explanation. And I'm sore"
He was justifiably sore" What
right have you to call q busy man from
his work to ask who he is? why
don't you say who you are or ask TOT
the office or the man you want? why
should you impudently ask over the
,phone q question you would never
ask without q predatory explanation
{ face to face. It was your business
Perhaps you wanted to talk to the
stenorrapher. Maybe you called the
wrong number. Don't you know that
i !
YOU have no more right to obtrude
yourself into private office over the
telephone without making yourselr
and your business known, than to DO
so personally? Never thought Of 1T?
Then think Of it next time.
Politeness over the phone Is the
truest mark of good breeding. A
pleasant address over the phone is the
hallmark of true gentility. 1t you nave
fallen into careless habits in this re-
spect you are as much lacking as tho
YOU eat with your knife, or do any of
the things you condemn in others as
i'll bred and boorish. Watch yourself
when you talk over the phone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

NV first glimpse of the real man
was on a voyage. When the ocean
is the Pacific. and there are rev peo-
pie aboard, you learn your fellow pas
sengers pretty we'll: so you did on TINS
occasion. including two United States
senators. Hartman spent more time
with the engineer than with them
We started from Yokohama with the
idea of beating the record to San Fran
cisco. A smooth sea all the way meant
an even chance of success. This dis
appeared for everybody except Harrl
man when the first three days were en-
tirely unpropitious. / think that he
thought we must succeed because ne
himself was aboard When someone
offered him bet of $4,000 to $l,ooo
that he would fail. he took it. Then ne
started out to win the bet with all the
Zest that he has shown in obtaining
control over a new railroad FAR
weather broke the next day and corr
tinued We began to feel that the quiet
little man was putting demonlacal
energy into the stokers and into the
very engines. BY the dramatic space
of a few minutes he won. Hartman
never advertised the fact that he gave
the $4,000 to the engine room crew.
Winning was the point in mind.
One the whole he was the least OBJ
trusive of any great millionaire with
whn,., I have ever come in contact.
w ler he is doing kindness or do
ing usiness. he never uses words
where thought or action will take their
place. I noticed that when he told
steward to move a lady's chair to
better position it was in an undertone
of brevity. The lady did not know of
his thoughtfulness. She would ii
James J. Hill had been in Harrimans
place. Pierpont Morgan's politeness
would have had the aplomb of Jove
The two senators were always ready
to pick up Harriman's handkerchief,
'altho they are on record as trust bust
ers. When you cut away their egoism
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
Hartman The Man.
(Frederick Palmer in collier's.)

,and glad-handism the skeleton that
remained consisted merely OF a rupper
backbone and floating ribs. On one &C.
casion Senator N, looking around lol
an audience, engaged Hartman IN
discussion of the rate problem. IL was
the encounter of a rapier ana pillow
full of words. Besides, Hartman was
rot arguing; he was telling US.
Senator W. said that he hoped 10
avoid the importunate interviewers IN
San Francisco, because he did not want
any newspaper glory" When he ar
rived he graciously> distributed long
typewriter statement, and called the
reporters "boys." He said that he woulo
wait over day instead of taking the
next mornings Overland Limited. l
found afterwards that he had gone on
the Pacific Express. because passes
are not honored on the Overland.
Meanwhile the king-not fat, overfed,
SNUG. vulgar, easy-going king, but
self-made. intense, Argus eyed, little,
efficient king-had gone aboard the
tug waiting for him and was being shot
across the country by the mighty or
ganization he controlled, and controieo
SO absolutely, perhaps, because sena-
tors are cheap so cheap were liieso
two that you could not withhold your
admiration from Hartman as thor
oughbred fighting man. The contrast
made me understand the point Of view
Of the Japanese, who being foreigners.
can see us in the large. They looked
on Hartman as one of the really great
men Of America, a commander, who is
the counterpart of Togo, an Oyama.
or Kuroki; type Of creative or
ganizer who has brought to America
the industrial power which they so de-
sire to emulate, and in the country
where the civilian is supposed to be OF
lower breed than the official they
gave the man who had never held Of
flee at home more honors than they
had ever paid to any visiting American
since Grant
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
M.&sa<1ze
Dry Climate for Weak Lungs.
(Boston Transcript


It is interesting to note the rate at
which new theories of medical science
are reversing those that prevailed a
few years ago. Once when the con-
sumptive was told to seek a change of
climate, he checked his trunk for Flor
ida or some other sub-tropical section.
But advanced views upon the nature
and treatment of the disease have ma
terially changed that. Dryness is a
much more important condition. than
warmth. The patient can be protected
against cold, but against moisture in
the climate there is no defense except
to run away from it. The full force
Of extreme expression of the reaction
is illustrated by the fact that a
Washington physician proposes to take
about thirty consumptive patients on a
health seeking expedition to Greenland
this summer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
Do You Weigh Your Guests?

At fashionable weekend parties it
is the custom now to weigh the guests
on their arrival and on their depart
ure. There should be a gain Of several
pounds.
Some hosts Judge their cooks skill
by the result of these weight tests. If
the guests lost on weekend visit, the
cook is plainly worthless. If they gain
a pound or so, the man must have
pleased them with his connections. II
their average gain is three or four
pounds, then the cook is a treasure,
and may be promised an advance in
1908.
The weighing custom arose at Sand
bingham, where the king of England
superintends personally the weighing
OF all guests The king boasts that he
has put az much as nine pounds on a
man in q weekend visit OF two days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
HAND IN THE TAINTED MONEY.

IT is easy to see how old General
Booth buiit up an organization, the
most helpful and far-reaching OF Its
kind that has ever existed. His com :
mon sense is the hardest sort, ana II
was never better eXemplitied and eN-
hibited than when he said the other
day: Tainted money? Yes, Wen take
it and wash it clean in the tears OF
the widow and orphan" Il would take
money from any mortal" said the oid
man. mo money to me is tainted. ]
would take anybodys money. l would
lay it on the altar of benevolent eff
fort for the good of the great cause.
That's the kind -,f talk. When the
widows weep and the children cry for
bread, who thinks Of. a. faint on money?
Not old General Booth, or any other
man who has touched hands with the
deeper and most insistent needs of the
world. No money devoted to great
purpose of human charity is tainted
The purposes of human helpfulness are
sufficiently germicadal to kill every mi
crobe that greed '.r wickedness have
left on a bank check or green
back.
Take their money? Sure! Take i.
all and spend it for the needs of the
world. Feed the children, comfort the
widows, rescue the perishing. Who
cares whether the rope that rescues
a drowning man belonged or not to
the hangman? L, all the wealth OF
Rockefeller were iii the hands of char
ity for distribution, it's faint would
offend few and only ultra fastidious
nostrils. Charity is the greatest de-
odorizer. Bring on your tainted
money!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.

II Renorts from Des Moines are to the
erect that the woman suffragists VINO
tswooped down on a defenseless house
1t the state capitol came away
1 convinced that the minority report
would carry in the house for the sub
mission Of the suffrage amendment.
what the susceptible legislators prom
;sed under the spell of lovely woman
is hard. to tell. How many OF the
nromises made will be kept when the
vote comes is a matter of mere con-
lecture. Men were deceivers ever.
Still it is within the bounds Of pos
sibility that the house may vote for
submission. In private conversation
one of the most conscientious MEM
bers of the assembly said recently that
Ihe could not understand the senti-
ment against submission. In his opin-
ion the people of the state should be
given an opportunity to accept or
turn down the question Of woman suf-
rage. Inc NATURAL ldISlSiiSC ~ "
drawn from his remarks was that he
intended to vote to open the question.
And Others may feel as he does.
The trouble with the movement Is
that it is not representative. 1t has
a certain strength of its own. It has
been urged since men who are grow
ing old can remember but it has gained
no large strength in the east or the
middle west. The demand does not
come from the homes, but too much
and too insistently from enthusiasts.
This is the strength and the weakness
of woman suffrage in Iowa as else
where.
When a demand for woman suffrage
Or even considerable request comes
from the ranks Of the women WHO
make our homes. its submission and
adoption will follow like an answer
to a question. At present there is no
evidence Of such demand. The many
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

come from 10000 citizens collectively
if his fortune were distributed among
them, and hence the average Baptist
does not feel so bad.
How many people know who are
now the members of the presidents
cabinet? Cut this out and keep it, II
you want to know:
Secretary of State-Elihu Root, OF
New York
Secretary of the Treasury-George
b. Cortelyou, of New York.
Secretary of War-William H. Taft
OF Ohio.
Attorney Gcneral-Charles J. Bona
parte, of Maryland.
Postmaster General--George Won l.
Meyer, of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Navy-Victor III
Metcalf, of California
Garfield. of Ohio.
Secretary of Agricultural--James r
Wilson, OF Iowa
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Oscar S. Strauss, of New York.
Burlington Hawkeye: What glor-
ious exhibition yesterday was of the
ability of spring to climb into the lap
of winter!
The Sandusky Portland cement
plant, which is located east of Dixon
ILL.,, expects to have all preliminary
work out of the way and to begin
shipping by July 1.
Have you really no affection for any
other girl, dear??" she asked of her
fiance.
NO" replied the drug clerk absent
mindedly. but have something just
as good
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
Iowa Newspapers
II.ssl.,::..,,, .ass.1s sIs
MAKING GOOD"
Cedar Rapids Gazette.)


AT dinner of the Albany county
On. W republican, club. Governor
Hughes said: "If you want a strong
party organization then let it be insist
ed upon that no man can expect the
not make good"
Commenting on that statement the
Chicago Inter-Ocea says: No PARTY
organizatio can be strong the tner-
gies of whose leaders are devoted to
destroying other republicans. Inc
Inter Ocean made this statement under
the heading, Gov. Hughes sees the
Truth" Undoubtedly Hughes does see
the truth but the Inter-Ocean does not.
Gov Hughes places the emphasis on
good service; the Inter-Ocean places 1t
on party organization. With Hughes
principle is of primary Importance: the
party of secondary value. The inference
drawn from the Inter- Ocean is party
organization of more value than the
principles the organization ought TO adj
Nocate.
Governor Hughes wears the title OF
governor because he was greater than
his party, because he stood for some
thing more than mere party organiza-
tons. He had made good" in the in
surance Investigation; the people be-
lieved ne would make good" in the
gubernatorial chair. His associates on
the republican ticket were defeated be-
cause they We're no greater than their
party and their party, thru some OF
dts would-be leaders, had failed to be
anything but very small The republi-
can party, and no other party, need ex.
pect real disaster because of leaders
devoting their time to destroying other
partisans if the leaders try to "make
good" in the sense meant by Governor
Hughes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
EDITORIAL AND
STORY SECTION
VOLUME TAiRTY.rHREE.
TWELVE PAGE PAPER TODAY.

The Times Republican goes into the
homes of its readers today in twelve
page form. It is not a boom edl-
ton. nor Z "write-up" edition, but q
news edition. The special Iowa news
spreads out to three pages instead OF
the usual two, page eleven being de-
voted to Iowa news as we'll as pages
two and three The general news ana
markets Of the world fill three 1ull
pages, one. eight and ten. The iocal
news OF Marshalltown and county mas
grown from two pages to three, pages
four, five and six being local. one en-
tire page is devoted to editorial ana
new chapters of The Masquerader
appear on page twelve. 1t is seldom
that a more interesting regular news
issue of any daily newspaper has been
ever issued in this state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
NOW FOR The PRIMARY.

A primary bill of some kind is ex-
pected to come out of committee this
week and appear before the two houses
for passage 1t will be a committee
| bill and bear the approval Of ma
jority of the committee. 1t will not
be the hobby of any one man. 1t will
not be a perfect bill, nor will all of its
provisions and omissions suit any one
member, but the bill should become
law. After fair trial there will be
time for future legislators to amend
it. The main thing is primary. We
must get away from the wild and
woody caucus, and this legislature
must deliver a primary law of some
kind or lose in the test of its sin
certify.
mary will strive for a countrywide
primary and magnify the dangers OF
a plurality nomination. 1t is true that
il the successful nominee could be
forced to obtain a majority of the
votes OF his party it would be better
but the moment such a provision is
incorporated in the law by the mere
ruse of multiplying candidates, every
nomination could easily be thrown into
a delegate convention and the votes
Of the thousands who had expressed
themselves at home in their voting
places would he lost.
County wide primaries are in exist
ence now. People vote mechanically
for delegates 10 county convention
These delegates assemble and select
whomever they please for delegates ia
a state or district convention. If the
local fight is OF most interest on judge
the county delegates are chosen on
this issue alon;.. No expression is pos
sible on congressman, governor, or
any other Office. The vote and the
will of the average citizen is lost in
the shuttle. Nothing but a direct pri-
mary in which the voter casts his bal
lot on each and every nominee with the
majority winning, will ever bring party
nominations 10 the people at large.
County primaries are subterfuges.
A first and second choice might be
voted in each nomination, giving the
victory to the candidate who should
receive majority Of both first and
second choics. votes. This would be
good plan, and may yet come, but,
of course, is experimental, because it
is new. Manly other states, however,
operate under direct, statewide pri-
mary, and are satisfied. The platform
Of the republican party has declared
for direct and statewide primary
and this legislature must deliver it or
fail in its duty. Call the roll.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
Two-cENT FARES.
(Clarinda. Heraldo

NOIdI IIIQ1 I1CI dIU.I
And so Iowa has joined the ranks OF
the states in the two-cent railroad fare
procession, and after the fourth of July
the railroads of Iowa will furnish tick
cts at the popular price. The bill passed
the senate Tuesday without a single
vote in opposition, which shows that
the sentiment Of the state is pretty
well understood. 1t is not likely that
the people will travel more on account
Of the reduced rate, or that the rail-
roads will suffer great loss as was
feared. In a few months or years ev-
erything will be adjusted, and the
world will wag along about as it has
been doing for many years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
WHAT'S THE USE?
Denison RevieW.l

IDenlSOn ReV1eW.J
What is the use of being hypocrits?
Some of our editorial friends are MAX
ing a great elbow" about holding a
convention in spite of the fact that
transportation has been cut off. 1t IS
no more than men in other lines have
been doing for years-and. the further
fact remains that Rockwell City is on
the Illinois Central, and that the Cen
trail is one OF the few roads still is
suing newspaper transportation. 1t is
all right, but IL the boys wanted to
show their independence they would
have selected some other location.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07
PATRIOTS NEEDED.
lpuhuaue Times.l

Mayor Schunk is having trouble IN
finding men willing to become trus-
tees of the waterworks. He says the
citizens who proposed the law abol-
tshing the trustees salary of $500 a
year are themselves unwilling to serve
as successors of the men whose remov-
al they demanded.
It is hoped the restoration of ths
trustees salary will not be proposed
as remedy From the standpoint OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

those whose presence on the board
would be satisfactory to the creditors
of the water department, the OBJ
lection to the new law is that 1t
makes the trustees responsible to the
city council. If they were fndepend-
ent of that body, as the school board
is, and had themselves the power to
determine the tax levy, it might be
less difficult to secure the kind Of
trustees the people want
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

bodfs Of women's organizations take
very title interest IN it. If 1T were
submitted to referendum OF women
first, there would be a very light vote
for any such request.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Newberry returned to Washington on
the converted cruiser Mayhower after
months inspection tour Of the naval
stations on the gulf and South Atlantic
coasts and In the West IndieA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

L
the primary in Iowa. 1t will be intro
duced in the Iowa Legislature this week
and passed speedily. and it will never
be repealed" predicts the Sioux City
| Tribune.
"The best boost Oskaloosa can get
| just now is the election Of a good may
or for the next two years. says the
Oskaloosa Herald, advice that is worth
needing outside Of it's local applica-
| ton.
| To the Northwood Anchor at begins
| to look as tho the Rankin state mar
shall bill has show of passing. One
thing is sure, local officials cannot cope
with liquor violations in their home
| towns without losing their heads at the
next election. When dirty saloon keep
ers go to the mayor and read him the
riot act as they do in the river towns
of Iowa. it is about time they were
dealt with by officers not dependent on
the locality for friendship or income, -
! insists the Anchor.
"The governor should be congrat-
ulated," says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. There was never a COVER
nor in this state before who had a leg
islature so completely in the hollow of
his own hand" The Republican is
right" rejoins the Webster City Free
man Tribune. "Too many of the Iowa
Legislators in the past have been in the
hollow Of the hand of distinguished
citizen of Burlington or of Cedar Rap
ids. Fortunately for the people new
deal has been made"
"The bluff of the railroad magnates
won't work. They will do business in
the state of Iowa as the law says they
must, or they will go to Jail" de-
clares the Sheldon Sun.
"The more home owners a town or
city possess, the more good citizens 1t
holds" asserts the Grinnell Register.
Now that the interstate commerce
commission has about decided that 1t
will not call Stuyvesant Fish to ans
wer Mr. Hartman, the Omaha Bee
fears nothing but the chautauqua cir
cults are available for Mr.. Fish,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-07

"Standpat slate is put thru" de-
clares the Burlington Hawk-Eye. re-
ferring to the federal appointments
with cat and canary expression of
satisfaction.