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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
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M state could legislate what rates
should be charged within the state
without Inevitably affecting rates be-
yond its boundaries. This, If sustained,
virtually gives states power to regu-
late interstate rates, power eXclu-
slvely lodged in congress. The facl
taught is that exclusive power to regu-
late all railroad operations rests In con-
gress and the states have no powers
save. possibly, some police powers.
1t needed, however, to have just such
a lesson as the telegraph companies
and the telegraphers are now giving to
secure the attendance at this school
of the largest and most influential
class of pupils. the great commercial
interests of the country When the
railroad lesson was being taught they
stayed out of school generally. but
now. willingly, they are in it. When
exchanges are shut, market news 81
fenced, business messages refused be-
cause corporation covering the en-
tire country created to give commerce
quick inter communication, gets into
conflict with it's employees. and the lat
ter paralyze the company, and, thru it.
business depending upon it. by quitting
thier work. the great business class
become Immediately attentive pupils
in this new school.
The Tribune, sharing the annoyances
of this Interruption. rather welcomes it
for the light 1t will let in on minds
hitherto either Indifferent or antagon-
istic to the doctrine of national SOW
ereignty over all corporations whose
operations in any way extend beyond
the states that create them. 1t will
give impetus to the movement for a
national Incorporation act which will
bring all large industrial and CONNER
cial corporations under federal regula-
ton and supervisors With law ade-
quately framed, conditions would not
arise such as have produced this strike
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Value Of Farm Manure.

Northwestern AgriculturisD
In spite of the great value of the
manure as it is handled on the aver
age farm. the fact remains that not
over one-half of it's true value is de-
rived from it. Some years ago the
New York experiment station inquired
into the subject of the loss of fertiliz-
ing value in manure when exposed in
the barnyard. AS is we'll known. horse
manure deteriorates in value more rap
idly than does COW manure. This is
because the air has better chance
to reach it and produce fermentation.
The nitrogen is converted thru fer
mentation into ammonia which es-
capes into the air. A great deal of
lost thru teaching.
According to these experiments it
was found that where two tons Of
horse manure had been exposed six
months AZ per cent of the organic
matter was lost. whereas in another
experiment there was an organic and
mineral loss of 81 per cent. Again. A.
600 pounds of horse manure, composed
of 1919 pounds of excrement and 681
pounds of straw, decreased in weight
from April "a to September %, a period
of six months. to 1,73o pounds, show
ing tremendous waste. In another
experiment with COW manure the loss
amounted to one-half the value of
the manure.
1t can be readily seen, therefore.
that there is an enormous waste of
real value in handling the manure
as II is handled on the average farm.
1t should be spread upon the land
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Living Fence Posts.

The federal forest service is out with
a tip to the farmers of the country,
based on the experience of several
farmers in the middle west. In a
statement issued it says that these
farmers have at last discovered an eff
fect.ve means of overcoming the most
imp ortant objection to the use Of liv-
ing trees for fence posts.
BY fastening. the wire to strips of
wood two by three inches and five feet
long, instead of attaching the wire di-
rectly to the trees, the farmers have
fourld that they can use living trees
for fence posts and at the same time be
able to keep their fences in thorough
repair.
The advantage of living fence posts
is that the timber is secured at practi-
cally no original cost and there is no
expanse for renewal of posts if the
trees used continue to thrive. The trees
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
A PUBLIC AT SCHOOL.
(ssloux City Tribune.)

(iSlOux City ITlDuueJ
The people of this country have now
been in school for some time getting
instruction in the actua0 relations OF
states and corporations to the general
government. 1t was essential that they
should go again TO school to unlearn
somd old lessons whose inveracity it
has taken the developments of indus
try TO disclose. They had been taught
states could Incorporate companies to
transact business beyond their borders,
but that states could legislate regard
lng the business of these corporations
within their borders, tho not as to that
which crossed them into other states.
They had been taught that 1t was ex-
tremcly doubtful if the congress had
power to create such corporations, tho
4. had power to regulate their inter-
state business.
Events growing out of the attempted
regulation Of railroads by both states
and nation have furnished the first
primary lesson in this school. 1t was
learned that the commerce of the ma
ton had become so interlaced that it
is practically all interstate and that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
THE TARIFF ON LUMBER.

Council Bluffs NonpareiD
With rough pine boards. suitable for
sidewalk repairs, selling at $33 thou-
sand feet, with the national govern
ment raising big scare about the dis
appearance of the forests of the coun-
try, and with a literary bureau set to
work at Washington to educate the
public on the urgent necessity for for
est preservation-in view Of all this
and of much more to the same purpose,
is it not about time to take the tariff
off lumber?
1t will not do to answer that the
tariff on lumber does not amount to
much 1t amounts to something-and
that is too much There is no excuse
for it whatever. 1t is a bit of national
stupidity. and it wouldn't last over
night were 1t not for the fear that to
touch 1t would lead to further tariff
"tinkering'' which somebody in par
ticular does not want.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Good Farm "side-Lin
(Farm Presso

(Farm Press.)
On the ordinary farm a few sheep
may be kept without any cost to the
farmer. They will run with other
stock, or follow them in pasture rota-
ton and get their feed between cat
tie bites. They seem to like the weeds
and other vegetable growths that cat
tie avoid, and they will trim down the
bushes that persistently grow in fence
corners. and subdue weeds in such a
way that the field will supply more
pasture for other stock than it would
If there We're no sheep. OF course this
applies to a few sheep only Some men
use very little judgment. They seem
to get the idea that if few sheep are
good more sheep are better. Well, you
starve a sheep down to it and they will
eat the grass roots out of pasture
field. but remember that is not the
fault of the, sheep but the, fault of the
mar who manages in that way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
ABOLISH THE TAX FERRETs.

A great deal Is Delng Salu against Tie
custom county boards have of employ
ing tax ferrets. The work of the tax
ferret stirs up bad feelings, is in the
nature of spying and does cost many
very influential citizen money which
ferrets cause for county officials Is
most annoying indeed. 1t keeps the
average county treasurer explaining
and apologizing to some of his best
friends. Not only is the ferret HIM
self most exceedingly unpopular, but
he causes SO much disturbance and es-
arrangements among neighbors that he
becomes pestiferous as nuisance.
All this Is true, but still the ferret is
employed and he ought to be employed
just so long as we have tax to be col
lected on moneys and credits. A tax
of 2 per cent on money which will
hardly loan for per cent is almost
confiscatory. Men who are reasonably
honest in all other things will try to
evade it, and without the ferret they
will evade it, while the widow and the
honest person must pay it. Not only
this, but the money from outside the
state untaxed, and the money of the
fellow who evades the tax, establishes
the rate of interest at a low per cent,
which leaves the taxed money almost
no income at all. A man must leave
a widow an estate of $4,000 in order
to earn her s1,500 per year if loaned
on mortgage security and taxed.
In the case of real property, none
can escape, and all such property be-
ing taxed, the price of rents is kept at
a figure which will pay the taxes, and
the insurance, and a good per cent
on the investment. No one objects to
this rent, because at. that figure it is
cheaper for many men to rent than to
own property The tax becomes a bur-
den fairly distributed over all the peo-
pie.
In the case of the tax on moneys and
credits, if it could be collected on all
moneys it would be distributed over
ali alike. That is, the dishonest would
not escape while the honest have 40
per cent of their income taken away,
and the man with money to loan would
not be driven out of Iowa because
money from other states escapes tax
alton In competition with him at home.
If people do not like the tax ferrets,
and it must be admitted that they are
unpleasant visitors, they should COM
plain to their members of the state
legislature The tax should be re-
pealed 1t is unfair, wholly impracti-
cable and unscientific, for the reason
that if it could be enforced upon all
alike the tax would be absorbed in a
higher rate of interest and be passed
on to the borrower.
The cheaper money can be borrowed
the faster will industries and employ
ment develop, and the higher will prop
erty investments rise without affecting
rents. A tax on moneys and credits
is a detriment to the prosperity of any
community, a conf1scation of the prop
erty of widows and orphans, and a
penalizing tax upon honesty. Let's re-
neal il
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

also afford shade for cattle If the land
enclosed is used for pasture.
Another advantage Is that the trees
can be made to yield a crop, a number
of farmers having planted native nut
trees, such as walnut, pecan, hickory.
and chestnut along the fence lines, spac-
ing them twelve. feet apart. "A fence
post will rot in about ten years, and at
the end of this period it is usually safe
to transfer the wire to the strips OF
wood nailed on the living trees. In
time the trees become an effective wind
break, besides serving the purpose for
which they were planted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
HAD AN AWFUL TIME
But Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remeuy Cured Him.

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and had it not been for the use of
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sibly lived but few hours longer,
but thanks to this remedy I am now
strong and well. I have written the
above thru simple gratitude and 1
shall always speak good word for
this remedy.-Sam. H. Gwin, Concord,
Ga. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

the press was berating Cleveland for
not declaring war upon Spain over
Cuba, and on the next was explaining
to the country just why Ii was unwise
for Mckinley to precipitate war
which might possibly be avoided.
Newspaper men are human. They re-
spond to fair treatment, and the aver
age reporter resents insult or abuse or
disrespect He can't be bribed but he
can be influenced by considerateness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
The Strawpile


just as soon as 1t is possible to do
this On many farms the manure is
hauled away from the barnyard for
the purpose mainly of getting rid of
it, and it is hauled away only when
it has become SO serious nuisance
that the hauling must be done The
real value of the product is not ap-
preciated.
The right way is to have a manure
spreader and keep the manure hauled
away all the time except when grow
ing crops.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Iowa Newspapers
OWNING AND RENTING.

(Webster City Freeman ribune)
A good farmer can make more
money renting at 81 an acre than
he can by owning a $50 an acre farm.
He can put the s14,4oo that 100 acre
farm would cost him out at per cent
interest. This would bring him 1854.
His rent would be only $3.50 and the
owner of the farm would have to re-
pair buildings, pay the taxes and make
such new improvements as might be
necessary. OF course the renter would
have to pay taxes on his commercial
paper. but after he had had a few
years experience as money loaner
he would find some way to evade about
-tenths of his just proportion OF
taxation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
Remedy for Diarrhoea-Never Known
20 EaI

II want to say a few words for
Chamberlains Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhbea Remedy. I have used this
preparation in my family for the past
five years and have recommended it to
number Of people in York county and
have never known it to fail to effect a
cure in any instance. feel that can
not say too much for the best remedy
OF the kind in the worlds. Jemison,
Spring Grove, York county, Pa. This
remedy is for sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

THE new Iowa primary law operates
against the candidate who is being
constantly urged by his friends to
run for Office" notes the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. under the new law,
the candidate will be required to state
publicly that he wants the office him
self, and in a measure he will be
required to state his qualifications"
''INhe suggestion that Funk head
the Iowa delegation to the national
republican convention next year is
still good" declares the Mason City
Times Herald and it knows of no bet
ter man to serve in a similar capacity
with him that Larrabee, Ingham and
Lane"
Speaking OF Governor Cummins the
Burlington Hawkeye says: while the
people laughed at Noah, they did not
call him demagogue. They called
him crazy. A demagogue is not one
who has lost his reason but is one,
for instance. who from Sunday chau-
tauqua platforms misre presents the
truth for the purpose of creating a
popular prejudice and furthering HIS
own persona. ambitions"
THE solution of the automobile prob
lem on country roads will probably
be automobile roads," concludes the Mt.
Vernon Record.
The Abba Union believes that
Every county should have it's taxes
attended TO without the use of ferrets
and by and by as men learn that their
obligations to their government count
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

for good citizenship, they will keep
up with their taxes with better spirit
than many do at present"
In a few Gays twenty millions of
Americans VIII be working in the most
honorable and important of all occu-
pations, tie pursuit of knowledge" re
marks the Fort Dodge Chronicle.
The Sioux City Tribune predicts that
III these thousand of dollars keep on
being paid for single hogs and SONS
Wall street spectators will be making
a break for the pig pens of Iowa"
Some fear is expressed in certain
quarters that the prosecutions of the
trusts will hurt the country in the way
that it will scare capital" says the
Waterloo Times Tribune There never
was a time in the history of the coun
try when capital at critical times did
not go into hiding The country has
got along very we'll then without cap
ital; cramped a little at times, but al
ways recuperatng and coming up
stronger rhan ever. There never was
s. critical time in the history of the
country that did not result in good I'LL
timately. Suppose capital does get
scared. the people have been scared
of capital for long time aud if it is
capitals turn to get scared now, why
let it. 1t will not be scared long and
when it gets over the scare it will be
better humored than ever"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

tack the Vital organs, causing catafrn OF
the bladder. or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
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Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
II Never Makes Her Mad.

1t is pretty hard to offend a woman
by letting her overhear you wonder
how SO beautiful creature could ever
have been won by such a shrimp as
her husband is.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
IOWA QPINIONs AND NOTES.

"The times demand action in the
way of progress and REFORM" says the
Waterloo Courier. This is no time to
stand pat"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths,

prevailing IN TINS
IS because so decep.
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by it-heart dis
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure OF
apoplexy are often
the result Of kid
ney disease. II
kidney trouble is
allowed to advance
neutrality-suspicious.
ed blood will at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15

THE solution of the automobile prob
lem on country roads will probably
be automobile roads," concludes the Mt.
Vernon Record.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17
AMUSING
HERSELF

Never explain" quoted the girl n
the organdy dress, as the waiter SET
down the glasses with the straws and
tinkllng ice she smiled upon the
young man opposite, who was slightly
flushed and wholly unhappy,
NBut unless explain ! never can
make YOU understand why II wasn't
so bad as 1t seemed" he protested
eagerly,
The young woman looked down the
golf course and then up and down
the clubhouse veranda before she re-.
mcmbered to answer.
Really she said negligently, Ut
doesn't matter at all. Thereis no rea
son why YOU should explain. II Is
such very trivial matter that shall
not think of II again. RI ycu wanted
TO cut your appointment for an auto
spin with me ana so round the golf
course with Mary White instead, that
was All right. admire man who
has the courage to do as he wishes I"
Il didn't wish tot cried the misera-
BILE young man. ="
n am sorry to hear you talk that
way" said the young woman in sad,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17

The rescue chamber" Is safety
provision OF some Of the large Aus
trian mines. 1t is a strongly timbered
retreat and its single entrance has Il
door that can be made tight against
air and water by means of rubber fit
tings. 1t has three cylinders OF OK
ysen, sufficient to enable 80 men to
breathe three days inhalation gear
is az hand for parties leaving the
chamber for reconnaissance or signal
ing, and canned food, medicine and
irst cid appliances are also kept in
the place. The standard room wiz ac-
commodate "A men for a reasonable
time for rescue.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17
PRESIDENT I
DENIES REPORT
GROVER CLEVELAND SAYS I'M
roo GOOD A DEMOCRAT TO
BE KILLED OFF YET'-IS Re
COVERING.

Princeton n. j. Sept 1G.-"Tm too
good Democrat TO be killed OFF yet
Former President Grover Cleveland
stepped ont OF his carriage in front
CT his home in Princeton today. utter
ed a little ouch" at a toe twinge
from his old antagonist, the govt and
then squared himself smilingly to give
the he 10 the report that he is in
cufably ill.,
ITS true that the govt is always
with me. he added, and ! have not
set fully recovered from the indigea-
zion that. attacked me last June. /
have lost about thirty pounds also.
because the govt won't let me exer~
else as would ike.
But reports of my imminent de-
mise are greatly exaggerated. As a
matter of fact am feeling irst rate
The indigestion is clearing away;
am putting on pounds again think
chat even the CONT Is better AMI
that am not incurably ill You mas
ilsdge iron, the fact that Mrs. Clcve-
land and the children have been IN
The View Hampshire mountains for "a
week
s--Jhc trained nurse who has heen
caring for the former president since
bis attack hast June SAYS she does
poi see much use for her there any
longer
MIR. Cleveland Is getting TO b.
really healthy.' she said. -and yop
can't put too much emphasis in th9'
statement to make it true"
NeighBors say be drives out ever
day and gives the better part of tie
other daylight heHrs to BIS bushes
and his correspondence.
Mrs. Cleveland viii return neKi
week with the children. who viii starr
liz the year in the Princeton schools
at once. Mr. Cleveland seemed mBci
lpeffufhcI that false reports Of hi.
condition should narh hef and ~
wired early this morning to aHsuf'
her that be vas IN excellent c'nd'
ton.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17

A curio collector reports an unprec-
edented demand for false teeth.
1T is the teeth Of famous person
ages deceased fsat are wanted" be
said. 4 don't know for sure what
has started the boom in artificial
teeth. Ever since ! have been in this
business 7 have had occasional re
quests from eccentric patrons for a
set Of somebody's teeth. but in the
last few months inquiries have simply
poured IN concerning the teeth Of
men prominent in the last century.
] am inclined N think thar this craze
for teeth has been stimulated by the
report that Washington false teeth
had been stolen out u a museum in
BaltimOre-N. Y. Sun.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17
-. i - go Resn the case.

Dinny had hurrjedly summoned a
Decor 70 administer TO an acqualnt-
ance who had accidentally taken poi
son. After the physician had given
the sick man a dose OF medicine he
remarked that the medicine was an
antidote for the poison and that he
hoped the patient would pull through
all right. In spite Of the antidote,
however, the sick man grew rapidly
worse and died That night at the
wake Diuny was loud in his denunci-
alton Of the doctor. Poor John d
We been alive this noight," he ex.
claimed bitterly, if thot docther
hadn't FASTENED his death wild one
Nv his anecdotes Harper Weekly.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-17

A workman named Leznaert, en-
ployed by "a Defraucq. a builder at
ierin. France. has made for his en-
ployer "A stroke Of luck which will
probably contribute also 10 his own
advantage. lie was making a trench
in the courtyard of an empty house
recently bodght by H. Defrancl. when
AZ q depth Of about three feet his pick
struck something hard Working
around the obstruction. he al last laid
bare a metal chest Of considerable
size, and this. on being forced open.
vas found 10 contain gold coins still
negotiable to The value OF $4,000 s.