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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18

from the retail trade. The dry goods
| jobbing trade generally is in good con-
dition. Selling agents of wool goods,
| bith in mems wear and women's wear.
report satisfactory business; mills
are busy and the prospects for strict
| lv wooden goods are brighter than last
year.
| characterization in distributtve
branches make steady progress toward
widening activity in both retail and
wholesale dealings. State street sales
for the month thus far show better
than a wear ago Transactions In the
iobbing line are large, and there IS
more urgent request for quick forward
ing of goods for early spring needs
thruout the interior. Road statesmen
forward satisfactory orders from the
southwest and some points in the cot
ton territory, and advices generally
continue to maintain confidence in the
business outlook in the west Farmers
and live stock growers are getting bet
ter prices and this enables them to buy
more freely for personal wants and I'M
provements. Mercantile collections oc-
casion no adverse comment; failures IN
this district are small in number, and
easier money conditions are more raw
orable to commercial operations and
investments.
improved weather stimulates distrlbu-
ton of merchandise and jobbing lines
are increasingly active, notwithstand-
ing delay in shipments and an unsat-
isfactory traffic situation. Buyers APP
pear in Increased numbers and millin-
cry iol,bers are very busy. Sales for
spring delivery in dry goods and mems
and women's wearing apparel are
larger than ever. Footwear sales ex-
coed those of last year and jobbers re-
port a continued good demand in gro
ceries and provisions. Harness man
ufacturers are busy and hardware and
machinery markets are more active.
Collections continue irregular.
Minneapolis.-Fr delivery is
much better than for several weeks.
Sales of merchandise by wholesale
houses continue literally but with some
signs of curtailment outside Of strictly
staples. Lumber is firm. Shipments
for last week 3,440,000 feet against A.
$4,000 year ago.
Kansas City.-Wholesale business is
genarlly satisfactory in dry goods and
footwear and fair in clothing. In hats
and millinery, house business is good;
many buyers are in the market. Col
lections are fair and the money situa-
ton is easier. Deposits are keeping up
well and loanable funds are in good
supply.
Observation-Disclosures of shirts, coll
lars and cuffs report a brisk trade, an
increase over last year at this time.
Jobbing trade is fairly good and some
little Improvement is noted in col
lections.
Philadelphia.-Who dry goods
houses and jobbers report continued
active sales. and difficulty is still ex-
perienced in obtaining goods to fill or
ders, the mills and manufacturers be-
ing considerably behind in deliveries;
collections are good. Manufacturers
OF mems clothing have had large spring
sales and the cloak suit and waist
trade is active. Manufacturers of tex
tiles are generally well employed. The
leather market is firm and strong.
ST. Louis.-visiting buyers are COM
ing freely and activity in jobbing
circles is marked. Manufacturing con-
Germs have rush orders. Collections
fair
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
COMING suprsmaev Of the Wet

Champ Clark In Sunday Magazine)
II the population Of the Mississippi
valley increases as rapidly when COM
pared with the population OF the rest
OF the country from 1900 to 1910 as ri
did from 1880 to 1900 the valley states
could, If voting solidly, elect a president
and house Of representatives In 1919
They could do It easily in 1914 and for
all time thereafter. The senate Will
be the only possible obstacle to- their
complete supremacy and eventually the>
senate must on every important ques-
ton yield to the public sentiment
voiced by the house Of representatives
fresh from the people just as the Brit
ish house Of lords yields to the British
house OF commons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
PetuIant "eabe" Bailey.
ATLANTA Journal.)

These repeated explosions OF
wrath OH the part of Senator Bailey
are becoming very exasperating. and
people are beginning TO ask them
selves if the gentleman from Texas
had not better stop and take an in
ventory of himself.
He seems to be almost as choleric
and hasty as in the earlier years
when he was Familiarity known as
babe" and there is something very
like the baby act in the petulance
and abuse with which he greets the
various developments in the present
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
EARLY SERVICES IN STORY.
"a. M. Ball in Ames Intelligencer)


Noticing an item in your paper con-
corning the celebration of the churches
of Story county, and knowing some
thing concerning the establishment Of
some Of the very first societies in the
county, thought this might be news
OF Importance. In the summer Of 1857,
one Swearingim, a Methodist minis
ter organized class at my fathers
house at Ballard Grove, in Union town
ship, this county. and it was the
preaching place until the log school
house in District No. l was built. This
was the first school house built in that
part of the county and was built by
my father, Amos P. Ball, and James
Allen, grandfather to Mrs. David FL
lott, of Ames. This man Swearingim
was followed by one Darwin. Shortly
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
THE DAY THEY CELEBRATE.
(CheIsea Independent)

Friday Of next week is George Birth
ington's Washday. He was the father
Of your country, the first in war. the
first in peace and took high rank in
the hearts of his countrymen. He has
been dead number of years. but the
postmaster and the rural carriers re-
we're his memory highly. They do this
because he was the father of country
which suits them pretty well and be-
cause his birthday is holiday for
them. Therefore they wish to give
you fair warning that on February %
it will be useless for you to go down to
your mail box and put in the time sit
ting on the top rail of barbed wire
fence waiting for them to come along,
because they are not coming. They
don't have to! See? They propose
to put in the day in the privacy of
their own homes grieving over the
untimely fate of poor George who died
before he got a chance to see Andrew
Townsend Hisey running for presi-
dent John Welt doing stunts on pair
of roller skates. or hear the funny
noises John Stewart makes when he
fills his bellows full of air and starts in
to sing the Holy City. The postmas-
ter will also put in a quiet day. He
will open the office from until 10 a.
M. and from until 8 p. m. The rest
of the time will be spent by him In
lodging patrons WHO object to getting
mail while the office is open, but who
will put in hours Of time and walk
forty miles to get him to please let
me have my mail' after the office is
olocad Cripocf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
Oh PROBABILITIES.

New York Tribune: The sciences
are cooperating more and more heart
ily with one another. Now we discover
that the weather bureau, incidentally
to it's allotted task of watching the ac-
robatic tricks Of thermometers and ba-
rometers, is conducting psychological
researches on the side. Professor
Moore, chief observer Of the rains
laws, has been scrutinizing the tales
of the Oldest inhabitants and the
youngest liars pertaining to the in
creasing mildness of our winters. He
confirms the generally accepted theory
Of the psychologists that mankind is
prone to measure the usual by the I'M
usual An interesting and useful book.
might be written showing by concrete
examples this human frailty 1llustra-
lions might be drawn copiously from
opinions about the increasing mildness
Of winters, the decline of the drama,
the growing rudeness of policemen, the
gradually sinking standards of poll
tics, morality and religion; the disap-
pearance of great statesmen, the dirti-
ness of city streets and the reduction
in number and size Of fish caught DUR
ing the summer vacation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18

calls attention to iniquity in high
places, and neither the wealth nor So
cial position of the offender can avert
public condemnation. The exposures in
the press and on the platform some
years ago of the traffic in female vir-
tue in the Red Light district of New
York city put an end to that infamy.
or at least to the shelter given it by
the authorities. Instead of corrupting
public morals, it aroused public indig-
nation. The press of London about
fifteen years ago abolished the vilest
dents that ever fiourished outside OF
an oriental country by publishing the
testimonial which implicated many
members Of the nobility; and the Ian
guage was far palmer than any that
has ever appeared in an American
newspaper.
Where the press is free, vice has
constant and unrelenting enemy. Crime
breads publicity The newspapers are
promoting morality by giving the COM
plete details Of the Thaw trial. and
their course is commended by all but
a small percentage of the people.
A CALL FOR GREATER PUBLICITY
(Scranton Journal)
The discussion is on just now as to
whether it is the proper thing to give
the details of the Thaw trial to the
public. We confess that they are dis
gusting and sickening, yet we say pub
lish them; let the world know the con-
dition OF upper tendon" society. and
thereby the ministers and all classes
Of reformers will be better prepared
for battle. We know OF no measure
that would so completely destroy that
district in Des Moines known as
white chapel" as would publishing
the name Of every man who patronizes
these dens, of infamy. The patrons of
such resorts and the Whites and
Thaws prefer darkness to light be
cause their deeds are evil" II the
titled lords that are found in every
city (many of them maintaining stand
ing in the popular churches helping to
maintain homes for ruined and be-
trayed young women, dupes of their
hellish lusts) were given publicity they
would no longer be slayers of young
women. What was 1t that caused SEN
ators Plat and Depew to take back
seats? What was it that created such
a furry in the insurance companies OF
the country? In each case it was pub
lie exposure. Now if a congressman
or United States senator gets drunk,
the first thing you hear is keep still;
don't say anything" If the brutes
were exposed and made to take back
seat until such time as they had
learned to be men it would cook that
kind Of business. "Tell the truth and
shame the devil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18

"Ifsexaggerated ego is to be accepted
as an indication of insanity. Christen-
dom is doomed" irreverently declares
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
OUR TRADE WITH THE ORIENT.
(The Indianapolis News.) }

(Ihe indianapolis NeWS.)
Ii Japanese can run their ships for
less than other people and so make
lower rates than other people, they
will undoubtedly get the most to do.
At every port lowest cost of service
commands the most business. But
how would this Japanese condition in
the Pacific alter anything, and in what
way would it be serious handicap
to our trade? Of our foreign trade
today none practically is carried in
American bottoms. How does that
touch our trade? If the Japanese are
willing to live on lower scale of life
than others and do the drudgery of
sea-carrying more cheaply than 9TH
ers, what of it? 1t is so much our
gain. Wherever our merchants can
employ ship at the cheapest cost
they are so much ahead. The trouble
with this contention is a mixing up
of ocean carriage with trade
If we can deliver equal or better goods
cheaper than other countries, We shall
get the trade; carriage has nothing
to do with it. There is precious lit
tie sentimentality about trade. 1t is
strictly business" and the man that
sells cheapest will get it, just as the
ship that bids lowest will carry it.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
BRYAN AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

(The Charleston News and Courier.)
If torrential rushing toward Bryan
should be observed in a number of
states We would expect South Carolina
politicians to round up Bryan dele
cation out of the next state conven-
ton, but at present We incline to think
that the name of Bryan has lost the
conjuring power it once had among
the masses of South Carolinians, aud
that the Nebraskan bulks no larger to
their eyes than do dozen other par
ty leaders, of whom Carmack Of Ten
nessee is fair example. If Bryan
has the South Carolina delegation next
year it will be because the rest of the
country is hungry for him, and Till
man, Latimer and others of our states
men wish to be in line with the
country.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
DeWberry'S Delight

is medicine that should be in every
home at this season of the year, as it
is the best stomach and bowel medi-
cine on the market. 1t acts directly
upon the most essential organs, the
liver, bowels and kidneys, thereby re-
moving the cause at the beginning,
which is the proper time to aid nature.
If you will keep Dewberry's Delight
on hand and use it strictly according
to directions when you first suspect or
feel the need of medicine to remove
the waste matter from the system and
turn OH the nerve force so the deter
mining powers can come to the sur
face 1t will insure you against 90 per
cent of all ills that are likely to at
tack the system. Sold by all drug
gists. Price soc per bottle IL not
satisfied with results your druggist
will cheerfully refund your money.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
Address
THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN
ATLANTA, GA.
MORNING SUNBEAMS.

Just fresh from the press. Our
Latest, Brightest and Best Song
Book No. /, 25 cents; No. 2, % cents;
Nos. 1 and 2 combined, 250 songs,
35 cents. will mail one copy of either
No. 1 or No. 2, to any reader of this
paper who will send me the names
and addresses of 3 or more leaders of
music for only Is cents, or one copy
Nos. and 2 combined for only 25
cents. Teachers of music, preachers
of the gospel and the people in gener-
al, all say that Morning Sunbeams is
the best all round all purpose book
anywhere. Address all orders to T. B.
Mosley, Boaz, Ala.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
IwArsoNs wErkA xe xs6N1l
OUR HISTORIC STRUCTURES.
(The Columbia State.)

Ihe country is slowly but surely
awakening to the importance of pre-
serving it's historic structures, the
places around which so many legends
cling. Only short time ago the New
Mexico legislature voted to turn over
the historic governors palace at Santa
te to the government bureau of
ethnology, instead of to the city for a
town hall. The Alamo stands as a liv-
ing page of history to tell Americans
now Crockett, Bonham, Travis, Bowie.
ana their comrades died for their coun-
try. Fort McHenry, by the light of
whose flashing cannon Francis Scott
Key wrote the national anthem has
barely been saved from the disgrace
or being turned into cattle shed
Inc cabin where Abraham Lincoln
was born will probably be pre-
served by an association, and Airing
ton, the home of Lee, is now open as
a place for visitors to see, Just as
Is the little cottage on Mount Nc
Gregor, where Grant died and the
mansion in Richmond which was the
home of the Confederacy's president
And the list might be extended at
length.
one OF the latest buildings to which
interest has been attracted, because
OF its historical value, is Old Falls
church in Fairfax county, Virginia,
which is closely associated with the
life OF George Washington. Erected
in 1884, enlarged once and repaired
again, it is now falling into decay and
$4,000 will be needed to repair it, of
which sum $4,000 have been raised.
Washington and his father were YES
trymen in this church and he had
much to do with it's first repair. Brad
docks troops encamped in the church
yard and in the Civil war it was in
the thick Of the fray, and again in the
Spanish-American war a large portion
OF our army was camped near it.
There ares possibly, scores of other
buildings in this country that are
worthy of preservation. All have their
traditions and associations, and they
should be treasured and guarded.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
THE WATSON MELON.

Seed grown for several years
and introduced by me is of
fered to the public in limited
quantities, as follows:
u lb., 35c; " h., Csc; l lb.
$1.25.
Seed guaranteed pure and
from first hands. Address
w. A. WATSON, Thomson,
Georgia.
In offering this melon more exten-
sively to the public I desire to give
It's history. About eight years one of
my brothers (Thomas E. Watson)
friends sent him a small package of
the seed and stated to him that he
called it the Watson melon. My
brother gave the seed to me, l planted
few hills the first year and was so
greatly pleased with the melon that
| planted about two acres in them
the following year, the yield and sales
were SO satisfactory that I discarded
all others.
l have been raising melons for mar
ket the past thirty years, and I con-
slider the Watson melon the very best
that | ever saw in every respect. 1t
grows larger, under the same circum-
stances, has fewer rotten ends, keeps
longer after getting ripe, is very solid,
for which reason it is a good shipper.
It is, in my opinion, the best melon
ever put on the market, with a deli
cious flavor that has no superior.
w. A. WATSON.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18

(The New Orleans Times-D Democrat
This plan Of white rule is working
we'll in the south today, ana the ne
groes who behave themselves and are
working are enjoying a greater degree
of independence and prosperity than
they have ever known before or than
they enjoy or can possibly enjoy in a
country where a different plan is be-
ing tried or different ideas prevail.
If the situation is not perfect in all
respects, if the settlement is not as
complete, as final and as permanent
as it ought to be, it is because Of the
pressure from the outside, the stirring
up Of dissatisfaction and discord, the
proposition for new plans Of radical
settlement, the calling of conventions
and conferences to reopen the ques-
ton.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
CANNON DODGED.
(Florida Times-Union.)

Speaker Cannon believes in high pro-
lection for others, but he stocked
his trunks with linen clothes while
in the tropics, and came home without
stoping at the custom house. A high
tariff for others is all right; when
the people first endorsed the Dingley
bill they were made to believe that
the foreigner paid the tax. Since then
they have not been able to shake off
the grip. And SO, the curse, like
chickens, comes home to roost.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18

IDLEWlLD PROLIFIC COTTON has
captured the south. Two bales per
acre sure. Seed limited. Price cheap
Selling fast. Home grown, guaran-
teed garden and flower seeds, cheap.
Sole owners of Siberian Lettuce,
grows outdoors all winter. Planted
now brings 10c per head. Pkg. seed
1Oc. Write us. IDLEWILD FLORAL
GARDENS. College Park. Ca
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18

Evidently Roosevelt did not agree
with Senator Cullom that Hartman
should be in the penitentiary." At
any rate he hasn't yet ordered Attor-
ney General Bonaparte to chase him
in that direction.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
MARY BAKER EDDY.
In Her Youth She Was a Graceful and
StrikinQ Eiuure.

Striking Figure.
Mrs. Eddy was dainty, fragile and
early in developments, writes Geor-
gine Milmine in McClure's. Her baby
manners, in an age which enforced
the law that children should be seen
and not heard, were considered a lit
tie forward" She has kept her beau
ty all her life; apparently there was
not even an awkward age for her.
AS young woman she was slim, alert
and graceful. Of medium height, she
had well formed figure which she
has not lost even in her old age. Her
feet and hands were exquisitely fash
ioned. Her features were regular and
refined-a deltcately aquiline nose,
a rather long and pointed chin, firm
mouth, and a high, broad forehead.
Her most striking beauty was her big
gray eyes. Deepset and overhung by
dark lashes, they had the gift of
emotional expression. When she was
angry" says an old neighbor, they
became fairly black" All her life
those eyes have had such an effect
upon their beholders that they may
justly be called an important factor
in her career. Her skin was clear
red and white, and her hair heavy
brown.
In this hair, as if the whole glory
Of her beauty, she took the greatest
pride. She always dressed we'll and
kept more closely to the fashions than
was common in that rustic community,
Her schoolmates remember that, when
not more than 15 or 16, she introduced
the French twist in Tilton.
1t was an age when languishing
manners were fashionable. AS a lit
tie girl even Mary Baker adopted and
exaggerated that pose. Her behavior
was mincing and artificial, and by
contrast it stood out in that rather
rough and primitive community.
Strong in the memory Of the old inhab-
itants is her appearance at church.
She hardly ever entered until the rest
of the congregation were seated. Then
she tripped in, dressed little conspic-
uously, but always in taste-a picture
of fashionable beauty which made
strangers and visitors stare. These
traits lured the village boys, and at
church festivals all the young farm
ers were at her feet.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
The Weekly JefferSOnian
AND
THE COMMONER
TOM WATSON'S WEEKLY
and
VIM. j. BRYAN'S PAPER
Both One Year for Only $3.50

Mr.. Bryan is the most conspicuous
figure in American politics today. He
is more-he is World Figure. His
views on men and things are awaited
with interest in foreign countries as
we'll as at home. THE COMMONER
is his medium of communication with
the world; but it is more than a per-
sonal organ, for it covers the whole
realm of political thought Hence, no
one, whether a follower or an oppo-
nent of Bryan's doctrines, can fail to
be interested in the columns of this
famous paper.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
ASKING TOO MUCH.
(The Philadelphia Record. }

(The Philadelphia Record.)
We respectfully suggest to the pres
ident that he direct Cortelyou and Bliss
to publish list of the campaign con-
tributors of 1904, with the amounts
given by each. This would remove sus-
picion-or confirm it.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18

People who compare the Thaw trial
with English examples of swift JUS
tice should not forget the Tichborne
case and the rank injustice wrought
by a crazy English judge on Mrs.
Maybrick.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-18
REAL ESTATE.

Those desiring to move to South
Georgia, the most prosperous section
OF the state, can secure bargains In
city property, farm lands, saw mill or
turpentine sites, by writing to
c. c. TYLER,
Box &72v MoultrIe, Ga.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17
The Work Started

The work of laying the brick
walls in the Meade State Bank
building begun last Friday at noon
A force of four expert brick layers
begun and work is moving along
nicely. 1t will take probabaly
from twenty to thirty days to finish
the work. The north and west
side will be of Coffeyville pressed
brick and will make a beautiful
building. When completed 1t will
be as fine a building as there is in
the southwest. The Meade State
Bank people are to be congratulated
on their enterprise in putting up
such fine structure which is not
only a credit to themselves but also
to the city and country as we'll.