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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
RyERS AND RANKIN.

The more the Byers plan of law on
forcement is considered In comparison
with other plans that have been sug-
gested and given statewide considera-
ton the, better the Byers plan appears
Compared with the marshals bill, OF
which Il large number of Iowa citizens
approve, the Byers plan simply shines
Byer.t idea is to enforce all the law
Rankins deals primarily with the
liquor traffic. Byers' plan creates lit
tie expense compared with the results
it promises. Rankin's creates a state
constal,ulary Byers' forces communities
to govern themselves according to the
law. Hankin's sends in a hired man
from the outside to govern by law
Rankif's bill in a one-idea affair
Byers' a governmental process. In short
Rankin would make the enforcement OF
one law supreme; Byers would enforce
the liquor laws and all other law.
There is no balance to be struck
between the two. One is government
plain, Just equitable and practical. The
other is the scheme of an enthusiast
and to degree fanatical as are the
schemes of all enthuiasts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26

outrage and injustice over Mitchelrs
sentence to jail is not to be wondered
at. 1t will not be astonishing IL the
popular ear inclines to listen to the
charge that the courts discriminate be-
tween contempt by great interests and
contempt by those who are opposed to
great interests.
However, here is a court which has
fearlessly invoked the law to defend
it's Injunction. Let US not find fault
with the court for doing what we are
insisting all courts should do-strictly
enforce the law. If the law is wrong
repeal 1t That is sufficient answer
for this court to make to Its citizen
critics II Messrs. Mitchell, Gompers,
and thei, methods are right, the court
has done them a favor when 1t brings
the arbitrament up to the people,
few months in jail--even If they were
likely to spend them there's a cheap
price to pay for establishing great
principle. Thousands OF men have died
for less, and died gladly.
Union labor, angry as 1t is, may con-
gratulate itself. The conviction and
sentence of its leaders will serve to
solidify the organization. No propa-
ganda is so effective as martyrdom
real or sophisticated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
Society Conditions.
Grew. w. A. Bartlett. D. d.

(Rev. w. A. BarLIett, ~. ~
Society is not going to be reorgan-
lied by people who demand their
rights, and who start out with the
proposition that most of the world Is
wrong and they are right. Because
Plato and the Declaration OF Independ-
ence have said that all men are created
equal, some people forget that they are
not all of the same ability and OPP
portunity. There will always be the
strong and the weak. There will al
ways be those who are fortunate and
those unfortunate. The child born with
defective body or brain cannot contend
against the one with strong body and
developed powers. If you should dis
tribute equally the wealth OF the
world today multitudes would not
know what to do with their share, and
by tomorrow some would be poor and
others rich Something more is re-
CURED than the revolutionary cry
equality and fraternity"
Furthermore, there could be no more
disastrous course than one which
would limit or discourage mankind IN
production, invention or advance along
any line of progress. A good deal OF
present day denunciation Is aimed at
those who have been successful thru
hard work, by taking the tide at the
flood and thru proflting by the tre-
npendous momentum of the countrys
expansion. II man has good thing
to sell it is more crime for him to sell
1t to a million people than ten. There
are bound to be great fortunes and
mighty enterprises thru the law OF sup
ply and demand, and there could be no
more calamitous condition that one
which should lay heavy hand OF re-
straint on him who is producer OF
what the world needs, whether 1t be
picture or a brick, song or yard OF
i cloth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
THE SUBTLE FEMALE.
How She Wheedies and Bullies the
Poor Man Creature.

Poor Man Creature.
As woman gradually impressed upon
man the futility Of strutting around In
finery and the necessity Of being prac-
tically useful his garb has become more
and more sober and workaday in ap-
pearance. EthnoloCists tell us that
the decorations Of primitive man were
intended to fascinate feminine eyes.
but woman presently began to make
1t clear that she was not hunting for
"a fne, snowy article" but something
solid and plain and useful, warranted
to stand wear and tear. As for the or
namental role. she was going to repre-
sent the family herself In that line.
In fact, when one reflects how man
has been stripped OF gauds and whee-
died out Of his hipperies one by one.
one cannot help feeling tender pity
for this victim of feminine self aggran-
dizement. Poor, tilnid trembler! A
vague, general fear Of the female sex
haunts him. Afraid Of being married
against his will, he Is circumvented by
some subtle female creature who makes
him think that 1t Is his will to marry
her. An observer remarks that a man
very often in running away from the
right woman runs straight into the
arms Of the wrong woman. And the
wrong woman, that great opportunist,
is always waiting there to block his
headlong flight and switch 1t toward
the altar.--New Orleans Times.Demo-
crat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
SUGGESTED BY CHILDREN.
Origin Of the Arsand Lamp and tho
Telescope.

Some of our most useful mechanical
appliances owe their existence to the
ingenuity of children in fashioning
their playthings. Argand, who In
vented a lamp with wick fitted into
hollow cylinder, was one day busy
in his workroom. Sitting before the
burning lamp, his little brother was
amusing himself by placing bottom
less oil flask over different articles.
Suddenly he placed 1t upon the flame
of the lamp, which instantly shot up
the long circular neck of the flask
with increased brilliancy. Argand did
not allow such suggestive occur
renee to escape him. The idea Of the
lamp chimney almost Immediately
came into his head, and In short
time his invention was perfected.
The telescope owes its origin to a
similar occurrence. The children Of
a Dutch spectacle maker happened to
be playing one day with some Of their
fathers glasses in front Of the shop
door Placing two of the glasses to-
gether, they peeped through them and
were exceedingly astonished to see
the weathercock Of the neighboring
steeple brought within short distance
of their eyes. They were naturally
puzzled and called their father to see
the strange sight. When the spec
tacle maker looked through the glasses
he was no less surprised than the
children had been. He went indoors
and thought the matter over. and then
the idea occurred to him that he might
construct curious new toy which
would give people good deal Of
amusement. Not long after the tele-
scope was an accomplished fact.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
An E..x .Iah

Indifference displayed in the face OF
the uncertainties and dangers OF life is
characteristic of the Wessex dwellers
in the ISLANDS of the Vale" according
to Eleanor G.. Hayden, the author OF
the book of the title, who supports her
statement with story Of humorous
turn.
A certain cottage aud its old mistress
had improved 10 greatly in comfort
and appearance that visitor shrewd-
ly surmised that the son of the house.
a lazy ne'er do well, had turned over
4 new leaf. He inquired about 1t.
Eyes, sir. my sons In work now"
said the smiling old mother. Takes
good money, he does, too. All he has
to do is to 60 twice day to the circus
and put his head in the lions mouth.
The rest of the time be has to him
self" {,aca
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
A Cure for Heart Trouble.

George Christie, nephew Of the noted
minstrel man, and himself well
known composer. says that he never
was sorry but one that he helped write
a song.
When Bert Fitzgibbon came to him
with the lyric of a song called "You
Can't Stop Your Heart From Beat
ing" young Christie most enthusiastic
ally set to work to put music to 1t,
but now he's sorry. 1t happened this
way-Christie occupied the adjoining
room to newly married couple who
were very much in love.
The husband had learned Christie's
song and all day long he sang 1t to his
bride. In the morning before break
fast his accordion plated tenor voice
warbled "You Can't Stop Your Heart
From Beating for the Girl You Love"
After lunch 1t was the same and as a
good night solo he rendered 1t.
The last straw was added to the
samers back when the bride learned
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
az Mzs1~1>>'
A knottv Point.

In the case of the United States VS..
the American Tobacco company ct AL
in the United States circuit court,
southern district of New York. Testi-
mony of Frederick C. PEPPER, president
of the Christian PEPPER Tobacco COM
pany of st. Louis:
1--WE advertise the brand and we go
to the consumer and get him interested
in it, and give him sample; when he
gets that sample we tell him to take
the tag from the sample, keep it, and
put it in his pocket, so that he won't
forget the brand; and then, after he
once gets taste Of it, he will probably
fall into the brand. The reason
of it is to get the tobacco of the 9TH
ers out Of the pockets OF the consumer,
in order to replace it with ours and
have our tobacco chewed. -
@. "What is the effect Of those
methods that you have spoken off on
the entire consumption of tobacco?"
A. at increases consumption. We
make new chewers all the time. !.
we give men tobacco that don't chew
tobacco, and they put it in their pock-
ct and nibble at it, and gradually they
&GI u CHcWlu6 III anu W. oOS FSAASAA4 ~
a time anyway"
Evan E. Edwards. of New York
City, one Of the managers of the plug
sales department of the American To-
bacco company, being sworn, testified:
O. "And you expect some people who
have not been consuming tobacco at
all VIII begin on account of distribut-
ing the samples?"
A. Eyes. >"
@. "Has it been the habit with to-
bacco manufacturers to sample ever
since-?"
A. ever since have known any
thing Of the tobacco business; and /
just want to say that I learned to
chew by getting a sample"
What these tobacco sellers describe
corresponds to the methods legitimate
ly followed by all sorts Of merchants.
Yet we think the time will come when
ethics, and possibly even statutes, will
forbid some of these methods to those
who deal in tobacco.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
PUBLIC SERVICE OR PRIVATE pAva

At DenisOn the outraged law mas
made ten strike. A few days ago
some drunken rowdies boarded
an unlimited thirst and a craving for
notoriety. They took possession of the
observation platform, refused to pay
pullman fare and answered the expos
tulations Of the porter with rough
handling. The crew put them of at
the next station and the conductor
Later the bunch was rounded up at
Denison and fined $25 and costs apiece.
Most persons who have travelled to
any great extent have had bitter and
outrageous experience Of the gang that
comes on drunk and loaded down with
booze, and assumes to run the train
and will find much genuine satisfaction
In the news that at least one of those
parties has found what 1t seems to be
eternally looking for and rarely ind
ing. a good stiff fine, or a Jail sentence.
Experience, however, will justify the
suspicion that the refusal to pay fare
had more to do with the legal action
that followed the row than any other
motive. Had these fellows paid all the
demands made, 1t is not at all unlikely
that they might have abused passen-'
gers to their hearts content, boozed in
the sight OF women and used Lam
guage unfit for a barroon, and still
have arrived at their destination on
time. The Oldest traveller will recall
few il any instances where drunken
and obscene, rowdies were thrown of
the trains or pursued to the courts
Il where the objectionable and not to be
compromised sin of refusal to pay was
lacking. They will recall many miles
Of discomfort and insult offered pass
engers that passed unnoticed by the
train crew and those in authority.
So the happiness that arises from
the thought that one gang got what
was coming is tainted by the fear that
the lesson was not so mucn aimed at
riot and insult as at attempts to keep
money that the company needs. The
case is still open. Drunks ought to
be jailed for being drunk annoying
passengers, and insulting women. It is
the moral duty Of trainmen and should
be their legal right and official inclina-
tion to. keep as good order on their
trains as obtains in other public places
where decent persons must go and
where they have the right to demand
the reasonable protection from assault
and insult for which they pay. The
coming legislature should give this
really serious matter Its attention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26

Our idea, Of course, is to influence
their subsconscious lives; to replace
their hopelessness and moral weakness
with suggestions of power and virtue
and strength. We do not need to pro-
duce a hypnotic sleep. except In rare
cases. to reach this end. All that is re-
quired Is a relaxation OF mind and
body, a repose, in which the deeper ma
ture Is open to suggestion. We don't
know why it is. but If good thoughts
and strong purposes are thus I'M
pressed upon the mind of patient in
times Of repose. thesa good thoughts
act upon and stimulate his life after
ward He is cured, sometimes Instant
ly, of his sickness or his sin. but us
ually the treatments must continue for
sometime"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
asrARTlRG SOMETHING, :

The supreme court Of the District OF
Columbia. has certainly started some
thing" by sentencing John Mitchell,
Samuel Gompers, and Frank Morrison,
officers of the American Federation of
Labor, to Jail terms OF varying length
for contempt Of court. The violation of
an order enjoining them from placing
contain stoves on the unfair" list
] constituted the contempt for which the
men were arraigned and penalized
There is no more reason why a. labor
leader should not be sent to Jail for
m offense against the law than why
any other men or leaders of any other
organization or corporation should suf-
Ter for infraction Of law. The law is the
law; if it is administered on equal
Justice to all no one can sincerely and
fault with its operation while it re-
maths on the statute books. The ques-
ton Of whether or not it is being and
has been so administered will force it
self forward under conditions that
must arise Immediately from this par
ticular case and it will be well for Ann
erican citizens generally without re-
spect to alignments created by bust
ness or occupation to give careful heed
and balance facts and conditions
yudicially and periodically. For jus
ice is more important than men, right
,upreme over circumstances and the
selfish desires of one class or anoth-
a.
To the common citizen John Mitch
I'll Is the best known and most trusted
leader of organized labor. His name
has and does mean something more
than greedy effort to force wages
higher whether or no. He stands as
: the central figure Of a. great move
11ent, strong in himself and catholic
In his desire for the general betterment
OF eig11t-tenths of the human race, for
that matter for the betterment Of all
mankind. That is the way the average
citizen considers Mitchell and that he
should be shocked and feel sense of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
r. tha "EmmanueIr Clinic.

An illustration of the methods or the
Emmanuel movement Is given by Mr..
Raw Stannard Baker from his personal
observation. The case was one treated
by the Rev. Lyman p. Powell, OF st.
Johns church, Northampton, Mass,
clergyman who has been unusually
successful in relieving illness thru the
power of suggestion. The patient was
"a tall, rather finelooking man, MI. A.
who "did not like at all ILL.,. but VINO
had been under treatment for seVerai
months. He had come stranger to
the city with his family, explains MI.
Baker. in the December American He
had been under a great strain, he was
without acouaintances, and he had be-
gun to use stimulants until ne found
himself unable to throw off the halt"
Mr.. Baker proceeds:
"As a final resort he sought out Mr..
Powell
elf you really want to be cured, l
can cure you,' said the rector
"I do want to be cured said Mr.. "A.
"rhe treatments began then and
there, and Mr.. A. reports that he has
not since taken drink He has,
moreover, DCCOHlO O. oSSoS.J
with all his family at Mr.. PoWelrs
church. He is a wholly different man.
On the night I was there MT PoWeli
gave him treatment The man SAT
comfortably in an easy chair, the l1sht
was turned down, the study was silent
and peaceful. Mr.. Powell stood behind
the chair and told Mr. A. to compose
himself, that he was going to sleep just
as he had gone to sleep before When
he had come to the study.
"You are going to sleep, said MT.
Powell you ire sinking into sleep. NO
noises will disturb you. You will drop
into sleel You are asleep and
"These words, repeated numerous
times. soon produced a deep sleep on
the part of Mr. x. / could hear his
steady slow breathing. Then Mr.. Pow
oil began giving suggestions in low
monotone.
"I told you before that you were not
to drink any more told you that you
could not yield again to the drink hab-
it, You can not drink any more. You
will go on now into the perfection OF
freedom. Your whole physical nature
will revolt at the thought of alcohol
If you should take to drink again 1t
would blast your life and leave your
wife and children without support; it
would cost you your position. You are
too good a man to drink; you are too
fine character to be ruined by drink.
In Gods name I command you there
fore not to drink any more. You can
not drink any more. You will use ev-
cry means to keep from drink; you
will not be able to drink any more
'"These suggestions were repeated in
different forms many times. the treat
ment lasting perhaps ten or fifteen
minutes. The patient was then aroused
After Mr. x went away I asked Mr.
Powell If his treatment was not in its
essence the practice of hypnotisin.
We do not often hypnotic our
PATIENTS he said; 1T is not necessary
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
Americas Opportunity.

(DT. fTdUk w. 1uASoaio'.I
We stand today in the presence OF
the fact that America Is not only IN
carnated opportunity, but 1t must TAKE
imagination to see the opportunity.
Imagination has been defined as the
faculty of the ideal and the power TO
America will never be free TIL she IS
free from the pride which Is wiling
to satisfy itself with anything less than
realize the ideal is the will, and your
the incarnation Of the ideal. The hour
has come, my friends, when America
needs to know that the moral imagina-
ton addressing itself to the future OF
America must, thru the will of Amer
lea, not less than thru the Intellect, not
less than thru the heart. answer the
demand OF the world: and the demand
of the world upon America is that at
last American genius shall produce
such character in purity, In loftiness' IN
grandeur, in self-sacritice as Will just
tify the mighty expenditure which mas
been made by all lands and by Goa
himself to create the American oppor-
tunity.
"Down in Oklahoma the rich Indians,
the cherokees and Choctaws, take
racial pride in preserving their Ian
euage from oblivion thru the use OF II
in their church life. Attic most OF the
adults read English now, they prefer
to use the Bibles In their tribal tongues
and only few weeks ago letter
eached the Bible house asking II
new edition Of the Cherokee hymn book
| could net be got out uniform with the
Bible.
/ "A noticeable instance of this tribal
pride came within. the past year IN an
| order To print the Creek Bible, the ex-
penses to be paid by the Creek Indians
of Oklahoma and some Of their whlte
1 neighbors. Mrs A. e. w. Robertson,
Congregational missionary. made a
version of the Scriptures in the Creek
or :Mustogee language the labor OF
many years. The order came to pub
lish it after her death.
"The board wrote Why do you &c
to such an expense as this when your
children all read English? 1t is foolish
The reply came back. We want 1t as
monument to Mrs. Robertson ana the
Creek language
"Often the translator has had to Gre
| ate words as well as alphabets How
shall the dweller in some low-lying
atoll know the word mountain? How
write Lamb of God for Eskimo, who
know no lambs? Little SEAL the trans
! lator had to put 1t at last.
"'Bad to eat was as near as the
translator into Mosquito could get to
sin. Nice smell had to serve as native
/, Australian for franlzincense. In Ugan-
| do the translator had to wait five
years before he could catch word
that meant plague Then one day he
heard a man dewailing the influx OF
/ rats, such a 'dibebu' they were. Out
came the notebook, down went the
long sought word.
| "How translate the Gospel into a
language that has no words for city.
marriage, wheat, barley; in which, pig,
rat. and dog exhaust the geological
terms; in which the word for five is
my hand for six my hand and one
and so on?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
Not Infectious,

used to be very much afraid that
my children while playing with others
would be exposed to some contagious
disease, and they were constantly on
the lookout for trouble Of this kind.
One day little Louise, aged four.
came rushing in from the street where
she had been playing with crowd OF
children In very excited manner
she burst out. well, mother, two Of
the Meyers children have something,
but sister says she don't think we'll
catch it, though"
..Wall, what is 1t, darlingY I asked.
"It's the pigeon toes" she replied
DelienatOr.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-26
How Pike kun Perch.

From careful observation. I am sat
is6ed that pike kill their prey before
swallowing them, and they do this by
holding whatever fish they have Sc.
cured crossways in their powerful
Jaws for some time before boiling 1t.
once watched a pike hold a perch in
this way for twenty minutes, and then
he moved off out of sight, but from
five to ten minutes is the usual time
w. II. Armistead in "Trout Waters,
Management and Angling"