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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Presents For Native Rulers.

Mr.. Roosevelt is in correspondence
with various persons who know some
thing at first hand about Africa aEd
the Africans, the climate, the kings,
the beasts and the "boys." High au-
thorities remark that the president
shows wisdom in thus seeking advice,
for if he should plunge headlong into
the hunting country just anywhere the
chance, Of his catching fever would
be considerable. Feyers are more to be
feared than the natives. Nevertheless,
to conciliate the native rulers Of the
parts where the big game abounds, it
will be necessary for Mr.. Roosevelt to
take along many packages of presents.
IT is more than likely that when an
African king learns that his visitor has
been the big chief in his own land the
black host will confer unusual gifts.
upon Mr.. Roosevelt, thus increasing
the expense Of the expedition, because
courtesy will demand reciprocity.
Inst now the Roosevelt mail at Oys-
ter Fay is bullying with letters from all
sorts of persons who want to go along
with the hunting party. Secretary
Loeb remarked the other day that the
nres. dent could have, If he wished,
volunteer army of several thousand
will which to penetrate to the interior
and conquer the country. OF course
this is quite true, for the Roosevelt
African hunt is going to belong to his
tory. But the roug riders and weary
walkers who woul d like to be in at the
killing will be disappointed, for the
president is known to be man who
dis'ikes to have a mob around him
when he wants to shoot game. Even
the photographers, many of whom have
urged their claims. are being turned
down. Kermit Roosevelt, who is
husky young man and an expert pho
tosrapher, has pre-empted the picture
taking job.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
NY SHIPS.
From ',Maurine.

j
TT all the ships have at sea
i should come sailing home to me,
All we'll, the harbor could not hold
So many sails as there would be
If all nv ships came in from sea.
IF half my ships came home from sea
i And brought their precious freight
to me.
All. well. I should have wealth as great
AS any king who sits in state
So rich the trea sures that would be
In half my ships now out at sea.
TT lust one ship I have at sea
Z Should come a-sailing home to me.
All we'll, the storm clouds then might
frown.
For il the others all went down
Still rich and proud ard glad I'd be.
IL that one ship came back to me.
TF that one ship went down at sea
i And all the others came to me
Weighted down with gems and wealth
untold.
With glory, honors riches. gold,
The poorest soul on earth I'd be
II that one ship came not to me.
nH. skies, be calm, Oh. winds, blow
" free
Blow all my ships safe home to me,
But IL thou sendest some a-wrack,
To nevermore come sailing back.
Send any--all that skim the sea
Blt bring my love ship home to me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

your head. if possible, that we are
the most depenable plumbers In the
vicinity Depenable-not merely in
the thoroughness of our work but also
in our promtitude and reasonable
charges. We employ only skilled
workmen and use only the best ma
terials. Having practical and a
scientific knowledge of sanitary plumb
ing in all it's branches, we believe our
selves competent to undertake any
class of work.
RUcHANAN-BoUGHToN co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Denizens OF the Jungle Will Be
in Danger of Huntsmen's
Excellent Aim
PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY
Extensive Plans Being Perfected to In
sure Ultimate Success of Novel
Pleasure and Educational Trip of an
Ex-President of the United States
The Details to Date.
sv RoBERrus LOVE.

Now In awesome apprehension
Shrinks the lion in his lair.
Held in terrors torturing tension.
The rlinocsros rends his hair.
Now the elephant is fearful
Lest his step be overheard.
And he'd be- sight moro cheerful
Were he just little bird
From Jungle Jingles. 1909"
"HERE is one piece of news that
will be news for at least score
OF months. Then it will become
literature at 81 word. Allu-
sion is made to the forthcoming plunge
Of Theodore Roosevelt into the wilds of
Africa to hunt big game.
1t is a piece Of news that already has
thrilled the world. Kings, courtiers
and commons are talking about 1t. At
fairs Of state have taken back seat
They are dry as dust This is interest
ing as raging cataract 1t still thrills.
When, Immediately after becoming our
only living ex-president next March,
Mr.. Roosevelt departs for his dash into
the jungle for years absence, the
thrill will be such that many of US can
hardly wait until the huntsman's own
story is written by himself and pub
lished broadcast to an avid earth. That
this story Will be all of the six best
thrillers amalgamated is not to be dis
puted.
For seven years Mr.. Roosevelt has
been held in check by the reins OF Of
fice. He has been bitted and curbed.
He has been restrained by steady
job. SO that he has been unable to do
what he wants to do. When he re-
turns to the liberty of a private citizen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
THE SUBTLE SPIRIT.

= BUILT temple for my spirits home.
I filled 1t with myself. and 1t was
fair.
\ From its dream pavement to itn
dream reared dome
No spirit bat my own existed there.
About the walls 1 wrought with detins
care
Huge fancies alien to the world of men,
Vague daubs and vast Of youth and light
and air
Sublimely isolated in my spirits Gen.
lived and toied and dreamed ana hoped
and thcn--and then
Another spirit entered. subtle. slow.
Like summer coming when the winter
fees.
With eyes that had the soft wasm, ssket
glow
OF some calm evening of day a ease.
And that was you! I felt upon my hnees.
A swift mysterious spreading q the
place.
Ny poor walls seemed to hold hfnatiss
90 vast for peace. 1 fell upon my face
And worshiped yen at last. Ne spk4t Of
the place.
John G. Nesaaa01t
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
70 Clean tho Sink.

Every sink should be provided with a
three-cornered sieve made by covering q
metal frame with very fine wire netting.
When water is thrown into the sink it
ahould be turned into this sieve, which
retains every particle of solid matter,
preventing It's getting into the pipes and
causing trouble. 1t IS also much neater
Each morning the sink should be thor
oughly cleaned. Dissolve teaspoonful
of Gold Dust washing powder in hot
water and with whisk broom wash the
basket thoroughly; then carefully scrub
every portion of the sink, pouring some
Of the hot suds down the pipe to loosen
grease that may have gathered in the trap.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
he is going to do just as he pleases
What he pleases to do is to make and
leave record as the worlds champion
hunter of big game.
And that's why he's going to Africa.
Killer of Fierce Beasts.

NilleT VI FleTCe 0GdSlSs
Mr.. Roosevelt has shot everything in
this country worth shooting. An
American bear looks to him now no
bigger than brush pile bunny. lie
has been and seen and conquered the
growing grizzly, the screaming noun
tain lion and the mooing moose. Kings
and cars are the only big game left
in Europe, SO it is necessary to cut
loose from civilized continents alto
gether and puncture the primeyal.
Mr. Roosevelt proposes to go to the
land where truly real lions roar, where
hippopotami hop, where leopards leap,
where elephants elevate their trunks
and where gorillas gr-rowl.
This! is live news because it is so
unusual and because it is announced
a year beforehand. No president ever
did such thing as that after stepping
down and out. 1t is big news because
Theodore Roosevelt is the most cele-
brated man in the world today. For
nearly two terms he has occupied the
highest post OF honor in all the world.
Now he retires-speaking nearly year
ahead, of course-and from the tip Of
the topmost tower of civilization he
takes header into the depths of the
darkest jungles of barbarism that yet
remain on the earth's surface.
If that is not STARTER, then bring
on the thrill medicine.
Just what sort of country is this
into which Mr.. Roosevelt and his son
Kermit, who will be twenty one years
old then, are to plunge? Will the ex-
president be disappointed because the
game is not what it has been cracked
up to be? VIII he weep, Alexander.
like, because of finding after all his
travel and trouble and expense that
there Is not another animal world to
conquer in Africa?
Well that is net likely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Notice Of Organization Of the Farmers
an4 Merchants Telephone Company.

Notice is hereby given that cor
poration has been formed under the
laws Of the state of Iowa and the
name of such corporation is the
Farmers and Merchants Telephone
company and it's principal place Of
business is Marshalltown, Iowa.
The general nature of the business
to be transacted by said corporation is
the purchasing, owning, selling, con-
STRUGGLING, leasing, maintaining and OPP
Grating telephone and, other eleftric
lines within the state of Iowa and the
United States; the purchasing, holding
and selling of real estate in connection
with its business, dealing and traffick-
ing in electrical supplies and the trans
acting Of such business as is usually
transacted by corporations Of like char
acter.
The authorized capital stock of such
corporation shall be Two Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars, divided into
shares Of fifty dollars each, of which
shares two thousand shall be common
stock and three thousand preferred; all
stock is to be issued and paid in at
such time and in such manner as the
board Of directors Of such corporation
shall prescribe.
The amount Of capital stock may be
Increased or diminished at any regular
meeting of the stock holders, or at a
special meeting called for such purpose
by a two-thirds vote Of the stock is
sued.
The corporation commences Sept. 20,
1908, and shall continue for period of
twenty years thereafter unless sooner
dissolved by a votd of two-thirds of
the common stock issued, or in accord
ance with the statutes Of Iowa.
The affairs of this corporation shall
be conducted by president, vice pres
ident, secretary and treasurer who. to-
gett1er with one director elected by the
stockholders, shall constitute the board
Of directors.
Each of the above named officers
shall be chosen by the holders of the
common stock of the corporation and
each share of common stock shall che
entitled to one vote.
The officers shall be elected on the
second Tuesday in January of each
year and shall hold office until their
successors are elected and qualified
The board Of directors may appoint
a manager and such other officers as
they may deem necessary.
The highest amount of indebtedness
to which this corporation shall at any
time subject itself shall be one hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars.
q The private property Of the stock
holders of this corporation shall be ex-
empt from corporate debts.
Until the first annual meeting of the
shall constitute the officers, of the cor
poration:
President, B. B. Cummings.
vice President, E. H Martin.
Secretary, P. c. Holdoegel
Treasurer, J. P. Cooper. -
Director, CIR. Speers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Taxid,rmist In the Party.

MT Roostvelt's purpose, as announc-
ed, Is to Kill specimens Of each kind
OF big game in Africa. AS he is to
devote Whole year to the task. there
seems no leason to doubt his ultimate
success. lie proposes to back up what
ne writes about his exploits by bring
Ing home with him the carcaSses OF
the slain beasts. A taxidermist will
accompany the party to mount the AMI.
mails and preserve them for shipment.
The taxidermed pachyderms and 9th
er defunct beasts are to be presented
to- some american museum Of natural
history, sc that future generations may
gaze upon them and admire the PROV
e'ss of the mighty huntsman of 1909.
1t is stated by one prognosticator that
Mr.. Roosevelt will visit while in Afri
Gil the home of William N. Mcmillan.
a young millionaire from st. Louis
who for Several years has lived in the
wilds of east Africa nesr the equator.
where he has place which he calls
Juja farm Mr.. Mcmillan, who is an
inveterate and intrepid hunter and ex-
plorer, i, said to have $1,000 acres
stoutly inclosed against the predatory
beasts OF the outlying wilderness. His
big bungalow is built Of iron, so that
lions, gorillas. elephants and other ami
mails more Interesting than charming
cannot break in and eat Missouri mil
ltonaire for breakfast.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Woods In Of Leopards.

Well, some Tow would you like to
meet full own leonard cat not
house broke a forest somewhere
east of Suez Ven the cat had missed
its breakfast id it was some hours
past dinner tie? An African leopard
is no respectebf persons, not even Of
ex-presldentia persons. And, to Use
an American phrase the woods are
full Of them.
But the leoird is one of the least
OF the Afrlca ogres. The elephant
ON his natlveheath is by no means
the street broe animal of the travel
Ing circus, e will not eat peanuts
from the hant not even from the hand
OF an ex-preslent. And his footprint
Is painful to he person printed. The
African elephant is liable to step on
you with bot front feet and then dou-
BILE up and pint his rear pedals where
they VIII DO ne most harm.
IL was ai1oSt child's play for Mr..
Roosevelt tohunt bears in the Mis-
sissippl canbrakes There were q
few flea bi,en bruins Of small size
scootlng arond in the brakes, scared
half to dealt at sight or sound of hui
man and sampering for cover. But
when this anne huntsman gets into
equatorial Erica and encounters King
Leo in his lair there will be another
tale TO tell. Assuredly the exploit of
the Yazoo larky who caught bear
and tied ito a tree so that the presi-
dent could shoot 1t Out he wouldn't
ana didn't will not be matched by any
OF Mr.. RoGsevelt's black eboys in the
jungle 80 FIR as the lion is concerned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

may feel reus4nly sure d getting
back to civilizbn alive unless a lion
deyours him oln elephant tramplcs
him or snak,mbraces him too cor
daily.
Why, are tie dangers IN African
big game hung?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Bio Game Plentiful.

That is, If we may accept THE state.
ments of certain persistent spertsmen
who have elected to live insAfr1ca just
because the big game is SO plentiful,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
A BURNING Shame

is not to have Bucklens Arnica Salve
to cure burns. sores. piles, cuts. wounds
and ulcers. csc. Mcbride & Will Drug
Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
"smokina Advertising"

1 was much impressed by the re-
mark of a character in short story
in recent magazine. In a conversation
rival establishment the au-
thor makes him say THAT stores stock
is not as good as mine; the customers
smoke advertising" The remark i'm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
gfn.s- ,epsta Observation-Disclosures anuua, Nnurnt II 1908

rote for instance. Percy Pringle, who
h.s heen living near the dividing line
Of British and German East Africa
for the past ten years. cultivating the
ostrich and incidentally eliminating
the elephant, the lion, the rhinoceros.
the hippopotamus. the leopard and a
few other big uns that abound in
those parts 1t Is east Africa, mind
you, to which Mr.. Roosevelt will go.
Mr.. Pringle writes back to an Amer
lean some tales about the game In
those parts which sound as IL they
came FROM the tall timber. But Mr..
Pringle is reputed to be honest, though
rich. He has had excellent opportun-
ties to see the roaming multitudcs Of
large beasts, and what he says should
be taken without doubt or derision.
II have just returned" he writes,
"from the karamoyo mountains, and
had splendid success. added eight
elephants to my list and could have
killed probably dozen others"
Whew!
Think OF being turned loose with
lblunderbuss when Barnum's circus is
making its free street parade.
Tossed by an Elephant.
But hear Percy Pringle further:
zone of the elephants tossed me and
nearly broke my skull. My boys car
ried me home in my mashela."
The mashela, be it known, is ham
mock, and boys are the naked
blacks, age and size immaterial, whom
every African huntsman must take
along to do the heavy work. Incl
dentally this skull cracking should in
spire Mr.. Roosevelt with q disinclina-
ton to take passage on an elephantlne
trunk, and it should warn Kermit to
give his strenuous sire some fatherly
advice in the jungle.
But peruse Pringle: ION none OF my
trips have seen so much game, and
believe that, instead of growing fewer
in numbers, 1t is increasing Lions are
more numerous than when I came
here, and there is hardly a night that
we do not hear them near our cattle
kraals."
Fine Collection of Animals.
That is rather indefinite. But hear
this, Mr.. Pringle speaking: Zone
morning when l woke the boys car
ried me to the top of a kopje SO that
I could see what was in the valley.
will never forget the scene. do not
believe any living man ever saw so
many fine animals together at one
time. There was only one herd Of
fourteen elephants, but Of every other
conceivable kind of game there were
so many that it would have been i'm
possible to count them, I believe, in y
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
student,s Daring Feat.

Swaying dangerously in a strong wind, supported only by a small flag halylrd. Robin Adair. a sophomore at the Washington State university, was recently hoisted 207 feet to the top of the wireless telegraph pole. While his classmates looked on in mingled fear and ezaItatiO1 Adair untangled the freshmen class banner and was then lowered to the ground IL was because the freshmea had the night before sent their class banner to the top of the pole. where 1t became caught. that the daring feat was undertaken When Adair was safely on the ground. he was swung to the shoulders of his classmates and escOrted sreu7d the campus.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
TOYS FOR AN ADULT.
Sent to Lawyer With Few Birthdays
 by Jokina Friends.


 Although thirty-tvo years old on Feb. % next. John Lefferts COnard, one of the best known lawyers in the state of New Jersey and former coun- ty solicitor at Trenton. will celebrate his seventh birthday anniversary on that date. His friends have dropped to the humOr of the occasion and are already bombarding him with toys suitable for q ''seven-year-Old"
 COnard thinks it bad enough to be born on Feb. Q and have a birthday anniversary only once in four years. but he is particularly aggrieved at fate in causing him to be born when be was, so that the 300 year correction of the calendar robbed him of one of these four year anniversaries in 1900. He does not mind missing the usual birthday presents so much. but 1t Is narrowing when hc calculates all the post card showers that he has been de- privei Ot during the years that went by without giving him A birthday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
The Duck Pest.

Wild ducks are giving some of the farmers in the vicinity of Holtville. Cal. a merry run for their money. On Farmer Coon's place a few days ago thousands of them could have been seen eagerly devouring the new sown grain. The grain growers in the vicin- ity of Silsbee also are complaining. Mir. Ijams owns something like 2lO acres six or eight miles southwest of Fl CentrO. He has irrigated eighty acres of his place and planted barley Before the grain had hardly sprouted the rayenOus and half starved wary bird was on the scene ready for ac- ton. Unless the valley farmers get together and exterrninate this pest they might as well cease trying to raise grain. The solution of the duck prob lem is up to them.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY BILL.
New Measure Backed by Union Labor
 Is Introduced In Congress.

Washington, Feb. 14.-A comprehen. sive employers liability bill was intro duced in the senate and house by Sen. ator La Toilette (Wis) and Represent. atiye Sterling Qll). The authors say the bill has the indorsement of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen and Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen and is intended tc meet the recent decision of the SUI. preme court in which the employers liability act of June II, 1S06, was de clared unconstitutional.
 Every common carrier while engaged in interstate or foreign commerce be tween the possessions of the United States is made liable to its employees who are injured while employed in such commerce when such injuries are due to the negligence or mismanage. ment of any officer or employee of such carrier or when due to defects or insufficiencies in equipment. The bill recognizes the doctrine of ''compara. tive negligence" as is now recognized in the states of Wisconsin, South Da. kota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Neva. da, Georgia and Florida and in the aci of congress which is declared uncon. stitutional. It permits an employee to recover damages if he has been guilty of contributory negligence, but says the jury shall diminish the damages in accordance with the amount of negli. gence they may find is attributable tc I such employees.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-14
TEST IN HOUSEKEEPING.
Charles Barnard's Novel Undertaking at His Home In Darien, Conn.

SHdrieS bdrnafoS Novei Ondortakln9
 at His Home In Darien, Conn.
 Charles Barnard, the writer and lec- turer, who is devoting his time to con- ducting a housekeeping experiment station" in Darien, Conn.,, talked about his institution the other day as fol- lows:
 "A housekeeping experiment station Is a new idea. An agricultural station must have barns, field laboratories and greenhouses. It is wholly differ ent with a housekeeping station. All that is needed is a good country house. It should not be a city house, flat or apartment, because the great majority of housekeepers in this country live out of town or on farms and without gas or electric light.
 "The aim of a housekeeping expert ment station should be to make expert ments on housekeeping scale with ordinary appliances and under normal household conditions. This is precise ly what is done So far as known it is the first housekeeping experiment sta ton in the world to open its doors to the house mothers of this country.
 Experiments are performed in schools and colleges in household eco monies, notably at the Teachers col lege in New York, but these are schools. The new station is a home, occupied and used as such, and also used as a place where experiments in housekeeping are conducted for the benefit of any householder who wants to know how and why certain things done in housework can best be done."
 For nearly two years MT. Barnard used his home as place where he could test new housekeeping appliances, new methods and materials. House keepers have applied to the station from every part of the country, manu- facturers of household appliances send their new inventions to the station to be tested. town officials ask for infor- nation in regard to the best method of lighting streets, and architects have sought information in regard to laying out and furnishing kitchens.
 A delegation from the Teachers col lege of New York, recently spent an afternoon as guests of Mir. and Mrs. Barnard and were surprised and pleas ed by the demonstrations in the use of alcohol in housekeeping. MT. Barnard is a believer in the future of dena- tured alcohol and has done much ex- perimenting with it.