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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

we'll in the country, where good deal
of kitchen room and pantry room is
needed, and where the kitchen is often
used for a second dining room. In
the country conditions are different.
Be as careful, as possible, there is
more or less mud and dirt tracked into
the house from the garden and the
roadways. By having the bathroom
and washroom away back in the cor
ner like this the dirt is confined to the
smallest possible section OF the
house.
Generally the woman of the house
occupies the bedroom on the first
floor, where she can look after the
meals and the necessary house work
without great deal of running up and
down stairs In country places espe-
cially houses should be built with a
view of making the work as easy as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
Science and Slate Writing.

Altho the once-famous Doctor"
Slade was exposed on more than one
occasion. and was for time complete
ly discredited, no one ever attempted to
explain precisely how his slate-writing
trick was performed He succeeded in
myst;fying such men as the late Prof
Zollner and Sir William Crooks. the
first of whom accepted his alleged mir
acles quite seriously and attempted to
argue the possibility of such feats thru
the existence of a fourth dimension in
space In the report Of the COMMITTEES
of the University of Pennsylvania that
investigated the phenomena of spirit
ua!ism much space is given to S!ade
and his slate, but Henry Howard
Furness the author, does not explain
how the writing was done. Tho all the
members of the committee regarded
Slade as an impostor, his dexterity was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
Topics of the Times.

If it was dead certain that $4,000
contributions would be rejected that
would be an easy way for a lot of fell
lows to get off.
Mt. Pleasant has moss-back nler-
chant who would backslide from the
early closing movement. There is no
other place in town for the experts to
play checkers-Times- Republican.
This is not so. We have two other
places where the experts can try their
mettle at this fascinating sport, the
Y NJ. C. A. and the scale house SEN
ate.--Mt. Pleasant Journal.
Everytime new baby is born we
must lay new rail says Hartman
and the land man boosts the price of
land for the same reason.
Lillian Russell, who has been three
times married and managed to get rid
OF each husband, is reported to be
about to marry q fourth 1t is to be
hoped the ceremony may be made
binding.
Fighting Bob Evans, just retiring
from command of the navy has said in
a newspaper interview that it is ridic-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
.CoNGEsrED MONEY.
dubuque Tilnes-JournaD

DUBUQUE 7Ill1eS-JOufHdi)
BY comparison with Aug. 20 last
year, the national banks on July 10
this year held an increase of $685.
395 .2aS in lawful money reserves, OF
which s107.327.02S was held in New
York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
aware, Maryland and the District OF
Columbia and $95,446,197 in New York
alone. In loans there was decrease
of $62,9OS, 436 for the country at large
and an increase of $154,s36,755 for the
New York banks. Deposits in New
York increased s13S 031,s99 and in the
remainder of the country decreased
$4,000 900. The increase in loans
largely explains the increase OF depos-
its in New York. Money has been SO
plentiful there lately that it has been
loaned on call at 1 per cent per an
mum. One result has been renewed
temptation to speculation. Soon the
banks which have been sending their
idle money to New York for the sake
of the interest will begin to call for 1t
and the money market will tighten up.
Our present currency system gives
us redundancy and stringency by
turns. The volume at one season eX-
ceeds the demands of business, thus
inviting congestion and speculation,
and at another falls below the needs
of commerce, which therefore suffers.
We need a currency system under
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.
Annual Crop of Reports Promises to
Break the Record.

The United States now is gathering
its annual crop of reports of the freaks
of lightning Most of the lightning
freaks are fraught with tragic conse-
ouences to man or beast, says the New
York Press. UP in LIE Roy, N. Y, two
horses were standing in a barn when
bolt struck between them, bursting the
eardrums of both animals, but leaving
them otherwise uninjured.
Down in West Virginia a man was
riding a horse and hurrying to shelter
from an oncoming storm, when the
lightning struck the horse, killing 1t
instantly, but not harming the rider
in the least The motorman on troll
lev car in Admission, Ala, actually was
undressed by a bolt from the sky. The
lightning tore his clothes off complete
ly, ripped the face off his watch.
melted the chain and left a burned spot
on his knee.
At Hornell N Y, one of the resi-
dents was sleeping on a feather bed
when bolt of lightning struck his
house The sleeper was thrown clear
out of bed on to the floor, but was
otherwise uninjured In Williamantic.
Conn, one Of the local fire engine
houses was struck and the electrical
apparatus was put out of order No one
was in the house at the time, so the
damage was not noted in the neighbour
hood But an alarm was set ringing in
the residence OF the fire chief, some
distance away, and he hastened to the
engine house, to discover that the
lightning had struck the alarm.
Out in Petersburg. Ind, three young
men were sitting on farm house
porch when bolt struck them and
the nearby barn at the same time. The
feet of the men were badly burned. and
when one of them recovered conscious
ness he declared he had felt something
strike him on the shoulder and run
down his back to his feet. On being
examined broad mark of livid red
was found on his back from his
shoulder to his heel The same bolt
struck two harnessed horses in the
barn, and not only rendered them I'M
conscious for two hours, but also
melted all the harness buckles and
ripped the shoes off their hoofs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
Iona Newspapers
THE BOY AND THE MELON.
(Sioux CITY Journal).


When were watermeons invented?
Whenever it was, that was the origin
of problem which still remains I'M
solved. 1t relates to the neighborhood
watermelon patch and the boys How
to keep the boys out of the water
melon patch is tho essence of the
problem.
When the first crop of watermelons
began to ripen, away back somewhere
in ancient history. the owner of the
patch hung up a sign warning against
trespassng. The fathers of all the
boys in that immediate vicinity issued
orders demanding respect for the pri-
vate ownership of melons. If any boy
was caught appropriating contraband
he was assured of two lickings- one
from the irate melon raiser and one
from an irate dad" But the boys
made connections with that first patch
of watermelons. Some of them got
two lickings and some of them got
none. The same thing happened the
following year, wherever watermelons
were grown. 1t happened last year.
1t is happening this year. 1t will nap
pen next year.
Why will boy steal watermelon,
when he would scorn to steal silver
coin of the denomination for which
the grower might exchange the melon!
GroWnups can see that the crime Is
essentially the same in either case,
but the boys cannot You can't corner
a boy on the proposition. In the first
place he doesn't steal the melon. He
merely hooks it. In the second place
he only hooks it to eat. Hooking 1t to
sell, he admits, would be stealing.
Furthermore. it is a kind of game.
The grower says in effect that the
boys can't get at his melons without
mourning dire penalties The boys
like to show him that they can, and
the spice of danger only adds to the
fun Furthermore, and most convin-
cling of all, it is matter of tradition
that boys always have hooked water
melons. You did it yourself, when
you were boy, didn't you? Well, 50
there.
Moral? There is a shadow of one.
The problem of the boy and the wa
termelon probably will remain to the
end of time, just as it is today. Even
the coming of the millennium would
not solve it, You can't deal with an
instinct that has been so regularly
handed down from generation to gen
Grafton. The boys would quit their
hooking if you could make them see
that it is wrong. But you chnt make
them see that it is wrong. All they
can be made to see is that it is awk-
ward to get caught, and they don't In
tend to set caught next time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
The Modoc.

Silent. grim and sulien, unpleasant
figures against the background of a
generation since, the Modoc will pass
from the pages of life and live in those
OF history wholly unbeloved of the
white man. 1t is thirty-five years since
Captain Jack and his band of Modoc
demons massacred General Candy and
the rest Of the governments peace
commissioners-1nor than a third Of
a century since the Modoc raised his
hand against paleface-but there is
still small friendship between the Mo-
doc and the white man. In the case
of an Indian, apparently, the white
mans memory is long.
The Modoc, inhabiting the border
land between California and Oregon,
people of the rocks and sage brush.
are little known or understood by the
ethnologists. Some authorities figure
them as part of the coast tribes, re-
lated to the humber, less valorous In
dams of the Pacific slope-others think
them part of the fighting race that
came down from the frozen north and
spread its outlying bands of Navajo,
Apache, and Lipan far into Mexico.
However this may be, the Modocs were
always fighters, and always dreaded
by both whites and adjoining Indians.
They were never numerous-the whole
tribe probably totaled no more than
$50 or 400 at any time.
There was much trouble with the
Modoc in the early days of northern
i California, ending it was believed,
when the government herded the band
upon the klamath reservation in Ore
gon. Here the Modoc did not pros
per. They quarreled with the Klamath.
demanded permission to go back to
their own country. and finally left,
with much accompanying violence. A
peace commission was sent to treat
with them, and was brutually nassa-
cred.
Then came the troops. and weeks OF
desperate fighting followed, much to
the disadvantage of the soldiers. Fit
ting from rock to rock in the awful
lava beds. the Modoc had things all
their own way, and it was not until
hordes of other Indians came up to
help the troops that they were cap
tured.
CAPTAIN Jack, leader Of the tribe, ana
some of his subordinates were hanged,
and the wilder warriors sent to Indian
territory. There has been no trouble
with them since, and both sections OF
the band have behaved themselves
strictly. Only about forty, out Of per-
haps $50 originally exiled to Indian
territory, now survive. Those in Ore
gon number about 23O, and hold their
own in numbers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
WHERE'S THE ADVERSELY?

3s Some large holes are being punched
thru democratic adversely by the Com
tnerciaI National bank of Chicago. The
bank mentioned is not q republican orr
xanixation, nor does it take any inter-
est in politics whatever. Itiis merely
an immense financial institution which
views commerce and everything allied
thereto with the cold calmness which
/ usually characterizes inspection by
concerns Of it's sort The punctures it
has been making in the panicv coat
. of the democrats is not the result Of a.
studied effort to cripple them or any
body else. They are merely the result
of squirt taken by the bank at what
ut sees in the country. 1t finds that the
resumption of normal business condi-
sstions has been rapidly coming about
since the shake up Of last October, and
outlines the situation in such detail
that all may understand it.
Its review tells us that the strongest
link in the trade and financial chain
is the condition of the farming class
and the weakest is the railways. The
farming interests are the greatest sin
gle industrial item in the country and
the railroads are the next in import
,ance. The farms have more people de-
pending upon them directly or indi-
rectly than any other element in the
working life of the nation, with the
railways second Farms are booming
now with crops promising a most
shounteous yield. The railroads began
to curtaif improvements before the
business depression Of last year but
have begun to do more Of this work.
and but recently one railroad interest
gave an order for $10,OO0,00O worth of
steel cars The exceptionally large crop
movement is going to be something
wonderful to behold and this will mean
enormous revenues to the railroads for
transportation The farmers will be re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
srArE FAIR FOOD PRoBLEM.

It seems that with even the exper-
fence and criticism Of past years the
problem of feeding the people in the
state fair grounds at Des Moines has
not vet been satisfactorily solved The
state fair is wonderful institution
| and a worthy exhibition to attract peo-
pie from all over the state. If they go
there expecting to get something good
| 10 eat on the grounds and do not get It,
| they will 90 again just the same. That's
| Z tribute to the character Of the ex-
Inhibition, but 1t does not help condf-
ttions any, and the mere fact that peo-
] pie will go anyway is no reason why
their comfort and welfare should not
be provided for.
Anyone who wishes to buy a conces-
/ sion to sell food within the grounds
can do so, provided there is room. and
1 The quality and character of what he
has to offer will rest largely with him.
He can rightly charge more than
regularly established city restaurant
would because Of the expense to which
he is put to furnish food for single
| week, and patrons ought to be salts
|fied to pay more under all the circuin-
stances, especially as they are saved
I the time and trouble of going outside
s the grounds and the expense of Sec
ond admission fee.
But the caterers will not restrict
I themselves, apparently, to quality in
/ stead of quantity A visitor from Mar
shalltown ate dinner at cafe recon-
mended to him where the charge was
so cents. The menu included chicken,
roast beef, mashed potatoes, corn on
the cob; tomatoes sliced. noodles,
spaghetti with tomato dressing, cold
4 slaw. apple, mince, pumpkin pie, tea,
coffee and milk.
Altlo he went early to dinner and
there was no crowd, the beef, corn and
potatoes were practically cold when
!. they reached him, as were the noodles
and spaghetti, which har been set on
4 the table in bulk before the diner sat
down The beef was dry in addition to
being cold and the only good things
8 in the list, more than adequate to var
iety, were the coffee, sliced tomatoes
and pie.
A normal man would be satisfied
/ with good piece of meat, potatoes and
1 coffee. all hot, and a piece of pie,
/ rather than with an array three times
/ rs numerous. How much better to ask
half a dollar for a little, and have that
little good than to try to give a hotel
meal and fall down in almost every
{ course.
Substantial profits await the restau-
rant man who acts on some such sug-
gestion and demands a fat price for
/ something that's really good. If he goes
sat it strong enough he will either drive
out competition or raise the standard
to az healthy stage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
win Work de savaps Patents.

A society in Norway has concluded
an agreement to work Dr. de Saval's
patents for making metallic zinc out
Of low-grade ores. At first about so
tons of metallic zinc and about one
ton Of metallic lead. as well as lit
tie copper and silver, will be treated
each day. 1t is also intended to con-
vert the surphurous acids which are
generated in the furnaces into sulphur
ic acid or suDernhnsn hatl ,a...p4A->
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
|h,es 3Rsefph1ia1 9arsla11to 'u Augast IS 1908

ever attack the United States. He also
says that the U. s. navy is stronger
than the Japanese navy and that
American gunners can shoot straight
err.
An exchange says Chairman Frank
Hitchcock is an ornithologist, but we
are inclined to class him as bird
himself.
With the conflicting republican
hosts meeting in Des Moines it is nat
ural to assume that the gunsmiths will
be busy equipping the visitors with
"barkers'' and the knife counters will
be doing an equally rushing trade.
Some of those who are really spoil
ing for fight are suggesting that
'"Tama Jim" be removed from the ag-
rieultural portfolio and put into the
senatorial vacancy. But there is no
danger of this being done.
The quit of the crickets and the
crackle of the dried fallen leaves are
hint that everybody will soon be lis
tening to the call of the fire. Cante-
loupes and watermelons and the band
concerts are still sort of relic of sum-
mer and everybody had better go after
them hard while they last.
With names like Bryan, Mack and
Kern being so necessarily mentioned in
the political turmoil it ought not to be
hard to guess where the Irish vote
would incline
Every cloud has its silver lining.
Altho John Hays Hammond was the
only frank and avowed candidate for
vice president on the republican ticket
and was given the narrowing cha ha'
by the faithful who met at Chicago
ne has now an opportunity to open his
bar'l He has been made a member of
the advisory committee by National
Chairman Frank Hitchcock, and it Is
safe to say that when he takes the lid
off his keg no one else will try to pre-
vent him. 1t is rule in politics that
no man who wants to loosen shall be
compelled to refrain, and the Ham
mond hope deferred at Chicago was
only to make him all the keener, ey-
identity.
= \ \
What do you think of the two can
didates?" asked one elector of another
during the recent contest.
What do think of them?' was the
reply. We'll, when 1 look at them I'm
thankful only one of them can get in"
London Telegraph.
1t is not safe to demonstrate" too
long over the favorite son who gets
nomination. Charles E. Payne, a col
ored politician of Chicago, has gone
insane as the outcome of his frantic
feelings during the cheering for
Roosevelt at Chicago, and some time
ago a wealthy Cincinnati man died
from his excessive exuberance at the
same convention. At st. Paul the dem
ocrats yelled for Governor johnson
over an hour when he was nominated
for the third time, and as soon as the
patients are all heard from we may
look for few distressing cases or an
increase in the mortality list. All of
which reminds us that people do not
so crazy or die from grief only.
William r. Hearst, John r. Mclean
and Wayne MacVeaga are now among
the we'll known democrats who refuse
longer to be a party to democratic
misguidance under William j. Bryan.
Next!
What is your opinion of prosper
ity?"
WELL answered the ilnprovident
man. my opinion of prosperity is that
it is something for which am expected
to give three cheers because some 9TH
er fellow has it."-Washington Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

so great that his method of writing
could not be detected.
The manner in which the slate writ
ing is done by the greater number of
modern mediums was discovered by
the late III. j. Davey. who, tho an in
telligent young man, was at first some
what staggered by the miracles of slate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
Tired Too Easily.

See here. mister said the poor
man. desperately, give me any sort Of
job and I'll take it. I'm simply tired
out looking for work"
well" replied the hard business
man, there is an opening here, but !
guess You won't do.
.If you get tired out simply looking
for work. the business man continued.
You wouldn't be much good when you
came to do any"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

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If you are sick you can make no ms
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The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
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DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the, ad-
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

lectures, but the wage earners in tho
cities have been content to wait until
he could be heard for nothing. The
campaign funds must be supplied by
the politicians and those who wish to
establish some claim on the consider
alton of the party
Iowa climate is all right, barring an
occasional extreme in temperature
and some of the sudden changes says
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Nothing Is
more uncomfortable than very hot
day. with a blistering wind. or TWEEN
ty-heloW-zero gale from the north
west; and a sudden drop in tempera-
ture, which makes the individual
cease perspirng and go to shivering
does not suggest an exactly ideal eli
mate. But Iowa's disadvantages are
few and inconsequential compared to
her advantages. Iowa is the finest
ever"
Congressman Haugen is wise. He
is comfortably situated where he is,
and there isn't much of a political flu
ture for man who allows himself to
De uSed merely as a cat paw, op-
serves the Register and Leader.
The nenison Review sees some non
sense in senatorial talk. saying: AS
to postpcning the fight until after elee-
ton, that is all piffle along with the
rest of it. The fight is on now. The
man who loses any point in the game
is a chump and deserves the defeat
that will be his"
In protest at the possible appoint
ment of Larrabee the Nonpareil says:
when appointing a United States
senator for the short term, Governor
Cummins will. of course. be very care
full not to name one who has exceeded
the age limit that the Cummins press
has set for candidates for that office"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

pencils which wrote inside a pair of
locked states. And the slate-wrriting
Trick was usually performed in the
light, While the messages found within
the locked States We're we'll written and
somtimes even learned in character
But by giving his mind up to it he
found out how the tricks We're done,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Hurrah for the Dingley tariff law
Bryan and the democratic party to the
contrary Notwithstanding. 1t is the
greatest and most beneficial tariff
measure eve: placed upon the Ameri-
can statute books" declares the Des
Moines Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25
Eax Fever and Summer Colds

Victims of hay fever will experiences
great benefit by taking Foley's Honey
and Tar, as it stops difficult breathing
Immediately and heals the iniamed
air passages, and even If it should fail
to cure you it will give instant relief.
The genuine is in yellow package.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-25

the family as never before. Many
notifications are brought about by
changes in the prices of building ma
terials, but, upon the whole, houses
are better and more comfortable be-
cause of these changes.
Lumber in some sections of the
country is very scarce and high