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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
Annie. for Habeas Corpus.

Chicago, June 11.-Application was
made to Federal Judge Lands for a
writ of ,f1abeas corpus in behalf Of
Herman Billik. Friends of Billik were
exceedingly active thruout the day.
and a number of meetings were held
in various parts of the city for the
purpose of bringing influence to bear
upon the government ITO secure a COM
mutation Of the death sentence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
KENTUCKY GOES FOR BRYAN.

Agreement, Except on IemPerance,
Reached Between Warning Factions.
Lexington. KY, June 11.-Before the
democrats met in state convention this
afternoon, harmony prevailed all along
the line. After an all-night session
between the warning factions an agree
ment was reached whereby Bryan will
be instructed for, as Kentuckys choice
for president. The only fight remaining
will be over the introduction of the
temperance fight into the platform.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11

Missouri Rising at ST. Joe.
st. Joseph, Mo-, June 1.-THE Mis-
souri, river is still rising today. DAM
age to crops in the bottom lands is
rapidly multiplying.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
New York Grain.

New York, June II.
wh,eat-July, 94A.
Corll-July, 76.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
SUICIDE AT DUNLAP.

w. A. conyers, Who Only Arrived
There Today, Shoots Himself.
Special to oTines-Republican.
Dunlap, June IL w. A. Conyers,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with revolver today. He was a sill
yer plate man, and came here this
morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
Best Platform Yet Says Wade.


Chicago, June 11.-Attorney General
ellis. of Ohio, arrived in Chicago to-
day. bringing with him q rough draft
Of the tentative platform to be
adopted by the national convention.
II cannot, for obvious reasons, dis
close the character OF the platform
now said Ellis, "but believe it will
satisfy the people. It's scope Is wide
and broad, and in my opinion 1t will
prove the best platform any political
party has sanctioned in recent years. "
impetus for Knox Boom.
The candidacy of Senator Knox was
given am impetus today. on the arrival
at Knox headquarters of General Il.
p. Hapgood, Edward K. Krause. and
Edward S. Kinley, Of Pennsylvania
aStick," said Hapgood, in reply to
/ q question whether or not his candidate
intends to withdraw. well, should
saw we will stick, The longer and
closer we stick the better are our
chances. We will not consider second
place. Why should we? Who's got first
place, anyhow? Nobody has got it.
It's anybody's fight right now. Don't
forget that"
General E. A. McAlpine. Of New
York, arrived early today, bringing
with him strong case of optimism
for the Hughes boom. He professed
himself confident that Hughes had
most excellent chance for the nomin-
alton. McAlpfne said:
"All talk about second place for
Hughes is plain tommy rot. It's
Hughes with US, first, last and then
some"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
California Ono Vote Short.

San Francisco, June 1.-THE Cali
fornia delegation to the republican ma
tional convention, headed by M. H.
DeYoung chairman, left this morning
for Chicago. Jacob II. Nef, one Of
the delegares at large, did not accom-
pany the delegation, owing to the ad-
vice of his physicians His alternate,
Charles 8. Wheeler, is reported to
have sailed for Europe. California may
he one vote short at the convention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11
CONTINUITY OF EFFORT

10 absolutely essential to success q
building up an effective nsss ser-
ylee. Ths TIRE state news 10 tjss
result Of twenty years Of work q
organizing fierce Of eerrsspen.
dents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-11

HONEST CONVICTIONS
Arc as necessary to govern an ao-
curats news service as an editorial
policy. Leok for newspapers with
IS no office holding entanglements.
There you will find public. policy
eandidly discussed.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
CORN IS KING.
Successful Farmer Tells How He
Raises Hundred Bushels Per Acre.

have raised more than 100 bushels
of corn ger acre three times during
the last -FOUR years, and expect to have
more than 100 bushels per acre this
year. | did It In this way, explains
l. +, Andrews, in Farm Journal.
| take my hay crop off and then let
the second crop grow unpastured until
II is at It's best, then / plow 1t down
and sow to rye; In the spring / ma
nure the rye and let It grow until al
most the first of May, when the rye
is coming into head. ! plow rye and
manure down, put on 25 bushels OF
lime per acre, and SOW It to corn, put
ting 1875 pounds of rock fertilizer to
the hills per acre. l mark out the
corn rows three feet eight inches each
way. plant four grains to the hill, and
later pull out the smaller plants to two
to the hill. / cultivate the corn both
ways until you can see neither horse
nor man over the top OF the corn.
When the corn Is ready TO cut haul
II of; and seed the field to wheat and
grass. never leave the grass crop
more than one year, so j need only
three fields for my rotation.
/ select the thickest, longestgraiEe6
corn that can find for seed-ears
that will shell about one quart Of
shelled corn per ear. Some critics
say that thick cobs are waste; but
grains one inch In length around
thick cob will shell more than twice
the quantity that short grains around
a thin cob will shell; and I raise corn
for the corn. the cob going in the bar
gain. / always mix my seed corn,
that is, put one peck of the best corn
| can buy to each bushel of my own
selected seed, and mix well.
When the corn comes into tassel
take broom handle with a knife at
the end, and pass through the corn,
clipping off the tassel of the weaker
| one OF the two stalks In each hill; ard
II the difference I'm the stalks is not
tco great, the clipped stalk will have
the larger ear. like a strong stalk to
| furnish the pollen, and one tassel to
each hill is amply sufficient to fer
| tilize all the corn. can clip the tas-
sells of two acres of corn In one day.
| If smut appears on the tassel or any
part OF the corn stalk, l clip off with
the knife, and those stalks make full
ears, while IL the smut was left on,
they would not produce any corn, or at
best only shriveled small ears. l sci.
dom have six hills missing per acre, as
replant as soon as the blades peep
above ground. And II birds or some.
thing else destroy some hills when too
late to replant corn grains, replant
with corn stalks. and raise full ears
on such replanted stalks. Thorough
ness pays.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
HINTS TO HELP.

Stop the danger Of runaway by get
ting new harnesses or having the old
ones nicely fixed up. ..
There are some people so honest
that they never deviate from the truth.
except when the tax assessor calls.
II weeds begin to show themselves
In the corn field before the hills show,
weeder will help to subdue them
and bring the corn up faster, too.
Begin the season right by cutting on
the top of every weed that shows IT..
SELF. At the same time. root out every
unkind word that comes to your lips.
II costs 25 cents to raise bushel
of potatoes, and they seldom sell for
less than so cents. Doubling ones
money is considered pretty profitable
business.
When the mows are emptied, sweep
them thoroughly and let in all the air
and sunlight possible. We have seen
barns with ten-year-old dust-filled cob.
webs hanging from ridgepole and
cross-beam.
When things go wrong on the
farm, just think that 1t might be
worse. Hurry around and make the
wrong thing right. and lie down to
rest at night feeling that every day
is a good day, go matter what hap
pens In It.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
you CAN HAVE GOOD ROADS.
Black Loan Soil Not a Bar to Hard
Roads, says II. n. Gross.

It is often urged that hard roads
In the corn belt of the Mississippi val
ley are impracticable, first. for the
reason that stone or gravel roads can
not be built on the heavy black loan
soil of that section, and, second, be-
cause there is no road material at
hand for this purpose.
The fact Is there are no difficulties
there that cannot be overcome. Only
one precaution is necessary, and that
is thorough drainage. See that the
road is thoroughly drained, which may
be done either by side-ditching or by
tiling sub-surface drains, and the task
will be an easy one. The layer OF
road material serves as roof over
the road to keep 1t dry.
AS to road material, though there
are no deposits of stone or gravel In
the corn belt, the land in that section
Is exceedingly fertile and produces
large revenues, and its owners are
better able 20 pay road taxes than the
farmers in other parts where the road
material is at hand and the soil less
fertile. Furthermore, the railroads
are interested in the bettermept OF the
highways and will carry road mate
rial southward into the corn belt at
the cost of the service or less. The
southern part of the state furnishes
the northern part with coal-the coal
cars go back empty-why not fill them
with stone or gravel?
The farmers of the corn belt have
still another advantage when 1t comes
to building hard roads. The land
is comparatively level, so no heavy
grading Is necessary. 1t Is true that
hard roads can be built in the corn
belt with material shipped in for half
the cost of roads in Massachusetts,,
where stone abounds, the difference
being that in Massachusetts, the hills
must be cut down, the hollows filed,
and the streams bridged.-H. II. Gross
Secretary Farmers Good Roads
League.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
EASY MONEY
By BORDEN Fl. MILLS
Copyright, by shortstory Pub. Coz
3zySzzS1l{s2 80

The bartender hesitated moment,
and then, accepting the proffered bill.
re- lied
It's the greatest ever I've friend
round I'm Twenty.third street who's
a dentist. He gets customer talking
about tricks with cards, and tells him
he has a friend who can tell what card
is touched in a pack laid out face up,
without being present at all, just by
being called up on the phone and
told that a card has been picked out.
The customer gets excited about It,
and nine times out of ten offers to bet
IL can't be done. If he doesn't make
the offer himself. my friend does, and
it's seldom that he isn't taken up.
The guy lays out the pasteboards,
touches one, and then calls me up,
and | tell him what cards been
! touched-every time. We knock out
hundred or more some weeks, for the
doc has big practice-mostly among
sporting men and other gents that
think they know a good thing when
they see it. l tell yon, it's the great
est thing ever. Easy money is no
name for It,"
But" said the credit man, II don't
see 1t yet. How can you tell from
here what cards been touched?"
Easy" was the reply. Il have a
| little book here-you can see IL hang.
Ing by the phone, and If you'd been
watching me, you would have noticed
that ] looked in 1t before telling him
what the card was. The doctor has
the same thing pasted in the middle OF
his engagement book. It's list of
the SO cards in the pack, and opposite
the name of each card is the name of
some person-the same names in his
list as in mine, In the same order.
Suppose the guy touches the
queen of hearts. Doc looks in the
book-that's easy, because he has
opened 1t moment before-maybe tc
put down another engagement for tho
patient, for all he knows. Opposite
the words Queen Of Hearts is writ
ten the name Jackson Doc says.
Call up 309 Cortlandt, and ask for Mr..
Jackson The fellow does so. an
swer tile phone. look for Jackson In
my list-there's the queen of hearts
opposite. You touched the queen Of
hearts, says land the moneys ours.
"Cinch? Well, I should rather say.
It's almost a shame to take the
money"
1T is, indeed" said credit, looking
sadly at drummer.
Shame isn't the word" said drum.
mer to credit.
Have one on the house, gents %
said the bartender.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

curely In order TO keep the posts from
spreading even more. A good method
of closing up the cleft is shown in the
accompanying cut, says The Farmer.
Place a short, stout chain around the
top of the post just tight enough to
admit strong lever The post can
then be drawn together by strong
downward pressure and the lever held
there by tying 1t to the lowest post
hole. A halfinch hole can then be
bored through the post, bolt drawn
through and the sides drawn tightly
together This post will then last as
long as any other in the fence and will
not be cause of losing any sleep for
fear your own or some one elses cat.
tie will be getting into trouble.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

ter air. Men who know the danger OF
breathing impure air go to great
deal of trouble and expense in pro-
viding ventilation for their houses, but
most men don't know and, what Is
worse, they don't want to know, and
they will go on dying from pneumonia
and consumption and other foul air
diseases. Those same fellows are very
particular about what they eat. 1t
must be clean and of the very best
quality, but they will take secondhand
air into their lungs without a thought
for the consequences.
Another great advantage in building
a house like this is the ease with
which 1t may be ventilated. You must
tion. because cold air that is confined
is stagnant, but warm air is always on
the move, because warm air is lighter
than cold air and 1t is always going up.
There is more to the building Of
house than the mere getting Of the DIFF
ferent materials together to erect the
four walls and the covering of them
with roof.
In regard to expense. much depends
on the quality of materials used and
the kind Of inside finish. These houses
have been built for $1,000, but they
also have cost $4,000; probably an av-
erage estimate would place the cost
at from 1900 to $4,000 with good ma
terial and workmanship in every part
of the house. 1t pays to build house
well. but it is not absolutely necessary
to buy the most expensive materials.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Trick Of Leather Dealers.

Leather is often heavily dressed
with sugar to increase its weight. In
order to show that their leather is not
faxed" with sugar the government of
the Australian commonwealth stamps
leather exports with an official decla-
ration that they contain mot more
than five per cent. of crystal sugar"
Certain bales so stamped were recent
ly held back by the custom house here
as goods partly composed Of sugar
1. e., confectionery-and were not re-
leased till the sugar tax had been paid
upon them.-London Spectator
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all ubjects pertaining to the
subject OF building for the readers OF this
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rence as Editor. Author and Manufac-
.urer, ne is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
s. all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
,9i Fifth Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
This style of house is more popular
.han any other at the present time in
!he middle west. You see such houses
IN large towns and small towns, in
Sarge cities and in villages. Wherever
new street has been laid out in the
better part of town you see these
two-story rectangular houses, ranging
In size from 22x30 to 2Sx40 feet, con-
tanning either six, seven or eight
rooms, according to the size of the
house and the needs of the family.
This particular plan is "a feet wide
by 30 feet in depth and, as the plan
shows it is divided into six rooms be-
sides good-sized hall downstairs and
a splendid bathroom on the second
floor. One of the advantages of this
plan is that you get good large living
room and 4 comfortable dining room
On one side of the house, and they fit
in just right to occupy all the space
from front to rear, giving splendid
light from good windows looking out
in three directions. The house is
compact and so well planned that
there is little or no waste space any
where. Probably 1t offers more COM
fort, convenience and luxury according
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Why They Would Be Missed.

Il know what you'll miss most
about u.s. said her neighbor, who was
moving from the building, "our tele
phone, that you have been using. ]
shall never forget that night you
called us up from somewhere where
you had concluded to spend the night
that you had left your fiat unlocked
and were afraid there was a burglar
in 1t. Would we go and see II there
was a burglar In It?
Wasn't that nice thing to ask us
to do? Here / had to get out of bed
wake up the hired girl and the eleva.
tor man and the janitor and go looB
for that burglar in your fiat! And
after all the trouble he wasn't there.
mo, you'll never get such neighbors
as We are again. such obliging, bur
glar-hunting neighbors. Never in the
world!"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
SOME FARMS TOO LARGE.
Farmers Make Mistake by Trying
to Handle Too Much Acreage.

The story is going the rounds of the
press of man that had a 1,200-acre
farm and had three daughters. AS
each got married he gave her quar-
ter of the farm, or 300 acres, ard
put all his stock and all his energies
on the remainder. To his surprise he
found that he made just as much
money on the smaller portion as on
the larger portion. When he had but
800 acres left he found his profits as
large as they had been on the 1,200
acres, and he was being worried a
great deal less.
There are many farms that are too
large. They are too costly to keep
up, and their owners cannot manage
to advantage. The larger the farm
the more skillful must the manage
ment be. for the greater will be the
proportion of work that must be done
by others than by the owner. This
is the point at which the big farm
is put to a disadvantage. A hired
worker can never do the work that
the owner can, for he lacks interest.
There are great many large farms.
says the Farmers Review, that would
be more valuable to the community
IL they were broken up into several
farms and were sold to different farm
ers that would live on them and be
contented with owning one farm and
no more. Intensive agriculture must
come more and more into vogue with
the increase of population. but this
should be under individual owners,
rather than under system of land
lordism In which the owners are resid-
ing in the cities and working the land
by proxies.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

extra firing is done without murmur,
because it is well understood that Sc
we're cold only lasts few days at a
time.
Remember this when putting In a
heating apparatus. The most of the
winter weather, even In the northern
states, is made up of temperatures
near the freezing point. ranging from
25 to 40 degrees. Two or three times
during the winter the temperature
runs down, but 1t is only for a day or
two; II soon comes back to the old
freezing point, and there it remains.
For this reason heating plant should
be just large enough to make the
house comfortable with easy firing in
freezing weather. During the few
very cold days some OF the rooms may
be shut of and little extra fire
makes the house comfortable.
Another thing to remember. Never
permit tha furnace man to take the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
CRITIC OF AMERICAN "HUsrLE."
English Writer Regards II in the Light
Of Huge Bluff.

1t happens to be true that there is a
tendency in America to talk at such
length about doing things quickly that
much OF the time which might be
spent in getting the things done is
spent instead in boasting about how
quickly they are going to be done. 1t
happens to be true. also, that while
ordinary SLOW and conservative" peo-
pie are pushing steadily forward and
reaching certainly, inch by inch,
toward the end of their work, Ameri.
cans will very likely be explaining
loudly to everybody the advantages of
some invention which does the work
so badly and so quickly that 1t all has
to be done over again.
The speed of America is also very
largely matter of external appear
ances and Of show. It Is like the hurry
ing and scurrying Of those mysterious
walters whom we have all of us seen
racing about in crowded restaurants.
They rush here, they rush there, these
wonderful walters; they knock over
this table and upset that chair; they
drop things, and fall and stumble
about. And meanwhile nobody gets
served, nothing gets done, and the
hungry guests look up and are not
fed" A little work, they think, would
be better than so much hurry.-Lon-
don (England) Daily Mirror.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

to the cost than almost any other de-
sign.
Twentyfour by thirty feet is not
very large on the ground, which fact
accounts in great measure for the sat
isfaction expressed by the owners
when they come to heat such houses
in cold weather. A man is expected to
build house once in a lifetime, but
he has to heat 1t every winter as long
as he lives. BY putting furnace in
cellar like this the cellar Is warmed
by simply building light fire; that
means that the floors Immediately
above the furnace are warm so that it
is not necessary to drive much hot
air through the pipes to make the first
floor comfortable in mild weather.
Then when severe cold comes a little
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
,a,pROADD Az, I@
1lh1PRll!oYENfS{f1 P!!|!
MENpINo SPLIT POSTS.
Draw Tightly Together with Chain and
Insert Bolt.

Those who have post.and-rail fences
know that posts are likely to split
from variety OF causes, letting the
rails drop and making a very poor
fence. The damage is usually re-
paired by mailing an old horseshoe or
two across the split in the post below
each post hole. Although this an
swers fairly well, 1t does not draw
the post together Horseshoes are not
always on hand and even II they were
they will have to be nailed very Sc.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
An Exceptional Woman.

Magistrate-Ycu say your wife
threw teacup and struck you on the
head?
Plaintiff-Yes. your honor
Magistrate-How far was she away
from you at the time?
Plaintiff-About ten feet.
Magistrate-What did she aim ati
Plaintiff-At me.
Magistrate-Well. all I've got to say
is that you ought to be proud Of . wife
like that
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Removable Buggy Seat.

end Of which is slipped under the seat
cushion. A stick is hinged to the un-
derside. explains the Prairie Farmer.
which serves as leg to the seat. and
when not in use this can be folded up
and the whole seat slipped under the
buggy seat out Of the way.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Decrease In English shipbulIdino

The decrease in shipbuildlng in the
United Kingdom is the greatest, ac-
cording to the Lopdon Financial
Times, in quarter of a century. The
tUnnage now under construction is
900 less than at the end of last
quarter, and $4,000 less than that OF
IL months ago.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

furnace air from the front hall, as
many OF them like to do. One hun
dred thousand Americans die of con-
sumption every year, and this is one
of the causes; besides there is no
economy in running the same old dirty
air through the furnace over and over
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
The American Hen.

There is nothing mean or narrow
about the American hen. She cackles
for all. and last year she supplied Cuba
with million dollars worth Of prime
eggs. to say nothing OF the enormous
quantities sent to England and other
countries.