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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
cowper,s Home . Museum.

The home for many years of the poet
Cowper at Olney, Bucks, in England,
has recently undergone thorough
renovation, conducted on reverent
lines, Mt the hands Of the trustees in
whom it is vested as museum, says
the Pail Mall Gazette. Previously only
a part of the building was used, but
now all the rooms are reserved for the
exhibition of the many interesting rel.
les of the poet that have been pre-
scented. The museum is especially rich
in manuscripts, early editions of the
poems and the personal possessions Of
Cowper The exterior Of the house has
also engaged attention, and now as
the result of careful study Of old
prints restoration to the appearance
presented in the days Of Cowper has
been effected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
GAME BIRD PROJECT.
Professor C. F. Hodges Plan to Raise
M;Id r,,rkevs For Massachusetts. II

Wild Turkeys For Massachusetts,.
Wild turkeys for Massachusetts for
ests is the latest project of Professor
Charles f. Hodge of Clark university,
at Worcester, Mass, and he has the
figures brought out to the enthusiastic
limit. says the Worcester Telegram.
With q start of dozen pairs OF the
wild birds of the south he would have
Massachusetts woods occupied by
3244.911, IA beautiful wild turkeys In
ten years, allowing for few acct
dental shots and some misfortunes.
The project is worth trying If the
hunters can control their desire to get
q few hundred thousand of the mil
lions before they grow up. The wild
turkey makes the best sport that hunt
ers know on the wing after it is well
understood and considering the value
of the food when the game Is cooked.
The wild turkey is a lordly bird
when he has reasonable chance for
life, and he is at the same time SO fool
fish that he can be caught easily. The
Monaghan pheasant is said to be a fail
ure in Massachusetts woods, and it Is
very unpopular with people who have
regard for other birds. The pheasant
is a robber and destroyer without gain
to itself. The wild turkey has good
reputation in the south and is winning
new popularity The professor says
it would cost only $50 for dozen pairs,
and they would make reputation for
Massachusetts by raising something
like ten birds a.year to each .salple.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
THE END OF cuMM1Ns.

Dubuque Telegraph erald)
The defeat of Governor Cummins by
Senator Allison marks Cummins' po-
litical eclipse. There will be grief that
this is so in quarters where admira-
ton is felt for good fighter, for the
governor is a good fighter and had he
on the occasions when fortune
smiled upon him been less magnani-
nous victor, perhaps his epitaph
would not now be written.
We have thought that the domniat-
ing influence of Cummins' life was
selfish ambition. We have thought that
beginning as practical politician he
took up the advocacy of certain re-
forms as means of charging his own
influence and that the things he fought
for were incidental to his ambition.
But of late we altered this estimate
of the governor, cincluding that if the
first conclusion had been sound that
the buffetings given him, the strife,
cruelty and bitter, unceasing opposition
of six years of fighting for his political
life dashed him into a fever of sincerity
in the advocacy of progressive policies
in state and nation. He came to APP
preciate what few men know, the terri
BILE price civic patriots must pay for
charging the citadel Of privilege and
corporate graft.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
King Edward as Diplomat.

(F'rom the Washington ID. c. Starr
Now if in the near future King Ed
ward can arrange to seat at his ma
hcgany at one time the president Of
France, the German emperor, the car
of Russia, the Austrian emperor, the
king CT Italy and the king of Spain he
will. serve the cause of peace as never
sovereign did before, and write his
name at the head of all the diplomats
OF ell the ages. And why should he not
BE- able to do it? What he has already
done would have been pronounced I'M
possible il suggested only few years
ago He is universally liked, and is on
terms CT personal intimacy with all the
rulers mentioned. A traveller who en-
joys his visits, and visitor who tray
els for a purpose, he is welcome at
every court in Europe, and appears at
all. Diplomacy is the wear, and King
edward looks well in his togs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Beer and Thunder.
GAnSWerS)


A man with motor cycle stopped
at mountain inn and asked for
bottle of beer The landlord took
from a shelf a bottle hung with cob
webs Then he busted it, and set 1t
before the cyclist with flourish.
you'll find this excellent, SIR he
said, with an ingratiating smile.
The cyclist opened the bottle,
poured a little into a glass, and
frowned.
Landlord" he said, "this is very
thick and muddy beer"
THE landlord lifetd the glass and
looked at it, He tilted it from side to
side 1t was so thick and muddy that
it would scarcely spill.
''Its the thunder" he muttered, tits
the thunder that has done this
well, thunder or no thunder, I can't
drink it," said the motor cyclist. But
I'll tell you what you might do. You
might just put it in paper bag for
me, and III eat it on my way home"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
The Human Touch.

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"Janie had a doll that would say
papa and mamma.
What became of it?"
"Janie's mother is an advanced per-
son and she said the doll was an mex
cusably childish reminder of a gro ssly
benighted period
and what did she do?"
"She threw it in a dark closest where
jamie didn't dare to go. And then
day or two later she happened to step
on 1t in the dark and 1t shrieked' NAM
mat so naturally that she fell over In
faint and bumped her head and had
two buckets of water poured over her
before she recovered consciousness"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
PHOTO TOO MUCH FOR THIEF.
Dropped Jewels and Took Only Picture
of Girl In Bathing Suit.

Dropped Jewels and Took only Picture
of Girl In Bathing Suit.
A burglar who entered the home OF
Mrs. Mary McDade In Pittsburg the
other morning had gathered together
silverware and jewelry and was about
to depart when he saw a photograph
of Miss Margaret McDade, the eighteen
year-old daughter Of Mrs. McDade,
says a Pittsburg special dispatch to
the New York Times. The picture
showed Miss McDade in bathing cos.
tune. 1t appealed to him more than
did the gold, SO he took the picture
and left everything else behind. He
also left note, in which he said:
Dear Miss-I had intended to carry on
all this junk that I have gathered to-
gether until discovered this picture.
What is mere gold compared with such
face and such figure? Keep your gold
I want none of it. But must keep this
picture, and 1t will be moro to me than
all the gold in the universe.
Mrs. McDade turned the note over to
the police, but they are not making
great effort to locate the burglar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08

know Of Irregularities in neighbor:ns
banks. At present they are 10th to
make known such irregularities, bus
should they be compulsory contrinu-
tors to depositors' guarantee fund
each bank would feel that 1t was it's
duty to keep a watchful eye over his
neighbor and to report to the proper
authorities only, Irregularities 1t might
discern. Since the Walsh's bank fail
ure, the Associated Chicago banks
have adopted a plan of inspection OF
their own in addition to the govern
ment inspection. 1t is an inspection
that inspects, for 1t Is in daily force
and every bank is an inspector Of Its
neighbor. Sound banks are frequent
ly ruined by runs. There is not a bank
in the country that can stand con-
tinuous run, Of itself"
zone Of the main objections urged
against this plan is that it will pro-
mote unsound banking and the specu-
lative bank would have the advantage
over the legitimate bank. The penalties
for fraudulent banking would be in
force the same as now, in fact they
would doubtless be increased. AS we
have stated that legitimate bankers
would be vigilant and more prone to
relate Irregularities they might discov-
er. Banks would necessarily stand
more together. The strong banks would
support the weak banks. There is no
probation Of rogues in banking at the
present time, a mean man will make a
mean man wherever you place him,
but he would be less tolerated in bank
| l,,r. Nv 1nnnStf law than
row There should be a provision
whereby Insurance could be withdrawn
from the fraudulent bank, so far as
future deposits are concerned and
what would be the result to such
banks by such Withdrawals? They
would simply retire from business. AS
II further protection to legitimate
banks, 1t might be feasible to have a
maximum rate of interest fixed by law
that banks are allowed to pay on de-
posts We have usury laws now, near
ly in all states, why not extend the
same principal to bank deposits fixing
a low rate
The proposition that bankers are
first to detect the signs Of improper
banking on the part of other banks, is
well recognized among bankers gener-
ally, and Is adopted as one Of the fun
damentals in the organization of clsar-
ing house associations in the cities.
More rigid inspection and self interest
in watching one another could easily
overcome the danger Of wild-cat bank
ing under system Of guarantee insur-
ance. There was a time when men
were afraid to go into mutual fire in
surance company because of the fear
that some one would burn up his prop
erty in order to get the insurance. Ex-a
perience found way to overcome the
difficulty and today man Is con-
sidered a fool not to insure his build
ings against fire loss, because he knows
that part Of the premium collected
goes to pay losses caused by incen-
diaries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Wire to President Roosevelt.

II the ship Of state needs callkinE
Or the lions tail a twist,
II the senators are baking.
II silver spoon Is mis- 5ed.
If the plague strikes Honolulu.
If there's trouble in the cup
Why, just write to Mr.. Roosevelt,
And he'll fix the matter up.
If they lynch coon in Texas,
If the green bugs In the wheat,
II there's anything to vex US,
If you're troubled with cold feets
II your dinner isn't ready
Or you're feeling rather dry.
Send a telegram to Teddy,
And you'll get hot reply.
II there's too much rain in Kansas
Or it's dry in Tennessee.
II summer cyclone fans US
Or if Towser has flea,
If your sweetheart should prove tickle
If you want to know the score,
If you get a punctured nickel,
Drop line to Theodore.
II you need another member
OF the Ananias club.
If you're sunstruck in December
Or you're suffering for grub.
If the railroad rates are higher
Or the beef trust gets too gay.
Ring up Roosevelt on the wire.
And there'll be the deuce to pay.
If the stork don't visit promptly.
II we lose to the Maroons.
If Ben Tillman's full of malice
Or La Toilette full of prunes,
II the troops shoot up city
Or you cannot pay your rent.
Take a lesson from this ditty-
Wire to Roosevelt. president!
kansas City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
SOME BANKERS FAVOR INSURANCE.

lit is an entirely mistaken idea to
ssume that all bankers are opposed to
se suggestion of guaranteeing bank
sposits by some form Of mutual in
trance under government supervision.
y the top of the profession Lyman j.
age, ex-secretary Of the treasury and
4great banker, as well as Chas. N.
Dwler, chairman of the banking COM
ittee OF the house Of representatives,
ie in favor Of the reform and many an
tive banker in smaller circles en-
rises the idea. These men can see
at there is some Justice and consist
/ Icy in the public demanding security
some kind for what it loans to a
nix when the banks demand collateral
the loans they make to the pub
4 Mr.. J. NJ. Pollard, cashier Of the
rawberry Point State Bank. writes In
Northwestern Banker, I'VE have
j, life, accident and burglar insur-
i &c. Why not insurance on bank de-
sits, in favor of the depositor?" He
ii recognizes the one important OBJ
|tion that guarantee of deposits
uld give protection to unsafe bank
and replies on this point as f,i-
/ ss: ~
Again such a plan would promote
Ind banking. Banks are first 10
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
USE Of ALIASES BY cuLpRHs.

81 It is the common experience or those
4cpnnected with the mill which grinds
aout Justice that many accused people
Hi order to let the blow OF shame
slance or them as lightly as possible
Resort to the use OF false names when
brrested. Men who attend to the po-
lIlcing Of our city have found this ruse
% be q common thing. It's as old as
khe hills probably An a rule those
9Nho attempt to disguise their identity
hire old timers in breaking the laws
But it very often happens that those
charged with their first offense are
L Men enough versed in the strategy OF
alprits to carefully guard their true
I names and see that fictitious ones are
Entered by the one who books the pris-
L bners. '
But it's all wrong and should be
HNtopped. 1t helps to make crime less
s&ostly and works against the good OF
HE proper and effective administration
t justice.
Ia good many cases the use o.
The alias is effective and saves the
criminal from the notoriety and humil-
ation which is aNnatursl and deserved
K hart Of the punishment. A case re-
[ sently came into notice in another state
"a which two parties, a young man
ana young woman, it was learned, had
Il Seen married for some years. The fact
II Hid not leak out until the wife eloped.
had been kept in the dark success
hlly because both had perjured them
/ elves when they were welded by giv-
hE names other than their own.
N Anything that mitigates the penalty
Il III deserved punishment ought not
be tolerated and the method Of giv-
II hG a. nom de plume when one is ar
I ssted with a view to escaping the un-
Il aeasantness Of being found OUT can
X B largely prevented by making people
+ ike the oath before they are exam
Z led. Then they will generally give
aeir right names, and when they don't
ley can be prosecuted for perjury.
People who are unjustly accused
/. Bed have no hesitation about being
6 hown It's usually the ones who have
guilty conscience who give names
4 hitch do not belong to them and which
ley have no right to adopt, and they
serely emphasize the wickedness OF
/ Heir offenses by telling falsehoods
Z Bout their identity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Chinese Build a Railway.
(Chicago Journal)


An Americanized Ghinaman, Chin
Gee Hee, is the protector, president,
and engineer-in-chief of railroad
which has recently been opened in
the Hongkong hinterland. OF the six
locomotives used four were purchased
in the United States, the others COM
ing from Germany. The president
says his chief difficulty in building
the road was in overcoming the OBJ
stinancy of the natives who opposed the
work on the ground that the smoke
from the locomotives would ruin their
crops.
Mr. Chin, who Is one Of the best
known Chinese merchants on the Pa
cific coast, receives the munificent sal
airy of $50 month from the railroad.
He relinquished an income of $500
a year to undertake the work which
he is carrying out In China.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Topics of the Times

If there's anything In name Archie
Rock, who just got married at Par
neN, ought to.a steady husband.
1t is related in the Marengo Repub-
ljcan that j. c. Jackson, resident OF
Marengo from 1860 to 1868, now resi-
dent of Fairbury, Neb., was in Marengo
few days ago but found few ac-
quaintances. Forty years brings new
faces and takes away old friends.
There's to be no bar at the Denver
convention hall. They probably want
to have the ticket and platform the
result of sober thought.
80
Sports are sometimes promoted for
unusual purposes. At Wellsburg the
Bear Creek Busters and the Malcom
nine met in base ball combat for the
benefit Of a fund to build a new side.
walk at the cemetery
Another Mason. perhaps the oldest
one in the state" Is dead, this time at
Creston. But in this instance the
man, Daniel Ritchey, had another
claim to distinction in that he was in
1856 keeper Of hotel in Adams coun-
ty. John Brown and Jim Lane were
then running slaves into Canada, and
the hotel was their rendezvous.
Father said little Rollo, what Is
an epigram?"
"As rule, my son, an epigram is
an old quotation with the phraseology
changed sufficiently to avoid the
charge Of plagiarism. W shington
Star.
At Dubuque an insane woman tore
up $40 bills. Had she burned her mon
ey we would have looked upon her as
quite ordinary.
Once upon a time Vice President
Fairbanks made a stumping tour thru
the west with Leslie NJ Shaw, Of Iowa,
then secretary Of the treasury. When
they arrived at Louisville they were
met at the station by a prominent
colonel Of the Blue Grass state and es-
corted to the leading hotel. The colonel
piloted his distinguished guests to the
place where liquid refreshments are
dispensed and requested them, with a
wave of the hand to the man behind
the bar. to indicate their preference.
"a little cold appollinaris, please"
said the statesman from Iowa.
The barkeep looked at Mr.. Fairbanks
inquiringly.
81 think that will have a glass Of
buttermilk," said the Hoosier states
man.
Colonel. what's yours?" said the
barkeep, dryly. Replied the colonel:
Under the circumstances" in tones
of deep disgust. you can give me q
piece of pie!'-Philadelphia Record.
At Indianola Mr.. and Mrs. John
Ribble have celebrated their Goth we'd
ding anniversary. This demonstrates
that days are long in the land" when
people live in Iowa, especially married
folks.
The Humboldt Republican writes up
Gotch day, June TO-. and gives a half
tone showing Gotch as greater than the
buildings of the town, to show relative
zes OF Gotch and Humboldt as
viewed by the world al large" Il that's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
The Venom of Politics.
(New York Tribune)


The shabby attempt to create for po-
litical advantage a misunderstanding
of the meaning and purpose of part
Of Secretary Taft's Memorial day adj
dress was conspicuous failure. It
has, in fact, evoked from representa-
tive newspapers Of all parties prompt
rebuke. rejecting their own good
Judgment and an accurate estimate OF
the sound common sense of the Amer
lean people,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08

loser, 1OF WITHOUT QlSCouAlliS doeSAs
Humboldt has always shown itself a
pretty good town.
The success of some alleged book
agents in swindling Chicago and New
York folks speaks volumes for their
criminal ability.
The seats of the nightly are usually
hard on the pants, but the returns are
usually commensurate.
When matrimonial agents are found
to be crooked it's proper to speak Of
their misconduct as cupidity.
The Malcolm Leader says that taxes
on dogs must be paid. If not, it is
safe to say Mayor J. E. Latchem will
proceed to catch 'em.
The towns of Fairfield are not so
fair fields just now. The Iowa town
of that name just had a runaway acct
dent which will probably mean three
touched for $4,000 by cracksmen.
Grundy Center has beaten MARSHALL
town out on the summer band concerts
and has already commenced her reg
ular concert series for the summer
season.
co. ~
business this year he could clean up
thirty thousand million dollars. And
he would have to sell his farm on cred
it; for there is not enough money in
the whole world to pay him half his
price. Talk of the money-mad trusts!
They might have reason to be mad il
they owned the farms, instead of their
watered stock. When we remember
that the American farmer earns enough
in seventeen days to buy out Standard
Oil, and enough in fifty days to wipe
Carnegie and the Steel Trust off the
industrial map, the story Of the trusts
seems like "the short and simple an
nails Of the poor."-Review Of Re-
views.
The leading standpat dailies which
were fulsome with their praise for Doll
liver when he was abusing Cummins,
are now extremely cold toward the
proposition to put Dolliver on the tick
ct with Taft. They would prefer to
have some other state honored than to
face another vacancy in the senate at
this time. The T.-R. is inclined to
agree with them but arrives at the
conclusion by a different route.
Yes, the progressives in Iowa have
been licked, but they have not been
convinced.
After January Mr., Cummins will
be known in Iowa as Attorney and
Counselor at Law" but it will be
strange If he does not continue to have
something to say in politics.
II it were not for the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, an Independent newspaper,
we would nave TO SEND some Sample
copies of the T.-R. into Linn county in
order to let people down there know
who had been nominated by the repub-
lfcans in this district for congress.
When Mr.. Carroll is finally elected
and inaugurated governor he will have
a fine opportunity to cut out the ex-
travagance of which he spoke when in
the heat of the campaign. Let's watch
to see what expenditure comes under
the knife first.
The exact degree of business depres-
sion Is reflected by the number of cars
handled by "a reporting car service as
sociations during the thirty days Of
April, which report 2,0S8,123. This is
smaller traffic activity than during the
preceding month, and was about
"a per cent below the total re-
ported for April, 1907. Figures for the
four months Of the year, S.24O,2S9 cars,
show a. decrease of almost 20 per cent
compared with corresponding 1907 fig
ures Of 10,212,89O cars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
! was q fair ball. This is important.

it was a fair ball. This is important.
Climb a tree just outside the right
field fence and see all the games for
nothing. Take a ladder along to help
you in climbing the tree. Then pull the
ladder up after you and spit on small
boys when they try to share your roost
with you.
Don't forget to kill the umpire!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Why He Wanted to Know.

"Auntie, were you ever marr1ed!
mo, my child. Why do you ask such
a. question:
Ma said one day that somewhere In
the world there was some fool of a
man that the home!iest woman could
get if she wanted him."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.

plan for combined hollow CON
either Al me
concrete blocks The
sheathed sided the man
edwthc interior trim the hrst
finished In whteood intending
will ven
Theaestnated cost
A. DENNIS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Deadly Eriaht

possesses sufferers from lung trouble
till they learn DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry will help them. soc and s1.o0 Nc
Bride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
(TIn;np CtarN

Deadbeat-itis is one Of the most
contagious diseases known to sci
ence and has great tendency to
run in families. 1t is not an acute
disease, but chronic one, and lasts
turnout ones entire life. We know
of men in our own locality who are
affected with this dreadful malady and
do not attempt to rid themselves of it,
indeed the fathers and even the chill
dren of these men have symptoms OF
the disease to certain extent. To
these sufferers, for they in reality suf-
fer more than their creditors, we will
recommend the following prescriptions;
Rx-
Ambition .......... a few ozs.,
Economy ........ several ,grs..
Pay-up ......... everything.
Take constantly
Signed, DR.. U. B. Honest.
II you take the above according to
directions you will soon be able to
hold your head erect and will have no
desire to cross the opposite side of
the street when you see one Of your
former creditors coming.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-08
Most Wonderful Healing.

After suffering many years with a
sore, Amos King. Port Byron, n, y,
was cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
| csc. Mcbride 8 VIII Drug Co,