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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
The Strawpile


struction can be easily understood
from explanations and directions given
with the description of each house.
The portable house is peculiarly adj
vantageous since it can be readily
moved. The renter who finds 1t I'M
possible to provide expensive quarters
for his hogs can well afford to con-
struct portable houses since they can
be retained as personal property.
Many farmers construct hog houses
without considering the Importance OF
sanitation. ventilation and drainage. A
hog house of any kind should be To-
Gated on a high, dry site, and, if pos
sible, on soil containing sufficient sand
to drain we'll. A house located on an
elevation may be somewhat colder in
winter, but it is much cooler and more
comfortable in summer. Hogs suffer
greatly with the extreme heat of sum-
mer and it is equally as important
to keep them cool in summer as it is
to keep them warm in winter.
The portable houses are useful on
any sized farm, as the number can be
regulated to the size of the herd. With
separate paddocks to accommodate
swine of different ages and sexes, a
portable house is practically neces-
sity. Swine will never pile up in
damp, poorly ventilated quarter and
come out steaming in the cold morning
air unless compelled to do so. Where
a large number of animals are con-
tinually housed in one hog house and
fed in or around the house the sur
roundngs are sure to become more or
less filthy and unsanitary. If feeding
is done on the inside it keeps a portion
of the floor wet. and gives the entire
building an offensive, disagreeable APP
pearance. On the other hand, by using
the portable house. moving it occas-
ionally onto a fresh piece Of ground
and feeding the hogs at different
place. one avoids these unsanitary
conditions. These portable houses are
built to accommodate from four tc
six mature animals or ten to twenty
shoats. This method keeps them
much cleaner and more thrifty than
when allowed to congregate in larger
numbers. Individuals of a herd show
ing evidences of a contagious disease
can be readily isolated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

until the deluge of popular opinion
had engulfed the national capital that
these brave men stuck their heads up
thru the foam. and blowing the mists
from their nostris said, We, too. are
in favor of it,
II give them credit to which they
are entitled, and they are entitled to
credit: but | say without fear of sue
cessful contradiction that Governor
Cummins. by creating public senti-
ment. did more to secure the passage
of that bill outside of the congress
than both of these gentlemen did in
congress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
Winter Care of Manure.

The ideal way to handle manure,
to get nearest to It's full value, is u
haul and spread directly from the
barn. Where conditions are such as
to make it possible the spreader IS
the ideal thing to use: but as every
farmer knows there are times during
our Minnesota winters when it is i'm
possible to use the spreader. 1t Is
true one can use the sleigh anu
spread by hand bnt even then some
times the snow gets so deep as to
make this work impracticable. The
manure will then have to be piled.
If one Is feeding corn 1T is. often
desirable to let the pigs work Ii
over in the yard. 1t not only fines
the manure and keeps it from heat
ing but furnishes exercise and con-
siderable amount of food for either
the fall pigs or brood sows. Where
this is not desirable one can haul
directly to the field and pile in a
large pile where 1t will be con-
venient to haul from next spring and
thus save much time.
This is just what we did the lat
ter part of last winter, says Forest
Henry in the n w. Agriculturalist. We
made large broad pile in one corner
of field that tha. we intended cover
ing as soon as the crop was in the
ground. AS soon as the pile was started
we Teveled each load off as 1t was put
on the pile so we could drive on top
with the next This not only saved
work. as 1t is easier to pitch manure
down hill than UP, but it kept the
manure better mixed and also kept
the pile packed sc, solid that it would
not heat. This is very important, es-
peciallv If any considerable portion Is
horse manure which is very liable to
heat. When spring came the manure
was so handy that we We're enabled
to haul out and spread fully twice as
much in a day as would have been
| possible had we 20 haul 1t from the
yard.
Again, this handling Of the man.
| ure thoroughly mixed it and altho IT
had not lain very long 1t was quite
we'll rotted. BY putting it in this
compact pile very little Of the liquid
manure escaped, which is very I'M
portant. While ! am strong ad-
vocate Of hauling and spreading do
rectly from the barn, where good
work can be dore would not adj
wise hauling and dumping wherever
1t was possible simply to get 1t out
Of the way The time has come
when the saving and applying of the
manure should be made study Sc
that 1t can be put to It's fullest and
i best use.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

Under this policy graft was kept Gov
cred, and the why's and Wherefores of
practical politics We're left a deep mys-
terry which was deemed best for the
public not to comprehend. Presently
the light of publicity was turned on.
1t did not bring about collapse OF
faith in our form of government. 1t
brought instead a demand for honest
administration and clean politics, and
the demand brought compliance.
There was time, too, when the at
mosphere of mystery was allowed to
envelop the ways of "big business"
When the searchlight was turned on
it proved bad for crooked business.
but the light had not been shining
long before it was seen the illumina-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

forced the answer would be in the neg
ative We have heard the reply to the
question whether the present laws can
be enforced to practical degree. Du-
er cities where law violation has been
common practice and non observance
the rule have said that the law is SUI
preme when backed by the state. But
no one believes that prohibition could
or would be enforced in these cities.
Why lose what we have gained? Why
should prohibitionists take the chances
of a high license law or a local option
law. when the mulct law. despite its
apparent inconsistency has kept Iowa.
clean compared with other states in
its liquor traffic?
n few thousands of Iowa voters be-
leve in the possibility of en-
forcing prohibition strongly enough
to vote for a prohibtory law. Tens of
thousands who would welcome prohi-
biton if it were possible know that
to make a sumptuary law and to en-
force it are vastly different things. The
localities in Iowa where prohibitory
law can al present be enforced are
practically free from the traffic
outside of the drug store trade they
are free of it. and they We're never free
from that under the prohibitory law Of
the prohibition regime
If the ministers were organizing to
have each county vote prohibition up
on itself, they would be aiding a dis
tinctly forward movement. Thousands
are ready for prohibition when they
can be assured of majority senti-
ment within the political units that
make and unmake the administrations
which must enforce the law. We can
all join hands for prohibition of this
kind under the present law without
trying again the law which failed.
While the. enforcement of the present
law has not been what it ought to be,
it would be we'll to give it further trial.
There are saloons running wide open
today in many counties that have new
er seen a petition of consent, and sa-
looms in other counties that do not pre-
tend to obey the restrictions of the
present law It would be far wiser to
adopt some conservative amendments
to the present law, such as the change
of jurisdiction in the trial of liquor
cases and further limitations upon the
drug store saloon, and thus secure an
administrative machinery that would
enforce prohibition in the counties
that pretend to prohibit before at
thruout the state what even
now fails locally in SO many instances.
Resubmission is bid for reaction.
The present advance all along the line
is a decided forward movement for
and prophecy of day
to come when the forward movement
shall have arrived at complete prohi-
march an army from New York to
Omaha, 1t would be manifestly alb
surd to attempt to reach San Francis
co in a day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

Possibly the most logical answer Is
found i'm the increasing disposition on
the part of newspapers to let the light
of publicity shine on all dark spots.
regardless of the shock to sensibilities
that may attend disclosure. This dis
position is due to growing conviction
that publicity, while it may advertise
evil, carries even more effective adver-
Using of the need for virtue.
There was q time when the inner
side Of politics was considered unfit
for publication. The theory seemed
to be that if the public knew what was
going on between public servants and
the politicians who made them people
would lose faith in our political system
and something awful would happen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
Topics Of the Times

If a man will hear Judge ProutN
once. he will realize that it will not dn
to call him an anarchist or sneer about
tissue ballots. He must be reckoned
with in this campaign.
Some of the t;rinnell Ilerald's BRAY
ado sounds real funny since it has
been reported that 1t is pounding
straw man.
Did anyone think we would have q
winter without an ice crop?
The Cedar Rapids Republican has
now admitted that Allison will prob
ably die" during the four years of
Garst's administration as governor.
and is worrying because Garst will
surely appoint Cummins Why not
let the people select Cummins at the
primaries and not embarrass Garst
with factional politics?
Will some cnterprising newspaper
please make direct charge as to
what Prouty had to do with tissue
ballots? Sneers and inuendoes d not
convey information.
-
w. Fl. Burrows, formerly clothier
in Marshalltown, and now in the same
business at Cedar Rapids. rents his
store room of j. w. Good, the pros
pective candidate for Bob Cousins
seat. Mr.. Burrows says that he never
dealt with finer gentleman. and he
predicts that the vote of Goods home
town will go strongly for him.
Does anyone think that Shaw was
fool enough to give up u $4,000 job
without knowing what he could count
on In Iowa? Some people may think
that there is no issue in the selection Of
national delegates, but Shaw is not
one of them Down in the reserva-
ton. where one can afford to be reck-
less, the newspapers are demanding
an instructed delegation. oh, where is
Taft?
If Prouty should accidentally hit
more than one bird with a single shot,
he hopes that his good friend Dolli-
yer" will not take offense.
If Roosevelt should compete for
Senator Platt's place. would he not be
violating the beautiful sentiment?
Would such an inordinate ambition be
dangerous or otherwise?
They say that Birdsall Is up tree.
If he had walked boldly about his bus
mess long while ago, there never
would have been so many dogs bark
ing under him. Why does man let
himself get freed anyway?
When an American millionairess
marries a count. it just makes about
eighty-five million other Americans
swear in disgust.
Liston McMillen says that $50 far as
7 can learn. the friends of Senator For
aker in Iowa are not opposed to Iowa
having favorite son. We would even
favor an instruction for Governor
Shaw and let him get the nomination
if he can" Now, If Billy Payne will
speak up, Shaw can command the en-
tire Foraker following in Iowa.
Mr.. McMillen also says: Il still
think that Blythe, French, lngham and
Perkins would make an admirable list
of delegates Large on peace basis
1t would be interesting to know what
he does it with when Mr. McMillen
thinks on q peace basis
So it appears that the melancholy
condition that follows a four or five
years spree is mania Oppressive.
Great coco 'on Littleton
The Standard seems to have had
low vote on everything but the selling
price of oil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
Iowa Newspapers
unxnuasnauzManaasux;Dms,s,rx,
TO SAVE THE SQUIRRELS.

Nh0''e1 : e'rrs' 1esHf-'I
The Sentinel will give s. reward for
information which will lead to the ar
rest and conviction Of any one shooting
squirrels within the city limits. When
summer comes it will be found that the
graceful little animals which used to
play in the trees and on the lawns and
were considered by all true nature low
ers as a distinct ornament to the city.
are sadly reduced in numbers. We
doubt If there are more than a half
dozen left. and the disappearance of
their mates was not due to natural
causes either All we want is proof as
to who the guilty parties are, and We
will then be able to see what a good,
stiff fine will do to protect our squir-
relS. 90.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

After suffering for seven years,
this woman was restored to health
by Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Read her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 had female troubles for seven
years-was all rundown, and so ner.
vous I could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While in this con.
dition wrote to Mrs. Pinkham Tor adr
vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound, and ! am now strong
and we'll"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton. dizziness, ornervous pros tratlon.
Why don't you try it?
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinkham If there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat your
observation-disclosures andadvtse you
free. No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

kuk Gate City comments: There may
be some difference of opinion as far as
engagements are concerned, but the
consensus of the best minds is in full
agreement with tn conclusion that
longer marriages are highly desirable"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
SURETY BONDS

issue bonds for Administrators, Ex-'
ecutors. Guardians, Curators, Contrac-
tors. County and Township Officials,
Druggists, Liquor Dealers and all
classes of Fidelity bonds. Fire, Light
ming and Tornado Insurance written.
w. M. CLARK
8 South First Ave. MarshaIItown, la.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

According to the Nonpareil, "the
question as to who hit Billy Patter-
son shrinks into insigniticance when
compared with that larger and ever
growing one, who was instrumental in
inviting Attorney General Byers to
make a speech in Council Bluffs?'"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

ut appears to be Taft with whoop
in Iowa. and a fight for the delegation
to be prepared for contingencies" OBJ
serves the Davenport Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

The Iowa Falls Sentinel prescribes
"the safest way for the individual who
has a cold is to make himself believe
he is sicker than he really isl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

vig,or and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out OF order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become SO prevalent
that 1t is not unconl-
mon tor a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys, If the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

'If straws show which may the wind
is blowing in the republican camp,
Taft will be nominated on the first
ballot" predicts the Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30
Women as yNlssll as lien Are Made
Miserable by Kinney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney srouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessensambitioll; beauty,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

child urinatest too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when .: should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, Deepen. ,pon it, the cause of the diff
Guilty is l.'d1ey trouble, and the first
step should. Re towards the treatment of
these important organs. Thus unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition OF
the kidneys and bladder and not to
haoit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made nliser.
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the Immediate effect OF
Swamn- Root is soon realized. It is sold
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

each year the poultry business is
becoming more lucrative and now as
sumes proportions that will soon rival
any branch of farm industry" notes
the Northwood Anchor. Farmers are
forced to acknowledge that the old
hen can lift her own weight in raising
a mortgage from the farm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

0WUNIPNVVV IS SOVd
by druggists, in fifty
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root,
Including many of the thousands Of testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
erred. In writing DR.. Kilner & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and mention
this paper. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad.
dress, Binghamton, N. Y. on every
bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

Noting that an exchange says that
what society needs is shorter engage
ments and longer marriages, the keo-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-30

robert G. Cousins is one Iowa con-
gresham who has held his position
about sixteen years longer than he was
entitled to hold it by any rule or test
of a public official" says the Sioux
City Tribune. This is the universal
testimony of those who have observed
his conduct and can properly estimate
his services"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-24

resticuIating. pointing to their feet and up ana
down the glacier while several. entirety ne,sue
Themselves were sprawiing. like frightened pee /.
tIes prone upon the ice franticaliy Craving IL
with hands and feet
VALLEY FOUNDERS are charged with having
given currency to the notion that coolies are
faithful and tractable creatures Whatever .ney
NAV ne elsewhere amid glacial SHOWS they sho"
themselves treacherous lazy. excitabie, coward
Iv-f to be controlled at all, only by the sternest
authority On more than one occasion sofhe
coveted goal had to be abandoned because oi
the desertion of the panicky coolies
This is but one of the special difficulties Z" De
encountered in HimaIayan exploration Another
is the extreme variability of the temperature at
these attitudes On a summer night the rne'-
curry goes as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit or
lower At an altitude OF 1872 feet. a camping
SPOT. the noon sun once registered 2O4 degrees
After O'Clock one feels if one were IN a
fiery furnace The snow there sat theSe
attitudes everything except perpendicular roc
faces is usually covered with snow-?nd the
fresher and whittier IL is. the greater the heat
The reflected heat hard to bear as the direct
rays of the and shielding oneself from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-24

expeditions into the hitherto uncOnquered fast
nesses of the Mustagh-that range of gigantic
mountains lying to the northwest of the Hima-
laya, in BaItistan. They have been the first
to ascend the treaCherouS glacial highways that
come down out of the heart of the giants coun-
try. and to scale the towering. ice-Clad pin
nacleS above them.
The present volume gives an account. album
dainty and fascinatingiy illustrated. of the sec
ond and third seasons Of pioneer exploration in
the MuStagh. following. at a fouryear interval
the initial ventures of 1898. which the authors
have elsewhere recorded In 1902 the caravan
that set out frcm Arandu. the last outpost of
kashmir civilization. consisted of DR. Work
man, Mrs. Bullock Workman, guide porter
ifty-five coolies. fifteen goats. and twelve
sheep. Exploration in the HimaiayaS is a
ment ous undertaking basal camp must be
established at as high altitude practicable:
here the coolies left. and from this centre
the leaders of the expedition. carrying the least
possible mpedimenta, make their incursions
into the snow world above. II. in executing
the entire caravan across elevated pass or
through the labyrinths of glacial Serac the
difficulties of the most exasperatng kind
The following is typical instance:
BY the time reached the coolies. they were
in a panic. Had the moment not been a critical
the would have been most
amusing The bowling of humanity, some
with loads. some without. were jumping about.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-24

latter affords relief long as one is exposed
to the reflection from the snow
Heat such this has a most deleterious eff
feet upon the skin of Europeans, who in short
time become dsfigured beyond recognition
Then. too. the rarefied atmosphere makes every
exertion doubly expensive. Even if the climber
escapes mountain sickness he must be making
constant halts for breath. Rock climbing, that
favorite Alpine sport, is out of the question
here if only because Of this inpossibility of
sustained effort But to even the stoutest of
Alpine enthusiasts of these colossal heights
of the Mustagh might well give pause The
scale is two. three, four times as great as that
to which he is accustomed The HimaIayan
counterpart of a Swiss rock face of five hundred
feet looms up full two thousand while ne
gotiable "gendarne' of fifty in the Alps towers
a dizzy five hundred in Baltistan
This vastneSS of scale seems to be the most
distinguishing characteristic. in a scenic way,
of the Asian mountain land. which, SO far as
mere contours go. is curiously Alpine One need
not expect the conquerors of Mount Chogo and
Mount Lungma. with attitudes Of $1,000 and
22.500 feet to preserve any great respect for the
pygmy scenery of the Alps The grandest of
Alpine views told. lis a mere nothing
to the radiant, sunlit scene on the upper reaches
of the Chogo-Lungma-" Incidentally it should
be noted that Mrs. Bullock Workman has more
than once surpassed her worlds high climb
ing record for women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-24
THE HIGH PEAKS.
Mountaineering IN the Himalayds
and IN the dips.

ICEBOIND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH- An
Account of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration
and High Climbing in the Raltistan ttiinaiiya
BY Fanny Bullock Workman and Wilhelm
Hunter Workman M. A. NJ ID. With two
maps and 10 ustra tons Svo. PIP. XIV. iii
Charles Scribner's Sons
THE COMPLETE MOUNTAINEER By George
D. Abraham Illustrated. 8vo. PIP. XIV. 3sa
Doubleday. Page a. Co
MY ALPINE JUBILEE. lS51-fgH. BY Frederic
Harrison. limo. PIP. vii. 1i2 f. F. button 6 Co.
AS those regions of the earth in the repre-
sentation of which geographers with savage
pictures fill the gaps" become mere and more
restricted the distinction of having put ones
foot on a spot never yet visited by man can
be claimed by an extremely limited number of
individuals The Workmans possess such a
distinction They have led fewer than four