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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
useful rreee For Reads.

French roads are commonly border
ed with shade trees. This is believed
to be protection OF the roads against
The effects of excessive heat and
drought. Only such trees, however,
are considered useful as have vertical
ly descending roots. Tho spreading
roots Of other kinds might damage the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
Murderors ANaul punlobmsoa.

The murderer of selim IN of TuS-
key was publicly impaIed, lingaFine
Ave and half days in dreadful tor
ment Those who did 70 death hts
Immediate successor. MustaphA w,
were tortured and starved On alter
nate days and deprived OF sleep By
night until death came to their fsiisf.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
promrse o. 4hs .I,u,.r..

What is q rainbow but just clouds
and everyday supshine. far enough
away to be maryeiousiy beAutifulf
Some time We may see thfngD that
seem prosaicalIy common and near as
hand now, even thus g1oslfled. -zicn'a
Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
nnmnn hnie orop.

France furnishes more black and
brown hair than any other county,
while fair and goldea h@R is fur
nisf,ed, as a rufe, by wUmen q Ger
many and the north OF Europe Gray
and White hair iB always IN demand,
ana II really good onahty commands
q very high pEtce.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
PREVENTIVE OF DUST.
Calcium Chloride Tried on Road In
Washington.

Calcium Chloride Tried on Road In
Washington.
Omcials of the agricultural depart
ment have made experiments with the
use OF calcium chloride as a dust pre-
vcntive, and the tests were attended
with great success A stretch of rond
In the city of Washington was select.
cd for the trinl, and in preparation for
the treatment all dust and dirt were
scrapcd from the surface OF the road
way. A solution was prepared by mix
ing 300 pounds of commercial calcium
chloride granular, containing 70 per
cent calcium chloride and 20 per cent
moisturc) with 800 gallons of water
In an ordinary street sprinkler care
being taken to ngitnto the liquid thor
oughly before applying 1t to insure n
uniform solution. 1t was then applied
from one sprlnkling head, the sprln-
kler passing slowly bRck and forth
over the road to facilitate the COM
plcte absorption of the solution.
Each application consisted of COO
gallons over an area of 1852 square
yards. or OBS gallons per square yard.
A marked Improvement In the condi-
tion of the road was noted at once.
and after the second treatment 1t was
necessary TO repeat tho operation only
ut isolated spots. The use of the wa
ter wagon, Which had before made
regular trips over the rond, was aban-
doncd MS unnecessary. The texture of
the road surface Yas completely
changed after tho application of the
calcium chloride. Before treatment
raveling was excessive In spots, and
the whole surface seemed loosely knit
together. After the second application
this condition changed, and tho road
surface became smooth, compact and
resilient
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
ROLLER ARMED WITH SPIKES.
Machine That FIps UP Road For Re-
neil. MARI

A big machine has been at work on
the roadway at the north end of Lin
coin park, In Chicago. 1t Is monster
steam roller, with a double row OF
spikes In one of the wheels, and the
function of the contrivance Is to loosen
up the old material In the roadway,
preparatory to covering 1t with a
fresh coating OF crushed stone. AS the
wide tired wheel rolls on the roadway
the spikes sink in the old stone ma
terial that has hardened from many
years wear. This serves to loosen the
material. SO that when tho fresh sup
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
AlmoeoharIe Proaaura.

It has been circulated that Q naAn oa
the Ordinary siso suStAins . Dssasur1
Of about IL tons But. faAomuoh 20
the pressure y exegted equally ~ al
directions. and peRmeAtes the whole
body, no Inconvenience foliowa-N New
York American.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26

Water gas tar makes satisfactory
dust layer when used In moderate
quantities on roads already in fairly
good condition. 1t can be applied to
good advantage with an ordinary sprln-
king cart.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
Preventive Of Mud.

Liquid asphalt as dust and mud
preventive Is used in preference to all
other materials by the highway au-
thorities of tho District OF Columbia.
for
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-08-26
PltlabIe.

dreadful" moaned the opera sing.
or. who had been robbed OF $1,000.
why II takes me nearly ten minutes
Of hard work to earn that much.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
Along in March Next.
(New York WORLDLY

N1SSWffl wv OIluJ
Scene The Outlooks editorial
rooms. Time-Any week day after
March 4, 1909.
Young Contributor, trembling stands
before Special Contributor Roosevelt's
desk. He, glaring and showing his fine
teeth, is jabbing the young contribu-
tors Ms. with blue pencil. as with a
dagger.
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR RooSE-
VELT.---Bo, this Is the age Of aero
nautics and l and my friend. Bill OF
Germany. are highly interested in fly
ing. But you're too far up in the air.
Come to earth, 30; come to earth.
Here in your article on "The Wars or
the Aboriginal Alaskan Tribes" you
write. I'm extending his challenge to
mortal comba1 Chief Un-lsi pa nash
pointing his long, lean finger at his
adversary. accused him of deliberate
mendacity." That's what call YER
bal ballooning. polysyllabic somer-
saulting. You should have written.
Shaking his fist under his foes nose.
Chief Un-ld yelled: you're a liar!"
That's a good word, my boy. I use It
whenever can and often when there
is no need to. Here again you say, I'm
the battle between the Yukon tribes
the Ice was ensanguined and Un-k-
pa-nashs trihesmen were completely
demolished" Beaten to FRAGILE would
be better: beaten to a FRAGILE.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
TO TURN CUBA loHsE.

Cuba is to- be turned loose Jan.
and As getting ready to elect a new
government After a decade OF Am
erican aid, allotment warning, and as
sistance she will attempt to walk alone.
However Cuba will never have lost
the protection and assistance of this
country. She has the advantage OF
weakness and propinquity. More than
that she is the younger sister of the
elder American republic. DO what she
may, fail as she may, the Monroe doc
trine and the responsibility this coun-
try feels and must feel for Cuba will
always be as q shelter for the island
republic.
Cuba has done well, much better
than was expected of her. But there
will remain a doubt as to her complete
capacity for self government. She needs
watching and will be watched. II Cuba
can go on growing and develop into
a real government the people Of the
United States will be glad to see 1t ac-
complished. Perhaps she will do SO. II
not 1t should be understood that this
countrys responsibility for Cuba car
ries the right to protect her future
even to absorption by annexation
Cuba has her chance. She has been
afforded an opportunity to take her
place ar,ong the nations of the earth.
She must refrain from the pastime of
revolution and keep clean If she is to
exist. Set at the gate to the gulf and
the canal, her responsibilities are great
as are her opportunities.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
ghes- ssse1na,yy observation-disclosures 2a,ua Nuuenner sos

Sixth or Eighth districts to defeat
them. Captain Hull and Colonel Dave
Palmer are booked for the slaughter
not by the stalwarts but booked"
If the good work is to go on possibly
the other side will indulge in a little
book making" also. 1t is game at
which two can play"
Lacey is a good man, and his recen.
defeats have not been entirely his
fault" comments the Brooklyn Chron-
iclc. He had difficult conditions to
meet, and the worst which should be
said of him is that he is very human
and made mistakes"
There is now no further excuse for
factionalism in Iowa politics" says the
Cedar Falls Gazette.
"The next time Mr.. Bryan hobs up
for the presidency" says the demo-
cratic Fort Dodge Post, "the demo-
cratic party wants to bob down on
him with stuffed club"
after all that has been said and
done. is there a man who would say
that Governor Cummins has not
earned it," asks the Waterloo Times
Tribune.
THAT Major Lacey did not hold =
Allison vote is no discredit to him."
says the Coon Rapids Enterprise
Senator Allison was a great national
figure. man whom the entire state
loved. ever revered, making of him
even tho far advanced in years most
formidable opponent"
"Bryan's third defeat disposes Of him
as candidate for the presidency, but
not as a Warwick" says the Dubuque
Times-Journal. HE will have to be
consulted in 1912 If the democracy IS
to enter the campaign that year with
any hope Of success
The Des Moines Register and Leader
believes There are at least three men
In lowe, who are better fitted to sue
coed Secretary Wilson than Mr..
Pincilot or any man of his training.
And there are many men In every
state who can talSe a department of
the government and make more OF it /
and give 1t more character than any
man OF the training of Cortelyou or
Hitchcock 1t is a mistake to magnify
the talent of men of merely depart
mental training. The, danger to our
institutions all lies in that direction
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
THE PRoDF OF THE PUDDING.

Returns from the senatorial primary
show that along with the splendid en-
dorsement received by Governor Cum
minis came another which no doubt
pleases him almost as well as that Civ
en- him personally-the complete sue
cess OF the statewide primary In the
senatorial primary the vote polled for
the two candidates falls but 10000 be-
600 republican voters whom cast their
ballots Nov 3, 100000 expressed their
choice as to the candidate they desired
to represent them in the United States
senate In short but one voter out Of
twelve failed to exercise his right to ex-
press his choice for senator
Compare this showing with the an
cient and now Anticipated caucus sys-
tenn. Take your, own township for
comparison. When did eleven out
OF twelve members of any po-
litical faith attend the caucus
of their party? Has ever in
Iowa lbeen so general expression of
preference made by the voters? How
could it have been strongers If we are
to concede that the members of the
party should name the candidates of
the party the primary system has
demonstrated its utility and complete
fairness.
Here was a dangerous situation for
the party. Factionalism and private
grudges were in the ascendant Men
predicted the wreck Of republican
hopes and the qualification of demo-
cratic hope long deferred. Had the
caucus system prevailed it is morally
certain that internecine strife among
republicans would have fought to the
success Of the democrats of Iowa The
primary saved the day 1t did more.
It has brought about opportunity of
the healing Of old wounds and 9 re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
Topics Of the Times.
March TAFT inaugurated.

| March 5-Roosevelt takes his seal
as editor on the Outlook.
$50
March s--Name OF publication
changed to Look Quit"
Mr.. Taft wired Congressman McKin-
ley "'Delighted to know we shall!
have a republican house" Roosevelt
policies clear thru?
Do you realize that several years
twill elapse before the next senatorial
primary? 1t is likely that Senator Dol
liver has figured it out.
Congressman are just now in a mood
to turn an ear to the requests of their
constituencies. If you favor Joe Can
non for speaker write to your repre-
sentative and tell him so. If not, ex-
press your wish that he be set aside
out of the path of progress
Now that 1t is all over and the
ropes torn down, it is easy to size UP
the men, Bryan is fairly good eXhi-
bition boxer but Taft carries the punch.
Editor Lii Sum Ling of the Hong
Kong Chinese Mail is in this country
to study journalism. His name starts
off with touch that should commend
him to the Hearst school,
It is definitely settled that member
ship in golf clubs and Unitarian
churches are not necessarily bars
against public preferment
When Mr.. Bryan, saw the splendid
approach of his opponent and
watched the grand put" he made at the
conclusion of the game no doubt he
wished that Theodore instead of Has
kell had been carrying his caddy bag.
Under the rules. "the player may take
the advice of his caddy" and Mr.. Taft
ywas fortunate in the skill of his adj
wiser.
Mr. Gompers has learned what the
neighbor of the union man knew long
ago-that he is an American citizen
who resents. autocracy in politics and
religion.
George w. Egan, an attorney who
has achieved considerable notoriety of
one kind and another in two states, has
been elected county attorney of Min
nehaha county. South Dakota AS Mr..
.Egan had been disbarred before his
election complications exist. He can
draw his salary from the county but
can not appear in court as an attor-'
ney. Sometimes the popular vote cuts
queer antics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

tude of labor towards capital and vice
versa. Surely the employer and en-
ploye have identical interests. What Is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander." But continued conflict ex-
lists and neither wins a permanent vic
tory or Is enabled to pursue or estab-
fish a permanent policy. In the wis
dom of creation there must be some
good reason for this eternal strife. But
where does it come in? one cannot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
Safety Valve For vesuvius.

An Italian scientist proposes to sup
ply safety valve for Vesuvius by
boring a tunnel in the base Of the
mountain and letting the lava escape
into the sea. His idea is to bore the
tunnel while the crater is in state
Of coma, and he believes that when
the volcano becomes active such a
channel would be sufficient to carry
away the lava, says Popular Mechan
les for August. His whole proposal
however. is not to let the lava escape
altogether, but to run 1t into molds
and make It into blocks for use In the
streets and quays Of Naples.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
Taft's Pledges to the Future.

Trusts-I intend to carry out to the
best of my ability the Roosevelt poll
cies that work for the correction of
evils in business without running the
business itself The earlier all COM
ibinations of wealth understand that
under republican administration they
will. be held strictly accountable to law,
the earlier will business conditions get
on solid basis.
Labor-My purpose is to continue
the course of President Roosevelt in
doing everything possible to put labor
on an equality with capital and to give
labor an equality of opportunity in the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
M%sal<eze

negotiations between them.
Tariff believe in the revision OF
the tariff and shall do what can with
in the jurisdiction of the executive
office to bring 1t about. The repub-
lican party has pledged itself to pro-
tect every industry and to give every
industry that needs protection the
same measure of 1t.
Postal Savings Banks-I believe that
the next congress will pass the bill
providing for postal savings banks.
Prosperity believe thoroughly
that the return Of the republican party
to power will mean the immediate re-
turn Of prosperity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

union of men and interests too long
separated in Iowa.
We shall hear no more demand for
the repeal of the primary law The
principle is established. Much may and
will be done in modification and in
strengthening the law but it has
proved it's worth and won its place.
Even those who opposed 1t most have
come to accept it. The endorsement
of the Iowa voter is upon it and the
politician is fain to submit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
AN ARlsrocRAT's UNION.

English noblemen have organized q
union to oppose socialism. A school
for speakers will he one OF the features
OF the new organization in which the
anti -propapandists will be trained and
educated in the most approved methods
OF public speaking, and saturated with
the arguments and spirit Of anti-so-
cialistic doctrine. A publication depart
ment will be organized and the press
bureau supplied with an able corps OF
writers and publicists. The fight will
be made general all along the line.
However. 1t Is losing game, a re-
turn Of King Canute commanding the
waves Not so much as directly con-
Germs socialism but as concerns a
hereditary aristrocracy and the, INNER
ttance Of power and official position.
Soon or late the English aristrocre.cy
must go. Socialism is only one OF ,he
protests against The system. The union
may delay but can not prevent the
hour Of abolition. It is OF the old order
that must change and give place to a
better. The union is not lighting So
cialism. It is opposing Its puny hand
to evolution.
Nevertheless the union may be made
valuable In another way It is time that
some system and order were intro
duced into the business of interna-
tional traffic between dukes and counts
and American nailhQnaires with mar
riable daughters. The new union should
set scale, as equitably as may be. 1t
Is unjust that the Goulds should pay
as much for second hand prince who
has been turned, secured, dyed and
patched as a new duke is worth in the
market. Itsds unfair to purchaser and
to purchaser alike and bad for the
market generally. There should be
some provision of guaranty as to
soundness OF wind and limb It is an
noying to say the least to have bought
duke and And that one on his last
legs has been foisted upon the buyer
at the price OF sound article. Strictly
from the arist0cratic point Of view
there should be some rule that will give
ordinary noblernen a chance and pre-
vent the "hogging" of American money
by princes, dukes and earls The mar
quis and the baronet have the right to
life, American money and the pursuit
OF happiness in the purleus after 1t
has been paid for.
The new union offers a suggestion
Of possible Job for Julian Richards
and other members Of the press bureau
that made Julian and Johnson fam
GUS. AS prospects seem far from bright
for their further employment in Iowa
perhaps the press bureau business in
merry old England is worth looking
into. It seems to be picking UP over
there and "a few weeks in the school
should suffice; for Julian is teach
able.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
ARITHMETIC TOO YANKEE.
confederates Don't Like Example.
That Mention Union Generals.

NOnreoerateS OOUt IIk0 Examples
That Mention Union Generals.
John 3. Hood camp, Confederate
Veterans, at Austin, Tex, has filed a
protest with Governor Campbell
against the action Of the state text
book board in adopting for the public
schools certain elementary arithme-
tic because it contains the following
examples, which the camp holds is an
adroit attempt to foist the names of
Federal leaders on the youth of the
south:
General Grant was born April 81
1922, and was forty-one years two
months and seven days old when
Vicksburg, Miss, was captured. When
did he capture Vicksburg?"
General William L. Sherman was
born Feb. s. 1920, and finished his
great march through EnN"fr'n Dec. 49,,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

1864. How old was he on that day."
General Sheridan was born March
6. 1881. and made his famous ride from
Winchester to the BATTLEFIELD at Cedar
Greek Oct. 10, 1864. What was his age
them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
Outside Point of Wen

IN the vicinity Of 100000 votes
were cast at the last general election
these for 100000 candidates. These
big figures to an outsider convey an
idea Of the greatest country on earth.
governed as a republic that has ever
existed In all probability while Taft
has a large majority Of the electoral
vote and almost double in the number
Of states, there is only a very small
percentage Of the popular vote, that
prefers Mr.. Taft to Mr.. Bryan. In
other words fl is safe to assume that
Mr.. Taft will not have a million more
votes than Mr.. Bryan. And with this
in raind comes the Question, why is 1t
there IS no little difference in the pop
ular vote not only this year, but in all
previous elections. How does 1t hap
pen that In some campaigns, one of
the candidates does not receive 90 per
cent of the whole vote and the other
candidate only 10 per cent. During
the war Of the rebellion, when we
could not add to the total vote Of the
United States, that Of the solid south,
even then there was a great difference
Of opinion as to the availability of the
candidates for the presidential office.
Again, why is 1t that as the foreigner
comes to this country, becomes a nat
uralized citizen and votes, that such
new-made citizens do not flock to-
gether and all vote one ticket. The
nearest approach to this state of af-
fairs is the massing of the Irish vote
in the democratic ranks. but this last
election showed a disintegration Of
even the Irish vote.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

The Marion Register has this to say:
Brave old Colonel Dave Henderson
was bounded to his political death and
Major Lacey and Colonel Hepburn
have been defeated, but not by the stall
warts. Then by whom? There were
not democrats enough in ithe Third,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

OF course the answer comes, as a
nation we divide on all public ques-
tons Especially true is this when re-
ligious questions of creed are involved.
But this does not solve the problem.
Questions of morals or religion are
largely sentimental. much of theory
and little of proven fact, whereas in
the matter of politics. or to use the
other words, party policy that which
affects our material prosperity on the
opposite, would seem to be, something
all could agree upon. For instance Mr.
Gompers was sure Bryan's election was
necessary for the real interests of the
labol,ing man. Other labor union lead
ers took exactly the opposite view.
Carry the illustration farther. Railroad
presidents differed from railroad pres
idents, 1ust as railroad brakemen diff
fered from other railroad brakemen.
We have all professions divided the
same way Farmers whose interests
seem identical both in selling and buy
ing, are members of political parties
that offer Numerically opposite plat
forms on the tariff and financial ques-
tons One would think that travelling
men ninety-nine per cent engaged in
the one occupation Of selling, would
all see things alike only one party
that would make business good, but
they too this year formed Bryan as
well as Taft clubs
Drop politics. and consider the atti.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11

MIR. Hepburn has had a long lease
on power. He has been variable man
himself. He has been a man of
stronk likes and dislikes and he has
been as strongly liked and disliked by
Others" notes the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. "Of Senator Allison MIR.
Hepburn said during the primary las.
spring that he was in no sense a great
man. That showed his attitude to-
ward a Victory in the closing months
of his life which Mr.. Hepburn has not
been able to duplicate"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-11
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Des Moines News sees no glim-
mer of light ahead. 1t says "The new
house of Representatives may be re-
publican or democratic. A few new
faces will appear in the senate, but the
changes will have no effect. The same
old plutocratic majority and the same
old spirit will be there, and reform is
liable to grow long, gray whiskers
while waiting for senatorial recogni-
tion."