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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
The Strawpile


nothing hat adds to the attractiveness
of a farm more than Il flock of chickens
which are uniform in size and color,
thruout. But his is not where their
good qualities end. for they are bound
to be more profitable. simply because
YOU will take better care of them.
Which is the best breed for me to keep,
is a mach rehearscd question. Test
after test has roven that under ideal
conditions there is no best breed. For
the scrub farmer and under root-hog-
or-die conditions, the Mediterranean
breeds. Spanish. etc, will probably
prove to be the most profitable, be-
cause they are small and quick, and
are good foragers. largely getting their
living during the greater part of the
year.
But for the MAJ or woman who has
an inkling of knowledge regarding the
proper care of poultry. there are no
better breeds on earth than the Amer
lean breeds, namely. the Plymouth
Wyandottes. Rhode Island Reds,
O%rpingtons, etc. The pullets make ex-
winter layers, and he surplus
cockerels are seldom worth less than
cent; each when six months of age.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
DISCRIMINATING ON C. & N. W. RY.

The population of a large number OF
prosperous towns situated on the {. n
N. w. railway from Tama to Jewell are
experiencing just now a discrimination
in the interest of economy which bids
fair to result in a lawsuit and a con-
seuuent exhibition of the books of the
company in court. The railroad COM
mission has been appealed to without
results but the people are not going to
let the matter rest.
By disseminating certain rains and
main line, the people of twenty-fon:
busy towns are cut dow TO only n
train per day each way and this one
on a schedule which fails to deliver
mai! as desired or travellers convenient
for business. The night trains that
formerly passed over this run, now are
turned at Jewell and connect with the
main line at Ames, while the Sioux
CITY and Des Moines night train runs
only to Jewell Junction. nus an
towns west and northwest on the G. "
N. w. r. r. receive the same mai and
passenger service as formerly, While
these towns are. left out in the cold.
The railroad commissioners are eth
er lacking power or fail to exercise 1t,
so that the remedy seems only to lie
in the courts. If a suit was instituted
to compel the c. & n. w. r. r. to re-
these night trains or TO show
cause why 1t can discriminate, 1t is be-
lieved that relief would ONE.
1t is believed that it car be shown
the company's own witnesses or
records that railroad business on this
line is as profitable as on IN other
seventy-mile stretch of the Northern
division. The case, at least, de-
mands and deserves a visit of careful
INQUIRY among the people by The Of
iicials of the road for the G. II n. w.
r. r. enjoys the reputation of being
the one great system that gives service
Tor the franchises 1t possesses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

anxious TO tie up with some underpaid
and overworked city chap who has
contempt for everything on the farm
except the girl and her fathers mon
cy.
The thing That made most bright
farm youths desire to leave the farm,
was the limitations of farm life. There
was little on the farm to look forward
to except hard work and with it the
assurance, more so at least than in
many other occupations-of a fairly
farm it, was not sent away TO
school because he was supposed not to
need education on the farm.
The fact is when u boy in years past
elected to live the life of a farmer, he
did so for one of two reasonS-because
he had an inherent love for the farm.
for its outdoor life. its freedom, indie
pendence, or for its animals, and
plants, or because he was not am
bilious, and cared little for fame, for
tune, books, society, education or en-
Vironment. and was content with the
simple life. II a farm boy showed n
liking for books. and was a good
scholar his fond parents usually
urged the study of medicine. law or
theology, and 1t is to his credit that II
he undertook either he generally made
farm was solely because of its
monotony. he tool up biography, or
got a place in a store in town and
made a success or failure according to
his efforts and deserts.
Agricultural education, shor courses,
and extension work of the farm col
leges as we'll as inventions. are chang
ing farm conditions, and there is noW
more room for recognition and achieve
ment on The farm. This means that
more bright and ambitious boys and
girls will remain there and more from
the cities seek the farm life. 1t will
mean more and more to be a farmer
and to own a farm. In England the
land owner lives on his estate n is
the most honored man in his county.
The system OF ownership may not be
ideal, out to be Il farmer, look like
one. and act like one, is the mark of
distinction among men. IT ought to be
true, it will be true If it is not already
true here. II agricultural education.
the short course. etc, shall help turn
the tide to the farmer instead of from
it, the benefit will be immeasurable to
the state. our last census showing an
alarming decrease of population in
rural districts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Question of Seed Corn.

The farmer who delays securing a
supply OF seed corn until the near APP
proach Of the planting season. does
question. Seedsmen may have a large
supply of tested seed, and yet the de-
mand MAY be so great that 1t is ex-
hausted before the planting season.
They then have To purchase corn
where they may be able to get 1t, and
then it is that the lIazard is present
that much OF the seed thus furnished
is of questionable value. Last au-
tunn much of the corn grown in north
ern climates did not sufficiently ma
ture.
This makes the question of secur-
ing seed. by those who may not have
it, one of peculiar significance at the
present time. Happy are those who
have grown their w seed, for then
they know just what it is: but many
are not thus situated. it may be. be-
cause of the early date at which killing
frosts came in 1907. No delay, there
fore, should be shown by those who
are without seed o in securing a
supply. They will then have time to
test it when work is not pressing. II
TO prove its value by such testing.
The aim should be to buy seed corn
on the ear. In fact, except under sheer
necessity, it should not be purchased
in any other way. When thus pur-
chased, the size and character of the
ears may be known, opportunity is
furnished for testing individual ears
should this be desired.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
hnfaS.

Ducks are comfortable fowls to raise
for they never have lice, diarrhea,
gapes, cholera, or any other evils that
afflict rhickens: and they will eat
sloppy food that would, in many cases,
be death to chickens.
Again potatoes are bringing a fair
price in the leading markets, and
those who took pains to grow only
standard potatoes. and these abso-
lutely pure, are making good none
from their 1907 crop. Many who
We're able to get 80 to 40 cents last
fall fresh from the field ave nothing
to regret. as potatoes are heavy
shrinkers in the average northern cell
lar. Some have made small fortunes
on small pieces of ground and we
advise putting in the same acreage
regardless of what the price of po-
tatoes may be this spring. The man
who plants about so many, what he
can conveniently handle every year. Is
bound to win in the end.
The science Of agriculture makes
kings Of men.
Farming appeals to the man with
new tools and old experience.
The snow of winter protects the
roots OF trees: the bare . ground is
more dangerous than the s~now-covered
ground.
The world could not nov without
the farmer, nor would the farmer
ARE to do much moving without the
incentive the worlds market affords.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
P%OPuLARIziNG THE EARN.

The results Of the short courses in
agricultural education in Iowa will be
not all in the increased yields of grain,
better bred stock and other improved
methods, but the agitation is helping to
popularize. the farm with the younger
generation, and is keeping the boys in
the country. 1t makes farm life more
attractive when more dignified as wei,
as more remunerative. The country girl
will welcome more eagerly the duties
fall to the farmers wife. because
farm life is broader and better han it
ever has been in the past. She is less
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
The ,mportanoe of the Hen.

The American hen is fast forging to
the front as a creator OF wealth. ana
judging from present strides will soon
be a worthy companion of the dairy
cow and the hog in the mortgage
lifting syndicate. Secretary Wilson,
in his annual report. "a that the
poultry industry is advancing at such
q. rapid rate that no arithmetic can
keep up with it. Last year, for instance
the product of the American hen was
$500, 600, 0O0.O 90, a product worth more
than our wheat and as much as our
hay crop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
scours in Calves.

Scours are generally caused by
the calf taking too large a quantityhof
milk into its system at one time.
Calves which suck their dams are
,erelv troubled in this way. When
the first signs Of securing are noticed
the calf should be given ar ounce to
two ounces Of castor oil mixed with
a half to a t%easpoonful of laudanrlm
according to the age or size of the
calf. This frees the system of the
curdled and undigested milk which IS
the immediate cause of the scours.
Securing is the effect of nature to rid
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Suaaestions

Why not set out a few cherry trees
this spring. There's good money tc
be made from them.
Put the young horses in work very
carefully Make it very light at first,
and make short hours. When they
get heated they will begin to fret.
Then use common sense-and lots OF
tin your treatment. Rapid work
uses up weight much more than slow
work: i. e.. when only the same dis
lance is covered.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Scrubs vs.. Pure Bred Poultry.

A farmer writing to an agricultural
paper, says:
After several years experience with
both kinds, I feel capable of treating
the above subject intelligently. Will
say that under no consideration would
I go back to the old barnyard scrubs,
nor do | believe any sane person would
who ever was fortunate enough to have
owned a flock of p~ure-breds. There is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

the system Of this foreign matter and
the object of the castor oil is to
render this easier while the object of
the lauda.num is to quiet the nervous
system.
After the castor oil has been used
great care must be taken In feeding
the calf until it regains it's strength.
a half to a teacupful of milk with
a tablespoonful of lime water should
be fed to the calf four or five times
a day. If the calf seems very weak
a teaspoonful of whiskey in a small
amount Of water should be given 1t.
If the calf seems in much pain d hot
cloth may be strapped to it's belly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Topics II the Times

Two years ago Jim Good spoke be-
fore the Grant Club at Des Moines
upon The Republican Doctrine when
he declared that yesterday, under the
republican party demanded freedom
from human slavery; today, under the
magnificent leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt, it demands freedom from
corporation control"
The charge that Secretary Taft has
been tagged by the president because
the president is his friend, sounds al
most as ridiculous as the complaint
that a candidate has been tagged by
the newspaper that supports him. Men
seeking office will solicit the support
of a newspaper and go mounting
among their %neighbors that the same
newspaper is ~"dictating' when it tries
to aid some other fellow to an office.
Grasp first the view point or you will
have difficulty understanding that
Conner and Hubbard wear a servile
yoke when they favor Cummins for
senator, while Cousins and Birdsall
are demonstrating a patriotic struggle
for liberty when they favor Allison.
A Justifable Desire.-Judge Dowl-
ing.-"Have you anything to say
against the verdict?"
Prisoner (who has received life
sentence) "Only that if I don't live to
serve it out I wish you would put my
attorney in to finish it.'-Judge.
y y
Facts and figures presented by Gov
crnor Hoke Smith show that the day is
almost at hand when Georgia will be a
billion dollar state. That is to say
taxable values in that state are al
ready greater than they were before
the war, when a third Of a billion dol
lars was represented by the value Of
the slaves. Excluding the slaves, it's
taxable values today are about twice
as great as they We're before the war.
A Dill Has .USGH lIllIOuuCeu III lllG
United States senate for a parcels
post on rural delivery routes which
provides for transportation of grocer
les, drugs. books and dry goods. In
limiting the weight of packages to
eleven pounds the British system is
followed. The. rate of postage is fixed
at 5 cents for the first pound and .
cents for each additional pound. An
eleven-pound package will thus require
25 cents postage, as compared with "a
cents in England. This is double the
French, German and Austrian rate, but
the sweeping nature of the benefit
promised is shown by contrasting these
rates With the existing American rate
of s1.76 for eleven pounds divided in
to three parcels.
Attic the president has asked for
four new battleships at a cost of thir-
ty-eight millions, the house committee
will recommend tWo and save nineteen
millions. 1t is startling to contemplate
war ships at nine and a half millions
per, but Uncle Sam is getting accus-
toned to big business.
The new clause in the Congo treaty
of annexation, which is to take the
place of the previous measure relat-
ing to the crown domain, provides for
the establishment of a fund of $50, 000,-
600, to be known as the Leopold Sec
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Simple Remedy for La Grippe.

La grippe coughs arc dangerous as
they frequently develop into pneumon-
la. Foley's Honey and Tar not only
stops the cough but heals and strength
ems the lungs so that no serious re-
suits need be feared. The genuine
Foley's Honey and Tar contains no
harmful drugs and is In a yellow pack
age. Refuse substitutes. Mcbride &
Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
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,
andhas positively cured thousandsof
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, M%tulency, indiges.
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs.. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

Thus far not a single %standpat
newspaper has seconded the sugges-
tion that Abe Funk be made one of
the delegates at large to the national
convention. What's the reason? All
the standpat organs were trying to
induce him to run for governor, and
when he decided to stay out of the
race, they said he had been sacrificed
by the wicked progressives," says the
Glidden Graphic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Standpat desire to turn elsewhere is
thus voiced by the New Sharon Star:
Taft is d, good man, would make u
good president. but there are others.
There is no dearth of good and great
men in this nation. Hughes, Cannon,
Fairbanks. Shaw and others are en-
titled to rank with Taft, and the in
terests of this great country would be
safe with either of them as presi-
dent"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Side Lights on Literature.

Walter Scott had just written ken
ilworth."
i've a great mind to immoralizt
Winnctka next" he said. evanston
and Willnette. of course, are impos-
sible."
Perhaps = who knows? the great
novelist had beer before magistrates in
those two towns and fined for exceed
ing the speed limit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
gl1ps-3RlrpuhIiran 9larshalltnrn, jnuu Frhraarp l3 1903

commission bill will get many votes in
congress. There is still too much hui
manity in the national body and in the
country To permit of a m%illennial in
stitution of "a tariff divorced from pol
tics
There is no mistaking the signs OF
the times says the Waterloo Courier.
IF they Ghc s~tandpatters) are con-
WINGED that Allison can't win, some
one else will be their candidate"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Suggestions Continued.

During these winter months what
are we doing III the way of planning
for the coming seasons work? hat
prove on this season? one should
never feel fully satisfied with the past
but should try year by year to i'm
prove upon old methods II he would
keep pace with the times and succeed,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

Keep our eye on Shaw" says the
Britt Tribune, and the Carroll Herald
replies, All right, We'll try. But in
these times of rapid change and shift
ing scenes. it m a not be possible al
ways to succeed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

Nothing in Bob's official career
has Deer so becoming as his with
drawal," says the Odebolt Chronicle,
referring to Mr.. Cousins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

lond Fund" This fund VIII be pro-
| vided by a series of special taxes tn
be met by the Belgian people, and Is
| created in recognition of the fact that
/ the king turns over the Congo indie
pendent STATE to Belgium. The king
is to use the Interest from this money
to develop Belgian sea trade and to
found a hospital for aged men.
Sure of Her Ground.-Mistress.-
Jane, | saw the mllkman kiss yor
this morning. In the future | will take
the milk in
anc TMouldn't be no use, mum.
He's promised never to kiss anybody
but me."-Illustruted Bits.
The Gulf, Mexican. and Canadian
border ports are making a much more
rapid growth in their export trade
than those of the Atlantic coast. In
imports the relative loss on the part of
the Atlantic ports is not so great as in
exports. Figures Of imports and ex-
ports by ports during the calendar
year 1907 have Just been completed by
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of and labor. They
show that exports from the Atlantic
coast ports which in 1897 formed 70
per cent of the exports formed in 1907
but 60 per cent of the total, while all
other ports of the United states in
creased their share from 80 per cent
in 1897 to 40 per cent in 1907. III"
exports thru the Gulf. Mexican Dor
der, and Canadian border ports. The
value of exports thru the Gulf ports
was, in 1897, ISL million dollars. and
in 1907. 438 millions, a gain of prac-
tically 40 per cent. Thru the northern
border ports the exports of 1891 were
20 millions and in 1907 200 millions, an
increase Of lS5 per cent. Thru the
MEXICAN border ports the exports OF
1897 We're 12ia million dollars and in
1897 AT. millions, an increase of 23O
per cent.
Writes p. Harvey Middleton In the
Technical World Magazine for March:
Those persons who have been fondlN
anticipating The sending of messages
to England by wireless at ten cents a
word 9th land charges make 1t fifteen
cents), against the twenty five cents
of the cable companies. are doomed to
disappointment. The various Marconi
concerns jn mt intend at any rate for
some considerable time, to throw their
service open to the man of the street.
They are In no way prepared for the
deluge of business that Would follow
such an action. Ii they did so, the
cable companies would not be slow to
sion of a large proportion of their mes
sages. But while there will be no pub
lie service yet, the Marconi people are
quietly making arrangements with IL
large number of commercial houses
With foreign connections for the trans
mission of messages which are now
sent by cable at the close of business.
ON account Of the difference in time,
none of these messages can be deliN-
cred in London until nine O'Clock the
next morning. and they can therefore
easily be handled by the wireless sys-
tenn
The Washington Posts prediction
that the Taft boom is on the wane, was
not intended to refer to the state OF
Ohio.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect il.

Prevalency of Kidney Disease.
Most people do not realize the alarm
Ing increase and remarkable p%revalency
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

This woman says that after
months of suffering Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made her as well as ever.
Maude E. Forgie, Of Leesburg.V Va,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
al want other suffering women to
know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me. Fol
months 1 suffered from feminine ills
SO that l thought I could not live. [
wrote you, and after taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
using the treatment you prescribed I
felt like a new woman l am now
strong, and well a ever. and thank you
for the good you have done me-"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

anith doctoring the effects, while the orsg-
iinaI disease undermines the system.
What To DO.
There is comfort i'll the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulflls every wish in curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passage.
1t corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many,
times during the night. The mild and
the extraordinary effect of SwamP.Root
is soon realized. 1t stands the highest
for its wonderful cures of the most DIS
tressing cases. If you need a med,ciile
you should have the best. Sold by drug
iaists in ffty-cent and o%ne-dollar sizes;
You may have a sample bottle and q
$: s.: :: !; =; !; s; ; :: q: ;; IS; As $ S: 60 D
Kilrner s. Co., Bing-
hanton, N. Y. When home OF swamp-Roos.
writing mention this paper and don't
make any mistake, but remember the
name, Or. Hillner's Swamp-Root. II
the address, Binghamton, N. y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has
chilled the mercury at Vinton by say
ing that IF a candidate for lieutenant
governor is wanted, and Murphy of
Vinton is not in favor, what's the mat
ter with eS-Speaker Clarke of Abel?
1t ought not to be difficult to find an
acceptable lieutenant governor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

kidney disease.
While kidneydi
orders are the
most common
diseases that pre-
vail, they are
almost the last
recognize ed by
patient and ply
s%icians, pho con-
l-,J,o
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

The new clause in the Congo treaty
of annexation, which is to take the
place Of the previous measure relat-
ing to the crown domain, provides for
the establishment of a fund of $40, 000.-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-13

1.-THE theory that the tariff should
be taken out of politics is a beautiful
one, and is undoubtedly a sensible me"
says the Boone News-Republican. The
tariff is o a political question. New
ertheless, there isn't the faintest likeli-
mood that Senator B~everidge's tariff