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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

year. which is IL per cent Of the whole
worlds supply. The annual revenue
from this weed is s7.7oo,0 900 gold. per
pear, in Mexico. Surely God made no
mistake in creating that particular
weed. And, perhaps, so with the rest
of the alleged nuisances. Don't be
quite so fast, We critics. AS to rab-
bits, they are mighty fine meat. clean
er than oysters and chickens. Set the
clergy on them. There are rabbits
enough in this country to supply all
the Methodist conferences and other
UNCONVENTIONAL yearly meetings. And
Australia could feed the whole world
on rabbits. Mrs. Duane Hollingsworth
was riding there with an uncle and
she wondered what that loud sound
was-"Oh. that's a drove of rabbits
running swiftly" said he. The army
was infinite. In the winter and spring
right around us. there are rabbits
enough, if universally and exclusively
used. to stop dead still all the mighty
packing houses in Chicago, Kansas
City and Omaha, but didn't God say
he gives everything their meat in due
season? OF course, but we are not
smart enough to catch his various
brands of daily mama. For one. I'm go
ing to shut up my grumble factory, and
say that the author of Genesis and
with Walt Whitman, Behold, things
are good
Perhaps. We'll yet find use for
a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Topics of the Times

Which would you rather pay. the
wage of rural carrier who drove TWEEN
ty-dve miles today or ship subsidy
Which would you prefer. that a
newspaper which comes every day In
the week for little over a cent day
should pay low rate of postage or
that Pierpont Morgan should receive a
high rate Of ship subsidyo
The original American @serpents
tongue" is the grocer who is suing
Richard LIE Gallienne for bill of s7.S-
How sharper than serpents tongue
ii is tc have an ungrateful grocery
man.
Kind o feel round and find out what
is wanted in Christmas gifts and buy
EN- right away
Lest YOU forget we say it yet, buy
EN- right away.
Doctor Cook looks like an early
frost The doctor should not be back
ward in coming forward with an ex-
PLANTATION which will explain The
mystery business does not endure long
with the American people. They arr
too busy.
The rivermen were at the White
House but Taft, unlike Teddy. did not
inaugurate a contest of log riding and
jam busting However. there will be
plenty of log rolling later.
II Zelaya IS wise he will not stoE
with retirement, but will go away bach
and lie down.
Jim Hill told them at the corn show
, that he would raise the prize ear mex
year. Maybe he will do it, He ha
raised" several big railroads.
Senator CumInins has introduced E
railroad rate bill and it is said tina
Elkins will have an opposition bill
That reminds u.s.
| Reports from Los Angeles indicat
that they have just had the coldes
snap there for thirty-eight years Per
haps this is once that Los Angelo
broke the record without being proul
OF it. Everything out there, you know
is the biggest and the grandest ever.
| The bank. deposits of the countr.
total $4,000, coo, 900, 900. With tina
capital. Santa Claus should do quit
a lively business during the next tw
weeks.
| Finally, however, the tricks Of tn
weahthe man will cease to have terror
for the Christmas shopper.
When the Weather forecast say
warmer, we presume we are to expex
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
TIE LODGES
MASONIC NoTlcEA
w Visitors always welcome.
V\Hall over 10S-7 weat lrnlm

MARSHALL LODGE l0s A. F. & A.
M.-Stated communication and election
OF officers, Dec. II. WORK on third de-
gree Thursday. Dec. is.
II. q. Hoeck. w. NJ.
II. 8. Lawrence. Sec'y.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. H.
Stated convocation Of Signet Chapter
Monday evening. Dec. 20, 1880 sharp.
George II. Eoggie. e. n. p.
I. s. Millard. secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL n. 4 q
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Dec. 20.
ESo p. m. Election OF officers.
4. d. Meeker. T. I. N.
l. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CCMMANDERY NO.
80 K. T. Stated conclave Tuesday eve
ming, Dec. p at 1880 sharp. Visiting
Sir knights always welcome
F. NJ. Wilbur. E. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. q. O X
S.-Meets in regular session Wednes-
day evening. Dec. 10, at 1880. Election
Of officers.
Mrs. Geo. Downing, W. "
Edna c. Fullerton. eecx.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
AFEDeRAL HEALTH BUREAU.

The presidents suggestion of d fed
eral good health bureau is one thai
should attract thoughtful minds 1t is
in line with the new philosophy of life
and the new knowledge OF medicine aS
a profession. 1t would settle aud should
satisfy the complaints that have beer
made that the United States govern
ment stirs heaven and earth TO pre-
vent and cure disease in the lower ami
mails and lets humanity look after it.
self. A federal bureau of health prop
erly differed and given enough funds
to work with would become as popular
and as efficient as the department of
agriculture and the bureau of animal
industry.
As general rule local supervision
of the public health like local regula-
ton of the liquor traffic is considerably
a failure. The idea is that nothing
Bhall hurt the town first and foremost
The tendency is to hide the presence
VI diseases winch terrlIY trade ana
keep persons away from town. SAM
tary problems are left to politicians,
usually incompetent 10 dictate as to
heaitn problems and often ready to
trade the chance OF the spread OF seri-
GUS diseases for the certainty of a
dozen votes. Local affairs are family
affairs 10 be kept inside the family and
not made d matter of general knowi-
edge and gossip. And this natural at
titude results in epidemics Of small
poS. typhoid and the like and favors
tubercalar incubation.
Ky all means the federal board OF
health with powers as great as may be
constitutional. Let it get busy under
the direction of a big broad medical
man. Instead of pamphlets advising
the northern farmer how to care for a
southern pine forest burden the mail:
with health bulletins and hygenic sug-
gestion. Force sanitation. Forced saul.
tation saved Cuba and there are cite.
in america which would be better su,
the processes that regenerated Havana
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
kaHr BANKING.

The Kafirs have simple method Of
banking. Before setting out to trade
they select one Of their number as
their banker and put all their money
in his bag. When an article IS pur-
chased by any Of those who are in this
combine the price is taken by the
banker from the bag, counted several
times and then paid to the seller. after
which all the bank depositors cry out
to the banker in the presence OF two
witnesses selected, you owe me so
much This is then repeated by the
witnesses. The general accounting
comes between the banker and his sew
eral depositors when all the purchases
have been made, after which all the
natives go home.
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Iona Newspapers
DID GOD MAKE MISTAKES
rWashiuRton Press


Did God make mistakes? He made
weeds, didn't he? Men are eternally
destroying them as nexious. Isn't this
blasphemy? He put dirt and rock in
the wrong places, for railroad builders
are blasting and toting them some
where else. In Seattle builders scrape
down whole hills and dump them into
the sound, to make made land" Bos-
ton made the splendid residential
Back Bay" by revising the Creator'e
defective work. Nothing is left where
God put 1t. What fault-finders and
critics we are! He made rats, mice, rab-
bits, kangaroos, prairie dogs, rattle
snakes, but we are killing them as
nuisances right along. A weed Is a
plant whose uses have not yet been
discovered. Perhaps their creation was
not a mistake, after all. There's the
desert shrub, Guayule, Of no worth for
ages in Mexico, but a few years ago
lit was seen by good eye, and rubber
is now made from it. The younger
Rockefeller heads a syndicate that
bought two million acres covered with
that shrub, paying, four millions for
the tract. The price Of crude guayl.le
rubber is So cents, gold, per pound
and the production is 1000 tons a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Watching the eridesroo m.

In was not only the matchmaking,
advertising parson who made money
out of the bFgone bridegroom. There
was the man who watched the BRIDE
groom for twenty-four hours or so be-
fore the time fixed for the ceremony
lest he turned tail at the thought of
the ordeal and its after effects. Here
is an entry in the register of a village
church in Huntingdon which illus
trates the custom: December, 1G47.
Paid for wages spent upon the man
that watched John Pickle all night
and the next day till he was married"
Such precautions recall Stevenson's
definition of marriage as friendship
recognized by the police" - London
Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Iurnina theIahI.s

Turning the tabfesa In the sense of
bringing countercharge against an
accuser has classic origin. In the
days Of Augustus Imperator regular
craze seized the men of Rome to COM
pete with one another for the posses
sion of the costiiest specimens of a
certain description Of table made for
the most part of Mauritania wood in
laid with "mensarum insania. !"
or table mania. as Pliny called it.
They were sold at most extrayagant
prices. When the men accused the la
dies OF sumptuary extravaganza the
latter naturally retorted by reference
to the money squandered by their
lords on these tables and 80 ''turnet
the tables on them" by throwing then
metaphorically in their teeth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
TRUSTS JUDGE MCPHERSON.
[ Howard Burrell in Washington Coun

~ GseSS.
Wta ails the Indians Nsy it not
be the lately discovered laCk worm
the producer of inertia ana laziness?
Something elemented. structural. tenn
rHlamenta, and fatal Long since threw
its hooks into then: and The virus
curdles and coagulates the red mans
wits. as the three and four toed fossil
horses feet We're hardened into sin
gle hoof. You may read that story at
Yale in Professor Marsh's collection o.
fossils gathered in the Bad Lands of
Wyoming. In these degenerate Indians
there is the awful pull Of heredity, eX-
tending thru savagery to barbarism
and up into partial civilization. In
natures long patient time. without
haste. without rest something may be
made of them yet. Meanwhile. to think
any white man can be so low as. for a
pittance to turn alcoholic liquors into
these poor creatures, to kick them
down lower into the pit. Trust Judge
Mcpherson to lay his heavy, just hand
with rightful force on such detestable
miscreants There is and can be no
meaner industry than this sneaking
sa!ooning of Indians.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
English Boys Want Easy Jobs,

Among the English boys the long
drudgery of learning trade, even If
the opportunity offers, which it seldom
does. is shirked. The easy job OF err
rand boy, shop boy, Office boy. messen-
ger boy or van boy is much preferred
The consequence is that seventy-five
boys Of every hundred leaving ele-
mentary schools enter unskilled occu-
pations. OF London boys 40 per- cent
become errand, van or boat boys, IA
per cent shop boys, per cent ONCE
boys and Junior clerks. Under 70 per
cent go definitely into trades.-West-
minister Review.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
QUIT DRAGGING AND GET BUSY,

The past week has accentuated the
need of ordinarily decent roads in
Iowa For days the highways have
been untraveled. business has been sus-
pended to degree felt from one end
OF the country to another and prac-
tically everyone has suffered in one
way or another They will De worn
smooth before Christmas unless wealth
er conditions are adverse at a. cost to
horses, vehicles and time and temper
that would if it could be aggregated
pave every main travelled road in the
county. Bad roads cost TOO much.
They are waste that might De saved.
1t is time Iowa found herself. She
doesn't belong In the dirt road class.
She IS able TO have good roads and
should build them. For the farmer who
boasts of land worth $50 per acre. half
of which is ''unearned Increment" in
a way, to say that ne can not and
will not bear his share OF a needed
improvement and one that will pay it.
self back Immediately in the added
selling price of Ireland it improves is
be considered. The horse that can
trot and will not trot should be made
to trot, We should have the roads
and their COST should be justly appor-
toned between the farmers and other
CLASSES who thus benefit; but we
should set about making roads that
men can travel. An impossible road
bordering a. 31ae or s2oe an acre farm
and passing a $4,000 residence fitted
with all modern Improvements Is
anamolous in Iowa or anywhere else
We blovtate about Iowa, yes, bloyiate
Of our prosperity, the fertility OF our
farms, the fatness Of our hogs and
cattle, the bigness of our bank ac-
counts. It is all true enough of course
but It Is blowing all the same when
we sit at home for week without
even the daily visit Of the mail carrier
because we are too stingy, and suffi-
eiently lacking In public spirit and
local pride to build and maintain ordi-
narily decent roads. There was some
excuse for the pioneer: he couldn't
build roads. He was glad when he got
bridge Moreover he could drive out
on the adjoining farms which were
selling at s12 an acre and every one
Of which had mortgage on it big
enough to sink it. But there is now no
excuse except ordinary cost and with
millions OF farmers money on deposit
IN every town that is the cheapest and
poorest Of excuses. He might as well
refuse to build cattle shed because he
desired to keep his bank account intact
4 fs1w jersey jersey Is among the foremost
states In road work. probably one OF
the two leading states. Long ago she
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
House Name. In Holland.

A recent traveller in that land Of
dikes and windmills has been at pains
to make notes of the names besto wed
by the Dutch merchants upon their
country houses. Here are few ex-
amples translated: Our Contentment,"
Joy and Peace" Leisure and Happi-
ness" my Desire Is Satis6ed.v
Friends and Quiet" my Wife and
l." mot So Bad" To say the least,
any one of these would seem to indi-
cate more of the genuine sentiment of
the householder than can possibly be
expressed by the Belle Vues" and
"Cedars" of England.-London Mail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Quits.

A little girl was in the habit OF tell
ing "sretchers." Her auntie told her
she could never believe her and, to
warn her. related the tale OF the boy
who called Wolf, wolfw and how the
wolf really did come one day and ate
up all the sheep.
ATE the sheep:" asked the child.
Yes"
''AI Of them?"
Yes; all of them" answered aunhe.
We'll" said the little one. II don't
believe you. and lyou don't believe ne.
So therew-Harpers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Pathetic Pride.

Willie had had tumble when he
was baby, and his hip was SO hurt
that ever after he was obliged to use
a crutch. On one occasion, when his
mother had bought him new crutch
Of the latest and most approved style
Willie expressed his enthusiasm and
delight in the roundest terms. "And,
oh, mother" he exclaimed in conclu.
sion, referring to a little friend Of his
who, having the use Of both legs, had
no need Of crutches, won't Johnny
Knowles be jealousp-New York
Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
the mercury to go away up to some-
thing lige 10 above zero.

the mercury to go away up to some
thing lige 10 above zero.
!
/, Wonder If Speaker Cannon won't be
afraid to hang up his stocking? Per-
haps he will hang it up and then sit
by all night to watch it.
| But they should have known better
than to try to run corn show in a
high toned place like Des Nfoines
Corn huh. What has corn to do with
cultureo
Christmas turkey 80 cents pound,
And the worst of it is that substitutes
come almost as high One time Leslie
f1. Shaw was credited with the eiacu-
iauon. Lord save us from any more
prosperity"
Congress can't hope for very large
share of attention until this Jeffries-
Johnson business is dispatched
Secretary of the Urea sury MacNeagh
says the republican party has faced
about and is now for low tariff rates.
But they will be telling us that Mac
eNagh is democrat
The Illinois legislature has convened
for the purpose of enacting a primary
law Presumably. The Sioux City Jour-
nal will now give large portion of
attention to Illinois politics in the hope
of helping save for that state what has
oeen irretrievably lost TO Iowa Uncle
Georges vision and solicitude are not
confined by state lines
New York has a new sensation and
a real one. A woman of the upper
crust who is in the divorce court act
ually blushed as she gave her testi-
mony
Another steel trust baron is out in
Nevada getting a divorce 1t must be
catching
If it bothers YOU. get Walter Well
man TO analyze it for your
Where is Foraker? Let the bailiff
call William Randolph Hearst to the
witness. chair.
In England it is said the lords are
throwing dust in the eyes of the people
to obscure the issue .Inasmuch as the
lards own most of the land over there,
they probably find dust throwing as
convenient form of campaigning as
any.
The Christmas book is red most on
the outside.
Nevertheless. We probably will be
told in due time that the mild winter
made it impossible to harvest a suffic-
lent supply of ice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

Kissing.
The hiss does NOT always mean dis.
gust and reprobation. III Japan it
means delight. A Japanese III greet
ing one Kisses. In West Africa the
hiss denotes astonishment. In the
New Hebrides they hiss before any
thing beautiful. The Basutos hiss in
sign of cordial agreement. Among the
Kabyles of northern Africa the hiss
denotes satisfaction. In mills and fac
tories, where the machinery makes so
much noise that spoken words cannot
be heard, workmen hiss to one another
to attract MISUNDERSTANDING.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
AM Elephant,s court..x.

At the conclusion of a children's
performance at Old Medium an ele-
plant proceeded alongsa narrow road
with a pail in its trunk for the pur-'
pose Of procuring water from pump.
A little girl CHANGED to get in the ami
mails way. and. the road being only
wide enough to accommodate his sub
stantial body. the elephant laid down
the pail. picked up the child with his
trunk and gently lifted Der to a place
Of safety, afterward resurning bis jour.
ney to the pump for. the water.-West-
minister Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
A PoIiceman,s Testimony,

Iowa. writes: Last winter
had bad cold on my lungs and tried
at least half a dozen advertised cough
medicines and had treatment from two
physicians without getting any benefit
A friend recommended Foley's Honey
and Tar and two thirds of a bottle
cured me. 1 consider it the greatest
cough and lung medicine in the world"
Mcbride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

Foley's Honey and Tar is the hes.
and safest cough remedy for children.
At the first symptoms OF a cold, give as
directed, and ward Off danger of Group.
bronchitis, sore throat, cold in the head,
and stuffy breathing. 1t brings comfort
and ease to the little ones. Contains
no opfates or other harmful drugs.
Keep alWays on hard, and refuse SUBJ
sdtutes. Mcbride & Will Drug Com
pany.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
There is no reason why the govern
nent should donate a million dollars
to a big magazine firm. no more In
the form of free transportation for its
matter than in direct subsidy"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

If the Sherman law will dissolve
the trusts, there will be very gen.
eral demand that it have the chance
to dissolve the bad ones, at least" says
the Usage Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
IOWA opIkIchr AND hn1Es

The Tama News wouldn't mind Tn
Gle Sam charging US that extra cents
on registered mail if we did not feel
that he was just donating it to the
railway companies
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

Mrs. s. Joyce, Claremont, N. H.
writes: About a year ago I bought
two bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy.
1t cured me of a severe case of kidney
trouble of several years standing. II
certainly is grand good medicine, and
heartily recommend it." The Mcbride
& viii Drug Company
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

The Des Moines Register and Leader
inquiries: When such transactions as
the sale OF the Equitable Insurance
Company. involving an enormous con-
solidation of financial control In New
York City, justify a great Wall street
newspaper in sounding the alarm, is il
the time to be weakening the legisla-
ton We have for disintegrating the
trusts that can be reached?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

Orville Wright says flying is easy to
learn. Get next, Zelaya.-Los Angeles
Express.
And while we were talking about the
polar controversy, the thrifty Guggen-
helms just picked out $50 1000 900 worth
of United States coal lands in Alaska.
Detroit Journal.
The sugar trust officials declare that
they do not fear an investigation by
congress. Is it possible that they feel
they will be investigated by their
friends?-St Paul Dispatch.
Mr.. Roosevelt has declined one ban
quet in Berlin, and possibly this fact
means the killing of score of other
hanquets along the route-Springfie
Republican.
Is the Woman with the Serpent's
Tongue" to be matched by a Poet with
a Blackguard's Tongue New York
Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

IF ever good roads agitation can
take holt certainly now is the time"
says the Atlantic Messenger. 1.-The
horrible example is before the people
of Iowa and the first man with a plan
that will work will make himself ia
nous"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

In England it is said the lords are
throwing dust in the eyes of the people
TO obscure the issue .Inasmuch as the
lards own most of the land over there,
they probably find dust throwing as
convenient form of campaigning as
any.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

Christmas turkey 80 cents pound,
And the worst of it is that substitutes
come almost as high. One time Leslie
sf Shaw was credited with the ejacu-
lation. Lord save us from any more
prosperity"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
Our Debts and Debtors
George D Perkins, in Sioux City Journal.1

That labour and are heavy laden, and
1 will give you rest
We can not know the Joy OF the
kingdom of heaven except as we may
impart it. The forgiveness we seek
we must extend; the rest of which we
have need we must offer. in shelter
ing our lives we must offer shelter;
in satisfying our hunger we must as
suage hunger. We shall have most OF
forgiveness for our own debts in for
giving most our debtors.
And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11

But they should have known better
than to try to run corn show in a
high toned place like Des Nfoines
Corn, huh! What has corn to do with
cultureo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-11
The Christmas book is red most
the outside.

Nevertheless. We probably will be
told in due time that the mild winter
made it impossible to harvest a suffic-
lent supply of ice