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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
MASON CITY A DlsCoysReR.

Mason City has discovered the prac-
ticability of the interurban in Iowa and
was the pioneer builder of railroad
which is soon to become the principal
means of transportation in this state.
Mason City has been the first to dis
cover the practica blity of sand and
cement for street paving altho the &C.
tual discovery of this paving had pre-
viously been made at LIE Mars.
Mason City now becomes the dis
coverer of the practicability of the au-
tomobile bus in Iowa and has incor-
porated company to operate between
Clear Lake and Mason City. These
buses are to be found turnout the
suburban and rural districts of Eng
land and the continent and are today
doing large share of the street car
service of the cities of Washington and
New York. Mason City now adapts
them to rural Iowa.
If the farmers of Iowa only knew
that Mason Citys concrete pavement
could be laid nine feet wide at a cost
of $4,000 per mile and that this cost
on ten year assessments at S per cent
interest and road district extending
two miles in each direction would tax
the first quarter section only $50 per
year, the second $50 per year and the
next two $50 per year for principal
and interest, they would build them.
Then there would arise an automobile
bus service connecting all Iowa towns
caring for milk routes and country
produce. The farmers autos would run
in all weather. two loads of produce
could be hauled with the team now
required for one and land within the
district would Immediately jump SIS
to $50 per acre in value.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
REALLY NO PUZZLE AT ALL.
Erudite Editor Arises to Explain Why
Women Descend From Street
Cars the Wrong Way.

1T makes US tired" wrote the editor
OF the Hickory Ridge Missourian,
when we see some city newspaper
wondering why 1t is that a woman al
ways gets of street car the wrong
way. There amt no mystery about it
at all. Our wife explained it to us
years ago. and she never rode on a
street car but once in her life, when
she was visiting relations In Kansas
City. A woman gets OF street car
backward because she naturally grabs
her skirts with her left hand. That's
constitutional with woman. Then
she has to grab something with her
right hand to hold on to, and that's
the railing at the rear end of the car.
so When she steps off she has to face
the wrong way. You can't break
women OF that habit unless you make
them get OF on the left side Of the
street car. and If you did that It's just
as likely as not they'd be contrary
enough to grab their skirts with their
right hands. But there amt nothing
strange about the way they get of
now. Blamed II we don't think some
times that some of the stupidest men
In the world is working on the big
city papers. "-Chicago Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
The Joy OF GIVING.

Mr.. Rockefeller is happy, diffusely
happy and pleased with himself. He
gave away ten millions the other day
and has been telling the reporters that
he is filed with the JOY of giving. It's
a delightful sensation according to Mr..
Rockefeller that per,neates the entire
organism of the man who gives away
ten millions. We shall shall be obliged
to take Mr.. Rockefeller's word for so
much; he is about the only man who
has ever given away ten millions IN
one large swooping spectacular dona-
tion.
1t is good to get the money out Of
Rockefeller. 1t is well enough that he
shall feel the SNUG self approval and
seif satisfaction ne expresses to the re-
porters. Thus may we get more out
of him when his sense of high self ap-
proval pals or grows ragged around
the edges. The object is a worthy one
and the money may and doubtless will
be well used.
But as to the joy Of giving: It lacks
much in his case of the prime essen
tails Of charity. 1t is a long way from
the widows mite, a long way behind. It
lacks the element Of self sacrifice. Had
Mr.. Rockefeller given 100000, 600 he
could not even then claim that he had
sacrificed anything except a great pile
Of money of which he finds neither
pleasure nor need except the gratifica-
ton OF possession. Were he to sep
arate himself from fifty times the sum
he gave he would remain a multi mill
iionaire. He might keep his splendid
palaces, his private golf links, surround
himself with the extreme luxuries Of a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
DOWNWARD RsMsmh...1aE1.

President Taft has made it clear that
the republican party is pledged to
downward revision of the tariff. Most
of the people have known this all the
time and wonder and regret has been
that the president did not make this
known to the house and senate leaders
before they began to form their bill
They did know it, of course, for they
campaign speeches such as the one he
made at Des Moines, in which he
stated plainly that the Ohio tariff plank
adopted in the national platform
meant substantial revision downward
Men like Aldrich and Cannon have
known this all the time but the mis-
take Taft has made is in believing that
the public would get a square dealor the
party's promises be kept by such men
as the house and senate leaders unless
the big stick from the White House
was laid over their backs with the
utmost vigor.
The country is pleased, however, to
learn that the president has not de-
serted his campaign promises. Their
faith in the new presidents integrity
now remains mistaken They regret
that two bills have reached conference
neither oge of which can possibly de-
liver the promise of the party as to
downward revision and it is the ex-
pectation OF most ment that an un-
satisfactory compromise Will come To
the president for veto or signature as
he may decide
Present experience has shown that
trade has not been killed during a
tariff agitation for commercial revival
has taken place all over the country
while the special session has been in
progress, hence lit will follow that
should the president decide to veto an
unsatisfactory bill and put the tariff
revision back to congress to be con-
sidered in the regular session begin
ming in Decern Der. there would be no
serious harm done. Such a course
would mean salvation for the republi-
can party in many states and make the
president worthy successor of his
predecessor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

luxurious time and outside the figures
on his trial balances never know tina,
he had parted from an Incompetent
sible amount OF wealth.
When Murphy, the section hand, was
killed by q passing train the widow
and six children in the shanty by the
right o. way were in bad shape. They
hadn't dollar and little to eat in the
house. Finnegan, Toole. Tony and
Czechtichek dug down for a dollar
apiece. 1t was half they had in the
world and pay day ten days away The
head brakeman felt in his pockets He
found s17o and he gave the odd
change. Finnegan and Toole went
over to the corp house" with the money
and offered it awkwardly and shame
facedly because it wasn't more. There
was no SNUG self approval on their
Irish faces. They knew the desperate
need and the ''joy of giving" was
Swallowed by the desire to give more.
And vet when the Irish and the Italian
and the Polack stand before the General
Superintendent to render their account
who shall go down justified, Finnegan.
Toole. "Dago Tony and the husky"
or John d. Rockefeller? The men who
gave gladly as a duty and a delight
out of the depths of poverty and kindly
hearts attuned to human brotherhood
or the Millionaire whose tidings of
great joy of giving were offered to the
reporters on the magnificent stretches
of a private golf course and in the
shadow OF the most immense column
of tainted money" ever raised by one
man?
When man worth $4,000 parts
with a half dollar at time of the in
sistent need of others he does about
what Mr.. Rockefeller did when he
handed out his latest donation We do
not go into ecstacies over the liberality
of the $4,000 man who gives the half
dollar. Why over that of the bill
lionaire who gives ten million? And
why all the supreme JOY of giving
when one has given nothing that he
needs. can use or is likely to use?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
A RosLEY FABLE.
[Tama Herald


1t Is all right most Of the time for
the shoemaker to stick to his last, but
Mr.. Cityman moved from the me-
stitution weakened and Health broken
by Business Cares, and with Cash
worth $4,000. He settled near Grass
Vile, and bought Charlie Goodpas-
lures $50 farm for $4,000, and the
Neighbors all said Charlie ought tobe
Electrocuted or Lynched for stick
ing" Cityman so Rottenly.
Cityman fixed up the House and
Barns first; put Running Water and
Bathroom in the House, and read a
Whole Raft of Books on Farming.
Then he put up New Fences, cleared
away all Brush and made the Farm
look so Fine that Passersby referred
to it as The Park Farm"
Then Cityman got Busy on the soil.
He broke all the land, hiring the
Neighbors, who neglected their Own
Farms in order to Get Some of City
mans Money While It Lasted" He
plowed and narrowed, and Bought
all the Barnyard Manure the Neigh
bors would spare, and they would
spare every Last Ounce they had at
Fifty Cents a Ton. and he just simply
Covered the farm with the Fertilizer
Then he put IN Rye, Buckwheat and
Other Crops and plowed Them under
and Narrowed and removed Stones
and Put in Drains, and Went On
Like All Possessed" as the Grass
Williams said
Then he erased and Clovered and
Alfalfaed parts of the Farm, Put up
Silos, bought some 5000 a head mich
Cows and began to make Sanitary
and Certified milk which found a
Ready market in the City every
Month in the year. In the third year
after he put on the Cows he cleared
$6,750.25 on Milk. The Fourth year
he Cleared $4,000 and the place
looked so fine that another city man
Offered him $4,000 for 1t Spot Cash.
Cttyman had regained his Health and
Was Happy and he wouldn't Sell,
and today he is worth more Real
money than all the Grassvillians on
seventy-flve neighboring Farms
Moral-There are Ways To Do
Things, and If There is a Will where
there is a Way, and a Man Where
there is Will, 1t is Safe to Say that
things will be done Properly and
Probably.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
Topics of the Times

For the administration and prstec-
ton of the lab national forests m nine
teen states and territories and Alas
ka, the government spent $3.50, O98.02,
or about one and one half cents an
acre for the calendar year 1908. OF
this amount s5s2,les.1s was spent for
permanent improvements including the
construction of 3.40o miles of trails,
100 miles of wagon roads, 5000 miles
Of telephone lines and forty miles of
fire lines.
Five hundred million dollars worth
of American manufactures were ex-
ported TO Germany during the decade
ending with the fiscal year 1909. This
statement is the result of a careful
analysis Just made by the bureau of
statistics, of the department Of COM
merce and labor. of the trade of the
United States with Germany during
the decade ending with 1908; and
while that analysis does not include
figures for 1909, the available infor-
nation regarding that years trade is
sufficient to justify the above state
ment.
When any industry increases in pro-
portions the logical inference is that
ths enterprise is profitable Seven a1
the commonwealths Of the nation are
are credited each with over 1000 900
cows, New York leading with 1885,
600, Iowa second with $4,000, Wis
consin third with 1,4S2,00 and Illi-
nois, Pennsylvania. Texas and Mime
sofa ranking above 100000 COWS in
the order enumerated. Wisconsin
shows the largest increase in the past
twelve months Of the dairy industry,
the gain aggregating 10000 cows, Min
nesota second with gain of $1,000.
Illinois third with an increase of &c.
600 and Iowa fourth with an enlarge
ment of $1,000 cows. The state of New
York, with 1,7S9,0O0 cows in 1908,
made no quotable increase in the vol
ume Of the dairy industry.
A woman 81 years old has the best
garden in Benton county and tends 1t
herself. 1t is 10ox14o feet, pretty near
ly the size Of two city lots; and here
in Marshalltown and elsewhere wom-
en- more than a half century younger
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
When the Children Are Awav

When the children are away we forget
the noise they made,
We forget the signs for peace that es-
capped us while they played:
We forget how much we longed to be
free to leave it all,
And how lonely we become when the
night begins to fall!
When the children are away, moved
to no more murmurings,
We forget the piercing shrieks and the
marred and broken things.
And the clock SO loudly ticks as the
night falls, still and black.
That it seems as if it tried in its grief
to call them back.
When the children are away ghosts of
pleasures that are fled
Seem to hover in the rooms and around
each little bed;
Home is but an empty word. and how
distant seems the day
That shall bring them shouting home
when the children are away,
$. E. kiser
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
MEs-REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILTOwN IOWA, JULY II 1909

refuse to look after the back end Of a
single lot and throw the burden upon
husbands. Mrs. F'elkner, of Benton,
would be a chautauqua attraction
which would lead men to close the
business places and attend her appear
ance in body.
Miss Edith Mildred Cash, Of Linn
county, was married to Mr.. Fri Myer
Light the other day over at Lisbon.
This sounds like one of the most salts
factory matrimonial ventures ever
1oated in the state.
The Northwood Index is pleading
that the children be permitted to go
barefoot. Why? Is there any way to
prevent children going barefoot?
AS regards hog prices the breeder
Is satisfied with the adage there is
plenty of room at the top"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

ques Bonhomme"-good fellow; and .
Cousin Michel is the nickname BY
which the German is known to CONT
mental nations; Mynheer Closh--an
abbreviation Of Nicholas-is the name
applied to Hollanders; the Switzer re-
3oices in the appellation of Colin
Tampon.
And we all know Uncle Sam. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
WHAT THE VOTERS THINK.
Newton Record.1

A good many republican congress-
men are said to be greatly worried over
'nelr prospects for reelection i.
would not have required much conces-
sion to the progressive republicans to
nave conciliated them so as to have
presented solid front to the enemy
ooth In the vote on the tariff bill and
IN Inc approaching campaign rho
eohtemptuous treatment accorded such
men as Dolliver and Cummins did as
lhuch harm as the schedules in the tar
IN Dill. A large per cent of the party,
II not an actual majority, thinks that
these men were right and they do not
IKE to have them treated as tho they
represented an absolutely worthless
element. Neither do they like the idea
that the republican party is party
which enforces absolute obedience 20
would-pe leaders.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
nd we all know Uncle Sam.
Help for Those Who Have Stomach
Trouble.

After doctoring for about twelve
years for bad stomach trouble, and
spending nearly five hundred dollars
for medicine and doctors fees, I pur-
chased my wife one box of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets,
which did her so much good that she
continued to use them and they have
done her more good than all of the
medicine bought before.-SAMUEL
BOYER, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine
is for sale by all druggists. Samples
free
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
No. AItoaethsr Bad.

we once casually knew an old pro.
zane, wicked, and rreligious lawyer,
and we did not like him at all. on
one occasion the wealthy relatives Of
a man who had committed a heinous
CRIME went to this lawyer to employ
MIN to defend this man. He gruf1y
replied IN substances: II need money
as badly as any of the lawyers, but
you can't raise enough to employ me
10 defend that man." Since then our
respect for that old lawyer has been
materially enlarged.-Petty (Tex.}
Enterprise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

er. There is shortage Of help In
Cedar Rapids this year and those who
nave work which must be done are
giad to press those desirable young
men Into service. The young men will
never regret 1t. The willingness to
Work is one of the tests that must be
applied to every man who Is begin
ming life for himself. If the willing
ness is there success will come, for
labor is the keynote to success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
NleknamIna Nations.

Like individuals, the nations Of the
earth have nieknames. Some are an
propriate. some are not.
Englishmen, for instance, are called
John Bull" That's all right, because
they have the pluck Of the brute" A
Scotsman is Sandy" an Irishman
Paddy" from his national patron
saint, st. Patrick, while an ancient
nursery rhyme proclaims that "Tafy
was Welshman."
The Frenchman calls h;,nse1f "rac.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

Many people with chronic throat and
lung trouble have found comfort and
relief in Foley's Honey and Tar as it
cures stubborn coughs after other
treatment has failed. L. NJ. Ruggles,
Reasnor. Iowa, writes: 'The doctors
said 1 had consumption, and got no
better until took Foley's Honey and
Tar. 1t stopped the hemorrhages and
pain in my lungs and they are now
as sound as a bullet" Mcbride 4 viii
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
THE LODGES.
"A MASONIC NOTICES
w Visitors always welcome.

~ y sASAeSAS always WSlCUIu0.
Mail over 1861 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1913 A. r. q A.
NJ. regular communication Friday ev-
enlng, July is, O'clock p. M G. Hoeclk
w. M. NJ, H. s. Lawrence, Secy.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. as, r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday, July 10.
G. H. Boggie. H. p.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL R. & q
M.-Stated assembly Monday, July 49,
p. m.,A
A. b. Meeker. 7. I. N.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CONfIANDERY NO.
80 K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
ening, July 20, at o'clock sharp.
F. M. Wilbur, e. G.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. =.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, Aug.
IL, at s p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. W. N.
Edna c. Fularton. secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
ON INVESTIGATION.


Eoltor David Brant thinks that both
iowa senators will be retired from Of
nee as the result of their activity in
opposition to the Aldrich tariff pro-
gram Diligent inquiry among the rank
ana f1le of Iowa republicans discloses
the fact that possibly one in twenty of
them would be willing to second the
motlon. Brother Brant has not found
out vet just how lonesome he Is.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
THE DIFFERENCE.
tThompson Courier.1


TWO drunken roughs near Ban
croft entered a farmyard, drove the
women folks around and threw
beer bottles at them, pounded up
the farmer when he interfered and
then assaulted the 17-year-old son
when the boy tried to help his father.
These rouEhs were fined $50 and costs.
In the Anamosa penitentiary Is a boy
Of IL serving a fifteen year sentence
for stealing IA cents to buy food with.
And this is Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

Pineules-new Kidney remedy-are
for all diseases of the kidneys and
bladder. They act promptly in all
cases OF lame back, rheumatic pains
Inflammation. Of the bladder, urinary
disorders and weak kidneys. Sold by
B. A. Morgan's drug gtore.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
SAMMTS' FITNESS.
TSac Sun.1

State Senator j. U. Sammis, of Lee
Mars, has attained the coveted dis
tinction OF election to the office Of
grand exalted ruler of the Brother
hood Of the Protective Order of Elks
That is a position Sammis is emf
nently qualified to fill. He is a brill
liant speaker and is thoroughly in
sympathy with the characteristics Of
the order.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
Iona Newspapers
BEAT THE PHoNoGRAPH.
GBurt Monitor.1

IOUTt NIONlIOr.J
They say by holding jug three
inches away from the mouth and then
singing into it that it will sound like a.
Huh! That's nothing.
We've got fellows right here in Burt
that can hold jug to their lips and
half an hour later make more noise
than half dozen monographs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
REVISION MEANT DOWNWARD.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]


lCouncil Bluffs Nonpareil.1
The campaign last year for the cleo
ton OF a president, a house of rep
resentatives ard a bunch of senators
was not prosecuted on bubble. Tbs
country understand that the promise
of tariff revision was a promise Of
downward revision Indeed, it was not
until after election that it was pub
Icy suggested by anybody that the
term revision did not imply downward
revision. Downward revision was what
mad been sought. 1t was in response
to demand for downward revision
that the Chicago platform promised
revision. The author of the tariff
plank of tina. platform may have had
double meanings In mind. The mass
OF delegates to the convention did not;
neither did the people at large, nor the
rank and file of the republican party.
the platform was accepted in good
faith and interpreted In the light of AL
the circumstances competent for con-
sideration Herewith. In common with
the voters of the country, Mr.. Taft
and other candidates standing on that
platform, int, preted it to mean down.
ward revision. A mere intimation a;
that time that the construction nov
offered would be offered at .nis stag,
of the game would have left the repuh-
lican party at the post, the country's
distrust of Bryan not
withstandjng.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
IOWA OPINIONS AND Rn1zs.

''It is getting so selling LIQUOR to
make easy money has its trials, and
there is nothing to indicate that there
VIII be change in the state of affairs"
remarks the Clarksville Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
CEDAR RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOL
BOYS,
ICedar Rapids Repuhlican

ICeudT fSapIuS Republlcan.1
There are some high school bows
in Cedar Rapids that will be heard
from in the future. Instead of loafine.
they are working this summer. They
are helping lay the street railway
tracks in west Cedar rapids. They
are big. husky fellows and their ex-
perience Will -make them, still huski-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
Painters Collie.

4amma-What's the matter with
Fldo?
Tommie-oh. I WAS playing with
my soldiers and he came in and in.
sisted upon licking the whole army.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17

The first application of Manzan, the
great Pile remedy. will almost instant
ly give relief. Continued use of Man
Fan for a few days will effect a cure.
The tube in which it Is put up has a
small nozzle attached, so that there is
no inconvenience whatever. ManZan is
Tor the cure of any kind Of Piles. 1T is
sold here by B. a. !Morgan's drug
store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
Be Not Too Ready with rx.,,..,

Be Not Too Ready with Excuses,
mat man who always is searching
Tor excuses for his shortcomings is a
ougoear In business life. To find an
excuse almost always involves some
one or more of his fellows. To have
MS excuses accepted tends to place
his fellows more or less under CEN
sure. and whether the censure be just
or unjust, friction results Inevitably.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-17
A chanaa.

Some Of the boys who used to hops
for red-top boots now have sons who
yearn for carmine touring caYs.-Dal
las News.