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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

flicker, brown thrasher-all birds
beneficial to mana ruffled grouse
and young chicken. Digestion with
the birds is a rapid process, and the
destruction wrought among song,
game and domestic birds by single
pair OK either species Of "acc:p:ters
with young to feed may be estimated
with this one instance Of nesting
feeding as basis.
A young Cooper hawk was taken
from nest by H. Justin Roddy. It
ate its own weight in food every day.
When just able to fly 1t escaped from,
its cage and before 1t had gone 200
yards 1t struck down and killed q do
mestic pigeon In full flight.
The bird student, even though his
life II. devoted to the protection Of the
songsters does not fail to have sort
OF "sneaking admiration" for the race
Of hawks. Freebooters and murderers
that they are, their lives are typical
of the freedom OF the fields and the
wtidneas Of the woodlands. There is
charm about their very boldness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
THE ROW AT DIES MONIES.

Des MoineS is having almost pre-
cisely the same sort of time that &C.
Cured between the monkey and the
parrot. The capital city has attract
ed the attention of the universe in
more ways than one. She adopted a
plan of government concededly an adj
vance over the system in vogue, and
drew attention her way. She has
never lost that attention. She couldn't.
From that time on she has held the
position of a cat fight on the roof at
midnight. Nobody has been able to
sleep. And the caterwauling is now
at its height with little sign of cessa-
ton.
She elected commission the mem
bers of which seem to be honest in
dividually, honest enough to suspect
each other of all kinds of dereliction.
Like the company at the famous rattle
given by one Patrick O'Brien and inn
mortalized in song, "They started in
to fighting, andye thruly may behave
they'd have killed him av they'd got
him on the flure.' Donnybrook would
be a cottage prayer meeting in COM
parison 10 the meeting of the COM
mission. The conjunction of a St. Pat.
rick's Day parade with an Orange
counter demonstration would look like
session of the Ladies' Aid Society
and boiler factory would be silence
itself par example.
! Now, 1t isn't the fault OF the plan
The plan is good, SO good that i
seems to be in advance of the com
missioners. 1t is really bushes
way of conducting a city corporation
/ It ought TO work. and will work if tn
commission fits itself to the plan in
stead of attempting to At the plan t
| the commission. Des Moines is ever
now better city than it was.
might be a great city If it would for
get petty personal ends and enmitie
and work TO the plan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
MAKE The COMPARISON.

Some figures given out from the bu-
reau of education may we'll be COM
pared with other figures just below
them which come from the census bu-
reau as to the wealth of the country.
"a few minutes occupied with a pencil
and sheet of blank paper will afford
an idea of the number of children in
the schools and the wealth that is
charged with the support Of the
schools. When the comparison has
been made then take the average
monthly wage of the rural and city
school teacher and enter it in the com
parison between the number benefited,
and the wealth that is able to pay de-
cent wages for the is essential SER
vice.
The figures with reference to the
school system of the country, as sup
piled by the bureau of education show
some remarkable and interesting facts.
The salaries paid to superintendent
and teachers in the public schools, for
instance, which amounted to 80 mill
ION dollars in 1870, Sc millions in 1880
and 90 millions in 1890, aggregated 1873
millions in 1900, and 1877 millions in
1907. The number of pupils enrolled
In the public schools in 1907 was 49,
$4,000, and the average daily attend
ance ID, S1S 900; while the students If
colleges, universities and schools Of
technology, who numbered 80 thousand
in 1880, Sc thousand in 1890, and 81
Thousand in 1900, aggregated 100 thou.
Z sand in 1907.
4 The wealth Of the United States ii
1850, according to the figures of tn
a sncus offife was billions of dollars
P.Aeaking in round terms; in 1860, Il
~ eiions: in 1870, 80 billions; in 1886
e zhh billions; in 1890, s5 billions. ii
- 70. Ss.. billions; and In 1904, LOT hi,
40s; the average wealth per capt.
Ma.g. according to the same author
in 1850, 1908; in 1850, s514; in 1870
.7so: in 1880. $3.50; in 1890, s1,oss; j
n. 81 1890, $1,fe5; and in 1904, $3.50. TIL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

and there is something lacking in that
landscape which does not have the Nv
ing interest added by the sight OF q
soaring bird waiting its opportunity
to strike down some covering quarry.
The sharpshinned hawk when
hungry will abandon his habit OF
stealthy approach from behind cover
Of trees and will attack in the open,
even though the human enemy be In
plain view and armed. One OF these
birds came into the city and struck
down a valuable carrier pigeon which
was within a few yards Of its home
cote after a fight Of 800 miles. Scores
of persons were awaiting the return
of the pigeon and some Of its fellows,
but with q bold disregard OF their
presence the pirate "sharp shin" came
like a bullet and struck its prey.
While riding on an electric car IN
the very heart of the city one day at
noon l saw a Cooper hawk descend
into flock Of English sparrows feed
ing in the street. The car was NOV
ing SO rapidly that it was impossible
to tell whether the hawk secured the
dinner that he deserved for his bold.
ness.
The accipters rarely miss their In.
tended victim. / have seen other
species try and try again only to be
disappointed of their prey. From my
amplified field notes have this de-
scription Of the chase Of pigeon
hawk (Falco Columbarius) after q
white-throated sparrow.
"A pigeon hawk in pursuit Of q
white-throat passed over the road just
in front Of the horse We were driving
We stopped the horse instantly. The
sparrow was leading its pursuer about
yard. Neither bird uttered a sound
It was the silence Of death, and verify
the white-throat seemed to be passing
through the valley Of the shadow.
I'm full flight they swept on fol
about 80 yards. Then the sparrow
doubled like hare. It passed dow1
under the hawk as though it had
turned q somersault and actually
seemed to fly for a moment breast up
ward. The pursuer used his wings
and tail as brakes and doubled will
The white-throat, but 1t lost about two
yards distance. 1t gained rapidly
however, and by the time the middle
Of the road was reached on the return
Journey the sparrow was leading b,
a narrow margin.
''In some manner the little fellow
managed to elude the hawks talon:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
KILL cRoP-EATiNa RODENTS AND
FEW ARE PERSISTENT cHicK..
EN- sTEALERs.
THE INJURIOUS SPECIES
SLY ABOUT THEIR WORK
Foray Hen Roosts Secretly, While
Those Who Fly in Plain View Are
lnoffensive to the Interests Of tho
Asriculturist-oood and Bad Hawks
Described.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union.l


ogists' Union.)
Copyright, by Joseph B.. Bowles)
Mans hand is raised constantly
against the hawk. The hawks ap-
proach to a farmyard is the signal
for the taking down of the shotgun.
Man is slow to learn, and nine times
out of ten the hawk-killing husband
man Stays one OF his best friends.
Out of the 73 species and sub
species Of hawks occurring in America
only six are injurious, and yet in the
popular mind every hawk that shows
on the horizon is hen hawk" and
deserving Of death. OF the half-dozen
injurious species only three are com.
mon. They are the goshawk (accipi.
ter atricapillus), the Cooper hawk
(accipiter cooperiD and the sharp
Skinned hawk, (accipiter velox).
These birds are the bold buccaneers
of the field. Their flight is of an ar
rows swiftness. They will turn and
double. stop short, thread the inter
lacing branches of trees, and seize the
quarry, which they have started, with
unerring precision.
The sharp-shinned and the Coope,
hawk will harry poultry yard ant
kill half the chickens within the in
closure. and do it unseen. in the
meantime some red-tailed or red
shouldered hawk will come into sigh
on roaring wing on the outlook fo
crop-eating rodents, and down Gomez
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
LET HARLAN SERVE HIS TIME.

A former Iowa man is appealing to
the senators and congressman OF iowa
t. use the influences of the state TO IN
duce the president to pardon hlm 1or
n crime of which he has been adjudged
guilty by every court in which it has
been tried from district in Florida
up 20 the supreme court of the United
States. He was general manager of
lumber company that appears 10 have
assisted its dividends by the practice
of peonage AT any rate this general
manager has been so convicted and will
have year and half 70 serve in pris-
or unless the president pardons him.
His appeal TO the Iowa delegation is
denial of personal responsibility.
It is weak plea and ought not be
needed. If anyone on earth is person
ally responsible for the acts of any
company its general manager would
be indicated If he didn't know that
peonage was practiced he should have
known it. It is morally certain that he
did know it if he was worth his wages.
THE kind of personal responsibility
that knows all about illegally while
vit may be concealed and covered UP to
"a profit and knows nothing when it
unpopular for some years. The bank
director who does not know what it is
his business to know, the official who
is conveniently blind to the acts of his
eubordinates while there is something
of one kind or another in it for him
self and his coterie, is not a popular
character today. The general manager
of railroads is the responsible party
not the section foreman.
So with this general manager whc
has beea caught working a re-estab
l1ishment of the institution of slavery
The state of Iowa will 60 well to lie
him and the state of Florida and tn
United States of America settle til
question between themselves. A Grim
inal is not an object for Iowa in
reference simply because he once live
in the state and because ne has rel
ative or two within its borders. 1t
not to be supposed that he has bee
unfairly dealt with by the courts. TIL
fact that his case went to the las
snneal is avid anoe enr,1 9Th that he ha
as good defence as is possible to MAX
He was convicted ana it must be as
sumed that he is guilty. Let him sery
his comparatively light sentence fl
his crime against human liberty with
out interference by Iowa. If the sta
has influence TO exert let it be in fave
of men who have kept within the Law
of the land and of humanity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

fer at mans hands for the sins Of tho
relatives. the best known are the red
shouldered, the red-tailed and the
broad-winged hawks. They are con-
spicuous objects as they sail about
far up against the blue Of the sky, and
it is this very conspicuousness that is
responsible for their persecution. The
villain accipiters hide, while the CONF
paratively harmless buteos sail into
plain view and bear the burden Of the
farmers wrath.
The officials of the biological survey
worked trying to devise means to
abate the plague Of prairie dogs. which
have increased greatly in numbers
recently. The red-tailed and his
brother hawks dearly love prairie
dogs. The farmer and the ranchman
killed the hawks, thinking that by so
doing they were saving their chickens.
The prairie dogs began to multiply in
the absence Of the hawks and man
found out once more that he should
not try to interfere with the nice adj
iustment Of natures economy.
| The three hawks named are as timid
| IN many ways as their cousins accipt-
ter are bold. As 2 matter Of fact.
these hawks are cowardly. Possessed
of weapons with which they can kill
an ordinary antagonist. they will fee
screaming before the attack Of q purJ
pie martin, q king bird, . Jay or a
crow.
Not long since saw huge red
tailed hawk sitting on fencepost at
the corner Of field. A crow was
perched in a tree overhead. Sudden
ly corvus shot down and gave the red
tail thump with his wing and a
stroke with his bill The hawk took
the affront with most unbecoming
meekness. Had it particle Of spunk
it could have killed the crow, but the
towards heart was under its feathers.
Time after time the crow returned
to the attack, while the red-tail made
no attempt at retaliation, contenting
itself with clumsily shifting its posi-
ton occasionally, to enable 1t to
turn the other cheek" I finally put
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
THE LODGES.
I MASONIC NOTICES.
wVisifnrs alwaus yx,nlcnYnA

:
XHvisitors always welcome.
V\Hall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10s A. F. & A.
NJ, work on third degree Friday eve
ming, May 7th. II. g. Hoeck, w. N.
NJ, H. S. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80, r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday, May II.
8 p. m.
q. 81. Bosgie. H. p.
I. S. Willard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. & 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. May II.
9 p. m,
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDENnAR CoMMANDERY
No. 80, K. Especial conclave Mon
day evening, May 10th at 1880 sharp.
Order of the Temple.
Fred NJ. Wilbur, 2. G.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
| CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. y.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday. May
IL. .. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing, W. II.
Edna G. Fularton. secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

wealth production on farms, accord
ing to the estimate Of the, Department
of Agriculture, was in 1897, $4,250, 000,-
900, and in 1907, s7,412, 100000. Among
the valuable articles produced on the
farm are included wheat, Of which the
farm value in 1908 was set down at
SIT million dollars, a larger sum than
in any previous year in the history OF
our production; cotton, of which the
value in 1906. the year of largest VAL
uation, was 722 millions; hay, in 1907,
744 millions; and corn. in 1908, 1915
millions-these being in all cases VAL
ues on the farm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts ofO1iniious
Balaam Story a Joke?
IEradarinL L Hnnlxins

In the twenty second chapter of
Numbers there is material for a dozen
jokes. Nobody has been more ready
to raise a laugh at Balaams talking
mule than infidels in and out of the
pulpit. And it is one of the strangest
things in the world that the church
has allowed its pastors to make fun
Of the bible SO long. No one need
think that the humble brute the hot
tempered prophet rode was given the
power to talk like human being. But
all the same there is nowhere near as
much harm likely to result from TAX
ing the story literally as from not tax
ing it at all. OF course, the real aim
of all who do nothing but laugh at it
is that we shall cut it out Of the bible
altogether. But before we stick our
scissors into it too deeply let US stop to
ask ourselves if we are such fools as
some tell US we are for thinking it is
anything but an immense joke Is it
not fact that animals talk? Does
the bark of a faithful dog mean moth
ing? Do you forget how on a dark
night your horse stopped and looked
around at you, and when you got out
of the wagon to Investigate you found
the bridge had been wafhed out? In
some such way may not Balaam's mule
have spoken to him?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

extended ready to strike, and to get
into the bush-grown field on the right
Of the road. There it doubled again,
but the hawk, prepared for the maneu-
yer, lost little distance In bringing up
sharply and making the turn to follow
In the Withdrawals wake. Hunter
and hunted reached the field at the
left once more, and there, as If by an
inspiration, the sparrow shot head
downward into a tangled thicket Of
weeds and briars There 1t was safe
and the hawk knew it,
During this chase the hawk paid no
attention to the human observers re-
moved only few feet from the path
Of its pursuit Had it been a Cooper
hawk that had taken up the chase the
white-throat never again would have
sung its sweet spring song.
OF the hawks which commonly sui.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

the shotgun. There Is a report, fol-
lowed by a chuckle, as the farmer
holds up stricken hawk and declares
his lost fowls avenged.
Somewhere at the woods edge sits
the real marauder, finishing his latest
meal of spring chicken and planning
new forays. The next day and the
next more poultry is stolen, while the
owner wonders.
1t took a long time and much pa
tent research on the part of Uncle
Sans officials of the biological survey
to separate the hawks into the classes
of Injurious and noninjurious species
The birds were killed by the hundreds
and the contents of their stomachs
were examined Nine Nesting Cooper
hawks were found to have been fec
within q few hours q nuthatch, 9
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

alism is growing and It will be worse
before it gets better The churches are
drifting away from the doctrines Of re-
incarnation"
DR.. Patton said he agreed with the
pope in his protest against the extern
sion of liberal theology, but thought
his holiness had needlessly exposed
himself to criticism in CHASING liberal
theology with agnosticism.
when the modernists protest
against papal infallibility." concluded
Dr. Patton, ST agree with them; when
they minimize such great truths as
the doctrine of atonement or the per-
son of Christ, then emphatically dis
agree"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
TIMES MARSHALLTOWyN, IOWA, MAY 1903

provements. The increasing production
OF wealth in the northwest demands
improved railway facilities, and it is
gratifying to find the roads are awake
to their opportunities. But the farmer
continues to haul his freight over the
same old ruts and thru the same mud
holes. Why doesn't he take lesson
from the railroads?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Grundy Democrat quotes Alex
Campbell, carrier on route No. l out Of
Grundy Center as saying there are
twenty three farmers on his route who
have King drags and who know how
to use them. "Alex, who is most en-
thusiastic drag man, has been talking
in and out of season for two years and
hts efforts are beginning to bear fruit,
explains the Democrat. You can't
blame a man who has to make road
from % to 80 miles over country roads
six days every week rain or shine be-
cause he interests himself in better
roads. He makes his living on the road
the same as the farmer makes his liv-
ing in the field. If he is awake the
farmer who finds his land bad will try
to improve it. It is for the same reason,
that the men who make their living
on the roads are pushing the King
drag"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
Topics of the Times

The thrifty little city of Glidden is /
unfortunate in its fire loss /
es. Twice within a short period it has
suffered from disastrous conhagra-
tions. Better construction and better
fire protection seem to be indicated.
AS illustrating the "cussedness of
inanimate things" baseball struck an
Iowa catcher and rendered him speech
less. Why didn't it hit the coacher?
It is to be hoped that Mesdames
Abdul Hamid got her Easter hats be-
fore the crash came.
Omaha is voting with machines and
everyone but the election clerks and
judges is delighted.
The anti-saloon league proposes to
publish the names of all signers of the
saloon petition of consent at Council
Bluffs Well, why should any one OBJ
ject?
/ seventy-cent corn and high priced
hay makes the grass look greener by
comparison.
The sun is making a noise like
straw hats.
The State Charities Aid Association
lof New York says: The average loss
to the community by the death from
tuberculosis of a wage earning male
is about $4,000" How widely apart es-
Inmates may be is shown by the New
York State Charities Aid Association s
statement that "a careful estimate in
dicates that tuberculosis costs the
people Of this state $4,000 year.
Similar estimates have set the animal
loss to Illinois from this disease al
/ sss. 600 900; 10 Ohio, s15,00oo0o; tic
$ Maryland s1o,ooo,o0o; to New York
: City. s15.o0O0Oo.
If congressman and senators will
get out and do full days work as
those from Iowa are doing. nobody
will object to raise of wages.
The chairman Of the ways ans
: means committee of the lower house
of congress states that 20 cents out o
q every dollar of the government rev
enue are expended to provide for ex
pected wars or to pay the bilsl TO
y wars that have already taken place
> And yet this is a so-called era O
5 peace. Let us see: The navy will cos
r this year the tidy little sum of s122,
/ 100000, the war department $4,000,
o. 900, and s165 100000 will be spent il
s payment of pensions. Somehow GU
n neighbors make lots of trouble and ex
a pense.
: When one man "gets sore' at an
l. other the best ointment for his woun
IN is forgetfulness.
"a The demand of the democrats frol
40 the cattle raising states for protectio
to hides is not so remarkable as til
attitude of their party associates upo
certain other schedules. The demo
40 cratic national platform adopted {
ne Denver contains an explicit. declare
IS, ton in favor Of free lumber, yet thel
Is is not a democrat who has been hear
30, from thus far in the discussion Of IL
in bill who has not, in effect, repudiate
- that plank and come out squarely fl
n a duty on lumber-not the rate pr
- vided for in the bill, but the high
- present rate.
In Northwestern railroads are said
he be planning to spend millions in in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

both birds to flight, but the hawk was
nothing the gamer thereby, for corvus
followed and buffeted him in midair.
once found the body of small
hawk which had met strange fate.
The bird was hanging by the tendons
of its wing from the barb of wire
fence. Unquestionably 1t had been
pursuing It's quarry and had struck
the wire strand in full fight. The
impetus acquired had been such that
hawk had swung twice around the
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