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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
WESTON REACHED NEW CAMBRIA
Walked Until O'Clock in Morning
and Covered 40 Miles.

New Cambria, Kan, May 12.-Tired
and footsore. but with enthusiasm I'M
diminished, after he had walked 40
miles yesterday, Edward Payson Yves
ton, the pedestrian, arrived here at 2
o'clock this morning and went imme-
diately to bed. He slept later than
usual this morning. but again took up
his walk westward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
Welington Woman Fatany Rurned.

Wellington, Kan. May 12-Mrs.
Harry Bolyard. was fatally burned
Tuesday afternoon while attempting to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
CANNING FACTORY FOR lola.
Robert Atkinson of TopI1ea Is Pro-
noting the Proposition.

lola, Kan, May 12.-Robert Atxin-
son of Topeka, who is handling the
canning factory proposition in lola,
arrived in the city Monday and began
preliminary arrangements to begin
active operation in the way of re-
modelling the building at the Santa Fe
yards and West street.
The contract for this Improvement
is to be let at once. Special machinery
is to be installed in the factory. It
will arrive as soon as the factory can
ship 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
BALLoT-sTuFFINe NOT NEW
Old Colonial Records Show Act Wa,
Attempted In 1856 - Tho
Punishment.

It is not necessary to give up our
pious faith in the superior political
morality Of our ferefathers when we
learn that even in the FIRST generation
OF Bostonians was found a ballot STUFF.
fer.
The same record which reveals this
break records also its instant repudi.
alton and punishment. 1t was on the
fourteenth day of January, 1855. rs
years after the settlement of Boston,
according to the quaint records pre-.
served of the kings chapel, that a
referendum was held as to whether
part OF the land should be alienated.
The old chronicle runs: "The In.
habitants proceeded to bring In their
votes; and when the Selectmen were
receiving 'em at the Door of the Hall
they observed one of the Inhabitants.
VIZ, John Pigeon, to put in about a
dozen with the word Yea wrote on
all of 'em, being charged with so do.
Ing. ne acknowledged it. and was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
Designed by Thon., +. West se,ue wash

Although the resemblance between
the house shown in the above photo
graph and the ordinary summer bunga-
low Is striking. the design presented is
for an all the year round home. Size,
2S by 80 feet: height of first story, Q
feet; attic. s feet The exterior may
be shingled from the ground to the ga
bles. which vii appear well covered
with plaster. Five good rooms are pro-
yided for the first floor, with two rooms
in the attic suitable for bedrooms. By
cutting out the back chamber the din
ing room can be turned into q large
living room, with the parlor for q,
den" The house ia economical to-
build and on a wide plot with open
views all around makes an attractive
home. Estimate of 5000 as the out
side cost of construction includes base
ment in concrete. porcelain plumbing,
gas and electric lighting and furnace
heat. THOMAS L. WEST,
Architect.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07

bi-centenary has just been comment
orated-gave EZRA" ether" "etiology''
and the like simplifying the initial
diphthong to a single letter. They sim
ilarly gave "phenix" and frenzy and
tho, and 'thro',"' and innumerable
other forms which are now proposed as
novelties. They also gave ''soder" for
solder" and "swop" for swap" and
"skain" for "skein" and "hoop" for
"whoop." Some OF those forms have
continuously been used ever since that
time Some have been abandoned.
Some have been dropped for a time
and then taken up again. We have no
doubt that there will be similar
changes in the future. But the poiat
which we wish to re- emphasize, for the
hundredth time. is that these changes
have been effected gradually by COM
mon consent, thru usage, and have not
been arbitrarily and artificially die
tated, after the manner which is now
employed.
But this present method is by no
means new. Nearly a century ago
Noah Webster essayed a radical and
artificial revision of English spelling,
but he himself had presently to aban-
which he at first tried to make Nor
was he the first. We recalled the other
day a remark of Addisons two centu-
ries old. about attempts to Simplify"
English spelling and to adjust the
spelling to the pronunciation, which"
said Addison, would have COMPOUNDED
all our etymologies Now, the sim
plifed speller" which the author of
no ~ h =
Sir Roger L'Estrange, the noted PAM
pleteer of Charles Ms reign. So there
was a controversy much like the pres
ent away back in the seventeenth CEN
tury, which came to grief just as Web
ster's did and as, we think, the present
will
We do not, as our correspondent
seems to think, hold that no progress
has been made in photography. Mu,h
progress has been made and will
doubtless continue TO be made tho
we hope it will never include some of
the detestable forms which are pro-
posed. What we do hold is that such
progress must be made by natural de-
velopment and not by artificial revolu-
ton. The failure of all attempts to es-
tablish an artificially constructed and
scientific universal language should
suggest the futility of trying artificial
ly and arbitrarily-no matter how
"scientifically"-to remodel an existing
language Mans speech is too intimate
a part of his own very self to be sub
ject-even in spelling-to the dicta-
tons of alien artifice or to any direc-
ton which is not at least as much sub
jective as objective.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
EFT TIL, BLACKBOARD.

"A strong movement is on foot headed
by the teachers and educators Of the
new school to abolish the blackboard
1t is charged with dust, germ propo-
cation and a category of faults and
vices sufficient to put anything but a
saloon or bucletshop out of business
Just the sa4lie some of us would be
sorry to see it go. Not because we
need blackboard but because OF
associations" The blackboard was ar
institution when a slate cost half dol
lar. lead pencil ten cents and a writ
ing tablet as thick as board was I'm.
known at any price.
OF course you remember, every.
body remembers all that happened a.
school-and then some. You remembe,
the anxiety among urchins to erase the
board" Perhaps you remember still
farther back when "erasers' were I'm.
known, as such, and a piece Of sheep.
skin nailed woody side out on a piece
OF pine board sufhced to remove tn.
marks of chunks of chalk as big a.
marbles. Probably you may rernembe,
and possibly with reason that tn,
hickory pointer usually rested abov,
the black board. You used it when Won
Explained an example" and the teache,
used y Nassa you didn't explain. Go
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
Topics of the Times

"If Joe made the trade" well honest
Indian do you think Uncle Joe" would
pass anything up that delivered the
goods?
The geological snaps say we have
coal enough on hand to last a little over
1000 years; but before you get bolster
Gus and gay over the information look
in your coal bin.
The copyrights are only the by-pro-
ducts of polar discovery. But this is
a day of profitable by-products.
Mr.. Wright seems to have made hit
in New York tho he was caught out
on fly.
Someday it maybe that President
Taft will meet up with that old sweet
heart OF mis-. Miss Tariff Revision.
Mind this: No police force, Y. NJ.
c. A, settlement worker, justice of the
peace, truant officers or what not can
keep your boy straight if you neglec.
him. The boy business begins at the
hearthstone
Ir the death of Chang Chin -tung the
Chinese empire has lost one Of It's
greatest men of the present age. and,
indeed, one who is to be classed among
the greatest men of all ages. A con-
-
in consequence during the period of
Lis ascendancy was kept somewhat in
the back gropund. and after Lis death
he was already too old to take the ac-
tive part in affairs wor which his abil-
tiles fitted him. Despite these circum-
stances, he did more for the welfare Of
China than almost any other man OF
his time. He had the distinction 81
being scrupulously honest. even in the
worst welter of corruption.
80 you're going to introduce base
ball among the prisoners? I don't APP
prove. What will become of dis
cipline?"
IF a man gets too obstreperous," re-
piled the warden, confidently, "we'l
make him umpire" = Philadelphia
Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
Novelty in Spelling Reform
New York Tribune. ]


The correspondent who, In a letter
to the editor which we print today,
takes exception to our remark that
the advocates Of simplified Spelling
lack even dubious merit of novelty in
their aims and methods" appears to suf-
fer some little misrepresentation. We GER
tainly did not mean to imply that lack
OF novelty was the only or the chief
ground for our disapproval Of "simpli-
he'd spelling, or, indeed. that novelty
In itself was an important quality. The
suggestion which we wished to convey
was that the spelling reformers OF gu,
time were merely aiming at something
which had often been aimed at before
and-most to the point-were doing II
by a method which had often beer
employed, but which had invariably
been unsuccessful
Many of the "simplifled" forms which
are now put forward as il they were
new inventions are, in fact very ,ld
dictionaries Of Johnson's hme-and has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
IOWA OPINIONS and NOTES,

Where, in popular opinion, does
Mr.. Taft stand at the PRESENT." asks
the Sioux City Tribune and goes on In
analysis with a certain element he is
more popular. Advocates Of gifts OF
privilege. possibly without warrant,
count him with them. With him they
count at least upon all the accumu-
lated advantages in the law. Plnchot in
his Seattle address expressed univer-
sal feeling as to this when he said
strict construction Is unfair to the null
titude for only the rich can fight over
technicalities. A lot of discredited
leaders in his party see resurrection
for them in Standing by the admins
t-atfon." But with that larger and in
creasing element that stood with
Roosevelt. who would move forward
who wish only square DEAL there is
left sense of uncertainty where Tai,
stands"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
THE LODGES.
A MASONIC NOTICES
XXVisitors always welcome.
EVNHall over 1857 West Main.

A MASONIC NOTICES
xvisitors always welcome.
VIVIAN over 1857 West Main
MARSHALL LODGE 1os A. F. & A.
M.-Regular communication Oct. Is, 8
o'clock,
H. q. Hoeck, w. NJ.
II. s. Lawrence, Sec'y,
sIGNET CHAPTER No. 80. r. A. M.
Stated oonvocation Monday. OCT. II.
1880 p. m. q. n. Roria n
s. Mlllard. Secy. q
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. RAa
M,-Stated assembly Monday, Oct. Is.
1880 p. m.
I. T. Forbes. REQ. : -
81. ALDEMAR coMMANpERY NO
81 x. T.-1llustrious Order of the Red
cross Tuesday evening Oct. IL, at Z: 80
sharp.
F. NJ. Wilbur. q. c.
Fred Wallace. Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. a -.
s-Regular meeting Wednesday. Oct.
IL, at 8 p. m.
1Grs. Geo. Downins, W. NJ
Eone G. Fularton. aecx.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
Case Of Telepathx.

This is one of the many queer
stories from Italy: A remarkable case
attributed to telepathy is reported
from Capua. A woman woke a few
nights ago In state of delirium.
Calling together her friends and neigh.
bors she told them that she had Just
seen an apparition of her husband,
who for two years past had been alb
sent IN New York. He appeared to
her to be lying in a hospital with one
hand covering his breast, and he told
her that he had been gravely wound
ed. The day after she received a
cablegram from America informing
her that her husband was dying, hav-
Ing been stabbed by an emissary Of
the BLACK Hand"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
PAT AND QUEEN ELIZABETH.

lMonQcello Express.
Secretary Wilson is credited with
the declara ton that the laboring
men of today have more comforts
than did Elizabeth, queen OF England,
in her day We take it the secretary
referred to physical comforts If he
has in mind the means of keeping
health, the laborer of today has the
advantage of the queen, for the
poorest physician of his age is better
than the most skilled of her day If
he referred to the means of comnu
nication then the worker of today
has the advantage. He can travel
for 2 cents mile in greater luxury
than Elizabeth could enjoy with her
special cavalcades where the horses
were caparisoned with the splendors
of royalty. II, however. the secretary
infers that the queen lived in houses
of less comfort than that of the
modern laborer and had less to eat
as we'll as other creature comforts he
chose the wrong era with which to
make the comparison he desired.
He should have pushed back to the
time of Henry VII. Queen Elizabeth
lived in a luxurious style, that was
not without elegance, America had
been discovered, and her daring sea-
men were laying at her feet the trib-
utes of their world wide voyages
She lived in an elegant palace and
moved from castle to castle in gor-
geous pageants. "fanciful and ex-
travagant as caliph's dream" She
had wardrobe of 5000 dresses. She
reclined upon costly couches when i,
was not convenient to sit at the table
while dining. There were comforts
sufficient for high thinking during her
reign. for there is no period in English
literature that has touched the high
mark Of the Elizabethan era
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
ing to the board" had its v4scissstudes

ing to the board" had It's viscissttudes
as well at its pleasures,
Perhaps you remember how you used
to figure to be next to the little girl
| who sat away over on the west side OF
the schoolroom when the class went to
the board. Sometimes you got in a
word or two edgewise between the
sharp glance of the car OF all the
schoolroom. Sometimes you caught it.
If you recall you didn't get licked for
whispering but worse. He said, when
Mr.. Jones and Miss Thompson get thru
with their Irritation we will resume the
lesson" Gee. do you remember how
shamed you both We're? Nowadays a
boy would glory in it.
But one of the best uses of the black
board was its use in "figgerin' contests
at spellin' schools when the mighty of
the Cross Roads met in death grapple
with the pick of the South Side. Then
you might see ''fggerin." How the
fingers flew for the honor of the schools
and the pre- eminence of the champion.
Why there We're boys who would throw
board full of "figgers" with an I'M
canny deNterity that approached black
magic and girls who could beat them
at that. 1t was no child's play but a
game for distinction fought out as
eagerly and bitterly as any struggle in
politics. business or discovery. Peary's
chagrln when Cook beat MIN to it was
no greater nor more keenly felt than
when some new boy took down the old
and acknowledged champion of the
spellin' school,
If the blackboards are to go let us
set aside at least one schoolhouse where
they may be retained and to which the
curious steps OF passing generation
may be turned when the fit takes them.
Let's have some part of the old school
left. We have done away with ferul-
ing, with birching. with .'yankin' !"
thrown out the old board seats and
desks destroying the painfully carved
records of years: let's keep something
TO remind us that we We're once young
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
BETTER GENIUS TAKERS NEEDED,


The census bureau is seeking a sys-
TEN of collecting statistics of agricul-
ture and population more satisfa Glory
than that employed at present. Ac-
cording to Director Durand the ca
pacity of the average census enum-
orator is not up to the job Statistics
of population and of agriculture are
collected by a different force from that
employed in gathering the statistics of
manufacturers. The population and
agricultural data are secured by enum-
orators of whom there will be about
$4,000 at the present census, they in
turn being appointed by the supervis-
ors, of whom there are about $50. The
difficulty Of securing competent and
faithful enumerators is very great. The
length of service is very short. fifteen
days in the cities and thirty DAYS in
the country districts. The period is too
short to justify a man who has a good
JOB in quitting it, while on the other
hand it is too long in most cases to
get leave from their regular work to
take the census. Moreover the pay is
small, averaging perhaps SO per day
in the country districts and a trifle
more in the cities, practically the pay
of ordinary mechanics. Not only.
therefore. are most of those who seek
to be enumerators men who are able
to command only moderate pay in their
occupations, but many of them are men
who can not command regular employ
ment and who are looking for odd jobs.
\ Consideration has been given the
census authorities from time to time 70
the plan pursued in Germany and some
other European countries. by which
1 the census is taken chiefly or wholly
by men serving without pay. who eth
err volunteer their service from patri-
otto motives or who are required to
act. He doubts whether conditions In
this country are ripe for such a
scheme. AT any rate, nothing of this
sort can be done at the present CEN
sus. 1t may, however, be hoped that
to some slight extent. and possibly to
a considerable extent, men can be in
duced TO accept the position of enum-
orator from interest in the work rather
than for the compensation involved
Mr.. Durand hopes that a considerable
number Of the colleges and universities
of the country may see fit to give leave
of absence to their students for the
short time required 10 do this work OF
enumeration. The college student is a
very useful enumecator in some cases
but it is exceedingly desirable that
enumerators Should actually live in tht
districts where they work, and there
are multitudes of districts where M
college students reside or where such
students are in institutions hundred,
or thousands OF miles from theil
homes. Another class who can render
good service as enumerators are schoo
teachers, but, with the enumeration
taking place in April and May instead
OF June as formerly. few school teach.
ers can be spared from their duties Il
take the census
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
No Cheap Resorts Near Part,.


1t is a remarkable thing, but in the
near neighborhood of Paris there are
but very few places where one can 90
and spend a cheap holiday, and take
ones family. For one thing, milk in
always difficult to get in country
places; it is all sent to the nearest
town or the ground is cultivated. Pas.
ture land is rare in France, and milk
is dear. The same with the fruit and
vegetables-they all go away to the
towns. Apropos Of this, there is =
butcher in Barbizon who enjoys a
unique position. He is the only one
within five or six miles, and If you
grumble at him, he says. THE tram.
way leaves in two hours; see If you
can get better in the next town-or
try the forest. If my meat doesn't
please you!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07

the cheap politician and lightweight
man has talked himself into q heavy
weight job. 1t Is not practical to COM
pute accurately the public loss in
money and in morals thru all these
years from these swindltng political pre-
tenders who passed themselves off for
more than they were worth, but the
public Is beginning to understand that
It is a steady loser from the incompe-
tent service rendered by lightweight
men,
In every state capital in the union
are men in important official positions,
put there with pretense of qualifica-
lions that they do not possess, put
there thu the nesmeric effect of glib
talk. From every state in the union
there goes to the national capitol at
Washington to make law, men who are
incompetent to make law.
What's the use?
What does it avail the people of
Kansas, to illustrate. to have a repre-
sentative like Calderhead? He could
not, even if he would, put as much
force into the making of law at Wash
ington as the people of Kansas are en-
titled to expect and to have.
Senator Bristow advises the retire.
ment, as rapidly as possible, of all
Representatives and senators who are
not really putting the judgment and
will of their constituents into the leg
islative enactments at Washington.
Senator Bristow advises the people to
look for higher grade men. 1t will re-
quire the best material the republicans
of the west can put into congress to Sc
cure full consideration for the rights
of the western people. to secure a
square deal in legislation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07

thereupon Ordered by the Moderator
to pay Fine OF Five Pounds for put
ting IN the settlement OF Boston 40
cording to the more than One Vote
according to Law. and the Moderator
thereupon declared to the Inhabitants
that they must draw and bring in
their Votes again in Manner as before
directed, and the Inhabitants accord
ingly withdrew and the Votes being
brought In and sorted 1t appeared that
there were -Four Hundred and two
votes and that there was two hun.
dred and five Yeas and one hundred
and ninety-seven Nays" - Boston
Transcript.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
COULD DRINK OR LET IT ALONE


Esprit Lake Beacon.1
A young man is soaking a cell in the
Des Moines Jail with tears. While he
weeps he Is suffering the fortunes of the
damned and would find a way to escape
the penalty of outrageous and drunken
sacrifice. Only a few days ago this
young man insisted he knew his own
business Nobody could tell him what
was good for him. He could drink or
let it alone. but ne just kept on drink
Ing and let go at that. In his mad
career he committed some petty Of
fence that demanded his presence in
court. A plain clothes officer went
after him, a man he knew and who
approached him confidently and kindly.
But this young man so sure of himself,
like many of his worthless kind, carried
a gun, by thunder, to make sure that
no one imterfered with his foul pur-
poses. He was full of booze and when
arrest was attempted he pulled and
murdered the officer in cold blood.
Of course he is sorry. He will never
do 1t again. of course, and the state will
see to 1t that he never does. A mother
and sisters, perhaps, will plead, will in
crease the volume of tears, but this
smart young man will be retired from
circulation either with a broken neck,
or in durance vile. He killed a good
man. widowed a good woman, and or
phaned several children Just to snow
that he could drink or let it alone and
that no one should tell him what was
good for him. Will this awful exper-
fence help other boys as foolish who are
toying with destiny and inviting per-
sonal ruin?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
THE KIND WE NEED.
[sioux City TrSbune.]

Some time later Nebraska sent
a man to congress who was so triv-
ial in character and so incompetent
and, withal, SO gabby that he became a
laughing stock at Washington and his
official career as a congressman was
really disgrace and a detriment to
the state. He could and did fool the
people for time with the pretense
that he was really going to do some
thing, but he could not keep them
fooled and they finally pushed him
aside and he passed out into political
obscurity. He was a lightweight and
the public did not need him in it's bus
ness.
The history OF Nebraska, like that of
other states, is full of instances where
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-07
Iona Newspapers
SPEAKS WE'LL FOR THE BOYS.
[Cedar Rapids Gazette.l

A third Of nearly 1900 students at
the state university this year are work
ing their way thru school. That speaks
we'll for iowa youth--they are bound
to get a good education; the lack OF
ready money does not deter them: they
are made of the kind of stuff that
spells success.