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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
Character Males a Newspaper.

our statement that the Times Republic
can is a remarkable paper. There IS
no secret about this success. 1t Is the
result of energy, intelligent business
judgment and character of service,
character of policy--clean character
percolating and leavenng the entire
establishment. There may be readers
of this brief "mention,' who will say
that this is simply a newspaper
puff" 1t is nothing of the kind. 1t is
a plain statement of fact. Horace
Greeley never uttered a greater truth
than his brief epigram almost at the
close of his life that nothing but
character endures" What gives the
Youths Companion the largest circu-
laton in the United States at it's COM
paratively high price? Nothing but
character I'm a different field, that is
just what our esteemed Times-Repub-
lcan is doing We trust that its cir
culation and business will continue to
grow. It's appeal is to the best citl-
Zenship and its policy is character, and
these things ought to and we are con-
fident will continue to acquire an ever
widening constituency of supporters in
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
Looker-On In Iowa

Tama, Feb. 23.-In this town lives
Mr.. H. c. Moore, "the airship man.
as he called himself to the writer Mr.
Moore is an inventor Of more than local
reputation, and is working on his air
ship with possibilities that mean for
tune to him. There are several men in
the United States now working on sir
ships. but here is the noticeable thing
in Mr.. Moore's case. He is in his 93d
year, and physically in appearance and
action not over 60 Mentally he never
was better.
And on the depot platform at Nevada
one day this week, travelling man
wearing gray chin whiskers and stand
ing good deal of "hot air" from the
other boys, said, II am SO years of age
and have sold s175,0O0 worth of wind
mills during the past year. Travel ev-
cry day and don't know what it is TIC
be sick"
Here's. SIN item for railroad agents:
For several years the ticket agent al
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
AND FREEDOM SHRIEKED!

Representative Moore, of Wapelo, Is
before the house as author of "a btlt
that strikes directly at the liberties of
mankind: also the pursuit OF happiness
| He would pass law to prevent the
wearing of any uniform resembling
that of the United States army and
make the penalty for It's violation not
| less than $500.
Does this man Moore, of Wapello,
realize what he is doing? Does he know
or understand that the wearing of I'M
iforms is as much a right inherent as
any established by the declaration II
independence and cinched by innumcr-
able cornet bands from Manhattan to
Podunk? Has he never known the de-
lights of uniform and the swollen upper
LID that band practice and parade alike
entail? Has his youthful heart never
yearned to blow great gusts of deep
and melodious noises out of the tuoa
or twiddle his fingers over a clarionet":
Breathes he with heart so dead that
he never to himself has said as the
Light Guards Band from Watch Dog
Hollow" swung down the street in FULL
uniform and blast, II wisht I'd Joined
too? Who is this Moore from Wapei-
10? Where has he lived all his life?
Has Wapello no music in it's heart to
Offset the treasons and stratagems that
go with the spoils? What is he doing IN
the legislature creeping like an assas-
sin with bludgeon upon the ancient
liberties and honored privileges Of
American youth? Why, are few scat
tered dog robbers to anonopolize the
gold lace andstfe feathers and pompous
and the adiniring glance of woman?
Not on your life. Mlooresof, .Wy.apssso not
on your life!
If we are to be cut off from kaki
what of the republican. marching club,
the mounted rough riders and the
political parade. Linen busters and a
few Roman candles may satisfy the
democratic soul and save the demo-
cratic purse but the republican first
voters club insists in looking like bus
mess. Think of a campaign that was
shy on uniforms?
Send Moore back to Wapello to muse
on his manifest mistakes. Unscrew the
mouthpiece from the horn and let ner
drip. Everybody get ready, shoulders
back. chest out and stomach drawn in.
zone, two, three. four one, two. three
PLAY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

crippled and men look upon the fact
magnates of the country are shouting
| keep the boys on the farm. They
want their own city-bred children to
run affairs and the country boy and
| girl are expected TO do the mental
work. The people of the country pride
| themselves upon their independence,
unconscious that there are forces at
work that are forging the letters that
! shall bind the country people beyond
hope of relief. The hope of our coun-
| try is in our country boys and girls,
and unless we can educate them our
| hope is lost. We must educate. We
must educate or we are doomed. The
people are blind to their best interest.
They are permitting few pettifoggers
to befuddle their minds into believing
that this new law takes away their lib
critics. Shout personal liberty to the
American people and they will oppose
anything
If the people really understood the
new law they would demand it's pass
age. Undess you give the rural schools
such system you might just as we'll
tendent. He has little power and
lit is impossible for him under the
present conditions to have done any
thing which he wants done. no matter
how badly it Is needed.
The buildings and grounds may be
in frightful condition, but he has no
POWER to remedy 1t. He cannot even
compel the director to furnish chalk.
not mentioning decent blackboard
upon which to use 1t. More than half
of the schools of the country have
blackboards so poor that mark upon
them can not be seen across the room
and upon many not even a mark can
be made.
The new law will give proper SUI
pervision to the schools. The county
superintendent should have an as
sistant who is a skillful primary
teacher and both the county superin-
tendent and his assistant should visit
schools and every school should be
visited at least once a month. Few
county superintendent aim to visit
more than once year So far have
averaged more than two vtsits year,
but have yet to find any other county
superintendent who even attempts to
visit more than once, but | should be
doing ten times as much work as am
doing and yet I am working nearly
twice as hard as the average county
superintendent in Iowa. Something is
wrong somewhere. Let us have half
way decent schools at any rate.
Mr.. Farmer, are you satisfied with
your schools? If you are, | supposes
should be, but I am not, and as long as
i am in office I shall work for better
schools. Yours,
q. C. -COnNTRYMAN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

signed it "youhs respectfully ana
then scwatched out the "wespectfully
bah iove.-Chicago Tribune.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
MIR. Roosevelt to visit the earthquake
zone When he does, just watch the,
seismographs.
According to the latest Cuban CEN
sus the total population. 1,7s0.62s. or
s69 per cent. were Of Cuban and 22s,-
1873, or Ill per cent, of Spanish citl-
zenshp. Of the 551.639 males of vot-
ing age. 430,514 were Cuban citizens,
and of these. 212.930, or less than one
half, were literate, while 217.5S4 were
lHterate among those of other citi-
zenship the proportion of literates was
much greater. S9,217 being literate ana
31,90S illitemte. Among the white
males of voting age the literates were
in the majority. the numbers being
161,742 literates and 130.944 illiterates
for Cuban citizens, and S4,937 llteratas
and 23.056 illiterateS for all others. AL
most one-third. 171.017 or 31.6 per
cent, of the children attended school;
the corresponding percentage for 1899
was only 1871 In the six large cities
55,3S6, or 4a.9 per cent of those uf
school age, attended school.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
IN THE AD DEPARTMENT..

Not all the pathos, tragedy and sor-
row of human life is told by the news
paper in it's news pages. The advertise
ments often carry between the lines
Of their brief announcements a story
that would touch or horrify.
1t was a simple want ad that called
for buyer for farm. But do you
know that the sale Of a farm always
means the breaking up of old associa-
lions, even at it's best, and the sep
aration from things that have been
daily companions perhaps for years? In
some cases it means more and worse.
1t may carry a tale Of home desc
Grated and life or lives wrecked OF
a companionship that began with
brightness and ended in gloom and
shadow of sorrow and the stigma Of
crime to follow man and woman
and their children thru all their years;
bitter memories and heartburnings.
and the sore disappointment that
maketh sick the heart. All this may
lie underneath the little want ad,
blacker than the ink in which it was
printed.
woman offers her household goods,
no longer of use to her, since he went
to lie in the cemetery. She is going
home to her people with a sore heart
and hopeless outlook. Another must
find work and the children must find
scattered homes, since their protector
drank himself into the penitentiary.
There is the story of the baggage car
ahead" in the little ad that calls for
San elderly woman as housekeeper;
struggle of a widow to keep alive her
home, in the few lines that ask for
work that may be done at home" The
children are small, she can not go out
and leave the baby, and, God help her,
she has neither relatives nor close
friends. The pathos of a childless
home crops out in the call for a "boy
baby for adoption and the ad that
offers a child for adoption may have
almost any story of misfortune, weak
ness or shame, back of it.
And so on. The laughter and the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

tears Of human life are in the ad
mans department, as in the pitiful
story beneath the scare lines or un-
der an editorial caption. Only it is
hidden there. He does not know it
perhaps He is too busy to inquire
And his is the way of the world We
are all too busy to inquire. but the
story is there, grave. gay, sorrowful,
terrible. shameful. The stories are
there. Think of it when you read the
want ads if you have acquired so use
full habit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

| this place at the C. & n. w. depot has
been noted as the model agent in ms
dealings with the public. Last Nov
elnber he was elected county clerk OF
Tama county. elected as a democrat in
republican county, by several hun
dred votes over any republican candi-
Here's a curious story: On branch
railroad in Iowa, where one crew does
| trips a day, on one trip they became
SO late at one station they had to set
train orders against themselves. To
explain it more clearly. going west
they lost so much time that on the re-
turn trip they arrived at Nextown on
the time they should have left going
west on the next trip. For all they
know, the trainmaster might have or
dered out a special on their time going
west second trip. so they had to get
an order to avoid a possible collision,
virtually amounting to an order
against themselves.
N s. Beals, the grain dealer here,
has a patent corn crib arrangement
that is OF interest to farmers and 9TH
ers. He built an oat bin or to use it
for shelled corn. building say forty
feet square, and twenty feet high,
covered with tarred paper l. e.. water
tight roof. But to use 1t for corn
crib, |. e.. corn on the cob, he has a
movable sort OF clothes horse arrange
ment made of 2x4 scantling, like a
capital letter a." the scantlng nailed
on the sides few inches apart. Then
he has openings in the building at each
end about Axe inches. the result being
a ventilated corn crib. SO strong a
current of air goes thru these open
ings that 1t is easily felt by one stand
ing near. When this building is to be
used for oats. the openings are closed,
the scantlings removed. and model
oat bin is ready for use. The first ex-
pense of such a corn crib in this shape
Is less than the ordinary long style
corn crib, as the roof and floor of such
a shaped. building figure just so much
less lumber.
On one of those cold snappy days
the farmer and his wife drove up in
front of d. Goods store. They brought
the baby and two small boys along be-
cause there was no one at home to
leave them with. The wife wanted to
do "a little shopping" ut wouldn't
pay to hitch; only be gone minute"
SO the man was left to hold the baby,
hold the horses and amuse the kids.
The first time the writer passed by
he was trying to light his pipe, but the
baby pulled the pipe out of his mouth
just as he had the match ready. On the
writer's return trip, the horses were
cutting up" requiring both of the
farmers hands to hold them. the baby
was crying. because he had to hold 1t
so tight between his knees, while the
two kids We're having a fight on the
buggy floor. The wife was still shop
ping Half an hour later the writer
passed that way again. A neighbor
was holding the horses by the brides,
another neighbor sat on the front seat,
holding the two kids, the farmer was
holding the baby. and the pipe was
drawing beautifully. All three of the
men were having nice visit while
the wife was still doing n little shop
ping. 1T would pay to hitch"
- ~ a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
TGlidden G;raphicl

The Marshalltown Times-R epubi-
can has installed a new press capable
'of printing sixteen pages at once at
the rate of $50 per minute. The
Times Republican is a remarkable pa
per for a number of reasons. %
First and foremost, it Is the best paper
in the United States printed in town
of equal size. (2) 1t is better than
many papers printed in hundreds of
towns in the country three and four
times as large as Marshalltown. (3)
geographically 1t has few equals, eX-
ceeding in this respect many of the
best metropolitan dailies. (4 Its
news service is u>ost excellent. 90
When many contemporaries have
yielded to the pressure for a cheap
paper in price, the Times Republican
has steadily maintained its subscrip-
ton rates and has sought rather to
make up in quality to such an extent
that readers would get even more for
their money than they would get in
many publications sold at one-half the
price, or even less.
All these things combine to confirm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.

Here beautiful
all Of good
which
hall grill pattern IN corb
be
second
splendid Es
II DAyERMAN & SON.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

C. r. kruger. the jeweler, 1000 Vir-
GINA avenue, Indianapolis, Ind, writes:
az was so weak from kidney trouble
that / could hardly walk a hundred
feet. -Four bottles of Foleys Kidney
Remedy cleared my complexion, cured
my backache and the irregularities dis
appeared, and / can now attend to
business every day, and recommend
Foleys Kidney Remedy to all sufferers.
at it cured me after the doctors and
other remedies had failed" Mcbride
& Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
a Sure Cure.

'T cannot find way to cure my HI
tie girl of biting her fingernails," said
a woman. "a little thing, she bit her
tiny nails whenever she was excited o.
nervous. Then I dabbed bitter hey
paint over the ends of her fingers.
often smiled in anticipation OF success
when she made a terrible face md
snatched her fingers from her mouth.
But this was only a temporary cure.
AS soon as the paint wore off the
habit was as strong as before. l
could not keep her fingers continually
stepped in paint"
The mother sighed Somebody adj
vised me to keep gloves on her hands,
she resumed. ''This, too, was effective
only as long as her fingers were COW
cred. Then, because she is old enough
to take a little pride in her hands, l
agreed, on Jan. 1, to give her pretty
diamond ring next Christmas If she did
not bite her nails during the year. A
month had not passed before her
fingers made one positively shudder
with their mutilated, heshy ends"
.I have a certain cure to offer you,
said her companion. Take your
| daughter to a manicurist. See that she
has her nails attended to twice week.
You will find that the pretty polish on
them, their symmetrical edges, help her
to resist spelling their appearance.
Each time she visits the manicurist
they will improve. and after a months
treatment she would as soon clip off
the front locks of her hair as mar the
shapely perfection of her nails.
another reason for the success Ct
this method is that manicuring takes
away all the little rough edges of the
nail, and it is principally these rough
edges that are responsible for the dis
figuring of fingers. Biting the nails,
you see keeps them always rough. This
roughness encourages the owner to try
repeatedly to make them even and
shapely.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
Topics of the Times,

Don't fail to read the serial story
I is a good political story with a moral
especially applicable to the present
when seven quarter sections" seem
SO little to a senator.
Two children playing: Hello, says
phone, Hello, Is the doctor y" Mo-
replies the other, He has just gone
out with DR.. Blank to operate" A
pause and then the smaller child calls
again Hello" she says, has the doc
tor got back" This is an under
takers office" says the voice at the
other end of the imaginary line. We'll,
you will do" says the afflicted one,
can you come down to our house
right away?" The above is verbatim
as well as suggestive.
The legislature is to be photographed
and the governor Oil painted Lives of
great men will then remind us that we
can make our own sublime and de-
parting or losing out on nomination
leave behind us our portraits at the
expense Of the state treasury.
No more holidays until memorial
day 1t begins to look as tho someone
might get something accomplished
now.
Perhaps next season we may have
added grounding day to the February
holidays.
Many union man has the time and
half of his life on Washington's
birthday.
Let it blow and crack its cheeks and
freeze at the doorstep. The spring
flowers and the balmy air of spring
and the ice wagon are waiting at the
cross roads of March and April with
the coal bill we haven't paid.
pills is like using potato digger in the
kitchen.
Better quit urging the legislature to
quit and go home 1t is coming to a
point where it is likely to do soma
thing.
It may be Senator Hale and a. Few
others will feel called upon to resign.
Sioux City Journal.
otherwise the country at large will
need resignation?
The citizens of Andover, S. D., ara
petitioning the courts for writ of
mandanrus to prevent the village board
of that town from granting saloon
licenses to applicants who have asked
for the privilege. The petitioners al
leee that there were Irregularities con-
nected with the signatures of the petit
lions Of the applicants for license,
which should make them invalid. Even
fight to keep the privilege. Certainly
there must be somewhat seriously
wrong with the business when from
Georgia to North Dakota it arouses
such determined opposition.
| Perhaps that crack in the Liberty
| Bell was the work of the political
cracksmen, who, looted the state treas
ury and voted $4,000 dead men in
Philadelphia.
Cholly-He called you an insignlf-
cant little noodle, did he?
Fweddy-Ya-as but L got even with
! him bah tove. l wrote him a lettah,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The above is the name of a German
chemical, which is one of the many
valuable ingredients Of Foley's Kidney
Remedy. Hexamethlenetetram is
recognized by medical text books and
authorities as uric acid solvent and
antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley
Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice
any irregularities. and avoid a serious
malady. Mcbride g. Will Drug Com
pany.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.
III NTN O0IFTS w ~ VI
e&a,g Visitors always welcome.
TNN Hall over 1nl-1 West Main.


~%Ag Visitors always welcome.
W. Hall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10S A. F. & A.
M-Work on first degree Friday even
ing, Feb. g. II. G. Hoeck, w. M.
H. S Lawrence. Secy
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 3S, R. A. M.
Special conclave Wednesday, Feb "a
Work in the M. K. NJ. degree.
G. II. Boggie, H. p.
I. S. Willard. Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL-Spe-
cial assembly of King Solomon Coun-
Gil No 30 r. S. NJ, Thursday, Feb. 90,
for work.
A. D. Meeker, T. !. M.
T. T. Forbes Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDRY No.
30, K. T.---Stated conclave Tuesday,
Feb. %, 7:30, work on order of Temple
F. M. Wilbur, E. C..
f. Wallace. Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. e.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, March
IT, 1880.
Mrs Geo. Downing, w. M.
Edna G. Fularton, Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

disappears. Sore and infamed lungs
are healed and strengthened, and the
cold is expelled from the system. Re-
fuse any but the genuine in the yellow
package. Mcbride & Will Drug Com
pany.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23
THE PROPOSED SCHOOL Law.


[County superintendent Countryman
in LeMars Sentinel
Much confusion exists in the public
mind as regards the new school law
and it's provisions The county unit
plan in brief means uniformity and
system. 1t will be Impossible under
the county unit system for many
present abuses to exist. 1t will be
| impossible under the county unit sys-
tenn to have school houses unfit for the
housing Of farm animals and such
school houses that daylight shines
thru every crack and crevice and
in places the cracks so large that a
hand can be thrust thru. 1t will
be impossible under the country unit
system to find school houses
without maps and blackboards. 1t
will be impossible to have anything
happen whereby any child will be de-
prived of school privileges equal to
other children. Some county superin-
tendents object to this because they
are afraid they shall lose their job,
and some politicians oppose it because
| it will remove another office from
political iugglery and spoils of party
| favor. Our ScHoolS are 100 lllPoi tdlil
to be the bone of contention between
politicians and experience has proven
to us that we have too many feeding
at the public crib
shall be pleased to talk with any
one on the subject or correspond with
anyone on the subject of our new
school laws. I prophesy that if these
laws are passed our schools will be
twice as good. The present conditions
of our country schools are appalling.
Iowa should blush with shame because
of her neglect OF the rural schools.
| Our present system is crime against
every boy and girl in the country.
1.-THE country boy and girl are being
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-23

F'oley's Honey and Tar clears the
air passages, stops the irritation in the
throat. soothes the inflamed mem
branes. and the most obstinate cough