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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
Topics of the Times.

If Hon w. l. Smith wants another
crack at the president he will have 20
hurry.
That Standard Oil fine has been
marked down to s75o.ooO; was s29,-
100000. Great bargain.
In event the public utilities commits
sion is established, would it have power
over old bachelors?
4 Z - =
Chances are that the school reor-
ganization will remain unWritten law
To many assemblymen the question
of resubmission is question as to
which crowd it would be best to sub
nit
The present congress has been too
busy denouncing secret service men
and Theodore Roosevelt to be able to
accomplish much else
Russia should have sent bunch of
its naval officers to accompany the
United States fleet Then when her
new navy starts on trip it may get
farther than the last one.
Patrick arrived home much the
worse for wear. One eye was closed,
his nose was broken, and his face
looked as tho it had been stung ny
bees.
"Glory bel" exclaimed his wife.
"Thot Dutchman Schwartzheimer -
twas him." explained Patrick.
SHANE on vel" exploded his wife
without sympathy. "a big shpalpeen
the loilxes of you to get bate UP by a
little omadhoun of a Dootchman the
size Of him! Why"
"Whist, Nora" said Patrick, don't
spake disrespectfully of the dead!"
E'vanstons primary is said to have
cost $2s for every ballot cast. The
anti-primary old guard must have had
charge of the ceremonies.
A patronizing young lord was seated
opposite the late James McNeill Whist
Ter at dinner one evening. During a lull
in the conversation he adjusted his
monocle and leaned forward toward
the artist.
Jaw, y'know, Mr.. Whistler" he
drawled, 81 pahssed your house this
,nawning."
THANK YOU" said Whistler quietly.
THANK you very h.'-Everybody
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
MORTGAGE TAXATION.
davenport Times.l

After making somewhat of study
in regard to the proposed bill chang
ing the manner in which taxes shall be
levied on mortgages many Davenport
people are opposed to the bill.
The new bill proposes that when
mortgage is filed sum amounting to
so cents for every 800 for which the
mortgage is written, be paid when
the mortgage is filed.
This is to be in lieu of taxes and
all mortgages are not to be taxed in
the regular way after the filing fee
has been paid.
1t matters not whether the mort
gage is for one year or for five the fee
is the same.
People who have studied the matter
here say that the new system would
bring in far less money than the
present one and would reduce the
revenues of the county considerably
They state that while some mortgages
escape taxation there is not enough to
make up for the great reduction in
tax that the new system would compel.
If mortgage We're written for i've
Years for Instance the tax would be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26

the people, or whether petty offic-
ialdom can nullify fast trains and fast
presses and the desires on the part of
the people for late news.
We must submit for the time being,
but let us appeal to the government,
or that part of the government that
makes laws and regulations. A greater
outrage was never perpetrated and a
louder cry for relief should never be
sent forth.
We appeal to Senators Dolliver and
Cunmins, to Congressman Cousins
and Congressman Elect Good to look
after this matter at once The circu-
lation of news is being hampered by
officials. TT is the most outrageous rul-
ing that has ever been perpetrated by
men who ought to be- sane men but
who are slaves of red tape methods in
vogue before the modern spirit came
into the world.
In the meantime the newspapers
may be compelled to resort to use the
facilities afforded by the express COM
panies, which are in a larger measure
organized to serve the people rather
than for the accommodations of their
officials and employees.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26

in town--don't have to wait for a crop
to mature. or the hogs get fat enough
to be shipped and all that can est
wages every Saturday night But those
silly notions do not give farm life a
black eye they merely show that the
young folks are not yet quite as wise
as Solomon was reputed to be. The
young folk who do stay on the farm.
and grow up with the livestock, in
dozen years can show those who left
the farm to be gay in town, all kinds
of money.
Country life is not a doll, to be
played with by little girls who adore
finery. l suspect that the youngsters
who ache to leave the farm for the
towns, are not in love with steady
hard work, and they probably have the
bad habit of keeping their eyes on the
clock and their ears on the dinner horn.
Are they a bit lazy? Well, don't ask us
to pity them. Really, country life,
where it is lived intelligently. has got
town and city life skinned hundred
miles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.
AVisitors always welcome.


~Visitors always welcome.
"Hall over 1861 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 108 A. F. & A.
M-Work on first degree Friday evens
ing, Feb 26. H. G. Hoeck, w. M
H. S. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 3S, r. A. IN.
Special convocation, Saturday Feb.
81 1880 Work in the P. M. and M.
x. M. degrees.
G. H. Boggie, H. P.
I. S. Willard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL-Spe-
cial assembly of King Solomon Coun-
Gil No 20 r. S. M, Thursday, Feb. %,
for work.
A. D. Meeker, r. I. M.
T. T. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDRY No.
80, K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday.
March %, 1880.
F. NJ. Wilbur, E. G,
F. Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. e.
S.-Regular meeting wednesday, March
II, 1880.
Mrs Geo. Downing, W. y
Edna c. Fularton, Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
A ROTTEN POSTAL RULING.
TCedar Ranids Republican


The postofflee department has
ience of the people. During the past
few years it has put into force many
foolish and even asinine rulings, rul-
ings intended to hamper rather than
to help the people for whose benefit
postoffices and mail trains are oper-
ated
But of all the rulings that have
been made by the officials dressed in
a little brief authority none will be-
come more unpopular than one which
has recently been announced.
Heretofore newspapers have been
allowed to deliver their papers at the
trains. throwing them on the trains
just before THE trains leave. This has
enabled the newspapers to furnish
their readers with the very latest
news, news that came into the news
paper offices hardly quarter OF an
hour before the departure OF the
trains.
The officials have now ruled that
no paper mails can be delivered at the
trains. but that they must be delivered
at the postoffice and carried to the
llStlllS All 'lIiC pOSuctL1SV Wa5oiiS NSLSAA
leaves the postoffice thirty minutes
befort train leaving time This means
In short a loss of three quarters of an
hour and If the ruling is persisted in
the newspapers will have to abandon
editions for many of the early trains
This ruling is made on the theory
that the papers have to be weighed In
the postoffice each day. Heretofore the
habit has been to weigh such mails at
stated intervals and then charging
each day according TO that weight.
The intervals of weighing have been
as often as there might be increased
weights. Newspaper mails have fairly
steady weight. They do not vary
greatly from day to day, since practic-
ally the same number of papers are
sent out. Newspapers would rather be
overcharged each day than to submit
to the present asfnine ruling. 1t is not
merely the newspapers, but the read
ers of newspapers who are interested.
The main question is whether rail-
way mails are operated for the con-
venience of the officials or for the con-
postoffice administration seems to be
DaSeQ on UHe LlISOIy Olio ollASiephS
are the ones to be served instead OF
the people. They are seeking to nuhify
all the advantages that have accrued
from the operation of fast trains and
all the advantages that accrue from
improved speeds in printing presses
One newspaper in this city is about to
install a faster press-and the Repub-
lican and Times have already Installed
such a press-in order ito gain few
minutes additional time. But the
amount of time chat will be gained by
fast and expensive machinery will be
wiped out three times by this one rul-
ing. And all to crafty the desire to ex-
ercise petty authority.
The newspapers, one and all. should
make their appeal to their congress-
men Let there be no let up. Let con-
gressmen be bonn barded with petitions
until relief is obtained. Let us find out
whether. fast trains are operated for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
"The Public Be DID,"
IWah Street Journal


Victor T.. zorn, speaking at the meet
ing of the Fruit Jobbers' Association
at st. Paul, had some highly pertinent
comments to make upon the increased
demands for protection by the fruit
growers of California and the south
He suggests that the public has some
rights. He appreciates the impudence
of q request for a heavy duty on pine
apples from growers In Florida, VINO
admit that the pineapple is "a bit out
of Its native element in Florida" with
a fair prospect of the growers there
having their investment wiped out al
together by a frost which 1t Is need
less to remark, would be fatal to an
essentially tropical product.
For plain greediness. to say nothing
of sheer, unauthorized gall" the de-
mand for a duty upon American grapes
establishes something of a new high
record. AS Mr. Zorn points out. these
grapes are grown nowhere else In the
world but in a particular district in
Spain. Their quality and flavor are dis
tinctive and peculiar. They are mostly
sold after the California grapes are out
of the market, and nobody pretends
that we can grow anything like them.
Nevertheless, the American consumer
is to eat the grape the protected grow
er gives him, or go without.
The proposal Is about as reasonaoie
as to pass a law that our women shall
wear domestic fabrics and not silk, be-
cause we can not raise the latter, while
our cotton growers supply the world
The manufacturer and producer who
depend upon protection. and not upon
quality. are apt to develop this attitude
of mind, together with an appetite
grown with what it feeds on. The pol
lev is short sighted and is making
number of people who are far from be-
ing free traders the more determined
TO see that we get tariff revision
which shall revise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
JUDGE SMITHS Philippe,

Judge Walter /. Smith, congressman
to fill the place of sensationalist here
tofore occupied by Senator Tillman in
Washington. His speech sounds like
those of that eminent South Carolinian
who found seven quarter sections a
contemplate piece of real estate. The
voice is the voice of Smith but the
language is that of Tillman. Common
lears" and other epithets heighten the
similitude. With some minor changes
in language and a reversal of position
Mr.. Smiths speech might also remind
of recent message to congress.
1t is the secret service men who have
stirred the bile of the congressman
from the Ninth. They were singled
not to be pursued with lash of
scorpions. For one thing some of these
"lunkheads' work for IS day and ex
penses, hunting down land frauds. 1t
is hard to discover whether the con-
gresham is most offended by the
smallness of the wage or the direction
in which the labor of the SO a day
men was expended. OF course we all
know that the SO men are the cheap
est 1t may be that they are most eff
fective. Some of these men. big or
little, are good men and know their
business, for the ones the congressman
refers to, came from the force in the
counterfeit section of the secret service
and If any department of the service
may be classed as effective the one
which protects the currency seems to
deserve praise. Any who doubt this
statement may settle the question
definitely by uttering a few counterfeit
bills or coins.
Congressman Smith protests 100
much He is likely to set the voters
of his district wondering and when
voters begin to wonder they often be-
gin. to think. And thinking voters are
disastrous to long terms in congress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
STONED In rims.

Little Bob, who for some months
had invariably ended his evening
prayer with Please send me a baby
brother" announced to his mother
that he was tired Of praying for what
be did not get, and that he did not be-
lieve God had any more little boys 70
send.
Not long afterward he was carried
into his mothers room very early in
the morning to see twin boys, who had
arrived during the night. Bob looked
at the two babies critically, and then
remarked: Its q good thing I
stopped praying, or there'd been three
of them. ''-Delineator.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
WHEN THE GHOST CANE Back.

If the pioneer who came into Story
county driving his few cows behind an
emigrant wagon, who held his farm in
that county until the munificent price
OF SIS an acre tempted him to sell and
make another move happened to get
wind Of the coming deal and dropped
around in his quiet and ghostly way to
see, unseen, the farm he sold at SIS
change hands at $40 an acre he would
certainly have found cause for interest
If not for discomfort. When he looked
for the ponds and sloughs that covered
the prairie in his day he would have
wondered If he hadn't come to the
wrong county. When he saw the fine
houses and big barns which have re-
placed the shacks and the straw sta
bles of his time he might have felt
pang of pity, if ghosts can feel any
thing, for himself and his stock as
billiards and practically equal as shell
ter is concerned 1t hasn't been very
long ago since he settled there; he
hasn't been a ghost very long and has
doubtless seen many very astonishing
things since he became one. but any
but a very hardened spirit would find
it hard to repress an exclamation Of
surprise if not of regret when he con-
sidered the development of the lower
coanties of the state and the rise of
land values Within the past few years.
If he could have happened in at the
short course yesterday and compared
the stock he drove into Iowa with that
entered here he would have learned
something that would have been to his
advantage when he was farming had
he known it then. He would~elso have
solved much of the secret of the rapid
rise of land prices.
BY the lime >ri,e good ofd~ pioneer
had looked over the old farm, skinned
thru the short course and. lodged far
mers' automobiles for a day he could
have gone back to his ghostly quietude
rather tired and confused. For he must
be an up-to- date and extremely well
read ghost who has kept apace of the
development of Iowa farms and meth
DDS and farmers during the past two
decades
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
The UNPUBLISHED Remnant.
TCatho]ic Citizen1


The life of one man, recently hung,
by a mob, was as worthless as human
life could we'll be. He was the Off
spring of a social wrong-in the lam
guage of the law, nullius fllius. Like
Edmund in Shakespeare's King Lear"
he wrought back upon society the in
jury which cast a shadow upon his
life.
But. this was merely accidental.
Thousands of miscreants have lived
and hundreds are living-whose shields
are without a bar sinister. Their souls
are black as hell, irrespective Of their
birth Some are even well born"
The number of such animals
beasts, no more; in the purlieus of
our critics, in the mining town, in the
! These are aimless lives, void of moral
balance, intent upon gorging, drinking
and gratifying bestial instincts: our
criminal classes, our disorderly classes
our pugilists and sporting men. our
gamblers-and the line stretches out
Unfortunately.
In early times there were vigilance
committees which purged the frontier
towns by acts of summary justice.
| These worthless lives are in the way OF
all the earnest law abiding. wealth.
producing people in the community
They are lily brooked. When they be-
come numerous in the shape of tramps
about the country, legislators talk
about introducing the whipping post
When they commit some bloody muir
der, the mob comes out in the night
time with a rope, and every tough In
the neighborhood feels the moose about
his neck for weeks.
There are states intermediary be-
tween this miserable class and the use
full members of society. In our cities,
squads of young workingmen are year
ly separating; some are getting foot
hold for themselves and their children
in the community; others are surely
drifting into the ranks of the riff
raff--late hours. Sunday beer garden
carousels, bad habits, ill-health, impos-
ed by vice, and tough rough" ut
terly worthless company. dragging
them down with devilish suction.
The spectacle of the dangling muir
derer on the gallows, eXterminated by
the aroused anger of society, should be
warning to such people. Choose your
path-the matter rests wholly with
yourself And the worst of 1t all ls
that, If you have any faith in a future
life, your choice here is choice for
eternity If you stand with the toughs
and the gamblers and the saloon tip
piers in this life, the probabilities are
strong that when the just and the un-
just are drawn up in opposite lines in
the great valley on the Last Day, you
will be in that bad company still.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
THAT CHURCH YELL.

The children of the churches at Wa
terloo and many other points are learn
ing yells, not making a holler." but
learning to call off little scriptural
quotations and illusions after the
"who, who, who are we'' fashion Of
the "rah rah'' boys. At Waterloo the
Courier notes that the 500 voices
which referred in unison to certain
chapters of Thessalonians and the sec
ond epistle to Timothy, sounded like
the real thing, and the exercise con-
duced very largely to enthusiasm.
It's a good thing. 1t is a good thing
in any kind of work or play to have
complete harmony and the training to
move all together. The college boys
on the sidelines and in the grandstand
play in the game when their multiplied
voices swell the slogan Of their school.
It makes for class and school spirit
while it stimulates to stronger spirit.
The children who learn to yell togeth-
CT. VIII ma II easier W pun .lOSSlllSl.
1t is the ''yo heave no" that sends the
weight against the capstan bars and
drags the anchor apeak. A good crowd
that can yell altogether in good time
will move altogether.
The clergy and the churches should
take notice. While they are teaching
the children to yell, they should learn
by their own teaching. They should all
find some few important and essential
policies outside the church disciplines
and the variety, of creeds where
on they may all agree and
shout and push in unison. There
are matters of general, state
and municipal government, So
Geological problems, etc, whereon they
may all raise common yell and throw
the combined weight of all to effective
betterment Of conditions, the solution
Of which lie outside denominations and
doctrines There are plenty of moral
and political questions broad enough
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
A FOOLS NOTION.
TTama Herald.l

1t Is a very foolish notion members
of the legislature have that they must
pass some sort of bill or other to make
good with the folks at home. But 1t
seems they are one and all filled with
that notion and as result many
foolish and impractical bills find their
way into the hopper. In my capacity
of general well wisher to the whole of
mankind l shall from time to time in
this department of this paper make
suggestions as to bills of practical
worth and value which any legisla
sire could with profit take up and
father. Great laurels might be Won
by that legislator with backbone and
ability to frame up and secure the
passage Of a. bill compelling telegraph
and telephone companies to put up
square instead of round poles. The
round ones make 1t SO difficult for The
farmer to tack his sale bill up so it
can be easily read from one position,
that the square pole man in a farming
community could almost with safety
count on life job. Tie to the farmer,
because the farmer he's the man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
Iona Newspapers
"A GUILTY CONSCIENCE,
[vinton Eagle.1

One would think from the number
of complimentary letters received by
the Register and Leader anent its de-
termination not to print any more liq-
uor advertisements that va soul mad
been saved. 1t keeps constantly at the
head of its editorial page notice that
it will not accept any more liquor ad-
vertisements Why is that necessary!
Why is it necessary for the Register
and Leader to publish the fact that it
has become conscience stricken. No
other publication i'm the state does 1t.
1t would have been just as easy, when
it received liquor lad" proposition to
have answered the advertisers by mail
as to announce to the world that it
had reformed It is a good reformation,
however and we hope it will stick to
it. 1t can be said to the credit of the
country papers that 1t is rarely that
one of them runs a liquor advertise
nent
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
g1tes- Kpprntea1 4ars,a1ltuau,r sn Fenr1arg

only so cents for every S1O0 which
would make the annual rate of taxa
ton only mill per year. Under the
present system the annual tax is TWEEN
ty or thirty times that much.
If mortgage were written for
a year only the filing fee would bring
in revenue of 5 mills which is mucn
less than under the present system
but an investigation of the records
will show that a large majority are
written for more than one year.
For this reason those who have
studied the bill state that it would be
disastrous to the income of Scott
county and would greatly reduce its
revenue, hence they are opposed to it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
For Constipation.

Mr.. / II. Farnham, a prominent
druggist Of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says:
tChamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the best thing on
the market for constipation" Give
these tablets trial. You are certain
to find them agreeable ana pleasant In
effect. Price. Is cents. Samples freq
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
Citizens notice.

The Quaker Oats Company are
giving the biggest package, the best
toasted corn fakes and the finest china
in their family size package OF Quaker
Toasted Corn Flakes at 25c. Regular
size, no china, lOc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"No one is denied the privilege Of
threatening that the prohibition
movement will give the state Of iowa
to the democrats, but in spite of that
the legislators from the dry coun-
ties, which are vastly in the majority,
will vote as they think their con-,
stituents would instruct them pre-
diets the Iowa City Citizen. "The way
to convince them is not by threats but
by strict enforcement of the law we
have" concludes the Citizen.
The Mt. Vernon Record insists that
sour agricultural schools should de-
vote more time to the hen, and less to
some other subjects. They should work
out a system by which hens can be
made to lay in the winter This is I'M
perative We must have eggs, and
the only way we can get them is TO
have the hens lay them
It appears to the Webster City Free
man Tribune that the legislature ought
to do all 1t can for this great work.
the cure and prevention of consump-
ton. and that Lack of money should
not be permitted to retard the move
ment Iowa is rich and shA ought TO