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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
ALL READY FOR EMERGENCIES;
Business Woman on Train Had Pro.
vlded Herself with Some crea-
ture Comfort.

Two miles above Harrisburg q train
stalled for hours the other night, the
storm having caused freight wreck
ahead.
Whats the matters" people asked
the conductor.
Don't know" he replied.
How long are we going TO be.
tied up?"
Cant tell. Maybe a couple Of
hours"
That Pullman held about the sorest
lot of passengers that ever rode over
the line.
When the train had been stalled for
about an hour and all the gayety and
:heerfulness appeared to have been ex-
hausted, the life-saver appeared. A
man, ruddy and benign of countenance
and bald headed, rose In the rear OF
the car and beamed upon everybody
as he genially inquired.
will anybody have drink?"
He held up quart bottle Of good
brand. He also dug up small glass.
and the heartfelt thanks that came to
him in glances told him most every.
body would certainly have drink.
Down the line he went, right and
left across the aisle, until he came to
Two women. One of them was drum
mer. The other was not. Tho bust.
ness woman took drink. The other
timidly thanked the good Samaritan
and declined. After he had passed on
the business woman asked the other:4
Didn't you really want drink?"
Eyes, did," was the reply, but
simply lacked the courage to take it
from strange man in front Of this
carload Of people. And I'm cold and
hungry, too"
You poor DEAR" said the other. SYM
pathetically. Here, drink this" Listen.
She had pint flask in her own grip
Washington Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
INSURANCE DIVIDENDS.
INT. Vernon Recordl

Some Of our exchanges object to the
statement made by the Record recently
that Linn county lady drew $1,000
dividends on $1,000 worth OF stock in an
eastern insurance company, They say
that insurance companies do not usual
ly pay exorbitant rates of profit. What
rates of profit insurance companies
usually pay is beside the question This
insurance company pays $1,000 on a
thousand dollars worth of stock. That is
the fact. What is more the owner of the
stock has been offered about $4,000 for
the stock. The difference with this
company and some other corporations
down to six per cent basis. The fact
is there are many concerns in this
country that would be paying immense
profits had they not watered their
stock.
But to get back to the insurance
question. the small cities and towns are
paying a great deal more than their
share Of the losses incurred by fire
Rates are proportionally lower in ac-
cordance with the risk, in the cities
and what is more to the point the in
surance Is in larger chunks and rates
are cut worse. We recall few years
ago that the Odd Fellows here wanted
some insurance. They asked for bids
with the result that several state agents
were here. The Odd Fellows hall was
insured five years at rate of 81 90 for
the five years a rate of about what Mr.
Bennett would put down in his little
rate book for one year. Since then we
have had opinion of insurance profits
when the board rate was paid. And WE
might add that whenever an agent APP
proaches US with rate book we re-
| quest him to throw it away and gel
down to business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]

tSouilCll 6iuIlS NOHpdCeli.J
Amidst the noise of firecrackers, the
groans of the injured and the honk of
the auto, it may be worth while to
pause and ask ourselves what 1t is all
about and whether we have really con-
served the priceless heritage left US
by Washington, Franklin and Jeffer-
son and their fellow builders Indeed
it may be doubted that people of today
are any too familiar with what these
founders of our republic actually did
for US. Many-too many-are more
familiar with the six best sellers than
with the biography and history of their
country.
Perhaps at no time in the history Of
the world has the contrast in a like
period of time been so great as be-
tween the end of the American revolu-
ton and the beginning of the
twentieth century. After the strug-
gle which won independence the
country was at the lowest posi-
BILE ebb Of prosperity. It's people
were wearing jeans and homespun
and were scarcely able to procure
the bare necessities of life and meet
the burden of taxes which the war had
imposed upon them. The colonies them
selves lacked union and for a time
their differences threatened to disrupt
the whole federation and bring the
results Of the war to naugft.
Besides reducing the resources ri
the country the seven years of hard
ship and privation hal left the people
In miserable condition. There was want
everywhere. In Massachusetts, upon
| whose people the burden OF war fell
most heavily. there were almost con-
| slant suits for the collection Of debt
until small army OF 1000 in despera-
| ton surrounded the court house al
Springfield and stopped them ALL There
were few manufacturing plants in the
country and what few there were could
oner no emoloyment, for thu saasou
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
Iona Newspapers
AS SENATOR FUNK SEES IT
Esprit Lake Beacon.l

Iowa newspaperdom was much sur
prised by the announcement that the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil has been sold
to d. w Norris, of the Marshalltown
Times Republican,, and his business
manager, w. P. Hughes. The territory
served by the Nonpareil will not be
long in ascertaining that the old Bluffs
paper has fallen into mighty good
hands. if 1t is to be conducted along
the lines of the Marshalltown journal.
The management will make money as
it has with the T.-R., by unfagging
enterprise and by keeping news and
editorial departments close to the peo-
pie
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
Topics of the Times

Tennessee has taken the very best
plan to avoid visit from Carrie Ma
ton. She has removed Carries occu-
patton.
Why doesn't Walter Wellman make
arrangements with the Wright boys
and make that north pole trip in up
to- date style?
Now that We are regaining some use
of our shattered nervous systems. per-
haps we may be able to recall that
a big sudden noise sounded mighty
good on July somewhere along in
the seventies.
That bad burn on Henry's hand is
at its most painful stage today, but
Henry looks forward with delight to
another national natal day.
There is feeling that the next
presidential candidate who files a bid
according to the specifications shall be
asked to accompany the same with
certified paper.
80
The offil law against cannon crack
ers was awfully shot to pieces
Mr.. Jagway-Honest. now: when you
saw me last night wasn't I making a
bee line for ho-neo
MrCandid Friend-Making a B line
Worse than that. Jagway You were
making a W hne.-Chicago Tribune.
80
Teddy, rampageous. ripping. plain
spoken message making Teddy. lay
aside the faunal firearms and get back
home where you are needed in an ad-
visory capacity and as reminder.
The shortage of hired men on the
farms may be traced to the fact that
the common laborer who doesn't get IS
cents an hour in town is more modest
than insistent.
Perhaps Senator Tillman intended TO
plant tea on those quarter sections of
the public domain which he failed to
corral.
Yes. a little cold for corn. Too much
rain. Looks bad. Won't have half a
crop If II keep on Grain will rot in
the shock. Bad on the hay But next
fall The farmer will be buying more
crib lumber and the stock will be
rolling ccn-ented and satisfied eyes
over ratons % bright oats and clean
timothy.
Omaha liquor dealers have conclud-
ed to obey the daylight law. But they'd
like to knock the daylights out of it.
The only Roman Catholic priest who
ever was in congress was Father Ca
briel Richard. who sa. from Mich-
gan district and impressed his COL
leagues with his character and ability
He has been recalled recently by the
centenary of the setting up of the first
printing press in the middle west.
Father Richard issued in 1909. from
press SET up in Detroit, the "Essai
du Michigan"
AS Illustrating how the world moves
and how Invention moves: About
seven teen years ago Thomas A. Edison
startled the world by carrying on tele-
era hic communication between a
moving train and stations along the
railroad without any wire connection
herewith. Today wireless biography
Is an ordinary business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

~ MASONlV M lICeSs
xHvisitors always welcome.
V\Hall over 1867 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1Os A. F. q A.
NJ, work on third degree Friday even-
ing, July 8, 1880 p m. g. Hoeck, w.
M. NJ. H. S. Lawrence, Sec'y.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO. r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday, July 10.
G. II. Boggie. II. r.
I. s. Willard. secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. q 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. July ~.
8 p. m.
A. D. Mesker. T. I. N.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COAdAdANDERY NO.
80 K. T-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
ening, July 20, at 8 o'clock sharp.
F. NJ. Wilbur. q. c..
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o =.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday. July
IL, at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. ". u.
Edna c. Fularton. secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

when the boys gather in the back
alley or a box car. chip IN 5 cents each
and have a sly game our goody goody
peorle mold up their hands in holy
horror, observes the Guthrie Center
Guthrian. But when 'sassity' get up
one of their social funttons' and gam
bic for a little dinky tea pot or 5 cent
water pitcher they call this a social
game Of whist. In our opinion this is
rambling pure and undefled just as
much SO as the nay loft Variety
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
BAN ON FEATHER BUSTER.
Health officer Says It seatters Deadly
Germs In tho Home.

"When one-seventh Of the worlds
deaths are caused by consumption it
is time that we did some soaring of
the people on the subject Of tubercu-
losis," declared DR.. Hills Cole of the
New York state department Of health
the other night in Detroit, Mich, be-
fore the American Institute Of Home
opathy.
1.-THE household feather buster is a
most potent means of scattering con-
sumption germs. Why do housewives
use feather busters, anyway? They
don't remove dust-they only redis-
tribute 1t. Their manufacture should
be prohibited by law. What shall we
use in our houses? Why, a damp
cloth, of course"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
The Hamburq'. RooseveIt Book.

Th6 HaHbur9S HooSeVeIt Book.
When Colonel Roosevelt decided to
sail on the Hamburg press clipping
bureau was directed to gather all that
was published concerning the voyage,
and G.620 separate items were secured.
leaves, four columns to page Of 10 by
is inches e. s!ze, end alled R20 nagas,
aggregating 1920 inches Of solid read
ing. The bound book, although the
leaves are Of the thinnest material
disable. measures one foot two inches
thick. The book will eventually be
placed in the library Of the steamship
Hamburg.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
Martyrs 70 Science.

At Lisbon, during the plague, DR..
Camara Pestana was infected while
searching for plague In person sup
posed to have died Of pneumonia. It
was plague; and the intrepid searcher
died also. He wrote down his nor.
rfble symptoms to the very end. Tor
the benefit of medical science.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

What would Roosevelt do If he oc-
cupied the White Housed hair with the
senate and tariff bill?" asks the Par
kersburg Eclipse and declares there is
only one answer. Aldrich and his back
ers would come in for a spanking they
would not forget"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

When you go dishing or to the woods
for the day, take alsag Buttercsp
cheese. You don't have to have any
thing stronger than water or coffee to
drink 1uhen you eat Buttercup cheese.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
the Gate Ajar.
Open the door to heathen7
It never yet was closed.

The God who lights the heavens
Has left the key exposed.
In every cross capped temple
A guide to heaven stands.
On every altar burns lamp
Not lit by human hands.
Mongolians may enter
And kneel In silent prayer
TO learn the word Of wisdom
The angels whisper there.
Open the door 10 sheavenl
(, IT'S not q young girls part
:. Save AZ her bedside prayers may
reach
Some distant heather heart
IN. p. Babcock IN New York American.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

"The government wants an editor"
notes the Charter Oak Times, land de-
scribes a $4,000 man, but offers him
only $4,000. We wonder what it will
get"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

that it hits the poor shareholder the
same as the rich. and the second is that
under the present system the consumer
will be compelled to pay the tax"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
WorId,s Steam PowerI

The steam power in use IN the
world to-day Is estimated 81 l2o. ooo,-
900 horse power.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
"a twenty dollar suit Of clothes xii

"a twenty dollar suit Of clothes will
cost you only thirtyfive now" asserts
the Odebolt Chronicle. Get down on
your knees and thank God that Taft
and Aldrich didn't plan TO make it cost
you fifty dollars. Mr. Taft was for re-
vision downward when he needed your
votes. He is still for downward re-
vision Of your bank account The
Massachusetts cloth manufacturers
want your money"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

The Sac Sun is willing to admit that
no editor can make a much better argu-
nent for party regularity and against
insurgency" than George D. Perkins
has made in the Sioux City Journal
1t believes, however, that better ex-
amples Of its practice than Mr.. Per-
kins can be produced"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

"a preacher who does not believe in
the divinity of Christ nor other ac-
cepted doctrines of the Baptist church
has no business in that denomination"
concludes the Oelwein Register
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

There are just two objections to
President Taft's corporation tax" says
the Maquoketa Excelsior. The first Is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

iowa saloon men at the present time
are generally sober. They are studying
the new law" remarks the Sioux City
Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

As illustrating how the world moves
and how invention moves: About
seventeen years ago Thomas A. Edison
startled the world by carrying on tele-
era phic communication between a
moving train and stations along the
railroad without any wire connection
herewith. Today wireless telegraphy
lis an ordinary business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

IF people were half as willing to
acknowledge an abiding faith in the
good and wholesome agencies within
their reach which tend toward health
and enjoyment, as they are to fall on
the necks Of quack doctors and jump
at every new remedy on the market.
they'd be a mighty sight better off, -
says the Rockford Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07

<'Our roads in this county are too
WIDE" says the Ida Grove Patriot. Not
only is 1T great expense to try and
care for the whole space, but the I'M
used space is a breeder of two-thirds
of our weed trouble. Let us reduce the
width of the roads to rs OF 30 feet and
then make that all road, and a good
one. The sale Of the extra strip of
land on each side of the real road
would pay for the building OF perma-
nent highway twenty-five feet wide Of
crushed rock and gravel"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-16
PAPERS b4 4np PEOPL =

600 and $3OOOOOOO the exact amount being dependent
on what may properly be included in the term Wall
street district" Within the most reasonable boundaries
for this district must be included property worth at
the figure; and may be assumed that the
real selling value is at least 20 cent in excess OF
that assessed against the owners.
1t is ultraconservative assert that onethird Of
this capitalization is employed in catering to specu-
ative enterprises and employmens This constitutes
an item of SIS 100000 for New York City alone, and
the nation will swell this to S100000,000 and more.
We have taken account Of the cost of the fixtures
in the thousands Offices in these buildings; neither
has mention been made of many other items which
properly belong in this calculation. The total amount
of fixed capital invested in the speculative game In the
United States is approximately indicated in the follow
ing table:
Invested in exchange buildings .........$ 25OOO0OO
Value of membership tickets ........... 1OOOOOOO0
Invested in Office buildings .............. 100000
Fixtures and incidentals ............... 25OOOOO0
Total ...................... SzoOUVVuUV
-Everybodys Magazine.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-16
NOON-NNSN@O~OIN~

A preliminary estimate by the geo.
logical survey puts the country's pc
troleum production for 1903 at between
175,OOO,00O and 1S0,OOO,00O barrels, as
against 166,0OO,000 barrels in 1907.
The white rhinoceros which Presi-
| dent Roosevelt is expected to try to
| shoot while in Africa really is of a
yellowish color, not so much lighter
than its commoner relatives, but it Is
| larger beast.
According to two scientists of the
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
each human emotion creates in deli
cate machine which they have invent
ed distinct electric force which it is
possible to classify.
The blackening of the glass of incan-
descent lamps is due to the fact that,
although the fusing point of carbon Is
In the neighborhood of 1000 c., it be-
gins to vaporize long before that tenn
perature Is reached
New Mexico produced, nearly 9,OOO,-
900 tons of coal last year. her mines
receiving a full quota of miners for
the first time in several years, owing
to the depression of the industry else
where in the country.
A British religious organization is
trying to transplant race by encour-
aging the emigration of the Laps from
Lapland, where they are in danger of
extinction, to the more healthful re-
gions of Labrador and Newfoundland
A writer in the London Times sug-
gests way In which an instantaneous
photograph Of the wheels of a passing
auto may give measure of It's speed.
with the focal-plane camera shutter
the slot moves In such way as to dis
close first the part of the wheels which
touches the ground. Since the upper
part OF the wheels is moving with
twice the velocity of the car, and the
lower part Is relatively stationary, the
effect In the photograph is to distort
the image of wheel into an elliptical
form whose shape varies in accordance
with the speed. Hence, If the time
movement of the shutter Is accurately
known, the speed of the passing car
can be quickly deduced.
Prof. George Forbes has given new
life to the belief in the existence of an
unseen planet beyond Neptune. He
bases his conclusions in favor of the
reality of this planet on the peculiari-
ties Of four remarkable comets, sup
posed to be intimately related to one
another. These are the comets Of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-16

Ten or fifteen years ago the farm
mortgage in the West was synonymous
with ruin. That was because the
rapid development of Western States
by men with little or no capital had
been checked by a series of years OF
crop failure combined with nation.
wide Industrial depression. Only too
many of the borrowers found them.
selves without resources to tide over
the hard times. Then came a period
of recuperation on the basis of splen.
did crops for many successive years.
The debotrs put all their energies at
work to pay off their creditors, and
some of the Western States got them.
selves into such a condition that a
farm mortgage was almost as hard to
find as farm without mortgage had
been few years previously. When
that stage had been reached the for
tunate farmers, along with the towns
people who shared their prosperity,
found themselves accumulating funds
which needed investment. Purchases of
adjoining lands sent land values rapid.
ly upward, and in many cases farmers
began to purchase cheap lands still
farther West for their sons. In this
way Nebraska and Kansas and Dakota
are engaged In doing now what Illi.
nois and Indiana and Ohio did a gen.
Grafton ago. Such purchases often in.
volye temporary debts, and SO the
farm mortgage now begins to become
a little more frequent, but with an en-.
tirely different significance from what
1t had two decades ago. The Nebraska
bureau of labor and industrial statis.
tics reports that last year the farm
mortgages filed amounted to a total of
S34,400,O00, as against $3O,7OO,OOO re-
leased, a slight Increase. The city real
estate mortgages filed amount to al.
most S14,000,0O0, as against $4,000 900
released, which indicates an era of
home building, partly due to farmers
moving into the city and acquiring
town homes, while at the same time
keeping their farms as source of in.
come. Chattel mortgages filed amount
ed to $34,4Oo,OO0, as against S19,OOO,-
600 released, a large part of which
may properly be attributed to the an
pearance of tenants on the farms
which the owners are ceasing to work
with their own hand. This mortgage
extension Is one stage in the move
ment of prosperity. There are no in.
dications that States like Nebraska and
Kansas can ever again suffer such de.
preston as that of the '9Os.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-16

The word "scapegoat" originated in
an ancient Hebrew custom practiced
at the feast Of the Passover. Placing
young goat upon the altar, the
priests would pray over 1t, asking that
all the sins Of the people be visited
upon the goat. Then, after each mem
ber of the tribe had transferred his
guilt to the victim by laying on his
hands, the animal was turned loose in
the forests to be devoured by wild
beasts.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-16

"Penny'in-the-slot sprays were used
In Egyptian temples two thousand
years ago." declared lecturer, recent.
ly' before the Royal Photographic So
ciety OF London. "Taximeters were
used on Chinese chariots in the fourth
century, and the Idea of the torpedo
boat is at least two and a half CEN
turtles old" The Preachers comment.
mo new thing under the sum-" ia OBJ
viously suggested. But 1t might be
urged that 1t takes as much intelli.
gence to appreciate and revive a good
old idea as to originate novel one.