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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

The "Wets" have filed a protest
with the commissioners Of Dade eoun.
" against the calling OF a wet and
dry election, charging fraud In the
securing Of the petition BY The tenn.
perance people The special commit
tee 70 which The matter was referred
have recommended that no election
be called. as many irregularities were
found In the petition.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

Il Il In time OF sudden mishap or
accident that Chamberlain's Linlmen,
can be relied upon to take the place
OF the family doctor. who cannot NJ
ways be found at the moment. Then
a IL that Chamberlaln's Eminent Is
never found wanting In case Of
spraius. cuts. wounds and bruises
Chamberlaln's Eminent takes out the
soreness and drives away the pain
Sold BY all druggists.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

when You see that Kind o. weather
forecast yo0 know that rheumatism
weather Is az hand Get ready for
Il nov By setting a bottle o. Ballard's
snow Liniment Finest thing made
Cor rheumatlsm. ohnblains. frost bite.
sore and sta Joints and muscles. an
aches and pains sc. coc and ti.ao a
'hottie sod ~ w. ~. johnson.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

and seals attacked and secured in our
little folding canvas boat. An under
ground camp wts built and the winter
OF 19OS-19O9 passed with taste of
everything save fresh meat.
For we had not morsel OF civil.
lied food, not even salt. A new equip
ment was devised and as soon as the
sun of 1909 rose over the hills Of
North Devon we started for Annotook
in February. 1909, dragging dried
musk oxen meat as food and melted
tallow as fuel for thirty days, on our
sledges. Deep snow. bad ice, open
water and continued storm made the
return slow and arduous. We reached
Annotook after a run OF hard luck
on April g. Here we were met by
Whitney only to find that Peary's men
had misused our station with It's
equipments over the protest Of Mr..
Whitney, We enjoyed good health at
all times"
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

The pleasant parsailve eject en-.
pcrlcnccd By an Who use Chamber.
laln's stomach and liver Tablets, and
tho healthy condition o. the body and
mind which they create. makes oae
feel ioytul Sold ~ an druggistA
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

The l. a y. railroad depot AZ Mil.
ton was destroyed By IRE Wednesday
night. lncluding some Of the records,
freight and express packages. The
building vas an old one and the loss
d therefore small
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

bidder remedy, DC
cause Of its remark
able health restoring
properties. Swamp
Root fulflls almost
every wish in over
coming rheumatism,
pain in the back, kid
neys, liver, bladder
and every part Of the
urinary passage. II
correcte inability to
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

fndoutif youhave kid
ueyor bladder trouble.
When writingmention
reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

hold water and scalding pain in passingit,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity Of being compelled to go often
through the day, and TO get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-I2 cot is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, live
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy You need. 1t has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
oFoved so successful that special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, WIZ have not all
ready tried IL, may have sample bottle
sent free by mail, also a book telling
more about Swamp-Root, ana how to
Il !. y I. n y
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-11

DR.. KiIner @ Co, Halas o bssnP-Il00'
Binghamton, Y. The regular ffty-cent
and one-dol1ar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. DON'T make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp Root
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the adj
dress, Binghamton, N. X, on every bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
NOT THE SPEAKERS PROVINCE
Orator to Follow Was Proper Person
to Comply with Request Of
Enthusiast.

Preachers of all denominations oc-
cupied chairs upon the platform. They
were giving their voices and influence
to the overthrow of a political boss.
The Presbyterian clergyman had the
floor and most vigorously attacked the
enemy. He delivered some fierce, tell
ing thrusts, and the audience was
with him. The boss received some
cruel jabs.
That's right, soak him." encour-
aged a man with a stentorian voice
who had standing room in the rear.
AS the clergyman warmed up to his
subject the interrupting soak him!"
came from the rear with greater pow
er and frequency.
The speaker paused. He was not
frritated, but gently threw the audi
ence into good-natured hysteria by
saying:
"The intentions of the gentleman
In the rear are good, but wholly mop
perfume and ill advised. If he'll kind
~ reserve his comments for the next
speaker, Brother Herrick of the Bap-
fist church, he'll be accommodated,
no doubt"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
BUSINESS IMPROVES.

"A gradual, though not uniform, i'm
provement in the industrial and traf-
fic situation of the country is indicated
by the leading comercial movements
for April, as reported TO the bureau of
statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor. The coal, textile, and
shoe trades show a considerable up
ward trend from the depressed condi-
tion prevailing during the early part of
1908. Movements of live stock, pro-
visions. and grain, on the other hand,
suffered a considerable check. Build
Ding operations maintained the high
record characteristic of the earlier
months. The traffic situation. as
measured by the number of cars
handled by various traffic associations.
also shows turn for the better
though the April figures for the cur
rent year are skill almost 10 per cent
below those reported two years ago.
Live stock receipts during April at
seven primary markets, e,7S2.14l head,
show a considerable decline from the
preceding months total.
Grain receipts during April at four
teen primary markets. 80 s9o.S6s
bushels, show the smallest monthly
total for the yeas and We're consider
ably lower than the 1908 and 1907 April
figures of 41.s59.4so and 66,662. 500
bushels. The volume of grain receipts
appears to have shrunk almost 50 per
cent as compared with figures for the
preceding month, the shrinkage affec-
ting all important grains and grain
centers
The building record for the month,
as indicated by the value of permits
granted by municipal authorities in 100
heading American cities, ss5.2S5, 131,
was almost 45 per cent higher than
for April. 1908, and shows slight
/ gain over the large total recorded for
! the preceding month.
The American Railway Association
reports the total number of idle cars
! within the country at the end Of the
month as 27o,574, compared with 1885,
1879 on April 90, 1908, when the largest
number of idle cars was reported since
the late depression began. and 2S4,-
Ill idle cars at the end Of the preced-
ing month. The number of cars hand
led in all parts of the country during
April by 81 denurrage bureaus and
car-service associations is reported as
2,323,s11, compared with 1,s70444 and
2.575,s24 for April, 1908 and 1907. The
total for the four months of the year
9,099,967. while about half a million
short of the corresponding 1907 record
was about II per cent larger than tbs
number handled during the first fou,
months of the preceding year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
Concrete Used BY the Romans.

Many will-intentioned persons, says
Cement Age, with no knowledge OF
building watever, and apparently ig-
norant of the simplest customs of con-
crete, have brought about failures
which have caused not only the loss
of property, but the loss of life also.
These failures on the practical side
have greatly increased the budget of
the theorists, and, consequently. we
learn from time to time what takes
place in the mind of the man who does
his building in his Imagination. We are
told that concrete is liable to disinte-
grafton of various kinds; that water
Will dissolve its substance: that it ma
be asphyXiated by escaping gas; that
it can be weakened by electricity and
1t can succumb to an attack of electro
lysis; that its success is entirely de-
pendent on the proper and permanent
setting of the cement, but nobody
knows how long cement may stay set.
To controvert the idea that concrete
is new and untried material and that
it must be left to the future to demon
strate its powers of endurance, Cement
Age shows photographs of some con-
crete foundations unearthed in the Ro-
man Forum and on the Palatine Hill.
All the concrete illustrated dates from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
HOME THE LARGEST WORD.

lITdef Star-Clfpper.J
There are many large words but
how many are there that so pass our
power to measure as the one word
home? To the devout, God may be
the largest word, but even to them
home comes next. The home is
magnet which draws all souls. Those
who have 1t have perennial joy; those
who have it not dream Of it, long for it.
If they despair of it life loses all fasci-
nation. Home is at once the simplest
and the grandest of all things. 1t may
be housed in howell or a palace; it is
not dependent upon surroundings.
Where husband and wife, parents and
children, love each other, sympathize
each for the rest, help in the burden
bearing, share with each other the few
OF many joys that come to them, there
is home.
What an oasis in life's desert! When
the wife waits the coming of the hus-
band because his coming brings light
and cheer when the husband goes
eagerly from field, shop or office, know
ing that love and sympathy will meet
him at the. door, that home is the
counterpart of heaven, tho 1t may be
but one room with the plainest furn-
ishlngs. Carpets, pictures, statuary and
palatial surroundings may or may not
be present, the home is separate, indie
pendent Of them. A howell may be a
home angels would like to visit: a pail
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
WHERE DO THEY GET THE "coKE2v

Junkin's story of his life gives point
lice and drug houses,to the effect that
th-ee-quarters of the cocaine that
passes thru the greatest port of entry
in the United States goes into the
hands of dope fends" instead of into
those of the doctors, thru underground
channels. The information comes in
Health League" and supports its argu-
ment for a "a prohibitory tariff, in
ternal revenue tax and other means
which will restrict the use of cocaine
its substitutes and derivatives, TO med
zeal purposes" It is said that members
OF the medical profession, welfare
workers, clerygrnen and the leading
drug houses in New York are sup
porting this measure as q, safeguard 10
every community in. the country by
thus shutting off this chief source Of
the illegal supply of the noxious drug
and that tho restrive laws can be and
are being successfully enforced by
compelling the local manufacturers
and wholesalers to keep records Of
their cocaine sales, it has been proven
unscrupulous retailers to whom the
American houses refuse to sell excess
sive quantities are perfectly free to
obtain a lirnitless and untraceable SUD-
ply from abroad.
So much that comes to the editorial
rooms in the way of Information"
emanates from interests directly to he
benefited by the legislation asked that
editors are much inclined to suspect
that argument leading up to higher
tariff on the drug is calculated to bring
commercial benefit to the employers Of
the press bureau. At any rate 1t is Diff
icult to see how an added dollar or
two per ounce would prevent the coke
fend" from securing the drug or fail
to encourage smuggling it into the
country. The information that rs per
cent Of the cocaine purchased and used
in the country is bought for the use
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
TIMESREPUBLICAN, MARSHALLTOwN, IOWA, JUNE /. 1909

ace may be hades to its jewellers. What
gives the true home SO large q place?
Think Of it. 1t is where immortals, by
the development of love, sympathy
and helpfulness, are fitting themselves
for the most splendid possibilities for
time and for the eternity which may
follow. Boys and girls In the true
home set culture and development
deeper than higher than reading, trav-
ell, society and colleges can bring them.
We are. drawing no fancy picture.
The places where chickering's are rife
are not homes. They may be luxuri-
Gus, but are only lodging and boarding
places. 1t is easy for any man or wo-
man to make home impossible. But,
home, the true home, is worth count
less times over all that it can cost in
effort and forbearance. Make it a
place the grown-up sons and daughters
will hate to leave, to which they will
turn in longing thought in after years,
not for its luXuries, but for it's love,
tenderness, purity and uplift.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
Mr.. JONES IN AN EMERGENCY.
Except for Single Unfortunate InoL
dent He Was Just the Man to
Deal with It.

When Jones reached home the other
night he found Mrs. Jones huddled up
in a corner of the sofa weeping, and
about four inches of water on the
kitchen floor.
The Joneses hadn't been married
very long, so he contented himself
with general remark concerning the
nonresourcefulness Of women and
asked how it happened.
"The water pipe. under the sink
burst" Mrs. Jones told him.
Jones smiled pityingly, walked de-
liberately to the kitchen closet and
produced a wrench. Opening the cell
lar door with a confident air he de-
scended to the region below.
After humping at least seven oh.
stacles he finally reached the wall and
reached out for the cock which he had
noticed in pipe which traversed the
wall. He applied his wrench and shut
1t off.
Patting himself on the back for be.
ing able to cope with an emergency,
he started back upstairs. Just half.
way up the steps he bumped into his
wife.
Mrs. Jones was the first to speak.
20. DEAR" she said, what in the
world did you turn off the gas for?"-
Philadelphia Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
WHAT OF THE BLACK PLAGUE?

DR. Alden Williams has an article in
the current Iowa Health Bulletin on
the "black plague that should attain
much wider publicity than it is likely
to do in that publication. In it he ar
CUES for frankness and plain speaking
in the discussion of venereal disease
and complains that these are of all
others the diseases in which the facts
are most concealed. He advocates a
public campaign and justifies his ar
gument by the statement that over
one-half the victims of venereal dis
ease are morally innocent 1t is this
innocent majority that makes logically
for a policy of public campaigning and
open and frank discussion.
The doet-r is right. If the statistics
quoted by him are correct and there
has been no question raised as to their
reliability the time for plain speaking
and open discussion is at hand. In
lection is not an Individual question.
1t affects the innocent, the ignorant
plague are the innocent women Of
whom the state board Of health of Yer
mont says:
at is estimated that so per cent of
all deaths from pelvic diseases in wom-
en- are due to gonorrhea-20 per cent
of blindness in children, so per cent of
childless marriages. At present there
are 100000 cases in New York City
alone"
Typhoid cost Germany in 1904, a
yearly loss of 100000, venereal dis
eases, $4,000 600 Lassar has stated
that Berlin must own that 20 per cent
of her population are tainted with
syphilis.
Dr.. Robert n. Wilson at Philadelphia
County Society in March, 1906, read a
paper on venereal prevalence and said
of the 100000 young men under 80
years of age in America, statistics
seem to point toward so per cent being
infected with venereal diseases before
their tfirtieta year.
In regard to syphilis an editorial in
the American Medical Journal states
thtat probably 100000 people of the
United States are tainted.
An eastern authority in his book on
venereal diseases states that IS per
cent or more of the male population
suffer from gonorrhea and to IS per
cent from syphilis. Statistics quoted
by DR. Baker, Elmira, n. Y, places the
! per cent of forever uncured gonorrhea
at 80 1-3 per cent in both men and
women. No statistics can measure the
destructiveness of these diseases
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01

of victims to the pernicious habit and
sold in secret to the destruction Of hui
mainly Is the main thing and needs
the closest attention. For the cocaine
habit is becoming universal among the
lower and dangerous class Of blacks
and whites and the strictest state
laws, enforced as state laws generally
are that deal with the sale of drugs
and intoXicants fail to prevent the sale
deadly custom. The degenerate who
Graves cocaine gets 1t. John Junlin got
it. Every lost woman who uses it gets
1t. The negro stable boy gets 1t. Per-
haps they do not get it at the repu-
table drug stores, but there are many
drug stores in this state that are dis
reputable and to which law violation
and disrepute are the means of exis-
tence. The niger dope fiend' gets his
cocaine. Under it's frenzy he steals,
kills, rapes. Where does he get it?
If so Imminent danger threatened
swine, if disease We're making the raw
ages among the horses that coacaine is
making among human beings an army
of expert inspectors would be securing
the country and the forces of the gov
eminent be in active play. If poison
ers were at work as the purveyors Of
dope" are busy the secret service OF
the government and the detectives of
every city and agency would be upon
their track. If a Tennessean noun
taineer makes a barrel of moonshine
or billiard hall proprietor in Iowa
sells whiskey without government
permit he doesn't last longer than a
SNOWFALL in inferno. Then, will some
one who knows tell US how the illicit
murder manages to conduct IS per
cent of the sales of coacaine unhurt,
and unheeded until the mangled and de-
filed evidence of the drug fiend's work
is found in a heap where he left her?
1t isn't question for tariff. 1t is
a criminal question. 1t desn't begin
with the rapist and the accomplished
crime II begins too often in the drug
store whose proprietor sits at home in
comfort while negro crazed by the
drug this man or mis- clerks sold raw
ishes and Stays out in the darkness. 1t
begins with the purveyor of the drug
who sold it except to be used under the
wise direction OF capable physician
1t begins with the physician, I'M
worthy of his degree and title, the
disgrace to his profession, who furn-
ishes certificates" to the inmates of
brothels and sells the drug on the side.
All these ought TO be in the peniten-
tiary. Why not begin at the beginning
and while we are hanging a few Junk
ms make examples of the fiends who
are partners and accomplices with
the Junkins?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01

eraabout the beginning Of the Christian
era, and is therefore, but little less than
two thousand years old.
That the Romans We're very familiar
with concrete, and gave consideration
to Its use, examination of the concrete
work in the Forum clearly shows. Their
concrete contained contained generally
only two kinds of stone-trayertine and
selcie-in equal parts. Selcie is a hard,
closely knit rock, very similar to our
bluestone or trap rock In color as we'll
as quality. Travertine is a volcanic
rock, not so hard as selcie, consider
ably lighter in color and was desirable
on accout of it's porosity, which insured
good bond with the cement. In all
the Roman work the combination OF the
travertine and the selcie is clearly dis
tinglliShable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
HERE AND THERE.
INT. Vernon Record.1


Another fire loss of 100000 in Des
Moines last week. l hope Mr.. Bennett
the all-wise Bennett, of Cedar Rap
ids, who makes the fire insurance
dates-will lose no time in lacking a
little higher rate on the country towns
to make up for the Des Moines loss.
We country store owners are getting
tired carrying around the money we
are saving.-Denison Bulletin.
We might add that Linn county
lady holding $1,000 in stock in an east
ern insurance company drew $1,000
dividends last year. The lowest she
has drawn in years is s1,400-the year
Of the San Francisco earthquake. She
has been offered about $4,000 for the
stock. This is somewhat beside the
matter under discussion, but an inter
esting fact.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
Looker-On In Iona

Shell Rock, June IA we'll dressed
gentlemanly appearing individual is
working along here, taking orders for
pocket knives. He does not take orders
from the trade, but works individuals.
He has a fine line of samples, takes
orders for the kind of knife you want
and delivers 1T in a few weeks with
your name on the handle. In this way
he avoids paying peddler's license, as
we'll as giving his customers a chance
to see the knife before paying for it..
That's one way of making a living.
Another equally peculiar kind of bus
mess is the man that travels selling
-four in hand" neck wear He has no
bows, string ties ascots or butterbfys.
simply -four in hands Of which he
displays fine assortment, claiming he
sells the ordinary so cent tie for 25
cents. the Is cent kind for IS and the
81 four in hand for so cents, and
he sells his goods too. The writer saw
him sell three in meat market next
door to clothing store that carries a
fine line Of mems furnishing goods.
A gradual change Is taking place in
business circles in the smaller Iowa
towns that is not exactly explainable.
Many of these towns have several va
cant stores and they are increasing in
number. As rule its the shop, the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
JEALOUS OR BURNT?

I-NdpItCOIl FrtSS.
The Onawa Democrat is exploiting
the attractiveness of Blue Lake as a
mecca" to which hundreds are GO
ing to catch fish, and offers the belief
that the lakes about Onawa will draw
from abroad more this season than on
any former one. In that case the suck
er crop will surely be immense No
self-respecting man will ever make a
second trip to those fish barren lakes
and stand for the extortion levied by
the greedy residents surrounding them
under the guise of accommodations
for transients. When the seiners get
thru with the lakes around Onawa in
the spring, all the fish that are left are
usually suckers on the banks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
An Io1ua Poet to Sunday

God make His lead abiding
Until L reach my grave
1t is an honor royal,
A hope and vision bright,
To be His servant loyal
And labor in His light.
Thou star of truth forever
Shine on the way for me,
And strengthen my endeavor
To follow after thee
Thy brightness still is beaming
AS in the ages past;
Show me thy light redeeming
And take me home at last.
My Jesus, greatest treasure,
Gods gift to me most grand
Then life's uncertain measure
Before my vision stand
AS tiny plants are turning
Toward the sun and day,
My heart is ever yearning
For thee, in peace to stay.
Thou Sharon's fragrant flower
Spread blossoms in my soul,
And let no tempting power
Attract me from my goal
Thou vine in Gods plantation,
LIES ever blooming tree,
Grant me the honored station
To be branch on thee.
Then plant me with thy flowers
While in my early spring;
Send due and gentle showers,
Then sun and harvest bring
Give growth and blessings vern:
Las long as 1 may live
And then with hope eternal
My soul to thee l give.