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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
THE COST OF LIVING.

Provisions have presented the great
est surprise to a majority Of trades by
advancing to practically the highest
prices since 1893 for pork and the best
since 1892 for lard. Pork crossed $40
for September last week and almost
touched that mark for July. Septem-
Der lard sold up to s11.37k and short
ribs to $1o671k for July and $1O72k
for September. It is unusual for pork
to advance over 81 per barrel in a
week and it closed at gain of 92k
cents, while lard gained 40@42k cents
and short ribs 321a OBS cents. AS
compared with year ago pork is
s6osis @S.iTnn, lard s2.7992.se and
ribs s2.s7s@s.17A higher than last
year.
| Stocks OF meats at western points
decrea sed 2271s. 900 pounds last month,
against 5,335,0o0 pounds last year, the
supply being 2ss.s0s,ooo pounds, COM
pared with s22. oOo. 900 pounds last year
] Stocks Of contract lard in the west are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

It was a splendid career as we'll as
long life which closed when Edward
Everett Hale died. Here was a man
who had outlived the allotted span all
most a score Of years, whose every
day had seen some good accomplished
and TO whom none of the 81 years he
left behind could point an accusatory
finger. His clean, useful, pure and
busy life stands out like Parian
shaft against the follies, the neglect,
the idleness and the arrogance of three
generations.
He was a preacher. a philosopher,
poet, prominent in letters, large in the
councils of the mighty and high among
the advocates Of the better and greater
part of life. His influence has been I'M
iversal, not more by reason of his ex-
ceptional intellect and his gift of ex-
preston than by the nobility Of the
man. His life has been clearly lumin-
Gus with nobility. It shall be long be-
fore the light fades and while it shines
it will lamp the paths of civic, moral
and religious righteousness.
1t is much to be great; it is infinitely
more to be good but to combine the
two is most.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
Iona Newspapers
TIE bO1.
lCedar Rapids Gazette.]

ICedar Rapids Gazette.
When a boy will NOW the lawn with
the same zest that he plays ball you
may be pretty sure his energy is wide
awake and on the right track-Rock
ford Register.
But why should anyone expect a boy
to NOV the lawn With the same energy
that he plays bali, and Why should he
be considered as even slightly off the
right track if he does enter into lawn
moving with uncomfortable energy?
A boy is a real boy-if he is worthy
to be called a boy at all. He isn't a
man. He doesn't do things that are
called work in the man spirit. He is
living in the play age. Let him live
there. He will be the better man be-
cause he has been boy-a real boy
with the boys nature-the nature that
Graves play-the nature that will impei
him to work willingly three times as
hard playing ball as he would have to
work at moving the lawn.
1t is not natural that boy should
enter into work with the same zest that
he enters into play. Don't expect the
boy to do something that his very ma
ture rebels against. He was made
that way, and he was made that way
for purpose.
The boy should work OF course he
should. He can and ought to do a lol
of work. He should be taught to love
work. The older he gets the more
should he and labor associate-unti
when he comes to mans estate he will
| be ready to do all the tasks assigned n
him, and be unsatisied with that Bu
don't ask the boy to enter into worl
with the same zest that he plays 1t is
asking the Impossible and the unna.
| tural
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
Importance of Drainage

soil the drag when properly used,
tends to puddle the road surface, keep
it free from ruts, dense, smooth and
hard, thus securing the best surface
drainage possible.
But in many places the underground
water is too near the surface and
must be removed before good road
will be possible. This means that
some form of sub drainage must be
resorted to, usually tile drains. of clay
or concrete. Water from whatever
source must be gotten rid of effective
ly, for water plus clay or gumbo in
variab1y equals mud when mixed in
spring and summer. Water becomes
ice in winter, and as water in freez-
ing expands one eighth its volume,
the road heaves out of shape and when
the ice melts the road disappears be-
meath the rising tide of mud constantly
fed by rains melting SHOWS and un-
foreground springs.
In seepy and Doggy places the
drainage in order to be fully effective
should lower the water level to not less
| than three feet below the road sur
| face. If tiles are used they should be
carefully laid, true to grade Most
failures in tile drainage can be attrib-
uted to carelessness in laying, or too
fiat grade. Tile less than four inches in
diameter should rarely be used, nor
should grade of less than six inches
to the 100 feet be used unless abso-
lutely necessary. In very dense soil
it is always advisable to cover the tile
to at least a depth of six or twelve
inches with coarse sand or fine gravel.
Care should always be taken to secure
a free outlet with concrete bulkhead
or catch basin, which can always be
kept clean and the outlet free.
The kind of tile to be used depends
on local conditions. Concrete tile if
properly made are equally as good as
clay tile. Which kind to-use is entirely
a local question of dollars and cents. If
concrete tile can be made more cheaply
than clay tile can be had, use concrete;
if not, use clay tile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
TIn1Es-REPUBIICAN MARsHAILTowN IOWA, JUNE IL 1909


isolation of country life. desiring to
seek thescompany of nearer neighbors
and better social advantages offered by
residence in town, to say nothing of
school facilities for younger members
Of the family?
is not Brother Gage carrying his
philosophy of this strenuous life to
ridiculous extremes? In these latter
days farmers are the true aristocrats,
they possess the land and the fullness
thereof Why should they not step
aside and let others till their produc-
tive acres? "They have come to stay, "
Brother Gage.
Retired farmers are a product of
recent social and business conditions,
and will remain factor in the
economic life of the agricultural por-
tions of the country. Their presence
is an evidence of development and adj
vanced civilization.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
WHEN WORCESTER SHUT HER SALOONS

Worcester, Massachusetts,. is man
ufacturing city of more than 100000;
one of the kind of cities where we are
assured by the saloon element that il
is impossible to eradicate the saloon
because the saloon presents the only
way to handle it." Worcester has
twice successfully voted dry" under
local option. Here is what Worcester
reports as the result of the dry" year
just passed:
Arrests have declined in the follow
ing ratios: For drunkenness, from g.
924 to 1.1S43; for assault and battery.
from 3S2 TO 263; for larceny, from SAB
to 255: for neglect and non-support,
from 112 to 81; for disturbing the
peace, from 30 to 1o9 Patients in
the alcoholic ward at the city hospital
decreased from 274 TO 144, and deaths
from alcoholism, from 80 to g.
The drug stores sold whiskey. Ac-
cording to the records the eight he
ensed druggists sold 2s,o25 quarts and
ss.o65 pints They probably sold much
that was not of record. But this year
| only one of these licenses was renewed
In a city of 100000 only one man had
gall enough to ask for permit under
/ the circumstances.
Worcester, Massachusetts. is big
town. Every man does not know every
other there by name, face, in speaking
! SriondShir1
would the result be in town of 49,
600 where every mans acts are per-
sonal to every one in town.. How
manv would ask for permits? In
Narshalltown one of the principal
druggists has announced his extreme
willingness to give up his permit if
three other leading stores will join
him
If the saloon will get out of the way
the whiskey drug store will have the
hardest kind of road to travel. Most
of the druggists who sell whiskey
] would gladly throw it out of their
stores: and the other fellow would
soon have reason 10 WISH ne mao oohe
so.
If Worcester can rid herself of SC
much of crime, if she can cut her death
vote from alcoholism 500 per cent in 9
year why not try it. If there is any
man who can not recall friend anf
associate in business whose early deatf
is not directly attributable to liquor
and not say that ne would gladly hav'
traded the whole liquor traffic of tn
world for that one life let him stant
ND. Everyone wants to see him-once
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
RETIRED FARMERS.
ICarroll Herald


Preacher Gage. Of Des Moines, has
become serious over the situation He
sees too many retired farmers: they
are painfully numerous in every city
and town in Iowa The eloquent pull
pit orator regards them as pest. He
says. They are all right in their
way, but they do not weigh much"
He accuses them of "ignoble sIothful-
ness" saying, they spend as little
money as possible, fossilize with a ra-
pidity surprising to people not ac-
quainted with this breed of men," etc.
Nor is he willing to halt in his trade
He says they are blocking improve
ments and spending as little money as
possible" and are worse gossips than
women" Proceeding. Brother Gage
says "the dry goods box is his throne.
the jackknife his weapon and the gro
Gerry store his castle"
Brother Gage takes himself with
wonderful seriousness and lambasts
Sidewalk farmers" with an eloquence
that is perfect in construction and
style. But our good brother probably
never exposed his elegant person to the
elements Possibly he very seldom has
exerted himself so as to be overheated
strained in joint or limb, and is free
from such things as aches and pains
Indeed, he does not know what it is to
be rheumatic or crippled from over
wGrk. Maybe he has never though,
that by reason of exposure and over
effort it is possible for a man at so tc
be worked out, fit only for retirement
Ard has brother Gage ever thought
Of the farmers wives and daughters
firing of the drudgery of the farm and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
THE MILK FARMER.

There's money in cows. There's
money in one COW kept at the highest
expense by the city dweller. There's
more money in herd of forty kept by
the dairyman who peddles their product
from door TO door and gets the highest
price by the pint and quart. There is
good big money in cows for the farm
er who is willing to turn from corn
raising and cattle feeding and raise
milk and potatoes. two articles of farm
production that are in excessive de-
mand and in scanty supply.
The milk supply of one city Chicago,
requires the product from 10000 farms
supporting 10000 COWS, which each
produce two gallons of milk the
year round. The city consumes almost
100000 quarts daily, in actual figures,
961,92o quarts. At { cents quart it
pays s67.344.4o every day to the milk
man. not counting the milk sold at res
taurants or the certified milk which
sells at more than cents.
If butter, cheese and other milk
products were to be added the number
of farms and cows would be greatly
increased and the city's bill for dairy
products assume vast proportions And
Chicago and every other city of great
or small size is asking for more milk
and for more and better butter The
money is ready to pay for it, 1t is a
question simply of supplying a de-
mand.
Outside of the best cortland of Iowa
there are many thousands of acres
| that are exceptionally adapted to graz
! ing. In some parts of the state grass
I land may be found as low as s35 an
acre. This is true of some parts of
southern Iowa which is the "blue grass
country" of the state Why do not
some of the men who are seeking farm
investments outside of Iowa try dairy
ing in our own dairy districts. There's
money in it, big money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11

federal constitution against impair
ment by the state The supreme court
of the United States held that such ex-
emption was not one of the funda-
mental rights of national citizenship,
SO as to be included among the privi-
leges and immunities of citizens OF the
United States.
FOAM AND GAS NOT BEBR.-One
Nyli1 was indicted under statute pro-
hibiting the sale of beer in quantities
less than five gallons. 1t seems that N.
had been selling cases of beer contain
ing bottles the total capacity of which
was at least five gallons. Persons ard
ent in the enforcement of the liquor
law procured several of these cases and
measured the contents, minus foam
and gas, in measures tested by the Sec
rotary of State. Nylin thought that
gas and foam were a constituent OF
the amber fluid, and that the cases
sold contained the required amount.
The supreme court of Illinois in Peo-
pie v. Nylin, sc Northeaster Reporter
1856, remarked that gas is an aer1form
fluid, but not liquor, and held that
the measurement intended by the stat
ute was of the quiet liquor after it had
been released from confinement and
reached a quiet condition in the open
air.
BOILER EXPLOSION.-A laundry
was in the habit Of wrongfully using
the pipe of water company to re-
lieve it's boiler of excessive pressure.
The water company was aware of this
use, and knew moreover that the boiler
had no other exhaust Without notice
to the laundry. and with the knowledge
of its probable effect, the water COM
pany arranged a check valve within
the pipe which furnished the boiler
water. In due time the boiler explod-
ed damaging the building. The court Of
appeals of California, in Bowie ".
Spring Valley Water Co., 81 Pacific
Reporter, $50. held that defendant was
liable for the explosion, and plaintiff
could have recovered but for the fact
that its complaint failed to allege that
it was at the time of the installation of
the valve using the feed pipe as a vent
and had no other means of relieving
the pressure of the boiler. and that de-
PENDANT was aware of these circum-
/, stances.
JUDICIAL NOT1CE.-Appellant in
SleDeFtS vs.. SpdHSIel, LILO - VI lhWoSe-
ern Reporter, 1892 was employed as
assistant manager of a football team
for the season of 1903. Appellant con-
tended that, as the contract fixed no
date for payment of The agreed sum,
the court could not arbitrarily name
the date December 1sO at which in
terest could begin to accrue. The SUE
preme court of Iowa remarked that it
was matter of common observation,
of which the court may take notice,
that. while the remainder of the year in
our great American institutions of
| learning may be religiously devoted to
the study of football. the season"
proper. in which academic investiga-
ton gives place to the applied science,
begins with the first frost, and ends
very appropriately with the day of
general Thanksgiving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
1.-THE Carriage Dealers JournaLl

1.-THE Carriage Dealers Journal.l
With an average of $1,000 tons of
water falling in form of rain on each
mile of public road in the United States
annually, it is scarcely to be marvelled
at that the ten commandments of the
road builder can be summed up sue
cinctly In the word drainage"
The saying has truth for a basis, as
good drainage is the primary requisite
for all roads. Even in sand roads this
holds true, for there good drainage"
means such as will safely remove the
storm water without erosion or gully
ing and still retain the surface mois-
ture.
To secure good drainage one must
take into consideration both the sur
face water and the underground wa
ter The surface water must be re-
moved quickly and completely and
without subjecting the road to excess
sive scour or erosion. For this rea-
son. the center OF the road should be
raised and the slope towards the side
bitches should be from one-half to one
inch to each foot distance, or so that
the water will run freely to the side
bitches and not flow down the road OF
remain in puddles on the roadway. The
side bitches should be of ample size tt
care for the severest storms with a
fall of not less than six inches to each
100 feet. Frequent and ample cross
drains should be constructed and ev-
cry opportunity taken to get the wa
ter away from the road as quickly as
Sossible.
Any road along which you see water
standing in the side bitches or or
which puddles of water have collected
or which has been badly quilted OF
eroded by the rains has poor drainage
and is in need of immediate attention
In fact earth roads nearly always re-
quire little attention after each rain
| The split-log drag is essentially {
| tool to maintain good drainage on oul
earth roads, and should be used aftel
! each rain. On heavy clay or gumb'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
Important Decisions
[Supplied by West Publishing Co., st.
Paul Mimi

TRAFFIC IN GAME.-The constitu-
tionality of the New York statute pro-
viding that grouse and plover shall not
be possessed during the close season,
whether killed within or without the
state, was attacked in New York ex rel.
Silz v. Hesterberg, 90 Supreme Court
Reporter, 10. 1t appeared that relator,
a dealer in imported game, had in his
possession two birds, one of each of
the species mentioned. Thew were I'M
like the native birds of their family,
and were easily distinguishable, both
before and after culinary attention. 1t
was contended that while the protec-
ton of the game supply was within
the police power of a state, the law in
question was an unreasonable eXer-
else thereof; that it was an unconst-
tutional regulation of foreign COM
merce; that it denied due process of
law. The United States supreme court
held that. as a state had the power to
make law that would remove from
its the dealers the temptation TO traffic
in native game under the preteXt of
handling foreign birds. this statute was
not unconstitutional.
SELF-INCRIMINA Twin
ing V. State of New Jersey. % Supreme
Court Reporter, IA Twining and an
other, as officers of trust company.
Were convicted of having knowingly eN-
hibited false paper to a bank exami-
ner with intent to deceive. The paper
was referred to in the Indictment. and
| in the course of the trial defendant
called no witnesses and did not testify
himself tho New Jersey law gave him
the right to do so. The jury were in
structed that they might draw an I'M
| favorable inference against him from
his failure to testify, where it was
within his power. in denial of the evil
dence which tended to incriminate him.
The law of New Jersey permitted such
an inference to be drawn. The ques-
ton was whether such a law violated
the fourteenth amendment by abridg-
ing the privileges of immunities of citi-
zens of the United States. The court
stated in the outset that it was in
cumbent on defendant to prove that
the exemption from compulsory self
Inflammation was guaranteed by the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11

LaFollette talks as long in the sem
ceum platforms, but the senate crowd
doesn't keep enthusiastically urging
him to go on
Some of the congressman who are
wondering whether or not they will be
they will not be embarrassed by any
such question two years hence.
The United Norwegian church decid-
ed at its Des Moines conference to
pension its preachers and care for its
things that churches may be expected
to do.
Dolliver has demonstrated that he
knows more about wooden schedules in
a minute than .Aldrich ever dreamed
of. Aldrich seems to be guessing in
more senses than one. Keep him guess
ing.
When you want to go fishing, why
YOU want to go fishing right away.
The insurgents have the argument
but Aldrich appears to have control OF
the bandwagon.
Joaquin Miller is going to establish a
colony of literary men. The natural
prediction would be that the gather
ing will make noise like hog killing
within week.
The high protectionists," il the trust
representatives are to be so dignified
are those who believe the steel mag.
nate should write his own schedules
the cotton manufacturer set the duty
on cotton goods, and congress accepr
them without serious question. Some
how the scheme has grown unpopular
4 in the west. Anyway a kleptomaniat
BILE.
Telephone rates have been raised ii
Des Moines. Since the city commits
sion got busy with one another, {
battery only lasts two or three days.
The high protectionist is thinking O
the proddcer.-Sioux City Journal.
AS, for Instance. the lumber pro
Queer? And the tea and coffee pro
ducers?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Cedar Rapids Republican pre-
diets that the prodigals who have been
leaving Iowa will return. I'VE be-
lieve," it says, that in the next ten
years the tide will be turned in this
state, and the tide Of population will
set Iowaward. Thousands have left
this state in the last ten years. They
have been lured away by one thing af-
ter another-cheap lands, balmy cli-
mates and rosy prospects. But these
men are bound to learn sooner or later
that the conditions of life are not
changed by change of residence"
Senator A1drich is making the mis-.
take Of attempting to be in the senate
what the whole ways and means COM
mittee was in the house," says the
Davenport Times. HE ought to let
some of the other members OF the
finance committee of the senate assist
him In the Debates
Nowhere are the republicans more
loyal to party than in the middle west"
says the Clinton Herald; nowhere has
the principle off protection fiTnleT os
more deep seated foundations. The re-
pubNcans are not tarin rippers. They
are asking for nothing that is revolu-
ltionary: they are asking for nothing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11

$4,000 ties, decrease Of 1000 tcsin May.
and compared with $4,000 ties year
ago.
There is a shortage of all kinds OF
animal fats and cottonseed oil is adj
vancing, and Notwithstanding the high
price the trade is bullish, but is buying
on the ndto-mouth policy. being
afraid that prices will not hold. There
are large stocks of hams for which
packers are trying to create a market,
but they do not take the place of lard
or side meats
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
s: THE LODGES. ].
4 MASONIC NOTICES.


4 MASONIC NOTICES.
XVisitors always welcome.
/VNHall over 1867 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10S A. r. q A..
NJ, no work tonight. work in second de-
gree Friday evening, June II, 1880. n.
g. Hoeck, w. NJ. NJ, H. s. Lawrence.
Sec'y.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday, June IA,
1880 p. M, work in Royal Arch degree.
q. a. Boggie. II. p.
I. S. Millard. Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. q 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. May Il.
8 p. m,
A. D. Meeker. T. I. II.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY,
No. 80, K. .T.-Stated conclave Tues
day evening, June % at s o'clock for
business and work on the Order OF the
Temple. F. NJ. Wilbur, E. G.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. O. -
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, June
16, at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. W. II.
Edna G. Fularton. Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11

that is not consistent with present,
business conditions. But they stand
with such7 men as Dolliver and Bever-
idge. who have been pleading with the.
senate to carry out the pledges of the
party"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11

ut rests with the saloonkeepers
themselves to say whether Iowa shall
have prohibition or not" says the Du-
buque Telegraph Herald. In the spirit
in which they observe the law depends
their continuance in business"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
The prodding of .Aldrich proceeds
says the Cherokee Times. y

The state board of pardons and pa
role evidently does not regard fraudu-
lent banking as one of the cardinal
SINS" remarks the Carroll Herald. LIE
Roy Ware the Seymour plunger and
bank wrecker, enjoys the freedom of
this balmy June. with its inspiration
and vitalizing force, by virtue of the
sentiment that induced the board to
grant him his freedom