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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

a dead moral, lead pipe cinch. So they
played 1t across the board and got
in line to cash in before the play was
over.
keeping to the vernacular the state
administration played it straight. 1t
pinched Davenport. Then it took a lit
tie whirl with Council Bluffs and
played the star to win. The star came,
"The Star. The Starr and when the
big game was over the state adminis-
tration Went away with its chips in a
grip sack. And then and there was
established the principle that the at
torney generals office was the biggest
thing in Iowa in the matter of law en-
forcement. See?
Sioux City is cleaning up. So is Bur-
lington. Also Des Moines. 1t is a good
hearing. And tracing it back, step by
step, one comes at last to small trod-
den patch of ground where two or
three years ago a little convocaion of
Joseph's brethren gathered to plan a
way to drop Joseph into the pit. And
having digged the pit it was scriptural
enough that they should fall into it
| themselves
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hy, but the hand OF the spofler was
stayed not even In Gods acre..
In changing the subject from the
wood thrush to the loggerhead shrike
one has to turn his pen 100 degrees.
The birds are antipodal in character.
One is all sweetness and light and the
other is pretty nearly all sin and dark
ness.
The loggerhead shrike Qanius lu-
dovicanus) comes to the northern
states in early spring and stays all
summer. He replaces his brother.
the great northern shrike, which has
spent the winter with us and has re-
treated beyond the Canadian border
with the first touch of warm weather.
The loggerhead is slate gray
black and white creature, with a
small hawklike bill. He is curiously
interesting bird, and the deviltry in
him rather adds to his interest. He
loves bird brains, and he uses. his
own brains to. good advantage in OBJ
tanning them. He sits in tree top
apparently innocently surveying the
landscape, until some small bird. /;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
AN INDIANA PHILOSOPHER.

1t was peculiar but not entirely UNI
natural impulse which led an Indiana
nonogenerian to convene his friends
and neighbors and call his favorite
minister to deliver a funeral sermon
before his death which occurred few
hours later. 1t was a leavetaking not
as simple perhaps but as philosophi-
cal and lacking only the hemlock to
have been as dramtic as that of Soc
rates. The old man listened to the
words of hope and regret spoken, the
hymns sung, met his friends and neigh
bors for the last time on earth and
folded his hands to slumber. 1t was a
wrapping of the draperies of his couch
about him and a lying down to infinite
rest.
Something about it attracts more
than passing attention and suggests
merit. 1t contains a philosophy new tc
this age but common to an earlier day
when men departed as those who 60
upon a journey. No doubt all was de-
Gently and orderly done.
/ The near presence OF death. the oil
man peering past the veil, the living
looking upon the solemnity of brave
soul bravely watching the sands o
outbreaks of loud mourning and wilt
regret. 1t was not a funeral sermon
and funeral gathering. 1t was a leave
taking by one who was going on aheat
into a far and strange country bidding
goodby and receiving godspeed from
those who were soon to follow him
We may imagine that there We're n
loud outcries and Paintings and will
weeping such as are too often publ
manifestations of grief.
Modern day funerals with their ex
IRENE publicity of grief, the mixed at
tendance of friends who came in sin
cere bereavement, the curious and tn
morbid and the careless, are more G
Tess dIolildiouS " liiS ieiiiAeiiiSiiI
our civilization. There is too much dis
play too great attention paid to tt
eyes of others, often a barbara mar
!, Hesitation of extreme grief that in tn
age belongs in the family home an
should be sacred to the family.
The Indiana man who called in h
, friends and neighbors. whose funer
: was a quiet and sorrowful manifesto
: ton of the regret and pain Of partir
e between those who had lived togeth
~ and loved one another should not al
If pear in the light of a freak but
t hailed as one who revives lost phi
y losophy.
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THE LODGES.
i MASONIC NOTICES.


a MASONIC NOTICES.
xAVisitors always welcome.
W\Hall over. 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1O8 A. F. & A.
M, work in first degree Friday evening.
May 81, 1880. III. G. Hoeck, w. M. M.
H. S. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday, May IL.
8 p. m.
G. H. Bosgie. H. P.
/. S. Willard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. & g.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. May II.
8 p. m,
A. D. Meeker. 7. /. N.
i. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY
No. 80, K. T-Stated conclave Tuesday
evening, May 18th at o'clock.
Order of the Temple.
Fred NJ. Wilbur, =. 9.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. D. u.
ESPECIAL meeting Tuesday afternoon,
May 18, at o'clock for inspection.
Mrs. Geo. Downing, w. -.
Edna C. Fularton. Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
The Work of Their Hands.

Ah, where went those feet whose lusl-
tive prints
Scarcely yet has the ripple erased
from the sands?
And the work of the hands that were
folded long since
How long. oh. how long it outlasteth
those hands!
The canvass yet blooms with indelible
In its niche the presence in marble
yet stands:
The work of the hands that were fold
ed long since,
How long. oh, how long it out last
eth those hands!
There hangs the shield with memorial
dints;
There the flower of an hour in the
easement expands;
Rut folded last eve or folded long
since,
Here are the deeds of the hands-but
the hands?
we yet eat of their stores, we YET
drink of their vints;
Lo. the vines that they pruned; 10,
their own furrowed lands.
But. folded last eve or folded long
since,
The work, oh. how long it outlasteth
the hands!
The toy of child, a garment OF
chintz-
How we'll such a trifle times ruiz
withstands;
The work Of the hands that were fold
ed long since,
All, Cod how long it outlasteth tbs
hands.
But folded last eve is folded Ions
since,
The fire when once out, how cold arr
the brands!
Is there aught that was theirs, tina
can trace them. that hints
Thru the work of the hands wher
to reach for the hands?
Edith NJ. Thoma:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
A vEsPER HYMN OF EXQUISITE
swEETNEss-NEsTs IN CITY
CEMETERIES.
THE LoGGERHEAp sHRIKE
is FULL OF DEviLTRY
Fond of Bird Brains and sIaushters
Without Mercy-Grosbeak Devours
Potato Buss-Habits of Other Feath-
cred Folk Of Prey-clark's Bird OBJ
servations.
BY Edward B. Clark.
associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union.)

associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union.)
Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles)
OF all the sounds of summer there
are few which in pure sweetness ex.
eel the song of the wood thrush. The
singer seeks the seclusion of the
thickets, and you must go to him to
hear his exquisite solo. 1t is tink-
ling song, seemingly best at sunset
a silver vesper bell sounding in the
quiet woodland as the shadows
lengthen.
Only one other bird-though some
persons with ears attuned to nature
say two others-surpasse in the pure
music of its notes the song of the
wood thrush. The hermit thrush, a
brother bird, breaks the silence of the
northern wilderness with a song that
is unapproached and perhaps unap.
proachable.
1t is long journey to the home OF
the hermit, while the wood thrush
may be heard within sight of the city
if he there have found a bit of wood.
land with a thicket retreat that suits
| his ideas Of summer home. Frank
M. Chapman says that the song OF
the wood thrush is an invitation; that
the bird sings again and again Come
to me-" Come to me-" The compari
son is apt, and he who accepts the in
vitation may listen to a song that IL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
DIR. WILEY AND CANNED GOODS.

DR.. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemistry says word of explanation
as to the proposition of adulterated or
dangerous canned food to the vast OUT
put of goods thus preserved. The let
ter is self explanatory He says:
have often regretted the inadvertent
injury which is done to the canned
goods trade by enthusiastic, well-in-
! tentioned, and yet not fully Informed
writer's, implying that canned goods, as
| such, are adulterated I think l can
! safely say that, taking the whole mat
ter of canned goods together, includ-
| ing fish. canned meats, canned vege-
tables, and canned fruits, only an ex-
tremely small percentage of them ever
contain any added substances what
/ ever, except food and perhaps a little
salt or sugar. 1 think this fact ought
1 to be well advertised and published.
OF course I do not include in canned
goods, articles which have not been
sterilized, for in such articles preserve
tives are often employed. I do not
think the great canning trade should
suffer because such an insignificant few
persist in either using artificial color
artificial sWeetener, or chemical pre-
servative.
Under the rules of the department
of agriculture certain substances may
be used in foods legally, provided their
presence is plainly stated upon the lab
ell. Buyers of canned goods therefore
have a certain method of projecting
themselves in this matter, and thai is
to look at the label. When we consider
the immense benefit fthe canning IN.
dustry to the consuming public, it ap
pears to me that we ought to use every
honorable endeavor to set the minds o
the community right in regard to thu
composition of such articles OF cours
some canned goods are of better aualit'
than others, that is a natural and nee
essary consequence: but the impression
that some people obtain that all canna
goods contain artificial colors, artificial
sweeteners, and preservatives, is
most ennoreous one and is harmful t
the trade. I am, as you know, a be
: lever in canned goods and in the can
ming process. think it is a blessing
and blessing which is not in disguis'
| realize as well as anyone that publ
prejudice is difficult to control and
t rectify, but I should like to do as niue
as I can to help this good trade alon
I by appealing to the public not to con
denim the whole trade because occa
sionally sample may be found whic
d is not in that state of purity which til
n public demands. Let the people CIV
6 their confidence to the trade and II
! them eliminate those goods which the
. do not want to purchase, by inspectio
. of the label,
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full payment for the trouble of the
journeying.
The wood thrush has discovered
that in the cemeteries, even though
they be within the city walls, there
is comparative seclusion and safety
A few pairs build every year in those
burial places where the landscape
gardeners have held that the best eff
fects are produced by giving nature
fairly free hand and have left much
of natures handiwork.
There is excuse enough for dwelling
upon the song of the wood thrush. So
much is put down in prose and poetry
Of the music Of the hooking bird
that the wonder grows if the writer's
ever heard the evening hymn of our
sober-clad wood thrush. The mock
er's song is ambitious and of wonder
full tone quality, but there is some
thing holy. about the hymn of the
wood thrush that falls upon and
moves the heart. 1t is a call to
prayer.
The wood thrush places its nest
ordinarily in sapling about 10 feet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
IN "a MYSTERIOUS Way,

The Sioux City Journal is slightly
nettled under criticism If the Sioux
CITY way of conducting municipal
government and replies to one of the
critics thus:
Sioux City mas been making progress
in debt paying: it mas been busy WITH
public improvements; it has sup
nressed public gambling; the saloons
arc under the strict regulation of the
mulct law; all houses of III repu1e
have had notice to quit. To reporter
on the spot il seems the record OF
late years" rather has the best OF IT,
The mayor. to be sure, is democrat
but that could not be helped.
Upon this showing it must cheerfully
he admitted that Sioux City has been
making progress in more than paying
off city Indebtedness. The suppression
of nublic gaming, strict regulation of
saloons and the cleaning out OF the IN
famous district that has had most to
do with establishing an ill fame for
Sioux CITY are certainly in line with
civic decency and long steps toward
civic Righteousness. For this Sioux City
sno,.1,i receive both publicity and COM
mendation.
That Sioux City has had a bad name
As not to be denied. That she can ac-
n,,ire a good fame is equally certain
INIT cities like men must live down
their errors and the establishment oi
high character is as much a matter OF
good works as of repentance. Men and
cities may gain evil repute in an hour;
II takes wears to establish high char
acter Everyone is glad that Sioux City
has been converted. Everyone hope:
that it will stick" Receive the RICH
hand Of decent fellowship, Sioux City
and stand for time among the proba
toners
"God moves in mysterious way hi!
wonders to perform" Not long agt
Sioux City sinned and if she failed II
glory in her sin she hid it not ant
Haunted, painted and brazen past TIL
pitying and averted eyes of her young
L
the extreme exigencies of a politica
campaign it seemed necessary to rup
ture the entene cordiale which had ex
listed between Sioux City's sister in sir
Davenport, the political precinct c
Scott county and the state administra
ton. Then Davenport became a cit
to be pointed at with kissing by Ger
tain politicians whose aspiration
needed assistance. The state admins
tration was boldly called upon to SUP
press vice in Davenport or show caus
for its alleged partnership with lille
gality. To put the statement so thu
every Sioux Cityan may read and un
derstand as he runs it was doped OF
by these politicians that il Cummi1
pinched Davenport, Scott county an
certain other river counties would tru
him down: II he didn't, the long hal
would take a poke at him. 1T was {
simple as "heads win, tails you lose
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the nest and leaves nearly the full
length Of the material as plaything
for every passing breeze. The result
is that the little house constantly
flies a flag, as if to denote that the
owner is at home. This pennant at
tracts the collector-for collectors,
sadly enough, are everywhere-ano
the home is often harried.
The man who can listen to the song
of a wood thrush and then rob the
nest is the fellow whom Shakespeare
had in mind when he wrote about the
man who has no music in his soul,
though possibly this particular species
of nest robber has no soul in which to
stow music. There is some reason for
expressing feeling in this matter, for
recently some one carried away the
nest and eggs of a wood thrush from
tree in city cemetery. l had
watched the building of the little
home, and had hoped to see four
young wood thrushes taught how to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

from the ground. but there are many
exceptions to the general rule. More
than half the nests-at least so runs
my experience-have a bit of cloth
in them. The bird seemingly has a
fondness for streamers, and the longer
and narrower the piece Of cloth that
1t picks up the better 1t is pleased.
Lacking the wisdom of some OF its
fellow birds. the thrush often fastens
only one end Of the cloth ribbon to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
Attacks on New Ensland's Sabbath.

Attacks on New En9land's Saopaeh.
The New England Sunday is pass
ing thru critical period, evidenced by
the fact that twenty or more adverse
Lord's-day bills have been before the
legislatures. 1t is in serious danger
from the persistent encroachments OF
greed and sport, says the editor of The
Defender, magazine published by the
New England Sabbath Protective
League In Vermont a bill to open GER
tain places of trade was only recently
defeated. In New Hampshire bill
is being fought by friends of the Lords
day because it presents opportunities
of Sabbath dissertation in permitting
Emusic" lectures pertaining to rellg-
ious subjects" or work "for benevolent
purposes" works of necessity or mer-
| cy" The people of Massachusetts, 1t is
asserted, "have learned thru several
wears of experience, that a great war;
ety of sabbath desecration lies hidden"
under such general terms. In Connectf-
cut five bills are before the judiciary
committee. One relieves the consct-
entious Jew or Seventh-Day believer
from the liability to prosecution II ne
conducts his business on Sunday, pro-
yiding he files written notice OF MS
belief with the prosecuting attorney
Another relieves "the dealers in news
papers, who have had an established
place of business for the sale of papers
for the period of one year, from pros
ecution." Still another aims to permit
sunday base ball within the limits d
the city Of New Haven, while bill fol
Hartford is sufficiently comprehensive
as to be described as the wide oper
bill" A substitute bill for this latter
one adds 'the principles Of necesslt'
land mercy to the specifications OF tins
present law" but the General com
mittee on Sabbath Observance OF the
state stands by the law as it is, ant
is doing it's best to retain 1t un'
changed" In Massachusetts, the mum
Der of bills to repeal or weaken Ger
tain features of the present statutes
seventeen in all, are said to be ''almos
double those of any previous year..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
The Mt vernon Record saws. "Iudge

The Mt. Vernon Record says, Judge
Mcpherson has been, by reputation, al
ways friendly to the railroads as
against the people. The railroads gave
him his job, unless a good many peo-
pie who are pretty good observers are
mistaken. An investigation will do him
good In fact if the big majority of the
federal judges were investigated we
would have courts more anxious to give
justice to those who come before
them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
nsenator Cummins has sprung INT

Senator Cummins has sprung into
wide prominence at Washington con-
sidering the short time that he has
worn the senatorial toga," notes the
Oelwein Register. at is our impression
that Senator's Doliver and Cummins
are voicing the sentiment of the prai-
ries of Iowa in the stand that they are
taking on the tariff question and the
income law The papers and people of
the state should hold up the hands of
the prophets"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Here it is past corn planting time,
and only a small portion of the usual
quantity is in the proper, usual place
for seed corn at the middle of May"
exclaims the DEBORAH Republican. "The
situation however, is not in the least
a dangerous one" it assures US.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

Both parties in that state can we'll
afford to tell the saloon interests to go
to h." says the Cedar Falls Re
cord, commenting on the liquor issue
in Nebraska politics. ''The day OF
liquor domination in the politics of this
country is drawing to a close and the
sooner all parties recognize this fact
the hetter"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

There isn't any reason why he
shouldn't do such chores if he wants
to do them" says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, speaking of the report that
Governor Carroll keeps a cow-and
milks her. ut doesn't hurt him in the
least, nor does it lower the dignity of
his office"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

1.-THE entire middle west would favor
an investigation into Judge McPher-
sons conduct and motives says the
Waterloo Courier"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
For Sunday Reading
dill Sorts ofOpinions
The Retort Courteous.

An old darby wanted to join a fash
ionable city church, and the minister,
knowing it was hardly the thing to do
and not wanting to hurt his feelings,
told him to go home and pray over it.
In few days the darby came back.
well, what do you think of it by this
time?" asked the preacher. well,
sah," replied the colored man, "Ah
prayed an prayed an de good Lawd,
he says to me, 'Rastus, All wouldn't
bodder NAH haid about dat no mo-
Alive been trying to git into dat ch'ch
mahse'f for de las twenty yeahs and
All amt done had no luck, christian
Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
TIMEs- REPUBLICAN,, MARsHALLTOwN IOWA, Is, 1909

could do says the Tama News ''There
isn't state in the union that has
a pair Of senators that anywhere near
equals them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15
when Iowa's senators talk the
whole nation sits up and takes notice,
observe the Britt News.

.1t is not a new discovery, to the
editor of the Brooklyn Chronicle that
the two Iowa senators in the United
states senate are among the ablest and
most brilliant members of the that
body. We said years ago that these
two men should serve in the senate to-
gether. Both Of them are representing
the actual opinions of the people OF
Iowa in the tariff debate. and each is
deserving Of equal credit with the 9TH
err"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

"Now If Senator Dolliver could just
down his pride a bit more and frankly
and openly join forces with Senator
Cummins. what fine team work they
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

Entered at the postotfice at MARSHALL
town as second class mail matter.
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Calls Press Worlds Wonder.


THE achievements of the press are
among the modern wonders of the
world"
This declaration was made by Rev.
w. D. Norton of Evanston at the Meth
odist ministers meeting in Chicago in
discussion of 1.-The Relations of the
Church and the Public Press"
The newspaper arrangements have
been among the largest direct givers
to all public appeals for charity, the
fresh air fund. the sufferers of San
Francisco, of Santiago and of Mes
sina," continued Rev. Mr.. Norton.
They also have been the vehicles for
making appeals. receiving funds and
organizing bureaus of relief. They have
been the diffusers of general intelli-
gence. bringing to our doors all coun-
tries and all phases of human thought
and endeavor, so that it may be said of
a diligent reader of the newspaper that
he has such a survey as will make him
a citizen of the world.
"The church expects right emphasis
on sensational news and it is not sur
prising that the sensational should oc-
cupy large space in the newspaper
Like flcti0n ana the drama, the mos
popular forms of literature. it deals
with these phases of life which create
the most intense interest and which
spring from the most elemental pas
sions of human nature.
THE descriptions of assaults anG
hold-ups have undoubtedly warned
many mothers, who have kept thei
daughters from places of danger.
The opponents of the white .slav'
traffic desire to see the epublic aroused
by knowledge. ofsthe ,snares and pit
falls lying in the path of unsuspect
Ing foreign and country girls and by ;
knowledge of the fact that tariff il
girls does really exist.
1--WE believes that the most effectiv
means of curing these various evils i
: to publish the names of violators of tn
law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-15

Market for 1ortoises.
England eats between 10000 and 40,
900 tortoises every year.
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