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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-04-13

There Is no tyrant like custom and
no freedom where Its edicts are not
resisted. -Bovee.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-04-13
LAUNDRY NOTICE.

have secured agency for the
Model Steam Laundry Of Hous-
ton, and will office with Il. L.
Beard. Union Tailor Shop.
Cleaning and dying OF all kinds
a especially. All work strictly
guaranteed. Your patronage
appreciated. Phone $50. A. b.
Sandifer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
NEWEST USE FOR NAIL FILE.
Guest at Philadelphia Dinner at First
Caused Great CONSERVATION
by His Action.

A Philadelphia doctor has discov.
cred a brand new use for nail file
which is likely to become much more
prominent than the old use. A short
time ago this doctor was a guest at a
dinner in one of Philadelphia most
exclusive houses. When the last
course had been served and the cigars
were being passed the doctor reached
down into his trousers and extracted
penknife. Slowly he opened blade.
Everybody gasped. Could it be that
DR.. would so far forget himself
as to manicure his nails at the table?
All watched with bated breath. Slowly
the doctor reached out and secured a
match which was near his place. Then
he deliberately struck his match on
the rough part of the nail file and Lit
his cigar. The suspense was over and
the doctor hsd not committed the
frightful breach Of etiquette which his
associates had feared. Now the Gus.
tom is spreading fast, for it is less eff.
fort than it is to stand on one leg to
strike the match on ones shoe, and
decidedly more elegant than the time
honored method of striking it on ones
trousers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02

siderable portions Of their regular sery.
ice. Indeed, spurts at the rate of 65
or 20 miles an hour are not uncommon
IN this country. Still, the difference
is small, and for short distances Il
must be admitted that the new records
in England are close to the best
achievements in the United States.
Ten years ago expresses from Lon.
don to Edinburgh ana Glasgow covered
400 miles at rate slightly exceeding
80 miles an hour. In the figures SUP.
piled by Engineering there is no indi-
cation Of the gains made by the east
coast and west coast lines in the mean.
time, though it is safe to, say that
there has been an appreciable improve.
ment. One Of the most remarkable
regular runs made on the Great West.
ern. however, is for distance Of 223
miles. 1t is accomplished at the rata
of 56 miles an hour and without a
stop. AS the Twentieth Century Linn
tied Of the New York Central from
New York city to Chicago travels more
than four times as far (977 miles) in
1850 minutes and maintains an aver.
age speed of 81 miles an hour. It ia
fair to claim the long-distance honors
for America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
NOT A coRPoREAL DELIGHT.
Real Nature Of the Kiss, az Viewed
by Writer Who Has Clearly
Studied the Subject.

1t is the fashion of the more bilious
moralists to put kissing among
gross pleasures, with eating, yodling,
snoring and the use of tobacco; but,
as matter of fact, it is not corpor-
cal delight at all, says writer in the
Baltimore Sun. Its sole physical ac-
compartment, indeed. is a sensation
of suffocation, and this, as all will ad-
NIT, is scarcely agreeable. No; the
insidious charm of the pastime must
be sought in its psychic effects-in its
marvellous and delightful interference
with the normal processes of ratioci-
nation. A man kissed is man trans
figured and transmogrified. Let him
be the worst of misanthropes before
the sweet infringement Of nose upon
nose, and he may yet emerge from the
turmoil a philanthropist. One kiss.
properly tage-:nanaged, is enough to
transform a pirate into a poet, poll
tician into philosopher, or vice YER
sa. One small kiss, indeed, is sufi-
cient to turn proud, heaven-kissins
bachelor into servile married man
the most stupendous, antibodal and
lamentable transformation possible, at
this writing, in mere human being.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
SPEED ON ENGLISH RAILROADS.
Noticeable Improvement Has Been
Made Within a Few Years.

"A steady improvement in the facili-
ties for travel on English railroads in
the last ten or dozen years is re-
vealed in an elaborate review of this
years service by Engineering. The ad-
vances include an increase in the
number of trains making long runs
without stop, the general use of res
taurant cars and operation at higher
speeds than were formerly deemed
safe and practicable.
The most notable gains in speed
are observed in comparatively short
runs. Anything like Sc or 81 miles an
acar ser q greater distance than 25
miles was almost unknown in England
in 1895. Now it is sustained or sur
passed regularly on four different lines.
One, the Caledonian, has three trains
daily which travel SO miles at
rate ranging from 81 to 81 miles an
hour. The Great Northern operates
the same number Of trains for 90
miles at the rate Of Sc miles an hour.
and the. London & Northwestern and
the Great Western each has IL
regular trains daily which maintain
this speed, the former for 1902 miles
and the latter for LIS miles. a good
many American expresses, on straight
and level sections Of track, equal or
surpass these. performances for con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
NO DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
IVA shington County Press.l


There is no such thing any more.
Anti-tariff and tariff for revenue only
used to be the badges pinned on the old
thing as certificate that it is alive.
But the democratic senators sit
around mum. eager for pork, ashamed
to speak again for the tariff bill pend
ing,make no fight for their old "prin-
surplus" and they do not know where
they're at. Aldrich is working his bill
thru. gaining two democrats for every
insurgent republican he loses. When
the democrats can get bit of pork for
the south they leap for it like a trout
for bait 1t is funny. The New York
World asks Bryan why he does not
jump into the game and at least curse
his ilk in the senate for making no
protests. Why? He doesn't care a
baubee; all he wants is to make mon
ely shooting off his mouth at chautau-
quas and elsewhere and trying to get
$4,000 legacies from senile old admir-
ers, and smouging a presidential NOM
inaticI once every four years-the old
party can go to grass for all OF, him.
He uses it merely to advertise his bus
mess; for that purpose he needs it ev-
cry hour; he doesn't want to be elect
ed. but just kept in the limelight.
Bryan is all right-he knows very we'll
what he is about, and he must laugh
himself nearly to death seeing how he
can come it over the easy" old con-
Germ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
ALoRIcH...A PATRIOT.

Senator Aldrich's accusation against
Dolliver of holding briefs for British
interests Is certain to make friends for
the Iowa senator and increase and
strengthen the renewal of confidence
that has arrived between many of his
constituents and the senior senator
from Iowa. Aldrich says that Dolli-
Yer is reading briefs for the people
who wish 10 destroy the (protective)
law" The vast majority of republican
voters and the commonalty say he is
holding their brief
Aldricts accusation of tentative
treason against Dolliver is irresistib,y
of the automatic assertion,
Patriotism is the last resort of a
knave." Few there be who trust AID
rich. If Aldrich keeps on abusing DOL
liver he will put the Iowa senator in
a position al home which will be vast
y pleasing to Deliver and his friends.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
iMTERURBANs AND REAL MONEY.

The report of its years business has
been made to the state executive couu-
Gil by the interurban railroad operating
between Des Moines and Boone and
FIT. Dodge, and 1t furnishes a. SUCCESS
tion to all other communities in Iowa
which are in need OF interurban sery
ice and lack the nerve to build the
roads. The net earnings of the Fl.
Dodge, Des Moines and Southern for
the past year were $500 per mile and
fhree-fourths of the gross receipts
were from passenger fares.
Now, interurbans in Iowa can be
built and equipped for approximately
$4,000 per mile. The state law permits
bonded indebtedness of $4,000 per
mile. The fixed interest charge at s per
cent would be 5000. leaving $500 per
mile. or 10 per cent net ON an equity of
$4,000 per mile.
Any community wishing to build
thirty miles OF interurban could easily
get tax aid Of $4,000 per mile, which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
Iona Newspapers
A Quick Cure For Scandal.
TC,ru0dv Dauocrat

The best remedy to bring fast cure
to bad case of local scandal or a
misdeed Of any kind that causes a great
deal of talk is to give it fair and
an unbiased hearing in the newspaper.
The newspaper that makes an honest
effort to give clean breast of the
matter has its report accepted by the
public as the facts in the case. Facts
do the public no harm and they help
the principal or principals in the case
The public has very keen scent after
scandal and it has habit of looking
at 1t through a magnifying glass. If
man in this town stole a calf tonight
and We're caught at it. inside of a week
1t would be reported about him that he
had stolen no less than a herd of cat
tie. The wrongdoer is more in need
of having the truth told about him
than the welldoer because humanity
has weakness of spreading the evil
that others do. If Smith were to take
a hen from BraWn's-roost tonight and
his deed We're found out the entire
neishborhood would be talking about
Brown a present of a hen the neigh
pDiiIOOu take NOllCc.
The policy of this paper has been to
print the news no matter what its
quality or who it might affect This
policy has given some offense and it
may give more. The very people to
whom this policy ia the most often
sive are benefited mostly by it. i
The paper tells of a case what It
knows: the public tells what it hears
and then tacks on little for good
measure and keeps on retelling and
retacking indefinitely. The papers
honest report puts the scandal monger
out OF business. The printed story is
the favored story. The public accepts
that and soon forgets the incident.
If YOU are ever unfortunate enough
to do something that will start the
public tongue to wag unfavorably tell
the truth to the newspaper that will
print it ard by the next change of the
moon it viii be forgotten. When peo-
pies curiosity IS satisfied they forget
very quickly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02


would leave an investment not to ex-
ceea $4,000 per mile to raise by stock
subscription. Here is the Des Moines-
Fl. Dodge experience promising 10 per
cent on this equity to encourage busi-
ness men and farmers to build their
own interurbans. If our promoters
could get away from the construction
company graft of trying to gobble all
the equity in a railroad as the con-
struction eompany's profit and get
down to everyday business methods of
investing real money in interurban
equities, there would be roads built in
half a hundred Iowa communities
which would pay fair returns while
building up their towns as no other in
could possibly do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
THE MEDICAL EXPERT"
Alphonso t. Clearwater. who

Alphonso T. Clearwater, who sue
ceeded Alton B. Parker as justice of
the New York supreme court when
Parker became chief judge of the
5urt of appeals, and who was chair
man of the committee OF the New York
Bar Association 10 consider the regula-
ton of the Introduction Of medical ex-
pert testimony, contributes TO an east
ern magazine an enlightening article on
Medical Expert Testimony He ana
lyzes and describes the loose and un-
satisfactory conditions in which testi-
1nony of that class is admitted to the
trial of criminal and testanentary
cases, and suggests measures by Which
the objections 70 such testimony may
be removed. Judge Clearwater says:
The expert witness, 10 be free from
embarrassment of any personal rela-
tions TO or with the parties to an ac-
ton. should have no client 10 serve and
no partisan interests or opinions to
vindicate. He should give his opinion
as the advocate neither of another nor
of himself. When he speaks, he should
speak judicially, as the representative
of the special branch of science which
he processes, governed by the opinions
of the great body of authorities in that
branch, and in accord with the result
of their most recent investigations.
When this is done and not until it is
done. shall we have expert testimony
rescued from the disrepute into which
it has fallen. BY the adoption Of some
such system the mature judgment of
the best minds could be obtained. and
the superficial opinions of auacks and
mountebanks would not be thrust upon
the jury to their confusion and the
hindrance of justice"
Judge Clearwater has said nothing
new but something often said and
which can not be too often resaid. The
present system of paid and retained
medical expert testimony is dis
grace to the courts and a bar against
justice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
Got to, Dig and Keep On
Urve Townsend in Thompson courier)

tomorrow, II all goes well, the
thompson high school will send out
INTO the world three young men and
three young women with the under
standing that these six have imbibed
an the knowledge the schools of this
city are capable of imparting. We are
proud OF these six young people, and
prouoer yet OF the community which
can produce such young people and
can maintain an institution such as the
one from which they have graduated.
we are making lot of fuss over this
commencement We feel that we are
Justmed IN doing so. This commence
ment means to us that we have done our
ouey IN providing suitable Institutions
OF learning for the education of our
youth, upon whom depends the future
OF this republic. We are making lot
OF fuss over the graduates, because
they are the proof of what we have
oone. And now right here, while every
one is congratulating YOU, my young
graduate, let me hand in a knock or
Two. Don't get the swell head about
It. You are not very far along as vet.
Inc knowledge you have stored away in
that brain Of yours is useful stuff; it
cost this school district something over
$1,000; but what you have learned in
the past ten years is not a circum-
stance to what YOU will learn in the
next ten. You are like a chicken just
out of its shell. You have never
lodged hawk nor weasel, and YOU
have never yet made your own living.
You have been equipped with the es-
sentlals for making a success of life,
but it is up to you to make it. You can
go down the street and meet dozens of
people who did what YOU have done
twenty or thirty years ago, and these
people will tell you that they do not
seem 10 know anything yet
You are a graduate of the Thomp-
son high school. but you are just en-
tering the primary grade of a school
which outclasses the Thompson High a
million to one:-the world. One of the
first things that will surprise YOU will
be that the world will not care a con-
whether you are a high school
graduate or not. All it will care for Is
what you can do. Ii YOU expect to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
WHY WAIT A YEAR.

Junkin is to be hanged unless the
executive powers intervene. The jury
after having heard the evidence has
said that he is guilty of the crime and
must be hanged. When the verdict be-
came known the crowd cheered. II is d
pity that such a demonstration took
place but it is easy TO understand how
hard. it would have been 10 repress the
satisfaction of the people over a just
verdict.
But Junkin is TO be kept in prison
year before he is executed, if he shall
be executed. That is the law of Iowa.
Most of us will be slow 10 understand
why a self confessed and outrageous
criminal should be held year before
sentence is carried out. Il is not mercy
to the condemned but added torture
and whatever means We may take to
! punish crime torture is not in the cat
egory OF penalties. Junkin will go 10
bed at night TO dream Of gallows and
wake snothered by the black cap from
Nightmares Of terror and despair. He
will see the shadow OF the sca1old fall
thru the bars in the patch of morning
sunshine that lights his cell. II is
neither mercy TO the criminal Nor
justice 10 mankind and its outraged
law to defer the execution of a murder
er like Junkin twelve months.
Neither the people of Iowa nor the
metropolitan favors capital pun
ishment, but from neither will arise a
plea for Communication of this righteous
sentence. Junkin is as a hydrophob.c
animal. If he is to be hanged there will
be no protest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NoTlcEs

~ ~ MA0ONIO NOtlCE0s
xXVisitors always welcome.
/VNHall over 1867 West MaAn.
MARSHALL LODGE 108 A. r. & A.
NJ, work in second degree Friday. even
ing, June 4, 1880. n. G. Hoeck, w. M.
NJ. H., S. Lawrence. Sec'y.
SIGNET CHAPTER No, 80. r. A. M.
Special convocation Monday, June I,
1880 p. M, work in Royal, Arch degree.
q. H Boggie. II. r.
I. S. Willard, secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. R. q s.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, May II.
p. m. r.
A. d. Meeker, T. I N.
1. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY.
No. 80, K. T.-Work on the Order Of
the Temple, Tuesday evening, June the
Sth at 1880 p. m. sharp. F. NJ. Wilbur.
e. C.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 60. o. =.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday, June
16, at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. w. u.
Edna G. Fularton. Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
MarveIs Of the reIearaph.

Karachi, in northwestern India, Is
now within minute Of London by tele-
graph. The Indo-European Telegraph
Company has recently introduced a
system of relays along Its line, so that
the electric current which starts from
London can be propelled the full dis
lance of more than five Thousand miles
to Karachi. Hitherto it has been nee
essary to have operators at several
points to take the message and repeat
it. The relays, which substitute a
strong current for weak one, have
displaced, the operators and quickened
the time in which messages can be
transmitted. The system is not novel
one, and has long been In use In this
country. but the Anglo-Indian line is
longest upon which it has been estab.
lished. J.
r. 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02

1 work for living you will very likely,
sooner or later, find yourself in the
employ Of some man who has never
seen the inside of a high school. 1t
may surprise you to see how much this
man knows that you don't.
Your diploma states that you have
finished arithmetic, but any carpenter
In town can beat you figuring on bill
of lumber You have studied natural
philosophy, but you can not take apart
the telephone in your home and put it
back together so it will work. Any
printers devil can give you pointers on
punctuation and spelling. Do you think
you know something about physiology?
The modest gentleman who calls when
You are sick studied nothing but phys
iology four long years after he knew
more about it than you do, and then
he is not always sure whether 1t is
measles or chicken pox. Did you ever
take course in chemistry? That drug
clerk down there who draws your soda
water could write bigger text book
on chemistry than the one you studied.
Don't hold your head so high you will
overlook any of these people when you
walk down street. They have been
laboring with the problems of the
world more years than You have been
in school, and some of them, have
made good
What you have learned has just been
to make it easier for you to learn the
things they have learned. We hope
YOU will learn them better.
But we are proud of you, not for
what you are, but for what we believe
You will be. The Liliputian battles you
have won will help you in struggles
with giants. Cheer up, for the worst
is yet to come Remember the story of
the Swede miner in the Klondike. He
seemed to have more luck than his
mates, and they asked him the secret
of it. He scratched his head and re-
piled: Veil. ay don't know Wy it is. Ay
yust keep on digging
Because of Your high school train
ing you will learn the lesson of the
world in half the time you could with
out it. You will advance as far in five
years as the Swede miner does in ten,
but you've got to keep on digging.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
No Tipping on German Lines.

New railway regulations interesting
to the large and increasing number Of
Americans visiting Germany went into
force April. Tipping of railway EN-.
ployes on trains is prohibited: passen.
gers giving tips will be punished and
the official bribed will be dismissed.
The railways will be responsible for
passengers luggage for IA days and
at all times responsible for luggage
lost. Children over ten years will not
be permitted to travel in compart.
ments reserved for women. II train
is full, traveller, although he may
have ticket, may be compelled to
wait for the next train. A friend ta-
king leave of traveller and remain
ing in train until it moves will have
to pay fine of $1.50.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
Left Rloominu Alone.

III you only knew what to expect"
sighed the hostess: "but you don't and
can't. Last month. / went out. and
bought flowers for my party. Then
my friends all sent me flowers-roses,
carnations. some orchids This month.
] didn't buy myself flowers. expecting
the same. and. my goodness! There
wasn't single blooming flower in the
nat. Not one OF them sent even .
bud"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
FREIGHT THAT is uNLuckv.
Railroads Obliged to Pay Out Millions
Every Year for Damages.

1t is said that the amount paid ont
by the roads Of the United States in
1907 for freight claims was $24, 900 900.
These claims originate from various
causes, such as defective cars. care
less employees and incorrect classifi-
cation. but one agent says that on his
road improper handling Is responsible
for about % per cent. Of money paid
out for freight claims.
Another feature contributing yery
largely to the amounts we pay out for
loss and damage" said the claim
agent, sis defective cars. Our rules
say that each agent must inspect the
cars. Now the term inspection covers
a multitude of features. It does not
mean that the running gear of the
car only is to be inspected but it
means that we want to satisfy our
selves that the body of the car and the
roof of the car are tight enough to-
carry the load without damage by
water.
81 have in my mind certain agent
at -four loading station whom I
found on top of box car, and in re-
spouse to my inquiry as to what he
was doing up there he advised me he
was examining the roof-and want
to say that agent has been promoted
because he was the proper link in the
chain. l have in mind q claim pre-
sented for damage to flour by water
where the agent declared positively
that the inspection had been properly
made, but the defects in that roof
apparent at the terminal point indicat-
ed old breaks and that the car was
not fit for -four loading. This he may
have considered a small matter, but
it cost the company s275."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-02
Spanish ExecutIoners Remorse.

A curious story comes from Seville
On Sunday night the local executioner
died. his death being due to remorse.
For several years he had not carried
out any executions, but recently he
was summoned to Cordova to inflict
the final penalty on some criminals.
The impression made upon him was
so painful that he was unable to face
the ordeal when summoned to execute
the last criminal condemned in Seville.
and the sentence will have to be car.
ried out by the Madrid executioner.