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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
"LATE MANS FoRENlNG."
ireland Record

Few people are aware of the fact
that there exists in Roland a secret So
ciety known as the Late Mans Fore
ming" composed of men who have laid
aside the active duties of life. Indeed.
that Is one of the stringent require
ments for membership, as no member
Is permitted to do any physical or
mental labor, nay, not even a serious
thought about work is to be INDUCED
IN. This rule is strictly adhered to and
is the whole constitution of the society.
Plnkerton detectives are EMPLOYED to
spy upon the members and report their
actions. To its councils none but mem
bers in good standing are, admitted, and
they are not permitted to tell their do
lngs to the outside world, no, not even
to their wives. Some of the brethren
are being closely watched at the pres
ent time, as it is rumored- that they are
moving grass at night when they think
that the friendly darkness will shield
them from exposure. "A court of in
qulry will be organized Immediately
and bring the accused ones to trial:
should the accusations against them
prove to be true, they will be punished
without mercy to yindicate the good
name of the society and prevent ter
rible scandal However, should the ac-
cused brethren prove to be innocent of
any intention to work, their foul SLAM
derers will be horribly and fearfully
punished The society is just now
passing thru a critical stage of it's
existence, as the balmy breezes and
perfume-laden atmosphere Of early
summer seem to have an eAhiliratin ing
effect upon the members and tempt
them to work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
LETS ALL TALK IOWA.
1.-THE Clarion Clinner.1

1 L I'll
Iowa newspapers, big or little, so far
as subscription lists, size of sheets,
number of issues per week or month
can be engaged in no better editorial
cause than that of advocating the in
terest of their home state. They can
consciously espouse and practice this
course, not simply from a sense of
loyalty but from the most pertinently
recognized requisite of the hour. that
OF being able to deliver the goods.
During the past few years cheaper
lands and get-rich- quick schemes of
land investments in other countries
have created more or less of a Juror
in this direction and to such an extent
that superior advantages right at hand
have been overlooked. 1t is beginning
to become more generally apparent,
however, that for the most part,
money has been made in these newer
countries by the promoters and those
who have been successful from spec
ulative standpoint rather than thru
development and we'll founded in
crease of values. And even those who
have emigrated to older and developed
countries of other parts of the nation
are realizing that they left the garden
spot of Gods green foot stool when
they travelled forth from Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
Topics of the Times

Contemplating Senator polIiver SEN
ator Aldrch understands how sharper
than serpent's tooth it is to hone
trained one on the ways and means
committee a thankless child.
Message, message for revision
downward, who's got the message"
As =
The Arlington News says ii has not
changed its mind about Senator Cum
minis. Perhaps the News is like the
man with one pair of pants and can't
change.
Henry Wallace. Uncle Henry" is
OF to visit to his fathers birthplace
in Ireland5 The wallaces are one of the
imports that should remain on the free
list, both as manufactured articles
and as raw material.
1t took a great deal of trouble and
money to pull of the automobile races.
but the manufacturers find it worth
the money when they can start the
Associated Press writing and printing
as good advertising as the news re-
ports furnished.
Corn is growing like a weed-ann
that's going some nowadays.
The crop weather, over the country
continues excellent. There has been
some complaint of too much rain in
the Kansas and Nebraska districts,
which it IL keeps up Will make 3-..get
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22

behind him IL he had been nothing but a
student and narrator Of history as he has
studied and told OF 1t: II he had been
nothing but writer OF fction-author Of
THE Man Without a Country" or Ten
Times One Is Ten" or "In His Name
II he had done nothing but organize the
Lend Hand clubs now found In the four
quarters OF the world: IL ne had been
nothing but an eloquent Christian preach
er; If he had been nothing but q beloved
pastor; II he had been only voice which
lifted to heaven in prayer the souls Of
great congresatioTs: K he had been only
public spirited citizen, active and pow
.erful in every good word and work for
the benefit of this people; IL he had been
only remembered as the spiritual friend
and comforter of large numbers OF men
and women who were desolate and strick-
en- by poverty and sorrow; II he had been
only jealous lover Of his country, COM
pretending as. scarcely any other man
has comprehended the true spirit Of the
American people II he had been only one
OF these things it would be enough to sat-
lsry the most generous aspiration Of any
man, enough to make his life worth liv-
Ing for himself and his race. And yet
do I exaggerate one particle when / say
that DR.. Hale has been all these and
more? .et;
Edward Everett Hale has been the IN
terpreter OF a. pure, simple, loving and
living faith to thousands Of, souls, He
has taught us that the fatherhood and
tenderness of God are manifested here
and now III this world. 20 they WIN be
hereafter: that the religion Of Christ ID q
religion OF daily living: that salvation Is
the purifying. OF the soul from sin, not its
escape from the consequences Of sin. He
rs the representative and the Incarnation
OF the best and Hottest Annericanism. He
knows the history Of his country and
knows his countryrhsn through and
through. He does not fancy that he loves
his country while he dislikes and despises
MS countrynhen and everything they have
done and are doing. The history he loves
ana has thelped to write ana to 1ngke Is
not the history OF q base ands naean peo-
pie who have drifted by accident into
empire. 1t Is the history Of such nation
as Milton conceived led and guided by
men whom Milton wopid have loved. He
VIII have q high and permanent place In
literature which none but Datoe shares,
t4e possesses the two rarest OF gifts--that
70 save history the fascination oe Action
and that to give fiction the vsrisimilitude
OF history. He has been the minister OF
comfore In sorrow and Of Joy In common
NE tos countless persons 10 whom hio
tIiendship y an1pns their most prscious
niessingsl or byswhose firesids he sits. pet.
sona1iy Unknown. yet . perpetual and well
come guest.
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to its devotees. The pastor and other
church people demonstrated with her.
they called attention to the discipline
of the church to little avail. She
| thought it no sin to play whist and
continued to engage in the pastime.
Then they tried her and in accord with
Methodist usage and law gave her
| choice between quitting the game or
the church. She refuses the dilemma,
grabs 1t by both horns and says she
will stay, play whist and belong to
the church until the last court of
ecclesiastical appeal throws her out or
recognizes whist as part of the M. E.
discipline.
Whatever we may think on the ques-
ton of social card playing, and there
are many church men and church
statutes that fail to see sin or i'm
propriety in a social game at cards, the
pastor and the Methodist church of
Abel are entirely within their duty and
the laws of the church. That's the real
nub of the contention. The Methodist
church says she mustn't; it said it
when she joined and has kept on say
ing it, The woman says she will, that
she won't leave the church until she
Is carried out and the cry of persecu-
ton goes up
The Knights of Pythias, for instance,
sets the statutory ban on intoxicants.
Liquor may not be brought upon the
premises of the lodge and club rooms,
sold or drunk on X. P. premises; a
saloon keeper or bartender may not be-
long to the order. If member were
expelled for attraction of this law, if
some one insisted that he should keep
his Pythian connection and engage in
the saloon traffic there would be no
noise when he was fired, no talk of
persection. The enormity of offense
may be different but the principle is
equal. If the Abel woman wants to
play cards no one has any strings
tied to her" She can't do it legally
as a member of the Methodist church.
If she does play she must get out That
is the law. 1t is not for any woman to
defy the statutes Of a great church
organization.
There is an immense amount of
poppycock in the cry of persecution in
this age. 1t usually comes from some
one who has attempted to boss the
whole works and failed. There is moth
ing of the kind about the Adel case. If
she doesn't like Methodist regulations
let her get out of the organization and
into one that suits her The Methodist
Episcopal church will be alive and
feminist cards long after she and
the tempest in teapot has been for
gotten. There are plenty of good peo-
pie who play cards. Why not? But
the Methodist church says they can't
if they stay on its membership rolls
and it isn't prosecuting anyone when it
enforces its law.
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THE LODGES.
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II MASONIC, NoTicEA
XXvisitors always welcome, aSI
/V\Hall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE los A., =. q A.
M, work on first degree Friday even-
ing, June IS. 1880 p. m, q. Hoeck, w,
M. NJ, III. S. Lawrence, Sec'y.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. SO. r. A.. M.
Special convocation Monday, June 81,
8 p. m. G.. II. Boraie. n. p.
L 8. Willard, secy. M
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. As.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. June q,
8 p, n- !,
"A. D. Meeksr, =. !. N.
L 4. Forbes. Rec.
ST. AnDEMAR coMMANDERY,
No. 80. K. T.-stated conclave Tues
day evening, June % at 8 o'clock for
business and work on the Order Of the
Temple. F. M. Wilbur. e. g.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. .,
|s.-Regular meeting Wednesday, July
IA, at p. M
Mrs. Geo. Downing. W. n.
Edna G. Fularton. sacy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
IOWA LAND VALUES.

The Traer Star-Clipper stated the
other day that the average price of
Tama county lands, judging from re-
cent sales, is 1925 an acre. The same
paper says that many farms in that
county are even now held at from $50
TO Sl75 an acre. These prices seem a.
llttle surprising to some of the papers
IN southern Iowa, where prices have
been held down. There are still lands
III that part of the state that can be
mad at around $50 an acre. The lands
OF the southern part of the state are
not as uniformly desirable as the lands
IN the northern part of the state, Nor
can 1t be said that the. southern Iowa
people have been as enterprising as the
northern Iowa people. There has been
more booming in northern Iowa. 1t is
younger in settlement and also Younger
in enthusiasm
Some day, somehow, the people Of
Iowa will wake up to find that Iowa
lands are worth 5000 an acre. That
is what lands in Illinois are worth now.
and Illinois has no better lands than
Iowa. 1t is all matter of the people
making up their minds. Some years
ago we recall a wiseacre speaking
about land values-it was during the
Span1sh-American war. There was a
piece of land offered in northern Iowa
for less than s25 an acre. He advised
the man not to take it, He said the
time was then past for investing in
Iowa lands. He had bought some at
about $40 an acre, and that was the
time to get in. He said that $25 land
might in the next ten years hover
around $50, but the rise would be con-
sumed in taxes, and so on. He was
in his day wise man and he reasoned
very carefully. But he did not know
and he did not realize the future pos
sibilities Of Iowa. The land that he
aid was not worth buying at S25 has
since risen to three and three and a
half times that value, and it is not for
sale even for those prices.
The rise in the next ten years will
be just as rapid as it has been in the
past ten years. Ten years from now
Iowa lands will have an average value
running close to 5000 an acre. BY that
time agricultural operations will have
much less of the element Of luck in
them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22

| harvest for the winter wheat, and has
already, 1t is said, injured corn on the
low lands. The rain may wash out
some corn along the river bottoms, but
1T gives the crops on the high lands,
Where the major portion of the corn is
planted, just such conditions as are in
the highest degree favorable to grow
ing. The prospect is still for a bumper
crop of corn this year. While the crop
situation holds so good conservative
people in the country will not be in
clined to borrow trouble for financial
affairs or to look for anything more
than a normal and proper reaction in
the security market. But it is expected
that until the years crops become
more nearly assured than they now
are. prices of stocks, considering their
high level, will continue in a general
way to mark time.
Lift Men From the Gutter? Or, Re-
move the gutter? Which?" is the in
terrogative title of Ray Stannara
Baker article in the July American
Magazine. Mr.. Baker draws some in
teresting comparisons between the
work of the famous McAuley Mission
and that done by Christ Church-both
in New York City.
President Taft keeps mighty busy not
sending any special tariff message to
the senate
"The Aldrich crowd means the
senate of the United States with a re-
publican majority just now"-Sioux
City Journal.
But what does it mean a few years
hence as regard the republican major
ity?
To Senator Aldrich no doubt Billy
Lorimer seems to have been elected in
providential time
Peary may have found the north
pole but he can't use it to go fishing.
That's where the ordinary citizen has
the best of Peary in the matter of a
search for the pole.
The American hog retains his SUI
premacy in the stockyard as upon the
street cars and in the smoker on the
train. Eight dollar hogs are not a
prophecy of cheaper pork steaks
For a year or more the Nottingham
school authorities have provided meals
for pupils whose parents We're too poor
to fede them sufficiently. About 500
children, representing some 200 fami-
lies, are now being fed. Arrangements
are made with several restaurants to
supply breakfasts, dinners or both, to
children showing proper vouchers
Each month approximately 5000
meals about equally divided between
breakfasts and dinners are supplied,
costing roundly s650-about cents a
neal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
roothpiek em.e. In Bathing sult,.

The toothpick figure has made it's
appearance at the seashore,- and this
seems like the last straw. The new
bathing suits for women are distinctly
on the directoire effect. These suits
have been worn by women who have
braved the surf in the cool tempera-
ture Of the early summer, so It seems
there is nothing beyond fashion. It
might be expected that In q bathing
suit nature would have its way, but
not bit Of 1t. Figures that year
ago were in and out up and down,
in and around, this way and that way,
at present offer a passable Imitation
Of bean pole. which means that the
elongated corset is necessary ,addi-
ton this summer to the bathing suit.
To battle in a corset Is about as COM
Portable as to eat ice cream through
a veil, but women are fashions ready
s1aveS!-
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patriotism. That alone, coupled with
his mighty activity, should be suffi-
Gent 10 immortalize him, but there is
enough besides to do that over and
over again.
For many years DR.. Hale remained
almost alone as q monument to the
mighty intellectual forces that made so
potently for the welfare Of the United
States in the last. century. 1t is little
wonder that on q certain occasion
Theodore Roosevelt should have been
moved to declare that the venerable
Bostonian was the Timoleon Of the
day. Now, when one recalls who limo
leon was-that ancient Greek worthy
who, according to Plutarch, performed
greater things for his country than any
other man Of his time-it becomes EVIL
dent that the e4-president was not mig
gardly in his praise.
1t was during the trying days Of the
civil war that Dr.. Hale came to the
front. Long previous to that time he
had made for himself a host Of adj
mirers in New England, but in Decem-
Der, 1863, there appeared in the Allan
tic Monthly the opening chapters of a
story that carried it's authors name to
the uttermost regions of the earth.
THE Man Without Country" was an
irresistible appeal to patriotism. Its
power as breeder of patriotism was
felt all over the common country and
extended to foreign lands.
DR.. Hale came from q famous New
England family. It's founder in Amer
lea was the Rev. John Hale, who in
1897 published a pamphlet entitled "A
Modest Inquiry Into tines Nature OF
Witchcraft." This quaint essay is In
stinct with the keen wisdom and char
acteristic humor Of the race. The ia
nous Nathan Hale was another ances-
tor, and the father Of DR.. Hale was
bis nanaesake. His mother was a SIS
ter. Of the renowned orator Edward:
Everett.
Harvard Graduate at Seventeen. 4;
Young Hale was brought up, in sas
literary atmosphere. Els father was,
publisher Of the Boston Advertiser,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
Oh! My Poor Back!
No Trouble At All to Know
When Your Kidneys & Blad-
der Are Diseased.

You don't have to have . doctor or
anybody else to tell you that. When
your kidneys and bladder become weak,
exhausted and diseased, the symptoms
are very plain and unmistakable. You
must first understand that all kidney
and bladder diseases are directly due
TO uric acid poison In the system.
Those wearisome, continuous back
aches-those excruciatine. sharp. stab
bling pains and catches in the back,
hips and groins (when you attempt to
lift something or to straighten up too
auickly)-those rheumatic pains and
ftwinges-all signify kidney and blad-
der disease. Then take warning-for
foolish neglect may SOON mean serious
anu fatal olsequenuss.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
have afforded prompt and permanent
relief In every case Of kidney and blad-
der disease-ne matter how far ad-
vanced they have been given an
honest trial. Uric acid can not possibly
resist the narvelously cleansing, anti,
septic. soothing, healing and curative
action Of these pills. They insure po-
sitive relief and freedom from all con-
ditfons or symptoms Of kidney ana
bladder diseases, ~ above mentioned.
They also prevent Cor cure II, taken In
time) many Ear more fatal diseases
such as diabetes. dropsy ana Brsght's
disease. ~
Mr.. wallace II. Brunnss. S1tl chic
street. ohiaha .,aseh, staAess&hax these
Pulls cured him entirely Of his kidn4y
trouble. And Mr. Hrunne1 q 6ni3 ono
Of many tho4lsands. B.
u G. DEWITT d CO. Cnicar6. III.
want every man and woman who nave
|fhe least suspicion that they ~ a.
nictsd with kidney and bladder diseaaas
to ct once write 'tlleul and II frfiI iSSr
Of these Ftlis will. IS sent 49, 81
return mail Restpsid. w tedax
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
Edward Everett Hale, the | atriot
Many Sided Man to. 4
Remarkable Degree Tire
less Advocate Of Peace, but
Always Watchful of the
Flag Of His Country.

and his mother devoted much time to
translating from the German. Edward
was precocious, and there is small
wonder. 1t has been said Of him that
his early life was fed on culture Hque.
fed with printers ink. At the age OF
eleven he translated from the French
an article on "Excavations at Nine.
veh" and did it remarkably well. That
of itself is fair evidence that his gray
matter had begun to dominate at an
early age. At thirteen he was pre-.
pared to enter Harvard, and he was
graduated from that institution at the
age of seventeen.
DR.. Hale remained long enough In
the Office. Of the Advertiser to demon
strate the fact that he was first class
newspaper man. When he went into
the ministry the newspaper fraternity
realized that it had lost shining light.
Samuel Bowles Of the Springfield Re-
publican was moved to say that "they
had only one good journalist in all Bos-
ton, and they are spelling him in the
pulpit"
In his native city, April s. 1902, upon
the occasion of his eightieth birthday,
great public demonstration was made
in DR.. Hale's honor. 1t was ut that
meeting that Mr.. Roosevelt's enthusi-
astic tribute was read. 1t came in the
form Of a letter to the late Senator
Hoar, who presided. 1t was on this
occasion that the ex-president COM
pared DR.. Hale to the general who
had done 80 much for the Greeks. In
his own speech Senator Hoar told the
story of his friends career in q few
well chosen sentences.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-22
LAST YEARS LUMBER CUT.

During the year 1908, 1921 saw
mills in the United States manufac-
tured 1928, 1853 900 feet of lumber, ac-
cording TO a preliminary report just
Issued by the bureau of the census.
These mills also cut 12,106,4 S3, 900
shingles and 2.9s6,6s4,ooo lath. Lum-
Der manufacturing, like every other
industry, felt the effects of the bust
ness depression which began in Octo-
Der, 1907. Consequently the produc-
ton in 1908 was below that for the
previous year. In 1907 the cut of 23,S50
sawnills was 4o,256,154OO0 feet, the
highest production ever recorded. Not
withstanndnG, therefore. that in 1908
reports We're received from per cent
more mills than in 1907, the decrease
in lumber cut reported by them was
slightly over II per cent
Washington, as for several years
past. still ranks first among the states
in lumber production, its cut in 1908
being 2,915, 1928, 900 feet-a decrease of
22.8 per cent over the cut in 1907
IN Washington is Douglas fir the mar
ket for which was seriously affected
by the panic. Louisiana ranks second,
with 2,722,421 900 feet a decrease of
250,000,00O feet, or 81 per cent over
the cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in
ehe production of both yellow pine
and cypress. Cypress is particularly
useful and valuable wood, and appar-
emily, the manufacturers of it did not
suffer as severely from dull times as
did the manufacturers of yellow pine
and Douglas fir. Mississippi was the
third state in lumber production in
o90s, with a total of 1851 ,O136O00 feet
cut in 1907. Arkansas ranked fourth
with 1,656,99 900 feet-a decrease of
nearly II per cent over the previous
years output. and Wisconsin fifth,
with 1,613,315, 900 feet, against 2,oos,-
279,o00 feet in 1907.
In Texas, where the lumber Indus
try is confined almost exclusively to
yellow pine, the falling off was very
heavy The total cut of the state in
1903 was 1,524,008,000 feet-a decrease
of 31.6 per cent over the cut in 1907.
Eight other states manufactured more
than one billion feet each of lumber
last year. In the order Of Importance
they were:! Michigan, Oregon, Mime
sofa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama,
North Carolina and West Virginia,
California and Maine, other states
which reported more than one billion
feet each in 1907, went just below that
figure in 1908. The totals for a few
states were greater in 1908 than in
1907. but this was chiefly due to the
larger number Of reports secured in
those states in 1908. In Georgia, for
instance, d particularly close canva as
Increased the number of mills report
ing nearlyfon third. while the result
ing increase in reports ofstotal produc-
ton was only per cent.
In Massachusetts 61O mills reported
a cut Of ss4,52s,ooo feet fin 1908, as
compared wilma cut Of Ss4s2a1,ooo feet
by 51ssmills in 1907. In, Colorado, 254
mills cut 1s2,oss,Ooo feet,an 1908, while
in 1907, $50 mills cut 1925, 900 feet.
"a particularly large gain.-ir, mills re-
porting was made in Oklahoma. In
1907 129 mills in that state cuts14o,-
D15.0oo feet. while in 1908, 214 mills
cut 1853. 1855, 600 feet.