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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

instead, when the blood letting and
the flesh -eating We're past And then
the Messina earthquake, killing 900
at the lowest estimate. crushing them.
sweeping them out to sea on tidal
wave to periSh-suppose q man should
have done that; we would call him
iiendishy insane, and he would not
nave lived long enough for trial
lynch the cuss' all would cry. But
nature did it, and then sat down as
demurely as your cat after eating the
canary. and quietly licked her fur, made
her toilet after murder.
This whole scheme of things that
we call nature is nicely organized
plan of wholesale murder, and yet we
praise nature, in prose and poetry
especially, the poets praise this Caesar
Borgia, this feminine Medici that
tolIed the signal church bell for the st.
Bartholomew massacre. Nature is. In
fact perfectly Internal, a chunk OF
hell. if there is hell.
If YOU want to read an Indictment
of nature drawn to the queens taste,
read those quiet, tho indignant. chap
tiers of the mild John Stuart MIL
IF God made nature it is astonish-
ing that any one. seeing the awful
havoc wrought without pity by nature,
should not be an atheist How could
He have created such a perfect sham
BILE as nature is?
That fearful storm on Friday-well,
did it not give you thoughts ?-H. A. B.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
WHY A CHAPLAINc

Why employ a chaplain at all? why
not have the members OF each house
repeat the Lords prayer every day at
the opening of the session? No better
more inclusive prayer, was ever CT
fered than that. The Lords prayer
would certainly be as effective. at
least as far as shaping the conduct OF
the lawmakers, is concerned, IL repeat
ed by all the members, as is Offering
up prayer and outsider no matter
up prayer by any outsider, no matter
how devout he may be. There are
other ways in which the devotions
might be provided. The legislature
might choose chaplain as do the
various lodges from one of their
number who could use printed
brayer-or the devout members might
volunteer to lead the devotions But
whatever method might be employed
to start a legislature off right the fact
remains that the present method is
nothing more nor less than graft.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

serve monuments. Harlan, Kirkwood
names will appeal to us If we are to
build monuments to our greatest men.
Each generation produces its candi-
dates for monuments, state and ma
tional.
The generation that produces the
man may build his monument, but
their grandchildren and great grand
children shall judge the men and the
service thus honored. No century can
write its own history with pen or
trowel. The impersonal and judicial
Judgment of time comes when personal
acquaintanceship, partisan utilization
and common personal interests have
been buried in the graves Of those
whose thought and motives We're tine
tured and directed by them. The test
of fame Is in time. Its growth or de-
cay. it's evanescence or permanence
waits on the passing years.
1t is we'll, perhaps as an expression
of his generation, to build the Allison
monument: but it Is wiser to be chary of
monuments. To have served the state
well, to have made history and to have
filed lien on such Immortality as
history may confer, is a sufficient mon
When looking backward, some
future generation feels it privilege
and a duty to cut in granite
the names and services Of
men who made the past great
and whose mighty works live after
them, lest themselves forget, the ver-
diet of history has been inscribed.
For most men the shaft in Gods
Acre and perhaps by reason Of ex-
ceptional service brass tablet in the
market place. For the few whose serv-
ice has been to the last degree noble.
sacrificing and the saving of state
and nation, monument.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
Topics of the Times.

| OF course those who differ radically
from us are misguided to say the least,
The country life commission came to
the conclusion that the farmer feeds
us all The rest OF us have about con-
cluded that when he takes all we can
earn he is being pretty we'll paid for
it, Why not a commission to investi-
gate how a family of five or six can
| wages?
The Chinese are objecting to Roose-
velt's stand for decent treatment for
Japs. Perhaps the Cinnamon are
anxious to see the sandotters do wn1t
China has always found beyond her
strength--lick the Japanese.
An eastern surgeon is credited with
having grated a dead mans leg on Il
live mans body. However, Philadelphia
politicians grated $4,000 dead men TO
a live polling list. The medical pro-
fession is away behind the other pro
fessionals," on the graft question.
The Boston Herald's issue of Sunday.
Feb Z, was an excellent illustration of
what a Sunday paper may and should
be. 1t differs from the ordinary Sun
day sheet in that it actually prints
entertaining and valuable matter.
r,;o -
the fraudulent banker are already pc
titioning for his; release by pardon or
parole.
Certain methods of getting eynn'
with other persons need the benzoate
of soda treatment
heaviest tax of any person in the>city
of New York. The tax books show
that twenty New York. women are as
sessed for upward of $4,000, 600. and
more than score of others are re
quired to pay an amount ranging from
s250,60o to 100000.
The Grand Duchess Serglus or Rus-
STA. is to found an establishment in
Moscow which Is to supply district
nurses for the poor. The grand Ouch
ess. whose husband was killed by the
terrorists, is to live in one of the build
ings devoted to the work. and other
titled men and women Will also take up
their abode near her and help in the
work.
Mrs w ]. Beggs. now of Seattle, is
said to have produced the only rose
absolutely without thorns. She was for
several years a neighbor of Luther
Burbank in California, where she stud
led his methods. The bloom of this
thornless rose is reported to be of un-
usual beauty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

felt want If bounties on animal pests
are to be paid out OF public funds at
all, the county is, on the whole the
best agent for doing it. The people
who foot the bill are then in the main
the people who get the benefit. The
gopher has become the paramount is
sue, in the alfalfa fields of Nebraska
He is more Of menace to the food
of the sheep than the coyote ever was
to it's life. 1t is easy to END MN OH
any particular farm, but like the Rus-
sian thistle, he cannot be kept ended
as long as any farmer toierates MN.
If a way could be found to pehaiiZe
the farmer who permits the pests 10
incumber his ground and spread to
other farms, that would be better than
taxing the whole community to relieve
him of the consequences to hlinsell Oh
his own carelcssness. Such a way mas,
unfortunately, not been suggested.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
A CHANGE or NOTE.

lCedar Rapids Republican,
We have not been impressed with
the views given out by the Hon John
+. Lacey. in Washington, last week.
We doubt whether he ever uttered
the things attributed to him. The in
terview was probably written by one
OF his enemies. 1t Is not true that
there is a total lack OF political har-
mony in Iowa. AS far as we have
knowledge there is substantial har-
mony. This does not mean that we
are all of one mind. or that we viii
all be of one mind in the future The
truth is that the real differences have
not been so great. even in the past.
The differences have been largely the
contrvances of politicians who want
to get ahead. Politicians create such
divisions, very often, for their own
advantage. The great mass of the
people have not been at swords
points.
At the present time we see nothing
that republicans should be greatly
perturbed about or divided upon. And
we see no advantage that can come to
any one from utterances such as We're
attributed to Mr.. Lacey. The best thing
for the people of Iowa to do is to at
tend to business for the next few
years If they will devote as much
time to the development of the state
industrially as they have to politics.
we will all be the better for it. The
man who builds factory in Iowa and
makes It prosper will be doing more
for the state than all the men who
make political speeches put together.
Let us not lose sight Of this fact.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
RuIaariaTs New FLAG.

Bulgaria's flag is so new that Turk
ish gunners recently failed to recognize
it, and with blank shots turned back
steamer flying it. The official realiza-
ton of events is often slow in coming
When John Quincy Adams sought to
enter Berlin as American minister to
Prussia he was held UP at the gate and
the officer of the guard had doubts
about letting him in, never having
heard of the United States of America
A sergeant, more intelligent than his
superior, knew all about the United
States. and on his intercession Adams
was allowed to proceed. The Turkish
gunners have reasons of their own for
official ignorance which the Prussian
lieutenant could not plead.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
SOME SIDEWALK GOSPEL.
rcedar Rapids Republican,


Tho time to clean sidewalks is di-
rectlv after d storm ceases We wish
we might impress this upon every
householder in this CITY, and in every
Mace where this paper circulates.
We have before US today STRIKING
illustration of the inconvenience en-
tailed upon practically everybody by
the neglect of this duty even Few
hours. Wednesday morning the side
walks of Cedar Rapids were covered
with slush an inch or so deep. The
temperature was away above freez-
ing. and no doubt many a busy man
and some lazy ones argued with
themselves that old Sol would clean
the sidewalks thoroughly if just Civ
en- a chance: and so most Cedar
Rapids men went down town and
elsewhere to their work "Wednesday
morning and left their sidewalks un-
touched. The result is that the side
walks were never quite so bad as they
are right now. Within two hours
after the busy man and the lazy man
had concluded to let old Sol do the
lob of sidewalk cleaning for them
that day, the thermometer dropped
twenty degrees; and the slush
roughened by passing pedestrians,
froze solid, and there it will remain
to plague everybody who has to use
the sidewalks until milder weather
comes. 1t may come today, and then
again it may not come for two or
three weeks.
Let it be repeated, the time to clean
sidewalks is directly after a snow
storm ceases. Everybody ought to at
tend to this business at the time
when it should be attended TO- Ihlnk
of the inconvenience neglect of this
kind causes. Not everybody lives
upon the street car line. Many have
to walk blocks, many girls and wom-
en-. They go to school and to work
If they have to wade thru snow
and slush. they may. by the use of
rubbers, avoid getting their feet wet
but they can not avoid wet skirts;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
THE nay WE CELEBRATE.

Seeking an illustration Of the change
in human thought and the growth OF
human brotherhood it would be hard
to find % sentence wherein more of the
mighty progress of the century imme-
i!ately past might be included than
this: Lincoln would be 100 years Did
today.
And going carefully over the men
whose characters and accomplishment
are the history of that century, those
who have led reform, battled with
wrong and died atield and in the closets
for right. the commanding and pre-
eminent figure of 100 years. If not of
American history from its beginning, Is
that OF Abraham Lincoln.
1t is necessary to seek for the I'M
pelline. force that sends such men on
to the limit of usefulness. Lincoln was
not unique as regards ability: not alone
as regards a high sense of morals and
Of the responsibility of citizenship.
Other men of his time believed in God
aud depended upon his promises as i'm
plicitly as did Lincoln: other men We're
sincere: .otf,er men strong; but Lin
coin was unique in that he combined
wisdom. sincerity, religion and cour-
age. 1t was as tho he was planned
and made for a purpose to be per-
formed---and the wisest and most logi-
ca, must believe 1t was so.
A man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief; behind him youth of toll
and a manhood of loss and longing
he came to the presidency wise with
the knowledge that suffering brings
and that no other teacher can incul-
son OF humanity in the school OF sor-
row. Imbued with the steadfast faith
in God which shows in every great
speech ne ever made and in, every in
augural and message he ever wrote he
saw himself as the hand of the AL
mighty and grasped the opportunity
which he saw and others failed to see
that time had made ripe. If we are to
believe in an overruling Providence we
must believe that Abraham Lincoln
came on earth with a mission akin to
Ills who had come eighteen centuries
before.
1t was we'll to make his birthday a
holiday even tho our holidays are to
some degree cast as pearls before
swinish non observance of their pur-
poses and prostituted into boisterous
playdays. It's celebration by programs
in the schools, by sermons from the
puipits and the annual attention given
it by the magazines and newspapers,
teaches that part of our history that
makes most for the building of char
acter, the march of brotherhood and
the passion Of patriotism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
THE PRAYER QUESTION.
Tpoopa pepihlican

This legislature seems to be desir-
obs of establishing a record of econ
omy, and all kinds Of questions are
being brought up. Not the least IN
teresting Is the invocation problem.
Each morning the session is opened
with prayer by some minister. for
which he receives the sum of IS. AS
a result every member tries to get IN
a prayer by his home ministers, and
the thing has got to be quite political
plum The whole service costs the
state about $3.50 each session. 1t Is pro-
posed to hire chaplain to do the en-
tire work at reduced rates. Some still
more economical members think that
the devout ones in the legislature
could be prevailed upon to conduct
there services free.
The matter is worthy of careful Ge-
bate However, there are many chances
to cut down much more extravagant
features than the prayer service, and
If the legislature is going to be really
honest in their economy, they can be-
gin somewhere else with more fruit
full chances.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
Keeping Up Appearances.

The captain of certain yacht had
evinced an anxiety touching a mishap
to the craft that at once attracted
the attention of a fair passenger on
board.
Whats the trouble, Captain?'
asked she.
The fact is, ma'am," was the re-
Spouse. ".our rudder is broken"
"Oh, shouldn't worry about that, /"
said the lady. Being under the water
nearly all the time, no one will notice
that it's gone. "-Harper's Weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
AS TO SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
TClinton Herald

The news comes from Muscatine
that the Ministerial Association of
that city has been invited to draft
measure for presentation to the
general assembly providing for a
better observance Of the Sabbath day.
And member Of that ministerial
association has shown more wisdom
in few words than the combined
demands of the reformers in all parts
OF the state. The ministers of Mus
catine are opposed to the abolition of
all kinds of sports on Sunday they
are not in favor of return to puri-
tanical methods. Neither will they
ask the legislature to pass a law
which will work hardship upon
the people even in It's strict enforce
ment.
AS a matter of fact there are many
kinds of amusements which may be
INDUCED in on the Sabbath day by
the people which are neither harmful
nor demoralizing, and according to
the story which comes from Musca-
tine, the ministers of that city will
not ask that any effort be made
to deprive the people of these amuse-
ments.
The tendency Of the reformer al
ways is, always has BEEN and always
will be, to attempt to get entirely TOO
much. AS usual thing he knows
but little about the conditions which
surround the people, and he seldom
is a wise prophet or good adviser.
He is a man with prejudiced mind,
who can not see beyond his own lit
tie circle. Neither does he take the
trouble to ascertain what is right.
He sets up his own standard of per-
lection and believes that everybody
should be compelled to live up to
that standard, regardless Of all con-
ditions and circumstances. He is
a theorist and never practical.
And yet he is valuable man.
without him the tendency would be
to drift too far the other way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

Let some man devote his life to try
Ing to make people and the world bet
ter, and he is sure to meet with much
opposition. Now, the Globe does not
believe in all that Bill Sunday says
or does. but we do believe that he Is
sincere in his efforts to make men
and women better Also that he has
caused many to forsake evil ways and
lead a righteous life. Many drunk
en- father has been led into the light
and become joy to the household in
stead of an object of terror. and yet
some newspapers never have good
word for him. They condemn him
unreservedly and wholly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

colonial
onamenaon and the third story Is something
width feet IN DEPTH
finished
plumbing which matters for
this residence built for $5o This
architects detail
lisa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
One More Unfortunate.

81 suppose it's true, as a rule said
the suburban philosopher, that POI
likeness pays, but 1 notice that every
time i step aside at an elevated loop
station to let a woman precede me IN
getting her ticket / miss my express
train by just a fraction of a second"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
Iona Newspapers
THE RELIGIOUS GRAFT.
r(,h,r,ee r;tv Press.


Another graft that the state leglsla :
ture should cut out is the So fee given
to ministers for opening the Sessions
with prayer each morning, which COSTS
each session in round figures ABOUT
$3.50 for the three months. The amount
is not very great, but the principle
is wrong. chaplain could be en-
ployed at legitimate salary, and u
would look much better than to see
senators and representatives hauling
in preachers from every county in the
state as so much political sop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
Weak Little BOYS
may become fine strong men.
Some of the strong men Of to-day
were sickly boys years ago.
Many of them received
SCOTS Emulsion

at their mothers knee. This had
a power in it that changed them
from weak, delicate boys into
strong, robust boys.
It has the same power to-day.
Boys and girls who are pale and
weak get food and energy out of
Scott Emulsion. 1t makes
children grow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

Remarking that about twenty-thr sc
students OF the Jefferson schools were
expelled last week for not being will
ing to obey rules, the Ogden Reporter
advises: NOW that they have learned
all about school, cut them loose from
their homes for a lesson in taking up
real duties of life, a trip out in the
cold world. When not satisfied with
a good home and good schools it is time
for young men to learn something
else"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

Discussing the plea for higher pay
for the Polk county judges, the Iowa
City Republican inquiries: HAS any
body noticed any disposition on the
part of the eligibles. or ineligibles, for
that matter, in Polk or elsewhere, not
to accept judgeships for lack of suf-
ficient salary?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

Send this advertisement together with name of
paper in which it appears. your address and four
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
Gopher Bounties.


Senator F'ullers bill permitting coun-
ties to pay bounties on gopher. scalps
suggests, tho 1t may not fill, long
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
'owa ep,N,oMs aND NOTES.

The Mt. Vernon Record is Glad TO
note that the pendulum is swinging
back, and that the state board of
health has come to be considered all
most public nuisance 1t has devel-
oped into an institution whose only
aim seems to be to tack few extra
isfns onto the citizens OF the state, AMI
to make the position Of the doctors alb
solutely supreme"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

The Sioux City Journal explains:
"In the matter of time the Iowa legis-
lature is half thru. In the middle of
work the iowa legislature is just get
ting a good start
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

cit has been worth all the money
ever spent for visiting committees to
give our legislators, who have con-
troll of the expenditures of the states
money an idea of the extent aud
work of the state institution" insists
the Iowa City Citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12

The Waterloo Courier is against the
"unqualifiedly idiotic" plan to have the
state pay a bounty on babies. The
Courier excitedly says: "The idea of
money premium Of decent size to in
iuence the vital subject of parentage
is revolting-wrong in principle and
futile in effect, but the idea of offer
ing one insignificant dollar to induce
childbirth is SO petty and impossible
of purpose that we can not credit the
author Of the bill with both sanity
and seriousness"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
NATURE IMMORAL OR IMMORAL
rwashington County Press1.

washington County Pressl.
You know what an awful day last
Friday was, the day of the fierce
blizzard. 1t was splendid to Look at,
and, indeed, to be out in for awhile,
if dressed for it, but to be poor, and
scantily clothed, with little fuel in the
house. and not near enough bedding
and provisions-it was a terror. This
is the point-if man had used other
men as nature tyrannized over millions
of people. over vast eXpanse of terri
tory, that day and that night, he would
have been denounced and damned as
q malefactor and monster We should
abhor man, or set of men, who should
treat mankind and animals as nature
served them that day. If men, syn
dictate of men, had equal power, and
exercised it, as maliciously as nature
did. they would be branded as devils
incarnate.
Look at nature, red IN tooth and
claw. species killing other species in
order to survive themselves. murder
the universal watchword, race living at
the expense of race, and nothing
thought of the horrors Of it; no COM
junction, no pity. no regret, but
thanksgiving Of purely selfish kind,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-12
PROFESSIONAL BEGGARS.
IGrinnnll Herald

The Herald does not want to dis
courage the generous impulses Of
Grinnell people, but it does feel the
need of calling attention of it's read
ers to the danger of giving indiscrirn-
inately and without investigation. Re
Gently there was a man going about
Grinnell leaving envelopes calling for
a contribution to the Salvation Army.
The envelopes were collected the next
day. Now the Salvation Army is a
good institution and deserves support
and this gentleman, who wore no Sal
walton Army uniform, by the way,
was very likely a legitimate solicitor
for a good cause--but the possibility
for fraud is plain. Especially was this
emphasized when on picking up the
Des Moines paper yesterday we 40
ticed that the officer who signed the
appeal on the outside of the envelope
had been arrested on the charge of
appropriating army funds for private
use. 1t was said in the paper that this
was not the first time the charge was
made. Now for all the Herald knows
the charge was a false one, but it sug-
gests greater care in the matter Of
giving to strangers.