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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
WONDER RosEBvsH.

horticultural Wixard Workins on One
to Bear Hundred varisties.
One bush containing a hundred vari.
cites Of roses! That Is the ambition Of
George ghima, better known - the
California potato king" one Of the
wealthiest japanese IN the state.
And shima's dream may come true.
With infinite care Hugo Lilienthal
Berkeley (CaL) horticulturist and land.
scape gardener, founder of the Juve-
milo Horticultural society. Is pruning,
trimming and grating In an effort to
produce the wonder bush. Lilieuthal
has promised shima that he will peo-
duce q rosebush that win grow 100
varieties In red. yellow and snowy
white
Shima recently built . magnificent
home IN College avenue Berkeley. He
commemorated the event by writing
a check for 800 for the University Of
California 10 furnish q students room
IN the university sanitsrium.
When ne bsSau tt::::s planting Of q
garden Iiltsntnal w1s employed. Now
shima's garden i rapidly becoming
talksd q Throughout BezkAley, thoush
the college town has always been the
homo Of masntheenE howefs.. But the
wealthy Japanese was not satnhsd
He wanted something different from
his fellows. So be conceived the ideA
Of rose bush bearing TOO varieties
aTk rAY1 hA AnAn - aA&A 4 hAAmxx@s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13

The rights of an American citizen who
has trusted the assurances of his gov
eminent and gone afar are the biggest
issue in government. No American
should be able to go far enough away
from this country to be forgotten or
unable to call confidently for the pro-
lection assured by this government. If
these people in the Isle of Pines have de-
pended upon the promises and assur-
ances of the United States they should
be backed to the limit in all their
rights; if the government has been
mistaken it should make good its mis-
take. IAa bunch of real estate filibust-
ers are simply trying to absorb an is
land that belongs to another govern
ment and to force the United States to
hold them up in the deal than should
be left to get out of it as best they
can.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Easily Imsoined

Imagine, if you please, time when
every family can have its own flying
machine-a means of getting out for
a day with as much safety as now at
tends the automobile or the old fam,
~ horse. Wouldn't such thing add a
value to the world? Would it not en-
nance the pleasure of living to be able
to take the wife and babies out for a
spin In the sky. where the air is pure,
where ali of the earth ;s spread out
before one, even as it is spread before
the eye of the eagle? Would it not add
to the sum total Of human happiness
to take to the clouds as do the birds,
and to have to consider neither the
beaten highways nor the rocky bar
riers Of the mountain ranges? Ger.
tainly it would And just as certainly
such time is rapidly dawning or the
human race.-springfeld CO.. News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
SOME OF THE PRODUCING POSSIBILITIES

When we begin to raise all that we
should raise on the fertile farms OF the
middle west the world need not fear
hunger-if 1t has the price. Any one
with faculty for figures and a taste
for statistics can prove this TO his own
satisfaction. Here are some statistics
and figures offered by an eastern writer
in the Review of Reviews which show
how astonishfngly small our production
Is compared with what it ought to be
and with what it will be when we shall
have come to the careful and scien-
tific cultivation of American farm
lands.
At the average rate of twenty bush
els of wheat per acre (Which is much
less than the average yield of either
Germany or England), the state of Ini-
nois, with a few Indiana counties
Thrown in for good measure, cultivated
exclusively to wheat would produce
annually more of this product than does
1874 square miles of improved land
census, 1900, with a 1865 square
mile-strip of Kansas, should be planted
IN corn, there would be harvested, with
an acreage yield of fifty bushels 3,O22,-
$4,000 bushels, an amount practically
equal to the total 1906 corn crop of
the United States, Canada, and Mex
leo.
With the 1855, 644 acres of GAorgia's
improved land producing a bale of cot
ton per acre. the yield would amount
to nearly as much as the total annual
cotton crop of the country; and vet a
large part of the 15.176,4i5 acres of
so-called "unimproved farm land" in
Georgia can be made to produce as well
as the best land in the state. with still
a balance of 11,191943 acres of I'M
classified land, of which portion only
is irreclainable to agriculture.
When we get down to business in the
western agricultural empire who can
estimate the wealth of the middle west
and the value of Iowa farms?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.

From Friday of last week to Mon
day of this week it was our pleasure
to visit in Butler county. among the
scenes of our boyhood With editors
or business men these periods of re-
creation are apt to be too few and
far apart. Worn out with the hea.
and toll Of the summer, it was a great
treat as we'll as rest for u.s.
There were the handshaking with
the old neighbors and school mates of
former years, the hearty "Glad to
see YOU" which always warns the
heart. Then after the greetings and
salutations and the short visits with
the old friends were over came the
visit with the few relatives who are
left. This in turn was followed by the
trip for which our heart yearned, the.
visit to the old farm Here is the
large square farm house, where thirty
and six girls and constant visitors
We're sheltered What sad, tender
memories came to us as we explored
the grove, the house from garnet to
cellar, the barn and wandered over the
old farm recalling incidents connected
with this or that spot While half the
are gone and the old home is broken
up, still it's a comfort to know THAI
the fine old farm belongs to one Of
the family. AS the evening shadows
began to lengthen we visited the fam
lily lot in Inc beautiful She'll Rock
cemetery.
How the years have flown! A few
years ago we were a large, happy, I'M
broken family. Now just one-half -e-
main and we know that a few years
more these also will be gone But
how favored our lot, there are no I'M
known graves. We know where they
all sleep and we know they all died in
full assurance of that life where
there is no death. The memories make
us tender toward all who have, passed
thru deep waters. We return to
our labors feeling we have not only
had recreation but that we have been
re-created by getting for a few days
away from the sordid things Of daily
toll and commercialism to nearness
to the things beyond the present.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
For Sunday as Day Of Rest.

There is a general desire at present
among the railway companies of Eng.
land to reinstate Sunday as day Of
rest, says the Railway Magazine of
London, and as at most country sta
lions the usual Sunday service is an
up and down morning and evening
train stopping at all stations, the mag.
azine asks why the station duties Of
these trains should not be performed
by travelling staff. Passengers could
be booked, tickets collected and the
other station duties performed by a
wait that need not exceed an average
Of three minutes at each station on
Sundays when traffic is normal. A
train carrying travelling booking
clerk, travelling ticket collector and
travelling porter could perform the va.
rious duties at the small stations at
which the trains call.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Rewarded for SAVING Train.

For saving a passenger train from
wreck on the Bessemer & Lake Erie
railroad near Euclid, Pa, Leo Mccall.
aged Ia, son of James Mccall, was
presented with gold watch as a re-
ward. Superintendent j. S. Mattson
and other officials went to the home Of
the lad in the country and made the
presentation.
Young Mccall was walking home
from Euclid along the, Bessemer
tracks, and in the darkness stumbled
against a mass Of earth and rock in
a deep cut. The lad knew the south
bound train was almost due. He ran
TO mis- home g half mile away and got
q red lantern.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Topics of the Times

ST. Nicholas for October is as good as
st. Nicholas for the previous eight
months. That is about the best that
can be said of the magazine for BOYS
and girls. st. Nicholas must be COM
pared with itself as a standard of ex-
cellence in its own field
The public hopes that both Cook and
Peary may make good under cross ex-
animation. There is plenty of glory
10 go around and leave enough over
to make a half dozen other Arctic he
Froes out of the leavin's.
The coal man is beginning to cut
some ice and the ice man is beginning
TO cut less. And the ice man ALWAYS
cuts less than the consumer thinks he
ought
1t makes a big difference in health
culture whether the motions for
Strengthening the spine are made over
d WaShDoard or standing on the rug in
the bedroom.
Perhaps the uncut locks of the Polar
explorer suggest hairpulling to his ri
val. Anyway there is usually hair
pulling match when two Arctic pioneers
get together.
In Peary's case single Cook spoiled
the broth.
Expert testimony on Arctic explora-
ton Is rapidly verging toward a seat
with the medical variety. Perhaps it
would be we'll to question the Es-
quimau1. They couldn't lie so skill
fully that they might not be caught
at it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
the COMING iN1eRuRBAN CAR.

The Times Republican today pub
fishes a picture of a gasoline electric
motor car which within the next ten
Years will be doing interurban passen-
ser service on every steam railroad in
Iowa. People who have seen it come
gliding into stations on the Rock Is
land all the way from Iowa Falls to
Vinton loaded to the guards, as it We're
with its service and the Rock Island
railroad has found it so profitable lhae
a larger car has been ordered for the
same service.
This is a car similar in design 10 the
cars which caught the late Harrilnans
far seeing eye on the L. P. and resulted
In his putting up money for a factory
at Omaha in which to make them FIR
his other railroads to use. The gas
oline engine works along steadily when
the car is in motion and when it is
standing still. 1t works at the same
speed when the car is going slow as
when it is going fast and the same up
hill as down hill. Its function is 20
generate electric power which is stored
in the car to be drawn upon, like
bank account, when needed and to be
stored up when not needed. 1t runs on
rails more simply than any automobile
can run over paved streets and it does
the business.
The Times-Republican has remarked
that there is no need for steam roads
to be paralleled by electrical lines if
they will put on the gasoline electrical
motor cars and institute one hour in
terurban service turnout their systems.
They ought to be doing it before their
competition forces them to it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
THE LODGES.
II MAsoNIc NoTlcE&
always welcome
"NHall over 1877 West Main.

n MASONIC NoTlcG&
XyIvisitors always welcome
N\Hall over l05-7 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE l0s A. b. g. A.
M.-Regular communication Friday ev-
ening, Sept. II, o'clock.
q. Hosck, ". u.
81. s. Lawrence, Sec'y.
S1GNET CHAPTER No 80. r. A. ~
convocation Monday. Sept. 90,
q. n. Bosgis, H p.
l. 8. Willard. seoy. !;
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. 4 q.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. Sept. ~
p. m.
4. D. Gssker. 4. / n.
L r. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CoAfMANDERY No.
80 K T-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
ening, Sept. 81, 1909. at o'clock.
f. M. Wilbur, 3. G.
Fred Wallace. Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. 81.
S.-Regular meeting "wednesday, Sept.
Is. ct p. m.
Mira. Geo. Downing. W. y
Edna G. Fularton. 1su. /,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
"R1T" SHOULD KNOW gErTER.

WEBSTER City Freeman Tribune
If James S. Clarkson returns to Des
Moines to establish morning daily pa
per he will probably regret it, Mr..
Clarkson is one of the hest newspaper
men in the United States and could
make newspaper go wherever there is
demand, but it is mistake to think
paper can be established upon a
sound foundation with no better cause
for existence than politics. Men who
do not like the Register and Leader will
urge Mr.. Clarkson to make the venture,
promising all kinds of support. But af-
ter his paper is launched it will have to
subsist upon letigimate business or go
to the wall. The gentlemen who want
him to start because they have axes to
grind will let him turn the crank alone.
This is the universal experience and it
is marvellous that some men of intelli-
gence and business capacity have not
yet become aware of it. We believe
Mr.. Clarkson is too wise to start a
morning daily paper in Des Moines at
this time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
HOW ABOUT THE ISLE or PINES ?

An article by Senator Clapp in the
North American Review In which ne
suggests that the United States has
mislaid valuable possession by ignor-
ing the appeals of the American resi-
dents OF. the Isle OF Pines has peculiar
Interest to Iowans. The Isle Of Pines,
an islet near Cuba, became Immediate
~ after the Spanish war an Iowa coll
ony. Many Iowans bought lands there
end considerable number settled on
the island. Complications arose and
appeals to- the national government
have been many from the American
residents Of the island hut these ap-
psals have not been met with much
consideration. Here in Iowa the clamor
was pretty generally listened to as the
cry of Spectators looking for the best
of bargain and such attention as the
complaints received was tempered
with suspicion. However. if Senator
Glapp is right the Iowa and other Ann
erican residents and land owners there
have not been properly backed up and
guarded in their rights as American
citizens. should be the world overland
as they rarely are. Senator Clapp says:
ION. the strength of assurances Of
fcially made by responsible officers of
the United States government ten or
more years ago, nearly three thousand
residents or property owners in the
fIsle. Off Pines. AT least nine tenths of
rt.ee=s;l e nd Of the island is now owned by
,citizens of the United States under IT,
ties bought in good faith and paid for
to the Cuban and Spanish owners.
They have built their homes there, es-
tabl1shed churches, schools, banks,
newspapers. transportation lines and
ALI the a1tJuncts OF American civiIiza-
ton. !The!conditions which have pre-
vailed in the island for hundreds of
years. under Spanish rule, would, with
favorable conditions. be irrigated hy
American ownership. Our people show
both a Willingness and. a capacity for
developing its splendid resources, and
they feel that they are entitled to en-
courasement by the maintenance of
I AAIuS11SadL sovereignty, instead OF en-
d1-inS prcetraion and loss thru ex-
patr1ation to an alien flag.
"Our fellow citizens have spent their
money in the p urchase of farms, have
moved their families thereto, built
their homes, and endured all the dis
.conltorts,' Of, pioneering, with the dis
finct understanding based on ,neir III
depreciation of the language Of the
! 4
4 our government, that they were en-
titled to, and would receive, the pro-
lection OF the American flag. They now
ma themselves abandoned bv their
government and subjected to the RUE
u foreigners whose history, ira dittnns
and policies. are altogether different
from any to-which they have been ac-
custoned"
A few men and families out on an
Island Gfe . small part of population.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Tho Better Hail.

1--WE often wondered" said Jones.
why woman is called the better
half"
I'll tell you," said Smith; but it's
a hard matter to clearly define. You
naturally. being a workingman, think
money better than anything else?
Jones assented.
You likewise know that money
talks?"
80 I've heard" Jones replied; "al
though. to tell the truth, 1 usually
hear only the echo of it."
''WeIl. we grant that money is bet.
ter than all else; we grant. also, that
money talks. Well, woman is half OF
mans life. And"
yes, indeed" finished jones, Inter.
rupting him. "and she certainly does
Sr ~ ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
oId-Time Argument Against Railroads
The STAGE fare from, u1,ntr,-ilo 4,

oId-Time Argument Against Railroads.
The stage fare from Huntsville to
Glasgow-25 miles-was $3.50. This
stage carried the mail, and 1t had to
go. When the roads were so muddy
horses could not pull the stage a
double yoke of oxen took their places.
1t was slow travelling. but they got
through. The steamboat fare from
Glasgow to st. Louis In the early sos
was 81. That Included stateroom and
meals, and If the boat was held up a
week OF two on a sandbar the accom-.
modations went on without extra
charge. The steamboat owners never
believed the railroads could success
fully compete with them. The way
they looked at it people wouldn't be
willing to travel 100 or 200 miles tied
down to one seat in small car when
they might be enjoying the freedom
of big and handsomely furnished
boat. Then how are they going to
find room for an orchestra and a
dance?" an old river captain wanted
to know. No place to eat or drink,
no room to move about; just sit still
all day long on little wooden bench
why, it's downright foolishness. -
Macon Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Flying Age and
Significant Features and Effect Of
Louis Bleriot's Flight from Calais to
Dover. Across the English Channel,
h a Monoplane. :: :: :: ::
By JAMES A. EDcERroN.

AS the nineteenth century earned
~ the name Of the age Of steam
~ and electricity, SO the twentieth
promises to win the title Of the
flying age. Already man has flown
across the English channel, which may
be as much Of milepost in Its way
as Marconi's achievement of sending
a wireless message across the same
turbulent neck Of water a few years
ago. Marconi's feat was the first
marked success that called the worlds
attention to the fact that telegraph
ing without wires was an accomplish
ed fact, triumph that was speedily
followed by the greater victory Of
flashing the messages Of the air across
the Atlantic. 1t was but yesterday
that these things happened, yet SO
swiftly do we move In this era Of sci
enttfic enchantment that today wire.
less telegraphy is in commercial use
In all parts of the earth.
Louis Bleriot's feat Of flying across
the English channel is an even greater
accomplishment than that of Marconi
yet 1t Is not so startling, since the
Wright brothers and others had al
ready conducted longer flights. For
example, only few days before the
crossing OF the channel, Henry Far.
man. an Englishman, had flown from
Chalons to Suippes, France, distance
of forty miles, thus breaking Bleriots
own previous record Of twenty-five
miles from Etampes to Orleans, the
longest cross country fight of an aero
plane up to that time. The wrights
and most other aviators have never at.
tempted cross country hikes, but have
confined themselves to prescribed
courses, returning to the place Of start
ing.
The fight across the channel is
striking and dramatic thing in itself,
even If longer flights above land had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13

1og. With such meaty, pohderous and
substantial fogs as those Of London It
would be impossible for anything 30
light as an airship to fall through.
The channel Is q historic body Of
water that has been the graveyard Of
more ships than any equal stretch Of
sea on the planet. Perhaps its tur-
bulence has done more than British
Notifications to protect John Bull from
invasion. William the Conqueror man.
aged to break across 1t, but Napoleon
could never send over anything more
formidable than large scare.
Relying on the diabolical disposition
Of the English channel ]. Bull has
grown chesty and shaken his fist at
the world. Now that people are learn
ing to fly and can thus ignore his old
channel the portly gentleman has sud.
denly lost his cocky afr and has grown
f1abby from fear. The mere mention
Of an airship is sufficient to give the
whole English press a spasm and to
cause the ministerial benches Of par
lament to fairly reek with gloom. A
few weeks ago the British were scared
to death Of the Zeppelin dirigible bal
loon that had been flying about to
amuse people at the German fairs. and
now the panic shifts the cause Of its
being to Bleriot's monoplane. That a
British Dreadnought should be afraid
Of monoplane Of the Bleriot type is
like an elephant throwing d at at sight
Of butterfly.
English Channel Out Of Commission.
The thing that really disturbs our
British friends In all this is that they
no longer have the natural depravity
Of the English channel 70 IaII back on.
They had counted on that an a shield
and defense forever Now that a
vehicle has been found that can ~
above the raging. churntng, uncertain
and treaeherous neck Of water. heed.
ing II, indeed, no more than q sumnaee
breeze, it Is no wonder that the dwell
ers on the fright little, tight little" isle
are disturbed. Their boosted isolation
has departed. Their water wa1l has
melted like mist They are suddenly
brought on level with other peoples.
It Is Just as easy for an aeroplane to
hy over their roaring ana terrifying
channel as It Is to n.y. over an equal
stretch Of French meadows.
No wonder that the Britons are
frantically playing can Engiishman's
Home" and temblinsly. scanning the
heavens for the next flock OF French
aeroplanes or eovey Of German diri-
gibles that are on their way to drop
internal machines all over London.
Thus conscience doth make towards
Of US all" John Bull, when he remem-
bers the mean things he has done to
Other nations. depending on that 'wa-
ter walY' Of the English channel, to
protect him, cannot understand why
the Other nations do not get even, now
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Cost of1rains-

Many trains are worth 100000
while the recently constructed South
rern Belle" which runs between Vic
toria and Brighton. is said to have
cost over $4,000 to build. But take
an ordinary train. The engine and
tender are valued at s2,1oo: the lug.
gage van, EGO; the mail van, a400;
two ordinary passenger coaches
$4,000 each; three first-class car.
riages. $4,000 each; total, e16 100
London Tit-Btts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
Iona Newspapers
FAIR FINE. BUT HOSE ROBBERS
belle PLANE Union I

lpelle 1ldlHe UnlOn.J
Another record breaking" state fair
has been held. There isn't anything
particularly surprising that state fairs
from now on should all be record
breakers. More and better exhibits are
being produced and the state is sup
porting the fair in way that will draw
larger crowds with each succeeding
year. But there ought to be a proviso
in the next appropriation that will
make it the duty of some Des Moines
authority TO prevent the wholesale rob-
berry OF fair visitors which has been the
custom of the past. AS much money is
extracted. by eNhorbitant prices, from
a hundred thousand fair visitors as
would be gotten from half million
visitors to Des Moines at other times.
The practice does not help the reputa-
ton either of the city or the fair.