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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
TWO PERISH IN GOTHAM FIRE
Fourteen Others Seriously Injured in
Incendiary Blaze.

New York, Oct. 2S.-Herman Tiedt,
aged thirty-four. and his wife Emma,
aged twenty-seven. were burned to
death and fourteen others were seri.
Ously burned as the result of an in
eendiary fire which destroyed two
three.st0ry tenements.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Nov. 1.-Wheat-Dec..
$1.p1%; May, s1.04as. On track-No.
1 hard, S1.0tar Gr1.05B; No. / North.
ern. $1.04B @1.04A; No. 2 Northern,
S1.02B M1.02%.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
court
Settlers Burned Out.

A prairie: fire ragged southwest of
New England, the new Milwaukee ter
minus on tho Cannon Bali river, and
burned out many settlers around
Rainy Butte. There were no lives
lost, bu- a large ancunt Of hay and
grain and winter grazing was de-
stroyed. Some of the settlers lost
their first crop.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
St. Paul Live Stock.

st. Paul, Nov. 1.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $s.75@7.5O; fair to good,
s5.OO@G.75; good to choice COWS and
heifers, S4.25@5.25; veals, $5.5O@7.0O.
Hogs-s7.40@7.75. Sheep-Wethers,
$4.10@4.25; yearljngs. S4.75@5.O0,
spring lambs, $6.00@6.e5.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
Dozen Injured in Wreck.

Chillicothe, Mo, Oct. 3O.-Tassenger
train No. / on the Wabash road, bound
from st. Louis to Omaha, left the rails
twelve miles west Of Pattonsburg, Mo.
A dozen persons were reported in
jured, none dangerously.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
Chicago Grain ard Provisions.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-Wheat-Dec.,
$1.O4A @1.04M; May, s1.04% @1.04h;
July, 97Ac. Corn-Dec., 5S%c; May.
60Mc; July, 60asc. Oats-Dec., 39%c:
May, 42c;; July. 39Ac. Pork-Jan.,
s19.67A: May, sl"32k. Butter
Creameries, 26h @30Ac; diaries, 24@
CSC. Eggs-lS@o7c. Poultry-Tur.
keys, lac; chickens, 1Oc; springs,
11bc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-11-04
RESULTS On THE GRlDIR0N
Yale "a, Amherst O.
Harvard Q, Army 0.
Michigan 43, Syracuse 0.
Minnesota 20, Chicago 6.
Pennsylvania 90, Carlisle 6.
Wisconsin 81, Northwestern II.
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Nov. 1.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. L hard, S1.011., No.
1 Northern, s1.04: No. . Northern,
S1.02. FlaX-To arrive and on track,
S1.733s.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30

We're the family unit destroyed that all
government would fall to pieces, it will
not be hard to realize and understand
that President Taft's text is subject
matter for statesmen.
When Murphy goes by in his over
alls the man who sees only common
laborer should polish his spectacles.
Murphy is family man, one of the
ganglions of the worlds nerve supply
His family is large and his wage is
small: but down in the little six dollar
a month cottage character is build
ing, the character of individuals, Of
the family, of the county, state, ma
ton, of the infinite future 1t is big
ger question than tariff, more insist
emit than rate regulation, wider than
foreign policy and high as the stars.
Great social changes and reforms
must begin in the family 1t is the key
of the entire social fabric Business,
government, life, are built about it.
The crying and imperative need in the
world is for greater opportunity for
the man with a family and for the
Family
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
that Aldrich, who is to follow the route
Of the big show, is merely second con-
sui"
Iona Newspapers
NINETEEN BUSHELS TO ACRE.

NINETEEN BUSHELS TO ACRE.
Rockford Register.]
Vern Cutler, who lives northwest of
town, last week finished threshine
from the shock and the following are
those for whom he threshed together
with the yield per acre, machine meas
ure. He reports the average overrun
by weight about one-fourth. j. Crowell,
II bushels; James Dorner, 1919; w.
shanks. 1sk; Mary shanks, %; Carl
CroWell, is; William Morris, 35h; j.
B. White, IL; William Bell, 241s; Bird
Bell, 1919; P. Peterson, 3SA; William
Frost, IL; A. Mcdonald, 1915; George
kuck, 111s; Jay Cheney, 2oA; Erwin
Cheney, is; William Cheney, 1871;
Orrin Cheney, 15A and Ray Downing,
Is. The average of the above yields is
nineteen bushels per acre, a showing
which would seem to suggest that 1T is
about time for north Iowa farmers to
adopt better methods of farming-in-
Guiding stock raising. dairying, clover
growing, the substitution of winter
wheat for oats, more careful prep
aration of the seed bed, and the use
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
WHO GELS Stuck z

When high taxes are levied, when
cities are exploited by graft or as first
cousins high rates granted public utili :
ties companies, careless expenditure of
public funds. carelessness and negli-
gence of public property, ETC. who gets
stuck, the big property owner or the
small householder and the man who
owns on realty property? The general
impression is that the large property
owner pays the freight. But does he?
Speaking of the principal difficulty
in the path of New York voters in
their attempt to overthrow Tammany
Mr.. Barnard said the other day:
One great difficulty is the number of
voters who do not own property. They
do not see that rents will advance in
the same ratio as taxes, and that really
they have to help pay the taxes, tho
indirectly. For that reason they do not
realize how the increase affects them,
incining to lay the raise in rents to
the capacity of landlords, and not real
izing that this class is simply meeting
us il!St SstScu teAeS.
Mr.. Barnard is right without doubt
as regards New York City. He is right
also as Regards every city. 1t is true
that very large number of voters who
do not own their own homes-and a
considerable number of those who do
hold the views attributed to them and
laliaye thar -ayatior af wool ,ropar+I-
and high rates on common utilities do
not affect them but are at the charge
of the large property interests. They
fail to realize that the tenants pays
the interests on the investment, the
water tax, carries the sinking fund and
pays the owner a profit But he does
just the same and when he assists in
sticking" the property holder he
sticks himself.
Put il down that every man who
pays rent is as vitality interested in
the management of the city's affairs as
the largest taxpayer-even more so for
the average man who is paying rem,
must pay 1t from wages instead OF
from the profits on property. When he
palliates incompe.ency or crookedness
he is robbing himself The property
owner has a recourse; he can and does
raise rents. The higher the taxation,
the more lavishly public money is
thrown about the higher rent he pays
or the poorer house he lives in.
When the mass of wage workers and
nom property owners once realize that
they, and not the rich are being ex-
plotted and robbed by the incompetent
and unprinciped; that the poor and
cot the rich pay the freight of the
grafters and the designing a great
change will be due in many cities now
misgoverned thru their own unthlnk-
ing and fatuous votes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
HOW WE ARE sPeNDlNG MoNEY,

The federal government has already
expended more than S250000 900 for tne
Improvement of inland navigation, and
prospective expenditures will aggregate
several times this amount 1t is obvious
that determinations of stream flow are
necessary TO the solution of the many
problems involved.
The government is expendlng s42,-
100000 on federal irrigation systems,
and this amount is far exceeded by ex-
penditures on private systems in the
west AS the value of any irrigation
systemsis based absolutely on the
amount of water available the import
nnce of the stream flow Investigations
to the redemption of the arid lands is
evident.
The reclamation Of overflow and
would add at least s7oooooo0O to the
national assets, for more than 10000
600 acres OF such land, now practically
worthless. might be made exceedingly
productive and valuable Of first con-
sideration in connection with any
drainage project is the study of run
off, for the drainage of a large area in
TO any particular channel may cause
that channel 10 become so gorged with
water that overflow conditions arc
brought about in places not previously
subject to inundation, and the drain
age may therefore result merely in an
exchange Of land values.
Floods in the United States in 1908
caused damage approaching s25O,000,
600 and the average annual tax levied
by floods exceeds s1oo,oo00o0 Such a
tax on the resources of a great region
should, of course, be reduced by the
orderly progress OF government, anG
it goes without saving that if by tbs
expenditures of even such vast sums
as those quoted above this tax may be
abolished and millions of acres of pro-
ductive and fertile soil added to tbs
resources of the country there should
be no check in the work of the re-
clamation enthusiasts and the conser-
yators of national resources
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
About the Dairy Sire.

f. H Dollar, who has bred some of
the record breaking Holstein cows,
says any man with herd of ten cows
can afford to head his herd with pure
bred sire. Many men are satisfied If
they can buy registered calf, and the
registration Is about all they get It
don't make a sire better because he Is
registered. The question is, What are
the calls ancestors, and what is their
record? The best pure bred sire at
the head of the herd means more than
one-half the herd Buy only of man
YOU have confidence in. There has
been a lot of guesswork in selecting a
sire. / would, if possible buy a sire
that has been tried and has produced
daughter of high production, even If
1t was an aged sire. 1 would buy on
the records of the dams back of him.
Ordinarily I would buy the sire with
the masculine, not the feminine con-
formation. Buy sire that two or three
generations back is from dams that
were great producers Again, I would
want sire from a dam whose capacity
for production has been developed to
it's utmost, without injuring her. Then
take care of the sire. feed him we'll.
Do NOT turn him out with the herd, but
in he yard, where he can get exercise.
Keep a record of the time when cows
are served. The sire needs some exer-
else. he will retain his Vigor much
longer. You are safe to buy an old
sire, but don't get him very fat The
tread power is a good way to exercise,
he will retain his vigor much with a
strong constitution, You need not fear
to cross him back on his daughters,
one cross. In answer to questions he
said the bull in the barn should have
box stall, then plan some exercise for
, him. Be firm with the young bull.
Don't be afraid, but don't take any
chances Exercise and handling usual
| ly make him safe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
Telling Age of Poultry.


English authorities hold that there is
no certain test of age for poultry. but
they admit and indorse the experience
of the writer that in general the spurs
both of hens and cocks will distinguish
a 2-year-old bird but there are ex-
eeptions in which really young birds
develop old-looking spurs, while really
secondyear birds preserve the short,
rounded spurs of a cockerel.
The texture of the legs is a guide
to some extent, and so is the delicacy
and freshness but still an occasional
hen will preserve her youthful appear
ance to a startling degree.
The skin of the body is better test,
becoming coarser and ,drier- choking
with age.
Formerly the wing feathers We're
considered an absolute test as between
a pullet and a hen, even after the long
practice of early breeding had made
the melting of early pullets quite COM
mon.
To a certain extent the absence Of
pullet quilts still is regarded as evil
dence of greater age, but for some
time these feathers also have been be-
the actual fact, unnaturally early
Matching having upset all the old rules
1t is more difficult to judge the age
of water fowls than of other poultry,
partly from the absence of spurs,
partly from greater longevity and part
y because the water keeps their legs
soft and fresh:
Ducks waddle more heavily as they
grow older, and after two or three
years acquire a depression down the
breast
An abdominal pouch Of great size in
dictates great age in geese.
Tukeys up to year old are said to
have black feet, which grow pink up
to years of age. when they gradually
turn gray and dull.
Age in pigeons is often told by the
color of the breast In squads the flesh
looks whitish as seen thru the skin,
but becomes more and more purplish
as the bird grows older.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
THE MAN WITH A FAMILY.

Roosevelt was and is a preacher, a
strong effective preacher, a hustling
shepherd who hurries his flock toward
green pastures and prone 10 apply the
butt end of the crook 10 laggardS His
herder's experience came upon him
when some long horned member of the
drove attempted 10 break away and
Theodore Went after him with cow
whip swinging to leave the smart and
sting Of the lash along flank and sides.
But Roosevelt was an effective preach
err because his texts We're timely and
his applications clear. He preached to
an enthusiastic and growing congrega-
ton He was popular He converted
thousands. There was universal call
for his retention even by a breach of
strict discipltne; and he is as popu-
lar as an ex-preacher as he was in
the pulpit.
President Taft has demonstrated
that he can preach a fairly good SER
mon. In the Mormon tabernacle at
Salt Lake he called attention to the
duties and amenities of family life with
conception and in language that dig
nifed the pulpit and constituted a
wholesome sermon in keeping with
Sunday morning when he said:
The truth is that a mans life is his
family, with his wife, with his children,
with his mother with his neighbor is
not made up of grandstand plays and
all that sort of thing. 1t is made up by
a series of little acts, and those little
acts and those little self restraints are
what go to make up the mans char
acter.
Now that is good preaching. "a
mans life is in his family" When 1t is
outside the family he ceases to be of
the best or even of the better service
in the world and perhaps becomes one
Of the enemies to society. Down at the
basic foundations on which the good
and progress and happiness of earth
are lifted to endure and grow is the
man with the family and the family
with the man. 1t isn't ga grandstand
play" for most Of them, but a hitting
the line hard, gathering breath for an.
other rush and bucking the lines Of
opposing circumstances that the fam.
fly may make goal. The man builds
character and the family builds char.
acter. for families have characteristic!
az individuals have.
When we stop to think that a cit,
Is simply a collection OF homes, hous
ing each its family; that the wild,
country is but a succession of farm.
and farmsteads, each the home of .
family, that all government is but tn
slomogeniety OF patriarchism and tina
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30

weeks. 1t does not take expensive
tools. L use an old fashioned cultivator
that was bought fifty years ago. It
has seven teeth, three In front, four in
rear; each tooth cuts six inches wide.
1t is good to drag 1t over after three
or four days. cultivate once a week
for six weeks; it has never failed me
yet. The roots will be dead as hay. If
one is doubtful, take rod or more
square and keep it down for six weeks
and see how it works. This was done
with a hoe on two acres, and 100
bushels of snutnose corn was raised
to the acre, planted in drills one foot
apart and hoed to kill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30

candidacy Mr. Bryan will need Texas
as badly as the old time Texan needed
a revolver when he did need it.
Notice that out west the possum din
ner is not in evidence.
The decrease of idle freight cars to
6S,502-ti1e lowest figure since the pam
ic Of 1907--is gratifying evidence of re-
established prosperity There We're
1o6,677 idle GAYS on September 1 last
ard 17o,652 on September /, 1908. The
transportation OF the crops this year
will test to the full the present equip
ment Of the railroads and Iowa will BE-
ready with her large part in the coming
test.
Keokuk revivalist says that the
manWith an automobile will never get
TO heaven. Well, the man with new
automobile doesn't want to leave il
anyway.
Let's not forget President Taft's
crime is in the delay and peculiar pro-
cedure of the execution of the criminal
laws.
The president is lame by reason of
sprained tendon. Don't suppose he
did it at Winona, do you?
nC1i
much interested in politics. Unfor-
tunately politics is not in a humor to
return the favor Politics is thru Will,
Uncle Leslie
Senator Newlands of Nevada wants
congress to create department of
mines. Sure. And let's also have a
department of corn. Will the Iowa
senators please see to this?
Father-Bobby, I'm surprised to see
you crying because a bee stung you
Brace up and act like man.
Bobby-Y-yes, an then y'you'd
gimme a l-lickin Y'you told M:
w-what you'd do to me if you e-ever
I heard me u-usin' that kind of language
Chicago News.
President Taft says he is going 1o
ask congress to authorize a $4,000 600
bond issue for irrigation purposes. But
unfortunately, Speaker Cannon has al
ready announced that nothing of the
sort will be done
Scientists have decided that Methus
elah was only 10 years DID,
That is more it. 1t is absurd /.
suppose that any man could have lived
to the age OF 500 years.
| "oh. l don't know-there were nc
automobiles in those days. "-Houston
Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
PEoPLE.ziNG TIE CORPORATIONS.

When the corporation tax gets into
action. it win affect not alone a small
coterie of wicked and soulless organ
izations, but close 10 100000 individ-
uals as we'll About 10000 900 man and
women are partners in the great cor
porations of the country, which, ac-
cording to a recent compilation, repre-
sent a capitalization of nearly s40.-
900, 600, 600.
OF late-that is within the last half
dozen years, tflere has been a marked
movement in the direction of that
peopletzation of the corporation which,
it is expected. viii chara cterize the
final solution Of the corpora ton prob
lem. Forced TO the defensive by ad-
verse criticism, the heads of the cor
porations have adopted methods Of
greater frankness and confidence in
communicating the affairs of their
companies to the public. The effect
has been to awaken thousands of per-
sons to the financial advantages re-
sulting from investment in corporation
securities, and to lead them to buy
thesa for the sake Of the returns that
come to them thru this source, which
are in some cases greater than those
which they could gain by investment
in other lines.
The extent to which the people are
partners in some Of the great indus.
trial and railway corporations of the
United States is shown by the follow
ing figures:
American sugar-2O,0O0 shareholder
own s90,0000,00O in stock.
Pennsylvania Railroad-60,00O share
holders own s314,OOO,OO0 in stock.
Pullman-13,50O shareholders owl
100000, 900 in stock.
Bell Telephone-24,100 shareholder
own $1sO,O00,000 in stock.
Steel--22, 1900 shareholders owl
sS68,00o,0oo in stock.
Standard Oil-5,500 shareholder
own s9S,000,00O in stock.
Union Pacific-15, 900 shareholder
own $295,000,000 in stock.
New York Central-22,10O sharehold
ers own $17s,OOo,ooo in stock.
st. Paul-1o,O00 shareholders ow
$133 100000 in stock.
Amalgamated Compensation share
holders own $154,Oo0,0 900 in stock.
Il Southern Pacifics-15, 900 shareholder
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
Rye as Horse Feed.

Rye is a good grain to feed horses
1t is equal to oats and wheat, but it
must be ground middling fine and
mixed with cut straw or cut hay. The
straw or hay should be cut into half
inch lengths, moistened with water and
the rye meal we'll mixed with it. 1t
is very sticky and horses can not get
the meal without eating the straw or
hay with 1t. In feeding corn to horses
we always grind half rye with the corn
to make the corn meal stick to the
cut straw. Corn and rye ground to-
gether in equal proportions and mixed
with water, make we'll balanced ra-
ton, equally as good as eagerly sought
after by horses and a cheaper horse
feed than oats and hay.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
Weed Seed In Feed.

In a recent bulletin Of the Connecticut
State Experiment Station is empha-
sized the danger of the Introduction Of
weeds by the use of feeds made up. in
part or in whole, of grain screenings
and similar materials, which, as a rule.
contain great amount of weed seed.
These screenings vary good deal in
quality Thus an analysis recently
made of wheat screenings showed
about 80 per cent of flax and shrunk-
en- cereal, Is per cent of foxtails, ger
cent of bindweeds and pigweeds, Is per
cent of weed seeds of other species
and 81 per cent of dust broken seed
and sand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
The Strawpile


heavy lives took. Their tramping over
the surface of the soil does not have
the detrimental influence of the horse
or COW. In fact, am inclined to be-
lieve that sheep decidedly improve the
physical and mechanical condition OF
the soil by their constant tramping be
cause their small hoof has a tendency
to loosen the surface soil and induce
the formation of a shallow mulch that
in no way Injuries the growth and de-
velopment of the forage, but assists in
the formation of a blanket to the sol!
that materially adds in the conserva-
ton of the soil moisture.
I have observed on my farm, where
sheep have been pastured alongside OF
cattle in adjoining fields, that the pas
ture upon which the sheep grazed pos
sessed deeper green appearance dur
ing the summer months than that up
on which the cattle were pasturing.-
New York Farmer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
own s14s, 100000 in stock.

own s14s,ooo,o00 in stock.
Atchison-25,0 900 shareholders own
s217, 100000 in stock.
Smelters-9,400 shareholders own
$100,OOO,O0O in stock.
AS further reforms are established,
the public will gain still greater conf
dence in this form of investment and in
due time the corporation will be thor
oughly what it ought to be, an instru-
ment in the hands of the people for
their own good and for true economy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
Feeding Stalks to Hogs.

When the green stalks are given to
hogs care should be taken to prevent
cattle from having access to the woody
fiber which the swine leave after chew
ing the stalk for the sweetness in it,
but leave enough saccharine matter in
the fiber to make 1t attractive to cat
tie, especially the younger stock. This
fiber is indigestible, and the cattle, if
allowed to pick it up, will frequently
eat a sufficient quantity to cause inn
FACTION and harmful if not fatal re-
suits. 1t is not safe to let the cattle
into yards where swine are given green
corn stalks.-Coburn's Swine N Amer
ica."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
THE LODGES.
! a MASONIC NOTICES.
iXHvisitors always welcome.
iVNHall over 1O6.7 West Main.

a MASONIC NOTICES.
Visitors always welcome.
/VNHall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1903 A. F. & A.
M.-Work on LIST degree Friday even
ing, Oct. /, 1880 p. m.
H. G. Hoeck, w. M.
H. S. Lawrence, Sec'y.
s1GNET CHAPTER No. 80, r. A. M.
Stated convocation Monday, Oct. IS,
1880 p. m. g. n. Bogie, e. p.
Miilard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. 4 q.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Oct. 10,
1870 p. m.
A. D. Meeker. T. I. NJ.
I. r. Forbes. Rec.
30 K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday
evening, october 10, at o'clock sharp.
F. NJ. Wilbur 2. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. @ =.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, Oct.
ID, at s p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing W. NJ
Edna G. Fularton. Seer.