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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

comments on the egg 1T was not as
good an egg as when 1t first came In
contact with Earls lead pencil. In
travelling so long 1t had changed It's
disposition Originally it was one of
those confiding cggs-one of the kind
that will cuddle up to you and win
an abiding place In your affection.
But the charming young lady in Sag
inaw wrote to Earl that the egg was
not as she would have liked it to be;
1t seemed TO be peevish and resented
close compromising. OF course. when
You think about 1t, you will see that
almost any egg that had been tray
cling around the country for nearly n
year would be apt to get morose even
If 1t finally was sold at the rate of
so cents n dozen. The damsel from
Saginaw. however. did not intimate
that Earl was not all right and so he
will answer her letter and she will
likely answer his letter. and then he
will answer her letter--and there you
are with a romance getting ready to
do business. The young lady in Sag
inaw may live to see the day that she
will bless that rotten egg.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
Grants Letter to Future.

When General Grant, one day near
the end of his life. was autographiing
some portraits of himself for the medi-
cal staff, consisting of Drs. Douglas
Sands, Barker and Shrady, his son
said:
Father, would like you to sign this
also"
1t was a letter to some future presi-
dent, asking hi INTO appoint the gen
erals grandson. Ulysses third, to West
Point. Without dipping his pen in ink
again. the general attached his name to
this letter. 1t was done quietly, but
In view Of the circumstances, the action
was dramatic.
Young Ulysses, the son of Colonel
Grant, was then a mere boy. We all
knew that when the letter should be
presented. General Grant would have
been many years in his grave. 1t was
only a question of months, perhaps
weeks, when the hand that held the
pen would be stilled forever. Alto
gether, it was situation that had In 1t
much pathos. 1t meant a benedictlon
for the future soldier.
l believe the others must have been
equally impressed, for after the scatch-
ing of the pen had ceased, there was
absolute silence in the room while Col
onel Grant carefully folded the letter
and gently led his fatherd away.
The note was dated and signed on
April 3, 1885. General Sherman in
dorsed it on Febf 1, 1887. and eleven
years later, on March 80, was written
across the bottom:
1 direct the appointment to be made
William Mckinley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

off my boots and then brought in a
pail of water to thaw out my frozen
feet. They gave me warm supper
and a bed on the floor of the small
attic. ] slept close to the stovepipe
and had n gooq nights rest. Never
shall | forget the hospitality which
received at the hands of these kind
hearted people. From them ! learned
that theirs was the only house within
one mile of the main road for a dis
tancc of twenty miles. and that several
persons had frozen to death on that
road the previous winter.
The next morning, with the mercury
lowering about the point of congela-
ton walked fifteen miles to St.
Charles. and on Christmas morning l
proceeded from there to Winona The
wind had given way to a complete
calm, and as came in sight of that
city a most beautiful spectacle, only
to be seen in such a climate. presented
itself to my eyes The smoke from
hundreds of chimneys rose in almost
perpendicular columns until it seemed
to vanish in the azure sky Beyoad
the city lay the crystalized level of the
majestic Mississippi, bordered by the
snow covered bluffs on the Wisconsin
shore.
| went to the land office. and, after
paying a premium of per cent FOR
exchange of my wildcat money Tor
gold entered my quarter section IF
land. and then turned my face toward
my Iowa home, which | reached day
or two before the close of the old
year, after having walked more than
600 miles in the midst Of the severe
weather OF that extraordinary winter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
STATE UTILITY COMMISSION.
TVinton Easle1.

A new reform is coming to the
front that seems likely 70 meet the OPP
position of some OF the reformers The
proposition is to establish a state util-
ity commission and put the control of
municipal utilities under 1t. The Boone
News asks:
Can any one advance a single good
reason for such a changer" We admit
we are unable to inform the News the
whole benefit to be derived from such
be enlightened by acquiring the infor
nation that is in the hands Of the New
York commission. Everybody knows
that the matter that gives municipal
tiles the most trouble are the public
utilities They are incompetent In the
hands of the ordinary city council Not
that the councilman is a "ninny. but
from the fact that not having the time
himself to do the duty assigned him
he delegates it to a subordinate. This
subordinate wouldn't follow the law
and the rules laid down for the man.
agement of the utility under his charge
if YOU stood over him with a club. He
can always improve the system. After
he is in the water over his head he
calls for help. That is after the dam
age is all done and the city has spent
thousands by his carelessness. Munici-
pal government is one of the sores on
the body polite of the American peo-
pie and no way has yet been devised
to bring about perfect form of munic-
ipal government We are inclined to
rest easy until we see the measure that
is to bring about the millennium in
CITY government 1t is so easy to give
advice that it loses it's flavor and might
as we'll be left unsaid
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
A Brownsville Boy.

copyright by Estelle Klauder. 19Os).
Philander c. Knox, the prospective
secretary of state, talked, at a recep-
ton at Valley Forge of an impudent
politician.
"The impulence with which he de-
mands his favors," said Mr.. Knox, re
minds me of the impudence of young
John Gaines, a Brownsville boy.
zone winter day in Brownsville the
skating was good, and a game of hook
ey was proposed.
John Gaines, his skates over his
arm. rang the bell of one of our old
est inhabitants, an 1912 veteran with
a wooden leg.
"Excuse me, sir he said, but are
YOU going out today?'
Ono, / believe not replied the vet
eran, kindly. Why do you ask, my
SOM
"'Because, if you are not said
John Gaines, I'd like to borrow your
wooden leg to play hockey with :
Nobody, Is Too Old
to learn that the sure way to cure a
cough or cold is with DR.. Kings New
Discovery. soc and $1.0O. Mcbride q
Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
THE CRYING NEED OF THE SCHOOLS.

We are proud of our schools and
with reason. They make new men and
women, broader and in some ways
better than we are. They develop mind,
the mental and the spiritual The
schools are developing the morals and
mentality of the race, but they lack
a most essential part of a present. day
curriculum.
When the boy comes out Of school
he is. ready to go to college, fit and
in training for further work in the
lines that he has followed for ten or
twelve years; but suppose he doesn't
elect or is unable to pursue His stud
les? Suppose he must go to work for
a living, not only for himself, but for
others whose dependence has fallen
upon him? What then?
Garry him thru the college and then
what? Will he drift to the field Of
professional athletics, if he happens to
be physically and by training capable
or take several years more to prepare
himself for actual work; the effective
work that brings the money to pay
grocery bills and buy clothing for HIM
self and possibly keep the mother and
younger members of the family to-
Of 10
high school or the college and earn
enough money to start on. He must
wait and learn. And sometimes this
period of waiting is a long one and
filled with calamity.
Let's get it into our heads that most
boys do not finish the high school.
That not one in twenty-five who begin
the grades follows thru to the diploma.
That only few boys go to college.
That nine out of ten boys who leave
school go to work with their hands as
well as their minds. That nothing
more helpless comes into the fields of
manual labor and technical work than
the boy whose education has been con-
fined to the common course of the COM
mon schools. It is true. Nobody is
more helpless than the green graduate
without money, without job, and
without friends to help him to either.
If he has sand and ability he comes
out and is the stronger after all for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
g1sRs- 3sehlry 5llarstatn,u,r gmua Fehr>1arp 1905

ing child by sending him barefoot
thru snowdrifts 1t hardens. 1t also
kills.
The apprentice system is practically
| dead: did you know that? So far as
| the youth is concerned 1t is dead, In
strict union labor circles, where the
idea is, not that boys must have a
trade. but that the numbers of trades
| men must be kept to a level that will
not create n competition that might
cut wages or limit the power OF the
| trades unions. The apprentice system is
dying. What is the school the COM
mon school. supplying of opportunity to
take its place? Anything? No? Why
| not?
| We are insisting that agriculture
| must commonly be taught. 1t should
| be- But every great employing cor
! poration in the country is crying out
for young men who have some techni-
cal training. some brains. and the will
ingness to sell them for good wages.
and the supply is not equal to the de-
mand
Why not also train toward industrial
demand? Ten young men of the right
kind could find immediate employment
to where one is found that will do.
There is a dearth of trained people
everywhere. Railroads bid for them.
great Industrial plants are seeking
them. They are wanted and needed
and those who need them are willing
to pay for their services. And they
can't get them because we are not
making them, not even starting them
We teach lad the derivation OF a
word and keep him shut away from
things. the concrete things that he
must lift aside out of his path, the
things he must deal with and make his
life from Why does not the great fac
tory where we are making men. study
the demand of the times as other fac
tories watch the market and seek to
supply the need? In short. why do
not the common schools teach first and
last and all the time toward the COM
mon necessities?
~
is at once the closest to and the far
thest away from personal and family
interest. 1t is entirely in the hands
of those who teach. The interest OF
the parent centers more in the marks
given his children in the studies they
are carrying than in what studies they
are and ought to be carrying. Some
sage bored hole in q plank and drove
Il square peg thru it years ago and
exclaimed: Behold, the finished pro-
duct" We have changed mallets.
made some improvements in the
can not change the material. and we
haven't changed the hole. The pegs
are the same old pegs. That they fail
to fit the present need without whit
Ting should not surprise us. But 1t
should stir us to a change of mandrels.
We are coming. and quickly now, to
change in our school system. We
shall teach The ability to do with
things along with the multiplication
table and the Latin grammar. In
short we shall see the need of teach
ing the dexterity to do along with the
ability to think. And when we have
done this, most of the charity organi-
cations will be forced to contine them
selves to drunkards or go out of bus
mess. For we shall be teaching the
premier competency, of ability to earn
a living.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

Domino Reynard." other matter is ur
to the Century standard which is the
highest standard.
If there Is magazine for boys and
girls that so entirely fills its place as the
ST Nicholas its name does not immed-
lately recur. St Nicholas is literature
for children, the literature that children
are able to understand and absorb
The February number of the magazine
is no exception in excellence Tor the
St Nicholas is always excellent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

endeavoring to produce discord among
the progressive republicans from
President Roosevelt down to the most
humble advocate of better political
conditions. They have also began a
campaign OF misrepresentation and
abuse of progressive legislation. Their
whole object is to secure discord and
strife. and ultimate victory for them
selves and the greedy interests they
serve.
The question is apparent - do the
progrcssives propose to be dcvoured?
And the echo answers. edo they"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
Iona Newspapers
SINCE TOM INCORPORATED.
Hampton Chronicle ]

Some wise guy in the Iowa legislator
has introduced 4 bill 10 compel all
corporations in the state to pay an
annual fee into the state treasury and
file a report of their condition annually
besides What business is it to the
public to pry into the affairs of a cor
poration any more than ii is into any
private enterprise? They are practice
ally one and the same thing. The
annual fee would not be Objectionable,
because corporation ought to be will
ing to pay something for the protection
that the law gives 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
For Consultation.

Mr. I. H. F'arnham, prominent
druggist of Spirit Lake. Iowa, says:
.Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the best thing on
the market for constipation" Give
these tablets a trial. You are certain
to find them agreeable and pleasant in
effect. Price, 20 cents. Samples free
For sale by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Raise the salary of the president
raise the salary of the members OF
congress. raise the salaryfof the mem
bers of the legislature. raise the sal
airy OF state officials. raise the sala y
of county officials raise the salary OF
everybody drawing one RACES the
Mt Vernon Record "That is the ten
dency of the day And all to what pur
pose. SO there shall be more appli-
cants for the offices? We haven't one
fourth enough offices for all tho good
men who want them now, Every
branch of public service. with the eN-
ception of cabinet positions, is better
paid than in any other walk of life,
and there is no reason for the continual
cry that some one should have more
money"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

California is urging the necessity OF
big fleet upon the government; and
making most of the necessity.
There is as much sense in draining
wet Iowa farms as in reclaimins arid
tracts in Arizona, and a great deal bet
ter returns to those who own the lands
However sincere Mr. Roosevelt may
be in his temperance principles and
practices almost any one might take a
horn when on rhinoceros hunt.
Hughes is warning the opposed Gin
trests" in New York that unless they
behave he will run for a third term.
That ought to hold them for awhile.
Automobiles are still beyond the
reach of the ordinary income but there
Is some satisfaction in the statement
that the 81. 500 car of today is better
than the $4,000 car of five years ago.
Some day perhaps invention and the
need will bring the motor car down to
the man who needs it worst and now
can not afford to buy it.
It's a poor time to increase salaries
Of officials and the presidential in
crease is not looked on with general
favor. Neither is the idea of raising the
salaries of county officers The pecul-
lar fact that men are anxious to spend
money and time to get these offices at
the present rate of pay has much to do
with the feeling At any rate the county
officer everywhere is being paid more
today than any one else but the pub
lie paws for the same service If he We're
not he would be on the new and better
job instead of laying wires for re-
election. Just to speak plainly and
without adverse criticism of officials
generally there isn't county official
or postmaster in the country who
is not getting more than he can earn
in competition in any line. To go little
farther if he doesn't like the salary
why doesn't he resign?
The February Century contains an
excellent article on as a leader en-
bellished by a number of reproductions
of the various photographs of the
emancipator 1t is of the best and most
thoughtful as Interesting Of the mass
of Lincoln magazine literature
brought out by the centennial. Thomp-
son-Seton continues his serial story OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
ROMANCE or AN EGG,
ITa,pa Herald

Nearly n year ago Earl Spooner
dlffidently but plainly inscribed his
name on an egg, one that was des-
tined to go to eastern markets. see
much of the world and. possibly, play
Il stellar role in the great romance of
Enrrs life. For last week he received
a letter from Il charming young lady
whose home is in Saginaw. Mich,
stating that the egg had wandered
into her home. Judging from her
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
THE LION AND THE BULLS.
(Estherville Enterpris

IEISI1ltIVIlI1
There is an old fable about the lion
and the bulls.
Four bulls were such great friends
that they used always, when feeding,
to keep together A lion watched them
for many days with longing eyes. but
never being able to find one apart from
the rest, was afraid to attack them.
He at length succeeded in awakening
jealousy among them, which rip
ened into mutual aversion, and they
strayed off at considerable distance
from each other The lion then fell
upon them singly and killed them all.
1t appears to the Enterprise that this
fable is apt at this time when the
interests and their political allies are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
], M. BYRENS
AucTIoNEER
n. NJ. KENDALL, Auetionee~.

M. N. KENDALL, Auetioneer,
For Sale-A good general me1caan-
iaise stock. Invoice $4,000.
sFor saie-Hardware, ali good. ciean
.sads invoice about $1,000; also good
ersck building in the heart of town,
population 600. :.
! have several good properties to sell
- bargain. Make your sale dates with
=. once ',,hone 81; residence 4S7 red.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

The Tama Herald says: at Is good
to see so many of our governors in
their messages to. the legislatures
making the need of better laws for
safeguarding the life of the worker 50
prominent, The enormous number of
accidentally killed and wounded in ,tr
mines. factories and on our railroads
is scandal and indicates that human
life is held to to cheap. Statistics show
that peaceful employment in some in
dustries is more dangerous than fac
ing an enemy's bullets
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

Congressman Smith has been com
mended for opposing a large appro-
pria ton for the purpose of flooding
the country with the speeches of con-
gressmen who scored the president
in the secret service case" notes the
Glidden Graphic. Smiths constituents
having been already amply supplied
with his own eXparte version of the
case an the regular course of human
events, there was no further need Of
agitation In fact. from some points OF
view, the less this matter is agitatad,
the better"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01
Topics of the Times.

California is urging the necessity OF
a big fleet upon the government; and
making most of the necessity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

Hughes is warning the opposed Gin
trests' in New York that unless they
behave he will run for third term.
That ought to hold them for awhile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

Entered at the posrolflce az MARSHALL
town as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-01

There is as much sense in draining
wet Iowa farms as in reclaiming arid
tracts in Arizona. and a great deal bet
.er returns to those who own the lands
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
WILL ASK MORE
STRICT CAR LAWS
Railway Commission to APP
pear Before Interstate
Body.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is to be asked to make several
amendments to the set of regulations
governing the operation of street cars
in the District. The request will be
made at the instance OF the District
Electric Railway Commission. which
IS now having the proposed amend
ments drawn up.
At meeting Of the latter commits
sion yesterday, as the result of a re-
port made by Secretary Eddy on the
observations Of one of the inspectors
recently employed by the body, it was
agreed that the operating regulations
should be made more stringent. es-
becially with respect TO having i'm
provements made in the wheel guards
and tenders. and requiring brakes to
be Kept I'm better repair.
In addition TO these Recommended
tions, Secretary Eddy also submitted
several others whose object are to
further safeguard the travelling pub
lie. Without an exception they were
favored and will be forwarded at once
TO the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion for final action by that body.
The regulations issued by the Com
merce Commission on March 9, rela-
tive TO the installation of schedule
for all cars on the Fourteenth street
line north of Fifteenth street and New
York avenue, the Eleventh street line,
and the North Capitol street line, Will
go into effect today The company
will be required TO put on additional
cars in order to maintain the sched-
ule during the rush hours in the
morning and afternoon, as required
by the regulations.