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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
you HAD YOUR CHANCE.

A colored boy was shining shoes in
a barber shop yesterday. The BARRIERS
and patrons We're talking baseball. One
of the BARRIERS said, Il wish I We're a
baseball pitcher on a $4,000 salary
well" said the colored boy, looking
up, "Yo' had just as good chance as
any of EN-
It's good philosophy and just re-
Duke. The fellow with the $4,000 SAL
airy In baseball or any other gainful
occupation might be earning $40 a
week. The reasons why he Is earning
more are eviden. enough. He is good.
5t1re Of tti4e-1rsstt ia his business. And
every other man had the same chance.
Nobody dragged any of them into the
positions they hold by main force.
Lucko Well there isn't much luck in
being able TO cut the corner of the
plate whenever you need il, change
pace, break the curve az the right spot.
1t speaks of study and hard practice.
No man knows any business by luck.
He learned it. He gets the good money
because he earns it. There are mighty
few people outside of soldiers on pen
sions nowadays and charity doesn't
usually extend to salaries.
"Yo' had the same chance" Generally
speaking it's true. You did. o, certain
iy, hard luck came along just at the
wrong time. Il always does in hard
luck stories. One fellow had the hard
luck TO get a job when opportunity
was great, the work hard and the pay
small TO begin with. II was hard luck
when he OVERSIGHT and acquired a hab-
it of coming late in the morning. Then
he had the hard luck 70 lose the place.
The fellow that got it is cashing one
of those $3.50 checks every month. The
fellow who lost il has been pursued by
hard luck. Its hard luck to be a porter
or do odd jobs when you're 40.
The colored boy said something. "Yo'
all had just as good a chance as any
of EN-" Trace back the real men who
do things and the average boy had a
better chance than any of 'em. The
big places do not go by favor but come
by conquest. Keep it in mind boy, you
have just as good a chance as any of
'em. No man is born TO the big salaries
and no man is born to black shoes or
to sweep the stables. He takes his own
place. He is the one most to blame or
praise for remember he had just as
good a chance as any of 'em.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
Topics of the Times

Senator Dolliver it appears has been
following Mckinley all along. He had
stopped for a snack and the process
sion got pretty long lead on him but
he has caught up. Somewhat winded
and painting Of course, but he has
caught up.
The Vinton Eagles idea seems to be
that a republican newspaper or leader
should not speak to democrat ex-
cept behind closed door at the Saw
cry.
Mr. Bryan is going abroad again. Il
will not be the first time he has beer
abroad either in travel or politics.
Who does the Carroll chores wher
the family goes forth to deliver col
lege addresses? Is it possible thai
Brindle is permitted to go over milk
ing?
The Charles City Press is impressed
with Senator Delivers command OF
language and resourcefulness. IRE.
sourcefulness" is an excellent word.
The Rev. DIR. Vaughn, of Chicago
says that the husband should rule
the family, but the wife have absolute
control of the cash. Rev. DR.. Vaughn
dosen't seem to understand that con.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
The Wagon and the Road.

How many centuries, or hundreds OF
centuries, it took to evolve the sledse,
the roller, and finally the wagon it is
impossible to say, but it is certain that
the most ancient people of which we
have any knowledge We're in possess
sion of the wagon, writes j. S. Hecht
in the Dakota Farmer. The ordinary
wagon in use today is the same old
wagon used by the Greeks and the
Romans and the peoples who preceded
them. Details OF construction have
been improved, better materials used,
but the underlying principles remain
the same. Where Is the same rolling
friction of the wheel on the ground,
the same Objectionable sliding friction
at the axle. The great improvements
have been in the direction of reducing
the rolling friction on the ground by
providing a smooth surface for the
smoother surfaces and better lubrl-
cants for the bearings at the axles,
and finally and especially in the mo-
tive power employed. The Romans led
in the work of reducing rolling friction
by the construction OF the best roads
which the word ever saw. Many Of
these roads We're made of material
having a thickness of over three feet.
AT the bottom there We're usually
several course of fiat rock, then a
layer OF coarse concrete, followed by
layer of finer concrete, and on top
layer of smooth paving stones care
fully fitted or dovetailed together.
In modern days while we have
shamefully neglected ordinary wagon
roads, we have, however, made great
advances in the construction of rail-
roads. There is much less rolling
friction of the wheels on smooth iron
or steel rails than on dirt or paved
roads, and this gain thru reduction
of friction is the same whether the
motive power be horses. steam, cleo
tricity or some other power.
AS regards the Objectionable sliding
friction of the wheels around the axle,
the ordinary wagon is Still a back
number. a radical change of pin
ciple is needed which will make use
of rolling instead of sliding friction
at the axle. Then and not till then
will mankind obtain fully the benefit
of the great principle presented by
the roller, and in use of which
there is no sliding friction whatever.
This principle has been applied with
marked success on the bearings of
line shafting, on the axles of automo-
biles, and some agricultural impe-
ments, like harvesters and manure
spreaders; but until very recently it
has not been applied where it was
most needed, on the axles OF the wa
gon used by the farmer in the country
and the teamster in the city Recently
Its application has been made to wag-
ons. These wagons. however are not
the wagons ordinarily used today;
they are the birth of today. and not
like the ordinary wagon-as old as
history.
The application of rolling friction
to the axle is very simple and ridicu-
lousy cheap compared with the saving
effected. 1t only requires the placing
of rollers, or balls, between the sur
faces of the axle bearing and the hub
bearing. AS the wagon moves for
ward, there is no sliding friction of the
axle bearing against the hub bearing,
but instead the rolling friction of the
rollers against these bearings.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
JIM GOODS WORK.
-edar Rapids Gazette. ]


If the people of Cedar Rapids had to
wait-for cheaper gas. less rotten ser
vice, and more decent treatment at the
hands of corporations--if they had to
wait until the Cedar Rapids Republic
can did one solitary thing toward Sc
curing such concessions. they would
wait until hell froze over
One word or so further. One man
who above all others-and that is say
ing a great deal, for the others did
noble work-the one man above all
others who made the present victory.
possible, was James w. Good, city at
torney during the heavy lighting with
the gas company and who now repre-
sents the Fifth district in congress.
How many words of commentator did
Mr.. Good ever receive in the Republic
an? Instead of receiving help and
praise, his efforts We're ignored or
treated with contemptuous slurs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
A SOUND OF KNIFE wHErr1NG
NeNada Ranraroa4a4i.x>a

Nevada Representative )
Dave Brandt, of the Iowa City Re-
publican, dominates Governor Carroll
for the successor of Senator Deliver
1nsomuch as the senator yet has four
years of his present term to serve and
the campaign for his successor will
not be on for two years, and in the
meantime the present governor of the
state will expect to be re-nominated
and reelected if he is to be in a DO
sition for senatorial canvass, the
suggestion seems to be early, and COM
ments upon it need not be very ser
1ous. Our present reading of the signs,
however, would be that when the time
comes there will be scramble for the
Dolliver succession. It is possible. of
course, that the senator may with his
present conduct satisfy a sufficient
number OF his constituents; but our ex-
pectation would be that he will not be
sufficiently aggressive for a revolu-
ZIONIST and that he has already gone
too far for a good republican, and
that when the time comes to pick his
successor the people who want no
litical revolutionist will support a po-
litical revolutionist, and that people
who want senator to work with and
sustain the republican organization
Will support a man of that sort. and
that neither side will feel enthusiasts
tic about giving Senator Dolliver a
new commission and then. guessing as
to where he will turn up.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

KENDALL'S STAND.
TNauy Ghoro, Stor1


Hon. N. 3. Kendall has introduced a
righteous measure in congress to put
a stop to the government issuing Ii
cense to sell intoxicants in prohibition
territory, and 1t also provides for doub-
ling the license fee. Good. We sincere
~ and most earnestly hope it will
pass. When the people vote for prohi-
bitlon they should have 1t, and the
government should have no legal right,
as 1t has no moral right, to antagonize
and subvert the will of the people.
The people are the government, and
IT is high time their representatives,
their servants, should faithfully do
their bidding. Strength to the arm Of
Mr.. Kendall and may his most right
eous measure become a part of the
supreme law of the land.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

troll of the revenues is the first essen
tial of successful war.
inc that the only use for a lamp post
is to steady the footsteps of homeward
bound Sioux Cityans?
Wisconsin has passed a law against
profanity. When they found out how
Grandpa Stephenson had acted the
whole state probably broke out swear
ing.
Missouri seems to have concluded
that she can get along without filling
the kerosene lamps but she doesn't pro-
pose to let the kegs run dry.
"Whos that a-hollerin' down yam
der in the branch?"
That's the prodigal son. The old
mans a-whalin' thunder out O. him fer
runnin' away."-Atlantic Constitution.
Politics seems to have it's own
method of evolution. The Marshall
town Times-Republican is quoting
from the New York World to sustain
Senator's Dolliver and Cummins Well
expect to catch the Marion Register
quoting from the Sioux City Tribune
and Cedar Rapids Gazette to sustain
protection-Vinton Eagle.
The T.-R. has also quoted the Vim
ton Eagle on various matters polit-
ical and otherwise. For this it makes
no apology. Neither for the other quo
tation. 1t might as we'll be confessed
that the T.-R. quotes whom it listeth
without consultation and on any sub
ject it considers of interest to the pub
lie. The Eagle is welcome to make the
most of any quotation it may find in
the T.-R. If it keeps its eyes open it
will find many things to attract the at
man as the editor of the Eagle.
They're a callin-don't We hear 'em
They're calm loud an clear;
They're calm low and softlike,
Still a callin'-can't We hear?
An they're sayln' in the swayin'
OF the trees. ooh. come out here
Where the sun is softly kissin
OF the brook. ar nohow ,nissin'
Daffodils and modest violets-
Oh, won't you come an look?"-Do
We hear?
Circle Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
THE LODGES.
A MASONIC NOTICES.
KXVisitors always welcome.

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I. T. Forbes Rec.
ST. ALDENnAR COMMANDERY
No. 80, K. Tall members Of this
commandery and visiting Sir knights
are earnestly requested to meet at the
asylum at 2:30 sharp, Sunday after
noon, May 23rd to observe Assertion
day. F. NJ. Wilbur, b. c.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. O. -,
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, June
16, at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. ~. N.
Edna c. Fularton. Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
sLEIGH1NG GONE FOREVER.
Mt. Pleasant Free Press

ST.
A farmer who had read the item
about there being no sale for sleighs,
said that sleighing in this country is
gone forever This is his explanation:
Years ago the roads were lower than
the fields alongside. Generally there
were hedge, board and rail fences
along the road. The snow would
come; perhaps six inches would fall.
The wind would blow the snow into
the road and there would be four feet
OF snow and sleighing would last all
winter. Now, with the roads graded
higher than the fields and wire fences
everywhere four feet of snow wouldn',
make six inches Of sleighing in the
road, as the snow is all blown into the
fields and none stays on the ridged
roads. Just as much snow falls as
ever, he holds, and there is no change
in our climate but different road and
fence construction is responsible for
the loss forever of sleighing in this
section.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

me above PHOTOGRAPH shows design
cement combined
odty
Size 81 by
gray color and the second
color eject can be had by making
course course the blocks and bricks the window
block striking agreeable which the
tographer
ranged
plumbing THOMPSON ARCHfTEorT1H AZ. COMPANY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
REV I. w. wILLlAMsoN,s LETTER

Rev. /. W. Williamson, Huntington:
w. Va. writes: This is to certify that
used Foley's Kidney Remedy for ner-
vous exhaustion and kidney trouble
and am free to say that it will do all
that you claim for It," Foley's Kidney
Remedy has restored health and
strength to thousands Of weak, run
down people. Contains no harmful
drugs and is pleasant to take. Mcbride
Ia VIII Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
A CARD.

This is to certify that all druggists
are authorized to refund your money
if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough or cold. It stops the cough,
heals the lungs and prevents pneu-,
monia and consumption. Contains no
opiates. The genuine is in yellow
package. Mcbride & Will Drug Com-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

eff alcoholic beverages are essential
to health and strength in man. why not
equally so for women" asks the Bur-
lington Hawkeye Many steady
drinker will shrink from facing that
proposition"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

"Since Senator Cummins has dared
to have an opinion which he has dared
to utter, other senator's have been dis
covered who do not work well in ma
chine harness." notes the Grinnell Reg
lister.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

The Iowa Falls Sentinel concludes
When a man has had a good dinner,
and lights good cigar, and sits down
to read good story, he can be most
mighty philosophical about the trou-
bles of others"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
Then She Got Fired.

who's the pretty girl?"
"She's the baby's new nurse.s
II suppose she understands her busk
ness?"
Yves, she's graduate, and she'M
take good care of baby; she says no
one shall kiss the baby while she IL
around"
Il guess she's right; Wouldn't want
to kiss the baby while she was
around
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

Sick headache, constipation and BILL
tousness are relieved by Rings Little
Liver Pills. They cleanse the system.
Do not grippe. Price 25c. B. A. Nor
gan's drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

The Sioux City Journal suggests an
"outgo" tax on automobiles as a rev.
enue measure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

If you should desire a clear COM
plexion take Foley's Orino Laxative FOR
constipation and liver trouble as 1t
viii stimulate ttiiiese organs and thor
oughly cleanse your system, which is
what everybody needs in the spring in
order to feel well. Mcbride & Will
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

'Take us UP one side and down the
other we are a queer people" says the
Rockwell Phonograph. For instance,
We pay grand jury to move heaven
and earth to find evidence sufficient to
return indictments against a man or
body of men and then hire an attor-
ney to make motion to dismiss the
case when it is called for trial"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
The Penalties of Fame.

[Harper'S Weekly.l
I dreamed that fame was mine,
And all along the line
Friends, relatives and foes-all three
Began to hammer me.
And when woke twas with relief Inn
menSe
To find my fame marked down to thir-
ty cents.
I had the dream once more.
Twas worse than twas before.
/ found myself perched up on high
Just underneath the sky.
Stone cold it was, and lonely. o be
sure
Twas sweet to wake and find myself
obscure;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

How sorry was that pass.
"A wreath of bay all flaming red
Pressed on my scorching head.
Did scar me so that when I woke anon
Twas bliss to find I'd but nightcap
on.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
And hence II is I say

Fame need NOT come my way.
much prefer things as they are
In byways nebular.
Where public optics do not rudely
stare,
And burning laurels do not SINCE my
hair!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

The Creston Advertiser says that
Congressman Kendalfs bill providing
that no federal permit to sell liquor
shall be issued in prohibition territory,
if enacted, will be the most important
step that has been taken in the direc-
ton of temperance in years. "It would
wipe out the most pestiferous and the
most degraded class of petty criminals
in the country, the bootleggers," adds
the Advertiser, land it would be well
coined by many of the men who are
engaged in the sale of liquor, but who
do not believe in the violation of law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
Senator Dolliver need not fear any
man in Iowa in a primary campaign"
says the Iowa City Citizen.

"The statesman who breaks into the
senate from Iowa." says the Knoxville
Journal, can be depended upon to give
a good account of himself in any kind
of political tussle. Iowa has been hon
ored many times by her public men,
but never in her history more than
now. Indeed. no other state in the un-
ion can boast of two such brilliant and
able representatives at the national
capital
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-27
BABY'S WATERY ECZEMA.
ltehed and Scratched Until Blood Ran
$50 Spent on Useless Treatments
-Disease Seemed lncurable.
Cured by Cuticura for $3.50.

when my little boy was two and
half months old he broke out on both
cheeks with eczema. It was the itchy,
watery kind and we had to keep his
little hands wrapped up all the time,
and II he would happen to get them
uncovered he would claw his face till
the blood streamed down on his cloth
ing. We called in a physician at once,
but he gave an ointment which was so
severe that my babe would scream
when it was put on. We changed
doctors and medicine until we had
spent fifty dollars or more and baby
was getting worse. was so worn out
watching and caring for him night and
day that almost felt sure the disease
was incurable. But finally reading Of
the good results Of the Cuticura REM
edies, determined to try them. I
can truthfully say I was more than
surprised, for I bought only dollar
and half's worth of the Cuticura
Remedies (Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Pills.. and they did more good than
all my doctors medicines had tried,
and in fact entirely cured him. His
face is perfectly clear of the least
spot OF scar of anything. Mrs. w. M.
Comerer, Burnt Cabins, Pa, Sept. U.s.
1905"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp.. Sole Props. Boston.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-27

fail in having his crop of flower buds
ready to open each spring than that
the nurseryman should fail to have
a crop Of salable trees ready to sup.
ply his patrons.
The conception of the bud as a unit
of production is not wholly new,
though it will be new to many Amere-
lean fruit growers. In Europe the
fruit tree has long been cultivated
more or less from the standpoint Of
the bud. But the pottering methods
of training and trying fruit trees
practiced in European gardens are
impracticable in Our land of high.
priced labor and extensive culture.
And yet the bud standpoint is un.
questionably the correct one. What,
then, can we do? We must make an
economical compromise between their
slow and tedious methods and happy.
go-lucky no-system. Wemust find way
Of pruning trees so as to better control
the growth and to place the buds more
on an equal footing as regards light
and space.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-27
LEFT THEIR SEATS HASTILY
Fair School Teachers BIlssfuIIy Una.
ware Of Contents Of Box on
Which They Rested.

while in Paris this summer anoth'
er girl and I went out to Versailles
one afternoon" said a school teacher
who had just returned from abroad.
1T was dusk when we reached the
railway station, and as there was no
waiting room we sat down on two
crates that were out on the platform
among a lot of others. We noticed
that the station employees kept staring
at us with a persistence that was an
noying. Presently man in a shabby
uniform with a bucket on his arm ap'
preached us. He touched his cap
deferentially and said-in French. OF
course:
'Mesdames, pray do not let me dis
turb you, but / am forced to open the
boxes on which you are seated in or
der to feed the boa constructor and
other serpents that are within
when we recovered from our
fright we found we had been seated in
the midst of a huge collection OF
snakes that had just arrived from their
native jungles en- route for the zoo
near Versailles"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-27

the Rural Home. The buds of
fruit tree are in sense distinct life
history. Its mission is to grow for
time to produce other buds ny division
of itself for the perpetuation of the
tree, and finally to flower, to fruit,
and then perish.
From this point of view the fruit
tree represents a crop of buds of diff
ferent ages. Each season one of these
crops finishes it's course of Towering
and fruiting, and another crop is
brought into existence to take the
place in due time of the crop that has
fulfilled it's mission.
Now the fruit growers problem is
easily stated. 1t is to so treat his
trees as to have the largest number of
buds in condition to fruit to their best
capacity each season, and at the same
time bring on other healthy buds to
perpetuate the life of the tree, and to
fruit the next succeeding years. If
his tree is not fully grown, it is imper-
alive that the crop of young buds that
it brings forth shall be larger than
the crop of buds that he permits to
fruit. Barring only the question of
winter killing, if his methods Of cul-
ture are correct, there would seem to
be no more reason why he should