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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

roof and didn't need 1T fixed when the
weather was dry That's Iowa-as re-
CARDS the roads and roadmaking. It's
rainy just now. We can't fix them
When it is dry they don't need 1t.
Note in another column the report
of the Times Republicans Traer cor
respondent; he says business is prac-
tically at a standstill in that typical
Iowa town. The elevators are receiving
no grain, the hogs are forced to re-
main away from a rising market
country produce is not coming into
town at all and merchandise is not go
ing out Our Arkansans all over the
state are having their inning. It's too
wet "to fix it when 1T rains and when
it's dry it doesn't need it,"
And this state of affairs exists on
roads that border land worth SIPS to
SITS an acre. Alongside farms where
rubber tired carriages stand an the
coach houses and many an automobile
waits the dry time" Where hundreds
of fat hogs are waiting for the 7-cent
market and wondering how they are
ito get to the railroad for their first
and last train excursion.
Strike up the fiddles: "say old man
where does that road rum" "Allus
staid hyar sence I've been hyar."
"Why don't you fix your roof?' when
it rains it's too wet and when it don't
rain it don't need it" All Iowa join
hands and circle to the left!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
sHOuLD BE UNANIMOUS.

The senator from Marshall has pro-
posed a bill which should pass both
houses of the legislature with unani-
nous consent. 1t contains a suggestion
which has no other side to- it. There
can be no honest objection raised to it.
The present law gives to city coun-
ellis the right to regulate rates of pub
lie service corporations and, since no
other governing body is given this
right, it becomes the duty of city
councils to regulate rates for street car
service, electric light, gas, water and
local telephone service but city coun-
ellis today are absolutely uniformed
as to what a reasonable rate should
be. They are compelled to guess at 1T
and wait for an expensive law suit be-
fore the public service corporation ian
be forced to divulge the necessary in
formation as to cost of producing its
service.
Senator Van Law proposes that the
law shall give CITY councils access 10
the books of a public service corpora
ton when engaged in its official dlty
of fixing rate. This is common sense
reduced to statute 1t is the only bus
mess way of regulating such serv-
ice. It should pass unanimously and
in time should be followed by law
requiring all public service CORPORA
lions to file annual statements in or
der that city councils may know what
all other corporations pay for produc-
ing public service and in order that
the public may know whether the local
corporation is in need of additional
regulating.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
"TEIE EVIL THAT MEN DO"
lSpirit Lake Reaconl

Down state there lived a man who
yearned for money and was not par
ticular as to how he got it. He be-
came gambler. He feeced the un
wary. He induced young men to
spend their nights at the demoralizing
gaming table with it's enervating ac-
cessories. He made money. but in
making 1t he made trail Of shame
and sorrow.
In his greed he so cashed in his
patrimony as to force around one
table his father and mother and his
own wife, where ranked uncongenial
natures until the wife breathed slaugh-
ter against the mother and the father
took the life of the wife and sits In
the shadow of the gallows or the peni-
Tertiary. But he made money, did this
man, until he built the best house in
town, and was one of the richest men
in the community.
Meanwhile he had defed the laws
of nature. Riotous living-late hours,
bad eating and worse drinking
brought him low. He sought to evade
the deb: of nature in more genial
cline. In this retirement his domestic
plans ripened until his home Matched
out murder that has appalled, the
multitude. In retirement and contem-
plation the lien Of nature was fore
closed with all right of redemption in
the hands of a higher power. With his
life work all complete this man begged
for divine mercy.
In the. town where this record was
made there is newspaper contention
involving the manner of editorial deal
ing with this case over a newly made
grave. What editors say connot dis
rturb the repose of the dead nor affect
the status of an immortal soul. The
living only are concerned. We use
the lives Of good men to point the
better paths Of manhood, the better
purposes of existence, the value OF
character, the rewards Of virtue, the
blessedness of personal righteousness
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
Topics of the Times,

With all respect to the feelings Of the
is to be commended for cutting off
the usual junket to state institutions.
A brass band trip to state school,
with a banquet and a speech, comes
no nearer to a real inspection Of the
management than would a day at corn
blowing at home.
| The veteran newspaper men at
Washington are impressed with that
man Cummins. They have observed
that he commands the respect even Of
his enemies.
If the legislature would take a profit
able junket, let them all try an over
land journey via the country roads. We
might then get some new road laws
of benefit to the state.
The banks and the saloons can enjoy
the proposed new Lincoln holiday. The
rest of us are all too busy.
If the Iowa weather man who has
been in charge of late may. be contin-
ued in office Iowa will be alternating
her apple and peach trees with orange
trees and planting pineapples along
with potatoes.
The grounding must be lying help
less in his hole and gnashing his teeth
over these bright sunshiny days that
seem made to make shadows in.
The old Webster's spelling book Of
past generations might have summed
it up in couplet like this:
The state was worked"
The assembly clerked
Captain Hull should hurry that nav
igation appropriation. Perhaps some
plan may be developed to turn Iowa
highways into canals filed with water
instead Of mud.
Why should Lincoln and Washington
select the shortest month to be born in
if they expected to have their birthdays
celebrated as legal holidays?
The Burlington newspapers seem
much exercised over the future of War
den Jones. He is now being suggested
from Burlington for a place on the
board Of control, place where he GER
tainly does not belong and is not at all
likely to get.
Now Mr. Hammerstein knows how a
bum actor feels and smells after a
shower of ancient hen fruit.
"My furs are like those!" exclaimed
little Louise, while walking thru the
store.
Why" exclaimed the mother, you
have no furs of any kind!'
eyes I have" protested the child,
land they are lined with kittens, too"
Lutheran Observer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

The Cause.
WHY was the coffee at breakfast so
bad?
Why was the fellow who sat at your
side
AS YOU rode into town such a pitiful
cad
That you ached to remove his despic-
able hide?
Why were the guards on the cars I'M
polite?
Yo,,r liver was not working right.
Why did the office boy worry you so?
Why did 1t make you so horribly
glum
To see the stenographer pace to and
fro
And hear her contentedly chewing
her gum?
Why did you wish they were both out
of sight?
Your liver was not working right.
Why did you fail in each venture you
tried?
Why did you quarrel and bicker in
Why We're appeals you presented de-
Why was so much you had labored
to gain
Forever lost to you 'twiXt morning and
night?
Yoru liver was not working right.
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

When men who have lived to promote
evil, to corrupt good intentions. to
breed shame and to pollute community
life move out into eternity concern for
the living only should inspire COM
ment. If moral leprosy is thing to
promote editorial apology and newspa-
per veneer should be literally applied.
At such time personal abuse is only
brutal, but the impression should not
be made upon young men that there is
anything but the reprehensible in
volved in such career. What God
may do with the soul of such a man we
may not know, but it is not for men to
strive to perpetuate the evil influences
that prey upon society.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
THE oDIoUs COMPARISON
IHardin County Citizen

Those who have put some thought on
the messages of Garst and Carroll
have doubtless noticed an important
difference. Garst delivers a message
of positive convictions and one is i'm
pressed in the reading with the fact
that he is man who knows that about
which he is talking. Carroll starts out
as tho he were going to say some
thing, give some positive idea, and then
he side steps and opens a side door ami
disappears. These milk and water men
are all right, sometimes, but they are
not tuned up to the Roosevelt regime.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
ONCE A KING NOW A SERVANT.

The Iowa farmer reads with wonder
the multifarious uses to which the
South Sea islanders puts the cocoanut
tree and Its fruit, probably without a
thought and possibly without complete
knowledge of. the various uses Of his
own principal crop: for corn is to the
American very much what the cocoa
palm is to the islander.
The Iowa farmer may put corn sugar
in his morning cup Of coffee and cover
his matitudinal corn cakes with corn
syrup after he has spread them well
with corn butter having, let us hope,
previously washed his hands and face
clean, which he may and generally does
do with soap for which corn furnished
the oil. He may use the same oil in a
different preparation to dress his salad
when he eats it,for the olive has small
advantage over corn as producer of
"olive oil" were 1t not for the pure food
laws He may not care for corn cakes
or other food in the morning if he
tarried long over the intoxicating pro-
ducts of corn the night before.
The good housewife may have cooked
the breakfast over a denatured corn
alcohol blaze She may insist on hav-
ing out the automobile and running
into town on power furnished by the
same cornfields. The boys may saw
wood or grind corn into feed with an
alcohol engine while the old folks are
in town. And the newspaper the rural
delivery carrier drops in the box may
be printed on cornstalk paper.
Corn was once king. He is handy
man of all work today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27


conte
kitchen most
exterior the house neat
suggests Estimate OF
overlooked by those
which
enjoy by merely stepping threshold
TT n
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
THE GOOD OLD MUCK RAKE.

IIdGI h5leif -N1liPpeK ]
The so-called muck raker" is one
of the most valuable of the assets OF
the country. The clear eyed veterinary
who discovers tuberculosis in the herd
and exposes it, and the skilled physic
ian who finds bubonic plague and ut
tiers his warning belong in the muck
raker class. We hold them in honor
He who discovers municipal corruption
wide spread abuses or illegal practices
widely distributed and proclaims his
findings to the public is a national
benefactor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
Eor Consultation,

Mr.. !. H. Farnham 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 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, 1909-01-27
that no one but doctor ever thought

that no one but doctor ever thought
of that bill.
And if the registrar (whoever that
may be- succeeds in making a correct
report of the same he is to get 20 cents.
Mulct the parent to pay some nabob
for writing six lines reporting him! Yet
an editor does it every week and is
glad of the item.
A hole can't be dug deep enough in
which to bury the fellow alive who
suggested that piece of folderol.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Eldora Ledger does not agree
with Attorney General Byers' plan to
give the governor power to discharge a
county attorney or other official who
did not do his duty in enforcing liquor
laws and concludes. I'VE have great
regard for Byers and believe that he is
one man in "a thousand but fail to see
any efficacy in his method"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

when suddenly one eluded his grasp
and disappeared thru cellar grating.
Down on his knees he peered into his
dark pit, only to realize his loss. Then.
looking thoughtfully first into his hand.
next at the cellar steps. he remarked:
"Well, there goes the Lords nickel"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
THE MODERN ARKANsAW TRAVELLER.

Iowa is much in the same frame Of
mind and, state of content attributed
to the Arkansan. told in dialog and
scraped on ffddles: the old cracker who
found rainy weather too wet to fix the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
"pied of Pneumonia"

is never written of those who cure
coughs and colds with DR.. Kings New
Discovery Guaranteed. soc and $1.00-
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
Knew Which Was Which.

Johnny's mother gave him two five
cent pieces, one for candy, the other
for Sunday school collection.
Light hearted, he was tossing the
coins in the air on his way to church,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

The Sioux City Journal surmises at
will be interesting to note how La Fol-
lette's Weekly and the Outlook will
be able to pull together in the interest
of the truth that makes men free"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
AucTloNEER
:. - kElVpALL, Auctionesr,

M, M. KENDALL, Auctionesr,
For Sale-A good general mersaan.
use stock. Invoice $4,000.
For SaIe-Hardware. all good, Gean
Foods. Invoice about s2,Soo; also good
brick building in the heart OF town.
have several good properties to sell
- hsrpain. Make your sale dates with
-. mice .,hc,ne 81: residence 467 red.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

Commenting on the Iowa City Re-
publlcan's statement that sit otter
happens that newspaper man finds
himself where silence is dangerous anc
speaking is fatal" the Spirit Lake Bea-
con confesses "this is not so much of 9
Joke as appears on the surface"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

The winterset Reporter says the ac-
ton Of the state senate in voting every
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

"If our presidents" says the Iowa
City Republican, "can not subsist COM
fortably on $1,000 week, when the
government furnishes them provisions
and quarters, then let them do as 9TH
ers do under like circumstances, either
economic or get into more profitable
employment So far we have had no
trouble to find plenty of good men will
ing to take the presidency on $4,000 a
year"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27

The Hardin County Citizen approves
the new Clark rule as "eminently cor
rect" The Citizen believes eft is all
right to have some one on a commit
tee who is personally interested in that
his viewpoint may be heard in full. but
to empanel a jury of printers to fix
rates on printing resembles somewhat
the empaneling of a jury of blood
hounds to try a deer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04

leaving an arched passage for departing
carriages which enter the original porte
cochere to the right
Of course, such carriage entrances and
exits belong to the essence of AN en-
bassy. The Italians, for example. have
Just bought land behind the Hotel de Ber-
wick through to another street This is
purely for a separate carriage exit
Now, glancing at the spacious courtyard
of the Ridgeway mansion. YOU perceive the
situation to be almost identical IL IS
even less commodious than the Italian.
There is only one small entrance in the
left hand corner. where carriages mix
dangerously on wet evenings. 1t has not
the great portico OF the Italians
Such, at least. were the objections that
held good in Washington against lAmbas-
sador Whites suggestion TO buy the
Ridgeway place. We shall not mention
the intrigues. The titled American lady
who boasts having blocked the purchase
may have been socially neglected in Rome
by Mr.. White. but the advice she rendered
to cabinet minister and several senator's
may, nevertheless. have been based on an
ardent desire to see our country get some
thing perfect in the way of All embassy
while her artistic instincts are undlSputeu.
Could the Ridgeway house be. remodel
ed? That is another question. There
must be a perrcn where four or five car
riages can be unoaded simultaneously,
safe and dry and there must be another,
equally ample. for departing guests. Fur
thermore, the interior suites should so
follow each other-and the entrance and
exit correspondent that the crowds who
wish to depart need not work back and
hamper, not only the arriving. but even
those who wish TO stay 1t is this surging
back that proves 50 encumbering in ill
adapted embassies.
But what interest has all this for aver
age Americans? Are we to be solicitous
of the skirts Of European diplomats wives
and daughters. who always have a good
enough time any way? Yes. when we in
vite them to ''our house in Paris. and
with this word we get lightning-f flash
glimpse of topic of new Importance. the
attitude of our embassy to the average
American in Paris.
The average American gets to Paris
nowadays, and he wants to be received. y
Now, the British embassy. like the Italian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04
LeuIer and LiSCum.

JUDGE LOVETT. the new president Of
J the Union Pacific said of rccklessness
at recent dinner in New York:
"Recklessness in finance doesn't pay
unless. indeed. it be the cautious kind
of recklessness that Legler, the baker.
was noted for.
"Leger bent over his counter. working
away with a pencil and a piece of wrap
ping paper. when Mrs Liscum entered
for loaf of bread.
Noticing on the paper lot of familiar
names. Mrs. Liscum said:
What are you figuring there, Mr..
Legler?'
well, mann says Legler. I'm just
putting down the names of all my friends
that l can lick
"Is Harvey Liscum's name there?'
asked Mrs. Lscum.
Yes. said the baker. Yes. l got It
down.
Mrs. Liscum went home and told Har-
vey. He was enraged. He snatched his
hat and FASTENED To the bakery.
"Legler.' he shouted. lis it true what
my wife tells me-that I'm on the list
of the men YOU can lck?'
YES said Legler, calmly. I've got
YOU down, Mr.. Liscum.'
why. you little shrimp. roared Lis
cum, J could wipe up the floor with you,
! could eat you alive
Are you sure you could? said the
baker.
4" You bet I'm sure- said Liscum shak~
ing his fist in Legler's face.
We'll. them said the baker sadly L
guess III cross you off the list -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04

All were magnificent = the present
hotels as such private palaces are
called of the Rothschilds, Foulds and
Furtados. with their lilac-scented parks.
extending to the Champs Elysees. and
one was abandoned. like the Elysee.
1t had been kopped out as residence
by Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese
who gave herself such airs that made her
brother say: She thinks I've pocketed
a part of her inheritance from our father
the late king So Wellington said to the
helpless French. Well buy it for the
British embassy fixed the price, S2O,OD.
and explained to the British conscience
that no lawful possessor was being bum
coed.
Pauline was squatter." ran his argu-
ment THE place had been conf1scated
in the revolution from its owners. Dukes
of Charost. whose ancestor, Louis dc
Bethune, built it in Louis HINs time
Today il is worth S3,WO,Om perhaps
double, for building sites. Only two such
properties have been cut up. and each
made a street 1t is even probable that
the state would now enioin the destruc-
ton of any of those vast gardens para-
lei with that of the Elysee. but the Brit
ish would not sell their embassy for I'M
told gold Its history. nature and situa-
ton give it overwhelming prestige.
The garden parties of the British en-
bassv are vastly more rich. scenic and
aWe-inspiring to Parisians than those OF
the neighboring palace Of the president.
Under elns and oaks two centuries old.
among the historic ilacs that Balzac said
proclaim spring to Paris. framed IN the
white and rose horse-chestnut blooms that
slorify the Elysian Fields. the guests of
him who represents King Edward lin his
Paris house play twentieth century
version of Versailles stateliness.
In contrast with this. everybody knows
that American ambassadors have been
at much disadvantage as to residence.
Alone among the greater nations, we
have owned no embassy properties. 1t is
common knowledge that man has to be
very rich to be American ambassador In
Paris-because the house rent necessary
to his state would otherwise eat up his
S1I..D salary.
Whitelaw Reid, as minister. paid $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04

purely embassy standpoint, than its con-
nection with the Dreyfus affair. Here it
was that the French Alsatian janitress
constantly betrayed her German mas
tiers. handing. over to the French war
department whatever torn scraps of paper
she found in the waste baskets. 1t was
lesson in eXtra-territoriality-w should
comprise employment the sacred
premises of only tried and true importe ed
felloW-citizens
II
Which brings US to the duchess eX-
ample for American millionaires. The
garden parties of the Austrian embassy
are more magnificent in mere display
than even the British, and that splendid
garden did not cost Austria a dollar.
The Duchesse de Galliera gave to Aus
tria her historic hotel in the Rue de
Varenne. Built in 1721 for the Matigon
family. it had been done over a century
later for Nine. Andelaide, sister of Louis
Philippe. Both the Comte de Paris and
Gen. Cavignac occupied it later. Then it
came into the hands of the widow of TIL
Italian fnancier. who had made 100000
COO francs mostly in building French
railways
Now, there was "a sad secret in the
Galliera family-or the son thought So.
He refused to touch dollar of his legal
fathers money-and today earns his liv-
ing as doctor of the Paris poor.
His unhappy mother gave 30,00O0OO
francs to French orphan asylums and
model sanitary houses for workingmen:
80, 100000 francs to Genoa for her port
and her charities, 100000 francs for the
white marble museum in Paris that holds
her art collections of the Rue de Varenne
and the palace itself to Austria-Hungary
for an embassy.
Thus far. we see Russia to be the first
great power to pay full purchase price
for a noble old Paris town house with
aristocratic garden. , In the heart OF the
Faubourg street-Germain. it was built
for the d'Estrees family-descendant of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-04

Every American embassy should be
housed under our flag in our own prop
erty" said r. Clarence Jones. its chair
man. Every citizen should have the
same pride and the same rights in 1T az
in the White House at Washington.
And. seeing that the principle has been
recognized by the purchase Of an en-
bassy at Constantinople. tourists and
business men of the future will be spared
the humiliation, in Paris for example.
when they ask Where is the American
ambassador to have the natives an
swer: Don't know. but he used to rent
an office in the Rue de Galilee.
At the Rue de Gallee you learn that
the office is in the Avenue kleber. but the
ambassador. before sailing for America.
lived in the Rue Francois |. The Engnsh
have no such embarrassments. 1helr
fathers and Erandfathers knew. before
item. that there is a little corner OF ola