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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
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Professor Edward A. Steiner has
written another and even better book
on the immigration problem than his
previous work The Trail of the Im,ni-
grant" This new book, from the
heVel press, goes peculiarly deep into
American sympathers and reveals the
misunderstood character and possibili-
ties of the races who come to us as SER
wants OF servants, diggers in the earth,
'ollers in the steel mills and doors of
the Jobs set aside to ignorant and un-
skilled strength. The argument that
underruns the fascinating revelation of
the Slav's soul is the world old and
effective appeal to do something for
the other fellow" and the summing UP
OF what America is doing not only for
the immigrant but for the races and
nations whence the ''hunky" comes and
10 which he returns to leaven the
lump of ignorance, poverty and i'm
morality OF spiritual and physical life
is convincing and prophetic of great
things
Whoever reads Professor Steiner's
last book, honestly and with a broad
mind will take a different view of i'm
migration and of immigrants He will
be convinced that God is moving in a
mysterious way with the hordes that
NIL the steerages Of ocean going ships
and that America has a human re-
sponsibility that she can not evade or
deny in justice to herself and her place
in the world. The immigrant is the
freeman's burden. He Is also the
freeman's opportunity. The book will
greatly assist and advance concep-
ton which is growing in America and
Is worthy of America.
Withal it is a most readable book
written from the inside by one thor
oughly in touch with his subject and
with the recollection of a peasant boy
hood and the knowledge of what Amer
lean opportunity offers to the Young
immigrant especially. 1t will and
should give a glimpse of the human
bond that exists between the "hunky"
in the shanty on Whisky Hill and the
owner of the palace on snob Heights.
and II viii do more, it will be read by
true man and women with a sense Of
self accusation and resolve that will
bring about better and more human
understanding of the immigrant and
his problem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18

another are tempted to lean an elbow
en- the table and play Vanderbilt"
But the arrogance that has nothing
back of it but bank account; that
takes no account Of the rights and
feelings of others; that aspires to pet
" tyranny and finds happiness and
satisfaction in bullying those whose
common sense rises above resentment
or whose condition and circumstances
prevent self assertion; the gross SEN
sualism and selfishness that look upon
wealth as the mere means to glutton-
Gus self qualification are essentially
contemplate. 1t gets nothing that 1t
does not buy and love and respect are
not marketable. All in all it doesn't
pay to play Vanderbilt" Nobody is
foaled by the sham except the actors
and they are laughed at and pitied or
despised by the wise, and respected by
none.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
RUSSIA HOLDS SECOND PLACE
Second Only to United States In the
Matter Of Greatest Railroad
Mileage.

II 1t Is question merely of bigness
the Russian railroad system is far and
away the first In Europe. There are
already many more miles of railway
IN the vast. empire than in any other
country IN the world excepting the
United States, and Russian railways
are stlll only in their infancy.
IL is OF course quite true that there
are now in the United States moro
miles OF road than in all Europe and
almost as many as in all the rest Of
me world put together, and that our
territory is so large and as yet so
ar from complete development that
we shall probably keep the lead as
ar as railroad enterprise is concerned
or long time to come.
But IN taking these large views.
says Moody's Magazine, we have for.
gotten that Russia is two and a half
times as large as all the United
states put together with a population
more than half as large again as our
own; that in territorial extent II ia
more than twice as large as all
EUROPE; that 1t stretches across the
world for ITO degrees of longitude
nearly half way around the globe
and that it includes one sixeth Of the
land surface of the planet.
1t is not surprising that in such a
country railroads should have had q
large development, that already there
Is considerable mileage and that
the prospects in this direction seem to
have no limit. In the future Russia
and the United States are likely to di.
vide the railroad empire of the
world between them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
MARY MoRRIsoN's WAY.

mARf MURRlSUN'S WAY,
Andrew Carnegie is a Scot and the
Scots have the horse sense developed to
Q high degree. When Andy spends his
money he wants to get something for
It. His millions, more than he really
knows what to do with. have never
jolted his canny Scotch judgment awry
He may not be looking for big bar
gain but he isn't buying any gold
bricks. When he endows a school or
builds a library he sticks practical
clause into the papers and makes Sc
cure that the money is going to work
part of the time at least along In
tensely practical lines. 1t is this char
acteristic OF Mr.. Carnegie that in way
reconciles US 70 the thought of one man
control of so much money.
When he built the Margaret Morrison
Carnegie school for girls in memory of
his mother he did Just what that sens
ible aud Scots housewife would have
approved highest; every girl who is
graduated there will understand house
keeping thoroughly or she will not be
graduated from the Margaret Morrison
In her course of study she will take her
turn in actual housekeeping and the
work of the house. She will be cook,
housemaid, kitchenmaid, waitress, par
lormaid and mistress in turn. She will
turn comes. She, as mistress and host
ess will be obliged 10 plan the menu:
as these entertainments are swell af-
fairs for fifty people. many Of them
distinguished guests. the practice is
valuable and of future promise. When
the young lady gets thru the college
Andy Carnegie built in memory of
Mary Morrison she will be able to keep
house where her husband need not
fear asking his guests, and incidental
iy she will know enough to cook a de-
cent meal when emergency requires.
Music hath charms but the piano
pals when the stomach Graves and a
copy of some celebrated painting on the
wall loses beauty when the bed has not
been made for a week. Everyday one
day after another the graduate from
the cooking school will beat the star
pupil of the conservatory a city block
an the sprint for a happy home A vocal
solo is sweet thing to be sure but O.
you broiled beefsteak,
Guild, grey canny aud Andra Car
negie, VI Your mither's practical hard
sense and your inherent Scotch IDEAL
ism and poetry hidden beneath a dour
exterior, may ye live long and renem-
Der her wha vas Mary Morrison.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
Revised Upward.

One evening at family prayers the
head Of the house read that chapter
which concludes with. "And the wife
see that she reverence her husband. ("
After the exercises had closed and the
children had gone to bed, the New
York Evening Post says. he quoted it.
looking meaningly at his wife.
"Let us see what the Revised Yer.
sion says on that subject" said she.
81 will follow the new teaching. if you
please
The Revised Version was produced.
and her chagrin may be imagined as
the head impressively read. "And let
the wife see that she fear her hus.
band."-Youth's Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
FIRST SLEEPING CAR BUILT
The "Pioneer" Cost $4,000, In 1864,
and Was Regarded as Reckless
Extravaganza.

Inc first sleeping car was built IN
1854. 1t was called the Pioneer" and
the builder further designated It by
the letter Ca" not dreaming that he
would soon exhaust the letters of the
alphabet. Outing says. The Pioneer
was built In Chicago & Alton shou
and cost the almost fabulous sum ri
$4,000. That was reckless extraya.
gance in year when the best of rail.
road coaches could be built at a cost
not exceeding $4,000.
But the Pioneer" was blazing a
new path in luxury. Without It was
radiant In paint and varnish, in gay
stripes and lettering; it was a giant
compared with its fellows, for It was
a foot wider and two feet and half
higher than any car ever built before.
1t had the hinged berths that are the
distinctive feature OF the American
sleeping car Of to-day, and the porter
and the passengers no longer had to
drag the bedding from closets at tho
far end Of the car.
me Pioneer" was not only wider
and higher than other passenger cars.
but 1t was also wider and higher than
the clearances Of station platforms
and overhead bridges. But when the
news came OF the death Of President
Lincoln the fame of Pullman's "Pio.
neer' was already widespread and IL
was suggested that the new car should
be the funeral coach of the president
This involved cutting wider clearancea
an the way from Washington by way
OF Philadelphia, New York and Albany
to Springfield. ILL.,, and gangs of men
worked night and day to make the
needed changes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
THE LODGES.

4 MASONIC NoTicEa
Ky visitors always welcome.
VIVIAN over 1867 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1oS A. F. & A.
M.-Wfl work on the first degree next
Friday evening, Oct. 20, at 1880.
H. g. Hoeck. w. u.
II. S. Lawrence. sec'y.
slGNET CHAPTER No. ss. r. A. II
Stated convocation Monday. Oct. Is
1880 p. m. g. H. Boyle. e. P.
.diiiard. Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL n. Z q
M.-Stated assembly Monday. Oct 1S
1880 p. m.
A. D. Mesksr. 4. I n
T. Forbes. Rec
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY NO.
~ K. T., Order Of the Temple Tuesday
evening Oct 10. Visiting Sir KniEhta
always welcome.
F. M. Wilbur. q. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o :.
Special meeting, Nov. 3. 1880 p. m.
Afs. Geo. Downing. w. NJ
EDNA c. Fularton. eec9.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
"PLAyr G WAND RBILT."

The two children were playing hotel
The boy leaned on one elbow placed
On the table in an arrogant fashion
listening contemporary 10 the little
girl as she recited ham or lamb or
beef or mutton stew" in fancied in1ita
ton of hotel waitress. The father,
passing thru the room, took hand.
MY SON." said ne, at is not the custom
of the better class Of men who patron
lie good hotels TO lean on the table and
Put on deg when they give their or.
ders for meal 90" replied the lad
but I'm playing I'm Vanderbilt" And
the boy : idea was so nearly the gen.
eral conception of the American new
rich as 10 the haute ton of Goldfish
aristocracy that pa" grinned and wer-
away quietly without further intereer-
ence or criticism Of the realistic" Dor
trayal of good monetary manners
The fact is it wasn't the first time
"pa" had seen the play. Men are but
"a VA q io' SCI SioN III ana ne mad
observed much playing Vanderbilt
in the course of lifetime, both in and
out Of hotels. The boy wasn't far from
the facts. When the average man sets
out to play Vanderbilt he acts about
the same way; and when the average
woman casts herself in the role of
Mrs. V. the boys delineation is com.
paratively tame.
No doubt Mr.. Vanderbilt, with all
his faults upon his head, has good table
manners, and while he might knock
down and drag out few railroads in
the medieval modernity of the stock
market, is courteous instead of con-
temptuous in his dealings with watt
fesses and those who serve him; but
he Who sets out to play Vanderbilt"
never understands this. The play Van
derb1f finds it hard to conceive of
power which does not indicate itself
by tyrannizing over the weaker and
insisting on precedence for itself and
servility in others. When Murphy gets
q house and lot he acquires hauteur.
When Smith gets rich he spells it
Smyth. When the hired girl marries
money she Is hardest on hired girls
and a stickler for caste. Pretty nearly
AL Of US who succeed in one, way or
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
Rare Species Of Fish.

There is at present an interesting
exhibit in No. tank at the Brighton
aquarium, says the London Globe. It
is something like dogfsh, only much
larger. while in tho matter, of sheer
ugliness It stands unriyaled. Its tech.
nicar name is the topper shark. It il
SIX feet long. and weighs from 80 to 30
pounds, while Its mouth looks large
enough to take an elephant single
handed. The shark came into the
possession Of the aquarium in rather
8 curious manner. A man named
Lane of Brighton was fishing some
two miles. OF the Palace pier with q
long line, when he felt vicious tug
at his hook. He quickly hauled in
his slack" and then the topper came 70
light. Mr.. Lane at once hurried
ashore and, placed the topper In. his
new home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
RIVERS THAT MAKE DAMASCUS
Situated In Desert, Town Would BE
UnInhabttable Were Il Not for
These Two Streams.

The situation OF Damascus is re-
markable-she stands isolated on an
oasis Of the vast desert which every.
where hens her in. You may see
from Damascus the sunset frs touch
with purple the low western hills 25
miles away. These hills mark the
beginning OF the great desert-beyond
them there is nothing but a rolling
waste and the long roads to Palmyra
and Bagdad. The permanence and
prosperity OF Damascus are due to the
presence Of two rivers, which have
converted this spot Of the dreary,
desolate and uninhabited desert into
smiling and well watered plain. The
Pharpar approaches only within seven
miles OF Damascus, but by means of
canals and aqueducts sends It's life
giving waters to the gardens Of the
city. The ALBANIA is the stream from
which the city's main supply Of water
is obtained. Minerva like. it springs
full born from the base of a perpen-
dicular rock at Ain Filth. in the heart
OF the Anti-Lebanons, and runs
course of ten miles in a gorge. a large
river 20 to 30 feet wide and four
feet deep, its waters always fresh and
Ice cold. casting out branches every.
where, permeating every nook and
corner OF the city. until. as one has
said: literally, there is scarce
street bazaar. khan, courtyard or
dwelling house which has not its mar.
Bile or stone fountain constantly filled
with running water supplied directly
by the ALBANIA itself" Thus. the Aba.
ma. not fruitlessly wasting her waters
on that thirsty land. saves them in
her narrow gorge till she can fling
them well out on the desert. and ex.
ponds all her life at once in the crea.
ton of a single city-Biblical World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
INTOXICATING L1o1ToRs

A municipality. by its stringent re-
strictions upon the sale of near beer"
made the ordinance passed for that
purpose obnoxious to some of it's citi-
zens, one OF whom had been convict
ed OF its violation, in Campbell VS..
City of Thomasville, 81 Southeastern
Reporter, SIS. The Georgia court of ap-
peals. sustaining the ordinance, re-
marked that the very name near beer"
is as suggestive to the guardian of the
police power of necessity for close
oversight, regulation, and control as 1t
is to the drinking classes of possibili-
ties which they may hope to find in the
beverage. A liquor that is near beer"
looks like beer, smells like beer tastes
somewhat like beer, capable of cheer
ing, tho not of inebriating, we'll de-
serves the attention of those whose
duty it is to protect the health, peace
and good order of the comm unity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
A CLARK COUNTY CONVERT.
MurraH Trihune.l

After reading Senator Cummins'
speech In Fridays Capital on Speaker
Joe cannon and on the tariff as a
aW, we want to claim him as our
sriend; as man OF honor and a man
competent to judge whether the pres
emit tariff is right or otherwise. He is
the kind of politician this paper will
always support, a fearless one: man
who dares to say and do what, in his
honest judgment, is right regardless of
Speaker Cannon or any other man. We
believe, as does Senator Cummins,
that If we serve party and that par
" has platform. as has the republic
can party, that we want things as that
platform says or we want to know
why. We do not believe in having a
platform for bluff and then doing
just exactly the opposite as was done
in the late tariff law. when 5000 var
lous things were to be voted upon and
then have the speaker of the house
cut them down to five and specify
those five. We, as a people, send men
TO Washington to transact and look
after our business the same as you
or l would hire a party to work for
us.
We want to congratulate him on his
spunk and nerve in saying what he
has. We used to think when he used
to come and review US as the National
Guard of Iowa, OF which we were a
member and Of which organization we
are still. that he did not have nerve
enough to pull a trigger. But we have
now changed our mind, and want him
to go back to Washington and do with
all his vim and might what he is there
for; to show such old guys as Joe
Cannon that he is made of sterner stuff
than they give us Iowans credit for.
Stick for honesty and the people If, in
his judgment, bills are not on the
square holler his head off until the
world knows it, We are getting tired of
this one sided rule. Show them how to
do business and your constituents will
not see you lose. Again, we glory in
his spunk for honest legislation, and
only wish there were more men like
him in congress today. If we could
spare the space necessary for the re-
printing Of his speech we certainly
would do so. 1t is worth the perusal Of
any man, no matter with what party
he may be affiliated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
Topics of the Times

If You can't get into print any other
way you might try making an affidavit
against DR.. Cook.
William E. Curtis writes from Salt
Lake City that Mormon polygamy is
an obsolete question That's what we
have always heard from the Mormons.
What are assassins plots to man
who rides in an automobile every day?
This tapping OF the baseball and the
football seasons is confusing. One
hardly knows whether It's home run
or TOUCHDOWN. d
When 1t is announced from Africa
that Roosevelt bags three elephants"
we understand of course, that bags"
is used hgurativels-; yet maybe it isn't.
The auto driver who today lets her
out" to forty miles an hour or so and
gets back to the garage intact, should
1t UP day after day with impunity.
Sooner or later. if ne needs not the
warning proclaimed in the hard expert
ence Of others. he will get his"
The city council of Council Bluffs
has been remaining the streets of the
city 1t is a noticeable thing that the
name Taft is missing from the revised
list, altho Roosevelt is there.
Gypsy Smith, the evangelist, pro-
poses to lead parade thru Chicago's
red-light district, and the police OBJ
ject. because, as they say, such a plan
would interfere with the work of re-
form which they are carrying on there,
which makes one wonder what sort of
a bunch it is Gypsy means to head.
A Los Angeles lawyer having turned
bank robber, perhaps it would be in
order for the American Bar Associa-
ton to inquire into the code of ethics
obtaining in the city of the angels.
Inasmuch as they are troubled with
the new disease pellagra in the state
institutions Of Illinois, and we hear
nothing of it in the Iowa institutions,
and inasmuch as we have a board OF
control in this state, and they have
none IN Illinois, why isn't it fair con-
clusion that the whole bother over
there Is due to the fact that the In
mates of the establishments eat too
much?
When Taft gets back to Washington
some one may deny that he ever cross
ed into Mexico. In which case he no
doubt will be prepared to bring forth
his Eskimos, that is, provided they
haven't meanwhile been supplied with
gumdrops by the opposition
DIR. Cook is organizing an expedition
to ascend Mount Mckinley to get the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18

long ago favorites among the republi-
cans OF this nation but their too init
mate associations with the few and
tnelr neglect OF the many retired one
OF them and 1t In a fair way to retire
the other. Theodore Roosevelt came
upon the political stage few years
ago and monopolized the attention Of
me American people. for the reason
THAT he remembered what Shaw for
got and Uncle Joe is fast forgetting
that the object of this government is.
equality, no favoritism, and acting upon
mat theory won the confidence of the
whole nation. Rooseveltism will win
and the Shaws, the Cannons, the Aid
riches and those like them may for
.lme give the people some trouble but
In due time the people will win and
under the leadership of Senator Cum
MINIS and Dolliver. will lead the other
states in the procession to victory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
TURNTABLE DocrRNE.

That doctrine usually alluded to as
the "turntab BILE cases" has of late been
SO often swerved from, that the de-
cision in Snare & Triest Company, VS..
Friedman, 169 Federal Reporter, 1. as
sumes interest because of its adher-
ence to it. Defendant, an independent
contractor. had left material consist
ing partly of heavy iron girders, near
street. One of these beams became
SO nicely balanced on the other ma
terial that it could easily be displa red
and caused to fall. Plaintiff, a little
girl Az years old, with several COM
panions, had been skating on the pave
ment, when she sat at the base Of the
sirders to rest. One of her compan-
IONS, climbing upon the pile, SO struck
one end of the balancing girder that
it fell, crushing plaintiffs foot. The
circuit court of appeals held that the
child could not. by reason of her age,
Ne charged with contributory negli-
gence or with being trespasser, and
iaat defendant was liable,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18

wreck Of his engine, scalded ana
frishtfully bruised, when the few paa
sengers who retained their senses dua
into the mass of twisted and burning
iron to meet him. When the passen
gers offered him whisky he begged
them to look after the comfort Of tho
other passengers. Told that no pas
sengers had been injured, he said,
That's good. But before I take this
whisky l want you men to smell my
breath and testify. II need be, that /
had not been drinking when this hap
pened. All man. has is his record"
And Engineer Bush went out on his
last run with his record spotless.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
Balloon on Railroad Track.

A surprise meeting took place be.
tween balloon and a train on the
P. L. NJ. line near Chalons-sur- Saone.
in France, which might have proved
disastrous to the aeronauts. The train,
which carried passengers. was an.
preaching the station of Romaneche,
and had luckily begun to slow down.
when the balloon Anjou, which had
started for Ruell with two Partisan
aeronauts on board, landed on the
track. The train was brought to a
stop at once, and this gave the bal
loonists time to let their airship
bound up again and land in. less
dangerous spot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
ynIoveIinsss Of Mind.

To woman CT man ca1 sc through
fife scofing at the feelings and wishes
Of others. holding themselves apart
from companionship Of their nearest
and best, and then expect to have
love and devotion handed back to
chem. Egotism and nnioyeliness of
mind breed herd Of little demons
that in time will turn and make ring
around one and -taunt back and sting
this one who has called them into life.
Frances Berkeley Cunningham.
"PIiest or Pretender."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-18
Iona Newspapers
CASH TALK PIAA1NEsT.

C1dfIIft ANCWS j
We heard a fellow who was offering
to bet on certain proposition the 9TH
err day say that money talks" Sure 1t
does. And it unusually gets an encore.
Why? We had rather hear cash sim
ply whisper than to have promissory
note shout to US thru a megaphone.