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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
fields and the senate of the United

fields and the senate of the United
States.
1t begins to look as tho the hard
work and assertion of the western
states which have been busy for the
past few years ousting Joe Cannon's
favorite type of Statesmen" and elect
ing men with a tendency to insurrec-
ton is to show results. Iowa may be
proud of her efforts in this direction
and the Fifth district may especially
congratulate itself on its representa-
tive who While not perhaps an orator
of national repute is openly active in
opposition to Cannonism and Johnny
on the spot with his vote in favor of
the policies favored by the voters who
sent him to Washington. We have
heard much mourning over the loss
of influence" sustained by the state
when it dumped few fossils over
board to make place for men who are
anxious and ready to represent what
Iowa believes but it looks as tho we
are about to hear more of Iowa and
the west and get more for Iowa and
the west thru the new and untried
men. who are unwilling to trade their
constituents for a place on commit
tee than we have ever had before. The
Iowa insurgent may not basS in the
smiles of Mr.. Cannon and the Stand
ard but they are certain to be met
with open hands and smiling counten-
ances when they come back to Iowa
and of them none deserves warmer
welcome than Jim Good, who is surely
making up TO his name.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
THE IRIS NEW SERIAL

The first chapters of Rex. Beach s
serial, The Barrier" will be published
in tomorrow's issue of the Times-Re-
publican. Those who have read "The
Spoilers" published some months ago
by this paper or who have read other
stories by Mr.. Beach, will be pleased
that the T.-R. has been able to Sc
cure another standard of Mr.. Beach s
work and will meet the approval of
its readers equally with The Spoil
ers," which was one of the best serials
this paper has ever been able TO Sc
cure.
Beach's stories have action, the in
tense action that serial story de-
mands. Each chapter carries its own
interest. There is no waiting for things
to occur. His descriptions of life in
the north its hardships. demands sac
rifices and the high courage with
which they are met are vitagraphic for
Mr.. Beach knows his Alaska from end
to end thru wanderings over its icy
trails and long days spent in labor in
its mining camps. Like Jack London
he has been part of the life he de-
scribes and faced the grim brutality of
man and beast and winter in the Arc
tic circle.
There is plenty of thrills in "The
Barrier" law breakers, law defenders.
conflict, love and struggle; fighting of
the primitive kind when men settled
disputes as they are still settled be-
yond the border line of the law, and
thru all the story is mystery of birth
that solved removes the bar sinister
which constitutes 1.-The Barrier" 1t is
an excellent tale to follow from day to
day, strong enough to keep interest
active and yet clean and true, the kind
we are glad to read again.
Start the story tomorrow with the
first chapters. 1t is worth reading from
its descriptions of life in the northern
gold fields as we'll as Of it's human in
terest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
WEAK BEFORE THE POLITICIANS.

Governor Carroll has exhibited
weakness in the appointment of Judge
Conner to the board of control. Not
that Conner is not able nor worthy
because he is a very able and worthy
man but there is no excuse for turn
Ing John Cownie down. except that it
be one of political reprisal. 1t is the
Introduction of politics into appoint
ments to the board of control which
constitutes weakness of policy Ii is
an acknowledgement to the state that
the governor is not strong enough to
Withstand the demands of the political
gang to which he is under obligations.
The dramatic scenes attendant upon
the appointment of the first board of
control by as tricky politician as
Governor Shaw. should be recalled as
a reminder OF the spirit in which the
board of control was born When the
late Tom Healy at the head of a spe-
cial delegation of senators waited upon
Governor Shaw to inform him that
certain political appointments for the
first board must not be made, the
euphonious message of Healy's plea
should be remembered by God. Gov
ernor, we will refuse to confirm"
The success of the single board in
the management of our state institu-
tons has been due very largely to the
fact that appointments have been
made upon merit and not to reward
political friends or take care of po-
litica derelicts. John Cownie has been
the business manager of the board
from the beginning of its work He has
had able lawyers associated with him
who have performed valuable service,
but the element of keen commercial
management given to the business of
erecting buildings, operating farms
and purchasing supplies has come
from John Cownie. No charge or criti-
cism has ever been lodged against him
of sufficient dignity to warrant inves-
tigation and today the appointment of
another in his place except that it is
the governors prerogative to do so.
Governor CAROLS friends should la
ment that he should be the first gov
enron or of Iowa to cheaper the dig
nifty of the board of control and prosti-
tute its efficiency by introducing polit-
ical amendments
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
In a Strange Land.
philadelphia Record,

Two belated disciples of Bacchus
staggered arm in arm up Walnut street
about o'clock the other morning. The
street was dark, except for a single
ground glass globe that blazed in front
of an apartment-house. One of the in
ebriates, spying this lone light, OBJ
served
"Oh, look at zhe moonsh''
The other seriously contradicted
him, saying: That amt no moonsh,
Fash sun
This started an argument, which
lasted for several minutes, as to
whether the globe was the moon or
the sun Finally they decided to leave
it to the first passerby, who happened
to be another happy" gentleman. They
stopped him, and, pointing to the globe
asked.
Settle an argument old pal; is that
the moon or the suns"
The third party stared knowingly
at the globe for several minutes be-
fore he shook his head and replied:
Gentlemen, I really couldn't tell you
I'm stranger in this town"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
A BLOW TO THE STANDARD.

The house of representatives acting
as committee of the whole, did an
astonishing thing yesterday when it
sat upon the % per cent duty on oil
and then went on and voted to abolish
the countervailing duty and to impose
but ] per cent on oil, crude and re-
tined. The amendment which practi-
caly puts oil on the free list was Of
fered by Congressman Norris of Ne
braska and thus came out of the midst
of the Independent oil producers and
from the center of opposition to the
Standard Oil monopoly lis passage
was bombshell thrown among the
coterie that schedule house proceed
tngs and arrange in advance the rake
offs to be divided among the special
interests. Speaker Cannon is reported
to have grown furious. He took the
floor and ragged against those who he
asserted were "demagoging" against
STANDARD Oil. He was turned down,
his rulings overturned by an appeal
from the chair and for once found
himself impotent where he has been
accustomed to rule like car. 1t is
expected that the house will vote to
support It's action as a committee Of
the whole and that the senate will
agree when 1t comes up to the upper
house. 1t Is said that large num-
Der Of senators will refuse to allow
the leaders to put them in the posi-
ton of Standard OIL senator's.
To the average voter the intricacies
or a tariff bill are confusing ana TO a.
considerable degree incomprehensible.
He knows however that when a mon
opoly is dividing 40 per cent or more
annually upon excessively watered
stock that some one is getting hurt
and suspects that he is one of the
sufferers. He knows that competition
has been stifled whether the prices Of
the product have been forced unwar-
rantably high or not. He also is con-
WINGED that protected monopoly
ought not to pay 40 per cent on false
valuation. The Independent producer
thru his representatives expresses his
willingness to Withstand all foreign
competition If he may have a fair
chance at home. so the country will
highly approve the action of the con-
gressmen who are simply doing what
every one believes ought to be done
and what should have been done long
before Rockefeller cornered the oil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
REAL TEST OF ADVERTISING.
[Keokuk ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Experience has taught ninety-rline
consumers out of every 100 that it is
safer to buy an article which is widely
and persistently advertised than one
whose praises the maker or vendor
never sings in the public prints. AS
magazine writer puts it,. mo man
with brains is likely to advertise wide
ly an article which is not up to speci-
fications. No man with brains is like
ly to be poor Judge Of the commodity
he is dealing in. No man without
brains is likely to have enough mon
ey to advertise anything" Advertise
ing is the strongest possible express
sion of the sellers confidence that
what he offers is what the buyer
wants. So well does the public ap-
preciate that fact that the non-adver-
tiser is put upon the defensive. He is
kept busy explaining why he doesn't
resort to publicity to push his goods
Explanations breed suspicion. Hon.
est wares deserve the. send off that
only the guarantee Of hottest advertise
ing can give them. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
TIE
General Demand

Of the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex-
cellent combination Of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for it's remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Sienna is given
the preference by the Well Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine manufactured by the Cali
iornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
DER bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
By Henry Herbert Huff

COPYRIGHT AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
writing copy for ads.
BE natural. Write copy You would talk your friend
Jones you probably would slap him the shoulder
and say: Ike you those swell ties got yester
day; pretest coors you Come here and
at them See that striped and the brown dotted pattern
Aren't they fne In putting this into the ad write the
Don't say I'VE beg the patrons of
latest styles and coongs Don't do Try writing CONVEX
satona style. Put individuality and if doesn't get
readers.
"Be specific Don't try advertise everything in the store
at Select two items Describe fully and give price,
Give whole adj article least line
of goods If space limited like items together
Except clearance and special do Of goods
1t there be but item the reader pays strict attention and
remembers what say but confusing things
makes it possible for him attention partcu
lar Change ads inserion describing article
each time Pick specific examples different ne Do
not speak of the line whole It isn't necessary say big
letters that keep large and complete ne People
know this without being told Pick values from
your stock The public will recognize them being lyrical
BE truthful reputation for making statements that can bs
depended on an valued
Using mepresents Let merchant tell about
confidence in him. If article marked dam
aged or slow to SELL If you price cut give
actua reason Better to undervaue than Never
the patron have chance to be disappointed goods
BE 1Ief Put into advertising everything that will help to sell
Put aside trte phrases words
fences short Make that all you say will be rightly
Aim at the least intelligent reader Strive to put the principal
facts in the simplest way. That is good I'D. writing.
,nv me- na e @ and Patrons alike Say nothing to hurt
out speaking dparagngy Of compositions Be good
9g aa a.x. ei, ss though feel
Of i yourself, nobody else will !"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
Woman Succeeds at FARMING.

Il see no reason why woman can
not earn as good a living on a small
farm as in any other field'
Such is the assertion, made with the
cheerful certainty of one who has tried
it-and succeeded-by a Connecticut
woman, Mrs. Jane C. Barrow, who has
for the past eight years supported her
self and sent two children to school
on the earnings of four-acre farm
only one acre of which is available fol-
planting and buildings.
IF woman is as fond Of the coun-
try as am" Mrs. Barrow says, "she
will not find it & hardship, but rather
a pleasure. I had everything to learn
and have succeeded, SO think other
women could do as well. I began with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
NO POISON IN MOTHERS FRUIT.
council Bluffs Nonpareil.l

Some of the anti-pure food agitators
are claiming that the frequent cases Of
ptomaine poisoning that have devel-
oped within the last few years are the
result of the enforcement of the pure
food law. They claim that the use OF
preservatives is absolutely necessary
to prevent fruits, vegetables and meats
from spelling. But how about the cher
ries, raspberries and peaches that
mother used to put up in cans. that
We're better and sweeter the second or
even the third or fourth winter than
they We're the first? No preservatives
in fruit put up in the good old way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
Topics of the Times

1t would be going to extrernities to
raise the tariff on gloves and stock
ings.
The Iowa farmer may rot be able to
recall all the schedules of the Dingley
bill, as Senator Dolliver is reported tt
be able to do, but he knows when a
fence post costs more than twice what
it used to. and feels a pang when he
pays the lumber bill for a new hog
house With a few years rent. He does
MT have to be an expert to know what
hurts him.
The knight Of the age of chivalry alsa
fought for his lady's glove. The chiy-
alrous tariff revisionist of the present
house with a years rent. He does
includes her stocking.
General Miles is mourning over the
character of mind that would carry a
man to Africa to shoot an elephant
General Miles should go back to his
bath tub ana cultivate silence He isn't
more than furlong.
The craziest thing about Crazy Snake
is his idea that a tribe of Indians would
be permitted to hold land that white
men want
OF course. if any Missourian doesn't
like the idea of paying 8 cents a mile
he can walk.
The parcels post is to be tried out in
two counties in the United States. II
looks like a small beginning, but that
is the way rural free mail delivery got
it's start.
The state could not do a better thing
than to systematic plan of state aid
to counties building permanent high
ways; and one of the links in the sys-
tenn should be the employment of con-
Wet labor.
If the young schoolma'am near Clear
Lake who beat up and disfgured a man
who assaulted her ever marries a man
to reform him, she will be pretty GER
tain to help him some.
Now let the spade succeed the snow
shovel. To each day and each season
its own bitterness.
A good many things about John Cow
ME may be Justly criticised but he is
perhaps the best material in Iowa for
the board of control. His place on that
body would be hard to AL. Either
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08

a small boy as assistant: now / have
a woman and man and we are all
three kept pretty busy"
When this energetic and courageous
woman took her land she was forced
to go into debt for money to pay for
groceries enough to keep her and the
two children until the farm began to
make returns. How she worked out
and solved the problem is best told by
herself in an article under the title
What One Acre Will d." in March
Technical World Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES,
always welcome. .
VNHall over 1857 West Main

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VNHall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1O8 A. F.. & A.
M, work in the third degree Friday
evening, April 9. H. G.. Hoeck, w. n.
M. II. s. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A., M.
Special convocation Monday, April u.
work in Royal Arch Mason degree.
1880 p m.
l. s. Willard, secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. 4 g.
M.-special assembly Thursday, April
.. 1880 p. m, r. & s. M. degrees.
A. d. Meeker. T. I. M.
ST. ALDEMAR coMMANDRY No.
80, K. T.-Easter service at 2:30 D. M.
Sunday, April II. All Masons invited.
F. M. Wilbur, E. c.
F. Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. O. >.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday, April
IA, 1880.
Mrs. Geo. Downing, W. N.
Edna G. F'ularton. Secy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
UNIQUE IOWA INDUSTRY.
Huntington Hawkeva

Huntington Hawkeye.]
There are spots here and there in
Iowa that will open the eyes of the
man who believes that Iowa confines
herself exclusively to corn. And Bet
tendorf is one of them
True there are such spots, but not
too many of them. This is generally
speaking. Iowa has some growing in
dustries, but it has not one other that
is turning out steel railroad cars by
the thousand or by the hundred. This
is the particular and enviable distinc-
ton of the suburb of Davenport
known as Bettendorf. There has been
built up on the banks of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river within four miles of the lDav-
export postoffice an industry that is
unique in all the country. OF course
steeis cars are built elsewhere and at
several places. But at Bettendorf they
make the machinery to build the cars
and all of it, practically speaking, was
invented by the man who directs the
affairs of the manufacturing plant.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
Iona Newspapers
MIGHT GO ON AID 1NF1N1T1M.

Council Bluffs Nonpariel.1
How about the landlord who rented
quarters to the swindling gang that
operated in this city? Should he not
be held responsible for conspiracy
And how about the dealer who sold
the gang an automobile in which they
Travelled from place to place in the
prosecution of their schemes? And
And how about the grocer and the
butcher who kept them provided with
food from which they derived the ne
cessary strength with which to pro-
mote their base designs? And how
about,-but what's the use!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
WINES s,ssnhIaat zaaaalAztlltaun snua tpri 1909

Jones, the ex-warden, who is anxious
to be taken care of, or Senator Ham
mill would rattle around in his shoes
like pea in wooden sabot.
According to the house committee,
the brewers saloon must go. Let us
hope that it will not go into he fake
ownership of some SIS week manager.
A straw that shows the trend of pub
lie sentiment on the liquor question
blows. down from Michigan, where
twenty out of twenty-seven counties
went dry yesterday.
Under the daylight closing law in
Nebraska, street car fares between
Omaha and Council Bluffs ought to
look up.
With a salary of a little over s2OS
per day, President Taft will probably
not worry about the expenses involved
IN any trip across country he may
take.
A lotion is now being advertised
which it is claimed will restore the ma
tural color to red noses. 1t will not re-
store the money it cost to produce the
redness, however.
Fashion fads are not so bad after all
Whlle the women are attired in the
sheath gown, the latest for men is pad
ded hips. Thus a general average is
maintained that at least approximates
the normal
Its safe bet, anyhow, that the
weather will be warmer after Easter.
1t is learned that cigaret caused
the recent $4,000 GOO fire at Fort Worth.
Tex. If that We're all, it wouldn't be so
bad, for fire losses are largely offset
by Insurance, whereas the other results
of cigaret smoking have no mitigating
features.
Hebrews are celebrating their Fourth
of July, beginning last Monday even
ing, and the festivities to continue
eight days. That's more celebration
than the most patriotic American boy
ever dreamed of enjoying.
The Allison monument fund move
ment lags. simply because people are
requested to take their contributions to
a certain place for deposit. A thing
worth having is worth going after and
the people will respond if personally
solicited
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
1owAls NEW CONGRESSMAN.


A year ago we were being assured
that if Iowa retired any of her old
congressional delegation her prestige
at the national capital would suffer
thereby. Iowa sent number of new
men to Washington in spite of the
warning and the Introduction of new
blood has strengthened rather than
weakened her representation. Iowa's
senators and representatives are hav-
ing about as much to do with shaping
the legislation at the special session
as it is possible for any one state to
influence the action of lawmaking
bodies operating under the house and
senate rules. 1t might be added when
the next regular session revises these
rules Iowa members will have con-
siderable to say about that also.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-08
DIVA cP.nI-ks AND NOTES

The Sioux City Journal reasons that
"a man doesn't have to know very
much about a tariff bill in order to
be convinced it is no better than it
ought to be-"