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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
HAYS ON SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Willet NJ. Hays, a Hardin county,
Iowa boy. now and for several years
past assistant secretary of agriculture
at Washington, has written a booklet.
II doesn't deal with agriculture, how
ever, but with the country school
question. upon which Mr.. Hays is ex-
ceptionally we'll informed and is COM
petent 10 treat. He is an earnest adj
vocate of a complete reorganization of
the rural school system and a con-
solidation of rural schools.
In this booklet Mr.. Hays sets forth
a commendable plan for consolidation
of the country schools and advocates
the establishment of agricultural high
schools. about one to each congress
sional district, and further development
OF the agricultural colleges. He thinks
such a system would result in saving
millions of dollars now almost wasted
in our present antiquated school organ
ization and would also add half a bill
lion dollars annually to the earnings Of
American farmers made possible by the
education of the next generation in
scientific agriculture
The fact that the department of agri-
culture has heartily endorsed the Hays
plan and issued a booklet explaining it
in detail is evidence of its value. Those
who have not read the article on this
subject from the Tines Republican S
Washington correspondent, and which
appeared on page 10 of Mondays issue
/ should give it careful perusal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
Topics of the Times

Hartman owns most Of the railroads
of the country and lives in 100000
house but ne is so near dead with over
work that all the rest of US with good
stomachs and fair expectancy have
him distanced a mile in what consti-
tutes real wealth.
The first trial OF the Cosson removal
law at Marengo establishes Attorney
General Byers, its author. as a great
law giver. Judge Preston had no hesi-
fancy in sustaining its validity and its
quick acting efficiency is even startling
to behold
When Editor Hale, of the Des Moines
News, announced that he was too good
newspaper man TO be postmaster he
established his claim to superiority as
a Journalist. Public office would weak
en- the strength of any man responsible
for the conduct of a large daily news
paper and the successful editor ought
to be too busy to run a postoffice as
we'll as too wise to put on the collar
of office holding
Congressman Fowler is the best post
ed member of that body on questions
of banking reform and that is 10 DE
a big issue in the next session but he
lost his craftsmanship of the commit
tee on banking, because he dared to
vote against the Cannon rules. Punish
ment for insurgency supercedes eff
cheney under the Cannon Aldrich sys-
! tenn.
| President Taft's waist measurement
is said to have been reduced by seven
inches. And yet nobody appears to be
alarmed about Taft's health.
The athletic enthusiast will scarcely
have time to take a vacation between
the close OF the baseball season and
the opening of the football carnage
1t is nearly a continuous performance
for the fan and the rooter.
Should Wellnn'an succeed in reaching
the pole he will establish a record In
aviation that will stand forever. Nc
one can go farther (north) than that
The one sane person who desires or
carly frost is the hay fever victim.
If your dealer has them and you
j have the price and are not apprehen-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

sive Of filing your system with typhoid
fever germs, you can commence eating
oysters tomorrow.
Dry weather also has its blessings.
The busy housewife now finds it un-
necessary to wash the potatoes.
New York man who ate forty six
roasting ears at one meal, at the pres
ent price of corn!
Since the change in the weather a
few days ago the Good Old Summer
Time" is considerably better.
At last we have a medical authority,
DR.. Wood Hutchinson, who. in sub
stance, declares that it isn't necessary
to starve in order to enjoy good health,
and he really advises the use of meat
He is not a member of the beef trust,
either
BY the way, what has become of
Santos Dumont? He used to fly some.
It's great weather for tine state fair.
There are more automobile than air.
ship fatalities. But there are also more
autom obiles than aeroplanes
The International League of High
way Improvement wants the United
commission. Since the highways are
about the only thing left for which
there isn't commission, perhaps the
prayer of the petitioners had as we'll
be granted.
At the state fair tomorrow, in addi.
ton to the livestock will be seen the
political stock of the state, both dead
and alive.
1t sometimes seems as if the county
normal institute were designed to send
the teachers back to work with mental
Indigestion. The function of assimila-
ton is almost lost sight of in the
process of examining
F. NJ. Hubbell, of Des Moines, touted
as the richest man in Iowa, says that
the wealthy seldom eat pie. The con-
solutions OF the poor crop out every
once in a. while.
Twelve ministers have left Sioux
City within year. We can imagine
why they would want to get away, but
should think their sense of duty would
impell them to remain.
For some one of three reasons the
doctors are not going to operate on
Hartman. First, he doesn't need it.
Second, he couldn't stand it. Third,
he'd die, anyway. Take your choice.
Aviator Curtiss easily put 1t over
them ALL
Roosevelt's conservation schemes
have been termed dream-like. We don't
know. tho, that that is a term Of re-
proach. Dreaming always precedes ac-
complishment in the domain of vast
things.
AS the output of the automobile fac
tory increases the manufacturer Of
hearses is bound to sit up and take
notice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

cease from the troubles Of life and
which sap the users energies and abet
crime.
1t is the intention of the state de-
partment at the same time to bring
about reform by placing the manu.
facture and importation Of habit FORM
ing drugs under the inspection of some
division OF the government which will
be held responsible for the results. It
is now believed that the best custodian
of the trust would be the bureau Of
Internal revenue. but this question has
not been settled. The federal govern.
ment, however. will not rest with in.
hibiting the interchange Of such drugs
between states. 1t will place at the
command Of the health departments
Of the various states the information
1t gathers, so that local traffic In such
drugs may be checked and ultimately
eliminated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
reIephonino 10 stop a.n.~.x.

Teiephonins to Stop Runaway.
Telephones were utilized to good ad-
vantage in stopping runaway on
country road near Waitsburg, in Walla-
walla county. Wash. southwest Of
Spokane. and probably saved Bonny
NJ, standard trotter with a mark
Of 2:16, from injury by barbed wire
fences. While the driver was exercis-
ing it on the city park track few
days ago the horse broke and started
to set new record along the road.
heading for the Shell ranch, three
miles distant Instead Of following
the animal the driver went to the park
telephone and advised the owner and
other ranchers along the route to
watch for runaway. Several OF
them responded. and the horse was
brought to q standstill before serious
damage resulted. The animal Is val
ned at $1,000. This is said to be the
first instance in which the telephone
was pressed into service In that part
OF the country for similar use, though
stockmen have used the instrument
to call out assistance to check cattle
stampedes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
What is Best for indigestion?

Mr.. A. Robinson, Of Drumquin, On.
tario. has been troubled for years with
indigestion. and recommends Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as
"the best medicine I ever used" II
troubled with indigestion or constipa-
ton give them trial. They are GER
tain to prove beneficial. They are easy
to take and pleasant in effect. Price.
Is cents. Samples free at all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

stains from his
weather scanned
face and breathed
q deep sigh Of re-
relief. He had just
finished a hard
run through a
storm OF excep-
tional violence
and was putting
his pet mogul in
it's stable for q
much-needed rest.
The trip from Chi
cago to Detroit
with the long fan
cy train, the pride
of the road. had
been fraught with
hardships. even
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
Fewer Broken Rails.

There has been decided falling of
in the number of railroad wrecks due
to broken rails. Following the excite.
ment of three years ago. when so
many accidents were due to faults in
the rails, the methods of manufacture
have been changed. with good results.
which are just now beginning to al.
paar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

No matter how long you have suf-
fered, Foley's Kidney Remedy will help
you. Mrs. s. L. Bowen. Of Wayne, w.
Va. writes: II was a sufferer from
kidney disease, SO that at times could
not get out Of bed, and when did I
could not stand straight. took Foleys
Kidney Remedy. One dollar bottle and
part Of the second cured me entirely:
It will cure you. Sold by Mcbride &
viii pharmacy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
WHAT WILL WE DO WITH TT.
burlington Hawkeve.l


The state of Iowa is just $4,000
better off, because the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Company has
been reorganized with capital stock
of s96.o0e,O00, and the articles of incor-
poration have been filed with the Sec
rotary OF state. Just what is to be
done with the money. does not seem
quite clear, but there will probably be
found some means of disposing of it.
A special session of the legislature
would probably eat it up. OF course,
there is no urgent need of a special
session. but then there is that $4,000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
DRUNKEN MAYOR OUT.
[Cedar Rapids Republican.

lSS0dT IS&QkuS 1ScpUUIlSdL.l
The mayor of Marengo has been
ousted from Office on the charge of
drunkenness, under what Is known as
the Cosson law, enacted by the last
legislature. The decision was render
ed by Judge Henderson of the Oska-
loosa district court. The law provides
that when such charges are made the
trial shall be had before a Judge in
another district than the one In which
the complaint is made. The presump-
ton is that the case was fairly tried
and that the Judge reached a sound
conclusion. There is no reason to be-
leve the contrary.
So far as the mayor Marengo Is
concerned the fact that he has been
ousted from Office is not Of command
ing importance, but the moral effect
of the decision reached in that case is
of commanding Importance. Notice is
given to all public officials that drunk
enness in office has come to an end
in Iowa. Any one who gets himself in
that condition is in danger OF having
the same remedies applied to him
that were applied to the mayor of
Marengo. Some regard it as an inva-
sion of private rights, but 1t is hardly
that A public official can not be said
to have private rights to get drunk.
An ordinary man who gets drunk Is
apt to find himself in jail. His pri-
waite rights are also interfered with,
but 1t is in the interest of the public
peace and good. =
The more difficult question we see
ii; III The decision grows out OF the ques-
ton, what is drunkenness? When is a
man drunk enough to be ousted from
office? Must he be sprawling drunk
Can not man who sees an official
take a couple of drinks claim, under
the Cosson law, that the official was
drunk? Where are such prosecutions
to begin and where are they to end?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
Iona Newspapers
MARENGo's EXAMPLE,.
TRegister and Ieader.l

IRegiStef and Leader
On the merits of the proposition
there should be no question about
the removal OF public officials addicted
to drink to the extent Of drunkenness.
A drunken public official is not only a
threat at the public welfare but he is
disgrace to his community and the
state. Now is good time to set new
standard before the young men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

so. would not hot, sizzling letter
on something of interest to the gen
era1 public. coming from Oyster Bay,
as it used to be, arouse some interest
in these dull days! But Oyster Bay is
covered with cobwebs," signs the Dav-
export Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

For indigestion and all stomach trou-
BILE take Foley's orino Laxative as It
stimulates the stomach and liver and
regulates the bowels and will positive
~ cure habituai constipation. Sold BY
Mcbride = Will pharmacy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.


4
making
the the door Of good and well for snseanng
feet Height Of cellar The attic
" l#s I4AGAN,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

"Can be depended upon. Il IN ex-
preston we all like to hear, and when
1t is used in connection with Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy 1t means that it never fails to
cure diarrhoea, dysentery or bowel
complaints. 1t is pleasant to take and
equally valuable for children and
adults.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
IOWA oPlAlnns Ahn Nn1Es

The Capital reckons that Many
people will forget that Seattle is on the
map in their enthusiasm over the Iowa
state exposition at Des Moines."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

'@What would the railroads do IL the
farmers should refuse to ship the pres
emit crop over their Hnes?" asks the
Sioux City Tribune and replies: Never
mind what the farmer would do. He Is
we'll enough fixed TO hold the crop
two or three years IL he Is so dis
posed"
AS to grocers' prices on produce the
Cedar Rapids Republican comments:
'It should also be taken into consid-
Grafton that no dealers in such goods
in Cedar Rapids have retired with big
fortunes. The average grocer is a man
who works hard every day in the year
and who does not make much more
than a good living out Of his activi-
ties, #, indeed, he makes that all the
in the grocery business is not apparent
to any one. The man who gets from
SO a day and upwards probably has
the average Of the grocers beaten as to
net income
"a actaicca.tt always sounds bad bad, b.. a
labor deficit doesn't sound so bad as
some other kinds,'' remarks the Sioux
lSlIy JOurIlal.
The Burlington Hawkeye considers it
"a bit strange that in Iowa, who re-
jected her own Cherry sisters. Garry
Nation, of Kansas, should prove a
bowling success, and rake In the good
Iowa dollars in large numbers"
''Undressed art has been ruled out of
the Iowa state fair this year along
with the oriental dancers and other
questionable things. A state fair is
hardly the place for nude art and there
is plenty of chat eort OF thing in the
capital city without providing IT at the
fair" observes the Centerville Citizen.
Webster City Freeman-Tribune: 1T
gets pretty hot In Iowa in summer
and pretty cold in winter and it de-
sometimes pretty dry and sometimes
lpretty wet, but up one side and down
the middle, thru the center and across
the top, acre for acre, 1t is the best
state in the union and is the home Oh
more prosperous people, population
considered, than any place in the
world. Crops never fail here They They ~.
always good. Stick to your Iowa land
land you will have something worth
8 while es long as you I've"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

The Keokuk Gate City asserts that
''The man who invents square col
lar button that won't roll will be more
of a benefactor to the human family,
a million times over, than the inventor
Of that new religion"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31
MEN OF THE LEVER.
GLORIOUS IS THE RECORD OF
THE RAILROAD ENGINEER.
Sublime Devotion to Duty In the Face
Of Certain Death Has Been
Shown Time and Again
as Matter Of Course.

The "old man" sat In the round
house in West Detroit wiping the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

Goodness and Happiness.
Hamilton: A cottage. II goodness
be there. viii hold as much happiness
a. q palace.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

1.-THE banks are full, the crops are
good and Taft's coming in September.
What glorious state Iowa is after
all,'' exclaims the Waterloo Reporter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

sive Of filling your system with typhoid
fever germs, you can commence eating
oysters tomorrow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

The International League of High
way Improvement wants the United
States to have a national highway
commission. Since the highways are
about the only thing left for which
there isn't a commission, perhaps the
prayer of the petitioners had as we'll
be granted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

The Burlington Hawkeye considers it
"a bit strange that in Iowa, who re-
jected her own Cherry sisters. Garry
Nation, of Kansas, should prove q
bowling success, and rake in the good
Iowa dollars in large numbers"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-31

"a acaca4tt always .onn!ls bad bad, b.. a
labor deficit doesn't sound so bad as
some other kinds" remarks the Sioux
City Journal.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-18

had forgotten the pain in her heart; there had been only a great and ire sistible longing to sing.
 Though she raised her face, he could diStinguis h no feature, for the light was behind. However, he was a man who m ade up his mind quickly. Brunette or blond, beautiful or other wise, it needed but a moment to find out. Even as this decision was made he was in the upper hall, taking the stairs two at a. bound. He ran out into the night, bareheaded. Up the street he saw a flying shadow. Plain ly she had anticipated his impulse and the curiosity behind it. Even as he gave chase th shadow melted in the fog, as ice melts in running waters, as flamn dissolves in sun- shine She was gone. He supped his ear with his hs nd; in vain, there came no sound a of pattering feet; there was nothing but fog and silence.
 Well, if this doesn't beat the Dutch." he murInured.
 He laughed disappointedly. It did not matter that he was three and thirty; he still retained youth enough to feel chagrined at such a trivial de- feat. Here had been something like a genuine adventure and it had slip ped like water through his clumsy fingers.
 Deuce take the fog! But for that I'd have caught her"
 But reason promptly asked him what he would have done had he caught the singer Yes, supposing he had, what excuse would he have had to offer? Denial on her part would have been simple, and righteous in- dignation at being accosted on the street simpler still. He had not seen her face, and doubtless she was aware of this fact Thus. she would have had all the weapons for defense, and he not one for attack. But though reason argued well, it did not dislodge his longing. He would have been per fectly happy to have braved her in dignation for a single glance at her face He walked back, lighting his pipe. Who could she be? What pe- culiar whimsical freak had sent her singing past his window at one o'clock of the morning? A grand opera singer, returning home from a late supper? But fe dismissed this opinion even as he advanced it. He knew something about grand opera singers. They attend late suppers, it is true, but they ride home in luxurious car riages and never risk their golden voices in this careless if romantic fashion. And in New York nobody took the trouble to serenade anybody else, unless paid in advance and armed with a police permit. As for being a comic opera star, he refused to admit the possibility; and he dele gated this well-satisfied constellation to the darks of limbo. He had heard a voice.
 A vast shadow loomed up in the middle of the street, presently to take upon itself the solid outlines of a policeman who came numbering over
Arizona republican., 1909-05-18
CHAPTER |. The Voice In the Fog.

Out of the unromantic night, out of the somber blurring January fog, came a voice lifted in song, a soprano, rich, full and round, young yet ma tured. sweet and mysterious as a night birds, haunting and elusive as the murmur of the sea in shell; a lit from Le File de Madame Angot, a light opera long since forgotten in New York. Hillard, genuinely aston ished. lowered his pipe and listened. To sit dreaming by an open window, even in this unlovely first month of the year, in that grim, rnhandsome city which boasts of its riches and still accepts with snug content its rows upon rows of ugly architecture. to sit dreaming, then, of red tiled roofs. of cloud-caressed hills, of ter raced vineyards, of expresses in their dark aloofness, is not out of the natural order of things; but that into this idle and pleasant dream there should enter so divine voice, living, feeling, pulsing, this was not ordinary at all.
 And Hillard was glad that the room was in darkness. He rose eagerly and peered out. But he saw no one. Across the street the arc-lamp burned dimly. like an opal in the Inatrix, while of architectural outlines not one remained, the fog having kindly ob- liberated them.
 The voice rose and sank and scared again, drawing nearer and near er. It was joyous and unrestrained, and there was youth in it, the touch of spring and the breath of flowers The music was Lecoqs, that is to say, French; but the tongue was of a country which Hillard knew to be the garden of the world. Presently he ob- served a shadow to emerge from the yellow mist, to come within the circle of light, which, faint as it was, limned in against the nothingness beyond the form of a woman. She walked direct ly under his window.
 As the invisible comes suddenly out of the future to assume distinct pro- portions wnIch either make or mar us. so did this unknown cantatrice come out of the fog that night and enter into HiLard's life, to readjust its ambitions. to divert its aimless course, to give impetus to it, and a directness which hitherto it had not known.
 "Ah!" -.-.-.
 He leaned over the sill at a peril ous angle, the bright coal of his pipe spilling comet-wise to the area-way below. He was only subconscious of having spoken; but this syllable was sufficient to spoil the enchantment. The voice ceased abruptly, with an odd break The singer looked up. Possibly her astopishment surpassed even that of her audience. For few minutes she had forgotten that she was in New York, where romance may be found only in the book-shops; she had forgotten that it was night, damp and chill forlorn night; she