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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
A,,.k.', Coal Fields.

While Alaska's gold reserves are
large, they are in no way unique, for
refined gold is the same, whatever the
source. In the matter of coal re-
sources, Alaska has no competitor. Its
store Of high-grade fuel can not be
eaualed in quality west OF the Rockies.
In fact, to and anthracite and bitumi-
nous coal which compares in fuel value
With that of Alaska, one must come
east to Pennsylvania. These Goals are.
therefore, the key to the commercial
situation on the west coast. For a
high-grade steaming coal used for
manufacturing industries or mer-
chant marine, or a coke for shelters
in the western states, one must turn
to Alaska Hence the growing popula-
ton of the west has a vital interest in
the development Of these coal fields.
These Goals are of even national i'm
portance, for of all our Pacific pos
sessions Alaska alone can supply our
battleships with smokeless fuel.
The quantity of this anthracite and
| bituminous coal Is not as yet deter
mined, but it certainly is not unlimited
and hence should not be wasted. To
use 1t, however, will not be to waste It,
unless it be improperly mined. A sur
veyed area of about 100 square miles
is known to be underlain by these
Goals, and it is probable that further
investigation may show an extension of
the field A rough estimate of quantity
within this surveyed area gave some
six billion tons, or more than one and
one-half times the entire production OF
Pennsylvania since coal mining began
1t Is fair to assume that this coal is
worth a dollar ton. which would
make it's total value about forty times
as great as the entire gold output OF
| Alaska to the present time. 1t Is prob
able, therefore, that the value of the
coal fields exceeds that of the gold re-
serves. These Goals are, however, prac-
tically untouched, for the only Goa
mining in Alaska Is ttt1at of some lig-
mites for local use. A few years age
statistics shows that Alaska's entire
export of coal for a year was four
tons. while it produced fifteen tons OF
gold.-From "The Alaska Of Today
by Alfred H. Brooks. in the American
| Paviev of Reyiews for Univ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
LIFE WITHOUT OXYGEN.

80 Claims Professor Mayns and
Scouts Theory Of Carbon Dioxide.
D. D. Mayne. principal Of the Mime
sofa School Of Agriculture, recently an
nounced the result Of an experiment
which he believes has exploded the old
theory that oxygen is essential to life
and that death will result from breath
ing carbon dioxide, says Minneapolis
dispatch.
"The old physiology theory is all
bosh," declared Professor Mayne. Ex-
cretions from the pores, he believes,
are poisonous and are fatal when one
is shut off from oxygen.
To demonstrate this theory Profess
or Mayne confined steer in her
metically sealed stall and another in
an open stall. The first animal was
shut of from oxygen completely and
at the end Of several days was found
to be in as good condition as the 9TH
er. The experiment was repeated,
with the steers exchanged in the stalls.
The result was the same-both animals
| could live in the Theoretically sealed
stall without oxygen. and neither sui.
fered poisoning from carbon dioxide
thrown out by their lungs.
1.-THE school ventilating system is un.
necessary" asserted Professor Mayne
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
SPEEDY new A|RSH|P
Craft to Fly sixty-five Miles In
Thirty Minutes.

Private tests were made at Victo-
ria, B. c., the other day Of an airship
which the inventor, William Gibson,
a mechanical engineer. wagered $1,000
will carry him safely to Seattle, dis
lance Of sixty-dve miles, within half
an hour when he is ready for the
fight and do the Victoria to San Fran
cisco flight within five hours.
The craft, now almost completed, Is
monoplane sixty-five feet long and
radically different from other designs,
having a width Of only fourteen feet
Mr.. Gibson says the great speed is
given by his engine, which weighs but
222 pounds and develops sixty horse
power. The four air cooled steel cyl
inders weigh twelve pounds each.
There are eight single blade propel-
lers, four on each side, rotating in op-
posite directions, only one lever being
used to operate, with steering wheel
like that used on ali automobile.
The machine will weigh 400 pounds
all told, and the inventor declares it
will carry two persons 100 miles an
hour. Sufficient fuel is carried for 500
miles flight.
Mr.. Gibson claims superior stability
and simplicity over the Wrights' and
all existing machines and says any one
can operate his craft. 1t automatic
ally rights itself in any wind condi-
lions, as shown by the working mod
ell, which when started in flights up
side down righted itself in two feet
like cat falling on its feet. Should
the engine stop in the mir If the craft
Is going full speed 1t is asserted that
it will fly ten miles before coming
gradually down, being regulated by
the fitting of the planes.
Mr.. Gibson built forty mile Sec
ton of the Grand Trunk Pacific and
afterward invented and built q sue
cessful stamp mill. He is now backed
by strong syndicate and is patenting
the features Of his invention in all
countries. AS soon as his ideas are
protected he says he will make his
Seattle fight Of sixty-five miles over
the strait of Fuca in half an hour,
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and passed by this congress will be
most unsatisfactory to the mass OF re-
publican voters. That much may be
freely and confidently predicted. 1t will
not keep the pledge of the party to the
country. Aldrich is going out and
knows it. Perhaps he feels If he does
not say AFTER ME the deluge." Per-
haps he does not care what happens.
Possibly the special interests prefer a
democratic victory and a democratic
congress TO republican congress that
will give the people what the people
demand. Anyway there's trouble ahead.
1t is being put UP to Taft. What
will he do with the Payne bill as re-
written by Aldrich?
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tons behind, why should the people not
strike at them wildly and unfairly?
The Strength of the Church.
No, no, the whole method of it is too
grotesque. Let US stop it altogether
let US do it fairly-a little sadly, as
with sense of common blood guilt
ness, as if you and l and all of US also
had the telltale stains upon our hands
A brilliant scholar sent from Ger
many to lecture at Harvard University
told me this incident: A historian of
his own country has discovered a
batch of letters by the famous Domin-
lean preacher of indulgence, John
Tetzel. 1t was he who stung Luther
into mailing those theses onto the door
at Wittenberg. Tetzel had his little
private partnership with devils. He
made money out of sins and fetcheries
He took gold for these things, thinking
perhaps that the Almighty wouldn't
specially and piously spent. These
same discriminating letters were taken
in cur day. if l remember, to Rampolla
the great cardinal. He looked at them
read them thru and handed them back
saying: GO ahead; publish them, by
all means the church is now strong
enough to stand it, we do not fear
them"
| We, too, as a nation have much
sinned, we have turned tfieveries, law
lessness. and vices into gold for GU,
own pride and fattening. We, too, have
discovered the documents. We nov
know how we have done this evil Bu
we. too, are strong enough to stop it
not in another future, but here an6
now. we are already strong eTiou 81
and courageou enough to make an enc
Of 1t.
1 And your league of Justice 1t should
be wide as the nation, because the in.
justices against which you tilt are ma.
tional. In hundred cities these league.
should spring into life and knit them
selves into banded strength agains
which neither the business nor politica
shyster could hold his own
The facts are at last clear enough
the danger grave enough, and the caus,
sublime enough to put the fire of /:
great purpose and great faith into tn,
movement. What, in a sentence, is tn,
cause? It is to rescue business ant
4 politics from their infamies; It is t
make the words politics and citizen
ship at least as sacred as the wore
religion. ut is as with heads bowet
under a common shame-that KNOWN,
at last the nature of our guilt; tn
first steps, we do one and all leagu
ourselves for justice, and pay the full
j honest price OF reform
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
cuMM1Ns AND DoLL1vER.
Hardin County Citizen.1

l4Ao1 SOutily S3llLSHl
Who censures Cummins and Dolli-
yer for breaking with the president
under such conditions? Very, very few
in Iowa. There isn't state in the un-
ion more ably represented in the IN
tied States senate than Iowa. Where is
the state with two senators OF such
strength. ability, courage and debating
power? There is none.
Iowa honors them and will honor
them for the fight that they have
maze. II is not material that they have
lost It Is material that they have stood
for right against wrong. Taft can win
nothing by his polliwog performance,
except the contempt of the American
people which will increase with the
passing months apd years if he pur-
sues his present course of action.
The battle between corporate
wealth, monopoly, trusts and combin-
ations will not down, except by solu-
ton. It will not solve in year or a
decade. It is not to be expected that
the old school of senators or poll
ticians will take up with the new
army engaged in the contest for the
reformations desired. The past does not
usually extend the welcome hand to
the future. The reigning king does not
abdicate without murmur. The even
| ing does not usher in the dawn. Here
| may be found one reason why congress
has deserted the Roosevelt standards.
There are others.
Other congressman, many congress
men, are prompted by selfish motives
They are not broad enough to be
statesmen. Again, there are many Of
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carried by great movements, not forces,
to assist progress. The sooner union
labor finds out that the object of these
forces is selfish to the last degree and
their purpose is to cozen and betray
the better for the magnificent associa-
tions of workers and for the splendid
purposes for which they stand.
'Three cheers!" cried Peleg Potter.
Three cheers!" cried Treadwell True
And so the cheers were echoed
Quite all the country thru.
'+The U. S. of Rhode Island.
Its name shall be-" they cry,
And all else shall be Annex.
To Providence, r. l."
j. Foley in New York Times.
Why doesn't that continuous Cedar
Rapids piano player lay claim to the
reward as a cure for the sleeping sick
ness?
One of the peculiarities of an out
lawed and law defying business is its
excessive fear that the constitution is
in danger of being all shot to pieces
in the process of law enforcement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
WHAT WILL TAFT 90?

Senator AlGrich and his allies assume
to know what is best and proper for
the American consumer 10 pay but
commission selected with care 10 in
ouire into tariff schedules and care
fully weigh and consider in even hand
ed Justice between the consumer ard
the protected interests is dangerous
thing. When Bexeridge asked for such
a commission and was backed by the
business organizations Of the country
with practical unaninity he was put
aside in contemptuous fashion and
the demands and requests of business
organizations given not the slightest
attention by the committee on ways
and means. The committee on ways
and means resented interference. They
knew what was expected of them ii
they held their committeeships and
were 10 be able to pick UP a postoffice
now and then. So the commission sug-
gestion was dismissed with contemp,
and even with contumely Later the
finance committee reported out pro-
vision that permits the president tc
employ persons to make investigations
into tariff conditions but 1t is but tht
ghost of a tariff commission.
Just why Senator Aldrich and his
committee should assume that a tariff
commission is contemplate thing will
be clear enough to the minds of man,
republicans when the committee is an.
alyzed with knowledge of it's member.
ship, leadership and constituent ele,
ments but the conclusion is not likel,
70 shake faith in tariff commission
How little Senator Aldrich actual.
knows about tariff has been mad
plain by the senators from Iowa upol
the floor of the senate chamber. Jus
what his apprehension of his duty an.
obligation as a tariff maker is, has bee
pretty evident to great mass of tn
American people for some time.
The taEiM bill finally agreed upol
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
KIND OF FLIRTING MEANT.
Professor Palmer Of Harvard Revises
His Suggestion to Students.

Professor Palmer Of Harvard Revises
His Suggestion to Students.
Professor George n. Palmer of Har-
ward university says. according to a
Boston dispatch. that the wrong i'm
preston has been given by reports of
his address in which he recently said
flirting sometimes was good thing.
Il am afraid have been misunder-
,ood," he said. "All l was trying to
say was this: Make your pleasure a
good background to hard study, and If
you get any pleasure out Of innocent
flirting there can be no Reasonable OBJ.
lection to it.
81 believe we should get as much
happiness out Of life as possible, and I
merely am urging what l believe is
the innocent side of the subject. All
might not be able to use it in the sense
that meant it."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
s1os,7s4,e2e OFF.

The decreased value OF exports of
ffoodstuffs from the United States was
most marked in the fiscal year ending
July 1, 1902 being fall og $780,
754,62s in spite of the high prices Of
products. The closing months of the
year show no immediate prospect Of
changing conditions. No one article
was responsible for the drop, 1t being
distributed proportionately between
grains, meat and meat products and
dairy products.
Crop conditions were responsible
for a portion of the showing, but the
course of trade in the last few years
seems to predict that the United States
is approaching the point where it will
cease to be a large exporter Of food
stuffs if we keep up the gait of the past
ten years. At present we are con-
suming more in proportion than ever
before and at bigger prices. High
prices have much to do with the falling
off in exports. When the American
Workingman insists on steak at Is
cents a pound the foreign workingman
must go without. He can't buy it. He
wouldn't if he could in many instances
and many countries. Thrift is religion
and the secret of the success of the
foreign born farmer in America is
mainly that he has learned to go with
out much that he would like and that
he might buy at the sacrifice of econ
omy.
Then too the ranges where cheap
beef was produced are gone from the
United States. They still remain to
Argentina and the llanos and pampas Of
South America. The big wheat fields
are passing. The day of cheap food pro-
ducts is pretty we'll past.
Notwithstanding all this were Amer
lean livestock given a reciprocal OPP
portunity in the markets of the world
the increase in the value and volume Of
such exports would be gratifying md
permanent.
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AT LEAST AN AVERAGE CROP.

July is the critical crop month. An
accident like hot winds over the corn
belt has often defeated the keenest
business calculations How much
fraction OF a crop per cent means to
the country's trade can be figured from
the estimated total wealth TO come out
of the ground this year,-eight billion
dollars or more.
The only banner crop" for 1909 will
be corn. If the estimate of three billion
bushels is reached. here alone is the
stupendous sum of $4,000 100000 for
the American farmer.
Cotton the backbone of our export
trade (two-thi7ds OF it is sent ahoard)
seems better than expected The first
government report of the season ap-
peared June ana vas Interpreted as
indicating some thirteen million bai-s,
about the average-altho the acreage
was ~ per cent less than last year.
Wheat. oa5s. ana barley combined
will be ihe arsas. wi,:iu five years
according 70 The government figures @.
June The actual acreage Of w,aeat vi!
be the lowest ap- one in .la. period
but the yield Is counted al the high
est bu- one. w..,h prices bringing ,hs
j farmer an average Of perhaps IS cent
a bushe!,-since the outlook Is for {
= ebo-.e-e in o-her wheat growing coun.
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Iona Newspapers
WHERE WAS THE MAN?
LCedar Falls Record

The Waterloo Courier published the
ether day cut of young woman,
who in her desperation, had drowned
ner Legitimate child in Spirit Lake.
In order 10 show up the crime in its
enormity the picture of the author of
the poor girls downfall ought to have
appeared along with that of the un-
fortunate girl. The probabilities are
that he is received in the best society,
makes himself agreeable into the best
homes and is looking for some pure
girl to become his wife. Such dastards
will have none but the best when it
comes to selecting bride. If all of
the men who have deceived trusting.
confding girls had their just deserts
their burdens would be as grevious
as that of their victims. This thing
Of stoning the woman and letting
the man go freee is one of the crimes
against present day civilization.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
Can Grating Be Stopped No1u?
[John LaFollettes weeklyl

That, l believe to be the great illu-
sion, and l submit this test. I can as
sumo what is true of the east is true
also of the west-what is true Of AL
bany, n. Y, is true of Sacramento
My question-test is this: If the little
to face these issues and say bluntly
and fearlessly to the people, I'VE have
been doing this shameless and dirty
work and You, the people, have been
doing it with US. You have supported
representatives that clutched at graft.
We and all Of US together tarred with
the same stick, neither shall the
pot nor the kettle call the other black,
but all together, we will now enter
upon the ways Of cleanness, decency
and honor once for all we will break
with the jury fixer; once for all we will
break with the representatives of race
track and poolroom gamblers; once
for all we viii break with them who
for gold, force women into the ways
that take hold on hell, for their own
gain. Yes, take hold on he'll, because
that type of male drives her to 1t and
organizes her destruction not even for
lust. but for money.
What Determined Business Men Could
Do.
From one and all Of these rotting
alliances we will break away; we will
begin in city and state, taking every
step above board and in the open where
all men may see. We will ask no fayors
which require darkness. We. the di-
rectors OF your transportation, lighting
and banking will take this step-if You
| the people, will take 1t. We Will an
nounce policy OF self-respect If you
the people will support it. II you will
smite the CRATER and the panderer, we
too, will sIriite him." This is my test
if that honest message went out from
the councils of your business kings AND
masters, would the people play The
poltroon? Would they continue to allo"
the petty plackmailer in city council!
and state legislatures to hold up these
public service corporations?
So meanly Of the American people
we will not think. So many OF thes'
corporations have worked in the dark
have appropriated, by devious juggler
les. those priceless economic privilege
thru which they could loot the public
and they have done 1t by the invited
cooperation and help OF the law
breaker and the criminal. Is At, there
fore. thing to cape and wonder at
that the people have grown hostile an.
suspicious? II they have the wit o
eighth grade schoolboys. how coul
they avoid suspicion? Knowing 80 litti
kof the shady and conceded manjpuaa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15

ures actually use a number Of real
toilet articles in keeping themselves
clean. No less an authority than DIR.
McCook says their toilet articles con.
sist Of coarse and fine toothed combs,
hair brushes, sponges, and even wash
es and soap. Their saliva is their liq-
uid soap, and their soft tongues are
their sponges, Their combs, however,
are the genuine article and differ from
our mainly In that they are fastened
to their legs. The ants have no set
time for their toilet operations, but
stop and clean UP whenever they get
soiled,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
c.sk FIo.ted Past the Pole.

Some ten years ago Rear Admiral
Melville and Henry G. Bryant. now
president OF the Geographical Society
of Philadelphia, set fifty casks adrift
on Bering Strait off the northwest
coast of Alaska. A picture OF one of
these which, after being adrift for ten
years. was picked up last November
off the coast of the island of Sora,
which is north Of Norway. appears in
the August number of Popular Me-
chanics. The passage of the cask into
the Atlantic proves that there is drift
flowing northeast thru the Arctic wa
tiers. 1t is believed that the cask in its
long journey must have passed close
to the pole.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-15
New Use For Old Bachelor

The man chaperon" is a novelty in
London, and he promises to become
permanent. Taking out girl relative
or child of an invalid friend is one Of
the hardest duties of the married wo-
man. 1t was happy thought to turn
the dull bachelors, long past their
youth, to some use The men, too,
have been flattered by this easy re-
sponsibiity, and they take honest de-
light in guiding the young misses
through the London drawing rooms,
theaters and all the rest. The plan
might be tried in the United States If
the comfort loving old bachelors could
be tempted long enough from their
clubs.
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Simplified SpeIlins,
(simplifed Spelling Bulletin.)

tSlWpl1hed Spelling Bullettn.)
Nearly 1000 teachers, superintend.
ents and college professors have sign
ed the cards OF agreement to use the
shorter forms of spelling recommended
By the board. Every large university
ani college is represented.
The National Education Association
has repeatedly endorsed simplihed spell
ing. The twelve words and other short
er forms are used in the proceedings
of the association. Nearly 1000 of Its
astive members have signed the card
of agreement
The Iowa State Normal School of
Cedar Rails. Iowa, DR.. Homer H. Seer
ley. president, and the Illinois State
Normal University of Normal, H., DR..
David Felmley, president, use in their
catalogs and other publications the full
list Of siInplified spellings published by
the Silnplified Spelling Board.
Other normal schools in Colorado,
Minnesota. Pennsylvania and Wiscon-
sin use simplif1ed spelling in a greater
or less degree, and are preparing the
graduates to teach the new forms along
with the old wherever as teachers they
may be permitted TO do so.
The State Teachers Associations OF
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Car
dina and Wisconsin have approved
simpltied spelling. The State Teach
ers' Association of Tennessee has rec
commended it to the attention of teach
ers.
The teachers institute at Easton
Pa, at a meeting addressed by DR.
Scott. Professor Hart and Professo,
Owen. April 16. 1909. requested the
school directors to adopt the first lis,
(the 900 words) for use in the Easton
schools
! Individual public and private schools
in the following states teach the SIM
pier spelling: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa,
! Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota
/ New Jersey, New York, North Dakota
! Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee. Washington an6
| Wisconsin