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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08
Convention Well Attended

Eleven churches of the district were represented at the Sunday school con- vention which was held at the Meth odist church in Oxford Sunday after noon and some inspiring talks were made on topics pertaining to the work. The convention was called to order by s. A.. Russell of Annlston, and Rev. George Stoves, also of this city, pre- sided
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08
Anniston Court. Adjourn

The fall terms of the United States circuit and district courts for the north ern district of Alabama, the Seventh dis trict circuit court and the city court of Anniston were all convened this morn- ing, but they will be adjourned all day tomorrow on account of the general election. A light docket is reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08
Prompt Returns
VIII Contest Gunter's Election

Judge William H. Thomas, judge of the city court of Montgomery. will contest the election of ex-Mayor Gaston Gunter of this city as judge of the court Pro- ceedings are expected to begin by Novem- Der 15 when MT. Gunter is expected to take his seat.
 Attorneys who are back of Judge Thomas fin the movement are contending that the special act of the legislature of 1907, under which Mir. Gunter was elected.
 is void. Ten or twelve grounds are as signed as reasons The attorneys will at tine same time contend that the old act under which Judge Thomas now holds of- flee does not expire until August IS, 1915. It is maintained that Judge Thomas should be considered to he standing in the shoes of the present associate justice of the state supreme court. whom Judge Thomas succeeded as senior judge of the Montgomery city court.
 Judge Thomas has not openly an nounced that he will institute the pro- ceedings, but strong currency has been given to the report that his lawyer friends will undertake the action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08
Coal Car shortase

A material coal car shortage is notice able on the Louisville and Nashville and
 ,ed Ohio railroads, due to the big demands for cars which has been voice from almost every coal mining re- .. U s..s ,....va states. Other railroads centering in Montgomery are said to be little affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08

Rivers and Hnrbors DeIegatea
 President s. J. Cassels of the Business Mems league of Montgomery has appoint ed Nathan Lobnan. R. M. Hobbie and H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08

If you discover stronger, better acting heart, steadier nerves and sounder sleep. it will be reasonably clear that your body is offering thanks for relief from the daily drug, caffeine base of coffee.
 When this destructive drug is discon- tinued, Nature starts to repair the damage.
 You will probably receive much bene- fit from simply leaving off coffee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-08

It will greatly add to your comfort to have good, hot cup of well-made Postum each morning and Dame Nature will re- pair much more rapidly, for Postum con tains some elements from the wheat which Nature uses in rebuilding nerve tissue.
 You can have the scientific data on request.
 The facts are here, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts ofObinions
Value in Prayer.

There is a value in prayer. But 70
believe that God answers and changes
history in direct response to direct ap-
peal, is to believe that God is tribal
God, a UNCONVENTIONAL God. And that
is to make him not God, but gods. And
that by the unerrng force of logic, is
to make him powerless to act, be-
cause he can act only for his denon-
ination, or his tribe
Curiously enough, since Chris tendon
became christian, to believe that God
answers prayers, and shapes history
according to the appeal of man, is 10
believe that he hears the loudest pray
ers. If the Beers and Britons prayed
to the same God twelve years ago
and there are no more devout, Cod
fearing peoples than these two ultra
orthodox examples, he must have had
a perplexing time in celebrating upon
his answer. He seems to have answered
first the British since they had the
strongest battalion, with leanings tow
ard the Beers because they had the
best sharpshooters. But today he turns
the historic tables, with the assistance
of Mr.. Winston Churchill, and lends
himself to a reconstruction of South
Africa which gives the Beers equal
rights and more than equal liberties.
When one comes to analyze specific
instances, and positive results, like
this Briton-Boer war, to pronounce
definitely on the answer to prayer ap-
pears sufficiently difficult. OF course
if the old view Of an "inscrutable prov
idence" is to explain 1t all, 1t can never
be explained.
Huck Finn was puzzled about this
answer to prayer, even more than Will
rs =. West. I.v TyLviGs ii Il, tiis i::!!-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

each other, and took chances on 500
or thirty days.
They headed in wrong" when they
pulled for a saloon the first thing they
did The direction a man take 1ndl-
Gates where he is likely to land and the
ward battle, murder and sudden death,
the jail and the penitentiary and the
gallows. If a fellow sticks to that road,
stays in the middle of it he'll land in
the alley, in jail or farther along the
road. Go back fifteen years, Take the
fellows who were headed in on that
track then. Check them over today.
You'll be simply Mortified at the result.
Now a fellow doesn't have to start
for the Y. NJ. c. A. the minute he
strikes town or go and sit on the
church steps. In either case he wouldn't
go very far wrong, but he doesn't have
to do either to be decent. He doesn't
have to make a round of the booze
emporiums in order to have good
time however. a pool game ought to
furnish amusement without gambling
over it and a fight in an alley isn't
actually necessary to mark happy day.
Pretty nearly all the fights, half the
gambling and nine-tenths of all the
vicious devilry perpetrated starts with
a few beers and a hooker or two. The
fellow who heads for them as pre-
liminary to pleasure and delight sooner
or later is sorry. If he is seeking trou-
BILE he can't do better than start on
few beers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
Do Foreign Missions Pay?

That the American people are be-
coming more skeptical concerning the
advisability of efforts to evangelize the
Orient was the statement made by
Rev. Percival H. Barker. pastor of the
First Congregational church, haywood
Mr. Barker said in part:
I'm spite of the enthusiasm mani
tested in the national campaign Of the
laymens missionary movement the
hostile criticism of Americas efforts to
evangelze the heather is rapidly IN
creasing The modern critic has three
great arguments against this move
ment He reasons that there are so
many heather in America that 1t is
foolish to waste the strength OF the
church in trying to preach to the
heather abroad and If the same
amount of money had been devoted to
home missions and the same devoted
men and women had toiled for sixty
years in the home field, we would not
have the awful conditions which today
threaten the future of this republic in
the saloon, the reeking slums, the
Augean stables Of municipal govern
ment and the white slave traffic.
sThe modern critic says further
that the missionaries are petty men
with mercenary motives, who are ex-
travagant and live in luxury; that 1t
costs 50 to send 81 to the orient. and
that enormous sums are contributed
for small results.
"His third argument is that the
masses in the orient are unaffected by
Christianity. For example. China has
400. 100000 souls with 6,3SS working
protestants among them and 100000
names on the church books, small
drop in a vast bucket.
Reniying to the criticisms, Mr. Bar
ker said: Il admit that there are heath
en- in America and that there are forces
of corruption at work in our midst. The
church should care for the heather at
home, but history shows that the
church has accomplished more for
these where she has been most agrees
sive abroad Today we have 22,00G
missionaries in foreign fields. the bible
is translated into 500 different Ian
gauges, $50, 00O0 600 is annually spent on
this cause, and yet there never We're
so many organized efforts to check evil
in our own land as today.
1T does not cost 81 to send 81 to the
heather. 1t costs less than cents.
Many Chicagoans spend more annually
for theater tickets than it costs mis-
sionary to keep himself and family and
carry on his work. You can't have
much luxury on $500 year.
THAT traveller who will accept the
missionarys hospitality. eating from
his table and sleeping beneath his roof,
and then will deliberately reproach him
for his extravaganza. not only violates
the law of hospitality, but is unworthy
of confidence concerning his law for
truthfulness. AS for the quality of
these men, Livingstone, Mackay, Nc
kenZie and all that heroic company
will match any group of men engaged
in any other enterprise turnout the
world The missionary's work is not yet
com pleted, but his success thus far
warrants the continuance of his task.
christian missionaries have brought
a higher civilization to a multitude of
foreigners, advanced the political, Soc
al and moral status in Japan. brought
political liberty and religious tolera-
ton to Turkey, led the revolt against
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
SheriH's Sale.

Notice is hereby given. that by the
virtue of a writ of special execution,
issued out of the clerk office Of the
district court OF the state OF Iowa in
and for Marshall county, and to me di-
rected, upon judgment rendered in
district court on the 31st day of Aug
ust, 1910, in favor Of j II. Augustine,
and against Sarah f. Plumb, c. H Cot
felt. Susan " Coffelt, Minnie Slime
man, Hahn & Stouffer, j. II. Hahn, II.
G.. Stouffer, Mrs. j. II. Hahn, Mrs. H G.
SIouiTer, and state Savings Bank OF
Story county, Iowa. have levied upon
the following described real estate, to-
wit:
The west 50 feet, more or less OF 10
south 120 feet of the south Il of block
%, in the town of Gilman, Marsnat
county, Iowa Taken as the property of
said Sarah E. Plumb, G. H. Coffelt, J.
II. Hahn, and H. G. Stouffer and that
on the 1st day of October, A. D., 1910.
at the hour of II o'clock. a. m, of said
day, at the front door of the court
house, in the city of Marshalltown,
county and state aforesaid, I will pro-
coed to sell said property, or 50 much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
said execution, amounting to five hum
dred tWenty-eight and 25-100 (s52S.25)
dollars, debt, and cost of suit, taxed at
forty-seven and 30-106 (s47.30) dollars,
with interest on said debt at the rate
OF 6 per cent from the date of said
Judgment, together with all accruing
costs, at public auction to the highest
and best bidder for cash in hand.
Dated at Marshalltown, Iowa, this
End day of September, A. D., 1910.
A A. NICHOLSON,
Sheriff of Marshall COUNTY
T. NJ. HOLT,
Attar-aa az for Plair+tf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
CANNED STUFF"

A large grocery firm in Marshalltown
has rented one of the largest and most
highly cultivated farms in the county
other large acreage rented from other
farmers adjacent to Marshalltown, en-
tirely to raising truck for canning
purposes.
When an association of shrewd bus
mess men look for increased dividends
thru raising truck for its own Gamer
les the fact hints pretty plainly that
there is good money in that kind of
farming and that big canneries are in
dustries to encourage. The labor of a
large number of persons is needed be-
tween seed time and the busy season Of
the cannery. Nowadays nobody works
unless paid A pay check is a pay
check whether it was earned in the
fields, cannery or factory. Pay
checks are good for business"
Iowas canneries are a great indus
try. A Vinton dispatch says the can
merry a that place Will put out II 900 900
cans of corn Hampton has just fin
ished big cannery and will pack mil
lions of cans. Gilman has a plant
which can handle 100000 or more
cans. Altogether it is stated that Iowa
has about fifty canneries busy preserv-
ing corn. tomatoes and other truck
And Iowa cans travel far bearing the
legend of Iowa packing firms from
Tampa to Bearings.
The canning industry in Iowa is in
its infancy. We can raise enough
truck TO supply the world with
canned stuff" Why don't we do it,
and can it in Iowa?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
HoRSEFLESH TIME?

While this country is grumbling over
the price of meat and buying it at
whatever price it happens TO be, France
and Germany are grumbIing. but not
buying it. The majority of European
Inhabitants can not buy meat. The
working and peasant classes have never
been meat buyers, except once or
-wice a week, and prices are now where
beef and pork are prohibitive.
A considerable amount Of horse flesh
is sold in both Germany and France,
eagerly bought and eaten. But re-
Gently protest was entered against the
shipment of worn out horses, in all
sorts of conditions. from overwork
age and weakness which are being
shipped from England and other
points to be butchered for food in
horse no longer goes to the knacker
for the price Of his hide. He is shipped
to market where not only his hoofs,
bones and hide are valuable but where
his flesh is merchantable and openly
displayed for sale and as openly pur-
chased
AS the populations of our great cities
grow and our farm population shows
decrease what are we coming to-?
Horsefesh? If the supply of meat
products is to fall far below demand
and necessity how long will it be before
horsefesh is quoted in New York and
Chica go?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
A FEW BEERS AND BET.

Two young men. socially inclined
and friendly, dropped in for some beer.
They got it, Then they dropped in for
a game of pool. They made small
bet on the game. A dispute arose over
a difference of 10 cents. Adjournment
the other down and jumped in his
face.
No they were not drunk. They'd had
some beer and made a bet. OF course
they felt what they'd drank little
a,'t they get Into brutal -c=, hurt huIT
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
sheriH,s Sale.

Notace : hefeoy gwen mat ny VT
rue q d miIl q Special execution IS
sueo out % ne clerk : once OF the as
slicl GouIt - li1e slale u iowa ~ ana
lol MARSHA eol'i,S' ana % me q
iectea upon q jug. ileill rendered IN
a,s.llce 1 or oA e.l7 49, aay OF
aug 1s'' To- ~ -aNoI % j. n -Augus
tine and against Richard Lynn Mary
~ m i>'0p ief>iH, - l. Lyons. n. ,.
S"ahsoI,' : alIeS 91"ch' MS. mares
to0o1A r. -; ~ nay IeN4~a
upon t!ie AoIlo" ing deScflpeQ real es-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
Topics of the Times
Weather forecast for New York:
Rising temperature

Weather forecast for New York
Rising temperature.
Walter Welman is preparing to cross
the Atlantic in an arship, but the At
lantic may have something to say be-
fore the trick is turned.
Teh democrats of Iowa still hesitate
to push that liquor plank What's the
trouble, boys?
And it isn't likely that Lorimer can
come back either
Keep the hens in good working order.
1t is said that eggs will be 10 cents
dozen in January.
Il don't give rap for holding office"
says Roosevelt. He has been known.
however. to give a good many raps
while holding office.
And now New York it's your turn,
and you're in for sight more of it
than the rest of US got
You'd think to hear Uncle Jim Hill
talk that he doesn't like the country.
Yet it is the only country that ever
produced a Jim Hill.
In its decision in the fisheries case,
The Hague sustained its reputation for
impartiality.
With New Hampshire gone progress
sive, Rhode Island must begin to feel
oppressed.
1t seems that in Oklahoma it isn't
necessary to fill an Indian UP with
firewater and sit into a poker game
with him in order to get his wealth.
That was very pretty hobble skirt
T. P presented to Billy I-ofi1nor
Appendicitis has made its appearance
in London. AS yet only the upper
classes can afford it.
A summer coal strike is about the
most highly valued asset of the dealer
in autumn.
A French aviator went up 1892 feet
the other day. It nothing compared
with the height to which T. r hoisted
Billy Lorimer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

mitable adventures. for Huck was a
philosopher, and tried always to study
a thing out.
II sat down one time back in the
woods and had long think about it.
says to myself If body can get
anything they pray for why don't
Deacon Winn get back the money he
lost on pork? Why can't the widow
get back her silver snuff box that was
stole? Why can't Miss Watson fat up?
says to myself, there amt nothing to
| it,"
| It is interesting to know that these
| few lines from Huckleberry Finn are
the real gem of the book which Mark
Twain had privately printed and dis
tributed among certain of his friends
for he did not wish to fall under the
public ban-as Prof West has braved
it, But from several paragraphs in
that book I find that Mark Twain
thought exactly as Huck Finn.
MAN the machine-man the imper-
sonal machine. Whatsoever, a man is
due to his make and to the influences
brought to bear upon it by his heredi-
ties, his habitat, his association. He is
moved, directed, com manded by exter-
Tor influences solely. He originates
nothing-not even a thought. Person
ally you did not create even the small
est microscopic fragment of the mater
ials of which your opinion is made. and
personally you cannot claim even the
slender merit Of putting the borrowed
materials together That was done
automatically by your mental machin-
cry in accordance with the law of that
machinerys construction. You did not
make that machinery, you have no
command over it,
From one point Of view, this does not
seem like the contradiction of prayer.
But here is IAN identity Of contradic-
tories" and certainly if you can not
originate any thing within you, you
can not change anything without you.
Small wonder Miss Watson couldn't
fat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
Ballad of the Fly.

Baby bye,
Here's a fly,
BY the state he's doomed to die,
Since he brings
Germ-l like things
On his legs ard wings.
Countless millions of the same
Have their lodging on his frame
His offense
Is INNER
Hang his impudence!
See him pass
Bold as brass,
With a buzz that's full of sass
'Sz-'sz-'sizz.
There he is
on the grub-see whiz,
See him with infected feet
Walking on the bread and meat:
Then the whim
Seizes him
In the milk to swim.
Baby bye.
Shun the fly.
Pure food sharps will tell YOU why.
'Tis no joke,
They will soak
Fly protecting folk.
Therefore. get your little ak,
Stay the "musca" in his tracks.
Don't delay.
Haste to Stay!
Little fly, good day. good day
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

every ounce of his strength into the
trial With his success, Dolliver saw
ed off his disagreeable personal allus-
ions and ran up the insurgent flag The
! Junior senator did not need to boast
His personal triumph was conspicuous
| before the state"
| The Clarkville Star says "the big
ear sof corn looks better to the farm
ers of Iowa as they are ripening than
the golden opportunities as pictured
to them by the real estate dealers Of
the west and northwest
| The Cedar Rapids Republican says
the men and the companies which
have been defrauding the Indians in
| Oklahoma have been pursuing a really
time-honored customed in these Unit
ed States. We have justified past
transactions of that kind on the ground
that 1T was one of the necessities OF
civilization to take away the lands from
those who We're not making adequate
use of them"
The Ida Grove Record Era agrees
| that the various 'river-to- river roads
across Iowa are step in the right di-
!
excellent roads during a portion of the
year if the plans of the promoters are
carried out" says the Record Era.
but Iowa will never have really good
roads-roads which are good the year
around-until something besides dirt
is used for a top dressing"
"The candidates who are running for
office are mighty anxious for harmony
and want everybody else to fall in line
and help them get the offices When
they are in the party can go to the
I devil as far as they are concerned All
i of the big hogs are not at the state
fair" angrily concludes the Estherville
Republican. a hardshell standpat week
/ ly.
Every candidate should be required
to publicly commit himself on this
matter. A vote for Smith for speaker
| is a betrayal Of the progressive cause"
says the Websted City Herald.
The Webster City Freeman Tribune
says "the Cosson law is proving its
own worth and its author is deserving
the worth Of every law abiding citizen
who places the majesty of the law
above party expediency.
TT was to be supposed" says the
Dubuque Telegra ph-Herad. that so
earnest an advocate of a central bank
of issue as George F. Roberts would
be cared for and that he would be put
into a position where his views will
carry the prestige of a high office"
Colonel Roosevelt has given the adj
ministration several partial compli-
ments but by putting them all together
You do not get a whole compliment"
says the Sioux City Journal.
"Roosevelt has called a great many
people liars says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette Turn about is only fair
play" rsr
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
THE LODGES.

A MASONIC NOTICES.
EHHall over 105-107 West Main.
VNVlsitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE. 10s. A. F. &
A. M. Stated communication, Friday,
Sept. 16, at p. m.
y. w. Chamberlain, W. NJ.
H. S. Lawrence. Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80. r. A. n
Stated convocation Monday evening,
Sept. 10.
George H. Boggie. b. II. p.
/. 8. Willard. Secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY KING SOLO,
mon Council, No. 20, r. & s. NJ. Mon
day, Sept 10, 1880 p. m.
l. I. Forbes, Recorder.
A. D. Meeker. T. l. M.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY. No.
80 x. T. Stated conclave Tuesday eve
ming, Sept. 20, 1910, at 8 o'clock sharp.
At this conclave we will confer the
Order of the Temple. Sir knights be
present if possible.
Fred NJ. Wilbur. e. G.
Fred Wallace. Recorder
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Nc. 81. o. b.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday even-
ing, Sept. A. 8 p. m.
Mrs. George Downing, w. NJ
Edna c. Fularton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

The statement that q woman who was
tripped by her hobble skirt has suffer-
ed conclusion of the brain. seems some
what contradictory. 1t is difficult to
understand how a woman who will
wear on the of the sartorial caricatures
could have any brains.-Philadelph
Inquirer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

foot binding and opium in China, de-
veloped commerce. contributed to our
knowledge of geography, history,
biology, anthropology and adorned the
pages Of history with the noblest IL
Illustrations of heroism"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

every ounce Of his strength into the
trial. With his success, Dolliver saw
ed off his disagreeable personal allus-
ions and ran up the insurgent flag The
Junior senator did not need to boast
His personal triumph was conspicuous
before the state"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

go far as Iowa is concerned, there
can be no dispute that Senator Cum
Minis is father of the movement He
took his life in his hands and as many
az ten years ago." says the Sioux City
Journal. "He had no cinch on going
- the senate. uut ...S determined :, *.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The children of Iowa wander far
and are loyal to the places where they
live, but they love their old home and
their native state and we are glad to
welcome them, says the Brooklyn
Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10

That treasury department foundry
will not put creases in the bank bills
it washes and irons. Otherwise there
would be a chance for the old witticism
concerning the way in which the pro-
cess Increases the original values
Cleveland Plain Dealer.