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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-31
HERMAN's FEELINGS HURT.
Streets and Alleys Chairman Doesn
Like Certain limitations.

Like Certain Intimations.
Chairman Herman, of the streets and
,ss,leys committee of the city council,
,rfsso Is believed by his friends to be
-fonSest above everything else, has had
dis feelings wounded-by certain intima-
z4.--.. r4zac5e to him that there was
.hoc,diin& going on in reference to the
r,ronosed oaving contracts.
NJ Herman informed the council
aSonday night that he was not going to
nre.eut his resolution for paving, as he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-31
UBIIcAN aARsHAILTowr, IOWA. MARCH 1910

city, but who is thought to be living
in Muscatine now, and daughter,
Ella Hales, OF Newton, and one son,
Cornelius Hales, Of Waterloo. Arrange
ments for the funeral have not been
made
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-31
APopLExY KILLS VETERAN.
Joseph Podhaisky, of Cedar Rapids
Stricken-Another Veteran Dies

Stricken-Another Veteran Dies.
Two veterans of the soldiers home
died late Wednesday afternoon and
during the evening. The first of these
was Joseph Podhaisky. of Cedar Rap
ids, who was stricken with apoplexy at
4:25 O'Clock while he was lying on his
bed in his ward. No one was with him
or in the room at the time. The other
death was that of John Hales, who
entered the home from this city. He
died al $50 of cirrhosis of the liver.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-31
oxFoRDs FOR ALL
You Will Find Thorn at Larso" &
Clemens, MarshaIItown's Popular
Shoe Store.


We have them for the husband, wife,
son, or daughter. in all styles and
feathers. For the husband pair OF
vici black or brown oxfords. would be
suitable. The wife that has tender feet
should wear Growers hand made OK
fords. they will make her happy III
the son wishes to be in style ne shouio
try a pair of our tan gun metal or
patent oxfords. Last but not least, the
daughter knows that Queen Quality
oxfords are the best for style, fit and
comfort.
LARSON & CLEMENS.
Real Estate Transfers.
Harriet l. Sutton to Ida NJ. Evans
parts of lots anD s. block 3. north
Marshall, $500.
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AFTER THE WAR.

az LIVED like Southern gentleman
after the war. had my carriage,
my rare wines, my servants, and my
country estates. spent money and
loaned money. and, then, principally, /
lost money. Those former slaves OF
mine Just kept eating il I'D: the farms
were bringing in nothing, cotton was low,
and my funds began TO sink and sink"
How much money have YOU spent
during your life, Senator2' I asked,
having in mind the statement that IL
was six millions. although the most en-
Tightening statement I could draw from
Colonel Gordon was TO the effect that ne
was a "multi-miliCnaire. He would
never use the numeral
'Oh, I don't think Of that he said,
with a twinkle in his eyes q never
cry about split milk; 1 get an empty
pail and go in search Of another COW
Mrs. Gordon interrupted here to an
swer the telephone call les, the Sen
ator would accept the dinner invitation
and he appreciated the fact that the
prospective hostess on the other end
Of the wire liked the Senator's speech.
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THE LONG AGO.

CHRONOLOGICALLY. the appeal OF
- Senator Gordon's wonderfully To-
mantle life. aside with his sudden
springing into fame within day, prop
eriy begins with the narrative that
treats Of his return home after the war.
And this in spite OF the absorbing story
of his hairbreadth escapes during the
four-year struggle with the boys who
wore the gray.
Rather disconnectedly, at times, he
told il. OccasionaIl:, prompted by
Mrs. Gordon, who sat nearby in par
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SENATELEARNS TOLOVE
ON SHORT ACQUAINTANCE
Stad and Stanch Adherents Of Heretofore Unbroken
Traditions First to Applaud the Missssippians Re-
freshing Disregard Ct Unwritten Rules.

usual sort Of speeches 10 the voters a.
that with which he first startled and
next enthraIled the United States Sen
ate the other day Colonel Gordon told
them that his election amounted 10 but
little. but that the election Of Varda-
man meant much He won and Varda-
man won He is a friend 20 Vardamau
and the other candidates who recently
figured in the Mississippi deadlock that
resulted In the election OF Leroy Percy
as the successor TO the late senator Nc
Laurin and the sixty-days Senator Cor
don.
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my sixties; I had never done a days
work in my life, but It had 20 come
II took my son, and getting some
bunting utensils and caFping ma.erial,
7 turned my head towdrd the prairie5.
We hired out to farmers and with ny
soft hands / handled a pitchfork and
pitched johnson grass For Two months
] ate nothing except sorghum and corn
bread. I didn't have money 10 af.o7d
more. but 1 didn't Erum5le about it.
Comes Upon
A Bed Of Mint
'It came finally TO my last dime I
started 10 OlkOlOua after my camp farm
had failed 20 remunerate me, 10 see II
some one would let me rent 2 little place
Just outside the corporate limits On
the way came across a bed Of mint
tell you. il looked good Gathering a
few sprigs. I entered Okolona and went
70 a place where they sold something
necessary 70 the preparation Of a mint
julep. I lav my last dime upon the
counter, took two long straws. wEirled
the refreshing mint about In the glass.
and drank
ct was penuiIess.
II stepped OUT upon the street Upon
the sidewalk Iay another dime. I picked
/ II up, and something told me IL meant
turn IN fortunes wheel.
For a little while IL did not prove
| true. The man who owned the little
place 7 wished 20 rent wanted Sl5e in
/ cash. I hai 10 cents-a dime unexpect-
edly found ~ me and dropped by an
unknown factor.
"I had 10 Do something, so I parted
} with a cheri~ ned companion Of mine
a dog that had been sent me by a
friend in " 'sconsin. He was a fine
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Starts Life Anew
At Three Score Years.

It was the home Of which this poem
breathes-and YOU who know the colon
ial mansions 0f the South may picture
its quiet elegance-tbat those without
sentiment took from Colonel Gordon al
a time when Ife's work should be done.
II was in this same home tEat he left
an invalid wife-a halpleszs g-lest there
by grace Of those WI had dispcssessed
hini-while he. james Gordon. a man
who had seen his three score years and
had ever lived in afIuence. started out
10 begin hfe's battle again with just
$3.50
The story should be his again now.
4 had $3.50. counted It after all the
debts were paid. and I believe I am the
oTly millionaire who ever failed and paid
all outstanding debts. Well, 1 was in
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denly And Colonel Gordon. with trem
bling hand, reached for the ErtIe blu,
book containing his plantation melo
dles-the same book from which h'
read on the floor Of the Senate a fer
days ago, when ne paid a tribute L,
the old black nanny"
Here is a verse or so about Lochin
vah. the palaual country estate tha
the creditors took from the now Sen
aJor from Mississippi in the declining
years Of his life:
Old Lochinvah, OLD Lochinvah.
Thou dearest spot on earth 20
me,
Tl-o' may roam in lands afar,
Ny heart viii fondly turn 70
thee.
Old LocHinvah. sweet are the
flowers
That cluster round thy walls so
gay.
There 7 have played in child
hoods hours.
And dreamed my boyhood years
away.
Old LOchinvah, old LOchinvah.
Long may thy tall oaks Ger me
wave
And may the smiling vesper star
Peep through thy shadows on
nv grave.
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A Rich Man
On Return Home.

And then, Senator" I began.
'Wef-Um-um-weil. YOU know when
I got back home l was a rich man. Ny
father had five plantations and 500
slaves, although the latter were then
free 7 had a thousand bales of cotton
stored. Ny 'niggers' ate il up, for I be-
gan to advance them money 10 farm,
and they ate and ate. The carpet
baCgers came IN and taxed me $500 to
IS 600 a wear on lands that were abso-
lutely idle.
a few months after the war friends
who owed me S26OOO0 took bankruptcy
Just money that I had loaned out, yeu
know; 1 had plenty of it then, and I've
never been happy unless 1 could be
spending il for other people"
The Senator digressed here a bit 10
give me a little advice:
Don't want TO be rich; it will never
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taking liquid phySic or big or little
pills, that which makes you worse
instead of curing. CatharticS don't
cure-they irritate and weaken the
bowels. CASCARETS make the
bowels strong, tone the muscles so
they crawl and work-when they
do this they are healthy, producing
right results. so7
CAScARETS 10c a box for Il weeks
treatment All druggists. Big=>=t seller
in the world. Million boxes q month.
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GORDON ACHIEVES
FAME IN A DAY
Becomes Reminiscent Fol-
lowing Farewell Address in
United States Senate.
GAVE LAST PENNY
TO BUY MINT JULEP
Typical Southern Gentleman of
Old School Tells Life History
for First Time.
Continued from First PaEe.) }

and-the brow is frrrrowed with wrinkles:
but these are the tributes levied by in
Cressing years and are not the tolls ex-
acted by worry. for. despite his rather
pathetic career. this Mississippi colonel
has trained himself to look upon the
brighter side, 20 believe in predes int
ton, and to accept each day as it comes
without the thought OF tomorrow-the
day that never comes
Full of Kindness
For All Mankind.
This is Colonel Gordon as he appears
today-"A Southern gentleman Of
the old school," a man who writes
poetry for pastime, a man through
whose veins. as evinced in that mem
orabie farewell speech. there has ever
flowed rich, warm, red blood, and whose
heart Is running over with the milk Of
human kindness and love for MS fellow
man
Perhaps Il was this perspective that
caused Senator Depew. after Senator
Gordon had said his farewell. to arise
and say that no matter what man the
State of Mississippi might send to the
Senate in future years, he never could
be Colonel Gordon. His appeal IS one
Of picturesuuenesS Of hOmety phil
osophy, of Quaintness of pathOs, and
OF the days that are to the older OF us
a sacred memory. and to the younger of
us a priceless heritage.
His story reads more like romance
than chapter from life's own book. In
the Senate the other day. as he eX-
pressed it, during a five-hOur interview,
he only hit the high places"
Here are some Of the things he did
not tell:
That less than ten years ago, after
having lost his millions, he drove HIS
milk wagon and peddled milk through
the streets OF OkOlona, from which
little Mississippi town he was called 70
the United Sta tes Senate.
That the last vestige OF his fortune
was swept away in 1893. and that, when
sixty years Of age, he was forced. for
the first time. to do manual labor upon
rented farm
That in these troublous times he spent
his last dime for a mint juleD. only u
find. moment later. another dime upon
the sidewalk, the finding OF which turn
ed the tide OF fortune
That he nursed an invalid wife foi
nearly twenty years and that her in
valldism and his sense of love kept hin
at home when he might have come tC
Congress in the latter eighties, this be-
ing the gateway TO the Senate. to which
he had aspired since lad of five years
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Began TO Peddle
Milk In Old Home.

'I began 10 peddle milk in the town
where once / had lived as a million
aire. was content ! have always
taken things as they came, Just as
accepted the Temporary appointment as
Senator
zone DAY I drove through the streets
Of Ozolona- half-drunken street
lounge. called out 70 me:
Jim Gordon. you are nothing but
bro..en down aristocrat- I've seen
YOU drive through here with a carriage
and a span OF fine horses, and a mig
ger" with a boiled shirt. Now your
driving a milk wagon
II stopped just a moment 20 reply;
You are right. my friend. bat there
just one difference betwe n Us. can
drive a milk wagon and still be an
aristocrat; you might have a carriage,
q span OF horses and a Niger" with
q boiled shirt, but you win never be an
.aristocrat'
Brighter days followed for Colonel
Gordon. Leaving his milk wagon. he
became a candidate for the State sen
ate. He won by making the same IN
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Creditors Take
His BoYhood Home.

We'll. by 1898 II was all gone" con-
tinued Colonel Gordon. "Onc by one
had lost my farms and my money.
In this year they foreclosed the claim
on Lochinvah. my boyhood hOme-the
home Of my father before me, down
there in the Chickasaw country. where
he made his fortune. when the Indian
lands were opened for settlement.
when they took Lochi0vah away
from me Let me read you from
nv little book Of poems" ne said, sud
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make you happy I don't believe there
Is a contented rich man in the world
today. Look at me. I'm a happy man.
the birds sing for me every hour, and
1 lost everything. was content when
1 drove a milk wagon and hs' 10 Work
in the field at my sixty years.
Then ne picked UP the thread Of his
1snig1Ie narrative
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animal. and I realized $50 from the
sale. I went back to my prospective
landlord. and after awhile he agreed
to accept the $50 part payment on
rent and 70 take my notes for the
remaining one hundred dollars. At
that time I knew not where 1 would
obtain the other installments- Pride
kept me from seeking aid from friends
Of other days, or I should not have
told my dog goOd-by.
"Yet. with the same faith in my
mothers promise that II I was a good
boy would assuredly sit some day in
the United States Senate, I put faith
in the finding Of that dime. A few
days later I received a letter. Il was
from a wealthy woman in Chicago
widow whose husband had hunted
several winters on my plantations.
Somehow she had learned that fate
temporarily had set its hand against
me. She incIOsed a loan of $50 The
second instaIlment or the farm was
paid.
twenty-five years before the events
OF which I now speak, 7 had loaned a
struggling college student 800 A Few
years later he paid ne go Then he
drifted West and lost track Of him
When the third instaliment on the
farm was due, this man sent me $50
paid the last note and had SO in my
pocket
Then I began TO operate dairy
this vas in the latter n1neties-Dring-
ing down some Of the cows that the
people who took possession or my coun-
Try estate, LOchinvah. had turned loose
in the thicket La-er, too. 7 brought my
Invalid Wife down - the little rented
cottage. near Okolona.
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donable admiration. and because Of a
Question prompted by information re-
ceived from other sources he would for
get his reserve. In this momentary
chumlniness ascertaIned the real story
Of Colonel Gordon-the little things that
E. to make him entirely different.
In his hesltating, soft voice he lived
over again. In mis- story, many a skir-
mish OF his four years OF fighting.
Passing. for the time. his capture aboard
a so-called pirate ship at the fall OF
Fort Fisher-a ship that Colonel Cor
don had fitted out in Glasgow, Scot
land. through the sale OF Confederate
bonds. he told me of his fight from New
= ork TO Montreal
A friend Of mine warned me as I
left New York" he said, reminiscently,
that one Of the best detectives IN New
York was aboard my train As soon as
crossed the line I did a foolish thing
I rose in the car and yelled:
- 'Hurrah for JEFF Davis and the Con-
federacyr
Imagine my surprise when half a
dozen other fellows jumped I'D in the
car and yelled the same way. We were
[ all refugees. unknown to one another.
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FATHERS WERE FRIENDS.

a Nd strange Il is Chst the father o.
"A Senator-elect Percy and Col James
Gordon served together in the Aissis-
sippi Legislature away back In 1878
His first term as legislator. perhsp-,
cost Colonel Gordon the United STATE
SenatOrship years ago Following the
war there was passed q Law providin-
that those who had taken the oath Oi
office to the "rebel'' States must b.
disfranchised for ten years When hc
entered the Mississippi state Legisla-
tUre, in 1857. Colonel Gordon took the
oath of office 10 Mississippi and % tho
United States For ten years after the
war. therefore, he was a disfranchisaj
man, unable 90 run for Congress, as De-
lad intended tc do
During Cleveland's first Adninistra-
ton Representative Bary's constituency
became dissatisfied because he had been
unable 10 secure certain patronage The
voters proposed 70 nominate Colonel
Gordon. He went before the convention
and asked it to give Barry another
chance
Barry Is doing the best he can.
said the kindly Gordon Cleveland isn't
giving much 20 Mississippi. Barry cam
help it"
And rhe convention nominated Barr
again
The years rolled on and Colonel Cor
don bided his time Some day he vyanteI
20 come 10 Congress. but he didn't pro-
pose 70 do il al the sacrifice OF q friend
political career. In 1857 Il seemed thar
the opportunity mad come. Three can
didates were IN the race. one Of them
was IL ned Lewis, who afterward be-
came RHpreSeEtative Lewis CoiOnei
/ Gordon perfected his plans and Lewis
and himself agreed q Al the man who
showed the gres test strength should IN
the end receive the support OF the other.
Fate Again
Pursues Gordon.
When Colonel Gordon had secured
I sufficient pledges 10 secure his nOnins-
I ton his wife fell upon the ice, one
I wirlry. sleet-driven day Her hip was
disiocated. and II became apparent that
I she must become an invalid
I Colonel Gordon sent for Lewis. You
Continued On Seventh Page)
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Fate Again
Pursues Gordon.

Continued On Seventh Page
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Detective Drinks
The Toast to Davis.

.;Soon after We arrived in Montreal
I noticed this man following me. Fin
ally, he entered the saloon in watch a
few Of us had gone I proposed a toast
TO Jeff Davis. Turning 10 the detective,
who had no idea that was acquainted
with his vocation. y said, Come. drink
TO Jeff Davis He declined.
Grabbing A decanter. 1 caught the
Yank by the coat and said:
" You'll drink this toast or I'll fetch
you across the head The rebels
yelled and he drank the toast.
Well that's just a little incident,
but II has something 10 do with the
fact that I was afterward suspected of
having been a conspirator with Booth
and others in the assassination Of Abra-
ham Lincoln I didn't know 1t at the
time, but this detective followed me all
over Montreal, day after day. Booth
was playing there at the time; the next
week or so he came on to Washington.
We fellows saw Booth about the hotel
but we never discussed the war.
Booth didn't kin Lincoln. because of
sectional hatred; he was either intoxi-
Gated or insane.
Anyway about this time I received
a draft on a Toronto bank and started
| over there 20 cash IL When 1 looked
about me in the car. there sat Mr.. De-
tective. He shadowed me In Toronto
] I started over to St. GATHERINGS. AS
/ turned every street corner I noted his
sinking form. Finally I turned 10 him
and said
IF catch you behind me at another
I corner, shall be obliged to stab you
. TO the heart. I am a desperate man.
1 Then 1 dashed for the train. A few
( days later 1 wrote my New York
/ friend that I was suspected Of having
a hand in Bncolns death merely be
: cause I had happened TO run across
/ Booth in Montreal. He took my case
/ to General Dix. in New York The
! general gave me a passport TO New
} York. came before him, satisfied him
/ of my entire innocence and ne allowed
/ me 70 return TO my Mississippi home.
! Senator Gordon stroked his beard
thoughtfully, and seemed lost in
/ reverie.
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Cares for All
His Former Slaves.

That no former slave who worked
for 'TMarse Jim ever has been allowed
n the decades since lhe war to go to
prison.
That he breaches that money never
has made any man happy and that his
sweetest memories are those concern
ing the manner in which. by spending
the money left him, he made others
reap enjoyment.
That he went from The milk wagon
TO the Mississippi State Senate in 1903
And. again. that as a widower. he
won his present wife by making love
IN a different manner than that en-
ployed by other widowers- and youth
ful SWANS who had been smitten with
her charms before him.
And. finally. that ne had rather read
poetry than 10 deliver the greatest con-
stltutional argument ever delivered in
the halls Of legislation. Senator Cor
dons farewell address was an inspira-
tional one. delivered without fore
thought or preparation. and in it. the
poetry in his soul found natural IT.
terance
Because Of that speech, the desk OF
the Senator from Mississippi is Uttered
today with kilograms and letters FROM
al sections of the United States. They
are from rebels and "Yanks' alike,
and all are commendatory of the
fatherly plea of the man. who. standing
before an august body of more expert
enced legislative colleagues, in the
evening Of his life, pleaded for spirit
OF truer amity between North and
South. and the obIiteration forever OF
the Mason and Dixon line.
One old Confederate veteran sent q
crumpIed so Confederate bill, valueueSS
IN itself. 'in payment of the comfort
the words Of this quaint Mississippiar
had brought TO him.
Reverently, ceased my questioning
when Colonel Gordon fingered this cur,
rency Of the Lost Cause. and I noted
the bedimmed eyes and the halt in his
speech
-, seem to have made hit,' he said
half rnodestIy. Il didn't intend 10 make
the speech at all; it just came 20 me a
stood there. At first I thought maybe
I would speak to empty seats, but III,
senators began 70 drift in. and they
paid attention to me. ] am glad II
have done any good"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-01-06
81 II 0 iii /.
'sinlEipal EseFsts hat Have rams
pIred ~ the. Old tries
iithin 8 wee Or So.
..IN'!.cRl.:is.|A!'y,:'.

Kristian Lange is general secretary
Sof the executive COMMITTEE Of the In
arliamentafyasp peace Of anizat on
In Their words young Norwegian
5issat the head the. work which has
for It's ultimate aim the estab lishmentI
of something which be tanta-
mount to the Emitted States Of Europe.
The awarding of the Nobel peace
prize to Baernart and a Est ollrne Giles
desConsfant was d disap ointment to
the Norwegian people. The majority
the people Seem TO lie ~ gfaVors1cfsI
sTolstoi. Moreover, many thought
that the diXisi Of the prize between
two persons was small business. The3
people do not hesitate to abuse the
committee Of awards sst and crack all
sorts 81 Jokes nc its xpesnise. 6
rs The coast 81 nor heTn Norway was
visited by violent storms about the
tenth Of Decembe rlarvik the1
roofs Of many houses were damaged
and windows we're smashed: Many
boats in the harbor were broken. An
ore. steamer of 1000 y tons was torn iss
loose from It's moorings and dashed
against d huge buoy, where It was
scaught and thus saved from being
/ broken up into scrap iron. Four fish
We're drowned near .roInso, and
enc at E'lel ord Snow and land.
3sli aes caus ed damage in many local
ties the interior of he country
B sarsurd "a saw was demnIiss
& slsed
he most popula story writer's II
sNolsWa at the present time are Haugs
land SasId Il asllsun is most ins
ssteresfirg faetsth ]. they are both sci 81
made a i Il 8 four
tiers, ornsolf Lie, and * i'll ~
Land Il a classical training, and III IS
els come two II en- cas.
point to no alma mater hut the snn IL
syersa1 school of But they ca sB
handle their own languageEto Berfecs
ton, and thei pro uction must be
read scholar and y1la all al I've.
Even in literary pursuits the NorWsss
ggians seem to be emanc ipating them
selves from the time honored tutelage5
Of the great nations OF history.