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East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1910-12-31

Mrs. James P. Critz and son, of
ainesville, Texas. are visiting rela-
hes in starkville.
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1910-12-31
STARKVILLE, MISS,

And will be at the Chiles Hotel,
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18th.
Tell Your Sick Friends.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
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Iowa's Main Crop,
rwall Street Journan

fWaH Street JOurnaD.
There is use of the word Corn in
England which is a perpetual matter
Of mystification to the American. We
use the word, not in the old Biblical,
but in a specific sense. The London
Economist, for instance talks about
"Mr. Balfours pronouncement against
the shilling tax on colonial corn" The
British colonies 10 not grow what we
call corn, for export. What Mr.. Bal
four and the Economist mean is wheat.
1t is something Of which bread is
made, and in the strict Bible sense
meant 'ttne seeds Of cereal plants used
for food, as maize, barley, rye, wheat
and oats" as our own dictionaries
show
When an Englishnaan, speaking of
somebody whose suddenly acquired
riches have turned his head, remarks
that che cannot stand corn" he uses
an idiom which is unintellfgible to the
American. The Englishman IL think
ing in terms OF horses. When ne says
corn In that connection he means oats,
and he knows that a horse that is bad
1y bred will, when fed with more oats
than he is accustomed to- become z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17

had been thrown to one side. Except
for the loss of few square inches
of skin they were uninjured.
Mulligan, dazed,, with both legs USE
less, still had enough sense to crawl
toward the light Grasping the rail-
and dragging both legs, snake fashion.
he appeared to his astouished compan-
ions, who fastened to pull him out
from behind the front trucks. Then.
sitting propped against his COMPANY
IONS knees, he watched the engine
sink into the soft earth and speculated
ON the probable length OF time 1t
would have taken him to die had any
part of his clothing been caught while
he was under the engine.
After he had fully recovered Mpk
ligan figured out 5ust how long he had
worked during the year. He had been
injured twice. and It had been Just
four days from the time he went I'd
work after recovering from the first
injury when he was hurt the second
time. In both cases the margin be.
tween life and death had been mar.
row, and he had worked Just one
month. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
THE ATTORNEY GeNERALsH!P.

Three candidates for nomination to
the office of attorney general are before
the republican voters Of the state-Cos-
son, Chantland and Feely. All claim
to be strong for law enforcement.
1t would be strange indeed We're any
of these candidates. based outwardly
and openly on opposition 10 law en-
sorcement A candidacy based on that
ground would last about as long as the
proverbial SNOWFALL in hades a vital
condition to any hopeful candidacy is
a pledge TO enforce the law. Does any
remember a candidate for attorney
general who appealed on opposition to
the laws he must swear TO uphold?
Nevertheless there is no doubt that
the saloon interests and others opposed
to law enforcement have candidate
selected upon whom they will center
ell their strength. In order 10 gain the
support OF that element the candidate
must be known 10 be right Some
body has doubtless given the assur-
ances required Whatever candidates
may say the fight is on between the
Byers' plan of conducting the Iowa de-
partment of justice and the policy pur-
sued by his predecessors. The re-
moval laws are part Of the issue.
Claims count for little in the face Of
direct certainties.
Law enforcement voters should not De
deceived, or swayed by the ''fayorite
on" gush or diverted by the specious
argument of locality. If the Byers
regime is to be approved and carried on
George Cosson should be the next at
torney general of Iowa. II the enforce
ment laws are to keep on working their
author and champion, Senator George
Cosson, should be put in charge Of their
operation This is the plain common
sense of law enforcement. Cosson is
entirely trustworthy. He has made his
place good. He ought to be nominated
and elected.
Moreover Cosson is a real lawyer
with real lawyers experience before
the higher courts. In marked contra
distinction to at least one opposing
candidate he has won his spurs as an
attorney and lawyer in the lists OF the
4 law. He is clean, bright, earnest,
strong. The law enforcement forces
should center upon him. The forces of
non-enforcement will center on another
man. Cosson will not get a single vote
from the enemies Of law enforcement
He ought TO get every law enforcement
vote.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
BALLINGER's TESTIMONY.

Mr.. Ballinger mas not helped him
Iself by his testimony. Something
about it all the way from beginning to
end fails to ring true. Ballinger's main
defence is a counter charge of conspir-
acy to remove him from office but none
OF his assertions of conspiracy appear
to have any reasonable grounds. A
cry of blacknail and conspiracy is
always raised by those. who have no
better defense and the appeal TO at
tempted recrimination is the main de-
fence of knaves. 1t is pity that Mr.
Ballinger had not used a different and
more open method.
The better procedure it would seem
would have been to have cleared him
self-if he by possibility can do So
from the charges which are lodged
against him and supported by so much
evidence and circumstance. If Bal
finger is an object of persecution the
best defence is the most open. In
stead Of refusing public papers and
documents against the request and
against the demand Of investigators it
would seem that Mr.. Ballinger's better
plan to expose persecution and con-
spiracy would be to show a clean bill
OF health. Instead Of dating letters
back for weeks Wickersharn should
have come before the committe and
the public without the suggestion of
q special effort to deceive. Ballinger
instead of advertising for assistance
toward discrediting Pinchot should
have been busy com piling his own rec
ord of complete purity. The most
convincing thing in the world is can
dor. The most suspicious is con-
cealment.
| BaIlinger has the worst of it. All
that he has said or done to discredit
,,aehnt and Garfield has reacted He
5 done neither harm and has deepen
the public conviction that he is an
t.el1ent man to warn and keep away
IA opportunity to serve private in
ksts thru public authority and place.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
AS TO CrAIAIINs.

[Will Payne in Nevada Representative
We thought two Years ago that Dol
liver was talking for Dolllser quite as
much as ne was talking for Allison
and our impression of his talk the
other night was that it also was chief
~ for the benefit of Dolliver; but such
as it was ii was a very entertaining
talk. and we are not in position 10
say whether it commended the speaker
10 his present associates a S strongly as
he may have hoped and intended
But there is no occasion for any
such doubts with respect to Cummins
His crowd was with him enthusiastic
cally and to the finish. He was APP
pealing TO friends who have never fail
ed him in a pinch and who are as ready
as ever before to be with him in the
present fight and to let the nation
know that Iowa is with him The
things he said were taken home, and
his strong commemorate of Garst and
his contemptuous reference TO Carroll
as one who would fight the senator IF
he dared We're received with equal
and emphatic favor Cummins' speech
was the assertion of genuine leader
ship, and that he spoke with authority
the thought and sentiment of his great
following was clear and unmistakable.
The exceptions we would take to his
appearance and expression are two.
It seems to US that he does not under
stand to what extent his victory IN
Iowa is already won, and that he
shows himself sounder of judgment in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17

sizing up situation than in pre-
scribing remedies for the evils upon
which he dWells. AS matter of fact
we do not believe that Cummins has
to make this fight in order to make hts
standing in Iowa secure, and we are
not able now to see in the state any
politician who so much as aspires to
supplant him in the leadership Of the
state. Indeed much of the resentment
which was formerly directed against
him has turned into at least relative
admiration for the force and independ-
ence of his leadership and pays him
high compliment in comparison with
the official who changes sides in
pinch in order to hold a job. The fact
is that the Cummins war in Iowa Is
over and that Taft Club" is almost
a burlesque occasion for renewing it.
Cummins has in the past ten years
demonstrated over and over again
that he has the genius for getting at
the basic sentiment in the public
thought and it is not necessary to
agree wholly with his position at the
present moment in order to know that
he has with him the tide of public ia
vor He points out with clearness
and empha sizes-we think unduly-
the tangles of public business; but 1T
is not much of defense to a particu-
lar matte- 20 say that 100 much fuss Is
beng made about it, and there VIII
always be in public men enough or the
element of human selishness to pro-
duce tangles and to afford warrant 1or
denouncing the same. Cummlns as
sault is forceful and effective; it Is has
conclusion that to US seem lame. for
it was upon a tariff commission that ne
founded his hope of making material
Improvement in the methods OF tarlH
making of which he complains. Ana
yet if President Taft should be empow-
cred to appoint tariff commission
and should make it up of sort OF men
who now obviously hold his confidence
and they should employ lot OF SUP
ordinates satisfactory to them, ana
there should thru this means be an in
vestigation" and a report prepared ana
presented and printed. Senator cum
minis would himself regard the COM
mission and its report with contempt
and the crowd that applauded ms sus-
gestion Tuesday night would expect
him to regard the same. The fact IS
that executive commissions not only
tend to invade the authority of con-
gress. but they work out in practice as
servile instruments of the appointing
power and their recommendations re-
suit chiefly in embarrassment of can
did men who have been SO unfortunate
as to commit themselves in advance to
such findings.
But our disposition is not to be cap
tious about truly great meeting. 1t
was Cummins' show with Dolliver as
an incident: and it was a tribute such
as Iowa never paid to one of her pub
lie men before We have written a
rather long article about it; but still
we do not know who much it really
means in the politics of Iowa. But it
was a great meeting, and we do not
think that the other side will presume
TO match it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17

nuisance to himself and everybody else,
where Thoroughbred would thrive.
dn Scotland, corn means oats. DIR.
Johnson, in the first edition of his die
tionary added to his definition that
oats were sin England food for horses;
in Scotland, food for men, Lord
kames asked him where he could find
such horses and such men? In Eng
land, except in the strict connection of
the horse, corn means wheat. The re
peal of the corn laws" meant the repeal
of the import duties on wheat.
With us corn means maize. which
was called Indian" corn by our early
settlers. as it fulfilled to the Indian the
purpose which oats served in Scotland
and wheat in England. We have drop
ped the prefix Indian but we have
dropped from the language good gem
eric word of excellent ancestry, TO be
found in the earliest translations of the
Bible. and now given in specific
meaning with little or less warrant
than that of the English or Scotch use
in relation to oats or wheat.
There is a broader significance to
this variation in the use of a simple
word A good deal of misunderstand-
ing between the Britisher and the
American arises from the fact that the
language they use does not always
mean the same thing to both. Quite
apart from slang, the ordinary use OF
words varies to such a degree that we
accuse race which has produced
Shakes peare, Swift, Sterne, Dickens
and Kipling of being deficient in hum
or We are not alone among the Eng
lish speaking people in such an atti-
tude. The Englishman's contempt
for the Scotchman's capacity to appre-
ciate humor is only equalled by the
opinion of English humor held by
Britons north of the Cheviots.
The lesson implied is the need for
little more pains to understand each
other 1t is well worth bordering at
q time when the older branch of the
English speaking race is passing thru
the valley OF the shadow of death.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

~ MASONIV NOIIVESs
x%Hall over 105-1O7 West Main.
V\Visitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE. 1os, A. F. q
A. M. Work on first degree Friday
May 20, at 1880 p. m.
r. w. Cham berlain. w. M.
H. S. Lawrence, Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80. r. A. NJ.
meeting, Monday evening,
May 16, 8 o'clock.
George H. Boggie. e. H. r.
]. S. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, No.
20, r. & S. M.-Stated assembly Mon
u day, June 20. s. p. m.
A. D. MEEKER, T. L M.
I. T. FORBES, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY, No.
80 K. T. Stated conclave Tuesday eve
ming, May II. 1910, at s o'clock sharp
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
Fred M. Wilbur, E. C..
CENTRAL CHAPTER, Nc. 81, o. 3.
S.-Regula" meeting "Wednesday even
ing, June Is, s. p. m.
Mrs. George Downing, w. NJ.
Edna c. Fuiarton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
Topics of the Times

Ex-President Loiibet of France was
run down by an automobile in Paris
the other day. We'd like to see the au-
president.
The probabilit are that Governor
Carroll will feel justified in giving
the milking over to someone else for
the next three weeks.
But, if we have enough rain for the
crops, it will make the roads bad, and
there you are.
Down in Texas the other day they
saw g meteor half as big as the moon.
Proves as most timely the move for
prohibition in that state.
Now. if there is anybody else who
knows some inside facts about the Bal
linger business, the public viii grant a
hearing, whether the committee is WILL
ing to do 50 or not.
David T. Watson, a Pittsburg demo-
crat, has a SCENE for rehabilitating
the democratic party by committing it
TO the commission plan of government
for cities This, it seems to us, is
expecting a good deal of both ends of
the bagain.
Within the limits of two weeks New
York, massachusetts and Rhode Island
rejected the income tax amendment
w
within the limits Of three days if they
had tried.
They are having earthquakes out in
California. Perhaps that suits them out
there, but we will take ours in bliz-
yards
a dispatch from Lyons, France. tel'
OF fatal airship nlishap, and says OF
the dead aeronaut that he was only
% years old Just as Il 1t could be
expected of men of that following that
they could live to a ripe old age OF
so or 40.
That chap you see there retiring to
the garden 10 eat worm-hes an
Iowa standpatter. He feels that no
body loves him.
Nj Roosevelt thinks of accepting an
invitation to speak at Lincoln, Neb.
Well, we think Lincoln is entitled TO
some relief.
Earthquakes are being felt every
oven n c0r
The Burlington Hawkeye defends
horse meat. Better. anyway, than crow.
eho
comet that the whole thing could be
put into a suit case. 1t would suit a
lot of folks if some such disposition
speedily were made of it.
Mr.. Bryan rebukes dem ocratic edi:
tors fho propose Roosevelt as demo-
cratic nominee for president in 1912,
saying that while Roosevelt has done
many things democratic, he has done
so many things undemocratic that he
is made unavailable And certainly it
would be tremendously undemocratlc
for him to try to beat Bryan out of his
steady job.
Among the signs favorable to wet
weather is the approach of Memorial
day and circus day.
In Pittsburg a woman was arrested
for trying 10 kill herself. The mag
istrate, unable to get from her prom
ise that she would not repeat the at
tempt, fined her. OF course, she went
out and killed herself And what an
excellent illustration it is of the eff
cacy of fines as a substitute for i'm
prisonment in many cases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
The Graduate
TBy Dennis A. MCCARTNEY


Thru lesser achievements he passed till
he stood
Accused at the last of the shedding Of
blood.
And then came his college, as proud
as could be,
And gave him, cum laude, its final de-
gree!
The street was his school and the cor
ner his college
And shall we blame him for applying
the knowledge
So fully and freely provided him there
To land him at last in the murderer's
chair?
Are we, who have never attended, as
he,
The school of the street and the cor
ner. are we
SO free from reproach for his life gone
amiss.
The light Of his innocence darkened
like this?
Are we in no way in his failure in
volved?
Are we from all blame for his down
fall absolved?
All, never believe it! We all are to
blame;
On all rests share Of his shadow of
shame;
For, lost in pursuit of our gains and
our joys
We've wandered away from the girls
and the boys.
And tho we spend millions Of dollars
in schools
And middle our minds over methods
and rules,
There's something essential o'erlooked
or forgotten,
Some arch in the structure we're build
ing is rotten.
Else, why should we find it so hard to
compete
With those who are running the school
Of the street?
And why should we stand in SO help
less way,
Beholding it capture our best day by
day,
And draw them away from the things
we revere,
Until in the end. like this graduate
here,
They come to that zoe. .:..!e!. our
science invented
For crimes which our schools should
narhans. have preyented2
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17

PioutdDle ueVelOpmenL mas proven
the practicability of Hendricks plan.
One student of this school was grad
uated at the end Of five and half
months and was PLACED in a RESPONSE
Bile position on the main line at $50
per month at the start He was only
% years Of age. This could never
have been accomplished by the old,
irregular method Of allowing the op-
orator to educate himself.
Telegraph operators are, as a mat
ter of fact, self-educated. Some spend
years in students jobs along the rail-
road before they can earn as high as
$50 a month.
The student at the Santa Fe teleg-
raphers' school pays no entrance fee,
but is required to pay tuition fee
of S. month. Every graduate is
guaranteed position at a better sal
airy at the start than he could possibly
obtain without the thorough training
received at the school At the end of
six months service, after graduation,
paid in as tuition. Thus the student
has received an education in railroad
telegraphy, which he could acquire
only by struggling existence of sew
eral years, and it has cost him alb
solutely nothing He has the advan-
tage of good education. which will
equip him for a successful career in
railroading.
The school instructions consist of
straight telegraphing. preparing each
student for regular line work at once,
and equipping him with the knowledge
necessary to get in line to become
train dispatcher and on up.
When student has qualified on the
wire work and rules he is then sent
each day to some near station. where
he works with the operator and sta
ton agent, gaining practical knowl-
edge of handling trains, selling tick
cts, and the freight business. Here
he is under the direct supervision OF
experienced Santa Fe employees, who
are under orders to train the student
In the right way
There are a few other schools for
the teaching of telegraphy scattered
dClC o1A0 IAS1 LII Od6hooS SAC SooAA-
try. but there is no other school oper-
ated by railroad as this one is.
All work is carried on under expe-
rienced instructors, who are mission
aries In the Santa Fe promotion work
among the employees.
Constant vigilance is the price Of
the switchman's life. Occasionally
even constant vigilance" is fruitless.
Death leers at seemingly the safest
moment.
Three swftchmen were standing on
the front footboard of an engine puff
fng along about six miles an hour in
one Of the Northwestern yards. It was
bright, sunshiny day in early spring.
There were no other engines within
the radius Of block. and the track
seemed perfectly safe, for heavy
zebra" had just passed over. Sud
denly one Of the ties at rail joint
sank into slight washout. the engine
left the track, and the footboard, car
rying Mulligan, one of the switchmen.
crumpled up under the front of the
engine, which, after humping along
the ties for about ten feet, came to
a stop The other two switchmen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17


(Having re-opened the colleges Of
crime in ,Marshalltown. returned the
white aproned professors to their
places, this poem Of the Boy Move
ment becomes live matter" to every
parent in the city,:
The street was his school, and the cor
ner his college
What wonder he picked UP a great deal
of knowledge?
The faces of women and men were his
books
What wonder he trusted so little to
looks?
Each person he met was unknowlng
his teacher
The pugilist taught him as much as the
preacher;
This outcast in rags, and that other IN
satin.
Each gave him a lesson more lasting
than Latin!
The street was his school-ay, it's les
sons were burned
Deep into his sensitive soul, for he
learned
Some things that the wisest of books
do not tell,
some secrets that ereWnlle were. Wills
pered in hell!
In halls academic boy may omit
His lessons some day when he's not
feeling fit;
There are periods Of rest, there are
days Of vacation,
For cen the most jealous require rec
reation.
Not so with this college-itis always in
session,
With teachers absorbed in their occult
profession,
And course SO alluring that those
who've begun it
Have little desire to abridge 1t or shun
It,
The street was his school; and thru
sound and thru sight
It poured in its lessons by day and
by night.
It's methods could scarce be described
as elective,
But then, what of that? It was highly
effective.
It took him an infant, an innocent
baby,
Whose mother had holy desires TO.
him, maybe,
And, class after class, led him onward,
- until. ~
A beast that is trained but to capture
and kin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
One Acre.

1t is possible to make a living on
one acre of land. The thing Is being
accomplished in more places than one.
A resident of San Bcrnardino, Cal,
for many years made good living on
a single acre of land. Around the
acre was row of fruit trees, from
which he realized $500 for a seasons
fruit. From quarter of an acre in
strawberries he made 5000. From
the rest of the acre he took three
different crops of vegetables, and was
so successful with them that he sold
1000 worth, besides keeping a pig
and many fowls. 1t is said that in the
suburbs OF Paris man, on less than
an acre Of land, under glass and heat
ed by underground pipes, makes ten
crops of asparagus year. TO- which
he receives $1,000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
Iona Newspapers
MATCH THEM.
Ipes .Moines Register q

IDes MONIES Register and LeadeTJ.
Ii is to be hoped that nobody viii be
deceived by any professions of amity
in connection with the coming state
convention. 1t will be controlled by
the friends of the senators and con-
gressmen from Iowa and the platform
will be written accordingly. or it will
be controlled by the reactionaries and
the platform Will be written according
~. The simple question is, whether
Iowa wants to again be presented to
the country in an attitude of reaction,
against which even eastern republicans
are in revolt. Does Iowa al this crit
ical time in our affairs want to repeat
the experience of 1909?