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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
BRING ON THE VOTING MACHINE,

If mechanical genius can attain to a
practical voting machine let us have
it and soon. We need a machine which
will register each vote accurately,
flexible enough to handle complicated
set of nominations and sufficiently
simple to be operated by those who can
mark the present ballot with ordinary
accuracy and intelligence and which
will give aggregate results instantly
the polls close. The day and demand
for the machine has arrived. Bring it
on
The country demands prompt returns
from elections but thirty-six hours
away from the closing of the polls
head of the ticket. on minor candi-
dacies for minor offices men are guess
ing forty-eigh hours after the drag
ging count began. The present system
is far behind the spirit of the times,
the demands of the present 1t is out
of date Give US the machine.
But give us machines that will work
at a reasonable cost The country is
not to be held up and shaken down by
machine manufacturers. We do not
want a repetition OF the wide spread
rural mail box graft. nor is there need of
a standing committee running here and
there at $50 or 500 a clip on the charge
OF the manufacturers A committee 81
mechanical experts ought to settle
quickly the respective merits of ma
chimes, the probable cost and approx
mate what we should pay. Let's have
some practical movement toward prac-
teal voting machines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
Fertilizina Fruit Trees.

After fruit trees come in bearing the
best fertilizer is some form Of potash.
Wood ashes can not be excelled for
fruit trees, as they also contain large
proportions of lime. Orchards that are
in grass should be plowed occasionally,
and some kind of hoe crop grown
therein, in order to keep the ground
clean and loosen the soil; but the land
should be heavily MANFRED. or fertilizer
literally applied, as the soil can not
provide for two crops-fruit and grass
or grain-without an abundance of
plant food.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
GRADUATING DRESSES AND THE SCHOOL

''<o ChC0ocS EMU me SCHUUl
Relnbeck has gained fame thru eight
girls who made their own graduation
gowns, for which the girls and their
mothers have been praised and COM
mehded. 1t now appears that while
honor has been given where individu-
ally deserved that the entire comnun-
ity of Reinbeck shares in every stitch
of the graduating dresses. Yes" saws
Ia gentleman writing from Reinbeck.
our girls did cut, fit and make their
graduating gowns and they deserve all
the bouquets You gave them. Their
mothers also merit the praise they re-
celVed at your hands. But you didn't
go far enough and the full meaning
OF the Reinbeck lesson was not con-
Veyed to your readers. Our girls were
enabled to cut and fit their gowns be-
cause they had been taught to do
these things according to scientific
principles in the Reinbeck high school.
All this and more is easily within the
reach of every town in the state"
Mr.. Morrison is right The Reinbeck
lessln is within reach of every school
IN the state and the general principles
of handWork and manual dexterity
should be given place in every school.
But the schools are not trade schools
and can not be made such except to
their detriment and the diversion of
their greatest purpose.
A general tendency exists and is
growing toward the shifting of pa
rental responsibility from the home to
the school, to throw the entire burden
Of training from the shoulders of pa
rents to the shoulders of the teachers.
This is not evident alone in bridge
whist circles and the social swim. but
everywhere in a general way. Madame
We're de We're is no more negligent
than Mrs. Moriarity or Frau Hoch-
heiner. The tendency is to turn the
children's future over to the schools
evadins the troubles and RESPONSIBLE
tiles of parenthood. And it is an ex-
tremely dangerous tendency.
1t is well for girl to learn to sew
and cut and fit and complete her own
dresses, but the best place in the world
for her to learn it is at home One
gown does not make a life's ward
robe. Teaching is one thing, training
another and more useful. The girl
who learns to sew and keep house,
helping a good mother and efficient
homemaker has acquired not only dex-
terity but character. Another may get
a great deal at school, but the true
domestic science of mind and fingers
is learned in the home
The school is an annex, a helper
to the home. It is not the unit of life.
To attempt to shift strictly parental
duty to teachers and the responsibility
| Of the home 70 the school house is es-
sentially wrong and seriously danger
GUS to both school and. home.
The Reinbeck girls are all right SO
are their mothers. And the splendid
school of that excellent town. But girls
and boys must not depend on the
schools for the esentialities of home
training. nor must parents evade the
plain duties OF paternity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

this result about than an increase in
the number of farmers. altho with the
substantial attractions that farming is
now Offering to the young men of
America there can be no doubt that the
back-to- the soil movement, already be-
gun, will continue increasingly-Chris
tian Science Monitor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
CHILD ZEN WHO ARE sIcKLY

Mothers who value their own COM
fort and the welfare of their children:
should never be without box. or
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill
dren for use turnout the season: They
Break up Colds. Cure Feverishness,
Constipa ton. Teetfing Disorders. Head
ache and Stomach Troubles. THESE
POWDERS NEVER FAIL. Sold by all
Drug Stores. 25 C. Don't accept any
substitute. A trial package will be sent
FREE to any mother who will address
Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. N. Y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
Topics of the Times

John Dalzell, head of the Cannon
rules committee in the house, who has
just been renominated by a narrow
margin, had majority OF only 4,3S7 at
the polls in 1908. The democrats, as
they survey the line for weak spots,
will no doubt fasten their attention
upon Dalzelrs district. Even in Pitts
burg, the tariff graft is in danger.
The sane Fourth committee ought to
be on the job right now in every town
and city in the country.
We suppose there will be a good
deal of chewing in connection with
that revolution in Yucatan.
The retirement of "Fingy" Corners
from the head of the democratic or
ganization in New York state is en-
couraging to the world of letters, to
say the least Corners might be all
right as a political leader in country
like Spain. where So per cent of the
people are illiterate, but not in Amer
lea, not even in New York.
The democrats of Maine have hopes
Of electing two congressman this year,
which indicates that Hale may not
have gotten out of the way in time.
The presidents declaration a few
days ago that socialists constitute a
grave problem must have been a good
deal of surprise to the socialists, al
tho to take oneself extremely seriously
is the first tenet of socialism.
A close friend of Mr.. Bryans has
denounced the oregon plan in Nebras-
ka Mr.. Bryan appears to be feeling
his way
Convention, convention, who's got
the convention?
There is talk that the legislature of
next winter will again have before it
the proposal to create state public
utilities commission. 1t will never
come about on the lines of the Sammis
bill of two years ago, which. if enacted,
existing public utility franchises and
probably revived some that have ex-
pired. Not much That's too big a
price to pay for the best possible sort
of regulation.
Times are good and defeated candi-
dates for office can readily find some
thing else if they really want jobs.
The United States produces rs per
cent of the cotton used in the manu-
facture of cotton clothing. Reliable
data is not at hand as to what portion
we produce of cotton used in the
manufacture of wooden clothing.
Hearst is said to be jealous Of Roose
Welt. We are afraid nothing can be
done to bring him relief.
The old timer who doesn't like the
primary should cheer up and go to the
state convention Indications are that
it will be fairly entertaining.
The nomination of Porter over
Bashor by the democrats for governor
constitutes another disbursement to
industry. Bashor was up and doing
while Porter toiled around home. 1t
isn't right, is it?
o. Henry, the short story writer who
recently died, had a brass bowl in his
room into which he used to pitch coins
for the fun of the game. He would
get over on the other side of the room
and see how many coins he could land
nthe vessel. This gave him SO much
enjoyment that the bowl was kept
pretty full, and whenever he felt the
need of funds he would help himself
from it. What irony in that brass
bowl for most short story writer's and
for some others. also.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
The Strawpile


sparrows to the square mile. and there
are a great many more, counting all the
species, they would consume over TO-
722 pounds per day in the state Of Mis-
sissippi For 200 days in the year they
would consume over 1000 tons. From
this it will be seen that birds play no
small part in helping to control noxious
weeds.-Mississippi Experiment Sta
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
Addition 70 Earth,s Wealth.

Addition to Earth's Wealth.
AS fax pulled from the ground
Yields longer fiber than that reaped
in the usual way, Canadian clergy
man has invented pulling attach
ment for binders.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Proverbs and phrases under the old
system are achieved. From the pres
ent indications it IL within the
bounds OF conservatism to say that
skillfu1 agriculture will double the
present production OF the United States
within the next decade. Better farm
ing will have more to do with bringing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
WEIGHT Of a Quart Of Feed.

According to figures furnished by the
Connecticut experiment station, the
weight of one quart of feed is as fol-
lows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Champ Clark wants Speaker Can
mons chair, so they say, but Is Champ
has been wanting it for the past num-
Der of years it won't hurt him so bad
when he is disappointed ilwaukee
Sentinel.
There is such a thing as luck. If
you are small eater and slow eater
you are lucky.-Atchison Globe.
And now som melody has accused I,r.
Cook of stealing another persons
grammar. Is there no limit to the reck
less depravity Of that man?-Washing
ton Herald.
Governor Hughes has called an extra
session Of the New York legislature.
That is poor return to the people of
New York for all the honors they have
bestowed upon him-Houston Post
Roosevelt is being criticised for
killing animals. Still a man needs va
riety in his work. He can't always slay
the Observation-Disclosures Journal.
1t is now being figured in Washing
ton that if congress quits work now
and does nothing more it will be pos
sible to adjourn by the first of July
st. Louis Star.
Less than three weeks now until
Colonel Roosevelt will be Gin OUT
Il, idst" again Think of it-less than
three weeks! Can we wait? We can.
Kansas City Journal
There seems to be a good deal of
malicious animal magnetism loose in
Illinois politics just now.-St. Louis
Republic.
Those delightful June days, with the
| thermometer down to so in the morn
| ing and scant IS at noon. make one
glad that he lives in Richmond.-Rfch-
mond Times-Dispatch.
! Mr.. Roosevelt seems to know every
thing that everybody else knows. =
Charleston News and Courier.
What, may we ask, is so underdone
as day in June?-Chicago Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

majority of 1856 However. the total
vote cast was one-fourth lighter than
two years ago.
And the Third came in with 1852
majority for Garst from a former ma
jority Of 2,527 for Allison. However,
with only one out of the nine counties
missing the vote was one-tlfth lighter
than in the Cummins- Allison primary.
Even in the Ninth with all but one
of it's counties in, the Allison majority
of 2,43O was cut to 1o3 for Carroll.
Thus we have it in majorities:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

And now somebody has accused Dr.
Cook of stealing another PERSONS
grammar. Is there no limit to the reck-
less depravity Of that man?-Washing
ton Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

There is such a thing as luck. If
you are small eater and slow eater
you are lucky.-Atchison Globe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Mr.. Roosevelt seems to know every
thing that everybody else knows. =
Charleston News and Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Those delightful June days, with the
thermometer down to so in the morn
ing and scant IS at noon. make one
glad that he lives in Richmond.-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

What, may we ask, is so underdone
as a day in June?-Chicago Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Governor Hughes has called an extra
session of the New York legislature.
That is poor return to the people of
New York for all the honors they have
bestowed upon him.-Houston Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

#. y WHEY,
City Clerk Of Said City.
Published In the T..Rs June q md 3
1910.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

There seems to be a good deal OF
malicious animal magnetism loose in
Illinois politics just now.-St. Louis
Republic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

Champ Clark wants Speaker Can
mons chair, so they say, but as Champ
has been wanting it for the past num-
Der of years it won't hurt him so bad
when he is disappointed ilwaul1ee
Sentinel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Roosevelt is being criticised for
killing animals. Still man needs va
riety in his work. He can't always slay
the Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

1t is now being figured in Washing
ton that if congress quits work now
and does nothing more it will be pos
sible to adjourn by the first of July
ST. Louis Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09

Less than three weeks now until
Colonel Roosevelt will be 'in OUT
n idst" again. Think of it-less than
three weeks! Can we wait? We can.
Kansas City Journal
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27

the future and saw the approval Of
coming generations whose views
would not be obscured by the passions
and excitement of the moment. When
the news of his death reached Missouri
there was an entire change of senti.
ment and all classes united to do
honor TO his memory. They then real.
lied that the mightiest man of Mis-
souri, was dead, the man who lowered
above friends and foes. All the state
was in mourning and his funeral at
st. Louis was attended by more thar
forty thousand people.
Saved Missouri to Union.
1t was the fight Benton made that
enabled others, when the war came,
to keep Missouri in the Union. If Mis-
souri, had seeded there probably
would have been different story to
tell than that which came from Apo.
mattox
So Benton won life's battle by sim.
pie honesty, by perseverance, by hav-
ing ideals and remaining true to them
in sunshine and in shadow His infu-
ence will be felt for good as long as
this republic lasts, and the failure to
secure political preferment at the end
of his life by giving up the fight ac-
centuates the grandeur of his charac-
ter. He lost for the moment, but in
losing he gained for all time. For him
there was victory in defeat. The les
son of his life is-it is not essential
always to win. but it is essential to
keep the faith.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27
The Mystery Of a Duel.

Having fought his duel and saved
his honor by firing a shot in the air,
the editor of a French provincial
newspaper went back to his desk and
the incident had quite left his mind
when he felt something strange in
his thigh. He looked and found that
he was bleeding profusely.
A doctor was called, who discov-
cred that bullet was embedded In
the editors thigh some two inches
deep and required extraction AWhy
was this not taken notice of on the
spot where the duel took place =
he asked. The editor was as much
in the dark as the doctor. AT the mo-
ment of the duel he had fired into
the air and his adversary also took
distracted sort of aim. There had
evidently been no intention of doing
the slightest harm on either side.
The editor felt nothing as he left
the field and had shaken hands with
his antagonist as a sign of reconcilia-
ton. How bullet came to be lodged
in his thigh was simply one of the
mysteries of dueling.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27

sole garment-and the children were
naked, while all dispensed with head
and foot gear.
Though I found the place interest.
ing, the inmates were even more So
was fully prepared to meet fanat
ical set of freaks. / really met edu
Gated, refined men and women with g
wide and cultured outlook on life.
am pledged to secrecy as to names
the only condition imposed upon me-
but may mention that the diplomatic.
military and social circles of several
European capitals were well repre-.
scented in the colony.
The members of the colony hold
that Naked we were born into the
world and therefore nature has in.
tended we should go through life max
ed as far as climate will allow" Cloth.
ing, according to the Waidbergers, is
the outward sign of the ill-health, i'm.
modesty and deterioration of the pres,
ent generation. The skin, they say, is
the natural clothing, and as one OF the
most important organs of the body it
should be exercised and cared for in
the open air and not hidden and chok.
ed under a packing of clothing. The
ordinary person who tries to show as
little skin as possible is, in their view,
the slave of foolish fashion, which
causes many diseases, especially con.
sumption.
The Wa1dDerger rises at sunrise and
before taking bath goes through a
number of exercises whereby the body
becomes thoroughly warmed and pre-
pared to enter the cold tub. After
that he has another course of exer-
cises, producing a feeling of great
physical comfort. Slipping off his
costume" he is now ready for his
morning stroll across the meadows
and fields or among the scented pines
Simple, Wholesome Food.
After ramble of a couple of hours
the Waidberger returns home with a
razor-edged appetite for breakfast,
which consists of coffee, milk, rolls,
butter, fruit and berries. No fish or
meat is served. The morning is spent
in reading, writing, study, playing
games in the open or taking sun baths.
At noon lunch is served in the bunga-
low. After breakfast there are only
two meals day-at noon, the prin-
c,pal meal, and at 6 o'clock, which is
really tea In the afternoon there are
gymnastics and athletic sports of all
kinds and, when the weather is fine.
q bathing excursion is arranged to the
little lake of Katzensee, few miles
away, or picnic party to a quiet spot
in the forest. At nightfall the Waid-
bergers return to their huts and after
a bathing excursion is arranged to the
beds. tired out.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27
"Dead" Man Comes VISITING.

Cleveland, What in thunder! j
thought you were dead and buried!"
Jacob G. Waser came to Cleveland
from Flint, Mich, to spend vacation
with old friends, and was startled by
this frequent greeting from his friends
Waser, 80, on April 20, 1909, sue
cumbed to the travel fever. He left
his clothes In suit case at his board
ing house and few days later the
body of suicide was picked up in the
river and identified as Waser. The
body was buried at public expense
and story Of the suicide pasted on
MASTERS suit case. In few months
the suit case was sold.
Waser travelled to Topeka, Kan,
then back to Flint. Mich, where he
has been working nine months.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27

place to pennies and marks. the latter
being equal to a French franc. The
contrast is especially noticeable as
regards towns and their inhabitants.
Thus there are few cities in European
Russia which do not appear dreary
and depressing to a stranger. Moscow
and Odessa are exceptions, for the
first named is undoubtedly pictures
que, while the gardens, boulevards
and .well-paved thoroughfares of the
other present striking contrast, to-,
say, Kharkoff, with its general i'm
preston of gloom. and even sQualor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-27

and resolution was passed demand
ing that slavery be permitted TO exist
in territory north of the Missouri COM
promise boundary and instructing the
senators to vote accordingly. Benton
denounced this resolution as treason
able and refused to obey it. He said
it did not represent the sentiment Of
the people of the state and he appealed
from the Missouri legislature to the
Missouri people. The struggle was bit
ter and intense. AS Benton was up
for reelection, it being the close of
his fifth term as senator, the effort
was to control the legislature which
was to elect the senator for the fol-
lowing term Neither side obtained a
majority of the members and a dead
lock resulted to be broken by the anti
Benton Democrats combining with the
Wings and bringing. about Benton's
defeat. ss
The old warrior was not dismayed
and kept UP the fight In 1852 he was
sent to the lower house of congress
from ST. Louis as Union Democrat.
For thirty years he had been absolute
dictator in the politics of Missouri
His word was final, and his wishes
law, but the tide had turned, and for
the remaining years of his life set
steadily against him. YET at 40 time
in his career does Benton present
more inspiring figure than when, with
his back to the wall, crowded on every
side by foes, he continued to battle for
the principles he believed in. By COM
promising and by trucking to the pub
lie sentiment of his state he could
have regained his seat in the senate,
but he would have lost the love and
admiration due the brave man who
prefers defeat with the right to vic
tory with what he considers wrong.
Benton's mannerisms were marked
and did not tend to make him popular
with the masses. He seemed egotiS-
teal to the point of absurdity, yet in
him it was merely exaggerated SELF
respect. To the casual observer stern
and pompous, he was gentle and ten
der-hearted to those who knew him
well. His public and private life were
above reproach. His high sense OF
honor as a public servant, his incor-
ruptible integrity, his unwavering ad-
herence at whatever cost to the prin-
ciples he believed in, his powerful In
tellect and his aggressive energy COM
bined to make him fighter em1nently
qualified to lead and represent the
militant people of the West in the first
half of the last century.
He was defeated for reelection to
the house in 1854, and in 1856 became
the candidate of the Union Democrats
for governor. and ran third in the
race. He was now IA years old, but as
vigorous and robust as ever. Without
lamenting his fate or the peoples in
gratitude, he cheerfully took up the
completion of his Thirty Years
View" giving a mental picture OF the
important events in the history of our
country with which he had been con-
nected. In 1853 he died in Washing
ton, undismayed by the storm OF pub
lie misunderstanding that had wreck
ed his political life. He looked into