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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
conviets =. Farmers,

At the Colorado state penitentiary at
Canon City. the prisoners have worked
outside the prison for the past four
years.
Some 1900 men have been employed
on ranches and garden tracts leased by
the prison, in constructing q water sys-
tenn for Canon City and on public
highways anywhere from one to $50
miles from the institution. Few escapes
have been made in spite Of absence Of
bars or manacles, and most OF the few
who got away were caught or came
back Of their own will. About 100 miles
Of splendid mountain road, half Of Il
blasted thru solid rock, and the value
OF the farm products raised give back
to the state more than the 4216 900 for
maintenance wi.isSs. AZ aTf:SS:>:!s tad tr"e
years ago. On the other side. the men
improve in many ways and most OF
them who are parOled 20 direct from
the work camps with no prison man
nerisms to forget. No depPedations or
misconduct have bsen charVed a10lnst
1.-THE camps.-The Survey.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
Topics of the Times

Governor Harmon has opened head
announced for 1912 Gee, but aint poll
itics getting hot?
Senator Young and the steel trust
are agreed that the Canadian agree
ment is aimed at the American farmer.
Wherever that Panama exposition
is held it should be made representa-
tive Of the time and the occasion.
The balance of matrimonial trade is
still with England Her nobility get
elegant raw material for duchesses
here, get paid for taking it away and
we pay the cost of transportation
How about an export tax on Goulds
and Vanderbilts?
st Louis is especially anxious for
the democratic national convention
and is willing TO do whatever is neces-
sary to get it if she has to build new
brewery.
Two weeks to March and the spring
work fever and seed corn and the re-
turn of the fruit crop killer.
The Des Moines Capital says Ken
yon should withdraw How would it
do for LATE to slip his arm within that
of Kenyon and both get out of the way
OF needed legislation and some good
man who can be elected
How old it ever come TO be called a
comic" valentine?
Perhaps Senator Bailey felt drawn
to Senator Lorimer by a strange SYM
pathy.
! Nothing of the sort developing 80
far this spring LATE looks to 1912 as a
/ beautiful spring and the robins re-
turn.
Somebody slugged and left for dead
a Des Moines street car conductor
ROBBERY is alleged but there might have
been other good reasons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
Ignorant Criticism.

The State highway commission flat
~ disproyes Governor Dix's charge
that 20 per cent of its outlay is for en-
gineers. Its figures for 1910 are: Total
amount paid for highway construction
and maintenance, S7.049, 635; total en-
gineering expenses. $652.0a1, or less
than 10 per cent, instead Of 20 per
cent, as the governor charged. Similarly
the commission disposes OF the charge
that vast sums have been needlessly
spent in paying freight on stone from
other states when local stone should
have been used. Out of millions spent
on construction $4,000 went for freight
on imported stone, and this was in
bringing stone TO parts OF the state
where no local stone OF the right quail
ity was available.
Both Of these charges were taken up
by Governor Dix from a letter OF State
Engineer and Surveyor Bensel written
on Jan. -, criticising the work Of
the highway commission. The charges,
with the answers to them, show how
little grasp the present state engineer
has Of highway construction and how
i'll fitted he is suddenly to displace ex-
perienced highway administrators.
Mr.. Bensei is ADLER than the average
state engineer and surveyor, but II
Mr.. Dix wants to appreciate the in
competent supervision toward which
his plan leads he has only to study
this letter of Mr.. Bensers together
with the impressive reply to it made
by the chairman of the state highway
commission. The correspondence is
reprinted in Engineering News. Mr..
Bensel is shown to be ignorant of the
facts about the commissions work and
it's cost. and ignorant Of the mistakes
which the states previous experience
in highway construction has taught it
to avoid. Mr.. Bensel recommends a
repetition Of those mistakes, or as Mr.
g. Percy Hooker. the chairman OF the
commission. puts it in his letter. he
recommends the adoption OF methods
which have been carefully tried by
preceding state engineers while the
work was in their charge and aban-
doned az unsatisfactory
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
IS THE LIST EXHAUSTED?

IF Iafe Young can't have the sem
ator.hip. nobody else shall be there!"
ironically exclaims the Waterloo Cour-
Ter.
That sizes up growing sense Of the
situation and it is not confined to the
candidacy Of Mr.. Young. The state is
growing very tired of the deadlock.
Criticism is not confined to Mr.. Young
and 'that heroic band as the Cedar
Rapids Republican would term the i'm
zao-a!s' who vote for LATE as their
prototypes did for Andrew Jackson.
Foreclosure on future candidates. and
throaS Of foreclosure. for personal adj
vantage, refusal by alleged progressives
intense personal and proprietary self
iahness OF candidates and interests are
bNginning to pail on the people at
large. They want something done
1ls. Young's coterie sticks by Mr..
Young In an effort to force a minority
oandidate in the legislature into a SEN
atorship to which his claim is scarcely
conoid0eable. While Funk releases all
shis votes to other candidates in the
hope Of q decision and 0arst in an ef-
EOf4 to Dreax IIte iuoA a.nsoiivc.; his ro:es
efosn all allegiance and while these
Votes - to the high candidate. some
Kenyon supporters hold out on both
Funk and 0arst for fear that the break
IA he Young forces may elect another
- enron. There is another thin
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
THE WORM TURNS.
Twaterloo Courier.J

The teachers of Davenport have sent
q delegation to Des Moines to work for
the abolition OF the periodical teachers
examination and for a. system which
will recognize a life certificate. The
reasoning of the teaching profession, as
whole. is that with proper qualifica-
tons on the start teacher is COM
petent to practice her profession. grow
in it and free herself from non-essen-
rials just as is done by the members OF
other professions.
The education of the teacher is large
ly theoretical. During her first expert
ences she learns to apply this theory.
When she has done this she is pro-
fessional teacher. She no longer needs
theory as set forth in text books for she
has become an artisan of the child
mind and Its instruction. 1t is no fair
er TO ask teacher to pass examina-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

line of heroes besides the Young "irn-
mortals" It stands in the path OF set
Element along with the standpat bour-
bons who are voting for Young with
their eyes shut.
Perhaps it Is time for new candi-
date; for Kenyon as well as Young anu
others to withdraw and offer oppor-
tunity for a satisfactory settlement.
There are other men in Iowa. Mr..
Clark was considered more than pos
sibility some weeks ago. Judge Deemer
has seemed to many as d solution Of
the problem il members of the legisla-
ture would only give and take in a
sincere effort to come together.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
on to School.


They go off to school with laughter.
And it rings thru the house all day.
The echo they left in the morning
When they trippingly Went their
way.
They come with the same sweet
laughter
When the books have been put aside.
And we wait for them at the portal
With the doors Of our hearts thrown
wide.
They go of to school full Of dreaming,
And we join in the hopes that they
feel:
They are climbing the far-f1ung ladder
And the fight that they fight is real.
They come afterwhile from the battle,
When the trumpets have sounded
goodnight.
And we wait for them there In the
shadows.
And We welcome them unto the light.
We are living our own lives over
In the laughter they take to school;
In the study, the hope and the dream
ing,
In the lesson of book and rule.
We are fighting our own old battle.
And We go thru 1t over and over.
The toilinE and trouble and care.
They 60 OF to school with singing.
And they leave us with silence
around
Except that the echoes are ringing
Deep down In our hearts and pro-
found.
They come home from study with
trusting,
Their little lives full Of it ALL
Its lure and it's light and its leading,
It's joy and its triumph and CALL
They go off to life. school, they leave
And the day wears away to the dusk,
And only wee shadows como trooping
Thru the mist. 4 rose thru the
musk.
But, with only their shadows to well
come,
And with only an echo to rins.
OF their golden and beautiful laughter,
Wide open the portals we fling
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
A BURNED CHILD AND THE FIRE.

The legislature has put the Oregon
plan up to the governor. His veto
power is all that stands between popu-
lar selection of United States senators
IN Iowa and the present system.
Standpatters hope that Governor Car
roll will veto the bill and 1t is said will
bring pressure to bear to effect this
purpose But the probabilities are that
the governor will not be amenable 10
the extent required. He has, by this
time, no doubt, discovered that he has
little for which to thank standpatters
except certain burns acquired pulling
chestnuts from the fire for others eat
Ing. Carroll Is probably tired OF the
role Of catspaw.
CARROTS entry into state office was
same cornplaisance made him governor
When he faced certain defeat for his
second term unless progressive republ-
cana voted for him progressives cast
their vote against Porter for a repub-
I3can nominee while they gagged over
xho ballot box. That's how Carroll
came into state Office and how ne has
stayed there.
Stand patters have used him when he
has been available. Youngs senator
aal chestnut IS a case in point-and
Young's foreclosure on the 1912 pri-
mary as the standpat candidate is the
usual sequel.
Governor Carroll should have learned
much by late experience. Perhaps he
has learned to dread the fire.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
DO Not u.e Soap

Do not use soap. naphtha, borax, soda.
ammonia or kerosene for cleaning.
Gold Dust has all desirable cleansing
qualities in perfectly harmless and last.
ing form.
No matter what you wish to clean
dishes, clothes, pots and pans. floors
and woodwork, refrigerator. bath room
or what not, Gold Dust alone will do
all the work-and do 1t better than
anything else. The Gold Dust Twins
need no outside help.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
NO LoRrMER BUSINESS.

INaSOn CITY TImes.1
With all the jockeying down at Des
Moines over the election of United
States senator there is no suggestion
of improper influences at work. There
have been no charges of graft or brib-
cry and there is general congratula-
ton over the state that this is so, al
tho there is considerable impa-
thence that republican members will
not join in the election of senator.
In other years a majority has ruled
and there is no reason at this time
why a majority should not control
the attitude of the republican men,
bership. No real reason, of course,
but the selfishness of ambitious men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
M%;1<zs
Iona Newspapers
THE BULK SALES BILL

Des Moines TribuneJ
The bulk sales bill to come up in
the house tomorrow is move for
commercial honesty.
Iowa Is one Of the few remaining
states that opens the door TO petty
fraud by permitting men to take ad-
vantage OF the good nature OF those
who trust them. F'orty-one states pro-
tect commercial integrity. Iowa is
among the scattering.
II a man rents land his claim for
rent is frs: lien on the crop OF the
tenant. If man loans money his
mortgage comes frs: If a man sells
lumber for a building, his lien is first
But II wholesaler sells stock Of
goods to the merchant, the merchant
can go In cahoots with some shyster
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

and beat the man who trusted him out
Of every dollar.
All q bulk sales law will do Will be
to put the wholesaler where the law
puts everybody else who furnishes an
other man with the means OF carry
ing on his business 1t will give him
first lien until his bill Is paid.
Every law that encourages COM
mercial honesty tends to make bust
ness more secure and to cheaper the
cost Of doing 1t. The people gain In
dollars and cents every time they give
security to the men who serve them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

les Of carrying on the government of
the country, than his story. at Wor-
cester. Mass, as early as 1s4S, about
the Yankee peddler who had but one
pair Of trousers in his stock, and COM
mended it to every customer as large
enough to At any man-and small
enough to fit any boy"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
W.T. That Ait

Admiral Lord Fisher, at a dinner in
Philadelphia, praised American wit
Even the little boys" said LORD
Fisher, "are brilliant wits. Thus, on
a ferry boat. heard a little boy take
down a fat man famously.
The boy was selling holiday week.
lies and magazines. The fat man
looked at all the holiday illustrations,
then walked away without buying
anything. The boy called after him
with biting wit:
Hey. fatay, wot do we take this
boat for? A free library?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

A piece OF flannel dampened with
Liniment and bound on
to the affected parts is superior to any
plaster. When troubled with lame back
Or pains in the side or chest give 1t a
trial and you are certain to be moro
than pleased with the prompt relief
which 1t affords. Sold by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Why not refer the vote-huying cases
in ve-nillion county to a committee
consisting OF Senator Lorimer ?-Cleve-
land Lea der
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Political opponents in Paris. H.. hav-
ing agreed to refrain from buying votes.
all that is needed is an agreement 70
keen the agreeme nt.-Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Circumstances Alter Cases.
1t Is easier to appear worthy Of q
position one does not hold than of tho
Office which one flls.-La Rochefou-
cauld.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Judging from the pictures In the pa
pers. those Mexican revolutionists have
better press agents than tailors.-
Pittsburg Gazette Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

The escort of police at the Could
wedding cost the CITY Of New York over
$500 hut think of the advertising New
York got out Of it!-Atlanta Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
pisaraceful Conduct

Of liver and bowels. in refusing to act,
is quickly remedied with DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. 80 cents.
Mcbride & Will Drug company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

"Of the farmers we have been able to
talk to in the past few days" says the
Aurelia Sentinel. eve have yet to find
one that is afraid Of the Canadian
treaty The people of Iowa are able to
care for themselves. treaty or no treaty.
and are not worrying"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
1oA: FrBRuAn1 IS 1911

The latter or at least the most Of them
have worked just as hard a. the others
and have made q living and that is all.
They are Just whore they were ten
years ago as far as the accumulation
Of property is concerned. 1t Is diff
cult to live. work and grow old in pow
erty on an Iowa farm; in town one can
do it easily"
Senator Hammil again lined up
with the standpatters and against the
progressives in the effort to carry out
Late Ioung's wishes for a special pri-
mary election" notes the Mason City
Times. The senator seems to he more
active in matters political than in pure
~ legislative service"
Just think Of printing petition for
a waterway from Muscatine TO Sioux
City" excaims the Davenport Demo-
GRAFT "A trolley line would be cheaper.
do the business more quickly, and make
the land along the route more wall
uable.'
To the Boone News Republican cit
becomes clearer every day that we can
da without hurting the farmer or any
one else. aud this congress may as
we'll accept the inevitable as President
Taft intends to keep the subject be-
fore the public until congress accedes
to his demands
The Hamilton Chronicle says "The
Samms public utility bill is one of the
rottenest pieces of legislation that was
ever proposed to he inflicted on the
reople of this state. 1t is 80 full of
holes that there are very few members
Of the legislature who would dare to
vote for it, The old corporation gang
never attempted to pass such a meas
ure''
Last week was the fourth. not the
last. OF the senatorial deadlock" re-
marks the Sioux City Journal. "Will
this be recorded az the fifth or last
week OF the deadlock"
cor the farmers we have been able to
talk to in the past few days" says the
Aurelia Sentinel. eve have yet to find
one that is afraid Of the Canadian
treaty The peoDla of Iowa ara able to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Tomatoes are selling at quarter
apiece in Washington. The canned ones
don't taste so bad, after all.-Detroit
Free Press
The d-fashioned boy who hoped for
red toned boots now has son who Is
an authority on silk socks-Dallas
News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Living and working on is1is. q.
Iowa has few inconventences or hard
ships and the rewards are sure" says
the Upton Advertiser. There are
renters in Cedar county who in the las.
ten years have achieved comparative
independence. There are also men who
have elected to stay in town and work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Standpatters do not care any more
about the president than they do about
the chief Of the Hottentots unless he
is with Them" says the Davenport
Times. They seem to recognize no
duty OF being with the president. even
when the president makes 1t clear that
he is merely following to the logical
one Of the most important
planks in the republican platform"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Last week was the fourth not the
last. Of the senatorial deadlock" re-
marks the Sioux City Journal. ''Wll
this be recorded az the fifth or last
week OF the deadlock"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
IOWA CENTRAL
NORTH RNTrNn

NORTH BOUND Leav>,
Twin Cities Mail (daily)... $50 q. a.
Mason City Mail lex. SUM-. 5:35 p. m.
Twin Cities Limited daily 1855 q. m.
Local Freight Eek. Sup.) -. 800 q. N.
SOUTH BOUND
st. Louis and Kansas City
Man tdaily). ............, $50 p. IA.
Peoria Express lex. Sum- -: 30 a. m
St. Louis and Peoria Limited
(daily) .................. Sis .. N.
Local Freight Tex. SUM- ...11:lo p. "a.
57GHE CITY BRANCH
Lssvs. - Arrive.
10 .. m. Stock Impress :.
(oE 0un:) .s.....s...... S:4t Q. M T
.: 10 =. n. llixAd (ex. SUM- y. z: q. ss5z1s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15
RAILROAD TINE TABLE
CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN
"corn Belt Route"

GOING SOUTH
No. st. Joe and K. c.
limited -. ............. $500 a. m
No. 3-K. c. Mail & Express 1900 p. m.
No. 5-kansas City and ST.
Joseph 800. .1o:oo a. m
sNo. S1-Way Freight 80. 1880 q. m.
GONG NORTH
No. 2-Chicago and st. Paul
limited ...... ....... ...11:29 p. m.
No 4-Chicago and st. Paul
Express ..........11:37 q. n.
sNo. Sway Freight 80. 1880 q. m.
except Sunday. Effective Aug 1.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

Because of the private sales il is hard
to keep track of the market price Of
his Cornmercial-Appeal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-15

They go off to school with laughter.
And it rings thru the house all day,
The echo they left In the morning
When they trippingly Went their
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-08-10
Shingles.

,erson of an genealogical turn oil
mind seeing a case of well marked SHIN
oles with the little blisters so closely SET
&c almost TO overlap one another, might
think the affection well named from the
shingles of a roof, but the word is reahY
q corruption of the Latin cingulun, mean
ing girdle. The term was applied De-
cause OF the arrangement OF the eruption,
which encircles the body, or one iateral
half of it, like belt, The SCIENTIFIC term
is zoster, or IONA, from the Greek woruS
for belt or girdle.
Shingles, or zoster, is skin eruption
due TO disease of one of the cutaneous
nerves which run from the spinal cord
round the body to the middle line IN
'front.' The eruption always follows the
front unless the nerves on both sides are
affected. when il encircleS the BODY just
like a girdle. This complete form is Tor
tunately rare.
The eruption consists OF succession
of hard blisters like those OF cold-Sore,
or blister, so common on the lips
1t begins in the form OF reddish patches'
upon which pimples and then small DIS
tiers form. These blisters are arranged
in groups along the course ofthe affected
nerve, or they may, in severe cases. run
together, forming an almost unoroken
line around one-half of the body or face
For the first three or four days or a
week preceding the eruption neuralgia
pains are felt in the part to be affected,
and during tine eruption the pain is often
very acute. In children, curiously
enough, the pain may be absent.
The attack is usually ,ushered IN by
fever, sometimes slight chillS, and teel-
ing of general illness. The eruption may
appear all at once, or may occur in sew
eral successive crops, taking week or
more for its full development.
The most serious form is that OF the
face, for it often results in severe scar
ring, and may even attack the eyeball.
The pain usually subsidies when the
eruption appears.
There is no treatment which will GER
tainly cut short the attack, and the most
that can be done usually is to protect the
blisterS from irritation of the clothing or
other injury. This is done by applying
soothing powders of starch or oxid OF
zinc, painting the b listers with collodion'
or applying court plaster. After the at
tack the patient may need tonic treatment
for while.
There is generally only one attack.
Where there are repeated occurrences
there is usually some underlying fault OF
constitution which calls for careful, sys-
tematic. medical treatment.