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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-01

Mrs. C. w. Sparks. who has been at
tending the national convention Of the
Y. w. G. A. at Indianapolis. returned
home Sunday night. While away Mrs.
Sparks stopped at Delhi. o.. for short
visit with her daughter, Madge. who is
teaching in the high school there
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-01

Ladies don't forget Carrs special
shoe and oxford sale for Wednesday
only. Choice Of any ladies' shoe or ok
ford only $3.50.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-01

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wright, formerly
Of this city but in more recent years
Of Fargo. N. D.. have returned to Mar
shailtown to make their home here.
Mr.. Wright has entered the employ Of
the Iowa Central in the latter's car
shops.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1911-07-01
Comment on Old Cy.
For THE PAL1sADIAN /:

For IHE PALISADIAN:
Well, now, shouldn't old Cy be
ashamed of himself to treat us poor
Palisadians that way! Your Uncle
Cyrus is some pumpkins when it
comes to slingin' a nasty quill. We
will now have to behave ourselves.
The poor, bilious grievance dates back
to the night before the park opened
in 1912, when the mass meeting was
held at Lange's, and old Cy, he came
there all cooked and primed for a
blow-off, and nobody touched him
with match He had with him that
night another saluter (solutor is bet
ter Word) from Hackensack, who
wanted to fire some of his weather"
beaten artillery, but they both had to
go off home entirely out of the run
ming, sore and disappointed. Some
people never could understand why
they Che and Cyl did-dent interrupt
the meet-tin'. Eff they had, the park
would never hev opened up next day
and been runnin ever sense, | tell ye!
Them fellers knoW-they're two of a
kind, We know, an tibet beats two
pair.
Old Cy is kicker from the shout
der, like an old army musket loaded
with bird shot. s'pose now we'll hev
to bow to the yoke he has put upon
us. This GrantWood post is gettin'
to be a very serious matter indeed
Our own people hev been interviewed
so many times t | wonder the editor
don't catch on. Bout time, pears like
to me, they were sendin' in bill for
adveritsin'. But | amt kickin 1t all
adds to the spice O life and meks
ginger.-Hiram.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1911-07-01
The War on the Rat.

Gibson county, with its anti-rat
day. which it is trying to extend to all
the state, is fully abreast of the times,
as is shown by dispatches from Eu-
rope. In Scotland professional rat
catchers are being employed and
maintained in office the same as
smoke inspectors, mayors and coun-
cilmen. At Kincardine the official rat
catcher and his family have killed
10000 rats in one year, and on one
occasion killed one a minute for
considerable time. Still, Kincardine
did not know it had rats" 1t is
claimed by competent authority that
in 1910 rats cost Great Britain $75-
100000. Besides the economic loss,
1t is said, rats carry contagion to an
alarming extent, and that plague
might be prevalent among the vermin
for long time before it became cpl
demlc among human beings. The
Gibson county rat authorities estimate
the daily cost of rat at cents loss.
Indianapolis News.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1911-07-01
HANS LOBERT.
| en-.

t.;mitable butcher Sees the
dy Point in Alert Politics.
81 ,nbiect of politics was always
r. to the heart of Hans Lobert,
le7 %t Lee philosopher. He came
rs " the Junction the other Sun
orning, the only day he has for
w % around among his neighbors.
re pea-green necktie of the
~ order, which gave him an
az look. His eye was bright, and
was no depressed look of de-
IS an his face as he was wont to
~ when he had had troubles to
81 don't seem to stay home these
mornings, Hans?" said an &C
5oce who knew his tendency to
rbOut the borough. And, if the
aInust be told, Hans did have an
) zion to roam. Whether this
lom rowing disposition or be-
! the old lady made it uncomfort-
81 not necessary to state here.
I'm" he replied, Il see you are
tool Wy diddent you schtay
I'm oldt lady myselluf? ?"
q we'll, | only came out to get
sorning paper" replied his in
Il
| game oudt to get der fresh
lid der fresh people" retorted
dl there are no fresh people
here. We are all very quiet
n,date"
I'm dot? See date? Vas iss?'
I Hans.
III sedate people are unobtru-
4 hey are not noisy
ii. yes; | see dot now. Der Sc
nnan vas a burglar; he wears gum
ind carries er dark lamp vot
lights oop in der corners"
K, no! You don't understand.
il not talking about burglars at
ll | said was that the people up
5ere quiet; they are not noisy"
D. yess, | dink | see id now.
beople vas asleep all der dime.
e nice ting. diss peing asleep.
Hdd dey wake ub und visit Fort
Amce in er vile, so ass to stir up
I0idlgal pod a fiddle? Vot We
1n Fort Lee ISIS to have der OK
Htnt vonce. We needt somepod-
keep der polidigal pod polling"
bly, | thought you had nothing
kltlcs in Fort Lee all the time!"
Altlgs? Wy, man alife! Der peo-
a Fort Lee ISIS der most ikno-
as neffer vas on POLITICS. Talk
peing asleep! Wy, down here
I1nd know ANGLING at all aloud
ping. We know how to schleep
II Lee"
.og how to sleep? What do you
Don't al. people sleep alike?"
'ne do, but most of 'em don'd.
es Mayor Appott to schleep
He knows how to schleep."
Ivy is that"
Won eye open"
Hans laughed a guilty smile.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1911-07-01

1t is especially in love-making that
the new woman finds there is some
thing of the man about her.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1911-07-01

Ghosts, of course, talk only in the
dead languages.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
ENERGY, INITIATIVE
THE FACTORS.

In the history of every community,
there comes a time when the natural
resources which brought it's first set
tiers to it become exhausted, or thru
misuse, fail to continue to attract addi-
tional people. At this period of the
community's growth, the energy and
initiative and ambition of her citizens
must take the place of the first natur-
al causes for growth. Capital gained
from early reaping of the natural re-
sources must be unlocked and invested
so that new lines of activity will be
available.
The advance of any community de-
ponds finally upon the energy and am
bition of the citizens of that communi-
ty. A Chicago is located because of
some trifling natural advantage, but it
is built not because of that advantage,
but because of the energy and activity
of it's people. Let it fail to push along
and grow and develop and rival soon
takes it's place.
Ambition, energy, initiative coupled
with faith in self and confidence in
the future of your community, made
effective by hard work and constant
effort spells success in city, county and
state building.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
STREETER ON PROHIBITION.

Editor Streeter in the Emmons Coun-
ty Record INDUCES in some harsh cri-
ticisms of Prohibition in North Dakota.
Editor Streeter is emphatic in all he
says or does. He believes in no kid
glove handling of a subject, whether
the subject be politics or liquor laws.
In connection with his news on Prohi-
bition it is interesting to recall that
he is the lone, single-handed, ever
faithful, omnipresent, ever-at-'em
champion of licensed saloons, the i'm
placable, unconquerable, unbeatable
enemy of Prohibition in North Dakota.
There must be granite, stern and I'M
yielding hidden somewhere in his make
up, for 10! these many, many seasons
he has with pathetic regularity cursed
prohibition and impatiently spouted
for the return of the blessed days of
bounteous booze. He has been almost
the only public, man in North Dakota
of recent years to take such a stand.
1t must be lonesome and rather dis
couraging. Perhaps though he lives in
the fond hope Of some day repeating
concerning Dakota the old-time toast
of Kentucky:
Here's to old Kentucky, the state
where / was born;
Where the corn was full of kernels and
the Colonel's full of CON-
Be that as it may, Streeter and his
outburst are the last echo of the wild
days of. the slope country, an echo
growing fainter and fainter each year.
North Dakota is for prohibition more
strongly today than ever in her his.
tory. Editor Streeter, like many men
lives in the past and heeds not the
! ways of today.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
Good craftsmanship Is the art
OF finding out what a customer
wants and then using a knowl.
edge OF merchandise to thor.
oughly satisfy that want,
Influence Of Advertlslno

NO one has yet been able to figure
out when the influence of an advar.
tisement ceases. As long az conv
Of the ad. exists and can be seem ~
human eyes, It's power to persuade :.
still IN force. This is illustrated nv
the experience of concern thar dis,
continued the manufacture of an ar.
acle 1t had formerly advertised quite
extensively and ten years later re-
ceiVed from country town an order
1t was found that it came from
farmer who said that in taking IN a
carpet. he had found underneath a
newspaper containing an advert,.a-
ment Of the article, and had bean az
impressed with its usefulness tba+ ~
had written for it. He was much a,s.
appointed when he learned that the
article was no longer manufactured
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25

use such power sanely and fairly.
Senator Sutherland's argument is typi-
cal of the standpatter and coming as it
did at the same time as the powerful
argument in favor of the recall deliv-
cred by Senator Bourne of Oregon, it
affords an opportunity for us to see the
sharp distinction between the two
schools of political thought in Ameri-
can politics today-the Stand-pat
school and the Progressive school.
Senator Sutherland sums up the ma
terial of his speech in the statement
that where injustice creeps into our
system it is not the fault of the system
or the present machine government,
but the fault lies with the people.
They have gone astray in choosing
their agents hence the trouble.
Senator Bourne meets Sutherland
squarely on this point. He says the
fault is with the machine and not with
the people He says that the people,
if allowed to express their will effec-
lively, speedily and without obstruct-
ing forms of political machinery, they
will decide justly almost without ex-
ception. Sutherland says the power to
correct abuses should be made as re-
mote as possible, that when the dear
people are allowed to really mix in the
governing game things are bound to
go wrong, representative government
is bound to be lost
Bourne expresses the belief of the
progressive element of the nation, the
belief that the people are the ones to
whom we should go back quickly and
invariably in case of trouble in the
machinery of our government. One
can see the Unreasonable difference
between the schools of thought both
men represent Sutherland looks back
ward. Bourne looks forward. Suther
land sees through the spectacles of one
hundred years ago. Bourne lives and
breathes and moves in the growing
changing present. The great mass of
the American people are with Bourne
body and soul in this fight. Whether
the machinery is rightly constructed
in the case OF Arizona we are not GER
tain, but the principle is there, the
principle of truly representative form
of government, live, growing, irresisti-
BILE and conquering.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
are we'll worthy of the serious consid-

are we'll worthy of the serious consid-
Grafton of every citizen;
II realize that these ideas are de-
sultory but they may be reduced to
three or four points. First, we should
have as complete and accurate statis-
tics with reference to crime as posi-
BILE. Second, we should have our sta
tutory definitions as clear, succinct and
accurate as possible, with clear, we'll
defined, flexible, impartiality and spec
Oily executed rules of procedure.
Third, we should wipe out all Of the
rules or so-called safeguards for the
criminal which have become obsolete
and should turn our attention to the
protecting of rights of the public as
we'll as the rights of the accused.
Fourth, we should make it easier to in
stitute prosecutions for certain often
ses, and under this head l would like
to call your attention to the fact that
it is quite easy to maintain prose
cution for an offense which touches
the person or property of another, such
as murder, burglary or larceny, but
much more difficult to prosecute and
arouse sentiment against those crimes
whose effect is general in their nature,
such as perjury, violation of the pro-
hibition law, crimes against the elec-
torate, the violation OF moral laws,
the Sunday laws and similar laws as
they appear on our statute books.
Fifth, as a Bar association, as men,
bers of the legal profession, and above
all recognizing our duty as citizens.
we should do all in our power to up
build in the community better, purer,
nobler conceptions of right. If there
has been decay in parental control,
in religious instruction, in educational
effect and work, we should face these
conditions, fearlessly and fairly and
find the remedy. We cannot make
men moral by law, and punishment OF
crime can have only partial effect
upon it's commission. The cause is
deep seated in human nature itself
and if we have a weakening of the
moral, religious and ethical standards,
crime is bound to increase. Looping
off member here and there wherever
an evidence of the disease is seen is
not going to cure the patient. We must
ascertain the causes of the crime. If
they are political, social or economic
remove them. If they are ethical and
moral inculcate, the correct standards.
So long as human nature exists, we
will have crime, but we can. do great
deal to minimize it,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
MORAL COWARDICE.

>: The success Of criminality in poll
tics is due to the moral cowardice of |
the rest of the community A man
may have the reputation of a very fine
character and have the respect of ev-
erybody and be almost universally pop
ular, but it may be that the principal |
reason for his popularity and his repu-
tation is that he has not the courage
to act the part of a good citizen. AS an
Illustration, take the following extract |
from a very good citizen, very fine
neighbor and very popular man, in re-
ply to request that he take an active
stand on the questions agitating the
community. He writes LAS for my
self, while l want you to understand
that l feel friendly to you and wish
you unbounded success, am not poll
tician and don't care to get mixed up in
these matters, because | don't think a
person in my business should do So
ness man. 1t is difficult to see why
business man should not act the part
of a good citizen as we'll as lawyer or
a clergyman, or teacher. Now sup
posing all those named follow the ex-
ample of the business man, that is,
supposing all the rest of the COM
munity lack the citizens courage as
he does, or supposing that one-half of
those classes named. should lack the
required courage, what prospect is
there for success against the crimtnal
confederacy?
The latter have no scruples. but they
have the courage to work for their
favorites. They have the persistence
to keep at it day and night. They
have no timidity in violating the law
because they feel assured that the sue
cess of their party brings them i'm
munity. When merchant is silent
=. for fear he may lose few cents of pro-
fit, the lawyer for fear he lose the fav-
or of the court, the teacher for fear
the appointing board hint at resigna-
1 ton, the clergyman for fear the contr1-
buttons won't be forthcoming-that is,
when all the men of education and
( training, who are supposed to have
n been well founded in moral principle
and trained to a certain amount OF
sacrifice and to be willing to stand
right, regardless Of the consequences,
when these fail in their duty, should
y ordinary citizens be blamed for sup
d porting the criminal confederacy at
whose conduct the should-be leaders OF
society connive; and in view of such a
condition of affairs, is it any wonder
that justice is delayed, denied and
sold? ;s5s 80. .>u -.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25

Congressman Hanna for governor
would be ticket which would have
many valuable points-to the demo-
Gratis of the state. Were Hanna nom.
mated for governor the democrats
would have a biggest opportunity since
the days. of the Burke-Sarles fight.
They would in all probability sweep
North Dakota from governor down.
Hanna is a big enough load on the
backs of the republicans of the state
where he sits today in congress. And
if one Helgeson should OPPORTUNITY
hang up the scalp of said Hanna this
coming summer he will deserve the
thanks of the republicans Of the state
who want future success and stabili.
ty for republication in North Dakota.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25

A prominent state official recently
introduced an insurgent republican Wis
itor from Cavalier county to one of
our county officials who happens to be
a stalwart Bareley was the introduce
ton over when the Ramsey Co. official
started to tell what he thought of the
insurgents. His language reproduced on
an Edison photograph would sound as
follows: ----! -" Xxx DID,
ETC., etc. The visitor thinks we have
crazy man in that particular place.
He is mistaken, the official is merely a
sorehead with decided leanings to-
ward pin-headery. We have life size
picture of the officials language which
we will exhibit sparingly to select
few of voting age at the proper time
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
GET AFTER THE PRINCIPAL
Proper and Best Way to Suppress the
Bill Sticking Nuisance In
Your Town.

Billboard advertising of the regular
sort-of the sort that is to be seen af-
fixed to surfaces specially constructed
for the purpose-does much to offend
the eye, but the fellow who does most
to annoy and irritate by adding to the
general ugliness of urban scenery is
he who Is always shopping around
to paste his wretched poster in some
place where to do so will cost him
nothing.
A garbage barrel fence about q
new building or hole in the sidewalk.
the curbstone at corner, any blank
wall-these places are all one to him.
and as his deeds are mostly done
In the dark his activities are hard to
suppress. Once up, his bill usually
remains, made shabbier every day by
the weather, until it finally disappears
OF Its own reluctant accord,
There is, however, a way by which
this evil could be met and overcome,
and 1t is by regarding the billposter.
not as a principal, but as what he
really ls-the agent of the man to
whose wares or wants or purposes or
desires he gives publicity. That ia
the man who should be pursued, and
the obnoxious bill itself always dis
closes his identity. Anybody who will
can take action against him, and in
vain VIII he enter his only defense
that ne did not know what his agent
was going to do and assume that the
oiils would be posted only in proper
places. That is no defense at all
New York Times,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25

In EVerybOdy'S Magazine OF the last
issue, appeared the following adver-
tisement from a Canadian land con-
Germ:
Reciprocity. - The delegations
from the agricultural states who
went to Washington to protest
against Canadian reciprocity said
that their people could not COM
pete against the more productive
lands in Canada where the yields
of grain were nearly double that of
their states. Is not this good land
to own? We are the first people
who took American buyers into
Saskatchewan. We are the oldest
Canadian Land Company. We have
the last railway land left in first
hands and can sell land the equal
of any on earth for $500 per acre
on easy terms. Wife us for book
let maps and full information. The
Haslam Land Company, st. Paul,
Mimi, or Regina, Canada.
The delegations referred to went
from several of the states of the north
west and amcng others there wee sew
eral troupes of so-called farmers
from North Dakota. They were not
the really-truly kind of farmers, but
they called themselves :i1at. They said
that North Dakota would be ruined If
the pact went tn 'nugh and they fool
ishly claimed that We C.C,!Gn't compete
with the Or ,:iuctive land O. Canada.
The men who went down there and
did these things are the men who
harmed North Dakota. They simply
made medicine for the Canadian land
man and the Canadian land man, being
somethir 3 of Yankee in shrewdness,
uses the w rds of the North Dakota
farmer" to pull business away from
Dakota aud into Canada. We recently
received a warm letter from a reader
scoring us for an editorial in favor of
freer trade relations with Canada We
were then advised that we were giving
the other fellow club to beat us to
death with. Referring to the above ad
the farmers" (save the MARK who
are responsible, we will say that just
at present North Dakota is in great
danger of being slain by the jaw bone
of an ass who goes to Washington than
by the reciprocity club we have given
the other fellow.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
criminal on the rockville " .

criminal on the rockpile."-
In the past two weeks the editor
of this paper has gone over three or
four hundred exchanges, every one of
them edited by men, and not one of
these exchanges, but has roasted the
judge who imposed. this penalty on a
woman in Kansas. We have failed as
yet to read protest from a woman.
They know they do not need to write
one The age of chivalry has not pass
ed by any means and the Judge who i'm
posed that punishment on the woman
will get all that is coming to him, not
from the women, but from his own sex.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
Find Newspapera Rae.

Shoe dealers all over Indiana have
awakened to the fact that newspanara
are the business friends and MARI.
ners. At the meeting of the stote
Shoe Dealers association haIa ~ ~
'dianapolis, strong resolutions wana
passed declaring favorably for ne
newspaper advertising. The raso,,,
lions pledge the retail shoe deaIass
to use daily newspapers to inform The
public as to the real merits Of .hor
estiy made goods. In other wnrda
the dealers indorse policy 81 hons az
advertising. The reputable shoe assIs
or 9 should take the public into his Co. go.
ndence. say the resolutions. - 8.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-25
RURAL WOMEN INTERESTED.

That the women in the rural dis
tricts are. keeping abreast of the
times is evidenced by their ever-in.
creasing demand for literature on the
subject Of woman suffrage. The Ma
tional Press Bureau reports that news.
papers devoted to the interests of WON.
en- on the farm are constantly asking
for cooperation presenting the mat
ter to their readers, the latest request
coming from paper with d circula.
tion Of nearly 100000. .;..s s:ss.5 Il