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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

have accepted the call Of the straw
ballot committee to become a candi-
date for councilman, and will seek the
office as a matter Of public duty rather
than from personal desire.
E, LESTER WILLIAMS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

subject to the decision Of the primary
election II elected I will give my best
efforts to secure an honest. efficient.
economical and progressive admiuis-
tration.
NsrDprnrT> curC,>y~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28
MERRITT GREENE.

In response to the request OF my
friends I hereby announce my can
didacy for mayor Of Marshalltown.
subject to the decision Of the pri-
mary.
w. H. JONES.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

Licensed TO We'd.
Arthur r. Avis, farmer. aged 20. OF
State Center and Nora B. Ellington,
aged 81. Of Melbourne.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

hereby announce my candidacy for
mayor of the city of Marshalltown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28
SPECIAL HOSE SALE
Painter 10 Selling . Genuine Silk Hose
For Men at the Astonishing Low
Price Of SO Cents q P6irs

Now is a good opportunity to buy a
pair or two of fine silk hose for little
more than you would pay for the or
binary kind.
Look at the hose that Painter is sell
ing for 80 cents. the biggest bargain Of
the season.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

1 will be a candidate for councilman
as the result OF the labor referendum
ballot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

wish to announce my candidacy for
the office OF councilman under the new
form Of city government. subject to
the will Of the voters at the primaries
or March Is. I would respectfully re-
fer the voters to my record as a mem
Der Of the present city council.
GEORGE HERMAN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

Editor Times-R epubl, Please an
nounce tina: will be an Independent
candidate for councilman before COM
ing municipal primaries.
F. A. PLAcEK.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

hereby announce that I will be
candidate for councilman at the coming
primary election. II elected I will al
ways stand for measures that Will be
for the best interests of Marashalltown,
and for square deal.
I. T. FORBES.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28

Editor Times Republican,: Please an
nounce that l will be an independent
candidate for councilman at the coming
municipal primary. to be held on March
13. My platform is retrenchment, and
I believe that the tax levy should be
reduced to the lowest point possible
consistent with good government and
greater and better Marshalltown.
EMIL G. SELEINE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

bles the Alps. If one is able to make his way through the dunes and risk the dan gers of the snow and ice crevasses he Will find himself well rewarded. As the lake is approached it's whitened landscape pre- sents a striking appearance The shore line is ragged. for as the waves dash against the now hardened sand cliffs the water freezes. Out in the lake there are 10 be seen vast snow fields, broken here and there by huge cakes of floating 1ce some ofwhich are large enough to sug- gest icebergs.
 Standing on one of the snow capped peaks the visitor will command a view of many miles, The lake offers no Vari- ety save the small ice packs that dot the snow landscape. On land there is one continual succession of whitened dune crests and If the highest one is mounted five miles further to the south will be seen a faint black line. That is the be- ginning of the timber line of the black soil country. Civilization disappears and even the telescope will not bring a nabi- tation in sight. The silence is the same as that of the Arctic regions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
HAVEN OF WOODEN INDIANS
A Salesman Who Found All the Exiles
 From New York Out in Cincinnati
From the New York Sun.

From the New Iork Sun.
 What has become of all the cigar store Indians that used to give New York a pretty fair sized aboriginal pop ula tion, wooden thought 1t was? The once familiar figure is still to be seen on the Bowery and here and there along the avenues of the East Side and in old Greenwich Village, which takes all inn proyements as child takes medicine.
 But, none the less, he is disappear ing. It is estimated that within the last three years his numbers have been re- duced by more than 50 per cent. A salesman returning from the west brought the one true elucidation of the problem to the office of the United States Tobacco Journal
 T have found the missing Indians," he said with evident pride. T counted them and they are all there-2346.'
 "Where?" he was asked.
 "In Cincinnati, replied the salesman. They're every one of them there. No mstage. A few blocks from the depot I bobbed up against one that looked familiar There was a dent on the nose which I remembered in my boyhood as belonging to the Indian which stood in front of Max's store on Fourth street, near the house where l was raised And then before l had walked three blocks further I saw another which looked like the twin of a Calcutta va riety Indian who once guarded Beren sen's store on Second avenue.
 He had the same red eyes, the same tolored turban with the barber's stripes, the same plethora of body and paucity Of legs. But when l examined closer l found he was no twin. It was the very same Indian, as was proved by mud mark covering the noble duskys heart It was unmistakably Second avenue mud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
INDIANA SAND DUNES
Desert Wastes in the Northern Par
 of the State to Be Opened

Gary Correspondence Indianapolis News.
 The heart of 1ndiana's sand dunes is to be pierced by a gravel road. An old trail 13 miles in length that once linked Miller and Chesterton was last used by the Detroit-Chicago stage coach line 50 years ago. The route will become She roadbed of a modern highway and before a year has passed automobiles will speed over the stretch the post horses once used
 Since the last stage went over the rail during the civil war, very few vehicles have travelled over it. The trail has almost been forgotten, even by the old settlers, for the route leads through Indiana S most lonesome territory. In the 40 square mil es between Miller and Chesterton there gre less than dozen farms. Yet several hundred people find their living in the d'Jle country. They fish, ship sand and pick berries. but most of them make their living by trapping, for here is one place m this part of the country where the smaller fur-bearing animals abound.
 To the north of the dune country 'ies the lake. a stretch of three four miles of land and the meandering Grand Cal umet river, the south bank of which marks the beginning of the black soil country which extends southward to the Ohio. It is the strip between the lake and the river that is almost primitive in its character.
 Part of it is densely wooded. Then come almost impenetrable marshes. the shores of some having sand bluffs two and three hundred feet high Nearer 10 the lake are the sand dunes. No road will ever pierce them because of their 'a- ture. Travellers have declared the sand pateaus to be the nearest American rep lica of the Sahara On, what little Vege- taton there is Nature plays queer tricks.
 'The action of the shifting winds makes valley of one spot today; tomorrow 1t may be a small mountain. When the sand whirs around the green spots an,l stays there for while a dreary and mo- notonous scene is presented when it is removed. There is nothing to be seen but the uninviting area of sand wastes and thethe skeletons of the blasted pines.
 On summer days the region presents all of the appearance of the Sahara. There are the. scorching sands, the merciless sun and the paucity of water. Occasional vegetation and scanty clusters of trees give the effect of the oaSeS. Added "eal- ism is also given to the scene. for side by side with the fauna of Indiana thcre grows the cactus of the desert and he Mexican plains. This anomaly in plant life attracts many botansts who come to study the strange phenomenon.
 The winter days present pictures none the less interesting. In the vicinity of Dune park in January the scene resem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
A Great Bubble of Lava
Los Angeles correspondence Portland
 Oregonian.

Los Angeles correspondence Portland
 Oregonian.
 Mail advices from Honolulu tell of the most amazing phenomena ever ob- served within the crater of volcano by d white man.
 It was no less than tremendous bubble of lava. inflated by gas from the very center of the earth, which sup ported an island as it floated across a lake of fiery liquid. Frank A. Per rett, the scientist who observed 1t, es- timated that it covered an area of 5000 square feet and he was fortunate enough to secure a few photographs, although conditions were for from fa- vorable. for picture taking.
 The bubble was a huge. sausage shaped affair, inflated with volcanic gas and composed of lava glass says the scientist in his report. "A lava foun- tain, boiling continuously under the eastern end gave the apearance of a screw propeller, and the amazing con trivance seemed to be navigating the lake like a great whaleback steamer.
 There was an island of black crust, which when it began to sink evolved great quantity of gas, which blew the bubble of lava glass, and this in turn sustained the island and prevented il from sinking. I made several tours of the lake before it disappeared from sight at last"
 This was observed in the volcano Halemaumau, and Perrett and two Jap anese assistants were the only ones who saw it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
Our Astral Doubles


 .'Thus every man." says Prof. Schubert, isting in his terrestrial self also exists in a spiritual or astral self which constantly accompanies him in his walks through life. and whose existence is especially pro- claimed in states of profound sleep, of somnambulsm, and in the conditions Of mediums. In this way Du Prel explains the wonderful feats of somnabulists and the aerial journeys of sorcerers and witches. Whereas. ordinarily the separa- tion of the material body from the astrli body is only effected at the moment Of death. In the case of somnambulsts this separation may take place at any time, or as Du Prel says, ''the threshold of feeling may be permanently displaced
 Prof. Schubert explodes all these beau- tful hypotheses of the builders of the ghost world with the bombshell that has done service so often in the hands of the true scientists. He shows the fourth di- mensional world of the mathematician is strictly scientific, whereas the fourth di- mensional world of the friends of the ghosts is fantastic.
 Tn the hands of the mathematicians. he says. this extension of the notion of space was mere means devised for the discovery and expression, by shorter and more convenient ways, of truths applea- ble to common geometry and to algebra operating with more than three unknown quantities At this stage. however, the spi s5nalists came in and cooly took pos SC IV,n of this private property of the m ematician with an intellectual
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
A Market Is Transformed

From the New York Sun.
 If you want to see a change, great big change, a transformation" said town traveller, "go down and see Wash ington market as it is today. You know how it used to be? Sheds out over the sidewalk extending from the building to the curb, and on the sidewalk, along by the building and also along by the curb stands for the sale of chickens and cheese and meats and vegetables and all sorts of things, through which you threaded your way along so much of the sidewalk space as was left re- maining. But now?
 The stands have all been put back in the market and the sidewalks are absolutely clear and all around the mar ket has been set with plate glass win dows. and the building itself is not un- pleasing.
 If you had known Washington mar ket only as it was in days before, go down and look at it now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
Shakesneare in 1793

From the University Correspondents
 What. we wonder, would happen to the London manager nowadays who should dare to put on the stage such version of a Shakespearian tragedy as was played in Ireland 1o0 years ago? Mrs. Earle, m her recent book Memoirs and Memories, gives a Dublin play bill of 1793, which is well worth quoting.
 The play was 'the tragedy of Hamlet originally written and composed by the celebrated Dan Hayes of Limerick and inserted in Shakespeare's works The title role is taken by a gentleman "Wno between the acts will perform several solos on the patent bagppe, which per forms two tunes at the same time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
. Rabies After Five Years
Ie New York Sun.

From tn6 NeW I OTk HouI
 Abraham Volk. Pennsylvania rail road brak eman, who died of hydropho- bia at his home, 100 Bright street, Jer- sey City. was bitten by stray dos about five years ago as he was passing through the railroad yards at the foot of Gates avenue. He had the wound cauterized and forgot about the incl dent until a week ago, when he was stricken with the rabies Volk was 3T years old. He leaves a widow and two small children fN4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

perversity which science has no idea of.
 Prof Schubert argues his position from several points of view. establishing it 'so firmly that it looks as though the ghost hunters will have to hunt in bushes some where outside of the fourth dimension for the hiding place of the sheeted specters that walk the earth at midnight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

and the starlike patch was another memory of my boyhood.
 "I then went over Cincinnatfs col lection and counted the bunch, recog nizing many friends. They're all there all right, and they tell me new ones are coming every week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
DispapOinted

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Did she get her divorce?"
 "Oh, yes, but she was terribly disap- pointed in way. You know he didn't contest it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
KHORASSAN ORDER
TO BE FORMED HERE
Social Branch of the Knights of
Pythsas to Be Launched in
the Tri-Cities.

Arrangements are under way in
the lodges of the knights of Pythias
in the tri-oities for the organization
of a new order. an auxiliary of the
knights of Pythias, known as the
Dramatic Order of the Knights of
Khorassan Before organizing it will
be necessary to secure at least $50
candidates for membership and as
there are many times that number of
Pythians in the tri-cities, It is Ger
tain that there will be no difficulty
in securing that number. Members
of the knights of Pythias only are
eligible to the new order.
There will be a meeting tonight
of ST Paul lodge of this city and a
committee Will be appointed to take
further steps in the matter and to
confer with committees of the Moline
and Davenport lodges The nearest
branch of the order at the present
time is at Peoria. The order stands
in the same position to the knights
of Pythias as does the Shrine to the
Masonic lodge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16

the report of Fiscal Supervisor
Whip, who assembled the estimates
and made his own recommendations
to the board, was accepted. The or
binary operating expense item, call
ing for $500, 14S, is the largest
item in the list.
Included in the appropriations
asked by those in charge at Water
town is an item for new amuse-
ment hall TO replace the one destroy
ed by fire a year or so ago. Friends
of the local institution are hoping
that the total appropriation made by
the legislature will include this item
Though detailed report of the state
board of administration has not been
made it is not believed that the sum
desired for the amusement hall here
has been pruned from the total by
the board.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
Personal Points

c. J. Larkin has returned from a
Chicago business visit.
H. 8. Cable and Presley Greenawal,
are in Chicago on business.
H. E. NanDuzer left this afternoon
for a business visit at Cincinnati.
Miss Helen Russell has gone to
Los Angeles for an extended visit.
E. C. Hart has returned from a
business visit at Kansas City and in
Colorado.
David J. Cleland of Muskogee
Okla, is visiting his parents, Justice
and Mrs. J. H. Cleland.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Turney are
leaving this week for New York city,
where they will reside in future.
Rev. Marion Humphreys. pastor OF
Central Presbyterian church, left this
afternoon for Hamlet. where he will as
sist Rev. F. l.. Cooper in conducting
evangelistic services this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Seaver and sons
Lester and Douglass. left today for a
visit OF a few days with relatives at
Muscatine They will return Wednes-
day and will leave the latter part OF
the week for their home at Moore
head, MINI.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
Chr H1rrk III tl1r City Ghi1rrlrrH

board of officers will meet this evening
at 1880 at the lecture room of the
church.
The Acme society will meet this ev-
ening with Miss Ella Danielson, III
Fifth avenue, Moline.
The annual meeting of the congrega-
ton will be held tomorrow evening at
1870. An oyster supper will be served.
The confirmation class will meet
Wednesday evening at o'clock.
The Altar society will meet Friday
evening at 1880 at the parsonage
Central Presbyterian. Tonight at
7:30 the Young Peoples Social league
will meet in regular monthly business
and social session at the home of the
Misses Ramskill, 1901 Eleventh ave
nue..
There will be no prayer services
Wednesday evening and the congrega-
ton has been invited TO attend the
services at Memorial Christian church.
South Park Presbyterian. - Junior
services will be held tomorrow after
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
LARCENY VICTIMS
DO NOT PROSECUTE
Boy Is Given His Freedom When
Those He Robbed Thursday
Night Fail to Appear.

The larceny charge lodged against
Harry Stork, VINO took S22 and a peck
etbook belonging to roomers in a lodg-
ging house at III Fifth avenue last
Thursday night and who was arrest
ed in Davenport the next day, was
dropped Saturday afternoon when f.
A. F'iske. one OF the roomers who had
been VictimiZed, refused TO prosecute.
Fiske lost s19 out Of his pockets. but
Stork returned all Of it and the other
roomer was also able 70 get back his
money. although his pocketbook was
destroyed. Stork has been an inmate
at the Watertown hospital. but he was
released there and the superintendent
has refused 10 admit him again on the
grounds that he is not insane
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16

Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis.
This will conclude the campaign
begun year ago, when the National
Billposters' association donated free
space to the tuberculosis cause, the
Peter Printers association offered
free printing and nine paper manu-
facturers gave the paper for the
posters. The combined value Of
these several donations for this
three-month campaign is nearly
100000.
The posters are in six different de-
signs and are all printed in three
colors They are seven feet wide and
nine feet high. Already nearly
$500 of these posters have been
hung on the billboards of Is differ
emit cities, and it is planned 70 dis
tribute 10000 more before April L
in over 400 towns and cities. Any
anti-tuberculosis society in the Unit
ed States may receive free of charge
except for transportation, as many
of these posters as can be hung on
the boards in its territory. The ma
tiona1 association with the. tubercu-
losis committee of the National Bill
posters and Distributors are conduct
ing the campaign.
The posters show in graphic form
how fresh air. good food and rest
cure tuberculosis; how bad air, over
work and closed windows lead to
consumption; and how the careless
consumptive menaces the health of
his family by splitting on the floor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
CLUB COMMITTEES
FOR YEAR ARE NAMED
President W. A. Rosenfield Makes
Selection from Membership of
Rock Island Organization.

President w. A. Rosenfield of the
Rock Island Club today announced the
appointment of standing committee:
for the year as follows:
Executive-E. H. Guyer, chairman
H. H. Cleaveland, NJ. H. Sexton.
House-C. r. Nourse, chairman; Gu!
Tegeler, F. NJ. Riggs.
Conventions-C. J. Mueller, chair
man; L. l.. Harms, w. c. Maucker.
Jobbing-H. W. Crawford, chairman
E. I. Dolly, r. w. Lewis.
Entertainment-H. W. Cozad, chair
man; H. W. Litten, V. A. Bergland, L
NJ. Casteel. f. B. Kreis.
Reception. Simon, chairman; C
w. Halves, E. W. Hurst, Phil Mitchell
S. S. Davis, L. S. McCabe, Otto Huber
A. G. Anderson.
Railroads.. F. LaTdner, chairman
II. w. Horst. Frank Mixter, 3. c.
Hartz, W. Fl. Dart, William McEniry.
Manufacturers. Pearson, chair
man; NJ Levi, w. NJ. Reck. S. J. Col
Inns, F. T. Myers, Robert Wagner.
Street Railway and Interurban-W
l.. Gansert, chairman; NJ C. Rice, c.
Helpenstell, F. q. Young: H. d. Mack
W. J. Sweeney, H. B. Simmon, NJ P
Wore.
Tri-City-F. W. Reimers, chairman
c. ]. Larkin, T. J. MediIl
Civic and Local mprovements-H
S Cable, chairman; J. F. Egan, A D.
Sperry, c. L. Silvis, E. NJ. SaIa.
Billiards and Pool-Dr. Louis Os-
from, chairman; A. E. Soule, A. w.
Rothwell, Dudley Marshall
BOwling-A. W. Salzmann, chairman 4;
W. H. Thoms, J. W. WEIGH, Dr.. G. l..
Eyster, F. W. Young.
Cards-W H Marshall. chairman:
H. w Ward, H G. Trent, Robert Ben
nett, F. H. Plummer.
Rock Island ArsenaI-C. L. Walker,
chairman; T. A. Murphy, F. o. Van
Calder, Hope Thompson, T B. Davis,
]. w Tremann
The officers and directors of the Club
are:
President-W. A Rosenfield
Vice PTesident-H. E. Casteel.
Secretary-M. S. Carlson.
Treasurer-Gus. Tegeler.
Board of Directors-W. A. Rosen-
field, Hugh E. Curtis, II. E. CasteeI, DR.
Louis Ostrom, E. II. Guyer. Gus. Tege
Ter, F. NJ Riggs, F w. Bahnsen. c. r.
H. H. Cleaveland, NJ. H. Sex
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-16
is MUCH THEFT OF MAIL
Official Report Tells of Crime in Con-
nection With Postoffice.

Washington, Jan. I6.-Interesting
tales OF frauds are told in the report
of Robert S. Sharp, chief inspector
of postoffice department, TO the post
master general for the fiscal year end
ed June 80, 1910.
Within the year 1850 postoffices
were robbed as compared with 1863 in
the previous year. There were 1858
arrests of which Az were postoffi ce
burglars. as compared with 2.39s ar
rests the previous year, of which 416
were postofice burglars.