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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24
New York Grain.

New York, May "a.
wheat-May, 9sN.
Corn-May, 81.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24
St. Louis Grain.

ST. Louis Grain.
ST. Louis, May "a.
Wheat-May. "a; July, S4A.
Corn-July, 50.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24
Ranas Of Prices

The following range OF prices Is
furnished by Clark & 1ngledue. brok-
ers, members Chicago Board of Trade,
room 3, fremont block
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24

10000: market opened weak to 10 cents
lower
Natives 5000. ....... 3.so05.5o
Lambs 49,. ......-. A75@7.25 4
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24
CHICAGO Grain Close.

t. Chicago. May "a.
wheat-No. red 9S'a q 500: No.
hard, ssk @e9A No. 8 red, SS @9712
no hard. e59s7s.
Corn-No. 2. 52A @54: No. 3, 5sA a
.s3h: No. yellow. 53H @54A: No. 8
yellow, 53A @52A; No. white, 81 @
sex: No. white, 5sA @53A.
Oats-No. 2, 321s; No. 8 white. 33a
No. 2 white, s5A @a51a; standard. 81
q 35h.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24
aIoH1 SHIPMENTS FROM ARGEN.
TINA AND GOOD DEMAND
At LIVERPOOL.
coANSAARPlY HIGHER
DESPITE FINE WEATHER
Active Demand Lifts Oats, Offerings
Being Unusually Lisht-Provisions
in Good Request Despite Big Run OF
Hoas-ouotations in Various Mar
ks$ Csnters.

CHICAGO, May 24.-Dry weather in
Russia and expected lighter shipments
from the Argentine put wheat today on
the upgrade Liverpool reported good
demand. Local sentiment had further
cause for buLishness. the May option
Deferred months also showed con-
tinued support Opening prices were
the same as last night to y higher.
July started at SSts to sS7s and ad-
vanced u to q. and held around the
upper level. In the meantime May
gained =.
After some reaction the market rose
still higher on account of short crop
dispatches from Oklahoma Profit TAX
Ing, however, occastoned decided set
back The close was easy, with July
at STA @ss. a net loss of u 9S-
Corn.
Corn was sharply higher despite the
ane weather. July opened Z to "a up
at 52K to 52ss and y. and rose to So
Later the market fell with wheat
1.-THE close was easy at 52h for July,
met gain OF u.
An active demand lifted oats. Offer
4ngs were unusually light. July started
at 34h to 3+A, an advance Of 4 to 4
and climbed to 34ss and 3%k.
Provisions.
Notwithstanding the big run Of hogs
provisions were in good request. There
were but few sellers. First transactions
gain, with July at 1857 for pork
varied from last nights level to cents
S.171S for lard, and T.s5 for ribs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24

Chicago Call Grain Prices.
FURNISHED by L. G. Clay, grain mer-
chant, "a East Main Phone $50
Chicago, May "a.
Corn, 4 to Y up; oats, Il lower to II
~vh>,f IL lower
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-24

Prime lambs were nearly steady, but
other grades were weak and sheep
were off 10@1S cents.
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suaded the people that he was one OF them the
moment he made his appearance the plat
form-his homeliness and his intimate and apt
of the simple speech they could understand,
There anecdotes which intended to show
that even In community of persons not noted
for manly beauty he was considered pre- eminently
the reverse Yet. although this was the subject
of tests at his expense, no one thought any the
less OF him for it This homeliness-ca It ug-
illness II you wi-of his face the awkwardness
of his form and the ungainness OF his gestures
and attitudes seemed the people to go natu-
rally with his goodness of heart and the simple
ity of his nature.
In their eyes when advocating the cause of the
oppressed and when opposing the forces which
would destroy the nation he became to many pos
ttively handsome. AS years afterward old
who knowed" him said:
Lots of 'em will tell you he homely.
Seems to that's about all some folks around
here has to tell about Abraham Lincoln. Yes,
knowed him. they say He the homeliest
man in Sangamon county. Well. now, don't you
make mistake. The folks that don't tell you
nuthin but that never knowed Mr. Lincoln. Meb-
be they'd him, but they knowed him.
He want homely. There's denyin he
long and lean and he didn't always stand straight.
and he wasn't pertikeler about his clothes. but
that night up to Bloomington in ten minutes after
he struck the platform. l tell you he the
handsomest man ever see"
The month after his first election the publica-
tion Once a Week In London printed the follow
ing personal sketch of Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln is saunt giant more than
six feet high strong and long linbed Hewaks slow,
and, like many thoughtful men Wordsworth and
Napoleon. for example), keeps his head inclined
forward and downward. His hair Is wiry black.
his eyes are dark gray. his smile is frank. sin.
cere and winning. Like most American gentle
men, he is loose and careless in dress, turns down
his tapping white collars and wears habtually
what consider evening dress. His head is
massive. his brow full and wide. his nose large
and heshy. his mouth coarse and full; his eyes
sunken, his bronzed face is thin and drawn
down into strong corded lines. that disclose the
machinery that moves the broad jaw. This great
leader of the Republican party-this aboltionist
this terror OF the Democrats'-this honest old
lawyer. with face half-Roman. halfIndian, SO
wasted by climate, SCARED by life's struggle.
born In 1909 In Kentucky His grandfather.
who came from Virginia. was killed by the Indi-
ans. His father died young. leaving widow and
several children. They removed to Indiana. Abe
being at the time only six years old. Poor and
strugKng. his mother could only AFFORD him some
eight months rough schooiiEs; and in the clear
ings of that and unsettled country the
healthy STRIPPING went to work to hew hickory
and gum trees, to grapple with demonstrating
bears and to look out for the too frequent rattle
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snake Tall strong 1.-THE and smiling. Abe toied
farm laborer. mule driver, sheep feeder,
deer killer. woodcutter. and. lastly. as boatman
on the waters Of the Wabash and the Mississippi
Another English writer in describing the pres
ident is still more realistic than his countryman
when he says:
ITO say that he Is ugly is nothing; to add that
his figure is grotesque is to convey adequate
impression. Fancy many six feet high and
then out OF proportion; with long bony arms and
legs, which somehow seem to be always in the
way; with great rugged. furrowed hands, which
grasp you like a wise when shaking yours: with
long snaggy neck and chest too narrow for
the great arms at Its side.
Add to this figure a head cocoanut shaped
and somewhat too small for such a stature,
cred with rough. uncombed and uncombable hair.
that stands out in every direction at once; face
furrowed, wrinkled and indented as though 1t
had been SCARED by vitriol: a high. narrow fore
head; and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows two
bright, dreamy eyes that seem to gaze through
you without looking at you; a few irregular
blotches OF black bristly hair in the place where
beard and whiskers ought to grow; close set.
thin Tipped, stern mouth, with two of large
white teeth. and and which have
been taken by mistake from a head twice the
size
"Clothe this figure. then in long. tight badly
fitting suit of black. creased, soled and puckered
up at every salient point of the figure land ey
cry point of this figure Is salient) put on large
fll-ftting boots. gloves too long for the long. bony
fingers, and fluffy hat. covered to the top with
dusty. puffy Grape: and then add to this an air
of strength. physical well moral and a
strange look of dignity coupled with all this gro
tesqueness. and you will have the impression left
upon by Abraham Lincoln"
Ward Lamon. who knew him intimately, goes
more Into details. He says Mr.. Lincoln
about six feet four inches high. the length OF his
legs being out of all proportion to that OF his
body. When he sat down in chair he seemed
taller than average man, measuring from
the chair to the crown Of his head; but his knees
high in front, and a marble placed the
cap Of one would roll down steep descent to
the hip. He weighed about 180 pounds. but he
thin through the breast narrow across the
shoulders. and had the general appearance Of a
consumptve subject. Standing up, he stopped
slightly forward; sitting down, he usually crossed
his long legs threw them over the arms Of the
chair the most convenient mode Of disposing
OF them. His head long and tall from the
base Of the brain and the eyebrow" his fore
head big and narrow but inclining backward as
1t
The diameter Of his head from ear to was
6h inches and from front to back eight inches.
His ears were large. standing out almost at right
angles from his head: his cheek bonss high and
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SENT HAIL TO THE MOON
Embryo Man-of-War's Man at Least
Convinced Officer He Was A.
tending to His Duty.

This is the story of one OF the mem
bers of the Massachusetts Naval Re-
serves. On the second night of the
cruise Of the San Francisco one Of
the amateur tars was on watch. The
night was clear. and myriads of stars
twinkled in the sky. but there was no
moon. Suddenly the reserve sang out.
Light ahoy!" Where away?" asked
the officer Of the deck. Far. far
away" replied the would-be man-of-
wars man. When the officer had re-
covered from the shock occasioned by
this unseamanlike answer he looked
over the rail In the direction indi-
Gated by the reserves finger, and
then he had another fit. Whats the
matter with you?" growled the officer
Cant you recognize the rising moon
when you see IT." Moon! moon!"
stammered the embryo sea dog. Il
beg your pardon. sir." Then he
shouted, as If making amends for his
error. Moon ahoy!"
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pain He was a plain, homely, sad weary-oohlne
man to whom ones heart warmed tnvoluntartly.
because he seemed at once miserable and kind.
James B. Fry, who became intimately acqualnt-
ed with Lincoln early in the latters pont1cal ca
reer SAWS: Lincoln tall and thin; his long
bon es were united by large joints and he had long
neck and an angular face and head. Many like
nesses represent his face well enough. but none
that have ever seen do justice to the AWKWARD
ness and ungainness OF his figure His feet.
hanging loosely his ankles, were prominent
objects. but his hands we're more conspicuous even
than his feet-due perhaps to the fact that cere-
mony at times compelled him to ciothe them IN
white kid gloves. which always fitted loosely
Both the height OF conversation and In the depth
of reflection his hand now and then over or
supported his head giving his hair habitually dis
ordered aspect
His expression in repose was sad and dull but
his everrecurrng humor, at short intervals. flashed
forth with the brilliancy OF electric light. l
observed but two well defined expressions In his
countenance; that OF pure. thoughtful, hon.
est man. absorbed by sense Of duty and respon-
sibility: the other that of humorist full of fun
that he could not keep it all in. His power Of
analysis wonderful He strengthened every
case he stated and anecdote or joke ever lost
force or effect from his telling.
Apropos OF his large feet there is an anecdote
told of Lincoln when he in the legislature:
He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalia, in
1896 as he had in 1884, and when the session
closed he walked home again. A gentleman OF
Menard county remembers meeting him and de-
tachment of the long nine" their way home.
They were all mounted except Lincoln. who had
thus far kept up with them on foot. II he had any
money he was boarding it for more important pur-
poses than that of saving leg WEAKNESS and
leather The weather was raw and Lincolns
clothing was none of the warmest
Complaining Of being cold to one OF his COM
panions, this irreverent member OF the long nine
told his future president that 1t wonder
that he was cod-"there was SO much Of him on
the ground" None of the party appreciated this
homely joke at the expense of his feet tthey were
doubtless able to bear it, more thoroughly than
Lincoln did. We imagine the cross fires Of wit
and humor by which the way was enlivened during
this cold and tedious journey.
The scene certainly rude and seems
more like a dream than reality. when re-
member that 1t occurred not many years ago. in
a state which now contains hardly less than three
millions Of people and 1900 miles Of railway.
Cassus M. Clay in describing an address which
he delivered at Springfield In 1856 says: Lincoln
and Browning lay upon the ground whittlng sticks
and heard me throughout with marked attention.
Hurrying on to my appointments. saw him then
NO more. never shall forget his long. ungainy
person and plain but even then sad and Thoughtful
featwes."
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RESULTS OF FOOD.
Health and Natural Conditions Come
From Right Feeding.

Man, physically, should be like
perfectly regulated machine, each
part working easily in its appropri-
ate place. A slight arrangement
causes undue friction and wear and
frequently ruins the entire system.
A well-known educator of Boston
found way to keep the brain and
the body In that harmonious co-opera-
ton which makes a joy of living.
1.-TWO years ago." she writes, being
in condition of nervous exhaustion,
l resigned my position as teacher,
which l had held for over 40 years.
Since then the entire rest has, of
course, been a benefit, but the use of
Grape-Nuts has removed one great
cause Of illness In the past, namely,
constipation. and its attendant evils.
Il generally make my entire break
fast on raw egg beaten into four
spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little
hot milk or hot water added. like
1t extremely, my food assimilates, and
my bowels take care Of themselves.
find my brain power and physical
endurance much greater and l know
that the use Of the Grape-Nuts has
contributed largely to this result.
1T is with feelings Of gratitude that
I write this testimonial, and trust it
may be the means Of aiding others in
their search for health" Name given
BY Postum Co.. Battle Greek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. There's . Rea-
son."
80 aDDoofo fF0A time t. tina. They
are eeauaoes tfuos an1 fa11 - hoaaa1
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The Miserable Villain.

Low Comedian-After all these
years Eggbert has at last succeeded
in making a hit with the audience.
Soubrette-So? How does he do 1t?
Low Comedian-You know he has
always played villain roles.
Soubrette-Yes.
Low Comedian-Well. in the last
act of a new play the author allows
him to repent and say. 1--WE been
miserable villain" That confession in
variably brings down the house.-Bos-
ton Post
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Surprised.

Teacher-When a man goes about
and talks a good deal. what is he
called?
Tommie-An orator, ma'am.
That's right. And when woman
goes around and talks good deal,
what is she called?"
"a nuisance "=Yonkers Statesman.
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prominent: his eyebrows heavy and
1utting forward over small. sunken
blue eyes, his nose long. large and
blunt, the tip OF 1t rather rudy and
slightly awry towards the right hand
side; his chin. projecting far and
sharp, curved upward to meet
thick. material lower lip. which
hung downward; his cheeks were
fabby, and the loose skin fell In
wrinkles or folds; there was a large
mole on his right cheek and an un-
commonly prominent Adams apple
on his throat; his hair was dark
brown In color. stiff. unkempt. and
as yet showing little or no sign OF
advancing age or trouble; his com
plexion was very dark, his skin yel-
low. ehriveled and ''leathery." In
short, to use the language OF Mr
Herndon, "he was thin, tall. wiry.
grisly, raw-boned man." looking
woe-struck." His countenance was
haggard and careworn. exhibiting all
the marks of deep and protracted
suffering.
Every feature of the mantle
hollow eyes, with the dark rings be
meath; the long, sallow, cadaverous
face. intersected by those peculiar
deep lines; his whole air. his walk.
his long, silent reveries. broken at
long intervals by sudden and start
ling exclamations. as II to confound
an observer who might suspect the
nature of his thought-showed he
was a man of sorrows-not sorrows
Of today or yesterday. but long treas
ured and deep-bearing with him
n continual sense Of WEAKNESS and
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
Where He Made IL,

'Hullo, Binks!" said Wobbles. Il
hear you've been In the chicken busi-
ness"
Yep" said Binks
Made anything out Of it," asked
Wobbles.
Yep" said Binks. Ten thousand
dollars"
Ten thousand dollars in the chick
en- business?" demanded Wobbles.
Nope. Out of it." said Binks-
Harper's Weekly.
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Reeoonized the Inevitable.

Pyrrhus had just won his costly
victory over the Romans.
"Well!" he calculated. Il suppose
I've got to say it-posterity will ex-
pect it of me- But it's such a moldy
old chestnut. Here goes: another
such victory and"
But we shall be more considerate
than Pyrrhus was. We shall stop the
quotation right there.-Chicago Trio-
upe.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11

"were the commencement exercises
interesting7"
VERY. The time was divided be-
tween advice from public men on the
selection Of career and suggestions
from graduates on how to run the gov
ernment"
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How rhev Act, Some Of Them.

Guest-I am amazed to hear you
say that the delicate and refined
young lady is Miss Pert. l met her
at Fashion Grove last summer and
thought her the loudest, coarseSD
commonest, most vuIgarly hoidenish
creature | ever saw in my life.
nostess-But that was in the coun-
try. you know.-New York Weekly.
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v g R6 { q DIG COul-
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me.
1 live on a farm and
have worked very
hard. / am forty
Eve years old, and
am the mother OF
thirteen t children.
Many people think
1t strange that l am
not broken dow n
with hard work and
49, -~~ 30 fn ~
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Now Amt That a Faet7

We beg to differ with the psycolog
ist who announces that our dreams
are reproductions OF the actual events
in which the dreamer participated in
his waking hours. Even in the warm
est weather it not our practice to en-
ter a crowded drawing room clad in a
single garment of no great length
Chicago Tribune.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
Accounted For.

Belle-I wonder why that good-look-
ing doctor avoids me so and is so
cool to me when we meet?
Nell I think it is because Ned
thoughtlessly told him what you said
about him.
Gelle-What did say that he didn't
like?
Ne1l-You said, don't you remem-
ber, that he had such killing ways.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
A Fellow Worker.

"Yore hands don't look as II yew
ever done any hard work." said the
old farmer.
Il work with my head instead OF
with my hands. SIR replied the city
boarder, haughtily.
Huh" calculated the o. I. Il don't
want no butters-in round here"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
DrawIno the Line,

1.-The fresh young man who always
wants to start something" remarked
the Observer of Events and Things,
draws the line when it comes to the
morning fire."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
Her s.it.

"You have to have different bait for
different fish. don't you, MAJ"
Il guess SO; know l caught lob
ster with mistletoe."
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A loafer.

Mrs. Hoyle-My husband is trou-
bled by perspiration of the hands.
Mrs. Doyle-Mine, too. and 1t is all
the manual labor he does.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11

Hix-Suffering from digestion, eh!
What have you been eating?
Dix think l ate too much health
food
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
Celebrating.

"And you call that your master
piece?" asked the convivial friend.
"I do," replied the artist.
'Is it dry YETI"
ut is"
well, let's go out and wet it,
Yonkers Statesman.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11

KINNEY Is deceptive disease
thousands have it and
TR01lRI z don't know 1t. II you
want good results you
can make no mistake by using DR.. Kill
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also pamphlet telling you how to find out
II you have kidney trouble.
Address, Dr.. Kimer 4 Co., Binghamton N. Y.
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OWES
wv A
HER
HEALTH
To lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Scottville, Mich.-"I want to tell
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PATENT Y0UR IDEAS. They may bring yos
StixgerAld Co.. PatAttJs BOZ I. W Arlington. DO
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great endurance. Their hard lives
were not conducive to grace OF fig-
ure or motion and their faces were
often scanned and strongly marked.
Climate, toll and improper or insult
fcient food had much TO do with
giving to the western and southern
pioneers the peculiarities of form
which identified them geographically
as easily as did their speech.
Lincoln never was ashamed OF
these things-at least he never
changed his habits when he came
into national prominence. but his
continuance of them did not arise
from affectation. They were natu'
raj to him and he was not willing TO
have one set of manners for Wash
ington and another for the people
back in Illinois.
That he was careless OF his ap-
pearance there was no doubt. When
he sat for photographer he never
unkempt hair, but, like Cromwell.
told the picture man to take him
as he was. He knew that portrait
of "slicked up" Lincoln, as he
would have said, would not have
been recognized In Springfield. and
he didn't want them TO think he was
putting on airs because they had
elected him to the presidency.
1t was his homeliness which per
The Detroit times., 1911-03-24
SATURDAY AND MONDAY SPECIALS

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or Oatmeal Soap, cake %,
Tor ................. ..28o
Williams or Colgatss shaw
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csc williams Shaving Stick. Zee
csc Colgate's Shaving stick. .2oc
csc Johnson's. williams or
Colgate's Shaving Cream. .3os
Bocabilla CASTLE soap, green
or white. cake DC, for. .25c
Armour's Glycerine Soap.
cake ......-........... Dc
csc Pinaud's Sandafwood
Soap, cake ................1b lie
loo washeasy Pumics Hand
soap, box &c
csc Crystal Soiloff Hand Soap. 11e
csc Silver Cream. ......... ! ec
csc Newgloss Furniture Pol
Ism .fDc
25c Champion Roach Exter-
mlnator .1oo
Rabbits Lye or Potash, lb.... Sc
Electric Wall Paper Cleaner.
Toe, Tor. -.16e
Chloride Lime, lb........... %
20-Mule Team Borax, Id. 1ec,
6-lb. boxes .lDe
sapolio. Hand or Securing.
xtermaiine Insect Destroyer .l0c
Wood Alcohol. pint ........ .I0c
Ammonia, pint -
Sulphur Candles. Do, 8 for. .16c
Copperas, lbs. lee
The Detroit times., 1911-03-24

There is food for thought in the growth of this BUSH
1t is the combination of quality with price reduo
tons that has merted it. Tomorrow expect to double
business year ago. The prices quoted below
Iarrant it, We specialize in Prescriptions.