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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
AoujneIdo.

Aguinaldo. former leader of the Fill
pinos. is leading quiet life as we'll
to- do farmer. according 10 Judge G. w.
Trent member Of the supreme court
Of the Philippines. "Aguinaldo,' said
Judge Trent to the Washington Post,
has a farm Of several hundred acres
in Cevito. just across the bay from
Manila. He rarely visits Manila. and
on the occasions he does go there 1t
is generally as a witness in a court
case. Apparently, the once noted in
surrecto has lost all political ambition,
and desires only to be let alone to pur-
sue his occupation. 1 am told that he
is a good farmer and that he Is max
ing money out Of agriculture. He
never talks about the insurrection
days and declines to discuss politics.
II he were to seek an elective office
have no doubt that he would be chosen,
for he is still popular with the native
| F'ilipinos"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
The SWEETNESS OF The LOAF.

A big baker the other day told other
bakers and the public generally that
home made bread is akin to murder.
He said it is soggy, unfit for human
consumption, In short that the man
who chooses nome made bread is
served with a stone.
The baker Is advertising his wares
and knocking the finest product of the
age, good old fashioned home made
bread like mother used 10 make and
like some mothers make nowadays.
Whatever bakers may allege in greedy
blindness the baker never lived who
could duplicate those big white flaky
Ioaves which mother used TO bake in
milk pans, Drowned, crisp, nutty O.:
flavor and raised with a certainty that
all the bakers and pulverized alum on
earth might fail to approximate.
1t is true as the bakers says that
there is lot Of bad bread baked at
home That isn't against home made
bread but an evidence Of neglected ed
ucation. We have come upon time
when to be good breadmaker is dis
tinction Time was not so long ago
when to be unable to make good bread
was a disgrace to housekeepers. We
are not teaching our girls to sew and
bake good bread but 10 play some
musical instrument more or less vilely.
Vow good home made bread vii! keep
man from going down town of nights
where "Mendelsohns Songs Without
Words" played out Of time would drive
him to drink. There is more domestic
felicity ten to one in buttons on shirt
than in 20 Promise Me" sung off the
key. Moreover let us remember tina;
every woman and child can learn to
make good bread while not one in a
hundred is adapted to go farther than
singing hymns to her own accompani-
ment.
But when the baker knocks good old
home made bread, rusks, beat biscuits
salt risin'" or any other good bread he
is going too far. No baker ever lived
who could make bread like mother, he
couldn't II he knew how, for never the
baker lived who baked for love and
sweetened his loaf with the hope which
reaches beyond one life and lives on in
the children's children.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
INDUSTRIAL FINES.
TMidland MunicipaIities1.

t-hIuidiU HuuICipdIltIcSJ.
Did you ever stop to think that our
system Of local taxes is really a sys-
tenn of Ines upon industry and enter
prise? Let me illustrate what I mean.
A new town is laid out and John Doe
it. paying 800 per lot or $1,000 in all.
john Doe goes to work to improve his
lois. He puts up good buildings, a
factory or workshop on one. stores on
others and good residences on the bal
ance. He employs lot Of labor in
constructing those buildings and then
sets all the buildings at work doing
something towards building up the
town. He sets the wheels Of develop
ment in motion and keeps them going.
Other people besides himself have
profitcd by his ownership of those lots.
I. is clear to any one that he has done
a lot OF good for the town. But every
time he does anything for the good of
the town the public fines him for 1t
by increasing his taxes Now Richard
Roe is Of q different character alto
gether. He sits tight and does moth
ing for the development of the town
He just holds the lots and waits for
the work Of John Doe and others to
make them valuable. His thousand
dollars worth of lots eventually be.
comes worth 100000 thru no efforts
Of his own. He has absorbed $4,000
worth Of the wealth that his neighbors
created. And the curious part OF 1t IL
that these neighbors who control the
taxing system tax him but a tfine
compared to what they tax John Doe
the man who has done something TO,
the public good. The sensible thing, the
just way, 1t seems to me, would be tt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
AN IOWA PRAIRIE FIRE.
rwill,ams hurs Journal.

For weeks and weeks the dead grass
was bleaching in the autumn sun; it
was now as dry as pea sticks and on
a day when the wind favored hardy
settler on the frontier he went out to
back fire., around his prairie home.
In particularly heavy growth across
swale the fire laughed at whips and.
with one wild exuitant leap it was of
on its mission OF destruction. The
crescent shaped rim Of Are heightened
with every blast OF the increasing
wind and in an increditably short
space of time the fiery bow covered
miles from point to point and the red
sickle was sweeping the sward like an
avenging angel. Long tongues OF lurid
flames writhed and twisted in the
pulsing air and fiery sheets met in
angles and reared like battery OF ar
tillery in action: the rapidly expanding
air induces gale and long flaming
blades Of grass and stems of weeds
were sucked into the inverted funnel
and their blackened cinders float high
above the surging. seething tide. On
Il rolls and roars. an avalanche OF
fame: fire guards are leaped at a
bound; hay and grain. gathered by the
hardy pioneers, are licked up by the
insatiate thirst Of flaming tongues and
the worm fences melt in the mouth OF
the monster as II they we're streaks OF
snow. Families In its path stand with
blanched faces. or an hour before Its
coming a back Are" was widening the
guard" around the lowly cabin and
the treasured grain; the long. low roar
is heard in the distance: thru the riffs
in the black veil OF smoke can be seen
the flaming flag of the invader; loud
and louder roars the down pouring
tide: the sun is total eclipse; sitting
smoke envelopes the prairie home;
GREATNESS the husband stands and the
mother with blanched face endeavors
to pacify or calm the terrified chill
dren: riot of red ruin impends-the
bulge In the line Of flame meets the
back fire. on wild roar-a pause
the fire guard" saved that home-and
the defeated monster passed around
and on. nor does it stop its mad rush
until the scattered fires. started by the
settlers in it's path burned out its
burning" and it became mere streak
Of struggling flame.
The grand old prairies Of Iowa sur
rendered, long ago, to the pioneers
pillow, but never q child of the prairies
great stretches of Gods gardens. The
names of the dearest friends will grow
dim in the thickeninS dust Of the tire
less years; incidents Of youth may in
termittently return-and please with
their charm: joy will lose its luster
and sorrow, its pang when filtered thru
the stratas of the years and ambi-
tons fires will pale with the coming
gray hairs but the memory Of Iowa's
prairies must linger in the mind Of all
who were Graded midst their charms
until the death -dimmed eye turns its
gaze on the eternal shore.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
The Open Caveus.
(Nety yOrk 1>rihl1noN

The favor with which the democrat
ic house caucus regards the proposal
to do business hereafter with open
doors may lead to another important
innovation in legislative methods. Ira
dition has been strong enough to keep
the proceedings Of legislative caucuses
secret. in spite of the fact that the
business transacted in them is usually
of just as public Z character as that
transacted In the open sessions OF the
two houses. The inconsistency of pub
licly debating in either branch Ques-
tions which. so far as the majority is
concerned, have already been settled
i'll private has at last dawned on the
politicians at the capital. altho the
awakening might not have come so
soon had it not been for the slashing
attacks to which Mr.. Underwood was
recently subjected in THE Commoner"
because Of Mr.. Bryan's not getting his
news Of what happened in the demo-
cratic house caucus straight The
chairman Of the ways and means COM
mittee does not care to take further
chances Of intentional or unintentional
misrepresentation, and most otas.
democratic statesmen are in the same
precautionary frame OF mind.
The changes III the house rules nave
given the caucus increased power and
Importance. inasmuch as 1t now uE-
dertakes to discharge functions hither-
to performed largely by the speaker
and his inner circle OF advisers. 1t
must pass on questions OF legislative
policy, and it is impossible to know
who are really responsible for the poll
cies adopted by the majority If de-
cislons continue to be reached in a Sc
cret conclave whose deliberations are
divulged only incompletely ard usually
inaccurately. The average representa-
tive exercises relatively greater power
in caucus than in committee or on the
floor, and his constituency Is far more
interested in knowing how he repre-
sents 1t there than how he represents
1T in the public transactions of the
house. The new order in the lower
branch of congress. therefore, en-
braces an open caucus as one of Its
proper and necessary instrumentali-
ties.
Too much Importance has been at
tached In Washington to secret meth
DDS of legislation. The public business
would be transacted to better advan-
tage If Anticipated methods were
dropped.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

flns the man who refuses 20 do any
thing and who sits there and absorps
the wealth that the other people create,
Out ct Seattle the other day . man
who owned vacant lots IN tho suburbs
of that great city was asked why no
did not improve them. 'Why." said he,
"just a. soon as do the city will ans
me by heavy taxes. 20 will just wait
for the values to grow" Why should
we favor the drone and the tightwad
In our taxing system? It used to he
considered good maxim that IT you
will not work, neither shall you eat."
Put that principal into the tax system
and It will help nightly towards solv-
ing the great problems Of progress
and poverty. The man who plows and
raises something or who builds some
thing on his lots. contributes some-
thing to the wealth OF the world, but
the man who buys lots or land and
builds nothing but fence is para
site. He lives upon what others create
His land goes up in value because OF
what others do. Now under the right
kind Of tax laws the proposition would
be put squarely before him Of putting
the land to productive use or selling 1t
TO produce something. Our Canadian
brethren have gotten the idea and are
putting it in practice with mighty good
results. They tax the parasite higher
and higher each year until he puts his
land to work or let's go. There are
millions Of people who are starving for
little land to work and millions OF
acres Of land lying idle while the own
ers wait for the price to go higher and
higher. but the day is coming when
no man can afford to hold either farms
or city lots in idleness. Land. like air
and water is for use, and the tax sys-
tenn is the key which will unlock the
gates Of idleness. Ownership and pro-
ductive use must 70 hand In hand.
In the city Of Des Moines. right in
the shadow of the state capitol build
ing stands corner lot. boarded up
with unsightly boards that but half
conceal the tin cans and bottles and
rubbish and weeds that dishgure ami
make it a stencil to the whole state
Of Iowa. 1t should be taxed until the
owner would put it to use or sell 1t.
This system would soon place values
where they belong. In Shenandoah
and Essex and every town there are
acres of similar nature and in every
state there are great tracts of land
held for speculative advances. Tax
them until put to productive use. They
do It in Canada: why not here?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
To Cure the Tramp Evil.
New York Tinlesl

The man who knows most about the
tramps' ways. the tramp language, or
"slanguage" who knows most about
the tramp problem In this country. and
is at once the tramp's most sympathet-
ic friend and bitterest enemy. is James
Forbes, director OF the National Assoc
citation for the Prevention of Mendi-
cants. of this city. The subject OF
tramps has been life study with him.
Mr.. Forbes declares that there are
certainly 100000 tramps and profess
sional beggars in this country. II not
more: that the number is growing ev-
cry year in spite OF the heavy killing
and manning Of the Migrants every
year by the railroads. The jails and
penitent:aries are being filled with
them. he says, as they move on down
grade from begging and petty thievery
to the crimes Of arson, safe breaking
and murder. Mr.. Forbes declares that
the army Of trampdom Is recruited by
thousands every year from the homes
OF respectable and often well-to- do
parents in small towns. Boys respond
to the call OF the road the call Of the
world and Of adventure, and soon they
are the slaves of kid snaring' profess
sional tramps, made to beg, and beat
en- until their spirit is gone.
Mr.. Forbes has worked out a remedy
for this tramp evil. For year he has
been thinking over it, evolving it piece
by piece and now he is ready to tell
how this social cancer may be healed.
His plan may take some little time to
work itself out. and little money. but
he declares it will i,e effective. Briefly.
this plan is to hold w to the boy OF
the country the forbidding picture of
tramp life as 1t actually is, not as the
boy seeking adventure ina gines life
on the road to be.
The tramp as horrible example"
is to be shown in every railroad town
and hamlet in America by means of
moving pictures and by publications.
This is by way of prevention.
The veteran tramp and :oeggar IS
also to be dealt with. Every railroad
is to be furnished with q tramp rogues'
gallery, SO is every village police de-
partment, and the professional beggar
. is to be made 10 live hard IL he is a
criminal, and II he is not. beyond petty
offenges, ne is to be sent to state insti-
tutions where he can be taught to earn
a decent living in decent way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
Topics of the Times

Dozens of towns and cities along his
made signals in the hope that Atwood
would come down. but At. wouldn't.
According to the Pittsburgh man the
world was to come to an end day be-
fore yesterday but everybody forgot
all about it until the day after and
then it was too late and every one was
too busy anyway.
When a man asserts that his wife
never could take joke he forgets
himself.
she furnishes amusement for United
States gunboats.
When the pleasant custom Of the
steel trust to work employees eighty
four hours week was investigated
and amendment promised the long suf-
fering public probably avoided saw
age and protracted future strike.
does not show in the cost of living is
the advance in elephants from $500
tos2300 in Siam. The circus ticket
stands at the good old so cents
Remember the state fair is Iowa's
not Des Moines'. Des Moines is only
one of the annoying incidentals 10 the
big fair.
When President Taft comes west he
comes TO a section which he might
have found furrahing for his candidacy
instead Of enduring it.
The congressman are coming home
very quietly like married men at mid
night.
And in all that distance nobody took
a shot at Atwood
Sufficient unto the day is the grass
hoppers thereof The prediction that
Iowa is to be eaten by grasshoppers
next season is as absurd as that Car
roll could be reelected governor
The prize fighters were only making
| believe in Des Moines out they seem TO
have been in earnest at Davenport. It's
The difference between Davenport and
Des Moines. Davenport is always in
earnest
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
Iona Newspapers
WHERE THE WIND BLEW.
[Dznerson chroniclel.

bAAAS0AOVu StUOltASA0ls
Those who attended the fair at Mall
VEGA last week had an opportunity 10
see whiskers nearly eight feet in
length. J. w. Maine, Of Shenandoah. IL
the owner Of this mammoth growth of
beard. and was at the fair exhibiting
1t. Mr. Maine had fatterirg offer
from Ringing Brothers a number of
years ago to travel with their show.
They told him that his whiskers were
undoubtedly the longest in the world
and they are ten inches longer now
than then. Mr.. Maine has lived In
Page county for more than forty
years. his home being at Yorktown
before moving to Shenandoah. His
beard Is ordinarily folded up and worn
In sack beneath his shirt. so many OF
kis nearest neighbors have never seen
the beard extended
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

Governor Stone planted big orchards
about Glenwood and practically went
broke on the venture. Stone and the
orchards Of his day didn't know how.
The box apple had not made a market
for itself then. People weren't buying
apples in the fall and putting them
away as they did coal. But nowadays
the apple business is big thing down
in that section Of Iowa and one firm
contracts with one man for seventy
five automobiles worth Of apples.
Down at Hamburg are more big
orchards. They pick them and throw
them into barrels or sell them in car
load lots. The apple professor was
down there holding a school One
orchardist being offered dollar box
for all his apples refused it. He want
ed to sell the c,,lls along with the good
ones. 1t was shown him that he could
pack in boxes and be hundreds of dol
culls away.
Funny thing that no man who ships
stock insists on Jumping in a few
bologna bulls with a carload OF sleek
grade export steers or insists that a
half dozen stays shall be included with
carload of choice harrows. He sorts
both the cattle and the hogs. throws
the culls aside until the best are sold
at the top and shrinks the stays and
takes bologna prices for the bulls.
Strange that any man should fail to
apply to his orchard the common sense
that he applies to his feed yard. And
it is passing strange that the Iowa
farmer should refuse TO see that an
orchard we'll cared for is a valuable adj
junct to the farm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
PRISON REFORM.
GNasoH CITY T1rnes1


1t is evident that Iowa Is confronted
with a necessity for change in
method in conduct of her prisons. The
indeterminate sentence law was the
forerunner OF other legislation enab-
ling convict to not only demonstrate
his fitness for lenient treatment and
desire for reformation but some meth.
cd by which he may accumulate a
competence during the years OF his IN
generation chat will permit him To
forever put behind him the old life
when he is liberated from the peniten-
tiary
A portion OF his earnings should by
right so 70 the state for the vp-keep
Of the institution in which his way
wardness necessita;ed Incarceration:
another generous norton should go to
his family or dependent relatives who
have in theory at least been deprived
Of his assistance and earnings; and
the last portion should be saved for the
unfortunate man himself and present
ed to him in form Of a savings bank
account On the day Of his liberation.
Such q system would justify convict
labor upon contracts given by the
state and would afford an incentive on
the part of the prisoner to make his
record such as would enable him to
profit by same
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
LEFT OGDEN OFF THE MAP.
GOgden Reporter1.


The new railroad commissioners mar
which has just been gotten out does
not show the town of Ogden. All other
towns IN this county are named as
they should DO, but where the town OF
Ogden Is shown the name of Niles is
printed underneath. This mistake is
said to be due to the secretary of the
railroad commissioners and there is no
way Of remedying the mistake until q
new map is gotten out and until that
time Ogden will be known as Niles
Iowa. Ii is too bad to go to all that
expense of publishing large maps and
come so near making a fizzle Of the
whole job But then you can not hurt
good town and we will remain in the
same prosperous condition and still re-
tain our good name as tho the map
was never made. Some one has blum
dered.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
Wedding F.. pr.w In+,rs,e.

A couple Of years ago, while John
w Gates was climbing aboard his pri-
vate car in Seattle. a white haired old
man called to him:
Hello. john" he said.
We'll, how are you Mr.. FOSTER
Gates replied, cordially shaking the old
clergyman's hand. The pastor had mar.
ried him forty.five years before in st
Charles. Young Gates paid him IS then.
But here's something to make up
for it," he said, as his train started to
pull out, and he handed the pastor q
check for $1,000"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
Seemed TO Civ. Him . New Stomach

II suffered intensely after eating and
no medicine or treatment tried SEEM
cd to do any good" writes H. N.
Younspeters. editor Of the Sun, Lake
View. Ohio. 1.-THE first few doses Of
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets gave me surprising relief and the
second bottle seemed to give me new
stomach and perfectly good health"
For sale by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

Cuts aud bruises may DO healed In
about one-third the Tins required by
the usual treatment by applying
Chamberlafn's Liniment. It IL IN anti
septic and causes such injuries to heal
without maturation. This lint1nent also
relieves soreness Of the muscles and
rheumatic pains. For sale by an deal.
err
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

Perhaps the habit has become 10
strong that Taft will simply have to
veto another billiard It will be him
SELF" suggests the Keokuk Constitu-
tion,Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Nevada Representative believes
that the large facts that will stand
out OF the whole rnuss are that So
called republican president has for rea-
sons quite different from any that
have ever been made public made a
successful attack on agriculture and
that he has made an excuse for ward
ing off from manufactures the repris-
ais which they in their support Of him
had fairly invited.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

trolled delegates. that nominated TAFT
In tho drst place. Had the nomination
been left to republican states he would
have never been nominated. and would
not stand ghost OF show In the
next convention"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

The Washington dispatches ar
nounce that Senator Cummins is going
to spend his vacation playing golf in
Des Moines. Doubtless he will try TO
revive a few golf scores downward"
ventures the Des Moines Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

Iowa has a low percentage Of Hit
eracy and turns out to the cnautauuua
in splendid style until the circus comes
to town." declares the Dubuque Tele-
graph Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

Prodlsai Waste o. Hest.
About three times a. much heat q
wasted IN internal combustion -,
gines . 10 converted into power.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

mo doubt the Davenport sheriff will
explain that he was assured it you'd
not be prize fight. but merely a box
ing match for points," says the Sioux
City Journal. This explanation has
been made before in the same locality"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25

The prize fighters were only making
believe in Des Moines but they seem TO
have been in earnest at Davenport. It's
The difference between Davenport and
Des Moines. Davenport is always in
earnest