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Buddhism sas Animal Life.

1t must be said OF Buddhism that 1t
has left enc indelible mark all over
India, China and the east. and that is
the teaching Of gentleness and kind
ness to n another and to animals.
Buddha taught that life is but a pro-
longed endeavor to escape from suffer
ing and that, therefore. to cause others
to suffer Is the unforgtvable sin.-Price
Collier In Scribner's Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
THE LEWIS FAMlLy'S SUGAR
TSberarHoan yN-or,61

John Lewis is one of the hard work
ing men of this town: he is a carpen-
ter. and has been working on the new
Methodist church: maybe he IS work
ing there vet: he has A wife and five
children. and they have TO do a lot Of
figuring and economizine to make ends
meet: they all work hard. and can feel
proud that they are winning out in the
game. But. according to the testimony
of Mr. Claus Spreckles. the tariff on
SUGAR costs them s162 apiece each
year provided they eat as much sugar
as the average persons. This amounts
to S1134 year that they pay above
the fair price of sugar. and the great
bulk of this goes to the sugar trust.
And what Is true Of Mr.. Lewis Is true
of everybody else with that fair sized
family. The sight of Mr. Lewis, or o.
their little boys hauling big loads o.
pieces of lumber from the new Metho-
dist building for fuel. should make tn"
average voter sop and think a little
before he votes for men who will sup
port the polio, of high protective tar
ifs. These tariffs are nothing less
than wicked stealing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
If the needle with whist parties and


other games of amusement.
And while we are quoting ex-presi-
dents comments, let us quote another,
who said: You can fool all the peo-
pie part of the time, and part OF
the people all the time" while another
parsonage has said: Vast numbers OF
the people just want TO be fooled" etc.
Hence the teachers ranks EN- body a
vast amount of "vampirism.' very det-
rimental TO educational advancement.
1t has always been and will ever be
thus. Social conditions not only foster.
but actually encourage the bombastic
misleading display which would en-
large upon the different lines OF sup
Elementary work at the expense of a
thorough knowledge of the funda
mental branches go essential to prac
teal education. But our articles. con-
tinued from time to time. do not note
solitary incidents. but more often than
otherwise each condition has many
duplicates thruout our land, each ex
erting more or less influence and detr-
ment to our common schools.
While many other data could be
enumerated. We will. for the present.
take back seat and let others more
capable push" the ball along.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
nr:Y IT N IOWA.
TWaverly Democrat

For some time past the Industrial
associations and the press Of the state
have been wagine campaign to "buv
Iowa made goods" and made in
Iowa" is the slogan. This would be all
right If the parties most interested in
having r.ople buy goods made In Iowa
would follow The slogan themselves but
they don't: and that they don't is evil
denced every day in the year by the
receipt Of goods sent III from other
states In recent issue Of Des
Iowa made goods was dwelt upon at
length. and in the same issue there
was an extended account Of commit
tee from a prominent club in that CITY
going east to buy furniture for their
club house. That's consistency with
the bottom Knocked out. 1t is safe to
say that these same club members are
the biggest howlers Of the slogan.
Made in Iowa." yet they can find
nothing in the furniture line good
enough to fix up their headquarters
where they would dictate to others
what to do when 1t comes to buying
goods. 1t can not be said that the
furniture made In Iowa is not good
enough for these men, for II their
tastes are so fastidious that they must
have things better than are made by
the people among whom they live. they
should move out and not try to dictate
policy that they Themselves can not
follow. Made in Iowa" What Joke!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
AS TO CARROLL.
IScrapto1 IoJrpaI1

It's really too bad that Governor
Carroll can not make up his mind to
DO what he wants to dc. and of course
that is run for governor a third term
If he actually wants to know how NJ
tie and small A man the people n!
Iowa consider him he should get in
the race and that at once: because the
quicker he gets IN and the longer he
stays in the more thoroughly ne will
know. He rounded out his career so
fittingly in contrast with most Of his
other official acts as governor, in an
pointing Lafe Young senator that he
will he held in the lowest esteem by
the people Of Iowa for all time of any
governor that has ever occupied the
gubernatorial chair. For a governor to
stoop to appoint man to the highest
and most important office within The
gift Of the people whom he well knows
would not be the choice Of a fourth of
the people of Iowa or even one-four:h
of the legislature If submitted to either
on vote. is an act sufficient Of itself
to create IN everlasting desire on tho
part of the people that he again place
himself in position where they can
get crack at him to resent the Of
frontery if not to say the insult he
heaped upon them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
A PECK SHOULD Be A PECK.

Commissioner Barney has asked At
:orney General Cosson to decide wetiler
or not under the new weight law he
can force dealers to sell vegetables by
weight instead Of by measure Com
plants have come to him from all parts
OF the state OF short weight in vege-
tables sold at retail. One complaint
from Sheffield states the peck of po-
tAtoes weighs out but little over ten
pounds instead Of the fifteen which the
peck Is entitled to under the law. The
complainant wants to know whether he
can prosecute the dealer who sold the
potatoes for violation Of the law Mr.
Barney believes that he can and has
asked the attorney general TO approve
his finding.
Complaint. 1t is said. Is common over
short weight OF vegetables, especially
potatoes and apples. which it Is stated,
are bought by weight and sold by
measure affording a considerable lee
way in favor Of the dealer. If this is
the case the complaint is justified and
Commissioner Barney's proposal to
make a peck weigh peck when it goes
out OF the store as 1t must when Il
comes in is in protection of the COM
mon buyer. At any rate there should
be but one standard. A bushel should
be bushel and a peck a peck. whoever
buys it or sells It.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
Topics of the Times

II the street car company and the
men and Des Moines know when they
are We'll of they will pass UP the
threatened strike
DR. Wiley is going after beer. A lot
of others would do the same thing if
they knew where TO go.
IF Taft promised the standpatters to
veto any other tariff bill it simply IL
illustrates the Haitian tendency TO put
himself in the hole
The lone lung" automobile still has
the advantage OF speed over the Lori
mer inquiry.
One bright and luminous spot in the
murk Of Chicago's record is that 8, S2!d
medal was given d street car conductor
for courtesy.
A new legal tender has appeared in
MiIliken. Colo, caused by the scarcity
and high price Of potatoes. 2. y. MUIR
ply stepped into a saloon at Milliken.
ordered a glass of beer and. when that
was gone, a second, and then laid on
the bar nice clean potato. Murphy
called FOR his change and the barkeeper
gravely returned him nickel and put
the potato in the cash drawer.
why do You insist on asking that
young man to sing
Because replied Miss Cayenne.
when he's singing he isn't trying to
rse"-Washngton Star.
A water carrying motor car. the first
of its kind in the world. has been placed
in commission in Philadelphia by the
Womens Society for the Prevention of
Creulty to Animals as a dispenser Of
water to thirsty horses. The car,
says Popular Mechanics, "its mission
clearly placarded on its body, will move
slc~y thru busy streets in the parts of
Philadelphia where troughs are not
available, and any driver can stop it
and ge. a bucket Of water free of
charge"
Rriggs-Kipling gets a dollar a word
That must be the record
Riggs-No; here's a select council-
man who get $4,000 for saying Aye"
-Lppincotts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
TAFTs PRECEDENTS.
Nevada Representativel.

l>eN3ua Representative.
Various papers are wont to mako
frequent comments to tho effect that
President Taft scored much of PEI:
sonal triumph and demonstrated much
political acumen "hen he secured the
ratification by congress OF the Canad-
ian reciprocity agreement. Such pa
,ers overlook the essential quality OF
the performance. which was that a
president who had been elected to Of
fee by one party having a certain Sc;
OF political principles esnouscd one OF
the essential principles of the opposi-
ton party and was able to get enough
Of his former party to go With him an!
reinforce the substantially solid vote
Of tho party whose principles he has
now cspoused president does not
have to have great acunleE to do this
On the contrary all that he really has
to have is mental and moral make
up which shall make hin, willing 10
get irto office by PROCESSING o'e SCI of
principles and then TO set in office in
accordance with ccrtr2ry set o.
p,incin'es Given SO much. the rest
incluGing tho recessary following
comes ensiIy Such was the case when
John Tyler who had come into IN"
presidency by favor Gf the WING
partv. vetoed the Whie bills for a
United States bank. Thereby he be
traved his party and became in "ffecT
q democrat: hut there We're Tyler
wings who followed him over into thu
onrositicn camp. Their few wears
later. there was Milla"d Fillmore. who
also had come into office by favor 81
the whig party and who outraged f's
sentiments and traditions Of the wings
nv approving the fugitive slave law
We retained his nominal memhershiH
in the whig narty for several Years ana
had considerable following of wings
IN sDite % his infanny: hut the W."
party renudiated him. Then too the"
y.~s Andrew Johnson. Who owed his
office 70 the republicans. He vefoo'
the civil rights bill ard surdry othe:
republican measures and was driven
out by the republican party aud ove"
into the democratic party: but he hod
quite reenectahle number Of reruhii-
cans to follow him over. sThere is
nlentv OF precedent. such as it. For
Taft's betrayal Of protection and for
such republican support as he has. 4
man does not have to he Il great man
in order to follow the precedents not
ed All that is necessary is that he be
buiIf that way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
MODEL PUBLIC SCHOOL EVOLVED
Children Busy From $3.50 A. M. Until
q or S e. M.

Today. in Gary. Ind, has been
evolved one of the most remarkably
successful educational systems in the
public schools this country has ever
seen. The problem was to provide ed
ucation for an industrial population
containing twenty-eight different ma
tionalities That problem has been
solved by the methods worked out by
William A. Writ, the superintendent.
In an article on these Gary schools in
the July Hampton's entitled Keeping
the Children in School," Rheta Childe
Dorr says:
"rhe basis of MIR. Wirt's system is an
intelligent acceptance of the fact that
times have changed in the past genera
ton, and that the town and city home
not only in Gary, but elsewhere. can
no longer fulfill its original RESPONSE
bilities towards children. There was a
time when the moral and general train
ing Of children could be done in the
where else. Because, at that time, the
home was an Industrial center. The
children learned by doing. They formed
habits which determined their whole
future lives.
Inc OlU.JlINc uOIueStlC SySlSM Va
cooking, sewing. preserving, manufac-
turing, in the farm or village home
was highly educational because 1t
formed habits Of Independent thinking.
Initiative, and industry.
"To have learned to know the right
thing to do says Mr.. Writ. rs not
character, but to have formed the
habit Of doing the right thing is char
acter. When the home lost the oppor-
tunity for the Industrial training Of its
children, 1t also lost its power for eff
ficient moral and general character
training, because tehse were insepara.b-
ly linked with the Industrial train
ing
I'VE are too prone to accept sit
uation, continue a system, cling to ar
ideal, long after 1t has served its pur-
pose. Our school system. for example
is surrounded with conventionalities
the very meaning of which has beer
forgotten. Why do we invariably have
vacations in summer? Because two
generations ago. when the public
schools were established, the children's
labor was needed on the farm in sum
mer why do we dismiss children from
school in the middle Of the afternoon
rney used 10 need :...:::.. .!.::c before
supper to do the chores
.Insthis day and generation, especial
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01

Mrs. Shonts was rich enough to be very
unhappy, for the woman who puts her
husband and her home below her social
aspirations and performances Is always
unhappy whether she knows 1t or not.
Sooner or later she finds it out how
ever. From the outside a duke or
prince or count looks like q mighty
good buy to people who started with
neither money nor social position and
who have made one and are especially
anxious for the Other. From the inside
it's like buying a driving animal OF a
horse jockey. There's Something wrong,
heaves. incipient SPAWN. bad DISPOSE
ton or something. He isn't tit for a
lady. He makes trouble.
The American husband is a type He
is usually so busy getting rich after
the honeymoon that he turns the chill
dren over to his wife and comes home
occasionally to eat. He is rarely a
boss in his home. Usually he is a
mighty good fellow willing to work
hard and let the folks spend the money
he makes So long as the house is
there and the family ir it he is con-
tent. But when the girls marry the
pups the ambitious mammas buy on
the foreign market and mamma goes
over the pond ana swels around as
the mother of the Duchess Humpte-
dump and the house is dark and the
only reminders of his family are the
drafts which appear With regularity
he grows lonesome; later he gets good
and sick of it all and then usually
something is doing
1t doesn't make much difference
whether he is a hardware man. a hog
buyer or a railway president; whether
the girl married a duke or Il doctor or
a hired man who doesn't amount to a
hill o. beans and proposes to have a
good time on the Old mans money. He
doesn't miss the cash as much as he
does his home when mother proposes to
spend most Of her time with the
daughter. He stands it until he con-
cludeS 10 make fuss. He makes it.
Usually they fix il up. Really it isn't
anyhody's btS mess but their own. But
YOU know We neighhors will talk
Actually 1t is getting so that about
the worst thing that can happen 70
man and woman who start out to live
and die together is 10 get good and
rich. Not that there isn't trouble
enough among those who do not but
because it seems that riches multiply
troubles. When Shonts was working
hard for wages on an Iowa railroad
and happy to meet him down the street
and Mrs Shonts didn't keep a girl"
perhaps. there isn't any doubt that
they We're ali having the best time o.
their lives. And when YOU come to
think of it may be it isn't the money
which causes the trouble but ourselves
and our own selfishness. Perhaps peo-
pie can be just as loving and consider
ate of one another with as without
riches. Maybe it is all all in ourselves
in our grip upon ourselves in the
knowledge learned early enough 10 be
of advantage that there is none like
ones own wife, hsuband. children and
that nothing we can buy will take the
place of a hearthstone and a family
circle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
THE sHoMs FAMILY ROW.

The Shonts' seems to have fixed up
their matrimonial and family fuss in a
manner apparently satisfactory TO
themselves and as it is their business
whether they live together or separate
it isn't much Of anybody else's bust
ness.
The fact Is that Mr. and Mrs. Shonts,
their daughter and their son-in-law
aFe vesy much Nke other families.
1Asnts 1T rich, too rich to be happy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01

ping clerk "let the cat out of the bag
by forgetting to use the mail order
concerns shipping tag.
Maybe that farmer wasn't wrathy.
He sneaked up to the local hardware
store and looked around until he found
exactly the same stove. He looked at
the price and almost fell over back
ward when he found that the mail
order" stove, counting the freight
charges, had cost him $2.75 more than
the local dealer asked. The fact Is
that 80 per cent Of the mail order
houses are nothing more than retail
ers. The customer has to pay the
high local freight rate whereas the
retailer. who gets the carload rate can
and actually does sell cheaper than the
mail order concerns 1t is true that
some articles can be bought cheaper
from mail order houses than from re-
tail dealers, but nine times out of ten
the retailers undersell mail order con-
Germs considering quality and quantity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
RAN HIS BUFFALO At LARGE


\ buffalo belingins to Ard ki,nbali
one Of the very rare specimens of the
animal left in this part of the country.
VAS shot recently and instan tly killed.
The animal was turned loose to Craze
on the land near the "Hogbacks," on
Elk river. \ noighbor. fearing that the
buffalo might accomplish some dam
age or prove dangerous to the children
nearby. made up his mind to pat an
erd to what he considered Il menace.
and accordingly shot the animal much
to the sorrow of many Who considered
it an object OF much interest The
buffalo on account of its rarity. vas
quite valuable and tho loss is . big
ore 70 Mr. knhal. The hide worth
close 10 500 in winter. is practically
vaiueless now.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
In pro uahtx Now York.

The only thing In the world that -
more risky than prophssying 10 the
making Of statements CONCERNING mat
tiers Of past record. II We were to say
that a practically unbroken drouth for
the whole month OF May, until the very
last day thereof. was unique or even
rare in this neighborhood. We should
expect some statistical sharp to rise up
with facts and figure to demonstrate
that May was usually an arid month,
and that its real singularity this year
was that it did have one shower suf-
ficient to lay the dust. Even at that
risk we must venture to say, however,
that to the popular mind this years!
experience does seem uncommon, and
that many observant inhabitants can
not recall In any recent year 30 disas-
trous an experience as q rainless May
until its closing twenty-four hours.
The effect Of this untimely drouth
has already been mischievous beyond
repair. Thousands Of fields have been
left implanted simply because 1t was
impossible to till the hard baked
ground. and in thousands more the
seed which was planted has failed to
sprout, or the plants which had begun
to grow have withered and persisted.
and it is now too late for planting orr
replanting. Even the meadows are
parched and brown, and with hay now
at $50 to SO q ton farmers are con-
fronted with the prospect Of a serious
shortage in this years crop. And de-
spite facilities OF transportation and tho
pleasant theory that local deficiencies
are easily made up from distant
sources, experience constantly demon
strates that there is still close and
important connection between local de-.
mand and supply
However there is reason to hope
that. in colloquial phrase, the backbone
OF the drouth is broken. and that q rea-
sonable amount of rainfall during tho
rest Of the season win save gardens
and farms from utter failure. and will
also avert water famines, whether in
the failure Of the supply of the metrop-
oils or in the drying up Of individual
wells and springs in the country. It
would require week or more Of such
showers - those recently to give tho
soil thorough wetting, and we have
no idea that there will be q week Of
them at this time. But IL June affords
normal precipitation. all will not DO
not be lost.-New York Tribune
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
THE LADY ADMINISTRATION OF HUNNEwEl

At Hunnewell. Kan. Mrs. Ella Will
son is mayor and five big brutal men
are councilmen. When Mrs. Wilson
came into the executive chair OF Hun
newell she appointed a woman chief Of
police, and another woman city clerk.
This 1t IL alleged is the reason for q
bitter war being waged upon the may
or lady by the five great brutes OF
councilmen. It is also said that the
sentiment OF the city Is behind the
mayoress. Best Of all, from a ladylike
point OF view Governor Stubs is back
ing the chief executive Of Hunnewell 10
a fareyouwell and advising her to stay
with them II she has to drag them
into the courts. The streets Of Hume
we'll resound with the shrill clarion Of
feminine war and the groWls and cuss-
words Of disconnected and unofficial
manhood. In the midst of all stands
Mrs. Wilson bold, warlike, Boadcea1.
1t Is far cry to Hurlnewell, Kan.
and truth does not always float on the
surface Of wells and Of news reports
There is a row there Of the sexes but
the causes which appear most prom
inert may be the slightest Of those
which led UP to the rebellion If the
doubt the mayoress abolished snokin g
in the council chamber and the chief
OF police stood at the door IA gging
every male councilman who entered
times there can be but little doubt she
drove him around to the back door lest
he soil the rugs The chances are that
female janitor bounded him from
or mopped or busted, and made re-
marks about men who would sit still
and see a woman move a heavy pail
OF water spoke severely and pointedly
regarding the state of the council
chamber and the mud on the chair
rounds. Perhaps there were tides on
the chairs and bows Of ribbons and
every time councilman wriggled or
SAOSSSO AfAo itSS Iic OlSlulDcu SOME
contraption to his immediate reproof
1t il within the limits Of credibility
that these five councilmen who had
been wont to sit at ease and comfort
In the august halls Of the city of Hun
newell have been nagged beyond en-
durance.
Woman In her hours Of ease is one
thing; in action and with authority
she Is another and vastly different
creature. When pain and anguish
wiring the brow she is sure the minis
tering angel. But a woman cleaning
house or as nayoress-which
amounts to the same thing-biteth like
serpent and stingeth like an adder
Let US withhold judgment upon these
five men. OF couse they are wrong
under the circumstances let US not be
betrayed into arguing over that, but
there may be mitigating conditions AT
the least let US pity them. To have a
lady mayor and a lady chief Of police
and Governor Stubs Of Kansas to
contend with. is enough to bear.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01
A CAT STOVE.

ITTaer tar-CNppefJ
A farmer living a few miles north OF
town ordered a stove from a "catalog
house" In Chicago. The concern bold
~ proclaimed that 1t manufactured its
own stoves and that they were offered
at factory prices" The customer
waited nearly two weeks for the stove
to be delivered. and in the meantime
the wnoie family. =: 8. - !.
stove came and the bill Of lading
showed that It was shipped by stove
factory In Detroit. A careless ship
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-01

other gasped
my register says it's a mile out here
from where you got on. That's 81. An
always charge q half-dollar extry,
when l have to help guy into the
house. Magazine.