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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
A Living From Abandoned Farms.

Even with infertile soil the foreigner
accustomed to the rent-ridden fields of
Europe might be able to coax lean
return from the So called abandoned"
hills of Connecticut. were he able to
purchase his land at fair valuation.
Put this is reckoning without the land
shark" The first corners. who dealt
with ORIGINAL owners. Jared very we'll,
buying land at its real va!ue-about
81 to IS per acre. Later the available
tracts were grabbed Nd hv real estate
speculators. who Gathered in the bar
rains sold the timber to lumbermen
fer the purchase price Of the land and
stocking the farm with few old cows
and scr,e second hand tools. dispcsed
Of the denrded acres to the credulous
and unscphisticated newcomer for
more than the original sale price Some
Of the agents are Americans some are
foreigners who advertise extensively
in the Bohemian and Polish news
papers.
The testimony in regard to sharp
practices is specific and ample.
at is a shame" said an INTELLIGENT
officer that such harefaced rascality
should go on have known farms
that were bought for $1,000 to
a. month for s. 600 timber rights re-
served The price as"ed is ordinarily
limited only bv the size of the land
seekers pccketbook.'
In Tolland county more than one
half the foreigners interviewed by the
author for the Immigration commission
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
STAYING Up fIcETS WITH IT.

A lawyer with a wide and success
full practice was talking about lawyers
and success in the law. NOWADAYS E
he said the best lawyer is the one who
is willing to stay up all night with his
case"
When we come to think Of it the
secret of success in almost any direc-
ton lies in the lawyers sententious
summing up. The physician who stays
up all night with his case saves life
and wins wider practice. The business
man and merchant who stays up nj ghts
if need be, builds the big store and
takes the big trade and inherits the
title of leading merchant" The school
boy and student who waits up to finish
the days work and plan the next one
does not fail his grades or carry CON
ditions" on his shoulders. Any one
who is willing to stay up nights" with
his job gets better one.
Staying UP nights" is mainly fig
urative as used by the attorney quoted
above. 1t doesn't mean eternal sleep
lessness by any means. 1t means that
when a job is worth doing it is worth
doing we'll, that if the lawyer is to
meet his opponent in court next day
successfully and do his duty by the
client who is paying for the best he
has in him he must get ready the day
before If it includes candlelight ano
eliminates a lot of things he had rather
co than work. That's what it means
to the school boy and every one else
who has the good fortune to have a
task which must be done.
It's a good expression. 1t fits the
legal profession like a glove and every
other profession. trade and avocatior
quite as we'll. The best man in his
business is the one who is willing. Il
need be. to stay up nights with his
work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
All Men Of Blood Royal.
New York World).

John y. Rockeseller's claimed de-
scent from the English ROYAL family in
plantaecnet times is remarkable for
its moderation. All men are descended
not from kings only, but from thou
sands OF kings.
Ninety years ago eight great grand
parents OF most of Us We're living;
riretv years before that eight ances-
'ors of each Of the eight. or sixtY-four:
and so on indefinitely. The Barony OF
Mowhray dates from 1888, that OF De
Ros from 1864. When the first Now
bray ard De Ros begin winning their
spurs each one of us h 4 about 2'097,-
152 living ances ors. In the year or
the battle Of Has'ings-and some con-
tirental families trace much further
h,ck-ea III present day mortal may
claim more than 100000 forbears.
We leave to statisticiens the irpos-
sih'e task Of fg"ring out how much to
se1uct from these theoretical totals to
allow for du7lics ton OF ancestors In re-
mote generations. We prefer TO remain
npon the inpregnahle eronnd of his
tc-ic fact. Kingdoms in the old days
we're much smaller and far less poou-
lors Than now. There We're four king
,7oms in ireland, half dozen in Eng
land, no ore knows how MANY in Con-
tiren4al Eurore and Asia. Mark An
TOW had whole bench show Of kings
behind him at Actiun and got thrash
ed in srite of them. If an avera ge
KINGDOM in ancient times reckoned
100000 souls it is easy to see that from
the dawn Of human institutions down
! to modern times the number of kingiy
| ,nces+ors available for everybody ap-
/ proaches infnity.
| It is not necessary to prove any ones
royal birth. 1t is self-evident.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

and hurt and hungry And 1t is hard to
be thankful in pain and restitution.
No child should be permitted to
hunger in Marshall county, no helpless
woman or child should be cold for lack
of food and fire and clothing. If there
is time in all the year when men
should seek to relieve necessity and
succor want it is at Thanksgiving. The
prayer which goes up from a lavish
board while hungry children SILVER
can not rise high and the thankfulness
that praises God for abundance from
which there has been no dole Of char
ty and human service is not thank
fulness. Let us remember that this
Thanksgiving.
1t is a time when homes are bright
and scattered families draw close to-
gether again. 1t is essentially a home
holiday. But mirth and laug Ater and
bright lights and bright faces should
feel the shadow of darkened homes and
lift 1t as they may. Otherwise the
smiles and the daughter and the evil
de@ces Of complete thankfulness can
not be all true. It is perhaps possible
to be happy while suffering re'gns next
door but it can never be complete hap
piness.
Let us this year Of great prosperity
and great reason for thankfulness each
as ne may assist to make tharktulness
supreme; to aid in giving every home
and every family cause for thankful
ness; feed the hungry. encourage
the hopeless, welcome the stranger,
warm the cold and cothe the naked. So
shall We add to the great measure of
thankfulness and justify the proclama-
tons and the prayers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
"1EE MAN HlElER IPN

Attention is called to the new serial
The Man Higher Up" which begins
in this issue of the T.-R 1t is one OF
the strongest stories of the practical
politics Of the time which has been
written, readable, with thrilling sit-a-
tons and evidently written from the
inside. The DEVELOPMENT of Bob Nc
his battles for supremacy and to retain
power are graphic with truth. The
story has all the elements of a great
one. 1t also has purpose. 1t is worth
W lille.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
Topics of Ike Times

Time to begin thinning of Christmas
and New Years and Ground Hog Day
congratulate itself on the fact that
the frost held off a long time.
Ii Yueng Heng, the new Chinese
president, seems to have taken his
cue from George Washington.
A bronze statue Of Andrew Carnegie
is to be erected. Under the present
agitation and the possibility of the
trust being disintegrated why not kill
two birds with one stone and make the
statue Of steel?
There is about as much sense in
condemning Halloween iawlessnes:
and rowdyism, as there would be in
setting aside one day in the year wher
all laws. moral social and statutory
should be suspended.
Next a proclamation Of 80 cents q
pound for turkeys.
II blind man like Joseph Pulitze!
could stat with nothing but his heat
and hands and build up a newspaper
Of a million circulation and multi
million fortune and die on his owr
sea- going yacht, it ought to follow thai
man with two eyes and a pair O.
hands ought to be able to pay for
home to die in, doesn't It?
From az ==Ezz:: -. .---.ae-.: -'s..'
is becoming liability. The idea tina
he goes about with fatuous grin Oh
his face is not recommendation ant
moreover it isn't 80. Teddy's teetl
typified belligerent and forceful saw
agery Of high purpose to the averag'
man who delighted in Presiden
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

subjects, and endeavor to so educate
the people of its quiet streets that
there will be no more disgraceful ac-
counts Of JOY rides by its model NUM-
cipal officers. to furnish undisputed
evidence OF unfitness and corruption.
The police Of Mason City will be
guarding the chivalry of mankind when
hose OF Marshalltown are retired to
the quiet of private life, and it will re-
,uire more than the abuse OF one OF
the residents OF the quiet little village
Of Marshalltown based upon munich
ral jealousy. prejudice and incorrect
information. to change their usual
methods We would advise the peeved
writer of the sermon iii abuse Of the
Mason City police force to read other
news reports than those fond within
his own newspaper before again at
tempting to pass Judgment upon the
uolice force Of a city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

Joe" Cannon and Vice President Sher-
man. The state organization here is
a Beveridge org nization. and it's in
clinations are all toward the progress
sive movement. Harm onizing efforts
directed chiefly from Washington
nave succeeded in preventing the COM
mittee from assuming an attitude an
tagonistic to the administration. and
in the absence of contest, since the
defeat of Beveridge. there has been no
effort to effect an aggressive progress
sive organization. 1t is apparent how
ever. that the election of delegation
to the national convention will not be
permitted to go by default to the re-
actinnaries. and the possibility Of an
Taft representation is recognized
by the Taft men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
Fall Gets Me-

Fall gets me.
With its witchery:
Strange mist weather,
When the valleys come together,
And the hills run away,
And the shadows seem to play
Hi-spy honey in the amber Mounted
land
Where the banner-lighted naples in
the red effulgence stand.
Fall gets me,
With its kind Of symphony
OF color. not Of song,
Where you don't seem to belong
TO green earth any more
But to something with a shore
That goes stretching miles and miles
into iridescent woodlands running unto
sunny isles.
Fall gets me.
And it's good Of Mr.. Tree
To let US see how splendid
In his death he is attended
BY the pomp and crimson glory
Which themselves proclaim the story
OF passing that is promise that again
an azure wing
Will dip to bring us Eden back to
earth again in spring.
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
THE TEST OF PRAYER AND PR-eLA"A Tor

II, William Howard Taft, pres dent
Of the United States of America. des-
ignate Thursday. the 3oth Of Novem-
Der, as q day Of thanksgiving and
prayer, and earnestly call upon my
countrymen and upon all that dwell
under the flag Of our beloved country.
then to meet in their accustomed places
Of worship to join in offering praise to
Almighty God and devout thanks for
the loving mercies he has shown US
This 10 . rich country, we are rich
people, from border to border there is
10 shadow Of war or Of pest!lence. Gods
mercy ensures upon 10 as people and
The nation nourishes waxing stronger
With each recurrent harvest.
Thanksgiving should be general and
~ thsre are those TO whom thanks
gfvl1g win bring no serious sense of
fnAnhfulnAoA These viii be many sick
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
T1AIlsREPUBLICAN. MARsHALLMOWN. iowa NOVEMBER

Roosevelt's energy and accepted the
teeth as typical Of "strenuousness.'
A fixed and fond smile is, however, q
different affair. The Taft papers al
least. should give the public few
pictures without the grin.
|
Senator Bourne's proposal to make
the republican national convention or
dinarily representative Of national re-
! publicanism. has started curious de-
! bate. Senator Bourne points out that
the southern states, which never pro-
duce any electoral votes, are repre-
sented in the convention according to
their population. just as are the north
ern states, which produce all the cleo
toral votes. For instance, Texas in
all its history, never gave enc repub-
lican electoral vote. On the other
hand, beginning in 1876, Iowa has
never failed to give all its electoral
votes to the republicans. Yet next year
Iowa will send twenty-six delegates
to the national convention. and Texas
will send forty. Eleven states which
We're in the southern confederacy. all
of them accounted stolidly democratic,
vii lhave next year 2o2 delegates in
the national convention. This is Just
a little less than half enough to NOM
| mate the party's candidate. These
southern delegations, assuming that
Eext year shall repeat the history of
ether presidential contests. will be
dictated by the regular organizations
! in the respective states, entirely con-
trolled by the federal Office holders
Luther L. Wright state supcrin-
tendent Of public instruction in Michi-
gan, has come out in favor Of abolish
ing the long summer vacation and of
keeping the schools in session all
tawelve months of the year Il am
coming to the idea" says NJ. Wrisht.
that there ought to be no long vaca-
instead of help: that it tends to
destroy habits of industry. habits Of
APPLICATION and habits Of discipline. and
that school teaching would be easier
and more efficient if it were abolished.
# society We're so organized that chill
form of manual labor out of doors
during the long vacation, such a train
ing would be most valuable But in
all towns and villages the long vaca-
ton means period Of licensed idle
ness time of breaking down good
hal nd ha nf
ones"
Government action to bring pressure
to bear on the great French dressmak
ers who prescribe the fashions Of
tight skirts is demanded by the cham
Der of commerce Of Parare. France a
silk and cotton manufacturing town in
the Rhone department. The chamber
points out that a modern dress re-
quires only about five to seven yards
Of dress material, as compared with
the twelve to fourteen yards necessary
two years ago. and adds that petit
coats. after having been similarly re-
duced in volume, are NOW no longer
worn. Thus the sale Of thousands of
Yards of material has been prevented.
Perhaps this is little strong but most
people would consider an edict against
some of the outfits in vogue sound on
ether and more obvious grounds.
President Taft's supporters might
start it as a political issue. Perhaps
it would serve to draw attention away
ram tho Payna- lGrirh tariff
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
THE MARsuALLTosvN CRITIC.

The Marshalitown Times Republican
in the last few issues of its editorial
pages has taken occasion to emit TO
the skies a voluble and lengthy sermon
upon the iniquity. iradequacy and IN
human cruelty Of the Mason City police
force. If half the ideas that have been
spread upon the pages OF this news
raper of the quiet ana peaceful cap1tal
of Marshall county still remain within
the head of its e1ltor-critic, 1t is hard
for US to foretell what will be the final
effect Of the mangleh mass OF conto--
lions the first eruption has shown TO
therein exist. The police force OF Ma
son City ar. quite capable OF running
their deDartm ent OF the enforcement OF
law without any direction or sugges-
ton from the honorable critic OF the
Times Republican, and II they, choose
to auie. :.c cries Of an unfortunate
woman and reduce her to sense OF
sobrietv by humane methods with the
application of ern7ll quantity OF luke
. warm voter. which would not harm a
! child, instead Of the mailed ast OF law
or the straight j. "ket. or to at'emrt 10
make their arrests without shootfna
down the pe-eon they are seeking IN
-old blood. 1t is not likely that the
Judgment OF a ne"spare- editor. bsse1
,,non mixture Of nlisinforn,stion and
false reports IS to the actual truths
is going to affert their future action In
any manner. Ma.on city hiss problems
10 meet bv reason o. its ranidlv crow
ing POPULATION and the many Strangers
that are constantly seen upon ita
streets visiting the little "Pitfshurgh Of
the West" which town the size OF
Marsha lltown will not encounter II
many ySa.s, AK. doubtless tses Sact "
come way accounts for the uncalled FOL
abuse, imposed upon suffering public
by the Marshalltown Times Republi-
can.
| We would suggest that IN the future
the Times confine Its ef'
forts to sermons rickeAsspp from snoms
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

related tales Of exploitation Of one sort
or another. The reservation OF timber
clause in deeds to immigrants - SO
common that 1t may be called uni
versal. The buyer of fairly thrifty.
growing chestnut timber land IL thus
not only deprived Of his only immedi.
ate source Of revenue, but is sometimes
left without sufficient firewood In .
region Of forest. It is clear that some
steps should be taken to investigate
and prevent the continuance of meth-
DDS that would scarcely have been toll.
Grated in the palmy days OF real estate
piracy.-Alexander e. Canoe in The
Survey.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
MORE ABOUT MASON CITY POLICE.

The Mason City Times is much put
out with the Time Republican because
Of editorial attention given the Mason
City police force. 1t says that the po
lice force of Mason City can get along
without advice from the T.-R., and that
it is going to use 'lulewarm water"
on IAN unfortunate woman" as it sees
At and that the Mason City police force
will be guarding the chivalry of man
kind" wien the Marshalltown police
have been retired to private life" 1t
is all little hysterical and hard to
understand but the inference is that
the beauty and chivalry of Mason City
will be attended to by Its police force.
the one getting the water cure and the
other being guarded"
The Times evidently finds COMPARE
son odious as between policemen who
frisk their men Of guns before they
take them into court and those who
consider discretion the better part Of
official valor. That is where the odium
Of comparison gets good and odious.
The comparison, however, was natural
and scarcely to be avoided. No doubt
the same comparison as between wha t
q policeman ought to do and what was
done. The Times Republican took the
Mason City Times news story for 1t.
The Mason City paper stated that
Gable had stuck up the police station
and got away with 1t. That when an
attempt was made to arrest him later
he had stuck a gun in the policem ans
stomach and got away with that. That
when the force went to round him up
to bring him TO court he bluffed the
bunch with his hand or his hip pocket
and came into the court room des-
perado with a desperado's tools for
murder upon him. That he later drew
the pistol in the court room and shot
men and that he was finally shot down
under the concentrated fire Of the po-
lice force. That was the Mason City
Times story Of the affair. The Times
did not say that Gable had the police
cornered and that they couldn't get
away and had to shoot 1t out with him.
Nobody has said that in print, per
haps: but as to the comparison any
one who knows Mike Clark and Frank
Haas and Joe Edgar and other mem
bers Of Marshalltowns finest couldn't
a nail in rocking chair and made
itself manifest. But that was the
fault neither Of the T.-R. of the Mar
shalltown policemen. Nor was 1t neces-
sary to recall the incident Of IAN un-
fortunate woman" and the "lukewarn
water" which seems to have beer
from the general supply furnished the
city. That incident required as natur.
ally. 1t was all due to the universal
tendency to seek comparison and {
test Of proportion. II was the relative
size Of the men who make up the po
lice forces Of Mason City and Of othel
cities.
The T.-R. does not insist on reor.
ganfzirg the Mason City police fore
but 1t assumes the liberty to note AM
comment on news published in TIL
Mason City newspapers. And the T.-R
go far from any feeling against Maso,
City Is proud OF the thriving town
sorry that Mason City has that sort o
police force and extremely glad tha
MarshalltoWn hasn't.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
THE STATE PAROLE BOARD.
GIcu.a Ci.y Renrhliranl

AS an illustration of the inefficiency
of the state parole board, 1t is reported
from Fort Madison that during the
present month twenty-five new men
have been received AMI but one pa
rolled. There are a large number of
men in the prison there who have
served longer than any judge would
have required under the old system.
The prison is crowded TO the limit and
in bad condition owing to the action OF
the board in DENYING Tie men what
they know is their right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

There could be no better medicine
than Chamberain's Cough Remedy. NY
children were all sick with whooping
cough. One Of them was in bed, had
healthy appetite, but strengthen the
blood. Our doctor gave them Cham.
berlains Cough Remedy and the nrst
dose eased them, and three bottles
cured them says Mrs. r. A. Donald-
son, Of Lexington. Miss. For saie BY
all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
Sees Little Re., PROGRESS.

Has he race progressed? Only. "
are told. in the Sc e Ut acquiring .
little more material comfort Civil.
,zed NAB today is no more moral than
the savage no different from man IN
the earliest Stone Age His only goal
is that for which he started wheE the
second ice age extinguiyhed the lost
Paradise-self preservation ProEresi
is simply the artificial recreation Of
the lost Paradise Exchange
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01

knew they were going to be swindled
before they went. However, Florida
can not crowd Texas off the boards ~
any such showing. Texas could prob
ably boast that not one tenderfoot IN
forty-six could have stuck that long IN
the Lone Star state. In the meantime
the Back to Iowa Movement" "
taking fresh momentum.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
STRONG FOR LEHMAN.

There Is one man who can have the
support of every Iowan for position
on the supreme court of the United
States. and that is Fred Lehman. now
solicitor general of the United States.
Mr.. Lehman Is man Of such brains
and character that every one can unite
on him. He used to be a democrat and
as the leader of the old democratic
party in Iowa, but he became a re-
publican in the sound money cam
paigns under Mckinley.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-01
Preserving . caimnsss.

The much annoyed customer de
parted and the ,saleswoman approach.s
ed another customer and began to tell
how disagreeable the first had been.
and then. assuming an atr OF superior.
tty. remarked: But kept perfectly
calm. remembering that self-possss.
sion was nine rc'nts OF the. law ~ VI s.