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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10

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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF
RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
To JOIN z. Stewart:

To John K. Stewart
Yoa are hereby notified that on the
7th day u December, 1863, ING fol-
loving described real estate, situated
In Polk county, Iowa, o1it: Lot sew
en.een I7}, in block four ~, Of
Stalford's addition TO Dss Noines,
now in and forming Z pars Of The city
Of Des Moineg, Iowa, Was sold for
the then delinquent and unpaid tax
for the year 1903 u the undersigned,
Geo, Harnagle; that the undersigned
ia still the owner and holder Of the
certificate Of purchase issued in pur-
suance u the aDove mentioned sale,
and that the right Vi redemption will
extire and deed for the land will
be made unless redemption Is made
within ninety days from the com
pleted service hereof.
Dated this goth day Of December,
1912.
Geo. Harnagle,
Owner and Holder Of Said Certificate.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10
Stomach Trouble Cured.

II you have any trouble with your
stomach you should take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
Mr.. J. P. KIote of Edna, Mo-, says:
II have used great many different
medicines for stomach trouble, but
find Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets more beneficial than any 9th
cr remedy I ever used" For sale by
all dealers.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10
MARSHALLTOWN NOTES.

Rev. H. Kinney Of Boone is here
in the interest Of the NJ. K. church.
Mrs. G. r. Warn entertained few
friends at a 4 o'clock dinner New
Years day. A pleasant time was
reported. o 5000.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. l.. Brown gave a
reception last Thursday evening at
their home, S05 Woodbury. street, in
honor of the o. E. s.. About thirty
guests were invited, who enjoyed q
fine program. A two-course luncheon
was served and the guests departing
voted Mr.. and Mrs. Brown delightful
entertainers. @ 8% s
The Baptist Mission Circle met
with Mrs. Emanuel Jackson on Fri
day, ~. ], "A. t5E y AZ
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10
X EOKIjK NEWS.

Queen Father, 4 sacred cantata,
win be presented AT Association hall
some time before Lent by the mem.
bers 81 the Church of st. Mary the
Virgin. The chorus, which II COM
posed 81 our best musical talent, will
be Under The directorate IL Mr.. Trunk
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-01-10

pers0as troubled With partial par
alysig are oftea very much benefited
BIZ toagsayfng the affected parts thor
opghly when applying Charnberiain's
fiy,fy1e,st. This iinimerft aIso relieves
rheumatic pains. For sale by all
dealers.
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E1Esnkg Of 1hls cI-y Is orot-sr and
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BIC, is Ese-.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
Health and Marriage.

Nearly two years ago The Washing
ton Herald printed a symposium OF
views upon the proposition that a
health certificate and marriage Ger.
tihcatc should go together The in
terviews were unanimous in their ex-
precision OF the wisdom of the COM
bination.
The present revival of the subject
simply emphasizes the opinions then
expressed. This action is very differ.
cnt from such extreme measures as
the destruction of all the crippled, de-
formed, or sickly children which may
be born, which some nations have
practiced in the ancient past We GER
tainly ought to see TO it that the men,
tally and physically diseased shall have
no part in the perpetuation of the hu.
man race.
Sin and sickness we will have with
us until the millennium We can
however, reduce unhappy conditions tc
a minimum, and the effort in this di.
rection is the greatest sociological
work which can be performed.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08

The poles are the axes OF the earth
and upon them the earth revolves at the
rate of about fifteen miles per minute
In order to keep the poles from over
heating. the wise architect of the uni
verse has placed them where the sun
rarely shines on them, and where the
cold is greatest. Both poles are stu
ated amid eternal ice and snow, which
not only prevents hotboxes, but has up
TO recently kept man away from them
entirely, thus protecting them from his
mechanical genius.
The poles are very useful to the earth
but entirely unnecessary to man. He mas
gotten on without them for 5000 years.
But this has not been his fault. For hum
dreds of years he has made the most
daring and heroic efforts to locate the
poles. Explorers have lived for months
on fried boot heel and pocketbook soup
while burrowing through the snowdrifts
toward the north pole, and when rescued
in a frightful state of cancellation from
a suspender diet. have fattened up and
started north again with the utmost
cheerfulness.
For centuries the north pole remained
sternly aloof from these explorers, many
of whom froze and starved to death.
But three years ago Lieut.. Peary, who
had contributed several toes to science
in former expeditions, reached the pole
and hung the American flag on it. Last
year the south pole also surrendered to
a Norwegian and polar exploration Is 60
ing to have a severe setback in the flu
ture for want OF material to work on.
The poles will be Of no use to man
now that they have been located. But
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
Willing to Help.

F'r"c'i the Philadelphia Telegraph
The subject under discussion was hard
hnar'"d eT~lovers. and Representative
Victor Murdoch said that while he
couldn't believe that the boss as rule
was calloused. he was compelled to admit
an exception in some cases.
'One of the exceptional cases. the
Congressman went on to say. was an
ennloyer IN Kansas. Recently an emp
ploye, who had held a clerkship for sew
eral years. went to the boss with
plea for an increase in salary.
II asked you for little more salary
year ago. said the clerk, but you told
me that you were not able to give 1t to
me mt that time Now little baby has
come to our home, which will add to tn"
expense, and I would be very glad IL you
could ravorably consider my request
I see, see thoughtfuly replied the
boss Let me think it over a minute
Boy, l SUPPOSE
YES sir happily answered the clerk
greatly encouraged by his employers at
titude.
II think I can fix it, responded the
employer Il won't be able to give you
anv more monev. but just as soon as
the boy gets big enough we will ind
position for him in the office here.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
Benjamin Franklin and the High Cost
of Living.

The savants OF the American Acad-
envy of Political and Social Science
devoted several days last week to the
discussion OF the high cost of living.
A great number of questions that en-
ter into the matter were argued by
prominent orators. for instance, trusts.
tariff, wasteful methods of the farmer
and consumer, the increasing expense
of government, the growing desire for
more comfort and luxury, &c. Some
good ideas were presented, but it
seemed the consensus of opinion among
the best-informed speakers that there
is no one remedy for the burden
which presses so heavily upon many
among us.
1t is simply this: The high cost of
living has come to stay, and although
there may be easier conditions in spe-
cihc instances, the probability is that
the cost of necessities will continue to
rise along with the better standard of
life in the twentieth century, The con-
dition embraces the entire civilized
world. 1t is more pronounced in some
countries than in the United States.
For here we have, at least in a ma
jority of cases, the wherewithal to
meet the increased demand upon our
purse strings, but how about the poorer
or the working classes in certain Euro
pean countries, where present conditions
continued mean actual starvation and
suffering?
Benjamin Franklin, in his Poor
Richard" complains bitterly of the
terrible extravaganza of the Amer
lean people, and denounces the high
cost of living More than any other
people on earth we Americans are
wasteful and reckless. In Benjamin.
FranIlins day what now are consider
ed necessities were luxuries to Amer
leans. 1t is pretty safe to prognosti-
cate that a hundred years hence our
descendants will consider us and the
present high cost of living just as
Franklin did his contemporaneous
problems.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
Floods and Stream Control.

The record-breaking food in the
Ohio and other rivers on the Eastern
side of the Mississippi drainage basin
brings into general notice the matter
Of river control or food prevention.
This matter Is too important ever to
be absent from the minds of the en-
gineers of civilized countries. Stream
control is closely related to forestry,
and both have cost the European coun-
tries very large sums of money. chiefly
because they were not taken up until
too late, economically speaking.
The better forested country is, the
less money need be spent upon control
of the run-off OF its streams. A coun-
try which has been sufficiently defer
ested to cause disastrous floods should
not only reforest certain essential parts
of its billy or mountainous area, but
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08

it must also enter upon plan for the
direct control of rivers whose floods
are destructive Most people lose sight
of the fact that where forests must be
grown a considerable time must elapse
before such forests can become ef-
fective factors in the control OF run
off of the rainfall
We fear that if large appropriations
are made for Federal forests east OF
the Mississippi River. the public will
dismiss the danger from mind until the
next great food demonstrates, with loss
of life and destruction of property,
that it takes time and lots of it to
grow forests which will hold back
spring freshets. The blame will doubt
less be placed unjustly on the forest
service by those ignorant of the facts
and those whose private interests make
them antagonistic to proper forest
policy Works for direct and i'm
mediate control usually take the form
of bikes and levees These must con-
tinually be built higher and higher in
fiat regions, where the reduced rate of
flow causes the deposition of the silt
brought down from the higher levels.
In this country the levees have not
been supplemented by the erection of
large and small dams in the upper
portions of the rivers and their trib
utaries. Such dams tend to cqualize
the flow, reducing the high-water mark
and raising the low-water mark. They
thus protect from food, aid naviga-
ton. and sustain water supply in pc
RODS of drought 1t would seem that
such work must be undertaken in the
Middle and Western States on a large
scale; otherwise we may reasonably
expect TO be more and more at the
mercy of the results of unusually heavy
rains and thaws.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
Protection or Free Wool.

A duty on raw wool is not defensible
unless that duty is adequate to protect
the domestic wool-growing industry.
Anv duty less than a protective duty Is
from the point of view of the wool
grower as undesirable as no duty at
all. and a duty on raw wool for the
purpose OF raising revenue taxes a
product which is a vital necessity to
all consumers. Mr.. Wilson apparently
realizes the logic of the Democratic
position. and has taken a firm stand for
free wool.
Those who advocate protective duty
on raw wool have many. valid argu-
ments Believing. as they do, that the
primary object of tariff is the pro-
lection of domestic industry from for
cign competition. they compare the
competitive advantages of the indus
try in the United States with those in
Australia. New Zealand and Argen-
ent conditions wool cannot be raised
in this country a, cheaply as II can
abroad The protection of this in
duStry presents serious problems of
efficiency. but if the premises of the
advocates of-protection be admitted it
is difficult to escape their conclusion
that there should be duty of at least
30 or 45 per cent on wool.
The Democrats. on the contrary, do
not have the protective arguments TO
Justify rate on raw wool. They
claim that the primary object of tar
if Is revenue. Mr. Underwood in the
last Congress levied duty of 20 per
cent on wool for this purpose, and he
Is reported to be now in favor of a
* per cent duty. As far as protec-
ton Is concerned. these rates are no
better than free wool. A rate which
fails materially to equalize competition
between this country and abroad is, of
course. of no value from the protective
standpoint. Such rate simply adds
burden to the manufacturer who
buys wool and this burden is passed
on by him to the American consumer
who buys wooden and worsted goods.
The only question then that the Dem
ocratS have under the present condi-
Il al
a proper object for taxation?" Mr..
Wilson is reported TO have answered
this question in the negative, and GER
tainly he has made his position as
leader of a party, which has declared
protection unconstitutional. more de-
feasible than it would have been if he
had followed the suggestions of Mr..
Underwood
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
THE AGE OF THE HALO.
From the London Post

From the London Post
These haloes which are examined by
Prof Jolly are associated neither with or
ganic life nor disembodied spirits: they
are haloes in the rocks. In certain very
old minerals, a brown variety of mica,
for example. the microscope reveals mi
mute circular marks which occur quite ir-
regularly, but are themselves singularly
regular. They look the circular disks in
the slice of rock when ii is exposed under
the lens; but these dots are really sec
tons of quite regular spheres which have
diameters between the twentieth and the
thirtieth Of miilimeter. They are there
fore not visible to the naked eye, and
they have long been a puzzle. Close ex-
emination shows there is always a small
er speck of some foreign body at their
|centers, and most generally this speck
is found to be the mineral zircon. which
contains a largish proportion of radium.
Radium is the key. These little haloes
are caused by the atoms which have been
shot out from the inclosed radium in the
course of the ages: they represent the
limits of it's field of force This idea is
susceptible of the most delicate proof.
We need hardly mention at this time of
day that radium when IL is decaying
shoots out atoms which are usually re-
garded as atoms of helium; and that in
fact. every radioactive substance when
it is undergoing change does the same
thing Now the progress of these atoms.
the length of their journey and the speed
at which it is accomplished, have all
been very carefully investigated and COM
puted since the beginning of this century.
We know the approximate length of the
path of the atom shot out by any radio
active element, from the uraniums to the
Idisintegrating forms of radium. thorium
and actinium: and we know how soon
collisions with other atoms of other sub
stances which ii encounters will reduce
it's velocity to zero. remarkable fact
discovered by Prof. Bragg was that the
only thing which counted in stopping the
discharged atom was the weight of the
atom which was in the way. Thus 1t has
been possible to calculate exactly how
far discharged atom should penetrate in
lany known substance. The discovery OF
fascinating interest in Prof. Joly's haloes
is that their radii correspond exactly with
the distances which atoms from the va
lrying radioactive minerals ought to trav-
ell; and thus no fewer than fifteen kinds
of atom-produced haloes have been
ella ssified A less mathematical but
equally interesting demonstration afford
ed by the haloes is that of the age OF
the rocks in which they are distributed.
Their age is little appalling. halo
of less than a million years has never
been seen: and hundreds of millions of
years must have gone to the formation
of some of them.