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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

tho end will be fits OF coughing or
thumps. Dat straw Is only less SUIT
able than barley straw for the beading
Of Young pigs in an average season.
but this year, when nearly all the
straw is 50 much damaged by rain ana
exposure. It is more than ever neces-
sary that only wheat straw should be
used. and. further. all the damp por-
ton Of this should be frequently re-
moved and replaced by fresh. dry
straw. Moss litter II sometimes rec
commended ~ bedding for pigs; 1t may
not be entirely unsuitable Tor strong
Mig. which have sufficient food OF q
mixed character, but my experience
In it's use for little pigs certainly would
forever prevent my recommending ~
for that purpose.
Under ordinary conditions there -
available to the average man only ono
Kind OF bedding. II he happens to be
an oat grower he will have to resort to
the use Of oat straw. On the other
hand. II he grows barley only, In az
probability no attempt will be made
ia use anything but barley straw. Out
~ our own experience we can endorse
what Mr.. Spencer says in regard to the
pse OF barley and oat straw. They
both absorb moisture too freely ana
because Of this many swine breeders
90 to considerable trouble and some
EXPENSE in order to obtain a supply OF
wheat straw for use during the spring
months when the pigs are small
wheat straw does not absorb moisture
like cat and barley nor does it act as
an irritant on the skin as Is the case
particularly with oat straw. We De-
i,eve that thousands Of pigs are lost
every spring simply as the result OF
allowing their bedding to become moist
and most OF these losses could be pre-
vented without additional labor IN
VOWED in cleaning the pens II wheat
straw could be used in place OF oat
or barley straw.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
THE llGGEn PLAN.

There Is a firm or company running
drug stores in twenty-one cities of the
United States and Canada that de-
serves public mention for its recent ac-
ton. On New Years day President
Lieeett. Of the chain of Liggett drug
stores, announced that from this date
no Intoxicating liquors OF any KIND
will be sold in any Liggett store in the
United States or Canada"
No doubt this announcement will
please Mr. Boyson, Of Cedar Rapids
another druggist who insists that the
liquor business should be divorced
from the highly reputable business of
the legitimate druggist. 1t will please
many others not in the drug business
It is time the reputable pharmacists
take hold and assist to eliminate the
doggery drug store. In Iowa there
are many alleged drug stores which
have opportunity of profit OF existence
outside Of the liquor traffic. Certain
drug stores in certain locations
couldn't pay rent unless they paid it
out Of illegal liquor sales. To be sure
the proprietors Of the buildings who
receive the rents want the money. The
whisky pharmacist wants the profit
The booze fight wants the booze Do
reputable druggists desire the stain
the whisky store casts on all phac-
macies?
Boysen and Liggett are right They
have the right ideal of business
which is as much a profession as
business. Those practitioners are pro-
tected by law and who should feel
responsibility toward the law and pride
in the profession. The time has ar
rived for the druggists to turn away
the whisky bushes sas the newspapers
are turning down the whisky ad, Times
have changes and sentiment and I'M
derstanding have grown. Twenty years
or ten years ago is ancient history and
IN ancient condition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

and you can't 90 In there any more
without getting sick. They used to
scrape tho snow of the ice with .
snow pillow 20 the ice was fine In, the
winter but they don't do that any more
either. VS."
Yes, they started the Boy Scouts
when Red Townsend and some other
students was here. That was all right.
We could play basketball in the gym.
Saturday morning and then we. took
hikes In the spring, but in the summer
those guys went away and there was
nobody to take 1t up and 1t all went to
nothing. They were going to do some
thing with the Uncle Sans Club, too.
but l guess they didn't.
There amt thing for us kids to do.
You can't whisper in the library, and
when you get out Of school all there Is
to do is to 90 home and work or study
I wish we had club like some Of the
high school fellows do They have blue
shirts with yellow initials on the pock-
cts and club rooms over Mullins store.
amt it? Yes, I'm sure that's where
they are. Any how they have some
place to go. When we were smaller we
played in the street and chased each
oNAASA AoAAu tAo iii w SSs W
running into people and the cop chased
us off and we had to quit.
Il tell you what they ought to have
here and that's Y. NJ. c. A. Lots OF
other towns have 'em. Marshalltown
does. That's where the fellows went
to play basketball this mornin'. They
were going to play in the Y. NJ. c. A.
They have dandy swimmin' pool and
everything. Why can't they have that
here? 1t wouldn't cost such an awful
lot. Where Wylies livery barn burned
down between Miners and StahFs
would be a dandy place. It's just the
right size and they could have a SWIM
min pool in the basement and q basket
ball court and reading room upstairs
where there was games. Gee. I wish
they'd do that. Maybe if there wasn't
any college here they'd DO something
for us kids. Well, I oushtn'; to be hang
In round here like this hut I haven't
got anything to do. I'll see if l can't
get some of the fellows together and
We'll try to do something about 1t.
Goodby.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
s.ddino for Pigs.

Mr.. Sanders Spencer. who is prob
ably one Of the most renowned SWINE
breeders in the United Kingdom, con-
tributes a brief article to the Livestock
Journal dealing with the question OF
bedding or litter for little pigs. What
he says applies to conditions In this
country az well as in England. ais
communication follows:
One Of the necessities OF healthy
pig Of youthful age is a dry ana SUI
HE bed on which to rest ana De
thankful. and at the same time to pre-
serve soundness in wind and In iimp.
The two portions Of the anatomy OF
the Juvenile pig which require the
Greatest amount of care and attention
during the short dull days OF early
winter are the lungs and the rect, ana
of the principal causes Of trouble with
these particular parts, the chie1 arc
the manner Of feeding, and the PED on
which the pigs lie.
With regard to the material OF the
bedding there appears to be the usual
variety OF opinion. 1t may be that each
person who recommends certain Kind
nj straw or other substance as the best
of all material for pigs to repose upon
and 70 manufacture meat or to increase
their growth imagines that he mas sooo
grounds for his recommendation. but II
is to be feared that in at least some
cases the writer Of the notes in winch
harley straw is stated to be the mos
suitable of all materials for the PED
ciugs Of little pigs must have mao a
unique experience If anything Oh 'i.a'
character could possibly have come ms
way. In an ordinary season, when oat
lev straw is bright, firm and crisp II
very quickly absorbs the moisture IRON
the pigs and becomes soft and dark IN
! color. so that it not only renders tne
skin. Of the pigs greasy an ddiscolored
but it quickly forms into close damn
mass thru which the fresh air can no.
percolate. The results are quickly op'
seryable to any intelligent person wher
the pigs leave their nest for any pur
pose: the pigs bodies will give OF
! steam. as will the bedding. and Ver'
frequently the result to the pigs VII
be chills, which sooner or later WI
affect the respiratory organs. OF whicf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
AS TEST OF EFFICIENCY.

One Of the Iowa railways has issued
a bulletin In which married men are
advised that they can not scrap with
their wives Of a morning and maintain
the standard of efficiency requisite to
earn their money with the railroad. 1t
ds explained that coming down to work
hlled with memories Of domestic
ciinches and infghting conduces to the
throwing OF the wrong switch. Thus
Siznor Tutti Fruit recalling the i'm
pingement of a fiat iron against the
small of his back as he fed thru the
door, is likely to lamp tie too hard
and knock the heads Off company
spikes The $40 telegraph operator in
the Idle rage which fills the bosoms Of
men who have attempted to hold their
own in the verbal battles Of conjugal
fields, is likely to fall down in his s10,-
600 a year responsibility.
why not issue the same bulletin to
the officers and managers Of the roads.
Why not assure the president that he
can not row with his wife over the cost
Of the latest swell entertainment and
DO Justice by the stockholders. Why
not tell the superintendent that do
n.estic conflict is responsible for the
sexstem which kills more people on
American railroads than on all the
nnnfinent Of Europe? Why not suggest
"a the general freight agent that the
erason It takes six months to hear
rom a claim for damaged freight is
BECAUSE he and his wife gre mixing it
of mornings?
Anyway, who quarrels with his wife
AK most any man and he will tell you
tl,at 1--WE never have a word" Some OF
fhern assert that "a cross word has
aever passed between u.s." Perish the
thought that the American breakfast
tsble il ring of strife and that loving
couples sling plates at each other across
the domestic board.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

Mince." The state board was called
upon. It decided in favor OF smallpox
and called ctickenpox out at frst base
But the argument went on, isn't en-
tirely finished yet. The defenders OF
chickenpox went down like the lady
Of another famous dispute who went
under with fingers crossed to represent
Scissors"
The echoes Of that ancient feud still
resound in the corridors and reverber-
ate from the walls Of the Iowa state
house. In Iowa most of the outcry
against the doctors trust" goes back
to some similar incident somewhere
in the state where influential laymen
said, "Taint smallpox" while the state
board said, Ills
This idea that medicine should be
free as religion" and that medical
practice should be flung wide open to
all who desire to practice any old the
DRY that patients will stand for. is one
that should not go far in the legisla-
ture. Perhaps there are some things
that need fixing as regards the medical
practice law but the requirements Of
thorough preparation, of fitness dis
cectitication of physicians do not be-
long in that list. One Of the basic
reasons for the vast advance in med
ical efficiency lies in the advance Of
the general practice law.
Time was when it was as easy to
start the practice Of medicine in Iowa
as to open grocery store. The state
was filed with one term practitioners.
Some of these developed into excellent
physicians, but thru their own mis-
takes of which nobody but themselves
knew and which the other person
interested was in no condition to eE-
pose. 1t was time when medicine was
free as religion. Anyone who felt 4
call to practice took the call as suffi-
Gent preparation and got busy. 1t
saw a vision in the skies of shining
initials. 'fP. c. and jumped to the
conclusion that they stood for Preach
Christ The presiding elder explained
that they meant Pillow Corn" The
self constituted doctor saw the initials
''P. NJ and assumed a call to practice
Medicine" We have organized laws
and boards in order to explain to him
that these letters stand for plant
murphies' instead Of patients.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
Topics of the Times

The Colorado state highway COM
mission has apportioned its state aid
money for hard roads among the vari-
Gus counties upon a Plan which pro-
vides for 1000 miles Of roads costing
100000 being built within very
few years.
II the baseball contest is close this
summer perhaps we will not miss poll
tics so very much.
Marshalltown has no more than its
proportion of widowers but 10 o'clock
sees a lot of girls on the streets who
seem to nave no mothers.
Some Of US are fearing that when the
public business and trusts it may take
notion TO look up individual short
cornings.
Suppose those suffraSettes turned
their hammers from the glass fronts
to the bay windows of legislators?
A blue sky law would be an excellent
thing but no law can ever prevent the
parting Of the fool and his money.
so you were deeply touched by the
poem young Mr.. Guffson wrote to
you?" said Maude.
Yet" answered Mamie.
But it was not good poem
81 don't care. 1t was just as mucn
trouble for him to write it as if he had
been Shakespeare.'--J
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

When was q small boy my mother
was very much distressed by my ten
dency to read dime novels" but
have remarked to my wife several
times recently that any OF those much
discussed novels that ever read were
comparatively clean reading with many
Of the stories In the supposedly high
class magazines being published.
Something In your article made me
think you referred in one instance TO
1.-THE Apple In the Barrel" published
IN the.rJanuary humber Of HEARTS,
Magazine but IL not. you read that II
you want to find the nastiest most
Immoral story I ever read anywhere
and one which I should think ought
TO be forbidden the use Of the mails
a. obscene literature. and goes well
with the suggestion Of the song "Ev.
erybody's Doing It."
] also wish to congratulate the state
of Iowa for her two strong senator's.
and the work that Senator Kenyon has
recently started against the frankin8
privilege and the bill helping to make
q town or district that has voted dry to
be dry In fact.
like your stand on the temperance
question and like your stand on moral
| questions and not only your stand but
your clear cut editorials on the sub
1ects you take up; it makes for chris
tianity with backbone OF which we
| have little enough.
Yours very truly. Joseph H. Haskell.
| C!aremont, N. H. Jan. 20. 1913.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
The Way Of Happiness.

The Way OF Happiness.
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound.
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields
with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with at
tire;
Whose trees in summer yield shade,
In winter fire.
Blest, who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days and years slide soft
away
IN health of body. peace Of mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night; study and
ease
Together mixed, sweet recreation,
And innocence which most does please
With media ton.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world. and not stone
Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
A BORROWED EDITORIAL.
IGrinnell ReRister.1

A live wire youngster of about eighth
grade age. strolled into the office the
other morning and gave utterance to
opinions that might be Of interest to
the older people. You may not agree
with him: but think about 1t a little
from the boys standpoint
This is the deadest town ever saw.
There amt nothin' to do. the only inn
there is in the summer Is 10 go SWIM
in out to Sanders and that doesn last
more than two or three days, the water
is SO dirty. They use to Rave the iake
fixed up fine with boats and launch
and there was q bath house with lock
ers and they sold pop and candy ana u
was swell to go svimmin' down tne.e'
It amt any good any more tho. me
water from the tannery runs INTO IL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
GIVING THE CASE AWAY.


One of the defenders OF high school
fratern!ties made an argument Satur-
day in Chicago which unWittingly ex-
posed the essential undemocTatic spirit
Of the organizations.
w. Z. Vette said in an interview:
mem bership in high school frater-
mites is Of great use to graduate.
Some of the fraternity men have faith
ers high in the business world and
they are glad to help TO good positions
their sons fraternity brothers"
In other words. il you are high
school frater, you have pull" You
can get a position, not on your own
merits, but because some fraternity
brother has father whose influence
can be utilized in swinging a choice
plum. The non-fraternity man IS
placed at a disadvantage. He may be
more efficient. more honest, more OF q
man, but he is outside the elect. He
has no pull, no associate who can work
his fathers influence.
High school fraternities are a NUS
ance everywhere, and ought to he
weeded out. They substitute club life
for home life. when the home life is
most valuable. They emphasize social
distinctions, and are totally foreign to
the public school system of America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
tn. T.-R. in New Hampshire.

Times Republican. Marshalltown'
Iowa. / have a friend who lived TWEEN
tv.fiye wears in Iowa for whom l sub
scribe for the Times Republican and
az It comes to me, when I have time
look over the editorial page as
usually find something Of real value on
1t.
presume you will not feel bad Tor
me to say l think your paper mas inc
cleanest strong, or the strongest clean
editorials of any paper 1t has been my
lot to see up to date.
I especially wish to express my
pratifation at reading your article on
the character of the reading matter
now being published In many OF the
monthly magazines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
BAD Eaos in commeree.

Bad egg dealing is business IN Il.
self in England. All bad eggs 60 to
tanners. These eggs as .caref,L...1
orsuooa 3y hanu ana the Whites are
separated from the yolks-unpleasnnt
work, but work that no machine can
do. The yolks are mixed with hour
and salt, and this dough IL sold to the
leather men. who si1c and dress hides
with 1t. The whites are used In the
sizing OF fine paper. Care must b
taken that they are properly sepa'
rated, ~ the least bit Of yolk In the
whites would cause yellow streak o.
the papers surface.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
..FREe" nEolcAL PRACTICE. :

n Years and years ago an Iowa COM
snaunity went wild over disagreement
~ diaxnosis. Some persons fell sick
- = Ai.ease which displayed symptoms
~ arnallpox and developed pustuies.
- doctor said 1t was smallpox
q a0kher declared it chickenpox. Tne
inn took on the argumentative
ssl...ere OF the dispute wherein 1t was
srted "'Tis Mince" and "'Taint
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

ing Of agriculture" says the Iowa
City Republican. Nov i II will carry
the same principle little further, ana
give state aid for industrial educa.
ton in the schools Of at least the
larger city, 1t will be doing something
for the IS per cent"
1.-THE outlook as we view 1t. Is that
the progressives will either get the
most Of the republicans into their new
party or will find the republican par
ty adjusting itself to their own plan
Of organization and SO affording them
oportunity to control there, but that 1t
Is premature to try to judge finally as
to the way in which the matter will
work itself out" says the Nevada Rep
resentative. THE results will depend
on whether the remnant of the repub-
lican party shall meet frankly and
honestly the obvious conditions Of Its
continued existence. The presumption
is that the party will not do so; that
it is so throttled by the Taft organiza-
ton of bogus delegates and crooked
committees that 1t can not do so; but
it is not yet the moment to pronounce
final Judgment. The republican party
has shown a heap Of virtue in its time,
and it may have left enough yet for the
present purpose and emergency"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Storm Lake Pilot Tribune says:
THE suggestion of Governor Clarke
that the proposition to bond the state
for the construction OF permanent
highways be put up to a referendum
is We'll taken and the Pilot Tribune
would like to see it followed. There is
justification fer the statement in re-
cent issue Of The Register and Leader
to the effect that the future of Iowa IS
the future Of the rural home, and 1t IS
equally true that the future OF he rural
home is in large measure the future OF
the country road. 1t is earnestly hoped
that the present Legislation Will evolve
a law which will solve one of the
greatest. if not the greatest question
before the state.
IF the weather man continues this
kind of behavior, Willie's new sled
viii lbe good for two winters remarks
the Rockwell Phonograph.
"Elihu Root talks as tho Hay and
Pauncefoot are the United States.
stuff and nonsense" says the Marion
Register.
The Grinnell Herald observes that
CIV q vote Of 70 to "a the Iowa house
Yesterday memoralized congress in
favor of Kenyons bill forbidding an
express company to carry wet goods
into a dry state" and says: Senate.
Kenyon's bill is right and should be
passed. Then at once he should intro
duce another bill forbicding the Unit
ed states to issue license to sell
liquor to bootleggers living in dry ter
ritory. Dry territory mind you, which
includes all dry states and every dry
community in wet states. The United
states has not business to aid boo.-
leygers to nullify the state laws
"The sub committee OF the roads
committee that does not turn in a
least as good a bill as Wisconsin Oh
Minnesota has already enacted into
law will be inviting lot OF unfavor'
able criticism" says the Des Nome:
Tribune. with two neighboring state!
experimenting several years ahead o
us it ought to be easy to get up a Law
for Iowa that would give us a dis
tinct Lead
'.The state made a move In the rign
direction when it passed a law g1vin'
high SCHOOLS state aia &c: the teach
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30

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and they entirely cured me" Mcbride
& Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-30
Iona Newspapers

GENERAL SICKLES' TROUBLES.
LDes Moines Register and Leader.]
The first inclination always is 10
synlpathize with men like General
Sickles.
There are plenty of poor and unfor-
tunate privates without social stand
ing who can be used for the purposes
of example.
But OH second thought, why should
General Sicllles and his class be ex-
empted?
He has had wealth, reputation, OPP
portunity. He has apparently used
them all to little purpose. His family
is divided by scandal, his accounts
have been badly kept, the states mon
ey has been used for private pur-
poses: he has at last been put under
arrest.
The son Of prominent man in Iowa
was corrected by his teacher. Per
haps you do not know who l am" the
boy suggested Il am John Does SON..
THAT is exactly why l selected you
for correction the teacher replied.
John Does son ought to know and
do better