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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
Topics of the Times

a news dispatch regarding a suicide
says "he had been suffering mental
troubles" That seems to be redundant.
No one ever suicided when mentally
untroubled and it is doubtful if an en-
tirely sane person ever took his own
life
Thaw wants a continuance but the
public desires a finish of Thaw and
ThaW's story.
When the Billiards were raging over
Missouri 1owans were playing golf and
laughing at the coal man. Stay in
Iowa.
When the Oregon passes thru the
canal every survivor of that historical
race around a hemisphere should be
on her deck.
more persuasive than ours. The roll
of musketry reaches farther than q
roll Of bills.
a Cerro Gordo farmer is counting
$4,000 as his income from a sixty acre
farm. That's $3.50 an acre or the
price of the sixty acres not SO many
years ago.
The testimony in the trial between
the Morrison bank and W. R. jane
son, of Waterloo, fills a lot of people
with regrets that they didn't know
hoy easy it was before Boggs got it ALL
The conspiracy to blacken the rep
utation of Clarence Funk failed miser-
able because the man assailed had the
sand and the means to fight. The man
who pays blackmail either in cash or
compliance is a fool. The only way to
meet it is as Funk met it-fghting.
1t is estimated that the sparrows Of
Iowa consume az least SIS tons Of
weed seed per year; and the utter lack
of enforcement Of the noxious weed
law makes it certain that none of them
will ever starve to death.
Man Is a curious creature:
He'll watch for an hour street
faker,
But if for the show his wife's two
minutes late,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
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Iona Newspapers
TEACHERS PENSIONS.

tt ii4i6toH ldWkeye.J
1t is good to note that the teachers
OF Iowa have not given I'd the f14ht
but are working harder than even FOR
teachers pensions. And they are 60
ing to keep on fighting until the bat
tie has been won. They know their
cause to be just. The legislature that
gave them the cold shoulder may not
have known that with the single ex-
ception of North Carolina. Iowa pays
the lowest wage to teachers. Or they
may have dreamed that a lot of teach
ers who were content to work for
ridiculously low wage in the richest
state In the union, would never have
the nerve to make fight for anything.
The teachers were advised that the
pension system would make them all
into spendthrifts and told to be good
and not ask for things that they should
not have. And then the legislature
gave the stamp of its approval to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
THE rRlBuHE's TIP TO THE DOCTORS.


The Chicago Tribune with lis usual
shrewd understandings Of a good story
and it is proper to assume with a real
desire to be Of service 10 its city and
its subscribers. has been conducting an
investigation of firms and individuals
operating in Chicago as medical spe-
cialists" The class Of specialists to
which special attention was given IS
that which makes a specially OF
mems diseases" and whose advertise
ments are familiar 10 readers OF the
newspape rs which accept and publish
their advertiseme nts. The Tribune re-
porters after having been examined by
specialists OF the highest repute and
standing in their profession went the
They were astonished 10 find them
selves afflicted with all manner of
loathsome and lingering" diseases.
They We're met with diagnoses calcu-
lated TO frighten the ignorant OUT or
their wits and their money. In one
case after another they We're assured
Of their dangerous condition and
shaken down" for as much as they
would give up, which under the cir
cumstances was barely sufficient for
their own and not for the specialists
purposes. Altogether they uncovered
nest after nest of swindlers who play
upon the ignorance and fears Of the af-
ficted and those who fear that they
may be diseased after a fashion as eff
fec:ive and more despicable than the
methods of the holdup man or the
sneak thief.
The medical profession expresses
itself freely over this class Of Special
lists 1t condemns them in public and
in private. The Tribune has certainly
shown a way whereby these buzzards
may be exposed. Surely prosecution
will lie for obtaining money under false
pretenses against every one of these
men. Certainly the state board with All
this evidence before it will not fail to
cancel their certificates if appealed to
with the evidenc in hand Why
wouldn't little detective work on the
part of medical associations associated
with a strong follow up have consid-
cradle salutary effect on the crop OF
crooked specialists" not only in Chi
cago but elsewhere where the "spe-
cialist' Hourishes who promises to cure
anything on earth whether durable or
,ncurable if he gets enough cash in ex-
change for the promise?
Those fellows should be put out OF
business. There is no swtndle more
contemplate than the medical swindIe
which takes advantage of the world
old feat of death to rob it's victim.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

present ferment Of political and literal
theft and assassination: perhaps mat
tiers will arrive at a stage where this
country will be forced to step in with
the strong hand in the interests of
peace and humanity and shake Mexico
like a petulant child.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

How many are lonely, amid gaiety
of society, the luxury Of grand
house; the excitement of travel, or
of big business-all for the lack Of a
baby in the house," says the Water
loo Reporter The little ones take
lots Of care and anxiety, and work, and
keep US oftentimes pretty close to the
grindstone. but there is Joy in the
heart n the rearing of a little child,
from It's first plaintive wall to it's ma
turity into a strong man or woman,
that has no equal in the accomplish
ment or any other human endeavor."
why not make it an even break?"
asks the Waterloo Reporter. Go to
church in the morning and take the
ride or ramble In the afternoon?"
iowa never puts winter weather on
tap until the proper season arrives"
saws the Council Bluffs Nonparen.
The Burlington Hawkeye says ut
is no more the business OF the legisla-
ture of Iowa to fix a minimum wage
for teachers than 1t would be to fix
minimum wage for carpenters or street
railway employees"
| Some folks hold their heads entire
| ly too high to see their best opportuni-
ties" observes the Sioux City Journal
/ The Waterloo Times-Tribune thinks
i"Mrs. Pankhurst must be a brave
woman after all. She expects to visit
Washington, where the police were not
able 10 protect even American suf-
fragists."
The Mount Vernon Record inquiries
why shouldn't roads be built as we'll
as harbors?'
The Cedar Rapids Republican has
concluded that ut is the man with a
crooked record who is destroyed in
politics. The man who walks in the
road called straight, has nothing to
fear in politics. nor in anything else.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

measures carrying very heavy expeu-
ditures. and simply killed the teachers
pension bill. Perhaps that was q very
good thing for the teachers OF Iowa.
1t taught them the lesson that they
must do for themselves and that they
must fight for what they want In this
world. And now they are in the fight
ing mood, and the next legislature VIII
probably get new light, an entirely
different illumination on the teachers
pension bill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

sidered on her own showing. not only
an enemy of law but Of morality, and
she should be spurned by all clean
minded people. 1t is time true woman-
hood drew the line on her. The only
excuse that can be oeffred for her 10
that she is probably the victim Of sex
ual insanity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

There are over 8. 100000 males of
voting age and 100000 females eli
gible to vote for president About g.
600, 900 of the 6,650,0O0 foreign born
white males of voting age are natur-
allied: 100000 negroes are disfran-
chised. So there will be some 2s.000,-
900 people who can vote for president
and vice president. Only 15,133,000
voted in 1912
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

If Mrs. Wo, row Wilson should
change her mind about a coat of arms.
we suggest the Republican party dor
mant with a tariff bill rampant on a
BACKGROUND Of Stanton postcards
Richmond Times Dispatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

Shrewdly we suspect that In tracing
his descent from Pocahontas Mayor
Harrison is making play for the John
Smith vote.-Chicago News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

AS If Connie Mack were not enough
for any reasonable city, Philadelphia
has imported another Sphinx from
Egypt-Boston Transcript.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

There Is no other road that II worth
starting out Inlet no young man,
filled with ambitions, forget that"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.

It's easy enough for Mr.. Bryan to
urge universal prohibition, but what
has he got to quit ?-Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

Why not make it an even break?"
asks the Waterloo Reporter go to
church in the morning and take the
ride or ramble In the afternoon"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
Rugs

Tapestry Velvet Administer Body
Brussels Bundhar, Hardiwick, and
French Wilton. Large line OF pat
terms to select from in each grade.
Big assortment Of odd sizes and
the best values ever shown in rugs
Of standard quality.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28

iowa never puts winter weather or
tap until the proper season arrives,
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24

satisfactory supplies can be secured for
household use from such sources. In
an examination of the rural water
supplies in Indiana it has been found
that of the private rural water-sup-
plies examined, 1T were deep wells,
All shallow wells. 8 ponds. 40 springs,
and 81 cisterns. One hundred and 16
of the deep-weH waters were of good
quality, As were bad and 16 doubtful.
But 159 Of the AL shallow-well waters
could be used, 2o9 were unequivocally
bad, and AZ were of doubtful quality.
A large percentage of the waters used
by the families in which typhoid fever
had occurred was unequivocally bad.
With the development of the country,
the growth of the population and the
greater congestion in living centers, the
danger of pollution of natural water
supplies is vastly increased. Even wells
can be improved and rendered less sub
ject to pollution if proper methods OF
driving them deeper are employed. the
best safeguard, according to The Jour
nal of the American Medical assocla-
ton, is the education of the public to
the underlying facts Of contamination
so that by the application of common
sense the sources of danger can De
avoided by propertyholders and others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
EVENING CHAT
Reviving Old Pleasures.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Backward, turn backward, oh time,
in thy flight,
Make me a child again just for to-
night"
1.-THE cross-town car will be here at
1922" said the conductor, as he put ME
down at the little country crossroads.
consulted my watch. Horrors, a
full half hour and hadn't even a scrap
of newspaper to read. And l couldn' {
take a walk because 1 had a heavy
suitcase. Then 1 caught sight of tiny
shop and crossed over to look in It's
single window. The chief decoration
was a round glass jar filed with pink
and white peppermint sticks. Now,
gazing into a crystal ball is supposed
to have a strange and powerful effect
on the mind. Perhaps the glass jar had
a similar psychic influence. Anyhow,
as l looked at that round, glass jar OF
peppermint sticks, L suddenly became a
child again, with damp penny
clutched in moist palm, and In an in
slant I had tugged open the screen door
and was standing in front of the low,
glass case of candy which l knew L
should find.
1t was like meeting old friends.
There they all were. The same candies
that had charmed away the pennies on
those days when penny was an event.
The first thing I bought was cents
worth of all-day suckers, still two-for-
ing had not yet affected the low, glass
cases. Mindful of my old preferences,
1 bought a bright green and a brown
one. What colors do you like best?
OF course, you remember what they
are Hard, round balls that will last, il
not all day, at least all of an hour;
that is, if you suck them carefully and
don't crunch.
jelly beans in little glass mug CAME
next. You remember that little glass
mug in which the smaller candies We're
melted out? And didn't you always feel
that if the measuring were left to you,
you could make it hold a great deal
more?
A string of licorice was my next pur-
chase. One of those long, ropey affairs
that always seemed to me such an ex-
traordinary value for the money ex-
pended and which, for the same reason,
I was never allowed to buy.
A pink peppermint and a white pep
permint were my next extravaganza.
They are aristocrats among penny
candy, being rated at the exorbitant
price of one for a cent In the old days,
when time was plenty and pennies
scarce, I used to spend aeons deciding
calmly ordered both and marveled at
my own recklessness.
Four 1ollypops, a prize package with
popcorn and a diamond ring in it,, one
of the peppermint barber poles, and
pickle lime, that symbol of schoolgirl
days, were also purchased with regal
recklessness. I do not think the big
gest check ever received made me feel
richer than I did as I left the shop
with these treasures between which
the little girl of long ago had to make
a difficult choice.
Try it sometime. reader friends
Truly, it's a fleeing taste of childhood.
But first listen to a warning. If YOU
want to keep your golden memory of
the toothsomeness of these candies of
the long ago, give them to the first lif-
tie boy you meet and give them to him
before you have sampled them, not aft
err as did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
QUAKER MEDITATTONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia. Record.1
Look for trouble and you will generally
find fault.
A soft answer turneth away wrath but
it often comes hard
Blood will tell; and bad luck is often
the offspring of bad habits.
The average man feels that his price is
something to be proud of.
A man is adjudged by his deeds; also
sometimes by what he doesn't do
One good turn deserves another but
there is no such thing as perpetual mo-
ton.
Charity begins at home, which makes
it easy for man to practice on himself
Scribbler-"How is the best way to sue
coed in literature?" Wigwag-'Keep to
the write"
A woman is of the contradictory sex
She can give negative answer in a posi-
tive manner.
The world has more sympathy of it's
unfortunates than we wot of. Ever notice
how many people weep at weddings?
RoIlingstone NomoSS@"You're a dog in
the manger.' Tatterdan Torn-"WeIl, a
dog in de hangers worth two in de front
yard"
BIobbs-"Yes, she Tilted Harduppe and
is going to marry young Addlepate, who
is half cracked" Slobbs-"Well, it is bet
ter to be half cracked than completely
broke
Tommy-''Pop. what is the difference
between a situation and a job % Tommy
Pop-..A situation, my SON., is generally
what young man asks for a job is
what he GETS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARsONs-

One of the police ladies, after investi-
eating the case of small colored boy
who had stolen a horse, gave 1t as her
expert opinion that the chee-ild had
been driven to horse stealing py
movies" and cigarettes From otner
official sources it is learned that an
older brother of the boy is now In the
reformatory for stealing horse, anu
that the father of both is in the penl-
Tertiary for stealing the same horse
at another time. It is also SHOWN tndl
the elder member of the horse-steallng
family never smoked cigarettes ana
never saw a movie" show until Hon
Jerry Botkin introduced the "hll-lun
at the state institution Now what the
samhill do you suppose started tne
elder member on the downward PAIN :
Down at Chanute they are having d
perfectly awful time over the IN
decency of musical comedies. The Dill
board ladies have been dressed IN
paint, and an order has been issued to
arrest all show women appearing IN
tights. So, if the show girls want to
show in that town they will have to
take 'em off.
One should not speak of Hon Roose-
welt as the rdAfunct presidential posi-
bility.' He's just as much OF pres1-
Dental possibility now as he was When
he was a candidate.
Any man who can calm a squalling
infant without chloroform or violence
is a hum-dinger and entitled to the
privilege of telling his wife how to
raise the family.
From the court records one might
gather that the only satisfactory way
to leave an estate is to have one heir,
no lawyers and die without making
Will.
Dodd Gaston's fame and importance
has been proven beyond doubt. He has
been misquoted by a reporter. 1t
should prove a novelty to Hon Dodd'
who, for 20 years, has been misquoted
principally by printers and proofread-
erS.
1t must be tiresome for a newly
married woman to have to wear an
inane grin all the time so her neigh
borS won't report that she is Having
Trouble with her husband.
If a man made no more noise about
his politics than he did about his re-
Hgion, there would be more of those
quiet elections"
Rather than disbelieve Bible stories,
we prefer to seek an explanation that
would make them plausible. Maybe the
three gentlemen who passed I'M
scorched through the fiery furnace
really did it; maybe it was a natural
gas furnace.
The tallest man in Topeka was mar
ried recently. But there is nothing
like matrimony to make a man
short
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24

she made straight for the one spot
that she knew would be unoccupied,
for there were very few people who
had ever penetrated the cleverly de-
signed maze at Fairmead, but Molly
had done so on a previous visit.
Now she hurried through the mar
row aisles between hedges of pun
gently sweet lockwood. every moment
drawing nearer to that goal, the
heart of the maze, where there was a
where one might face an unhappy sit
uation and have it out all alone.
The tears were very near to Molly s
eyes as she hurried through the paths,
and they quite blinded her as she
made the final turn and arrived at
the heart-shaped center of the maze.
She grcped her way to the door of
the summer house and stumbled in
side-to find that she was not alone.
John F'in1eigh was sitting there. his
bowed head on his arms.
He lifted his head and looked at
her with sorrowful dark eyes that in
stantly lighted up as he saw the tears
on her face.
Observation-Disclosures is it? What
is troubling you?" he demanded,
jumping up and coming around the
rustic table.
'.It-is-nothing!" quavered Molly.
suddenly realizing how dear was his
voice and how sweet his interest in
her.
"You are in trouble of some sort,
insisted John; you are not the girl
to cry at nothing! Molly, can't you
trust me? You know 1 love you
you know I would marry you If you
would have me-but I'm not going to
ask you now-Tm just going to help
you out of your trouble, whatever 1t
is. Can't you trust staid old fell
low like me?"
Molly drew out a handkerchief
came out of her eyes and dimples
played about her adorable mouth.
She hung her head shyly.
"I'lI tell you, john" she wh1s-
pered at last Il was afraid that you
were not going to ask me again.
The next morning Mrs. Manson re-
ceived a telegram from her daughter.
81 remembered mother. So happy.
Molly copyright, 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

only a few girls are pretty enough to
risk wearing mans hat.
To squea1 is to advertise that you are
the short horse in the race.
Neither is a fool and his honey allowed
to stick around very long.
What is mischief at home is devilment
in the neighbours children
The student of human nature is an OBJ
server of many uncertainties.
AS means of destruction the night
rider never was in it with the joy rider.
A boy never feels that he is eating too
much, and wouldn't admit it if he did
Possibly the gent who doesn't consider
a gambling debt a debt wouldn't stack the
cards.
Whist, however, isn't the only game in
which one blames his partner for the
bonehead plays.
1t is the guess of remote outsider that
the wife OF the social lion does most of
the roaring
Possibly the thought that a miser can't
take it with him affords the greatest sat
isfaction.
Horses probably won't complain when
automobiles drive them out of the deliv-
erv business.
Possibly another reason why the fools
rush in is their confidence in the force OF
numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
The Dairy of a Bonebead.

1t very punk dollar that someone.
somewhere handed me sometime this
morning. 1 think it was made of babbit
metal secondhand solder. At any rate
when l tried to hand it to the waiter to
pay for my lunch he handed it back and
asked me if he looked like a Mexican.
Now that I recall it, he looked more as
though he came from Missouri.
There is only one place for this imita-
ton dollar said I to myself. when I
go home in the six o'clock crowd the
street car conductor will be so busy he
won't notice it, fTc
When 1 got on the car I handed the
conductor the lead dollar and assumed
an expression like that of a Baptist mis-
sionary just home from a long stay in
Zambesi
The conductor was in a hurry just as
1 had anticipated. He counted out the
change quickly and I crammed it into
my pocket with great celebrity.
1 got off the car at my corner and
went into the drug store and bought a
magazine, tending the druggist a dime
and a nickel.
You'll have to come again." he said.
IT can't support wife and family on that
kind of hardware. The dime and nickel
are both bad"
81 beg your pardon" said. and dug
up quarter.
mo good" he said. Somebody has
been using it for a watch charm
Then I tried the half dollar, but it had
much lead in it that don't believe it
could be redeemed for cents at the mint.
Moral: Street car conductors get up ear
" in the morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-24
THE RURAL WATER SUPPLY.

The responsibility for diseases due to
polluted water is SO often put on the
water supplies of our large cities that
the conditions in American rural dis
tricts are usually thought of, if not
actually pictured in the public mind,
as almost ideal Naturally enough
farms which are remote from areas of
congested population seem to be ideally
situated for obtaining wholesome wa
ter. 1t reality, however, deplorably
insanitary conditions as regards the
farm water-supplies prevail widely. if
state and national government reports
may be believed.
A large proportion of farm water
supply in the less hilly portions of the
country where springs are not abund-
ant comes from shallow wells, which
are particularly subject to contamina-
ton. Deep wells are safer, but are
not entirely free from danger of pol
luton. The chemist of the Canada ex-
perimenta1 farms, DR.. Frank T. Shut,
concludes from an examination of sew
eral thousand samples of water used
on farm homesteads in Canada that
probably not more than one-third of
them are pure and wholesome" In
vestigations made by the bureau of
plant industry, in cooperation with the
Minnesota state board of health, show
ed that of 70 carefully selected and
typical farm water-supplies in Mime
sofa, mainly well waters, 20 were good
and SO were polluted, usually because
of careless or ignorant management,
and generally as a result of Door loca-
ton or lack of protection against sur
face wash or infiltration. The rivers.
surface reservoirs and cisterns investi-
gated were found to be polluted to such
an extent that it is doubtful whether