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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-05-22
TALKING SPOILED HIS TRIP
Passenger Beating His Way Was All
Right Until He Himself Gave
the Whole Snap Away.

Jack Grace. the veteran boxer and
globe trotter, likes to tell stories
about himself and retails one where
in Honolulu proves to have offered
him a welcome unaware.
81 had been stopping in Honolulu
with the Jeffries-Johnson fight pic
lures and decided that l wanted to 90
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

colored to make it look like butter
observes the Sioux City Journal. You
might think the same dairyman would
be disposed to insist that white but
ter shall not be colored to make 1t look
like yellow butter, but such Is not the
fact
The Hampton Chronicle says: "The
people are ready for something on good
roads. Thousands Of dollars are spent
each year by the various counties and
whe nthe road boss gets thru with
the Job 1t IL the worst butchered up
mes sthat you ever tried to drive over.
After the road Is hardened down and
about smoothed out by the following
fall it Is all plowed up again. Talk
about cruelty to animals! This coun-
try road making business has certain
ly been cruelty to pocketbooks and
taxpayers for 10. these many years.
Let us get busy and not only have
good and permanent roads, but let's
quit throwing money into the hole ev-
cry year on the present system Of road
making"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
ROADS ON TWENTY PAYMENT PLAN.

Mr.. Howard. an educated and think
ing farmer Of Liberty township in
Marshall county. thinks that the grav-
eled road is the permanent road for
Liberty township because there is no
large city in the township to make
traffic severe on roads and the town
ship does not lie in the trunk lines of
traffic across the state. Also the gravel
is at hand in nearby pits.
Mr.. Howard is correct. but he can't
gravel the roads of his township until
some method is provided by law to pay
for them. If our legislature would put
the auto license and gun license money
into a state road fund from which to
give aid to the localities and would
then bond this income on the twenty
year installment plan. If it would
authorize our counties to levy as much
as mills instead Of as at present
for roads and then permit the counties
to bond it's road levies on the twenty
year tnstallment plan. If the legislat-
ure would then authorize the special
assessment Of lands benefited by the
road Improvement as many states now
do Liberty township could gravel its
roads.
II would work cut like this. the
state could pay for one-third out of its
state aid f.ud. The county could pay
one-third out Of general levy and the
cost Of principal and interest for the
countys third on the twenty payment
plan would amount to SAT per annum
per mile for gravel roads costing on an
average Of $4,000 per mile to build. If
as much as forty miles were graveled
in Liberty township, which would be
nearly wo-thirds of all the roads
there, the cost to the land for the spe-
cial benefit would average about s13
per annum for each quarter section in
the township or SIS per annum for the
quarter sections abutting the graveled
roads and $40 per annum for each
quarter section nearby.
But neither Liberty township nor
any other district in Iowa can levy the
taxes nor adopt the twenty payment
plan without laws like other states
have. We can't get aid from the state
nor the county at large. We are tied
down to the hand to mouth plan Of
road work with the result that we
! spend nearly ss.0oO,o0o in Iowa annual
~ and next year We go out with an
other 100000 and do it all over again.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
GAME FOR IOWA.
Humboldt Republican,

There is considerable talk over the
state concerning the advieability OF es-
tablishing a game preserve in which
the game of this section can be pro-
tested and propagated, for, the use OF
the eunners OF the state. There is no
doubt in the minds Of men of exper-
fence OF such things that this game
farm would be perfect success.
The days of the prairie chicken are
past. The soughs and prairie ianu
necessary for the nesting and rearing
Of young have gone the way OF all
things of the frontier. Then the hen
herself was so cumbersome in her
flight that the merest novice with a
gun could wipe out an entire covey IN
an evening. There Is no use trying to
bring the prairie hen to Iowa.
Quail will never thrive In Iowa. The
winters are too severe. Again the
habits of the birds makes their exist
ence here one season with another an
impossibility. The fact that they rooss
on the ground always leaves them a
prev to deep SHOWS. They are small
bird and unable to remove the sno"
and gain their livelihood from seeds
and other vegetable matter that rofm'
their rations in the winter months
Again, they remain in covies, and al
WAYS "huddle" on the snow, making
Of themselves an admirable sitting
target for the small boy with the gun
The quail is grand game bird. ou'
not adapted to Iowa.
OF all the birds introduced in the
state 70 take the place of the vanishing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

John sat down. but declined the
drink. Sheehan and Maley ordered
whisky. The drink seemed to restore
to sheehan part Of bis nerve. With
out further preliminaries he blurted
out. II want to go back"
John waved his hand and remarked,
1.-The railroads are still running" q
pleasantly that seemed lost on Shee-
han.
"1ts that cursed. sentence that's
troubling me-"
That's nuthin'.'' Maley interposed
cheerfully. Its only four months in
tue workhouse. got a year in the
PEN" His tone might have led one to
believe him boasting Of distinction.
II should think" said John gravely.
"you would 6nd it almost relief to
have 1t served and over"
$50 I would" answered Sheehan.
with an emphatic sincerity that was
not to be doubted. But I've got q
family"
"A little late to think Of them. isn't
it? The sentence would have to be
served
1T wouldn't II you said the wort"
John shook his head. Besides. I'll
not be district attorney much longer,
and my successor mightn't be eom-
PLEASANT" 4.
clutched John by the arm. his face
twltching nervously. II guess you
think fellers like me haven't got any
heart? Let me tell you something.
I've got a wife and two kids that
think as much Of as II I was an edu-
Gated reformer. haven't seen them
In nearly ave years. for fear you would
trail mo through them. But now they
are in trouble. Money affairs are all
balled up. And the wife's got to 90
under an operation. don't know
whether she'll pull through or not I
ought to be there to take care Of
theU."
A doubtful blessing to them. John
thought, studying the dissipation mar
red countesance. Still he was not
there to pass on Sheehan's value to his
family. And he remembered having
heard that in former days sheehan
had been very proud and fond OF his
wife and children and-eccentric vir-
tue among his kind-falthful to them.
II didn't think you'd let me Oh. You
peformers"-here was bitterness-"are
always bent on sending somebody to
Jail. But will you do this-give me
two or three months until the wife
gets out Of the hospital and I've got
things Strengthened out some7 Then
I'll take my medicine"
John thought rapidly. In the begin
ming Of his crusade he would have en-
forced the law vigorously and merc.
lessly. believing that in punishment
lay healing virtue for the state. Now
he had learned it, futility. and the
broken man in front of him had al.
ready been punished enough. Surely
he could show 20 much leniency and
harm no one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

No Longer Do Womoo Fear The GfsAa.
- a All Hunan Dleesiaes.

1t is Joy and comfort to know that
those nuch-talkedof pains and other dig
tresses that are said to proceeds child.besr-
ing may easily be avoided. No woman need
fear the slightest discomfort II she- Viii
fortify herself With the well-known and
time.honored remedy, Mothers Friend
This 10 = most grateful. penetrating, ex-
ternal application that Ut once softens and
makes plant the abdominal muscles and
ligaments. They naturally expand without
the slightest strain, and thus not only
Danish all tendency to nervous, twitehin0
spells, but there Is a e.t!.e Freedom from
nausea, discomfort, 'sleeplessasss ara drssd
that % often leave their impress upon the
babe ss
The occasion IL therefore one Of IN.
bounded. joyful anticipation, and too nuch
stress can not b laid upon the remarkable
influence which mothers happy. prenatal
disposition has upon the health and for
tunes Of the generation to come
Mothers Friend is recommended only Ton.
the relief ana comfort q expectant mothers,
thousands Of whom have used and recoqa-.
mend 1t. You will ind 1t ON sale at all drug
stores at 800 bottle. Write to-day to the
Bradheld Regulator CO., $50 Lamar Bldgs
Atlanta, Ga, for most Instructive book. -.
thu greatest Of all spbjeetsj methssAosa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

B. 4 ( 4 f..i 4
they will stand At attention. and all
other persons will stand, such posi-
lions being retained until the last note
of the anthem"
1t doesn't strike the Times Republic
can as ridiculous. 1t Is not at all ridic-
ulous to see Canadian audience rise
as one person when God Save the
King is played. 1t does not make
those ridiculous who rise when the
flag is unfurled. We teach our school
children to salute it. The act Is part
OF the teaching OF patriotism and re-
spect for the symbol Of government
Why should it be ridiculous to require
those who are directly employed by
the government to stand at respectful
attention when the music Of THE Star
Spangled Banner or America is
played or sung?
1t is an American fault to fear rid
icule. a fault which leads us to mini
mize large and serious matters. We
hide our affections lest some one
smile. refrain from much that we
should do and that we desire to do in
the fear that some one viii make
fun Of u.s." We repress natural feeling
in this fear. One of our strongest
modes Of attack is an attempt to rid
icule We turn from cheers to jeer
great admiral when he follows an
entirely human impulse, we grasp
eagerly at Il newspaper story without
solid foundation that we may laugh
out Of countenance the hero of a naval
maneuver desperately heroic as the
Spartan stand at Thermopylae.
1t isn't ridiculous to stand to the
airs which carry in their every note
and beat the essence Of American pa
triotism: 1t isn't ridiculous to rise to
the flag when it filings to the breeze
the hope and challenge Of the Great
Republic. 1t is not at all ridiculous
to insist that they shall be honored
in the act if not in the spirit by those
who are directly of the government
service.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
Topics of the Times

With an appropriation of $4,000 by
the Michigan Legislature the state
highway commission induced the con-
struction of 800 miles Of hard roads
last summer. Now the commission
wants $250.000 per annum because 1t
has on file application for $50 miles OF
state aid roads which it was unable
to meet and there are more applica-
tons coming.
Some day soon we may have to step
over into Mexico and knock few
head together in order to have quiet.
An Oklahoma boy took $500 from
ever, the man who took 100000 out OF
bank in sixty days, still holds the
record for quick returns.
The Shankland bill and the daylight
saloon bill are not a pair of twins, tho
| both might be termed saloon measures.
| The Shankland bill doesn't even speak
to the daylight bill when they meet.
No more party conferences for
thirty days says the president-elect.
Thirty days more suspense on the part
of cabinet and postoffice candidates.
And it's killing suspense.
Tarrant county. Texas with Ft.
Worth as metropolis is surveying
for a permanent road system that is to
cost 100000. The work is to be
done this summer.
Compulsory voting still attracts dis
cussion. Why not? Why let man
monkey with the citizens highest pri-
vilege?
1t takes a lot Of squirting to see an
attack on Roosevelt in the one term
nroposition, There are no perpetual
candidates now that M. Bryan has
quit.
A colored woman was brought before
a Tennessee magistrate charged with
inhuman treatment of her child. Inc
evidence was clear that she had Sc
verely beaten the young who was
| in court to exhibit his marks and
bruises. Before impong sentence the
magistrate asked the woman If she had
anything to say.
kin All ask yo' honah one ques-
| tion?"
| The magistrate nodded.
! well, then. yo honah. I'd like to
| ask yo' whethah yo' was ever the par
ent OBJ puffeckly wuthless cullud
| chile?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

lows game bird, the Monsoiian or
ring -neck pheasant tales the lead. II
II. hardy, prolific, gamey and wary.
. For many years this bird mas been IN
Washington ond oregon. It has proven
itself well able to take care of itself
In Illinois, and is rapidly taking the
place OF the native game birds ip
Iowa. The pairs of birds released IN
this section Of the state last year
proved great success. They haye
multiplied wonderfully, and every
where have proven that they can stand
the rigors of an Iowa winter by COM
ing out last spring from the tremend-
Gus SHOWS and forty-below weather,
without blemish. OF all the birds re-
leased in this vicinity the writer has
heard OF but one that died from the
extreme cold. This Is record seldom
equalled by the prairie hen-the most
vigorous of our game birds, while the
poor little quails were buried beneath
the SHOWS so that the ensuing spring
scarcely a Bob White could be heard.
the gamey pheasant came thru with
his gorgeous plumage without
scratch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
4 DRAMA OF HISTORY.

History never displayed on It's stage
a more dramatic scene than the close of
the Turkish tragedy. The centuries of
strife which have soaked suthern
Europe with the blood have come at
last to the end Of Mohammeda nism on
that continent. The prophecy of the
founder and leader Of Islam is told al
most to the last word and the prophet
a false prophet Moha is
crowded back into Asia to work its own
undoing as intelligence pervades that
continent A mighty religious move
ment which marched in militant
frenzy across the line to conquer chris
tianity and which for time held sway
by the sword. has fallen back upon it's
own deserts to live out the remainder
Of its time.
But it was a marvellous movement.
Kindled by forceful fanatic it sent
torrent Of fanatictsm sweeping over
Asia, taking Constantines capital of
christianity by storm and holding it four
centuries by the strong arm. The
Moors carried 1t across the strait and
beyond the mountains that border
Spain. 1t called for complete self ef-
facement; It prosecuted in cruelty.
hated all other creeds with the rancor
of the fanatic. ranged wives and mothers
with slaves and took no heed of the
temporal equality of mankind. But it
counted its devotees by millions flung
ilege to die for the faith and made
itself master Of the greater part Of
hemisphere.
Martel met It and beat it at it's high
tide within the borders Of France.
There the Moslem power checked in its
rush to overwhelm christianity. Thru
all the generations since that memoir
able and decisive battle the Moham-
medan has been bent backward. GEN
Grafton after generation of noun
taineers have lived in the rocks and
raked the passes with deadly vengeful-
ness. The fight has gone on day after
day and year after year until the
Balkan allies drove the Turk to the
edge Of the Bosphorus and overlooked
Constant:aop!e with commanding guns.
Perhaps history is to repeat itself.
Four hundred years ago the christian
shrines fell in heaps to be replaced
with Mohammedan mosques. Tomor-
row may see christian churches rising
on the sites Of the minarets where for
400 years the false proclamation has
been flung God is God and Mohammed
is his prophet"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
CLEANING STOVE PIPES.


A p. Larson has system for clean
ing SCOT out of stove pipes that ought
10 become more popular on account OF
it's simplicity. The idea is to take
tablespoonful Of gun powder, wrap ~
M in a piece Of paper and throw Inc
whole business into the stove. 1T VIII
soon explode, and when it does the
concussicn will send the SCOT out OF the
mines VIII, 2 vengeance. Mr.. Larson
says that when he first conceived the
idea of using powder for this purpose
tho scheme so appealed to Fred Alvey
that he decided to try it on at Elle1soh
Rros.' shop, Fred, however. Overiooke"
the power Of powder and instead OIL
conscientiously adhering to directions
thought to deviate according to ms
halter Judgment. So instead OF fool
ing away his time wit ha tablespoon
to get the proper amount he very nice
" wrapped up all he had. which was
cents worth, chucked 1t into the stove
and awaited results. The results di1-
fered from the Rock Island schedule a
pood deal, The experiment was en-
uinently successful so far as cleaning
things out was concerned. In fact, II
nut the stove, the pipes and nearly the
whole front end Of the building clean
o,,1 Of business. Since then Fred mas
confined himself to the fashions OF ms
forefathers whenever the pipes nave
needed going after.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
Iona Newspapers
ROADS AND DRAINAGE LAWS.
Roland Record.1

After a careful inquiry among farm
ers and town people. we believe that
the matter would meet considerable
opposition and would utterly fail to
carry in an election. altho they practi-
cally all agree that the only practical
solution of the road problem will be
concrete roads. But then we can easily
recall the fact that practically all were
violently opposed TO the present drain
age law, but it has been the making OF
great many of the counties of the
state and must be given due credit for
having done much good. Good roads
will come, but they are bound to cost
money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

But the large majority of those
who are pushing the permanent roads
movement have for their aim the
building of permanent roads wherever
the farmers are willing to pay their
share of the expense, no matter
whether it is fro mthe remotest part
of the county to the county seat
points out the Cumberland Enterprise
From Cumberland to Wiota; from
Massena to Anita, or from Davenport
to Council Bluffs. No matter where
they are located, if those along the
proposed road will do their share the
money derived from the bonds will pc
ayailab BILE to assist in the work.
Iowa needs simpified court proceed
ure worse than it needs more judges.
says the Sheldon Sun. Cut out the
technicalities. the things that cause
delay, and the courts will be able to
do more business in a specified time
I'VE can't have good roads in this
country unless we build them says
the Marion Register. 1T will take
work and money. Newspaper talk don't
amount to a. row Of pins.
sIt looks as tho there would be some
temperance legislation enacted by the
| Iowa legislature this winter, and we
hardly think 1t will be the Shankland
bill either" says the Usage News
The Iowa City Republican says:
The state should make a start in the
matter of permanent roads, and big
ger start in grading roads which are
ultimately to form part of permanent
| highways"
THE dairyman can work up a good
deal Of virtuous indignation while ar
! guing that oleomargarine shall not be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
IOWA. MY IOWA.
TAlbia Republican,

[Albia Republican,
The editor of The Republican is in
receipt of portion Of the Los Angeles.
Cal. Herald. This portion sent US is
that pertaining to real estate. and It
is accompanied by a cartoon. The car
toon is where people have arrived IN
Los Angeles and where couple are
looking thru window at a farmer
blowing in the field. The final cartoon
is that where the railway tickets have
been torn to pieces and the fragments
scattered over the floor. leaving the
impression that the couple had found
Los Angeles so captivating that they
had destroyed their railway tickets
and would remain in California. Across
the top Of the page are written the
words, From An IoWan.
The fact that a man can be seen
blowing from a Los Angeles hotel
window is conclusive evidence that the
cartoonist who drew the picture was
not onto his job or, like so much OF
the rest OF the California papers. he
lied like the devil. What if they were
blowing in California in January:
Were we not doing the same thing
here in Iowa, and on better land :!
Does Iowa have any complaint 10
make as to her frozen groves OF or
anges? Do you. hear any complaint
at all about her ruined crop? Are
not the Iowa people more prosperous
than those Of California? Are We
bothered with feas and other insects !!
Bah, with the California paper that
lied SO deliberately and If 1t is any sat
isfaction to the unknown who sent the
naner 10 The Republican he can have
it. straight from the SHOULDER that
good old Iowa is. 5000 enough ior me-
they may .S nave we m dn g 1aWa Tbev also
have more dust. Out in California
now it is raining and the beautiiui
weather here is past that OF compar-
ison.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04

voice In saying how the6e stoads shall
be built. anu have some Futf ryiston to
see that the conditions are met. There
10 no more Capitalization and usurpinS
of right about this than there 10 when
the man who pays for house, first has
the privilege Of approving the plan, ana
then Is within his rights In inspecting
the edifice to make certain that the
contract has ben fulfilled.
Mr.. Brockway was quoted In the
early days Of this session as saying
that Iowa is not ready for hard sur
faced roads, that the drainage and
grading and bridges must be provided
for first. II he said this, he only said
what the Globe Gazette Is now saying,
only in another way. and that Is that
there must ultimately be some compe-
tent authority to determine drainage.
to fix grades, to suggest what roads can
be hard surfaced at the least expense,
to help supervisors locate and build
bridges and, above ALL to prevent ex-
penditure of the state fund till these
roads are in the condition needed, as
pointed out by Mr.. Brockway Per-
haps Louisa county is not prepared for
permanent roads
But Cerro Gordo is.
The supervisors here for three or
four years have been grading ana TIL
ing and ditching and building bridges
on main travelled highways just for
this purpose. No doubt other counties
also have done this and are ready this
year of our Lord and George Clarke to
make the start, and the best incentive
to other counties TO go to 1t is for Mr..
Brockway and his committee to hang
up some prize money for every county
which viii! hustle into this state OF
preparedness for roads which can be
Travelled any hour of the day or night
at any time Of the year, except when
blockaded by snow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
NOT At ALL RIDICULOUS.

The New York Sun considers as
ssridiculous' the resolution recently in
s.cduceA providing that when "The
any occasion at any public place
where persons belonging to any branch
:se government service are present
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-04
~ MI,lal.!

T0O WW0M, gHsS a5 aSl
Albert Bigelow Paine. ths bioGsAphsN
|of Mask Twain. was taakln9 to : group
OF old newspaper cronies II New York
Mark TWAIN loved the GermanS.S'
he said. "de especially loved the pon<
derous German bull, which he c0netds.
cred far superior to the bull ofllrcland.
HE used to quote with appreciation
this bull from q reiohstag Grafton:
"'To squeeze the Juice ont Of . lemon
and then give It . kick-no. It 70 too
much @ 4