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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
GrinnelI and VICINITY.

Special to TimesPepublican
Grinnell, Dec. 19.-The friends Of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank H. Clifford of Hotel
Monroe in this city, viii be glad to
know that Mrs. Clifford is making a
decided Improvement in health She
has gained in nerve tone AID IN weight
and Is apparently on the road to fair
health again. While her progress Is
slow it seems for the past few weeks
II have been continuous and The family
are very hopnfu. that she may within
a reasonable time be herself again. Mr..
Clifford plans to make an extensive
automobile trip in the spring. going
east and probably traversing New Eng
land and, later, coming back and go
ing out in the same way to the Pacific
coast. with the hope of this completely
restoring the health Of his wife.
Miss Clara j. Andersen, physical d.
rectress of women in Iowa college, has
gone to spend her holidays at kee-
vance, III.
A. J. Blakely, veteran breeder anG
raiser of sheep, is on the program al
the tfirty-second annual meeting. in
Ottumwa next week, of the Iowa Sheer
Breeders and Wool Growers Associa-
ton He will tell from personal ex.
perience, How to prevent disease ant
care for sheep" His son Judson il
also on the program for a discussion OF
the address to be made by c. II. TrilbJ
on Needed improvements at the Iowa
state fair" .Judson Blakely will also
talk on the topic 1.-THE cost to produce
a pound Of wool"
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Nuckolls are hav.
| ing the pleasure of a visit from Mrs
| Nuckolls' mother, Mrs. James B. uhl
Of MitcheIlville. and her sister, Mrs
Ed Nelson, Of Bisbee, N. D.
w. n. Tuttle. son of Rev. and Mrs
FL. w. futile, this city, and graduate o
Iowa college, class of 1913, who ha.
| been spending the college time since
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
erundx Center Briefs.

Special 20 Times Republican
Grundy Center, Dec ia-Sherifs
Black returned today from his trip to
Fort Madison with T. a. Boggs. o.
tombstone fame. There had been many
IN this community who were willing
10 bet that Boggs never would get in
side the walls OF the peni,entiary. hut
the law was finally permitted 10 take
lis course. and the sheriff reports
Roggs safely behind the bars.
Court adjourned this week until
February. The paving contest and the
contest over the druggist permit from
Beaman attracted the most attention
The paving case has been taken under
Amusement. and the judge granted the
Reauap druggist a permit over the OBJ
jections of about seventy citizens VINO
signed the remonstrance.
At the home Of H. w. Engelkes, was
celebrated the marriage Of their daugh-
ter. Anna, to VIII Kruse. The bride
was reared in this town and of late
has been clerking n the Leibsohn store.
The couple will make their home mere.
At the home Of the bride. this week
was celebrated the marriage OF BESSIE
Ford and Louis Straeohi. Both young
people were reared in this community
and have a host Of friends. They LETT
for Illinois on visit, after which they
will move to Austin. Mimi, where the
! groom will operate a farm the coming
year.
An action for divorce has been
brought by Mrs James Saul against
her husband, drunkenness being the
charge. These people live near Rein
beck.
n. A. Schmidt, formerly postmaster
a, wellsburg and who later ran an
elevator at Eldora. has made applica
ton for a discharge as bankrupt
Much opposition has arisen to his dis
charge as bankrupt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
Newbura News Items.

Special to Times Republican.
Newburg. Dec. i9.-Pinkney Reavis.
who has been working here several
years, left this week for his home in
North Carolina to spend the winter
with his folks and may stay there.
There were ten cars of cattle shipped
out of here to Chicago last Sun
day.
C. Dickson, who sold his store to D
Livingston, has finished up the bust
ness and has gone to his grand
daughters home, Mrs. Paul Prigh. near
Grinnell, for short visit. He has
not decided what he will do in the
future
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
Ainona News Items.

Special TO Times-Republican.
Algona. Dec. 1e.-E. J. Murtagh has
sold his present residence to II. j.
McChesney, who viii take possession
as soon as Mr.. Murtagh moves to his
handsome new home on North Thoring-
ton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Zanle and family.
who moved into their new home Tues
day, were quite taken by surprise when
about forty FIVE of thsir neighhors and
friends came in on them unexpectedly
and gave the new house a warming
Albert Jacobsen, of Seneca. former
supervisor, has rented his farm and
expects to leave kossuth county. He
will move TO st. Paul
The Algona Knights Of Columbus
have voted TO donate 500 to the Bel
gian Red Cross fund.
Mr.. c. A Wiley is home from the
north part of the county where he spent
the summer improving his farm. He
built house aud other buildings, and
drilled a well and now has a good farm
for sale.
J. D. Graham and family, who lived
near Whtttemore, moved to Algona
Monday. Mr.. Graham has bought a
resid ence In the west part of town, and
expects to help his brother-in- law, A.
Matson. in his engine and machine
business.
Mr. L. E. Schriver, of Spencer, has
bought the John Seifert house In the
south part of town and moved his fam
] lily here. expecting to work at the car
! penter trade.
Colonel Spencer and DR.. E. E. Sayers
expect to leave Algona Saturday for a
! southern trip, their first stop will be
New Orleans. Colonel Spencer win be
gone couple Of months and may visit
Cuba and Bermuda before he returns.
| G. W. Meliza has gone to Wisconsin,
where he will look over his place and
prepare to move there in short time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19

here for two years. and during that
time the church has prcspered very
much. A considerable amount has
been paid out for permanent improve
ments on the church and parsonage,
and for paving. the membership has
been increased and the attendance at
the Sunday school reached high water
mark Nov. 22-4sS with an offering OF
$780,
Rev. Mr.. Coffin and family expect to
move TO Estherville early in the new
year
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
Chang. in Hampton pastora...

Hampton, Dec. 13-The Christian
church Of this city has accepted the
resignation OF the pastor, Rev L. 8.
Coffin. who has received an offer of
the passionate Of the First Christian
church at Estherville. The local church
has extended an invitation to Rev.
Harry J. Howard. for three years past
the pastor at Perry. Iowa He was
here for short time recently to meet
he congregation, and will decide in
few days whether or not he will ac-
sept.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-19
Lose. Hand IN Engine.

Special to Times Republican.
Hampton. Dec. 19-An accident in
which Henry Becker lost his hand oc-
CURED at his home five miles south
east of Hampton Tuesday morning. He
was making some adjustments to the
gasoline engine that was in motion
pumping water. when he slipped and
his right hand was caught In the bal
ance wheel and SO badly injured that
it . was necessary to amputate X
above the wrist.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Peanuts in Oklahoma

ing little moisture, and yet are not
injuriously affected by heavy rains.
They mature in ninety days. The
varieties that are being grown are
Spanish, Virginia white, Tennessee
red and Jumbo.
The Spanish give larger yield and
are in greater demand. The most
profitable way to handle a peanut
crop is to NOV the hay and bale it
for dairy herd or the work stock, and
to hog out the nuts.
An acre of nuts produces from $50
to 1900 pounds of pork. Since the hay
more than pays the cost of produc-
ton, and the peanuts, being legumes,
improve the soil, the pork produced is
net profit to the farmers.
The next most profitable way is to
bale the hay and the nuts together
for the dairy cattle, as this furnishes
the most perfect food for dairy cattle
| produced. Threshed for commercial
purposes, the crop is one of the most
profitable cash crops, but 1t is even
more profitable when fed to live stock
on the farm.
One peanut grower rented for cash
rent 112 acres of land last season in
| Stephens county. He suIbrented this
land to be planted in peanuts, and
his yield ranged from 40 to 100 bush.
els an acre, averaging 68 bushels, an6
giving him a profit of more thar
$1,000 on his Investment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
DIDN'T EVEN L1NGER AND LOOK.

1t is not question of veracity between Huerta
and Mr. Barzni as what the former is doing or con-
templates Not by any means.
a5It is merely a question to which is the biggest
lar. for there surely is something of monumental
living nature in the way conditions or alleged con-
dtions in Mexico and intentions of the dictator
are described in cable messages to London which are
beiug shipped back by cable the United States for
mental consumption.
The information reaches this country by the long
distance route
That complacent old reprobate Munchausen had
nothing on the modern style of story telling in vogue
in Mexico
Barzini says that Huerta says so the correspond
ent of the London Telegraph that at the battle
of Torreon whole companies of Americans fought in
the military uniforms of the United States under
villa and against Huertas forces"
To prove this contention Huerta, so it is said,
caused his men to strip the bodies of 200 Americans
slain in this battle of United States army buttons
and regimental numbers and to preserve them for
future reference.
Could anything be more ridiculous? Huerta's
army was completely routed in the Torreon fight and
such of his soldiers slain took it on the
run and may be running yet. They were mighty glad
to get away
As for hanging around stripping the bodies of
American soldiers the absurdity of the statement is
shown in the fact that the getaway remnants of
Huertas forces hadn't time, in their flight and hurry
to even nger and take momentary last look at their
own dead comrades.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Ingenious Wooing Won

And If it's twins I was, We cud
that" conceded Maureen, sympa-
thetically, for niver wud the one of
me be giving we the go-by, except for
Tim Flaherty that's coming back the
week with expectation, as well We
know"
half of twins we arel" sighed Shaun.
Twas by the will of hivin and ye'd
nothing to do wild the matther; but
Maureen ashore, tbs yersilf and not
hivin has the deciding which twin
yen be. Lave Timsy expict his ex-
pictations firm tother wan, and thin
Fave yirsilf spake a word to me, wild
the sound there'd be in it if Timsy
was out of 1t intlrely."
1T would still be no." protested
Maureen, but not very strenuously.
mo, Fave it be, and as many more
noes of the same patthern as We can
lay yer swate tongue to-" agreed
Shaun, for it's a man wild quare ears
on him wud be able to be sure they
was not yes. I am not!''
His ingenuity and persistence had
their reward, and the eavesdropper
escaped during the ecstatic furry
consequent upon sMaureens surren-
der.
I could not regret the experience,
but l felt myself treated not quite
fairly by fate that confided so
much, yet withheld the rest. 1 never
learned how complaisant or other
wise Shaun's rival proved in the mat
ter of transferring his EXPECTATIONS"
to the nonexistent twin. Poor Timsyi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
LOOKING FOOLISH VS.. ACTING FOOLISH.

1t must be a queer sensation to feel foolish and
to look foolish, but the Evening News, for long
time past been training and grazing on foolish
fodder that publication is probably immune and
doesn't mind it one bit.
-. But acting foolish may beget another feeling, one
that may require tonic serum that would fit the
case. In an editorial gem of deceptive ray the News
tells of correspondent who wrote to that paper, or
is alleged have written to that asking that
commissions government petition be sent to him so
that he could sign it.
Has this correspondent just woke up or does
he exist?
What steps has the News taken to relieve the
longing of this anxious soul?
If the News hasn't chased some one after its cor
respondent" it has acted real mean. Why not send
one of the hired canvassers after the worrying Jim
the Penman?" Any of the army of unemployed"
would do. A great service could be rendered.
The hired" could five cents.
But the hired should be told to make GER
tain that the correspondent voted at the election
and that he lives where he thinks he lives.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Slogan Led to Holy War

ment, and with the cry of EGYPT 1or
the Egyptians!" reused the natives TO
riot and bloodshed.
England called on France to join In
putting down the insurrection. France
refused, and thereby threw away tor-
ever it's chances of ruling Egypt
England set out to quell the disturb
ance.
A British war fleet sailed to Alex
andria in the early summer or 1867
and opened fire on the city forts.
Meantime, in Alexandria all was
chaos. Arab had thrown wide the
gates of the city prisons. Convicts
looted and burned the houses OF the
rich. Bedouins poured in from the
desert, mad to take part in the Jenao
(holy war against the foreign mn
dels."- The city was ablaze: Wn!ie
mobs fought in the streets, the Bit
ish bombardment smashed the Alex
andria forts and silenced their bat
teries.
A force of British troops retreated
to the interior. A British army under
General Wolseley met them at Tel-el-
Kebir In September and after a terce
battle defeated them. The British
cavalry next seized Cairo, easily rout-
ing its Egyptian defenders. Ihis
ended the war.
Arab was captured and condemned
to death. But his sentence was COM
muted to Punishment to Ceyion. ana
later he was allowed to come back
The war was over. The Egypt
for the Egyptians" movement was
stamped out.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

The Irishman is additionally an
adept In coaxing and cursing. No
tongue can equal his in varied and
picturesque denunciation of an
enemy; none can so irresistibly
wheedle a sweetheart says the Kan
sas City Star.
True, the English of an earlier
generation, crude, and tongue tied
lovers, who never kissed the Barney
stone, were wont to proclaim the
Irishman as tickle as he was faeci-
mating. But that ancient calumny
scarcely survives today; it is an Eng
nshment, e. K. Oakley, who, in a re-
cent article on Irish Courtships, -
eulogizes appreciatingly the superior
his play of wit and fancy, in COM
parison with the stolid stupidity of
the English rustic wooer, or the
cheap sophistication of the cockney
AIRY and 'Arriet.
Even in the disconcerting moment
of rejection the Irishman retires with
grace-sometimes with grace that
turns defeat to victory. Through a
hawthorn hedge in May 1, had the
eavesdropper's guilty pleasure of
overhearing an idyl in the lane on the
farther side. Maureen had evidently
just said mo" to Shaun.
"Wisha. thin, If it must be it must
and If ye won't ye won't" he
mourned, "but, och, Maureen acushla,
why wasn't ye born twins, so that l
cud have had the half of ye?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
A COAL COMBINE THREAT.

The coal combine answers the Pennsylvania State
Railroad Commission with threat that If forced to
reduction of the excessive rates for coal transporta
ton the combine will close the great coal distributing
terminal at Port Richmond. The testimony taken by
the commission has shown the most outrageous
charges and the proposed reductions amount to more
than one-half from present rates.
For several years the public has been edited with
coal Investigations Federal and State, and the
worst kind of impositions the people have been
disclosed. We had a legislative investigation in New
Jersey last year and the evidence gathered is
tombed among the State archives at Trenton.
The coal combine is now being duly prosecuted in
the Federal courts And what does all this amount
to? When Pennsylvania State commission proposes
to reduce robber coacarrying rates from Philadel-
phia the power that makes farce of public nvesti-
CATION and holds the public by the throat answers
with a
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

this country, or enough to feed one
hen for every man, woman and child
in the nation. The annual cost of
rats to the nation is estimated at
$3.50, 600, 900.
In addition, the rat population
of the country forms a fertile field
for the dissemination of bubonic
plague, which only needs a starting
point in any of our seaports to
spread throughout the country and
cause the loss of thousands of lives.
In the same issue of the Farm and
Fireside, but in a different depart
ment, appears an article on the cat
tie tick, in which it is estimated that
the difference between the market
value of an animal free from this
parasite and one infected with 1t
is about So a cow, and that the
cattle tick is today costing the stock
men of the country billion dollars
each decade, or hundred million
dollars each year. The discovery
and development of bacteriology
showed that man, had been carry
ing on for centuries an unconscious
struggle with the lower forms of
vegetable life. Recent additions to
our knowledge of the habits and
characteristics of vermin show that
an equally relentless struggle has
been going on between man and the
lower forms of animal life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

A slogan-a catch phrase-(that
caught public fancy and reused the
people to fanatic rage) led to war in
Egypt in 1882, and indirectly made
England the ruler of that country,
writes Albert Payson Terhune. This
slogan was:
Egypt for the Egyptians!"
Egypt was Turkish province, mis-
ruled by viceroy, or khedive. The
condition of the Egyptians under their
Turkish masters was worse than that
of the Cubans under Spain. England
and France established a financial
protectorate.
The Egyptians had snarled under
Turkish oppression. But they had
been bound to the Turks by ties of
religion and, in measure, of race as
we'll. Now, however, when they saw
England and France taking control,
they were openly resentful.
Someone raised the cry: Egypt
for the Egyptians!" The slogan ed
from one end of Egypt to another.
Everywhere 1t was shouted, and
everywhere it famed the embers of
discomfort into flame.
A few shrewd Egyptian politicians
sought to make use of the national
resentment for their own ends. And,
with politcian-soldie Arab Pasha,
at its head, the revolt began.
Arab was the son of an Egyptian
day laborer. He had worked his way
up from the ranks until he was the
khedive's minister of war. He tried
to seize control of the whole govern
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
IF TAMprCo IS TAKEN, WHAT?

If the Constitutionasts shall take Tampico and
get possession of the customs house there new and
peculiar situation will be developed for Mr. Bryan to
deal with
Our government does not recognize Carranza, and
there is a suspicion that when he gets well planted
with Huerta put out of business, he will give Mr.
Bryan severe shock by a demand for us to quit
Mexico forthwith
Possessing the Tampico customs house. Carranza
can get all the arms he needs AS he wasn't respon-
sible for the insult to our flag, he can refuse
reparation. And in fact President Wilson has de-
clared that our quarrel with Huerta alone.
But, really, have other accounts to settle with
Mexico besides that of the flag incident, although
they have been completely ignored by the adminstra-
ton. If Huerta is forcbly eliminated by Villa, will
the administration scute out of Mexico without any
satisfaction for the murder of American citizens and
the loss of millions of their property, and ample
security for American life and property in the future?
Nobody knows what Mr.. Bryan will do next or
what the administration will consent to do But it
may be expected that singular, and perhaps
notifying things will be done in the attempt to
retrieve the blunders of state department diplomacy
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

eminent? It is evident in this showing that some
thing was wrong with the petitions
1t is without precedent for the petitioners for a
commission to outnumber the voters at the polls.
Since the election however, proved such an emphatic
rejection of the Walsh act it may be of no further
concern to the people of Kearny how the names on
the petitions were obtained
But the incident has some significance for Newark.
1t teaches that all the signatures on the petitions to
be filed with City Clerk Connolly should be proven
without doubt and the only satisfactory demonstra-
ton is comparison with the corresponding sigma
lures on the poll books in the ballot boxes of the
last regular election in Newark
Town Clerk Ross took the right and proper step
when he insisted upon comparing the signatures to
the petitions with those the poll books. His posi-
ton has indicated The evidence tends to SHOW
one thing clearly and that is that more names should
have been stricken from the petition
And yet a number of frenzied eommission-goyern-
ment advocates clamored for the arrest of Mr. Ross
for doing his sworn duty. Former Judge Robert
Carey who ought to know tier, If he doesn't, en-
couraged the frenzied in making big noise.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13

All needless of a dead mans curse
Care. p. Serviss suggests that the
350th anniversary of the immortal
Shakespeare's birth might fifty be
celebrated by opening his tomb, If
only to see what's in it. says the
Washington Post. According to Mr..
Serviss's views, the act would not be
one of irreverence or disrespect, but
rather serve possibly to settle once
for all the aspersions o. those who
have shown much energy and no
small amount of ingenuity in the en-
deavor to make Lori Bacon RESPONSE
BILE for his plays.
AS all know, the basis for ghoul-
like interest in Shakespeare's tomb is
found in the doggerel epitaph cut in
the gravestone:
Good friend, for Jesus's sake "orbear
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Blest be the man that spares these
stones,
And curst be he who moves my
bones
From this it has been argued that
the burial spot may contain the an
swer to questions which for nearly
century have vexed some very es-
Unable persons, gifted with undue
zeal and an abnormal development
of the bump of skepticism. Begin
ming with Amelia Bacon and ending
with Sir Burning Lawrence, with
Ignatius Donnelly and one DR.. Owen
admirably bridging the hiatus the
battle against the memory of depart
ed genius was waged with an impetu-
osity worthy of a better cause; nor
can their efforts be altogether de-
spised, encompassing as they do the
| most ingenious turning of contem-
| porary tributes into ironical COM
| pliment, and the 1923 edition into a
cryptogram, from the "left-handed'
| portrait in front to mystical pages of
| Roscicrucian numbering, each con-
| cealing undeniable acrostics that read
pig" "hog," SOW" and bacon" fore
and aft and sideways.
| But 1t all goes for naught. That
| the searchers after hidden wisdom
| should dig up knotty problems is no
| great cause for wonderment. AS
Kipling wrote, There are nine and
forty ways of constructing tribal lays
and every single one of them is
right" The various interpretations
of the Apocalypse have brought into
existence more than a score of rival