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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
LAST WEEKS BUSINESS.

Important progress has been made in
ire work OF adjusting the machinery OF
the money and exchange markets TO
the new world conditions created By
the European conflict and the business
outlook : therefore brighter Outside
Of certain industries. however, III
which there IS demand from abroad
for way supplies, domestic trade still
awaits the quickening impulse of com
mercial enterprise released from the
caution which now confines il.
The declining business and revenues
OF the American railroads. even more
than the menace of the European war.
is now mainly responsible for restric-
ton N some important industries,
hence the keen interest exhibited in the
proceedings before the commerce COM
mission for an advance in rates Rail-
road gross earnings decreased in the
three weeks % October 1872 per cent.
Notable expansion in exports. mainly
OF wheat, but now extending 10 cotton.
and also including such war supplies as
auto trucks. drugs. lathes and other
tools. blankets, shoes. wire. cotton
goods and petroleum, promises the es-
Enlistment OF trade balance which
will make the existing large debts
abroad easier to handle; during the
latest week the total exports from New
York amounted TO over $4,000, 900. this
being 100000 greater than veal,
ago
The approval OF the plan for cotton
pool Of sI35. 900, 900 affords relief for
cotton crop conditions, which have so
severely depressed the south. and the
fact that cotton is now recognized as
nom contraband makes substantial
shipments possible. over 10000 bales
have been cleared in three days. and
the early reopening of the New York
Cotton Exchange is confidently ex-
pected
The federal reserve banks are to be
opened Nov. Is. and this should further
strengthen the financial position.
Money is easier and foreign exchange
is now becoming nearly normal
Reports from leading trade centers
indicate that more seasonaole weather
| is making retail distribution somewhat
more active. Depression continues to
characterize the iron and Steel trade,
which requires the GENTRY Of The rail :
roads as buyers 10 quicken IL into new
life. Sentiment in dry goods is some
what improved, but conditions are very
unsettled and irregular. Foreign con-
| tracts keep many shoe factories busy,
! yet the delayed domestic demand rend-
ers the general situation somewhat un-
| satisfactory.
! Lower prices Of wheat and corn, ar
/ the result of favorable crop conditions.
i stimulate buying for export, but spot
cotton is firm; Of the 31S commodity
| quotations compiled by Dun's Review.
! fifty eight showed declines this week,
against twenty-five advances A fea-
ture of the Industrial situation which
promises to become more and more
prominent and beneficial as time goes
on. IS the transfer to this country OF a
demand for goods heretofore chiefly
manufactured abroad
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

for practically nothing. but would b
assessed a, heavy royalty upon COAL
actually mined, the lcssees could have
DELAYED developing this resource Tor
another thirty years. At any timo IL
suited them--acting In conjunction
with the coal trust--they could stop
working the mincs.
As It now Is. they must begin at, ones
and keep digging right along In order
to make the lease pay. FOR they must
pay their rental. coal or no coal. 1t viii
not be very profitable for them to close
down In order 10 help the coal trust IN
this country, <mainstain lockout or
hold the country up on coal prices.
With the government as an indirect
competitor there Is prospects of the
coal trust changing it's IDEAS about the
divine rights" of an operator to do as
he pleases, regardless OF the miners and
the public.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
LAUDER AND THE BABY.
(Cedar Rapids Republican.


While Mr.. Lauder was singing to
his matinee audience. Friday. he was
/. interrupted by the crying OF a baby.
good. He "bawied out" the mother.
And a selfish and cruel audience
cheered him. Artists are very sensi-
tive. They are easily annoyed. But
ones attitude toward baby Is more
or less determinative. a gentleman al
ways makes the best Of it.. We recall
an incident in the lift OF the late Sen
ator Deliver, a man with q heart as
big as an OK. When baby set up q
crying. to compete with one Of his
climaxes. he stopped smiled and told
humorous story which convulsed his
whole audience in laughter. laughter
so infectious that even the body began
to laugh with the rest That baby
forgot to cry again and MIR. Dolliver
went on with his climax. having drawn
every human heart closer to his own
big heart. That was not only tact and
art. but it was greatness.
Mr. Lauder might also have taken
into consideration that that mother
was anxious to hear him, and paid her
money--it may have been hard earned
money-and she may have had no place
to leave her baby The crying of her
child may have annoyed her more than
IL did the comedian and there was no
use adding to her discomfort, even II
she had made a mistake to come with
baby Mr.. Lauder like Mr.. Dolliver.
might have gone on with something
else and when the mother had quieted
her little one he could haverGone on
with the interrupted part.
We were surprised that ME- Lauder
acted the way he did for he has had
baby in his own family and he had
told the Rotary club. at the luncheon
which they rendered him at the Mont
rose. how that Lauder baby had grown
up and how he had been "mobilized'
in the British army. going to the front.
on the firing line in France. Mr..
Lauder had told that that one grown
up baby was all that he and Mrs.
Lauder had In this world. but they
gave him gladly to their country. That
is noble, that Is great-and we are
sorry that he marred that picture BY
rebuking the mother Of another baby.
mother who wanted to worship Mr..
LADDERS genius. For US the picture
was slightly marred. the backing was
rubbed off the looking glass and It
gave forth a distorted image. A baby
made him say something cruel, when
he might have said something sweet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
BOUND FOR Already.

chamberlain in Sioux City Journal ]
short time ago the writer was &C
costed on the road by man driving a
team hitched to a prairie schooner and
headed eastward. On the spring seat
beside him stood small. tanned coyote.
He (the man not the coyote) wanted to
know the distance and the course to
the next town ahead. He said he had
claim west of Kadoka. S. D.. and was
on the iay 70 his old home near Mus
catine Iowa, where he intended to pass
the winter. He said he expected to try
Canada in the spring. as he had heard
that was fine climate and bully
place to make money. II he didn't like
Canada. he "reckoned them old mules
! pointing a stubby whipstock at his
team, could pull him into Alasky.'
Anyway he was going to keep poking
around" as he expressed himself. I'M
til he found Gods country"
o Already. sweet Already!
Where does the valley lie;
Where flow thy pleasant rivers
Where beams thy pearly sky?
"G'wan." The mules rolled their
backs a little in response to the bud
"Figger I'll make Oacoma by noon
The prairie eschooner chucked and
! jostied on along the scenic highway"
its conductor brooding over dreams OF
Canada, Alaska and Gods country. as
he plodded slowly in the direction OF
her folks at far off Muscatine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

boys will turn TO the ministry and other
learned professions. what?
Good-by Maurice. take care Of your
self.
A mans vote may not be the best
test of his honesty but it ought to have
some connection wit hhis intelligence.
II General De Wet falls down over
in South Africa perhaps the Personal
Liberty League could use him in Iowa
to lead its forlorn hope,
Coming with the war he foot and
mouth disease quarantine is piling bad
upon worse.
The automobile also knocks the ex-
cuse of the non voter. What's an auto
Tor il not to run over in to vote?
American Consul at Ostend Moves
10 Escape Shells" Well. isn's that what
we'd expect OF an American consul of
ordinary common sense Wouldn't you
move under the circumstances as rap
Idly as consistent with the dignity of
the American people and in accord
ance with the dictates of Your own de-
sire"
Representative Gardner and others
who are Just crazy for a ignt might be
spared long enough TO serve in one of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
Looker-On In Iona

Toledo Nov. Put 1t down in your
diaries. cut this out for your scrap
books. that the first Killing frost in
central Iowa occurred on the night of
Oct 20. 1914: up to this time tomatoes
were biossorning and bearing. Al
Union the day preceding, green corn
was gathered At Albion the writer
saw on Landlord kinsley's place ever
bearing strawberries ripe. big and
luscious Two families In Geneva gath
cred ripe strawberries the week previ-
Gus. string beans, lettuce. radishes and
all early garden truck was in album
dance where garden cwEers had
planted a second or third crop.
The free annual horticultural show
at Steam boat Rock was .si?en this year
on the banks Of the Iowa river. not un-
der the management Of Jack Frost
Sumac turned red and walnut, hard
maple and butternut trees bad yellow
leaces early in October. Scrub oaks
had variegated coiors usual only after
a hard frost. For some reason box
elder and willow trees rema med with
green leaves longer than other trees.
Usually these trees are bare OF leaves
as soon as an early frost strikes them.
This year the show had a foreground
OF green grass more luxuriant than
any time for twenty-five years. All
this the writer vouches for, for he has
attended this fall panorama for TWEEN :
ty-seven years.
Owners Of poultry and shippers of
the same. are at loss 10 explain why
the prices of ducks, geese, chickens
and turkeys remain comparatively low.
In small town recently the writer
saw on big bill board. We are pay
ing 8iz cents for springs and hens
| boosters, cents" Whether there is
big supply 10 poultry or whether the
public taste is changing, no one seems
to know, but sure It is. prices for
poultry in comparison with prices for
meats. fish and poultry twenty years
ago have not been favorable to the
poultry raisers.
Some OF US horny handed sons Of
toll" are accustomed to envy the shor
hours Of bankers and employees. II
Marshalltown the other day this scrib.
found eight employees o: one banI
hard at work at 1890 a. m. But 70,
close at 3 p. n.," said the writer. Yes
was the reply. Evidently don't belonl
| to the union. At Eldora they close a
p. M, and 30 don't have to com.
down after supper to balance tn,
books" At Hampton by mutual agree.
ment they close one hour at noon and
all hands get square meal. but the,
make II UP by keeping open till 4. Blu
in some smaller towns. the banks keel
open till 6 o'clock. The writer fire.
quently does business in these bank
after S o'clock. Take II all in all tn,
banker and employer puts in az man,
| hours az any business men. It's onl!
/ travelling men that have q soft snap
The following ought to have gone II
| the chicken item above. It's to men
ton an ingenious affair the writer saw
| the other day at LAfimer. It's . com
| bination lawn cutter and chicken feed
er. The inventor sticks four irol
! props say twenty feet apart ON in
front lawn. Around these posts he hs
woven wire fence, meshes small enougi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
TIE COST OF NEGLECT.

faSs and fCsD2cr; counties MI, have
- BAY rsarly s-a,cAd to- tAe lie q a
-A- sll@5 when MS traction engine
Tf1; ta-a 4 defective bridge upon me
oac2.y line road THIS wa] not restore
q ne ss-eave3 family the life @. IL
--ae-os d, !, Is very satisfac;ory
Ts-6-c: = - az IS j; a@sc-s the coua-
- tnvo,vs5 County governments
s1oGl5 os aeld resons.ele Tor all dam
2ss Resulting .ron their neglect TO
MAINTAIN their hishways il a safe con
6-;ion 5eSi Is ct,y governments have
.oas been held for accidents on icy
S:dev al-aS o. II open sewer bitches and
= railroads are hs.d Tor accidents on
the!- rights o: way
II c2o, me principle q justice should
extend 70 accidents due 10 neglec, OF
the highways themselves aud it Viii so
extend just Is soon as case or TWO
Of mar nature mas been put thru the
courts Ruts in q ROAD which break
an automobile and cause slo9 of dam
age besides endanger!ng lives should
De sufficient ground for recovery from
the government which IS responsible
for neglect
The only way TO bring home TO pub
lie officers the fun degree of their re-
sponsibiaty Cor the public safety Is 70
soak their governments for the dam
age they do and lei the voters charge
j; up against the administration re-
! sponsible.
incidentally the loss OF mans life
and of $500 is a reminder OF the
necessity in Iowa Of financing highway
Improvements as all states in the
union now finance theirs, two others
excepted, by long time bonds Be
cause a bridge of masonry, which
would have lasted anywhere from 100
to SEQ years, would have been too ex-
! pensive TO have been built out of one
years tax money the lives Of the public
| were endangered by dlapidated
wooden structure. BY selling bridge
| bonds at a very low rate of interest a
F; permanent bridge could nave been
built out OF investors money and paid
for in easy annual installments cover
ing a long period of time and the people
Of each succeeding year who paid the
same bridge tax which they have al
ways been paying would have enjoyed
the security of permanent bridge all
these years.
Many farmers have the idea that
the man who advocates pernane.:
bridge and highway construction on
| the bond issue plan is encouraging ex-
travagance and increased taxes when
the facts are that the present taxes
are enough TO provide for permanent
construction if they were properly con-
served by the bond issue plan of pub
! lie finance. Men who know what the
experience has been in almost every
other state in the union and in for
eign countries are a unit upon this
subject while they are frequently con-
| dernned and their motives suspected
| by the tax payer who has never taken
/ the trouble TO inform himself outside
OF the township neighborhood in
| which he lives
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

entirely covered. could scarcely hear to
lie down. My condition 1t that time was ,
pitifu one. At last gave up my position
for 1t was impossible TO work.
II tried many diRerent prescriptions.
getting scarcely any relief and no beneAt in
the way Of healing. A friend advised melsa
use Cutic,,ra Soap aad Ointment which /
did The hrst application gave moro relief
than anything. which convinced mo had
found tho right remedy. They began TO
heel and tie irritation stopped. After
using Cuticura Soap and Ointment tfres
weeks l was we'll" (Signed) Frederic
Wells, May IL. 1914.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
BLOW AT COAL TRUST.


Under the law just passed governing
the coal mines in Alaska the parties
who lease these mines OF the govern
ment must pay an annual rental to the
government. They must also pay a
small royalty per ton OF coal taken out,
but the rental is the thing. Those who
sought to hurt the measure and TWIST
1t 80 that corporations could take ad-
vantage Of it, tried to have heavy
royalty assessed against coal actually
mined and the rental for the land made
merely nominal.
This would have thwarted the two
purposes OF the measure: First. the
speedy development Of the Alaskan
resources and second. the establish
ment of supply Of coal which Is In
dependeH. eI the coal trust. Had the
bill provided that the lessees should
have the use Of the land for nifty years
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
aafetx in Erills.

Two east-siders were making their
first trip to Europe. On the first night
out the sea grew rough and the liner
pitched like chip in the big waves.
One OF the travellers. coming to his
stateroom to retire, found his friend
Just getting into bed. and was aston
ished to note that the second man wore
woman's frilly nightgown and had a
-and-ribbon trimmed boudoir cap
tied upon his head.
For heavens sake man." he gasped,
what's the idea?"
We'll" said his friend you know
the rule: In case Of disaster women
and children first." Saturday Evening
Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
IOWA PEACHES.
Huntington Hawkeye.l


Mrs Addie Crow. OF Sonora town
ship. Hancock county. shipped thou
sand bushels of peaches from her
orchard this year. which netted her g
dollar a bushel. Now. IL that had
been somewhere in California. there
would have been hundred OF Illinois
folk who would have envied that
lucky Californian and would have begun
saving their money, in order that some
day they mikht be able to buy fruit
ranch in California. And OF course, II
would never occur to them that the
much better place for fruit ranch.
much nearer TO the best markets in the
world. would be somewhere in the
state of Illinois. Right here at home,
we can raise more fruit and better
fruit than is grown in California.
There is just this one thing to be re-
membered. that we must give the trees
and the fruit the attention that they
receive in California. That being done.
We can beat the coast to FRAGILE on
fruit or on anything else that grows
there and that we can grow here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
FOOTBALL AT IOWA.

The University of Iowa football
teams are certainly rising in public
estimation. for the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette registers kick because Iowa
hasn't been able to defeat Chicago and
Minnesota in recent years. 1t used to
be considered remarkable playing II
Iowa could hold either OF those teams
to forty points. This year, both OF
them won by scores of TO 0. and the
Chicago Herald said Chicago won by a
pure break of luck.
But It's all right Keep up the kick
ing. Pretty soon. maybe. the complaint
will be that Iowa doesn't defeat Chi
cago by big enough scores.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
40 M~1-4<<
Iona Newspapers
PRAIRIE CHICKENS IN IOWA,

IWinterset News.l
The big prairie chickens are coming
down from the north already and soon
the big fiocks can be seen all over the
country. 1t would be interesting to
know how far south the birds go, There
were a very few Matched in Madison
county this year. but last winter there
were thousands in the cornfields.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
Topics of the Times

About all the suggestion Of Thanks
giving in Europe Is the probability that
nothing will be left OF Turkey except
the wishbone.
About the first thing to do when the
Legislature next meets Is to set fire to
that nom partisan judiciary law. 1t will
not pay to repair it. Burn It and build
new.
Perhaps now that organized baseball
and the federal league have agreed to
cut salaries some Of the college bred
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT.
TDuhun1,e TfneS.Jol,rnal.

Petitions are being circulated in
some places asking President Wilson
TO let Harry Thaw spend Christmas
with his anxious mother at their home
in Pittsburgh. II might be signed Oh
these conditions:
First. that every other prisoner In
the country who has waiting mother,
sister. wife or sweetheart be accorded
an equal privilege. providing. OF course.
he is deserving of parole.
Second. that the Thaws give proper
bond to keep their precious Harry out
of further mischief and, IL possible. out
of the public mind.
Still, this Thaw petition suggests a
timely idea.
Why shouldn't the doors Of every
prison in the land be opened for the
holiday time for prisoners who can
give creditable pledge OF good con-
duct and who wants the freedom?
Can you reconcile the spirit Of
Christmas. the spirit OF the gentle and
forgiving Christ. with the spirit Of any
prison you ever saw?
Can you think OF the angel anthem
Of Peace on earth: good will among
men, as having any save sarcastic
meaning for the inmate of a dismal
cell?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

ana noble, something that would have
mAAs all love him stin mcFe, When
: woma,a appears on the scene. most
men, can be gallant. but when . baby
appears all men are still not able to
show tenderness and consideration for
fond mother's mistake,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
Samples Free by Mall

A single cake Of Cuticura Soap (75c.) spa
box Of Cuticura Ointment t5oc.) are
SUFFICIENT whom I'll else has failedM
throughout the world. Sample ~ e4sx
mailed free. With S9-p. sdn Book. Addres1
postcard Cuticura. Dept. T. Boston.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
CHICAGO 4 NORTHWESTERN.
Effective 1901 q. M, May 21s
nNTNn WRIST


No 11-Denver Special -. 1888 q m.
No. 7-Los Angeles Limited 6:2S .. y.
No. 3-china and Japan
Express $50 q. N.
No. 29-Ames Passenger .1l:os .. m.
ser ................... $50 p. m.
No. 13-Hawkeye Express. 1858 p. M
No. 17-Oregon and Wash
ington Special .......... 4:46 = M
No. 42-Local Freight -....11:So .. m
GOING EAST.
No. 1l-Denver Special S:1S q m
No. l-Des Moines Passen-
xer ................... s:ss .. n.
No 12-Denver Special 1910 p. N.
No. 1s-Oregon and wash
ington Special ........... ESQ e m.
No 30-Clinton Passenger. S:ll p. ~.
NJ. atlantic Express S:1S .. ~.
No. 22-Chicaso Special .11:Se ,. m.
No 10-Eastern Express Sis Q. N
No. 42-Local Freight $50. 1850 p. m.
Nos. 5, ~. . and ~ daily except SUM
day. No. 30 daily to Cedar Rapids.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
RAILROAD TINE TABLE
CHICAGO GREAT WEsTERN.
"corn Belt Reutes ~
anINc InIfTH

No. l-St. Joe and K. c.
limited .................. DIV nAs
No. a-K. C. Mail & Express S:1S p n.
No. e-Kansas City and st.
joseph .................. s:gs Z. n.
No. sway Freight ......l0:36 .. n.
No. 5s-Des Moines Mail 80. s:l7 p. =.
GOING North. II
No. Irwin Cities Limited 1880 p. q.
No. l-Chicago and st. Paul ~,
Express ................. S:se y q.
No. 81 .................... 7:b0 p. ~.
sNo. So-Way Freight ..... 1885 q n.
No. e-Chicago Filler ......10:ss p "a.
Except Sunday. Z.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

The presiden, had no difficulty in
finding material FOR filling out his
Thanksgiving day proclamation notes
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. and adds.
If he had been ruler of Belgium in
stead of the United States It would
have been almost necessary 10 post
pone the whole proceeding
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

Iowa needs nothing so much as a
body of competent law makers" says
the Des Moines Tribune" Half the
gine Of the courts Is now taken up con-
STRUNG faulty laws. and ha!t the cost
Of doing business comes from jumbled
statutes and ordinances.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

pimples which itched and dis
tressed me very much. FL
nally they got larger. restored
and casne to . head. The
itching was % intense and
the irritation 20 bad it kept
mo awake sometimes during
the whole night. Ny body.
arms and hands broke out in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
-oUleI.
MINNEAPOLIS Z ST.
NORTH BOUND.

irwin Cities Mall DAILY .. S:lE .. ~
MASON city Mail tex. SUM. $50 ,. n.
Twin city Limited daily. 2:1e q n
Local Freight Tex. SUM- -. see q &.
SOUTH BOUND. e
q. Louis and Kansas City
Man (daily) ............. $50 ,. M
Peoria Express lex. SUM-. SOS .. m
st. Louis and Peoria Linn.
tied daily ........ 1901 an.
Local Freight Eek. SUM- T.. 700 .. NJ
STORY CITY BRANCH.
Leave. = s = - 80 Asssva,
$40 Z. m. Stock Express
~ (ex. sun, SAB q. N.
$50 p. N. Mixed lex SUM S:SS p -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

In. another ten years the candidate
who stands for the saloon in Iowa will
be thing Of the past. The liquor
traffic is losing about as fast as pos
sible,' says the Webster City Freeman
Tribune.