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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31

|haA See1 bassA % the hope tAat EVENT.
ually ~ might 60 70 the senate. ~
the dinner was given In honor Of Sss,a-
tor Myers, OF Montana. II wall be ssen
that Air. Dryan's remarks were hung
on per quite conveniently located.
Why should Secretary Bryan now
be thinking Of the United States SEN
ate in connection with himself? IT one
wants to let ones tongue run tripping
ly 1t is not difficult to And q reason.
After Mr.. Bryan had been defeated
for the third time in 1908 1t was inti-
mated that he need only beckon with
his little finger in, order to 80 to the
senate from Nebra ska. Mr.. Bryan
manifested no interest in the PROPOSE
ton. When the excitement at Bafi-
more was at its hottest there were
those who insisted that Mr.. Bryan still
cherished hope the presidential light
ming would strike him fourth time.
When 1t missed him, and the single
term plank was found in the Balti-
more platform, put there by the hands
OF Mr.. Byran, there was more Wa4E1nS
of heads. Few political wise ones
failed to admit an impression that
Mr.. Bryan hoped to become the unani-
nous choice Of the democratic party
for president at the close OF President
Wilson'S single term.
Why should Mr.. Bryan now be turn
ing his thoughts to that long neglected
senatorshp? If there Is anything that
can be regarded as political GER
tainty in advance of the fact, it IL that
Woodrow Wilson will be the unani-
nous nominee of his party for presi-
dent In 1915, single term plank OF the
1912 platform to the contrary not
withstanding. Whatever his personal
ideas Of the propriety OF this may be.
Secretary Bryan can see the fact as
we'll a. anybody. The political prob
lem for him to solve then. as affecting
his own contentment, Is whether he
wants to put in eight years OF his life
as a member Of President Wilson's
cabinet. Is the place congeniaf? Would
not the secretary prefer Il position in
which he could talk for himself and
make lecture engagements without
considering the feelings of others:
Would he not like to make mark OF
his own directly upon some of the leg
islation of his time? Would he not
enjoy putting Senator Hitchcock, his
pet enemy In Nebraska politics. out OF
the running when he comes up for re-
n omination in 1916?
These are some Of the questions Sec
rotary Bryan may have asked and an
swered to his own satisfaction before
letting fall his seemingly careless re-
marks In Washington the other day.
And then, again, he may have been
thinking only Of paying an idle COM
pllment to a man who had broken into
the senate There Is no way OF telling
positively But on the other hand
there is no reason why any one who
likes gossip shouldn't have the fun OF
specializing over the possible answers
to the questions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
ADVISING Mr.. RowLEY.

Mr.. Rowley, candidate, insists that
he is still candidating despite the fact
that ninety newspapers out Of 100 that
have mentioned his candidacy at all
have met him smilingly, asked after his
health and handed him his hat with the
inquiry what's your hurry?" Some
of the more outspolnen newspapers
have told him to hurry home. Some
others with tendency toward ridi-
Guile have compared his candidacy with
that of Mr.. Hisey whose wneelbarrow
campaign is still recalled with smiles.
MI. Rowley is in much the same con-
dition as bound boy at a husking
bee" a prohibitionist at an open SEES
Is there but he is lonesome. Still Mr..
Rowley continues to insist as he has
perfect right to do under the primary
laws made and provided. The invita-
ton is general and includes Mr.. Row
ley along with the rest Of us, male and
q years Of age. Still it's lonesome
work. It Is like the condition Of the
farmer who has retired and moved into
town. Everybody is too busy to play
with him.
Mr.. Rowley has his fore-unner in
history. He recalls the historical
cobbler who criticized the statue set
up in the market place by a great
Greek sculptor and found a minor de-
feet in one Of Its feet. 1t will be be
remembered that this cobbler. flushed
with his success and intoxicated by
applause went on to criticise the en-
tire figure. OF course he didn't get far
above the heel until he had lost his
audiences. They turned away advising
the cobbIer to stick to his last. SO
Iowa, interested for the moment is
turning away advising Mr.. Rowley to
stick to Keosa uqua and run for coun-
ty supervisor.
The Rowley candidacy and the re-
mainder OF the Rowley claim on public
interest is waning to the vanishing
point. OF course Mr.. Rowley may and
perhaps Will claim all his rights and
privileges under the primary law over
which he and Keosauqua frothed at the
mouth when 1t was passed and OF
which he is now so utterly enamored.
All Of which Ia within the rights OF
Mr.. Rowley or any other person in
Iowa who conforms to conditions OF
residence, etc. But at that, the gen.
eral opinion seems to be that Mr.. Row
ley would be much more useful to the
state at Keosauqua than in the execu-
tive mansion and the plain purpose
seems 10 be to leave him there.
Governor Clarke will succeed him.
self. The; Rowley candidacy is a minor
affair. 1t is not likely that the Row
ley vote will cut an appreciate figure.
The finest thing Mr.. Rowley could do
would be to change the Republican to
a six folio and change its candidate
for governor to conform to the general
wish Of republicans. And that is good
advice TO Mr.. Rowley whether he does
or does not agree with it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
LAKES AND STREAMS.

Wall lake iHn't rented for a term Of
years. sThe contract is void. So Fred
Austin, who used to play ball with an
old Marshalltown league team will have
to go fishing instead of farming if he
enjoys Wall lake. 1t is an excellent
way out of it as 1t happens. 1t has
given the public chance to express
it's opinion regarding deals made be-
tween member of the executive coun-
Gil and his son-in-law and has saved
the lake. 1t is rather a question wheth-
er it saved much when it saved the
lake more than to keep aducking
ground on the map and the arugment
is always open whether a place to
shoot ducks is worth as much as
corn field.
But it is good reading that the
lakes can not be leased and drained.
Iowa has very few lakes. Her pleas
few. The lakes of the state should be
cherished. We have farm land enough
IN this state to afford the few acres of
water which constitutes the lakes of
Iowa.
The time is coming soon when the
population of Iowa will double and
treble and again. When the question
of 100 or 200 miles will have been set
tied by roads good all the year and by
the motor or vehicle that makes 200
miles days easy journey. We shall
need the lakes then. And long before
that time they should be for the most
part Of the shore line owned by the
state and open to all. The lakes should
be public outing places, camping
grounds, recreation spots.
When we finally learn that game
shooting has practically disappeared
from Iowa and that it can never be re-
called except in the way that European
countries manage it, by private clubs,
breeding bros for sport at Immense
cost and for the few who can afford it,
and transfer our money and energy to
stocking streams and lakes with fish
for the common sport and recreation of
the man who can get out for day or a
week we shall have begun to accom-
plish something.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31

these powers: the leaven Of Christ Is
the other" Mr.. Begbie has been much
in India of late, and has seen much
and written interestingly and inform
ingly. He is now persuaded that :the
superstitions, the customs. the tradi-
tons, and the hypnotism OF her long
past" AS he puts 1t.
She Is modernized and materialized:
she is no longer shivering child
aghast at the dark, or covering slave
afraid Of priestly master; she is half
skeptical and half cynical; she laughs
at her gods and reads Herbert Spencer;
she washes of the sacred paint from
her forehead and discusses the rival
advantages Of petrol and acetylene gas;
she becomes a little excited by political
rhetoric, taking the new word of free
dom into her blood like a strong wine.
and delighting in controversies which
engaged the ponderous minds Of the
encyclopedia, or which now agitate
Browning societies. and local parlia-
ments. and students in university ex-
aminations.
"She is young, heady and excitable,
the fanatics among her millions are
not numerous. 1t Is miracle In itself
the calm and wearied way in which
India has awakened into the miracle
Of her sudden modernism. She is
young, heady. and excitable on occa
sion; her prevailing mood rs one Of
half-interested amusement. OF bland
curiosity to know what will happen"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
4 CANDLE BEAM.

How far a little candle sheds its
beams" and how wide the influence Of
example. A few years ago the dis
patches from Burlington and other
Iowa river towns described a hegira
of red light residents across the rivers
preceding the coming into force Of the
Cosson law applying to shameful sec
lions and their population. The other
day similar dispatches were on the
wires from Washington. Kenyon had
succeeded in getting past congress a
law for the District of Columbia. along
the lines Of the law that Cosson had
written and the legislature passed for
iowa The vicious resorts were
on the move. The pianos were
still, the professors" out of a job and
the scoundrelly interests that profit by
the shameful traffic We're sour. down
cast and threatening. But the vice re-
sorts We're moving.
The beginning Of the laws which
Danish ed the open brothel from Iowa
and made moving day in Washington
is worth recalling. In Iowa Des Moines
had had her Whitechapel, Davenport
her Bucktown, Sioux City her Pearl
street and other cities of lesser de-
gree had ground the grist Of unfortu-
mates thru the. mills Of the police courts
and Of police graft. Council Bluffs had
found gambling profitable since the
gaming places in Omaha had been
closed and had become sort Of gam
bler's annex to South Omaha and the
eattlemen who came in from the west
with the big rolls. The gamblers practi-
rally paid Council Bluffs bills. Sioux
City drew largely from the gambling
element. SO did Davenport and other
cities. Some Of it was plain and open
purchase part Of it was graft. They
got it, however. 1t was in one Of Cum
Minis campaigns that it occurred to
certain Of those opposed to him that
these conditions afforded a political
chance. If it were to be put up to the
governor and his department of justice
once of two things must happen. Sa-
looms and gambling would be inter-
fered with and thus the support of
Scott county, always Cummins
stronghold, would be lost along with
other precincts and places where in
reference would bring a fight or if
nothing was done the temperance and
church elements would be lost to Cum
minis. It seemed to be . heads win,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
Scotch Prid. RuHl.d.

Postmaster General Burleson tells Of
an old Scotchman who was listening to
former Secretary Wilson's lecture on
the activity of microbes. The secre-
tary OF agriculture said: There are
microbes in the cabbage and microbes
in the wheat and microbes in every
thing that grows"
The old Scotchman paid strict atten-
ton to the lecture.
When he left the hall one Of his
friends asked him how he liked the
lecture.
II don't see why the secretary Of
agriculture should put 30 much stress
on what the Microbes DONE" he said.
They've done no more than the Me-.
Gregors or the McPhersons. and there
lives no such clan assthe CAmpbellg,
anyway."-Youth's Companion, I, II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
WHY NOT?

IlManSOn JournalJ
Why not make South Twin lake an
ideal fishing spot of Iowa.
Is there any reason why this should
not be done?
If SO, we do not know Of it.
Let the state fish and game warden
put big dredge in the south lake, just
south of the hotel, and run a channel
out into the lake, say ten rods from
the shore line, then turn west and pass
entirely around the lake with chan
mel six to eight feet deep, throwing the
dirt toward the center. making the
channel as wide as can be worked to
advantage. At the northeast point Of
the lake, the two banks would come
very close together, and with little ex-
pense could be leveled down and made
a nice long island which could be seeded
down, and planted to trees. This would
which could be broken up by dredging
few cross channels into a number of
small lakes and islands.
The deep water would afford plenty
of water for the larger fish. while the
shallow part would furnish an ideal
feeding ground for all kinds.
This plan may seem a little extrava-
CANT, but it is not so very expensive
when one realizes the splendid recra-
ton spot it will make for thousands Of
people for all time.
If Iowa can spend millions to
beautify Des Moines, it can spend a
few thousands to help the people Of the
northwest have beauty spot at home.
Why not try it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
WHERE THE SOLUTION LIES.
shenandoah World.1

She was large, motherly, finely
proportioned woman; and she had
about her that Elusive, lovely air of
combined power, self control and
friendly comradship that made all who
were near her more satisfied with life
in general. Her smile was happy and
infectious, yet more than all 1t was
satisfying 1t made you want to see
more of her. She came from small
town just outside of Shenandoah, and
she was not at all stylishly dressed.
Worry about keeping the children
at homer" she was saying, why bless
your dear heart. no. why should L?
They have better times there than any
where else, so why should they go
somewhere else. Mary and Jessie al
ways have fellow apiece hanging
around and sometimes more. The boys
bring their friends and the little folks
know that am just as glad to see their
little chums around as they are. We
have lots Of fun at our house and
generally q good bit Of company. But
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
India MOVING chri.tward.

The Worlds Greatest Romance to-
day is the silent, ignored, and pro-
foundly solemn" movement of the 3OO,-
0O0,O0O people of India out of i'm
memorial sleep, and. turning their
backs on an immemorial past, toward
the mental frontiers of Europe" and
toward the comparatively modern re-
ligton of Jesus Christ. And when once
this "mcst religious people of the
world" have accepted Christianity,
there Will grow on Asian soil, SO Mr..
Harold Begbie believes, perhaps the
deepest, most tender, most spiritual
form OF Christianity known among
men," midas millions are moved by
writer in The Continent: THE energy
Of European materialism is one Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
Tho go to- Church Sunday"

To make sort Of holiday observance
out OF habit is a novel way Of con
firming the habit, but this seems to be
recent successful method of getting
people to go to church. 1t is quite true
that the habit of churchgoing often
lapses into long PERIODS Of non-ob-
! servance, otherwise the methods here
advocated by The Presbyterian Ex-
aminer would be unnecessary. Every
Sunday should be Go-to- Church Sum
day, OF course, but unfortunately there
are many church members who have
fallen into the habit of making Stay
at-home Sundays, AutomobilinE Sun.
days, and Outing or Visiting Sundays
more frequent in the calendar than the
Sundays that they occupy their pews
| In the house Of worship" This, then,
is the remedy proposed:
The leaders in our churches have
long been striving to reform this con-
dltlon, which Is almost as large a prob
lem as the problem Of how to get the
man who does not belong TO the church
to attend services. Some one-we are
told it was in Joliet, Ill-conceived the
idea of the Go-to-church Sunday, last
! summer. and the movement started to
stir up an entire city to attend church
upon certain day. From the Middle
West this plan has gone into many
parts OF the country, and even staid,
| conservative New England has taken it
up, and there has been a round of Co.
to-church Sundays in several cities
and towns. Among the cities that have
fallen in line with the movement are
Worcester. Fitchburg, and North
hampton, Mass.
In each of the towns where the plan
is tried, the ministers of the various
Protestant denominations have Joined
in an advertising campaign. directed
by committee, and upon the street.
cars, upon the bill boards. and in the
newspapers appear the calls for every
body in the city and surrounding towns
to go to church in the church of their
choice upon the Sunday designated.
Newspapers, also publish reasons why
people should go to church. More or
less personal work Is done, and In some
towns the school children have been
drafted to carry home and distribute
cards urging observance Of the day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
Iona Newspapers
WHAT THE Mirror TOLD HER.
shenandoah world.1

Ill
An unknown Shenandoah woman
figured in the arrest Of an Omaha man
last week. He was charged with try
ing to enter the room of a woman
occupying the room next door to his.
In his possession were found over
100 letters from the fairer sex, among
which was one from the Shenandoah
woman which follows: Y am re-
fined. educated woman of some means.
am thorough musician and good
housewife. l have beautiful brown
hair and baby blue eyes. I am of
American birth but of French extrac-
ton. l am jolly and always ready to
co. If the unknown woman with
beautiful nut brown hair and azure
eyes will register at the World office
and leave her address we will under
take to get her a fitting mate who will
have less trouble in keeping out Of
Jail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
Topics of the Times

Six candidates in the Second ought
bitions
1t was busy time in the convention
OF United Mine Workers when Nc
Donald charged Gompers with hasing
been "gloriously drunk in Seattle and
Gompers called Mcdonald a liar and
a slanderer, and the adjective united"
seems to have exploded.
In his schedule of insolvency York,
the Colfax grocer. lists 1855 on hand.
Money doesn't seem to be coming easy
nowadays.
Maury Diggs, Cams partner in
that little escapade" is being sought
by warrant charging him with an
offense against young girl. Truly the
days Of the six shooter and the rule
justice of the vigilantes have disap-
peared from California. @~
Champ Clarke is coming to Iowa to
take part in the Vollmer campaign.
Mr.. Bryan is not expected to be
present.
Governor Larrabee's school house,
built for the little town of Clermont
was turned over to the school district
by Mrs. Larrabee yesterday There
hasn't been a more practical and
sensible benefaction made in the state.
Now that they have struck vein of
coal on the jag farm at Knoxville per-
haps they will insist that the boarders
dig enough of it to keep themselves
from freezing.
Perry is justifying her claim to be
one Of the best and busiest towns in
the state. Just now her boosters are
working for a fine Y. NJ. C. A. build
ing. Factories and Y. NJ. c. A. build
ings and boosters who consider both
equally necessary can't help making
town. Perry vii! be good town to
live in and good town to live in is
in line to be better town every year.
Hereafter the Rock Island railroad
is going to put DRINKS and those who
use profane and obscene language of
the trains without asking questions.
There are other railroads in Iowa,
naming no names that ought to put
that rule in force at least north Of
Oskaloosa-
Way out in Idaho they have caught
the good roads spirit and the county
in which Boiss is located having
population about equal to that OF Mar
shall or Webster counties in Iowa has
issued $4,000 Of road bonds for the
improvement Of few country roads
near the city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
For Sunday Reading
oil Sorts of Opinions
Hal, l. Only "Myth." Say. Jones.

Hs,, 10 Only "Myth," Says Jones.
"rhe story of Adam and Eve Is
founded on mere folklore, SAID JeAAin
I.loyd Jones, pastor Of All sous
Church. in his sermon, taking sioes
with the "eyoiutionists'' in the theory
of creation.
His subject was "Pelagius." 1t was
tho second address in a series on be
ueyinx Heretics," and in the course OF
his address he declared that in the
light of science there was no serpent IN
the Garden of Eden, for the reason
that the garden did not exist. Lake.
wise he declared there was no heiA Oh
endless torment"
"PelaRius is too much neglected
hero of thought" said the minister
He was the anvil upon which Angus
tine beat out his relentless theoioss'
The great bishop Of Hippo found
foeman worthy Of his steel In tn.s
sturdy Briton. whose original name
tradition would give as Morgan, "hich
in the Welsh means 'sea-born. hndlns
it's Greek equivalent in Pelagius.
The deadly heresy for which he was
tried, mathematical, restored. trled
again and expelled, as formulated ny
his enemies, was that he did not be-
lieye all men fell with Adam or that
they rose with Christ.
He believed that the law (JeWish)
as well as the gospels had saving
power.
He held that unba ptized infants had
a show in the kingdom Of God.
He did not believe in total deprav-
ity.
Augustine won out in the ecclesias-
tical courts, but the humanities and
the humanitarian theories of the Briton
stayed in the world. They were re-
enforced by science and reborn in the
doctrine OF evolution. Darwin and his
associates indicated Pelagius and the
enlargement Of science triumphed over
to grim creeds.
"Gibbon tells us that the British peo-
pie took no interest in this dispute
which agitated the church, which they
could not understand
Ever since the doctrine of perdi
ton ruined Eden, populous hell anc
r sparsely settled heaven have obtained
in the church because people could not
understand
But now people are beginning to
understand that larger book Of revela-
ton as the texts are being interpreted
by science and the old discussions have
fallen into the limbo Of forgetfulness
They belong in the junk heap Of
outgrown doctrines, because now all
enlightened men know there is not a
scintilla of evidence outside the Book
of Genesis and the folklore of other
peoples from which the writer's Of
Genesis borrowed that there ever was
an Adam and Eve or fall
There was no serpent, no devil and
there is no hell Of needless torment,
while those unredeemed by sacrificiaf
Christ writhe endlessly.
But rather humanity began way
down and way back on the margin OF
the brute world and has been ascend
Ing by slow and painful degrees toward
the light, toward the right, toward
love-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
BRYAN SENATORIAL GOSSIP.
ISinl1x CITY Journal.l

The Bryan senatorial ambition is
an old tune, but it always can be
PLAYED with variations. That is what
washington Is now doing, with rather
more excuse than is sometimes offered
for the variations. There is no reason
why any one who likes gossip snoulo
back away from new phase OF the
old topic.
The present talk Of Bryan for sena-
tor is based on some remarks dropped
by Mr.. Bryan himself in an informal
speech at a recent democratic dinner
in Washington. The remarks may have
been dropped carelessly or by design.
They were to the effect that ever since
boyhood it had been the ambition OF
Mr.. Bryan to sit in the SENATE. His
career all thru his early years. he said.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31
None Needed.

Tourist-You have an unusually
large acreage OF corn under cultiva-
ton; don't the crows annoy you great
deal?
Farmer-Oh, not to any extent.
Tourist-That's peculiar, considering
you have not scarecrows.
Farmer-Oh. well. you see. I'm out
hero a good part of the time myself
New York Mall
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-31

Every little while my wife says
money isn't everything.
Amy significance attached to the
axiom?"
"No. it runs in her family. She has
$50 a week for her table. Her mother
fed the family on IS wcek-and she
used to say the very same thing
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