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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
USELESS ADJUSTMENTS.

t1lOIHpSOH SouIlCi'J
A learned man tells us that movine
pictures are a useless amusement
Yes. We have known and know q LOT
Of reformers who chew gum. smoke
cigars and go to ball games. These
too. are useless amusements. II we
should take the time and trouble te
we'd perhaps insult every other man
and woman on the globe. Some folks
are sinful enough to play croquet and
horse shoe-both of them useless
amusements. What a person ought &c
do to please the pseudo-reformers
would be to sit down with a long face
and folded hands and keep repeating:
I'm SO good, I'm so good" A fellow
should never exchange pleasantries
with friends for to do so would be tc
cause laughter and that would be
useless amusement. A fellow to DC
right should never strike his thumb
with q hammer or run gasoline en-
CINE for to do so might prompt cuss
words and that would be other useless
amusements A newspaper man ought
to quit the business, which is froush'
with amusements, and go flsh-no. no
we mean go into the undertaking bus
mess. He should have no religious OF
other right to take an auto ride OF
board train, for that would be an
amusement: besides, didn't the de-
ciples OF old walk? They certainly
did. And further than that, no one
ever found them playing croquet
checkers, pennyanti, baseball or
marbles. They were never known to
attend the ladies' aid or go to coffec
parties. In all their lives they attende
only one banquet and that was tn
Lords supper. But this was a lon
time ago and things have undergon5
many changes. Today some reforme'
will get up and make great hullaboS
about what you ought to do and ther
go home and quarrel with his family
the rest Of the day and with his neigh
hors the rest of the week He him
self Is perhaps as imperfect as an
over ripe tomato, and the Lord himsel:
probably doesn't love him any NOR,
than his own neighbors do. We know
an cid fellow once who was SO reliS
;ous that no one was right but himself
The result was that he never had an!
dealings with any one that did not re-
suit in pickering and bad feelings. He
opened everything with a prayer anc
broke everything with an over stima
ton of his own righteousness.
What is useless amusement? Every
thing. so you better cut 1t out. Cut
what out? Those little vices of your
Don't you smoke, chew gum. see the
movies talk about your n1ighbors
laugh. play f1reside games Jr have
funny dreams? Well. then-cut 1t
out
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
TEACH HER EFFICIENCY.

The minimum wage for women is
an expedient, a good thing Of course,
but none the less an expedient. 1t
doesn't begin at the bottom, isn't suf-
fcientIy fundamental.
The real foundation is in efficiency.
That's where the wage comes from in
this system Of competition of ours.
For instance a woman in an office
across the street earns $50 a month as
a stenographer. Another firm would
be glad to pay her more, she is peculi-
arly efficient in the particular line in
which these firms are engaged. She
would command $100 a month II she
made bid for it. Another girl draws
SIPS month in the office Of a whole
sale firm. She earns it. Otherwise
she wouldn't have the place. And SO
on.
Other girls are working at SO % IS a
week, living at home, scrirnping and
scheming for enough to dress well on.
They are getting all they are worth in
comp et1tlOn. Iney are not ultlno
themselves to earn more. They want
to marry; and they are not fitting
themselves for that. They can't cook;
they sleep until their mothers rout
them out for a hurried breakfast, rush
to their employment and come home
with a headache. They are simply in
efficients. If they marry they have it
all to learn. II they are widowed there
remains the washtub or the widow
pension.
Now these are the cold dangerous
facts. We dismiss them but they
stand nacingly looking over the
shot all girls. 1nefficiency is
Nc of womanhood. She
sune hit. Alone she suffers
alone. Iass16kAe suffers from her
own ins1s1ts q the equal inef-
aciency = mt husband. For
lneniciency ! tier of sex.
Il were ~ i>Iptal affection
snaA kindness Responsible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
t,o4 In which the diseased naturai Kid

tio4 In which the diseased natural kid
ney falls. Eli
The apparatus consists Of thirty-twe
tubes contained In q glass case. The
tubes, made % . substance called cell
loidin, are connected ct one end with
q single tube which may be attached
to an artery. and at the other with .
tube, which leads to Q vein. Before
the artificial kidney ID attached to the
body, the tubes are filled with q solu-
ton Of salt and water. When 1t 10 put
in position, the heart pumps the blood
out from the artery into the tubes and
forces the salt solution back into tho
veins 70 take it's place.
While in the tubes the blood Is puri-
ned Of its poisonous substances by
|dialysis-a process by which harmful
substances contained In the blood seep
through the delicate walls Of the tubes
into fluid which IL held In the outer
space between the tubes and the glass
case. BY changing the composition Of
this fiuid the physician can determine
what substance shall pass into it by
dialysis of the blood.
This astounding machine has been
used with complete success on dogs
and other animals. The three physi-
clans who made 1t are now celebrating
an artificial kidney which they expect
will be used on humans with perfect
safety, and will be invaluable for
cleansing impure blood. - L.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILTowN IOWA: FEBRUARY Is

q per bushel. and other produce priced
high. Prints 75 cents yard, Indian
head sheeting 80 cents q yard. cotton
batting $1.25 per pound, coal oil. $1.25
per gallon and G. sugar and coffee 80
cents pound. Land could be entered at
>1.25 per acre out, north of Monroe
near Skunk river and the swamp land
at Is cents per acre in Skunk river
bottom. After railroads arrived at Mon
roe in 1865, teams hauled wheat from
Knoxville, Pleasantville, Newton. Huber
and Mark Bateman, have seen 100
teams in row waiting to unload
wheat. Trade in stores was good then.
How times change in forty to fifty
eight years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES.

iHiPHA '~.iJ SONi s'e-is}
1t is hardly practical for the rail-
road com panies to secure at this time
the general increase Of freight rates
for which they are so eager and In
sistent Nor is it practical for t,er'
even to gain a thorough hearing Of
their claim on its merits. The sltua
ton, though clearing. has not We. suf-
iiciently cleared for public authority
to try or to act conclusively and gen.
orally on the case.
For this some railroad corporations
are not wholly to blame, but others
are There are some common car
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

for this state Of affairs 1t would be
outrageous. Al 1t Is 1t is pftiful.
Pay the minimum wage to women.
1t is a present and expedient neces-
sity. But teach the girls something to
do that the world is willing to pay for
In good wages. There are as many rea
sons for the efficient woman as for
the efficient man. The ability of self
support is the surest safeguard of wo-
manhood, the best protection Of
widow hood.
Pay the minimum wage, grant po-
litical equality, but teach her to be ef-
ficient. She needs it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
MR.. VOLLMER'S ELECTION.


why did Henry Volimer have such
a close squeeze in the Second district?'
we have been asked. It was probably
because he hailed from Davenport ana
was regarded as closely related to the
liquor interests. There are good
many democrats in the rural COM
munities Of the Second district who are
prohibitionists. They stayed away
from the polls, the returns indicate.
The zeal of Scott county politicians OF
all parties for the saloon has disguised
many people in eastern Iowa. How
ever, in negative way the election OF
Mr.. vollrer is a vindication of the
Washington administra ton. Had
these prohibition democrats not desired
to refrain from embarrassing Presi-
dent Wilson more Of them would
doubtless have gone to the polls and
voted against Vollmer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
BABY
Baby.
Dimpled and flushed and dewy


Dimpled and flushed and dewy pink he
lies,
Crumpled and tossed and lapt in
snowy bands;
Aimlessly reaching with his tiny
hands;
Lifting in wondering gaze his great
blue eyes.
Sweet pouting lips. parted by breath
ing signs:
Soft cheeks, warm tinted as from
tropic lands;
Framed with brown hair in shining
silken strands
All fair. all pure, sunbeam from the
skies!
perfect innocence, o soul enshrined
In blissful ignorance Of good or i'll,
BY never gale of idle passion crossed!
Altho thou are no alien from thy kind,
Tho pain and and death may take thee
captive, still
Thru sin, at least thine Eden is now
lost.
Elaine Goodale Eastman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
ABOUT EARLY TIMES IN IOWA.

lhEOSVllle JOURNAL
r. c. Anderson, an old time resident
of Marion and Jasper counties, gives
the following data and history of the
days fifty or sixty years ago. in re-
cent letter to the Monroe Mirror. Mr..
Anderson is now a resident Of FIT. Col
Inns Colo, The letter follows:
Before 1855 we had to haul goods
from Keokuk. Iowa, by team. From
1855 to 1865 before the railroad Arrived
at Monroe would pay 81 to 50 per 100
pounds for freight. Goods sold higher
and at better profits then. Prints were
1871 cents. sheeting 10 cents, to IL
cents. coffee Is cents, sugar 10 cents.
nails 6 cent. Wheat in 1851 was 30
cents per bushel, corn 10 cents to Is
cents, oats II cents, flour $3.50 per 100
pounds, eggs 3 cents to cents per
dozen, butter cents q pound, hams 6
cents per pound. Hogs gross weight
$3.50 per 100, cattle cents to cents.
bought fifteen cars OF hogs the winter
of 1861 at $3.50 per hundred and had
to drive them to Ottumwa, the end of
the B. & NJ. railroad then, and car them
to Burlington, Iowa. ] sold net weight
and lost $500 on them. A big snow
storm caught them on the road. Snow
| two feet deep, Thermometer Is below
zero and was two weeks getting them
to Ottumwa. Judge Iackey bought the
hogs for me. bossed the drive and paid
the drivers % cents day. In 1854 hogs
were 3f2 per hundred In Monroe. wheat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

washington-Preside Wilson is
opposing the immigration bill providing
for literary test which passed the
lower house and Is now In COMMITTEES
In the senate. 1t is likely that the
senate committee will amend the
measure to meet the presidents
wishes. The literacy test bill was IN
PRODUCED by Congressman J. L. Bur-
nett Of Alabama. who states that the
United States should not allow ig-
norant Europeans and Asiatlcs to en-
ter this country
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
SENTIMENTAL GUSH.
TDes ,Moines Tribune.

Readers of newspapers must weary
sometimes Of the daily bulletin respect
ing the kind Of exercise John d. Rookie
Teller takes.
The weather having interfered with
his golf, he shovels snow for an hour
every afternoon at his million acre
estate somewhere in the east.
1t readily will occur to the reader OF
the dispatch that much better and
more healthful exercise would be car
rying a few buckets Of gold to the de-
serving poor; and since Mr.. Rockefeller
is said to have $900,000.000, an hour
spent that way every afternoon
wouldn't noticeably deplete the income
from his fortune.
He even might take turn at re-
lieving for an hour, now and then,
some washerwoman with q broken
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
, INVENT ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY.
Physicians Claim They Have Invented
Artificial Kidney.

Baltimore.-That all of a human be-
ing's blood can be pumped out of the
arteries. cleaned and pumped back in
to the body is claimed in an artificial
kidney by learned doctors of Johns
Hopkins university.
Yet It's an experience that may soon
come to all of us. with the perfection
of the marvellous new apparatus which
has just been put out from the phar-
Theological laboratory of Johns Hop
kins university under the supervision
of Dean William II. WEIGH. and which
will probably solve some of the most
vexing medical problems Of the day.
Kidney diseases are increasing with
alarming rapidly. 1t is thought that
the Johns Hopkins artificial kidney in
many cases will be successfully used
to perform the blood purifying func-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
Iona Newspapers
GOOD GRUB.
TTama Herald. ]

Guinea fowl has been on the menu
at several Tama hotels and restaura ats
during the past week and many of the
guests, while thoroughly enjoying the
savory meat. have not appreciated the
fact that they have been enjoying a
dish that labelled as pheasant. has
been costing patrons of swell city
hotels a dollar or more portion. There
is something Of its voice, but as 4
matter of fact, it is one of the most
toothsome meats Imaginable and the
bird should be more generally raised.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
have "a largely attended" funeral some

nave q idA 6oAy 0sISuVSu A0AoA"A SOAAAS
day soon.
Now someone has made . moving
picture Of Harry Thaw. And Iowa
still refuses to permit prizedght films.
sAs
where soil is men grow" 80 said
Kant, the philosopher, no doubt hav-
ing the coming state Of Iowa in mind.
If Benton's friends could get villa
aside long enough to try him he'd
be trailing after Benton inside of sixty
seconds. 1t doesn't take long to hold
a trial and get action down among
the greasers.
The railroads seem to be as per-
sistent for an increase of freight rates
as their shop hands are for an in
crease in wages. Folks are folks just
the same whether they use hammers
on boiler iron or on Roosevelt.
Congress has been applied to by
woman who wants bargain sales regu-
lated Presumably she wants rules and
a referee.
Buchanan county, Missouri, does not
have to be shown as to good roads any
more for she spent $4,000 last year
on stone roads and will pave fifteen
miles more this year, planning ultl-
mately to have her 125 miles Of main
Travelled roads all paved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

The largest steel ingot ever cast
was recently produced in England. It
weighed $50 tons! was twenty three
ard one-hah feat long and eighty
inches wide. !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

back who 10 toiling over her tub to st
enough money to buy tallow candle
or kerosene lamp from the oil trust.
Mr.. Rockefeller's exercise bulletin 10
pif1e.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

what we really admire in a candl-
date for a public office, such as may or
or councilman is declaration OF pur-
pose to do things worth while with a
bill of particulars showing where
things are wrong, if they are wrong.
and how it is proposed to remedy
them" says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil. "Generalities may mean some
thing and they may mean nothing
Let US have particulars.
The Manson Democrat finds 1T is
Interesting to note that Mr.. McGlnn!s'
the southern Iowa democrat who as
pires to be the candidate for governor,
places no little stress on the fact that
he is a Preshy terrain. With all due re-
spect TO John Knox. we must say that
McGinnis is a hi of name for
Presbyterian concludes the Demo-
crat
"The tourists are the biggest crop
in California. However. If they choose
to go there, whose business but their
own is it?' inquiries the Sioux City
Journal.
Judge Wade says that while capitol
extension may be an issue in the COM
ing election it will probably not creep
into the platform of the democratic
party. ct must be a mighty small
bore issue" comments the Knoxville
Journal "if it isn't big enough for the
democratic party Of Iowa to try out in
It's PLATFORM They have tried about
everything"
"As a measure of service the citizens
of Iowa are more interested in the
record of Senator Cummins on public
affairs than in the things he may
have done to or for the republican
party" says the Sioux City Tribune
ION the service question. as In tho
party purgng, the record is all to the
good. He sfted the burden of proof
upon the railroad"
"But. Of course" says the Davenport
Democrat, mo democrat will deny that
the party owed much to Mr.. Porter.
He had often led forlorn hopes to I'LL
up the party ticket in Iowa. Hamilton
had the honor of making the race once
for the senate. Perhaps after Hamil-
ton leads a few more times he, too
will be eligible for a place.
"Political lines will! be worse mixed
and tangled in Iowa this year than
ever before. This is our guess says
the Dunlap Reporter. Taxation will
knock en- the republicans and free
farm products on the democrats"
"If democrats anywhere in Iowa en-
terrain the notion that public debate
this year will be limited to the narrow
confines within which the politicians
and offceholders would prefer to keep
it they stand to suffer disappoint-
ment," says the Des Moines Register
and Leader.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

"The tourists are the biggest crop
in California However. If they choose
to go there, whose business but their
own is it?" inquiries the Sioux City
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

"Politica lines will! be worse mixed
and tangled in Iowa this year thar
ever before. This is our guess says
the Dunlap Reporter. Taxation vii
knock on the republicans and free
farm products on the democrats"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-25

Stick inside. grub. dig. grab a lunch.
lon't belong to anything, and you'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

had his life depended on 1t. Baron Bisping seems to have got bills of ex- change from him, but even the police have not yet found out if the princes name is forged or authentic The servants say that the friends had a few words at lunch, but the prince pressed his visitor not to return to town that night, but to spend another couple of days. Bisping answered that pressing business awaited him in War saw, and he must catch the o'clock train They drove off stationwardss in pony trap, without a groom. The prince was not seen alive again.
 Rain fell heavily shortly after 3; night came and neither the prince nor the trap came back to the palace. At full servant, felt anxious, and formed a search party Naturally, they did not begin near the house. as they thought an accident had happened somewhere between that and the station. As dawn broke they found their dead master near the palace, with several wounds in his head, and bullet through his heart The ground showed that an awful struggle had taken place, and the trees were sprinkled with blood. Servants then reT embered having heard shot at about o'clock On the afternoon of the murder. But they had not been surprised, as the gamekeepers used to shoot to warn off trespassers and Doachers.
 The police told Baron Bisping of the murder. He sai9 he was shocked to hear it, ard told a story of cart with two men that stopped them on their way to inc station. The prince talked so long with them that, anxious not to lose his train. he said goodbye, and hurried on He was late, however, so walked through the mud and rain to the next station, seven miles away, got to Warsaw that night changed, dined at his club and hurried off to his es- tates in Lithuania He described the cart and the men minutely, but all ef- deners were working in the park that afternoon, which is so closed in that 1t would be impossible for a strange ve- hicle to enter it without attracting at- tention, but no clue was found.
 The old butler declaring that the baron, and none other had murdered his master, told a story of what hap pened in the prince'e town house. three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

Suddenly, to the surprise of all, Bis ping was arrested. His family and aris- tocratic friends were so indignant that they they asked the Czar what it meant. Prosecutor Hesse of this city, who had given orders for his arrest was summoned to Petersburg to ex- plain his conduct. What passed be- tween him and the Minister of Justice. who. at .re Czar's orders. interviewed him, is, Of course, a dead secret. But Hesse gave such justification that Bis ping was not even allowed bail To this day the exact reasons for his ar rest are unknown to all but a few of the police. But it is hinted that in the death struggle the prince tore out some of his murderer's hair, which, on examination, is found to be identical with the baron's.
 Having him under arrest the police now searched tho baron's houses in a mass of papers, 1" bills of exchange, signed by Prince Lubecki. for the sum of $500.00o. Experts said that 13 out of the 14 signatures were forgeries. It was also found that Bisping had not told the truth about his movements after leaving the prince. He had not walked to the further station, but hired a cart and pair of horses in village and driven to yet another station.
 When these facts came to light his family made desperate efforts at court to get him out or bail. giving his ill., health as a pretext But the Czar re- fused to sat aside the laws. even for a member of the Bourbon family. All he would consent to do was to postpone the trial till the spring. It is said that many strange facts about the inner life of the highest circles of Russia's cos mopo1itan society must come to light at the trial, and that more than one aristocratic house will be compro- missed. Princess Lubecki makes no secret of her conviction that Bisping murdered her husband, but she takes little interest In the case. and pro- tested loudly when the public prosecu- tor kept her in Warsaw for a couple of days to hear wha. she had to say about her husbands affairs.
 Those who know Bisping well de- clare him incapable of murder, as his hands and wrists were so weak that even the prince. a small man. could have overpowcred and uisarmed him. They explain things by saying that, Bisping being a coward. ran away when he saw the two mysterious men attack his friend. was ashamed to own it. and, be- ing unexpectedly arrested, was com promised by the bills of exchange to what he knows about the murder, he hand, it Is not likely that. in a country the Emperor of Austria would be kept in prison without a very good cause. One thing in has favor is that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

prince, in h.s will speaks highly of him and makes him his children's guardian. The case is further compli- ea.ed by the fact that thieves broke into Teresin palace soon after the bar- ons arrest, broke the coroner's seals on the princes writing table and evidently stole important papers. There were several policemen in the house and two night watchmen outside and vet the thief has got off scot free. He went in after smashing 2 window and left . blood-staired crowbar in the park \
 Baron Risping is in a narrow cell in the Warsaw criminal prison He re- fuses to take exercise saying he cannot bear the society Of thieves and other criminals who were in the yard when he was taken there. His family are not allowed to visit him; but he has books to read. and spends most of his time bookbinding. favorite pastime when he was at large. After much trouble his wife get permission to send him a bedstead, instead of the wooden shelf ordinary prisoners must use. His meals are sent to him from his town house. and, on one occasion, when he com I plained of great pain in his heart private doctor was allowed to see him, returning w,6h an account of the prisoners patience and quiet assurance of innocence, and conviction that. soon- CT or later, he would be released. Even his lawyers gre not yet allowed to visit him. V hen the police have gone through all the papers seized in his houses. and the case for the prosecu. tion is ready. his lawyers and near family VII visit him, in comr any with responsible police official.