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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
The GAY RETIRED FARMER.

A retired farmer who had sold his
Carroll county farm and moved tc
Council Bluffs told a story of alleged
blackmail and swindling in the district
/ court in his home city the other day
! II had cost him according to his story
his home in Council Bluffs and $500
to acquire the material for his testi-
mony He says he was blackmai.ed
and swindled And it looks as tho he
was telling a belated truth. He got
mixed up with a female barber in an
Omaha barbershop. According to his
4 testimony il was purely platonic in
terest he felt in the young lady. He
alleges he never met her outside the
shop. Pearls interest in him-her
name is Pearl-seerns to have been
somewhat beyond the platonic and to
have taken on much of the commercial
and predatory spirit Anyway it APP
pears from his testimony she and
"conspirators" began to blackmail him
They threatened to tell his wife about
the platonic interest. And he gave up
until the home and the $500 had been
platonically paid out in interest"
II is just another phase of the fool
and his money and that no fool is like
an old fool a goodly number OF per-
sons will wonder why he walked past
the tonsorial merit of Council Bluffs
and paid car fare across the river 10
hunt up a female barber. Those who
have thru curiosity been shaved by
an easy shave because no woman ever
learned the BARRIERS trade They don't
have to There's a lot of old fools
willing to pay Is cents for an alleged
shave and % cents for a shampoo and
SO on merely to sit in chair and have
one of those female BARRIERS pat his
sional goo goo eye at him. The sug-
gestion Is that the retired farmer inn
agined that he was simply being devil
ish and lotharioish and the like. And
then, next day it showed.
There isn't much sympathy to be
expended on the patron Of Pearl, the
lady barber. No he's too foolish to
have money and farms. But 1t is big
pity that his wife couldn't have con-
fdenced him out Of that roll Per-
haps while he was seeking shaves and
an atmosphere" in Omaha She was too
chine. She is the only one in the mess
that deserves sympathy. Pearl has
the money and doesn't need sympathy
and the farmer doesn't deserve it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20

equally important official position in
the new naval service. II as you pass
his house in the evening the phono-
graph is busy with Nancy Lee" and
Rocked In the Cradle of the Deep" and
other well known and favored songs
and sea chanteys the evidence is suf-
ficient to indict upon.
Imagine your democratic neighbor
who never heard harsher tone than a
flute note and whose nautical expert
ence consists of wading the creek for
the cows in the back pasture, imagine
him standing on the bridge or the poop
deck or the prov Of the noble vessel
as she plows her way thru angry seas
amid the bowling of the unclaimed
equinox directing the same men whom
he used to give orders in the caucus
out at Unison Weed crossroads. Seems
strange and beyond the widest fight
of ina gination, doesn't it? But it isn't.
a democrat will go anywhere and suf-
fer everything for a federal office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
THE USE OF ALCOHOLICS.
Hum boldt Republican,

Hum boldt RepubIlcan.I
The Marshalltown Times Republican
in the midst of an editorial on alco-
holics as viewed by life insurance COM
panies, says:
Among the men who admitted that
they had taken alcohol occasionally
to excess in the past, but whose habits
were considered satisfactory when
they were insured, there were 3S9
deaths. while there would have been
only 100 deaths had this group been
made up of insured lives general. The
extra mortality was. therefore. over 80
per cent, which was equivalent to a
reduction of over four years in the av-
erage life of these men,"
1t is we'll known fact that the
drinker of alcoholic beverages cuts
many years of life. You have only to
look among your own acquaintances to
know it. There are object lessons in
every community.
This is the most wholesome temper
ance lesson yet 1t excels the action
of the European warning nations that
prohibited the use of intoxicants by the
armies. 1t beats Russian national pro-
hibition. 1t makes the people realize
that even an insurance company that
is cold hlooGed and unprecedented, can
not insure man who uses intoxjcanis
at the rate Of the man who does not.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
Gip1e5'Repub6l11n
Published Daily BY The
INES. REPURlIcAN PRINTING CO
TERMS:
DON'T PLAY POLITICS WITH IT

The quarantine in the districts ana
counties affected by the foot and
mouth disease has stirred up much i'll
feeling and agitation. congressman
and assemblymen are hearing from
constituents who never before took
notice of the legislative branches of
government. The quarantine on pub
lie sales is especially repugnant to the
farmers of quarantined districts and
the outcry is louder over il because it
affects more persons ana farms. 1t is
said that the pressure upon legisla-
tors has become so strong that
move is being considered toward plac~
ing the responsibility for such quar-
a.ntine with those who are likely to
prove more amenable to pressure than
they who now have the matter in
charge.
This IS a dangerous proposition.
Quarantine of any kind ard of any
disease Of brute or human is disagree
able at best. 1t always involves ex-
pense and hardship. However, SYM
patty should not be permitted to work
public wrong.
The question Of raising quarantine
or OF extending privileges 10 farmers
Where the foot and mouth disease is in
evidence is very ucklish one The
disease Is most dangerous, hard TO
coa-o! under the str;etest measures
and wherever it exists IS menace to
the entire livestock interests Of the
country Ii IS not thing 20 play poll
ties with or TO be affected BY "inhu-
ence." The watchword should be eau
ton.
General sympathy IS With the far
mers Of the affected districts, And the
best sympathy that can be displayed
oward them and all othe-z dependent
as all farmers are upon the livestock
industry is 10 make certain that the
disease shall be stamped our where it
kindles before a general conaagration
ensues.
Don't start playing politics with the
foot and mouth disease,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
GREATER IOWA.
IRnrlingtnn Hawkeve. ]

There has been much neyvspape
talk about a greater Iowa All sorts Of
more or less practical schemes have
been discussed and some things have
been taken UP that promise results. II
Is a good name and the organization
will have to put its hest foot forward
10 ger big results II il hopes to live up
to that name.
= few days ago. the announcement
was made that new drainage dis
trict partly in Muscatine and partly in
Louisa county had been agreed upon
and that the actual work OF construc-
ton Is 10 be no longer delayed A
matter Of Some 100000 will be ex-
pended b. the owners of the land, and
some 10000 acres are to be redeemed.
That will De some of the richest farm
Ing land IN the world. No doubt, In a
little while every acre OF that land
VIII be worth 5000 and more There is
a 100000 proposition, not merely on
paper, but real money, or real Iowa
land, and that is much better than real
money. that has been put thru with
out any great blowing OF horns.
A number OF similar enterprises
have been taken UP and completed
along, the Mississippi In Iowa On the
past ten years. and in a very short
time every acre of the rich Iowa bot
toms of the Mississippi, that was here
tofore subject to overflow, will have
been diked and thus protected against
overflow, and will be producing enor-
nous crops. Perhaps by and by the
Missouri river bottoms may be treated
in the same way, altho the work may
prove more difficult there than on the
eastern border of the state.
Some day the representatives Of
these drainage districts may get to-
gether and form an association fol
mutual information and aid. And
when they do. there will be the people,
who will have the right to a name such
as Greater Iowa." for they surely have
added much to the state. The one dis
trict in Louisa and Muscatine counties,
includes fifty square miles. People
who can add hundreds and ultimately
thousands of square miles to the arabic
surface of the best agricultural state
OF the union. surely ought to rank
among the men who are making q
greater iowa"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
THE PRINTING AND BINDING.

The Iowa Homestead in renewing
the campaign against the state print
ing and binding as conducted at pres
ent offers to contract to do all the
work at a saving of at least $4,000 to
the state and to get out the work
more promptly than 1t has been done.
Now this matter Of the state print
ing and binding is to be approached
with Judgment and without prejudice.
The incumbents of the offices are good
men and not grafters. They are doing
the work to which they were APP
pointed and doing it well enough to get
away without any serious criticism
which is doing pretty we'll as such
things go. The offer of the Home
setad may be taken as legitimate and
that publishing establishment is able
every way to back it up # it sees fit
to do So There will not be much
doubt that the Homestead would meet
its own terms if it were 20 be called.
The thing for the legislators to do is
to make an investigation OF the facts.
Do that In the spirit Of good business
and outside the question of political
patronage and state jobs. II it ap-
pears that the work can be as we'll or
better done for less money than it Is
being done under the present system
they should change in conformity TO
good business methods. 1t is all
matter Of business judgment, efficiency
and proper economy. Bring on the
showdown and count the cards. That's
all.
In short the matter is up to those
who have it in charge to be decided by
their best judgment. And it ought not
to be a particularly hard task. 1t is
one that a business corporation would
settle in a mighty short lime one way
or another. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
II Might Hav. Been.

Here is belated Christmas story
that was told by Senator Thomas B.
Catron. Of New Mexico, the other eve-
ming. when the conversation In = club
turned to the glortes of Yuletide.
1t was Christmas day in a city board
ing house, and the homeless bachelors
had just sat down to q dinner that
necessarily lacked the real gladstone
brand OF cheer. The steaming turk was
slashed and served. and 20 one OF the
boarders took his little chunk he
emitted gentle sigh.
What's the matter. old pai?" asked
one. with pessimistic expression. Are
You thinking Of what might have
been?"
II am thinking Of other days
answered the first, signing again.
What wouldn't I give for one Of the
turkeys we used to raise on the farm
when was q boy!"
els that so7'' reJoined the pessimist.
drawing his knife across his portion OF
the bird. well. guess you have rot
him all right "-Philadelphia TeJe.
graph.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
council Bluffs Nonpareil.l


It IS generally recognized that we
have based the right OF fran cllise on
the wrong premise. We give to all
males over Fl years OF age, excluding
idiots criminals. Indians and tmbeciles
the right TO vote regardless OF their
educational qualifications We deny the
right OF franchise TO women no matter
how intelligent they may be. The right
to vote should not be restricted but the
right TO allow men or women to reach
the voting age OF ~ years without
careful preparation Tor the responsible
tiles involved should be rlgidly pro-
hibited IN every portion of the land
under the Jurisdiction OF OUT fias.
The general government ought TO
concern itself at least az much with
preparing cdtizens to vote inte.NgentIy
- II does with the preMtse that all
people vested with the right to vote
shall be privileged to Use Il. &
we ere spending in the United States
sac, 01o. 900 annually Tor tho SUPPORT OF
education. Our booze BIN exceeds $2.-
ooo, 900. 900. In Other words We arr
spsinding 35 Tor 01pss to 81 for vatsSss-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
poss Il Paw 20 es Good ?

Business is not only feeding, cloth
ing and sheltering Us. II IL making uy
better. Being practical. business fig
ures out the profits. and many are In
fluenced by the dollar mark on moral.
ity just az they are by the price tag
on something more material. For quite
while a whole business wondered ID
1t paid to advertise. When tho answea
came in the affirmative advertising LEI
in a lot OF things, Including sunlight.
Then business rolled mp the dark blinds
and abolished the dark corners and be-
gan TO grow bigger and happier In tho
open.
business proved that Il paid to he
good and then It began TO spread the
gospel. Perhaps the best illustration Of
It's recent power IN the work It has done
for temperance. Today II says to the
young man: Being q FREQ agent you
may drink or not. just as you choose.
But, free agent or nOt, if You don't lee
liquor alone you can't hold your Job.
There Is sort OF heroic religion In
that which matches tho spirit Of the
old crusaders. But business has gentler5
methods than coaplilsfon, and all its
Influences are toward the clean and
useful Me. Purely on a business basis
Inc IlaCteT VI DSlnS SOOu pays
In many minds being good used to
mean being goody-goody. and the ide%
got into some of our churches and did
vast amount OF harm. But most e
that has passed away. and the full
vital, positive life rs the ideal OF the
day. Take care Of your health as well
OF OF your appetite and morals, is tho
command. Self respect and self sac-i-
flee are the foundations upon which to
build. An indulgence denied today be-
comes a strength and q happiness for
the morrow. Health and morality and
character are all like Your savings fund
hard at nrst but becoming easier and
Drawing more interest all the time.
OF course II pays to be good. There
Is no profit In anything else. And II
pays especially TO be good earnestly.
The only way to get value out OF hfe
10 to live It out Observation-Disclosures
Gentleman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
soUDAN GRASS.


Clinton county farmers may raise
a new forage crop this year, If they
care to. Sudan grass is its name and
it comes from Sudan in far off Africa
II was imported several years ago by
the government agricultural depart
ment with view of developing a good
forage crop for semi-dry or sandy
soils.
The government has experimental
with it for three years or more and has
sent samples TO the state experiment
stations of Nebraska and Oklahoma. 1t
has proved a success In those districts
and can be grown equally as we'll in
this territory ii is said altho the need
OF 1t is not so great here. The depart
inent has offered thirty five pounds Of
1t TO the Clinton County Farm I'm
provenent Association in one pound
lots for distribution TO members of the
association free One condition is at
tached to ii, the grower must make
report TO the county agent as TO the
success or failure Of the grass on his
farm
Sudan grass is described as being
similar TO sorghum with a thinner
stalk and more leafy. 1t grows rapidly
and three cuttings can be made a year.
IT grows very high II allowed to, reach
Ing the height of seven and eight feet
even. II makes good silage according
to report. Just now the price OF the
seed makes growing for seed profitable.
the seed selling for u . pound The
pound allotnents given out by the gov
eminent are sufficient for half an acre
of ground or little more. They can
be secured from Mr.. Mosher a little
later in the season
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
IOWA ApMlaALs Ell Al.

While Iowa democrats have Jared
better than ever before the office
haven't reached round. 1t requires
many offices to go around the circle
Of DESTROYS souls in the Iowa democ-
racy. They have been a long time
away and are hungry. The proposition
TO establish a governmental fleet Of
ships is as a beacon of hope TO those
who wait
So If observers note nautical roll
in the gait of Judge Wade, see Dan
Hamilton practicing with spy glass
and are greeted with "ahoy'' instead OF
good morning by prominent demo-
Gratis 1t may be understood that they
are getting ready for the great change
when the referee board will all be adj
mirals, the next rank captains and
navigators and the common or garden
variety boat-steerers, boatswains and
the like. For when the feet Is ready
to receive officers and men every dem
ocrat will be marked "A. B." which in
the vernacular OF the Vastly deep stands
for able seaman"
| So If when you pass him on the
| street your dem ocratic friend seems
preoccupied and mumbles OF nor nor
| west by nor" and rocks a little In his
walk don't jump to the conclusion
that he has been attending a personal
liberty banquet He 10 probably pre-
In ships. getting ready to, pass the
civil service examination for first as
! sistant ships husband or some orhe,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
DARKEN GRAY HAIR,
LOOK YOUNG, PRETTY |
SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR dark.
EMS 80 NATURALLY THAT NO.
BODY CAN TELL.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea ana Sulphur, properly compounds
ed. brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded. streAked
or gray; also ends dandruf. itching
scalp ana stops falling hair. Years ago
the only way to get this mixture was
to make It at home. which % mussy
and troublesome. Nowadaya. BY ask
ing at any drug store for "Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound" you will
get I large bottle Of this famous old
recipe for about so cents.
Don't stay gray! Try It! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair. a. It does II SO naturally Aad
evenly. You dampen . sponge or s0ft
brush, with II and 3ss 81. s..:sss5s;::::
your hair, taking ono small strand 81
! time; by morning the gray hair dls-
appears, and after another appltcak1on;
or two. your hair. becosnGe tsANtf1 ~
dark, thick and Glossy sssaN
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20

ing at others. An effort 20 say some
thing smart and striking and he was
willing to discard fact and reason
both In order to make catching
phrase He may have aimed his re-
mark at some old duffer like Elk
Speaker Cannon, but Woodrow Will
find that when Cannon stands on the
floor at the house he Will be able to
make epigrams even faster than
Grandfather About BE wilson, for
Cannon is a sounder thinker than the
president.
Mr.. Wilson's smartness was an i'm
pertinence. as we'll as sheer and an
epigram. There are few men who at
tain their full mental strength with
out being almost old enough 20 be
grandfathers for II does not take
many years to slip into that age. Col
onel Roosevelt became a grandfather
when we were still thinking OF him al
a young man. A man may be OLD
enough to be q grandfather before he
Is much past 40 and most men are
such at about so. II they belong to
that kind Of stock. No party, no
bank, no business concern, Or any 9TH
or concern need be ashamed Of taking
advice from men who are OF the age
which the president attempted to pre-
scribe. What one DR.. Osler did clev-
eriy as an advertisement for himself.
Woodrow Wilson did bunglingly and
10 make an ass OF himself.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
A Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATED

Marshall Lodge, No. 1os A 2. A H.
Friday. Jan. -. 100 p. N. Work sex
ond degree. John ". Wells se-cI'els1f
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Jan. Is. 1880 p. m. Regular business
John ". Wells. secretary; L. 5 hii-
born. E H. ?.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon solomon
Council No. 20, R & S. NJ Monoas az
the third Sunday. 1. 7. Forbes TecoI N'e1
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20. 7:so ?. n. Initiation. Anna Down
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
WINTER SUNSHINE.
III. d. Jenkins. D. D., In Sioux City


III. D. Jenkins. d. D., in Sioux City
Journai]
Henry Ward Beecher used to call the
eleventh epistle to the Hebrews GODS
Peerage" 1t is the muster roll OF those
whose names the world Will not Will
ingly let die Il Is Of men who suffered
every i'll and were still victorious. . IL
Is Of exiles: princes robbed OF their
crowns; men forced to seek refuge In
caves; women who saw their children
slain on their own thresholds; II Is OF
faithful souls who hungered and shiv-
cred and died rather than to be untrue
TO the voice OF duty. And they are
the names that give dignity to life
They are the lives commemorated in
scuIpturg and mosaic. What are such
lives but wintry fields lit by heavenly
suns? 1t takes snow and sun to make
the man; it takes trial and triumph to
make the hero.
Few OF US pass thru middle life,
much less beyond it, without realizing
that this world is a world of pain. loss,
death. Denying 1t does not help. TO
ignore 1t is impossible for long. Pain.
loss, death force themselves upon our
consciousness. willing or unwilling
though we be.
Z
There is no flock, however watched and
tended.
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside howsoer de-
Tended.
But has one vacant chair.
II that were all life's story, "better
an untimely birth" than this. But every
one OF our trials. each OF our pains,
death itself the last enemy. may be
only more snow field to reflect the
better heavens brightness and heavens
blue Macaulay has told US that ne
had given his life to the study OF his
tory and that in all his studies he had
never discovered truly great soul
that had not come TO it's greatness thru
suffering. "Before was afflicted. !"
says the psalmsat, II went astray. but
now I have hope in thy word" Just
as no one has ever seen the sun who
has not seen 1t reflected from some
wiptry field, 80 no one has known
God who has not found him when VIM
ter shut out the pleasant Landscape.
stilled the ripping streams and hushed
| to silence every tuneful grove. In my
youth" said very dear friend the
other day, II was athletic. prosperous,
the head OF . family loved. en-
now old. feeble ana alone. But never
have I had such revelations Of Gods
| presence and goodness - in my age
1 and decrepitude and poverty. II
needed the winter to reveal the sun.
Let every Hash Of light from snowy
fields bring TO US this message. Moth
Ing else u 80 well worth learning
/ J,ifA naeda IL - an experience-nOt Z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
ion. This balance is too disgracefully

flioli. lilb bdiclPL~ 10 lco dLSS
heavy against education.
Let us cut down our booze bill and
use the money thus saved TO train our
people up to a point where they will be
able to use the right to vote with at
least fair degree Of intelligence Let
us do this before we force the ballot
into the hands OF people wholly I'M
qualified by every fair test to use it
with any degree of prudence or wis
dom
We must spend more money for edu-
cation in this country Four dollars and
thirty cents per capita Is the price
We now pay annually for fitting our
boys and girls to become Intelligent
voters and home builders. Our tobacco
bill Is $7.5s per capita and our hquor
bill s2l Let us first make our people
capable and worthy of the ballot When
We have done this we may rest assured
that the priceless boon will not be de-
MED them in any section OF our com
mon country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-20
In Search 81 knowledge.

Il shall call upon fortune teller
this morning." said Mr.. Blubb. Go
ing to try to learn something about
the future?" asked Mr.. Waggles. Eyes,
I'm going to ask him when he expects
70 pay the arrears Of rent for that cot
tage Of mine he is occupying as
school Of Astrology and Institute for
'rsychical Research"