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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
Topics of the Times

British estimates of German losses
are 100000 men. Or in other words
the voters of three states like Iowa.
1t isn't particularly against Mr..
Bryan is it that he should be defeated
as a delegate to the national conven-
ton of his party by liquor votes
Seems like the party and not Mr..
Bryan got the worst Of it in that deal.
Mr. Bryan needed something of the
sort to strengthen him.
sa*
That national guard of ours num-
Der almost 10000 men and seems like
it would do for an emergency like that
in Mexico. OF course the boys couldn't
fight Great Britain or Germany or
Japan without help but they ought to
be able to take care of the American
border in fine shape.
When the unknown man from an
other state comes in to tell you how
to vote in Iowa 1t Is just as well to
inauire into the basis of his activity.
Those lads are not running around
paying hotel expenses and giving their
time merely as a good health process.
Somebody pays. Why and for what?
A northern Iowa newspaper warns a
congressional candidate that he can't
get support by promising a federal
building. Why not? When did things
change to a degree so astonishing?
49,
Funny thing again, the man who
knows that a good horse is worth so
much money and that an automobile
sells for just so much and no more
sometimes thinks he can have almost
everything in the way Of public i'm
proveemnts for the same taxes that
his grandfather paid. 1t isn't so.
Folks have to pay or promise for ev-
erything they get nowadays. And
they can get more for public money
than they ever did.
The liquor interests campaign
against intemperance was slow start
beaten them to it. Anyway cultivat-
ing temperance with a saloon looks
like a queer way Of suppressing an
evil
One Of the wise things to do every
spring is to gather up all the broken
chairs and truck your wife laid away
in the lumber room with the idea that
it might come in handy some day and
save an extra ton of coal with it.
1t Is easy to kill five or six million
men in a couple of years and spend
untold millions of money fighting but
it takes a long term Of years to re-
place the men and pay the debts.
Henry Vollmer talked more than
Congressman Hull but he didn't at
tract the attention that Hull aroused
with few words in connection with
that reimbursement bill. -.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
IN POOR COMPANY.

A notable popularity attaching to
anti woman suffrage scouts that are
working over the state seems to be
that they are not residents of Iowa
and most of them very poorly in
formed as to Iowa and Iowa condi-
tons.
The most recent Of these visitors to
this section of the state found it hard
to recall the name of one of Iowa s
largest cities. In reply to questions he
stated that he had been in the state
but four months employed by anti
suffragists, that he came to the state
from West Virginia and had been at
one time or another a newspaper man.
An anti suffrage organization, he saps,
pays him salary and expenses.
Why is it necessary to import or
send in from the outside an army of
gumshoers to tell Iowans how to vote
on woman suffrage, and who is i'm
porting or sending them and what are
the impelllng reasons for the expendi-
ture of large sums in salaries and ex.
penses and bonuses paid and promised
Of these agents? Who outside of this
state IL so compellingly interested IL
the event Of the vote on woman suf-
frage as TO consider such expenditures
in the light Of an investment? Surely
the movement and the expenditure are
not without the touch Of self interest
1t is rather hard to imagine large ex-
penditure of that character simply az
an altruistic effort to persuade Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
THEY DIDN'T WAKE TINE TWINS.

Outside of three rousing cheers for
Woodrow Wilson and what the report
ers call an ovation for Mr.. Mere
dith there seems to have been little
doing at the Clinton convention. AS to
state issues a clam bed out in the
river was as vocifereous as the con-
vention.
Those twins. born at the Des Moines
accouchemenl-prohi bition and wom-
an suffrage-seem to have been asleep
and the convention appears to have
been careful not to disturb them. No
body chucked them under the chin or
tried to make them laugh. Their par
ents. Meredith ard GARRISON. were
along but there doesn't seem TO have
been a grandparent present. Perhaps
the kids weren't we'll anyhow. It's an
aw full JOB TO raise bottle child.
So the christening was put off. The
date of that function is postponed to
July Il at Des Moines. BY that time
it is hoped that the children will be
fat and sassy and that party members
who are not fond Of children will have
come TO the point where they can
bring themselves to waggle a finger at
the little ones. remark that they are
fine children and take them out for
little airing on graveled road.
Twins are great care. They dou-
bic trouble. 1t is always hard to raise
both Of them And the new accession
TO the democratic family is not an
exception to the rule and are causing
great anxiety to their immediate par
entS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
A SPRIG OF LILAC BLOOM.

Somebody sings popular" song
that goes like this:
Seated at my window in a peaceful
revere
And resting from the worries of the
day
old fashioned melody
That took ME back to childhood far
away"
The old song that mother sang. the
flyleaf OF an old school book the scent
of a flower. they take US back TO child
hood far away. Swift as the tabled
carpet of the Arabian that carried the
lovers we retrace the long trail we have
put behind us SO painfully and live
again in the Atlantis of a youth long
since covered by the waves of the ad-
vancing years.
The lilacs are out in bloom. old fash
Toned lilacs with their purple and
heliotrope stars gladdening the
eye and the sweetness Of their per-
fume bringing memories that take us
back to childhood far away"
For every one had lilacs then. The
nobody had lawns in those days. They
stood just beyond the windows Of the
house and other clumps grew beside
the white picket fences and leaned
over the sidewalk to tempt the passer
by. The boyhood that goes back to-
ward forty years has lilacs in it, the
lilacs that bloomed in the dooryard
and filled the spring with fragrance
are part of all the tenderest memories
that live in the heart Of age.
The beauty of the flowers and the
wait of their fragrance borne on the
south winds of evening repeople the
earth with those who have gone away
INTO far and unknown land, rouse
voices that have been still thru the
long, long years, the friends we knew,
the girl who leaned across the gate
beside the lilac bush, the baby broth
er who died, the little sister who was
born with the bloom of the lilacs and
the mother who tended them and
whose life was fragrant of sweetness
as the flowers she loved, all that was
fine and happy and tender and true
lives again with the iilacs.
1t is a symbol Of the resurrection,
the promise of future as it is re-
! minder of the past, that sprig of lilac
bloom
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

man weeping for something he's lost chap who got
hurt in the he this old world is and
frost and take his word for the
happy while makes his vail. while views
wordEh frown; and to the harbor happiness
sail, where strikes snag and goes down.. little Of
trouble certainly have but when action annoys
Just to the drugstore and order salve grin
with the rest Of the boys little Of little grief
to they ft If there darkness
we'd relief from light that refuses quit
world infes bully old sphere. niftier
about: and enjoying residence here much that
10 @., 49, 'h'' E+ y p
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

tons that the opposition considers his
congressional candidacy in the First
district formidable enough to warrant
doing away with every symptom OF
division Of its own strength
Happy Is the owner Of tulip bed,
says the Waterloo Courier. He is the
pride of the neighborhood and the
envy Of all passersby."
AS it appears to the Davenport
Times the subernatoriai contest has
practically simmered down to RAGS
between Cosson and Harding
with Meredith conceded the demo-
cratic nomination for governor. the
situation from the viewpoint OF men
who's lands for law enforcement is not
nearly SO serious as it might have
been otherwise" remarks the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
THE SPRING HOLOCAUST.
yCT,Nptop HeraId.1

Didn't know it was loaded. That
phrase has featured many stories o.
accidental death already this spring,
One boy points revolver or a rine al
his companion. A moment later the
companion lies dying or dead. or course
the boy didn't know 1t was loaded why
should loaded gun be left where u
might be reached by youngsters? no"
many graves are filed with victims o.
THAT brand of carelessnessg I
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

as well as the front with a plot which
starts on a desert island and winds up
with a marriage on shipboard.
Some high browed critics contend
that the money expended in building
libraries could hsGe been better spent
in fitting out the heather of other
chimes in nankeen trousers. but taste
for good reading is not developed on
the streets or in. home too poor to
buy books. The most appreciative pa
tron of the library is the boy or girl
who has none at home, - w.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

welt has stood squarely by the prin-
ciDles and let the votes go hang. He
has written most of all that the next
republican platform must contain.
The Tribune believes he Is the man
who should stand on that platform. and
1t finds new strength for its convic-
ton in the vote OF It's readers-New
York Tribune. r. II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
A WHITE HOUSE NEED.
Davenport Times.l

=
II ever there was a. call for real
leadership in the White House instead
of the kind that can not get away
from the ink bottle, except Tor week
end excursions. that time is now.
Watchful waiting e. Is not likely to be
a very popular slogan this fall The
calling out of a few militiamen is a
step in the right direction but 1t is on
too small scale to be impressive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
Iona Newspapers
GOOD REASON WHY.
IScranton Journal.J

Editor Hungerford, of the Carroll
Herald, seems to be supporting Can
ddate Harding for governor. In view
of this fact it isn't strange that ne
finds ii necessary 20 extend himself ed
itorially to prove that the editor OF the
Herald is a real temperance man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Mar
shall Lodge No. 1Os A. F. and A M
Work in the third degree, Friday. May
1a, at 30 p. M. John w. Wells. secre-
tary: B. Q. Frazey, w. NJ.
sIGNET CHAPTER. No. IS. r. A M
Special convocation Monday evening
May s. Work in Royal Arch degree
Carl Shaffner. H. P; John w. "eiis'
secretary.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. s. S. M. tues
day, May 16. for work l. l. foroes'
Recorder. George Gregory. l. M.
STATED cONCLAvE, St Aldemal
Commandery No. 30. K T.. TUESDAY
May %, S p. NJ Regular business l. l.
Forbes, Recorder: II. c. Mueller com
mander.
REGULAR Meeting Central Chap
+ar M. az, 0, f. S, Wednesday, May
II. at p. M Eliza S. Battin. secre-
tary: Cora NJ. Mcdowell. w. NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

The Woman's World appeals to
women generally to follow the ex.
ample Of business women and cultivate
the virtue of punctuality. "One of the
isssons." 1t says, the business and
working woman has learned is to be
prompt. Managers Of large establish
ments tell rs that as a rule women
are more punctuaI than men. There
has besn anotabIe improvement in the
punctuality Of the home. due mainly TO
the inauanoa Of modern businaaa.s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Mr.. Wilson's victory would appear
to be purely technical. On the other
hand Emperor William has scored q
point in strategy" says the Muscatine
Journal. .. g. .-..f T.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
RANHlDON REEL S,
~ &klin Nad!. Ram q
.Of shoeS and ships ~Md Seeli6 uaX- catbeSes- 1kin&
THE FREE PUBLIC LlBRARN
IS -nd sealm8 nax. d cabba6es = Nn&

come into a library and ask for q book
which can not be read without think
ing Of what the author was trying to
say, but this does not happen often
enough to PROSTATE the librarian. The
greatest demand is for the popular
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

But Mr.. Cosson sayes it Is notrtrue
he practically calls Nj. Allen a liar,
and there the issue stands. Allen VIII
have to make good, or quit says the
Cedar Rapids Republican referring to
Aliens charge that CLARKE and Cos
son framed up the goyernorship.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11
HIS WORLD

This world after ALL bully
a disgrace valley of tears
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

THE friends of temperance should
make no mistake. They should make
choice between Allen and Cosson,
says the Scranton Journal Harding
record absolutely proves that he Is for
a wet Iowa and IL more evidence
were needed 1t lie the fact that he 10
being endorsed and supported by the
vets in the river towns, and the FUR
ther fact that he absolutely refuses IN
the face of what he calls a campaign
of Islander to declare himself in favor
CT prohibition"
Eat any rate" comedies the Sioux
,C.ify Journal .Clifford Thorne Ia en-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-11

Henry Vollmer talked more than
CONGRESSMAN Hull but he didn't at
tract the attention that Hull aroused
with few words in connection with
that reimbursement bill. -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
WRONG IDEA HELD BY MANY
Cancer Is Not Transmitted From Pa
rent to Child, say the Best
authorities.

There are good many people in this
country who are laboring under almost
untold solicitude because OF their fear
that they are doomed to be the victims
some tine OF other Of hereditary dis
eases. Not few Of them actually i'm
pair their health and resistive vitality
by worry over this dreadful contin-
gency.
II may b, some consolation for them
to know that every advance in modern
medicine has reduced the significance
of heredity as a fact or in disease. I'M
til now there is practically no disease
left that is considered to be directly
inherited, says the New York Herald.
Defects are inherited but not disease.
The older ideas of heredity Of disease
are now acknowledged to have been
an erroneous conclusion.
The American Society for the Con-
troll of Cancer has strongly re-empha-
sized what the New York state depart
ment of health has recently published
with regard to the heredity of cancer
There is no reason whatever to worry
because one member of the family has
suffered from the disease. The oc-
currence of two or even more cases in
family is due purely to chance"
Cancer was the one affection in which
the heredity question has been cleared
up only in the last few years. To
worry over the heredity of disease any
longer is to borrow trouble with nc
reason for Il.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Woman Earns a Double Salary.

Did you say no one can do two
things at once? But listen to how this
little woman did two in one. Sounds
like mystery? Oh, no! You have
doubtless read OF the portrait painter
of children who married successful
Kindergarten? Well, this young WON.
an knew children, she knew the sto
ries they liked and the toys that they
preferred to play with so we'll that she
could make both-the stories and the
toys.
The toys we're so quaint and Ih'
usual that a large toyshop heard Of
them and is delighted to sell them
And the stories, too, not only entep
tain her husbands little subjects, but
entertain and amuse many other chill
dren through the means of an accom-
modating publisher.
Not many women are so gifted az
this young woman, but those of you
who have either OF these talents Nigh;
avail themselves OF such an income as
this woman genius gained from eithei
f Exchange.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Use ORRINf
DRINK HABIT GOES

Don't wait for the drink habittoget
too strong hold upon your husband,
son, or father, for itcan be broken up
quickly if Orrine is given him. THIS
scientific treatment can be given in
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You have nothing to risk and eve
rything to gain, as Orrine is sold UNI
der this guarantee. If, after a trial
you fail TO get any benefit from its
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Orrine is prepared in two forms: No.
1, secret treatment; Orrine No. 2, the
voluntary treatment. Costs only
$l.00 a box. Ask us for booklet.
L. L. ELGIN, 4 N. Main Street,
Hopkinsville, Acknowledgement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Ru.kin's Tribute to Cookery.

Cooking means the knowledge Of
"; lea and of Gree, and of Calypso
and of Helen, and of Rebekah, and OF
the Queen of Sheba. Il means the
knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
ba!ms snd spices; and OF all that is
sweet in fields and groves, and
sayoly i'll meats; it means carefulness,
and inventiveness. and watchfulness
ard willingness and readiness of ap-
pliance; it means much tasting and
no wasting; it means English thor
oughness, and French art, and Arabian
hospitality; and it means, in fine, that
you are to be perfectly and always
ladies'-loaf-givers John Ruskin.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
On Dining With a Friend.

And I said to myself with a sigh
that there were not left in all the
world three N sn, tho thought of dining
with whcrd GJui1 yield me an equal
joy. That il / maintain, the crucial
test OF iriendlhip. DO you like TO dine
with him. MI without a deep mean
ing was OF oil the life of a man held
sacred with whom one had shared
bread and ss.. The sacramento rite
of ancient hc spitallty persists under
our lese simple aad less beautiful
forms. Nor 'lnay we violate II with
impunity, bar9arians as we are; ma
ture cries out against our performing
this act with one whom we dislike or
mistrust, or egen toward whom we
are Indifferent. In word. l had rath-
er make love ID a woman who affects
me vita a physical repulsion than
dine with a man don't like.--Michaei
Monahan in the Phoenix.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
A Clogged System Must Be
Feared.

You will find DR.. Kings New Life
Pills a gentle yet effective laxative
for removing impurities from the
system. Accumulated waste poisons
the blood; dizziness and pimply,
muddy complexion are the distress
ing effec 5. A dose of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills tonight will assure
you a free, full bowel movement in
the II morning. At YOUR Druggist,
25c. Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
a Srnson OF an Insect.

Experiments made by a naturalist
attached to one OF the governments
bureaus at Washington adduced an in
teresting exaL pie of strength of the
kaJydid.
he harnesstG a katydid to kind
of a sled 1lads by folding a piece of
ordinary note 2sper, and then loaded
the sled with various articles. The
insect proved Ubie TO draw, in add
ton 10 zoe original paper, twelve pa
per sheets, each three by four and a
half inches, large screw, two steel
pins, 4 stone weighing two ounces,
and three and . half lead pencils.
When the weight became too heavy
10 draw other wise, the Katydid got its
forefeet over he edge of the table Cor
a better hold. and ON the addition OF
another weigh. il in creased the adher-
ing power of is feet by moistenipg
them with its mouth.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Old Unde -oround Passage.

A crofter Of Kilkenneth. TREE,
Scotland. made a discovery of an un.
derground passage while blowing his
land the other day. The pillow struck
what appeared to be a large stone,
and on making Investigation he found
that this was part NJ the roof of a sub
terranesn passage. He followed the
underground roadway to a length OF
about twenty-eight yards. The roof is
securely though roughly built. and
does not seem 10 be either the end or
the beginning of The passage. The
part where the discovery was made
Is about q mile from the shore. ant
the land belongs 10 the duke Of Ar
gyil
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
ROMANCE MEETS STERN FACT
And Cad to Relate, the Former Gets
Very Much the Worst Of the
Encounter.

James, dear. will you bring me up
scuttle of coal from the cellar?" said
busy wife.
That's Just the way with you" said
James, with a frown, as he put down
his book and rose from the armchair.
Just the way with me?"
"Yes!" he snapped. "As soon as
you see me enjoying myself you have
something or other for me to do. Didn't
you see / was absorbed in my read.
ing?"
We'll, dear, will do it myself"
"Yes, and tell everybody-your moth
er especially--that you have to carry
your own coal up from the cellar. No,
III do it. Let me mark my place"
So he marked the place in the book
at which he had ceased reading, and
when he went down to the cellar,
grumbling all the way, she picked up
the volume and found that it was
love story. and that the passage he
had been absorbed in was as follows:
MY darling, when you are my wife
will shield and protect you from
every care; the winds OF heaven shall
! not visit your face too roughly, those
pretty hands shall never be soiled by
mental tasks, your wish shall be my
law, your happiness"
Just then he reappeared, and, drop
ping the scuttle upon the floor, said;
There's your coal. Give me my
book. - Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Travellers All!

IN vein we multiply the articles OF
progress. The universally of travel
has made us forget it's meaning.
To share your pleasures with all the
world is to lose them. Above all,
steam and gasoline have killed the
spirit of adventure.
There are very few wanderers left
who are willing to take their chance
of a nights lodging under the stars
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31
Children Cry
FOR FlETcHER'S
- q g TO RIA
SaImon's Iona Swim.

A salmon which had been marked
and returned TO the water at Kintrad.
wei, north OF Brora, Sutherlandshire.
on May 81, was caught Is days after.
ward on the Aberdeenshire coast. The
minimum distance covered by the fish
was 140 miles. and it had lost ~
pounds in weight between the date of
marking and its Westmin.
ster Gazette.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-10-31

Ca t look well, eat well, r. fee
well with impure blood Keep the
bl cd pure with Burdock Blood Bit
tATs. Eat simply, take exercise. keep
clean, and good health is pretty sure
to follow. $1.00 a rottle. -Adver-
tisem mt.