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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
CANCEL KINGSLEY CONTRACTS.
Dubuque County Board Will Require
Bonding Company to Complete Work

Dubuque County Board viii Require
Bonding Company to Complete Work.
Special to mes-Republican.
Dubuque. June 1.-THE Dubuque
county board of supervisors has finally
Cancelled the contracts Of Paul n.
Kingsley, Of Strawberry Point, for the
construction of nearly $4,000 worth of
concrete bridges and culverts in the
county and will require his bonding
company to complete the work or to
pay the county literally for having it
done. The contracts were awarded to
Kingsley last year and he completed
a trifle more than half OF it, after
having had much labor and financial
difficulty. The work should have been
completed last year but the contract
time was extended until June 10.
Kingsley had similar trouble in Clay
ton, Jones and Tama counties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17

Moines, state superintendent Of re-
ligious education: F.. S. Belthius, Of
Gilmore City; G. S. Kleckner. Of Stan
hope; H. c. Littleton, of Clarion; Will
liam Beier. Of Spencer; George Henry.
of Nevada: Charles Blanchard, OF Def
Moines; Mrs. H. c. Hurd, of Manning:
Rev. J. irving Brown, OF Sac City, and
James Ts Nich6is,, of Des ,Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
LARGEST BED OF pEoNlEs!.
Electric cemPany's Beds at Dubuqu,
Expected 10 Show $1,000 Blossoms.

0PSS3e1t GO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES :
Dubuque, June 17-What is believed
to be the largest bed Of peOnies in the
state Of Iowa is to be found in Union,
the pleasure resort operated by the
Union Electric Company (street car
line). 1t was estimated Friday that
10000 of them were in blossom and
that three times that number would be
in blossom by Sunday. They are Of
a great variety Of colors and so ar
ranged, with regard to color, as to
make very pleasing and artistic ap-
pearance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17

Roland banker, has been operated on
and that he is as we'll as can be ex-
pected under the present circum-
stances. Reports say that the opera
ton was success in all ways.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17

Chicago and had not secured all Of his
data. he said.
The department of justice yester-
day pointed out that the Law requires
itemized statements and some Of the
candidates are not complying with this.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
Celebration AZ Maxwell.

Special 10 IImeS-Repub1Can.
Maxwell, June IA mass meeting
OF citizens was heid nereS Wednesday
to make plans for celebrating the
Fourth in this city. They adopted the
slogan. The best time ever had" and
will spend considerable sum in adj
vertising.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
L;f.'s Little Comedies.

II Ia funny to watch a cat whip :
dog.
The dog always looks shecpish.
So does the owner
And after 1t Is all over the woman
who owns the cat usually pops out and
demands truculently:
What you trying to do with my
,cat?"---Chicago Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
CONVENTION At SAC CITY.

NorthWeSS OtSHFiCt OF SnuTSHSe 81
Christ in Annual Session June 1922.
Special to Times Republican.
Sac City, June 1.-THE northwest
district convention of the Iowa
Churches of Christ will be held in the
First Christian church in Sac City,
June 20, u and 20 Scranton had been
chosen as the place Of meeting but a
quarantine for contagious disease
made it inexpedient to attempt holding
the convention there. Among the
speakers will be L. S. Dudley, of Des
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17

Kansas has fewer millionaires than,
any other state in the union. Also
fewer paupers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17

Roland Banker Under Knife.
Special to Times-Republican.
Roland, June 17.-Word has been re-
ceived from St. Mary's hospital in Ro-
chester Mimi, that o. NJ. Grove, the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
FOR IMPAIRED VITALITY

Horsford's Acid Phosphate X
Builds up nerves, brain and vital
functions by restoring the lackingsphos.
pilates. Buy a bottle.--Adv.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15

Photo Icy American Press Association.
STERN OF BRITISH MERCHANT VESSEL
CARRYING SMALL ARMAMENT.
ing of merchant vessels has been de-
fined by our state department as fol
lows:
A merchant vessel of belligerent nation
ality may carry an armament and ammu-
milton for the sole purpose of defense
without acquiring the character OF a ship
of war.
The presence of an armament and am
munition on bOITd a merchant vessel Gre
ates a presumption that the armament is
for offensive purposes, but the owners or
agents may overcome this presumption by
evidence showing that the vessel carries
armament solely for defense.
The result of the investigation
must show conclusively that the arma-
ment was not intended for and will not
be used i'm offensive operations.
1t is explained that the caliber of
the guns must not exceed six inches,
that they be few in number and that
no guns shall he mounted ON a for
ward part of the vessel.
Against the application of these gen.
eral rules the German foreign office
filed protest and took the position
that merchant vessel is not permit
ted to defend itself against a war YES
sci and that distinction could not be
made between defensive and offensive
armament.
The official view here is that the
question of whether a gun was mount
ed on the Persia will depend entirely
on where it was placed. If mounted
forward officials realize that a conten-
ton can be made that the Persia was
armed for destruction Of submarines
and had instructions to ram or destroy
the submarines
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
DANES ANb DAUGHTERS.

Miss Minnie Hill of Washington re-
Gently completed a trip by foot from
the national capital to the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Caroline Weldon of Jersey City.
N. D., recently received a legacy Of S13
Wllled sixty-one years ago to her. 1t
mad grown to S1.620.
Miss Rebecca Mason, a coed at the
university of Minnesota, who recently
won first honors for women in the ma
uonal chemistry competition, has de-
clded that she will be a candy and
sugar tester.
Mrs. Frederick Gilman of Vallejo.
Cal, widow of gunner on the subma-
tlne F., which sank in Honolulu har-
Dor, has been appointed fiagmaker at
the Mare Island navy yard by order of
President Wilson.
DR.. Helen Sexton has had the rank
OF major conferred on her by General
Joffre, the head of the French army.
Tnls Is the highest honor that can be
conferred on a British medical man or
woman. Major Sexton is directress in
chief Of the hospital at Auteuil financed
oy four Melbourne women.
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SIRES AND SONS.

Colonel P. w. Ostrander, eighty-flye.
brooklyn. is still actively practicing
law.
Percival Lowell, the noted astrono-
mer, is a brother of the president of
Harvard. With him astronomy is q
profession, business, as it were. but
Tor pastime he delves into Japanese
occultism.
Dr. WI Ting Fang, former Chinese
minister to the United States. is now
seventy-five years old and recentlv
after announcing his intention to live
70 the age of $50, declared that the re-
naming seventy-five years would he
given over to literary pursuits.
Judson Harmon, candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination in
I9l2, was country born. He earned
school money by picking blackberries
at cents per quart. He harvested
during the vacation. While in college
ne worked for collection agency.
Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, one of
the men whose work has contributed
10 make possible the achievements of
wireless telephony, is a native of New
York. His grandfather was the phi.
lantnrop1st, Peter Cooper, and his ia.
tner was a member of congress and a
mayor OF New York city.
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ADVENTURES OF
old KING PETER
Brave Monarch Insisted on
Sharing Army's Dangers.

T<HE valiant old king, Peter of
Servia, has found a warm well
come in Greece, where he has
arrived after many adventures.
some OF them are described by Signor
Fraccaroti, the correspondent of a
Milan paper. who says:
King Peter was i'll even before the
war. 1t is because of his illness that
the supreme command of the opera
lions had to be intrusted to his son
Alexander, the heir to the throne. The
King was undergoing medical treat
ment at Topola. AS soon as he felt
convinced that Bulgaria would attack
SerVia the old king, i'll as he was, de-
clared mis- intention to proceed i'm
mediately for the frontier against the
Bulgars. His physician opposed him
and forbade him to 90.
The king resisted at first; then he
seemed resigned. VERY WELL" he an
swered the doctor. Two days later he
left without telling the DOCTOR He ar
rived In Nish in motorcar and went
to find Pasitch in his bare study Of the
palace and ask him permission to visit
the front. Pasitch was amazed to see
the king so Ill and anxious, with eyes
like burning Goals, the face thin and
drawn. And the question astonished
him. Why should the king ask for
permit? Il am soldier" explained
King Peter. There is a voivode in
command of our armies; hence must
ask for permission" They telephoned
to Kraguyevatz. Putnik was still in
kraguyevatz then. The doctor was
also summoned. The voivOue begged
the king. the doctor commanded him.
not to go. But he went nevertheless.
Perhaps the old kin" WIS hoping
for another miracle Last December
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Photo by American Press Association.
KING PETER AND sERvIAN OFFICERS.
1t was he who had put new courage in
his soldiers when they were retiring
before the dense masses Austria had
poured across the Danube and the
Save. He had to be carried to Lazare-
vatz, in the first line of Stefanovitch's
army, where lie went into the trench
Of the Second regiment, the famous
'Iron Regiment" helping himself along
with a stick. There he exchanged the
stick for a rifle and said to his sol
diers: My children, l know you are
very tired. You have fought like he
roes. But our country is in danger
He who can resist no longer can go
home again without fear of being pun
ished. But the country is in danger.
and have come here with you to die
for our country. Let those remain who
wish to die with their king for Servia"
Then he lifted his rifle and fired. The
words of the old king who had left his
bed of pain to fight in the trench cleo
trified the soldiers. They threw them
selves forward without hesitation, and
twelve days later not an Austrian was
left on Servian territory and Belgrade
was retaken.
Now. the king was hoping for a rep
etition of the miracle. Again he Wis
tied the first line trenches, remaining
with his soldiers for two hours, lifting
laboriously the rifle to fire. But he
very sad on his return to
Nish. The ministers had already de-
parted. He decided to return to Kra.
lievo.
At Krusevatz he saw the car which
was carrying the Generalissimo Put
mix, the old, never beaten volvode.
whom all Servian soldiers call affec
grandfather" Putnik was
coming from KraguyevatZ. which the
Germans were on the point Of enter
Ing, and the old voivode, i'll. like the
king, but untiring. had to abandon the
place. The two cars met and came to
q stop. At the time KruSevatZ was
stricken by the fear carried like a con-
tagion by the columns of refugees
from NiSh and from the north. The
road was INSTRUCTED by the people, the
peasants carts. the oxen. Some one
recognized the cars, and two names
passed along the crowd. The king. the
7oivoder' And suddenly that crowd
vas silenced as if by magic. They
made q road for the cars TO pass, lin
ng the sides. The men lifted their |
APPS; the women looked on with heavy |
fascinated eyes. None said a word |
lot a cry was uttered. The two mo-
orcars moved on slowly, and it seem
d as II n funeral procession were
'assing.
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Political Quips.

No lack of preparedness anywhere
for presidential nominations.-Atlan
Constitution.
Politically speaking. the rising tenn
perature bulletin is already out for
next Washington Star.
Some of the presidential candidates
now in the race won't get much for
their run except the eXerciSe.-Phila-
delphia Press.
1t is wonderful how clearly public
officer can see what ought to be done
after his term of Office is Over.-Pitts-
burgh Post.
Ohio has six native sons in the Unit
ed States senate. not to mention the
long waiting list for the presidency
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Science Siftings.

Jupiter has a mass nearly three
times as great as the combined masses
of all our other planets.
There are five quarts of blood in the
human body. One-half of this can be
lost before death is inevitable.
The United States produced twenty
nine of the sixty-six epoch making in
ventiOns. England seventeen. France
ten, Germany five. Italy two and Bra
zil, Austria and Sweden one each
When man breathes he uses his
muscular strength to draw In the air,
and ii is afterward forced out auto
matically. With insects, as a German
investigator has just discovered, this
process is just reversed.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Electric Sparks.

An electrical process is being tried In
Russia for the manufacture Of gold
leaf. heretofore made only by hand
In Il new electrical device for med
ical purposes the current Is regulated
by passing it through a moistened
sponge inclosed within glass tube.
German electricians who experiment
ed decided that they obtained better
results by placing the carbons In arc
lamps horizontally and one slightly be
low the other.
Insulated with specially prepared
paper, an electric cable carrying 10000
volts in England was found In perfect
condition after more than twenty-three
years of service.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
PITH AND POINT.

A temptation well resisted is the best
tonic man could have.
Many good reputation has been
stabbed by Il pointed tongue.
As nearly as can be figured out, a
savant is n scientist on foreign soil
1t is better for the drowning man to
clutch life preserver than a straw.
Even persons who never tried it will
tell you that honesty is the best policy.
Many a man who prides himself on
his physical strength cannot even hold
his tongue.
Aren't there enough peace palaces?
A common sense palace seems to be
the great need.
Copper is the one basic necessity of
the war. making it a copper bottomed
war, so TO speak.
If the New York restaurants only
charge extra for it the horse meat sup
ply won't equal the demand
The high cost of living ceases to
command attention when the high cost
of destroying life is computed.
There is one don't in this grip bust
ness worth all the others-"don't wor-
~" and don't let others worry you,
either.
It's all well enough to warn us about
getting The grip. but the trouble is that
we never know we've got it until it's
got us.
Breathe through the nose and keep
the mouth shut. says a doctor, giving
advice OH the subject of health. Lots
Of people owe a ripe old age to keeping
the mouth shut.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Chips From China.

Thus far Emp Yuan has given no in
dicatiOn of an intention to introduce
the open house in China.-Washingto
Post.
The former boy emperor of China is:
said to he Il rather dull young man.
He must be if they've noticed 1t In
China.-DetrOit Free Press.
China may get so weary Of trying
governments of its own that any sug-
gestiOns Japan may have to offer will
be MISUNDERSTANDING Star.
Emperor Yuan wants a new consti-
tuition for China. A constitution seems
to be about the most useless thing Chi
ma could have.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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The Writer'S.

Inc name Of Stanislaw Przybyszew.
SKI. the Russian writer. is pronounced
Pshee-be-sheff-skee.
Herman Bernstein, back In New
York from Europe, refers to the war
as panic in a madhouse."
DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president emer-
illus of Harvard university, has been
awarded, by unanimous vote, the first
gold medal of the American Academy
OF Arts and Letters las a recognition of
special distinction
Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist and
playwright. wavered between two or
three professions in the early days of
his career. He has been in turn pro-
lessor at a deaf and dumb institution,
lecturer in English literature at a Ca
madam university. associate editor of
an Australian paper and a writer.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
BRIGHT BRIEFS.

Inventors of excuses seldom require
the assistance of patent attorney.
II it takes two to make a quarrel 1t
also takes both sides to keep the peace.
A good many fellows can grasp an
idea without being able to hang on
to it.
1t is better TO lose than have the
fruits of victory leave a bad taste In
ones mouth.
Some folks are SO used to looking for
trouble they don't recognize joy when
they meet it.
Europe has long been noted for cheap
ness. Now she has made human life
the cheapest thing.
Even Norway has borrowed 5000
600 in New York. Pretty soon every
body will he owing us.
at home never gets through warming
its shins at the radiator.
Nearly all of us do without things
we actually need in order to be able
to afford n luxury now and then.
Prince Firman Firma is the new
Persian premier. There should be moth
ing unstable about his government
Under present conditions Europe sees
nothing paradoXical in the simultane-
Gus promotion of war loan and a
A German has invented an 1nstru-
ment which measures the ten-milliontn
Of a second. The trouble is that after
Il is meaSu 81 il is too much Of back
number - lr useful.
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Flower and Tree.

The sycamore tree bears fruit after
twenty years growth.
1t has been found that the olive will
i've longer under water than any other
tree
Flowering plants should never be
watered with cold water 1t chills the
plants.
The cactus and other desert plants
have thick stems instead of leaves In
order to reduce the loss of water by
evaporation to n minimum.
Nicotine is found in only one plant
besides tobaccO-a large shrub known
to botaniSts as Duboisia hopwoodii.
which is native to the interior of Aus
tralia.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Town Topics.

Boston's population is now 745, 439.
compared with 67O.5S5 in 1910. The
sacred Goldfish has put on 1854 new
scales.-New York Sun.
Chicago can't show such a mighty
gain in the next census, being Dor
dered on the south by the Indiana
state line and on the north by Evans
ton, which remains equally infiexible.
st Louis GlObeDemocrat.
Pittsburgh reports that every build
ing that can he used as a factory Is
now being put to that service. and
there is growing fear that Pittsburgh
may become more vulgarly prosperous
than ever.-Indianapolis News.
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Echoes of the War.

The European war loans are launch
ed easily enough, but none Of them
float very long-Houston Post
What a glorious time European cities
will have later on in boasting of what
their population was in 1914-Wash-
ington Post
America will not begrudge Europe an
Industrial boom Immediately after the
war if it enables the prompt payment
Of the enormous sums that will be due
neutral countrieS.-Washing Star.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Current Comment.

VIII pan-Americanism ever pan out :
New York Sun.
Will our house and senate be known
as the SiXty-fourth or the safety first
congress ?-Brooklyn Eagle.
When the time comes that every
body will ride in automobiles-and it
is about here-there will be nobody left
TO get run over.-Philadelphia Press.
What we need worse than a law
making America" the national an
them is stern legislation that will en-
force the proper tune among those who
try to sing it-Washington Post.
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SHORT AND SHARP.

European affairs are one war loan
after another.
On all sides the food for powder sup
ply seems to be unlimited.
Rags are going up in price, but no
body is wearing them blatantly.
When you talk of maintaining a
principle be sure that it is not pref
udice.
The man that feels like being kicked
seldom allows another the pleasure Of
doing it.
Unless all signs fail, this year will
be a record breaker in the making OF
world history.
and st. Louis new opportunities to pose
as summer resorts.
Everything can be overdone. Many
q fellow has been fired with enthu-
siasm by his boss.
The drug shortage is so acute now in
England that many chronic invalids
are rapidly becoming convalescent-
If every man who was "a little odd"
had to be arrested there wouldn't be
enough men at liberty to enforce the
law.
Saying the right thing at the right
time is equivalent to keeping your
mouth shut when you have nothing
to say.
In another year the nation will again
be giving earnest thought to the ques-
ton of whether there is going to be
any inaugural ball.
1t couldn't have been the landlord
class that agitated the war as some
would have us think. People in Eu-
rope are many millions of dollars be
hind in their rent.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
Automobile Runs.

The number of automobiles register
ed in the United States the past year
was more than 100000.
An automobile jack that is now in
use automatically lifts all four wheels
OF a car clear of the floor when they
are run upon a track
When a recently patented automobile
fender touches any object it shuts off
the power of the car to which it is
attached and drops curtain to prevent
the object being crushed by the wheels.
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
WAS THE PERSIA
AN ARMED VESSEL?
A VeIed Question of Interna-
tiOnaI Law.

One Of the most perplexing phases
Of the sinking Of the p. and o. liner
Persia is the fact that the Persia
mounted one Al inch gun. This was
disclosed in a dispatch from United
States Consul Garrels' statement at
Alexandria, Egypt. The consul, how
ever, did not state where the gun was
mounted. The Hague convention pro-
vides that a merchant ship may carry
gun mounted on the stern for pur-
poses Of defense without being con-
sidered an armed ship.
The application Of the principles Of
international law to the limited arm
The broad ax., 1916-01-15
THE REAL HEAD
OF RUSSIA'S ARMY
General Alexeff Is a Master
of Strategy.

Though the car is the nomina, non,
mander in chief of the Russian armies
it is no secret that the real man at Tho
head is General Michel Vassiliev;tcb
Alexeff. who is the chief of the gon
eral staff. He seems to be the man
who has come through the close siftina
of time and stress. Since he took
charge there has been a new spirit in
the Russian armies. No one knows
that better than the kaiser and Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg. The allies
know it, too, and the French govern
ment has conferred on him the grand
cross Of the Legion of Honor. n was
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ENERAL MICHEL ALEXEFF.

GENERAL MICHEL ALEXEFF.
General AleXeff who foiled the at
tempt of the Germans to trap the Rus
sian army during its retreat. This
was previous to his promotion as chief
of staff.
General AleXeff is a studious man.
He works hard, and for many years
he was Il professor in the military
academies of Petrograd, Moscow and
NicOlaieff. In his manners he is demo-
cratic. and in addition to being popu-
lar in the army he has close contact
with the leading spirits of the now
dissolved duma. which. after all, rep
resents the Russian people better than
the autocratic government
His military career dates from the
RuSso-Turkish war in 1878, when
Russia tried to break her way through
to the Golden Horn in vain. Young
Alexeff had been graduated from the
Military academy at Moscow in 1874
as sublieutenant, and during tine war
with the Turks he was wounded three
times. In 1890 he was attached to the
general staff
In the war with Japan he was one of
those whose regulations were enhanc-
ed rather than the contrary. He was
in command of the Third army in Man.
churia. and the japanese recognized
him as a worthy opponent. When the
war was over the car gave him a
jeweled sword as a mark of his re-
gard. 1t had not been AleXeff's fault
that things had gone wrong.