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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For Sals-New houses on monthly
pay Tl1eiits. small payment down WI.
take in exchange vacant lots small
town property or live stock OF any
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For SaIe-New strictly modern Ave
room bungalow on street car line. 5o7
North Fourth avenue. Can be bought
on payments, Phone 91s green or call
COS North Third avenue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
SALESMEN WANTED

Wanted-Salesmen to represent an
old established wholesale grocery firm,
selling on commission direct to- con-
sumner. Apply for particulars. Harper
Bros. & Co., 26 East Eighth street.
Chicago, Ill.
Wanted-Salesmen to take exclusive
district agency for high grade phono-
graph of international standing; no
capital required except for samples as
evidence Of earnestness; strong finan-
cial backing and cooperation; big pay
for good men. The Harmonola Com
pany, Dept. 245, 206 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
HELP WANTED-FEMALE

wsnieG;-|iri Tor genera. nouseworK.
Mrs. c. H. Hull, 40s West State.
Wantsd-Girls at int Meeker laun-
dry.
Wanted-Competent girl for general
housework. Phone 1874.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For SaIe-New modern bungalow, six
rooms and bath; enclosed living porch.
on street car line. Write ,H-27, care
this office. ~ - =. - =
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
MISSOURI FARMS.

For Sale-Small Missouri farm, SO
cash and IS monthly; no interest or
taxes; highly productive land; close
to three big markets. Write for photo
graphs and full information. Munger.
A-211, N. Y. Life building. Kansas
City, Mo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
TO EXCHANGE.
By HOP

To Exchange - Good seven room
house. and six acres OF ground, fine To-
cation at edge OF city to trade for
residence closer in. Also have fourteen
acres just outside Of city limits for
sale for $4,000. fair improvements. q.
s. Nugent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

Wanted-To exchange horse. wagon
and harness and cow for touring car.
Phone white 337
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

Wanted-To give away few loads
of manure at Marshalltown bottline
works. Barns Eighth avenue and
Main.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
FOR SALE CITY PROPERTY

For sais-My residence at 30s Je-
rome street: nine rooms and bath.
modern, sixty foot front, paved street,
and barn and garage: street car. A
bargain IL sold in thirty days w. b.
McIeland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

Wanted-Your old carpets to make
over in handsome rugs. We also clean
all kinds Of rugs at a reasonable price.
Phone 1852 Iowa Rug Works, SlA
East Nevada street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
WISCONSIN FARM LANDS.

For Sale-Eighty-acre Wisconsin
farm, four miles from town, on easy
terms. House. barn. well, some cleared
and cultivated. Price $4,000. Would
take in auto. Address Box 81 A. Route
s, Cumberland. Wis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

Wanted - For rent we'll furnished
modern house with one room reserVa-
ton: 5O2 North Center. Phone 17lb.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
WISCONSIN LANDS.

For SaIe-Improved eighty. r
Skiff owner Greenwood, Wis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For SaIe-A good set Of meat mar
ket tools, including all fixtures and
counters and refrigerator, and scales.
For further particulars call on or cor
respond with J. A. Lockwood. Owasa,
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
NOTICE FOR BIDS.
FURNITURE UPHoCsTERING.

MONEY TO LOAN.
Mortgages on Marshall county
farms solicited. We offer a specially
good rate for loans to be closed within
ninety days Iowa Savings Bank.
To Loan-Money to loan for clients
on city property. Frank NJ. Haradon.
Money to loan upon farm ana eit1
property. q. w. Lawrence q Co. First
National Bank building.
MISCELLANEOUS
See Sweeney for those weather
strips. Phone yellow S2S.
Southwest Iowa 10 q fertile held for
the man with anything TO sell that has
merit Seventy-fve thousand PEG.
pie in southwest Iowa read the daily
Nonpareil. It IL the great want "a
medium OF this section. II 10 known far
and Wide as producer Of results. le
you have land or anything else to sell
or trade. get In touch with southwest
Iowa thru the Nonpareil. Council
Bluffs. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For SaIe-1915g Harley Davidson
motorcycle in first class condition, at
a bargain. Good reason for selling.
Write OBJ, care this office
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

Wanted-Pumpkins at 81 per ton.
We will pay our contractors "a per
ton and also use a limited amount
from others who have not contracted.
You should begin hauling at once.
Western Grocer Mills.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02

For sals-Good utility Rhode ISLAM:
Red cockerels cheap. J. M. Holt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
The Origin of Chestnut"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. In this days issue have been inter
ested IN reading an account of the origin OF
tho word chestnut" as springng from col
loouv in famous old English melodrama
called "The Broken Sword" Tne scene IS
where certain bombastic captain, narrating
his exploits, says:
81 entered the woods, when suddenly from
the thick boughs of cork tree Inc
comedian Of the play interrupts him, "A
chestnut. captain, chestnut bah. re-
niles the captain, Il say a cork tree. A
chestnut" reiterates the other; Il ought 70
know. for have heard you tell the tale these
twenty-seven times"
Your extract goes on to say that warren
the actor, who often played the comic char-
actcr in this play, being at stag dinner
some years ago, when one Of the gentlemen
nresont told story Of doubtful age and
originality. Mr. Warren, quoting from the
NAV said. "a chestnut, sir; I have heard you
toli That tale tweatv-scven times" This incl
don't your printed article declares was really
tho origin for the use made Of the word
chestnut"
In the early SOS 7 was a student in the
iunior class at St. Edmund's English College
Douai. France, and in the college theatrieals
was cast IN play Count Regolio in this good
old English melodrama of "The Broken
sword" and remember distinctly the scene
Of the cork and chestnut tree, and how the
word chestnut" became afterward a favorite
catch phrase in the college grounds.
In The article referred 10 the correspondent
omits a pungent reply Of the choleric captain.
Incensed at the constant reminder of his rep
otition Of his story he exclaims in the play;
Repetition, sir, imprints fact stronger on
the memory A chestnut be it, then
SIDNEY WOOLLETT
Jamaica Plain. Mass, June IS, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
APLATTSBURG CAMP AT HOME
Military Training of the Open Air Sort for
New Workers Who Want Ii.
|, The Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Thousands Of men who would like to
20 to Plattsburg but are unable for one rea-
son or another to do so are unaware OF the
fact that there is an organization such as
ours. conveniently located and ready to
welcome all men of good character, educa-
ton and intelligence. The business mems
military training camp has been In existence
since last summer, and through the winter
has drilled at the 18th Regiment Armory In
Brooklyn and is now indulging IN outdoor
battle practice every Sunday morning In the
enyirons of the Crescent Athletic Club at
Bay Ridge. Tuesday and Friday evening
drills are still held In the armory. This
camp has $50 members, and a large increase
is desired before the permanent outdoor sum-
mer camp Is opened. man will be able to
leave his business and go direct to the camp,
take evening drill, stay overnight at the
camp II he wishes, and go back TO the Office in
the morning There are no dues or obliga-
tions, so that man need not feel tied to
anything that might seem irksome. His pa
triotc spirit. it is presumed, will hold him
10 a movement that should appeal TO every
true American who wishes to be in a posi-
ton TO serve his country when the time
comes.
Training by this organization, under the
experienced officers Major G. G. Cochran and
Captain A. T. Morrow. will mean, the same
s at Plattsburg potential officers for the vol
unteer army that must be raised and to fill
the vacancies in the commissioned stan OF
the national guard or any other branch Of
the service requiring men TT and qualified for
the position of officer in time of need.
This camp is conveniently located, and
every man should see in it an opportunity to
take advantage of the military training so
necessary for the proper defence OF his
country.
Outdoor assemblies are at the Eighty
sixth Street station Clsst stop Of the new
Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, which
starts from the Municipal Building at Cham
hers Street. Manhattan. Running time Is
rut twenty-five minutes, making it quick and
convenient. Prospective members may make
annlication in writing or personally at the
14tb REGIMENT or the Automobile CLUB OF
America. Fifty-fourth street, west OF Broad
vav. Drew McKenna, care b. +. Goodrich
Company. 1850 Broadway; Crescent Athlet'c
Club Pierrepont and Clinton streets, Brook
1vn. the Bedford Riding Academy, BEDFORD
and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn; University
Climb 100 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn the
t4tb Regiment Armory, or at the Eighty
sivtb station. any Sunday morning at ~
o'clock. j. W. hOp1O ,,.,. o.
Publicity Committee Business Mems Ml'''aiS
Training Camp.
New York. June ., 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Bovine Blue Blood.
From me philadelphia Ledger

From The Philadelphia Led0erJ
Bright farmers hold no longer 10 the the
DRY that a cow is cow. On the contrary,
they stick 10 the principle that a good COW
is an excellent investment and poor COW
is a waste. That sale at Coopersburg of 1876
animals for $4,000 proves that the bright
farmers have their pocketbooks in hand ready
to pay for pure blood. The man who gave
SO 900 for a COW knows that she is cheaper
than another COW which would cost him $50.
cow is a living machine which converts
hay, grain and fodder into milk, and the
greater her capacity TO perform this process
of conversion the better COW she is. One Of
the best things our agricultural schools have
taught is a knowledge Of the superiority Of
FIRST rate stock Of every kind over inferior
stock. 1t has come to a point where know
ing farmer can measure the quality of othe~
farmers easily by the cows he keeps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Suffrage at St. Louis.

1t was not to be expected that the poll
ticians of the Democratic party would
yield gracefully to the necessity of a
suffrage plank. Their sentiments were
we'll expressed by the pathetic correspond
ent of THE New York Times who saw
in the suffragists checking up the vote
with pad and pencil a parallel to The
women of Paris who knitted while the
guillotine fell. The resemblance is little
hard to work out in detail. But the feel
ing of impending tragedy is right. The
work of the convention does not bode well
for politicians of any party.
The year will be a memorable one in
suffrage history. A dozen years back it
would have seemed unbelievable that Tho
rational party conventions would so soon
he a unit in advocating the principle of
yotes-for-women. The action by the Pro
eressive convention represented undoub.-
ed conviction. The Republican and Demo
cratic planhs constitute chiefly frank
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Educational Efficiency.

There are more than three hundred
thousand students enrolled in the colleges,
universities and professional schools OF
this country. Something less than one
fourth this number will be sent out into
the business of everyday life at this com
mencement season. In order TO procure
this finished product of our educational
system there is invested in buildings and
equipment a sum Of more than S3OO,OOO,-
600, and another sum of S35000O,OOO IN
productive endowment funds.
Yet with all this energy expended upon
higher education the American public pre-
fers to read books like ''Pollyanna' and
the novels of Harold Bell Wright. And
though we have many writers who tower
above mediocrity-generally at the cost OF
their popularity-there is hardly a novel
st, and certainly not poet, in all this
broad land who is able to take first rank
among the worlds great writers.
Genius of the highest order, to be sure,
is born, not manufactured in colleges. But
the intellectual interest necessary 70 make
this nation something more than spirit
ual secondhand store can be stimulated in
our colleges. That is what these institu-
tons are for. The negligible influence Of
higher education upon public taste gener-
ally is due in part to the utilitarianism Of
our national spirit, which has emphasized
a practical though short-sighted efficiency
and transformed much educational activ-
ity into that of the high-class trade school.
But there is still something in the criti-
cism made by Dean Haskins at the recent
centennial celebration of the founding Of
Allegheny College: The great defect in
American college education is that it docs
not set the mass of students Intellectually
on fire"
The real task of education is to inten-
sify cerebral activity sharpen the STU
dents power of appreciation, and as Will
lam James once said, teach him to know
a good man when he sees him" The EFF
cheney" which delights in a high-class
trained-anima man is poor substitute
for education Even the "piety and char
acter" which many colleges seem to regard
as their raison d'etre are but substitutes.
Primary as these things are in human life,
it is not necessary TO spend four years in
college to acquire them.
The obvious function of educational in
stitutions is to make people think. Two
years before the war II. G. Wells wrote a
book in which he criticised the British edu-
cational system for its Journalism and lack
Of originality, saying that in the final
struggle the victory would go to the ma
ton which put the greatest premium upon
original thinking. Recent events make
his words read like a prophecy. When our
colleges perform their tasks correctly
humbug, bluff prejudice and vulgar senti-
mentalism will cease to be part of our
public life. Efficiency in education means
more than teaching trade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

admission by the political leaders of the
country that suffrage is coming-has al
ready come to such an extent that no
party can afford to oppose it. At the cor
ventions of 1916 the women Of the coun-
try sat in the galleries. They pleaded by
their presence and were forced to rely
upon men to represent them in committee
and before the convention. 1t may well
be the last time that the politics of Amer
lea records this sharp division in ma
tional convention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Book Titles.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Charles Reade had the knack Of at
tracing attention TO his books by striking
titles. The title of his masterpiece
was his own invention, The Cloister and the
Hearth One is inclined to think that il was
handicap" Thus your editorial Of
June 70 on Titles for Novels" It may be
interesting 70 add and it Is certainly not
generally known that Reade's first choice of
title for this novel was of another and bet
ter sort. Il was "a Good Fight" and the
story i'm its first form was published under
that name Reade decided on The Cloister
and the Hearth" when he revised and en-
larcod a Good Fight" which was then
brought out almost as if II were an entirely
new story.
As for titles in general. I think you err in
assuming that a mere title may he copy
rightcd. Unless ! am much mistaken one
may legally publish a second Hazard of New
Fortunes" or what Maize Knew" provided
ones text is ones own, without mourning
litigation At the hands Of Mr.. Howells or at
those of the heirs Of Mr.. James. Only other
reasons than legal prevent. Thus, when my
husbands "The House Of Bondage was about
10 he published in England Mr.. John Mase-
field. who wrote a preface for the English
edition, pointed out to us that there had re-
Gently appeared in London another novel un-
der that name, and Mr. Kaufman, seeking a
change Of title, adopted the suggestion made
70 him by Mr John Galsworthy, Daughters
Of IshmaeL" Very much the same thing hap
pened with the English edition Of the volume
Of Mr.. KauFman's sketches known in America
as The Girl That Goes Wrong and in Eng
land as Broken Pitchers" 2 far better name.
RUTH WRIGHT KAUFMAN.
Ashdale. Me. June IL 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
"The End of an Illusion. u
Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have recently changed my New
York paper and have subscribed 70 The
Tribune on account Of the splendid editorials
which you are publishing on the war and on
President Wilson's policy. wish to thank
you particularly for the editorial The End
Of an Illusion published in your issue Of
June 10th You are doing a service TO civili-
cation by keeping before your readers the
great principles that are at stake in the pros
ecution Of the war Idiots and children may
have no concern with the causes Of the con-
fict but intelligent and patriotic Americans
should be deeply concerned both about It's
causes and its outcome.
ARTHUR J. HAMMOND.
Geneva, y. Y, June y, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

nesty. In other words, hand over that
much-perturbed island to Irishmen who
have learned to roast pigs without burning
houses They would turn certain OF their
countrymen into being less extravaganza
cooks"
Unfortunately, he does not tell us how
to dispose of the mean and furtive schem-
ers in this country, those towards, VINO 40
not care TO learn. and never will learn, a
better way, but are still willing to force
futile sacrifices on others without run
ming the least risk of scorchng their own
fingers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
The Lawyer To-day.

There is an undeniable basis Of fact in
the statement by Justice Cropsey at law
school commencement that "the lawyer OF
to-day is not generally respected in the
community as he should be-" Certainly
there has been a,change in the public atti-
tude in the last generation. Whatever the
merits of the case, the .old-school lawyer,
on pedestal of peculiar trust and respect
has largely gone the way of many other
Institutions.
As it. happens, the legal mind is at The
moment under blight Of disapproval in
other democratic countries, notably France
and England There, as here, it has been
the lawyers who have in the past fur
nished the bulk of political leadership;
and one direct result of the war has been
Ito arouse a wealth of hostility toward this
predominating class of public servants. In
France the old leaders have all been rudely
displaced by military necessity; in Eng
land it is common remark that never
again will the government be intrusted so
largely to men with legal training. A
similar protest was voiced here in the
period of the 1912 campaign by Colonel
Roosevelt. The legal mind as the main
source Of government unquestionably faces
a new and growing suspicion.
Whether this condition has any rela-
ton to the general status of the lawyer in
public esteem is doubtful. 1t is easy to
explain the mistrust of too much legalism
in governmental work on other grounds.
In America a steadily growing impotence
with the undue delays and obstacles Of our
overweighted governmental system natu-
rally vented itself on the chief protectors
Of conservatism and the letter Of the past.
The demand was for action, and, as many
citizens of France and England have de-
cided since the greatest period of action
in history seized Europe, it is not from
country's lawyers that swift, practical con-
duct is 10 be sought.
The change in popular respect very
probably flows from other causes. Modern
business life has developed type of law
yer 10 whom it would be idle and unjust tc
apply the old quasi-judicial standards. He
is a business man first and jurist lone
afterward Very many Of our ablest eX-
ecutives of large corporations have been
recruited from this class. To engineer
the organization of large corporations and
then to manpuvre them so as to avoid
collision with penal and restrictive laws
require just as much knowledge Of bal
ance sheet as of the statute book. 1t is
asking too much to expect Rufus Choate
to develop in the midst Of these activities.
Such a lawyer is just as honorable and
public spirited as any other American
business man. But no more so. The mis-.
take. we suspect, has been in expecting
his actions to exhibit a rarefed morality
superior to that of his clients.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Only Serious Cases Treated.

Visitors. after walking through the wards,
smelling no odors, hearing no groans, seeing
the faces Of the men smiling back at them,
are constantly saying to the director;
"Ah, see you have no really serious cases
here"
1t is the only kind Of case sent 70 Neuilly-
the gravey wounded man, the "grands
blesses," requiring infinite skill 10 save
limb and life. SO sweet and hopeful is the
feel" of the place that not even $50 beds Of
men in extremity can poison that atmosphere
Of successful practice. Alices Queen had a
certain casual promptness in saying, Ion
with his head" whenever she sighted a sub
jet. And there was some Of the same spirit
in the oldtime war surgeon when he was con-
fronted with case of multiple fracture.
"Amputatel or with his leg of with his
srm." And that, in the majority Of cases,
was the same as guillotining the patient,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Death and the Flowers

oEdes PhtTpots. ,r The Westminster Gasette)
Now is Death only plucking flowers; he
leaves
The garnered grain and sunset colored
fruit
. Neither to bending Dough, nor mellow root
Nor thrashing Of the amber harvest
sheaves
He comes; but where in joyous youth Sc
rene
The sunny blossoms laugh and fear no
sickle keen,
Perchance he wearies of his ancient ways,
The boards of treasure ripe and over
ripe,
The stale, familiar gleanngs, true to
type
Seedtime and sere and climateric days;
For now the dusky halls of Hades CLEAN
With precious fower-light and broken hope
and dream.
Gone; all their promise gone for never
more
Shall sun and rain rejoice to do them
good,
Or glad earth labor to create their food.
Naked their places, and where, heretofore,
The shining blossoms sprang, that now are
sped,
Only remain the stocks who built and
nourished.
The reaper reaps. Of ruth all innocent,
The sparkle and the splendor and the glow
Sink into nothingness beneath his blow,
Where the swathe falls and withers and is
spent
Yet, sweeter than all fruit the days fulfil,
Fragrance Of flowers shall haunt our
empty gardens still.