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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
CHICAGO Potato Market.

Chicago, Nov. 5.--Potatoes-Steady
receipts. seventy-tive cars.
Minnesota Wisconsin and
Michigan. bulk . 1.75@215
Minnesota. Wisconsin and
Michigan, sacks ..... 2.2O@2.25
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
ROYAL Emerald. Of Mexico.

Among the Aztec treasures of Mex
leo exquisitely cut emeralds were found,
and it is from this source that the
magnificent emeralds now forming part
of the royal collection Of Spain were
supposed to tayo come.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05

est, 2277; lowest, 22.57; closed, 22.75;
May, highest, 22.42; lowest, 22.4O;
closed, 22.40..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
Chicago Grain. Close.

Chicago, Nov. 3.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, 2.17; No. 3 yell
low nominal: No. 4 yellow, 2.16.
Oats-No. 3 white, 60@6O1a; stand
ard, 60A 9S0k.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
REFUSE AUSTRIA FOOD.
Action Of Hungary Makes Austria
SHORTAGE Acute.

Shortage Ncute.
Copenhagen, Nov. 5.-Austria's food
difficulties, the Allegmaine Zeitung, OF
Vienna, says 1t learns, have become
notably sharper in consequence of Hun
gary's fiat refusal of Austria's propo-
sails for supply of grain. An extra
ordinary crown council will be called.
the newspaper says, to discuss the ex-
tent of Hungary's obligation to supply
food to Austria.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
MINIMUM SWINE
PRICE LIFTS CORN
GOVERNMENT REGULATION HELD
TO MEAN $40 CORN ON
FARMS.
SHARP ADVANCES IN
CORN FOLLOW ACTION

Oats Harden In Sympathy With Up
ward Course Of Corn, With Deem
Dor Delivery Showing Greatest Firm
ness-Activity and Strength Char
aeterixes Prlvisions Trade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
Represe ntative Cattle Sales.
Sioux City Live Stock.

Sioux City, Nov. 5.-Cattle-Esti
mated receipts for today, 10000; mar
ket 10 to Is cents lower.
Beef steers ............... 1850 O. els 90
Fat COWS and heifers ...... $500 S-25
Suckers and feeders ...... 100 Dl2.25
Gamers ................... 525@ e.z5
Feeding cows and heifers. $500 500
Calves ...... ....... 7.00111.00
Bulls, stays, etc. ......... 5000 7.5o
Hogs Estimated receipts for today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
Kansas CITY Live Stock.

Kansas City, Nov. 5.--Cattle-Esti-
mated receipts for today, $4,000; mar
ket steady.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-05
market 81 cents lower.
Omaha Live Stock.

Omaha. Nov. Observation-Disclosures
receipts for today, 1900: market slow
To Sfead
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Now Go On With the Story

made a sharp contrast to the white
stockings above them. She had an
exquisite oval face, with a lovely
flush, q strong chin, beautiful lips, full
OF vigor and great deep blue eyes.
The eyes, though laughing at the
moment, were OF a dreamy blue. and
often must they have been filled with
that melancholy for which the young
girl so gladly substitutes the IRE OF
love when once her heart Is touched.
Finally her glorious sunny hair was
drawn loosely from her forehead into
q heavy coll low in her neck.
Such was the Rpparition which burst
in upon the solemn interview at
which the destin!es Of the world were
being contemplated.
''Well. papa, shan't we dine at all
tonight9 II was s o'clock long ago.
Lucretia is weeping over her burned
food and scipio is trying in vain to
comfort her!"
Her gray eyes rippled from one end
OF the laboratory to the other.
OXus and Fulbert exchanged a quick
glance with Severac and the monk
muttered to him:
"Not a word to this unsuspectlnE
child. as you value your life"
As the engineer drew back. Oxus
went toward the young girl with out
stretched arms and with Joy in his
eyes.
"Moisette!" he exclaimed.
In the word was all the unfathom-
able passion OF the man who for
eighteen years had showered upon
this exquisite head all the tenderness
OF which the human heart Is capable
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
By Edith Hixon.

Q WET CONTENT. our rosebud
fairy. was very fond Of Ice
- cream. To be sure she
couldn't eat as much as little girl
know, but she ate a great deal for
4 fairy. Molly MiId-weed sold the
most dsIectable ice cream in fairy
land in her temptingly cool shop on
the shores OF the CLASSY marsh
The tables and chairs OF light
green reed were always placed on
the porch. and nowerland gathered
.hers often, for she heaped the
plates high az tiny snow mountains.
Sweet Content was sitting In Molly's
,hop when she saw crystabel. the
water sprite, pass by, looking so
sd. that she forgot she was hungry
and rushed out
whats the Natter she asked
cryStabeI turned about Her
waterfall mist gown was In shreds.
half Of the bubble drop trimming
was gone and she had los: both her
slippers. Her hair hung IN strings
about her face, all danciness seemed
zone from her. PLEASE help me-"
she begged.
"TeIi me about IT," demanded our
fairy.
Last night was floating in my
crystal canoe when lost my silver
naddie," she sobbed. 1T fell into
the marsh right here. II was
marie paddle, and without It my
canoe was no use, 90 Il melted away
ana left me. I've been hunting ever
since, but I can't find IL can't
aek hauAa tISthsT without Il. for my
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
The Manicure Lady

sensitive mGks-ups. George, and I
can tell in O minute when . great
man comes near me. Goodness
knows / don't get much practice At
Il here. being that great men shavss
to home. but now and then there
is an exception. He had the grand
est lamps you ever seen, George,
and they was just as dreamy"
Maybe he don't get enough to
eat" said George. That makes
folks look kind Of dreamy some
times.-
That gent DON'T think much Of
common things like food" declared
the Manicure Lady. Food and
betting on racehorsea and playing
penny ante IL things that has your
mind choked up like weeds. George.
but this gent amt that way. 1 was
going to ask him to take q slant
into my future and let me know
whether / gotta keep on doctorinE
nails for the rest OF my life? But
I was afraid he would say Yes. 90
I kept still"
81 wouldn't care II he did say
yes" said the Head Barber. You
don't mean to tell me that . sveli
girl like you IL going to stay
oin6leI
at looks like Fate had the cards
stacked that way" said the Mani
cure Lady. u dreamed the other
night that the two letters o and n
was dancing all around me. and II
that don't mean Old Maid I'm .
fierce prophet"
Them letters never stood for OLD
Maid with you. kiddo." said the
Head Barber. comfortingly. They
meant oceans of Money or "old
Millionaire"
Don't guess no more. George"
saId the Manicure Lady hastily.
ring OF on the Euesses. Them two
auesses suits me grand. Gee,
george, but you can be Intellectual
when you want to! And you bet
II I do cop a rich gent you know
right where you can BORROW money
70 start your own shop"
The Washington times., 1917-07-20

canoe never comes unless wave
my paddle three times and say
Paddle of magic light,
Shine over the water tonight
Until my canoe. comes hoatinE
- you.
On q path OF silver bright"
Sweet Content offered TO take
crystabeI home on FLUFFY. her big
white butterfly. but the forlorn
fairy refused to 60 home without
her paddle. Our fairy was puzzled
enouEh-whers could It be?
She pulled out, from her rose
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
Meeting Success
Half Way
Can You Truthfully Assert That You
Are Growing Every Day?

chara1t~ parts nsansr nDznd hsrvaff
very much interested in typsA She
began thinking about the unusual
her n contact She began nttins
than into some a the skstehss she
was studying.
tsTestad IN the idea Of writing q little
sketch Of her own. That sketch d
Going to Be produced shortly and
Eleanor II to Be har own leading
woman a. well A. her own author and
TO md her name on the door In cleo
tric isttsra.
The age Of miracles IL not past
II all-out everybody has to be his
own miracle worker and her own
fairy godmothSr. 1nnuOncs can put
you on your fset-but 10 cannot
make you walk. No amount of
backing can assure you OF success
Wire pulling may put you into q
good position but Il cannot insure
you against falling there. The
business world IL, fun Of jealousy
ana gossip which indicates how
Johnny was favored By the boss
and Jenny got her job through
friends OF the chiefs wife and JAMES
10 only where he II because he's
related 70 the head bookkeOper.
watch John and Jenny and James.
II II 10 In any Of them 10 succeed
they win-and the more quickly
because q good opportunity was
given them. II laEiness or inoonn.
potency means that they are almost
predistined failures, great viii be
the fall thereof when the fall eomeA
II innuencs gets . young woman
the position OF secretary to the
president and permits her to skip
the preliminaries OF promotion from
eight dollars q week upwards 10
Twenty-Five. Just watch her. How
long do you suppose she can stay
secretary to the president II she
10 slow ana stupid shout taking let
tiers and transcribes them with
neither neatnesss nor correotnssSf
II the girl who 10 put into . big
position doesn't At Il, she will be
toppled out OF IL very shortly. II
you grow into . position and arrive
At the point where ron are capable
Of nlling Its needs. you are bound
TO Keep it-as long a. you keep on
growing with Il.
shutting up your books when you
get out Of school and shouting aloud
that you are through with
school forever IL something toward
which youth gayiy looks forward
But oh, how youth biunderA We
don't get through with school for
ever unless we mean to fail Life
Is . school and we have to 20 on
learning-or go with the foot Of the
class. ~
There Is no such thing as standing
still There are only such things
as getting hopelessly left behind,
Just managing to keep up with the
procession. or forging ahead to real
BucossA Z
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
By Lillian Lauferty.

Dy LIIlldL AaulCIIys
no you remSmesr what the RED
Queen said 20 Alice whom
that young person found her
frHnneAlly running along . sort Of
treadmil and asked why she was
silly enough to run 30 fast when she
wasn't getting Gnywhsrsf The an
sWer was frAuEht with deep philos-
ophy. It was something like this:
Il know Il, my dear. But you have
to run avfully fast to stay whore
you ara"
Really, you do have to run awfully
fast to stay where you arc In this
modern world of oursi New ideas
come rushing along; inventions hap
pen all the time; improved methods
for doing things are discovered; col
leges and business schools turn out
streams OF trained workers, and the
whole world whirls ahead 80 fast
that unless you run very rapidly
you md yourself left behind
The man or woman who wants to
make q success of his or her life
must grow all the time. Nothing
else In the world stands still. and
II you do you are useless Because
you measure up to your work on the
drst Of June does not mean that
Iou will properly At Il on the hrst
OF July. It 10 going to grow. and
you have TO grow with Il.
Growing with your work means
little more than doing II faithfully
and studying II very carefully.
know . young actress. whom we
will call Eleanor, chiefly because
that 10 not her name.
She Il . Eood-lookinE girl and Il
rather clever At interpreting ingsnus
partL But she Il a little too tall and
. little too mature looking TO have
any feeling OF security about her line
OF work. Eleanor recognized that
and decided that since she was not
brilliant enough or beautiful enough
nor yet possessed Of intense dramatic
ability. influence. or ususualness. she
had very little hope OF ever being
the beautiful heroineI
Il think I'd be 4 pretty good char
Acter woman I'm going to get hold
Of all the plays I can and study
'typeS I'll decide how I would In
terpret them and get a lot OF expert
snce. Then. a. soon as I'm too fat or
too homsly or too mature looking for
lisps and baby stares, III be ready
for another line Of work." was
cleaners decision
She was several moves ahead Of the
game. you see, and was fairly well in
Bured against having her world move
30 fast that II would leave her be-
hind.
A rather remarkable thing hap
pened to Eleanor-but I fancy that
almost anyone who began to study
not only her own field, but all the
neiEhboring plots OF land, might have
Q similar experience. In studying
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
Sweet Content Stories

her head. 'Noh. dear. We can never
recover It"
Eyes. we can" answered Sweet
Content You stay here and watch
while 60 home for something.
Don't let him get away"
She clspped her tiny hands for
FLUFFY and drove quickly back to
her rosebower. Once inside, she
went Immediately TO q closet and
brought forth two rosewood pad
dies. She sprinkled them with rose
perfume and wound them swiftly
with threads of Eilvsry dew until
they looked like twin paddles of
sparkling silver. Back she Jew on
FLUFFY TO the CLASSY marsh.
CrystRbel was waiting with AnxI-
Gus eyes. Whom she saw the pad
dies she Eiggled Joyfuily. How
quickly her hair curled upN Master
Minis was fast asleep, for. hearing
no sound. he thought they had given
up their search and gone away.
Sweet Content stole near him and
dropped tho paddles. Splash. He
Jumped and seeing no one near and
the Two shining paddles floating. he
reached up his clammy hanG and
grAsped them. As he stretched, the
magic paddle hoRted TO the surface
and .CrystAbel caught II quickly.
Master Minis discovered that he had
been deceived, for when he touched
Sweet Contents paddles he found
they were rosewood paddles woven
with dew threads, and lashsd the
water in creamy foam. breaking the
paddles into shrsdh.
But sweet. Content and Crystabsl
laughed merrily az they ate straw
berry ice cream at Molly Nilkweed's
dainty shop, for they had fooled
Master MiInS and CFystabel had hss
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
What Has Gone Before

The story opens with the arrival Of Full
bert. n Buddhist monk OF the Tibetan
LanR, At an Isolated house on the Island
or Cabrera. He kreets Oxus. master OF
the house, with whom he is plotting for
the making Of = man-hsh. a creature that
may slip into the sea. and below sweep
the oceans OF every ship that floats.
Oxus had expected his own wife, Bertha,
10 give birth to q male child. but a little
girl was born instead. Fulbert, In q mon
astery IN Spain, takes from Martha de
Bliguires her male infant born out Of
wedlock. The mother goes mad when the
child Il torn from her breast
Eighteen years pass The scene shifts
to the French torpedo boat Cyclone. IN
ViilsfrAnche Harbor. The commander.
Lieut., Louis De Cieerat, 10 talking TO q
friend. II = February /. Ciserat calls at
tention to = Newspaper Article which tells
OF visit Of q mysterious stranger to the
palace OF the Kaiser. The Kaiser is COM
Unknown" Similar prociamations are
received by the rulers OF France, Bel
GUM, Denmark. Great Britain. Austria,
Russia, and Holland.
Ciserat and the other officers OF the
French squadron are summoned on board
Admiral Gsrminst's flagship. The ad-
niral announces that the Unknown" has
blown up q German and q British battle
ship, and has also destroyed Fort Chav-
Other forts and ships also are destroyed.
Fulbert and Oxus are then turned TO IN
the story. being located on an Island On
the Arabian coast.
'Hictaner," or the man-dah, comes into
the chamber and talks to Oxus and Fur
bert by means Of signals. The two monks
wear wonderful diving helmets and gar
mentl made OF silver scales. II appears
that Hictaner by means OF his marvellous
amphioious powers, and the help Of
torpedo. or bomb carrier. II enabled TO
travel under water at incredible speed.
severac: an engineer and slso a member
OF the Lamaist order. is the inventor Of
the torpedo. but knows nothing Of He
taner. The two monks decide to impart
their secret TO Severac.
Fulbert explains how Oxus experimental
on apes until he produced one that could
live In water and how a male child was
obtained. He then told OF bow the man
nsh was trained. Of the treasures recov-
cred, Of the destruction wreaked, and Of
the truce.
Now Go On With the Story
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
By William F. Kirk.

rkTHE gent that Just went out
was Indian prince"
said the Manicure Lady.
He says he Is a sunnee. or some
thing like the name OF that river
the song 10 about He says he can
. see and hear q lot Of things the
rest OF Us can't"
That's the bunkF- said the prao-
teal Head Barber. Il thought he
looked kind Of queer. Absinths,
maybe"
mo, he wasn't drinking nothing
said the Manicure Lady. Il know
enough about gents TO know he was
cold sober. And after he had told
me that Il made me kind OF creepy.
I amt no nervous. shrinking thing.
George. As you may have saw a lot
Of timss. but what don't know
nothing about always makes me feel
kind Of creepy. Maybe he knew I
had been kind Of GdmirinE him"
You don't want to be admirinE
no mystery men," said the Head
Bareer. what do you suppose I
am around here forT'
Not for me to admire. George"
said the Manicure Lady. OF course,
being that my heart 10 naturally
sensitive and warm. like you
pretty we'll, but don't admire you.
amt got no call to admire you.
George"
You'd rather admire some dark
skinned fakir." said the Head Bar
Der. IF I told you I could mes
merise you and separate my soul
from my body you'd think I was
the real Mccoy. That fellow was
stringinE you"
NO. he wasn't" denied the Mani
cure Lady. Il have got one OF them
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
BY Ira S. Vile, M. D.
AssOciats Editor ~American Med

AssOeiats Editor GAnerican Msdi'
eInes and Member n. Y. City
Board of Education.
TRIDAY Is generally regarded as
nSh day.
A religious custom has es-
Gablished q food habit.
Practically every day may be fish
day. .------.--.
Fish is an excellent substitute for
meat, particularly during the Sum-
mer when fresh nsh is procurable.
Don't eat fish to secure a brain
food because II possesses no advan-
taEe over lean meat 1t is not q
brain food.
In its fresh state nsh contains
more water than meat, but in dried
form It is richer in nutrient sub
stances.
The large variety OF fish at all
easons, the many havors. the num-
erous methods Of cooking them en-
hances their value as a rational
foodstuff for any day in the year.
cheapness, palatability. cigestibil-
Ity combine TO make hsh q valuable
The Washington times., 1917-07-20

Aid IN reducing the cost OF living
without Bacrihcing the health or
energy OF the consumer.
Buy fresh FISH. You can tell them
by their bright eyes. red gills and
firm. odoriess flesh.
II 10 OF course safer to use fsh
that IL In season. The varieties
vary at the same time in different
sections OF the country.
Cold storage nsh Is acceptable pro-
vided that II has been properly
frozen. Buy cold storage nsh in the
frozen state.
Cold storage hsh spoIls readily and
quickly after It has thawed out. Do
not use Sc unless It has been thawed
out at home.
All forms OF fsh decay easily with
the production OF poisoning sub
stances that may cause severe Ill
mes.
Secure fresh hsh or frozen FISH,
prepare them for the table as soon
as possible. While waiting to cook.
keep them on the ice-not merely in
the refrigerator.
Among the most digestible fish
are to be named whiting. sole, fioun-
der. haddock, cod
There Is considerable fat in sal
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
The Day to Eat Fish

mon. trout, haIIbut. mackeral. shad.
and they are excellent sources Of
energy.
The virtues OF dried cod, maekeral.
herring as foods are everywhere
recognized. but not fully appreci-
ated
You do not require much meat
during the Summer. You are wise
to have meatless days as a matter
OF choice.
The general custom OF this meat
eating nation is such that to go
without meat seems a hardship.
Too much meat Is eaten in the.
average household.
How many times a day does meat
appear in your diet7 How many
days each week?
Decrease the meat bill-save your
money for other valuable butt
cheaper foods.
Make use OF hsh because OF itSi
worth in the dietary. and not mere
ly on religious EroundA
Try fsh as an everyday food
not a Friday dish.
q. Educate your palate. Learn toI
value FISH as healthul. body
building. strsngth-EivinE food
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
Advice to the LOvelOrn
By REATRICE FAIRFAX
Ignore Him.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX
have known since chldhood
a man who when q young boy
moved out of the State. One day
while visiting his cousin he hap
pened to come on a business trip
and was surprised when he saw
me. He gave. me his address and
we corresponded for more than a
year. On my last birthday we be-
came engaged and were to be
mar led soon. Two months ago he
stopped writing. met q friend
and he told me he was married
What shall dor WORRIED.
IGNORE him. He has proven HIM
self unreliable and dishonest
and his treatment Of you 10 q sad
forecast OF how he IL likely to treat
the girl who was unlucky enough to
have married him. A quarrel and
protest can do you no good. Rising
superior to the whole thing u your
best course.
The Washington times., 1917-07-20
Ask to Call.
nEAR MAS FAIRFAX

DEAR A16S FAIRFAX
an thirty-one, and through
business am acquainted with =
young lady about eighteen. We
are obliged TO converse over the
tsIOphonS daily on business mat
tSrS, and have had the oppor-
tunity to meet her personally on
two business occasions.
As ! am extremely interested
In her, ] an obliged to admit am
somewhat bashful as to how to
ask her for . hrmsr friendship.
L therefore. request your advise
~ to whether II would be proper
for me to invite the lady TO dinner
some evening or ask to call at her
rOEIdsneS. She has showed me by
. few remarks that I am somS-
what favored. GEORGE.
THE diEnifed thing to DO II to ask
this girls permission to visit her
in her own home. There is no rsa-
son why you should hesitate to
mAkS this request
The Washington times., 1917-07-20

pain of the rounded and the anguish Of the dying.
To fsW of US it is given to help in sOGys that are
more personal than the aid of our purse None con
deny the demands of a IoOrk so needed, Icork 50
uod of sect or creed, york that at best con only
lessen in some measure the terrible re-birth Of
neU ,UorId-the t0OrId ,ehers right shall haze q
securer place in the minds of men.
The Washington times., 1917-07-20

petal bag. her thinking cap of
Queen Anne lace and put 1t on.
She had no sooner tied It under
her chin than she caught sight Of
Master Minis, the black snake. He
was lying at the bottom OF the
cool. dark pool. He was so motion
less than but for the CLEAN from
his evil red eyes you would never
have seen him.
ct believe" she whispered to
crystaSel. that Master Minis has
your paddle"
cEystaAAl IooAAd. zoe, and nodded
The Washington times., 1917-07-20

<<DUT certain Samaritan, as he joarneyed
ID came Where he I0as; and trhen he sqsO hins,
he, had compassion on him, aud vent to
kin, and bound up his rounds.
Ecsn HOtO on far of battle fields americas boys
arc in the fight that Democracy may DO sGUsd to
the OOrld. And svsr present Nth the fog are
those sisters of compassion Cho seek to Gssld0e the