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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Why the Old Farm. For Sale.

The old FARMS for sale. It Is ad-
vertised in the county papers. Two
hundred good acres of land, and house
hold articles too numerous to mention
and a few horses and some cows, and
a number Of sheep and hogs and the
agricultural implements. To be sold tc
the highest bidder. All sums under S.
cash in hand. On all sums over IS, a
credit Of twelve months will be given
with approved security.
Years and years ago the old farm
which wasn't old then-became the
home Of a certain couple. A family was
brought up on the farm-several girls
and boys. The girls have married; the
sons have farms Of thei~own in other
sections Of the country-except one. the
youngest. He is in the army. That's
why the old FARMS for sale There is
no one left to operate it, and some OF
the children want their portion of the
estate: even before mother or father
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
IoUa Newspapers
FEWER NEW SPAPERS.
TDeS MoineS Register


! The surrender of the Herald in
the Chicago newspaper field evil
dences a tendency towards fewer
newspaper that has been marked in
late years.
! In recent number Of the Atlantic
Monthly Oswald Garrison Willard OF
the New York Evening Post has COL
lected statitics to show how rapidly
newspaper elimination has been going
on, using the statistics as the basis of
| an argument concerning the future Of
| the newspaper.
| Long before a shortage Of print
! paper had forced consultations and
Withdrawals from overfllled fields the
| tendency had been toward fewer
newspapers. In Chicago the Chron
| icle was compelled to give up the ghost
long before there was any problem Of
news print. In St Paul the Globe had
likewise been abandoned.
Many reasons can be given, the
principal one being that the collec-
| ton and publication of news mas be-
| come a complicated and costly bust
ness, in which those who are best
| equipped for the service are bound to
! take such a precedence as to make
successful competition out of the ques-
ton. To give no other reason for the
gradual decline Of the Chicago Her
aid, it was enough that the Herald
was soon out of the running with the
Tribune IN quantity and quality OF
news service.
But there are other reasons in most
instances Newspapers have person
alities, and just as In daily life per-
sonality is a powerful aid or serious
hindrance, so in the newspaper field
some go up where others go down.
seemingly equal in equipment and the
mechanical ability to print news. 1t
Is not a criticism Of Mr. Kelley, who
is a talented newspaper maker, genial
and full Of energy. that having spent
mis- newspaper youth making the Chi
cago Tribune he was unable to go out
Of the Tribune office and make
newspaper OF a wholly different sort.
And yet II he could have given to Chi
cago and the west a newspaper more
like the New York Times, or even like
the New York World or like the Phil
! adelphia Public Ledger. he would have
stood some show Of success.
The passing Of the Herald marks the
passing OF a number of well known
newspapers dating back to the old
Chicago Times. followed by the Rec
ord the Herald and the Inter Ocean.
ad of them now buried in one COM
mon grave In their day every one OF
them was notable for excellence OF one
sort or another, and every one OF them
was successful in it's field. The Trio-
une, which was contemporary with the
Times, has outlived every competitor
and is more powerful and stronger
than ever in it's history.
The passing Of the Herald IS
bound to have great influence on
the newspaper future Of the middle
west If a newspaper. so adequately
financed and managed by so expert
enced a publisher and news gatherer
as Mr.. Kelley could not succeed, there
IS little to encourage the ambitious
launching of new ventures that involve
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
RIPPING RHYMES
'By Wait Mason
THE COlp RAIN.

moist; ana
Tyre ana
the and do not throw morbid NJ
twip their holes The
will the How OFTEN
your
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Real Mean Of Him.

It happened on the links Of t.
nous club near New York. A mixed
foursome, all bridge players, was go
ing the round. One Of the couples
consisted of = somewhat irritable doc.
tor and q very Indifferent woman play
or. The doctors partner had done
everything wrong that was possible.
The eliminating point was reached
when, driving from the eighth tee.
the woman pulled her drive in the
most approved "Hirat" fashion. The
ball lay about two feet OF very
high bunker. Tho lady. however,
without a moments hesitation, took
ner prassie AMI, foT oIicc getting .
really good swipe, sent tho ball about
six feet into the bunker. Her partner.
with a sweet smile, turned and said;
Having no spade. partner?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
CUT OUT CANDY AND GUM.

| CUI UUI CHNuI ANU HUW.
! 1t is the business of people to be-
| loyal these days and obey the com.
mands Of those in authority because il
is the only authority we have and ir
time OF war a people must maintain
lost. However, there can be no harm
in frank discussion Of what woulG
seem to be Observation-Disclosures in much
of the strategy on the part of the food
administration.
This newspaper has called attention
to the impracticability Of saving
| wheat in the aggregate by permitting
substitutes to cost more than the
wheat. What patriotic people save is
consumed by the masses who must
count the cost and the wheat thus
periodically saved by the few does not
get to France. If it were made pro-
itable for everybody to buy substi-
tutes the few would not need to do
not rush to the bakers for bread in
order to evade the substitutes.
Now comes the sugar problem. We
must have a sugar card and a sugar
ration which is all right and should
be obeyed but at the same time the
administration announces that candy
factories soft drink makers. makers of
syrups for soda fountains, manufac-
turers OF chewing gum and the like
can have 50 per cent of the sugar they
need
It sounds like more of that i'm
possible doctrine of business as usual.
The government has tried to protect
normal business in the steel trade with
the result that it could not get men
nor steel fast enough for its ships.
Then Schwab took charge. Within
three days fifty of the largest steel
mills had promised ali of their steel
to the government and none for bust
ness as usual We will now get some
ships made.
We appropriated nearly billion
dollars for alrplanes and acknowledge ID
that we must win this war IN the air.
Then we tried to build more airplanes
than all the belllgerents combined an
still keep the automobile factories
running as usual The result Is we
have no airplanes after a year Of wait
ing, When the government is willing
to shut off the Joy riders cars it will
begin to get airplanes.
In the meantime candy factories and
chewing gum manufacturers may run
80 per cent while the housewife is
ordered to go without sugar IN
ordinary cooking at home.
We are told to conserve on butter
and then the state food administrator
announces that he will not curtah the
manufacture Of Ice cream because 1t is
a dairy product and we have plenty OF
milk food which ought to he con-
sumed. We all know that there is al
most no limit to the amount Of butter
which can be produced IN this country
if the price is sufficient inducement.
good soldier must obey orders ana
he will but there must come broader
no,tcy on the part Of the food admin
ton and a complete abandon
nent Of the business as usual poicg
before we can become efficient in this
nation. England and France have cut
their candy and pop factories to %
ner cent Of their normal supply OF
sugar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Masonic Meetings
Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1903, A. F
and A. M.-Special communication
Friday, May 10. 1880 p. m. Work IN
second degree. B. E. English, W. NJ
John w. Wells, secretary.
sIGNET CHAPTER. No. SO, r. A. M
Stated convocat ton Monday evening
April %, Business session. O'CLOCK
Ira A. Davenport, H. P; John W.
Wells, secretary
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No 20, r. & S. NJ Mon
day, May 20, 1918. 500 p. m. Regular
business. I. T. Forbes, recorder; George
Gregory I. NJ.
Special concIave. St. Aldemar
commandery, No. 80, x. T., Monday
Nav 6. p. M Rehearsal and drlli.
]. f. Frederick, commander; l. T.
Forbes. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81. o. E.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday even
ing May IS 1918. Picnic dinner at 6;9''
business at 8. Mrs. Archer Walton,
secretary: Mrs. Cora Wiley. W. NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Cheap Floor stain.

A very inexpensive stain can b
made from burnt umber and hot va
tor. Five cents worth Of the burnt
lumber viii stain several doors; that 10.
whore . rug 10 used for tho center.
Pour the hot water over the burnt
lumber, little at = time, till It il thor
oughly dissolved. Use quart Of hot
water to five cents worth OF lumber;
that makes pretty dark brown stain.
Let 1t dry, then rub on any good floor
Hax and polish.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Earth,s Temperature.

1t has long been known that the tenn.
perature below the earths surface in
creases at the rate Of about one degree
per hundred feet, or 80 degrees per
mile. II the rate of increase were con.
slant. the temperature at the relative
ly small depth of 100 miles would be
above the melting point OF all sub
stances under ordinary surface condi-
lions. 1,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07

passes away. So the old farms for

passes away. So the old farms for
sale.
1t will be sold to a stranger. For a
few years it will be known by the name
of the people who now own it. Then
gradually, the name will give way to
the name Of the new owner-and the
last trace Of the old family will have
disappeared from the neighborhood
The war only FASTENED the sale of the
old farm, for the younger boy would
soon have left it any way. But, came
the war. and the old farms for SALE
Columbus, O., Dispatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07

such an outlay Of money in such an
unpromising speculation. We may
look with confidence for still further
withdrawal and consultations. There
will be but few new newspaper VEN
lures until the present situation has
adjusted itself. and that will not be
for many years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
Lucky Accident Tor Him.

LUCKY NccIuenI TOT 1IM'
After proposing three times ana
being rejected on account Of his ugli-
ness, man In London was injured
in an accident SO severely that whAn
he recovered his face had been COM
pletely reconstructed, decidedly for
the better. He proposed again and
was accepted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-07
! Now Located at
: Masonic Temple
ROOM EOS
s r. w. CHAMBERLAIN
sMoxies. and Mono.onx.

d Stranger Tin Hickville)-"L.se In
mis- burg must be kind of monotonous,
ISN'T itr Hotelkeeper-"Used to be .
little that way, but two weeks ago the
naaAgsr Of our theater started to
ehangs the pictures twice week.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Interview With One Dealer Satisfied
Shovel Maker That He Had No
Need to Worry

Many delightful villagers appear in
Miss Rosalind Richards "a Northern
Countryside there are people anus
ing and lovable, eccentric and pathetic.
Old Eliphalet Marston, hero of one
brief anecdote, stands out among them
all as the best exemplification of the
principles on which real business sue
cess is founded.
Eliphalet, who built and owned the
shovel factory, made it his study to
produce the best-wearing and the
soundest shovel that could be made. In
later life his son tried to induce him
to go about through the country, look
up his customers, and do what he
could to increase trade. The son was
very emphatic about it. 1t was what
every one did, the only way to keep
up-to-date and advertise the business
and Eliphalet must not become. moss
grown. The old man shook his head
but after much discussion consented
to start off, although he was not real
| ly persuaded of the wisdom of the Sug-
gestion.
He went to big wholesale dealer in
Chicago, but did not mention his name
merely said he was there to talk
| shovels.
'Don't mention shovels to me-" said
the dealer. There's just one shovel
that's worth having, just one that's
honest, and that's the one that I'm
handling. There it is" he said, pro
ducing it. Look at it! That's the
only shovel that's made in this coun
try; made by a man named MarstOn
at Marston Plains, state of -"
Eliphalet chuckled and went home
Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
APPEALS TO EUROPEAN EYES
Picturesque Island Of Zanzibar Ha,
q Charm Possessed by Few Other
Places in Africa.

The little island of Zanzibar is one
Of the most picturesque places in At
rica-one Of the few places of the
dark continent that is picturesque at
all. That is because it is an old,
historic island, with traces of van
ished peoples, accretions of old Gus
toms, memorials of forgotten events.
The greater part of Africa is print
tive, nature In state of nature. and
nature is magnificent, beautiful awe
inspiring, terrifying. but rarely pic
turesque. The latter Is characteri-
cation of the works of man, which
comes to them with time. The frame
is what makes the picture, and 1t is
only man who builds frames.
The narrow streets of Zanzibar, the
massive carven doorways, the stern
old houses, the time-worn markets, the
crooked, mysterious alleyways, the
riot of color and the babel Of tongues
the still heat that throws over 1t all an
Illusion of vagueness like play seen
on the stage, make pGture that will
remain fresh in the memory for years
The island is set like fiuted emerald
In green sea, with still blue sky
burning changeless overhead. In the
past Zanzibar was the home of all the
wonder and cruelty Of the East. set
tied and harried by the Arab and Mos
lem traders from Egypt and Turkey
Today it is a British protectorate
with a fgurehead sultan, who spends
much of his time and money in Euro
pean travel.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
His Wonderful Memory.

Horace Annesley Vachell. playwright
and novelist. had an extraordinary
memory. which stood him in very goot
stead when he wrote his play. Search
lights"
He composed the play very rapidly
straight or on his typewriter, in fact
and did not trouble to take a copy. Ii
these circumstances, he refused to in
trust the precious manuscript to any
one less careful than himself. Hail
ing a motorcar, he brought 1t up tC
town, and promptly left 1t behind hin
on the seat of the cabl
He set himself to retype the play
from memory, and just as he had fin.
ished Scotland Yard recovered the
missing copy. Mr.. vachell found. on
comparing the two scripts, that he had
rewritten the play almost word fol-
world
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
SAINT SURELY WOMAN Halter
Colombia, II Must Be Admitted, Car
ried His Aversion to- the Femi-
nine Sex to an Extreme.

Women have been forbidden on sew
eral islands ruled by the Catholic
clergy. One of the most famous OF
these is Iona of Icolmkill, called also
I or by, a small island of the inner
Hebrides, nine miles southeast OF
Staffa, and separated from the island
of Null by channel one and a quar-
ter of a mile wide, called the sound OF
Toe of Icolmkill; it is in Argyleshire
and has a population Of about three
hundred, whose only occupations are
fishing and raising black cattle on tht
bleak moors. From earliest times ths
island has been accounted holy and Il
is still known to the Highlanders al
Eilean nah Druinech-the Sacred Isl,
of the Druids, for whose rites 1t wal
the chief seat.
In 563 Conal Christian, king of tn,
Northern Scots, granted 1t to st. Co
lomba. Brude, king of Picts, con
firmed the gift upon being converted
Colombia built chapel and hospic'
Of wicker and mud matched will
heather among the 800 gray Druidica
monoliths. on which rude crosses wer'
sculptured by early converts. Colon
ba's aversion to everything feminin'
was such that he forbade even tn,
keeping Of cows on the island, for, h
said, "where there Is a COW there mus
be a female, and where there is fe
male there must be mischief" An.
married tradesman Of Iona must keel
his wife on the neighboring "Woman'
isle." While the lords of the isle wer
brought to Iona for burial. their wive
were buried on the Isle of Finlagah.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Sand Dunes In oasoony.

One Of the most interesting and re-
markable Of the many regions for the
observation of sand dunes lies between
Bordeaux and Bayonne, in Gascony.
The sea here throws every year upon
the beach. along line of 100 miles in
length, some 100000 cubic yards of
sand. The prevailing westerly winds
continue picking up the surface parti-
cles from the westward slope, where
they are again deposited, and the en-
tire ridge by this means alone moves
gradually inward. In the course of
years there has thus been formed a
complex system Of dunes, all approx
mately parallel with the coast and
with one another and of all attitudes
up to $50 feet These are marching
steadily inward at rate of from three
to six feet year, whole villages hav-
Ing sometimes been torn down to pre-
vent burial and rebuilt at distance.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Geftinn On In Life.

Someone whose hair was growing
iron-gray said: 81 am getting ON in
life." His friend, who knew hin
very well, had his doubts. He mis-
took getting on In years for getting
on in life. He was morally and spir
itually just about where he had beer
80 years before. Nobody gets on In
life except those that achieve spirit
ually. When boyhood's bad temper
persists into manhood, when one is ir
ritable, disobliging, selfish. naughty
proud, self-sufficient, immoral, goddess
one should not talk about getting or
In life, even If one is as rich as Croe
sus. To get on In life is o rise IL
moral stature. 1t is to have a sou
big enough to love and admire without
envy, to be content with treasures Of
the mind, to set character first Of
all. The man who is "rich in faith
gets on. The others drift down the
years, or accumulate great posses
sions. but In the essential things, the
things Of eternity, they are water
logged and stationary.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Slow Growth Of LANGUAGES,

So long as government was conduct
ed exclusively by a throne and aris-
tocracy, the ruling class was con-
strained to speak one language, that of
the court and of polite society. All
cultivated people in the land were edu-
Gated In the same literary tongue,
which was naturally used in official
transactions.
The uneducated classes talked their
own dialects and cared little what
their rulers spoke. They have not al
ways objected even when these men
affected a foreign culture. Frederick
the Great thought himself a French
litterateur and spelled his name like q
Frenchman. But when popular cleo
lions were introduced, and still more
when primary schools became univer-
sal. the question of language assumed
far greater Importance. A. Lawrence
lowell writes in the Independent, New
York. Then the matter of race was
brought to the forefront.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
FIRST NAVAL TRAINING POST
Was Established at Boston, Largely
Through Efforts Of Commodore
William Cambridge.

The first naval school In the United
States was established at the old Bos-
ton navy yard more than century
ago, the founder being Commodore
cambridge, who is known as the 'Fa-
Their Of American Naval Construction. !"
and who was born In Princeton, N. ].
cambridge was captured by the
French In 1898. during the naval con-
fiicts between that country and the
United States, and in 1902 he was
held q prisoner for nine months by
the Tripolitan pirates.
He fought calamity in the Last war
between America and England, and
after Its conclusion induced the Wash
ington authorities to open training
school for officers at Boston. In 1910,
some years after the death Of the
founder of American naval education,
naval school was opened in the old
naval asylum In Philadelphia, and here
for few years the midshipmen of
the republic were instructed in the
arts of warfare on the sea. The plan
was so successful that it was decided
to open a permanent naval academy
Annapolis, Md. was chosen as the site
of the school and there the present
United States Naval academy was
formally opened
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Functions Of Marrow.

A writer in the London Lancet sug-
gests that marrow has twofold func-
ton, not only to noHish the bone, but
to supply a most important internal
secretion. AS bearing this out. he cites
the mortality of SO per cent in ''pri-
mary" cases Of amputation high up the
thigh when the patient is in the prime
of life, with secondary cases In
which the mortality is only 60 per cent.
In the secondary cases, where a dis
eased condition has existed for some
time, there is less shock, according to
the writer, because the system has be-
come gradually accustomed to getting
along wiclout the marrow in the thigh
bone, which contains one-sixth Of the
Total 9ruount in all the bones.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
WATER NECESSARY TO LIFE
All Vitality Has Been Well Called an
aquatic Phenomenon" as French
Student Expressed Il

All life is lived in water. Where nc
water is, no life can be. The necessary
machinery may have been already
made, as In a completely dried seed,
but that seed cannot actually live un.
til water reaches it again. To live is
to be wet; or. in the phrase Of q
French student, Life is an aquatic
phenomenon"
When the supply Of water is with.
held from living things. they may sur.
uve, but their life Is slowed down
as 1t were. In the completely dried
seed, life is arrested altogether. yet the
creature Is not dead. The French call
that case of vie suspendue-or, in
our language, suspended animation
After astonishingly long periods, such
seeds win terminate fkthey are wa
tered. II
The astronomer tells us that oul
planet is only one of many belonging
to innumerable suns, and he wonders
whether this little "ldkewarm bullet
of ours is really unique in bearing 9
burden of life. There is one path that
leads to the answer of his query. Il
he finds no evidence of water or
other worlds, he cannot expect to fine
life there.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
New Chapter in AnthropoIosy,

II is an extraordinary chapter in an.
thropology that Prof. Wood-Jones
Of the University of London, reads
In the Talgai skull and associated
remains discovered In New South
Wales in 1889. The antiquity sug-
gested is far greater than that of the
European ancient skulls, and. instead
of being descendants of the anthropoid
apes, the human race is shown to have
been 90 highly developed as to have
boats and domesticated dogs before the
apes appeared. This skull, distinctly
human and highly mineralized, was in
q stratum with extinct pouched ami
mails. Bones of dingo dogs were found
in similar stratum. and with them
bones Of extinct pouched animals that
had been gnawed by the dogs. Only
pouched animals were known in Aus
fralia at the time Of Captain Cook.
Australia has been an island since
pouched animals were evolved, and it
Is argued that the Talgai man must
have come in q boat with his family
and dogs.