Iowa State Register and Farmer (Newspaper) - December 1, 1905, Des Moines, Iowa DES MOINES NO Published weekly at Fourth street and by company Sec S And the only fly the ment is steel rails at per ton Oct ut Des Moines Editor FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 1905 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Single subscriptions s 50 Single three Three one Five or more for ime year 30 imT lire ln J he thn ever to uur y never owe us ing on subscription York Office -10 Payne Young Manners Chicago ing Payne Young Managers Give dross in full ing county and state In ordering of address give both old and new ad- dresses Watch the on It tells the date to which your Paid Money may be sent bv Order Money Lotter or Draft at our risk to Postmasters Newsdealers and Publishers sent on application Copies sent Free Address IOWA STATE REGISTER FARMER Des Mcines Iowa Page 1 Editorial Comment Page 2 Editorial Comment Con- and Country Life Page 3 Country Life Continued Page 4 Horticulture Page 5 Horticulture Continued Page 6 Poultry Department Page 7 Stories Picked Up Page 8 Register Home Circle Page 9 Our Boys and Girls Page Serial Story Page 11 Asked and Answered Page 12 From the People Page 13 Iowa News Page Field Notes Page 15 Live Stock Page 16 Live Page 17 Live Stock Continued Page 18 Live Stock Continued Page 19 Classified Advertisements Page 20 Classified Advertisements Continued Football has gone with the turkey bones The Iowa congressional on the tariff is clear as mud You will have to pay 25 cents a pound for turkey for Thanksgiving The King road drag and the wide tired wagon make a fine combination Turkeys are short for Thanksgiving Never mind chickens are just as good Dolliver don't care who steals his pants so long as Cummins don't steal his toga Both Lafe Young and Dobson seem to have been very much impressed with occidental stinks It is to be a sea level canal and it he many years before we shall see a level canal across tie isthmus An experienced hotel manager says that women do not make good hotel clerks for the reason that up to the time they are 24 the guests pay too much attention to them and after that A bar room pool or billiard room are none of them good places to strike a job when you are out of work Men that want to hire don't go to such Places to look for men they want A Los Angeles woman has just pre- sented her husband with a second set of triplets This is running to extremes as much as is to tute 3 pug dog for a single baby A reader wants to know where he can secure some of the famous bug juice Government we understand has gone out of the business Don't know who sells it It is said that porterhouse steak and hides now bring the same price per pound This is not the only re- semblance which some of the house steak wo get bears to the hide It seems that when a slick tongued agent comes around and wants to in- sure your life it is entirely the proper thing for him to put all of the first premium in his own pocket No der poorly paid parsons take kindly to the Hfe insurance business tf V of Harper's Weekly time they pay too much attention to the guests above is referred to the parsons to settle Officials of the three big insurance companies will all have to be changed if the companies expect to do much new business The usual crazy scrap will soon be on to secure a lot of potty legislative offices half of which could be ished just as well as not A man at Newton wants a political party organized made up of the kickers in all the old parties This would be just a lovely tion A Newton parson who went to a church social for the good of the church lost the chance to marry three couples while he was gone It is bad enough for a man to take up politics as a business but when he takes up whisky as a skle issue he is headed for the dead house in short order Jack London is having all the ble of a modern literary person with his matrimonial know whether he is married or not It looks as though Iowa druggists will have to quit dispensing Iowa cocktails in the patent containing 40 per cent of cohol iking of municipal graft it is by confined to the officials of the large cities of the country A friend of ours whose business if is to arrange for the grounds and the city licenses for one of the largest cuses in the country and who is thus brought into close touch with city of- all over the country tells us that not less than one-half of our are grafted more or less by their officials This graft bobs up in a hundred tribute levied in connection with the side shows issued in sums much less than the amount extorted intimations by marshals and sheriffs that unlawful games will be permitted if things are made right with them m a word it takes a pretty smart circus man to hold his own with the average grafter It is graft graft where and in too many of our towns it would be folly for old Diogenes to fool away any time hunting among city officials after dark Southern California sells climate and gets a good price for it Five thousand eastern tourists landed in Los Angeles lately in one day It should not be forgotten that while the corn crop in many localities has not proved up to expectations the crop on the state farms was never better Vessels can make as much profit in transporting one ton of freight one mile for one mill as the railways can doing the same thing for four mills It is only repeating what has been said before when we say that it would be better all round if no women were employed in connection with the sessions It is hard to put up an argument against football when the share of the Wisconsin team in its game with Michigan was Money talks Burr ell of the Washington Press is always digging up posers This is his According to the Bible begat Lamech and lived 782 years thereafter lived 182 years and begat Noah Noah vras 600 years old the flood occurred Was Methuselah The Eight hundred and ten thousand gallons of whisky burned at Bradford Pa It is difficult to figure out the loss in such a case are so many compensating gains Iowa's good governor says in his Thanksgiving Ail things combine to deepen our and increase our happiness Peace has prevailed harvests have been abundant business has and the laborer has been at PEAT AND PAPERS In Ireland and Scotland at one time and another the manufacture of paper and book boards out of peac been usually on a small scale Two firms are now making wrapping paper out of peat but other material has to be added the so-called peat payer being only about three-quarters peat At present at lease peat pulp cannot be bleached Consequently only brown paper can be mads out of it Finally straw and pulp pers are cheaper Much more mising is the new industry of making paper out of If it be true as is reported that a tea of paper as as that made of wood pulp or rag can be manufactured for to cost of wood pulp or rag paper runs from to a then the people who own the new process are going to be among the golden gods of the earth and the paper trust will be smitten woefully The fanners can find more profitable use for their thaa to fire or fertilizer of them
