Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-19
Local Affairs in Hundreds of Iowa Towns of
Interest to the General Reader.

are no such ten acres of land as We're
represented to our young friend. Be
fore she would be ready to enter upon
her estate il would be q ISOLATED by var
ious forms of plague. Even universal
sunlight is not a universal providence
Drcariness and waste like the waste
places of Babylon would dwell upon and
make drealy as the pictures or the
i'dstine,n the pilgrim toits runs. 1T was
Wise counsel that made our sagacio,ls
and experienced friend tell the young
girl for the money with which she could
buy ten acres of California land and an
imaginary Paradise that could never pc
realized to buy with the same money
one hundred acres of land in this Mis-
sissippi valley Mhere corn is king and
where Eden never fails without pre-
tending TO any Illusions
NATURE OF APPENDICITIS.
[Carroll Herald
Will Parsons was operated upon for
appendicitis at Wfight,s hospital last
week, and we are glad to be able To say
that he is making the best possible
PROGRESS TO recovery. He had suffered
severely from several attacks and de-
developments revealed that he was in a
most precarious condition.
SO much has been said about appandi-
| ei'is OF late years that we thought our
readers would be Interested to know
something about II, 50 DR.. A. l.. Wrighs
kindly gave US the following Informal
iloll. derived from his reading and ex-
perleace With the affection
Appendicitis was named by Fitz of
boston, IN two articles published by him
| IN 1885 ana 1855, Since then II has occu-
/ pise much attention of the medical pro-
1 lession Many books have been pub
ilshed on the subject and scarcely a
lnunDer OF medical journal is issued
without an article bearing on IT. The
frequency OF attacks. and the inability
OF the physicians TO look into the ma
ture OF these cases, make it the most
Important and grave of all inter-ab-
dominal diseases. Before light was shed
4 by the investigations of Ftz and others
4 an dithcultles now known to be due to
trouble with the appendix were thought
to be inflammation Of the bowels. The
! appendix, IT should be stated, is q rud-
mentary attachment, or under devel-
4 oped end OF the large intestine in man
and some of the Tower animals. So far
as known, it has no use in the functions
OF the body
4 The cause OF appendicitis is due t.
4 disease producing germs gaining an en-
trance into the APPENDIX and exciting
inflammation. The normal contents ol
4 the intestine get in and produce irritd-
ton, liberation. Inflammation and per,
4 foration into the abdominal cavity. ans
A death ensues The Introduction Of sseds
as cause for appendicitis. In the l5t
cases operated upon by DR.. Wright h.
a encounterei a srape seed once and ii,
orange seed once--that's all.
4 The disease is 50 variable that physi-
4 ton. But II the patient has two attacks
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o'5eii eHcnuitteieo.
4 M Shollf1 of' a PROFESSION.
llsoonc Republican,
i, On yesterday !. Bright Jung flii,-n,
!. of ours came into the Office and asket
advice as 70 the choice of profession
He had some design as To leaving hi
successful business and studying Law
i We could moi positively advise him
i because that MOULD presuppose NOR
knowledge than we possess and an ei.
| ror might involve the happiness of hi
Z life.
: We only have some general ideas o
I, the occupations which men choose. l.
t old English literature, as in the custor
5 of the people there We're three profes
! sions which We're called learned and S