Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-17

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who was thought to be dying of liver
complaint, is rapidly recovering. Hisl
trouble is the penalty of too intense APP
piication to work.
The Minnesota state board Of health
reports a decrease in the number of
smallpox cases recently Of 40 per cent.
The number of new cases reported since
Aug. is 1875, against 239 for the two pre-
vious weeks. But one death occurred.
The New York Tribune notices that a
Society for the Suppression of Spurious
Titles has been formed in Virginia, and
1t endorses 1t by suggesting that al
branch of 1t should be organized in
every state of the union. Then we might
have fewer colonies who never smelled
powder, fewer judges who never read
law and fewer doctors who never healed
o. patient.
English war news, meager as 1t is,
offers better promise of peace, accord
ing to London advices. Evidence is ac-
scumulating that the Boer commanders
have reached the bottom of their SUPP
plies of ammunition and are surrender
ing from sheer inability to defend them
selves. Military men explain the des-
Sperate attacks upon small bodies OIL
British troops by the necessity for OBJ
tanning fresh supplies of rifles and am
munition.
A Chicago physician attributes the
freedom from hay fever this year to the
extinction of the ragweed in many To-
calities by the marvellous growth OF
sweet clover.
This is too ptiful to be ignored. The
Creston Gazette referring to the plea of
guilty Which the editor of the T.-R. en-
ters to the charge of being "a boy the
Gazette says "of course he cannot help
being boy. but the circumstances that
he is also an ass is one largely Of his
own creation" The Gazette is the res
ervation paper that attacked Mr.. Cum
minis with four column article which
was sent to every delegate and which IS
now being republlshed in prohibition
and democratic organs as the best at
tack upon the republican nominee OBJ
tainable. The Cedar Rapids result was
a terrible blow to the Gazette editor. it
fairly made his postoffice tremble and
as he gags and spits at the nauseatins
is to cuss the friends who assistedin the
Cummins campaign.
Down Is Missouri grasshoppers are de-
stroying the green corn in Pettis coun-
ty. The pests literally sweep the fields
clean, leaving the bare stalks.
1t appears after all that Virginia de-
mocracy did endorse Bryan, or rather
express their admiration for it's lead
ers, from Jefferson to Bryan, who have
borne the party standards in victory and
defeat" Still. it is customary to say
rothing but good OF the dead!
VIM =. Curtis sends back word from
Norway and Sweden that those coun-
tries are the healthiest in Europe, and
that the population Is growing in spite
of the emigration to the United States.
The visitor of the Falkland islands
sees number of what appear to be
weather-beaten, mOss-covered powders
of various sizes scattered here and
there. On attempting to turn one over
he is surprised to find that 1t is an
chored to the ground BY roots of great
strength. These are not powders: they
are trees. No other place in the world
can show such popularity of forest"
growth. The Falkland islands are ex-
posed to a strong polar wind, which
renders it impossible for trees to grow
in the proper form: nature has conse-
uuently adapted herself to the prevail
Ing conditions and produced this strange
form of plant life. These Giving stones"
as they are called, are quite devoid of
grain" and it is next to impossible to
cut them up and utilize them for fuel.
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Typhoid fever is epidemic in the Nine
tenth ward Of Chicago, due to impure
water or food. Many victims are suffer-
ing.
Missouri is one of the great tomato
canning sections of the whole country.
There are twenty-five factories III nlne
or ten counties, which last year packed
more than million cans each. This
year they will not pack any. says Presi-
dent Wade, of one OF the Republic fac
tories. The drought and heat lasted so
long that the vines can not recover.
Mrs. Kleener-What is the matter
with you this evening. John. that you
amt smoking?
Mr.. Kleener The doctor says 1
mustn't. He says must stop smoking
or die.
Mrs. Kleener-Oh, I'm so glad! You
won't be seeming UP my curtains any
more, will you? Boston Transcript
Their Secret is Out.
All Sadieyille, KY, was curious to
learn the cause OF the vast improve
ment in the health OF Mrs S. P. Whit
taker, who had for long time endured
untold suffering from chronic bron-
ohial trouble. ITS all due to DIR. Kings
New Discovery" writes her husband.