Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-06

with him in the most enthusiastic man
ner Col. Roosevelt will be the repub-
/ lican nominee two years hence. and he
will be elected. He should be nominat-
ed and elected. There is not the slight
est question about that
Charles +. w. Nicely, the defaulting
Cuban postal clerk who was released
from prison under an act of amnesty
of the Cuban government, arrived in
New York Il few days ago. He said he
thought he could not be prosecuted civ
lilly by the United States government.
and ii is probable the United States
has no desire to prosecute him.
Silver may be abandoned by Iowa
democracy. but every dollar of it has
stamped upon its face, In God We
Trust"
Tho an African, King Menelek of
Abyssinia is man of progressive ideas
and has transformed his medieval
country almost into modern state. His
military system still belongs to a past
age in many respects. but he can put
into the field a formidably equipped
army of 100000 men.
The coal miners strike in West Vir-
gina has ended. and the one in the an
thracite region of Pennsylvania seems
on the point of termination.
At a conference of leading repub-
licans in Des Moines Thursday, att
tended by all but two the congressman
it was decided to make an aggressive
campaign this fall in the state. The
campaigners will stand squarely upon
the republican PLATFORM The meeting
was harmonious and ought to furnish
inspiration to all republicans, includ-
ing the press representatives of the
party. The changed attitude of the
democratic forces will furnish public
speakers ample ground to present goo6
reasons why they should not make
gains this year.
. Irate Father-What have you got to
show for all the money you spent to see
base ball games this season?
Spendthrift Son-Why, have a.
whole lot of rain checks to show, faith
er-Ohio State Journal.
Nova Zembia is at last to be thor
oughly explored, Professor Birksland
Danish scientist. having consented to
head an expedition for that purpose.
He will have six companions, and the
object of the expedition is to study the
phenomena connected with auroral dis
plays
Professor John Trowbridge, of Har-
ward, has lately made a series of ex-
periments with electric sparks six feet
in length, which he thinks show that
lightning never strikes the surface of
the ocean. His experiments We're un-
dertaken with a view of volatilizing
strong spectrum of water vapor. The
that he draws from his ex-
periments is that it does not seem
probable that lightning discharges pass
thru regions in the air of heavy down
fall.
A new era of mud in Iowa is making
the good roads movement one that
needs pushing along in practical
way.
$50
The Iowa Health Bulletin, just issued
for August, says: Some of our Iowa
physicians have, in cases of smallpox,
as therapeutic agent, been using red
light in the room occupied by their
patients. They had red cur
tains in the windows and all light en-
tering the room had to be thru some red
They reported excellent re-
suits, especially an absence Of pitting
and other complications. The practice
seemed empyric, but an excerpt from
hat the treatment is rational and sci-
entitic DR.. Finsen is quoted as hold-
ng that no ray of light should ever be
allowed to fall on a smallpox patient
Unless it has passed thru something
ed The physicians generally of this
country twenty-five to forty years ago
covered the face, hands and all exposed
parts of the body with some dark ma
eral to exclude the light. 1t was found
hat patients so treated, on recovery
we're not pitted. The more popular
treatment, however, was to keep the
patient in dark room. This treatment
Produced an injurious effect upon the
patient, because Of its depressing eff
ects.''
Couldn't Keep Them.-"How many
servants do you keep" asks the first
natron.
II didn't keep twenty-five last year."
onfesses the worried housekeeper.-
Baltimore American.
A Parsons Noble Act
"I want all the world to know" writes
Rev. G. j. Budlong, of Ashaway. r. l.. |