Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

| on earth" Whatever may be thoush1
of the good taste of the designer, Moth
ing may be said derogatory to his pat
riotism or his nerve.
And now man is to be used as Gull
| ture of anti toxins to be used IN lhe
| treatment of animals. The Parls acaa-
envy of sciences has just been appnsed
of a novel treatment of animals by
means of human serum. Or. LaVerare
states that animals in the colonies, SUD
iect to disease known as magma, due
to trypanosome, a cro-organlsm are
relieved by injections of human serum.
Man is refractory to the magma, but,
curiously enough, monkeys blood is not
effective This should please the oppo-
nents of the Darwinian theory.
All this fuss among the Vanderbilt
women as to who shall use the name
Mrs. Vanderbilt on her visiting cares
must be laughable to the old timers
who remember when old Cornelius
Vanderbilt ran a ferry. The general
public does not care whether Bills wife
or old Grandma Vanderbilt gets the
title.
The movement in England appealing
to King Edward to disapprove of turf
gambling, while entirely laudable, will
come to nought. From inclination and
policy the king will find himself unable
to comply with the desires of his petit
TONERS. His horses race for the great
stakes at every notable meeting of the
English turf. While gambling on horse
races is more general than here, if suc''-
a thing is possible. and the plunging
heavier than in this country, the king
| will keep his hands off the matter.
Great race meetings can scarcely be
conducted without gambling, and the
| interfere with.
Disturbed and arrested under the
pure food law in Minnesota the saloon
keepers are asking for whisky in
spector. Not being all Kentuckians
this petition should be looked to at
once and steps should be taken to pre-
dates. Just how prosecutions under
pure food law can affect saloon
keepers is hard to see but perhaps
whiskey is meat and drink to Mime
sofa people.
A Washington dispatch quotes SEN
ator Hanna as saying in defense of
Major Rathbone: "At the utmost
Rathbone was victim of the pre-
vailing custom of lavish expenditure
among the government officials in Gu
BIO during the reconstruction period
following the war" Senator Hanna is
wrong. Least is a better word in the
connection. Rathbone was the victim
| of a custom prevalent among thieves
and has received a thief's sentence.
The sentence was lenient rather than
severe. There is no defense to be
made for Rathbone more than for any
other thief
| The allied party seems to be new
birth of populism. Not still birth by
any means in a sense of peace and
| quietude, but partial revification of
| the fragmeptary policies and chimeri-
cal political pipe dreams of old time
logical candidate and the good thing
| about this is that he can't help 1t.
| 1t is expected that the commission
now in session on the question of rural
mail boxes will recommend the pur-
chase of boxes and their sale directly
to the patron by the government. The
| plan of buying in half million lots to
sell at cost would vastly cheaper the
cost to patrons, make entire uniform
ity on all routes inaugurated after
! the adoption of such a plan and do
away with the scramble for the box
business. When it is said that the
government might furnish excellent
boxes for 81 or less, it will be seen that
the box companies have a good thing
at present.
According to the Nottingham Daily
Guardian, United States Consul S. c.
Mcfarland has acknowledged a num-
Der of subscriptions to the fund for the
Canton o., monument to the late Pres
ident Mckinley. United States consuls
all over the world are authorized to re-
ceive such subscriptions.
Canda has been startled by the report
of an investigation of the condition of
the immigrants pouring into that prov
| ince from Europe. 1t finds that diseased
mendicants are being dumped into
| Canada from England and other Euro
! pean countries at an alarming rate.
| Beggars and diseased persons who are
denied entrance into the United States
tiers of population and becoming bur-
den on the country's charity. A strong
campaign is now in progress by Cana
dian immigration bureaus to secure re-
movals from The border states of the
United States into Alberta. The Cana
dams have grown tired of the class OF
immigrants secured from Europe.
Governor Heard of Louisiana was
very likely sincere In constituting the
forwarding station for mules and
horses purchased by the British gov
eminent as a military camp. The ques-