Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

in the statement that Minnesota legis-
lators appropriately $50 for the leg
!isiative reporters of the different daily
newspapers. This appropriation was
for services rendered"
Cheap gunners with cheap guns are
lstill too numerous in the suburbs of
American cities. and prowl about KILL
ing sonebirds and other gentle couriers
of the air in spite of the plain provis-
ions of the laws. The officials who are
in duty bound to be vig.iant in enforc-
ling the statutes and in protecting these
innocent creatures should work over
time. If need be, to check such mis-
deeds ard to arrest and Iunlsh the Of
lfenders.
/ Johnson county teachers will receive
fan average raise in wages of about 10
per cent. The highest paid rural teach
ers is SIS per month and the lowest
wages are paid in Big Grove township,
where So to SIS monthly must buy the
services of teachers Of the different
grades. Big Grove ard education!
Chops, gracious heavens, and tomato
sauce
Profes sor George D. Herrons baby is,
sc its father declares, never to set foot
in America. All this bears much harder
on the baby than on America. 1t linn
its the child's opportunities, but will
not be likely to limit the expansion of
this country to any apprcciabe extent.
Professor Heron had the advantages
residence in the United States confers.
Because he failed in manhood and COM
mon responsibility is no excuse or rea
son for his hatred of the .and of his ma
tivity. Professor Herrons vow is re-
mindful of the story of the Jew who
feasted on pork chops. When he came
out thunderstorm was raging and the
Hebrew, gazing at the commotion. re-
marked: Vat hi of a fuss to make
about pork chop Heron contin-
ues in his conceit. He thinks his oath
to expatriate his child will raise thun-
derstorm. But it won't.
The town of White Pigeon, Mich,
claims TO be run as cheaply as any town
in this country. Last year it cost the
500 inhabitants s1,321 fol expenses. The
health department spent s2.25 in addi- |
ton to the health officers salary of
$50; the police department appropria- |
ton was so cents; the fire department |
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were S145 for ground mole bounties and
1925 for woodchuck scaips.
The result of tests performed by Dr.
Charles Harrington, of the Harvard
Medical School, with several proprie-
tary foods for the sick showed that
these, too contain considerable quanti-
ties of alcohol. DR.. Harrlngton's atten-
ton was called to these foods by no.
ticing that an invalid who was follow
ing faithfully the directions accom-
panying one of them YVES more or less
in a state Of marked intoxi-
cation. No reason for this condition
could be assigned until suspicion was
directed to the food which, upon analy-
sis, was found to contain fairly large
of alcohol. This suggested
the advisability of analyzing other
foods The results make interesting
reading. One food, which is said by its
ingenious manufacturers to be espe-
cially beneficial in cases of feeble diges-
ton and wasting diseases, yielded 23.03
of alcohol. The maximum
recommended for an adult
would yield less than an ounce of nu-
.riment and the alcoholic equivalent of
three and half ounces Of whisky a
lay. A food which was guaranteed to
enrich the blood and enhance nerve ac-
ion contained 1881 per cent alcohol;
2ne of the innumerable "predigested"
,oods 1912 per cent alcohol.
The Iowa Indians in Oklahoma have
!, bedquilt that is novel il, the extreme,
and not the sort of thing man
would wish to sleep under. 1t is five
'eet square, and made entirely of hui
nan scalps. 1t is one of the most sa-
red relics of the tribe, and is supposed
o cure any disease.
Noting that Jay GoUd's partner in
he tanning business, josiah e. Lynn,
lied N an almshouse in Pennsylvania
'ecently. the Davenport Democrat NOR
tliZes over the fact that men who have
he same opportunity at the start do
lot always come out OF the race equal
Winners. Lynn was Gould's partner in I
he Pennsylvania tanneiy, where Jay t
got his start This was after Gould had '
)edGled maps about Delaware county,
New York. Lynn was related to Gould
md took him in. Jay took in both
lynn and the tannery. 1t was not a
,ase of equal opportunities. No honest t
nan ever had an eqEa' opportunity
With Jay Gould.
Cancer seems to be steadily increas-
ng. both in this country and Europe,
the general uplift ,
oward more hygienic conditions of liv ,
ng. Statistics show that the death rate
II England and Wales from this dis I
.ase rose between 1871 and 1900 from
orty-two to eighty three per 100000,
md in Scotland from forty-four to
,;ghty. In Ireland the number of, deaths
rom this disease in 1871 was only thir-
y-two per 100000, but 1T has risen in !,
.S91 to forty-six, and in 1901 to sixty 9
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