Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-25

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nors story, The Sky Pilot" has been
crowded over to Wednesdays issue.
| With China opened to commerce her
crowded unsanitary c!ties-none oil
them have either sewers or water
works-will become a menace to the
health of the world. Smallpox is al
ways prevalent in them, cholera is
often epidemic and plague can be found
in every large town. These may con-
sttute the real yellow peril"
Fort Dodge high school boys are
planning to form a uniformed military
company. The idea practically carried
out seems a good one.
The latest cause for recrimination
between Ames and Nevada is the con-
ceited way Nevada shows off its one
automobile on the streets or Ames. The
latter city has no devil wagon and the
Neyadans have circulated a story to
the effect that the screen doors are
broken off store buildings by Ames
people rushing out to see what it was
when the machine went by. The Ames
Times declares Nevada always was
noted for hot air. and that's what the
machine is run by. The Times would
suggest. tho, that If they want to put
1t to practical use they hitch 1t onto a
moving machine and cut down the
weeds around the Iowa Falls depot in
that city.
The democrats are figuring, it is said,
on an anthracite strike for political
purposes. An anthracite strike and
democratic victory as consequence
seems to picture the limit of industrial
calamity.
The Herald tells of novel plan of
raising money for the hospital, adopted
by the school children of Oskaloosa.
Twice each year they have what is
termed a rubber sale" They gather
UP all the old rubbers at their own
homes and at the homes of their neigh
bors and brings them to their school
buildings. The contributions are then
massed together and sold to one OF the
junk dealers Of the city. The last sale
brought $3.50. Owing 70 the untiring
efforts of Miss Rowe and the other
teachers at their building. the Fifth
ward made the best showing. The
money thus realized Is turned into
what is known as the children's fund,
and will be used in furnishing the
children's ward. in the hospital build
Another sale will be held shortly after
school opens next month, and judging
by the interest already manifested will
be the best Of all. The idea is fine
one inasmuch as it not only helps to
raise funds for worthy cause, but
work of charity. And we have good
authority for saying there is nothing
greater than charity
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DR.. d'Arsonval, lecturing in Paris on
the effects of electricity upon human
beings, expressed the belief that the
world is on the eve Of therapeutical
IeNOlutIol, eieGtiiSltS peiHS tHe Liesti-
cine of the future. He demonstrated
the utility of electrical treatment in
skin diseases. and said that under ana
esthesia produced by eiectr. ity pa
tient could be subjected to light surgi-
cal operations without narcotics.
Fritz Adolphy, the famous old pro-
prietor of South st. Louis beer gar
den, half century ago, is dead in Cliff
ton, Ariz.. at the age of IS years. The
friends of Fritz We're legion, and his
place was known far and wide as the
one beer garden where female bar
keepers and walters served the guests.
The place became famous for the at
of its barma!ds, who hailed
from Germany Italy and France, and
the far corners Of the United States. An
ordinance was passed forbidding girls
to act as walters serving beer. Fritz
went to the orphans courts and adopted
all of the ninety odd young maidens
who had served his beer, and made
them his daughters, thus evading the
law The old man was Of a noble Rus
sian family. He spoke several Ian
and had served in the northern
army during the civil war.
Colonel Henry Watterson, who saw
the yacht race from the deck of the
Erin, playfuly invited Sir Thomas to
take charge of the destinies of the
democratic party and become its cam
didate Whether the kinship of UNI
defeat made Colonel Waiter
son kind or whether he was thinking
OF Sir Thomas bari the newspaper
report fails to explain.
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The recent report of a new diamond
area in South Africa, not owned and
controlled by the De Beers monopoly, !
has been positively confirmed by quail
fed experts, who have made a careful
examination. The field is twenty-five
miles east of Pretoria end comprises
sixty acres similar to that OF the Kim
berley property. A 1,000-foot bore hole
has already been sunk into the diamond
bearing earth, and the first consign-
ment of precious stones has been re-
ceived at Johannesberg. IL is known
as the Premier mine.
A freak insurance company is one |
which will insure against any possible |
1t is to all intents and
a gamble against events. One
Of these companies has insured a man