Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-23
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

presidents name forward as a pres
Dental candidate. Mr.. Cleveland is as
Willing as Barkis and mis- nomination
would be pleasing to many democrats
1t is not expected. however that he will
secure Endorsement by the Commoner.
| The board of health ir New York City
has had cards printed hearing on one
side an extract from section liz of the
| sanitary code, upon eXpectoration, and
on the other, You are violating the
! law against splitting. You are subject
| to Imprisonment or fire. or both, by
order of the board OF health. f. j. Lee
dere, president" The Women's Health
Protective Association desires the board
| to add in black type: Keep this in
your pocket The association will
| the streets.
| The current circulation of about $50
per capita is being quoted as the best
showing ever made by any government,
but a lot of people are waiting for the
distribution.
| Farmers and country jewellers gener-
| ally are to be congratulated on the
showing made by report of the In
ebriate department of the Mount Pleas
art insane hospital. o. the $50 cases
reported upon but ten have been drawn
| from the farms. The occupations of the
patients are given thus: Skilled labor
crs. forty-four: unski,led laborers,
twenty eight clerks. twenty-one;
painters. eleven; druggists, two; doc
tors, two; lawyers, three; and clergy
men. one. Their nafonalities are:
| American, 1871; Scandinavian, four;
German, three; Bohemian, two; En-
glish, none: Canadian, none; French,
one: Irish, twenty-one. The Americans,
Ii; will be noted, furnish the bulk Of the
number, but it should also be taken into
consideration that all citizens of What
ever descent, but born here, are in
cluded in the American total.
The weeks OF deliberation the senate
occupied before 1t saw tit to ratify the
Panama and Cuban treaties look like
I! time wasted and national business de-
Ilayed in view of the overwhelming ma
ljorities of the final woe. Minorities
should have their say, bat they should
not be allowed hold-up privileges.
Realizing that proper food is as nee
essary in cases of sickness as medi-
cines, number of washington physi-
clans have been instrume ntal in estab-
Fishing a diet kitchen in .bat city. where
meals will be prepared upon prescrip-
| ton, just as medicines are compounded
at drug stores. A woman is at the
! head as director. Such an institution
| ought to have a successful future be-
| fore it, provided it does not charge too
thigh prices for its meals. The people
who are least able to afford fancy
prices are often those who stand in the
greatest need of diet kitchen Of this
kind, because the women folk have not
/ the intelligence or skill for invalid
cookery, nor have they, as a rule, the
/ apparatus for it.
| In regard to the story which has been
! going the rounds of the English papers
| lately as to a Liverpool man finding a
message written upon on egg by the
packer, q widow In Manitoba, whom he
ultimately married, the London Chroni-
Gle remarks that many true incidents of
the same kind could be related. In 1899
4 message was found in s. barrel of app
pies that had come from New ZEALAND.
In this message the packer of the fruit,
| Il young woman, stated that her ances-
| tors, whose names wera given. cams
from Kent, and she asked the finder to
ascertain ii any OF her name and fam
lily still remained in the county AS
stated in the papers OF the time, the
finder was able to give her full partcu-
liars as to surviving relatives. But Mr..
Tew, Of Leeds, member OF York
shire banking family, lad at one time
4 q collection of these messages in mer-
cnandise," some of them being very
/ t.agical, and being a survival OF the
DAYS when peaceful traders were caught
I tivity and slavery. One such message
had been written in blood on coarse
lcanvas bag that had contained gum
arabic; another appeared as a sort of
ltattooed stain on q large cork that had
fastened UP a vessel containing altar of
roses.
The discrimination Of rural mail
routes at Toledo, Iowa, would indicate
that the postal department means to
insist on respectable roadways and
proper interest in the service by those
for whose benefit it has been estab-
Il;shed.
A New England farmer went to New
York awhile ago, according to the
Springfield Republican, and before he
went the country store stove club gave
him many warnings against the vari-
Gus gambling devices and get-rich-
quick schemes that are said to be at
home in the metropolis. When he re-
| turned to his place by the cracker box
again he was questioned about the city
land it's wicked crimes, and his admir-
ling friends asked him IL he had gam
Ibled, seen j. p. Morgan and been to the
l. Zoo. He allowed he had gambled some,
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