Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-24
Topics Of The Times


Nevertheless Mr.. Perkins keeps on
poking at the persimmon
$50
Weather forecast for Des Moines:
Hotter, with rising temperature"
Mr.. Bryan's experience with gold.
has doubtless convinced him that it
is often used for purposes other than
crucifixion.
Mrs. Dash.-I don't understand, dear.
why you can't get along with your
husband He's such charming man.
Perhaps you haven't been sufficiently
Mrs. Rash.-Yes, I have! -Neggen-
dorfer Batter.
Those officials who spent $4,000 of
government relief for San Francisco
for fifty barrels of whiskey seem to
have sized up an earthquake shock as
considerably worse than snake bite.
1t is all In the point of view. Harry
Thaw's row with his lawyers is argued
as proof the man is crazy, but If
Uncle George were to split with the
railroad attorneys most Iowans would
consider it an evidence of returning
sanity.
Mr.. Perkins has come to using
Governor Clmmins as the horrible eX-
ample in Sunday sermon. Why not
some reference to Nimrod who was a
mighty Hunter?
The standpatters who are threaten
ing to override the majority in the
next state convention should take q
lesson from Davy Crockett's coon and
descend, before the shooting begins.
If. as Dr. Joseph w. Goldsmith. of
the Long Island College hospital.
claims, he has successfully cured ten
out of twelve cases of virulent spinal
meningitis, he has opened a new ave-
nue. OF escape from generally fatal
disease The patient is given two
baths a day at a temperature of ITO
degrees Fahrenheit. The physical con-
dition Of the sufferer is such that the
excessive heat affords no sensation of
pain because of the numbness charac-
teristic of the malady. The patient
while in the bath is given a strenuous
massage in order to circulate the blood
and bring the limbs back to normal
condition. A liquid diet is given at
short intervals. 1t consists of small
quantities of whisky and ergot The
ergot brings about an equilibrium OF
the circulation of the blood, which in
cells, which war upon the germs of
Meningitis and eventually destroy
them.
Senator Pettus of Alabama, who re-
Gently passed his eightyfifth birthday,
is reported to have offered this ex-
PLANTATION of his vitality: Il never
chew less than half a pound of to-
bacco per day. swear only when it
is absolutely necessary; drink nothing
stronger than whisky, and for years
have made it practice to go to bed
only when ] blank pleased"
1t is not at all likely that Joe"
Blackburn will be the next governor
of Kentucky Many democrats are OPP
posed to the administration of Gov
ernor Beckham, charging that there
is too much of the machine about it,
Besides Mr. Beckham is trimming his
sails for the United States senate.
Blackburn has been in conference with
anti-Beckham democrats, and is UNI
derstoodI to have acknowledged his
Willingness to make the race for gov
ernor.
Alexander Blendsoe, of Fayetteville,
N. c. who killed John Alexton, on an.
excursion train, has sued the Atlantic
Coast Line railway for damages al
leging that the company is responsible
for the crime, because it placed him
in a position where he was forced to
kill Alexston. He says Alexston was
drunk and threatened to kill him, and
that he tried to avoid him, but that
the conductor, disregarding his pro-
tests, admitted Alexston to the car