Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-15

The prevalent lalk VI eu.lia'is'si'' A
the old the cripples and incurables.
of the use of chloroform in the Sums,
etc. is a symptom of mental disease.
ITndieested information, like physical
Indigestion breaks out in pimples. Love
of notoriety leads many ordinarily sem
sible folk to say and do queer Things.
The American people are not heart
less. This agitation is not the result
of cruelty but of mental dyspepsia and
intellectual debility.
The following from THE Sioux City
Journal is entirely in keeping with
the oracular style of expression for
which that esteemed journal is re-
markable:
albert
Baird
Cnmmins
Dead
Easy"
The fact that weighty matters are
likely to go to the supreme court lends
confederation ITO the report that Secre-
tary Taft is slated for the supreme
bench.
1t begins to look as though Elijah
Dowie might find it convenient to open
an account with the ravens.
Governor Curnmins of Iowa, has en-
dorsed the Hepburn railroad rate bill.
This is calculated in the very nature
of things to make the secretary OF the
treasury an the two Iowa senator's fight
the bill.--Atlanta Journal.
According to Attorney General Ellis,
of Ohio, the same condition of corrup-
ton exists in Ohio as in some states
trust the encouragement has de-
clared the to be "a set of men steep
ed in infamous crime. There is wide
spread bribery OF county officials.
County commissioners made estimates
larger to suit bids offered and esti-
| mated .s125,oOO for bridges they knew
could be buitl for 100000" Graft per-
meated the entire management OF
county affairs. This Is the more de-
plorable, since it marks the extension
of municipal wickedness to guileless
rustics The "Oa1io idea" once Of ma
| tional repute, was to get income in the
| form of spoils of national office. Of
fees and salaries were the rewards OF
INSCRIPTIONS politics, but nowadays the
| principle applies also to national, coun-
| ty and city contracts Anything to
do" the taxpayer, who, according to
| the current views of politicians is this
only citizen without rights which any
body is bound to respect.
do not umpire baseball games,
Don't for office run;
Do not call fellow names,
If he has gun;
Unto wisdom lend your ears;
Shun the festive schooner;
Then you'll live hundred years
If you don't die sooner
| Beatrice Sacchi, professor at Man
tua and the holder of doctors degree
is the first woman to vote in Italy. II
seems that there is no law there to pre-
vent woman from voting. Miss Sac
| chi discovered this and went to the
| polls and voted.
| A curious race which from contact
with civilization is disappearing from
| to-
the "web-footed," short-legged Papuar
dwarfs. Captain Barton, an official OF
New Guinea, describes visit he paie
to them thus: "a rumor having reach.
ed Cape Nelson that these interesting
! folk had all been massacred, it was
gratifying to find a few of them still
living. Six males and four females
were seen. They averred that they
| had no children, and it seems likely
| that in few years the tribe will have
wholly died out"
| Over a year ago suit was brough
against the print paper trust under
| the Sherman act. The parties to thu
illegal combination refused to testify
The supreme court has just decided
that they should answer the lawyers
questions, and the trial will now be
resumed. Still there are some who
insist that we do not need any more
expeditions method of regulating rail.
road rates.
There is yet time for revolutions tc
take place in many Iowa counties
Des Moines county, the city of Burling-
ton, the home of Blythe, is going tt
present a candidate for railroad COM
missioner who does not wear a CO.
railway collar An anti-Blythe can
didacy from Des Moines county is al
most the limit. Some of US will have
to be shown.
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Ring Worm, Herpes, BARRIERS
itch.
All Of these diseases are attended by
intense itching, which is almost in