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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
THE GRASS ALARMIsT.
Huntington Hawkeve,

\ burlington HaWkeye),
b AS The Hawkeye interprets the
history of the race, it>sees continued
uplifting of mankind in each succeed
ing century, with some periods Of in-
activity or even retrogression, but the
general trend is forward. And yet, in
each generation, without a known ex-
ception, there have been many good
people who have developed "the degen-N
eracy of the times" and yearned for
''the good old times of their fathers.
It is obvious that If their estimate
Of conditions is correct, the world
must now be worse in morals and So
cially than ever before. And yet every
body knows that is not SO. No one
now living would like to have society
go back to the days of antiquity when
despotisrn and slavery and cruelty were
the foundation of governments, and
ignorance, servitude and immortality
the common ,lot of the masses. 1t is
therefore, a warped view which the
pessimist Of our age takes Of present
conditions He ought to know better
The logic Of history ought to lead him
to saner conclusions, His reason ought
to tell him that il men of his tempera-
ment in all ages thought their times
more degenerate than the preceding
period. the world according to that
view. would be now far wickeder than
ever before and At only for a greater
deluse than that which covered only a
small portion of the globes surface IN
Noachian days. The intelligent OBJ
server OF present conditions reads his
tory and takes hope OF the future,
knowing that the world Is coming up
generation after generation from the
lower levels OF primitive and medieval
ages, on thru the centuries OF mod
ern progress. He II content with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.

ii Financial Legislation, by George
Roberts. director Of the mint, is the
little OF q carefully considered article ir
The May srd number Of The North
american Review upon the presen,
financial situation. The writer com
sares our own financial system with
hat OF other countries and recon-
liends. that the note-issufng power be
9estsd in q central bank. He con-
.lludes:
4 six months ago notice virtually
MAS served In New, York bankers that
HE talink OF gold from London at that
time would be regarded as an unfriend-
act An uatoward event abroad
Which would create demand for ready
honey might at. any time cause the
Iiesprn OF such quantities Of American
Eecurities as to occasion gold exports
from New York, and there is no as
snrance that such demands will con-
Hult our convenience. They might fall
II tnperatively upon q situation already
9ktrained to the limit. During the last
,two years there has existed the possi-
3aility of a collapse Of Russian secur-
ItieA which would force liquidation in
kvery market in Europe. This country
Deeds the machinery by which Its credit
kould be used in such an emergency
3knd Its Industrial interests shielded
From the blow With the notes OF such
kn Institution to temporarily take the
blace az gold in the domestic ex-,
Manages these international demands
hould be met and the situation adj
busted to them. The note circulation,
III its elastic possibility, would be
bnfter Or cushion to ease the shock.
ashe dinerencs between ability to sat
ssfy ali legitimate needs. at even q
high rate Of interest, and inability to
Meet such demands at all, is the diff
ference between gradual adjustment
md industrial collapse"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
ookIyn Eagle.

Tennyson, to Let the great world
spin forever down the ringing grooves
of change" confident that change is
ever for the better.
The sins and misdeeds Of the few
are spectacular. No man is sinless.
none perfect, but the great mass OF
mankind is honest, struggling for ad
vapcement and higher ideals. The
larger class is too, seldom taken into
account In estimates of social cordi-
tons. The range Of vision Of the pes
simist is too narrow. He ought to
climb the mountain peak and see the
broad world in It's beauty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
IOWA OPlNlONs AND NOTES

The Webster City Freeman Tribune
notes "the Des Moines Tribune. the
leading standpat paper of the Seventh
district, and the Iowa City Republi-
can, the foremost standpat organ OF
the Second district, are both opposed
to the denomination of President
Roosevelt, The Tribune recalls that
"the editor of the former was one of
in Chicago last year and the latter
bolted the republican party last fall. It
is likely that all Of Mr.. Blythe's lieu
tenants will be lined up against Roose-
Welt in due time.
1T would not be like Theodore
Roosevelt not to care who succeeds
him" argues the TT. Dodge Messenger.
.He has followed a certain course be-
cause he believes the public interests
would be served by it, and he will
want to see his policies developed and
perfected after he has retired from the
party leadership. It is characteristics
of him to go after what he wants in
the most direct way, and nobody who
knows him will expect him to sit still
and allow the men, who have antagon-
lied him in everything he has favored
shape the policy of the party, If he can
prevent it. OF course every man will
who don't like it will he against Taft
but those who sympathize with the
presidents views are not likely to re-
sent it"
"Jas. A. Smith returned to Usage
from Des Moines where he has faith
fully represented his constituency in
the state senate the past winter OBJ
serves the Usage Press. "This is Mr..
Smiths successive term in the upper
house where he has made a state wide
reputation as an earnest, willing work.
err, along the lines of progressive re-
publicanis The assembly just ended
has eclipsed all previous assemblies for
the amount and character of the work
performed and it is a pleasure to record
the fact that Mr.. Smith was a prom
inent factor in it's accomplishment"
"There is not dearth Of able and
competent men in the republican par
ty from which to select candidate for
president" says the Mitchellville In
dex. ''No need to worry on that score.
Iowa alone could furnish half dozen
men who are of presidential calibre."
'The office of vice president of the
United States can't be converted into
one of Importance regardless of how
many candidates there may be in the
field for the place" insists the Coun-
ell Bluffs Nnnpareil.,
The Des Moines Capital says that
A. B. Funk of Spirit Lake, is a modest
man, clean republican, and that no
honor can reach him which he does
not deserve. These are some of the
reasons, so the Capital thinks, why
the Iowa progressives should name
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
Fairbank. Interested in Lobby.

The Influences OF the lobby often
crop up In the most unexpected ways
and from almost incredible sources.
For example, when Palmer, the public
printer, was finally persuaded to install
typesetting machines in the govern
ment printing Office, and the Morgan
thaler influences came forward to see
| that their machines were selected, 1t
| developed that Vice President Fair
| banks was interested in the passage
of the $1S0,000 appropriation, owing
| to the possession either in his own
name or that of members Of his imme-
diate family OF 5000 shares Of Mer-
| ganthaler stock.
In fact, the whole deal turned out
Mr.. Fairbanks cousin. Delevan Smith,
who is the nominal owner OF Mr..
Fairbanks paper. the indianapolis
News, and WHO is also interested In
Merganthaler, fame to Washington,
and went to James II. Hemenway. OF
| Indiana, (now senator. then chairman
Of the house committee On appropria-
tions), and asked special legislation
for this purpose. Meantime John T..
Kennedy (also OF Indiana, ex-mem-
Der OF the, industrial commission, had
secured a contract with r. T. Dodge,
president Of the Merganthaier com-
pany, for 10 per cent of the cost OF
the first purchase of machines for
this purpose. It was found neces-'
sary to name the kind Of machine in
the appropriation act, and, on the as
surances of Hemenwayy that the mons.
ey would be forthcoming. Palmer
went ahead and bought the machines.
|, In similar fashion, the Fairbanks
Smith influence has added to the pops
ularity Of rthe Oliver typewriter in
some OF the government departments.
The vice presidents son, Warren,
was secretary and is still director
in the Oliver concern. and cousin
Delevan IS a heavy stakeholder
cess Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
The Moving Van Man.
l...l ca n nI. nnn,,lnlin \ \.

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Beside the broken rubber plant
The moving-van man stands,
He is a man Of pun and pant g {,
with nothing in his hands;
And when he handles cut glass stun
{ He cares not where It lands
He loaded all the kitchen ware
With neatness and dispatch.
He threw the bedding down the stairs
In one entangled batch.
And he slid the grand piano out
Soft would get scratch.
He bumped the knobs off Of the doors
And SCARED the parlor kxalls,
He made the chairs bounce on the
floors 81 8s .5s, 81.
Like unto rubber balls,
And cheerily he answered to
His husky pardner's calls.
He stepped into picture frame
And then with drew his boot.
From off the porch with steady aim
The mirrors he would shoot,
And he wiped the dust off of the steps
With my new summer suit,
The children going home from school
Mark how stoutly he stands.
A craven image, calm and cool,
A vase held in his hands, 81
AS tho he counted how 'tWould break
In pieces like the sands
The sands that lie along the sea
Are fewer than the sum
OF pieces which that vase would be
When he has made it hum,
And his pardner by the moving van 4
Tells him to let it come.
Beside the rubber plant he rests
And rubs his sturdy neck,
And looks to see what else suggests
Another chance for wreck a.s
He's broken everything but me.
And must write check!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
coniusal Scene.

(L'Almanach des AgricNlteura)
+ Madame gives it to her husband hot
and strong. He has no consideration
for her; he refuses her everything; he
is attentive and kind to everybody else.
At last, when wound UP to the highest
pitch of evaporation, she cries:
Eyes, you actually prefer your ami
mails to me. Look, only last week,
when Loulou died, you had her stuffed
but. my dear grip
There is no but in the case. l am
positive you would not have done as
much for me-"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
BUSINESS At LEADING POINTS.
Mlnneapolis.Job report no s.

Minneapolis. Jobbers report no sign
Eof abatement in trade movement.
freight deliveries are getting back to
Snorrnal conditions and goods for fall
and winter delivery are being ordered
FORWARD in many cases. Retail trade
Els very good and is showing a steady
advance over a year ago. Collections
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06

The value Of Pabst Blue Ribbon
~ Peer lies in its gthening quail
ties as food. Pabst Eight-Day
Mailing Process retainA all the
II food value Of the barley-grain -
found in this beer Of quality,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
IGNORANT DOCTORS.
lDnhua1le Telegraph. !

dubuque Ielegraph.) s$ -
The American Medical Association
has finally awakened to appreciation Of
its duty and will inaugurate a crusade
to check the menace to public health
in the presence in the sick room Of
doctors who are grossly incompetent
and never ought to be entrusted with
the care of any human life but their
own.
At a meeting OF the council Of the
association in Chicago the declaration
was made that there are on an aver
age 1000 doctors graduated every year
by the medical colleges of the country
and about three -fourths sof these are
utterly incompetent and should never
be permitted to practice medicine.
Assuming the truth Of this statement,
and there is not good reason to doubt
1t, there ahe 5000 Incompetent physi-
clans turned out annually. In ten
years 3O.000ssuch are graduated, and il
each one is responsible for the Death
of a single patient a year.-an aver
age, that could hardly be more CON
serVative-the waste Of life as the price
Of Incompetence is seen to he large. +
The people do not appreciate the
menace to their-health in the incompe-
tent doctor. Unless they discover his
errors themselves, they never, know
that he makes any, for the ethics Of the
profession are his protection, and every
physician shields him from censure.
This conspiracy of silence is fraught
with consequences far-reaching and
always damaging.
The medical profession has been very
much occupied with denunciations of
patent medicines, but if it attended to
its own door step and made q record
of mortality attributable to profess
sional incompetency, to Grass profess
sional ignorance, it would have a death
roll beside which the toll of life alleged
to be taken by patent medicines would
be inconsiderable.
TAXING MONEYS AND CREDITS.
Cedar Rapids Gazette)
The Gazette has heretofore called
attention to some interesting facts in
connection with the assessments of
moneys and credits. The Cedar Rap
ids man who has five thousand dollars
to loan at current rates, sends that
money into, say. Fairfax township and
loans it at five per cent, If he tells
the Cedar Rapids assessor his actual
holdings he will pay more than two
per cent on that FIVE thousand dollars.
A resident Of F'ayette township. may
also have i've thousand to loan; he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06

The Des Moines Capital says that
A. B. Funk of Spirit Lake, is a modest
man, clean republican, and that no
honor can reach him which he does
not deserve. These are some of the
reasons, so the Capital thinks, why
the lowe progressives should name
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-02
BRANCH REVIEWS
COMMISSION WORK.
Secretary OF American Bankers
Association Tells About
Meeting.
CREDIT CURRENCY is URGED
Says United States Is Only Civil
lied Country in World Which
Has Not Adopted 1t.
CREDIT CURRENCY is URGED

Major James +. Branch. secretary
of the American Bankers Association
md formerly resident of Richmond,
writing in the New York Times, says:
Changes in the currency laws which
have been discussed in this country
for some years are, in my opinion. of
much more Importance than the bank
ers OF the country seem to think. Hav-
ing the honor of being secretary of the
currency commission appointed by the
American Bankers Association, ! was
present at all of it's sessions. This COM
mission, which Is composed of fifteen
men, each of whom is an able banker,
was selected geographically from the
different sections of the United States:
During the last Congress the commits
sion held meetings in Washington
which We're attended by the Secretary
of the Treasury, Treasurer of the
United States. Controller of the Cur
rency and the Hon. Charles N. Fowler
chairman of the Committee on Banking
and Currency of the House OF Repre-
sentatives. The meetings began at 10
o'clock in the morning and after an
adjournment for luncheon were con-
tinued until 6 O'Clock in the afternoon
Members of the commission worked
hard and laboriously. and the result
of their deliberations was we'll explain
ed in statement made by member
at the last meeting. This member said
Gentlemen, l came to Washington
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these just one half had rabies These
We're all dog or cat cases. The advant-
tage of the comparatively quick method
| OF diagnosis In use at Brown-lasting
never more than half u days that In
case q person has been bitten the Pas-
teur treatment can be administered
without delay. The earlier the treat
ment is given the surer are the results
If there is a delay Of several weeks 1t
| is apt to fail
This wonderful treaA1Rsn<, which
makes recovery possible, according to
the records. in all but one out of every
100000 cases, consists of inoculatins the
patient with an emulsion of the spinal
cord of rabbit that has been inocu-
lated and has died of rabies. pieces OF
the cord, when dried. being ground up
and mixed with sterile water or with a
sterile salt solution. The treatment is
given In the Pasteur hospitals in New
York. Baltimore. Chicago, ST. Louis,
New Orleans and SanFrancisco. Tho
Board of Health of New York City also
sends the emu on out of town for use
in cases that for some reason need to
be treated at home. The treatment
takes from eighteen to twenty-three
days.
In New York at the Pasteur Hospital.
Is kept supply of rabbits that have
been inoculated with rabies. Every
day there are deaths in this life-saving
collection. AS soon as the rabbit dies,
the spinal cord is removed. and. sooner
or later. this Is put into use. The
longer tho cord Is kept tho weaker is
It's effect. so the usual treatment begins
with incubation with emulsion made
| from q piece of cord that has been
drying" for at least sixteen days. The
following day the emulsion used is
made from a cord that was removed
fifteen days before; and SO tho treat
ment goes on. step by step. until finally
the patient is inoculated with dose
containing cord only q day cold In ur-
gent cases tho progression Is moro
rapid: 1t may jump from the sixteenth
| day cord to the twelfth, and from that
Ito tho tenth or eighth, and so forth. In
the case of an adult, usually two injec-
lions are made simultaneously. A sim
gle dose contains three cubic cent?
/ meters of the emulsion,
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Experts, Particularly in This Country, Have Con
peted the Work Begun by Pasteur--College Stu
dent Discoverer of Latest Method Of dag
nosis in Cases Of Suspected Rabies.

animation OF brain sections. But the
results Of this method, it was found,
were not always sufficiently conclusive.
It was still possible that the germ
might be overlooked. So tho Brown
specialist, Philip b. Hadley, gradu-
ate student working under the direc-
ton OF tho head of the department.
Professor Albert d, Mead whose orig
inal work along biological lines has
done so much to give Brown Il high
reputation In the medical and scientific
world, adopted the smear" method,
which has been used so successful by
the we'll konwn expert connected with
the Board of Health of New York City,
Or. Anna w. Williams, The Brown
specialist did more than adopt tho
Smear method, however, he I'm
proved upon 1t by an original method
of making the smenrs and of using the
stain. This stain plays tho part OF II
detective. 1T seeks tho germs ana so
colors them that they arc unmislaK-
able.
Tho method of diagnosis used at
Brown, and which has been of invalu-
able assistance to the authorities MO
have been lighting the epidemic In and
around Providence, begins with the re-
noval of .prats of the brain of tho
suspected animal in which germs make
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pecia1 to Tho Times-Dispatch,

Especial to The Dispatcl.l
PROVIDENCE, May 25.-Among tho
conquests over disease which science
has made in recent times none Is more
striking than that, which has reduced
in the case of hydrophobla
from more than 90 per cent. down to
twenty five thousandths of ono per
cent. of the victims treated! This Won
derful achievement Is due largely to
the preventive method of incubation
discovered by the great Pasteur.
But Pasteur's benehcient work stop
ped with the discovery of preventive.
1t remained for Negr, an Italian scien-
fist, to discover the germ OF rabies or
hydrophobia. This second remarkable
step In the conquest of tho disease was
taken only three years ago, and since
then, particularly in this country, con-
siderable advance has been made In
the methods of diagnosis. Tho very
latest, and, up-to-datc. tho method re-
garded as most nearly infallible, was
devised last September In the biologi-
cal laboratory of Brown University
shortly after tho outbreak Of tho cpl
demic of rabies which has been raging
In the eastern part of Rhode Island,
One common method OF, diagnosis
that Is, of discovering the presence OF
the rabies germ--!s the microscopic eS-
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their residence These parts are the

their residence. These parts are the
top of the brain. the base-scientihcully
kL own as Ammons Horn-the cortcx
OF the cerebrum and the back part or
cerebellum. These parts are placed
urcn little glass slides three inches
long and in inch wide. and arc then
"smeared' or spread them over the
length and breadth OF the slide SO as
to reveal tho contents in detail After
ward the slides arc immersed In
alcohol to fix" or harden the brain
specimens. Then comes the important
stain treatment.
1t Is In respect to this staining that
the work at Brown has surpassed all
other methods of diagnosis in this
Particular field. and givcn practical
results which promise new benefits to
humanity. Mr.. Hadley uses a coal tar
stain whose constituent colors are a
brilliant carmine and an ultramarine
blue. When applied to tho slides the
blue spreads itself throught the brain
cells and other tissues whilo the car
mine seeks the rabies germs or Negri
bodies, which lie within the nerve
cells. and strains these germs u bright
crimson. There is no escape for the
germ, 1t seems. If 1t Is present in the
brain cells, there 1t appears under the
microscopes veritable red danger Sig
raj. Colorcd thus. the effect Is rather
pretty, for the rabies organisms look
like carbuncles set in sapphire. Under
the microscope, which magnifies them
from 1900 to 1000 times their actual
size, the rabies germs appear on the
average about half as big as dimes
Tho epidemic which led directly to
this Improvement In tho methods OF
diagnosis began last August. 1t was
probably brought into Rhode Island
from Massachusetts by rabid dogs. In
all there have been. 1t Is estimated,
moro than 1000 cases OF rabies and hy-
drophobia which fact makes this tho
severest epidemic ever reported in the
United States. Upwards OF 200 human
beings have been bitten by dogs. but of
all those treated by the Pastour method
only one has died. and that, apparently,
was a case in which complications set
in. Altogether SIX person have died.
Tho Brown specialist. up TO the first
of Nav. had examined 146 cases. and OF
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UOLLINS FINALS,
Especial to The Times-Dispatc

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1
HOLLINS INSTITUTE, VA, June L.
A brilliant reception was given last
night by the senior class to Miss May
Flowers Collins, of Birmingham, Ala.
and president Of the class, chairman
Of the student body, and editor-in-
chief Of the quarterly. Miss Louise
Hail. vice-president, Dyersburg, Tenn.
is editor-in-chie of the Spinster, and
Is also recipient of the $40 gold prize
offered by the Colonial Danes OF Vir-
ginia to the girl who wrote the best
essay on Colonial subject.
Miss May Gooch Anderson, Hollins
GIRL received 1t last session. The re-
cital by the elocution department. pre-
senting midsummer Nights Dream
opened the exercises of tho sixty fourth
commencement last night. DR.. Donald
Mcleod, OF Washington, D. c., dcliv-
ers the buccalaureatc sermon to-mor-