Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-06

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tTHE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER. /
Observation-Disclosures / /.
The coming OF fall is the signal for
renewed activity. The business man
knows that business will pick up now
that the summers dizziness is past; the
farmer prepares to harvest his plentiful
crops and the housewife plans for the
house cleaning and fall sewing to be
done. But no one notes the changing
season more than the child He must
lay aside the sports and toys Of the long
summer days. for the vacation is over
and school is begun. From hidden cor
ners Of garnet and closet the torn and
| begrimed text books are gathered to-
gether into the we'll worn bag and he
| trudges of to school. How hard it.
seems the first weeks when the heat
makes even older heads drowsy and
when the sunshine and the pure air OUT
side speak temptingly of the river and
the woods-how hard it seems to sit in
a narrow seat in a crowded room and
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For the child does not know what
golden days they are, but who of US is
/ there who would not willingly give a
week Of our hurrying life to spend one
day in the old school with the teachers
of our lost childhood?
Perhaps they were the happiest days
because they were the working days.
/ The vacations We're pleasant, but as we
look back at the years which ever re-
lcede further toward the misty past 1t is
safe to assert that the most vivid mem
cries OF pleasure are of the days we
spent in school, The oriental who had
i travelled through all the world and who
on being asked if he had found any
characteristic common to all men, an
swered: "All men love lazy" may have
been right. Yet the desire to be obliged
to do nothing may be one of those
which, realized, does not give the pleas
ure it did, anticipated.
The murder committed In Chicago
!. Saturday night was especially revolt
! ing in that there was no reason for its
: commission. For, although the COM
! mandment Thou shalt not kill stands
out in black and white, there are oc-
J casions, very rare though they be.
when no jury desires to convict the self
confessed taker of another's life. For
we know there are murderers who
never killed, as there are thieves who
have never stolen that which is visible
and sometimes justice, rather than re-
venge, makes one to forget the sixth
commandment.
The young men who have confessed
to having committed the crime are
) what those more lenient than Nordaw
would call degenerates. In their posses
, sion were found many dime novels ant
to the impression made upon theil
minds by the vicious suggestions Of
these stories do their acquaintance:
trace their crimes. What a strange
thing it is that book should be the
ruin of soul, for aside from humanit,
land nature, literature IS mans bes
! friend, and it is book which save!
$ many mans soul from ruin.
I
> There is young lady in the city VIII
is stenographer, but who, in the eter
Q nal fitness of things. was intended 70
n an inventor. For what is an invento
n but one who supplies a long felt need
I When but a little girl the subject of gu
. sketch-as the country obituaries reat
! was unable to see things at dis
Itance. But little attention was paid t
s the defect, for the girl seldom men
j toned it herself. One day while en-
: gagged in that bugaboo task of little
E lgirl's life-washing dishes-she CHANGED
1 to look through the bottom of a thicl
j. lglass tumbler. And 10, it was as If thu
blind could see. for objects at hitherto
lremote distance We're plainly discern
able. This was not the invention. Any
, lone may stumble upon discovery, bu
mot everyone puts 1t to practical use
/, lShe did, however, and thereafter wher
!, circus parades or other pageants from
!, which one must keep a respectable dis
2 lance passed by. she could be seer
lperched upon the nearest fence viewing
Int all through her novel glass. She say:
: now that she used to wonder why ey
! eryone who looked at her laughed, bu
! she understands now and knows sh'
;. must have been more interesting
= sight than the tional procession
s
1t is ever thus With whatsoever in
terest we may watch the players on tn
: stage, it does not compare with tina
S which we feel when we turn our glasse
: on the audience. What though a Bootl
d may portray for us Hamlet? Beside u
Z may sit one whose Constructed will" i
I bringing him to the grave. VIVA
$ though a Modjeska may repeat TIL
y pleadings of a Catherine? Beside u
s may sit wife no less wronged thar
she. What though a Keene may brin,
j, out the loathesome character of Rich
e lard III? Beside US may sit some mai
!. who has sold his honor and others
e Happiness for self. What though
4 Mary Anderson may show us the prid
q |of Pauline. which first conquered. thel
f in turn was conquered by love? BE
: side US may sit some humble Lady o
h Lyons, who has learned to choose TIL
t best. What though a Mansfield ma,
win us with the faithfulness and low
@ lof Cyrano? Beside us may sit on
. who has learned to the uttermost wha
n lit means to be friend The list is al
y endless one-sone time when the the
: ater is ablaze with lights and the or