Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-25

| wheel passenger engines for the Atchi-
| son, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. They
are to have Vanderbilt boilers, and are
| to be equipped with oil-burning appar-
atus. The firebox is to have length OF
ten feet eleven inches, with fire bricks
burners. The boiler is of the wagon-top
| type, adapted to the Vanderbilt firebox
with working steam pressure of zoo
pounds per square inch. The total heat.
| ing surface will be 2.s.6 square feet.
| There are, of course. no CRATES. The
tender is to have a capacity of 5000 gall
Ions of water and 1900 gallons of OIL
The following note was recently re-
ceived by Devils Lake, N. D., physi-
clan in answer to a missent dun: Dear
Sur: This note was put in my box by
mistake. l liant the man; hees dead,
and amt any relative of mine anyway.
How dose your coshens let you dun the
dead? Why don't you lead a better cris-
ton life and try to meet that man in
heaven which is worth more than forty
collars to any DOCTOR
1t is not true that the people of Texas
spend all their time boring for oil. They
are inclined to perforate each other oc-
casionally with bullets.
A tramp with purpose is Nicholas
Doubay, a Cossack. who decided nine
years ago to walk all over the world. He
has arrived in Chicago with three- quar-
tiers of his trip over. He was born IN
yladikofas, Caucasus. thirty-three years
ago, and started on his foot journey in
1892
An article quoted elsewhere from the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil show that the
effort to encourage the growing of sugar
beets has had setback in the western
Part of the state. The farmers who en-
tered into it heartily and raised big
crops are disappointed over weights en-
forced by the Nebraska factory and
money returns as well as by the extra
care it is necessary to exercise in rails
ing the crop. So it appears that the eff
forts of the sugar trust to crush out the
industry has effective aid not only from
the beet factories but also the growers
of beets And yet the industry is grow
ing in spite of these drawbacks.
Rumors of the sale Of the Chicago
Great Western road have again been
revived. 1t is said Hartman people
are looking over the line with view of
buying.
And this one" we said, indicating
patient at the insane asylum.
Hopeless case" was the reply.
thinks he has discovered perpetual
notion
And the next one?"
"Stiil more hopeless Claims to have
solved the servant girl problem
-Harpers Bazaar.
The November number of Scribner's
Magazine contains the opening chapters
of Mr.. F. Hopkinson Smiths longest
and most important story. THE Fort
unes of oliver Horn In dealing with
the career Of young artist who comes
to New York from the south to seek
fame the author has chosen a sympa-
thetic hero and drawn upon his own
long and intimate association with the
artistic. and literary development OF the
city. He gives a most attractive inn
preston OF the artistic atmosphere in
which the chief characters move. The
whole story is characterized by sense
of refined humor and there are many of
the authors well-known passages of
pathos and wholesome human sentiment
that have contributed SO much to the
wide popularity OF his previous works.