Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-16
WHAT THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT.

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1.-THE Pleasures of Dying" is the
pleasant subject of Walter Armstrong.
in the October Metropolitan Magazine.
He says a convention of learned medi-
cal men was held at Long Branch re-
Gently, it's primary object being to as
certain to what extent a man suffers
pain, mental, or physical, or both, at
the supreme moment of dissolution. II
would seem. from the conclusions OF
these medicos, who talked of death as
they would talk of politics, that euthan-
asia, or the pleasure of dying, Is uni
versal, and that even in the most yio-
lent forms of dissolution there is no
feeling other than that of physical and
mental comfort. And this final ease
ment, it must be understood, comes to
all men and women quite apart from
any religious consolation which may be
bestowed, since it follows after. Physi-
clans who have watched with the an
alytical eye of the professional at hun
dreds of death-beds have noted that the
silent act of "shuffling off this mortal
coil' was process painless and easy;
officers in battle are on record as al
firmiug that the last moments of dying
soldiers were absolutely without pain.
From the great mass of corroboratlVe
testimony, it is clearly demonstrated
that the approach of every creatures
fate brings with 1t kindly preparation
of blissful dreaminess. The very last
sensation in this world ia then one of
Inv a. most nprSOnA believe.
excruciating pain.
The Judge and the baby carriage
bring out this from the Hartford Cour-
ant. Under the head of "A Question OF
Public Safety" it says:
"The side remarks of judges are pro-
verbal for making trouble. Dropped by
the way, they take root and spring up
just when they are not wanted. and yet
judicial decisions are additionally dis
cursive. Here is the Michigan supreme
court announcing that sidewalk must
be kept in such order as to have 1t safe
for bicycle, and III reaching this con-
clusion the judges say: A baby car
rage is a vehicle, but it is not a null
sance either upon streets or sidewalks.
1t is pretty hard doctrine that a cyclist
has the right to travel on the sidewalk
to the peril of all pedestrians, but it is
adding insult to injury to make all UNI
solicited the ruling that baby car
rage is not nuisance there. The c,nly
Inference is that the judge who was del
egated to write the opinion had just
bought such vehicle and that, in his
rev and absorbing interest in that, he
had forgotten how often absent-minded
nurses had parked his shins with their
immovable carts, and how many times
in crowded streets he had had his re-
treat cut off and his legs in danger of
similar treatment. The baby carriage,
loaded with its mourning freight and
occupying just enough of the sidewalk
to forbid passage at either side and
moving at the uncertain impulse OF Its
weary pusher, is not only nuisance
but peril. There is an age limit which
retires judges from the bench. 1t may
safely be asserted that the other END
needs attention, and the age at which
Michigan lawyer is eligible to the bench
should be raised, and the court be made
old enough to discriminate between par
entail pride and public convenience.
The Marconi wireless telegraph sys-
tenn had a very practical Illustration of
the worth of this new method OF trans
hitting ideas recently, off the coast of
New York. The following press report
tells the story in detail:
There was practical demonstration
of the value of the Marconi wireless
telegraph system which has been in
stalled on the Cunard liners in connec-
ton with the station at Nantucket
Shoals lightship, when, yesterday, the
Lucania, inward bound, was cautiously
feeling her way in the dense fog off
Sandy Hook.
Vernon II. Brown, the agent for the
Cunard line, reasoning that the Luca-
MIA must have arrived off the bar at an
early hour in the morning, as the
steamer was reported by the operator
at the station at Nantucket lightship
as signaling at 1:2S the previous AFTER
noon. requested c.. S. Franklin, the
Marconi operator on the company's
steamer umbria, lying at Pier So, North
river to endeavor to communicate with
the fog bound steamer.
..,rhen. at $3.50 o'clock, searching for
an answer of recognition, Mr.. Franklin,
the operator. sent out the electric wave
which read ILL.,, 'Lu,' 'Lu,' 'Lu, the
code call for the Lucania. Almost in
stantly the letters .Um,' 'Um Um.'
were received on the recording tape in
the little house on the Umbrias boat
deck.
Then from the Umbria came the
question, Where are your which was
answered by of the bar, from the Luz
CANA. The news was at once repeated
to Mr.. Brown, who was anxiously
awaiting reply.
Then a half hour later came a mes
sage from the Lucania, We are getting
under way In the interim four mes
sages from passengers on the Lucania
to friends on shore were received, one
in the Italian language, and were trans
mitted to their destinations.
II was delighted" said Mr. Brown
yesterday, "at the result Of my sug-
gestion. The answer to our query came
back promptly. and as there was no
other method by which we could reach
the vessel by signals, it was gratifying
to know just where she was, and tc
carry that information to the many
friends of the incoming passengers,
who were waiting here at the pier"
When the Lucania arrived yesterday
Operator C. T. Hepworth. of the steam-
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