Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-02
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

preserving anatomical, pathological
and other specimens and in fitting them
for examination under the microscope.
Another wild" statement was TO the
effect that beer is more deleterious in
its effects on the human system than
whisky. Science fortified by human
experience is directly to the contrary.
The pathological effects wrought by
both are in the main due to the alcohol
they contain. The effects of alcohol on
the stomach and liver, where they are
first manifested locally, vary greatly
With the degree of its dilution. Ihe
ess the dilution the greater the effects,
and vice versa. Beer contains on an
average of or 6 per cent of alcohol,
whisky and brandy so per cent. The
primary effects of irritation conges
ton. thickening of connective tissue.
etc, are therefore much greater from
whisky than from beer not only on ac-
count of the larger quality of alcohol
Usually taken In that form, but also be-
cause the alcohol is less diluted in
whisky than in beer. 1t is alcohol ia
ken meat" in whisky. brandy and gin
that is most potent in producing ''hob-
Edll OF iiNSi.
The boys and girls in the public
schools of Keokuk are being taught the
physiological effects of alcohol on the
human system. The knowledge they
are acquiring, thanks to the attain
ments and wisdom of superintendent
Weyer and the principals and teachers
under him, y strictly scientific. 1t Is
exact and will bear the closest scrutiny.
When an agent of any organization.
however high its character and lauda-
Bile it's purpose. comes along and by
half knowledge and misstatement seeks
to build up public sentiment in the
perance real harm. He creates false i'm
pressions In the minds of such of his
hearers as are not informed on the sub
feet and destroys confidence in temper
ance work and temperance workers In
the minds of those who are. One who
assumes to be a public teacher should
know his subject at least as we'll as
those he assumes to teach. Mr..
Abrams attainments In the line of SCI
entific knowledge of temperance are
not up to the Keokuk standard.
THE COST OF FARMERS PHONES.
In an interesting paper on rural tele-
phones recently read before a farmers
institute at Grand Junction, j. +. Moss
gave figures on building farmers lines.
Mr.. Moss explained that the cost OF
building the mutual line is very little,
and after man has once paid for his
share of stock and has secured his tel
ephone the cost of maintenance is so
little that the additional expense each
wear is practically nothing. The Scran-
ton company has employed two young
men to put in and take care OF their
phones and they have contract to put
in and keep it in repair for two years
for $40 The cost of material for mile
of te ephone line is less than $50. 1t
takes twenty-seven telephone poles
each eighteen feet long, and these can
be obtained for from 20 to so cents
each. making the poles for the mile cost
like $40. 1t takes 100 pounds
of No. IL galvanized wire. at $3.4O per
100 pounds. making the wire cost S5.4o
a mile and the only other expenses are
twenyt-seven brackets and insulators.
at AS cents, or total of S2.2l. rms
brings the total cost for the material
up to S27.15, and when SO or 81 Is added
for having the poles set the cost is
complete. A line five or six miles long
with ten or twelve phones will make 1T
cost each shareholder $50 or $40. but
after the first wear the expense is prac-
tically nothing. The day is coming
when a farm house without q telephone
will be a rarity.