Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-02

ine.' The shells used in lowering the
explosives are made OF tin and are ten
feet long. Ten of them are required to
hold a single charge of the explosive.
After charging, the heavy we'll casing is
pulled out to prevent its being split.
Electricity has replaced the go devil
in touching off shots. After the explos-
ion the casing is replaced. A salt well
usually contains about / 100 feet of wa
ter.
If you could tell $4,000 people that
your farm is for sale some one of them
would buy it. The T.-R. will tell them
the story for Is cents invested in For
Sale" ad.
Widowhood makes a woman unset
fish,
why SOP
Because she ceases to look out for
No. and begins to look out for No. @"
Town and Country.
Chester I. Long, altho only ~. Is no.;
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to Washington. John S. Gilmore, of
Fredonia, who is the court of last resort
in all matters of state history. says In
gals age when he was first elected
was 80 years and 1 month, and Plumb's
was 80 years and months.
Grounds hog or no ground-hog, Won
may count on six weeks more of win
ter. and several weeks more of every
late in the spring
Senator Morgan, of Alabama. was
busy at his desk In the senate chamber
when he was called out into the lobby
10 see visitor. He found a somewhat
calculated female, who wanted to know
about claim she has against the gov
eminent. AS the senator stood talking
to her he noticed Senator Mason chat
ing gayly with half a dozen pretty
young women. How is it, Barney. y
asked Senator Margan plaintively of
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms LAYTON.
after his visitor had left, that I have
to see all the old hens when Mason sees
the young chicks?'
bill to prohibit the practice of
Christian Science. introduced in the
New Hampshire legislature on the 27th.
is declared to have been instigated by
the so-called regular" practitioners of
medicine in that state. It's fate, OF
course. Is problematical, but the fan@
that Mrs. Eddy. the mother" of th4
Christian Science cult. has made he,
home there for years. and that Concord
IS on that account TIE mecca of the
sect. makes 1t certain that the Scien-
lists will make deporate effort against
its passage. The penalty Is fine of $50
for the first offense az practicing, 500
for the second offense. and for each
subsequent offense suffer Imprisonment.
in Jail for not less than six months
Where death results from such prac-
tice. the mind healer shall be deemed
guilty of manslaughter and punished
as the statutes provide. The advocates
Of the bill say there Is an excellent
chance of the bill being passed, owing
to the feeling aroused against Christian
Scientists by number of cases in
which patients treated by members OF
the cult have died.
A clergyman highly esteemed for his
many excellent qualities, of which ora
tory is not one. has recently had placed
in his church by his loving congrega-
ton q new pulpit. 1t is a fine piece OF
work, ornate with carving and artistic
embellishments. But the text inscribed
on it, considering the effect of the good
rector's sermons, might have been more
happily chosen. "He giveth His be-
loved sleep" 1t runs.
The Introduction OF Organized play
curing recess hour in the Indianapolis
public schools has given rise to more or
less humorous criticism of the press
the button children" and Slightly hui
manized mechanical toys" that may
thereby result. The fact that every
child there plays ION time"-so many
uilnutcS wi pms PoAt6, So many W.
tag, eighteen different games in f1f-
teen minutes'-is characterized as Civ
ing by the time table" and an auto
patio nerve skeleton is feared as the re-
suit But when. on the other hand tt is
universally admitted that the educa-
ton of the coming generation must be
abreast OF the TIRES. what more fit
ting preparation for The pace set them
by their elders can be found than that
afforded by the habitual playing oil
eighteen different games in fifteen
minutes? 2"
At the dinner given by George West
inghouse to prominent scientists ana
railway men in London short time
ago. Lord Kelvin made a speech in
which he acknowledged highlands in
debtedness to their host After refer
ring to the invention of the airbrake
and to the frequent visits which Mr..
Westinghouse makes to the mother
country. he remarkcd: "rhe present
development of the electrical industry
=, tho United Kingdom owes its growth
largely to him. 40 not .hilN
any man could be named in the world
of engineering to whom more is due
THAN To Mr.. Westinghouse for his work
In electric engineering. He also de-
c,ared that England was indebted TO