Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-11
Fred to show himself worthy of such

mercy.
| The courts talk was an impressive
| sermon. A lay sermon by a judge has
! much more effect than a clergyman's
sermon because the convict and the
audience realize that the judge can
enforce thu, moral with retribution and
actually visit the penalty. The law
puts fangs in his jaws. AS the pugi-
lists say, there is steam behind his
blows He smites the offender with
boat with. its tail, besides all feel
/ that the minister's sermon Is merely
professional and conventional. He is
always making it. 1t is his trade. 1t
| is more or less perfunctory and it is
| impersonal. The judge but rarely
| breaches and when he does he has the
sinner standing before him with a
crowd looking on, and every remark is
| a finger pointing with Thou art
| the man. 1t is not an abstract. i'm
| personal colorless sermon. but the
| reverse. And the offender feels the
sense of shame; he feels all those eyes
burning into him. 1t is indeed judg-
ment day to him before the awful
white throne and the stern Judge sits
there, and the books are open" and
all see and hear the pitiless exposure
| Of the criminal The thought OF such
a scene ought to deter any man from
/ committing a crime One naturally
hates to lie turned inside out before
| folks and shown up just as one really
/ is, not as one may seem.
| A Judges sermon is carried as by a
charge OF cavalry.
| AN IOWA GUN INVENTOR.
[Burrill, in Washington, Iowa, Press. ]
| DR.. Sam Mclean was in Washing
ton City, summoned by the army and
naval committees of congress. We
went thru his shops on two immense
| floors Sam gets big salary
| and has "a controlling interest in the
stock of the concern that Gen. Joe
Wheeler is president of. DR.. Sam is
| on Easy street. Set 1t down--he will be
a millionaire many times over, the first
millionaire this county ever grew.
His gun beats little pills Ito death, and
hasn't got even as much kick as SAID
] pills. All the big fellows in our army
and navy and the ordinance experts
| of foreign powers have seen his mar
velous tests. Joe Wheeler climbs a
| tree" when he praises the simple de-
| vice that takes up the recoil. Miles
swears by it, and the leading ordinance
expert of the United states came as a
doubling Thomas, and when he meas
ured the cancellation of the kick, ne
called on several of the NEUROLOGICAL
powers, and said to Sam, You've got
lit wouldn't have believed 1t, etc.
Uncle Sam sent the doctor LIB. gun
to nut the device on and said. II you
| take up so per cent of the recall, your
fortune is made" He took up IS per
cent. and expects to do better.
The charm is only this: Under the
gun barrel is another BARREL Holes
are drilled near the end of the shoot
ing tube into the sub-tube. The gases
| that expel the ball or shell find vent
lust before the shell leaves the mouth
of the gun, by rushing back In the sub
| tube, and automatically throw the
shell cartridge out of the breach and
| feed another in. 1t is done sWlfter
| that thought. The recoil is hardly
peroeptible they say. The weather
was thick, or they would have flred II
! out of the window over mile of roofs
olx into the lake from two to five miles.
It was placed, but .tlhey feared hitting
81 vessel passing possibly. We tried
his ,nuskets, firing into box of sand.
| Not the slightest kick in the world. 1t
| is this infinite kick of big guns DIN the
| turrets that knocks steel babtleships to
pieces. The recoil is almost infinite.
Sam reduces 1t to a minimum. 1t has