Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-19

the action to the word he handed her
the amount His name as she after
ward learned, is +. Fl. Brown. and his
address "a South Halstead street If
the incident should ever come to the
knowledge of his employers they will
have additional evidence that they
have in their service one who is every
inch a gentleman and deserves we'll at
their hands. The courtesy is one that
will always be remembered and an
preciated by the grateful recipient and
her large circle of friends
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TRIALS OF A MINISTER,
washington Iowa Press.I
The Sunday after M. E. annual con-
ference the members Of the churches
are on the qui vive, inspecting the
new pastors that the wheel of fortune
has rolled to them. The rubber-neck-
ing is limiting, the curiosity keen.
rs he married." If so there are
cases of we'll defined heart failure
rs he sinsle?' If so there is no rest
until it is learned If he is legitimate
game. Has he been "exposed?' Is
he engaged? Has he left a girl be-
hind him? How'll we find out n he's
heart-free? Goo-goo eyes are made to
him. Eyes blue, gray, black. brown,
fire shots at him with smokeless bat
teries.
After services, well how do you
like him. And he is put thru the
gamut of criticism. 1t is an ordeal
for the poor man, and he is nervous,
and can't do his best.
If married, his wife is not with him
that critical Sunday. She stayed to
pack up the household goods She
has become an adept and expert in
packing dishes SO they won't chip.
Into boxes and barrels go dishes.
pictures, books, tides, bedding and
what not. The wife Will appear on
the second Sunday, and rubber-neck-
Ing will resume. us she nice?" Isn't
she nice?" Introductions after ser
vice to the sisterhood and kisses all
round.
The change makes a Torment. New
corners are always yeast and raise
the whole congregation and more or
less of the community Of Gentiles, be-
side the rest of the flock.
A UNIQUE RAILROAD.
shenandoah World.]
The railroads of the United States
afford some striking contrasts In equip
ment and speed. The fast trains on
some of the great roads are veritable
palaces in furnishings and conveniences
even their ordinary coaches carrying
comfort to the point of luxury.
Inc roadpads are ka9. so true THAT
the motion of the trains is reduced to
minimum and makes a very high and
sustained rate of speed possible. Such
trains as the Knickerbocker Special on
the Big Four from st. Louis to New
York or the Union Pacific Flyer out of
Kansas City are marvels even in this
ere OF marve,e Contrast with these
such road and train as the Tabor &
Northern and you have a picture of ex-
eremes indeed. When the spectator
first saw the Tabor & Northern he
thought it was the funniest little pocket
addition of railroad he had ever seen.
1t reminded him somewhat of a little
narrow guage in southern ONO, the
real name of which vas the Cincinnati,
Georgetown & Portsmouth. and the mi
tails C. G.. & p, which were interpreted
by the passengers to mean Catch 'em,
Gouge 'em, and Pinch EN-" But re-
Gently the spectator rode over road
beside which the Tabor & Northern is
nuite a good sized affair." 1t is the
Rockport, Langdon & Northern, five
and one-half miles long, extending
from Langdon, Mo-, on the K. G. road
to Rockport. It has one diminutlve
locomotive without a tender. 1t carries
its coal and water in it's hip pocket, and
has a cowcatcher on the front end for
ornament and one on the rear to keep
COWS from running over 1T. The road
owns one combination passenger and
baggage car of pattern never seen
anywhere else. 1t also owns a sort OF
steam street car about as big as cigar
box. 1t has a little boiler and engine
on the rear platform and one man is
the whole crew. There is water tank
about as big as coffee pot on post
outside of Langdon, and, when the car
stops to take water, which 1T does thru
a piece of garden hose, the sooty fire.
man-engineer turns conductor long
enough to collect fares. 1t travels very
much like horse the spectator once
drove-very fast, but half the time UP
and down, so that with all it's speed it
did not go very fast. But the dwellers
in Rockport say it is the most con-
venient road in America; that with
that funny little cracker box they can
have a special train out any time at
the expense of few pounds of coal
and several gallons of water. Rock
port is the present and is likely to be
the eternal terminus of the road, tho
the word northern was put into the
name with the idea that it might some
dav wiggle on the northward some
where toward Oshkosh or the Bay OF
Fundy.
Dark Repartee.
Alexander M. McCracken, the veter-
-, ,.ailroad man, who has charge OF