Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-17


Many of us have wondered that the
average preacher persists in repetition.
There is more than appears on the sur
face in "sixteenthly" and finally my
bretherin." The human mind, in faes
one could say all creatures of any in
telligenoe, are 40 constituted that 20
impress, to pound In, to fix, any idea
permanently, reiteration is found 10 be
necessary. Not only are the trained
animals of the circus so taught, but
our children learn by the same parrot
like repetition The successful adver-
User knows all this full as we'll as the
preacher. He says in toiay's paper
that Palne's Pain Killer kills pain. but
says so day after day and year after
year. He does so for the reason, that
when pain comes to your body. your
mind suggests pain killer. and his pain
killer. And following out this theofS,
we can account for the success OF both
preacher and advertiser There comas
n time sooner or later. when we have
u use for their wares.
Science is supposed to deal In TACT.
Railroad building Is always attemptea
scientifically. But theories sometimes
grow into supposed facts. For M
stance, when it was proposed TO equip
the New York and New Haven rail-
road with electric power for Il third
rail. scientists told the president OF the
road that he could only move has cars
SO many miles unless he built another
power house He went ahead with
his third rail- project, and ran MS cars
over twice the distance, the scientists
claimed possible There was a time IN
railroad building when the reverse
curve was a scientific necessity or the
cars would run off the track. The hrst
engines and cars We're not supposed TO
be able to move on a smooth rall.
Building reservoirs or ponds along q
railroad track for water suppl! Was
nonsense, why the evaporation. Wouiu
be greater than the intake from \
small stream. Only few years ass'
Chauncey NJ. Depew, of the New YORK
Central, in published newspaper m
teryiew, showed the impossipiif'y anu
danger of heating cars by steam. TO-
day it's a conundrum for experts 10
explain, why the use of steam TOT
heating passenger train does not M
crease the consumption of coal In ths
engines boilers.
There's nothing new under the sun
should be enlarged to. and there $
nothing old" This scribe In, writing
these words does so with feeling that
he is saying something new, but ne
isn't. Somebody has said the same
thing before, probably it has been
printed a thousand times. Things are
only new or old according to the re-
ceptiye reader or hearer. How true
This is of jokes. stories and fables
Only last week the writer read In a
New York daily story credited TO
General Sheridan as new one ana We.
when the writer was boy ne rea"
identically the same story as happen
ing in Ireland two hundred years ago.
MY friend, the knight OF the grip, IN
the hotel office, wants us all to near
his new" story, and bless his soul, we
heard that before he was born. But
II was new to many in his audience.
And after all. who would change this
condition Of things? Everything IS
new to US once. Half of the enjoyment
of living comes from that new sensa-
ton. Many of the regrets of old age
are that there's nothing new to appeal
to any of the senses. We all want
other worlds to conquer. And so mem
ory. while adding to the joy OF exist
ence, also causes weary hours, because
we are forced to listen to the new that
years before was old to us. One of the
successful novel writer's of the day
to strike public fancy in
story that had for it's dramatis-per-
sonae a depraved stepfather, foolish
and weak mother and a deceitful sis
ter. Telling the story always In the
first person, the writer was an an
gel. And this novel writer, giving the
world, as many claim, bit of real
family history, was shrewd enough to
write another story along the same
line. That, too, was successful. And
up to the day of her death every few
years she published "a successful nov
ell" But always we found that step
father that mother and that sister.
And today her stories are read by
thousands. Are they old? Never. Are
they new? Yes. Not to this scribe.
Not to his children. But that quiet,
puny girl over there by the electric
light, enjoys reading that book full as
much as her grandmother did by tall
low candle light, many, many years
ago,