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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09

" to be Illuminated too brightly. to per
NIT of normal life. Consequently, onIy
five of the cells should be used at 1lrsJ
until the lamps show symptoms OF dim
ming, when the sixth should be added
Excessive sparkling at the brushes OF
a lighting or starting dynamo can
arise from a variety Of causes and IN
some cases it is chronic, so to SPEAK
Before abandoning all hope of effect
ing a cure, however, it is well to try
a set of graphite brushes, which, be
cause of their self lubricating qualities
is a conductor of electricity, make Tor
more perfect Communication.
There are a number of motors in
which the lower edges of the pistOns
dip into grooves in the crankcase, just
stopping short of touching IN others
there are projections which do not
permit the pistOns to descend much
below the normal stroke limit It some
times happens that in taking up wear
in the bushings, or in fitting new bush
ingS, a piston IS brought a trlfle lower
than its original limit, and the edge
touches, causing a knock. While this
is a rare cause of knocking, and IS
confined chiefly to motors OF older
types, it is all the more likely to be
mysterious and difficult to locate. A
very small amount Of metal removed
from the edge of the piston or from
the interfering part, whichever can
be done best. will remedy the trouble.
1t should be remembered, however,
that the lowered piston means lowered
compression, and probably loss OF
power that may be fully as mysterious
as the knock.
deep cut in tire, which partly
sewers a piece of rubber and allows il
to flap, should receive immediate at
tention, because the loose piece is apt
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09
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HELPFUL HINTS TO
MOTOR CAR OWNERS
:. :. :. :. :. : : 3 :. :. : :. :. ::

When a motor is turned over slowly
with the crank il may appear that all
the valves are working properly and
seating as they should; but it some
times happens that the stems are
gummed, dry, or fOuled with dust and
dirt, so that they cannot move fast
enough to keep pace with the motor
when it is running. This is a good
point to watch, for it may easily cause
misfiring and other apparently cause
less troubles
Although dry cells seldom are used
as a source of energy for electric lights.
it should be remembered that when
they are used the voltage of each cell
is little more than one. Where six
are connected in series TO feed six volt
tungsten lamps the filaments are like
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09
Federal Aid Possible For Road Through Ell PasoWestgard

to tear off more rubber and so make
the damage worse than at first This
is particularly true Of solid tires.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
FsOfaAl ssEY TO MATCH STATE FUND.

Before the road congress a Detroit
Secretary Houston. speaking for gov
sernment aid in road building, touched
upon the certainty that wild scramble
for federal aid would ensue Immediate
ly following appropria atoms for this
purpose and suggested that it could be
entirely controlled by requiring large
appropria tons from the state which
seek the benefit of federal assistance in
road building.
The secretary is right. The check
would operate precisely as he suggests.
1T Is the same plan pursued by those
who contribute to endowment Of funds
OF colleges by providing that those
WHO desire such contributions shall
raise an equal sum among themselves.
It is the Carnegie system which re-
quires certain expenditure and pledges
before it gives to the erection Of
libraries These plans work well. a
system Of federal aid based upon self
ss.spDy the les w0ui;ta. &c. aa-l,s check
= rush for the bargain counter, but
insure that the road would be built,
veil built and afterward maintained.
4 e = the same system which has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04

work to have sought out this lonesome
and friendless girl and mtnistered to
her In humanity's and the Masters
name? And churches in other towns
the size Of Nora Springs show no more
efficiency along the line mentioned. In
all Of them tragedies involving the loss
of life and OF character and Of hope and
aspiration are being enacted almost
daily; and pastors and church members
keep on the same old rut-praying and
singing. and discussing exhaustively
theoretical christianity, when right UNI
der their noses, within sound of the
church bell. people are dying for SYM
pathy, are starving for kindly interest
and companionship. lsn't 1t about time
that churches quit laying so much
stress on the money end of religious
work and on muititudinous organiza-
tons. and went out simply and sincere
ly in more determined effort to seek
and save the lost?" This essential
christian service may be encouraged
thru organizations but it is we'll to re-
member that in the end it must be done
by individuals who are willing to put
business. society and routine church
work aside long enough TO attend to II.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
SHE NEEDED A FRIEND.


One day last week Il or 15-year- old
girl employed in the Hotel Clayton at
Nora Springs went into an outbuilding
at the rear of the hotel, saturated her
clothing with kerosene. and touched
match to ii. Passers- were attracted
by the poor girls agonizing screams.
but before they could render aid. she
was so terribly burned that she died a
few hours afterward Details of the
printed account of the tragedy seem to.
point to dependency and unhappiness
as the chief causes of it. Perhaps there
We're other causes the exact nature of
which will never be known. But enough
seems to be known by those who came
in close touch with the unfortunate
young woman to indicate that, while a
match and kerosene were the immedi
ate causes of her death, there We're
contributing causes that are worthy
passing comment. Among these were
unhappy and depressing home condi-
tons, which had led her to leave it.
Another was the lack OF friends, who
might have taken a kindly interest in
her and in whom she might have con-
fided in her trouble Isn't 1t sort OF a
pitiful commentary on the practical in
efficiency or the small tuyvn ,Iii;a: ssiii 3e
today the large town church rs no
better) that among the seven or eight
church organizations in the town there
was not sufficient practical religion at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04

been urged on the state of Iowa over
and over in which road district
modelled after our drainage districts
pays SO much, the county SO much,
and the state the remainder of the cost.
Secretary Houston's proposition is to
add the aid of the federal government
prportionately. And it is the way to
build roads.
1t may be recalled that govern
mentally built and aided highways are
not new in this country. Under Wash
ingtons administration congress began
building a central highway west from
Baltimore and did build ESQ miles Of
road. an undertaking greater in those
days than the building Of a transcon-
tinental road would be today. And
over this road came the big Conestoga
Ohio and kentucky and the commerce
and traffic of the country passed over
It. Railroads. of course, there were
none. The freight and passenger traffic
went over the wagon ROAD.
Now, after many years. conditions
nave come which make the wagon road
again an important artery OF traffic.
The highways are again fixed with in
terstate passenger traffic since the
automobile has measured miles with
the average passenger train. Between
towns the possibilities of tractor
freight freight traffic are great. a
solid highway between towns thirty or
even fifty miles apart is next thing to
an interurban railway. So far as the
matter of drawing trade" IS concerned
the highway Will hold its own with
the interurban. We have come back
to days when the highway IS to become
one of the chief arteries of traffic over
considerable distance.
When Rome was at her highest she
had leading into the city twenty -rine
highways which totaled 81. 96+ miles
(Roman). Some Of these roads ssill
resist time They were built by con-
victs largely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
GIVE lAYnAN AND CLIENT A CHANCE.

An attorney has written Federal
Judge Mcpherson of Iowa threa tening
him with impeachment proceedings un-
less he decides 20 do as the attorney
desires in cer.ain case. II is mat
ter of money which the attorney wants
paid over one way and which the judge
has not so ordered. Judge Mcpherson
replies to the attorney that his threat
SIS not persuasive
Laynen who have noticed the pune
tiiious dignity which doth hedge d
court will wonder at the mild and
gentle answer Of the Judge to q de-
mand thus accumulated. To a lot of
unethically ignorant lay people this
looks like contempt Of court and sew
eral other kinds of capers which get
iaynaen into swift and certain trouble.
Had Bill Smith. merchant or chief,
written to a judge on the bench with
an imidating threat 70 do things TO him
unless he ruled in favor of the afore-
said William Smith, party of the first
part IN the case then IN nearing, ETC.,
the ignorant laynlan imagines that
something would be doing with the said
William Smith. Or had Ole Svenson,
farmer, met the Judge in the street and
announced his intention TO knock his
block off in case decision was against
him, the said Ole might have heard
something drop.
"Since laws was made of every de-
gree to curb vice in others as we'll as
in me" why may a lawyer threaten a
mighty judge with dire consequences
in an effort to get money for his eli
ents when common folks ere supposed
not to peep or make faces? And how
does 1t come that the attorney can
make such cracks as this and get away
with the gentle answer which ''rurneth
away WRATH" It isn't fair. II certainly
insnt fair to the ordinary fellow who
has a lawsuit only once in awhile and
might get excited to an extent that
he would start something with the
Judge to give special and 6iscrinlina-
torw privilege to another man merely
because he is a lawyer. II any man
has a right to cuss a judge it is the
client
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
PLACE FOR CAUTION.

A perusal of several of the books put
out by publishing houses OF -epute in
order TO get in on the ground 1oor Of
the proposed sex study and teaching
in public schools is sufficient TO operate
as check against adoption of such
teaching as part OF a general curricul-
I'M until the question has been thor
oughly gone over and very carefully
considered. AS books TO be put into the
hands Of teacher and others arrived at
maturity these books are available: but
precisely how teachers may convey to
children the information they contain
Is not SO clear; nor is il at all clear
thar it should be done by teachers.
The books are for grown people and
for grown people who have learned 10
think and whose knowledge of life and
its problems is vastly different from
the understanding Of children. No
teacher could go into anatomical and
physiological matters before classes as
these books do. And if they might. omen
teaching, however cautious, along the
lines laid down in these books would
result in vacant school rooms. And
Wlthal these are valuable boks filled
with important information On most
important subject: but their fun dis
cnssion before classes outside of s,a.
:ial schools and colleges is plainly i'm
possible.
The best We can DO in sex study in
the public schools is to teach eoos
morals in classes; to arrange for leo
lures and taiAs Of an informing omar
ac'er by women to girls and by me,
to boys. And to urge private instryc-
ton in the home on the problems ,ha,
cfiiioFen must meet wnen they have
grown into young men and Young vo-
men.
IN short We are not to be carried
away by movement which vo,,ra d,s
cuss in public schools wha. u. raf,,.o
to discuss at a common public ,aatt.a
OF men and women. We need - -
very careful. And we are eoi,,
very careful. ~ ne
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
SHOT \ BUFFALO IN IOWA.
Tkeota Eagle.


Monday MAS big day al Sing
masters 1t was the postponed day
for the killing Of two buffalo by the
Fairfield men. and long before 9
o'clock the hour SET the people be-
gan coming from all directions. Most,
OF the automobiles were picketei in
the spacious yard just west of c. F.
Singmas;ers residence and some OF
Besides these there were more OF them
scattered over the ranch, SO il is safe
70 say there were 150 there. And so
many buggies and carriages, it would
have been Impossible to have counted
them There were 1000 people there.
perhaps the largest crowd ever there
az one time.
The shooting took place shortly af
ter II o'clock A wagon load of men
drove into the herd of % buffalo in
their so acre pasture, and almost before
the crowd realized it, Charles Cum
mings, a former member of the Fair
field militia had dropped one of them
with a shot between the eyes. After
an interval Of ten minutes Harry
Smith. another Fairfield man. dropped
the second one In exactly the same
manner. ne hiIlIIS SdS idt-lS- ldIlic.
They had such a hard time killing one
last year that hardly anyone expected
it would be accomplished 50 easily.
The rest OF the animals in the herd
were not excited in the least. Butchers
were on hand and the carcasses of the
TWO dead buffalo We're promptly trim
med up and taken on a big auto truck
20 Fairfield for the barbecue yester-
iav
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
A sTANDPAT SET SCREW.

logan OBSERVER
This office had a visit from a fellow
not long ago. who holds just about as
important a position as that of the bee
Inspector He was a factory inspector.
and altho we can not find out just VIVA
salary he gets be DOUBTLESS wasn't
working for his health. Probably he
belongs TO the department of which
Warren Garst is the head and who gets
$1,000 per annum. Anyway this man
came along and went thru our printing
office. He didn't find anything seri-
ously wrong with our typewriter or
fountain pen that is not so that either
one endangered human life, but he
found set screw on the JOB press that
vas not covered up. (This set screw
holds a collar on the shaft on which
a loose pulley runs. and when the press
is not running the collar and set screw
are al rest and when the press is run
ning the operator. is not within a yard
of the set screw, or menace to life and
limb). But the inspector found tina
set screw and wanted it covered We
covered il, so that it is absolutely safe.
as nobody ever goes near it anyway
when X is running The factory in
spector is all right where there are
factories to inspect bat we hardly think
that it is necessary for the state to pay
a salary for him to go over the state
inspecting printing plants. If he had
enough work to do inspecting real
factories so that he could draw the
maximum salary he wouldn't be out in
the country towns, but it is against the
principals of an employe of the state
to let any money get away from him
that he can possibly get.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
For Sunday Reading
AN Sorts of Opinions
All Right to Have "A Good Time


Charles E. Jefferson. pastor OF "
Broadway Tabernacle, New York Chy.
writes an article entitled Sooo
Time" in the October Woman's Home
Companion, and says in part:
"In desiring good time we have the
commentator of the christian religion.
1t not only approves Of our ambition
but 1t promises to help us In the at
tainment Of it. Nothing is falser than
the old superstition that piety ana
long face belong together, that salntl-
ness and gloom are related, that II you
want to be genuinely religious you
must not expect to be happy-till you
die. In many quarters, it Is a current
opinion that becoming christian
means giving UP all prospects OF ever
having any more good times. Following
Christ means doing what you do not
want to do. giving up everything you
like to do. going out Of your way IN
search of things which put CLOUD oIl
the sun, making yourself as uncom :
Portable as you can. No wonder thai
young people in many cases turn theii
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
MatsriaIism Will Die, Prsdiets Dr.
Gunsaulus

Death Of the superstition of mater
laiism' which accepts only what is ap-
parent to the senses and rejects the
reality which was not apparent was
predicted by Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus
Speaking at the morning service of
Central Church, in the auditorium, he
discussed the recent declaration by Sir
Oliver Lodge Of his acceptance az .
scientist of the doctrine Of the immor-
tality Of the soul.
DR.. Gunsaulus pictured the forces OF
the scientist and the metaphysical
working in opposite directions in the
dark tunnel of research until they were
at last brought together and the rays
Of a more perfect understanding Of
great truths brought to both.
The pastor found his text in the
words of the questioning Job-1f a
man dies, shall he live again?"
Job is type Of the man living in
the world of appearances and seeking
for the world of reality" he said. HE
was the orthodox man of the east
the man who believed that the good
man was rewarded on earth and that
the just man was happy because he
was just Apparently this was 80.
But misfortune came to Job. Then
came his cry for an umpire between
man and God-an umpire who will! en-
able man to understand God-the cry
answered by the incarnation and
Christ.
For forty years there have been in
progress two processes that have come
at last together.
For a long time man has stood to
scientists as an entity easily destroyed.
as by bullet. But there has been
recognition that there are many men in
the one man. There is the man Of
bone-the man that stands forward
when a skeleton Is put forward. There
is the man Of muscle. man separate
from the other and yet the same man.
And there is the man Of nerves, AZ
distinct as the other two and yet the
same man.
Back of them all is the man who
to all appearance does not exist the
man who has never been seen. 1t is
this unseen man who sings. who paints
who sculps, who creates. who does all
thru the man who exists to appear
ances.
1T is this man who suffe-s-the SUI
fering which is the marx Of Gods in
terest in the human soul. 1t was neces-
sary for this man to be disciplined be-
fore he could be himself.
Gradually for forty years the SCI
entists-largely the men who have
been 80 reviled by the or.hodox-have
come to realize the existence OF this
man. The physicists have concerned
themselves with matter. They believed
in it. Now they have come to realize
that matter. after all, is only perhaps a
form of motion and not an ultimate
thing"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
rMEs.REPUBLICAN. MARsHALLTowN IOWA: OCTOBER

backs on the church. Religion II to
them . straitlaced. unnatural. other
worldly affair. something to be avoid
ed in the days of ones youth. and post
poned until the sun is in the west.
THAT this notion Is a mistaken one
Is clear to anyone who reads the new
testament with both eyes. Goethe
used to call christianity the religion Of
sorrow, and whenever he said that
Carlyle always gave a hearty Amen
but neither the German nor the Scotch
man is trustworthy interpreter of the
christian religion. Christianity is in
fact the religion of joy. If it seems
otherwise 1t is because we read the
gospels thru the shadow cast by the
tragedy on Golgotha.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04

fellow scientists that their studies do
not exhaust the universe Feelings OF
joy, exAltation, the sense Of beauty and
the like. are not within the province Of
science, he said, and yet no one would
hazard denial Of their existence.
From nature he drew lessons from
the ether to point the limitations Of
science. 1t was possible for people to
deny the existence Of ether because It
makes no appeal to any Of the human
senses. he declared, but because SCI
ence has not been able to grasp 1t in
the laboratory is no reason for say
ing it does not exist.
The speaker declared that science Is
not competent to make denials Of the
ether. No ultimate explanation, he
argued, ever is made by science. Its
findings are approximate only. Be
cause the psychical can not be ex-
planned in terms of physics and chem
istry there was a tendency to deny its
existence. He warned his listeners
that in making such denials they were
going outside their legitimate bounds.
Sir Oliver had found in his research
es quite as convincing evidence Of con-
tinuity as Of discontinuity.
Genuine religion" he said IN con-
clusion, has its roots deep down in the
heart Of humanity and in the reality of
things. 1t is not surprising that by our
methods we fail to grasp 1t. There 10
a principle or RELATIVELY here, and UNI
less we encounter flow or jar or change,
nothing in US responds. We are deaf
and blind, therefore, to the imminent
grandeur around us, unless We have
insight enought to recognize in the
woven fabric Of existence, flowing
steadily from the loom in an infinite
progress toward perfection, the ever
growing garment Of a transcendant
God"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
BURNIGHT'S FIRE ESCAPES.
fCraig Independent.l

The state hotel inspector was in
town the latter part OF LAST week and
Went over the Burnsht hotel. He or
dered Landlady Burnight to put rope
fire escapes in all the upstairs rooms
and charged her 81 for the job. 1t
seems 10 US d fool piece of business TO
have 10 put fire escapes in such a low
building. In case fire does break
out anyone could jump or fall out Of
the upper windows 10 the ground and
the Jar wouldn't be enough 10 loosen
a set OF false teeth. But the order is
law and wust be obeyed whether nee
essary or not.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
Topics of the Times


seen in the work now being done TO
rehabiIitate the old Cumberland road
built originally by the federal govern
nlent at a cost of $4,000 per mile. At
ter fifty years of use and neglect this
road is being completely restored st a
cost Of $4,000 per nile the stone
bridges and much of the stone toun-
dation still remaining intact. In other
words a permanent road built today
wiki a rwenty-year bond issue will
have been paid for in easy payments
and will be worth half its original cost
fifty years from now if il is never re-
paired or maintained.
preventative Kirkpatrick OF the
Sixth is busy man. He now has a
scheme TO furnish all towns with
government building. The Hon. SAINT
seems TO be Sundancing.
Down in Mont gomery county q mum
Der of farmers pay over $500 in taxes.
The Montgomery county farmer evil
IDENTITY doesn't grab his surplus and
hike for Canada with it.
OF course you have read the tariff
bill and are familiar With ali its
changes. Not that it makes any diff
ference. II you haven't you can hold
YOUR own in argument with the other
fellow. He doesn't know anything
about il, either.
Funny thing about US is tina, when
potatoes are a dollar a bushel we all
crave potatoes and when meat is the
highest we eat more meat. Mans a
fool, when it's hot ne wants il cool.
when its cool he wants it hot, always
wanting what is not
The latest report of the G. A. r.
shows a census of 1929. When it is
realized that soldiers Of the civil war
averaged - years of age fifty years
ago. 1871 regiments OF survivors -
years old speaks high for the physical.
quality Of the men who enlisted in the
sixties.
-AppCOp!ld l4ODS IpF LcutldI anu ~
states which are willing TO build roads
are as certain as sunrise. Twenty
FIVE millions annually Is the sum talked
about at present. And the state which
] Is ready TO match money with the fed
era1 government will get the nrst
chance at the appropriation. Iowa
should be lining up for the kick off.
! Winter is Il good time . form rural
clubs and get under way for perme :
nent organizations. Up near Clarion
! a club formed with a big and pro-
gressive school district as nucleus is
attracting wide attention by its club
! fairs at which products are shown.
questions discussed, the boys and girls
! speak pieces and everyone has d
| mighty good time. That community
Will have things first.