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Show Vfvid at Least. Dr, Hiram1 C. Cortlandt, the well-known well-known theologian of Des Moines, saA in a recent address: "Thomas A. Edison tells us that he thinks the 'soul is nol immortal; but, after all, what does this great wizard know about souls? His forte is electricity elec-tricity and macuinery, and when he talks of souls he reminds me Irresistibly Irresist-ibly of the young lady who visited the Baldwin locomotive works and then told how a locomotive is made. "'You pour,' she said, 'a lot of sand into a lot of boxes, and you throw old stove lids and things into a furnace, and they you empty the molten stream Into a hole In the sand, and everybody yells and swears. Then you pour it out and let it cool and pound It, and then you put It in a thing that bores holes in it. Then you screw it together, to-gether, and paint It, and put steam In It, and it goes splendidly; and they take It to a drafting room and make a bluep rint of it. But one thing I forgot for-got they have to make a boiler. One man gets inside and one gets outside, and they pound frightfully; and then they tie It to the other thing, and you ought to see It go!'" |