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Show Vivid at Least. Dr. Hlrnm C. Cortlandt, tho woll-known woll-known theologian of Dos Moines, said In a recent address: "Thomas A. Edison tells us that he thinks tho soul is not immortal; but, after all, what does this great wizard know nbout souls? His forto Is electricity elec-tricity and macnlnory, nnd whon ho talks of souls ho reminds mo irresistibly irresist-ibly of tho young lady who visited tho Baldwin locomotlvo works and then told how a locomotlvo Is made. " 'You pour,' sho said, 'a lot of sand Into a lot of boxes, and you throw old stove lids and things Into a furnace, and thoy you empty tho molten stream Into a holo In tho sand, and everybody yells and swears. Then you pour It out and let It cool and pound It, and then you put It In n thing that boreB holes In It. Then you screw It together, to-gether, nnd paint It, and put steam In It, and It goes splendidly; and they take It to a drafting room and mako a bluep rlnt of it. But ono thing I forgot for-got thoy havo to make a holler. Ono man gets lnsldo nnd ono gets outside, and thoy pound frightfully; nnd then they tie It to tho other thing, and you ought to seo it go!'" |