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44 Address the Courier Printing Company, Ottumwa, Towa. Entered as second class matter October 17, 1903. at the postofflce, Ottumwa, Iowa, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CURIOSITY AND INSANITY. The practice of holding clinics in the Illinois state hospitals for the insane in which patients in those institutions are used as subjects for the benefit of all physicians who care to attend, has raised a storm of protests and a resolution has been introduced in the legislature condemning and profiting against the practice.
The argument against the clinics is that the families and friends of the insane patients have rights in the premises that they have ''every reason to their suffering and afllictloved ones being shown before aulences of strangers, exhibited, lecsred upon, commented on and the ailments of the patients made Je subjeAt of public discussion in jieir presence and hearing. Opposed this is the argument of the that if it is wrong for medical npuen to study mental cases at public tagtitutions it is far worse for people, purely curiosity seekers, I tp- have access to hospitals for the inakne two days a week. jtDr. Podstata, superintendent of the Elgin hospital, who inaugurated the clinics, in supporting his position said: "Much more objectionable than tjiese clinics are the visiting (Jays, when the state institutions are (ten crowded with a morbid crowd, jie only object of which is curiosity. Dunning as many as 1,000 persons sited the institution in one dav.
nese people are not satisfied with harmless patients. They wish to see the ravihg ma.niacs, and are disappointed if they are unable to see inmates in chains or locked in cells. "I myself have been obliged to drive crowds away from Dunning who were amusing themselves by poking sticks at the patients as they might at so many wild beasts." But this advances no argument in favor of clinics. Dr. Podstata will have support in his position that the doors of the hospital should be closed to morbid curiosity seekers.
No ljealthy minded person would seek amusem*nt in the insane ward in a hospital and the morbid might well be denied admittance. But if Dr. Podstata holds the visits of lay curiosity seekers objectionable he must also hold the visits of professional men, though impelled by a desire for instruction and not curiosity, objectionable. Physicians agree that quiet, restful surroundings, freedom from unnecessary excitement, and calm of the diseased mind are powerful factors in the proper treatment for insanity. It need scarcely be stateu that a patient exposed before an audience of doctors and used as an exnibit in a public clinic must of necessity be excited to degree that would at least tend to aggravate the affliction.
private examination of insane patients would serve the purpose of a clinic, without exposing the patient to public exhibition and to hearing a Qublic discussion of his case. It wouH agem that this much consideration is (tee -the bereaved relatives if not to patients themselves. CONCERNING TIPS. fjust now while the legislatures in several states are considering antitipping bills and the people, or the great majority are nursing a hope that gome good will come of the agitation, the Chicago Examiner haB launched forth as the champion of the tip-swollen waiter and the opponent Of the tip-ljurdened public. should a citizen be prevented from giving a present, or rather giving honest payment, to a or a porter in return for honest service?" the Examiner asks.
And continuing it states the case stronger: opinion is that when a man gpes into a resturant there is no more reason for cheating the waiter than cheating the proprietor. £lf you are willing to pay the proprietor. his customary price for food, you should be willing to pay the waiter his customary price for service. are not presents. They are payment for.
services rendered. you want to cheat anybody in a restaurant, cheat your own stomach." Secretary Shaw, after reading the Examiner editorial presumably in a speech in Chicago expressed himself thus: "There is no trend so regrettable to me as that toward caste. I do not Ifke the tipping habit for several reasons, but, primarily, because it is based upon the- assumption of social distinction. Standing the other day oft the steps of the' subtreasury In New York I saw a man of wealth step from his carriage and hand the driver a gratuity, and I said to myself: 'Is the distinction between these two men not sufficient without giving it emphasis-'" But the secretary placed the wrong construction on the tip he saw given. It perhaps was not given as a gratuity to emphasize the distinction between the.
giver and the receiver, but with the conviction that if it were not forthcoming it. might be hard to avoid a fight with the cabby. for the. argument of the the tips to the waiter are npt presents but the payment of ser- vices tnat no doubt will make a tremendous hit with the recipient of the tips. But some people incline to the belief that it is up to tho restauranteur when charging a high price for his meals to pay the men he employs to serve the food.
AS VIEWED IN MARSHALLTOWN. Ottumwa wants one of the proposed new agricultural colleges and the Courier points out that its geographical location maices It thus available, conclud'ng by the undisputed assertion that "Ottumwa needs an educational institution." However, if new schools fcr farm boys are to be located, Ottumwa's reputation will be considered along with her geographical position and her needs. Hades needs churches but no one is contributing to a building fund because of the need or Times-Republican. Years ago when it was the practice of editors to keep up a running fire of raillery in their columns, occasionally soaking some contemporary with a belaying pin, such paragraphs as the above were considered side-splitters and editorial writer who could daily grind out something of the kind was known all over the country as a funny cuss. But the newspaper business in advancing to keep pace with the march of progress universally placed the ban on the near humorous and not quite funny paragraphs in the editorial columns.
What was considered a scream in the spring of 'GO would not be recognized as humor in 1907. Perhaps that is why it is hard to determine just wherein lies the humor in the paragraph quoted. And then, perhaps it was intended as sarcasm and not humor. You guess. SWINGING THE AX ON APPROPRIATIONS.
The appropriations committee of the two houses of the Iowa legislature are in a quandry. With probably $600,000 available to apportion among the state institutions they are faced with requests from these institutions for $1,699,300 and with recommenda- Dr.Shallenberger The Regular and Reliable Chicago Specialist Treats Chronic Diseases only. Will be at Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel, Thursday, Feb. 28, (one day only) return every 28 davs. Fairfield, Leggett House, Tuesday, Feb.
26. Albia, Monroe Hotel, Wednesday, Feb. 27. Sigourney, Merchants' Hotel, Friday March Office Hours 8 a. m.
to 6 p. m. Cures permanently the cases he undertakes and sends the incurable home without taking a fee from them. This Is why he continues his visits year after year, while other doctors have made a few visits and stopped. Dr Shallenberger is an eminently successful specialist In all chronic diseases prcven by the many cures effectel in chronic cases which have baffled the skill of all other physicians.
His hospital experience and extensive practice have MADE him BO proficient that ne can name and locate a disease In a few minutes. Treats ail cases of Catarrh Nose Throat and Lung diseases. Eye and Stomach, Liver and Kidneys Gravel, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neuralgia, Nervous and Heart diseases Blood and Skin diseases, Epilepsy Bright's Disease and Consumption ir early stage, diseases of the Bladder and Femalo Organs, Liquor and Tobacco Stammering cured and sure methods to prevent its recurrence given. A never failing remedy for Big Neck. PILES.
FISTULAE and RUPTURE guaranteed cured without detention from business. Special attention given to all Surgical cases and all disease? of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and Granulated Lids. NERVOUS DEBILITY. Are ru nervous and despondent, weak ar.d debilitated tired mornings no memory poor easily fatigued excitnble and eyes sunken: red and blurred on face: dreams: restless, haggard looking, weak back deposit In urine and drains at stool: distrustful want of confidence, lack of energy and strength? DISEASES OF MEN AND PRIVATE DISEASES A SPECIALTY. Blood Po'son Spermatorrhea.
Varicocele. Hvdrocplfe, Debility. Nervousness, D'zzlneps, Defective Memorv which ruins mind and body, positively cured. WONDERFUL CURES. Perfected In eld cases which hav been neglected or unsklllfully treated No experiments or failures He undertakes no Incurable cases- but cures frlven up to dlf Consultation Free anc! Confidential Mdress Dr.
W. E. Shallenberger- 145 Oakwood Chicagc. Reference Drexel State Bank. tions from the visiting legislative committees that $1,217,600 be appropriated.
The work of the visiting committees insofar as the work was Intended to be a guide to the appropriation committees, will have little value to the committees, for the visitors came very near to recommending everything asked for. A comparison of the amounts asked by the various state institutions and the amounts recommended and approved by the visiting committees will be interesting: Asked. Reo'tn'd. Iowa City $443,000 $254,000 Ames 350,000 189,000 Cedar Falls 15,000 15,000 Independence 183,500 34,500 Cherokee 155.500 Mt. Pleasant 122,000 101,000 Clarinda 103,000 110.500 Glenwood 118,500 97.000 Knoxville 14,000 14,000 Marshalltown 19,200 20,000 Vinton 2,500 "23.000 Council Bluffs 18,900 .,31,900 Eldora 28,900 15,500 Mitchellville 35,000 Fort Madison 113,000 113,000 Anamosa 31,700 31,200 Davenport 6,300 6,300 $1,699,300 1,217,600 It will be observed that in the case of five of the state institutions the visiting committee actually recommended more than had been asked for by the board of control.
In a number of them there have been some large reductions recommended, but in others very little change. The net reduction of $480,000 represents but a small part of the cut that will have to be made in the end. The appropriations committees are now at work figuring out what can be done to make the necessary reduction. FOR A PURER SAUSAGE. Those literary persons that perused Upton Sinclair's classic masterpiece, "The Jungle," with its thrills in every sentence and its heart throbs in every paragraph, and then decided to eschew the use of the sausage and weinerwurst, perhaps with regret, will applaud the action of the Kansas City packer who has hired a woman manicurist to keep clean the hands of the girls who pack the ground products of the porker.
The foreman of the room excuses one girl at a time and she goes to have every part of her hands scrupulously cleaned so that no sanitary measure might be lacking in the packing of table delicacies. Which shows that even the packing industry is not without its esthetic ideals. THE RACE FOR MONEY. Cedar Rapids Iowa farmer who paid $34,000 to his wife to stop a divorce proceedings laBt week has a story to which attention may be called profitably. This man and his wife came to Iowa about thirty years ago, poor.
They started to save money out of farming. He finally got together 800 acres of land, well stocked and $28,000 in cash, which he had concealed about the premises. This looks like a remarkable example of thrift. But these riches were purchased at the cost of everything else that men and women ought to hold dear. The money saved was at the expense of comforts and decencies.
For years that particular farmer did not permit any other chairs in his house than -drygoods boxes, which he got for the hauling of them home. He is reported to have refused to buy household necessities, so eager was he to pile up a fortune. He got the fortune, but it was an, expensive one. The wife who had lived with him for nearly thirty years was compelled to file charges of cruel and inhuman treatment against him. He probably did not intend to be either cruel- or inhuman.
He was just stingy and stinginess made him mean. He had a hundred thousand dollars but hardly a friend. Not one sincere friend, for such a man was incapable of friendship, and one who is incapable of friendship cannot have friends. He is not an isolated case, either. There are others who are pursuing the same course.
Saving money and laying up something for a rainy day is all well enough in its way, but there is something even better, and that is living comfortably and winning the gpod will and the love of one's Of what benefit are all those acres of all those steers that are stall fed, and that $28,000 hidden in a tin can? After the poor devil is dead what will it benefit him? KING AT THE 'PHONE. Kansas City many days ago the cables throbbed with the announcement that, while In Pari3, King Edward called up Sarah Bernhardt on the telephone and had quite a chat with her. Certainly this news argues not only an intimacy high'y flattering to the French tragedienne but a notable innovation in sovereign demeanor. Unfortunately the reports did not go Into detai's concerning this remarkable conversation through that most dramatic institution, the telephone instrument, yet it is not difficult to construct In a general way and from everyday experience about the way it all happened. Let us speculate: Madame Bernhardt is in her anartments at 10 o'clock in the morning.
With her hair still in curl papers she is "doing up" the breakfast dishes when the telephone bell rings. Hastily wiping her hands on her apron she goes into the sitting room, takes the receiver from the hook, and composes her features sweetly. "J'arrive," says Berqhardt, after the manner of the country. "Hello," comes a gruff, hard British voice. "Que s' est-il done passe?" inquires the tragedienne, anxiously.
"This Is King Edward, of England." don't "Sure, just came over from Lunnon. How's everything?" mean, sire, fine and dandy. Whot train did you come on?" "I came by royal yacht. Her highness is with me." "Ain't you coming over to see me before you leave town?" "I off the THE OTTUMWA COUBIEK m) wire, the blank, blank Bernhardt removes the receiver from her ear until the storm blows over and then resumes: "Where y' stopping?" "At Earl de Grey's. What's y' going to do this afternoon?" "Nothln' much.
Was going down to the Louvre to get a "Come on over. Fallieres and I are' going to be busy a while fixing up the Anglo-FVench entente, but we won't be long at it. We are going to see you play tonight. Can't you send a couple of tickets?" I "Sure. I'll bring them over this afternoon." "Fine.
Gondby." "So long." Of course that isn't just the way It all happened, but it is about the way it would happen in the United States if a king should call a queen over the telephone. The main point of interest is the fact that Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the British Dominions beyond the seas. Emperor of Indin, Defender of the faith, should have dropped liis French nickel in the box and used the telephone just as any other mortal would hnve done under similar circ*mstances. Thus do we see the final barrier of royal caste dissolved before the onslaught or utility. THE COUNTRY EDITOR'S GRAFT.
Afton editors of the big city dailies make great sport of the editor of the country weekly, but we look in vain through their columns for the announcement that one of their good subscribers had left at their home a basket filled with nice fat, tender Iowa chicken, and good, juicy ham, and other delicacies of like nature. Not even every county editor can boast of such good luck but lightning is likely to strike anywhere, and this week it is the editor of this paper who is living like a king at home, in fact off the fat of the land, the result of one of our good friends near Talmage leaving a basket of fine eatments to replenish our erstwhile frugal table. We would mention the name of this good Samaritan, but we promised we wouldn't lest she would quit writing for the paper, so we will leave you to guess to whom wt owe these special thanks. TIMES CHANGE. Indianapolis times are changing," said Bailiff William Phipps.
"You know they used to say that you could always look around and see a white horse whenever you spied a redheaded woman. Generally, too, It was true. It's different now. "I was walking the Circlo yesterday and saw a girl so red-headed that I'd be willing to take out fire insurance on her. I looked around for the proverbial white horse and discovered nothing but six automobiles.
Verily the times are changing." 8UNDAY LAWS. Des Moines agitation for a state-wide anti-Sunday amusem*nt law is ill-advised. Iowa's experience with state-wide laws designed to enforce moral precepts has not been of the most flattering character. The lesson of it all is that the average community is going to do as it pleases so far as all issues are concerned which revolve around the question of "personal liberty." Sunday observance, so far as laws are involved, belongs to the domain of police regulation. If the legislature in its wisdom, believes that communities need more extensive legal facilities in order to protect themselves against the annoyance of Sabbath desecration, let it pass a local option law.
This will appeal to the sense of fairness in the public. Anything else will arouse a feeling of resentment in half the state which will tend to defeat the very object at which the promoters of the reform are aiming. Lawmakers, of all men, ought to understand by this time that without a public sentiment back of it a law is a dead letter. It is more than a mere useless encumbrance of the statute book. In its inert and ineffectual character it tends to breed disrespect for all law.
Let the legislature pass laws which are demanded and which can be enforced. Any other policy is a waste of time and effort. WHEN BASEBALL IS A NUISANCE. George Fitch in Peoria supreme court of Iowa has just decided that baseball is not a nuisance. That all depends.
The kind of baseball that Swalm, Reagan and Swacina played in Peoria last year was an awful nuisance. In fact it was almost unendurable. Every time the Peoria team got a good start towards the pennant one of these three bulking monsters would slouch up and proceed to beat Hope over the head with a hickory bat. If that isn't a nuisance what is? ASSORTED VALENTINES. (By Wex Jones in The Chicago Examiner.) John D.
to Education: 0 education how I love you, Dollars only are above you So first I cornered all the chink. And now, I'll corner you, I think. August Belmont to a straphanger: 1 love to see you, little man, Packing the Subway all you can Paying your nickel for a strap. You're a gold mine, little chap. T.
R. to the American citizen: I've regulated your spelling and the size of your familee, I've held up a score of liars for a docile world to see, I've waged peace on several nations and war on a sovereign state I've told what the daddy may do In the house and when he may stay out late. I've "discovered the ten commandments and busted a million Of course they're still in business but we're scoring continual I have guarded and lectured and mas- Baged and sermoned and rated you, So I'll be your bully valentine, whatever you may say or do. Thomas Fortune Ryan to the American people: If there's anything on earth you must have done, Just cnl! on me to do it. with the mum, I will run the transportation of the nation Pick up contracts, snaps and grafts! without cessation I And on presentation of a card with my initials, Jobs are ready for your cabinet officials.
At Panama I'll dig your little ditch, If the highest bid goes through with-' out a hitch. So, since everything that's yours is also mine, Better come along and be my valen-' tine. THE GRIPPE. An ache In the back, and a pain In the That's the grippe! A choke in the throat, and a yearning for That's the grippe! A river of heat, then a shiver of cold, A feeling of being three hundred years old, A willingness even to do as you're That's the grippe! An arrow of pain, now in this place, now That's the grippe! A feeling of doubt as to where you are That's the grippe! A stupid course, wholly new! A foolish should you feel blue? A doubt as to whether this really is That's the grippe! Strange visions at night that deprive you of That's the grippe! A taste in your mouth, and a weight on your That's the grippe! A tired sensation that runs through your veins, A queer combination of aches and of pains, A vapid admission of absence of JUST AS THEY GET THE PAS8. St.
Joseph bill has been introduced in the Iowa legislature which requires all holders of railway passes to file their names with the state executive council. Most people will be willing to file their names provided they are fortunate enough to secure a pass. WHAT HAS MARRIAGE TO DO WITH IT? Kansas City author of the bill introduced in the Wisconsin legislature to prohibit women from appearing on the stage in tights unless worn with skirts that reach four I inches below the knees is a bachelor, But is that any reason why he should show no respect for the rights and predilections of married men? THE PRIZE WINNER. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise: He ne'er was seen when he was not Competing for a prize. One time he guesed how many seeds A pumpkin had, therefore He got a new $2 bill At Soakum'a Clothing Store.
He wrote an essay once for which He drew a set of books, Containing cooking recipes By all the famous cooks, And once he got a nickel watch For something he had guessed When he went after prizes there Was no hope for the rest. There never was a rebus which He couldn't figure out Charades were simple things that he Could tell you all about. He won a bracket saw and once He got a set of paints For telling how the martyrs died And naming all the saints. He always tried for every prize He heard of anywhere, And seldom worked at other things- He had no tim" to spare. No riddle was so intricate That he would pass It ty No problem ever daunted He'd solve the thing or die.
Poor fellow, he has gone to rest, His worrying is past, And he has solved the problem which We all must solve at last He lived in penury, and died A my son, Despise him not, but think of all The prizes that he won. Record-Herald. IN DAYS TO COME. Peoria the Herald Transcript of February 14, 1889: Jesse Barker, returned yesterday from the New York Auto show, highly delighted with this year's models. He has ordered three new cars, a 200-horse power rutiabout fitted with the Duryet patent side wings for enabling the machine to leap fences and small creeks a 500-horse power racing That's the grippe! Journal.
CLOTHESPINS. Chicago persons ever wonder where clothes pins come from few ever heard of Bryant's Point, and yet a man there has been quietly turning trees into clothespins for years and supplying the world with them, amassing in the process as comfortable a fortune as many a man makes in a more pretentious business in some money centers. His name is Lewis Mann and he began with a capital of $400, with which he purchased an old disused mill and began the manufacture of clothespins. Today he is the- largest individual maker of this very necessary article in the world. Many Have Been Cured? Matty more will be cured if they do not delay too lottg.
Nearly all the people who suffer from Chronic Diseases neglect treatment until they are compelled to do something then they expect to bo cured in a very short time. Why delay' until your disease Is so Chronic. Albia, Iowa, Nov 1, 1905. I live six miles east of Albia and was afflicted with rupture for 40 years. I had it Strangulated several times so I could not get it back.
The doctors wanted to operate ori me and said there was no other way to he cured, but I would not be operated on. and finally the rupture went back. I suffered severe pain from the rupture and did not get. any relief until I went to Dr. Bonham, who said he could cure me.
I was treated over a year ago and was soon cured, and have not worn a truss for some time and feel very well, and have no trouble whatever. H. M. Chidester. Albia, April 1, 1906.
I desire to say that Dr. Bonham of Ottumwa cured me of a rupture of long standing. 1 was cured some eight years ago and would not take nny amount of money and be as I was before. I can recommend his treatment to all sufferers. W.
B. Campbell. Stomach diseases are very common diseases. We are curing many by the use of Electricity and Vibration, which stimulates the circulation of the parts and brings about normal action. COR GREEN AND 8ECOND TS.
To the Editor of the Courier: Dear the example of one of my classmates, I would say, In answer to your advertise, not only in words, but In deeds as well. Let our city have the honor of being one of the cleanest and prettiest in the state, and let home enterprising citizen or citizens take up the park subject, and assure us of getting one or more beautiful spots where our people can spend a day of recreation occasionally during the hot summer months, without having to go to some machine with a nickel steel nose guaranteed to penetrate a brick wall without damaging the car, and a family touring car which carries eleven people, a small kitchen, card tables, a Turkish smoking room and a pianola. All of these machines are fitted with the Miller patent pedestrian catcher, which 8coops up the pedestrian, carries him through the body of the car and depoeits him in the rear with a ham sandwich and a cigar, unhurt. STORIES OF PEOPLE. OTTUMWA, IOWA.
Editorials By The People On What Ottumwa Needs "There goes a man with brains," said the butcher. "It he a statesman?" "Not that I know of." "An "I dont believe so." "An "Not that I ever heard of." "Wbo is he?" "I don't "Then how do you know he has "I just sold him some. How many pounds of liver did you say?" A Philadelphia settlement worker tells of two fresh-air-fund children who gazed in some wonder at a number of live chickens running about the place in the country to which the youngsters were taken. "Haven't you ever seen any chickens before," asked the kind woman In charge of the expedition. "Oh, yes mum," answered the oldest child knowingly, "we has seen lots of 'em only It was after they was peeled." A Washingtonian was talking to tne proprietor of a hotel in that city with reference to the stormy career oft a certain well known young fellow of distinguished parentage who has suo seeded in dissipating very nearly t' entire sum left him a year or so ago by an extremely wealthy uncle.
"I'm awfully sorry to hear this," said the Washington man, "He must be in a bad way now?" "Yes, his affairs are in wretched shape," said the hotel man, "but just think how much poorer he would be if the old man had left him more." A politician who was once making 8 I have restored mfihy tb many who say to me: "Doctor, I am glad you advertised, for if you had not used the medium of the newspaper I would not have known you had the ability to cure my disease." I do office business, medical and surgical practice. I have been located in for fifteen years. I treat Chronic Diseases, Rupture, Piles, Diseases of Women, Private Blood and Skin Diseases, Catarrh of the Nose, Throat and Lungs, Stomach, Bowels, Liver and Kidney diseases.Rheumatism and Blood Diseases, treated by Electro-Thermal Baths. A FEW TESTIMONIALS. The reason I run testimonials is because it is information for tha people, who want to know some of the people whom we have cured.
Varicocele (False Rupture) cured within ten days. I have cured over 100 eases and cure every case I have undertaken. Cures for Varicocele and Hydrocele made in ten days' time. All Nervous Diseases, Private and Sexual troubles resulting in drain upon the system caused from excesses are promntlv cured when advice is followed. Cases cured twelve years ago are good testimonials.
Mr. Nevil Glue, Ottumwa, says: "I was cured of Rupture twelve years ago and am sound and well today." Mr. James Wall, Ottumwa, Bays: "I was cured when I was sixty years of age and I am now seventy-two. The cure of my rupture was a great blessing to me." Mrs. E.
Sigel of Main street, says: "Dr. Bonham cured two of our little boys of three ruptures about four years ago and we are mighty thankful they are cured," Mr. Jacob Donavor of West Pnint, Iowa, says: "I was cured of a bad case of Pilefe in one week to mv surprise and satisfaction. Dr. Bmham also cured my neighbor, John Leaveling of a bad case of Piles.
He Is as well pleased as I am." If out of city write me your symptoms and I will tell you what I think of your case. Enclose stamp for reply. Dr. J. C.
Bonham, fif IS. it -J 3 a canvass of a county In Arkansas stopped at a certain farmhouse for a drink of water. Said he to the an who answered his knock "I observe that there 1b a great deal of ague in this country. A great drawi back. It must unfit a man for worU entirely?" "Gener'ly it do," said the "Still, when my man Tom has a right hard fit of the shakes, we fasten tha churn-dasher to him, and he brings the butter in side of fifteen THE SHIRKER.
Do you daily refuse to give best efforts? Do you pay your taxes you do anything day by which will help our neighbors and low citizens? By even a smile or a kind word? Da you? If not, you are a Shirker! It means the nian who can and wilt not pay his man who buys co*cktails with the money needed to support his wife anu family the man who follows the races, and then tells his creditors to call again. It means the man who beats the butcher and the baker, and can still find changa enough to treat. The definition is not broad enougU for the name of SHIRKER. He is found In any quantity in garbH from the cloth down to the card sharpe. He belongs to an ignoble ternity.
Are you a member? If you are doing the best that yotf can giving an honest day's work fo an honest day's pay, an honest thougnt for the morrow, a helping hand for tha needy, without fear and a clean you do yoflr best, you ara A SHIRKER. SIGOURNEY R. F. D. NO.
6. Sigourney R. F. D. No.
6, Fob. 20.A. E. Goeldner of Route one was is Vicinity Wednesday buying hide) and furs. W.
D. Spaba, the tovnshlp as3esson was here Wednesday. Joe Miller of Pekin visited here and at Sigourney a few days last week. William wife anl son, Freder ick, drove to Sigourney Thursday, St ELKS' BLOCK. distant, village or town.
Let us seat that our streets and alleys are kept, clear of all rubbish and dirt and thafci posters and signboards are not allowed to detract from the beauty oti our streets and parks. May each dividual citizen do his part towards beautifying the city by keeping his lawn and walks in good order, and may we soon be able to say that our city is one of the cleanest in the Yours truly, Another member of the class of 1909ji Ottumwa High school. -i- Des Moines a prettsS name, is it? Are you one? 1.
