Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-16
Eurl anua nrdsdap 9nber

tion of his crime The petitioners made
no hero of scamp but hoped to lift
the burden of maintaining herself and
family from the shoulders of Isenharts S
penitentiary was a sentence of hari
labor to the wife as Well. There was
no heroics about the petition but a
Very natural pity for woman who de-
serves a better husband
| Every farmer should keep classi-
fled scrapbooll for ready reference.
There is a great deal of reading mat
ter which comes to every farmers
home. and while he can not always
find time to read all of it, he often
strikes something in the way of a sug-
gestion which should be filed away for
later consultation. We can not always
remember the good things we read. AMI
Gnless. classified in some convenient
Way they are hard To find when wanted.
The time to do this is when the item 5
before the eye and requires only a
moment if a place is ready to receive
the clipping. In this way a good stock
of information is soon stored up.
A press dispatch of December 8 re-
porting the death OF the veteran actor
George Thompson, at New York City.
stated that he died While under Chris
tian science treatment by his wife and
daughter This appears to have been
a mistake as later advices state that
rome of the family are Christian sci
entists. The T-R. makes the correc-
ton as due to the scientist church and
in the interests of general accuracy.
The error appears to have arisen from
the fact that Thompson and his family
had been in attendance upon a Chris
tiau science lecture just previous to
his seizure.
0ttumwa and 0skaloosa are agitat-
ing for Well equipped and modern city
hospitals In Ottumwa considerable
money has been raised by subscription
aud the movement is likely to be sue
cessful There is crying need of more
bospitals in which the charitable fea-
lure is the prominent one. The poor
need hospitals more than the Well 20
do. Free hospitals are a more insistent
need than free libraries. Mllionaires
,ybo ,-isb IN aia ,,oo, nIa,sa take no
t;ca
The Christmas Scribner's is a sump
tuous number. filled with fiction gay
and bright in its character, with re
poems. which prove con-
ciusiyely that poetry has not gone into
eclipse. and with artistic achievements
notable for their beauty and variety
Color printing has never reached
higher point in this issue. There are
eight fuil-pages. "The child in a Car
den. by Jessie Wilcox smith, story
ipin,l naint;nps. Tho fron,ispiece nv
u,Xfia,a parrisb ,ha many i,Instra
,;o,s os Dn.c, scenas hy pantieid a,.1
ma ha,u,ifn, covar hv I q CONNER
arc also beau,ifn,lv renroduced in col
ar Anotha,. artistic fea,ure ,s the rs-
of s.reen,,s latast WI
nain,snp IN tho poston n,b,ic lihrarv
With an ar,,o,a .hout i.
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United states Consul s. C. McFnr-
land. of Reichenbere. Austria. reports |
that the effect of cotton mantpulatjons
1T New York and New Orleans is Sc |
verely felt in Northern Bohemia ami |
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