Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-02
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NO MORE VACATIONS FOR HIM--SAYa
RUSSELL SAGE is RIGHT

l have friend who lives in Peoria.
He is a good fellow and never acted as
if he was in any danger of overhead
ing himself by hard work in the win
ter time, and no one has ever seemed
to be particularly concerned about his
being overcome. even in the summer
time. He is just plain everyday
sort of fellow and works at just the
plain everyday gait. He generally has
a practical view Of things and always
sees a point when you show it to him.
!. Yesterday he came in the office and
limped over to my desk and sat down
before he shook hands with me. One
ear was skinned and his eye was black
nearly down to his mouth. His right
shoulder seemed to be little bit low
er than the left one, and he told me
to be careful and not squeeze his hand
too hard when shook hands with him.
asked him where the wreck occurred,
or how high up the balloon was when it
burst
He looked at me some time before
he said anything. 1t seemed to be
quite an effort for him to get to talk
ing. but when he did, he said:
Russell Sage is sure right about
this vacation business. I have just
escaped from one of them and it is
me to the work again. would rather
work every day for three months, in
Guiding Sunday, than to agree to put
in four days and nights on a vacation
A man will get more bruises in one
day In the country than he will in a
boiler explosion.
you see. have been working
steady for the last two years and
knew I ought to have vacation. Sew
eral of the boys have club house
down the river and they asked me to
go down and put in couple of
weeks roughing it. did; if l didn't
rough it, I'd like to know what you
call it. We got down there in the
morning and after dinner, they sug-
gested that we shoot at a few tar
gets. l never shot gun in my life
before and l supposed that it was
proper to pull both triggers at the
same time. That's the cause of this
black eye and this deformity in the
lineup of my shoulders
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the afternoon with piece of beef
steak on my eye and couldn't eat any
supper. Didn't think I ever would
want any supper again. l kept UP the
beef-steak and hot water applications
until along in the morning some time
and finally went to sleep.
about $50 a. M, I guess I had
been asleep about two hours, they
reused me out, and with some hot wa
ter and the help of one of the boys, l
got my bum lamp opened up SO. l
could see out of it. They wanted me
to take walk before breakfast, they
said it would do me good and help my
appetite. We started along road,
jumped across mud holes and brush
piles, climbed a wire fence and finally
as we neared the Club house one of
them suggested that we see who could
get there first. was doing first rate
and right up to the front when caught
my toe on root that stuck out of the
ground instead of into it as it ought
to, and went down and out. There
was small stump about ten feet in
front of where I tripped and nearly
drove it into the ground with the pit
of my stomach. When l finally got my
breathing apparatus to going again,
good and right so it would work with
out my heart getting caught, the rest
of the boys had breakfast and had
gone rowing and fishing and l was left
alone.
"That forenoon got along pretty
peaceably, because I couldn't move ov-
er six steps at time, without hav-
ing to stop and rest. There wasn't any
two parts of me that would work at
the same time. was all out of gear
"That afternoon, we got into boats
and went fishing. We went down to
the lower end of the lake, which was