Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-21
A youth who bore mid snow and ice
A banner with this strange device:
Reform!

A youth who bore mid snow and ice
A banner with this strange device:
Reform!
That will do" said the railroad ed
itor. I'VE can guess the answer. Now
get out while it's safe. An unprotected
lone individual who goes around talk.
ing reform takes his life In his own
hands. / don't know what the people
of Missouri might do to person who
tried to sing it,
Il guess he's right" said the office
boy. Here's your hat. ~ Kansas City
Journal.
Psalm Of the shoveler.
Not because of It's value to litera-
ture nor yet its truth Is the following
poem published. It is given space in
this paper because 1t demonstrates the
fact that there Is one man in the coun.
try, north Of Mason & Dixon's line.
who has not shoveled snow this win.
ter. 1t was the firm opinion of nearly
everyone, no doubt, that there was no
one living in the confines of the coun.
try called the north who had not taken
his turn with the shovel at some time
during the present "snowful" winter.
But no one could write such an effu.
sion as this one without having re.
NAMED immune. II the truth be-
known. 1T is a pretty good bet that the,
man who wrote this poem has no
arms and didn't write it at all, prob.i
ably dictated 1t to q stenographer.I
His name isn't signed but the Cedar
Rapids Gazette will have to answers
for the lines. Leave the IN" out OF
Tines" and you will have the best def
milton for the following:
AS he shoveled of his sidewalks
For the forty-seventh time,
All MS nature swelled with music 4
And his musings went in rhyme, Al
In the cleaning and the morning
AS he delved into the snow,
You might hear him sweetly sinRina
OF the paradise below. +
AS his shovel like a shuttle
Wove his fancy into song,
He forgot the supper summons.
While the noisy breakfast gong
Failed to call him from the pleasure
That was helpful to the soul
10 indulge In creature comforts
And to lose his self-controi.
There was music In the motion
There was art in every pose, y,
And he scanned, In leisure, papers L,
That might tell OF further SHOWS,
When he found q storm predicted
WIN eieVen lnCneS TALL
He would carroll hallelujahs
Answering the angels call.
There are pleasures in the winter.
In the cleaning and the morn,
That give great satisfaction II
To the man for being born.
He Is thankful for the shovel,
For the sidewalk and the snow.
And breaks forth In sweet rejoicings.
For existing here below.
San Francisco Call: Among the old
miners OF Siskiyou county, a man can
get worse whiskey at Sawyer's bar
than in any other place on earth. This
is the belief of the gold diggers of that
section. and that faith Is accepted as
orthodox.
Regularly every Christmas Billy x
foreman of the Orc Elmo mine. takes
his lay-off at Sawyer's. Once the sup
/ erintendent asked him why he always
i selected that place.
II want to have one yearly drunk"
said Billy. land want to know lust
when am drunk, SO that may enioy
the sensation
We'll, can't you enjoy the senastion
in any portion Of the county or state or
continent?'' asked the superintendent.
No. When I'm drinking Sawyer's
whiskey and 1t begins to taste good.
then know I'm drunk"
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