Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-20
Looker-On In Iona

Ames, Feb. 90 Not everybody
knowns that Rev. MIR. Sunday, the
great evangelist was reared in this
town. Not everybody knows that his
brother died in the poor house in this
county. But his enemies many OF
them know it and seldom lose an OPP
portunity to mention it, of course
allowing the impression to go with Ut
that Billy allowed his brother to die
in the poor house, while he was TAX
ing in $1,000 for seven weeks work.
But to give Billy his due. there was
nothing discreditable about 1t. Many
business men here tell this scribe,
that the brother referred to was a
hopeless idiot one of these incurable
cases, such as our state provides no
suitable place for. Billy was a poor
boy and worked to support him in
those days, along about 1900. so the
residents here remember, and the
county poor farm was the only place.
where he could be properly cared for.
And this brother, poor harmless sort of
a chap, really enjoyed this life. talk
ing the run of the farm. and
earned all he cost the taxpayers. 1t
is true that Billy Sundays brother
died in the poor house, but it is just
as true that Sunday came here and
paid all of the funeral expenses and
had his brother buried in private lot.
This information comes from man
whose uncle kept the poor house at
that time and knew all OF the facts.
Whether Billy was playing ball or
preaching in those days the writer's
informant could not say, but one thing
is sure, he did not have very large
income at the time. So while Billy
Sunday has many sins to answer for,
for strange to relate he is poor,
weak, simple man, Gall of us are) still
Billy is entitled to a square deal in
the newspapers, and this story of
Billy Sundays brother dying in the
poor house is like the habit some men
have of quoting scripture, they fail to
quote the whole verse.
This sounds good:
New York, Feb. "A campaign
against the expectorating nuisance was
instituted in this city today by the
healtht department. Every subway
and elevated station in the city today
was parolled by the sanitary officers
and more than $50 arrests were made
of men caught in the act of splitting
on the platforms. In the various
courts they We're fined usually a dollar
each and severely reprimanded as WE'LL
To make sentiment that finally got
into this law, and still later was en-
forced, has required about 800 years
:
pearances it will be several hundred
years more before Iowa will have a law
and enforce it, against the splitting of
tobacco juice on the floors of any car
used for passenger travel. Railroad
superintendents, conductors and brake
men, allow men passengers to fill the
spaces between Seats especially in the
smoking cars, so that not only is 1T
very offensive to any one having or
binary ideas Of neatnecs and decency,
but is positively dangerous in the way
of running clothes to occupy such seats.
This is not an extraordinary condition,
but an every day occurrence all over
Iowa, and on all of our railroads. 1t
is true many of our cities and larger
towns have anti-spitting ordinances
anu ENFORCE LuSIll, DuI pe1SoCi6Oi S1A .,
no one seems to care how filthy certain,
some times we'll dressed men make
them. There is or was bill before the
legislature concerning the actions of
drunken men in passenger cars. Some
one can amend it to include sober to-
bacco chewers and those of us obliged
to use passenger cars will rise UP and
call him blessed.
One would not think in these days
Of cheap and low priced papers there
would be any necessity of borrowing
the neighbours paper, but personal OBJ
servation convinces the writer that the
claim of publishers to advertisers, that