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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-23
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The trouble between the coal miners
and the operators Of the mines IN
Smoky Hollow has been settled ana
the men are working again.
Beulah Long Of Abba is visiting at
the home Of D. II. Hawthorne.
Perry Moss of Fremont Neb, who
with his family has been visiting at the
home of his father John w. Moss has
zone to Chicago, ILL.,, where he will
take treatment. Mr.. Moss has been in
poor health for several months
Charles Miller and wife called at the
parental home Sunday.
J. S. Moon and daughter Nellie OF
Abba with Mrs. Emma and Miss Grace
Moss of Fremont, Neb., took dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Moss on
Sunday.
William Synhorst and wife spent
Sunday with relatives in Leighton.
Miss Beulah Dunkin Of Lovilia, who
is attending normal In Abba spent
Sunday with friends in this place.
Jabus Worrall and wife OF Road
House, ILL.,, are spending several days
with James Worrall and wife. These
men are brothers and their wives are
sisters and they had not seen each
other for tlnirty-four years.
Henri Moss and family were in Ed
dyville Sunday.
Glen Pendarvis of Media, ILL.,, is Wis
lifting with his brother A. r. Pendants
and family.
Mesdames Ava and Lois johnson
called on friends in Eddyville Monday
Mrs. Wallace Nelson of N. Wheeler
street. South Ottumwa, returned t
her home Monday after . pleasant
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their cozy home already prepared by
the groom at Albert City.
S. c. Merrill editor Of Salem News
has moved his family from Mt.
Pleasant to the w. A. Fool property IN
the south part Of town.
Senator Clyde Jones and son Of
Chicago were guests a few days last
week at the homes Of H. Jones and
John Bicksler.
Mrs. J. T. Ipgrim recently entertain
ed Miss Clara McClearan Of Mt.
Pleasant
Weeks Tuesday June IA, daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Jones are the
parents of a son born June 10.
Dee Shriner was Chicago visitor
last week.
Jerome Eighme is home from Chi
cago where he spent few days with
relatives.
from Geneva, Nebr., to visit the form
er's parents Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Jones
north of town.
Miss Carrie Weeks came from Keo-
kuk to attend the wedding of her sis
ter Edna which occurred Wednesday.
Charles Lyner and wife were at
Burlington Monday.
Station Agent A. J. Ingrim has re-
turned from Waterloo where he at
tended grand Masonic lodge.
At the Congregationalist church on
the evening Of June % Mrs. NJ. G. DAY.
export of Mt. Pleasant will give an
address to women.
Mrs. C. II. Cook had for her guests
last week Mrs. Weir and her daughter
from Kansas.
Miss Alice Frost Is guest of rela-
tives in Chicago.
]. M. Triplett is visiting his sisters
in Illinois.
Miss Iona Turner celebrated her
fifteenth birthday anniversary Friday
evening by entertaint number OF
her young friends. jolly time was
enjoyed by the merry crowd. Various
games were INDUCED In. Refreshments
were served.
r. M. Johnson and vito went to
Hillsboro Friday to spend few days
| with relatives before their return
home to Iowa City.
W. H. Bliss and daughters, Amy,
Margaret, Ruth and May went to Os-
kosh, Wis, where on June 10. Miss
Margaret Bliss was united IN marriage
to Anger Ayers, Of New York City
Following the wedding tho Bliss fam
ily left for Ooerline, Ohio, to attend
the commencement exercises, where
Henry, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl.
Bliss, is a member of the graduating
class.
Miss Alpha Britton Of Mt. Pleasant
I is visiting her sister Mrs. Masden east
Of town.
Mrs. A. C. Pidgeon and children,
Scott and Mildred are home from Mt
Pleasant for the summer vacation.
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Few Horses are Wanted.

Stock Yards, Chicago, June 22.-
There was weak tone to horse trade.
as Eastern demand was slack and local
orders were limited. Dizziness featured
the trade as yearly happens at this
season, because horses for summer
use are secured during the spring,
while those for winter are usually OBJ
tanned in the fall. Prices were little
changed from previous days level. Re
ceipts the first two days this week to-
tailed around 637. against 100 same
period last week, and Lib cores
ponding time last year. Prime drafters
sold upward to 1878, but good ones sold
at $2O0@225. Express and ice COM
panies were after horses at s165G2 15.
Drivers sold upward from s15e.
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Mrs. Emma Owens Of Trenton, Mo-,
was the guest of Mrs. Sarah MCGEE
last week while on her way to North
Dakota to visit relatives.
Mrs. George Hetz Of New Mexico
called on Mrs. Jane Putnam one day
last week.
Mrs. G. b. Conner and chill rem Wis.
tied with Mr.. and Mrs. JAS Greiner OF
near F'loris few days last week.
Mrs A. j. Combs and daughter Mrs
George Johnston were Ottumwa shop
pers on Thursday.
Jesse McCreery of Ottumwa spent
Sunday with his parents Mr.. and Mrs
G. II. Hughes.
John Diggs and daughter Nellie OF
north of Drakeville were guests last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. David Mum.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Mccormick were
the guests Saturday and Sunday Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Bachman and
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Garretson.
Eldridge Wheeler of Montesano
Wash. is visiting his mother Mrs. M
and his sister Miss Mary Wheeler.
Mrs. Jane Putnam and daughter
olive spent Sunday near Locust Grove
at the Workman Grant home.
Mrs. Isaiah ware Is visiting IN Des
Moines at the home of her son G. V
Ware and family.
A. Kneedler spent Sunday witt
friends in Ottumwa.
Mrs. Ida Garrett of Centerville spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Hart.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Hartman Of this
place and Mr.. and Mrs. Lovel Of
Moulton were Ottumwa shoppers on
Saturday. :,
Mrs. Elmira Morris spent last week
at the home of her brother Will Guile
of near West Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. g. c. Johnston spent
Sunday near Drakeville with Mr.
Johnston's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Mcconnell o.
Bloomfield spent Sunday with MT. ane
Mrs. J. G. Mcconnell.
Mrs. Catherine Sample Of Sherman
Chapel was the guest Saturday Of Mrs
ID. NJ Mum.
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: HOPEWELL.

Miss Blanche Jones who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Jones, has returned to Bloom-
field. =, -
N. J.. Summons who has been Ill, is
able to be around again.
Geo. worrell who just recently re-
turned from South Dakota where he
has been for some time, has been visit
ing his sister Mrs. Emma Jones.
Chas Hunter is at home to remain
Indefinitely.
Frank Samples and family were
Sunday guests at the Chas. Black
home.
one day last week in Bloomfield at the
parental Swinney home.
Allen Jones who works near Bel
knap visited Sunday here with his
| parents.
here.
| Jim Graham was welcome guest at
T. NJ. Walkers Sunday. He returned to
his home in Agency Monday.
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chicaoo Live Stock Market.

Chicago. June 22.-The live STOCK
market follows:
CATTLE-Market fifteen to twenty
five lower than Monday; receipts, u.s.
600: beeves, $5.50@s.66; stockers,
feeders, $3.50 $50; cows, heifers, $2.7O
@690; westerns. s5.30@7.50.
HOGS-Market slow, twenty lower;
receipts. $4,000; light, s9.25@9.55; mix
ed, $9.20@9.55: heavy, $S.sb@9bO;
rough, ss.95@9.1o;' good choice heavy,
$1,000 $50; bulk sales, $s.35@9.45:
SHEEP-Market steady to ten low
er; receipts $4,000; natives $3.25@5.35;
lambs, $5@7.40.
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LRoA
Executors Notice.

Notice is hereby given to al perSons
interested, that on the 9Th day Of June.
A. D.. 1910, the undersigned was ap-
pointed by the Clerk OF the District
Court Of Wapello County. Iowa, Hx-
ecutrix Of the estate OF stephen Green.
deceased. late of said County. All per-
sons indebted to said estate will make
payment to the undersigned and
those having claims against the same
will present them. legally authenticat-
ed to said court for allowance.
Dated June 8, 1910.
Josephine Fowler, Executrix.
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Mr. Beever Of Des Moines ana G. -
Hoover Of Oskaloosa were In the city
on business Monday.
Mrs. ida Wise, Nellie Roberts aYf
daughter Violet OF American Falls,
Idaho, arrived Monday on the Rock
Island at p. m.
JOS. Roberts Of ottunwa Is visiting
his parents Mr.. mad Mrs. A. W. Rob-
erts.
I. r. Patterson Of Green. Iowa, form
erly Of this place. and daughter Belle,
are visiting relatives here.
| Mike RUSSELL has remodeled MS
home in many ways. Mr.. Russell is one
Of the pioneers of Eldon and was IN
jured at Brighton some months ago
and goes on clutches.
The Fortnightly club went to Selme
Monday to be guests Of Mrs. van
Baldwin.
II. c. Nosler of ottumwa was In FL
don Monday.
| Ben Enyart of Kansas City is visit
ing his parents !,-ayor H. w. Enyars
land wife.
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MORRIS WILLIAMS
OttumWa, Iowa.

high, ssc.; low, ssNc.: closed. s5Ac.;
July, 95A @957sc.
CoRN-sept. opened, e0h@61c:.;
high. 61c.; low, 59h@5s4c.; closed
5s5a 059kc.; July, 5S7t @5Shc.
OATS-Sept opened-38s q 80 70 c.;
high. 3sc.; low. 37ss @37hc.; closed
637Hc.; July, 3Sstc.
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Chicago Grain Market.

Chicago, June 22.-The grain mar
WHEAT-No. 2 red. $1o0@1.02; No.
3 red, s5@9shc.; No. 2 hard, 9s@$1.O0;
No. hard, 94@97c.
CORN-No. 2, 5SA @59c.; No. =
white, 63@63hc.; No. 2 yellow. 59h q
59Ac.; No. 3, 5s@5shc.; No white
61@62c.; No. 8 yellow, 5sA 959Ac.
OATS-No. 2 white, 39A q 40c.; NO
white, 3s639hc.; standard. 1914 O.
40c.
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HOGS GAIN AT START.
Small Offerings Boost Early Prices 5c
But Later tho Advance 10 Lost.
Heavy Weiohts Weakest,

Stock Yards, Chicago, June o.
Opening hog prices were generally SC
higher, but this advance was soon
eliminated and heavy packing classes
sold even lower than any time Mon
day before the day was over. 1t was Il
very uneven trade and range of prices
was the widest of the season. Quality
was hardly as good as most days of
late, there being an abundance Of
heavy packers and scarcity Of choice
light. Prime 17S@22s lib hogs early sold
to shippers at $3.50. while other Sc
lected kinds, according to weight,
made $9.5509.77h. Good light sold ut
$9.00@9.7O, while butchers were most
numerous at s9.60@9.65 and heavy
packers sold mainly at $3.50 down,
some full loads selling as low as 1918.
Good light mixed sold at $3.50. Pigs
were quotable at least to S9.70. Few
stays beat $40 and not many boars
went above IS. Quotations follow
Heavy butchers, 24o@ 800 lbs s.so@e.75
Light butchers, 1e0@23O lbs 9.60@9.s0
Light bacon, 160@19o lbs. 9.55@9.s0
Light light, 1306155 lbs. ~. 9.50@9.1O
Heavy shipping, 250@350 lbs 9.50@9.1O
Heavy packing, 260@400 lbs 9.35 $50
Mixed packing. 200@250 lbs 9.45@9.6O
Rough. heavy packing :. -. 9.15@s.So
Light mixed. 10000 lbs. $50 @9.70
Poor to best pigs, 60@135 lbs 9.25@9.70
Governments and boars -. 4.00@ 90
Stays, so lbs dockage head 9.50@1O.25
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ch;c.oo Provision Market.

Chicago. June 22.-The provision
market follows:
ork-Sept--$22.27k.
Lard-$12.30.
Ribs-$12.371a.
Rye-cash--75GD 76c.
Barley--45@66c.
Timothy-Oct--$450@ 4.65.
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= SALEM. =


At the, home of the officiating min
lister Rev. G. w. Barber at o'clock
Wednesday evening Miss Edna Weeks
was united in marriage to Anton p.
Johnson. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson depart
ed at s o'clock the same evening for
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New York Butter and Egg Market.

New York, June Observation-Disclosures
easier: receipts, $4,000; creamery spec
ials. 2sAc.; extras, 271zc.; process. ~
@25c. :.
EGGS-Market f1rner; receipts, u.s.
c0n
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CHICAGO Poultry Market.

Chicago. June 21.-Poultry-Marke
steady; turkeys. &c.; chickens, 14c.;
springs, 22@24c.
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CHICAGO Grain Futures.

Chicago, June 22.-The grain futures
follow:
WHEAT-sept. opened. ssH@9sc.;
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St. Louis Grain Market.

St. Louis, June 22.-The grain mar
ket follows:
Wheat-Sept-93Rc nc.
Corn-59bc.
Oats--36Hc.
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visit with her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson.
Mrs. Eva Stul and children Of Edo
Vile spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mr3
D. II. Hawthorne.
Mrs. A. r. Pendarvis returned TO
her home after few dayS visit with
relatives in Media, Ill
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Chicago Butter and Egg Mark'

Chicago, June 22.-Butter-Market-
steady; creameries. PAN @27c.; diaries,
23@26c.
EGGS-Market steady: receipts. 49,
100 cases; at mark, cases included, 10
m1Shc.; firsts, 1885,; prime firsts,
191Sc.
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RETAIL MARKETs
Flour and Feed.

blaham hour. per sack ......- - ="
Corn chops. per cwt -. u. .s
Efforts, per cWt -. -. Lev
Brain. per cwt 800. 80. A.e ~.
Ear corn, per bu -. Ga Ga
ehelled corn. per bu 81 81
Hay per ewt $3.50. .......... g
Etraw. per cwt ........ -. :. 80
oats lshel -. -: .:.....~ "a -
chicken feed. ground 10 lbs -
oyster shell pee cwt 49,. LIZ. ~
clam aAaIl Der c~ ......
Eieur. per sack ..--.. ...'.ss0s a
Germ meal. 10 m Sack ;. -. 2. ~
Corn and on4 chop. per cwt.. J.1a
Oats straw per 100 ............ s'v ~
IAJ1oy 80. 'sss A
on meal. per cwt ....... s.oo
$50. ~ rpu'..' ... 4o@7o
Lemons dos $50. 80. 80
Oranges, per doB
bananas, per dox $500. soo1s
Shipped Vegetables.
watercress, per bunch ..-...- gi,oo
CucumherA zach -. Wv
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CHICAGO Poultry Market.

Chicago, June 22.-Poultry--Marke
alive, easy: broilers, Csc; fowls, ITO
17hc.; turkeys, 10@14c.; dressed
market easy: broilers, 22@2oc.; foWls'
14M181hc.; turkeys, 17@1Sc.
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Peoria Corn Market.
Peoria, June 22.-The corn market
follows:
No. 3--58X.
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RANGE OF HOG PRICES.

Range Of hog values at Chicago for
ibA past week with comparisons:
MIXED and Light
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Sheep Mostly Unchanged.

Stock Yards, Chicago, June "a
While most sheep and lambs went
steady, there were few early trans
actions that looked strong. Trade was
moderately active and final clearance
was good. Prime sorted native spring
lambs sold to a city butcher at $3.50.
while other lots went to packers at
$5@s.35. and bulk of good to choice
kinds landed at $7.75@S.25. Range
lots made $3.50 with feeders at 1918.
Shorn offerings sold at $4.75@6.75. Ma
tive ewes landed at $3@4.85. with
wethers and ewes mixed at $50, while
bucks sold at $3.50@4. Fed Western
wethers sold at s5.25. as did some off
the range. Demand was limited and
the light supply was the only thing
that kept packers from forcing further
decline. Quotations follow:
Shnrn fed lambs nlain to
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CATTLE CLOSE LOWER.
Common and Medium Steers 10 to ~
Cents off Late in Day-Sone
Choice DistiIlery $3.50.

stock Yards, Chicago, June 22.-Cat-
tie receipts were estimated at 4.ooo'
about half of them Texans The mar
ket opened steady. but later most
grades declined 10@15c. the weakness
being caused by prospective heavy re-
ceipts the balance of the week. owing
to g drought in many sections of the
country. A load of fancy 1,21s ID
straight Texas sold at s7.75, being
close to the record for Texans. Dtstil-
lery fed steers reached $3.50, avera aging
1,490@1.510 lbs. Several hundred still
ersi sold at $7.s5@S.10. No choice ma.
tives were offered. Stockers anu
feeders closed 10@25c lower, owing to
small country orders. Cows, heifers
and bulls closed 10@15c lower and
calves were marked off 25c. Prices had
%ha va
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Morris Williams
LARGEST AND BEST DRAFT
HORSE MARKET WEST OF
THE MISSISSIPPI.
HORSES SOLD At PRIVATE SALE
ON APPROVAL.
FREE LISTING SALE FRIDAY.

FREE CTST ING SHEE N1OV''
This is sale week, Friday June "a.
Don't forget the date and bring In your
horses as we will have quite number
Of buyers.
Have a message from Mr.. Frandsen
wanting load Of horses for the
southern trade. He Will pc mere.
Horses are not selling as high as they
we're a few weeks back. but they are
selling higher than they will a little
later, especially If this dry hot wealth
er continues.
You can turn them into cash here
Friday.
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CHICAGO Stock Yard Personals.

Stock Yards, Chicago, June PC.
J. Pearson, a prominent stockman
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Let Us Do Your
Sweeping

Our little electric vacuum cleaner
is what we usa to clean your rooms.
We want to do the sweeping for you
during this hot weather.
Phone for our man.
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choice To fancy steers .ss.00@s.75
Medium, to rood steers s.50@7 1856
Inferior to good steers 5000 $40
nat cows and heifers s.S0@725
"a ming COWS and heifers 2.40@290
Native bills and stays -. s.50@5.S
Feeding cattle. 5000 100 lbs 1000 500
Fair to fancy veal calves 7Oo@s.50
Heavy calves S.50@6.00
Export steers 6.60@7.50
Distillery steers 750@S.5O
Mixers and springers head $4,000 $500
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OttulnWa Rug Works

Cor. Main and Benton SITS.
New Phone 372. old 4s4B.
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TODAY'S MARKET NEWS
LOCAL MARKETS
PoRkERs ARE LOWER.

An CIasses Of Hogs Show Deerease
Over Yesterdays Reports.
Other Markets Steady.
Aside from the fiuctuation In the hog
nrices the retail and wholesale mar
kets remain identically the same as
those nl1oted YESTERDAY.
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FOR SALE-PURE BRED ANGUS
bulls Ed F. Oehler. Moravia. Ia.
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LEGAL NOTICE.

Josephine Fowler, Executrix
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-18
THE VACANT VETERAN.

Maj. James w. Wadsworth president
of the board of managers of the Ma
tional Volunteer Soldiers Home, was
describing, at a dinner in New York,
an amiable but absent-minded veteran.
"He is so absent minded" said Maj.
Wadsworth, that all sorts of stories
are current about him in Dayton.
"a Dayton man, having hired him to
work about his stable and garden, said
one night in the barber shop.
"Well, Bill is fine old soldier, but
in his Observation-Disclosures he's put my
horses and my motorcycle both out of
business"
"How so?" the barber asked.
"'Why,' said the other, last night he
fed the horse gasoline, and filled my
cycle with OATS"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-18
ELECTRIC MOUNTAIN AIR.

DR.. Saaka finds that the air six
thousand feet high in the mountains
is five times as radioactive as scale
vel air, and points out that under this
state of electrical tension electricity
would have a decided attraction to
and affinity for the human body, and
might be very beneficial or might be
the very reverse. Anyone sleeping in
dry wooden huose in the Rockies
will get an instant thrill of exhilara-
ton when he first sets foot on the
ground in the morning. Static noun
tain electricity in Colorado sometimes
scares a man silly. The hair will
stand straight on end, and a man feels
the fiery tongues licking and tapping
the whole body as he makes a brilliant
and sparkling run from the tall timber
to lower level.-New York Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-18

William Pitt is really entitled to the
credit of instituting the income tax
proper, which he did in 1898, in order
to defray the expenses of the war with
France. This tax was repealed in 1902,
but the following year a property tax
was imposed, to be abandoned in 1916,
after Napolean had been overthrow
and peace secured. For twenty three
blessed years England was free from
an income tax, but then Sir Robert
Peel felt compelled to make use of it
again in 1912, and he commenced with
the healthy sum of sevenpence. For
several years the income tax never
rose higher than eightpence, and in
1853 it was generously extended to
Ireland. The following year the tax
jumped up to one shilling and two
pence, owing to the Crimean war, and
it still further advanced to one shilling
and fourpence, but during the Indian
mutiny only fivepence was demanded
IT. P's Weekly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-18
PITY THE UNDERPAID.

When George w. Coleman, at one
time the $12 a week bookkeeper Of
the National City bank of Cambridge,
was arrested for embezzlement, he is
said to have exclaimed with bitter
ness, What did they expect of a man
for $12 a week." Various newspapers
saw, or thought they saw, pathos in
the inquiry, and expatiated with
flowery and indignant language on
the meaness of bank presidents who
expected a man to enjoy life on so
miserable a stipend as $12 a week.
That $12 week is a beggarly wage
for bank bookkeeper we readily agree.
Perhaps nothing is to be said in be-
half of bank presidents and bank d-
! rectors who secure service at such a
/ rate. Nevertheless, the disclosures
in the trial of William ]. Keliher for
abetting the thieving of Coleman
leave no great room for sympathy for
the defaulter. That he couldn't en-
joy life, according to his ideas of en-
ioyment, on $12 a week is plain
enough; but the evidence leads to the
conclusion that his attempt to enjoy
life on the entire assets of the bank
were not altogether successful As
nearly as we can make out, he didn't
have such very good time, even
when he was putting $4,000 wee&
into faro game. OF course he had
excitement, if excitement is a good
time; but the inference is plain that
the larger part of his excitement was
worriment over his gambling ven.
tures,-an emotion scarcely to be
classed as enjoyment. OF genuine
fun there was certainly small return
for the money. We think we know
boys who get far more out of $12 and
less.
If sympathy for underpaid bank
clerks needs expression, it had better
skip those who are so dissatisfied
with their incomes that they dip into
the banks funds to obtain tho means
with which to play faro I'D give
campagne suppers for beguilina "oung
women. No salary that any qnk
could ever pay would be sufficie- tC
that ideal of happiness. Free rein
with the bank itself has so far proved
insufficient. Such mems tastes ant
ambitions are far above any incomes
that the most liberal employers witt
the greatest resources could provide
: Not sympathy, but spanking is wha
men of that stripe most need TIL,
place to bestow the sympathy is OF
those who, on meagre pay, are suf
u ficiently appreciative of their obliga
/ lions to others and to themselves t
be honest, even if honesty does il
volve some discomfort and much ster
- discipline with unattainable desires
/ He is we'll worth considering.
Bedford Standard.