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The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-03

Best prices in town on hay, corn, oats,
field seeds, etc., at Elmer Tate's, Irvine
street. Phone 1893. 4 If
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-03

Itchi Itchl Itchl Scratch! Scratch!
Scratch! The more you scratch, the
worse the itch. Try Dosn's Ointment.
For eczema, any skin itching, SOC a
box-Ady feb
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-03
Breyard Dead.

No: t.'tuff', steaksat Hamilton's.
The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-03

February I, 1915.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20
sLEUTHS AND STRIKERS Dol
PATROL DUTY

PATROL DUTY
The Kingly Shirt Co. strike is still
on. Patrolling before the building at
Franklin and Van Buren, streets are
several shirt ironers on one side and
a few plain clothes detectives on the
other.
The irOners who press new shirts
for Z cents apiece are asking 9 and
10 cents per shirt, the standard price.
The Kingly Shirt Co. sent the new
garments. to South Side laundries
yesterday rather than give in to the
strikers. Here they will be done at
fancy prices.
When the laundry workers find that
they are scabbing there will be trou-
BILE in the laundry business, the iron
eTs claim.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20
TELEQRAPH BRIEFs

Atlantic City, N. J.-Fire, which
quilted half dozen shops on the board
walk and threatened Strand and
Haddon Hall hotels, reging along en-
tire square between Pennsylvania
and North Carolina avenues.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-Between 80.
and 40 persons injured in wreck of
Western Pacific passenger train No.
1, two miles east of Ha1eck, Nevada.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20

Destruction of life saving station
at SUrfside, fifty miles below Calves
ton, has been confirmed by couriers.
These stated that nineteen persons,
including many women and children
who had taken refuge in the building,
were killed when station collapsed
under impact of huge waves about
midnight Monday.
Storm destroyed buildings and
crops 100 miles inland and 100 miles
along coast east and west of Calves
ton.
Washington.-FOur more soldiers
added to toll of Texas storm today.
-O-O-
EVENING UP!
'In an Office the men dictate to the
women"
"And in the home the women die
tate to the men"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20
HURRICANE DEATH

F1OhRISHNE DEH n LID ZUV
Galveston, Aug. 30.-BeIieved death
list from hurricane that swept Texas
gulf coast will exceed 200. Already
scores of bodies have been recovered
along shore. Property loss may total
S5O,OOO,0OO.
Work of rehabilitation is under
way in Galveston and it is expected
that waterworks system will be in
operation within few hours. Rail
roads expected to have trains run
ming on regular schedule from HOus-
ton to Texas City and thence by
barge to Galveston, about six miles
across bay. Only communication
with mainland for several weeks will
be by boat,
Damage in Galveston is now va
riously estimated at from 100000
to S8,000,O0O, exclusive Of -csuseWaH
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK
about time you were in the arms OF
MOrfeOus
~ LEE PAPE

about time you were in the arms OF
Morfeous.
Sir, sed.
Yure sleepy, sed pop.
No sir, I sed.
Ackshins speek lowdir than words.
sed pop, I've been ubzerving you for
the past 10 minits, and yuve dun nuth-
ing but yawn like bear aftir his win
ter nap, in fackt, sevril times I was
RELY afrayed you'd fall in, now skip
awf to bed.
Ow, pop, was only doing that to tx
pertinent, sed.
To who, sed pop.
To Experiment, wuntid to see if you
wood yawn jest behause did, / sed.
Don't try to come eny sutch cockin
bull story ovir me, sed pop, l wasent
born yestidday, nor the day befoar,
eethir, now you beet it to bed befoar
l force myself to leeve this comfort
able chare and martch you to bed by
the noze in spite of that old proverb
witch ses, You can Iced boy to slum-
Dir but you cannot make him sleep,
wat, haven't you startid yet.
Yes sir, l sed. And l went to bed.
Proving that experiments with gun
powdir and things amt the ony danjer-
GUS Wuns,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
CHAPTER VIII.
New Complications.

"Is your fathers embarrassment Sc
rious?' she asked.
Bob looked startled. He didn't like
the way she had shifted the CONVEX
sation. Pretty bad" he answered
II believe, though, it's customary
for men on the street not to stay
'downed,' as they say?"
Don't know as it's an invariable
rule" returned Bob evasively. Then
realizing it wouldn't do to be evasive:
"As a matter of fact, l don't believe
I'm very well posted as to that ne
added
"What does your father say?' she
asked abruptly.
Bob would much rather not have
talked about that with her. But
dad says there is no hope" he had
to say.
Miss Gerald was silent for mo-
ment. AS child she remembered a
very gloomy period in her own fath.
er's career-when the street mad
him "cornered." She remembered
the funereal atmosphere of the big
old house-the depression on nearly
every ones face--how everything mad
seemed eermeated with impending
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
RUSSELL.

H. w. Elliott returned from Creston
where he had been visiting with MS
daughter Mrs. Chas. M. Hood.
w. J. Amber of Lovilia was in RUS
Sell on business Tuesday.
Mrs. Roscoe Simpson of Gus3, Ia,
came Friday night to visit at the home
of her uncle L. w. Dahlman and fam
lily.
II. w. Gittinger of Charlton was in
town Thursday evening.
Marshall Boyd who attends Simpson
college at Indianola is visiting at the
home of his parents Mr.. and Mrs, G: S.
Boyd.
Arden Shepherd was in Abba Friday
on business.
John P. Davis went to New Hampton
Mo. to visit relatives.
Joe Classify and daughter Ethel were
called to Garnet, Kans., because of
the serious illness Of Mr.. Cassity's
brother.
Guy Force who has been weighing
mail on the Roc: Island between Chi
cago and Omaha is home Ill with the
humps.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

Yistidday in skool Miss Kitty told
us about setting bad Examples to uthir
peepil, and how peepil immertate
uthir peepil without noing they are do
ing it. like peepil yawning jest be-
kause they see uthir peepil yawning
weathir they RELY wunt to yawn or
not. And last mite pop was setting in
the setting room smoaking and think
ing, and I thawt, G, If l start to yawn,
I wundir weathir pop will yawn.
And I startid to do it, opening my
mouth wide as enything every time
pop startid to look ovir to ware was
setting avn the floar, and pop jest
looked at me without yawning himself.
l CESS l half to keep it up a vile, I
thawt
And yawned so wide l coodent
hardly get my Ease closed agen, and
pop jest sat thare smoaking and think
ing but not yawning.
Ill yawn moar times, and II he
don't yawn by the Bird wun, the heck
with 1t, thawt.
And I yawned 2 CRATE big wuns with
out having eny effeckt avn pop. and
then yawned the biggest wun of awl,
taking me about mint, and pop sed,
Say, yung fello, don't you think it's
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
Evening Story
"soRTER USELESS"
By Donald Allen.

downright. 1915. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Josiah Streeter was unusually stur.
DIV and strong, and he was very proud
Of the fact.
His wife was unusually sturdy and
strong, and she was proud of the fact.
Farmer Streeter could twist bar
rel of cider around as easily as a city
tailor could his goose. He could
shoulder bag of flour at the gate
and carry it into the house without
breathing faster. He could lift year
ling calf over rail fence or hang up
dressed hog to cool no matter what
the weight.
The wife had never been heard to
saw that she was tired and had she
asked the husband to move bureau
or lift the soap-kettle off the fire 1t
would have been a matter OF great
surprise
When a man hired out to Farmer
Streeter he must be strong man. II
he couldn't work sixteen hours day
and not get tired he was put down as
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

weakling and advised to look for
job in clothespin factory.
1t was into such an atmosphere that
Ruth Streeter was born, and her COM
ing was disappointment to her par
ents and wonder to others.
"Why, she's a dwarf" exclaimed
the father.
ooh. she'll grow, but she'll never be
strong" replied the mother.
"You can't hear her squall more'n
rod away
II know it."
IF she has the measles or the
whooping cough, she'll be a goner,
sure"
Yes, she won't last three days"
"And what are We going to do about
| it,"
"Why. Josiah, we can't kill her!"
"Noap, of course not, but why
couldn't she have been a bouncer IN
stead of little runt?"
Very early in her young life Ruth
betrayed the fact that she was going
to be a Streeter only in name. The
father and mother had loud voices;
the child spoke softly. Most children
of her age would have been roaming
the fields or climbing trees, but this
one had more interest in pictures
found in the few books in the house.
The hired men would have made pet
of her, but her look of dignity kept
them at distance.
When old enough to be sent to the
district school, and after she had been
pupil for a couple Of weeks, the
teacher called at the farmhouse.
"You must not let Ruth study her
lessons at night. She Is so anxious
to learn that she will overtax her
BRAIN" she said.
"Don't she look frail to your" was
asked.
"she seems to be perfectly well,
but she's never going to make
strong woman"
"That's what her father and me are
afraid Of"
"Afraid?.
"Yes-that she'll grow up to be
lady instead of knowing about house.
work! How much education should
she have?"
Gust as much as she can GET
"But we can't have lady in the
housed"
But Ruth is going to grow UP and
get married and leave you. Don't you
think it will help her to get better
husb band if she's lady and well edu'
cated?"
1T may was the dubious reply.
That evening the matter was talk
ed over between the parents, and the
father said: II can see heap OF
trouble ahead for us, but It cant De
handled just now. Does Ruth know
that you can handle forty-pouno
feather bed with one hand?'
"she has seen me do 1t, and didn't
seem to care
"Does she know that you can bring
1.-TWO big hams from the smokehouse
at once?"
Eyes. but she don't praise me-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
LIQUOR QUESTION
is ISSUE AT POLLS

Chicago, April 90 TWENTY-FIVE
towns and villages in Illinois are yot-
ing today on the question OF abolishing
saloons Close to $50 saloons are in.
volved in the issue.
Prohibition leaders were confident
that women voters will prove an inn
portant factor in the balloting and
that leas. four counties will be added
to the dry column. When the women
exercised the franchise a year ago
1000 saloons were wiped out, and $50
were abolished at the election on April
6.
The principal towns voting today
are Ottawa in La Sale county: Dixon,
Lee county; Beardstown, Cass; Morris
and Gardner, Grundy county and
Joliet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

HAS she been told that I can hoe
more corn in a day than any man in
the country"
Eyes, l told her"
"And that can lift a barrel OF
cider?"
Eyes"
"And that won prize pitching
hay?"
II have told her all this" sighed
the wife.
And she-she-"
"She asked why we didn't have
more books in the house
It was queer enough that Ruth
should be one of the family and not
of the family. There was disappoint'
ment on the side of the parents
there was strangeness on her side.
INA. the Lord sent that girl to the
wrong housed" said the father at last
1--WE sometimes thought So" was
the reply.
"And so has she, but nobody's to
blame as I can see. She's here, and
she's sorter useless, but we've got to
bear the burdens the Lord puts upon
|us."
At fourteen Ruth was sent to the
village school, After two years she
was sent away to boarding school
Not because her parents had changed
their minds about being "sorter use
less" but, as Farmer Streeter had Oh
served as he sat before the fire one
evening: ma, I'm not complainin
about Ruth any more"
<GAYo ,,o,, ma ~
II said once that the Lord brought
her here"
Eyes"
"Well. I'm leavin it to Him to bring
it around as He thinks best. wish
she had taken to SEWN. patchin'
maxim bread and cuttin' carpet rags
but as she didn't, mebbe she was sor
ter told to 60 the other way. How's
her eddecation comm on?'
~ amt asked her many questions
and she amt told me much, but Par
son Davis told me the other day that
he heard she was one OF the smartesl
girls in school. She'll be finished ur
this fall, you know"
"And then come back to us?"
"Yes."
"And then-then-' he queried at
ter time.
81 dunno, JOSIAH dunno"
They had a world circumscribeo
by the farm limits They knew what
went on in their world, but not in the
other 1t was work. work in theil
world. There were four seasons in
wear. and particular work for each sea
son. They awoke at just such ar
hour: they went to bed at just suct
an hour. Their meals seldom varied
They plowed and dragged and sowet
and planted. They gathered the crops
The farmer gave exhibitions of his
strength and boosted of his health
and the wife boosted of the soft soaI
She had made, and her jars of picklee
peaches she had put by
Work, work, work and never recre
alton! They judged no one by thei
talk or intelligence. but it was always
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
Children s EDening St0ry

Back Neddie ran to the rabbit gen.
tleman's bungalow.
DIR. Postum will soon be here,
Neddie said to the muskrat lady. And
until he comes I'm to put hot water
bag on your head"
"Oh, dear! l wish some one would
put something on to stop the pain"
said poor Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. closing
her eyes. "Oh, how it hurts!"
Neddie was almost as much at home
in Uncle Wiggily's bungalow as he was
in his own cave. And, while Nurse
Jane lay down on the soft sofa, the it,
tie bear boy filled the rubber hot wa
ter bag at the kitchen sink faucet.
Then he gently laid it on Miss Fuzzy
Wuzzy's head.
ooh, but that Is fne!" she said. II
feel better already But fear the
other animal boys will laugh at you for
doing girls work" said the muskrat
lady. II am sorry to call on you, but
saw no one else.'
LET 'em taught" exclaimed Neddio.
I'm not afraid of being laughed at"
Then he sat waiting for DIR. Possum
to come. And when the animal doctor
, did arrive he gave Nurse Jane some
tQlHR CIaC WOulu uldAC ACA ACuAoSho
better in little while.
IF you could have cup OF hot sas-
safras tea it would do you much good, =
,, said DR.. Possum, when he was ready
to go.
"Iu make it for her." cried Neddie.
II know how, for mamma showed me-"
While Neddie was making the sassa-
fras tea in Nurse James kitchen, DR..
Postum went out to his automobile, for
he had other calls to make on sick AMI
mails. But, to his surprise, he found
his automobile, which was like Uncle
Wiggily's, would not 30.
"Ha! This Is queer!" cried Dr. Pos
sum. 81 see what the trouble Is. My
auto was warm from travelling 50 fast.
But left it out in the cold, it became
chilly, and now the wheels are frozen
fast in the ice. Oh dear! What shall
l do? My auto will not go?"
Nurse Jane, whose head was some
what better now, heard what the ami
NAL doctor said, and asked:
Cant you give your auto some
medicine to make the wheels go
around?"
mo" answered DR.. Postum. Il have
no automobile medicine. Oh, what
shall I do? My auto can't CO. for it is
frozen fast in the ice! This Is too
/ bad"
"Ha! know what to do" said
Neddie. III hot water bag will stop
Nurse James headache, maybe 1t Will
also unfreeze your auto
"The very thing!" cried DR.. Postum:
"I'm glad you thought of it, Neddie."
So. as Nurse Jane did not heed the
hot water bag any more, Neddie took
it out and laid it on the ice in which
! the wheels of DR.. Possum's auto were
frozen fast.
The hot water bag soon melted the
hard ice into little watery puddles, and
then DR.. Postum could ride of. and
very thankful he was to Neddie Tor IN
freezing the automobile.
/ Then Nurse James head stopped acn'
ing, so she could get Uncle Wiggily's
supper, and she gave Neddie two
honey cakes for being 80 kind to her.
| So you see hot water bags can fe
used for two things. and the next story
will be about Beck1e and the cats
cradle, il you please. But If you can
stop the shutter from going to sleep
on the window sill, and falling into the
flower bed, wish you would.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

"Why, that fellow wouldn't be worth
his salt in harvest field"
One day the farmer came home
from town with a stranger in the
wagon with him.
"His name is Durand," he explained
to his wife, "and he says he paints
pictures. He wants board and lodg-
ings for the winter, that he may paint
some winter scenes. He says ne Will
pay our price and give little trouble,
Hell turn up his nose at corneo
beef and salt pork, won't he?"
.If he does he'll have to 90. ne
looks kinder pale and sickly, ana
don't believe he can throw a cat over
the fence, but we'll let him come II
you say So"
And thus it happened that when
Miss Ruth returned home she found
Mr. Charles Durand, artist, from the
city. duly installed and at work on a
sketch of late autumn
~ wouldn't give him his board tor
what corn he could husk,' Whispered
the father that evening.
"Why he don't know enough to pu1
collar on a horse" added the moth
er.
II was week or more after mel
return home that Miss Ruth told he1
narents that she had heard OF MT
Durand, and that some OF MS PANT
ings had sold for twice the value OF
their farm, and that she had made ran
Roadway as an amateur artist anu
wished to take lessons OF him.
The father groaned and the motne1
sighed. g. $50
owned this farm for twenty years
You have worked like two oxen-you
and mother. How much better on
are YOU than when you began?
"Two thousand dollars" he proudly
You have worked with your
muscle, father, and you have made
hundred dollars year. A young mar
will 20 through college in three years
and then by the use Of his brains
make from three to five thousand
year. You have contempt Ior .ns
man who can't lift barrel OF cloer
and vet he may make more money II
a week than you have IN year. "
Grev cannot lift a hundred POUNDS
hut when your hired man broke Ms
! leg the doctors bill was $4O.
Neither father nor mother mao
word to say and the girl continued:
"You have been disappointed IN M
because am not strong, husky CIR
and don't take to housework IT tooi
mo less than a fortnight to make some
sketches over at Brownsville that
sold for one hundred dollars.
"Gosh!" exclaimed the father.
"There isn't lawyer in the stat
that can hold plow for hundre'
feet, and yet the poorest one of then
makes ten times the money you 90
You have thought me helpless AM
useless. You have thought all peopl'
AZ not made of iron" .
eyes, admitted the father, "sorte
useless, and now can realize ina
me and your ma have been sorter fool
! all the time"
when a fine landscape is signe'
.'Durand" it ism. always the work Q
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

| "Goodby, mamma, Goodby!"-- called
Neddie and Beckie Stubtail the little
| boy and girl bear, as they started from
their cave house for school one winter
morning.
"Goodby," answered Mrs. Stubtail
"Be good little bear cubs now ane
have your lessons"
1--WE will" they promised, and ther
, Neddie and Beckie hurried on to the
hollow stump, where the nice lady
mouse teacher taught the lessons.
Sometimes the bear children slid
along on the ice, and sometimes they
ran across a snowy place.
81 wish we had our iceboat with us,
said Neddie, as they walked over
little frozen pond. 1--WE could then sal
to school as fast as anything"
!, YES, we might, and then again we
might not" said Beckie, with a smile
For If the wind should lie down, as II
did the other time, and leave us stuck
in the middle of the pond, we would
be late for school. And couldn't bring
my rubber doll, Helena Montana Dis
trict of Columbia to whistle for a
breeze with the tin whistle in her back
LOT we are not dllOWcu " nave uoAAS
in school, you know
mo, that's So" agreed Neddie. "Well
perhaps it is just as we'll to walk SO
he and Beckie walked on, and soon
they were at the hollow stump school
Neddie had his lessons perfectly that
day, but, am sorry to say Beckle
missed in spelling and she had to stay
in. Not very long, though, and she was
not the only little animal girl who had
to remain after school that day.
But, anyhow that Is how Neddie Nas
let out before his sister, and he hur
ried on toward home. for he wanted to
have some fun playing with Jackie and
Peetie Bow Wow the puppy dog boys
and the other animal chaps.
But just as Neddie was going past
the hollow stump bungalow, where liv
ed Uuncle Wiggily Longears, the rab
bit gentleman, the little bear boy
heard a voice calling:
"Oh, Neddie! Neddie will you please
come here?"
Neddie looked, and in the window OF
the hollow stump bungalow he saw
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat
lady waving her paw at him.
ooh, how do you do, Nurse Jane!'
said Neddie politely. DO you want
me to come in and CRATE some more
lemons on my paw nails for you, SC
you can make an orange pudding?"
"Not this time Neddie, thank you,'
the muskrat lady said. But If you have
time wish, you would go for DR.. Pos
sum for me. l have a dreadful head
ache and can't see to get Uncle Wig
gily's supper for him. He will soon be
home too"
"Of course, I'll go!' cried Neddie
for Nurse Jane was very kind to him
and all the animal children just loved
| her.
Neddie left his books on the porch o.
Uncle Wiggily's bungalow, so they
would not bangle against his legs wher
he ran for Dr. Possum, and OH thu
little bear boy ran across the snow!
fields for the animal physician.
ooh, DR.. Postum! can you come t
Nurse Jane right away?' cried Ned
die, when he had rung the bell. "She
has a dreadful headache.
"I'll be right there" DR.. Possun
said. "And, Neddie, now you run back
and put a hot water bag on Nurse
James head until get there. That
will help the pain some"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
EuLoeY FOR MCPHERSON.

Keokuk, April 20-Wednesday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock has been desig-
mated as the time when tribute may be
paid to the memory of the late Judge
Smith Mcpherson in the federal court
here. The meeting is called by the
Keokuk Bar association for that time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22

Mr.. Charles Durand. 1t may be the
creation of his wife, Mrs. Durand. for
merly Ruth Streeter.
And father and mother don't have
to work any more.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
PLAYER INJURED.

Nevada, April 90 Little Russell
Walker, aged 6, second son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will A. Walker, fell while playing
football at school and the bone of his
right leg was broken just above the
knee
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-22
VETERAN POLICE HEAD DEAD.

VETERNN POEICE TENU OGNO'
Dubuque, April 2O.-John Raeseli.
aged So years, ex-chief Of police is dead
the result of typhoid fever. He was
a member of the police force thirty
two years. He retired in 1914.