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SATURDAY, November 0P 1909.
Tri-Weekly Courier.
BY
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of the Leo Newspaper
Syndicate.
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pany, Oi.umwa, Iowa.
Batered as seoond class matter
October 17, 10.CS, at the postoffice. Ot
tvnwa. Iowa, under the Act of Congress
of Uaroh 1870.
THE FIRE STATION LOSS.
According to AIderman Bremhorst,
chairman of the city council's fire com
mittee, no investigation looking into
the cause of the fire that destroyed the
new East End fire station and caused
the taxpayers a loss of $4,000 Is to be
made. Alderman Bremhorst stated
that the fire committee had gone into
the matter and did not see any need
for an investigation, or that anyone
was to blame for the fire.
It would certainly seem that, when
a Are station, installed for the purpose
of giving fire protection to a large
section of the city. Is permitted to burn
down, destroying valuable apparatus
and disabling one of the horses, and
that not sufficient insurance had been
taken out to protect the tax payers
Dr.Shallenberger
The Regular and Reliable Chicago
Specialist, who has visited Ottumwa
since 1908, wll be at
Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1909
(One day only) and return svery 28
days.
Fairfield, Court Hotel, Wednesday,
Nov. 10.
Bloomfleld, Hotel Sax, Thursday,
Nov. 11.
Albia, Fridal, Nov. 12,
Sigourney, Merchants Hotel, Wed
nesday, Nov. 17.
Office Hours, 8 a- m. to 4 p. m.
Cures permanently the cases he un
dertakes and sends the incurable
home without taking a fee from them.
This Is why. he continues his visits
from year to year, while other doctors
have made a few visits and stopped.
Dr. Shallenberger is an eminently suc
cessful specialist In all chronic dis
eases, proven by the many cures ef
fected in chronic cases which have
baffled the skill of all other physi
cians. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made him so
proficient that he can name and locate
a disease in a few minutes.
Treats all cases of Catarrh, Nose,
Throat and Lung Diseases, Eye and
Ear, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys,
Grav-jl, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu
ralgia, Nervous and Heart Diseases,
Blood and Skin Diseases, Epilepsy,
Bright's Disease and Consumption in
early stage, diseases of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To
bacco habit. Stammering cured and
sure methods to prevent its recur
rence given. A never failing remedy
for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULA and RUPTURE
guaranteed cured without detention
from business. Special attention given
to all Surgical cases and all diseases
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Are you nervous and despondent,
weak and debilitated tired mornings
no ambition—lifeless memory poor
easily fatigued excitable and irrit
able eyes sunken, red and blurred
pimples on face dreams, restless:
haggard looking weak back deposli
In urine and drains at stool distrust
ful want of confidence, lack of ener
gy and strength?
DISEASES OF MEN AND PRiVATE
DISEASES A SPECIALTY.
Blood Poison, Spermatorrhea, Vari
cocele, Hydrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness, Dizziness, Defective Memory,
etc., which ruins mind and body, posi
tively cured.
WONDERFUL CURES.
Perfected in old cases which have
been neglected or unskillfully treated.
No experiments or failures. He un
dertakes no incurable cases, but cures
thousands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential.
Address
I Dr.
W. E.
Shallenberger,
766 Oakland Blvd, Chicago.
Reference Drexel State Bank
against such a loss, there Is some one
to blame.
It was certainly poor Judgment, to
say the least, to attempt to remedy a
fault in the creosote blook paving by
burning off this inflammable material
with gasoline, without first having
taken the horses and all the fire ap
paratus out of the building and ^re
pared to turn the chemical and ,se
on the building In oase just such an
emergency should arise as did arise.
It was also poor judgment to delay
placing Insurance on the contents of
the fire station until after the fire
happened and there was nothing left
to insure.
No one disputes the faot that the fire
was an accident, but It was Buch a
blundering affair all around that It
would seem to be due the tax payers
of the city, whose money was per
mitted to go up In smoke, to conduct
a rigid investigation and make a com
plete report to the city council as ,to
the findings of such investigation.
The result shows that something
was done wrong. No one claims that
It was intentional, but It was certainty
carelessness. It was careless to have
a quantity of gasoline on hand suf
ficient to cause such an explosion as
wrecked the building. The parties
who had the insuring of the building
In charge were neglectful. The whole
business gives evidence of inefficiency.
Sir Thomas Upton declares that
k.m6rica might just as well "look the
yachting cup in a museum wid label
it a relic as to consider It a sporting
chance under present conditions." Sir
Thomas, who is in America to try to
secure a change of the rules governing
an international contest, declares that
"nearly every yacht club in America
now governs its races by what Is call
ed the universal rule, yet they have
a special rule for me."
Why shouldn't the American yacht
ing authorities go into this matter
with Lipton? If the rules need chang
ing they should be changed. Lipton
has taken his defeats of the past as
a true sportsman. Why not give him
a chance at the cup at his own game!
To beat him then would be added
glory.
THE ELECTIONS AND REFORM
In a great many quarters the con
clusion will be reached that the defeat
of Heney in California means that the
voters of San Francisco have fallen
from grace, that the election of Judge
Gaynor in New York was accomplish
ed by corrupt politics, and that Gib
boney, Philadelphia's reform candi
date, was only downed by the hosts
of iniquity. To another great number,
howevet, the result will be taken as
an indication that the people are tired
of brass band reform, and are unwill
ing to concede that all the honesty in
the world is locked in the breasts of
the few whose photograhps are seen
so often with glowing eulogies in the
uplift magazines.
The defeat of Heney in San Francisco
by an overwhelming majority means
that an overwhelming majority of
San Francisco voters felt that Heney"
spectacular methods of fighting vice
have not accomplished the desired re
sult. It would be foolish to assert that
the San Francisco voters were bought
off by the men Heney has been fight
ing. It is much more reasonable to
believe that, San Francisco, being
capable of self government, decided it
didn't want Heney and defeated him.
±he same is true of the result in
New York. There is reason to believe
that the New York populace didn't al
low itself to get enthusiastic over
Gaynor. But compared to liearst, a
perennial office-seeker who continually
uses his newspapers to advance his
selfish interests, and Bannard, an
estimable man, no doubt, but unknown
to a large majority of the electorate,
Gaynor was accepted as the lesser of
the evils, and his hands were, then tied
by defeating the Tammany candidates
for the board which disburses New
York's funds.
This may be all wrong. Perhaps
the defeat of Heney in San Francisco
and Gibboney in Philadelphia and the
election of Gaynor in New York, may
prove to be a grave mistake. But the
voters of San Francisco, Philadelphia
and New York, being for the large
part men intelligent enough to dis
tinguish between right and wrong, de
cided the question as they thought
best, and certainly that was their
right and privilege.
WHY NOT ALL FARMERS?
The Des Moines Register and Leader
agrees with the advice President Taft
gave the young men of Jackson, Miss.,
in which the president said there was
"greater opportunity for real reward
in assiduity, industry, attention to busi
ness and scientific investigation in the
profession of agriculture than in any
other profession that this country af
fords." The Des Moines paper won
ders why, after all these years of
urgent advice to stick to the farm, the
farms are drifting into the hands of
renters, while the sons of farmers seek
their fortunes in the towns.
The answer that suggests itself to
the Register and Leader is that farm
life is not made as attractive as town
life, and until It is the town will al
ways be alluring. When It is the
thing to live in the country in the west
and south as it is in the east, and good
roads, automobiles and interurbans
make it possible to enjoy the country
in the, west and south as it is in the
east, then there may be a turning to
the farm.
At the very beginning, the Des
Moines paper holds, is the matter of
good roads.
Speaker Cannon is said to be con
sidering the advisability of purchasing
the South Bend club of the Central
league and then transferring it to his
home town, Danville. "Uncle Joe"
has managed to control a pretty
frisky bunch of colts in the house. He
ought to be able to show Muggsy Mc
Graw and Charlie Comiskey some new
tricks in handling a ball team.
If you desire a clear complexion take
Foley's Orlno Laxative for constipa
tion and liver trouble as It will stim
ulate these organs and thoroughly
cleanse your system, which is what
pverynne
needs
In order
to
feel well.
Clark's Drug Store Swenson's Drug
Store. ..... .....
The Commercial association has
sent a communication to the board of
supervisors In which It advlBes against
the purchase of voting machines on
the grounds that the county is not In
position just now to incur such an ex
penditure. The association has sent
another communication to the city
council in which it urges that the
wards in the city be divided into
precincts of not more than 400 voters.
This last suggestion is one that should
be given consideration by the officials
and the citizens. Suoh a plan would
relieve the congestion at the polls and
the long delays Incident to counting
the vote in top heavy wards.
Tom Johnson, like Bryan, will try
it again. It Is very probable, however,
that Cleveland politics is about done
with Mr. Johnson.
The men who are contemplating a
candidacy for seats In the next legis
lature In Iowa, ought to be formulating
plans for building good roads and
straightening the streams in the state.
The straightening of the rivers of Iowa
would do much to protect adjacant
lands from floods, thereby adding
thousands of acres of valuable pro
ducing lands to the state.
President Taft was down in Ala
bama yesterday. He looked around at
the beautiful southern girls, and said
if they wanted suffrage he was unan
imously in favor of it.
Mr. Peary now has a gold medal to
prove that he discovered the north
pole. That 'medal removes all further
question.
Hedrick's "black hand society"
didn't use any bombs, anyway.
Jacksonville, 111., is still dry.
Topeka, Kas., voted to adopt
commission plan of government.
I cannot Bing the old songs,
Their charm is sad and deep
Their melodies would waken
.Old sorrows from their sleep.
And though all unforgotten still,
And sadly sweet they be,
I cannot sing the old songs.
They are too dear to me
I cannot sing the old songs,
They are too dear to me.
I cannot sing the old songs.
For visions come again
Of golden dreams departed
O'lTUMWA OOTTRIMB
the
Next to William Jennings Bryan,
William Randolph Hearst is the most
consistent performer in the also ran
class.
I CANNOT SING THE OLD SONGS.
I cannot sing the old songs
I sung long years ago,
For heart and voice would fall me,
And foolish tears would flow
For bygone hours come o'er the heart
With each familiar strain,
I cannot sing the old songs,
Or dream those dreams again
I cannot sing the old songs,
Or dream those dreams again.
I
And years of weary pain.
Perhaps when earthly fetters shall
Have set my spirit free
My voice may know the old songs,
For all eternity
My voice may know the old songe.
For all eternity.
—Charlotte A. Barnard, English poet
and composer, 1830-1860.
Take Warning.
Don't let sromach, liver or kindney
trouble down you when you can
quickly down them with Electric Bit
ters. 50c.
F. B. Clark, J. H. Swenson & Co.
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RISE AND FALL OF
THE WAIST LINE.
Time was when woman had a wai3t
line, and that was all there was about
it. There was fixity and purpose to
her equator and there was no thought
of its gallivanting up and down her
major axis like a ring on a fakir's
cane at a country fair. There was no
noy-you-see-it-and-now-you-don't busi
ness at all. If a woman was dressed
for company there was a general
scheme about her clothes that indi
cated very plainly where the zero line
in latitude lay.
If you surprised her in the morning
hours robed in her Mother Hubbard
and minus her waist line she was as
much embarrassed as if she had mis
laid her switch or had been caught
without her false teeth.
In those good old days the feminine
form was disguised with hoop skirts
and later by a bustle that took ds
much room to turn in as a hook and
ladder truck. But there was no trif
ling with the waist line.
But, after the dressmakers had jug
gled with lovely woman's outlines by
increasing the diameter and making
her first the center of a circle and
then the focus of an eclipse, the happy
idea occurred to Worth or Paquin
that, by scooting the waist line up and
down, another startling effect could
be produced.
Therefore the mid-circumference
was hoisted up under the wearer's
arms until it nearly lifted her off her
feet, and just now has been dropped
to her knees, where it dangles like
the ring about a tight wire performer.
But the edict has now gone forth
that the waist line is to be slipped
back Into place, and It won't be very
long, 'tis said, until a woman can
stoop to pick up a pin without crack
ing all the varnish off a $40 gown, and
crinkling it up like an elbow of a
stovepipe.—Ottawa Republic.
DON'T COUGH. BUT LIVE LONG.
If every cough were cured before it
got a strong hold, human life would
be lengthened by many years. If every
coughing sufferer knew that Kemp's
Balsam would stop the cough in a few
minutes, he would be glad to escape
the serious consequences. If any med
icine will cure a cough, Kemp's Bal
sam will do it. At druggists' and
dealers/ 25c.
GOV. CARROLL MEET8 A
HACKLEBARNEY FRIEND.
New Orleans correspondence In the
St. Louis Times.—Gov. Carroll of Iowa
and a clergyman at Baton Rouge fell
on each other's necks and embraced in
the darkness, because both were born
on Soap Creek, Hacklebarney Hollow,
Davis county, la.
The fleet did not get to Baton Rouge
until after midnight, and the two met
in the darkness above the bluffs. It
was the first time they had seen each
other In thirty years. And were they de
lighted? "Dee-l-ighted" would more
nearly express it. Carroll is the only
native born Iowan the state has elect
ed governor,
POTENCY OF LIMBURGER.
Baltimore Sun.—It has been a com
monplace of observation, indeed, for
hundreds of years that limburger
cheese has remarkable virtues as a
preservative, stimulant and antiseptic.
The man who eats it daily is seldom
a misanthrope and never an invalid.
It seems to exert not only a benign
and soothing influence upon the stom
ach, liver, humerus, aorta, vermiofrm
appendix and other vital organs, but
also a clarifying effect upon the high
er cerebral centers. One can always
tell the habitual limburgundian by his
ruddy cheeks, his stocky frame and
his unusual affability. He is more flt
than the average man for any conceiv
able human enterprise, and he is well
aware of it. In science, commerce, art
and the metaphysics he is an original
thinker and an accomplished disput
ant and even if his task In life be
some humble thing, such as playing
the clarinet or driving a beer wagon,
he always does that thing better than
the next thing. All great musicians
love limburger.
PEOPLE'S PULPIT
Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. 4, 1.909.
Editor Courier:
As regards our public roads I am
pleased with the agitation they are
celving through our newspapers and
with your permission I desire to offer
my views on the subject of road mak
ing. The first thing to do is to re
duce the width to what is necessary
for the public to use—say two rods in
width, graded 28 feet, so that all sur
face water can get away. Two rows
of tile should be used where needed,
say sixteen feet apart. This grade
should be kept in repair by the use of
the traction engine with heavy roller
attached and the King drag. The
farmer that will take a pride in keep
ing the road in repair by using these
implements should have a credit on
his taxes for labor performed. I want
to say right here, the farmer is the
busiest man in all the country at the
times the roads should be worked and
has to neglect his own when he works
the roads, therefors is entitled to com
pensation. All persons using these im
proved roads for heavy traffic should
be required by law to use broad tired
wagons.
To construct and maintain these
roads we should have a road fund cre
ated by a levy on all taxable property
in the county the farmer is not in a
position alone to carry this expense
he will oppose the improvement of the
roads if he has to make them alonu.
You hear but little complaint from the
farmer about bad roads. What wor
ries him most is to produce something
to take to market.
Retired Farmer.
P. S.—I want to endorse what tha
editor of the Courier had to say in re
gard to straightening the river.
R. F.
Editor Ottumwa Courier:
Dear Sir: In your issue of Nov. 1,
1909, I notice an article from the pen
of Harry A. Kendall, a part of which
I can not refrain from replying to if
my few thoughts are worthy of space
in your valuable paper.
Mr. Kendall makes mention of- a
man that was fined $5.00 in justice
court for not sending his boy to school,
and he further says that he should
have been fined $100.00. I know
nothing of the merits of this particular
case, but Mr. Kendall's article seems
to apply to all cases of the same
nature. And this is where I take issue
with him. A law that compels one to
do a thing and does not make it possi
ble for him or her to do It, is in my
opinion, an unfair and unjust law.
Here I would like to suggest to Mr.
Kendall a few thoughts take for ex
ample a man with a wife and five
children between the ages of six and
working at the packing house for a
wage of $1.75 per day, and the corpora
tion is giving him an average of four
days per week, out of which he has to
pay $10.00 per month house rent now,
Mr. Kendall, can you take your pencil
and paper and figure out how this m^.n
is going to properly feed and clothe
this family of seven during this month
for the remaining $18.00 (suppose that
he does not have any sickness or mis
fortune). I'll venture that you can not
do it! Yet there are lots of them
figuring it out for themselves. Now,
Mr. Kendall, after this man as solved
this seemingly impossible problem of
feeding and clothing his family, he
finds that his money is all gone he
sends his little ones to school with
what books they have, the principal
sends them back with a note to the
parents to buy them $5.00 worth of
new books. He has not got the money
to buy them the books, and they can
not go to school without them the
child labor law won't let them go to
work, in fact the law says they must
go to school hen along comes the
truant officer and picks them up.
places them in jail and then you say
that the law had ought to be changed
so that a justice of the peoce could
fine that man $100.00 because he did
not have $5.00 to add to the already
multiplied millions of the law protect
ed school book trusts? Just such ideas
in the minds of our legislators are re
sponsible for just suck laws as this.
Would it not be much more sensible to
change the law so that the state would
furnish free books to the pupils of the
public schools up to the eighth grade,
and thus eliminate the only thing that
fr
POUENStfP^Kj
makes compulsory education impractl
ble or objectionable. This can be
done with comparatively little ex
pense, and save the people of the
state thousands of dollars annually
that is now being spent inextortion
ate. prices for school books and sup
plies.
Then Mr. Kendall says that the lawB
governing relative to the number of
hours taught, branches taught, and
conduct of teachers are the worst that
he ever heard of. Probably they are
the only ones that he ever did hear
of. While our school laws are possibly
not perfect, and can possibly
be Improved on, I think that they are
very good. Our schools are strictly
non-political non-sectarian, and not
even the color line is drawn. Each and
every citizen has an equal voice with
every other citizen in school affairs.
Then as to the manner of teaching
and governing our schools, it would
seem to me that with such an able,
hard working, never tiring man as
Prof. Stuart, with a life time of experi
ence behind him, earnestly devoting
his entire time to the welfare of our
schools, assisted by a score or more
of principals selected from the very
best talent in our city, under whom Is
one hundred or more of the most re
fined, and best qualified young ladies
of the city daily lending every effort
to make the most and best possible
out of our little ones. I say that when
I consider this array of talent, back
ed up by such an able body of men
as our school board is composed of,
it leads me to believe that it must
take an inexhaustable supply of gall
for one who, admits in his own article
that he never finished McGuffey'3
third reader, to attempt to publicly
ridicule, advise and dictate at this
time.
Mr. Kendall says that he was com
pelled to quit school while studying
McGuffey's third reader, and that he
knew as much at that time as the
children of this city do when they
graduate from ,the eighth grade. This
I am not prepared to dispute, but if it
is true, I am constrained to believe
that he has forgot a lot since that
time.
In summing up I will say that I
think that Prof. Stuart and his able
staff of assistants and teachers, know
best what our little ones should study
how, when and where they had best
study it.
Last I would say to Mr. Kendall,
and all others that are In the same
frame of mind that he is, teach your
children at home that the school Is
right, that their teacher Is right, that
the principal is right, and that the
superintendent Is right, and that they
must respect and obey their teacher
and their superior officers. If the
patrons of the schools 'will give the
teachers this much assistance it is a
safe bet that the teachers nor the
schools will never be responsible for
boys being drunkards or outlaws, or
standing before the court of justice.
Your respectfully,
H. D. Judd.
Scaided by Stsnm.
or scorched by a flre: annly'BucWsn'tt
Arnica Salve. Cures Piles, too. and
the worst sorps. CrUararteed, 25c.
B. Clark. J. H. L. Swenson & Co.
Transformed by Forests.
A most striking example of the
transforming effect of forests, not on
ly on the appearance, jut on the pro
ductivity of a country, is afforded by
the department of Landes, in France.
At the close of the eighteenth century
about 2.500,000 acres of that region
were "little more than shifting sand
dunes and disease-breeding marshes."
At present the same lands are among
the richest, most productive and
healthful in France, and the change
has been brought about by Intelligent
cultivation of pine forests. Even the
character of the climate of the region
has been ameliorated, and it has be
come mild and balmy. A thin layer
of clay beneath the sandy upper sur
face soil, formerly Impervious to
water has been pierced by the pine
roots until a thorough drainage is es
tablished to the spongy earth which
lies below.
Foley's Kidney Remedy wil cure any
case of kidney or bladder trouble that
is not beyond the reach of medicine.
Cures backache and irregularities that
if neglected might result in Bright's
disease or diabetes. Clark's Drug Store
Swenson's Drug Store.
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A LOVELY PROSPECT.
Good Minister a married man)—
Do you wish to marry this woman?
Man—I do.
Minister—Do you wish to marry this
man?
Woman—I do.
Minister—Do you like the city 'as a
place of residence?
Man—No I prefer the suburbs!
Minister—Do you like the suburbs?
Woman—No. indeed I prefer the
city.
Minister—Are -you a vegetarian in
diet?
Man—I hate vegetables. I live on
beef.
Woman—I can't bear meat. I am a
vegetarian.
Minister—Do you like a sleeping
room well ventilated?
Man—Yes I want the window down
summer and winter.
Minister—Do you. like so much fresh
air?
Woman—No it would kill me. I
Want all windows closed.
Minister—Do you like a light in the
room
Man—No can't sleep with a light
Want the room dark.
Minister—Are you afraid in the
dark?
Woman—Indeed I am. I have al
ways had a bright light in my room.
Minister—Do you like many bed
clothes?
Man—All I can pile on.
Minister—Do you?
Woman—No they suffocate me.
Minister—I hereby pronounce you
man and wife, and may every bless
ing and happiness in life be yours!
Detroit News-Tribune.
SIGN OF THE FUTURE.
Estherville Enterprise: There is
not a happier man on earth than a
prosperous farmer. Here where sea
sons are favorable, where the soil is
the best and most productive and
where irrigation is not necessary is a
little paradise. Few living in this
beautiful state realize the great future
that awaits Iowa. Think of the re
markable growth in the last twenty
years, and then gain an Insight into
the great future. The next twenty
years will see Iowa farms cut up in
small tracts and farmed as farms
should be farmed. Now enough goes
to waste on Iowa farms every year
to feed multitudes of people. When
farming is reduced to a science and
the farms are well stocked, then the
farms will bring a wonderful interest
on investment. Dairying is the salva
tion of the Iowa farmer.
In a few years many of ojir citizens
who are now going to other states
will cast longing and lingering glances
back to their dear old home, and they
will wonder why they left such a mag
nificent state.
The present day prosperity of the
thrifty Iowa farmer is but a sign of
the future.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs
quickly, strengthens the lungs and ex
pels colds. Get the genuine In a yellow
packagc. Clark's Drug Store Swen
son's Drug Store.
*BOOKS*GOV* JOHNSON*
READ IN HIS BOYHOOD.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 3.—There has
been made public at the state capitol
a letter written by the late Governor
John A. Johnson to a young man liv
ing in northern Minnesota in response
to an inquiry as to what books had in
fluenced the governor's career. The
letter is thoroughly characteristic of
the man who began life as a drug
clerk and ended it as governor of Min
nesota.
It follows in full:
"T«ar Sir: I have your letter, and
as I am just leaving for another tour,
Will try to answer It, although the an
swer must of necessity be brief. As
.to books which influenced my life—
when a boy I started to do some read
ing, that is, of such books as gener
ally come to boys of the age I was.
"A benefactor friend started me on
a course of reading, introducing as the
first work Prescott's 'Conquest of
Mexico.' The book in itself Influenced
me only to the extent of encouraging
me along the line of better literature.
This was followed by 'Ivanhoe,' and
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then all of Scott's books, both poetry
and prose. This was followed by Dick- I'M
ens, Thackeray and other masters iu is
the realm of Action.
"Then came Shakespeare. I read all
of his plays, re-reading many. I pre
sume the great dramatist exerted a
better influence than any other one
writer because of the deliberation of
so many sided characters. Out of
him came the Inspiration to read morr*.
His historical dramas directed me to
the history of England, and Hume and
Macauley naturally followed. Then I
went to France to study her romantic
history from there to Germany, back
to Rome, Greece and the Egyptian and
Aryan regions. It would be impossi
ble to say whether any one single
book has been prominent in Its In flu
ence. v:
"The tendency of the above and kin
died books interested me in the liter- Sr
ature and history of my own country,
and the growth of the appetite for this
food for thought doubtless created a
general desire to know more of the in
stitutions of government here and
abroad. All of my work in this direc
tion must have from time to time
fired me with ambition and exalted mv
spirit of patriotic duty. In other words",
my increased knowledge of the world
and the men who made its history and
affairs fitted me in some measure for
the duties of life.
"I do not know that any one book
or set of books could be chosen which
would make for more opportunity or
greater success. It is the collection of
books which make for more general
knowledge, and for this, one must
simply cultivate .the reading habit and
confine reading, to the best books
written.
"The book shelves groan beneath
thu volumes which have survived tho
decades and centuries, and it would
be well to spend as little time as pos
sible on the current literature, but
confine voursplf to that which has
stood the test of years, when the
wheat was winnowed from the chaff.
I would not discourage light reading
or denounce all literature becausc it
was new, because you must know
about the things of which men are
thinking and doing today.
"Yes. cultivate the reading habit,
and cultivate the art of communicating
what you know to others. With the
genius of hard work, directness of pur
pose, success will come.
"Very truly, '.
"John A. Johnson."
Men, Women
and Children:
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