People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lift your hat reverently when you pas® the teacher of the primary school. She is the great angel of the republic. • She takes the bantling from the home nest, full of pouts and passions—an ungovernable little wretch whose own mother admits that she sends him to school to get rid of him. The lady who knows her business takes a whole carload of these anarchists, one of whom single-handed and alone.

is more than a match for his parents, and at once puts them in a way of being useful and upright citizens. At what expense of toil, patience and soul-weariness. Lift your hat to her. There is little doubt but thai a demand will be made in congress in the near future for a law requiring the election by the people of postmaster. This would do away with the appointment of incompetent men as bonus for curbstone political (Work, and insure incumbents satisfactory to the people. No good* reason can be assigned why the people should not be allowed to choose postmasters as well as other officials. Of course it would not cut off the emoluments of the ’‘untiring workers,” and .in this be more certain to insure the selection of honest, and competent men. —Goodland Herald. The souvenir half dollars for the World's Columbian exposition will be ready for delivery in a few days. The directors in order to keep the coins out of the hands of speculators have decided to deliver them to the people without the aid of middle men. The Citizen’s State Bank has made arrangements to get a supply of these coins and anyone wanting them should leave their order there for as many* coins as they wish. The bank asks no profit on the coins and will furnish them for cost— $1 each. If these coins had been sold to speculators it is* likely that the price would have risen to five dollars.

The following is Hicks’ weather forcast for December: From the 9th to 12th is a storm leriod in Which many causes will unite. Look for heavy storms of ram, w’ith perhaps winter thunder, turning to blizzards in the North-west, and followed by great cold. About the 16th, a reaction will center. The 19th to 23rd is another storm period we will call dangerous on sea and land. Be prepared for gales, snow. Ice, in the North and for a general cold wave over the continent. Christmas promises to be cold. The 27th and 28th will bring hard reactionary storms, which will add fresh rain, snow and ice, and turn hi upon us the parting cold wave for 1892. See! Adieu.