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Show OSSIFIED MAM". An Iowan "Who is Lifted About His Room With a Derrick. It has been twenty years since ;eori. Chickering. once the champion wrestl-r of this (Leel county, has been able v raise his hands to his head. lie is o-l- fied. There is not a joint in hi- b,,ri"- save in his right hand arm and :u left thumb. He is hardened in a sittlt'.. nosture. ar.H is moved from bed to cn.ur as would be an image of clay wit.i a h tie derrick, or "lifter." Despite this 11 U ? helplessness, there is not a more cneei , ful man In the state of lowu, nor a triur . Christian. Compared with tlii.man. patience, the proverbial submission t Job would be open rebellion. This I'w j martvr never refers to his condition j bodv except as a favor to his many J- itors. and then in a jocose manner. r ; transcendent cheerfulness is tetined l by this remark of his: . . J "You can't imagine how thankful 1 t for that thumb." and then he wait1 ; that member joyously. He has j been known to reply to some of his soi .. ber callers who were bemoaning his 1 ' ; and telling how much they would be dead than as he is. "You see. " friends," he says. "I believe in i" ; hard." lie will allow no one to rob ma ? of his little moods. . , Visitors galore come to see him. 7 vear the number reached more than -.J . sometimes as manv as fifty comli'S one dav. In 153. thirty-nine year,..,au-he year,..,au-he hurt himself lifting while at a r: 4 ing." and has never done a fuU ' work since. He caught cold, ana J0 ,. ; ing pain racked his body, and then tve years of violent rheumatism f'rerni fifth of a century of terrible r Then began the process of nsslncati. . rheumatic arthritis, and for threVthat this man waa in the vise Rrip or f acme of torment, in the deacripi"" 4 which the word "pain" is mean ng r--Though never free from bodily suae since the hardening of his joints, tnt ,( , fifteen and one-halt years have 1 " gt 1 spent in comparative comfort. course, helpless, and has a coniak . tendant. " |