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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-09-25
Little Jack Hornet,

NO more I'll prod hornets nest.
| really do not think it best.
The creatures don't know how to play.
Though sharp in ev'ry other way.
l merely took little goad
And merely ticllled their abode.
When out they came like anything,
And made me feel like one large sting.
Ana though l truly am not slow
They showed me points do not know.
| really do not think it best
To NEEDLE with a hornets nest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-09-25
How to Make Traps.

In Gibson's Camp Life in the
Woods and the Tricks of Trapping, 4"
published some years ago, the follow
ing effective traps that can be easily
made are described:
A mouse trap may be made with a
bowl and knife blade. Put a piece
of cheese on the end Of the blade
knife. Lift one edge of the bowl and
put the knife, standing on its edge,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-09-25
When Children Should Go Barefoot

WHICH SilIlOIen oHOulu 40 DdI SlOOt'
"A Virginia Mother would know
whether "the southern custom of
children running barefoot from the LIST
of May until the list of October is
conducive to health or the contrary"
| She adds: "Gou may not know that
| boys belonging to the best families
do this"
| do know how prevalent in the
southland is a practice, which at the
! north is confined almost exclusively
to the poorer classes. A southern
physician maintains that for boy to
run barefooted for several months is
more cleanly and more healthful than
for him to wear shoes and stockings.
| More Clearly, because stockings and
shoes confne perspiration which is
the natural outflow of impure humors,
and force the system to absorb effete
matter, not to mention the fact that
the average lad is more likely to wash
his feet by wading through pool and
brook than by bathing at home.
This same average boy, says our
doctor, if he wear shoes and stock
ings, has wet feet during most of the
day. He soalcs them in dew, he
tramps ankle deep through marshes.
he fords streams, and stands, with
never a conjunction, over his boot
tops in water while fishing. 1t is too
much trouble to go home to change his
footwear, and he is too accustomed
to the discomfort to speak of it TO his
mother. She never suspects the i'm
prudence until he is seized by a sum
mer cold" that strengthens into pneu-
mOnia.
There is something-there may be
much-in the opinion that merits re-
spectful consideration.
Why Girls Can't Spin Tops.
Did You ever see a girl spin a top?
Did you ever see her carefully and
closely wind a string around the cone.
| and then. with a quick throw and jerk.
give it the necessary rotary motion to
send it whirling right side up? You
never did, and probably you never
will, because the ready possibility of
doing such a thing does not lie in
womans anatomy.
A girl can twirl rope and Jump
| one enough times to weary her watch.
ing brother, the Chicago Record. Her.
aid explains, but top in her hands
is a useless thing. and the brother
| only laughs at her efforts to spin it, if
she makes them, as he laughs at all
her efforts in the direction of throw
ing
! Observe the children playing in the
streets at top spinning seasons. You
may watch all day and not see one
girl with a top in her hand, while you
will see hundreds with skipping ropes.
| If you see any playing with balls they
| will be simply bouncing them on the
pavements. using a very short.
cramped motion of the arm in doing
So
The simple facl is that a girl can
not throw, in the true sense of the
term. because Of the peculiar con.
struction Of her shoulder. When
boy throws a ball he bends his elbow.
reaches back with his forearm and
uses every joint from shoulder TO
wrist His arm is relaxed. A girl
throws with a rigid arm. because her
collar bone is larger and sits lower
than a boys. his prevents the free
+ motion of the arm required for
strength and accuracy in throwing
hence she cannot spin a top properly
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
PIKE COUNTY BAReARIANs.

Pike county, Kentucky, had two
unique funerals last Sunday afternoon.
One was the funeral of the two Hat
fields; the other victims being John
Rutherford and Harry Watts. Both
were conducted at the same time and
the two professions were in plain view
of each other. Not man in either
procession was without a gun. One
mourner's shot gun was accidentally
discharged and the mourners in the
other procession brought their guns to
their shoulders but soon found out it
was an accident and they .desisted
from opening fire.
1t is no use to moralize over such
things. The state of Kentucky should
simply take hold, arrest these savages,
corral them in secure prison and
hold them either until they die off, or
become civilized.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03

large quantities. 1t is true that the
quality was inferior to the hand made
article but it was cheaper and all the
little home industries We're DESTROYED
and thousands of women and men were
deprived of employment and became
INDECENT and non-supporting. 1t was
the wealthy and philanthropic English
mans idea to re-establish and restore
the home industry and he did it by sup
plying the spinning wheels and the
hand looms and distributing them
among those who knew how to use
them and could teach the art to Others
The consequence was better linen was
made than that turned out of the great
factories and it commanded higher
prices.
1t would not be desirable to return
to primitive methods in all the arts
but the policy of the Rabbi in farming
out jobs to individuals is not only at
tractive but has a great deal of com.
mon sense to commend it. The i'm.
proved methods for the transmission
of power render such a system practi-
cable in many light industries. Indeed,
it is in practice now in the in the pearl
button industry in this state. The ma
chimes for the first process, which is
in cutting or saving out blanks, are not
expensive and it is possible for fami-
lies to own one or two of these ma
chimes and operate them with profit.
The blanks are then sold to the central
factory, where they undergo the final
process.
1t is thus made manifest that great
inventions which at first glance seem
to encroach upon the field of labor are
in the end helpful when their wonder
full development is accomplished. 1t
was believed at the beginning that
railroads would do away in a great
measure with mules and horses; but
this has not been the case. Railroads
have but extended the field of opera
lions for beasts of burden. 1t is so
along the whole line of inventions and
progress; one want develops another,
and each step in the march of civiliza-
ton demonstrates that the area of la
Dor is illimitable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
CAN'T BEAT HENDERSON.
(Kansas City Journal.l

Jed Lake, of Independence, a., who
is visiting in the city with his son,
Rush G. Lake, declares that all oppo-
sition to the denomination of Speaker
David B. Henderson for congress in the
Third Iowa district, will prove abor-
tive Mr.. Lakes home is in Speaker
Henderson's district They are per-
sonal friends, and Mr. Lake helped
Henderson when he made his first can
vass for nomination twenty years ago.
There is not the slightest chance of
Henderson being defeated said Mr..
Lake yesterday, commenting on the re.
port that Senator o. B. COPYRIGHT, of
Waterloo, had announced himself as
candidate for nomination in the Third
district. "There is no congressman in
the United States who is more popular
in his district than Dave Henderson.
as we all call him up there. He has
been nominated for ten consecutive
terms, and every time by reclamation.
His majorities have varied from SO to
more than 5000, and he will be nomin-
ated and elected this year by the big
gest majority he has ever received.
The opposition to him is due to
row over a postoffice appointment in
Waterloo county. Senator Courtright
Will probably receive the support of his
own county, but Henderson will get
the votes of every other of the ten
counties in the district"
Speaker Hendersons home is in Du.
buque. This is also Senator Allison's
home. Mr.. Lake recalled yesterday, in
the course of the conversation, the cir
cumstances of Allison's first election
to congress in 1862. From that time
until 1862 to 1875, he represented the
third district. He was then promoted
to the senate. Mr.. Henderson was
first elected from the district in 1880.
Henderson is almost as popular
with the democrats as with the repub.
leans" Mr.. Lake continued There
are 1000 of them in Dubuque county
that always vote for him. The people
of the district are very proud of the
records Allison and Henderson have
made"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
GENERAL MILES PLAN.

The correspondence of General Miles
relating to his proposition to restore
peace in the Philippines, has been plac-
ed before the house in compliance
with resolution requesting such cor.
respordence. 1t reveals that Miles
proposition was to take representative
Cubans and Porto Ricans to the Philip.
pines with him, to convince the natives
OF the benefits of the United States
control, and to send back representa-.
tive Filipinos to Washington to study
governmental conditions. This propo-
sition was disapproved by Secretary
Root and by the President on the
ground that it was peculiar and SEN
sationar and that General Chaffee
was carrying on operations in the Phil
ippines in satisfactory manner.
General Miles is q good soldier but
his craftsmanship is of very doubt,
full quality. 1t would indeed have
been peculiar and sensational to
nave hau SuDduS anu TOIlO RlCdIS
and Filipinos, fitting back and forth
between the islands to study condi-
tions. 1t would have placed these peo-
pies in the same category with Indian
tribes whose representatives are sent
to Washington and through the coun-
try to become impressed with the
greatness of the United States It has
been assumed for the Filipinos that
they are intelligent and capable of self
government. but General Miles would
have exhibited them before the world
as new tribe of Indians who had to
be conciliated or overawcd. The spec.
tacle would not have been edifying in
any manner.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

John D. Rockefeller has been so
transformed by the recent affliction,
which has rendered him totally bald
and robbed him him of his mustache,
eyebrows and eyelashes, that his
friends barely recognize him. He has
become as emaciated as an eastern
famine sufferer and as white as the
proverbial ghost.
His head has become as bald as
billiard ball and the iron gray mustache
with which his friends have so long
been familiar has disappeared. His
eyebrows and eyelashes have also fall
en- out and his head and face are as
smooth as those of baby. Smooth
and hairless, he is anything in appear
ance but the Rockefeller that Wall
street and the Standard Oil circle of
millionaires knew.
Few of his friends have seen him
since the transformation occurred, as
he has been but little in New York.
Contrary to his usual winter custom,
he did not go to Florida this winter,
but has been spending the season at
Lakewood. He has kept closely to the
pines in the hope of regaining his lost
strength.
Mr.. Rockefeller's latest affiiction
came upon him suddenly. 'Alopecia"
it is called and medical men differ as
to the cause. Some ascribe it to the
parasite said to cause badness; others
attribute it directly to the nervous
trouble of the stomach, from which he
has been an acute sufferer for years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03

lection. They stand upon the doctrine
of protection. The secretary of agri-
culture tells me that every acre of
land in Iowa is capable of raising the
sugar beet, and this is true of every
state throughout the west and in the
Mississippi valley. l have never ex-
pressed an opinion against doing
something, whatever we possibly can,
to strengthen the hand of Cuba.
have stood side by side with the
President and the ways and means
committee trying to devise some plan
to do this without injuring the farm
ers of our country and at the same
time give encouragement to Cuba. The
contention is brought to us from our
own people that we have shed blood
and money enough for Cuba now-an
independent government, so to speak
without slaughtering the farming in
terests of our country, and the most
intense feeling exists. doubt if,
with all the combined influences we
have to bring to bear, We can dislodge
or change the views of the states that
| have named that are operating in
the beet sugar industry without suffi-
cient force to carry the house. 1t
may be that we can hit upon some 9TH
er plan and harmonic matters.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
THE FIELD OF LABOR.

The eminent Jewish theologian and
philosopher, Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago
has revealed an interesting idea that
if it could be entirely realized, would
solve many troublesome phases of the
labor problem. Realizing that power
can be delivered anywhere by the
transmission of electricity, he predicts
that the factory system of today, will
disappear. He says:
Into every house power can be
brought which will drive each wheel
for the artisan in his own little work.
shop" The growing masses of arti
sans that trouble students of sociology
SO much today, will "disintegrate, and
will become interdependent-ind
ents. The moral and physical benefit
of greater privacy will be great, in
Rabbi Hirsch's opinion.
The New York Sun, commenting on
the Rabbits prediction says it must be
taken into account that the individ.
ual artisan of today is no longer mas
ter of his craft. He is an atom, or a
spoke in the industrial Wheel 1t has
been shown in an account of watch.
making that hundred men contribute
to the making of a watch, each adding
but a touch to the machinery of the
whole
Despite all such objections there Is
something fascinating in the Rabbits
idea. The fact that watch has many
makers would not seriously interfere
with the project to have all the various
parts of watch manufactured in lit
tie shops This seems to be the plan
in Switzerland, where the parts are
finally assembled and made into one
machine in the central factory. 1t
would be impracticable for the rabbits
plan to be carried out in heavy ma
chinery but there are many light indus.
tries that could be farmed out in pieces
and thus give employment to those
who desire to preserve certain indie
pendence in labor operations at their
homes.
A few years ago wealthy English
man saw the decay Of the private linen
industry in the villages of certain
district in his country. 1t had been
the custom and the practice for many
years to make linen at the homes of
the peasantry; the linen was fine and
the industry gave employment to a
large number of women and old men
whose labor could not be well employ.
ed elsewhere. The big factories for
making linen by machinery were es.
tablished and turned out the fabric in
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
"RET." cLARksoN's PHILOSOPHY.

Hon. ]. S. Clarkson C"Ret."), former
ly of Iowa, now of New York, is writ
in series of articles descriptive of
early times in Iowa. In his last article
Mr.. Clarkson, in paragraph accurate
ly describes early conditions as to in
sect life and follows this with a short
dissertation on the probabilities of a
continuous existence of human life,
that is striking and original. He says:
AS to insects, the surface of the
earth teemed with them In every
hands breadth in the thick grass was
an active colony of this small life; all
of which in themselves or in their par
ents had lived through the whole win.
ter under the deep snow. How thew
survived, how they were nurtured what
kept them from freezing to death. or
how they were restored to life after
having been frozen for six months.
was one of natures secrets-one of
the strange miracles that are constant
ly performed year by year before your
own eyes as if to prove to you that the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03

Mrs. Cabot Ward says in the New
York Tribune, that the time is ripe
for the United States to adopt a
national plant emblem and the history
of our country points to the Indian
corn or maize, as entitled to that
distiction. 1t was the food of all the
early settlers, from the beginning. 1t
grows everywhere in the United
States. 1t was the food of the pilgrims
as well as the western pioneers. 1t
is now one of the principal food pro-
ducts of the country,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
PRINCE HENRYs CONFIDENTIAL
OBSERVATIONS.

From the privacy of his flagship,
Prince Henry PERMITTED a few conf
Dental reflections to drift to Berlin
and from there they leak out through
a shrewd American who writes to a
friend in the United States but not
for publication:
Prince Henry found that the Ameri-
can people are the best disposed in the
world and specially remarked their in
diyidual determination to maintain Or
der. The prince said he never feared
anarchists after having seen typical
American crowd handle itself.
He was impressed with the magnifi
cent horsemanship exhibited by the
cadets at West Point. The American
cavalry are the most dashing troops
in the, world. The rich floral displays
everywhere are among his most abid-
ing memories, and yet the prince does
not know nor realize that this taste for
flowers has grown up since the civil
war. Prior to that time it was consid-
cred effeminate to display love for
flowers.
One of the deepest impressions
made on some of Prince Henry's suite
was the high charges of American no.
tells and cab drivers. 1t is evident
that the princes young men were out
on lark in New York or Chicago,
where they encountered high priced
hotels and cabmen.j
On the whole, however, the prince
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
COUNTY IN THE LEGIs.
TURE.

The Iowa legislature will soon
adjourn and Wapello county will again
have two of her excellent citizens back
again to mingle in business and in So
cial affairs with the people whom they
have so well represented. S. H. Har-
per, in the senate, and A. w. Buchan-
an, in the house, have each been po-
tent in their spheres of action in
bringing forth measures that are for
the public good. 1t is safe to say that
aside from their votes on purely politi-
cal questions, such as for the election
of United States senators, they have
voted the will of large majority of
the people without regard to party
lines. They have been Industrious, at
tentive to the work before them and
in every respect have carried out all
the promises that were made in their
behalf by their most earnest friends.
They have each been placed on i'm
portant committees where their work
has been very effective and on the floor
of each chamber they have been heard
at proper times and on occasions when
it was necessary that they should be
heard
Wapello county has heretofore been
represented by able men in the legisla-
ture, but by none ADLER than the pres
ent delegation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
Leader a Sewers Ally.

The Newton Journal says the Des
Moines Loaded is presuming to take
charge of the affairs of the republican
party in the congressional districts
represented by Henderson and Lacey,
and brings out Senator o. B. Court
right, of Waterloo, as candidate
against Henderson, and Geo. w. See
vers, of Oskaloosa, as the prominent
candidate against Lacey, and having
Fred l.. Maytag, of Jasper; j. w. Carr,
of Poweshiek, and H. L. Waterman, of
Ottumwa, as probable candidates.
Whatever else may occur, one thing is
certain, the nomination will not go to
Mahaska county, if Mr.. Lacey is set
aside, despite all the striking the Lead
er may do for Mr.. Sewers. The bal
ance of the district is Of the opinion
that Mahaska county has had her full
share of congressional honors, and it is
the height of presumption and hog.
gishness to ask for more, if a change
is to be made.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
Incubator Works Overtime.

The Sully Ledger says the Des
Moines Leader of Tuesday morning
Matched out a large brood of candi-
dates for congressional honors on the
part of the republicans of this district.
The list includes Senator F. l.. May
tag of Jasper, Capt. ]. w. Carr of Pow
eshiek, ex-senator H. l.. Waterman of
Ottumwa, and Geo. w. Sewers of Os-
kaloosa. This leaves Keokuk and
Monroe counties to hear from. 1t
seems that the Monroe county egg
Kendall-refused to hatch, got killed
in the shell by March thunder, but it
is presumed that radical opponent of
republicanism. the Leader, will try
another settin soon, and the next
time the old hen leaves the nest she
will be followed by congressional
chick from every county of the dis
trict, even including Davis. although
that county has candidate for a
state office.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-03
THE STATE AUTHORSHIP.


The Des Moines Capital in announc-
ing the candidacy of Capt Amos w.
Brandt of Des Moines for the repub-
lican nomination for state auditor,
says:
so far Captain Brandt has little
opposition for the place. Only two
other candidates are actively in the
field, ex-senator B. F. Carroll of
Bloomfield and County Auditor Joseph
f. Wall of Ringgold county. State
Bank Examiner f. A. Bennett of Sioux
City has been mentioned in connec-
ton with the place, but is not yet in
the field. Both Carroll and Wall will
meet with strong opposition in their
respective counties, and one or both
may be retired from the race by the
result at home. In neither case can
these candidates secure the support
and endorsement of their congression-
al districts with the hearty approval
and unanimity which awaits Captain
Brandt from the counties in the sew
enth district which have not yet held
their primaries or conventions.
The above statement, SO far as Hon.
B. F. Carroll is concerned, is so direct
ly contrary to the facts that it is evil
dent that the Capital has been misin-
formed in regard to the situation. Ger
tainly that paper would not willfully
misrepresent the facts or do an injus-
tice to any candidate. There is no
known expressed opposition whatever
to Mr.. Carrolls candidacy in his home
county. On the contrary there is ev-
cry indication that he will have the
most loyal and enthusiastic support OF
the people of Davis county. With
reference to the sixth district, there
seems to be no question but what it
will be a unit in supporting Mr.. Car
rolls candidacy. There has been no
opposition developed to him in any
portion of the district, and so far as
the Courier is able to learn, no candi.
date can be supported in his own dis
trict with more hearty approval and
unanimity" than will Mr.. Carroll be
at the republican state convention by
the delegates from the sixth district.
At this writing there is every indica-
ton that Mr. Carroll will also have
the solid support of the first congress
sional district. The Courier is not
fully advised as to Mr.. Wallis candi-
dacy, but certain it is that if the
eighth district does not have an active
candidate, Mr.. Carroll will go into the
convention with a very strong, if not
an unanimous delegation from that
district. The Capital owes it to it.
self and to the republicans of the
state to correct the erroneous impress
sion, SO far as Mr.. Carroll's candidacy
is concerned, that is contained in the
above clipping.