Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.

Decidedly a power in the senate,
as he is everywhere he goes is Mark
Hanna stands on his own mrits and
success. Oddly enough, Hanna is
stronger now than he was a year or
two ago. Then there was little jeal-
ousy Of him on his account of his men,
bership of the kitchen cabinet at the
White House. The senate, remember
proceeds always upon the theory that
it is supreme and not even President
may dictate to it or seek to manipu-
late it through backstairs agent.
With the change at the White House,
Hanna stands on his own merits, and
these-frankness and good humor,
common sense. courage, and of late
power of expression which has made
him almost an orator-haye given him
high rank. He is seen to be solar,
not lunar Now he has power and in
fuence second to none in the senate,
and this is because he is Mark Hanna,
not on account of anyone else. The
man with dollar marks all over his
ample person is dead, and in his place
| is the man who wears his heart on his
sleeve and has more personal friends
than any other living Ameri-
can. He is now the most popular re-
publican on the democratic side of the
senate chamber. the majority senator
who has the greatest influence with
the men of the minority One of the
greatest triumphs ever won in cong
ress was that which Hanna achieved
with his Panama canal. When he be-
gan his campaign all but five senators
favored Nicaragua, but when the roll
was finally called, he had majority
of eight
Senator Nelson of Minnesota is moi
a Spanish scholar and when he was
i discussing the statehood bill he made
4 sad havoc of some of the names he
used. Senator Elkins who speaks and
1 writes Spanish readily, enjoyed the
: Minnesota mans performance greatly
Maria Virgil" said Nelson, pronoun
cling the name according to the Eng
lish rules. "Mahreeah Veehil," whisper
) ed Ellsins to his next door neighbor
!. "Jicarillas" was given ordinary pro
; nunciation by the man from the north
J. west, and Elkins said, 'Hicareeahs'
. so that Nelson heard him. The lattel
looked at the West Virginian for a mo
ment and then lunged ahead. But the
look was enough; there was no more
. audible criticisms.
{ Dr. Albert j. Atkins, lecturere OF
the principles of medicine at the Cali
fornia medical college, in San Fran
cisco, claims that experiments con
: Quoted by him have demonstrated tina
: it is electricity, not oxygen. which
purifies the blood in the lungs. Dr.
Z Atkins says that no oxygen passe
. through the membrane of the air cell
of the lungs into the blood stream
d He has discovered that the actio
Il which takes place in the lungs i
$ breathing is electrical. The theor
s advocated by DR.. Atkins is that tn
oxygen of the system comes fror
food and water consumed, and mus
be refined by digestion before it ca
:. be dissolved and enter the blood. H
o. claims that certain percentage {
q oxygen is consumed by means OF th
+. chemical action taking place in the al
&c cells during breathing and the refus
exhaled as carbon dioXide. Furthe
experiments show that the resistant
of the human system was so muc
greater than the pressure OF the a
IL mosphere that it would be impossib
.e for osmosis of a gas to take place u
Is der such conditions. Other expel
ments show that venous blood can |
given the color of arterial blood
the use of galyanic electricity.