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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
A BOY CAPTAIN OF INDusTRY.'

. p.
Chicago Record Herald. There is
an often expressed opinion that all the
boy wonders in the industrial field
have their homes in America. There
is another opinion as frequently
heard that business initiative and en-
terprise are on the decline in England.
Just because these opinions are SO
common the story of IA Londin firm,
wrench, Limited is not without in
terest.
Evelyn Wrench, founder and head
of the firm, celebrated his twenty first
birthday recently with a banquet at
London hotel. He is a son of Rt.
Hon. Frederick S. Wrench, one of the
Irish land and estate commissioners,
and he proposed to become a diplo-
mat. Three years ago he went to Ger
many to study in pursuance of his
plan There he saw the rage for pic
ture post cards He at once thought
of English pennies. and all ambi-
lions for diplomacy fled from his
mind.
He went back to London with q
pocketful of designs and camera. At
ter having a few cards printed he
travelling man. New Wrench, Limit
ed has ,an output of 50000000 post
cards year. 1t has over 1000 custo-
mers and a staff of several hundred
employees. And the proprietor of this
firm is i'll position to retire from
business on his income, II he wants
to.
OF course, this boy captain of in
dustry is not to be compared witt
our 3S-year- old steel trust presidents
who can make trusts and bust trusts
while you wait, nor with our 34-year-
old copper nlagnates, who refuse S15,,
900, 000' for their interests every nov
and then and set all Montana by thu
ears. But he does pretty well for al
/ industrially declining and degenerat,
country such as England is made on
4 TO be-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The colored voters of Ottumwa did
splendid service in the election Tues
day. They felt and realized the influ-
ence that the vote this year must ne
cessarily have on the national CAM
paien next year. The colored men love
and admire President Roosevelt,
whose courage in standing for their
rights has been manifest as the great
bravery which he has exhibited ID
meeting every other public question
The colored men of Ottumwa We're en-
thusiastic in the support of the repub-
lican ticket. They worked hard fol
the success of. the entire ticket and
they voted it straight from top to bot
tom All honor to the colored voters
Ottunwa and Wapello county.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

KeokuS Gate City.-Secretary Shaw
spoke at Boston last evening, giving
attention particularly to the demo-
cratic theory of free raw material. The
address was admirable alike for the
clearness and fairness of its state
ments and the resistlessness of its log
ic. The wool industry was used as IL
lustratlon of the practical workings
of such theory. and it was shown
conclusively that the industry would
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
LARGEST ENGLISH BIBLE CLASS.

Springfield Republican, Bible
class OF $3.50 men, with an average at
tendance OF 1900, meeting regularly
Sunday; this inspiring spectacle, says
the Chicago Advance, may be seen any
Sunday afternoon at All Saints church,
Sheffield And these men are not from
the orthodox, church going class. 4
large number are literally plblicans
and sinners. After the afternoon clos
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Judging from the result OF the cleo
tion in the second congressional dis
trict Congressman Wade will not hold
an euyiable position during his Two
years in congress. A democratic
congressman representing republl-
can district.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
A DISPUTED RIGHT.

Omaha Bee.-Senator German would
like to force political duel between
himself and President Roosevelt. We
DO not believe that the President would
be averse, but German has several
competitors in his own deInocratia
camp who would insist that he is not
the right man to go to the front as
the party's representative.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Already the Indebtedness of the.
Iowa Wesleyan university at Mt.
Pleasant has been reduced S2l,o4o.9
from collections made during October
of that 100000 subscribed by friends
of that institution. Wesleyanites are
feeling remarkably good these days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
THE COURIER AND THE ELECTION
RETURNS.

The Courier showed what can be
done by organization and first class
equipment in securing the election re-
turns last. night. The new Courier
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

President Roosevelt went to the polls
and voted In that he set an example
which every American citizen should
emulate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The republican state central commit
tee is deserving OF congratulations Tor
the good work done in making such
canvass of the state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Washington, D. c., seems to be Of
the opinion that it will be able to get
along for the next year if congress will
make it an appropriation of $4,000
n00
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
WABASH.
Apptpa
Depart

Kansas City ST.
Louis ~. ao:l5 .. m as:ao p- N.
Kansas city a. st.
Louis ...... -. aT:00p NJ. aS.25 a. nj
Freight trains carrying passengers beL
tween Ottumwa and Moulton:
Local freight 49,. bsD0 p. m 1890 a. IN.
Fast freight ,...... a12:10 p. IA. ALSO .. M.
q, daily; b, except Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Even though reports from over Iowa
did indicate only light vote the re-
publicans did very handsomely
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Wapello county republicans substan-
tally backed up the work Of the coan-
ty central committee.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Kentucky elections We're again at
tended by the usual number of fatali-
ties.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Anyway Mr., Sullivan has stirred UP
the democrats of Iowa in a manner
they have not experienced for many
moons
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Everybody seems agreed that there
is nothing the matter with Ohio.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Mr.. Bryan is getting to be real
"standpatter' when it comes to mat
ter of $4,000 requests.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The bear is loathe to leave his
haunts in Manchuria.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Probably the widower's club in the
senate will disband shortly.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Iowa farmers will now go about their
corn gathering with greater content.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The sick man of Europe is exceed
ingly quiet just now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The man who writes a sixteen pag sc
love letter before he is married thinks
a ten-word telegram is very long af-
terward.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The republicans of Monroe county
did handsomely by their able repre-
sentative Hon. N. e. Kendall.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

not do very well this fall Just wait I'M
til the vote is counted next Novem-
Der.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The way to get nice wife is to be
rich or good football player.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Now is the time to turr your
thoughts to Thanksgiving day and tur-
KEY dinners.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

New York Press.-It is funny how
a man will blow up his Wife because
the telephone won't work, when he
ter to shave.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Raymond Lindsay of Sidney waa
badly burned by the explosion OF d
gasoline stove.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION pEPoT.
A. J. Packard, Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE 8 sr.pAuL

$3.50 IePATI
Chicago, Dubuque &
Milwaukee ...-: dl2:la A. m, b2:35 a. m.
Milwaukee :. ..d12:15 Il. m. ht2.35 a. M. s
ids, etc ,.p10;1o 4. m. 5:05 p. m.
Kansas City
Southwest ... .bl2;2o a. m. 1890 a. m.
Kansas City and
local 80. .... b4 10 p. ii, b1o:20 a. m.
No. 1872, freight, east, leaves s.. goa. m.
No. 81, freight east, leaves 1905 a. m.
No. 81. freight. west, leaFes ZOO a. m.
No. 81, freight, west, leaves 100 p. M
ottumwa-Muscatine Cut Of.
Arrive. nenare
Chicago, Davenport, Mus
catine ..... ........ bT:0o h12:ao n. m.
No 81, freight, east leaves 80. $50 q. IA, :
No 81. freight, east leaves 49,. 900 a. m.
a. daily; b, except Sunday: d, except Mon.
day.
Freight trains arrive at and depart FROM
Qttumwa Junction.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Nobody needs an alarm clock to
wake up in the winter; the furnaces
does it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

After man has been married two
years he thinks there isn't a chair
in the house strong enough for his
wife to sit in his lap
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

If anyone should think that Iowa did
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The Onawa Democrat is convinced
that no country on the globe is as
nice as Iowa in Indian summer; that
even Italy. with her dreamy breezes
and mellow sunshine, is not so beau
tiful
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


New York Press.-It is funny how
a man will blow up his wife because
the telephone won't work when he
doesn't dare ask the cook for hot wa
ter to shave.
Nobody needs an alarm clock to
wake up in the winter; the furnace
does it.
The man who writes a sixteen page
love letter before he is married thinks
a ten-word telegram is very long aft
terward.
The way to get a nice wife is to be
rich or good football player.
After a man has been married two
years he thinks there isn't a chair
in the house strong enough for his
wife to sit in his lap.
The first time a woman marries it
is the mans fault; the second time it
is hers.
A good husband is man who is not
allowed to spend any of his money on
himself.
If some people fall down their own
stairs they try to prove that the way
the government is run is to blame for
it.
Ambition is thirst that gets drier
the more you drink
The looking glass is the place to see
great men,
A woman with fine pair of Shout
ders has curious ideas about the
places she is likely TO catch cold
There is warm corner somewhere
for most everybody in the world but
mother-in-law.
Some men can go crazy without ev-
EN- having to transact business With
women.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The first time a woman marries
is the mans fault; the second time
is hers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Wapello county republicans d
themselves proud.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC
No. Going East. Depart
206, Keokuk, Kansas City, Call
fornIa and Southwest 1045 n. M,
aO2 Keoluk NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1927 y. me-
ao4 Eldon, Davenport & Chicago 1916 p, ms
Going West.
203 Des Moines, RuthYen, west
and northwest ........... TOO a. NJ,
oo1 Des Moines and Omaha ....1o;10 p mf
2O5 Dies Moines and Omaha -. T.05 p M
Unless otherwise specified, all trains ars
daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Keolsuls Gate City cites the eN
amples of Senators Depew, Platt and
Stewart as proof that the mania for
marriage is infectious, and therefore
by inference due TO a germ of some
kind or other. The Gate City pre-
sumes the senators caught the con-
tagion from each other.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07
Railroad Time Tables
TRAINS LEAVING UNION DEPOT.
w. s. Parker, Ticket Agent.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c., 3. & q.
NJ, Gojnd East Daparf

BURLINGTON ROUTE, c., 3. G. q.
No. Going East. Depart
12a--Chicago, Dubuque, & Quincy 2:10 a. M
92b-Local Freight ............. 6:45 a. M
lob Burlington x st, Louis. 1885 a. M.
1Ob-Peoria Dubuque g. Quincy IL 80 a. m.
Ga Chicago Limited ......... 20 p, M.
4a-Chicago, st. Louis & Quincy 7:10 p. IA.
sa-Fast mail .........,..... S;37 p. m.
2a-Chicago, Peoria {. Rockford II :45 p, m.
4 ut. Madison accommodations daily except
Sunday, depart 7:l0 a. M; arrive 500 PINE
Going West.
5a-omaha, Council Bluffs
Nebraska 80. ..,....... 1856 a. m.
15a-Fast mail .......,........ 2:49 a, m.
o1b-Local freight -. ........ $50 a. IN.
a-omaha, Kansas City, Denver
Hot Springs Deadwood, Og
den Portland & California. 1:45 q. me
7a-Fast mail ..... ....,5..... S:52 q. M
9b-Peoria to Creston 1880. 1:b0 p, m.
13a-Iimited -. ,....,...s..t.. 1928 p. m.
lib Chicago TO Ottumwa, arrive. 1000 p. m.
la-Denver & Omaha ......... IL 80 p. no.
a, daily; b. except Sunday. Nos. z, and
10 do not carry passengers
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

To the Council Bluffs Nonpareil it
appears that "the number of railroad
wrecks resulting in great loss of life
the past few days ought to be check
to the railroads in their retrenchment
plans" The Nonpareil advises that
lit might be better to pay little more
for operating; and less for loss of life
and property"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

A good husband is a man who is not
allowed to spend any of his money on
himself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The editor of the Burlington Hawk
Eye, speaking from personal exper-
fence, perhaps, declares that "Hallow-
cen from a joyous occasion of innocent
fun and amusement, has become nui-
sance of the first grade"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Noting that the Cass county farm
ers have organized a cooperative COM
pany which will provide funeral for
its members at absolute cost, the Mar
shalltown Times Republican has the
be improved by adding "a mutual fire
insurance feature, good after the fun
eral"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

If some people fall down their own
stairs they try to prove that the way
the government is run is to blame for
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Ambition is thirst that gets drier
the more you drink.
The looking glass is the place to see
great men.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

A woman with fine pair of Shout
ders has curious ideas about the
places she is likely TO catch cold.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The Dubuque Times is looking on
sympathetically at Minneapolis
struggles with the tax ferret. The Du-
buque newspaper approves the action
of the Minneapolis business men who
are moving for the exemption of mon.
eys and credits, and expresses the
opinion that the tax ferret is nothing
less than a legalized hlackinailer."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

There is a warm corner somewhere
for most everybody in the world but
a mother-in-law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

The Cedar Falls Record Endorses as
a sensible move the addition of q
course of agriculture to the high school
course in the Des Moines high school,
but adds proviso that it must be
"sentibly conducted by sensible ag-
riculturalist."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

Some men can go crazy without ev-
Ell having to transact business with
women.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

of fine grazing through the foolish inn
portation of sweet brier and of gorse-
The way in which these plants grow
and spread on the ranges Is positively
incredible to one who has only seen
them in their ordinary English home.
Many of New Zealand's finest rivers
have been turned into semistaRnant
marshes by the rapid spread Of water
cress rashly planted in brook by
some too enterprising farmer.
The olive plantations of Southern TIA
ly are in a terrible condition, owing to
the. ravages Of the oilfiy. During the
past four years the damage has as
sumed such proportions that the loss Is
estimated to approach f5,000,000. The
plague is due entirely to the criminal
folly of the Italians I'm permitting the
wholesale destruction of every kind of
bird small and great. Nets are stretch
ed along miles of shore to catch migra-
tory birds on their arrival, and so-call-
ed "huntsmen" shoot everything with
feathers from the wren upwards. The
natural result Is that insects of every
sort increase and flourish unchecked.
The damage is not confined to the
olive yards, nor to Italy. In France and
Spain, as we'll as In the Italian PENN
suIa, the growers of wheat and garden
crops feel every succeeding year the
constantly increasing toll taken by In
sects. The total damage Is quite be-
yond any computation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

ed through Namaqualand a century
ago wrote Of the rivers which ran
through the country, and the beauti-
full greenery which formed wide belts
along their banks.
During the recent war Col. Whites
column, which was fighting rebels up
and down the country, lost many men
and beasts from thirst. There is next
to no water anywhere in the country
except in the Kamies Berg, the range
of mountains which CROSS 1t.
A more modern instance of the dan
gers of carelessly unbalancing nature
is supplied by the recent petition from
the farmers of Arizona to the United
States government, praying that sheep
may no longer be permitted TO Craze
upon the forest reserves of that state.
They declare that the water supply
available for irrigation has been stead
lily falling off for seven years past, al
though the rainfall has been about the
same as usual Sheep when grazing
on land where the grass grows In tufts,
as 1t does on naturally dry Soils tear
II up by the roots.
The result is that over an area in the
Southwestern states as big as France,
Germany and Austria combined the
whole country Is rapidly being reduced
to a waste of sand through which
what rain does fall sinks away and is
lost. A desert as bad as the Sahara
will be the eventual result IL no check
is put upon the greedy overstocking Of
these prairies with destroying sheep.
No continent has suffered worse
than Australia from human careless
ness. Forty years ago an enterprising
Australian horsebreeder, on the look
out for a strain of horses suited to the
dry plains Of inland New South Wales,
found what he was looking for in the
rough Indian-hre ponies of Patago-
MIA.
He imported shipload Of these, and
they increased and fiourished in their
new home. Soon the colonist noticed
that his run was becoming infested
with an odd-looking weed, with coarse
leaves and seeds which stuck to every
thing they touched. But he thought
little of it during the first year or So
Then came a big rain. At once up
came the new weed, running the pas
ture.
Efforts we're made to destroy 1t, but
it was too late. The unwelcome Wis
itor spread like fire over the country,
and, becoming known as the Bathurst
bur, proved itself a plague only less
terrible 10 the island continent than
the rabbit. It's worst quality is that
its burr, or seed-pod, sticks In the
deeces of sheep and II is next to inn
possible to extricate II from the wool.
There are many other similar in
stances. The Argentine republic has
lost hundreds of thousands OF acres OF
its finest grazing lands by the careless
importation of European thistles in
cheap wheat seed. These thistles grow
fully six feet high. cover huge tracts
of what was once fine grazing land
with impenetrable thickets which har-
Dor nothing but wild animals. and have
to be burned of every year IN order
the sheep cattle and horses which at
one time pastured there all the year
round.
Tasmania has lost enormous tracts
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
HOW MANS CARELESSNESS
HAS RUINED NATIONS

Cotton last June reached price
double that at which 1t stood, cou-
pie of years ago. and the consequence
has been that all the great cotton
manufacturing towns in the north of
England have suffered terribly, says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The cotton famine has been put
down to the INSCRIPTIONS machina-
lions of a ring of American capitalists,
but its real cause is a very different
and much deeper one. 1t arises from
the slackness and carelessness of cot
ton growers. For years past they
have been selling all their best seed
to the oil manufacturers and content
ing themselves with sowing poor, Sec
ond-class seed.
1t is this short-sighted policy which
has brought disaster in its train. The
yield per acre has decreased from 30
to 40 per cent, and not only are the
growers themselves, over an area twice
as large as the British isles, suffering,
but 1900, 900 operatives here and in
other parts of the world have been on
the verge OI IdiHllCs WnliC ali lnG
world over people are paying larger
prices than for forty years past for
cotton materials.
The world at large is paying heav-
lily to-day for the criminal carelessness
of races dead and gone; and the worst
of 1t is that the nations of to-day have
learned so little from experience that
the same sort of thing continues, and
matters constantly go from bad to
worse.
Take that giant blot upon the map,
the enormous desert of Sahara, as an
example. Once all North Africa was
forest, at least for hundreds of miles
back from the coast
But the Cartheginian empire needed
timber for her vast navies, and wood
for building houes and for fuel. The
forests were cut down, and in their
stead was planted corn. Later came
the Romans, and they, as they extend
ed their empire over North Africa,
cut and cut, never considering what
the result would be for future genera
lions. Gradually the rainfall began to
increase, and to fall in torrents in
stead of gentle showers. The soil was
washed from the hillsides, and culti-
walton became possible only in the
valleys. which were subject yearly to
terrible foundations. There were no
forests left to absorb the moisture and
allow it to descend more gradually to-
ward the sea.
So, century by century, matters
went from bad to worse, until now we
see half a continent which might have
rendered Europe independent of Amer
lea for timber and corn turned into a.
desert Of sand on which the daily
range of temperature reaches the APP
palling figure Of 100 degrees.
Nature, left to herself. IL endeavoring
to remedy matters. From the south the
timber line is slowly creeping back
northward across the desert waste;
but II must be thousands OF years be-
fore the desert. In which Europe might
be lost. IL restored.
A we'll known explorer who travel