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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-25

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Sc 81 per week for parlor and bed room suites
Furniture stored etc Get our prices
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Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

Lend money and you borrow trouble to go out to tell.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
WHY LAPS ARE SMALL.

Recently the editor of Chouo- Korol a journal published at Tokio, determin- ed to find out why the Japanese, as a rule, are of lower stature thant the na- tives of other countries, and afte- spending considerable time at the task he arrived at the conclusion that the reason is because from time immemor:- al they have been accustomed to squat on mats in Turkish fashion, instead of sitting down on chairs, as Americans and Europeans do. The Japanese meth cd of sitting. he says. interferes with the free circulation of the blood and naturally prevents the limbs from be- coming thoroughly developed.
 As proof that he is right he draws attention to the fact that the boys in Japan at the present day are taller by five or six cetimeters than their ances- tors were at a similar age, and he maintains that the reason is because the former, when they attend school, are obliged to sit on benches. whereas the latter squatted while they learned their lessons. That the Japanese ought to be taller than they are is the editors opinion. and he has appealed to the government to prohibit the use of mats. pointing out that until that is done the soldiers of Japan will neither be as tall nor as vigorous as the soldiers of other countries.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
SPINNING.

Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days; I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways; know each day will bring its task. And being blind, no more I ask. I do not know the use or name Of that I spin; I only know that some one came, And laid within My hand the thread, and said, "ssince Are blind. but one thing you can do." some.imes the threads so rough aud
 fast
 And tangled fly. I know wild storms are sweeping past, And fear that Shall fall: but dare not try to find A safer place, since I am blind. I know not why, but I am sure That tint and place, In some great fabric to endure Past time and race. My threads will have; so, from the first, Though blind. never felt accurst. think perhaps this trust has sprung From one short word Said over me when I was young So young. I heard It. knowing not that Gods name signed My brow and sealed me His, though
 blind. But whether this be seal or sign Within, without, It matters not. The bond divine I never doubt. know He set me here, and still And glad and blind, I wait His will. But listen. listen, day by day, To hear their tread Who bear the finished web away And cut the thread. And bring Gods message in the sun, Thou poor blind spinner, work is
 done.''
 Helen Hunt Jackson.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
The Alkire Co.
 0-H E. Washington St. Phone 274I Phoenix, A. T.

grades in Chicago public schools, told of his experience with a small boy in one of the First ward schools. Jimmy was called upon to read, and, getting up from his seat, recited in a sing-song voice this legend from the second read CT: See the COW. Can the COW run :? Yes, the COW can run. Can the COW run as swiftly as the horse? No, the cow cannot TUT as swiftly as the horse" Now, Jimmy" said the teach CT, do you understand that?" Sure thing" responded Jimmy. Well, then. close your book and tell me the story in your own words This was Jim my's version: Get on to de cow Kin her jimmy legs run? You betcher life she kin. Kin de COW do de horse a-runnin'? Nit! The COW ain't in it wid de horse" This led another ex-school teacher to recount some of the mys- teries of Chicago geography as revealed to her by one of her pupils in Q night school class. William" she said. "de-
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

through the paces. Asks his name. age. whether married or single, natiVi- ty, occupation and house address. He is searched and a record is made of the things found in his pockets. All these, including private letters, which are nev- CT read. are placed in an envelope ready for delivery to the prisoner when he is released. Once a man is behind the bars the desk sergeant will do any telephoning to friends that the priso- CT may desire or he will send out for a messenger boy to take note to friends or relatives. providing the pris- oner has the fee for the messenger. There is nothing in a cell in which a prisoner is placed except a hard wood bench. When possible, or when the prisoner Is an important one, the cell is never occupied by more than one person.
 "A man charged with a serious of fense can be released on collateral se- curity. Sometimes cash is accepted. and in other instances real estate bonds must be given. If man can't get se- curity he has to remain in his cell until he is taken to the police court the next morning, until which time he Is fed at the expense of the district. The meals, however, are not such as one would get at the New Willard or Arlington hotels"
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
TULLOCH WRITES
 OF THE IRREGULARITIES
In Washington Post Office of Which
 He Had Previously Spoken.

Washington. D. C., May 1.-The full larities in the administration of postal affairs preferred by Seymour ". Tul- loch, former cashier of the Washington postoffice, were made public today by Tulloch. The charges embodied a let ter to Postmaster General Payne in response to the latter's request to be furnished information to substantiate the published statements of Tulloch. Some of the matters complained of will be investigated immediately by in spectors.
 MT. Tulloch says that in all she in stances of irrregularity and favoritism the proper allowances. records, vouch- CTS, etc, were most carefully executed and kept As rule little information can be obtained by the investigation. that the real facts behind the allow ances and vouchers are not of record and are known to few. Those inter- ested will not. and others. clerks. who dare not talk"
 For upwards of nineteen years" the letter recited. "the conduct of affairs between the Washington city postoffice and the postoffice department was reg ular: then came the first break. the to the Washington postoffice on account of departmental expenditures, which afterwards led to Irregularities. abuses. extravaganza and my removal as an obstacle on June 13. 1899"
 Tulloch then cites numerous cases Of irregularities which he. endeavored to prevent but without success because of the opposition of high officials. He in inmates that some of the latter profited by them.
 He concludes as follows: Much has been said by ex-Postmaster General Smith, ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Perry s. Heath and Comp troller Tracewell, in public interviews, about the exigencies of the military postal services. But did these e:dgen- Cies require the personal investigat tion of so many Indiana. Ohio and other politicians and friends of officials? Free trips to Porto Rico, Cuba and return became the fashion. All expenses were paid from the time Of leaving home; Pullmans. hotels. etc, then a pleasant voyage upon transport. trip around one or more of the islands, expenses to Washington and hotel bills there while friends and officials were informed of their observations; then Pullmanss and passage home. This was a pretty good thing in itself. but the generous office Of the first assistant not only paid all expenses but a good salary as we'll during the period of investigation, the salary sometimes lasting for weeks and months after the return of the recipient while no possible service was being rem dered. All this was charged to the postal service. a fund to be used for those accompanying the armies in the field"
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
NEW ENGLAND BLOOD.

Few people seem to have realized that the populistic craze in politics first made itself manifest in the south. where the white population is nearly 1GO per cent native born; that it found it's most fertile soil in Kansas and that its spread throughout the middle west may be traced directly to the blood of New England.
 In 1900 the population of Kansas was 12.6 per cent native born. The percent age of native born citizers in the New England states ranged from mini mum of about 36 per cent in Rhode Island to a maximum of 71.2 per cent in Maine.
 Thus it will be seen that Kansas out ranks Maine, which stands at the head of the list of New England states, in proportion of native blood, but it out ranks her, and all other New England states by a greater margin than even these figures would indicate, because until very recent years, Kansas has been almost without foreign immigra- tion. She is. undoubtedly and over whelmingly, the most Yankee state Of the union.
 The same spirit that made Bleeding Kansas" a battle ground fifty years ago, and that made Maine and them steers" of Solon Chase's the synonym for greenbackism thirty years ago, was abroad in Kansas in the nineties- It is the spirit that has made every cranky ism and ology flourish among the gran ite rocks of New Hampshire and Mas sachusetts. 1t is the typical American spirit of unrest and speculation.- Booklovers' Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

Yo' can't carry yo' money ter heaven but it kin buy ile enough ter grease de way.-Atlanta Constitution.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
GAS BATHS FOR TREES.

In California the business of waging war on insects destructive to vegetG- ton has been regularly organized. They now have professional fumigators. whose outfit is scientifically complete in every particular. and whose services may be engaged, not by the day. but by the night, for the process of exter- imitation by gas must take place at night, for sunlight or heat makes the gas used destructive to foliage as well as to insect.
 The fumes of prussic acid gas-hydro- cyanic acid gas-are deadly, and the tree must be closed in a gas tight re- ceptacle during it's application. The method used is to drop a tent over the tree. to generate the gas in a dish of chemicals under the tent and to allow the tree to remain in its gas bath for some time. While one tree is beng medicated others are being tented, and so the work proceeds.
 A number of men and tents are re- quired in a single gang" usually q half dozen workers and fifty tents, and there are about thirty professional out= fits in Southern California. Each outfit costs about $500, including teams and wagons. One Los Angeles firm has $10,- GOO invested in the fumigating or gas ing business. The cost of treatment depends upon the size of the tree, and contracts are made with growers at agreed rates-usually about 25 cents a tree. Operators have found it not only eXpedient, but profitable. to secure the best machinery and materials, and the highest expert knowledge as well. in this merry and effective warfare upon the common enemy to the seasons pros perity, the caterpillar.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
WHEN YOU ARE ARRESTED
What the Policeman Says and What
 He Does With You.

Although everybody in Washington has much greater chance of being ar rested than is dreamed of, few people have any idea of what they have to undergo or the treatment they will re- ceive once they are taken into custody said a police headquarters detective.
 "The uncertainty that man has to face once he has been arrested begins with the moment the officer of the law. be he policeman or detective, places his hand on, the man wanted. There. are many ways for the officer to do this Most of the men have their own rar- ticular expressions. You're wanted I guess you had better go with me- Come, young fellow, and step over to the station.' and hundreds of a like kind, but you never hear one of them say, as the stage policeman does. I arrest you in the name of the law Nay, nay, not even the newest ap- pointee on the force would be guilty oe that.
 Some of the boys try to make the ar rest as easy for the unfortunate man as possible, and the gentleness used would really surprise you. They do their work more in sorrow than in anger, but it must be taken this way by the unfor- tunate. Let a man kick or resist, and then the whole aspect changes. Kind ness gives way to firmness and firm ness to roughness, for the majesty of the law must be upheld at any cost. The patrol wagon is called and the of fender is hustled into it and some times it is necessary for the wagon man to sit on him to kep him still.
 When the police station is reached the prisoner is stood up before a rail inS where the desk sergeant puts him
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
TOUGH ON HIM.

Miss Strong is exceedingly mascu- line. isn't she?" remarked Miss Ascum.
 Most atwociously so." replied young MT. Sissy, with some heat.
 You seem to speak from experi- ence."
 ''Yaas. I do. She got into the elev- ath with me in the Skyscwape building one day. and when she saw me she de- liberately wemoved her hat and held it in her hand till I got off. ."-Philadel- phia Press.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

A SMALL FIRE-There was lots of noise and a small fire this morning about o'clock on South Second avenu, in Montgomery addition. A small frame building was destroyed and was beyond any hope of salvation before the apparatus could get there.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

GEOGRAPHY AS SHE IS LEARNED.
 One of the classes in pedagogy at the University of Chicago was discussing the necessity of bringing pupils to un- derstand what is printed in their read CTS. Apropos of the subject. obe of the students, who used to teach lprimary
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

scribe the source and course of the Chicago river. "Huh?" said William. ''Tell the class where the Chicago river rises and in which direction it flows" De Chicago river" replied the pupil. rises under de Wells street bridge, and flows bot ways."-Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
Over Half the Sickness of Dogs Is Caused By Feeding Meat

So the in the east ed nothin but a for of on
 
  o O We a u of Spratts nc versd dog remedies a
Arizona republican., 1903-05-18
The World MovesiOn.

Who stood upon the hills lies low Beneath the blossoms and the snow: Like dreams we come, like dreams we
 go
 The world moves on, And this one leads the world, and men Lock not to see his like again: He fades even in breath, and then The world moves onl Poor shadowe meath the eternal sun Driftwood on the streams that seaward
 run The word is said, the task is done-- The world moves on. Frank l.. Stanton in Atlanta Consti- tuition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-20
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Seymour.


Seymour, Jan. 19.-Special meetings
which have been in progress at the
Presbyterian church for the past two
weeks, closed Tuesday.
j. e. Calhoun was called to Brown.
ing, Mo-, Tuesday by a telegram an
nouncing the death of nephew.
Stewart Brenneman, of FIT. Galland,
Col, arrived in Seymour the fore part
OF the week, fer visit with his broth
er, R. G.. Brenneman, and family.
Mrs. Halle Tenant, of Trenton,
Mo-, is visiting relatives in Seymour
this week
Mrs. j. B. Duskin departed Tuesday
morning for Mena, Ark, for an extend
ed visit with her daughter, Mrs. H. S.
Black
A large number from this city at
tended the dedication of the Drake Ii
brary at Centerville, Thursday.
Rev. Garrison, of Central University
Pella, Will preach at the Baptist
church, next Sunday. Rev. A. e. Gle.
mems will preach at Allerton.
Elmer Gunter, who has been work
ing on the Citizen at Centerville, came
home Wednesday quite sick
The funeral of Jacob Bausman, who
died at the home of his sister in Pla.
no last Friday, was held at the Pres.
byCerian church in this city Tuesday
Rev. E. B. Whitney conducted the
services.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-20

ID, U. M. w. Of America, left today
for Indianapolis, Ind, to attend the
national convention of the U. M. w.
s. A. Corey of Hiteman was transact.
ing business in town yesterday.
George McGilvery was In town on
business yesterday.
Fred Pearn of Hooking was tran.
sacting business in town yesterday.
Mrs. Wilbur Fritz who formerly liv.
ed here, but recently moved to Des
Moines, is visiting relatives and
friends here at present.
A. G. Parry was in Oskaloosa yester
day on business.
John Walsh who lives near George
town is transacting business in town
this morning.
Will Rowson who is one of the con
tractors for the new court house is
in town this morning, looking after his
interests here.
The board of supervisors will ad
journ today.
Frank Carrick was in town yester
day on business.
Mrs. George Luke of Avery is visit
ing relatives and friends in town to
day.
S. M. Tovera. who has been sick fol
the past two weeks is able to be out
and around again.
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does not get here until next day. Ev,
erybody is sorely grieved, as the Daily
Courier is a great favorite here.
Misses Yeile Wade and Cora FanneH
were Fairfield visitors Friday.
Charles Gardner Of Packwood was
in the village Friday.
John Green has bought the Spur
geon property here and will make ID
his home.
Mrs. Harter is home from Chicago
Myron Walker is home from Misi
souri,, where he has been engaged in
railroad work.
Mrs. Miles vastine Of Oskaloosa is
visiting the Frank Vastine home north
of the village.
The gas lights are in running order
now. The glare OF the monday sun is
nothing compared to its Respondent
light. It is brilliant in the extreme.
Frank Wray visited friends at Win.
field Friday.
Miss Effie Herman of Ottumwa ia
the guest of Miss Jessie Evans.
John Campbell of Washington was
a business caller few days since.
Mr.. and MES. Balderson OF Ye0 Wis.
tied here Friday.
Mrs. Morgan of Clay was In the
village Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank visited the Ell
Jones home south of town Thursday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoskfns, who live
south of the village, leave in few
days for Arizona, taking their daugh-
ter Vera, who is in very poor health,
hoping change of climate will be
very beneficial Their many friends
wish that their hope will be realized.
Rev. Gilmore is holding meeting at
Ollie
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Sunnyside,

Sunnyside, Jan. 19.-The Roundy
school and the Buzzard Roost school
held ciphering and spelling contest
at Roundy last Monday night. George
Grant of Buzzard Roost won the hon
ors in ciphering and Miss Mary Ran
son of Roundy came out best in spell
ing.
Misses Laura and Marion Penny
were visiting with Miss Ena Sisson
last Saturday
George Grant visited last weew with
his sister, Mrs. W4niam Jennings.
Miss Dolly Davis spent Monday
night at the Nighswonger home.
Mrs. G. A. Croft visited with Mrs.
B. H. Sisson Tuesday.
Little Sylvan Sisson has been quite
sick with tonsilitis the past week.
The infant child of Ed Yates has
been very low. with lung fever.
Johnny Hurd of Moulton is staying
at the Ransom home this winter.
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largest ever held here. The services
were conducted by Rev. Sayers of Des
Moines, assisted by Rev. Beck of Fos-
ter. The United Mine Workers had
charge.
Miss Carrie Miller is severe suf-
ferer from neuralgia of the face.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sedden of Mystic were
calling on friends here last Monday.
1nez Woodruff has been employed
by the school board as an assistant
to Prof Hibbs.
Rev. Sayers of Des Moines, an evan
gelist of the Baptist church, is con-
Quoting series of services in the
Baptist church of this place. ~
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Eddyville.

|
Eddyvllle, Jan. 1.-THE body of a
baby was brought here from Lost
creek Tuesday afternoon and buried
in the Catholic cemetery. 1t was the
enid OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Kraka, and
death was from pneumonia.
The following people from Eddyville
and vicinity were in Oskaloosa this
week, transacting business and attend
ing the farmers institute: Tuesday,
Miss Minnie and d. c. England, E.
w. England and family, Thos. and Mrs
q. ID. Odem, |. r. Cox, and Miss Stella
Johnson; Wednesday, Mrs. L. spen-
Ger, Mrs. Dick Barnett, Mrs. Jas.
Bowles and dauhter, Miss Eva, Mr..
and Mrs. B. 3. Beamer and daughter,
ma Cdem: Thursday, ]. ]. Roberts,
| w. Sumner, Mllain Bolibaugh, and
Henry Gibson.
| Misses Ida and Dora Hohl spent the
week at Oskalcosa visiting friends and
attending the institute.
j. B. Wylie, east Of town, has been
drawn as a grand juror in Mahaska
county fer 1903, while J. H. Black and
A. ]. Hubank, of Rural No. 2, will be
petit jurors for the February term of
\ l..
| c. G. Palmer, F. e. Bassinger and
Charles Van Zant have returned from
Chicago where they have taken stock
as follows: Mr.. Palmer. three; Mr..
1iassinger one, and Mr.. Van Zante two
car loads.
lid Leeling and Steve Lammis went
to Ottumwa Monday morning to serve
on ii jury
Of l1t,ff I,
his left eye quite painfully injured
Tuesday by accidentally running a
weed into it, but will not lose his
sight.
George Strange, of Sanborn, came
Monday night to spend the week with
his wife, who has been making an ex.
tended visit here, and with other rela-
| tives.
cttumwa business callers were ].
j. Roberts on Tuesday, and Ed Hawke
on Wednesday,
| Walter Lafferty, of Fourth street,
| to look after some marble work
| w. G. Jones went to Lovilia Tues
day.
II. ]. Oldham moved Friday from
| the Aaron Oldham property, on Sixth
street, to the brick property on Fifth
street, till recently occupied by L. G.
Horner. Mrs. Lizzie Oldham and
daughter, Miss Nora, east of town,
will move to their property.
The damage case of D. H. Hudson,
administrator, VS.. the Rock Island,
which was postponed till after the
holidays, will come up after the Grim
inal docket Of the Mahaska county
court has been closed.
Chas. White and sister, Mrs. Jerry
Clark, nee Miss Cora White, former
ly of Bluff Creek, but now of Sully,
were guests few days ago of rela-
tives and friends in Bluff Creek.