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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06
The Football Girl,

Ewes that are clear as the sparkling air
When the frost sprinkled forests flame;
Cheeks all aglow with the daintiest red
Wind tossed hair round a graceful head,
Bonny and blithesome beyond compare
Hail to the queen of the game!
There are courage and hope in her eyes
so brown,
And she raises the blue flag high,
And. winning or losing, till all is done
She Is true to her colors and cheers them
on,
With the Yale blue violets in her gown,
Fair symbol of loyalty.
There is much that is dear in the victor's
prize
Honor, applause and fame
But when the strife ends in victory
The first and the best which the winners
see
Is swift flashing signal from beauty's
eyes,,
A smile from the queen of the game.
Then here's to the maid who begins her
reign
When the dead leaves race and whirl!
Hearty and loud is the praise bring,
For fairest of all is the maid sing.
So fill up your glasses and pledge again
A toast to the football grill
Raymond w. Walker in Kansas City
Star
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06

said Hilyard, lis that he
doesn't know anything. I'm
not saying that TO be hard
upon him, but because it is true. He
has had Il college education, and he has
read great many books, but his life
has been 50 monotonous and so narrow
and his observation so deficient that he
has never seen anything out of the or
dinary. And he absolutely lacks credu-
lity. If he had little it would help
him. His magazine needs it badly"
II should think he must be queer
sort of man for an editor" said Miss
Leigh.
Hilyard, who had lived by his pen for
ten years and had fought his way up
to the level of a credtable success, was
unable TO agree fully with the young
lady's remark.
Not so queer as he ought to be-"
said he. You've no idea how hard it is
to make the average editor believe the
truth about his fellow creatures. The
modern craze for romantic fiction has
been Il great relief to some of them. 1t
has freed them from the duty of con
sidering probability in a large part of
their magazines. Anything may have
happened In the time of Charlemagne
or to the king of realm that never
existed. But mark the stuff that is To-
Gated near home.
However" he continued. "in regard
IN fhtS T. ipIIlor Nt-hfnh hhntt
has rejected on account of the improb
ability of the leading incident, the true
criticism would have been that the
matter of a confusing resemblance be-
tween twins is so common and obvious
an affair of earthly life that it has been
Overworked in fiction. Yet as the de-
velopment was entirely novel and the
climax quite unexpected
He paused in the attitude of one who
| listens.
"Well, upon my word" he said in a
| low tone. "Was he invited to call?"
"Who?"
abbott. He's in the hall. That's
his voice Now, Millie. treat him WELL
| He's come to make an apology about
that story. Receive it precisely in the
spirit In which it is made. Do you I'M
derstand?'
The girl rose to her feet and was
about to speak, but Hilyard shook a
warning finger at her as he stepped to
the door.
"Why, Abbott" he cried. "How do
you do?"
The editor was a slender young man,
very carefully dressed and precise in his
speech and his ways. He had delicate
features and a high, narrow forehead.
His light hair was worn quite long,
but 1t was very smoothly brushed away
from parting accurately drawn along
the middle of his head. and all its su-
perfluity appeared behind his ears.
Miss Leigh heard your voice. said
Hilyard. "She will be glad to see you.
1t may be somewhat informal for me
to announce that fact and to lead you
into her presence, but Mrs. Wilson's
boarding house lies just within the
boundary of Bohemia"
Abbott adjusted his eyeglasses and
looked with mild dismay at Hilyard.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06

management, is very like many anoth-
er. Ii was a promoters scheme. In
its organization there was a great
rake on" Some OF its officers were
caught in the speculatlng whirlpool
and discredlted. Its whole issue OF
common stock is on speculative basis.
The public may learn at some time
that the organization of factories and
mills and industries on the basis Of
expected earnings in good times is an
economic error This is gamblers
doctrine pure and simple. The funda-
mental. lasting, economic fact is that
organization on such basis is cap
ital error. Earning capacity at any
given time is shifting sand bar.
There must be something more sub
stantial than this at the base of in
dustrial organization when 1t becomes
wholly honest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06
CHANCE FOR SPOONERS.
Councilmen of JanesvilIe, Wis. Ia
yor kissing on schooIhouse Steps.

vor kissing on schoolhouse Steps.
Lovers may continue their spoon
ing on the school steps at night at any
of the public schools in Janesville,
Wis, without Interference on the part
of the police. That decision was re-
Gently reached by the common council.
The victory was complete one for Al
derman Edward Connell, who from the
start has championed the cause of the
lovers.
Mayor A. o. Wilson and Alderman
Mathewson we're in favor of appointing
the janitors of the public schools as
special police so as TO do away with
the disturbance at night caused by
those who till late at night kept people
awake by their kissing and laughter.
Alderman Connell is the only member
of the Janesville council who is not en-
ioying welded bliss. and for this rea-
son the married city fathers thought
that he was better posted on this kiss
ing nuisance than they were. Alder
man Connell thought il was useless to
appoint the 1anltorS OF the dlfferent
schools as special police. The lovers
were doing no harm and were merely
enjoying themselves as no doubt many
Of the aldermen present had done in
their younger days. In their vote that
followed every one of the aldermen
voted with Alderman Connell.
To reporter Alderman Connell said:
Il used to be boy myself, and it was
not many years ago that used to visit
these same schoolhouse steps. OF course
| don't favor any couples kissing so
loud that they keep the neighbors
awake but from what have learned
by looking into the matter find that
the neighbors have had but few in
stances where lovers smacks have kept
them awake longer than midnight"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06
A Mothers View of Gibson's Pictures.

"Charles Dana Gibson and other art
lists whose speciality is the American
girl have much to answer for" declar-
ed Mrs. Evelyn b. Ayres in her lecture
on Health and Beauty" at the recent
convention in Syracuse of the New York
State Assembly Of Mothers. "They are
responsible for the atrocious attitudes
affected by young women today" Mrs.
Ayres is professor of physical culture
in Syracuse university, and she was
illustrating the modish kangaroo walk.
1T will take thousands of gymnasts
and instructors to undo its i'll effects.
The Gibson pose is brimful of self con-
seriousness and angularity."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06


He considered himself to be upon bad
terms with the author on account or
various small matters which Hilyard
had forgotten, if indeed he had ever
known that they had happened.
1t was a bold deed, in Abbotts way
Of thinking, this call upon Miss Leigh.
Really he had not been invited. IL
was bit of romantic presumption;
distinctly an adventure. He had never
done anything quite so rash before,
but then he had never met girl capa-
BILE of inspiring him.
"Miss Leigh, you will remember Mr..
Abbott" Hilyard was saying.
The young lady came forward with
some small hesitation.
at is very kind of you, I'm sure
said Abbott, taking her hand. II really
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06
The Man Who
Would
Not Believe
By HOWARD FIELDING
Copyright, 1903, by Charles w. Hooke
Copyright, 1903, by Charles W. Hooke

AHE trouble with Sam Abbott, "
said Hilyard, lis that he
doesn't know anything. I'm
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06
VOL. XXI
,,.sex District Probate Court.

....i,ps OF said Court will be held at
d. ,-7'.I,t..D the second Tuesday of October and
r',-1 canaan the second Tuesday of No.
.,.,lbrr aud May. West Concord the second
=, ,,li.tl,' It urccmbes and June. Lunenburg
-..-..rH Tuesday of January and July.
'.s '.ss.,i.,I sessions viii he held at any place In
,r-' 'uiS,rict 10y agreement:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
NO NEW ISSUES.

1t is said by senators in position to
know that there will be no tariff legis-
lation atAthe next session of congress
except perhaps the making of a new
schedule for the Philippines There
will be new financial bill introduced
which is in preparation by Senators
Aldrich, Wilson, Plat and others, who
We're delegated to formulate one. An
attempt will be made during the SEES
sion to do no political legislation, and
members OF both parties will probably
agree to such a plan.
The next presidential campaign will
be fought on the issues as they stand,
with the addition OF the Forthcoming
financial bill, which will be passed in
some shape before the close OF the
next session. 1t is believed that the
session OF congress will not close later
than May Is, 1904. The democrats
might as well get together and decide
on what to paramount in the next ma
tional campaign, as nothing new will
be given to them in the shape of leg
islation on which to base an issue.
Republican leaders have mapped out
legislative program which will be
strictly adhered to during the next
session of congress-. About the only
new measures which will be consider.
ed will be the financial bill and some
thing on Philippine tariff and Cuban
reciprocity. No new issues will be
created and this will simplify the com.
ing campaign.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
HELEN GOULD.

New York Mail and Express: That
Miss Helen Miller Gould should be hon
ored with stained glass window in an
important charitable institution which
is doing work of great usefulness
will strike no one as inappropriate.
Miss Gould's work cannot possibly
have too beautiful a recognition. The
window which Mrs. Russell Sage has
placed in the American Female Guar
dian Society's home in the Bronx does
not in the least seek to magnify Miss
Gould's name, but rather to attach to
the institution the distinctly religious
and protective significance of a sacred
story. 1t is but incidentally tribute
to Miss Gould.
In her bounding benevolence Miss
Gould has been an instrum ent of a
very broad and helpful charity. Her
work in this field is the more deserv-
ing Of recognition because it is work
and not merely giving. 1t is not
enough for her to hold the purse
strings open. Service must be render
ed as well.
For every Helen Gould that arises
among our vastly rich people let us
hope that Mrs. Sage may be found to
celebrate her charity with some SYM
boil of beauty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
coLoMBIA's PRICE.
New York Evening Sum-

A story of a generous confederate
soldier who confided TO his colonel that
he had a flask of real whiskey in his
possession. 1t was a dark and depres-
sing stage of the war, and the colonel
was permitted to sample the bottle He
took such long pull at the bottle, ele.
waiting it to the perpendicular, that the
owner cried out in alarm: Hold on
colonel! / gave 500 for that whiskey. .
The colonel, restoring the empty flask
exclaimed "By Cad sir, she's worth
it, At the present time bottle of
spirits in Colombia would sellfor $50.
900 paper money, we should Judge
which seems to prove that the country
which may refuse to ratify the Panama
canal treaty is worse off financially
than the confederate states were on
the eve of Appomattox. 1t is solemnly
declared that exchange on New York
recently was $4,000. Imagine paying
$22,0G0 for a, clean shirt, or a bar OF
prime soap--if the rank and file use
either! Interest on the national debt
has not been paid for several years
Government employees have to live ca
promises or paper money, which is the
same thing. There is $1,000 O0O, 900
OF this stuff afioat and the presses have
stopped running, for none is so poor
as to do the government money ma.
chine reverence. AS for Colombia pay
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
AN IOWA BOY MAKING GOOD IN
NEW YORK.

washington correspondence to the
Des Moines Register and Leader:
Harold j. Mahin, formerly bust
ness manager OF the Muscatine Jour
nal, and during Tie session of congress
washington representative for the
Lee Syndicate" of evening papers, is
spending the vacation between ses-
sions of congress in New York, and at
present has employment upon the New
York American. From various sources
it is learned that Mr.. Mahin has
scored number of distinct successes
on the paper, having been promoted
until his assignments are now entire
ly self-imposed. He has charge of
that department of the American
which involves the securing of photo
graphs of celebrities and others, which
carry with them a news story. The
detail is considered very desirable
one, inasmuch as it throws one in
contact with the high and mighty So
ciety folk of the metropolis and offers
great possibilities in the way of news
features. Recently Mr.. Mahin was
able to secure the only photo of the
earl of Yarmouth and his bride, the
former dashing society woman, Miss
Thaw, of Pittsburg, considered in GO
than most notable scoop, and also
had very delightful interview with
Andrew Carnegie upon a topic of great
scientific interest. 1t will be matter
of satisfaction to the Iowa friends of
Mr.. Mahin to know that he is making
good" in the swift throng in New York.
He still retains his position in the
house of representatives and will re-
turn in the fall to take up his regular
line of work
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26

this time the judge must be careful
where he locates himself on the free
coinage of silver question. The Bry-
antics are hustling to control the con-
Yention to get an endorsement of the
Kansas City platform. That wing of
the party is well organized and mighty
aggressive. 1t behooves the judge to
be speeches. on that question be-
tween now and June "a. He has been
on both sides of it by turns and seems
to have landed where he cannot be
found to get from him an authentic
expression of his views.
The present outlook is that Judge
Van Wagner will dominate the next
democratic state convention. He is
not pushing his government owner
ship of railroads hobby very strenu-
ously, and there is suspicion that
some solicitous friend has taken him
by the arm and led him around the
corner and whispered into his ear a
few words of advice. Whatever the
cause, he has been painfully silent on
that subject The platform will de-
clare in favor of radical tariff changes,
which, of course, does not track with
the Iowa view of protection, but it
matters little in election results what
sort of platform the democrats adopt
or who they put up to be defeated
Our democratic brethren are legally
entitled to little political recreation.
and it is to be hoped they will use 1t
while it is on tap.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
ed YOU ground that will have a Sigh,
slope AWAY from the tent OF, all sides

ed you, ground that will have Sigh,
slope away from the tent on all sides.
Never pitch in a hollow or on fiat
ground which catches the DRAWINGS
from watershed, however small. If
your camp is to be permanent dig a
trench around the tent. To obviate
the necessity of this in one night
camps and still insure dry camp in
wet weather, | have had a four inch
flap of heavy canvas added to the bot.
tom of my shelter tent. This folds un.
der and lies fiat on the ground inside
the tent. The rubber blankets are
then spread so as to come well over
the edges of the flap, making it i'm.
possible for any water to get inside
by running under. This simple little
device has been tested time and again
to my satisfaction and comfort. The
pointer of my good natured mountain.
eer has also proved its worth many
times. A camp pitched in the thickest
spruce or other evergreens available
is fifty per cent warmer, and in wet
weather is drier, than if located in the
open.-Collier's Weekly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26

involve that question at all. The ques-
ton of revision from the republican
standpoint is purely and entirely a
question of a business adjustment of
tariff schedules along business lines,
SO as to give protection where protec-
tlon Is needed and eliminate it where
1t is not needed. On the part of the
democrats. however, there is opposi-
ton to the whole tariff principle. This
condition renders it self-evident to the
most casual observer that any attempt
on the part of congress to revise the
tariff or change individual schedules
even, just previous to presidential
campaign, would result simply in a
sparring contest for political advan-
tage on the part of the representatives
OF the two great parties in congress
This would accomplish no good, and
on the scontrary would prevent that
business like consideration of the
whole subject which the people demand
shall be given to it when this CUES
ton Is, again taken up by the national
congress.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
STATE LIBRARIAN is in DEMAND.

State Librarian Johnson Brigham
has received an invitation from the
Roycrofters of East Aurora to attend
Fourth of July dinner, which will
be given there. The event will be un.
der the direct eye of no less literary
luminary than Fra Elbertus himself,
and number of distinguished men
have been invited to attend. Secre-
tary of State John Hay is to make one
of the addresses. Mr.. Brigham has
accepted the invitation. AT recent
meeting of the state library board Mr..
Brigham was authorized to attend the
annual meeting of the American Lii
brary association and also the meet
ing of the National Association OF
State Librarians at Niagara The two
meetings will be held jointly the last
week in June. AS Mr.. Brigham will
be in the vicinity of East Aurora on
account of these meetings, he was en-
abled to accept the invitation from the
Roycrofters.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
OF THE PosToFFIcE
DEPARTMENT..

A vivid idea of the magnitude of the
postoffice department and of the i'm.
portance of its facilities for the trans.
mission of money, is gained from a
large book sent out by T. j. Metcalf,
superintendent of the money order sys.
TEN at Washington, containing speci.
fications for blanks, blank books and
other printed matter to be used in his
division during the next four years.
This is one of the largest contracts for
printing that comes into the open mar.
ket. There are $50 separate items, all
for large quantities of printed supplies.
The most imposing is thta for five hun
dred million money order blanks, and
for each of these there is an advice
blank to be sent to the postmaster OF
the Office upon which the order is
drawn. The contract for each item is
to be awarded to the lowest bidder.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
NAMES ON STREET CORNERS.

To stranger Ottumwa is confus-
ing when he seeks to locate street
number, because of the lack of street
names on the corners. He is forced to
ask directions prior to starting on his
trip and keep on asking as he pro-
crosses in order to get on the right
street. AS matter of fact, this is a
condition that should not exist. Ottum-
wa is considerable of city and covers
a large area within the corporate linz
it's. The city is growing and new
streets are being populated which are
almost unknown to many OF the old
residents.
That the names of the streets should
be put on the corners as guides TO
strangers and even many of our older
inhabitants is conceded by all. The
growth of the city demands it. There
are also many residences and even
some business places which do not
have numbers above their DOORS This
is a convenience that is needlessly ne
elected, and should be remedied at
once The proper authorities should
take held of the matter and make the
improvements suggested.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
ing its debts, the idea excites derision

i. Z II
ing its debts, the idea excites derision
in Bogota
We have offered Colombia $10,O00,-
goo in honest gold for the canal rights.
Ihe Colombians are ready to pounce
upon 1t like ravenous wolves. But
they painfully realize that in country
Where there is no money at all it would
be trifling sum after all. 1t will &C.
cur to anyone that the enemies of the
canal, be they Europeans or promoters
or fearful invested interests have fine
field to work in. Real money would
go long way toward convincing mem
bers of the Colombian congress, with
only Autograph currency in their
clothes, that it would be unstatesman-
like to ratify the canal treaty. And the
Colombians must be reluctant to sell
to the United States for $4,000, 900,
what they might get for $25, OOO, 900
for from flush and easy-going Uncle
Sam, who has set his mind on build
ing and controlling the Panama canal.
Colombia's price is any sum the old
gentleman can be held up for. But
looking ahead, this is not the worst
feature of the Colombian business. How
long will the European creditors sub
nit to being "gouged out" of their
money. Probably the time is not re-
mote when the European sheriffs with
their fleets will appear off the harbor
OF Cartagena to distrain.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.

Senator Robert J. Gamble. of South
Dakota, hastens to notify local news
paper in that state that he is not a
candidate for vice president. This is
the first intimation the general public
has had that he was being considered
for that position, but it seems that
his South Dakota friends have been
working in his interest and get a local
boom started. Senator Gamble is an
able man and is, developing into a
good legislator but he is wise in head
ing off the little boomlet for the vice
presidency.
Senator Gamble does not seem to
have as good connection with a press
bureau as several other western men
who have had their vice presidential
booms pretty well started. They seem
to understand the combination better
than the senator from South Dakota
and are so much in the lead at the
quarter stretch that he decides to pull
out and not go against impossibilities.
There is a feeling that the west is
entitled to the vice presidency, and
possibly some one of the many men
toned will get it and possibly not. 1t
is all right for ambitious men to have
booms incubating, but several can only
be preserved by putting them on ice.
They were Matched too soon to stand
the ozone of a rigorous ante-conven-
ton campaign. IT will not hurt any
thing to make announcements later.
and that may be what Senator Gamble
has in mind.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26

Chicago babies, especially those OF
poor people. will find this a pretty
hard summer. The milk drivers union
has voted to make only one delivery
a day and where the parents are too
poor to take ice the little people are
sure to suffer. This would not be SO
important in the winter, but the adj
vent Of warm weather has placed a
serious aspect upon the ruling of the
union. 1t has grown SO serious that
the health department has been COM
PEELED to take the matter up and join
hands with the housewives, who have
been agitating the question ever since
the first of April. 1t is charged that
the milk is being doctored by the deal
ers so that it will keep for at least for
ty-eight hours. The dealers are com
PEELED to do this SO it is claimed on
account of being able to make only one
delivery day. The chemicals used in
this 'embalming" process are said to
be very strong and necessarily injuri-
Gus to the stomach.