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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

man or woman who has lived in Iowa
fifty years has seen more progress, has
seen more that was absolutely new to
him, than thousand years after JUL
ius Caesar would have shown him.
Nothing new? Why, the man who
keeps his eyes open longs to live to a
ripe old age. If for no other reason
than to observe what each new day
brings forth in Iowa.
-O-~-
The movement in favor Of a. fire.
proof Santa Claus Is bound to grow In
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES City Journal
The Sioux City Journal referring to
the results Of the recent destructive
fire there. boasts that the foundations
still stand. The same paper finds con-
ISOLATION IN the fact that the year 1905
Will be the most active building year
Sioux City has ever known.-Keokuk
Gate City.
The Emmetsburg Reporter suggests
that 1T should also be borne in mind
that railroads are entitled to as square
deal as any individual
The Waterloo Reporter saws thai all
though the rural free delivery service
is not self supporting it is worth all 1t
costs, and more. Uncle Sam never
spent money on his children to better
purpose than he has in the blessing
of free rural delivery in the Report
er's opinion.
At least measurable solution of
the immigration problem is in
SIGHT. The south is in need
OF the immigrants and the rest
OF the country is willing, the south
should have them. The great middle
and Tar west is capable of assimilat-
Ing practically the entire income and
II called upon, would do so gladly and
uncomplainingly If not with entire adj
vantage to itself. But the west is t
IN need Of these people as is the south,
nor VIII the completion fall between
the south and west If the movement
In the former section is inaugurated,
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Gen. Miles has made hit Instead
of accepting the position of adjutant
general of the Massachusetts national
guard, rendered him by Gov. elect
Douglas, Gen. Miles preferred to ac-
quire the title Of Inspector General.
AS ad1utant general Gen. Miles would
draw the $500 salary attached to that
oface, in addition. to full pay as lieu
IeAahI general IN the United States
army. In the position he has chosen
Gen. Miles will draw no pay from the
state Of Massachusetts, and will be
content with his pay as lieutenant
general In the regular army, the Mass
achusetts assignment restoring him to
the active list so far as salary Is con-
cerned. Gen. Miles is entitled to credit
Tor his decision. He had a chance to
draw two salaries in the public SER
vice, and he has put the temptation
behind him. In Gen. Miles place not
every man would have made the same
choice.-Sioux City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

You people ask your family physi'
clans about my treatment and many
of them have not had the experience
of treating by my method and they OBJ
ject to it and say 1.-THE knife is the
only method" Yes there is more
money in curing a patient with the
knife method.
Hospital bills. chloroform and a big
parade over surgical operation; but
let me tell you it is no more successful
than my method and there is no dan.
ger or loss Of time. have many
cases call on me who are ruptured and
have had the knife operation. l have
lately cured VIM. Carr of Hilton, Mr.
S. D. Thompson. Mr.. G. V. Nichol and
son of Abba, Mr. VIM. Gibson of Abba,
little boy with three ruptures for
e. Seigel, East Main street. and dozens
Of others.
Hydrocele and Variocele are cured
with very short time.
49, iSIuld, ItGCLdl LIS
eases cured. l have cured hundreds
of case of Catarrh of the Nose and
Throat and such diseases as Rheuma.
tism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Kidney and
Bladder Truebles, Dropsy Private
Blood and skin diseases.
In fact do an office business in
treating all Chronic Diseases.
l have bath department of four
teen rooms, where you can get any
kind Of bath. Turkish and Steam
baths help your circulation and cures
many diseases medicine alone will not
cure
have the finest x-Ray machine in
iowa and cure many diseases by the
use of the same.
Write for my book on Chronic Dis
eases. Address,
DR.. ]. C. BONHAM,
Corner Green and Second sts.,
ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

1
For the sake Of her own conscience
we may hope that Nan Patterson's
lhands are unstained with human
BLOOD says the Des Moines Capital.
| Between herself and her maker the
real fact or her guilt or innocence must
rest. For all time the record of her life
should stand as a solemn warning to
the would-be female sport"
! A Chicago man was robbed Of $1,000
Christmas morning. He deserved 1t.
had a. cash balance of more than 10
cents at that time.-Council Bluffs
! Nonpareil.
| The Cedar Rapids Republican fears
| that If Mr.. Lawson's doesn't look out
he will be shot by some crank or other
who has lost money through Lawson's
There may be those who believe
1 that competition Is the only remedy af-
fecting trust evils" says the Dubuque
| Times. But even such will agree that
If there is to be regulation the fed
| eral government: alone is capable Of ex-
l ercising 1t. Local regulation is made
impossible by the competition among
the states to secure the industries
l
Congress Is going to do something"
declares the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
THE legitimate interests Of the coun-
try are not going to wait on John D.
Rockefeller and the men at the head
Of the steel combine. Tariff revision
will be certain to strike these fellows
and to wiring the water from their
stocks. but that Is all the more reason
for making the demand"
l -.. Il
The Rockford Register notices that
Colonel Hepburn is displaying very
mmendable zeal in the matter of
| government expenditures, but thinks 1t
/ would set much better with his con-
! stituents If 1t We're directed toward re-
4 ducing the price of sugar and freight
rates than in an attack on civil SER
vice.
| "At the late presidential election
| Georgia cast 1925 votes and Iowa
cast 485.703 votes. Georgia has as
many votes in the national house of
representatives as has Iowa-eleven."
This leads the Vinton Eagle to infer
that one vote in Georgia is as good as
| four in Iowa.
The Burlington Hawk Eye asserts
that 1t is not true that there is moth
ing new under the sun. The Iowan, It
! says, never wearies of wondering at
the new things that crowd in upon
this blessed state and at a swiftest
pace. Nothing new?" the Hawk Eye
continues. Why everything is new.
The decade In Iowa is equal to whole
centuries in former times. and the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Kind words don't build brick blocks,
but they help some. and will furnish
all the help Sioux City needs.-Sioux
City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31
JOHN BROWN.
An Original Poem BY r. J. Bryant Of
Bloomfield.

An Original Poem BY r. J. Bryant Of
Bloomfield.
Twas on no field of deadly strife,
That John Brown rendered up his
life;
No echoing plaudits pierced the sky,
When fate decreed that he should
die.
But Ike the thief upon the cross,
His life was counted as but dross:
And spurned by foes on every side,
In freedoms holy name he died.
And when thousand years have
rolled,
His name shall stand in letter bold.
For men shall say in time to be,
That John Brown died to make men
free.
George Hall was caught red-handed
while burglarizing the home of ]. T.
~ IIo,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31
NERVOUS DEBILITY

Are Won nervous and Respondent; weaK
and dehlitated: tired mornings; no ambi-
tion--llfcless: memory p0or easily ia
tiEned: excitable and irritable; eyes sunken.
red and blurred: plmples on face: dreams:
restless. hnGgard looking. weak back; dc.
poslt In urine and drains mt stool; distrust-
fnl: wnnt of confidence: lac OF energy end
st.,ngth?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

Cures permanently the cases he under.
takes and sends the .ncurable home with.
out taking a fee from them, This Is why
he continues his visits year after year.
while other doctors have made few visits
and stopped. DR. Shnlenberger Is an emil.
nently successful specialist In all chronic
diseases, proven by the many cures effect
ed In chronic cases which have bafied the
skill of all other physicians. Iia hospital
experience and extensive practice have
made him SO proficient that he can name
and locate disease In few minutes.
Treats all cirable cases Of Catarrh, Nose,
Throat and Lung diseases Eye and Ear,
Stomach. Liver and Kidneys. Gravel,
Rheumatism. Paralysis Neuralgia, Ner-
vous and Heart diseases, Blood and Skin
diseases. Epilepsy, Bright's Disease and
Consumption In early stage diseases Of the
bladder and Female Organs. Liquor and
Tobacco habit. Stammer'ng cured and sure
methods to prevent lts recurrence given.
never-faiing remedy for Big Neck
PILES. FISTULAE end RUPTURE guar.
anteed cured without detention from husi.
mess. Special attention given to all snrgi.
cal cases, nnd NIL diseases Of the Eye. Ear,
Nose and Throat.
GRADUATED Lids. Cataract, Cross Eyes
-. -f-ll ~ Is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

A Chicago man was robbed Of $500
Christmas morning. He deserved 1t
No sympathetic and Christian citizen
had a. cash balance of more than Is
cents at that time.-Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

The movement in favor Of a Are
proof Santa Claus is bound to grow In
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

The Emmetsburg Reporter suggests
that 1t should also be borne in mind
that railroads are entitled to as square
deal as any individual.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31

The Cedar Rapids Republican fears
that If Mr.. Lawson's doesn't look out
he will be shot by some crank or other
who has lost money through Lawson's
lurid statements affecting stocks.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31
Diseases of Men and Private
Diseases a Specially.

Blood Poison, Spermntorrhea. varlcoceIe
Hydrocele, Debility, Nervousness, Dizziness
Defective Memory. ETC., which ruins MIND
md body, posltl-eIy cured
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
Knocked From Jersey City Bridge
Into the Bay . Poor Fellow
Causes Delay Of Train.
A BURGLAR AIDS IN RESCUE
A Tramp, a Newspaper Report
er and an Oyster Man Mixed
Up In the TussIe With
Wind and Tide.

New York. Aug. 24.--A fast passen-
ger train outward bound from Jersey
City on it's way TO ST. Louis has been
held UP more than an hour on the
trestle over Newark bay while a man
who was walking on the track and had
been knocked into the water was be-
Ing rescued. He was a tramp. A tramp,
an alleged burglar, a newspaper re-
porter, an oyster man and two trav-
elers figured In the rescue.
/ Half way over the bay the engineer
saw man few feet ahead directly
In the trains path. He blew the whis-
tie but before the echoes had died away
the locomotive grazed the man and
hurled him into the bay. The train
was brought to quick stop. Pas
sengers about to retire sprang to the
windows.
Out In the bay a black form was Wis.,
ible, making feeble efforts to keep
ahoat. A man. coatless and with no
shoes. said he would save the injured
man. He jumped and swan toward
! him. He succeeded In keeping the
head Of the injured fellow above the
water, but could not make his way
back 10 the bridge against the tide.
Aid was necessary and Charles Cam
eron Of Smith Center. Kan. appeared
in his night robes and dived into the
bay, but the three could not beat
against the swift tide and another pas
senger volunteered.
on the suggestion of woman the
signal cords were cut from six cars and
tied together. The last volunteer took
along one end Of the line but 1t parted
when those on the bridge tried to pull
the swimmers aboard. A reporter then
suggested going to the end of the
bridge for an oyster boat. The engine
was uncoupled and dashed away. With
the reporter and an oyster man at the
oars. dory was soon on the scene and,
after nearly an hours work, the SWIM
mers weer rescued all in good condi-
ton except the original cause of the
trouble He was hurried to a hospi-
tai, where he will soon recover.
The first volunteer was arrested when
he got off the train at Elizabeth. an
alarm having been telephoned several
hours previously from Bayonne charg
ing a man answering his description
with having committed burglary.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
THE COST OF THE WAR.

Portland Journal: A dispatch from
Toxic places the cost of the present
war at one hundred million dollars, 20
per cent of which is apportioned to
Japan. Just how the figures have been
reached and just how Japan's proper
tion of the total is so great is not stat
ed, though undoubtedly Japan has been
put to extraordinary expense to meet
the difficulties and cost of maintaining
its extraordinary campaign.
But If II has escaped with this out
lay II has not only been extremely
fortunate, but 1t has got away with a
tremendous undertaking with little
waste. If these figures are correct its
expenses have amounted to a little over
third of a million dollars a day Our
own relatively insignificant war with
Spain cost us close to a million dol
lars day while 1t lasted and very
pretty penny afterward. If it had been
longer continued il doubtless would
have cost us proportionately less per
day. England's two and half years
campaign against the Beers cost 1t the
staggering total of $1,115,000,000, or
about $1,161.000 In round numbers ev-
cry day 1t lasted.
In the light of such facts as these 1t
may well be believed that the richest
of nations, IL 1t is wise, will long hes
itate to assume war with well
equipped neighbor. So far as Japan
was concerned there was nothing else
for it to do If 1t desired to maintain
its national entity. For this reason
when the national existence was plac-
ed in the balance against mere money
it was not hard to decide what the out
come would be. But If the figures are
as they are represented in the Toxic
dispatch the Japs have got the full
worth of their money for every dollar
they have spent since the opening of
the campaign.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
A Member Of the japanese House
ofPeers Explains Reasons for
Present Conflict.
LAYS THE BLAME ON RUSSIA
Japan Had No Reason to Expect
or to Fear That the Mat
ter Would Result
In War.

! San Francisco, Aug. 24.-Baron Mat
sudaira, member Of the house Of peers
OF Japan and vice president Of the i'm
perIal Japanese commission to the st.
J Louis exposition, is here on his way
home. In an interview published In the
| Chronicle this morning he is quoted as
follows on the Russo japanese war sit
uation:
"The true cause OF the present war
is the eagerness of the japanese to
carry western civilization into the ORR
ent--into Manchuria and into China
proper. She feels 1t her duty to do for
the orient what America has done for
her.
"The best way to do this was, she
thought. to open up the ports and other
cities Of Manchuria and Of China proper
to the commerce of the world.
"She had no reason to expect con-
troversy from Russia in accomplish
ing this object--she did not expect war
but a peaceable settlement.
"The world is familiar with the i'm
mediate occasion of the conflict.
''The fall Of Port Arthur will prob
ably not close the war, because 1t may
not settle the purposes of the war
it may not convince Russia. BY the
time that the Russians get to Harbin.
it win be time for Russia to be con-
vinced that she was wrong.
TN case the japanese win in this
war, they viii not treat Manchuria ac-
cording to Russian policy. There are
many possibilities. but probably she
will not make it Japanese territory,
but will handle it in accordance with
the original purpose. The victory Of
Japan will greatly increase American
oriental commerce"
Baron Matsudaira will sail for japan
on the Manchuria tomorrow.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25

depositors with an aggregate balance
TO their credit Of s2.s35, ,204.s45. Pre-
Illminary estimates Of the United States
banking officials indicate that the de-
poslts today are largely In excess oi
50, ,000, 900 900, and that the number oi
individual accounts has increased tc
about seven and a quarter million de-
positors.
These more than seven million citi-
zens OF the United States are asked BY
the democratic party to vote for a
man, Judge Parker, who In 1896 and
1900 deliberately gave his ballot. and
says no, to the formal proposition OF
Mr.. william J. Bryan to cut the value
Of those savings banks deposits In half
to make Of every dollar earned. accu-
mulated and put away at interest only
50 cents Of good money; to make every
dollar Of interest paid only 50 cents Of
good money!
1t is true that Judge Parker has said
in telegram designed to save his par
ty from annihilation and to put himself
In control OF the United States admin
istrative government that he now 're-
CARDS" the gold standard as firmly es-
tablished. In other words, while he
twice voted to make 50-cent piece OF
every dollar In the savings banks. he
now regards" that the depositors
themselves, and the rest Of the nation
as majority, will not permit their
dollars to be converted into 50-cent
pieces. He has not said he was wrong
In 1896 and 1900. He has not said that
he now believes dollar should re-
main dollar. He has said the full
lO0-cent dollar is established" what
ever he believes, whatever he would
do had he his own way now, as he
tried to do in 1896 and 1900!
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Miscellaneous News Items From Ore
gon and Neighborins States.

The new sawmlll of the oregon Lum-
Der, Wood and Light Company, south
Of Falls City, is ready to begin oper-
ations. This mill has a capacity Of
10000 feet per day, and will depend
largely upon the local market for the
sale of it's product.
The Port Townsend gravity water
system will be constructed by the ia
cobson- -Bade Company. the Portland
firm that recently put in The Dalles
sewerage system. The contract price
of the Port Townsend waterworks is
s244,000.
Corvallis Gazette: The Bell Tele-
phone people have opened wide their
hearts. Free switching is now given
over Linn county. involving over $50
new subscribers, and three lines with
Intervening connections. Peona. Hal
sey and Shields can now be reached
free.
The Dalles Times -Mountaineer: R.
H. Weber, manager of The Dalles Fruit
Growers Union, is well pleased with
the returns received from the first car
of peach plums he shipped east this
season. The car was sold at price
that netted growers 40 cents a crate.
This is a better net price than was re-
allied on individual shipments
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
LAWYERS REPRESENT MONTANA

Governor Appoints Committee of Six
to Attend National Conference.
Butte, Mont, Aug. 24.-The appoint
ment of six well known Montana law
yers to represent the state at the ma
tional conference of law examiners to
be held at St. Louis on September rs.
81 and 2S. during the meeting of the
American Bar Association, was am
nounced by Governor Toole. The APP
pointees are:
William Scallon and ]. J. Mediation
of Butte: Wilbur F. Sanders and I. C
Bach of Helena, and o. F. Goddard ana
w. H. Johnson of Billings.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25

You don't close your store for a day
every once in a while-but that would
be as wise as to drop your newspaper
advertising for a day now and then.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
The Lesson Of the Savings Bank.

New York Press In this great and
happy country there were by official
count in 1908, 7Os5,22S savings banks
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25
Cancerotts Ulcers
ROOTED IN TIE BLOOD.

After the age of As or so when the vital powers
naturally weaker it is noticed that hurt of any kind
heals slowly and often very Insignificant scratch
bruse becomes bad ulcer sore AT this time of life
wary growths moles and pmples that have been the
body almost from birth begin to name and tester and
before very long are large eating, sloughing ulcers
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-25

Whenever a sore or ulcer is
slow in healing then you may
be sure something is radical
ly wrong with your blood.
Some old faint or poison that
has been slumbering there for
years is beginning to assert
itself, and breaks out and be-
comes a bad ulcer and per-
haps the beginning of Cancel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-27
Do Il today.

The time-worn injunction, Never
put of till tomorrow what you can
do today" is now generally present
ed in this form: do 1t today" That
is the terse advise we want to give
you about that hacking cough or de.
moralizing cold with which you have
been struggling for several days, per.
haps weeks. Take some reliable rene
dy for II TODAY-and let that remedy
be DIR. Boschee's German Syrup, which
has been in use for over thirty-fve
years. A few doses Of 1t will undoubt.
edly relieve your cough or cold, and
It's continued use for a few days will
cure you completely. No matter how
deep-seated your cough, even II dread
consumption has attacked your lungs,
German Syrup will surely effect a
cure-as 1t has done before in thou.
sands Of apparently hopeless cases OF
lung trouble. New trial bottles, 25c;
regular size, 75c. At all druggists
At DR., Stones drug stores.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-27
BILLY LIKED TO FLIRT.
A Real Teasing, Tantalizing Goat Was
He, Standing on the Car Tracks
and Flipping His Tail With Glee.

A civilian goat whose protuber-
ant chin nourished an elegant crop of
Uncle Samuel whiskers and whose
abbreviated tail flirted derisively with
fate, promenaded up and down the ear
tracks on jackson avenue, near Ely
avenue, the other day, and gave sew
eral motormen severe cases of palpa.
tation of the heart, says a New York
exchange.
Whenever he would see a trolley ear
coming his way he would calmly
meander over to the track it was com.
ing on, shuttle his whiskers and say
"h-a-a-h!" real naughty-like, Then
he would stand there like a solid piece
of statuary or a hen-pecked man wait.
ing TO commit suicide.
On came the ear and on stood the
goat. "Ding, ding, ding" screeehed
the gong ON the ear. "Ba-a,a-h!'
said the goat,
Pedestrians on the sidewalks would
begin TO hold their breath, expecting
10 see frst-class goat killing, while
1.-THE motorman, stamping his gong
wildly, would grind down the brakes
and yell just as the ear seemed about
to butt William into heaven and
people were shutting their ewes at the
awful sight, his goatship would wig
gle his beard eoyly and amble out Of
the way, twiddling that stump Of a
tail as though it were a good joke.
The goat tried that trick with sew.
o-al ears until storekeepers and small
boys got to shying rocks at him, then
he marched over to the dumps near
the railroad track and blew himself
of to a nice, ripe, juicy tomato can.