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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08
THE ZIG zAG GALE.

THE ZIG Tag CALF.
One day through the primeval wood,
"A calf walked home, as good calves
should:
But made trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have
fed.
And, I infer the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my mortal tale.
The trail was taken up next day
By lone dog that passed that way;
And then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail DER vale and steep
And drew the flock behind him, too,
AS good bell-wethers always do.
And from that day DER hill and glade
made;
And many men wound in and out,
And lodged, and turned and bent
And uttered words of righteous wrath
Because twas such a crooked path.
But still they followed-do not laugh
The first migrations of that calf
And through this winding woooway
stalked,
Because he wabbled when he walked.
This forest path became a lane,
That bent, and turned, and turned
again;
This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse with his
load
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And Travelled some three miles in one.
And thus century and a half
They trod in the footsteps Of that calf.
The ears passed on in swiftness fleet
The road became village street;
And this, before men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare;
And soon the central street was this
OF a renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zig-zag calf about;
And Ger his crooked journey went
The traffic of continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
BY one calf near three centuries dead
They followed still his crooked way,
And lost one hundred years day;
For such reverence is lent
To well-establtshed precedent.
A moral lesson this might teach,
Were l ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone to go 1t blind
Along the calf paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
They follow in the beaten track,
And out, and in, and forth, and back;
And still their deyiolls c0IlrSa p,lrSi,e
To keep the path that others do.
But how the wise old wood gods laugh
Who saw the first primeval calf:
All! many things this tale might teach
But / am not ordained to preach
Sam Walter Foss.
General Funston, at dinner party
complimented the valor of the Japan
csc. says the Denver Times.
Their valor," he said, "ls not like
that of a certain captain of the past.
This captain was about to lead hi
company into battle. He drew hi.
sword and waved 1t.
Now, my brave fellows he shouted
to his men, you have a tough struggle
before you. Fight like heroes till your
ammunition is gone; then run like an
telopes. I'm a little lame, SO I'll start
now"
Amazing are the questions" said
Gen. III. c. King of New York, "that
are showered on the unhappy attend
ants of public museums.
"In London, one afternoon, I was
standing near a museum guardian who
wore a military uniform, with helmet
from which a chin strap hung.
A youth approached the man and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

Amazing are the questions" said
Gen. FL. c. King of New York, that
are showered on the unhappy attend
ants of public museums.
"In London, one afternoon, I was
standing near museum guardian who
wore military uniform, with a helmet
from which chin strap hung.
A youth approached the man and
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

The Marion Register asserts that the
man who lays awake nights worrying
about the American army of 10000
ing about and against it belongs or
would belong if honest to the feeble
minded class.
1t is charged that Iowa is lacking in
the artistic sense, but the Iowa City
Republican would like to know where
there is anything more artistic than a
well bred Shorthorn cow or a well de-
veloped horse iowa may not know
the difference between kalsomining
and artistic painting of the state
house" says the Republican, but it
knows good COW or good horse when
1t sees one, and that is an artistic taste
well developed"
Diplomacy is a great thing" OBJ
serves the Mason City Globe Gazette.
"All the Russian admiral had to do
was to declare he had seen things and
then committee was appointed to
pass on his mental alteration and OPP
tic Strabismus."
The Cedar Rapids Republican com
mends to the republicans of WILSON,
sin the example of the republicans of
Iowa, who settled their home troubles
6. home so effectually that at the
...esent time not a word of discord is
heard in the state. wisconsin has
not done that" says the Republican
but it has raised fuss that has as
sumed national proportions and i'm
portance."
The Des Moines Capital says the
outlook is that the corn crop will be
as overwhelming as the republican
vote.
mo issues! The democratic party
is long on Them" declares the Fort
Dodge Chronicle.
The Keokuk Gate City says that
General Apathy evacuated Keokuk,
following Col. Hepburn's speech there
90
The Mason City Globe Gazette says
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that if it could have its way both pros
posed amendments to the constitution
would be defeated. 1.-THE constitution
is good enough the way it is without
any fixing" asserts the Gazette. "andi
no one has suffered from the present
way Of doing things"
o. fHt
BY instituting cooking school atd
the state normal" says the Marshall-l
town Times Republican "the authorize
ties appear finally to have recoEnizedl
the truth that the school room is
simply a purgatory between lonely)
spinsterhood and marital blisses,
Schoolma'ams are always marriage
able and the ability to make good
bread and f1aky pie crust is q LIBERAL
education in itself"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye thinks lei
little odd that an Iowa young woman|
should go to China as a general secre-
tary Of the Y. w. G. A. movement inI
that country. Whether enforced orl
not the liberation of the ChineseI
seems somewhat remarkable" says thel
Hawk-Eye, Sin view of the fact thatI
we do not permit Chinese immigration
into this country. If Miss Paddock
was finely educated and peculiarIyl
gifted Chinese lady, who wished toll
take part in certain lines of work in3
this country, would she be permitted toll
land here?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

mo issues! The democratic part
is long on them." declares the Fo,
Dodge Chronicle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

The Keokuk Gate City says that
General Apathy evacuated Keokuk,
following Col. Hepburn's speech there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

The Des Moines Capital says the
outlook is that the corn crop will be
as overwhelming as the republican
vote.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

moral lesson this might teach,
Were | ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone to go 1t blind
Along the calf paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

They follow in the beaten track,
And out and in, and forth and back;
And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the path that others do.
But how the wise old wood gods laugh
Who saw the first primeval calf
All! many things this tale might teach
But am not ordained to preach.
Sam Walter Foss.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

The Mason city Globe Gazette says
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08

ELIZABETH M. THOMPSON,
osteopathic Physician.
Graduate. American School, Osteopathy,
Kirksvflle. Missouri
Office. 22T N. Court st. New Phone 1894.
Hours. 600, to 1900 and / 80 to 400
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
THE CHURCH MILITANT.

A bill advancing fifteen chaplains OF
of majors has been favorably acted
upon by the senate. Those influences
which make people question the en-
tire desirability Of the general staff
were obviously exerted to secure the
passage Of this measure, and 1t Is to
be hoped that these same influences
will fail in the house.
The fifteen churchmen who are pre-
ferred by the terms Of the bill are
credited with having shown much zeal
in their work and the added pay is by
way of recompense. But wherein have
they been particularly jealous? 1t may
be generally assumed that the army
chaplain does his duty. but so do the
men Of the rank and file. and we do
not hear that the general staff is ex-
erting itself on behalf of officers Of the
line, on-commissioned officers or en-
listed men.
The parson in the army has toll
erably soft job. At times his work
Is a bit strenuous, but generally he Is
well fed, well groomed and well hous-
ed. He is rarely In the field and his
garrison duties are by no means oner-
GUS. ALI things considered, he is a
pretty lucky parson who gets from his
flock anything like the pay that the
army chaplain gets for presiding at
post funerals. There are times when
the army chaplain is very necessary to
the army man, but 1t has not so far
Is a great factor in maintaining either
morals or discipline. AS an institu-
ton we should and do properly regard
and reverence the chaplain, but he
does not need sympathy nor an adj
vance in pay.
If congress is really DESTROYS of adj
vancing the welfare Of the army IL
might better do something for the men
of the line and put aside the petting Of
the sinecurists. Subordinate and non
commissioned officers make up the real
working force of the military arm Of
the national defenses. II congress has
largess to hestow let these men ben
eft. If 1t is to be guided in legislating
for the army by merit let something
be done for the lighting and working
men.
The. army parson is by no means
down on his luck, and the money that
it Is. proposed to spend on these non
combatants might better be expended
somewhere down %he line of rank.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
THE YELLOW PERIL.

Those publicists who affect to see in
the tremendous advance Of Japan in
the arts Of civilization a menace to the
dominant white race of the world are
probably borrowing trouble. The great
progress of Japan and its probable sue
cess in this present conflict with Russia
Is cause for congratulation rather than
alarm. There is no more in common
between the civilized peoples of Amer
lea and Europe and the armies Of the
czar who will engage in the fighting
than there is between US and the Jap
anese. In fact we are more at one
with the yellow men who are white in
their developed instincts than with the
Tartar hordes Of Eastern Russia.
The yellow peril is a bugbear that
should occasion no alarm. There is a
marked national homogeneity in the
people of Japan. That they are des-
tined to accomplish great things in the
human scheme is certain, for other
wise it would not be possible for mill
lions Of people to move with one in
stinct, as the Japanese have moved
since they emerged from the obscurity
that wrapped the nation about thirty
five years ago. 1t is not merely sud-
den desire for knowledge, a spontane-
Gus opening of the mind to things to
which they had been blind for CEN
turtles, that is responsible for the
growth of Japan. This yellow people is
working out its destiny at gait that
astonishes but which need cause no
alarm. The Japanese have been awak-
ened from the sleep Of centuries be-
cause they have a mission. And there
is little reason for supposing that this
mission has to do with pushing the
yellow races into dominant place.
The japanese do not affiliate with the
Chinese. They have only their color in
language is the learned tongue of Japan,
it has no more influence on the people
than Latin has to do with controlling
the peoples Of the Occident. Japan is
one and united; China comprises hun
dreds Of tribes using distinct dialects,
having various aims and no ambitions.
If 1t were possible for great leader
of the Japanese to arise and consoli-
date the Chinese and Japanese masses
there might be some menace to the
white races. But such a leader would
be attempting an impossible task. AS
well try to unity the white races and
inspire them with a common motive.
There is no yellow peril-except for
Russia.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
THE FASHION IN CHRISTIAN
NAMES.

NAMES.
A few years ago society rebelled
against the employment Of the dininu-
tives of proper names and the frtv-
olous sounding Pollies and Bessies and
NAMES and Daisies were banished to
the region below stairs. Even there
they soon lost their popularity, for the
fashion in names is very like the
fashion in gowns, what's discarded
above stairs is soon regarded with
contempt below. The young person
who had previously answered to the
name Of May and who frequently spelt
it with an &c" quickly discarded the
diminutive and adopted the more digni-,
fed appelIation Of Mary. She who had
formerly signed herself Dolly practiced
writing Dorothea. The Nannies be-
came Nancy. the Brides, Bridgets, and
the Tessies, Teresas, and old fashioned
people rejoiced over the revival Of the
sweet, old-fashioned names.
But If it is true that the stage sets
the fashion we must accept the fact
that diminutives are to be with US once
again. For the past two seasons stage
heroines with but few exceptions have
been answering to the frivolous diminu-
tives. Peggy" has been the fayorite,
but Pollies and MoIlies and Dollies ga
lore have coquetted behind the foot
lights in the outrageous fashion the
world has come to associate with d.
minutives. Indeed, once having pro-
vided his heroine with the diminutive
of a Christian name, there is nothing
left for the playwright to do but to
make her a coquette. A Mary might
have conscientious scruples against
leading the hero a dance, but who
would expect Molly to listen to the
voice of conscience?
OF course. these diminutives are pref
cradle to the names that were in
vogue in the age Of romanticism. The
Gwendolins and the Arabellas and the
Amelias and the rest Of their kind were
an uninspiring lot in the romances of
the time, and doubtless the real hero
ines Of that time whose prototypes
they were and whose names they bore
were just as uninterestfng. A fiirta-
tious Dolly Is at least more attractive
than a swooning Angelina, and if
there's enough in a name to influence
her who bears it no one would hest
tate, surely, In his choice between the
two But many fashioned people
will regret the passing again of the
fashioned names. the names that
are neither romantic nor coquettish.
but sensible and nTeaningful 1t is to
be hoped that the stage fashion will
not be universally followed and that
those who have adopted the dininu-
tives will quickly discard them again.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
TODAY'S WEATHER

Minnesota-SnoW and colder In east !;
fair in west portion Sunday with a cold
wave; Monday fair, high winds becoming
fresh northerly.
Iowa-Snow Sunday colder in west
portion; Monday fair.
North Dakota-Fair Sunday, with much
colder in east and south portions: Mon
day fair, warmer In west portion
South Dakota-Fair in west, snow fol-
lowed by clearing In east portion Sunday,
cold wave; Monday fair.
Montana-Fair Sunday and Monday;
warmer Monday in east portion.
Upper Michigan-Increasing cloudiness
Sunday; snow in west portion, warmer in
east portion; Monday snow, colder; yari-
able winds, becoming northwesterly and
brisk Sunday night.
Wisconsin-Snow Sunday, colder in
west portion; Monday fair, colder in east
portion; variable winds, becoming north
westerly and brisk.
st. Paul - Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. e. Oliver, observer. for
the twenty-four hours ended at O'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
tnre, q; lowest temperature, 4; average
temperature, Is; daily range, 23 barome-
ter. 1898; humidity. a. Precipitation, O.;
z p. m. temperature, %; p. m wind,
southeast; weather, partly cloudy.
Yesterdays TemperatureS-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
PERSONAL MENTION

Ryan-M. A. Cannon, Spokane Wash. !;
e. ]. Gittius. Racine, Wis; Charles Kieth
and wife. Princeton; F. c. Richardson,
Mason City; G. F. Rowe, Duluth M L.
Searle. Sioux City; c. E. Gerretson, Will
mar; III. W. Turner and wife. Butte,
Mont; Darius Stewart. Stillwater.53
Merchants-W H. Barry, Winnipeg; E.
II. Pierce. Grafton, N. D.; c. A. Vince
lock. Fargo; K. E. Chaser, Madison, Wis. !;
G. l.. Wilson. Staples; F. Schofield, Du-
luth; G.. d. Walsh. Fort Dodge H, Iver-
son. Carlton; Fred Wiegman, New Salem,
N. d.
Windsor-A. G. Bernard Cass Lake; c.
III. Bronson. Osakis; c. ). Traxier,, Du-
buque; A. L. Tollefson, Mabel; U. S. Rose.
Campbell; Thomas Nimles Ellsworth,
Wis; J. III. O'Niel and wife, Park Rapids.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
asF EseArsz-
CLEVER MRS MANNING.

While the national society Of women
suffragists. in convention assembled,
has been devising ways and means of
wrestling the ballot from selfish man,
an astute lady in Washington has
been demonstra ting. by her clever wire
pulling, that the voting right is SUI
perfluous one, so far as women are
concerned. We think we are guilty of
no exaggeration when we say that
there are male politicians in st. Louis
who know their business. Nor do we
believe that the assertion that some
of those politicians are members of
the board of managers of the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition is a mis-
statement of facts. Yet when the will
of that board opposed the will of Mrs.
Daniel Manning, chairman Of the
board of women managers, the male
managers speedily discovered that
their will was a cipher. With what
grace they could muster, they have re-
4 IlreO TO rear seat.
The facts in the case make inter-
esting reading. There was placed at
the disposal of the board Of women
managers Of the exposition the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars to ex-
pend. President Francis, Of the mems
board. desired that this sum should be
expended only under his supervision.
= He desired that the women should
draw the money through the board Of
men managers. But Mrs. Manning.
who succeeded Mrs. Blair. as chairman
of the board OF women managers. de-
sired none OF those things. She de-
clared the attitude of the mems board
perfectly horrid. and then, packing up
her prettiest gowns, left for Washing
ton. President Francis breathed a
sigh of relief, but he underestimated
the ability and the resources Of Mrs
Manning. Experience gained in D. A.
R. conventions had taught the chair
man Of the women's board some valua-
bic political lessons, and in Washing
ton she exhibited her knowledge. Sc
curing Senator Hale as her chamnion.
she. with his assistance, enlisted the
sympathy of so many powerful men
that when congress granted the loan
which the exposition board demanded
1t was only on the condition that the
women's board should have free scope.
When Napoleon banished Nine. de
Stael from France he Acknowledged
the power of a clever woman. But the
world had acknowledged it before and
it has been acknowledging it ever
since. Women OF this type seldom sigh
for the ballot; they recognize its SUI
perf1uity. Some Of them are frltrigants.
and some of them fight fairly and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
THE lpEs OF. MARCH.


Beware of the ides Of March! A
Brooklyn prophet has been examining
the signs in the heavens and this is
what they tell him., The war going
on now between Russia and Japan is
the commencement of war of i'm
mense magnitude; the next change of
vital interest that will alter the whole
aspect of the general situation as 1t
appears at the present time will occur
about the middle Of March, 1904; this
change will either involve Turkey and
the Balkan states, or some other one
coils Of the present conflict. And to
convince the world that his prophecy
is a true prophecy the Brooklyn man
refers proudly to the fact that he pre-
dicted the present war months before
it commenced. Inasmuch, however, as
the foreign correspondents have been
predicting 1t for years, we think the
prophet from Lesser New York might
have furnished more convincing proof
Of the possession Of the gift of proph-
ecy. AS for his more recent prophecy
it is hardly disquieting.
Since the days Of the Delphic oracle
1t has been the habit Of the uninspired
prophets to indulge in glittering gen.
eralfties. In fixing the middle of March
for the fulfllment Of his prophecy the
man from Brooklyn has shown him.
self. of course. more specific than the
majority OF prophets, but since hardly
day passes that there isn't something
doing in the Balkan states, and since 1t
Is not at ali inconceivable that either
one OF those states or Turkey or some
one Of the powers may before very
long be involved in the present conflict,
he was comparatively safe In fixing the
date. Il the prophecy is fulfilled before
the scheduled time or after, he will find
q good and sufficient reason for the
change. reason that will satisfy those
who believe in prophets. AS for the
others, he win doubtless realize that
nothing he can say will vanquish their
skepticism.
Unfortunately, however. though the
skeptics are in the majority, they are
not large majority. Many people viii
look forward fearfully to the middle
Of March, believing that what the
Brooklyn prophet has said will surely
come to pass. For though a prophet
may be without honor, he is not with
out followers, in his own country. The
world, in spite Of civilizations advance.
still takes a painful pleasure in signs
and portents and prophecies. When
his prophecy comes true, the BROOKLYN
prophet has promised to write a note
to New York paper reminding 1t that
the prophecy was made. What he
Will do in case it does not come true
he has not stated. Perhaps he will
make another. Perseverance should
win out in prophecy as 1t is said to
win out in everything else.