Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-19

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umwa Courier intimates
PISS plainly that Keokuk
d play ball. The OF.
per is less discerning or
lE&36iY ateful than most people
81 St dit for. 1t doesn't seem
ss8H sle fact that Keokuk was
. aging 'possum last year
age Ottumwa. That's
w gets for being gener-
ihliging. It's enough to
q Keokuk to be selfish
ng.
non. ave the word OF the ed.
Eitor OIL. aper that he didn't mean
stoSrake upS%My old echoes Of the past
With that little paragraph. Keokuk
shouldn't take IL so hard. The Cours
Ter didn't say that the reason Keokuk
ball players had always found 1t hard
TO feel good in Ottumwa was because
they were always beaten and after q
game which ended In a score some
thing like 26 to q, for instance. the
team with the two" couldn't be ex-
pected to feel hilarious. That wasn't
mentioned. Neither was It stated that
Keokuk's ball players were about the
only visiting team that some dis.
gruntled fans In Ottumwa wouldn't
bet on against the home team last
summer. And we wouldn't say any
thing about it now but for, that ac-
cusatton of ungratefulness.
OF course, 1t Is up to Ottumwa to be
grateful to Keokuk for letting the
Standpatters win all those games, Just
for encouragement, but some OF that
gratitude must be passed around the
circuit, to Oskaloosa, Marshalltown,
Boone, Fort Dodge, Waterloo and Burl.
ington. Perhaps, after all, It should
go to Keokuk in the biggest chunks.
for Keokuk was beaten by Ottumwa
about the %oftenest. Once in a while
we dropped a game to keep
Hackett's smile alive and to make the
contest interesting.
But for the coming summer, we have
the authority of Snapper Kennedy, the
boss Of the Standpatters, to notify
Keokuk that any beatin's will be taken
without a whimper by Ottumwa and
that Keokuk must go into the game
Without any feeling such as that which
prompted the encouragement" Of last
year. Why, Snapper even says II
wasn't any encouragement to beat
Keokuk, for anyone could do that. So
the Gate City can see that the subtle
act of kindness was lost like sweet
ness on the desert air. Too bad, but
equally too true. I
Now a little advice to Keokuk. Even
though you should r%ightfully .:be. In
Missouri, If the Iowa line had been
drawn straight and east and west In
stead of taking a juke southwark just
at the last end, the Iowa league isn't
going to shut you out on that account.
And though you were beaten badly In
last years race for the Iowa league
pennant. just jolly up this year and
theaother teams will help you to keep
q stiff upper lip. Send the players up
to Ottumwa where the people look
pleasant, let them get a look at a real
live city that is really and truly IN,
Iowa. Tell them that II the other
team gets more than fifteen scores to
i cross their fingers. Take a few les.
sons from Ottumwa on ball playing
and other things. Jolly up.
8. P. +.
In this department Of the Courier
we will answer questions upon general
topics and of general interest.
Yesterday we received the following
query from a subscriber at Martins
burg, Mo-:
Editor Courier:-Will you please tell
me where Mason & Dixon's line is In
Missouri-that Is. near what city or
town? D. g. r. II
Mason & Dixon's line Is the imagin-
airy line which divides Pennsylvania
from Maryland, and is on the parallel
of 80 degrees, 43 minutes and 26 SEQ
onds north.
In the days before the independence
of this country. the boundary be-
tween the colonial possessions Of the
Lords Baltimore and the Penn family
had been a subject Of almost continual
dispute from the first settlement OF the
country. In 1850 they agreed upon q
compromise and appointed q commits
sion to settle the line between their
possessions. Local surveyors were ac-
%cordingly employed by both sides but
they got along SO slowly that the pro-
prietors. who, at that time resided In
England, sent Charles Mason and Jere-
miah Dixon, two very noted mathe-
maticians and astronomers over from
England to complete the work. They
arrived in Philadelphia in November
1853. They took four years to the task
and completed 1t in 1857, having care
fully surveyed and marked the line
Of nearly $50 miles. extending for the
most of the way through a dense for
est and over several mountains.
This line, dividing as 1t does the
states Of Pennsylvania and Maryland,
Pennsylvania a free state and Mary.
land formerly a slave state, Is com
monty referred to as the former boun-
Diary between freedom and slavery In
the United States.
Mason & Dixon's line II it extended
westerly to Missouri. would cross the
state about on a line with Chillicothe,
and Shelbyville and would enter 1t
from the east, probably a very small
distance south Of Quincy and on the
western boundary would be a. little
north Of st. Joseph.
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