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The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
RENTS MANSION
IN DEYONSHIRE
Chicago Millionaire Leases
''The Bottoms at Torquay"
Famous Watering Place
DISLIKES THE SCHOOLS
Yankee Capitalist Imports a
Tutor to Teach Children
American Business Method
DIsLIKES THE SCHOOLS
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, April 15.-Marshall Clip
thorne, the Chicago millionaire, has
rented a large mansion called THE
Bottoms" at Torquay, the most fash
ionable of Devonshire watering places,
and intends to reside there with his
family. Clipthorne visited Torquay
last year and the climate agreed with
him and his family so well that he de-
cided to settle there for time. What
troubled him most was that he found
no school to his liking in the neighbor-
hood where he could send his children.
He has got over that difficulty by en-
gaging the services of local clergy
man who has a reputation for deep
learning in mathematics and the clas-
sizes, and he has brought over from
New York man who will look after
his boys in commercial subjects.
Clipthorne says that commercial sub
jects are much neglected in English
schools and colleges, and believing that
success in commercial life depends on
business training he insists that his
boys shall receive 1t. He told some of
the local teachers that IL they taught
their pupils more foreign languages
and less of the ancient tongues they
would be better equipped to get
through the battle of life.
Mrs. Clipthorne has brought a staff
of American servants over. She ap-
pears to be most fastidious with regard
to household work and arrangements
and she maintains that English ser
wants do not understand American
methods.
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venerable tower, surrounded by luXu-
RANT masses of wild flowers, will ap-
pear an ugly conglomeration of anach-
ronisms standing in the dreary waste
of a new made garden and devoted to
the purposes of cafe and restaurant
ITO the Anglo-Saxon race" says one
writer who has protested too late
against the destruction of the historic
monument, "Galileo's Tower possessed
a special interest. in that it was the
scene of the classic meeting between
John Milton and the great italian as
tronomer. Indeed. in the whole history
OF science and literature there is no in
cident more picturesque or affecting
than this Introduction of the Puritan
poet. young and vigorous, with his
brain teeming with conceptions for his
mighty epic, to the Florentine sage,
blind, old and prosecuted for affirming
the great truths of the solar system"
Another place Of pilgrimage in Italy,
which on sentimental grounds makes a
far stronger appeal than the Star
Tower TO popular Imagination, will
soon vanish entirely If something is not
speedily done to preserve what remains
of It. This is the house in Verona from
the balcony Of which Juliet cried, 20,
Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
The mansion IS crumbling TO ruins and
on the point Of collapse. It is probable.
however, that only the facade of the
building formed part of the original
structure. The arms of the house of
Capulet however. still brave the wealth
er over the entrance gate in the interior
co,,rf and an inscrinffon nlaced fhera
reads: This is the house of the Capu-
let's, from which sprang Juliet, for
whom so many poets have sung and
tender hearts have wept." Though
shoals of pilgrims have visited the
shrine consecrated to two immortal low
ers, the shrine itself has been put to
strange uses. 1t has served at various
times as cabman's lodging-house,
restaurant. a warehouse for carts and
a farrier's shop.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
SPENDS HISLIFE
DODCINC WORK
Aversion for Toll Is Due to
Tramp's Efforts to Satisfy
His Thirst for knowledge
A HUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
Arrest of an English Hobo
Brings to Light a Quaint
and Remarkable Character
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, April 15.-Cursed-or per-
haps one should say blessed-with a
strong aversion for manual labor. and
possessed of an Unsuitable thirst for
knowledge. William Singleton has gone
through life lodging work and picking
up information. At 81 years of age fame
has been thrust upon him and he has
been acclaimed throughout this coun-
try as the encyclopedia tramp. His
renown came to him unsought through
a brief incarceration in Knutsford Jail,
where he had been confined for COM
mitting the heinous crime Of existing
without any visible means of sup
port"
The police found in his possession a
couple Of memorandum books, in which
in pencil he had recorded vast
amount Of statistical information and
out f-the-way facts. He said that he
had. hidden away, something like a
score of similar volumes IN which he
had jotted down all sorts of scraps of
information that he CLEANED in the
course of his wanderings. He has a
profound and thoroughly catholic rev.
erence for facts and figures. Whatever
they relate to, they have an equal value
in his estimation. In the books which
were subjected to police scrutiny were
noted, among other things. the exact
heights of the worlds greatest giants
and smallest dwarfs; the days and
hours at which all the great institutions
of London are open free to the public.
the heights Of the largest monuments,
the spans of the biggest bridges. the
population of the worlds biggest cities,
the number of letters In the Bible
ocean record of every liner and the
time occupied in conveying the mails
from one part of the globe to another
DIVERSITY OF SUBJECTS.
He was not content with merely crib
bing facts. On one page he had worked
out calculation from data he had OBJ
tanned proving, to his own satisfaction
at least, that every trip of the Oceanic
meant a return of $685. 900. 1t illustrates
the diversity of subjects in which he
took an interest that on the next page
he had noted that London consumes
H. 49,, 114,770 gallons of water a year,
and had left blank space following in
which to record when he was fortu-
nate enough to come across the informa-
ton, how much it took to satisfy her
thirst for stronger drinks.
Singleton picked up most of his infor-
nation at free reading rooms. which he
always visited at whatever town ne So
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
TO CULTIVATE COTTON
IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
Scheme Under Way to Free England
of Dependence On America
for SupDly

LONDON, April 15.-The Duke of
Marlborough, Under Secretary for the
Colonies. addressing the Bolton Cotton
Spinning Association on the prospec-
tive danger TO the cotton trade growing
out of the increased tendency of
America to absorb its own production
and dealing with the necessity of the
British empire growing its own sup
plies. made the important announce
ment that Lancashire had sent depu-
tation to the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer announcing the formation of an
association with $1,500,000 or more of
capital to be devoted to the cultivation
OF cotton in Northern Nigeria. provided
that the Government was willing to
appropriate five or ten million dollars
to build a railway. The Duke said the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would
consider the proposal in no unfavor-
able spirit.
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COMMERCIALISM
SPOILS CASTLE
Picturesque "Star Tower" of
Galileo, the Astronomer, Is
to Be Made Into a Cafe
speeisl pa.pstoh to rh. caI1.

FLORENCE, April 15.-For centuries
a conspicuous object on the beautiful
hill OF Arceti. above Florence, the
famous Star Tower OF Calico, where
the great astronomer made many of his
most important discoveries, Is now
practically destroyed What goes by
the name Of commercial enterprise is
responsible for this act Of vandalism,
which robs the world Of another Of its
historic places Of pilgrimage. For some
months past the picturesque structure
has been swathed In scaffolding. while
workmen have been engaged in raising
the quaint castellated tower by a third
Of its former height piercing its walls
with two new tiers Of windows and
adding q loggia- When the vulgar des-
ecration is completed in place Of the
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iourned, and he has never wasted any
of his time on fiction. In fact, he con-
f1ded to the police that he thought peo-
pie ought to be sent to jail who wrote
books about things that were not true.
or else be compelled TO take out IL
censes for lying and thereby relieve the
burden of taxation on the poor As a
tramp who dealt only in facts. he re-
garded himself as vastly superior to
folk of that stamp.
MEANS OF REVENUE.
1t was found that most of the facts
the queer fellow had cleaned he had
committed to memory during the inter-
walls of leisure he enjoyed between his
foraging or begging expeditions for
meals. Though he asserted that he val
ued knowledge for its own sake, he
confessed that he frequently contrived
to convert 1t into cash. He delighted in
provoking discussions with cock-sure
folk who were willing to wager small
sums or drinks on things they thought
they knew. He had won several pints
of beer over the question of the time 1t
took for light to travel from the sun to
the earth. Familiarity with railway
speed records had often earned him
bread and cheese. And once he had
made convivial swell treat him to a
regular blowout by proving that his
notions as to the relative size of Lon
don and New York were erroneous. He
says that he ought to have inherited
wealth and title Then loafing would
have involved no disgrace, and as an
encyclopedias peer" he would be re-
garded as a credit to the nobility. But
as I can't be a belted Earl" he adds,
II prefer to be a blooming tramp. That
comes about next to it for a downright
easy job"
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
TONOPAH AND GOLDFIELD
TO HAVE ELECTRIC ROAD
Map Filed I'm Nevada Land Office
Shows Route of the Pro-
DOSPd lime

CARSON, April 15.-On April 10 the
electric power company directed by
Senator Hickey filed a map of its route
in the United States land office in this
city. 1t will come into this State with
power from Bishop Creek and run
through Silver Peak, Goldfield and
Tonopah- The company will have sew
enty miles of road in this State and
furnish power and light for the mining
districts named.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16

featuring firms have submitted to the
equipment department at Mare Island
navy yard their estimates for the con-
struction of the immense cantilever
crane with which the navy yards is to
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
WESTERN PACIFIC ROAD
WILL NOT TOUCH RENO
Company's Map Shows That Line
Will Pass Fifty Miles North
of Nevada Town

CARSON, April 15.-The surveys OF the
Western Pacific route have recently
been filed in the United States land Of
flee in this city. The road will come
in from Beckwith Pass and run through
Honey Lake Valley to the Pyramid
Lake VALLEY and to the Pyramid Lake
reservation, nearly fifty miles north of
Reno. This will be something of a dis
appointment to the Reno people, who
have been expecting that the road
would go through that city.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Neorct5)

A tiny, chocolate coated tonic laxative
tablet. that gives vIGoR and health to
the STOMACH, LIVER and BOWELS.
thereby curing
Sick Headaches Biliousness
Ssllow Complexion Torpid Liver
Dyspepsia Jaundice
Indigestion Heartburn
Loss Of Appetite PImples
Sour Stomach Dizziness
Nausea Foul Breath
Take only one "vIGozET" at bed time
and they will move the bowels gently,
yet thoroughly, each day and permanent
D., cure
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION

They cool. cleanse and purify the
blood and arc sold by all druggists IN
asc packages $50 tablets) and 1ec trial
aize (l5 tablets).
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be equipped The Government viii
build the foundation and the success.
ful bidder will complete the structure
1t Is estimated the cost Of the cram.
will be about 100000.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP

Assisted by Cuura Ointment for purifying and beau
tying the skim cleansing the scalp
and the stopping of falling hair for soening whitening and soo
red rough and hands, for baby ashe cg and changs
and n1ammatons,
pepraon the form Of washes for uerative weaknesses and
sanatve ansepc purposes which readily suggest them
selves well for all the purposes of the toilet bath
and
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16

About year hands began crack and peel tried
remedies but they all the time At last they be-
that impossible for do housework If
hands agony hours and if tried to
cook the the heat caused intense consulted
DOCTOR but his prescriptions utterly useless gave him
and tried another but without the least satisfaction About
weeks first relief when purchased Cuicura Soap and
Ointment After using them for week found, great de-
light that my hands beginning feel much better the deep
cracks began heal and and to-day hands
entirely we'll the of Cura of
Ointment being all that l used"
Is Dana St. Roxbury, Mass MRS. MINNIE DREW.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
MAMMOTH CRANE WILL
BE BUILT IN NAVY YARD

Equipment Department at Mare
Island Receives Bids for the
Work of Construction.
VALLEJO. April 15.-Several manu-
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
COMPLETE external AND INTERNAL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HuMoR 81


Of to
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16

EASIER EGGS TREE
All Children visiting our Store
this week accompanied by grown
folks) will receive free handsome
Easter Egg.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
ADVERTISEMENTS.


Uhat tay
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-16
Sale Of
Embroidered HandkerchiefS

very opportune sale, for they are just what you
want for Easter. There so different patterns
all embroidered edges, scaloped and straight
some hemstitched also. The material is very
fine and sheer 1t gives great satsfac-
tion to offer you these 25c, 5sc and soc n
handkerchefs tomorrow at .............. IIU
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-29
NEW BANK ATFLORIS
SAVINGS INSTITUTION ORGAN.
lied IN LIVE DAVIS COUNTY a
4 TOWN.
Men Interested In Citizens Savings
Bank of ottumwa, Together With
Several FIoris People, Are the Back
! ers Of the New Institution.

( "A new savings bank has been
organized at Floris. in Davis county,
and this excellent little town will Tor
the first time realize the advantages
of banking institution. The new
bank has been established by parties
interested in the Citizens Savings
bank of this city, in conjunction with
some of the most prominent people
Of Floris and vicinity. 1t will be
known as the Floris Savings bank and
will be incorporated under the state
banking laws with a capital stock OF
$4,000. L.. A. Andrew, president OF
the Citizens Savings bank Will be
.presidoS of the new institution, DR..
II. L. Stevens, of Floris, will be vice.
president, and George F. Carson, now
assistant cashier of the Douds-Leando
Savings bank will be cashier. The
directors of the bank are chosen from
the Citizens Savings bank interests
in this city and from the Floris stock
holders, and are as follows: George
"A. Brown, Walter T. Hall, W. ]. Done
Ian. l.. A. Andrew, E. o. Hedrick, DR..
II. L. Stevens, DR.. A. j. Mummert, ].
M. Peden and George F. Carson. A.
Benge. one of the largest land owners
in Davis county, is among the stock
holders.
!, The organization is all completed
and fine corner lot has been
purchased and work has been started
on new brick building for the bank.
1t is hoped to open up the bank Tor
business in temporary quarters short
ly after the first of July.
The people of Floris and vicinity
are certainly to be congratulated on
securing this financial institu-
ton as it will be great factor in the
growth and prosperity of the town and
surrounding country.
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rived at Pulaski Saturday, having been
called to the bedside of her mother
Mrs. Mcdowell, who died yesterday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer votaw returned
Monday to their home in Brookfeld.
after a short visit at the home of his
brother, Will Votaw and family. Mr..
ing the past month here leaves next
week for Ida Grove to spend some time
with her daughter.
On Saturday j. c. Toombs received
news Of the sudden death Of Mrs. Mag
gle Trickett, of Macon, Mo-, wife of
Rev. H. R. Trickett, formerly pastor
of the Christian church of this city
The body was taken to Illinois for
burial.
A family reunion will be held the
latter part of the week at the D. A.
Wickizer home, when Mrs. Wickizer's
brothers will visit their father, w. A.
Morgan, who is very sick. Rev. L..
w. Morgan, of South Hampton, Eng
land, arrived in New York on Monday,
and will reach this place the last Of
the week. He has occupied the Chris
tan pulpit at South Hampton for six
years, and has recently accepted pas
torate in London. F. A. Morgan, of
Chicago, manager Of the Mutual Ly-
ceum bureau. Rev. O. P. Morgan, pas
4 tor OF the Peoples Union church OF
Underwood, ILL.,. and E. E. Morgan, of
Des Moines, will complete the family
| brotherhood.
Mrs. ]. a. Warrington and Mrs.
Stanley Hathaway left Saturday for
Ottumwa to spend few days with
| friends.
| Mrs. John Higbee. who. has been
! spending the past week or more with
relatives in this city and Stiles, re-
turned Monday to her home in South
Ottumwa.
Rev. D. A. wickizer spent Sunday
| In Kirksville, MO-, and preached to the
| Christian congregation. He then con-
| tinued the trip to Des Moines to at
| tend the state convention Of the Chris
| tian church.
A family reunion was held Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. N. S.
Johnson, whose daughter, Mrs. Ivy OPP
penheimer and children, of Buffalo.
N Y, have arrived to spend the sum-
mer Mrs. Wahl and children, of
Moulton, also arrived Saturday and a
delightful time was spent. the pres
ence of the resident members of the
family making the home circle almost
complete.
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BLOOMFIELD.

Bloomfield, June 27.-Mrs Elizabeth
Mcdowell died Sunday evening at 8
o'clock, at the home of her daughter
Mrs. M. j. Barnes, of Pulaski. The
funeral services occurred Monday aft
ernoon and the body was inferred In
the Union cemetery near Stiles. She
was almost 80 years old, and had been
a resident of Davis county for more
than fifty years. She was sister of
Jesse Fortune and the mother of Mrs.
K T. Hotchkiss of this city, and Mrs.
Ed Swift, of Ottumwa, and Mrs. w. L.
Smith, of Chicago, all of whom were
at her bedside when she passed away
Mrs. G. L. Stafford accompanied by
her son, Reuben, left Monday morning
for Des Moines, where she was called
by the death of her father, Ruben AL
len. who passed away on Sunday. DR..
Stafford followed on the evening
train.
Miss Goldie Mccormick closed a
very successful term Of school at Fair
view last Friday. The report follows:
Number enrolled, IA; average daily at
tendance, 10: neither absent nor tardy,
Miss Lizzie Erwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Mcconnell spent
Sunday at the Peden farm near Floris
f. H. Roberts spent Sunday in Keo-
sauqua visiting his parents and
friends.
Miss Pearl Lane of Shunem, return
ed Saturday from Caldwell, Idaho,
where she has been spending the past
three months at the home of her
brother.
Mr.. and Mrs John Lain, of Shunem,
returned Monday from Centeryille,
where they spent Sunday with their
son, Guy Lain and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Higbee left Sat
urday for Abba to visit relatives. Mr..
Higbee returned Monday leaving Mrs.
Higbee for a more extended visit.
Miss Blanche Davis left Monday for
Davenport to spend week with her
cousin, Miss Mollie Fleming and will
continue the trip to Chicago to spend
a week or more with Miss Bessie Smith
formerly of this city.
Paul Everly left last week with H,
l.. Stones trained animal show, hav-
ing accepted a position for the sum-
uaer.
Mrs. w. T. Smith, of Chicago, ar
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Vacation Tours.

For the summer season of 1905 the
railroads have undoubtedly arranged
lower round trip excursion rates to the
various summer resorts and the
Pacific coast than any previous year.
The Iowa Central announces few Of
their rates as shown bc.ow from Ed
dyville:
To st. Paul and Minneapolis, $1,000;
to Duluth, $1,000; Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo, $21.75; Salt Lake
City and Ogden s3475; tickets on sale
daily after June LIST, final limit Octo.
Der 31st.
To Denver, account Epworth
League convention), s19.25; tickets on
sale juno S0th to July 4th. Limit July
14th, with privilege Of extension to
August 8th on payment of fee Of so
cents
To Denver, account of G. A. r. en-
campment), 1880; tickets on sale
August 3cth to September 4th. Limit
September 18th, with privilege of ex-
fee of SO cents.
20 Portland, Ore, (for Lewis and
Clark exposition), 1900; tickets on
sale daily, limit ninety days; tickets
good going one route and returning
another, with liberal stop-over priv
leges.
To California, corresponding as
low rates as to Portland.
To Hot Springs, Ark. One fare plus
two dollars for the round trip; tickets
on sale dt.lly, limit thirty days.
-ror full particulars call on agents,
or ADDRESS L. B. QUITS,
G. P. & T. A.
Minneapolis. MINI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-29
CHICAGO MARKETS.

Tuesdays Live Stock Market in Brief.
Uneven Tuesday cattle trade-me-
dunn classes lower; good fat steers
fairly active sale-prices steady; av-
erage values range well up to Mon
days level; trade easier-buyers OPP
pose advancing tendency; dry fed
cows and heifers make firm prices;
medium and grassy grades slow.
steady; Gamers steady-calves off 50
to 75c from week ago; feeders better
sale-prices gain over last week;
hogs fully &c higher than Mondays
average: average price highest in over
seven weeks; receipts small and quail
ity rather poor; packers still discrim-
mating against rough hogs; sheep
trade brisk and strong to 1Oc higher
fancy ewes go as high as $50 yes
terday; lambs show 10 to 15c gain for
bulk; some lots Csc higher-best at
$500.
Receipts.
Receipts thus far this week COM
pared with the corresponding period
last week decreased $500 cattle, "a
900 hogs and 900 sheep. Compared
with the corresponding period year
ago cattle showed no change, hogs de-
creased 5000 and sheep 5000.
Representative Sales.
Following are some Of the represen.
tative sales made in Chicago yesterday
showing lowest. medium and highest
prices paid:
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FOR SALE OR TRADE.

30 acres unimproved land within ~
miles of the city. Good terms. 20
acres unimproved. Price and terms
right 80 acres improved II mile of
city, beautiful little home 10 acres i'm.
proved, good 80 acres, fine land and
location. Only $65 per acre. Look at
this. 30 acres small improvements,
only $35 per acre. AZ acres, first class,
$S5 per acre. 100 acres to trade for
smaller farm. Having had an 80 acres
to trade on larger farm, we now have
a number of larger farms to trade for
smaller. If you have small farm to
trade for larger one, see us at once.
Have bargain in 6 room house on
Albany street. Must be sold at once.
LOWENBERG G. co.
Court Street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-29
HORSE TRADE DULL.
Usual Summer Indifference Characters
ICES the General Market.

Chicago. June 2S.-The summer dull
ness that normally precedes the ma
tional holiday Is pronounced in the
general movement of trade thus far
the current week. Eastern buyers
are indifferent operators and are buy
ing slowly commercial offerings at a
summer decline of 5000 for best
grades and $1,000 for medium to
good kinds Of all classes. There is
feable tone to the general move
ment of the market even at the de-
cline, as dullness generally dominates
the trade from all quarters. Country
shipments are lighter, arrivals falling
off 403 head last week from the prev-
ious week, but increased 485 head as
compared with the run for the cores
ponding week last year. Commission
dealers do not anticipate any improve
ment in demand or prices until after
the anniversary holiday. Drafters