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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-19

decides he had rather peg away at the
shoe business. Omaha World-Herald
This may not be the sole reason
Dubuque legraph-Herald.
OF course not. It's the upper one
Burlington Hawk-Eye.
What! Are the boys going to re.
vemp all those old shoe jokes ?-SiouS
City Journal.
1t is to be hoped this is the last
Keokuk Gate City.
Peg away, boys, until a full under.
standing is reached.-Springfeld Reg.
lister.
Why not retire? Douglas is we'll
heeled-Quincy Wing.
Where's the w,l.? 1t is high time
it was used.-Keokuk Gate City.
He has a right to retire if he wants
to- There are no strings on him.
Davenport Times.
Can't some one give the Gate City
a tip as to where it can secure a
strap? Perhaps nicer, more genteel
and Massaclusetts-like punishment
would be 20 catch ach offending edi
tor, split his tongue. put each section
through an eyelet and lace the ends
or tack them.
P. S. The Office boy who concocted
this has been discharged.
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was called here on account OF the i'll.
ness Of Mrs. George Taylor.
j. N. Wood and Frank Harbour and
family attended the funeral of Mrs.
Park Wood at Mark last Friday.
Mrs. Alma Housley and children left
Friday for visit in Lineville.
Harry Uudike spent Sunday with
Ed Sloan.
Miss Nellie Turner spent Sunday at
the George Hamilton home.
w. T. McNeff, of Pleasantville, Is
spending a few days at this place, &C
companied by his daughters, Ruth and
Leone.
Miss Hattie Sayles came home Mon
day from Ottumwa.,
The Methodist Episcopal parsonage
Is undergoing repairs.
Mrs. Shipper, of Batavia, Is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Dick Maries.
Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Goodspeed,
of Missouri, visited few days here
last week with llr. and Mrs. Hamil-
ton.
Harve Shull and family and Milt
Randolph and wife spent Sunday at
the parental Shull home.
Misses Lou Truitt and Lizzie Good
lander spent Saturday in Bloomfield
with Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Galpin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gillette spent Monday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Mccormick.
Mrs. Vfna Alternately, of Missouri,
spent few days here last week with
her mother, Mrs. Yoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Miner spent Sun.
day at the Sherman Downing home.
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ADMIRAL cLARk's RECORD.

The retirement Of Admiral Charles
E. Clark from active service in the
United States navy, which recently
was announced, removes from the
navy man now practically in his
prime, a man whose record is one of
honor and achievement. His deeds
have gone far toward upholding the
honor of his nation and his service to
the country Of his birth has been such
that he is entitled to all the honor his
fellow countrymen can accord him.
Admiral Clark was born in the little
town of Bradford, VT. not fifty miles
from tn, birthplace of that other fam
Gus sailor of the Green Mountain
state, George Dewey. Admiral Clark
will be known in naval annals as the
man who brought the battleship Ore.
gon round from the Pacific station to
Key West, $4,000 miles in sixty-five
days, joining the blockading squadron
off Santiago with ship as fit to fight
and pursue an enemy as any that flew
the flag in the Caribbean. Indeed, the
Oregon was better prepared to close
with the Spaniards and make run
ming fight when Cervera made his
dash on the morning of July 8 than
the other warships of Sampson s
squadrons. WHO can describe the
feelings of the men at the machinery,
says John D. Long, secretary of the
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BUTLER.

Butler August IT. - John OAR
ner is building an addition to his
home.
Mrs. Carroll, Of Eldon, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Ed Perry.
Luther Sammon and family moved
Into the vacant house on WEISS Ar
ganbright's place Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Stroud and
children, of Hedrick, visited at A. J..
Burgess Saturday afternoon on their
way to OttumwS.
George Gorham is quite sick with
the fever.
]. 7. and Charles Burgess spent Sat-
urday night and Sunday with relatives
near Rose Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Darner and son
William, were shopping In Ottumwa
Saturday.
Phil Alderman and Ed Perry were In
Ottumwa Saturday.
Several from Butler attended the
show In Fremon Monday night.
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SAD TO RELATE.

It is really sad to see two such old
friends as the Burlington Hawk-Eye
and the Council Bluffs Nonparei! pick
ing each other to pieces. Indeed it is
perhaps well that they are at opposite
sides Of the state; otherwise the
words might sometime lead to blows
1t all started over the railroad rate
question, or tariff revision, or a com
parison of the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, rivers, or maybe it was the age
of Ann. At any rate the discussion has
degenerated until it is now snagged
on the silver question. The Nonpariel
recently published the following:
"It is learned through the columns
of the Hawk-Eye that Burlington
bookseller displays on his counters
Coins Financial School, Is this to be
accepted as indicating the stage Of
progress at Burlington"
To which the Hawk-Eye responded
quickly:
Apparently it does. Years ago
when the Pottawattamie and other
tribes ran wild after the Bryan free
silver craze, Burlington and the terri
tory where the Hawk-Eye circulates
stood solid for sound money. AS a re
suit, Coins books remain in stock I'm
sold.'
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navy, during the war with Spain in
his book, THE New American Navy"
"as they cursed the steam for its
slowness in rising, and at the fact that
economy and the desire to remain as
long before Santiago without recoal-
ing had caused so many of their cap
tains to refrain from keeping
up steam on all the boilers. For only
the Oregon was prepared for full
sreed-a condition due to Captain
Charles E. Clark, the commander of
that famous ship and his chief en-
gineer, Robert w. Milligan, who kept
the furnace fire. lighted-certainly a
fortunate circumstance on that fc,
nate day" 1t was the Oregon with a
great white bone in her teeth" in the
language of Secretary Long, that over
hauled the flying Colon, the last of the
Spanish cruisers to keep afloat and
drove her ashore. shattered and burn
ing. The Brooklyn and Texas joined
in the chase, but Clarks ship did the
heavy work The Colon, by the way,
was not the flagship of Admiral Ger.
vera as the New York World asserts
in an editorial tribute to CLARK of the
Maria Teresa, leading the fleet and
she soon succumbed to the concen-
trated fire of the Texas and Iowa and
drifted ashore, burning hulk, six
miles from Moro. 1t never surprises
us to see the incidents of our war
with Spain, little but epochal, mistated
and distorted. The trouble is, an
authoritative history of it has not been
published. Some of the authors who
! have written about it were officially
eminent enough. but their point of
view was too far from the scene of
hostilities, and many of their facts
were second hand and hearsay. In
any true account of the war Charles
3. Clark, of the Oregon, will be a
conspicuous and inspiring figure. He
iretires from active service with the
esteem and admiration of a grateful
peODle
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The KING DRAG

Iowa good roads enthusiasts are, al
most to man, believers in the efficacy
of the King drag for the proper treat
ment Of dirt roads Not only the good
work done by the drag, but it's cheap
ness can be cited in support of their
stand. In fact. the use of the drag is
regarded as the best treatment that
can be given dirt roads in this sec
ton of the country, considering the
cost of the work and its results. Those
interested in good roads will watch the
results of the installing at Bardstown
KY, of steel rail road half mile
long, to be used for experimental pur.
poses. The road where the rails will
be laid is now in good condition and
there has been some opposition to
tearing it up for the purpose of in
stalling an experimental tramway. In
noting these facts the Engineering
Record lays it down as a general prop
osition that rails for teaming are not
worth much. The money they cost
1T says, can be used to better advan
tage in legitimate road improvement
Comparison is made with the results
of using the King drag and endorse
ment given the latter as follows:
1t may be stated as general propo
sition that rails for teaming are moi
worth much The money they cost
can be used to better advantage Ii
legitimate road Improvement. Where
there is continuous heavy teamine
from quarries and the like it may pos
sibly be advisable to construct suct
tramways. For all ordinary purposes
however, King drag properly used
will keep dirt road in good enough
condition, and if anything better is
needed the only satisfactory solution
will be gravel and broken stone con
struction. A tramway in an ordinary
road will ruin it completely in a short
time, while well dragged road viii
answer any moderate transportation
renuirements
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THE PICNIC CROWDS.

The crowd of Ottumwa people who
went on the excursion to Muscatine
last Saturday created as good an i'm
preston as they received according to
the Muscatine Journal, which speaks
editorially in very complimentary
manner of the people and the manage
ment. The Journal says:
THE excursionists who visited Mus
catine Saturday left the city more
than pleased with the cordial treat.
this city. They were loud in their
praises for Muscatine and her people
and the city will get some very pay
ing and beneficial advertising as re-
suit. The excursion was under the
personal charge of Mr. Dain, the pres
ident of the company, and Mr.. Arbenz,
the secretary. These gentlemen spoke
in very flattering terms of Muscatine
and her hospitality and said that the
excursionists would not pass this city
by again. The excursion is an annual
event for the employees and is an out
ing that is enjoyed by all. The fact
that the excursion was largely COM
posed Of women and children and that
it took the nature of one big family
out for an outing was commendable
and showed the cordially of feeling
existing between employer and en-
ployed. No unseeming disorder was
apparent and the Muscatine people
were not bothered in the least by the
presence of the excursionists. they be-
ing a fine class of people bent on hav.
ing a good time and from the many
expressions of good will, there is not
much doubt but that they had what
they hargained for"
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AGENCY.

Agency, Aug. II. - Married, Tues.
day evening at 8 o'clock at the resi-.
dence of the officiating minister, Rev
j. B. Hill, Miss Myrl Dreamer of Al.
bion, Neb., and Burt L. Giltner who re.
sides five miles north east of town.
Their many friends wish them long
and happy life.
Mrs. George c. Peck is visiting
friends in Cedar Rapids.
Harrison Reynolds who has been
very sick is better today.
Miss Grace Allen left today for
Northport, Wash, where she will
teach school this coming year.
Mrs. Coda Cowger is sick.
Mrs H. H. MCGUIRE, who has been
very sick is improving.
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THE eATTLEsHlP KANSAS.

Philadelphia Inquirer.-The launch
ing of tho battleship kanscs In our
own waters yesterday was an event of
much interest. The ceremonies were
simple. but dignifed, and the great
agricultural state has now a represen-
tative in the battalions of Mars. OF
the large official retinue (which came
from Kansas only two had ever been
in the east before, and these not in
thirty Y, Yrs. That they were i'm
pressed with the city and delighted
with their. entertainment goes without
saying. 1t would be hard to find two
states presenting greater contrasts
than Kansas and Pennsylvania, or two
cities more widely apart in most every
respect than Topeka and Philadelphia.
All have merits, but of different kinds.
Many of our readers will bark back
to the days when Bleeding Kansas"
was a watchword in politics. 1t is
just fifty years since the excitement
was at it's height, when border
ruffians" and "Beechers Bibles" were
/ much in the public eye. Kansas was
then fighting with genuine western
spirit for her future, and in the end
the will of the Majority prevailed At
that time there was no hint of the
mighty development th;t was to come,
of the tremendous sweep of prosper
ity following distribution of land to
soldiers and hOmeSteaderS. AT the
time it was more political than agri-
cultural soil. At present Xmas
is one of the energetic states of the
Union, with practically no paupers or
lilliterates and with a more evenly dis
tributed wealth than perhaps any other
state in the Union. The banl.s are
bursting with the surplus wealth of
| the farmers, who buv eastern bonds
and stoc..s and manufactured goods
galore.
| The best exhibition In Kansas is her
restored equilibrium in sociology and
/, politics She went off for a while fol-
| lowing after strange gods and paid
pretty dearly for her experience, but
she has le~'"ned the lesson and Is con-
tent. OF all the prodigal sons who left
/ the republican party Kansas is the
most repentant and the E-ost prosper
GUS She has forgotten all about the
ratio of sixteen to one and has her face
set toward the rising sun. Surely In
the east there Is no faint Of jealousy
but rather Of rride in the growth of q
state which has in its early and
troublous clys piloted by two Penn
sylvanians-Reeder and Geary Nc
battleshi.cs can ever sail the Kaw OF
Missouri and we trust that her name
sake. just launched. will never have tc
belch forth the thunderbolts Of Jove
against public enemy. But II thai
condition should arise we may con-
ifidently expect Kansas and her ironed
namesake to give a good account Of
| themselves.
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THE REAL BOY.

Little Lord Fauntleroy is mis-.
conceit He is not the real boy"
This Is the statement ,na1e recently
by Judge W. H. McEwen, of the Chi.
cago Juvenile court The occasion
was 6 banquet of the Columbia zach.
club and the jurisu was down for a
talk bearing on healthfulness that
comes from yachting. His legal ex-
perience has certainly given him a
splendid opportunity to study the
American boy, and in view of this
fact his views on boys are of value.
His contention was that the Lord
Fauntleroy kind Of boy, the feminine
sort, has not the opportunity to devel-
op along manly lines, to become indie
pendent and self supporting, that is
afforded the boy who travels along
rougher paths to manhood.
The rough house boy-the boy who
Is occasionally before the court for a
deed Of violence-under proper re-
straint will make the future good citi-
gen." he said. 1T is generally the de-
sire of parents to have their children
= what Is commonly known as nice
boys 1t has been my experience that
these nice boys do not amount to
r,uch.
Judge McEwen went even farther
and said, THE boy with the feminir e
instincts Is a coward, generally, and
In his development along these lines
lies one Of the most dangerous ele-
ments to the country. The rough,
rugged boy, the boy who will fight, II
he is kept under restraint, will become
the, citizen uuon whom the country
can depend. He will become tie
manly citizen"
Every man who has been boy-a
real boy-will agree with Judge Nc
Even. Verify, some of the boyhood
dreams are coming true, when a
learned judge will declare his admira.
ton for the rough house boy" Look,
Ing back along a vista of barefoot
rcpe-suspender days, one can see that
those runaway swimming trips, those
hoyville fights and blackened eyes
were parts of training for a later
life Of independence and adaptability
to circumstances. The hoy who al
ways had a chunk of skin off his rose
was not necessarily future outlaw
though careful parents sometimes de
creed as much. When we hid rufhed
collars and big ties beneath our coats
we thought we we're proving untrue
to loving parents, but Judge McEwen
would have us believe that we were
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1IDWELL.

Bidwell, Aug. II. - Grant Mofatt
and family Of Ottumwa were pleas.
antly entertained at the home of
Henry Oswald Sunday.
Mrs. Leroy Blackman Of Lucerne,
Mo-, visited her daughter Mrs. F. q.
Perry last week.
Elmer Rose and family Of Pleasant
home, were guests at the Rolla Lewis
home Sunday.
Mrs. Harvey Garfield of Derby,
Kansas, who has been visiting rela.
tives here, departed Tuesday for Lu
cerne, Mo-, to visit relatives.
Alfred Perry returned last week
from delightful trip with relatives
in Wisconsin.
Erwin and Stella Cook Of Derby
Kansas, left Wednesday over the
Milwaukee for home, after an ex
tensive visit with relatives.
Palmer Grooms and Frank Smith
were Milwaukee passengers for OF
tumwa Tuesday evening.
John Gill and crew finished the
three large concrete piers for the new
steel bridge over Bear Creek, two
miles east Of Bidwell on the Milwau
kee railroad Monday. The crew left
Tuesday evening for Davenport tc
build two piers for a new bridge or
that division.
Lock Bros, have about finished
threshing in this vicinity. The grain
which is mostly oats is of fine quality
but the yield is rather light.
Grant Garfield who has been yer,
ill for some time is improving at this
time.
Luther Lathrop was business visi
tor in Ottumwa Tuesday.
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One man must be counted out of the
race for the gubernatorial nomination.
This will leave at least one vote to be
distributed among the candidates, for
this one man is about the only repub-
lican in Iowa who hasn't been men
toned for the nomination. He is a
pretty big republican too, and his
withdrawal means a good deal. He
is William Larrabee and in a brief
letter to the editor of the Arlington
News in reply to a query as to wheth.
er he was a candidate, he said 81
have no more idea of being candi.
date for any position than I have OF
going to the moon"
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DRAIsEvlLLE.

Drakeyille, Aug. 1.-THE old set.
tiers reunion will be held at Drake
vile Aug. 80.
A township Sunday school conven.
ton will be held in the Christian
church at this place Aug. 27.
Mrs. George Taylor is seriously Ill
at his home in this place.
Mrs. O. M. Housley returned to her
home in Van Vert last Friday.
Ira Rough left Sunday for Pennsyl
vania to look for a location.
Misses Inez Truitt and Della Smith
of Ottumwa, are the guests Of Misses
Lou and Nellie Truitt.
Mrs. Minerva Rector, Of Creston
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only trying to be like other boys
who were real boys. Anyway. a fell
low never could play ball with a big
bow tie and a lot of lace around his
"foppy" collar
But why it is that this golden dis.
covery was never made until Judge
McEwen made it? Why couldn't it
have been made when men of the pre-.
sent generation were boys? And how
nice it would have been u be one of
Judge McEwer's boys! Oh!
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WOMAN THIEF CAUGHT IN IOWA.
Ruby Bishop Taken From Vinton to
Fl. Scott, KANSAS.

Vinton Aug. II. - Sheriff Rood
house, from Fort Scott, Kan. came to
Vinton early yesterday morning to se-
cure Ruby Bishop, a young ~irl who
was arrested In Cedar Rapids last
Thursday for stealing harness in Ben
wanted the girl for assisting in dis
posing of a large quantity of stolen
silks at FIT. Scott, where her mother
has been conducting a fence for some
time past. 1t is alleged also that she
is a partner to several other crimes
On August 8 Ruby Bishop and a man
by the name Of Wilson, entered Chas
Theil's barn, farmer in Monroe town
ship and carried away with them a
large amount of harness. They were
driving through the country at the
time with a surrey and three horses
and the officers. after receiving no
t;ce of the theft, found that the par
ties were headed for Cedar Rapids,
and so informed the police of that city.
Last Thursday they were arrested
there and returned to Vinton. The
man gave as his excuse for the theft
that he had been unable to secure
than beg
Tried a Glover Ruse.
The girl seemed very repentant,
begged the officers that they would not
let any one at FIT. Scott know Of her
being under arrest, claiming that there
she was highly respected and that she
would not have her mother know Of II
for anything.
AS. soon as the authorities at FIT
Scott were informed of the arrest
Sheriff Roodhouse was sent immedi-
ately and was able to secure her from
Sheriff Youell here without requisitior
papers, as the crime in Kansas thai
ste is wanted for is much more seri-
Gus than that she is being held here
for.
Sheriff Youell received telegram
from the attorney Of the girls mother
that he was coming to Iowa immedi-
ately, supposedly to prevent the girls
return to Kansas, but by the time hi
arrived she was safely out of the state
On her way to FIT. Scott.
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APPEALS TO VIRGIL WHITE.
Mother Pays Visit to Son In Nebraska
Wants Him to Come Home.

Des Moines, Aug. 17.-Mrs. Fred
White. mother Of Virgil White. who
caused such sensation by his mystic
rious disappearance from this city, is
visiting her son on farm near
Scotia, Neb. She has gone there to
appeal to her son to return to his
home. AS yet all appeals Of his pa
rents have been in vain. He persists
in remaining where he is on the farm
and working as a laborer. Virgil
White is well.
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No, anxious reader, there is no cleo
ton in Iowa this fall The discussion
of political questions you read so much
about does not exist, for this is an off
year, and in off years there is no poll
ticS
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FOR MEN

can cure you Of any chronic us
ease that you may have. Perhaps you
do not realize how much your happi-
ness depends upon the state Of your
health. If you are suffering from any
of the diseases which ruin the lives of
SO many men, uniting them for bust
ness and marriage, call to see me.
can cure you.
My reputation has been built upon
my success an. the truth of the state
ments I have made.
II, after Investigation. (Which costs
you nothing) find that I cannot cure
you l will tell you frankly, thus avoid
ing any expense to you, but
IF / UNDERTAKE YOUR CASE l
WILL CURE YOU.
II you are suffering from nervous
debility want to talk to you. I can
cure this trouble and, by so doing, !, :
store you to health and vigor.
Remember that the longer case is
let run the harder it is for me to cure
Ind the more it will cost you.
See me on my next visit and let me
tart you on the road to health.
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Tom Taggart, not being very busy
at French Lick this season, can take
a vacation. But hold-can Tom af-
ford it with his revenue cut down?
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The Cedar Falls Gazette says thai
about one republican paper in ten ii
Iowa upholds LaFollette in his efforts
to shine in the limelight.
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What's the matter with Philadel
phia? Nothing about Mayor Weaver
and his graft fight for weeks.
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After being in Office little over a.
year the governor of Massachusetts
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This is the era Of good feeling in
Iowa" saws the Dubuque Times. The
democrats and independents feel so
friendly towards the dominant party
that they are willing to assist 1t In
selecting gubernatorial candidate"
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didate for Office, may be for, any old
political policy and no one cares" adds
the Times Just so long as he declares
in favor of one faction or the other"
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By the way, Governor Hanley and
Tom Taggart are not on the best of
terms at present, are they?