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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
WORK FOR EVERYBODY.

Minneapolis Journal.-The claim
has been made during the late pros
porous years that there has been work
for everybody that wanted to work. In
the course of recent investigation in
New York to test this statement us
men were picked out at random, men
wLo Were found in the municipal
lodging houses, all Of them saying
they We're looking for work Employ
ment was secured for thirty one.
Eleven of these threw up their jobs.
Only six stuck to their work. Forty
five men, when it was learned that an
effort was being made to secure work
for them, suddenl-- disappeared. One
investigator dressed himself in old
clothes and set out. When the day
was ended he had sixteen jobs upon
which to begin work next morning.
Several men were urged to take these
positions, but they refused. While
these might have not been drawing
room. jobs, they would furnish any
man a living A certain residue Of
men have no intention of working at
any price.
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MIR. Next on
Ten Year.
Marriages
IBy BILLY BURGuNDYl.

IT see.' said Mrs. Next, that the
Hearthstone League Of American
Wives has blacklisted all books writ.
ten by that horrid Mr. George Mere
dith, who has the audacity to advocate
ten-year marriages"
1T was an awful shock that George
gave the ladies of this land" replied
Mr.. Next, "and | have bunch that 1t
will be some time before they can re-
cover sufficiently to resume their
household duties. knew they would
try to get back at him, and was only
waiting to see what brand of revenge
they would decide upon.
''The women Of this country exude
lot of talk about the trials and trib.
ulations of married life, and put up
the bluff that they look upon the mar
riage certificate as Quit Claim to
happiness. But notice that whenever
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

the newspapers print anything that re.
sembles q threat to repeal the until
death-do-us-part' clause in the conju-
gal contract, we have an epidemic of
hysteria and rise in the price of
nerve sedatives.
Whenever woman gets wise to
the fact that she has annexed herself
to guy who has the courage to hold
out his weekly envelope the price of an
evenings diversion and few cigars,
she goes into a rage and joins wo-
mans club where she can dilate upon
the hinderances Of husband. She
makes it strong that she has an aching
in her heart for freedom, and bids all
the unencumbered of her sex to be.
ware. Her bellowings may have an
abundance Of lachrymal settings scat.
tered through them, but they are bo.
gus nevertheless.
Let one Of those counterfeit pic
lures of repentance catch the cause
of her gloom looking. UP the price of
Dakota. real estate and it's pipe that
she will go into commissions and re.
main on the sick list until she is con.
fronted with an affidavit that he is
not looking for grounds for divorce
1--WE hear a great many arguments
nowadays against married life, but
none Of them bears the 10 KIT. stamp
unless they are imported direct from
men who have been up against the
game. The knocks that send forth
the brassy odor are always made by
dameswho have developed an anciency
without even experience 80 much as
the thrill Of proposal.
"Thess Ieft-at-the-post spinsters
work overtime trying to reduce the
popular estimate Of the value of hus,
band because that is the only way
they have of getting back at the men.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
she could never stand the sight n

she could never stand the sight Of
Cupid.
The game of grab put up by the I'm.
mated femininity of this country has
reached such state of rawness that
q Weak-minded bachelor of means has
nothing better than an outside chance
OF remaining in hoe statu unless he
stays under cover. | have also oh.
served that 1t is becoming the custom
for gay old birds to transfer their,
property to their children as soon as
they become widowers. The slightest
symptom Of return Of the mating in
stinct is apt to make them defendant
in an action to recover damages for
injury done to the cardiac possessions
OF some Eve of their acquaintance.
Makes no difference what sort OF a
he four-fush a woman happens to be-
holding, she is willing to stand pat.
She is hunk to the fact that she might
do a lot worse on a second draw, even
IL there was another such thing com.
ing to her. That is why she is so
strong against all measures calculated
to abridge the term or her hold upon
beast OF burden.
There Is lot to be said in favor
OF ten-year marriages, and by the same
token there is a great zeal more to be
said in favor of reducing the term to
five years with liberal allowance for
good behavior. But it is going to come
from the men. What the women want
is an appropriation for enough dyna-
mite to blow UP the Divorce Courts"
do you mean to say" asked Mrs.
Next, that you are in favor of such
thing as ten-year marriage law"
IF they put it in the code," replied
Mr.. Next, "Pll be the last man on
earth to test its constitutionality In
the supreme court"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
THE FOOTBALL HARVEST.

Returns from the football field show
that twenty players have been killed
during the season which ended on
Thanksgiving day. Today the last big
game of the year is being played, be-
tween the teams representing the
army school at West Point and the
naval academy at Annapolis. 1t is to
be hoped that this contest will not re-
suit seriously. for the list of fatalities
and serious injuries is large enough
now to set the whole country to think
ing. The following list shows the
causes of death in the fatal cases and
the nature of the 1876 most serious in
juries of the season:
Deaths
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
THE PASSING OF coREA.

WASHINGTON Post.--Our friends the
japanese are poor, benighted heath
ems. but when it comes to the great
principles Of national expansion they
act just like Christian peoples do. 1t
Is a trick older than Christianity even.
The Romans practiced 1t on Jugurtha.
Julius Caesar was great hand at the
business. So was the Emperor Trajan.
Whenever country Is to be stolen,
1t Is always done in self defense. That
Ia how Poland came to be partitoned.
Napoleon Bonaparte created the Cisal-
pine republic in self defense. When
that wolf ate the lamb for muddying
his, drinking water it was in self de-
Tense. When Emperor William seizes
Holland 1t will be for that very thing.
JaSan has Corea-for self defense;
but the Japs do not lay their robbery
on God, as we did when we bought the
Philippines from somebody who had
no ownership of them that a court of
justice with any self respect would pay
any attention to. Even as great a
man as Secretary Taft, in Kansas City
Monday evening, delivered himself to
this piece Of cant: I'VE are there be-
cause we could not help being there"
That Is what Japan says she is do
ing in Corea. We have established our
selves In the Philippines for the good
Oh the Fll1p1noS. Japan says that is
her mission in Corea., Cortez said
that was what he was doing in Mexico.
Pizarro said that was all the business
he had in Peru. Alva was doing that
very thing In the Netherlands.
Turenne devastated the Palastinate
because he was thereby the decree
Of fate'-as Taft calls Though
Louis XIV sent him there.
England Is the mightiest instrument
Of fate" in history. not excepting the
Roman empire. She is the greatest
land pirate the world ever saw. In
that matchless Grafton on the "Nabob
of Arcot's Debts" Ermund Burke told
US how England proceeds: Thus
their false moderation and their af-
fccted purity. by The natural operation
of everything false and everything af-
fected, becomes pander and bawd to
the unbridled debauchery and licen-
tious lewdness Of usury and extortion'
That is the English plan. That was
the Roman plan. That is the plan pur-
sued by every conquerer from Joshua
to Oyama. There is nothing for Corea
but submission. AS a state Corea has
ceased to exist
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

local freight to handle. AS they are
not held in check by competition they
charge rates which are always high
and sometimes excessive on local
traffic, and derive large and increas-
ing revenue from it.
The Milwaukee and ST. Paul road
will get much business in the regions
through which its extension is to be
built. It will also get share of the
Asiatic trade. for that will not be
monopolized by the Panama canal.
Presumably the Milwaukee and St.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

Paul road, after reaching the Pacific.
will buy or build freight steams and
run them to China and Japan, as
other transcontinental lines are do
ing.
Canal competitor may force the
transcontinental roads to lower their
rates on through freight. but they
will not permit that competition to
deprive them of much business. There
are certain classes of goods which
they will continue to transp..t in
spite of the canal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

for the canal, the question Of the
character of the bonds and that Of
whether the canal shall be lock or
a sea level canal, will come before it.
1t would seem that all he could ask
would be to be retained on the COM
mittee, the Craftsmanship to go to
some other member. If this is done he
should certainly, under the circum-
stances, consider himself highly hon
orod
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

The passage Of a rate bill--which,
of course, will be carefully considered
will be an achievement of excep-
tional credit for this administration
City Journal. "The o. K of the Presi-
dent will satisfy the people. and they
will see to it that both the President
and the congress are equipped for
further business along right lines"
The American congressman had
better take tour around the world"
says LATE Young in the Des Moines
Capital, presentin~ the absence of the
American flag on the hieh seas as an
argument for ship subsidies.
Some men talk as though the tariff
was responsible for all the country's
ills, but they know BETTER" says the
Marion Register.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette urges
that the press of Iowa hold up the
hands Of Game Warden Lincoln in his
efforts to protect the fish and game Of
the state. Unless there are radical
changes in the law the wild game will
soon be extinct here says the Ga
zette.
OF LaFollette and the doubts as to
his program the Waterloo Courier
isays: But whatever the governors
purposes may be, there is no need for
anybody to become alarmed Thus far
in his political career his efforts in the
cause of good government have been
creditable to himself and Of advantage
to the public. His political enemies
will have to assail him with some
thing stronger than suspicion to shake
the confidence of his supporters in his
jof to- yrit ,.,I no - 1t,
litical purpose"
THE pulpit and the bench have
contributed a share in creating this
wave Of revolution against divorce,
but the newspapers have done most to
form it, and to set it in notion" says
the DUBUQUE Telegraph.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that Nine. Bernhardt took In
$4,000 in Chicago in one week, and
she didn't put on any Clyde Fitch or
George AIDE pieces either.
The Muscatine Journal says that
our public men might as well learn the
lesson now as later that they cannot
serve the corporations and the inter-
ests of their constituents at the same
time.
Who is the most anxious to read
the Presidents Forthcoming message
to congress, the general public or the
corporations? asks the Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
The Des Moines Capital says 1t is
hardly to. be expected that New York
can readily become interested in the
question, What shall we do with
Platt and Cdell?" when for so many
years the all important query has
been, What will Platt and Odell do
with New York;
A Des Moines girl who says she was
kissed against her will Is suing for
$4,000 damages. 1.-THE claim for
damages sounds all right" comments
the Keokuk Gate City, "but the
statement that she was kissed against
her will calls for testimony that can
not be impeached.'
The Clarinda Herald thinks the rail-
road rate question, important as 1t Is,
is of secondary Importance to the
question of interstate liquor traffic.
The Herald earnestly desires the
enactment Of some law that will pre-
vent the express companies shipping
intoxicatin~ liquor into prohibition
counties. IF our statesmen" 1t says
would spend one-half as much energy
In framing laws to protect the homes
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05


An added complication to the Pan
ANA canal situation comes In the
shape Of suggestion from Senator
Mitchell of Oregon that he be contin-
ued as chairman of the senate canal
committee. Senator Mitchell has
been convicted Of completely in GER
tain land frauds and his case Is now
awaiting an appeal to the supreme
court. 1t was presumed that he would
follow the example Of Senator Burton
who has consistently refrained from
even attempting to sit on a commit
tee or to take any part in the deliber-
ations Of the senate either by voice
or vote. ever since he. was first in
dicted. 1t has been intimated, how
ever, that the senator would like to
have the craftsmanship Of this commit
tee at least reserved for him pending
the final outcome of his case in court
While his fellow senators would be
glad to stretch senatorial courtesy to
the limit, in behalf of one SO long an
honored member of that body, at the
same time this committee promises to
be one of the most important of the
senate during the coming session
when the matter of providing money
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

from the curse of the murderous deal
ers In intoxicants as they are spend
Ing In fighting the rebate they would
be doing something that would confer
lasting benefit on the people.
1t is the opinion of the Davenport
Times that nothing could beNmore i'm
practical. more favorable to the rail-
ways and more useless as means of
assisting shippers to set a square
deal than the Foraker plan for regu-
lating railway rates.
The Vinton Eagle argues at length
against giving Governor Cummins a
third term The Eagle comedies that
the governor ranks With any Of his
predecessors in the management of
state affairs, but it cannot bring itself
to admit that state affairs are In such
condition that only by his continuance
can the present condition be pre-
served.
There is rising tide OF sentiment
says the Cedar Rapids Republican.
OF course, 1t would be better if such
legislation We're national, but in the
meanwhile it may do no harm TO afford
some protection to the people of the
States"
o.
The Muscatine journal says that
With the manv improvements in farm
machinery and the rapid advancement
OF the farmer and his methods ii Is no
wonder that he raises bigger and better
crops.
"Over 700 souls have been brought
TO a state of conviction in Burlington
by Rev. William Sunday and he hasn't
vet crimped the edges Of the situa-
ton says the Hawk Eye of that
city.
Twelve millions more for the postal
department next year" says the Mar
shalltown Times Republican, means
fewer battleships and more rural mail
wagons. And in the middle west we
find more use for the mail wagons
Reed Smoot tried to mix politics and
religion, with unfortunate results as to
BOTH The same seems to be true of
Vice President Perkins efforts to mix
l:fe insurance and banking" remarks
the Sioux City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
All c., NJ. G. St. P. and WABASH trains
depart from jefferson Street Union


agent. J. p. WHELAN, Agent.
c. M. & ST. p.
No. Going East Via Cut Off. Time
sa-Washington, Muscatine, Dav-
EXPORT and Chicago $3.50 D. m.
i2a-Washington, Muscatlne, Day- =.
s2bab pege nnd .r aiisshEo .12:95 a. m
Going West.
sa-Ka,.ss city and Intermed,-
5a-seymour, chiliicothe, Excel eel 20 g. M
sef ,Sprl9ggs a rps,a Ransas City "a
ga sdaa-GG1hiII!eothe freight ......12:so p. M
Going East Via Ela.ion.
1ob-Marion, Cedar Ranids and IN
1osb- SMfhfia,' Cedar Rapids and S' a. m.
mo-, MI an nian 3.o,shx 5:45 p. m.
Con1ino West Via M..;o $40 q. M
ec-M eaar.o. Cedar Rapids an In
1osb.Marion. Cedar: Rapids and 20 a. M
ada aheq bescept sunday; ce4 a. M
Monday.
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sURLIMe ION ROUTE, C. q. & @.
No. Goins East. Depart

BURLTNe ION ROUTE, c. q. & @.
NO. Goins East. Depart
12a-Chicago. Dubuque &
Quincy =. .......... 2:03 a. m.
9sSboerl rer s&t 81 ion,. ~ sS
10b-Peoria, Dubuque & Quincy ii $40 n. m.
6a-Chicago Limited =. :. l.: 43 D. m.
4a-tshitsgo, st. Louis & Quincy 7:1O o. m.
aa-Fast mail ................. 8:S7 D. N.
s2a-Chica- 20, Peoria & Rock
~ ford 11.43r. m.
Going West.
6a-Omaha, Council Bluffs
*, l Nebraska ask .12;4sa. m.
Sa-omaha mai Kansas city, Denv ESQ a m.
hot Springs. Deadwood, OK
81 den. Portland & California T:45 A. m
7a-Fast mail !. .s:52 IA. m.
Sb-Peoria to creston ..... lao p. m.
11b-chicago to ottumwa. =
1a-penVer to Omaha IL: % P P M m.
a-daily; o-except Sunday. Nos Z. 8
Via Fort Mathematician Last,
Ft. Madison & st. Louis o.. 900 a. m.
Going West.
From Fort Madison and St.
Louis b) ................. $50 D. m.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
cHIcAeo,Rock ISLAM, q PACIFIC

cHIcAGo,RocK ISLAM & PACIFIC
NO. Going East. Depart.
b206-Keokuk, Kansas City, Call.
fornla and southwest . 9:33 m
b202-Des Moines to Keokuk. sos D. m
a2o4-Eldon. Davenport and Chi
b274-Local freight .........5:05 D. m.
Going West.
a203-Des Moines, Ruthven, West
Nebraska and Washington,
M Mku,scatine, Davenport and
bao1SKeokuk, Des Molnes, ans ~ a. M
non. omaha Omaha. II 80 a. m
SiudHd ......... 7:O5 D. M
.bS73--Loca1 freight .s:15a. m.
a-daily; b-except Sunday
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WABASH TIME FABLE.

No. Arrive. Time.
last. Louis & Kansas City 6:25 a. m
13b-Moberly & Des
Moines :. -. -. ..l1:25a m.
3a--St. Louis & Kansas
City ~. -. -. $50. 7:05 p. m.
NO. Depart. Time.
2a--St. Louis & Kansas
eb-Moberly & Des Moines 4:o5 o. m. m.
4a-st. Louis Kansas City. 9:2o D. m.
a--daily.
For infce.ation crn new teienhona 12aA
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
R..,R. Time Tables.

All c. z. 6, q. and c. r. I. & p. trains
i depart from Washington street
Z. Union depot.
~ w. s. PARKER, Ticket Agent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

.
There is certainly food for thought
in these figures, and 1t is useless for
opponents of the game to contend
longer that it is not dangerous. With
out going into a discussion of the fine
points for they have been threshed
down often enough this fall, it is only
necessary to call attention to the fact
thatIif the game had not been played
in America this year there would have
been twenty families happy where
now they are mourning, and hundreds
Of young men would have been able
bodies whereas they are now disabled,
some of them permanently. If foot
ball was a necessary institution, if it
contributed to the commercial and
material progress of the country.
there would be something gained in
return for the loss of life. but this is
not the case. Other modes of exer-
else, less fraught with danger, can be
employed to build up men physically
while they are students in school and
college. No valid reason for contin-
uing the game, with it's dangers and
it's brutalities, can be given that will
counterbalance the surety of loss Of
life and permanent injury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

Some men talk as though the tariff
was responsible for all the country.
Ills, but they know BETTER" says the
Marion Register.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

from the curse of the murderous deal
ers In intoxicants as they are spend
ing In fighting the rebate they would
De doing something that would confer
a lasting benefit on the people,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

"The American congressman had
better take tour around the world"
says LATE Young in the Des Moines
Capital, presentin~ the absence of the
American flag on the hieh seas as an
argument for ship subsidies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
Tri-Weekly Courier.

Y THE COURIER PRINTING c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

The Cedar Rapids Gazette urges
that the press of Iowa hold up the
hands Of Game Warden Lincoln in his
efforts to protect the fish and game of
the state. Unless there are radical
changes in the law the wild game will
soon be extinct here says the Ga
zette.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
IOWA PRESS COMM ENT.

1.-THE passage of a rate bill-which,
of course, will be carefully considered
will be an achievement of excep-
tional credit for this administration
and this congress-" says the Sioux
City Journal. "The o. K. of the Presi-
dent will satisfy the people. and they
will see to 1t that both the President
and the congress are equipped for
further business along right lines"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

Founded 9Th August, 1s4s.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that Nine. Bernhard took In
$4,000 in Chicago in one week, and
she didn't put on any Clyde Fitch or
George AIDE pieces either.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

THE pulpit and the bench have
contributed share in creating this
wave of revolution against divorce,
but the newspapers have done most to
form it, and to set it in notion" says
the Dubuque Telegraph.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

The Muscatine Journal says that
our public men might as we'll learn the
lesson now as later that they cannot
serve the corporations and the inter-
ests of their constituents at the same
time. I"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05

The Muscatine Journal says that
With the MANY improvements in farm
and the rapid advancement
OF the farmer and his methods ii Is no
wonder that he raises bigger and better
crops.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-29
Real Estate Transfers.

This list is furnished by courtesy Of the
Sisseton Loan and Title Co. A complete list
Will be printed each weck.)
c. II. Tracy to Anton Arnessn. swA section
27-128-5O. 81.
Ole Oyen to Alfred Bondy, M neA, swA
neA, seq nwA, 31-126-52. ss25.
Daniel S. White TO H. L. Spackman and
George Edkins, 40 lots in Sisseton' $500.
Sarah R. Murdoch to Martens Bros. n1 NV
u section Sc, swA swl4 sec 25-122-4S. s1740. !
Werner G. Tracy to Anton Arneson, swA
sec 81 1850. 1920
seA sec 36-12551. $500
Peter Premier ct al TO VIM. g. Porter, nwA
sec 15125.51. S2730.
A. A. Somsen to e. M. Harwood, outlots M
and N Woodwards Addition to Summit $50,
Lotte B. Hess to Fred A. Eastman, lots 6,
White Rock. sl35,
Jamss b. Murray to Peter N. Taunahill,
sw4 se4 sec 1s124-51. 500.
Louisa Bradbury to Jennie Z. Samson, lo,s
3 and 4, block &c, Summit. $50.
United States to Edward W. Mvors. VIZ ne
Il, nwl4 sel4, neA sw14, sec l012331. S.
United States TO Philip Meyers, lots and
4 and 81, nw14, sec 1922 81. SIS.
Alma Stark to n. c. olberg, nwl4 sec 1926
So sasoo
Charles II. Prior TO John Staveley, lots 3
and A. Block Is, Wilmot, 1920.