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Some marry for love, but the minis-
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Silence may bring troubles which no
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One thousand Ladies' Handker-
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lawn, every one hemstitChed, worth
as usually sold sc. Here in the Red
Sale at
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-24
BELkNAP.

Bclknap, Aug. 22.--Mr. and Mrs.
George Hockersmith and two children,
of Drakeville, and A. j. Mum a: d lit
tie son, Of near Bloomfield, spent Sun
day at the parental J. T. Mum home.
John Hart, of Roswell New Mexico,
is spending few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. o. C. Bell.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Dillon left Sat
urday evening for Eldon. Clyde Spohr
is taking Mr.. Dillon's place as day
man at the tower.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Thompson, Of
South ottumwa, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Thompson.
Charles Wisha-d was able to return
home Sunday evening from Ottumwa,
where he has been since his fall from
the train.
Miss Myra Bolivar returned home
Thursday evening from visit at Kan
kakee, ILL.,, with her friend. Mrs. .1abel
Lock.
Mrs. Harvey Conner was on the sick
list last week.
Mr.. Tharp, of Moulton, who has Just
graduated from the college at Dav-
export, was caller at T. e. Putman's
Saturday
Miss Flora Myers and niece, Miss
Stella Myers, visited at Locust Grove
Sunday with Mrs. John Buchanan.
Miss Bessie Rhoads, Of Bloomfield.
was guest Saturday at the home Of
Francis Niles.
Mastar Rollo Eharlina and sistara
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all the way to Moscow to impress the
fact upon the public. In the old days
when might alone made right that
would have been the logical end of the
war and the only end, but the world
or the greater part OF it, now seeks
universal peace.
This is the idea that prompted Presi-
dent Roosevelt to call the conference
of the peace ENJOYS now meeting at
Portsmouth. When he saw that they
did not make good progress he held
conferences with Russians and Japa-
nese separately and advised them to
compromise. Arbitration is the basis
upon which he counseled settlement
of the difficulties, though he did not
advise them to resort to that system
now or at all if not absolutely
necessary. This is step in the right
direction toward the universal
peace for which the whole civilized
world hopes. The United States made
a precedent when she paid to Spain an
enormous sum for the Philippines, al
ter defeating the Castilian nation in
one of the shortest wars of impor
lance known to history. Russia ane
japan could set another precedent by
compromising and ending their wal
now. And President Roosevelt has
shown them the way.
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Miss Lois spent Sunday near Sherman
chapel with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Mum.
The women of the Methodist Episco-
pal church decided Sunday to give an
ice cream social Saturday evening,
August 26, proceeds to be applied on
Rev. III. e. Buffers salary, which is
greatly in arrears. 1t is hoped there
will be generous donations and that
a large amount may be realized from
the social. All members, friends and
well wishers of the church are cor
daily asked to assist in paying the in
debtedness.
Some of the children enjoyed pic
mic supper in the Congregational
church yard Saturday evening.
James Spilman of Ottumwa, and
Will Strickland, of Floris, spent Sun
Ora Thompson.
| Will Guile and little daughters
Beryl, of Moulton and Miss Allie Nor
ris, of Ottumwa, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Elmira Morris.
| Miss Lillian Bracklev of Indianola
a graduate Of Simpson college, who
Is to teach this year in the Norma
school at Bloomfield, is to give ar
evolutionary entertainment at the M
E. church Saturday evening, Sept. 2
| Mrs. S. e. Donaldson, of Ottumwa
was the guest Sunday of her niece
Miss Emma Smock, leaving that even
| ing for Drakeville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Sayles, of Drake
vile visited friends at this place OF
Sunday and attended Sunday school a
the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Post spent Satur
day in Ottumwa with Mr.. and Mrs
George Lester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Burkhalter, o
Kankakee ILL.,, Mrs. Saah Burkhalter
and Frank Burkbalter, Of Soap Greek
were Belknap visitors Saturday. Mrs
Charles Burkhalter left for Trenton
for visit with her sister, Mrs. Emm
Owens. Mr.. Burkhalter's health 4
still improving.
Mrs. Myrtle Hoffman and littl
daughter, of near Bloomfield. wer
Belknap visitors yesterday.
Arthur Williamson has secured EN-
ployment in Bloomfield, beginnin
work there yesterday.
Miss Edith Coke, who has bee
working for some time in Bloomf1 elt
has returned home, but expects t
leave soon for Des Moines for a visi
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Johnson.
Leonard Smock left last week 70
South Dakota, to help with the thresh
ing there
James Frady, Of Keokuk, was a visi
tor at the T. B. Cameron home tn
first of the week
Mrs. Sarah MCGEE returned HON
Monday evening from an extended Wis
it in PER- township, and in Ottumw
with friends.
w. H. Spohr left this morning fc
Gilman to work in the canning fac
tory.
Lloyd carnes, of Guthrie, oklahom
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THE ABODE OF rRAeL ~.

There are lew spots in the world
with fewer good points than the is
land of Sakhalin, which Japan and
Russia have chosen to haggle over and
which will in large measure decide
the result of the peace conference at
Portsmouth. A writer in the Pail Mall
Gazette. London, gives an interesting
description of the place in the follow
ing article:
"Sakhalin is the place to which Rus
STA sonds her violent convicts. The
convict at Siberia has some liberty to
console him for his detention, but the
convict at Sakhalin none. When a
party of convicts (having been pro-
nounced violent by the governor of
the Siberian station) is landed at SAX
halin the procession to the jail is as
follows: First among the prisoners
come men with letters on their legs
and linked together in pairs, the
clanking of their chains making a
lugubrious noise. Next come half a
dozen men each without letters, but
secured by the hands to long iron
rod Then FOLLOW female prisoners
and after them the most affecting part
of the whole-the wives and children
exile their husbands and fathers. Be-
hind them rumble 'telegas, Or rough
wagons, wherein are transported bag
gage and those who are too young or
infirm to walk.
when on tho march the prisoners
are allowed three pounds Of bread and
one-half pound OF meat each day, and
they are not forbidden to receive aims
But when they arrive at their destina-
ton their lot is pitiful one. Their
cells are damp and fungus covered
their food is less than the allowance
during the journey and their work in
the salt mines Is most exhausting
Many of the prisoners are very ignor
ant. Few of them can read excepting
the Caucausians, but they are all put
to the same laborious work and in the
event of their being physically unable
to perform their allotted tasks thei1
punishments are very cruel. The En-
g.lo4. cato nine tails is nothing tc
t., terrors of the 'bodiga.' In this
instrument of torture the prisoner is
so fixed that he can neither move mol
cry out an wire thongs bound at the
end with pointed tin strike his back
at frequent intervals.
"Other tortures to which prisoners
are subjected are too dreadful to write
about, and during all these tortures
the prisoner is prevented by gag!
from obtaining even the poor relic
of a scream Surely the horrors O
the salt mines of Iletskaya are nothing
compared with the denominations o
Sakhalln."
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FLoRls.

Floris, Aug 22-Miss Edna O'Neal
is visiting relatives in this city this
week.
]. M. Pedon was a Bloomfield caller
last Wednesday.
Delbert Christy spent Tuesday in
c ttumwa.
Jesse Smith visited at the Joe ROUGH
home last Wednesday,
Lonial Bolivar made business trip
to Ottumwa last Tuesday.
Miss Edna Conner, of Keokuk, is
visiting friends at this place.
Fred Murphy spent a few days las
week at the ]. R. Eddy home.
Grant Smith made business triI
to Bloomfield Wednesday.
N. c. Hale stepped on a rusty mai
last week. He is now able to ge
around on his clutches.
w. H. Ostrander left Friday for De
Moines.
Elder Hastings closed their review
on advantism Friday night.
| Miss Parella Lang spent Saturday a
the G. H. Bolivar home.
| The Adventist meeting conducted b,
Elder Hastings closed last Friday
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LIRERTYVILLE.

Libertyville, Aug. 22.-Mrs. Sarah
Elair is very sick.
Tyler Cornell is confined to his bed
most of the time.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Watkins, Jr.,
Miss Cora Watkins, Fred Strausberg,
Miss Nellie Warner, Miss Mary Car
ter, Miss Mollie Roribaugh Will Hill.
Misses Bertha Hill and Martha and
Ray Richards are attending the Chau
tauqua at Fairfield.
Large numbers from here drive to
Fairfield to attend the Chautauqua ex-
ercises.
Mrs. Simmer few days ago fell
and injured one of her limbs quite
badly. She is now slowly recovering.
Corn has made remarkable i'm
provement in the last two weeks. 1t
is believed that some fields will make
at least 90 bushels per acre.
The recent rains have greatly i'm
proved the pastures and started the
meadows.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smiley leave
for Pennsylvania the first of the week
for a months visit.
Mr. HILL of Dacorah visited over
Sunday at the Home his uncle, James
Hill. of this place.
Mrs. Virgins arrived Friday and is
a guest at the home of her father, M.
d. Peebler. She brought with her DR.
Wincell's two children.
Miss Cecil Chedale, CT Mt. Pleasant
is visiting in this vicinity and expects
to remain several days.
| Crowds of people went to the Bir-
mingham camp meeting last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Lytle, of Denver. Colo.
are visiting friends here and will re-
main several days.
Jesse Cornell, of Eldon, narrowly
escaped a serious accident Saturday
evening. He started from Eldon or
o railroad bicycle to visit his sick faith
er at this place. The night was dark
and when near Libertyville he collid-
ed with a loaded hand car. Both were
making high speed, and when the col.
4 lision occurred the bicycle was sem
flying off the track, dumping Mr.. Cor.
nell into the ditch. He was not seri.
ously injured but thoroughly shaker
1 up.
Miss Lille Swartz and her half.
brother, Lee Loveless, who have beer
visiting in Oklahoma for a couple O.
weeks, returned last week.
i DR.. Harry Hurst, Of Eldon, was il
! town Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-24
LIFE INSURANCE IN IOWA.

The life insurance scandals In New
York and the subsequent oustlng OF
a number OF high officials in one COM
pany, the confessions and designations
of directors and the exposures made
by the state superintendent OF lnSur-
ance have served to emphasize what
has long been known in insurance cir
cles. that mere bigness is not proof
either that company is honestly man
aged or that. it is serving the best
interests of it's policy holders.
There never was time when condi-
lions were more favorable to call at
tention to the Importance and the
benefits of the smaller life insurance
companies such as have been organ
lied under the very strict and con-
sentative laws of the state of Iowa.
They are capitalized sufficiently large
to be able to handle their business
But the volume of their business is
not so great that their directors can
not examine every detail of the invest
ments made by the officers for the in
surance company. In this is an ele
ment of safety that cannot be equalled
by the "largest-in- the-world" kind OF
companies. In this way the tempta
ton for officers to juggle the funds is
removed 1t cannot be done. But thai
is not all. Those officers are known
live here and can be trusted. MOI
having to pay excessive commissions
for new business, because these com
panies are net in a mad race to become
the biggest, a certain expense is
saved and money for dividends is MOI
diverted from the older policy hold
ers to add new policy holders. Again
having no costly investments the re
suit Of plots by officers to make the
insurance company buy what the!
have to sell at a high rate Gas ha'
been done in New York; the profits
of the company on it's investment
are larger and this benefits policy hold
ers by reducing expenses. Again, NJ
$4,000 salaries are paid to officers
The company funds are invested il
gilt-edged property. The Iowa inspec
ton is rigid.
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was visitor Saturday morning at tha
Z. e. Putnam home.
Mrs. Mary Sharon stepped on rusty
nail the first of last week, driving 1t
quite ways into her foot. The
wound while not dangerous, caused her
great deal of pain. She is now con-
s;derably better
Misses Hattie and Ora Thompson
spent Sunday evening in Floris with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Conner and chill
dren are Spending the day with Mr..
and Mrs II. s. Conner.
John Riley, a broth OF Station
Agent Thomas Riley, and a former
resident of this place, is now conductor
On the freight going north in the morn
ing and back in the afternoon.
Rev. Butler stated here Sunday that
his little son, Harvey had been sick
with a threatened attack of typhoid
fever, but it was now thought that the
fever was checked s
Miss Hattie Thompson, who is work.
ing in Ottumwa, spent Sunday here
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G,
Thompson.
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PRESIDENT RoosEvELT's PEACE
PLAN.

The recent developments in connec-
ton with the negotiations for peace
indicate that the conference at Ports
mouth will result in failure, but some
hope is still expressed in some quar-
tiers that the ENJOYS will yet reach
an agreement The postponement OF
the session called for today until to-
morrow could be taken as a good sign,
for If both parties were determined
not to yield there would be no rea-
son for delaying any longer the mo-
ment Of the dissolution of the con-
ference
Whatever may be the outcome, the
powers must recognize the fact that
President Roosevelt has done every
thing possible to bring about peace.
1t was big undertaking that he as
sumed Of his own volition-the task
of bringing together on friendly
basis the Representatives of the two
warning nations, for the purpose of
talking over the conditions and the
possibilities of affecting treaty. He
got the ENJOYS to come to America,
he has made cir meeting possible,
and through his orders they have
been given every courtesy, both Off
cial and unofficial, while in the coun-
try. The fact that they have failed
to mako peace, if such result does
come out of the conference, is no.
fault of President Roosevelt but
rather of the people of the two ma
tions who will not allow their ENJOYS
to recede from their widely different
positions.
It was admitted in Portsmouth yes
terday by Russian high in the coun
ellis Of the nation that the ignorance
of great many people of Russia
brought on the war. Many of the
cars subjects and of his own trusted
advisers. in fact, overestimated the
prowess Of his armies and sadly under
estimated the abilities of the sol
diers of the mikado. The japanese
war party, it is shown by the pro
gress Of the war, had more truth on
their side when they declared that
the island fighters could vanquish
the armies of the car from Manchu
ria. But now that the war is practi
cally at an end in SO far as the &C
tual result is concerned, it is time tc
make peace. Ignorance is no valid ex
cuse for Russian opposition to peace
A beaten country must expect tc
make many concessions. If the Rus
sian war party does not realize that
Russia is defeated the rest of the
world does, and 1t is not necessary fol
Japan to chase the Russian soldiers
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ALBA.

Abba, Aug. 22.-In canvassing the
mulct saloon petition, the board of SUI
peryisors decided that the names of
persons who had died or had gone from
the county since the last election
should not be taken from the poll
books and acted accordingly, thus
making the number of names on the
petition the requisite per cent of Mon
roe county voters. The Law Enforce
ment league declares that the board
has overstepped its legal authority in
striking the names from the poll books
and has asked for a writ of certiorari.
The case will be heard today by Judge
Eichelberger at Bloomfield, and if he
decides that the case should be heard
vacation. General Baker, of Center
vile, and Attornev Price, of this city,
will go to Bloomfield tomorrow to urge
the granting of the writ. while County
Attorney A. G. Parry and Fred D,
Ernest will look after the interests of
the other side.
Mayor Wood disposed of four cases
this morning Thomas Murphy and
Thomas Stone We're fined $50 and costs
for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct Joseph Price was tried for n
terfering with an officer in the dis
| charge of his duty, but the evidence
was insufficient for conviction, and he
was dismissed. William tanning, col
ored, was also fined $40 and costs fol
| ntoNication and disorderly conduct
The three are now working out theil
fines on the city streets. Stone strong
ly refused arrest and it was necessary
/ for the officers to use considerabi.
force before he was placed in Jail.
Mrs. Clegg Bond and little daughter
returned yesterday from Marshalltowr
where they spent the summer with
relatives.
Mrs. j. T. Porter returned from
Burlington. last night with her little
daughter, Marjory, who has been under
the care of an eminent specialist o
that place, the past two weeks. Thu
! little girl is much improved.
The women of the Missionary soci
ETY. will meet with Mrs. Horny Taylo
next Thursday at $50 p. m. Convey
ances will be at the church at
o'clock.
\ Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Palmer, from
4 near Avery, were visiting in Abba yes
il terday.
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The reciprocity convention delegates
will have to look over the records to
find whether thel.' dual tariff plan isn't
already copyrighted If news from
Washington can be believed, and it
is news of such character that it
is hard to refute, that plan was sug
gested by none other than Leslie M
Shaw, who in two recent speeches
has mentioned it and has shown evi
dence of having delved deeper into the
subject than most of the people who
attended the convention in Chicago
last week
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~
ences which were obliged to pay to
hear him Mr.. Lawson was not a
trained speaker; in fact, he had never
made a speech before, and his subject,
Finance, would under ordinary circum-
stances be about as dry subject as
could be found. Here you have then
private citizen. without experience as
a speaker, invited to address paid
audiences, half of them women, on the
drlest subject in the world, at the hot
test time of the year, in a section OF
the country where you would not eX-
pect to find any interest in the subject
of stocks and bonds; the farmers busy
harvesting, the railroads hostile, refus-
ing to help swell the crowds with ex-
cursions. And yet in spite of all these
conditions, Mr. Lawson spoke from
two to four hours at a time, to audi,
ences ranging from 5000 to 5000 per.
sons, who paid anywhere from twenty
! five cents TO a dollar to hear him
spoke on the dry subject of finance
and spoke so convincingly that his
audiences, both men and women, lis
tened with an attention so close and
an interest so intense that to those
who were of Mr.. Lawson's party the
strain was almost painful. The audi
ences scarcely breathed; the intense
heat and the uncomfortable benches
were forgotten. So still were they
that those on the fringes of his larges
audiences in omen tents could heal
every word delivered in tone bu
slightly elevated above the converse
tional"
Evidently the people of the ives
don't know themselves. what the,
thought of Lawson. Someone doesn't
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-24
LAWSON IN THE WEST.

somewhere, someway, someone has
made mis-statement. Of course, it
has not been intentional. No one
would say that it was But there are
two statements about the same subject
and they do not agree. Now, one of
them must be wrong That is a logical
conclusion of the first order. The sub
ject is the visit of Thomas w. Lawson
to the wild and untamed west Mr.
Lawson came out to this. country to
deliver message. He told the people
who had come from their hayfelds and
their busy stores, to "sell all the bonds
and stocks, flood the Wall street mar
ket with them, kill the system" Just
where those same farmers and store
keepers are going to secure all these
eastern properties is not clear from
Mr.. Lawson's speech, but that is his
advice, his message.
In the west, where the people have
too much to do to give all their atten-
ton to Wall street and it's SYSTEM .
Mr.. Lawson's speech didn't appeal very
strongly to very many of the citizens.
Many heard him and enjoyed hearing
him, just as they would enjoy seeing
a one-ring circus or any summer diver
sion, but if they themselves are to be
believed, the majority agrees with Gov
ernor Hoch of Kansas, who says that
| Lawson told the people of the bleeding
state things they already knew and
gave them an impracticable bit of ad.
vice as to how to remedy the existing
evil conditions.
Now, here comes the other state.
ment. Whether it is the mis-statem ent
or not is left to the people who heard
, Mr.. Lawson. 1t is from the pen of Mr.
Ridgeway of the Ridgeway-Thayer
company, the publishers of Everybodys
Magazine, in which Mr.. Lawson's
| "Frenzied Finance" is published. 1t fol
lows:
1T is rather remarkable that Mr.
Lawson should have been invited west
| in the first place-a private citizen
seeking no Office, taking no pay, paying
! his own way, and speaking to audi