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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-24
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that they get it. AS intimated mo-
ment ago.. magazine publishers are
persons with a passionate penchant
for profits, They dread the sight of
high-priced writer almost as much as
Governor Vardaman does yellow fever.
That's why they boost, the bug-house
buffoonery of cheap-skate scribes.
And what's the answer? Cast your
organs of vision on your dime month.
ly, and what do you see? Literatufe?
Indeed you don't. Instead, you lind
nothing but the aforementioned, tush-
tush backed up by month-to-month
characteristic by Thomas w. lawson,
Ida M. Jarbell or some other knocker.
when | read in the papers a short
time ago that several very prominent
citizens Of this country had paid sums
ranging from fifteen hundred to ten
thousand dollars for an expurgated
biographical sketch in that book, 'Fads
and Fancies,' my sympathy went right
to every one of them. Why? Because
as soon as citizen of this country
happens to connect with a stack OF
eagles in excess Of his normal needs,
or is nominated for some high public
office the slander-monger scribes do
their worst to him.
Mind you, do not approve OF tho
strong-arm methods used b. the archi-
tects of 'Fads and Fancies' to get sub
jects for copy. Strikes me that they
were rather raw in their system Of
putting the chance to get-back at the
knockers up to the marks. But be
that as 1t may-and it may be very
much worse than that for all know
can readily understand why those
men were willing to pay a swell sum
for a few kind words in type as
sort Of change from what they are
getting, gratis, ftom our standing ar.
my or f1lth-fingers.
''I'll admit that the weak-chins would
rather read knock than boost any
time. Also I'll concede that the weak
chins outnumber the mentalized by an
overwhelming majority. but that's no
reason why the practice of trying to
make libel the synonym OF literature
should escape the optics Of our courts.
when you reduce the matter to the
consistency of candor, you are bound
to admit that this thing Of rotten
egging our prominent citizens with
printers ink has gone too far. The
decent people Of this country never
have, and never will, put their o. K.
on any such 'iterature.' It's too rank
for their olfactories, and they sidestep
! it in spite of the sample copy temp
tations thrust in their way. AS mat
ter of fact, let-up on that line OF
work is due the suffering public as
much as it is Rockefeller, Carnegie,
Morgan, ct al, ad lib
No, nam; there is nothing the mat.
ter with our real authors; they are
all to the good. 1t is the public that's
to blame for the present epidemic of
amateur romances and venom-vend-
ers.
why" asked Mrs. Next, "are you
SO har1 on the public?"
Because its SO easy" replied Mr..
Next.
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THE AMERICAN ARMY.

Washington Post.-It was hardly
necessary for Secretary Taft to reply
to that German editors structures upon
the American army. 1t is a subject
that the editor knows nothing about.
We have not a better army than Ger
many's simply and solely because we
do not need such an army. We have
bers and the warlike spirit of the
American people. We also have the
wealth to foot the bills.
The great Won Moltke said that he
saw many wavs by which he could
land hostile force on the shores of
England; but that he had never been
able tosdiscover a way to get his army
back home. The same is true of
America in much more pronounced de-
gree. An enemy might find lodgment
here but he would stay here, and his
life would be very short.
1t does not take great while to
make a fine soldier Of the average
American The men who fought on
either side at Shiloh had been filling
the soil or toiling in the shop six
months earlier. The two armies at
Second Bull Run were but one-year
soldiers. The veterans who fought at
Gettysburg with the elan Of the French,
the pluck Of the English and the per-
sistence of the Germans were peaceful
citizens two years earlier. If this
country had a powerful neighbor, 1t
would have an army strong enough to
command that, neighbours respect. AS
it is. we have an army sufficient in
numbers for our wants, and If the test
shall come it will be found equal to
the occasion.
1t would be strange If it were other
wise. We are English, Scotch, Irish.
German, ScandinaVian-all warlike
peoples, To these we have added
Latin and Slav. equally warlike This
admixture will make the American of
the future. and he will be able to take
care of himself in war as well as in
peace. He will be-as his fathers are
Ia free man and heir to that liberty
we call Anglo Saxon, its principles and
its customs. All the world will seek
his friendship, and all the world will
shun his enmity. He will not require
a great military establishment.
This editor only shows his ignor-
ance when he characterizes the Ameri-
can army as rotten" 1t is vary
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in the family lot in the Purdom ceme-
terv west Of town. Rev. Chas. e. Per-
kins, of the Congregational church,
delivered the funeral sermon, and was
assisted by Rev. Hawk, Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. The deceased
leaves his wife and many other rela-
tives to mourn his loss.
Mrs. Hereford Of Leando, was in
Keosauqua yesterday on business.
Miss Matte Dake has departed for
California, where she will spend the
winter.
Attorney w. M. Walker is in Bloom
field this week on business.
l.. Cornell was united in marriage
to Miss Grace Holmes, at the residence
Of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Holmes, near Bonaparte, on
Wednesday Of this week. For the last
the Nelse-Morse Co., packers, with
the Nelse- Morse Co., packer, with
headquarters in Boston. Their many
friends wish them we'll. They will de-
part for Boston within a few days
where they will make their home.
Lee Daugherty, Of Keokuk, visited
here several days this week with rela-
tives.
Seward Fellows and Mrs. F. A. Pear
son are in Cedar Rapids this week. the
former attending grand lodge Of the
I. o. o. f., and the latter attending
the Rebekah grand lodge.
J. A. Fowler has departed for Sheri-
dan county, Kansas, to look after land.
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AMERICAS
EXPANSION

The foundation stone of this great
government came in the cession by
Great Britain, under the treaty of
1888, at the close of the revolution,
when we acquired 827,844 square
miles Of territory, being all we own
cast Of the Mississippi river and
north of the then Spanish Florida
possessions.
After twenty years = in 1903 - we
more than doubled our acreage by the
Louisiana purchase from France, add
ing 1,171,931 square miles to our ter
ritory at a cost Of $15,000,000 and &C.
quiring some Of the richest land on
the continent, embracing the expanse
between the Mississippi river and the
Pacific ocean, and between the pos
sessions of Great Britain on the north
and those of the then Mexico on the
south. Thus the second layer was add
ed to our territorial pyramid.
Sixteen years after, in 1919, at a
cost of $6,500,000 we purchased the
Spanish Florida possessions, adding
the third section Of 59,268 square
miles.
During the next twenty-six years
the settlement of our lands was very
rapid and in 1S45, we increased our
territory 376,333 square miles by the
annexation Of the Independent state c1
Texas, at cost of $10,00O,00O This
included what is now known as Texas
with portions of Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory.
This last acquisition got us into
trouble with Mexico, which ended in
peace under the treaty of 184S by
which we gained 545, 1888 square miles
of territory, embraced in California,
Nevada and Utah, with parts of Colo
RADIO. Wyoming, Arizona and New
Mexico, and in consideration of the
payment Of s10,0O0,0O0 Mexico coded
it to us by treaty in 1853.
Then we rested for fourteen years,
and during these fourteen years the
country passed through the most try
iEg ordeal Of its history. In 1867, by
the purchase from Russia, for $780,.
GOO, we added Alaska, a block of ST.
$50 square miles.
Thirty-one years after that Ha.
waii came to us and we gained 6,5S2
square miles.
Closely following the acquisition of
Hawaii, came the last addition, when
for the payment of $20,00O,000 Spain
relinquished to us 161,096 square
miles of territory.
This makes a grand total Of 3,771,.
562 square miles Of territory under
the jurisdiction of the government of
the United States of America.
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PRESIDENT RoosEVELT's RAJ.
EIGH SPEECH.

In his speech at Raleigh, North
Carolina, President Roosevelt re-stated
with great clearness and with his &C.
customed directness and vigor the
railroad rate problem that is now be-
fore the country and upons which the
next congress must act. If any of
the railway managers had come to
think that the President was weaken
ing on this question, they must have
received rude shock on reading his
Raleigh speech. The President is
firmly convinced that he is right about
this matter, and he would say what
he thinks regardless of all the powers
of the universe. In this case, how
ever, he knows that the masses of
the people are with him and it is the
opposition of such men as Senator
Foraker and Senator Elkins in con-
gress that calls for the arousing of a
public sentiment which even the Unit
ed States senate will find to be ire
sistible. The Presidents statement of
the whole question is an admirable
one and covers practically every phase
OF the subject. The speech is pub
lished in full in the Courier coming to
us by the Associated Press service
and 1t is not necessary to re-state the
Presidents arguments in this article.
except to emphasize his reiteration of
the necessity of giving the interstate
railway commission power to
fix and to enforce a rate where they
find an injustice is being done On
this point the President says:
"But in my Judgment the most i'm.
pOrtant thing to do is to give to this
administrative body power to make
it's findings effective, and this can be
done only by giving it power, when
complaint is made of a given rate as
being unjust or unreasonable, if it
finds the complaint proper. then itself
to fix maximum rate which it regards
as just and reasonable, this rate to
go into effect practically at once, that
is, within reasonable time, and to
stay in effect unless reversed by the
courts. | earnestly hope that we
shall see law giving this power pass
ed by congress-
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Mr.. NEXT
ON CURRENT
LITERATURE

The story writer's of the present
time" remarked Mrs. Next, give me
pain. The principal character in
nearly everyone of their magazine
stories Is either an automobile or a
golf ball. What on earth is the mat.
ter with our authors, anyway?"
II have an idea," replied Mr.. Next,
that YOU are putting the stethoscope
on the wrong side of the subject in
your search for the corpus deficit. 'Tis
fact that the odor of gasoline and
vulcanized rubber characterizing the
current brand of magazine fiction has
reached the ad nauscum stage, but it
is not in evidence before this body
that the causus 'belli isslocated in the
fountain pens of the bona fide men of
letters. AS matter of fact, it is, as
the lawyers put it, eX adverse That's
a polite way of saying that the
groundus grumbulus is situated in the
subnormal intellects who comprise the
subscription lists of the modern ten
cent magazines.
THE publishers of these popular
periodicals are supervise set. They
have made pretty thorough qualita.
tive analysis of the hoi polloi gray
matter. AS a result, they are hunk to
the fact that q few more than eight
out of every ten Persons who send in
a case note for a years supply of lit
erature' are perfect shines when IL
comes to telling the difference be-
tween the pen-work of Balzac and
that Of Charles Austin Bates
Wherefore, the presence Of ash-can
fudge aliac aliteratl,re
Make no mistake, we have plenty
of writer's who can turn out the real
stuff, but what's the use when not one
reader in hundred is sufficiently Ger
ebralized to know the difference be
tween a masterpiece and the make
shift of Scranton Pennsylvania alum
nus? Fact is, the publics taste fol
literature has reached such state OF
putrefaction that it's up to the sure
enough fictionists to grind-out slush
gush-mush or go broke.
'The cachoethes scribendi has put
some mighty big crimps in the quality
of our reading matter, too. Seems as
though everyone is afflicted with the
rage for writing. The butt-ins are
shy the head-works necessary to de
pict human nature, so they split the
difference and relieve their graphic
mania by unfolding the romance oil
Pinkie Panhard and Merkie Mercedes
or that of some other members of the
motorcracy.
Take it from me, just as long as
the common people stand for the junl
manufactured by these bogus bril-
liants, the publishers are going to set
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SANITATION IN THE. HOME.

The question Of home sanitation is
of SO great and far-reaching import
ance and the article which appears as
the leading editorial in the New
York Health Journals current number
is so clear and plain upon the subject
that it is reproduced herewith entire
for the benefit of Courier readers:
'"The frs consideration of the home
should be in reference to it's health
fulness. 1t is only by due attention to
particulars that the household is main
tanned at it's best, and this includes
not only the indoor arrangements, but
the immediate outdoor surroundings.
That order is heavens first law has
passed into a proverb and order en-
braces fitness, arrangement, simplic-
ity and above ALL neatness. 1t should
begin with the cellar and end no.
where Too often is the case that GER
tain unfrequented rooms, especially
those below ground and under roof,
are quite overlooked on the occasion
of periodical housecleanings and the
air of the living rooms is made foul
by emanations of decayed vegetables
from below, and the accumulated dust
of the lumber garnet is standing in
vitation to the pestiferous microbe
In populous cities the drain pipes
and sewers are prolific source of dis
ease, to repel which even the most eff
ficient safeguards are incomplete, but
much is gained to health by keeping
the run clear of Instructions, with an
occasional flushing with the addition
OF lime, soda or salt to hot water
THE back yard, however ample or
contracted, should never be used as a
depository of rubbish. On moving or
clearing out days we look upon,
dusty pale of worn-out and utterly use
less rubbish brought to light and won
der where it all came from Not one
thing of all is worth saving or carry
ing away and the whole obtruding col
lection Of good for nothings should
have been long before discarded from
the family storehouse.
I'VE are ant to be too Indifferent in
respect to the environments of our
country homes, which are not Access
sible to any general system of sewage.
All waste water should be carried a
considerable distance from the house
and never suffered to stagnale in the
open air. For want of better means,
it is customary to lead it in drain
pipes to a covered cesspool; but this
method oftentimes the most, convent
ent and economical, is continual
MANAGE to healthfulness, for the
neighboring earth, soon becoming sat
urated, sends off its inordinate moist
use in poisonous exhalations from the
surface.
"If the water supply is from a well,
it should be located beyond the pos
sible impregnation of Objectionable de-
rosits. We have in mind the pollution
of well water--in one instance by a
coward and in another by petrol
cum refinery, located at a distance of
a hundred feet or more. The trouble
may be years in manifesting itself,
but it is sure to come in time. Open
wells in frequent use are preferable to
closed ones, inasmuch as they have
the advantage of continual fresh air
publication. The .needful appurten-
ances of a country home are series
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BLooMFIELp.

Bloomfield, Oct. 2O.-The official
board of the Christian church tender
ed Rev. and Mrs. Ferrall donation
party Wednesday evening, which was a
members of the church met at thu
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. James A Dunn
and upon reaching the Ferrall home,
made their presence known bv sur
rounding the house and singing the
doxology. The noise brought the pas
tor to the Goor in time to join In the
chorus and bid them hearty well
come. Twenty-Five quarts Of fruit and
honey were presented to the hostess,
who was greatly pleased. Each jar con-
tained verse Of original poetry, the
reading of which caused considerable
merriment. The evening was a very
pleasant one for all. 81
The young members OF the K. p.
lodge held very enjoyable dance on
Wednesday evening and greatly en-
joved the music produced by the new
pianola.
The Fortnightly Whist club met on
Wednesday evening at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Traverse. This
honors Of the game were won by Mrs.
w. A. Herman. who was awarded
beautiful hand painted china plate
Mrs. John Burgess received the con-
ISOLATION prize. At the close Of the
game oysters were served. The
guests OF the club We're: Mr.. and Mrs.
II. G. Taylor Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. For
tune, Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Young, Mr..
and Mrs. e. T.. Mathews and Mrs.
Fannie Cook.
On Wednesday. Mrs. ]. A. wilkin-
son received a dispatch from her sis
ter, Mrs. Mary Mott McNash, Of
Viola, Wyoming, stating that her hus-
band, John 'McNash, had been killed
by train on Tuesday. The news of
the accident came as terrible shock
as scarcely three weeks ago, Mr.. and
Mrs. McNash left this city as bride
and groom, their marriage having
taken place at Sheriff Wilkinsons
just two weeks and five days before
Mrs. McNash's maiden name was Miss
Mary Mott She will return to her for
me- home in Troy, where her parents
reside.
Mrs. Geo. Dunn left Thursday for
Milton to spend few days with her
daughter. Mrs. +. Z. Weiney
Mrs. Guy Nicholson, Of Selma. is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Priest.
George Harris is seriously sick with
congestion of the stomach.
DR.. Eunice Daily, of Cambridge,
Neb.. spent Thursday with Mrs. A. B.
Gilbert, while enroute to Troy to spend
Thanksgiving with her parents. Rev,
and Mrs Daily
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ALBA.

Abba, Oct. 2O.-Yesterday proved to
be another bad day. for the carnival
The rain fell almost necessarily and
the people were unable to visit the
street fair at all.
Clegg Boud and family will go to
Iowa City this week where Mr.. Boud
has accepted position in a jeweIry
store.
Rev. VIM. Porter Is expected home
Monday from Richland and other
points in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Stanley have
moved into the property owned by
Miss Hammond on East Franklin
street.
Lee Rowe, mail clerk, has had his
now spends his nights at Abba, and
also every other week. His former
run was from Peoria to GaIesburg.
Several plain DRINKS were taken In
charge yesterday by the city officers,
and received the just rewards of their
deeds. John Gordon, who runs a hot
lunch counter, struck a young Italian
arrested for assault and battery, but
was later exonerated from the charge
by Justice Falvey.
The following girls of the Abba
high school, have organized a bas-
ket ball team with Miss Merle VIII
kin for coach and John Elder assistant
coach; Ruth Fall and Blanche Noble,
l.. c.; Blanche Heiserman and Caro-
line Elder, r. G.; Josephine Clever and
Margaret Love, r. E.; Maud Forester
and Hazel Conner, L. f.; Blanche
Esshom and leila Asbury, center.
Eugene Loeb is in st. Joe this week
for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Shaw ex-
pect to spend the winter with their
ington, MINI.
Miss Carrie Anderson Is enjoying a
visit from her niece, Mrs. Bert Bech-
TEL Of Duluth, Mimi.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Congressman Hull is quoted as say
ing he would like to have one nominal
ton without a fight, and the Spirit
Lake Beacon suggests that, on the
other hand there are people who would
like to see him have one fight without
a nomination.
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good army, sufficient for the needs Of
a free people who rule themselves and
have no practical use for a war lord.
AS for the navy. which this editor says
has neither officers nor crews-the
navy has enough glory to subsist on
until the next war, and, then it will
be found where danger is and where
glory Is to be had for hard knocks.
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RAMSEY GUILTY.
Jury at Sigourney Brings in lndct-
n1ent Anainst Him

Jury at Slgourney Brings In lndict-
ment Against Him.
Sigourney, Oct. 21.-The jury in the
case OF the state against George Ram
sey brought in verdict Thursday
finding the prisoner guilty of robbery
as charged in the indictment. Ramsey
is about 1S or 10 years of age and
looks to be several years younger than
that. He was indicted for robbery of
the home of Levi Brady near Richland
in company with one Guy Scott In
his testimony he swore that he was
with Scott when the robbery was com
mitted, but that he stood on the out
side, refusing to go in with him. When
he was arrested he had some of the
stolen property on his person, but he
claimed that Scott gave it to him. Not
W1thstanding his youth he maintained
a spirit of GOODNESS and indifference,
not moving a muscl. or showing bit
of color during the pronouncing of the
sentence. After promising to investi-
gate his case Judge Scott sentenced
him to three and half years at hard
labor in the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son.
Iowa VS.. Lotus.
one of the recent decisions handed
down by the state supreme court is of
great interest to Keokuk county peo-
pie. That is the reversing of the Grim
1nal case of the state of Iowa VS.. Mary
b. Lotus. Mrs. Lotus is the divorced
wife of James Lotus of Delta, and
was convicted of adultery with Will
liam Merrifield, who was also citi-
zen of Delta, prior to his falling into
the clutches of the law. For several
years Merrifield and Mrs. LOTUS were
on more than intimate terms and last
winter they left for Omaha, where the
state claimed they lived as man and
wife. While there Merrifield made out
voucher for his pension and through
the voucher the sheriff located them
They were arrested and brought home
and Mrs LOTUS divorced husband
brought action against her for adultery
She was tried and convicted and sent
to serve term in the Anamosa prison
Her attorney, Senator Brown, appealed
to the supreme court on the ground
that divorced husband and no right
to bring an action for adultery against
a divorced wife. The supreme court
sustained Mr.. Brown and Mrs. Lotus
was given her liberty.
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BoNAPARTE.

Bonaparte, Oct. 20.-Lloyd Cornell.
OF New York. and Miss Grace Holmes
were married Wednesday at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John Holmes. Rev. Clark, of the Pres
byterfan church, officiated.
The Prashxterian SUNDAY school
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KEosAuouA.

Keosauqua Oct 2o.-The funeral Of
the late Ord Brown was held this aft
ernoon at the residence Of his par
ents, Judge and Mrs. Alexander
Rrawn- and tho ran1aina uera hurled
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A PROFESSOR OF NEWSPAPERS

A PROFESSOR OF NEWSPAPERS,
The faculty of the university of Chi
cago has already many things for
which it must answer. Its IN embers,
sometimes one and sometimes another,
become know1- more or less favorably
from time to time by reason of some
more or less frivolous or foolish idea
they may advance. Not long ago one
of them warned his classes that they
would become birds, or snakes, in
something like ten million years. 9th
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DR.. AND MRS.
r. PARKER,
Chiropractors.

Baker Bldg. Office
sours. 1880 to ) p. M
R9 Lillian street. Sto 12
a. M, and Z to 9 p. nj.
Chiropractic is the only
curative science whose
foundation is auatomic-
ally correct. The CHR
ppractor removes the
cause of all disease while
others can but benefit, as
They treat affects.