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

way?" asks the Des Moines News.
IF anyone doubts Burlngton's abil-
ity to whistle and be cheerful under
adverse circumstances, let him look
upon the face Of the average local base
ball fam says the Burlington Hawk
Eye.
the Davenport Times thinks 1t is
about time the people who have been
making it a business to circulate
stories in regard to the forthcoming
resignation of Secretary Wilson should
cease to circulate reports Of that kind.
The Times points out that the secre-
tary says he will not resign, and,
Furthermore. it considers 1t quite I'M
likely that the President will ask for
tn resignation of man who has the
nerve to ferret out scandals in the
department over which he presides.
The Marion Register says that the
south's yellow fever is nothing COM
pared with the north's affliction-yel-
low journalism.
able to jolt Secretary Wilson out of
his chair, but quite number Of clerks
got jolted out of their seats" OBJ
serves the Clinton Herald.
Secretary Wilson continues to look
as big as ever, or, if anything, a lit
tie bigger" remarks the Sioux City
Journal.
very much as though Mayor Dunno
of Chicago. and the Hon. James Dali
rymple, municipal ownership expert of
Glasgow, Scotland, had had a serious
falling out. Hoot Mon!"
A negress on Long Island, who has
just passed her Tooth birthday, attri-
butes her longevity to Gods kindness
and hard work." Perhaps some folks
ance of the former to make UP entire
ly for the latter says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
Stout. rugged, hearty men in Kan
sas have refused s25 week to work
in the harvest fields" remarks the
Keokuk Gate City. Some were min
listers, some We're doctors, but most of
them were lawyers. 1t may be set
yers simply will not work.
Norway had better finish the job at
one fell swoop and become a repub-
lie instead of by easy stages" says
the Burlington Hawk-Eye Pulling
tooth. or cutting off dogs tail, has
no conditions favorable for serial mum
bers.''
The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
that 1T may be that the men who are
trying to kill the sultan have only the
desire to terminate his sufferings.
o.
In the opinion of the Marion Regis
ter one thing is pretty well settled
the next governor of Iowa will be ar
editor. $50 far about a score of quill
pushers have been very handsomely
mentioned by contemporaries" says
the Register, for which the men re-
ferred to are no doubt thankful, but
II will take convention votes to decide
the winner Who'll get 'em no one
knows now"
President Roosevelt has agreed to
pay the plenipotentiaries visit when
they begin business at Portsmouth
and the Clinton Herald says this
means. that he will have something to
say about the terms of peace.
The Sioux City Journal says that
the intimation that China will de-
mand indemnity of Russia is received
in st. Petersburg as the most unkind-
est cut of all.
The Council Bluffs NonpareIl OBJ
serves still an unseemly disposition in
some quarters to call attention to the
fact that Julian w. Richards, once OF
Waterloo, now cosmopolitan and citi-
zen of the world, finds it more agree
able to live elsewhere than in Iowa.
o
I'VE are tired of hearing so much
about John D. Rockefeller" says the
Muscatine Journal. "In the name OF
common sense let's give him rest"