Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-18

HOW dS IL oyetlilet anu 1O6o wei 81
ing to initiate the methods of the
modern shows and have simultane-
Gus tworirg performance.
Noting that Paderwski is said to
have broken down through over-din-
ing, the Cedar Rapids Republican
caustically observes: Piano playing
and heavy eating do not go well to-
gether."
The Council Bluff; Nonpareil OBJ
serves that no one seems to have
thought as yet to explain the decrease
in Iowa's rural population by the fact
that the enumerators during the last
census were paid for the number of
names they could dig up and that the
present census is simply an extra job
saddled on the assessor, who gets
mainly THANK you's' for the work.
The Des Moines Register and Leader
explains the voluntary return of a
prisoner to the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary as a proof that life in an Iowa
prison is preferable to life in freedom
in other states.
AS to the danger of the overlooking
of the country through the perpetual
stream of immigration from foreign
lands. the Cedar Rapids Gazette says:
IF there is overcrowding in any sec
ton of the country it Is not apparent
in Iowa. Just where all these people
are going is the mystery. 1t is some
what mystery to know where the
people of Iowa have gone. Instead Of
a more crowded condition there has
been an actual decrease in practically
all the counties of the state
The Algona Upper Des Moines- Re
publican says that labor unionist
who resorts to violence and seeks to
kill or MAIN the men who undertake
the job he has given up is criminal
and should be punished.
after all. is office holding worth the
eandle?" asks the Marion Register.
Not so many as there would seem to
be, or would be, If men who imagine
they want one would give the matter
due consideration before going into the
SWIM"
The Fairfield Ledger suggests that
a. city which can't make its streets
passable for wagons is in poor condi-
ton to take charge of a system of
street railways.
The Mt. Ayr Record says that Chi
cagos city government sis burlesque
on government"
1.-THE Russo-Japanese war will not
be SO popular as topic for COM
meacement orations this year." says
the Sioux City Journal. Most Of the
orators decided it in Russias favor
last year"
Now that France has issued an I'LL
timatum prohibiting Togo and Rojest-
vensky from pulling off that naval bat
tie in French waters, those two sea-
worn admirals may have to go over to
California for their little bout is sug
gested by the Des Moines News.
The Sioux City Tribune says that
brief" of the Chicago teamsters he
must have suspected Tom Watson OF
being the author.
The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
it would be in order for some one to
point out the connection between the
rural populations in Iowa anG Illinois
decreasing and the mail order bust
ness.
THAT venerable chestnut about "a
cold, wet May filling the barns with
hay seems to be destined to have an
other seasons run says the Des
Moines Capital ruefully.
Say all you please about the dande-
lion pest" says the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette, the flower or weed or vegetable
or whatever it is, grows where the
proper effort is not made to cultivate
anything that the owner of the land
would more prefer
The Waterloo Reporter declares that
for practical purposes dealing on The
board Of trade is "as much Samblins