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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-01

mun1cations which give hope for set
Element except the one in which Rus
STA makes her stipulations as quoted
above, the foreign Office officials be-
lieye that an agreement will be
reached between the two warning ma
tons before many weeks have passed.
Meanwhile, in Manchuria, the two
armies are continuing their way to the
slams are in the lead as yet and are
losing no more time than necessary
in their forced retreat. Behind them,
following so closely that the Russian
rear guard is constantly fighting, come
the Japanese, daunted by nothing. Har-
bin will soon be reached by the czar's
forces and a battle will no doubt take
place there. That the issue will be
with the Japanese now looks like q
certainty. With a string of victories
behind them to buoy them up, Oyama' s
men will have great deal the better
OF the argument at Hardin and at
Vladivostok as well.
1t really appears that Russia's only
hope is in making the best terms OBJ
talnable as soon as possible. They will
be better now, no doubt, than after
another battle, just as they would have
been better before Port Arthur fell,
than now. The war has gone far
enough and Russia has lost enough to
Indicate that the struggle will end in
a Japanese victory, no matter how pro-
longed it may be. So Russias hope is
In making peace with Japan, getting
out of the trouble in the Orient as
honorably as is now possible, and turn
Ing official attention to conditions at
home.
These internal conditions in Russia,
though overlooked in great measure,
because Of the war and it's kindred
matters, are serious in the extreme.
In Poland there is great dissatisfac-
ton. Because the war Is taking most
Of his attention and he is not prepared
to deal with affairs at home with the
iron hand that he formerly applied
when not harassed abroad, the car
has granted reforms to Poland which
could not have been obtained in years
and years and possibly never without
the assistance of the Japanese in far
off Manchuria. Other frontier peoples
are dissatisfied. Other reforms must be
granted now that Poland has secured
the entering wedge. Perhaps the war
will prove the key that opens to the
oppressed subjects of the car the door
to greater freedom than they have
ever known before.
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BUNCH.

Bunch, March 29.-Quite a lot OF
land has changed hands here lately
Nose Smith has traded his town prop
erty to Gus Hysteen for his farm Sat
urday. Commodore Hopkins sold his
farm to w. J. Sickle Saturday. Oar
James traded his farm to C. Chatter
ton for farm in Missouri.
j. T. Morrison and wife visited al
the j. V. Adams home last Saturday.
G. R. Jones and family. Mrs. Eta
Clyman and children visited with thei,
mother, Mrs. J. D. Jones last Sunday
on Soap Creek. Mrs. Jones has beer
sick for some time.
Earl West visited with his sister
Mrs. S. Hoover last Sunday.
Calvin Doll visited at the parental
Thomas Doll home last Sunday.
A. e. Paris entertained last Satur-
day with some fine monograph music
w. j. Sickle, of Bloomfield, was in
Bunch on business deal Friday and
Saturday
James Smith, who lives northeast OF
this place, has been confined to his
home for several days with pneu-
monia.
James Burnett is preparing to re-
build new house in place Of the one
that burned down last winter.
Word has been received here that
Elijah Hoover, formerly Of this place
but now Of Mountain Park. Okla, is
confined to his room with a very
severe attack of rheumatism.
Mike Doner had the misfortune tc
get one Of his horses cut in a wire
fence one day last week.
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THE NARROW VIEW,

This recent dismissal of Midshipman
Arrowood from the United States navy
Is well earned rebuke for the
narrow view taken by the young man
and his father Of the religious GUS
toms observed in the navy. Such men
are OF less use to the navy than are
even the happy-go-lucky lads who
care less for their chapel services
than for their regular allowance of
tobacco and their shore leave. Young
Arrowood is the son of clergyman of
the PRESBYTERIAN church, one of the
old Scotch type and a man evidently
who Is extremely narrow in his
religious views. There are some who
are so, not necessarily members of
the Presbyterian church but they NAV
be Of almost any denomination. It Just
happens that the senior Arrowood
is a Presbyterian and believes that no
one can be really a Christian with.
out worshipping regularly in his
church. So, when his son went to
Annapolis, the father announced that
he would like to have him Connect
himself with a Presbyterian congrega-
ton. The minister received the reply
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Pulaski.

Pulaski, March 3O.-Mrs. Foster
Boyd and children left last week for
Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they expect
to make their future home.
Mrs. ], W. Wolfe and Mrs. Volney
Henry of Milton visited at the A. F.
Meridian home one day last week.
Miss Lillian Jay left last week for
Oklahoma, where she will spend the
summer with her sister, Mrs. Mary
Slusher
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Downing, died last Sunday and
was buried Monday
Oh. Dixon has purchased grocery
store at Ottumwa. and will move
there in the near future.
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THE MISSOURI IDEA.

Joseph Folk has defined "The Mis-
souri, Idea," and it is a good one. In
speech at New York Tuesday night
he said: "The Missouri Idea means
enforcement Of the law and that if
the law be bad, the remedy is to re-
peal 1t, not to ignore it." There is a
good point In this, not only for Mis-
souri, but for every state and every
city in the nation. In too many places
pull" is relied upon too much and the
law is regarded with not enough re-
spect-sometimes none whatever.
Mr.. Folk may be called the origin
ator Of the Missouri Idea" 1t is a
sound one throughout and It's enemies
set themselves down Immediately as
enemies of law and order. Mr.. Folk
neld his idea long before he named it.
He made 1T show it's power in St.Louis
when, as district attorney, he showed
up the grafters in the city government
in such sensational manner that the
-sultins wave of popular favor and
desire for right caught him up and set
him in the governors chair at Jeffer-
son City. He still held to his idea
and the Missouri legislators found that
the days Of ring politics had come to
an end in the state. The session of
the legislature which just ended will
long be remembered in Missouri. More
laws were passed to insure purity and
order than have been passed by any
two previous Missouri legislatures. For
the laws passed this year will be
obeyed. They will be obeyed, at any
rate, during Gov. Folks administra.
ton for he is governor in fact as we'll
as in name.
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THE OUTLOOK FOR PEACE.

The world is now talking of peace.
Only a year ago we were beginning to
wonder at Japan's ability to fight and
Withstand the forces of the czar.
Hardly anyone dared to believe that
the little brown men could stay in the
race against death and Russia longer
wore on, the supporters of the ORR
entails began to take hope. Success
followed success. Togo's victory over
the fleet of the car gave the world it's
first hint of Japan's preparedness and
her determination to win Then came
Lao Yang, followed after a while by
Port Arthur, then Mukden. Tie Pass
and next are Hardin and Vladivostok.
No one doubts that Japan will con-
tinue her march across the fields and
rivers of Manchuria until the Russians
are driven to bay and forced to fight
and finally to surrender. Even Russia
no longer has much faith in her
broken and disheartened army. And
so peace is the subject that has taken
the place, largely of the war itself.
Yesterdays dispatches made public
the terms which Russia has said she
would be willing to use as basis for
settlement. These terms, or stipula-
tions, are that there shall be no ces-
sion of territory and that Russia
shall pay japan no indemnity 1t is
left ''up to" Japan to determine
whether negotiations shall proceed
on this basis. Needless to say, Japan
will not agree. This would be virtu-
ally surrender on the part of the lit
Ia 1,,sor <>f oil
have fought, for which they have sacri-
feed thousands on thousands of lives
during the year that has just closed,
for which millions of dollars have been
spent and more millions borrowed.
Japan will not, Of course, make peace
on any terms such as those proposed
by the cars government, but there is
yet hope that settlement will be
reached before the sacrifice is made
very much greater.
No one knows better than do the
Russian authorities that their over.
lures and stipulations will be turned
down by japan, though up to last
night no answer had been received to
the communication sent to Toxic. But
Russia realizes that more or less dick.
ering and conceding will have to be
made by both sides whenever the rep
resentatives of the two governments
meet to arrange treaty of peace. So
Russia is taking her stand in as radi-
cal a manner as possible in order that
she may concede great deal and still
have working margin with which to
partially satisfy her sense of honor,
and to partially repay her for the
losses she has sustained This is ev-
identity the view taken of the affair In
the big European capitals for in
France. though having no official com.
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THE UPPER BERTH.

There is hope that the upper berth
will, in time, become thing of the
past and no one can be found who will
raise the slightest objection. Some
Indiana railroad has done away with
the upper berths in its sleeping cars
and the movement, it is hoped, will
take root in other parts of the coun-
try. The st. Louis Globe-Democrat,
in the following treatise, explains the
reasons every one might cite for hop
ing that the upper berth may be
doomed to an early discontinuance.
For years the people have been
against the upper berth; frequently up
against it, either through haste or
miscalculation while Laundering
around in the lower one. The objec-
ton to the upper berth does not lie
so much in the necessity of occasion
ally occupying it as in lying under it,
1t is trying task TO lay yourself
calmly and carefully away in a cup
board, and further vexation to remain
there, and with all their inventions the
sleeping car makers have as yet pro-
vided no suitable place to put any part
or parcel Of your raiment. They leave
you to the primitive resource of be-
slowing your clothing in crevices and
crannies, as If you dwelt in cave, or
suspending it in a fishnet like ham
mock, whose opening 1t is as impossi-
Bile to find as that of the pocket in a
woman's dress, and whose meshes are
SO large that your collar and necktie
fall through in unending repetition.
With no upper berth you might hang
up your garments in orderly array,
where, If necessary, you could lay
hands on them when the train had
rolled over three times down an en-
bankment, instead of appearing in due
time among your fellow travellers in a
brown blanket and bare feet. Then
there is an additional excellence of air.
Buttoning yourself into your lower
berth, as 1t Is now, your allowance for
air for the night Is buttoned In with
you and you get no more until day
light. So many cubic feet of air goes
with each birth and the company fur
nishes no more except in sultry sum-
mer weather, when they will supply
you with solution of coal smoke and
common country air strained through
a sieve calculated to keep out all ex-
oriae from the engine larger than hazel
nuts. But with tho upper berth re-
moved a prime quality of breathing
material passes through the car over
head, with neither the harrassment of
a bed full of cinders or stiff neck
from an all night draft. Civilization
moves forward, and as it moves it
shuts up the upper BERTH
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MILTON.

Milton, March 2S.-Lucian Edgar
Follansbee gave the fourth number
of the High School Lyceum Lecture
course Friday evening, March "a
His subject was Genius and Gump
ton and the lecture was fine. A large
audience was present.
James F. King, who has been, sick
for the past two weeks, died March
10 at his home In East Milton. Mr.
King was an old soldier, being taken g
prisoner during the civil war and suf
fering privations from which, he neve,
fully recovered. The funeral was
held at the late residence by Rev. w
H. Sayers on March 20.
Clarence Russell and Edward Brown
left recently for Sheridan, Wyoming
Wehere they will seek employment.
d. A. Miller recently closed a very
successful term of school at Craven.
Point. Mr.. Miller Is in the lumbel
business in Milton.
The school board met recently ant
organized. D. A. Miller was elected
president. The directors are D. A
Miller, e. G. Holland, w. H. Craven
]. q. Spence and U. G. Rice. w. H
Hornin is secretary Of the board.
Rev. DR.. Martin returned from Okla
homa last week. accompanied by hi.
sister, Miss Katherine Martin.
U. G. Woolam returned from hi.
western trip recently.
Miss Pearl Moon, who has beer
teaching near Mt Pleasant for the las
few months, has returned home.
Miss Zoe Johnson, who has beer
visiting at Pennington, recently re
turned home.
B. M. Power and Russell Boag arr
in st. Louis.
DR.. j. A. Rice of Corydon was a
DR.. Summers Office last week on Mon
day and Tuesday
e. G. Holland was in Iowa City ant
Chicago last week on business.
Clark Power who has been attend
ing Gem City Business college a
Quincy, ILL.,. is at home.
Rev. j. W. Holland of Evanston. Ill
who is attending Northwestern univer
sity, Is home for few days. He will
give a number Of entertainments Will
here.
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regarding the exchange Of property
after the deal had been completed by
Rogers. The case now being tried is
G. E. Reeves VS.. the Wabash Railway.
The plaintiff claims double damages
for $3.50 for two cows killed on tracks
near West Grove last June.
The case Of w. F. Burrows
tinued until next term.
Carl Bond who has been engaged
during the past two years in playing
! baseball with the Nebraska Indians is
visiting here, and leaves next Monday
for Burlington to play with the Bur-
lington team this summer
w. P. Hall bought eighty-five mead
of horses here on Tuesday afternoon
and paid to Davis county farmers
made by E. D. Morrow, one team, $425;
w. S. Swift, one team, $3.50; L. Dye
one team, $3.50; George Rudd, one
team, $3.50.
N. H. Sheppard has purchased four
building lots Of the Thomas Davis
estate for $1,000, upon which he in
tends erecting four residences.
DR.. Tom Selman. Of Ashgrove, was
in the city Tuesday settling the estate
The residence will be sold in short
time by Mrs. Sadie Forker, of Chicago
who was appointed trustee.
Albert Seabury died at the
home of his son, Oscar Sea-
bury, March 81, 1905, at the
age Of 81 years, 1 month and 81 days
| He was born near Fall River, Mass.
Feb. 1, 1914. In 1S46 he married Mary
A.. Bolles to whom three children were
born, William A. and Oscar H., and one
daughter who died in infancy. Grand.
father Seabury, as he was Familiarity
called spent the most of his active life
as a sailor on the seas. He wa.
engaged for several years in the wlal
! ing industry and had sailed twic,
around the globe firing of this mod'
Of life he came with his family to Davis
county in 1859 and settled in WAGON
dab township on the farm ever sine
known as the Seabury farm. In 1877
| he retired from farm life and made hi
home with his children. His wifi,
passed away in 1895.
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HOW THE CANAL WILL BE DUG

Worlds Work.--Wit. in limits, we
now know lust about what will be
done. The bottom width of the cut
will be 200 feet and the depth 40 feet.
The Suez canal, averaging lis feet
wide at the bottom and permitting a
draft of only 81 feet 10 inches, has
new battleships of the British navy
can now go through it only with haz-
ard, and none of the larger freighters
fully loaded, such as have proved most
economical for the transatlantic trade.
could go through. Even the larger
German lines trading to the Orient
often lose their Storage and
sheer against the sides. The Panama
canal will be able to admit even larger
vessels There must be one lock-a
tide lock-near Mirafores, and pos
sibly one at Bohia, to reduce excava-
ton.
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I SALEM.

Salem, March %. Mr. and Mrs.
William Crew have for their guest
Robert Wilson from Cape Girdeaux,
Mo-
Mrs. Hartz has returned from visit
with relatives at Burlington.
Miss May Franz has returned from
an extended visit with relatives near
Mt. Hamill.
Mr.. and Mrs Bliss are enjoying a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Losey
who are on their return trip to Gales,
burg, ILL.,, from an extended stay at
Seattle, Wash.
Bert Foster and family are at home
in Joseph Dunney's house vacated by
Mrs. Frazier and and family.
VIM. Kramling has sold his farm to
John Plombere. Mr.. Kramling has re-
turned to his home in California He
was accompanied by Hubert Katliff.
G. e. Way and family have moved
into the rooms over John Collatt's
hardware store.
Miss Jennie Ingrim has closed her
school near Belle PLANE She arrived
home on Monday.
Maurice Crosbie from Grand Rapids
Mich, was visiting in Salem on Mon.
day.
DR.. Evans, Mason Miller, Mr.. Col
Inns and Miss Myrtle Campbell were at
Mt Pleasant Tuesday.
Theodore Trueblood and two chill
dren have gone to visit the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Abel True
blood in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Pickering OF
South Dakota and Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram
Joy of Hays City, Kans, are visiting
relatives at Salem. Mrs. Pickering
and Mrs. Joy are sisters and are sis
tiers of Mrs. Judith Boyce Of Mt
Pleasant.
Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gil
lard left for their home at East Troy
Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Box, Mr.. and Mrs
James Box and daughter Helen have
moved into the Conrad building OF
the southeast corner of the park.
Invitations have been received II
this city to the wedding of Miss
Myrtle Pearl, daughter of Mr.. anc
r. e. Cooper Of Vandalia to G. c. Gull
ing. The marriage will take place a
the home Of the parents of the bride
elect at 1880 o'clock Wednesday even
| Ing April 5.
Misses Margaret and Mary Bliss ar
rived from Galesburg, ILL.,, Friday
They will spend their vacation will
home folks.
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Evidently the editor of the Fort
Dodge Messenger has been through
political campaigns before. He is re-
sponsible' for the following effusion,
which he labels: "The Smile That
Will Come Off,"
Alas-All too soon will it's beauty
decay,
And leave us bereft as of old;
Like mist of the morning it melteth
away,
When ballots are counted and told,
And the candidate at the political
trough
Is safely installed for awhile
Yes; after election it's sure to come
off,
That smile
That candidate smile.
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Home Seekers and Settlers.

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month the Iowa Central Railway
has on sale round trip excursion tick.
cts to points in Minnesota, Dakotas,
Canada, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, ETC., at rate OF one
fare plus 81. Return limit twenty.
one days from date Of sale. Stop ov.
ers allowed. For rates, time Of trains.
ETC., call on agents or address,
A. B. Cults, G.. P. & T. A.,
Minneapolis, MINI.
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visiting at this place with relatives
and friends.
Milton Davis returned from Kansas
last week.
The Christian Sunday school Is pre-
pairing for an Easter entertainment to
be given for the benefit of the orphans
home at st. Louis, Mo-
c. A. Smith visited Wednesday with
his son Seldom, near Fairfield.
Etfie Harris is visiting her grand.
mother, Mrs. s. D. Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Warren Of near
Agency, called on relatives at this
place Sunday.
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vegicide Will Cure Dandruff and Stop
Falling Hair.

This has been the experience Of
many people in the last two years,
and what 1t does for others 1t will do
for you.
If you will try it, and after using it
according to directions for three
weeks, you are not satisfied with the
result, you can return what you have
left and get your money. F. B.Clark
agent.
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Rome Girl Wins SPELLING Prize.

Rome, March 30. - In the spelling
contest held at the court house at Mt.
Pleasant yesterday Miss Lulu Pencil
of this place, won the prize offered by
the county superintendent for the best
speller in the county. She is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Pencil, and
her many friends here are glad she
won.
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Rate Reduced S1s.

Commencing March the Iowa Cen.
trail will have on sale daily one way
tickets to San Francisco. Los Angeles.
Portland and other points in the west
and northwest. Rates cut SIS. Through
Tourist cars to California without
change. Call on agents for full par
ticulars or address.
A. B. Cults, G. P. & r. A,
-I.2.4.aLi. Minneapolis. Mimi. 4
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BLooMFIELD.

Bloomfield, March sO-The case OF
Ed Rogers vs. w. H. Barker, which
has been pending in court for the past
week went to the jury Monday morn
Ing at o'clock. At 10 o'clock Tues
day evening the jury returned a YER
dict in favor of the plaintiff for the
sum Of s55.75. It was a suit for COM
mission In which Rogers sued Barker
for 800 commission on the sale of his
arm. Barker having changed his mind
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BLADENsRURe.

Bladensburg, March 3O.-Mrs. Eau
Get, who Is quite low with cancer of
the stomach, is not expected to live
but few days.
Fay Mcclure of Warren county, is
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Southwest coIonist Rates.

On February 81 and March 81, the
Iowa Central will sell special one way
Settlers tickets at half fare plus 50
to points in Nebraska, Colorado, Kan.
sas, Missouri. Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Indian Territories, Texas, etc.
Don't fail to consult agents, or ad,
Cess.
A. B. Cults. G. P. & T. A., /
Minneapolis. MINI.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Mrs. Chadwick says she will explain
everything in the magazines, and the
oskaloosa Herald exclaims. That Is
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How,s rhis2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
least discovered the long lost secret OF
Cure. F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo o.
We, the undersigned. have known B..
j. Cheney for the last Is years. and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable In all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
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"The sending Of Dobson to China
says the Iowa Falls Citizen, "has one
commendable feature-he is a long
ways off,"
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The Keokuk Gate City declares that
"a really meritorious paper does not
find 1t necessary to boast continually
of it's excellence
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Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,

WaIdlng, klnnan q Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constis
patton.
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Walter Wellman has joined the
Russia pipe dreamers for an invasion
of China" says the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette. This is. certainly carrying the
yellow (newspaper) peril right to the
doors Of the main supply depot for
yellow f,urna rityo