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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-04
SEED CORN TRAINS.

Lecturers who know all about the
best way to raise corn, prepare soils
for good crops and till it scientifically,
are travelling along the lines of the
Burlington Route this week, talking to
the farmers and advising them as to
the best way to make this years crops
in Iowa the best the state has ever
produced. The Burlington last year
conducted seed corn train with Pro.
lessor Holden as the principal lecturer,
and the results we're noticeably good.
This year the plan is being followed
again and the success of last year has
decided the officials Of the road to
make the scheme a permanent one.
Today the Burlington's train Is in
the western part Of the state. Tomor-
row night lecture will be given at
Creston and Friday morning the train
will start south from Charlton, stop
ping at Leon, Corydon, Garden Grove,
Centerville, Moulton, Bloomfield, Farm
ington and arriving at Fort Madison
for an evening lecture. Saturday
morning the train will be run from
Fort Madison to Batavia over the Fort
Madison branch and east from Batavia
to Burlington where an evening lecture
will be given.
Ali farmers living within driving dis.
lance of the stations where the train
will stop should not fail to hear the
lectures. Though the tiller of the soil
is, as a matter of course, well &C
quainted with the work in which he
is engaged, scientific study of the
care of grains intended for seeding,
and the best plans of preparing the
soil for the best production has proven
that the farmer who links scientific
knowledge with practical knowledge of
the farm is the ono who produces the
best results.
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they will visit Mrs. Ivy oppenheimerI

they will visit Mrs. Ivy Oppenheimer.
formerly of this city.
w. w. Ritz, Of Chequest, passed
through this place Tuesday en- route to
Seattle, Washington, to Join his wife
and child who preceded him there
some time ago. Mr.. Ritz has rented
his farm to Clyde Cyphert and will
remain in Seattle a year and II the
conditions are favorable will probably
locate there permanently.
Mrs. E. B. Johnson entertained q
few friends at six o'clock
dinner Tuesday as surprise for Mr..
Johnson, who celebrated his thirty,
sixth birthday anniversary. The gen.
tlemen surprised Mr.. Johnson by pre-.
senting him with a handsome rocking
chair and the ladies, contribution was
handsome neck tie. The surprise to
Mr.. Johnson was complete and the
event was a social success.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-04
FOR A SEA LEVEL CANAL.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-The en-
cheering committee of the Panama
canal commission has reported in IA
vor of sea level canal. A sea level
canal Is one without locks, dug down
to the level Of the open sea, so that
vessels may pass through unimpeded
The estimate is that such canal will
cost $3.50, 100000, aside from certain
contingent items that do not properly
enter into the enterprise and which
are recoverable from the canal zone
This is about S100,000,00O more than
the estimate for a lock canal and ii
would take more time to construct at
sea level than otherwise, although the
estimate now is that 1t could be done
in ten or twelve years from this date
Earlier estimates were that it would
take fifteen years to get a deep canal
in shape for use and twenty years tc
finish it.
There Is no question of the super
iority of the deep canal. The larger
expenditure Of money and the additional
delay until it's completion are the only
considerations, and these are neutral
lied when it is remembered that the
canal is a thing for all time and thai
the cost of maintenance and operation
OF lock canal would, within a com
parat1Yely short time, more than Off
set the additional initial outlay for 8
deep way while the latter would be
much more serviceable. Indeed, this
latter consideration alone. If the flu
ture could be foreseen, might justify
the greater expenditure. It is pre-
sumed that the traffic through the
canal will be heavy and no one car
say that it will not be so large as tt
suffer greatly if impeded by locks. II
is not improbable that merely the de-
lays to traffic would in the course OF
a century entail a greater loss thar
the extra s1O0,0o0,Oo0 needed for the
deep canal. AS to the longer time re-
quired for construction, it seems thai
since it has been several centuries
since the idea was first conceived ani
half a century since we as a natior
became interested in it, there should be
no Impotence over few years more
of delay now, especially since so many
worthy considerations array them
selves on the side of patience.
Compared with the result to be OBJ
tanned, few years more or less ir
realizing the canal, and the expendi-
ture of extra 100000, 00O-these really
seem unconsenuential items.
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would be 100000 miles in length. Mr..
Carpenter has figured the matter out
still more closely and made some in
teresting discoveries.
"One years corn crop at 40 bushels
of shelled corn to the wagon would
make 88 continuous lines of wagon
loads from Boston to San Francisco
If you could bridge the skies and start
1t toward the moon 1T would reach to
that dead planet and go on for 10000
miles beyond.
IF you could load it on cars in 500
bushel lots at 40 feet to the car, in
Guiding platform, and start them on a
double track the two first cars would
have gone from the Mississippi to New
York, across the Atlantic. across Eu-
rope and almost across Asia before the
last two cars were loaded"
That is the corn crop as 1t was pro-
duced in 1904, yet the discoveries of
the last four years have shown that
this great crop can be doubled, with
out adding one acre to the land cult
waited or one cent to the cost Of culti-
vation." 1t is on this work that Pro-
fessor Holden of Iowa and his assist
ants and co-workers are now engaged.
In preaching his annual Harvest
Home sermon last fall a Des Moines
clergyman declared that the corn
fields of Iowa are far richer than the
gold fields of the Klondyke. There was
nothing exaggerated in his statement,
Americas corn crop is now worth an
nually in the neighborhood of $1,000
100000. All the gold and silver mined
in America amounts to but little more
than s1O0,00o,O0O, so that the corn
crop Is worth ten times as much. Mr..
Carpenter APPLY adds that If a gold
field would be discovered which in one
year would turn out ten times the
value Of the gold and silver annually
mined in the United States 1t would
set the nation crazy and excite the
world. Such a mine actually exists
in the corn belt of the United States.
Iowa's share in the riches of this
great gold mine is well known. It
produces annually more corn than any
other state in the nation or, country in
the world. The average yield for the
nation last year was 25.5 bushels pei
acre. The average yield in Iowa for
the past fifteen years has been over
80 bushels. Corn is Americas great
est crop and Iowa is Americas great
est corn producer. 1t is gold mine
without parallel. -.---
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BLOOM FIELD.

Bloomfield, March 1.-The regular
meeting of the Chautauqua association
was held Monday evening and the
committee on Incorporation and by
laws of the Chautauqua association
submitted report and the same was
adopted by the association. The name
of the association is "The Davis Coun
ty Chautauqua Association" Officers
and directors for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: Jas. A. Dunn
president; Mrs. Belle Steckel, secre
tary; directors, E. K. Herr, T. P
Bence, Jas. A. Dunn, N. s. Johnson
Jno. F. Scarborough, w. M. Hotchkiss
S. A. Lorenz, ]. H. Ford, e. Rominger
The program has not yet been com
pleted by the committee.
Misses Edith and Mildred Steckel
leave Thursday for Los Angeles, CAL
to make an extended visit with their
aunt, Mrs. John Morton. While on the
way short visits will be made with
friends at Kansas City, Mo-, and Hutch.
inson, Kas
Mrs. Reininghaus, who has been
spending the winter at the Sax hotel
returned Tuesday to her home in Can
tril.
Robert Denney, Of Nebraska, who
has been visiting E. Rominger and
other relatives in the city and county
during the past winter, left Monday
for Ottumwa to visit his daughter, Mrs
Ida Wheeler, while enroute home.
On Friday, while CHM bling tree in
pursuit Of a coon Arthur Korn struck
the sharp edge Of an axe which his
brother had stuck into the tree to
assist his ascension, and inflicted q
deep flesh wound above the knee.
DR.. Herbert L. Willett, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, will deliver the
dedicatory address at the opening Of
the new Christian church next Sunday
morning. The complim ent to the
Christian pastor and congregation is
sincerely appreciated and the oppor
tunity to hear DR.. Willett on such an
important occasion would not have
been possible but for the fact that he
will lecture at the Methodist Episco
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FOUR YEARS OF TEDDY.

Next Saturday will begin the four
years. term of Theodore Roosevelt as
President of the United States.
Though Mr. Roosevelt has been presi-
dent for more than three years, he has
been filling out the term of office for
which William Mckinley was elected.
When the assassin's bullet laid low
the beloved Ohioan the work of direct
ing the republics affairs was taken up
by the vice president with the purpose
of carrying 1t on according to the
views and ideas of the lamented Nc
Kinley. He has performed the task
well-so we'll in fact that the people
gave him vote of confidence and en-
dorsement of which he is and should
be proud. Now he will begin his own
term as president and for the next four
years he will continue to guide the
ship of state along the same channels
that have been found the best In the
past.
In his lecture here last night. Rev.
Frank Dixon voiced nationwide sen.
timent when he said that since last
last November there had been but one
party the Roosevelt party. Men
who were admirers and supporters of
Mckinley are for Roosevelt; men who
were Of the more liberal republican
view are for Roosevelt; democrats are
for Roosevelt; even Bryan has en-
dorsed him and his views upon some
subjects. The secret of Roosevelt
splendid success and popularity is the
\ fact that he is for, the people. He is
too broad to be simply a member or a
leader of party. He Is too broad to
be simply politician. He is a ma
tional character. He Is the head of the
national administration and Is there
fore the head Of the nation. To him
the nation contains many varied in
terests. as he has declared, a Square
deal" In those two words-Roosevelt's
platform, as they might be called are
expressed the basis of all his acts
Though he may assume the agrees
sfve against some interests 1t Is be-
cause be would secure Square DEAF
for other interests. His Give and let
live" policy is one which has stood the
test of time and has demonstrated the
fact that 1t is right and just.
-Four more years Of Teddy" is just
what the country wants and needs
Though he is criticised now and then
by men who do not like his impetuous
way of doing things, there still re
mains the fact that he does "do things
and that what he does generally turns
out to be the right thing. Though he
is just now in tangle with the senate
as his opposition, the fact that the
country is with the President in the
fight is evident that he is in the right
and must sooner or later win out.
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pal church on Friday evening which
will be the last entertainment in the
seasons lecture course. The program
for the service on Sunday follows:
10:30-Dedicatory address, DR.. Her.
bert E. Willett.
2:30-Union services.
3:30-Communion services.
4:30-Children' meeting.
6:30-Young peoples meeting.
7:30-Address by DR.. Willett.
All denominations of the city have
been invited to attend the morning
services in which Rev. Mr.. Wickziger
will be assisted by all the resident
ministers.
Mrs. L. L. Pittman, who has been
confined to the house with severe
cold ever since Christmas, was able
to be out Tuesday for the first time.
Mrs. W. NJ Wray has gone to Kinks
Vile, Mo-, to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Jas. Reiger.
Mrs. Naffsizger spent Sunday in
Moulton with her daughter, Delpha. I,
Rev. Mr.. Cunningham, of La Plata,
Mo-, state superintendent of the Uni
versalist work in Missouri, occu-
pied the pulpit in the Universalist
church Monday night and will preach
again week after next
s. L. Berry left Tuesday night for
Mexico, Mo-. to spend few days on
business.
G. w. Graham left Tuesday for Des
Moines to spend a few days on bust.
ness.
J. W. Mcdonnell, of Ottumwa,
passed through this place Tuesday, en-
route to Boonville, Mo-, on a short
business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. McGowen leave
Wednesday for Buffalo, New York, to
spend some time in medical
hospital for the benefit OF Mr.. Nc,
GoWan's health. While in the city
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friends in federal off1cialdom when he,
gets to the senate will be disclosed
only after the vigorous employment of
a search warrant
Necessarily the senate will be
scoided a good deal.'' says the Sioux
City Journal comfortably, but the
country on the whole has got along
very well with it, and maybe 1t might
be expedient for the country, so far as
the senate is concerned, to leave well
enough alone AT least it may be
said with some confidence that our
legislative appliances are now suffi-
GENTLY ample for tearing things up by
the roots on a moments notice with
out the need of anxiety for an en-
largement of facilities.
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Burlington Hawk Eye. - Toledo is
to have a factory that will turn out
cement shingles. Sounds odd. And
yet 1t is nothing so very unusual
either. Slate and roofing tile have
been In use for many years. The ce-
nent single will be cheaper than tile
or slate and it will be practically in
destructible. 1t will also afford addi-
tional protection against fire. No
doubt, the cement single will be the
most common roofing material in this
SeCllOIl Ol lHe country ere many years
have passed.
Des Moines Capital.-The Chicago
Tribune thinks there Is a possibility
that Senator Shelby M. Cullom will
not be reelected. 1t is quite the
fashion for certain people to indulge
in things of that character a year or
two before Uncle Shelby's term ex-
pires Their next contribution to the
subject is usually when they arise to
move that Uncle Shelby's nomination
be made unanimous.
Marion Register.-The assessor at
Ida Grove has returned valuation in
the city of only s25O,0O0 and the Pho
neer Is exceedingly wroth, saying that
1t Is nothing short of ridiculous. De-
mand is made that those who are con-
cealing property should be unmasked
even If 1t be necessary to hire tax
ferret to do it. Every community
seems to be afflicted with the tax
dodger.
Keokuk Gate City.-The Scofield-
Thomas murder trial is in progress in
Des Moines. If the trend of events OF
the past few days continues the prose
cution may consider itself mighty
lucky If 1T escapes conviction.
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A NOBLE WOMAN GONE.

The death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop
Stanford. news of which reached the
United States yesterday comes like a
blow to every one in America. Mrs.
Stanford, than whom no more worthy
woman ever lived, was famous for her
philanthropy. amounting almost to Law
ishness. The Leland Stanford univer-
sity at Palo Alto, Cal, has been
brought to high standard of ex.
cellence by means Of the wise expen-
diture of vast sums from her fortune
and many young men who have re.
ceived their education there bless her
memory.
What could have moved anyone to
poison Mrs. Stanford" was the cues
ton that arose to every lip when the
news was flashed across the country,
telling of the death of the good wo.
man at Honolulu as the result of TAX.
ing strychnine in dose of bicarbon-
ate of soda purchased at San Fran.
cisco. That is the question no one
can answer satisfactorily. Mrs. Stan.
ford's kindness in her home life &C.
cording to her friends and acuuaint.
ances, was equal to her great-hearted
kindness as exemplified in the mainten.
ance of the university, and that she
could have enemies bitter enough to
make two attempts to end her life is
almost beyond belief
1t is the earnest wish of the whole
country that the murderer of Mrs
Stanford may be found and that the
punishment he SO richly deserves shall
be melted out to him. No more mex.
cusable crime has ever been known.
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Relief In SIX Hourn.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis.
ease relieved In six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure.s
1t is a great surprise on account Of
its exceeding promptness in relieving
pain in bladder. kidneys and back, in
male or female. Relieves retention Of
water almost Immediately. II you
want quick relief and cure this is the
remedy. Sold by w. w. Ennis, drug
gist, Ottumwa. Iowa.
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run as fast as he - he made a won
derful leap as he neared the fence, ris-
ing In the clear some eight or ten
feet above the fence. Just as he was
Immediately over the fence, he scented
bird down in the hedgerow. In.
stantly his tail Strengthened out, his
nose was pointed to one side and right
there. up in midair, he hung till
scared that bird up and shot it. And
tell you, Vest, that dog would have
been there till now If had not routed
the bird he was pointing in the
hedge
well Of course, the boys all gave
Vest the laugh and I was certain
had him vanquished. But, there was
no use talking, Vest has the most won
derful resources in close places like
this of any man ever knew.
I'VE had hardly set the glasses
down from drinking to the health OF
my aerial dog, till Vest came back at
me.
I'll tell you, Clark said Vest, y
know that dog of yours Is a very fine
dog. well-bred dog, good smelling
dog. flying dog and all that, but he is
not the equal of my dog in any respect
Just to show you, I'll relate little In
cident My dog followed me down the
street the other day, playing along as
dogs usually do, I paying no especial
attention to him.
Presently I noticed a gentleman
about half block ahead of us, leaning
up against post, but noticed moth
ing remarkable about the man, and I'm
certain no ordinary man would OBJ
serve anything peculiar about thai
man, but my dog did. Well, sir, wher
my dog came up within about ten fee
of that man, he dropped down in as
perfect point as / ever saw-tai
straight out. left fore foot lifted, nose
at the regulation angle.
:" I laughed and slapped him on the
back and told him to come on, but hi
paid no attention to me. walked OF
a little piece and looked back, and The
dog was still standing like a statue
l called him, but he paid no attention
to me. | walked back and called hin
again; the dog would not move.
walked up to him and took him by thu
collar, but he stuck his feet out ant
refused to bulge.
Well. sir, l was nonplussed
didn't know what to do. Finally ,
thought occurred to me, and walked
up to the man standing against tn,
post and politely asked him his name
i His answer explains the whole situa
ton:
1 My name is Partridge, sir"
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After Senator Kearns' arrangement
of the Mormons and the System" in
Utah, it is very probable that mem.
bers of the senate's committee on
privileges and elections will stop and
wonder just how much of that testi
mony upholding Smoot they should
have believed, after all.
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Kuropatkin, 1T is said in an ex-
change. is Striking back" at the jap
anese. 1t Is noticeable fact that
the Russians seem to prefer to Strike
back" rather than to Strike front y
And this may explain their inability to
win. It is easy to sec that no one,
running and striking backward, can
make as successful fight as he could
II he We're to stop, turn around and
fight to the front.
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Ottumwa has lost her reputation as
wicked city and the palm must be
surrendered to Philadelphia. Pa. When
hundreds Of people get together and
pray for their Sinful mayor it is time
for all other places which might have
had claim to notoriety for wicked.
ness to take back, seat.
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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 So
to points in Nebraska, Colorado, Kan.
sas, Missouri. Arkansas. Oklahoma and
Indian Territories, Texas, etc.
Don't fail to consult agents. or ad.
Gress,
A. B. Cults, G. P. & T. A.,
LxA!!.lS~ Minneapolis. MINI.
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Mrs. Cody says she still loves Buff
falo Bill and would be glad to have
him come back to her. If half the
stories of her husband are true her
constancy is worthy of better cause.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-04

Another reason why Iowa is better
than Russia to live in-the seed corn
train.
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The Cedar Falls Gazette firmly be-
lieves that when Senator Allison's
term expires he will positively decline
the honors Of reelection so that he
may spend his last days in peace, free
from the arduous duties which younger
men should assume.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Keokuk Gate City admits that
the hog is the mortgage litter, but In
sists that the COW and the hen are
mighty good about looking a.fter the
interest.
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coastine Note


The Python.
The python is an angle worm
OF an outrageous size,
Don't ever twist a python's tail!
These red and tear dimmed eyes
Don't look good on fellows ma,
And come next Christmas
There'd be a lot of fearful talk
About the boy that died.
The python leaves a funny trail,
1t twists and turns about
Until tits very hard to tell
If it winds in or out;
He wiggles on his tummy so,
And bends and twists and swerves
Why, he is like a chorus girl!
He travels on his curves.
I wouldn't care to meet a py-
Thon for stack of pelf;
If I am to be Rugged at all
I'd rather hug myself;
wish to go to heaven, yes
Each night I'm on my knees;
But / don't care to pass the gates
OF pearl by such a squeeze.
Houston Post.
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may spend his last days in peace, free
from the arduous duties which younger
men should assume.
In the sarcastic words of the Sioux
City Journal, "an anxious world will
be glad to hear that the opening of
the upper Missouri to navigation will
be a matter of only a few days now"
Growing older is better than grow
Ing DID," says the Burlington Hawk
Eye. Growing older is only adding
tomorrow to today, and as tomorrow
is the guardian of hope, there is a
continuous joy in living. And. death
should be merely the portal to larger
hope, greater tomorrow"
There seems to be no one sorry
that the biennial election amendment
has been sustained" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican. There is no one
lamenting that we will have little
rest from politics."
Noting that Professor Clifford Of De-
corah, who killed neighbor with a
potato fork has been declared insane
by the, jury, the Rockford Register
says: ITS strange that lunatics Of
this stripe are seldom discovered until
they add murder to their insanity In
spite of the decision, most people will
look upon the disposition of the case as
simply thinly yelled attempt to de-
feat the ends of Justice"
The spooner-Quarles combination
is cleaning up the political platter
before LaFollette has chance to an
terfere," remarks the Mason City
Times Herald. Being forewarned was
sufficient for them to act, and all the
places the insurgent finds for his