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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-09

fMY had begun to snow early In
l8l i the EVENING" light fall at
IdG3$A9 first, but growing heavier ev-
$3.50 cry minute-and as the flakes
fell thicker and faster the wind began
to blow, and its force increased stead
lily. Ralph. hearing the gusts as they
swooped about the corners of the house
and the Swish Of the snow as it was
thrown against the window panes, sew
eral times rose to so out, but Captain
Err in each instance urged him to stay
little longer. Finally the electrician
rebelled.
II should like to stay, captain" he
said, "but how do you think am go
ing to get over to the station If this
storm grows worse, as it seems to be
doing?''
II don't think" was the calm reply.
you're goin' to stay here"
"Well, I guess not"
II guess yes. S'pose we're goin' to
let you try to row over to the beach a
night like this? It's, darker'n a mig.
gers pocket, and BLOWN and snowin'
great guns besides. Jest you look out
here"
He rose, beckoned to Ralph and then
opened the outer door. He had to use
considerable strength to do this, and a
gust Of wind and small avalanche of
snow roared in and sent the lighter
articles flying from the table. Elsie
gave little scream, and Mrs. Snow
exclaimed: For the lands sake, shut
that door this minute! Everything II
be soppin' wet"
So Ralph did give it up, although
rather against his will. There was
nothing of Importance to be done, but
he felt little like deserter neverthe-
less.
"Perez won't git home neither" OBJ
served Captain Fri. Hes showed in
too"
Captain Perez had that afternoon
gone down to the Mayo homestead to
take tea with Miss Davis.
"Git home! should think notr' said
Mrs. Snow decidedly. "Pashy's got too
much sense to let him try it."
Elsie faced the caller with astonish
ment written on her face.
"Mr Hazeltine," she said Jelly, '.yor
may know what this means, but ]
don't"
Ralph looked at her and answered
solemnly, but with twinkle in his eye
I'm afraid I can guess, Miss Pres
ton. You see Captain Jerry paid Cap
tain Fri call this afternoon, and a.
result Captain Fri called upon me
Then as result OF that 1-well,
came here"
The young lady blushed furiously
what did Captain Fri tell your" she
demanded
Just what Captain Jerry told him.
"And that wasp
"What you told Captain Jerry this
CONTINUED in Next Issue.)
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ELDoN.

Eldon. Nov. AS Engineer Will
Germer was coming to Eldon from
Rock Island yesterday. near Verdi,
thirteen cars Of freight went into the
ditch. The engine remained on the
track and no one was injured, al
ers, narrowly escaped. by jumping.
L. F. Newall, of Agency, was in the
city yesterday.
Mrs. Wiets of Montana, is in the
city.
VIM. Bartholomew, of Des Moines, is
in town today. He formerly lived near
Batavia and on next March will
reach the age of 90 years. He is as
active and looks as young as he DID
20 years ago.
j. E. Houghland is in Ottumwa to-
day.
About one hundred Rock Island
track men spent Sunday here and left
on No for Spickard, Mo.
The township board was in session
yesterday.
Sam Gonterman of Ottumwa, is in
the city today.
Mrs. C. E. Yoder and children, of
Ell Reno. Okla. are visiting their old
friends in Eldon and vicinity. Mrs.
Yoder is one Of Wapello county's old
settlers.
Mrs. F. S. Sanders is in Ottumwa
today
Mrs. A. w. Roberts is visiting in OF
tumwa today.
J. F. Jacques left today for Ottumwa.
Jeff Davis is in Ottumwa today.
DR.. S. H. Sawyers is in Boraparte
today
W. G. Altman is an ottumwa visitor
today
w. H. Stauffer is in Ottumwa toda,-
Attorney Smith Hanshaw left for
Ottumwa this morning.
John Mulvaney is in Ottumwa to-
day.
DR.. Brownfield made business trip
to OttumWa today.
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RUSSELL.

Russell, Nov. Mrs Abbie Wood
man Boyd, of Des Moines, came in on
No. Saturday for a visit at the
parental home
John Moore, wife and daughter, Ed
it'll. Ezra Kells and wife, Dave Bond
and wife returned last week from a
two months trip through the west
John Fo~e came from Chicago last
Thursday, called here by the serious
illness of his mother, Mrs. r. R. Fogg
who is visiting at the home Of he1
brother, A j Woodman.
Miss Amanda Robertson visited al
her home at Oakley Saturday anc
Sunday
Quite number Of young people
from here attended a pie social at the
Salem school house Friday night.
Wilson Lairmer and family left or
Tuesday for California, where they
will spend the winter.
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This Is 1ny dotn's, not Jerry's."
and coat, took off these articles in re-
Spouse to the hearty invitation of Cap
tain Fri and shook hands with all
present. Elsie's face was an interest
ing study. Captain Jerry looked
scared.
After few minutes talk Captain
Fri rose.
Mrs. Snow" he said. come upstairs
a little while want to talk to you
bout somethin' You come, too, Jerry"
Captain Jerry looked from Elsie to
the speaker, and then to Elsie again.
But Captain Eri's hand was on his
arm, and he rose and went.
Elsie watched this wholesale deser-
ton with amazement. Then the door
opened again. and Captain Fri put in
his head
ELSIE" he said, Il Jest want to tell
you that this is my doin's, not Jerry's.
That's all" And the door shnt
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FAIRFIELD.

Fairfield, Nov. 7.-Word has been
received that Rabbi Emil G .Hirsch,
the Jewish divine. who was to have
lectured here tonight, is i'll and unable
to fill his engagement until Wednes-
day, Nov. Is.
S. E. Bigelow, who has conducted a
shoe repairing shop at the corner of
Court and Briggs street for twenty
five years, has retired from business,
and has sold his property to Messett
& Hopkirk, tombstone dealers, who
will occupy the room.
Chapter c, P. E. o.. entertained last
night at the home of Mrs. Ellsworth
Turney, 500 West Burlington street, in
honor of Mr.. Babb. of Mt. Pleasant
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L
MI breast Of it to Captain Fri
|S%51J when he reached home that
E94 night. It was after u
o'clock, but he routed his friend out of
bed to tell him the news and the story.
Captain Fri was not as surprised to
hear Of the engagement as he pretend
ed to be. for he had long ago made up
his mind that Perez meant business
this time. But the tale Of the fire and
the voyage in the carryall tickled him
immensely, and he rolled back ana
forth in the rocker and laughed until
his sides ached.
The next evening, when the three
captain were together in Jerry's room
after supper, Perez said:
ERR, 1t seems to me we've got to do
somethin' bout Mrs. Snow. She was
hired to be housekeeper while John
was sick. Now he's dead, and she'll
think it's queer If we don't settle that
narryin' business. Amt that so?"
YES" answered Captain Fri lacon-
ically.
II wish you'd mind your own con-
earns and give me time" protested
Captain Jerry.
Time! How much time do you
want? Land Of Goshen! should
think you'd had time enough
WELL" Captain Jerry wriggled and
twisted, but saw no loophole. well,
give me a month toagit up my courage
In and
"A month! A months ridiculous
amt 1t, Eri?"
Eyes"
''Well, three weeks then"
This offer, too, was rejected. The1
Captain Jerry held out for fortnight
for ten days. Finally it was settled
that within one week from that yer!
night he was to offer his heart ant
hand to the lady from Nantucket. 81
pledged his solemn word to do it.
Josiah went up to the postof1ce lat
In the afternoon of the next day. Tn
table seaman was behaving himsel
rnnaarkah1v wall Ha had bennma
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CAP'N Fri
By JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
New York. An

CHAPTER (Continued).
( Captain Perez pulled off his coat and
wrapped it about his protesting COM
panion. He was obliged to hold 1t in
place, and he found the task rather
pleasing.
ooh, you're so goodv' murmured Miss
Patience. "What should I have done
without your
Hush! Guess you'd have been bet
ter off. You'd never gone after that
fox if it hadn't been for me, and there
wouldn't have been none of this fuss"
ooh, don't say that! You've been so
brave. Anyhow, we'll die together,
that's comfort"
4 "Pashy," said Captain Perez solemn
~, 'it's mighty good to hear you say
that
lis it?' she said softly.
"Pashy," he said huskily, give been
thinkin' of you considerable lately.
Fact is, I-I-well, / come down today
a-purpose to ask you somethin'. I
know it's queer place to ask it and
and s'pose it's kind Of sudden, but
will-will you Breakers, by mighty"
The carryall had suddenly begun to
rock and there were streaks Of foam
about it. Now it gave most alarm
ing heave, grounded, swung clear and
tipped yet more.
We're capsizln'," yelled Perez.
"Hang on to me, Pashy!'
But Miss Patience didn't intend to
let this, perhaps the final, opportunity
slip. As she told her brother after
ward, she would have made him say 1t
then If they had been 1.-TWO fathom I'M
der water"
"Will what, Perez? ?" she demanded.
The carryall rose on two wheels and
begun to turn over, but the captain did
not notice it. The arms of his hearts
desire were about his neck and he was
looking into her eyes.
Twill you marry me?" he gasped.
! eyes," answered Miss Patience. and
they went under together.
The captain staggered to his feet and
dragged his chosen bride to hers. The
ice cold water reached their shoulders.
And, like a flash, as they stood there
came a torrent of rain and a wind
that drove the fog before 1t like smoke.
Captain Perez saw the shore, with its
silhouetted bushes, only few yards
away. Beyond that, in the blackness,
was light. a Pickering blaze, that rose
and fell and rose and fell again.
With his arm about her waist Perez
guided his dripping companion, as fast
as they could run, toward the light
And as they came nearer to it they
saw that it flickered about the black
ened ruins Of henhouse and lath
fence
1t was Mrs. Mayo's henhouse and
Mrs. Mayo's fence. Their adventurous
Journey had ended where it began.
''Well, by mighty" exclaimed Cap
tain Perez for at least the tenth time,
as he sat In the kitchen, wrapped in
an old ulster of Mr.. Mayo's and toast
Ing his feet in the oven, III don't feel
like a FOOL All that scare and wet for
nothin'."
"Oh, not for nothin', Perez" said
Miss Patience, looking tenderly down
into his face.
well, no, not for nothin' by good
deal! I've got you by it, and that's
everything. But, say, Pashy," and the
captain looked awed by the coinci-
dence, ri went through fire and water
to git your
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CHARLTON.

Charlton, Nov. 7.-Charles DeSow-
bers, of Derby, was in the city Sat
urday evening for a visit.
Smoke Noxal Club cigars, sc.
Miss Vida Bell came Saturday ev-
ening from Grand Island, Neb.. for q
visit with friends here and at Derby.
Mrs. Thomas Anderson planned an6
executed a surprise on her husband
Saturday evening in honor of his fifty
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ALBA.

Abba. Nov. THE funeral rites for
o. A. Barber will be held tomor-
row at 10 a. M, at his late residence
on East Washington street with Rev.
w S. Gardner. Of the Methodist Epis-
copal church in charge. Interment
will be made in Hayden chapel. the
family burial place.
Eighty-eigh We're present at the
Congrega tionaI church meeting of the
First Presbyterian church yesterday
afternoon. Reports from the various
societies indicate a prosperous condi-
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cantrlI Principal is Shot.

Cantril, Nov. z. - P. E. Wright,
principal of the school here, while
hunting Saturday, was accidentally
shot in the foot by Frank Silver, who
was shooting at rabbit Mr. Wright
is confined to his room, and Rev. Howe
is acting as principal until his recov-
cry.
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Real Estate Transfers.

Furnished by Low'enbur- & Co., 107
South Court street.
Sewers, Flora B. and H. E. to John
Saylor, lots II and 10, Chambers End
add. Ottumwa, $500.
Ives, Chas. c. and Annie M. to Sam
Hawthorn, N ", Sc. ", NE ", sec.
22-72-12, and N. ", SW. v and part
NV. ", NV. ", sec. 23-72-12, $4125.
Ives, Eben and wife to Sam Haw-
thorne, 90. C. d. same as above $1.00.
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ton of the institution. John Carhart
was elected trustee to succeed him
self and J. T. Young and B. P. Cast
ner succeed themselves in the elder
ship of the church.
The clerk of the court yesterday
granted marriage licenses to Daniel
w. Davis, aged so. Of Everest, and
Tessie M. Phipps, aged %, of Lovilia.
and to VIM. H. Matthews, aged 10, of
Hynes, and Nellie V. Snodgrass, aged
Is, of HyneS.
j. E. Mccullough Of Lovilia, was in
Abba on business Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Mccormick spent
Sunday in Osceola.
John Patton left for his home at
Washington this morning.
H. H. Harrington, of Des Moines, a
former resident Of Hilton, made a
business visit at this place yesterday.
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Less Than Half Rate West and South.
West Via Burlington Route This
Fall.
Starting the first or third Tuesday
of any month during the remainder
of 1905 you can make exceptionally
cheap but thoroughly comfortable
trips to many points in eastern Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, western South Dako-
ia, central and western Nebraska,
western Kansas, southwest Missouri,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico.
Tickets good returning within twenty
one days. Many stop overs allowed.
Illustrated booklets and full details are
yours for the asking.
w. S. Parker, Agent.
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TWIN AS WEDDING SUBSTITUTE.
Woman to Ask Divorce, Saying Hus-
bands Brother Was Bridegroom.

Terre Haute, Ind, Nov. Mrs. AL
win Thomas of Chrisman, ILL.,, says she
will sue for divorce on the ground that
her husbands twin brother, Calvin
Thomas, took the part of the BRIDE
groom when she was married recently
in Charlestown. She declares Alvin
was sick at the time and knew of the
deception.
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SPECIAL SUNDAY TRAIN.
LaHarpe People Will Go 20 Burlins.
ton to Attend Revival Services.

LaHarpe, ILL.,. Nov. THE Mems
league are. arranging for special
train to Burlington Sunday, Now 10.
to attend the Sunday meetings. It is
probable that all the ministers of the
town will go if their church members
are willing, and everything will be ar
ranged for an orderly crowd, with
none of the usual Sunday excursion
rowdyism, as the train will be spe-
cially policed, @
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BLYDENBURe WANTS REHEARlNe
Counsel for EIdora Murderer Serves
Notice of Petition.

Eldora, Nov. 1.-THE attorneys fol-
E. S. .Blydenburg, now serving life
sentence at Anamosa penitentiary fol
the murder OF his wife, have served
notice of the filing of a petition to thu
supreme court asking for another re
hearing in the celebrated case.
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Much of the milk of human kind.
ness Is adulterated considerably be.
yond the stage of usefulness for any
purpose.
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CHAPTER XVIII.

! APTAIN PEREZ made a clean
= breast Of it to Captain Fri
50l when he reached home that
~ night. It was after IL
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CHAPTER. XIX.

fAY T had begun to snow early In
lAl i the EVENING" light fall at
Id91Sa2 first, but growing heavier ev-
l8QWAAI ary11 rnin11fo ond on tho anl.on
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necessary in this way amounted in Office like
that in which l bred, to two hundred and
fifty newspapers a day, and little boy tended"
you might say, unfolded the newspaper and hung
it the back of chair, and you read rapidly. l
have read two hundred newspapers in four hours
in my day, for somebody had to read to look
at each of these journals.
Our own correspondent of course, played
a much more important part than he plays to-day
unless his despatch by telegraph. Each
leading journal had of intelligence at each of
the great seaports of the worldSngapore or Canton
or Bombay or Liverpool, and London, of course
and other such places. And their letters came
according to the foresight of the correspondent
by this or that sailing vessel. No this side
the Recording Angel knew whether that ship would
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of our infant manufactures the from New
Orleans was important, as, by the way, it proves
to be now when news from New Orleans can come
in minute You did not put your paper to press,
therefore, till somebody had looked at the New
Orleans papers which had arrived at nine ten
o'clock in the evening by what would call
the Southern mail" | was night duty myself
in 1898 and 80 when was impending be-
tween Maine and New Brunswick, between the
United States and England, the questions of
handling of lumber in the valleys of the Aroostook
and the Madawaska in Maine. w could not go
press till the arrival of the stage from Portland,
little before midnight, brought the letters from
"our own correspondent" at Bangor and of the
army at Maine up the ST. Johns River.
The reading of newspapers which was made
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have a good passage or a bad one-whether the
letter to The Journal of Commerce" in New
York would get in ahead of the letter to The
Daily Advertiser" in Boston.
Steam navigation did not come in with any
regularity till the voyage of the Sirius, which
a twenty-day voyage | think from Cork to Boston.
AS early as $40 the Savannah had gone from the
port of Savannah to Liverpool under steam. But
the example had not been followed. Dionysius
Lardner, who high authority in science, had
ridicued all the prophecies of transatlantic navi-
cation by saying that they would not pay. Lard
knew we'll anybody knew that the thing
possible; but he said what true enough,
that the ships would have to be coal barges. But
time more quickly than he thought. The
Continued on page IS
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BY A N 81 T. e w l. q
Critic, Essayist, Poet and Novelist

at all. The officer who, when asked if he had
Punch" thanked Heaven that he book
worm, was honest and natural. To talk about
books as a woman remarks in a novel of Mr. Nal
locks is a sign that the talker does not know
many people to talk about and is exile from
society.
l really do not know whether, in aversion from
literature, better worse than previous
generations. 1t is true that up to 1914, When
"Waverley" appeared, many persons formed Ii
braries full of heavy editions of English foreign
and ancient classics. But did they read the books
which they collected? Some men did read the Latin
classics like the Jacobte who lost his life because,
having made his escape from home, he stole back
to fetch his Livy, and SO was taken and hanged. A
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themselves to "have taste" Odd copies come
into the market, and l buy them, when l can,
for purposes of study does a friend of
mine. We have never picked up single copy
of which the pages have been open. The
members paid their money got their books and
never opened the pages. Their consciences
at ease; they had done their duty. |
have an "Elzevir' Rabelais of 1908. The Rabelai-
sian owner had had it neatly bound in red moroc-
co, but many pages not cut open
Edgar Poe said, concerning the American nation:
LAS literary people we one vast perambuating
humbug." We all, literary peoples, hum
bugs, and know more of books than Mr.. Wrinkle
did of skating This is the general rule; but
bookish exceptions talk much about books, and
make ourselves prominent and noisy, that the
world virtue which it hath not and is
kind of literary hypocrite. 1t would certainly read,
but it has time; it would certainly buy books, but
it has no house 1t better to be frank,
like the royal Duke who said to Gibbon: What,
Mr. Gbbon, another great thick volume, hey?
Always writing, writng!
Look at the limits of great literary success of
the past. How many people in Great Britain
could afford guinea for three-voume novel of
the first flight in 1873? Many thousands no doubt
yet scarcely ten thousand copies, of Guy Manner
ing were sold in fifteen years, and that recl-
oned remarkable triumph. l wonder whether
fifty thousand copies of THE Origin of Species"
have been sold in forty years. Certainly l
bought one! These books make noise wholly out
of proportion to their circulation. Man not
born to read, though he talks about books.
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By Nixon Waterman
1t is moment plumed with promise when
Is given to the sea S serene embrace
The ship wherein the thoughts and thews of men
Have wrought their dream of welded strength
and grace.
How have they laid with solemn care her keel
And watched their purpose fashion into form
How tried the mettle of her oak and steel
That she shall front the fury of the storm
Along her course, caressed by every breeze,
Or tempeSt-tossed, or skies of clouds or sun,
Shall she go forth to plough earth's seven seas
And bind hundred harbors into one
Like mighty shuttes plying to and fro,
Her sea-fond siSterhood shall link the lands
Once dimmed by distance till the world shall know
No tribes too alien for the clasp of hands.
Yet greater than the ships of oak and steel
Is that divine creation woman rears,
To toll and triumph hope and fear, to feel
The passion born of laughter and of tears.
Her dreams have held, her precepts stayed and
stanched
The living craft her mother-sight dscerns,
AS when upon the sea of life is launched
A Shakespeare a Lincoln or a Burns
With hopes her sky, with tears her cheeks
mpearled,
The mother gives-nor more a mortal can
The youth farewell kiss, and to the world
Her souls dvinest fashioning-a mani
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world than born musical genius a calculating
boy has a right to mock me- who know nothing
about music and baffed and brought to a
pause by the mysteries of decimal fractions.
The born reader not only learns almost spontan-
but he reads rapidly taking in a page at a glance
Like Dr. Johnson and Sir Walter Scott, he tears
the heart of a book, learns all that he wants of
it in flash, and goes to another Most people
unable to do this they read slowly and labor
iousy, and have knack of "skpping." As
they the ajority, they have made
written law, current in families, that you must
read every word of any book that you have
begun and must look into other book till you
have finished that book Anything short of that
they call "desutory reading" and regard the same
a crime. Now, study is impossible these
terms; book lasts this kind of student for half
a year, and he puts mark in his book at the place
where he left off browsing over the tome.
Accompanying this kind of intelligence goes a
strong sense of duty, coupled with an almost
haustive lack of spontaneous interest in what
the man styles useless information" This sort
of person lives under the sway of the fallacy that
should read to improve ourselves" whereas
should read smoke or play golf, because
we like it. He asks people to mark out for him "a
course of reading" Women of this class join
reading societies. and bind themselves to read
for half hour daily; this half-hour they take
out in carefully recorded instruments of three
five minutes
to be natural give up the battle, and read nothing