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Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
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@ UMMER sunshine will fall this
, year in myriad fiecks and shades
through parasols wondrously en-
broidered and betrimmed. There are
plain parasols, but one will look far to
find them. Decidedly ornate in a per-
culiarly decorative season is this fea-
ture of woman's wardrobe. Naturally
the cost is in proportion to the orna
mentation, and in the shops one may
pay from $15 to 500 for a gauzy sun
shade and still have one of only modest
pretenslons to elegance. There is, how
ever, one saving phase Of the seasons
styles. 1t is possible for the clever
needlewoman to make for herself at
comparatively small expense what
would almost bankrupt her had she to
ray for so elaborate a creation.
In the effort to obtain new decorative
effects several kinds of old time em-
broidery have been revived, and these
are used conspicuously on the new
parasols. Leading in popularity is the
ribbon embroidery which almost score
of years ago enjoyed great popularity,
but has been little seen in recent sea-
sons. This work has the advantage of
being particularly SNOWY in proportion
to the amount of labor expended. 1t
is simple also, and any one who knows
even a little of embroidery can do it
with fair success. In any fancy work
shop whore the materials are sold such
instruction can be given in half an
hour as will enable one to embroider a
parasol in roses or morning glories with
very good decorative results. or course
for those who are not especially skilled
in embroidery simple designs should be
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
GREY LINEN WITH GUTPCM LACE
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and loose pleated ones with fitted
yokes over the shoulders. These last
are either plain or trimmed with lace,
while the former the long ones) are
on the tailor made order with strapped
seams and are extremely smart. In
dark linens these make most useful
gowns for days trip to town, and the
addition of white lingerie waist and
collar and cuffs of white linen or en-
broidery gives more elaborate effect
and is most becoming.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

pleated or full waist with attached
skirt and shaped belt. 1t is to be found
in so many of the ready made gowns
that the first smartness has worn off,
and yet the model, with some modif-
ca cations-especially if made in the en-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
Pongee Cool and Smart

Embroidered pongee gowns are very
attractive, both the openwork and the
heavy embroidery on the fabric itself,
but there have been so many machine
embroidered pongees that somehow the
fashion has not yet become a popular
fad. In the palest of shades the pongee
gowns are exquisite in coloring, and
are made up with quantities of lace
quite on the order of the taffetas of
the same color. They are far cooler,
and for midsummer will be more pos
sible, but if economy has to be con-
suited, be it remembered that pongee
is only for summer wear, whereas
taffeta can do duty for summer and
winter alike.
In the same category with pongee and
linen are the mohair gowns, that are
most practicable for warm weather.
Mohair, however, can never be made
up in such elaborate fashion as would
make it possible for garden parties or
such style of out-of-door entertain
ment, and in its most elaborate stage
of development can be only the smart
est of tailor gowns. Sometimes 1t is
made up in waist and skirt to match,
and this year more than ever before.
but as a rule the skirt and coat style
is the one chosen.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

chosen, and it is very easy to find these
of a kind that are quite effective in out
line, although containing little detail.
This ribbon embroidery is used for the
most part on silk or pongee parasols.
About two and one-eighth yards of silk
is required and a little less of wider
materials. 1t is possible to embroider
simple patterns on parasol already
made up, brt II one wishes to have one
made any maker of parasols or UNI
brellas will cut the sections to be em-
broldered and make them up afterward
at cost of about $3.50.
Another form of embroidery which
has not recently been seen but which
is made Use of to a considerable extent
this year is chenille work This is used
on silk and on thinner fabrics. Some
what similar to it in effect are the chif-
fon flowers which find a place ON some
of the most elaborate of summer sun
shades, Chiffon roses on lace founda-
tion inserted above the border make
a striking decoration. Floral designs
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04

sally becoming, but it may be ques-
toned if there ever was so useful a
material, as it does not show any dirt
and can be cleaned or laundered; but
at the moment fashion DEGREES that
colors such as red, brown, blue and,
above all, green are smarter than the
natural color and are made up in all
styles. The gown that is made with
straps over the shoulders, with lingerie
waist or with coat to match the skirt,
either in short box coat style or in
some short fancy Jacket, is great
favorite and is quite elaborate.
There are also many charming pom
gee gowns on the more severe tailor
made order and the pleated skirts with
waists to match are on the shirt waist
pattern, and yet the lingerie yoke and
cuffs give a finish that is much more
elaborate All the different shades OF
red pongee are fashionable, a deep
cerise being especially popular The
skirt is not trimmed, save with folds,
tucks or pleats of the same material.
but the waist or jacket must always
have considerable white or the cream
tint in order to make it smart. Oddly
enough the cheaper grade of gowns
are the more deliberately trimmed with
medallions and entredeuX of lace, while
the more expensive owe their fascina-
tion to the quality of the material used
and to the perfection of cut and fit that
is demanded of them.
For midsummer the white pongee
coats and skirts will be great favorites,
and are made on precisely the same
lines as the linens, only the propor-
tion of the more severe models in pom
gee is far greater than in the linen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27

lakes to that stream and would be a
potent regulator of railroad rates on
many commodities. But such a deep
water channel as is desired will cost
about s45,o00,0O0.
The President has been authorized
to expend $135,000,000 in the construc.
ton of isthmian canal. 1t is generally
agreed that the work will cost much
more than that While the United
States is busted with an undertaking
of so much magnitude, which will be
of value to all parts of the country, 1t
should give the goby for the time
being to projects which are of special
value to localities. Such projects
though praiseworthy in themselves
can afford to wait. Certainly they
should not be entered upon at time
when the receipts of the government
do not equal its expenditures.
This Is a point which the committee
on rivers and harbors should not lose
sight of when congress convenes. Pos
sibly it's members have been much i'm
pressed by the appeals made to them
in behalf Of various costly projects
but the government has enough river
and canal work on its hands at pres
ent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27

and an active advocacy lof it in the
medical journals achieved the same re-
suit among physicians. From reports
1t is safe to say. that In 1904 more
blank cartridge wounds were thorough
ly cleaned out and antiseptically treat
ed and more doses of antitoxin given
prophylactically than after all prior
Fourth of July celebrations put to.
gether. Most of the city hospitals that
treat large numbers of accident cases,
equipped themselves with antitoxin be-
fore the Fourth and injected it into pa.
tients with this class of wounds, in
addition to thorough surgical treat
ment The results were manifest. st.
Louis makes this report, that in 1903,
out of flfty-six cases there were
sixteen deaths; in 1904. thirty.six
cases were traeted withoute a single
death. Toledo, Ohio, reports eight
lives lost from ,ockjaw the Fourth of
1908, and none the Fourth of 1904.
There have been less number of
fatalities in the cities than in the
country in proportion to number of
wounds, which is explained by the fact
that the dangerous character of these
wounds was better understood by resi-.
dents of the city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27

cry now and tken news items find their
way into the pages of the press, where
former foes of southern soldiers be-
came their admirers and place chaplets
above the graves Of men who followed
Lee, as tributes TO their bravery, forti.
tude, and undying devotion to the
cause they thought right. Such acts
as these demonstrate beyond the pow
or Of argumen the revealing of the
sections into grand and virile nation,
as it was before the terrible war, in
which brother slew brother, and sons
and fathers sent steel and lead against
each other. There can be no true
American who does not welcome these
signs of peace and friendship. Ora
tors may pirate in national gatherings
and tell in spread-eagle metaphors Of
th greatness and goodness of the new
uqiflcation, but all their eloquence fails
to impress the southern heart with the
sincerity Of some northern community
when 1t places above the grave OF a
confederate soldier its simple tribute
"a bunch of blossoms Of the spring.
Here is the act without hope of re-
ward, the act that has no motive hid
den in its doing-an act of friendship,
an act of fraternity and the action of
hearts that are large enough to realize
that the dead confederate soldiers
were americans, and their bravery was
but the reflex of the nation"
The Herald concludes with sugges-
ton that southerners join in the deco
ration of the graves of Union soldiers
in the south and that every effort be
made to stamp out that old feeling of
hatred which has no place in a re-
united country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
PROJECTS THAT CAN WAIT.

Chicago ribune:-Members of the
house committee on rivers and har-
bors, have been on tour of inspec-
ton for several weeks. Wherever they
have gone they have been received
with the greatest cordiality, and an
endeavor- has been made to enlist their
sympathies for projects some of which
are not destitute of merity.
The people living on the Ohio be-
tween Pittsburg and Cairo wish to
have that unreliable river improved
80 that it may be navigable at all sea-
sons, when 1t is not ice bound through
out its entire course of thousand
miles. They would like to have an
elaborate system Of locks and dams.
There is no question that it would be
a great aid to commerce if the Ohio
were permanently navigable. During
dry seasons it is a series of pools and
sandbars. But the improvement which
is desired will cost at least $100, 0OO,-
900.
1t is easy to see the benefits which
would accrue If deep water channel
were to be constructed to unite Lake
Michigan and the Mississippi river It
would be an extension Of the great
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
PHlLADELPHIA,s GAS SCANDAL

The situation in Philadelphia is at
tracing attention throughout the
country That Philadelphia-staid old
city that it is-should have a real
scandal that involves many of the
members Of the city's governing body,
is enough to cause the newspaper
reader to desert the columns of war
news and read of the fight Mayor
Weaver and many of the citizens of
Philadelphia are making against graft
and the gas grab, as it is called. Just
now proceedings are rather at stand
still.
Philadelphia has achieved a most
humiliating piece of notoriety. Its
city council has voted a seventy-flve
year extension of it's gas lease to the
United Gas Improvement company for
SEE, 100000. without any other compen-
sation, and postponing 80-cent gas to
consumers until 1905. This was done
in the face of an offer from a RESPONSE
BILE banking house to pay S20,000,00O
for the gas plant, to pay the city an
annual rental of $1,25O,00O during the
term of the lease-seventy-five years
and, in addition, one-third of the net
profits during the first ten years, and
one-half during the remaining sixty
five.
Besides this the banking house Of
fered to supply municipal lighting free
of cost; to advance $25,OOO,OO0 which
the city's looted treasury so badly
needs; to give the city a one-third rep.
resentation in the management of the
plant. and finally, offered to leave it
for the city to decide as to whether its
income should be devoted to reduc.
tion of the price of gas to consumers.
And yet in the face of this the brass
collared aldermen brazenly voted to
give the gas privileges Of the city to
the other company
1t is hardly to be wondered at that
the outraged tax payers sought to mob
the men who had betrayed them, and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
HAYEsvlLLE.

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Hayesville, May 24.-The river here
has been very high, but at present ID
falling.
Mrs. M. Utterback and son Burdette
went to Hiteman today to attend the
funeral Of a relative.
Mrs. Pearl Hayes visited Miss Min
ME Crabb one evening last week.
Rev. Shook passed through town
Monday morning on his way to Mt.
Pleasant to school.
Mrs. Joe Beasley has been quite iii
for few days, but is better at present.
number from here are planning
to attend the graduating exercises at
Sigourney this week.
Rev. Macdonald filed his appoint
ment here Sunday evening.
Mrs. D. W. Hayes of Ottumwa ID
visited her daughter, Mrs. Florence
Whitening.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
A GOOD YEAR.


The governments reports on acre
age and conditions indicate that the
winter wheat crop for 1905 will
amount to 46O.000,000 bushels. This is
considerably greater than any crop Of
recent years has shown at this time.
The winter wheat yield in 1904 was
1872 100000 bushels, and that of 1903
was 339.000,O00 bushels. The largest
winter wheat crop ever harvested to
the present day was in 1902, which
was All 100000 bushels or 100000
under that promised for this year.
From the present outlook the .aggre-
gate wheat yield of 1905 will break
all records. The condition of spring
wheat, despite the backward weather
throughout much of the producing
states, is fully up to the average of re-
cent years. The aggregate wheat har-
vest of the past few years was 74S,-
100000 bushels in 1901, 670000,00O in
1902. 637,OO0O0O in 1908, and 552,OOO,-
900 in 1904. The winter wheat outlook
is so much better this year than ever
before there is chance that 1901
harvest, which was the highest record
will be beaten in the present season.
All the indications promise new
highest for 1905 in the wheat round
up.
Wheat is not the most valuable of
the country's grain crops. Corn. the
Iowa crop, has that distinction The
value of the 1904 yield of wheat, as es-
timated on the farm by the depart.
ment of agriculture for December 1
of that year, was ,$510,0O0,O00 while
the corn crop was worth 81 ,Os7 900, 900
at that date. But very much of the
country's prosperity depends on the
wheat yield. When the wheat grow.
ers have good times the country in
general is prosperous. The present out.
look is that while food will be cheap
this year. the farmers income will be
large and producers and consumers
will be happy. This is the ideal con.
dition. 1t comes occasionally, and this
stands a chance to be one Of the fav-
ored years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27

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and the rancors o. reconstruction. Ev-
that aldermen were obliged to ask for
police protection in getting to their
homes. 81
Mayor Weaver will doubtless veto
the ordinance, but there is no doubt
that 1t will be passed over his veto.
The aldermen no doubt have planned
with that idea in view. They have
gone too far now to allow one man to
balk them. The people of Philadelphia
by laxity in their attention to
their duty as citizens, have
allowed set of men to secure hold
on the city's affairs and the city's
treasury which will wreck both unless
the citizens join with Mayor Weaver
to prevent it. Philadelphia didn't fin.
ish its career wheL 1t became the
home of the LibeI., Bell.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
A TRULY NATIONAL HOLIDAY.

Year by year the old rancor that
began long before the civil war and
grew with the feeling over the slavery
question is dying out in the north and
the south. There are many reasons
for this fact, among them being the
visiting back and forth, of northerners
to the south and southerners to the
north, the interchange of ideas and the
forming of friendships across Mason
and Dixon's line, the natural healing of
old wounds by time, the effects of the
Spanish-American war, and, last, but
probably rot least among them all, the
observance of Decoration day
May 80 is coming more and more to
be known and recognized as national
decoration day. Though the southern
ers decorate the graves of their dead
soldiers in April they are becoming &C
customed to paying more and more at
tention and indeed taking a part in the
observance of the day by the northern
ers who .-isit the south in May to
strew flowers upon the graves of the
Union soldiers who sleep beneath
southern skies. The newspapers of
the south, some of them at least, are
doing their full share to help along
St1O oR11 IL vi -6OOO VIII ouu pOdSO dAu
among them all Is none more sincere
than the Herald of Augusta, Ca Yes
terday the Courier quoted from this
paper a highly complimentary mention
Of President Roosevelt and remarked
upon the tendency toward good feeling
that such expressions of confidence in
the President reveal. Today we cite
another editorial from the Herald
which shows even more plainly that
the malice that caused an awful civil
war is fast disappearing and is giving
way to feeling of brotherly love that
is all the stronger Tor the break in the
sixties. The Herald says:
May 30 has been set aside by north
ern states as Decoration day. Livery
where that federal soldier is buried
his last resting place is made beauti-
ful on this date by loyal hands and
loving hearts. The soldiers body for
the time being rests under mounds of
buds and blossoms, while the flag for
which he fought-our fag-flutters at
half mast above his tomb In many
places on Decoration day the graves
of confederate soldiers are strewn with
flowers by northern men and women
who have forgotten the hatreds of war
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
MORTON ON ROOSEVELT.

HE is. taken all in all, one of the
most remarkable of all the great men
who have occupied the White House.
AS earnest in his love of country as
Washington, as far seeing as Jefferson,
as courageous as jackson, and as much
opposed to human slavery in all forms
as Abraham Lincoln, he stands robust
in his integrity and sturdy in his deter
mination that there shall be square
deal all around"
This is the description of President
Roosevelt as given by Secretary of the
Navy Paul Morton at banquet in Chi
cago last night Mr.. Morton paid the
highest compliments to the President
as a man and as an executive. His
remarks are especially significant at
this time in view of the rumors that
he is about to quit the cabinet on re.
quest of the President himself and be.
cause of their disagreement on the
question of railroad rates. Mr. Nor.
tons speech last night, very naturally
was watched with interest by those
who heard it for reference to the
railroad rate question but those who
expected to find such reference were
disappointed. Unless Mr. Morton s
unqualified endorsement of the Presi
dents square DEAL policy could be
taken as an endors ement of his rail
road views as a part of this plan moth
ing on that important question was
said. The secretary was down for a
talk on "The Navy" but announced
that he would take the liberty OF
changing his subject and would talk
on THE President" Among other
paragraphs showing the high esteem in
which Mr. Morton holds President
Roosevelt we're the following:
He is looking at all times for the
greatest good to the greatest number
He has keen conception of what it is
and is always trying to accomplish it
Endowed with great comprehension
and sympathy for all classes, he is
perfectly at home in any environment
He treats every man, regardless of his
station in life, as man, and not in
the slightest degree does he believe If
doting to those who have much mol
prosecuting those who have little. He
believes in the man who can hold his
own with the strong and who will MOI
prosecute the weak, but he insists thai
every good citizen must do his fail
share of the worlds work.
"He aims at, on the other hand, ever,
dishonest man. He thoroughly appre
ciates that both muscle and money are
necessary to build up great country
and he wants perfect harmony be
tween the two; thinks each should b.
fair to the other, and even in moments
of temporary advantage neither shoulo
be tyrannical.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27
ROOSEVELT THE IRRESISTIBLE.

If Theodore Roosevelt persists in
his present course; if he continues to
wage war against official corruption;
if he continues to fight corporate
greed; if he persists in being the pres.
ident of the people, it is highly prob,
able that he may not be candidate
of any party for the presidency of the
United States four years hence, but
how about the people? They may in
sist that Theodore Roosevelt be their
candidate for the presidency and In
such an event Theodore Roosevelt
could not decline. Just at present
Theodore Roosevelt is neither a repub
lican nor democratic president, meas
ured by party standards He is, how
ever, progressing along lines that will
win for him the admiration and com
mendation Of the people, which, if or
ganized behind man of Roosevelts
individuality, brain and courage, would
be irresistible in American politics. -
Augusta (Ga. Herald.
Thus a southern paper, printed in
the very center of the hotbed of de-
mocracy. Could there be a greater
compliment? But it is not an unde
served one. Roosevelt has made a
record as president which has made
him greater, larger, than any other
man Of his time. Though he has posi-
lively announced that he will not
again become candidate for the
presidency, Mr.. Roosevelt may be
compelled as the Georgia paper says
to take the office. There has never
been time in the history of this re
public when such a state Of affairs has
existed and it is not probable, al
though it is possible, that there will
be no man who can step into Mr.
Roosevelt's place in 1908 and do the
work of the chief executive with the
success that the present incumbent
has achieved. It is true just at this
time that Mr.. Roosevelt is the most
popular man for the place and it Is
hard to say who would be chosen fol
the presidency If the election were te
be held this year. Roosevelt has beer
SO successful in pleasing all people, be
cause he has been SO thoroughly fair
that it will be hard task indeed fol
the man who follows him as president
to come up to the standard he has set
However, Americans would not like
to think, truly, that there Is no othel
such man as Roosevelt. The tasl
before the American people right nov
is to find the man who can take his
place. He says he does not want the
presidency again. He has been presi
dent practically one term and is nov
only starting on the second, though i
is the first for which he has beer
elected. He wants to carry out thu
American idea of. a miximum of two
terms and favors observing the rule
not only In truth but in spirit. 1t viii
b. better for America as a whole tt
agree with him and to elect anothe
in 1908, to assume the presidency There
are yet more than three years in which
to make the choice. In that time som,
man will appear who can be chosel
as the successor of Roosevelt.