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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-11
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

If Senator Nathan B. Scott of West
Virginia. who is member of Secre-
tary Taft's Philippine party, secures
all the information he has expressed
desire for, he will return capable Of
giving congress some valuable sug-
gestions pertaining to the government
of those islands. Senator Scott is a
practical business man and believes
In getting all the business knowledge
possible at first hand. He purposes
looking into the military conditions to
ascertain If the cavalry branch of the
service can be used in the islands to
better advantage than infantry, and
what active force should be maintained
for the protection of the people and
the suppression of disorder. He will
also look carefully into the educational
system employed and see for himself
the good resulting from the American
education of the FiliDinos. with all
this said the senator on the eve
of his departure, II have still another
motive in my visit to our new pos
sessions. AS a manufacturer want to
examine into the possibilities for
American industries, the amount Of
coal and other fuel suitable for use in
manufacture, and l intend to pay es-
pecial attention to the possibilities for
the glass industry. That has been my
business all my life AMI want to see
what the conditions are there. will
make it a special, point to see whether
the islands possess the raw material
suitable for making glass of all kinds,
so that if American capital desires to
enter this field / can advise from q
practical standpoint as to the pros
poets of success"
The visit of the Taft party to the
Philippines and of other parties, off,
cial and unofficial, is just what is
needed to develop the Philippines, to
find the hitherto and even now un.
known possibilities of the new possess
slons of the United States.
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Il III e. 4 e
now create a ripple in American life.
Not even in Kansas. Wealth and the
alteration Of wealth have made US for
getful of the principles which made
the country great. The story of
America is the story of Egypt. Lib
erty has produced wealth, wealth Is
undermining liberty"
Stuff and nonsense. The man does
not even know what has been doing
in Kansas in the last year, not to
speak of the years before. The Ameri-
can Revolution was founded on tea, and
isn't Kansas up in arms over oil? Her
methods are a little different, but just
as revolutionary. She has thrown
usua! business principles to the winds
barred her breast to the storm, and
tackled the octopus in a death strug-
gle.
AS for the rest of Mr.. Darrow's high
sounding talk, 1t may be dismissed
with the reflection that Americans are
as Jealous Of their liberties and as
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DUNNE is DONE.

Regulating all his promises Of i'm
mediate municipal ownership, disre-
gaTding all his declarations that he
had plan that would be sure to work,
forgetting all the arguments which he
and his friends put forth to secure his
election, forgetting even the very plat
form on which he was elected, Edward
F. Dunno, has thrown up his hands,
admitted his inability to make good,
admitted that he Is - done. Mayor of
Chicago, hope of Hearst, champion of
public ownership schemes of every
kind and description, special sponsor
for the scheme to place the Chicago
traction lines under municipal owner
ship and management, he has found
that he can't deliver the goods.
Though he was elected only a few
months ago, and was elected because
he promised immediate municipal own
ership, with strong accent on the "im-
mediate" he. has discovered early that
he is failure and has thrown up his
hands in surrender
More than his admission of defeat.
Mayor Dunno suggests that twenty
year franchises be given for the oper-
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IOWA LONG LIVED FAMILIES.

The Des Moines Capital has made
an effort to find the family within the
borders of Iowa with the best claim to
longevity and the editor of the Des
Moines paper has come to the conclu-
sion that if thorough search were
made, covering all the nation the best
instance of family vitality would be
found somewhere between the Missis-
sippi and the Missouri rivers.
The most remarkable family which
has been located in the Capitals
search is that Of Captain and Mrs.
Huston, well known pioneers Of Wayne
county and a couple whose relatives
are among the best known men and
women fsouthern Iowa Regarding
them the Des Moines paper says:
Captain and Mrs. Huston were mar
ried flfty-three and half years ago,
they have had seven children and
death has never broken into their cir
Gle Even more remarka BILE, there has
never been a death among the grand
children, nor of son-in-law or a
daughter-in-law. If there were any In
dams still ranging around in Wayne
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and Appanoose counties where the
Illusions live they would surely spare
these people as bearing charmed lives
and set apart by the Great Spirit as
not open to attack Can it be there is
anywhere in the state family to sur.
pass this record of the Illusions?
If families like the Illusions were
more numerous there would soon be
an end of race suicide. Their example
goes to the heart of that danger. 1t is
not enough to have large families of
robust children if they fade away in
infancy or disappear rapidly after ma.
turity is reached. The true doctrine
of survival of the fittest is exemplified
with those who show staying power.
A small family with tenacity of life
does moreto overcome the danger OF
race suicide than large one that is
not lasting; the blue ribbon belongs to
those who can show group of eight
or ten all living forty-flve or fifty years
after the hanging of the crane"
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much opposed to oppression today al
they ever were. The people are united
today where they were divided then.
although 1t is not true as barrow says
that the men who rebelled against
England were the poor and the dis,
pissed class Of their day, while against
them were arrayed the bankers and
the LAWYERS and the clergy" This
country Is weather. today in every
sense than 1t ever was before, and
some great evils have followed in tho
train Of wealth, but there Is not thu
slightest danger that wealth will ever
undermine the liberties Of a brave
and intelligent people. The patriotism
of 1875 burned brightly in 1912, 1s46,
1851 and 1893, and it may be trusted
to spring into life whenever 1t is needs
ed, In peace or In war.
However, Mr.. Darrow's pessimlsH
is natural and forgiveable. He is q
traction attorney and he halls from.
Chicago. 80
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RoosEvELT,s TEACHINGS.

In two recent notable addresses. one
at Harvard and the other yesterday
before the National Educational as
ISOLATION at Asbury Park, N. j., Presi-
dent Roosevelt has expressed views on
the financial question which are. to
say the least, most interesting at This
time, when the making of money has
come to be regarded as almost the
highest Of all the arts. Mr.. Roosevelt
does not take the stand that money! ia
not needed and that man without 1t
is better off than the millionaire, but
he does maintain that there should be
a limit to the accum ulation of riches.
that they should be gathered together
honestly and with full realization Of
the responsibility wealth imposes upon
the wealthy. Speaking to the teachers
convention yesterday Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
Where altogether too much promi-
nence is given to the mere possession
of wealth. the country is under heavy
obligations to such body as this
which substitutes for the ideal Of ac-
cumulating money the infinitely loftier.
nonmaterialistic ideal Of devotion
10 work worth doing simply for that
works sake. | do not il. the least
underestimate the need of having ma
terlal prosperity as the basis of our
civilization, but most earnestly in
s1st that If our civilization does not
build lofty superstructure on this
OASIS, we can never rank among the
really great peoples A certain amount
OF money Is of course a necessary
thing, as much for the nation as for the
individual, and there are few move
ments in which more thoroughly be-
lieve than in the movement to secure
better remuneration for our teachers.
But after all the service you render is
incalculable, because of the very fact
that by your lives you show that you
believe ideals to be worth sacrifice and
you are splendidly eager to do non
remunerative work If this work is of
good to your fellow men.
TO furnish in your lives such a
realized high ideal is to do a great
service to the country. The chief
harm done by the men of swollen for
tune to the community is not the harm
that the demagogue Is apt to depict as
spr1nging from their actions, but the
fact that their success sets up false
standard, and SO serves as bad exam
pie for the rest of u.s.
The above is much the same senti-
ment the President expressed in al
dressing the Harvard students at com
mencement time recently. 1t is good
wholesome fact, observations on condi-
lions which exist at this time and con-
ditions which, if they continue, will
have bad effect upon generations to
come.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Noting that gold has been discover
ed in one of the Nebraska baseball
parks, the Centerville Citizen says:
Col. Bryan is gradually getting a lit
tie closer to first base"
"The aid or sympathy given an able
bodied idle man these days in Iowa is
worse than wasted" declares the Fair
field Ledger. Every loafer and every
tramp could have employment il he
wished it. The farm, the factory, the
building trades in fact all Industries,
are looking for help. Prosperity seems
to have 'cornered' the labor market"
o. E3eas
"The Maquoketa Republican wants
noiseless firecracker,' declares the
Marion Register, against which every
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THE PEssiMisT.

Kansas City Journal-"Do you sup
pose" asked Clarence s. barrow, Of
Chicago, of the ottawa Chautauqua,
assembly audience July 4, "that there
il place in all this broad land where
the American constitution could be
written today? Do you suppose an
American legislature in single state
Would any commission of American
lawyers formulate the American Dec
laration of independence today?"
1t is safe to say that If Mr.. OAR
rows audience had answered his ques-
ton 1t would have answered 1t in the
affirmative. America certainly is bet.
ter off today in almost every respect
than in the Revolutionary days.
Patriotism Is more widespread, and
just as deep. Religion is more gener-
ally practiced now, although it was
Numbered more then. Society is purer.
Charity is greater and more universal.
The whole world, and especially Amer
lea, Is brighter, better and stronger
today than 1t was in 1776 or at any
other time in the past.
Perhaps Mr.. barrow has never read
about the manners and customs Of So
ciety in the glorious Revolutionary
days. of how men in the best society,
so-called, drank and gambled and
swore, and how the fashionable danes
well, let US not abuse our great
grandmothers, God bless .em. Sup
possibly Mr.. barrow has not even read
about the doings Of that very con-
gress that issued the Declaration of
Independence, Of it's chickering's, jeaI-
ousies and littlenesses Surely he
must be ignorant Of the vile and Bit
ter abuse that was feaped upon pub
lie men in those days, not even spar
ing the immortal Washington him
self.
Assuredly Mr.. Darrow's education is
limited in regard to Kansas. He says:
THE independence OF America was
attained on principle that would not
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alton of the street car lines and that,
in order to give some semblance of
municipal control, d directorate COM
posed of five men chosen by the mayor
shall manage the lines, instead of the
stockholders.
1t will be remembered that Mayor
Dunno fought his campaign on the sin
gle word immediate" Harlan, his re-
publican opponent, was in favor of mu-
nicipal ownership of the Chicago
street car lines, but he contended
throughout the campaign that this
could not be brought about Immediate
ly and even detailed plan for bring
ing it about gradually and eventually.
But this didn't suit the Chicago vot-
ers and they insisted on the election Of
Dunno and Immediate" municipalities
ton of the traction lines But they fig
ured it out with just one mistake. That
mistake was Dunno.
1t may be that the opinion expressed
by Glasgow's tramway expert, James
Dalrymple, who came to Chicago at
Mayor DUNES invitation, had some
thing to do with the mayors change
of heart. Whatever 1t was that brought
1T about, it Is as thorough a picture
Of failure as any political event that
has ever been given to observers of
public events in America
If Mayor Dunno listens to his con.
science he will surely feel a tingling
sensation every time he remembers
the campaign between himself and
John M. Harlan. II was hot cam
paign, as Chicago campaigns always
are. Some few republicans had some
hope of electing Harlan, but the sim
mediate" in Mr.. DUNES platform and
declarations caught the eye and the
ear of the average voter and Dunno
won out. He won cut because of that
very word and now that he has failed
so signally to redeem his many prom.
ises, he has convicted himself of OBJ.
tanning votes under false pretenses.
No matter what he might have done at
any other time. no matter what he
may do at any future time, Dunno is
done.
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HEPBURN in HONOLULU.

Enjoying himself in Honolulu, where
the breezes from the Pacific make one
forget all about the hot winds that are
wont to disport themselves over the
Iowa prairies at this time of the year,
Col. pete" Hepburn awaits the COM
ing Of Secretary Taft and his party,
en- route to the Philippines. The eighth
Iowa congressman Is not wasting his
time, however, for while he is waiting
he is being entertained by the officials
at Honolulu, and is the guest at nu-
merous banquets and receptions. Re-
Gently he was invited to speak and he
put into a few words some of the great
facts regarding American institutions
and the political life of the nation. In
his characteristic manner he said:
II do not believe that a man escapes
civic responsibility, through party
feeling. believe in party organiza-
ton because it has become part of
republican government There Is al
ways party with principle behind
the administration; nothing is done
individually. Therefore, have always
been partisan, but have never
excused myself from voting for can
didate known to be unfit by saying
that he was regularly nominated by
my party, perhaps through my own
negligence at the primaries. l can see
no line of difference between these
public duties and our private duties.''
1t is not alone the people of the
Hawaiian islands, who are only learn
ing American citizenship, who should
give heed to these views of Hepburn s..
They should be read by American cit
liens, those who have to be gathered
in when voting time comes, those who
are 'too busy to vote
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, C., M. e. ST. p.

G. NJ. g. ST. p.
No. Going East Via Cut OF. Time
Washington, Muscntine. Dav- -
export and Chicago 5:45 p. m
export and Chicago 12O5 a m
gpb-Davenport freight ..... =. 9:10 =. m.
Going West. -
;sa-Kansas City and Interme-
s diate cb,,,icotbe n;ca LOIS. 8. m.
sior Springs and Kansas
City .,..........:....... 2:14 a. m.
eSb-Chillicothe freight 80. 300 a. m.
e1a-Chillicothe freight -. 1890 o. m.
69a-Chillicothe freight ...10:40 a. m.
Going East Via Marion.
1Ob-Marion, Cedar Rapids and
Intermediate j. -. 1854 m.
1osb--Marlon,, Cedar Rapids and -
sspmM seaneaa' freight s Pa p N.
Coming West Via Marion.
ec-Marion, Cedar Rapids and
losb--Marion.. Cedar Rapids and - . -
-dally; Except Sunday: e e2el e; p;
Monday. -
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WABASH TIME TABLE.

No. Arrive. Time.
1a-St Louis Kansas City !. e:15 a. m.
13a-Moberly & Des Moines IL: 2Oa.m.
3a-St. Louis & Kansas city 700 % m.
Nc. Depart. Time.
Past. Lou & Kansas City S:25 a. M.
6a-Moberly & Des Moines. .4:10 3. m
4a-st Louis Kansas City -. O:oO y. m
a-daily.
For Information call new telephone 1924
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ONCE: 117-11s East Second street.
Telephone editorial or business Of
ficel No. "A.
Address the Courier Printing Co.. OF
tumwa. Iowa.
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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND 8 PACIFIC
Depart.

No. Going East. Depart,
206, Keokuk. Kansas City, Cali
fornia and southwest 1913 a. m.
202-Keokuk $50. ......... 1908 p. m.
204-Eldon, davenport & Chi
274-Local freight ........ 5:15 p. m.
Going West.
2os, Des Molues, Ruthven. Wesc
Nebraska and Washington,
Muscatine, Davenport and
cage .............. 1900 a. m.
2O1-Des Mo1nes & Omaha. II: 80 a. m.
2o5-Des Moines & Omaha. 7:05 pm.
2T3-Local freight :. -. 8:OOt,. m.
Unless otherwise r.,eclfed all trains are
daily except Sunday.
All C. M. & St. P. and Wabash trains
depart from jefferson Street Union
depot. w. L. Richards Agent.
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Entered as second class matter Oc-
tober II. 1908. at the postoffice. Ottum-
wa, Iowa. under the Ac. OF Congress- OF
March 3. 1879.
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R. R. Time Tables
All C. B. & @. and c. r. ]. g. p. trains
depart from Washington street I'm
ion depot.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c. 8. q {

BURLINGTON ROUTE, c. 9. q G.
30. Going East. Depart.
i2a1Chicago, Dubuque & Quincy 2:10 a. m.
!lo.i-Local Freight ............ 6:46 a. m.
Burlington 8 st. Louis 7:sS .. n.
!a-cIiea uag ST. Louis Quincy !:sS F. m.
ss-chieag @a Peoria Rockford 1s:ss M
Going West.
5a-Omaha. Council Bluffs &
Nebraska 1850. .12:5O a. m.
y5n-Fast mall $50. ........... 2:40 a. m.
yib-Local freight ;. ...... 800 a. m.
sa- Omaha. Kansas city. Denver,
Hot Springs Deadwood. Og-
den, Portland & California 1:45 a. m.
a a. East mall ~ cre.ton s9 a. M M
s s-tin,sssa to ottumwaarr;ye 1919 s p M
1a-Denver to Omaha Ill: 80 p. m.
.a-sdaily; b-except Sunday. Nos z. and
IS do not carry passengers.
Via Fort Madison-Going East.
Ft. Madison & St Louis (b) $500 a. m.
Going West.
From Fort Madison and st.
Louis (b) ............ s: so p. m
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And the staid old Burlington Hawk
Eye has perpetrated this: "As for
1908. the wise observer doesn' Taft
to be hit with brick to get at the
Root of the matter of a presidential
candidate. ooh. Shawl"
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The Marshalltown Times-R Republican
finds it difficult to determine Just how
much of Mr.. Rockefeller's generosity
found it's root in Miss Ida Tarbelrs
articles.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-18
A IAPANES E wOOING
Continued from page I3l

frowns. My heart thrills with love of
her. My suit shall be laid before her
father, after the manner of our people.
Will the danndSdn not befriend the
maiden till her parents can make known
their wishes? Shijo becomes forever his
most devoted though unworthy servant. )"
1t was apparent that even in Japan
Cupid might travel with the wings of
Mercury The proposal, made to me
as representing parental authority, was
in regular form. Responsibility was not
to be avoided.
Hama, when you came to us you were
to learn the ways of the West. Did you
not promise yourself to Boonto?"
Yes, when | saw the knife aimed at the
heart beating with my own; but he did
not remain to claim the promise.
with us man may Sue; but woman
only may grant his request. To her alone
may come the great happiness Of unlim-
tied giving"
Then this demure maiden of the East
lifted the half-veiled eyes till they met
the gaze of a bolder pair, and dropped
them as she murnured: Il have given.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-18

was forced down till the point pricked the
thigh of its owner. Quickly as light
moves, the hand at the wrist gripped the
elbow. the one at the neck moved to the
shoulder, and with thud the coward who
stabbed was thrown squarely on his back.
The dagger flew to the corner of the room.
Shijo the wrestler had vanquished Boonto
the assassin.
Before one could move steps sounded
on the walk. The half-daZed BOontO
leaped to his feet, sprang through the
shoji and disappeared, as my husband
and kimpatchi came upon the corridor.
THE dannasan knows all; we do his
bidding"
Then Shijo stepped from the window,
a bandage about his forearm, but other
wise apparently none the worse for his
encounter.
''Dannasdn is generous. He will par
don a humble servitor who acted only as
the heart moved, and did his small part
to protect the honor of the maid he dared
love Ny happiness is unbounded when
she smiles, my spirit saddens at her tears,
and my despair is bottomless as she
New-York tribune., 1905-06-18

able, that the real sea-serpent, if it ex-
lists, is neither an ancient lizard nor any
other creature surviving from a remote
geologic epoch, we must suppose (unlesS
we reject the monster outright, together
with an immense mass of testimony in its
behalf, much of which seems reliable
enough that the giant squid is the verita-
bic original, or else that there dwells in
the depths of the ocean a species of ami
NAL unknown to science, rarely seen at
the surface, in size equal to or surprising
the largest whales, of an elongated and
snake-like form, and corresponding in
other respects, at least IN general way,
to the accepted portrait of the marine
mystery which holds so equivocal a
status, halfway between fact and fiction.
In the tropical seas that wash the
southern coasts of Asia, particularly in
the neighborhOod of the East Indian
Archipelago, veritable sea-serpents are
found in such enormous numbers that
sometimes the water for miles in every
direction seems to be literally alive with
them. They are of several species,
some of them reaching a length of eight
feet, though ordinarily they do not ex-
Ceed three feet, and are so extremely
venOmOus that fishermen, who OCCASION
allv catch them in their nets. are much
afraid of them. Indeed, their venom
closely resembles that of the cobra, which
appears to act in the same way, causing
the death of the person bitten by suffo-
cation. A man has been known to die
in five hours from bite by one of them.
These sea-snakes are variously marked,
some of them being striped and brilliantly
colored They have fattened tails for
swimming, and In calm weather spend
most of their time floating on the surface.
When disturbed they dive, and if caught
they strike at everything in sight with the
utmost ferocity, sometimes driving their
fangs into their own flesh. But owing to
the peculiar structure of their eyes, they
do not see nearly SO well out of the water
as in it. They feed on fishes, which they
kill with their venom, and never leave
the water except to lay their eggs, fifteen
to twenty-five in number, which they
deposit on sandy beaches.
In conclusion, | would say that | am
by no means the sea-serpents advocate.
| do not assert that such creature lives.
All that l mean to convey by this plea
in its behalf IS a suggestion to the effect
that the evidence for its existence, while
falling far short of proof, is worthy of
serious consideration. In fact, l will go
so far as to admit that, in view of all the
testimony adduced, | incline rather to
belief than to disbelief in the monster,
which, be it reptile, mammal. fish or
mollusk. is undeniably the most interest
ing of geological puzzles.