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Over In the black belt, as 1t Is called,
where there Is more demand for manual
training than mental training in the strug-
Rie for existence, the city has had a school
for the past year which educators lave been
Watching with a great deal Of interest.
As public schools 60, this is an experiment
never made before so far as Ia known.
One Of the features of this school is its
requirements. The chief one Of these is
that n pupil mustn't know too much. Age
Il no bar to admission. In this it differs
from probably every other public school.
As n result, this school has a primary
class that boasts Of a pupil 81 years old,
and other pupils have passed so. II an
octoReuarian turned up there and said he
wanted to learn something included in the
curriculum, he would be welcomed like a
boy or girl of Is, and there wouldn't be
O great deal Of surprise at him. They have
got over being surprised in this school.
The school closed it's term recently with
exercises in which young and old joined
with the same enthusiasm; and when
the exercises Were.over and the pupils were
told to,wait and come. back next year, there
was as, sad O lot Of young people and old
people as could be found.
It wasn't the usual crowd Of romping
boys and girls, throwing up their hats at
the thought that school was over. These
pupils were genuinely sorry.
For the past school year this school has
been located In. Public School 80 in West
Forty-irat street,. When IL starts again
next year il may be in come other school,
for the experiment was successful to the
extent. that it bad moro pupils than could
be comfortably accommodated and next
fail moro are expected.
It would be hard to find another school
like this one. 1t is an evening industrial
school and elementary school combined.
Everything is elective. s,.
II you prefer to know how to bake a cake
scientifically to. being able to read every
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DIPLOMATS JOKE.
TOOK HIM THREE WEEKS, BUT
HE HAD HIS FUN. .

Amused the Folks From the Other Lega'
lions at the Roller Rink Just Once
Then He Set to Work to Learn the
Game-Made Them Open Their Eyes.
WASHINGTON, April 21.-Persons who
believe that Cinnamon have no sense Of fun
are invited to pay attention to this story.
Washington has had the roller skating
bug for the past three or four months.
| 1t is a revival Of the roller skating craze OF
a couple of decades ago Convention
Hall, which has been turned into a roller
rink, has one Of the biggest floor spaces
in the United States, and the fiooris packed
with skaters Of all degrees at each Of the
three daily skating seances. Many of the
! totiest people in town, men and women,
and some of them middle aged persons
who roller skated before most OF the present
generation Of roller skaters came into being,
Ryrate around on the floor Of this Washing
ton rink.
The diplomatic bunch"-as Washing
tonjans ofhandedly call the legation peo-
| ple-patronize the rink during the morning
| session, from 10 to II noon. None OF the
Ambassadors or Ministers Plenipotentiary
has vet been seen actually skating, but the
attaches and the women folk OF the lega-
tons have fallen for this sport with a thud
| and they cayort around on the wheels while
the Ambassadors and Ministers look on
from the benches.
About a month ago n Of the leading
seoretariee Of the Chinese Embassy ac-
companied a crowd of the legation people
to the rink at a morning session. He is a
short, rather fat Monaghan, with ar ever
smiling visage. He took a seat with the
staid lookers-on and watched the antics Of
the beginners with great apparent amuse-
ment. A number OF the young attaches Of
other legations begged him to put a pair Of
skates on and have a try at the American
sport. He shook his head over these sug-
R~estions for a long time, but finally he
yielded.
When the other legation people saw the
Chinaman being led out on to the floor by
one Of the instructors they all stood by
for fun. They had the fun. The China
man on skates was a joke. The secretary
exhibited all of the Chinaman's natural lack
| of agility as to foot and leg work, He wab-
bled like a rundown top and his legs refused
utterly to support him, even when he tried
to stand perfectly upright and still; but
he was game, and he gave the thing a dozen
trials, He fell down every time, on several
occasions dragging his obviously cha
grined and sore instructor with him. The
Chinaman fell on every part and portion Of
his anatomy.
His flowing green silk garments were Of
the color Of oily mop rags when he finally
had the skates removed from his feet, but
throughout the whole performance the
pleasant, engaging smile never left ths
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thing in the second reader the city in this
school stands ready to- teach you how to
bake and Won't mention the second reader.
II you would rather learn how to make
dresses or gorgeous hats than to do sums
in arithmetic the city will teach you all
you want to know and let arithmetic go.
On the other hand you may be 90 oil 10
years old and decide that you would like
to learn to read and write. There wouldn't
be the least hit of a kick made in tni, school
at admitting you into the first primary
class. Instead, you'd be patted on the
back by the principal and told to go ahead
with such a laudable ambition. 1t isn't
probable that there would be any fun made
Of you In the class room, either.
There are lots Of night schools in New
York. In fact. the importance Of the night
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school is coming to be more and more recog-
nized and more are started every year;
but none Of these combines the teaching
Of the elementary branches and the teach
ing of the trades.
You must have completed your elemen-
tary edu cation before you can learn any OF
the trades in the ordinary schools. There
fore, the school in West Forty-first street
is unique in the city's school system.
Public School so is almost in the centre
of the black belt. There is more illiteracy
there, perhaps. than nywhere else. There
is also a lack of technical knowledge Of all
kinds.
1t didn't seem quite right to the school
people that the thousands in this section
should be deprived of the technical educa-
ton the city vas giving for nothing to those
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"Now here's the reverse Of that. There
are never any scandals in the cir Did
you ever hear Of a clown suing or being
sued for a divorce? Never.
cor OF a trapeze artist asking the courts
for a separation or for the custody of the
children2 You never did. The circus
has become the great conserver of domestic
life in America.
@The performers are all in family groups.
II a woman has a man to assist her In an
absorbing sensational death defying feat,
that mar lie her husband, brother or father,
sometimes a son.
Look at that woman on he trapeze
way up there just under the roof. Now,
look at that clown watching her. He Is
her husband.S' .
The woman, in pink tights and spanges,
was resting after a flying act in which
she had swung thirty feet or more through
the air to be caught by her own brother
who, hanging by his legs to another trapeze,
had swung out to meet her.
He had twisted her around in the air
and sent her flying back to her perch. AS
she sat there she did something uncon-
soiously to her back hair, grabbing the comb
with the thumb and first three fingers and
working it up and down, letting the little
finger wave in the air.
Every woman does that same thing in
exactly that same way, no maptter whether
she Is sitting In a rocking chair darning
socks or sitting astride a trapeze in pink
tights. Seeing her do it was corrobor-
alive evidence Of Tody Hamilton's assertion
that the performers are all domestic and
that the circus is the great conserver of
family life,
That fight through the air to see brother
and back again was nothing compared
to the giant swing by the heels that she was
about 20 make. 1t was for hat that the
clown husband was watching, just as he
had watched at every performance for
many seasons.
That's n advantage Of being a Gle IN;
you can stop short at whatever you're doing
and stare at the roof, and the audience thinks
it's part OF your act, that you are merely
getting ready to appear TO be surprised
behind. On the day Of the private lecture
on marital felicity by T. Hamilton the
clown husband happened TO be beating q
two man power donkey with a roll OF rub
Der bologna when the time came for the
giant swing; He knew that T. was time,
as 1t always does when somebody aloft is
about to do q stunt that is particularly
risky and sensational. =,
The husband quit his fooling and looked
up his wife, the two men or the donkey
knew what he was doing and stood still
to give him a chance, and the clown on top
Of the donkey knew, too, and came to a
pose.
After the quarter minute Of silence
there was O ruh1e OF the drums, and Mrs.
Clown lot herself go head first from the
highest horizontal bar in the aerial rigging,
she was caught by the heels, swung down
and up on the other side, as rigid as a par
blaring this time, and came under and up
with 30 much gathered momentum that
the slightest stop at the finish Of the revo-
luton, the catching o. the centre 80 TO
speak, was hardly ~perceptibie. .
That happened Ave times, with the band
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4
Taken by 4 Man Not Yet Wholly Hardened
What He Did With II.

al took the other day" said a man whose
conscience is rot yet scared, "a silver quaT-
ter that on inspe ction proved somewhat
doubtful. At n point on its edge there
was a little, raised place thai looked like
a burr that had been smoothed over, and
on one face there was a little pulled up
place.
"To test 1t I simply handed it out the
first time l had occasion to use money.
this being at ticket office in the subway.
'The ticket seller didn't simply swish
my quarter over to one side with one move
ment and swish me out my ticket and change
with another. On the contrary he glanced
at my quarter as it lay, thare ON the glass
before him for an instant, ard then ne
turned the coin over and glanced at its other
side n thep-he swished it bach to me;
all without a word. o..
o course l didn't say anything there
wasn't anything to be said. The first
man l had tried it on, and he a nan who
ought to know, considered the quarter bad.
Yet was not entirely convinced The
tcket seller was young and youth is rash
in its judgment.
AZ the same time the ticket s%elle1's
decision did shake me a little. If the
quarter was bad I couldn't afford to PASS
1t, for 1t might finally pass into the hands
Of somebody who could less afford TO lose
1t than / could. So it was up to me to find
out definitely about the quarter.
Il might have gone into any coin dealers.
but | thought might just as we'll 60 to
headquarters while ] was about 1t, and so |
went down to the Sub-Treasury in Wall
street and climbed the high stone step.
up past the tall figure OF George Washington
standing there and always looking steadily
down broad, street, and on into the Old
building and went straight to the window
OF the receiving, teller.
AT the neiEhboring window OF the ray
ing teller there happened to be, just as ]
came In, a man dragging out a bag, as hig
as q .blg salt bag, full Of coin of some soit
which had Just been paid out to him. and
suppose they must receive and paw out
here in the course of the day coin in various
amounts larger than the one | was bring.
ing In, but j went up to the receiving ~tellers
w1ndow Just the same, with full confidence
that Uncle Sam treats all his customers
aii!e, n planked dow n my ma rred quarter.
rs 1t good-or bad?' 1 asked; and
Good, said the receiving teller, "a he
picked 1t up; and then he disappeared. to
return In a moment, and hand me a quarter
which then supposed to he the one had
What was the matter with TT" I asked
him, and .s,
ut had been mounted as a pin he Said,
or In some way handled by q ieweller.
L have given you another in place OF it,
And so lie had, as | now discovered,
Tor In place OF the marred coin he had given
me q perfect one; and with the marrrd
coin thus withdrawn for recoinage. and
with one that would pass, in place o. il. !
regarded the incident as closed"
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her ON THE TRAPEZE
"YESr MILLY SAID no BILLY
AFTER THE PLUNGE.

without AIntefAtI0n r. Hamilton Tells Why
the Circus Has Become the Great Con-
server Of Family Life in Ameriea-Ro.
mances or the Ring n the mdair.
sArS there any xumances among the
circus .performers2'
sMinions Of Them said Tody. Hamilton.
dropping into ALTERATION from force OF
habit. sReveries and romances, romances
that are recherche, restful, retransforming
and reverberating, romances that are
Hold on, there!' interrupted the caller.
sThis isn't for next years programme OF
The Greatest Show on Earth, nor even an
advance notice for the town you'll hit after
leaving the Garden. / just happened to
ask II you had any rornances among your
people: mere idle curiosity prompted the
question, not o desire to hear everything
there Is in the dictionary under r. Sup
pose I had asked II you had any love affairs.
How'd you put II then2'
sLove?. Lots-lurid, languld, languorous
love, istlessly isping lads and lasses---
sThat's worse than &. Now, Col. Harnil-
ton. Quit H.. Forget that you are a press
agent. the dean Of press agents, and tell
just a plain, unvarnished tale, not for pub
location. ARR there any romances among
the circus folkp' s..
sYou promise faithfully that this won't
be printed, that I may talk TO you frankly
without adjsctives9"
Absolutely
sHeayena, what q relief II seems too
good 10 be true. But remember, not q
word for the public prints. You are not
To petray my ~conndence n expose my
naked language TO the public, Invested Of all
those warm, woollen, winterweight words
which are won to wrap IL within their
warp and wool
The press bureau stenographer took
that last, down automatically and stuck
it into the w pigeon hole for future use;
but IL was evident that Tody Hamilton
had not intended 10 say anything OF the
aort-that he did not realize that he had
said 1t. .... ..
@Of course there are romances. When
two young people, a man and n woman,
are in daily association performing prodigies
OF valor and sharing the common peril
of-remember you have promised not to
print the skeleton talk-sharing the COM
mon danger Of p~erilous performances
denoting the acme Of nerve allied with
the perfection Of intelligent and careful
training; when, I say, two such people
are in daily association there is bound
TO be en~gendered in their breasts a feeling
of wat1n regard, I may say, a sense Of
love for each other, lasting lifelong love,
leading-- ... q I..a5 D.
whistle Tor brakes. You got started
very well that time. although 1t VAS in a
pretty high kev." .
VIZ" .. H. o. u.s. - - I. .. - r ~
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fortunate enough to have learned the ele-
mentary branches, so they decided to see
how the experiment would work of starting
an industrial and elementary school with
no requirements.
1T is all right to plan such a school,
said one OF the educators when told about
this idea, "but over there in that section
the question Is, Win any one come to the
school?'
They weren't long in getting an answer
to this question.
There isn't any truant law to make grown
folks go to school, no matter how little they
know. Going to such a school is voluntary
the result Of ambition pure and simple.
The question was whether there would
be sufficient ambition in the crowded tene-
ments where the poorer colored people
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Our Progress.

From The Washington Star.
Whittier are wo drifting? 2" asked tlS
platitudinous orator.
We amt drifting anywhere" said tho
man In re back row who fears the corpoFG-
lions. ~We're being pushed"
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ns0&A%n MahnJ Just Luud~ Write Rw% @%M %H There Too EwNmSn~ %fOm&e -MA4%EWNNa
Three RS ~Amr mdc~MS No o&~ S&n~ kAy%e |NIN MaSlNQYW
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-05
HOCH NAMED
GOVERNOR or. KANSAS RENoMlN-
ATED BY AccLAMATloN DE-
SPITE PARTY SCANDAL

Topeka Kan, May 3.-The Kansas
kiss, proffered, forced, spurned or ac-
cepted, was triumphantly indicated
here yesterday, when republican repre-
sentatives from every county In the
state renominated Governor Hoch by
reclamation.
No reference to an embrace was
contained in the platform and no state
ment OF the conventions belief that
the governors impulsive nature should
be curbed was made
The following so called machine slate
went through:
Governor w. Hoch, Marion.
Lieutenant governor - William j.
Fitzgerald, Dodge City.
Secretary of te-Charles q. Dem
ton, Attica.
State auditor-James M. Nation,
Erie.
state Mark Tully, Inde.
pendence.
Attorney general-Fred S. Jackson.
Greenwood.
The platform adopted reaffirms the
party's pride Gin the history and
achievements of the national organize
ton and adherence to it's principles"
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4 ANCs HI MSELF
LIFELEss BODY OF 3. s. cHlsMAN
FOUND IN BARN NEAR
DUDLEY

Dudley. May 3.-(Special. 1.-The
lifeless body OF B. S. Chisman, an aged
and highly respected citizen, who re-
sides south of here, was found to-
day about noon hanging from a
rafter in barn in the rear Of his home.
Mr.. Chisman had been ailing for some
time, and this is thought to have been
the cause of his rash act. He leaves
a wife and grown family. He was
about 10 years old, and veteran of
the civil war.
The dead man was discovered by
his wife, who had seen him alive Just
twenty minutes before. Chisman
went to the barn, removed his coat
vest and shoes and placing rope
around his neck, swung 1t over raft.
er and hung himself Mr.. Chisman
was member of the Thirty.sixth
Iowa infantry. He is survived by a
wife and one son, Frank, and two
daughters at home, Mrs. George Jen.
kins, a daughter, who resides in Chill,
licothe, and another daughter, Mrs
Wells Chapman, of Winfield. Kas.
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WEST END ITEMS.
ot4+sss. -.s+s4.s.s.sa..4,.4..s..

From Thursdays Daily
Mrs. Grove of Hilton is visiting
friends in Rutledge.
Edley Sutton is moving his house
from Keb to the Hale farm north of
Rutledge.
John Maring moved yesterday from
2S5 Clarence street to Tindall street.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Conner, corner
of West Second and Caldwell streets,
were visiting friends in Rutledge the
early part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Rogers of Kan
sas City, have been visiting at the
home OF Mr. and Mrs. G. w, Cummins
in Phillipstown. They returned home
yesterday.
Morgan Phillips and Evan D. Lewis
of Fairview avenue, were in Kirkville
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Madigan moved yester.
day from Central addition to 235 Clar.
ence street.
Miss Jessie Peters, corner of West
Second and Graves street, made a
business visit to Rutledge the early
part Of this week.
Arthur Devlin Of Highland avenue
made a business trip to Keb today.
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FARMlNGToN.a

Pennington, May 3.-Gus Hartrick
has gone to Bushnell, ILL.,, where he
has good position.
Rev. Stanley Wilkin was in Moul-
ton Friday attending ministerial
conference.
Miss Daisy Benjamin is visiting
friends in Milton.
Rev. N. P. Olmstead and family left
Monday for their new home in Alden.
1t was with sincere regret that the
members of the Congregational church
accepted Mr.. Olmstead's resignation,
and although he had lived here but a
short time he had large number of
friends who were 9th to have him
leave
Mrs. t. O. Linstrum accompanied
by her sister, Miss Florence Bracy,
left Tuesday morning for Mrs. Lin
strum's home in Elkhart.
Chapter o, P. E. o., had juvenile
party Monday night at the home Of
Mrs. Ida Moore. The prevailing SEN
timent was make me child again
just for tonight" The members all
appeared arrayed in children's clothes
and brought their dolls and doll bug.
GIGS. The refreshments were chew
ing gum, stick candy, pink lemonade
and pink ice cream.
Mrs. Margaret Carr, who has been
spending the winter with her son, w
A. Carr, in Philadelphia, returned to
her home Saturday morning.
w. Fl. Field was an over Sunday Wis
itor in Ottumwa.
Mrs. A. T. S. Owen and daughter
Dorothy, are visiting relatives in Ka
hoka.
George ziglar has been employed as
clerk in the postottice
George Zigler entertained the high
school graduates at his home on Tues
day evening.
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AMADoR.

Amador, May 3.--Mr. and Mrs. Newt
Shields were guests at the Wilkins
home Sunday.
Laura Schwartz Is staying in Ottum-
wa.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Phillips and son,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haning and L. H.
Wellman spent Sunday at the home
of E. Haning.
Mrs. Ira Haning called at the home
of William Ralston recently.
Norman Smiskey is assisting John
Mcfarland with farm work.
John Day made business trip to
the county seat recently.
Miss Pearl Rollison was a guest at
the home of John Day Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Hancock was in Blakes
burg recently.
Preaching services at Russell chapel
Saturday night and Sunday, conducted
by the pastor, Rev. Newland.
Mrs. Nora Wright and little daugh
ter Elizabeth arrived from Cantril last
week for visit at the parental Day
home. They were. accompanied by
Miss Achsa Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r.. Wellman Of OF
IuIHWd were TeCeHL SueSIS VI MT. WEI
mans parents.
Miss Ida Schwartz spent Monday
with her parents near Blakesburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vandeelfo wre enter
tanned Mt the James Phillips home
Sunday.
Mrs. Susan Berry and daughter
Clara spent Monday with Frank Han
ing.
c. w. Conwell will commence schoo
at Weliman Monday.
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FOOD OR
STIMULANT.

Ask your doctor if when
he orders a patient to drink
lots Of pure milk he advises
the addition Of a large
quantity of whiskey. He'll
tell you mo- very enphati-
cally. Yet there are people
who, when ordered to get
SCOTS Emulsion, will accept
some wine, cordial or extract
Of cod liver oil and think it is
the same thing or better. If
you want and need cod liver
oil in its best, purest and
most easily digested form, get
SCOTS Emulsion. If YOU
want whiskey, that's another
matter, but don't look for the
same results.
SCOTT 8 NowNE. 400 Pearl ST.. New YORK
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FOSTER.

Foster, May 3.--William Lewis, of
White City, visited his parents and
other relatives here Sunday.
Henry Phillips, of Ottumwa, was a
business caller in Foster Tuesday.
William Miller made a business visit
to OttumWa Monday.
Miss Florence Edgington. of Ottum-
wa, visited her aunt, Mrs. w. A. Rec
tor. last week.
Jesse Newell, of Lockman, was In
Foster one day last week.
Hon Geo r. Taylor, Of Ottumwa,
was In Foster Tuesday on legal bust
ness
Mrs. John Terry and daughter Mabel
returned home from Ottumwa Satur-
day after weeks visit with Mrs. Ter
ry's daughter, Mrs. ]. G. Hale.
Wallace Convey left Tuesday even
ing over the Milwaukee for Denver,
Col, on business.
A. H. Good and David Anderson are
treating their houses to new coat
Of paint.
Mrs. Maggie James had a fine mare
and colt badly cut with barbed wire
Monday.
Marion Norman moved his family to
Abba, last week. and will work for the
Wabash railroad company
MRS John Madison, ST., and chill
dren returned from Abba Sunday at
ter a weeks visit with Mrs. Madisons
children there.
David J. and Thomas Lewis were
transacting business in Abba Monday
/ The public scnool will close Friday