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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15
JEFFERSON GINA EoR LIE Whit HousE.

Through the patriotic generosity of T. ],
Coolidge, Of Boston, a valued addition has been
made to the White House collection OF presiden.
tial china, consisting of four pieces Of Jefferson
ware. These pieces belong to a blue and white
dinner set which President Jefferson ordered In
France. Owing to the tangled condition Of JET.
tersons financial AFFAIRS at the time Of his death
Jones, of Virginia, who. apart from the fact that
1t was owned by Jefferson liked it especially be-
cause the letter j" appeared In the crest
Some 80 years ago Mr.. Coolidge, ST. learned
OF the whereabouts Of the china and purchased
It from the Jones estate, subsequently presenting
1t to his son, who has now loaned four pieces OF
the set to the White House collection. The loan
consists OF a soup tureen, the top Of a vegetable
dish, the dish itself having been broken e large
n and plate and on the sides Of the tursen ana
d Jefferson crest The shield is outlined ID deem
and in the center is an elaborate scroll letter 'Ja
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15
'RoozE Experts" SEX eovERNMEMr JoRs.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist of the de-
partment Of agriculture is receiving letters from
people all over the country who want to Join his
alcohol class. communication from a man in
Boston, who styles himself leading expert on
BOOZE, is gem. He impatently declares his
htness to fill the position of testing kill me
quick for the government and wants to know
when he shall show up to begin the merry occu-
patton. DIR. Wiley is receiving so many applica-
lions for places on the official board of Uncle
Sans spirit testers that his hair is growing gray.
Since the white light of publicity was shed
upon the Wiley scheme to determine whether
alcoholic drinks are deleterious to the human stou-
ach, the learned doctor has been besieged with
plaintiye walls from lovers Of mixed and I'm.
mixed drinks. All are anxious to help.
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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15


begin soon as Dr. Wiley can get dozen subjects undergo
with atpeter If subjects cannot be obtained
but DR.. Wiley will not be responsible.
There is probability that at distant day
with
everything will
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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15

walked sixnch
finder Then
one resting
NeO' @'''' janus away "'A'
whole thing quickly
unaWares one OF them called the
Can do that
WELL of the
and then w."
DO
the eN1 1oD ~" HAo ~ "'Neu One Vi
By the
around litter of
hayward spark dropping Of the -
AT dinner that day
The gun crews - - F-~0 VI wv
Just this
at the " O 'O - Gun anu ANs
The await the majors report with
much interest. - 1900 'oP0-' '-N
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15

visits OF cabinet
desire have his
II Is that the political
P-00-N0H' NAN "i' NA'NNo'
. hg president unqesonb deeply interested
uges and
to disguise his interest the
can 10 promote the success of the Republican
campaign to
Characteristic letter the president
candidate Hughes to the voters Of
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-15

ai anu me are .e service In some instances the
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
ABORIGINES OF AFRICA.
Vaalpens Seem to Be the Lowest Or
der of Cannibals.

Faalpens Seem to Be the Lowest Or
der of Cannibals.
An obscure race may possibly be the
true aborigine of Africa south of the
ZambeZi.
These are the kattea, or Naalpens,
as they are nicknamed by the Beers on
account Of the dusty color their abdo-
men acquires from the habit Of creep
ing into holes in the ground, who live
in the steppes region of the north
Transvaal as far as the Limpopo.
AS their complexion is almost a
pitch black and their stature only
about four feet, they are quite distinct
from their tall Bantu neighbors and
from the yellOwish Bushmen.
The dogs or ''vllltures," as the Zu-
lus call them, are the lowest of the
low" being undoubtedly cannibals and
often making meal of their own aged
and infirm, which the Bushmen never
do.
Their habitations are holes in the
ground, rock shelters and lately a few
novels. They have no arts or indus
tries or even any weapons except
those obtained in exchange for Ostrich
feathers, skins or ivory.
Whether they have any religious
ideas 1t Is Impossible to say, all inter
course being restricted to barter car
ried on in a gesture language, for no
body has ever yet mastered thei]
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
dead taste it has.

dead taste it has.
Another great advantage Of water
thus prepared is that it is not subject
to auto-infection or self contamination,
which is such a great enemy to most
filtered waters. This water will remain
pure even though exposed to the air in
open vessels for thirty-six hours.
Although SO small an amount of alum
would not hurt you if you We're to
drink every particle of it, be not
alarmed. You do not get any of the
alum when you drink, for the water
upon analysis is found to be chemically
free from alum The alum has settled
to the bottom in an insoluble COM
pound with the filth and impurities it
has carried with it.
In half an hour or less you will see
your pan or pot in which you have
"set" your water. If you will shake
the vessel a bit you will see this de-
posit go to the bottom. If you can
spare the time the water should stand
for about six hours before it is de-
canted. Then place in clean bottles
on the ice.
In this way you drink pure, cold,
| sparkling water without the contami-
| nation that is bound to come from
| putting ice in the drinking water IN
| less the ice has been manufactured
from filtered water.-Ruth Everett in
New York World
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
The New Furniture Store.

purifier which you are about to use
/ to 5000. It is more than likely that
you will have no way to ascertain
these exact proportions, but do not let
that discourage you. A little expert
ence is worth a good deal in this world,
whether the work be done is compli-
Gated or simple. A few days of trial in
using the separator will serve to guide
you all right.
For starter, say that to a pitcher
holding a quart Of water you take a
small amount of pulveriZed alum,
about what would go on the rounded
point of the blade Of a pocketknife,
toss it into the water and mix it thor
oughly This you can do with spoon,
an egg beaten or a whip cream churn.
The only thing is to see that the alum
is thoroughly mixed with the water,
and it takes considerable stirring to do
this.
IT you notice little moss islands in
the water, which same little islands do
not seem to want to go to the bottom
with their companions, you will know
that you have not properly mixed the
alum with the water AS water costs
nothing and the alum but the merest
tritie, you can throw the water away
and "set' some more. But you need
not do this. All you have to do is to
stir it all up good again. f
When the work is properly done the
| water is crystal clear and has live
taste. One thing that makes distilled
water so unpalatable is the absolutely
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
The Antiquity of the Thimble.

Somebody wrote: Ito the Dutch the
ladies of all nations are indebted for
the invention of the thimble The
Dutch achieved this great invention
about the year 1890"
How can this stupid error have arts
en-? The thimble is probably prehis-
toric. Thimbles in some form or 9th
er must have been used by the women
who executed the rich embroideries Of
the medieval time. The late Pro-
fessor J. E. Thorold Rogers in his
History of Agriculture and Prices In
England" mentions, under the year
1494, one dozen thimbles which cost
shillings. What is, however, more to
the purpose, they are frequently allud-
ed to by our old dramatists. Here are
two examples from the greatest Of
them.
In The Tanning of the Shrew'' Cru
milo says:
II commanded the sleeves should be
cut out and sewed up again and that
I'll prove upon thee, though thy little;
finger be armed in thimble.".IV, 8,
$40.
In the early days Of the civil war be-
tween Charles I. and the parliament,
when the citizens of London were call
ed on to send in their plate to be coin
ed into money, the royalist testers
made fun of the puritan danes who
were said to have given even their sill
yer thimbles to the cause-Notes and
Queries.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
PURE WATER.

Every Home Can Have 1t With Little
Trouble and Expense.
A good filter is an expensive thing,
a poor one is Of little or no account
and almost any filter, unless it is kept
clean, is more destructive of life and
health than the water it filters. The
care of the filter can never be given
over to the care Of irresponsible serv-
ants. 1t soon begins to smell foul,
and it is ultimately given up with
disgust, as costing more than it
comes to.
It is within the power Of every house
keeper to provide the family with
pure and sparkling water at the ex-
pense of but a few cents year and
the smallest amount Of attention every
day.
In France the purifying of water in
this way is carried on to considera-
Bile extent and with elaborate and ex-
pensive machinery. But with no ma
chinery at all the housewife can pro-
duce practically the same result.
Take any vessel you may chance to
have handy. 1 have found stone pot,
which you can buy any place for 10
cents, one that slopes down the sides
to a small base at the bottom, about
the best of anything. Be sure that
your vessel is clean. Fill it nearly full
with water from the faucet.
The rule for mixing the precipitating
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05

tongue, all that is known of their Ian
guage being that it is absolutely dis
tinct from that of both the Bushman
and the Bantu.
There are no tribes, merely little
family groups Of from thirty to fifty
individuals, each Of which is presided
over by a headman, whose functions
are acquired not by heredity, but by
personal qualities.
So little information is available con-
corning the Kattea that it is impossi-
BILE to say anything about their racial
affinities.-Scientific American.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05
A Queer Marriage Custom.

Members Of the NJ fiji tribe, who live
on the Limpopo river, wear an extraor-
binary marriage Dress This weird
and uncomfortable looking costume is
made entirely of split reeds, fastened
together with grass, and the unhappy
bachelor who contemplates matrimony
is compelled to wear it for three solid
months before the happy event comes
off, meanwhile leading life Of strict
seclusion. What effect this extraOr-
binary custom has on the popularity
Of marriage among the Mills is not
known, but it was only with the ut
most difficulty that some members Of
the mounted police, who encountered
some would be Benedicts, induced them
to allow their photographs to be taken.
Wide World Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-05

Surprise your wife with a
new Extension Table in
round or square, just the
thing for Christmas. From
$3.50 and upwards.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
GIVE Up JOBS
j. H. scHIFF AND ASSOCIATES RE-
SIGN FROM RAILWAY
DiREcToRATEs

New York, Feb. 26. - Members CT
the firm of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., have de-
termined to retire from all railroad
boards; in which the firm has been rep
resented. 1t was announced today that
the reason given for the step is the
steadily increasing difficulty which the
members of the firm have been expert
encing in meeting the demands of
their own business. Jacob H. Schiff is
the head of the firm.
The members of the isrnl on We'd
nesday; last resigned from the follow
Ing boards: Union Pacific, Baltimore
& Ohid,. Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern, Alton, Denver & Rio Grande, Nor
thern Eecurities company, Oregon
Short 3Line, Oregon Railroad & Nav
igation Co, Rio Grande 6 Western
railroad, Southern Pacific company
PacifcI Mail Steamship company and
a number Of subsidiary corporations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
A ROYAL WEDDING
GERMAN PRINCE EITEL FREDER-
Ick AND DUCHESS SOPHIE
ARE MARRIED

Berlin, Feb. 2e.-Duchess Sophie
Charlotte Of Oldenburg arrived in Ber-
lin with her father today in drizzling
rain After lunching with the imperial
family at the small Bellevue palace
she drove with her grandmother
Princess Frederick Karl Of Prussia, to
the imperial palace. She was cheered
along the route by hundreds Of thous-
ands of people and the procession was
as brilliant as court equipages and
cuirassed and helmeted guardsmen
could make it. The principal personages
of the government were assembled at
the palace to receive the princess and
the marriage contract to Prince Eitel
Frederick was there signed with the
usual ceremony.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
TlLLMAN PRESENTS HEPBURN
MEASURE TO SENATE.
WILL PRINT EVIDENCE
Ten Thousand Copies Of tho Testimony
Before the Senate Commerce Com
mIttee-Larse Crowds In Senate
Galleries Hear TIllman's Report.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 26.-Expect-
ing a spirited discussion over the re-
port by. Senator Tillman OF the Hep
burn railroad rate bill the galleries OF
the senate were crowded when today's
session was called to order and an lun-
usually large number of senators were
In their seats. AS soon as the vice
president called for the reports OF the
standing committees Tillman was rec
ognized. He announced he had been
instructed by the committee on inter
state commerce to report house bill
No. 12,987 without amendment, and he
read a resolution adopted after dis
cussion concerning printing the testi-
mony taken by the committee. An or
der was made for the publication of
10000 copies. Senator Tillman gave
notice he would press the bill to earli-
est consideration.
Wants Campaign Fund Accounting.
Senator LaFullette Of Wisconsin In
troduced q sweeping bill today requir-
ing committees Of all political parties
in the national and congressional cleo
tions to account for all moneys expend-
ed in said elections and for the filing
Of statements of receipts and disburse-
ments Of political committees with the
secretary OF commerce to prohibit cor
porations for directly or indirectly con-
2tributing money to any political COM
mittee or to any candidate for political
office.
Investigation Resolution to President,
The senate concurred In the house
amendment to the Gillespie -Tillman
resolution for an investigation Of the
railroads and their relation to coal and
oil producing. The resolution now
goes to the President.
Roads Win Out.
The suits known as the scitrus
fruit cases" In which all the railroads
of southern California are interested
were today decided favorably to the
railroads by the supreme court. The
cases involved the right of the rail.
road companies to designate the route
for fruit shipped east after 1t leaves
their own lines.
Cromwell Only an Attorney.
William Nelson Cromwell appeared
before the senate committee on inter
oceanic canals today and made a
lengthy statement regarding his rela
tions with the Panama canal. He
asserted that his participation In It's
affairs since the purchase by the
United States had been by invitation
and the only compensation he had re-
ceived from the United States was
that as attorney for the Panama rail
road, the position he held before the
United States acquired the road.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
N ISSIONS
DESTROYED
AMERICANS IN CHINESE PROV
INcE OF klANasl ARE IN
DANGER :

Washington, D. c., Feb. 26.-Con-
sui General Rodgers at Shanghai
cabled the state department today that
American mission stations at Nan
chang, in the province Of Kiangsi, have
been destroyed. It is probably the
cause Is local. kilograms received
from those points state that fourteen
American missionaries escaped, but
the bingham family (English) consist
ing of two adults and two children,
are reported killed The American
gunboat ElCano, at Nankin, has been
ordered to proceed Immediately to
Kinkiang and WIFI probably Y arrive
is 400 miles up the Yang TIE river.
The inland British missions are re-
ported to be safe.
Is a Methodist Mission.
Pekin, Feb. 26. ~ The American
Methodist mission has station at
Nan Chang. No news Of the mission
aries has been received here. 1t Is
supposed they escaped to kiu Klang.
Reports Are Conflicting.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 26. Later
a cablegram from Rodgers says the
reports of the Nanchang trouble are
conflicting. 1t is now reported to
have originated in dispute between
French Jesuits and Chinese officials. A
Chinese magistrate stabbed himself. In
the riot. which occurred yesterday six
Jesuits and two members of the King
man family were killed. The Chinese
troops were protecting refugees going
to Kukiang The American mission
building Is understood to have been
saved and order is now restored.
Boycott Of at Canton.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 26.-The
Chinese minister has received a cable.
gram from the yiceroy at Canton, say.
ing the boycott agitation has subsidized
and everything is quiet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
cRossLEY BILL is UNDER coNslD.
GRAFTON IN THE IOWA
SENATE
VOTE WILL BE CLOSE
Both Sides Claim a Majority Bu.
Neither Has Any Assurance Of
Victory -crossIey and Lewis Have
Bill In Charge.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Des Moines Bureau of the Courier,


Des Moines, Fob 26.
Consideration of the primary bill
began at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Senator Crossley, author Of the bill,
and Senator Lewis, chairman OF the
elections committee which reported 1t
for passage took charge of the
measure and 1t was commonly believed
among the members that the senate
would do very well to dispose Of the
subject by the time fixed for adjourn
ment Wednesday. Friends and foes
of the bill hope to see it disposed OF
SO far as the senate Is concerned be-
fore adjournment is taken for the six
days over the, first of March.
In form 1t Is the Crossley bill, with
committee suggestions wrought into
amendments by the author Of the
measure. The fight for 1t will be led
by Senator Crossley and Senator
Lewis, chairman of the elections COM
mittee, which favorably reported 1t
to the senate.
1t Is anticipated that the debate will
continue at considerable length. The
primary is recognized as the most i'm
portant measure before the assembly
The proposition Is Of that character
which will require full roll call
perhaps the only one Of the entire ses-
sion, due, in part, to the fact that the
!; outcome Is in doubt.
Both the friends of the measure and
its Opponents claim that they will
win in the senate, and the best judg
ment of careful observers is that there
is q very. slight margin either way
The friends Of the primary have
claimed by twenty-eight votes for it
including all of the democrats, when
they reached the apex Of their claims
and 1t is quite well known that there
are democrats in the senate who will
vote for the primary bill as 1t now
stands and probably others will vote
/ for it If it be still further liberalized.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
CONVICTED MAN SLAIN.
Frank Marsh, a Kansas Real Estate
Dealer, Murdered While Driving.

Pittsburg. Kan, Feb. 26.-Frank
Marsh, real estate dealer, was mur-
dered while driving to this city
in buggy in company with
Tony Valencia, an Italian. Val
encia, who is being held for investiga.
ton, says they were attacked by sew
eral men, unknown to him, who, after
shooting Marsh, dragged him from the
buggy and pounded him to death.
Marsh, who was under sentence in
Missouri for forgery is alleged to have
involved several Italian miners in real
estate deals.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
" ANTS HONOR
JOHN A. YOUNG OF WASHINGTON
CANDIDATE FOR coNeREs.
sioNAL NOMINATION

Washington, Ia, Feb. 26.- Especially
John Alex Young, state senator from
the tenth senatorial district, today an
nounced his candidacy for the uomina-
tion for congress from the first district
subject to the decision of the republi-
can congressional convention. Mr..
Young is a Cummins man. He would
succeed Hon. Thomas B. Hedge of
Burlington. Hedge will probably have
several opponents in the next congres.
sional convention,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
THREE CALLS
ONLY ON THE LAST, GARFIELD
SAYS, DID HE GIVE UP IN
FORMATION

Chicago, Feb. 2e.-Commissioner of
Corporations Garfield resumed the
stand in the packers case today and
his cross-examination was resumed. He
said the department of justnce made
two requests in 1904 for information
that he had secured, to which he re-
fused. to accede. Later a third request
was made, when he was directed by
the President to turn over the iEforma-
ton concerning the persons who knew
lof ALLEGED violations Of the law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
HAS ICE WITHOUT CUTTING.
An Emerson Dealer Envoives Unique
Means Of Collecting His Staple.

Means of Collecting HIS Staple.
Emerson, Feb. 26-W. M. Eaton, an
elevator and ice dealer Of this place,
gathers his crop Of CONCEALED moisture
in peculiar manner. He has 200
tanks made Of galvanized iron, each q
foot deep, two feet wide and three
feet long. These are filled with water
and when cold weather arrives he has
ice without cutting or hauling It, The
water is not all put in at once, which
gives a better opportunity to freeze it.
When the cakes are formed, he turns
tla tanks ,;nsida down with roecban nj
eel apparatus and pours hot water on
them. This releases the ice, which
slides oat in the form of a neat
crystal. Tie ice costs him less thar
thirty cents ton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-27
MOB OF LIBERALlsT sYMPATHlz.
ERs SURPRISES
NO ORGANIZED MOVE
Former Revolutionary Generals At Ha-
vana Assure the Public That They
Did Not inspire the Reasonable Up
rising - Camp Of Rioters 10 Found.

Havana, Cuba, Feb. 26. - Genera
Rodriguez, chief of the rural police
received a report today to the effect
that q detachment of. the rural guards
had captured "a camp, Of the Guiana
bacao rioters, believed to be negroes,
near Tapaste. The clIprits scattered
and only one Of them was captured,
but the, police seized dozeu horses
and quantity OF provisions. Another
of the wounded rural guards died last
night.
Not An Organized Move.
General Basa and other liberal and
former revolutionary generals sent let
ters to the newspapers today strongly
offering personally to assist in cap
turing the guilty persons There is
some evidence that the color line is
being drawn in political and party
questions, which has hitherto been un-
known in Cuba.
Attack Was Unexpected.
The quartered town Of Guanabacoa
occupied by twenty-five rural guards,
was attacked early Sunday morning
by about thirty rioters, armed with
rifles and revolvers, who suddenly
entered from the rear and began shoot
ing unfortunately into the dormitor.
les of the sleeping soldiers, shouting
Long live the constitution" Long
live the liberal party!" and down
with the rural guards -
Soldiers Return Fire.
Az soon as the dazed soldiers
realized the situation they seized their
arms and began to return the fire
whereupon the rioters fed. None Of
them has been arrested.
It twas found that a sergent had been
killed In his bed and that corporal
on guard also was killed, while four
rural guards were wounded.
Nothing took place during Saturdays
celebration Of independence day tc
cause the attack except that rural
guards prevented group of striking
bakers from interfering with work in
a local bakery.
The rural guards say that the
leader Of the rioters wore police
mans uniform and they claim to have
recognized some Of the others. The
rioters dropped q few weapons and
other articles in their flight. Govern
ment secret soldiers are searching fol
for the culprits.