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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01
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from delightful visit with relatives
in Selma
irwin Harness who has been q
patient at the Ottumwa hospital, taxi
ing treatment for blood poison, re-
turned home Friday, very much i'm.
proved.
Miss Halle Fisk who has been quite
Ill with the quinsy Is fast improving.
Grant Garfield is still in very poor
health.
Mrs. Daniel Rosecrans returned last
week after pleasant visit with friends
in Ottumwa.
Roy Gates returned Thursday, after
a brief business visit in Ottumwa.
of Moravia, returned Friday over the
Of Moravia, returned Friday over the
Milwaukee, after brief sojourn with
friends here.
Notwithstanding the very bad condi-
ton of the highways, the social We'd
nesday evening at G. r. Chisman's,
given under the auspices Of the Ladies'
Aid society was largely attended.
Mrs HIesnfs Gssala returned Fri
day after short visit with ~ II tx
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Chisman a.
South Ottumwa :
Frank Yenger was business visitor
In Blakesburg Friday.
Mrs. G. II. Chisman visited relatives
In Ottumwa last week. 3
DR.. M. w. Pascoe Of South Ottumwa
was professional visitor In this
vicinity last week.
Misses Effie Willard and Helen
Barnes, will close on Fril.l March O..
a very successful term of school at
ristiansburg and Center! -
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TO BECOME A JOURNALIST.

Des Moines News.-Almost every
day some person comes to see the edi-
tor or writes to him asking what is
necessary in the way of preparation to
become Journalist"
Everything is necessary.
The newspaper business is the most
exacting on earth 1t requires the ex-
ercise Of facilities that will make a
man successful in any other line of
:business-and more.
First, the beginner must have q.
strong body. He must have reser-
voir Of vitality to stand the killing
strain Of intense labors squeezed into
a short compass of time.
Second, the beginner must have
what is known as "The Nose for
News" 1t is difficult to describe this
faculty-usually born in one. 1t is the
ability to see story where others
stumble over the opportunity, unsee-
ing.
These are fundamentals. To them
must be added untiring industry, the
tenacity Of sleuth to follow a lead
accuracy in Judgment, ability to make
and keep friends, patience, initiative
poise, a personality that begets con
f1dence, answering loyalty to orders
What? you say. , What about the
ability to write?
Any graduate Of the schools can
write. 1t would be easy to get on If
one needed only that Accomplishment.
OF course II one has the writer's
temperament so much the better. BY
this is not meant literary genius but
the ability to write plain, strong Eng
lish on the run.
And these things are necessary,
mind you, II you would get your foot
on the first rung of the ladder. They
must be backed up by years of expert
ence and trial daily difficulties.
Is 1t to be wondered at that the vet
eran warns the unknowing from the
field?
Young man! Don't try to be a
newspaper man
destined from all eternity to fill the
place, or
Unless you will never be satisfied
until you try it out, or
Unless the stern requirements are
like bugle call Of challenge to your
best endeavor.
The demands OF the modern news
paper. are as high as flesh and blood
can stand and the pay is not in pro-
Of the daily paper is like the discipline
Of the regular army Of the United
States-and more. There is no mercy
for those who fail. In the nature of
the case there can be no mercy. The
business eats men up. But
If the odor of printers Ink Is incense
in your nostrils, If you know you have
1t in you to make good, IL the soul of
you rises to the demand-then in the
name of Benjamin Franklin pitch inl
You will get your chance, never
fear. You will compel the fates for an
inning.
There are compensations and salts
factions. surely, such as few men
know.
But for the sake Of your salvation
do not think of entering journalism
as IL it were a mere matter Of your
capricious selection.
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THE AMERICAN PRINcEss

Lady Violet Greville, writing in the
London Graphic, expresses wonder at
the magnificence of the recent White
House wedding and says that the bride
was treated as If she were a princess
of royal blood. In the course Of her
article she says:
The interest taken in Miss Alice
Roosevelt's trousseau and the sumptu-
BUSINESS of it's appointment are
strange facts in a republican country
Of which the President is not rich
man and where the bridegroom is not
lowered with a large fortune.
Luxury and vast sums Of money
spent on the toilet are, however, con-
comitants of New York society. The
variety and splendor of the young
lady's purchases seem to have aston
ished even the case-hardened shop
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10 Trigg has noticed that when a
preacher goes to editing secular
newspaper he almost always gets too
much piety and not enough news In
1t. The criticism is just, but probably
If the average newspaper man were
to enter the pulpit there would be
equal cause for complaint He would
get too much news in it and not
enough piety.-K eokuk Gate City.
The Gate City's hypothesis is too far
fetched to count for much. Whoever
heard of newspaper man preaching?
They make political speeches, dig
canals and fight battles with pen and
sword, but preach-well, hardly.
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TRANSPORTATION AND TRADE.

Some very comprehensive figures
relative to transportation facilities and
their effect on trade Is contained in
Dun's. Review for the current week
The article in point refers to the speed
with which the railway and steamship
facilities have been developed saying
that the present conditions are the
product of "a comparatively few years.
Continuing the article says:
within the lifetime of men and wo-
men now living the world had not a
single mile of railway or a single
steamship crossing the ocean. Today
The world has on land $4,000 miles Of
railway. and on the ocean 100000
tons Of sail carrying power and 49,
100000 net tons of steam carrying
power. At the beginning of the last
century the sail-carrying power aggre-
gated 100000 tons; steam-carrying
power on the ocean did not exist nor
did railways on land exist. BY the
middle OF the century sail carrying
power on the ocean was more than H.
100000 tons, the steam carrying pow
er on the ocean was less than 1,O0O,-
900 tons, and the railways on land
were but $4,000 miles. BY 1880 sail
power on the ocean had reached A.
100000 tons, steam power about g.
100000 tons, and railways on land
225,000 miles. From that time forward
steam power on the ocean so rapidly
took the place Of the sail that in 1905
sailing vessels on the ocean aggre-
gated but 100000 tons carrying pow
err. while steam vessels had an aggre-
gate tonnage Of 1S,5o0,OO0 tons and
railways an aggregate of $4,000 miles
in length, tof which 2l7,00O miles or
two-ffths Of the total, are in the Unit
ed States.
"The United States leads the world,
both in the present mileage and the
recent growth Of its railways, accord
ing to statistics published in mono
Ngraph just issued by the department Of
commerce and labor through its bu-
raau Of statistics. OF the total rail
& IS q J.
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WILL LEAD BETTER LIVES.
Form Brotherhood and in the Future
They viii be Models.


They VIII be Models.
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. GA brother
hood OF former prisoners. banded to-
gether for mutual help, bound by SOL
emn oath to high ideas, strict moral
requiem ents and common sense thrift,
has for almost three months existed
in Cleveland and is daily making q
practical solution Of the problem Of
the work house parole.
In roomy, convenient, down town
apartment house, twenty-three men,
every one former work house prison
er and all of whom have been confined
again and again for one misdemeanor
or another, are gathered together in a
real home, where each Of the big fam
lily bears his part and helps to make
himself and his brothers honest, hard
working, thrifty, active, Christian citi-
zens
Although the organization has been
in operation but sort time. the re.
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PLEASANT GROVE.

Pleasant Grove, Feb. 27.-Sunday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock occurred the
death of Miss Lltishsa Brooks,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Brooks,
at the Ottumwa hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Ellis are the
parents OF a daughter, born Monday
Feb. rs.
Herb Mcvey has moved onto his
farm, which he purchased from W. ].
Steckel.
Will Hancock came home Tuesday
from Illinois, where he had been cali
.ad by the serious illness Of his sister.
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THE INTERuRRAN RAlLwAY. !

TIE in tEn0hDAN HALFWAY
Ottumwa now has an opportunity to
secure an interurban railroad and
there should be no hesitation on the
part of the citizens in affording the
promoters the support they should
have
In this age of advancement there is
nothing that improves a city as does
an interurban railway 1t brings pros
perity to every community along the
line, enlarges the territory for retail
and wholesale merchants, makes the
task of filing small rush orders easy
for jobbers and affords quick means
Of passenger travel.
The plan for an interurban railroad
has been presented in several phases
to the people of Ottumwa at several
different times, but the present propo-
sition looks good" to an extent not
hitherto attained 1t is made through
an Ottumwa man, Charles A. Walsh
by company in which he is interest
ed and which Is headed by a man who
has built and Is successfully operat-
ing interurban lines in Indiana. That
state, as Is well known, is the mother
Of the interurban enterprise in Amer
lea and Mr.. Coffin, the president of the
company that now proposes to develop
the Iowa field, is the head of the move
ment centering in Indianapolis. At
that city the passenger business has
been trehled since the interurbans be-
gan to replace the steam railroads In
the local passenger traffic.
Ottumwa is at the point in her ca
reer where she must grow She can
not grow too fast. Her merchants can
keep pace with any growth, no matter
how rapid. And the interurban line
from this city through the rich coal
fields of southern central Iowa to Des
Moines is just the thing that Ottum-
wa needs to hasten her growth. AS a
matter of course, the state capital is
the center from which interurbans ra-
date in states where the lines are in
operation and this will naturally be
the case in Iowa. But Ottumwa as
the terminus of the first Iowa line Of
consequence, can become at least an
important secondary interurban cen
ter.
Now is the time to help Ottumwa
along by showing the proper spirit.
Not only Ottumwa but every commun-
ity through which the line runs, will
reap benefits and there Is no reason
why any one should oppose the plan.
1t means much to Ottumwa, more than
a factory or even several factories, for
it will bring the factories with the 9TH
er benefits.
1t is up to every citizen to BOOM
OTTUMWA.
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Sioux City must indeed be terrible
place now. Observe what the Journal,
not usually pessimistic. has to say:
sThe old fashioned idea that police
are maintained to prevent or arrest
crime is losing its force in the realiza-
ton that in many places the police de-
1iberately and Systematically aid, abet,
foster and protect crime. There Is no
secret about it or evasion Of the fact.
It is we'll understood"
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way mileage of the world, aggregating
$4,000 miles for 1904. 211,074 miles
were In the United States, 35,323 miles
in European Russia, 32967 miles in
Germany, 2S,102 miles in France, &c.
$50 miles in India. 24,120 miles In Aus
tria-Hungary, 1854 miles in Canada,
ed Kingdom, 1861 miles in Canada,
1850 miles in Africa, 14,113 miles in
Australia, 1859 miles in Argentina,
1886 miles in Mexico, 1851 miles in
Italy, 1858 miles in Brazil, 1897 miles
in Sweden, 1892 miles in Siberia, Man
churie and other Asiatic possessions of
Russia, 4,495 miles in Japan, and L.
176 miles in China 1t was not until
1885 that the number of railways in
operation in the United States first
reached as much as 1000 miles, being
in that year, 1908 miles; by 1850 the
total had grown to 9,021 miles; by
1860 to 30,626 miles; in 1865, 35,OS5
miles. In the decade from 1865 to 1875
the mileage more than doubled, the to-
tai for the last year named being a.
096; the total for 1885 was 1882
miles, that for 1895, 181, lis miles, for
i. %, 194,262 miles, and for 1905, 217,-
1928 miles, their aggregate cost being
estimated by Foor's Manual for 1905
at the enormous sum of $11,666, 0OO,-
900 out of an aggregate cost of $751;
000, 100000 for the entire world.
"The close connection between ade-
quate transportation facilities and
commerce is illustrated by the fact
that in 1900, when there were no rail-
roads or steamships and but 100000
tons of sail carrying power on sea, the
worlds commerce was valued at ST.
SOC, 900, 900, while at the present time,
aided by nearly $4,000 miles of rail-
way, and the ocean steam and rail ton
mage above described its internation-
al commerce at this time approxinates
$22, 500,0 100000. Thus, under the new
~ created transportation system of the
last century, which have developed the
interior Of continents and made mer-
charitable many commodities which
formerly would not bear the cost of
transportation, the international COM
merce of the world is today about fiji
teen times as much as at the begin
ming of the last century, while the
worlds population is but two and one
half times as much as at, that time. the
commerce of the worlds population, as
whole, having thus grown from less
than $3.50 per capita in 1900 to nearly
S14 per capita at the present time.''
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Wanted In Iowa.

Springfield. ILL.,, Feb. ~. - Governor
Deneen has honored the requisition Of
the governor Of Iowa for the return
to Upton, Ia. Of Henry J. Brownell
and j. H. Brownell, wanted on a.
charge Of obtaining $1,000 under false
pretenses
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WooDMEN OF THE WORLD MEET.
Elect Officers and Arrange for Big
Picnic-Gain $4,000 Members.

PIcntc-GaIn S5,UUU Menbers.
Oskaloosa, Feb. 27.-- The Woodmen
of the World, or the third district Of
the state, convened in this city Mon
day afternoon. At large and enthusi-
astic meeting district officers were
chosen as follows: w. H. Burdge, pres
ident; Richard Burke. vice president;
j. E. Easter, secretary. The order was
given that the organization give a
large picnic at Oskaloosa during the
summer.
The order gained $4,000 new mem
bers during the past year. Strong res
olutions endorsed the management of
the financial condition. The meet clos
ed with a big social gathering last
evening.
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suits are such as to astound students
of sociological problems.
Probation Officer Herbert D. Crane
Is the originator of tho plan, and he
has been assisted by Director of Char
tiles Cooley and his secretary, j. B.
Vining.
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a MOTHER OF TWENTY-FIVE.
At the Age Of 5s-Heart Disease caus.
ed Her Death.

At the Age OF 5g-Heart Disease Caus.
ed Her Death.
Denver, Colo, Feb. ~. Heart dis
ease caused the death OF Mrs, Eliza
beth Conway, mother of twenty-five
children and great-grandmother.
She married when IA years old, was
the youngest child in a family Of TWEEN
ty-seven children and her father was
the youngest member Of a family of
thirty children
Mrs. Conway was SO years old. Her
mother died at the age Of 80 years.
Mr.. Conway's mother lived to be 100
years old and his father was 102
when he died. The dead woman was
the mother of nineteen sons and six
daughters.
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Now you can take your choice. One
day the miners say there will be q
strike and the operators say there will
not The next day their positions are
just reversed. Take your choice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01
MuscATlNE MAN is KILLED.

David Grant, Who Built the Milwaukee
Cutoff, Is Dead.
Muscatine, Feb. 27.-David Grant, a
former resident of this place, and the
contractor who built the Milwaukee
cutoff from here to Ottumwa and did
much work for the Burlington around
Red Oak. was killed by train at
Kankakee, Ill,
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Hoch is still considerably in debt tc
the world He was executed for the
murder of just one of his thirteen
wives. He still has to account fol
some eleven others.
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ELoPEs WITH IOWA GIRL.
Alleged Bigamlst, Wealthy, Arrested
For Wedding PASTORS Daughter.

For Wedding Pastors Daughter.
Chicago, Feb. 81. Edward 7. Clegg
a wealthy real estate dealer Of Anti.
go, Wis, was arrested here last night
on warrant charging him with big
amy. With him at the time was a wo-
man who Is said to be his wife Nc. q.
She was formerly Miss Jessie Wood
ruff, daughter Of an Episcopal mill
lister at Sumner, Iowa.
Clegg, according to the police, de-
serted his wife and three children in
Wisconsin, last October and later
wooed and won Miss Woodruff at her
home in Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01
BIDWELL.

Bidwell, Feb. 27-John Chance who
has been seriously i'll. is improving.
Mrs G. H. Johnston and Frank John
ston are suffering with rheumatism.
Daniel Kerr returned last week
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1t is pretty safe to assume, however,
that all who rally to the support Of
Governor Folks boom will be regarded
as true democrats"
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

: congress will not seem like Con-
gress with Grosvenor left out" says
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To make the statement Of Cardinal
Gibbons, that as long as the world
lasts some men will be rich and some
DOOR, more pointed. the Sioux City
Tribune adds: Some men will be
robbers and some will be robbed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01

The Muscatine Journal thinks that
the fact that the supreme court of
the United States has decided the
drainage canal Is not a detriment to
the drinking water at st. Louis is not
such a calamity as would seem at first
glance. "The fact of the matter" says
the Journal. "is but small per cent
Of ST. Louisians drink water at any
time"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01

a remarkable occurrence the fact that
at the regular monthly union services
held at the Christian church, in What
Cheer two weeks ago, by actual count
1t was found that there were present
1853 adults, Of whom Is were men and
7S women
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years he has been one of the most
forceful and conspicuous figures in the
house" ~.

-o--
TN framing the bill to establish la
Dor agencies in f1rst-class cities Of
Iowa care should be taken to guard
against any possible discrimination
for or against any class Of labor
Neither sex, color, race, religion nor
membership in any organization
should be bar to equal and fair
treatment Of all applicants for en-
ployment."
For the sake, the oskaloosa Herald
thinks, Of the eternal fitness Of
things" the Harvey News arises to
remark: Arthur Branscomb Is the
accomplished young devil at the
News office. Art is a hustler and can
build a fire in 'jiffy.'"
AS to a $4,000 hog pavilion for the
state fair, the DEBORAH Republican
suggests that the society which con-
ducts the fair is big enough and
strong enough to stand upon its own
legs, and ought not to be longer con-
sidered a pensioner on the state.
The Fairfield Ledger urges the legis-
lature, in making preparations to be
liberal without being extravagant.
-.-.-
1.-THE governor should withdraw the
charge and apologize, or else prove
up" says the Burlington Hawk-Eye
referring to the Gilliland resolution.
road. Either the charge is true or 1t
is not. 1t is due the citizens of Iowa
that he shall make good or retract."
TT is a mighty good thing to keep
ones politics ON straight observes
the Indianola Herald
When the telephone rings vocifer-
ously at / o'clock in the morning and
the man Of the house goes down in
his mighty and bare feet to find that
someone has the wrong number, his
language Is not apt to be in praise of
modern improvements.
What will we gain by the biennial
election law If we are compelled to
hold practically two elections every
tine Journal puts to its readers, COM
menting on the primary election bill.
"Minnesota's tussle with the primary
problem resulted in the passage Of a
law which does not apply to state
officers says the Sioux City Journal.
1.-THE law now offered for Iowa's ac-
ceptance does apply to state officers.
And Minnesota approval Of the Min
nesota law is advanced as a reason
why Iowa should pass different law
"The theatrical trust has knocked
Bernhart, otherwise the Divine Sar-
ah" out Of playing in the big theaters
of the south and the octopus has been
defeated by Sarah's manager getting
a circus tent that holds 1000 people
in which she will give her show" re-
marks the Boone Republican, and
adds. I'VE are inclined to the belief
that Sarah's popularity in America is
good deal like that of Barnum, any
way"
| To make the statement Of Cardinal
| Gibbons, that as "long as the world
lasts some men will be rich and some
poor" more pointed. the Sioux City
| Tribune adds: Some men will be
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What will we gain by the biennial
election law If we are compelled to
hold practically two elections every
other year." Is the query the Musca-
tine Journal puts to it's readers COM
menting on the primary election bill.
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why is it, inquiries the Keokuk
att catlr- "that uanatariana alwars
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try to make their dishes taste as much
like meat as possible %

The republicans of Monroe county
are not to be fooled, the Abba Union
declares, by Governor Cummins adj
vocacy of a statewide primary, for
the reason that they tried the primary
system for one year and were mighty
glad to go back. to the old convention
plan
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"Minnesota's tussle with the primary
problem resulted in the passage Of a
law which does not apply to state
officers" says the Sioux City Journal.
1.-THE law now offered for Iowa's ac-
ceptance does apply to state officers.
And Minnesota approval Of the Min
nesota law is advanced as a reason
why Iowa should pass different law,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01

When the telephone rings vocifer
ously at o'clock in the morning and
the man Of the house goes down in
his mighty and bare feet to find that
someone has the wrong number. his
language is not apt to be in praise OF
modern improvements.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01

For the sake, the Oskaloosa Herald
thinks, of the eternal fitness Of
things" the Harvey News arises to
remark: Arthur Branscomb is the
accomplished young devil at the
News office. Art is a hustler and can
build fire in a 'iiffy.'"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-01

A. w. LEE. Publisher
LAS las F. POWELL. Business Manager
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AS to a $4,000 hog pavilion for the
state fair, the DEBORAH Republican
suggests that the society which con-
ducts the fair is big enough and
strong enough to stand upon its own
legs, and ought not to be longer con-
sidered pensioner on the state.