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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-10
KEEP YOUR POLICIES.

The above summarizes the advice
that is being taken up by the press
now that the life. insurance scandals
have been whipped out and new laws
have been made regarding insurance
and the conduct of insurance COM
panies. The news that thousands of
policy holders are allowing their poll
cies to lapse is disquieting news and
there Is little now to show that such
a course is a wise one. The fact that
dishonesty has been discovered with
in some of the companies and has
been stamped out is evidence that life
insurance is a safer investment now
than it was before these discoveries.
If it had not been stamped out there
might be reason, would be, for drop
ping policies and withdrawing patron
age from some insurance companies,
but the investment really looks safer
now than it did before. If policies
could be paid while the treasures were
being looted they can surely be paid
now that the leaks are stopped.
Referring to the change for the bet
ter the life insurance companies and
the laws which control them, the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat says:
"a great improvement has been
forced in the personnel and the man
agement of the big companies. This
change, it is likely, will be permanent.
Under the new conditions a policy
is worth more in 1906 than it was in
1905, or in any previous year since the
grating began. The man who holds
a term policy is likely to realize more
on 1t when it natures than did those
whose policies expired in recent times.
Tie expenses of running the com
panies are being lowered. The absurd
ly large salaries of the heads of the
companies and the big commissions
allowed to favorites of the insurance
chiefs have all been abolished, SO far
as the general public has learned. The
steals of various sorts which seem to
have been perpetrated with consider.
able freedom in the past few years
have ended. In the absence of all these
drains much larger sums will neces-
sarily be left for division among the
policy holders. Pay up your premiums
regularly. Hang on to your policies.
This is the advice which should be
needed by every insured person in the
United States"
While it is natural that there should
be a lack of confidence as the result
of the disclosures of grating in the
big companies, this lack should be re-
duced to a minimum when the i'm
provements are taken into considera-
ton. So the best advice just now is
Hold your policies"
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a HIGH REPuBLIcANlsM.

Muscatine Journal.-It was a well
come relief to read Secretary Leslie
M. Shaw's address at Des Moines. In
the turmoil and clatter and clash Of
opposing forces in Iowa one hears
much tina is really offensive and di-
tasteful n to read a speech like that
of Mr.. Shaw's which is on such a
high level is refreshing and invigorat-
ing. Mr.. Shaw's address was one OF
the best from a republican standpoint
that has been delivered in this state
in a long time. Secretary Shaw repre-
sents a very high type OF republicans
ism. For many years he has been the
adviser of the President and occupied
of h most important positions in
the cabinet. He has kept in touch
with the administration and at all
times has been in harmony with Pres
ident Roosevelt. Before going to
Washington he held the Office of gov
ernor In this state and did much to-
wards raising the standard of Iowa
In the galaxy Of states. Mr.. Shaw is a
protectionist. While he has been
criticised by some and claimed to be
unprogressive, he is in a better posi-
ton to know the needs Of this country
from a tariff standpoint than any
other one man. He has full and COM
plete charge of the revenues Of this
country and knows whereof he speaks
He Is opposed to a primary law and
gives good reasons for being SO.
When he made his speech Friday night
many Of the opponents to his ways OF
thinking stated that the genial secre-
tary from Washington would take oc-
casion to lambast Governor Cummins
with whom he does not agree on sew
eral matters. But Secretary Shaw
would take no sides in the fight in
Iowa. He took q broad liberal stand
n discussed the burning questions
of the day in a manner that was hon
est and straightforward. Secretary
Shaw announces that he will retire
from the cabinet next March and
cone back to his home in Iowa But
Mr.. Shaw will not live in ~obscurity. A
man with his foresight, his sound bus
mess sense and his high political
views cannot live in seclusion. Such
men as he are needed In the present
day fight for purer and better govern
ment and Mr.. Shaw represents a cit
izenship of which this nation may well
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ALBA.

Abba, April THE funeral OF Mrs.
]. M. Taylor was held from the family
residence yesterday afternoon at .
o'clock, conducted by Rev. Winthrop
Allison. Mrs. Taylor's sons, Frank
and Bert Taylor, Of California. arrived
in time for the funeral but her death
occurred before they could reach AL
bia.
The temperance lecture at the First
Presbyterian church last night was
well attended and very interesting.
Points in the address were pertinent.
ly illustrated by moving pictures. w.
d. Elwell, of Ames, was the lecturer
and a very able speaker. a
Nelson Fry, of Frederic, was yester-
day evening placed under a $500 bond
to keep the peace. This step was
taken because Of a threat, it is alleged
by Fry to kill W. s. Fall Of this place.
The board Of supervisors expect to
finish the county's business today at
noon.
Mrs. G. M. shockley and children
returned this morning to their home in
Grinnell.
Alva Romp, of Bluff Creek township
was a business visitor at Abba yester-
day.
John Reddish, from near Service
Chapel, was in town on business Fri
day.
Peter Boyer, Of Lovilia, transacted
business at Abba yesterday afternoon.
w. D. Bell, of Bluff Creek township,
was an Abba visitor Friday.
Ed. Roach was looking after bust.
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making in the direction of selection
and methods. The work of the depart
ment among the farmers in bringing
about this result is of SUFFICIENT import
ance to warrant all the appropriations
that have been made during the last
six years for its maintenance.
But the work Of the department has
not stopped with increased acreage
production. Agents of the department.
have been at work all over the world
searching for crops best adapted to
our wide expanse of territory. Irriga-
ton is doing much to make waste
lands fertile, and any experienced
farmer given an abundant water sup
ply, which he can control, can produce
good results. The department has done
much to overcome natural conditions
and will do still more"
Secretary Wilson explains that when
he says there will be 40 crop failures
he does not mean that every single
seed that Is planted will grow and
yield. but he does mean that the Amer
lean farmer has had his business re-
duced to a science and that he now
can count upon crops large enough
each year to supply all the needs of
this country and leave a surplus for
export. In regard to this matter he is
quoted as saying:
Farming is fast being reduced to a
science, If it may not be said that 1t
has reached that stage already. Sci
entif1c methods now widely prevail.
Deep blowing, soil investigation, seed
selection, improved machinery, all
combine to assure the farmers at har-
vest time of a fair reward for their
toll and outlay. They have intrenched
themselves to such an extent that dis
patches in the newspapers Of varia-
tons in normal climatic conditions
during crop seasons will not cause the
apprehension of crop failures as in
years gone by. There may and prob
ably will be poor crops in certain
counties, and I will not say that the
crops this year will be as large as last
year, but l repeat we will not have
what ear be called crop failures"
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THE END OF CROP FAILURES.

Secretary James Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture, feels conf
dent that there will be no more crop
failures in the United States. He de-
,clares that science has triumphed ov-
er an obstinate mood of nature and the
effects Of all the usual variations of
weather can be negatived. MI. Wilson
anticipates only the normal conditions,
such as the weather experienced year
after year, and does not say that some
great calamity such as floods or a
hard freeze extending through the late
spring may not spoil all the plans Of
the latter day farmer. Early and late
frosts, drought and prolonged rainy
seasons, torrid heat and lack of UNI
shine, grasshoppers, rust and other
pests and diseases are considered by
the secretary as conditions which the
farmers must guard against to insure
good crops. He is quoted by a we'll
known Washington correspondent as
follows:
There have been material improve
ments in agriculture during the pres
ent decade. Important improvements
have been made in agricultural ma
chinery which are of great advantage
to the farmers. The department of
agriculture has, by experiments, DEM
onstrated what it is possible to do In
preparing for climate fluctuations in
heat and moisture, and has made a
study of the soils Of ~incalculable bene-
fit to the tillers.
1T is not only possible, but it is
practical and is the general rule nova.
days for the farmer u study the soil
he has to work, and intelligently select
the crops best adapted. The days Of
old, when the farmers, year after year.
would plant the same crops to gather
"a fairly remunerative harvest when
conditions we're exceptionally good and
to experience failures under adverse
conditicnss have gone never to return.
The farmers now make it their bust
ness to know what their lands will do,
and they utilize them to the best pos
sible advantage.
I'm 1910 the production per acre will
be twice ais great as it was in 1900.
This increase will be due entirely to
the advance which the farmers are
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COURSES OF Study

during the school teachers onven
tlon, which has been in session in Of
tumwa during the past three days,
there have been many suggestions,
some good and some bad, as. to
changes in the course of study that
should be provided for students in the
public schools. Most of the sugges-
tons, be it said, are such that they
cannot help but strike the practical
mind as practicable ones. But of some
OF them the is true.
AS is a well known fact, the majority
OF the students who begin in the pri-
mary grades do not finish, the high
school course. Some few of them
leave the public schools to take a year
or two In college, but most Of those
who quit school" before they have
finished the high school course v
return to any institution of learning.
This is especially true of the boys,
who prefer to go to work rather than
spend what they consider needless
years In obtaining an education.
Now there must be q reason for this.
And to the practical business man it
seems that this reason is that the
course of study provided for the pub
lie school student furnishes the rea-
son.. It Is true that this course has
been for several years and is still be.
ing improved. But it Is true also that
there are several lines In the currtcu-
lum that could be omitted without
causing any real loss to the boy who
does not anticipate taking a college
course or entering a profession.
For instance, Latin, which is taught
through the four years in most high
schools, is of less real use to the aver
age men than almost anything else he
can study. Would not bookkeeping
work into the course well in place Of
the dead language? German in high
schools Is good, and for practical pur-
poses 1t should be given the four years
that Latin has. leaving the two years
usually devoted to German for the old
er language, if 1t is included at all.
There is, however, a place for every
thing, according to ar old maxim that
has never been proved far wrong. One
speaker yesterday suggested that a
year of two of German I've taught in the
high grammar grades. This does not
look practicable because of the evident
need of the students III those grades
for knowledge Of their own English
language. Just as "See America first"
is good advice to travellers, SO is
Learn English first" good advice to
students. German lis good in high
schools, where there are students who,
if rightly taught and rightly graded,
have a good working knowledge of
English. But If it is started too early
the student runs the risk of having
his ideas of English and German con-
fused and of learning neither language
well.
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Pennington, April THE funeral OF
Mrs. William Barton was held at the
Congregational church Wednesday aft
ternoon. Rev. G~oodenough conducted
the services. Mrs. Barton was one OF
Farmington's Oldest settlers and had
been in poor health for a number Of
years.
Mrs. Sophia Reckmeyer and Miss
Reckmeyer gave an Eat home" Tues
day afternoon, complimentary to Mrs.
T. Ford Of Keokuk. Delicious refresh
ments were served.
Rev. Clark Of Bonaparte passed
through Pennington Friday while en-
route to Donnellson.
Mrs. p. T. Neal and daughter Mar
tenE leftsaatnrdaY- fn1-AipsWQrth ar
Washington, Iowa, for q visit VIII rei.
atives.
3. n. Ne a former hardware mer-
chant, has west to look for q new
location. IS
Otto Coffin Of st. Louis is the guest
Of his mother, Mrs. Anna Coffin.
Miss Elizabeth Jenkins has returned
from a visit at Milton.
At a recent meeting Of the school
board the entire corps OF teachers
were reelected with an increase Of
salary. Their names are as follows:
Principal, A. T. S. Owen; assistant
principal, Miss Jessie Ford; grammar,
Miss Eddalee Morse; third interme-,
diate, Miss Emma Fichtenmueller;
second intermediate, Miss Sophie
Moreland; first intermediate, Miss
Louise Michael; second primary, Miss
Ripple Celaye; first primary, Miss
Daisy Benjamin.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. L. Greenleaf OF
Kahoka, Mo-, were over Sunday guests
at the home Of their daughter, Mrs. A.
r. s. Owen.
Mrs. Chauncey Booth was hostess
to a small number of friends Friday,
afternoon in honor oftMrs. e. T. Neal.
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ening, will be entertained at the w. j.
Steckel home and at the Teed home.
Miss Una Henderson is spending a
few days in the country, visiting her
sister. Mrs. Carson.
Miss Ida Proctor has been engaged
as teacher Of the Fabin's school In
Grove township, which opens on April
16.
Mrs. Mary Deal cascaden has re-
turned from Milton, where she was
called q few weeks ago by the Illness
Of her mother, Mrs. J. A. Deal.
Mrs. N. S. Johnson. Mrs. E. B. John
son n Mrs. Walter M. johnson spent
Thursday in Moulton visiting Mrs.
HOWE VAIL.
w. H. Wiseman has received word
OF the birth Of a son at the home Of
his sister. Mrs. Bessie Colson, of Cen
terville, who Is known to many in this
city.
The marriage of Miss Fay Swinney
and Milo Foster took place wednesday
afternoon at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. n Mrs. Ira Swinney
VIC reside near the Dunville church.
The ceremony was witnessed by a
large number Of friends and many
elegant presents were received. Mr..
and Mrs. Foster will make their home
on a farm.
N. s. johnson is In receipt of a let
ter from his daughter, Mrs. Ivy APP
penheimer, of Buffalo, New York
stating that her little son had fallen
from a wagon loaded with lumber and
that the wheels passed over his body
and that strange as 1t may seem no
bones We're broken. The boy was
badly bruised and lacerated but moth
ing more.
Mrs. w. H. McEachran left Thurs
day for Chicago to spend a few weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. w. I. Tinus.
pleasant surprise party was given
Wednesday evening at the Legget
home on the James Hawley Smith
farm In honor Of the 49th birthday an
niversary of Mr.. Legget. The affair
was greatly enjoyed by all.
Harley Mozingo, of Germany, who
is attending the normal, has beer
elected teacher of a spring school near
Mt. Sterling.
Mrs. Sarah Niblack and daughter,
Mary. Of Moulton, and Mrs. Ene
campbell O. st. Louis are visiting M.
g. Niblack and other relatives this
week.
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TWO

Ottumwa now has two interurban
propositions to consider. Either Of
them looks good, and both wouldn't
hurt" But suppose the city a af.
ford no more than one just at this
time. Then, let the citizens invesl-
gate, find which will be the better, and
improve the opportunity that Is Of
fered.
ottumwa needs an interurban.
wants one-must have one. Ottum-
was business men want an interur-
ban. They deserve it. They have
stores .lar are as good as a be
found in many cities much larger than
this and though they are now enjoying
good patronage they can take care of
more. This can be secured, without
injury to the surrounding towns and
their merchants, through the agencies
of an ~interurban railroad.
While it may seem that the smaller
townsf merchants would suffer loss by
reason Of an increase in the business
of Ottumwa business institutions, this
is not the experience where interur-
ban lines are in operation. 1t has
been found that live merchants in the
little towns, by being able to fill or
ders that they cannot fill without the
aid of the interurban express trains
to bring goods from the larger cities
on short notice, are able to enlarge
their business though some of that
wAlc4 they originally enjoyed goes
via the interurban lines to the larger
cities.
So an interurban is a boon to every.
one who lives in the territory through
which the line runs. Such will be the
case If a line is built from Ottumwa.
The Commercial association is the
right body to consider the two propo-
sitions. Choosethe better one, which
ever it may be and then see that it
goes through to successful realization.
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CHILDREN HURT BY 4 lAMlTE.
Find Stick Of Explosive and Ono Haa
Einuers Torn off

FihgerS TORN on.
Fairfield, April - Thursday sew
eral small children OF George
Burrows, who has q small
grocery store In the southwest
ern part Of this city, were playing with
a stick, which turned out to be a piece
of dynamite. The Oldest Of the four,
children, aged about eight years, held
it in his hand and when 1t exploded
tore two Of his middle fingers upon HIS
hight hand badly. One of the fingers
no doubt will have to be amputated.
None Of the other children were In
jured. How the little fellow managed
to secure such a dangerous piece has
not bee Unexplained.
Mrs. James M. Hammer last e
Ing entertained q number of her lady
friends to a z o'clock tea, In honor Of
her sister, Mrs. Walker M. Black, Of
Des Moines. After refreshments were
served the rest of the evening was de.
voted to finch.
DR.. Alfred J. Green, an aged citi.
zen of this city, is not expected to live
through the night, old age and general
debility being the cause of his present
condition. Mrs. Jeddy Mount, an aged
widow residing In the southwestern
part OF this city, is also In a serious
condition and her recovery is doubtful.
Company M. Fifty-fourth regiment.
/. N. G., will be inspected tonight by
Major A.. ]. Olmstead Of Des Moines,
Go. M ranked first Of all the companies
in the state last year, and are hoping
to keep up their record.
Arthur B. McCoid OF Chicago arriv.
ed IN the city yesterday afternoon. Mr..
McCoid is a former Fairfield boy and
was elected alderman from the sixth
ward in Chicago this week.
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give hope to all those who do notsbe-
lieve In making this a government for
and of and by government employees
says the Cedar Rapids Republican.
There has been veritable craze for
such ownership in the country, but
the subsiiing seems to have COM
nenced none too soon to save popular
governments"
W believe that Carroll county re-
publicans are sufficiently. interested in
Senator Delivers welfare to insist
that Senator Warren Garst's successor
shall pledge his vote for Delivers re-
election" says the Carroll Herald.
our senatorial delegation should be
instructed to insist that our next SEN
ator be pledged to Dolliver.'
During the visit In Des Moines Gov
ernor Folk expressed pleasure at the
arrangement which had been made for
a drive In the afternoon and added
1 want to drink in the sunshine "If
the Kansas Episode is true says the
Creston Notwithstanding, "he would
have no serious objections to drinking
weather."
Anxiety is quite needless over the
fact that Jim Whitcomb Riley's hos
pice for Hoosier literatim will have
only ~ rooms" says the Des Moines
News. BY putting the hunks in tiers
each room will accommodate Is, a
total of 1856. The 1895 other Indiana
lmmortals can watt
The women ~suffragists' have been
handed another package by the legis-
%laturet' remarks the Des Moines Cap
ital, but 1t adds. Never mind girls,
there will be another session next win
ter
Governor Folk, in his address to the
Iowa law makers, said the crying need
OF today Is not for more laws as much
as 1t is for enforcement Of the laws
already ON the statute books, 'Folk
Is right" declares the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, but rs long as laws are
made that are full Of loopholes, the
apparent necessity will exist for the
enactment of statutes that will patch
up the holes"
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IOWA PRESS

Ia"-HE HeNan. ELs E.NlfHH HNE
"When the minutes of the last meet
ing at Zion City are submitted to DR..
Dowie for his perusal, he will probably
have a correction to offer to the pre-
siding officer" opines the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Marshalltown Times Republi-
can afirms that the farmers of Iowa
look upon the court review amend
ment to the railway rate bill as the
little JOKER" the elusive pea to be
shifted by the skill Of the railway
manipulation. There is a remarkable
indisposition to trust the courts" con-
tinues the Times-Republican, "and for
this feeling Of distrust the courts must
accept the responsibility"
Major Rathbun, being urged to get
on the firing line, explains his posi-
ton as to the other two candidates
for the governorship at length in his
Marion Register. He states that he is
personally friendly to both Governor
GCummins and Mr.. Perkins, but hos
tile to their views. In conclusion he
says: $50 what's the difference be-
tween Cummins and Perkins? Abb
solutely nothing except that this time
they want the same office and there
fore they clash. The quarrel is theirs
and they must fight it out. We do
not agree with either. They do not
agree with us. To them we say, Lay
on, MacDuf.' They have our personal
good will, but not our political or fac
tional Endorsement, call it by which
name you will"
The Iowa City Republican, noting
the course adopted by the Marion
Register, seems to be Of the opinion
that Major Rathbun is trying to oc-
cupy a negative position for the pur-
pose of catching things going and
coming. Possibly the Republican is
too critical" suggests the Clinton Her
aid. 1.-THE major cannot be blamed for
trying to make as few enemies as pos
sible."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notices
that a large number of Iowa towns are
putting on the lid" and that Clinton
Is the latest to put the ban on slot
machines and mulct law violators.
Burlington and Sioux City must be
getting lonesome" says the Gazette.
An Iowa editor, commenting on Col.
Pete Hepburn, says that he looks like
a. retired prize fighter. But the Davis
County Republican declares "he isn't
retired, by considerable"
i A Chicago market report says:
Hog prices shaded. cattle slow and
sheep unchanged" Have you noticed
any shading in the price OF pork you
buy? = asks the Clinton Herald.
when we find so much attention
devoted to executive interference in
stead OF unconstitutionality we may
assume that the rate bill is getting
down to a brass tack basis" remark
the Sioux City Journal.
The senate in passing the pension
appropriation bill voted $40, 000, 900 in
twenty minutes. Even a directors
meeting of a life insurance company
could do no better" say the Leon
Reporter.
whatever other criticisms may be
passed on Senator Tillman no one will
accuse him of ~affectation," says the
Sioux City Tribune.
1.-The fact that municipal ownership
could be beaten in Chicago ought to