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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-26
BLOOMFIELD.

Bloomfield, June 25.-Dr. d. r. All.
lender returned Saturday from Bill.
lings, Mont, where he registered for 8
claim in the Crow reservation. Leav.
ing here on Monday he reached Bill
lings on Wednesday and made his wa,
to the registration booth which, with
the exception Of the men in charge OF
he learned that during the first week
not more than 5000 persons had reg
istered and not more than twenty
thousand were expected to do SO.
Mrs. Samuel Woolsey who has beer
visiting relatives In Missouri. after
spending a few days at the home Of
her father-in-law, ]. B. Woolsey, left
Sunday for her home in Oskaloosa.
Chip" Roland Of Milton spent Sun
day with friends in this city.
Fred Bond has returned from Farm
ington. where he has been working
during the past six months.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Hutton and fam
lily of Keosauqua, arrived last week
and will make their home in this CITY,
D. M. Wise made business trim to
Savannah Saturday
Miss Mary Niblack Of Moulton, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her broth
er. M. c. Niblack and family. Mrs.
Sarah Niblack. who had been spending
d lew udyS with ner sons, M, G. and
E. A. Niblack, returned Saturday 10
her home in Moulton.
Miss Minnie Evans left Saturday
afternoon for Milton to spend q week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Newsome Guern-
sey and also visit relatives at other
points in Van Buren, county.
Miss Garnet Taylor returned Satur-
day from Chicago, where she studied
music at the Chicago college during the
past year, and will spend the summer
vacation with her parents.
Roy Cleveland, who left last week
for Colorado secured a position in the
round house at Pueblo at a salary Of
500 per month.
The Epworth league picnic, held on
the Coliiver lawn on Friday evening
was pleasant little affair enioyed bW
the league and the following seniors:
MI and Mrs. D. H. Payne, Amos
Steckel Mrs. w. ]. Steckel, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Rominger, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Kominger, DR.. and Mrs. H. c. Young,
Or. G. L. Stafford, Mrs. ]. Angst ana
Mrs. S. A. Lorenz.
Leigh Sprowles of Cincinnati. Ohio.
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an ice cream supper on the church
lawn Saturday evening, June 90. A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
G.. B. Humphrey Is visiting his niecs,l
In Illinois this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Mort Of Milton.
spent one day last week with Charles
Hawbaker.
j, H. VIM Of Kansas City, is spend
ing the summer with his brother. Will
liam Winn.
Cullen Humphrey went to Pulaski
Saturday for his sisters Ruth andl
their cousin. Mrs. John Saunders. j
Charlie Jones of Upton was In town
Sunday
Ed. Harrison Of Cantril was callers
in town last week.
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CHICAGO MARKETS.

Saturdays Live Stock Market in Brief,
Weeks total: Cattle, $4,000; hogs,
163.40O sheep, $4,000.
Steer trade closes well under ship
ping demand. Fat beeves back on lev
ell with week ago. Grassy and me-
dunn lots show 10 to 15c loss. Fat
cows hold steady. big loss for others.
Bulk rs to 40c lower, bulls and calves
weak. Feeders 20 to 35c off from week
ago. Opening hog sales steady, later
&c off. Some late arrivals over with
out bids. Buyers neglect common to
fair kinds. Heavy ewes decline 25 to
35e for week. Wethers, yearlings and
light ewes higher. Bulk. of lambs ad-
vance % to 35c this week. Top at
s7.75 for shorn stock is record here.
Receipts.
Last weeks receipts compared with
the previous week, in round numbers
increased $4,000 cattle only a slight
difference in hogs, and sheep increas-
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DAVIS COUNTY LINE.


Davis County Line. June 25.-Henry
Vaughn made bushes trip to Selma
Monday.
Mrs. Mag Arney and children of
Davis county, passed through here
Wednesday,
Miss Lutte Simmons visited
Wednesday afternoon with her aunt,
Mrs. Will Michael
Mrs. George Seitz called one day
last week on Mrs. Will Michael
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Howard were
In Eldon one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hamm snent
Saturday at Selma.
The New Light baptizing was well
attended Sunday and there were
twelve additions to the church.
VIII Michael spent Tuesday in Sell
ma.
Mrs Gabe schlotter and daughter.
Miss Annie, spent. Sunday at the John
LOOMS home
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sY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chieaao' Produce Market.


Chicago, June 25.-Wheat No. 2 red
%; No. red, s4@ss; No. hard, s2A
@S4M;.. Mp. hard, 1903; July s2M ;
September opened S3N @S3M @s4:
S2H. s'
corn-No.- 2. 51A; No. 51@51M; No
2 white. 52@52A; No. 8 white, 51N ;
No. 2 yellow, 51A @51k; No. 8 yellow,
SlA Q5lh July $685. September
open, 5lS @51 y; highest, Sly; lowest
81, closing, 51M.
:, oats-No; 2, seA@s7; No. 8, ssM;
NO. 2 white, 39@39K; No. 8 white
S7@3sh; July, a7h; September open.
e. e.; sa@s5; highest, ssh; lowest, s4A
az Pe or $1,000; September.
&c L e ss.s2@s.s5; September,
Ribs-July, 1915; September, 500,
Rye-Cash, "a.
Flax-$I08@1111k.
Clover-$11
Barley-42@54.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. s4.75@4s5.
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DA Us OF ] A M
LARGE QUANTITIES OF FRUIT BE.
ING CANNED AND STORED
AWAY
Zig Doinss in the Kitchen for the
Small Boy With the Awful Appetite
Summer Foods Are Real Bless
ing.

These are the days when it is great
be small boy, even kite flying
llhead catching and swimming are
to be compared with Ticking the
oon' in the kitchen. or devouring
SAMPLES, as INA" cooks the cher
Is, preserves the berries, and cut
g the pineapples into thin slices
ks them down with cupfuls Of SUI
:. The rich fragrance arising from
hot jam produces new and novel
ng in the pit of the boys stomach
s as If someone had suddenly dug
arge excavation below what is usual.
termed the bottom, although no ply.
clan or scientist has ever located
18th any degree of accuracy just what
TT of the human anatomy is the bot
n of the boys stomach.
No wonder that when the froth on
9 berries in the boiling kettle is run.
ing down the outside of the receptacle
nd causing the good housewife to say
I'D, do things that she would not do
Sunday, that he. puts few cherries
the inside Of his waist to later
lnsfer them still farther into the in
rior, while some raspberries are laid
way for future inspection.
1t is a regrettable fact that both rasp-
srries and cherries leave their traces
18th such distinctness from the tip of
9 chin to the top of the forehead, and
I'M ear. to ear.
The poet says that the lips of the
refoot boy is kissed, by 1.-THE rasp-
cry, but the. practical mistress Of
g kitchen does not pay tribute to. this
rm Of. OSCILLATION, and any such, signs
g usually a signal for the slipper or
.ddle to be brought into use. Never
eless in spite of the gauntlet thus
OCCASIONALLY run, and although at
mes the small boy is fastened to a
ng apron and impressed into the ser
'e of pitting cherries and picking
berries, still it Is great to be
II boy. j..
fcidentally, it takes a large being
large views to be the man of the
;e. Some degree Of patience is re-
ed to come home and find the
aes of the baby stuck stiff with
while surrounding that aperture
he foreground Of the face from
lch comes SO many laughs and cries,
an elaborate decoration of highly
ored preserves and "a No. 1" jells,
ermixed with liberal allowance of
e raw material, while in her right
! she waves majestically long
spoon
aturally, when there comes from
kitchen. SO much jell and jam, and
and bang, it does not take a great
cunt of instinct to tell the man of
house that if the boiled potatoes
Q burned fast to the kettle or the
is unusually strong, it is better to
I nothing. Nor is it wise to com.
Mt with a smile upon the bright.
ppy appearance Of the toothpicks.
the pretty decorations on the sugar
wi.
But it will only last day or two.
e weather man was freakish and
$ year sent the pineapples, cherries
berries all in one week. This in.
asses the burden tenfold, but still
YES one consoling thought, that the
ming days will be over so much the
ECKER.
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LEGAL.
Notice of Amendment to Articles OF
h, Incorporation of Tho Commonwealth
4 Fire Insurance Company Of Ottun-

pfyEN0 VI ftTU6HQW6US 10 AFgtCioa OF
~ Incorporation of The Commonwealt
i Fire Insurance Company Of Ottunn-
wa, Iowa.
Notice Is hereby given that the Ar
ticles. Of Incorporations Of The Com
monwealth Fire Insurance Company of
Ottumwa, Iowa, have been so amended
as to increase the number of Directors
of said Company from fifteen to seven-
teen, and'to increase the number u
members of the executive committee II
said Company from five to seven.
70 Said. amendment was made by an
Amendment to Articles of Incorpora-
ton" dated February 6, 1906, approv-
ed by the Attorney General of Iowa
and the Auditor of State of Iowa,
March "a, 1906, and filed for record In
the office of the Recorder of Wapello
County, Iowa, April 26 1906. Certif1-
cate Of its filing was issued by the
Secretary Of State, of Iowa. on May
% 1906.
Dated Ottumwa, Iowa, June 8, 1906.
The Commonwealth Fire Insurance
Company Of Ottumwa. Iowa.
BY II. l.. Waterman.
President.
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New York Produce Market.
New York, June 25.--Wheat, Sep
TENDER, SSA.
Corn-571a.
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Totals 17.32sooo 1891, 900 $4,000

Last sales of most vealers were
mostly soc lower than a week ago, and
some lots off 75c. The market in late
days has been weak for ali but choice
kinds, big supplies In the east having
cut down demands. Buyers have been
in bearish mood and of late have
forced top grades down to s6.OOm6.25,
such as sold earlier in the week at
S6.6o@6.65. Grassy calves met dis
elimination from all killers and sold
on low level, some going under $500,
Big weights went largely at s3.g5m3.75
and few UP to $500, with rough kinds
down to $500.
Sheep.
Top prices and the range for huIk
Of sales of sheep (not including year-
lings) and lambs last week, with com
PARSONS:
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ToDAY's MARKET.

This market is furnished by the Cas-
sidy Commission Company, members
Chicago Board of Trade. Local office,
rooms and 80, Hofmann block. =.
c. French, local manager
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CHICAGO l.ixa Stool

Chicago, June 25.-Cattle receipts
10000; steady to ten higher; beeyes,
$500 10; cows and heifers, $1,000
30; stoekers and feeders, $2.e5m4.5o:
Texans, s3.SO@440. NV
Hog receipts 10000; good strong.
others weak to five lower, mixed
butchers, $6.25@6.57: good heavy, ss.45
$3.50; rough, s6.2o@6s5; light. 1928
% 6.55; bulk sales. s6.45@6.55.
Sheep receipts $4,000; steady s475
@6.25; lambs s5.90@1s0.
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st. Louis Produce Market.
. st. Louis. June 25,-Wheat, septem-
Der, 80h. =
Corn-50h.
Oats-s5h @354s.
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Chicago Butter and Eoo M.,k..

Chicago, June 25.-Butter steady.
1920; dairies, 14h@1s,
Eggs steady, 12@15.
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Sheep

large share of Saturdays arrivals
IN this line were spring lambs, receiv-
offerings on sale met good call SIT
steady prices, plain to choice springs
going at $7.0o@8.25 and seconds at
$b.60@6.0o, while shorn yeariing lambs
landed at s7.o0@7.50 for a medium TO
very desirable kind. While big por-
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not quoted; dressed Arm: broilers, Il
OPP; turkeys. 11618; fowls. 1f@14.
Chicago Poultry Market

Chicago, June, 26:-Pouitfy easy. tur-
keys, 10; chickens, IL. ,y,,F; sss IA &.
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FOR SALE GOOD BARGA1N-A
good clean stock of general mer-
lot. ice house and other buildings.
q Location fine. A good opportunity
a.or some II : man.. We are selling
because Of the death Of the proprie-
Tor a. n. Hamersly). Call on or in
cure Of o, Hamersley, executor.
q 3la lensbure. Iowa.
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Peoria Corn Market.
Peoria; June 25.-Corn,- No. 8, 60E
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New York Poultry Market,
new York, June 25.-Poultry alive.
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FOR SALE.

FOR sALB OR TRADElaooD AS
new. steam threshing machine out
ant, Cyclone stacker, self-weigher. All
ss;modern and ready to run. Cash or
payments. See ]. B. Hammond, OPP
Iowa. R. F. D. No. I.
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FOR SALE OR RENT-HoTEL
property In North English, CEN
trally located. for information, adj
aress f. Zimmerman, North Eng
slish. Iowa.
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AIl6SV.
T. H. corrick. Secretary.
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Totals y. ..71s,10o 724,soo $50 900
Totals for Year to Date. ~,
1906. 1905. Gain.
Cattle 49,. 3,69s,000 3.476,Ooo 222,Ooc
Hogs =. ..s,253,OOO s,17S0OO $4,000
sheep ..4,377,000 4,147,000 100000
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
WASHERS AND THEIR VICTIMS.
Mayor of Akron Advises Parents to
Spank Their Daughters.

Much complaint has recently been
made in Akron, O., about the activity
of Washers" on the streets of af-
ternoons and evenings, and several
young men have been arrested for
annoying girls. To find what the
fault was and where the blame lay
the mayor of Akron made an inves-
tigation that led him to the conclu-
sion that the victims" of the "mash-
ers' were themselves largely respon-
sible. The mayor doesn't excuse the
male delinquents-the Oglers and
smilers and hat-tippers- he is
firmly of the opinion that in the
majority of instances the girls di-
rectly or tacitly invited the atten-
lions of the young men. AS rene
dy the mayor advises that parents
pay more attention to the conduct
of their daughters and spank them
if they are caught flirting with
strangers on the street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
Still Holds Both His Crops.

The recent ballooning of cotton
prices has not jolted one farmer near
Americas, whose faith in twelve
cents for the staple is as infexible
as the stern mandate of mother
in-law. Last season he declined to
sell his hundred bales at eleven
cents and put them in the ware
house, where they are today. And
he is now adding another hundred
20 the pile from this years crop.
He insists that cotton is worth
twelve cents, and probably nothing
short of that figure will move it
Americus Times-Recoroer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
SIGNS OF A HARD WINTER.
Some Things That Uneeringly Fore
tell Freezing Times.


tell Freezing Times.
That the coming winter is going
to be the hardest one for the past
twenty years there is an abundance
of signs to show, and among them it
may be mentioned that:
The corn husks are a foot and a
half thick, and all the stalks lean
to the west.
The geese, ducks and chickens are
growing a coat of fur under their
feathers, and are rubbing borax on
their feet to harden them up.
All the One-eyed owls are leaving
the country a month earlier than
usual, and the bob-tailed squirrels
are laying in sweet potatoes, as we'll
as nuts, for winter provisions.
The farmer who has taken the
trouble to investigate has found that
ali the toadstools on the old logs
have wrinkles in them. The last
time that this happened we had Win
ter weather that froze the handles
of plOWs.
Rabbits are sitting around With a
humped-up look to them, and field
mice have wrinkles in their tails.
If this means anything it means 20
degrees below zero from November
through to May.-Tyrone (Pa.) Her
aid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
CHORUS GIRLS FOR WALTERS
Americas Hotel Manager Making an
Experiment.

Experiment.
An experiment which may be
watched with a degree of interest
is being made in Americas. The
Times Recorder tells about it as fol-
lows:
Guests of the Hotel Windsor will,
in future, be served in the dining
room by comedy young women in
stead of the study in black" that
for years has performed such duties
there. 1t is the first attempt made
in Americas in the supplanting of
negro labor with white help, and
Manager Wooten believes, with hun
dreds of others here, that this is
the proper step in the solution of
the labor problem. The young wo-
men thus engaged were members of
an opera company here quite recent
ly. They were out of employment,
far from home and friends, and with
out the means of earning a living eX-
cept by manual labor. COlored help
here is a most uncertain proposition,
and accordingly when the young WO-
men were offered places as hotel
mattresses they gladly accepted. 1t
means steady employment, good
home and good living for them in
stead of the hap-hazzard, uncertain
fate of a show life on the road And
now that a start it to be made here
perhaps Americas will get other
white servants in the several lines of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
Disguised With 1t.

Columbus, o., is becoming dis
gusted with municipal ownership.
A few years ago the city built a
lighting plant at a cost of $4,000.
Year after year the plant kept cost
ing more and more until at present
it represents an investment of $780,
600, and the managers of it have
just called for an appropriation of
$4,000 to tide the plant over. "
The director of public works says
the plant will have to go out of
business if the money is not forth
coming at once. Taxpayers are
grumbling about the matter, and
there is strong likelihood that the
city will soon transfer the lighting
business to a private corporation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
Nothing to Fear.

The question of injurious sub
stances in medicines which has been
agitating the minds of many people
does not concern those who use
Chamberlain Cough Remedy. Moth
ers need have no hesitancy in con-
tinuing to give it to their little ones,
as it contains absolutely nothing in
furious. This remedy is not only
perfectly safe to give small children,
but is a medicine of great worth and
merit. 1t has a worldwide reputa-
ton for it's cures of coughs, colds
and Group and can always be relied
upon. For sale by Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
Danger from the Plague.

There's grave danger from the
plague of coughs and colds that are
so prevalent, unless you take DR..
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, coughs and colds. Mrs Geo
Walls. of Forest City, Me, writes:
Its a Godsend to people living in
climates where coughs and colds pre-
vail | find it quickly ends them. )"
1t prevents pneumonia, cures la
grippe, gives wonderful relief in
asthma and hay fever, coughs and
colds. soc and $1.00. Guaranteed
by Dawson Drug Co. Trial bottle
free.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
A Considerate Father.

The late Col. Pabst, who helped to
make Milwaukee famous, was con-
siderate father, it seems. He didn't
want to have his children swamped
with wealth that they didn't know
how to take care of at his death, so
in order to try them out" under his
own eye he not long ago gave each
of them $1,000,000, ito see what
they would do with it, But he
didn't live long enough to watch the
experiment out. Now the Milwau-
kee authorities are trying to see If
they cannot collect an inheritance
tax on those little s1,000,000 gifts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
Am AwfuI Cough Cured.

1.-TWO years ago our little girl had
touch of pneumonia, which left her
with an awful cough. She had spells
of coughing, just like one with the
whOoping cough, and some thought
she would not get we'll at all. We
got a bottle of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy, which acted like a charm.
She stopped coughing and got stout
and fat" writes Mrs. Orc Bussard,
Brubaker, III. This remedy is for
sale by Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
REV. SMITH WRITES AGAIN
Quotes from the Christian Advocate
as to the Evils of Whiskey. The
Recent Rncus in Atlanta.

quotes from IHS NiAI iSNA'
as to the Evils of Whiskey. The
Recent Rucus in Atlanta.
Editor of The News: If you have
room in your columns this week
please reproduce the following from
the Wesleyan Christian Advocate of
recent date:
"The Georgian of last Thursday
said: Atlanta is as dry as the Sa-
hara desert The same issue of that
paper contained the statement that
from the time the saloons of the city
were closed, on account of the riot,
until Wednesday but one case Of
drunkenness was tried in the police
court, and the guilty party was a
farmer from outside the city. From
Saturday night to Thursday after
noon we were night and day much
on the streets-during this time no
bar-rooms were open-and we did
not see a drunken man.
Prohibition does prohibit in
Atlanta during riot, the authorities
themselves being judges. On Wednes-
day afternoon the city council re-
voked all licenses to sell liquor, and
Atlanta will be dry for several
days to come Those who wish to
sell liquor again must publish their
application for three days in the pa
pers, and then it will be at the dis
erection of the council whether IL
cense shall be granted, no license
to extend beyond June next. Good.
Very. very good.
Now isn't it curious inconsis-
tency for city council to license
a man to sell liquor, collect his mon
ey for the privilege, but when 1t
Judges necessary, as during a time
of riot, close up his business as a
menace to the community? We
close the saloons when the mob is
on the rampage for blood, but when
the mob is out of sight for reve-
nue. we tolerate a business that
makes mobs. We are learning bet
ter.
while on this subject we en-
dorse Judge Covington's proposition
in the Atlanta Journal, and which
the Journal editorially endorsed, to
put any man in stripes who sells or
gives liquor to negro. That would
be wise and a merciful protection
to the weaker race. But, Judge, let's
go further and put stripes on any
man who sells or gives liquor as
a beverage to any man in the state.
That will protect great many weak
white men, and poverty smitten
wives and children. 1t is well to
break up the dives. By all means
let it be done, but we should not
exempt the gilded saloon, and the
rich mans investment in liquor 1t
is a good time for the temperance
people in Georgia to move. All par
ties are agreed now that the bar
room is a peril, and that prohibition
does prohibit.
While in the case above quoted
barrooms are the evil in question,
yet the dispensaries bear the same
relation to crime In Richland a
few days ago an officer Of the law
killed a negro The next day (Sat-
urday) the dispensary was closed.
Why? Will the advocates of the dis
pensaries please answer.
Very truly, W. f. SMITH.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-17
THE GENERAL STRUCK IKRICH.
invested Twenty Cents and Drew
Salary of Cuban Army Officer.

Salary of Cuban Army Officer.
Col. c. A. Mosher of Kansas spent
20 cents for postage stamps to carry
to Cuba a letter to President Palma
Offering to raise a regiment of rough
riders to sustain the government
against the revolutionists. President
Palma accepted the offer and made
Col. Mosher a brigadier general of
Cuba at a salary of $1,275 a month.
Then along came Taft, before Mo-
sher had mustered in a single re-
cruit, and asked for his resignation.
Mosher had been a Cuban general
just twenty-four hours With the
request for his resignation he re-
ceived a check for a months pay.
His 20 cents investment, therefore,
brought him a return of $1,275 with
out his having to perform a minutes
service.