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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
MuNTERvILLE.

Munterville, Dec. 3.-Mr. and Mrs.
Emil Nelson and children, Mrs. Char
lotta Nelson and Misses Minnie and
Esther Nelson spent Thanksgiving
with Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders Pierson.
Miss Mabel Anderson left for OF
tunlwa Wednesday evening to spend
Thanksgiving day with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johannes Pierson and
daughter, Hannah called on Mr.. and
Mrs. W. T. Baldwell Thursday even
ing.
Miss Pearl Smith entertained num-
Der Of her friends at turkey dinner
Thursday.
Misses Marie Kimblade and Edith
Gustason are visiting with relatives in
Ottumwa.
Max Venator, who is attending school
in Ottumwa, spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Venator.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Locke entertain
ed large number of friends at q
Thanksgiving dinner. An enjoyable
time was had by all.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the east
ern route Lutheran church, held Its
meeting with Mrs. Charles Peterson
Friday afternoon.
Thanksgiving services were held In
the Swedish Lutheran church here
Thursday with fair attendance.
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CHARLTON.

Charlton, Nov. 2s.--Mr and Mrs. 81
e. Lewis came down from Atlantic
Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving al
the home Of Mr.. Lewis's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. w. E. Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Badger Of
Russell We're in the city Wednesday or
business.
The Lucas County Poultry and Pet
stock association is having its show
this week. A great many fowls are or
exhibition.
Miss Ellen Peterson returned to her
home In Red Oak last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Bert will leave
soon for Chicago to spend tho winter
with their son, VIII, and family
Mrs. ]. d. Hardin is spending a few
days in Des Moines this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Goldsberry en-
tertained few friends last evening al
a quilting bee.
Mrs. Eli Gray is spending Thanks
giving in Humeston with relatives.
Mrs. ]. f. Ekfelt returned Tuesday
from a visit in Ottumwa with her SON.
Charles Ekfelt, and wife.
A. r. Williams of Cody, wyoming, is
visiting his father Alonzo Williams.
A. j. Heron of Oakley was in the
city Wednesday.
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To the Editor:
In your journal of December i ap-
pears a letter from Comrade w. F.
Everman of Mystic, in which he claims
that there were several mistakes in
my recent letter from Andersonville,
published in your columns. There was
but one mistake in the letter as pub
lished, and it was a typographical err
ror. wrote that 1880 prisoners died
in Andersonville prison during it's ex-
istence ana your compositor made it
read 12S,000. All the facts stated
were taken from the government tab
lets placed within the cemetery, the
accepted authority on all such ques-
lions. The spring is called Providence
spring not Providential spring, and it
burst forth Aug IL. 1864, and not Oct.
~. There are only a few more than
$4,000 bodies buried in the cemetery,
not $4,000 as Comrade Everman states.
Evidently the remains of some union
soldiers who died elsewhere were
buried here.
l heartily endorse Comrade Ever
mans views that no one should write
in a "slipshod fashion,
Yours truly,
S. H. Harper.
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difference between administering af-
fairs for the government and conduct
ing his own business in the story of the
sale of some of his land. The man, in
charge of this particular piece of pri-
vate property sent him a telegraph
message asking him of he would take
a certain amount for the land The
secretary sent back word by wire to
sell if he considered the offer suffi-
cient, and the sale was made. If he
was selling that property for the gov
eminent there would have to be we'll
paid appraisers and an endless amount
of red tape. all involving expense,
even though the amount received from
the property was insufficient to pay the
appraisers.
The postal commission may not
deem it wise to accept the offer of
the capitalists, but there is a lesson in
it nevertheless.
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is YOUNGEST IOWA AUDITOR
A. e. Labaeh of fairfield Claims
That Distinction.

Fairfield, Dec "a. e. Labagh Of this
city, who will become auditor of JEFF
ferson county on the first of next
month, is said to be the youngest audi
tor in Iowa. He is just twenty five
paign in which he had been candi-
date for the same Office. The same man
whom he defeated this year by 628
votes beat him in 1903 by small mar
gin. L;-oagh is democrat and is one
of the five members of that party that
take county offices here next month.
Labagh has lived on a farm near
Fairfield all his life and has hundreds
of friends in the county. He gradual
ed from Parsons college in the class of
1902, taught country school for three
consecutive years and during the last
year has been reading law.
Other Items Of Interest.
At the annual meeting of the Jeffer-
son County Agricultural association,
held in the court house Saturday after
noon, the following officers were elect
ed: President, ]. P. Manatrey; secre-
tary, r. G. Savers; treasurer Fl. v.
Downs; Directors, w. D. Hudgell. r.
Fisher Sanford Ziegler, John Larson.
Jacob Roth and A. L. Stanford. The
reports of the committees showed that
although this years meeting has been
a success, rainy weather had cut down
receipts.
MS. Sue Harper Minis of Atlanta,
Ga, will give Christian Science
lecture In the opera house Tuesday
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M ELRosE.

Melrose, Dec. 3-Alex Shean of Ty-
rome spent Saturday here.
Maggie Cummings spent last week
in Georgetown with her sister, Mrs.
Jamues Roam.
John O'Bryan was business caller
in Abba Saturday.
Dollie Bellman spent Saturday and
Sunday in town with her friend, Nellie
O'Connor.
,nent given at Georgetown Thursday
evening.
Mrs Fred Sading of ottumwa is Wis
iting here with her sister and father,
Michael Kirby.
Mrs. John Demuth spent Wednesday
and Thursday in Indianola with friends
Mrs. Frank Moriarty of Ottumwa is
visiting with Mrs. Margaret Lynch
William Burns was in Abba Friday
James Roney and Cliff josselyn were
shopping in Abba Saturday.
Cliff Josselyn of Indianola spent
Thursday here with his parents.
Anna Grogan was passenger for
Russell Wednesday,
Margaret Roney Of Abba spent
Thursdy here with her parents.
James Roney spent Friday in Ottum-
wa with old friends.
Mrs Fred Sailing Of Ottumwa is WIS.,
iting her father here, Michael Kirby
]. E. Gee and Matt Carmody We're in
Abba Friday.
The Misses Herrick Of ottumwa
spent Thanksgiving here with their
brother, DR. w. J. Herrick.
DR.. M. F. Riordan of this place is WIS.,
iting friends in Mt Pleasant.
Mrs. L. D. Lemley and daughters
Pearl and Olive. are visiting in Abba
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OUR CURRENCY.

Until 1885 no national coinage was
established, and none was issued until
1893. English, French, Spanish and
German coins, of various and uncertain
value, passed from hand to hand. Be
side the ninepences and fourpence-ha'-
pennies, there were bits and half-bits,
p1stareens, picayunes and fps. OF gold
pieces there were johannes, or joe, the
doubloon, the moidore, and pistole,
with English and French guineas, caro-
Inns, ducats, and chequins. OF coppers
there were English pence and half
pence and French sous; and pennies
were issued at local minis in Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut. New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. The English shil-
ling had everywhere degenerated in
value, but differently in different locali-
ties; and among silver pieces the
Spanish dollar, from Louisiana and
Cuba, had begun to supersede it as a
measure of value. In New England
the shilling had sunk from nearly one
fourth to one-sixth of dollar; in North
for this reason that in devising ma
tional coinage the more uniform dollar
was adopted as the unit. At the same
time the decimal system was adopted
instead of the cumbersome English sys-
TEN, and the result was our present
admirably simple currency, which we
owe to Governor Morris, aided as to
some points by Thomas Jefferson. Dur
ing the period of confederation, the
chaotic state Of the currency was a
serious obstacle to trade, and it af-
forded endless opportunities for fraud
and extortion Clipping and counter.
feiting were carried to such lengths
that every moderately cautious person
in taking payment in hard cash, felt 1t
necessary to keep small pair of scales
beside him and carefully weigh each
coin, after narrowly scrutinizing It's
stamp and deciphering it's legend
John Fisks. ("Critical Period of Ameri
can History").
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CHARLTON.

Charlton Dec. 3.-Miss Gertie Al
mack of Hamilton visited in the city
Saturday.
Mrs. Perry Barger returned Saturday
from an extended visit with her par
ents near Melrose.
Mrs. Arthur Curtis and little son,
Dwain, Of Ottumwa We're Sunday Wis
itors with Mrs. Curtis parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Becker.
Marriage licenses were granted Fri
day to Garfield Crawford and frankie
WEIGH and to William Stewart and
Esther Mitchell.
Mrs. Owen Berry died Saturday
morning and was buried Sunday after
noon. The funeral was held from the
home.
Mrs. George Fluke returned last
evening to her home in Osceola, after a
pleasant visit with relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Johnson of Hum
eston spent Sunday in the city.
L. G. Anderson Of Stanton, was a
business caller in the city Saturday.
Miss Anna Moore of Waadburn
spent the day in the city Saturday
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BoNl ON THE JOB.

Count de Castellane has been offer-
ed a position as head walter In New
York restaurant.-A Press Agent.)
The fact that on the boulevnrds
Once sauntered here and there
Kick open now tho door that guards
The chief within his lair.
The voices that whispered Ma cherie!s
In accents low and sweet
Is lately lifted Justify
With Double on the wheat"
The perfumed fingers, white and soft
That idled all the day
Now, spreading, deftly poise aloft
grooming, steaming tray.
The accents that in chansons gay
So smoothly used to run
Now sound aloud: zone milk and haye
Two eggs asleep; draw onel"
The lips that slipped the eau de vie
Where love and laughter lures
Now growl with gloomy brusquerie:
Come, gents. Speak up. What'1
yours?"
And you would never dream unless
You heard a stifled sob
That this brisk, glittering success
Was Boni on the job.
James ]. Montague in New York
American.
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spent Thanksgiving with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. McGrew of this place

spent Thanksgiving with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. McGrew of this place.
Silas Pearson of near Libertyvilla
was business caller in town on Fri1
day.
Roscoe Morrow, VINO has been att
tending business college at Des Moines,
came home to spend Thanksgiv2
Ing with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. u
M. Morrow, and on Friday evening RED
turned to Des Moines, where he has acs
cepted position in the Peoples Saw
ings bank.
Rev. Davis of Drakeville was call.
CT IN town last week.
Robert Walker who is in the employ
Of A. Weber & Co.. of Keokuk, spent
Thanksgiving with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. John Walker of this place, returni
ing to Keokuk today.
r. r. d. mail Carriers Greenfield and
Hanshaw have resigned their positions
to take effect as soon as successors can
be appointed: o. o. Mccullough haa
heen appointed carrier for route No. q.
The carrier for No. has not been apl
pointed yet
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ALBA.

Abba, Dec. Sin the district court
Saturday the case of Abegglin vs. Liv-
ingwood was given to the jury about 6
p M, and verdict was returned n
few hours later in favor of the defend
ant The criminal docket was taken
up this morning, the case being that of
the State Of Iowa VS. John Heathcote,
Of Hooking.
marriage license was granted Sat
urday to James M. Surbuer, aged 28,
Buxton and Lille Prevoart, aged 81
Of Eddyville.
F. G. Young of near Des Moines is
visiting his brother, Ed Young of Bluff
Creek township, who has been very i'll
with pneumonia the past two weeks.
The two children Of Harvey Tharpe
are having siege Of the humps.
Lemont Peppers of Des Moines is the
guest of relatives and friends at Abba
at present.
]. T.. Goode Of Moravia was at Abba
Saturday on business
Mrs. Seth Carhart returned from
Eureka, Kansas, yesterday morning
much improved in health. An abscess
which had formed on the lungs, broke
and relief came quickly. Mrs. Carhart
has gained much during her absence
She expects to go to Colorado after q
short stay at home. Mr.. Carhart visit
ed his wife last week. returning home
Saturday evening.
J. G.. Peck and J. B. Trueblood OF
Ottumwa were guests of M. l.. Nc
Quiston last week.
The new coal shaft at Rizer junction
south Of Abba, has been sunk to a
depth of twenty four feet. When COM
pleted there will be coal supply with
in the limits Of Abba.
FL. w. Johnson is visiting with his
wife at the parental Sparks home in
this city.
Mrs. Lille Patton returned this
morning to her work as instructor In
the Grinnell high school.
Rev. Winthrop Allison has accepted
call to one of the most influential
Presbyterian churches in Los Angeles
California. He has already left to take
up his new work.
DR.. R. T. Bartram returned last week
from Chicago, where he has been TAX
ing post graduate course.
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Patents Granted lowans.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 3.-Patents
have been granted Iowans as follows:
Paul e. Bolslad, Lake Wells, locking
device for wire gates.
Eliza G. Chamberlain of Denison,
jeweler pliers
A. j. Chandler, Des MONIES, appara-
tus for stretching wire fencing.
M. L. Brosnn of Cedar Rapids, ton
que support.
George Q. Loar of ottumwa. vaginal
syringe.
B. B. Perkins of Carson, fence post.
G. Q. shirk of Sioux City, wall paper
hanger.
A. W. swender of Carroll, calf wean.
err
Anthony Van Wagner Of Sioux
City, automatic system or intercom
municator.
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Bakers pipe onto his clothing, which
immediately caught fire.


Mrs. Jane Baker, 1928 Castle street,
mother of the injured man, received a
letter from Carnegie dated Sunday,
November "a, stating the facts In the
case. The letter does not say just
what day the accident occurred 1t
seems that Mr.. Baker was working
near the house Of his ranch, smoking
a pipe. The day being very windy,
sparks wer eblown from the pipe,
which lodged in Mr.. Bakers vest, and
which Immediately caught fire. By
the time help arrived he was severely
burned
Medical attention was secured from
Carnegie. The extent Of Mr.. Bakers
injuries cannot definitely be ascer-
tanned.
w. j. Baker Is we'll konwn in this
city, having been raised on farm
six miles north of her and for num-
Der Of years was actively engaged in
the wood and coal business with an
office on West Second street. About
five years ago. he moved to Oklahoma
and settled on a ranch eight miles
north Of Carnegie, where he has since
been engaged in cotton raising.
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tIat there viii be little done aside
from passing the appropriation bills. 4
Among the things that will probably
occupy the attention of the congress
are currency legislation, the income
and inheritance tax, labor laws, the
.merchan marine and the Philippine
tariff, but how many of these will be
crystallized into law is a decided I'M
certainty. The first reports coming
from Washing -on are to the effect
that the congressman do not feel like
jumping enthusiastically into the
enactment Of important laws with so
short a time in which to give them
their attention.
Perhaps this attitude is warranted.
1t was only last summer they left the
capitol with more important laws to
their credit than probably were ever
passed another session. There was
a public demand for them and the will
of the people was fulfilled. Conditions
are now being adjusted to these new
enactments and it will be some time
before the adjustment is complete. II
was considered that these laws we're
necessary, and in the long run their
effect doubtless will be good but it
has plunged us into the trouble into
which the people OF this country are
so easily led the demand for laws to
cover all evils, real or imaginary. More
laws, more laws and more laws is
the demand. Fewer laws would be
better. 1t is not to be anticipated that
any great harm will result if the pre-
sent congress passes the appropria-
ton bill, gets a good insight into the
propositions of the President and goes
home to think them over and hear
| from the people on them.
I Some of the propositions talked Of
now may be said to be almost new,
! others have been receiving more or
less agitation among the people for
some time, and others are old. 1t took
two sessions to get the right kind Of a
railroad rate law The Esch-Town-
send bill was in congress first and
some were inclined to criticise the
body because 1t was not passed i'm
mediately. But the congressman and
senators went home, Dolliver and Hep
burn busted themselves on new bills.
which were introduced carly in the
long session, and after weeks of study
and debate the result was the law that
is now upon the statute books. We
might have had the Esch- Townsend
law instead of the Hepburn Dolliyer
law, but the people are glad now that
there was not SO much haste and that
there was more Judgment. Conditions
may not be all that are desired, they
will not be after the proposed enact
ments are consummated, and if this
congress should deem it best to pass
the legislation necessary for the carry
ing on of the business of the govern
ment, devoting the remainder Of
their time to investigating the pro.
positions new to them submitted by
the President there can be no just
criticism.
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Christian Science Viewpoint.

10 the EDITOR.
Dear Sir.-In your issue of recent
date l find Especial" from Sioux
City giving the views of Rev. L. j.
Motzchmann on Christian Science and
it's founder, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy
His sweeping statement, "that the
book of Mrs. Eddy is not single
truth. evidence the fragmentary and
superficial nature of his acquaintance
with said book. Those who have
studied it carefully and who con.
squently know it's full value to human.
ity, declare emphatically that its
teachings from beginning to end are
exact, scientific and demonstrable
teachings of truth The fact that
thousands of intelligent, earnest Chris
tian people have proved its teachings
to be absolutely true and pre-eminent.
ly Christian is sufficient refutation of
any and all efforts to prove otherwise.
The further statement, Mrs. Eddy
is a fraud, and the tenets exploited by
her were lifted from the manuscript
of DR.. Quimby, her former preceptor
is unkind, undignified, uncharitable,
and untrue. In the first place Dr.
Quimby left no such manuscript" In
the second place he was not Mrs.
Eddy's preceptor. In the third place
it has been established beyond ques.
ton in and outs of courts of law and
to the satisfaction of all unprecedented
and fair-minded people, that Mrs. Eddy
wrote Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures, the text book of Chris.
tian Science, and that she alone is its
author
1t will therefore be readily seen that
the charge of fraud" against this
good, pure, noble woman is baseless
and could never be uttered by one
who knows of her self-sacrificing
Christian character. During the re-
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Reply to Editorial.

To the Editor:
The publication of the New York
Sun editorial, ITO Abolish Wealth"
leads me to submit the following:
Old age and poverty says Shake
speare, are an Unmatched pair, and
at any stage nothing is so melancholy
so wretched and depressing as hope
less and helpless poverty.
The man whose daily bread for him
self and family depends upon wages
that an employer may give or with
hold at pleasure is not free. The al
tentative between starvation and SUBJ
mission to a schedule is slavery. Ii
berty is something more than a name.
So who depends upon the will of
another for shelter, clothing and food
cannot be freeman in the broad, full
meaning of that word. Freedom does
not consist in definitions. The declara-
ton that life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness are the inalienable
rights of every human being makes
no man independent. The right to
liberty is an empty mockery and de-
lusion unless the power to be free
exists also. Ere tom is not only the
removal of legal restraints, the per-
mission to come and CO. Added to
those must be the c. nacity and the
opportunity, which only exemption
from the necessity of incessant daily
labor can bring To paraphrase
Shakespeare: poverty and liberty are
an ill matched pair. Freedom and
dependence are incompatible. The
abolition Of poverty has been the
dream of Missionaries and the hope of
philanthrophists from the dawn of
time. The inequality Oh fortunes and
tic obvious injustice of the unequal
distribution of wealth among men
have been the perplexity of philoso-
piers. 1t is the unsolved enigma of
political economy. Civilization has no
paradox SO mysterious as the existence
of hunger when there is an excess of
food, of want in the midst of super
fluffy. That one man should have pos
sessions beyond the capacity of extra
vagance to squander and another, able
and willing to work. should perish for
want Of embers, rags, and crust, rem
ders society unintelligible, it makes
the charter of human right loga-
rithm. So long as such conditions con-
tinue, the kcy to the cipher in which
destiny is written is not revealed. The
brotherhood of man is a phrase, jus
l.tice is a formula and the divine code
| is illegible. E. P. H.