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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-25
AMERICA AND MOROCCO.

Sioux City Journal.-The Moroccan
question is not new, nor is the ques-
ton of American participation In
European conferences. Away back in
1880 Europe was worried over internal
disturbances in Morocco, and con-
cusssthe matter This country was in
vited to participate, and President
Hayes, who was then in the executive
chair, did Just what President Roose-
welt has done now-sent q representa-
tive to the conference. Referring to
the matter in his message to congress
in December Of that year, President
Hayes said:
"At the invitation Of the Spanish
government q conference has recently
been held at the city Of Madrid to
consider the subject iof protection by
foreign powers Of native Moors in the
empire Of Morocco The minister of
the United States in Spain was direct
ed to take part in the deliberations of
this conference, the result Of which
is a convention signed on behalf of
all the powers represented. The in
strument will be laid before the sem
ate for It's consideration"
The matter created no debate at
the time. although 1t is evident Presi-
dent Hayes considered the incident
purely Of diplomatic nature and did
not consult the senate In any way
concerning It, President Roosevelt
has merely followed the precedent,
but here Is the senate raising great
row about 1t and assuming that Its
sacred prerogatives have been infring-
ed upon. The obvious inference is
that the attitude Of the senate de-
pends a good deal upon circumstances
just at this moment the senate, or
perhaps it would be more accurate to
say some of the senators, Is in criti-
cal mood. The critics are looking for
something to serve as Sthe basis for
fault finding, and the Moroccan con-
ference Is thought to furnish a con-
venient peg upon which to hang some-
thing in that line. Hence the hula
baloo.
arnrnenn Ia good deal nearer to
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THE EAST AND HADLEY.

Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri, the young man who AT one
bound leaped into the limelight of pub
i1clty When he began the prosecution Of
the Standard Oil at New York. is like
most western products, misunderstood
by the people Of the east. To the lat
ter, Governor Folk signifies all that
means reform and comes from Mis-
souri, and the eastern press seems to
think that when Folk pulls the string
Hadley jumps. The Pittsburg Dis.
patch, for example, recently printed q
picture Of the Missouri prosecutor with
q comment highly conn limentary to
his work and methods but giving all
the credit to Governor Folk. "Hadley
is a mere boy-on1y 34-but Governor
Folk has great confidence in him /"
said the Dispatch In all seriousness
To westerners this is good joke, one
OF the best that has come out of the
east In long time
For Folk, who has great conf
dence" in Hadley. is barely SO years
old. He and Hadley have little in com
mon. The governor is democrat and
was elected circuit attorney in st.
Louis on Doodle ticket. Herbert
Hadley is republican and was elected
circuit attorney in Kansas City on a
straight clean ticket. He was elected
attorney general of Missouri on the re-
publican ticket and he has not been
moved to aspire to the presidency be-
cause Of the honors that are already
his. In his prosecution of the Standard
Oil he was doing what he saw to be
his duty, and the prominence 1t gave
higo has not borne any overweening
POI, s3cal ambitions that would cause
him 70 neglect the duties Of one office
ITO enter upon a campaign for another.
Z Missouri's .mlpiaEs boy" attorney gen
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DEs MONIES GOSSIP

. 10 y
Des Moines, Jan. 20.-(s Specially As
the legislative session dragss along 1t
becomes more and more evident that
there isn't going to be the easiest sled
ding for the Hughes anu-pass bill In
the form in which 1t has been offered.
1t looks as If the proposition might be
seesawed to death. There are two
factions enc of which wants bill that
is extremely radical and there Is an
other faction which wants no bill at
all. Between the two those who want
a real pass bill and the one which will
do the business without being so dras.
tic as to be impossible are likely to
lose out. At any rate John Hughes of
the senate, who is In charge Of the
proposition to date, Is from Missouri
and every day he becomes more firm
ly convinced that he will not count on
victory in the matter till the act has
been signed by the governor and pub
lished.
The bill as offered applies to public
officers only. 1t makes but one excep-
ton. That is the public officer who is
a regular employee Of railroad and Is
riding on pass IN the discharge of
railroad business. The majority of the
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gentleman to meet, but good fighter
With all this the Times does not think
that Mr. Blythe runs the politics Of
the state"
1T is not necessary at all for the
legislature to spend any time passing
resolutions telling congress what to
do suggests the Algona Upper Des
Moines- Republican.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that the time of the legislature prom
ises to be 80 fully occupied with po,
litical maneuvering as to leave very
little for business.
One wouldn't expect Grover to be
worried by the criticism Of his ac-
ceptance Of that life insurance Job
says the Sioux City Journal It was
a mere bagetelle in comparison to
what the women's clubs have been
handing him."
"The weather Is so mild that the
announcement Of Major Rathbun's
candidacy for governor Is bringing in
q regular midsummer crop of fragrant
bouquets" remarks the Sioux City
Journal.
But the biggest fake on the smaller
counties Is the proposition to choose
United States senators by primary
election, says the Iowa city Republi-
can.
Mayor Dunno has been asked to re-
sign." remarks the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil Wonder how 1t feels thus
to be done?"
Persons getting off the water
Woo owe fh~r - Il
out for the patrol wagon approaching
from the opposite direction" says the
Keokuk Gate City.
The Washington Democrat does not
blame Congressman Wade for de-
clining to run for congress again. 1--WE
would rather be a first class lawyer
like Judge Wade or even a scrub
country editor than congressman
says the Democrat.
In the view Of the Des Moines Capt.
tai, Major Rathbun deserves the at
tention Of the republicans of Iowa on
his merits as q soldier, man and re-
publican.
"As political conditions now stand
will be winner says the Carroll Her
aid, referring to the Scott county
mans candidacy for secretary of state
There is no candidate in the field
worthy Of serious considerations
against him. Mr.. Hayward is former
Hancock county man and will get q
splendid support in the big tenth.s
~ 80
"The gold harvest of the world last
year was in excess Of $375000, 900
But Iowa produced last year that
much In grain and other crop values
to say nothing of its live stock" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. t'Ir
other words, Iowa is about two times
as good when 1t comes to producing
wealth as all the gold mines in the
World.n
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MARYLANp,s CORN Crops.

The Courier takes especial pride
ana kind Of fatherly interest in the
corn crop of 1905 In Maryland. When
the burlington seed corn special was
making Its trips through southern
Iowa this paper had representative
With che train and published his ac-
counts OF the trip day by day, They
showed SO much interest being taken
by Iowa farmers in the" gospel" of seed
corn that the matter attracted atten-
ton elsewhere. C. Bosley Littig of Bal
timore, Md.a member of the Baltimore
Board Of Trade and public spirited
Marylander, who is greatly interested
IN the agricultural progress of the
state, read In the Courier of the Iowa
seed corn experiment, wrote to the
Courier for details and particulars, and
decided to try the plan in Maryland.
Mr.. Littfg interested the managers
OF the Maryland railroads in the
scheme with the result that he was
asked to conduct seed corn special
through the state. This he did and
the result is that the states corn Weld
In 1905 was greater than for any pre-
y1ous year, and three and one-half
bushels to the acre in excess of the
yield Of 1904.
The Baltimore Sun, referring in a re-
cent Issue to Mr.Littig's campaign and
It's results, gives the following table
showing the corn yield per acre in the
state for each year since 1895.
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of all of us. It hasn't been, much more
than ten years ago that the United
States was a nation oppressed by hard
times. They weren't the hard times
that come and gothey weren't confined
-to any one little part of the country.
Strong concerns went to the wall,
private fortunes were wiped out in a
breath, workmen were idle, the pro-
ducts of the fields were almost value
less. Men had no money to buy the
farmers crops, nor to pay the labor
er's wage Times were hard.
But that was before the Mckinley
administrations. Times have chang
ed and the present sees splendid con-
ditions, good business, solid finances
and a prospect for q continuation Of
these good times The change is
worth considering. 1t has been almost
imperceptible, but it has been decided
1t is aptly illustrated by the hopeful
tone Of the market letters issued week
by week by brokers in New York One
of these dated Saturday, makes good
reading 1t says in part:
Monetary conditions are gradually
improving. Currency is returning
more freely from the interior and bank
averages are rising. There has been
a tremendous increase in the circu-
lating medium of the country, but
this is still actively employed intlegiti-
mate business transactions both at the
east and in the west. In the interior
the return movement is somewhat de-
layed by the tendency of the farmers
both south and west, to hold on to
their crops The latter are being mark.
eted from 80 to 60 days later than
usual, the improved financial stand.
ing of the farmer and his confidence
in securing good prices explaining this
delay. Ultimately funds thus with.
held must return to interior centers
and then to New York promising cas-
Ter monetary conditions after April
than now exist
It's worth considering.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

eff datto is anything like a mug
wump, Bryan will find no difficulty in
assimilation says the Clinton Her
aid.
: The Iowa City Republican has OBJ
served that if suspicious character
takes anything that does not belong
to him it is theft, but If the act Is
done by trusted employee" it is call
ed peculation.
"a soft answer may turn away
wrath, but experience has shown that
it is wholly ineffective when applied
to a book agent" says the Keokuk
Gate City.
"The most important thing before
the people of Iowa just now is just
and equitable system of taxation"
says the Cedar Falls Record.
"And it came to pass that while Ed
itor Perkins slept, the friends of Rath-
bun sowed tares among the formers
political wheat" says the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil has
discovered the reason why Chicago
has decided to add 500 police to Its
LUIGI. llClO q cSAiooA, tSelCAASho
meeting soon to be held in the lake
city," says the Nonpareil, land the
new men will be needed at the street
crossings"
"Those who are taking up the
coasting and snowballing reforms are
mostly old people" observes the Cher
okee Democrat
Maybe Grover is afraid that there
will be an investigating committee
asking awkward questions a few years
hence as to what he did to earn that
salary" is one Of the Sioux City
Journals suspicious.
The Fairfield Ledger, speaking of
the fact that the proposed primary law
provides for plurality candies says:
1T can Go nothing but create dissatis-
faction and dissension, with the result
very often that the plurality candi-
date IS defeated at the polls. Dur
ing the primary contest the voters
have been furnished with all the am
munition necessary for the slaughter
of any candidate, and it comes from
his own party"
The Ames Times says that Mr..
Blythe is neither a monster with horns
nor sways the politics Of Iowa. "Mr.
Blythe" 1t continues, SIS a mild man
nered, well built, good looking man,
wAirhins tAss than 200 nounds-a fine
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& Inc sun Iurther says:
The increase of the crop last year
over that of 1904 was 31s bushels an
acre. 1t is true that only $4,000 acres
yielded last year, as against 5635, 900 in
1904, but the crop was far better The
decrease in acreage was due to the ex-
cessfve. rainfall, which cauged Quite
lot Of corn to be stalked instead al
caring properly. 1t is figured that with
SR bushels more to the acre there was
an increase Of 2,19S,0OO for the same
acreage in 1904, and with corn sell
Ing at, so cents a bushel 1t must have
yielded in round numbers $1,000 900.
1T Is the opinion of farmers that
the Increase was largely due to the
corn seed special movement. which
was operated In Maryland for the first
time" !,
A Chicago agricultural publication.
noting the good results Of seed corn
specials last year and of the pros
pect for 1906. says:
The season of seed grain specials
is again at hand and a stronger effort
than ever is being made to interest
grain growers In the careful selection
Of better varieties
Inc Luke ETle and western Rail
road has just completed an eight day
trip Of seed special over its lines in
Indiana.
The Canadian Pacific railway this
week started seed grain special from
Winnipeg, which will cover four to six
stations in Manitoba, Sask and Alberta
every day until March 1.
In February the Chicago and Great
western will run seed corn special
over all its lines in Iowa.
The railroads profit much by the
seed grain specials, the grain dealers
somewhat and the growers still more.
Last week the Iowa State college com
pleted~ it's short course in Judging
corn, and the Purdue university of In
diana, is also conducting a corn
school and corn show"
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our shores than China and the SEN
ate didn't object when the United
States took hand in defining the in
ternational status Of that empire. In
fact our influence in determining the
open door policy there is one Of the
things we have all been pointing to
with pride. The same principle is back
of the Moroccan conference, but mean
while some of the senators have
changed their glasses and aren't able
to see very we'll.
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eral is working for the interests of the
people of the commonwealth whose
official he is. Governor Folks Oft
repeated lecture on "civic righteous
ness" outside of the state is one thing;
Hadley's devotion to his work is an
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That story from Pittsburg about the
man beng overcome by heat Sunday
was surely a delayed" message and
should have had last August date.
Look out of the window, if you. can
scratch a place in the frost and see if
you don't think So
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IIT,s WoRTH coNsIpERINc

.Modesty, like consistency, is a jewel
out lit will not be called extreme self.
aattery for the republican party to
CALI attention to the conditions that
ao%l exist in the financial world and
% cbmpare them with the conditions
hat have existed within the memory
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Senator LaFollette is chairman of
the committee on the Potomac river
front. Vice President Fairbanks must
be tired of that old gag: "All's quiet
along the Potomac"
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Which will find the more hearty sup
port Hadley's boom for governor of
Missouri or Folks boom for the presi-
dency? 1t looks just now like a toss
up, but wait until the governor gets
back from his eastern trip.
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Kansas isn't behind the rest of the
procession at all. Isn't her treasury
short several thousands? There's moth
ing the matter with Kansas.
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It's worth considering.

Mr.. Garfield must be terrible
man indeed. First it was charged that
he promised the packers immunity
from prosecution if they told him all
they knew, and now the allegation is
that he threatened to imprison one of
them if he didn't tell at least part Of
what he knew. If all the stories are
true, James travelled long journey on
bluff
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Fasting for thirty days is not an in
fallible remedy for stomach trouble. A
Poughkeepsie man who tried it died at
the end of the first week.-Kansas City
Journal
Surely the Journal isn't unfair
enough to insist that this was fair
test. The sPoughkeepsie man, didn't stay
at it long enough.
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Does e. e. E. McJimsey stutteri
Can't some one tell us what those
three Els that precede the name OF
the new consul to Peru mean?
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Now, altogether-How'd you like to
be the fceman.
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If there's any song that had better
be kept under cover right now it's
CT c. O. ST TT
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The Ames Times says that Mr.
Blythe is neither monster with horns
nor sways the politics OF Iowa. "Mr
Blythe" 1t continues, SIS mild man
nered, well built, good looking man
waiahina tAss than 200 nounds-a fine
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eff datto is anything like a mug
wump, Bryan will find no difficulty in
assimilation says the Clinton Her
aid.
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Persons getting off the waite
wagon are thoroughly advised to lool
out for the patrol wagon approaching
from the opposite direction" says TIN
Keokuk Gate City.
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>I''Mayor Dunno has been asked to re-
sign." remarks the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil. Wonder how 1t feels thus
to be done?"
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The Washington Democrat does not
blame ex-Congressman Wade for de-
clining to run for congress again. I'VE
would rather be a first-class lawyer
like Judge Wade or even a scrub
country editor than congressman
says the Democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
INGENIOUS COOKERY FRAUDS.
Cod Becomes Salmon--Substltute for
Breast of Chicken.

From London Tit-Bits.
1t has almost passed into a proverb
that many of the dishes served up In
cheap restaurants where nothing Is wasted
are, to put it mildly mysteries. But. on
the other hand, most people who patron
ize fashionable and more ambitious res
taurants are generally content to accept
the menu for what 1t is said to be. This
blind trust Is, however, In many such
restaurants somewhat abused. and the
amount of taking which goes on today
in some of the well-to-do establishments
would probably surprise those who are
uninitiated in the higher branches of the
culinary art.
For instance, by the addition of veget-
able Juice just before being dished up
cod outlets are, at seasons when salmon
is Very dear set before customers as
salmon outlets. and are, needless to say
charged accordingly This deception"
don's leading restaurants, is widely prac-
ticed not only in better class restaurants
but also on some of the great liners.
Another popular trick practiced by the
restaurateur is To serve as veal beef
done up overnight I'm sailed bandages
while a skilful chef has very little diff
Guilty in palming off whiting for sole on
epicures who pride themselves on the
soundness of their Judgment of cooking.
A few weeks ago a dinner for seventy
five people was ordered at a well known
fashionable restaurant A large consign-
ment of salmon had been previously or
dered. but to the CONSERVATION of the
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CHRONICLES OF DON O.

Continued from Previous Page)
-~~-~-~-~~~~->~~~---~~~~~
Tor you have given me an admirable
opportunity to rid myself of some of the
least desirable of my children"
BY the time McCorkdale returned to
the world the corner in corn had be-
come past history. People spoke Of 1t as
an extraordinary couple manque. Later
when they met with its promoter they
began to believe In the legend of over
strained nerves he had so glibly circulated
before he visited Spain. Moreover. rumor
declared that the ruined millionaire had
lavished enormous sums on religious in
stitutions in that country, but this was
an addition which those who best knew
him refused to credit.
Yet it happened to be true; and this
was how it came about.
II fear, senior. you do not feel toward
me the gratitude which deserve at your
hands, Don Q. observed, when the six
weeks Imprisonment of his captive came
to an end. Il have saved you from COM
hitting a monstrous crime"
"Crime?" echoed McCorkadale bitterly.
II know of what you are thinking-of
the night of our little adventure in the
cave. Is 1t not SOP You appear to forget
that you would have killed me had
not had the good fortune to be before
hand with YOU
You have my ransom; let me CO., cried
the Cuban desperately.
Pardon me- senior; 1t is of that I would
speak with you. | cannot soil my hands
by taking a ransom of money gained as
yours has BEEN
McCorkadale turned terrified look
Upon him. Fate had forced him to learn
in those latter days some of the things
he had aforetime taught to others.
you have nothing to fear" resumed
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able hotels themselves frequently have
the greatest difficulty in getting a suf-
ficienuy large quantity to meet the de-
mand. However, to fake peas does not
offer any great difficulty In times of
stress, and by adding vegetable coloring
matter yellow peas are quite eommoner
served up as green peas along with the
duck and havorless new potato. which
more often than not comes from abroad.
Roast veal served with a thick white
sauce makes says a well known chef, "A
most satisfactory substitute for the breast
of chicken and therefore 1t does not
come altogether as a surprise TO learn
that the breast of one chicken Has been
known to satisfy twelve hungry diners.
THE staff take good care of the breast
of chicken" was the comment of a
waiter who was being for the first time
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chef the dinner hour slowly approached
and still no salmon arrived
In despair the chef-a Frenehman-de-
cided to take the bull by the horns" and
procure another fish to do duty for the
coveted salmon. Accordingly, he set to
work to turn cod outlets into salmon cut
let's and this rapid transformation was
soon effected by an addition of vegetable
juice. The walters. who naturally were
aware of this wholesale deception, were
given express orders to report any COM
plants to the chef at once. However, to
the intense delight of the chef, all pass
ed off we'll and on hearing that his sub
terfuge had not been detected he glee-
fully exclaimed, 'Ah, a cod and French
cook can work miracles"
Green peas at certain seasons of the
year are naturally a luxury quite be-
yond the reach of the man of average
means, while even caterers for fashion,