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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-27
JEST FORE CHRISTMAS.

Father calls me William, sister calls
me Will;
Mother calls me Willie. but the fellers
call me Bill
Mighty glad / amt a girl-ruther be a
boy.
Without them sashes. curls an things
that's worn by Fauntleroy!
Love to chawnk green apples an go
swimmin' in the lake
Hate to take the castor-ile they give
me for bellyache!
Most all the time the whole year round
there amt no flies an me;
But jest fore Christmas I'm as good
as kin be!
Got yeller do named Sport, sick him
on the cat;
First thing she knows she doesn't know
where she is at!
Got clipper sled. an when us kids
goes out to slide,
Long comes the grocery cart an we all
hook a ride:
But sometimes when the grocery man
is worried an cross
He reaches at us with his whip an lar
rups his boss;
An then laff an holler: ooh, we never
teched MEL
But jest fore Christmas I'm as good as
kin be.
Gran'ma says she hopes that when I
get to be man
I'll be a missionarer like her oldest
brother, Dan.
AS was ct up by the cannibals that live
in Ceylons isle,
Where every prospeck pleases, an only
man is vile!
But cran'm, sh. has never been t. y
wild west show,
Nor read the life of Daniel Boone, or
else guess she'd know
That Buff'lo Bill an cowboys is good
enough for me,
Except jest fore Christmas, when I'm
good as l kin be.
And then old Sport he hangs around so
solemn like an still;
His eyes they seem a-sayin': whats
the matter, little Bill?"
The old cat sneaks down off her perch
an wonders what's become
OF them two enemies of hern that used
to make things hum.
But I'm so perlite an tend so earnest
ly to biz
That mother says to father: How i'm
proved our Willie isl"
But father, havin been boy hisself
suspicious me
When jest fore Christmas, I'm as good
as kin be.
For Christmas, with it's lots an lots OF
candies, cakes an toys
Was made, they say, for proper kids
an not for naughty boys;
So, wash yer face an brush yer hair
an mind yer p's an as,
And don't bust out yer pantaloons and
don't wear out yer shoes.
Say "Yessum" to the ladies an Yes
sur to the men,
An when they's company don't pass yer
plate for pie again;
But. thinkin' of the things yer'd like tc
see upon that tree,
Jest fore Christmas be as good as yer
kin be. Eugene Field.
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THE MULTIPLICITY OF SANTA
CLAUS.

Philadelphia Press Those ardent
faddists who advocate the elimina-
ton of all suggestion of myth and mys-
terry from child life and Imagination
may soon be able to rejoice in weak
ening of faith in Santa Claus as the
most pleasing myth in childhood's
mind. This condition is seemingly
approaching as result of what one
might call the degradation of Santa
Claus.
A generation and more ago Santa
Claus in the juvenile mind was an in
dividual remote from this mundane
sphere and residing somewhere in the
Aurora Borealis, or in the immediate
ylcini y of the North pole. Here for
night, he was engaged in manufacture
Ing the wondrous and delightful and
glorious things which ultimately found
their way by reindeer and chimney
route into the stockings suspended
from the mantel shelf. He was a
beneficient old elf, the especial patron
OF childhood, and not a real or tangi-
bic, everyday individual to be seen
and heard and touched
But all this is changed. The strenu-
Gus life has removed Santa Claus from
brought him to the crowded city. Not
only one Santa Claus, but myriad of
them. They pose with egrotesque GEES
lures in shop windows They prom
enade the aisles of stores, they jingle
a bell othe street corner. beseeching
aims in the cause of Christian charity
They are a very human and very
palpable arrangement of cotton whis-
kers, red flannel breeches, rubber
boots and toboggan cap.
The multiplicity of the breed is CON
fusing to the child's mind The cour-
terfeit makeup is apparent The child
wonders, and as the wonder grows
doubt and skepticism begin to creep
in. and then this growing infidelity is
heightened by the rude declaration OF
the neighborhood bad boy" who, like
all of his kind, are cynical iconoclasts,
that there hain't no Santa Claus, any
how" And so it comes about that the
would-be eliminators of the myths of
childhood may unconsciously be win.
ming their way. That Santa Claus is
becoming an object of doubt instead
of an object of veneration and joy.
But let us hope for the sake of the
millions of childish hearts that beat
faster and childish e.-es that grow
brighter at the approach of Christmas
and Santa Claus, that the glorious old
man OF mystery may never be elm
mated by the faddists, or by his
counterfeits in shop window and on
the street.
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serves, would provide the present and
future governors with fine opening
for having more rings than Saturn and
more satellites than Jupiter" Another
paper, the Fulton Telegraph one of the
Oldest and most influential country pa
pers in the state, says: "The safest
plan is to kill the proposition while it
is harmless, and not wait until 1t has
been used to crush the will of the peo-
pie"
Many old and observant onlookers
in politics have not been inclined to
give Governor Folk much credit for
political sagacity, or, in fact, for much
ability OF any kind. They attribute his
early success, as a prosecutor of bood-
lers and champion of civic righteous
ness, to a small and select coterie of
st. Louis business and professional
men who are said to have supplied
him with brains as well as the money
he used iE his race for governor. The
late James L. Blair, who was one of
the most brilliant lawyers and schol-
arly writer's in the state prior to his
exposure and suicide on account of en-
bezzling his clients funds was popu-
larry supposed to be at the head of this
bunch of Folk advisers. trainers and
managers. 1t is significant fact in
this connection that Blair was very
fond of preaching about "civic right
eousness" and virtually coined the
phrase as it has since been applied to
Missouri politics SO continually led by
Mr.. Folk. Just at the time Folk was
elected circuit attorney of st. Louis,
Blair was preaching sermons, writing
editorials and delivering public
speeches, all harping on "civic right
eousness," and Folk has harped on it
ever since. Like a fiddler playing on
one string, this cant phrase has been
the burden and monotonous tenor of
all his speeches and public writings.
The people, however, who said when
Blair died that Folks brains died with
him will nave to make new diagnosis
II the governors measures are to be
seriously considered. They were evil
IDENTIFY drawn by the hand of an expert,
master at the game of politics. The
scheme that underlies these measures
is worthy even of the conceded shrewd-
ness and cunning of his hated rival,
Senator Stone. "Gumshoe Bill" in his
palmiest days never evolved more
adroit and comprehensive plot to build
up his political fences. Every one of
these measures is apparently meri-
torions and ostensibly based upon deep
consideration for the public welfare,
but the result. if they passed would
make Folk all powerful in the demo-
cratic party in the state
Is it possible that Mr.. Folk has a
new adviser as shrewd and possibly
as INSCRIPTIONS as Blair was? Nobody
will believe that Folk himself devised
the scheme. Whose fine, Italian hand"
does it resemble?
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ROOSEVELT AND WASHINGTON.

In an address to the New England
society DR.. Silas McBee connected and
compared George Washington and
Theodore Roosevelt. He observed
that in the birth years of the nation
the executive was necessarily a maker
of presidents, and that in the new
birth of the nation as a world power,
the executive has again of necessity
been maker of precedents; that both
presidents have shown a creative gen
ius in dealing with new conditions.
Speaking further he says,
"They have contributed positively
and constructively to the interpreted
under the constitution. They have ac-
cepted the constitution as living in
strument and not dead letter. and
to degree unequalled they have been
loyal to the American people who
made and who defend and sustain the
constitution"
1t is in the fact that several presi-
dents have conceived of the constitu-
ton as living instrument that the
country is where it is today and that
the constitution seems to be as we'll
adapted to our own needs as it was to
those of the forefathers who framed it.
Had strict construction prevailed the
instrument would not have been found
pliable enough to properly apply to the
government of the vast territory added
to the original thirteen states, with all
of the necessary internal improve
ments and problems of growth
What power the executive or con-
gress has under the constitution has
been matter of contention on all
matter of departure from the beaten
path, and in fact, there was much con
troversy over which direction the path
should take in the first place. The
construction of the constitution was
the line upon which the parties were
originally formed.
Had it not been possible to construe
the constitution in a manner that per-
mitted wide range of power in Wash
ington the clamor for amendments
would have been never ceasing, and
the instrument would probably be fire.
quently opened for fads and fancies
that have their birth iii one presiden-
tial campaign and their death in the
next one. 1t has sometimes been nee
essary, as political writer's have re-
corded it, to bend the constitution, and
thus carry the country over political
crisis.
From some people now comes de-
mand for the amendment of the con-
stitution, but the situation is not extra
ordinary, for at all times there have
been classes of this kind. The great
danger would come in a situation
wherein there was apparent necessity
for continually opening the instrument
for amendment in order to properly
carry out the solution of the COM
pick problems that daily face the exec
utiye and congress. The constitution
remains a living instrument under
Theodore Roosevelt
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WEST END ITEMS.


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Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Phllby of Brazil
are spending Christmas with the sister
of Mrs. Philby, Mrs. P. G. Drummond,
of Mcpherson avenue.
Albert Stout of Seymour Is visiting
at the home Of Michael Diner on Nc
Lean street.
Peter Riley and son. Michael. of
Fairview avenue, are spending the hol-
idays in LaSalle. Ill
The Christmas exercises in the West
End Presbyterian church taxed the
capacity of the building last evening.
The exercises We're of the highest order.
The West End Aid society meets
at the church Thursday at 10 a. m. All
the members are requested to be pres
ent.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Nickel of Dav-
export are visiting wit Mrs. McKell's
sister, Mrs. Elmer Duree, 931 West
Main street.
Mrs. q E. Mosier of Lacona is spend
ing Christmas with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. DeHarport, 933 West Main
street.
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EAST END ITEMS.

NS..f
T. d. Foster was in Fairfield on bust
ness last Friday afternoon.
q. Burton of the tierce washers bad
ly bruised his arm last Friday and was
compelled to quit mis- work and go
home.
William Sauers of the box factory
was called home last Thursday after
noon by the sudden illness of his wife.
George Morris of the packing room
accidentally cut the middle finger of
his left hand last Thursday, causing
him to- quit work and go home.
R. l.. Morgan, who runs the great
elevators in building 3D." will speak
at Rutledge tomorrow evening at 7:45
o'clock
Ex-Superintendent F.. J. Bullock was
Wednesday morning.
George Gibbons Of the No. 1 cellar
is in Chicago on his vacation.
A. A. Lewis of the stock yards office
was in Drakeville last Monday on bust
ness.
Michael Ulrich of the cutting depart
ment, who has been farming near
Agency all summer returned to work
again last Monday.
John Weyhyand of Waterloo Is the
new foreman in the machine shop and
began his duties last Monday.
]. H. Craig of the cutting department
was on the sick list short time this
week.
w. R. Casson, city salesman Of the
John Morrell & Co. branch at Des
Moines, was business visitor at the
plant last Tuesday.
Edward Carson Of the killing gang
badly cut himself in the left hand last
Monday morning.
New Years watch meeting will be
held in the East End Presbyterian
church.
Superintendent Will Foster Of the
East End Presbyterian church will
give the annual Christmas entertain.
ment in the church Christmas night.
All friends Of the church are cordially
invited to be present.
LADIES' Aid society Of the East End
Presbyterian church met in the parlors
of the church last Friday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock.
s. A. Gillum Of the roustabout gang
is on the sick list.
A. G. Catman and Edward Smith
travelling employees of the A. D. T. Co.,
were here on business last Wednesday
morning.
Pete 10y Of the Oppenheimer Casing
company badly scalded the left side OF
his face last Thursday.
Samuel Birney Of the stock yards
was in Drakeville on business last
Thursday.
Aaron Anderson, machinist, stepped
into scalding water last Monday morn
ing and scalded his feet SO badly that
he had to be taken home.
Street Commissioners James King
was in No. green meat cellar last
Wednesday noon on business.
William Stinson, foreman Of the
hanging room, was taken very sick last
Wednesday morning and was com
PEELED to quit work and go home.
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KEEP HANDS OFF.

In an interview Edgar 3. Clark Of
Iowa. member Of the interstate COM
merce commission, says that If the
state legislature of this or any other
state attempts to do legislating with
g view to remedying the car shortage
IT will only make a worse middle Of
bad situation. He believes that indie
pendent action by states will only COM
plicate the situation as it is presented
to the Interstate commerce commits
sion.
a The body of which Mr. Clark is a
member is without great power other
than moral suasion, but he believes
that good use of that will solve the
problem temporarily Meanwhile the
commission will attempt to secure. suf-
1cient light on the reasons for the
shortage to place the responsibility
and make recommendations to con-
gress, from whence it gets its own
nower Of action.
Whatever may be said OF Secretary
Roots last speech, it must be admitted
that his observation that the states
cannot be depended upon for effective
action In dealing with national prob
lens of this nature was correct. Mr..
Clark evidently holds the same opif-
ion relative to any effort that may be
made by this state or that one in an
effort to regulate interstate commerce
by dealing with the situation within
the borders of the commonwealt
Ii a legislature wants reputation
for hitting. corporations it will prob.
ably legislate notwithstanding the adj
vice Of the Interstate commerce com
mission and regardless Of the mud
die" it makes in SO doing. But the
wisdom OF iii will be Questioned
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MANY NEW SUITS.
Several Petitions Have Been Filed
With the Clerk of the Court.

With the Clerk of the Court.
Among the recent suits filed in the
office of the clerk of the district
court are the following:
w. p Chisman VS.. F. T. Chapman,
ct al. In this action the plaintiff sues
on a note and for the foreclosure of
the mortgage by which 1t was secured.
The mortgaged property has been
transferred several times since the
making Of the note and the plaintiff
asks judgment for the amount still due
against each and all of the defendants
as well as the foreclosure of the mort
gage.
Fanny V. Rupe VS.. Maggie A. Miller
and Seymour Miller ct al. A suit on a
note on which $50 is yet unpaid. The
plaintiff asks a Judgment for the
amount due with interest and costs
and further prays that two previous
judgments rendered against the de-
PENDANTS be decreed inferior liens to
her mortgage, which she asks to have
foreclosed
Amy Drake Nupp VS.. L. C. Wier ct
al, a petition for partition.
N. P. Byrne VS.. Harry Leonard and
J. w. Leonard, a petition asking for an
injunction.
w. A. Lewis and j. B. Mowrey VS..
Fred Knight and Ida Knight. An action
asking for an attachment on property
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of the defendants, the plaintiff alleg-
ing that they hold a note signed by the
defendant and due February 1, 1907.
The plaintiffs claim that the defend
ants are disposing Of their property
with intent to defraud
The same plaintiffs have also filed
another suit against the same defend
ants and other co-defendants, this suit
being an action on notes for the fore
closure of a landlords lien.
Decree Signed.
Saturday afternoon Judge F. w.
Eichelberger signed a decree in the
case of e. E. Townsend VS.. the Iowa
Business Mems Building and Loan as
ISOLATION, in which he fixes the amount
due from the plaintiff to the defendant
as the balance of the payment on the
property concerned in the litigation at
1914 and orders the plaintiff to pay
this amount in exchange for which the
defendant is to give possession of the
property.
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He program LOT the IOurtn annual
meeting OF the Southeastern Iowa
and 8, has just been issued as follows:
Tuesday, January 8.
Call to order.
Invocation by Rev. w. e. Parsons,
president Of Parsons college.
Plano solo by Prof. James P. Moore
head.
Annual address by the president, DR..
j. B. Monfort, Fairfield
Tuesday, 80 p. m.-Clinics.
DR.. w. B. James of Tracy, Mimi,
will conduct a school demonstrating
the Bonwel system of grinding and
articulating full upper and lower dem
lures, assisted by DR.. Geo. w. Sling
luff, Burlington; DR.. A. w. Dana, Bur-
lington; DR.. j. H. Calder, Cedar Rap
DR.. =. S. Snyder, Burlington; Dr. E.
B. Carney. Washington; DR.. w. E.
Creath, Ottumwa; DIR. w. S. Hosford
Iowa City.
DR.. G. e. Hoag. Wapello- Pressure
anaesthesia removing pulp, immediate
root filling.
DR.. A. L. Punton Mr.. Pleasant
Richmond crown Steel facing.
DR.. r. H. Volladn, Iowa City-Gold
inlay in central incisor. pulpless tooth
DR.. c. M. Work, of Ottumwa, will
conduct a class in porcelain inlay, cav
itv preparation, etc, assisted by DR.. T.
r. Cooke, Burlington. DR.. w. c. Boone
Ottumwa; Dr. w. S. Goldsmith. Ottum-
wa; DR.. G. p. Hoag, Wapello; DR.. ]. T.
Martin, Muscatine; DR.. w. F. Kraft
Burlington.
DR.. VIM. Finn Of Cedar Rapids
will conduct a class in cavity prepara-
ton and gold filing; assisted by DR.
j. T. Martin, Muscatine; DIR. F. M. Ed
wards, Mt. Pleasant; DR.. j. G.. Black
DR.. H. L. Madison, Burlington.
DR.. F. A. Roe, Burlington-Table
clinic. Porcelain crown with platinum
cap
DR.. H. H. Stafford, Keokuk- Table
clinic. Preparation Of cavities for
porcelain inlays.
BILE clinic. Method of repairing bridge
work.
Tuesday, $50 p. m.-Banquet.
1880 p. m.-Reports on clinics, paper.
and discussions.
Wednesday, January 9, 9 a. m.
Clinics.
DR.. A. w. Dana, Burlington Porce-
lain inlay
Or. w. NJ. Terry, washington
celain crown.
DR.. T. F. Cooke, Burlington-Gold
filling. step cavity in central incisor.
DR.. F. P. Wells, Clarinda-Gold in
lay.
Operator to be MISUNDERSTANDING
istration of antidolorin as in anesthetie
for extracting.
The school in prosethetics, porce-
lain inlays and gold filings will be
conducted both days: dividing the as.
sistants into two classes. The table
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10 BUMP LA TOILETTE.

Senators who watched the ways and
felt the tongue lashes of Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin last summer are
preparing to give the public an exhi-
bitfon of man with toga humping
the bumps. Little has been said about
1t, but 1t is reported that the mem
bers of the upper house have reached
an understanding, silently or other
wise, that the Wisconsin man has
reached mis- limit with them, and that
he will have to learn
Senator LaFollette's first lesson this
term will be in railway legislation.
That is the study he .funked" in dur
Ing the last session. He became an
gered because he could not bnllyrag
the senate as he had his own people
In Wisconsin. He was angered further
because instead of being recognized as
a leader of the upper branch of con-
gress, he was left standing with the
democrats while his republican col
leagues were voting with Theodore
Roosevelt. It was singular that the
United States senate did not bow to
his dictates, and that he could not be
boss there as he had been in Wiscon-
sin, but that is popularity the United
States senate has.
Being thus angered, and finding him
self in company with democrats while
posing as republican, LaFollette
started on his chautauqua tour, or
more properly speaking, his tour of
villihcation. Happily the senators had
him in conquerable position, having
first made him mad. He was raving
because his several amendments to the
railway rate bill were turned down.
In every state he lectured he made
vicious attacks upon one or more of
the senators of that commonwealth.
In Iowa he singled out Senator ALI
son. Here was where he was mis-
taken again. Instead of injnring Sena.
{ tor Allison with the people of Iowa,
IsaFollette only injured himself Some
had come to admire the Wisconsin
man, if for nothing more than his de-
termined and winning fight in his own
state. But when he showed them that
his way of fighting is by falsehood and
misrepresentation he was simply look
ed upon in Iowa as common muck
raker.
s He went from state to state telling
people OF their corrupt senator's, as
suming of course, that he was the only
!, honorable man in the upper house. To
&lis chagrin he found that these men
zcre ia the senate because their own
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clinics will also be conducted both days.
Wednesday, 1880 p. m.

clinics will also be conducted both days.t
Wednesday, 1880 p. m.
Reports Of committees and electfonJ
of officers
Selection Of next place Of meeting
Reports on clinics, papers and dist
cussions.
DR.. w. p. Creath, Ottumwa-Ethics
on mans moral and professional dull
ties toward one another.
Or. ]. 7. Martin, Muscatine- Some
Old Things"
DR.: D. W. James. Tracy. MINI
Prosthesis.
DR.. William Finn, Cedar Rapids.
Gold filings
Or: G. N. Work, ottumwa-Porce-
lain inlays.
Officers and Committees.
DR.. j. B. Monfort, Fairfield, presi-i /
dent; DR.. j, T. Martin, Muscatine, vice.
president; DR.. Geo. w Slingluff, Bur-
lington, secretary; DR.. w. e. Creath.l
Ottumwa, treasurer.
Executive committee-Dr. II. Ia
Madison, Burlington; Dr. j. e. For
ney, Keokuk; DR.. Frank Fourt, Fair
field.
Membership-Dr c. G.. Hoover, AL
bfa; Dr. G. e. Ritchey, New London:
DIR. ii. s. Engle, Lineville. i
Superintendent of clinics-Dr. Frank
Fourt, Fairfield
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Christmas candies of William Ash
croft.
Frank Stewart, who has been work.
ing in the ak handle factory in Ottum-
wa, is at home quite i'll.
PuLASKI.

FOLRSNl.
Pulaski. Dec. 25.-Earl Plank left last
week for his home in Potosia, Mo-, aft
err several weeks visit here with rela-
tives.
Miss Mary Angspurger is visiting
her daughter. Mrs. Bertha Johnson, in
Mt Pleasant thu. week.
Mrs. G. e. Stoc,-Nam and children are
spending the week with Mrs. Stock
hams parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Mer-
edith.
Mrs. Sarah Conger of Milton visited
relatives here the first of the week.
James Hunt and family are moving
their household goods from Bloomfield
into the Pteer Kinsinger property.
Mrs. w. w. George of Des Moines
arrived Monday evening and spent Il
few DAYS at the home of Andrew
George.