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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28

Car Lots.
Wheat-Today, Z; estimated tomor-
row, s.
corn-Today, 4O4; estimated tomor-
row. 1888.
oats-Today, 141; estimated tomor-
row, 149.
Northwest Receipts.
Duluth--Today, Sc; last year, 1.
Minneapolis-To Today, IT'S; last year,
Is.
Primary Receipts.
heat-Today, 247000 bu., and last
year, $4,000 blu.
sCorn-Today, $4,000 bu., and last
year, 615,0oO blu.
Shipments.
Wheat-Today, 10000 bu., and last
year, 100000 bu.
corn-Today, $4,000 bu.. and last
year, $4,000 blu.
cIearances.
Wheat-23S, 900.
SCorn-13O,000.
Oats-17,000.
Liverpool Cables.
Opening-Wheat, % higher.
opening-Corn, u higher.
Closing-Wheat, Is higher.
Closing-Corn, II higher.
Hog Market.
Receipts To-day, $4,000; left over,
5,400.
shipments-Estimated tomorrow.
$4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
A Great Feathered Songster

He came to make us visit of few DAYS
at our cottage, and small Miss Ruth, moth
ing dlsmayed, at once brought her half-sick
bird, wrapped up in shawl, to show him.
Why, my child, you have rescued a Saba da
Pria, the Brazilian mocking bird he said:
you are very fortunate little girl. Do not
let him get away. Ask your father to buy Won
large cage for him, and when he gets we'll.
as he soon will, you will see what a famous
singer he will prove to be- Ruth clapped her
hands and danced around the room for very
pride and happiness. To think that She. her
own little self, had found this precious Saba
Jim did grow to be famous singer. i had
a roomy, comfortablec age made for him TO
live in, and as he was young bird, he soon
grew perfectly at home in his new quarters
and seemed bright and contented and strong
He began to sing at once, every day a little
more and always treating us to prettier songs
than before. After two or vnree months had
passed over his head, he began to astonish
US and everybody with his exquisite wild notes
and his fresh limitations. There was NOTHING
from the mewing of cats, the barking of dogs
braying of donkeys, neighng Of horses, and
other noises, down to the cry or crow of
baby or human laughter, but what Jim could
initiate, and well, too 1t would have made
you all laugh to hear him. But besides these
funny limitations, Jim could pour forth from
his plain gray throat food Of long. entranc.
ing melody that / have never heard euualled."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

soft hay out in the field, and sit down on, it
and have just splendid time eating his
luncheon.
So he went out of the kitchen into the
dning-room, and out, Of the diningroom into
the sitting room, and out of the sitting-room
into the porch in the side yard, and was just
going down the two steps from the porch to
the gravel walk, when "Gobble, gobble, obble,
obble, obble," went great, loud voice close
to him.
Allies heart leaped into his throat, and met
the piece of doughnut he was just swallow
ing and as his heart and the doughnut could
not pass each other, the poor little fellow al
most choked as he clambered back up the two
steps into the porch again.
In doing this he dropped doughnut. Tt
rolled down the steps and out across the
gravel walk into the, grass And the whole
army Of turkeys and chickens and ducks
swooped down upon it, with the savage old
turkey at their head, and it was gone in a
which Of his enemies had it.
Now the poor little pilgrim was in, a bad
the flock Of hungry fowls all around him on
the ground, the old gobbler strutting and
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

What is 'mowing'?" asked the curious lit
tie pilgrim.
Cutting the grass for hay" explained
grandma, putting her finger to her tongue and
then touching the bottom of the fatiron, to
see how hot it was.
''Is Uncle John down there with him."
: 'tYes,' replied grandma.
..And Uncle George?"
eyes, dear"
MAY ! go down into the field and play on
the hay"
Grandma said he might, and then she went
to the pantry. Down under the shelves, on
the floor, stood two tall, stone jars
Each one Of the jars was covered with a
large plate. In one jar were cookies; in the
other were doughnuts., Grandma's cookies
and doughnuts were the best in the whole
world, Allie thought. He is a grownup man
now, with little boy and girl OF his own; but
he thinks so still.
Grandma thought that the little pilgrim
must be hungry after his journey on foot from
the village. So she .gave. him all the dough
to take with him into the field -'O4'
Allie thought he would find a nice pile of
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

sscraping away on the gravel, with his. wicked
blazing eye fixed on the cookies and dough-
nuts in Allies little fists. And all the other
turkeys, and the, chickens and ducks, kept
turning their heads first on one side and then
on the other, watching the pilgrim, that they
had made a prisoner of in grandmas porch.
Allie heard grandpa and his. two uncles
sharpening their seythes down, in the field,
humming, by the house to the hives in the
back yard. He saw a beautiful butterfly flut-
tering along by the fence, and through the
side gate, just where he could chase it-if he
was only free.
But he was prisoner, and could not get
away: Besides that, the feathered enemy
was becoming impatient, and gobbled and
cackled and quacked louder than ever, and
crowded up to the lowest step of the; porch,
Allie began to be afraid they would mount
the steps and storm his castle.
What should he do? The door was shut,
and at best it was hard one for the little
fellow to open; but with both hands full Of
cookies and doughnuts he could not open it
at all.
Allie felt very much like crying.
All at once he remembered the doughnut
he dropped when the fawls chased him, and
how they all ran after it. Perhaps he could
while the turkeys and chickens and ducks
we're eating it, he could escape across the side
yard and through the gate
With fresh hope in his heart, the troubled
little pilgrim tnTew COOKIE as lar OH III the
grass as he could.
The whole flock made rush for It, and
Allie started down the steps. But before he
set foot on the gravel, the enemy was back
again, noisier than ever.
Allie fed up into the porch once more.
Then he threw out doughnut, and tried
it again.
Ii was of no use. It was snapped up be.
fore the frightened little fellow could get
down on the ground.
So he kept on trying till every one of his
cookies and doughnuts was gone, and he still
stood on the steps, with the whole gobbling,
cacklng, quacking brood around him, asking
for more.
Besides all that Che poor little chap hadn't
had mouthful himself of all that grandma
Poor Allie! now indeed he began to cry;
and | don't know what he would have done
il grandma had not come to. the side door to
see what the fowls were making such noise
about. There she found the little pilgrim in
the midst of his trouble
1t did not take grandma long TO get Allie
a fresh lot of cookies and doughnuts. Then
She took him by the hand and led him out TO
the side gate, driving the old turkey and his
army away; and Allie went down into the field
and ate his luncheon, lying on the sweet, new
hay.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

ty-tive years afterward, it looked to
him as though it had shrunk in most as
tonishing way
When Allie lived in this village his grand
father had farm about mile south of it.
The farm was on what was called the Plank
Road, and little way beyond the farm a
toll-gate stood across the road, where an old
woman, very fat ,and very gray, with spec
tacles pushed up on top of her head, used to
come out OF the little house and take the
money from the people who rode or drove
that way. This money was used to keep the
Plank Road nicely mended.
The farm, as l have said, was only mile
below the village, so, once in "a while, Allies
mother would let him walk down the Plank
Road to the farm and visit grandpa and
grandma for a few days.
This journey was always quite an adventure
to little Allie His mother would put up his
night-gown and hair brush, and some other
things, i'll a little pack, and fasten it on his
back, and then, with long stick in his hand
the small adventurer would set out on his
He always thought he looked like the pic
lures of Pilgrim, in Bunyan's "Plgrim's Prog
ress," out of which his mother used to read
on Sunday afternoons And, like Pilgrim,
ventures, as he trudged along.
A mile is long journey to a seven-yearold
pilgrim, and many exciting things could hap
pen to him.
Allie grandfather mad great many chick
ems and ducks and turkeys. Allie liked them
all, except the great gobbler, who seemed to
be the captain Of the whole flock.
This old fellow was as big as Allie himself.
He had fierce red head-so red that the tur-
key always seemed angry about something.
Then he would strut around, and swell him
self up to twice his natural Size and spread
his huge tail like fan, and let his wings
down % and scrape them angrily upon s the the
ground, and then let out such loud, startling
"gobble-gobble-obb obble-obble' that poor little All,
lies heart would leap into his throat and seem
to stand right still there, like a great, hard
lump, while his fat little legs would bundle
him along toward the house as fast as he could
make them go.
Well, one day Allie went to the farm to
stay week. When he got to the house he
found grandma all alone. She was in the
kitchen, ironing grandpa's tall collars.
",Where's. grandpa?" asked Allie, after he
had been kissed
"He is out in the field, moving" said
grandma.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14

uu lS W BeI DIS lSdI w tlc
possible. Two kinds of persons get very near
their feathered friends. These are, first, the
naturalists; second, persons who keep Gagged
pets. Let gentleman of the latter sort speak.
He certainly tells of an odd ornithological
specimen-one that The Sunday lnquirer's
young folks may not have heard about. He
says: "One summer, when l had taken my
family up into the mountains to place called
Palmeiras, little Ruth one day found a won
derful bird in the woods, near the house,
where she was walking with Antonio, our man
servant. The bird was big, plain gray fel-
low-not handsome at all-and had evidently
been bitten by snake or tarantula "a large,
hairy and very poisonous kind of spider)s or
some one of the venomous creatures that
abound in the South America forests Ruth
picked him up and carried him home, and
She nursed him, with our help, until in few
days he was hopping about and ehirping and
was almost able to fly. There was celebrated
naturalist travelling in Brazil at this time.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
Copyright by James Elverson.

HE best way to write about birds
would be to pluck quill from each
bird written of, and in that way let
the creature help to tell its own
story. In other words, the thing to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
Copyright by James Elverson.

Copyright by James Elverson.
LILLE was little boy-not very lit
tie, but just halfway between little
and big. He lived in large vii
lage. 1t seemed like city to Allie.
But when he went back to it, twen-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21

lican policy as advocated by Roosevelt,
Shaw and Cannon and other leaders
was the wise one to pursue. The
steel trust does not even control a ma
Jority of the output, to say nothing of
having a monopoly on the business.
II the attempt had been made to hit
the steel trust by removing the tariff,
the steel trust would have faced it and
lived through undoubtedly, while the
smaller factories would have suffered,
to the extent that the trust would have
lost It's competition at home.
With reference to the tariff he says:
Tariff revision in time of prosperity
always has, and always will, halt bust
ness activity, production and COM
merce. The manufacturer will lessen
his output, for he fears to pile up his
product unless there is a reasonable
certainty of realizing its costs and a
fair profit. The farmer halts in max
ing improvements and consumes less
because there is shortened demand
for his products The decrease in the
wages of labor alone, pending revision,
would amount to many hundred mil
lion dollars. Where there is confidence
and prosperity without precedent there
would be doubt and destruction of con-
fidence'
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different classes in the same church
results in the quarrels so prolific of
the destruction of the small church.
IN that manner the investigator gets
at the root of the difficulty but it has
been gradual development to the
present condition with few barriers
placed In the way of such transition,
and any change that looks to the i'm
provement of 1t will undoubtedly have
to come as slowly and as gradually. The
question of social stratas in churches
has been serious one to contend with.
And most ministers will admit that the
fraternities have attracted where the
church failed to, whether they will adj
NIT that it is the fault of the people In
the church or not. Men seek the
brotherhood and essential charity
that the writer mentioned, and if it is
not to be had in the church, other or
CARNATIONS will be resorted to for it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
cANNoN's : ADDRESS.

In receiving the congressional nom
ination from his people of the
Eighteenth congressional district OF
Illinois, Speaker Joseph Cannon took
advantage of the occasion to deliver
a speech that indicates the trend OF
his addresses throughout the congress.
sional campaign. There is no paliation
about it, there is no compromise in it.
Uncle Joe" takes the position that he
is goin to fight it out on republican
lines or not at all. He hands no"sop''
to any voter or any class of voters
He simply says, Look at the record,
that is what we are standing on"
In his discussion of the tariff, one
of the notable things mentioned was
the steel trade and manufacture. 1t
was only short time ago that there
was a clamor for the removal of the
tariff on steel products in order to
kill the steel trust. The republican
party said, no, we will keep the tariff
on and build up competition for the
trust, instead of killing off all of the
little fellows" in order to hit the
giant. With reference to the success
of this plan the speaker quotes the
New York Times, one of the strongest
revision papers lof the United States:
''The widest interest in the steel cor
poration report attaches to what is
least discussed-that is, the conditions
in the trade as reflected by the first
hand facts now available. 1t is true
that the steel corporation is not the
steel trade. Big as it is, it is neither
the majority interest, not even the
controlling interest. In fact, its pro,
portion of the trade is relatively de-
clining, while concurrently it is break
ing it's own records of production and
earnings. Its production of pig has
fuctuated since it's organization within
narrow range and without decided
trend, standing now at "A per cent Of
the country's total. It's production Of
open hearth and Bessemer castings
have fallen by about per cent to At
per cent. Its dominance is greatest in
the wire nail product, which although
declining remains at &C per cent. In
short, the trust Is not by any means
monopoly, md yet it is impossible that
the trust should prosper and the trade
languish."
Thus it may be seen that the repub-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
EASY DIV.a,! IN NEBRASKA.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-The am
bilious city of Omaha is acquiring new
fame. AS a divorce center she has al
ready outstripped Sioux Falls and is
rivaling other centers. Word has gone
east that Nebraska divorce laws make
1t easy for those who have drawn
blanks In the matrimonial lottery to
nave their certificates cancelled and
to secure another chance at the wheel
of fortune. Since the May term 1872
divorce cases have been disposed of by
Judges Kennedy, Thorpe and Day. In
more than 100 Of these cases the gall
ing yoke of Hymen has been lifted and
two hearts that refuse to beat as one
have been legally granted permission
to pulsate apart from each other, and
single blessedness thus again vouch.
safed to many who woke up and
found things not what they seemed
Let it be known to eastern million.
aires who are casting amorous
glances toward chorus girls, the am.
bilious stars in need of advertising,
the long-suffering countesses, and
others who drew the wrong prize, that
Omaha stands ready to offer quick re-
lief, the desired opportunity, surcease
from woe, and so forth as the case
may be. Six months residence only is
required in the good state of Nebraska
In only three other states, Idaho, Ne
vada, and South Dakota. are similar
Inducements offered. Some of them
are a little more lenient in the matter
of loopholes where divorce may slip
through, allowed, perhaps in tie
way of compensation for certain disad.
v-atages, for life of six months in
one of the lonely western states is not
to be compared with life for like
period in the gay metropolis of Ne
braska.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
>RENoMINATE coNeREssMEN.

In every district in Illinois Wednes-
day. and there are twenty-five of them,
the present congressman was renom-
mated, with the exception of the Thir-
teenth, where Colonel Frank o, Low
den was named as a successor to Hon.
Robert r. Hit, who declined to stand
for a reelection after about score of
years in the house of representatives.
Illinois has been faithful with a few
men, but as there are so many repres-
entatives from that state it is seldom
that year passes when all are re-
turned to succeed themselves. But
the people of that state are learning
that although they stand third in the
union as unit, their influence in the
legislative halls can easily be put
down with the states much smaller by
a continual changing of the men sent
there to represent them
Iowa with less than half the repres-
entat1on has had more influence in
the government at Washington than
Illinois in late years. And everybody
knows that this has been done by keep
ing men in the service who have
proved themselves worthy of the trust,
and not changing every time the wind
changed The whole nation knows AL
lison. Dolliver, Lacey, Hepburn, Hull,
and Cousins and did know Henderson,
but now many can name as many con-
gressmen from Illinois. Cullom and
Cannon come in the class of those
named, and Lorimer Is known on ac-
count of the large amount of free adj
vertising he gets in the Chicago papers
as a hOeey man not on account of his
labors at Washington The rest Of
them are hardly known in Illinois
There are able men among them, men
just as hard working as those from
Iowa, but the constant changing that
has been going on among them has
not permitted them to attain the prom
inence.
Illinois has begun we'll this year in
the nomination, the thing to do now is
to elect them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
SID ELIaH rs.
So
k&f6

This poem is supposed to have been
written by Jerry Conan Jerry is sup.
posed to be relative of George Co.
han, of Little Johnny jones' and
George Washington, Jr." fame. Like
George, (Cohan, not Washington,
Jerry also performs successfully on
the stage. The story related in verse
never happened and never will, but in
spite Of that fact, it is a pretty good
story.
A poor man sat on a rich mans mat,
AS lackey ope'd the door;
Skip, bounce, skiddoo, % for you!"
Says the rich man to the poor.
Water, water!" the poor man gasped;
Quoth the rich, bring food and
wine"
Don't let him choke, we did but Joke.
Shake!-tell me, friend Of mine"--
What would you do If you had much
More coin than you could spend?
And servants, autos, clubs and such,
With money to burn, and lend?
Fine friends galore-relations poor,
To scrap for it, when you're cold;
Dyspeptic, i'll, and appetite nil,
Would you enjoy your gold?"
The tramp replied, IF you were poor;
Begged food and drink from door to
door,
To hold your frame and soul together,
No roof but sky, 'gainst wind and
weather;
No willing aid, no helping hand,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21

sale. In New York Hearst assumes
to be a dictator, and threatens in adj.
vance that If his will is not obeyed he
will bolt.
In spite of the fact that their acts
belle their words all of these men are
continually harping upon the evils of
bossism and the beneficence of free
expression of the popular will. If they
were honest in what they say they
would be content to leave at least a
few things to caucuses, primaries and
conventions. But instead of leaving
anything to the judgment of the indi-
vidual membership of the party these
bosses issue eolcts after the fashion
of czars. Their notices seem to be:
"My will is law, 81 am the state"
''The king can do no wrong"
If it were not for the fact that the
democratic party, belieing it's name,
has for fifty years taken orders from
bosses, revolt might be expected;
but the facts are the democratic party
has always been ruled by an oligarchv
or by one man. Before the war the
slave holders oligarchy was the SUI
preme master of the democratic party,
and after the war the south continued
to rule up to the advent of Grover
Cleveland. Grover asserted the one
man principle quite arbitrarily until
his dictatorship caused revolt, but
the revolt only resulted in change of
masters. Bryan's dictatorship has
been even more absolute than that CT
Grover Cleveland, and 1t was never
more absolute than it is lust now. In
many of the states men like Tom
johnson and William r. Hearst are
coming forward as state bosses in the
hope that one day they may succeed
to the national dictatorship. All the
time of course the democracy claims
to be the party of the common people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES.

burlington HaWk-Eye.-Iowa repub-
means, In their latest official utterance.
nave swung back to the fundamental
principles of the protective tariff, the
principles which guided Washington,
Hamilton, Henry Clay and other faith
ers of the American policy. 1--WE are
uncompromisingly in favor of the
American system of protection" says
this years platform. No mugwam-
parry, no half-hearted expression in that
plank. For, as every one knows, the
American system" was never more
completely exemplified than in the
existing tariff schedules.
The second act passed by the first
congress was protective tariff which
explicitly stated in the preamble that
one of its objects was "for the encour-
agement and protection of manufac-
lures" Later 1t scope was extended
to agricultural products, mining and
bounties for the fisheries. South Car
DINA secured an import duty on cotton
and in those days Calhoun was pro-
tectionist. One hundred and seventeen
years have passed since President
Washington signed the first protective
tariff law and the system is more firm
ly rooted than ever in the affections
and the intelligence of the American
people. 1t is therefore with historic
as well as economic reason that the
republicans Of Iowa, chiefly farmers,
condemn without reserve all assaults
upon the protective system"
Ninety years ago, John G. Calhoun,
as If he had prophetic eye on Missis-
sippi valley conditions, of a century
later, said, in advocacy Of the protect
i've policy:
"The farmer will find ready mar
ket for his surplus products, and what
Is almost Of equal consequence, GER
tain and cheap supply for his wants"
That tells the condition Of Iowa to-
day. Her people were never more
prosperous, her industries more diver
sified, her wage savings larger, money
more abundant and cheaper, her inter-
state commerce greater and all mater
ial conditions better than under the
Dingley tariff.
Iowa republicans are uncompromis-
1ngly in favor of the American system
of protection" Compromises have
been numerously and mistakenly sug-
gested In this state during the past
five years, but the people of Iowa will
have none of them The state tariff
plank is in accord with the national
n1atform