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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE
WORJD?

If this question, What is wrong
with the world?" were asked you.
what would be your reply? Just ask
yourself the question and see If there
is not to your mind some great abuse
that must be corrected before the old
world can move along in the even
tenor Of its ways as it has moved
since the creation Then if you sum-
mon to memory some great evil that
seems to you to threaten to clog the
wheels of progress, Just forget it. An
example of what pessimistic crouch
may lead to is shown by a writer in
Life" who gives these answers to
the question, What is wrong with
the world"
Nothing" says the optimist.
Graft" writes the muck-raker.
Booze" declares the temperance
.reformer
"Trades-unionism,' asserts the en-
ployer.
Low wages, long hours and the op-
preston Of the working man." an
nounces the walking delegate
"Skepticism and irreligion," pleads
the clergy.
Dogma and unreasoned belief" re.
torts the freethinker.
Tariffs" protests the free trader.
Indifference to reform" rejoins the
radical.
"Militarism," AYERS the peace advo.
cate.
Private ownership and the competi-
tive system" insists the socialist.
"Sel1shness and human depravity,
at73 rrnc the poroHc+
Monopoly" shouts the trust smash
er.
"Landlordism and taxation of indus
try asservates the single-taxer.
Everything is wrong" whines the
pessimist, and the anarchist shrieks
"Amen!"
just ponder over the question a
bit, and see If you do not come to the
conclusion that the optimists moth.
Ing" in answer to the question is the
sensible one. Let the pessimists be
lieve that everything is wrong. The
only thing that will shake them from
that belief is funeral and even then
they may take their pessimism with
them when they shuttle off. Take the
cheerful view of life.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
kEosAUoUA.

Keosauqua.-Mrs. Mary e. Russell
Harrisburg township was brought her
Saturday to be examined by the COM
missioners Of insanity and was adjudg-
ed insane. She was taken to Mt.
Pleasant that evening.
Rev. Potter, wife and children of
Denver Colorado, arrived Saturday for
an extended visit with relatives here
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Burns Of Bon
aparte visited at the home of James
Burns recently.
Miss Mary DeHart, John H. Landes
and daughter, Madge left Saturday
for Ames to attend the commencement
exercises Of the college, of which Carl
Landes is a graduate,
Mrs. e. Manning and Mrs. G.
Manning were Ottumwa visitors Fri
day and Saturday.
Miss Eva Sherman was guest OF
w. o. Thompson and family at Bon
aparte over Sunday.
Miss Del Norris spent Sunday at
Bonaparte. the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Van Norris.
John Martin was business visitor
at Pennington Friday
Sheriff and Mrs. Jamison went to
Bonaparte Friday and accompanied
Mrs Russell here.
Mrs. Theo Mall Of Keokuk visited
her sister. Miss Hal Brady Of Otturs-
wa Saturday and returned here Satur-
day evening. where she will remain
until Tuesday.
Mrs Sarah Ridell returned from a
weeks visit at Keokuk and will leave
for Mt. Sterling today. where she has
employment.
John Else and family left Saturday
for Garden City, where they will make
their future home. Mr.. Elise has en-
ployment in the lumber yard at that
place.
Miss Stewart of the Russell house
spent Sunday with her parents al
Bentonsport.
Judge Mitchell Of ottumwa was 8
business visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. A. ". Blackboard Of Bonaparte
visited her mother. Mrs Brooks. here
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Rolla Larson and Miss Cleo
Summerville visited Mr.. and Mrs
George Rowe, west Of Pittsburg ovel
Sunday
Sunday at the home Of their son, Au.
brey Smith.
Mrs. H. B. Sloan and daughter re.
turned from Douds- Leando Saturday
where they had spent the week Mrs
r. r. Sloan came with them to spend
Sunday with relatives here.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06

Chicago is up in arms because the
weather man after promising that sum
mer would open up yesterday, left
town Saturday night and permitted
Sunday to open with weather as cold
as had been experienced during the
month of May. And New Workers
feel worse about 1t. Yesterday ii
showed in Gotham
Summer struck Ottumwa as per
schedule, but today's weather indica
lions are that the forecaster is back.
sliding.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06

best agricultural counties; in the state,
and Mr.. Emmert doubtless has choice
piece of land; nevertheless, what is
true Of Black Hawk county and in the
case of Mr.. Emmert is at least measur-
ably the case in about ninety-nine
other counties OF the state aud in the
case of practically all owners Of Iowa
land
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
How Fans Root In Boston,

advance expeditiously to third
basel" "Endeavor to drive the horse.
hide sphere over the fence!" "Hic
jacet! Another visitor has been una
BILE to solve Smiths parabolas!" "Scin-
tilating! Scintilating, old fellow! Con
tinue sol" "By Socrates, the putre-
scence of that umpire is unbearable!'
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06

Here is at least one classic upon
which nature realists can stand pat:
THE June bug hath gaudy wing;
The lightning bug hath flame;
The bed bug has no wings at all,
But gets there just the same"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06

Start taking
the Bitters as
soon as you
n o t &c e any
weakness of
the Stomach,
Liver or Kid
neys. Y o u IL
find it very
beneficial for
Indigestion,
dyspepsia.
Poor appetite,
Cost;veness,
Siiiousness or
Kidney lila
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06


If your farmhands turned some hand
springs by the hands spring In
the dell,
While they should have handled
handpikes on the hill,
Would you chide them all as lazy, or
just say: Boys, take it aisy!
Theres million miles of millet at
the mill"
If your plumber plumbed with plum
NETS that were anything but
plumb,
And your dentist denied dents into
your tooth,
Would you treat their slips as witty,
or remark: "WeN, that's pity!
They could plumb and dent much
better In my youth"
If your barber barbed your head of
in the bar-barousest way,
With the manner of Barbary cor
sair,
Would you seize him by the collar, or
just toss him half dollar
And observe: "You needn't stop to
cut my hair"
If your job meant poetizing when you
didn't want to pc,
And to verse 1t when 1t made you
i'll to verse,
l suppose you, too, would scribble,
now and then this kind of drib-
BILE,
But insist you could not do It any
worse.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
Row. ., 8. Smith a Blrminuh.,,

Birmingham.-Rev. D. Everett Smith
Of Indianola, secretary Of the De-,
Moines district Of the International Re.
form Bureau, filled the pulpit Of tn
United Brethren church Sunday MORN
1nH ard 6sAn4na- asAA. ia AhA --...-A---
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
DRlBRLE.

If your bronco caught bronchitis In
his bronco-bronchial tube,
And your mustang mussed the mus
tache on his cheek,
Would you say: "The thing is funny!
Just suppose, instead, my bun
ny
Blossomed bits Of bright blue bunt-
ing from his beak!"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Gloomy Future for Far East.

Tokio.-Private dispatches from
Pekin forecast gloomy future owing
to the unsettled state Of politics tnere
caused by the absence of ruling
mind powerful enough to cope with
the situation. The empress dowager,
who heretofore has been sole mistress
of affairs, is now in critical state
of health. Her policy so far has
been to play one minister against an
other in order to prevent the concen-
tration of power in any single hand.
Inasmuch as the empress is incapa-
citated by an incurable disease and
as the historical animosity Of the Man
chus and Mandarins is increasing the
prevailing state Of affairs in the Pc
kin government constitutes abuffling
problem.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
GEORGIA TO BE DRY
4 Prohibition Bill Passes House With Only TW
Amendments.
Amendments.

date when the bill should become eff
fective. This was lost, 12S to 40.
The passing OF a prohibition law
in Georgia adds Southern State to
the stronghold of the "drys;" in the
Far West, Kansas; in the extreme
East, Maine; in the extreme North,
North Dakota, and in the heart of
the Union, Tennessee.
At the beginning Of the year the
number of people living under statu-
tory prohibition in Maine, North Da-
kota and Kansas was only 100000.
BY the end of the year Tennessee and
Georgia will nearly have trebled the
number.
Georgia is the largest State that
ever passed a prohibitory law, If we
except New York's abortive attempt
many years ago. Massachusetts,, YER
mont, Rhode Island and Iowa have
all tried and abandoned prohibition,
yet the number living under it will
soon be larger than ever before. Add
ing those in the Territories under
Congressional prohibition the total
number will be about 100000.
One-third of the remaining citi-
zens live in dry" communities un-
der the operation of local-option
laws, or in the South in counties
where high license fees are practical
ly prohibitive.
Figures show the United States to
be one of the most temperate nations.
Nearly half its people live in COM
munities where getting drink
! means breaking the law.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
oyERcHARGE NEARLY $4,000, 900.
Investigating Committee Recommends
Criminal Action.

Harrisburg, Pa.-Criminal and civil
proceedings against all persons con-
cer1ed in the fraudulent construc-
ton and furnishing Of Pennsylvania &
$13,000,OO0 capitol is recommended In
the report Of the capitol investigation
commission made to Governor Stuart.
Eighteen persons are named as be-
ing involved in the transactions and
the attorney general is urged to act
at once.
The name Of Governor Pennypack.
err, who is ex-officio member of the
board of public grounds, and Of for
mer Governor Stone and his assoc
iates, who made up the commission
which constructed the capitol, are not
in the list. The commission says that
it is learned that goods costing ST.,
534,399 were sold to the state by San
derson and the Pennsylvania Con
struction company for $6,434,748.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
THE ssDRY', SOUTH
Not a State in the Cotton Belt But is Affected BY
tie Temperance Movement.


New York City.-Kentucky, where
whisky straight was supposed to
bubble from the earth, has gone dry.
Ninety of Kentucky's 119 counties
are mo license" Mr.. Edward Liss-
ner enumerates in recent issue of
Harper's Weekly the Southern States
that, in part or altogether, officially
abstain from the cup and flowing
bowl. All Tennessee, except Mem
phis, Nashville and Chattanooga;
ninety counties of Texas; most of
the counties and all the rural dis
tricts of North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Mississippi have renowned
the revenues of the RACER, and last
week, by the passage of the Hard
man-C ovington bill, Georgia joined
her sisters under the prohibition ban
ner. Not State in the cotton belt
but is affected by the temperance
movement. Mr.. Lissner reproduces
The Knoxville Sentinel's comparison
of local criminal records for two
years, one year wet" the other
dry" which has been much quoted
by the Anti-Saloon League:
WITH SALOONS.
vi ACCO1Qs tWO ySd1S lVUI-As
Criminal cost. ........ IS. 074.76
Jail record, one month,
February, 1908: Com
mitments for public
drunkenness .... %
Number cases, in criminal
court, two years, 1902. 236
City school. $1,000
Population, 1908, estimate $500
WITHOUT SALOONS.
Criminal record, two years, 1904-5.
Criminal costs. ..........$2,O76.21
Jail record, three years,
nine month, 1903-1907:
Commitments for public
drunkenness -. ......., II
Number Of cases 1904,
two years. ...... 1O5
City school. 5. ...... $500
Population 1906, estimate. 5000
That is a good showing, so far as
it goes. There is powerful impulse
to the Southern movement for pro-
hibition, lacking in the wave that
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Bubonic Plague Strikes Frisco.

Neutrality-suspicious. plague has
broken out in San Francisco and al
ready one death has resulted from it.
The first intimation of the plague
was received from San Fransico by
the Marine Hospital Service. The
telegram read:
"Three cases and death, plague San
Francisco. Diagnosis made clinically
and by stained smcars from spleen
and glands. No reasonable doubt as
to certainty of diagnosis of cases seen
and verified by Long in conjunction
with health officials. Cases found
within two blocks of old Chinatown"
Surgeon Austin telegraphs that two
foci had been discovered, that the To-
cal board had disinfected known in
fected buildings and proposed to in
stitute campaign against rats. He
said deaths in the city had'been veri-
fed and that general disinfection Of
suspected districts would begin.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
For Pension Blanks.

State Auditor 7. M. Henry reports
that he is receiving a large number
of applications for Confederate pen
sion blanks, in addition to those al
ready sent out, and he expects that
the next distribution this fall will be
heavier than usual. Mr.. Henry states
that he hopes to get in the necessary
data as early in the fall as possible,
so that the distribution Of the pen
sioners' allowances will be in time
for their holiday and winter needs,
so that their supplies can be laid in
before the cold weather is upon them.
Last year he had all s..e applications
in hand by the middle Of October,
and he believes that the list will be
ready this year by that time or ear
lier.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
BLOODY BATTLE
WITH A NEGRO
ONE CONSTABLE KILLED AND
ANOTHER WOUNDED.
ATTACT WAS UNEXPECTED
Millsaps College Day in September
Revenue Agent After His Commits
sion.-Vicksburg Postal Increase
Confederate Pensions-Other News.

constable Van Buren, and Constable
Tilford, accompanied by Ben CHS
holm, an Illinois Central detective,
left Jackson on the soutnbound local
train at noon for Bryan in search of
alnegro employed in one of the New
Orleans & Great Northern railroad
camps, against which the Illinois Cen
trail desired to prefer a charge of lar
ceny. While en- route to the railroad
camp they stopped at a negro wom,
ans house to get drink of water
and the negress went to the well to
draw the water, the three officers
seating themselves on the gallery to
rest for few minutes. The negro,
Jerry Robinson, rounded the corner
of the house, and, seeing the three
men, Van Buren, with his coat off
and a pistol plainly visible, evidently
thought they were after him. With
out warning he drew his pistol and
fired. The first bullet struck Con-
stable Van Buren, in the arm and,
with rare presence of mind, he tum-
bled from the gallery for the purpose
of. making the negro believe he was
dead. A moment later the second
shot was fred, striking Tilford in the
back and penetrating the heart. BY
this time Chisholm and Van Buren,
had their pistols in action and opened
Are. on the desperate.
Tilford also arose to sitting pos
ture, pulled his gun, and fred two
shots. The negro stumbled and fell,
regained his feet, and made a dash
for the adjoining field to get under
cover. The officers started in pursuit,
and about 100 yards away Robinson
became tangled up in barbed wire
fence and was shot to death.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
THE STRIKE SITUATION.
Peacemakers Secure No Progress in
Adjustment.


Adjustment.
Chicago.-The officials Of the union
asserts, as they have since the COM
mencement Of the strike, that the
telegraph companies are hopelessly
crippled. The peacemakers are max
ing no progress in any direction.
The general strike order issued by
the union had apparently no effect
in this city. The Western Union
claims that the only effect it has ex-
erted on the strike was to call out
seven men in twenty different states
from which they had complete re-
turns.
The number may be slightly In
creased when ever Office in the United
States is heard from, but both the
Postal and Western Union declare
that the order has had not the slight
est effect in interfering with their
work.
The strike had all the appearances
Of waiting game on both sides. The
companies claim to be in better shape
than on any preceding day.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

swept the Northern States many
years ago, in the effort to suppress
the crimes of drunken people. But
the South's most important cities re-
main obdurately wet
Politicians in the South have come
to realization that the prohibition
movement in their region is one
which must be taken with the utmost
seriousness The politico-temper-
ance crusade, with its new life and
energy, constitutes the most startling
development in Southern politics to-
day. The advocates of compulsory
abstinence are growing more power
full day by day. The movement is not
SO much against the consumption of
whisky and other alcoholic beverages
as against saloons, rum-shops, bars
and the like
The average American Is in the
habit OF regarding Kentucky, Tennes-
see. the Carolinas, and, in fact, most
of the other Southern States, as dis
tinguished for the production and
consumption of liquor. 1t is interest
ing, in view of this, to have attention
directed to the fact that in the State
of Kentucky ninety out of one hum
dred and nineteen counties are mo
license. That is to say, in none of
the ninety counties will be granted
license to sell liquor. The whole
State Of Tennessee is dry" save for
the cities of Memphis, Nashville and
Chattanooga. In the dry" districts
no alcoholic beverage may be bought
not even a glass Of beer or claret
with dinner.
The State of Texas is said to con-
tain ninety counties that have abol
ished saloons. North Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and other States of the South
tell the same story. Anybody may
have spirituous beverages sent to him
in any of the dry" districts; but
throughout these regions every sa-
loon has been extirpated. One may
travel up and down the rural parts
of Kentucky and Tennessee without
finding one bar or crossroads saloon
such as may be found in profusion
throughout, say, New York, New Jer-
sey or Pennsylvania.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22

Atlanta, Ga.-The Hardman-Cov-
ington prohibition bill, passed by the
Georgia Senate some days ago, was
adopted by the House by vote of
139 to 80. Two amendments added
by the House will necessitate the bill
going back to the Senate for concur
renee, Of which there Is no doubt, and
the bill then will go to Governor
Hoke Smith for his signature, which
has been practically pledged, and pro-
hibition will become law tn Georgia.
The amendments permit the sale
of pure alcohol by retail druggists on
the prescription of reputable ply
stefan and also allow wholesale drug
gists to carry pure alcohol in stock
for sale to retailers only.
The bill prohibits the manufacture
or keeping on hand in any place of
business, the sale or giving away to
induce business within the State of
any liquor that may produce intoxi-
cation. The new law is to become eff
fective on January /, 1908.
After the first fight on the bill in
which the opponents OF the bill
showed their ability to keep the act
from its third reading, an agreem ent
was reached, making the bill a spe-
cial order.
Twenty-one amendments were Of
fered. Only two were allowed, and
both of these were introduced by the
Prohibitionists. The anti-prohibi-
tionists made their hardest fight to
secure the adoption OF an amendment
to POSTPONE until January. 1903, the
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Wants $1,000 Commission.

State Revenue Agent Writ Adams
is preparing to institute litigation
against the board of supervisors Of
Harrison county, and municipal au-
thorities, at Biloxi and Gulfport, to
recover the 20 per cent commission
on back tax collections recently made,
and which he claims he Is authorized
to receive under the statutes, the sum
total Of his claims amounting to over
$1,000. The county and municipal
authorities dispute the right Of the
revenue agent to collect this commits
sion. II is significant, however, that
the revenue agent rarely loses law
suit, and his attorneys believe that
they can enforce payment in this in
stance. ' lA s
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
To Raise Endowment.

a program has been prepared for
the celebration Of 'fMillsaps College
Day" in the two conferences Of the
Methodist church in Mississippi on
the third Sunday in September. One
Of the chief purposes Of Millsaps
College Day" will be to aid in the
work Of raising the endowment fund,
which has been under way for sew
eral months, under the direction Of
Rev. T. w. Lewis. Isl
Plans are being formulated for the
dedication of the new $4,000 Mill
saps-C Carnegie library building, in the
course of erection on the campus,
which will take place during the lat
ter part of October.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Sultan Is Sincere.

Tangier Private letters which
have just reached Tangier from Fee
say that the members of the diplo-
matte corps are Of the opinion that
the sultan is sincere in his desire to
prevent an extension of the troubles,
but that there is division Of views
among the advisers. The consuls at
Fez are guarded by troops, but any
attempt on the part Of Europeans to
leave the city would be the signal for
a massacre.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Mine Gage Drops.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Owing to what is
said to have been a defect in the ma
chinery, a cage containing eight min
ers, who were preparing to descend
to their work at Sonman, Pa, started
upward instead of going down, and
rising to the top Of the tipple, turned
over, throwing the men out. Five
of them dropped four hundred feet
to the bottom Of the shaft and were
killed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-08-22
Vicksburg Gets College.

The new 100000 Episcopal dioce-
san college for girls will be located
in Vicksburg. The committee ap-
pointe7 by the diocesan council, of
which Bishop Bratton IS chairman,
empowered to receive proposals and
locate the institution, has decided to
accept the -Vicksburg offer, which is
a cash bonus Of, 49,, 800 and twenty
five acre tract of land located near
the National Military park.
Details of the acceptance are now
being arranged. The committee will
first examine the title to the pro-
erty, after which steps will be taken
toward securing plans and specifca-
tions and commencing work on the
buildings.