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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-28

kid of ours woke up last night
screaming like Comanche. or
course | thought he was hungry
first thing always think of when he
bawls, so / hiked out of bed In the
cold and fooled with the condensed
milk. Ever do it? fancy hold the
worlds record on preparing midnight
lunches for hungry infants. But, any
way, that didn't seem to hit the spot.
He can't talk yet, but he just gave
! that old bottle a shove and let out
some more, whoops. By this time my
and began suggesting things. She said
for one thing that could quit cussing.
1 / always feel cross when I'm routed
out of a warm bed. And then my
wife dispatched me to the kitchen aft
er the soothing syrup. We doped that
boy all right. We bathed his little
feet in hot water. smeared lard on his
chest, and wrapped hot rags about his
tummy-baby slang for stomach, you
know. But all to no good; he was
simply bound to yell.
Finally we decided to phone the
doctor.
well SIR continued Jones, with 9
weary sigh. it wasn't long before the
doctor came. and maybe he didn't look
good. He acted kind of grumpy. Guess
he left warm bed too.
where's that boy?" he asked brief
ly. and picked up the noise factory
The doctor picked the bundle of hu
mainly up and turned it all around
and then peeled off most of the clothes
4 so he could examine the kid
I'll soon see what's the matter
with you,'' says the doctor, addressing
4 the baby. And sure enough he lait
his hand right on the trouble. "Hert
1t is" he said.
Il "And what was it, croup?" asked The
bookkeeper who was himself tiret
I papa
NO said Jones smiling, "a broker
safety pin"
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% is surpassed by Napoleon, Caesar,

he is surpassed by Napoleon, Caesar,
and Alexander. Even in our country
his ability on the field of battle per-
haps did not approach the mastery
strategic powers of Robert E.. Lee or
Phil Sheridan or u S. Grant"
Governor Higgins also spoke of
Washington as lacking in scholarship.
Contrast this with the expressions
of former President Grover Cleveland
in his recent Chicago speech. He re-
ferred to Washington as one who
was the incarnation of all the virtues
and all the ideals that made our
nationality possible and gave it prom
tse of strength and growth"
All that Washington did," said Mr..
Cleveland, was bound up In our Ia
tional destiny The battles he fought
were fought for American liberty, and
the victories he won gave us national
consideration"
Governor Higgins cannot be better
answered for his presumption in criti.
cising one who did so much for his
country than by quoting further from
the utterances of the only living eX-
president:
HIS example or unSelnSh conSecra.
ton and lofty patriotism made mani.
fest as in an open book that those
virtues were conditions not more vital
to our nations beginning than to its
development and durability. His
faith in God. and the fortitude of his
faith, taught those for whom he
wrought, that the surest strength u1
nations comes from the support Of
Gods almighty arm. His universal
and unaffected sympathy with those
in every sphere Of American life, his
thorough knowledge of existing Ameri
can conditions and his wonderful fore
sight of those yet to be, coupled with
his powerful influence in the counsels
of those who were to make or fnal
the fate of an infant nation, made him
a tremendous factor in the con struc
ton and adoption Of the constitutions
chart by which the course of the newl.
launched republic could be SAFELY sail
ed And it was he who first took the
helm and demonstrated for the guild
ance of all who might succeed him
how and i'll what spirit and intent, the
responsibilities of our chief magis
tracy should be discharged"
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TROY.

Troy, Feb. 25.-Rev. e. s. DAILY att
tended Masonic lodge at Cantril last
week. M
Mrs. Mary Haines of oskaIoosa Isl
visiting relatives In and near town.
Neal Parks Of Milton lis visiting Troy
relatives.
Mrs. M. e. Minton died February 16
and was buried February IS.
She had been a resident of this town
many years and Will be much missed.
Mrs F'lavel Shreave is spending the
week with relatives at Fairfield.
DR.. Jay and daughter, Lille, attend
ed the funeral Of Mrs Minton Monday.
Miss Mabel Law Is quite sick
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Downing have
moved to the Jacob Noel farm north
of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garnet Davis returned
to their home in Mount Pleasant last
week, after an extended visit at the
Darnell home
Onie Law who has been teaching
school in Kansas, arrived home Tues-
day being called here by the serious
Illness of his sister, Mabel. S,
O. w. Weyer Of Keokuk. returned to
his home Monday. after spending sew
eral days here with his mother
Mrs. Flora Carroll and Mrs John
Sharp of White Elm attended the bur-
ial of Mayor Charles w. Carroll at
this place Tuesday.
Mrs. Ella Lindsay treated her friends
last Wednesday at quilting bee. to
fine turkey dinner.
Mrs. Conner and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Wilkinson of Ottumwa attended the
funeral OF Mrs. Minton.
Protracted meetings commenced at
the Presbyterian church Sunday night.
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THE kIcKERs.

Lovely bunch the kickers are;
Mark them on the trolley car,
In playhouse, where they go,
Just to criticise the show
See them on city street,
Boring everyone they meet
With complaints of this or that
Life to them is stale and fiat!
Note them on the railway train
Harping in the same old strain
On the lack of heat or air,
Till the porter's in despair.
Watch them on the rolling deep,
Where they gnash their teeth and
weep,
If the steward overlooks
Them, their blankets, wraps and
books.
Follow them all up and down
Anywhere, in any town.
Still you'll find them Ill at ease,
Sour visaged, hard to please.
When they ask for heavens grace
They'll be shown the other place.
Paul Cook
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STRENUOUS CHRISTIANITY.

Up in NASSAU, Wisconsin, there is
small religious war raging, all be-
cause the congregation of st. Paul's
German Evangelical church has with
in its midst too many opponents of
muscular Christianity. At recent
meeting, called to voice the general
disapproval of the present pastor, the
teacher of the parochial school and
the poorly appreciated minister met in
a scrimmage. The first tenor hit one
of the bassos and the sopranos pulled
hair, When it was all over the preach
err had black eye, his son had two
knife wounds in the back and several
of the opposing force bore marks of
the conflict. Wassau's Christianity is
truly of the strenuous kind.
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CONCERNING THE MARKET.

The coming change in the treasury
noltfclio Of President Roosevelt's cabi-
net ard the legislation agitation
against me railroads are given as
causes for the unsettled condition of
the market by Henry Clews of the
New York Eanl-ins house of Henry
Clews Il Co in his weekly letter Re-
farrlng to the Forthcoming change LII
the cabinet Mr.. Jews says:
An uncertainty Of some Importance
is the policy of cur new secretary of
the treasury. Secr.tary Shaw has
proved to be nafferfu. manager, re-
so,lrcnful and co'laaeous, while his
successor in that n,at.eh of work is
as yet untried.''
Sounding a note of warning against
ullwh6lesGMe railroad legislation, he
says.
.The future Of rail,e al financing is
already Il mate of much concern to
managers There is little fear of a
shrinkaga in gross ea.l ings. but what
with Increased wages and expenses,
also increased obligations resulting
from stock issues and new interest
charges, there is good deal of guess
ing as to what will be the effect upon
dividends. There are some observers
who are quite confident that recent
advances In dividends will have to be
withdraw as a result of these condi-
tons. So much depends, however,
upon the ability, of the railroads to
curtail expenses, especially for new
construction, and upon the prospects
of securing slight advances in rates,
that opinions as to dividend prospects
WAsHlNGToN's CRITIC.
Governor Higgins has won the un-
savery distinction of being the only
Washington's birthday orator who
took occasion in his remarks to cast
a slur at the first president Instead
of being one of the greatest soldiers
and greatest leaders of his generation
he was born at an opportune time
and seized his opportunities, accord
Ing to Governor Higgins
at has been pointed out" he said
that in no walk of life did he ever
rise to the immense proportions of a
genius. In the field of craftsmanship
he was easily surpassed by men of our
day. 1t would be unfair to compare
him in this respect with either Ben.
ton, Clay, or Sumner. AS a soldier
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THE DOWN TRoDDEN UMPIRE.

Pity the poor baseball umpire. Com
PEELED through the combativeness Of
the frenzied fans to learn the fighting
game, few greco-roman wrestling
stunts and all he can pick up of the
Jiu-Jitsu to hold his own when the
bricks begin to fly, he now has an
added task. The New England league
has issued an edict that hereafter UNI
pires must be examined by an eye
specialist and Withstand a severe test
before being given commissions, and
if perchance his jumps has a glass eye
as reminder of skirmish with the
bleachers he will be denied a job no
matter how strong are his other quail
fications. Following the lead of the
New England league it would not be
surprising if some of the other leagues
should add few additional tests to
bring worry to the unhappy arbiter of
play. Nobody loves the umpire
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AMERICA AN EXPERIMENT..

1t is doubtful if the American people
will give much credit to President
Eliot of Harvard university for his
recent utterances that the American
government is still in the experiment.
al stage.
There is the exI eriment of the
United States, that OIL giving power
to one man for certain length of
time" he said in recent speech III
Montreal, Canada. This is still in the
experimental stage, not having yet
proved satisfactory, but day by day
becoming evolutionized to fit the needs
of the country"
And right at time. too, when the
United States is cutting just little
wider swath among the nations than
it ever has before. Perhaps Mr.. Eliot
was just jollying the Canadians.
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quickly obtained and licenses at once

quickly obtained and licenses at once
procured for the new alliance.
Another class which needs to feel
the hand of the law is the men who
will wantonly leave women and chill.
dren which they have sworn to pro
tect. destitute and alone to fight the
battles of existence. Any one familiar
with the courts knows the narrowing
spectacles of this character which are
being constantly presented there
We are not of those who are con.
stantly looking to the legislature to
cure social ills, but in the cases re-
ferred to it is within the power of the
law-making body to strike hard blow
at the -by-night industry and to
throw protecting arm about helpless
women and children.
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SEES DANGER IN RASH LEGlsLA
TION

The exuberant riotousness of poll
teal liberty is the term used by Arch
Bishop Ireland in St. Paul speech in
describing the present activity of the
lawmakers. His remarks epitomize
& the evil effects of rash legislation more
concisely than the matter Is usually
put. The present tendency. he says.
Is to build up one class by pulling
down another, inspired by what
amounts to very hatred of success.
Voicing defense of the great cor
porations and deploring the tendency
to hasty industrial legislation the
archbishop said:
That accumulations of capital, cor
porations, and trusts may have their
faults, and may need to be watched
ever by the state with diligence and
care, shall not deny. But this much
I do deny, that accumulations of CAPT
tai and corporations are to be pre-
judged as guilty, that men having part
in them are to be deemed almost as
without the right to work, without
the right to fair play, which is the
native appanage of all Americans. And
this l deny, that all men are equally
= talented, equally far seeing, equally
INDUSTRIOUS; tnaL consequently all are
more or less entitled to an equal pos
session of wealth or an equal indus
trial reward.
This, too, deny, that men, being as
they are by nature and by habit, So
ciety can never be without its rich
and its comparatively poor; that
American industries and enterprises
can never thrive and hold their own
in world wide competition without
there being here. and there, minister
Ing to it's needs, large accumulations
of wealth, and consequently large gath.
erings of men into associations as con.
tributors to this wealth.
Destroy great enterprises, make i'm
possible the unification of many indi
yidual energies, and if equality there
comes it will be the equality of medic.
Gritty and social poverty.
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PARTY AT BIRMINGHAM.
Earl Byers Entertains Many Of His
Friends.

FRIENDS.
Birmingham. Feb. 25.--A very pleas
ant surprise was given Saturday even
Ing for Earl Byers by about forty Of
his young friends, 1t being his six
teenth birthday.
All M. Cole and Miss Mary Cunning
ham We're united In marriage Wednes-
day morning at the u. p. parsonage
by Rev. j. j. Gardiner.
Mrs. w. G. Skinner has been quite
sick with pleurisy.
Mrs. H. ]. Moore was called to Mus
cotah last Saturday by the serious i'll
ness of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Yer
non.
W. S. Allen spent last week in
Texas. s
Mrs. Mary Raney visited the first;
of the week with her mother, Mrs.
Rachael Boyle.
Miss Inez Clark of Agency spent
Sunday with her parents, j. ". Clark;
and wife.
Miss Helen Hope is confined to the
house with an attack of the grip.
Mrs. Annie O'Brien of Sioux CITY
spent several days ln~t --AAis with Mrs.
p. H.. Skinner
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THE CUB REPORTER.

He was a "cub reporter on a San
Francisco newspaper, boasting of but
a single weeks experience in journal
ism. yet fired with boundless energy
and pride. On Saturday afternoon he
was detailed to cover a tennis tourna-
ment in a town several miles from the
western metropolis. There was but
one train and about an hour after it's
departure word came to the Office that
the train had been wrecked and it was
believed, several passengers had been
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quiet and very good, with the promise
that she should go in and see her
papa at the earliest possible mcN ent
AT last she was permitted brle. in
terview. She stood perfectly still gaz
ing at her father with loving eyes
but when the nurse came to take heI
away she held back moment.
Haven't been very quiet, papa?'
Yes" whispered the fond parent
And haven't been very good?"
Her father admitted it.
Then won't you do me favor
papa?"
Certainly What is 1t. my child?'
Let me see the baby
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SIS. our o. qR, RE { ORD

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This medicine and
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trouble will you charge
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THE SOCIAL HOUR.
No wonder the Baby Cried.

Kansas City Start was nearly
o'clock before Jones reached the office
and everybody looked at the clock.
Gears running out your way this
morning?" asked the bookkeeper.
Eyes, cars running o K, and there
wasn't any coal wagon on the track,
either. Simply oversight. Up nearly
all night with the kid -our youngest,
you know
Baby sick?" inquired the other with
a warm show of sympathy.
Tell you all about it," smiled the
tardy one pulling on his oversleeYes.
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A GOOD MOVE.

The city council of oigourney has
passed an ordinance providing for the
paving of several of the principal
streets in the town, and the present
plans call for the beginning of work
as soon as the weather win permit in
the spring. Few towns the size of
Sigourney can boast of paved streets
and that that city has determined to
improve its highways is an indica-
ton that there is the proper boosting
spirit in lAeokuk county's capital
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SEYMOUR.

Seymour. Feb. 22.-Jacob Nye and
sons. Walter and George. with their
families, left Tuesday for Holyoke,
Colorado.
Martha Blakesley, who has been
visiting her son, t. A.. Shepherd OF
Genoa. returned to her home near
Corydon Tuesday.
William Goranfio left Tuesday for
Alvah, Okla.
Mrs. Ezra Hayes is in Kansas City
this week on business.
Vaughn DeNoon left Tuesday morn
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TIM ELY.

Minneapolis Journal-It seems that
the Japanese war scare arrived in
time to tame congress into building
two battleships SO big that they will
scarcely squeeze through Long Island
sound There is nothing like war
scare to shake up negligent con
gress.
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GIVE US A SQUARE DEAL.

Louisville Courler-Journal.- 1.-THE
public" says T. P. Shouts, SHOULD
give the railroads square deal"
Will Mr.. Shonts undertake to convert
public stock jobbing presidents to a
more decent policy than that of deal
ing the smaller investor pair and
dealing himself full house?
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A cINcH.

Philadelphia Press. There is a
great deal more public sentiment in
favor Of railroad commission in this
state than there was before the rail-
roads began to show their hands
against it. 1t appears we'll settled that
the railroads are going to get pretty
much everything they don't want
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at this time are altogether worthless.
The agitation against railroad corpor-
atoms wakes strong and number of
states are considering legislation,
whose purport is to lower rates and
impose other burdens upon the trans
portation companies''
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WANTED 70 SEE TIE BABY.

Manson Democrat "A little girls
papa had been very i'll with appended
tbs and had lain for many days in the
darkened room after the doctors had
come and removed his appendix The
little girl had been told to be very
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WERE THEY BLUFFiNe?

Pierre, S. D., Capltal-Jorunal.- THE
newspapers are grieving about their
passes. They cried for medicine and
now don't like It,
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THE BLIND GODDESS.

Oh Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw,
While lawyers
Jaw and jaw,
And while they rant
And saw the air,
The Jury sees
That you are fair;
The lawyers may
Unfold the case,
The jury only
Sees your face;
The witnesses
Stand up and swear
The jurors see
Your fluffy hair;
The Judge may scowl
And snort and frown
The jury only
Sees your gown
That clasps your youthful
Figure slim;
Thaw sits there, but
They don't see him,
You are the whole
Enhancing show
And-as he's yours
They'll let him go.
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NOT FOR THE MANY.

New York Evening Post. The Presi-
dents desire for artistic gold coins
can scarcely be called movement
toward cart for the masses"
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
THIRTY YEARS
A Slave to Coffee.

Many persons do not realize that coffee drink
ing may become a powerful ensaving habit.
They are not all aware that coffee contains a
ug-caffene-which ought never TO be taken
into the system except for certain diseases, and
then only when prescribed by the doctor.
The coffee habit grows on most users and is
more harmful to some than others. But drug
that acts upon the heart and nerves in the way
caffeine does is not without greater or less harm
to all who drink coffee.
For thirty years. writes a Wash. housewife,
81 have been steady coffee drinker. / wanted
il at every meal.
But would have sick headache most of the
day and throw up my food I really suffered
awfuly from coffee. yet thought never could
stop 1t.
''Then heard how good Postum was for such
cases and began to use 1T. At first I did not
care for Postum. / felt sleepy and had head
ache. / soon found that this was because Of
the hold coffee had on me, for in about three
days after quit coffee and began to use Postum
the headache left me, had no more nervousness
and palpitation. In about week / felt like u
new woman.
II have used Postum three years. and when
1t is made according to directions (boiled Is
minutes)-it is as pleasant as coffee and don't
hurt any l ought to know, for was as
bad Off as any one is likely to get from coffee
drinking. Now 1 am WELL"
There's a Reason"
Name given by tho Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich. Read the little booklet, THE Road to
Wellvlle," In pkgH
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
CHILDREN TO VIEW KINGS BODY.
To-day Set Apart for Them and for Soldiers
of the Swedish Army.

Stockholm. Dec. 14.-Fffteen thousand per-
sons came to-day TO view the body OF King
Oscar, which is lying in state. Yesterday 5000
persons visited the chapel of the royal CASTLE
but to-day the cold was severe and hurricane
ragged From ] 80 D. m. until p. m tomorrow
only school children and soldiers Will be ad-
mitted to the chapel.
The oaken coffin IN which the body lies is COW
cred with royal purple velvet, embroidered with
a golden crown and deeply fringed with gold
A large gilt royal crown has been placed at the
head OF the coffin. which is much longer than
anv other in the Bernadotte vault new
bearse Is being built for the funeral II VIII
have no top. but n great awning will be carried
over the hearse by high army officials
In the church where the services Will be con-
ducted a hundred artisans are working day and
night They are erecting huge rostrum. twenty
feet in height on which the catafalque will rest
At each corner of this there will be great goi-
den candelabra. while above 1t an illuminated
cross will be suspended Nine hundred mourners
will be accommodated in the church.