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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-06
ROOSEVELT STANDING PAT.

i J r
Washington correspondence of the
New York Evening Post you write
a letter to the President saying you
have looked over the situation in your
neighborhood and are convinced that
he will have to accept another nom
ination for the presidency, you will
in due course of time get this reply:
White House,
My Dear Sir: Your favor Of the
instant has been received and the
President thanks you for writing
While he appreciates your kindly SEN
timent, he has nothing to add to his
statement issued on the night OF his
election, 1904 Very truly yours.
William Loeb, Jr.
Secretary to the President.
Every few days some newspaper
prints this letter with the Startling"
announcement that it has just been
received by prominent citizen who
wrote to the President, stating that
everything thereabouts looked like
Roosevelt for 1908" AS matter Of
fact hundreds of letters come to the
White House every week from friends
of the President who So ythey hope
he will reconsider his determination
not to stand for another nomination.
All these letters are turned over to a
clerk, who has before him the form of
answer used above, and identical re
plies are sent out to the wellwishers
The form mas been in use for months
and the country has been literary
flooded with the stereotyped answer.
The form of answer was originally
prepared by the President and he con-
tinues to "stand pat" Persons who
know the President best firmly believe
he intends to continue to stand by the
declaration Of this letter. Recently
an effort has been made to make it
appear that ne is not sincere-that in
reality he is hoping and expecting
that denomination will be forced on
him but every well informed person
here at the capital scouts the idea
that the President did not mean what
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STRANGE, ISN'T IT?

Representative G. w. Miller's Des
Moines letter to the waverly Demo
crat.-It's really odd when you come
to think of 1t, what Inconsistencies the
whirligig Of time will unravel Eight
or ten year, ago we adopted the Aus.
tralian ballot law to preserve the sec
recy of the ballot, but now we have
adopted primary law that compels
every voter to disclose his politics and
make public confession every time
he desires. to. change it. More recently
we! dispensed with annual elections so
as not to have so much politics, and
now we have deliberately contracted
for four times as much POLITICS as we
have put ast.,. Politics, henceforth,
is going to be almost a continuous per
Torrance.
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2.cENT FARE LAW.

A proof of the Legislative activity
along the line of railway legislation
is shown in the following record com
piled by the New York Sun:
Pennsylvania-2-ce bill passed by
the house and is pending in the sen.
ate
Ohio-2-cent law enacted last year.
West Vfrginia-2-cent bill passed.
NORTH Carolina-2A cent bill passed.
Acknowledgment bill passed.
Arkansas-2-cent bill passed.
Texas-2-cent bill pending.
Kansas-2-cent bill passed
Nebraska-2-cent law enacted.
North Dakota-111a cent bill passed.
South Dakota-Railroad commission
authorized to order s-cent rate.
Indiana-2-cent bill passed
Illinois 2-cent bill passed the house
Missouri-2-cent bill passed.
Iowa-2-cent bill passed applying to
roads earning $4,000 year gross per
mile.
minnesota bill pending.
Wisconsin-Rate of 21a -cents fixed
by railroad commission.
Some of the 2-cent fare bills were
enacted after investigation by state
railroad commission as to the earning
capacity of the roads and their ability
to withstand a reduction of rates. 9th.
ers were enacted without investigation
by legislatures acting upon the theory
that the rates were too high and that
the railroads were financially able to
stand decrease In revenue better
than the people were to produce the
revenue
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WHY THE LINE CHANGED.

The manager of the construction de-
partment of the Pleasant Valley cleo
trio road was greatly disturbed when
Judkins, the foreman, came in and
said that he could not go on with the
work on account of two women and a
baby.
WELL" said the manager, according
to the Chicago Tribune, chat is all
nonsense. We have the right of way
and the road is going through where
it was surveyed. ri 90 out and see
to it myself
The foreman went out with a smile
on his face and the young manager
followed him to where the construc-
ton of the road had come to a full
stop.
In front of dilapidated structure
was seated a t8h rocking a. baby. Back
of the girl, sitting on low step, was
a weary looking woman
The manager approached and said:
Madam. are you aware that you are
obstructing the progress of our work?'
Il reckon am. That's what Susan
is there for; that's what l and the
kids are here for. We propose to
shunt your road off to one side.'
But. madam, the line has been
surveyed. You will have to move. Your
place has been condemned. You will
be paid for it. The law
Don't know any law she inter-
rupted, nor don't want to. I know
that your road, even if it was backed
by the president, can't run through
our kitchen and our yard where Jimmie
is buried
The manager passed around the
shanty. Under stunted apple tree
was a small marble slab and few
flowers growing above it. He drew
near and read the words carved upon
the stone:
James Slocum--Aged II.
He saved four hundred lives In
Pleasant Valley in 1900.
Jimmie was drowned.
There was soft tone in the man
ayers voice when he reappeared at
the front and said to the woman:
Your son was drowned, it seems
Eyes, Jimmie was drowned. He rode
Black Bess down the valley to warn
the folks when the big dam busted up
In the hills. Every one was saved,
but while he was crossing the bridge
1t went down with him and Black
Bess.'
I'VE amt ever been able to buy a
stone for Bess. The apple tree that's
ever her seems likely thing instead
of stone.'
Madam, you will not have to move.
Where is your husband?"
Upstairs readin' the gospel SOS
not to let his temper git the best Of
him. He's got his shotgun, an
We'll, good morning. and the man
ager and his men moved on.
The matter was laid before the d.
rectors and the Pleasant Valley cleo
trio road takes a turn to the left and
rounds small structure with a mar
ble slab in the back yard under a
stunted apple tree.
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CAPT. HULL THE FIGHTER.

Coon Rapids Enterprise.-Capt. Hull
mas always been in the storm center
of congressional politics. Hardly does
one successful contest end until an.
other fight begins against him. Al
ready seven men in the Seventh are
announced as probable candidates for
Hull's shoes Looks as though he
would get SO dreadfully tired OF fight
ing that he would just drop out OF his
own accord. But the captain Is a
fighter and a most successful one. He
will likely win out again-
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TWO WOMEN

WV "SWGN
know two women and one is chaste
And cold as the SHOWS on winters
waste,
Stainless even in act and thought
CAS- a man born dumb in speech errs
not),
But she had malice toward her kind
A cruel tongue and a jealous mind.
Void of pity and full of greed,
She judges the world by her narrow
creed,
A brewer Of quarrels, breeder of
hate
Yet she holds the key to "Society's''
gate.
The other woman, with heart Of
flame,
Went mad for a love that marred her
name,
And out of the grave of her murdered
faith
She rose like a soul that had passed
through death.
Her aim is noble, her pity SO broad
1t cover the world like the mercy of
God,
4 healer Of discord, soother of woes,
Peace follows her footsteps wherever
she goes,
The worthier of the two, no doubt;
And yet Society locks her out.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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HEARST DOWN AND OUT.

The Chicago Tribune believes that
she defeat of Mayor Dunno by Mr.
3usse for the mayoralay will be used
u 70 point the moral that the American
people will not tolerate q campaign
that is not carried on with decency
and on high plane of public policy.
1t is generally conceded in Chicago
that Dunno owes his defeat to Hearst.
|, The returns show that it was in the
democratic wards that Busse won his
1 victory; won because the democratic
leaders understood the question at is
sue was not whether Dunno or Pusse
should be mayor, but whether the con-
I troll of the democratic party in Chica-
go and in Illinois should be turned
koyer to Hearst. Commenting on this
1.-The; Tribune says:
Chicago has successfully repealed
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PROTECTION FOR PASSENGERS.

The Delaware & Hudson railroad is
pointing with pride to its record Of but
one accident in twelve years which
cost the life Of a passenger. In that
accident, which was due to an engineer
disregarding a signal, three lives were
lost. And in the period covered the
road carried 75,0oO,000 passengers. In
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she's tied up to the dock. Harbor!
Harbor!" He threw up his hands
, my God!" Then in few swift, pas.
sionate phrases ne blocked out the
superlativeness of the harbor of Ia
coma, and as we parted he grabbed
the lapels OF my coat and whispered
hoarsely: "And you can mail letter
in Tacoma -any-place- in-the-
world-and you will get an answer to
1t hole-day quicker than you
would if you sent it from Seattle!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-06
DR.. S,haIIenberqer

4 The Regular and Reliable Chicago
Especialist, who has visited Ottumwa
since 1903, will be at
Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
Thursday, April Is
I Gone day only) and return every %
days.
4 Fairfield, Leggett House, Tuesday,
K April %.
Abba, Monroe Hotel, Wednesday,
April "a.
2 sigourney, Merchants Hotel, Friday
April 2e.
Office Hours a. IN. to p. m.
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proven by the many cures effected in
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NERVOUS DEBILITY.

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he said in 1904, or that he does not
intend to continue to stand by that de-
claration.
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Chronic Diseases Rupture Women Blood
Skin
Kidney Diseases
treated y
TESTIMONIALS
people, who
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| have restored many to health.
many who say to me: Doctor. am
glad you advertised, for If you had not
used the medium of the newspaper i
would not have known you had the
ability to cure my disease"
do an office business, medical and
surgical practice. l have been located
in Ottumwa for fifteen years. I treat
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19
some WORLD FIGURES OF 1906

sitting in a rocking chair
"That was surely Clemcnceau. He is
little, he is bald, and there are undoubt-
eddy rocking chairs in his home. His
wife is a Yankee. and rocking chairs
came from America"
Picquart Supporter of Drefus.
Clemenceau's choice of Plcquart as
Minister of war raised him for the second
time to the rank of a world figue. He is
now much more important, though per-
haps not in so spectacular a way, as he
was eight years ago when his name first
became widely known.
1t was the Dreyfus case that brought
Picquart to the front then. 10y birth an
Alsatian he joined the army at --, upon
graduating from the military school at
st. Cyr. In due course he was assigned
TO tire secret intelligence bureau. BY 1870
he had become a lieutenant colonel and
was at the bureaus head. Being directed
to help to investigate the Dreyfus case,
he attacked it with enthusiasm and all
the bitterness in the world believing the
accused guilty of all that was charged.
But Picquart was honest and he played
fair Little by little, in untanging the
intricate clues which he uncovered he
concluded not only that Dreyfus was in
nocent, but that Esterhazy, later proved
to have been in secret communication
with the Germans had perjured himself
to carry his point. Picquart reported
tire facts as he understood them. The
report made it clear to the late Emil
Hola that Dreyfus was innocent while
| Esterhazy was not. Zola then wrote his
! famous "J'accuse" letter.
! 1t was followed by developments which
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

Not so many new world figures have
been developed within the past twelve
month as in some recent years, such as
1903, WREN the war between Russia and
Japan brought out the wonderful fighters
by land and sea who broke the power
of the car in the East and put the Island
Empire of the Rising Sun among world
powers.
Still 1906 has done its share in showing
men ahead Some of those advanced
were pretty well known already, though
not as figures of international import
ance. Others now among the world fig
ures, were hardly known at all, save in
very restricted circles, outside their own
lands. Thus Falliers, elected president
of the French republic in January Glenn
enceau, the recently appointed French
premier, and his war minister, Gen. Pic
quart have long been more. or less in the
worlds eye because of their activities in
certain French affairs in which other ma
tions than their own have taken interest,
though neither of them has ever before
been a real world figure.
Richard Burden Haldane, Great Brit
aims war minister since Campbell Ban
nerman's ministry began in January,
1905, had hardly been heard of anywhere
outside tire United Kingdom, save in rela-
lively restricted circles, before the army
portfolio was thrust into Iris hands. Ear
ly in 1906, however, he attracted the at
tcntion of the world in attacking the
difficult army problems which he had tC
solve by entirely new methods.
Judge Charles Il. Magoon, made pro.
visional governor of Cuba after Scptem.
ber's abortive revolution there had beer
poolf-poohed out of existence, may not BE-
a world figure in the sense that tn,
masses of the people in all countries are
closely interested in what he is about
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having informed France that the cele-
bratcd ''pctit-blcu." which Picquart had
been charged with forging. was the work
of Col Schwarzkoppen, of the German
army.
Picquart's release did not carry rein
statement and for long time the world
heard little of him. In January, 1902.
he turned up in Argentina, where at Buc
nos Ayres, he met the president, and. it
was said, offered to enter the argentine
army. .othing came Oh that in 1908
the French chamber Of deputies reinstate
him and he was since being made a gem
eral. still later he was i'm another but
bloodlcss duel over the Dreyfus case. Gen.
Gonsc, his adversary, fired and missed.
Picquart did not fire at ALL
lie is now So, Since his elevation to
the cabinet the Marquise de Galifet has
spoken of the general as more of an art
list. poet and musician than soldier" de-
claring that he had been reproved re-
peatedly in the course of maneuvers be-
cause Of his "ecstasies over misty as
tances'
Yet when only young man. and on
active duty in Algiers and TOnkin, he
earned the "Etoile de Braves"-star for
bravery-whch is coveted by all French
soldiers.
Clement Armand Failieres, without
whom neither Of these two Frenchmen
would have returned to power, has not
yet made a great stir in the world as
president of France but he may before
his term is out. He is of peasant stock
and is not likely to resign, as Grevy,
D MacMahon and Casimir Perier did, nor
to be assassinated as Sadi-Carnot was.
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ultimately cleared Dreyfus and smirched
the army of which France has always
been so proud. This made it imperative
that Dreyfus should be returned to
France from Devils Isle to be retired.
But Picquart had to suffer the penalty
of exposing his military superiors.
Picquart demanded the arrest of Ester
hazy as the author of the famous 'bor-
dereau." This was done, but Picquart
was sent to Tunis, where it was thought
he could do little harm. Before going he
placed in the hands of Iris lawyer a pack
ct whose contents prove -4sterhazy's guilt
and his own innocence, to be used only in
case of his death When the court mar
tia trial of Esterhazy came on, Picquart
recalled to Paris, was accused of COM
municating the secrets of his office, tried
convicted and dismissed from the army
Cayaignac, minister of war, attempted
to confirm the guilt Of Dreyfus, but Pic
quart offered to prove that the alleged
new evidence was false Picquarts ar
rest on the charge of forgery followed.
The court of cessation demonstrated
the truthfulness Of Zola's "J'accuse" let
ter and rehabilitated Dreyfus, though
not according complete reparation to him,
Picquart was a strong Dreyfus witness
before this court. During its sessions
he and Col.IIenry, one of the bitterest
anti-Dreyfusards and PicQuart's success
sor i'm the bureau of secret intelligence,
called each other liars more than once,
and there was a duel between them, in
which Henry got the worst of it.
Picquart, who had been confined in a
civil prison was now locked up in the
Cherche-Midi military prison. Col. Henry
committed suicide as alleged under or
ders, having confessed TO forgeries in the
Dreyfus case. There We're predictions by
Picquart's enemies that he might follow
Henry's lead and kill ..-mself To fore
stall misapprehension in case Ire was
murdered in prison Picquart made this
thrilling announcement just before being
led from the court room to the prison
81 wish to declare that if l find in
Cherche- Midi the rope Of Lemercier-Pic
ard Ga murdered police spy or the razor
of Col Henry, it will be murder. have
no idea of committing suicide"
Picquart's trial by cOurt-martial was
ordered, but the court of cessation or
dered indefinite postponement. Picquari
remained in the Cherclre-Midi prison 1896
days. until some time in June. 1899 Then
he was released the German government
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Spain This interest was greatly in
creased by the anarchistic attempt to
murder her and her royal spouse with a
bomb
1t was expected tlnt Russia would fur
nish more than one world figure before
the close of the year, but so far the
expectation has not been realized, though
Count White, the strongest man in the
empire, was retired as world figure
when deposed as premier. His success
sor as Russian premier Goremykin, did
not last long, and his successor, Stoly-
pin, has done nothing to justify lim
sell.
DR. Beard, the English physician who
after many experiments upon rats with
cancer made claim in July that he had
discovered n cancer serum which will
surely do away with the deadly growth,
will become a world figure of command
ing proportions if his serum makes
good" but his standing has yet to be
established and has been attacked with
great bitterness. Charles Il. Hughes al
most world figure at the beginning
of the year by reason of his work in
| conducting the New York insurance in
vestigation attracted added attention all
over Europe as the successful candidate
for governor of New York but he still
has to make good as a real world figure
though his entry into public life was dra-
matte and unusual enough. If Santos
Dumont has really invented a flying ma
chine, he is at last in a way to become
of international Importance. Nor must
Amundscn be forgotten; Trough he COM
pletcd his conquest of the Northwest pas
sage last year, his return to civilization
was not accomplished until 1906.
The year has raised at least a bakers
} dozen to the world-fgure grade 1t would
he hard to find thirteen human beings
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French president, by the way, who had
then completed Il full term of seven years.
Grevy was then serving in his second
term, but Clemenceau's attacks upon him
were so severe tlut ne served only three
years when, stung to desperation, he gotI
OUT
Gen. BOulaug.r was Clemenceau's next
victim. After boulanger, however, camel
the Panama scandals, which wrecked sol
many fair French regulations, includingI
those of De Lesseps, who dug the Sucz,
canal, and Iliffel who built the great
tower, Clemenceau was not mixed up inI
the graft, but he was great friend of
Cornelius Herr. who was believed to bel
behind it all. Tlris drove ClemenceauI
from public life, TO which he did not re
turn in any great measure until 1901 orI
1902, when he was elected q senator. l.lsi
star is now in greater ascendency than
ever before. When made a member of
Serrien's cabinet early this year he had
never in his life attended to such routincI
duties as were asked of him. 1t was re
quired that he should sign his name some
thousands of times in succession. This
made him furious, and he refused TO 40
it. angrily throwing down his pen and
stalking from the room, asking MS he
went "Am l a minister. or only a thirty
franc clerk?'
Because of the objections made by
Mary Plummers uncle to their marriage
she and Clemenceau were married in the
New York city hall by A. Oakley Hall
then mayor After Clemenceaus return
to Paris Madame Clemenceau became n
social factor of some prominence. She
was very popular, both WITH the French
and with Americans in Paris. For sew
eral years the domestic life of the Gle
menceaus was supposed to e ideal. Then
, she suddenly came to America, procur-
ed n divorce and settled down in New
York.
They had several children some Of
whom grew to maturity. During their
happy life together their home was more
distinctively American than French inI
tone. A Frenchman who called there one
day, but was not sure whether he had
really met the master of tire house, told al
friend that he had seen little bald mani