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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
THE RAILROADS AND PEOPLE.
That the railroad cOmpanies wish to

That the railroad companies wish to
get nearer the people, to be taken
more into the peoples confidence, and
in return to take the public more into
their confidence, was an assertion
made by E. G. Nettles, assistant gen
eral freight agent Of the Milwaukee, at
the recent Commercial Association
banquet. Mr.. Nettles stated that while
he was not prepared to speak for all
the railroads, he was in position to
say for the Milwaukee that whatever
had been the practice in the past, the
future would see the Milwaukee ready
and willing to cooperate with the peo-
pie in every manner. If you have a
grievance, said Mr.. Nettles, take it up
with the company There is an agent
here to review and seek to correct all
errors or inequalities brought to his
attention. If you come to us fair and
square we will not turn deaf ear, he
said but first You must have just
cause.
The people ask no more than this
from the railroads, and they will vel
come any advances made by the COM
panies to secure greater measure of
cooperation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

4 ! -
tured Buckingham Of Buena Vista
country, yielded. The deed was done
and the resourceful CASTOR hurried to
the nearest telephone to announce the
thrilling information that the Kill-the-
Incurables bill had been actually intro
duced. The story was published and
the reading public marveled. Bucking-
ham awoke the next morning like Lord
Byron, to find himself famous. But
unlike that of Byron. it was an ephem-
elal fame. First he was denounced,
and then, he was ridiculed.
The Kill-the-Incurables bill was In.
definitely postponed and the voters OF
Buena Vista county took similarf action
with Buckingham when She appeared
as a candidate for reelection.
The story points its own moral
and in language so plain it would seem
that he who runs may read.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
PEOPLES PULPIT.
ottumwa. lowe, April s 19O7

Ottumwa, lowe, April 8 1907.
Editor Of the Courier:-In your re.
port of the address of the Hon. s. II.
Harper, at the banquet of the Com
mercial club, am quoted as the
source of part Of the information he
gave in his remarks.
In view of this fact desire to make
the following statement which will
give the public clearer idea Of the
situation All improvements. specifi-
cally required by the ordinance to be
completed during the first two year
period were fully completed, with the
exception only Of the reservoir wall.
In addition thereto the company ex.
pended over 100000 upon improve.
ments, not required to be made until
some indefinite future time, viz;
when 125 100000 gallons of water were
pumped per month for three successive
months and improvements not men
toned in the ordinance, but upon a
necessity for which the city council
and the company agreed.
The ordinance also specifically pro.
yided that during the period whilst
the improvements were being made
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

water should be furnished as the re.
ceiyer was then furnishing it. AT that
time water was being pumped to those
above the water in the receiver one
hour each morning, noon and night
At the request of a number of citizens
who were receiving this poor service,
the company at IN expense of about
$1,000 erected temporary pumping
plant and at an annual cost of opera
ton of about $4,000 and operated 1t for
over two years. The annual receipts
of about $400 per year, suit for
damages on account Of smoke and
an Indictment by the grand jury, on
account of reservoir wall were the
returns the company received for this
expenditure.
Under these circumstances suggest
ed to Senator Harper that instead Of
exacting the pound of flesh" that 9
helping hand should be given the com
pany, and that instead Of placing bur
dens upon them they were entitled tt
the same treatment, business mel
give one other.
Superintendent the Public Water Co
James Winans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
SIS. T F9A Bho6n

There is other of system so
the blood The snew skin
portions the body sustained
their different duties because they supplied with
contaminated and polluted sluggish inactive condition
and state bodily waste
matter the
absorbed into the blood itching fgung
the result Muddy erupions
piples root in the Circulation
and rendered and unfit nourshg
disease which cannot be traced to blood Often the
blood parents is handed down children
battle against disease in form usually scrofu1ous
dpead troubles fluid IS puidd
they cannot be cured all blood remedy
the
blood and properties
the blood with the heahu needs
diseases OF kind S. S. Rheumatism
Skin Diseases Sores and Ulcers Contagious Blood Poison
puihes the blood Book the blood
SHE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.. ATLANTA. GA
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
FINE SENSE OF TOUCH.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin. DIR
H. w. Wiley was reminded by the
pure food law Of a story.
"A country grocer" he said, twas
talking to throng Of customers about
the wonderful sense of touch that the
blind have Here comes old blind
Henry Perkins now said the grocer
We'll test him. And he took a scoop.
full of sugar and extended 1t to the
old man. Feel this, Henry, he said
and tell us what it is
: 1.-THE blind man put his hand on the
scoop, passed its contents through his
fingers and said in a firm, confident
tone: 'Sand.'"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

New York Globe.-That President
Roosevelt made any bargain with Har.
riman, direct or indirect, does any one
seriously believe it? Has the course
Iof the President, either before or since
his election been such as to suggest
that he had sold out? Has he shown
himself the creature and errand boy
of organized wealth These questions
suggest their own answers. If there
has been one criticism of President
Roosevelt more than any other 1t is
that he has been too little responsive
to the wishes of the leaders of the
business community. The course Of the
administration toward Mr.. Hartman
himself does not indicate that it's chief
deemed himself under either personal
or political gation-does not COM
port with the theory of corrupt bargain
and sale.
Lincoln ournal.-The lesson of the
incident is Incidental When the
priests fall out we come at the truth
The president was given an enjoyable
chance to lay bare a few details of in
side politics. The planning and plot
ting of the New York masters Of
| finance TO control political appoint
ments, and Mr.. Harriman's cool assllr-
ance CT his power to purchase anything
he wants in politics are calculated to
educate the public mind in an import
ant subject Mr. Harriman's letter to
his friend Webster conveys further
conviction on this point. Two nun
bred and fifty thousand dollars turned
| fifty thousand votes in New York city
alone. said Mr.. Hartman in claiming
credit for the result Among ourselves
we disagree as to whether an election
can be bought Some significance must
be attached to the fact that MIR. Har-
riman thinks ii can
Kansas City Star-The Hartman
Roosevelt letters relative to the New
York campaign of 1904 make clear a
fact that really called for no empha-
sis-that Hartman does not interest
himself in anything that does not mean
something for Hartman. The entrance
of the railroad magnate into politics
was not to help the president, who did
not need help. but to assist his partic-
ular, useful friends, Higgins and Odell,
who were in danger. and who lost later
on in spite of everything that Harri-
man did for them There has neyer
been time when Harriman's especial
interests and purposes have been COM
mon with the presidents acts and poll
cies. The only line of mutual effort
| lay in the direction of success for the
4 republican party. Hartman cannot
I make the country believe that Presi-
dent Roosevelt appealed to him for
money to secure that end. Aside from
the element of veracity on which Har-
riman is at a hopeless disadvantage,
1 there is the strong point of Hartman
! individual interests to account for his
activity in politics.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.

Whether or no we are agreed as to
the fate Thaw merits, on one point
there will be no difference OF opinion
Evelyn Nesbit's mother should be set
down as one of the most unnatural par
ents of the age. That this woman
bartered away her daughters soul to
gain riches cannot be disputed. And
that she sold her own soul more COM
pletely when she furnished District At
torney Jerome with the detailed evil
dence of her daughters sins to send
Thaw to the electric chair. is shown
clearly IL the evidence.
And if any more words are needed
to impress upon the unnatural mother
her wanton neglect of her parental
/, duties she may find these words in one
paragraph of the argument Delmas
MADE to the jury. In setting himself
& Sght with the jury for disclaiming any
.ltention of casting reproach upon the
hother earlier in the trial before the
of Mrs. Holman's part in
1 the prosecution was brought out he
said:
And when saw the district attorney
with that paper in his hands. when |
heard him read from it on the cross
examination of this girl, when 1 learn
ed that every SHAFT which he aimed at
her heart came from culver furnish
ed by her mother, when learned that
every sore in her poor soul had been
pointed out to the district attorney,
that it was mother who was pointing
out those sores, and when learned
that the poor little girl had been sent
away to school so that she might get
the money she desired from Stanford
White-I now retract what then said.
Oh, most unnatural mother, you who
deserted the girl and left her the vic
tim Of the lust of this gray-haired man!
You who received the wages of her
downfall, funds with which you be-
decked yourself with diamonds and
finery, now in the hour of her supreme
agony this mother assists the prosecu-
tor of her husband!
Why, a beast that wants reason pro-
: tects her young.
The world is inclined to feel pity
for Evelyn Thaw. She was led by a
blackmailing parent blindfolded to the
net Of sin that enmeshed her. But for
the mother there is nothing but loath-
Z ing
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
LARGEss.

A whirr of wings!
A flash of gold against the greenery!
Two shining eyes
That for an instant's space quick
peer at me,
In frightened wonder seeking for a
goal!
A JOY forever, art thou, oriole.
A cheering burst
OF melody comes as the breezes
blow!
Limpid and sweet
The tones that charm us with their
joyous flow;
Subj madrigals can only one bird
KNOW!
TheS happy chorister? the song
sparrow.
Sarah Alice Burleigh in the Metro
politan Magazine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
THE DEAN OF THE SENATE.

Milwaukee sentinel-Senator Ali.
son of Iowa, who VIII be ~ years and
2 days old when his present term ex-
pires, has announced that he will not
be a candidate for reelection. He has
been member of the senate since
1873, antedating every other, member
of that body, and no member of the
lower house except Speaker Cannon
began service as representative SO
early as HEN the Thirty eighth con.
gress, elected in 1862. Cannon has
not served continuously, but Allison
has. The senators who next to ALI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

Coxey has announced that he 10
preparing to start another army Of
disseminated on to Washington. He
will travel with an entire train of cars
and tent capable of seating thous-
ands, he says. Coxey will find it
harder to enlist his army now, how
ever, than he did before. His effort
then was made at a time when idle
men were parading the streets, await
ing any movement that assured them
an occasional meal. The best he
could pick up now would be the weary
willies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

Just recently the Pennsylvania rail
road company issued an edict that the
throwing of rice and old shoes by mem
bers of wedding parties must be tab
booed. Now comes the order that
trdinmen must not assist passengers to
mount the steps of trains or alight
from them for fear that the grimy
hands of the over-zealous trainmen
might soil the waists of dresses of the
fair sex. O fudge.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
/. 3. A. WILL ENTERTAIN.
Agency Society Gives Program Apr
12-Honor Roll Of Schools.

f2-Honor Roll Of Schools.
+ Agency April s-The L. B. A. VIII
give one of their miscellaneous pro,
grams in the town hall Friday even.
ing April IL, consisting Of recitations
vocal and instrumental music and q
debate. The program is an excellent
one.
This will be the last entertainment
this season to be given by the society
Everybody is invited to attend.
Agency SchooIs-Honor Roll.
Pupils neither absent nor tardy DUR.
Ing the month:
First grade-Allie Shank, A. Shank
Margaret, Cremer, Clarence Court
ney.
Second grade-Roy Miller, Merle
Humphrey.
Third grade-Fayette Bell, Frances
Cremer. Charles Enyart, Willie Hop
kins, Lillian Isaacson, Edith Jones,
Irwin Shank.
Fourth grade--Ru Harper Ray
Rifle.
Fifth grade-Lofe Mace, Mamie
Luippold Ina Rifle, Lloyd Nye.
Sixth grade-oJe Woodford, Frank
Shank.
Seventh grade-Snowden Hook,
Anna Jones, Maxwell Newell. Mary
Poncy Mary Thielen.
Eighth grade-Walter Canny Har-
old Woodford
High school--Edith Connolly, Helen
Carman, Meta Rouke, Hazel McDow-
ell, Agnes Sink, Edith Foster. Tessa
Johnson, Veda Johnson. Thomas Ste,
vens.
School Report.
Agency schools for month Of March:
Total enrolment for year-Boys, 75;
girls, So.
Number belonging at present Boys
60; girls, s..
Average daily attendance Boys. IS,
girls, so.
girls, A.
Per cent Of attendance-Boys s2.4,
girls. "a.
Other Agency News.
Mrs. w. A. Harper is. visiting al
New London.
w. w. Connolly is Ill with pneu.
monia.
Rev. and Mrs. w. H. Perdue Of Cen
terville arrived here Monday. Mrs.
Perdue will visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clements, while Rev. Perdue will
make business trip to Canada.
| When a boy is unable to pick up
any fun the chances are he has been
eating something that would distress
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
IOWA FINANCING RooMs.

Thus spake d. M. Johnson, a Des
Moines booster" upon returning from
tour Of the Lone Star state, and it is
proof that Mr.. Johnson is proud of
his native state; sufficiently proud to
talk. boost or fight for his Iowa when
the states prowess is assailed Mr..
Johnson saw enough Iowans in Texas
to lead him to believe that Iowa is fur
nishing the money that is boosting the
panhandle. Discussing this he said:
IF the people of Iowa remained at
home and spent their money at home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

is North and the next is Alaska,
and the next is United States and
."But that is not the way to learn
your lesson, Eben," and the teacher
struggled for a properly severe ex-
preston. you mus. skip about. That
is what shall do in asking the ques-
TONS
Eben looked as if the joy of living
had departed once for ALL
But supposing l didn't skip about
just the way you do" he said plain
lively, then Id be all mixed up
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

Edward Everitt Hale chaplain of
the senate, author and lecturer, took
occasion on the recent observance of
his eighty fifth birthday to lay down a
few rules for long, useful and happy
life. They are:
Choose vocation in life that takes
you close to nature"
.'Talk each day with at least one
man you know is wiser than your.
SELF"
See the world
Mr.. Hale has the advantage over
most of those that give advice on
longevity in being able to point to
a ripe old age for himself
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
TOO RISKY.

why in the world have they got
that sign tackled up there?" asked
the tall passenger on the New York
Chicago airship.
What sign?" quered the short pas.
senger.
why the sign that reads: 'Passen.
gers Are Requested Not to Tell Funny
Jokes While Setting on Deck
ooh, that's a precaution for safety
You see, If passengers started to tell
funny jokes somebody might tumble
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
HOW WAS 1T SETTLED

Minneapolis Journal. Roger Sulli-
vans statement that his quarrel with
w. j. Bryan has Just died a natural
death recalls the ponderous utterance
of the chief, Nothing is ever settled
until it is settled right" Was 1t set
tied right?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
HOPELESS ElTHERwAY.

From the Youths Companion
When the teacher called the class for
geography she, noticed ulat Eben Will
kins, her dullest pupil, wore particul-
arly cheerful smile
"You look as if you knew your les.
son today" she said, encouragingly
Eyes m, i do" he responded brisk.
ly. "The answer to the first question
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

Fitzpatrick of Burlington. -Four
grandchildren, Mrs. Arthur Hickey Of
Ottumwa, Raymond Cook, Joseph Cool
and Earl Hemenover of this city, and
one great-grandchild, Arthur Joseph
Hickey of Ottumwa, survive.
1.-THE arrangements for the funeral
have not been made yet, but will be
announced later"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
STRETCHING JUSTIFIED.

st. Louis e-Democrat.- Appeais
are made to President Roosevelt to
avert the threatened strike Of $4,000
railway trainmen, even If he has to
travel a few miles beyond the confines
of the constitution.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
ESCAPE IMPOSSIBLE.

Kansas City Times.-Bu could even
Foraker, with all his temerity, have
supposed that he could swagger around
the neighborhood of the White House
with chip on his shoulder and not
have it knocked off?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
PUZZLING.

Washington Post. What is a dem
ocrat?" asks the New York World
and brief as the question is, it is as
puzzling as one of the Jerome hypo
thetical kind.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

A Gibraltar dentist mas received a
commission to fill the teeth Of all the
women Of the Sultan of Moroccos
harem. His wife has journeyed TO
New York where she can get advice
from the front as to her husbands
conduct with the sultan's pets.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

When a boy is unable to pick IN
any fun the chances are he has been
eating something that would distress
Battle Creek,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-06
TRY TO FOLLOW
SHERMAN S ROUTE
First Effort Made by Son of General
Resulted in Storm of Protest from
southerners and Military
Escort Withdrew

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 5.-A
second start was made yesterday by
militarymen to traverse the route pur-
sued by Gen. w. I. Sherman when he
created havoc and brought devastation
through the heart of the south.
Only a year ago Father Sherman, a
Jesuit priest and son Of the general,
essayed to follow the path of his
father He started from Fort Ogle-
thorpe and rode as far as Gainesville.
A furore was started up among the
southerners who remembered the
reality of "marching through Georgia" !"
A storm arose and President Roosevelt,
who heard of the disturbance as far
away as Washington, recalled the mill
tary escort furnished the priest.
This time the trip is being made by
commissioned officers with only
enough enlisted men to take care of
the stock and pitch camps. There are
thirty-four officers in this party. They
are fresh from the military staff coll
lege at Leavenworth, being recent
graduates. Confederate veterans in
sist that the army officers should study
the tactics of Gen. Johnstone as well
as those of Gen. Sherman that they
may learn something"
Maj. Baughton, who is in charge of
the party. does not anticipate repeti-
ton of Father Sherman's experience.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-06
BRANDON OFFICE Z
MAY Be REOPENEO
Postmaster General Begins inquiry
Into Postal Branch Closed When
Rockefeller Bought Town
for Estate
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-An investi'
cation has been ordered by Postmaster
General Meyer with view to determlnD
ing whether the postoffic ficevdiscontinued
at the town of Brandon, N. Y, shall DE
re-established. According to the papers
on file in the postoff1ce department it
appears that several years ago William
Rockefeller, who owns a large estate
comprising more than $4,000 acres in tile
vicinity of Tarrytown, conceived the
idea of acquiring the site of the town OF
Brandon to fill out his estate. Brandon
was a fourishing place, with post
office and two or three small stores and
a small number of inhabitants.
Mr.. Rockefeller purchased all of the
property from it's owners except one
small tract that was owned by a Civil
War veteran named Lamora. Lamora
refused to sell, and persisted in fishing
in a stream which ran through Mr.
Rockefeller's estate and in using the
roads which had been public, 1t is said
for a generation, The postoffiee a
Brandon was abolished and anothe,
was opened at Bay Pond three miles
within the confines of Mr.. Rockefeller
estate. There the people who formerly
received their mail at Brandon were
expected to get it.
Lamora was arrested for trespasSing
on Mr.. Rockefeller's estate, and he and
his friends fought the case in the
courts, but eventually were defeated.
The matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the postmaster general by let
terS from various parts of the country,
and he has determined to take steps
which will assure the convenience for
the people of that city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-06
GENERAL DISGUST
IS FELT IN JAPAN
Marquis Ito Despairs of Saving the
Korean Emperor from Himself
and Koreans Are Expect
ing Miracle
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press
SEOUL, July 5.-Inquiry shows that
general disgust is the main effect
amongst Japanese here as a result of
the conspiracy in sending a Korean
deputation to The Hague, the tele-
graphic disclosures of which interrupted
the Korean emperors profuse assur-
ances to Marquis Ito of his confidence
in him and his reform plans, especially
his supposed ardent desire for a sin
cere organization of the cabinet. Mar
quiS Ito is much disappointed and must
now proceed in face of the emperor's S
intrigues, which have falsely elated a
large section of the upper classes, who
are now anticipating a miracle in Ko-
rea.
Measures intended to rid the palace
of foreign and native mischief makers
and advanturers were introduced by the
Japanese cabinet last Monday, but
Marquis Ito despairs of saving the en-
peror from himself, and the administra-
ton is disposed to onfine it's appeal tC
the people. Although Ito's administra-
tive machinery is incapable of minister
ing justice to the Korean people, Japan
has executively and in the matter of
creating base of operations and estab-
fishing a highway to Manchuria been
strikingly successful in Korea.
Marquis Ito declared that 1t would
require ten years to produce modern
government in Korea, while local gov
ernors say that 1t will take three years
to dispose of the abuses and outrages
resulting from the contact of the Ko-
reans with the Japanese. The latter
are estimtaed to be now 100000 strong
in Korea.