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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-07
Bed Spreads
MEMS FURNISHINGS

MEMS FURNISHINGS
The male contingent has been finely
provided for. White Shirts, Collars,
Cuffs and Underwear Of highest quail
ity are here for Mr.. Man at prices very
closely pared.
Mems White Night Gowns, Sc inches
long, made of fine soft sea island mus
t t1n, 7 sc " values White Sale, ar
Mems White Unlaundered Shirts, re-
inforced front and back, E(o
White Sale price ...............JU Jul
Mems extra fine plain white pleated
Shirts, cuffs attached. our finest SLIPS
and s1.50 grades, at 4 m
each Observation-Disclosures. .UU
Boys White Shirtwaists exceptionally
good quality material, priced No.
| during this sale at ........ 4OC
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Table Linens.

To neglect this Linen opportunity surely means
to pay very much more little later
Good width heavy weight pure Linen Damask. sill,
yer bleached our best Coo grade priced 40
this sale at per yard Observation-Disclosures. fOI
Heavy weight double satin Gold Medal" bleached
Damask regular $1.00 retail leaders, offered To-
during White Sale at per yard .............. ~
~ inch finest s1.25 Gold Medal" double satin fin.
fsh. made of +purest Irish flax and grass beached,
for White Sale. per mr.
Import I'd Belfast DalnasK exceedingly heavy weight
and manufactured rom selected fax yarns, natural
grass bleached, retailed nowhere less than $175,
here during the White Sale at On.
per yard Observation-Disclosures. ~
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only the most care1ul purchasing has Brought toee
the most perfect sanitary conditions Some Of the bgge
Ladies' Drawers made of excellent quality muslin wide
rule lace tucks and hemsttiched open or closed regu
lar 35c grade, White Sale week IT.
Ladies' fine Cambria Drawers open or closed inch
wide lace trimmed wide embroidery founced tuck 10
styles to select FROM excellent value for White H.
Sale week Observation-Disclosures. fJJ
Extra fine grade Nansook Drawers, trimmed in fine
English eylet and shadow embroidery, Maltese and
German Laces $1.5O and to $500, many interesting
values offered during White Sale week
Ladies' full front and tight fitting Corset Covers with
tucks fine embroidery and lace edge trimmed 20 differ
ent styles and exceptional bargains for White 1E,
SAFE week at = W
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-07
LACE CURTAINS

Large size fine Nottingham Lace Cur
tains, new designs, our best $15O
grade, White Sale at. per OOo
Fine Gable Net Arabian Color Curtains
S1s yards long, new spring designs, an
e easraord III White Sale 1Q5
opCSldi az ......".s... sOO
Arabian Color Lace Curtains, 311a yards
long, fine quality net, of a most SER
viceable character specially for White
Sale week at per ~
Extra size fine Cable Net Curtains,
made of heavy hard twisted yarns,
pretty new patterns, regular value,
$500, White Sale, per . *
A line of 121ac Figured Curtain Swiss
es, special, per Oh
yard ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. O3C
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-07
New White Goods

Thousands Of pieces Of Imported and Domestic
Snow White Wash Goods ready for your choosing.
4s inches, sheer air line Washable Chiffon, OQc
good s1.5ovalue at JOC
As inch French Lawns, marked to sell at ono
SOC, special .........................
4s inch Import ed Scotch st. Gall swisses later
season price, 75c to &c. choice EQcs
now ..:.....................J OC
An immense assortment of Persian Lawns, French
Mulls, Chiffons, Swisses Nainsooks, India = M
Linens, ETC., at prices from &c yard up to .VU
White Sole Jacquards suitable for waists Enc
and Skirts ........a....s. ............ Jul
= 500 pieces 15c grade India Linons 1Oc
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
s2oo ,ooo,o 900 FOR WATERWAYS.

A comprehensive scheme for I'M
provement of the inland waterways is
to be recommended in the report of the
Inland Waterways Commission, which
will be submitted to the President
about November /. The expenditure
involved will be upward of 5000. 900, 900,
almost equal to the cost of the Panama
Canal. This appropriation will, of
course, be spread over a number of
years during the work of construction.
Two great schemes are developed, one
for a deep waterway from the lakes to
the gulf, and the other for a deep in
land water route from Massachusetts
Bay to Beaufort, N. c., crossing New
Jersey from the head of the Raritan
Bay to the Delaware River at Trenton
or Bordentown. Two great movements,
n in the West and one in the East,
have been inaugurated in favor of this
scheme of waterway improvement.
1t will come up before Congress with
an enormous popular support, and with
much better prospects than any pro-
posed national enterprise ever received
before in that body.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
BAY AND MEADOW IMPROVEMENT

Newark has of late years been far in
the advance of other cities of the State
in it's public enterprise, and its citizens
have exhibited courage. as well as fore
sight, In public undertakings. The evil
dences are on every hand in Newark's
streets, and sewers, its water supply,
its public library, its schools, with
night schools and summer schools, and
its technical school. and it's public build
ings. But in one direction Newark has
been stagnant in enterprise, and, that
is towards the bay, which is practically
a closed loon oceanward.
The utilization of the Newark mead
ows. and the improvement of the New
ark Bay front has been the constant
theme of a few progressive citizens for
years, but other and closer improve
ments demanded the attention and the
resources of the people of Newark, and
the views and urgings of these men re-
ceived scant support until lately, when
the idea seemed to suddenly grow upon
the members of the Board of Trade thai
the time was opportune, and that by de-
lay precious opportunities would be
lost forever.
The bill passed by the Legislature and
signed by Governor Stokes yesterday for
a referendum on the question of ex-
pending a million dollars for public
docks and other Waterfront improve
ments, including a ship canal to New
York Bay, offers, the desired chance to
utilize the great opportunities for our
city presented in its geographical Local
ton, upon a great arm of the greatest
harbor for commerce in the world.
Public enterprise judiciously directed
will give to the city a large share Of the
vast commercial values to be created
and at the same time furnish a needed
incentive to private enterprise. The
meadows will be reclaimed n built
upon, the water front will be lined with
piers and docks and great factories win
stand where now is the noisome morass
There is no ~pipe-dream in this. It is
a sober prospect easy of realization, and
We can bank upon the future to pay for
It. But long before the bonds to be
issued shall mature the city viii have
derived in benefits and values many
times more than the investment. New
ark's present debt is not b~urdensome.
and when the railroad tax question
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
A YOU REGIsTEREDY

If you have not registered for the No
vember election, go and registeri The
last call upon the voter is made today.
If he fails to have his name recorded
on the registration books he will dis
franchise himself for this year. He will
have no say in the matter of the choice
of a new Governor and the election of
a new Legislature and the selection of
county, municipal and ward officers. It
has been ~pertinently said that the I'M
registered citizen is on a par with the
yellow dog; that his kind of citizenship
is the yellow-dog citizenship, and the
observation is not far from the truth.
Go and register!
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
ISSUES IN TIL CAMPAIGN.

IT is possible for the Prohibitionist
who votes his ticket regularly every
year to declare in a campaign that
there is no other issue but that of pro-
hibition. 1t is possible for a saloon
keeper whose interests are directly in
volved to declare that there is no other
issue but the excise question. But it
does not seem possible for n other
class of voters of any intelligence to
affirm that in this campaign there is
no other question at issue but the SUM-
day question.
II the November election turned mere
~ on that question alone the NewaJersey
electorate would not be above the dig
nifty OF a rabble. A State like New Jer-
sey;y beset with vitality important ques-
tons of State policy, and having many
problems of government to settle,
would appear utterly contemplate in
the eyes of the outside world if it's peo-
pie turned their backs indifferently
upon their unsettled State affairs to be
completely absorbed In a matter of
police regulation that has been present
in State politics ever since the Civil
War.
All State elections turn on a number
of issues. To possibly two-thirds of the
voters party affiliations are the ruling
influence. To them the party organiza-
tlon represents certain principles which
they adhere to without regard to adj
ventitious questions that may arise.
Another large body of voters are in
huenced IN their judgments by newly
arisen issues, by their opinions about
the trend of legislation. by their esti-
mates Of candidates, by their connec-
ton with certain private interests and
by selfish personal considerations.
The one-idea man is not as numerous
ard pcteAt m politics as some people
and some newspapers think. MOI does
a class, or race, or religious prejudice
obtain much sway in the presence of
practical questions of government. The
history of State and local politics is
replete with examples TO prove that
assertion. The excise question is IN
incident, no more, in State politics
this year. 1t may or may not be a
deciding factor in results, as was the
Roosevelt sentiment in 1904, and as any
other question this year may be, but it
is G narrow and limited vision that can
Gee nothing else in the election contest
hut an excise question.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
THE PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE.

The first experiment of representative
government in the Philippines is UNDER
taken with great caution. The plan of
Legislature now in operation includes
an upper and a lower house. The up
per house Is appointive and the lower
house elective. Unlike the State Legis-
latures in this country, the power of
making appropriations is vested in the
upper house. The function of the lower
house is, therefore, to propose legisla-
ton and the real power lies in the APP
pointive house.
The people who for 400 years never
knew what representative government
was could not be trusted after so short
a tutelage with unrestricted power in
their government. The Filipinos are
as children who must be educated and
trained by gradual process. There is
nothing in history to correspond with
this experiment of a Western nation
establishing a legislative government in
a country of the Orient. and its out
come will be watched by the worlds
statesmen with peculiar interest.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
THE HALLOWEEN ARRANGEMENTS

With the arrangements now making
for a systematic and orderly celebra-
ton for Halloween, Newark will be
afforded a spectacle well worth seeing.
The regulations to be established by
the police for the control of crowds
and the preservation of order and
decency will, we believe, insure all be-
holders from, the license and the an
noyance that characterized previous
celebrations. 1t will be the business of
the police department, anyhow, to
make special provision for that night,
and the part it will take in the cele-
bration will be in the line of regular
duty.
Newark is naturally an orderly city.
A Newark holiday is almost like a
Newark Sunday. The license seen on
the streets on Halloween has always
been good-natured and was never in
decent. But the boisterous spirit of the
festival has grown, and some prac-
tises, imported from European car
nivals, have been introduced in rude
fashion.
These can be eliminated by the &C.
ton of the police, and the streets of
Newark on Halloween where the cele-
bration centres can be made a beauti-
full panorama. 1t is a fine civic spirit
that is undertaking to convert the
Halloween saturnalia into a great
public pageant, and it should receive
generous support from citizens gen.
orally.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
STATE PAPERS ON CAMPAIGN



TFrom the Freehold Transcript, Dem.1
Judge Fort, the Republican candidate for
Governor, is telling the voters that he
finds nothing to apologize for in the Repub-
lican administration of affairs. II that is
SO, then what can the people Of the State
expect from him If elected Governor? An
Investigation of the public institutions and
departments of the State during the past
eight months by a committee of the Demo-
cratic House Of Assembly shows:
1. INSTRUMENTATION of the State Asylum
for the Insane at Trenton. Inhuman treat
ment of unfortunate patients, resulting in
fatal injuries to at least one inmate. Dis
tribution of supply contracts to favorites
of the management at unnecessary cost to
the State.
2. Wretched discipline and worse man.
agement of the Railway Reformatory.
Disclosure of alleged immortality which
seemed to justify committee in laying the
matter before a grand jury. Extravagant
ings and supplies.
3. State Asylum for Insane at Morris
town shown to have Indifferent manage
ment; and scandal relative to treatment of
inmate who died there
4. Commissioner of Banking and Insur-
ance shown to have deposited public funds
in favored home banks without interest,
| dHu AItAtd6tIitnI "a oCOdA lkutui OAO0SDt
under criticism.
5. Heads of State departments exercis-
ing no responsible control of Offices, re-
sul4sng in hire of additional clerical help
at public expense, while chiefs draw sal
aries and leave duties to subordinates.
6. A Secretary of State retained in Office
Notwithstanding personal conduct held up
to Disguised public gaze, and responsible
duties of offices left to subordinates.
y ~ rtr.aap ananlazrnad dra urin1 7nf-
BILE salaries for duties which might be
adequately compensated by one.
8. Creation of useless commissions at
public expense to perform duties that
could be easily performed by any one of
the chief departments in the State govern
ment, without materially bestowing COM
pensation.
9. Additions to State House at large
public expense under contracts awarded
without real competitive hiddipg) to
favored contractors.
10. Increase of State expenditures from
S1,500,0O0 prior to 1898 to $4,000 600 or more
in 1906, accounted for by extravagant and
unnecessary expenditures, of which the
disbursement of 5000, 900 or more for in
vestigation and purchase of voting ma
chimes may be specifically cited as an in.
stance.
IL. State appropriations turned over in n
lump to departments and commissions. no
proper accounting or check on extrav-
aeance required or demanded, and funds
deposited in favored banks without inter-
est.
What is the remedy to be applied? The
fixed logic in political government is tn
turn out the party responsible for NAL
administration This rule would seem
more necessary of enforcement, in view Of
the announced fact that the present Re-
publican candidate for Governor finds
nothing to apologize for in his party's ad-
ministration of State affairs. The election
of Frank S. Katzenbech. jr.. whose excel
lent administration of affairs as Mayor of
Trenton Is conceded, is at least one
remedy that can be applied.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
Hitchcocl.,s Fnctotum.

Raymond Hitchcock has a niger fac
totum, who for some time has Fastened
envious eyes on a particular pair o
check trousers belonging to the come
dian.
SAM" said Mr.. Hitchcock, the othet
day, II want you to take these trou'
sers and clean his spot Off"
"Yassah, 1 get it right Off"
The old Niger came back in a few
minutes and said:
Boss, dat sure is a troublesome spot
1 can't get it OF nohow."
See here, Sam. did o try soap and
water?'
"Yassah, but faint no count
did you try petrol?H
"Yessah, deed I did"
Did you try ammonia?" p.
mo, sir; | amt tried 'em on me yit,
but 1 know dey hts."-November Young's
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
The ..Graft, Issue.

[From the Camden Post-Telegram Rep.l
The Republican party has no disposition
to either excuse or tolerate any corruption
existing in the State government 1t is a
familiar fact that abuses, more or less
grave and heinous, will creep into admin
istratiye departments despite the most
honest and conscientious intent of presi-
dents or governors. But it is also q fact
equally familiar that when discovered UNI
der Republican administration the axe has
been promptly and vigorously laid to the
root of the evil. And there is a wide diff
ference between the malign effect of the
temporary and sporadic existence of such
abuses and that of a system of corruption
and v~iciousness pervading both the execu-
tive and the Legislative branch of the gov
eminent, as was notoriously the case IN
the race track days Of Infamous memory.
Even concediug the existence of abuses
in certain departments Of the State gov
eminent, past experience-and a portion or
it quite recent-abundantly proves that
supplanting Republican administration by
Democratic control win prove a sorry ex-
pertinent on the line of remedial action.
The performances Of the late accidentally
Democratic House of Assembly affords
abundant proof Of that proposition. True,
with the artful purpose Of playing poll
ties it created a department-probing body
which, by the way, has thus far failed to
make a final report as to what, if any,
malfeasances it has uneaTthed, and the
Democratic majority of which obviously
designs to defer any such report until
after election-but it also INSTRUCTED and
prevented, needed legislation and plainly
exempliied what might be expected with
both branches of the Legislature in Demo-
cratic control and fortified by the incum-
bency of a Democratic executive.
In his Camden speech on Thursday night
Judge Fort declared with a plainness thai
admitted Of no possibility of failure to
understand him and an emphatic earnest
ress that forbade the slightest doubt as
to his sincerity, that if he became Cow
ernor of the State he would hold every
official under his control to the s~trictest
accountability, and that he would further
more use his every effort to secure such
legislation as would vest in the Governor
the power of summary dismissal of any
appointive State officer by him found
guilty of official turpitude.
This assurance should satisfy the most
scrupulous voter whose fealty to the Re-
publican party and it's principles is shaken
only by his ardor for purity and integrity
In the conduct of the State government,
while in view of the prevailing harmony
IN the Republican party, and the enthus-
iasm and earnestness with which the
masses In all parts of the State are rally
ing to the support of Judge Fort and the
various Republican legislative candidates,
1t would appear that the people have a
proper conception of the exigencies of the
political situation, and that they do not
think the time has come for "a new deal.''
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
~Concerto" in Music.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Kindly explain to one IMMERSED in music
the meaning of the term concerto"
MUSIC.
concerto ordinarily means a musical
composition for a solo instrument, with
orchestral accompaniment, calculated to
exploit the resources or possibilities of the
instrument, and thus to give the performer
an opportunity to display the highest
technical skill. as well as intellectual grasp
and musical culture. The concerto belongs
10 the cyclical or sonata group Of musical
compositions. and differs from a symphony
or overture only through the special promi-
nence given to the solo %intrument. 1t con-
sists, like he symphony or sonata, of three
or four movements, each of which, like
the whole, requires a clear development
and treatment of motives, and a strict
adherence to the rules of form. The earli-
est concertos were written for two or more
Instruments, being thus really in concer-
tante style. From the beginning of the
eighth century the pianoforte and the violin
have been the solo Instruments mostly used
for the concerto. Among the Oldest violin
concertos are those of Tartini and his
pupils. The French and Germans after.
ward improved on these and fixed the
forms which all the great masters of mod
ern lines have adhered to.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22

None good effect of the new law in
New York making adultery a mis-
demeanor is this: The applications for
divorce of a kin that formerly were
not contested are now resisted. The
person who permits a decree to be
made against himself or herself takes
the risk of criminal proceedings, ais the
evidence can be used in a criminal
prosecution. The effect. therefore. is to
choke on collusiye divorces.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22

DR.. Ingram. Bishop of London, is 9
learned ecclesiastic, but he declared
that at times young children. of whon
he is extravagantly fond, upset MN
badly with their questions. once ht
was addressing a gathering OF poor
children, and at the close of his re-
marks invited any boy or girl to ass
him questions. The bishop
several, but was finally f1oored by a
little girl, who asked:
please, sir, why did the angels walk
up and down Jacobs ladder when they
had wings?"
DR.. Ingram escaped by blanding in
curing:
What little boy or girl would like
to answer that question? "-Boston
Herald.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22

shall have been settled the city finances
viii be in most favorable shape and the
tax rate will be low. A progressive mu-
~nicipality isn't afraid to enter into any
rear able expenditure-with certain
prospects of great public benefits such
as are held out in the project of bay
and meadow improvement.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22

Mills Hotel No. 8. much finer
than it's two predecessors. has been
opened in New York. It is fifteen
stories high, has 1875 bedrooms, and
all of the modern conveniences, and is
located in the hotel district. The high
est priced room is forty cents a
day, with free bathing facilities. and the
restaurant provides the best kind Of
food at the cheapest possible prices.
This hotel is expected to be self-sup-
porting. so hat its patrons will not
feel n sense Of charity. The philan-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22

The house cleaning in New York banking circles didn't take
place a day too soon. Heinze, Thomas and Morse are not men
fit to be entrusted with the management of institutions contro1I
ing other peoples money. They are inoculated with the gam
bling fever, and at least two Of them have been unusually
heavy in their ventures. But a bank is the last place in the
world to experiment with along these lines. The law is peculiar
in that respect, and depositors have oldfashioned ~prejudices
against allowing their money to lie at the mercy of men who
can't resist the temptation to take hnrs, when surething, get
rich-quick opportunities cross their horizon. Until the insurance
scandals opened the eyes of the public that kind of business
was common, especially in the very highest and most respect
able financial circles, but its so no more. Heinze and his
friends are simply a few years behind the times. J. M.