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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-07

Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
causes a free yet gentle action of the
bowels through which the cold is
forced out of the system. Children
like It, Contains no opiates nor
narcotics. Sold by all druggists.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-07
SWEET MELODY FLOUR.

Dewitt's caroolized Witch Hazel
Salve. Get DeWitt's. Sold by all
druggists.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-07

rypewriters rented and repaired. \.
NJ I Cunningham. 213 w. Pike street:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31

for it is plainly evident that he will
not change, and the statute laws
should be observed.
Let the stockholders Of the var.
ious corporations join hands in de.
manding the punishment of the gull.
ty individuals without causing the
suffering Of innocent investors and
Mr.. Roosevelt will accept them as al
lles in his work of reform. Big money
fines punish the innocent stockhold
ers and nI~ciate values, since they
threaten contiscation; while impris.
cnment of the guilty would enhance
values, lift our national reputation to
8 higher plane, put our securities on
a more reliable and honest basis and
restore confidence at home and
abroad"
In closing. Mr.. Clews expresses the
belief that the credit situation just
now is one that calls for calm judg
ment. A wave of hysteria has passed
over the street, he says, which
should be overcome and beaten down
The country Is not on the verge OF
ruin. 1t is suffering from various ex
cesses and needs period of diminish
ed activity for recuperation.
The liquidation cure is painful but
inevitable says Mr.. Clews, and
when completed the patient should
come out of its present state Is good
health
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31

particularly happy in voicing the call
of the West to the East for recipro-
city in action. and for continued &C.
ton, in the work of making the rivers
and the harbors of the country what
nature intended them to be, but which
man for too long has neglected-the
natural highways and gateways of the
trade and commerce of the United
States and of each state and section Of
the country. Insisting that the time
had arrived "for the general expansion
OF our National policy towards all
works of internal improvement which
have, heretofore, occupied a subordi-
nate place in national expenditures"
and that the greatest question in econ,
omies today is the question Of trans
portation, Mr.. Jones thus happily adj
dressed the members of the congress
from the eastern slopes of the Alleg-
henies:
sWe have been told that some Of
our eastern friends are opposed to i'm
proving the western waterways, We
are not yet prepared to believe that.
We have warm feeling for the east.
We remember In the times of drouth
in the west you sent us your old
clothes to wear. We remember when
you loaned us money at healthy rates
of interest-wnen we had good col
lateral to offer We wish to inform
you that we are now wearing tailored
clothes and are buying your paper in
the west-when you offer US attractive
rates of interest and the proper a.
mount of colleteral. We have always
paid willingly for the improvement Of
your rivers and your harbors. But the
time has come when we are asking
that the great internal waterways
that the great rivers of the west have
some attention from the government
and we ask you of the east to take as
liberal view OF the question as the
west did when you desired the govern
ment to improve your rivers and your
harbors."
1t was a call from the Great West
to cosmopolitan assemRlage having
but one object in view-the adequate
improvement Of the rivers and the
harbors of the country under fixed
policy, having no particular section
to be favored but embracing IN its
platform the whole country and the
waterways and the harbors thereof
The speech of Mr.. Jones, expressed IN
homely but most forcefui and truthful
words was call to the east that was
reciprocated. The justice of the de-
mand with the advantages to come
from It's fulfillment no less than the
inadequacy of the railways to carry
the freight offerings, make river and
ha, Dor improvements assurcd-f p..'
sstence in the demand continues.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
IOWA LAND VALUES.

Spirit Lake Beacon.-The actual
value of Iowa real estate and the
point to which our land values may
legitimately climb form subject Of
interesting discussion. Where home
steads were taken within the mem.
DRY Of men now In middle life sales
have recently been noted at prices
away above 500 an acre. Within
twenty years these values have dou-
bled. What will occur in another
twenty-year period?
The standard Of legitimate value IL
based, of course. upon earning capa-
city but what will an Iowa acre earn
When the Beacon was younger It was
frequently chided for what was term.
ed optimism in predicting great rise
in northwest Iowa real estate. More
than once 1t was met with this sort OF
philosophy: The Dickinson county
farmer cannot now pay taxes and cur
rent expenses OF operation and receive
wages for his own work and get a
fair interest rate on his farm valued
at $40 an acre How, then. can you
figure that this land can get much
higher? Why will 1t not float on a
$40 basis7 1t became manifest, how
ever, that 1t was easy to make this
laid pay better return on the In
vestment at $40 than 1t did at $40 an
acre. Better farm methods increas-
ed the yield per acre and more dis
Greet faim policy increased farm pro-
fits. How far will these and kindred
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
Influences permit earnings to Gu
nance the value OF our farms?

Influences permit earnings to on.
nance the value OF our farms?
Within recent years our urban oopu
lation has increased out OF ratio with
our farm census. Consumption has
gained upon production. It is reason.
able to assume that low prices OF the
past will rarely II ever recur. It il
frequently demonstrated that land
may be SO farmed as to make some
eighties produce more marketable
stuff than some quarter sections in
trinsicafly as good, with half the
area in which to lodge investment
and up which to pay taxes. In tn,
presence OF statistics showing our
enormous aggregate OF Iowa farm pro
ducts 1t Is safe to say the sum may
and will before SO very many years
be actually doubled annually in the
average.
What will land then be worth? The
markets will decide. Near the cities
LOT Seattle and Tacoma land sells as
high as $500 an acre on the basis OF
earnings. This land Is very produc
tive, but intensive farming and ex
cellent markets are largely respons,
BILE for these dizzy figures. Land II
Iowa seems very high at 500 to $15t
an acre, but 1t Is within the range OF
reasonable expectations that these
prices should go materially higher
within q ten-year period
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
lowA,s COAL INDUSTRY.

The bulletin recently issued by the
United States Geological Survey, on
the production of coal in Iowa shows
the rank the Hawkeye state has taken
MS a coal producer And 1t shows also.
that while the state ranks second
among the states west of the Mississ-
ippi in the quantity Of coal mined. the
field Of which Wapello county is the
center, and which includes Monroe,
Mahaska, Marion and isolated fields
in the counties adjoining produces so
per cent of the coal mined in the
state.
Some idea of the importance Of the
coal industry is the state may be
gained from the figures which show
the states total production for 1906
amounted to 7,266,22 tons, having a
value Of 81 ,619,455.
Another interesting feature Of the
report is the showing that Iowa was
the only state west Of the Mississippi
whose production of coal in 1905 ex-
ceeded that Of the previous year
Iowa's output has shown an increase
from year to year for the last ten
years. The miners employed in Iowa
number 1890, the average production
for each man employed In 1906 was
1852 tons and the average tonnage
Per day was 2.13.
The report sent out by the geolog.
ical survey included a few advance
chapters from the book dealing with
the mineral resources Of the United
States soon to be issued by the sur
yey. This volume will be of interest
as showing a comparison Of the pro.
duction and conditions in the coal
producing states
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
APPLYING THE TEST.

They're busting trusts by night and
day,
But is anything cheaper for that?
They've got the grating crooks at
bay,
But is anything cheaper for that?
The air Is crowded with reform,
surcharged as on the eve Of storm,
For every wrong they've made it
But is anything cheaper for that?
Is anything cheaper we have to buy?
Is anything lower in price?
Is broad or butter or meat or buds,
Or cen Incorporate bucket Of suds
Brought closer our income says you,
says 1?
Do the trust busters cut any ice?
They've fined the crafty hairless man,
But is anything cheaper for that?
They've levied on the coal oil can,
Is anything cheaper for that?
The Jail now yawns for men who stood
Soul high among us all for good
Well put them, no doubt, where we
should,
! But is anything cheaper for that?
| Is anything cheaper we have to buy
Is anything lower in price?
Is bread or butter or clothes or meat
Or aught that we have to wear or eat
Depressed in the market, says you,
says I?
Do trust busters cut any ice?
Nay. while they've hammered trust on
trust
| There's nothing that's cheaper for
that,
We've made the thieves divide their
dust,
But there's nothing cheaper for that.
The p,i,,e of threads advanced the
while,
The price of meats gone up mile,
Reforming things in all the style.
But there's nothing cheaper for that.
Is anything cheaper we've got to buy?
Is anything lower in price?
Have we Of that gang called hol polloi
Extracted practical bit Of joy
| From all the reforming-that's you,
and I?
Have the trusts busters cut any iceY
! Chicago News.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31

million dollars in value, shows an adj
vance Of 40 per cent In price per
yard: turpentine, amounting to 10
million dollars, an advance OF $50
per cent; rails for railways, AZ per
cent increase; structural iron and
steel $40 per cent; boots and shoes
30 per cent; cotton cloth (colored).
20.1 per cent; wire 2T.8 per cent, and
Illuminating oil an advance of 10S
per cent per unit Of quantity in 1907
compared with 1899.
Thus In the great group foodstuffs,
aggregating about 400 million dollars
in value, the advance in price ranged
from ] per cent In the case Of flour,
4.3 per cent in cattle, per cent in
wheat and IL per cent in fresh beef.
upward to IS per cent in cotton-seed
oil; only two articles. lard and cot.
ton-seed oil. showing more than 30
per cent increase. In the great group
of articles for use in manufacturing,
including under that term raw mater.
ial and partially manufactured arti-
cles, the dozen articles aggregating
over 700 million dollars in value
higher than those in the group food
stuffs, rosin showing an advance OF
202.7 per cent In price per unit OF
quantity; sawed timber 112.9 per
cent; cotton, which alone forms more
than one-fourth of the total exports.
shows an advance of 92.7 per cent In
price per pound; copper in pigs. bars.
ETC., an advance of 58.5 per cent:
lumber 58.4 per cent; while bituInin.
GUS coal, paraffin and flaxseed show
advances Of about 25 per cent, and
anthracite coal, crude mineral oil.
slaves and tobacco increases in price
ranging below 20 per cent per unit OF
quantity In the group Of wholly man
ufactured articles, ready for con-
sumption, turpentine shows an adj
vance of SO per cent in value per unit
Of quantity. structural iron and steel
55 per cent, uncolored cotton cloth
40 per cent, steel rails AZ per cent,
boots and shoes 80 per cent colored
cotton cloth 20 per cent, wire 2s per
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
cent and refined mineral OF 10.5 per
cent IN value per unit Of quantity.

The classes of articles which show
any considerable degree Of increase
IN quantities exported are chiefly man
nfactures Or articles for use in manu-.
faoturing,while foodstuffs show in
many cases a marked reduction in
Quantity exported and comparative 1T
tie change In price. Wheat shows
decline Of more than 60 million bush.
els, flour nearly 3 million barrels
lard about 81 million pounds. bacon
over 200 million pounds beef about
million pounds, hams about 18 mfl.
lion pounds and cotton-seed OIL nearly
y million pounds. In manufacturer.
material, whether crude or partially
manufactured practically every item
shows marked increase. Cotton
shows an increase of 75s million
pounds. copper 100 million pounds.
leaf tobacco nearly 60 million pounds.
coal about million tons, and In other
articles for manufacturing increases
are also shown. In finished mnnufac-
lures there are marked advances.
Boots and shoes show an advance
from less than million pairs to near.
ly millions, wire from 215 million
pounds to 361 millions, structural
iron and steel from $4,000 tons "a
1850 tons. and locomotives from
SIT In 1899 to 972 In 1907, while. a.
already indicated, the advance In
price per unit Of quantity averaged
greater In both manufacturers mater-
ials and finished manufacturers than
IN foodstuffs
Thus had the upland cotton export.
ed In 1907 been sent at the price Of
1893, 1t would have brought but 24s
million dollars, instead OF the 4sO mil.
lion dollars at which II Is now report
cd; the copper. II exported at the
price Of 1899 would have brought but
Sc millions, instead of the so millions
at which now reported; the lumber
rs millions. instead Of 40; the sawed
timber s millions instead Of 10: tha
lard 81 millions instead of ~; the
cotton-seed oil 10 millions instead Of
II: and the rosin millions instead
Of II,
The table which follows shows 40
principal articles exported from the
United States IN 1907 compared, both
as to quantity and value, with the Az.
ures Of 1888, and thus shows the rela-,
tive increase In quantity and value OF.
the principal articles forming the ex-
port trade of the United States In 1907
with 1899.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
AUGUST.

The high gods took the roses hame
of fire;
They took the drowsy poppy's
breath Of sleep,
And shaped her woman's soul Of mad
desire
And lovely languor deep.
They gave her for voice the rap
tured lark,
And set It singing in the quiet hush |;
They gave the dove to mourn at dawn
and dark,
And tender hermit thrush.
Rich Cleopatra Of the months! q
queen
She rules the world with sun that
southwark swings.
And see! like asp upon her bosom
green
The tiger lily clings!
Edward Wilbur Mason in septem-
Der Everybody's.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
EXPORTS OF sO7 OVER
1899 SHOW ADVANCE.

The advance in prices, which is to
considerable extent responsible for
the large Increase in the total value
OF imports In recent years, is appar-
emily also responsible in some degree
for the increased figures of the value
or exports. An analysts recently made
by the Bureau Of Statistics Of the i'm
ports of 1907 compared with those of
1899 showed marked advances in
prices OF imported articles aul that
this advance In prices per unit of
Quantity is la.gely respo,s'H;c for the
increase OF over 100 per cent in the
total value of imports into the United
States since 1899. A like analysis of
the exports just completed by the bu-
reau shows also marked advance In
prices Of the great articles forming the
export trade, and indicates that,
while there have been material in
creases In quantities exported, the
growth Of domestic exports from ,204
million dollars in 1899 to 1854 mil
lions IN 1907 Is due In no inconsider
able degree to advance In prices of
the articles forming that trade.
In attempting to determine this
question of the relation between high
er prices and the increased value Of
imports and exports the bureau Of sta.
tistics has included In Its calculations
every article in which quantity and
value are shown, both In the i'm
ports and exports, and is thus able to
determine the percentage Of Increase
In stated value Of each article In
1907 over 1899, the year 1899 being
selected for comparison because I'M
ports have just doubled In value since
that date, while exports have In
creased about SO per cent in value in
the same period.
While the detailed statement pre-
pared by the bureau shows the ad.
vance in prices per unit Of quantity
In hundreds of articles exported, it
has selected from this list 40 prin-
cipal articles. whose value aggre-
gates about two-thirds Of the total
exports, and by stating the increase
In both quantity and value Of each ar
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
THE IDEAL VACATION.

From the New York Herald.-A dis
tinguished neurologist has said that
the main benefit of q vacation for the
busy worker is plenty Of sleep. This
implies lots of accessories-long and
quiet hours Of night, easy digestion,
and the farmers light supper, mus.
Giles not overfatigued. abundance of
pure air and sunlight, but above all a
freedom from care and worry. When
we get all these we have the ideal
vacation. and in It's train quiet, peace,
rest and health.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31

ttcle shows to what extent the Ill
creased valuation In the exports Of
1907 Is due to increased quantities, or
to what extent higher prices have
caused the advance In stated value.
OF the 40 articles which it thus in.
c1udes IN Its analysis of exports in at
tempting to determine to what extent
advance prices per unit Of quantity is
responsible for the increased value of
expectations, IL are foodstuffs wheat
corn. flour, cattle, fresh beef. bacon,
hams. lard pork, cotton seed meal,
cotton-seed OIL and oleo oil. This
small group OF q dozen articles Of food
products shows an aggregate Of about
400 million dollars in the exports Of
1907. FLOUR shows an advance Of but
l per cent In price per unit of guam
tfty, cattle Of 4.8 per cent, wheat 81
per cent, fresh beef IL per cent, hams
22.8 per cent, corn 341 per cent, cleo
OIL 34.4 per cent. canned pork 376
per cent, bacon 1872 per cent, cotton
seed meal AT per cent, lard sc per
cent and cotton-seed OIL 5S2 per
cent.
The second group includes manu-
facturers' Materials. both in the crude
state and partially manufactured for
further use in manufacturing, the
dozen articles selected aggfegating
over 700 millions In value and In
Guiding raw cotton, copper in pigs,
or bars, lumber, tobacco, timber,
coal, rosin. parafhn, faxseed phos-
pilates and crude mineral oil. Raw
cotton (upland) Of which the value
exported in 1907 was 480 million dol
lars against 207 millions In 1899.
shows an advance Of 92.7 per cent In
value per pound. Copper. Of which
the value exported in 1907 was 80
million dollars. shows an advance Of
68.5 per cent IN value per pound.
Lumber, of which the exports amount
cd to 40 million dollars, shows an ad-
vance Of 1914 per cent: sawed timber
is million dollars in value, shows an
advance Of 1879 per cent; rosin
amounting 10 over il million dollars,
shows an advance OF 202.7 per cent;
while bituminous coal shows an ad.
vance Of PAS per cent, anthracite coal
1873 per cent. psrafin 25.A per cent,
faxseed 26.8 per cent, crude mineral
oh 10 per cent, and pliosphates 80
per cent increase In price per unfit Of
quantity in 1907 over 1899.
In the few fully manufactured ar
ticles in which 1t Is practicable 10
show quantities as wen as values. mn
lcolered cotton cloth. amounting to IA
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
HOW lNTERuReANs WORK.

Interurbans are welcomed in farm
ing communities now much more read
lily than they were few years ago,
and the average farmer helps, instead
of retards the work Of locating lines
and procuring right-of-way through or
past his land There Is ample rea-
son for this fact. as shown by an In
terview published recently at Des
Monies, and given out by Gels
Botsford. general freight and passen-
ger agent for the Polk lines, the larg-
est interuroan system in Iowa. Mr..
Eotsford says:
Probably one of the greatest &C
the increasing of rural population
along its lines. Over 5000 increase
has been registered on the Colfax line
exclusive of Des Moines and the Jas
per county mining camps In five years
while all other rural section in Iowa
have shown decrease. While the
process Of cutting up farms has been
going on, values have also increased.
Land on the Colfax line has gained rs
to 200 per cent in value in four years
and in year the average increase In
value on the Beaver valley line as in
dictated by bona fide sales, has been
over 60 per cent.
'The interurban projects, with low
freight and passenger fares, conven-
lent service and resultant benefits, are
projects for the promotion and sue
cess of which city man and farmer
can we'll afford to join hands"
The interurban is natural devel-
oper of the country through which it
passes and that includes the farming
communities, the towns and cities and
the entire territory covered by the
line.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-31
THE OLD CHURCH HYMNS.

IL.
The author of the following poem,
William F. Blmendorf was at one time
a prominent citizen of Ottumwa. He
resided here many years ago, along
from 1856 to 1860 and was one Of the
most progressive Of the early resi-
dents. He was druggist, prominent
Odd Fellow, a jealous churchman and
a prime mover in organizing the Epis-
copal church of Ottumwa. Mr.. Elmen.
DORIS Introduction and poem follows:
A noted eastern professor has given
it as his opinion that Professor Triggs
was right In denouncing our church
hymns as "a mere doggerel!"
Them oil church hymns my mother
sung, an alers sung 50 well,
That big perfesser IN the east now
brands as "doggerel.'
He says they's nuther sense er tune
to that "Amazin' Grace"
That Jesus, Lover of My Soul" is
gettin' out O place;
He says they amt no music to "My
Soul Be On Thy Guard"
Ner "At the Cross" ner When We
Go to Git Our Grand Reward"
don't know much about singin'
but when kin strike tn key,
Yeu jest kin bet them oil church
hymns is good'n 'nough for me-
That big Professor never heard 'en
sing Sweet Hour o. Prayer"
About the time revival signs wu2
foatin' in tn air;
reckin' "Jordan's Stormy Banks
an When They Call The Roll
Tain't never sent convichion's shaft
a-piercin' us his soul;
l guess Almost Persuaded" fer his
sins would not atone,
When he Is called to stan afore the
awful Judgment throne,
But when I hear em sing Just AS
Am, Without One Plea"
You Jest kin bet them oil church
hymns is good'n 'nough for me
bet that big Professor never yit hei
raised his eyes,
Whar he could Read his title cleal
to mansion In tn Skies"
} I don't believe he ever kneeled dowr
In tn amen row.
And heerd tn people sing Praise
God From Whom All Blessings
| Flow"
low they's lots O. fancy tunes they're
singing nowadays,
That mebby this Professor thinks II
better fer Gods praise,
But when some brother starts to sint
| Nearer My God To Thee"
| You jest kin bet them oil church
HYMNS Is good'n 'nough for me.
wonder II he thinks that Rock "
Ages" yit hes fell
On human ears that dared to call tina
OF tune "doggerel''
'Tell Me tn o. Story" too, an Come
Thou Fount. an then
Thars ooh, Fer Thousand Tongues
To Sing" an Shall We Meet A
4 gain"
They's somepin 'at's inspirin' whe1
| them OF time songs we hear.
That minds us NV our childhood days
an all that we hold dear.
don't keer IL my tastes with tina
Perfessor don't agree,
You lest kin bet them OF churcl
hymns is good'n 'nough fer me.
In course know tibet nowadays they
re churches in the land
Thet's got a tony minister, an
organs big an grand:
They hev sort O. worship. and yo'
hear the preacher pray,
TIL choir rattles of their hymns T
arm their weekly pay;
But gimme ev'ry time the songs the
sung in days agone.
Thet opened up sweeter path
lords m eternal dawn,
Fer wnen hear them oil time airs
then. Heavens gates" see.
! An you kin bet them OF churcl
hymns Is COON 'nough for me.