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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-26
TURNING KNOCKS INTO BOOSTS

Ike Newton fell asleep. An apple
bumped into his slumbers. Ike rubbed
the bump and looked at the apple.
Then he discovered the law of gravi-
tatlon. A Philadelphia man slipped on
a banana skin and slid into train of
Thought right on the sidewalk While
people were laughing at him that Phila.
delphia man was taking notice of the
banana skin.
He was professor. He had a lab.
orato1y. He bought nickeps worth
OF bananas and started experimenting
Then he. discovered that from the
solft, white, creamy pulp he could
make breakfast food, sugar flour,
cakes and candies, paper, alchohol
coffee, cloth, an imitation of scrambled
eggs, an imitation of veal and mutton,
an imitation of figs and raisins, ba.
mana butter and banana bread.
In this case the skin game was prof.
liable. Here's a lesson, friend. that
fortune and success in not merely
knocking at your door. It's barking
your shins, digging YOU in the ribs,
trying to uppercut and jab its way into
your understanding. The next bump
you get cont call down maledictions
upon it. Grab it by the hand draw
it to YOU. and begin to get acquainted.
Maybe it's boost.
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BE A eoAT-sUTT IN.
Des Moines News.-Are you goa
~ oh

Des Moines News-Are you a goat
or a sheep?
A goat butts in; a sheep follows.
Some people would not like to be
called a goat, but 1t is better to be
called a goat than a sheep.
Don't be follower; be leader.
A sheep is a follower. 1t is the ami.
NAL that is led to the slaughter. 1t is
always the victim Its fleece or its
flesh is easy plumber.
To get ahead, go ahead.
Don't always look for the beaten
path. Plunge into the untrodden fields
Fortune and fame await you there.
Great men became great because
they left the common road.
Columbus, Calico, Newton and
Morse did not follow the mob. They
mastered what the mob knew and then
went on and on. The trails they blaz.
ed are beaten paths now You must
make other trails. There are plenty OF
sheep to fill the old paths.
Don't be content with being a fol
lower. Only the weak should be in
their ranks.
Rather be goat and get ahead.
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WITHOUT FORCE

did I understand you to say that
this boy voluntarily confessed his share
in the mischief done to the school.
house?" asked the magistrate, adj
dressing the mother, who held small
dirty struggling boy by the hand.
Yes. sir; he did," replied the
mother, jerking her offspring into
momentary inactivity 81 had to per-
suade him little, but he told me the
whole thing voluntarily
How did you persuade him?" asked
the magistrate.
well, first gave him good whip.
ping" said the determined looking lit.
tie woman, and then | put him to
bed without any, supper and took his
clothes away and told him he'd stay
in bed till he'd confessed what he'd
done if twas for the rest Of his days
and should whip him again in the
morning
"In less than an hour he told me the
whole story voluntarily. Youth IS
Companion.
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Never! use, nothing but vegeta-
bles, and vegetarian hats are thous-
and times prettier than relics of muir
der"
1t may be inferred from Mrs. Upton's
attitude in this debate that she is
neither an Audobonian nor vegetar-
ian, and that her main purpose was 10
insist upon consistency Yet, without
Intending to convey the thought that
we are gleddened in any way by her
apparent defeat, we cannot rerrain
from exulting modestly over the fact
that Mrs. Haywood was given the op-
portunity to prove to state which af-
fects eastern manners that the mighty
west can be true to it's ideals.
If Nebraska likes chicken or turkey,
or mutton, or beef, or ham, and if /,
likes to deck it's millinery with plumes
and tips, or whole birds, native or for
eign, it makes no other pretensions
1t does not preach one doctrine and
practice another. We know this from
the incident referred to, and we are
glad it occurred, since it shows unmis,
takably where Nebraska stands.
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smoke and SCOT in Chicago are con-
slant menace to the development Of
Chicago as the great wholesale and re.
tail market of the middle west; and,
Whereas, The question of smoke
abatement is enc of the most serious
before Chicago business men; be it
Resolved, That the ways and means
committee request the civic industrial
committee of the chicago Commercial
association to consider what means
may be taken to the end that smoke
less Chicago may become an accom-
plished fact
Ottumwa has plenty of smoke, but
there are more pressing needs than
anti-smoke laws for this city. How
ever the efforts of the Des Moines
cidzens to secure legislative relief
will be watched with interest.
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LEBANON.

Lebanon, Feb. 21.--Mr. and Mrs s.
L. Humphrey and daughter, Ivadell.
and Nellie Conner spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Davis.
Mrs Alma Perkins and little son,
tombstone, came home Saturday, after
a two weeks visit with Mrs. Frank
Perkins at Mt Zion
Mrs. Ned Harrison and daughter,
Emma, visited Tuesday with Mrs Sad
Ter.
]. w. Brewer and family. who lived
on the Clarence Van Fleet farm the
past year, are moving to the John Nc
Cullough farm near Leando.
Mrs. William Davis returned Satur-
day from Springfield ILL.,, where she
spent two weeks with her brother ]. r.
Vincent, and family.
Mrs. G. ]. Wilson, who has been at
the hospital at Keokuk, came home
last week.
Mrs. Carrie Wilson is in very poor
health.
Mrs. Alma Perkins and Abbie ConneI
were shopping in Cantril Wednesday
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A BORN oPTlMlsT.

Exchange.-When little Leander
Bassett asked big Leallder, his father,
what an optimist was. Mr. Basset re-
garded him thoughtfully for moment
before he spoke.
Il hope you're not going to be one,
he said slowly. You favor your Tn.
some of his ways. 'Twould please Inc
nightly to have you turn out like
him.
I don't know how the big dictionar-
les put it, but know the general idea,
sonny, and it's your Uncle William
clear through and through.
When he had anything hard to dc
he just made sort Of window of 1t to
see something pleasant through.
when we had wood to saw an
split, he used to call it kind of bat
tie. He'd say, When we've disposed
of this regiment pointing to a pile O
wood father'd portioned off to us, !
think our troops will be able to make
off to the woods without further inter
ference, he'd say-and then we'd both
hack away like mad
when 1t came to hoeing corn in the
hot sun, and I'd get clean discouraged
he'd put his hand to his eyes and say
Strikes me we're getting on pretty
fast. When we've hoed these two
rows and sixteen more, we'll be one
more than half done, and plenty OF
time to finish. He'd laugh when he
said it and I'd laugh with him.
II couldn't always see it the same
way he did but learned one thing
you can look rightlat any hard, disa
greeable job.till you can't see anything
else, even when you turn away from
it; or you can look through it, no mat
ter how thick it is, same as William
did. He was what I call an optimst.'
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A SAD, SAD TALE THIS.

Des MONIES Capital-Noticing the
call for meeting of the stockholders
of the Des Moines Auditorium com
pany, one is reminded that there will
be no more state conventions of polit-
ical parties. The auditorium was built
with special reference to affording
meeting place for the republican state
convention. The new primary law
will undoubtedly require all nomina-
lions to be made at the polls. The re-
pub leans will make their nominations,
assisted by such democrats and mem.
bers Of other political parties as care
to vote. The public will miss the con-
ventions, their crowds, badges and
bands Of music, and also the speech of
the temporary chairman, which has
grown to be feature Of politics. The
abolition of the convention will mark
a distinct change in our political life.
Some Of the early republican conven-
tons were famous, even as some of
the Iowa republican leaders were ia.
nous. The early conventions of the
party brought to the front Grimes,
Kirkwood. Harlan Wright and others
The primary system will have its vir-
tues, but it will not bring forward any
new leaders in the way former lead.
ers were brought forward. The man
seeking the support of the republican
party in the future must go out and ad-
dress the people, laying down a creed
of his own. Des Moines will miss the
conventions. There will be none this
year because there will be no election,
there will be none next year because
of the adoption Of the primary law.
Business of the world has been reduc-
ed to a machine, and the politics of
the country has been reduced to the
same thing. A party without discus
sion in convention becomes a ma
chine
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RAILROADS ON DEFENSIVE.

One of the arguments advanced by
the railroads against the low fare and
reduced freight rate bills pending in
the various legislatures is that if they
are forced to submit to these reduc-
lions they will not only be compelled
to curtail their service, but will be
absolutely prevented from taking any
steps toward installing the proper
safeguards for railroad travel, which
the increasing horrors of late years
demand. Touching upon this matter
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard in an ad
dress before the Bowdoin college
alumni the other night said:
There are no railroads in any coun-
try that are as well and as cheaply
run as our railroads. The fault to
be found with the roads in this coun-
try is that they kill more people than
those in other lands. This is the
fault against which the crusaders
should direct their attention. If the
railroads were making more money
than they are they would be able to
equip their lines with the expensive
life-saving contrivances now used by
the wealthiest of the lines, yet the re-
formers say, Down with the railroads
profit; they are making too much
money already"
The New York Sun sustains the
view of Gen. Hubbard in an editorial:
'The truth about the railroads" says
the Sun, "is, as Gen. Hubbard indicat.
ed-and he is not the first man to
point out the fact that if the public
will be content to protect itself rigidly
against all abuses in the rehatino
category and insist upon proper safe
guard for railroad travel and a service
adequate to the privileges conferred
while leaving the railroads an ample
freedom to profit by the business they
can Go, the public will have plenty OF
railroad facilities and safe ones, and
the operation of economic laws will
more safely regulate" railroad pro-
perry than all the statutory wisdom
OF elected legislators.
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means desirable that they should pass
swiftly from the demands of a proper
regulation of the roads to liberation
of old evils, but it is desirable that
they should reason together and not
rush forward blindly in ignorance and
passion.
Justice is the goal, and justice alone
In order that justice may be done, d
large measure of public control is
necessary The Hepburn bill was
necessary, the federal and state com
missions are necessary At all times
it must be recognized that the COM
mon carriers exist by public license
and that they are the servants of the
whole public.
But the public should be as con-
scientious in protecting their rights
as 1t is now vigorous in asserting it's
own. And when the legislators of a
state whose population is both small
and unevenly distributed insist on d
uniform 2-cent fare it is evident that
they are paying no attention what
over to the right. They are acting On
implse without thought. Meanwhile
there is no mystery whatever as to the
course that they should pursue. They
should begin with intelligent study
of the subject. They should utrn over
to state commissions the task of in
quiring into varying conditions and
proposing equitable rates. We want
no f1inching in the great campaign for
the safeguarding of the peoples inter
ests, but it would be a lamentable
and an inexcusable mistake if the lead
'ership of that campaign We're to be
committed to the reckless and the lg-
norant.
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Retort TiekIed the Judge.

The late Judge Pettingill of the Mae.
den district court concealed under an
apparently stern exterior kind heart
and nothing touched him SO quickly
as an unintentional witticism, espec.
tally if it were at the expense of the
court.
One day a prisoner arraigned before
him for drunkenness, and still under
the influence of liquor, pleaded as hard
as he could to be placed on probation
why should place you on proba.
tion?' said the judge sternly why
you're drunk now"
mo, I'm not, your honor, said the
poor prisoner, earnestly. "Im as sober
as judge"
He was placed on probation. Bos,
ton Herald
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AUDUBoNIsM, vEGETARINIsM
AND HATS.

Chicago Inter Ocean.-It would be
better, perhaps, if controversies like
that which occurred at the Woman's
National Suffrage convention on Tues
day, in which Mrs. Mary Smith Hay
wood of Chadron, Neb., and Mrs. Har-
riet Taylor Upton of Warren, Ohio,
wee" the principals, especially in geth.
erings which are aiming to educate
man up to higher understanding of
woman. But since it seems inevitable
that they shall occur, it is just as we'll
maybe, that the principals shall be
women who have the courage as we'll
as the ability to express themselves
as clearly as did Mrs Haywood and
Mrs. Upton.
For instance. Mrs. Haywood took the
position that no woman who was true
to the noble cause in which the dele
gates to the. convention were enlisted
would think Of wearing hat trimmed
with slaughtered birds, when Mrs. Up
ton remarked sweetly:
Nobody who will eat chicken or a
cow or a fish has any right to say a
word when anybody else kills parrot
or fox or seal. It's just as bad one
way or another. And guess we have
all eaten chickens.
This. of course. was in the nature of
challenge to Mrs. Haywood, who, in
a sisterly tone replied:
Il must protest against being includ-
ed in such sweeping statement.
Nothing would persuade me to eat a
chicken, or to connive at the horror of
trapping innocent animals for their
fur. 1t causes thrill of horror to pass
through me when attend woman's
suffrage convention and see women
with CHARITY trophies of slaughtered
animals upon their person.
And nothing could be more natural
than that Mrs. Upton should ask at
this point:
Don't you use birds to trim hats?"
Or that Mrs. Haywood should reply:
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WIFE DEsERTERS.

When few days ago the Ottumwa
police were appealed to by woman
who asked that steps be taken to To-
cate her husband and bring him back
to the wife and children he had desert.
ed, it was regretted that there was
no law on the Iowa statute books pro.
viding punishment for wife deserters
But subsequent events proved that
in this particular case at least such
a law would be useless. The wife
after being compelled to seek charity
received a letter from the man who
deserted her. He was repentent and
asked her to write and tell him ne
could come home. She wrote.
That is why bills to punish wife de.
serters are not always success If
they are so modelled that the state
can prosecute in cases where the wife
refuses to appear against the hus.
band there is some chance of punish
ing a class of men who richly earn
such treatment, but if the wife as the
aggrieyed party alone has the right
to prosecute, in nine cases out of ten
there is no prosecution.
To err is human; to forgive divine
is pretty sentiment, but forgiveness
sometimes causes a weight of woe
A husband who deserts a wife leaving
her without means and with infant
children to support should not be let
OH with smile of forgiveness. If
there is no law to reach him the wife
as a precautionary measure against
such actions in the future should com.
pei him to crawl into her presence on
his hands and knees to ask forgive.
hess.
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THE MILLION AMp THE MO.
TOR CAR.

There was man who saved and
saved
And got little cash,
And soon among the bulls and bears
On Wall street cut dash.
BY buying here with foresight wise.
And shrewdly selling there,
He woke one morning bright to find
Himself millionaire.
He bought costly motor-car
His wealth to celebrate.
The merry footing of his horn
Re-echoed long and late.
oh. this is life, he gaily cried,
Oh, this is something like
AS daily in the big machine
He whizzed along the pike.
But what with tires exploding fast
. And fines in every town,
Repairs and gasoline, his gold
Like snowfakes melted down.
And now upon trolley car
Each day he rides to work
And draws his modest ten per week
Once more an humble clerk
Irving in the Bohemian fol
February.
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high in the watch-tower of mans an

high in the watch-tower of mans an
atomy 1t controls thought, sight,
hearins-all the senses.
How does brain keep up the pace?
Reason answers, Food and TEST"
Oxygen in good red blood is tie
food. The blood flowing abou. the
good red blood centers keeps them
aiivs. The brain works only while it
feeds. When the blood is withdrawn
from the feeding centers the brain
rests.
Then man sleeps. When The Brain
is over active man is plunged into the
throes of insomnia. 1t is dreams and
sleeplessness that causes old age and
weakness.
Those same vitiating dreams and
the racking insomnia are the result of
an overabundant supply of blood in
the brain.
How can the blood be withdrawn?
Custom has said "by eating before re-
firing" This draws the blood to the
stomach. The brain then rests, but
the stomach works overtime. The
stomach must have regular stom-
ach's working day and resting time CT
it will break down.
Here is where the usefulness of the
toes comes in. You may heretofore
have considered your toes about as
useless as your vermiform appendix.
You are mistaken. The circulation in
mans extremities has been reduced
by abuse. Gold feet" is such con-
mon complaint that the phrase has be-
come figurative. Man has relegated
himself to the flat-foot class. He seeks
the least exertive way of walking aa1
steps on his heels. This has led to the
invention of the hot flat-iron, the soal,-
stone and the hot-water bottle as bed
| fellows.
Toes were made to walk with. Toes,
when properly used, draw the blood
from the brain and permit it to res.
| Try it. Rise to your toes every step
you take. Make use of the ball of your
foot.
| Take brisk walk before retiring.
| If you suffer from dreams or insomnia,
exercise by rising to your toes. The
blood will leave your brain. You will
not have cold feet Your sleep will be
regular and undisturbed, and your
brain will thank you by putting a new
vigor into your life.
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THE SMOKE NUISANCE

An attempt is being made in the leg.
islature to secure the enactment of
the Missouri anti-smoke law. This is
in line with crusade that has been
under way in Des Moines for some
time. Chicago has undertaken an or.
sanized crusade against the evil and
the commercial association of that
city is planning a fight that promises
to settle the smoke nuisance. The
ways and means committee OF that
association placed the matter before
the body in the following set of resolu.
tions:
Whereas, The great quantities of
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BRAINS VS.. COLD FEET.

Des Moines News-Do you care tc
perpetuate your youth? Do you desire
to cheat the chloroform brigade of Os
Ter? Do you fear disease, weakness
break-downs and other ills? Do you
wish to keep your nerves in tune, your
body strong, your brain healthy and
alive?
If you do, just WALK on your TOES
Perhaps you think this joke. but
friend, it is true as truth itself.
Life is brain, and brain is life. a
man without mind is like clock
without works. The brain is posted
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HAYEsvILLE.
Quarterly Meeting at Ollie

Quarterly Meeting at Ollie.
Hayesville, Feb. 21.-The quarterly
meeting of this circuit will be held In
Ollie newt Sunday. at IL O'clock
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Rici1-
ardson. February IA, a daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs Abbott of Sigourney
gave an entertainment here Friday
and Saturday nights
Will Griffith of Ottumwa was BUSH
ness visitor here Saturday
Mrs. Anna Richardson was shopping
in Sigourney Friday
The Ladies' Aid society met with
Mrs. Duffy last Thursday afternoon
Miss Minnie Crabb went to Oska-
loosa Friday for a brief visit with
friend in the Central Holiness Univer-
sity.
George Utterback went to Ottumwa
Monday to work
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Porter have
moved onto the George Jacobs prop
erty In town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Jacobs left here
today for visit with relatives in
Kansas.
Mrs. Sarah Utterback of Sigourney
is here for few days visit among rel-
atives
John Ray was business caller in
Sigourney Monday.
Mrs. j. Rogers entertained large
number of lady friends Tuesday aft
ernoon
Mr.. apd Mrs. George Adams visited
at the Martin home Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs John Ray entertained
friends at dinner Sunday
Miss Nellie Hardesty Of Sigourney
is visiting with relatives here
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
with Mrs. Libby Jacobs next Thurs
day.
Christian Endeavor meeting next
Sunday evening will be led by Mrs,
Maleva Utterback
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Harnerd passed
through town Monday on their wal
to Ottumwa. II
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STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE.
Lord Lorne,s Luck Lasted.

Lord Lorne's Luck Lasted.
Driven to desperation by their heavy
losses gamblers have often sought by
some coup either to repair their shat.
tered fortunes or to bring down utter
ruin upon themselves One of the
most curious instances of this kind
comes from England of the eighteenth
century. A notorious gambler had
been losing steadily in game for high
stakes with Lord Lorne. Exasperated
by his continual Ill fortune, he sudden
ly sprang up from the card table. seiz-
ed large and costly punch bowl, and
balancing it above his head, called out
to his opponent:
For once I'll have bet where I
have an equal chance of winning! Odd
or even for $4,000 guineas!"
"Odd," said the peer placidly, and
the gambler hurled the bowl against
the wall.
When they counted the pieces Lord
Lorne had won.-Tuesday Magazine.
Tillnan's illustration of Nerve.
Senator Tillman at banquet in
Charleston, said of notorious corpo-
ration:
This is what l dislike about these
people.
'"They break the law with bribery
and with corruption, and then, If there
is strike among their hands. win
dow broken. a gate torn down, they
are the first to come whining to the
law--these lawbreakers-for protec-
ton. What nerve, what impudence!"
Senator Tillman paused and smiled.
do you know what, in their nerve,
they remind me of" he said. "They
remind me Of man who takes shelter
from thunder storm in an umbrella
shop" Charleston News.
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LIVE BY THEIR NOSES.

A new occupation has been develop
ed in London and already is being sue
cessfully worked The requirement is
sensitive sense of smell, and a little
practice makes the detector quite pro
ficient. He inspects the gas pipes and
fixtures of a building and charges is
cents for each leak he discovers
Some of the men earn SIS a week.
Popular Mechanics.
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Professional Cards.

In this cut the second
linn bar vertebra OF
the backbone is in
proper elat,ou With
the first but not with
the .hird: therefore
he great trunk nerve
is free as il passes
rom the spinal cord
trough the first open
ing bit seye ly pinch
ed in the second. The
chiropractor can in
stantly adjust spine
No. 2, making the
second opening a s
large as tue first. thus
removing pre- SIS " e
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