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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-06
DooLEY ON WAR.

M. Dooley in the New Orleans
Picayune.-An' dye know I've begun
to have a suspicion tn.~s war may be
more popular thin some iv us thinks.
It's been goin' on FIR a good many
years. Hogen tells me there was a
peace conference in Rome SO nanny
years ago that it must've been befure
my time, an Joolyas Cayzar sint his
regards to it be man he'd captured
in Blum I'm not FIR war; I'm again
1t. But what am l goin' to do with
the young fellows. If there was wan
man undter sixtey at tn peace con-
ference I'd have little something
down on universal peace. War amt
FIR tn old Their business Is to set
back practisin' checkers, sage advice,
an usury.
But to lad wars a picnic. If he
didn't feel that way there wudden't be
amy wars.
Ye can't convince tn kind iv young
fellows that We get f'r sijers that it's
perilous occupation. He knows 1t
amt compared with the kind he's
used to- Larkin has tn figures. a. he
can prove to ye that amy brakmin'on
first class American railroad listed
on the New York stock exchange
mas about five times as good chance
to be kilt as tn most INTREPID sojer
How many old railroad men wye see
around9 An how many veterans iy
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kUROkl LEARNS FAST.

When the Kuropatlins and others of
unpronounceable name led the Russian
hosts with design at showing the
Japanese nation into the sea they en-
countered one General Baron Kuroki,
a little, mild-mannered man who rose
to the Emergency so promptly that Rus
STA was given jolt from which 1t
never will recover. The American ma.
ton, taking long distance view of the
situation, applauded and then turned
its attention to things at home.
But attention has again been called
to Kuroki by his visit to this country
and he has lost none of his greatness
by a closer and more intimate view
And he still rises to his emergencies
This was demonstrated clearly just be.
fore he left Chicago. AS he was talk.
ing royal departure from the Audi.
torium Annex did he make hasty re-
treat and dodge the porters and bell
hops who we're falling over each other
to carry the royal suit case, and hustle
the regal trunk? Not Kuroh. He
emptied his pockets and scattered a
few hundred in tips so effectively as
to cement friendly relations between
the Auditorium Annex and Japan fol
all time to come.
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PEOPLES PULPIT.
CONCERNING GEN. STREET.

Editor of the Ottumwa Courier
Dear Sir.-In the May oath. 1907 is
sue of your paper you publish an ar
ticle dealing with the early history of
Gen. JOS M Street, credited to Wash
ington Correspondence, Milwaukee,
Wis, by one Frank A. Flower, news
paper man now Of Washington, form.
erly of Wisconsin. The article more
than two columns long, undertakes to
give the life of General Street from
alleged history and family letters; re-
fering to his romantic career. etc.
wish to say that the writer while CIV
ing a general thread Of truth and some
detail, romances outrageously with the
truth in places. The most important
statement and the cause Of this let
ter of correction from me, is the out
rageous SANDER on the name of our
country's revered patriot, George
Washington, who the writer, Flow
err" in the most matter Of fact way,
names as the natural father of Gener.
al Thomas Posey whose daughter,
Maria Posey. was my grandmother.
hence my interest.
In this double SANDER and infamy In
attempting to brand the memory of
two such gallant soldiers and devot-
ed public servants, public and private
history challenges.
General Thomas Posey was born
July 8, 1850, on the Potomac, Va, Of
the old distinctive family of that
name, then one hundred years past
colonial settlers, moved with his faith
er's family In 1859 to the western from
tier of Virginia.
General George Washington mas
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tn Grand Army iv tn Raypublic? I
know tbs wron f'r conscript in tn
industhreel army who's detailed to th'
important post " cannln' white lead
to fly his jooty when he's called upon
to- so out an shoot firm behind a
three at foreigners that he used to
throw bricks at, but We can't prove
1t to him. War FIR this boy is three
four or FIVE years Nv tn kind of a
time he has f'r week ivry year
whin him an Billy Walsh an old
Stubby Schwartz goes off campin' at
Twin Lakes.
An the ladies'! What ARE We goin'
to do about thin? Are We goin' to
abolish tn ladies when We abolish
war? | know pawnbroken' Is more
non rable profissyon thin war, but
niver see amy bright glances Nv tn
fair directed at me frind, Nose. I've
seen thin hand him ivrything else, but
niver an eye. TIL ladies' wud keep
war goin' Nv ivrybody else was agin'
1t. In me day l was no badge horse
mesilf whin 1t comes to popularity witt
tn sex whiniver see coat with brass
buttons wipin' its feet on tn dure
mat reached undher tn chair FIR me
hat. If | stayed, | know I'd have tc
put in tn avenin talkin' with tn ole
man about his rheumatism.
Yes, sir, we're against war, an sc
am |, an SO Is ivrybody who knows
tn way to tn dintists. But vel
niver get TIL foolish and frivolous
young to give it up until We practice
tn rule laid down be the newspapers
FIR the agonized wife who writes in tt
ask how to keep her husband firm
goin' out nights: Make tn home as
comfortable as Tn saloon.' An If W
rally want to know what TIL chances
ARE iv permanent peace ask ye're
son, Packy, which he'd rather be whir
he grows up to be big man in'ra
Grant or Andrew Carnegie. An they
are both tn same size.
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ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?

Is your hair growing thin on top?
Yes! Well, you are eligible to mem
bership in Mayor Dahlman's Hatless
Order. Mayor Dahlman, by the way,
is the cowboy executive of Omaha.
When he was a cowpuncher his looks
showed a luxuriant growth, but the
cares of Office thinned his hair lock by
lock until now there is a broad ex-
panse of shining pate where once grew
curls and cowlicks
In this extremity Mayor Dahlman
initiated himself as the original and
charter member of the Hatless Order
and then he relented sufficiently to
leave the cnarter roll open long
enough to allow some of his thin hair
ed brothers to get in on the ground
floor or on order whose purpose is tc
promote the growth Of hair on bald
heads by exposing the head to the dew
the rain, the sun, the wind and the
elements in general.
All headgear is to be discarded OF
locked in safety deposit vault for q
month before prospective members
can acquire all the rights provided
by the constitution.
And now the question arises. Are
you eligible?
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A $4,000 IOWA FARM.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil- Wat
erloo Reporter tells of one Iowa man
who has not caught the cheap land
fever 1t speaks Of the case Of ]. J..
Emert, whose holdings are in Black
Hawk county, near the little village
of Dewar. Says the Reporter:
He is the owner Of $50 acres of land
which is highly improved He secured
at least the nucleus Of it in an early
day. adding to his original homestead
as wise judgment deemed it advisable.
All of the land has been in his possess
sion for a number of years Last week
he was offered 500 an acre or exactly
$6s,0O0 IN cold cash for it. Did he
take it? Not yet. He declined the
offer and will get more money for 1t
by holding 1t a few years more. Those
VINO are posted on lands, especially
those held by Mr. Emert, claim he will
realize 5000 per acre or $4,000.
That surely is picture to make
sick those who have been disposing Of
their Iowa acres to buy up cheap tracts
of uncertain value In improved
regions. The Waterloo paper says
further Of the case of MT. Emert: BE
sides this he has made a good living
from it and is just now in position to
enjoy the fruits of his labors. Mr.. EN-
ert came to Black Hawk county in an
early day. saw the advantages Of land
accretions and was wise enough to
stand by his first impression when en-
tering upon the farm. He secured it at
nominal price and now has it in such
a state Of development he can dictate
the price,
Black Hawk county is one Of the
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Bad Fire at Weller.

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
O'Brien Of Weller, Iowa, was Destroy
ed by fire on May %. Just how the
fire originated is not definitely known
but 1t is thought to have originated
up stairs. When discovered by Mrs
O'Brien. who was working in the gar
den. the rest Of the family being alb
sent from the home working in the
fields, the blaze had made such head
way that all efforts to quench 1t were
unavailing. The greater portion Of the
household goods down stairs were re-
moved to place of safety but the
houser I'd effects on the second floor
were s,lmed with the building Two
hundred bushels of wheat, which was
stored in an adjoining building, was
also burned. Loss, about 5000, insur-
ance about 5000.
Mr.. and Mrs. James O'Neill. residine
two miles west of this place. are the
proud parents of a baby girl, borr
Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lahart are hap
py In the possession of new daugh-
ter, born Thursday afternoon.
Misses Mary A. and Agins Kirby
We're called to Ames Saturday morning
by telegram announcing the death
of their little nephew, the son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Judge of that place
The funeral was held yesterday.
Ed P. Roam narrowly escaped
a serious accident at the Bur.
lington railroad crossing in this place
Sunday at o'clock D. M, while on hi,
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Henry Clews holds that the Indian
apolis speech Of President Roosevelt
had a decidedly reassuring affect on
financial interests and fully confirmed
the statements previously made in the
Clews advices that the President has
stood for no harmful federal interfer-
ence with the railroads but simply de-
sired that standard Of fairness and
honesty in management which would
disarm hostile criticism, and in the
end benefit investors quite as much as
shippers. Discussing, the Presidents
stand further, Mr. Clews says:
If the President succeeds in putting
an end to railroad abuses, as it is to
be hoped he will, the reult will be high
ly beneficial not only to the country at
large but also in financial and political
circles. His frank statements should
stop for all times the injurious mis-
representations of his attitude which
have been so persistently circulated,
apparently for the futile purpose of
forcing him to yield Or compromise.
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! AMERICAN SLANG in ROME.

New York World-The universal
spread Of American slang is amazing
and the globe trotter meets with 1t in
the most unexpected places. Last Dc
tober two Americans wandering about
the Piazza d'Espagna in Rome were
accosted by one of the innumerable
small boys who sell postal card pic
lures of the Holy city. He held out
a sheaf of postal cards and offered
them for sale, stating the price in Ital-
ian.
The Americans did not care to buy
and, like his guild the continent over
he followed them and became bit OF
nuisance. But he was such merry
eyed little chap they had not the heart
to speak harshly to him. At last, now
ever, they felt obliged to say mo" de
cidedly. 1t was then that he surprised
them and gave them queer little pull
at their American heartstrings by say
ing, his black eyes swapping with fur
and the magnitude of the achieve
ment: "Skeedoo! Skeedoo! Twenty
tnr-r-reee!' Then he vanished with 9
burst of laughter.
But the sequel was equally interest
ing. Late that same afternoon the
same couple came from the Catacombs
into the white glare of the Appian way
five miles from the Piazza d'Espagna
They had hardly stepped into the
street before the same urchin was al
them again, and when he recognized
them he was as amused as they. This
time he did not offer them any cards
but simply held out his hand and said:
"Skeedoo! Skeedoo! Twanty-thr-r-ree.'
And he got his generous soldi, as ht
knew quite we'll he would.
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way to visit at the home of his father1
in-law, Pierce Coday. He approached
the crossing from the north and thu
view being INSTRUCTED by high ban1
westward from the crossing he failed
to see No. 6, which was approaching
at 5omile- hour clip from thd
west, until his team was almost upon
the tracks. Only for the fact that he
exercised excellent presence Of mind
and backed his team from the tracA
the accident might have been attended
by loss of life, as he was accompanied
by his family at tho time and they
Jumped from the vehicle before the
horses overturned 1T.
Jerry Doyle spent Sunday at Nell
rose.
John shehan, ohm o'Neill and Alley
Shehan were Abba visitors over SUM
day.
r. II. Lee and family of Wayne
township spent Sunday in town. tbs
guests of friends.
d. e. Carr was looking after bust.
sess matters In Abba one day last
week.
Division No. 1, A. Q. H, contem-.
plates giving an Invitation ball at
their hall in Georgetown on June 49,
Miss Kittie and James Murray visit
ed with Abba relatives a few days last
week.
An epidemic Of measles exists hero
at present.
]. u. Myers, agent for the Burlington
| at this place, oontemplates taking a
two weeks lay-off July 1.
J. F. Shehan has force of men en-.
gagged in sinking a nice large cistern
on his residence lot whereby to SUPP
ply his dwelling with water.
Patrick o'Brien Of Weller was In
town Friday, transacting business with
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IoWA's DECLINE IN INFLUENCE

Cedar RAPIDS Republican.--Iowans
are confronted with the fact that the
state has been losing some of its pres
tige in Washington. The defeat of
Major Lacey at the polls last year lost
the state an important congressional
Craftsmanship as we'll as an able mem
Der of the Iowa delegation. Secretary
Shaw is out of his great office and
Speaker Henderson Is dead and gone
and, in the course of events, 1t will
not be many years until the state
loses the remaining member Of the
cabinet. One of the Iowa cores
pondents at Washington makes the
following record of these facts:
'Towa's influence in Washington Is
gradually lowering and those who
watch the currents of such things say
the day will soon come when 1t will
be small in comparison with the In
fluence welded by some of the other
states, and slight in comparison with
what it was in other days"
1t Is not cheerful prospect to con-
template for time was when Iowans
were able to do great deal of boast
ing about their Washington influence.
Judge Walter I. Smith of Council
Bluffs, one Of the most influential mem
bers now in congress from Iowa,
speaking on this matter, recently
said:
ssIt is not likely there will be an
other promotion from the national
house of representatives to the senate
in twenty-five years in Iowa. The new
In hot o..
the senate and house be voted for on
the same day and at the same time
and in order for congressman to be
a candidate for the senate without in
terfering with his chances for re-elec-
ton to congress- he must abandon his
ambition to represent his district in
congress. There is no question as to
the decline of the influence of the state
of Iowa at Washington in the last five
years and it will continue to go down
before beginning to rise again In the
five years we have lost the speaker
ship of the house, a member of the cab
met and the craftsmanship of the house
committee on public lands. No man in
twenty-five years will reach the use
fulness and strength of Senator ALI
son. Hepburn is now along in the 7O's
and his place will be hard to fill. So
while we have lost heavily of late
years. we stand chances Of losing
more
These things belong to the inevita-
BILE for men will grow older and will
die or be defeated for Office The Sioux
City Journal thinks that some of the
decline has been due to factionalism
among republicans in Iowa, that they
have been seeking to strike each other
down, instead of building up the influ-
ences of the state in national affairs
Some of the decline is due to that, no
doubt, the defeat of Major Lacey be.
ing in point. But whatever Is back
of it, let an effort be made to regain
for the state whatever prestige it has
lost.
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born February "a, 1892, 30 there was
about 18 years difference in their ages
need not say that the boy Washing
ton was noble woman's only son and
like her credited with the strictest
honesty and morality and highest no.
bility of character splendidly exem-
plified during full life time; his life
has been searched as has no other
American. In the face Of these facts
alone, why should Mr.. Flower, who
ever he Is, or any other, write such
an atrocious absurdity
The family history of my ancestors
is we'll preserved and authenticated.
The history Of General Thomas Posey
and all his family is one to inspire re-
yerence and pride in his descendants,
and is, certainly known. The only re-
lationship the Posey family had to
George Washington, an honorable one,
was as follows. Thomas Posey was
first married to the daughter of Samp-
son Mathews, prominent revolution
airy leader Of Augusta county, Va. BY
this union there was one son, John,
who was a captain in the war of 1912.
Thomas Posey some years after his
first wife's death, married the widow
of Maj George Thornton, a grandson
of Mildred Washington. Widow
Thornton nee Mary Alexander, daugh-
ter of DR.. John B. Alexander of Alex
ander, Va, had two children by Maj.
Thornton. By the Posey union there
were numerous descendants many of
whom intermarried with the descend
ants Of Mildred Washington, nearest
of blood to George Washington. One
OF these marriages was the said Capt.
John Posey with the daughter of Maj.
George Thornton and Mary Alexander;
In short the unrelated children Of
Thomas Posey and his second wife
married. My only excuse for inflict-
ing this complicated relationship on
any reader, Is to show the honorable,
though remote, relationship of the
Poseys and Washingtons.
General Thomas Posey, after a long
and honorable career as Indian fight
er, patriot soldier in two wars, (the
real leader and hero of Stoney Point
and many other battles), U. 8. sena-
tor, territorial governor, and Indian
agent, died March 1S, 1918, at the
home OF his son-in-law, Joseph Mont
fort Street at Shawneetown, ILL.,
Ny father. John Lloyd, was born ut
Fort Crawford, now Prairie du Chen
in 1929. I should be pleased to correct
and make more complete If time al
lowed, the purported history of Gen
Street In the article; as his grandson
and native of your city, also because
OF the kindly interest taken in Gen
Streets memory by Ottumwa people
would like to some day supply his
correct life to their city library.
Respectfully,
Chas. p. Street.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
| May 81, 1907.
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preached the temperance sermon at
the union temperance meeting in the
Methodist Episcopal church. His adj
dress was very forcible and quite an
encouragement to those interested in
temperance work
Miss Lille Jones. a graduate of the
Chicago Training school, spoke on the
ernoon
Miss Ruby Murphy is visiting at the
home of her brother, Crate.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Jackson visited
over Sunday with their daughter, Mrs.
Moore of Eldon
There was much excitement in town
for few moments Friday morning,
when Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ramsey
horses became frightened and rar
away. Both were thrown from thu
| buggy. Fortunately no one was seri-
ously injured.
Misses Patti and vermith Sherman
are spending the week in Hillsboro
with their grandmother, Mrs. Cooke.
Mrs. Walt Skinner was taken to the
Ottumwa hospital Saturday. She has
been In poor health for some time.
first OF the week
Mrs. G. Anderson returned from FIT
Madison Saturday evening. She was
accompanied by her mother. Mrs. West
who will make her home here for the
summer
J. v. Clark was called to Batavia
Monday by the illness of his sister
Mrs. Shoemaker.
Mrs. ]. w. Young and children re-
turned home Saturday, after a three
weeks visit with her parents near
New London.
Charles Hampton and son, Elmer Of
\ West Point, We're In town last week
visiting old friends.
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CONCERNING THE DIET,

Recent governmental reports tend to
prove that the beef trust. which Is the
loving appellation given to the packers
large and small. who slice the festive
COW into porterhouse and make hams
and sausage of the porker, have more
to fear from the department Of agricul-
ture than the department of Justice
The agriculture bureau has not both
cred itself with the question: of re-
bates or unlawful combinations in re-
straint of trade as means to the ends
OF trust busting, but it has taken up
experiments and made report which
strikes home to the packers by advis-
Ing the people that to eat meat at all
is unnecessary and to eat it in excess
Is foolish.
For instance. the department asks.
after extended experiments, why eat
porterhouse when ten cents worth will
only furnish 444 calories of energy,
while the same amount of fresh apples
will furnish 1.467 Of energy. or three
times as much?
Why eat steak or mutton when ten
cents worth Of apple butter will fur
nfsh four times as much energy as the
same amount of meat? And to furnish
another proof Of the inadequacy Of a
meat diet it is shown that ten cents
worth of bread will furnish $500
calories Of energy, or more than can
be had for this sum of investment in
fruit. meat, milk or vegetables.
An then on top of this comes the re-
port of Professor Irving Fisher, the
economist Of Yale, of series of exper-
iments in dieting students at the uni
versity. Previous tests made by the
professor with groups of flesh eaters
and flesh abstainers proved that those
who abstained from meat or ate 1t
sparingly had far greater endurance
than those who ate meat in the ordin-
airy quantities. Then the professor
took another tack. Gathering group
Of students about him who were willing
to become dietary martyrs to the cause
Of science he began a five months
series of experiments to so diet The stu
dents as to reduce the quantity and
the cost of food and at the same time
get the maximum strength and energy
from the amount consumed.
The taste instinct formed the basis
Of the experiments. The students or
dered what they pleased and the die.
tates Of the appetite were followed alb
solutely. The only rule followed was
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q q q CURES

Ulcers of deeply polluted supply
blood filled
Ted into the place through the circulation surrounding
becomes diseased and the obstinate
Every old ulcer pollution discharge
SHOW that the ulcer is from healing the
II OF the blood This condition
IT. remains Of constitutional
the absorption Of tbs refuse Of the body which properly
natural channels But
polluted that
the place. and the heal pasers lotions
never p1anen heal them because they Do not reach the blood
builds up the weak sluggish blood gives and strength
allows the Ulcer to heal naturally Nothing
nts like circulation every
impu
for will experience good system becomes
lnnuenced y 81 SIS Book Sores Ulcers medical
- VINO "sts CHE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA ca,
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TRADE WIVES; TOTS TO BOOT

Sioux City, June A trade OF
wives, as binding on the principals as
horse trade, by the terms of which
each husband gave his wife to tho
other and threw In the children. waal
revealed in the district court here DUR
ing the hearing of divorce case.
H. Leming and J. Eggert, prosper.
GUS farmers, are the principals. The
story of the wife trade was told when
Davis Leming, involved in a divorce
case, was mistaken for his brother
He, Leming, was called to the stand
and admitted that the trade had been
made almost two years ago; that re-
was made forever, and his children
were traded to Eggbert with their
mother