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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-07

the treasury than whom there has
been no better To what extent he has
stood between sound business and
panic perhaps he himself only knows.
No fault has ever been found with his
management that has had Justification
in fact. He leaves a clean record. But
he has paid for the privilege and now
as a result of the name he has made
for himself he goes to responsible
banking position in the nations money
center where all Iowans believe he
will give a good account of himself.
1t may be too that if he decides to try
for the presidency next year he can
get the Hawkeye votes, but that be-
longs in subsequent chapter in the
story of the rise of Shaw of Iowa.
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THE POOR RICH.
With

Pity the unfortunate rich. With
tax collectors and titled, but broke,
foreign noblemen on the one hand try.
ing to pry loose the purse string, and
interstate commerce commissions and
legislatures on the other Investigating
how the purse became SO we'll filled,
1t would seem that the wealthy class
is more to be pitied than censured.
But Professor Shailes Matthews, dean
Of the Chicago university divinity
school has nothing but censure. Rich
people are not always to be consider.
ed a benefit to the world" asserts Mr..
Matthews, and then ne attempts TO
prove his statement by quoting from
the new testament to show that the
Bible is hostile to the rich, to their
arrogance, their self1isEness, their
moral decay Arrogance" he says,
sis a main reason for hostility to the
ricn." And he cites an instance:
when some one goes arrogantly
by in an automobile, with death in
front and a stencil behind, and mar
rowly misses one of your children,
how do you feel about it? 1t is easy
for one who has just jumped aside
in time to save himself from being
crushed by the car in it's progress to
feel class hatred.
But perhaps after all the professor
may be mistaken and what he thought
was arrogance was just the pride of
possessing a 1907 model benzine bug
gy. Professor Matthew'S ideas of
what the world is coming to are not
new. Before the automobile came 1T
found expression in verse thus:
The rich man rides in chaises,
But the poor man walks. be ---
The last word may be supplied by
finding the proper word to rhyme
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LlBERTYvILLE.

Litertyville, March Mrs Ella
Pierce was shopping in Fairfield Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Ray Loenr Of Fairfield
spent Saturday and Sunday at the
|C. Vaught home
Mrs. George Boughner OF Fairfield
is visiting with her daughter, Mrs.
Ill Clifford.
Mrs. N. M. Warwick of Centerville
attended the Leppo- Ward nuptials IN
L bertyville Wednesday.
s. B. Wisecarver and Miss Minnie
Carlson of Fairfield attended the Lep-
howard nuptials Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Davis enter
tanned the M. w. NJ club at their hons
In Libertyville last Friday evening.
Games and music was enjoyed.
Rev. Bruce of Brighton, who has
been conducting revival meetings at
the M. E. church closed the meetings
Tuesday evening. He returned to his
home Wednesday morning.
Erwin Glotfelty was transacting
business in Fairfield Friday.
Mrs. Akton and daughter Of Eldon
visited with relatives in Libertyville
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mis-. w. S. vaught visited
with friends in Fairfield Wednesday.
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4 4 /. 4
gestive of mizz1e, pizzle and dizzle,
and even Of fizzle.
And why should we be deprived of
the full round glory of short fol
lowing the SOUND Of diphthong and
rolling r? All of this beauty be.
longs to us It is ours by inheritance.
1t is hard to think OF finer combina-
ton of letters for muse in words than
those to be found in the last two syl-
tables OF the name of our state. Yet
we have suffered them to be sacrificed
by the Cloths and Vandals, and have
fallen into wheeling hard aspirate.
yeritable cultural, at the end of our
state name, instead of making the
music for making which the founders
OF the state gave us the necessary in
strunents
Missouri goes with all the Kisses
on the SIS and the rolling r, and short
i. Just try it on your piano until
you get 1t memorized.
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ROCKEFELLER AND HIS WEALTH.

3 = & ~
Topeka Capital -Rockefeller's mum
ificence in giving away $S0,0OO,000 is
pointed to as "a sort of justification of
Rockefeller's fortune. Let 1T go at
that. He can't take his fortune with
him. 1t comes back in educational en-
dowments. etc. The next thing is to
prevent, if possible, new Rockefellers
in another generation coming up from
nothing to one hundred, two hundred,
five hundred or thousand million dol
lars acquired in lifetime of brain toll
in the art of acquisition Rockefeller
is distributing mis-. But better to have
laws that will make it impossible for
any man in the future to accumulate
vastly more property than any human
mind is capable of producing. For the
wealth of Rockefeller, while acquired,
was not produced by Rockefeller.
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simple. The young boys and the
young girls, who have wanc cred from
the straight and narrow path who
have made mistakes, usually through
ignorance are trained and nodded
and good men and good women appre-
ciate the work that is being done in
these two institutions And now and
then there comes back to the super
intendent of one or the other institu-
ton, letter more precious than a
big check. 1t tells of a successful life
somewhere in the golden west or in
the south or the north or in a section
of Iowa where new life was posi-
BILE for the writer 1t tells of a happy
home and of the JOY Of living in a
clean community, enjoying the conf
dence and respect Of your neighbors
And 1t tells how all this is the result
of the work. of that school, which was
scoffed at by the old-fasnioned prac-
tical men, who believed that the chill
dren should be locked up, starved and
beaten into submission 4e new way
was to gain their sympathy. to appeal
to their better nature to find the good
in them and develop it. The new
school taught that after all there is
not SO very much difference between
people and especially between young
folks and That there is much good in
all and that they are easily led, if
the way Is but found, while it Is a
difficult and disagreeable task to
drive them.
The state fair association has asked
Cor $4,000 for a big pavilion. That
may be altogether for the hogs, and
1t, may be necessary to improve the
appearance of the grounds for the
benefit of Des Moines. The state fair
association has asked for other things
And surely, everything that can I'm.
prove the state fair ought to be grant.
eG even If it benefits Des Mpines and
&C tines high. Aud Will, IoNa is a big
agricultural state and Is very proud
Of her hogs, after all her first thought
ought to be of her Maynard children
The institution at Mitchellville is
overcrowded and that at Eldora is
full. The proper thing to do under
the circumstances is not to discourage
the practice of sending children to
these institutions, but rather to build
them up with liberal hand Give
The able ilper.nLsndents plenty Of
room. Give them anything that in
reason. they may ask for. The APP
preparations for the two excellent in
stitutions combined, as now proposed,
are much less tnan the sum asked
for that hog pavilion at Des Moines.
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FERMENTATION OF CRUELTY TO
THE SOIL"

Des Moines News.-Here is some
thing new under the sun:
A man named Rockwell Sayre, of
Bryn Mar, Pennsylvania, has proposed
law for the prevention of cruelty to
land"
He has organized a society after the
model Of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals.
He says the land of the country is
being abused, cruelty treated" by
heartless farmesr who plant the same
crop year after year. There is no ro-
tation, no resting of the soil by using
it as meadow or pasture.
Therefore Mr.. Sayre has had a bill
drawn which ne has sent to several
state legislatures, forbidding the
planting of the same crops year after
on the same land.
He says we have lost the buffalo
and the pineries of the north, both
of which were declared to be mex
haustible and now are exhausting the
soil on the same theory.
There is no doubt the people Of the
eastern states are now face to face
with the alternative. And more or
less, a like situation will soon con-
front the owners of lands in the mid
dle-western and and western states.
Millions of dollars worth of fertiliz-
ers must be used every year on the
worn-out lands of the east In the
country west of the Mississippi where
the land is newer and more fertile
the necessity is not yet apparent but
it will be.
IT .
Because it stands to reason that
excuses of any sort pro<uce degen-
eracy. Overburdening the soil is no
exception.
The strength of America is the
strength. Of its soil. When the soil
degenerates the people must degen
crate.
Mr. Sayre has put his finger upon a
very important concern.
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THE DIES MONIES SPIRIT

Boost! Boost! Boost Let us
organize a boosting Committee etc.
etc. Such are the headlines OF sever
al country weeklies i'll this locality.
1t is the Des Moines spirit taking hold
Of the smaller towns. it is The desire
of the editors of the various sheets t,S
show that they are heart and hand
with any public spirited move DIS
usual II is the result OF an admins
stration Of progress. SO we, too, take
up the cry and slogan of the times and
yell Boost! Boost! Boost!"- Earl
vile Phoenix.
1t is noteworthy the change that has
come over the state since the docs
things" spirit began to be infused
The promise of a revival Of conf
dence in the industrial possibilities of
Iowa has not yet been even limited.
Nine-tenths of what the people buy
can be made in their own dooryards,
so to speak The people of Iowa are
the best buyers. and have most to buy
with. When Iowa capital decides to
supply Iowa wants there will be an in
dustrial development that has never
been dreamed Of
The time has come when the wealth
Of the state should definitely abandon
land speculation and turn to the de-
velopment of the states resources In
every city and town there should be
a Greater Iowa committee made up
of business men who are willing to
lead in the movement for industrial
development. Iowa can be as thickly
populated as Massachusetts, in ten
years if there is an intelligent coop
Grafton to that end.-The Des Moines
Register and Leader.
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ELDvN.

4 i Il I5 " +. ( 3 \
Mrs. Frank Kremer of Musoatine has
been visiting her numerous friends this
week.
| J. r. Jackson and william e. Shue-
beck of DoIds were in he city yester-
| day. @
Miss Nellie Kimes is quite sick
W. H. Faulkner of Fairfield was in
the city yesterday on business.
| e. w. Myers. an old veteran Of the
| Seventeenth Iowa who has been VISIT
ling In Oklahoma, returned Wednesday,.
The Eldon Cemetery, association will
hold Its annual meeting March 8 at the
city hall at $3.50 p. m. for tho election
Of officers.
| Grand Hope Lodge, o.. e. S.. will
meet this evening at the K Of p. hall.
The library benefit Saturday night
| given by the Eldon Dramatic campory
was q success. A full house greeted
the company and a mic, sum was rea-
| lized. ss#
Mrs. Frank Hellyer took possession
Of Hotel Tracy Friday. Mr.. Isbell retir-
| ing for a time. Lon Moore. the popular
day clerk, will be retained.
Remember, Monday March IL, the
school board holds the annual election
at the city hall. s,
There were services in all the Eldon
churches Sunday.
The W. c. T. u will meet at the
home Of Mrs. Ed Shore. Wednesday
afternoon at 1880 o'clock. NJ
Miss Julia Donnelly. John Daniel ana
James OLeary have arrived from Ire-
land.
Mrs. Ada Mead has moved to tho
John Long place, west Of Eldon
Lewis Hem Is going to Gage, Okla
1 homa, Tuesday morning f
]. % Houghland has PAL acre farm
for sale; only $780, l5s s
Wallace Graham of ottumwa is In
the city.
A. F. Simon is in Selma today.
Frank Koht is in Muscatine on
business
Rev. Hogan will hold services in the
Catholic church tomorrow.
Misses Miller and Creighton Of the
Eldon schools are is Ottumwa today
Miss Caffey OF the county farm re-
turned this morning from a visit with
his friends In Eldon
Mrs. Balding Mrs H. Pottorff, Mrs.
/ OFT Vass, Mrs Curry. Miss Grace
Stiles and b. j. Whitsell were Ottum-
wa visitors Saturday.
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WILL BAILEY DEFEND?

Minneapolis Journal. Henry Clay
Pierce made an AFFIDAVIT in 1900, as
a preliminary to getting the Waters
Pierce Oil company into Texas, that
he was not connected with any other
oil company with view to controlling
prices At Attorney General Hadley's
hearing in st. Louis last year he ad-
mitted that his company was decoy
of the Standard. Now Texas grand
jury mas indicted him for perjury.
Texas is waiting with bated breath
to see if Senator Bailey will be called
upon to defend him.
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netonka Record publishes commune
cation from an old settler, who says:
The winters in Minnesota from 1850
till 1880 were much longer and colder
than the last twenty five years. 1t
was usual thing in the sixties and
seventies for the ground to freeze by
Oct is SO the farmer could not pillow,
and the snow would not all go off till
April Is or 20. We have seen it 20
and rs below zero during November
and through Marca in the years above
mentioned. In the spring of 1853 the
ice did not go out of Minnetonka till
May 10, and we made maple syrup as
late as May that year, The winter of
1894 was a record breaker. During
two weeks of February of that year
the thermometer did not register
warmer than 20 below at noon. 1t
killed out nearly all the apple trees
that farmers had worked so hard to
get big enough to hear fruit.
The Records testimony is verified
by chapters of Iowa history. TIE
spring of 1857 will never be forgotten
in this state. The relief expedition
which started for Spirit Lake, follow
ing the Indian massacre, experienced
hardships. the accounts of which are
unrivalled save by the records of ar.
tic expeditions. For instance, Lieu
tenant Mason in his report says:
How we survived those fearful
nights / do not know, when the mer-
curry sunk to "a degrees below zero
the last night. The poor boys were
slowly freezing and many of them
were insane I think all of us were
more or less insane the last night.
The tongues of many of the men were
hanging out. and the blood was run
ming from the mouth or nose as we
got up the last morning.
Governor Carpenter reported:
have since marched witn armies
from Cairo to Atlanta and up to Rich
mond with only brief halt, occa-
sionally, to give the exhausted soldiers
chance to boil cup of coffee. Under
burning suns, through rain. sleet and
snow we endured great suffering; but
our suffering be compared with that
of the two terrible days and nights
we endured on the banks of the Cylin-
der creek.
1t must be remembered that all
this took place in April when Easter
bonnets are being worn nowadays
and spring is here in all its glory. Up
to O'Clock the weather was warm
Suddenly the wind, which had been in
the south. changed to the northwest
and in half an nour bowling blizzard
was sweeping down on the relief ex-
petition, freezing the clothes of the
party stiff.
Iowa does not have such old-fash-
toned billiards. nowadays. Whether
the scientific theory is correct or not,
that weather goes in cycles and the
present mildness will be followed by
an old-time severity, there is no get
ting around the fact that winters Of
today do not compare with those of
fifty or seventy-f1ve years ago.
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SHAW AND IOWA.

Davenport Times Shortly after he
mad completed his four years as gov
ernor Iowa awoke one morning to
read that Leslie NJ Shaw had been
appointed secretary of the treasury
to succeed Lyman ]. Gage. Iowa WAS
pleased-it then had two sons in the
cabinet-Shaw and Wilson. 1t was a
great position that Iowa had suddenly
taken in national affairs.
And as time passed and speculation
began to be INDUCED in with regard
to possible presidential candidates in
1908, not few Iowans began to look
upon Leslie M. Shaw as the logical
favorite son of the Hawkeye state.
True, the times were out of joint and
great changes had been wrought in
the state since he had gone to Wash
ington, but while in state affairs 9TH
ers had come into control it was be.
lieved that Cummins' ambition was
to go to the senate and that if Mr..
Shaw desired to become president the
people of his home state would be
glad to help him. And then came the
bitter contest for the gubernatorial
nomination last fall. Mr. Shaw could
not resist the Macedonian cry of the
governors opponents. The secretary
threw precedent, custom and expa-
diency to the winds, allowing mes
sages of the surprising character 70
be sent home and in few days came
himself to make, in the form of plea
for republicanism, attacks upon the
governor
But let it pass as history Close the
book, and affix the seal Secretary
Shaw is going down to try his hand
among the New York financiers. He
may remain in politics. 1t is more
than likely he is disguised with the
whole thing and wants to settle down
to business. Everyone in Iowa, re-
CARELESS OF party factional lines, will
rejoice Of his work as secretary Of
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cHlcAGo,s PRIDE HURT.

The pride of Chicago has been
touched in its tenderest spot by Pro.
fessor Henderson. chaplain of the Uni.
yersity Of Chicago.
Chicago is large city," said Mr..
Henderson in addressing class, "but
like Pekin, which is also large, it is
not great 1t is a huge camp, modelled
on the plan of an Indian village. PEG.
pie regard it only as a place to live III
'lntil they can get ready to go on to
New York, London, or Paris, on their
way to heaven"
To tell Chicagoans that their city is
just a temporary roosting place for
the wayfarer until he can proceed on
nis way to New York is considered in
Porkopolis, the most unkindest cut , t
all. And an Indian village, too. Pro.
fessor, how could you?
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WALL STREET AND HIGH FL
NANCE.

Nothing does more to stimulate the
socialistic propaganda than evidences
of interruptions use of great wealth -
says Henry Clews in his weekly mar
ket letter, a statement which may be
taken as an indication that Mr.. Clews,
speaking as he does, from the stand
point of Wall street fnancier, does
not approve Of the practices Of the
Harrimans and others whose opera
tons have brought them before the
interstate commerce commission
Speaking Of the effect on the mar
kets of the recent disclosures, Mr.
Clews says:
Values on the stock exchange have
undergone still further decline which
was materially stimulated by the reve-
lations of the recent Interstate COM
merce investigation. While no new
facts of Importance were developed,
the testimony was of nature to ex-
cite public opinion and strengthen
public hostility to the speculative
methods of large corporations and
great capitalists. For nearly two
years-or ever since the Equitable dis.
closures began-this sentiment against
high finance" has been growing boJ1
at home and abroad. While these as
closures in the long run may prove
beneficial, by preventing a repetition
of such operations and allowing stock
holders to get their just dues still,
their immediate effect is exceedingly
unsettling. 1t comes just when some
of our large corporations are sorely in
need of new capital, and places them,
temporarily at least, in an unfortunate
light before the public here and abroad
at a time when they must appeal for
financial support The political effect
OF such disclosures is also harmful.
furnishing as 1t does an abundance of
infiammable material which political
sdemagogues are sure to use Injurious
" at the first opportunity. Moreover,
nothing does more to stimulate the
1socialistic propaganda than evidences
OF inscriptions use Of great wealth"
The attitude of the foreign bankers
toward the American practices is also
an unhealthy feature in present stock
market conditions according to Mr..
Clews' views. Discussing this fea-
ture ne says:
IF the emergency comes we will
be compelled to go to Europe for as
distance. Unfortunately London, our
chief support, is not DESTROYS at pre-
sent to increase American credits. For
the past two or three years assistance
has been willingly forthcoming from
that quarter, but our transactions in
nigh finance and the present strain
ed condition of American credit have
induced a reactionary spirit among
London bankers, who begin to feel
that they must take care of their own
clientele in preference to Americans.
although the latter will be able to offer
more profitable Inducements
Mr.. Clews is not an alarmist, how
ever, and he still takes an optimistic
view, being disposed to wait until the
present unsettled conditions mark
their impress more noticeably on the
financial centers before resorting to
pessimism.
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ROCKEFELLER.

How big is Rockefeller, pa,
That people call him great;
Is he some Taftlike statesman, pa,
Or mental heavyweight?
Kansas City Times.
Oh, no; he's not so very broad,
Nor yet SO very tall;
But man is measured by his wad;
Thus John D. beats us all.
Chicago Record-Herald.
He used to be much bigger, son.
But since we've had the spunk
To ask him where he got his nun,
Our Uncle John has shrunk.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Say. ma, who is this Rockefeller
With his Sunday school church talk
Who says he has a cinch on heaven,
And's going to get thara Ia walk.
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THE SOCIAL HOUR.
Worked the Other Way

Worked the Other Way.
Tit its.-The late James Wylie, the
Herd Laddie." whose name is synon-
ymous with all that is popular In the
game Of drafts, received box Of
cigars from German enthusiast dur
ing the course of his last battle with
ex-champion Martins.
Nit dose CIGARS said the donor,
you can beat all der world"
"Ah, weel," said Wylie, in his canny
Scotch manner. II have to play Mar
tins this afternoon
Never mind. my poy,; NIT dose CT
3gars you will play we're goot."
Later in the day they met again, and
Wylie informed his friend that he had
won game from Martins that aft
ernoon
We're goot. 1 tells you it was
der cigars"
81 hardly think that" said Wylie.
But, veil, did you not schmoke der
cigars?"
Me smoke them?" cried Wylie. ma.
ma; dinna smoke, We ken. But
gi'ed one to Martins
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HOGS AND HUMANS.

Burlington Hawk-Eye. WITH some
anxiety number of Iowans who are
interested in reformatory work are
watching the state Legislature. A COM
paratively small appropriation has
bean asked fol the industrial schools
at Eldora and Mitchellville. Magnifi-
cent work is being done at these in
stitutions. Instead Of being places of
punishment or prisons, they have
been converted into schools. pure and
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NOT WORTH THE MONEY.

New York Tribune.-Th Oklahoma
constitutional convention, wants con-
gross to appropriate another 100000
ito defray the expenses of establish
ing statehood" Congress is more like
ly to think that the craftsmanship SO
far exhibited by the Oklahoma dele
gates comes too high at any price.
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THAT'o RIGHT, JAKE.

Mr. Jake Bigler and Caroline Det-
rick were married at the parsonage
by, Rev. Scofield; the boys of the
neighborhood called on them at their
home and Jake put up the cash for .
key.
Rev. Fatland is conducting an inter-
esting meeting at the Green Mound
church. Trenton correspondence In
Mt. Pleasant journal.