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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
HOW MlLLIoNAlREs WORK.

New York Sun.-Go to socialist
meeting in New York, Paterson or Chi
cago and you'll hear the cry:
What are we to do with the million.
aires?"
Make them get to work. is the
husky response.
Ii the socialists could see million
aires at work in the financial and com
mercial field they wouldn't, 1t is sur
missed, be so frisky i'll their demands.
II wish could have time to get
enough Sleep" said characterization
aire at the Holland house an evening
or two ago.
He is dickering and dealing from
in the morning until long past mid
night, and is always on guard to pro-
tect his own interests and those of
the men with whom he is perforce as
sociated.
For fifty years his career has been
one long battle, hourly, daily, nightly.
He is always amid the tempest on
both sides of the Atlantic, for great
interests like great men attract great
antagonisms. He has little or no time
for his family.
Occasionally he sees an act or two
OF play or hearS part of an opera
and hurries off to attend business con-
ferences. He is tormented and bad
gered and pitched into and in turn he
torments and badgers and pitches into
from the moment he turns out in the
morning to the moment he turns in
again at night.
And this, in brief, is the story of 80
per cent of the millionaires of the
country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
DAVENPORT WILL BOOST.

Davenport Times-If Davenport
grows it must be as result of the
addition of new industries which will
attract population here by giving en-
ployment to more workmen.
If Davenport gets more factories,
this city will have to offer induce
ments. This is an age of competitin
between cities as well as between cor
porations and individual business men.
On every side of Davenport the pro-
gressive cities are doing things to at
tract and to hold manufacturing in
dustries. Davenport faces no natural
handicaps. There is nothing to ovar-
come except the competition that is
offered by neighboring cities. But
this city will have to put aside policy
of Come or stay away as you feel
like" and substitute therefore policy
OF Come with us and we will do you
good" Davenport must do something
for legitimate business enterprises
seeking locations. 1t cannot afford to
allow these propositions to be neglect
ed with the final result that some en-
terprising competitive city gets the
factory.
The suggestion has been made, and
it is a good one, that within the mem
bersnip of tie Dav@ nport Commercial
club a corporation be formed to be
known as holding company. This
corporation shall have a capital stock
of 100000 or 100000, partially paid
up, the remainder of the capital to
be paid in by the shareholders IN
small installments on demand, as the
needs arise. 1t shall be the business
Of this corporation to take stock IN
new and legitimate enterprises that
come here when these enterprises de-
sire the people Of the city to furnish
some of the capital of the new enter
prise.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
EXAMINATION ANSWERS.

New York Sun.-During the las,
week examinations have been held in
all the public schools in Brooklyn. In
the graduating class Of one school the
following answers were given to the
questions propounded to the pupils:
What is climate?"
"The weather which shows whether
1t is warm or hot or cool or cold.'
What is the difference between the
climate Of New York and Florida?"
New York is colder than Florida
because New York is north of tbs
equator and Florida south"
Name five lakes that lie wholly in
New. York state?"
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan
Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Sail
Lake."
Where is Albany, Buffalo, Utica
Rochester, Plattsburg?"
Albany is up the Hudson river
Buffalo is on the Erie canal near the
Mississippi. Utica is in the central
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
A LOVE SONG OF THE STATES.

Oh, won't you come and stay with M
And bear me no Ill will?
I've lots of shares Of copper Ore.
And riches to your fill.
All, lovely Miss, just marry me!
La! how pleased would be!
I'd be SO Ca I'd never need
To visit an Md.
I'd Conn. new ways of pleasing you:
To know you're ever by
Would make me feel as Ala. mode
AS Kaiser Bill, R. I.
Then let me ask your PAS consent
AS soon as you see fit,
And all our married life, o., love,
Be sure you shall be l. T.
A Tenn. you'll have at any time,
And lest my love you doubt,
Well dine each day at hotel,
And put our Wash. all out.
Baltimore American.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
FENCE BOARDS VS.. NEWSPAPER
COLUMNS.

The Nortonville, Kan, News says
the Kansas farmers are fighting the
fence and free advertising signs.
They say many trees are injured and
that many farmers now take daily as
we'll as weekly newspapers and read
the advertisements In them and ex-
pect to find all the leading business
men among the advertisers. In some
neighborhoods the signs are torn down
as fast as they are put up. The one
truly legitimate and effective adver-
Using mediums these days is the news
paper, and everybody Is coming to
realize the fact. The fence and the
sign is obsolete and the hand bill and
gutter snipe are nearly so.-Waterloo
Courier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
Saving Fifty a Day.

Samuel Untermeyer, the insurance
expert, said the other day of certain
proposed retrenchment:
ut would be good thing, an excel
lent thing, all around. But on some 1t
would bear harder than others. Hence
discomfort and growing, the usual ac-
compartment of economies.
"It is like the case of the husband
who, looking at his wife, reproaehfully
said:
my love, in view Of the approaching
holidays thought we were going to,
practice economy for a timer"
".Oh, SO we are dear the lady am
swered. I went down town and coun.
fernandez the order you had given
your tailor for $25u fur lined over
coat, and got instead an ermine style
that only cost 5000. A clean saving.
you see, of $50. Not bad for one day.
was it?' "--Exchange.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

Ing to read the words of ]. w Hyde.
a prominent lumberman of Florida,
and an extensive employer of negroes
Mr.. Hyde tells Washington reporter
that the negroes are the best laborers
In the world and he would not ex-
change one for three foreigners.
IF Senator Tillman will give the
country a rest" continues Mr.. Hyde,
"and let up on his negrophobia, the so
called race problem will settle itself.
The doctrine of deportation is silly and
not to be thought of The negroes are
here to stay and they Will stay wnera
they are most needed. in the south.
Contrasted with these views, based
upon experience and not distorted by
any sentimental considerations what
ever. the wild utterances of Tillniaa
and others like him lose most of their
force and all of their justice. If the
so.called race problem could only be
divorced from politics and prejudice,
1t would be speedily settled when rea-
son and common sense and not poht-
ical passions and prejudices are
brought to bear upon them
In the direction of this settlement.
sratlIylng IL not long sleP Woui'i pe
taken if Mr. Tillman and men Of his
kidney would give the country rest,
not only in the matter Of negronhc-
bia, but of several other kinds Of
"phobia." There are woodpiles in lots
of places outside of railroad trains and
public offices and there are s'niggers"
in most of them. Negrophobia is by
no means the only manifestation Of
intolerance, bigotry and the cheap
abuse of power.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
BRYAN's EuLoGY OF LEE.

have received from some friend
down in Florida copy of the Times
Union, published at Jacksonville, In
that state, under date of January 20,
1907, which contains an grafton of
William j. Bryan upon Gen. Robert q.
Lee, delivered there upon the occasion
of the one hundredth birthday ami
versary of the general, viz: January
10, last.
The Times-Union appears to be a
leading paper of that state; it very
highly praises the address; 1t appears
to give complete report Of 1t as
though taken from the manuscript or
a carefully prepared stenographic
copy. am careful to say this be-
cause of some most remarkable state
ments made in the address, so very
remarkable as to leave in my mind
a possible doubt as to the correctness
Of the report.
Take the following paragraphs which
stand out clear cut and complete and
in no way modified or softened in the
whole course of the address. The
first paragraph quoted comes early in
the address as follows:
axe RODeTL n. Lee nlHSeI IrOM
the time that he was the consolation
of widowed mother in Alexandria,
Va. follow him through four years
course at West Point, where he re-
ceived not one solitary single demer-
it; watch him through the arduous,
fractions, painstaking duties of civ
IL engineer; see him on the plateaus
of Mexico: watch him in the school
room at West Point or on the plains
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

Available for consumption 6424,922 $50
OF the above imports of sugar that
from Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Is
lands entered free of duty. that from
the Philippine Islands at 25 per cent
below the regular rates of duty. and
that from Cuba, under the reciprocity
treaty, at 20 per cent below the regular
rates of duty.
The following table shows the annu-
al average consumption of sugar in the
United States and share thereof sup
piled by domestic production and by
imports from Porto Rico, Hawaii. and
the Philippine Islands, by quinquennial
Derio5S 1875 To 1909.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
THE PASSING SHOW.
Who?

Who?
Who, when our honeymoon was DER,
Arrived with packages galore,
And said she'd stay month or more
(Think real hard).
Who made me weary of my life,
Who loved to stir connubial strife,
And always sided with my wife?
Don't give 1t up).
Who confiscated my latch key,
Sat up till the sma' hours for me;
Who made me use big, big D?
(Rhymes with "jaw," yes).
Who loved to catch me when l fell,
And such sweet stories used to tell,
Until my life became a-well
(The word isn't nice).
Who dressed my wife in clothes SO gay
And ran up bills for me to pay,
And minded nothing did say?
(Yes, that's it).
Who shifted my "baccy" from afar
And could not bear mild cigar,
Who said: What wretches all mer
are?"
(Heaven bless her!)
Boston Transcript.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

part of Utah on the Great Salt Lake.
Rochester is in Rhode Island. Platts-
burg is on the Allegheny in Pennsyl-
vania."
Out of class of fifty that Is to grad
uate into the high school only three.
it Is said. could give proper answers
to the questions given above. Critics
of the school system attribute this
ignorance of geography to the fads
that take up too much of the time OF
the pupils.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
SHAW ADVOCATES FAIR PLAY.

An urgent demand for better condi
lions for American workmen, an appeal
for fair play for the American manufac
turer and protest against the trend
of much current legislation were points
covered in the recent address of Secre
tary Shaw before the New Hampshire
Board of Trade. Mr.. Shaw's speech at
tracted national comment as 1t adj
vanced a new idea-the creation OF
bonded territories" along the coast
into which raw materials may be i'm
ported duty free, to the end that EN-
ployment may be given to American
labor. The products in these bonded
territories are to be shipped abroad
Any products not intended for the ex
port trade must pay the regular duty
when they cross the territorial line in.
to the United States.
Secretary Shaw in appealing for fair
play for the manufacturer said:
$50 long as the American manufac.
.turer buys labor in the American mar.
ket, pays the American scale of wages,
and thus enables the American wage
Garner to be a consumer of American
food and clothes. fuel and shelter, let
there be accorded to him every posi-.
BILE encouragement in his unequal com
petition with the cheaper labor Of 9th,
er countries"
Secretary Shaw shares with the ad
ministration the belief that the people
have gone too far in their wholesale
condemnation of corporations. The
prosecution of certain big business in.
terests that have been violating the
ethics of both morality and business
has been prompt and effective, but the
administration regrets that such
prompt action las stirred up agitators
who would condemn all corporations.
The chief danger of such hostility
as seen by the administration, lies in
the bad effect it will have upon the for
eign commerce of the United States.
This foreign commerce has grown to
remarkable proportions and its exist
ence insures steady work the year
round for American labor. If mills and
factories are compelled to shut down
part Of the year because of adverse
conditions at home, the effect upon all
business will be disastrous. Secretary
Shaw sees this condition plainly, for in
his address he says:
eve need have no concern about the
sale of our food products. If one coun-
try does not want them another will.
The world never has six months food
in advance, and it is relatively unim-
portant which of several countries con-
sumes our surplus. What we are most
interested in is foreign market for
the product of American artisans"
The principal element of danger
caused by this unrest is to be found in
the tendency of the different state leg
islatures to enact drastic laws on the
corporation question. In the opinion
of economic experts, the federal gov
eminent should be allowed to deal with
big corporations engaged in interstate
business. for the federal law is far bet
ter suited to control the matter than a
number CT conflicting state laws.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
PITcHFoRK NEeRoPHoRIA.
Kansas City Journal-Althougn

Kansas City Journal.-Althougn a
number of prominent southern news
papers, including one or two in
Charleston, have taken frequent &C
casion to condemn in vigorous terms
Senator Tillman's rabid mouthings on
the race question, yet the people of
the south as whole seem to look with
considerable approval upon the fiery
South Carolinian's rantings, and his
own state shows its sentiments by
continuing to re-elect him.
In view of these facts it is refresh.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
WHAT 10 A Ma 10 DRINK

Mt. Pleasant Free Press.-Special-
lists say that Clinton woman has a
snake in her stomach. It is thought
that she swallowed 1t when it was
small while she drank from a spring.
What is a man to do? II he drinks
water, he is liable to have snakes IN
his stomach and if he drinks whiskey
he is liable to have snakes in his
boots
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
BLAkEsBuRe ExcELsIoRETs.

A preacher at the conclusion of one
of his sermons said Let all in the
house who are paying their debts
stand up" Instantly every man, wom-
an and child with one exception, rose
to their feet. The preacher seated
them and: Nov, every man not pay
ing his debts stand up" The exception
noted careworn, hungry-looking In
dividual, clothed in his last summer
suit, slowly assumed perpendicular
position How is it with you, my
friend" asked the minister, that you
are the only man not able to meet his
obligations ?" 81 run a newspaper, he
meekly answered, and the brethren
here who stand up are my subscrib-
ers, and-"Let us pray" exclaimed the
MISUNDERSTANDING Excelsior.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
Professional Cards.

In this cut the secoud
lumbar vertebra oil
the backbone is in
proper relation With
the first but not with
the .ilird: therefore
he great trunk nerve
is free as It passes
rem the spinal cord
Trough the first OPEN
ing but seve ~ pinch
ed in the second. The
Chiropractor can IN
stantly adjust spine
No. 9, making the
second opening a =
iatge as the first, thus
removing pre- s s u r e
from the nerves. which
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

CONFLICTING PURE FOOD BILLS
Fillowing the passage of the national
pure food and drug law by congress
last June, it has been generally ex.
pected that most of the states would
frame pure food legislation this win
ter. and the expectation has been that
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

Last week we spoke of a factory be-
ing established here for the manufac-
ture Of holes in doughnuts, and on
Saturday Mrs Walter Abegg demon
strated the fact that she was well
versed in making doughnuts. The
Excelsior force was recipient of a
sack of Abegg doughnuts and they
were very fine.-Blakesburg Excelsior.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12

IS the only cause OF disease. Then ard only
: then can nature restore you. See CdAS -
i. RAY PARKER, d. c., Baker Builaing' i'So
10 t:s0p. M.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-12
ELIziJeETH N. THOMPSON.
jsteopathic Physician.
Grndnf 4 American School Osteopathy
Kfrksvj' 4, Missouri.
ofica 1927 N. Court st. New phone 1914
Hoy 4 400 to 1900 and 1 80 to 400
TX R. TIME TABLES.
All c., B. G. @. Trains depart from tn
Washington street Union depot.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c., 3. & q
w. s. PARKER, Ticket Agent.

No. Going East. Depart
12a-Chic. Dubuque & Quincy 2: 90 a. m.
1ob-Peoria, Dub. & Quincy 11:4o a. m.
6a-Chicago Limited. 1:41 p. m.
4a-Chic.. st. L. & Quincy. ITO p. m.
Sa-Fast Mail 1872 a. m
Chicago Peoria & Rockford II :2s p M.
lsh-BMriington & st. Louis 80. .7:s5 a. m
16a-Fast Mail .............4:55 a. m
Going West.
5a-omahn, Council Bluffs &
Nebraska .12:45 a. M
15a-Fast Mail .2:52 a. m.
sa Omaha, Kansas city. Denver, = -
hot Springs. Deadwoos', Og.
den Portland and Calf. 80 a. m.
1 "a, mall ..:.;...:........ s:22 a. m.
l1b-chio. TO ottumwa, arrive ;si 1s F. ?: M m:
1a-Chicago to Denver ...11:48 D. m
"a. as,-Iaaily; b.except sunday Nos. Z. s
Via Fort Madison-Gcing East.
st. Madison & st, Louis tD) a:s5 .. m.
Going West.
From TT Madison & st.
Louis (b> ..................1 l:i,c a. m
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DENTISTS.

structea
3 Grown and bridge-work expert
Office over Cullen's dry goods STORE
Main street, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

his waistcoat. is Cyrus Adams Sulloway
of New Hampshire. Mr.. Sulloway has
persistently maintained, through his con-
secutlve terms in Congress since the
f1fty-fourth, the same dress, and neither
follows the new fashion nor departs one
degree from the old
Representative James Tawney of Mime
sofa Is also one of the faithful to the
frock-coat habit, but he makes a con-
cession and substitutes the black cleri-
cal-looking tie for one of maroon color
ing.
julius Kahn, republican and labor union
party candidate. San Francisco, has a
happy way of dressing a la artistic He
belongs to the high-brow contingent. An
abundance of fluffy gray hair edges his
massive shining dome Of thought For
some years Mr.. Kahn was successful
member of the theatrical profession. play
ing with Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson,
Clara Morris and other stars, and this life
in Bohemia, he says, taught him no fond
ness for other than simple comfort in
dress. Mr.. Kahn wears a gray sack-coat
suit, which fits him loosely, and a flowing
gray artists tie. and appears the acme
of comfort and content.
Eugene Walter Leake the democratic
new member of Jersey City, who is onlv
thirty years old, is credited with being
the smartest dressed man in the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

In dress classification he would rank with
the Wall street banker. He affects quiet
colored sack-coat suits, with lavender
ties.
Butler Ames of Massachusetts, who uses
a megaphone to aid his hearing, peing
slightly deaf, adopts the dress of pros
porous, well-dressed business man.
John Sharp Williams. leader of the MI
norty also shuns frock coats, ana pre-
fers a gray business suit.
Robert Minor Wallace, democratic rep
resentative from Arkansas. says he pre-
fers to dress so his friends from home
may recognize him when they happen 10
drop in. Mr.. Wallace practiced law for
several years and held many political
Jobs before being elected to the House,
and in the quiet of his home district he
SAYS, he always wore a gray or black
frock-coat suit, which custom he faith
fully follows at the Capitol. Mr.. Wal
lace's owl-like expression and somber
mein is heightened several degrees by his
sober dress. He is the most quiet, and
unobtrusive member of the House. He
was never known to slap a constituent
good naturally on the back as a symbol
Of friendship and he has never been guilty
of listening to the music of his voice ris-
ing above the clear tones of the Speaker
Bourke Cochran is loyal to the frock
coat. and wears black waistcoat button
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

there They are taking up business now
as they used to take up sport. and the
man who does that is going to win.
Imagine a fishing competition In which
the man who wants to win fishing with an
antlquated rod and an old-fashioned reel
against competitors equipped with the
very latest scientific appliances for lur-
ing and catching the fish. There you
nave the case of the old-fa shioned bust
ness men in the modern race for wealth
My experience is that the employers
IN England are much more ready to listen
70 new things than the employees. 1 have
IN mind the case of one important manu-
facturer who has given system man
ager carte blanche to overhaul his factory
and make whatever changes in the Or
sanization he thinks fit. The manufac-
turer does not agree with many things
that the new man is doing, but he realizes
that the man has the advantage of an
outside view. AS a matter of fact, con-
servatism Is. as a rule, laziness. The
man who goes on in the same old rut can
go to sleep and let the machine run it.
SELF but the progressive man must sit up
with his reforms and see them through"
Another branch of business in which
American methods have been introduced
in England is advertising. There are
dozens of American advertising experts
and advertising artists in London, and
their methods are becoming more and
more popular every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

]. Warren Keifer of Ohio sticks to the
fashion he adopted nearly twenty years
ago. No official guide of the galleries
ever points out Mr.. Keifer as the repre-
sentative who did and so. but refers
to him as that big man on the floor in
the dress suit" Mr.. Keifer's style of dress
is absolutely unique in either the House
Or Senate.
James Eli Watson of Indiana is one of
the increasing few who cling to the frock
coat habit, although his is gray instead
of the customary black. There is no mis-
taking Mr.. Watson's district, for he has
the literary air Of his literary state. In
fact, it was by the merest sidestep of des-
being advertised among the authors of
the six best sellers. But he can talk of
that fate best himself. He is tall and
thin and thoughtful looking, and always
wears a pink carnation in the lapel of his
well-fitting, dignified-looking coat.
Michael Edward Driscoll republican
House member from Syracuse. n. Y, af-
fects the severe style of wearing his hair
pompadour. His hair is gray and
matches in shade the gray tweed suit he
wears in defiance of custom.
The only member of Congress who
wears both the black regulation coat and
old fashioned long gray whiskers which
reach far below the top boundary line of