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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09
THE couNrRY's CROPS.

Kansas City Times. Will
sons assertion, mo longer can there
he anything like universal crop fall
ure. is fine assurance, yet 1T is only
a sort Of official announcement OF a
truth which every reflective person
has recognized. The diversity of
crops. the wider areas cultivated, the
changes in climate effected by such
soil cultivation and the diffused knowl-
edge of the science of applied agricul-
ture are all contributing safeguards
against a disastrous harvest year. Lo-
calities, even large areas, may surfer
and doubtless will-at recurrent per.
iods, and the total supply in one year
may be less than in the most bounti.
full times; but against general dearth
of the annual yield the country Is as
sure as 1t can be sure Of anything I'M
der the favor Of providence. Conse
quently If there are "hard times" II
will be as the result of society's OWE
neglect of proper social conditions. Il
panic in finance, or depression III
business is encountered 1t will be a
man made affliction-the unnecessary
effect of the struggle of special privi
lege to secure advantages that it is
not entitled to. And that means that
the country is in mighty good condi-
ton When the people are backed by
providence they form a combination
that cannot be kept down for any
length of time Old Antaeus has been
pretty we'll overworked as a source of
metaphors, but he is a willing worker;
and when the people, as Antaeus, are
in contact with sustaining Mother
Earth they are not in material danger.
Let the heather rage and Wall street
tear out its own vitals and the profess
sional politicians groan their lamen-
tations and the embodied Appetites
for More inflict, If they can, a tempo
rary spirit Of unrest-the soil and the
crops are feeding the Square Deal and
making it grow into Astounding health
and vigor.
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c., NJ. "a ST. p.

c., M. G. ST. P. Trains depart from JEFF
ferson st. Union Depot.
j. p. Whelan, Agent.
No Going West. Depart.
5a-Southwest Limited
Kansas City, Utah and
Calf .......... $1,000. 2:14 a. m.
3a-Chillicothe, Elk. Sprgs,
Kansas City, and south
western points 1925 a. m.
93b-Local Freight ....... 100 a. m.
Going East via Cutoff.
12a-Chicago Limited ...12:05 q. m.
8a-Washington, Musca-
tine, Rock Island Mil
waukee and Chicago. $50 b. m.
92b-Local Freight ....... $40, a. m.
Grains and have Sleeping Car
Service between Ottumwa and Chi
cago.)
Marion Line Going South.
1O3b-Chicago to Kansas
City. via Marion and
ottumwa $500. ....... 1905 a. m.
9c-St. Paul and Minne-
apolis to Kansas City
via Marion and Ottumwa 1925 a. m.
97b-Local Freight ... 4:55 n. m.
Going North.
10Sb--Hedrick, Sigourney.
Cedar Rapids and
Marion 1920. $1,000. SAB D. m.
lob Cedar Rapids, ST.
Paul and Minneapolis. 1:55 a. m.
98b-Local Freight ..... $40 a. m.
Cali freight trains arrive and depart
from Ottumwa Junction.)
a-Daily
b-Daily except Sunday.
c-Daily except Monday.
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from William Jennings Bryan to H. M
Whitney, prominent Massachusetts
democrat. Mr.. Bryan, after declaring
himself in favor of both national and
state regulation and renewing his as
sertion that public ownership is the
ultimate solution of the railroad ques-
ton goes on to say: There is 10
danger whatever that this regulation
will be carried to the point of prevent
ing a reasonable return on money in
vested in the railroads of the coun-
try" And further, after arguing that
the rates shall be based on the physi-
cal value of the railroads, to be as
certained by national and state com
missions, he adds: when the value
of the roads is ascertained am sat
isfied that public sentiment will insist
that the returns shall be sufficient to
pay a reasonable dividend upon the
money invested" Answering this the
journal says:
This contention, academic and I'M
dlgested like all Of the Nebraska ora
tors theories, is contradictory in the
first place of the we'll known disposi-
ton in human nature which leads peo-
pie in business affairs to get things as
cheaply as they can. There is no rea-
son to suppose that any exception to
this rule is made when legislatures,
state or national, come to deal with
transportation matters; on the con
trary when we see legislatures execut-
ing lynch law upon the railroads, act
ing as Judge. jury and executioner, as
they have done in many states this
winter, there is every reason to fear
that railway rate legislation will con-
ttnue to be a matter of mob law
cruel cowardly, as mobs always are,
unfair and confscatory as far as che
courts will permit.
Perhaps 1t would be better to see
how the 2-cent. fare laws work out
after good and sufficient trial before
classifying the legislators as lynchers
and the assemblies as mobs. In the
states where low fares have been in
operation little has been heard from
the railroads, and it is quite probable
little will be heard when all the laws
become operative.
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TELEPHONE CLEARING HOUSE,

Louisville Courier-J Journal the
middle west, where the rural telephone
has reached it's highest development
and where the telephone companies
have multiplied as the sands of the sea,
the problem of distributing the pro IA
ia fee for long distance messages
among the several companies became
most complex. Last year a telephone
clearing house was organized in Iowa
and it proved such a success that it
has been copied in two or three neigh
boring states. The clearing house
takes charge of the money paid in for
long distance messages going over the
lines of more than one company am!
makes the settlements This clearing
house also issues mileage books, ?
which are receivable by any telephone
company in the state for long distance
messages, the scheme being exactly the
same as that of interchangeable mil
cage books on railroads.
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THE DEATH PENALTY.

Louisville Courier-Journal. -Advo-
Gates of the abolition of the death pen
atty argue that the fear of life impris-
onment would prevent as many crimes
as does the dread of the death SEN
tence. The behavior Of Red" Daniels
of Mississippi when he learned that
his sentence. Of death had been com
muted, indicates that the criminals
point Of view and that of the too hui
name enemy Of capital punishment are
somewhat different. Mr.. Daniels leap
ed into the air to express his joy,
struck his head against the sheet steel
at the top Of his cage and fell to the
floor unconscious. Evidently he did
not view the gallows and prison as
equal to the same thing and therefore
equal to each other. Perhaps the err
ring Mississippian had not heard the
arguments of the friends of his kind.
If he had had the proposed reform in
mind he might have restrained him
self and asserted that hanging and
penal servitude for life were pretty
much the same thing, as both cut a
man off from the sight of green fields
and running brooks and flowers and
prevent him from hearing the songs
of the birds.
AS matter of fact the death pen
atty is a highly useful preventive if
it is exacted when it fills the crime.
Its weakness lies in the weakness of
juries, but where juries lack the cour-
age to return a death verdict, life i'm
prisonment is the alternative. and mat
tiers could not be improved by elimin-
ating the dread possibility of the death
sentence.
While there's life there's hope
the proverb is something musty, but
ii fits into the discussion-and the sta
tistics of prisons show that there is
very good ground for hope that life
sentence will not be lived out in the
penitentiary
To persons of refinement and deli
cacy of feeling the life sentence and
the death sentence may seem equally
terrible, in the absence Of the posi-
bility Of either being inflicted but
there is all the difference in the world
between the two to the average Grim
inal, and especially when the criminal
faces court to answer for capital
crime.
What with weakened jurors, will
ling alienists, technicalities. the .'un-
written law" the pardonine power and
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In purchasing 10000 trees to be dis
tributed free to property owners under
the supervision of the city forester.
Denver has taken a step toward win
ming the title sought for of "the city
Of trees" Last year 10000 trees were
given away by the city to be planted
in the parkings along the residence
streets and In yards. The plan was
so successful that nurserymen we're
unable to fill the demand for trees from
property owners who realized the ne
cessity of aiding the city in carrying
out the work.
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TOWN BOOSTING,


From the Hannibal Courier-Post-
Wpy?"
This is the s,bject on which Hon.
George A. Mahan, of Hannibal is to
deliver an address at Ottumwa, Iowa,
this evening. The occasion is an an
nual banquet of the Ottumwa Conner
cial association Ottumwa is a lively
growing city, greatly similar to Han
nibal in that It's prosperity is based
Upon manufa ctories and the progress
sive spirit of it's business men and its
commercial association AS to popu-
lation. it is slightly larger than Han
nibal, but Hannibal is growing faster
than is Ottumwa
1t is up to the people of Hannibal,
to her business men, the men who
have helped to make things happen
here. to tell the people of other cities
what has happened. Hannibal's
growth has been so speedy recently
that her own people hardly realize tie
extent of her progress They can.
not expect other people to know IN
less they are told. After tonight one
progressive city will know well that
Hannibal has been "doing things" and
why. Those men who listen to the
Hannibal speaker at Ottumwa tonight
will have it impressed upon them that
Hannibal is coming to the front rapid
ly among the the manufacturing cities
of the middle west. Now it is up to all
the people of this city to tell outsiders
about Hannibal
Too much advertisement of Hanni-
balls progress cannot be circulated on
the outside. Too many people cannot
be told that Hannibal's record OF
growth and push is an extremely good
enc. Too many people cannot be en-.
listed in the force that will "boost
Hannibal"
Do your part, Mr.. Citizen, to tel
cur friends and your acquaintance
about Hannibal. When you leave TIE
city, tell the men with whom you talk
that Hannibal is growing fast. Tell
them that she has grown fast for six
or seven years Tell them what she
has done, and Why, and how, and tell
them that she u still looking for more
factories, more capital, more progress.
sive business firms. Don't overlook an
opportunity to boost Hannibal
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09
PASSING OF THE STRENUOUS
LIFE"

Bohemian Magazine.-Do you re-
member when the head of the nation
first inspired us with the strenuous
idea? We heard or read the word. and
when the small boy asked us what 1t
meant we cleared our throat and told
him not to bother us. When he wasn't
looking we opened our dictionary and
found out ourselves. Then we became
rampant, strenuous livers. We read
and we talked-especiall we talked
the strenuous existence; we got up
devlishly early in winter, pounded our
selves on the chest, took cold baths,
ran around the block and prepared our
selves to be president, too, some day.
But it didn't last To be born siren
uous is one thing. ct isn't your fault,
and you can't legitimately take any
credit for IT'D To acquire strenuous
ness Is a different thing. 1t takes
lots of will power-especially when
there's ice On the bathroom windows
just before you plunge In And to have
strenuousness thrust at you, over you,
upon you, Is still another thing. 1t is
a thing you can't talk yourself into lik-
ing for any length Of time unless you
are an insurance solicitor with win
ming ways.
The novelty of the strenuous life
wore off. You remember how. You got
up later; you turned little warm wat
er into the cold for the bath; you walk
ed one block in place of ten; and the
woodpile grew lichen covered from ne
elect
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09

rotted because there were no cars to
haul it to market. The ante-winter
prospectus of the land agent read like
a prospectus Of heaven; the post
winter narrative, like Dante's Inferno
with; the temperature inverted.
One Iowan who went to Sunny Sas-
katchwan," writing to his home paper,
the Stockport News, relates that on
March Is the ground was still blanket
ed with it's 4-months coat of snow.
ana that travel was impossible except
on hard beaten trails. Wood often had
to be hauled ten miles on a hand sled,
and as much economy exercised in its
consumption as if it was SO much
radium He hauled wood twenty-five
and forty miles with the thermometer
at 40 degrees below zero, and for
two months had his existence with the
thermometer averaging for the period
81 degrees below zero. On January
IA, 1t was 60 degrees below. The gen
tleman writes:
"You fellows who sit and shiver be
fore good hickory wood fire with an
abundance within few feet of your
door imagine how 1T would feel to be
out on great prairie with the wind
blowing at the rate of about forty
miles an hour with the mercury any
where from % to 60 below zero, when
| you have to count every stick Of wood
that you put in your stove for feal
that your present stock of green pop
lar wood will run out before you car
get another supply, then you can be
gin to realize the situation that the
most of us have been in this winter
When things were at the worst j(fo.
the railroads were blocked and we
could not get supplies IND the Cana
dian government took the matter III
and sent the mounted police through
the country to look after the destitute
while the Prince Albert relief com
mission distributed several carloads
of wood to the different stations along
the line This was God-send to many
a settler whose supply of fuel was ex
hausted."
Sunny" Saskatchewan is sunny
while the sun shines and when the
suns rays are not frozen before they
strike snow. Saskatchewan IS not, as
the boys would put it, what t's
cracked up to be-" 1t is not Iowa, .
peace and plenty, and every comfort.
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rHEFAsTIpIous TRAVELLER.

The travelling man is in politics. In
Texas he has secured the enactment
of law requiring that all sheets on
beds in hotels and boarding houses
shall be nine feet in length a law thai
will appeal to a tall man who objects
to sheets insufficient in length to cover
his feet. And he has now decided on a
campaign in several states for the en-
actment Of law to abolish the roller
towel in country hotels, and stop the
practice in the smaller towns of all the
townspeople dropping into the wash
room of the hotel to use the roller tow
ell. 1t is a proof that the travelling
man is growing fastidious.
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

Dubuque Telegraph Sunny sas-
katchewan," writing to his home paper
more are the Dakotas and the north
west a paradise perennial OF the
Dakotas, Montana and the northwest
generally, we have heard much during
the winter;-of impossible roads
towns showed in for three weeks at a
stretch, and shut off from all communi-
cation with the world, the movement
of trains being impossible; of neigh
borhood gathering about a single stove
to keep warm; of barns, farm machin-
cry, fences, ETC., broken into kindling
to keep a fire going; of the exhausted
coal supply, extreme suffering, loss Of
cattle running into millions Of dollars,
and loss OF grain also worth millions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09
THE ANTl.PAss BILL.

The lower house of the Iowa legisia-
.ture is to be commended for the firm
stand taken in refusing to concur in
The senate amendment to the anti-pass
bill. The antf-pass bill as amended Ky
the senate is not an anti-pass bill A
glance at the provisions of the amend
ments the senate tackled on to a bill
aimed at abolishing all passes shows
the injustice of it when passes are to
be allowed to these:
Officers, agents, employees, attorneys,
physicians and surgeons and their FAM
lilies; local attorneys not to exceed one
attorney or firm Of attorneys except in
counties where sessions of the district
court are held in two or more cities,
or towns or counties in which super
ior court is held in city other than a
county seat. and in counties where the
common carrier operates two or more
lines, where there may be two attor-
neys or firms of attorneys.
To pass the bill as amended would
be rank discrimination. To pay doc
tor or a lawyer for services to the rail-
road companies in free transportation
is ono Of the discriminating practices
that the anti-pass bill seeks to correct,
and it would be unfair to the people
for the bill to be passed denying passes
to the masses of the people while it
permits unlimited free transportation
to favored few.
The anti-pass bill should be enacted
into law as originally drafted, denying
passes to all save bona-fide officers,
agents and employees who devote all
their time to the service of the road,
and the railroad companies should real
ize that to conserve their interests
they should work for a law that will
abolish all passes, save to employees
and dependent members of their FAINT
lies.
So long as legislation is forced upon
the people in the matter of railroad
transportation, which discTiminates
against the masses and to the benefit
offavored classes, it may be depended
upon that the masses will continue to
demand reduced rates for all the peo-
pie.
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DREAMING OF RICHES.

Lincoln Journal in a while
you run across poor man who is cor.
tinually planning some new method OF
getting rich in a minute. He is never
satisfied with the work in which he is
engaged, and never thinks Of trying to
get a start on the road to aff1uence by
keeping his expenses a notch below
his income. He dreams of easy money
obtained in thousand different ways
and gets some enjoyment anticipating
what he will do to make home happy
when his ship comes in The chances
are he will spend his last days in the
poor house. but he never will cease 10
dream until he enters the dreamless
sleep.
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GRIPPING THE FARMERS.

From the Beresford, s. D.. Republic
The get-cheap-land agitation which
has taken possession of the northwest
has left the farmers in anything but
an enviable position. The young men
have left for newer portions Of the
state, and it is practically impossible
to hire help no matter what the wage.
Men who are not able to do the work
are in many cases compelled to take
the team and go into the field In some
instances, 1t is said, it is expected that
severe cases Of dyspepsia will thus
be relieved
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mentary chemical knowledge, decline
to wash at all, and take an air bath q
Second. Use new tooth brush, or
else have fresh set of false teeth
each day-whichever you think less
dangerous.
Third Do your hair with your fing-
bacillus traps.
shaving material under an air-pump to
choke off the microbes.
Fifth. If impossible to follow above
rules stay in bed.
At the Breakfast Table.
Rule first. Don't read the morning
paper or open letters until they have
been baked, saturated with disinfect-
ant, and put through the mangle. The
postal officials are most careless with
mail.
Second. All bills, should be prompt
ly sent into unlimited quarantine.
Third Refrain from eating any ba-
con, fish, kidneys, ETC., over which an
inquest has not been held, or eggs that
have not been sat upon by coroners
jury.
Fourth. Keep your mouth closed
throughout the neal
On Going to Business.
Rule first. Refuse all change that
may be offered you by street car con
ductors, etc. If you do not care to lose
such sums, insist on having newly
minted coins handed you, wrapped up
In sterilized cotton.
Second. II you are compelled to go
to a refreshment stand, take your own
filter, glassware, and crockery with
you, also assorted repartees to any
comments made by the barkeeper.
Third. Stay, If possible, at home.
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ANDY's BAD BREAK.

Minneapolis Jcurnal.-Andrew Car.
negie appears to have been practically
unfortunate in his recent utterance in
which he castigated Wall street and its
gamblers, incidentally calling attention
to the fact that he is honest and never
gambled in stocks.
Not alone the redoubtable Lawson
has taken offense, but the old consery
alive financial publications such as the
Financial Chronicle and the Wall
Street Journal are criticising Carnegie
severely.
No doubt there was much truth in
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RULES ONE SHOULD FOLLOW
NOWADAYS.

From Harper's Weekly.-Af re.
peated shocks which have been dealt
to the nerves of the public at large,
the following few simple hygenic mem
oranda have been carefully prepared
for the public and domestic guidance
On Rising in the Morning.
Rule first. Don't wash or take a
bath unless you are sure the water has
been properly distilled; treated with
barium chloride and permanganate OF
potassium, and redistilled over K. II
S. 04. to fix any ammonia. If the
housekeeper does not possess this ele.
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ranks of the w. G. T. u. There was
a strenuous fight for license and no II.
cense. No license carried, "a to S3.
Ernest McEchran, a student at Yer.
million, missed the train at Aberdeen
and was obliged to walk twentyuix
miles to Ipswich, where he arrived fiji.
teen minutes before poll closing tins
and cast the deciding Saith vote for
mo license" The young man will no
doubt get more notoriety for his vote
than any other man in the state this
spring, and yet there were eighty.
three other fellows who voted as he
did But they didn't walk twenty-sis
miles.
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c. r. /. q P. TRAINS.
North Bound.

North Bound.
Leave.
No. 203 northumberland. q. m. daily
Connects for Omaha at Des M.
No. POI .11:10 a. m. daily except Sun.
Connects for Omaha at Des NJ.
No. 205 ..,7:10 p. m. daily except Sun.
South Bound.
No. FOG. Local to Keokuk, con-
meets at Eldon for Kansas
City and southwest ........
....... $3.50 a, m. daily except Sun.
No. 202. Local to Keokuk, con-
meets at Eldon for Kansas
City and southwest. $1,000.
1920 p. m. daily except Sun.
No. 204, Local to Eldon for
southwest ......... 1917 p. m. daily
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other obstacles to the course of Justice
there are loopholes enough for the
criminal now. To remove the death
penalty from the calculations of the
man who intends committing murder
would be to remove much needed
safeguard.
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WA BASH.
All Wabash Trains Depart from JET.
ferson Street Union Depot,
J. p Whelan


.. p. Whelan,
Agent.
Going South. Depart
No. 2a-Moberly, Kansas
City. st. Louis, Ar
kansas, Texas and Mex
leo ...... 800 a. m
No. 4a-St. Louis, Kansas
City, Florida, Oklahoma,
;, and California 1850. 800
No. 6b-Moberly, Hannibal,
Detroit, Toledo. Pitts
burg. Niagara Falls,
New York and Boston. 4:56 p. m
Arrive
=, wa wa 1880: ... e:s5 a. m.
u d ao:l ...''...' -. vMmnY
No. 13b-ottumwa accom-
modation 1880. ......11:25 a. M
a-Daily. h-Daily except Sunday.
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NO PROOF NECESSARY.

Kansas City Times.-But at this
stage of the game what need is there
OF vituperatiye speeches to prove that
the President Is mighty unpopular
with grafters and law breakers7
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A RADICAL VIEW.

The Kansas City Journal takes the
view that the enactments of 2-cent
fare laws by legislatures this year has
been nothing short of mob law. TIE
statement was called forth by a letter