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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20
THE OHIO CONTEST.

Minneapolis Journal.-The story
printed in the Journal last night that
ten of the sixteen republican congress
men from Ohio are 70. Taft for presi-
dent and that three more are ready to
come out for MIN at the proper mo-
ment suggests that there may be more
of fight coming to Foraker than he
figures upon at the present time. The
republican members of congress from
the state are worth something as an
asset even though the patronage peo-
pie look to the senators for their opin-
ions.
The question that will come up be-
fore Ohio next year will be, "Shall the
state have candidate for president
who has chance to be nominated, or
shall she have merely favorite son !"
There cannot be any pretensc that In
the present temper of politics J. B.
Foraker stands the ghost of a show Of
winning the presidency. He is on the
unpopular side of everything there is
going His admirers admit this, but
they say the unpopular always be-
comes the popular, and when the
change comes Foraker will be looked
upon as q leader This is the most
and the Roosevelt politics were wiped
out tomorrow, nobody would revert to
Foraker as a presidential possibility.
The man is almost totally disliked out
side of his own state. He would not
be nominated unless the party were
| r. ;.,~ ~ a fall
The main question then, before Ohio
| is - !. 40 candidate. Undoubtedly
Foraker's real choice is no candidate
AS senator ne has no use for Taft
for president, because Taft being from
his own state, would attend personally
to the various Ohio matters which are
now the stock in trade OF those two
interesting Dromios, Foraker and
Dick. Ohio opinion appears to be veer-
ing around this way already. with the
probabilities favoring the launching of
a real Taft boom from his own state.
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The main question then, before Ohio
HOW JIM HILL STARTED.

New York Commercial a recent
interview Mr.. Hill spoke of his en-
trance into the transportation world
as follows:
"When | was 10 years old, 1 con-
cluded to leave my nome at lockwood,
Canada, and go tosthe United States.
Perhaps might have done just as well
in Canada, but did rot think So.
Others remained there and prospered.
have many relations today around
Guelph. | had not saved sufficient
monsy to make the trip west, SO
went over to Syracuse, N. Y, and
worked few months on farm. That
was the spring of 1858. 1t was July 4
of that year | started west can
never forget that day, for 1t was a
big day in my life and also a big day
their independence day. When | reach
ed st. Paul a week later practically
had not dollar to my name and knew
not a single individual there. Ny
progress was mighty slow for ten
years. 1t consisted of some rough
experience. I was without what is
known as trade" and this was
against me. l was forced to do man
ual labor Still, mingled with rough
and-ready people and it sharpened my
wits When was handling baggage
as railroad employe in those days,
cannot say that ever expected to own
a railroad did intend, however, not
to work for another man all my life,
/ believe work harder today than |
did then. Then, at least had no
cares, if my wages were small. With
increased income came additional bur-
dens. I became shipbuilder in 2
small way Thisxwas my Introduction
into the transportation world
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TOO MUCH PROSPERITY.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat. TAX
ahashi, the vice president of the gov
eminent bank at Toxic, has made a
circuit of half the globe to tell us that
good times nave come to us in such
tumultuous shape that they are injur-
ing us. Business is too prosperous
In the United States" says Mr.. Taxa
hashi. "There is too much work for
the people to do. Wages are too high
for the cuntry's good. The rate for
money are prohibitory.
The last item in this indictment Of
the good times is the item which hits
him hardest. He has Deen floating the
Japanese governments latest loans,
and he finds that he has had to ac-
cept terms which were not 30 advan-
tageous to his country as those which
he looked for. Paris and London have
taken most of the loan, but those capt.
tails have had to draw some money
from this side of the Atlantic in order
to do this. The loan bears the rate of
per cent, while the Japanese govern.
ment at first supposed that 1t would
be able to get money for lower fig
ure. In Europe, however, as in the
United States, though not to the same
degree, business is active and money
commands. good figures.
Jacob III. Schiff. the New York bank
er like Mr.. Hartman, the railway
king, says that our prosperity is too
great for our good. Each Of these
magnates tells us that materials and
labor are too high, and that trade can
not stand this strain many more
years. But so. long as Europe Is hav.
ing touch Of the high rates, the Unit
ed States can be relied on to endure
them. Money is at normal rates in
New York at present, partly owing to
the disbursement Of 135,000,000 in in.
terest and dividends on shares of vari-
GUS sorts in the first week Of April.
The cornerers of the money market
have lost their occupation. Our Jap.
anese friend would have found the
money rate at far more dizzy height
here had he arrived week or two
earlier. The probability Is that the
country is not in the slightest danger
from the prosperity which has struck
it. We have not bitten Off more than
we can chew. "Tne United States is
a tremendous success" remarked
Speaker Cannon few months ago
When he reaches here a few days or
weeks hence, after his evils in the
Caribbean, he will find that his judg
ment of his country is being abund
antly indicated by the things which
will greet MIN when he steps ashore
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MARRIAGE AND BRAVERY.

Kansas City Journal.-On the other
side of the water the question as to
whether married men are Drawer than
bach elors is being discussed with that
passionate abandonment and vehe-
ment fevOr so characteristic of the
Briton. Somehow the thing has come
up in parliament and it bids fair to
eclipse that venerable subject, the
deceased wife's sister," upon which
lordly intellects have cut their orator
ical eyeteeth from generation upon
generation. The new controversy re-
lates to the Liberal ideal army
scheme, which assumes that fiction
ing greater soldierly qualities to the
unmarried patriot in the field. In adj
vocating "better and a cheaper
army" the war secretary fell back up
on statistics gathered during the Boer
and Japanese wars to prove that the
married men made better soldiers be-
cause they were drawer in the face
Of the enemy grumbled less at the
exigencies of military inconvenience,
and were more amendable to disci-
pline. Unmarried men. he pointed
out. often proved irresponsible, grum-
bling and shiftless under orders.
4 Without the slightest intention TO
perpetrate any unchivalric pleasantly,
we may suggest that as soldiers, from
barracks to fighting line, it Is more
than probable the married men are
superior to the unhampered. And the
reasons are obvious. The, grumble
less at inconvenience simply because
they got out of the habit. They are
more tractable because, long since,
under strict domestic regulations they
learned to obey orders without ques-
ton or hesitation. And finally, they
are drawer because they have given
hostages to fortune. They have more
to fight for.
The bachelor, on the other hand,
is generally a happy-go-lucky chap
without a proper sense of responsible
ity. Never having been married, war
| is novelty and diversion to be
enjoyed. We READ in romance that
the soldier who has no other mis-
tress save. his country is at pre-
MUM He is pic.@sd as brawny
son of Mars going forth to do or die
with the Tilt of merry song on his
lips and the hot blood of conflict leap.
Ing through his veins. For his coun.
try" says a writer, "a bachelor has
even flirted with the enemy; occa-
sionally he has married the enemy
Husbands with whom he has come in
contact do not shine in comparison
E;e has bound up their Wounds. nururtl
them back to life, recorded .h.il dying
words. occasionally he has married
their widows. But neither the mar
riage with the foeman's daughter
nor with the comrades widow has
cast a slur upon his valor."
While the discussion is still at white
heat 1t is gratifying to know that the
issues seem to favor the benedicks
who have so long suffered observation
among the fictionists of the battlefield
Hail to the married man, who upon
the scene of carnage and amid burst
ing shell and arrangement of war, is
coming into his well earned own.
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BOYS.


Boys'll soon be playin' hockey,
You kin find them, bless their souls,
Out along the twisty bayou
s In TIL finest swimmin' holes,
Doin' all tn stunts that we did
When we used to run away
From our schools away back yonder-
Or was it just yesterday?
1t don't seem like way back yonder,
1t seems more like just last week
When we'd start out, faces shinin'
And our hair combed just as sleek
AS could be, for the old school house
Till we turned the corner, then
1t would be helter-skelter
For the swimmin' hole again.
It's like brealin' colts to harness
Bringin' of a boy up right;
You must see the lines don't chafe
That his bride amt too tight.
That the first ways that you drive him
Are the ways he'd like to 60,
Gentlin" him and talkin' to him.
Coin carefully an slow.
when you We sOt your COlL We'll lDrOkeu,
Trained him so he'll gee an Ahaw,
So he'll come when you shall call him,
So he'll brace himself an draw
For each pound that there is in him,
So he knows his home an stall,
Spite Of all the care you give him,
He'll be just a horse, that's all.
But boy-there amt no tellin'
What he won't be, guided right; i
So when your boy plays at hockey,
Runs away or has fight,
Then's the time to get close to him,
Not turn from him with frown
Like the universe was crumpled
BY his acts an tumblin. down.
So when he comes home some evenin'
| With his shirt on wrong side out,
An his collar soft and wilted,
| An his hair all tossed about.
Don't bear down too hard upon him
Like he'd done some fearful crime;
He's just been anticlpatin'
OF the glad vacation time.
| u. M. Lewis in Houston Post
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THE oTTUMWA COURIER

.farthest north" Compared with
Wellman's swift flight through the air
his progress will be that OF the tor
toise, and months will be consumed in
his journey.
Both adventurers have mastered all
the knowledge that man may acquire
of the frozen world about the pole.
Neither will overlook the slightest de.
tail that will aid him to achieve sue
cess. Both are fearless men with I'M.
limited resources at their command
The only difference is in their meth.
DDS. Time alone can tell who will be
the victor in this polar race, the tor.
toise or the hare.
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ty required by the pure food law 10
advertise that the United States is
guaranteeing their products.
''The serial number" said Secretary
Wilson, is assigned to fix the respon-
sibility where 1t belongs upon the
manufacturers-and to protect limo
cent dealers who have right Under
the law to rely upon his guaranty. IT
is the guarantee Of the manufacturer
not the guarantee of the government. !"
Secretary Wilson threatens to pub
fish a. fist bearing the names Of man
ufacturers who are "indulging in this
campaign of deception" If the out
rageous misrepresentation" does not
cease.
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ARRoR DAY.

President Rocsevelts Arbor Day
message to the school children in
which he so tersely said: "a people
without children would face hopeless
future; country without trees is al
most as hopeless is one that should
he given careful thought. "a true for
est is not merely a storehouse full Of
wood, but, as it were, factory of
wood, and at the same time a reservoir
of water said the President, speak
ing in terms plain enough for his
youngest reader. and sufficiently plain
too, for his oldest reader.
The President shows foresight in
addressing himself to the school chill
dren, for it will devolve upon the COM
ing generation, largely, to replenish
the forests that have suffered so great
" from wanton destruction during the
present generation.
But the Presidents message may be
taken. home by every reader. The OBJ
servance of Arbor day should not be
confined to the schools, of the country.
& 1t is one that should find hearty re-
Spouse from every individual citizen
who possesses a home. There are
very few homes that will not be
greatly benefited by planting trees.
In some cases shade trees will be de-
sirable, while in others fruit trees will
be found more beneficial. This. is a
matter that should receive attention
from the head of every household dur.
ing the Arbor day season A tree can
he planted in the yard with very little
expense or trouble. If this custom is
followed closely for a few years 1t will
not be long until our cities will be-
come veritable parks.
E In Iowa, Apri. 26 has been set aside
as Arbor day. Let's work together
to give the day more generous OBJ.
servance this year than previously.
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RuMINATloN.

DIR. Woodrow Wilson, president OF
Princeton university, is out as the
friend of the man who chews tobacco.
DR.. Wilson voiced this conclusion in
a lecture on "The United States SEN
ate," in the course of which he also
made the assertion that a western SEN
ator. as a rule, is more valuable than
an eastern man because he comes from
the part Of the country that Is produc-
tive of thought while in the east the
men have no opinions because they do
not have time to think. This led Dr.
Wilson to the discussion of the tobacco
question, when he said:
"If you live in place where you
can sit around the stove In country
store and spit tobacco juice into a
sawdust box, you are much more likely
to have opinions than If you live in
New York Whatever you may think
of the habit of chewing tobacco, want
to suggest that chewing sometimes
leads to ruminatiye habits. II man
stops long enough between sentences
opinions that have weight than If he
does not There is something In saw
dust box.
Whether DR.. Wilson means that his
remarks should convey the advice to
all to begin chewing tobacco immed-
lately that they may become capable
of rumination, or whether he took up
the eudgels for the tobacco chewer be-
lieving him to be a greatly maligned
person, one thing is certain, if the
Princeton president is ever run for
president, as has been often consider
ed, his remarks in defense of the saw
dust oox will make great campaign
material
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DR.. w. E. Shallenberger,
145 oakwooG Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel state Benk.

Aldrich was in New York, early In his
career, he was introduced by Edwin
Booth to the lady. a Miss Woodman,
who was afterward to be his wife.
After his engagement, fearful lest HIS
income would not meet the somewhat
large demands on 1t made by woman
of Miss Woodman's tastes, he wrote
her the following characteristic lines:
Woodman, spare T. B.;
Touch not a single curl
He cannot shelter thee. ~
Thou most expensive girl.
These curls remained thick and
graceful on his brow to the last. The
chame characteristic humor and readf-
ness marked much Of his work on
reaching his SEVENTEEN birthday he
remarked to a reporter: II don't app
prove Of 1t. haven't any excuse to
make. but I'll promise never to let II
happen again.
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william T Stead, the English edit

William T. Stead, the English editor
who is a prominent figure at the peace
congress now in session, expresses the
belief that if the deity had consulted
him in the making of Theodore Roose-
welt, he would have advised the CIV
ing to the President of a thicker skin.
Perhaps Mr.. Stead is wrong in be-
lieving the President Is more sensi-
tive to criticism than other mortals.
He should remember that all of us
do not have to deal with the Harri-
mans, Bellamy Storers and others
deeply versed in the art of handy let
ter writing.
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So and thus back to one, when he
may start up again the articles say
which the society will operate:
A prize will be given to any man
that plays golf when he is a hundred
years young, TO any woman who is
habitually mistaken for her grand,
daughter, and to any member who for
ten years has not been sick. Should
any member feloniously die he will
be promptly expelled as this society is
not composed Of dead ones"
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HAS MRS. GRIMES ELoPEDa
Wife of Murderer Of John GavII,
Leaves Horne Mysteriously and
Stories are Rife,

Mt. Pleasant, April 1S--Mrs. Thos.
Grimes left a few days ago for parts
unknown. 1t is said she left with q
stranger whose identity is not known.
For some days the stranger and his
wife stopped with Mrs. Grimes at New
London. The man and his wife quar-
relied and soon afterward he and Mrs.
Grimes disappeared and have not been
seen since. A couple of days ago his
brother was up from Fort Madison
looking for him at New London, and
stated the parties had eloped.
Mrs. Grimes is the wife Of Thomas
Grimes, who was sent up for life for
murder.
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POPULARITY OF BASEBALL.

Boston Globe--1t is easy to under
stand why baseball Is the popular ma
tional game. 1t is every ones game,
hence it will never lack supporters
and admirers. It is very democratic
pastime. 1t brings together represen.
tatives Of every calling in the land.
Every patrons banishes all business
from his mind as good as he reaches
a ball field. There he is free from
all care. The only solicitude ne has is
that the home nine will win.
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Des Moines has organized a so
ciety of Perpetual Youth" which pro-
poses to adopt the feminine method of
counting age backward. When a man
reaches DR.. Osler's age limit Of GO he
will cease growing old and the follow
ing year he will be So years old, then
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-20

Following the lead Of the mayor OF
Fort Dodge, a Danville, ILL.,. council
man, has introduced an ordinance pro-
viding for the taxation of single men.
The bachelors have induced another
alderman to amend the ordinance so
as to assess fine Of $50 against any
unmarried woman who turns down a
seeking man. And Danville is
gaining much publicity thereby.
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AFTER SEEING HER HOME.

I saw her home!
That makes you think
OF two who roam
BY brooklet's brink.
A smitten youth,
A charming miss.
With lips, forsooth,
Pursed up to kissl.
But you are wrong,
saw her home,
A palace long
With gliding dome.
And then / knew
need not speak,
What could do
On ten week?
Philadelphia Bulletin
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lMPRAcTlcABLE.

New York Tribune. The Hon. John
Sharp Williams says the democratic
party needs fixed star to guide 1t.
The trouble with that suggestion is
that no two groups of democrats will
ever agree to1gaze into the same seq
ment Of the starry, armament.
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SIOUX clTY's BETTER SIDE.

sibley Tribune. The Easter coliec-
,tion at st. Thomas Episcopal church
in Sioux City amounted to $4,000. In
addition to this two members OF the
church promised to give 81 each for
every 81 collected on the plates, which
will swell the sum to 1880. Yet 1t is
said that Sioux City is an awful wick
ed place,
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A New York man has filed a suit for
divorce from his wife, claiming that
she not only transferred her affec-
tons to another man, but that she
countermanded his order for favor
lite brand of whisky because her adj
mirer disliked it. He thought this was
going too far.
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A st. Paul man has funny joke to
tell, but he can't tell it. He has tried
three times and each attempt set him
to laughing SO heartily that his jaw
was dislocated. His friends want him
to write his joke down on paper, but
he is afraid his jaw couldn't stand the
strain. Ns,
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NOT a SAFE RULE.

Chicago Evening Post. Chancellor
Days conviction Of the immortality of
smoking dates from the time he was
overcome by black cigar. On this
principle, think Of the wickedness Of
green apples and mince pie.
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PURE FOOD AND GUARANTEES.
Secretary Wilson of the department
af agriculture has donned his war
paint because certain manufacturers
of food products have taken advan-
tage of the serial number and guaran7
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.Dr. ShaIIenberqer

"a Il j . - Ii f + &
The Regular and Reliable Chicago
Specialist, who has, visited Ottumwa
since 1903. will be at
Ottumwa, Ba'lingall Hotel,
Thursday, April rs
Gone day only and return every %
days.
Fairfield, Leggett House. Tuesday
April 20.
Abba, Monroe Hotel. wednesday,
April "a
sigourney, Merchants Hotel. Friday
April 26.
Office Hours a. m. TO 8 p. m.
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ROOSEVELT We. SENTIMENT.

Topeka Capital. South Dakota's
legislature the other day adopted a
resolution demanding the renomina-
ton of Roosevelt, and resolution has
been introduced in the Iowa legisla-
ture insisting that the President must
run again. With this expresses the
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A More Promising Field.

Sibley Tribune--Geo D. Perkins
filed the pulpit at the First Baptist
church in Sioux City last Sunday even
ing. II man earnestly seeks It there
is unquestionably more comfort to be
derived from religion than from poll
tics.
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certakes and sends the incurable home
without taking fee from them. This
rs why he continues his visits year
after year while other doctors have
made a few visits and stopped. Or.
Shallenberger is an eminently success.
ful specialist in all chronic diseases,
proven by the many cures effecte1 In
chronic cases which have baffled the
skill Of all other physicians. His hos
tice have made him so proficient that
ne can name and locate a disease In
few minutes.
Th.oat and Lung diseases. Eye and
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Gravel. Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu-
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Blood and Skin diseases, Epilepsy,
Bright's Disease and Consumption Ii
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given. A never failing remedy for Biz
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| to all Surgical cases and all diseaseR
Of the Eye Ear, Nose and Throat and
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Are you nervous and Respondent;
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Address
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