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, 1907-05-23
Beware Of olntments for catarrh That
Contains Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on pre-
scriptions from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you "a possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure. manu-
featured by F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
O., contains no mercury, and Is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the sys-
tenn. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken
internally and made in Toledo, Ohio,
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials
free.
Sold by druggists. Price, 15c per
bottle. =,
Take Halls Family Pills for consti'
patton.
, 1907-05-23
apparently upon the best authority and
states that the survey from Laurel, the
terminus of the Billings and Northern,
to Denver, has been completed"
Hurrying the cut-off.

Fitzpatrick Brothers are now ship
ping grading outfits to Corlett, si1
miles west of Cheyenne, which will be
used in the construction Of the cutoff
on Athol hill, says the Cheyenne Trib-
une. The contractors have orders to
rush this work forward as rapidly as
possible and several hundred men and
teams will be employed within a short
time.
, 1907-05-23
THE STREET SPRINKLER
Is NOW ON THE WAY.

City Clerk Tyvold this morning re-
ceived notification that the Austin
Western company of Harvey, ILL.,, had
shipped the new street sprinkler from
that city on the 18th, it being looked
for almost any day now.
, 1907-05-23
SLIGHT Accident Delay. Trains.

A journal broke on the rear end OF
a car next to the engine of an east
bound fruit train about 3 o'clock Tues
day afternoon, about three miles east
of North Platte. Trains in consequence
were delayed about three hours until
the wreckage was cleared. Although
the damaged "a was loaded with or.
anges, not one was in sight. No. IL
was delayed at Maxwell and Nos. 2 and
8 at North Platte while the wreckage
was being cleared.
, 1907-05-23
Bill Clerk Looked For.

Bill Clerk Looked For.
Bert Logan, bill clerk at the freight
depot, who is visiting at Denver, is ex-
pected home in a day or two and will
relieve Charlie Winsted, who returns
to his own desk, Myron Wall going to
the trainmaster's Office.
, 1907-05-23
Check Clerk Resigns.

Check Clerk Resigns.
Ran Campbell has resigned as night
check clerk at the trainmaster's Of
fee and has been succeeded by James
Stewart of this city.
, 1907-05-23
New warehouseman Today.

Dennis O'Neill has resigned as ware
houseman at the freight depot and was
succeeded this morning by B. A. Hig-
gins of this city.
, 1907-05-23
Block SIGNALS In Service.

Automatic block signs have been
placed in service between Egbert and
Pine Bluff and between Ridge and
Medicine Bow.
, 1907-05-23

Why do the people say that THE
ICE CREAM THAT MILLS MAKES
is the best they have aver eaten?
, 1907-05-23
AN IMPORTED HORSE
FOR LARAMIE PLAIN

FOR LARAMIE PLAINS.
David McCullagh's large Shire stall
lion, Stuntney Shem 1861, imported
from England and now five years old,
was brought to the city this morning,
to be shod and shorn. The animal is
as gentle as a kitten and weighs we'll
up to a ton.
, 1907-05-23

Plenty of green veg
etables at the Pacific
Market.
, 1907-05-23

Tho Republican 10 the best sdvertiA
ing medium In the city and oo'mty 10
It reaches all the people.
, 1907-05-23

Cars Moving Rapidly.
Agent Cady has been able to nave
not less than $50 cars Of the blockaded
, 1907-05-23

freight sent west, the balance being
moved as rapidly as the work can be
done. Within a week the Wyoming
division will be almost clear Of this
class of freight.
, 1907-05-23

Daily Republican. 80 cent. . month.
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MAJOR JOHN F. LACEY.


Oskaloosa Herald-Today ends. tenn
porarily only-the services Of Hon
John F. Lacey in the national con.
gress. He will at once quit Washing.
ton and return to Iowa, to Oskaloosa,
and to the practice of law. His retire.
ment from the public service is ca.
lamity not alone to be felt by the
Sixth congressional district, but by
the entire state of Iowa, and by the
national body Of which he was mem
Der.
Mr.. Lacey has long enjoyed the rep.
utation of being the hardest working
member Of congress, and by his per.
sistency and faith, he succeeded in
getting many things through when
others would have failed. He has had
a part in the stirring crises of the past
ten years, when history has been made
fast by the United States, and in ev.
cry and all events he has never been
found wanting. He has never lodged
vote, and never been afraid to de.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
SUNDAY A DAY OF REST.

indianapolis Newsletter a very
earnest and protracted effort to get
along without day of rest the French
people have found it necessary to con-
slider the enactment of laws for the
protection of Sunday. And this de-
mand for day Of rest comes from the
working people, the very people in
whose behalf greater supposed free
dom in ragard to Sunday is asked in
this country. There is really no relig-
ious question involved as far as the
relation of the state to the subject is
concerned. The question is social and
political entirely. What we are to de-
eide is whether we are to break down
the distinction between Sunday as a
day of rest and the other days as days
of work. The French have done thiG
and they have found that the result IS
bad. Sunday amusements mean Sun
day work for many, and with Sunday
amusement gradually comes Sunday
business open shops, open theatres
and all the rest Of 1t.
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ALWAYS TURN ON THE LIGHT.

ALWAYS TURN ON The EiGH T.
Don't eat cabbage from the pantry
shelves when you come home from
the club at o'clock in the morning
until you have first turned on the
light. This moral stands out in bold
relief in the experience Of a Connec-
ticut man after night with the boys.
He felt hungry when he got home and
this reminded him of the cabbage.
Where did you put the cold cab
bage, dearest?" he called upstairs to
his wife, who had coughed loudly to
let him know it was useless to take off
his shoes.
ION the second shelf in the pan
try" she answered harshly.
He found the cabbage and the OIL
vinegar, salt and pepper, cut up the
cabbage, dressed 1t to his taste, and
ate 1t with appetite.
George, why didn't you eat the cab.
bage last night?" asked his wife when
he appeared rather shaky for break,
fast.
"I did; it was fine!' said George;
$50 thoughtful Of you to keep it, dear
est
"Why, it's on the pantry shelf" she
cried. Filled with apprehension.
WHEY searched the second shelf hur.
riedly. There she had left four yards
of lace, worth $40, in bowl Of starch
The lace was gone.
And there is another moral. If
wnen you get full as a goat you have
the appetite Of goat. don't eat your
wife's $40 lace, but try a diet of bill
board Autographs or tomato cans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
SECRETARY SHAW.

Washington Post-Mr. Shaw's best
equipment was his keen insight. What
he did not know he soon learned, and
make applicable to the situations in
which he 'ouud himself. His manage
ment Of the nations finances has been
conservative and far-sighted. While
he has had the courage to meet new
situations in his own way, without
precedent to guide him, he has not
created precedents which can rise to
plague his successors. His decisions
have been based on common sense,
enlightened sometimes by a shrewd-
ness that was fully equal to emergen-
cies. 1t was his fortune to be forced
to cope with questions arising from
prosperity and plethora rather than
those of deficits and hard times. Some
of these questions were exceedingly
delicate and difficult of solutions with
out disturbance of business. They
were successfully disposed of. The
treasury, both as to policies end admin
istration. is in excellent condition, aud
the retiring secretary takes with him
to New York a reputation that will
place him in the front rank OF the
country's financieTs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14

as one the texture of whose creative
brain is to that of the man In the
street as a million dollars is to 30
cents Now we see that he and the
men around him, are only limitations
of the first and greatest financier,
without any improvement upon the old
original plan. and without touch of
added power in design or method to
redeem the imitators from characteri-
cation as crude copyists of model Of
q generation ago. If it is to laugh at
suckers for being fooled with old
tricks, it is to laugh also. at the other
suckers who have thought the Harri-
man group to be playing new ones,
and it is to laugh, too, at Mr.. Hartman
for standing pat on the old cards,
when he had a chance to show us nay
new ones he might have played in the
game.
Tho fact Is. Mr.. Hartman has new
er played card that was not marked
by Jim Fisk. That is the joke on him.
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PLAYED MARKED CARDS.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.-M Har-
1iman likes joke and knows how to
crack one II decline to answer, I'M
der the advice of my COUNSEL was his
response, to every question calculated
to develop striking situations. After
completing his testimony he fouts his
entire examination as a useless pro-
ceeding which has revealed nothing
new in railroad management. 1t Is an
old story, says Mr.. Hartman, which
he told on the witness stand.
There is no denying the fact. We
have all heard the same story before.
The tricks played by the syndicate
we're all old tricks. Practically all of
them originated in the brain of Jim
Fisk. FTsk's imitators have played
them on greater scale than he could
play them, for the reason that the
growth of railway development has so
immeasurably increased their oppor-
tunities, but there was not a short card
played in the Hartman deals that did
not bear the Fisk marks. Fisk was
cut off in the intellectual prime Of his
career as a high financier, but he had
his cards in his pocket when shot, and
somebody in Wall street picked the
pocket Of dead man and got them.
Since then they have been often
played. Everybody has come to know
their marks. Mr.. Hartman does real
ly get the laugh on us again by now
playing out the same old cards, with
the same old marks, when we call
him to a showdown. He has showed
us how he got the money by playing
old cards we have seen before and
and feels himself entitled to laugh
at our expense.
All right. But a part of the joke is
on him. Mr.. Hartman has been called
a Napoleon of finance. Sloppy and
slobbery writer's, without any compre-
hension of the fact that he and his as
sociates were merely playing out the
marked cards of dead man, have
fallen into rapturous phrasing Of their
mighty intellectual processes and their
tremendous financial achievements
They have been glorified as those on
whose gigantic brows the sun never
sets, but always fingers, for a per-
.petual mental illumination. Each
new million added to the store of mil
lions has been said to come out of a
titanic convolution Of the brain Of an
intellectual giant of the new era in
which intellectual giants express the
convolutions of their brains in terms
of money and not of thought, as they
once did.
Mr.. Hartman has been shown to us
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
WASHING JOHNS MONEY.

ROckefeller's money has done mucn
for the University of Chicago, too
much it seems at times. 1t mas en-
abled the university to burden itself
with a number Of notoriety seeking
professors, the sum total of whose
work seems to be that of breaking in
to the news columns with arraign
ments upon existing institutions and
conditions. The latest of these is DR.
Charles Zueblin, professor of sociology
His statements may be briefly sum
married.:
Business men possess virility. but
not courage; brains, but not culture;
force, but not character
STAND pat" is the most immoral ii
all declarations; it means that there
is something rotten that must be hid
den
The lack of courage is the chief
defect of all people today.
Marshall Field had the greatest
brain the business world has seen;
but the provisions of his will show a
lack Of culture.
Instead of using their brains to
evade the constitution, business men
if cultured, would revise 1t; they
would abolish the United States sen
ate, instead of trying to get into 1t;
they would legalize combinations and
railway pools.
His first statement that business
men have no courage, no culture and
no character, may be taken as a sam
pie of the others. 1t shows that moth
ing is impossible for professor al
fha Ghioa on I,nivaraifv II 10 No tro,,
BILE at all for him to weigh the bust
ness profession Of the world and in q
single sentence dispose of it as cor
rupt, cowardly and uncultured.
Rockefeller should lay aside por
ton of the money he mas announced us
a gift to the educational cause to sup
port a commission to weed out of the
colleges professors who are inculcat
ing into the minds OF their pupils such
socialistic doctrines as the above.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14

clare himself on any public question
In his retirement the nation loses
a hard worker for the interests of the
people. and a public servant whose
place will be hard to fill. On the other
hand, Oskaloosa welcomes him home,
as the city will profit by his presence.
Energy and push were born in him and
he could not help exerting them if he
tried. They VIII be thrown into the
activities of every day life, ami Oska-
loosa and Mahaska county will have
another booster who will MAKE their
proud position and the acknowledge.
ment of their worth move faster to the
front.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
IOWA PEOPLE in CALIFORNIA.

Des Moines Capital.-Most people
are familiar with the fact that during
the past few years, ever since the re-
turn of prosperity in fact, the number
of Americans who visit the continent
has increased to an enormous extent.
Figures have been adduced showing
the millions which these tourists ex-
Dend in their travels abroad, and so
liberal are they and SO insistent upon
f1rst-class accommodations only that
the foreigner has come to look upon
the American traveller as the easiest
Of the fruit which falls into his lap
No class of travellers spend the amount
OF money which Americans do, and it
is no wonder that the leading papers
of this country, especially those on
the seaboard. are flooded with adver-
tisements setting forth the advantages
of continental hotels, restaurants and
watering places.
But, true as this is, there are indi-
cations that Americans are more and
more coming 10 realize the benefits
offered by certain sections of their
own country with respect to climate
and scenic beauty. For instance, the
Los Angeles, Cal, papers tell about a
reunion of Iowa people resident in
that state or transiently a part of its
population. The reunion was held in
a Los Angeles park a few days ago
and was attended by nearly $4,000
Iowans who are in California for the
winter or who are located there for
home-making purposes. 1t is natural
to suppose that a large percentage Of
those who made up this Iowa picnic
are tourists attracted to the Golden
state by the excellence of it's climate
and its advantages for the health seek
er. as we'll as by the remarkable seen
nc Offering. enroute. There is no
distinction between the American who
travels in his own country and the
one who goes abroad. 50 far as his lib
erality is concerned The state of Cal
! ifornia has profited enormously by the
influx of Iowa people, who constitute
but. a small part Of the tourist class
which enriches the state every year.
And yet. delightful as the California
climate and hospitable as are the Cal
Iifornia people, Hon. A. B, Funk Of
Spirit Lake, who is there for his health
advises Iowa people who are able to
work, who can endure the frigid win
ter climate of the middle west and
who are looking for opportunities for
advancement, to stay at home. Mr.
Funk thinks, with other Iowans who
1 have visited California during the tour
I ist season, & that there is no more
charming place to spend the winter
months-if you carry well-lined purse
and have abundant credit at the
| home bank.
4 The Iowa winters are little rough
but they put iron in the blood and stiff
fleming in the backbone. Stern men
are the outgrowth of stern conditions.
and a climate which invites enervation
rather than resistance contributes a
mighty small quota of rugged men and
women to the worlds population. But
! the fact that Los Angeles reunion
brought together $4,000 Iowans indi.
Gates the popularity of California as
a winter resort and also tells tale OF
prosperity which no one knows better
than the railroads and the hotels,
boarding houses and merchants of that
| interesting section.
4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
THE OTHER MANS JOB.

BY William F. Kirk in the Chicago
Examiner.
It's pretty soft for the motormanho
rides the whole day long.
With nothing to do but start the car
and tap warning gong
The rest of us have to pay Ave cents
whenever we want to ride;
Lacking the fare, we must use Shank'S
mare wnen we do our homeward
glide.
It's pretty soft for the doctor, who
deals in human ills.
Though at 2 a. m. he must leave his
bed, armed with q box OF pills.
At times he must face the wintry wind
that stingeth like a knout,
But the rest of US have to take the
dope the doctor dishes out.
It's pretty soft for the lawyer, wac
labors over his brief,
And prays to the court that his client
be granted sad relief. . .s
TIE must read a thousand volumes,
all bound in musty calf,
But the rest of us, when we break our
legs, must give the lawyer half.
It's pretty soft for the hod -carrier-he
fills his hod with brick,
He beats 1t up the ladder--it's easy
to learn the trick.
He climbs to the top of the building,
where all its mortar and muss,
But most of the bricks get loosened
and fall on the rest Of ,ls.
Let us gather around the table. while
our hearts with envy throb.
And drain a flask to the easiest task
The Other Fellows Job!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
Teninty- Dickins Wedding.

Batavia Rural Route No. Q, March
Ion Wednesday,, March 6, at 2
o'clock at the home of Mr. and MIS-.
Harve Dickins,- occurred the wedding
Of their daughter. Lizzie, to g. A. Ten
inty of Burlington, Rev. Petit of1ciat-
ing. There were large number Of
relatives and guests to witness tho
ceremony. After congratulations two,
course dinner was served. Mr.. and
Mrs. Teninty were the recipients OF
many valuable presents. Mr.. Teninty
is highly esteemed young man Of
Burlington and Miss Dickins y one
of Wapello county's highly esteemed
young women and numbers as her
friends all who know her.
Rev. Pierson of Avery filled the pull
pit at the Christian church Sunday
morning and evening. He will preach
every two weeks at the same place tho
rest of this year.
William Wilson and family. who
moved from here two years ago to
Peru, Kansas, have moved back again
to their farm west OF town.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morley were,
shopping in Batavia on Thursday.
The cotton anniversary OF the mar
riage Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Golf was
celebrated Saturday evening, March ..
by an ingathering OF near neighbora
and was a complete surprise to Mr..
Goff. Those present were Messrs. ana
Mesdames q. Manning, J. Morley. 9.
Golf, F.. Morrison, A. Morrison. ], 10y,
M. Wilson, H. Latta. J. Long, G. Avery,
w. Latta: Mrs. B. Henderson; F. Con,
]. Wilson, E.. Morrison. B. Morrison.
P. Morley, Verl Morrison. Sadie Ship-
Ter; Misses Matte Fancher, Vera Fan
cher, Zea Henderson, Rena Wilson.
Gussie Avery. Bertha McGlade, Littls'
Morris Manning, Wanda Long. Wills
Latta. A two course luncheon was
served. Useful presents were receiv-8
ed.
Norman Reno left Tuesday on Z,
business trip through Arkansas.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
CANNON AND THE LUNATic.

Harper's Weekly.-The Hon. Joseph
G. Cannon, speaker of the house OF
representatives was riding in a street
car in Washington. D. G., when M
elderly man, with a nervous manner
and rather wild look, entered the cal
and took the seat next to Mr.. Cannon
After short time, the man turn
ing suddenly on Mr.. Cannon, demand
ed. do you know what am going tt
do?"
NO" replied Mr.. Cannon.
II am going to have all the bones
of my ancestors collected, mounted
with silver, and hung on the walls q
my room," said the man.
II would not do that" said Mr.
Cannon.
"Why?" demanded the man.
well" replied Mr.. Cannon, .'yo,
cannot expect to live more than TWEEN
ty years at the most, and when yor
die all the bones Of your ancestors
will be thrown out in the ash barrel
and you would not like that
NO" said the man: II never
thought of that. "I'll have to thinl
that over
After few minutes the man agair
addressed Mr.. Cannon in the same
manner.
do you know what am going IL
dog"
NO." replied Mr.. Cannon.
II am going to dig a hole in the
earth 100 miles deep and three miles
in circumference" said the man.
II would not do that" replied Mr.
Cannon.
why" demanded the man.
Because you cannot tell what 70,
would find SO far down in the earth,
replied Mr.. Cannon; besides you
would be worried to death by the labol
unions"
II never thought Of that" said TIL.
man, "I'll have to think that over
After slightly longer period of 81
lence the man once more addressed
Mr. Cannon.
do you know what am going tt
do?"
mo" replied Mr.. Cannon.
Il am going out west and sinl
100000 artesian wells all over tnt
plains" said the man.
Il would not do that" replied Mr.
Cannon.
|Why?" demanded the man.
) Because" replied Mr.. Cannon. 6
know you do not wish to injure an.
one, and as water is scarce out there
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News of Lebanon.

Lebanon, March Miss Emnls
Harrison is In Cantril helping to care
for her brother. who was kicked by .
horse.
Eugene Harrison is moving to the
Best farm, east of Lebanon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cheafee and grand
daughter of Ottumwa are visiting with
Mr.. Cheafees sister, Mrs. G. B. Huns
phrey.
Mrs. Belle Van Fleet entertained q
few ladies at carpet rag sewing on
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Judd and daugh-1
ter, Mary, Of Cantril spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bee1er.
Miss Eta Cochran and Miss Nellie
Conner spent Sunday with Mrs. En-.
mo Sadler.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence and children
spent Sunday at the home Of Ralph
Muir.
]. M. Humphrey was In Keosauqua
on business Monday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14

you would cut off the water supply OF
many cities and towns. 7
II never thought of that said the
man. '.I'll have to think that over
They both left the car as it was
nearing the capitol, and the man, re-
marked. "You and ] don't seem 10
agree"
The other passengers had greatly
enjoyed the conversation, and one OF
them remarked to his neighbour
Which of those two old gentleman
was the crazier?"
But his neighbor gave II up.