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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28

salaries Of congressman from $4,000
to $500 a year. The state librarian
does fully as important work as the
average congressman To increase the
pay Of congressman more than the
total salaries OF the vast army of
workers, without doing anything for
them. Is making distinction in pay
that does not exist in service State
Librarian Brigham is scholar, and a
leader among state librarians. If ne
should receive for all his time as much
as congress has added to the com.
pensation of It's members for no addi.
tional service whatever, it certainly
could not be said that he was overpaid
in proportion.
The .Des MONIES Capital shares this
view when it states that the library
board is unit for an increase Of the
librarians salary, and the people
would be a unit If they knew the facts.
The Capital says:
The general assembly is adjusting
the salary of the state librarian. The
librarian has been receiving $4,000
per year which is not enough A pro.
position is pending to make the salary
$4,000 and this should be adopted
State Librarian Brigham is one of the
few great librarians in the country
and the state is fortunate in securing
the services of such man. If ne
were in the east in control Of large
library he would be paid at least $4,000
per year. Mr.. Brigham is the head OF
several departments Of the state lib
rary and also serves as head of the
Iowa Library commission. The lib
rary board is a unit for an increase OF
the librarians salary, and the people
would be unit if they knew the facts
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
SAME OLD TOWN.

Jack Dalton, etitor of the Manson
Democrat, after four days absence
from the city, wrote the following on
his return home:
Nothing startling and nothing new
Happening to change the humdrum
hue,
OF local life in country town;
But the same old people stand around,
Same old drays at the station watt
For the same old train, an hour late;
Same old wait for same old mail
While kickers anvil the same old wall;
Same chewers spit and chew,
Same old cussers make the same air
blue;
Same old stores and same old banks.
Same old prohibition cranks;
Same old guzzlers fighting booze;
Same old gossips peddling news;
Same old preachers fighting sin,
Same old crap game butting In;
Same old slot in same old joints,
Gets same old rake" on every point.
Same old maids with same old vim
In the same odl chase after "he'' or,
him"
Same old loafers and mammals pets;
Smoke same shrinking cigarettes;
Same old corner chop house, TOO,
Where the same old bunch drops in
to chew;
Same old DRINKS with the same old
''hops";
Same odl crowd in the barber shops;
Same old lovers bill and COO,
Same old swell" society crew;
Same Old stories and same old jokes;
Same old place and that's no josh
But the best old town on the map.
b'josh!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
THEY WEEP GALloNe IN PORT
LAND.

Chicago Inter-O cean-It is said by
no less an authority than the Portland
Oregonian that at recent perform
ance of Madam Butterfly" in Port
land the audience shed two gallons
-ofAtears.
In view of the facts and figures pre-
sented with this statement, it does
not seem like an eXaggeration. In
the first place, it Is stated as a fact
that there were 1000 in the audience,
and that every man, woman and child
wept when they saw Butterfly with
her baby waiting at the window for
the American husband and father who
neglected to return as he faithfully
promised to do in the first act.
In the next place, say that each per-
son in the audience shed on an aver
age teaspoonful of tears There
are 1,024 teaspoonfuls to a gallon. One
thousand persons, therefore, would
shed approximately one gallon of
tears, and 1000 persons two gallons.
So there you have it.
But this is really not the most SER
ious side of the Portland case Two
gallons of tears shed in teaspoonfuls
throughout large theater would he
no more than a sprinkle here and
there Very true. 1t would hardly
be noticed by the house cleaners,
Very true.
But suppose that some evening Ca
mile" should be produced in Portland
by Nine. Sarah, or that Portland
should turn out to witness al Tro-
vatore," and should become nysterical
during the Tower scene, or that the
Clybourne Avenue Thespian stock
company should go out there and pro
duce East Lynne" or. that the Seat
tie Amateur Dramatic company should
come down there and the Portland
audience should burst into tears at
Pauline's passionate farewell forever
to Claude Melnotte, should we not
again be called upon to read the
heartrending particulars Of more dis
astrous floods in the Puget sound dis
trict
We rather think so. Nobody will,
or can, object to bucketfull or two,
more or less, but the weeping habit
is one that grows on community
1t used to be SO bad in Omaha at one
time that all stock actors and &C
tresses appearing in melodrama in
sisted upon appearing upon the stage
out there in rubber shoes and mackin.
toshes on account of the llpervading
dampness of the theater interiors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
STOCKPORT.

Stockport, March 26.-Invitations
have been issued for the marriage Of
Thor1cs Newman and Miss Bessie
Johnston on March %, at the home OF
the bride in Stockport.
Ross Whcatley and wife OF Fairfield
came in on the train Saturday evening
to visit their son.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Collins spent
Saturday in Hillsboro.
One of the fiues OF tho boiler at the
tile factory blew out Friday morning
causing a delay of work Tie damage
has been repaired and work is pro-
crossing again.
Dat sowing ic well along and few
more days will see the crop all In.
George Teal, who has been here for
the four weeks under the doctors care.
returned home yestcrdaJ morning. He
thinks he Is somewhat improved In
health. He is suffering with Bright's
disease.
NJ. L. Shetman shipped car load of
hogs to Ottumwn Thursday.
Lue Winslow of Birmingham arrived
Saturday evening to visit her sister,
Mrs. Nora Johnston.
Mr.. Hall and H. M. Robinson were
In Bonaparte Sunday.
d. Rivers and wife of Des Moinea
are ytsitig Mrs. Rivers brother.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
IOWA LAND VALUES.

The Bassett farm of 100 acres
north of town was sold this week TO
Chas. Bruch for $115 per acre, and
Mr.. Brush has something worth the
money too. We are not very much in
the rear of Cedar county when it
comes to land and there is every
reason to believe that the high water
mark has not been reached yet. 1t
is needless to say that Mr.. Bruch, as
well as other young men in this coun-
ty who have taken mold of big land
propositions, are hustlers and pro-
sperous, for a dead one" can not
master the situation, and there is TO
doubt that they will come out even
anyway. with the fellow who goes
away from home to buy.-Blairstown
Record.
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THE MODERN TRIAL

Writer'S and experts fast assembling;
Artists with eager pencils trembling;
Defendant on mis- nerve, descending
his calm or fury.
Attorneys, loud and consequential;
Friends, fashionable and influential;
And somewhere, awkwardly essential,
A judge and jury.
That lady in the corner, pray
How came she here on such day?
Her garments never saw Broadway
Poor, plain, neglected.
She's carried with her to this spot
A pair of scales all rusty-What!
It's Justice? I'd most forgot
She was expected!
New York Times.
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A REsuRREcTEp WORD.

evelt's "mollycoddle" is no new mem-
Der. The word was used centuries ago
by old English writer's to designate
an effeminate, and has been in almost
constant use ever since. A molly
is husband who stays around the
home too much, meddling with the do
nestle affairs of which his wife should
have charge. ITO molly" Is to follow
the wife about to see that the houses
hold duties are not sighted and to
find fault with everything.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
THE ANTI-PASS BILL.

Advices from Des MONIES are to the
effect that an effort is being made to
hold up and kill in the senate commit
tee the Anti-Pass Bill, which has al
ready passed the house of representa-
tiyes. If this is true the people
should know and know at once what
members of the senate are responsible
for this action Some objection has
been made in behalf of railroad attor-
neys and railroad physicians, whose
free. transportation will be cut off If
the bill becomes a law, unless their
entire time is devoted to the service
Of the railway. It is difficult to see
any injustice in this. If the railway
attorney and the railway physician
travel in the interest of the railway
company, the amount of money which
they pay for their transportation will
be reimbursed to them by the COM
pany. If they are not travelling in the
interest of the railway company there
Is no reason why they should have
free transportation any more than
other attorneys or physicians. Indeed.
snch free transportation is an unjust
discrimination afainst other attorneys
ard physiciaus.
Inc TACT is that This entire ffee pass
BUSINESS is discrimination between in
dividuals of the rankest character.
Hon. Paul Morton was right when he
said that there are many reasons CIV
en- for the issuance of passes, all of
them bad excepting only the one which
provides that passes may be issued to
employees of railway companies
1t is because of the discrimination
that has been practiced by the rail-
way companies as between individuals
and communities that the country is
seeing today food-tide of anti-rail-
road legislation. There should be no
objection to the passage of anti-pass
laws or any legislation which seeks
to guarantee equal rights to all and
special privileges to none. The free
pass has no foundation upon which to
stand. Everybody should pay and pay
alike for transportation and no one
should have the advantage over his
neighbor of free transportation.
The AntiPass bill should be report
cd promptly from the senate commit
tee and ought to pass the senate with
out a dissenting vote.
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A MAZE OF ENDLESS coMPLIcA.
TIONS.

Charles Wagner.-From the cradle
to the grave, in his needs as in his
pleasures, in his conception of the
world and of himself the man of mod
ern times struggles through maze
of endless complication. Nothing Is
simple any longer; neither thought
nor action; not pleasure, not even dy-
ing
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lNERADIcARLE.

Fremont Tribune.-Cn1ess we miss
understand the news from numerous
state capitals. the average legislator
favors cutting off the other fellows
railroad pass and holding on to his
own. Some day selfshness may be
evoluted out of human nature, but
none of us will be there.
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A DISQUALIFIED WITNESS.

Topeka Capital.-Attorney Delmas
could not be hurt by the calling of
Hummel as a witness. In the first
place, Hummel has an international
reputation as a liar, and in the second
place Jerome himself never said bet
ter thing than when he denounced
Hummel as a menace to the commu-
nifty. The district attorney was al
most disloyal to his cast when he put
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THE TONIC OF LAUGHTER.

Chicago Chronicle.-That seems to
be foolish kind Of discussion said
to be going on In London as to whether
laughter is moral or immoral, or only
immoral One might as well set up a
grave inquiry whether 1t be moral or
imoral to sneeze. 1t is very plain
proposition that either Of these may
come at time or in circumstances
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BlTTERS

is splendid Spring Medicine. 1t in
and thus cures General Debility, Dys-
pepsia, indigestion, Costiveness, Colds
and Crime We gnarantea Its purity.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28

such disreputable scoundrel as Turn
mel on the stand
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CATARRH pl 4 Sa'T pIsfasu

Caarrh usually Winter cold damp
unpleasant symptoms nosls are
continual hawking and splitting The patient dull
ringing often slight
feeling the The blood becomes fully with
bladder and blood purified the lungs
washes sprays nhaaon and such
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-28
FEEL W EAR

Then get a bottle of The Bitters from
your Druggist, Grocer or General Deal
er and let it clean out all impurities
collected in your system during the
winter months.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-16
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes Of the Telegraph Wires From
Near and Far.
Another Terrible Disaster In the French
Navy-Federal Government to Build
Torpedo Factory at Newport.
Fire at Mobile.

The Indiana legislature passed al
antitrust bill.
The street car service at Louisville
KY, was paralyzed by a strike.
Mrs. Natalie Dale Latham, an Amer
lean artist, committed suicide in Paris
The United States government is te
build torpedo factory at Newport
/ Va.
/ Fire in the business section of Mo
bile, Ala, caused a loss estimated al
$50, 900.
The woman's suffrage bill was talked
to death in the British house of com.
mons.
The salary of the German ambassa.
dor to the United States has been in.
creased.
Conductors and trainmen employed
on the Southern Pacific Railroad are
threatening to strike.
TWsnty-seven Ursuline nuns were
fined at Nantes, France, for refusing
, to leave their convent.
Senior Don Ramon Pima, the new
Spanish minister to the United States,
arrived at Washington.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned an Indictment against the
church furniture trust.
The empress dowager OF Russia Wis
tied London as the guest of Queen
Alexandra of England.
Jean Paul Casimir- Perier, ex-presi.
dent of France, died suddenly at Paris
from an attack of heart disease.
Nebraska railroads abolished re.
duced fares and cancelled excursion
rates in retaliation for tWo-cent fare
Legislation.
Twenty-fonr laborers were drowned
by the capsizing of boat in the Sac.
remento river at Pitt, California.
A decision favoring the unionist fac.
tion in the Presbyterian church con.
troVersy was rendered by an Indiana
court.
The British steamer Malaga was
wrecked of the coast of Italy and q
number of the passengers and crew
lost their lives.
John Alexander DoWie, the self
styled prophet and founder of the
religious sect known IS Zionists, died
at Zion City, ILL.,, at the age of 81
years.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders OF the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road, held at st. Louis, Stuyyesant
Fish was elected a member of tht
board of directors.
The fourth annual convention of tht
American Road Makers Association
j was held at Pittsburg, Pa, with 25Ol
delegates, representing thirty eighi
states, In attendance.
The associated chambers OF com
merce OF Great Britain adopted res
luton urging the government to opes
negotiations with the colonies for pre-
ferential trade agreements.
The powder magazines OF the French
battleship lena exploded while the yes
sci was undergoing repairs IN the docI
at Toulon, France, killing about l3I
members of the crew and seriousll
WOunding nearly 900 others.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-16
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Twenty.sixth Annual Session of the Lou
isiana Grand Lodge-New Corps
of Oficers Installed.

Oh OmcerS Installed
The twenty sixth annual convention
of the Louisiana Grand Lodge,
knights of Honor, was held on Mon
day and Tuesday last, the 11th and
18th instants, at knights of Honor
Hall, 3l4 ST. Charles street, New Or
leans. A day and night session
were held on Monday and day ses-
sion on Tuesday, when the business on
handwas all disposed of satisfactorily.
Grand Dictator Sol. Klotz presided,
Grand Reporter Henry Walters was
at the desk, and all the other grand
officers and standing committeeman
were at their posts except the grand
! assistant dictator, whose station was
filled by appointment. Forty lodges
were represented at the opening ses-
sion and this number was increased
by the initiation of between fifteen ana
twenty new representatives and past
dictators. The degree of past dictator
was conferred upon T. Durno Dyer,
of ST. John, Mrs. A. L. Hamberlin, of
Greensburg, and Miss Mary Brignac,
of French Settlement, qualifying them
for seats in the convention.
Session committees were appointed
as follows:
/ Credentials-Louis Levy, Il. E. Le-
clere, NJ. Walle.
Distribution Chas. q. Charlton, e.
Fl. Bojarsky, Gus Hartman.
Mileage and Per Diem-C. T. Baird,
G. D. Emanuel, Smith Griggsby.
Necrology-L. B. Bentley, P. h.
Gilbert, j. A. Nereaux.
State of the Order ames Simon,
w alter S. Crawford, William Moake.
Press-L. E. Bentley, Hy. Waters.
The annual reports of the grand
dictator, grand vice dictator, grand
reporter, grand treasurer and finance
committee, which had been printed and
placed in the hands of the members of
the grand lodge, were submitted.
Grand Dictator Klotz read his report,
which was received with applause.
The others were submitted without
reading and sent to the distribution
committee, and thence to the other
committees by subdivisions.
The report of the grand dictator in
dicated substantial growth in lodge
membership in the state, enumerating
five lodges which had been instituted
since the last session OF the grand
lodge, at Hammond, Simsboro, VIM
field, Dodson and Jonesboro. Special
mention was made of the work of w.
A. Mafr, special deputy, who organ
lied these lodges.
VIM. J. Bosworth, grand vice dicta-
tor, submitted report of work in the
New Orleans lodges, in conjunction
with Supreme Vice Dictator L. e.
Bentley and other officers.
The report of Grand Reporter Hy.
Walters, while brief, was exhaustive,
and presented figures showing the net
increase Of the order during the past
! yosE W nave uc6n OAo memu6fsi bls
membership on Dec. 21. 1905, being
3087, and on Dec. 81, 1906, 3415.
The grand treasurer's report, sub
mitted by Lewis W. Kofskey, indi-
Gated q balance for the year of $942 81.
The balance on hand March Is, 1905,
was S1013.41, and the receipts for the
year e76l5.81. Disbursements during
the year reached S7686.60
Reports we're also submitted by the
committee on returns and the com
nittes Oh supplies and printing, which
were adopted.
Continued Ga. Fourth Page.
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NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
The Sad Tale OF Youthful Missionary
and Heather chinee- Death of
Capt. VIM. G. Mishie- Big Re-
atty Company Organized.

- : f.
atty Company Organized.
New Orleans, La, Mar. 1S 1907.
STAFF Correspondence of The Chief.
All things considered, I've about
come to the conclusion that was not
cut out for a missionary, or q re-
former, or anything of that sort. And
thereby hangs tale. There came
Monday morning in my young life
when upon opening my wardrobe no
fresh shirt-waist greeted my anxious
eye, and this, too, in the face OF the
fact that I had been invited to go
yachting the following day-an occa-
sion that would demand the spiekest
and spannest of white waists and the
snowiest of linen skirts. There was
only one way out of my dilemma, so
possessed my soul in patience till the
almond-eyed celestial who comes for
Papa's collars and cuffs, and occa-
sionally does some laundering for me,
made his usual Monday morning ap-
pearance, and then, consigning my
best-loVed linen suit to his oriental
care, I said: "John, I must have this
back tomorrow without fall. Can you
bring it then?"
"Tomo1low?" repeated John, s'sure.
Alice sanee bling um tomollow.'' -
'Now. John, continued, making
futile effort to catch and hold his
shifting eye, "You must promise me-
promise, mind you, y / added with em-
phasis, 'sshat you viii bring it tomor.
row. VIII you?o
"surel" agreed John, promptly.
- w 'at's lat, piomise2,
well, when you promise anything
that means shat nothing short Of
death could make yon break your
word. Understand? Nice American
man never breaks a promise, I fin.
ished impressively.
'sMe alice samee 'Melican man. -
ayoWed John, swelling out his chest.
Me no bleak plomIse. Ne bling um
washee tomollow, surel''
That's the spirit, John, = said I
with enthusiasm. '.Now, know you
are going to keep your word, ;, and I
would have added land be Johnny on
the spotn II he'd not felt somehow
that it would compromise my dignity.
So of he went, his slant eyes danc-
ing like couple Of animated almonds,
and his soft, shufiing footsteps echo
ing down the street. Watching him
depart I was filed with SNUG satis-
faction at the thought that / had pos
sibly aroused latent sense OF honor
In the benighsed breast of this heathen
Chinee. Verify, pride goeth before 8
fall.
When the next day had come and
gone-a day during which waited in
frenzy of impatience and disgust for
. sight OF Johns seraphic and smiling
conntenanee-I decided to make per-
sonal pilgrimage to his shop and In
vessigate the non-appearance Of my
linen suit. When arrived John was
husily engaged in ironing out collars,
and looking up at the sound Of my en-
trance, be chirped in voice that was
pattern OF sublime innocence: 1000
mornin '!''
! froze him with . glance. John,
Why didn't you bring my Laundry yes-
terday--as you promised?'' said I,
with italics In my voiee.
Mo had thine, replied John. la-
coniealIy.
Censlnnsa g TearIa go.
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|sugarhouse Chimneys, Heavy Ma
chinery, Etc. Satisfaction guaranteed
and charges low. Also maker Of best
and cheapest tarpaulins. =: :: :: ::
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ceneiaaed %. Fourth Pags.
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Uoasiaasa g FeafsA PaEs.
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Tugs Whltewater and. EmiIx JUNG
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-14
s+iAtHs''1f l'Nli = 1'Aeiis4lH
BADLY MIXED UP.

Abraham Brown. Wlntcreon, N. Y.
had very remarkable experiences he
Says doctors got badly mixed up
over me, one said heart disease, two
called Il kidney trouble, the fourth.
blood poison, and tho fifth stomach and
liver trouble, but none Of them helped
mei 40 my wife advised trying Electric
Bi,ters, which are restoring mo to per-
icct health. One bottle lid me more
good than all the Ave doctors prescrib
3D." Guaranteed for blood poison. weak.
ness and all stomach liver and kidney
complaints. by chas Rogers druggist, Co.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-14
COURT MARTIAL.

NEW YORK. Dec. 10 Captain Arthur
W. Chase. commander of Fort Howard.
Nd, Is under trial by court martial in
New York on charges OF having used
disrespectful language to Lieut., Col,
Clarence Deems, commander OF the BAL.
timorc Artillery District, and Captain
Chase's immediate superior, Captain
Chase Is charged in addition with con.
duct to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-14
SUNDAY CLOSING SALOONS,

ClilCAGo,llL, Dec. l3,At q stormy
meeting OF the executive committee OF
tho United Societies last night II waa
DECIDED TO take no part In the fight
against Sunday closing Of saloons.
The fight over Sunday closing Cauacd
intense bitterness among the Representa-.
tlyes of the United Societies, over 100
Ielcgatcs wpresenicd various societies
abruptly left the hall after protesting
against being called, rs they said, to
consider tho Sunday cloeing proposition
and then not have chance TO vote on
Il
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-14
KILL BY TRAIN.

CHICAGO. Ill., Dec. L. Isaac jacob.
son and Abraham Levin were killed
last night when they stepped in front
Of an express train on the Aurora, Elgin
and Chicago Electric Railroad tracks at
haywood.
Doth men believed II to he a local
and that II would stop at the platform,
Instead. tho train, running at high speed,
struck both as they were crossing tho
last rail and Il ran four blocks before
il could be stopped