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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-22
PEA SOUP PRoLoNes LIFE
Nonagenarian Lives on This Diet Al.
most Thirty-five Years.

Sprucewood, Ont, Jan. 17.-If you
want to live for a hundred years and
never feel old, live exclusively on pea
soup, is what Henry Tabor is telling
all his neighbors. Mr.. Tabor isn't a
centenarian, but as he is 80 and feels
as clipper as boy of dozen years,
he expects to round out more than a
hundred.
Mr.. Tabor was born in Montreal in
1914 and since the spring of 1870 he
has lived almost entirely upon pea
soup. When he took to this diet he
was suffering from what the doctors
said was cancer of the stomach. They
told him that he had only a short time
to live and his general appearance
bore out this statement. He was
pale wan and weak, for he could re-
tain little nourishmept and had little
hope of ever regaining his health.
One day vendor of herbs told him
that he could prolong his life by eat
ing pea soup and Mr.. Tobor promptly
tried it. The food "set" well and at
the end Of week he had gained a
pound as well as some strength He
felt encouraged and kept on with the
soup little by little discarding all 9th
er articles Of food Ultimately he re-
gained his full health and become as
hardy as knot
! tSE several occasions the man at
temples to eat cereals and meats, but
each time he was made i'll, so he has
stuck to soup and now and then meals
of peas baked after the manner Of
beans. Once week Mr.. Tabor eats a
little fruit, but outside of that his
diet is made up of peas.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-22
A LAW TO PROTECT THE MANUF-
ACTURER AND JOBBER.

In twenty state, including llli-
nois, Minnesota, Michigan and Mis-
souri,, there is law to. protect the
manufacturer and wholesaler from the
merchant who sells out his stock in
bulk in order to defraud his creditors.
Iowa has no such law. This makes
it safer to do business in other states
than in Iowa, and in consequence
the manufacturer and wholesaler
would rather locate outside of Iowa,
other things being equal. Our failure
to enact law to protect the manuf-
acturer and jobber against fraudulent
sales is also hardship on the local
merchant. The fraudulent merchant
sells out. say at 40c on the dollar, and
the buyer dumps the. stock on the
market at less than wholesale prices,
thus demoralizing the business of the
entire community and in injuring
every regular dealer in the town. 1t
is to be hoped that the legislature now
in session will give attention to our
commercial interests and enact law
similar to the one now on the statute
books of our neighboring states, SO
that the manufacturer and jobber may
be on an equal footing with his
competitor in the states that have
such law
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HAYEsvILLE.

Hayesville, Jan. 19.-Ro :. circuit fill
cd his appointment here last Sunday
evening.
Tho Ladies' Aid society met with
Ms. Mettie Stevenson Thursday after
noon.
jos ,ph Hayes ana George Utterback
were business visitors belcI Lancaster
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elver Uttorback enter
tainea Horny Gearge and Hattie Utter
b: III. Richard Jacobs and Minnie
Crahb in their homo one evening last
week.
Richard Jacobs and Joseph Hayes
We're in Ottumwa attending to BUSH
ness matters last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. Hardesty visited
with Mr.. and Mrs Hugh Richardson
Sunda.
Msr. Malevia Utterback entertained
LARGO number of friends and relatives
in her home Saturday evenin in hon
or of her son, Georges twenty-ninth
birthday. The rooms were beautifully
decorated. A two course supper was
served. The evening was spent in in
strumental music, furnished by Mrs.
Emma Utterback, and vocal selections
which We're much appreciated, by Geo
Utterback. Games were played. All
who were present report a splendid
time.
Miss Lucia Richardson entertained a
number Of friends Tuesday evening
Music was furnished by the Hayesville
orchestra.
\ Mis- Ophie Hayes is home from Chi
cago for vacation.
]. B. Switzer of Grinnell was bust
ness caller in town Thursday.
Fayette Utterback was business
caller in Martinsburg today.
Mrs. ic OF r eto ;cj+
ed with. friends here today.
Mrs. John Robertson is visiting ir
Oskaloosa with her daughter, Mrs
Maggie Duree.
Wilson Jones and family have NOV
ed onto the farm James Martin re.
Gently vacated.
John Herman, who has been i'll fol
some time, Is reported to be improving
in health.
The Christian Endeavor society will
meet next Sunday evening at o'clock
A full attendance is desired.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-22
JOY FOR PEDESTRIANS.

If you are walking along the street
in blissful peace, unaware that a
tight wire performer is cavorting over
head until he drops on your derby hat,
just sue the city for damages and you
will get away with it. In learned
opinion the Iowa supreme
court in the case of Wheeler
against the city of Fort
Dodge, holds that, "the stretching Of a
wire from the roof of building down.
ward and outward across street, and
ending at a pole to which it is fasten-
ed. though stretched pursuant to the
consent of the municipality, and
though through most of It's course it
is high above the heads Of the people
using the walks, is nuisance because
an obstruction to the street"
The court goes further. 1t holds that
not only has the public a right to the
streets and public highways, but it's
right extends Indefinitely upwards, and
if the acrobat had fallen from bal
loon, instead of tight wire, the city
would still have been liable.
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a GOOD INVESTMENT.

Waterloo Reporter.-Ottumwa bust
ness interests have started the new
year with a resolution to get the city
some of the growth that is going
around in Iowa. The commercial as
sociation has recognized and will
hire business agent and pay him a
salary sufficient to allow the devotion
of mans entire time to the inter-
ests of the city. 1t was decided 70
raise $4,000 for this purpose and to
further the aim at larger growth the
coming year. The idea is all right
and it will work out successfully if
the spirit is kept up. If the interest
in the city is well sustained and con-
centrated in effort Ottumwa can count
that $500 as about the best invest
ment it has made in recent years. The
wayssto boost is to boost and keep
boosting.
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WILLIAMSBURG o. Z. S.
Chapter No. 1871 InstalIs Officers Other
News Of Interest

Williamsburg, Jan. 16.-williams-
burg Chapter No. ISL. Order of the
Eastern Star, held installation at the
Masonic hall Friday evening. The fol-
lowing are the officers for 1907:
Worthy Matron--Olive Holmes.
Worthy patron-E. M. Long.
Associate matron-Sarah Edwards
Secretary-Edna Ogden.
Treasurer-Belle Long.
Conductress-Bertha eastman.
Associate conductress Fanny
Hughes.
Musician-Annie Stephens.
Adah-Mary Simmons.
Ruth-Hannah Hughes.
Electa-Nellfe Evans.
Sentinel-Will Starr.
Warder-Lizzie Starr.
After installation the members and
their invited guests enjoyed social
hour. Games were played and refresh
ments were served
Other News of Interest.
A number of the women of Reese.
Lloyd Relief Corps held an impromptu
social at the home of Mrs. G. F. Schnee
last Saturday afternoon.
AT a meeting of the WILLIAMSBURG
District Fair association Monday aft
ernoon Ellis Lloyd was elected presi-
dent for the ensuing year.
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INCREASE FOREIGN TRADE.

The business interests of the coun-
try have kept an eve on the American
Commerce convention in Washington
which was called together with the
view of planning the further develop
meht of the foreign trade of the coun-
try. AS an auxiliary to the main con-
vention, the National Board Of. Trade
is holding its 9th annual meeting. A
peculiar fact is that prominent bust
ness men throughout the entire coun-
try attending the conventions as del
egates, profess to see in the present
commercial unrest the greatest menace
to existing prosperity. In his address
to the National Board of Trade, Presi-
dent Frank d. De lame of Philadel-
phia, made a powerful plea for the es-
adjustment of better feeling and
better understanding between corpo-
rate interests and labor. He declared
that this was essential for the better
ment of both. A number of other
speakers pointed out that the present
unrest was certain to precipitate bus
mess stagnation if not business disas-
Ter was something not done to bring
tie American people to their senses
All Of the speakers deplored the ten
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removing the casing. This was IL
O'clock p. M, The doctor had been in.
generated at o'clock.

removing the casing This was Ill
O'Clock p. M, The doctor had been in.
generated at 5 o'clock.
The first piece which was to come
off was carefully outlined with a
scratching tool and little saw was
used to cut it loose from the rest
But when it had been cut 1t was
found to be still fast to the man. Like
other men, he was slightly hirsute,
and his hairs had become imbedded
in the hardened mold and refused TOW
slip out.
The doctor was brave. He didnN
finch. He couldn't, for he was parN
and parcel of rigid mass
The sculptors didn't know what to-
do So they planed off the Doctors
face and got their instructions fromi
him. After he had made up for thei
slack breath he had enjoyed for six
hours, he said:
GO ahead boys, don't mind me. Pull
the stuff off and the hairs too. Only
don't be too careful about keeping the
mold exact. Whatever you do, hurry
The men hurried and the doctor
gritted his teeth, which were now
cleared for action.
A meat AK and a saw were used
with telling effect. The thicker porA
tions of the plaster were attacked first.
An incision was made, then the saw
was used till trickie of red told the
workers that there was no use in saws
ing on that spot any longer. Then
the meat ak was inserted and sharni
blow would remove the cast and q
portion of the legislators anatomy.
Arrested Development.
Suddenly some one remembered
that Dr. Clark is one of the foremost
authorities in the country on how to-
cure arrested development
Your development would have been
arrested, Doc, if this had happened
twenty years ago"
DOC" didn't answer.
Won't the folks at the picnic thinN
this is good joker" said one of the
tormentors. The surgeon-legislator
grunted.
1t was 4 o'clock in the morning.
when the last of the plaster was re-
moved The victim was sight. About
every hair on his body had been pull
ed out by the roots, and much of tho
cnticle had come off with them.
| Next time we do that I'll grease
up first was the only comment the
victin had to offer. i.
i D. i - j. VI
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HUGHES rs INDEPENDENT.

If Governor Hughes of New York
pursues to the end his announced po-
Icy of independence and trust in the
people his term of Office will be watch
ed with unusual interest and expecta-
ton Certainly he has begun well by
appointing to the vacant Offices at his
disposal men whose claims were not
dependent upon political work, but
on character and ability. And he has
promised that similar regard for
the true interests of the people will re-
gulate mis- conduct throughout his
gubernatorial career Governor
Hughes has chosen we'll and wisely
in resolving to trust the people rath-
er than rely on the machine, and if
he is true to the faith which is in
him, the people win Justify his con-
fidence
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SOAP CREEK.

Soap Creek, Jan. 19-Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Harbour and son, Thomas, made a
trip to Ottumwa Friday.
ODE Burns is on the sick list this
week.
Mrs. Mary Crist and son, Jess, went
to Ottumwa Friday for a few days
visit with Mrs. Crisis children.
Loren Laugherbach was in Belknap
Thursday evening.
Mr. Wilson was in Belknap Thursday
evening.
Alex Hawkins was in Belknap Thurs
day afternoon
Warden Hawkins was caller at the
home of Alfred Rankin one day last
week.
John Simmons went to Belknap this
morning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-22
DEMOCRATS HONOR HAMILTON.
coneressman-elect is One Of the Guests
of Honor at Banquet at Slavery.


Des Moines, Jan. 17.--Get together:
take advantage Of any differences that
are or that may be in the republican
party and members of the legislature;l
introduce some of the popular meas.
ures that are sure to come up and
become Jaws at this session of tho
general assembly. These were the
tn.ngs discussed and to do these
things was The ointment dominant at
the democratic banquet given In
honor of Judge NJ J. Wade
and Dan Hamilton, congressman elect
from the Sixth district. 1t is also said
an effort was made to appoint com.
mittee to- draw UP a democratic pro-
gram for the session of the legisla.
ture; that no such committee was
named but that Chairman Miller was
empowered to arrange for another
banquet or caucus in the near future
for the purpose Of framing such a
program.
The banquet last evening was held
in the ordinary of the Slavery and was
attended by practically every demo.
cratic senator ana representative in the.
Thirty-second general assembly. Ar-.
rangements were hurriedly made foM
~
representatives. Miller and Senator jamie
son, and Mr. Miller acted as toastmas-
ter of the evening.
"Get Together" the Watchword.
The addresses we're all impromptu,
and many of the new members weroi
called upon to talk Some mixed,
humor with their seriousness, but alb
were OF one opinion get together and
| take advantage of controlling almost
one-third of the general assembly,
Predictions were made for the nexti
state campaign, possible split in Thea
republican ranks and an opportunity!
lof the democrats gaining control on
the state.
The people are tired Of the repub.,
licans. said Senator Frudden in his
brief talk, and we must SO conduct
ourselves at this session that they
will have confidence in us in 1908"
Judge Wade and Congressmen-e elect
Hamilton gave the chief addresses Of
the evening. Both urged unity in the
democratic party and scoffed at the
idea of factionalism, declaring that it
existed only through republican news
papers. Judge Wade spoke of the de-
mocratic platform adopted at the Wat
erloo convention and declared it to be
a great platform and one that would
be carried out as far as possible.
Senator Jamison and Representative
Miller were appointed members Of
committee to arrange similar banquets
during the session of the legislature
at intervals of two or three weeks,
for every member of the minority who
| attended the affair last evening wara.
anxious for more.
| Among those who spoke last even
ing, besides Judge Wade ana Congress-
man-elect Hamilton, were Senators
Moon, Frudden and Jamison and Re-
preventative Swift, Whiting, Earle.
Koontz, Schultz, Sidey, De Mar.
Sparks and Geneva. Mr.. Geneva also
sang for the banqueters
The democrats were in session from
O'clock in the evening until II,
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lNDETERMlNATE aENTENcEs.

lIiUOVOI -bO11INL1NO fe1FVy eRiAH
ed at correcting, not Furnishing Grim
inals; classification of prisoners,
that the accidental criminal may not
be confined with the inherent Grimm
al and the removed of children in the
criminal districts to cleaner environ
ments, these are reforms advocated
by Judge M. A. Roberts. Judge Rob-
erts in his years on the bench has
been a close student of criminology
and his opinions on a subject with
which he is SO familiar should should
be given great weight.
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AMERICA 10 The FRONT.

Rear Admiral Evans, IN command OF
the Atlantic squadron, was the first
to offer his full fighting strength if
necessary to render aid to stricken
kingston and it's inhabitants, and this
was not the. first time that United
States warships have been the first
on errands of mercy to stricken West
Indian communities In 1902 when
Mount Pelee created such havoc at
ST. Pierre in Martinique, the auxiliary
cruiser Dixie, loaded with supplies,
was the first to reach the stricken
city
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dry, mild climates, thousands of them
lured by glittering glimpses on paper
of promised land to settle on a
farm where farming without irrigation
is impossible and water for irrigating
purposes just as impossible, would
willingly exchange the champagne air
for foot of snow and an occasional
rain to help crops along.
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dency of the general public to attack
all corporate interests, irrespective
of whether they were honestly con-
Quoted or not. Both conventions are
working to the same end, and their
hope that the United States will yet
lead the world in foreign markets.
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Professional Cards.

In this cut the second
lumbar vertebra OF
the backbone Is in
proper relation with
the first but not WITH
the third; therefore
he great trunk nerve
is free as it passes
rom the spinal cord
Trough the first open
ing but severity pinch
ed in the second. The
Chiropractor can IN
stantly adjust spine
No. 2, making the
second opening a s
large as the first, thus
removing pre- S SUI
from the nerves,which
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MRS. M'cHEsNEY DEAD.
Wei! Known Wapello Resident Elk.
pires After Short Illness.

Wapello, Jan. 19.-Mrs. McCresney
is dead at the home of her son James
in this city. after an illness Of only
a few days.
Mrs. Rebecca Clark McChesney was
born April 6, 1917, being SO years. 8
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FAR OFF FIELDS GREEN.

Do you remember when you were
a boy out "hickory-nutting how the
trees across the forest seemed to be
just loaded down with hickory nuts
while the one you we're stripping
seemed bare, and then when you pick
ed up your sack and changed trees it
was to find that the second bore no
more heavily than the first? And 10
you remember when you were out
picnicking how the shaded turf Of
grass under the next tree seemed
more green and so much more desir-
able than the one you had chosen for
spreading the lunch cloths on?
And when you had grown up this
freak of vision still remained, didn't
it? You looked about you and things
seemed dull, while the far off fields
were green and reckoning to you.
Then when you started out to find the
end of the rainbow you were disillu-
stoned, just as you were when picnick-
ing and gathering hickory nuts as a
child, wern't you?
This old word is pretty much the
same wherever you go. There is a
little bad and lot of good, or a little
good and a lot of bad, just as you
view it, where-er you roam.
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S the only cause of disease. Then ar q only =
then can nature restore you. see Chh :. % %
RAY PARKER, d. c., Baker Building i'so
to6:S0p. M.
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You pick up a railroad folder and
you read one of the wonders of Cali
fornia; of the tropical winter days
and the flowers that grow the year
through. Then you go there and find
that even the SHOWS of winter are a
relief from the palling sameness of the
seasons.
Then another descriptive folder, the
masterpiece of railroad publicity ar
fist, and crowded to the covers with
superlatives, tells you that in Color
ado the sun is always SHINING, that the
air has the effervescence of cham
payne, and that sickness cannot be in
such a glorious cline. But what the
folder does not tell you is that the
high, dry climate will kill your heart
while it cures your lungs; that the
altitude will dry your blood and make
your skin parchment and, if you stay
long enough, shatter your nerves I'm
til you are as cross as pear and so
unstrung that you are prone to fly into
a rage over the veriest trifes
Iowa has as many ad -antages and
as few disadvantages as any of her
sister states, and the farmers in the
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DRS. MYERLY e. kREUI.
phys;ci,pe ,pd SIrceonS.

FHVSIcIdhs ana ourgeoFto'
Third floor. Hofmann Block Chronic DIS
eases of Lungs. Stomach, Liver and KID
news Blood and SKIN Diseases Catarrh,
rheumatism. Diseases of women AFTER
Moons: diseases Of men evenings. Phones.
Office 9Os Residence 966. Calls promptly
answered.
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BURT LAFoRcE. PHI. G.. M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist.
Glasses scientifically fitted Office hours
toto - n. M. and to s and to 8 o'clock
p m. Phone. office. $50: residence. 81.
Office rooms 10 and 12 Hoffman, Blk.
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DENTISTS.

DR.. TULLls.
Dentist.
Artificial teeth scientifically con-
structed.
Crown and bridge-work expert.
Office over Cullen's dry goods store
Main street, Ottumwa, Iowa.
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DR.. a. o, WILLIAMS.

- q. r., F.. & S. Co.
Residence. GIG North Jefferson street.
Office. 100 Court street Residence tele-
pho'ie no: office telephone, 90. ottumwa.
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SIN OF THE STREETS.

Young Criminals In tho Making and
New Works. Juvenile Court.
A day spent in New York's cbildren's
court will never he forgotten. Here
all the youthful offenders are tried.
Into this court crowds more of human
interest than in any other court in the
world Before its bar is constantly
passing u great procession of human
incongruities, scenes vibrant with pa.
thos and humor, for both pnthos and
humor consist in the perception OF
incongruities. 1t is the sins of the
parents and the sins of the living con
ditions that the overcrowded city
forces on its children that here stand
out most strikingly. The real culprft
is more often the delinquent parent
than the delinquent child. The sight
of child trotting to n saloon two ol
three times a day, pail In hand, tc
procure the family supply of beer--a
familiar one iii a great city-impeaclles
the parent for a criminal Indifference
Small wonder that the child's mora
perceptions are obliterated and his in
stincts perverted in such surroundings
1t is in the streets, the vice sow,
streets, that the child learns to gam
BILE, to swear, to steal. He cannot heir
1t. He must employ the ways of his
companions if lie is to survive among
them. And the ways of his compan
ions lead oftenest to the children's
| court.-Delineator
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SHAPED ALMOST ALIKE.
Striking Similarity In Contour Be-.
tween italy and New Zealand.

Striking Similarity In Contour Be.
tween italy and New Zealand.
Saving only for the fact that one is
Il peninsula ana the other n group Of
islands by far the most striking SINH
larity in contour exists between Italy
and New Zealand. The resemblance
of each of them to Il high heeled Well
ington boot is almost perfect. Cape
deli Armi and Cape Reinga form the
toes of the two boots. The bay of
Plenty, in New Zealand, and the gulf
of laramie, in Italy, form the instep,
while Cape Runaway and Cape Santa
Maria di Leuco are respectively the
points of the heels. The general shape
of the calf of the leg is also the same
and so is the curve outward to the
somewhat equity looking toe.
The point Of dissimilarity is of
course the separation of North and
South islands into two. 1t is easy,
however, to see that If these two is.
lands were somewhat raised they
would become one and would then
even more resemble the italian PENN.
sula than they do now. A comparison
of the islands of ireland and Sardinia
will also show several points of re
semblance, but this is nothing like SC
striking as 1t is in the case of the tive
widely separated portions of the world
above mentioned.