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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
MAJ. LAcEY's WORK.

Sioux City Journal-The 4th of
March falls on Monday and the pre-.
sent congress has less than three
weeks to run; and yet it is noted that
some Of the outgoing members are as
busy as if their lease of political life
had been graciously extended. An
example from this state is cited in
the person of Maj. Lacey, who is said
to be "upsetting all precedents and
traditions in congress as to the
amount of work accomplished by a
member who has not been returned"
1t is something of which to take no.
tice, and something, surely, entitled to
commentator. There has been no
buster representative in congress than
Representative Lacey has been, as,
indeed may be said of every session
OF which he has been member" His
activity Is the same as it has hereto
fore been, but 1t is more noticeable
now, since his district has concluded
to supplant him with democrat. Mr..
Hamilton will have to go some to fol-
low in the steps of Mai Lacey, and
he will have to go quite while to get
the swing to match him in accomplish
ment. Maj. Lacey is chairman of the
committee on public lands, and 1t is a
committee that always has work to
do; but the Sixth district man does
not stop with that He is an all
around legislator, and no man in the
house of representatives can do more
than match him in regularity of at
tendance, constancy Of attention to
the business before the house, or IN
industry in getting at the merits IF
questions up for consideration. 1t is
no new spirit with him; he is built
tLat way. He is that way wherever
he is, and he will be- that way as long
as health ana strength are spared TO
MIN. There are not too many men in
congress like Maj. lacey, and so far
as there is any record there is not
too many like him in any brap~n IF
the public service. For that later
no doubt 1t will be agreed among the
best business men that there is not
too many like him anywhere.
1t seems to be in the mind of some
people that men who are going to quit
have justification in Sinking their
work, withdrawing their interest from
1t and knocking off in everything ex.
cept taking their pay to the last min
ute. This is not wholesome thinking.
Ihere Is no reason capable of justiti-
cation why the last days work should
not be as earnest and as faithful as
the first. 1t will be if man is built
that way. II men are engaged with
an eye single to their immediate per-
sonal advantage, although they be in
the public service, they will be tempt
ed to let up the moment their per
soaal advantage becomes obscure, but
1t is not easy to maintain in behalf of
such men that they are the best SER
wants in any relation.
MAJ. Lacey, for one, is interested in
maintaining his record. He is doing
his duty as faithfully as ever. That
is his responsibility. The responsible
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
CRUSADERS OF TODAY.

A drouth struck the national house
OF congress yesterday when during
the arguments before committee on
the bill to prohibit the sale Of liquor
in the District of Columbia 1000 wom-
en- wearing the white ribbon of tenn
perance marched through the capitol
to lend their moral support to the bill.
Whether the jealous efforts of the
temperance crusaders win or lose, one
thing is certain Their presence In
the capitol yesterday brought
drouth of the most pronounced kind
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
MORAL TRAINING IN THE BOARD.
ING HOUSE.

Chicago Inter Ocean.-Addressi
those people in Pittsburg who are in
need of the uplift and willing to admit
it, representative Of the advanced
thought of this city took occasion on
Tuesday evening to expose one of our
weaknesses by alluding to what ne
called the moral apathy of the board.
ing-house keepers of Chicago"
The specific complaint made by the
representative referred to is that in
Chicago the boarding house landladies
take little or no interest in the moral
welfare of either the day or regular
boarders, the singles, or the hall-bed-
roomers. Without saying so much,
the intimation is that when the aver.
age boarder pays over his $3.50, S.,
Sc, $3.50, or So, as the case may be.
before dinner time on Monday even
ings, and indicates a willingness to
continue to do SO, the average land
lady is content. caring nothing what
ever as to where or how he is going
to spend the remainder of the even
ing.
There are, of course, exceptions al
ways. Mr.. Johnson, Mr. Smith. Mr..
Brown, or whichever happens to be
the star boarder, is always questioned
by the landlady, and, in consideration
of the rebate which he enjoys, is *
pected to tell her whether or not he
will be able to give two three, or
more evenings this week to the parlor
entertainment of the ladies to whom
he is SO attentive at the table. and
IN whom he expresses from time 20
time SO much real interest.
But this is nothing. This does not
touch the root of the matter at all
What our representative in Pittsburg
evidently would like in reform in
our clearinghouse which would lead
the landladies around to the point
where they would address even the
humblest of the regulars in this man.
ner:
"Mr. Williamson, please pass the
hash; have you read Ben Hur'?
have copy would SO like to lend to
you"
Mr.. Jacobs, kindly push the olives
toward Miss Johnson. I wonder il
you would not like to go over to the
oyster supper at the church this even.
ing? Professor Dubbins is going to
address the young people on The
Peril Of the, Roller Skating Rink
Mi. Humphreys, will you kindly
pass the prunes to Miss Mistletow?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

oil to levy a tax on .achelors and the
other one that PRESENTED bill pro
viding that every egg producing fowl
shall be provided with an automatic
dating machine and that it shall be
the duty of every such good fowl to
date consecutively each egg laid, in
order that the public may be properly
Informed as to the age and edible
qualities of such hens product.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
THE INTERRUPTED PRAYER.

Kennebec Journal.-An Aroostook
youngster was kneeling before his
white cot with head bowed and hands
folded. He was repeating his Nov I
lay me-" and had got as far as Il pray
Thee. Lord, my soul to keep" when
his little sister advanced from behind
and tickled his feet. With head still
bowed Arthur continued: IF you'll ex.
cuse me Just minute. Lord, I'll knock
the stuffng out Of Nellie,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
oTTuMwA,s IMPROVEMENTS.

During the year 1905 s31 ,ss3 was ex
pended by the city of Ottumwa in
public improvements and In the year
1905 the total expenditure was $40,
O77.02. These figures we're given by
Attorney M. G. Gilmore, the city solic.
itor, in his recent address before the
Retail Merchants association. The
following figures quoted by Mr. Gil
more do not give the entire expendi-
lures, but the most important ones. and
include all the paving, grading, sewer
and bridge work:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
CHURCH GROWTH,

During the hye years period from
1901 to 1906 the total number of
church communicates increased from
2S,2s5,285 to 1858, a gain of Is
per cent in five years, as newly compil.
ed statistics show
The report for the year of the lead
ing denominations, as compiled by
DR.. H. X. Carroll, who was in charge
of the government census of churches
in 1890 and who annually brings the
figures up to date, is as follows:
Communicates.
Catholic (s bodies) 80. ..11,143,455
Methodists (17 bodies) 6,551. 1871
Baptists GA Doo4es) ....... 5,14O,77O
Lutherans (23 bodies) ..... 1857, 433
Presbyterians (12 bodies) II, III, S77
disciples Of Christ ....... 1885, 294
Episcopalians G bodies) ;. 846.492
Congregationalists 49,. 49,. 791, 1894
Reformed 6 bodies) ;. 422,359
Latter-Day Saints G. bodies) 396,354
United Brethren G. bodies). 2S6,354
Evangelical e bodies) -. 1899
Jewish e bodies) ..... 143.OOO
Dunkards "a bodies) ...... 121,194
Friends a bodies) ........ 11S,752
Adventists C bodies) 1900. 95,437
Mennonites az bodies) 81 $50
In addition to these the Unitarians
number $1,000; the Universalists, 55,-
3Sl; the Salvation Army, 2S,5O0; the
Christian Catholic (Dowie's church,,
$4,000; Christian Scientists, So,197;
German Evangelical Professionals, TO-
600, and German Evangelical Synod,
2-~,--J.
DR.. Carroll reports further that
there are 100000 members of the Utah
branch of the Norman church and
100000 Spiritualists in America and
Canada. The Spiritualsts have 100
churches and temples and property
worth $2,0OO,0oO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
Professional Cards.

In this cut the secoud
linn bar vertebra OF
the backbone is in
proper relation With
the first but not with
the :liird; 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
stautly adjust spine
No. ., making the
second opGuing a .
ialge as the hrct. Thus
removing pre- ssu =
%~~~, ~ q ~ oPWA4. vhy e n
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Congratulations. .John

sEsoTo9TVTIoJ VOTITTs :
Abba Union.-A baby boy was born
to MT. and Mrs. John Hayes (colored)
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Hayes is 81
years of age and is very proud of his
new son. Mrs. Hayes is Is years OF
age. Mr.. Hayes is son Of Mrs. Tai.
bot, who is los years of age.
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s7O,o77.o2.

Said Mr.. Gilmore, continuing: Com
pairing the four years from 1899 to
1902 with the second like term ending
with 1906, we find no paving done in
the years 1899 to 1902 The total paw
ing from 1902 to 1906, both inclusive
has been s143,84388.
In the first four years sewers were
constructed at total cost of $40, 1885.
%, the cost during the second term
has been ST., 704.19.
Grading for the period from 1893
to 1902 cost $5,694.62, for the second
half s30,903.37 was expended.
Bridges required an expenditure of
s11.96O.07 from 1899 to 1902, and of
s17.S97.28 from 1903 to 1906.
If this money has been we'll spent,
mean to say that if the city has
needed the improvement, and the
prices paid have not been excessive,
no one can justly complain of the in
creased expenditures. Ottumwa has
been growing. and of course we must
take care of the family. The old man
may kick little about the size of the
bills, but he doesn't want to see any
body elses children, or any other town
Detter dressed than Ottumwa.
Speaking of the necessity of carry.
ing. on the improvements that have
been neaun by the present mayor anu
council with view to giving Ottum-
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AFFlNITlEs


DO you know what sliding-geas
transmission is?'
NO"
81 do"
Good. DID you know how to pilot a
balloon?"
mo"
81 do"
"Thets where I'm beaten. Can you
play bridge?"
NO
81 can.
Bully for you. Do you know how
to drive four-in-hand?"
init"
81 do"
"Good Can you read one of those
French menus that calls prunes entire
ments and an Irish stew a nayarin?"
mo"
81 can"
Gee! Can you sail yacht?"
mo-
Il can
Good! Can you describe woman's
dress?"
mo"
II can"
WY 10Y, we We met at last. Let us
collaborate on a noyel."-Exchange
The FutiIity of Wisdom.
To yisdom each of us pretends
And in his heart declares
If wisdom paid big dividends
We'd all be millionaires.
Washington Star.
Contrast
1t doth perplex poor mortal man
The weather's change to note.
One minute he requires fan
And next an overcoat.
Boston Transcript.
Meeting the Deficiency.
Man is growing shorter,
So the doctors say.
Car straps must be longer
Or they'll idly sway
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Quickest Way.
To telephone or telegraph
Is always futile labor.
If you'd spread news just notify
Your wife to teleneighbor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
] notice that You did not get in until
1890 last night. Let me hope that
this may not occur again"

MI, Doolittle, help yourself to the
gravy; there's plenty. Dent you
know | have been thinking of writing
to your wife and telling her she ought
to come home? | 90 not like to have
you visiting the vaudeville theaters
as much as you do. won't you correct
this, to please ME-
Willie Larrabee, do not think Il
leaving the house this evening until
! have had chance to talk to you
We must go over tie international
Sunday school lesson together"
Yes, Mr.. Jones, 1t is true you al
ways pay your board promptly, and
you are very little trouble, but can
not have you discussing the Thaw
trial at the table.
1t is little bit unfortunate that
this matter should have been alluded
to, especially in Pittsburg, but, now
that 1t has been mentioned, are
we not right in predicting that all oul
landladies needed was a hint, and
that they will be more attentive te
the moral welfare of their boarders
hereafter?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

is tho only cause Of disease. Then ard only
,ten can nature restore you. See ChAS.
RAY PARKER, D. c., Baker Building, 1880
tol:s0p. M.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
MEETING the Deficiencv

Meeting the Deficiency.
Man is growing shorter,
So the doctors say.
Car straps must be longer
Or they'll idly sway.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

Thirty-two millions
Given away!
Grocer says "gasolene's
Higher today"
Thirty-two millions
Sum quite immense!
Grocer says "kerosene's
Twenty-Five cents."- Marshalltown
Times-Republican.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
STEEL VS.. OIL.

More than a week has passed since
John D. Rockefeller astonished the
world with the record breaking gift of
SS2,OOO,000 to the general education
board and not murmur has been
heard from Andrew Carnegie. But
perhaps Mr.. Carnegie feels that he still
has good lead over his rival and can
afford to rest for a few laps. He was
the first in the field and had given
away several modest fortunes when
Mr.. Rockefeller entered the race. To
date the list of benefactIons of both
men is as follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19
The Quickest way.

To telephone or telegraph
Is always futile labor.
If you'd spread news just notify
Your wife to teleneighbor.
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Delegates.

.e ward psimar#s will be held at
the usual places in each of the wards
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

1t doth perplex poor mortal man
The weather's change to note.
One minute he requires a fan
And next an overcoat.
Boston Transcript.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

"Mr Humphreys, will you kindly
pass the prunes to Miss Mistletow?
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DENTISTS.

Dentist.
Artificial teeth scientifically con-
structed.
Grown and bridge-w work expert.
Office over Cullen's dry goods store
Main street, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

BURT LAFoRcE. PHI. G.. M. 3.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Sneclaiist.
Glasses scientifically fitted Office hours
10 to - n. n,., and 2 to + and to 8 o'clock
p. M Phone. Office $50; residence, 81
Office rooms 10 and 12 Hermann Blk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-19

The FutiIity of Wisdom.
To yisdom each of us pretends
And in his heart declares
If wisdom paid big dividends
We'd all be millionaires.
Washington Star
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02

They had some spirited horses In
the old coaching days. Just 100
years ago remarkable proof of this
was given, and fortunately recorded
for the astonishment of later motor
ing generations, in the case of the Liv-
erpool mail coach. Horses were
changed at Monks Heath, between
Observation-Disclosures, says the Lon
don Tribune.
On this particular occasion pack
of foxhounds was heard in full cry
just as the horses from Congleton
were freed from the coach, and they
started off with the harness on their
backs and followed the run to the
finish. One of them, blood mare,
stuck close to the whipperin and took
every jump after him through the two
hours. And in the evening they took
the return coach to Congleton as mer-
rily as If they had been in the stable
all the time
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
THE DIFFERENCE IN TASTE.
Dogs Priced as Edible in China Are
Here Fashions Pets.

HE is the real thing in the way of
4 chow" said she. Father bought
him for me in Shanghai. Did you know
they ate them there?"
81 had heard that the Chinese ate
dogs, but thought 1t was fake, like
the story of their eating rats"
mo; it is the truth. They do eat
dogs, but only the chow variety.
Chow you know, means edible.
Yes, they eat elbows In every butcher
shop you see elbows carcasses hung
up, the same as we hang up the car
casses of pigs. The flesh is white"
Winter"
Yes; like veal The Chinese raise
elbows for food and feed them only
soft, washy stun, mashed vegetables
and bread and milk. No meat what.
ever. Hence the white flesh.
Notice Wu's black tongue. Well,
chow tongue is a Chinese delicacy.
They make soup of it. But it is very
expensive, like our turtle soup, and it
Is only eaten by the rich.
isn't 1t strange that dog so fash
'onable with us should be only an artl-
Gle of food in Gilman"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
liae Record OF Bad Luck.

j, NJ Seaman, well known writer
Of San Francisco, poses as the most
unlucky man on the Pacific coast He
has established 10 dailies and week
lies IN California that have failed. He
says that every check he receives
either is, unsigned or undated. The
one lucky event Of his life occurred
while he was a private in the confed-
crate army While kneeling behind a.
low earthwork cannon ball struck
the top of the embankment, covering
him with dirt and debris. IF l had
been an upright young man l would
have been killed." he reported. salut-
ing his superior officer. Friday he re-
CARDS with much suspicion.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
BABY IN TERRIBLE STATE.
Awful Humor Eating Away Face
Body a Mass of Sores-cutioura
Cures In Two Weeks. T

my little daughter broke out all
over her body with humor, and we
used everything recommended, but
without results. I called in three doc
tors, but she continued to grow worse.
Her body was mass of sores, and her
little face was being eaten away. Her
ears looked as if they would drop Off
Neighbors advised me to get Cuticura
Soap and Ointment, and before had
used half of the cake of Soap and box
of Ointment the sores had all healed,
and my little ones face and body were
as clear as newborn babes. would
not be without 1t again if it cost five
dollars, instead of seventy-fve cents.
Mrs George j. Steese, FOL Coburn ST.,
Akron, O5txug. 80, 1906"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02

There s Catarrh In this section Of the country
than ali other diseases put together and until the last
few years was supposed to be ircurabe. For great
many years doctors pronounced 1t local disease and
prescribed local remedies and by constantly falling
TO cure with local treatment, pronounced itincuraJe.
Science has proven Catrrh to be constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney
q Co., Toledo, Ohio is the only Constitutional cure on
the market. 1t is taken Internally In doses from 10
drops to teaspoontul. 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case 1t fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: f. j. CHENEY 6 CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
nold klnn coIe.v

"old King Cole" the merry mon
arch of the nursery rhyme, has been
identified with Cole, Coel, or Coil, a
semi-mythical king of Britain, who,
according to Robert of Gloucester and
other old chroniclers, succeeded AS
clepiad on the British throne about
225 A. D. He it was who built the
walls around the city of Colchester,
80 named in his honor. Saint Helena
is supposed to have been his daugh-
ter
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-05-02
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