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The schools Of America.

The United states has % 500 public and private high
schools, With 4O,63l teachers and 5s4.4 students
In 1880 there were only Ass high schools. with
ie,S2p teachers and ce7 .Se4 students.
The United States has AZ cities Of 900 or more
population with organized public school systems.
Manual training Ia taught Ia the public schools
Of $40 OF these cities, an Increase OF ninety In one
year In 1890 only thirty seven school city systems
included manual training
Our 1925 commercial aud business schools have
253 SiS students. OF these schools : go are sub
divisions Of public high schools III " private high
schools and academies. IFS OF universities and col
leges. and nfty.two OF public and private normal
schools. Only f7 VI the commercial and business
schools are separate private enterprises
The United States has O1A training schools for
nurses, with q 0i2 pupils and G 400 graduates last
year. In 1880 there were only nftocn such schools
uluF9.3 pupils.
Illinois has 2S.OH school teachers. to whom
S4 As9 l2l was paid In salaries last year Women
teachers got 81 800 OoO Of the total salary dis
bursemcnt
OF the seven best graduates abroad recently ell
Amned In PeRln, China. i've had been educated In
the United States.
In our eGA public and private normal Schools
there are 65 s51 students In 1906 there were 10 800
graduates The teachers number O56. In unlver.
stiles and colleges and public and private high
schools, VI. In number teachers training courses
Of four years are also provided attended b. ~ 40
students.
The Society OF Master Painters and Decorators
Of Massachusetts, urges the establishment Of trade
schools with both day and evening classes. Tic
plea Is directed TO the Industrial Commission Of
that State.
The Alaska YUKON Pacific exposition. June I 10
October Is. 1902 will have an interesting educa-
tlOhAl exhibit Two up to date City and country
school buildings will be erected.
Since 1870 the South has expended tGl 900 600 on
its public schools OF which SlSS 900 600 went 70 sup.
port common schools for the colored race. The
school enrolment In isO5 % school year was 6OS l
white and ! .Cl7 09S colOred. There are l.a public
high schools for the colored with $50 slracr,a.
In the common schools Of the South there arc
lO6 eaS white teachers and e "a colored
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school Books in PhIlInnIn.,.
FvM Army and Narp Lff,.

TIV"' "THIV ava NdFK LIE.
The other day took my company on A praotlrs
march to Marlqulna When we reached the rtvsy
we had to wait several minutes for the old rome
ferry 10 come over Just then two Filipino bows
came along on their way To PaslE.
asked oss Of them, LAD sDoui twelve, 10 snow
me his school books. These consisted OF second
reader. speher ana an arithmetic, and differed
from those In the United States principally IN ~.
words Was there no interesting tale OF spnls
steallngi Not exactly: It was "manRas" III. ia
boys had stolen yet the same terrible retrbutIon
had overtaken the thieves 40 had overtaken them
when our great trust maGnates were schoolhoys
IL was Pedro" not John" who was drowned
because he went hshinG on sunday. The Arlthns.
tic had examples In bananas and pesetas instead
oiin plums and dimes
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Right on the heels Of what Senator JkPP
DAVIS declares was an attempt TO assassi-
nate him in the streets Of Little Rock comes
an awful story from Texas TO the effect that
Senator BAILFY's life is threatened by his
enemies and the public interests demand
that he should have bodyguard. We do
not believe that the life OF either OF these
statesmen is in danger, but it is apparent
that a considerable number OF their con-
sttuents would rather be represented by
somebodY else.
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Grieg's Tomb.
From ne London Clobs


The last resting place OF the great Norwegian
composer Edward Gneg Is one Of the most beau-
uful In Its natural surroundings that could he
imagined BY the side Of a lake. at the extremity
OF hord close 10 the composers native town oi
Bergen, there Is natural Rrotto formed 10 the
solid rock, which rises preclpltouSly from Tho
waters edge. Hero the remains OF the famous
musician Will he Inferred In the course OF this wees
and as the Trotto ls only accessible from the lake
the funeral corIege win have 10 make the Journey
by water. The town Of Bergen Intends 10 erect
concert hall In memory OF the composer which will
bear his name and where Grlegs works will bs
performed In preference 10 othens.
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Bryan's Dinner Invitation,

Most curious the spectacle
Which now We see
our Father Adams plight appear
Reversed 70 be.
Not In the Wand Of delight
Is knowledge hid.
But In the glowing noWeu OF speech
which are forbid.
But far the Ssddest part OF all
Which makes b;A ghsve-
Ts tempt him and 70 bear the blame
There Il no Eve.
Instead Of suffering defeat
And full eciipse
HL partner, Miss Democracy.
Would seal hls Hpsi
NoLLSDDUnoE wnsoa.
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Priests aAd Boards.

From LIRdsptndanes BslO,
Within the memory OF man all the nunclos .c.
credited 10 Catholic courts have been Obliged 70
Saerinee their boards and mustAches. Those
accredited 10 lnndel countries, on the other hand
can allow their facial hair 10 develop at leisure
This 10 why N. Tacci, the new nuncio at Brussols
who was mAEnincently bearded al Constantipopl,
win be smooth fAced at BrnAaelh
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'Cindy's Easter Hat.

I.ookyAh whut dat comln'i
what's All lookin' At'
Well. dat's sure nah 'Cindy,
In her Easter hiatt
Amt she dress up. Honey'
Now. whut 20 think OBJ dat
Done spent all de money
Fo' dat Easter hat.
whAr she get dem fnllsles.
Dem ribbons an ell dat
'Spect Ah Gwine 20 hungry
On count dat Easter hat
FRANK N, BLusEErr.
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IN. Tw.ntr.nr, Greatest Men.

To rHn EDIroE or THu SuN-Sir! Lives there
the man with soul 80 base as not 10 know that the
twenty. ave greatest men In history are T. Roose
Vsltt FRANCIS 0RTFTH.
NHU yoRE Aphl 2
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n our rri'nds uho faFor " vih manuscripts io'
FvbtaHON uish 10 haze rejected articles returned A1g
mSE N al cases sand stamps for NAT purpose.
The sun., 1908-04-03

Paris once S2Rut Louis le Grand. The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale at KlOsqus u, near the
Grand Hotel. Klosaus II, Boulevard des cApueinss,
corner Place de ropcrS. and Klosque 10, Boulevard
dee ltallens. corner Rue Louis ls Grand.
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me daily aud SUNDAY SUN Ia on sale 10 Iondon
at hunay's Exchange, Trafalgar Buildings, North i
cumberland avenue; Pail Mall American and Co
louisl Exchange Carlton street. Regent street. aud
DAVIS Steamship Agency. II Green street. Leicester
Equsre.
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til,,auri In the IIlII nf Enm..
PIaaked,

From ne Kansas Cav lStdr.
Green House is citizen Of Trenton.
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ssb,srIptIon, br NAV. Ps,tp,IA.

Published hy mo sun Printing and Publishing
Association a, 10 Nassau street, in the Borough Oi
Manhattan. New York. PrsSIdsht and Treasurer
Of the Association. william N. LAnAn 10 Nassau
HRet Secretary OF thS AssbelatLon, Franklin
BaHlett, Nassau street.
The sun., 1908-04-03

First Shad--Was your brother 5upsrstltiouJ
second Shad-iss Just after boastlnE he toushsa
wood.
The sun., 1908-04-03

Entered At the PoA once y New YORK a. Second
Class Mall Matter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-07
! THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

We have right expect from the college man. the college
bred of proportion proper perspec
tive which will enable him her things right relation
another and when thus while wealth will
place. place. instrument for achieving happiness
comforting happiness and power will high
much else national life The up u.s.
the which the of the people
which stand shining honor marks annals those
qualities which rightly should hold reverence
ARE THE NAMES OF THE STATESMEN, OF THE SOL
DIERs OF THE POETS, and after her abreast Them
the Of the architects of material prosperity
YOU and who have had the advantages
ege training to be excused you as
tan the outside who has your advan-
tages Your education your training will on you
privilege the of excung you work
All it do, and what it should do make you little better
fitted for such effort for such work.
is incumbent you show that training has had that
effect ought enable do little yourselves and
you have in souls capable of thrill Of emotion
capable Of understanding what you your training alma
mater to the past and the that have given you
hav you have such souls ought make you doub
disinterested work for the state and the nation.
EDUCATION MAY NOT MAKE MAN A CITIZEN, BUT
MOST CERTAINLY IGNORANCE PREVENT HIS BEING
GOOD CITIZEN
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ton cannot be indefinitely curtailed at
the rate of 20 per cent to SO per cent
Such contraction is out of all proper
ton to the actual decline in consump.
ton. Before long supplies must be-
come greatly reduced, if not exhaust
ed, even If consumption were to con-
tinue on present reduced scale Every
thing now points to at least a partial
resumption of industrial activity ere
long as result Of better conditions
in the money market. Now that the
process of reajustment has been car
ried on to considerable extent, re-
covery will begin here and there as
confidence revives. A rational restora-
ton Of confidence is more to be de-
sired than anything else. Unnecessary
fears should be as carefully avoided
as unfounded optimism. It should
not be forgotten that the situation to.
day is radically different from what
existed year ago. Then our troubles
were ahead Of US, now they are large
ly behind us, and will soon become a
matter of history,
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will want to buy at your store. IT
makes no difference whether. they
come, tomorrow, next week, or next
month. Every day for S12 days, you
convince ten people that they should
trade in your store. At the end of
the year or 312 days, $3.50 people
will have seen your advertisement
and will believe in your store. You
make about $40 on every customer
in year. If only half of the 1920
people. or 1910, GUY, you will make at
$40, $4,000 per year Your adver-
tisement every day in Chicago Trib-
une will cost you $1,SOO. You will
make out of your contract with the
Tribune $15,4o0" The man turned
to the solicitor and said, 81 will sign
that contract He has been in the
Tribune for three years. He will
probably be in it forever. He found
out what the solicitor told him was
correct.
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out whether there is a firetrap among
them Where one is found the
changes that will make it safe should
be ordered.
That is what should be done gener-
ally. Common humanity and regard
for the lives Of home people and
strangers demand it. Business con-
siderations require it. In some places
the lesson of the Fort Wayne hotel
fire will be needed. In others the au-
thorities will trust to luck. They will
assume that the good fortune which
has protected insecure hotels hitherto
will stand by them. They will not
hunt for firetraps, but will wait until
a fire shall have revealed their exist
ence.
It seems odd that so little is done
to prevent these catastrophes. After
they have occurred there is usually
prompt action, but it is then too late
to save the lives lost through negli-
gence often criminal. After the Iro-
quois fire horror the theaters were
made the objects of much attention.
After the Collinwood disaster atten-
ton was turned to the schools. Hotel
investigations will probably now be
the rule
But it is to be hoped that the
churches and public buildings over
the country will be investigated and
made safer before there are any more
fire horrors which might easily have
been avoided.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-07
UNSAFE HOTELS,

An old hotel at Fort Wayne burn
ed down Sunday with a heavy loss Of
life. The hotel had been erected more
than fifty years ago, at a time when
the modern standards of safe con-
struction was unknown. Since the
fire 1t has been found that the hotel
was veritable fire trap, but this fact
was not known, or not remedied, if
known, until a number of people were
burned to death. The Chicago Trib.
une has this comment on the prevail
Ing tendency to close the eyes to all
defects of building construction until
they are opened by a fire horror:
Fort Wayne is far from being the
only town with an old hotel building
which as soon as it has gone into
smoke and ashes will be discovered
to have been firetrap The discov-
cry would be made too late to save
the lives of unfortunate occupants.
Cities and towns which wish to do
their full duty to the strangers within
their gates should be stirred to action
by what has happened at Fort Wayne.
The authorities of each place should
have it's hotels investigated to find
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-07
ANOTHER TARIFF MYSTERY.
(Satmdau Even;n0 Post. J

tSGtWfdGy EUen1g POSt)
In Massachusetts, the idea of tariff reform evokes enthus
asm In Iowa it is coolly and doubtfuly received
little per cent Of the manufacturing of ths
United States done Iowa Massachusetts manufactured
product is seven times great Iowa's she has
ten times as ndusray employees her fac
tory roll is two hundred and irtywo million dollars
year against twenty three million dollars for Iowa. And of
loWas manufactures by far the most those
which get possible benefit from protection First in import
ance stand slaughterng and eapackng which
nearly the states manufactured ouurn Dairy
products flour and grst mills and food preparations
for another fifth The fourth manufacturing industry in the
state is printing and publishing There not single pro-
tected industry in Iowa that produces ten million dollars year
or, say, third as much as the oats crop.
"loWa's chief wealth is agricultural Excluding the manu-
features of farm products -four total manu-
and her capital invested in manufacturing even including
augheing dares flour mills is less than onetrd her
capital invested in farm animals.
From protection her agriculture of course derives abso-
utey direct benefit The price Of crops fixed in free
European competition with the like products from Argentina
India and Russia In so far protective system simu-
ates Germany to pass restrictive laws against American meat
imports that grand old system obviously INJURIES Iowas
culture. 4 s#
The only intelligent theory, then upon which Iowa can
support high protection is that enables Massa
ehusets to consume of her wheat and pork
That last paragraph hits the idea exactly
Iowa feels that she will get better market her shea
corn and pork if she sells it to American worngmen who
competition OF products made by people who not get wages
enough to be able to eat wheat, and pork.
The Iowa farmer prefers policy Of government that will
build in this country enough industries to empov man
enough buy what he has to SELL instead having to look for
buyers among the poorly paid aborers of Europe
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Primping, Tuning, fussing,
Results From AdvertisIno.

Harrison M. Parker, advertising
manager of the Chicago Tribune, ad-
dressing the Publicity club, at Mime
apolis, Nov. 5, 1907, said:
A clothes merchant in Chicago was
approached and the solicitor startled
him by saying:
you put an advertisement of sew
en- inches every day in the Tribune.
The Tribune has about 100000 read
ers. The majority of these people
could trade at your store Ten PEG
pie out of the 100000 will see your
advertisement"
The merchant looked at him in as.
constituent"
He said: Repeat that"
The solicitor said, "Ten people
out Of 100000 will see your advertise
ment. Now you make your advertise.
ment SO strong that the ten people
who do see that advertisement today
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-07
MAKING A BURDEN OF LIFE

Life is heavy burden to some peo-
pie. When the sun shines they are
sad because Of their fears that the
morrow may bring rain. When they
are well they do not permit themselves
to enjoy their good health through
worrying over the lack of some other
material comfort. To them every
cloud is a storm cloud, they never see
the silver lining.
And Judging from the reports Of the
sermon delivered in Chicago pulpit
yesterday by the Rev. Frederick E.
Hopkins, he must be of an especially
pessimistic nature. Here is para
graph from the sermon:
Notice how we are becoming the
victims of dates. Once in so often we
take leave of our senses and call it
restlessness. At Christmas we try to
think of everybody who never thought
Of us, and spend on them the money
we cannot spare. On Ney Years we
make resolutions we have made and
broken for lifetime, and we start
account books and daily records and
family worship that lasts about week
and sometimes two. At Easter every
woman must have hat covered with
flowers, even If it SHOWS, and every
man goes to church and thinks the
pewholder is no Christian who is not
glad to stand up for Christ's sake, and
the visitor, who puts nickel on the
plate for a hundred dollars worth of
music and twenty-five dollars worth of
flowers and sacred eloquence thrown in
On Fourth Of July we burn our money
and Thanksgiving We stuff and May
day we move, and nobody can give a
reason why except that everybody else
is doing it.
The Rev. Mr.. Hopkins takes no note
of the Christmas presents that are
given as the sincere expressions of low
ing hearts and are received as such !;
he will not admit that some of the
New Years resolutions are not brok-
en-; he finds fault that few men are
attracted to church on Easter, who
are not regular church-goers, though
he should welcome and encourage
them to come again. He sees nothing
of patriotism in the observance of the
Fourth of July, only noise; and to him
there is no giving of praise and thank
fulness for the good things of the year
on Thanksgiving, there is only
stuffing.
This is an unusually grumpy view to
take of life.
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farming machinery is, that the pro-
fessors In charge Of this department
are obliged to teach without text
book
The 1owans pay s5,Ooo,ooo year to
sustain this college. They pay it
cheerfully. They pay it with hur-
rah. Why? Because it is the big
gest moneymaker in the state. One
little professor named Holden-the
smallest of the whole 140-is revered
by the Iowans as a King Midas of
the corn field He has shown them
how to grow ten bushels more Der
acre by using better quality of
seed.
First in corn, first in farm machin-
cry, and first in the number of her
banks. That is Iowa. There are a
few of her villages that have no
banks, but they are conscious of their
disgrace. They feel naked and
ashamed. In all, there are as MANY
banks as postofices, very nearly, and
| they are crammed with enough wealth
to build three Panama canals.
The pride of Iowa is Des Moines, a
city of farm bred people. It is SO
young that some of its old men re.
member when wolf hunting was good
where its one skyscraper stands to-
day. 1t has no history and no SOU
venirs. little while ago lot of In
dustrious people came here poor and
now they are prosperous and still
busy-that is the story of Des Moines
in sentence,
In the main hall Of the five-domed
capitol at Des Moines is a life-sized
painting of a prairie wagon hauled
by oxen. In such rude conveyance
as this most of the early settlers roll
! ed into Iowa, at gait of two miles
an hour. But there are no prairie
wagons now, nor oxen. Ten thousand
miles Of railway crisscross the state,
and make more profit in three months
than all the railways of ancient India
made last year.
| Instead of being tax ridden serfs,
these Iowans pay the total of self gov
erning cost of their commonwealth by
handing over the price of the sum
mer's hay. Instead of being the prey
of money lenders, they have made
Des Moines the Hartford of the west,
In which forty-two insurance compan-
les carry a risk of half billion.
And so in each one of It's details, the
story of these corn kings" is stag
gering to mere city dweller, espe.
cially to any one who has cold stor-
age ideas about farmers.
Big men, too, as we'll as big corn,
are grown in Iowa. Here Is sample
group-half educators and half states
men: John R. Grinnell, Henry Smith
Williams, Albert Shaw, Newell Dwight
Hills, Carl Snyder, Emerson Hough,
Hamlin Garland, Senators Allison and
Dolliver, Horace Boies, Governor AL
bert B. Cummins, and our official
farmer-James Wilson.
And Iowa is not an exceptional
state. A traveller hears the same story
from oxcart to automobiles-in al
most every region Of the prairie west.
The various states are only patches
of one vast grassy plain, where
Painted .harvesters, fleet after fleet,
Like yachts, career through seas OF
! waving wheat
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE FLY.

A campaign of determination has
been taken up against the house fly.
Some of the leading magazines have
devoted space to articles from physi-
clans, setting forth the dangers Of be-
coming infected with disease through
this agency, the newspapers have
taken up the campaign and medical
societies are planning for an educa.
t1onal campaign along this line.
Physicians agree that there is grave
danger in the disease carrying nature
of the fly, and they feel that warning
to the public to keep flies from their
residences and their food could not
be made too frequently nor too forci-
bly,. The fy's greatest activity is in
transmitting typhoid through it's feet.
1t can carry thousands of baccili on
each foot, and one has but to watch
the activity Of the fly about the din
ner table to realize just how much Of
a menace there is in this disease car
rytng pest.
Warning has been given to screen
not only the doors and windows Of
homes. but the breeding places of in
sects as well. In towns like Ottum-
wa where the sanitary regulations of
the cities are not enforced these
breeding places are an ever present
menace. Outside vaults should be
screened as should barns and chicken
yards. The prevalence Of typhoid in
small cities and country districts
where these conditions prevail, as
compared to cities where strict SAM
tary regulations are enforced shows
the need Of driving the fly from these
breeding places of typhoid inspec-
ton.
With summer approaching the indi-
vidual should take this matter home
and do his part in driving out the fly.
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DUDLEY


Dudley.-Andrew LANES shipped a
car load OF cattle from here to Chicago
Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Swanson of Des
Moines have moved to the store build
ing which was formerly occupied by
Charles W. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Peterson and
son Charles spent. Sunday at the par
entail John Burgason home
Mr. and Mrs. John Swenson of South
Ottumwa attended the funeral of Mrs.
Swenson's brother Joel Cramblitt and
nephew Cralence Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Warren and
daughter Anna spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. James Washington.
Edwin Carlson Of near Blakesburg
spent Sunday with Harry Swanson
Mrs Will Dixon and Mrs. Andrew
Johnson returned home Sunday even
ing on No. 4 after visiting relatives in
Abba.
Ray Chick spent Sunday with his
parents
Misses Eta Gustason and Ethel Ask