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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

will deeply marvel what the hotel bill
it's all about.
The Anti-Saloon league willing, the
twenty-f1rst will be the longest day of
the year. Upon that date the sun will
reach the Tropic of Cancer in the
northerly declination, and will start
south again. On the same day the
month will pass out of the influence
of Gemini the Twins and persons born
after the twenty-first need not be
afraid. They will not have any. Upon
the contrary, the stork will fill only
single orders under the zodiacal sign
of Cancer the Crab. Children born
under this sign will crawl backward
and cry for crabapple jelly.
The smiling heavens will inspire
The skylark and the linnet,
And the busy parsons will turn out
new bride every minute.
A few friends will throw shoes and rice.
And taste the wedding cake.
And then make bets among themselves
On whether 1t will take.
Mr.. Bryan will complete his wall
around Denver about the 30th and
will set a deadfall at the gate for Gov
ernor johnson. In the course of the
month all Democrats who have fought
fist fights on the floor of congress OF
in any other way distinguished them
selves will be honorably mentioned
for vice president.
The boys will seek the swimming hole
In quite excited packs,
And paddle in 1t Till the
Puts blisters on their backs;
And when the disobedents
Come wet haired back to town
They'll get few more blisters raised
little lower down.
Commencements will come in again.
and knowing well this bore, the willy
parent will take up a seat quite near
the door; and when his own child has
declaimed and shown it's skill and
pluck he'll lead the plaudits for a time
and impolitely duck.
The hungry boy will stow few
green apples in his tum and his ma
will lay him belly up out in the blaz-
ing sun; and after while the pain will
cease, the agony and grippe, because.
by virtue of the sun, the once green
fruit is ripe.
And then the Fourth will come again,
With death and lockjaw from IL,
And Pixies Peak in the public eye,
With Bryan ON the summit.
Anticipating Crusade
Everybody should help stop the public spit
ting habit by sending a 2-cent stamp today for
our attractive. unique hanger card which warns
against splitting nuisances. People will take
notice OF this card and once seen never for
gotten. Address Dominocards Co., 1907 Chou
teau. ST. Louis. Mo.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
e college graduate will hear

The college graduate will hear
The Macedonian cry
OF Kansas farmers who must get
The wheat cut by July.
They'll rustic out while yet the lark
Is chirruping his matin,
And chase the binder round the field
Exuding Greek and Latin.
The dinner bell will bring the sage,
the scholar and the cynic and dinner
will become sort of scientific clinic.
Astronomers will talk of Mars, of
Saturn and of Venus, and Latinists re-
call a few romances of Silenus. The
junebug will be mentioned as the
benus Lachnosterna, and other bugs
will speak of land as being terra firnna.
They'll quarrel, shout and sometimes
swear in Arabic and Greek, and now
and then a dainty hand will clasp a
damask cheek. And all the while the
farmer. full of wondering and doubt,
will deeply marvel what the hotel bill
it's all about.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

OS ANGELES-Wherever Jap
anese subjects live under the
American flag, from Honolulu
eastward to Denver, from Pu-
get sound southwark to Los
Angeles, thtre Is conflict be-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
GANDERBONEpS
JUNE FORECAST

1t was the seventeenth of June
And great was the convention
Tho vote was coming pretty soon,
And thrilling was the tension.
Alabama" cried the clerk.
And some there were went daft
When U. S. marshal showed his head
Out in the seethlng mass and said;
Count 20 for Taftl''
The Cannon men turned pale as ghosts,
And the Hughes men gasped for breath
The men for Fairbanks chung to posts
AS colorless as death.
"ArkansasW the clerk exclaimed
And the hall shook fore and aft
When spry postmaster, white of hair.
Hoped TO the main deck of his chair,
And cried Eighteen for Taftl"
The Fairbanks men exuded groans,
And the Cannon men shed tears
And the Hughes men uttered none but
means
That once had uttered cheers.
"Californiar' doomed the clerk
And the whole convention laughed
When revenue collector rose
And whistled shrilly through his nose,
Count 20 more for Taft
The Hughes men looked at the Cannon men,
And they crawled out of their chairs
And the Fairbanks fellows Joined them
They pulled their Teddy Bears.
ana they all rushed up on the center stage
As men who had made ready
And when the din and the tumult died,
And the dust had settled down inside,
The candidate was Teddy.
And when Bill Taft discovers what q
mean trick they have played him, he'll
shed his coat and go to find the mar
who has betrayed him. He'll lumber Ut
the White House steps, with each jump
growing warmer, and Ted will hear him
coming in and slip into his armor.
they'll spar around the room a bit, and
Ted will cry. See here, Bill! 1 know
the whole affair must look all thunder.
ltion queer, Bill; but listen: You'll be
named for vice, and when we're both
elected. why I'll resign. You'll get It,
Bill-fact is, that l suspected Bryan
would defeat you, Bill which made II
necessary for me to head the ticket
Bill, lest everything miscarry."
And Bill will sink into chair, aware
hat he has messed it, and will ex-
claim, II see it now, BY Jove, should
nave guessed it, o, most ungrateful
wretch am I, to think that you who
made me--my benefactor and my friend
had shamelessly betrayed mel"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
WALTER EpM uND sTEpMAN

World Wide Race Questio
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
ISAAC HERRIN
OLDEST SETTLER?
EDDYvILLE CORRESPONDENT
SAYS MR.. HERRIN BEATS
CHRIS MYERS RECORD

Eddyville, Aug. 29-(Special)-In
write-up of the Agency Old Settlers
meeting the Ottumwa Courier claims
for Chris Myers the record as the old.
est settler in the county on sixty-six
year residence In Isaac Herrin, Ed.
dyville has that record beaten by
year and half. Isaac Herrin's father
brought him, a babe of one and a halt
years, to Eddy's trading post in Feb
fuary, 1841, and he has lived in Eddy
vile ever since. His father, William
Herrin, who is nearing the hundred
mark, is still alive and active in the
Ozarks of Missouri.
Has Also Oldest Established Business
Eddyville has further claim to dis
tlnction in having the Oldest estab-
lished business in the new purchase"
the Q. H. Seifert general merchandise
store. This business was established
IN 1910 by Jabish P. Eddy, as trad.
ing post for the Sac and Fox Indians.
He continued the business until 1874.
when he sold out to Erasmus D. Fish.
In 1846 Erasmus d. Fish sold out to
his brother, John M. Fish, who for
many years was a power in southeast.
ern Iowa mercantile life. His inter.
ests were innumerable and diverse, in
Guiding farms, saw and grist mills.
elevator, lumber yard, hardware store,
general store, coal mines and the lead
Ing bank. For many years he was
very successful, but in his latter days
he met with financial reverses. In
1874 he sold his general store to o.
H. Seifert, who for the past fifteen
years has built up the biggest store In
Eddyville. So in Isaac Herrin and
the Eddy DECENTRALIZATION business,
Eddyville has two Of the oldest land
marks in the new purchase"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.

An argument for industrial training
in the schools which is being used eff
fectively by the National Society for
the Promotion of Industrial Eduoa-
ton, is advanced by Thomas Speed
Mosby, pardon attorney for Governor
Folk of Missouri Mr.. Mcsby says that
a personal study Of some taree tLoas-
and criminals has convinced him THAT
the radical defect in tha vast major
ity is their utter lack, CT industrial
training. In 4the cases watch he inyes-
stigated, by far the greater number
resulted from crimes against property.
Most of the criminals wsre thieves;
men, for the most part who .ried 10
get living dishonesty because they
had not learned to get:' it honestly.
They stole because they mad not
learned to work. Mr.. .Mosby csn,tin-
ued:
eve are able to estimate the direct
cost of crime; but who csns estimate
the terrible cost of that wide spread
industrial inefflciency wh;,al ca,,la be
SO easily remedied by yOlrhf.ll train.
sing in manual, agricultural and trade
processes? would not decry rhe
belles-lettres. believe ir the humane
ties. l revere the classics ard weaad
by no means exclude them from the
curricula OF our schools and colleges.
But may we not bler,l the practical
With the ideal?
'An hours hand work day in ev.
cry school room in the land, running
through all the gra&es fr,Gl The llin.
dergarten to and incindius the high
school, would give to every man,
woman and child of the rising gener-
alton at least the rudiments of an
honest, useful and profitable occupa-
ton; would give to all who wanted it
a trade, and would make of the next
generation of Americans the most
productive and the most industfially
efficient race the world has ever seen.
Is it worth the experiment? l think
sit is. No rich mans son would be
poorer while every poor mans son
would be incalculabIy richer, with the
knowledge that this hour would give
The cost Of school equipment would,
of course, be great; but itswould be
small in comparison with the bene.
fits to be derived. And l believe that
every criminologist will agree with
me when I say that for every dollar
so expended, two dollars will be
saved in the lessened cost of crime"
The Chicago school board has de
cided to broaden its work along the
lines ofiindustrial education The plan
of Superintendent Cooley of opening
continuation" schools, as is the GUS
tom in Germany, will be adopted.
These schools take the children after
they have gone to work and in their
spare time teach them the subjects
they most need in the particular line
of work they have chosen. The
schools will be operated evenings SO
as to permit the working children to
attend
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
coLUMBlA

Columbia.-Mrs. G. w. Nye returned
home Saturday on No. after few
days visit at the home of her aunt,
In Van Buren, county.
Mrs. Edward Waddington, of Green
ridge, visited relatives in this vicinity
last week, leaving for home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Stodghill visit
ed relatives and attended the state
fair in Des Moines this week.
Miss Bertha Arnold Of Yuma, CAL,
arrived last Wednesday for visit with
friends and relatives here.
Mrs. Goltry, of Russell, is visiting
at the John Arnold home.
Master Lloyd Stodghill narrowly
escaped serious accident Sunday
from a fractions horse while visiting at
the Harry Stevens home
Miss Iva Stevens visited her friend
Bessie Byrunn, Sunday
Clarence Nye and son Leslie, are at
tending the state fair this week.
Ollie Warner and q. c. Keok were
business visitors in Eddyville Satur-
dsv evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Gardner visit
ed the parental Arnold home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Garfield visited
relatives at Christiansburg last Thurs
day;
daughter, of Eddyvile, visited at the
F. l.. Crambiit home Sunday and at
tended church here.
Miss Lawson, the returned missionary
from India, gave interesting talks here
both Sunday morning and evening to
a well filed house.
Rev. Filmer will preach his farewell
sermon at this place next Sunday
morning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
REGULAR OFFICE TEAM UNMERcI.
Full IN MANNER OF DEFEAT
ING OPPONENT.
10 TO ) The SCORE
Breezy Bunch of News Items From the
Packing House Vicinity
General Notes or the
East End.

An interesting but one-sided bal
game was played last Saturday pe-
tween the regular office team of
the packing house and the "Out-
laws" team composed prin.
cipally Of Office men with some out
siders. The Outlaws started the game
swell by running In two scores In the
First inning while the Regulars were
unable to score In their half, but the
Outlaws went to pieces in the second
and third innings and for time the
diamond looked like a race track
while the Regulars ran each other
around the bases. After the dust had
settled 1t was found that the Regulars
had scored ten runs. After that the
Outlaws settled down and played a
steadier game but, they were clearly
outplayed by the Regulars.
Reeves, for the Regulars, did great
work with the willow, and he never
failed to secure a hit every time he
came to bat. Cooper pitched steady
game for the Regulars, while Morrell,
for the Outlaws, was not UP to his
usual mark and was somewhat dis
couraged by the poor support re.
ceived from his team
McGahey umpired the game and re-
ceived much praise from both teams
for his impartial decisions. The
teams played as follows.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
QUERIES FOR BRYAN.

In answer to MI Bryan's Des
Moines speech on the tariff in which
the Democratic candidate made it
plain that he lis as.radicara freetrader
asSeUer, theaAuierican Economist pro-
pounds these queries to Bryan:
Are you in favor OF the removal of
the duty of from So to $14 per
head ON datMe Imported from foreign
countries?
Are YOU in, favor of the removal of
the duty of $3.50 per head on swine ?
Are youth favor of the removal Of
the duty Of $50 per head and up on
horses and mules?
Are you III favor of the removal of
the duty Of Is cents bushel on corn?
Are you in favor Of the removal Of
the duty of 20 cents bushel on corn
meal?
Are you in favor Of the removal of
the duty Of Is cents a bushel on oats
Are you in favor Of the removal of
the duty of l cent pound on oat-
meale
AKe you in favor Of the removal of
the duty of&6 ceutssa pound on butter
and substitutes therefor?
Are yoa in Favor of the removal of
the duty of26 cents pound ON cheese
or substitutes theretorg
Are you In favor OF the removal of
the duty Of cents gallon on milk ?
Are you in favor OF the removal Of
the daty ofs2 cents pound on milk
preserved or condensed?
Are you in favor Of the removal of
the duty offs cents dozen onseggs?
Are you in favor of the remop al of
the duty of 3 cents each on cabbages?
Are You in favor of the removal OF
the duty OF cents a gallon on cider?
Are you in favor of the removal Of
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FOR the
old Settlers
FAIRFIELD WILL SEE OPENING
OF 8 DAYS CELEge ZION
SUNDAY.

Fairfield, Aug. 29.-(Special All
the preparations are completed for
one of the biggest, and best Old Set
tiers celebrations ever held in Fair
field The three days program was
so greatly favored last year by the old
settlers of Jefferson county and 9TH
ers that it was decided to have the
same length of time devoted to 1t this
year The celebration will begin Sun
dag morning when the services In all
the churches In the city will be In
hon0r 4 or the old folks and will be
aaa,,e aas entertaining as possible.
Sunday evening grand ufiion service
viii be held in the park II the wealth
err will permit Many old people have
requested that the evening services be
held in centrally located portion of
the city so that the older ones may be
as near as possible. The Sunday
evening service will begin promptly
at $50 o'clock
Dedicate Ronnifieid Cabin.
Monday and Tuesday will be given
over to all sorts of entertainments
and reunions. On Monday afternoon
occurs the formal re-dedication of the
Old Settlers park and the Bonnif1eld
log cabin. The exercises will be held
at $3.50 o'clock and will consist of an
address Of welcome by Mayor James.
short addresses by number of the
old settlers of Jefferson county and
| music by quartet. An Old Settlers
picnic supper will be served In the
log cabin at o'clock and the old
people are invited to take well filled
baskets and eat once more in log
cabin where the lighted sticks In tho
fire place will furnish the heat for
coffee and the time honored corn
bread Tuesday will be day Of now
elites in the way of entertainment.
There will be noyeltieg in the gigan-
tic parade. novelties in contests, nov.
elites i'll races and novelties in every.
thing.
!. An "obstacle Race"
One OF the many novel entertain.
mehts is race known as the sob.
stacle" race which will be participated
In by number Of small boys. This
race will be given Tuesday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock, starting on the west
side of the square. At least 80 OBJ.
stacles will be builded around the
square, among them being wire al.
ley, a tank of water. a wooden pole
and others. The boys will be started
two minutes apart and the one which
makes the best time around the
square, after having encountered all
the obstacles, will be given prize Of
So. Second and third prizes Of So and
i 81 will also be given.
i The comfort and pleasure of the
old settlers will be the first considera.
ton of all Fairfield people during this
celebration and one of the first things
which the committee did when ar
ranging the program for these days
was to request the merchants and
others to sell no tin horns, pop guns,
or rattlers which are so often used at
a time like this to make the air hide.
ously noisy The merchants have kind
ly consented to refrain from selling
such noise-makers in Difference to the
wishes Of the old people.
i Old settlers from over the county
are already beginning to arrive to Wis.
it relatives and to attend the reunions
and there will be a large outpouring
of old settlers all over the county Sun.
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
EDDYviELE.

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e sassy ,ihine' Mas oaus 4l':t aiNsf cas-
OF Gnai ~ Ms maag tnis ss. week. ana
susssAalhsa az, setis paaiatui injuries 10 mas
sps,as aHH MP 1
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SaaI.ey .Aslli ie .e asrs'eo nome We,
NsSaaA. il'pr4n!s tfotl aouf IlionsHs
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01

the duty of As cents bushel on
| beans?
Are you in favor of the removal Of
| the duty of 81 a ton on hay?
Are you in favor of the removal of
the duty of 20 cents a gallon on
honey?
| Are you in favor of the removal Of
the duty of 40 cents bushel on
| onions?
Are you in favor of the removal Of
the duty OF 40 cents bushel and up
on peas?
Are you in favor of the removal of
the duty of Is cents a bushel on potar
toes?
Are you in favor of the removal Of
the duty Of rs cents a busheI on COM
| mercial seeds?
Arc you in favor of the removal Of
the duty of S1.50 a ton on straw?
Are you in favor of the removal of
the duty Of 25 per cent ad valorem
son vegetables?
Are you in favor Of the removal of
the duty of Is per cent ad$vHlprem on
hides?
Are you in favor Of the removal of
the duty of cents pohnd on bacon
and hams?
Are you in favor of the removal of
the duty of cents pound on fresh
beef, veal, mutton and pork?
Are you in favor of the removaasof
The duty of 2 cents a pound on lard ?
Are you in favor of the removal of
the duty of 8 cents pound and up
on poultry?
| Are you in favor of the removal Of
the duty of p cent a pound on tai
low?
Mr.. Bryan will find it exceedingly
hard to answer these questions to
the satisfaction Of the people Of the
middle west.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01
THE NEWS OF THE CAMPAIGN

THE NEWS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
In one of the newspaper trade jour
nails the other day attention was call
ed to the handicaps under which the
Associated Press and the other large
news agencies labor during a presi
dental campaign. These agencies,
viewing the political situation in an
absolutely non-partisan light, were
constantly receiving objections from
Republican papers that there was
dates than of the Republican candi-
dates. Walter Wellman, discussing
the news features Of campaign,
gives an explanation Of this. He says:
The news of the campaign, the mat
ter Of VITAL real interest to every
leader and every observer, are found
in the other equation Of the problem
lin the factors which make toward
change, toward weakening of the
known Republican prepondefance
This is why SO much Of the news and
gossip of the campaign consists Of in
formation concerning those factors
which hint of possible Democratic
gains. Every one must recognize this
fact and understand that such minor
Factors may be pointed out and dis
eussed without at all concedtng that
they mean revolution. That which
every one wants to know, Republican
as well assDemoorat, is how far these
minor factors promise to go in break
ing down the stone walls of Repubii-
can majorities. If there are no such
factors, there is no campaign. If a
great fortress is besieged, the news
of the campaign consists not of sta
tistics as to the strength of the de-
Tense, for these are known in adj
vance, but as to the progress, if any,
which the attacking columns are MAX
ing. And the reports of the war cor
respondent must necessarily deal much
more with the latter than with the
former.
sure winner and that the only danger
to his candidacy comes not from the
opposition, but from apathy within his
own party. Many Republicans feel SO
sure of the magnificent physical
strength of their fortress that they are
threatened with over confidence and
there is danger in the apathy which
usually accompanies it. Mr.. Wellman
says that some of the best informed
men in the country, like President
Roosevelt, Postmaster General Meyer
and National Chairman Hitchcock be-
lieve that if the Republican voters Of
the north can be reused by fear that
Bryan is likely to win, great major
fty Of tie so-called doubtful states will
give their electoral votes to Judge
Taft.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01

IF there is ever Democratic speak
er of the house the st. Louis Globe
Democrat hopes that man will be
Champ Clark Of Missouri If Champ
Clark were speaker, says the Globe
Democrat, there would be speaking
every day There would be- no ses-
sion of the house without speech
by the speaker. It is for this reason
that Clark is favored While the
speaker was speaking the party
majority in the house would have to
listen, or at least would be incapable
ofsdoing any mischief; and the speak
er's speeches would not be as danger
Gus to the country as the work of a
Democratic house would be If it could
give its entire time ITO business.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01

Perry, in the Sioux City Journal,
has cartoon Worthy Of mention
Uncle Sam is. pictured as a school
master and Bryan as the pupil On
the black boardtis written:
The tariff problem.
The trust problem
The currency problem
The Injunction, problem
The Philippine problem
After looking over the slate on
which Bryan has worked out the
problems, Uncle Sam says:
You've worked Gut ali the problems,
William, but you haven't found the
right answers
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Gard of Thanks.

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends and neigh
5bors during the sad bereavement of
our beloved daughter and sister, also
the employees of Mckee & Potter for
the beautiful Offering.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Gibbons /.
and Family. !
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0&.es$rA.taassssz.saA
FUNERALS,
Ghssx,tAss2< a

The funeral Of the late James DAB.
ton was held this afternoon from Dag.
gets undertaking pafioFs at 2:50
O'Clock. Interment was made in the,
Ottunnwa cemetery.
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Deaths

sssss ssssssa ssss
GosHORN--Friday, August % 1908.
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hills.
worth Goshorn, lib Green street,
the infant daughter. Aabertise Ellis.
worth Goshorn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-01

MI. Bryan seems to be getting along
pretty well in country he says is
going to the dogs when he has $500
In his wallet to lose on the train.