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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-07

because she has fat good natured husband that
she keeps her looks. Persistent insurance agents
never poster fat men All the fat man has to do is
to point to his alderman1c paunCh and say, Too
fat Your company wouldn't take me- and that
settles it.
They Get All the Fun
corpulence deprives fat of their share of
the world fun and sport! Did you not read about
Taft dancing at the kuroki ball? Isn't Grover
Cleveland noted hunter and fisherman! And
there's President Roosevelt, over the two hundred
mark, and still playing tennis, and boxing, and
riding. and everything else. There lots of fat
men that excellent bowlers and billiard players
Every pinochle champion is man of weight Thin
people do get half the fun out of eating either
or of living for that matter that fat men do.
Fat men, too, make good citizens. Did you ever
hear of a fat burglar or wife beater! Only one man
in every forty-one weighs two hundred pounds;
vet look back the world history, in whatever
age you will, and YOU will find that fat men have
been doing their share of the worlds work, and
winning perhaps more than their share of the
worlds laurels. Caesar was fat Napoleon was
fat. Johnson, Swift, Addison. Steele,-all fat
OF the twenty-o presidents We have had in the
United States, two of them have been in the lover
two hundred class. and you can find lots OF people
who say that Cleveland and Roosevelt two of
the best Presidents ever had.
1t is funny, too, how corpulence seems to go with
political success Police Justice klees, out in
Aurora Illinois, heads the list with five hundred
and sixty -fve pounds. Watertown South Dakota
had Judge Julian Bennett, that tipped the
scales at more than four hundred Kent Ohio,
few years ago boosted of Mayor, c. M Davis, that
weighed three hundred and eighty. Raleigh, North
Carolina had Mayor, William Russ. that regis
tered on the shady side of three hundred Van SAINT
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THE NATIONAL STANDARD OF LIGHT

1t is possible to compare ncandescent lamps
with high degree of accuracy, and the unit IS
maintained by taking the mean or average value
OF large number kept for this purpose Although
lamps of the kind be made exactly
alike, yet if burned at properly chosen constant
voltage, they will not change appreciably in many
hours As for the standard lamps, they are used
only for few minutes time in awhile, and
usually last many years.
These lamps are kept for no other purpose than
to maintain and preserve unit OF light 1t Will
be understood, then. that, Just the United States
has exact standard of length, which IS a bar OF
metal representing meter. and an exact standard
of weight, which is cylindrical piece of metal
representing kiogram, likewise it possesses
standard of light. which is the average
of large number of electric lamps.
From what has already been said, it will be under
stood that there IS no recognized unit OF candle
will be established by Government authority, which
will be accepted by electrical experts, by the people
that make illuminating gas, and by everybody else,
as an exact standard But meanwhile resort IS mad
to the temporary expedient of taking a standard
the average illuminating power OF large number
OF lncandesCent lamps
When lamps of this kind are tested for manu-
facturers, each of them is compared with
lamp exactly representing this average illuminating
power, which is the temporarily accepted unit.
Such tested lamps, thereupon, go back to the
makers, and used by them to determine the
candle power of the lamps of their regular output
OF 1t necessary for each manufacturer to
have these tests made every now and then IN order
that his lamps, which usually of sixteen candle
power, roughly speaking, shall be kept as close to
the standard possible.
Every year the United States Government buys
about three million incandescent lamps tor its own
use, in federal buildings, warshps, and IN all
sorts of places These have to be officially tested,
and the work done at the Bureau OF Standards IN
Washington, where sample lamps out OF every lot
examined and rated in respect to candle power
by comparing them. in the man
that has already been de-
scribed with called working -
Standards which represent the "
average illuminating power of ~
large number of such lamps. GSG ~1
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made a successful campaign Tor Governor out IN
Minnesota when he away over the two hundred
mark. Long before William E. Mason left the
United States Senate he had reached two hundred
and forty A United States Fat Mems Club could
include Supreme Court Justices. cergymen of fame
politicians from every city, editors. writer's business
men, milhonaires brokers, by scores.
The Thin Mans Protest
RUT, the thin protests. think how much more
- work these could accomplish if they Were
not hampered by their corpulence
lust stop minute! Could the magnificent
cheering work that has added to Governors
expedtiously than it has been? Yet Colonel
William L. Marshall, L. S A., chief of the river and
harbor work in New York is three hundred
FOUNDER. Could William Allen White have told
any better than he did what the matter with
Kansas, if he had weighed a hundred pounds less
than two hundred and fifty: Where is the thin
man that could have made the marvellous round the
world trips that William H. Taft has made. and
have accomplished much in short time?
Could President Roosevelt be any strenuous
if he weighed less:
You know it is all true. every word of it. All
the ests you make about fat men are inspired by
jealousy. When YOU want to borrow money, when
YOU want to ask a favor, YOU go to your fattest
friend; of course you do!
But if you keep on getting fat, you'll die OF
apopleSy'
You can't worry us with that. Nothing
worries fat He has learned that the troubles
his laughing now Apoplexv. What of it Waking
up dead beats the long lingering illness that kills off
the thin folk. Anyhow, when the apopexy hits
him. the fat man will have had twice much fun
with half the worry, that the average has.
Blessed is the fat man.
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X7ANTED, measure of candle power! The
w amount of light given by candle is one of
the puzzles of modern commerce and industry. An
electric incandescent lamp is said to be of many
candle power. On the family gas bill. which comes
in about the first OF every MONTH it is stated that
the average illuminating power furnished was
such and such number of candles The term is
with which everybody is familiar
But what is candle? Nobody seems to know.
The candle of the electricians, used unit of
reckoning in their business, is not quite the
the candle of the gas companies Even if one
applies for information on the subject at the Gov
eminent Bureau of Standards, which is the official
of authority in such matters, cannot get
a satisfactory answer. He is told merely that
there are several lamps that used standards
of candle power and that Uncle Sam has not def
nitely accepted anyone of them
This fact has led many people to suppose that we
have no official standard in this country for the
measurement of light. Quite the opposite, how
is the Our standard, will presently
be shown, is definite and exact any in exis-
tence. But there is no one Unit of candle power
universally used in the United States Such a
unit the Bureau of Standards is most anxious to
have adopted; and, of still greater Importance, it
is deemed, would be an international unit of the
kind, which should be recognized and accepted by
all the nations of the world.
The necessity of exact standard of light seems
to have been recognized first in 1900, when the
physicist Bouguer said THE readiest way to meas
the intensity of light is to find out the number
of candles required to give the amount of
illumination" This was very simple and obvious;
but it seems not to have occurred to Bouguer that
there candles and candles. Candles made
of various materias,-wa parafln, tallow, etc
and they of different sizes Wicks vary, like
wise. Thus the term CANDLE as measure of
luminous intensity, is nexact.
In 1900 there introduced in France for the
purpose of measuring light the Carcel lamp, named
after its inventor which at the present day is
recognized as the standard in that country 1t
burns refined COLA oil, at uni
form rate of forty-two grams an
hour and furnishes an umina-
ton equal to about ten English
* ~ sperm candles. Great Britain uses
L. ~ tor the same purpose another kind
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DuTns ref1ned COLA OIL, at UNI
form rate of forty-two grams an
hour, and furnishes an illumina-
ton equal to about ten English
sperm candles. Great Britain uses
tor the same purpose another kind
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-06
CUpID'S DARTS
went ASTRAy
THREE COUPLES WOULD SEEK
SEPARATION FROM MARRIAGE
vows IN COURT.

Among the new petitions filed with
clerk of the district court in the past
few days are divorce cases in which
the wife seeks legal separation from
her lord and master principally be-
cause he was a lord and master and
the bonds were unpleasant beyond the
days of honeymoon.
In petition for divorce filed by
Manda Martha Ford against her hus-
band of two weeks Arthur Ford, the
plaintiff alleges that she was mar
ried against her will and when she
was not in possession of her proper
faculties. She alleges in her petition
that the defendant got her in an in
toxfcated condition and securing a
marriage license had the marriage
ceremony performed. She also claims
that she has not lived with her hus-
band as his wife and seeks to be sep
arated by law.
w. H. Bidinger filed petition for
divorce from his wife Lizzie Bidinger.
The charges alleged to support the
petition are of the statutory kind
Minnie Tennyson seeks divorce from
John Tennyson on the grounds OF
uCSci IioH, cruel anu liluulndh lloat'
ment and refusal to provide for her as
his wife. Minnie claims in her petit
ton that they were married at Golden,
Jefferson county, Colorado, August %,
1908, and lived together as husband
and wife until October 7, 1908. That
Tennyson deserted her in Denver on
that day leaving her 700 miles from
home and in possession of but $1.50
Alimony is asked for in the petition.
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SIGOURNEY.

Sigourney-W. H. Richardson made
q business trip to Oskaloosa on last
Saturday morning and spending the
day there went in the evening to What
Cheer to Join his wife who had gone
directly there from here home here
on Saturday morning, and together
they visited at the W. r. Hollings |
worth home over Sunday.
Many of the teachers of the county
finished taking the autumn examine
tion on last Saturday. The examina-
tons were held in the high school
building.
Miss Ethel Rhoades went Hayesvilia
Saturday morning to visit among old
friends and returned here Monday to
be In attendance at the teachers in
stitute.
George B. Baker, Mrs p Engel-
dinger. Mrs w. B. Armstrong AMI
Ray Williams were among the He'd
rick chautauqua visitors from this
place on last Saturday.
Gale McWilliams passed through the
city Monday on his way to South Eng
lish to visit relatives.
William Haslett returned from Chi
cago on last Saturday where he had
| two operations performed on one of ms
eyes, to remove cataract. The day OF
his return was Just two months from
the time he went for treatment. He
says he has not received the benefit
| from the trip that he had expected but
has hopes that his sight may clear up
more yet
The union services in the park on
| last Sunday evening were In charge OF
Rev. c. N. Pace Of the M. e. church
and good crowd were out to hear
his good sermon. On next Sunday
evening the services will be in charge
Of Rev. George. of the Presbyterian
church.
| George Utterback, Of Ollie. was cali
ing on a few Of his many friends here
! Sunday.
Capt e. Miller made a trip to OF
tumwa last Saturday morning and re-
/ turned in the evening with DR.. A. E
| Winship. On Sunday afternoon these
two gentlemen, Mrs. Capt. e. Miller
| and Mrs w. B. Armstrong drove over
to Hedrick where DR.. Winship deliver,
| ed lecture as a part of the after"
moons program.
Word was received here Sunday OF
the death of Fritz Wickencamp the
sixteen year old son of Chris Wicken
camp, Of Burlington. The Young man
| died Of consumption. His funeral was
| to be held on Tuesday morning, and
| John Wickencamp, carrier of rural
| route number one, left on Monday
morning to be present The family of
i Chris Wickencamp used to be resi-
! dents Of this place.
i Marsh Herrick. of Webster, was a
visitor in the city Monday afternoon.
q Miss Patti L. Follman returned from
4 Valparaiso on Monday evening where
she had put in twelve weeks work
!. at the summer school.
Marsh Swails of webster, was o
business caller in the city Monday
Frank Yerger has stirred up ths
! fishing fever among the residents OF
! this place by his recent success Mon
day afternoon he came to the city witt
! seventy eight good sized fish, some OF
them weighing seven pounds each H.
has camp on the river and does his
fishing at night. He returned to Try
to repeat the experience last night.
Normal is in session at the high
school building with fair attendance
Monday was the first day and was
registration time, Saturday will close
the work for this wear.
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Obituary


y y y y
julius 9. Baker was born at Farm
ington, Iowa, July Is, 1S47. Died Aug
ust /, 1908, aged 81 years and IL days.
He served three years in the Civil
War, his time having expired he again
enlisted in Co. l. 18th Regular Volun-
teers April 10, 1864, and served until
the close of the war, being discharged
August 5, 1865, having served his coun-
try faithfully and Loyalty during these
years of service.
He was united to Elizabeth McMann
August %, 1898.
Mr.. Baker came to his death by ac-
cident. He had been over the river to
the north side to see some of his old
comrades, when returning he was
struck by switch engine while
crossing the tracks Mr.. Baker had
been resident of Ottumwa for Is
years. He was member of the South
Side G.. A. R. A friend to the widows
and the orphans and had gathered
about him a wide circle of friends dur
ing his earthly pilgrimage.
He leaves sorrowing wife, one
brother, one sister and large number
OF friends to mourn his loss
Funeral services were conducted
from the Davis street Christian church
Isaac Elder officiating. A great many
of the Old Soldiers with large num-
Der Of citizens and friends gathered to
pay their last tributes of respect. In
terment in Ottumwa cemetery.-Con
tributed.
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Burgeson and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. H. Anderson and Alex. Ander-
son went to Ottumwa Sunday to at
tend the funeral Of Fred w. Peterson,
whose death occurred on last Friday
morning. He died of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Alex. Peterson, Of South OF
tumwa, returned home on No. Tues
day evening after short visit with
relatives near here.
Several from around Dudley attend
ed chautauqua in Ottumwa last week.
DR.. Diller, Of Ottumwa, was in this
neighborhood on professional business
one day last week
Mrs. A. e. Gustavison spent a few
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DUDLEY.

Dudley.-G. r. Peterson started ou-
threshing for the season south of here
last week. The wheat crop is very
good this year but the oats is un-
usually light.
Mrs. Alfred Peterson and baby, re-
turned Monday evening on No from
Kent and Creston where they had
been to visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson Lomis came
UP from Ottumwa on No, 9 Monday.
Claude Baker is visiting at the
parental d. w. Baker home, south OF
here this week.
John Peterson and family. Gus:
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FAIRFIELD.

Fairfield.-J. E. Roth, who has been
president Of the Iowa State Savings
bank in this city since Its organiza-
ton, resigned his place Monday even
ing. His resignation was accepted by
the directors and Joseph Rickshef
Ricksher has also been connected with
the bank as stakeholder and director
since 1t was founded While Mr..
Roths resignation at the present time
was unexpected, it has been known
that he contemplated retiring from
active business life.
Burt Goodhue took $3.50. a razor and
a knife from the home Of Frank Nc
Cor1nick at Beckwith and is now
larceny in the county jail, where he
was sent by Justice Wilson. All but a
dollar Of the money was recovered
when he was arrested. Goodhue en-
tered plea Of guilty..
Mrs. Marshall Chilcott and Miss
May Fisher will entertain the pupils
of the primary class of the Methodist
Sunday school Thursday afternoon on
the church lawn.
ploy Of local furniture and undertake
ing firms, Ell. E. Donaldson has re-
signed his position with F. D. Ker-
rick & Co., and will go to Mendoza.
ILL.,, where he has secured employment
with firm Of undertakes.
The banks of Fairfield will close
every afternoon during the Fairfield
chautauqua. which commences August
IL, with the exception of Saturday
afternoon, August Is.
The ChautauQua association Is
rebuilding the ticket office at the parl,
and expect to have 1t completed sever
al days before the opening of the as
sembly. The new building is to be
of concrete blocks and will be mort
conveniently arranged than the ole
one. The one building was destroyed
by fire two months ago.
Work of remodeling the RisF
building at the northwest corner o.
the square was commenced Tuesday
The building Is now occupied by thu
Hufstedler and Baker and by DR.. w
Fordyce. A new front of enamelet
brick and marble Will be put In ane
another story will be added at thu
rear, making 1t full two stories. New
shelves will be put in the interior o
the store and more windows cut q,
the Broadway side of the building.
Haze q uice noforjst whp hnouua MS
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of the families represented that the
arrangement of the animals be the
same day after day. II the lion cage
is first, the monkey cage next, the po-
lar bear next, the seals next, the hip
popotamus next, the ocelot next. the
tigers next, and so on down one side
Of the mammoth menagerie tent and
back on the other one day, the same
arrangement Is necessary after that.
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j To those who art lettering on the
circus ground when the magnificent
parade of the Carl Hagenbeck & Great
Wallace Shows returns to Ottumwa
Aug. IA, 1t may appear that the mas
sive cages and dens of animals are
placed Unfortunately in the menag
erie tent, but this is not the case. 1t
is absolutely necessary for the peace
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days at the John Peterson home near
here last week.
A party of about twenty-five young
people living In and about the neigh-
borhood Of Munterville, went to ths
river last Sunday picnicking. Tho
day was spent in fishing and rowing
A general good time is reported.
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Many a six-cyltnder car is the sub
stance Of things owed, the odor OFF
things not seen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-06

Motorings improve the lune 4u
have to shout to make the !,
hear.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-06

The acme Of politeness, when your
hosts car breaks down, is to persuade
him your rather walk anyhow.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-06

He's wise motorist who knows his
own machine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-28

The petition was signed by James
G. Hamlen, Elias Thomas, Jr., Ammi
Whitney, Edward A. Noyes. Harry
Butler, Edward Woodman, George F.
Duncan, Joseph r. Libby, James f..
Marrett, Philip J. Deering and Charles
r. Cressey. who took the ground that
Mr.. Heath's fee of s50,OO0. Mr.. Moul-
tons of $3116.90, Mr.. Haskelrs of $500
and Mr.. Looney's of $4,000 are excess
sive. They did not question the good
faith of the trustees, but did question
their judgment.
H. NJ. Verrill attorney for the Pc
tiioners, stated today tina the petition
ers would not appeal from the decision
of the court and that the matter will
be dropped The trustees We're asked
if the checks, which have been held
two weeks. would now be forwarded.
None of them cared to say yet, and it
is likely that they will meet informal
ly before such action is taken. The
checks have been held two weeks, not
by order of the court, but through
courtesy to the petitioners.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-28

was finished with Smthfield Girl first.
Alcy Bell second and Pilot Nelson.
lrlncc Louie. Daniel O'Dell and Fred
H. coming in the order named
tn. second heat of the 2.25 class
trot. 2.2S pace was taken by Louise
Eashford. the bay mare not being
headed once during the heat Nelsie
s. after making a sharp bid for Sec
ond place. broke in the stretch and
dropped to third, leaving Coquette
SeCol.u.
\ pretty start was made in the second
heat of the 2.1S class trot. 2.21 pace. but
at the first turn the horses were strung
out with Omera. driven by Waite lead
ing. At the quarter. with distances
about equal, The Lover made a gain and
was Il close second at the half. The pace
was too inuch for Omera and the bay
mare gave up at the three-quarters pole,
leaving The Lover an easy jog home to
the finish.
The most sensational heat of the after
noon mp to this point was the second heat
of the 1.23 class trot, 90 pace, which
was the next heat raced While Smith
field Girl was n winner, the result was in
doubt every moment of the time, Hayden.
driving Alley Bell forcing matters for the
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Reports Of Activity in Many
Lines Of Industry.
Factories in Various Sections
OF the Country Start Up.
Railroad Business Improves...BIg
Steel Contracts Placed.

Adams, Mass. Aug. ALPHABETICALLY
a full recovery from the industrial de-
preston which first manifested itself
some eight months ago, particularly
IN the cotton manufacturing ccnters,
will be recorded in Adams next Mon
day, when several of the big plants
of the town will enter upon their first
weeks of full time in many months,
joining those others which have all
ready returned to the regular schedule.
The one big industry which seriously
felt the depression of businsS stagna
ton was the Arnold Pring Worsk,
which was placed in the hands Of a
receiver at the height Of the depression.
The Eenfrew Manufacturing Co.
With a great accumulation or ders on
hand. this week operates all hands for
the first time since April. The Berk
shire Cotton Co. sometime ago replac
ed the full time schedule. and the
Adams Wooden Co. next Monday viii
rut into effect a system of night and
day operation, whereby its output for
time will exceed the usual amount
by one-half.