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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
CARE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.

The department of tuberculosis CT
the state board of control has issued
circular dealing with the need of
proper ventilation and sanitation In
school buildings. The department
holds that health is the greatest con-
Germ of the people and that 1t is vastly
more important to the state that
healthy citizens be sent out of the
schools and colleges than educated
ones. The department states that it
will be glad to make suggestions 10
boards of education or teachers with
reference to the matters mentioned in
the circular, which is quoted in full as
follows:
Now that the schools and colleges
throughout the state are open for the
coming school year the proper care of
the health of the students becomes a
matter of the greatest Importance
Thousands Of children are assembled
daily in buildings which in matters of
sanitation and ventilation may be
classed as bad. Comparatively few
of the school buildings of the state
especially in the country, are properly
constructed from the standpoint of
light, ventilation and sanitation This
being true, it is important that such
methods shall be employed as may be
possible to mitigate the harm arising
from any lack of these very essential
things. Moreover, there is overcrowd-
Ing because of insufficient room, which
makes it doubly important that where
such conditions exist still greater
attention should be paid to the SAM
tary environment of the pupils.
cit may be stated that the ventila-
ton of school rooms is of highest i'm
portance. Where number of chill
dren are assembled for six or seven
hours daily and no system of ventila-
ton is Installed it will be seen that
some method should be devised by SUI
perintendents and teachers to supply
such rooms with sufficient ventilation
SO that the children may have max
tmum amount of pure air. Except in
extreme weather windows may be low
cred and fresh air constantly supplied
without endangering the health of the
students.
"The heating Of school houses very
often becomes problem. In many
instances boards of education have
not examined into the harmful effects
upon students of Initiated air, and it
frequently happens that the janitor,
who may have no technical knowledge
strenuously objects to this opening
Of windows for ventilation purposes.
In any event it is important that the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
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HIS LUGGAGE LEAKED.

An Aberdonian went to spend few
days in London with his son, who had
done exceptionally well in the great
metropolis. After their first greetings
at Kings Cross station. the young
fellow remarked: "Feyther, you are
not lookin' weel. Is there anything the
matter?"
The old man replied: aye, lad, I
have had quite an accident
What was that feyther?'
Mon" he said, ION this journey
frae bonnie Scotland lost my lug
gage"
Dear, dear, that's too bad; 90 did
it happen?"
"Aweel," replied the Aberdonian,
the cork cam DOT. San Francisco
Argonaut..
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

The saying that every knocks a
boost" has proved to be true in the
Cook-Peary scrap. Everybody held
just a little doubt about DR.. Cooks
claims until Mr.. Peary got out his
hammer, and then all doubts were re-
moved and the people went over to
the Cook side OF the case. Peary
might well have stopped after cabling
the announcement that he had found
the pole and reserved his charges
against Cook until such time as he
was prepared to submit proof to back
up his assertions. He seemed to la
Dor under the misapprehension that
the entire world was marking time I'M
til he got back with news of the dis
covery of the pole, whereas most
newspaper readers have looked upon
polar dashes as nothing more interest
ing than good endurance contests
They were as willing to give the hon
ors to Peary as to Cook or to both
of them, but they resented the for
mer's unsportsmanlike behavior and
straw vote taken most anywhere
now will prove that most of the people
want to see Cook get the credit
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

A Richmond. Ind. youth broke the
worlds record for continuous piano
playing by pounding away on the keys
for thirty-six hours just day and a
half. There are some neighborhoods
where that boy would have been over
taken by dire misfortune before he had
got near the finish of his task.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

As the list shoes, the three heaviest
freight producing crops are cabbage
onions and potatoes. Lumber is fourth
UP TO the present time timber has
been cul almost exclusively from wild
land, without much regard to the acres
gone over. But the time is coming
when the yield of wood per acre will
be calculated as carefully as the yield
of corn. and as much thought will be
given to growing it, though not as
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
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THE LOVERS CONFIDENCE.

For the past week the physicians in
charge of one of the sanitariums here
have been dealing with one of the
most puzzling and obstinate cases of
eye trouble ever brought to their no.
tice, says the Pueblo correspondent
of the Mexican Herald. Their suspic-
ion that the subject had nothing the
who had to contend with the principles
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

A contemporary is inclined to grow
boastful over recent news events. 1t
says: If it isn't the Lusitania it is
the Mauritania. If it isn't the Wrights
it Is Curtiss. If it isn't Peary it is
Cook. It's America all the time"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

Santa Fe now make similar claim
These records could not have been
made If the railroads had not spent
millions in improving their roadbed
and Installing safety devices
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

That Evansville man couldn't have
paid nicer compliment than by dis
locating his neck in trying to stare at
two girls as they passed. Not even
an Evansville man would unjoint his
neck rubbering at a homely girl.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

Over in West Duxbury, Mass, a re
ligious sect is putting in all its time
praying and exhorting in preparation
for the end of the world, which it CON
fidently expects to encounter tomor-
row morning. Well, the prayers won 4
hurt them, even if they are not all
swered
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

Advices from Terra Haute are to
the effect that Mr.. Webster, the left
half back Of the Rose Polytechnic in
stitute football team, Is out of the
game with sprained ankle, Mr.
Webster, therefore, achieving promi-
nence as the first football victim of
the season. This may serve to re-
mind those careless people who have
failed to- observe the other signs that
it is high time the cellar coal bin
was filed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
DR.. SlaIIenberQer

The Regular and Reliable Chicago
Specialist, who has visited Ottumwa
since 1903, viii be at
Ortumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
Saturday, Oct. Is, 1909
Zone day only and return every IS
days.
Oct. 10.
"a Bloomfield, Hotel Sax. Thursday,
Abba. Monroe Hotel, Friday, Oct. is.
sigourney, Merchants Hotel, We'd
nesday, Oct. 20.
office Hours, a. m. to 4 p. m.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

A short time ago the Burlington
road announced that during the fiscal
year ending June 80. it had carried
millions of passengers without a fatal
accident. The Northwestern and the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
DR.. w. f. Shallenberger,
766 Oakland Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel State Bank.

in perplexity and finally exclaimed:
Il give it up! How on earth can
they spell the name of this place with
O. K?"-Louisville Post
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
Washington Bureau
of the Ottumwa Courier.

washington ID. C., Sept. %.
President Taft Is getting geared up,
according to some of his admirers for
q fight against the leaders of the SEN
ate, over the tariff board which he has
Just named. The president, 1t Is posi-
lively stated by people who claim to
Know what he has in mind, intends to
mare this tariff board amount to some
thing. Senators Aldrich, Hale, Smooth
and the rest of the leaders, including
the house authorities, were very de-
termined that it shouldn't amount to
anything, and are confident that they
SO framed the law creating it that it
couldn't possibly be of any serious use.
PRESIDENT Taft. it is modestly sug-
geSted, isn't going to be so strict about
Keeping within the letter of this tariff
board law, as he Is about adhering to
the strict dictum of the public land
and conservation statutes. He is will
ing to stretch things bit, in the mat
Yer OF the tariff board; quite bit, in
fact.
Beginning with the Beveridge and
LaFollette measures for creation of
e e1,1,1, g commission the senate finance
committee pared the commission
down by degrees till there was
an irreducible minimum lett of It,
II was positively declared by SEN
ator Hale that the board wouldn't
nave any power or any appropria-
ton to look into comparative costs
OF production in, America and
abroad. That was the particular thing
the h-tariff people seemed most de-
tsrmined to prevent; and the law as
drawn and as interpreted by the men
VINO made it certainly will have to be
violently strained to make it cover
any such investigations.
Nevertheless. President Taft is going
right ahead with Just that sort Of in
designations. Els sponsors as to this
statement. talk as if the We're assured
that Taft was prepared for a regular
oid-fashioned Roosevelt stunt. of doing
Just what the executive liked without
reference to the law. If congress
doesn't like what the tariff board does,
let 1t cast about for g remedy: let it
imneach somebody if it wants to; or
maybe 1t will choose to strike out en-
tirely the provision for maintenance of
the tariff board. Anything it under
takes to do will give the president the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
Lumber Crop Important
Producer of FREIGHT

Washington. Sept 22.-( Especially -
Lumber is one of the chief freight
commodities produced by land. It's
weight per acre surpasses corn, barley,
oats, wheat and rye.
Few people are aware of the care
used by railroads in keeping tab of the
amount of productiveness of land along
their lines from the standpoint of the
amount of freight produced by vari-
Gus crops. Heavier the crops per acre.
the more business for the railroads.
Nor are there many people who think
or lumber as a crop and one of the
most important crops at that, which
contributes large share of the freight
business of railroads.
The quantity of freight produced by
a crop depends upon SOIL region, and
Kind of crop. Railroads figure it from
that point of view. Their profit depends
upon tonnage and class, and they want
to know what crop pays the carrier
best.
Many averages in many localities are
necessary to reach reliable results.
Care is necessary. too, in applying to
one region the figures obtained in an
other Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky
are the center of a vast productive re-
glon, and averages there possess as
much value as those of any part of the
country. but, of course, they cannot
be applied everywhere. An acre is
credited with yial6 nc follo1r,S.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25
AGAINST THE RULES.

There is park policeman in the
service of a western ZOO who is quite
a joker in his way, as is evidenced
by an occurrence in the vicinity of
a large bears den in the zoo, which
lies at a lower level than the grounds
about it and which is surrounded by
railing
One day a visitor while leaning
over this rail, lost his balance and
fell into the pit He fell at the side of
a bear, which at once seized the in
truder's leg in it's mouth, and would
have proceeded to crunch the same at
his leisure had not help Immediately
been summoned.
When the keepers had got the visit
or out of the bears den he was not
much injured, but. naturally enough,
pretty well frightened. His fright
was increased by the action of the po-
liceman, who stepped up to him, say
ing:
you are under arrest"
"Arrest?" gasped the unlucky one,
What for?"
"For violating the rules of the
park" said the policeman. pointing
to the sign over the railing:
"It is Positively Forbidden to Feed
the Animals. "-Harper's Magazine,
Is the Automobile q Bar to Heaven?
Cedar Rapids Republican.-Down in
Keokuk they are having series of re.
yival meetings. A man from Des
Moines, named Lockhart, is conduct
ing the meetings. He has been trying
to say some essential things, but he
capped the climax the Other night
when he told his audience the follow
ing:
Now automobiling in itself is
harmless and invigorating form Of
amusement but there are mighty few
people who sill ever get to heaven in
an automobile. oh, yes, some people
are big enough to keep their religion
and still own an auto, but they are
few"
Many years ago we heard a reviv-
alist tell how young woman had
gone to hell because she had INDUCED
herself with silk dress. That was in.
the days when silk dresses were rare,
very rare, but nowadays silk dresses
have become more common and many
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

Or are you worrying about the com
ing coal bills?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

Isn't this weather simply great?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-25

j. G. welliver.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Mother Hog Kills Fox.

Canton, Mo-, Jan. Fl. - An Incl
dent in the life of Louis Scholtz
near Pink Prairie school house took
placelast week that sounds more in
credulous than the fish stories some
anglers delight in telling. His pig
house is near the Wyaconda, where
there is much water for them. One
night last week stray and hunger
fox in passing took a fancy to a
little piggy in the pen. But old
mother sow was too quick for him
and Selling the gay intruder by the
back, wounded him so badly that
he just managed to crawl-out o.
the pen and expire. The mex
morning Louis found the fo0
and discovered that the sow had {
split ear, which gave evidence OF
fierce struggle. But the little phi
was saved and Louis gave the deac
animal to a neishbor who got S
for the hide.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
The Merchants.
is to-dayi

After the thaw set in the street
crossings in this city became sim
ply vile, for several days.
If the merchants would take the
matter up with the Street Commits
sioner, their stores and stock of
goods would be in far better shape
because the sloppy grit would not
be carried on to their floors and the
feet and skirts of their customers
would look differently and their
tempers would be far sweeter and
they would be much more easily
suited and waited upon.
Mr. Merchant it is Up To You, as
to whether conditions will continue
or not.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Uncle Zeke Says

Wouldn't there be a lot of excite
ment here on erth if sum clear
mornin' we should git up an find
tn sun was an our late?
AS between a chatterin' woman
an a squeaky phonograph give me
tn latter fer it'll run down sum-
time.
The woman that dan't think she's
a prize worth DRAWN in the mat
rimonial lottery amt likely TIL start
emmy argument.
We were put here on this planet
to overcome obstacles for ourselves
but there's a heap of us that find it
easier tn turn tn job over tn law
yers.
No mans really up agin it" til
he's down an out.
Tn poor boy has more chance tn
become a national hero in this
country than anywhere else in tn
world; look at Ty Cobb and Hans
Wagner!
Men that kin live on their own
incomes ginrally are the ones that
don't have tn.
Yeh can't always figure tn ca
pacity of a mans think tank by
takin' sh' measure NV, his bald
spot.
TIL shorn financier may be know
by his beardless face. Journal o
Agriculture.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Another Poultry Report.

Editors Spectator: During the
year 1908 l have sold 1854 dozen
eggs and kept forty dozen for set
ting. These brought me $S0S.68. !
also sold $1,000 worth of chickens
and turkeys, giving a total of 1929,
38. My chickens are of the Leg
horn stock and l live in Marion
county one mile east of Cherry
Dell and two miles north OF
Heather.
Mrs. Adam Shriver.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
A POSITIVE CURE
FOR INDIGESTION

If you have indigestion, your food
ferments in the stomach and bowels.
1t does more; it decays, and the nu-
trious matter which should 90 to
make new bloods decays with it,
and this leads to an impoverished
condition of the blood. to nervous
ness, billiousness, constipation, sick
headache, bad breath which dis
gusts your friends, and other disa-
greeble and unpleasant conditions.
And all this trouble is caused by
the food that doesn't digest, but
fements and oftimes rot in the
stomach.
And fermentation is caused by the
stomach not being strong enough
and energetic enough to thoroughly
mix the food with the digestive
juices.
MONA is responsible for tens
of thousands of cures. In fact, it
is such a positive cure for indiges-
ton and all stomach troubles that
it is guaranteed by L. M. Wood to
cure or money back. The price of
a large box of Mona tablets is SO
cents, and they are sure to prompt
ly relieve the worst case Of indigeS-
ton or gastritis. Try them.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Americans, Take Heed

From The Giant Trust of the
Future" by Earl Mayo, in the Feb
ruary Metropolitan Magazine.
All over the country to-day the
foundations are being laid for a
trust of such vastly greater mag
nitude than any industrial combi-
nation now in existence that the
greatest of these will seem of puny
dimensions beside it. The United
States Steel Corporation, through
its leadership Of one of the most
important of modern industries,
ranks as the most notable manu-
featuring company in the country.
But if all the steel producers were
united in a single combination, it
would snot be worth comparison
with this future trust of which the
first faint beginnings now appear
for the reason that the latter will
dominate all lines of manufacture.
If all the railways were brought to-
gether into a single control, it would
be a development of tremendous
significance, but less significant
than this future combination,
which is even more surely on the
way, for the latter will dominate
transportation.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Sunflower Philosophy.

Gossip is generally a desire to
get even.
Many a woman who succeeds as
a mother, fails as a wife,
A decent, industrious man is as
sure to get along as a loafer and
drunkard is sure to go to the devil.
An unreliable man doesn't believe
anyone is honest
There is considerable co-opera-
tive housekeeping in AtchisonN on
a small scale. The same families
use the same wash boiler, the same
irons, and the same scrub brush.
One woman owns them; the others
borrow.
Henry Merwick is having a lot of
fun out of his children now that
they are little, but after his boys
begin going with the girls, and his
girls begin going with the boys, he
will not enjoy his children so
much.
One of the funniest things we
know about is the cloak model. A
tall, statuesque girl is selected as a
model to try on cloaks for custom
erS. The customers are usually
thin, or fat and dumpy. but when a
cloak looks good and the cloak
model they take it. --Atchison
(Kas) Globe.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
The Menace of Wood Famine.
Roland Phillips, in Success Maya
zine

Roland Phillips, in Success Maya
zinel
To-day TO supply public needs,
and to fill their own pockets, in
dividual eXpioiters are sweeping
away the forests three times as
fast as they grow. This means
that many Of the hard woods are
already gone; that the total supply
of hard wood, which used to furnish
the better-grade furniture, fittings
aud so on, will be exhausted, for
commercial purposes, within fifteen
years; and that the entire wood
supply of the country will not last
longer than twenty-five or thirty
years. It is as though some foreign
invader, or some deadly pest should
suddenly appear on our shores and
ravage the entire forest area of the
country, at the rate of TWO States a
year, until every tree were gone.
Do you imagine for one instant that
as the years go by your interest in
this great question will become
less vital, or less personal, than it
is to-day?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Entertained.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Johnston en-
tertained his Sunday School class
of twenty members Thursday even
ing
AS each member brought one
guest and as it was after the
masque order there was fun and to
spare, for one and all.
Mr.. and Mrs, Johnston make de-
lightful host and hostess and natur-
ally they did not omit one of the
pleasing features, the refresh
ments.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Waywise and Footfree.

Oh, what if a friend plays traitor,
And what if lovers false?
When frowneth the front of
Fate or
The foot of mink Fortune
halts-
Why, then, the man who's a man
in each part of him
Head of him, hand of him, heart
of him
End as the start of him -
Scoring Fortune, the flirt,
Hideth his hurt.
Serene in the battles losing,
AS calm if he wins his fight,
Whatever the gods send choosing
$50 making his own their
might
Undismayed, unafraid, gives me the
flower of him
Faithfully to the last hour of
him
With all the power of him
Flatfoot, face to the front,
Beareth life's brunt.
And whether the day be sunny
Or whether the way be dark,
Be hemlock his cup OF honey,
A tragedy or a lark
Always he knows as he goes, in
the soul of him
Surely he knows in the whole of
him
That TO control of him
Hath Fate: unmaStered aye
Goeth his way.
Owen Terry, in Square Deal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28

Charlie Higgins, formerly of this
city now of Brookfeld, has been
with his Monroe friends 1t may
be that he will again return to
this city and make it his home
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
For Sale

14o acres of we'll improved farm
land 2 l-2 miles southwest of Mon.
roe City. Apply to
Gus Lundberg.
1928 R. F. D. No. 1.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28

F. H. Hagan and wife went to
Palmyra, Saturday to visit DR..
and Mrs. Pearl Abel and to get ac-
oainted with the brand new and
pretty little Miss Abel.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28

The motto at the Stream Barber
Shop is Nothing too good for our
customers"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28

R. F. and H. S. Marshall have
been business visitors in the Bluff
City,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28

R. A. Pitt, mule buyer of Fay
etteville, Tenn. has been spending
days with friends in this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-01-28
Miss Efie Lundberg went to
Payson, ILL.,, Thursday to visit rela-
tives.

Walter Dimmitt and Master Les
lie spent Sunday with his parents
at Shelbyville,