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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10
FARSON.

Farson.-W Walter Jones of Ottumwa
was caller in town the first Of the
week.
V. S. Beall and family were visiting
with friends and relatives at Sigour-
ney the first of the week
Mrs. H. G. Richardson and son
Harold returned the first of the week
from Sigourney where they have been
visiting.
Rex Hawthorne was business call
er in Ottumwa Friday.
Bert Riley and family were visiting
in Comnetine Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10
When Your Joints are Stiff

and your muscles sore from cold or
rheumatism, when you slip or sprain
a Joint. strain your side or bruise
your side or bruise yourself, Painkiller
will take out the soreness and fix Won
right In jiffy. Always have it with
you, and use it freely. The oldest, the
cheapest, and the best medicine for in
ternal and external aches and pains in
man is Perry Davis Painkiller, and for
over seventy years it has been the
great standby for emergencies in
thousands of families all over the
world. Don't go home without a soc.
or one Of the new size 35c botz
uea.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10
THE WAY TO ENLARGE IOWA.

Noting that someone in northern
Iowa has sent out circular letter
calling upon the people for general
to enlarge Iowa by extend
Ing the boundaries of the state, an ex-
change is reminded of the inefficient
man who unon finding out that his
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10

President Wilson Of Princeton sees
a growing disposition to look upon
a university as sort of vanishing
room, where the young man may be
coated more or less thinly with We
neer and polish and hung up to dry
and be admired by his fellows as one
who has been through college,"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10

The Chicago Tribune believes it
would be of interest even at this late
day to know just what Mr.. Hopkins
thinks of direct primaries as an aid in
electing United States senators.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10

Noting that Federal Judge Quarles
of Wisconsin has decided that wom-
ans hair is the chief feature of her
beauty, the Chicago Inter Ocean OBJ
serses that she is adding to her beauty
daily.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10
From Tribune of June 6.
UNEMPLOYMENT,


The matter of insurance against un-
employment is to be taken up in ear
nest in Great Britain. The United
States and other great industrial ma
tlons have at almost all times more or
less unemployed workers, but the sit
uatlon in Great Britain is worse than
anywhere else, and there are no signs
of Improvement 1t is generally agreed
that a remedy must be applied. Leg
islation to that end will be introduced
at the next session of parliament.
Seven large industries are to be
taken in hand. The men engaged in
them and their employers will be
obliged to make contributions to a
fund which will be supplemented by q
state grant. When the worker has
lost his job through no fault of his
own, he will apply to one of the labor
exchanges which are to be established
forthwith, and if work is not found
for him through the agency of the ex-
change an allowance will be paid him.
That will prevent the breaking up of
his home and the possible destruction
of his usefulness as laborer.
Something could be done through
the joint action of employers and EN-.
ployes to mitigate the hardships of the
inevitable dull seasons. If an ar
rangement were made for working
longer hours when there was rush
of orders and shorter hours when or
ders fell off, smaller number of men
would be required in particular
trade There would not be those sur
pluses of labor which signify so much
distress in dull seasons. However,
willing employers might be to agree
to such an arrangement, it would not
accord with the policy Of labor unions.
They do not approve of anything which
may diminish the number of men
needed in a trade at particular time,
as longer hours would.
That is well understood in Great
Britain. Hence it is necessary for the
state to attempt to deal with an ulcer
which is weakening the productive
capacity of the nation. Unless men
temporarily out of employment can be
carried along until better times come,
a considerable percentage Of them
will degenerate into wastrels. They
should be saved for their own sakes
and that of their country.
1t will be seen from the above Il
hundreds of thousands are hungry, {
lief will make aims takers out Of all
Germany, which has high protective
unemployed, for the German ia,
| the German industries give the Gerl
AS result, immigration from Germs
There is certainly much food fol
articles above reproduced.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-06-10
From Tribune of June 7.
THE BEST EXPLANATION.

Golfers Weekly, commenting brief
ly on the closing of two American
theaters in which German plays were
produced, says there is at least one
explanation which Is true 1t is that
Germans who emigrate to the United
States usually have some knowledge
OF the English language and American
life, and before long speak English
with fluency and adopt American Gus
toms. In the opinion Of Golfers
Weekly, the closing of German thea
ters grows from the same causes
which make of German Immigrants
such excellent American citizens.
There is another and truer explana-
tion. 1t is the wonderful Industrial
growth of Germany. The country
which once gave the United States so
many excellent citizens gives it only
a few now. Between 1901 and 1907
there came only quarter Of a million
instead of the million or more who
would have come if there had not
been such an incessant demand for
labor in Germany. That is why the
United States cannot draw on Ger
many for trained artisans, sturdy
farmers, and professional men to the
extent it once did.
If the tide of German immigration
had kept up German plays would still
be given in many American cities, Chi.
cago included, and the audiences
would be large. AS Golfers Weekly
says, many children born here of peo.
pie who came from the fatherland can
neither read nor talk the language OF
their parents. The German theate1
does not appeal to them. 1t has tc
depend for it's support on immigrants
reared in Germany, and they, unfor
tunately, are coming only in small
numbers.
lat in England, free trade country,
Ind the plan suggested for their re.
of them. On the other hand, in
!, toriff y,o do ro+ ro,l 80 =. n
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
CHILD TOlLERS BEND THEIR PUNY BACKS
in VICE PRESIDENT SFIERMANS CANEERIES
Womans Charges Against Him Proved by Correspondent
of The Press-Of Course He Needs the Money, and
That Funny Twist in the New York Law" Helps Him
and Keeps Police Away.

I the rest of the reformers," said
Mr.. Sherman.
! Now listen to the self satisfying,
conscience soothing explanation of
why the vice president of the
| United States allows children to
| work for him.
About eight years ago." ex-
| planned Stanton Sherman, a labor
commissioner by the name of Te-
cumseh Sherman, who was no rela-
tive of mine, obtained ruling from
the attorney general that If chill
dren under 16 worked in sheds
where there was no machinery,
they might be granted employment,
because sheds aren't factories
In sheds, for all the Jaw says
against it, children may bend their
weak backs in toll; may strain the
sweetness and childish beauty out
of their tiny faces in the race for
blood won pennies; may spend in
grinding toll the hours which the
school board has set asid for vaca-
ton and which God intended them
to use in play.
In sheds they toll, therefore,
right alongside the canning factory.
And the energy given them to use
In play is being used by James
Schoolcraft Sherman, vice presi-
dent of the United States, in get
ting more money into his own pock-
cts.
The law can't reach the Sherman
brothers.
What could policeman do, for
instance, in the case of Alice Aus
tin?
She was breaking off the ends of
string beans, when l saw her, squat
ting beside her mother in the
Sheds"
Her tiny fingers were lacerated
and the nails were worn down with
her work.
The camera man photographed
her. The factory superintendent
saw the camera and entered the
shed. I saw him hurry away and
give orders to the foreman, John
Kennett.
In moment Kennett went to
where Alice and her mother were
working.
Stop working" he said to the
girl. GO on out"
She looked up at him, puzzled,
but finally unwound herself, shook
a cramp out of her legs and went
away.
He doesn't pay me-" said Alice
afterward But l go there every
day and help mamma. She gets the
pay for what l do.
Il don't know why he told me
to go away. He never did that be-
fore"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Did You Think 1t
Over?
That proposition of meat quail

That proposition of meat quail
ity."
You can't be too cautious, nor too
choice, when it comes to ordering
meats for your table.
What everybody wants is the
best.
Most families have their one par
ticular meat cut, and they want the
same piece in every order. They
usually order it from the A. & X.
The A. & X. will take the utmost
care with your meat orders. You
can always get the kind of meats
you want, delivered in the proper
condition If you will call Main 447.
Fish, fruit and vegetables are here
in excellent condition. Ask the A.
& X. to tell you of their daily spe-
Gals. They always have some very
pleasing meat specials.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
BY w. G. SHEPHERD.

l
Special Correspondence to The Press
SYRACUSE, N. Y. Sept. A.
James Schoolcraft Sherman, for
merly called Sunny JIM" vice
| president of the United States, has
been charged by Florence Kelly
secretary of tn National Consum.
ers' league, with employing chill
dren in his canning factories.
The charge is true
The New Hartford Canning Co.,
operated by the vice president and
his brother. Stanton Sherman, does
allow children to work in it's fac
tories.
Children under the age of 16 toll
during the school vacation months,
when peas, beans, tomatoes and
corn are ripe.
Their tiny fingers, soaked in the
juices of raw vegetables and bitten
with their acids, ply like lightning.
Their childish faces are tense with
labor and the straining rush of
piece work. Their handiwork goes
into the big factory and from the
hoppers Is turned into cans that
are later covered with brilliant
labels.
Their product enriches James
Schoolcraft Sherman, vice presi-
dent of the United States, and en-
ables him to keep pace with his
select companions in Washington
In fact, it first enabled him to get
into such company as Uncle Joe
Cannon affords.
1t will not do you any good to
get mad about Sherman child labor.
Sherman isn't breaking the law;
goodness, no.
But he's coming as near it as he
can. Corporations have a way,
sometimes, of doing many evil
things within the law. That's why
| they even make some or the laws
| themselves.
A shed" isn't a factory" That's
why Sherman can hire children.
Sherman, vice president of the
United States, has taken advan-
tage Of ruling of the New York
attorney general that greatly
pleased the great, heartless, pros
porous canning companies of New
York when it was rendered eight
years ago.
why, We stay within the law
when we hire children between IA
and 16 years DID," Stanton Sher-
man said, after had presented to
him the charge of Miss Kelly,
backed by what l knew myself.
But Miss Kelly says the factory
law doesn't permit children to work
in factories l suggested.
Florence Kelly is a crank like
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
YES, CROPS ARE FINE;
ONION CROP COLO MINE
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
GAINESVILLE, o., Sept Gas
soon as a stranger gets off the
train here he detects a peculiar
odor. Should he travel a few miles
north, where Lake Erie breezes are
unrestrained, the odor increases
and becomes familiar.
"Onions!"
On the narrow strip of land be-
tween the railroad and the lake
beach there are more onions grow
ing than in any other part of the
country, and this week the onion
harvest, one of the most peculiar
of farm operations, is on with a
rush.
Government reports show that
this summers crop will be about
100000 bushels, and its value will
be not much less than 3,150. 900.
1t is an average crop.
Onions require ''mucky' soil, or
sandy loan, and the onion belt
is at it's best from Lorain, o., east
to Erie, Pa, the strip of lake Dor
dering onion lands varying In width
from five to 20 miles.
The onion raiser is lulled to sleep
by the knowledge of large profits
ahead and the familiar odor of his
| stock in trade.
| Il never knew man who raised
onions to be unhealthy" said Wal.
| lace L. Baker, the worlds biggest
onion shipper, here.
Mr.. Baker this season is shipping
several cars a day to big hotels and
| groceries in New York. He has $50
acres out, and they will bring him
in at least 100000.
Some people pretend they don't
like onions, but you'll find that nine
out of ten will eat an onion If they
know nobody will smell it," he
| added. Nowadays, by picking the
right soil, we can raise white on
ions that are as luscious as apples
No hot taste at all
| There's a field OF EN-" and he
| pointed out an expanse of waving
onions that would yield, he said
about 400 bushels to the acre.
| After the white onions are har
vested, the red, or Wethersfield va
riety, are sent to market. Wagon
after wagon comes into gainesville
Orrville, Unionville, Perry and Mad
ison, where the crop is delivered
to warehouses.
These buildings are to the onion
crop what the grain elevator is tc
the wheat crop. Long rows of poul
try netting run horizontally along
the building. The onions are LAID
out on this wire where they retair
their shape and are "cured." A
blind man can locate one of These
warehouses from a three mile
radius.
The onion farmer raises one croI
a year and has no cares. His sol
lis the foundation Of his wealth, be
cause onions are successful,
raised only on soils peculiarl,
adapted for them.
The department of agriculture
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
= q q . = . . = 80 .
STUFFED ONION
, HOW TO MAKE 1T q

. Boil several large onions; =
. when cooled cut out the =
. hearts. Stuff with any kind q
. of chopped meat, highly sea- =
. soned. To each pint of meat q
. add one egg and two-thirds of .
. cupful of milk or cream. =
= When the onions are filled, .
. place a small piece of butter q
q on each. Cover with crumbs .
. and bake an hour. Serve with .
. cream sauce. =
. . . . . = . . . = . . . . = .
, figures that the Commercial onion
| growing belt" starts in Massachu-
sets, extends through New York
and Ohio into Illinois and Indiana,
ending in Wisconsin and including
portion of Michigan.
Homes of onion farmers in the
northern belt look more like sub.
urban residences of well to do city
men. The onion grower is a pc
culiar sort of farmer-as peculiar
as his crop is. He has nothing much
to do in the winter, so the northern
Ohio growers are going in" for
fast horses. Every home is thanked
! by big barn-not for onions-and
the streets of small towns are filled
with handsome vehicles drawn by
thoroughbred stock When there is
racing in the vicinity, towns in the
''Onion belt" are deserted.
gainesville people are proud of
their onion supremacy. One of the
most imposing homes in the city
has a. beautiful flower bordered APP
/ proach to the entrance. Geraniums
of brilliant scarlet mark the path,
and on either side of them are rows
of seed onions, placed there both
for utility and ornament The seed
will provide the crop of green on
/ ions in the spring; in fact, the on
ion seed grower is quite as active
as the onion raiser hereabouts.
With the western farmers 1t has
been a continuous, though winning,
fight to get money out of the soil.
The onion grower has no such
fight. He gets more money out OF
one acre than a wheat raiser gets
out of 10, and has no winter wor.
ries.
That is why the region around
here is prosperous and contented
The onion men got tired of saloons
They kicked the saloons out. They
wanted parks, SO they built them
Natural scenery and beautiful riv.
ers abound in the "onion belt" sc
the onion farmers bought high pow.
cred motor boats to ride in after
the days chores.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
WOMAN'S HAT IS
NAMED FROM COOK
(1y United Press.)

CHICAGO, Sept. CDR. Freder-
lex Cook, discoverer of the north
pole, and the only man to stand on
the crest of the globe, today was
likewise elevated to the tipmost,
topmost pinnacle of fame. The Ma
tional Millinery association in SEES
sion here named hat for him.
The creation designed to add ad-
ditional distinction to his name is
a huge mass of headgear two feet
high, Is MEASURED from the center
of the rim to the crown. 1t is COW
cred with black fur, while a white
aigret, representing the pole, bris-
ties from the top.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
TURKISH BATH PARLORS
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS

We will be open early next month
with the finest bath parlor in the
northwest. We are spending a lot
Of money to make it the best
Watch for the opening announce
ment. Spokane Turkish Baths, cor
ner Of First and Stevens. **+
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Normal School

The fall session of the Holy
Names Normal School opens
Sept. s, 1909. 1t will be under
the same management as in for
mer years. The Academic Class
es will be resumed on Sept. 8,
1909. The Primary and Gram
mar Grades of Holy Names
Training School and the Music
Glasses Of Piano, Harp, Violin
and Voice Culture will be re-
sumed Sept. 7, 1909. Apply for
year book to Sister Superior.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Second hand tools, sporting goods.
Phone $40. Burch, 222 w Sprague

0COOAAN AiShA SOCio, 0RoA tiAS GOOuS
Phone $40 Burch, 222 w Sprague
$1s00-3-room plastered cottage;
comfortably and nicely arranged
nice lot; pine trees; woodhouse
poultry house and yard; l block
from car; n block from park; 8
blocks to school; inside the ~
mile circle. South Side; good view
and easy terms. No. ITO.
$1300-3-room cottage; pleasant
home; concrete foundation; street
grade, sidewalk and sewer all paid /;
good view. Easy terms; 1h-mile
circle. No. 166.
$16O0-3-reem plastered cottage
lawn and fruit trees; street grade
sidewalk and sewer all in and
paid; ~ block from street car;
blocks to school; fine view. Easy
terms. Inside the 1h-mIle circle
N. T. JOHNSON co.
l and Zeigler Blk. Phone 211S
Open evenings by appointment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06

along the Rio Grande near here.
Fifteen thousand cars were shipped
this year from the three crops.
Mexican gauhcos raise them and
Spanish is the only language
spoken in the onion fields.
The first Toga onion was raised
eight years ago. Texans around
here eat onions three times a day.
They have stuffed onions as a spe.
cial dish, fried onions ON toast for
breakfast and baked onions at
noon. The highest price of Toga
onions this year was $1.45 a bushel
considerably higher than the pre-
vailing figure for northern onions
= 80 = = = q q . . q . q . . 9
= ONIONS A "GOLD MINE" y 4
q RECInE nTLED NDNnC n
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
THE TEXAS CROP.

Special Correspondence to The Press
LAREDO, Tex, Aug. 25.-The
Toga onion has come into the lime
light as the biggest rival of the Ber-
muda. 1t is raised ON irrigated land
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Miscellaneous
4 Real Estate
Opportunities


Wanted - Business people ana
school teachers who can appra.
ciate q first class place to room
and board; just like home; refined
people only; baths, furnace, telei
phone, piano; six minutes wtlk
from Riverside; best accommoda-
tons in the city for the money.
Main 2648. 1924 Howard street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Mr.. r. Scarpelli,
Spokane, Wash.

Spokane, Wash.
Dear Sir: am pleased to re-
port that the macaroni which
we obtained from you both in
the large and small sticks,
known as the Colombo maca-
roni, made by the company of
the same name, of this city, As
perfectly splendid, Just as good
in fact as the imported varieties
which we have heretofore used.
I take pleasure in heartily re-
commencing it to those desir-
ing it for food. Very truly
yours, c. P. THOMAS, M. D.
Spokane, Wash August 10.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Help Wanted--Male
For Rent.

Brockman s'hingle Co. for dry mill
wood: $1.76 load. Phone Max.
1872. 100
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06

One-half interest in AZ room room
ing house, good location on Main
avenue, cheap to right party; man
and wife preferred to assume man.
agement. Mearow Auction Realty
Co., rooms and 6, Daniel block.
Phone $500.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
Attorneys.

Samuel T. Crane. Lawyer. 40 Co
lumbia Bid. Phone Main 93o1.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
BLUEPRINTS

Blue and black line prints. draw.
ings, maps. tracings. Washington
Blue Print Co.. 615 Jameson build.
ing, Phone Main 1920.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
| CLASSIFIED ADS
For Sale.

Furniture for sale at a bargain;
party leaving city. 1905 Summit
Piano costing $3.50; will sell or ex-
change for real estate. 01322 Post
Mare, weight 100, for SIS. 413
S. Sherman.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06
ONIONS a "GOIO MINE"
BESIDE OTHER CROPS

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06

Will sell III lots for the price OF
one lot. Telephone Maxwell
964. II
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06

the first of each and every month
for the next 40 years and pay that
landlord his rent, when you could
make a small payment down and
SIS per month on nice four, five
or six room modern house, and
them after short time, you would
not have to dig any more. We will
sell you one like that. See us. Do
you want homesteads or timber
land or wheat lano or acreage or
lots; $40 down and $40 per month?
Whatever you want, see
A. r. MOORE CO.
Room 16 Curtis Block, Corner Lin
coin and Sprague. Phone, Main 2043
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-06

Choice new furniture. rugs and
pianos; lowest prices In Spo.
kane. 112 s. Lincoln.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-21
AFTER FALL BUSINESS
Many Stores Open Last Evening to
Accommodate Customers In La-
boring Classes.

From this time on large number OF
the stores in the downtown district
will remain open evenings. Last even
ing there was a large number OF
places open for the accommodation OF
customers being fitted out for the win
ter Until the holiday season clerks
will be kept at their posts for long
hours, always ready to accommodate
their customers. The next three
months is the only part OF the year
when the retail houses, as a whole.
are kept open, and there are many
places that will not open for several
weeks.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-21

FOR SALE-Complete moving picture
outfit. electric sign, etc. Address 525,
care Forum.