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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16
Burlington Printing Firm suspends.

Burlington, Sept 14.-The Keehn-
Haffner company, one of the best
known printing firms in Burlington,
has suspended through a foreclosure
of a chattel mortgage for $4,000 held
by the Merchants National bank. The
property will be sold to satisfy the
claims. The business will be resumed
by the purchasers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

President Taft may have his trou-
bles, but at any rate he is permitted
to, enjoy his game Of golf without in
reference. The British premier, Mr..
Asquith, however, has to take a plain
clothes guard with him to the links
to keep the suffragettes away.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

Some of Commander Peary's friends
howled because DR.. Cook was accom-
panied only by two Eskimos when he
reached the pole. 1t develops now
that Peary had but one Eskimo as a
companion. Cook seems to be one
Esky to the good in this argument.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

Newspaper readers may expect lot
of sentimental gush about the duke of
the Abruzzi and Katherine Elkins in
the next few days. They are both In
France.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

1t has now been figured out that
Methuselah did not live 500 years, but
only seventy-eight years. Adam, too
is held to have only attained the age
of Is years instead of $50. Why not
let Father Adam and Methuselah hold
their records
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

If it could Just be arranged for the
Ottumwa ball team to play all its
games on the home grounds that pen
nant should be won in a walk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

There can be no doubt that this is
ideal straw hat weather. Therefore,
there is no reason why you shouldn't
wear the lid if you haven't thrown it
away.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16
Anti.Saloon LEAGUE.

A service in the interests of the
Anti-Saloon league was addressed by
G. S. Cooper and Rev. M. G. Barber,
state superintendent.
The latest figures compiled by the
league show the following:
Population of Iowa 80. 2,21o,ooo
Population in dry counties
and cities .....:.... 1,2ss,4so
Population in wet counties
and cities .............. 916,564
Total voters in dry territory 2SO,929
Total voters in wet territory 203,S4O
Majority for no saloon -. 1909
Total majority dry population. ;. 2.3
Total dry territory ..............7 2,5
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16
Straiaht Il. II. Hill.

SIrdignt n. n. Hill.
I'll confess my name is Hiram
Henry Hill. Fellow travelling men and
hotel clerks sometimes call me the al
lucrative II and 1 have some little
fun out of it," declared Hill at a
down town hotel the other night.
Every time a clerk says here
comes Hiram Henry, remember a
scheme Of mine to cause clerks unac-
quainted with me some little worry.
"If you notice, my name is compos-
ed of straight lines entirely, not "a
curved line in it. Hill is all straight, H
is straight and that includes all the
letters when l write my name H. H.
Hill.
zone time l went to hotel and be-
gan writing my name. using only
straight lines. When l laid nine bars
across the page the clerk modestly
inquired what troubled me.
".Oh, nothin', l said, just writing
my name, and concluded the writing
with the cross lines in the HIS and
the bottom of the two LIS. Then
turned the book about and allowed the
clerk to read it. The writing was leg
ible.
w Clly IhII DSdIS lliS, Sclu luC
clerk. You had me going for minute
or two
However, l can't work the scheme
on an old clerk twice. for they all
know me. "-Philadelphia Times.
Archbishop Ryan Fooled.
Old friends of Archbishop Ryan
when they gathered to informally fe-
licitate him upon his twenty-fifth an
niversary as Archbishop of Philadel-
Dhia, recalled some good stories about
him.
One was illustra re of the Arch
bishops fondness for children. He was
taking his daily walk one afternoon
when he saw little boy vainly try
ing to reach a door bell.
The archbishop told the boy to be
of good cheer, and himself reached
for the bell pull and sent changing
summons through the house.
When he turned, the little fellow,
his eyes wide open with anxiety for
his new found friend, exclaimed:
"Run like the devil, mister. I was
playing tricks"
The archbishop was left on the door
step to explain matters. Philadelphia
Record.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

Good roads are like clean house.
They are attractive.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

him. Don't you think we might di-
vide expenses7"
Certainly" said Major D.
Well, then, I'll settle for the car,
said Captain Mark. you pay for the
meals"
Major B paid for the meals,
Lieutenant A for the car, and
Mark paid nothing. York Sun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16

absolute vegetable purity of
A
socald
the time absolutely safe and harmless remedy
entirely the healing cleansing
to purity the blood and the time supply the
and Ulcers Skin Blood
has purified the blood Book containing valuable
blaod
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-16
The CONFERENCE:
Is AT AN END
DIVISION OF DISTRICTS AND OR.
GANlzATloN OF LAYMEN
IMPORTANT ACTIONS.

Winfield, Sept. 14.-(SpeciaD-Th
annual Methodist Episcopal confer
ence which closed here with the an
nouncement of the appointments last
evening, was successful in every way.
One Of the principal features Of tho
meeting was the dividing of the con-
ference by dropping the Keokuk
district and adding the ministers of
that district to the other four. The
laymen had large part in this years
gathering. There were more than one
hundred present and they formed a
permanent organization, adopting a
constitution and by laws and electing
the following officers:
PRESIDENT. M. Beck of Center
vile.
Secretary-L. H. Morgan of Bur-
lington.
Treasurer-W. N. Hall of Fairfield.
Vice presidents-John Wormhoudt,
Ottumwa; r. S. Popham, Marengo;
David Lodwick Mystic, and A, W.
Shearer, Winfield
The reading of the statistical tables
was one of the features of the clos
ing session. The matter reported on
include:
Church Membership.
No. of probationers ......... 1,O35
NO. OF full members ........ 34,576
No. of local preachers ....... 55
No. of deaths 3S2
Baptisms.
No. of children ...... 485
No. of adults " 1.553
Sunday Schools.
No. of schools ...... 312
No. of officers and teachers. 1853
No. of scholars, including
cradle roll and home depart
ment Observation-Disclosures. S2,990
EpWorth League.
No. of senior chapters ...... 1874
No. Of members ........... 1853
No. of junior chapters ....... 40
No. of members ..... 1888
Church Property.
No. of churches ........... $50
Probable vale ...........$ 81 ,313, $50
No. of parsonages ..... 1874
Probable value ...,.... 262,20O
Amount paid on buildings
and improvements ....... 55.062
Amount paid on old in
deptedness .........,. 21,493
Present Indebtedness 1880. 54,119
Sunday Schools.
No. of schools " 3O4
No of officers and teachers ;. 39,973
No of scholars of all grades.
not including cradle roll and
home department ....... 29,463
Average attendance of all
grades .................. 1876
No. of members in the home
department ............ 1896
No. of children on the cradle
roll 1853
Total enrolment in all de-
partments, including cradle
roll and home department,
but not officers and teachers 3O,210
No. Of officers and teachers
| who are church members or
probationers ....... 3,717
No. of scholars, whether at
tendants or members in the
home department, who are
church members or proba-
TONERS ................. 11,4S9
| No. Of members of the Sun
day scnool converted during
the year ............ 1862
Current expenses, lesson
leaves, books, etc .S 14,O20
Collection for board of Sun
day schools:
| (a) Church SAIL
| (b) Sunday gchool ;. 139
$ $50
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
Wanted, An Astronomer.

BY needing the advice of President
Taft as contained in one of the lneon-
s%picuous paragraphs of his recent mes
sage to congress-, the national legisla-
ture can rid the United States of a blot
that makes us a laughing stock among
the nations and can transform one of
our idle investments into a means of
vast service to the scientific world.
All that is wanted is that congress
shall enable the president to appoint
an eminent astronomer as permanent
director of the Naval observatory, So
called. AS the president notes, this is
the most magnificent and expensive
astronomical establishment in the
world. Yet its for scientific
investigation remain idle for lack Of
competent administration, and its
standing is so deplorable that the royal
astronomer of England and the Oxford
professor of astronomy were compelled
to say of it, in passing judgment after
inspection: THE system Of appoint
ing as director a naval officer whose
knowledge of astronomy is limited by
nautical requirements, and changing
him every few years, makes 1t kinder
not to say more until this system is al
erred"
The observatory does for the navy
the routine work of regulating the
scientific instruments needed for navi-
cation of our ships. AS the president
states, such purposes might easily and
adequately be subserved by g small
division connected with the Navy de-
partment at only a fraction of the cost.
But with an eminent astronomer at It's
head the observatory would be bound
to become as famous In results as 1t is
now in equipment. We have taken
the lead in so many things that it
should be a matter Of national pride
that we take the lead also in astronom-
ical investigation, particularly when
all that we have to do is to man com
p~etently the plant already prepared.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
Knell of a Model" Town.

Since the days of the Brook Farm
Experiment several notable attempts at
communistic harmony have been made
in this country, and all have suffered
the same lamentable fate. One of the
latest from the socialistic point of view
was Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall, and
the freshest failure of capitalistic
paternalism is the model town of
Ludlow, Mass.
So fair appeared the surface condi-
ton of things at this manufacturing
hive where corporation control and
proft-sharing had been made the basis
Of operations thai New Englanders
proudly paraded the community be-
fore congress during the recent tariff
session and utilized 1t as a basis of
argument for some of the things that
they wanted at the hands Of the tariff
trainers.
1t now appears that the people of
Massachusetts were dipping themselves,
for all the spirit of harmony fed from
Ludlow soon after congress adjourned,
and for many weeks now there has
been a bitter industrial struggle there,
with 1000 employees on strike. Evio-
ton from the model" homes followedS
and up to date all the efforts Of the
State Board Of Arbitration, as we'll as
those of the labor unions, have been.
R,,4klooa TAo akrflyars xyora arIY,oAJ
to return to work, but in a few hours
marched out again on finding that
5trike-breakers were still employed.
Into the local merits Of this labor
and capital dispute 1t is unnecessary
to go, the point Of this observation
being that in Ludlow, as In every such
endeavor toward a community of in
terests between employer and en-
ployed, the human element is bound
eventually to crop out. So long as
men and women are actuated by the
desire of personal gain, so long will the
spirit of s%elhshness continue to crop
out In all these experiments. Individ-
uality is the keynote Of race, and
every attempt to destroy that unit as
a factor will result in collapse. The
fundamentals at Ludlow were wrong,
Just as they we're wrong at Brook Farm
and Helicon Hall. just as they were
wrong at Pullman n Homestead.
Thus have crumbled all hopes of So
cialistic, communistic and paternalistic
home-making, whenever they have
been put into practice. The individual
and the family will continue to stand
and flourish, but these are distinct
units that never will cohere into
model" towns while human traits
continue to animate the blood.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
PERSONAL NOTES.

President Tart, commoLder-in- chief of the
army and navy, walked seven miles last
Monday. In time of peace prepare for war.
Higher idealists in st. Louis criticize the
use of a hearse in carrying a load to a
fire, as though it was the first offense In
that section.
Europe is particularly strong on boy
kings now, and despite the fact that
Manuel was caught winking at a music
hall dancer, the boys behave pretty well.
Mr.. Bradley, who was the financial
hacker OF the Cook expedition. is said to
be disguised with the whole business. Even
the fact that a lot OF Arctic land that no.
body ever saw has been named for him
does not seem to soothe.
Since the bounce of a Chicago policeman
for cowardice In lodging a robber the
remaining members of the force were quite
chesty about their courage until a frail
photographer put to flight all members of
a station house crew. He had the smallpox,
Henry Ward, a millior aire of Pontiac,
planted 2,OO0 acres Of Crawford county pine
barrens with apple trees a few years ago,
and intended to plant 10000 acres, but his
relatives when he did this made application
to have him declared insane. He was de-
clared sane, OF course.
Joseph Lomax, long a resident of La
porte, Md, but now living with his daugh-
ter In Indianapolis, celebrated his Tooth
birthday anniversary recently. Mr.. LomaS
for many years was a partner with Wilbur
F. Storey In the publication Of the Chicago
Times, He was the first president Of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad.
A noted Jewish educator. DR.. sigmund
] IA ,pnhaNr,.~ 90 Tt-.I,-.Ng Al. -. -
denly December IS while attending services
in the chapel OF the Home for the Jewish
Aged and Infirm. He located In the Ohio
city soon after coming to this country from
Germany as a young man and recently
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his service as professor OF biblical lltera-
ture at the Hebrew Union college, He was
a poet in both Hebrew and German and
was considered a profound scholar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
Preserving the Landmarks.

Remove not the ancient landmark
is a scriptural injunction to whose
value the United States is only begin
ming to subscribe in earnest. Spas
modic efforts at preservation have been
made here and there, the most notable
being in the case Of the Yellowstone,
but the insensate greed Of the utili-
tartan world has wrought heavy dam
age in many spots of beauty and won
der ere the people awoke to a ~realiza-
ton OF the wantonness.
70 The Palisades of the Hudson have
been, saved after years of desultory
lighting, during which commercialism
was steadily at work soaring the no.
Bile features of the Hudson. Similar
destruction Of the famous Delaware
Water Gap has been averted with the
utmost difficulty. Only private enthu-
siasm and ability to pay saved and per-
petuated the Garden of the Gods, which
a wealthy patron has just presented as
a Christmas gift to Colorado Springs.
In the meantime the vandalism of
the Industrial world is making inroads
at our international show place,
Niagara, and it is incumbent upon both
our W government and that of Can
ada to become Immediately energetic
in pushing the plans for preservation,
If we would not see the great cataract
and its surroundings despoiled beyond
recovery.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
The Garbage Question.

The city council should be very care
full in dealing with the garbage ques-
ton. At best, any ordinance it may
adopt or any contract II may enter into
will be merely a temporary ~expedient.
The experience of Omaha with the gar
bage question from the beginning until
the present has been most unfortunate
One experiment after an other has fol-
lowed in futile effort 10 discover some
plan whereby household refuse may be
gathered and disposed Of without plac-
ing the charge directly on the city gov
eminent. Ordinance after ordinance
has been enacted, contract after con-
tract entered into, suit after suit
pushed through the courts, inc always
has the question come around to the
starting point. Nothing has been dis
covered that will relieve the city of the
responsibility or the householder of the
inconvenience that grows out of n
attempt that has been made to substi-
tute for the natural plan some make
ohAAt 0NnOu VI ShAl0bllhB anu ulbpOo-
ing OF garbage. Until the matter is
taken over by the city and properly
controlled under supervision of the
health department the question will be
open always for discussion and the n
noyances and Inconvenience will con-
tinue.
The ordinance at present before the
council is, perhaps, the best that can
be had in the present emergency, but
it does o meet the requirements of
the situation. It's adoption may re-
lieve existing conditions. but 1t is only
a matter of time when something will
arise which will overturn the new plan
and make 1t nesssary to adopt another.
For this reason steps should be taken
to the end that before this disturbance
arises plans will have been matured for
placing the entire garbage question be-
yond the realm of uncertainty. This
can only be done by putting 1t entirely
upon the city government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
WOES OF THE JUROR.
RefOrm in Present an
Urgent Need.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

CEBUAN HSG0
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A writer in Scribner's Magazine dis
cusses the difficulties that beset the jury
man and points out that the treatment &C
corded the twelve good men and true"
is often as lacking in consideration as that
granted to the criminal they are trying.
The pen picture which follows Is not over
drawn:
The Juryman, from his first entrance
in response to the courts peremptory
summons, finds little in his treatment to
Impress him with an idea of special dig
nifty In his position, even II he has no
overt cause of complaint. He is herded
with his fellows, ordered about by the
t~ipstaves or bailL6s of court, addressed in
peremptory tones; some times, II in his UNI
familiarity he Is going the wrong way, he
is grabbed by one of these gentry of the
badge and hustled as II he were the pris-
oner in the dock. He sits in the courtroom
with an ever-present sense, II he be
sensitive, that he must be careful not to
get into trouble; the feeling of liberty Is
gone, he is enveloped in an atmosphere
Of restraint. Really he is placed more on
an equality with the prisoner at the bar
than with the Judge on the bench, yet he
Is as essentially a part of the court as
that august potentste and may nave at
any time u greater responsibility imposed
on him"
Ii the light Of these 1t is SINAI
wonder thai so many men shrink from
doing Jury service. The compensation OF
a Juror is small. II is not infrequently the
case that a trial drags along TOR several
weeks. The Juror more than likely is
serving AZ a personal loss. Most assuredly
he is serving at personal discomfort. As
The writer in Scribner's put II, he is
"herded with his fellows" and were he on
trial for a high crime he would scarcely
be subjected to more rigid surveillance.
II requires some degree of patriotism and
some measure Of self-sacrifice for a good
citizen to serve on a jury. Perhaps that
is one reason why the professional juror
has come to be recognized as something
akin to a necessary evil and why his
presence is tolerated in many courthouses'
The laws, to begin with, are not favorable
to securing the best material for the make
up OF juries. When, in addition, the juror
is treated more like a criminal than a Jaw
abiding citizen and a necessary arm OF
the court, Il Is not unnatural that capable
men should shirk service and that most
turles are no better than they ought to
be and many Of them not as good.
The bar associations and the judicial ex-
perts who are giving so much attention to
reform In the courts and to the laws de-
lays might profitably devote some con
sideration 70 the jury system.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
PASSING OF THE IDLE RICH.
More ExactinR Than Task of
h Hired Man.
New York World.

New York World.
Frederick Townsend Martins statement
that lin ten years the idle rich have prac-
tically disappeared in New York; is en-
dorsed by w. ]. Bryan as the testimony
of the man most competent to speak for
this class, l- aD .-
The statement is, however, no more than
a reiteration of a self-evident fact. II is a
matter of common observation that the
supposedly idle rich are among the most
industrious members Of the community.
When they are not engaged in running
automobiles for records they are busy tool
Ing coaches from Fifth avenue to Arsley or
from London to Brighton, or racing Amer
lean -thoroughbreds on the English and
French race tracks. They play polo, hunt
foxes and follow an exhaustins round Of
sport from Newport to Auteull. Their oc-
casional leisure from these serious pur-
suits is occupied in defending divorce suits.
There could be no greater fallacy than
that time is a burden on the hands Of the
very rich. Few clerks have so much to do.
The young plutocrat who ordered two high
power automobiles before breakfast on
hearing h a friend had received a new
car furnished an example of the rivalry OF
wealth from which nobody who is anybody
in society is exempt. And as with motor
cars 30 with other objects of emulation,
from old masters, II the taste lies that way,
to correspondents.
The contaglon has spread to the other
eek, whose social duties allow-them no re-
spite and for whom there is only a con-
structlve recess between the Palm Beach
Eeason and the spring and fall campaigns
at Lenox or on the Riviera, Their ndus-
,r,r O.. .on, In tIa aua f,nIa Of Tho eOntat,g
leader who has found Il necessary to cur
tail her hours Of sleep to attend suffragist
conferences,>
In place Of reprobation for the mlscalled
idle rich" there should be sympathy with
a class who in Mr.. Townsend's apt phrase
count leisure a dishonor and are working
hard at recreation. For them there is no
sliI pered ease, no %cotter's Saturday night
when the tolls OF the week are over, but
a ceaseless round of inexorable pleasures
which may well excite commiseration
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27

have been crowded with solutions Of
prophylactic surgery, as a result Of
which the profession knows vastly
more than II did Of the dangers of
septic poisoning and how to avoid con-
tamination of the flesh from the micro
organisms which crowd the centers Of
population. The man who can dis
cover precious truths Of healing and
transmit them to posterity is unques-
tionably one Of the greatest Of public
b~enefaotors. and as such the award Of
the Nobel committee has fallen worth
lily upon Prof. Kocher.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-27
HIS
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
1 don't object to dressing up
For dinner every day,
I'm willing II my wife insists
The social game to plays
A butler may be needed, since
l lately struck 1t rich,
But darn these salts and, peppers that
l can't tell which Is which.
l know that women folks are FOND
OF social teas and things,
I've spent whole evenings sitting round
While some strange woman sings;
I'm getting used to tony ways
But habits hard to smother,
And darn the salts and peppers that
You can't tell one from t'other. .
I've learned the silverware by heart
The salad fork i know,
And every rule of etiquette
| mastered long ago;
I'm trying hard to play the part
Required Of one who's rich,
But darn the salts and peppers that
l can't tell which is which.
Hand painted crockery is fine,
And 1t betokens class,
But there are two things, ! opine,
That should be made of glass,
And here ! make a plea for them,
Throw style INTO the ditch,
And give me salts and peppers that
/ know just which is which.