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violence that that river is navigable

evidence that that river is navigable
One of the needs Of the country is a
realization of the value of specific evil
dence as against unstudied personal
opinion.
The fact is, regardless of the per-
sonal opinion Of anyone to the con-
trary, the Des Moines river Is better
adapted to navigation today than ever
before in it's history. And 1t is going
to get better and better for a great
many years to come.
Fifty years ago, when boats were
running on the Des MONIES river the
northern part of Iowa was practically
unsettled and wild land. Much of it
was full of lakes and sloughs, and
swamp lands These held a great part
of the rain that fell. 1t was later slow
ly taken by the earth and in the sum-
mer by evaporation Much of the
rainfall at that time never reached the
rivers.
However, in the progress of farm
ing and soil cultivation, conditions
have been changed. In the last ten
years, in northern Iowa there have
been immense amounts of drainage
work done. Thousands of miles of til
ing have been put In, lakes and swamp
lands have been drained by big bitches
and small streams have been straight
ened. When it rains now the water
runs into those bitches and the thing
and in few hours is in the river,
which Immediately begins to rise.
What was once the middle of a lake is
now big ditch, which quickly drains
it's territory into the river.
This work in northern Iowa has just
begun. There Is much of it to do yet
In Hamilton county, which Is drain.
ed into the Des Moines river, in the
past five or six years there have been
approximately 200 miles of tile put in
125 miles of open ditch made and Is
miles more is under contract to be
completed this year. They have IS
drainage districts established. They
believe Iowa land is worth something
and are trying to save 1t. Those men
up there are working-that's what we
have got to do. All Iowa must get at
it.
The Des Moines river has plenty of
water for navigation and the genera
ton of electric power-thousands and
thousands of horse power-if the river
is Strengthened SO that the water will
stay in the channel instead of going
into the cornfields.
The Courier has been gathering
some figures in this matter and will
soon submit them in a comprehensive
manner for the consideration of the
Iowa people.
The government has just finished
the Shoshone dam, the highest dam
in the world, and it has done all this
to irrigate 100000 acres of land. This
paper heartily approves Of the work
that the government is doing in that
line. You think 100000 acres Of land
lis big area. don't you? 1t is; but
did you know that there are at least
four counties in Iowa, any one OF
which has more than 100000 acres
overlooked by it's streams at least
once every two years? Think Of it!
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Home Course
I'm Dom eStic
Science
I.-Ne Scope Of Domestic
Science.
By EDITH G. CHARLTON,
In Charge of Domestic Economy. Iowa
State College.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

PN% HE purpose of this series of ar
ticles will be an attempt to show
the direct relation between do
nestle science and ordinary af-
fairs In the life of either men or wo-
men. Too many people have conceived
the idea that domestic science chiefly
concerns those people who have more
time for theorizing than for actual
work. These think the subject deals
largely with air castles of the Bellamy
style of architecture and contains little
real help for present day homemak-
ers. There are some who still hold the
opinion that such is the meaning and
scope Of domestic science, but their
number is rapidly decreasing on &C
count of the introduction of the study
of scientific homemaking into public
schools, high schools and colleges. To
be an aid to housekeepers who cannot
take advantage of these courses of
study as prescribed in schools and col
leges is the aim of this series of talks.
tic science is to teach men and women
now TO 1--we rightly, now 10 use ma
terial things in such a way as to get
the highest good, the best results, from
them. The science concerns men quite
as much as women. and it means
much more than the commonly accept
ed idea that 1t has most to do with
cooking and eating and washing dishes
These things are of course included In
the study and, l assure you, that even
these exceedingly common affairs of
life are deserving Of higher place in
the wonderful process of living than
is usually accorded them.
Life is a serious business, and moth
ing which pertains to it is either Il
joke or tritle. Therefore anything
which helps to give even the common
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PEOPLES PULPIT
---------
Tho Courier vii, Publish Signed
or Unsigned Expressions From
Its Readers Upon Receipt; Name
of Writer Must Be Known to
the Publisher, However. & 6

Editor Courier:
l see in your most valued paper
that some of our native nimrods are
very much excited over the fact that
the state has collected quite a lot of
money from gun licenses.
They seem to think that they ought
to have ii all back and then some,
and so do | Pete. every dod-blasted
cent of 1t. We pay a lot of license or
taxes on our cows, horses and various
other things and I think we ought to
get that back too We could use it to
buy feed for old brindle, when she is
about to go dry-that is if it laid
where we could get hold of it P. D. @.
But honest Injun, did you ever hear of
such twaddle as that about wanting
money right on hand so they could
feed 1t out instanter, or just as soon
thereafter as they heard a squirrel or
a quail holler that he was hungry?
/ would like to see some. of these
short winded geezers out in an old
fashioned blizzard, wading through the
snow drifts, when it took them up
about so high, with sack of feed on
their back trying to coax a squirrel
oie VI I'D llolN VI ludll Oul vi llo
hiding place, so they could feed it. Or
do they intend to open a hospital or
start a mission with a free lunch
annex, where all the poor widows and
orphans of the squirrel and quail fam
lily can come i'm and eat free OF
charge? And will they advance it in
the Courier where the poor monks will
go? But say, did any one ever hear
of a squirrel ever starving to death in
the corn belt of Iowa? Gosh all hem
locks no.
1t is true that quails have been
known to perish by the thousands, but
all the money this side of Hindoostan
wouldn't have saved them without
Herculean work.
Do you know how they persisted?
Just like the poor miners did at
Cherry, Ill. They were buried alive,
smothered and starved to death | was
raised on farm and used to go quail
hunting when boy, after a big hard
snow storm, when the snow was piled
clear to the tops of fences and hedges,
and we boys didn't take any guns
along either. One reason was we
didn't have any and another was we
didn't need them. We would take our
dogs and they would run along the top
of the drifts, and sometimes they
could smell them by the steam coming
up through the snow, and sometimes
they could hear them by peeping in
their prison under the snow. The dogs
would begin to bark and dig into the
snow, and all we had to do was to run
UP and drive the dogs away and catch
the quail. Sometimes we got half a
bushel of quail out of one hole, and il
we hadn't found them they would
would have died. | have no doubt
that if these noble nimrods had the
money right Johnny on the spot and
would take their dogs and start out
with sack of grain on their back they
might save some quail, but would they
do it? / think nit. Now l want to
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oTTuMWA PROOF.

Thomas Skinner, living five miles
west on Eddyvilie road. Ottumwa.
Iowa. says: II had pains In the small
of my back. accompanied by an annoy
ance from the kidney secretions. Al
though I used severaI remedies, no
permanent benefit resulted and I was
at loss to know how to dispose Of
my trouble. l finally saw an adver-
tisement regarding Doans Kidnev
Pills and was SO favorably impressed
with what was said about them that
i procured a box at Sargent's drug
store and began their use. In a short
time they had completely removed my
trouble. I am pleased to recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills.
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COLUMBIAN y

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stevens and
daughter Iva visited at the George
Forsythe home near Kirkville Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs =. E. Cramblit of
Murdo, S. D., arrived Frid@I for an
over Sunday visit at the parental
home.
MIR. and Mrs. j.. C. Written who
have been visiting relatives in the
vicinity the past week or more de-
parted Tuesday afternoon. for their
home in Charlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. stodghill and
Lewis Olrey visited tuesday, at the
Elias Garfield home.
Misses Margaret and Rena Baker of
Ottumwa visited at the w. B. Gard
ner home last week.
Do you want to buy horse, seed
corn, farm. some sheep? If you do
put want ad in the Courier
Mrs. Clara Carmen and son Rol and
daughter Larue and the Misses Stella,
Rena and Margaret Baker visited on
Eddyville.
John Arnold and Jas Goltry were
business visitors in Chilicothe Satur-
day.
Miss Anna Garfield and Mr.. and
Mrs. L. c. Written visited at the
home of Mrs. S. E. Cramblit across the
river Sunday
Leslie Byrum is confined to his bed
with rheumatism.
Mr. and Mrs. II. 3. Lucas and child
,aen of Eddyville and Joe Simmus of
Greenridge visited at the j. Simms
home in Dudley Sunday.
Charley Stuber was a business WISH
tor in Eddyville Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stevens and
daughter Inez visited with Mr. and Mrs
Geo. Washington near Kirkville Sun
dnkS
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A Chicago newspaper quotes a well
known financier who has made his
money by speculation, as advising
the young man that the real prizes OF
life come from industry Become
soil tillers,' is the advice the financier
gives:
Acquire land and cultivate it intelli-
gently There are more substantial
fortunes to be made out of agricul-
,ture than any other American indus
try. Farmers are the real wealth
creators. They are buying more lux
uries now, for themselves and families,
than any other class of American cit
izens'' And the fortunes made on the
farms, the newspaper adds, are, in a
vast majority Of cases, less transitory
and feeting than those made in the
cities
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WHAT oTTUMWA HAS DONE.

The report of Secretary Welden-
Teller at the annual meeting OF the
Commercial association last night re-
viewed the accomplishments of the as
sociation during 1909. The following
summary of the principal achieve
ments of the association during the
year bears eloquent testimony to the
activity Of the ottumwa boosters:
II GOOD ROADS-One thousand dol
lars subscribed to carry on good
roads campaignlin 1870
INTER ANS-Ten thousand dol
lars subscribed for the Interurban Con-
srruction company. Two surveys
made for line connecting Oskaloosa
and Ottumwa, one survey made over
line from Ottumwa to Iowa City and
options for right Of way secured along
these surveys.
RIVER IMPROVEMENTS Commit
tee co-operated with Major Meigs in
making preliminary survey of Des
Moines river from Des Moines to keo-
kuk. Plans now on foot to call meet
ing in Ottumwa Of delegates from Des
Moines valley to form Des Moines
River Permanent Improvement as
ISOLATION.
FftElCff1 TIA ES--SohlPioAh.o ~
tanning to freight rates and freight
and passenger service taken up with
railroads and in the majority of cases
satisfactory adjustments have been
reached. Campaign pushed for day
light train to and from southwest on
Milwaukee with every prospect of Sc
curing this additional train service.
FACTORIEs-Plans near compile
ton for subscribing of permanent
100000 fund for purpose of bringing
more factories to Ottumwa and pro-
tecting those already here.
MEMBERSHIP-Ca success
fully concluded by which membership
of association was increased from less
than 100 to 525 members, with cam
paign under way to increase member
ship still further.
In addition to these things enumerat-
ed the association is working on a
n]an to secure white way in the
down town district, to secure street
names on corners, to reminder streets,
to secure a new hotel, new convention
hall or auditorium. and more conven-
tions The Ottumwa Commercial as
ISOLATION is one of the Invest aggrega-
tions of boosters in the country.
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Cures permanently the cases he UNI
dertakes and sends the incurable
home without taking a fee from them.
This is why he continues his visits
from year to year, while other doctors
have made few visits and stopped.
DR.. Shallenberger is an eminently sue
cessful specialist in all chronic dis.
eases, proven by the many cures af.
fected in chronic cases which have
baffed the skill CT all other, physi-
clans. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made him 50
proficient that he can name and locate
a disease in few minutes
Treats all cases of Catarrh, Nose,
Throat and Lung Diseases, Eye and
Ear, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys,
Gravel, rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu-
ralgia. Nervous and Heart Diseases,
Blood and Skin Diseases, Epilepsy
Bright's Disease and Consumption in
early stage, diseases Of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To-
bacco habit. Stamm cring cured and
sure methods to prevent its recur-
renee given. A never falling remedy
for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULA and RUPTURE
budldHtSSu icuIett without detention
from business. Special attention given
to all Surgical cases and all diseases
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Are you nervous and Respondent,
weak and debilitated; tired mornings.
no mbition--lifeless memory moor.
easily fatigued; ex liable and irrit
able: eyes sunken, red and blurred
pimples on face; dreams, restless
haggard looking; weak back; deposi,
in urine and drains at stool; distrust
full; want of confidence. lack of ener-
gy and strength?
DISEASES OF MEN AND PRIVATE
DISEASES A SPECIALITY.
Blood Poison, Spermatorrhea yar-
cocele, Hydrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness, Dizziness, Defective Memory.
etc, which ruins mind an6 body, posi-
tiyely cured,
WONDERFUL CURES.
Perfected in old cases which have
been neglected or unskillfully treated.
No experiments or failures. He un-
dertakes no incurable cases, but cures
thousands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidently
Address
DR.. w. E. shallenberger,
766 Oakland Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel Stata Rank
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nEs MONIES RIVER STEAMBOATS,.

Historical facts do not back up the
statement that the Des Moines river
is not big enough for steamboats,.
A few months ago Hon. Jerry B.
Sullivan of Des Moines prepared a re-
port for the war department to show
why the congressional appropriation
already made should be devoted to a
survey of the Des Moines river.
IN THAT REPORT WE'RE THE
NAMES OF OVER SIXTY STEAM
BOATS, WITH THEIR CAPTAINS,
THAT HAD NAVIGATED THE DIES
MONIES RIVER.
Just remember this point, to wit:
That Mr.. Sullivan gave the names of
the boats and the names Of their cap
tains. That is specific information.
A personal opinion against this pro-
ject will not weigh much against Mr..
Sullivan's detailed report. A fleet of
60 steamboats, on river is sufficient
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a Travelling Salesman

II. F. Beers, 617-7th Ave, Peoria ILL.,,
writes: Il have been troubled for some
time with kidney trouble, 50 severely
at times ] could scarcel-' carry my
grips. After using one bottle of Foley's
Kidney Pills l have been entirely re-
lieved. and cheerfully recommend them
to all" Foley's Kidney Pills are heal
ing and antiseptic and will restor
health and strength. Swensons Drug
Store, corner Main and Market.
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and congest the kidneys. and interrupt
the purifying work.
Then the aching begins. and is US,
ually accompanied with some irregu-
larfty Of the urine-too frequent pas
sages. sediment IN the urine, scanty,
painful passages, or blood in the urine.
Thousands testify to the wonderful
merit OF Doan's Kidney Pills, remedy
for the kidneys only. that acts QUICK
ly, cures the kidneys. regulates the
urine. and drives the backache out for
good.
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bank clerks and others doing clerical
work as enumerators, believing that
they will prove better fitted to do the
work. 1t is also proposed ITO make the
hours Of taking the census from 4 to
8 O'Clock in order to make the canvass
at an hour when the people are cas-
lest reached.
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We are becoming scrappy sort OF

We are becoming a scrappy sort OF
people In congress there are reg
ulars" and insurgents" In the Mine
Workers convention there are the
administration forces" and the "filli-
busters" In the recent convention of
the Grange at Des Moines the Gin
surgents" put up fight for control.
It's funny meeting or. convention
these days than can't stir up healthy
fight over nothing.
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A Chicago Judge has ruled that the
new Illinois law prohibiting the re-
marriage of divorced persons within
year after securing their divorce
means just what it says, and the re-
marriage of more than 100 divorced
Chicago couples is jeopardized.
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The Des Moines Commercial club
has interested itself in the forthcom-
ing census and is cooperating with
the census supervisor in an effort to
secure the services of hookkeepers
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Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy is
now contesting suit for the recovery
of her daughter from her artist hus,
band, from whom. she is estran9ed
Mrs. Richard Harding Davis is prepar.
ing to sue her author-war correspond
ent husband for divorce. Why can't
these artistic persons get along like
the rest of us do?
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A paragrapher on the Pittsburg Sun
has found a new hero. He sings his
praises like this:
We admire that chap
Who doesn't give a rap
For custom or fashions DEGREES
He puts on cap
And pulls down the flap
SO that his precious ears won't
freeze.
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Dr.. Benz. {. SIiCNeT I Co,
1O5 S. Market st. Up stairs.


the gol-darned thing couldn't be hired
to go off ! have seen whole herd
of fat cattle stampeded by seeing a
strange man and couple of dogs COM
inc. through the pasture, and they have
gone pellmell through wire fences and
everything else, and by the time they
had been rounded up and quieted
down they had run off more flesh than
pack Of hunters could eat In month
of Sundays The majority of the hunt
ers are gentlemen as well as sports
men, and try to be careful of the rights
of others, but there is large contin.
gent that are reckless. and will shoot
at any old thing that flies up, and they
are just as liable to hit an old COW or
horse over the hills as the bird they
shoot at, and a good deal more so. I'm
less this class can be suppressed, (and
they never will be-, and law passed
whereby farmers, can get pay for
stock killed by these people, the time
will soon come when all hunters will
cease to be recognized as the genuine
article. when caught on another man S
domain. In fact their own wife's peo-
pie may fail to recognize them when
they are brought home.
| agree with these gentlemen on one
point, i. e. that there should be a lot
of good conscientious farmers appoint
ed as game wardens. In fact |
think every farmer who owns land and
live stock should be made a game
warden on salary. His duties should
consist mostly of getting out with a
cannon and guarding his stock against
the depredations of reckless and ir.
responsible hunters.
Yours respectfully,
J. r. Clarke. Ottumwa. Ia
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The poet on the Louisville Courier
Journal is responsible for the follow
ing:
| dearly love to succor others:
But, then, you see,
There are so many of the others
So many of the needy brothers
So few of me.
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Entered as second class matter
october II, is0s at the postofnce. OF
sumwa. Iowa, under the Act OF Congress
of March 8. 1870.
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Editor ottumwa Courier:-

Editor Ottumwa Courier
I see other laboring men have writ
ten to express their opinions on differ
ent subjects. work by the day or
month for my daily bread. I am able
to pay for the Courier and think
get the worth of my money. I see in
the paper about a big meeting for
good roads. l think it may do some
good. But my opinion Is, that if the
people would do something to find out
what goes with the money they pay
to make good roads, it would do more
good than the meeting. see by the
paper the people Of Ottumwa have
subscribed some money for good
roads. But by the time two or three
committees and some contractor gets
through with it, there won't be enough
left to make any part of the roads any
better. think there ought to be some
way of obtaining more direct results
Good business men and successful
farmers give their money for this pur-
pose and they seem to think that is all
there is to it, until they go over the
roads, and then they wonder where
their money went.
Yours respectfully
Geo. Meeker,
r NO Ottllmwa Ia
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-11
RhTTLERS INVADE
SETTLERS KITCHEN;
SIX ARE KILLED
Dallas, S. o. Man Thought They
Were Burglars Looting
the Larder.

Dallas. S. d, Aug. 9.-Aroused from
his slulnbers shortly after midnight
S. d. Perriso. of this town, concluded
there were burglars in the house. With
his elbow he nudged his wife and
awakening, she listened. She felt Ger
tain thieves were carrying away every
thing in the kitchen.
There was a clatter of tinware i'll the
Kitchen. Pans were falling and the
sounds indicated that tin dishes were
being taken from one place n hurled
into another.
Climbing out of bed and with re-
volver In hand, Perrigo started on .
man hunt. Taking a lighted Lamp
along, he opened the kitchen door and
as all was still. he listened. Then
there was a buzzlng sound and he took
to his heels, retreating to the lining
room. Reaching what he supposed was
a place of safety and looking around,
Perrigo's blood ran cold at the sight
thai presented itself.
From the kitchen, and evidently at
tracted by the light, came a procession
of rattlcsnakcs-six OF them-one
monstrous big one and five smaller
Jumping from the chair and hurrying
into the bed room and closing the door
behind him, Perrigo dressed. climbed.
through a window, secured a club and
the dining room to battle
win the snakes The lighted lamp on
the table enabled him to locate the
and he finally killed all of them
being bitten, The largest
snake had 10 rattles and each of the
smaller ones i've