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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-19

Women are inclined to fall into a
mistaken idea that any pain about the
mtps or In the small of the back is
female weakness" and must be en-
oureo as a trouble peculiar to the sex.
Such patience is noble, but too often
unnecessary and unwise.
Kidney weakness, in man or woman,
VIII cause backache, sharp twinges
Wnen STOPPING or lifting, bearing down
pains fits of blues" nervousness, diz-
Ey spells, headaches, urinary disorders
and swelling of the ankles or limbs.
This is the point: Do not worry over
supposed female weakness until you are
very sure it is not kidney disease that
Is causing your troubles. The nature
OF woman's life and work makes her
Lail an easy victim of kidney sickness
Inc bending and STOPPING OF house
work. the tight clothing worn, the
htram OF childbirth and worry of rear
ing children, the indoor life, colds fe-
sers and constipation, all wear and
weaken the kidneys
Backache, or any such irregularity
as the too frequent desire to urinate,
painful OF scalding passages or sedi-
msns In the urine is good cause to
Then begin using Doan's Kidney
FINS which have brought new life and
ttrength to thousands of women. 1t is
your duty to self and family not to
leglect nor overlook the first symptom.
Don't wait for serious case of dia-
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ONCE MORE TIE River.

Des Moines Capital: The improve
ment of the Des Moines river would be
worth millions to Iowa, especially to
the central part of the state. When we
say Improvement we allude to the
navigability of the stream and the
power it might afford by turning the
wheels of factories and interurban
cars. When a stream has plenty of wa
ter with which to carry vessels pro-
vided the water is guided into one
channel, the work is simple. There
would be nothing to do to- the Des
Moines river except to dredge out the
channel, which would REQUIRE the wa
ter to all run in one place. Then there
would be plenty of water A river like
the Des Moines would not have the
difficulties to contend against which
are found in the Mississirri and the
Missouri. These big rivers have pow
erful current, which is useful in going
down stream, but not useful going the
other way. The smaller river would
have the advantage of not beir.- con-
siderably changed by floods and fresh
cts. With the dredging out of the riv-
er and the creation of a good system,
of docks, the river would be available
for all heavy freights. The reader may
say that the river is too slow. Business
men know that it would be easily
possible for the river to carry freight
with all the speed of the present rail-
road system and facilities. Heavy
freight is now on the road three weeks.
When the railroads are crowded. it is
almost impossible to get the freight
through. The river could not be slow
er than the railroads are at times.
There is a fall in the river of 2S5
feet between Des Moines and Keokuk.
This fall would indicate the existence
of many prospective power sites along
the river. The river has more water on
the average than was afforded years
ago A majority of the drainage ditches
in northern Iowa empty into either the
Des Moines or the Raccoon rivers,
which come together at this city, These
matters being true. the business men
and farmers of central Iowa should
lend all encouragement possible to the
Des Moines river Improvement project.
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MARTIAL DISCIPLINE.

Manchester Press: The housewife
who does lot of the heavy work
around the house which a lazy hus-
band loads onto her ought to beat a
few ounces of industry into him with
an ak helve. The trouble is that
few women start out right in their
married life. If the young wife would
reach over and sink a bed Stat into
the PROSTATE form of her spouse when
he tells her to get up and build the fire
one important question would be set
tied in that home for time and eternity
After man has had his ribs damned
together with a rub board and his
lower unlocked with mop handle he
will chase pals out to the sink so fast
that the handles Wilt melt off 1t does
not pay to be mealy mouthed with the
man who smokes Track Walkers De-
light tobacco in the parlor and goes
around the house singing Let the Wo-
men Do the Work." If more women
would pass around the reverse end of a
potato masher as a gentle reminder to
their husbands to take their feet off
the center table and get busy there
would be more dual purpose bride
grooms floating around with cloves on
their breaths. We saw a great, hulk
ing husband of six happy weeks come
Looping into DOCTORS office with face
on his like a cross section of beef
sausage, received in an argument with
his ninety pound wife over who should
fill the wood box, and that pleasing re-
ceptacle has never been empty since.
Moral suasion and the power of love
are all right when you are dealing with
stiff legged calf, but the only treat
ment that counts for anything with an
unruly husband is to plant a mellow
swat in his side whiskers with flat
iron
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higher priced goods knowing perfectly
well that her husbands wages were
not advancing one cent. We also
heard from Ex-Governor Boies on the
high price subject and will say in re-
turn to him and pass him up, it is
lucky lor him that he is not candi-
date for governor of Iowa at the next
election or he would surely be elected
last in the race. Now, Mr. Editor,
want to give you my idea on who is to
large extent responsible for the ex-
orbitant prices. | think the business
mems association is the root of a
goodly share of the evil and has been
ever since it's formation around this
part of the country.
They hold their meetings and select
one or two articles to advance the
price on. Then when they get the adj
vanced price established on those
articles, they meet again, select one or
two more and SO it goes right along,
SHINING the toiler out of his earnings.
OF course we have not much kick COM
ing up in this jungle because it is a
farming country and we can get al
most any very small article for dol
lar. If you cannot get the article that
you need into your pocket, why just
hold your breath until you hear the
price of it.
Respectfully yours,
S. B. Jameson, Box 1877, Hiteman, la.
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in protest against the costly IRE
losses in this country, due largely to
faulty construction of property and
carelessness, Dr. w. H. Tolman di-
rector of the American Museum of
Safety and Sanitation, lecturing before
the Society of Western Engineers in
Chicago, said Buildings burned in
the United States in 1907, if placed on
lots Of sixty-fve feet frontage, would
line both sides of a street from
Chicago to New York. A per-
son journeying along this street
of desolation would pass in ev-
cry thousand feet ruin from which
an injured person was taken, and at
every three-uuarters of mile would
see the charred remains of human
being; and when burned out at the end
of year the fire would begin all over
again"
The worst Of it is that the heavy an
nual loss goes on unchecked. Improve
ment in the way of more effective fire.
proof construction seems to be Offset
by greater carelessness.
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CONSTRUCTIONS HEAVY TOLL

The report of the state board of
health shows that 1915 Iowans died
from tuberculosis last year. This was
the number reported to the board, but
it is believed the total number is
twice that many. Emphasis is laid on
the necessity of restrictive measures
to reduce this heavy death loss in a
statement sent out by the press bu-
reau of the board of control, from
which the following is quoted:
There were 1915 persons reported
to have died from tuberculosis last
year. If 1,515 were the whole number
it would be bad enough, but it is be-
lieved by those in position to know
that this number can be multiplied by
two, thus making more than 5000
persons who died in Iowa last year
from preventable disease. And it
would be interesting, indeed, were it
possible to make an analysis of these
deaths We would find no age or con.
dition had been spared, and that while
tuberculosis is q disease Of the poor
yet the rich had not escaped We
would find young mothers smitten in
the midst of cooling babyhood and
playing child; the wage Garner. the
man who does the heavy work has
been destroyed; the minister, lawyer
doctor, banker, farmer, editor, in fact
every profession and trade has been
compelled to walk the great white
way to death. What awful havoc,
What needless waste of human life.
What tragedy of sorrow! What cause
OF crime! What problems for char
ity. What financial loss.
If the economic aspect alone were
to be urged as reason for the aboli
lion of tuberculosis it would be
sufficient rs the loss to Iowa last wear
approXimated more than $5,00O,O0O co.
The large number Of these persons
who died were young, just at the high.
est point of efficiency and greatest
value to the state, and the financial
loss involved is appalling indeed
This disease reaps the largest harvest
OF all contagious and infectious
diseases put together with possibly
the exception of pneumonia and we
have come to the time when the peo
pie must act.
1T is worse than folly for intelli.
gent people, such as compose the
citizenship Of Iowa, to permit tubercl,.
losis to destroy untimely this vast
number
Let the people read the startling
figures given here. Let them think of
what the future must hold for many
children, then let the children be
taken care of and society protected by
restrictive measures
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oTTUMwA PROOF.

Mrs. E. Harry. Riyerview Addition,
ottnmwa, Ia, says: II used Doan's
Kidney Pills several years ago and
was so pleased with the prompt relief
they brought me that 1 gave public
statement, setting forth their merit. I
suffered from pains in my back and
IONS, accompanied by headaches and a
feeling of languor. Doan's Kidney Pills
were so highly recommended that /
procured box and after using them
short time. my trouble disappeared. 1t
mas never returned and l consequently
give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for
effecting a permanent cure"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-19
WEALTH IN RIVERS.

Some one wrote to the Chicago
Journal asking the name of the largest
river in the world Answering the
question, the Journal admitted that it
must give the palm for mere size to
the Amazon, with its length of 1900
miles, its width at the mouth of $50
miles. and the drainage area of
100000 square miles OF the Amazon
and its 200 tributaries But the
Journal calls attention to small
stream in the mill district of New
England, called the Blackstone, at its
source in Worcester county, Mass, and
the Pawtucket, or Seekonk further
down in Rhode Island where it falls
into the Providence river near the
city of Providence. This little stream,
it says, is but seventy-tiye miles in
length and has drainage area OF
but ASS square miles, which puts the
mighty Amazon TO shame by the prac-
teal work it accomDlishes Of this
modest New England stream the
Journal says:
This little giant of a river produces
no less than $4,000 horsepower, so for
every square mile of its drainage area.
This is more than sufficient power to
drive fast ocean steamship of the
tonnage, for instance, of the Cunarder
Carmania or the French transatlan-
tique La Savoie
But the Blackstone's specially is
turning mill wheels. If you figure out
what $4,000 horsepower means when
expressed in terms of coal cost, you
will find that this strenuous Yankee
stream represents a capitalization OF
some S25,000,O0O, Just fancy what the
Amazon would represent at such a
rate of calculation
A hundred mills and factories along
the banks of the busy Blackstone
catch its rushing waters with their
whirling turbines, almost from the
very source, in the city OF Worcester.
These castles of industry, as numer
Gus as those of romance perched on
the crags of the old world Rhine, grow
in size and Importance as the river
wends seward until in Woonsoc5et
and Pawtucket are to be found some
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This is why he continues his visits
from year to year, while other doctors
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W 'Sh
Ir. Editor of the Courier:
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MIR La aiesnn an Alc.h Rrieac

Mr.. Jameson on High Prices.
Mr.. Editor of the Courier:
Please give space to the following
remarks in reference to high prices on
food and all other commodities, which
are necessary to sustain comfortable
and healthful life. I am rather sur
prised to see so very little protest from
organized labor, especially the U. M.
w. of A., as we have had no advance
in wages for three years, while coal
has been steadily soaring skyward in
the market al through this three year
period. The same can be said on all
food stuffs until the present time and
yet it seems as though it has not
reached the limit. For instance coal
is selling in Ottumwa right now at al
most double the price it was selling
when we made the agreement on the
present scale of wages. Take it further
north and west, it has over doubled,
and in the face Of all this the operators
in national convention want to claim a
ten cent reduction. Pretty good for
the operators. A ten cent reduction on
wages, while we are suffering a ten
per cent advance on almost everything
we have to buy daily. Now you fellows
had better call a halt advancing those
commodities or they will get you be-
cause the Washington government has
ordered an investigation as to whom is
to blame for high prices and when
they take hand in those things it's
sure pop somebody will lose their
job, and you can take it for granted
that the party or parties on that in
vestigating committee who is man
enough to speak the truth will be the
one to go. The real thief will be left
at large. But just let us quote the
cause of high prices from some people
of good standing who ought to know.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
the retailers of meat get thirty-eight
consumer purchases and on many
other articles still a higher per cent
of profit.
There is generally at least two mid
die men between the producer and the
consumer who get their pull, and by
the time it gets through their hands
into the hands of the consumers,
which it has to, he certainly has to
pay the top notch price. The secre-
tary's figures can scarcely be disputed
Then there is the authority of Edith G.
Charlton of the state college, who says
family can be fed on eighteen cents
per day for each person. | weighed a
piece of porter house steak the other
day for neighbor and according to
the price she paved and the weight of
meat received, it cost her thirty-fve
cents per pound. At the above rate
Miss Charleton would get one
half pound of steak for her eighteen
cents that had to feed one person all
day. Then again we have the
authority of Archbishop Ireland
who makes the claim that high prices
are largely due to the extravaganza OF
the housewife. Well that does not
look reasonable coming from such an
eminent authority as the archbishop
that a woman would continually want
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for $4,000, OO0-or $6,OoO,OOO at the out.
side-the Des Moines river can be put
in shape for navigation. The amount
mentioned might place the channel in
pretty good condition, but how about
the continuous fixed charge for sprinll-
ling TO keep down the dust?"
The Journal paragrapher should take
day off and have a look at the Des
Moines river. He would find the great
est problem is to prevent the river
from going over it's banks and soak
ing the corn crops quarter of mile
pack from the river bed.
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DR.. George NJ Chapel, section di-
rector of the weather bureau at Des
Moines. has organized the Iowa
State Weather Boosters association. .
He says there is altogether too much
knocking on Iowa weather conditions
and the only requirement for member
ship in the new club is that the. pros
pective candidate will lay aside his
hammer and quit rapping" The doc
tor waitcd too long before launching
his organization. Early in the week
with the temperature around so de-
grees, it would have been easy to
promise to lay aside the hammer, but
today, after drop of As degrees, dis
position to keep the hammer within
reach will be felt
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-19
THE EVENING STORY
TO THE LAND OF CONTENT.
BY RICHARD BARKER SHELTON.

By RICHARD BARKER SHELTON.
Copyright, 1910, by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
The winter twilight was falling.
Outside it was dull and gray and som
Der, but within the big, luxurious
room, where Robert Waid paced rest
lessly to and fro, the soft lights and
the Pickering fire on the hearth and
the familiar backs of the many vol
umes on the well-illed shelves made a
warmth and coziness all the more
pronounced because of the dreary day
without
But for all the evidences of creature
comfort about him, Waid was strange
ly distraught. On the open desk il
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A Safeguard to Children.

Our two children of six and eight
years have been since infancy subject
to colds and Group. About three years
ago / started to use Foley's Honey and
Tar. and it has never failed to prevent
and cure these troubles. 1t is the only
medicine / can get the children to
take without row.. The above from
w. c. Ornstein, Green Bay, Wis.
duplicates the experience of thousands
of other users of Foley's Honey and
Tar. Swenson's Drug Store. Clark s
Drug Store
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oetes' dropsy sright's disease or grav-
ell to develop.
Doan's Kidney Pills is simple veg
eehble remedy. yet very quick in It's
healing and strengthening action on
the kidneys. 1t contains nothing Of a
narcotic, poisonous nor habit forming
nature and can be taken ty any man.
woman or child. Of even the most deli
cate state OF health.
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of the largest of their kind in the

United States.
If any other river of the Black
stones size can come anywhere near
equaling this streams power-produc-
ing record it is yet to be exploited.
There is work ahead for the Des
Moines river of the kind that the
Blackstone is doing.
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Congressman Jameson, the Demo
cratic editor sent to congress from the
eighth district to succeed Hepburn is
declared to be disguised with his job
and with the "hopelessness Of getting
results" If his constituents share this
disgust at the failure to get results 1t
would seem there are bright prospects
Of electing Republican to congress
this year from the eighth. Results
count.
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The annual report of the state rail
way commission shows that only two
passengers on trains in Iowa met
death as the result of wrecks last
year. The total number of persons
injured was PIP.
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Hoarse couahs, stuffv Colds.

pain in chest and sore lungs, are
symptoms that quickly develop into a
dangerous illness If the cold is not
cured. Foley's Honey and Tar stops
the cough, heals and eases the con-
Swenson's Drug store; Clark's Drug
Store.
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They should go the limit with that
Bloomfield acid thrower if they catch
him.
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Representative Hull" says the
Sioux City Journal. figures that
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DR.. ShaIIenberQer

The Regular and Reliable Chicago
Specialist, who has visited Ottumwa
since 1908, will be at
Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
Tuesday, March 8, 1910
Gone day only and return every %
days.
Fairfield, Court Hotel Wednesday,
March 2.
March g..
Abba, Friday, March 4.
sigourney, Merchants Hotel. Wed.
nesday, March 8.
Office Hours, a. m. to 4 p. m.
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Respectfully yours,
S. B. Jameson, Box 1877, Hiteman, Ia.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-18
PRESIDENT WONT
MIX IN THE ROW
Apparently Unconcerned Over the
Outcome of Legislative Battle
Against Speaker Cannon.
GETS MANY DISPATCHES
In Touch With Situation. But
Avoids Reference to it in
Speeches,

BUFFALO, y. r.. March iS--The
Cannon lnsurgent row at Washington
has nothing to do with me, Ii the
attitude assumed by President Tar.
to-day toward the situation at. WASH
tngton.
The president would not comment
on the situation beyond saying his
Legislative program was the only thing
In congress he was anxious, about. He
studied carefully every despatch from.
Washington that told OF changes In
the filibuster of the regulars to hold
their power.
The president did not touch on pub
lie matters in any OF his two-minuse
speeches to-dAy. He spoke on local
matters at Astabula. o.. Erie, North
east and Batavia. Part OF his time en-
route was devoted to the French and
Canadian tariff eituation. Several
kilograms irons Secretary OF State
Knox dealt with the matter and
President Tafs expressed the hope
that the French dispute would soon
be settled. The Canada outlook Is
still dubious.
The president's speech II Roches-
ter Tonight will probably deal with
the second class mall problem.