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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01
Conceal Liquor in Bed Springs.

Abba, Jan. 29.-(Special.)- Sheriff
Griffin made an official call at Ward
yesterday and returned with Mr.. and
Mrs. Irving Jennings of that place In
custody. besides six gallons of confis-
Gated whiskey, which was bottled.
The liquor was found concealed in the
bed springs. Jennings gave bonds and
the trial is set for Feb. g.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01

A German singer permitted his wife
to get divorce after she had found
an affinity and then gave her $4,000
to give her new start in life with
new husband. He said any gentle
man would do the same. Perhaps a
gentleman would, but common or
binary man might kick up something
of fuss
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01
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BIRMINGHAM. y

Frank Elliott of Mitchell, Neb., ar
rived Saturday evening for visit
with his mother Rebecca Elliot.
Principal claude Hayes and Walter
Syfert spent Sunday in Salem.
Miss Lille Anderson is visiting with
her bother Charley and family of LII
Grange, Mo.
Will Bryant of Vermilion. S. d.,
ard Mrs. Jennie Simmons Of Ottumwa
are in town called by the death of
their father John NJ. Bryant who has
been quite i'll for more than three
years.
Mrs. c. B. Bennett of La Plata, Mo-,
and Mrs. Ora Whitmore Of Fremont,
Iowa came the first of the week for a
visit with their daughter and sister,
Mrs W. F. Waltmon.
Miss Iva HOFFMAN of near Douds
Leando is visiting with her aunt Mrs.
Frank Christy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01

Perhaps it's good thing that Los
Angeles quadruplet fake was exposed
The next thing you know somebody
out there would be announcing the
birth of double quartet
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01
ENDORSES COURIER CAMPAIGN.

ENDORSES COURIER CAMPAIGN.
Inc Courier is in receipt of the fol-
lowing letter from Frederic Larrabee,
an attorney of Fort Dodge, in which
endorsement is given to the Courier's
Iowa conservation plan:
Fort Dodge, Iowa, jan 26, 1910.
Editor Courier,
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Sir have read with great
deal Of interest the article in the
Courier on Strengthening the river
channels of our Iowa streams. AS land
and the products of the same are be-
coming SO valuable. these questions
are of great Importance.
We are retaining vast areas of wet
land here by thing.
Thanking you for this article, | am,
Very truly,
Frederic Larrabee.
Many newspapers of the state
through their editorial and news col
umns have given prominence to the
movement. Iowa realizes the great
necessity Of finding a solution for its
own reclamation problem here at
home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01
Charlton Couple Wed in Des Moines

Charlton, Jan. Especial Dell
Frazier and Miss Rhea Davidson Of
this city stole march on their friends
AMI went to Des Moines, where they
were united in marriage Thursday
noon at the Office Of Justice Cope, who
performed the ceremony. They are
expected home this evening and for
the present will make their home
with the brides mother, Mrs. M. A.
Davidson. The groom is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Thos. Frazier, and for some
time has been employed on the rail
road. Both are well known and have
many friends who will extend congrat-
ulations and best wishes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-01
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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28
81 FOZl>y0 4 ARE35 NiA4H/
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ZIHE 2REcSLlIO"

The storm passed and there followed the silences,
weird. uncanny. of dripping water, of moving
things underfoot Ultimately she heard the splash
ing OF kindly American boots, and looking outside
saw a wet specimen OF Private Sammy, marching
phiosophically up and down sentry go, She
called to him. half hysterical. and he answered
her with cheering words. ReassuTed she waited
for her husbands appearance wrapped In an
army blanket, chilled to the heart Later, when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that she had been sitting opposite window with
a lighted candle by her, offering splendid mark
for the proving Filipino sharpshooters.
This an experience and one which the fat
gentleman in the bank had never imagined. To
the army this ignorance and narrowness is incom-
prehensible The agony and bloody sweat OF
hiding death had gripped him often that Pri'
yate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class OF work do not
realize that there particular horrors connected
with 1t. Being of the army, he does not speak OF
them but his gorge rises within him when fat
gentlemen sheer at the uniform which he has
made respected
But he remembers the pursuit of happiness
and the day comes when he is ordered home.
Then it is that the army and its women. gathered
aft watch the walls OF Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains, forming themselves into mem
cries, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo, Of the perfume of the ihlang-ihlang and the
love fourshing while the constabulary band
played songs of home. around the the Luneta.-
San Francisco Call
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28
Romance OF the Sweet Pea

yellowest bloom at present known Is the creamy
Clara Curtis
A novelty In the form OF a striped flower was
offered in the year 1897 by Mr.. James Carter and
in the year SEQ there appeared the first bloom
of the choice picotee-edged varieties which are
so popular today. The latter raised by Major
Trevor Clarke II a fine white flower with
an edging Of blue. and Major Clarke scored a
double triumph. for his flower also the
first sweet pea with blue coorng.
The greatest revolution in the history OF the
sweet pea, however. inaugurated on July 25
first exhibition, held in the old Royal Aquarium.
at Althorp park. displayed the famous Countess
instead of .he conventional smooth standard. The
growers at once and during the last ten years 80
rieties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world
Some hybrdsts are engaged particularly at
present in adding to the list OF marbled varieties
Of which the hue-veined Helen Pierce is so choice
an example and II Is possible that much more
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
TO produce flowers with striking and delicate
venaton.
Just fen figures in conclusion showing not
the least str Eng phase OF the romance of the
sweet pea The SicIan monks ponderously
named plant j. as become about 500 different vari.
cites grouped into q classes, according 10 color
Over the culture Of these flowers a national soci.
ETY. numberiuE 1913 members and mebracing 101
aflliated societies watches.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual in Canadian gardens of today, no matter
where in this hower-loving country the garden be,
or whether it belong to cottager or man of means.
tong clerk or park-owning municipality the
sweet pea first came TO from the Scilian nuns.
Franciscus Cupani, a monk who was also
botanist sent the first seeds to England In the
year 1G99 consigned TO Enfield schoolmaster
named DR.. Uvedale. The old Middlesex dominic
was both a botanst and horticulturist, and he
grew the first sweet peas ever seen in England.
Cupani called the plant Lathyrus distoplaty-
phyIlus hirsutis, mollis ct odorus-an unwieidy
name out of all harmony with the winged grace
Of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to its present form Of LatAy-
odoratus.
DR. Uvedale found the seeds produced a plant
with purple flowers, and so here We have the
color Of the original sweet pea
The stock was gradually multiplied, and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber Kensing-
ton gardener. was the first to offer seeds for
sale.
Progress in the production Of new varieties
was slow in those remote days and It was not
until the year 1923 NEARLY century later than
Cupanis consignment Of seeds) that any new col
ors became known. In the year mentioned. how
ever. a catalogue was issued which described
black. scarlet and white varieties
What became Of the black and scarlet sorts. #
they ever existed in those true colors, is not
known. The black must have been a deep purple.
The blacklist bloom is still the dark purple Tom
Bolton. In this connection, seeing that for years
past hybridists been trying to produce a
pure yellow sweet pea. it may be said that the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

make It your first case. The Justice
10 bound to find verdict for you and
impose smart fine, and that will de-
ter other campers from trespassing."
Il don't want to get the reputation
Of being arbitrary and mean," said
Paul.
But people must respect the law"
put in the aunt as she came into the
discussion. IF the laws can't be
enforced what will become of US?
People have no more right to catch
my fish than to catch my chickens
1t is my desire, Paul. that you take
ur this case, Those people VINO come
out from the city to camp for the
summer are a very reckless lot. They
don't pay the slightest attention to
signs. What they need Is a good
scare.
Lake Placid was three miles from
the manor house, on another piece Of
lind. 1t was a favorite place for sum
mer camping. and there were no re-
strictons except as to the fishing
II had been stocked with carp "a a
fad OF the aunt. Word was dis.
patched to the man who acted as
watchdog and in two or three DAVIS
subsequently he reported that a sum
mons had been issued for the guilty.
and defiant party. and he named the
date when the trial was to come off
before the justice OF the peace in the
village.
Mr.. Attorney Franklin urew a men
tai picture of a bearded ruffian with
political pull who was setting coun.
try law at defiance and denuding
Lake Placid Of its carp In spite of all
signs and protests, and he at once
looked up the law - trespass and
made himself familiar with it. When
he had learned all about It. he in.
vented plea ~ the Jury.
OF course, the defendant would @an
for one. He went out to the orchard
and repeated his plea over and over
again. 1t was strong. It was logical
1t was convincing. It wound up nv
saying that II beetle proved and bIack-
bearded ruffans could steal an old
lady's carp and not suffer the conse.
quenceS, they could also break their
way into her house at midnight and
cut her throat and gtill go free.
The jury must not look at the value
Of the carp, but at the principle OF
the thing. and he would leave the
case In their hands, feeling that JUS
tice would prevail in the land. The
aunt heard the plea when It had been
trimmed down and got into shane.
and she feryeutly exclaimed:
Paul, that will be one OF the great
est pleas Of the decade! The furv
must convict the ruffian without
leaving the box. You must save a
copy for your children to read"
Mr.. Paul Franklin drove over to tho
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

His First Case
By DONALD ALLEN
Copyright. 1910. BY Assoeiated Literary Press

Mr.. Paul Franklin has passed his
examination and become a member of
the bar. Not that he intended to hang
out single and become a practicing
lawyer. but more to oblige the good
old aunt who had brought him up and
sent him through college and had oft
en- said:
You will have the estate TO man
age during my life, and when / am
gone you will have to manage it for
yourself. One should be a lawyer to
do these things"
Within a week after Paul had been
granted legal right to add "Attor.
ney at Law" after his name, the old
lawyer OF the estate. in turning the
papers over to the young man, said;
There is one matter ! wish to call
your particular attention to. The
estate owns Lake Placid. stocked
II with choice fish several years ago
and put up many signs of mo Tres
pass" Those signs have been gen
particular person, having a camp a
short distance away. persisted in fish
ing In spite of all protests, l have
Just received word that the same per-
son is back there for the summer and
is fishing again. Our man there
thinks an example ought to be made
He says that when he made protest
this person told him to go to grass"
"A very nervy person." remarked
the young lawyer.
Truly so, / think you should
write to the agent there to take out
a warrant, make an arrest and bring
the case to trial You can go up
there and appear for yourself and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28
An ADMY OFFICERS WIFE

Her husband came in for dinner and rushed
away again. Whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked
all the fnery OF the days that had been
Il found dress which had worn at dance
at the Preside the last time she said. "and
cried end cried"
Before leaving the husband had pushed chest
against the door locking her In completely. this
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav-
ing he had to crawl through the window and as
he hung on the window sill she bent forward and
kissed MIN. Then she heard him drop with a
splash into the disease infested pools below. Alto
gether it was nice spot for the pursuit OF hap
piness as could be found.
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
the banana palms against the house the rain
slashed down she heard the lizards scudding
around and big one outside, in mango tree.
called "tuck-coo" so that she Jumped up in fear
and alarm waiting and wondering
All through the night she lived the horrors.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

lessly Pools were under the house and cholera
was unusually on the rampage Inc ram cams
down in such gusts that she had to fasten down
the windows thereby making the house too dark
for reading purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about through mud and
rain with chlorodyne in hand. she peered through
the Stats gazing at the bamboo palmtrees whip
ping to and fro before the fury of the storm At
the appointed time she prepared dinner She pro-
duced her row of cans. In her girlhood days
there was a household joke, what we cannot eat
we can" Now as she gazed at the canned milk,
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered II she could eat all they can. Some
how or other the fleeing thought of the grlhood
days made her choke. You see it was the rain
and the storm and the centpedes and things
which got on her nerves
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

tor husband to Manila.
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma
Mia. The natives, you
see. had a habit of throw
ing the bodies of victims
of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells. thereby
making life most un-
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports OF
the press.
OF course the wife
could have remained be-
hind, but she did not.
She was possessed with
the archaic belief COM
mon to the army that
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

also TOT washing.
There was so much
cholera" she explained.
The meals were served
with wire MEETINGS over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
cholera. There were
other delights. The Moros
were out. A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
in torrents.
There came a night
when the very soul Of her
was tried TO it's uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

He looked all around the briniiaur-
Iy lighted hall. where music vas
sounding and men and women were
gayly tripping in the dance.
u see nothing but false faces ab,us
me in this apparent scene Of gaiety. So
be said.
We'll, what other kind do yon wanz
at a masquerade?" asked his friend
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

He lived next door to a man for "a
years without even learning his neigh-
boris name"
Can you imagine anybody being ssg
unsociable!"
oh, yes. You see, the warax,u
wouldn't let them talk"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

ndme'. VINO TOOK the town OF Lungtungpen, ma
Kid as Vanus," and who, prior thereto. helped
the department of information Of the British EN-
ptre, with the judicious administration of his
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
Private Sammy and Private Tommy there Is
healthy Anglo-Saxon neutrality-suspicious.
as regards the treatment of black and brown
brothers
All this is merely preamble but when the
Moro has been carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the garlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life which to him is highly important af
far. Somewhere, somehow, there remains in his
brain an impression that he Is allowed the pur-
suit Of happiness-and he pursues it. He does
II In his own way and in divers places The tur-
oulent tides OF Juan de Fuca which race by the
gncrested heights of Fort Worden. have heard
MS Taucous chorus: the watermelon patches dot
ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot
print On a Florida sandspit in the SHOWS Of
Alaska, in the heat Of the islands. be pursues it
and catches what little there is of it.
The world which praises and abuses him
knows him not. nor his life. The point of view
Is entirely different. A ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of a local bank
observed an officer in uniform standing behind
him
Well. I guess the country is safe" observed
the Totund one, gazing superciiousy at the uni
form
Thank you sir said the officer. saluting.
This officer was a boy lieutenant, and his sar-
easm was natural. For within his short space
u years he had played with the fangs OF death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness. A
snort time previously at Luzon, he was ordered
% ind the bodies Of two soldiers that had been
murdered. The orders were to find the bodies,
50 Of course they went and did. With seven
[oopers and a surgeon he pursued his way
trough jungle scrub and cholera infested lands
Nlnout food, drenched with rain, sleeping In
s~amps They found them. One was tied alive
yer reliant hill, after being slashed with a
o9-o and the other had been knitted and gagged
N''a portion Of his own flesh. Presumably the
s1peFciltous circumferental gentleman did not
-o" OF such things and-this is what stings-
~sf7 seem to be so many citizens Of the coun'
-, whose ideas of the work Of the army Is equally
United Unfortunately. the men who do big
~-gs cannot talk about them.
IL follows that what the Of the army mas
=" Undergo, so must the woman Of the army. Inc
o1slde world knows the army woman as she Is
-'~ It sees in her life a succession Of society
events and realizes not the horrible other side
mere is an Illustration:
Some years ago. in "the days OK the empire
ltde army woman went as q bride wiki her doc
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

view punt VI TIE
army is charming
ly crude. Follows
then a hysterical
splurg @. Also,
sometimes, a con-
gressional investi-
cation. or mayhap
garlands and hon
OTIS and whatnots.
It depends upon
the circumstances
that is, the polit-
ical circumstances.
To the men of
the army the gar
lands and frills
are accepted with
childish delight.
Somewhere in the
bottom of his well.
drilled and Clearly
heart there is the
consciousness of
having done a big
thing well, and be-
ing most intensely
human, he gives
ear to the praise
Of his fellow citi-
zen. And then
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

the place OF the wife is by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp. She
was the first white woman in the
place and the only other one OF her
kind was 20 miles away. The situa-
ton was decidedly pleasant The
house was like an inverted waste
paper basket, a three-roomed bam-
boo shack set up on bamboo poles.
One room was dubbed the centips-
dorium because-well, because ev-
cry time the bride went in 1t she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot Goals, Also the
water had to be boiled and par
boiled: not alone the water for
drinking purposes, but
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

again, sarIands are few, While con-
gressional committees are prolific
me army knows that it is impossible
10 explain to the gentleman from
Long Island or Poughl1eepsie, N. Y.
that little brown brother, hopping in
and out Of the brush, fanatically desir-
GUS OF clawing up an American citizen
with poisoned bolo, has little regard
for the federal statutes at large. And.
OF course, neither has Sammy, Jr., the
monumental gentleman who has en-
listed for reasons best known to him.
self and whose duty it is to catch the
aforesaid Moro, and generally clear
the path for those that follow after.
Private Sammy does his work and he
does 1t according to circumstances.
which are essentially nonpolitical.
Therefore it happens on occasionos
that the aforesaid Moro is sent yelp-
ing into eternity and Sammy Jr. re-
CARDS himself with a pleased grin.
Also, circumstances force him to
other untoward steps. Once there
was famous soldier, Mulvaney by
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

and somebody else does things
and behold. there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
soldiery who carry civilization in
their cartridges and progress at the
point of the bayonet. For, in mo-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-10-21
MRS. 8. J. BORLAND

Mrs S. j. Borland died last night At
her home at Citra. Mrs Rorland was
SO years of age. She had been max
ing her home in Citra during the win
ter months for the past so years, and
spent the summers in Steubenville ..
She was the mother Of Messrs. ]. 3.
Borland of Citra. d. s. Borland of Fort
Myers and Mrs w. E. Tonnor Of Citra.
The body was shipped this afternoon
to the old home al Steubenville, where
il will be buried Messrs Smith and
Roberts took up a casket and Mr.
Smith went up and embalmed the
body.
Mrs. Borland had been in feeble
health for some time and owing to
her age and weak constitution she
was unable to survive the illness She
was a veritable mother in Israel. was
loved and respected by all, and will
be greatly missed. The husband,
daughter and sons have the sincere
sympathy Of the entire community
Mr.. D. s. Borland does not know
that his mother is dead. The wires
are all down in his section and the
family has been unable to commune
cate with him.