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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
STEAMBOATS, IN FIVE YEARS.

III every man in the Des Moines
valley will awaken to the Importance
OF this project, steamboats, will be
running on the Des Moines river from
keokuk to Des Moines within five
years
This enthusiastic statement in the
Des Moines Capital was prompted by
the report of Major Richie, in which
the government was told the Des
Moines river could be made navigable
and in which the government was
urged to make the survey at once. The
Capital continues:
The people along the lower Des
Moines river are much interested in
this project. In little phamphlet
called Wealth" published by the
Greater Des Moines committee, the
statement is made that the Des
Moines river valley produces more
tonnage than the valley of any other
river in the United States, excepting
only the Ohio, the Mississippi and the
Missouri. The statement is also made
that as freight highway the Des
Moines river would be fourth in the
United States. The same authority
states that the eighteen counties in
the Des Moines river valley produced
in a single year the following:
45,003,760 bushels of corn
14,S18,620 bushels of oats.
769,597 bushels of wheat.
438 bushels of barley
254, $50 bushels Of rye.
Additional and convincing showings
can and will be made relative to the
use that would be made of the river
in case it Is improved.
The Des Moines river would be q
valuable feeder to the Mississippi. And
the Improvement of the Des Moines
river would make the improvement OF
the Mississippi of value to this entire
state
The Ottumwa Commercial associa-
tion is doing all in its power to further
the project. A Des Moines river navi-
cation committee has been at work for
months and it will not be through
fault of theirs if the Capitals predic-
tion Is not fulfilled
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
TowNER ON DIVORCE.

Judge Horace M. Towner of Corning,
addressing the Congregational club OF
the Plymouth Congregational church
at Des Moines, gave the following
suggestions as remedy for the
divorce evil:
The lawful age of marriage should
be raised at least to 18 years No
marriage should be lawful unless previ-
Gus public notice has been given, SO
that those interested may have an op-
portunity to intervene.
No marriage should be solemnized
except in the presence Of witnesses
known to the person officiating.
The parties and witnesses should be
put under oath as to the necessary
facts, and false swearing made per-
jury.
A heavy fine or Imprisonment should
be put upon the parties, and person
officiating, when the requisites Of the
law have not been complied with.
No marriage except as prescribed by
law should be recognized by law, and
all, loose, irregular, common law,
or any other so-called forms of mar
riage should be forbidden under heavy
penalties.
Divorces should be permitted to re-
marry only after proving to trial court
that second matrimonial venture is
justified.
Persons migrating from one state to
another for the purpose of securing a
divorce, should not be given a decree
for any cause not recognized in such
other state.
The trial court should appoint in all
uncontested cases. an attorney to in
vestigate and defend and to prevent
collusion and fraud
Secret hearings should be abolished; !;
all evidence should be made public
Judge Towner held that intemper-
ance, too, secluded home life and i'm
provident marriage are the real causes
for the increase in the number of
divorces. He defended the divorce as
last resort declaring that "the awful
conditions disclosed in every divorce
court where hatred and terror and un-
speakable cruelty exist, prove that it
is imperative to end such conditions
even with the knife of divorce
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
d her. She was thinking Of something

ed her. She was thinking of something
else.
You heard me?" she cried in a
smothered voice-"that day in the res
taurant? You couldn't have helped
hearing every word. Obi" Her voice
rose in a wall. "Oh! What must you
think of me?"
He came close to her. The street
was full of people. Some passersby
stared at the girl with her face COW
cred as If she We're crying and the tall
young man bending over her and
plainly trying to comfort her. But for
all Allan knew, they, too. We're alone
in some enchanted garden.
I'D like to tell you what do think
| of you" he said unsteadily Some
time when we're better acquainted |
shall do it. But without waiting l can
tell you what l think about myself,
and it's that I'm the luckiest fellow on
earth to find you again. Now I'm GO
{. Ing to walk along with you and find
out what your name is-besides Wini-
| fred"
The client came promptly at eleven.
And he waited as long as if Allan had
been an acknowledged ornament to
the bar rather than beginner with a
name to make.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
FROM VARIOUS
POINTS OF VIEW
Observations by Courier Readers
Who Cross the Paths of the
lnterviewers. & G. e &

There is hardly an individual in OF
tumwa who has not had occasion to
have a five dollar bill changed In his
or her life. This transaction happen
ed in an unusual way the other day in
st. Louis, and as result many peo
pie have been puzzled over the fol
lowing apparently simple little prob
lem.
"A stopped in BIS store to get Sc
bill changed B couldn't change ii
and A then told him to give him ST
and keep the $5 until later He did so
In the evening A stopped at the drug
store and gave B 81 and got his SIS bill
back. Did anybody get skinned? II
SO, who, and how much?
Of course any bright reader of the
Courier can answer the inquiry of
hand. The answers will be published
if seat to tho Problem Eoltor, Cour
ier, Ottumwa, Iowa"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
THE COST OF CRIME.

IN one Of the current magazines
Hugh Weir declares that crime costs
the nation annually $1,3f3, 100000, a
egure, he says, equalling the total
v, lue Of all the wheat harvested
throughout the country in 1908, all the
coal mined and all the wool clipped.
Every hour Of the twenty-four, says
he, crime costs the nation 100000
making the national debt of $964,0OO
seem a trifle in comparison. The fig,
ures he presents are interesting. He
contrasts the total of 118 murders
year in Chicago with twenty in Lon,
don, which is four times as big.
Georgia, he says, has forty-fve mur-
ders a year, more than in the whole
British empire. Mr.. Weir draws the
following comparisons.
more people are murdered in this
country every year than are killed on
the railroads. In three years our muir
der victims total more than the losses
of the British army in the Boer war.
There are four and half times as
many murders for every million of our
population today as there were twenty
years ago.
1.-TWO in every hundred murderers in
the United States are punished by law.
The other ninety-eight go absolutely
free. In 95 per cent Of the homicides
of Germany the murderer is brought
to Justice. In Spain the number is SO
per cent; in France. 81; in Italy, 77;
in England, so.
Mr.. Weir does not attempt to ad-
vance a remedy He merely calls at
tention to the facts he has learned by
investigation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

Dudley, Jan. 11.-(Special) y Fifty
years Of happy married life has been
the kind lot awarded by providence to
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cramblit, pioneer
and highly respected residents of near
Dudley, who January 5 celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary.
Their life has been one of sweetness
and happiness. Mr.. and Mrs. Cramblit
are natives Of Ohio, residing in the
Buckeye state until after the close of
the Civil war, when they came and To-
Gated in Wapello county. Here, on a
farm near Dudley, they have resided
for nearly forty years.
Natives of Ohio.
Mr.. Cramblit was born in Guernsey
county, Ohio, October 16 1884, and is
now past the ripe age Of seventy-five
years His wife, whose maiden name
was Sophia Dunkle, was born in Nc
Arthur, Vinton county, January 20,
1910, and she, like her husband has
passed the three score and ten years.
After courtship which extended for
several months, Sophia Dunl5le and
John Cramblit were married January
s, 1860, and went to housekeeping on
small farm, where two children were
born to them, one dying in infancy.
After two years Of happy welded life,
Mr.. Cramblit left his bride and re-
sponded to the call of his country and
enlisted in the northern army Aug.
7, 1862. He served faithfully for three
years in the Civil war.
| He participated in several active en-
gagements, in one of which a bomb
was thrown which killed a man on
each side of him. but he escaped with
out injury Mr. Cramblit was disabled
while throwing up entrenchments at
Vicksburg.
| Mrs. Cramblit is a living witness of
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

TO straighten out the situation, she
reached for his ear and said.
Come along o me-"
Say cub, is this regular?" asked
Wheaton, appealing to the top Of the
pear tree.
No answer was returned, and he
permitted himself to be led to the gate.
His trunk had been deposited there by
the carriage, but the strong-armed
cook jumped him over it, and then,
releasing his ear, pointed down the
road towards the depot and said
Hike yourself"
"But-but | don't understand, you
know. | am invited to pass couple
OF weeks here, and | arrive"
Come back at or o'clock"
But is anyone dead or anything?
Put me- next and I'll send for my
trunk. Regular mystery, you know,
and I'm no Sherlock Holmes"
Hike alongl" was the answer the
cook returned as she left him and re-
turned to the pear tree just as hui
man form was scrambling down the
ladder to make a rush for the house.
An hour later at the country depot,
Fred Waterman and his mother met
the mystifed young Wheaton, and ex-
plantations were in order. At least, he
was induced to return to the manor
house with them, and they, on their
part agreed to do their best to solve
the mystified young Wheaton, and ex-
When the young man was introduced
to Miss Mamie her bushes and confu-
sion told all, and as soon as he had
reached the privacy of his room he
kicked himself and said:
What an unmitigated mule was
not to see through it and take walk
until she could come down. / deserve
the boot, but I'm going to fall in love
with her and marry her instead.
Fred's own sister and / called her
cub, and threatened to lombard her
out of the treel"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

the thrilling scenes in Ohio when the
Morgan raid passed through her part
of the state. She lived with her one
little son and titled what she could OF
their little farm, occasionally hiring
neighbor to cradle grain for day or
so, and herself binding it into sheaves,
and many times failing out enough
wheat to send to the mill to make her
own bread.
Suffers Hardship.
She with many other women of that
time can tell true stories of the hard
ships which women were forced to en-
dure. Near the close of the war the
fever Of the west ran high in the veins
OF those living in the east and Mrs.
Cramblit sold their little home and
stock and when Mr.. Cramblit was hon
orably discharged and returned home,
they were ready to embark for the
west. Coming to Wapello county in
October, 1865, they entered land one
mile northeast of Munterville and
lived there until February, 1886. Eight
children were born to them while liv-
ing on this farm, all OF whom are liv-
ing and all have visited their parents
in the past six months.
Rear Large Family.
The youngest son is "a years of age
and is practicing medicine in Murdo,
South Dakota. The oldest son died
May 2, 1908. and with the exception Of
A. J. Cramblit of Troy, all live around
their parents. In February, 1886, the
Cramblits purchased the farm where
they now reside, one mile northwest
of Dudley. Mr.. Cramblit is an invalid
and in very feeble health, while Mrs.
Cramblit is very active for one of her
age. Mr. and Mrs. Cramblit have
twenty-three grandchildren, besides
Ione great grandchild.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

turned to college together. He had ar
rived a day or two sooner than was
expected, and he had arrived to find
Fred's sister dressed in one of Fred's
suits, and up tree at that. The girl
was gasping for breath when Ronald
Wheaton, for that was the name, con-
tinued:
Lost your voice, old man, or aren t
you glad to see me? I'll bet cookie
can hit you in the head with a pear
at the first shot Will you come down
or shall / come up?"
II am not-not Fred!" quavered q
voice from the limbs overhead.
"The deuce you aren't! Where Is
Fred?"
"He's-he's gone to town."
"Oh, and you must be his brother.
Strange he never mentioned you.
Well, I'm Wheaton. I've come to loaf
for couple of weeks l suppose Fred
will be back soon? Is your mother at
home?"
'N-no, sir"
"All gone but you, Ell? Well, can't
you come down and show me where
am to stow my traps? Don't move
about in that careless way or you'll
get fall. Don't believe you ever
climbed tree before"
Wont you p-please go away?" cried
a voice that seemed to be half drowned
in tears. GO away and come back at
o'clock"
well, / like your cheek! What shall
/ go away for? Fred said the whole
family would welcome me. Don't take
me for an imposter, do you?"
mo, but-but"
"Oh, quit kidding and come down
and shake hands Did your sister &c
up town."
The girl up tree didn't know
whether to say yes or no, and there
would have been painful pause but
for the temperance of Mary Her
nose was all right. She saw the situa
tion at a glance and rose to it. Ad
vancing to the young man, who was
ahni,t ito axnlain his nrasanca and try
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
THE EVENING STORY
DEAF AND DUMB.
BY HARRIET LUMMIs SMITH.

BY HARRIET LUMMIS SMITH.
Copyright, 1910. by Associated Liter
ary Press.
The two young men seated at the
round table in the little open-air res
taurant had kept up desultory flow
of talk. such as was compatible with
doing justice to the delicious soft
shelled crabs for which the sea gull is
noted. But it was soundless conver-
sation, inarticulate, for the fingers
talked rather than the lips. George La
yeton was deaf mute, and his cousin.
Allan Merrifield, though less proficient
in the sign language. had mastered
enough of its intricacies to enable him
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

The st. Louis Times believes that
If anyone is prompted to move from
the country to the city by the desire
to find more of social life he is badly
fooled by making the move. I'm the
cities" says the Times, eve have
Lonely clubs, and we sit on our front
stoops, with our back to the people on
the next front stoop, whose names we
do not know" The Times believes that
the only people who really enjoy city
life are those who live in the suburbs
and who have country clubs and golf
links. But it says. they are happy
only in proportion to the touches Of
rural existence they succeed in i'm
parting to their surroundings.'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
THE CHURCH AND THE DRAMA.

The press and the pulpit have had
more or less to say of late of the
problem play, in which frequently
the problem resolves itself into ques-
tion OF how far some manager can go
without running foul of the police
Many remedies have been proposed.
Among them the suggestion that a
stage censorship be established. The
managers find by boosting up the box
office receipts, however, that the pub
lie seems to want this class of plays,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13

Keokuk's success in securing it's
gigantic water power dam improve
ment is an example of what continued
effort will do. Keokuk has been talk
ing dam for years, and not talking for
it alone, but working for it. The sue
cess of its efforts should inspire the
other Iowa cities to keep plugging
away after what they want until they
get it The Keokuk way seems to be
worth trying
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-01-13
q q a THE ONLY REMEDY
9bS)bS)b FOR BLOOD POISON

The first symptom of Contagious usually
ulcer insignificant that
blood becomes fully
body
effect portion
influence
is
we Will this book,
all who write. cvrr1er cr,,crDrc ~ an, .x,r. :
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

Never cross pure breeds of fowls.
1t is right and proper to grade up The
common stock by the use of pure bred
males if you prefer, as such course is
much better than no improvement at
all, but when you have pure breeds
keep them pure. Crossing destroys
all the characteristics of the breeds.
Cross two birds CT non-setting breeds
and the result will be females that
will set. The object should rather be
to select the hest layers of the breeds
In the endeayor to increase the aver.
age each year. The hens that have
made good records were never pro.
duced by crossing, Keep a record oil
your fowls and aim to have something
better from them every year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
Economic Justice

BY F. w. Blackmar, Professor Oh
Sociology and Economies, Uhiver-
sity of Kansas,
The great problem before the
world today is the establishment OF
economic justice in industrial life.
Political liberty and civil rights have
been we'll nigh achieved by the
struggles of former generations. The
question before the people today is
to what extent and in what manner
law shall control the affairs in tbs
sosnomic world. There has been
great advance in recent years in re-
gard to methods of business. In
dustrial affairs have been placed on
q higher moral plane than formerly,
There is a feeling among all righ'
thinking people which amounts to 8
demand that justice shall be cstab-
lished and practicsd in the indus
trial world as we'll as in the Politi-
cal. Many of the old question:
which we're formerly OF vital i'm
portancs have been practically set
tied, and it is now time for organ
lied labor and organized capital &c
advance to a higher plane of actor
In the settlement Of their disputes
1t is generally conceded that Ia
bOr has right to organize and
right to demand terms from Its en-
ployer. to make contracts, and, Sc
far as legal authority is concerned
has a right to strike. 1t is conceded
that the wage Garner ought to have
a living wage and fair share Of TIT
products resulting from improved
machiBery and business invention
that the eight hour day is just an'
right and sufficient for all purposes
and that the life and health anC
busnsss interests of the lahore
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

sure that TIE eggs were uo5 fertile
ord complain about IT, The fact
THAI the eggs spoil is eyldence that
They were once FERTILE, and every
rot en- egg al the close Of three weeks
Incubation indicates a fertile egg.
The lntertiIe egg, on the contrary, at
the end Of the Matching period, shows
but little signs of being stale, and ia
On'y aged by the process otincubation,
1t w uld not be very good 10 eat,
since 1t has passed the eating stag ,
yet it would be as edible as an egg,
exposed for the same length OF time
to the ordinary heat of a kitchen.
Poultry raisers usually boil these
infertlle eggs and feed them to the
young chicks.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

There Is no industry that can be
started with less capital than the
poultry business, and you don't need
to wait three or four years for returns
as you do with cattle. ny paying
twenty or thirty dollars for pen of
pure bred fowls, you can start in
business right away, by selling eggs
at from one dollar to three dollars per
setting. Or if you want to go at 1t
cheaper, you can buy few settings
Of pure bred eggs this season and
then by next season you can con-
meuce advertising pure bred eggs for
sale.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
Time

Is sometimes matter of great
Importance. A watch that doesn't
tell the correct time is just as bad as
no watch at all. Ifyour watch shows
an incliHa tlon to be eccentrlcor I'M
steady In It's habits, bring it to us and
we will put it in shape at a very rea-
soRable cost.
Q. e. CONKL1N, the Jeweler
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

gained labor or organized capital
contemplates any change in wages,
hours of labor, or indeed anything
which is liable to cause a dispute
leading to strike, such party mus
give thirty days notice of the de-
sired change. During this time, il
a re quest for a board of arbitration
Is made, there can be no strike OF
lockout while the case is pending
for settlement. This law applies to
public service corporations and
mines. This gives the community
caance 70 demand continuous
service IN such Industries. 1t *
quite within their rights to make
such demand, for every good gov.
ernmeRt should guarantee to The
public continuous service in those
enterprises which are essential to
I public welfare.
A coal miners strike is unjust tc
the community and frequently
causes much suffering among the
people. Coal mining is an industry
that affects nearly every family cut.
side of the natural gas belt. There
Is no reason or justice in allowing
the strife between operators anc
miners, comparatively few in mum
Der, to seriously interfere with the
eomfort and well being of the en-
tire community.
Organized laborers In theiv strug-
gle for higher wages, for protection
and economic justice toward them
selves, likewise have frequently for
gotten the larger civic duties. The,
have narrowed the struggle to them
selves when it should have been
conducted on a broader basis of hu
man welfare. Labor organization,
are a part of community ano
should feel 50, and they should work
toward community rights, oommun.
ity welfare, and community prog
ress. The same may be said In re-
gard to corporations. They are toe
narrow and selfish in their life. TIE
struggle that is now going on to
force vested property interests and
corporate wealth to contribute to
the general welfare of the commun.
lily is not against property itself nor
against organized wealth, but against
the practice of corporate greed
which forgets the welfare of the
peop.e who make corporate wealth
possible. 1t is not laterded to deal
unjustly with capital but to force II
to be decent when. it would act
otherwise.
II is time for both capital and la
Dor to understand that the question
that they are attempting to settle is
a social question and that the com :
munity, through wise and just laws,
is the only agency that may sstab-
lish 1t. In the name of common
sense and good government, let
them quit their Anticipated methods
of warfare and have their disputes
settled and their rights declared in
an orderly way by legally author
lied tribunal as in other differences
that arise between citizens.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
POULTRY AND FARM
NOTES

1t is q good plan to teach the chicks
to roost In the poultry house right
from the start or as soon as they are
turned out of the coop. Arrange
some low roosts they can use as soon
as big enough.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

A good way 30 keep dirt, files, ETC.,
from dropping into the pail while
milking Is to cover 1t with a clean
cheese cloth and milk through it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
FOR SHERIFF :.

4 hereby announce myself as a
candidate for sheriff of Neosho
county subject to the action OF Vne
Republican primary.
Thad W. Grady.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
EOR OOuNTY SUPT.

l hereby announce that | Will be a
candidate for the office OF county
sunerintendeut OF public INSTRUCTION
of Neosho county before the coming
Republican primary.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
Chanute Coooeratlve Sanitary
Company

Vaults and sinks cleaned by their
improved odorless apparatus in day
time without offence.
Dead stock hauled away and Gre
mated. Leave orders with Boschert
81 Williams. They will be answered
promptly HOUSTON RAY
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03

The regularly MIXED and the
regularly fed COW is the contented
and profitable cow.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS

Thereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination as Regis.
ter of Deeds, subject 10 the action or
the Republican Primary.
w. E. Craig.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-06-03
FOR COUNTY SUPT.

| hereby annouce that will be a
candidate In the coming primary foT
nomination as the Republican canui,
date for County superintendent OF
@"'' w. r. Willis.