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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-19
AIRsRlPs AND BOMBS.

The New York newspapers VINO mad
representatives to watch the expert
ments of Glenn H. Curtiss in dropping
oranges within few feet Of a yacht
express varying opinions as to whether
it would be practicable to drop bombs
from aeroplanes onto the decks OF
-warships, The New York Sun says:
"a platoon of either marines or blue
Jackets armed with the United States
rifle would be able to destroy a whole
flock of aeroplanes at 300 yards, Glenii
H. Curtiss' loftiest fight; or, for that
matter, at thousand yards. Our mea
hi bullseyes at the latter distance and
have little difficulty in doing it."
The New York Tribune takes an
other view. 1t says:
"There is not in the United States
navy man trained to shoot at fly
ing target in midair or piece of ord
nance capable of doing it. Military
experts know how craftsmanship SUI
fers when men tn battle fire up and
down steep hill. The targets at
which bluejackets shoot are at a
known level distance; 1.-The lodging
aeroplane changes both it's distance
and direction every moment. Until
vertical aiming ordnance Is perfected
we may remember Hiram Maxim's re-
mark that thousand rife bullets may
pass through an aeroplane's wings
without disabling IT,"
The Times believes that mo aero
plane can be poised In the air long
enough to take careful aim" and that
mo formidable bomb can be made to
detonate by contact
The New York World says:
"Mr. Curtiss has only made be-
ginning. Elaborate experiment may
develop aeroplane offense more rapidly
than aeroplane defense, since it in
wolves conditions so strange in field
so new. A million bullets, according
to Mr.. Maxim, may strike a thousand
aeroplanes and bring down only SO
many as have pilot or motor disabled.
The aeroplanes may not ply in full day
or high sunlight. There are dark
nights; fogs at times lie low on the
water, leaving the upper air. clear, per-
hitting an aeroplane to swoop unseen
almost to what the Sun calls brickbat
range of its mark.
"Mr, Brookins, an amateur with lit,
tie practice, has shown how the unde-
veloped aeroplane of today can be
urged to heights Of 5000 and 1000
feet Another amateur, Mr.. Harmon,
made fight record of more than two
hours, giving a ninety mile radius of
action. What would have been the
sensations in Simpsons fleet at Santi-
ago it, besides the torpedo boats to
watch, there had been thousand aero,
planes over the hills, capable of flying
ninety miles or more, waiting for dark
ness or favoring; mist to sally forth?
The Boston Herald believes that by
the time our new 10000 ton battle
ships are in commission it is not at all
unlikely that an aeroplane will have
been perfected that will be able to put
them out of business. Rear Admiral
Sigsbee sees in the Curtiss expert
ments "a first step toward making the
aeroplane an instrument of naval war
fare" and he adds that it is only a
question Of developing more perfect
instruments for hurting shells from the
sky with greater accuracy, when it
will be possible for the aerial des-
troyer to do it's damage from an alti-
tude of mile in the air"
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CHAPTER ".
In Which She Gives Heart to al
Hopeless Man.

In Which She Gives Heart TO
Hopeless Man.
dare say Kalvik is rather lively
during the summer season. Emerson
remarked to Cherry, later IN the day.
Eyes; the ships arrive IN May, ana
the fish begin TO run IN July. AFTER
that nobody sleeps.
She had come upon him staring
d,smritedly at the fire. and his dejec-
tjon softened her and drew out her
womanly sympathy. She had renewed
her efforts 20 cheer him up, seeking to
stir him out Of the gloom that I'M
prisoned him. With the healthy
optimism and exuberance of her nor
NAL youth she could not but deplore
the mischance that had changed him
into the suIlen, silent brute he seemed.
ut must be rather interesting he
observed, indifferently.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-19

Roosevelt in his story about his trip
in Africa tells of several birds that
he killed with rifle while they were
flying many yards distant from him.
The colonel tells it himself. One GER
tain1y, when reading the colonePs own
version, admires his ability. We in this
country need have no fear Of air ships
so long as Col. Roosevelt with rifle
can kill birds on the wing.
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THE FARM AND THE TARIFF.

The DeS MONIES CdpiC<aA .eIhSo
with an article in the Wall Street
Journal, which, in eject, ADVISES
the lowering Of prices on Wnat Inv.
farmer produces in order to make ~ I'LL. =
work harder to produce more. lnls
S.. gestion, the Capital believes rep
resents the low tariff sentiment gen
orally, which seeks to leave the pr proc @
nets of the farm without prote ctlon
in order to cheaper the cost of living
The Capital quotes the tariff on farm
products under the Payne-Aldrlcn tar
iff law to show just what these partles
are driving at:
bushel.
wheat f1our-Twenty-five per cent
cent ad valorem.
Oats-Fifteen cents per bushei.
Barley-Thirty cents per bushel.
Corn-Ffteen cents per bushel.
Rye-Ten cents per bushel.
Potatoes-Twenty-fiv cents per
bushel.
Hay-Four dollars per ton.
Butter-Six cents per pound
Cheese-Six cents per pound.
Milk. fresh-Two cents per gallon.
Cream-Five cents per gallon.
Epps-Ffve cents per dozen.
Cattle. less than one year old-Two
dollars per head.
Cattle. valued at $14 per head
Three dollars and seventy-hve Genus
per head.
- Cattle. valued at more than $14 per
head-Twenty-sev and a half per
cent ad valorum.
swine-One dollar and fifty cents
per head.
Sheen one year old-One dollar and
fifty cents per head
Sheep less than one year old-SeV'
enty-fve cents per head.
The tariff. Of 25 cents a bushel on
wheat, the Capital says, was OF no
benefit whatever to the farmer When
wheat was selling at from 80 to 81
cents bushel and Canada was q
wilderness. The same is held to be
true OF the tariff on barley, oats, rye
hay. etc. Now that wheat Is worth 81
a bushel, however, and other farm
cereals at a proportionately high price
and Canada with it's millions Of acres
Of fertile. productive land, is being set
tied up, the tariff becomes of vital i'm
portance to the grain producers Of the
United States.
When cattle and hogs were pro-
duced In this country sufficient for our
own consumption and a large surplus
for export, and were selling at price
that scarcely represented the cost ct
production, the Capital continues, the
duty cut little figure; but today, with
cattle ranges Of the west all gone,
with Mexico on the south and Canada
on the northern boundaries, and with
the Argentine Republic, with it's mil.
lions Of acres Of fertile, uncultivaten
soil, the tariff on sheep, cattle and
hogs means to the farmers Of the
United States a fair profit or the go.
ing back to the old days which repre-.
scented meager profits or actual loss.
The removal of the entire duty on
manufactured articles, clothing, etc,
would not compensate the farmers for
even moderate reduction Of the duty
on farm products, according to the
Capitals view, and it warns the far
mer that the movement to bring on
another tariff war is leveled at him,
as he will be the one who will get the
worst Of it.
It is needless to add that Iowa,
whose prosperity depends so much
upon the prosperity Of the farmer, will
share any loss that the farmer suffers
from tariff legislation which Is aimes
at the DEDUCTION of his profits.
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The raging of the old postoffice
building to make way for a new s225,-
600 federal building that will house
MT only the postof1ce, but the federal
court as well, strikes many people as
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-08

studied the sen-currents. ana meas
lired their force BY way of expert
ment various objects, such as cannuns.
were raised to the surface, and n guam
;tity OF wood was recovered, so we'll
preserved as to resemble stone.
d "trhe rest OF the work we had to
leave in order that we might perfect
our machinery New apparatus has
since been designed by Cayalierc Pine.
while have carried still farther my
study Of Vigo's history. !i
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spirit will be appcased the sooner and
go away. These people resist the doc
tors, turn away nurses and organize
the worst feature of the whole bust
ness. Whole villages rise against the
doctors nurses and disnfcctors whom
the government has sent to the
stricken districts. They are mobbod
beaten and thrown into ponds and
rivers, thor Instruments are broken
and their medicines and disinfectants
poured out into the nearest pond or
river. The result is that the police ar
rive, followed by Cossacks, who
"quiet" the disorders by shutting
the people up, or using the fnout, In
many cases persons who have nothing
to do with doctors share the mobbing,
for to be we'll clothed often causes one
to be mistaken for doctor Little
wonder that the Red Cross society
cannot persuade doctors to 80 TO the
provinces. The other day 40 doctors
We're advertised for. They were to be
paid $3.50 per month and travelling cX
penscs. but only 10 applied and try as
they will, the authorities cannot III
the remaining 30 vacancies.
ROUGH ON PRIESTS.
In the government OF Samara. where
the epidemic is very bad, the peasants
have risen against the pops or village
priests, They seem to have got hold
Of the Idea that the pops spread the
cholera III order to make money out Of
funerals. In many cases the villagers
mot together and sentenced the pop TO
death, as a punishment for his cupid
ity. The result Is that priests us well
rs doctors flee from the villages, so
that the dead are buried without any
religious services.
The rioters show themselves most
hostile toward the cholera barracks
which have been improviscd N some
districts. When patients are carried
there by force crowds demand that
they should be given mn to their
families When this is refused they
storm the barracks, and carry off the
patients. In many places, Infatuated
by failure they have set fire to the
buildings, thereby forcing the doctors
and nurses to carry the patients out,
Meanwhile, tho liberal press COM
plains bitterly That the government Is
doing nothing to combat this dread
visitor. and that they even put dlf-
Gcultics in the Doctors way, one paper
declares that ovcr 10000 people have
died in Russia during the summer
simply because II IL nobodS's duty TO
see that towns and villages are kept
clean and healthy 50 far, the gov
crnment has rcsorted 10 liz one rem
cdy for all illsa-ihc delegation of II
general. The general goes to n village
with IL detachment OF Cossacks, forces
medicine down peoples Threats al the
bayonet's point, and sets soldiers to
guard the hospitals Needless to say,
the remedy Hes deeper than this. once
The endemic dies down, OWNS to heavy
frosts. or lack of victims, the general
goes back to st, Petersburg and gets
a decoration for his trouble, while tho
same systcn, OF nth, superstitlous
Ignorance and misery reisns in the
village. ready 10 welcome the cholera
''"' MARIE TiLoN.
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lspecial correspondence.)

ut. PETERSBURG. Sept. %
Aan> Cholera, that dread disease which.
happily, is scarcely more than Il
name in America, is again reap
ing her harvest in Russia Over 10000
persons have been attacked by it dur
ing the past SIX weeks. Half of them
have died. the victims of the lack OF
sanitation.
European Russia possesses 762 cities
OF these, just 1i9 can boast Il water
supply and only 81 are drained. None
of the Siberian or Asiatic towns have
any drainage at all; but we will deal
with the cholera in European Russia,
which Is in constant intercourse with
the civilized world. and must. sooner or
later. spread the cholera germs among
her neighbors.
England has forgotten the horrors or
plague and cholera. America never
knew them. In medieval Europe they
were almost yearly visitors, leaving
their imprint on history's pages. to be
read by posterity with horror. The
scenes to be witnessed in Russia today
might be pages torn out of these an
nails.
In South Russia tho people suffer
more than elsewhere, falling i'll by the
thousand. Towns. settlements and vii
lagos are attacked with inpartiality.
The coal fields of the Don district are
Ike one huge battlefield. Four thou
sand miners persisted there within one
week. Those who had still the strength
to do so ran away with their wives and
children, leaving all their earthly pos
sessions,w willing to face starvation rath-
err Than stay in that charnel-housc But
many Of them did not go far before the
dreaded "spirit'-as they call the chol-
ora-caught them. They died by the
roadside, and. as there were none to
bury them, their bodies were left lying
in the bitches. The plight of the chill
drcn Is worst of all. Many of them.
left without parents, literally starve
on their way to n ncighboring village,
whence they are chased because they
bring the spirit" with them. The
provinces around the Don coal district
have caught the cholera from the min
ers and the mines, which. u fcw.rwccks
ago were tourishing industrial Gentcrs,
arc now ruined for years to;come.
PLAGUE IN ODESSA
In Odessa and around it the plague
has added its horrors to the cholera.
The plague, however, Is less dreadful
FIFTY per cent Of the cholera patients
die, whilst the plague claims from 20
to 30 per cent. In the infected districts
people are afraid to talk to strangers
or send their children to school. In
the villages, it is a fatal thing for a
| traveller to drink Of the village well.
| lie is sure 10 be stoned to death on
| the charge of bringing infection into
J the water And yet the people in
whose family cholera has made raids
do not hesitate to eat unrIpc fruit or to
| drink the drtiest water from the sew
| ors. In the towns. boiled water and
| tea are distributed free in the streets
| Huge urns of It stand at the Corners
| ana passers- by are invited to drink It,
! Yet, even in st. PetersburG, where
| cholera has ragged every autumn for tho
| last three years, the working men turn
! away from the boiled water to take u
! long drink out of the canals which are
| also the sewers of the city. They arc
1 j. . . u X .
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Especial Correspondence, )
oNpoN, sept. 2s.-"Mental 81

r. ONDON, Sept. 2S.--"Mcntal ST.
Nituss Dance" is the definition
given by their own personal
friends of the condition of some
Of the wealthicst Americans in their
race after excitement and variety This
nervous restessncss and dssatisfac-
ton with their surroundings Is becom-
ing more noticeable season after season,
Money is not considered for one second
when it is n question of achieving some
| desire. In fact, the great idea Is to get
rid of us much as possible in attain
ing their object.
The saying. .He spends money like
an American" has now become general
in society when people want to eX-
press the idea that another filings gold
about like chaff.
No people are so popular in Yorkshire
az Harry Payne Whitney and his wife.
The only grievance their neighbors have
against them is tho little time they
spend there each year. For II few
weeks sport and the upkecp of their
shooting box he pays out something
party of friends will arrive from New
York on Sunday or Monday and the
end of the next week finds the lot Of
them in Paris or on their way back
again to America.
a good many great American grandos
Danes dctest the shooting season be-
cause it ties them to tho historic Scotch
castles for several weeks ut time.
The birds must be shot and as every
one knows, Englishmcnt are never so
happy as when they are killing
things"
II might be chained to this place."
said one great Anglo American mon,
dnine, the way in which ] have to
sit here and play hostess to II troop Of
my husbands dull friends. 1t is enough
to kill any woman with an idea of tho
Joys OF liberty ] shall cut it next
year" She went on. and make my
sistei-in- law do the honors'
This lady shares ono OF the oldest.
British titles and her husband has five
seats. When She is IN Paris she pines
TO be in London. After n few days in
London she cries for New York and be-
fore she is week there she has again
taken her ticket for Europe,
THE GOuLDS IN LONDON.
Mrs. George Jay Gould and her girls
have been enjoying themselves in Lon
don. Vivian and Gloria have taken
such n fancy to 1t that they have made
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Dr. lbcrti is a stout little man. typi-
cally Italian In appearance. lie Is evil
IDENTIFY no dreamer, although wheh ne
talks of the treasure of Vgo bay his
eyes lightup with the light Of romance.
He has been able to convince hara
headed business men that his schemes
are practical and no one who talks 10
him for I'VE minutes can ever donpt
again that he believes in them thor
oughly himself, ,,,,,,, =
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=, ~ ooso,,,t on The Treasure

n grand assault on the treasure,
IT had come to the conclusion that
previous treasure searching parties had
sought in the wrong places for the gall
Icons, owing to mistakes which had
discovered In ancient maps: snnd this
conclusion was justified. With the aid
OF the hydroscope. we found the treas.
urcships, md In some cases they lay
where they had never been searched
Tor before: we found their names ana
dimensions, prospccted the sea-oed.
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QUEER REMEDIES.

The remedies some Of the peasants
use are enough to kill healthy peo-
pie. let alone cholera patients. Their
idea is that cholera. being spirit
needs a stronger spirit to Kill it; so
that many take double doses of vodka
which is VIGOROUSLY bad to drink when
cholera is about, being fatal to persons
only slightly i'll. a hundred years ago
the priests used to give patients
mixture of ipeaacunnha. followed by
an ounce of EPSON salts. Recently
came across an old paper issued by
q bishop in Lithuania In I'LL, when
cholera ragged there and in it these two
medicines are warmly recommended
with weak tea and Cruel as diet Then
the room in which a patient lay was
dsinfected by burning mixture Of
turpentine, juniper berries. sulphur,
sage, onion. absinthe, garlic and dried
lilac flowers. Nurses kept Juniper
berries or hprseradish in their mouths
and held their breath when approach
ing their patients and wore lid gloves
and linen dresses which were con-
stantly disinfccted with the above
mixture. All linen was washed with
I've and one cottage in each village
was set apart Cor the sick and another
as q place of quarantine for those ar
irving from chocra-strckcn villages,
In 1910 Russian villages can boast no
such accommodation, The peasants
,..t .
anna, weak tea and cruel, resort TO n
concoction of cqual parts OF virgin
vinegar, napthn. ammonia. turpentino
and camphor, plus big pinch of
powdered pepper, This stuff Is given
to the pntient In doses fit for horse,
Even some of the popular papers
gravely print this prescription and call
upon their readers TO use Il on cholera
stricken friends and have nothing
whatever to do with doctors, or their
medicines and disinfectants. one
understands. after reading It, why the
death rate is 50 terribly high
PAGAN THEORIES.
Some towns Ia the Caucasus, tired Of
trying 10 telch me peppt Miiat ihNu-
icnes they are 10 take, have resorted
to Distributing gratis, hastily filtered
water at the cost of $l,5Ooo0O per town,
and doubling the price of vodka SO
tina, people could not afford to buy so
much The results are not what the
municipality expected, for the people
refuse to drink the filtered water and
raid the vodka stores, thus getting it
| for nothing. But there are millions OF
| Leoplc who apply no remedy, They be-
| iicve the cholera Is some evil spirit
| who Is hungry for human victims. AS
| he Is a spirit and powerful, he will not
20 away until he has had us many
| ncoplc as he wants. Those who hold
this pagan theory refuse even TO sep
arntc the sick from the whole. Their
argument Is that, the more people die
OF cholera the better. because the evil
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lCHOLERA'S TOLL OF DEATH DUE
TO RUSSIAN IGNORANCE.
Dying Drinking
Nurses
The nmen andD Villages.

encouraged in this by the priests. who
recently held n ceremony in n barge
and blessed the Ncva. after which the
people thought it's water quito safe
to drink. Cholera, therefore. has two
great friends-lack of sanitation and
the extreme ignorance of the people,
who absolutely refuse to be treated by
doctors or by competent nurses.
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PART TWO

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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-03-17
Opening Week
At keavin's

This is the week Of the grand spring
opening at Minot's Shrine of Fashion.
Keavin's Department store. Several
Thousand men and women from Minot
and vicinity have visited the store,
during the week, and each lady has
been presented with beautiful car.
nation. '.'' ~"
II The. store is bower Of loneliness.
Always recognized as one Of the pref
test stores in the state, 1t appears to
q great deal better advantage than
ever, bedecked in all of its spring
splendor. Women's and misses hand.
some new spring suits, the very high.
est class millinery, all sorts of ready
to- wear garments for women. and
misses, spring and summer silks, etc.,
have all been arranged in an attrac.
tive manner. The men have not been
forgotten. Mr.. Keavin has always
prided himself on his choice stock OF
mems suits, and furnishings. He has
. much better and larger stock this
spring than ever, and the prospects
for splendid years business could
not be brighter. Visit the store some
time during the opening.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-03-17
Soubrette Said Hang

A little comedy, which was not sup.
posed to be q regular part of the per,
Torrance, was enacted on the side at
the opera house Monday night, while
the VIM. See company was engaged
in presenting ''The Gambler" Be.
tween the second and third acts, just
before the gambler was to have been
thwarted in his effort to kill the loyer
and marry the innocent girl, a little
soubrette started to do singing spe-
cialty stunt Her high soprano notes
didn't jlbe worth cent with the ef-
forts Of the pianist, and she grew
\real angry and said word that sound
e like damn" The pianist left the
opsras house, as she understood that
the Aemarks we're directed to her, and
the ss@brette swung herself behind
one OF ME wings. Manager Bacon
interviewer the audience and was told
that they NAesstood that the SOU
brette had sa very, very naughty
word, and he ao,ed the performance
then and them Me announced that
the contract VIZ cancelled forthwith.
Explanations latt rom the soubrette,
we're to the effecNAat she didn't say
damn. but thank' The manager
decided to allow tn company to com
plete it's week sta\ The company
is said to be up tthe standard Of
repertoire concerns! =
Geo. Else the weAknown G.. N.
conductor is very ill dneumonia and
complications at Antle
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-03-17
Drummer Is a Candidate

1t has been reported quite generally
about the city that Mr.. Drummer, our
postmaster, was not a candidate for
reappointment. In justice to Mr.. Brun-
ner, we might say that he is a can
didate, and his friends are doing
what they can for him, in the way Of
an endorsement. The Mnot postoffice
is one OF the banner postofices in the
state and has been run in a business
like manner. Mr. Drummer has played
no favorites, and has given the best
of service. The Independent has no
particular interest in the matter, ex-
cept that as one. of the largest pat
rons Of this Office, we hope to see it
continued in as efficient a manner as
it is now being run, and we feel that
if Mr.. Drummer is returned, we will
have at least four years more of this
same kind Of service. 1t is to be
hoped that the matter will be kept
cut Of politics as much as possible.