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Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
Status of the Snail.

IN France the Minister of Agriculture has made a careful examination of the . subject of snails and has established a legal status of the snail" He has issued a circular stating that snails arc to be defined as animals injurious to vegetation, and therefore legally subject to capture and destruction at all times. Snails are one of the favorite dishes for the table in France. In the winter of 1900 the consumption of the delicate food amounted to 500 tons. but since that time the amount has diminished. Eighty million snails are received nn-. nuaily by the Balles Centrales, the great est market iH Paris.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
The Sir77pHfed Car

The next great step was to reduce the number of parts. In one place the de Signers invented one piece that takes the place of 47. They devised the pedal con trol found in three Over land models. Push one pedal forward to go ahead backward to reverse. Push another pedal forward for high speed. The hands have nothing to do but steer. Come and see the cars and judge them for yourselves.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27

hand side through columnod archwaE. The stairway lS on the right-hand side, opening directly out of the livins-room and with . short section of stairs leading up from the kitchen 10 platform. afford ing the combination feature.
 The size of this cottage ls q feet q inches Tn width by 2S feet in depth. with q liberal piazza across the front. The ioof is treated In rambr!, style and has dormer windows in front. lighting the secOndstory chambers There are four chambers in the second story. full height with good bathroom and ample clothes closets The house IS low and has cot
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
Saloons in New York.

~ ODAY there are fewer saloons in the 13 Southern states than in Greater - New Nors. and only 6 few more than ;n the city Of Chicago. In New York tnere are 30.cro places where liquor is sold, in Chicago 2s.O00, and the entire Sol'h only 2s.o)O c In New York state the estimated population in 1905 was s.I6o.tS0. and tine government issued in the state that year 3I.0so special tax stamps" to persons desiring to engage in ihe manufacture and sale or liquor. Tbe I2 Southern states. with 23,5oo.0o0 peo- pie, secured in 1906 less than 5000 stamps
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
For the Home Gardener.

1TElIERE there aIe ntti- rb;-seuS a, nat ~rovd .SsuI ';-,e thr1i Pi-nrv W cf room. warmth tryaeSS and c.ear- illness. c
 Add Et;le Sl'phrr Go The wh-terssl for the trunks of th.. frri- trees
 Devote au hor- or two toward fxs-- handy devices ahout The house T-e Uiss will appreciate taaaA
 ffssSris hting i> uSess-s-r fs stating the best plants It tnSrres .Ircre bsa .rhv and stslsy plants than when they are allowed to grow ID in a hoJhc1S, TOW just as thick aS when they-rame rp small hOthouse will often ray large re- turns.
 Coal ashes are of 70 valle in ne garden.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
THE swANHILoA LOST.

Punta Arenas. Chila. May -s-Th' British bark Swanhilda hI~ 's,r wrecked on staten Island tho s'u-H- east extremity of Terra del Fls;.i. fr.. Captain Payne. his wife and rhlrr..r others drowned
 The Swanhilda sailed from CI-ll March l5 for the west coast .C Sr1t' Africa No details Of the disaster ht-, ,een received here
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
THE NICARAGuAN WAR.

san Juan del Sur Nicaragua. May 2b- Dispatches from Port Limpn. Costa Rica. state that revolutionarv agents there have received a wireless mess age from Bluefields confirming the re port of the defeat of the insurgents at Bluefields bluff.
 In the belief that victory has been gained by the MadriZ army. the whole country is celebrating. as this indicates an early ending of the way
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
WAREHOUSE AND BOX
 CARS 60 UP IN SMOKE
Spectacular Blaze Destroys Property of Phoenix and Eastern Railway.

Fire of unknown origin. spectacular while it lasted and entailing combined loss estimated at close upon $500, destroyed an empty warehouse, the property of the Phoenix X Eastern Railway company shortly before noon
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27

porters ot petty oshc-- in rhs VI, roccan naval division. who iu~.~re' .1 wea arinS beard - inches ia ier--- l spite 7f all the c.-.cisl threats and -a- treaties. For eight monti~ tI- rsr has not left lis ship. and Iseauwhii- h'> ''a-,-.l has grown steadily Now 70 de, --- F-~ been prepared by the msri>t-r ar r1- marine which viii limit nl l.sar,l> to Two and Oue-hfth inches in leus-h
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27

for Nicara Gua. early in the month ''l- taincd cIcarance papers thr"r-h .r. representations by agents of On" N .i rig government. and that >i" Mas n- tended from the first t' "pertt' .is1l'isi the rcVOlutionistS as War vessel
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
A cONTRABAND VESSEL

Washington. May 26.-Evidence has been presented that leads the state department to believe that the ship VenHs. which sailed from New Orleans
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
A SeVen-ROOm Cottage
DEsiG$ED BY cIIAs s. sEDGwIok, ARCHITECT

70 IE snug cottage design shown i'll 8 this illustration has T large living A room across the frcnt 12 feet ny 2i &O feet. with the dining-room II feet
 bv l5 feet. counertiu.. on inc left
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27

tace appea rance. II Is sided on the out side with narrow siding and shinsled in the gables and the roof. the shingles stained and the first story of the house painted in light colors. There Is a base mant under the entire house. The esti- matei cost. finished throughout in pine and painted with birch floors stained. Is $. C,lu exclusive of heating and plumbing
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
AH The Best Ideas

Before the Overland was made, motor car engineer ing had reached a high state of development. And the designers of the Overland, knowing this, combined the best ideas developed. But they made a new engine, which solved the most Serl- ous of motor problems. It is quiet and powerful. It is free from all complexities. The verieSt novice can al ways keep it going.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
Waking Fauons Table.

T HE pupils of a Kansas school are en- .9-ad in IIaking a table in which
 pieces of wood from all the famous buildings in the United States are being used. In compliance with request Gov srnor POthier. of Rhode Island. has sent to tho pupils piece of oak border which was formerly a part of the Rhode Island StateLOuSe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
Progressipeness is Keynote
of Hamilton's Advancement

One more newspaper man has won
big success in the advertising world
j. r. Hamilton, advertising manager of
Wanamakers in New York and Phil
adelphia, has just gone to Chicago to
join the force of The Herbert Kaufman
Handy company, firm of adver-
tising counselors composed entirely OF
neWspapertr men. Mr.. Hamilton
is a graduate of Stanford University
and before taking up the advertising
profession was a San Francisco news
paper writer. He perfected the store
news idea and his editorials on the
Wanamal<er daily page have kept him
in the forefront of his profession.
The story of Mr. Hamilton's rise to
prominence is unique one. The ag-
gressive westerner spent his first
twenty years on a Pacific coast ranch
He studied his Latin while herdine
sheep and picked up algebra on one
side of the grain stack while the cattle
ate up the other side.
Later he passed his entrance exam
nations to Stanford. where he major
ed in English and psychology for fou,
Years. His first newspaper work was
as college correspondent for the Hearst
papers, and on leaving Stanford he
went to work on the old Evening Post
i Soon after he. John Cosgrove, now ed
itor of Everybodys,. and Wallace Ir-
win, the humorist, left the Post togeth-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26

er, and with Will Irwin began stirring
up things in the San Francisco weekly
field.
Mr.. Hamilton's first commercial
work was with M. Friedman & Com
pany, San Francisco. From Fried
mans he went to Prayers Department
Store. and his force and initiative are
by nothing shown so well as by the
fact that after the San Francisco
earthquake his store was the only one
that had the courage to open up for
business on the ruins. The night of the
fire Hamilton wrote on a cracker box
with his own hands. This building
will be rebuilt as quickly as the bricks
are cool enough to move," drove the
sign in a cable slot and went home.
Another time when San Francisco
was stricken by street car strike, Mr..
Hamilton ran a free bus service on the
street car tracks, acordin~ to a regular
time schedule, placing no restrictions
on those who rode. For days this was
the citys only transportation.
From Prayers Hamilton went east
to Jones'" of Kansas City, later to
emigrate to Wanamaker's where his
startling daily page made him famous
in the advertising world. Mr.. Hamil-
on will be big addition to the west
ern field publicity. Aside from his brill
lian writing ability. his retailing ex-
perience has made him one of the best
merchandising men in America.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
sTEvEDoREs CALLED "HAMN-

BUSE."
Editor of Courier:
l read in The Weekly Courier
recently. and also in the Chicago
Weekly Inter Ocean about King Gus
tave of Sweden working amone
stevedors, carried coal in sacks
do not believe the above state
ment to be true
First because coal was always ship
ped loose, not in sacks.
Second, because sacks in Sweden
are larger than in America, they hold
about three bushels
Third, because a king is not used &c
carrying such big and heavy sacks
therefore he could not do it.
Fourth, because there would be nc
reason why a king should want tc
know the needs of stevedores.
In Sweden where ships are moored
or ride at anchor is called ''hamn,
and stevedors are called "hamnbuse,
the word buse means degenerated
person In New York such men are
called wharf rats. In Stockholm the
buser sleep outside in summer and in
stables in the winter | was told that
no stable owner would lock the door
against those houseless unfortunate
men.
A mechanic in Sweden who is a
spcndthrift, and also a boozer will If
he becomes a buse be a beggar and d
tramp and constantly wander, but a
laboring man if he be buse will
neither tramp nor beg, but will stay
around somewhere where his service
will be accepted.
A few hundred yards south of the
kings castle facing the East harbor
stands the Stevedore house (Skep
psredare kontoreD and the next house
south is a big saloon which in Stock
holm also means restaurant where
the hamnbuse take their meals and
beverage.
| will here state one instance how
stevedores work. In the year 1868 a
Russian steamer moored east of the
castle, it was loaded with sacks of
rye meal, the sacks looked like they
would weigh about $50 pounds each
two matches We're opened, the sacks
were piled on big platforms below
deck by sailors, holster by engines and
carried ashore by stevedores. Two
mates did the bossing. The men were
hurried severely and about o'clock
2. m. the work was done The pile
of sacks was as big as an Iowa barn
and by 8 O'Clock same day it was cart
ed off.
The stevedores were paid so cents
per hour. but in half an hour they be-
gan to drop out one at a time. The
clerk gave him due bill and he would
take it to stevedore office get his pay
go to the saloon and get beverage and
wait till someone dropped out, worl,
again awhile, and SO on.
The question is: what good would
1t do king to know the want Of such
men?"
Yours truly.
John Linder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26

Sioux City. The contention that dress
ed meats ought to take as high rate
as live hogs is ridiculous. The car
that carries meats takes larger ton
mage. The live hogs have to be run
through on high speed schedules and
there are many liabilities in shipping
live stock, while dressed meats go on
slow trains and the risks are much
lighter 5tt5.,,
The whole scheme is in the interest
of the meat trust and the people
of Iowa who are ambitious to build
up packing houses might as we'll get
ready for gigantic fight with the
4, railroads which are dictated to by the
big packing interests. The object is to
run all business into Chicago so that
the meat trust may manipulate prices
without any interference from the in
dependent packers which have been
springing up and growing stronger. 1t
is the survival of an industry in
which every Iowa man, whether hog
grower or hog packer, is deeply in
terested. When the meat trust has the
independent plants broken down they
will make such prices as please them.
They must not be broken down.
Here Is rallying point for all
lowans. Let the motto Of this state
be that the raw products of the state
shall be converted into finished pro
ducts within the state, giving employ
ment to home labor, building up the
city centers and increasing the value
of all kinds of property in the state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26

There may be and often is another
reason besides conservatism which
makes her hesitate to change her
mode of work. 1t is because the men,
who are generally the money earners.
are often averse to spending any sum
Of money for house equipment. Not
being familiar with the details Of do
mestic work and having larger inter
ests in their own business. they are
very apt to think women can get along
with almost anything or, rather, they
think that housework can be accom-
plfshed with any sort of tools.
Occasionally woman dislikes to ask
for what she needs, or sometimes she
will not accept modern inventions
when they are offered to her, and now
and then we find one who will not
use them when they are actually in
her possession. 1t is not always easy
to tell just where the fault lies or
what it is, but one thing Is certain,
there has been less advance in house
keeping during the last twenty five
years than has been made by any
other industry. Agriculture as it is
carried on at present is no more like
farming twenty-five years ago than
truck gardening Is like ranching. Ii
the same interest had been taken In
household affairs there might have
been similar advancement in that
most important Of all industries.
There are numerous inventions on
the market for making housework
easier. Some of them are valuable,
and others are worse than useless.
Unless an implement after it has been
given q fair trial is found to be a
saver of both time, labor and energy
1t is not worth house room.
The Handy Fireiess Cooker.
Among the most useful articles that
have been brought into the kitchen
within the last five years is the fire.
less cooker, or, as it was first named,
the "hay box" The conception of the
freless cooker is q very old one, as
some Of the primitive races knew all
about and practiced the art OF cooking
after this manner. But 1t was forgot
sAA " hSkSkCSeOo ny ,SiNl lilLTSu p6Opit
until few years back. Now the "hay
box" has proved itself so useful as an
economy OF energy and fuel that II
has come to stay. There are some
handsome fireiess cookers on the mar.
ket that can be purchased for the
moderate price of from SO to SIG, and
SO complete and perfect are they that
freezing. steaming and roasting can
be accomplished at the same time in
the three separate compartments.
On several occasions have frozen a
mousse in one compartment. steamed
corn bread In the second and cooked
meat In the third at the same time
and have had each dish "done to a
turn" when it was needed for the ia.
BILE. With the additions OF the no,
soapstones that are included in aome
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26

crops in the district directly bene-
fitted alone will pay for the improve
ment in three years, granting that the
cost does not exceed the estimated
figure of $6,000,000.
But this gain in crop yields from
deepening and Strengthening the chan
mel SO as to keep the river within it's
banks at flood tide Is only one Of the
benefits that will be gained by the i'm
provement. In addition valuable COM
mercial water power sites will be af-
| forded and the Des Moines valley will
waterway system.
The value of the water power sites
provided through the system Of locks
add dams that will be installed in
making the Des Moines river navigable
cannot be overestimated At present
law material in great quantities is
shipped east to be made into finished
articles and then reshipped to the
market in the west for consumption,
doubling the freight charges that must
be paid by the manufacturer and the
consumer. With a waterway that will
afford transportation facilities for the
products of factories, and water power
sufficient to generate the electricity TO
turn the wheels Of scores of such
factories at greatly reduced cost, the
Des Moines valley will be made an
ideal factory site that will forcibly ap-
peal to the manufacturer and invester.
All indications point to a great
revival of waterway shipping in this
country. Congress has been brought
to a full realization of the importance
of improving the inland waterways SO
as to provide suitable transportation
facilities forsthe constantly increasing
demand. The next few years will see
the beginning Of projects that will join
the inland rivers and canals into a
vast network of waterways. Investi-
gators sent abroad have found that
in the last two decades waterway
transportation has made wonderful
gains. In France, with 1857 miles OF
inland waterways. 19,573,000 tons Of
freight were carried in 1885, and 34..
100000 tons in 1905, almost double.
In Germany, with $500 miles of water
ways, the gain was from 27,600,000
tons in 1885, to 103,400,000 tons II,
1905, an increase of 274.6 per cent.
The increase in tonnage carried by the
waterways in these countries has been
greater even than the increase in
freight traffic by rail.
The Des Moines valley now is a
great freight producing territory. In
creased transportation facilities at re-
duced rates will be afforded when the
Des Moines river is made nayigable
for freight carrying boats. The im-
provemept of the river so as to confer
the three-fold benefits-security from
overflow, inexpensive water power and
added transportation facilities will
make the valley a much greater freight
producing territory.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
y WEST VAN BUREN,.

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Brewer returned
home last week from d visit with
friends at Salem and Mt. Pleasant
Robert Evans and wife are the par
ents of a girl born Feb. 1S.
Roy Haney and family spent Sunday
with the latter's sister Mrs. Jos. Elsen-
sohn and family
Miss Hazel Davis spent part of
last week with friends at Milton.
F. S. Harryman and family visited
Sunday at j. S. Holcombs
Ray Roush spent part Of last week
with his sister Mrs. Ed Elsensohn. Ed
Elsensohn and wife are going to move
this spring to farm near Winchester
Emmett Hanshaw and wife were in
Ottumwa shopping recently. Mr.. and
Mrs. f. S. Plowman visited friends at
Pennington the fore part of last
week.
jamie Parsons and wife visited on
Sunday at Y. o. Haney's Of White Elm.
Glenn Rodgers spent Sunday with
his uncle VIM. Doud and family OF
Douds.
Mrs. c. c. Rodgers and son Stanley
of near Troy visited with friends here
recently.
w. c. Harryman was transacting
business in Bloomfield Saturday
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
The RIVER CONVENTION.

The Waterways convention in OF
tumwa tomorrow, which will be attend
ed by delegates from the cities and
towns along the Des Moines river be-
tween Keokuk and Des Moines, will
afford the most substantial evidence
that the people Of the Des Moines
valley are united in support of the
river improvement plans.
Viewing it from but one angle, the
people of the Des Mofnes valley
realize where the improvement means
millions of dollars to them every year
and to the state In increased crop
yields. AS our readers are aware
the boards Of supervisors and county
surveyors relative to the amount Of
land now overfowed by Iowa streams,
and the amount of this land that can
be saved to cultivation by straighten-
ing the streams. In the counties
bordering the Des Moines river be-
tween Keokuk and Des Moines there
are 75,900 acres of land now subject to
annual overflow that can be reclaimed.
These figures were furnished by the
supervisors and surveyors of the
counties bordering the river. Part Of
this overflow comes from creeks which
empty into the Des Moines, but $4,000
acres border directly on the river and
are flooded every time the Des Moines
river leaves it's banks. The improve
ment of the Des Moines river will
make it possible to plant crops every
year on these $4,000 acres
At the most conservative estimate
there can be raised on these $4,000
acres crops to the value of $40 an acre
annually. The annual crop gain in
the district directly adjacent to the
Des Moines will be $4,000, 900 year.
This is almost dollar for every man,
woman and child In the state of Iowa
every year The gain in the value O
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
Home Course
In Domestic
Science
VIII.--Useful Labor
Saving Devices.
BY EDITH G. CHARLTON,
In Charge of Domestic Economy. Iowa
State College.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

ME OUSEK EEPiNG has always
been hampered to a certain ex-
n tent by tradition and some SUI
perstihor. Until recently few
women thought of making investiga-
hons for themselves regarding ques-
tions in general housekeeping, the
word Of some great-grandmother being
usually sufficient. The fact that the
grandmother had no opportunity to
study the laws Of nature as seen In
the ordinary process of living did not
disturb the average woman's faith In
her opinion. But now change is
gradually moving across the country,
and the up to date housekeeper is
alive to anything which suggests i'm
proved and easier methods of work.
She will investigate new plans and
try practicable suggestions which seem
to offer greater facility In her work.
But there Is yet in our midst the con-
servatiye housekeeper. She is slow to
adopt new methods or to provide new
and better equipment for her work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
"HELPIN THE SUGAR TRUST"
Misrepresentation Intended to Injure
Beet Sugar Industl

the
Beet Sugar Industry"
The gist Of what follows. under
this caption. against Mr. Welliver is
given in an interview in which Charles
B. Warren Of the Michigan Beet Sugar
company says:
'Judson G. Welliver is paid EN-.
ploye Of the Spreckels Sugar com
pany, which wants free raw sugar to
break down the American beet sugar
industry, and in order to get hearing
he raises the cry of wolf against the
trust; whereas. in fact, the business of
the Spreckles Sugar company is of the
same nature as that of the trust. and
the author knows that anything that
helps the Spreckles company will
eventually help the trust"
Mr. Warren also says:
AS far as Mr. Wellivers state
ments concerning the ownership
of beet manufacture in Michi-
gan are concerned, they are mass Of
misrepresentation which at any
proper time can be easily and effect
lively answered"
On the heels of these positive state
ments from one Of the chief officials
of the Michigan beet sugar trust
comes disclosure Of the real inter-
est of the American Sugar Refining
company in the beet sugar business, to
which Hampton's Magazine, for which
Mr.. Welliver is writing, gives great
prominence Hampton's says editori-
ally:
MIR. Charles b Warran- nraaidant
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26
AS TO MR.. WELLIVER.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
Our old friend. Judson G. Welliver,
has succeeded in getting himself into
the very center of a controversy that
cannot be without it's influence on the
fortunes of the great sugar conspiracy.
He has charged in one Of his magazine
articles that the American Sugar Re-
fining company. which is the trust, has
monopolized the beet sugar industry,
and this has called down upon his
head counter charges which the Amer
lean Economist republishes from the
Michigan Manufacturer under the cap
tion: