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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR SALE OR .TRADE-HAvE "A
farm or 121 acres to trade for city
property In Ottumwa Have fa0ns
Of all sizes. also city property. OF All
you to offer? Chas. N. Christy,
Ottumwa, Ia. Baker Bldg. room 49,.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR SALE WHITE HOLLAND
turkeys Mrs. Mat Arganbright,s r.
No. 8, Ottumwa. r
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14
Wanted

- GOOD CORRESPOND
ents at Lovilia, Moravia, Bentonsport
Douds- Leando, Floris. Laddsdale.
Hiteman and Mystic. Address Edi-
torial department Courier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR SALE-2 YEARLING JERSEY
bulls registered. Chas. Mast. r. No.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

AND OLD TRuSTY
Incubators and repairs at factory
prices. Jas. H. Shepherd 200 West
Main ST., Ottumwa Ia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR SALE EXTRA GOOD POLAND
China male hog and three. extra good
brood sows bred. Highland phone. c.
D. Giltner, Otumwn, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR DESCRIPTION AND LowEsr
price on highly improved very
productive 370 acre farm Tor half Of
~ address L. Settler. Harris. Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

GOOD HALF SECTION HALT COUN-,
ty, Nebraska, miles from Emmett,
main line c. s. N. w. Ry. 100 acres
broke, part fenced. Good house and
barn. $35 per acre. Good terms. Have
other good land from SIS to $50 per
acre. Write me. G. J. Smith, Emmet,
Nebr.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14
Poultry and Eggs

FOR SALE-MY ENTIRE FLOCK on
Blooded Barred Rock hens and pull.
let's, by head or dozen.aC. D. Giltneri
Ottumwa, Iowa, Route /.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR sALE-2o0o GOOD WHITE OAK
J posts. Batavia phone j. II. A. Aver.
son, Batavia, Ia, r. No 1.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR s. .E-1ss ACRE FARM IN
miles from Chillicothe. 40 acres In
cultivation, remainder in hay and
pasture land. Four living wells and 3
good springs. New barn, best room
house in neighborhood, new granary,
chicken house, etc. Will sell In 30
days for $4,000. $4,000 cash, balance
n on time at SO. Address Joseph Engle
Route 4, Chillicothe. Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14
For Sale

LAST CHANCE TO GET A GOOD
homestead. Fort Berthold Indian
reservation Information Bureau,
: Ryder. n. D., will furnish you infor-
nation regarding the opening of same.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-14

FOR sALE-95. ACRE FARM. GOOD
land IS acres broke. 6 room house. !
barns. granary and other out build-
ings, mile east Of Chequest. Davis
county. Iowa, $50 per acre. VIM.
Bunstock, Floris, Ia, r. F. D. No. I.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Allison Refused Cabinet Job

years. 1t was certain that there
would be tariff agitation, and some
important legislation of a financial
character, relating to refunding, was
to be expected.
All these and other arguments, pro
and con, presented themselves to the
senator as the night wore on. 1t got
to be midnigh,, and apparently he
was as far from decision as he ever
was in his life. One-two-three
o'clock came and went and still no
decision. The senator was almost in
despair at his inability to decide
which political road to take
But as the first faint rays of re-
turning light began to push their way
above the eastern horizon, light also
dawned In the troubled mind of the
Iowan. Allison was never given to
seeking advice, but when it became
generally known that he had been
proffered the treasurership by Gar
field a friend had gone to him and
said: Senator, in considering this
question, you want to bear in mind
one thing. A cabinet officer, no mat
ter how able, is, after all, no more
than a very high grade clerk for the
president, the subordinate executive
of particular department. A sena-
tor is supreme-responsib only to
his constituents; and you have already
been in the senate long enough to
realize how dignified, how indepen-
dent and how responsible the post of
senator is" With the suddenness
and vividness of lightning, these sen
fences now flashed across the sena-
tors mind. and not long thereafter he
had arrived at an unalterable deter
mination to decline the cabinet port
folio
Eight years later Senator Allison
was again urged to become secretary
of the treasury. But this time 1t was
easy for him to decline the honor, for
in the years that had interviewed he
had arrived at the opinion that he
had not made a mistake in refusing
to leave the senate at Garfield's re-
quest. And, so far as know, he new
er regretted the choice that he made
at that time.
Copyright, 1910. by e. J. Edwards. An
Rights Reservedl
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
President Arthur, Republican, and
Senator Vest, Democrat, Were
Intimate Companions Because
Both Were Fishermen.

Turing the short perfod-a little
more than month-that Chester A.
arthur, as vice-president, actually pre-
sloed over the senate of the United
states, he met Senator George G. Vest
only casually. But during the follow
ing winter, when Arthur had succeed
Cd 10 the presidency and taken up his
residence in the White House, Wash
lngton gradually awakened to the fact
That there seemed to be a growing in
CInacy between the head of the ma
Clon and the physically small but in
telectually large Democratic toga
Wearer from Missouri. At least the
capital made up its mind that the two
men mad become close personal
friends; thereafter the country was
notified of the fact, and there was con-
siderable comment here and there that
the president, a Republican of the
stalwart sort, should find dyed-in-the-
wool Democrat so congenial a per-
sonal companion. Indeed, the most
intimate personal friend that the pres
ident made among public men in
Washington was Senator Vest, who al
most daily was a visitor at the ex-
eCutiVe mansion.
Two winters before General Arthur
left the White House to become a pri-
vate citizen 1 ventured to ask of Sen
ator Vest the secret of the friendship
that existed between him and the
president, adding that the relationship
they sustained one to the other had
always seemed more or less puzzling
to many persons.
Yes" said Senator Vest, smilingly,
Il know that great many have been
wondering about our friendship, but
the original cause of it is very simple
and not at all mysterious. You see,
shortly after General Arthur moved
into the White House it became incum-
bent on me to call upon him in regard
to an official matter. At that meeting
we discovered that we were both ex-
tremely fond of fishing, and especially
of that brand of fishing that requires
patience and some experiences to land
a fish after it has made a game fight.
We at once had a common interest,
opposed though we are politically;
from the soil of this common interest
our present-day friendship has sprung,
and many time when, suppose, we
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
WMASTRONOM1

About when will that happen, pro-
fessor?"
20 say in twenty or thirty million
years. 1t isn't anything new for a
sun to go out. The sky is full of ex-
tinct suns"
rs it true that the moon came out
of the Pacific ocean? People out in
California say you can see the edges
where it was broken off,"
well, it's possible, but more likely
the moon, the earth and all the planets
were born of tremendous collision be-
tween our sun and another sun. You
can see that there would be sparks fly
ing in such a smash. Well, our earth
is one of the sparks"
Gould such a collision happen
AGAIN."
ut could, if the other sun were big
enough to stand the heat. Otherwise it
would be consumed before it reached
our luminary. If column of ice 40
miles in diameter and as many million
miles long, as you choose to make it
were projected at our sun at velocity
Of two hundred thousand miles a Sec
ond, it never would get there-the sun
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
After Night Of Consideration He Re-
membered Friends Comparison
Of That Position and a Seat
In u. S. Senate.

William B. Allison, the great 1owan,
who was elected to the United States
senate in 1872 and remained therein
until his death in 1908, was twice Of
fered the treasury portfolio and
twice refused it. The first offer was
made to him by President-elect James
A. Garfield, the second by President
elect Benjamin Harrison. Each was
extremely anxious that Senator ALI
son should consent to head the treas
ury department, and each, when the
senator decided against accept the Of
fer, made the late William Window
secretary of the treasury-a coinc1-
dence that is probably unique in the
history of American cabinet building.
When Senator Allison was asked by
Harrison to become his secretary OF
the treasury, the Iowan was not
tempted to any extent to discard his
toga, although Harrison was most
anxious that Allison should accept
and did everything possible consis-
tent with his official dignity to let
Allison know in what high regard he
held him, both personally and as
public servant. But Allison's frame
of mind was far different when Gar
field urged him to fill the same post in
his cabinet
Allison was never so put to it to
make a decision, he afterwards con-
fessed. Until only a day or two be
fore Garfield's Inauguration he tried
in vain to reach decision. He was
in this puzzled frame of mind when
night came on, and, dismissing all
idea of sleep from his mind, he de-
termined that he would force himself
to decide the question once for all:
Shall enter the cabinet or remain
in the senator" There we're great
temptations either way. There was
to be a great opportunity for the rev
secretary of the treasury, since very
important refunding operations were
to be carried on by the government.
On the other hand, the senate was
sure to be a great field for political
craftsmanship during the next few
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Secret of Queer Friendship

are suspected of talking official bust
ness, the president and I are merely
engaged in telling each other our
choicest fish stories and describing our
experiences at fishing in different
parts of the country.
do you recaII-of course you do
that the president took long trip
through the northwest last July and
that was his sole companion on that
trip, at least for the entire distance?
Almost everybody thought that he was
taking a pleasure excursion to see
Yellowstone park and TO get acquaint-
ed with parts of the country he had
never visited; and there was a good
deal Of wonder why Democratic SEN
ator went with him. Well, the real
reason for that trip was just fish, and
I was largely responsible for its be-
ing made.
cit came about in this way. In
April, 1888, just after congress had
adjourned, the president visited Flor
ida. Shortly after his return to the
White House l called upon him and
we talked until three o'clock in the
morning about his experiences in the
south, especially his fishing expert
ences. He told me, among other
things, how he went off one day with
a guide in a rowboat in some of the
mysterious portions OF Kissimmee
lake, expecting to have day of black
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18

would melt it. So you see anybody
that reaches the sun must be able to
stand the racket, so to speak.
This collision theory is the basis
Of the new hypothesis of the creation
of our universe, that is displacing the
nebular theory. According to the new
theory the earth never was a molten
mass. 1t was built cold. In the begin.
ning-I am talking humanity now in
astronomy there is no beginning and
no end-in the beginning the earth
was relatively small fragment. and
its growth has been due to the accre.
lions of meteoric matter. For millions
of years this matter has been faIlina
on the earth, and is falling today. The
heat in the center of the earth sim,
ply is caused by the compression OF
the outer mass which sets up fric
ton"
IF there is no end to matter wins
should the sun go out?"
"The sun is nothing except a reser
voir of energy, and 1t is sending it out
and taking none in. do not say that
this energy is ending, it still will bs
in the universe, but no longer in the
sun, and when it ceases to come from
the sun that will be the end of the
earth so far as life is concerned. The
universe will keep on, only we won't
be here"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
MAKE HER HATS SUIT FEET
London Modiste Tells How to Buy
Headgear for Best Effect-Proper
Line Needed.

London.-"Watch your feet while
buying your hat
This is the advice now given to
women, who generally when choosing
a hat are content to see the effect in
a mirror that reflects merely the head
and shoulders.
Women should not buy hat mere
ly because it is pretty or smart and
becoming to the face" a west end
modiste said. 1T may be all that is
charming from that point of view, and
yet quite out of harmony with a WON.
ans general outline.
when choosing hats one should try
them on facing a long mirror that re
fleets the figure from top to toe.
THE very tall woman may fancy
herself in a very tall hat when she
sees the effect in looking glass show
ing only the top part of her body, but
she will not buy the too tall hat when
she views the fact that from toe to the
top Of her headgear she has the ap
pearance of a long post if she be thin
or clumsily big if she be heavily built
'Tn these days of colored footwear
and narrow dresses, it is most neces
sary to keep the proper line in making
a toilette Color in a hat must har
monize with the shoes and stockings
CAS- for the tight dresses, many
little women who have not thought OF
their appearance from the waist down
ward with regard to their hats have
recently, with their narrow skirts and
wide hats. presented the appearances
of mushrooms."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
,hy Y. =. EAntarnz

bass fishing, and he had ia most
glorious day of sport. And he told me
how he brought back his fish to the
steamboat upon which he was making
that part of the excursion and the
cook prepared them for supper.
"Till long after midnight the presi-
dent entertained me thus. Then, in
moment of enthusiasm, suggested to
him that if he wanted to have a new
experience in fishing he should make
a trip in the summer to the far north
west. l described the fascination, the
sport, of mountain trout fishing, and
the president grew more and more en-
thusiastic as l proceeded to my pero-
ration. Finally he cried: If you will
go with me I will make the trip some
time in July or August / replied that
l thought I could arrange my. affairs
so as to accompany him, and he an
swered that If he could be sure of me
he would begin to arrange for the trip
the very next day. That day / was able
to let the president know that l could
make the trip; he at once got busy
with the arrangements. In due course
we started for the northwest, and
there we had abundant experience and
a glorious time.
81 don't like the presidents poll
tics"-Senator Vest smiled wryly-
"but l tell you, as personal compan-
ion and, If l may say it, as fishing
companion especially, he is the most
agreeable and lovable man have ever
met"
Copyright, 1910 by E. j. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Friendship Snaps Over Squabbles
About PinochIe and Flock of An
noying Guinea Fowls.

New York.-Two deacons sat on g.
Sunday morn, with their faces and
their smiles forlorn, and the words of
grace on their fevered lips were
drowned by the clash of the dwin-
ding chips, for the words Of grace
that the deacons use are the same as
those of the men who lose. And this,
though known some decades back,
has caused surprise in Hackensack.
To think that the man who can
pass the plate, with a scowling face
il his brothers late, and can even
quote what the preachers say, would
open a pot on the Sabbath day and
start raid on his neighbours stack,
is most too much for Hackensack.
A careful study of the foregoing,
will in some measure explain the in
tensity of Hackensack's amazement,
when John V. Roscoe, a deacon, ap-
peared in the Bergen county court to
sue John H. Demarest, another dea-
con, for $4,000 damages, because Of
harsh words uttered by the latter
when their friendship snapped in the
Dutch Reformed church, Mr.. Roscoe
being superintendent Of the Sunday
school. Yet some time ago, Mr..
Demarest became displeased at Mr..
Roscoes guinea fowl and told the
department of health about them,
since when there have been cool
words, which shocked Mr.. Roscoe's
sensibilities $4,000 worth.
But when Mr.. Demarest was taken
into court he became angered and
gave the whole snap away. He said
that he and his brother deacon were
in the habit of playing pinochle for
money until far into Sunday morning
until the guinea fowl came between
them. Mr.. Roscoe declared that they
quit at half-past eleven always, but
Mr.. Demarest said that that was only
when Mr.. Roscoe was winner.
Tho jury in Judge Blacks court
looked Mr.. Demarest over and failed
to see how he could utter $4,000
worth of biting English, but they did
think that Mr.. Roscoe had been dam
aged about six cents worth, which
was awarded. This will make up for
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Prof. Mcmillan of Chicago Univer-
sity Doubts NebuIar
Theory.
If One Could Throw Baseball Haro
Enough 1t Would Never Toucn
Earth-Sun Must Eventually Ex-
haust Its Energy.

Kansas City, Mo.-Could you stand
on top of a high building and throw
baseball around the earth? Certainly,
says William Duncan Mcmillan, PROBES
sor of astronomy In the University or
Chicago, "if you throw it hard enough.
1.-THE moon" he said, SIS falling to-
ward the earth at the rate OF one-tWen-
tieth of an inch second, and the
earth is falling toward the sun at the
rate of one-eighth of an inch every ~
miles. But the moon never will fall
into the earth and The earth never Will
fall into the sun. The reason is that
while the earth is falling toward the
sun, at the same time 1t is falling out
ward from it sufficiently to keep the
same relative distance. If you stand
on top of high building and drop
baseball 1t will travel to the ground
in a straight line. But If you throw 1t
outward it will reach the ground IN
curve, and the farther you throw 1t the
greater will be the arc it will de-
scribe. II you should throw it far
enough it wouldn't strike the ground
at all, but would continue in a curve
all around the earth and come back
to your hand. That is what the earth
is doing-it is being thrown around the
sun every "a hours and never strikes
it."
Astronomy, the Oldest and most ex-
act science, nevertheless, Is discover
ing something new all the time, Prof
Mcmillan asserts. Great progress
has been made even in the last ten
years.
Most of what we know about the
stars" he said, I'VE have learned quite
recently. We know them now as well
as though we had scratched them with
a nail. We have reached a point where
we almost are ready to reject the neb-
ular theory of the creation of the uni
verse. We know more about the sun
than we ever did. The only thing
about that the science of astronomy
has not outgrown is the Newtonian
law of gravity-that remains and never
can be changed. automatically, as
tronomy has reached high point OF
exactness. Astronomy is the mother
of mathematics; it has pushed the
mathematicians forward to every trf-
umph they ever achieved"
Gould the mathematicians con-
struct new solar system that would
work as well as the present one?"
Prof. Mcmillan was asked.
ION no other theory that mathemat-
les ever could evolve would the solar
system work." he said. Change it a
hairs breath, and there would be a
wreck on the main line past all I'M
tangling. That does not mean that,
perfect as it is, the solar system will
go on forever. 1t will not. There is
no such thing as perpetual motion, and
some time our universe as we know it
will cease to exist. The sun has been
pouring forth its tremendous light and
heat for five hundred million years.
Enormous as that reservoir Of energy
is. it must eventually exhaust itself.
When it does life on the planets
must cease"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Latter, as Minister to England, Treat
ed His Distinguished Fellow Coun-
tryman With Most Noticeable
Goodness and Indifference.

Against not a few of our former
diplomatic representatives at the
Court of st. James the charge has
been made that they were not alto
gether American in their position, In
England, of minister or ambassador.
Against no other diplomat was this
charge made in such high station as
in the case of James Russell Lowell,
who from 1880 to 1885 was in London
as our minister. As usual rule, this
charge has been made by tourists,
more or less disgruntled at not OBJ
tanning the impossible favors they
thought due them as fellow-cttizens Of
their country's accredited diplomatic