Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-17

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Just as we'll not to press him for his
reasons In st. Louis they are adver-
Using for a man to meet Mrs. Pank-
hurst in debating the question and they
have made the discovedy that all of
the leading local orators are married
men. It is said that the famous bache-
lor club Of that city when appealed to
suddenly announced It's annual picnic
which singularly enough conceded
with date on which Mrs. Pankhurst
will make her presence felt
Sioux City Journal-If Woodrow
Wilson should make another western
tour Col Harvey might better equip
himself for his work by being mem
Der of the party. The distinguished
editor of Harper's Weekly aims to be
truthful in his comments on current
politics, including, to be sure, the
speeches of President Taft. The presi-
dents Waterloo speech enlisted the
colonels attention, and he went into
geography sufficiently to locate the
town where the president tarried for
a night and was guest Of honor at a
banquet rendered by Representative
Pickett, whose constituency is en-
braced in the third Iowa district, for
many years represented by Colonel
Henderson, who preceded Uncle Joe
Cannon as speaker of the house OF
representatives Waterloo, Indiana,
said Colonel Harvey. Perhaps that
will give giggle to TT. Dodge and Du-
buuue: but really it is blow at state
pride.
FOR THE HONOR OF THE
O'LEARYS.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald Let We
all gather round. 'Tis Mike Ahern
speaking. Mike is the only, surviving
reporter who covered" the big Chi
cago fire Of 1871, the fire Mrs.
= Leary's COW Is charged with starting
by kicking over a lamp Mrs. OLeary
took with her to the barn to light her
to the milking. Branding the COW
story as "the monumental fake OF the
18th Ger fury" Mike proceeds:
The Oi4earys were all in bed when
the fire started. Mrs. O'Leary had
MIXED her cows-she owned five
more than three hours before the fire
was discovered. I knew Mrs. O'Leary
well. She was q truthful woman. A
few days after the fire interviewed
her regarding the story OF the COW and
the lamp. She branded 1t as fabrica-
ton.
It Is true that the fire startet. in the
OIcary cowshed, and have my rea-
sou for believing that some one went
there to pilfer milk from one OF the
COWS.
There was a social gathering in the
neighborhood that night IN honor OF
the arrival Of young man from Ire
land. One of those present told me IN
after years that two women OF the
party went to the O'Leary shed to get
some milk for punch. One woman held
lighted lamp while the other' MIXED
the COW. They thought they heard
some one coming, and In their haste TO
escape the lamp was dropped, setting
fire to the place. That, l believe, IS
the true cause of the fire.
Mrs. OLeary said the COW didn't 90
| it and Mike, who knew her to be
truthful woman believed her when
she told him and he believes her now.
IT'S not for true gentleman to doubt
lady's word much less for an Ahern
to do bit the word Of an O'Leary. NO
more is it right to blame a poor de-
fenseless COW that never even kicked
over a milk-bucket with the crime OF
starting the fire. They were the devils
Of milk-stealers, bad cess to them, that
brought the infamy on Mrs. O'Leary
and her bovine pet. And If Mike
Ahern could lay his hands on them
But there's no use talking like that to
be sure. since they're like as not dead
now. Mercy on their souls!