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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27
The Fat and Thin Men Reune,

l.
The fat man stood on the corner, his
ears hidden by huge fur collar, his
hands stuck deep in the pockets of his
heavy overcoat, and big cigar smold-
ering luxuriously between his lips.
The thin man, his nose red with cold.
his eyes watering, his hat pulled down
until it fiattened his ears, his collar
turned up in an unsuccessful attempt
to conceal his Adams apple, his
trousers Tapping about his legs,
fdgeted to the corner also, and waited
for a car.
why. hel.lo!" exclaimed the fat
man. Happy New Year to ye! Gosh!
You look cold. But worse n that, you
look as if you was dyin' for a smoke.
Amt ye?"
The thin man snapped his eyelids to
rid them of the frost, but answered
nothing.
"Ho, ho!" laughed the fat man, his
cigar rolling to the corner of his
mouth in order to allow the laughter
to roll out. Good resolution, Ell?
Smokin's s a bad habit, huh? Runs up
expenses, an affects the heart, an
gets a man to thinkin' he can't do
anything without one O. the vile weeds
stuck in his mouth. I know all about
it. Know just how you feel"
The thin man looked nervously down
the street for the car, but it wasn't in
sight. The fat man continued:
Bet you're just dyin' right now for
a smoke Huh? How you'd enjoy a
real nice, big, soft, oily cigar! Been
a real good man now for two whole
days-an' there's no Twin with you at
home. Sure! When you get up from
the table you stick your fingers in
your vest pocket absent-minded-Iike,
reachin' for one O. the enemies of
health! Then you recollect about your
halo an wings, an growl around a
while. Ho, no, ha, hal"
The fat man shook all over with joy,
while the thin man trembled all over
and gave one the impression he re-
ceives when he sees a dog SILVER in
the wind. You could fairly see the
thin mans skin wrinkle. The fat man
went on:
"rr bet that right now you are
thinkin' O. how fine it d be to bite the
end off a grea' big cigar an light it,
an feel tn warm smoke curl up over
your nose, an smell tn perfume Of
It! Huh! Oh, how you would enjoy
that! Like to pull on it like this
The fat man took long puff, then
exhaled a perfect cloud of smoke,
through which came his further re-.
marks:
An you miss tn company of it.
You don't know what to do without
cigar to chew on when you think, an
kind o. puff slow-like while you digest
your meals, an to hold tween your
fingers while you read tn paper, an
to-Oh! Ouch! What's tn matter
with you, anyhow"
But the thin man, having smashed
the fat mans cigar into his fur collar
with one hand and applied a vicious
short jab with the other, was hasten
ing on to the next corner to resuns
waiting for the car.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27

!: !. !. !: !" !. !.
yssTss.xssszsJ S the world on the eve
ga Eh of another commercial
ssE,5 EsN revolution due to an
IVA EBl accidental chemical
Ik8 ~ discovery? Is synthe-
ssfsGGysA tic rubber going to
x take its place upon
Mks~wvu.snI equal terms of COM
- petition with the Juice
Of the trees and plants which so long
have supplied the rubber commerce?
Just at the present time English
and German chemists are disputing
over their claims to precedence In
finding a way to create from certain
raw materials a chemical counterpart
of natural rubber. The world at large
is not directly concerned in the deter
mination of this question of priority,
but 1t has a very deep interest in the
commercial practicability of these dis
coveries.
Two years ago DR.. F. e. Matthews
of England then associated with
other distinguished chemists, among
them Prof. W. H. Perkin, Sir William
Ramsay and Prof Fernbach, was seek.
ing TO perfect cheap process for the
manufacture of synthetic rubber and
by chance left some isoprene and
metallic sodium in contact for
period Of about two months, going off
in the meanwhile for his summer out
ing. Upon his return DR.. Matthews
was amazed to find that the isoprene
had in the interval been converted
into solid rubber The long sought
key to the riddle was thus uncovered
by an accident.
Isoprene is an oily, volatile hydro
carbon. It was obtained by distilla-
ton from caoutchouc fifty years ago
by Williams, and the analysis of iso-
prene showed that it was chemically
identical with the oil of turpentine.
The problem since that day has been
tWofold first, to derive isoprene from
abundant raw materials, and then to
effect its conversion into rubber
through the medium Of plentiful and
cheap reagents. In order to compete
with natures product it was neces-
sary that artificial rubber should be
made in large quantities and at a
cost which would put 1t on a par at
least with the expense of gathering
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27
Growth Attached To L.

You've been sleeping in the tele-
phone booth, believe" said the
manager of the summer hotel.
Yes"
81 can give you a billiard table now.
If you like"
mo: I'll stick to the booth. l rath.
err like the room. It ISN'T large. but
it's cosy"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27

difference will prove vital either at
once or later in the employment of
the synthetic substance has yet to be
established.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27

S the world on the eve
of another commercial
revolution due to an
accidental chemical
discovery? Is synthe-
tic rubber going to
take its place upon
equal terms of COM
natitiop with the iTIice
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
PLOT CHARGED TO
GOTHAM VICE TRUST
District Attorney Whitman Learns Of
Plan OF Aid RosenthaI Suspects
With Bought Affidavits.

New York, Sept. 2.-District Attor-
ney Whitman believes he has sufficient
evidence to warrant indictments for a
plot by heads Of the so-called "vice
trust" to discredit by false affidavits
several of the prosecutors assistants
who have been Investigating the graft
phase of the Rosenthal case. Word
Of the plot came to Mr.. Whitman yes
terday and it is said several conspira-
tors already have fled the city.
Having failed in this attempt, it 10
now said that the leaders Of the un-
derworld will confine their attention
to hampering Mr.. Whitman at the
trial of the alleged Rosenthal muir
derers and II necessary will attempt to
spirit "squealers'' out Of the city.
Private detectives have placed be-
fore Mr.. Whitman information that
several leaders Of the vice trust"
which runs chain of disorderly
houses here, together with a former
state assemblyman and police cap
tain, have raised about $4,000 with
which to purchase affidavits that GER
tain county officials investigating po-
lice blackmail have been guilty of &C
cepting money for failing purposely to
obtain convictions against disorderly
houses.
A private detective working in with
the trust" disclosed the conspiracy
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
ELECTORS FIGHT
UP IN CALIFORNIA
Inte rest Centers In Efforts Of TAFT
and Roosevelt Men For Control b
...l ...g of Party Machinery.

San Francisco, Sept. 2.-The first
primary election involving the ulti'
mate selection Of presidential electors,
under the new California primary
law, will be held tomorrow. Interest
centers around the contest Of the Taft
and Roosevelt supporters for control
Of the republican party machinery OF
the state. IT,
Governor Hiram w. Johnson's polti-
cal allies, heading the state organiza-
ton Of the progressive party, contend
that If they succeed in nominating
presidential electors pledged to Rcose.
velt, they will be entitled to the party
designation on the ballot In the No
vember election. The Taft adherents
take the ground that the action of the
republican convention in nominating
President Taft committed the state to
the choice of electors pledged to their
candidate. D 49, ..
The names of republican, democratic
and socialist candidates will appear on
the ballot at Tuesdays primary.
Eighty candidates for the state assem-
bly and twenty candidates for the sen.
ate will be nominated These nom
inees with the hold-over senator's OF
each party will constitute the state
convention. All three state conven
tions will be held in Sacramento Sept
| a. ...'. 49,.
The conventions will nominate. thir
teen presidential electors each. Taft
followers are planning to nominate
electors by separate election after the
convention in the event the selection
of candidates pledged to Roosevelt
Whether the Taft wing of the party
will be entitled to designation on
the ballot which will indicate the
pledging of their candidates is mat
ter Of conflict between the two fac
tiOns.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
ROOSEVELT BEGINS
HIS WESTERN TRIP
Colonel Goes to Hartford, Conn, To-
A day Then Turns West For
Iona Journey. na

oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 2.-Colonel
Roosevelt was up before daybreak
and by 6 o'clock was off in his auto
mobile for New York where he was to
catch an 8 o'clock train eastward
bound, with Hartford, Conn, as his
first stop. His program called for
speeches at Hartford and Springfield,
although the latter stop was not orig
inally planned.
Leaving Springfield late this after
noon, Colonel Roosevelt's real journey
begins. He turns his back on the east
for a time, heading straight for st.
Louis, where he will be the feature at
the Missouri state fair.
From St. Louis he will move north
tn st. Paul and thence on a long
siege up and down the Pacific coast
states. His plans will bring him back
to Oyster Bay about the middle OF
October. .
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
MERCHANTS HELD
FOR A LOTTERY
Montezuma Business Men Arrested N
Automobile Is Ratified OFF; Attor-
ney General investigates.

Montezuma, Sept. 2.-More arrests
were expected to be made today on
warrants charging local merchants
with violation of the state laws by
conducting lottery by rafting of an
automobile.
Forty-seven arrests already have
been made, forty-four Of those named
in the warrants being local merch-
ants and the other three citizens Of
this place.
At meeting several weeks ago local
merchants agreed to purchase two
automobiles which we're to be given
away to purchasers Of merchandise.
The customers were given ticekt
with each purchase and at an appoint
ed time, according to the authorities.
the tickets were drawn from box and
the ownership of the automobile de-
termined.
The first machine was given away
in June and, according to Assistant At
torney General H. z. Sampson, the
merchants were warned against Satur-
days lottery, but carried out their
plans. The warrants were issued soon
after the announcement that a local at
torney had won the machine. Two
women were among those arrested.
The accused will waive preliminary
hearing before Mayor Chase, of Brook
lyn. before whom the warrants were
sworn out, and will be bound over to
the grand jury next week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
TAX CONFERENCE
AT DES MONIES
Commissioners of Various States tc
Meet In Iowa to Recommend
Reforms.

Des Moines, Sept. 2-The sixth an
nual meeting Of the National Tax
conference will open here tomorrow
and will continue throughout Thurs
day. Several matters pertaining to
taxes will come up for discussion dur
ing the meeting, but as the commits
sion is not an administrative body,
no action will be taken.
Allen r. Foote Of New York City,
president Of the commission, is ex
pected to deliver a short address at
the opening session, as is also Arthur
C. Plegdell, secretary.
The commission is made up Of tax
commissioners of the various states
and it's purpose is to work out the
problems and recommend reforms
The meeting this year is being held IN
Des Moines because Of the problems
which have been facing the Iowa tax
commissioners and 1t is expected that
legislation looking to several reforms
in the present Iowa system will be
sought when the next legislature
meets.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
18 YEAR OLD
LAD MISSING.
LEFTSATUROAY
julius Jacobson, Son of F.
Jacobson, Leaves Parent
to Pay Account and Does
Not Return Home.

julius Jacobson, the eighteen year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jacob
son, 1911 North Wapello street, has
been missing since Saturday night at
9:15 o'clock, when he left his parents
to visit the Standard Grocery store to
pay an account. The efforts Of the fam
lily and scores OF friends with the po-
lice department and the county Off
cials have thus far been unavailing.
Young Jacobson wore light brown
suit linen collar and dark tie, and
black oxfords. He is five feet eight
inches tall, weighs about lao pounds,
and Is light complexioned. His father
offered a reward of $50 for informa-
tion leading to the finding Of the lad
or to the recovery Of his body.
julius Jacobson, accompanied by his
father, Earl Jacobson, and Mrs. Earl
Jacobson, of Kansas City, and sister,
Miss Cordelia, were out driving in the
Jacobson auto Saturday night, and
julius left the party near the corner
Of Court and Main streets to go to
the Standard grocery. He arrived
there shortly after o'clock and paid
the account, and when last seen he
was leaving the store. The family con-
tinued their ride and repaired to the
Jacobson home about IL o'clock.
Julius failure to return home did
not cause any anxiety until
about 12 o'clock, when search
for him was started. The
father believes his son has met with
foul play, for he was a quiet young
man who was essentially a home boy.
He had planned on returning to his
studies in school this morning, being
a member Of the 1914 class of the high
school. All the young men associates
of the missing boy have been COM
municated with, but none OF them
have seen him.
Information leading to the recovery
of the body of the young man or some
clue to his whereabouts will be well
coined by his frantic mother and the
other members of the family.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
NO THIRD TICKET
UNDER PRIMARY
LAWYERS SAY IT WILL BE NECES
SARY TO AMEND LAW TO GIVE
.,.- T. r. PLACE.

Des Motnes, Sept: 2.--Can a new po-
lltical party gain place In the primary
election in Iowa under the present
law?
Eminent lawyers declare that it can
not. .-s D.. ..
They contend that the progressive
party, for instance, under the Iowa
primary law as 1t stands, can never get
into the June primary at all
They believe that the only way that
1t can gain place in the primaries is
by an amendment to the primary law
covering the creation Of new parties.
1t Is true that r. E. Leach of Inde-
pendence, supported by letter from
Bert Keltz of Webster City, directed
the attention Of the bull moose leaders
to the provision of the primary law
which defines political party to mean
"a party which at the last preceding
general election cast for It's candidate
for governor at least per centum Of
the total vote cast at said election"
And Messrs. Leach and Keltz argued
from this that the progressive party, to
get into the primary election of 1914,
must have a candidate for governor
and other offices this year in order to
qualify under that definition.
But lawyers point out that there is
nothing In the law which contemplates
the creation of a party In addition to
those already in existence at the time
the enactment of the primary law.
The fact that provision Is made how
ever, to permit other parties in addition
to those in existence when the law was
passed to go on the November ballot by
petition must be construed as excluding
parties created after the enactment Of
the law from the ballots Of future prim-
ary elections. a.. .. ..
Therefore, say these lawyers, the
definition of a political party included
in the primary law must be construed
to refer only to those In existence at
the time of it's passage.
They declare that the progressive
party must first see to it that the
statute is amended to cover newly cre-
ated parties before 1t can go into. the
primary of 1914 or any other year.
Their contention Is that as the law
stands the new party must go ahead
every two years to nominate ticket by
| petition no matter whether it polls 2
per cent or SO per cent Of the vote cast
for governor at the November elections.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
DEATH HELD DUE
TO HERB MEDICINE

Seattle, Wash. Sept. 2.-Poison ex-
tracted from the roots OF peach trees
said to have been one of the ingredi-
ents of medicine prescribed by Lee
Hang Chow, the Chinese herb doctor
is believed by Coroner J. G. Snyder to
have caused the death of Louis Potter,
the New York sculptor, who died here
Thursday. The coroner SAID toiay he
expected the presence OF this poison to
be shown by the chemists examining
the stomach of the dead man. An analy.
sis of the medicine also Is being
made and the police are institutIng a
search of Pacific coast cities for tie
Chinese doctor, who has been missing
sjr &c Potter's death.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
LINCOLN MONUMENT
UNVEILED TODAY

rincoln. Nebr., Sept. 1.-THE unveil-
,na ceremonies of Daniel Chester
Erenchs, statute Of Abraham Lincoln
ON the state capitol grounds mere oc-
Cured today. .Lo
sncinator in a standing position be-
fore a background on which the Get
tvsburs address is chiseled, was pur-
obased hy a $4,000 appropriation Of
tha Tebraska legislature, together with
an equal amount raised by popular
subscription, :. u;
Gaudalajara, Mex. Sept. Z:-AnotneI
n o'clock last night and caused a
nanic among the Inhabitants. 1t was
tha heaviest shock since the disturb
ance Of May s.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
LABOR DAY PARADE
HELD IN DES MONIES
Six Thousand March in Celebration
Behind Four Bands; Suffraeists
Have a Part.

Des Moines, Sept. 2.-Six thousand
union men of Des Moines celebrated
Labor day by parading through the
streets Of the business district today,
headed by four bands and number
of city and state officials. The streets
were lined with spectators who wit.
messed one of the grandest parades
in the history of the local organiza.
tions.
One of the features of the parade
was the suffragists' section in which
women marched and rode in automo-
biles.
Z Labor Day In Burlington.
Burlington, Sept. labor Day is
being quietly observed. Business is
generally suspended, but there is no
formal observance of the day by local
labor organizations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
HUMORISTS FOLLOW
TOMBSTONE MEN

Detroit, Mich, Sept. Fright al
the heels of the national gathering OF
tombstone manufacturers, American
press humorists from all over the
United States started out bright and
early today to enjoy their week OF
recreation in Detroit. Today's pro-
gram included an automobile tour, a
short visit to Canada and dinner.
From Tuesday until Saturday
are looked forward to by the joke
smiths as days laden with promise
The local committee has prepared a
schedule brimming over with posi-
bilities.
If there is time and nothing else
to tempt the members, they expect to
hold a business session about Thurs
day night
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
WILSON RAPS
T. RS PLATFORM
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE As
SAILS MINIMUM WAGE AND
FEDERAL OMMiSSION.

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 2.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson today analyzed the
third party platform in it's relation to
the laboring man. The occasion of his
speech was a Labor Day celebration
under the auspices of the United
Trades and Labor council.
It was the first expression from a
democratic candidate on the merits
of the progressive platform.
The governor assailed the minimum
wage idea, declaring that employers
would take occasion to bring their
wage scale as nearly as they could
down to the level Of the minimum
permitted by the law.
with the idea Of a federal com
mission to regulate monopoly, the
governor took emphatic issue. He de
clared that the plan suggested not
only would legalize monopoly but
give the chief employers of the coun
try a tremendous authority behind
them"
what the employers do will have
the license Of the federal government
including the right to pay wages ap
proved by the government" said
Governor "llSOll. IlC poihtou oNo .it"
It always had been the policy OF the
masters Of consolidated Industries to
undermine organized labor in a great
many ways, and that plan of federal
control as advocated by the new par
ty systematically subordinates work
ingmen to monopolies and looks
strangely like economic mastery over
the very lives and fortunes of those
who do the daily work of the ma
ton"
Governor Wilson interrupted his
public reception to address the dele
gates TO the Catholic Young Mems Ma
tional union in convention at another
hotel. Upon his return half an hour
later. the reception was resumed.
Wilson to Speak In the West.
Chicago, Sept. 2.-Congressman A
s. Burleson of Texas, chairman OF
the speakers bureau of the demo
cratic national committee, arrived In
Chicago today on his way to Maine.
Mr.. Burleson announced that after
the second week in September Gov
ernor Wilson would deliver a series
of speeches in Michigan, Wisconsin
andMinnesota The itinerary for this
tour has not been completed.
Governor Wilson will not go west
of Minnesota on his first trip into the
west. but early in October he will
return to speak in Missouri, Kansas
Nebraska and Iowa. Dates for this
second trip will be announced within
a fortnight. ..
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
KEOKUK COUNTY
NAMES DELEGATES

Sigourney, Sept. 2.-The republican
county convention met here Saturday
and organized by the election of J. l..
Euyler as chairman and G. G. LATER
secretary. The following delegates
were elected to attend the congress
sional convention at Ottumwa Septem-
Der /: H. G. Wagner, T. c. Legoe, H.
G. Brown, G. A. Allison, c. D. Ben
nett, W. G. Lister, Wesley McCarty,
v. w. Ward, J. G. McWilliams, q. P.
Harris, G. C. LATER, E. J. Lyle, G. w.
Pfaff and A. A. Hummer. The delega-
tion was not instructed.