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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
Democratic Measure Will be
Laid Before Ways and
Means Committee Tomor-
row; Filed Wednesday,.
CUTS DUTIES 80
TO so PER CENT
Bill Also Places Iron Ore,
Sewing Machines, Print
ing Machinery and Cash
Registers on Free List.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 22.-Reduc-
tions of from 80 to SO per cent on all
items of the iron and steel tariff and
the placing on the tariff free list of
iron ore, sewing machines, printing
machinery, cash registers, nails and
many other articles against which a
tariff is now levied, are proposed In
the democratic steel revision tariff bill,
made public today.
Democratic Leader Underwood esti-
mated that the bill would reduce the
average tariff on steel imports from
34.51 per cent to 22.42 ad valorem, and
would reduce the government tariff
revenues from steel products by
$S23,597 for 1911 and by $4,000,000
he said, would be increased by nearly
$20, 100000.
The reductions made on finished
steel and iron products range in many
classes as great as so per cent.
The figures given out by the COM
mittee on ways and means to accom-
pany the bill show that this will make
a corresponding reduction in tariff
revenues from these sources.
The bill was completed by the demo-
Icratic members of the ways and means
committee on. Saturday. After being
submitted to the full committee 1t will
be laid before the democratic caucus
tomorrow afternoon and If approved by
the caucus will be formally introduced
in the house Wednesday.
Items Added to Free List.
Sweeping reductions are made In all
of the important items of the iron and
steel tariff. Among articles dutiable
under the Payne-Aldrich bill which
would be placed on the free list are:
Iron ore, existing duty 5.29 per cent
Hoop and band iron and steel, 16
per cent.
Barbed wire and wire fencing TIT
per cent.
Nails 17.6 per cent.
Horse shoes, 21 per cent.
Tungsten ore 10 per cent.
Zinc ore, 1851 per cent.
Cash registers, linotype machines,
machine tools, printing presses, sew
ing machines and typewriters 80 per
cent
Duties That are Reduced.
The rates Of duty under the existing
Payne Aldrich tariff law have been re-
duced to the equivalent ad Valorem
duty by the committee. Using the ad
valorem as basis, the important re-
ductions proposed by the democratic
bill are:
Pig iron from 1856 to percent.
Scrap iron 872 to 8.
Ferromanganese ore Is to 6.52.
Chrome metals 20.69 to Is.
Bar iron and steel 1880 to 10.
Slab iron and steel from 1882 to 10.
Round iron in coils or rods "a to 10.
Beams, girders. etc. 80 to Is.
Boiler plates 81 to 20.
Sheet iron or steel 80 to Is.
Steel saw plates % to 10.
Iron or steel forgings 30 to Is.
Ball and roller bearings 35 to 25.
Hoop iron 1888 to 15
Band iron 35 to is.
Railway bars 1874 to TO-
Railway fishplates 20 to 10.
Steel ingots % to 10.
Rivet screws and fence rods IA to 10.
Anvils 1895 to Is.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
ON W ILL
MAkESTATEMENT.
SENATOR is EXPECTED TO SUP
PORT cUMMINs, BUT WILL
PRAISE TAFT, TOO

Washington, D. c., Jan. Ex-senator
Kenyon of Iowa, at the white house to-
day, said he expected to issue state
ment tomorrow, defining his position
In regard to the candidacy Of his col
league, Senator Cummins, for the re-
publican presidential nomination.
While Senator Kenyon is expected
to support Iowa's "favorite son., 1t is
said he will have few things to
say In praise of President Taft's ad-
ministration He was the government
official "trust buster" before he came
to the senate. It Is said he believes
much Of the apparent opposition to Mr.
Taft has been caused by his enforce
ment of the Sherman antitrust law.
Labor Officials Comment on Cummins.
Des Moines, Jan. 22.--Local labor
leaders today declared that II Senator
Cummins can convince the laboring
men that he really Is out to win the
nomination for the presidency and not
playing" politics, he will practically
have the united support of the union
men in Des Moines together with
other large cities in the state. VI
Laboring men An Des Moines have
been friendly with the senior senator
in thespast and are expected to support
him, according to union officials. Many
OF the men, however, have expressed
themselves to the effect that they
must be convinced that Ctimmins' can
didacy is not for political purposes be-
fore they will support him.
s''In the past Mr.. Cummins has been
supported by the laboring men and this
will not be an exception" declared one
labor leader.
Senator Young For Taft.
Des Moines, Jan. 22.-Former SEN
ator Lafe Young today emphatically
announced himself in favor Of the re-
nomination Of President Taft. In a
lengthy article he pointed out numer.
GUS acts in the record of the president
which he commended highly.
He made no reference to the candi-
dacy of Senator Cummins.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
TODAY IN CONGRESS

session at p. m.
Lorimer senatorial inquiry post
poined until next Wednesday be-
cause Of Attorney Hanecy's illness,
Daniel Davenport Of Bridgeport,
Conn, arraigned labor unions in
hearing before interstate commerce
committee. t"'
Attorney General A2o1oos t"
cussed tobacco trl
3 matters before judiciary committee.
Representative Sherwood of Ohio,
General Terrence of G.. A. R., and
g others were heard on general pen
sion measures by pensions commit
tee.
at. noon. T
District of Columbia appropriation
bill debated. &.
President Farrell and Attorney
Reed OF the United States steel cor
poration, testified before steel trust
investigation committee.
Steel tariff revision bill estimated
to reduce average tariff on steel
products imports from 34.51 to 22.42
per cent ad valoretn made public.
Agriculture expenditures committee
submitted it's report fully exonerat-
ing DR.. Wiley.
Diplomatic appropriations bills car
rying 33,500,000 was explained to
foreign affairs committee by Secre-
taTy Knox.
Chief Signal Officer Allen, intro
duced before military committee a
bill to increase pay and rank OF
many aviators.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
BOY PLAYS WITH
POWDER; IS KILLED

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 22.--Willard
A. Louis, II years old, son of John
Louis, a rancher, met death today
while playing with glass jar of giant
powder at his home near Lankershim.
The boy dropped the jar and 1t ex-
ploded. Pieces OF glass were driven
into his head and when the body was
found it almost had been cremated,
the burning powder having set fire to
his clothing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
NINETEEN TO DIE
FOR BOMB OUTRAGE

Salonika. Turkey, Jan. 22.--A court
martial which is sitting with closed
doors at Istib about 80 miles north of
here has condemned to death eight
Bulgarians, two Japanese, three gypsies
and six Turks for the bomb outrage
which was perpetrated early in Decem-
ber in the village mosque, causing the
death Of twelve persons.
Another court martial Is sitting at
Veles, Macedonia for the trial Of a
large number of prisoners charged with
assassinations and other outrages in
the surrounding districts.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
ACCIDENTALLY
KILLS HIS NIECE

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 22.-T. B. Neff,
young rancher, accidentally shot and
killed his IL year old niece Annabell
Bond while hunting rabbits near here
today. Overcome by remorse, he wrote
note to his sister explaining the
tragedy and committed suicide by
swallowing stfychnine. Neff had been
left in charge Of the child while her
parents made a trip to Seattle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
KANSAS CITY BANKER
HELD AT MEMPHIS

kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 22.-W. r.
Richardson, formerly president of the
defunct American Union Trust Co., is
under arrest in Memphis, Tenn, ac-
cording to telegram received by the
chief of police of this city today. Rich
ardson is charged with making false
entries on the books of the trust COM
pany, which closed its doors here
December 80 %-st-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
CHINESE PRINCES
REACH NO DECISION

Pekin, Jan. 22.-Another meeting of
the princes of the imperial clan, at
which the empress dowager was pres
ent took place today but did not reach
any definite result.
One Of the princes who participated
in the conference informed the As
ISOLATED Press that the meeting was
firm In its opinion that the throne
could not abdicate unless it was driven
to do so by force.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
BABY DROWNED
IN RESERVOIR

Arvada. Colo, Jan. 22.- fifteen
months old child Of d. H.. Ellis was
drowned in small reservoir near here
today when it fell into hole cut in
the ice. Amos Musser, aged is,
lowered into the hole by rope crop
ped in the frigid water at Intervals for
fifteen minutes until he found the body
of the infant.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
Must
Garry Beer Into
Dry Territory

Washington, D. c.. Jan. 22.-
Beer is a commodity and rail-
roads must carry it, when Of
fered for transportation, from
one state into "dry counties" Of
another state, regardless Of the
laws of the latter state. The
supreme court of the United
States made this ruling today
regarding a proposed shipment
from Indiana into dry" Ken
lucky counties.
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Would Give Wiley Free Hand.

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

ing white mustache and imperial,
there was a suggestion of militarism.
He was Immediately followed by q
young woman Of twenty, certainly not
over that age. George sighed visit
fully. He envied those polo-playerB
and gentleman-riders and bridgeex-
perts who were stopping at the hotel.
1t wouldn't be an hour after dinner
before some one Of them found out who
she was and spoke to her in that easy
style which he concluded must be Q
gift rather than an accomplishment.
You mustn't suppose for a minute that
George wasn't well-born and well-bred,
simply because his name was Jones.
Many a Fitz-Hugh Maurice or Hugh
Fitz-Maurice might have been But,
no matter. He knew instinctively,
then, what elegance was when he saw
1t, and this girl was elegant, In dress,
In movement. He rather liked the
pallor Of her skin, which limited that
she wasn't one of those athletic girls
who bounced in and out Of the din
ing-room, talking loudly and smoking
cigarettes and playing bridge for six
penny points. She was tall. He was
sure that her eyes were on the level
with his own. The grey veil that
dropped from the rim Of her simple
Leghorn hat to the tip of her nose OBJ
scured her eyes, 30 he could not know
that they were large and brown and
indeinably sad. They spoke not of
a WEAKNESS of travel, but Of a weari-
ness Of the world, more precisely, Of
the people who inhabited it.
She and her companion passed on
into the hotel, and II Georges eyes
veered again toward the desert over
which the stealthy puppies Of night
were creeping, the impulse was me-
chanical; he saw nothing. In truth,
he was desperately lonesome, and he
knew, moreover, that he had no bust
ness to be. He was young; he could
at a pinch tell a joke as well as the
next man; and II he had never had
what he called an adventure, he had
seen many strange and wonderful
things and could describe them with
that mental afterglow which still lin
gers over the sunset Of u first ex-
pressions in poetry. But there was
always that hydra-headed monster, for
ever getting about his feet, numbing
his voice, paralyzing his hands, and
never he lopped off a head that an
other did not instantly grow in its
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05
Old Rathhauss In Munich.

forth. while others sit at the tables
along the sides and sip ices and cot
fee.
But beneath all this apparent idle.
ness and pleasure loving, Munich ID
a very busy place. 1t is the very heart
OF young artistic Germany, and the
great revolutions that have taken
place In newspaper and Journalistic
art have come direct from here, the
home Of the Jugend, the Simplicissi
mus and other weekly papers. These
magazines have introduced impress
sionism to our English and American
papers, but ven still a Munchener
artist a tell a story In one line, for
which an Englishman must use ten.
The Munich academy is the second
best In the world and has sent forth
such men as William Chase, Frank
Duveneck and Martin Scissor. If you
ask a Munchener who was the most
important man in the world, the an
swer Is either the prince regent, and
Frame Won Stuck Of Frame Stuck
and the prince regent. L
They love the kindly old prince, but
their awe Of Stuck is marvellous. Hia
word is considered final in art, and
his appreciation is shown not only
sentimentally, but substantially as
well, for he was presented with q
beautiful home by the government
and a nice pension besides. He is a
tall, dark, handsome man. His wife
is an American, and although very
fond Of his wife, he does not like to
see too much American independence
cropping out In his children. His lit
tie girl Is a true little German frau
lein, while his boy takes all his traits
from his mothers ancestors, and Ii
said to be no favorite with his father
Stuck is one Of the teachers of the
academy, but the best life class here
Is headed by an American from Mil
waukee, Carl MARI. The Zugel animal
class is one of the famous art classes
Of the world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

q dog; but n can not carry a doc
half way round the world and back, at
least not with comfort. What witt
all these n~ew-fangled quarantine laws
duties, and fussy ships officers who
wouldn't let you keep the animal in
your state-room, travelling with a four
footed friend was almost an imposst'
bility. To be sure, women with
poodles. . And then, there was
the bitter Of acid in the knowledge
that no ever came up to him and
slapped him on the shoulder with a.
Hello, George, old sport; what's the
good word?" for the simple fact THAI
his shoulder was always bristling with
spikes, born Of the fear that some one
was making fun Of him.
Perchance his mothers spirit, how
ering over him this evening, might
have been inclined to tears. For they
do say that the ghosts Of the dear
ones are thus employed when we ara
near to committing some folly, or to
exploring some forgotten chamber OF
Pandora's box, or worse still, when
that lady intends emptying the whole
contents down upon u unfortunate
heads. If so be, they were futile
tears; Percival Algernon had accom-
plished its deadly purpose.
Pandora7 Well, then, for the bene
fit Of the children. She vas q lady
who was an intimate friend OF the
neurological gods. They liked her ap'
~pearance SO we'll that they n day
gave her a box, casket, chest, or what
ever 1t was, to guard. By some mar
velous method, known only Of gods
they had got together all the trials
and tribulations of mankind (and some
Of the joys) and locked them up In
this casket. 1t was the Golden Age
as you may surmise. You recall Eve
and the apple? Well, Pandora was
forecast of Eve; she couldn't keep heI
eyes off the latch, and at length hel
hands-Fatal curiosity! Whirr! And
everything has been at skies and al
sevens since that time. Pandora IL
eternally recurring, now here, now
there; she is a blonde sometimes, and
again she is a brunette; and you may
take it from George and me that there
is always something left in the casket
George closed the book and consult
ed his sailing-list. In a short time ht
would leave for Port Said, thence tt
Naples, Christmas there, and home IL
January. Business had been ripping
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05
CHAPTER 1.
What'a In a Name?

NtAS ~
To possess two distinctly alien red
4corpuscles In ones blood, metaphor
ecally II not in fact. two characters or
Municipalities under n epidermis,
In, in most cases. q peculiar disadvan-
tage. One hears Of scoundrels and
saints striving to consume n an
ether in one body, angels and har-
pies; but ofttimes, quite the contrary
20 being a curse, these two warning
sSsmperaments become q mans ulti-
1ate blessing: as in the case Of
George P. A. Jones, Of Mortimer &
Jones, the great metropolitan Oriental
rug and carpet company, all Of which
has a dignified, sonorous sound.
George was divided within himself.
This he would not have confessed
even into the trusted If battered a
Of the Egyptian Sphynx. There was,
however. no demon-angel sparring for
points in Georges soul. The difficulty
might be set forth in this manner:
On one side stood inherent common
sense; on the other, a boundless, ro-
geate Imagination which was like
wise Inherent kind of ~quixote imag-
3nation of suitable modern pattern.
This alter ego terrified him whenever
st raised Its strangely beautiful head
and shouldered aside his guardian
angel (for that's what common sense
Is, argue to what end you wild and
pleJded in that luminous rhetoric un-
der the spell of which u old friend
SanVho often fell asleep.
P. A.. as they called him behind the
counters, vas but twenty-eight, and If
he was vice-president in his late ia
TIERS shoes he didn't wabble round
In them to any great extent. In a
crowd he vas not noticeable; he
didn't stand head and shoulders above
his fellow-men, nor would he have
been mistaken by n~ear-sighted per.
sons, the myopes, for the Vatican's
Apollo in the flesh. He was of me.
-dium height, beardless, slender, but
tough and wiry and enduring. You
may see his prototype. on the streets
q dozen times a day, and you may
also pass him without turning round
for a second view. Young men like
r. A. must be intimately known to
be admired; you did not throw your
arm across his neck, irst-off. His
hair was brown and closely clipped
about a head that would have gained
the attention of the ~phrenologist, if
not that Of the casual passer-by. His
bumps, in the ~phraseology of that
science, were good ones For the rest
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

place. Even the sword OF Perseus
could not have saved him, since one
has to get away from an object in
order to cut 1t down.
Had he really ever tried to over
come this monster? Had he not wait
ed for the propitious moment (Which
you and I know never comes) to
throw off this species from Hades?
1t is all very well, when you are old
and dried up, to turn to worries and
metals and precious stones; but when
a fellows young! You can't shake
hands with an ivory replica of the Tai
Mahal, MOI exchange pleasantries with
a Mandarin's ring, nor yet confide joys
and ills into q casket Of rare emer-
aids; indeed, they do but emphasize
ones loneliness. II only he had had
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

clean boy like this one had not been
sent to her In her youth. You see,
the worldly-wise woman knows that
1t is invariably the lay-iigure and not
Prince Charming that a woman mar
ries, and that matrimony is blind
mans bun in grown-ups.
Many of US lay the blame upon u
parents. We shift the burden of o
dering why we have this fault and
lack that grace to the shoulders of
our immediate forbears. We go to
the office each morning denying that
we have any responsibility; We let
the boss do the worrying. But George
never went prospecting in his soul for
any such dross philosophy. He was
grateful for having had so beautiful
a mother; proud Of having had so
honest a sire; and il either Of them
had endued him with false weights he
did his best to ever up the balance.
The mother had been as romantic
as any heroine out Of Mrs. Radclif's
novels, while the father had owned
to as much romance as n generally
finds in a thorough business man,
which is practically non at all. The
very name itself is a bulwark against
| the intrusions Of romance. One can
not lift the imagination to the pros
pect of picturing a Jones in ruffies
and highboots, pinking a varlet in the
midriff. 1t smells Of sugar-barre6 and
cotton-bales, of steamships and rail-
roads, Of stolid routine in the office
and of placid concern over the daily
news under the evening lamp.
Mrs. Jones, lovely, lettered yet not
worldly, had dreamed Of her boy,
! bayed and decorated, marrying the
most distinguished woman in all Eu-
rope, whoever she might be. Mr..
| Jones had had no dreams at all, and
had put the boy to work in the ship
ping department a little while after
the college threshold had been crossed,
outward bound. The mother, while
sweet and gentle, had a will, iron I'M
der velvet, and when she held out for
Percival Algernon and a decent knowl-
edge Of modern languages, the old
man agreed if, on the other hand,
the boys first name should be George
and that he should learn the business
from the cellar up. There yer sew
eral tits over the matter, but at
length a truce was declared. 1t was
agreed that the boy himself ought to
have a word to say upon a subject
which concerned him nor vitality
than any n else. So, at the age Of
fifteen, when he was starting off for
preparatory school, he was advised
to choose for himself. He was an ODE
dent son, adoring his mother and idol
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

He would be jolly glad to get home
again, to renew his comradeship with
his treasures. And, by JoYe! there
was one man who slapped him on the
shoulder, and he was no less a person
than the genial president Of the firm
his fathers partner, at present his
own. If the old chap had had a daugh-
ter now. . And here one comes
at last to the bottom of the sack. He
had only n definite longing, q
healthy human longing, the only long
ing worth while in all this deep, wide,
round old top; to love a woman and
by her be loved.
AZ exactly half after six the gentle
man with the reversible cuffs arrivedI
and George missed his boat
GRO BIZ CONr1NUEna
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05
CATHOLIC WOMEN TO BUILD
They Plan to Erect a Church Near
University at Washlngton-To
Be Finished In a Year.

Washington,-Catholic women Of the
United States have banded together for
the erection Of a church at the Cath.
olic university. The movement was
undertaken when the necessity for a
church building at the university was
discovered and the women devotees
refused to permit men to contribute to
the fund. They will furnish the
money, and also have a voice in the
style of building to be erected.
The structure will conform with the
architecture In vogue at the univer-
sity and II Is expected that the build.
ing will be completed within a year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-05

izing his father. He wrote himself
down as George Percival Algernon
Jones, promised to become a linguist
and to learn the rug business from
the cellar up. On the face Of it, 1t
looked like a big Job; it all depended
upon the boy.
The first day at school his misery
began. He had signed himself as
George P. A. Jones, no small diplo-
macy for a lad; but the two initials,
standing up like dismantled pines in
the midst of uninteresting landscape,
reused the curiosity of his school
mates. Boys are boys the world over,
and possess a finesse in cruelty that
only Indians can match; and it did
not take them long to unearth the IA
tai secret For three years he was