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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

To the most popular of the floral
names, Rose and its many distinctive
branches, Viola, Lilly, ETC., special
chapters were devoted because their
use Is well nigh universal, and none
have used them more freely than the
poets. a-a
But there are many other flowers
names as pretty as those and as full
of sweet significance
Few of us that do not know and
love some Daisy" though it's use as
q name may be an affectation of q
few centuries only Shakespeare did
not recognize it as such but the flower
he introduced in Hamlet. Ophelia
gives the queen a daisy to signify
that her light and tickle love ought
not to expect constancy in her hus'
band" The allusion is obvious. The
name signifces Daye's eye, because
the plant closes it's pinky lashes and
goes to sleep at sunset, while in the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

was kicked out by Gov. Carroll and
more recently he wanted to be marshal
for the northern district, but the con.
gressional delegation even refused to
recommend him. Speaking about
downs" and "outs, )" what's the matter
with this list? No wonder they want
a new party.
The coionsa's Hsipfu Enemies.
New York Globe: Last spring the
Roosevelt primary campaign languish-
led until the colonel's enemies began
generally to abuse him. Then his
cause grew like Jonah's gOurd-the
more vehement the abuse the more
support he secured. During July and
ment halted and stumbled. Tho col
dreds of his friends advised him to
,quit. Now the progressive party Ia
showing more and more signs OF life.
The identification is ooincident with .
Launching Of new campaign OF Roose-
politicians never learn that the best
way to boost man Is to attack him
concerning doubtful matters? Could
anything be more asinine than to rely
on Penrose and Archbold to drive
Roosevelt into oblivion? His oppon-
ents have come to the colonels aid.
They have raised an issue that he Will
make the greatest use OF. That this
is already realized Is suggested by the
adjournment of the Investigation"
against the colonels protest.
Will the Moose Survivor
s Lincoln Journal: Two months ago
the baytng Of the houn' dawg was
heard on every hill. Then all was
still and still and still. Already the
houn' dawg Is one Of the lost tribes
Of CANNES. though only about last
February was he first found. The
quadrupeds of politics find Themselves
floating upon the same easily punct-
ured bladders Of fame as the VOL
seys. Two months ago we would have
sworn the houn' dog was immortal.
Today the houn' dawg is forgotten and
the bull moose, unheard of by most
of us till yesterday, awakes In his
turn to find himself famous. VIII he
last better? It is your guess. The
elephant has held his own for f1fty-odd
years. The donkey carols as gladly
las II age had not lost him teeth and
| gained him spavins. There was
streak OF yellow in the houn dawg that
accopunted for his sudden fall. The
bull moose Is yet to be tried out.
Prefers Wilson to Roosevelt.
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: Who Ia
there N South Dakota who believes
the Roosevelt electors on the republic
can ticket would abide by the result
| II the straw vote with the little ballot
should favor Taft? They could as
readily claim fraud as they now claim
lit in connection with Taft's nomination.
Men who want to do certain thing
usually find way Under no circrm-
stances can Taft expect vote from
the five men now running as electors on
the republican ticket. This means that
as matters now stand the choice must
be between Wilson and Roosevelt, and
in that situation the Argus-Leader
wants 1t understood that 1t Is out.
spokenly for Wilson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
BLADENsBURG.

Al Hartman is dangerously i'll at the
home If his sister Mrs. John Allen.
Born. to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carter
Aug. 20. a son.
scboo, will give picnic today in the J.
B. Shaw grove.
Mrs. John Ornduff and daughter Of
Ottumwa came out to see their uncle
Al Hartman who Is sick.
Harry Carter who has been very ill,
is better.
with Miss O'Brien as teacher.
Zen Reno Is building the foundation
for his new barn.
,,;s;tinp at the home of H. E. Warder
Mrs. Chas. Tennity and two children
Edith and Everett have gone to New
London to visit relatives
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Roosevelt said that even II Lorimer
did not know money was being used to
bring about his election. that he Uori
mer) should be removed from office
anyway-the use of money in Lori
mers election made it imperative that
he should be ousted from office. Yet
Roosevelt seeks to clear hlmsen Dy
saying that If Hartman did give $26o,
900 to the 1904 campaign fund, he did
1t without his (Roosevelt's) knowledge
That reminds one of the hunter who
aimed his rifle so that II 1t was deer
he would hit and II 1t was calf nc
would miss.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: II was
wicked. OF course, in George B. Cortel-
Won to take that $125,000 from the
Standard Oil company and spend 1t to
help elect roosevelt. in 1904, after the
colonel had told him to return the
money, and Mr. Cortelyou was shown
later how deeply he had displeased the
colonel when the colonel made him his
postmaster general and later pro
NOTED him to be secretary OF the
treasury 4r.aa ...... ....r. F"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
GIRLS NAMES
Name-The Name In History, Literature Etc.
Copyright 1910. BY F1schsrl
FLOWER NAME: DAISY, OLIVE, RHoDA.

morning it expands it's petals to the
light.
Daisy In Literature.
There are many sentimental verses
devoted to Daisy and many Daisyses
figure in the songs and couplets of the
day, but 1t remained for Henry James
to introduce the name into modern
polite literature. His novel daisy
Miller" is much admired.
The daisy is Daisy's emblem and
freshness" her motto.
Olive, the Flower Name.
Another famous flower name IL
Olive or Olivia The olive signifies
peace and 10y. The historical olive
branch is the names emblem, and
peace" it's sentiment.
The male name Oliver, was borne by
many famous English knights of old
but ceased to be regarded as a At ap
pellation for nobleman after cole
Noll" (CromwelD taught them theil
sadly needed lesson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
The Ideal Newspaper.

Boston Globe: Occasionally Il be-
comes the duty of practical editor to
give to the very intelligent and imprac-
tical people who are always demanding
an ideal newspaper very common
sense reason why 1t will never be pub
lished.
And the reason is based on few
questions like these:
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal minister?
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal college president?
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal doctor?
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal banker?
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal lawyer?
Has anybody ever seen or heard OF
an ideal merchant?
We are decidedly Of the opinion that
loud and emphatic no is the answer
to each question.
Why?
Because the representatives Of the
calIings named are all human, with the
usual numbering Of virtues and faults.
And editors, being human are IN the
same class. Therefore, when the world
| s peopled by angels and the news
papers are controlled by archangels,
we shall see the ideal newspaper, and
not until then.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
PRESS COMMENT.
WASTE IN DISTRIBUTION.

Topeka Capital: The editor of the
Joplin Tribune, who likes fruit, as
most properly constituted people do,
calls attention to the fact that at this
time peaches are so plentiful in Ar.
kansas and Oklahoma that they are
being fed to the hogs, sold for 10
cents bushel or left to rot on the
ground. At the same time the editor
of the Tribune, whose mouth waters
for good succulent peaches. has to
pay dollar bushel for them In his
home market. There should be-" he
says Some way to make closer con
nection between the producers and
the consumers. II the proper arrange
ments were made, Joplin people could
get all the peaches they want for sc
cents, at the most. and at the same
time the growers of the fruit would
realize more for their crop.
"Not only is this lack of connec
ton between producer and, consumer
seen In relation to peaches, but 1t il
seen In many other articles. In moth
ing is 1t more noticeable than In ap
pies. No matter how large crop OF
apples Is produced within fifty miles
of Joplin, or how cheap they may be
on the farm, we have to pay big
price for the fruit. 1t Is also fact
that butter, eggs and various other
commodities could be had much
cheaper in this city II there were
some way to get the producer and
the consumer together, to the mutual
advantage of both"
There are several million Other
consumers in the United States who
feel the same way about this matter
is tremendous fault somewhere II
our methods of distribution. When
ever there is an abundant crop o.
fruit In the country neither the pro
Queer nor the consumer gets mucl
benefit out of it. The producer can
not afford to gather and market his
peach crop or his apple crop for Is OF
20 cents bushel and SO the frui
either goes to waste or Is fed to the
hogs. At the same time the con
sumer finds that he cannot get up
pies or peaches much cheaper In the
fat years than In lean years. o.
course If all the fruit grown were
suddenly thrown on the market there
might be more Of it than the consum
or would demand for the time being
but If every peach and apple were
saved and utilized, canned, worked
up into butter, ETC., there would be
demand for the product at a goot
price within the next twelve months
or before the next years crop wal
ready to gather.
The great problem, economically, O.
the times, Is how to save the waste
the waste of fruit, the waste of grain
the waste of soil. the waste OF human
energy, the waste OF manhood ant
wOmanhood.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

| hour day for WON
en- and young per-
sons.
The abolition OF
| the convict con-
| tractlabor system,
! substituting q
system Of prison
production for
governmental con-
sumption only,
and the applica-
ton Of prison
earnings to the
support Of their
dependent fam
| lilies.
We favor the
| union Of all exist
| ing agencies Of the
federal govern
naent dealing with
the public health
into a single ma
tional health serv-
ice, without dis
Grim 1 n q t l on
against, or for any
one set Of thera-
peutic methods,
schools OF med1-
cine or schools Of
healing.
We pledge our
party to establish
a department Of
labor with a seat
in the cabinet.
and with wide
Jurisdiction over
matters affecting
the conditions Of
labor and living.
graduated Inherit
ance tax as a ma
tional means OF
equalizing the OBJ
legations of hold
ers Of property to
government. and
we hereby pledge
our party to enact
such q federal law
as will tax large
inheritances, re-
turning to the
states an equitable
percentage Of all
amounts collected.
We favor the
ratification Of the
pending amend
ment to the con-
stitution giving
the government
power to levy an
income tax.
The progressive
party, believing
that no people can
Justly claim to be
a true democracy
which denies po-
| litical rights on
account of sex,
pledges itself to
the task Of secur-
ing equal suffrage
to men and women
alike.
We pledge our
selves to the enact
ment Of a patent
! law which will
make it impossible
| for patents to be
suppressed or used
against the public
welfare In the In
| terests OF injur-
] ious monoponeA
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
200 RURAL CARRIERS
AT DES MONIES MEET

Des Moines, Aug. 31.-Nearly two
hundred rural mail carriers from all
parts of Iowa listened to addresses.
heard reports Of officers at the second
davis session OF the Iowa Rural Mail
Carriers association, the annual con-
vention of which is In progress here.
Oficers will be elected today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
Humorous Comment
An Epltaph Ad.

There is a Philadelphia man who Is
an authority on epitaphs. serious and
otherwise otherwise" for, as every
one knows, many are unconsciously
funny. Out" says the Philadelphia.
ut is not often that one encounters
an epitaph that is meant to carry q
business advertisement. Such one,
however, exists in an Ohio cemetery.
1t was the happy idea Of the widow OF
man named Mcconnell, partner IN
an industrial concern known as Nc.
Cornell & McCumber.
1T appears that, not long after the
decease OF her husband, Mrs. McCon-
nell married Mr.. McCumber, her late
husbands business associate.
1.-THE epitaph is as follows: Sacred
to the memory of Michael Mcconnell.
for twenty years the senior partner
Of the firm of Mcconnell & McCum-
Der, now McCumber & Company. -
Lippincott's Magazine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

we demand: The
conservation O.
human resources,
particularly Of the
lives and well-be-
ing OF the workers
md their families.
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Initiative, refer.
endurn and recall.

N a. tur al re-
sources w h o 8 e
conservation / 9
necessary for the
national welfare
should be owned
or controlled by
the nation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

BY abolishing
the brutal explo-
ltation of convicts
under the contract
system, and sub
shutting the CO.
operative organi-
cation Of indus
tries in peniten
tiaries and work
shops for the ben
Eft of convicts and
their d dependents.
The enactment
Of further meas
ures for the con-
serv alton Of
health. The crea-
ton of an indie
pendent bureau of
health, with such
restrictions as will
secure the full lib
erty of all schools
practice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
Unrestricted and
equal suffrage for
men and women.

The abolition Of
the m o n o p o ! y
ownership of pat
ents and the sub
stitution OF. collec-
tive ownership,
with direct re-
wards to investors
by premiums Or
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Iowa will have the biggest corn crop
IN it's history, according to H. M. Cot
terrell, agricultural commissioner OF
the Rock Island lines, who has mace
q tour of the state. Mr.. Cottereil also
saws that 10000 silos have been built
this year. against 1000 in 1911.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

n you will think minute, you Will
realize that If the road to success
was an easy one, it would be 80 crowd
ed that you and would kick because
there would be so many people on IL
we would have hard work even to
walk along the path at the side.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

labor in any for and by appetite which knows
no brother. w hen woman is tied to this comninA
ton until the la at triumpha trump she viii have TO
hurdle from the cook stove to the wash tub and back
again or starve.
Laziness may either be acquired or inherited like
the habit of snoring from any angle. Acquired iaar
ness sometimes be disodged by moral suaslon
running the patient with -four pin, but the
inherited kind is harder to than an attack OF the
sweed ego.
Laziness begins to show It's teeth early In life, ana
always be detected by disnclnation to NIL the
woodbox' or go after the When these symptoms
appear they should be taken firmly IN hand and erad
cated with loving purpose and four-inch strip of
hickory bark.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

herself building
kitchen fire with hard and strawberry
This world anything
thing the table but the which will curl up on the
until bell
relic
live
plies the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
Downs and Outs.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The three
greatest men in the third party move
ment in Iowa are John MacV1car.
pert Keltz' and Joe Dwyer. Mac
Vicar lost his office because the voters
|of Des Moines voted him out at the
last election. Dryer didn't get his Of
flee. He wanted to be marshal for the
southern district, but even the Cum.
Minis faction refused to recommend
him. Keltz lost his office because he
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Kansas City Star: The Official
scorers at the baby contest at the
iowa state fair announce that the girl
hahies are huskier than the boy
babies. Evidently mere man might
Just as we'll surrender on woman
suffrage now as any time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

senator Luke Lea of Tennessee says
that the third party platform has a
remedy for everything except corns,"
and he can't understand how the third
term doctors overlooked this.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Scott county onion growers declare
that the profit from 300 acres OF onions
in that county this year was $44o an
acre or a total of $132,000. If Iowa soil
keeps on turning out fortunes like that
there will be back to the farm move
ment that will depopulate the cities.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
Moonlight In Dubuque.

Dubuque Times-Journal: We had
another example of our moonlight
lighting schedule Sunday evening
when clouds obscured the moon and
left the city in darkness. Unless
something is done to provide light
during cloudy nights when the moon
is up, thoughtful citizens will adopt
the expedient of carrying lantern
when they go out of their homes
after shutdown.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Opportunity is an imaginary thing
ANYWAY. What one man says Is no
good. some other man takes up. and,
Nv working at It, makes himself rich.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Z
BY securing to
every worker q
rest period Of not
less than a day
and a half in each
week.
BY shortening
the workday in
keeping with the
Increased produce
tiveness Of ma
chinery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

Washington Post: Speaker Clark
saws he is proud Of the democratic
bills, but the trouble is that the
country has now got to pay them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

There is one opportunity that some
men never let escape-that Is the op-
nortunity to kick against the man who
has made a success Of life. -.. .
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Once IL Was Different.

Springfield, Mass, HepuOIcd0: It
should not be forgotten that there
was time when the colonel found
Senator Penrose useful and used him
without compunction upon all con
venient occasions. Mr.. Penrose Is far
from an admirable figure in American
public life, but those who have fol
lowed his career seem to have reason
for asserting that he Is more desir-
able citizen today, when the colonel
excoriates him, then he was when the
colonel relied upon him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

The adoption Of
We believe In a
a graduated in
come tax, the In
crease Of the rates
Of the present cor
poration tax, and
the extension Of
Inheritance taxes,
graduated in pro-
portion to the
value Of the estate
and to nearness OF
kin--the proceeds
of these taxes to
be employed in the
specialization OF in
dustry.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
EoolIsHNEss IN POLITICS.

FOOLISHNESS IN POLITICS.
Topeka Capital: "The people OF
this country are oppressed" shouted
politician in front Of the National
hotel the other night. What fool q
man can become over politics.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

The separation
of the present bu-
reau Of labor from
the department Of
commerce a n d
labor and it's ele-
walton to the rank
Of q department.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

'rangement a. that ID equal to sal
airy OF 500 month In the city; IN
fact q man can save more money out
OF It than he can out of 800 and pay
rent and the constant drain for the
little expenses that he cannot avoid
in city life. Why do men refuse such
offers as that? Will the Industrial
commission be able to give a salts
factory answer to such questions?
The other evening woman VINO
was raised on a farm related that her
father had started several men IN
business who now own their own
farms and have raised families. She
could recall at least four such men.
They came and worked on her faith.
er's farm three or four years at $40
a month and board and washing.
They, saved almost the whole OF their
salaries, for clothing on farm costs
but little, and when they had accumu-
lated enough to buy a team, COW
and a few pigs, they rented a farm
and went to work for themselves.
Now farmers offer $50 to $S5 month
the year round and cannot get men,
although the muscular work on a
farm has been greatly reduced on
account of the use OF machinery. In
fact, there is no "hard work on q
farm any more. The blowing, the
narrowing, the cultivating, harvest
ing, haying, is all done by machinery
and all that hand" has to do Is to
ride, and drive team Why will men
not 60 and work under such health
full favorable conditional Will the
Industrial commission be able to give
a satisfactory answer?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03

The eight hour
day in continuous
twenty-four hour
industries.
The general pro-
hibition Of night
/ work for women
and the establish
Juent Of an eight
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-03
MARY ELLENs RETURN.

Washington Post: Well, just see
who is in our midst! It is like smooth
ing out the wrinkles and laying aside
the burdens of twenty years to hear
once more the penetrating accents of
Mary Ellen Lease. The illusion has all
the greater air of verisimilitude be-
cause she had changed not jot or
title during the decades which have in
tervened since the consulship of Cieve-
land. Her voice Is still for war--of
wiles more unexpert she boasts not 1t
Is as confronting as the great oaths OF
sailormen rising above the storm to
hear her denouncing one OF the old
parties as moribund mass Of political
putrescence," and "a stencil In the nos
trils Of heaven" For by that token we
know that all is we'll with Mary Ellen,
If not with the general government
Incidentally, the callow or credulous
newsmen who have matriculated since
the trobulous era OF the early COS write
OF he. presumably on her own author
ity, as MARY Elizabeth It is cum
ming vile to wipe out the graphic flip.
pancies Of the past and sleep our senses
in forgetfulness of the MARY yell
lin" which fluttered from so many
headlines and winged so many shafts
OF leaden wit. This was clusmy eff.
fort at detraction which deserves to be
forgotten, but for the sake of the old
days and the baptismal record we
must insist upon the Mary Ellen.
We had often wondered how and
where she Jared. The solemn hush
which brooded over Kansas, bleeding
still, but bleeding inwardly, inspired
the haunting fear that
A precious one from us had gone,
A voice we loved was stilled,
We hesitated to inquire whether she
had fallen on sleep, with SO many Of
the leaders who gave picturesque vari-
ety to the bull moosing of hirsute PEI
fer and sockless Jersey" or had gone
over to the money devil like Jacobus
Coxey. Praise be, it Is neither. She
has merely been nursing her wrath to
keep It warm while straining her pro-
phetic ear for the call Of the moose.
At the familiar slogan of "the rights
of the people"
She starts, she moves, she seems to
feel
The thrill OF life.
speaking of Union square, she stir
red enthusiasm as far as the Bronx.
Standing on the Rockies, she could stir
the waters of the circumanbient
oceans She is welcome for the sake
of the dear, dead past, and for the gay
ETY. she will once more contribute to
the nations.