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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
I. PIxLEY FUNERAL FRIDAY.

CenteTVlIIe, May 3I.-Dec0rat1on DAY
was observed with exercises at the
Methodist church and the cemetery.
Sen. j. M. Wilson delivered the adj
dress, which was considered an un-
usually fine one, being among the best
ever heard on such an occasion in
Centerville. A new feature OF the
celebration of the day was the partici-
patton Of three troops of boy scouts IN
the parade. Another feature OF the
day. was the funeral at 10 o'clock in
the morning of A. F. Pixley, Of the
18th Michigan infantry, who for many
years has carried the colors for the
G. A. r. post. ~
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
NEW YORK CHILDREN
LOST IN THE CROWD

New York, May S1.-Forty-six chill.
dren between the ages Of three and
six who became lost in the holiday
throngs yesterday were still ,un-
claimed by their parents at the chill
dren's society headquarters today. In
all eighty-five tots we're lost in the
crowd, but by patient work the police
restored nearly half of the number to
their homes by night fall. f%4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
MOULTON.

Friday afternoon Mrs. John Waters
mot witt serious accident when the
pony which she was driving ran away;
She was thrown from the buggy and
painfully injured, her collar bone beins
broke and her head badly bruised. :
Lightning Friday morning struck
three ricks of hay valued at 5000 on
the J. H. Carr farm. The insurance car
l.. d amounts to sS5.
Rev. John Hanley evangelist deliv-
ercd the memorial address Friday. The
Citizens band furnished the music
Moulton's auto owners took all the vet
eran. to the cemetery where the graves
OF the soldiers were decorated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
NEW POSTAL HEAD.

Washington. D. c., May 81. -
Alexander H. Stephens was today ap.
pointed by Postmaster General BurIe.
son general superintendent OF the
railway mail service, vice Theodore In:
gals. Mr.. Stephens at present is dis
trict superintendent of the railway
mail service at San Francisco.
Mr.. Ingalls, will be appointed dis.
trict superintendent
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
CAUCUS ON ASSIGNMENTS.

Washington, D. G., May 31.-House
republicans caucused today on the
minority appointments to committees.
Most Of the republican assignments
are much the same as in the. last con.
gress.
The progressives already have an.
nounced their committee assignments
and the democrats will consider the
majority personnel of the committee
organization at caucus next Monday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
oNIY 2z lN LINE.

:. STNI =
Keosauqua, May 31.-A large crowd
enjoyed the Decoration day exercises
at the monument ground and the court
house park Friday afternoon. The
exercises at the monument ground
were participated in by the G. A. R.
and $50 school children. Only 81 of
the G. A. RS. we're in the line of
march. The drills and songs by the
school children were excellent. Rev,
j. W. Cheney WHO was to have de-
liyered the address Of tho day was un.
able to do so and j. G.. Calhoun read
1t. A large choir furnished excellent
music. -.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
MOB THREATENS TO
HARASS ITALIANS

Council Bluffs, May 91.-Police wer(
called number Of times here last
night to break up band Of men, whonj
it was reported intended to wreck thx
italian colony. The Dodge Light
Guards were kept in the armory dur
ing the evening ready for service but
were not needed. The local agitatoTs
have been added to be band from
the Omaha packing house district. The
town was quiet after midnight.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
OBSERVE DAY At EDDYvILLE.

Eddyville. May 31.-~Decoration day
was fittingly observed in Eddyville
Friday afternoon at the opera house.
The address was given by Rev.
Walther, pastor of the Christian
church at Eddyville. The old soldiers
attended in body and after the exer-
cises large number OF people
marched to the cemetery, where the
graves of the soldiers were decorated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
ARE BUILDING NEW
COUNTRY SCHOOL

Humeston, May 31.-Contractor Alex
Mardis has force Of men at work on
the new home to be erected at the
county farm in Benton township. 1t
will be two-story brick structure and
modern in every way. The contract
price was $18,662. Isl. -.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
RACE PROGRAM IS
NOW PREPARED
MONROE COUNTY FAIR OFFICIALS
LOOK FORWARD TO LARGE
ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR.

Abba, May 31.-There is every indi-
cation that the next Monroe county
fair will be one of the best attended
ever held in this county. The dates are
August, 49,, 10, 20, 81, and the officers
are bending their energies even this
far In advance to spell out the word
success in capital letters. The speed
program has been issued and
placed before the horsemen OF the
country in booklet form. The same
booklet contains the program for Mt.
Pleasant and LaHarpe, Ill. Entry
blanks are printed in the book and
these are sent to all the men who
have horses and who will likely enter
them in the races at this place.
The farmers of Monroe county have
been busy looking over their stuff
and they promise to have large ex-
hib1t. It should be remembered that
the Monroe County Fair association
is now a member Of the Two-I cir
cult. and this will bring many more
horses to the county, The speed list
as announced by Superintendent OF
Speed ]. T. Porter, Is as follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03

First Refofmed church by Rev. Bailey
of the Baptist church.
The commencement exercises Will
begin on June at the Auditorium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
THE WAY OUT.

The controversy between the city
and the street car company over the
extension of the railway to Gage park
and on Kansas avenue. emphasizes the
advantages accruing to municipalities
which operate their own business. If
the city owned its traction lines it
could build extensions when and where
it chose. AS long as 1t is willing TO
have it's business managed and con-
trolled by a private corporation it must
expect that corporation to look out
primarily for it's own interests.
If the street car company could have
seen a profit in the undertaking, prob
ably it would have made these ex-
tensions before this time. Since it ap-
parently can --ot figure out a profit it
is not to be wondered at that it should
avoid spending its money in that way
as long as possible.
Given a commission form of govern
ment with opportunities for graft re-
duced to the minimum there is no
reason why a municipal railway should
not prove satisfactory and profitable in
Topeka as it has done in other cities.
The United States consular reports
are continually calling attention to the
successful operation of municipal rail-
ways in cities outside of this country.
One of the latest Of these reports is
from Leeds, Eng, and is as follows:
The municipal tramway during the
year ended March 81, 1913, had ST.
O02, ut revenue, or 1895 per head of
population. Receipts per car mile were
% rs cents, of which cents went for
traffic expenses. 4 cents Of which is for
wages to conductors and motormen, 2
cents for general expenses, cents for
repair and maintenance, L cent for
power, 2 cents for interest on invest
ment. 2-3 cents for sinking fund, 2
cents for permanent renewals, and 2A
cents, the amount being $685. for re-
lief of local taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
THE ANNUAL TRIBUTE.

Once more a grateful people pay
their tribute of reverence and respect
to the memory of those. now dead. who
battled for their country in a war
which closed As years ago.
Year after year, on this date the
people drop their regular occupations
and journey out to the city of the dead,
which probably numbers among it's &C.
cupants a larger number of the heroes
of the great struggle, than does the
city of the living.
Each year fewer of the comrades of
those who are gone, are found in the
ranks of the marchers, but while their
numbers decrease, there is no diminu-
ton of the honor accorded them. In
the course of time, one or two white
haired veterans will constitute whole
parade, and when they are gone, the
sons and daughters and grandsons and
granddaughter will keep alive the Gus
tom of observing Decoration Day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
LOVES DEAD HORSES.

Why do men hate to pay alimony?
True, they hate to pay anything, you
might say. But why do men who can
liquidate gambling debt or a bar bill
in a brave show of cheerful spirit, who
can pay even a doctor bill or a MILL
merry bill without grumbling overmuch,
object so urgently to the payment of
alimony that they are not only ready
to go to Jail first but actually willing to
stay in Jail for weeks or months rather
than settle?
A judge asked a man the other day
why he declined to pay his divorce court
dues, already several months in arrears.
IT will not" replied the delinquent.
THE order is unfair. You can send
me to Jail if you like" The judge could.
and did.
Perhaps the answer represents the
usual attitude of the alimony payer.
He tells himself the bill is unfair.
If he pays he pays under protest If
he does not pay he goes to jail sus-
tanned by the soothing belief that he
is a martyr to stiff-necked justice. If
we could poll the famous alinony club
in the New York Tombs we should
doubtless be assured that alimony is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Any prominent man you dislike is only
a good advertiser.
Some temperance workers succeed in
driving men to drink.
There Is much sincerity In this world.
very little of which is devoted to
apologies.
If the right woman Is making a fool of
man, he rather enjoys the performance.
1t IS hard to convince the sweet girl
grad that eventually the middle aged
spread strikes everybody.
Sometimes a man goes through the
school of hard knocks without being able
to graduate and get a diploma.
The price of porterhouse has scared so
high that Woodworking man no longer
feels he is a brother of the OK
A country town isn't so much more
virtuous than a big city it likes to tell
strangers who are lonesome there.
1t is not necessary, however, as Col
hpHng tntimated, to go east of Suez in
order to raise an able-bodied thirst.
Some men are failures because they de-
vote most of their time trying to think OF
clever things to say, instead of working.
The society for the prevention of useless
noises might make a start from three to
one.
Sometimes poor mans rich kin have so
much time to visit him that they become a
burden and he feels like going into the
hotel business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
GOOD FROM EVIL.

Possibilities of good to come out of
the threatened closing Of factories by
reason of tariff changes are seen by
Harper's Weekly. Under the caption,
make Good Goods Again." an edi-
torial article is printed which offers
some suggestions worthy Of considera-
ton. The article follows:
If any manufacturers are driven out
of their present business by tariff
changes, may there not be an opening
for some of them in making better
lines of goods than the market now
affords?
For example, the plumbers say that
all current plumbing pipes are bad;
that whereas they used to be made or
iron and last in use for twenty or
thirty years, now they are made of
merely repeat about them what we
hear, but that is that there are no
good steel or iron plumbing pipes in
the market and that house-builders
who want good pipes are advised to
use brass.
Does it not seem as though there
was a living for somebody in making
honest old fashioned iron plumbing
pipes?
And consider nails Anybody that
has shingIed a house within ten years
knows that wire single nails don't
last as we'll by a good deal as the old
iron cut single nails. The bright wire
nails rust out with lamentab1e speed
and the shingles get loose and roofs
leak. But it seems that there are no
old fashioned iron single nails to be
had. They are no longer made.
Won't somebody make some?
So as to tin. They tell us there is
no good tin that we get in this coun-
try; that the Mckinley bill tin that
we get is made on thin sheets of steel
(not from and not timed thick
enough, and the whole product is
f1imsy and has no wear in it
Won't somebody who is out of a job
please make some good old fashioned
tin? Also some good old fashioned
bicycle tires. Also various other ar
ticles of which we can get a list from
various experienced croakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
SAYS UNCLE CIV

There was q good deal Of wisdom in
the remark of the crusty sage who said
that When a man tells you he is do
ing the best he can according to the
light given him, it's time to put your
hand upon your 4pocketbook." He's like
ly to get the wrong kind of light. ;"
Men who profess to substitute creed
for conscience common honesty and
horse sense bear watching. In the long
run they are alike a disgrace to the
creeds they profess and a danger to
the community in which they live. The
man who speaks often of light is al
ways a hypocrite. He is emphasizing
his beliefs in order to establish an alibt
for his offensess past, present and fu-
ture.
The trustworthy man is seldom one
to lay undue emphasis upon rites forms
and ceremonies. When he observes
them it is with the thought of their
meaning rather than a mere mechanical
compliance. He is too busy with the
spirit of the law to be constantly talk
ing about the letter of 1t. If he be hon.
est, he is so as a matter of course, and
it doesn't occur, to him to give his
neighbor a special reason for keeping
out of jail If he be virtuous, he does
not remark upon the fact or give an
explanation. 1t is the ordinary thing
with him. If he slip and fall, he is
manly enough to take the RESPONSE
I
his Tights"
The worst lodge man 1 ever knew
was loudest in his devotion to his or
der and had most to say about the
sanctity of his oath of obligation. He
was finally expelled on the ground of
that he had in all things been letter.
perfect in regard to his obligations,
as he understood them, and he had.
1t was intimated to him by Old Doc
Houser, who was the handspring of
the order in Puckyhuddle, that if he
thought less of the written law of the
organization and more about the I'M
written law of common decency his
fellowship would have been more high
ly appreciated.
The meanest old curmudgeon that
afflicted our little village in my time
was a stickler for the doctrines of the
church. He knew more about them
than any one else in the congregation
and his special delight was to trip up
the preacher, who was so busy about
his task of human service that he may
have been a trifle rusty on his theology.
Old Hankins was the trickiest man in
a horse trade the most merciless shy
lock in the matter of loans and the
sharpest dealer in produce in the COM
Also he was fonder Of talking
of his lights than anybody else in the
township. We thought we had him
one time and "churched" for a mat
ter involving the sale of a saddle nag,
but he opened his Bible and read US
the story of Esau and the mess of
pottage. There was a long argument
in which he bested the preacher and
in sheer wearineSS we let him get
away. Nevertheless, we always had our
opinion Of him, and when he died the
preacher got even by saying that
Brother Hawkins had been righteous,
according to his lights, but that he
hoped we'd all be careful about the
source of our spiritual Illumination
Copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
EVENING CHIT
Big results From Little Causes.
BIZ RUrA CAMERON.


Two young girls stood on the sidewalk
outside my window this morning talking
earnestly with each other.
were passing on their way to work threw
interested glances at one of the girls; the
other was scarcely noticed.
Why was it?
Because of several of the tiniest reasons
possible to imagine; namely, the first
girls eyelashes were perhaps an eighth of
an inch longer than the second girls; her
nose was about a quarter of an inch
shorter; her lips a triffle fuller; her
cheeks wee bit pinker; her hair curly
In short, one girl was very pretty, the
other was homely.
And yet when 1 stopped to think about
the matter and analyZe 1t there were onl.
the infinitesimal differences which have
named to separate the two faces so
widely.
What tiny, tiny differences and yet what
a very different world these two girls Will
pie will look at one of these two girls and
ignore the other. The one will always be
admired, courted and praised without any
effort on her part whenever she shows her
face. The other will have to laboriously
earn whatever admiration and praise she
receives by her character or her brains
The one will find all doors quick to open
to her because she is that exquisite thing
we all enjoy-a pretty girl. The other will
have to open her own doors because she
is that commonplace thing we are all in
clined to ignore-a homely girl.
The beauty will be continually exposed
to all sorts of Objectionable attentions, to
unwe1come admiration and possibly to
temptations; the other will have none of
these disadvantages. The beauty will be
in danger of neglecting everything but her
beauty; the homely girl will be forced to
cultivate her wits and her good disposi-
ton because they are her only tools with
which to work for love.
And all this difference in their lives just
because of an eighth of an inch of eye
lash, q. quarter of an inch of nose and
few other differences just tiny
Isn't it really remarkable when you stop
to think about it? If beauty were a mat
ter of some tremendous facial difference
it wouldn't seem quite so strange.
And what queer thing this quality we
call beauty is anyhow. Why should
certain length of nose and a certain color
of cheek please all SO much7 If you
had to tell why in a court of law you
never could. And yet you know 1t is
After all beauty is very queer, sense
less unreasonable thing, isn't it?
And yet, queer and senseless and unreal
sonb1e as It is, I think Dfogenes would
have a harder time than he did if he were
to hunt for a plain woman who wouldn't
give almost anything on earth to be beau
fJ1I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30

well-or otherwise but we will go to the
battlefield tonight and search for them
and if we can We will bring them back
here with us. How can we get through
the lineS?'
Henry will give us the countersign and
Uncle Peter can harness your horse to the
carryall and drive us in. You are wearing
federal cloak and Henry will let me
have the one he brought-he found it on
the field as he left
Their plans were laid and after a late
dinner, over which Uncle Peter and Aunt
Chloe lowered with excited interest in
the beautiful young lady from the north.
they made their preparations to leave at
twilight for the field of battle.
When the hour arrived Anne and Es-
and with basket of restoratives between
them, entered the carTyal and were
driven off.
Henry, covering and subdued, was
seated beside his parent on the front seat.
The sounds of battle had ceased but
over in the southwest there burned
rudy light, and the girls knew that some
where marauders were busy devastating
property. 1t might come the turn of
beautiful Bellemead any day-any hour.
Uncle Peter stopped well outside the
lines and with Henry's whispered word
the girls managed to fit past the tired
sentries without challenge.
1t was grueSome task they had set
themselves to find their loved ones on
that field where thousands lay dead and
dying under the high-riding moon.
In the pale moonlight the girls fluttered
fearfully from one silent form to another.
Others were there, surgeons and nurses,
but they gave no heed to the girls.
Annes sudden piercing cry was a warn
ing note to Esther Lawrence and she soon
reached the others side. Noel Miles was
lying near the edge of a little wooded
knoll, his head pillowed on a tuft of grass.
Near him lay a blue-clad form silent and
still.
II have found him. cried Anne joyfully,
as Esther came near.
"Anne-dear little. Anne" smiled Noel
happily where's that rascal, Henry-I
missed him?' ...-...-..
He's coming, DEAR" murmured Anne.
Il would have bled to death if it hadn't
been for that Yank over there-he band
aged it for mel want him looked after
he's white, clean through"
The girls glanced at the quiet blue-clad
form and then their eyes met. They did
not tell their fears to Noel, but as by one
accord, they went over and turned the
face of the man to the moonlight.
Esther gave a startled cry and flung
her arms around him. 1T is Robert-and
oh. believe-why he is only asleep!"
So 1t proved to be. Robert Lyman had
been slightly stunned by a grazing ball,
and after rendering what aid he could to
his injured enemy had fallen into heavy
stupid sleep.
Anne had permission to remove Noel
from the field and Robert accompanied
them the journey.
After that night there came the fall of
Richmond and later, Lees surrender to
the northern general-and then peace fell
upon the SCARED land.
But all through the long years that fol-
lowed, the two girls who had sought their
lovers together remained close friends,
saved the life of the other, became closely
related in business and in friendship
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30

basically wrong. fundamentally unfair,
so erroneous in principle that no man
of character should be a party to it.
We need not go into that. The courts
see to 1t that marriage maintains its
proud position as the hardest kind of
contract to break without paying suit
able indemnity. That the party of the
first part is SO seldom willing to take
the indicated contribution is scarcely
applicable as a matter of principle. We
suspect that it is rather a matter of
animosity.
For men pay taxes merely because
they are convinced they must though
they may deem the principle unfair.
Nonpayment would send them to jail;
still they pay because they feel no par
ticular enmity toward the state. But
in the preliminaries precedent to the
falling due of alimony certain acerbities
are engendered. 1t seems fair to assume
that hard feelings alone impel men to
refuse to pay alimony, though grim
gray walls emphasize it's inevitability.
And it's pleasant thought that many
men of whom the public never hears
probably walk right UP to the clerks
desk once a month and pay their in
stallments on loves dead horses with
out a murmur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-30
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Rec

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
It's easy enough to go to law. The
trouble is to get back.
The people who fish for compliments
must use attractive bait
Some women make cutting remarks, and
others are satisfied to look daggers-
Many a man puts off mending his ways
until they are completely shattered
No, Maude, dear; it doesn't take an
athlete to jump from the frying pan into
the fire.
The trouble with good resolutions is that
it is SO hard to keep them for any length
of time without spelling
Some people get SO used to waiting for
something to turn up that they are in
clined to dodge it when it comes.
acknowledgements is out looking for
trouble" Slobbs-'I shouldn't think he
would have to go far from home
She-'T assure you it is quite possible
for a woman to Keep a secret He-"Per-
haps, but most women are woefully out
of practice
Don't despfse an humble beginning
says the Manayunk Philosopher. ITO
master the violin it is necessary to play
second fiddle first
Tommy-"Pop. family descends from
father to son, doesn't it? Tommys Pop
Yes, my son. and sometimes the descent
Is something fierce"