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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29
Sidewalk Sketches
THE SPRING BONNET.
BY Howard L. Ram

The spring bonnet is piece of
feminine finery which pulls $22 out of
husbands salary in March and shrinks
to $548 by the last of April. How
ever, If a husband should suggest to
his wife that she wait until after
Easter before buying her spring hat,
and thus take advantage of falling
market, he would be called several
kinds of brute in the presence OF the
entire family.
The spring bonnet is usually sprung
on the first day when woman can
wear 1t down town without having it
ornamented with icicles. A man will
wear his winter hat into August and
shed it about the same time he does
his flannels, but the woman who Is
caught making an afternoon call after
March in the same hat she wore on
the 2Sth of February is viewed with
suspicion by all right-thinking people.
This has caused the spring bonnet to
break into the store windows in plenty
of time to induce father to change his
mind about buying an automobile.
Spring bonnets are sold on a very
narrow margin of profit, seldom rang
ing over 900 per cent. The most pOpu-
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lar 1913 model consists Of teaspoon
full of velvet draped around sixty-flve
cents worth Of real straw, surmounted
by high-priced tailfeather from some
French guinea hen. This kind Of a
bonnet retails at $40 when the snow
is on the ground and can be worn
for several days without being imi
tated by the hired girl, after which II
is laid away in an old trunk and then
bestowed upon the City Charity circle
No two spring bonnets are alike
This is especially true Of the original
creation known as the pattern hat
which Is patterned after by every
body who had a chance to study 1t al
close range on Easter Sunday. Moth
ing will embitter placid, sweet-temp
cred woman more than to invest the
price of a cook stove In pattern hat
which doesn't look as If anything like
it could ever happen again, and then
run up against four members Of the
same family at the next meeting OF
the club. Many an excellent wife and
mother has been so discouraged by
this experience that she went back
to her old felt turban with hopeless
look. .... L. I..
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Daddy sBedtirl1e
g. Margery and
,0f0V- Her Nice Little
China Pig

YA greedy had called hnwha do you Think
Why, little pig
q Daddy his eyebrows and said: -,
And too!
You'll nowyo really it.
upon She had
white and fond She called her pig
81 f. IT,,
Little Mscry Every morning she washed on mis-
ribbon about his neck
the most charming or at least
china pig Mr. Porke couldn't run ABOUT
liked him to do
when the light plays strange
and build him cute little pen
stretched out the
Porker begin
to the
Since turned china
the little
tells about rimed the story just right:
pgw went
ONE
On
On
a
oh YES: known interrupted all the
home -. go, u.u.
oh folks got the story right One htte
cried Wee wee but human
things right" cried Mr. Poker
A And what ecameofh imT Magery asked
Why nothing China about the
hngar they? Mr. Poker squealed. --
into the sitting
onie cross when taking forty winks Sleep
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AN ORDINANCE OF SELF DENIAL

New York Globe: The president has
resolved, we are, told, to accept no en-
gagement during the current year that
implies the making of speech and to
attend no public gathering except the
annual grill of the Gridiron club. The
president calls this. as he has re-
marked to visitors his Ordinance of
self denial
It is a new thing for presidents to be
speechmakers. Except for Andrew
Johnsons derided Swing around the
circle" presidents did not appear on
the platform except on great public
occasions and seldom accepted invita-
lions to dinners and banquets. It was
Cleveland who started the presidential
travelling habit. He was attacked be-
cause he had never been west of
Cleveland and wished to remove the
stigma. Going about the country he
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

President Wilson says: There IS 3
difference between big business anu
q trust. A trust is an arrangement 70
get rid of competition, and big ousi.
ness is business that has survived
competition by conquering in the I field
~ ipte1lipence and economy. A trust
does not bring efficiency to the ala OF
business. it buys efficiency out OF
business. I am for big business, ana
T am against the trusts. Any man VINO
can survive by his brains. any man
who v1a can car put the others out of business
hv making the thing cheaper to the
consumer at the same time that ne IS
increasing it's intrinsic value and
quality. I take off my hat to, and
sav. You are the man who can build
M the United States, and wish there
were more of you.
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THE RICH MANS SON.

Washington Times: The boy born
with silver spoon in his mouth and
a bag of gold in each chubby fist faces
an uphill fight If he's going to be a
mans man.
He has to fight the Influence Of a
mountain of money; and that is a
fight strong men have fought-and
lost.
He has to fight the influence OF
pampering and petting by friends and
relatives.
He has to fight the impulse to in.
dulge in condescension and snobbery
which is born Of the ministrations OF
horde of tuft hunting. kowtowing
palavering curry favors.
He has to fight his environment OF
luxury and dependence; the languid,
donothing. nd.day-out existence
of his "set."
He must fight these things If he
would escape supercilious, distorted,
simpering maturity He must fight for
his right to democratic manhood and
success by his own efforts.
He must forget, and make others
forget, that he was born to money and
station. Then he must plunge into the
middle of the current and founder
about with millions of others until he
finds himself and strikes out upstream
The son Of the rich is in the
minority by accident Of birth; he is
out Of tune with the vast majority Of
his fellowmen: he lacks their view,
point Of life, their viewpoint Of right.
eous justice, equality. prosperity.
If he is to be anything in the world
except drone. he must work with
these men. He can work as their
enemy; he can work as their friend :;
he can, worse than either. work in the
dark not knowing his fellowmen.
The hardest battle before the rich
Young man, then, is his fight to be.
come democratic, to be born again.
II he cannot win his fight his labors
will be in vain, for he is laboring
blindly.
Altogether the lot Of the boy with IA
silver spoon is not an enviable one. IL
he is to win success. He has double
task. He has to learn to climb down
before he can climb up.
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THE REAL NOBILITY.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: When
we are uncertain about anything we
go to Emerson or the supreme court
Emerson, preferably, and this Is his
opinion "The first farmer was the
first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use Of the
land" The poet Emerson said:
In ancient times the sacred Plough
employ'd .a iN.
The Kings and awful Fathers Of man.
kind. w
And he also declared the farmer held
the scale Of empire, ruled the storm Of
mighty war" One Of the few senti-
ments of Prince Albert that are re-
membered was: 1.-THE country gentle
man with his wife and children the
country clergyman, the tenant and the
laborer, yet form great and United
family in which we gladly recognize
the foundation Of the social state
Until well after the middle of the last
century the farmer held his primacy
but in this country after the civil war
there were vast changes and quick
wealth showed the farmer into the
background.
Now the pendulum is swinging back,
and today the country gentleman,
with his family and we'll cultivated
acres, is becoming more and more the
ideal. With crops that will soon sweep
over an annual total of ten billions OF
dollars, this comfortable American
farmer can look any plutocrat IN the
eye and smile. Even the plutocrats are
spending vast fortunes to initiate him
but mere imitation of prodigality only
serves to emphasize the merits of the
genuine article. The fine thing about
the country gentleman is that he is as
veritable on 10 acres as on 1000; his
kinship is not in area but in his pleas.
ant, independent life; his bearing
toward his neighbors and his ripen
ing in thought and character with the
processes of the seasons.
Our historic nobility could have nc
better basis than this sane farm life
1t is everything that is good. Our dol
lar aristocracy is social failure, ant
it Is possible that the peace movement
may take the pride out of war ancestr,
and leave the Colonial societies moth
ing to fight over. Thus we see that ir
going back to the farm society is no
only refreshing and revitalizing, but il
learning where the best family trees
grow. f.....s
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Had His Number.

A Philadelphia lawyer and con.
noisseur was describing some Of his
experiences in search of curios. 81
once entered shop" he said, smil.
ing. "and the salesman pointed out
to me a dilapidated chair. That
there chair. sir he said impressively
belonged to Louis Crosseye, king of
France
"Louis Crosseye?" said I. Why
there's no such person.
oh, yes. there is, sir said the
salesman and he showed me a ticket
marked Louis XII liverpool Post
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pockery Wears Boots.

Washington correspondence OF New
York World; The new third assistant
postmaster general, Alexander Monroe
Dockery, of Missouri, wears boots. real
old fashioned boots, the kind that
reach to the knees. He wears them
winter and summer, and he wears his
trousers on the outside. Mr.. Dockery
has two he ',bies-high boots and hold
ing office. 1t is said that he has never
been without an office since he be-
came of voting age. II he can get a
reminerative position he takes it. but
he often works for the public with no
hope of reward. After serving as gov
ernor of Missouri and In congress, he
held a job as road overseer In Mis-
souri, ----
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Wages Of Girls.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Chi
cago Record-Herald says that thou
sands Of girls who work are not worth
So per week, especially when they
begin work. Which is very true. Any
attempt to fix by law a minimum
wage. would be unjust, even If it
were constitutional. The wage ques-
ton must be handled without resort
to statutory enactments. Publicity,
public opinion, organization OF work
ers cooperation between employer
and employee; the application of
the golden rule to business these
are things upon which we must de-
pend for the proper adjustment of
the wage question.
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Paws to Advertise.

Waterloo Reporter: When you
have the goods, 1t pays to advertise.
E. S. Wells of Glenmoore. N. j., died
at the age Of u years, Made for
tune out of the preparation known
as Rough on Rats" Extreme pow.
ever was his side partner when a
young man. and his start on the road
to fortune was due to his last bit OF
food being eaten by rats, while he
slept in roadside barn. Wells then
set about making preparation that
would rid the world OF rodents. Ped.
ding the compound at first, he put
every spare dollar into advertising
and retired at the end Of three years
on an income of 100000 a year.
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STOCKPORT.

A car of horses were shipped from
here to the easter nmarket
Hog cholera has made it's appearance
here to the eastern market.
Mrs. 3. S. Old returned Monday from
Fairfield where she had been visiting
a few days.
+. c. Silver departed last TUESDAY Tor
Cherokee Kans., to BRING PACK MS
rnother in law who will make an eX-
tended visit here.
A baby boy was born Wednesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Tolbert.
The family of B. S. Williams We're
all present at his funeral. This is the
first time they have all met In the last
thirty years
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The ReaI Mr.. Wilson.

Atlantic: There are other ele-
ments besides mastery of speech
which enter into Mr.. Wilson's power
over his audiences. For those audi
ences, as representative OF the great
mass ,sof people, he feels a natural
sympathy and liking, powerfully re-
enforced by his reasoned conviction OF
the wisdom of government by the peo-
pie. The orderliness Of his mental
processes makes one imagine him q
kind of intellectual mechanism. work
ing according to some preconceived
plan The reality Is widely different.
Mr.. Wilson is a very human person.
detached from his fellows partly by
shyness, partly by native austerity,
partly by dutiful conception Of life
alien to most of us; man who, sell
dom able to chat intimately with a
friend, thanks God for one friend, at
least, who will always chat intimately
with him, and goes off cycling by him
self with Ella crammed into his
pocket: a punctilious man, who finds
in the conventions refuge from cur
rent intimacies of speech and man
ner; soberly ambitious man, dislik-
ing the superfluities Of intercourse;
man devoted to the cultivation of
his talents and to the expansion Of his
energies fitting himself increasingly
to be the instrument of effective
service.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

The cities devasted by tornado and
flood during the last few days will
need able city administrations to bring
order out of the chaotic condition now
prevailing. If these cities have not
mon of ability at the head of their adj
ministrations committees of citizens
will have to step in and take charge,
as was necessary at Galveston. Cities
should elect officials who are able to
manage affairs even in times of crises.
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ton Of the country, to say nothing {
tho property laid low.
Its Value.

Chicago Inter Ocean: President VIII
son seems to have very accurate
Idea of the importance which the I'LL
nois senate's vice commission has &C.
quired by the assumption on which II
has based it's Investigations and its
manner Of conducting It. He has con
sented to give It ten minutes OF hia
time.
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Ovenealous.

Springfield. Mass, Republican:
Huntington Wilson has been looked
upon before now as taking himself
pretty seriously. The new administers
ton can we'll afford to remain cheer
full. Young Mr.. Wilson has been hard
working, conscientious official with
out great imagination. A hint Of the
amusement which Washington appears
to take In his having set out to deal
sternly with the administration, is to
he had from the story that credited
Colonel Roosevelt with having dubbed
him .'Mr. Plush Pants" in recognition
of his fondness for the trappings and
formalities of diplomacy.
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Convict Fare Barred.

Louisville Courier-Journal: c.. W.
Morse says that his physicians tell
him he may live for years Il he IL
careful Of his diet. That Ii to say, %
long az he does not eat convict fare n
Atlanta?
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Waterloo Courier There is just SO
much violence in the elements to be
expended one time or another. A win
ter deprived Of it's ordinary rigorous
conditions. it Is observed, breaks forth
when the skies should begin to SMILE,
and tears great hole In the popula-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

Y. Sherman. republican, for the snort
term. Mr.. Sherman had agreed to &C.
cent the short term as he believed IT
better to end the deadlock ana renlove
an obstacle to orderly leglslatlVe pro,
cedure rather than allow his personal
ambitions to stand in the way. Lewis
and Sherman were the primary noml-
nees for the two senatorshlps. me
legislature could. not with honesty
have elected any others.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29
Opportunity for Trouble.

Cedar Rapids Optimus: Congress-
man Underwood, the leader Of the
house Of representatives, will do
business with the president. but not
with fertile Bryan, and therein the
opportunity for political trouble in
the administration. for Underwood
and Bryan are not given to trailing,
on the contrary they each propose
leaders.
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Jealous.

First Satanic Imp-Who's the latest
arrival. He's making quite hit.
Second Satanic Imp Travelling
salesman, I guess. Old Rabelais and
Munchausen are sore as pups over
something.-Puck
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Iowa City's Hotel.

Burlington Gazette: A little boom
struck Iowa City the other day. and
some progressive local citizens sub
scribed 100000 to build hand
some hotel. They had but fairly
started on the enterprise when a
strike of the laborers and transfers
confronted them. The laborers wanted
s2.4O day for eight hours and
the transfers IS per day for the
same length Of time. Work was
stopped.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

A Horrible Death.
may result from diseased lungs Cure
Coughs and Weak, Sore Lungs with Dr.
Kings New Discovery. Soc and II:
For sale by all dealers.--AdvG
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

A strong city government attracts
attention to it's actions, and Is pig
factor in getting individuals in the
community to sink their personal or,
ferences in the interests Of the general
good. E.. ~
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was compelled to speak. Mckinley,
who liked to speak. further nurtured
the practice. II came to flower under
Roosevelt and went to what may be
deemed seed under Taft.
President Wilson Is to be congrat(i-
lated on his self denial. Whenever the
president has anything to say that
cannot be said in a message to con-
gress statements from the white house
are the best vehicle. Speechifying has
gone far enough. The habit OF consid-
ering the president circus or an at.
traction" to be secured for a local
gathering needs to be conquered. The
theory that 1t Is good for president
to get out among his fellow citizens
has little to commend 1t. A president,
In the hurry burly Of travel, really
meets. fewer persons under circum-
stances permitting communication Of
ideas than at Washington.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

The year 1913, although less tha an
+bree months old. has been marked by
tragic events. The floods in ONO ana
indiana. following SO closely the Omana
tornado, have cost a heavy toll or
deaths --.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

The Illinois legislature redeemed
itself after the long deadlock when it
elected James Hamilton Lewis, demo-
Scrat, for the long term, and Laurence
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29
Are Issued Licenses to Wed.

Sigourney. March 27.-The follow
ing marriage licenses have been issu
ed recently by clerk of the district
court, c. G. Utterback: Jake Kiefer
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Serious Lacerations

and wounds are healed without danger
of blood poisoning, by Bucklen's Arnica
salve, the healing wonder Only csc.
Frank B. Clark.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29

The sun reappeared today after sew
era1 drab March days and old sol
found the welcome sign hung out.
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The yellow Peril.

E.s. The yellow PeTJ.
.1aundice-malaria- van
ish when DR.. Kings New Life Pills
are taken. Easy, safe, guaranteed. 25c.
Frank B. Clark
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Peppers Postoffices.
Must Get Il Out,

Clinton Herald: If Pepper succeeds
in settling the Davenport postoffice
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-29
That Roosevelt Picture.

New York Evening Post: Ex-Presl-
dent Taft's desire for the portrait OF
ex-President Roosevelt which hung IN
the presidents office for four uneasy
years can hardly be inspired by any
such consideration as that which led
Little Lord Fauntleroy to present his
old friend Mr.. Hobbs with a watch
on the eve of the boys departure for
England. When this you see, remem-
Der me-" read the inscription within
the case, and it was supplemented by
the givers naive explanation: 81 don't
want you to forget me-" The incident
quite upset the honest grocer. One
would suppose that the most recent
executive to leave the white house
needed no reminder of his predeces-
sor. All that Is dearest and bitterest
in the sheaf of memories that now
constitutes his sole connection with
the highest pinnacle Of official great
ness in this country is bound up with
Theodore Roosevelt What can one
picture more or less matter? And why
should he not try rather to forget the
tragedy? Well, in our opinion, this is
exactly what he is doing.
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Bryan's Vacation.

Sioux City Journal: The president
telegraphed Secretary Bryan that he
need not cut short his vacation. 1t
would seem the president had been
oueried on that point. Therefore Mr..
Bryan will rest few days in Lincoln
before returning to take charge of
the state department But can Mr..
Bryan give his diplomatic approval to
the word made prominent by the
president? Was not the chief execu-
tive made aware that his secretary of
state was coming west to fill en-
gagements made in advance Of &C
ceptance Of a cabinet station? 1t
should be known that Mr.. Bryan Is
not so soon in need Of vacation by
reason of nervous strain under Off
cial responsibility, and the president
should not have touched him care
lessly on his sensitive nerve. ..
The Washington times., 1913-03-01
DUCHESS TALLYRAND
BUYS STUDEBAKER
Former Anna Gould Struck
by Protection Afforded by
the Side Curtains.

The Duchess de Tallyrand, better
known to the American public as Anna
Gould, who recently came to this coun-
try to attend the wedding of Helen
Gould and Finley ]. Shepard. went
shopping on her arrival for an automo-
bile for her personal use.
The duchess is an accomplished mo-
torist. and had definite idea of the
qualities she wanted in a car. "She
spent nearly an hour in the salesroom
of the Studebaker branch in New
York. said Z. B. Habersham, manager
of the Studebaker wholesale branch
here. ''and thoroughly inspected the
mechanism of a Studebaker inclosed
90 roadster, which she finally pur-
chased and is now driving.
THE duchess was especially struck
with the cozy protection afforded by the
side curtains. which, in this type of
car, swing with the doors. giving the
weather-proof advantages Of a coupe,
with the option of changing the car.
at any time, into an open roadster of
conventional lines"
The Duchess de Tallyrand has taken
the car back to her home in France,
with the idea of using ii in her personal
trips about her great estate.