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STRENGTH
Without Overlooking The Stomach.

The business man, especially, needs
food in the morning that will not over
load the stomach, but give mental
vigor for the day.
Much depends on the start a man
gets each day., as to how he may ex-
pect to accomplish the work on hand.
He can't be alert, with a heavy,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS breakfast re-
quiring a lot of vital energy in di-
gesting it.
A Calf. business man tried to find
some food combination that would not
overload the stomach in the morning,
but that would produce energy.
He writes:
For years / was unable to find a
breakfast food that had nutrition
enough to sustain business man with
out overlooking his stomach, causing
Indigestion and kindred ailments.
Being very busy and also very
nervous man, l decided to give up
breakfast altogether. But luckily l
was induced to try Grape-Nuts.
Since that morning l have been a
new man; can work without tiring,
my head is clear and my nerves strong
and quiet.
Il find four teaspoonfuls of Grape
Nuts with one OF sugar and small
quantity of cold milk, is delicious as
the cereal part Of the morning meal,
and invigorates me for the days busi-
ness" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville, in plsgs.
There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietter9y A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and fuIs of human
Interest. Adv.
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came back from Europe. and he's
never been anywhere since. don't
believe he ever gees to his mothers
There's Mr.. McVeigh in the doorway;
we'd better be going"
Once again In the carriage they
were soon clear OF the last struggling
shanty. and speeding along the pale,
ascending road. The silence that
held the trio before their arrival at
Rocky Bar again fell on them.
Wrapped in oVercoats and rugs, Bill
Cannon appeared to slumber, every
now and then-as the wheels jolted
over a piece Of rough road-bed-shak.
en- into growing wakefulness. Mo
Weigh also rolled sleepily in his seat,
occasionally leaning sidewise to spit
over the wheel. Only the girl seemed
alert and wide-awake, her face cram
ing out from the shadowed back seat,
her eyes strained to pierce the OBJ
scurity and see for the first time the
landscape OF foot-hill California. of
which her father had so often told
her.
McVeigh looked back over his
shoulder. saw the bright eyes under
the hat-brim, and said softly:
"The Silver Crescent stamp.mill.
The last big mine we1l see."
The ascending road crept along the
edges Of ravines whence the sound Of
running water came in a clear clink-
ing, dived down into black caverns
Of trees unllghted by the feeblest ray
Of star-shine, and then climbed in
been able to see plainly she would
have noticed the change in the foli-
age, the disappearance Of the smaller
shrubs and delicate interlacement OF
naked boughs, and the mightier
growth OF the pines, soaring shafts
devoid OF branches to a great height.
Boulders appeared among their roots,
straight falls Of rock edged the road
like the walls of a fort.
McVeigh turned and caught the
bright eye.
Seems like your paw must think
lot o: what he's heard about the
new strike at Greenhlde to come all
this way" he whispered.
Il guess he does," came the re-
sponse in the same key.
1T sort of stumps me to know why
you came along with him." he contin.
ued, his eyes on the horses, but lean
ing back to catch her answer.
"Mightn't l just want to see the
country?"
well. mebbe you might, but it
don't seem to me that you're seein'
much Of it tonight"
He heard her smothered laugh, shot
his glance back to his horses, and,
then turning back to her.
You're lively girl. amt you?" he
said.
'I don't feel very lively Just at
this minute. I'm cold girl, the cold
oSt in California 7 thinkD
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want he had never seen before mur.
INJURED politely in low tones:
Gentlemen's dressing-room first
floor to the right" !:
Dominick stood uncertain. He was
only a rare, occasional visitor at his
mothers house, and tonight the hall
stripped for revelry looked strangely
unfamiliar.
"Gentlemen's dressingroom first
floor to the right" repeated the SER
want, and Dominick became aware of
the mans eyes, fixed on him with a
gleam Of uneasy scrutiny shining
through cultivated obsequiousness.
Where Is my" he was going to
say mother" but checked himself,
amending it with. Where is Mrs.
Ryan,"
The servant indicated the open door
way to the right and Dominick passed
in. Through the vista of two rooms.
their connecting archways uncur-
tanned, he saw the shining spacious
ness of the ballroom, the room his
mother had added to the house when
Cornelia, his sister, had come out"
AS he entered he saw his mother
and Cornelia. They had been stand
ing in one corner, Cornelia adjustihe
the shade of an electric light.
His mother was standing beside her
watching the arranging hand. She
was sixty-eight years of age and very
stout. but her great wealth made it
possible for her to employ dressmak.
.ers who were artists and experts, and
her Partisan costume made her look
almost shapely. 1t fell about her in
some ietted furnishings. With their
shifting gleam the CLINT OF diamonds
mingled. she also wore pearls round
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CHAPTER u.
A Young Man Married.


That same evening, at the houI
when Bill Cannon and his daughter
were setting out from Rocky Bar
Dominick Ryan was walking up Van
Ness Avenue toward his mothers
house.
Dominick did not know at what
hours balls of the kind Mrs. Ryan
was giving that evening were sup
posed to begin. 1t was nearly three
years since he had been a participant
in such festal gatherings. He had
not been at dance, or dinner, or
theater party since his marriage.
He had heard that these functions"
as people now called them, began lat
er than they did in his day. Stop
ping by lamp he drew out his watch
ten o'clock. 1t was later than he
expected. In truth, as he had seen
the house looming massively from its
less imposing neighbors, his foot had
Jagged, his approach had grown slow.
er and slower. 1t was his mothers S
home, once his own, and as he drew
nearer to it his reluctance to enter
grew stronger, more overpoweringly
oppressive.
The stimulating unquiet Of festival
was in the air. Round the mouth Of
the canvas tunnel that stretched from
the door a dingy crowd was assem-
bled, staring in at nothing more in
spring than the blank visage Of the
closed portal. At every passing foot
step each face turned to the street,
hopefully expectant Of the first guest.
The whining of catgut strings, swept
by tentative bows, struck on Domi-
nick's ear as he pushed his way
through the throng and passed up the
tunnel. Before he touched the bell
the door swung back and man-ser-
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gerly deciphered through dimness and
distance, had the attraction of the
semi-seen, and imagination, thus Civ.
en- an encouraging FLIP, invested Bill
Cannon's girl with haunting beauty.
1t was remarked that she bore no re-
semblance to her father In coforing,
features, or build. In talking it over
later. Rocky Bar decided that she
must favor her mother. who, as all
California knew, had been waitress
in the Yuba Hotel at Marysville, when
Bill Cannon, then a miner in the
Free2e-0ut, had wooed and won her.
1t was toward the end Of the meal.
that, looking at the opposite WALL her
glance was caught by a large clock
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which she drew her fathers atten.

to which she drew her fathers atten,
ton:
! "Half-past nine! How fashionable
we arei And when are you going to
get us up to Antelope, Mr.. McVeigh 2
McVeigh studied the clock ponder
ingly as he felt In his breast pocket
for his toothpick.
Well" he said, ''if we leave here
ut ten and make good time the hull
way-it's up hill pretty much with
out break-I1l get you there about
midnight"
She made a little grimace.
And II will be much colder. won't
ItT
Colder n colder. You'll be goin'
higher with every step. Antelope's
on the slope OF the Sierra, and you
can't expect to be warm up there In
the end Of January"
III you hadn't wanted to come. "
said her father, you'd have been
just about getting ready for Mrs. Ry-
ans ball. Isn't this about the magic
hour when you begin to lay on the
f1rst layer Of warpaint?"
The girl looked at the clock, nod
ding with faint, reminiscent smile.
Just about" she said. I'D have
been probably looking at my dress
laid out on the bed and saying to my
self, Now wonder If it's worth while
getting into that thing and having
all the bother OF going to this ball
On the evenings when l go out,
there's always q stage when that hap
pens"
McVeigb, with his toothpick in full
! operation, looked at her, admiring and
half comprehending, for the first time
feeling himself an outsider. She
caught his eye, read It's meaning, and
with the quick tact of a delicate ma
ture, said:
It's Mrs. Cornelius Ryan in San
Francisco. She has a ball tonight
and l was going, but 1 came up here
with papa instead. I don't care for
balls"
Sort OF late to be pripping up for
ball." said McVeigh, restoring the
toothpick to his pocket and pushing
back his chair. 'Tll go and have
look at the horses. And, Governor,
if you'll be ready in fifteen minutes
I'll be round at the porch waiting"
Cannon nodded, and, as the driver
clumped off over the board floor, said
to his daughter:
II wonder IL Dominick RyanIl be
there-at the ball, l mean. His moth
er's made up her mind not to recog-
nize the woman he's married, and to
freeze her out, but ] wonder if she'll
have the nerve not to ask her to-
night"
Il don't see how she could do that"
said the girl. This is one Of the
largest balls ever given in San Fran
cisco. She can't leave her son out,
and she couldn't ask him without his
wife"
Couldn't she?" said the old man,
with a narrowing Of his eyes and a
knowing wag Of his head. "You don't
know Della Ryan. do. I've known
her forty years, ever since she was
first married and did washing on the
back porch Of her shanty in Virginia
City. She was good deal of a wom-
an then, strong, brainy woman, and
she's the same to-day, but hard as
nails. I'll bet hat she hasn't asked
Dominick's wife to that ball"
What do you suppose he'll do?"
asked the daughter, somewhat aghast
at this glimpse at the Ryan family
skeleton.
Don't ask me such conundrums.
I'm glad I'm not IN it, that's all l
know. When two women lock horns |
I'm ready to step quietly down and |
out. never to my knowledge saw
Dominick's wife, but I've heard about |
her, and take it she's a pretty hard
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That made him laugh, too, but he
turned back to his horses, saying with
quick consideration:
Il guess you are. Come, boys" to
the horses, we've got to get move
on. We can't let this young lady
catch cold"
The horses quickened their pace
and there was no more talk. An hour
later the first broken lights Of Ante
lope sparkled along the road. The
old mining camp, in a hollow between
two buttresses of the Sierra, lay shut.
tered and dreaming under the star
light. A lamp-lit window, here and
there, showed the course of its strag-
Cling main street, and where the ho-
tel stood, welcoming rays winked be-
tween the boughs Of leafless trees
AS the thud Of the approaching
hoof-beats woke the echoes sudden
violent barking of dogs broke out.
Antelope was evidently not as sound
asleep as it looked. At the hotel, es-
pecially, there was life and move
ment. The bar disgorged throng of
men, and Perley, the proprietor, had
to, push his way through them to well
come his midnight guests. Antelope,
though remote, was in telegraphic
communication with the world, and
che operator at Rocky Bar had wired
Perley to be ready for the distin-
guished arrivals-news that in half
hour was known throughout the
town and had brought most Of the
unattached male population into the
hotel.
Jake McVeigh was pulling the lug
gage from under the seats and Can
non was interchaalging the first greet
ings with his landlord. when the girl.
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kind of a proposition. They say she
married the boy fok money ana posi-
ton, and hasn't got either. Della,
who has the money. hasn't given them
cent since the marriage; made up
her mind, people say, to force Mrs.
Dominick out She doesn't seem to
have done 1t, and / guess It's been
sort of aggravating to her. Just the
same I'd like to- know II she's had
the nerve not to send the woman an
invitation to the ball. That would be
pretty tough" e @
I've never seen either DomiDick or
his wife.2 said the girl. sIt seems odd
when know hrs. Ryan and CorneliaI
50 we'll But he married the year 1
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13
SuperfIuous Labor Counts.

The men who have achieved sue.
cess sare the men who have worked,
read, thought more than was abso-
lutely necessary, who have not been
content with knowledge sufficient for
the present need, but who have
sought additional knowledge and stor,
ed it away for the emergency resrve.
1t is the superf1uous labor that equips
a man for everything that counts in
life.
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CTo BE CoNTINuED.)
Wnat to Do When In Doubt

Dear me-" sighed the June bride,
Il wish | knew what to get for Harry's
supper tonight"
Don't your" asked Mrs. Longtimer.
I've thought. and thought, and can't
think OF anything he'd like this hot
weather"
@I'll tell you, then. When In doubt
serve him cold boiled ham. That's
what always do.s
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13

eorrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves. They invigorate instead, ct weaken;
they enrich the blood instead of impover-
ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
il. Price IS cents All Druggists
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Other Means,

1t isn't necessary to have an auto
mobile to run down ones neighbors.-
Salt Lake Desert News.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS
Your druggist will refund money IL PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any case Of Itching. Blind,
Bleeding OF Protruding Piles In to Ia days. 5Oc.
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Trading compliments is a good deal
like swapping green goods.

DR.. Plerce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti-
patton. Constipation is the cause of many
diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the
disease. Easy to take. ADV.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13

did you ever get a kiss by tele-
phone?"
mo; what's it like?"
TITS like dreaming about something
to eat when you go to bed hungry"
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CONSTIPATION

AAuhJOii ? a a"A ."
Pills are unlikeall 9TH
er laxatives or cathar-
tics They coax tho
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour; they do
not gripe; they do not
weaken: but they do
start all the secretions
of the liver and stom-
ach in a way that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
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A married actor doesn't care for
curtain calls at home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10

believe that it is mans prolonged IN
fancy. prenatal and natal, which makes
this possible, and separates man from
brutes, However that may be, not one
81 III would have risen from blankest
idiocy II some one from the outside had
not evoked our powers. Helen keiler at
seven was a savage little animal. she
had no soul-apparently Sne mace
known her fancies-they could scarce
lv be called her wants-by kicks and
scratchings. No one from the outside
had come in to call forth her capacities.
Then came Miss Sullivan who tried
every devise the ingenius had ever
suggested for reaching that imprisoned
soul. For seven long weeks she labored
without the slightest response she
placed the child's hands IN water, then
sign for water on the palm. Once. twice.
hundreds Of times, day after day, and
week after week. she tried. At length
light broke, radiance lit UP the dull.
animal face. The soul was being
reached, evoked. Again and still again
tac test was repeated. Suddenly the
opening mind grasped family the idea.
and the obedient hands of the child
grasped the hands Of the teacher.
piunged them Unto the water, then
quickly reproduced the sign for water:
one little slit in the dark crust had
been made. Then came the girls dress,
her hair. her doll. Once started even
the eager teacher could not keep pace
with the newly awakened soul. The
happy girl, fairly delirious with JOY.
pressed her dress, and repeated the
sign. then her hair, then her doll. the
ground, the pump. She ran into the
house and touching this and that, ask
ed for the sign. The little slit had
widened to a window, and the single
shaft of light, to flood. And Helen
Keller's soul, started thus on it's eternal
flight, has now become one Of the most
riculture, intensive or otherwise-it
may be matter Of chemistry. The
chemists may not inconceivably, be-
come the food producers Of the future.
At least it will take less toll to feed
the race than now. One day the race
will have settled the question Of these
creature necessities-the physical con-
c'.ions of life-and then, then the race
will begin to live. The world is young,
and man has only recently arrived.
MiIleniums OF time stretch before us
wherein man, unincumbered, will adj
dress himself to the divine task Of liv-
ing. This, however, Is our hope, not as
yet our realization. .s.. . r
These then are the lessons Of the
hour:
First mans greatly neglected task
of completing his mastery of the phys
ical things of life.
Second. the accomplishment of this
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10
Obituary.

Charles Dewitt Reifsnyder an old
resident Of this city passed away We'd
nesday evening April 2, 1913 at 5
o'clock after lingering illness which
he bore patiently. He had been con-
fined to his bed for the past two
months -
At noon he gradually became weaker
and lost consciousness and at o'clock
breatted his last. At his bedside was
his immediate family. Although his
death has been expected 1t came as
great shock to his family. February
3 he suffered stroke Of paralysis
which forced him to his bed and since
then had. borne his sicknes patiently
and couFageously.
Mr.. Reifsnyder was one of .Ottum-
was oldest business men, having re-
sided here since 1869.
Charles Dewitt Reifsnyder was born
June IA, 1882 at Seneca Falls, Seneca
county New York, the son OF Mary
Magdalene and Philip Reifsnyder. His
only sister, Mrs. Harriet @. Mallory,
died in Chicago in 1909. In 1857 on
the 18th Of November he was united IN
marriage to Anna Maria Weber Of
Sommersetshire, England. Rev. John G..
Holbroke, pastor Of Congregational
church at Dubuque. Iowa conducted the
ceremony. His wife and two children
and four grand children survive
him. Thomas C. Reifsnyder and Mrs.
Carrie r. Deacon both Of this city,
Helen Deason, Mabel e. Reifsnyder,
Charles l.. Reifsnyder and Thomas
Arthur Reifsnyder.
TO al
SNYDER celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary. In 1869 he came to
Ottumwa and started in the retail
meat business with his son Thomas c:
Reifsnyder, which business he had
conducted faithfully until his illness.
His business was the oldest establish
mert OF its kind in the city. He
opened a meat market in Keokuk and
from there he. moved to Hannibal,
Mo-. and conducted q meat market
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ere In 1850 the wear Of the war he

there. In 1850 the year Of the war he
and his family moved to Muscatine
where he also opened market. The
family moved to Chicago in 1851 where
Mr.. Reifsnyder assisted In the building
of the Nelson Morris packing plant OF
which he later became superintendent.
He moved back to Iowa on farm in
Keokuk county and from there to this
city where he had operated retail
meat market and grocery at 522 East
Main street ever since.
Mr.. Reifsnyder had a, host of life
time friends who mourn his departure.
The funeral services were held from
the residence 522 East Second street
last Friday afternoon at o'clock. IN
torment was made in Ottumwa GENE
ery,-Contributed. .,.-
Phoebe Brown was born in Tuscan
awas county, o., in 1S46. In 1858, Aug.
81, she was married to Denton Tedrow
Of Harrison county. o. In 1871 they
came to Iowa and located near Bethel.
They lived at Birmingham, later NOV
ing back to the farm. They came to
Libertyville thirteen years ago. The
husband died Oct. 49, 1911. Mrs. Tedrow
had been in i'll health all winter, but
was taken worse March 20 and SUI
fered until the 9th when death came
as a welcome relief All her children
were with her during her last illness.
and with the assistance Of friends and
neighbors, did everything possible to
minister to the loved one. Mrs. Tedrow
vas converted in early life and had
been an active member of the Metho-
dist church since coming to Iowa. In
all the departments Of the church she
will be greatly missed. OF her seven
children, one died in infancy and six
survive her. She also leaves two half
sisters, three grandchildren. two great
grandchildren. A short service was held
at the home here March %, after which
the body was taken to the Bethel
church. where services were held by
Rev. H. C. Druse. assisted by Rev. W.
M. Crowther Of Birmingham and the
body was laid to rest in the Bethel
cemetery by the side Of her conpan-
ion. So passed away one whose rlsce
will long be sacred In the memory Of all
who knew her.-Contributed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10

State Senator stephen stilweii, &C
cused Of extortion by Csc. II. Kendall,
president OF the New York Bank Note
Co., sprang sensation today at the
cross examination Of Mr.. Kendall be.
fore the senate judiciary committee
when he asked the witness: Ibid you
go to Italy to be treated for Z mental
disorder" ~ -
The question was withdrawn before
the witness had an opportunity to an.
swer but Attorney Wilson, Stilwell's
counsel declared he would repeat 1t.
DR.. Charles L. Bailey OF Albany, an
alienist, continued to occupy place
beside Stilwell's counsel. He observed
the witness closely and occasionally
jotted down notes.
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H. C. NOSLER'S
z. BROTHER rs DEAD

H. c. Nosler received message last
evening announcing the death Of his
only brother Thomas NJ. Nosler 1t his
home in Berkeley, Cal, Tuesday morn
ing. Mr.. Nosler was "a years Of age
and was one Of the pioneers OF that
state, going across the plainA In 1851
from Eddyville. He leaves no family.
Two sisters Mrs. A. G. Davidson Of Ed
dyville, and Mrs. Ellen Hamilton OF
Stockton. Kan, survive.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10
MAJOR LACEY IN
..s CITY ON BUSINESS

Major John F.. Lacey, representative
In congress for many years from this
district, was In the city today visiting
old friends and attending to business
matters. Major Lacey recalled that to.
day Is the forty-eighth anniversary OF
the surrender of General Lee to Cen
eral Grant at Appomattox Court
House, Va. 4 nm re s,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10
AUTHORIZES BIG
ISSUE OF STOCK

Ph11adelph1a, Pa, April 9.-1he d.
rectors Of the Pennsylvania railroad
at meeting today passed . resolution
authorizing at 10 per cent stock issue
amounting to about $45, 900, 900. This
means that q present stockholder has
the right to subscribe at par for new
stock to the extent Of ten per cent Of
his holdings.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-10

for purely humanitarian purposes, to
conserve life and bring comfort to all.
Third. for the higher and racial pur-
pose Of coming to his own In world
~ power and Of opportunity, the reach
ing forward to that wide destiny which
God designed for man.