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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-11
THE SILENT VICTIMS.

The girls in the Diggs- Caminetti
affair were undoubtedly wild and
short on principles, whatever may
have been their mild intention to keep
themselves pure. They knew they
were treading rough shod upon the
rights of other women. Their disgrace
even though they are young is deserved
In measure at least, while the deep
shame of the men Is a richly appro.
pirate punishment.
But the wives, the poor, quiet wives
testifying in defense Of the hulks OF
men whom they had loved, broken.
hearted at the worst grief in the world
the death Of character in those who
were once trusted-who can name the
crime for which these mothers are
receiving the most severe punishment
of all?-Waterloo Courier,
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ginning to save when he gets his next
raise in salary. He reasons that he is
just making enough at his present
wage to live comfortably and that
when his pay is advanced, he will salt
down the difference. But unfortunate
ly, he rarely does. In ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the increase Is
swallowed up In little Injuries that
were tabooed before and it Is not long
before the man is looking forward to
his next raise to begin saving.
That system will never bring sue
cess.
There is only one way. Cease count
ing on the raise and begin saving a
little out Of the present salary. Few
men but what have lived on less than
they now make. Few but what could
keep right on living if their salaries
were cut instead of advanced. There
is the solution. Cut your own salary.
Take away certain part of 1t each
week and credit it to old age. Just
figure that that certain amount Is be-
ing given to you in trust for the work
you are doing now and which you Will
be unable to do when you are old.
Put that money away. Invest it. Make
it work for you. You will be just as
happy-maybe happier without the
all too often foolish Injuries that the
money would otherwise go for. And
as you stick to your plan and the
money continues to grow. and you be-
gin to be assured OF not being drag
in old age to your children or to the
community, the world will look upon
you and brand you success.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-11

YHEN daddy night children
wv their little
V getto complained Jack Beds too hard"
all wrinked" Evelyn grunDled
DADDY
said. "She particular princess indeed
childhood
golden bedead which had
the
with his light
anything princess day made up her
forbidden +.
and walked until she tired
sh Instead Of stopping to ask for food at
castle hill
Now happened that had walked straight the castle OF the king
The Princess Rosabel pretended she girl lost while out TOR
hand
and charming manners that her
the fell right in love with the fair stranger
making NIL
smoothly Only leaf to be
asked
leaf sheet
Princess Rosabe had all
on crumpled leaf
prince and Princess Rosabe had
another when they old
hands while the people
the don't mind
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LAND VALUE INCREASES.

Scarcely a day passes but what
some newspaper or. other prints an
account of the sale Of portion Of
Iowas wonderful farming land at a
price that Is calculated to make the
residents of other states sit up and take
notice. Reports are not infrequent OF
an increase in land value in various
portions of the state Of from fifty to
two hundred per cent in the last
ten years. Without question, land
Is going up in Iowa because people are
slowly beginning to realize what a
truly favored state this Is This year
is fair criterion. Whereas in nearly
every state in the union, the drought
has done great harm to the growing
crops, in Iowa, there will be close to
bumper yield and with prices way up
because Of the general scarcity, Iowa
will get it's usual excellent returns
from its work in the soil. There will
be money to pay off the mortgage (if
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-11

A press agent is philanthropis,
engaged in manufacturing news to or
der and giving it away free OF charge
News is ordinarily supposed to hap
pen but the press agent doesn't sit
around waiting for things to happen
Besides he can make better news than
can happen any day.
It sometimes takes year for a real
good news story in an ordinary city to
grow. But a press agent can sit down
at a typewriter with plenty OF paper
and in half an hour he can produce q
mob In which eighteen people We're
fatally injured while trying to catch q
glimpse of the new street costume Of
a comic opera star.
When two nations desire to produce
a war they fool around for months
with the preliminaries. But press
agent can plunge three countries into
sanguinary conflict over the birthplace
of a great tenor in forty-flve minutes
by the clock 1t is nothing at all fol
him. II necessary he could get two
more nations mad in another ten
minutes.
The press agent does all this from
kindness of heart. After he has pro
duced his news he does not hoard
it away in a bomb proof safe. Instead
he goes to the nearest newspaper
Office and offers it to the city editor
free of all charge with cigar and
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ponderous Pcrsonages
BY GEORGE FITCH
Author of AT Good Old Siwash"
By GEORGE FITCH
A PRESS AGENT

two tickets to the performance thrown
In.
Maybe the city editor has been try
ing to fill newspaper with two obit-
uaries and dog fight. But does he
rise and fall upon the neck of the
press agent weeping vast tears OF
gratitude? Alas, no. He smokes the
cigar and When the press agent has
departed he laughs coarsely and
cleans his pipe with his story.
The press agent spends his life jog.
ging the elbow of the public and call,
ing It's attention to something which
| It has overlooked. The public is so
careless that it frequently overlooks
society leader for months at a time
until she hires press agent to wrest
stateme,-t from her to the effect that
she would not care to bother with the
job of being presidents wife. The
careless public would also overlook
many beautiful actress If the press
agent did not have her chased up a
tree by an ardent nobleman about once
month.
Nowadays people do not hide their
lights under a bushel Neither do
they set them on hill. They hire
press agent for illumination. II
Shakespeare had had press agent
he might have had all of his fame
while he lived instead of scattering
1t along for 800 years after he was
dead when it did him no good.
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1t has not already been paid off) and
some left over to invest in an automo-
bile or sine other luxury. Truly,
there is no reason to doubt in a gen.
eral way the stories the papers tell OF
Increased valuations in land.
On the other hand however with the
increased land valuations, the tax as
sessments are of course higher. Not
that the tax rate is higher but that one
must expect to pay more on land that
is valued at 5000 per acre than for land
valued at 500 per acre. Therefore,
people who buy land at big prices per
acre, should not be surprised when they
find that the tax levy has been in
creased
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SUCCESS.

How many young fellows are there
in this world who complain that luck
is against them" that they work hard
and earn fair salaries but that never
theless they seem unable to advance
any up the ladder of success? The
number is so great it could hardly be
estimated.
II It is not ill-luck that is holding
these thousands back, then what Is 1t,
YOU ask. It is q mistaken idea Of
what brings success. Luck has moth
ing to do with it, that Is luck as the
world generally interprets that word.
Max O'Rell's Interpretation In the quo
tation at the head Of this article Is
what luck really Is in nine cases out
of ten.
A mans success can not be measur-
ed by what he earns In this world. He
may be drawing salary Of $1,000 a
month and still be miserable failure.
IN fact there is a large number of
such failures they live in affluence
and cut big dash for time and then
there is suicide and 1t comes out at
the inquest that the assets are about
a half as much as the liabilities. There
Is no question but that man can
spend as much or more than he can
make. In a drama which appeared
some years ago, the hero found ,consid-
cradle difficulty in spending the sum
of one million dollars in one year,
the stake being seven times that
amount. There are but few of us who
couldn't spend a million in a year II
we had 1t to throw away like water.
And there are some who could spend
more than that If given the oppor-
tunity.
The question arises, where is the
proper stopping place for expenditures.
without exception, the proper Place is
the same for everyone-any point be-
low the minimum income. II every
head Of household decided-and
stuck to it-that the expenditures for
each week should be less than the in
come for the week. there would be
fewer failures in the business and do
nestle worlds There would be fewer
suicides, fewer domestic ENVIRONMENTS
fewer divorces, less grief and misfor-
tune.
Practically every man counts on be-
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The greatest quantity Of cotton ever
ginned in the season prior to septem.
Der / was reported by the census bu
reau yesterday when 1t announced that
794,O06 bales of the growth Of 1918
has already been put out Of the gin
neries throughout the south. The heavy
ginning for the first period is the re-
suit OF early maturing of the crop and
an effort by farmers to beat the boil
weevil, In the opinion Of the census
bureau officials.
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|
back door,"
| sAll right, How's 2 o'clock tomor
rowe"
Fine,
Nov I'd better run along. l, don't
want to take any chances Of being seer
with you For a big place, New York'a
! the smallest place ever saw"
Honest, what have you found?"
! Honest, / don't know myself said
| Rosalie lie Grange. dimpling over hel
shoulder as she walked away. McGes
stood following her with his eyes
{ CHAPTER VIII.
/, coquettish Me0ee.
! The Moore clearinghouse. scene OF
1.-THE Hanska murder, remained closed
plain-clothes man from the precinct
detective force keeping 1t under watch
and ward. BY routine, the police
should have turned It back to its regu
lar occupants as soon as the coroner's
jury had viewed 1t and the photo
/ graphers had finished with recording
the evidence. But since Mrs. Moore's
tboarders had transferred themselves
lin a body to the more desirable estab
ilishnent of Madame Rosalie L.
Grange the place lay vacant, display
ing the sign, ''To Rent Furnished; De
sirable for clearinghouse" New
York Is yhort-minded and cold-hearted
too noisy for ghosts and too busy fol
brooding 1t was not memory OF the
tragedy which kept tenants away, but
the fact that the murder happened
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ON 1900 to 1910, when all foot

from 1900 to 1910, when all food
stuffs increased in price on an average
of 37.7 per cent, the price Of sugar
decreased per cent and sugar was
the only food excepting raisins and
molasses, that did not increase in
price. Beet sugar, as competitor in
the home markets, prevented the sea-
board refiners from advancing the
price of sugar" = Independence. (Kan)
Reporter
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SOME ONE HAD TO DO IT.

SOME ONE HAD TO DO ~.
Some of the republican senators
and great number of newspapers are
accusing President Wilson Of dOminat.
ing congress. They say that he is rid.
ing over the house and senate rough
shod and that he Is making them do
as he wants them to do
This Is the way the Washington
Times, one of the papers owned by
Frank Munsey who is rather friendly
to the Wilson administration describes
the situation.
The big political question right now
the question that is discussed wherev.
er politicians meet, is how long the
Or ,sident can maintain his remarka'
bic ascendancy over congress- That
ascendancy is the big, striking fact
about the present situation on Capitol
Hill Nothing like it has been known
I'LL. Can President Wilson con-
tinue his grip of the situation for four
years If he does, he will make rec,
ord of executive control quite unpre-
cedented, and he will relegate the
congress of the United States to a po,
sition so unimportant as to deprive it
Of about all its dignity. The pre-.
sumption of three coeval and coordi.
nate divisions Of this government Is
fast becoming grim Jest. SO
It comes about that the strong execu-
tive gets applause. without ever a
thought of the degradation that comes,
by that same token, to the great legis.
lative branch Of the government.
It does not seem to us that the
presidents action needs to be spoken
Of as dominating or as forcing congress
to do as he wants it to. do. In the house
the democrat majority is SO large that
on any measupre the president wants
enacted, he is sure of majority vote.
He does not have to force any one. II
4 half dozen or go do not agree with
him, that does not make any differ
ence, because he could lose several
times that number and still have a
majority vote for his proposition.
There are q number of congressman
there who are glad to find out how the
president wants them to vote and then
vote that way, because in that way
they can keep in accord with the
administration and need not put In
any time studying about matters OF
government so as to have an opinion
of their own.
It may be that President Wilson's
Idea in personally reading his messages
to congress was simply. that by doing
so he got the opportunity to "size up
the crowd he had to work with, and
after doing that he decided that some
body would have to tell them what to
do. and he took the job upon himself.
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Thrift 10 such q simple thing
and Il means 90 much. 1t 10 the
foundation Of success In business,
Of contentment in the home, OF
standing In society.-Russell Sage.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03
RECORD OF WORK WELL DONE
Anti tuberculosis Campaign Fruitful
OF Results for the Good Of
All Mankind.

Some comparisons showing the pro-
gress of the anti-tuberculosis cam
paign in the last eight years and the
present needs Of this movement are
made by the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis in a brief report Of Its work re-
Gently issued. During the eight years
of it's work. the national association
has assisted In the organization OF
over 500 state and local anti-tubercu-
losis societies located In almost every
state and territory OF the Union. Over
500 hospital and sanatoria have been
established. with more than 10000
beds for consumptives. About 400
dispensaries, with more than 1000
physicians in attendance and at least
$50 open air schools for tuberculous
and anaemic children. have also been
provided. Laws dealing with tuberou-
losis have been passed In As states.
and ordinances on this subject have
been adopted in over 200 cities and
towns. An active field campaign OF
education against tuberculosis has
been carried on in 40 states and ter
ritories by means of lectures, exhibits,
the press, and the distribution of over
100, 900. 900 pamphlets on the disease.
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81 think / suffered every pain a wo-
man could before / began taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
/ think it saved this baby's life, as I
lost my first one.
"My health has been very good ever
since, and l praise your medicine to all
my friends. - Mrs. VERNA WILKES,
r. F. d. No. /, Plattsburg, Miss.
The darkest days of husband and wife
are when they come to look forward to
o childless and lonely old age.
Many a wife has found herself inca
pable of motherhood owing to some
arrangement of the feminine system,
often durable by the proper remedies.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because of the fact
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal.
II you want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held In strict confidence.
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sure is feeble, but growing stronger
as leaks are checked.
The main sanitary sewer is in oper-
alton. although many of the laterals
leading from houses are clogged with
mud or backed-up water.
The flood sewers. separate from the
sanitary, will be in operation today.
These sewers carry off the rainfall
from the cutters and are needed now
to remove the water being pumpd
from easements.
Wire Service improving.
Telegraph service is fast measuring
up with requirements - which have
been, and are still, enormous.
No drawer services have been per.
formed than those by the telegraph
and telephone linemen who made DOS
sible the dissemination of news to hun
dreds of thousands OF friends and rel
atives Of Daytonians. They waded
and swan icy floods and entered tot.
tering buildings un~hesitatingIy in the
pursuit of their duty.
BY order of Governor Cox the reign
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03

arrived here on a special train from
Charleston.
Pushing Rescue Work.
The train brought supplies, motor
boats and skiffs. The motor boats
and skiffs are now being taken
through the different sections Of the
city to rescue hundreds who are ma
rooned. The local military company
has taken charge of the rescue work
and is pushing it forward just as rap
idly as conditions will permit.
Situation at Dayton.
Dayton, Ohio, March 31.-Here Is
the problem presented to fiood-swept
Dayton, as summarized by George +.
Burba, secretary to Governor Cox, who
is representing the governor:
Forty thousand persons must be fed,
clothed and housed for a week more.
Twenty thousand persons must be
cared for indefinitely. These are per-
sons who lost their all when their
household goods We're swept away.
They must be provided with a few me-
cessary household articles, such as
bedding, pots and pans, stoves and a
few dollars. A half-miilion dollars
could be used in this way by h relief
committee.
Fifteen thousand houses and other
structures, or what remains OF them,
must be pulled down.
Thousands of tons OF debris must
be removed.
Following are oTe OF the accom-
plishments since the flood broke g
the city last Tuesday:
Some Of Accomplishments.
The waterworks pumping station IL
in operation, but the distribution oil
water is greatly retarded by open
pipes in wrecked houses. The pres
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03

decided that this reconstruction work
will require four months, even if build
ing material "a be obtained promptly.
Disease Follows Flood.
Indianapolis.-Central Indiana Is
~summoning its medical forces to fight
disease which is following in the wake
of the devasting flood which swept
that section last week. Sanitary ex-
perts expect hundreds of cases Of ty-
phoid, diphtheria, pneumonia and
measles to develop.
A member of the state board of
health asserts that the foods toll of
81 lives in this state probably will be
exceeded. Scores of persons in all
walks of life have been huddled in
small halls and buildings for days.
They have been forced to live like
sheep and a pestilence Is feared. Thou
sands of persons will continue to be
homeless until their residences have
been cleaned Of the filth left by
the %receding waters and fumigated. A
majority of these refugees have no
clothing except what they wore when
the food descended.
Thousands Homeless.
While the residents of the river
towns in the center of the state are
facing a problem Of sanitation, the
cities along the Ohio river are prepar.
ing for the worst flood of their exist.
ence. Already thousands of persons
have been driven from the bottom
lands and the property damage runs
into the millions.
Money 10 Needed In Peru.
Peru, lnd.-While no additional re.
ports OF deaths were received here
the general relief committee, headed
by Mayor John Kreutzer, inspected the
flooded district and found conditions
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03

of martial law over Dayton was ex-
tended to take in the whole county
yesterday. The flood did more than
sweep away property, for it swept
away the city administration, temper
arily at least, and brought in what
amounts to a commission form of gov
eminent.
Immediately after martial law was
proclaimed, the municipal administra-
ton was eclipsed. Adjutant General
Wood, for the moment, became gu
preme under the governor.
Coroner j. w. McKemy estimated
that 100 bodies have been recovrd,
though there are records of only ~.
He said many had been buried without
usual official action and that in many
cases he did not expect to get records.
Hundreds of persons suffering from
diphtheria are at the Miami Valley
hospital. Seven Of them were caught
in a house with a person who had re-
Gently become i'll with the disease.
Four persons hemmed in with one who
had measles are suffering with that
disease.
There are two hospitals here. st.
Elizabeth's was flooded on the first
fioor,. so all sick and injured were TAX
en- either to the Miami Valley hospital
or to the state insane asylum here.
Eight persons whose minds have tenn
porarily become affected because of
hardships suffered in the food are
being cared for at the latter place.
$1,000 Homes Need Repairs.
But it will be a long time before all
Daytonians again live in their own
homes. There are $4,000 residences
which it will be necessary to plaster
and paper before they a be occupied.
| There are 4,50c houses which II will
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03
Good for Small Towns.

A few big shoe manufacturers r
fighting US because we have always re-
fused to give them better terms than
we give to the small manufacturer.
The little fellows stand with Is be-
cause we treat all manufacturers
alike, no matter how many machines
they use. Hence, competition in the
shoe business and prosperous factor
les in small townsi
Write US and we will tell you ali
about it.
The United Shoe Machinery Co.. Bos
ton, Mass.-Adv.
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Tired Of Fancy Eating.

The eldest daughter, who was TAX
ing cooking lessons, practiced on the
family by preparing the Sunday din
ner.
On another day the mother was
complimented at meal time by the
son for the palatableness Of a certain
dish.
"Um-m, just wait till Sunday" said
the eldest daughter.
ooh. mamma" pleaded her little
sister. cant we have just a plain
dinner Sunday?"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03

corrects constipation Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic I the stomach. liver and
Aerves. They ~invigorate instead of weaken:
they enrich the blood instead of impover-
ishing il: they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
It. Price IS cents All Druggists
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03
Counter-Thrust.

"A very good retort!" said Senator
Lodge in an argument in this city
over the immigration bill. "A very
good retort indeed! 1t reminds me OF
Weeks.
Weeks and his wife were quarrel
ing. Weeks, with a hard, scornfui
laugh, you acted like a fish out OF
water
Weeks sighed.
"'But a very ~cleverly landed fish,
he said, with a musing voice."