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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
LINCOLN STATUE
FOR IOWA SCHOOL

Webster City, March 24.-The heroic
bronze statue Of Abraham Lincoln
done by the sculptor, George 3. Can
iere of Chicago, and presented to .thel
Webster City high school by Alexander
Groves as memorial of his SON.
Harry, formally will be unveiled April
9. The unwilling will be at the new
high school building. |,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
Polk Co. MARRIAGE Licenses,

Des Moines, March 24.-Recent mar
rage licenses issued were:
walter Rush, Belle Plain, Nevada
Smith, Boone; John Fl. Lint, Des
Moines, Minnie Samuelson, Des
MONIES; Warren A. Hayes, Cedar
Rapids, Emma Carstens, Onslow, Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
school Applicants Number 20.

Seymour, March 24.-Between Is
and 20 applicants have applied for the
position as superintendent of the
schools of this place. The board is
giving this matter careful considera-
ton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25

well pleased with this locality has de-
ciaad to move here in short time.
W. r. Stevenson Of Cuba has peen
visiting here with his brother }. Z.
stevenson and family southwest OF
town.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
[BY e. H. HANSON.1

Washington, D. c., March 24.-As .
result Of the friendship which has
sprung up between Representative
Kirkpatrick of Iowa and Representa-
tive Sherwood of Ohio, the author of
the Sherwood dollar day pension bill
and chairman of the house committee
on invalid pensions, Mr.. Kirkpatrick
may be invited to become a member
of the committee on invalid pensions.
Since their first chat some days ago,
General Sherwood and Lieutenant
Kirkpatrick have become fast friends.
They find they have many ideas in
common on legislation and each be-
lieves service with the other would be
a real pleasure. "
The invalids pension committee
handles the great mass OF pension
legislation which comes before con-
gress with the exception of very few
cases. A membership on that commit
tee would be especially desirable.
Nothing has been done as yet on the
assignment of committee places.
There is a strong movement on foot
pone the general assignment until the
opening of the regular session in De-
cenber. The reason for this Is simple:
Many of these members will have to
give up chairmanships In order to
keep their places on the twelve big
committees of the house. AS chair
r'en of committees, they have filled up
the incidental positions with their
friend and relatives. If they post
pone the general assignment, they Will
hold their chairmanships until De-
cember and these friends and relatives
will hold their fat patronage jobs un-
til then, with the long vacation from
the adjournment of congress this sum-
mer until the December meeting.
The new members, however; are in
sisting that the assignments be made
now SO that when they go home dur
ing the interim, hey can tell the home
folks what they landed in the big
fishpond This has quite a bearing on
some districts and not any on others.
Mrs. Towner, wife of Representative
Towner of the eighth, entertained the
ladies of the Iowa delegation who are
in Washington during the interim, at
a bridge party last week.
Mr.. Towner is expected back with
in a few days. Judge Prouty, who
is in Arkansas looking after some
is not expected before the
opening of the session. Mr.. Good Of
the fifth will return the last of this
week or the first of next.
Uses Rubber Stamp.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25

road the laying of the track. The
price to be paid heirailroad ia $1,000.
1t is figured that the new track will
pay for itself in four years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-25
Uses Rubber Stamp.

- If Representative Hangen of the
fourth district doesn't hurry up and
hire a secretary, he will gain the ap-
pellation of "Rubber-S Stamp Gill" Mr..
Haugen has rubber stamps IN his or
fee reading Respectfully referred to
his consideration" and
whenever he gets request from q
constituent he pulls out one Of these
stamps and uses it, letting depart
mental clerks worry over the matter.
Incidentally he receives $125 month
for clerk hire, but the whole bunch OF
stamps didn't cost much over tWenti-
eth of that.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Population and Food supply.

From the Philadelphia Record.
An English scientist has raised the
old cry that population is outstrip-
ping the production of food, and that
in the not distant future, perhaps be-
fore the end of the century, posterty
will be hard pushed to secure wheat
enough for its daily bread. Why
worry SO much about posterity? Does
not the Englishman know that the
Canadian Northwest, which is not
yet producing 20o,000.000 bushels of
wheat q year, can when more fully
developed easily grow five times that
amount? Then there is Siberia, where
possibilities are enormous not to
speak of Australia and other couu-
tries whose resources have hardly
been scratched. With better agricul
tural methods the United States could
produce vastly more wheat than il
docs Every generation has its own
Problems which 1t must solve for it.
self, and the present seems TO have
more than it's fair share. Let the
people of the tWenty-first century
tackle their own troubles when they
| arise.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Would Make Conversation
a Part of Harvard Course

CAMBRIDGE. Sept. 15.-Judge Rob-
ert Grant. a member of the Harvard
board of overseers. is no admirer of
the conversational powers of the
American university undergraduate.
He says that in everyday talk the lat
ter has to give way to those who
have received their Quotations in
other EDglish-speaking countries.
The Judge has asked the Harvard
Corporation to amend it's units on the
college entrance examination, giving
half a unit to the applicant whose
oral and written work is carefully ex-
pressed and deducing a like mark
from the percentage of him whose
work fails TO comply with the test.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
PROTECTING THE CANAL CHARTER.

IN EXPLANATION of the low water in Lake Hopatcong
the Morris Canal blandy tells the stare
Water Supply Commission that whether ooas are run
the canal not company is forced to draw considefape
amount of water the protection of its charter rights Con
erpg the fact the canal charter makes it one of the con
,ons for company boats through the canal TINS
exclamation is refreshing far transportation concerned
by and this constitutes
an act that fully ustifes forfeiture of the charter But to keep
I'M show of water the canal the property at Lake
Ifopacoug damaged in their property The history OF the
Norris Canal since its to the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company is upon New Jersey government and
disgrace to the people of the State,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
SPAIN AND GIBRALTAR
Learn One Thing Every Day"
NO. 1-CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO

Amron won the hearts of his
people and built "A great castle in the
middle of the city. There he held a
reception for Prince Add -er- Rahman,
to which all the mobiles and rich citi-
Zens of Toledo We're invited. Feeling
the honor of royal presence, which
their city had not enjoyed for many
years, the Tpledoans went by thou
sands to the castle. Told TO enter one
by one. noble and grandee went in
but not to feast. Five thousand lost
their heads in the trap. Amron
thought, no doubt, that it was good
joke, but he had not much time to
enjoy it. When the people realized
what he had done a mob gathered
and burned his castle, with Amron
in it.
Toledo was early freed from Moor
ish rule, and the greatest of those
who helped to maintain her independ-
ence was Rodrigo Diaz the Cid, who,
next to Napoleon. is held by many
to be the foremost heroic figure in
European history. He held important
court offices under Alfonso, living in
the AlcaZar at Toledo. Many poems
and stories have been written about
the Cid. He belonged to noble fam
lily, married the granddaughter of Al
fonso ", and later made himself a
king. The fate of q battle was never
in doubt. if the Cid was fighting, for
his side was sure of victory. Toward
the end OF his life, after hundreds of
battles and duels, he made his most
famous conquest, the taking of Va
lencia from The Moors, in 1904. He
ruled well ard justly for the next five
years over Valencia and Murcia, and
IN 1929 died of anger over the defeat
of his favorite lieutenant. Tile Cid is
Spain's hero and saint, familiar to al
in legend and in song.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN MEXICO.

TOMORROW is Independence Day in Mexico 1t was IN
1919 that moreo priest revolution against Spanish
rule called assembly which body for the first time
declared Mexico be independent of Spain In ISL after
Years struggle Independence proclaimed under the
leadership of Itubde "berato who afterward made
emperor Santa 1892 raised the republican standard
at Vera Cruz followed of confusion of empires
republics relationships military usurpations 1t was IN
sa3 that Spain acknowledged Mexican independence Tomor
row Mexico celebrates Independence Day. Huerta has
taken advantage make bid for popular support The
in cities that under control of
TTnerta will be watched with interest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
THE PRIMARIES ONE WEEK HENCE.

ONE MORE week remains for the primary election cam
pagns political parties and probably owing to the
Mexican crisis the Thaw the tariff BILL the death of Mayor
things that have diverted the general atten
public the primary election thus far has not been
large vote Under the law for direct pri
citizen i'll them important
general election and there for him
shrk Shiny attended primaries reproach
color Of truth to the charge that
many who called the best citizens really of the undes
being INDECENT inert and selfish to perform
simple public duty
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

From The New \ ofN World.
Cf 81, - Republican senators
Who ut C 3. the Payne Aldrich
tariff BIZ. Au1 st j. 1909, La Toilette,
OF = isconsiL: Cummins. of Iowa
Nelson. and app. Of Minnesota, and
Bristow. OF EGnsas. are members of
the present Senate. Only one of
them, Senator La Toilette. voted for
thu Jnderwc rod Simmons tariff bill.
TIL other ioui in the supreme test
deserted the muse OF houest. down
ward revision and fell i'm the line I'M
der the leader hip of old guard Re.
Iuhlicans Iil,e I'anrose, Gallinger and
SmOot.
It was or the Iowa idea" that
Senotor rummins frst rode into ma
tional politics VII he declared that
he gouiG abolish ~ tariff wherever
it afforded shelter 70 monopoly. In
the tariff debate ~ tho summer of
| 1909 he fought by the side of his col
| league, Senator Dolliver, against the
| iniduities Of the bin engineered by
Senator A'dijch.
| 1t was senator Bristow, of Kansas
who denounced the manner in which
| the Al,Sricll duties We're prepared for
submission to the Senate is "tbe most
dishonest and corrupt work ] have
| ever seen.'
Ii was Senator Nelson, ')f Minneso-
ia. who ON the floor of the Senate
attacked lne Aldrich schedules and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Would Lengthen Skirts
of All Girls Over Ten

BUFFALO, N. Y. Sept. 15.-No
knee-length dresses for girls over 10
years old will be the principal recon-
mendation made at the municipal
mass meeting for mothers to be heiu
in December under the auspices OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, the Christian Endeavor Soci-
ETY. and kindred bodies.
"The W. C. L. u. is strongly op-
posed to the wearing of short dresses
by little girls" declares Mrs. A. b.
Wilson. president of the Central W.
C. r. u. THE wearing of garments
which expose their figures makes
them overbold in early youth and an-
dacious when they blossom into
Young womanhood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
A MONSTER NOT AMERICAN.

IT is relief to that the INDUSTRIOUS crime of the
hutcberv and ACKNOWLEDGMENT young girl in New York
nv this only six years
and with it only by living in it for that period
II was in and this be said of
crimes against humanity that are chronced
in the United States Lynehng dsnctiyey American but
m nernetraed in the punishment and
who feel that they act in behalf
of usc And now that stands confessed in
orv into his antecedents may whether this his first
great his condition has been and why he left
Europe to come to these shores.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Gossip Of the Toilers

In England the Amalgamated So
ciety of Policemen demand a maxi
mum of $40 per week.
Masons in Austria have n union
membership Of almost $4,000.
A Workmen's compensation law was
passed by the Connecticut legisla-
ture.
A membership of almost 100000 is
claimed by building trades unions in
Germany.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers will convene at
Boston, Mass, September Is.
Wages in Victoria, Australia, have
increased almost % per cent. in TWEEN
ty years.
A semi-monthly payday law was
passed by the Legislature of Illinois.
The eight-hour day is becoming
general among British steel smelters.
a. minimum wage of 80 a week has
been secured by girl clerks at Alton,
Ill.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MOTORIST.

THE IDEA that sufficient defense for chauffeur in
case that driving his at moderate
and speed dpeled by the New York secretary
state this rule of for the motorst:
operator bound anticipate that he meet
public street. consequently he must keep
his will enable him to avoid col
others using similar and caution For example,
safely be driven the intersection o. Broad
and Market streets lawful without peril, and the
should do and inure kill pedestrian would be
ful V liab
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
'I<itty'' Puts AUtoists to Flight by a
Malodorous Attack.

MILWAUKEE,, wis, Sept b.
Five Chicago suffragists returning
from Milwaukee in an automobile en-
countered an obstacle near Wauke-
gan which caused them to invade a
drug store and almost buy out the
perfume supply. The auto ran over
small catlike animal
The women compelled the chauffeur
TO back up to see if they had really
killed kitty" They had not, and
kitty, which proved to be a skunk,
caused them to beat a hasty retreat.
They were unable to outdistance the
smell, however.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

CHICAGO. Sept. 15.--Court will be
called to order every Sunday morning
at 8 o'clock, Municipal Judge John A..
Mahoney announced today. This in
novstion In administering justice is
Inspired by the filthy condition in the
cellrooms at the South Clark street
police station, where Judge Mahoney
is assigned.
It will relieve the. Saturday night
prisoners of the horror of spending
more than few hours in a Jail which
has been generally condemned.
On the past two Sundays Judge Ma
honey visited the station and released
fifty six prisoners on their honor The
success of the experiment so pleased
him that he worked out a plan for
holding sessions on the Sabbath.
"In minor cases, where reprimands
are sufficient, young and first Of
tenders will be discharged" said the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Digs Up Niue-incb Long Potato
Weighing Nearly Five Pounds.

ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. Id. G.
Lucas has dug up what he claims to
he the biggest potato ever found in
Georgia So early. in the season. It
tips the scales at only slightly under
i've pounds, measures nine inches
from Tip to tip and is twenty two
inches in circumference.
The monster potato was dug UP in
the garden of j. C. Cocllman, whose
residence is situated in the centre of
the town of Alma.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

interest story will appear in the
Evening Star You can get
beautiful lntaglio reproduction OF
the above picture, with five 9TH
ers, equally attractive, 7x9Ia
inches in size, with this weeks
known authority covers the sub
ject of the pictures and stories of
the week. Readers OF the Eve
ming Star and THE Mentor" win
know Art, Literature, History
Science and Travel. and own OK
quisite pictures. Price fifteen cents.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
OPENS COURT AT E A. NJ TO RELIEVE
FIRST OFFENDERS FROM FILTHY CELLS

Judge in explaining his idea. Where
the offenses are serious and the de-
PENDANTS have police records, their
hearings win be continued until the
following day. The twin objects of
the court will be to save worthy men
the loss of their jobs for failure to ap-
pear at work on time Monday morn
ing and to prevent young men from
being held in cells and thrown in as
ISOLATION with criminals. There is a
great public need for seeing that
young and worthy men arrested for
some trivial action are not put in a
school for crime"
The judge also will use his influence
to have an unused courtroom reno
waited, furnished with tables and
chairs and supplied with magazines,
for he confinement of young men who
get into Saturday night brawls and
for first offenders.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
CRIME CONNECTIONS WITH NEWARK.

IN \ surprisingly large number of of sensational
that in different parts of the country there some
The has been remarked by local
the thirty and by veteran detectives
The which finally led TO the New York curate who
Aumuler aud distributed the parts
Hudson found Newark The fact noted
relations which city has with all other
country either through its population its indus
the connection nearly always innocent for
Newark
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Iious Scot Refuses 10 Pay Customs
Duty on sunday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 15--"My mother
taught me never to trade on the
Lords Day" said Angus X. Christie
phearson, of Dunfermline, Scotland,
when customs officials who boarded
the Anchor line steamship Cameronia,
from Glasgow, yesterday asked him to
pay $9.53 duty on u strip of wooden
cloth.
II cannot do it. will not pay out
money on the Sabbath 7 would rather
lose the good wool than enter into
financial transactions on this blessed
day"
ITS only duty we ask. It's right for
you to pay" said the officers.
NO" said Angus, 'T'll abide by my
mothers teachings. I'll return to-
morrow with the silver. There is no
luck in Sunday bargains"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

was surrounded and cH do. The
Moors marched northward, taking
city after city in the name of Mo-
manned. till all Spain was theirs
The last of the Gothic kings had
fallen.
From that day to this Toledo has
never regained her position as the
capital of Spain. In the royal palace
Tarik found twenty-five crowns of
the old Gothic kings, golden and rich
w jeweled, the Psalms of David writ
ten on goldleaf with dissolved rubies,
and the emerald table of Solomon.
Those crowns may still be seen, but
no one has ever seen the other treas
ures.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
A CORPS OF sUFFRAGETTE GUNWoMEN.

HUNDRED licenses carry pistols had been is
in London when the authorities began
the increasing number of the gener who found them
need of being armed for seprotecton and the
nits that the militant suragetes
had been organizing of and had set
pistol range for practise There something like just
the government the mtants and with 300
possession of suragettes there is good
,son hope that will not be declared again
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

ID oDRIGO. last of the Gothic kings
N of Spain, heard in his palace at
Toledo that the Moors had crossed
from Africa to Gibraltar. A little
army led by Tarik landed in III and
marched northward conquering as it
went. King Rodrigo, with a great
force of Spaniards, met them in An
dalusia. He commanded the centre.
The wings were led by King Witiza's
sons. who. hoping to recover the
country that Rodrigo had taken from
their father. Joined the Moors, or gave
way before them in battle. Rodrigo
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

declared that the tariff bill of 1909
was not, revision downward.
-Four years age these FOUR Repub-
lican senators gloried in. the name
of "insurgents" and weio furious
tariff rev isionists. They are nc longer
insurgents. AS soon az the downward
rev'sicn Cf excessive tariff schedD les
became Iossible they voted with the
old guard RepUblicans to retain the
same Payne-Aldrich duties against
v hieh they once so noisily protested.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
FOOD THROWN AWAY BY THE TON.

TOMATOES IN South Jersey are being dumped into the
pvers used fertilizer the whsle every
caunery running day and night and immense
quantities being shipped Southern canneres Farmers
clad to basket when they sell
them householder the city reads about this gut
and waste why he has pay 80 40
basket 1t ID the story underdsrbution mscaed
production.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Thrcc-foot Fish Catches Itself |
Leap from WATER.

WASHINGTON. Sept. I5.-Ed win
+. Sweet, assistant secretary of COM
merce, is authority for this fish story,
to which he Is willing to make af-
fidavit:
II was travelling up the Nile in a
small steamer with my family and a
party of friends A small boat was
towed along behind the craft. I WAS
Iounging on deck when my attention
was attracted by sound of loud
Tapping against wood. 1t came from
the stern and ] hurried in that direc-
ton. | saw a fish fully three feet
long in the little boat, The fish had
Jumped out of the water and landed
in the boat and was trying to get
out. Members of the crew got into
the boat and captured the fish and
we had il served for dinner"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Fate Pursues His Trousers into Series
of Damage Suits.

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Twenty-five
times in recent years has Willard
Oseood Hatch met with peculiar mis-
haps And every time he had a dam
age case against some company.
Ills career began July s, 1910, when
he tripped OH a faulty sidewalk,
wrenched his knee and fatally in
iured S14 pair of trousers. The
same year the first nail entered his
life. When he arose at the Grand
Central station the seat of his trous-
ers chung to the seat of the station
Then In quick succession other mis-
maps disintegrated his trousers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
Oddities in Today's News
Stops Nagging seventy-five Ds5sl
Earns Seyent5-five Acres of Land,

LoGANSPoRT. Ind, Sept. h.
Marvin Brown, in his complaint for
divorce. filed in a Cass county court
says he has given his seventy-five
acres of land to his wife TO win free
doin from her tongue, and at last
has had to seek relief In a legal
separation. He says he told her he
would give her an acre for each day
she did not lecture him. He was not
lectured for seventy-five days, but
after that time the nagging was re-
stunned.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15

In England the Amalgamated So
ciety of Policemen demand a maxi
mum of $40 per week.