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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-11
THE DEPARTURE OF COL.
HUNTER.

HUNTER.
On Monday July 9TH, Col. and
Mrs. Hunter took their departure
from Delaware City to Newport,
II, l. escorted by four companies
of the G. A. G. of Fort du Pont,
the staff aud band. About 400
soldiers and large numbers OF
civilians were at the station to bid
adieu to this distinguished officer
and worthy citizen who has for
several years been in command at
Fort du Pont.
During their residence here Col.
and Mrs. Hunter have endeared
themselves to all who have had
the privilege of their acquaintance.
Their removal is sincerely regret
ted by the community and many
were the fearful farewells and
hearty expressions of good will
and hope for their continued pros
perity and happiness. The hearty
demonstration Of friendship ac-
corded Col, and Mrs. Hunter
speak volumes for their intrinsic
social qualities and excellence Of
character. The Press Joins in the
universal desire for the tuturf
happiness Of the retiring Com
mander and his very popular wife.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-11
is PROHIBITION A FARCE !

Various editors seem to be jub
liant over the fact that the con
sumption of liquor has increased
during the past year to the extent
of SAT, $50 gallons, said to be the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
MENTALLY sIDETRACKED.

Most people constantly sidetracking them
selves They start out to act along certain line Fear
steps in Doubt springs up. Attention dawdes Inter-
est ags. All through lack Of will and self-control.
Once it is never SO easy get the track
again. Every time you let yourself become sdetracked
you weaken your power for efficiency. When you keep
straight ahead to the goal strengthens your conf
dence and benefits you far than is apparent at
the surface Every develops your mental mus
cle gives punch to your will and your power OF con-
centration Every helps you to expect success
next time and frees the creative forces Of your being
Expectation success essential to success for there
is no law by which realize one thing while We
are all the time thinking about another TO start out
on course with doubt and nlisgivoy is to foredoom
yourself to the sdetrack Your forces will rally around
your faith and expectancy but they will sink away into
the background before your doubts and fears and men,
cries of previous faures-Hea!tn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
IOWA IS FAVORED STATE.

The fifty-ninth annual Iowa state
fair has opened its gates.
Here is where Iowa can point with
pride and challenge the world to refute
the truthfulness Of any superlative Ian
guage in which she may indulge.
The facts upon the opening day war
rant the use of the phrase greater
Iowa state fair. 1t would be a refec-
ton upon the intelligence Of the state
II 1t were otherwise.
When great state has been expert
menting along particular line for
more than half century it Is to be
presumed that she has learned some
thing. And Iowa has learned. She
has made state fair development a
specially. She has accumulated know
ledge from her own experience and
general observation.
The result is an exhibition over at
the state fair grounds which COM
mands the widest admiration. It is a
concrete expression of the varied re-
sources Of the most wonderful agri-
cultural state in the union.
In this very week the government
experts are declaring that Iowa corn
fields are showing greater promise
than those Of any surrounding state.
Why shouldn't we have great state
fair?
Iowa is prosperous. Her crops this
year are magnificent in both quantity
and quality. Let her people go to Des
Moines this week and next and prop
erly celebrate the event.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
sPoNoEs AS FERTILIZERS.

The department OF agriculture
through its bureau of soils, has re-
Gently completed analyses OF the Logg-
erhead sponge which grows abundant
" In the waters Of southern FLORIDA 10
determine it's value as fertllizer.
This sponge, according to Thomas D.
Reedy Of Key West, grows IN count.
less thousands and to an enormous
size in shallow water where 1t IS easy.
to procure. Mr.. Reedy also states
that the farmers of the Florida Keys
use the Loggerhead sponge with won
derful results and hardly ever use
chemical fertilizers. DR.. H. F. Moore
of the u. 8. bureau OF fisheries, cites
the use OF the sponge by citrus fruit
growers Of the Florida mainland and
states that he has seen this sponge
growing in such quantities that he has
long thought 1t should be expioited.
A specialist Of the department re-
Gently made analyses OF samples 1rom
Key West which verify the value OF
this sponge as fertilizer. the an
alyses show that the approximate re
suits on air dry material show louI
per cent OF nitrogen. three-fourths OF
one per cent each of potash, ana
phosphoric acid. FIVE per cent OF lime
and forty per cent OF organic matter.
The specialists say that 1t is evident
from the composition Of this material
and its demonstrated efficiency as
fertilizer that 1t has considerable value
to farmers and fruit growers who have
easy access to It in the shallowe 81
the sea- The department Is conduct
inr further investigations to determine
the feasibility Of extending the use OF
this sponge as . fertilizer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Daddy Bedtime
~ Funny Little
1f0TV Edna Pretends
To be Bind

about
little girl
I funny things
~ visiting grandma
think Edns
friendly little girl
picnic
be allowed to
said You viii only
little girls
taught the drens class
the head Of little brook that
banks and tall Fiat rock IL only
u from Ednas home
chldrens
white dresses and tied pretty bows in their hair
mother felt little hand slipped into he
that the little girl had hei
tightly closed.
Open she said You won't
be able to sect closed
Forre and Mimi fun Of her
would .sg
No
stayed shut
Just The picnic really
AL children
telling them This reason florre and MINI
the to Fiat rock
the little girls
benz said other:
be bind Edna heard and opened her eyes
for mint glance ct them
why no. she isntb al! little exclaimed
No. And Edna
until nearly home again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
coNv,cTs GUARD THEMeELvEs.s

Three years ago. says Robson Black
IN the September Wide. World Mage
line. the authorities Of the Province
Of Ontario cautiously commenced 70
reverse ! system that had bsen IN
operation with little variation for about
twenty centuries. They took four
hundred men from behind the high
walls ana steel bars Of the central
prison. Toronto, and placed them on
farm. where their words of honor were
the only bastions and common-sense
notion OF cooperation" their only lock
and kew, The authorities moved with
care: they did not choose desperate
criminals for such unparalleled lenien'
scy Of treatment: they did not take
murderers or dynamitards. Many OF
them, however, are practiced Dur
glars, forgers, pickpockets, and the
like. and about ninety per cent OF
them are the products of drink.
This experiment has been successful
almost beyond belief. Four hundred
convicted men, mostly young, live the
year round on twelve hundred acres OF
farm land, with no more repression or
surveillance than Is imposed on any
farm laborer on the Canadian prairie
DO they escape? Four in three years,
out Of a transient population of per-
haps a thousand. But does not the
system make prison life SO attractive
as to place a premium on crime"
asks the skeptic So far is this from
being the fact that not one-half the
percentage Of ''repeaters" come back
for further sentences to the prison
farm, as is the case with the old
fashiond jails.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

and that he was working for them, and
the people took him at his word. At
the time he was telling the people he
was working only for them, he was In
reality Tammany subject-but who
could have made the people believe It
at that time? When Sulzer broke
away from Tammany and refused to
be dictated to by Boss Murphy, then
the truth or at least a part Of 1t came
out. Sulzers main sin Is that he got
himself elected to Office by using for
his own personal advancement, the
weakness of the people who Insist on
following such Office seekers as he.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

Senator Stone Of Missouri, says that
Senator Bristow Of Kansas. admits
that he belongs to the chautauQua lee
turer class. Bristow said he did not,
but Stone kept asking him II it is true
that he has, while senator, made
speeches for pay at chautauquas. and
Bristow finally admitted; that he had.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
A Few Laughs.

No Rest.
When weary Mr.. Wilson thinks
That he will travel to the links,
Something happens.
They order out touring car
But ere it comes there is a jar,
Something happens.
There's something wrong in Mexico,
Or else in China, don't you know,
4 Something happens.
So Wilson's golf Is never tame
For In the middle OF game
Something happens.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Press Comment.

Des Moines Capital: So far as the
republican party is concerned, twas
not whether Ex-Governor Foss OF Mas
chusetts could come back, but
whether there was any very loud call
for him to do anything Of the kind.
Sioux City Journal: Mississippi river
trade In the region OF Iowa IL showing
such progress as to suggest better
wharf facilities. Missouri river. tr&dAs1H
the region OF Iowa II incapable OF sug-
costing the need Of any wharf ffacft
tiles whatever.
Clinton Herald: Iowa Judges can do
much toward making the gun totinS
law in this state effective II they will
follow the policy adopted by Judge
Bradshaw OF Des Moines, who zen
fenced man arraigned before him on
that charge to ninety days in the
county jail.
Osceola Democrat: Perhaps the only
thing which could be very seriously
urged against the capitol extension Ii
the fact that we are getting the cart
before the horse. Permanent good
roads should come first, in our judg-
ment. It Ia q good deal like . farmer
building fine big house on his land
before he puts up his fences or sets
out his trees.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The story Of
the Diggs trial says that, on the
stand, Diggs was perfect master Of
himself. He's very smooth individual
evidently, or he wouldn't be able to
tell his Infamous story without even
blushing. He's just the kind OF fsl-
low. suave and we'll dressed. who.
though married, was able to prevail
upon silly girls to commit q great
wrong. Here's hoping his punishment
lis in proper proportion to the enormity
lof his deviltry.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

If it is true, as Professor Mills OF
the University of Kansas alleges, that
virtue Is protected by poverty, then
our working girls must be reasonably
safe. Still, some Of them fall.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

It is reported that congress may
take recess after the passage Of the
tariff bill until November 1, Pro-
vided, Of course, that the tariff bill
lis passed before that date.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

A Joliet, ILL.,, bartender made q
cocktail out of carbohc acid and
nearly killed customer. All OF
which proves that this tender custo-
mer was not used to mail order goods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

A socialist writer Is reported as say
ing that the Germans are the cause OF
TIE. recent defeats OF the Turks. We
thought it was the Bulgarians.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
MHandle With Cara"

Madam Parvenu What is your boy
doing now?
Madam Lineage. He's in q new ven.
Operating in Dresden china.
p Madam Parvenu. My goodness! ]
always thought Dresden was German
city!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

Are you living within your means,
or are you spending all you make and
getting yourself in shape to be. a load
on your relatives?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

Diggs and Caminetti should get the
maximum sentence. Men OF their
stripe do not deserve any leniency.
They continually pull down the stand
ard Of morality of any community that
is afflicted with their presence.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Royalty In Real Life.

"And you really once saw prince Z"
yes"
"Oh," she exclaimed, clasping her
hands and gazing with awe into the
eyes that had looked upon royalty,
what was he doing"
Trying to balance a chair on his
chin to amuse chorus girl"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

According to statistics, one woman
In thousand can open a telegram
with as little emotion as she displays
in opening a can of corn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Speed.

How fast can your automobile got"
"Just fast enough to have me arrest
ed and not fast enough to get any
where In hurry"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Modern Conditions.
A CIR. Mistake.

''rm sorry I snubbed that young
bank clerk on the street yesterday"
Failed to know him, eh?"
Eyes; and today he got even. had
a check to cash and he failed to know
me-"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
Helping the Magazine.

"A very thoughtful poet" opined the
editor.
How so?"
when I send him q rejection slip
he sends 1t along with the next batch
for me to use again"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

7 Too many quarrels are picked be-
fore they are ripe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

UP.To.pATE PHILOSOPHY.
There's 4 place for everything
but the trouble 10 most OF 10 can
not find the place.
THE door Of adversely 10 never
locked.
II lent our poverty that makes
10 disconnected, but the riches OF
our nelohbors.-Jud0e.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26
On an Ocean Trip.

"That fellow gets seasick. but he's
a game sport
Keeps eating, does hep
"Yes; he's had four breakfasts this
morning"
Modern Conditions.
There's an idea for q Dress"
"Too daring" said the actress. 1T
may be all right for the street, but 1t
wouldn't be allowed on the stage
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

Harper's Weekly says that Sulzer
told the people he was their friend
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

No, President Wilson Is moi. going
to read his report to the Mexicans-
he is going to read 1t to congress.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-26

Suddenly mastering himself, ne
seized the knob of Captain Hanska's
door. The latch gave way-it was not
locked. But 1t opened no more than
a foot or two-scarcely enough to give
man passage when something
blocked It from behind. In the temper,
airy weakness Of mis- will, Tommy
North shrank back from entering such
a place OF veritable horror. He shouted
again; and now Professor Noll, look.
ing In his bathrobe like q strange
priest Of strange eastern rite,
rushed from his room gasping:
Whats the NATTER"
The blood, the pale gibbering. dab.
bled young man, were explanation
enough. He himself opened the door
as far as 1t could 60, and edged into
the room.
Matches, quick!" he called from
within. Tommy North found his
match case; and the mastery Of an
other mind, with the example Of bet
ter courage, drew him after Professor
Noll. He lighted match, held 1t up.
It flared and blazed until 1t burned his
fingers. In that Pickering transitory
lieht they saw all that It was neces-
sary to see.
Captain Hanska's body blocked tho
door He lay dressed in his pajamas,
the shrunken relic Of what had been
portly man-lay on his back with his
hands lifted over his head as though
he we're clutching at the air From his
breast stuck the haft of great knife;
and from the wound the pool OF blood
flowed to the. threshold. The match
went out; and with a common impulse
Tommy North and Professor Noll
struggled to see who would be first to
get back through that door. :.
There followed alarms, screams, the
running OF women, Mysteries on the
part of Mrs. Moore, who had started
from bed at Tommys first cry. Tommy
North albeit ordinarily brave and
resourceful young man enough, was Of
no use in this crisis, what with the
compression of ten emotional years
into ten minutes OF life Worse for
him. the hen-minded Mrs. Moore. see
ing the blood, cried, "You murderer!"
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
NURSING SERVICE OF STATE
TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION

The man in charge of the tubercu-
losis exhibit, sent by the State Com
mission to various fairs in the State,
was awakened early one morning by
a drayman.
81 wish you would get up and tell
me about this exhibit you have. My
wife died with tuberculosis a couple
of years ago, and, naturally, | am
worried about myself and the chill
dren. One Of them is very delicate.
| was always told that you inherited
the disease and that when you got it,
it couldn't be cured. Lately some
body said that that is not true, and
l would give pretty near anything
to find out what l have got to do to
protect my children"
Naturally, when he heard that the
disease is not inherited, but is caught
from other consumptives, that it can
be cured when found early and that,
best Of all, it can be prevented by
proper living, he went away much
more cheerful.
The State Commission has since
sent into that county a nurse, who
is to remain two months, and give
free instruction to any person, or
family needing it, in the best methods
of caring for the sick in their homes,
and in the ways of safeguarding
themselves from attacks of the pre-
ventable diseases particularly con-
sumption.
The salary of such a nurse is paid
by the State Commission, and her
other expenses must be borne by the
locality. If any Health League, or
tuberculosis Association, or Medical
Society, or Fiscal Court, of any
county, desires for two months the
services of such an expert nurse, the
Commission will be glad to receive an
application for such assistance, and
will send a nurse wherever possible.
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
DISTANT OBJECTS VISIBLE
FOR EIGHTY-FiVE MILES.
(NeW York Press.)

Contrary to the general belief that
the heliograph virtually is an instru-
ment for signaling short distances, it
has been used between London and
Brighton, distance of 20 miles.
But this necessarily was on an ex-
ceptionally clear day with an intense
sunlight.
This instrument, which for more
than half a century has been found
of benefit in army tactics, is designed
to pass in the near future to oblivion
as the result of the invasion of the
wireless telegraph.
The heliograph is nothing more than
a mirror on which the suns rays are
caught and by which they are re
flected. The flashes can be thrown
in any direction desired and the tel
egraphic Morse code general is used
Apart from signaling, the distance
at which objects can be discerned by
the eye depends on two things-their
helght and the clearness of the air
The most CONSPICUOUS object in the
British Isles is Mt Snowdon. in
Wales, which on a clear day can be
distinctly seen from Bray Head
OOOhSy w ANhAO", a Ol uO less
than IS miles. Snowdon can also be
seen long way off, Boston Stump
the tower of the fine old church a.
Boston, Lincolnshire, is visible from
the Leicestershire Hills, quite 40 mile!
away.
From the top of the famous Black
pool Tower you can on a clear da,
catch a glimpse of the mountain O
Sanefell, in the Isle of Man. The dis
tance is a good 60 miles.
In Mexico the air is said to b,
| clearer than anywhere else in tn,
world. At any rate, it is the onl,
country where aview extending to 20
miles can be obtained. By climbin
to the top of the Sierra Mountain
the lonely peak of Mt. Sparta can b
seen. 1t would take four hours b
| express train to reach it.
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH REVEALS
METHUSELAH ONLY 79 YEARS.
Chicago Tribune.)

How old was Methuselah? Nine
hundred and siXty-one years OF age
which, from our earliest youth, we
have been accustomed to assign the
patriarch. Scientific research abroad
however, has reduced these imposing
figures to seventy-eight and three
quarters years.
The experts point out that there
has already existed a certain amount
of doubt, even among orthodox be-
levers, in the literal truth of the Bi-
BILE concerning the great age to which
the patriarchs attained. Many theo-
ries have been evolved to reduce the
biblical records of this kind to some
thing near the allotted span of man.
1t has been surmised that, in the
earliest times, the mOnth-the pc
riod of moon cycle-was called a
year. Thus, Adams $50 years of life
calculating year at 20 and one-half
days, the length of a lunar month,
works out to rs and one quarter
years. After the month year there
would appear to have come a five
month year, the limit of five being
derived from the figures on one hand,
it being remembered that primative
peoples always used the figures for
purposes of calculation. Then came
the twelve-month year.
Ground for this rearrangement is
alleged to be given IN the psalmists
limit of life of three score and ten
years. Furthermore, it is maintain
ed that, between the times of Noah
and David, no such extraordinary
change could have taken place as to
reduce the life of man by eleven
twelfths. On the five-month year ba-
sis Abraham's It's years shrinks to
" and Isaac's 1S0 to a.
1t may be as it is also pointed out,
that there interviewed a six-month
year, discovered by Jacob while
watching Laban's flocks. Thus, ia
cob's 147 years worked out at about
73. The 12-month year began with
the Egyptians, who saw that a COM
plete period was made up of the two
t years. in one of which the days
were longer than the nights and in
the order of which the nights were
longer than the days.
/ 1t is curious fast that the Chris
| tians and the Jews years will not
forever be separated, for, in due
course of time, Rosh Hashona will
| fall due at Christmas time and
then catch up the Christian year.
This, however, will not occur for 30.
600 years.
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
GOOD REASON FOR
HIS ENTHUSIASM

When a man has suffered for sew
eral days with collie, diarrhoea or
other form of bowel complaint and is
then cured sound and well by one or
two doses of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, as is
often the case, it is but natural that
he should be enthusiastic in his praise
of the remedy, and especially is this
the case of a severe attack when life
is threatened. Try it when in need of
such a remedy. 1t never fails. Sold
by all dealers. (Aug)
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
COSTLY TREATM ENT.

Il was troubled with constipation
and indigestion and spent hundreds of
dollars for medicine and treatment" 4"
writes G. H. Hines, of Whitlow, Ark
Il went to st. Louis hospital, also a
hospital in New Orleans, but no cure
was affected. On returning home 1
began taking Chamberlain's Tablets,
and worked right along. / used them
for some time and am now all right"
Sold by all dealers. (Aug)
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
COSTLY TREATMENT.

81 was troubled with constipation
and indigestion and spent hundreds
of dollars for medicine and treat
ment," writes G. H. Hines, of Whitlow,
Ark. 81 went to st. Louis hospital,
also to a hospital in New Orleans, but
no cure was effected. On returning
home / began using Chamberlain
Tablets, and worked right along.
used them for some time and am now
all right" Sold by all dealers.
(August)
The Bourbon news., 1913-09-30
SAFEST LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN

Nearly every woman needs a good
laxative. DR.. Kings New Life Pills
are good because they are prompt,
safe, and do not cause pain. Mrs. M.
c. Dunlap, of Leadill, Tenn, says:
DIR. Kings New Life Pills helped my
troubles greatly" Price 25c. Rec
commended by L Oberdorfer and w. T.
Brooks. (Sept)