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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
Little Benny's Note Book
BY LEE Ii. PAPE

I A big Dackidge CAIN for pop yestid-
day AFTERNOON and ma opened 1t and
wat was in 1t but a moo bath robe with
brown and wife stripes running awl
the way down. and ma held 1t up say
ing, Horrors, dident think even yure
farthir wood buy enything kwite as
ugly as this.
G, ma, it looks like big salt wattir
taffy, sed WITCH 1t did, and wen non
CAIN hoam the ferst thing he sed was.
MOthir, did packidge kun for ME
today.
No, 0 yes, wun did, to, but 1t was
mistake, sed ma.
Wat do you meen mistake, sed
pop.
Kun up heer and take look at it
and you'll haff to laff sed ma
| And pop CAIN up stares and ma
| showed him the brown and wife bath
robe saying, its funny how they Good
Of made sutch mistake.
How do you meen, a mistake, sed
pop.
Wy, you don't think Id suppose for
an instint that you'd RELY buy sutch
a hoamly thing, do you, sed ma.
0, no, of kOrse not, sed pop, see,
you meen they sent hoam the rong
wun.
OF korse, sed ma nevvir saw sutch
reedickliss thing as this in my life.
It is rather odd looking, izent it,
sed pop.
Wy. It's posertively funny, sed ma.
hee hee
Ha ha, sed pop.
Hee hee, sed ma.
Ha ha, sed pop, it Is sort of funny,
ha ha.
| cant imagine how they evvir made
sutch mistake, sed ma, wat kuller
was the wun you RELY ordired, sum
solid kuller, Suppose.
0 yes, sed pop, sum solid kuller.
Wat, brown, sed ma.
Yes, solid brown, sed pop, CESS Id
bettir take this thing down with me
in the moaning and get the wun I
ordired.
And wen he CAIN hoam today he
had anuthir packidge and wat was in
1t but brown bath robe. looking awl
rite.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
CLEANLINESS FOR THE BABY
iContinued)

This nurse starts baby's career by
washing out his eyes very gently with
piece Of gauze, dipped IN a weak
solution of bolic acid. directly she has
applied the sterilized dressing to the
cord. Then she rubs baby from head
to foot with tha oil mentioned before
rolls 1t up in the soft, warm blanket
lays 1t on its right side and turns her
attention to the mother, feeling sure
that baby's eyes are safe from infec.
tion.
Later she gives the baby it's first
sponge bath Of warm water and pure
soap, taking infinite care not to dis
turb the dressing of the cord. After
the bath she washes out baby's mouth
with gauze and weak solution of
boric acid. and throws this piece OF
gauze away. With . second piece of
gauxe and moro Of the acid solution,
she then gives baby's eyes second
washing, dresses him. feeds him and
tucks him away for his first sleep In
perfect cleanliness and perfect COM
fort. At first she uses sterilized gauze
for all wash purposes. with old, soft
linen or toweling for drying. Tho
gauze is then burned. each towel
washed and dried before it Is used
again. Later baby. when year old,
has soft wash rag and towels of his
own, which no one else is permitted
to use. and these are washed and
dried as sorupulously az his clothing,
For a week, only the sponge bath is
given, baby lying on bath blanket on
the nurses lap. After that II he is
we'll and strong, he may be bathed in
tub. In households where there is
the regulation bathroom this is a
simple matter. In other homes. spe.
cial tub Is the best, and 1t must not
be used for any purpose except the
baby's baths. II the family tub is used.
| It must be cleaned scrupulously before
baby is put into the water The skin
of the newborn baby is very tender
and infection is always at hand. Al
the Better Babies Contests l heard
more than one physician trace an
eruption on baby's skin to careless
bathing or care Of the tub. Doctors
say that bad cases of boils can be
traced to an infected tub. In fact
there are women who love their
babies, yet SO thoughtless as to leave
diapers soaking in the bath tub.
where. after a superficial rinsing Oft
with warm water, baby is bathed
Diapers, all Of baby's clothing, in fact
should be soaked and washed in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
A FOOLS PLEA.

81 never had a chance to make good
whined young man in a western city
when he was sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for the commission Of an afro.
cicus crime, while as he claimed, I'm.
der the influence of liquor.
II Is the threadbare defense of the
criminal when they are tripped up by
the protruding foot of fate, says Cur
rem. Thought
It is the feeble extenuation of fail
ure predicated upon lack of ability,
lack Of self-respect. lack Of every de-
cent impulse that animates men TO at
tempt worth while effort.
II is the justification of the INDECENT
creature who permits his mother to
earn his bread by never ending toll
while he wastes his time, and the
brutal lazy husband who feels no
sense Of humiliation when he eats the
food provided by an Industrious wife.
We witness every day what is being
accomplished by men and women who
are achieving full measure of sue
cess while striving under tremendous
handicaps, and when We contrast
these brave souls with the miserable
hulks who imagine that the world
owes them living without any effort
on their part, and who grayitate into
dissolute habits when it is not forth
coming, we are filled with disgust and
loathing.
The man who declares that he never
bad a chance to live an honest, re-
spectacle life is lying. The opportunity
and prosperity. we have only may not
have come to him, but he had, we may
be certain, plenty Of opportunities to
do something useful-to leave the
world better for his having been born
into II
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
RAISED HIS OWN SALARY.

While giving out interviews to a
Moline paper that is owned by the
liquor interests, derogatory to the city
and designed to put Ottumwa in bad
light, Mayor Pat Leeny should not for
get that he is responsible in measure
for what he complains Of. He says we
need more policemen. We could have
added man to the force had not the
mayor voted himself an increase in
salary that is almost sufficient
In itself to pay for the addi-
tional officer BY taking the $500 per
year that Leeny added to the amount
he agreed to accept as mayor of OF
tumwa, and adding few dollars each
month, the years salary for another
officer would be obtained. The mayor
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

I skraped my foot avn the foar
while was going to bed last mite and
gave a fearse yell and pop and ma
CAIN running up, pop saying, Hello, wy
yure alive, don't you no nobody yells
like that exsept dying men.
For goodniss sakes It's a wundir you
woodent friten the life out of persin
sed ma.
l got splintir in my foot, I sed.
Is that awl, sed pop, thawt you
swallered a telegram pole at the very
leest
II herts, sed.
Heer, sit avn the edge Of the bed
and I'll take it out for you, ma sed.
Wlch did. sticking my foot up, and
ma touched the place and 1t bert sum
thing fearse and yelled like emmy
thing.
HAY, cut out that rackit, do you no
its late, sed pop.
Goodniss. haven't even touched it
yet, sed ma.
Yes you did to, sed, it herts.
Well II you keep quiet Jest a sekino
it will be awl ovir, sed ma.
I thawt you were soldier, sed pop.
It herts, sed.
So YOU remarked. sed pop.
Now hold still, sed ma And she
touched 1t agen and I yelled verse
than the ferst time.
1zent this orfil, sed ma.
I'm ashamed of him, sed pop, 1t an
DRILL expeerients to think that yure
ony son is soldier and then diskuvvir
bees nuthing but yeller.
1t herts, sed.
lest to prove that you don't haff to
harry avn like house afire, sed pop,
I heerby awffir reword Of 2 cents for
the next boy in this house who has a
splintir removed without making a
sownd.
G, awl rite, sed. And held out
nv foot and ma touched the phase agen
and dident make sownd, and ma sed
Well for goodniss sake, thares absiloot-
" nuthing heer, look yourself and see.
WITCH I did, and heer thare was ony
a red phase without eny splintir at awl.
Nuthing doing avn the reward. sed
pop.
And him and ma went down stares
agen and went to bed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Copyright, 1912, by the Associated
Literary Press.)
Cloud mountains in the west, mar
gined with fiery gold, flung long
aerial shadows athwart the sky
There was the smell of new rain,
though the turf under foot was dust
dry. A shower had come within sight
across the meadows, then veered
away southerly. Amy was glad it had
veered. Her white frock, crisp and
sheer, would have wilted in the damp
of 1t. The rain had been too slight to
do more than freshen the air - 1t still
came warm to the cheek, but without
the sting that had marked midday
breezes.
At 6 o'clock of a midsummer after
noon, roses droop on the stalk, but
rose-cheeks are at their fairest. Amy
,, proved the fact she knew she had
never looked better - therefore she
was gay and proud. The Carlyns,
mother and son, were coming to an
early tea. 1t was their first approach
to sociability. Ever since they moved
into the old Earle place they had held
themselves distantly toward the coun-
tryside.
That had not suited Amy, yet she
had given no sign of her dissatisfac.
ton. She was born ambitious-Lenox
Carlyn was just the sort of man she
wanted to marry, well bred, well to
do, above all rather distinguished
She had no mere vulgar greed for
money, in spite Of having had it in
plenty all her life. But she did yearn
to reach social pinnacles the rare
heights where the exalted had their
being. Her people, the Watsons,
were wholly undistinguished, not
withstanding they were each and sew.
eral, patterns of thrift, sobriety and
the moral virtues.
Secretly Amy had always envied
Leslie May, her college mate, not
wfthstanding Leslie had had few and
plain clothes, little money to spend,
and never a box from home She
was an orphan, bound to work for
her living = the college course was
provided through the will of an elderly
relative who had left million
to missions But she was also gov
errors granddaughter, and entitled
to use crest when she could afford
it, Amy would have given her string
of pearls for crest. She was bent
on having one. if ever she got away
from the neighborhood, where folk,
knowing her pedigree, would only
laugh at 1t.
She was glad and sorry to have
Leslie as guest; glad because her
presence gave reasonable excuse for
the mild festivity; sorry in that she
felt herself, to degree, hampered by
hospitality 1t would not do to eclipse,
Leslie, either in clothes or charms.
Hence the white frock, fine and lacy
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

debts that are charged up to loss of sa.
loon license money. as a matter Of fact
date back to the days when the open
saloons existed here. 1t was during
the rule of the saloon" as one wet
advocate unwittingly puts it in All In.
terview in the Moline paper, that the
city piled up the debts that are now
worrying the administration.
Abolishing the saloon has lifted OF
tumwa far above the moral levels of
the Illinois cities.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Figures compiled by the American
museum of safety show that upwards
Of twelve million school children in
the United States have defective teeth.
In many schools this represents ap-
proximately fifty per cent of the pu-
pills, but in some schools the number
runs as high as ninety-eight per cent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

An English engineer proposes to de-
fend his country in event of war by
suspending bombs from balloons,
which could be exploded from the
ground when approached by hostile
dirlgible or aeroplane.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

One OF the richest soda deposits In
the world Is Lake Magadi in British
East Africa. Its area is over two miles
and the soda contained in it is estimat-
ed at zoe, 100000 tons. Almost as soon
as the soda is removed another sup
ply naturally forms.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

The Chicago election commissioners
have been seriously embarrassed by q
demand that Immoral women" be bar
red from the polls at next weeks elec-
ton. Just how immoral women can be
barred without also barring immoral
men Is a puzzle
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

"Thrift, to become a fixed habit
must be practised with regularity
and be given an opportunity for
exercise over an appreciate
length Of time. And unless It be-
comes fixed as a habit it is OF
comparatively little value. Spas
modic saving followed by spas
modic extravaganza makes for
ruin AZ surely as does habitual
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. c. Mortim-
er, Berkeley, California.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

II Mrs. Belle Guinness is really alive
she ought to hike to Chicago and get
legal acquittal by competent jury
which is the best advice any compe-
tent lawyer could hand her.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Seven girls in a private school In the
east have been sued by another for
damages due to injuries growing out OF
a hazing episode. Evidently the girls
are suffragettes and want to show they
are mems equals-hence the hazing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Give your instructions as simply an,
tersely as you can, 80 that they can
not be misunderstood
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Do not kill the birds because the.
help kill the bugs and flies and mos
Qu1toes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Yesterdays news dispatches said
John Lind is coming home for rest.
Must be tired of saying and doing
nothing
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Waterloo Times-Tribune: All right,
Des Moines, Sioux City and others!
You may come and play, II you wish
and we'll let you use the building. But
what was that you whispered behind
your hands about Waterloo bluff?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Kansas City Journal: ut doesn't
take as much sense to be president
as it does to be congressman" says
Champ Clark. So Woodrow needn't
put on any official airs around the
speaker. Champ has his number.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

The Mexican situation gets no bet
ter very fast-but do you know what
to do with it?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Waterloo Courier: That Posture So
ciety just organized in New York state
not only hopes to cause people to sit
up and take notice, but those who take
notice of the societys teachings will
sit MP and stand up straight. All
strength and power to the society's
backbone.
Boone News Republican: It is al
ways something free" that causes a
split in the democratic party. First
1t was free trade, then it was free sill
yer. Now it is free tolls. That word
free has alawsy Deen hoodoO to the
democratic brethren.
Burlington Gazette: The United
States should have no abiding place
for such characters as Tannenbaum,
the Industrial Worker of the World.
He should be returned to the alien
land whence he came nine years ago.
Sioux City Journal: Kaiser Wilhelm
is the most recent convert to the
Don't dig your grave with your
teeth" society and has issued an order
cutting the leuStn OIL SLdte O1QuerS
down to 45 minutes. Sooner or later
they will all come around to bowl
of bread and milk diet.
Kansas City Journal, There are
some persons so ungallant as to in
innate that because Nine Caillaux
took a pistol with her and pumped
five bullets into Calmette her disavow-
al of any purpose to do him injury is
not plausible. But the majority of
Parisians are more chiyalrous.
Cedar Rapids Republican: In Des
Moines they defeated the water works
issue also the automatic telephone
franchise. They did not want sec
ond telephone system which is wise
decision for any city to come to and
as for the water works they were
afraid that two and a half million
dollar investment might be misman-
aged by the politicians who might get
control of it.
Cadar Ranids Gazette. This MoYi.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Lots OF rain is needed to make
big hay crop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Do not forget to paint up and clean
up your property.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
Press Comment

Des Moines Capital: Floods in the
east and heavy rains in the far west.
Iowa continues to stand out conspic-
uously on the weather map as the
happy medium state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

thrift Is the one investment
that always yields returns. Isaac
r. Marcosson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

thus takes for his own pocket the tax.
payers money that could be used to
give steady employment to one more
n1nn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07
Evening Story
At THE SWING
BY Martha Mccullough Williams.

Copyright, 1912, by the Associate,
Literary Press.)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-07

Cedar Rapids Gazette: This Mexi.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-30

suits than latterly have been obtained
by ambassadors who have not acted
until cablinb to the home office for
instructions. It is stated on good
authority that no foreign representa-
tive. of a government now acts on
matter of any considerable import
ance without first cabling his home
government for orders.
But once again ambassadors and
ministers are severed from their
home offices and must act independ-
entity and in their own discretion to
forward the interests of their govern
ments. The. big question is how many
retired shoe merchants who received
diplomatic appointments by virture of
liberal campaign contributions will
get ratified and how many compare
lively obscure foreign representatives
of our country>will rise to the occas-
ion like trout to fly and put
things over one after another?
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-30
GRAY HAIR
ATIBI
Darker Evenly by Q.Ran. Effect
Amazing.

You can turn gray, faded, streaked
with gray hair beautifully dark and
lsutrous almost overnight if you'll
apply, on retiring, Q-Ban Hair Color
Restorer to har and scalp. Q-Ban
Hair Color Restorer is clean liquid,
harmless, not sticky, delightful to use
and darkens the hair so naturally
evenly and completely, even to the
very roots thai no one can tell it
has been applied. QBan Hair Color
Restorer also produces that soft
fluffy, dark luster, thickness and
abundance to the hair which makes
the hair so Fascinating and attractive,
besides prevents dandruff, itching
scalp and falling hair. Guaranteed to
darken gray hair or no charge. Try
it. Big 7-oZ bottle only SOC. Sold by
w. L. Dewoody, Pine Bluff, Ark. Out
of-town people supplied By mail
(AdVt.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-30
BEDIENT WILL JUMP
TO FEDERAL LEAGUE

Cleveland, Aug. 29-Hugh Bedient,
the Red Sox pitcher, Will soon jump
to the Federal league, according to a
story heard here today. Bcdient has
been having a bad season but has
been retained on the .SoX staff by
Manager Carrigan.
1t is believed that Bedient will
make the jump as soon as he sees
the Red SoX have not q chance to get
into the worlds series.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-30
GEORGE KEEPER
GOES TO AMERICAN

Chicago, Aug. 29.-George Klepfer
pitcher, now with the Venice club of
the Pacific Coast league, has signed
with the Chicago Americans for next
season.
Klepfer comes to Chicago as re-
suit of the transfer of doc" White
to Venice, the local club having beer
given its choice of players On the
California team.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-06-26

n snip lie returned Tor 0lS Oaug0tef
and her duenna.
He found the house vacant.
From this point the story Is vague.
1t does not appear that Katrina Lemke
was ever found. The next heard Of
Anneke Van Vranken she was living
in England. the wife Of Captain SIR
Ralph Eggleston of the British navy.
The loss Of the duenna and the escal,e
Of her charge are to be accounted for
only by conjecture. though there Is IN
unsubstantiated tradition that It was
explained by Lady Eggleston. This ex-
PLANTATION accords with the recent dis.
covery Of the skeleton in the closet.
The tradition is. that while the two
women alone together in the Van
Vranken home Anneke broke away
from her jailer and hid in the closet.
The duenna followed her and entered
the closet. and Anneke slipped out aud
shut the door. Anneke. thinking only
Of flight. left the place and cOmmnni.
Gated with her lover. who. came ashore.
married her and took her to his ship.
Anneke did not know : what low
suppose to have been the ease that III
closing the door Of the closet It Ind
been held by a spring lock. The pane!
closed automatically with the closing
Of the door. My theory I that Kntrt.
ma Iemke was caught in the closet.
could not release herself and persisted.
Doubtless the skeleton discovered there
was hers. This theory II borne nut
BY the fart that It 10 the skeleton of Z
woman.
The Washington herald., 1914-05-10
MORE PEOPLE KILLED ON
RAILROADS THAN IN WAR

erence to public demand. The weight
Of trains has increased. and to such an
extent that II has caused terrific wear
on steel rails. notwithstanding the in
crease in the weight and size Of the
rails. Ten years ago, rails Of less than
100 pounds were largely used on our
roads. Now the prevailing rail weighs
100 pounds to every thirty-six inches. and
on the larger systems the main line
rails weigh ITO pounds to the yard. In
the recent hearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission. the late Samuel
Rea. president of the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn, stated that the time had now come
when the Pennsylvania was making plans
for laying 12S-pound rails on its main
lines.
Whenever a wreck Is reported to the
commission which involves the loss Of
human life, an investigation Is prompt
ly made by inspectors and a report made
and made public, and this seems to end
the matter.
Wants Authority Extended.
Something beside publicity, the commits
sion has found by experience, is neces-
sary, and 1t has recommended that IL be
given authority to a large extent over
the physical operation of railroads. This
authority would include the prescribing
Of signals. and equipment, the character
of rails, compulsory use Of steel coaches,
and a variety Of other precautionary
The Washington herald., 1914-05-10
BIRD CENSUS IS TASK
FACING GOVERNMENT

A census of all the birds of the United
States is suggested for this summer. and
the Department of Agriculture is inviting
bird lovers throughout the country TO
cooperate in taking ii. The object is 70
determine how many pairs of birds OF
each species breed within definite areas
BY comparing these figures with those Of
subsequent censuses. II will be possible 10
ascertain whether the present State and
Federal laws are effective and game and
insectiverous birds increasing or dimin-
ishing in numbers.
As beginning the department has
asked about 80 correspondents through
out the country, who have previously
rendered valuable service. to follow a
general outline in supplying information.
The correspondents have been advised
that the census of the birds should he
taken over some area that fairly repre-
sents the average character of the cOUn-
try in the immediate neighborhoOd.
1t is desired to take a census OF the
pairs of birds actually nesting within
the selected area.
1t Is practically impossible to make this
census on the scale of ~ or 10 acres in
single day. A plan which has been used
with advantage for several years is TO
begin at daylight some morning the last
of May. or the first week in June, ana
zigzag back and forth across the area.
counting the male birds of each species-