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The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
Fun With Apples.

Do you live near any apple trees? If
you do you can print your friends
initials on the growing apples. While
the fruit yet hangs green on the trees
select the biggest apple for the fun
Cut out from thin tough paper your
initials, with round dots for periods
Next paste these letters and dots on
that side Of the apple which is most
turned to the sun. taking care not to
loosen the fruits hold upon its stem
AS soon as the apple is ripe take Off
the paper cuttings, which, having shut
out the reddening rays of the sun, have
kept the fruit green just beneath them
so that the name or initials now show
plainly.
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
A Careless Man.

Father-Why have you quarreled with
Harry? Observation-Disclosures he pro-
posed to me last night. Father-Well,
there was no harm in that, was there?
Daughter-But l had accepted him the
night before.-Illustrated Bits.
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
Conundrums.

Why need France never fear an in
undation? Because there the water is
always ''reau' Qow).
What is that which comes with a
coach, goes with a coach, is of no use
whatever to the coach, and yet the
coach can't go without it? Noise.
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
SCOUTS ARE THRIFTY.

scout boy must earn and deposit at
least So in bank.
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
laconic.

Hairs little inclined to-
"Cut it," interrupted the man who
wanted to catch a train.-Puck.
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17
Photo by American Press Association.


and sidewalks
crowded
little tot the picture sleeping sidewalk beside
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17

Takes Things Easy.
"Does any one think your son has a
future?" "Yes-the life insurance COM
-
The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-09-17

something going on
aboard this ship said one
passenger to another. 1--WE
are in some danger''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

War is a merciless school teacher,
following the methods of the old time
masters who undertook to fog arltn-
metic into the minds of children. n
first chapter, and every other chapter
of the war schoolbook, Is the lesson
that there is no place in the world OF
war for good intentions, errors or
judement and mistakes. If a French
man In the trenches misses his aim the
German opposite him pots him, with
out giving him any chance to adjust his
sights. War is a slave driver, forcing
every ma nthat it can reach beyond his
endurance, without mercy and almost
without thought. Hence Americans
want to keep out of war.
War under modern conditions is
destructive of life beyond any previous
experience of mankind. The Huns, the
Turks and the Tartars ravaged i'm
mense areas, and enslaved or exter.
minated large populations; but in no
twelve months in the history Of nan
kind have so many lives of organized
soldiers been taken. Modern weapons
are horrifying; fighting is continuous;
resistance is desperate. The chance
that a gallant young fellow, who IS
sent to the front, will come home un-
scratched at the end of the war, is not
one that any life insurance company
will take. This frightful toll is exacted
from the best and bravest, from the
men who would have been fathers of
the next generation. Who knows how
many statesmen, musicians. poets, in
ventors, engineers and leaders of in
dustry, have gone to their graves be-
fore they had a chance to show their
powers? Hence Americans want to
keep out of war.
Within a ear mankind has learned
more about scientific ways of destroy
ing human life than in the previous
several hundred thousand years. Sol
diers used to expect a quietus from a
rifle ball or some kind of p~rojectile
from a annon A few tasted the de-
testable cold steel of the bayonet; a
comparatively small number went
down with the sinking of their ships.
Nearly all the casualties came on the
firing line, within a mile or two of the
enemy. Nowadays men may be killed
by bullets or bombs, or by steel arrows
from an airship. Their forts may be
scattered about their ears by a shot
from an immense cannon fifteen miles
away. Men are killed by hand gren-
AIDES, by poisonous gases, by unseen
enemies, by shrapnel from afar. Ships
are sunk and men are blown up or
drowned by mines, submarines and
even a%irships. The only defense is for
millions of men to burrow in the
ground like moles, and there mine and
Icountermine and blow up each others
1n1r 1. ~
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
Dry Goods and Notions

Dry Goods and Notions
James Swirles
w. J. Donelan & co.
Putnam & Bridgeman
Drayage and Transfer
Daggett C Sons
Drugs, Wall Paper and Paints
Herrick & Downs
Sargent's Drug Store
]. G.. Parks, Drugs and Books
Hofmann's Drug Store
Crescent Drug & Book Co.
Mynard Drug Co.
F. z. Kidd & Co.
Davis Drug Co.
Central Drug Co.
Opera House Drug Store
Electrical Supplies
Polling Electric Co.
Fuel and Feed
Roseland Fuel Co.
J. B. Curran Ice & Coal Co.
Cummings, w. w.
Citizens e Mowery
e. M. Robertson
J. F. Black
Crescent Fuel co.
Dan r. Shea
Union Coal Co.
Five and Ten Cent Stores
Do not pay railroad fare or
freight.
S. S. Kresge & Co
F.. w. Woolworth
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
JUST SOUR GRAPES.

Proceeding from the false assump
ton that the wealthiest state, per cap
tia, in the country must have a large
proportion Of people of large cash in.
comes, a Washington, D. c., newspaper
proceeds to rebuke Iowa for spending
$50, OOO. 900 on automobiles last year
while returning a smaller income tax
than does the national capital.
There Is more than a trace of envy
in this discussion Of the nontaxablllty
Of riches in Iowa. 1t opens with a
uuotation from an automobile trade, re-
view. showing that Iowa was last year
the motor salesman's paradise and IL
comes to a climax with the assertion
that. "the census man says that he
Iowa people have nearly eight billions
of wealth and the little district here
has little more than a billion: the Iowa
man paid 8 cents on a $l,OOO ana
the district man paid 80 cents on each
81. 900 Of wealth a. an Individual IN
come tax"
1.-THE figures show" says the paper,
.sthat the people of Iowa last year
spent $40, OOO, 900 for new automobiles
and $40, 900, 900 for gasoline and re-
pairs. The lowest estimate placed on
the value of the cars sold in 1914 was
$500. 900 900 for the country and 3d.
600 cars were sold in Iowa. So the
farmers and townspeople In IoWa held
The record. blowing in $50, 600, 900 for
bubble wagons and to keep them going,
when other people in other parts Oh the
country were complaining OF nara
times. New York could hardly peat
the record Of Iowa for spending money
on 10y riding, and the Iowa people are
supposed to take life as seriously as 40
their senators in their efforts to reform
the District of Columbia"
This last shot is aimed at the Ken
Won Red Light act, applied to the DIS
trict of Columbia two years ago. The
paper, resumes:.
.But Iowa has by thrift and good
crop season grown rich. n Iowa
people have a greater per capita
wealth than the people in the otner
states. This per capita wealth
In I,wa is $3.50 for every man,
woman and child In the state. They
ran afford to spend money on autos,
and no one in the east will begrudge
them their bubble wogans or try to
limit their speed across the prairies.
And having acquired the habit OF
snendfng their incomes on luxur1es,
these richest people in the country
may. in time, indulge in the luxury OF
having an income tax just like the
neople in the east, who do not boast OF
.their riches but have formed a habit
of paying their taxes.
.These rich people in Iowa have, ap.
parently, not thought Of this way OF
proving their claims, but Senator cum
Minis ought to, remind them that no
really rich people a long make the
rest Of the country believe them unless
they pay an income tax. 1t Is the one
sure badge Of aristocracy, and 1t is IN
fortunate that there are SO few Iowa
people In the class.
"Just think OF It! Those two and a
quarter millions of Iowa people who
spent $B0,O00,000 for JOY riding last
wear Maid less of an individual income
Tax than did the third of a million poor
people living here In the District OF
Columbia. It appears incredible, but
the commissioner Of internal revenue
gtves the figures, crediting to the great
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
Fares From
5 to 16 Miles
II to rs Miles
~ to 36 Miles
81 to 81 Miles
50 to IS Miles
66 to 100 Miles
II to 26 Miles

Cigar storea
Norfolk News Co.
Saratoga
The Palace
Clothing
Dysart & Pearson
The Iowa Clothiers
Cresswell & frost
j. B. SaS Co.
Martin Clothing Co.
Hub Clothiers
Cramblit & Polling
Truefit Clothing & Shoe Co.
Doty Clothing & Shoe Co.
CIoaks, Suits, and All Ladies'
Ready-to-Wear Goods
Nelson Cloak Co.
J. E. Scase
w. j. Donelan & Co.
T. Sullivan, Inc. ,
James Swirles
Iowa Cloak & Millinery Co.
The Partisan
Emporium Fashion Shop.
Confectionery
Dan r. Shea
The Puritan
Celania Bros.
Carriages, Automobile Repairing
and General Blacksmithing
]. A. Belmont
Department Stores
Donelan, w. J. & Co. - Dry
Goods, Millinery and Hair
Goods, Cosmetics, Notions,
Carpets, Shoes, Mems Fur
nishings, etc.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
keeping Out Of the Great War
The First Lesson Ends There; the Second Has Only
Begun
BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
Professor of Government in Harvard University
Begun

trenches. Old methods, old strategy,
old military training are worn out.
Hence Americans want to keep out Of
war.
Modern wars are costly beyond any
computations. Parliaments vote sup
plies by the thousand million dollars
and hardly know for what the money
is to be spent. Our civil war cost
about $4,000, 900, 900 in money for both
sides during four years. Great Britain
is spending as much as that in eleven
months. The great national loans
add nothing to the available property
of any kind. They are simply a means
of promising that, for generations to
come, nineteen-twentieths of the COM
munity will labor and sweat to pay in
terest to the other twentieth. If the
wal lasts two years, probably most OF
the great banks and financial institu-
lions Of Europe will be ruined. Hence
Americans want to keep out of war.
War arouses the most savage pas.
sions of which human nature is cap
able. Things have been done deliber-
ately by Christian soldiers acting under
the orders of Christian officers in var
ious parts of Europe which the Roman
%legionary would have thought beneath
a soldiers contempt. Enemies in
arms, prisoners, non-combatants, nell
trails, women, children and babies, have
been treated as Wallenstein's army
treated northern Germany in the Thir-
ty Years war. Neutral nations, against
their will, are drawn into painful con-
troversies. To be neutral is not
enough - they must be over-neutral;
they are expected to change their laws
and the practices of international law
so as to help one Or the other of the
belligerents. Great Britain and Ger
many both claim the right to take our
property under the claw of necessity"
Thirty years ago a cartoonist pictured
two contestants fighting through the
ages, first with naked fists; then one
with a club; the other retorts with a
sword; his enemy surpasses him with
a pistol. yields to a gun; arms himself
with a cannon; is defeated by a ma
chine gun; and SO on, until the world
is depopulated and the devil flies
above, supreme. Hence Americans
want to keep out Of war.
Yet above all other lessons, that
which Americans ought most to take
to heart is that peaceful, friendly,
trail nations cannot always choose
what they would have. If a Germany,
or a Russia, or a Japan set the world
in flames, woe to us If we have no fire
engines ready. Hence Americans who
want to keep out of var must take such
precautions that war may keep out OF
them.
Editorial Seryice.)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

5

Pat and Mike having been to con
fession, had to do penance by walking
several times up and down a steep hill
with their shoes filled with peas. After
they had done so several times. Pat
said to Mike:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

mike, how is it We can walk so aisy
an niver a bit do We complain OF yer
feet being sore?"
"Begorra," answered Mike, IAN
didn't We boil yer peas before putin
them in yer shoes? That's what / did"
"The professional f1re-fghter," says
the chief Of a fire department in New
England, lis too frequently face to face
with danger to regard fires in all
aesthetic light, but the feelings of an
amateur with a passion for running
with the machine occasionally shows
an epicurean flavor.
while running to a fire in a large
town in Rhode Island, one man over
took another, who was going in the
same direction.
81 hope gasped the last mentioned,
out of breath, II hope it amt the stove
lining works. I've seen that twice al
ready"
The rehearsal had gone not at all
to please the stage director, who, at
it's close, severely and unjustly ,riti-
cized the leading a In conclusion
he said: Say, do you think I have
been a stage director for fifteen years
for nothing?" 81 can not a. as to
that" answered the actor suavely, "but
If you haven't you have cheated the
management"
The hero-worshipping young girl was
fluttering about the soldier just return
ed from the war. They tell me-" she
said, that in times of danger you were
as cool as an iceberg"
81 should say / was" said the young
soldier. Why, l was sc cool / actually
shivered.'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

RULES
When you purchase your railroad ticket to Of
tumwa, GET A RECEIPT FROM THE AGENT or
BUY A ROUND TRIP TICKET mo fare. paid with.
out the railroad RECEIPT OR TIckET) and presen,
1t at the first store where you make a purchase. no
matter If the purchase be but 25 cents, and you will
be given a coupon with the amount of your purchase
written upon the back. Keep this coupon pinned to
your receipt for railroad fare and present both to every
merchant from whom you purchase. The last NOR
chant who thus registers a purchase upon this coupon
will take up your receipt and refund your railroad fare
in cash. -.-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

The construction of a modern ware
house in which to receive goods in
transit at the Muscatine levee terminal
is being considered by the Muscatine
leyee commission. Muscatine river
traffic advocates have reached the de.
cision that the building Of adequate
terminals and warehouses is the best
way to encourage use of the stream for
purposes of hauling freight.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

Furniture - Carpets
". H. Cooper & Sons
Hall Ekfelt Furniture Co.
Martin Furniture Co.
Home Furniture Co.
Hardware, Timers, Plumbers,
Sporting Goods and Hunting
Supplies
B. A. Hand & Co.
Harper & McIntire Co.
Randall & Son
Shea-Spilman Hardware Co
McCarroll Bros.
Wilson Bros.
Harness
W. H. Boston
Implements
Jas. H. Shepherd, Agricultural
implements, Wagons and
Pumps.
c. E. Waters, Farm Implements
and Carriages.
JeweIry
Neasham, j. w.
Arnold Jewelry & Music Co.
N. w. Cowles
Lumber, Cement and Builders
Material
Hutchinson Lumber Co.
O~denwalder, A., & Co.
Tisdale Lumber Co.
Wormhoudt Lumber Co.
Fletcher Lumber Co.
launderers, Dyers, Cleaners
and Hatters
The New Wardrobe
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
Globe Tea co.

GIOU6 IC0 W.
b Grocery Co.
Frasier's Grocery Co.
East End Supply Co..
Otto Bremhorst
M. F. Chisman
D. ]. Griffith
S. J.. Seistrand
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

rich state of Iowa s264,315 and to the
little District of Columbia, which has
no senators or representatives, the
sum of $378,673. At this rate the
people of Iowa paid about - cents per
capita and the poor people in the dis
trict paid $1.14 per capita as an indi-
vidual income tax"
There is much more of the same in
this attack on the honesty of Iowans,
but the quotations above indicate it's
nonsense. The Washington editor ap-
pears unable to realize that because
Iowa's wealth is widely distributed,
there are few millionaires and very
little poverty. Iowa has, therefore
comparatively few persons whose cash
incomes are above the $4,000 mark,
where the payment of the income tax
begins. Her people have no desire for
the ''badge Of aristocracy" mentioned
in the Washington editorial. They are
interested in other things. The Dis
trict Of Columbia, peopled by million
aires, servants and government Off
Gals and clerks, Is paying a consider
able personal income tax because there
is here the spectacle of great wealth
side by side with dire poverty. Wash
ington has no comfortable middle
class such as makes up the bulk OF
Iowa's population.
Typical of the narrow viewpoint OF
a certain class of eastern editors is the
suggestion that Iowans want to make
the rest of the country believe them
rich This idea of putting up a
fronto fOurishes among some Of the
salaried people of that part Of the ma
ton, and it's absence from the farming
country is one Of the advantages OF
western thought over some Of the cod
fish aristocracy of the east.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

DR.. Dumba was not recalled because
of the request to that end made by
the United States. Not a bit of 1t. He
is going home for his health and if he
does not come back we will know 1t
is because his health has not improved
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

W.. I. Peck
Standard Grocery
j. M. Shindley
Schwarzenbach & Co.
Boston Market
B. A. Warren
r. Hipsley & Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

The General Motors Co. of New York
denies having received enormous war
orders that have made possible the de-
claring Of a great dividend to stock
holders. The president Of the COM
PAW states that the corporation Is
making it's profits by building up a per.
manent home market business and is
not enjoying temporary prosperity by
reason of catering to war orders.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
GrOCerS and Butchers

J. S. Swenson
Henry Throne
G.. D. Head & Co.
Kent & Musse
J.. F. Dings
J. L. Graham
Ben GrotZ
Mrs. E. H. Lewis
Mitchell & Seaburg
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21
Millinery Stores

Millinery Stores
Mrs. Leah Sickel
Emporium Fashion Shok
W. J. Donelan & Co.
]. e. Case
Iowa Cloak & Millinery co.
Music and Musical Instruments
Arnold Jewelry & Music Co.
G. B. Baker
Steller-W Wilson Piano co.
Printers 49, Stationers
Commercial Printing Co.
Ottumwa Stamp Works
Queensware
Ottumwa Queensware Co.
Putnam & Bridgeman
Restaurants
McElroy's Restaurant and Hotel
Wapello Restaurant
Iowa Cafe
Shoes
Bierce Shoe Store
Stevens Shoe Store
Hagberg & Peterson
Truefit Clothing & Shoe Co.
Doty Clothing & Shoe Co.
W. ]. Donelan & Co.
Breeding & Co.
TaiIors
Elliott Bros.
Teas and coffeos
Grand Union Tea Co.
Benner Tea Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

Sunrise Grocery
Quality Grocery
j. S. Wier
Reliable Grocery
Grimstead & Haste
James Schlotter
Keyhoe's Grocery
Cresswell & Ralston
Peterson Bros.
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Fares for One Person

One way with 5 7.50 purchase
Both ways with $500 purchase
One way with $1,000 purchase
Both ways with $4,000 purchase
One way with s12.50 purchase
Both ways with $25.O0 purchase
One way with $500 purchase
Both ways with $4,000 purchase
One way with $3.50 purchase
Both ways with $500 purchase
One way with $4,000 purchase
Both ways with $4,000 purchase
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

The following grocers of Ottumwa Iowa, do hereby agree to pa freight
mot Railroad Fare) upon all assorted orders for groceries to the amount
Of $500 Or over. purchased by customers living outside the limits of regu-
lar delivery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-21

(Copyright, 1916 by National Editorial service)
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-04

J. p. Morgan with a revolver with
leaden ball cartridges and did inn!t
g%rievous bodily harm upon the said j. y.
Morgan"
You know I did not mean to kill Mr..
Morgan protested Holt again. You
know better than that. Thai part ahou,
the killing ought to be taken out Of thit
paper
Holt" sail Justice Luys,cr "Ii ,
my duty to acquaint you with youi
rights. You can ask for immediate ~.
animation or you can waive Exam nation
and he held for the Grand Jury. Which
do YOU say"
Holt made no reply. lie stared s'up.
idly at the floor.
40 you plead guilty or not guilty."
askei the Justice.
still there was no response from ths
prisoner. Then Assistant District A.
torncy Weeks took a hand.
IL Think he said. that from what
this man has told me he desires to- plead
not guilty and to have his examination
postponed for n short time"
Holt nodd@e Gull agreement and Jus.
tice Luyster adjourned the hearing until
2 T.. NJ. on July Z.
AT Ji5 In the afternoon Holt was
taken from police headquarters ~ Glen
Cow t. the Nassau county Jail at
Mineola. He went in an automobile
with Constable Frank McCahill. Couaty
Detective Thineas Seaman and Assistant
County Detective Theodore Campbell
It took them until : o'clock to cover
the twelve miles to Mineola. Warden
Hults assigned Holt to Cell 2 In tde fire,
tier on the east side of the prison.
Holt was weak from his injury when
he arrived and he asked for sore food
To buoy him up. Some rice and bread
were given TO him.
No Grand Jury sits in Nassau counts
until September and unless Holt asss
for bail and manages to obtain the very
large bail that would be demanded. no
will have to stay in a cell IN Minenia.
II was learned from Washington last
night that Hollis arrest for the a,-
tempted murder of Mr.. Morgan vii
prevent the Federal authorities from r..
moving him to Washington to De- tried
for his attempt TO wreck the Capitol
The New York authorities have the
right OF way in prosecuting Holt, and
the prosecution for the Washington
crime must he held In allegiance.
Every person who talked TO Holt yes.
tcrday. including Justice Luyster and
Assistant District Attorney Weeks. was
strongly OF the impression that he Is
what is ordinarily termed a sane man.
At no time after the shooting dld he
act wildly or display such lack o.
restraint as might indicate u%nsouNi-
ness OF mind.