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TRADES |iUgSyicOUNCILS.
Tri-Weekly Courier,
BY THE COURIER PRINTING CO.
Founded-August 8, 1848.
Member of the Lee Newspaper
Syndicate.
!*. W. LEE President
JAS. P. POWELL Publisher
J. K. DOUGHERTY. .Managing Editor
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Address the Courier Printing Com
pany, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Entered as second class matter
October 17, 1903, at the postoffice, Ot
tumwa, Iowa, under the Act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
HEARST DOWN AND OUT.
The Chicago Tribune believes that
4he defeat of Mayor Dunne by Mr
Susse for the mayoralay will be used
!:i io point the moral that the American
'"people will not tolerate a campaign
that is not carried on wtih decency
and on a high plane of public policy.
It is generally conceded in Chicago
that Dunne owes his defeat to Hearst.
fhe returns show that it was "in the
democratic wards that Busse won his
(xVictory 'won because the democratic
.. leaders understood the question at is
sue was not whether Dunne or $usse
should be mayor, but whether the con
trol of the democratic party in Chica
£p and In Illinois should be turned
[.^oVer to Hearst. Commenting on this
the Tribune says:
I) Chicago has successfully repelled
Dr. Shallenberger
jThe Regular and Reliable Chicago
'.Specialist, who has visited Ottumwa
.since 1903, will be at
Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
m, Thursday, April 25*
(one day only) and return every 28
days.
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n* Fairfield, Leggett House, Tuesday,
ft April 23.
.('Albla, Monroe Hotel, Wednesday,
£pril 24.
iy. Sigourney, Merchants' Hotel, Friday
April 26.
,/j' Office Hours 8 a. fa. to 6 p. nu
Cures, permanently the" cases he un
dertakes aftd sends the Incurable home
without taking a fee from them. This
Is why he continues his visits year
after year, while other doctors have
made a few visits and stopped. Dr.
Shallenberger Is an eminently success
ful 'specialist in all chronic diseases
proven by the many cures effected in
chronic cases which have baffled the
skill'*of all other physicians. His hos
pital Experience and extensive prac
tice have made him so proficient that
he can name and locate a disease in a
few minutes.
Treats all cases of Catarrh. Nose
Throat and Lung diseases. Eye and
Ea,r, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys.
Gravel, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu
ralgia, Nervous and Heart Diseases
Blood and Skin diseases, Epilepsy
Bright's Disease and Consumption in
early stage, diseases of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To
bacco habit. Stammering cured and
sure methods to prevent Its recurrence
given. A never falling remedy for Big
Neck.
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PILES. FISTULAE and RUPTURE
guaranteed cured without detention
from business. Special attention given
to all Surgical cases and all diseases
of the Kye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Are you nervous and despondent
weak and debilitated tired mornings
no ambition—lifeless memory poor
easily fatigued excitable and Irritable
eyes sunken red and blurred pimples
on face ', dreams restless, haggard
looking, weak back deposit in urine
and drains at stool distrustful want
of confidence, lack of energy and
strength*!,*
DISEASE^ OF MEN AND PRIVATE
DISEASE8 A SPECIALTY.
Blood Poison, Spermatorrhea, Vari
cocele, Hydrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness, Dizziness, Defective Memory
etc., which ruins mind and body, posi
tively cured.
WONDERFUL CURES
Perfected In old cases which have
been neglected or unsklllfully treated
No experiments or failures. He un
dertakes 'no incurable cases, but cures
thousand? given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential.
•&£&£.•&&&
Dr. W. E. Shallenberger,
*, 145 Oakwooc! Blvd., Chicago.
Reference Drexal State Bank.
the invasion of the Hooligans, the Yel
low Kids,' and the rest of the motley
array that came to bury Chicago un
der their volleys of filth. There
never has been such a campaign be
fore. There never will be such a
campaign again. No candidate will
ever be so foolish as to surrender his
platform, his program, and his honor
into the keeping of William Randolph
Hearst.
"When Mayor Dunne abandoned his
traction policy at (he dictation of the
Yellow Kid he made a fatal blunder.
When he abandoned his plan of a de
cent, dignified campaign of principles
for a campaign of personalities he
made a foolish and disgraceful blun
der. It would have been bad enough
to be beaten, but success itself could
not have washed away the defilement
that»came with the use of the am
munition so copiously supplied from
its native source. To go down with
colors flying is the next best thing
to victory, but to have ones disappear
ance from the scene of action veiled
In an explosion of mud is not heroic.
Hearst is on the decline. His fail
ure to land the New York mayoralty
seat in his fight with McClellan and
his defeat by Hughes for the guber
natorial chair, to say nothing of the
fiasco he pulled off in attempting to
secure the democratic presidential
nomination in 1904, gave him a mem
bership in the down and out club. The
Chicago defeat is the last straw. The
Hearst brand of anarchy is too much
'for democracy and the lesson adminis
tered at the polls in Chicago yester
day should be sufficient without fur
ther demonstrations to convince one
even so self-assertive as Mr. Hearst.
CONCERNING COURTSHIP.
Father Nugent of- Des Moines has
many friends and many* supporters in
Ottumwa. He has spoken here offen
and he is recognized as one of the
state's leading orators. But even his
warmest supporters will not endorse
the views he expressed in a sermon
Easter Sunday at his church in Des
Moines. He said:
"In Havana the young man must
talk to his sweetheart through barred
windows until they are engaged and
even then he cannot take her out un
less the whole family accompanies
them. If courting were done through
barred windows in this country our
morals would be much better than
they are."
There is so little likelihood that in
this era of civilization such a plan
would even be given thought that com
ment is hardly necessary. It would not
tend to inspire confidential relations
between a daughter and her parents
if the young man who came to see her
would find he was attending a family
conference. Neither would it give a
bashful young man an opportunity to
break through the" ice "of conventional
ity. It would probably result in rais
ing a race of bachelors ond spinsters,
so distasteful to President Roosevelt
and the mayor of Fort Dodge. There
is as much honesty and virtue in this
country .where papa and mama have
been taught to discreetly withdraw
when the beau arrives as there Is in
Havana or any other city still tied
down to the customs of the dark ages.
The public dance hall and the wine
room has had far mote to do with this
spread of vice than the parlor daven
port behind the closed blind.
S.
THE CHORUS GIRL AGAIN.
It was inevitable that, following the
lead of the mayor of Fort Dodge, some
member of the Iowa legislature should
make a bid for fame by introducing a
freak bill. It came yesterday when a
bill was introduced in the house which
prohibited chorus girls and other ac
tors from appearing on the stage un
less dressed in a skirt that reaches at
least twelve inches below the knees.
It was not an original idea, as some
member of the Wisconsin legislature
hailing from the high grass introduced
a similar bill. But the Iowa legisla
tor went one better in stipulating that
the skirt must be "twelve inches be
low the knees." Friends of chorus
girls' whp hold their jobs through their
plumpness ratner than their height
talk of lobbying against the bill on
the ground that the twelve inch be
low the knees rule will require some
of the short girls to carry a train,
which would interfere with the work
ings of the chorus. And then—but
what's the use. Why not bring the
blunt ax out of the woodhduse and
land on the author of the bill to save
further discussion.
2-CENT FARE LAW.
A proof of the legislative activity
along the line of railway legislation
is shown in the following record com
piled by the New York Sun:
Pennsylvania—2-cent bill passed by
the house and is pending in the sen
ate.
Ohio—2-cent law enacted last year.
West Virginia—2-cent bill passed.
North Carolina—2%-cent bill passed.
Alabama—2%-cent bill passed.
Arkansas—2-cent bill passed.
Texas—2-cent bill pending.
Kansas—2-cent bill, passed.
Nebraska—2-cent law enacted.
N.irih Dakota—2%-cent bill passed.
Roulh Dakota—Railroad commission
authorized to order 2%-cent rate.
Indiana—2-cent bill passed.
Illinois—2-cent bill passed the house.
Missouri—2-cent bill passed.
Iowa—2-cent bill passed applying to
roads earning $4,000 a year gross per
mile.
Minneasota—2-cent bill pending.
Wisconsin—Rate of 2%-cents fixed
by railroad commission.
Some of. the 2-cent fare bills were
enacted after investigation by state
railroad commission as to the earning
capacity of the roads and their ability
to withstand a reduction of rates. Oth
ers were enacted without investigation
by legislatures acting upon the theory
that the rates were too high and that
the railroads were financially able to
stand a decrease in revenue better
than the people were to produce the
revenue.
PROTECTION FOR PASSENGERS.
The Delaware & Hudson railroad is
pointing with pride to its record of but
one accident in twelve years which
cost the life of a passenger. In that
accident, which was due to an engineer
disregarding a signal, three lives were
lost. And in the period covered tlv3
road carried 75,000,000 passengers. In
commenting on this enviable record
the Chicago Tribune eayit
If this result,can be reached on one
road, why not on all? It cannot be be
cause the Delaware & Hudson employs
all the first class railroad men in the
country. It has ho special facilities1
for getltng a higher type of employe
than ether roads get. It is not because
traffic is light, because some of the
roads with worse records are roads
which carry few passengers, ana some
portions of the Delaware & Hudson
are as busy as any lines in the United
States. It is because the best mechan
ical devices are used, and the human
element is made reliable by discipline.
It is a tradition of the road. Nelson's
first draft of his famous signal at Tra
falgar was "England requires every
man to do his duty," but before it was
displayed he changed it to "England
expects every man to do his duty." Oa
this r&ilroad fidelity to duty was first
required and is now expected.
The Pennsylvania road has begun
experiments to show what percentage
of its engineers would obey signals to
stop. It was shown that 97 per cent
stopped, but 3 per cent ran by the sig
nal without stopping. These men were
reprimanded or discharged, and the in
vestigations will be quietly continual
to detect further negligence. Such a
plan might be worked with success on
any of the roads now showing a large
death rate.
WHY THE LINE CHANGED.
The manager of the construction de
partment of the Pleasant Valley elec
tric road was greatly disturbed when
Judkina, the foreman, came in and
said that he could not'go on with the
work on account of two women and a
baby.
"Well," said the manager, according
to the Chicago Tribune, "that is all
nonsense. We have the right of way
and the road is going through where
it was surveyed. I'll go out and see
to it myself."
The foreman went out with a smile
on his face /and the young manager
followed him to where the construc
tion of the road had come to a full
stop.
In front of a dilapidated structure
was seated a fjtil rocking a, baby. Back
of the girl, sitting on a low step, was
a weary looking woman.
The manager approached and said:
"Madam, are you aware that you are
obstructing the progress.of our work?*
"I reckon I am.. That's what Susan
is there for that's what I and the
kids are here for. We propose to
shunt your road off to one side."
"But, madam, the line has been
surveyed. You will havte to move. Your
place has been condemned. You will
be paid for it. The law—
"Don't know any law," she inter
rupted, "nor don't want to. I know
that your road, even if it was backed
by the president, can't run through
our kitchen and our yard where Jimmle
is buried."
The manager passed around the
shanty. Under a stunted apfole tree
was a small marble slab and a few
flowers' growing above it. He drew
near and read the words carved upon
the stone:
James Slocutn—-4gg4 17.
-He saved four hu&ftipaTtveaT®''*
Pleasant Valley in 1900.
Jimmle was drowned.
There was a soft tone in the man
ager's voice when he reappeared at
the front and said to the woman:
"Your son was drowned, it seems.1
"Yes, Jimmie was drowned*. He rode
Black Bess down the valley to warn
the folks when the big ^pm busted up
in the hills. Every one was saved,
but while he was crossing the bridge
it went down with him and' Bla'ck
Bess."
"We ain't ever been able to buy a
stone for Bess. The apple tree that's
over her seems a. likely thing instead
of a stone.."
"Madam, you will not have to move.
Where is your husband?"
"Upstairs readin' the .gospel so's
not to let his temper git the best of
him. He's got -his- shotgun, an'—"
"Well, good morning," and the man
ager and his men moved on.
The matter was laid before the di
rectors and the Pleasant Valley elec
tric road takes a turn to the left and
rounds a small structure with a mar
ble slab in the back yard under a
stunted apple tree.
ROOSEVELT STANDING PAT.
Washington correspondence of the
New York Evening Post.—If you write
a letter to the president saying you
have looked over the situation in your
neighborhood and are convinced that
he will have to accept another nom
ination for the presidency, you will
in due course of time get this reply:
White House,
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the
instant has been received and the
President thanks you tor writing.
While he appreciates your kindly sen
timent, he has nothing to add to Mb
statement islhed on the night of his
election, 1904. Very truly yours,
William Loeb, Jr.
Secretary to the President.
Every few days some newspaper
prints this letter with the "startling"
announcement that it has just been
received by a prominent citizen who
wrote to the President, stating that
everything thereabouts "looked like
Roosevelt for 1908." As a matter of
fact hundreds of letters come to the
White House every week from friends
of the President vrho fla ythey hope
he will reconsider Ms determination
not to stand'for another nomination.
All these letters are turned over to a
clerk, who has before him the form of
answer used above, and identical re
plies are sent out to the wellwishers.
The form has been in use for months
and the country has been literary
flooded with the stereotyped answer.
The form of answer was originally
prepared by the President and he Con
tinues to "stand pat." Persons who
know the President best firmly believe
he intends to continue to stand by the
declaration of this letter. Recently
an effort has been made to make it
appear that he is not sincere—that ip
reality he is hoping and expecting
that a renomination will be forced on
him—but every well informed person
here at the capital scouts the idea
that the President did not mau what
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There wag a man, it was said one
time,
Who went astray in his youthful
prime,
Can the brain keep cool and the heart
keep quiet
When the blood is a river thit's run
ning riot?
And boys will be boys, the old folks
say,
And the man's the better who's had his
if-it day.
The sinner reformed and the preacher
to
Of the prodigal son who came back to
the fold.
And the Christian people threw open
the door
With a warmer welcome than ever be
fore,
Wealth and honor were his to com
mand,
And a' spotless woman gave him her
hand.
And the world strewed their pathway
with flowers abloom,
Heaven
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he said in 1904, or that he does not
intend to continue to stand by that de
claration.
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Crying, "God bless lady, and God bless
There was a maiden went astray,
In the golden dawn of her life's young
day
She had more passion and heart than
head
And she followed blindly where fond
love led
And love unchecked is a dangerous
guide
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To wander at will by a fair girl's side.
The woman repented and turned from
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But no door opened to let her in
The preacher prayed that she might
be forgiven,
But told her to look for mercy in
For this is the law of the earth we
.know,
That the woman is scorned, while the
men may go,
A brave man wedded her, after all,
But the world said, frowning, "We
shall not call."
£$ —New Orleans Times-Democrat
A TALE OF TWO LOVING CITIES.
Arthur Ruhl in the Outing Maga
zine.—In Tacoma it is difficult to get
anyone to admit that Seattle has a
harbor at all. During the few hours
we spent there as banquetees I hap
pened casually to mention the matter
of harbor. The Tacoma men smiled
—sadly, tolerantly, as he might at a
foolish child.
"My dear sir," he said gently, "I
presume you are aware that a ship is
about as safe In the harbor of Seat
tle as she would be in Hell Gate. Do
you ever read the papers?" He still
regarded me v, ith that same sad smile.
"Of course not everything gets into
the papers. There is hardly a day-1
hardly a day, sir, that some ship
doesn't sink in Seattle,harbor wkile
We are going to give a Grand Opening on Friday and Saturday, April
12th and 13th This Opening will be different from the reg'ilar sale
..days and we have conclnded to give away, a Fine Rubber Tired Driv-,
TWO WOMEN
I know two women and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winter's
waste,
Stainless even in act and thought
(As a mail born dumb in speech errs
not),
But Bhe had malice toward her kind—
A cruel tongue and a jealous mind.
Void of pity and full of greed,
She judges the world by her narrow
creed,
A brewer of quarrels, a breeder of
hate—
Yet she holds the key to "Society's"
gate.
The other woman, with a heart of
flame,
Went mad for a love that marred her
name,
And out of the grave of her murdered
faith
She rose like a soul that had passed
through death.
Her aim is noble, her pity so broad
It cover the world like the mercy of
God,
A healer of discord, a soother of woes,
Peace follows her footsteps wherever
she goes,
The worthier of the two, no doubt
And yet "Society*' locks her out.
,x —Ella Wheeler Wllcox-
itig Wagbn, on Friday or*Saturday of the above dates. 11®
STRANGE, I8N'T IT?)
Representative C. W. Millers Des
Moines letter to the Waverly Demo
crat.—It's really odd when you come
to think of it, what inconsistencies the
whirligig of time will unravel. .Eight
or ten year-, ego we adopted the Aus
tralian ballot law to preserve the sec
recy of the ballot, but now we have
adopted a primary law that compels
every voter to disclose his poll tics, and
make a public concession every time
he desires to.change it. More recently
we, dispensed with annual elections so
as not .to have so much politics, and
now we. have deliberately contracted
for four times as much rolitics as we
have put ask.-. Politics, henceforth,
is going to be almost a continuous per
formance. I
CAPT. HULL THE FIGHTERr
Coon Rapids Enterprise.—Capt. Hull
has always been in the storm center
of congressional politics. Hardly does
one successful contest end until an
other flght begins against him. Al
ready seven men in the Seventh are
announced as probable candidates for
Hull's shoes. Looks as though he
would get so dreadfully tired of fight
ing that he would just drop out of his
own accord. But the captain is a
fighter and a most successful one. He
will likely win out again.
stocky
Implements.
Remember ,we show nothing but Standard
she's tied up to the dock. Harbor!
Harbor!" He threw up his hands.
/'My God!" Then in a few swift, pas
sionate phrases he blocked out the
superlativeness of the1 harbor of Ta
coma, and as we parted he grabbed
the lapels of my coat and whispered
hoarsely: "And you can mail a letter
in Tacoma to—any—place—in—the—
world—and you will get an answer to
it one—whole—day quicker than you
would if you sent it from Seattle!."
and do not confine ourselves to any one particular line,
a
suitable choice. J. »,
Remember we are an old established housey we are hdre io stayy
and everything we sell carries a strict guarantee.
OTTUMWA BUGGY COMPANY,
OPEN EVENINGS ON ABOVE DATES.
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we will explain hoWkiffl&
Many tnord will toe cured if
they do not delay too long.
Nearly all the people who suffer from Chronic Diseases neglect
treatment until they are compelled to do something then they expect
to bo cured in,a very short time. Why delay until your disease is so
Chronic. I.-h ,'r
H. M. Chidester.
Albia, la., April 1, 1906.
I desire to say that Dr. Bonham
of Ottumwa cured me of a rupture
of long standing. I was cured some
eight years ago and would not
take any amount of money and be
as I was before. I can recommend
his treatment to all sufferers.
'I .''W. B. Campbell.
Vtomach diseases are very com
mon diseases. We are curing many
by the use of Electricity and Vibra
tion, which stimulates the circula
tion of the parts and brings about
normal action.
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Many Have Been Cored,
I have restored many to health,
many who say to me: "Doctor, I am
glad you advertised, for if you had not
used the medium of 'the newspaper I
would not have known you had the
ability to cure my disease."
I do an office business, medical and
surgical practice. I have been located
in Ottumwa' for flfteen years. I treat
Chronic Diseases, Rupture, Piles, Diseases of Women, Private Blood
and Skin Diseases, Catarrh of the Nose, Throat and
Bowels, Liver and Kidney diseases.Rheumatism and Blood Diseases,
treated by Electro-Thermal Baths.
A FEW TESTIMONIALS.
The reason I run testimonials is because it is information for the
people who want to know some of the people whom we have cured.
Albia, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1905.
I live six miles east of Albia and
was afflicted with rupture for 40
years. I had it strangulated sev
eral times so I could not get it
back. The doctors wanted to oper
ate on me and' said there was no
other way to be cured, but I would
not be operated on, and finally the
rupture went back. I suffered se
vere pain from the rupture and did
not get any relief until I went to
Dr. Bonham, who said he could
cure me. I was treated over a year
ago and was soon cured, and have
not worn a truss for some time and
feel very well, and have no trouble
whatever.
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Stomach,
Varicocele (False Rupture) curia
within ten days. I have cured over
100 cases and cure every case I
have undertaken. Cures tor Varico
cele and Hydrocele made in ten
days' time.
All Nervous Diseases, Private
and Sexual troubles resulting in
drain upon the system caused from
excesses are promptly cured when
advice is followed.
Cases cured twelve years' ago are
good testimonials.
Mr. Nevil Glue, Ottumwa, la.,
says: "I was cured of Rupture
twelve years ago and am sound and
well today."
Mr. James Wall, Ottumwa, la.,
says: "I was cured when I was
sixty years of age and I am now
seventy-two. The cure of nay rup
ture was a great blessing to me."
Mrs. E. Sigel of Main street,
says: "Dr. Bonham cured two of
our little boys of three ruptures
about four years ago and we are
mighty thankful they are cured."
Mr. Jacob Donavor of West
Polntj Iowa, says: "1 was cured of
a bad case of Piles one week to
my surprise and satisfaction. Dr.
Bonham also cured my neighbor,
John Leayeling of a bad case of
Piles. He is as well pleased as I
am." „'_r
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If out of city write m'e your symptoms and I will ten you what" I think,
of ^ro^ir case. Enclose stamp for reply.
DfTJ. C. Bo„ham
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OTTUMWA. IQWA.
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