Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — THE OTIS GIRLS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE OTIS GIRLS.

It isn’t surprising that Sir Thomas Lipton finds difficulty in selling the Shamrock. Who wants a boat with a twisted bowsprit—that*is to say, with a disjoin'ed nose?

Democrats say that the south is all torn up over the Hooker Washington dinner and also that it has been made solid by that feast. There seems to be some contradiction here.

Senator Jones of Nevada an nounces that silver is dead and that he is back in the Republican party to stay. It is now in 'order for Senator Teller to issue an address to himself as “The silver party of the United States.

Why not choose a name for your farm and paint it up where passersby can see it. If you are selling dairy products or truck, you will find a name valuable as a sort of trade mark and you will be inclined to live up to it by continually trying to impove the quality of tlie articles you sell.

One Ormsby, of Chicago, learned recently that his wife had given birth to quadruplets, making an aggregate of 14 children in 7 years, and in despair, fled from his home. Now, however, his wife has closed a contract with a dime museum to exhibit the four at $250 a week. Ormsby fled too soon.

What a contrast the Czolgosz execution'presents to that of Guiteau. The maudlin sentimentality that glorified the former was summarily squelched by Warden Meade in the case of the latter. It is a pity that this squelching process could not have gone further and suppressed all reports of the assassin’s death.

It is a pity that the supreme court does not hand down its Philippine decision at once, and in it clear up some of the manifold perplexities aroused at its Porto Rican decision of last May. The fact that a majority of the court does not support the former de cision taken as a whole, leaves the whole Philippine situation in much perplexity.

If the Schley court has done nothing elfte, it lias furnished the material from which a true history of the Santiago naval campaign can he written. All the essential facts have now been set forth beyond shadow of dispute. There are conflicts in the testimony, of course, just as there are conflicts in the four gospels, but they are not on material points and the weight of evidence is sufficiently great in all cases to decide them. One transcending fact has been brought out; viz; that Sampson’s plan of battle was utterlydisregarded and the battle won by Schley’s loop.

o o Our Philippine Commander lias Three Pretty Daughters. O ————— 1 O

While General Elwell S. Otis is away off in the Philippine s his family, consisting of his wife and three

'charming daughters, make their home in the ohl Otis homestead in Rochester. They have been there since General Otis wont to Manila, more than a year ago. —Heretofore they have always moved about with him from post to post, but lie declined to take them to the other side of the world, although they were anxious to go. Perhaps the handsomest of General Otis’ three daughters is Miss Mary Otis, who Is Just at present visiting

friends near St. Louis. She Is a tall 1 young woman of good figure and is about li) years old. Site has Jet black hair and dark brown eyes. Her complexion is a (lark olive, which speaks of much life in the open. Miss JLaura Otis is a yenr or two older, and “Bobbie,” as General Otis calls the third sister, is the youngest of the group. She Is the daughter of the general’s second wife and is 17 years old. All three of the young women are musical, and their home life is especially pleasant.

MISS MARY OTIS.