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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The sculptural decorations on the
Dewey triumphal arch, now being cree
ted in New York, will be truly works
of art. Some of Americas best. sculp-
tures-John Q. A. Ward, Charles Lopez
and George e. Bisselll, among others,
are engaged in preparing them. The
figures on the arch, many OF. them,
represent former American naval he
roes. such as Lieutenant Cushing, Adj
miral Porter and Commodore Decatur.
Groups OF allegorical figures represent
respectively the army and the navy.
The structure was designed by Charles
r. Lamb. and it is believed It will be
enthusiastically worthy of the man in
whose honor it is being built.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Deafne.s Cannot be Cur.a

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion Of the ear. There is only one
way e cure deafness, and that is by constitu.
tional remedies. Deafness is caused BY an ia.
famed liam condition Of the mucous lining Of the
Enstachian Tube. When this tnbe gets infiaiti-
hearing, and when y is entirely closed DEAFNESS
Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be DESTROYED for.
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused BY
catarrh, which Is nothing but an infiau1ed con-
dition OF the mucous surfaces. q 80 : = .s
will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrhl that cal,
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free. - -S-
Sold by Druggists, T5c. - 49, ~
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
MIR. Curtis Denial.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Mr.. Curtis
is out with a card denying that he said
the result in Muscatine county put
Cummins out of the race. 1t matters
very little whether he said SO or not SO
far as the fact Of Mr.. Cnmmins' being
out of the race is concerned. Itreally
doesn't need his testimony on that
point, and the only Importance OF his
card is to set him personally right by
placing his denial before the public. It
Is amusing to notice, however, that in
this card to the public Mr.. Curtis does
not express belief that Mr.. Cummins
willwin, but simply, IT am confident that
the contest will be only settled by the
legislature" Mr., Curtis seems sure of
only one thing, that it is the legisla-
ture which elects the senator. Very
few will take issue with him on that
point.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
The, O.l,er Alabama.

Iowa Capital: The trial trip Of the
battleship Alabama recalls that fact
that the first Alabama in the American
navy, built forty years ago, is still in
the service. The good ship is known
as the New Hampshire, her name hav-
ing been changed during the civil war,
and she is used as the practice ship OF
the New York naval reserve.
The new Alabama, if placed beside
the DID,, would show remarkable i'm
provement in war craft in forty years.
The new vessel is one of the swiftest
fighting machines the world has ever
seen, having shown speed of over
seventeen knots on her trial trip, and
as to defensive and destructive powers,
it may reasonably be supposed that she
could defeat and sink half dozen of
the type of the first Alabama without
trouble. Two years and nine months
were required to construct this great
war vessel and the cost was enormous.
But the nations Of the world have not
failed to observe that our navy is being
augmented, and this, with a recollec-
ton of Manila bay and Santiago, will
bring about more wholesome respect
for the American sea force.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
THE FRUIT IT BORE.

MaTSnalllOWn lines : RepuDncan;
Much has been said about the unfor-
tunate experiences of Waterloo's street
fair with the tough elements that were
attracted by its gayety, but little did
they think that the tree of folly thus
allowed to flourish would bear fruit so
soon. Here is story from the Water
loo Reporter that tells a tale terrible
to contemplate:
Amid the din, tumult and confusion,
the glare and gayety of the street fair,
the head of at least one :giddy girl has
been turned, her judgment and better
inclination cast aside, and she has
yielded to that singular fascination that
sometimes leads astray those who have
been credited with better sense.
"A few weeks ago a young lady came
to Waterloo to visit friends in this city.
She was the daughter of prominent
and respected business man Of Fowler,
Indiana, and her parents sent her forth
on her western trip with little thought
but that their daughter would return
to them benefited rather than other
wise by her visit with her Iowa friends.
TODAY an agony of grief overhangs the
Hoosier home, to which it is not ex-
pected the daughter will ever return,
or il she does return it will be with the
freshness of her innocence gone
and with her whole future life cloud
ed by memories of an irretrieyable fol-
ly.
Three days ago the young lady join
ed the hoochee-coochee company that
has been holding forth at 101 Bridge
street and when the company was ar
rested yesterday morning she was one
of the fair but foolish females who were
taken in charge by the police.
AS soon as she had joined the show
company her Waterloo friends tele;
graphed at once to her father, bat thus
far no word has been received from
him. 1t almost appears as If the par
ents had castoff or disowned their
weak and erring daughter and would
make no effort to reclaim her from
the downward course which she has SO
reckiessly entered, and in which, as
the book of Proverbs declared 5000
years ago, Her steps take hold on
hell"
II this is what street fair does for a
city there are hundreds of towns in
Iowa that are praying God to deliver
them from such calamity. But in
Ottumwa and many other towns prep
arations for similar carnivals are now
Under way, the. street fair is all the
rage and it becomes the urgent duty
Of every management to- protect its
city from the attacks of the horde of
moral lepers that have passed like a
scourge through Dubuque and Water
loo. It can be done and the fair not
robbed of any of its glory. The wives
and mothers OF each community should
see that it is done.
We do not believe that ottumwa
will be troubled with the rowdyism
and immortality that have attended
such events in other places. The man
ayers Of the Ottnmwa fair are gen
tleman and will see that such evils are
avoided. It is well for them to remem.
Der, however, that they cannot be too
careful about the kind of amusement
and the class of people they bring
here. The success of Ottumwa's fair
must not be marred by immortality.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
An Iowa Journalist.

Sioux City Journal: John Blanch-
ard, editor Of the Minneapolis Times,
whose death was recorded in the dis
patches on Wednesday morning, was
a former Iowan and received his train
ing in the newspaper business in this
state. His first journalistic experience
was with the Monticello Express, and
he was afterwards associated with his
brother, B. w. Blanchard, In the pub
LEGATION of the Dubuque Times. He was
vigorous and logical writer and was
Familiarity known to the members of
the Iowa pressganga as ''the Henry Wat
tersop of the west" There was much in
his work while in this field by which
he will be held in most kindly mem
DRY by Iowa newspaper men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

but without consulting their wishes
the Iowa boys have been held in the
field for five months, running eminent
risks to life and health, much of the
time on outpost duty and on the firing
line. There was no legal right to re-
tain them, yet they remained and obey
ed orders. That the volunteer sol
diers did not rebel, is to their credit.
They stood firm at their posts and
scarcely murmured. That so few of
them re-enlisted proves the hardships
they have undergone. And now that
the Fifty-frst is coming home, Iowa
will give that regiment such a receps
tion as no soldiers have ever received
in the history of this commonwealth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
The Registers Ire.

Muscatine Journals: The Des Moines
Register is insanely enraged because
Muscatine county saw fit to declare its
preference for United States senator.
1t heads its editorial on the subject,
"Theft in Muscatine County-Gear
Forces Broke Faith with, the Cummins
Men and the County was Stolen Satur-
day-First Real Cummins Defeat, and
it was Not Squarely Accomplished by
Gear Men," The Register cannot
name single Gear man who was gull
ty of larceny of any sort or who broke
faith in any manner. In fact the Gear
men were the ones who first demanded
an open field and fair fight, which
showed that their position was the far
thest removed from deception or du-
plicity, and their victory was "squarely
accomplished" the Register to the
contrary notwithstanding. That paper
is in poor business as the state organ
of the party. in thus attempting to
arouse ill-feeling and to make discord
and division in the party. We can as
sure 1t from the standpoint of one who
is on the ground that Cummins repub-
licans in Muscatine county realize
there was fair and square majority
against them and that they have no
sore spots on their anatomy and no re-
proachments or resentments for their
successful Gear compatriots. The
Cummins republicans of Muscatine
county will heartily join with the Gear
republicans in working for the cleo
ton of the entire ticket.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Then ana Now.

Des Moines News: A nation can ret
rograde immensely in hundred years.
IT is little over a hundred years-134
years, before the revolution, that
France was stirred from center to cir.
conference over the rehabilitation OF
Jean Caldis, the martyred Protestant.
Jean jacques Rousseau was appealing
to the conscience OF the nation in those
days and preparing the way for the
revolution. 1t was in 1865 that the
streets of Paris and other cities in.
France Were filed with people of every
grade of society rejoicing over a
measure of justice to an innocent
man. The Protestant in that day was
non gratia as is the Jew today. Yet
the grand danes Of France visited the
widow of Caldis and her children while
the sentence was pending and all
classes of society showed their sympa-
thy. =
1t is long cry--in the annals OF a
nations decadence- from 1858 to 1899.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

"We are once more and forever, ons
people. One in faith, one in purpose.
one in willingness to sacrifice for the
honor Of the country and the glory of
our flag. The blue and the gray march
under one flag, and we have but one
flag; the same our grandsires gave us
Hnd the same our fathers bore. And
that flag which you kept stainless and
made triumphant will be kept stain
less and made triumphant" President
Mckinley. to the Grand Army, Sep
TENDER s, 1899.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

What wonder that respectable DEM
ocrats hang their heads with shame at
the utterance of mem protesting to be
leaders In their party who say, as John
J. Lentz did at Cooper Union, New
York, the other day. "There is no man
to compare with Jefferson in this gem
eration except Altgeld. God in His
wonderful chemistry sees fit to raise
up once in generation man at to be
favored. He raised up Washington,
thirty years later He produced Jeffer-
son, in another generation, Jackson,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
AFRAID Of wheeler.

Iowa Capital: The democratic lead
ers are fearful that General Joe Wheel
er will not stand with them in their
opposition to the war in the Philip
pines. These leaders know that. Gen.
eral Wheeler will not distort and mis-
represent the situation in the interest
of any political party; they know that
when he has satisfied himself as to
what is best for the country to! do be
will speak out plainly regardless OF
politics. It is because Of this know
ledge that the democratic leaders ex-
pect that their pet issue will get.
knockout blow at the hands of General
Wheeler.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
W. J.. b . Idea.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Bryan's
latest utterances in regard to the Phil
ippines are to the effect that they
should be allowed to do as they please
and row it as much as they
want to. and that Uncle Sam
should serve as policeman without pay,
should buy his own uniform, provide
his own club, and put in all his time
preventing anybody from interfering,
no matter what the Filipinos may do
to them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
wornout issues.

Davenport Times: The democrats
are not saying very much about the
tariff nowadays and they are not in
clined to make the money question a
leading issue in this vicinity. The rele-
cation Of these hitherto leading tenets
OF the party faith is pretty good
indication that both have been proved
to be unpopular and radically wrong.
The republicans, on the other hand,
stand where they have always stood
on these great questions, thereby indi-
eating that experience has shown that
their policy has been for the best in
terests OF the nation. This is a leading
fact which should not be overlooked
when the fusion campaigners rend the
atmosphere with shouts against fan
cied evils which have no basis in fact.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

There is no denying the fact that the
trust conference is giving opportunity
for the airing of many private hob
bies and crochets. But this can lead
to no harm and may do great deal
OF good. II the delegates will only
make up their minds to work together
they may yet succeed In formulating
q plan Of campaign that will effectual-
~ cripple the trust octopus.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Grim Justice,

Muscatine Journal: There was a
sort OF grim justice in the saloon-
keepers of Ottumwa raising fund to
bury Richard Doherty, who because of
drunkenness and dependency commit
ted suicide. If the saloon-keepers
would lift half the burdens their bush
ness causes the general public they
would be bankrupt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Mr.. Bryan's former friend and well
wisher, Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, is
now advocating as the solution of the
Philippine problem, "paciication by
us, forcible If necessary, and a subse-
quent rule of justice, military if you
please"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

# as appearances indicate, India is
is soon to have her second big famine
inside of three years, there will be much
suffering. The weather is still beyond
the control of even the powerful Brit
Ash government, and crops have met
with poor success this year. II fam
inc should follow the recent plague,
and war with South Africa breaks out,
Britain might well feel that the white
mans burden was resting heavily upon
her shoulders.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Eating Ono's Pie aud Keeping IL.

Marshalltown Times Republican {:
About the nearest approach to the inn
possible feat of eating your pie and
keeping 1t, too," reached in farming
operations of today, is accomplished by
the fellow who "tops" his corn crop.
By cutting off the tops of the stalks
he saves about all the fodder that is
good and leaves the grain standing in
the field to ripen and harden. 1t is a
slow, 1aborious job, but the farmer
gets both green fodder and ripened
grain from one crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Right kind of popuIi.t.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Chaplain
Mailley, OF the First Nebraska, is a pop
ulist, but from the holiness and en-.
thusiasm with which he expresses him
self in support of the administration,
he evidently isn't enough of a populist
to hurt him any. In his sermon at the
opening of the reunion of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Lincoln Sum
day night, he declared the war in Lu-
zon holy one, and said that rather
than see a backward step taken he
would return to the islands and fight.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
thu Fity.nr,t,.. !

Des Moines News: In few days the
boys of the Nfty-frst Iowa regiment
will have embarked for San Francisco
and home. That the Iowa soldiers are
anxious to get away from the Philip
pines goes without saying. Neverthe-
less, it will be to their everlasting
credit that they remained for months
after the time of their enlistment had
expired by limitation. Peace was de-
clared on April Is. The Fifty-frst,
like all the state regiments, was en-
listed for the Spanish-American war,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Dreyfu. more Than a jaw.

Z Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Some OF
the more leyel-headed Jews are ex-
pressing the opinion that it is unwise
for them to organize any boycott of
the Paris exposition or to express
themselves in protests against the
Dreyfus outrage as Jews, because that
gives the affair the color of race or
religious controversy and the issue is
greater than that. It Is more than q
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

"a campaign against expansion will
not meet with the support Of the Ger
man voters of this country. They will
remember that what has made "the
fatherland" great and glorious is pure
" and simply a liberal policy Of ex-
pansion.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Fred White talked glibly at Dayen-
port Thursday about the love Of Ger
mans for the dear old fatherland. He
said that no German who loved his ma
tive country could, cast republican
ballot. And yet we are reminded that
Fred's love for the fatherland was NOT
so great but what he FASTENED to
change his name from Fritz Weiss to
Frederick e. White.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
wonderful Spring.
only the Band Wagon,

Creston Gazette: The Cummins adj
herents may mistake it for a Jugger-
naut, but it is merely band wagon.
There is plenty of room to climb on.
The procession has not yet started.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
lla2aaEss ll!s|s7, s5Jl1lz

question of Jew and anti-Jew. It is
more than an outrage on an individual
or upon one of a certain class. 1t is an
outssge on humanity and an insult to
justice, and as such should be resented
not by Jews as Jews, but by Jews and
Gentiles alike as citizens.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Even Spain stands aghast at the ex-
hibition Of national honor brought out
by the Dreyfus case.

Bourke Cochran sayshe is an expan-
sionf$t but an imperialist. "An inn
pefialisn is the creation Of fertile
Democratic Imagination.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Moses B. Walker was d Resident Of
ottumwa for fifteen years. leaving this
city in 1878. He was for number OF
years deputy county clerk. Mr.. Walker
was native of Van Buren, county, and
was soldier in the Second Iowa regi-,
ment during the civil war. His wife is
q sister Of Major John .. Wood, of this
city. Mr., Walker was about SIS years
Old at the time of his death, and resid-
ed at LAGRANGE, ILL.,, suburb Of Chi
cago. For the past several years he has
been tax auditor for the Burlington
road. He was well known in this city,
and many friends will extend their
sympathy to his wife, son and daugh-
ter who survive him.] 4.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

One should be ashamed to cry "Clem-
ency for Dreyfus." Simple justice is
enough to ask, and it would do away
with the need for any clemency.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
The sulu Islands.

Muscatine Journal: The anti-admin-
istrationists take much delight in call
ing attention to the fact that the sui
tan Of the Sulu archipelago is q Mo-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
IF WE cannot now settle
= it, we are sure to find a

: IF WE cannot now settle
= it, we are sure to find a
solution for the money
question in the near.future.
If we cannot at once sup
! press the trusts, we are
certain to reach the point
4 when the people will be
anxious to unite in the pat
riotic duty of unhorsing
their oppressors. All other !,
! questions can wait, but
Z the issue of imperialism
I must be settled at. once!
! The nature of the question
is such that it cannot be
postponed. ~ Extract from !,
! speech by Fred E. White,
4 Democratic nominee for
I Governor of Iowa.]
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
The Color Line.


Des Moines News: Booker T. Wash
ington has recently. incorporated Hob
son City, town of 400 souls, a short
distance from Tuskeegee where his
well known school is located. Hobson
City is composed entirely of negro pop
ulation and will ostracise any white
man who attempts residence there.
This is not the first experience of the
kind. Princeton, N. c., and Lincoln
vile, S. G., each with colored inhabi-
tants OF about 1000 have been trying
their hand at local government unaided
BY the white man. The experiment in
these cases has been successful.
Nevertheless isolation of the colored
man is not good thing in this coun-
try. 1t accentuates the color line
which we are trying to wipe out.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Congressman "Daye" Mercer, Of Kan.
sas, was jockey, and is believed to
pick q winner now and then still.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

after thirty years more, Lincoln, and
now in the closing days Of the CEN
fury we have Altgeh who is the mar
tyr Of this decade.'
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

81 "a & d. Z S ; Is I J
hammedan, polygamist and slave
holder. They seem to think that evil
dence that the United States made a
bad bargain in acquiring the sovereign
ty of the Sulu group. AS matter of
fact, no one of intelligence expected to
find the Sulu islanders better than half
savages. To oivilize them is part of
our mission. For a nominal pension of
about $4,000 year in American mon-
ey, the sultan agrees to preserve order
among his subjects, acknowledg the
sovereignty of the United States and
flying the American flag on land and
sea. He even consents to the gradual
abolition OF slavery, permitting slaves
to manumit themselves by paying the
market price. To one at this distance,
1t would seem that he has taken some
advance steps that give promise of
better results with wise treatment. 1t
must not be forgotten that the soyer-
eighty of the United States is aclSnowl-
edged in the sulu group without
drop Of bloodshed.
Wonderful Spring.
Sioux City Journal: A MARSHALL
town man, or rather Marshalltown
correspondent, has unearthed SUBJ
terranean spring that gives forth a
flow OF amber colored liquid that looks
like beer, smells like beer, tastes ike
beer and exhilerates like beer. II
that spring had been discovered in Des
Moines it would have been enioined
inside of twenty-four hours for not
stopping spouting promptly at 10
o'clock in the evening, under the re-
auirements Of the mulct law.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
MOTHERS AWFUL DEED.
Forces Her Two Babies 70 swallow
CarbOllc Acid.

Scotia. Neb., Sept. 15.-lBy Associat-
ed Press JAS result of domestic diff
ficulty, Mrs. Erminie Phillips forced
her two children, aged and Q years,
to take carbolic acid, and then swal-
lowed a dose of poison herself. Her
husband found all three dead when he
returned from the field.