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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
A Monster Deyil Fish.

Destroying its victim. is a type of
Constipation. The power OF this muir
derous malady is felt on organs and
nerves and muscles and brain. There's
no health till its overcome. But DR..
Kings new life Pills are safe and
certain cure. Best in the world for
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels.
Only 25c, at Clark & Mollison's drug
store. =
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
USED FOR MANUFACTURING yI0LlNS

Joseph Collingwood, a manufacturer
OF violins, on East Main street, has I'M
questionably the most valuable collec-
ton Of old wood Of any other person
in the city. Many of his collections
are valuable on account of their age
alone, and a few are priced for their
historic association with some build
ing of note.
Among the collection is a piece of
spruce taken from the Old South
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Live Stock nIarket.

ts
Chicago, June 21.-Cattle, 10000; best
about steady; Others 5@1oc lower;
beeves 4.40@5.70; cows 3.00@4.50; Tex
ans S.6o@4.2o; stockers 3.25@4.75.
Hogs, 10000; sc lower; mixed 1850
SIS; heavy 5.10@5.171s; light 1850
SIS.
Sheep, $4,000; 15@25c lower; s.7o@
500; lambs 5.o0@7.1o.
Chicago Produce Market.
Chicago, June 21.--Wheat, June s1sa
July s25s. =
Corn, June 4ozs; July 4oM.
Oats, June 2411As; July 2411a.
Pork, June 11.571s; Sept. 11.75.
Lard, June e.6711s; Sept. $50.
Ribs, June 6.75; Sept. 6.s2H.
Rye, July 6oh.
Barley, 3s@45.
Flax, 1.S0.
Timothy, Sept. soc
Clover, 500.
Chicago butter aud Egg Market.
Chicago, June 21.--Butter, steady:
creameries 14@1sA; diaries 13@161h.
Eggs, slow; 1o1a.
Chicago Poultry Market.
Chicago, June 21.-Dressed poultry
steady; turkeys 6; chickens S@s%,;
spring chickens 16@1S.
New York Market.
New York, June 21.-Wheat, Sept
s7N.
Corn, August; 46ss.
I Butter, firm; 16@f9.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21

A postoffice has been established at
Clutter, lama county and another al
Rider, Polk county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21

The next annual conference OF the
Danish LItherans will be held in Gin
ton, June, 1901. &
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21

Money is being subscribed literally
at Springville' Tor q red-hot Fourth OF
July celebration. 7ss
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
PERSONAL.

NJ. Fernand de Rodays. the Editor Of the Paris
Figaro" who has been made a Knight of the
Legion OF Honor. is member II the Council OF
the Syndicate Of the Paris Press. He has also
filled important posts in connection with his pro-
fesson at the exhibitions OF 1889 and 1900 He has
nos the me Snafb r Years since Of N MaSnard
and associated with him administrator OF the
paper Is NJ. Perivter.
The house in Ring-st.. London. known Ma
poleon House" has Just been sold. It was to that
house that the ex-King Of Spain. Joseph Bona
parte then under the name OF Comte de Survtle.
came to persuade his nephew to forego all claim
to the imperial throne. While living there Louis
Napoleon forgot his Iatchkey one night, having
changed his clothes. While strolllng up and down
chance Miss % Howard ' Whom he afterward created
Comtesse de Beauregard. and who lent him mat
abling him to wait for better days. Napoleon III,
Sde ms and he neSer foFro 69e servc
though he often chose not to remember an injury.
The late Lord Russell was fond OF whist. At
cards however. elsewhere. he was quick Of
temper. and the partner who satisfied him had TO
be a very good player indeed.
Professor Francis Brown. of Union Theological
Seminary, in this city. who has been spending
part of the summer in oxford, writes TO The
Observer: "One of the events Of the year IN
Oxford has come to be the Romanes lecture. given
by some recognized expert in specific branch OF
knowledge. This year the lecturer was DIT: J. o.
and his Subject was most ittingiy The Evolution
Of English Lexicography II was full OF Gu curious Gus
since been published, and no doubt has been no
ticed in America. Not all your readers may be
aware that DR.. Murray, a slender ScOtchman OF
patriarchal appearance, Is a stanch supporter OF
the Congregational Church In Oxford Of which he
has long been deacon.
The eminent German oculist Richard Lieorech
recently celebrated his sevenLIeth birthday In
London where he has lived ever since the Franco
German War which drove him from Paris Among
his scientific works the one which most intereste9
the general public that in which he pointed
out that many strange things in the pictures OF
certain painters are due to defects In their eyes
To Dr. George Robertson Sinclair organist Of
Hereford Cathedral England. has been awarded
the greatest musical prize. with the exception Of
the conductorship of the triennia festival that
Birmingham can bestow. He has been appointed
Conductor of the Festival Choral Society, succeed
ing the late DR.. Swinnerton Heap.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers who arrived IN port yes
terday on the steamship New-York were Frank J.
Gould H. MilIward. Miss Millward Albert Brun-
ing and Miss Maud Winter. Of the "Zaza" company
w Nicholson. an artist for BLACK and White;
George T Baldwin Nj. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Widener P A B. Wldener and Harry Elkins
Widener OF Philadelphia Mr.. and Mrs George A
Armour Judge aud Mrs. f. ". Biddle. Miss Fl. J.
Barnes. Miss Marjorie Bryan. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
u. Cheesebro. Dr. r. II. Chiffon. Miss Chiffon L. T
Dyer, S 3. Dana. H. ". Dana. Mr. and Mrs
Howard P. EeIls, Mrs. 5. J. Failing, Miss Minnie
Failing, Ntr. ard Mrs Q. o. Frisbe, Percy n. Fur
her, Ar. aG1 M"s. David Hanna. Mr.. and Mrs
James Hay. John NJ. Kilgore Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Frank F. Mum. Mrs. l. H Roe. Mr.. and Mrs
F. G. Selden, Dr. J. F. Stone. W. B. Senour. Will
lam j. Sutherland, Mrs Sutherland. Mrs Marie R.
Wright. Jules WE'LL and W. H. Plummer.
Ira D. Sankey sailed yesterday on the Lucania
for Queenstown. Mr.. Sankey said he expected to
remain abroad until December He Will visit Cork.
Limerick. Waterford and Dublin. The Lucania
also carried z. D. Black and A. ". Gore. the de-
feated English tennis players. Mr.. Bennett who
pania.
Police Inspector Cross and his mother returned on
the Cunard Line steamship Umbria last evening as
did Police Captain and Mrs. WesterveIt. Inspector
Cross and the Captain spent their vacation to-
gether In England and Ireland. Others the Cm-
bria were Madame Aziza Azoulay. Dr. George
Blakelee, Mrs Blakelee Miss Kate Seymour F3ooz
and Mrs J. S. Enrich. Mr.. and Mrs Gus Ever
mart, Lieutenant R. L. Livermore, Colonel W. Cor
Munro, Mrs. Homer c. Potter, R. F. shannon
Major C Leslie. John F. Saunders. the Rev. A e
Rector. Mr. and Mrs. ". c. Taylor. Mr.. and Mrs
o E Yeager. Miss F, I Baldwin and Mrs. Irene o.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
MILITARISM GGERATEn

Inc occurrences Of the last year have strongly
furthered the suspicion that in all our profuse
talk OF "bloated armaments' end military mill
Ions concerning the European States there is
large amount OF eXaggeration. There is a
vast dltference between armaments on paper
and armaments in the field, between the the
oretical and the practical potency of a military
power. We find in the yearbooks the state
ment that a certain country has an army of
five hundred thousand men on peace footing
and of two million on a footing Involun-
tarily the mind pictures army of five hundred
thousand men constantly ready for the com
mand to charge Or to fire. and one of four
times that size similarly ready at weeks
notice. and all ready to be hurled against any
foe in any part of the world 1t is an impres-
sive and a portentous picture But what are
the actual facts as revealed by experience?
Great Britain affords the most obvious ex-
ample. She is not one of the great military
Powers, il is true. resembling in her smallness
of standing army md lack Of conscription the
United States, rather than a Continental Power
Yet with a population larger than that CT
France, with incOmparably the most extensive
transport service the world has ever seen, and
with supposedly all but unlimited wealth she
might he expected to make a formidable show
ing Well. she has for nearly a year been at
war with a handful Of Dutch cowboys and
farmers in South Africa. To cope with them
she has had TO make use of every available
man. stripping her home garrisons to the dan
ger point. and calling for volunteers with every
possible inducement and plea. She has in addi-
tiOn received aid from her colonies all over the
world. And thus she has been able to raise
some 100000 men all told These by rea son
of her colossal marine she has been enabled to
transport 10 Africa in the course of several
months, performance upon which she greatly
prides herself, and which even the least friendly
nations cOncede TO have been unprecedentedly
effective, and doubtless beyond the power of
any other nation to parallel. And finally the
strain of such campaign--less than year
against a sixth rate Power-has compelled that
richest Of nations to seek loan abroad. and
has sent her Government bonds several points
below par.
If from Great Britain we turn TO Russia in
point of numbers by far the greatest Of all the
military Powers, what do we find? For years
she has been actively preparing for the con-
quest Of Northeastern China and has been
massing troops for that purpose. and the world
has talked OF her readiness to pour half a mill
ion or n million into Manchuria or into
COrea at a days notice. This year the crisis has
arisen and not at all Unexpectedly to her. IL In
deed, not with her foreknowledge and co-opera-
tion. But. instead of promptly pouring in her fire.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26

the Republican Administration coined 4ooo'Ooo
silver dollars at the ratio OF 16 TO !. ana yet
the Republicans think that the ratio OF 10 10
is not right. 1t is the ratio we have hau LOT
thirtyfour years, and the Republican party 70
day does rot advocate any change In the rauo
Identifying the coinage of remnant of bull
ion held in the United States Treasury, against
which. under the Sherman law, notes redeem
able in coin have already been issued, with
that free and unlimited acceptance of silver at
the mnts at half it's commercial value, Tor
which Colonel Bryan has clamored in season
and out, is a piece of trickery almost too
picayune for comprehension. The Democratic
candidate knows as well as any one that for
every silver dollar coined from the sherman
bullion fund the Government-under Repub-
lican administration, at least-stands ready to
exchange a gold dollar: and if the substitu-
ton of silver dollars for coin notes, one as well
as the other maintainable at n parity with
gold were al the recognition of the validity
Of the Is TO / ratio demanded by the Fusion
leader and his supporters. Democratic finan-
cial theories would threaten neither National
credit nor National honor Unhappily. no such
Interpretation of Democratic platforms or pur
poses is tenable. Yet to voters who under his
own leadership have been drilled for four
years past in ali the implications of cheap
money imitation it is astounding that Colonel
Bryan should offer such sOphistres and mys
tifcations as he attempted to palm off on his
audiences at Pawnee and Wahoo.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
Two CURIOUS SILVER sopBIsyRJES

Though Colonel Bryan prefers to picture to
his Western auditors the perils TO liberty of an
imaginary regime Of imperialism" and the
burdens on industry Of a standing army no
larger nor more costly than that maintained in
time Of peace by Jefferson. Monroe or Madi-
son, he finds it expedient to bark back occa-
sionally to the familiar silver sophistries of
1885 To reassure his Kansas and Nebraska
followers, who still consider free silver coinage
the controlling issue of the Fusion canvass. the
Democratic Orator Puff took pains at two or
three Of his stopping places last week to revive
IN a hagrantly pettifogging way his old
charges of Republican dupncity on the silver
question Two Of the shifty Nebraska leaders
assertions invite attention because Of their
amazing triclhery and shallowness
At Wahoo last Tuesday Colonel Bryan is re-
ported saying:
The Republican party is trying TODAY the
same deception that il practised in 1896 on the
money question. The Republican leaders
wanted the gold standard IN 1cqf - az 60
want it now, but they held out before the peopIe
the delusion Of international bimetallism
The President sent q commission Of three dis
tinguished gentlemen, and they were to .abor
with the European nations and try to get those
nations 70 help US. Did they succeed? =.
course they did not. You cannot find a he-
publican to-day who feels sorrowful because
they did not get the international bimetallism
that they promised to get in loo.
II international bimerallism was good in 1895
II is good now. Then why is it that the Repub-
!icans do not talk about It?
The inference from all this is, of course that
the Democratic party alone is to be credited
with a sincere and earnest desire TO promote a
workable system of b:metallism Yet Mr.
Bryan knows that the present Administration
made genuine effort TO bring about that in
ternationAl agreement without which an en-
larged use of silver as money by any single
Government would simply invite unsettled
values and commercial disaster. On the com
mission sent abroad 10 labor for interna tionai
concert Colonel Bryan saassociate on the Demo
cratic National ticket ex-Yice-P President Adlai
E. Stevenson, served with zeal and distinction.
and his personal credit is pledged 10 the good
faith OF the failure reported by himself and his
associates 10 the Executive and TO Congress-
Certainly no Republican could feel less sor-
rOwful over the empty handed return of the
Commissioners than Colonel Bryan himself
whose dream Of monetary readjustment is not
at all a system of International bmetallism
which would hold our standard OF values level
with that accepted by all the other great com
mercial nations. but system of silver mono
metallism, which would sink the American
standard 10 that recognized in China and
Mexico.
At Pawnee Thursday the Democratic
candidate made this equally puerile argument:
The Republicans say they do not believe in
the ratio Of 16 to J. When they make that as
sertfon you ask them why Mr.. McKinley's Ad-
ministratton is coming silver dollars to-day at
the ratio Of 16 to L. In the month OF March
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
BLACk TIDINGs FROM PEKING.

There Is bad news from the Chinese capital,
and it comes from perfectly trustworthy and
authoritative source DR.. Morrison the cor
respondent of The London Times" who was
in Pekng all through the siege of the legations,
and who sent out the first news dispatch from
that scene of horror, remains at his post. He
is n particularly competent observer and ac-
curate reporter. He has had occasion in the
past to tell some dreadful tales But we are
not sure that he has ever told one more dis
creditable and humiliating to the civilized world
than that which he sent out few days ago, and
which has just been published. 1t is sufficient
to fill with mingled shame and wrath the mind
of every honest man the world around. "Pe-
king" he says. lis now entirely under foreign
control" And then. in his next sentence as If
to mark relationship of cause and effect, he
adds, "LoOting is proceeding Systematically"
That, we say. is one of the most damning bits
of news that has come out of China. 1t is
worse than the tales of Boxer ravages. For
the Boxers are savage fanatics, whose mission
is to destroy, and from whom nothing better
is to be expected But here are the represen-
tatves of great, civilized Christian Powers, sent
into China on an errand of extraordinary In
tervention for the high and holy purpose of
rescuing imperilled lives of checking rapine
and of restoring peace and order. 1t is they
Systematically stealing; pious Crusaders turned
thieves and burglars We are told that the
flags of two great Powers have been planted
over the spot where the richest lOOting is an
ticipated, as notice that thievery there Is to
be restricted to robbers of those nationalities
To such occupation has the relieving army. or
a large part OF IT, descended. The whereabouts
of the Imperial Court has not been ascertained
the lines of communication at the rear are
menaced. and food supplies are running low
No matter, Who can expect any attention to
be paid to such matters, with the capital of
China to be looted?
1t is hideOus spectacle, from which the
Ministers been found to have been murdered
the utter humiliation of the city. as a solemn
and impressive act of righteous retributIon
might have followed with the approval of the
world. We should then have been at war with
China But no such condition now exists. The
Powers are not at with China. They are
in Pebing not for revenge. but for the vindica-
ton of law and order-for the vindcaton of
the law of property rights against looting. They
have no more right those soldiers Of the
Powers, to loot Peking than the soldiers at
Fort Hamilton have 10 loot New-York we
cannot dismiss the report as a Sha1ghaed lie
because it comes from a man who tells the
truth, and nothing but the truth Happily
there is room fer hoping that American troops
are not dishonoring their uniforms and their
tag by joining in the villanous work
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26
Business n otlcrs.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-A large number Of transports are
daily arriving at Taku. and troops are landing
and being sent forward toward Peking; the
Ficeroy Of Chang-Chih-Tung declares that he
will resist any attempt to eXtort territory or
interfere with the armies Of the Viceroys; a
large number of ci Villains including Americans,
have left Peking under escort of foreign troops;
street fights continue intermittently in Peking;
Lord Roberts has taken the field again, and his
headquarters are at Wonderfontein. 112 miles
east Of Pretoria, the Delagoa Bay Railway;
he reports that the troops Of General Butler fell
into Boer trap on August q. losing about one
hundred men in killed wounded and pris-
ouers: General De Wet is reported TO be
making for the Orange River Colony. =
The three days cricket match at st. Johns New
folndland, between the Singarees, of Boston,
and the Newfoundland eleven ended in draw.
- Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche. the
philosopher. died in Weimar, Germany.
DOMESTIC.-Curfosity expressed in
Washington regarding the outcome Of negotia-
tions with China - No answers
ceived from the Powers to the note of the
United States asking for an international con-
ference, and no new developments in the
Chinese situation were made known. - Two
dispatches, undecipherable, have been received
from Admiral Reney, and request for their
retransmission was made. - Owing to the
pressure Of public business the President was
forced 10 decline the invitation to attend the
annual encampment Of the G. A. R., at Chi
cago. - The G. A. R. National Encamp-
Tnent was opened In Chicago with dedicatoTy
exercises in the new Coliseum. - Mr.. Bryan
made two speeches in Omaha under the
auspices of the Jacksonian Club. Mr.
Sheehan issued a ringing statement in Buffalo
in the Hfll-Croker controversy; the battle fierce
in Erie County. - EX-Speaker Patterson's
candidacy was not taken seriously in Albany
and Troy
CITY-Stocks were dull and heavy - SEN
ator Depew returned home on the steamship
New-York and gave his opinion Of conditions in
Europe. - The steamship New-York lowered
her record from Cherbourg 70 New York by four
hours and eighteen minutes. - The Croker
Murphy faction Of the Democratic party was
accused Of resoTting to tricks TO invege up
State Democrats TO the city and win them away
from Hill and Coler. - Ten f1remen were
overcome and a loss estimated at S250.O00 was
caused at fire in the factory No. 46 to 30
Wooster-st- - Mayor Van Wyck signed the
tax rate. 80 William c. Whitneys Ballyhoo
Bey won the Futurity: the other races at
Sheepshead Bay were by La Valliere, Rush
Waring, Plato and Gr@Anock.
THE WEATHER--ForeCast for to-day: Fair
and hot The temperature yesterday: Highest,
81 degrees, lowest. y; average, T814
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26

retard progress and civilization. But most of
all. 1t worked harm by strengthening civil and
ecclesiastical despotsm. If comet was sent
by an angry God to punish mankind. what
more natural than to believe that the Church
of God could keep 1t from doing any HARM or
better yet could divert its baleful influence to
the enemies Of the Church? The leaders of the
Church would have been more than human If
they had neglected TO make use of this ele-
ment of power, especially as they firmly be-
lieved that they had Scriptural authority for
this view of comets. How dominating the be-
lief was is shown by the fact that Charles v
was actually led to abdicate his throne through
fear Of the comet of 1856.
Nor can 1t be said that this delusion con-
Catholic Church. Archbishop Cranmer and
Bishop Latfmer believed It. And in 1880 dur
ing Queen Elizabeth's reign. there was set forth
an order of prayer to avert Gods wrath from
'us, threatened by the late terrible earthuuake
"to be used in all parish churches" Archbishop
Bramhall cites Scripture in support of the view
and John Howe, the eminent Nonconforrnist
divine. bewails the growing disbelief in the
comet superstition. John Knox thought comets
portents of Gods wrath. and the clergy GEN
orally of the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turtles taught this view Yet the superstition
buttressed. as II was thought TO be- bv the
divine authority of the Bible. was forced TO
give way to the facts. and no theOlOgian of any
note to-day would venture to revive it,
New-York tribune., 1900-08-26

sistible millions, she has for many weeks been
desperately struggling to hold her own with
few tens of thousands And already the strain
of this little war has disorganized her finances,
has sent her into all the money markets or the
world in urgent quest of q loan. which Is not
forthcoming. and has raised her taxes even
the necessaries of life. from 10 to 90 per
cent. If such is the case In this minor emer-
gency, what would it be in a really great war
say for the conquest of British India?
What we need to bear in mind is that the diff
ference between the army on paper and the
army In the field is probably in any case from
20 to 30 per cent and that, even with that re-
duction, the remainder represents the local
potency of the army for home defence. When
1t comes to foreign service, further reduction
must be made, considerable in any case and
increasing as the square Of the distance from
home increases. The reduction for distance Is
less in Great Britain's case than in any other
because of her extensive colonial empire and
her unmatched naval power. But even in her case
it is large. What would it be in the case of a
Continental Power with inferior transport ser
vice and with many frontiers to guard? OF
course in war between adjoining Powers
nearly the whole strength of armies could he
employed. as was seen in 1865 and 1870 But
of all the legions that guard the Rhine. how
many could Germany spare for the conquest
of Brazil or Argentina? or the millions OF
whom we vaguely talk, how many thousands
could Russia afford to send on a tiger hunt
beyond the Roof of the World? For purposes
of taxation upon the people the statistics of
military ornaments may be accepted as cor
rect. But for purposes Of actual warfare. and
especially of warfare In foreign parts. they
must be regarded with large degree OF allow
ance