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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18
THE WAY OF The WORLD.

His youth was spent upon farm
I'm some baclwoods locality,
And so the city had a charm,
4 strong potentiality.
That seemed TO urge him day and nlgI,
20 seek it's great variety.
To leave the fields behind and write
\ irama OF society.
Now. had h, been in city born.
Where crowds are really maddcnir~
Far from waving wheat and corn
And sylvan silence gladdening
it would have been Just his caprice
To show his versatility
by writing pastOrals of peace
And ballads OF tranquility.
IT'S ever thus! What man can do
This is the rule immutaple-
lie contemplates with sullen view
And deems the task unsuitable.
While that of which he knows the least
He tackles with avidity-
lie deems there is a fruitful feast
Where there Is most arldltN.
The man WHO'S built to run a mill
Would seek berth congressional;
The one who's used TO axe and drill
Would play us occasional;
The millionaire who deals I'm stocks
Has Countrywide propensities;
The farmer. goadng on his OK.
Would deal with Trades immensitlcs.
The modern maiden is beguiled
BY some absurd affinity
The woman who could rear a child
Is aping masculinity
They all for-et thew must progress
In fields that are permitted them,
Nor strive from Life to WOO success
For which 1t never fitted them.
Elliott Flower, in Life.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18
Chinese cities

The Chinese have four words for
city and with these they ondcavor
to- make plain Che precise degree of
importance attaching to- the place.
Each division of q province has @ city
of the same name. Zoo Ting"
Chow and "IIIcu' forming de-
sccnding scale indicating its relative
importance.
Foo is ruled over by ana official
directly responsible To- The heads off the
provincial Government. q Ting and
q Chow are either cities of depart
monts included
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18

10 has often been supposed tlHt ODE
play life of Chinese children is mcacrc.
Let me say ] ann prepared tr show
chat their play life is as r.b and
varied as was Che play $50 off Euro.
peau and American children before tbr
time of Frederick Frocbcl aud the Kim
dcrgnrtcu. except g., the mottor OF toys
and books Since that time the u
yentivc genius of tbc West hascclIpscd
that of The East
The child is without picture books
os wc understand chat term IIc may
have q badly Illustrated COPY of tbc
three.charoctcr historical classic. or
Che Twenty Examples of FHol
Picty' but mo- one iu China has ever
thought of making ro. animals
"a book of SOY
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18
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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18

Bridget bad lcfl Mrs Cnrl's service
Tor some months. and that lady tHl
quite lost sight oft her. when one Ga7
she went Go can ON lhc Cubcrl- 1uU
Bridget opened Uc door
"How do YOU do BrIdgctf' solid Mrs
Clark iu surprise 90 0idnt know
YOU were living here
"Oh vcs mann Au hows Mr.
Clark and Miss Bessie an Mr. Bobt"
"rhcy arc all quito we'll thank you
Bridget"
"Au how Mrs Brown next %
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18
A SEA SONG.

VI the breeze, To the blast of wild Neptmes horn
o the crusted rhine, My good ship her head,
the lifting To welcome the
n She springs her bed
n n shell, But soul Is strong white vings
back % thee. Flies back DER the pillows foam
and well. And last Is
ain TO In heart It's home
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18

and he wants you
,t."
groaned Kizzy, n
led lass of sixteen,
it'll a girl of about
he doorstep of the
If / hadn't forgot
Come with me and
n, do. Maybe If you
me first l can do it
,uld only make gran
here isn't any music
not n scrap, not an
how much happier
good-naturedly, rose
appeal, and the two
They We're orphan
p almost from baby
Vt their grandfather.
for whom indeed
as her mother had
Ioella's mother had
name all the dea-
laracter and practi-
W the old man, re-
stimOny of his eyes
ltrary, chose TO be-
glitter was exactly
er. had had straight,
5 and plain, strong,
Joella, his grand
cate features. curl
lue eyes, n dreamy
ste for music. She
fly like her Aunt
other; ana Kizzy,
was her practical
ain. But the dea-
@ opinion that girls
their mothers. not
this belief KizZy
commodatc them
, the sunny farm
re Deacon Joel.
ed, imperious, on
redth birthday and
gerry to its festive
borrow, was sitting
with his feet on n
pretty, KeZiah," he
been waitin' for We
Play Bluebells o.
placed her harp
and began. She
lords, and the old
gruntcd.
er OF yeT' ne in
orgot all We ever
Y. Your mother
u angel when She
ivy, meekly She
Oftly humning the
ide. but presently
.,opped.
He had been doZing,
sharply. "Joelly.
;iah he. She can't
din there close up
ONE over here 10y
lefore Kizzy could
ed i'm the very act
more comfortably
lappy harpist
with your hair"
YOU been dom
NY mOurnfully
it don't curl no
ats what's the
hers hair never
'ispy ike yours.
on ought 10
tll sech things
{ straight
pr suOrfpd
hin so pretty
y Don't tell
" to- curl her
jest to- bresli
Wdle. / sh'd
do it heaps
wOmcnfolks
and my
Kizzy. Gnu
her up at
exception
hair niut
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-12-18

While repairing q temple the Chinese
cover up the eyes of the idols. IN order
that thc deiue may not bc offended
600 thc sight of ihc disorder
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
a GOOD ROADS PROPOSITION.

Free rural delivery of mail is good
roads proposition of the most far
reaching Importance. The honorable
postmaster general in his annual re-
port to congress says:
Good roads become indispensable
and their improvement is the essen
tial condition of the service"
After the people in the rural dis
tricts have once enjoyed the great ad-
vantage Of rural free delivery of mail
they will not give up the service. The
postofice department must, from the
very nature Of the case, insist that
the roads traversed by rural delivery
routes be put in first class condition,
and be SO kept at all seasons of the
year. Here then will be the lever to
force the communities to make the
necessary expenditures and do the re-
CURED work to make and keep up good
roads all the year around.
Major John B. Jeffrey, who will rec
ommend the establishment of seven
additional rural mail routes in Wapel-
10 county, in addition to the three that
are now in operation in the county
has conditioned this Recommendation
upon the roads traversed by the
routes bedpg put in good repair and SO
kept at all seasons of the year. We
want to say that Major Jeffrey has,
in oy opinion, the right conception in
regaSa til the rural free delivery SER
yioes Hetbe1isvss that the people who
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

Mrs. Sarah Kuhn, of the village of
Delta, is on trial charged with the
murder of her husband in September.
II is alleged that there is man in
tic case, which alleged fact the state
will attempt to prove. In murder
case a motive is always sought, and
many times the conclusions arrived at
are Incorrect. At best a motive for a
crime, unless confessed by culprit,
is but the outcome of course of rea-
soning in one mans brain, and may be
far from the truth. No man is infalli-
bic and n states attorney is just as
liable to reach an incorrect conclusion
as any citizen, even tho he has had
experience in "criminology."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

want it should have free delivery of
mail, provided they are willing to COM
ply with certain necessary conditions
in order to make the system complete
and put it in first class shape from the
start Every route laid out by Major
Jeffrey in this county, and so far as
we know, wherever he goes, starts out
with at least one hundred families
served, who are provided with uni
form locked mail boxes erected on
posts of specified size, all of which
are neatly painted and numbered.
Major Jeffrey also enlists and Sc
cures the hearty cooperation Of the
boards Of supervisors of the various
counties, thus bringing important In,
f1uences to bear in the line of secur-
ing good roads and strictly first class
service.
AS an instance of this good work on
the part of this special agent of the
postofiice department. we note the fol-
lowing resolutions yesterday adopted
by the board OF supervisors Of Wa
pello county which mean great deal
for the future of good roads in this
county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
PEOPLES PULPIT.

Industrial Conflict.

We are now living in an era of la
Dor. Civilization is rolling up its
sleeves and idleness as an art has
come down to the dude and the pro
fessional tramp The old shame Of
servitude has gone; man advances and
takes his shovel with him, education
and liberty vitalize the work and the
worker, a living unit in dignity or III
dirt
1t was always so in prin-
ciple since Adam carried a
spade, but in practice and potency
never SO dominant as it is today, and
the more SO as educated labor becomes
a fact, as we see the fruit of the tree
of knowledge spread upon the poor
mans plate and the intellectual at
tainments once like coronets and col
ogne, possessed by few, are to be
found with the user of the pick and of
the hod.
Every age has had its widening hor-
lion and increasing light, star fire has
run into sun, and what was the aspira-
ton of baron is now the birthright
of bootblack. In these changed con-
ditions the vassal becomes man and
the trampled serf a thinker. The
force that once utilized ignorance and
political impotency for private greed
or public crime has spent it's strength
and seen it's day, as the time is past
for all such work as that Intelligence
and the ballot box leave only the beg
gar and the outlaw to the crumbs of
Lazarus and the dogs of Dives. The
heel of the freeman is on the head of
the dragon.
But for all this fact of labor eman.
cipation, what it teaches and what it
predicts, we see agitation and discon
tent. Agitation is condition of pro
gress when it's inspiration is of truth
and justice. They, however, are us
ually local, and, with exceptions, are
only sperm on the tidal wave. SO long
as education, Christianity and Saxon
sense predominant. Agitation can
never lapse into anarchy in this re-
public when the school and the ballot
are free and the hot blooded races are
subordinate. The old methods of fire
| and birthstone are obsolete, the Anglo
Saxon, in the cause of labor has been
and is yet, cold and practical, blu,
none the less progressive and sure
1t is ever true, whether we like it OF
not, that the race element in all It's
reforms fixed its status and its meth
DDS. Some of the purest and nobIest
types of reformers have been evoked
from the labor classes of Great Bri
tain and America, grand old forms O
intellect and courage, calm, patien
and gifted men, such as Cabden, Jone,
and Cooper, who, in sacrifice and de
votien. serve the cause of the poor.
r. Williams. KebS
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
America is helping China out Of

America is helping China out of it's
trouble in this crisis, and is incidental
ly rescuing all of China's enemies
from an embarrassing and dangerous
position. The Washington govern
ment has won laurels in this Chinese
matter, which the country will be bet
ter able to appreciate after the cpl
scde ends than it can now. In foreign
as well as in domestic politics the adj
niinistration has won credit for the
country
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
$500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it's
Care is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tiona1 disease, requires constitutional treat
meat. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
aces of the system, thereby destroying the
oufdation of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The pro-
prietors have SO much faith in its curative
powers that they offer one Hundred Dollars for
any case that 1t fails to cure, Send for list OF
testimonials.
Address. r. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O
Sold by druggists, T5c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
WHEELER DEMURRED.
GrinneI Man Found to Be Insane-No
Asylum for Him,

SAitiiSb WAT WIN " 0S tUSdItC-JNO
Asylum for Him.
Grinnell, Dec. H. (SpeciaD- H.
Wheeler of this city was taken by
Sheriff Binegar to Montezuma, where
he was taken before the commission
of insanity for examination. After
examination that body had two sug-
gestions to consider: Was the man
insane, and if so was it advisable to
send him to an asylum for treatment?
On the first question the board
found that he was insane, but held
that his insanity was not of nature
requiring him to be sent to an asylum
against his protest.
Mr.. Wheeler has long been consid-
cred queer" he was born in Turkey,
of missionary parents and lived there
long enough to learn the language.
For some years he has been printing
and circulating leaflets on moral and
religious subjects, and inserted locals
in the town papers, advertising peo-
pie, especially those in trouble, to Wis
| it him and learn how ito think
These things were regarded as harm,
less eccentricities, or the work of a
religious crank. For year or more
he has been away from home, in the
east and but few days ago returned
from tour of Iowa which he had
been travelling over in the interest of
his peculiar ideas. His father-in-law,
lit is said, instituted the proceedings,
as he is said to have been caring for
his daughter, Wheelers wife, and her
children.
Wheeler created some gossip a
year ago by refusing to engage the
services Of physician when his little
child was very i'll.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
GREATEST WHEAT CROP.
Yield in Kansas For 1900 Exceeds
That of 1899 by 1919, s72 Bushels.

Topeka, Kas., Dec. 12.-The final
crop bulletin of the state board of ag-
riculture for the year 1900 shows this
seasons yield of winter wheat to be
76,595,543 bushels, the greatest winter
wheat crop ever grown in Kansas. It
exceeds the previous years crop by
33,779,972 bushels and by s19,607, 127
in value.
The corn crop amounts to 134,523,-
SIT bushels, which is 90,659,755 bush
els less than one year ago. Its value
lis sS9,5S1,S35. OF spring wheat the
yield was 743,64S bushels, with val
ue of $350,048. The oats yield was
31,169,9s2 bushels, and the value is
$6,626,443. The value of the years
wheat, corn and oats combined is
$8S,1S2,42S, or an increase over their
1899 value of $7,294,S01. The value
of live stock is $10,400,661 greater
than in 1899.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

Somebody has said that this is a
great year for the farmer. In fact it
has been said great many times but
the estimate of Director Sage, of the
Iowa Weather and Crop Service, that
tile total value of all crops produced
in Iowa the past season amounts to
$102 for every inhabitant in the state,
would indicate that the statement is
not lacking in proof.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

Rural free delivery mas come 10
stay. The report of the postmaster
general to congress made public today
and which, SO far as it relates to rural
free delivery, is published elsewhere
in this issue with but slight abridge-
ment, brings out some very important
facts upon this subject. The expert
mental rural free delivery service
inaugurated up to this time has dem
onstrated some remarkable results.
The conclusion reached by the post
master general that rural free de.lv-
cry can be extended to every poruon
of the country adapted to the same at
net increase in expenditures Of $12,-
100000 per year will be of great sur
prise and is matter of much con-
graduation. 1t means that rural free
delivery will not only be retained
where it has heretofore been expert
mentally tried, but that it will also
!, soon be extended to every home
in the land where the population is
sufficiently dense to warrant the SER
vice.
Another fact pointed out by the
postmaster general is of much sig
nifcance.. 1t is, that if certain abuses
which have grown up with reference
TO second-cass mail matter be abol-
ished, this reform alone will effect a
sufficient saving in expenditures and
increase in revenues to cover the total
net additional cost to extend rural
free delivery thruout the entire Unit
ed States. That this matter has been
{ worked out to such a successful con-
clusion reflects great credit upon
Postmaster General Smith and ex-
First Assistant Postmaster General
advocate Of rural free delivery and
who claimed from the first that it was
q practical measure and would prove
entirely feasible without imposing an
undue burden of taxation in order
to bring it about. The republican
party in its national platform and
President Mckinley in his message to
congress have Endorsed and commend
ed this great advance in the postal
service of the nation. The report of
( Postmaster General Smith upon this
subject will be read with the greatest
interest by residents of the rural dis.
tricts in this part of the state.
is In connection with the above it is
Z Interesting to note that Major John B.
jeffrey, special agent Of the postofice
department, has completed the in
4 spection of five proposed new rural
4 free delivery routes in Wapello coun.
ty, and will recommend the estab.
lishment Of the same at once. Two OF
these routes extend from Ottumwa
Il two from Agency, one from Eldon and
I one from Hedrick. The latter occu.
pies the extreme northeastern corner
of the county. There are already in
operation in this county three routes
-one from Ottumwa. one from Ba,
tavia and one from Hedrick. Peti.
{ tions are now in circulation, asking
for the establishment of new route
\ starting from Blakesburg, and occupy.
ing the extreme southwestern corner
of the county. Also a petition asking
for route starting from Ottumwa and
running out thru the Bear Creek dis
trict in the direction of Munterville
-Four routes were recently established
in Davis county, and several in each
Of Keokuk, Mahaska and Monroe coun
ties.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
Resolutions Adopted by the Board Of
Supervisors of WapelIo County.

Supervisors of WapelIo County.
Whereas, the postoffice department
has extended to the residents of Was
pello county the rural free delivery
system, Special Agent John B. Jeffrey
having recommended the establish
ment of seven routes in addition to
the three already established this
recommendation being conditioned
upon the roads traversed by the routes
being put in good repair, and being SO
kept at all seasons of the year, and
Whereas, we recognize the force
and Importance of the declaration by
the Honorable Postmaster General, in
his annual report to congress, that
good roads are an essential condition
of the service"
Resolved, by the board of supervis-
ors of Wapello county, Iowa, that the
county bridges and the approaches
thereto, and all road work under the
control of the board of supervisors,
will be put in first class condition and
will be SO maintained, and that this
board will exercise it's influence with
the road district supervisors to see
that all roads are properly worked
and kept in good travelling condillon
at all seasons of the year.
Ottumwa, Iowa, Dec. 10, 1900.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
CIRCULATION.

The Ottumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Daily Courier, year, by mail. $500
Daily Courier, year, by carrier. 600
Semi Weekly Courier, / year...... 1.5o
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

The people of Greene have signed a
petition asking for new bridge there.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

The Odd Fellows building at Chel-
sea will soon be ready for occupancy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
Founded 9th August, 1a4e.

Published semi-weekly on Tuesdays and
4 Thursdays.
Office: 112 South Market Street.
Telephone editorial or business Office No a.
Address the Courier Printing Co., ottumwa, la
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13

himself Evans" The last letter CON
tanned a bill which the 1counterfeiter
called attention to as being SO nearly
perfect that experts could not detect
it. Mr.. Ever took the bill to one OF
the local banks, where he was told
that it was a very perfect imitation,
in fact, it was a genuine bill which
had been sent as bait. The game
is an old one, but Mr.. Ever is ahead
e1
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-06-01
ANOTHER FIRM GOES.
Failure of Seymour. johnson & Co.
Is Announced.

Failure of Seymour, johnson & Co.
Is Announced.
New York, May 3O-The failure of
Seymour, johnson & Co. has been an
nounced on the New York stock and
cotton exchanges. The firm was or
ganized in March, 1899. Its members
were Frederick w. Johnson. Henry A.
Seymour and David Webster. the lat
ter said to be special partner for
$4,000. Alfred Hayes, Jr., is as
signee and Coudert Brothers are
named as the counsel. 1t is said that
the troubles of the firm are due to
commitments in the cotton market.
They had been long of cotton and
turned to the short side two weeks
ago. In the stock market they have
been bears. No information can be
obtained as to the extent of their con-
tracts. but in the stock exchange they
are not believed to be large. Rumor
Of financial trouble regarding the firm
which was circulated at the time of
the Price. Mccormick & Co. failure
have precipitated the suspension.
Transactions for the account Of the
failed firm under the rule in the stock
exchange amounted to 5000 shares in
the course of half an hour after the
failure was announced. 1t was stated
that the firms outstanding contracts
OH the cotton exchange are small and
that these are well margined.