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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
Must Fill This Out.

WuSl TIL IIlS SOLs
After making an inspection of each
factory the inspector will be expected
to fill out the following:
Date of inspection.
Location.
Name of establishment.
Name of owner, lessee, or occupant.
Number of stories in factory.
What goods manufactured or sold.
Males employed. Females.
Are children employed under four
teen years of age?
Number under sixteen years of age.
Males. Females.
What hours of labor are required
of women under twenty-one and males
under eighteen years for day?
Are operatives allowed to clean
machinery while in motion.
Are cautionary instructions given
employees handling machinery?
What kind of motive power used?
Are boilers inspected by boiler
maker or engineer?
How often?
Number of elevators?
Are hoisting shafts properly en-
closed and secured?
Are proper trap and automatic doors
provided in all floors where elevators
are used?
Number of stairwaya Inside.
Are proper handrails for stairs pro-
vided?
Number of accidents during the
year.
Nature of the accident
Number killed. Wounded.
ar doors locked or bolted during
working hours?
Are fire escapes provided on build.
ing?
| Arc ladders provided?
Arc automatic shutters in use for
throwing on and off pulleys?
Are watts, pans, saws. cogs and all
gearing and machinery properly
guarded?
Are exhaust fans or blowers pro.
vided for carrying off dust?
Are workrooms properly yentil
ated?
Are suitable Mushrooms and water
closets provided?
| Are water closets and washrooms
clean and properly ventilated?
Are water closets for females sep
arate and properly screened?
| Questions answered for firm by.
| Recommendation made by inspec
tor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

Mr.. Altgeld has pronounced Mr..
Bryan the greatest man in the clvlllz-
ed world; and Mr.. Bryan has all along
contended that Mr.. Altgeld is one OF
the best judges of greatness extant.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

The Hon. Webster Davis denies that
he plagiarized one of the speeches OF
the late President Garfield. He ex-
plains that he merely neglected to util-
ize the quotation marks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
Keeping Him Waiting.

Davenport Times: Mediator Lii
Hung Chang, will be kept knocking at
the door until some time after the
allies will have entered Peking by the
front gate.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

The Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson pos
sesses a keen faculty for adapting
himself to changed conditions. He
now refers to democrats as Bryan
NOR,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

Mr.. Croker declares that the people
are ignorant. He might submit the
Tammany control of New York as ex-
hibit A in support of his declaration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.

At Large:
N. Baldwin, of Pottawattanie county.
Ole o. Roe, of Polk county
District Electors:
First District-E. V. Tucker, of Louisa,
Jackson.
Third District-L. B. Raymond, Of Franklin.
Gordo.
Fifth District-H. H. Rood, of Lynn.
Sixth Districts H. Harper of wapel,o.
Seventh District-C. Rhynsburger. of
Marion. 4 "
Eighth Decentralization stoolsey, of Decatur
Ninth District-P. L. Sewer, of Guthrie.
Tenth District-Thonas Wray, of Crawford
Sioux. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
FITzslMMoNs TO YOUNG MEN.

Robert Fitzsimmons is known to al
most all people who read the neWspa-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

Is it not rather late for the Hon.
Adiai q. Stevenson to become concern
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
LABOR STATISTICS.
Factories Hereabouts Will Have
to Answer Many Questions.
THE INFORMATION SOUGHT AFTER

Commissioner Will Soon Send Out In.
spectors Who Will Visit Local Manu-
factories and Compile the Statistics
"A Few Questions to Be Asked.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21

In accordance with the United
States law the Iowa Labor Bureau
has sent out to newspapers, legisla
tors and other commercial bodies
asking for information as to the bust.
ness and industrial institutions i'll
each locality, established within the
last two years.
The labor commissioner is making
arrangements to begin the inspection
of factories turnout the state as soon
as possible. Therefore the following
list of the items which the inspector
sent here to examine local factories
will be compelled to fill out, will lie
found to be of interest to every manu-
facturer here. The Courier subjoins
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Daily Courier, year, by mail. $500
Daily Courier, / year, by carrier. 600
Seini-Weekly Courier, year. 1,50
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-21
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, 1900-08-21
Founded 9Th August, 1s4e.

Published semi-weekly OH Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
Office: liz South Market Street.
Telephone editorial OF business Office No. a.
Address the Courier Printing Co., OttuuIwa, Ia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

A lunatic asylum may be full when the
inmates are all "gone"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

This wild west of Ireland IL the nat
uraI home of '.poteen," or illicit whis-
ky. This is because the loneliness and
remoteness of the spots chosen for
making it, almost inaccessible through
the mountains and boys save to those
who know something about the coun-
try, are all in favor Of the smugglers
escaping detection. while its network
Of mountain lakes and small running
streams affords the necessary cold wa
ter for condensing the distilled fumes
into spirit during the cooling process.
Dear beyond any parliament whis-
ky'-by which expression he denotes
that sort which has paid the tax impos-
ed by the brutal Saxon government
is this fiery fluid to the heart of every
true peasant son Of Connaught, and
daughter, too, for that matter, for the
fair sex, especially If at all up in years,
takes its fair share. And, In the inter-
est of truth, 1t must be added that
those who inhabit the coast counties
from Kerry to Donegal, inclusive, are
also fully alive to its seductive merits.
Indeed, many doctors-local, of course
will tell you that well made poteen
is better In sickness than the adulter
ated whisky usually met with in the
small public houses in this region Of
poverty, for in the Connemara country
at any rate the Illicit whisky is made
Of pure malt, though rumor has it that
the less particular palate Of Donegal,
for instance, is satisfied with fire
water mainly made from molasses, po-
tatoes = aye, sometimes from almost
any other rubbish you please.-Cham-
bers' Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
OLD POINT COMFORT, RICHMOND
AND WASHINGTON.
slx-Day Tour via Pennsylvania Railroad

six-Day Tour via Pennsylvania Railroad
Tourists will find the Lenten season by
far the most pleasant time of the year al
Old Point Comfort. which gets the first
breath of early Spring, and enjoys sea
son at least three or four weeks nearer
Summer than the more northern cities.
Washington and Richmond are also cities
appearing at their best in the early spring
time.
For the benefit of those wishing to visit
these three points of great interest, the
Pennsylvania Railroad will run the second
of the present series of personally-con-
Quoted tours to Old Point Comforf, Rich
mond, and Washington, leaving New
York and Philadelphia on Saturday,
March &
Tickets, including transportation, meals
en- route in both directions, transfers Of
passengers and baggage, hotel accommo-
pations at Old Point Comfort. Richmond
and Washing on, and carriage ride about
Richmond-in fact every necessary ex
pense for period of six days-will be
sold at rate of $34.oo from New York,
Brooklyn, and Newark; $32.5o from Tren-
ton; $3I.oo from Philadelphia, and pro-
portionate rates from other stations.
OLD PoINT COMFORT ONLY
Tickets to Old Point Comfort only, in
Guiding luncheon on going trip, one and
three fourths days board at the Hyge1a,
and good to return direct by regular trains
within six days, will be sold in connection
with this tour at rate of $500 from New
York; $3.50 from Trenton; $Ts.5o from
Philadelphia and proportionate rates from
other points.
For itineraries and full information
apply to ticket agents; Tourist Agent,
1895 Broadway, New York; q Court street,
Brooklyn; 78o Broad street, Newark, N. J.
or Geo. w, Boyd. Assistant General Pass
enger Agent Broad Street Station. Phila-
delphia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

The Transsiberian railroad is very
closely guarded, the management feel
ing personally responsible for the peo-
pie they carry on their trains. The
road is divided into sections of one
verst, or five-eighths of a mile. In a
neat little log house, usually in gar
den, live the guard and his people. The
average family is wife and five tow
headed children. The houses were
built by the company and evidently
with view to meeting the demands
Of increasing families. The guard or q
member of his family must patrol his
section night and day. He steps to the.
side of the track as the train ap-
proaches and after it has passed steps
back into the middle of the track, holds
a small green flag in the air, at night
lantern, and stands like statue until
the train has entered the next section.
Several guards do duty in the heavy
curves, and frequently they are only
few hundred feet apart.
Much of the track patrolling is done
by women, who have proved fully as
reliable as the men. The women are
nearly always barefooted, and as they
stand on the track holding the flag
aloft, a Siberian breeze toying with
their short skirts. they are fine sub
jects for sculptor after unique mod
el.-Siberian Letter in Chicago Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
sham Antiouities.

A few years ago, in Soho, London,
there was factory for antique cop
pers which is probably still in opera
ton. The legitimate business of the
place was the manufacture of stew
pans and kettles. but when trade was
dull in that way any sort Of antiques
for which there happened to be de-
mand was produced instead.
An old incense burner, for example,
would be reproduced by the dozen by
hammering over a chuck. II orna-
mented with pierced work, the copies
would be coated with asphaltum,
through which the design would be
traced, when it would then be eaten
out in an acid bath, saving the time
which would be required to cut out
the pattern with piercing saw. The
bath leaves thin edges, by which such
work may be detected.
The work would then be annealed
and would be permitted to oxidize and
scale. Picking with muriatic acid and
salt, to produce good coating of YER
digris would complete the job. Some
times these antiques would be pur-
posely broken and would be clumsily
mended with solder or with pure tin ii
the piece was to pass for a very an
cient one. Chiseled metal was repro
duced by casting and clubbing" over
with the hammer, then picking, an
healing and bending. In such ways
helmets, copper and brass castings for
antique furniture and the like were
made.-Art Amateur.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
IA. Mtstalxe as to American Girls.

His Mistake as to American Girls.
A Louisville girl who was recently In
Germany met young English officer
who was in the same city, and, In fact,
in the same house with her for two
months. studying German for his pro-
motion. Like most Europeans, he had
the usual absurd ideas about the girls
Of this country, who, In the minds Of
the untrayeled foreigner. are rather
hoyden creatures, who smoke and have
other masculine traits.
After dinner one day in the early ac-
workmanship of the couple the Off
Ger offered the Louisville girl ciga-
rette, and upon her refusing 1t he said:
"Why, l thought all the girls in the
United States smoked"
$50 we do" replied the girl. ''but
never cigarettes. only pipes. If you will
get that pipe off the mantelpiece in the
next room ! shall be charmed to smoke
with you"
Not suspecting the joke she was play
ing on him, the officer brought the pipe
and filed 1t, and it was not until he
saw the wry faces his friend made In
attempting to carry out the joke that
he appreciated the situation. He was
continually telling the American in a
tone of surprise that she was just like
the girls at home in England, and her
rejoinder was:
Lieutenant. don't you think lady
is a lady the world overT-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
Needed In His business.

'I've decided said the dignified old
man, ito let you have that young Brite-
ley after all if you are positive that you
can't be happy without him."
'sOh, father" the beautiful girl cried
syou don't know how happy you have
made me! Now / can see the gates OF
paradise opening. Dear, dear. good
old papa! Let me kiss you for those
sweet words Oh, l can hardly wait
to fly to him and tell him the glorious
news. He will be SO glad! We shall
all be so happy now. 1t seems almost
like a lovely dream! l can hardly be-
lieve that am awake! But. tell me,
what has made you change your mind!
Yesterday when | tried to plead for
him you said you would never permit
us to see each other again. All, If you
had known how those words bruised
my heart! What has happened. father.
to make you relentY
He kissed her fondly and then. with
tears in his eyes, replied:
81 sat in little game of poker where
he happened to have hand last night,
and if we don't get that money back
in the family some way my business
is going to suffer."-Chicago Times
Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
Horse Racing ON the stage.

In racing scenes the horses do run at
full speed. They run, however, not on
the fixed stage, but on what may be
called treadmills, which keep the horses
In front of the house for longer or
shorter periods, according as they are
moved quickly or slowly. A picket
fence, placed between the audience and
the course, not only makes the scene
more realistic; it also hides the mechan-
ism of the treadmills This fence has
contributed in another way to add to
the effect by being moved in opposition
to the direction of the horses and SO
lending to their apparent speed.
AS to the sounds made by the foot
falls of horses to be heard as though
passing outside an interior scene, they
are reproduced by the dried hoofs OF
dead horses or wooden limitations
mounted on handles and hammered
against surfaces of stone, gravel, sod
or whatever the occasion may demand.
They are also more deliberately manu-
featured by revolving cylinder with
pins protruding from the surface.
These pins are arranged, like the spurs
on a hand organ roller, to initiate trot-
ting, galloping or walking when struck
against other substances. If the sound
of a carriage is to be added to the
trampling of horses, wheels are run on
sand.-Cassell's Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
Seeing ana knowing.

An eminent lord chief justice who
was trying right Of way case had be-
fore him witness, an old farmer, who
was proceeding to tell the jury that he
had "knowed the path for 60 year, and
my feyther towld l as he heard my
Granddaughter say
''Stop!' cried the judge. I'VE can't
have any hearsay evidence here"
"Noiy' exclaimed Farmer Giles.
'HThen how dost know who thy feyther
was, 'cept by hearsayT
After the laughter had subsidized the
judge said. I'm courts of law we can
only be guided by what you have seen
with your eyes and nothing more nor
less"
"Oh, that be blowed for a taler' re-
piled the farmer. Il ha' got bile on
the back of my neck, and never seed
'un, but | be prepared to swear he's
there, dang 'unv'
This second triumph on the part of
the witness set in a torrent of hearsay
evidence about the footpath. which OBJ
tanned weight with the jury, albeit the
Judge told them 1t was not testimony
of any value. and the farmers party
won
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

As family medicine Bacon's Celery
King for the nerves passes from sire to
son as legacy. If you have kidney,
liver or blood disorder get free sample
package of this remedy at once. If you
have indigestion, constipation, headache,
rheumatism, ETC., this specific will cure
you. Wells 8 Son, Columbus; E. D.
Prickitt, Mount Holly; W. G. Jones, New
Egypt; Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton, and
J. Fl. Leeds, Rancocas, the leading drug
gists. fare sole agents and are distributing
samples free. Large packages Soc and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

New Years is the national pay day
In China. All accounts must be squar-
ed ND at that time, and the man who
can't raise money enough to pay his
debts has to go into bankruptcy. The
laws are such that the creditor can en-
ter the debtors house and take what
he pleases IL there is no settlement.
To prevent such action families club
together and make all sorts Of com
promises to keep up the business repu-
tation of the clan. New Years is a
great day for the pawnbrokers. Their
shops are crowded with people who
want to redeem their best clothes be-
fore the new year. There are crowds
also who want to pawn other things
in order to get money to pay their
debts Pawnbrokers receive high rates
OF interest, In which they are protect
ed by the government.
The Chinese paint the whole country
red on New Years day in more senses
than one. Red is the color which with
them denotes good luck and prosperi-
ty, and all the New Years cards and
invitations are on paper of that color.
Every child gets it's New Years pres
ent wrapped in red paper, and red In
scriptions are pasted over the doors of
the houses.-London Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

she was down In
and now she goes
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
Grandfatl,er,. Hxmna.

The Contributors Club in The Attain
tic gives some information concern
ing ''grandfather's" hymns: Imagine
them and their good wives gathered in
the New England meeting house, troll
ling forth such spiritual songs as the
book preserves for us:
''Then. blooming friends, long farewell;
We're bound to heaven, but you to hell
Still God may hear US while we pray
And change you ere the burning day.
"And, be it observed, this burning
day to them was something as definite
as washing day. This was none Of
your vague purgatorial way stations,
but as fiery pit of torment as the
Imagination can well conceive. Here
Is a glimpse of it:
''Hark the shrill outcries OF the guilty wretches
Lively bright horror and amazing anguish
Stare through their eyelids. while the living
worm lies
Gnawing within them"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
what Tesla Selected.

Thomas Edison used to have Nikola
Tesla working for him in his studio
near Paris. Tesla came to him one
day asking for work, and Edison, who
needed help, referred him to the fore
man, named Fulton. The latter took
the young foreigner on condition that
he would work This Tesla did. For
three days and nights he never closed
his eyes. At the end of the first fort
night he had not had 48 hours sleep all
together, and Fulton. the foreman,
made him take rest. He also said to
the young man that on account of the
strain they had both been under they
had better have good meal.
Accordingly the foreman and the
student went to a well known cafe
on one Of the boulevards and got one
Of the biggest and thickest steaks pos
sible. 1t was a whopper and seemed
to be overwhelming for two. Besides,
the furnishings were liberal, and there
was enough good wine. Between them,
however, they managed to make ev-
erything disappear, and then Fulton,
turning to Tesla, asked him If there
was anything else he would like.
you're out with me, you know, and
whatever you want just order it"
Tesla looked vaguely around for a
minute, as If making up bis mind. and
then hesitatingly said, "Mr. Fulton. If
you don't mind would like another
steak."-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06

At an auction sale of miscellaneous
goods at country store the auctioneer
put up a buggy robe Of fairly good
quality. An old farmer inspected 1t
closely, seemed to think there was a
bargain in it, and yet he hesitated to
bid.
''Think it cheap?" asked the auction
eer, crying a 10 cent bid.
Eyes. kinder" was the reply.
'Then why don't you bid and get it 2"
"Waal, I've bought heaps O. things in
dry goods and so on" slowly rejoined
the old man. land never yet took
home anything that the old woman
thought was worth the price. II get
that ERE robe for even Is cents, she'd
grab 1t up, pull at one end, chaw on a
corner and call out: Cheated again.
More'n half cottonP That's the reason
l dasn't bid."-Ohio State Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
Consumption.

Pulmonary tuberculosis is not con-
tagious, but only communicable dis
ease. The contact per Sc of the con
sumptive individual does not convey
the disease. 1t is now well known that
1t is mainly the tuberculosis expectora-
ton, which, when dried and pulverized
to dust, constitutes the main danger of
infection. The means to prevent infec-
ton from tuberculosis expectoration or
liva-expectorating only in proper
vessels, spittoons and pocket TASKS,
proper use of handkerchiefs during
coughing, etc.-are now also universal
ly taught.
1t is absolutely demonstrated that a
tuberculosis patient, if he takes proper
care of his expectoration, does not con-
stitute any danger to his fellow men,
In sanatoria and hospitals exclusively
devoted to the care Of consumptives it
is of the rarest occurrence for an at
tendant to contract the disease, the
hygienic precautions being so thor
ough. 1t may indeed be said that in
these houses for consumptives one is
less liable to contract consumption than
outside of them.-Dr. s. A. Knopf in
Forum.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-03-06
scotch Frankness.

In Perthshire village recently a
gentleman got out his violin to enter
tain some friends. says the Dundee
Journal. After he had played couple
Of tunes he paused for moment and
said: 81 hope you like the music, for l
dinna pretend to be fiddler, you
know. and never will be. always
remember what a man told me when !
first began to learn the fiddle. When !
started, thought | was getting on
splendidly, but one evening as was
practicing as usual he said to me: Yea.
that's it, is't? Weel. II a. the good. i'd
dlers in Scotland were to be ta'en an
drooned r the moo there's meier a hair
In your head would ever get weet.'"