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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
MAY CONSOLIDATE.
Another lsumor In Regard to ConsoIf.
dalton OF Press aud Democrat.

From Tuesdays Daily.
j. G. Paradice, formerly business
manager of the Keokuk Gate City,
and also of the constitutional Democrat.
is in the city today, and it is said
has made overtures to the Press Pub
fishing company looking to buying
the. plant. 1t is said that in the event
the deal is made that Mr.. Parable !.
and George F. Smith, the present own
er of the Democrat. will pool their
issues, likewise the good will and ma
terial of each paper. Neither Mr..
Smith nor Mr.. Paradice could be
found today to verify the rumor, but
it has become so persistent that
many people believe that there is
something in it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
samuel Elliot is Pre.id emf.

Boston, May 22.-(By Associated
Press Samuel A. Elliot, of Cam
bridge, Mass, was today elected presi-
dent. of the American Unitarian asso-
citation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Captain Pinnio KILLED.

Manila, May 2a.-(By Associated
Press. Captain Pinnio, nephew of
Pinnio, and twenty-thlee other rebels
We're killed May is, by scouts in an
engagement near Malibicong, province
of lilo Co.'S, There was no loss to the
Americans. The rebel colonel, Alme-
da, who was paroled April %, arrived
here last evening. He has been maxi
ing incendiary speeches.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
spain Sign. postal Agreemen,.

Madrid. May a2.- By Associated
Press. 1.-The queen regent has signed
postal convention with the United
States.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Former senator Hin Dead

Denver, May 2a.--By Associated
Press. Nathaniel P. Hill, former
United States senator from Colorado,
died today of general debility aged
sixty-eight.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
The Opening Session.

Shortly after o'clock, Mrs. Hills,
state regent appeared upon the stage,
followed by Mrs. Theodore w. Birney,
president, and the officers and speak
sers of the evening. Mrs. Hills and
Mrs. Birney took seats before small
tables at the front of the stage. Be
hind them were seated a long row of
mothers" and at their left the three
gentlemen honored with places on the
program, the Rev. j. Everist Cathell,
Ex-Governor Frank d. jackson and
Mayor Hartenbower. Back of the
speakers was the Iowa State band,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
MOTHERS
CONGRESS-
National Convention at Des
Monies Opens Aus
piciously.
LAST NIGHTS MEETING
Mrs. Mabel Dixon Hutchison, of Ottum-
wa, Addresses the Convention on
the subject of Iowa Club
Women.

Des Moines, May 22.-(By Associat-
ed Press. AT, today S session of the
national Mothers Congress, Mrs. Theo-
dore Birney, the president, read the
annual report, showing thesssociety
had more than doubled in membership
during the year. The members of the
presidents cabinet and the chairwom-
en- of the numerous committees also
made reports. Several papers were
read.
Des Moines, May 22.-The fourth an
nual meeting of the National Congress
of Mothers opened at the Auditorium
last evening. Seldom had the great
hall contained such an audience as
that which gave attention at the drop
of the gavel in the hands of the pres
ilent. Mrs. Theodore w. Birney, of
Washington. Every seat on the lower
floor and in the balcony was occupied;
the boxes We're crowded by a brilliant
array of society people, including
many of the visitors; on the stage
were the national officers, the speak
ers of the evening, and other dis
tinguished people. The Auditorium
was brilliantly lighted and decorated
in the colors of the organizations, rose
pink and blue. On the stage was a
profusion of palms and cut flowers.
The audience was composed largely of
Des Moines people. 1t was a brilliant
assemblage, with the handsome cos
tunes Of the ladies and considerable
sprinkling Of gentlemen in evening
dress. Altogether the occasion was
most suspicious one for the opening of
the first congress ever held by the or
ganization outside of Washington, D.
C..
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Colonel Bethune and Party Of
English Troops Surpris-
ed and Defeated.
FEW BRITISH ESCAPE
Bethune's Total Casualties Arc Sky.
six-Many Locomotives Captured
by British Near vaal River
-NIore of Matching.

London, May 2s.-(By Associated
Press lit is officially announced that
Colonel Bethune has reported that
while marching in the direction OF l
New Castle, Natal, yesterday, one
OF his squadrons. consisting OF
about five hundred men, was
ambushed by party of Beers six
miles west OF Vryheid, in the Trans
vaal, and very few of his force es-
capped. His casualties were sixty-six.
Cape Town, May 21.-(By Associated
Press.)-The British troops have ar
rived at Neereeniging (Transvaal,
north Of the Naal river). The bridge
across the Vaal was found intact.
Twenty-seven Free State and Trans
vaal locomotives We're captured.
London, May 22.-(By Associated
Press. Roberts reports to the war
office the following: ''Kroonstad, May
21.-Mahon reports that his flying coll
umn entered Matching at 4 o'clock on
the morning Of the 18TH He was
stubbornly opposed by 1900 men on
the 18th, nine miles from Mafeking,
but the Beers were driven from theR
strong position after five hours OF
fighting, thanks, he says.sto the mag
nifcent qualities Of his troops. a de-
tachment of the Canadian artillery,
| by u series of forced marches. reach
| ed him on the morning Of the fight
ing and rendered very. valuable as
sistance. Mahon's casualties were.
sabout thirty. The Boer losses were
| heavy"
Paris Hears a Rnmor.
London, May s2.-By Associated
Press.)-Sharp Paris selling on the \
stock exchange today was accentuat-
ed by the rumor that Butler had been
defeated by the Beers at Laing's Mex.
While nothing is known in London; to
tend to confirm this report, Paris eyi-
IDENTIFY believes it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Boer ENJOYS Told We Cannot
Interfere in War.
CONFERENCE WITH HAY
Secretary of State Tells Them We Cam
NOT DO More Than We Have Done
in the NIatter-He Quotes
tho Peace Article.

Washington, May 22.-lBy Associat-
ed Press -Fischer, Vessels and VOL
marans, three Boer ENJOYS, visited the
White House at 10 o'clock this morn
ing to pay their respects to Mckinley.
They We're received in the blue parior.
no one being present but themselves,
the president and Secretary Certelyou.
In regard to intervention the visitors
stated their purpose in coming to this
country. saying that they understood
that what Secretary Hay told them
yesterday was final, and that the po-
sition of the United States was that
this country could not interfere in
the present struggle in South Africa.
The president confirmed this view and
said that when England declined the
offer OF Intervention made by the
United States some time ago, there
was nothing further the United
States could do in the premises. The
ENJOYS intimated that they were glad
to feel that they had friends in this
country, and then babe the president
goodbye.
Washington, May 22.-The state de
partment has met the issue raised by
the coming to Washington of the Boer
delegation by declining to interfere
in behalf of the South African repub-
lies in the present struggle. In view
of this announced decision all ques-
tions as to the character of recogai-
ton to be extended to the delegates
and the sutficiency of their creden-
tials have dropped at once into tae
background. This morning note
came to the state department from
the delegates asking that they be per-
mitted to present themselves at the
department. Half past 2 o'clock was
fixed for the meeting. At that time
the three delegates appeared and were
shown at once into the. diplomatic
room. Secretary -Ha accom- panied
by Mr.. Babcock, his private secretary,
and stenographer, entered the dip
lomatic room and cordially greeted
his visitors. When the meeting was
over, after lasting an hour, the Beers
stated to number of newspaper
men they had nothing to say as to
what had happened. The secretary of
state, after consultation with the
president, gave out statement Ia
which he said the Boer ENJOYS pre-
sented at much length and with great
energy and eloquence the merits Of
the controversy in South Africa and
the desire of the Boer republics that
the United States should intervene in
the interest of peace and use its in
f1uence to that end with the British
iUOyernman4
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-24
Mrs. Hills for Iowa Mothers.

Much of the interest of the evening
naturally centered in the address of
Mrs. Hills, state regent for Iowa, and
the person who brought the fourth an
nual Congress of Mothers to Iowa
Mrs. Hills carried in her arms huge
bouquet of pink roses, tied with blue
ribbons. The reason for the roses was
explained, when at the conclusion of
her talk she told that she carried nine
ty-nine roses, the color of childhood,
each blossom symbolic of one of Iowa's
. ninety-nine counties, and all bound to-
gether into one cohesive group by the
band OF blue, the holy hue Of mater
nifty. The flowers represented, Mrs.
Hills said, Mother Iowa holding in her
clasping arms the sisterhood Of coun-
ties. Each petal, she said, represent
ed an earnest worker in the cause for
which the congress assembled. This
offering of roses, Mrs. Hills said she
laid, not at the feet of the president,
Mrs. Birney, for that might mean pas
sive subsection, but at her right hand,
for that meant service.
Mrs. Hutchfson for Club Women,
Mrs. Mabel Dixon Hutchinson, of OF
tumwa, president of the Iowa Fedora
ton of Women's clubs extended greet
ings from 200 clubs, representing
nearly 1000 Iowa club women. Mrs
Hutchinson said that the state fedora
tion now has a department which is
IN close sympathy with the Mothers
Congress, that of household economics
and said that the federation found an
increasing demand for the best way
to Sake care of the home. The fedora
tion now has, she said, many women
studying Systematically domestic sci
ence, OF which child culture is part.
Mrs. Hutchinson said that she feared
that in the present search after beau
tlful Madonnas, the world has quite
overlooked the American family. She
asked: In these sacred and hallowed
places do we not find Madonnas of the
Tubs, the Madonna Amabilis, the Ma
donna in Gloria? Everywhere we find
that love is the dominant note" Mrs.
Hutchinson said that the Mothers Con
gress stood in the same light that Cas-
sius NJ. Clay placed the ministers when
he said: I'VE know the right the
preachers must move us to action.o
She said: .'We know the right. the
Mothers Congress must move us to
action."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

There has been considerable cutlery
in Portland, that the trees We're being
ruined on all sides and it has been
made TO appear that very soon the
streets, which formerly lay under the
spreading branches of fine old elnS
and naples, would simmer in the not
sun, without vestige of shade. The
Advertiser says this has been unduly
exaggerated, for at no time have Port
lands trees been in any widespread
danger. Here and there, where the big
clms are crowded too closely for health
and comfort, one has been sacrificed.
There is no danger, says the AdVer-
tiser, that Portland shall lose its deSiG-
nation of the Forest city for many
years to come. If ii ever has dearth
Of trees it Will be because the citizens,
when they build new residences, refuse
to surround them with trees, becaus"
they do not believe that trees around a
house in the city are as healthy as the
unObstruCtcd sunlight.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21
BRAIN FOOD
Is OF Little Benef. Unless It Is Digested.

Nearly everyone will admit that as
4 nation We eat too much meat and
too little Of vegetables and the grains.
For business men. office men and
clerks. and in fact everyone engaged
in sedentary " indoor occupations,
grains. milk ana vegetables are much
more healthful.
only men engaged in a severe out
door manual labor can live on heavy
meat diet and continue in health.
As a general rule. meat once a day
is sufficient for all classes of men.
women and children, and grains, fruit
and vegetables should constitute the
bulk of food eaten.
But many of the most nutritious
foods are difficult of digestion and it
is Of no use to advise brain workers
to eat largely Of grains and vege-
tables where the digestion is too weak
to assimilate them properly.
1t is always best to get the best re-
suits from our food that some simple
ana harmless digestive should be taken
after meals to assist the relaxed diges
tive organs, and several years eX-
pericnCc have proven Stuart's DySprp-
Sl3 IaDIttS To De Il very SAFE, PHEASANT
and effective digestive and remedy
which may be taken daily with the
best results.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can
hardly be called patent medicine, as
they do not act on the bowels nor any
particular organ but only on the food
eaten. They supply what weak
stomachs lack, pepsin diastase and by
stimulating the gastric glands increase
the natural secretion If hydrochloric
acid.
People who make daily practice Of
taking one or two of Stuart'S DySpep-
STA Tablets after each meal are sure
to have perfect digestion which means
perfect health.
There is no danger of forming an
injurious habit as the tablets contain
absolutely nothing but natural diges-
tives; cocaine, morphine and similar
drugs have no place in stomach
medicine and Stuarts Dyspepsia Tab
lets are certainly the best known and
most popular of all stomach remedies.
Ask your druggist for fifty cent
package of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets
and after weeks use note the i'm
proVement in health, appetite and nerv-
Gus energy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

While Queen Victoria is very compll-
mentary to her brave Irish soldiers:
and London wore the green in hearty
fashion. on st. Patrick's day, it Is
noticeable that Ireland seems to look
upon it all as "blarny" and does not
appear at all appeased by the new
friendship so generously shown. The
coming visit of the Queen to Ireland
fails to arouse much enthusiasm in
Dublin ana the celebration of St.
Patrick's day was marked by mucn
disorder and numerous outbrea Ks
against the English government and
the war in South Africa where the
English armies are led by Irish gen
erals. But il is not strange that Ire
land is suspicious. 1t has many cruel
wrongs which are not easily forgotten,
and it has learned by bitter experience
that England's friendly advances are
not always sincere. 1t will take inf
mite tact and great patience on the
part of the English government To
overcome Irelands long standing ami
mostly. and it will require greater CON
cesslons than general wearing of the
green, March II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

y person who has not tried it can
hardly imagine the delights Of keeping
a bird or wild flower calendar y cor
respondent uf the Portland Transcript.
who watched the appearance Of the
birds last year, gives these dates Of thu
first arrivals seen 10y her: April 3,
robin; 10. song sparrows; II, pcw"e:
L. cow-bird; II. geese; IL. swallow
ana blucbird; p. chipping sparrow; q.
WhiprourWill. y, hermit thrush; p.
Maryland yellow throat: y. purple
finch; ~ hocks of swallows; y. mea-
dow lark; 50, sWifts ana purple crack
H.; May >. brown thrasher; ;. chrbec:
S. king bird; l.. yellow warblers: Il,
oriole: IS. black-burnian warbler; -.
cltbird: -, hummiug bird 26. redstart
- cedar birds. Just cut this list out
and notice how this spring compares
with last.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

while we believe in holiday at or
about that time we do not believe IN
the hypocrisy of keeping Fast Day
by doing everything under the sun ex-
cept fasting. We should kick IL the
holiday, of which the working men
have none too many, were abollsheu'
but we would have the observance
fitted to the name, which is Impossible.
or the name fitted to the observance.
The best plan, that which we urged
last year, is the substitution OF May
Day as a general holiday for the an
nual Farce Day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

As a matter Of good form, it is g-ner-
ally supposed that when 4 girl goes To-
an entertainment with a fellow she
will permit him to escort her home
This is true of the ordinary COM
munity and OF the educational institu-
tions where the sexes study each other
along With the regular curriculum.
But il seems there have been some
lapses II this rule at Colby, ana TN,
Echo editor may have been the VIC
tim from the manner in which h. rr-
marks that those girls VINO lay aside
the constitution ii good form Will ina
it poor policy in the long run.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Maine bird lovers will rejoice that
the American OrnithulosiCal Associa-
ton has taken action t. prevent 50 far
as possible the carrying out of a CON
tract recently made by farmers of Mil
ford, Del. with a New York firm fuT
inc delivery of 10000 birds, including
crows, rydWing. backLirds, meadow
Ilrks. hlHcbirIs ana young Owls. be-
fore Faster Think If An those birds
while On their Way North, being ruth
l,ssly slaughtered that their wings
may gather aust IN the millinery store
shelves, for it is announced that the
really up-tp-datc Easter bonnet win
wear flowers not bird curpses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

In the minds of most people in all
sections of the country it was conclu-
sively settled over a generation age
that the United States is not ARE.
Grammatical accuracy is no excuse for
using a plural verb with that name.
AS well say that "Prisoncrs Of Hope"
or The Heavenly Twins are" a
book. Yet some Democratic editors
are now thrashing over the old straw
that the plural form should BE- used
and they base their contention mainly
on the fact that in the constitution the
plural form of pronuun is used in
speaking of the United States. If this
precedentis to be binding, why not also
follow the constitution in referring to
the Senate as they" and their 1t
is not any regard for the constitution
but the old Democratic antipathy
against national solidity Which is be
hind this strange contention for z
plural verb.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Speaking of the Sheldon episode. an
matter tersely thus: suppose the
teacher were to say to the student;
Write on this theme as Shakespeare
or John Milton would have written.
Make for me- 4 brief speech which can
be set side by side with Lincoln's
Gettysburg address," What could
better show the audacity and conceit
of the Kansas divine's undertaking?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

The New York World laments tat
England does not heed the warning II
the l6. 900 dead British soldiers in SoU II
Africa. As the total number of Brit h
dead from wounds and disease is / v
less than $500 men. it would seem u ~
yellow journalism is getting modest III
its exaggeratiOnS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

p.c-..,...s Hyde If !; .WIJin has
again demonstrated in a most able
manner that man may be a deep
student of philosophy and theology
and an efficient and popular head of
a great educational institution and yet
make a hopeless mess Of it when he
attempts to discuss politics.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Mr.. Bryan celebrated his 10th bir-l-
day anniversary by giving out the o.r-
line Of a platform for the democracy II
which 16 to l was given first pla
Perhaps if he lives 40 years more he
will come to be very much ashamed #
all this nonsense
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21
Maine 0&3sslm
Little Willie and Sister Grace.

They "a. pa trousers down for me; l
have IT, w,.r his old coats out. his odd
Ills h 5gIi'. ,''irsi '" 1.ut fl ~. Inn,
pose thry, VIII som" gay
h'ia. ,ir.wn Iwlv,
NHl "ii1 *it Weirr II 1."tE5 new
she rut~ un @ryio. ! trll y'u what,
Shr!s ur,.uI anJ b,iigl,1T KIM .bc.- rot
4 beau most every night.
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--
Now If tn" city governments Will
only heed All the good advice in the
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10 htlp the city keep up 'he pace
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21
Wasting

Are you nervous, restless,
pale and easily tired? Per-
haps the scales can tell you
why. If your weight is
below your average, that
explains it.
SCOTS Emulsion is a fat
producing food. You soon
begin to gain and you keep
on gaining long after you
stop taking it. For all
wasting diseases, in both
young and old, it is the one
standard remedy.
soc and sr.oo, all druggists
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Accidents come with distressing fire.
duency On the farm. cuts, bruises. stngs,
sprains. DR.. Thomas EclectTic OIL re-
licves the pain instantly. Never safe
without it,
mon. wed, fr, 2 1ky If
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

One doesn't have to look at tho
almanac to know that spring has Off
cially arrived.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Kansas has solved the Ola conun-
drum When is 4 newspaper not .
newspapers"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

The Deweys are down in Dixie ana
the March wclkin is ringing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

No Doticc whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communica sons.
The journal cannot be held respOn-
sible for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all com nicatiOns relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers,
Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Bath Times: The approach of the
annual Fast Day when nobody fasts
calls up the old controversy over this
anachronism. We have only to re-
mark as We have done before that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Now if the city governments will
only heed all the good advice in the
inaugurals.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

The Houlton inventors who were
accused of selling a water tower and
fire escape patent to New York parties,
for million dollars, explain that the
report is false. With Aroostook on
the boom. it cannot stop to bother with
New YOrk's paltry millions
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

Either the fair Colby co-ords are
unused to compliments or else they
have a unique standard Of Judging
men. According 10 the Echo one Of
them declared that for an evening
caller to wear dress suit lis con
sidercd ny us to be the highest com
pliment a man can pay 4 woman"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

The people VI in Eridgton DO not
like it because - much Of their mail
wanders III to Brighton il Somerset
county. Perhaps brighton will oblige
thcm BY ceasing ID exist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

one Maine paper advertiscs for Il
man to work ON Il farm of steady
habits. Probably this refers 10 one
where the fermented juice of the ap-
pie is a forbidden tonic, even in hay
ing time