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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27
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Poetical illusions. )
AN oLD-TlmE SINGER.

I don't want any hymn book when the
Methodists is nigh.
A-linin out the OF onss that went thrill.
in to the sky
In the OF camp meetin seasons, when
'twus GLORY hallelu!''
An Brother. rise an tell US what the
Lord has done fer your
Fer knew them songs SO perfect that
when I git the swing
OF the tune they want to go to I kin shet
my eyes ar sing
ION Jordan's stormy banks, su' OIL
..Amazin' Grace''-they seem
So nat'ral. I'm nike some one that's singin'
in dream!
Oh, when it comes to them OF songs
allus does my part;
An I've got the ol'-time Bible down. as
you might say, "by hearth
When the preacher says the fust word
in the givin' of his text
smile with satisfaction, cos know
what's comm next!
The wife says, That's amazin'!" an the
preacher says-says he,
With lots O. meanin in his voice. an
lookin' queer at me:
essence you know more o. the Bible than
the best OF us kin teach.
Don't you think you orter practice what
you're payin' us to preach?"
Well. that gifts me in corner-an' sor-
ter raise my eyes
An the tune about them titles to the *
mansions in the skies!''
I want the benedaction then-Im ready Ia
depart!
But when it comes to singin-well. I've
4 got the hymns by heart!
F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Con1titution.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27
CHAPTER XVII.
WALDO GOES OUT TO SIT IN THE SUN.

WALDO GOES OUT TO SIT IN THE SUN
: SHINE.
1t had been prineely day. The long
morning had melted slowly into
rich afternoon. Rains had covered the
"karroo" with heavy coat Of green
that hid the red earth everywhere. In
the very chinks of the stone walls dark
green leaves hung out, and beauty and
growth had crept even into the beds of
the sandy burrows and lined them with
weeds. On the broken sod walls of,
the old pigsty chickweeds fourished,
and ice plants lifted their transparent
leaves. Waldo was at work in the
wagon house again. He was making
a kitchen table for EN- AS the long
curls gathered in heaps before his
plane he paused for an instant now and
again to throw one down to small
naked niger who had crept from its
mother, who stood churning in the sun
shine, and had crawled into the wagon
house. From time to time the little ami
NAL lifted its fat hand as it expected
fresh shower Of curls till Doss. jeal-
GUS of his masters noticing any other
small creature but himself, would
catch the curl in his mouth and roll
the little kattir over in the sawdust,
much to that small animals content
ment.
A different life showed itself in front
of the house. where Tant' Sannie's cart
stood ready ''inspanned." and the Boer
woman herself sat in the front room
drinking coffee. She had come to visit
her stepdaughter, probably for the
last time, Us she now weighed 26O
pounds and was no. easily able to
move. On a chair SAT her mild young
husband nursing the baby, q pudding
faced, weak eyed child.
you take it and get into the cart
with it," said Tant' Sannie what do
you want here, listening to our wom-
an talk 2"
The young man arose and meekly
went out with the baby.
"L'm glad you are going to be mar
ried, my child" said Tant Sannie as
she drained the last drop from her
coffee cup II wouldn't say SO while
that boy was here. 1t would make
him too conceited. But marriage is
the finest thing in the world. I've
been at it three times, and il it pleased
God to take this husband from me
should have another. There's nothing
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27
LAWToN's LAST BATTLE.

(San Mateo. December 10, 1897
Up the Mariauina valley
In sheets of pouring rain,
Through rows Of sodden rice-iele
Knee-deep In mud and water.
AGAINST a. storm of lead.
The Yankee troops Went riding
With Iawton at the head.
He laughed at death or danger,
The bravest of the brave,
( AS he faced the flaming trenches
But bullet dug his grave.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27
DEFEAT OF THE sTRATEelsT.

The strategist sat in his easy chair,
I And wrinkled his massive brow;
And the stra tegist wrote of the when and
the where.
Likewise of the why and the how:
He laid out the way and he picked out tho
spot,
He dealt with the 'ifs" and the why's
And clearly set forth how the fight should
be fought
In words that were pointed and wi-e.
The strategist laid out plan of campaign
That left no escape for the foe;
His cunning was deep and his language
was plain,
Or, at least, he intended it so;
And as he disposed of great armies Of men
And parceled out states and was glad,
A lady slipped in and surprised him and
then -.
She spoke of work" that she had
The strategist "hemmed" and the strate-
gist "hawed,''
And he nervously squirmed in his chair;
He longed to get out and go roamin0
abroad,
But the lady had cornered him thare
And the strategist frowned and the STRAIT.
egist binked,
But the woman was pretty and bland,
And when she departed his three dollars
chtnked
In the purse that she held in her hand
IS. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27

1AlCI oGdlu luc luuS DIS IL w 1S pelOiN.
Leave me in the hereafter the being
that am today. Rob me Of the
thoughts, the feelings, the desires, that
are my life, and you have left nothing
to take. Your immortality is annihila-
ton; your hereafter is lie.
Waldo flung open the door and walk
ed out Into the starlight, his pain
stricken thoughts ever driving him on
as he paced there.
"There must be hereafter because
man longs for it, he whispered. as
not all life from the cradle to the grave
one long yearning for that which we
never touch? There must be a here
after because we cannot think of any
end to life. Can we think of begin
ming? Is 1t easier to say I was not
than to say I shall not be? And yet
where were we 80 years ago? Dreams,
dreams! All, all dreams and lies! No
ground anywherew
All dies, all dies! The roses are red
with the matter that once REDEEMED
the cheek of the child. The flowers
bloom the fairest on the last years bat
tleground. The work of Deaths finger
cunningly wreathed over is at the
heart of all things, even Of the living
Deaths finger is everywhere. The
rocks are built up of life that was
Bodies, thoughts and loves die. From
where springs that whisper to the tiny
soul of man, You shall not die?" All
is there no truth of which this dream is
the shadow?
He fell into perfect silence And at
last, as he walked there with his bent
head, his soul passed down the steps
of contemplation into that vast land
where there is always peace; that land
where the soul, gazing long, loses all
consciousness of it's little self and al
most feels its hand on the old mystery
of Universal Unity that surrounds it.
mo death. no death" he muttered.
"There is that which never dies. which
ahides. 1t is but the individual that
perishes; the whole remains. 1t is the
organism that vanisles; the atoms are
there. 1t is but the man that dies; the
Universal Whole Of which he is part
reworks him into its inmost self. All,
what matter that mans day be short;
that the sunrise sees him, and the sun
set sees his grave. That of which he
is but the breath has breathed him
forth and drawn him back again. That
abides; we abide"
For the little soul that cries aloud for
continued personal existence for itself
and its beloved there is no help. For
the soul which knows itself no more as
unit, but as part of the Universal
Unity of which the Beloved also is a
| part, which feels within itself the
throb Of the Universal Life-for that
| soul there is no death. - -, (.
LET us die beloved, you and 1, that
we may pass on forever through the
Universal. Lifew In that deep world
of contemplation all fierce desires die
out, and peace comes down. He oval
do as he walked there saw no more
the world that was about him; cried
out no more for the thing that he had
lost. His soul rested. Was it only
John. think you. who saw the heavens
open? The dreaIners see it every day.
So age succeeds age. and dream sue
ceeds dream. and of the joy Of the
dreamer no man kpoweth but he who
dreameth.
| Our fathers had their dream; we
have ours; the generation that follows
and phantoms man cannot exist.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27

The relatives OF Roy Robinson, who
was killed at Reinbecl, have been
paid $1,000 by the Chicago Great Nest
ern railway.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27
A LITTLE FARTHER ON.


Just little farther on-just a. little far.
Their on 81
oh, the happy days that lure US, when
these days of stress are gone!
Days of restfulness and pleasure, days Of
garnered joy and treasure,
All the harvest homes of dreamland-just
little farther on.
With a hope to keep them smiling, faces
wistful. faces wan!
With a spur to faint endeavor, till the
crushing task is done!
All 'twould be sorry showing life would,
make for Gods bestowtng
II the good time did not beckon-just q
little farther on
Just little farther on, just little farther =
on,
Is the joy we've almost tasted, The crown
we've almost won.
Ply the task q little stronger, stay the arm
little longer;
We shall grasp the shining guerdon-just
a little farther on.
ing Farther On!-
Fairy lantern in the twilight, when the
.s summer day is done.
Though we never overtake it, we ca n never
quite forsake it:
While it glimrners it beguiles us-just a
Il little farther on.
But there is Farther On, aye. there is
Farther On
In the uttermost sweet country, where no
mortal foot has gone.
BY and by, beyond all seeming, we shall
come tolife's redeeming,
Come to all that faith has promised-just
little farther on!
James Buckharn, in Orange Judd Farmer.
taE. =, $Jl ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27

The new railroad between Clinton
and Davenport is meeting with great
success
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.

SPRINGFIELD, H., June 26.-The
Democratic State Convention tonight
nominated Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora
for Governor and adjourned until to-
morrow when the ticket will be com
pleted n the platform adopted.
The Committee on Resolutions has
completed its work and the platform is
now in the hands of Mayor Harrison,
chairman of the committee. 1t reaf-
firms the entire Chicago platform of
1896; strongly condemns trusts; up
holds the Monroe doctrine; denounces
the "eowaTdly acts of President Nc
kinley" in dealing with the Philip
pines, denounces the Porto Rican tar
IN Dill and expresses sympathy with the
Beers in their struggle for liberty; en-
dorses the administration of Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago. and his attitude
on the street car question and instructs
the delegates TO the National Conven-
ton TO vote for Bryan for President.
The platform makes no specific allu-
sion TO Is TO l. This subject was de-
bated at length by the subcommittee
of sever which by a vote of five to two.
decided merely to reaffirm the Chicago
platform.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June 26.-The
Democratic State convention to-day
nominated the following partial State
ticket:
Governor, jeff Davis; Secretary of
State, John w. Crockett; Attorney
General, George w. Murphy; State
Treasurer, Thomas E. Little; Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, G.. d..
Wood.
The ticket was not completed owing
to a wrangle over allowing the vote of
mississippi county to be cast by a
proxy for State Auditor, and the con-
yention adjourned until tomorrow.
The platform, which will be sub
mitted tomorrow, will favor reaffirm-
alton of the Chicago platform, oppose
Imperialism and contain a vigorous
antitrust plank. Senator J. X. Jones.
j. H. Berry and Hon. JEFF Davis, who
was nominated to-day for Governor,
probably will be elected delegates at
large. Judge Edgar E. Bryant may be
the fourth delegate at large.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
NEWS FULLY CONFIRMED.

LONDON, June 26.-The dispatch of
the Associated Press from Chez Foo,
giving Rear Admiral Kempf's author
itative announcement of the relief of
Tien Tsin, June %, remained for hours
the sole news of this occurrence of
worldwide Importance. At about one
o'clock the Hong Kong and Shanghai
banks London branch received con-
firmation of the news and at about the
same time Mr.. Dawson, a delegate from
Singapore to the congress of the AS
ISOLATION of Chambers of Commerce Of
the United Kingdom, now in session
here, informed his fellow delegates,
amid loud cheering, that he had just
received a dispatch from his son an
nouncing the relief of Tien Tsin.
The News Reached Berlin Later
from the German consul at Chez Foo,
who announced that the relief col
umn entered Tien Tsin during the
afternoon of June 90, and started again
on June "a to rescue Vice Admiral Sey-
four, who, with the foreign ministers,
was said to be occupying a position
twelve and a half miles from Tien
Tsin, where he was surrounded and
hard pressed by a great force of box
ers" and Chinese regulars. Possibly
the Japanese report that Seymour is
a prisoner and that the ministers had
left Pekin guarded by Chinese soldiers
is merely a distorted version of the
Berlin story. But, in any event, defin-
lite news may be expected speedily, and
it is confidently believed here that Sey-
mour and his companions will be safe
ly delivered from their plight.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27

petition was reported ten miles from
Tien Tsin, surrounded.
This cleared up one situation, only to
present another condition which may
prove ven more grave.
Isle Casualty List
of the first engagement was awaited
anxiOusly and arrangements were made
by the officials to have relays through
the night in order that this list may be
handled with the greatest dispatch and
be given to. the public at the first op-
%portunity.
The Navy Department to-day re-
ceived a telegram from a number of
the officers assigned to the Wisconsin,
now under construction at San Fran
cisco, asking to be assigned to active
service in Chinese waters. The Off
GERS signing the dispatch were Captain
Reiter. Lieut.. Commanders Milton and
Mayo, L~ieutenants McElroy, Alderman
and Vogelgesang and Ensign Cronin.
The department to-day accepted the
services of an officer on the retired list,
under authority conferred by a recent
act of Congress. The officer is Lieut..
j. G. Townley, retired, who is ordered
to sail on the steamer leaving San Fran
cisco July 10. 1t Is expected that many
other retired officers will be called
back to active service If tn emergency
becomes pressing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
SCI DEPLoRED.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-The on
cials here receive with regret and con-
Germ the reports from Che Foo that
discord existed between the Russians
and the so-called Anglo-Americans.
Coming from the officers OF the Terri
BILE. ii is considered as largely sailor
talk At the same time IL has been
recognized from the outset that such
a heterogeneous force gave opportunl-
ties for serious division. az IL is well
known that the sailors and soldiers
OF certain countries do not like to serve
under British commanders. and that
British sailors and soldiers have the
same Discrimination u take orders
from asforeign superior. But It has
been hoped that the peril OF the mo-
ment would lead all differences 10 be
sunk in order that a common purpose
might be executed against a common
enemy. One OF the chief dangers ap-
pretended has been that the foreign
ers would separate into factions, not
only reducing their power against the
Chinese. but opening up the o SER
ious possibility OF an international
breach between the forces of the for
eign powers. Besides this, II is felt
here that the Russian authorities. al
ways sensitive, will quickly resent this
So -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
HON. WILLIAM SULZERSBOOA'
STERLING PRICE, OF PARIS, TEX
AS, HAS ARRIVED AT KANSAS
CITY,
And Has Begun Arrangements for
Opening Suffers Headquarters.
The Temporary Chairmanship
Decentralization Working Night
and Day ON the Convention Hall.
Tennessee is fer Hill.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 26.-The
first arrivals for the Democratic con-
vention came in to-day. They were
John J.. Fitzgerald, a delegate from
Kings county, New York, and Jacob
Rupert, Jr., of New York City, an al
ternate at large.
Both are quoted as saying they do
not favor the free silver plank in the
Democratic platform.
There are so many issues more i'm
portant," said Mr.. Rupert, that I
think free silver need not be mentioned
at all. The party in the East will not
stand for free silver"
Sterling Price, of Paris, Texas, ar
rived here to-day and began arrange
ments for opening headquarters for
Congressman William Sulzer, of New
York, who is expected on Friday or Sat
urday. Incidentally Mr.. Price started
a boom for the New Yorker for Vice
President.
THE West knows" Mr.. Price is
quoted as saying, that the candidate
for Vice President must go to the East.
1t ought to be New York. Sulzer is the
man who appeals to the elements we
need to carry New York"
Although the Democratic national
committee will not meet here until
Monday next to select it's temporary of
icers, considerable gossip is being in
dulged in as to the selection of temper
airy chairman.
The Star this evening says that it
lies apparently between D.. A. Rose,
mayor of Milwaukee, and Governor
Charles N. Thomas, Of Colorado, with
the chances in favor of Mr.. Rose.
Gangs of men are working day and
night to complete the new convention
hall, and there is every assurance that
Kansas City's promises of a suitable
meeting place will be fulfilled. The
hall directors say they will turn the
building over to the national committee
on Monday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
RED RIOT RAN RAMPANT
But There Was No Blood in It-OnIy
Red Ink-A Stirring Court Room
Scene.

Scene.
Special to the Register.
PARSONS, W. Va, June 26.-Circuit
Court, now in session here, with Judge
J.. H. Holt on the bench, has been
spiced with a variety of side issues,
no down on the docket. The session
has been, in fact, one of the most ex-
citing yer held in the county.
During a speech last week Attorney
A. M. Cunningham, of Davis, accused
Prosecuting Attorney w. G.. Conley
of violating his oath of Office. Conley
said nothing until he got the floor for
a response, when he replied to Cum
ningham's accusation by saying that
he Cunningham had told a false
hood. At this juncture Cunningham
seized a very heavy cut glass inkstand,
a really deadly weapon, and hurled it
at Conley, missing him, however, but
scattering the red ink, with which the
well was filed, over almost every
member of the bar present, as well as
a number of other persons, and dis
figuring the walls of the new court
house badly. Cunningham a~pologized
TO the court. but no other punishment
was inflicted.
To-day the dramatic feature of the
session was outclassed when the Judge
ordered the Sheriff to take TO Jail a
citizen named Kerr, who went TO sleep
in the court room and snored. He was
incarcerated in the county tail.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27
W. SUITS ENTERED
Against the Consolidated Traction
Company of Pittsburg-Receiver
Asked For.

Asked For.
PITTSBURG, Pa, June 26.-In an
effort to prevent the leasing of the Con-
solidated Traction Company to the
Union Traction Company for nine hun
dred years, which lease was authoriz-
ed by the majority stockholders of the
former company at a special meeting
on June goth, two suits in equity have
been entered in the Circuit Court of
the United States, western district Of
Pennsylvania. Both suits are brought
by George w. Stern, of New York, the
owner OF five hundred shares Consol-
idated stock. In the first suit the court
is asked to restrain the Consolidated
Traction Company and Joshua Rhodes,
t. H. Given, G. L. Magee, B. f. Jones
and John A. Bell. directors of said
Traction Company, and the Union
Traction Company from communicating
the above mentioned lease, and in the
second suit the orator asks that a re-
ceiver be appointed for the Consolidated
Company. Among the reasons given
for the prevention of the lease are
these:
That the Union Traction Company is
owned and controlled by the majority
stockholders of the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company, and the lease is made
for their sole benefit and to the loss
and disadvantage of the minority stock
holders; that the plaintiff believes the
capital stock of the Union company,
which is now $1,000, is to be increased
to $4,000, 600, the increase to be paid
in whole or in part by the equity or
value Of the lease; and that the stock
of the Union company is to be divided
among the stockholders in that COM
pany who are majority stockholders in
the Consolidated company, thus depriv-
ing the minority stockholders of their
rights.
In the bill asking for a receiver, the
plaintif AYERS that no meeting of the
stockholders of the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company has been held since It's
organization, nor any reports of its
financial affairs made until March 80,
last, when a meeting was called to
consider the proposed lease t the
Union Traction Company; that the
stock of the company is divided into
preferred and common, the former re-
ceiving dividends at the rate OF b per
cent. per annum to be paid out OF the
earnings of the company; that tho af-
fairs of the company have been SO
managed that it has not been operated
al a profit; that the directors, for the
purpose of keeping up the price o. the
stock and paying dividends upon pre-
ferred stock, did from time to time pay
6 per cent. dividends, alleged to be out
of earnings, but which were in sacL out
of moneys borrowed for the purpose of
paying said dividends; that the fnan-
cial statement Of the company furnish
ed June 20, shows that $S05 ,663 have
been paid out Of borrowed moneys as
dividends in excess of the earnings OF
the company, and that in addition ts
this 8 per cent. per onnum, or $780,
900, should be charged against the cost
of construction $4,000, 000) for depre-
citation.