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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05
here this week. Of course there is no
political significances to his visit.

/ met Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee,
who was defeated for the temporary
speakership, at the Kansas City club
this morning before the question was
decided. When asked how the matter
stood, Milwaukee's brusque mayor re-
piled: Damned if know, but it will
probably be settled this morning.
And it was.
Kansas City, July Especial Cor
respondence.)- If Kansas City were
picked up and moved bodily
to New York state, visitors
to it would still say it was typ.
ical western town. The growth Of
progress and the monuments of push
and energy rear their heads on every
hand. On the main business streets
small one-story frame buildings, relics
of the Kansas City of forty years ago
rub their sides against sky scrapers
and modern business houses are dom
iciled alongside stores that remind one
of the small western town that has
sprung upin night. 1t is city
of hills and no mistake, but they are
frequent and short, so that star,
down one gives you an impetus that
the brainiest young editors in the west
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But the people of Kansas City re.
mind one of the stories of southern
hospitality. They are kind and cour.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

was interviewed for column in the
Kansas City Times this morning, but
he didn't say much that is not already
known. The New York World of Sun
day morning had the photos of the en-
tire Iowa delegation, and other papers
have been equally generous towards
Iowans, particularly Col. Latin, Of OF
tumwa. The colonel was appointed as
neutrality-suspicious. of the national
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

The alderman from Chicago, who is
noted for giving away a carload of
turkeys and chickens to the poor OF
his ward every Christmas day, and who
has been caricatured by H. /. Cleve-
land in the Times-Herald, "Dooley'
in the Journal and Finnigan in the
Chronicle, hasno more of an Irish brog-
ne than | have and is a handsome man.
He had changed his attire for a light
coat and vest and wore q jaunty straw
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

he was over to the Coates house last
night looking for the West Virginia
delegation, thinking that there might
possibly be some acquaintances among
them from his old stamping ground.
There are thirty-three in the delega-
ton, and 1 met and drank with thirty
two of them-the other rot away" was
the way the colonel put it.
George T. Baker, of Davenport, one
of the four delegates at large, arrived
this morning and is a prominent figure
around the Iowa headquarters. ask
ed Mr.. Baker who he wanted for vice
president,and he said, ANY man that's
a good democrat" He said Carter
Harrison was good man and his nomi-
nation would greatly please him.
He is also against a specific 16 to 1 dec
laration in the platform. Mr.. Baker
may be named as Iowa member of the
committee on resolutions.
was member of group in the
Iowa headquarters this morning while
Harry Evans was telling about the re-
suit of the Iowa delegations interview
with Richard Croker, which speak of
at length in another place. After he
had finished telling that Mr.. Croker
said he was for 16 to 1 or anything
else that would poll the most votes.
H. r. Dawson, the editor of the Des
Moines Leader, and by the way one of
the brainiest young editors in the west,
spoke up and said: swell, that's just
like Croker. He's for free silver, free
lead, free whisky, or anything else that
will keep Tammany on top"
LATE Young is here. This may sound
strange to Iowa republicans, but Mr..
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

Standing before the fan in the Iowa
headquarters this morning MessrA
Dawson and Young, who had been
down to the depot to see Roosevelt on
his way thru, were discussing his ap-
.pearance and personality. He Ger.
tainly knows how to handle crowd
said Mr.. Dawson. 81 never saw such
q jam as there was at that depot. He
tried to speak, but you couldn't hear a
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racy, headed by Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, and their parade up the
street led by two bands, made quito
an imposing appearance. The men
We're all dressed in black, carried roll
ed umbrellas and wore high silk hats.
Alderman Coughlin had come to the
Iowa headquarters to see Cato. Sells
and was visiting with the delegates.
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teous to strangers and often conduct
them to their objective point for fear
that a mere direction would not be
sufficient. Many hundreds of citizens
wear on their coat lapels buttons on
which are the words, II live in Kansas
City. Ask me-" and they take positive
delight, I have found. in answering
questions. Besides these there are a
large number of boys distributed
around, in white uniforms, who are
known as official guides and they
cheerfully conduct one to wherever
he wants to go.
TO-
1.-THE colonel of all the Laflins" (o1
Ottumwa) still continues to attract at.
tention. This mornings st. Louis Re.
public has half tone snap, shot of the
colonel on the street, but the advertis.
ing Ottumwa might get out Of the fact
that it is the present abode of the col.
onel is spoiled because he is said to
come from OTTAWA" Iowa. The col
onel was telling me this morning that
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05
Hog Cholera In Iowa

Dubuque, July 3.-Alarming reports
of hog cholera come from various
neighborhoods in this county. 1t has
broken out very recently but is spread
ing rapidly. The Brothers at the New
Melleray monastery twelve miles from
the city, have lost over 200 heal in two
weeks. Many farmers near by are
heavy losers. Every effort is being
made to check the disease.
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ca for visitors at the hotel Baltimore.
There are probobly two hundred or
more Iowans here, and more are com
ing on every train. Among the late
arrivals from Ottumwa j noticed j. Il.
Burgess, James Gee, Jack Crawford.
Capt. Kitterman, Larry Kent, H. B.
Maynard, George Haw, Jr., and also
saw Sheriff John Doner, from Abba.
TOT
There is one familiar newspaper face
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

alton if he refused. The Englishman
broke away and turned in geneal
police alarm. The boys got onto the
racket and the train pulled out
of Toronto before the police could
get to the station.
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The Iowa headquarters are crowded
all the time, and seem to be the mec-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

trying position, when the time came,
and I'll confess I was slightly embar-
rassed Mr.. Mount, of Indiana, had
just made the sixth speech seconding
the nomination OF Mr.. Mckinley, and
was hooted down as the crowd was
tired. When / was recognized and
walked to the platform looked for
the same kind of reception as the
convention did not know what was
going to say, and I was unknown. l
thought of great many things to say,
and was trying to figure out what was
the best You nominated him for
president, didn't you?" said one of the
group. "Yes, that was slip of the
tongue, due to my embarrassment, bur
it was Immediately corrected by my
self and hundred other people close
to the stand"
A meeting of the Iowa state central
committee has been called for 3 o'clock
on the afternoon of the 4th for the
purpose of deciding the date of hold
ing the state convention and naming
the temporary officers. There is also a
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stripe to relieve it's soInbreness. A
plain white shirt supported short
stand-up collar and 25-cent Persian
string tie that looked much the worse
Tor constant wear. A cheap straw hat
completed his clothing outfit. His hair
IS long and bushy. coming to curl in
the back. His beard is of the same
dark brown and might be called strag-
giy He has steel gray eye that
sparkles when he talks and his face is
very expressive. Mr.. Clarke came to
the convention with two bands, and the
Iowa boys are all glad to know that
hewon out in his fight for seat in the
convention.
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After a visit to the Tam
many headquarters and another
Intellectual attempt 70 see the
great Croker, had to content my
self with glass of mineral water
with the Tammany brave in charge.
Then drifted into the Massachusetts
crowd, one of the central figures Of
which was John NJ. Grainey, of the
Boston Post, said to be one Of the
brightest newspaper men in Massachu-
setts. The delegation had just arrived
a few hours before, and after telling
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05

LATE Young is here. This may sound
strange to Iowa republicans, but Mr..
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-25
Didn't know wheeler.

1t is said by the friends of Gen. Joe
Wheeler that when he takes his seat in
the House of Representatives he will
make things lively for the red tape
branch of the military department, says
the New York Commercial And this is
quite possible, for the General is just as
fiery and unconventional in debate as he
is in battle. Last summer, Gen. Wheeler
entered Frank Burrelle's clipping bureau
where a scrap book was being made up
for him. and as the morning was sultry,
and as Mr.. Burrelle had not arrived, he
took off his coat, and seating himself in
the editors chair, began reading news
paper. After awhile, as the mercury still
continued to rise, he Invested himself of
his wastcoat. Meanwhile a man came in,
darditied and loquacious, and seeing
hilippine war headline of scare proper
tionS in the paper, the General was read
ing, at once began explaining how easy
it was to capture Aguinaldo and put an
end to the campaign. You are evidently
a man of military experience" said the
General. "Oh, yes was the reply, L am
first lieutenant in the volunteers" Il
thought so,' said the General meekly
putting on his coat and vest and going
cut. who is that old duffer?' inquired
the dandified young man of Mr. Burrelle,
who had just come in. "The old gentleman
just gone out? Oh, that is Gen. Joe
Wheeler" The veally Sheridan staggered
rather than walked out of the office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-25
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the Different
Branches of the Building Trade; Univers-
fly Club of Savannah; Zerubbabel Lodge
No. Is, F. and A. NJ.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, N. P.
Sjogren, Master American Brig Irene; No
tlce to Bar; Ship Notice, Paterson, Down
ing & Co, Consignees; Paints, Oils Warm
ishes, Etc, Andrew Hanley Company;
Fancy and Re-Pressed Brick, Savannah
Building Supply Company; Remarkable
Value in Mems Clothing, Leopold Adler;
Proposals Wanted George NJ Gadsden
Director; Bids Wanted, George NJ. Gads-
den, Director; Notice to Superior Court
Jurors.
Business Notices-E. & w. Laundry;
Only Once,in a Lifetime, Hunter & Van
Keuren; Graham Flour. Etc, Estate s.
w Branch.
A Home Enterprise-The Georgia Tele-
graph and Telephone> Companys Tele-
phones
SO 1-3 Per Cent. Off-At Gutman's.
Our Spot Cash Clearing Sale-The Met
ropolitan Clothing Company.
Cigars-Winnie Davis Cigars.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of Martin
p. Warren, Bankrupt; In the Matter of
Henry w. Fowler, Bankrupt; Notice of
First Meeting of Creditors in the Matter
of Jessie Newman, Bankrupt OF Creditors
in the Matter of Thomas F. Cullen, Bank
rupt OF Creditors of Kahn & Hirsch,
Bankrupts; Notice to Debtors and Credit
ors. Estate John Screven. Deceased.
He Sees His Finish-Georgia Steam
Laundry.
Railroad Schedule-Plant System.
Soap-Hyomei Antiseptic Skin Soap.
Whisky-Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey;
Hunter Baltimore Rye Whisky.
Salt-The Favorite Salt.
Medical-McE lree's Wine of Cardui;
Hoods Sarsaparilla; s. S. s.; Ayers Cher
ny Pectoral; Mothers Friend; Worlds Dis
pensary Preparations; DR.. Hathaway
Company; Peruna.
Amusements-"Why Jones Left Home, -
Matinee, and "A Practical Joke" at The
ater Tonight.
The Great Fire Sale-Daniel Hogan.
Inventory Over and Down Go the
Prices-Leopold Adler.
Conductors Lanterns-Edward Lovells
Sons.
Auction Sales-Good Lot on Twelfth
Street, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Cheap Column Advertsements-H Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
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Hyman for Time of War.

From the London Standard
BY the Dean of Rochester.
Father, forgive Thy children come to
claim
The pardon promised to their grief and
shame;
Forgetful, thankless, in their wayward
will;
Father, Thou knowest. and Thou lowest
still.
Love warns and chastens, love rebukes
their pride.
Who in themselves and not in Thee con-
fide;
Though vast our armies, and our quarrel
Thine all the Power. in Thee be all our
trust.
Be with us. God Of battles, in this fight;
Ourselves are sinful, but our cause is
right;
Be with our soldiers; arm them, heart
and mind.
In danger dauntless, but in conquest kind
Pity the wounded, be they friend or foe
And help their helpers in the hours of
woe;
Bless all, o. Christ, who do Thy gracious
will.
Bless the kind nurse, and bless the sur
geons skill
God of the widow. soothe her sore dis
tress,
Be Thou the Father of the fatherless,
And teach the mother. mourning for her
son,
To pray Christs prayer, Thy will, not
mine, be DONE
Inspire Thy priests with wisdom from
above,
To tell the dying OF Thy deathless love,
To tell brave hearts that Duty, beaten
down
And vanquished here. sball wir The vic
tors crown.
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Trying to BE Pleasant.

He had read somewhere that the surest
mark of gallantry and good breeding is
politeness to the aged, says the Chicago
Times-Herald.
So when dinner was announced and no
body seemed to be making a rush for the
honor of escorting the beautiful Corde-
las grandmother to the table he turned
from the younger ladies, determined to
show that he was well aware of the first
duty of gentleman.
The sweet old lazy beamed upon him as
she took his arm, and her son, the fair
Cordelia S father gaVed him a look of I'M
disguised approval.
After they We're seated he felt that he
ought to say something; but he couldn't
think of anything that seemed to be
worth discussing with a lady 70 years of
age If she had been Cordelia he would
have had a thousand things to say. AS
it was, there was nothing that he could
turn into an excuse for engaging her at
tention.
The others were laughing and chatting,
but Cordelia, who sat at the opposite side
of the table, was furtively watching him.
He must not let her discover that he was
tored He must show her that he found it
a pleasure to sit beside her grandmother.
He became desperate. Turning to the
still beautiful old lady he asked merely
for the purpose, be it understood, of get
ting some sort of a conversation started:
DO you believe in the theory that the
good die young?"
He has now abandoned the theory that
it always pays to be polite.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-25

Gov. Nash of Ohio. on the day of his
Inauguration, arose early and spent an
hour in the cemetery by the grave of his
wife and children.
-Ex-Gov. Frederick ROBBIE of Maine,
who was married last Wednesday at the
age of Is, is stiH an active man, an ardent
hunter and a splendid shot
Queen Victoria always breakfasts pri-
vately as a relief from the formality of
other meals. In summer wherever she is,
she has the breakfast served in the open
air.
Thomas A. Edison's first large earn
ings were $4,000. This he got from
telegraph company for the model of the
now famous ticker for which he had
intended to ask 5000.
Congressman J. c. Needham of Cali
fornia began to collect postage stamps
when he was a small boy, and has never
given up his collection. which is now one
of the best i'll the United States.
"A monument to the memory of Father
Ryan, the poet-priest and author of The
Bivouac of the Dead" is proposed by the
Virginia Daughters of the Confederacy,
and a substantial sum has already been
collected.
The committee engaged in the work of
providing home for Gen. Wade Hampton
has bought a building lot in Columbia. S.
c., and is now having erected thereon a
comfortable house. The funds for the pur-
pose were provided by public subscrip-
ton, against which Gen. Hampton pro-
tested, but to no avail
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-25
BRIGHT BITS.

Little Wife, saved $50 to-day
Loving Husband-Youre an angel How :?
Little Wife-I saw perfectly lovely
easy chair that I knew you'd like and
didn't buy it.-New York Weekly.
j Honest onfession.-"Young man."
said the careful father. "1f I consent to
you marrying my daughter, will you fur
nish her the luXuries TO which she is ac-
customed?" We'll" said the young man,
at is more than likely that won't be
buying her as many theater admissions as
have been doing for the past year.
Indianapolis Press.
II suppose there is no doubt about the
signature being genuine" said the paying
teller affably 20 the man who was cashing
a check in his own favor. Look here"
was the answer You're not going to pin
me down. I served on the jury once, and
you've got to stick up blackboard and go
get me to say a word about anybody's
handwriting. I'm a natural stickler for
the formalities. Washington Star.
A Mere uggestlon.-"Now," said the
critic, TN tell you what l would do with
this play il l were in your place I would
switch it around completely and have the
last act first" But" replied the author,
Il don't see how that could be done. The
villain is killed and the hero marries the
girl in the last act'- If that were switched
around so as to be the first what would
be the use of having the other three acts?'
mo use. Change it, by all means. Chi
caeo Times-Herald.
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TWO CARNEGIE STORIES.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
iron manufacturer is figuring extensively
in the newspapers. There is a story that
he is in a state of mind bordering on
frenzy because his assistants gave Mr..
Mcdonald Gfe contractor who secured the
contract for cons tructing the rapid tram
sit tunnel in New York, an option year
or so ago for the steel necessary for that
undertaking at prices which prevailed at
that time. Mr. Mcdonald, ii is said, based
his bid on the prices offered him in the
option, which are about SO per cent. less
than the prices at the present time and
hence. ne was able TO underbid all COM
petitors The cost of the steel that will
be needed in the tunnel is estimated to
be about $1,000, 600 If there is any truth
in the story it is not to be wondered at
that MIR. Carnegie is not quite as easy
in his mind as he would like to be- He
will have to furnish the steel at loss.
Another story is thatMr. Carnegie has
practically made up his mind TO back up
Mr.. Bryan in the campaign this year,
provided the Democratic party will put
strong plank in it's platform against ex-
DdnSlOn. IL Is d Wen hilONii lat ludl he
is greatly opposed to expansion, especially
to making a permanent possession of The
Philippines. On the authority of Wash
ington ID. c. paper it IS stated that Mr..
Carnegie told a Democratic senator that
he was so much opposed to expansion that,
although strongly in favor of the single
gold standard, he would willingly furnish
the Democratic party all the campaign
funds it needed, after 1t had exhausted its
supplies from its usual sources if it would
take a strong stand against expansion.
The Washington paper says that when
this was told to Mr.. Bryan on the occa-
sion of mis- visit to Washington last week,
he Immediately made up his mind TO take
firm stand for silver and anti-expansion
during his visit to what he has hereto
fore spoken of as the "enemy's country"
There may be some truth in the first
story and grain of truth in the latter
story. 1t is doubtful however, If Mr..
Bryan's programme was changed in the
slightest by anything Mr.. Carnegie may
have said.
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THE ENEMY OF THE ORCHARDS.

The report which Entomologist Scout
read at the meeting of the fruit growers
at Macon on Tuesday was fun of interest
and instruction 1t contained a great deal
of information that is valuable 20 the
fruit growers. II is doubtful II many OIL
them knew that the San Jose scale the
great enemy of the orchards was TO oe
found in so many parts of the state De-
fore they head Mr.. SCOTS report read. IL
the fruit growers knew it the people gen.
orally did not.
1t seems that the San Jose scale is to
be found in thirty counties, the most oil
the counties being south of Macon. 1t has
been found in only five counties north OF
that city. II was not known in the state
twelve years ago, or, if it was, it was
confined to few localities and attracted
very little attention. year ago. Mr.
Scott went over the whole state and found
it in 200 localities. 1t was brought to
Georgia from California originally, and
subsequently from New Jersey and Mary
land. The trees from the nurseries from
those states were infested with it.
Now it is found in orchards in which
there are only a few trees, and in those
which have as many as $4,000 trees.
year or so ago some of the nurseries of
the state were badly infested with it.
Now. however all of them have been pref
ty well freed from it. This has been done
by destroying the infested nurseries where
the trees were badly affected and by use
ing means for destroying the insect IN
those which showed but slight signs of
the scale. The loss which the fruit inter-
est of the state has suffered on account
of it is very great. 1t has been necessary,
in some instances, to uproot and burn the
trees of orchards containing thousands of
trees.
Mr.. Scott does not hope to get rid Of
the scale. The most that he expects is
to hold it in check. This will have to be
done by fighting the pest by scientific
methods. The trees have to be watched
closely, and destroyed when beyond help
If properly treated in time, however they
can be saved The treatment is now pref
ty well understood by all fruit growers.
The impression given by Mr.. SCOTS re-
port is that he is deeply interested in his
work, and that the fruit growers are for
tuIldte IN having SO CONSCIENTIOUS anu dHAS
a scientist to look after the welfare of
their orchards. The thing they should
keep in mind, however, is that no matter
how efficient and dilgent Mr. Scott may be-
the enemy of their orchards cannot be held
in check unless they do their part well.
They must be watchful, prompt in destroy
ing trees that are SO seriously diseased
that they cannot be saved, and thorough
in treating those which can be saved. In
efficient treatment is but little better than
no treatment. In dealing with the scale
there must be intelligence combined with
thorough treatment The fruit interests of
the state have become very great, and
they are steadily increasing, but in order
that they may continue to increase, there
must be no let up in the war on the San
Jose scale.