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The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

M ANTED-COmpetent woman as comDan-
" ion and assistant to invalid lady at old
Orchard through the month of August lii
qure at 60 FREE STREET IL
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

EVANTED-An experienced nurse maid at
~ once. MRS. +. A. NELLY, Hotel Fiske,
Old Orchard. Maine. Ii
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

w ANTED-At once, Table Girls at NOR
w TOMS CAFE. Ii
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

EOK RENT-House Nc. 63 Gray street. Nine
rooms beside halls, bath and sore rooms;
hot ana cold water, set tubs, furnace heat; with
good yard room. All in first class order. En-
quire dt A DEERING ST., morning, noon or
night 22tf
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01
Important to Mothers.

FEMALE HELP WANTED.
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

TO LET-First class rent of eight rooms at
223 High ST. Price SOS. Inquire of g EO
G. HOPKINS, 50 IL Exchange ST leIdtf
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

ITO LET-Two second floor new six-room
flats, besides bath and pantry in six-fat
block, "a and 26 high ST.; open pic mhing; hard
wood floors; open tire-places; wood, coal ana
clothes reel on same floor. L. NJ. LEIGH TON,
80 Exchange ST. 26-1
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS Frederick
IL S. Vail has the largest list of desirable
houses and apar, ments for sal4 and to let OF
any real estate office in Portland. His spec
ialty is negotiating mortgages, collecting rents,
and the economical management of property.
Apply REAL ESTATE OFFICE First
aLonal Bank Building. ly25dlmO
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

w ANTED-A quiet, intelligent oman from
w % to As to take care of GONZALES ent
lady. Apply day time at 196 HIGH STREET.
to O'Clock preferred 3l-1
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no LET-New, up-to-date frst-foor seven
A room fiat; all modern, ready to occupy:
cor. RacKletf ST. Woodfords. L. M. LEIGH-
TON. So Exchangs ST. Pol
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

VlO LET-Two first class. first and second
Z floor, seven room flats. in two Nat
house; slate sink Eand tubs in each kitchen;
up-to-date every way; Norwoo ST., cor. Am
herst WcOifor0S. j.. Nj. LEIGHTON, 53 EX-
change St. 26-I
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

DOR SALE~.Two horizontal tubular boilers
for house heating, are in first class con
dition. VIII sell at half price OF new boilers.
REUBEN WESCOTT. 139 Lancaster St, foot
of Myrtle. 262
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

w TWO Pantry Girls, Two Scrub Women.
Good wages. Apply to D. B. SMITH, Biyerton
PArk.
The Portland daily press., 1900-08-01

VVANTED-A girl to do plain cooking. Ap-
" ply at Office OF e b. s. b 494 Congress
ST. 2g-f
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
THE REGISTERS ADVICE.

In advising the legislators of Iowa
how to vote for United States senator
the Iowa State Register says:
s'If you have an idea you may fortify
yourselves by bringing your ear to the
ground, to catch the popular trend, be
not deceived. Legislators have many
times been driven from public life for
a vote cast apparently in line with
popular sentiment, while others have
been handsomely endorsed after APP
parent utter defiance of the popular
will.'
In these sentences the Register prac-
tically admits that the popular senti-
ment of the state is for Gear. The
Register is rabid Cummins paper. 1t
would go to almost any length to gain
vote for the candidate. When the
Register, then, begins to warn legis-
lators of the danger of being infiu-
enced by popular sentiment, and holds
out hopes of glorious reward to those
who wilfully disregard the voice of the
people it is mighty good sign that
the people are in favor of Gear and
against the Registers man.
Any Iowa legislator who thinks he
will win laurels, and abundant praise
by voting for a candidate whom the
people do not favor is counting politi-
cal death. Not many members OF the
coming general assembly will hearken
to the Registers siren song.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

s. The stories which come from time to
time about alleged enlistments of large
numbers of Americans for the armies
of the Beers or the British are UNI
doubleday exaggerations. There are
many persons in the United States who
are in sympathy with the British, and
many others who would be glad to see
the Beers win, but it is safe to say that
very few are going to transmute their
feelings into deeds. The Transyaal is
good many thousand miles away
from the United States. The war in
that quarter of the world is something
in which Americans in general can
have only a mild interest, except in a
purely historical sense. Probably there
are few Americans on each side in
that conflict. The humber OF, these,
however, and the number who will en-
gage in it if it lasts a year longer, is
undoubtedly much smaller than is pop
ularly imagined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

There are plenty of sentimental rea-
sons for sympathizing with the Beers
without resorting to claptrap. The
Beers are fighting to prevent the
strangers from ruling their country by
securing citizenship and outvoting
them and changing Boer customs to
English customs. They are not fight
ing for republicanism, but for dig
archy. They are not fighting for de-
mocracy, but to retain their identity
by denying democracy to the stranger.
They are, indeed, fighting for home
rule by native exclusively. They are
fighting for the ballot, but a ballot for
Dutch. They are truly fighting for
love of home against the love of gold,
bur not. for freedom, because freedom
means equality of rights. They are
not fighting for any church except for
the Dutch Reformed church, and they
are not fighting for free institutions in
the American sense. The Beers are
fighting for the rights of the first pos
sessed against the later corners, and for
the right to be left alone and against
foreign interference. These are the
plain facts and they cannot be success.
fully controverted.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

the county seat, the Iowa newspapers
are almost unanimous in opposing the
board of controls proposition for the
abolition of the county insane asy
tlums. The same considerations obvi-
ouslys governed the action Of the county
supervisors of the Second congression-
al district at their meeting last Friday,
when they took strong ground in OPP
position. to the change. Such narrow
motives are hidden by THE plea that it
would be inconvenient for the friends
of the insane to travel to the more CEN
trally located Institutions that might
be established. Yet it is probable that
almost any person who really cared
for an insane relative would prefer to
visit him less often if by so doing it
would be possible for the unfortunate
to receive better treatment. The pres
5ent county insane asylums seem to be
Of allskinds-goodb bad and Indifferent.
Even the best, however, are hampered
by lack of sufficient funds. If there
were three or four centrally located
asylums the patients would be able to
receive the expert care of capable
alienists,s whose services can be COM
inanded only by the payment of large
salaries. In the county asylums the
appropriations are insufficient for such
purpose. The proposal to keep the in
|scurably insane in the counties and send
the others to the central institutions is
made by some friends of the county
asylums. This would mean wasteful
duplication of expenses, while it would
be really difficult to tell when person
is incurably insane. The incompetent
physician at the county asylum might
pronounce some one incurable who
might be cured if at state asylum.
Those who have the interests of the in
sane at heart will rise above the con-
siderations of local patronage and
trade and favor the plan of the board
of control"
Is The mos: cursory reading of the
above article is sufficient to show that
it was written by one not in possession
of much information about. the sub
ject. Particularly is the writer in err
ror in that part which concerns the in
curably insane. He says the physi-
clan at the county. hospital might pro-
nounce some patient incurable who
could be cured by the experts at the
state hospitals. This might happen if
the county physician ever pronounced
on a patient. He does not. Each per-
Son who is adjudged insane by the
proper commissioners in the counties
is sent at once to one of the state asy-
lums. Here his case is considered, and
| if he is pronounced incurable by one of
the states infallible experts he is re-
turned to the hospital in his county.
| None of the county hospitals contain
any insane persons other than those
who have been already pronounced in
durable by a physician at one of the
state hospitals. AS to the ''wasteful
duplication of expensesp of which the
Tribune, speaks experience has shown
|tthat the cost of "a PATIENTS care in a
county hospital is only about one-third
ofawhat.it is at the state asylums.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
County Insane A.ylurns,

Muscatine Journal: At a conven-
ton of members of the various county
boards of supervisors of the Second
congressional district in Iowa City last
week, one of the questions discussed
was, "Shall the Counties Provide for
the Incurable Insane?" The unani-
nous verdict of the supervisors was
against the recommendation of the
state board of control, that the in
durable insane ought to be sent to
state institutions for care and treat
ment. The supervisors also as unit
declared that since the counties had
been compelled by previous legislation
to erect buildings for those who are
helplessly crazy, justice demanded
that the unfortunates, with unbal-
anced minds, continue to be inmates
of their respective local institutions.
The last statement furnishes the rea-
son largely for the opposition to the
plan of the board of control. As a
general proposition they would agree,
as fair-minded men, that patients of
this character could obtain better ex-
pert medical treatment at the state
asylums; yet they doubtless have
right upon their side in defending
their home institutions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
"A CONTRAST.

Contrast the two following state.
ments from Bradstreets', the first in
December, 1893, under democratic rule
and the second in December, 1899, un.
der republican administration, and
you will have no difficulty in determin-
ing whether you shall support the
party of progress, protection, and pros
neritv. or that OF free trade, free silver
and free soup:
From Bradstreet's, December 80
1898: 'The increase in the number OF
mercantile failures in 1893, compared
with the previous year, is more than
81 per cent, and is the heaviest annual
increase on record. The grand total
OF estimated liabilities of individuals
firms and corporations amounts to
$403, 100000 in round numbers, or near
ly four times the corresponding total
Of 1892
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
A NEW SPELLING.

Chicago university has taken the
lead among educational institutions of
this country and England in the matter
of shortening the spelling of some un-
necessarily long words. Its plan is to
adopt a shortened spelling on eleven
words at the beginning and to adhere
to these forms in all the official publ
cations of the university. The words
affected are:
Program (programme), tho (though),
altho (although), thorofare thorough
fare), thru (through), turnout
throughout, catalog catalogue),
prolog (prologue), decalog (deca-
logue), demagog ldemagogue), peda-
cog (pedagogue),
These are the words for whose
spelling Superintendent Andrews of
the Chicago public schools advocated a
change last fall, calling attention to
report on them made by the depart
ment of superintendence OF the Ma
tional Education association.
There is no doubt that the step ta-
ken by the University Of chicago!is in
the right direction. The world has
days of Elizabeth, but with few ex-
CeUtlOuS ~ HAS hcPL sl1c Olu ldSliOueu
long spellings. Business men have for
some time discarded these useless end
ings and silent consonants as a hind
rance to rapidity and accuracy in their
work. The modern business man
writes the words mentioned above
practically as authorized by the facul-
ty OF Chicago's big institution of learn
ing, and in addition he writes ''tax,"
for tacks; "lox,' for locks; "sox,' for
socks, and so forth.
Now that the eleven words given
above have received the sanction OF ed
vocational leaders they will make head
way in popular usage much faster than
heretofore. The Courier has long
been impressed the need of short
ened spellings in modern writing and
accepts the present opportunity to put
its conviction into practice. Hence
forth turnout the columns of this pa
per the eleven words mentioned above
will be spelled in the fashion set by
the University OF Chicago.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
Newspaper Don,ts.

Washington Journal: Don't take
your home paper. It is the most active
and powerful factor in building up a
town. and to support it would involve
you in the work.
Don't fail to tell the editor how to
run the paper. He has nothing to do
but listen and keep his temper sweet.
Don't pay for it if you take it.
Newspapers are run on wind, and the
editor wouldn't keep the money any
way.
Don't put your name to what you
want published. It's the editors bust
ness to espouse an unpopular cause and
take your chestnuts out Of the fire.
What hurts business might also hurt
his-but that's different.
Don't notify the editor when you
want to change your postoffice address.
He may lose track of you and you will
escape paying the last two or three
years of your subscription
Don't forget to write on both sides
of the paper. The printer might for
get to swear.
Don't write your communications
legibly. Deciphering them keeps the
editor busy apd he is able to make an
occasional blunder, which promotes
good feelings all around.
Don't imagine that a newspaper
man has anything to do. Newspapers
print themselves and the ravens feed
the printers.
Don't tell the reporter when you have
anv news of special interest to your
self. Let him find it out and if he
fails to find it, get mad about it. Re
porters out to know everything with
out BEING told.
Don't fail to find fault if an unpleas-
ant item about your neighbor is sup
pressed, but equally hot if one about
yourself is published. It hurts worse.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
millions Given away,

It Is certainly gratifying to the pub.
lie to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and suffering. The propri.
etors of DIR. Kings New Discovery TO,
Consumption, Coughs and Colds have
given away over ten million trial bot.
ties of this great medicine; and have
the satisfaction of knowing it has alb
solutely cured thousands of hopeless
cases. Asthma. Bronchitis, Hoarse
ness and all diseases of the Throat
Chest and Lungs are surely cured by
it. Call on Clark & Mollison, drug
gists, and get free trial bottle. Reg
lular size SOC and 81. Every bottle
guaranteed, or price refunded.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

that they become lawless and vicious
or reach physical maturity without
that equipment of health, knowledge,
skill, and character that is the rightful
heritage of every American child.
Some are orphans, and Others would
be more fortunate, if they were Or
phans. Many parents find their eff
forts to rightly discipline and train
children counteracted by social infiu-
ences which they cannot control. I'm
der present conditions, in spite OF pa
rents, schools and churches, many chill
dren are 'truants, loafers, cigarette
smokers and petty gamblers. Preco-
cious sexual depravity, stimulated by
social customs, impure literature, and
vicious associations, is running thous-
ands of promising youth"
Among the resolutions adopted is
this straight-ou blow at the demoraliz-
ing Influences in our cities:
Iowa cities shuold be made decent
places for Christians to live in. The
general restriction (abolition) of un-
necessary temptations TO vice and dis
sipation, of evil suggestions, will do
much. Familiarity with the saloon
the brothel, the gamblers resort,
drunkenness, the sale of indulgences
by the state, obscene language and pic
lures and literature, and with public
corruption and unreformed abuses will
blunt the moral sense of youth and
suggest lives of vice and crime and vag.
abondage."
The association also adopted a reso
luton favoring the enactment of a law
forbidding saloons within five miles Of
the state university. 1t is a hopeful
sign when the teachers in our public
schools are thus found arrayed with
the clergy and with the best newspa
pers in an effort to arouse public senti.
ment to the great need of taking steps
to Danish temptations to evil-doins
from our cities and educational centers
as well as from the rural communities
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
PEOPLES PULPIT.
The Decision In the Paving Cases.

The headlines in the Courier, We'd
nesday evening, in the paving cases,
were scarcely justified by anything
stated in the opinion. Judge Eichel-
berger holds in substance that the an
swers of the city and the Asphalt Co.
to the application of the owners of
AUDITING property for relief as against
the tax, are not good or sufficient in
law; that the facts stated in these an
swers do not constitute any defense to
plaintiffs action for a permanent in
junction. In other words Judge Eich-
elberger holds:
First-As to all the cases that the
law under which the assessment of the
tax was attempted to be collected, is
unconstitutional.
Second-As to the claim estoppel on
the part of certain of the plaintiffs
who signed petition to the city coun-
Gil asking that the street be paved with
asphalt instead of brick, that this is
not defense to their action to enjoin
the collection of the tax.
Third-That their standing by or
knowing of the improvement being
made without objection or complaint
is no ground of defense to their action
to enjoin the collection of the tax. In
other words the opinion holds that so
far neither the city nor the Asphalt
70. has set up any facts which show
any legal liability on the part of abut-
ting property owners to pay the tax.
He has not said nor has he intimated
that he, would hold in any other kind
of an action. In the opinion in dis
cussing the anplication of the doctrine
of estoppel to the case in hand, and to
illustrate the limitations of the doc
trine, he uses the following language:
Possibly if they bein" sued by the
compan- that built the pavement, they
might be held on an implied contract
to pay what it is reasonably worth;
but that is not this case" The Judge
is not undertaking to decide case not
before him, but to illustrate the APP
plication of an abstract rule of law.
When such case is made it will be
time enough to discuss and decide it.
However, we may say that the city
owns the streets and the abutting pro-
perty owner would be no more implied
ly liable to pay for street improve
ments on the street than he would be-
fore improvements made upon his
neighbours lot. Before one is liable for
public improvements there must be
found a valid, constitutional law re-
quiring him to pay. w. A. Work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

From Bradstreets', December %,
1899: Unlike 1898, trade is at present
very large, and what is more, is exAl
banding. Every line of business and
industry is crowded with work, and the
only concern is as to whether orders
booked far ahead can be filled on time.
Our Industries are active, our rail-
roads are hIsier than ever before,
there is more money in the hands of
the general nublic thanNat any pre-
vious time even if there is less invest
ed in stocks, and the business com
munity can get money enough Tor
legitimate business at fair interest
rates.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
JOHN &. GEAR.

Centeryille Citizen: No man in pub
lie. life has ever kept in closer touch
with the people. In this state he is
loved and trusted as a personal friend
bv thousands OF people in every con-
generous; unselfsh nature, his loyalty
to his friends and to his state, his de-
votion ito our country and its highest
interests; they trust him because they
know he is possessed of mental and
moral integrity. which renders him
proof against all influences OF
place, power or capital: No other man
has now, or has ever had, so strong
a hold upon the hearts and. confidence
of the people of our state. No man In
public life was ever more steadfast in
his relations to his friends, or would
go farther or work harder to serve
them. His preference for people is
based upon something he sees in them,
some good quality which commands
his respect, and his friendship once
formed remains constant and true
without variableness or shadow OF
turning" he is always ready and will
ing to give freely the best OF his abil-
ity to the humblest who invoke his
aid; he has always been most kind,
sdiligent, cordial, influential and tireless
in serving the people OF the state. No
zone ofteither party has ever asked him
for a service that he has not instantly
and heartily performed it, or done his
best to do so. And it is not Iowa peo-
pie alone who feel free to call upon
him for help. His correspondence is
simply enormous; countless letters
come to him from people in other
states, who know il they write to
Gear they will receive prompt and
satisfactory reply; democrats and re-
publicans alike write to him-every-
body who has any business with the
government writes to him, and he
makes it rule to know personally
the contents Of every letter, and sees
that it is promptly answered. He
is the most helpful man in congress.
Through allshis public career he has
remained the piainest and most demo-
critic of men and he is an illustration
Of the fact that plainness and simple
who are capable of the highest
achievement; a truer type of man
hood cannot be named than John II.
Gear.
No Iowa man who visits Washington
will fail to note the fact that Senator
Gear ranks in prestige and influence
with the great men OF our country.
The New England states maintain in
their service men like Hoar, Edmunds,
Frye, Morrill, and others-strong, able
men, old in years but trained and in
fuential in public affairs, and for the
same reason Iowa should send back to
the senate the man whose ability, ex-
perience. good judgment and master
full comprehension of public affairs
combine to make him the peer of any
of these distinguished statesmen.
1t has been aptly said by one of
Iowa's bright men that 'public af-
fairs are both leadership and service;
some men lead who are unwilling to
serve, many men serve who are I'M
able to lead" Gear can both lead and
serve. f.,5f#
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
Can England Afford n.

Des Moines News: AS showing the
temper of the times in England. the
recent article by Sir Charles Dixie is
significant.
Sir Charles balances the chances OF
the future as to international war and
international peace and cannot quite
make up his mind as to which he an-
ticipates. f.
He comes out strong on one point.
He points out the danger to England
OF declaring foodstuffs contraband of
war. He says: ut would be the great
est Of follies for this country to disre-
gard the possibility of that future war
which would possibly come upon her
some day against powerful naval
coalition il which it would be to her
interest that the United States should
feed her."
England could better afford to ar
bitrarily seize Delagoa bay than to de-
clare foodstuffs contrapand.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

we have an article on the hook which
we will find room for soon which will
not be mistaken for a compliment"
when it appears. Governor Larrabee
was compelled to say some things that
were favorab Bile, but it was said in a
"left-handed way and just because he
couldn't help but say as much as he
did that was favorable. Our article
calls spade a spade" which is the
Registers way. even when replying to
governor or one who has been gov
ernor.