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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
MARRIAGE is NOT A FAILURE.

"A good wife is one of the greatest
safeguards young man can have.
Early marriages are permanent moral
tiles, while deferred marriages are Of
ten temptations to sin, yet the custom
OF late marriages appears to be on the
increase. Club life, to some extent,
has taken the place of the home life.
The man who defers marrying until he
can begin life where his father leaves
off may commit the awful mistake of
his life by waiting too long, because
men differ from good wine. While
one improves and grows better with
age, the other does not. Any woman
who is not willing to help a worthy
young man make start in life is not
worthy of the love or support Of any
man whom she may marry If a young
man is worthy of a wife, and young
woman loves him as she should, then
1t will not be question Of fine
house, but of a fine man Did you ever
notice that the man wants the woman
he marries to be better than himself?
In nine cases out of ten the woman is
the best of the two
No young woman should marry a
man whom she does not consider her
equal In social standing, education and
those other qualities that go to make
up noble character. After you get
married, each one of you should be as
careful to cultivate and carry into the
new state of life all those little courte-
sizes that made the days of your court
ship SO bright and lovely. Love is like
a fire; it needs the constant adding Of
fuel to keep it alive. A married man
should be as gentle with his wife forty
years after he has married her as he
was on the day of their wedding Mar
ried people should never stop court
ing. The mistake some people make
is that they stop counting as soon as
they get married, when they ought just
to begin. The thoughtful husband will
spend most of his evenings at home
with his wife and children. How would
it look for the husband to sit up three
or four nights week watching for the
wife to come home from the city? Has
not a mans wife as good right to know
where the man spends his time as a
man has to know where his wife
spends hers? The fact is that God
intended marriage to be a blessing to
both parties. A man ought to be bet
ter for having a good wife and wom-
an for having good husband. II mar
riage is not blessing, it is a misfor.
tune. Marriage is not failure. When
the failure comes It is the people,"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

The result of the vote upon the
question of holding constitutional
convention is but another exemplifi.
cation Of the fact that frequently 1t
is the unexpected that happens. 1t is
safe to say that there are not 1000
people in Iowa who really thought a
constitutional convention should be
held and yet enough people voted for
it to carry the proposition by about
500 majority. The advocates of wo.
man suffrage who will find in this
convention the means for bringing 10
an issue that great question in the
State Of Iowa, will doubtless see the
hand Of providence in the result of
the vote at the election this month
Certain 1t is that for the next year,
Iowa will be in the throes Of red.hot
woman suffrage campaign.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

lieve that Ottumwa's population is at
least 10000 people and there are ex-
ceilent grounds for this belief in the in
crease in the registration and vote
OF the city, the increase in postotfice
receipts, the necessary extension Of
the free delivery service during the
past two years and other considera-
tons. The Courier hopes to see in
augurated a plan that will secure an
absolutely accurate census of the peo-
pie of this city. While we recognize
that it does no good to kick over the
official report. at the same time there
is no law against recount made by
our own citizens to demonstrate
whether or not the official report is
accurate.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
Maryland, My MARYLAND.

The splendid result in the congress
sional districts of Maryland proves
uneqiivocally that the people OF this
state not only approve the past policy
Of President Mckinley in relation to
sound money and national expansion,
but that they were resolved upon send
Ing representative to- Washington
who will uphold him in the mainten-
ance Of that policy in the future.
Maryland is essentially q sound
money state. This fact was exempli-
fed four years ago, and 1t has again
been gloriously demonstrated. Mary
land is not only for sound money, but
for the enlargement Of our commerce,
for national advancement and for con-
tinled prosperity The record made
last Tuesday reflects the intelligence
and patriotism Of our grand old com.
monwealth. -Baltimore Herald.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
HENRY cLEws, RESUME.

In a recent letter, Henry Clews, VINO
las the reputation of closely following
events of national Importance and of
| drawing correct conclusions there.
from, says concerning the recent gen.
eral election:
The country has passed thru anoth-
er of its quadrennial periods of anxious
test. The questions on which the peo-
pie had to pronounce their verdict
were of unusual Importance. 1t is a
matter of profound satisfaction that
they have been disposed of by a yer.
dict comprising nearly two-.D.rds of
the voting population.
The magnitude of the majority
makes the result of the elections a
virtual finality upon these mucL and
earnestly debated questions. We
seemed to have reached a parting of
the ways in respect 10 policies that
must determine the political future of
the nation; and the hearty agreement
of such a large proportion of the peo-
pie upon basis of settlement means
domestic peace and the strength that
goes with harmony of public senti.
ment.
All this means something much
more substantial than transient graf
| ification of the exciting sentiment of
victory. 1t amounts to great achieve
ment in the consolidation of the repub-
lie. 1t is step forward in the matur.
ing of our form of government. It is
a great law-making edict, done directly
by the people and establishing prece,
dents that may stand for generations
as bases of national law and policy.
This election removes from the hori.
zon controversies which have suggest
| ed misgivings as to the unfoluings of
our national destiny. For these, with
other reasons, the election of 1900 is
one of the most pregnant in our nation.
al history. It's outcomes are exciting
profound interest among the states.
men and financiers of Europe. They
accept 1t as another evidence of the
self-governing ability of the American
people, about which they have so long
protested to have serious distrusts !;
and are compelled to acknowledge that
our 76,000,000 of plain common-sense
citizens may be trusted to construct
the greatest nation of modern times
with wisdom and popular harmony.
| We stand almost upon the threshold
of new century, with the most brill
liant national prospect before us. Our
currency basis is put beyond question,
trade balances are immensely in our
favor, and our manufactures are COM
lmanding the markets of the world. The
education of our people in sound imam.
eial and business principles during the
last four years is bearing, we may say,
its natural fruit. rs
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Will Count. 1t the Second We'd
nesday in February.

The counting OF the electoral
I vote will not take place until the
second Wednesday in February.
On that day the big hall Of the
house, of representatives will be
the scene Of an interesting cere-
mony. All the members of the
senate will come over in aabody
to participate, and the president
pro tenn of the senate, Senator
Frye, will preside while the cleo
toral votes of the several states
are opened and counted.
Contest Over Kentucky.
There .is a possibility. that
when the vote Of Kentucky Is
reached and announced, there
may be excitement. AS each GER
tificate is,read, Senator Frye will
call for the objections, il any. It
is said the republicans are pre-
pared to contest the Kentucky
election on the grounds that
frauds were committed by the
democrats.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

Ottumwa can sympathize with Bur
lington, Sioux City and several other
of her sister municipalities in Iowa
over the showing as to the popula-
ton as made by the United States
census report. The population OF
Ottumwa as shown by this report is
a18,197. We do not believe that this
is correct and we are confirmed in
this belief by the fact that an error
was discovered after all the reports
by enumerators had been sent in and
the residents of one street who had
not been taken at all by the enumera-
tors were afterwards counted and adj
|ded to the original report. I'VE be-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

There is more Catarrh In this section az
the country than all other diseases puf to.
supposed to be incurable For q CREST
many years doctors pronounced ii a 1ncai
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
BY constantly falling to. cure with local
ence has proven catarrh to be q constItm.
tional disease, and therefore requires con.
stitutienal treatment Halls Catarrh Cure.
ledo, Ohio, - the only constitutional cure
on the market It is taken Internally in
doses from 10 drops to teaspoonfui. II
faces Of the system. They otter one hun.
bred dollars, for any case it falls to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, y. j.. CHENEY, 6 Co.
Y Sold by Druggists, 75c. Is. 'ia
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

The truth lis that never before was
this republic so securely established In
unity and perpetuity as this election
has proved it now to be anchored. Pop
ular government is now safer from
subversion by imperialistic, militaris-
tic or oligarchical forces and tenden-
cies than ever before in our history.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

The equanimity with which the
American people accept the decision of
a popular election and their cheerful
acquiescence in it, however bitter may
have been the preceding political con.
troversy, afford the: best assurance of
the unchanged maintenance of our po-
litical institutions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
the voters were determined not to have

the voters were determined not to have
the remains lying around any longer. Z
The democratic party has paid by
two defeats for the adoption of an un-
popular and discredited issue. Free
silver was defensible in 1896, altho ev-
en- then its advocates had an uphill
fight, But everything that has happen
ed in the past four years has helped
to bury it deeper in the graveyard of
obsolete issues. s.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
The New York Sun which was Fl

The New York Sun, which was for
many years, one of the most outspoken
democratic papers in the country,
says President Mckinley will be in.
augurated on the 4th of next March
for the second time with the most
complete and cordial acquiescence OF
the American people since the first in
auguration of George Washington"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

1t is announced that Uncle Sam will
carry free across the Pacific the sol.
diers' Christmas boxes sent to the Uni.
ted States quartermaster department
at San Francisco.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
lows al WASHINGTON.

Washington, Nov. 16.--George Mer.
rill has. been appointed postmaster at
Judd, Webster county, vice w. G. Gel
vim, resigned.
Iowa Pension.
Renewa1-James T. r. Worster.
Adel $6. IncreaseThos. McClelland.
Shannon City, $40; Milo T. Doty, SOL
diers' Home, Marshalltown, $40. Or.
iginal widows-Jennie M. Shaffer,
Castalia, So; Eliza j. Stain, Runnels,
So.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Roosters-The Cedar Rapids Re
publican observes that the Des
Moines Register and the Keokuk Gate
City are the two Iowa dailies that can
not give up the habit of REGISTERING
republican victories"
So far as the Gate City is concern.
ed, the habit is one it has not tried to
give UP. Nor is it likely to make any
effort in that direction. Gate City
readers invariably look for it's roos.
tiers with eager anticipation in the
first issue Of the paper following every
important election, and there would
be general disappointment if the chan.
ticleers liz question failed to add their
shrill notes of triumph and rejoicing
to the announcement of republican
victories. Besides the birds" them
selves wouldn't consent to anything
of the kind.--Keokuk Gate City.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

May Build to Kansas city-The
Northwestern is expanding in another
direction, and recent movements very
pertinently suggest the company in
tends building line to Kansas City.
Within the past week the line from
Muchakinock has been completed to
Weller, a small station on the Wa
bash and Burlington. midway be-
tween Lovilia and Haggerty on the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20

Chin Does the Proper Thing.

Chill Docs the Proper Thing. 8
Santiago de Chill, Nov. 16--C Congress
has voted an appropriation OF half q
million dollars to defray the expense
of the representation of Chilli at the
exposition in Buffalo, N. " next year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
CIRCULATION.

The ottumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-20
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Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
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 LOS ANGELES. GAL.

thoughtful and awakening monographs on the sin of swearing; and extracts from the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain" might be perused with profit by the Trojans.
 No, the Trojans must stay where they are-toiling at collars and cuffs for a livelihood and watching the night boat start for New York for recreation Somebody must live in Troy and why not they who through many years have become innured and acclimated? Pro fanity, as our contemporary we'll says. will not in the least alter the situa tion or make it more endurable. It Is also as our contemporary well says. rep rehensible and useless habit. We earnestly hope that The Press will meet with success in it's laudable endeavors, and that the next census i will show a marked decrease in the vol tune of profanity in Troy.-Bingham- ton Republican.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15

eien residents know it; the fine, old typical Mexican people know it. There Is more social life, of a sort more of the pomp and pride of life and infinite ly more of a petty social striving, that brings heart burnings and envies that eat into peoples souls as acid eats into Iron. The old friendlinesS that made the society of Mexico seem like a great family has almost departed Commer- cialism, absorbing mems minds, and an intensity of business application un- known fifteen or twenty years ago. have set their imprint on our social life. Money has become here, as else where, the ruling passion. In the Mex ican society of the past rich and poor and people only moderately well off mingled together in the freedom of a society which placed its emphasis on blood and breeding. Traces of this charming social ideal survive in the older and numerous Mexican families, and in provincial cities it is still evi- dent. lRut a change has come, as when in northern climes the wasting hand of winter touches the warm glories of au- tumnal splendor. The old patriarchal society, like that of the Roman families even of our day, is vanishing thing.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
NO CONCISE WAY.

The confederate veterans, in thelr annual convention at Louisville, de- cided that the war of 1S61-'65 should be known as the war between the states" This is the name that Alexan- der H. Stephens favored, and it is the enc generally used by the people of the south in speaking of that war, the northern people calling it the rebellion. Strange it is that neither name is a correct definition of the event. All know that there was no rebellion. States that had sovereignty could not be guilty of rebellion. Neither was it a war between the states, but actually a war between two governments made up of states. Some writers call it a civil war, yet it was not a war between citizens in their civil capacity; but, as before said, war between regularly organized governments. There is, in fact, no concise way of naming the con- fiict; hence these misnomers Pos sibiy the best title would be the simple one of calling it by the years of it's beginning and close-namely the war Of 1S61- 1-65.-Mobile Register.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
SHANGHATS DEFENsYs
Meagre Protection For Foreign
 Settlement.

The defenses f Shanghai. of which NiceAdmiral Seymour has been in vited to take command. are describ=5 . by Al Xis Crausse in the London daily Mail as follows:
 h the midst of low lying plain. in terspersed with waterways in every di- rcctiOn, lies the famous model settle ment of Shanghai It is reached from the sea by ascending the estuary of the great Yang-tse- Kiang and turning up the Woosung river. which joins it on the right bank Twelve miles up this tributary is the cosmopolitan city. which serves as an example of what European energy can accomplish It face of an apathetic and unfriendly population. The native city of Shang- hal has history extending back for many centuries. The foreign city date; from 1S4S. when the British settlement was formerly inaugurated by Cant. Balfour, the first consul appointed un- der the treaty of Nankin.
 It may be worth while explaining that the foreign colonies in China. are held under one of two different sys- tems. Some are known as settlements and others as cOnc5 ssions. The former is piece of territory held direct by the settlers on perpetual lease ;the latter an area vested in the British govern mcnt who sublets lots to British nler- chants. The concessions are, as a rule, more circumscribed than the settle ments, and generally less prosperous. Shanghai, being settlement, is able to expand according to the requirements of it's inhabitants, subject only to the payment of hat increased rem vkich 'the native proprietors make no scruple In demanding in response to the ever growing demand,
 The British settlement was fixed bv Capt. Ealfour al a point on the Woo sung river bank below the native city Of Shanghai. It was limited by two
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
DEAD SEA COMES TO LIFE.

Line of Motor Boats to Shorten the Dis
 tance to Kerak.
 ''The Dead Sea, which for thousands of years has been a forsaken solitude in the midst of a desert, in whose waves no rudder has been seen for centuries, '' says United States Consul Winter at Anneberg, in letter to the state de- partment, ''is to have a line of motor boats in the future. Owing to the con- tinued increase in traffic and the influx of tourists, a shorter route is to be found between Jerusalem and Kerak, the ancient capital of the Land of Moab"
 The first steamer, built at one of the Hamburg docks, is about 100 feet long, and already has begun the voyage to Palestine. An order has been given for the building of a second steamer. The one already built and on the way is named Prodromos Chat is, Forerun- ner'O, and will carry thirty-four per sons, together with freight of all kinds. The promoters of this new enterprise are the inmates of a Greek cloister in Jerusalem. The management of the line is entirely in German hands.
 The trade of Kerak with the desert is of considerable importance. It is the main town of any commercial stand ing east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea. Its population consists of about 1S,O00 Christians and 6,OOO Moslems. The merchants of Hebron are among the chief frequenters of the markets of Kerak.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
PROFANITY IN TROY.

The Troy Press devotes a column to editorial discussion of Profanity and Its Remedy" We did not know the situation was as bad as our contempo- rary represents, but of course some people must live in Troy and while pro fanity may be a vent for feeling, it is not a remedy.
 Once upon a time there were Trojans who fled their city, when it got too hot to hold them, and escaped to the Alba nian shore. But the modern Trojan who should flee to Albany would feel like one of the condemned in Dante's hell escaping from one circle to anoth- CT. only to find his last etate worse than his first.
 No, as Senator Ed. Murphy said in his great speech on the tariff, "Troy for the Trcjans and the Trojans for Troy" The late Miss Hanna More wrote some
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
CITY OF MExICO's PROGRESS
Business and Social Life in 'ihe Ancient
 City of the Aztecs.

The modern era has brought much god: we have quicker and more com fortabla transportation; We have a wider spread prosperity and one that penetrates to a lower strata of society than was formerly the case; we have, through the new telegraphic facilities q direct touch with all the rest of the world; provincialism is disappearing; money is made more easily. and the hanks, always the index of the business life. of a people, are showing the mar vicious commercial and industrial move, ment of Mexico. There are nowadays so many people with large deposits that bank managers cannot hope to know them personally, as in former times The City of Mexico is a modcrn capi- tai, full of stir and movement, and the new resident sections reveal the grow ing wealth of the community.
 Yet something has been lost; old for
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
CROPS.

In the agricultural districts of the north section, where crops mature later. vegetation is suffering to the utmost limit, on account of the existent drought, and in localities a total failure of the grain and potato crops is appre- hended.
 In the Upper Gila Valley the orchards are affected by the arid conditions, and fruits, especially peaches, are shriveling and otherwise deteriorating. Recent rains have slightly increased the water supply for irrigation, sufficiently 10 save the coming alfalfa crop, but too late to help corn and other crops.
 In Salt River Valley but little corn has been planted on account of lack of water, and pastures are extremely bare. Some alfalfa fields have died out from effects of drought.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-15
HOW'S THIS!

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