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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-14

New York, Aug. 11.-Bob Fitzsim-
mons, of Australia, but now an Ameri-
can citizen, met Gus Rubin, the Akron
giant, last night in a twenty-five round
boxing contest, before the Twentieth
Century club at Madison Square Gar
cen and won by knocking the Ohioan
down and out in the sixth round.
It was fierce and bloody battle
while it lasted, and at times it looked
as if Rubin would get the better of
the older man, but F'itzsimmons at the
proper time would cut loose with his
fearful body blow, which finally snuff
ed out the Ohio boxers light.
From the word GO" the men start
ed in with hurricane-like force. Bob
was wild at times, but Fitz was al
ways quicker to steady himself. Rub
lin clinched a good deal and for three
or four rounds was the aggressor. He
landed some hard straight lefts on
Fits face and swung his right to the
body and head with fearful force. Sew
eral OF these blows staggered Fitz, but
none were landed on the mark.
Fitz forced Rubin to break ground
and in hot mix-ups the Ohio man was
always the first to ease up and take
refuge in a clinch. Time and again
Fitz forced Rubin to the ropes.
When Ruhlin's nose began to bleed
from LETT punch the sight of blood
seemed to have a deterrent effect on
him and FitZ was quick to see this.
At the first signs of weakness on Rub
Inns part Fitz began his attack on the
body and each blow landed there made
Gus vince with pain. In the fourth
and fifth rounds both men showed
plainly the effects of the stiff and
rapid work they had done in the for
mer rounds. Both were tired and leg
weary, but Rubin showed up much
the worse of the two. Just once Fitz
touched the floor, when he slipped
down from a clinch at the end of a
round.
In the sixth round, with a volley of
lefts and rights to the head and neck
and fearful left on the solar pleXus"
F'itz sent Rubin in heap to the floor
As soon as Guhsin was up Fitz rushed
sending Two lefts to the face and then
shot a right with fearful force to the
jaw Gus pitched forward as if
struck with an axe and fell on his face
to the floor, where he was counted out
q d had to be carried to his corner.
Fitz left the ring five minutes after
he had delivered the winning punch,
but it took Rubin twelve minutes to
come around sufficiently TO be able to
walk to the dressing room.
Fitz was still a bit dazed when he
reached his room and asked if it was
not the fifteenth round in which the
fight was finished.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-14

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Iwass sick for
two years with falling of the womb, and
inflammation of the ovaries and bladder.
Twas bloated very badly. My left limb
would swell SO l could not step on my
foot. had such bearing down pains I
could not straighten up or walk across
the room and such shootingpains would
go through me that thought I could
notstand it. Mymother got me q, bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound and told me to try it. took six
bottles and now, thanks to your won
derful medicine, am well woman. :"
-MRs. ELSIE BRYAN, otisville, Mich.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-14

Leave 0ttumwa 1905 p. M, arrive
Denver 6:30 p. m. next evening. No
change OF cars, via the Burlington
route.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-14
Fitzsimmons Easily Downs
Gus Ruhlin.
FIGHT HOT AND SWIFT
The Defeated Man Went Down Like
Log from Right-Hander in The Jaw
The Famous "Solar 2Eexus" Blow
Used.

PrinoipaIs-Bob Fitzaimn,ons, Gus
Rubin.
Place of Rattle-madlson Square
Limit CT Contests rounds.
7eferee-charlie White.
Purse-5o per cent OF gross re-
ceipts.
Weight of Men-Eitzsimmons, 1e2;
Rubin, 1874.
Befting-Even money at rinaside.
Winner-Fitzsimmo
Number Of Rounds-Six.
Observation-Disclosures
Actual Fighting Time-17 minutes,
10 seconds.
Attendance (estimated)-1o,ooo.
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OVARIAN TROUBLES.

Lydia Ii. RlnSfams Vegetable Compound
Cares Them Two Letters from Women.
DEAR Mis-. PINKHAM II write to
tell you of the good Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done
me. Twas sick in bed about five weeks.
The right side of my abdomen panied
me and was so swollen and sore that 1
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-14

could not walk. The
doctor told my hus-
band l would have to
undergo an operation.
This | refused to do
until | had given your
medicine a trial. Be- /
fore l had taken 81
one bottle the AZ,
swellin g be- gTf
gan TO disap- 81
pear. L con- = !
tinued to use - !;
your medicine
until the swelling
was entirely gone. |,
When the doctor B
came he was very II
much surprised to ss
see me so much Sc
better. "-MRs. MARY S
low,
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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC.
GOING EAST. Depart
No. 22s-Ottumwa to keokuk. ...... 700 a. nj.
202-Dcs Moines to keoliuk. 1926 a. M.
2O4-Des MONIES TO Eldon .::.:... 1928 p. IN.
254-Freght, Ottumwa to E1don. ass p. m.
GOING WEST. Arrive,
227-keokuls to Ottunlwa...... Gas p. m.
Depart.
201-Eldon to Des Moines. ......- $50 a. NJ
203-keokuli to Des Moines. 49,. 12:f5 n m,
235-Frt, Eldon to Des Moncs . 1922 q. m.
231-Frt, daily, Eldon to Monroe 8;OS o. m.
Unless otherwise specified, all trains aredaily
except Sund dg
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better. Mrs MARY SMITH, Arlington
Iowa
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BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS AMI
NORTHERN


a-Daily. b-Daiiy ez cept Sunday d-Daiiy
except Monday.
JOHN G. = KSss, Asst Gen. P..a q rx All
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29

Unfortunately you have come little
late. We have had the roast sery-
ed"
The doctor bowed in the most
charming manner, and signed to the
servant, who had just brought in the
dishes, to leave the room.
Thank you. | am very sorry to dis
turb you, but there is a business mat
ter to be settled, which admits of no
delay"
"a business affair? Is there a will
to be made?"
No, on the contrary, the matter
concerns a wedding"
Mr. Thompson dropped his knife
and fork and stared at the speaker in
the utmost establishment.
The ceremony is put off. Mr.. Har-
rison told NE himself that he was
compelled to defer it for the present"
Certainly, and he will probably do
so altogether; but another person has
taken his place-Nr. William Roland. :"
What? What did you call him?"
William Roland. The circumstances
have entirely changed. and unfortu-
nately | have not time to explain them
10 you in detail. But, in the name Of
the betrothed couple. l beg of you to
perform the wedding ceremony at
once"
The magistrate leaned back in his
chair, assuming a 'dignified attitude
and solemn, official manner
(To be continued.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29

York Independent, lays down the gem
eral principle that neither a state nor
a people possesses any right to govern
itself, or to Independence, saying: As
to the Beers, the right they have de-
ponds upon the use they make of their
power, and they have forfeited tina.
right"
Col. Higginson is one OF the old-style
abolitionists Of New England. His
career has been full OF struggle, adven-
ture, activity in many lines. and sue
cess in a few. He has now reached the
grand old age of II. yet his mind is as
quick and responsive as it was when
he was adjutant on the staff of Gen
James II. Lane of Kansas, nearly 40
years ago He was born in Cam
bridge, Mass. was graduated from
Harvard in 1871, and from the divinity
school in 1S47. and at once took up the
pastorate of the First Congregational
church at Newburyport In 1850 he
left the ministry and became the free
soil candidate for congress. Failing
Of election, he took the pulpit Of the
Free church at Worcester, but a few
years before the opening of the civil
war he discarded the cloth a second
time to devote himself to the agitation
against slavery.
The beginning of the war saw him
soldier in active service as a captain in
the Fifty-first Massachusetts infantry.
He was afterward colonel Thirty-first
South Carolina volunteers-the first
regiment of freed slaves taken into the
service OF the Union He took the town
of Jacksonville. but being wounded at
Wilton's Bluff, he resigned his com
mand in 1864 For fourteen years he
made his home at Newport, but in 1873
removed to Cambridge. where he has
since resided. Col. Higginson's fame
depends chiefly on his articles in peri
odical literature and his poems in his
first volume entitled "Thallato."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
CHAPTER X.

Meanwhile the justice and his clerk
were seated at a Widespread table in
the dining-room. which also looked
ont upon the garden. Edward could
not send the gentlemen. who had tax
on the long ride in vain. back to the
city Immediately; so he had invited
them to dinner Mr.. Thompson could
not find words enough 10 express his
regret and sympathy for the sorrow
overhanging the household, but he
saw no reason why he should not have
a comfortable meal on that account
lie thought it perfectly natural that
Edward should excuse himself and re-
main in the drawing room. No one
could feel offended with the grief
stricken nephew, but he himself dis
cussed all the more eagerly the good
things set before him. and was ably
supported by his clerk.
The old gentleman only regretted
Doctor Biackwood's absence and adj
mired the sense of duty which would
rot permit him even to appear at din
ner. He was just giving his factotum
a discourse concerning this distin-
guished physician at the same time
4 helping himself to large piece OF
roast meat His factotum listened
most dutifully and took a still larger
slice. when the subject of the con-
yersation suddenly entered.
All, there you are, Doctor Black.
wood" cried the judge. sit down
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
WHO ARE IN WHO'S WHO?"
A Good Thing TO re Born an English
H.er


Nearly thirty years ago DR.. Cation
In his Hereditary Genius" pointed
out how rarely man got into the die
tionaries of contemporary biography
before the age of so, and his statement
is true, even to the present day, says
the Fortnightly Review; the mean age
Of the persons mentioned In who's
Who" is no less than So. even though
several names are included of persons
who have had greatness thrust upon
them in the first decade Of their lives
1T is better to be born lucky than
rich" says the proverb, but, adds a
distinguished humorist, IF you can't
be either, the next best thing is to be
born a British peer" and this seems at
any rate justified by the large amount
of attention paid to the hereditary
house and the baronetcy by Who's
Who" no less than II per cent Of its
entries being devoted to merely titular
distinctions. If these had been omit
ted the mean age of distinction would
probably rise even higher than S. and.
at any rate, DR.. Cations threshold
limit OF so for entry into the biograph-
ical dictionaries is thoroughly well jus
titled Now there are only about 5000
600 Englishmen over 50 in the British
empire and the proportion of those that
reach eminence in the various collec-
tions | have mentioned would, conse-
quently, be 1854 per million for who's
Who" 1900 for the Dictionary OF Ma
tional Biography, and 1882 for "The
Men Of the Time" This latter publ
cation seems to have lowered its stan
dard in the last thirty years, as DR..
Cation. in 1869, reckoned that 425 OF
every million Englishmen over so at
tanned sufficient reputation to earn a
place in that receptacle. 1t must, be-
sides, be remembered that we have
taken colonies into our calculation,
and. as the colonial contingent is nat
urally small this would tend to mag
nifv the seeming increase of distinction
in Men of the Time"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
AUSTRALIANS HADTO GET BEES
why Their First Crop of Glover Was q
Failure.

Eyes. sir, some mighty queer things
occur in the horticultural world" said
the florist, who had just been telling
how chrysanthemums were bred very
much like animals and how it was pos
sible to put stripes on them or make
them almost any shade desired. You
probably wouldn't think that the pres
ence or absence of bees would guaran-
tee the continued existence or the dis
appearance Of an agricultural staple
like clover, would you? Or course, yo1
wouldn't, and if you tell that fact AMI
the circumstances of an actual case
to the average layman he will think
you are telling him handraised, by
brid horticultural joke. 1t isn't joke.
An experiment down in Australia
years ago proved that nothing was
farther removed from fiction. Origin
ally there was no clover in Australia
and not a bee was to be found in the
whole country. The people found that
clover would be most desirable addl-
ton to their agricultural products.
Glover seed was brought and sowed.
The climate and soil were everything
that could be desired and beautiful
crop of clover was the result. Glover
hullers thrashed out the seed. which
was sown the next year. Where the
seed was sown the ground remained
bare. Scarcely a sprig OF clover came
up. The farmers were astonished and
scientists were called upon for di-
agnosis of the case. They soon To-
Gated the trouble-there were no bees
or other insects which could carry the
pollen from one clover blossom to an
other. This mixture must take place,
else the seed will be inert and abso-
lutely incapable of reproduction. Bees
were imported to the country and there
was never any more difficulty about
the growing of clover in Australia.
The bees in seeking honey from the
clover blossoms get the pollen on
their legs and wings and thus carry It
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29

GU were not known to them, or else
they We're afraid of Captain Wilson
ana Harrison. The servants are not
70 be feared. I'll undertake to deal
with the justice and his companion. So
no one IS left except your beloved flu
ture relatlve-and he must be made
harmless"
You mean that we are to attack
him III his room"
No; that is too uncertain and
VIII create an unnecessary stir in the
mouse. have better plan. AS
soon as You are at liberty. Ralph
snail announce, apparently in great
trepldatlon, that his young mistress
mas suddenly disappeared. He has
looked Tor her in vain. OF course, she
can De only in one place. Harrison
VIII rush here as fast as possible to
Illustrate the attempt at liberation,
ana we shall have him in our hands.
lhen ne can occupy the place which
ne so Kindly selected for you. and you
can use his marriage contract-the
S4"PiOSI SASHdHSe possible.
BUT that is partial deception" re-
pied William. Am | secretly. craft
Ivy, TO steal right which was prom
lsed me openly in the presence of all
the world? Am l to urge Florence to
a marriage in this terrible hour which
robs her of father"
Stop, Will. My patience is being
exhausted" Maxwell angrily inter-
rupted. Don't bother me again with
your German slowncss and stupidity,
or III leave you behind bolts and bars
One can't lead good fortune straight
TO your arms. You must first inspect
II on all sides-subiect it to a critical
eXamination-to ascertain whether it
IS thoroughly ideal and free from
earthly dross; and meanwhile the
light. airy thing nutters out OF your
hands. In short, do you want to mar
~ Florence or not?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
CONFINED LIKE A PRISONER
Representative Alexander Tells OF this
Jokes His Friends PLAYED ON Him.

Representative Alexander of Buffalo
was released from quarantine the other
Gay and appeared among his friends
In good health and spirits, saws the
Washington Post He went home from
congress Thursday evening. Ian. Is.
and walked into the hands of the
health officials, who had Just decided
that Mrs. Alexanders maid was suffer-
Ing from mild case of varioloid. Since
that time MIR. and Mrs. Alexander have
kept thelr rooms at the Concord. How
dld you enjoy quarantine?" he was
asked. They call it quarantine re-
pied representative Alexander. but
Tor all practical purposes It is an isola-
ton more complete than Jail or prison.
we could see the people in the streets:
voices reached us from the railways.
the ring of the elevator announced the
coming and going of friends, but from
them all we were as completely cut off
as II our rooms had been In the heart
OF great forest. An attendant, night
and day, sat in the hallway. Our meals
We're sent in from the cafe. and the
mail came each day but this was our
only connection with the outside
world. No one could come to us, and
added the congressman, laughing, mo
one wanted to come to us or have us
go TO them. Many loving notes OF
sympathy came each day from friends
IN this city and Buffalo, but no one
wanted answers. Flowers came. but
the bearers didn't wait for replies. Our
friends recognized the truth of the
scripture that it was more blessed to
give than to receive Representative
Landls or Indiana sent his sympathy
and love, saying: I'll gladly write
every day if you won't answer. The
Kew. DR.. Hamin of the Church of the
Covenant, suggested that | could COM
Tort myself as Mr. Lincoln did under
similar circumstances, that | now had
something | could give all applicants.
Gen. Tyner assistant attorney general
Tor the postoffice department. offered
TO get me out on a write of habeas
corpus II he could find a court to hear
his application. Fortunately" said the
representative, "a door opened from
our library unto a small balcony, dis
connected with any other part Of the
hotel. Here we got air and exercise.
After DOMINIC hat, oyercoat and gloves
| walked back and forth like a sentry,
limited to six steps, about as many as
were allowed the prisoner of Chillon.
At the end of sixteen days | could bet
ter appreciate the horror Of Bouivard's
four years Imprisonment and the noble
utterances of Lord Byron. My steps,
like his, didn't wear the stone pave
melt, but it will take coat Of paint
to araSp my tracLS y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
schoolteacher.. Conscience.

A public schoolteacher returned $50
conscience money to Clerk Legner and
it was accepted by the school manage
ment committee. The teacher stated
that she had received the money while
acting as a cadet in the schools In
1894. She was two months under the
age limit of IS years when her assign
ment to position was made. She con-
siders that she practiced deception by
saying she was two months older than
she really was. After teaching five
years she returned the money which
she had received in the two months
she taught under is rs.-Chicago
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
ARCTIC MOSQUITO.
The Most Terrible Insect Pest In the
World.

Nothing that has ever been written
about the Arctic mosquito begins to
come up to the real thing" said a guest
in the ST. Charles corridor to the New
Orleans Times-Democrat man. ~
went up the Yukon river in the sum-
mer of SO, representing the Alaska and
Dominion Trading company, and we
struck mosquitoes as soon as we got
into the hills. They are twice as large
as our familiar bayou species, and
their sting is like the prod of a hot
needle. They sweep along the valleys
in dense clouds, and if they catch a
man unprepared they are liable to
blind him before he can escape.
heard stories of children being stung to
death, and can readily believe them.
Whenever we went ashore we wore
heavy hat nets and took the utmost
precaution, and were certain to suffer
more or less. One OF our party cut
the tongues out of his shoes and mar
row line of sock was exposed under
the laclng. Next day he was bitten
lntl Z dL lcdSl q l4uleS, anu MS
feet were so terribly infamed that the
shoes had to be cut off. Another man.
a fireman in the boat crew, got drunk
on Alaska whisky one afternoon and
lay down to take nap in the corner Of
the engine room. noticed him
little later, and was Mortified at the
solid brown mass Of mosquitoes that
had settled on a small exposed section
Of his cheek and throat. In an hour
his face was swollen out of ali resem.
blance TO anything human, he was I'M
able to swallow, and was burning with
fever 1t was week before he was
able TO be about. saw number OF
cattle near Fort Hamilton that had
been made stone blind by stings near
the eye. The Arctic foothill mosquito
is without doubt the most terrible in
sect pest in the world"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29
QUESTIONS OF ART.
How az" and ID cay. Eracinc Fingers"
NJ Ike Obi beautiful

How Age and ID 'caS's Eracing Fingers"
NJ Ike object, Beautiful.
One person Of taste will give the
palm TO the furniture of Chippendale;
another will prefer the French style
of the period Of Louis Quatorze, of
Louis Cuinze, or OF the empire and
there is an immense amount of furni.
ture, no matter what it's style, which
all persons Of taste will agree in pro-
nouncing intolerable, says the Satur-
day Review. But each piece Of furni-
ture, bad, good or Indifferent. mas ac-
cidentally aesthetic qualities, which
are quite independent Of its design,
and which could never be even sug-
gested in any auctioneers catalogue.
They are qualities coming to it-con-
stantly and Indefinitely changing
from the way III which lights fall on
il, from the relation of its curves I'd
colors TO the other objects that are
near it, ard also from the historical or
social suggestions which it conveys.
Some old harpischOrd, of the meanest
and most awkward design, will give a
faded room in which it has grown old
mellowness and beauty which the
most magnificent of modern instru-
ments would destroy. The unintended
process of fading will give colors to
walls and carpets which no dyer on
earth could equal. Few objects, as
works of art, can be ugiier than most
modern racing-cups; yet the play OF
light on their silver surfaces and the
streaked mosaic of reflections that
shine in them will he as exquisite as
if the cups themselves had been mod
eed by Benvenuto Celiini Or. again.
let us take garden. a garden long
deserted, with the weeds hiding its
walks, with its rose trees bending to
! tie earth, and its grass, once closely
shaved, growing long, and tufted, will
often receive from decays effacing
fingers" a charm deeper than any that
was given to 1t by the care of a dozen
gardeners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-29

Very few persons walk well. The
little girl of six summers, with her
pretty new dress on, walks as straight
and elegantly as -she-xilll. Hes
little -feat are thrown forward with an
elasticity peculiar TO that age. The
little girl of thirteen begins to be
careless. bends her back forward, and
goes diving into the schoolroom as
if she were going to swim. At sixteen
she steps along with short steps.
striking her heels on the floor with a
don 't-care-fo anybody sort of walk
At eighteen she thinks more of gait,
and tries TO recall that of her earlier
childhood. The boy Of eleven. with
his new thick boots. plants his foot
like a soldier, and never knows that
his boots disturb anybody. Many
children are taught at home and at
school to walk on their toes. This will
do in a sick room. when one has
squeaking shoes, but it is not natural
or elegant. Put the heels down light
~ at first, and the toes last. This
keeps the body erect, instead of bend
ing the body forward as person must
bend who walks on his toes.