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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-07-14

Cynthy Gregory, a colored woman
living in the second ward, stole COW
from ascolored man in the same part
of The country about month ago, aud
after selling the animal to one of the
town bVchers skipped out for Mem
phis, where she was located by writin g
back TO some one. An affidavit was
made out against her and sheriff Dunn
sent deputy sheriff Kennedy after the
lady, who returned with him on the
last trip of the Delta. II cost several
dollars more than the COW was worth
TO get her back, but it is the ou.y way
to break up such business. She lie
now on, on bond, which was furnished
the day after she was brought back.
Cyn.hy Gregory had her trial oil
Wednesday, and her lawyer, Judge j.
NJ. Kennedy, proved that she was the
real owner of the COW, aud bad nc
trouble ia having her acquitted.
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Continued on fourth page.
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GhdutduQud.

DoNuo Adho udy dt Iuo Oudu-
tauqua was rounded out with an
evening of refined pleasure such
as had not been equaled during
the 1900 assembly. Two features
stood out prominently in the pro-
gram of enjoyment and will not
soon be forgotten. One was the
singing of Miss Lindsey. She
surpassed all her former efforts
and fairly thrilled the audience
with the melody Of her song. The
other feature was the lecture by
Rev. Robert Mcintyre. 1t was
a superb description of one of the
great natural wonders of creation,
for Thirty Hours in Sunless
World' is the story of a visit to
Wyandotte cavern, in Indiana.
The exercises of the evening
were begun by the Dixie Jubilee
Concert quartet, and it can truth
fully be said that their singing,
combined with that Of the other
members of the chorus, contributed
in no small measure to the plea
sure of the hour. After them
came Miss Lindsey, who sang with
such marvellous effect, and then
the speaker of the evening was
introduced. /
"Dr. May has told you who l
am said Mr.. Mcintyre, "and I
will tell you who I am like.
Standing on a street corner in
Chicago one. day, I saw two men
come out Of saloon staggering
under the white mans burden.
Looking at me, one of them said
to his companion: Say, Bill,
that fellow looks like Mckinley,
Qaughter.) Il hope" added the
speaker, that the resemblance is
more than skin deep"
Mr.. Mcintyre said he had
travelled in many countries and
had found that there are two men
who go everywhere. One is the
American. He asked an Irishman
one day if there was any road the
Americans did not travel. Pats
answer was, as he pointed upward,
"only that one"
The other fellow who travels
everywhere is the preacher. II
met him in every nook" said the
lecturer. He then told the story
of an old negro who was employed
by party of theological students
to wait on them. The old darkey
had one serious fault. He would
steal. At last he was reported to
the president of the college and
was called before that worthy and
given an awful lecture. Seeking
to make deep impression on the
aged offender, the president wound
up the tongue-lashing something
after this fashion: "Here you are
an old man. You will die soon
and GO to hell, there to remain
through all eternity. What will
you do then?'' II 'specs,'' res
ponded the aged descendant of
Ham, "that I'll do just what I'm
doin' now-wait on preachers.
This story brought down the
house,
Having put his audience in the
happiest mood by these tales, Mr.
Mcintyre said he would lead them
through the caves of Wyandotte'
in Indiana, journey of % miles
under the roof of the world, down
where the thunders that rock the
earth are never heard. Such 8
journey is not like a journey in q
cellar, for the air is of the purest
That might seem strange to the
audience, he said, yet it is a fact
that the air in Kentucky and
Wyandotte caves is the purest
tonic. The reason for this is thai
God has covered the floors o1
these caverns with millions of cry
stalls of saltpetre which impart te
the air rare medicinal quality
and q weakly woman who cannot
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
The Chinese Rebellion.

Keokuk Gate City: Violent anti-for-
eign sentiment sentiment that has
given China the unenviable distinction
of being the most improgressive nation
in the Orient-is the cause of the "Box-
ers" massacres that have already as
sumed international proportions. China
and by this is meant the officials in
power in China-is opposed to the ad.
vent that modern civilization is seek.
ing to make in that country. The
Boxers" embrace this anti-foreign
sentiment.
For several years it has been appar.
ent that the partition of China was in.
evitable. That the people of that ma.
ton were SO averse to the proper de.
velopment of the country that other
nations must certainly step in to give
them the proper light. The great ma.
tions of Europe were all anxious tc
share in this partition, if it came, and
as consequence Russia, Germany and
France each seized seaport, which
were garrisoned with their respective
troops. England already had a port
and as well a possible means of entry
thru British India. Russia was in bet
ter shape with her Siberian border and
her railroad.
About this time the Kang Yu Wei
as the agent of the emperor ATTEMPTED
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
ELI MANNING FOR SECRETARY OF
STATE

The friends of Hon. Eli Manning
OF Charlton, are vigorously pushing his
candidacy for the republican nomiua-
ton for secretary Of state. The follow
ing statement is issued over the sig
nature of numer of prominent re-
publicans of Lucas county:
''Mr. Manning has been resident of
this county Tor the past thirty years.
He is man of wide business eXper-
fence. No man in the county has a
cleaner record for honor and integ-
rity than Mr.. Manning. The republic
ans of Lucas county present his candi-
dacy with full confidence in his abil-
ity to creditably fill the position to
which he aspires, and no man can in
spire the rank and file of the party in
this section of the state with enthus-
iasm for republican success at the polls
better than sour Eli"
Hon. Warren S. DUNCAN says Of Mr..
Manning: "He has ever been an etfic-
lent republican. worker. He is most
genial gentleman and universally popt-
lar with all classes. He is vote 'getter.
He is serving his third term as sheriff
of Lucas county and is not only the
most efficient sheriff we ever had, but
has greatly dignified the Office. He is
honest, capable and faithful, and would
honor himself and the service il elect
ed to the office of secretary Of state.''
Such endorsements should and will
give Mr.. Manning very strong fol
lowing in the republican state conyen-
tiOn
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
A GOLD DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
FOR CONGRESS

Hon. Lloyd H. Boydston, Editor OF
the Montezuma, Iowa, Democrat, is
announced as candidate for congress
on the following platform:
1. The flag and the constitution.
2. Bimetallsm. The coinage and
use of such amounts of silver currency
as can be maintained at par with gold.
3. A tariff for revenue only.
4. Practical opposition to all trusts
and combines by the removal of the
tariff on articles in such combinations.
5. Opposition to imperialism, the
acquisition of territory by conquest
and taxation without representation.
Mr.. Boydston is a man OF sincere con
victions and earnest purpose. He is the
only gold democrat in the Sixth dis
trict who has control of a newspaper
that stands by it's convictions and in
effect is not owned body and soul by
the popuiists. 1t is safe to say that the
so-called democratic party now in con-
troll of the organization dislikes Mr..
Boydston more than they do repub-
lican. Mr.. Boydston is making splen-
did fight for principle and because of
this fact is deserving of commentator.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
A Sorry Lot.

Marshalltown Times Republican /:
The long drawn ont Indictment of the
republican form of government, as es-
tablished by the fathers and as logical
~ and broadly developed by. their sons
drawn up by the populist convention
at Sioux Falls, might be simplifed by
this brief statement: Resolved, That
we are opposed to everything as it now
exists, and demand that something else
be substituted" The arraignment OF
the gold standard law runs into 'sev-
enthly'' in denunciation of s'the culmi.
nation of the long series of conspira-
cies to deprive the people of their con
stitutional rights" 1t might be called
a summary of evils that do not exist
In taking up every possible reform
that has been agitated, tried and re-
jected at various periods in the worlds
history, and in the nomination Of Bry-
an as bearer of the many-colored stand
ard, these disconnected agitators put
forth their platforms as a fne-tooth
comb to catch all the small voters who
may escape thru the possibly broader
rake that will be dragged across the
country from Kansas City. 1t is the
most cumbersome and transparent ira
vesty in the political arena. 1t is not
strange that even the simon-pure mid
die of the road populists revolted and
hurried away from it's manipulators.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
MISTAKEN IN DISEASE.
Iowa Physicians Have COMPOUNDED
Yays aud Smallpox.

st. Paul, Mimi, June 2.-Dispatches
from several Iowa towns say that for
six months a disease has prevailed in
almose every county in Iowa which
physicians have pronounced smallpox.
A prominent Marshalltown physician
diagnoses the epidemic as yaws, which
the medical journals define.
Yaws is common among the Malays
niht West Indies. Previous to the
eruption there may or may not be any
disorder of the health, rheumatic pains
in limbs and joints, with languor, de-
bility and impaired digestion. The err
options begin with small pimplcs like
a pins head, smooth and nearly level
with the surface. They have little
whitish speck on their tops, grow rap
idly and reach the size of silver quar-
ter. The pustules then break and a
thick viscidity exudes and dries upon
them as a whitish slough and around
their base as yellowish crust.
A case usually lasts about six weeks,
and is communicable by contact Two
deaths have occurred and the disease
is spreading.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05

Judge Clabaugh, of the district court
of Washington, D. c., administered a
wholesome lesson to scandal-mongers
by sending Jay Ct. Holland TO Jail for
six months. According to a Washing
ton correspondent, Holland is young
man who came from Florida hop
ing to secure an appointment in the
census office, and failing to do so went
around telling lies about Senator Talia-
ferro of his state. The New York
Journal heard of them and sought him
out. He gave the reporter beautiful
sensation about the, senator from Flor
ida, which was published with black
headlines and attracted considerable
attention. Senator Taliaferro went to
the Journal Office, learned the source
of the SANDER and related the story to
the grand jury, which indicted Holland
who pleaded guilty when he was
brought into court, and claimed that
his wickedness had been prompted by
ex-senator Cali. The court gave him a
lecture and sent him to the district Jail
for six months.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
THE FEDERAL CENSUS.

Last Friday, all over the country,
thousands OF enumerators began TAX
ing the census of the United States.
They are allowed fifteen days to com
plete the actual work of taking the
census, but the results of their inqui-
RES will not be made known for many
months, probably not before the first
OF next year. The intervening time
will be spent in carefully listing and
tabulating the figures secured BY the
enumerators. Needless to say, the peo-
pie of this country will await the final
announcement of the result with i'm
patience, for many. things are to be
learned from the figures that will be
given out.
The objects OF the federal census are
OF three kinds: To furnish basis for
the apportionment of representatives
in the lower congress; to ascertain the
growth of the United States in num-
bers, wealth, and industry; and to in
vestigate the social organizations and
institutions which determine the
growth of population and wealth. The
first is constitutional necessity, the
second a study of facts, and the third
a study of causes.
Probably no social institution is so
intimately connected with the growth
of population as that Of marriage. In
Investigating marital conditions the
law requires about each person state
ment whether he or she is single, mar
ried, widowed, or divorced; if married,
how many years the marriage has last
ed; if a mother, how many children
she has had, and how many of these
children are now living. rs
From the answers to the questions it
is possible to determine the birth rate,
the prevalence of marriage, the proper
tion of women and children to the
whole population, the duration and
fruitfulness OF marriage. So far as
the power and Importance of nations
are dependent upon the size of the pop
ulation, to that extent is the accurate
determination of these questions mat
ter of public necessity.
In the United States there would
seem to be little danger of a decline in
the population. But even when we are
sure that the population is growing, it
is still necessary to know how it is
growing. The millions of India are in
creasing, but it is by a process of ma
ny births and many deaths. In good
years millions are born; in times of
famine millions die, the population in
creasing because few more are born
than die. 1t is growth, but savage
growth. There is more excellent
kind of progress, that resulting from
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and many other articles of the higher

and many other articles of the higher
grades of manufacture, the European
countries in which manufacturing
plants and machinery and skilled work
men abound, furnish a market for a
large share of our exports, thus fail
ing to justify the expressed fear that
a development of manufactures in
countries where we are now seeking
a foothold for our commerce would de-
stroy their value as a permanent mar
ket.
In this attempt to show the growth
of the expectation of each article in
every direction, it has only been prac-
ticable to measure the growth by val
ues, as the varying value of the units
|of quantity designated by common
name would prove confusing and mis-
leading. A statement of the number
of watches, clocks, sewing machines,
typewriters, electrical instruments,
mowers and reapers, carriages, articles
of glass and chinaware, builders hard
ware, and miscellaneous articles of cot
ton and WOODEN goods, for instance, in
which the value of units ranges from
few dollars to hundreds in single
class, would convey no information for
WIN yaA pun P0oCso tliSt hOGS HOG
supply any facility for measuring the
real growth of the industry or the
commerce in it, as does the simple
statement of total values by classes :?
On the other hand, the well known
fact that prices of nearly all classes of
manufactured goods have greatly de-
creased by reason of cheapened and
improved methods of production, rem
ders mere statement of values some
what misleading in an attempt to de-
termine the actual increase in the eX-
portation of numbers or quantity of
nearly all articles.
As already indicated, the largest
growth in, our export of manufactures
us in those of metals. The largest
class of manufactures of metals export
tied is that of iron and steel. In 1880
the export of manufactures of iron and
steel was $14,716,524 and is 1900 will
exceed $100,0O0,00O or more than seven
times that of $780,
In no feature of our export trade has
there been more remarkable growth
during the decade than in rails for
railways, especially those of steel. The
total expectation of iron rails in 1889
was but seven tons, and in 1898, 2,769
tons, the value rising from $24o in 1889
to $37, $50 in 1893. In steel rails, how
ever, the growth was even more re-
markable, the number of tons exported
IN 1889 being 1898, and in 1898, 229, 1888,
While the value increased from $685.
3s7 in 1889 to $4,613,s76 in 1898 and in
the fiscal year 1900 seems likely to
reach $S,000,000. This increase has
been especially marked during the past
three years, the exports of steel rails
IN the fiscal year 1896 being $54o,7e7,
1898 $4,613,376; those of 1899, $685.
125, while the first ten, months of the
present fiscal year show a gain of about
S2,0o0,0oo over the corresponding
months of last year. While. this rapid
increase is due to generally increased
demand, the countries showing the
most marked growth in their purchases
OF steel rails from the United States
are Russia, Canada and Japan.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
the combination of a moderate birth

the combination of moderate birth
rate and a small death rate.
The marital statistics collected by
the census are in many respects very
interesting. Thus, the extent and pow
er of the anti-marital forces can be es-
timated in way by ascertaining the
proportion of people between IS and 81
years of age who have never been mar
ried. Census statistics show that the
proportion of unmarried females be-
tween these ages is greatest in the east,
in NORTH Carolina, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, for instance, while the
proportion is smallest in the west,
South Dakota, Utah, and Oklahoma
bringing up the rear in the order
named. Men, on the contrary, are far
more likely to remain single in the
west than in the east. The proportion OF
unmarried men between SIS and GA is
lowest in the southern. states, e. g., Ar
kansas, Alabama and Georgia, and
greatest in the block of western states
west of the Mississippi. In Nevada
1872 per cent of the males between 55
and ga have never been married, Idaho
coming next with 32.4 per cent, Mon
tana next with 1915 per cent, etc.
That marriage is still pre-eminently
the sphere of women seems to be indi-
Gated by the fact that more women
marry than men, and they marry at
earlier ages. Thus, only 81 per cent of
females Is years of age and over are
unmarried, while among males of the
same ages the proportion is Al per
cent. Taking girls and boys between
Is and 20 years of age, it is found that
one out of every ten girls is married,
while among the boys the proportion
falls to one in two hundred. These
were the proportions in 1890. Whether
these conditions have changed since
then is question that can only be an
swered by the census of 1900.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
"A sENsELEss HABIT

Oskaloosa Journals: The constantly
recurring tragedies resulting from the
practice of carrying revolvers empha-
size the fact thatra stop should be put
to the senseless and, criminal custom.
A young man in fit of the blues, ac-
cording to one story, takes his life for
no possible reason SO far as known.
Circumstantial evidence in the same
case points to assassination. A couple
of men engage in an alteration in a
ball room. One whips out revolver
and the other is corpse. A lot of men
and boys go to ighboring town to
play friendly game of ball. Waiting
at the depot for a homeward train
some of them get quarrelsome and the
ready gun comes into play. The con-
stable who is sent for to preserve the
peace is made a target and only the
darkness and the drunken condition of
the men engaged inthe affair are re-
sponsible for his escaping with life. AS
it is one OF their number is killed by
the bullet intended for the constable.
There are one hundred revolvers car
ried where there is necessity for one.
While there are criminals there will be
"a necessity for peace officers to be arm
ed. But Tor the ordinary citizen, be he
laboring man, farmer or merchant,
there is scarcely ever a scintilla of ex-
cuse to carry deadly weapon. We are
getting to place too light value on
human life when at slightest provoca-
ton we expect to see some one flash a
revolver and begin to shoot. There
was not shadow of excuse for any
one in the crowd at Given Sunday night
to have a revolver. It was bad enough
for them to be intoxicated and quar-
relsome, but when man has whiskey
in his stomach and revolver in his
pocket he is very apt to have murder
in his heart and his brain is not in a
condition to operate with good judg-
ment. Every man who gets intoxicat-
ed should be searched and if a revol-
yer is found in his possession he should
be sent up for six months. If it is
wrong and punishable for man to
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to institute reforms, in the hope that
these greater powers would keep their
hands off. But this wise and progress
sive move was frustrated by the en-
press dowager, who took the reins out
of the emperor's hands, and he has
since been something akin to nine
spot. Since then a most violent anti.
foreign policy has prevailed.
Now the sentiment has broken out
in massacres, in which all classes OF
foreigners are the sufferers. The gov.
eminent officials pretend to be endeav.
oring to put down the rebellion, but ii
is believed that it is lending secret en-
couragement to the move. The reason
is given that certain German and Bel
gian railroad constructors have not
given the property owners fair treat
ment, and that it is justified. This may
be the reason for the immediate out
break, but it is not the reason for the
sentiment.
Uncle Sam cannot stand by and see
his subjects among the missionaries
and merchants murdered, and the in
structions that have been given to Min.
lister Conger, which are strong, viii
open the eyes of the Cinnamon. The
international relations in the Chinese
affair, are again open, and it looks as
if the United States may have to take
a hand. f she does, a station or two il
the Philippines will not be amiss. With
the Philippine instruction about clos
ed, and the South African war drawing
to conclusion, the world must have
something to occupy its attention. We
can perhaps turn our eyes again tow
ard the east.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
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that science has been able to cure in all its
stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
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medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu
tional disease, requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
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assisting nature in doing its work. The pro
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powers that they offer one Hundred Dollars TO,
any case that 1t fails to cure, Send for list Of
testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, G
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Iowa at washington.

Washington, June 2.-Postmasters
commissioned: Augustus McWilliams
River Sioux; Louis J.. Cook, Middle Ri
yer.
Iowa Pensions: Original -Winslow
G. Tompkins, Clear Lake, Sc; Frank
Manuel Corley, $40; Frederick A. Helm,
Boone, IS. Additional Paul Ruprecht,
Lansing, $40. Supplemental-Wm. Jen.
kins, Mystic, Sc. Renewal ohm Hales
Soldies' Home, Marshalltown, Sc. In.
crease-Wm. Trimble, Soldiers Home
Marshalltown, So; Vim. A. Jefferson,
Casey, $40; Chas. Il. Dorothy, Ottum.
wa, SIP; Albert Cory, Tama, $12.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05

The value OF Idaho's wool decreased
by one-half under free trade, but it
a is now back to regular protection
prices. In 1891 the value of 3,514,o0o
pounds of Idaho wool was $456,73o.
but double the quantity was worth
less money in 1896.
just before President Mckinley was
inaugurated in 1897 the value OF "
633 1000 pounds OF Idaho wool was
SS66,954. This year, for less than
twice the quantity, the farmer in that
state got nearly three times as much
money.