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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-18
Unionville.

Unionville, June 1S.-The mill at
Unionville has stopped grinding on &C
count of the boiler which is in a very
dangerous condition.
J. H. Simmons was Blakesburg
caller on last Friday.
VIM. Morrison is intending to start
for Oklahoma in the near future.
Frank Rumley made a flying trip to
Oklahoma last week where he purchas
ed farm, and will remove to that
place in the fall.
Emmett Bishop has returned home
from Forbush, where he has been
teaching school for considerable
time.
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HopeweiI.


Hopewell, June 15.-Mr. and Mrs
Andrew Black buried an infant child
a few days ago.
Mrs. A. j. Hicks, of Ormanville, call.
ed on Mrs. J. l.. Hamilton last Mon.
day morning She also visited few
days last week with her daughter, Mrs
Ed White.
Mrs. E. B. White and Johnny Hun
ter, left last Tuesday for Oklahoma:
the former will visit few weeks with
her daughter, Mrs. Ola Bartlett, and
the latter went to see after his farm.
Mrs. Laura McReynolds, of Ottum'
wa, visited over Sunday at her faith
ers, Charles White.
Claude Arnold was pleasant caller
at Sam Hunters last Sunday.
Samuel Kinsinger, of Bunch, visited
over Sunday with his daughter, Mrs
G.. l.. Hamilton
Mr.. and Mrs. Pies Bolin and daugh'
tiers, of Ormanville, visited Monday at
Zeke Dyes.
Willie Orman and Adam Houk, Of
Bear Ridge, attended Sabbath school
at this place last Sabbath.
j. l.. Hamilton's new barn is almost
completed.
Lem Garrison, Jr., and Emmett Walk
err were business callers in Ash Grove
Tuesday evening.
Miss May Huff and brother Alva, al
so Bert Houk and Ira Berry took din
ner at Sam Hunters last Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-18
Abba,

AIDlds
Abba, June 15-Grace and Blanche
Palmer are visiting their grandparents
about four miles east of town.
Harry Noble visited with Roy Clapp
at Hynes yesterday. So,
This morning about o'clock the Al
bia people were awakened from peace
full slumbers by the fire bell and whis-
tie. The creamery, ice house and
chicken house in the east part CT
town, owned by S, d. Thompson, burn
ed to the ground. 1t is not known
how the. fire started.
Marion Lockman is spending few
days with Abba friends.
John Melone went to Oskaloosa on
business yesterday.
George Clutch returned from Ogden,
Utah, yesterday. He has been there
the past month studying law.
Marie Lund, who has been visiting
at the Lambert home several weeks,
returned to her home in Burlington to-
day.
Willie Jester died at his home in the
east end yesterday. The funeral will
be this afternoon, he was a soldier in
the late war and the militia will attend
the funeral. He has always lived in
Abba and has many friends who, with
the relatives will greatly mourn his
departure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
THE DEAD STATESMAN

In the death of the eminent Italian
statesman. Francisco Crispi, a most
prominent figure in European politics
and diplomacy disappears. He was
born in 1919. He is not the man he is
often described to be. if careful observ-
ers Of Italy and it's history are to be
trusted. He was not the model states
man. much less the grand old man.
of Italy as some have called him. He
"a a revolutionist, a bold, brave man.
and was ready for conspiracy or vio-
lence. He has figured long and largely
on the arena Of Italy. He was twice
prime minister, and while not a Cavour
or a Bismarck in ability he was a man
Of great spirit and ambition, and was a
true friend to Italy. seeking it's politi-
cal consolidation. prosperity and
triumph. He was not the wisest of
statesmen however patriotic and cour-
ageous. He strove to free italy, but
in later years his plans were embarrass-
ing to its best policy and security. He
vas too anxious in pushing his plans
to make Italy Of the first rank among
European covers. The Baltimore Sun
says of his failure at this point that
Ibis policy of making Italy a world
power promoted the welfare Of the
italian people IS open to grave doubt.
By becoming a member of the Triple
Alliance Italy vas compelled to burden
herself with taxation to maintain ex-
cessive naval and military ornaments.
Today united Italy staggers under an
enormous debt-the result of the policy
Crispi and other Italian statesmen
who believed that their country was
entitled to rank among the great ma
ions of the world"
His life was brilliant, stormy and
romantic. Probably he leaves no equal
among living italians.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
THE AMERICAN WIZARD.

Thomas A. Edison is beyond CUB
one of the most engaging and most
original personalities among men. His
life has been often sketched in the
newspapers. He is in a high sense self
made" He is great without the usual
advantages. He is beyond fair ques-
ton, we would suppose. the greatest
of all men in invention and in discov-
cry. He has patents on more than four
hundred inventions OF his own. Some
are most important and ingenious. He
is at Buffalo seeing the sights. He
told the correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, as he looked upon the fairy-Iike,
most beautiful scene al night with the
thousands Of ~incandesoent lights, that
'tall the carbon in this Illumination
could be contained in my hat" The
number of lights has been v~ariously
estimated at from 90 900 to 40, 900. Ed
ison halted for two minutes and said
there are IL, 400. 1t turned out that he
was in a few hundreds of the number.
b correspondent says he ooks undis-
tinguished and dresses plainly. The
entire description of the man is inter-
esting, but we give but this.
He has a round face OF plain. al
most common, features. He is clean
shaver and his mouth has none of the
grim responsiveness in it that is fire.
Quent in men of self-mastery.
There are just two things about him
h a would give clues TO his identity.
He has that peculiar appearance OF
youth in age that pertains to excep-
tional persons. and he has an eye that
reads a man as ordinary yes do print.
It is plain graz steel-iike quality and
1t is used with no pretense or unusual
attempt"
His maker made a plain exterior but
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
BENEFITS OF INSURANCE
More Money Paid to Beneficiaries
Than Premiums Amount to

New York. August 14.-Carefui exam
ination Of the reports OF leading life
insurance companies shows that in a
great majority of cases the beneficiaries
receive much more than the total
amount paid to the company by the in
sured. This is in every cas- in direct
proportion to the thrift of the manage
ment and the character of the invest
ments of the
h Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Of New York. by far the largest
and strongest of the life companies,
reports for the five weeks ending Au-
gust 3rd, a total of $50 death claims.
amounting to 81 .341. 1877. 3S. For this the
insured paid a total of but $66S, 96a. 9S, or
not quite half the o received by
the b~eneficiaries. Between January LIST
and July 1st. 1901, the Mutual Life paid
2,312 death claims for IS, 1S5, 29S.S9, which
cost the insured only So. T42. 353. S1-mueh
less than one half. The company has
returned TO policy holders a grand to-
tai of over $3.50, 600, 900 and has steadily
growing assets Of more than $3.50, 0O0,-
600. These are among the reasons which
are inducing so many thrifty business
men to look to life insurance as the
surest and most profitable investment
for the protection of business or fam
lily. The Mutual Life is said to be writ
ing much more insurance than in n
previous year
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16

The probability now Is that the crops
of the United States viii be greatly
s-hort-perhaps as much as one-third.
IL that should be the case it Will make
a big difference in the of tbs
farmers, and a vast shortage in the
exports to other countries. During the
last fiscal veal the United States ex-
ported to the United Kingdom alone
Se31, 266, 2s3. 1t was wonderful and 1T
shows what a great customer Great
Britain has become or more properly.
the United Kingdom The gain IL
one yea has ss7,s47,7Is
The crops in this country are found
other countries are sufferers also. The
shortage here will cut of the great op-
~portunities among the nations whose
crops are parched and short. The
London Economist gives a survey of
the prospects in the several countries
and while admitting the depressed con-
dition ~fiatters itself hat the United
States and Canada can bring up all de-
~ficiencies. That may not be the case,
n will not be the case Il the short
g in this land is as anticipated now.
h corn crop is much reduced but
the wheat crop is declared 10 be ex-
cellent. The Chicago Record-Herald
says that the wheat crop is likely to
exceed that of last year By two hun
dred million bushels and to reach a
total Of seven hundred and twenty-five
millions, the largest on record. Under
these conditions there will be an enor-
nous quantity for export, since we
were able to export one hundred and
thirtytwo million bushels last year.
In Europe, Italy is the one country
that is up to it's good, satisfactory
~harvests. In France the wheat crop
is small, or about 100, 900, 900 bushels
behind that of 1899. Other crops are
below the average with the exception
of rye In Spain, Austria-Hungary and
Germany, the o have suffered no
little. The London Times gives the
British crops as follows: Wheat, SIS;
barley, T.S; oats, III; beans, so; peas.
70; potatoes, So; roots, 76: grass, Go:
hops. 81. The lack Of feed has hurried
cattle to market, where they have been
sold in the glut at low prices"
The crops in North Carolina will be
short. In some sections they will be
satisfactory. But in others the short
age will be large. We have some
gloomy reports, and the farmers will
hardly be loaded for two or three years
to come with much surplus money.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
as TO GENERAL LEES SWORD

How leaden-footed often is ruth,
while how lively. nimble-footed is false
hood. For thirty-six years a lie has
lived. 1t has been always reported that
at Appomattox General Lee rendered
his sword to General ran Colonel
Charles Marshall. OF Baltimore. was on
General Lees staff He corrects the
error, and says the misstatement is
without the slightest foundation in
fact. He says neither was Grant in
fiuenced by any theatrical ideas OF the
surrender" Colonel Marshall writes:
You will observe that by the very
terms OF surrender demanded by Cen
eral Grant it was expressly provided
that the officers OF the Confederate
army hould retain their sidearms. To
have offered to surrender his sword
would have been an offer on Genera
Lees part to 90 more h had been
demanded of him. / cannot, therefore,
understand how Mrs. Davis or anyone
else could have have supposed that
General Lee made hat offer, or how
General Grant could have made such q
demand"
1t is a fiction out and out- Genera
Grant new gave expression to any
such statement. So far from this he
confirmed the statement OF Colonel
Marshall. Mr.. Bird writes to the Sun:
General Grant himself fully corro-
borates Colonel Marshall's statement In
his book. Personal Memoirs of L. S.
Grant, Volume IL, Chapter XIV pages
344-346' 1 quote General Grants own
words:
".No conversation-not a word
passed between General Lee and my
self, either about private property,
sidearms or kindred subjects. h
much-talked-of s~urrendering of Lees
sword and my handing it back. this
and much more that has been said
about it, 1T the purest romance. h
word Sword" or "sidearms' was not
mentioned by either of us until I wrote
it in the terms"
We repeat how a lie sticks, while the
truth is long concealed. PLATE asked
of the Savior. What is TRUTH" That
question lives and might be applied to
many alleged and repeated historic
facts" What is historic truth?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
THE SCAR-wORN VETERANS.

Hats off! Attention North CAROLYN
ians! The remnant or a part of it, of
the brave men who battled for second
independence for years-most of them
for four long years, men who were of
the $4,000 who went out from North
Carolina to fight under the glorious
stars and bars; who belonged to ar
mics that have not been surpassed in
modern times for fidelity, obedience to
authority, unfaltering devotion to the
lost cause" answering patriotism,
pertinacious belief in the dearest prin-
ciples that eve animated human hearts
and a splendid valor that was invinci-
BILE on fields of gore when not over
whelmed by numbers-those brave men
of the greatest war Of later centuries,
are in our midst. All M to them.
Welcome to the Cape Fear section; to
historic Wilmington and to Wrights-
Vile! May their magnificent patrio-
tism and glorious, most imposing brave
ry inc fortitude be lever forgotten!
May recorded honors gather around
their names" So long as this great
state has a history of it's origin, its de-
velopment, it's deeds, it's patriotism, it's
conservation to human liberty, religious
n civil; SO long as high aspirations
and the purest. most exalted principles
hat can control and animate a great,
liberty loving people,; so long as patrio-
tism and virtue are the bands that
bind the hearts most sure so long as
great souls by instinct III to each
other" and men are made of the grand
est type-men who are not made of
their beard be Shook with danger" SO
long will the manhood of the Confed-
eracy n full vindication and absolute
approval. May the men who wore the
gray so worthy in times of tremendous
wrong as well of highest patriotism and
courage sublime. be ever held in crate
full remembrance. Though the cause
went down at last under the cloven
foot of despotism;' coo. 000rmen battling
against nearly 2,S00,0 900 exclusive of 200
600 in a great navy: the LUIS was holy
and just and right. and the time will
come when the world will see it, know
it. acknowledge it. Defeated yet trf-
umphant. The south preserved its prin-
ciples intact while asserting it's man
hood unsullied.
A many, several ways. meet in one
town;
As many fresh streams run in one
self sea;
As many lines close in the diaFs
centre;
So many a thousand actions, once
afoot,
End in one purpose. n be all well
borne,
Without defeat"
Soldiers of the Confederacy thrice
WELCOMED
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
dicious movement. out to the fellows
who derided a foolish thing teda- The
News saws.

dicious movement. out to the fellows
who derided a foolish thing teda- The
News
In 1893 Mr.. Watson secured the first
money. $4,000. for the rural free deliev-
cry of mails ever voted by congress.
and the record will establish the cor
rectness Of this statement.
1.-THE postmaster general. BisselI, re-
fused to obey the law. At the instance
OF Hen. Charles L. Moses. when Mr..
Watson was no longer in congress, an
other appropriation Of $4,000 was voted
at the next session. Again Bissell ig-
nored the law.
1T was after Hon.. ". L. Wilson be-
came postmaster general hat the sys-
TEN was inaugurated-with the success
which is now apparent
THE credit for this benefcent system
belongs to the south, to Georgia. Is it
not fair hat we hould have the
credit?"
That very able n vigorous editor
Mr.. z. L. Godkin. who for so many
est to the New York Evening Post,
wrote on 3rd July, 1901. a very enter
esting paper from Lyndhurst, England,
of his native country, England, and
the changes that had taken place in
forty years, and not favorable to Eng.
land. He Is one of the most capable and
best journalists CT the last quarter of a
century. He showed but little know.
ledge of the south, but knew widely OF
other countries and things. We saw II
recently mentioned that he had died OF
Bright's disease. Can it be true?
We suppose that no fair. sane mar
in either section believes for a momen'
Schley is a coward. Certainly Admira
Cervera, Of the Spanish feet does no
say so. Nor do his officers who par
ticipated in the splendid naval battl,
and greatest Of American naval vic
tories. The Indianapolis Sun says, anC
the testimony it gives is of a most con
vincing kind:
There is not a drop of cowardly
blood in Admiral Schley's veins. AnC
he is not only a brave man. but ont
of the greatest navigators of the age
S spoke ]. r. Frederick, Of Indi
annapolis, one Of the survivors of tn,
Greeley expedition. rescued by Schley
at Cape Sabine, June %, 1884.
"To begin with" said Frederick. mo
tice the date when Schley reached US
it is a month earlier than those waters
were navigated. before or since. The
next earliest date is July %, wher
Isaac I. Hayes, of New York, succeeded
in working his way out OF the Arctic
Ocean, in 1861. But all HAYES had tt
do was to anchor to a foe and foat
out, along with the current, while
Schley had to steer against a seven.
mile-an-hour current and contend with
with ice foes. Racing with Schley fol-
Cape Sabine were four Of the ablest
navigators in the world. spurred on by
the reward of $125, 900. offered for thu
rescue of our party. 1t was the frs
time, too, that Schley had been in thu
arctic waters.
He impressed me at once as an open
honest. straightforward man He ha:
been in the service a long time, and yet
I have never found a man who servet
under him who would not be glad tt
go back TO him, and that's something
unusual. He'd be a mar I would
choose in a moment if 1 wanted to en-
ter the service"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16

nut within a s~uperlative. mind of vast
originality and ~stupendous productive
ness. The correspondent tells OF q BIT
of fun and sarcasm the great inven-
tor INDUCED In:
las he walked down b Mall past
the Acetylene building Mr.. Edison
glanced at the inscription OF the chem
ical formula that Is place ! on
CONSPICUOUS tablets and which reads:
CA C2-2H2o C-H2CAtoHo2-'
Well. sir. his Is a marvellous age.
he said. Here we have chemical
ANALYSIS proclaimed from the house
O for the Common people. It's q
great age. isn't 1t? Beats n HER
ogiyphics."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16

No New Developments-A French
arship Sent to Colon

Washington, August 14.-No impor-
tant developments in the Colombia
Venezuela situation were made known
to the state department during the
early part of today. and the reported
death of General Uribe-Uribe could
not be confirmed in any official quarter.
1t is expected that the Machias will
complete her coaling and taking on her
ammunition by tonight and will be OF
for Panama by tomorrow morning.
In this connection il is noted that the
French warship Suchet has arrived at
Colon. Although the French are under
stood to have considerable properly
interests on the isthmus, 1t is said there
is no provision in the, treaty between
France and Colombia, similar to that
in the treaty between France and the
United States, requiring that free
transit across the isthmus shall be
kept open. However, it is not doubted
that the presence of the Suchet will
have a saIutary influence in quieting
disored. The statements made in the
French press. to the effect that the in
cident on the isthmus might lead TO an
American acquisition in that quarter,
received no attention or credence in the
best posted official quarters.
San Juan. de Porto Rico, August IA
Mail dQNlCeS received mere To-Day from
Caracas. Venezuela, under date OF Au-
gust 10th. give accounts OF numerous
engagements in the state of Tachira
between President Castro's forces and
the revolutionists. In general Castro's
official bulletins he mentioned the Co
lombian army He reported engage
ments since the battle of San CristobaI.
July 18th. at Princes, Las Felipas, La
Parada, La Grita, En- Contrados. Colon
n Las Cumbres. all in Tachira. The
Venezuelan casualties, according TO
Castro's official bulletins, were General
Rosendo Madina and -four colonies
killed. and 300 men killed or wounded.
Madina was a prominent man. He
was formerly a governor and senator.
August Sth there al an at
Las Cumbres with a second force Of
r~evolutionists.
The News Caracas c-oFresIr onden
writing August 10th says another army
has invaded Venezuela. This second
force Is reported to numbe 5000 men.
Friday these troops attacked Las Cum
bres and were repulsed. The main d.
visions OF the armies have not yet met.
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CLEANING AND COMMENT.

The Astounding misrepresentation
of Mr.. Bryan that are found in the
newspapers, are very mean and not
without amusement. He vas repre-
scented as favoring the democrat.c bolt,
} but he did not. The next statement is
hat the bolt was all right, praise
worthy, ETC. So far from urging the
claims of the bolt, he sees it only a
help to the republicans. His words in
his paper. The Commoner. in its issue
of the 9th instant. are these:
1.-The fact that the platform contains
much that is good together with the
further fact that the candidates NOM
mated, from Mr.. kilbou1ne down
through the entire list. have been sup
porters of h party ticket in recent
campaigns would make it impossible
to organize a bolt with n promise OF
success.
"Th first effect of a boiling ticket
would be, therefore, 10 augment the
chance Of republican success this fall.
The second effect would be to lessen
the influence of the boiling democrats
in future party contests. Let the dem
ocratS of Ohio commend the good parts
of the Ohio platform and condemn the
weak points. but let them support the
ticket"
The Irish members in the British
Parliament are fairly jubliant just now.
There have been some slight changes
in the rules of the House of Commons,
and this is regarded as a distinct gain
for home rule. This may not appear
in full force to American readers at a
distance, but it is certain that the
change is very pleasing to the Irish
members. A dispatch of the 9th inst
to the New York Tribune from London
said, and it explains why there is re-
joicing:
THE Irish members we're, perhaps,
the happiest men in the House. They
look upon the enforced change in the
rules as a practical demonstration OF
their own power. Men like T. P. OCo
nor consider that the Irish cause has
made great progress during the las
eight months, The Nationalist have
been reunited and are now led WITT
frmness n efficiency. Chickering's
have disappeared and the factions are
welded into a single homogeneous
| party, which compels the leader Of ar
overwhelming majority to alter tbs
procedure Of the House and to amend
rules made by himself"
1t looks as if the origin of the rural
free delivery movement is of southern
and not of northern origin as is claim.
ed n generally supposed. 1t was
Hon. Thomas E. Watson. one of the
most accomplished and ablest men in
Georgia today. who originated it in 1898
while a member of the United States
House. The Atlanta News gives the
history of the movement in brief and
it is alike creditable TO Georgia and to
Representative Watson. who was much
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
GROSS CUSTOMS FRAUDS
In Importation of japanese Silks Dis
covered In New York

New York. August lin an inter-
view today touching the investigation
of the alleged differentiation Of Jap
anese silks, ETC.. Appraiser William z.
Wakeman said:
Il returned one invoice yesterday. /
found what 1 expected to find"
What will be the total moun OF
the frauds?"
That I cannot say-certaInly not at
this stage Of the investigation. That
IL may have been a considerable
amount you can tell from the fact that
the duty on the silks varies from 90c to
50 per pound. II goods that ought 10
have been classified so as to pay 50,
really paid only 90e, the difference
would be considerable. especially IL the
weight returned were less than the
real weight.
Would the loss TO the government
reach 81, 000,000?"
All I can say is that il the sort OF
thing / refer to has been going on for
several years. the loss to the govern
ment would be a very large sum-"