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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Marshalltown Times Republican /:
The republican party of today includes
about all that careful men believe to
We right In national and state affairs.
Davenport Republican: The people
of the great state of Iowa have few
regrets. But they have one, and that
is lat Prof Heron once claimed this
state as his home.
Creston Gazel.e: The democrats
Tin the legislature) will have no du-
ties to perform but to occupy the state
house furniture and vote no when
the secretary calls the roll.
Burlington E;wk-Eye: The clintos
Age before the election hoped for a
scattering" of democrats in the next
legislature. 1t strikes us its hope has
been pretty we'll realized.
Davenport Times: Iowa democrats
who pulled through the election and
got INTO the legislature will be
mighty lonesome at the January ses~
sion. BY and by the thing will be
unanimous.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Walter Well.
man has outlined the tariff policy for
the republicans and will now have a
little time to devote to the details OF
civil government in the Philippines.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: For a
people with many reverses, it must be
said that the British bear up mighty
well. 1t is not every people which
can meet so many reverses with such
grim desperation, and determination.
Dubuque Times: Chicago has sent a
delegation to Washington. D. c., to
tell President Roosevelt that the cabi-
net needs secretary of commerce
and industry. The country doesn't
suspect it. 1t is quite satisfied that
the cabinet is large enough now.
Davenport Democrat: The Dubuque
Telegraph Herald, having nothing bet
ter to offer. concludes that the assasi-
nation of President Mckinley is re-
sponsib'e for it. But unfortunately
about the same thing happened when
Mckinley himself was candidate.
| Council Bluffs NonpareiI: Champ
Clark predicts that Henry Watterson
will most likely be governor and that
he may be president ''for at this writ
ing II looks as if President Roosevelt
would wreck the republican party
AS usual the only democratic hope is
based upon wrecking something.
Cnnton Herald: Considerable is be.
ing said about the "Oid Guard a des,
\ ignation generally applied to those re.
uublicans who do not care about be.
ing reformed by the new process OF
political evaporation that leaves q
man in condition where he needs o
political analysis before he or his
i friends know who he is. This tito
should be extended to cover all repub
I'icans who never quit. no matter what
the condi..on or who the candidates
The title is one of honor, and many
lare the republicans who are entitled
IT, :: r....cs <. - y ranks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.

Audubon Republican: One of the
most remarkable things happened In
Audubon during election day that we
have ever seen. Will Wilson and
Chef Caldwell formed company of
fourteen new voters and at 3 o'clock
they marched in a body 10 the polls
and all voted straight republican tick.
cts. They were VIII Wilson, Chef
Caldwell, Frank Drake, Ned Troxell,
Lou Tramp, Grin Eddy, Leslie Walk.
er, Branch Prick, George Kibby, Dan
Petersen. Gus Lester Ed Owens, Fred
Story and Will MantZ. They then
marched to Talbott's restaurant and
sat down to an oyster supper provided
by leading republicans of the town.
Short addresses were made to them
by F. H. Blume and w. c. Elliott.
Jefferson Logan, Of Des Moines, a
negro and an ex-slave, will entertain
Gov. Leslie M. Shaw. Congressman j.
A. T. Hull, Hon. LATE Young and all
the state officials at possum supper
at his home before the legislature con-
venes the first of the year. De-
spite the hubbub of the entertaining
of Booker T. Washington by President
Roosevelt at the White House has &C.
casloned, jeff Logan will continue his
habit, in existence for the past seven
teen years, of giving an annual pos
sum supper to the state officials OF
Iowa.
Jefferson Logan was born in sla-
very in Missouri, the property of P. L.
Hudgins, of Savanna, Mo-, member
OF the legislature at Jefferson City
and known as one OF the most promi-
nent lawyers in Missouri in antebei.
lum days. Logan is now Ga years old.
He obtained his freedom shortly after
the outbreak of the civil war and came
| to Des Moines in 1862 residing there
continuously ever since. For the past
seventeen years, since 1884. he has
given an annual 'possum supper, ex-
cept when Boies was governor, to the
governors and state officials Of Iowa.
At the last 'possum supper, in 1900
the guests included besides Gov. Shaw
and the state officials, Capt. ]. A. T.
Hull chairman of the military affairs
/, eoraa.1.sssas &C saa-Srssss I.sfs ynuns
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
Founded 9Th August, le4a.

Published sem,-weckiy OH Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
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eiei hone editorial Or business Office No. a..
Address the Courier Printing Co., ottunlwa, Ia
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CIRCULATION.

The oltumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21


On the mopey question Mr.. Bryan is
more muddled than on taxation. Had
he begun to review the money ques-
1872, when Horace Greeley boldly
sumo" at a time when greenbacks
were discussed by the organs of that
critical time in the history of the ma
ton, then he would be on SOLID
ground. 1t seems but yesterday when
i as young men was asking wise.
cautious men: How can this parity
between gold, silver and paper be
brought about?" Gold was then at a
premium; but Horace Greeley and the
courageous financiers of that time fix
ed a future date, towit. January l,
1879. or seven years, in which to grad
ually put things on firm basis. No
one ever talked of criminal conduct
from 1873 up to 1887 or 1888. The
Crime of 1873" was merely an after.
thought or catchword. remember
we'll the puzzled perplexed condition
OF things-especially in the west
while the prairie country was being
opened up. Money of any kind was
hard to get Rates were frightfully
high. Improved farms were pledged
to money lenders at from IL to Is pc,
cent and small loans granted at thai
rate. Chattel property was pledged
at TO per cent per month. Rail
road freiaht rates We're high, and
take it all around, the pioneer farmer
had a hard time to make ends meet
/ What the railroad manager didu'
take after the grain dealer got hi!
slice the county seat banker kept
None of these things is spoken of il
any simple. clear way, and the pres
ent enormous wealth of the prairi,
states dive upon. That the commo,
sense and great wisdom of the Ameri
can people, as it picked it way &C
cording to its own dawning ligh
from year to year. is in evidence nov
ought to mean for the true Statesman
i triumphant songs of praise ant
4 thanks to God rather than plunging
along unknown roads that would Ian,
JUS up against old Mexico. China o
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Creston Gazel,e: The democrats
Tin the legislature) will have no du-
ties to perform but to occupy the state
house furniture and vote no when
the secretary calls the roll.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
THINKS BY IOWA EDITORS.

Marshalltown Times Republican /:
The republican party of today includes
about all that careful men believe to
We right In national and state affairs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Burlington Eswk-Eye: The clintos
Age before the election hoped for q
scattering" of democrats in the next
legislature. 1t strikes us its hope has
been pretty we'll realized.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Davenport Republican,: The people
of the great state of Iowa have few
regrets. But they have one, and that
is lat Prof Heron once claimed this
state as his home.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
w. j. BRYAN: A STUDY.

Mr.. Bryan takes up taxation in a
negative way. Instead of pointing out
first the tendency of the times to take
CAFE of the poor, the sick, the bind,
the insane and also to build good
bridges, roads and provide funds with
which to keep open good courts of JUS
tice, with sufficient police force IN
connection therewith-all of which
means cash-he simply pounds away
at taxes. Coloradosis a true type of
a sentimental western state ready to
embrace or embody in its fugitive
laws of varying compleXity all kinds
Of paternalistic schemes requiring ex-
ira sums of money to carry them out
in detail to their u innate logical con-
clusion. To furnish money to keep
state institutions going taxes the wits
of the embryonic little chaps stuck liz
to the legislature Mr.. Bryan forgets
the axiom of Jefferson, who declared
that the chief function Of government
was to protect life and property
He begins $ work wrong end to- He
puts the cart before the horse. Were
he to make his stasemen synthetic
or cumulative ard point out why we
Americans are under the spell of Karl
Nldi oNu LIE sOGldliSl SGtluOl dllcluDl-
ing too much in governmental affairs
| could travel pert way with my fas.
cinating friend w. J. Bryan. But as
he falls down on his party and bangs
away at ''corporations" part compa
ny with him. The corporations he be
rates are merely Instruments by which
the savings or thrift of the poor in
many cases aid and foster enterprises
that make for greater prosperity, civ
ing employment 10 labor that few sin
7 gle individuals dare undertake. The
corporate--or co operative-form OF
/ industrial development of utility and
properties has come to stay. and any
attempt to tax them to death as Mr.
Bryan intimates--or msking them car
ry all the burdens of the community
means the checking of the growth OF
increase Of labor employing enter
prises. He is therefore no real friend
of the laborer or the Investor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Davenport Times: Iowa democrats
who pulled through the election and
got INTO the legislature will be
mighty lonesome at the January SEES
sion. BY and by the thing will be
unanimous.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Walter Well.
man has outlined the tariff policy for
the republicans and will now have a
little time to devote to the details OF
civil government in the Philippines.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Champ
Clark predicts that Henry Wsttersop
will most likely be governor and that
he may be president. "for at this writ
ing II looks as if President Roosevelt
would wreck the republican party
AS usual the only democratic hope is
based upon wrecking something.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Cedar Rapids Republican,: For a
people with many reverses. it must be
said that the British bear up mighty
well. 1t is not every people which
can meet so many reverses with such
grim desperation, and determination.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-11
Words of Wisdom From the TaImud

cute, but from them that are perse-
Cuted.'"
Prayer is Israel's only weapon, a
weapon inherited from his fathers, q
weapon tried In thousand battles"
when the righteous die, they live;
for their example lives"
Three shall not enter Paradise
the scoffer, the hypocrite and the sian
derer."
rabbi Gamallel ordered his servant
Tobi 10 bring him something good from
the market, and he brought tongue.
AT another time he told him to bring
something bad and he also returned
with a tongue. Why did you on both
occasions fetch tongue?' the rabbi
asked. 1t is the source of good and
evil Tobi replied. II u is good there
Is nothing better; II it is bad. there Is
nothing worse"
Support the aged without reference
TO religion; respect the learned with.
out reference to age"
Truth lasts forever. but falsehood
must vanish"
This is the punishment o. the liar,
that when he tells the truth nobody be-
lieves him."
use the best vase today for to-
morrow it may, perchance, be broken"
when Satan cannot come himself
he sends wine as messenger"
"A town which has no school should
be abolished"
THE world is only saved by the
breath OF schoolchildren."
Jerusalem was destroyed because
the instruction Of the young was ne
elected"
"He who instructs child is as IL ho
had created it," Ilsf
"The teachers are the guardians OF
the state"
Learn first and philosophize after
ward"
ITO what may he be compared who
teaches child? To one who writes on
clean paper. And to what may he be
compared who teaches an old man?
To one who writes on blotted paper"
BE eager to acquire knowledge; It
does not come to thee by inheritance"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-11
Why WOMEN HATE

Why do women dislike women?
1T isn't jealousy" said one of the
sex. who is a newspaper reporter, "be.
cause the dislike is not confined to
homely and unsuccessful women. and
the objects are not always pretty and
successful ones. II may be because
women are not so easily done From
n reporters point of view, 1t is dis.
tinctly humiliating to feel that you ara
tolerated in your professional capacity
just because you are woman. that you
are given time and attention that
would not be shown a man simply be-
cause 1t Is not customary to show a
woman out the door.
And yet all women in business do
tack advantage Of these h,tle court
estes, shameful as the admission may
seem. But it is really not indefensible
A woman works under so many handi.
caps that do not touch man that an
occasional advantage must be eagerly
seized to make chances anything like
even. She Is denied the inestimable
help of bullying, and her smiles and
blum. but then. II is the only form left
her and makes just so much for suc-
| cess.
1T Is not because women are wo-
men that they are dsliked by their
own sex in business. II Is because the
average home woman doesn't under
stand. Usually she is monarch in her
home, absolutely the most important
person in II. and she loses the true
appreciation Of the Importance of othe r
people outside 1t. A man in business
is constantly brought In contact with
who have equal rights with him.
whereas woman may spend two hours
a day visiting with callers of her own
grade Of intelligence. as against SIX
/ teen spent with the children and the
servants. When she does meet men IL
is either in the capacity of grocery
boys or clerks whose business II Is to
defer to her opinions. however illogi-
cal, or in social way when Il isn't
worth while to combat her ideas If they
happen to be erratic.
SO that unless she makes a very
great effort she becomes positive and
dogmatic. and when she meets other
women where there is a clash of inter-
ests sheexpects the same Difference
from them that she receives in her
daily surroundings from men. and this
Is in great measure the reason why
womens discussion, when IL strays
outside the realms of dress and babies,
IL not always peaceful as is desirable.
Their daily habit of acting as sole
dictator sometimes discounts the opin-
ions of others, and leads each woman
to expect OF every other woman the
Difference to her little peculiarities she
Is in the habit of receiving, and gives
occasion for tn emlsanthropic advice in
Peg Wellington DO let the dear Ia
dies be natural; let them hate each
other"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-11

Mr.. Peters, hopeful OF gaining Z
knowledge OF the Jewish religion and
believing that extracts from the Tai
mud would lead Christian scholars to
study the subject further, has compiled
the volume, entitled wit and Wisdom
OF the Talmud." Here are some quo
tations from the wit and Wisdom:
The forest trees once asked the fruit
trees: Why is the rustling OF your
leaves not heard in the distance?' The
fruit trees replied: We can dispense
with the rustling to manifest our
presence our fruits testify for us. The
fruit trees then inquired OF the forest
trees: Why do your leaves rustic con-
tinually?' We are forced to call the at
tention Of man to our existence
Too many captains sink the ship"
An old man is a trouble in the
house; an old woman is a treasure in
the house"
wv p''N'e VI WIN III oi' Dds iahc
more noise than a hundred"
Poverty cometh from God, but not
dirt
Our kindly deeds and our generous
gifts go to heaven as messengers and
plead for us before our Heavenly Fa-
Their"
The noblest Of all charities Is in en-
abling the poor to earn livelihood"
THE camel wanted to have horns
and they took away his ears"
THE egg OF today is better than the
hen OF tomorrow"
Cold water morning and evening Is
better than all the cosmetics"
THE question is asked, why is man
born with hands clinched, hut has his
hands wide open in death?' And the
answer is: On entering the world
man desires to grasp everything; but
when leaving it he takes nothing
away"
1.-TWO dry logs and one wet; the dry
ones kindle the wet"
He who seeks for a faultless broth.
or will have to remain brotherless"
II thy friends agree in calling thee
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-11
a(SBEE PROVES POOR
WITNESS FOR SAMPSON

New York, Oct. Rear Admiral
Schley Jared better before the nava!
court OF inquiry today than at any or
the previous sessions, his counsel turn.
ing several important incidents in his
favor during the cross.examination Of
the witnesses. He succeeded In di
vesting at least two items OF the pro
cept of their serious damage.
Efforts were made to bring out dis.
crepancies between the charts and ~
ports and testimony with indecisive
results. In addition to the criticisms
Of the campaign which he made yes.
terday. Admiral Evans explicitly dc.
MED several statements ascribcd to
him as having been made to Comno.
dore Schley in the Brooklyn's cabin
aiier the destruction vi the Spanish
Meet. He admitted that he was anx.
ious about coaIing his ship off San.
tiago and that the blockade was lar
ther off shore by night than by day
Hanna, acting as judge advocate Tor
the day on account OF Captain Lem
ley's bereavement, produced the first
civilian witness VINO mas taken tho
stand since the hearing actually be.
gan. The court was visibly displeas.
Ell with this action, anu, as 1t turned
out, the evidence adduced was not OF
great moment. From notes made at
the time on the lower bridge of tho
Texas. near the coming tower, the
witness related certain things Captain
Philip had said In the critical period
OF the great battle, when all the bat.
teries of the ships were firing their
hardest, up to the alleged disappear.
ance Of the Brooklyn to seward after
the loop that had given the Texas
such close shave. Admiral Dewey,
with show OF much impotence, and
instead OF addressing his ques,.on in
writing through the Judge advocate as
customary, finally turned upon the w.
ness and asked sharply: Did you
hear Captain Philip give any orders to
back the engines?"
Answer did not. turned away
then.
Admiral Dewey-You would have
heard 1t II he had. would you not?
Answer might not.
Admiral Dewey, with emphasis-You
seem to have heard every tning else.
The greater part OF the day was de.
voted to the examination of Captain
Sigsbee of the st. Paul, upon whose
contradiction OF the statement by
SChley In letter to the Senate Naval
Committee much stress had been laid.
He proved very cautious in all his rec.
objections OF facts, and was distinctly
disappointing to those who expected
him to offer anything damaging to the
defense.
4 dramatic incident occurred during
Captain Sigsbee's cross-examnation
Schley's counsel read the following ey.
tract from the hitherto unpublished re.
port sent by Admiral Sampson from
Cape Haytien May Both to Secretary
Long: Il am informed by Captain
Sigsbee of the st. Paul that he saw
two Spanish vessels and two torpedo
boats near the mouth of the harbor at
Santiago yesterday when he passed
that point. At the same time Commu.
dore Schley was blockadng. but at
distance of twenty-five miles to the
westward Of the harbor."
The acting Judge advocate objected
to further reading. but in reply to 0
question from Schleys counsel as to
whether he had ever told any one any.
thing of the kind, Sigsbee declared
positively that he never had.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-11
ABDOMINAL SURGERY.

DR.. Frank p. Poster. editor of the
New York Medical Journal, said:
A great advancement In abdominal
surgery has been made in recent years
This advancement was made possible
by Lord Listers campaign OF antisep-
sis. In regard to gunshot wounds In
the abdomen, the first man to propose
operative intervention was Dr.. James
Marion Sims Of this city, who died in
1888. Before the days OF such inter-
yention a person with penetrating
wound Of the abdomen did occasionally
recover. He was more likely to re-
cover from gunshOt wound than from
a stab wound. It was generally infer
red then that when man with a gun
shot wound recovered. no internal Or
gans had been penetrated. This in
ference. however. was not always JUS.
titled. Lord Lister, who was years ago
simply Mr.. Joseph Lister. a surgeon to
the Glasgow Royal infirmary. took up
the study of aEtisepsis about 1860. As
n result of his studies the whole Of the
operative surgery has been much safer.
About forty years ago a person suffer-
Ing with a eunshOt wound Of the alb
domen was seldom operated upon. The
wound was usually drained, and the
patient received stimulants and ano-
dynes according to the symptoms. At
that time the number of people with
gunshot wounds who recovered was
exceedingly small. Later the surgeon
began to play holder part in the
treatment of such cases. He was not
only called upon to drain the wound,
but to remove the bullet, to clean the
abdominal cavity and to close ND the
apertures In hollow organs by means
OF stitches. Opium was most always
given, not only for the purpose OF al.
laying pain, but also to prevent the
natural vermicular movements of tho
intestines. Under the improved meth
DDS OF treating such cases, the number
or persons who died grew decidedly
smaller,
At the time President Garfield was
shot surgery was on high plane, but
few surgeons had opened the abdomen
Tor the relief of gunshot wounds. Pres
ident Garfield was shot in the spinal
column. He was not subjected to
radical operation. 1t can hardly bs
said positively that Mr.. Garfeld's case
would have ended in recovery, even
II his Injury had been received in the
present days of advanced surgery. In
the last ten or fifteen years surgeons
nave accomplished results In abdoml-
nal surgery that their predecessors
never dreamed Of. They are now able
TO open the abdomen with almost abso-
lutte safety for diseases and injuries of
any organ within the abdominal cavity.
Even wounds of the heart have been
successfully treated in few cases. A
post mortem examination OF a person
who died some years after a gunshot
wound of the chest, revealed the pres
ence of a bullet in one of the chambers
Of the heart.