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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
PENSIONS.

The advance synopsis of Commits
sioner of Pensions Evans just filed at
Washington makes interesting read
ing, especially by reason of the criti-
cism directed to his department by
those who maintained that the laws
governing in passing upon these
claims should be interpreted more
literally.
The report shows that during the ifs
cal year just ended the number of
names on the roll 1,041,32D has
reached the highest ever recorded.
Ruring the year 1925 new claims
We're allowed: while 40 $50 were drop,
ped, principally on account Of death :;
showing a net increase in pensioners
for the twelve months of 639; adding
4 ,296 claims for renewals and restora-
tions allowed swells the net increase
to 1926.
The cost to the country was $685.
531 ,4S3.S4, or an average of about S13S
to each pensioner for the year.
The number of names on the roll
now shows one pensioner to about ev
cry 80 inhabitants throughout the I'm
tied States, at which ratio there should
be in the city of Ottumwa about 25C
pensioners, who according to the av'
erages, are receiving from their fellow
citizens through taxation. about $685.,
$50 collectively for the year.
The pension roll is the greatest item
of expense connected with the federal
government, costing more than any
other branch or department. The
nearest approach to it is the cost Of
the war department, which for 1906
was s134,774,767,
OF the pension question the late ex
President BENJAMIN Harrison wrote
There are two views of the pension
| question-one from the Little Rount
| Top at Gettysburg, looking out owe
a field sown thickly with the dead ant
around upon bloody, blackened ant
manned men cheering the shot-tor1
banner of their country; the othel
from an office-desk on busy street
or from an endowed chair in univer
sity. looking only upon statistical ia
| ble.'
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN THE
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

The Rev. w H. Carwardine, in his
discourse at the South Chicago Meth
odist Episcopal church last Sunday ev-
ening upon the subject OF employment
of women in the business world and
her competition with male labor,
seems to have touched upon subject
of wide and considerable interest, if
the press comments thereon are a cri-
terion.
His theme was that commercial life
destroys woman's love of home and
family. stating fatty that she had no
right to become a competitor in the
labor market with her brother man.
That such assertion needs qualifica
ton is self-evident Many a girl and
woman by the death of those who pre-.
viously supported her, or by the loss OF
fortune, is actually obliged to find some
means of employment whereby she can
keep body and soul together; we sec
no reason why she should then be re
stricted to household work, including
laundry work and nursing
Where she seeks employment from
necessity, her services should be re
tanned in whatever position she is cap
able of filling, be it as an instructor
stenographer, bookkeeper, cashier
clerk, author or otherwise.
However (and here is where one O.
the wrongs of the matter creep I'M
1 She should be paid the same wages a!
! had previously been paid the man fol
doing the same work When the EN-
ployer offers her less he is doing F:
wrong to the community: that is, h,
4 is throwing man, probably a bread
winner with others dependent upol
him, out Of employment; at the sam,
time the employer is depriy
Ing the woman he hire
OF the difference in the two wages
placing her in lower order of exist
ence, and yet requiring from her pro
4 flciency equivalent to that of the ma,
she displaced.
i One oil the greatest faults to b.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
cuMMINs' ADVANCEMENT.

Some of our democratic friends
charge A. B. Cummins with being the
attorney for one or more railroad COM
panies as though disgrace should fol-
low him thereupon. How much truth
there is to the charge we do not know,
but conceding it as fact we think
1t speaks well for the man individual
ly to have attained such ability and
standing after having started in life
as carpenter. According to our OBJ
servation there is not lawyer in Wa
pello county but who would gladly ac-
cept such retainer; there is competi-
ton among them for the appointments
as local counsel to one or more of the
various roads: and the call to such a
position is regarded by the rest of the
bar and a large number of business
men as compliment and as recog-
milton of demonstrated ability after
long years of study and trial. Per-
sonal qualities and political power do
not count with the companies; it is a
business proposition with them; they
want the best lawyer they can get, and
pay him for it. There is no reason
why if Cummins has proven a capable
lawyer for freight carriers he should
therefore be unfit to occupy the gov
ernor's chair, where his very success
and the success of his party is depend
ent upon his administering the affairs
of the people just as ably as he admin
istered those concerns which previous
Iy engaged his attention.
While in the legislature he support
ed the Temple amendment, designed
to enable injured railroad employees
to recover damages from their en-
ployer notwithstanding they partici-
pated in benefits from aid associations,
measure much opposed by those in
whose interests Mr.. Cummins was then
and is now charged to be employed
His career shows him to be a man
with the courage Of his convictions
who has worked his way up from a
lowly position by years of self-denial
study, application and perseverance.
If your life or property depended up
on lawyers efforts las sometimes
happens) would you not feel inclined
to employ one of the same attorneys il
this community who has served or nov
serves one of the carriers? Would
you be regarded either as foolish O.
undiplomatic in so doing?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

We were brought up in what must
have been something of Pnritanical
school, whereat we We're taught that a
lie was a lie, whether white or black;
that in them there were no shades of
color. A more liberal school seems
to have been recently founded, at the
head of which is e. Benz. Andrews OF
the University of Nebraska, who as
serts dogmatically that the lady of
the house is not liar when she sends
word to the caller at the door that she
is not at home; nor the husband when
adhering to political party all OF
whose platform he cannot swallow;
nor the minister when preaching doc
trine of which he not soulfully con,
WINGED; nor the lawyer when he de-
tends criminal he knows is guilty;
nor the ordinary man when he signs
Yours truly" to the letter addressed
to his dearest enemy. We know this
will be welcome news to many outside
of our own circle and school,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
ENUMERATION OF CHILDREN.
Annual Notice Has Been Received by
Superintendent Dimmitt.


County Superintendent Beniah Dim
mitt is in receipt of a notice from the
department of public instruction of
Iowa, issued by State Superintendent
Richard G. Barrett. regarding the emu
meration of school children. The no.
tice, as received, is as follows:
Time-The time for taking the EMU
meration is fixed by the statute, which
should be strictly enforced. Section
| 27S5 says that each director shall, be-
tween the first and tenth days of Sep
TENDER in each year. prepare list of
the heads of families in his sub-dis-
/ trict, the number and sex of all chill
dren of school age, and by the fifteenth
day of said month report this list to
the secretary of the school township,
who shall make full record thereof"
Section 2764, referring to the duties of
! the secretary, says: "He shall, be-
tween the first day of September and
! the third Monday in September of
each year, enter in a book made for
/ that purpose the name, sex and age of
every person between five and twenty
one residing in the corporation, to-
gether with the name of the parent
or guardian
] Accuracy notwithstanding the ne
cessity for an accurate enumeration
which has been urged from
year to year by this depart
ment, we have reason to be-
4 lieve that the number reported from
many districts and counties has net
been correct The Federal Census Of
school age, while the school census
tho l,lIt
A difference of 36.716 in the two re-
ports, is good evidence that some par
! ties have done careless work, and
sufficient argument that more accur-
ate count should be made in Septem-
Der of this year.
Persons Enumerated.-All persons
between the ages Of five and twenty
one years who are residents of dis
trict should be included in the school
census for that district. No excep-
ton whatever is made to the above
rule, and to be complete the list
must include the names of all persons
of school age, even if married or tenn
Iporarily absent to attend school or en-
gage in other work To secure cor
rect list the most careful inquiry must
be made by the party taking the cen
sus. and a most thorough examination
of the list must, be made by the board
before accepting the report.
4 In State INSTITUTIONAL child in
one of the charitable or reformatory
institutions must be enumerated in the
district in which his parents reside.
But if in the institution to remain per-
manentlg, having no parent or guar
dian, his residence Is in the district
l;,, ;nt Sc, {oI
he should be enumerated therein.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
LATTER DAY coNeREssMEN.

In 1889, when congress was first es-
tablished. there was one representa-
tive iii congress to every 10000 inhab-
itants. making So congressman in all
when assembled
These congressman represented and
looked after the interests of about
as many people as are at present in
| Wapello county. Stated in another
way, the people could then consult
their congressman upon matters of
mutual concern almost as readily as we
today can interview the state repre-
sentative or senator from Wapello
county.
In 1893, under the last adjustment
of congressional districts, with 1856
representatives in congress, each of
them represented 173,901 people. This
well demonstrates how the country
has grown; and also suggests how
necessarily less thorough and compact
and hurried is congressional work of
the twentieth century days when com
pared with that of the colonial times.
4 Instead of one, the congressman
/ from this, the sixth district, has the
inhabitants of seven counties to look
after in national and international con,
Germs, viz, those from Jasper, Powe
shiek, Mahaska, Keokuk, Monroe, Wa
pello and Davis
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

rittenden Anchorage Mission, Chicago
and don't feel as if could be more than
twenty. Twas sick for five long years.
Idoctored aUthe time. Nothing helped
me permanently until I heard of DR..
Hartman and bis medicine and he
cured me. 1 had been SO sick, suffered
almost death, vomiting three or four
times daily, no strength, not able to
walk, and now for one year and a half
have been well woman. People arc
surprised to see me so well. tell them
that DE-. Hartman cured me with Pc
runa."
For all of thatclass of disorders known
as female diseases, Peruna is without
rival, because it strikes at the source OF
these diseases. Peruna produces clean.
healthy mucous membranes, without
which no woman can be strong or beau
tiful.
"Hea,th and Beauty" sent free to
women only, by The Peruna Medicine
CO., Columbus. Ohio.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
TEACHING SPANISH IN THE PUB
Lie SCHOOLS.

The public school authorities in
Chicago met with considerable oppo-
sition and criticism when, shortly al
Ter the war with Spain, they recogniz-
ed the call for familiarity with that
tongue and provided optional courses
in the Spanish language for some of
the high and more particularly the
night schools
We believe il was a prudent and
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

The government transport Thomas
sailed for San Francisco last month,
among those on board being 400 male
and 100 female teachers under three
year contracts as instructors in our
schools in the Philippine islands. The
transport touched at Honolulu enroute
and on departure from that port it was
found that while there thirty of the
young women had passed away, that is
their names and identity had been
merged in that of as many of the gen
tlemanly instructors through the kind,
ly Offices of the matrimonial privi
leges. 1t may be that the Thomas will
touch at Nagasaki If so how many
Of the one hundred maidens will be
left on arrival at Manila? This route
gives promise of being as popular as
the Chicago-St. Joe line.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
IOWA is CALLED UPON TO PRE-
SERVE INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

That is to say the battle ship Iowa
has been ordered to proceed immedi-
ately from San Francisco to Panama to
protect the property of the Panama
railroad from raids by the revolutions
lists of Venezuela and Colombia.
Iowa, ship or state. will never shiril
her share of fighting for the nation S
safety or honor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

Mrs. Clara Makemer, Of The Florence
Mrs. Clara Makemer, formerly with
the Christian Medical Hospital and Dis
pensary, of Chicago, and present house
keeper for the Florence Crittendcn An
chorage Mission, OF Chicago, writes the
following letterfrom 500 Chestnut street,
Chicago:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Colum bus, o.:
Northumberland is the best tonic I
have ever known for general debility-a
sure cure for liver nt,andanever-
falling adjuster in cases of dyspepsia.
I have also used it in cases of female
Irregularities ard weak nerves COM
mon to the sex, and have found IL
most satisfactory. For almost any
Internal trouble Peruna is an idea
medicine chest.
Mrs. D. Finlay, Petoskcy, Mich.
writes: "Inever was better in my life
shan am now. Peruna has cured mo.
Twas fifty-seven years old last Friday
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

sure the election of A. B. Cummins by
the largest majority ever given any
candidate for governor in Iowa
Give us party unity,
Not reorganization;
Democracy and
Not populism. Lon. H. Boydston.
Montezuma, Iowa, Aug. II, 1901.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

E. w. Carlton city editor of the
Joplin, Mo, Daily Globe, shot himself
through the heart in the newspaper
office and died almost instantly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
REPUBLICAN nOMsNATIONS.

NET ODIlSHlH t'OlSIsl NF& Sos
Republican State Ticket,
For Governor.
ALBERT B. CUMMINS,
of Des Moncs.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN NJ. HERRIOTT,
of Stuart.
For Judge of Supreme Court.
S. M. WEAVER,
of Iowa Falls.
For Railroad Commissioner,
E. c. BROWN.
of Sheldon.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
re. BARRETT,
of Usage.
Republican Legislative Ticket.
For Senator
CAPT. S. H. HARPER,
of ottumwa.
For Representative,
A w. BUCHANAN.
of Ottumwa.
Republican County Ticket.
For Sheriff,
HARRY CREMER,
Of Washington Township
For Treasurer,
r. P. DANA.
Center Township, Fourth Precinct.
For Superintendent of Schools,
JOSEPH PARKS.
Center Township, First Precinct
For Member of Board of Supervisors.
A. ]. GARDNER.
Columbia Township. First Precinct.
For Coroner,
DAVID THRONE.
Center Township, Sixth Precinct
For Surveyor,
G. r. ALLEN.
Center Township, Third Precinct
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
Founded 9th August, 1S4S.

Published sem,-wcckly on Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
Office: H.. South Market Street
Telephone editorial or business Office No. A..
Address The Courier Printing Co.. Ottuniw;t. Ia
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
CIRCULATION.

The ottumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

statute. making a regular business OF
free-and-eaSy divorces, is universally
admitted to be aSdisgrace to the state.
What of it? Mr. Whitney concludes
that if people can't live together they
ought to be separated Mr.. Hallam
his predecessor in the county at
torneys office, thought about the same
thing. And ,Iurge Wakefield, who has
granted a good share OF the divorces
on which these statistics are based,
finds after long experience in listen
ing to the troubles OF the unhappily
married that he isn't nearly so ready
with remedies as people who know
nothing about it by experience. Il
don't take much stock in the plan to
give the courts authority to prohibit
divorced people from marrying again.
the judge is quoted as saying. This is
especially so of older persons, who
have families and should marry again.
If married couple can't get along the
best thing for them, is divorce
And that's the way most people
think about it. The trouble is that ill
assorted couples bring children into
the world and then there is sorrow for
all. But the children prevent more
misery than they cause, for many a
couple that would be divorced but for
the children goes along and finally ar.
rives at a very comfortable modus vi
vendi.
One Iowa jurist declared he would
have law preventing remarriages OF
divorced persons within a given term
of years; or he would leave to the
court discretion to determine the term
during which the divorced people
must remain separate. But then they
would go across a state line and marry
where the laws We're different Uni
form marriage and divorce laws, un
der national control. will do about as
much as legislation can accomplish
But that is not nearly enough What
is needed is an appreciation of what
marriage means, a proper conception
of the duties and responsibilities ant
mutual concessions it must involve
4 Legislation and court procedures can
/ not provide this. Education can dc
much. but it cannot do all. Home
training, good raising. the inbred sen
4 timent of chivalry, of love for thu
home and for domestic concerns
these will do more than all Legislation
or all mere educational Efforts
Sioux City Tribune.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

The Thing to Do.-The Telegraph
is now more convinced than ever that
the wise thing for the democratic state
convention to do is to unanimously in
dorse the national platform OF 1900,
make equitable taxation the paramount
issue and nominate Hon. Cato Sells
for governor by acclamation.--Du
buque Telegraph
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22

Advice to Democrats.-The populist
state convention will meet in Des
Moines on Thursday and Friday of this
week. What they will do in the way
of making ticket and platform VIII
depend great deal on the business
like transactions of the democrats
Wednesday. There should be no al
lance with populists; no respect
shown populistic acknowledgements
Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23
SHE DECLINED.


Few American youth have careers made
for them. Those who deplore this fact and
shun the stings of feffort may find tonic
in the reply Of a western girl to an offer OF
marriage, says Youths Companion.
A young man of more book-,earning than
force of character lost the young wife who
had toiled to support him, returned to his
native town for consolation, and found it.
Some months later she, too, passed away,
and the sad youth soon appealed to . we'll
known clergyman for assistance in finding
Z helpmate.
The minister introduced him to 4 west
ern girl of health and energy, who the next
day received plaintive note from the Wild
over. He declared that the Lord had made
great inroads upon his marital affections,
and it now seemed to be His will that she
should repair the breaches of his life.
The reply, which the clergyman keeps to-
day a. one of the choicest specimens Of .
varied collection, reads simply:
'Nend your own breeches."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23
SALT ELIXIR HELPS OLD MEN


Henry w. Beerman and John Raney,
the aged men seeking restoration Of
strength through glycero-phosphate-
of-sodium treatment, at New York the
other day showed marked signs of i'm
provement Both took advantage Of
the pleasant weather to take n stroll,
and life took ON added interest for each
Of them.
This double test of the treatment by
which DR.. Robin 30 greatly aided for
mer Mayor Abram S. Hewitt is attract
ing much attention every day from
physicians who are familiar with the
experiment.. The fact that Beerman is
So years old and that Raney is nearly
the allotted three score and ten has in
creased the interest of all in the cases.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23
The DUTY OF MOTHERS

What suffering frequently reaults
from . mothers ignorance; or moro
frequently from mothers neglect to
properly instruct her daughterl
Tradition says woman must suf-
fer" and young women are SO taught.
There is little truth and . great deal
Of exaggeration in this. II . young
woman suffers severely she needs
treatmcnt and her mother should zee
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take their
daughters to physician for examine
ton but no mother need hesitate to
write freely about her daughter or
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure
the most efficient advice without
charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address il
Lynn, Mass.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23

Mrs August Pfalzgraf. Of South
BYRON. Wis, mother Of the young lady
whose portrait we here publish, wrote
Mrs Pinkham in January, 1889, saying
her daughter had suffered for two
wears with irregular menstruation.
had headache all the time. and pain IN
her side, feet swell, and was generally
miserable. Mrs Pinkham promptly
replied with advice, and under date OF
March 1899, the mother writes again
that Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetaois
Cnmpound cured her daughter OF all
pains and irregularity.
Nothing in the world equals Mrs
Pinkhams great medicine for regu-
lating woman's peculiar monthly
troubles.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23
One Coming.

"Could you tell me the meaning Of the
word 'cataclysm:'" he asked of the street
car passenger who was folding up his news
aAre you going to ride two or three blocks
farther:" was queried in reply.
"Yes, sir"
'Then you'll see one. The conductor has
carried that sharp-nosed woman two streeta
past where she wanted to get off already,
and she'll wake up soon and start cata-
clym that'll probably jump the car right
off the tzack!"-Washington Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-23
4 FABLE FOR W0lfEn.
tsA which TAey Hay derive : So.
esstaen n to the llisnanaes.
Aent 81 HushoaAa.

here W. snee : woman Who I'LL that
ser husband Aayed out too late at nicht.
ces therefore devised plan to cure him
OF tEn. Her plan was to ne early IL order
e insure his refining early, writes Josephina
Only in this way win he be able 70 net
enough Sleep" she said.
her husband, who usually endeayored 70
please her, rose without complaint at III
o,clock, but continued to sthy out late. Per.
cssv1ng that her purpose was not accom-
pushed, the woman changed the hour to Eve
The morning hours are the best 70,
~orI, she said, "and understand that the
morning air possesses great virtues"
Her husband objected, but ROSE at Eve, a.
!, Still hs continued to come in late. Then
the woman fixed the hour at 4:3O
have always enjoyed seeing the sun
rise" abe said.
In that case" said her husband, de-
eidedly, II shall not 60 to bed at all, since
It would not be worth my while I viii
stay up all night and take my sleep at my
office in the afternoon. So we will have
breakfast at three o'clock, if you like"
This teaches US that the early worm VIII
turn.