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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12
AN OLD DISCHARGE.
Patrick n. Riordan Receives Papers
Showing Record During Civil War.
From FRIDAYS Daily.

FTOm Frluay Dally.
Patrick H. Riordan received his
original discharge papers from Adju,
tant General Fred Phisterer as second
lieutenant of Company e, 63d Infantry
New York Volunteers in which he
served during the civil war, this morn
ing. The discharge shows long line
of meritorious service, and is some,
thing that Mr.. Riordan may well be
pround Of 1t gives his record from
the time he enlisted as a private Sep
TENDER ~, 1861, and his promotions
to the Offices of corporal January l.
1862, sergeant August 5, 1862, and
mustered in as second lieutenant Sep
TENDER II, 1862, until his final muster
out of the service April IS, 1863. He
was wounded at Malvern Hill, Va
July 1. 1862, and again at Fredericks
burg, Va, December 13. 1862.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

Grip robbed me Of my sleep and I
was nearly crazy with neuralgia and
headache. Dr. Miles Pain Pills and
Nervine cured me. Mrs. Pearl Bush,
Holland, Mich.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12
NEARLY A MILLION.
Vast Amount Of Money Order Bus
ness at Ottumwa Postoflce.
ANNUAL STATEMENT IS GIVEN OUT
Largest Transactions in History of OF
tumwa office-New Rule of Hand
ling Money Orders at Stamp Win
dow Proves a Great Success.

The extent of the money order
transactions at the Ottumwa postof-
fee, will, we think, be a surprise to
the public generally. The total of the
transactions for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1900, was nearly $1,000,000.
The exact figures being $S26,2S5.20.
The following statement shows the
transactions in detail:
Statement money order business for
year 1900, Qttumwa, Iowa, postoffice.
Debit.
To balance fund. ...S S,02S.S3
1883 domestic orders is
Sueu 0I,uIl.Oo
Fees on domestic orders is
Sueu 14S.f3
POI international orders is
sued -. -. ..... 1,979.75
Fees on international orders
issued !. 29.40
Remittances received 49,. 345.2S1.94
Auditors debit 49,. .... .32
Total $50. ........... $413 1880
Credit.
By 1859 domestic orders
paid 80. -. ......... $132,012.38
so international orders paid S60OS
Cash deposited U. S. Treas 271 ,927.00
Auditors credit rs
Balance on hand at close of
business Dec. 81, 19O0... S,342.S9
Total ......... go. ..$413,142.60
1t will be seen that the Ottumwa
Office issued 1883 domestic orders
and POI international orders. That it
paid 1859 domestic orders and fifty
international orders. That the remit,
tances from the small surrounding
money order offices deposited with
the Ottumwa postmaster amounted
to$345.2S194 The total transactions
for the year were largely in excess of
any previous year in the history of the
Ottumwa Office
Very Few Mistakes.
The money order business at the
Ottumwa postoffice is directly in
charge of Money Order Clerk E. w.
Lowenberg, than whom there is not
in the postoffice service a more
faithful, efficient and accurate EN-,
loye. 1t is remarkable fact that in
the money order transactions of the
| Ottumwa Office last year, aggregating
as they did nearly S1,000,000 in cash
handled, but two errors occurred. one
| being debit error of 80 cents and the
other a credit error of % cents, max
| ing a net error if Z cents. We do not
believe that there is a postoffice in the
United States that can beat this rec
ord. In addition to the hours when
the regular money order department
of the Ottumwa postoffice is kept open
viz: from a. m. to p m, money or
ders were also sold and paid at the
night window from to II p, m. This
addition to the service was made by
Postmaster Lee about one year age
and has proven to be of great conven
fence, especially to the travelling pub
lie. Travelling men arriving in the
city on night trains can not only Sc
cure their mail, buy stamps and regis
ter letters. up to II o'clock p. M, but
can also buy and cash money orders.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

George ]. Flannery was relieved of
the awful pains in his head in fifteen
minutes. by the use of DR.. Miles Pain
Pills. Now he is rapidly recovering
at his home in Buffalo, N. Y.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

J. C. Helfrey, foreman at the West
inghouse factory in East Pittsburg,
had a severe attack of grip but he
used DR.. Miles Nervine and Pain Pills
and was soon back in his place.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

ing of Jesse James, Bob Younger and
James Younger stopped a train at Mum
|cie, Mo-, and robbed the express safe
|of $55,000. Another party, consisting
Iof Cole Younger, Frank James, and
the Millers, robbed a bank at Corinth,
Miss. Later the James brothers, the
three Youngers, Charles Pitts, and
Glen Miller robbed Missouri Pacific
train at Otterville, Mo-, securing $17,-
500.
In 1875 they decided to rob the bank
lat Northfield, Mimi, on Sept. 4. The
band consisted of Bob, Cole and James
Younger, Bill Caldwell, Glen Miller,
Frank and Jesse James, and Charley
Pitts. They rode directly to the bank,
where Frank and Jesse James and
Cole Younger dismounted and entered
Once inside they ordered J. L. Hay
wood, the cashier, to open the safe or
die. He refused and was shot.
While this was going on there was
wild scene in front of the bank A.
NV. Wheeler, who occupied a second
story room opposite got rifle and
shot Charles Pitts and Bill Chadwell
Then other citizens began firing. The
robbers fed and were pursued for six
days by hundreds of men. Finally, the
DdndlCS separated. Cole, Bob and Jim
Younger and Glen Miller kept togeth-
er. The James boys escaped after be-
ing repeatedly wounded and suffering
untold hardships.
Capture of the Bandits.
On September 81 the four others
were surrounded in the swamps of the
Watonwan river. Miller was killed
and the three Youngers were wounded
before they surrendered. The Young
ers were arraigned in court early in
October at Faribault. where, being ad-
vised that they could not be sentenced
to death if they pleaded guilty, they
did so, and were sentenced to penal
servitude at Saltwater for their natur-
al lives.
Two years ago the state senate
passed bill granting the Youngers a
parole, and it would have passed in
the house had not the friends of the
dead cashier of the Mortified bank
protested against this clemency. 1t
was never established that any of the
Younger brothers We're responsible for
the death of any of the victims of the
Mortified raid. They are old men
now and ever since their incarceration
they have been model prisoners.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

Speaker Henderson is again in his
chair in the House of Representatives
after severe attack of the grip.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

Mrs. A. E. Lopez, in the little town
of Modelia. Mimi, used DR.. Miles Pain
Pills and Nerve and Liver Pills and
was Well in a few days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

Three new cases of typhoid have de-
veIoped in the insane hospital at indie
pendence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

President Mckinley is slowly recov
ering from grip and it's after effects.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12
Recoveries From Grip.

Mrs. E. l. Masters, at her home in
Monitor, Ind, used DR.. Miles Nervine
and Pills to cure after effects of grip.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

1t is out of pure selfishness that we
preach against it,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

c. w. Patterson, of Alta, died quite
suddenly He was a Grand Army
man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

Rev. G. Body was in a serious condi-
ton at his home in ST. Paris, O., but
DR.. Miles Nervine and Nerve and
Liver Pills pulled him thru all right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

The Congregationalists at Sheldon
will erect a new $4,000 church edifice.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

By 1859 domestic orders
paid $3.50. -. .......'. SlS2,01I.38
| SO international orders paid S60.08
Cash deposited U. S. Treas 271, 927.00
Auditors credit ........ J. rs
Balance on hand at close of
| business Dec. 81, 1900... S,942.S9
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-12

The Youngers and the Jameses. then
separated for a while, as heavy re-
wards were offered for their arrest.
Many attempts were made to capture
them. In. one of them John Younger
was killed. At times the detectives
were hunters, and then again they
would be hunted
In December, 1875, two parties were
organized for robbery, One, consist
The Washington times., 1901-06-30
An Artistic idea.

A clever girl, who has more taste than
money, has adorned her room with
charming pictures by utilizing engravings
from high-class magazines. Not wishing
to incur the expense OF framing them.
the young woman bought several sheets
of blue blotting paper, such as art gal
leries use in crayon work. and some
sheets of grey cardboard. Selecting the
pictures that had a good deal of light.
she arranged them on blue mats cut
large enough to leave a margin. Those
that abounded in shadows were affixed
TO the grey mats. The special and unique
feature of the work. however, was the
mode of fastening the pictures in place.
Those on the blue mats were secured at
the corners by a circle ofsred sealing wax
about the size of a scent piece stamped
in the middle with her monogram seal
says the New York Tribune" Some on
the grey mats We're fastened with black
wax, some with blue, sealed in the same
fashion. BY way of variety, the seals
were affixed in different places. Some were
on every corner, some on diagonal cor
ners. some on the two upper with a seal
in the middle at the lower edge. The
general effect was EXTREMITY pretty. and
many of her friends have boldly appro-
priated the idea.
The Washington times., 1901-06-30
She Prefers Goats.

The fondness of Baroness Burdett-
Coutts for animal pets is well known, but
it is seldom that a woman chooses, as
the baroness has done, to make the goat
the object of her special favor. West Hill
Farm, one of the country homes of the
baroness. has been for twenty-six years
the home of these pets and a most inter
esting herd is now established there. Ev-
erything has been done to provide for the
comfort and happiness OF the favored
creatures. There are Well-warmed sheds
with separate dwellings for unruly billies
and luxurious quarters for the mothers
with their kids. The row of buildings
stands in a large yard, which opens into
an extensive meadow.
Here are large piles Of logs, over which
the goats delight 10 climb and play, and,
10 add to the general hyeliness of the
place a few fowls are allowed TO run
about freely. and a pretty dovecote, filed
with pigeons is built over the entrance
to the yard The meadow is bordered
with flowers and banks of laurel and ivy.
The crossed British and Nubian breed is
the specially at the farm, for the quality
of milk in this breed is considered the
best The Toggenburg and Pyrenean
blood is also introduced occasionally, the
latter being always recognized by the
black face.
The baroness has chosen for her pets
such picturesque names as Clematis. Wild
Thyme, Wistaria, and Meadow Sweet
Much of the milk of the goats is given
away by the baroness TO delicate people
and to those who have little ones.
The Washington times., 1901-06-30
Women BaIIoonists.

III Herr August Riedinger, or Augsberg.
is to be believed. a new career has just
opened for women, In which they need
not fear much competition from men. Ac-
cording to him, women are by nature es-
pecially fitted to become aeronauts. and
for this reason they ought to be employed
In preference to men in all those places
where balloons are now manufactured
Herr Riedinger practices what he
breaches. He has large factory !n
which he makes balloons and he employs
only women. Archduke Leopold Salvador
visited his factory the other day, and it
was women who explained to him the
mechanism of the various machines and
who got ready the balloon in which he
took a short trip. Moreover a woman ac-
companied him during this trip and guild
ed the balloon the entire way. Even when
large balloon has to be launched, task
which is ordinarily supposed to require
several exceptionally strong men, Herr
Riedinger employs only women, and ne
says that twenty young girls can do the
work satisfactorily unless a very strong
wind is blowing, and that even then they
can do it with very little assistance.
According to Herr Riedinger, tact de-
cision, skill. and manual dexterity are
most essential for work of this kind. and
these are the very qualities in which wo-
men excel men. Courage and coolness,
~ 'NAt4tSs dlt ct1p AitAiSHFAASeiH3tF Oul Alc
claims that in this respect women are
quite as well endowed as men, and that
in critical moments they may even prove
themselves to be superior
In France this novel statement is eaus-
ing much comment. II do not think
says one writer, that French girls would
achieve such wonders as aeronauts for
they are decidedly nervous and not at all
like the large stolid girls of Augsburg
who work so faithfully for Herr Riedin-
ger and who are evidently the descen-
dants of those ancient German women
whom Tacitus described as being almost
In all respects equal to man."
The Washington times., 1901-06-30

this sum and chance to pay for room
and board by giving service, she will pay
the coming years expenses. Because il is
especially difficult TO obtain good servants
in this inland town. there are few peo-
pie who are glad to give the college girls
such employment 1t is not easy. how
ever. to carry full college work and earn
a living besides"l
AT Barnard or any other city college,
except a free one, girl would find il i'm
possible probably to pay all of her ex-
penses and carry her college work at the
same time. Board and lodging cost more
than in the country, while street car
fares and other inevitables of city life
eat rapidly into a small income. num-
Der of girls in Barnard are, however
paying for their clothes books. car fares,
etc, by doing what work they can find
In many colleges there is opportunity for
the girls with taste and cunning fingers
to act as dressmaker. repairer and gen
eral refurbisher to students with gener-
Gus allowances. The reign of the shirt
waist has been boon to many such for
the well-dressed girl was never known to
nave enough pretty ones, and she is ca
silly tempted by judicious display of at
tractive samples TO enlarge her supply
Then, too, any girl who is at all deft III
The Washington times., 1901-06-30
when Bernhardt Hunted.

Sarah Bernhardt's alligator hunt in
Louisiana is still amazing Parisians. The
following account OF it by Sarah herself
is slightly different from former accounts.
The skin of the alligator is to be made
into writing case for the newly crowned
NJ. Rostand of the Academic The hunt
ing party. of which Coquelin formed one,
went to the meet in canoes guided by In
dians. Sarah was in male hunting attire
with waterproof top boots. Coquelin wore
ordinary leother and when the party had
to walk through marshy places ne was
soaked through
THE haunts OF the alligator in the long
reeds which border the tropical river need
no description" said Nine. Bernhardt.
The Indians accustomed to alligator
dive into the water and with the help of
long iron rods they force the animals
forth. The hunters are warned of the
coming of the alligator by the movement
of a long thin stick which is placed at the
mouth of the hole. The Indians in the
initiating his cry. which is sharp and
like an infants The alligator
came along under the water opening his
long jaws in what seemed an enormous
beast and missed him. To kill him you
must hit him exactly between the two
eyes. I frightened the brute, however,
and he returned rapidly to his hole.
But an extraordinary thing happened.
In less than a minute the alligator again
This time my aim was truer. 1
hit him full in the forehead; my son fin
ished him with bullet from his revolver,
and we brought back in triumph a car
cass which measured three metres"
So this is a full. authentic account of
the famous adventure OF The Great Ac-
tresS and the Alligator.
The Washington times., 1901-06-30

hide his head. or, at any rate. his feet.
in shame Perhaps II he could hide his
feet he might not be so particular about
his shoes. 1t may be question of petti-
coats rather than of pride. A man can
not discreetly retire his shabby boots be-
meath the hem OF his trousers; whereas
woman, by much practice, has learned
to get about If necessary without even
letting her toes be peeped at
But this accomplishment doesn't work
when she wears a walking skirt Her
feet have got TO show themselves then in
the uncomproInising light OF day It's a
poor showing they make, too. No wonder
that modification seems to be striking in.
THE shopping women" said the pro-
prietor of the ''shoe shine parlor," to
correspondent of the Sun. ARE the worst
about their shoes. Even the stenograph-
ers and clerks in the Office Buildings wear
better-looking shoes than a good many
women of leisure. You will see a woman
up here go into a store and pay as much
for a hat as the stenographer gets for
months salary. But the rich woman
doesn't think of paying 10 cents TO have
her shoes shined.
"a good many women think that be-
cause they give their shoes to their maid
to be cleaned and brushed they are do
ing the whole duty OF woman to her
shoes. Well, did you ever see pair OF
walking shoes of which a maid had
charge that were welisblacked and pol
ished?
I'm say this for the maid; it may not
be her fault \ -0IIdIIs > SHOES ought TO
be shined on her feet. A mans shoes,
too, look better if they are polished on
the feet, but the leather is so much
thicker and sUIIer in mems shoes than
in womens that it doesn't make quite so
much difference.
Il think the shopping women are the
very ones that will appreciate this place.
There isn't another place in town ex-
elusively for women. There is one chair
IN the Womens waiting room of the
Grand Central station, but that is patron
lied chiefly by commuters. Some estab-
lishments have chairs for women and
one place has even gone to the extreme
Of putting a partition between the chairs
for women and those for men. But in
order TO get to the womens chairs You
have to pass the mems, and very few Of
Us like TO run the gantlet that way
You know 1t takes a rare woman to
bear up under dusty clothes and shabby
boots. You simply can't keep up the de-
usiOn that you re an American princess
You can't walk as If you owned the ave-
hue when you are conscious of carrying
so much of its real estate actually about
you.
we have women of all ages. A num-
Der of really old ladies' came to us regu-
arly this spring. I don't know of any
body that seemed to enjoy it any more
-han they did | think the old ladies are
'enewing their youth anyway. They seem
10 exhilarated because they have lived to
leSin new century. They try every new
hing that comes along and seem to be
keeping mental tab all the modern in
loyatlonS which they manage to sample"
The Washington times., 1901-06-30

The underskirt was of pink. long-waisted
and tight fitting, over it a shaped founce
barely reaching the knees. The stockings
were of transparent thread of a shade
matching the kid shoes, with large
buckles, which completed very attrac-
tive ensemble. The hat, with its large
pink feathers. set off the charming face of
the youthful wearer.
A fourth dress in the same style was
most admirably becoming to young mar
ried woman. The ground in this case was
of incandescent pink and the dress ''feu
de Bengale' pink, and the effect was quite
as happy Colored grounds look marvel
ously well beneath these daintily worked
materials; then care is taken to avoid di-
rect contact between the taffetas and the
embroidery by using mousseline de sole
to soften the contrast This is the usual
mode of procedure. A ground of pink tat
fetas veiled with one thickness of white
mousseline de sole is covered with
thickness of pink mousseline de sole; out-
side of these come the lawn and the
bouillonnes. which give the bottom of the
skirt a foamy effect which is incompara-
BILE.
/ noticed a pronounced tendency to add
to the elegance of the line in dress,
which appears to be inspired by the en-
pire In this style | must mention mar
Velous toilette of snow white mousseline
de sole. cut by broad bands of black
cluny lace, forming n stole down the
front, crossing in the back and falling on
each side of the pleated skirt down to
the bottom of the dress. This toilette is
most striking. Inc general erect is I'd
diantly young and fresh-looking.
Let me also mention some toilets for
girls worn by sisters. The skirt Is of pale
blue linen, and, like the last mentioned.
made with three hounces, the widest of
which covers two-thirds of the skirt.
The corsage is a blouse. and has fancy
yoke made of Irish guipure The should
ers are very fiat, and are also of irish
guipure. producing the "fall'' which is so
much admired at the present moment.
The sleeves are ornamented with rings OF
guipure and tight at the wristbands
The hat is of black rice straw, trimmed
with wreaths and pink roses.
The Washington times., 1901-06-30
An Ancient Doll.

1.-THE oldest doll In Chelsea. and as far
as is known in any part of this country,
is Georgia. the property of Mrs Alice
L. Lincoln, Of Boston," says the Boston
Herald"
Georgia. being over a hundred years
old, can well boast of having lived in
three centuries. Four generations of chill
dren have petted and beaten her by turns,
and although her smiling countenance
bears many a mark of the whips and
scorns of time and her shapely brown
head, with an occasional ugly dent,
would seem to indicate that the skull
might easily stand for little trepanning,
! nevertheless this children's idol of by
gone days is in a remarkable state of
preservation, and all appearances would
seem to indicate that she has succeeded
in escaping the latter six of the seven
ages of man
/" Georgia was originally a Southern
lassie and was raised in Milledgeville.
Ga, befo' de wah' She was given to
Mrs. Lincolns mother, Mrs. NJ. B. Thorn
Son. who is eighty-one years of age, in
exchange for ring by Miss Weeks, an
old schOOlmate.
The laiter's mother had previously pa
raded the doll in the doll carriages of her
times and perhaps If Georgia could only
use the artificial tongue with which she
might prove her rightful eligibility to the
Society Of Colonial Danes
Three years ago the doll was awakened
from her Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of forty
years and brought forth into the light of
day. Ii had previously been carefully
packed away b. Mrs. Lincoln as cher
ished family heirloom, but at length, |
yielding TO the opportunities of the
younger Lincolns she decided to place it |
once more in commission should it be |
found to be in any way presentable. Much |
TO her surprise the years had dealt most |
kindly with the precious relic Time had |
not 'tinged her locks with grey the ar |
tificial bloom had not faded from the |
checks; in fact, It presented much this |
same appearance as when IL was tucked !;
away in the trunk four decades ago. The /
silk dress which was made for IL seventy 1
five years ago, the shawl of the same age, |
and even the red square-toed shoes, which /
children were accustomed to wear in the /
middle of the last century were as good /
as ever-the moths had been indeed mer<
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