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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-22

EidOn.
Eldon, April 19.-Last night the
school board decided on a site for the
new high school building which is to
be erected this summer The proper
ty of C. E. Norton, which is located on
the eastern edge of town near the city
Power plant, is the situation chosen
and County Superintendent Dimmitt
will Immediately appoint appraisers to
set a price on it. The board hopes to
have the new building completed by
fal but will not dispose of the old one
until it is completed and ready for oc-
cupancy.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are
making arrangements for their annual
picnic and celebration of Odd Fellow
day, April &c. The picnic will be held
on the Big 4 fair grounds and every
thing points toward large crowd and
an enjoyable day Following is the
committee of arrangements: Mes,
danes, J. L. Younker, VIM. Noviock
Misses Grace Griffiths, Bessie Enyart
Jessie Afford, Esther Nicholson
Messrs. D. Moon, Geo. Myers, j
Sharpe, and John Terry.
Miss Ella Thompson left last night
for Fairfield for short visit
Miss Bowen returned to Pekin this
morning after short visit with rela
tives here
Ed. Shore and wife are ottumwa
visitors today.
Miss Myme Madden of Morris, H.
who has been visiting her uncle, 7
Madden, at this place, returned home
loet
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-22
EIdon.

Mrs. John jaeger and daughter. Miss
Louise, drove to Oskaloosa Tuesday
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
DAILY MEsRECORDER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER is. 1902.
LYNcHING IN TENNESSEE.
Negro Quickly Pays Penalty For Hor.
rible Crime,


Nashville, Nov. ia Banner sge-
cial from Lewisburg says the horribly
mutilated body of Robert Adair was
found in the field near his house az
an early hour this morning.
Adair heard some one in a wagon
who had been stealing corn, and start
ed in pursuit with a small rifle. the
stock and barrel Of which were found
near his dead body. A knife all Gov
cred with blood was also found and
was identified as the property OF
John Davis, a negro.
The sheriff organized a possee and
went to the home of Davis. where
the bloody clothes he wore were To-
Gated, but the murderer had fed.
Search was unreIenting and the negro
was caught about half a mile from
town, but net until he had been twice
wounded. He was brought back and
the sheriff and Rev. John Royal Har-
ris made an appeal to the people TO
allow the law to take its course. but
the mob was deaf to all entreaties,
and hung the negro in the court house
yard. There were about 500 unmask-
ed men in the crowd.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
.,NxERs' ASSOCIATION.
,,..i,.tino Committees Submit Names
NOMINEE e, New officers.

INA tiTU SSi''''
E01''"'' Cor New officers.
orleans. Nov. 18.-The Ameri-
New nn,-1.ars' association was slow IN
can ,n p this morning.
assem- .-.- r~aver by Rev. w. McF. Al
A-ls- he call of states for five
e1 S-,-s talks was resumed.
nin- ,.s,rTfa invited the convention TO
- ~ San Francisco, and Washing
nee! III the convention to meet IN
ten inyi-e1 '--1
seattle. r,,,,f++aa comnos-
ls -. fslegates from the different
60 VI ' 7ezfra 10 submit for president
s.a'5 S,TFws1l Nardy, president of the
Nh .I.s C National bank, of Norfolk,
Va ers+ vice,president, Mr.. Frank
piga1ow. president of the First Ma
~ -, -.7 hank of Milwaukee, Wis.
''J mr. the executive council, John
o,l.r+on Williams, president Richmond
2,a,sf and Safe Deposit company,
p LAX, Va; w. T. Fenton, cashier
.bo First National Bank of the
p.orbrfc Chicago; D. Sloan, presi-
Int If the Homecoming Savings bank,
Taroooring Md; Arthur Reynolds,
silent Des Moines National bank,
nas Noines, Ia, and last, but not
least Mr.. James T. Hayden, president
nftba Whitley National, New Orleans.
T5e nominating committee compos-
Oh Of the delegates representing the
sta+a association presented the fol
lowing names as members of the ex-
ecntive council:
N Virgins, vice-president of the
National Park bank, New York city;
charles L. Farrell, assistant cashier
If the CAPITAL National bank, Indian
onoIfs Ind; A. V. Lane, cashier Ma
4ionaI Exchange bank, Dallas, Tex;
Tntber Drake, cashier Merchants Ma
tiora bank, Omaha, Neb.; Az A
Crane. cashier National Bank of Com
merce. Minneapolis, MINI.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Travels Back and Forth on Ships.
Not Allowed to land.


Not Allowed to Land.
New York. Nov. 13.-Traveling back
and forth on ships which ply between
Havana and this port, Constantine
Garcia, native Cuban, is affording
the steamship companies much trouble
and proving himself to be a man with
out a country. He started four months
ago by slowing away at Havana. Ar
irving here, the immigration officials
ordered hi mback At Havana, the
ordered him back. At Havana, the
because he was practically a stowa
way. He was again returned to New
York, and again refused permission
to land.
The steamship companies are com
PEELED to obey the order, and return
Garcia to Havana, or pay a heavy pen,
atty. They have been unable to find
any work aboard ship which their un.
welcome passenger can do. Mean
while Garcia says he is letting the
others do the worrying"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15

Trains arrive at and depart from Contra
OF Georgia Railway passenger station.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
OFFICER CAUSES SENSATION.
Fires Revolver In Lobby of French
Chamber of Deputies.

Paris. Nov 13,-Intense excitement
WAS caused In the chamber of depu.
lies today by the firing of pistol in
the lobby.
The members crowded to the scene
Of the shooting and found that an
officer of a colonial regiment had
emptied his revolver into the air while
shouting: "Vive la Patrie." 1t is be-
lieved he is crazy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
10 Suppress Ladronism.

Manila, Nov. 19.-The United States
commission has passed the act to
assist in the suppression of Ladron-
ism It makes highway robbery COM
mitted by three or more persons a
capital offensa.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
Friends.

Miss Gush-What do you suppose the
result would be if we could hear what
our friends say about US in our alb
sence?
Miss Candor-I think we'd have a
trife more modesty and considerable
fewer friends.-Town and Country.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-15
Strict Attention.

'Why don't you look out at this
beautiful scenery|
ooh, am travelling on business and
not for Dleasurep'-E'lt4>- -~---1--- 7---'~'-
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-25

 Mrs T. F Butler of Bishop street attended the funeral Of an aunt III Fair Haven yesterday
 Mir and Mrs Joseph Blanchette or Sioux City are visiting their son, Jo- seph, at SO4 North Main street
 The Rev Father Shadwell of Allan ia, Ga, has started for home after a short visit with William Hermann of Bank street
 The funeral of Thomas McGrath will take place tomorrow morning from the family residence on East Main street at S:30 o'clock. Michael AIagruder, aged ? years, 6 months, died at the home of her par ents, 36S Mill street, yesterday morn ing. The funeral took place this moril- ing at 10 o'clock. Interment was in Calvary cemetery.
 Mrs Wilfred Delage, wife of the well-known liveryman, died at her home, 633 South Main street, this morning at 9 o'clock after q lingering 1 illness Besides her husband, she leaves three children. Mrs Delage was woman of q kind and generous dis position and was highly respected by all who knew her. The funeral an nouncement will be made later.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-25
: \ F :
didn't have snow we wouldn't

didn't have snow we wouldn't
 we were having winter.
 fge didn't have firebugs we weuIo.Xt have so many fires.
 IF we didn't have someone to give tlS n public park we'd never have one. E the board of charity follows the neIe11boring boards in their doings (H,d help the poor.
 ] F we knew our present store was e0nvenient and everything so xreeable we would have made bold atfen1pt to cross the way long before we did
 IE the tea that other dealers sell at k1e per pound is worth the price. how 11s41ch is OUR soc TEA worth? Surely < TIT you drink two cups of coffee af- ter breakf two of tea after dinner and two of tea after supper how nap 3v you feel. but
 III you drink two whislSies before @akfast. two beers before dinner and
 echooners of beer before supper w on earth will you feel? Take warning: Drink GOOD tea sd coffee. Try the kind we sell and ehow much more pleasant your life fl1 be. You really cannot realize the .Ifference until you try the kind we sell. Butter is still 25c; we also con f1nue to give four bars of soap with each pound of our warranted geou Ten
 For a few days only we give a sled zNith a pound of our 5Oc Tea at
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
"Thcy Arc Misc n d crstood," Says ono
Who Knows Them Intimately.


have had rare opportunity to study
the inside dfe of the foreign mission
airy. l am free to say that 50 far as
their external life is concerned there is
no class of people more fully misunder-
stood and more persistently misrepOrt-
ed. Some say they live lives Of ease in
comparative luxury: others that those
who 20 into missionary work do so be-
cause there is no chance of their get
ting Il comfortable living at home.
Others think of them as n lot Of long
haired fanatics who have strange
conception of religious duty and who
under the impulse of that conception
have gone into unciviized regions to
live.
1t is not generally known that the
most of the missionaries OF the old,
well established mission boards are
graduates of our best American col
leges and universities and who have
had, in addition to their university
training. POSTGRADUATE course Of from
three to five years. The missionaries
who are finally sent are selected from
O larger number Of applicants, and
they are in many cases the honor men
Of their classes. There are few Amer
lean colleges or universities which
have not graduates in the foreign mis-
sionary service who bear degrees CIV
IN By the alma mater for distinguished
scholarship. These people 20 to unciv-
ili7cd countries for the most part and
take up Their abode among rude and
savage people
It is not to be wondered at that for
egn missionaries have adventures
which are hardly paralleled by any
class of people in the world. The lifA
Of many a missionary IS filed with
marvellous experiences, to which he
gives little attention. seldom referring
to them in conversation, almost never
writing about them and regarding
them as the merest incidents to the
work he is trying to do. They not In
frequently lose their lives through the
perils Of the country and the savagery
of the people Little is said or done
about it, and so the world is kept in ig-
nOrance.-Rov. DR. James L. Barton
in Woman's Home Companion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19
Triuynpl Of Mechanical SIKH

A curious piece Of mechanical luxury
has been set up in Sir James Blyth's
home in Portland place, London, by
means Of which the dining room can
noiseessly double its size.
One sauntors down to drink cup Of
coffee $50 Il contemporary describes it,
and finds a spacious and well proper
toned room papered in warm crimson
and hung with handsome pictures.
There is door of communication with
the adjoining room, on either side OF
which hangs a large picture in heavy
gold frame. The floor is polished, and
a thick carpet comes within yard Of
the wall all around.
The coffee is excellent, but one doubts
its potency when, on turning round,
one is confronted by $he partitionins
wall, DOORS pictures. and all half way
through the floor! Silently it sinks be-
low, and no flaw in the polished and
even floor is perceptible! Only the
crimson walls are twice as long, and
there are bordered carpets. 1t is the
most perfect triumph Of mechanical
skill.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

of him, that, tell you, sir, was some
times proud he was an Englishman.
I've seen his topsails with these eyes,
off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a
rum-puncheon that I sailed with put
back-put back, sir, into Port Of
Spain"
well, I've heard of him myself, in
England" said the doctor. But the
point is, had he money!"
Money!" cried the squire. "Have
you heard the story? What were these
villains after but money? What do they
care for but money? For what would
they risk their rascal carcasses but
money!"
THAT we shall soon know" replied
the doctor. But you are so confound-
eddy hot-headed and explanatory that
I cannot get word in. What want to
know is this: Supposing that l have
here in my pocket some clew to where
Flint buried his treasure, will that
treasure amount to much?"
amount, sir!" cried the squire. "It
will amount to this; if we have the clew
you talk about. fit out a shipin Bristol
dock, and take you and Hawkins here
along, and I'll have that treasure if
search a year"
VERY WE'LL" said the doctor. "Now.
then, If Jim is agreeable. We'll open
the packet" and he laid it before him
on the table.
The bundle was sewn together, and
the doctor had to get out his instru-
ment case and cut the stitches with his
medical scissors. 1t contained two
things--a book and a sealed paper.
First of all We'll try the book" OBJ
served the doctor.
The squire and / were both peering
over his shoulder as he opened it, for
Dr. Mvesey had kindly motioned me to
come round from the side table, where
l had been eating, to enjoy the sport of
the search. On the first page there
were only some scraps OF writing, such
as man with a pen in his hand might
make for idleness or practice. One was
the same as the tattoo mark, BILLY
Bones his fancy" and then there was
"Mr. w. Bones, mate" mo more rum"
'Off Palm Key he got itt;" and some
other snatches, mostly single words
and unintelligible. ] could not help
wondering who ii was that had "got
it," and what "itt" was that he got.
A knife in his back as like as not.
mot much instruction there" said
DR.. Livesey, as he passed on.
The next ten or twelve pages were
filled with a curious series of entries.
| Il ~ 4.
and at the other a sum of money. as in
common account-books; but instead of
explanatory writing only a varying
number of crosses between the two.
On the 18th Of June. 1745. for instance
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

The one side. I could not doubt that
this was the black spot; and. taking it
up, I found written on the other side.
in very good, clear hand this short
message: "You have till ten tonight"
ale had till ten. mother" said I; and,
just as 1 said il, our old clock began
striking. This sudden noise startled us
shocloingly; but the news was good,
for it was only six.
Now, JIM" she said, "that key"
! felt in his pockets, one after an
other. A few small coins, thmble
and some thread and big needles, a
piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at
the end, his gully with the crooked
handle, pocket compass and finder
box were all that they contained, and
began to despair
perhaps it's round his neck" sug-
gested my mother.
Overcoming a strong repugnance,
tore open his shirt at the neck, and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

"That story of the widows mite does
more harm than good, | believe" says
a church worker who has seen the lido
syncrasies Of many good people. The
inference that people draw from 1t is
that there is virtue in mites, and they
give mites from their own abundance,
forgetting that the poor widow of the
Bible story gave all that she had. I
am inclined to believe that this must
be one reason that church work of all
kinds is SO poorly supported. People
give generously everywhere before
they remember the church. They ex-
pcct to pay for what they get every
where outside. but in the church they
want TO get as much as they can for
the least possible outlay"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

clear on the high ground on either side;
and it was only in the exact bottom of
the dell and round the cabin door that
thin veil still hung unbroken to con-
ceal the first steps of our escape. Far
less than halfway to the hamlet, very
little beyond the bottom of the hill, we
must come forth into the moonlight.
Nor was this all; for the sound of sew
eral footsteps running came already
to our ears, and as we looked back in
their direction, light tossing to and
fro, and still rapidly advancing, showed
that one of the newcomers carried n
lantern.
"My DEAR" said my mother, sudden
ly, take the money and run on. am
going to faint"
This was certainly the end of both
of us, thought. How I cursed the
cowardice of the ncighbors; how l
blamed my poor mother for her honesty
and her greed, for her past foolhardi-
ness and present weakness! We were
just at the little bridge, by good for
tune; and helped her, lettering as she
was, to the edge of the bank, where,
sure enough, she gave sigh and fell
on my shoulder. I do not know how
1 found the strength to do it It all, and
I am afraid it was roughly done, but
managed to drag her down the bank
and little way under the arch. Fur
ther I could not move her. for the
the bridge was too low to let me do
more than crawl below it. So there
we had to stay-my mother almost en-
tirclv exposed, and both of us within
earshot of the inn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19
A story of J. Sterling Morton.

4 touching incident illustrating J.
Sterling Notions devotion to bis wife
is told of him. They lad th;~e sons.
one of whom died not many yearu ago,
but all did well III life, one of them,
Paul Morton, being vice president Of
the Atchison. Topeka aud Santa Fe
railroad. In ordering a tombstone for
his wife's grave Mr.. Morton had carved
upon it the usual inscription and added
that she was the mother of three sons.
whose names We're written on the
stone. In telling his sons of this he
remarked, "If any one Of you ever does
anything to disgrace your mother,
will have his name erased from her
tombstone"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19
PART II.
THE SEA COOK.
CHAPTER VII.
co TO RRJSTOL

It was longer than the squire I'm
agined ere we We're ready for the sea,
and none of our first plans-not even
DIR. Livesey's, of keeping me beside him
could be carried out as we intended.
The doctor had to go to London for
n physician to take charge of his prac
tice; the squire was hard at work at
Bristol; and lived on at the Hall un-
der the charge of old Redruth, the
gamekeeper. almost prisoner but full
of sea dreams and the most charming
anticipations of strange islands and adj
ventures. l brooded by the hour to-
gether over the map, all the details of
which | well remem bered. Sitting by
the fire in the housekeeper's room, l
approached that island in my fancy,
from every possible direction; l ex-
plored every acre of its surface;
climbed thousand times TO that tall
hill they call the Spy-glass, and from
the top enjoyed the most wonderful
and changing prospects. Sometimes
the isle was thick with savages, with
whom we fought; sometimes fun OF
dangerous animals that hunted us; but
in all my fancies nothing occurred to
me so strange and tragic as our actual
adventures.
So the weeks passed on. till one fine
day there came letter addressed to Dr.
Livesey, with this addition: ITO be
opened in the case OF his absence by
Tom Redruth. or young Hawkins
Obeying this order we found, or rather
1 found-for the gamekeepcr was q
poor hand at reading anything but
print--the following important news;
"Old Anchor Inn. BRISTOL. March I. II.
Dear Livesey; As do not know wheth.
err you are al the Hall or stn in London.
send this in double TO both places.
THE ship Is bought and fitted. She lies
a anchor, ready for sea You never i'm
agined sweeter sehooner-a child nigh,
sail her-two hundred tons; name, His
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19

swain, and pig-tailed singing seamen;
to sea, bound for an unknown island.
and to seek for buried treasure.
While 1 was still in this delightful
dream, we came suddenly in front of
large inn, and met Squire Trelawney.
all dressed out like a sea officer, in
stout blue cloth, coming out of the door
with n smile on his face, and capital
imitation of sailors walk.
Here you are" he cried, land the
doctor came last night from London.
Bravo-the ships company completed"
"Oh, sir" cried I. when do we sail?"
"Sail!" says he. eve sail tomorrow"
TO BE CONTINUED.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-19
Sch COL Gardens.

One of the most delightful methods
Of teaching botany to children is af-
forded by school gardens" There are
more than eighty such gardens in ELL
rope, extending from Switzerland,
whose Alpine fora is very beautiful, to
Sweden which is also a land of beau
tiful plants and flowers. Such gardens
have lately been Introduced in this
country and, according to Mr.. Henry
l.. Clapp, who recently addressed the
Boston Society of Natural History on
this subject. they give much promise
Of popularity and success.