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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
MARKET STREET

Mr.. ]. F. Kaiser, of 107 Market
street, says: when I say that Do
ans Kidney Pills are the best rem
edy for the kidneys | ever tried, that
they act upon those organs quickly.
that they operate most effectively, |
mean what | say, and base my opin-
ion on the following experience:
had slight headache and other symp-
toms OF either weakened or overta;l
ed kidneys. Thinking that Doan's
Kidney Pills might relieve me- pro-
cured box at Will l.. Sargent's
drug store, 207 E. Main st. They
did exactly as | wanted Let me
add this popularity about Doan's
Kidney Pills: They do not affect the
bowels, are pleasant to take. leave
no bad effects or cause no reaction.
This of itself when compared with
|, other preparations is of considerable
) Importance to the average man"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
ELM STREET

Mr.. l.. E. Miller, of Elm street,
near Pennsylvania ave-, contracting
carpenter, says: IF the attacks of
backache for year or two, some
times so severe that | was compell-
ed to walk in a STOPPING position
and when at their height famed and
panied me so across the loins that
with difficulty arose from a chair
If such attacks are any indications
of kidney complaint then | had it.
Everyone who has had this far too
prevalent trouble knows just what
sufferer endures, but everyone does
not know how to check it, and final
ly radically cure it. My advice is to
do as l did, go to Will L. Sargent's
drug store, procure Doan's Kidney
Pills take them as directed and the
results promised will certainly fol
low"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
NORTH MOORE ST.

Mr.. Henry Springer of 2O1la North
Moore street, painter says: 1T is a new
experience for my friends and acquaint-
nnces in Ottumwa to see me walking
about the streets without n cane, because
they ali know for five years l was period-
ically so lame in my back and so sore
across my kidneys that Il walking stick
was necessary. That is not ALL when
the attacks were at their height 1 was
confined to bed totally unable to help
myself despite the use of all kinds of
medicine, and !! had grown 50 s,lspi,
cious of prescriptions and advertised
cures for backache that when | noticed
an announcement about Doan'ss kidney ,
Pills in our papers guaranteeing they
would cure just such conditions, | was
more than skeptical about their promis-
es. procured a box at Sargent,s drug ,
store. Much to my surprise they went
right to the spot. My confidence in
Doans Kidney Pills is unlimited. am
able at the present time. and it is some
months since | stopped the treatment, to
do more work than | have for years. |
never lose an opportunity of telling the
people l meet how mucn better am and
what means l employed to bring about
this result
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
MOORE STREET

Mr. J. P. Rees, contracting car
penter, of 343 S. Moore street,
South Ottumwa, says: "Off and on
for some time had most distress
ing backache- When | sat for any
length of time and attempted to rise
twinges Of painscaught me through
theloins. rendering it at times almost
impossible for me to rise at. all. l
concluded my kidneys were the
cause, as | noticed the kidney score
tons were not natural in color.
Learning about Doan's Kidney Pills
went to Will L. Sargent's drug
store and got box. Their use soon
ended MY troubles and in few
weeks time the last vestige of back
ache had left me completely and l
have had no return of it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06
BLOOMFIELD MAN NAMED.
President Roosevelt Nomnates Beryl
r. Carol for Postmaster.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Beryl f. Car
rol of. Bloomfield. was today nominal
ed by President Roosevelt as postmas-
ter at Bloomfield Ia.
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be at home to personally register for
same, the letter or parcel would be
carried on to next postoffice and there
deposited until the return trip. The
carrier will also take mail outside the
pouch or private mail and deliver to
addressee without extra charge.
The department will not prescribe
what the character of the bag or satch-
ell shall be or whether there shall be
a lock or key. In case there shall be
a key the carrier will not carry this,
as he will be expected merely to de-
post the satchel without opening or
unlocking the box The carrier will
not be required to collect mail from
boxes along the route although there
will be no objection to his doing so
purovided this does not interfere with
his making schedule time. However
he shall receive any mail rendered
him which has been properly and full
| ly stamped. The carrier must not ac-
| cept any fee for this service.
| In the case of star routes no effort
will be made to cover extra territory,
in fact the route will cover the short
est practicable distance between
towns. 1t may. be arranged so that
farmers residing along the route may
receive mail for other farmers, living,
perhaps upon the other side of a sec
| tion line; this arrangement being, of
course, a purely private matter. While
this system is not intended to take the
place of rural free delivery, It will be
used as a supplemental agency wher-
ever practicable. Where this expert
ment has been tried it has proven a
great success without materially
lengthening the time required to com
| plete the trip.
Postal System in Iowa.
In this connection some facts rela-
tive to the postal system in Iowa will
not be without interest.
Iowa is seventh in point of total ex-
penditures for the maintenance of the
service in the United States, being ex-
ceeded only by New York, Pennsylva-
MIA, Illinois, Ohio. Missouri and Ne.
braska. 1t is remarkable fact that
the cost of the service in Ohio is al
most twice as much as in either New
York or Illinois.
Star routes, total miles. 1878. So
Miles travelled per year. 1,934,445.7f
Star routes,cost per year. S65 .S94.27
Steamboat service, ...... None
Special services, miles,. S625
Special service, miles per
year 1850. 26,91O.OC
R'y service, total miles III, 1872 ,453.41
R'y service, length of routes S,524.SS
R'y service, cost transpor-
tation -. $50. =. 81, 3O2 ,S6s. &C
R'y service, cost P. o.
cars ...... .,.$ 1S3,952.2(
R'y service. total cost. 81, 1858 81
Postal clerks. cost per VI. $40,295. 6!
Mise. service, total miles. 20.S:
Misc. seryice,miles per VI 81 ,439.1:
Mise. service, cost per W. $4,000
Electric and cable, length
routes ..,....,. ~. 500. 41.7l
Electric and cable, total
miles $50. -. .....r. 104,266,8'
Electric and cable, cost
per annum -. ..... $3,129.2'
Total length routes So. 12,21S.S'
Teal distance travelled
per year 49,. 14,241 ,623. Z,
Total cost service. -. 81 sos, 5000
Cost for Ohio ........... SIS, Asa, 544.9'
Cost fer New York -. SO, 225, 1866
Cost tor Massachusetts,. SCOPE 8!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-06
Don't Couqh-Take Honey,

Starch and sugar, when eaten, I'm.
dergo a digestive change before they
are assimi1ated. In honey this change
has been made to a considerable ex-
tent by the bees. It is easy of as
similation and concentration, and fur.
nishes the same element of nutrition
as sugar and starch-imparts warmth
and energy.
AS medicine honey has great value
and many uses. It is excellent in
most lung and throat affections, and
is often used with great benefit in
place Of cod-liver oil. Occasionally
there is person with whom it does
not agree. but most people can learn
to use it with beneficial results.
Children, who have more natural
appetites, generally prefer it to but
ter. Honey is laxative and sedative
1t has much the same effect as wine
or stimulant, without the injurious eft.
fects.
AS an external application it is IT.
ritating when pure, and soothing when
diluted. In many places it is much
appreciated as remedy for Group
and colds. In preserving fruit, the
formic acid it contains makes a bet,
ter preservative than sugar-syrup
and 1t is also used in cooking and
confectionery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-06
A PROFESSIONAL PRAYER.
The Odd Business Of an Old Nearess
in New Orleans.

The Odd Business Of an Old Neqress
in New Orleans.
In one of the more unique quar-
tiers Of New Orleans have found one
of the most unique characters I ever
say in an old negro washerwoman,"
said man who has lately taken up
his residence in one of the more pop-
ular avenues of the city, and she
seems to be proceeding along original
lines in the main purpose of her life.
Washing clothes seems to DO a mere
incident to the general plan she car.
ries out. She is an interesting old
character and can quote copiously
from the bible. This seems to be a
hobby with her. She has some kind
of construction to put on every line
she quotes, too. She can tell you
just exactly what it means from her
way of looking at it. But this is not
the point had in mind.
Several, days ago I got into con-
versation with the old woman, and
she asked me If 1 didn't have some
family washing to give her. told
her l did not. but encouraged the con-
versation, as have a fondness for the
negro of the ante-bellum type, finding
them always very interesting. She
finally threw a quotation from the
bible at me, and it was followed by
another, and still another, and 50 on.
Say, boss,' she said after a while,
does yo' ever have anybody to do
any prayin' TO- yo'?' told her did
not, and, becoming more interested
in the old woman, got her to unfold
her scheme to me. She did it with
out any sort of hesitation.
'She is a professional prayer, and
makes no small sum out of it from
what she told me. She told me she
was praying once a week for the lady
next door, who had employed her to
pray for her husband to quit drinking,
although he is very light drinker, to
my own knowledge. The old woman
seemed to be very proud of her call
ing, and whatever other people may
say about it she is an enthusiastic be-
lever in the efficacy of her own
prayers" -New. Orleans Times-Demo
crat,
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Gout in the United States.

A paper read before the American
Medical association by DR.. Thomas B,
Futcher of Baltimore, is summarized
as follows: Gout in the United States
is undoubtedly more common than is
generally supposed. Out of 13,40o
medical cases admitted to DR.. Os.
ler's medical wards in the Johns Hop.
kins hospital during a period of thir-
teen years were thirty-dve govt cases
or 0.24 per cent of the total number
of cases. For the same number OF
years at st. Bartholomew hospital
there were ZIG govt cases out of
total of 81, 100 medical admissions, or
OBJ per cent of the cases. Thus
among hospital patients govt is only
aoout one-third more f:equent in Lon,
don than in Baltimore. All the thir
ty-six cases were in white males. The
largest number of these cases &C.
CURED in the fifth decade. Twenty.
seven of the patients were native
born Americans. The majority of the
cases appeared to have earned rather
than acquired their govt. Alcohol
and lead seemed to De the most DO
tent predisposing Geological factor.
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this second car, Norton. Send the
gang here"
Presently Esterley could see that
men were at work with axes, saws, and
crowbars to rescue him. He had been
conscious without thinking of it that
the air was haZy with smoke, but his
mind had taken no account of the fact.
Now he heard a persistent, faint
cracking sound. A horrible fear
flashed through his brain, and he
slowed his head round. The car behind
him had caught fire. His: heart con-
tracted and stood for moment with
a CHASTITY horror. Good heavens, he
would be roasted alive, unless the res
cuing party reached him in time! 1t
was race for his life. He could see
that they were working desperately,
but he could not help calling out to
hurry for Gods sake. He tried franti-
cally to draw his feet from the trap
which pinioned them, but he only sue
ceeded in cutting them against the
timbers till the blood streamed from
his raw ankles.
Then he fell quiet, saying to himself
over and over again, Keep cool, Ned
Esterley. Keep cool. There must be
some way out of this thing. Good
God, there MUST" The sweat Of
agony poured from his face. How
slow the rescuers were, and how fast
the flames leaped toward him! He
wanted to keep crying out to the men
to hurry, but he bit back the words.
They were doing all that mortal men
could do. FL. &
Gradually it dawned upon him that
he was lost. Great volumes Of smoke
rolled between him the rescuers, tell.
Ing him that they could not reach him
In time. With the assurance after
the first frantic rush of fear-there
came to Esterley singular GOODNESS.
He drew his revolver from his. hip-
pocket, and laid it on the crook Of q
bent rod near his hand, where it would
be ready for emergencies. : Then he
got from his coat pocket note book,
and from his vest q lead pencil. & One
OF the brakemen above, hewing away
at 9 T. cross timber, which barred their
way, muttered to the engineer:
Good Lord, Norton. He's writing.
Saying that we amt likely going to
reach him. Amt. he got the bully
.nerve?"> -: ~ j. 81 ~. sr. a.
Esterley first carefully noted down
the address to which he wanted his
letter forwarded. then wrote his let
ter. ~ t@z. Lii, sss:.,.6 81. ..Is.-. =.
Dear Elise: Our train has just col
hded with another, and 4 am pinned
down own In the wreckage. The train crew.
are working to- get me out, but they
will not succeed, for the wreck is on
nre, and the flames rapidly spreading
this way. I write this note as my last
word 70 you. and after wrttins 1T, 1
shall throw the note book to the mon non
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"Well, that Wednesday Agnes work
ed like she always did-she was her
pas cashier in the furniture store
thinking all the time about it's being
the last time, reckon, and Mr.. Mar
tin came round like he always did, at
half-past eight.
II was beginning to undress, about
eleven, when Agnes come in.
Don't undress, Aunt Carrie she
said.
II asked her why not.
"'Because I'll need you soon,' she
said. DO you reckon papa is asleep?'
II thought then she must be fixing
to run away, and I asked her, real
indignant, it she was, because I never
did have any patience with running
away-it's SO commonplace.
"She shook her head and came close
and whispered to me SO her pa
wouldn't hear, but, la! he couldn't
have heard if he'd been wide awake
and listening, much less fast asleep.
: my life, Mandy, what do you reck-
on that girl told me?"
"What?" questioned the thin Rachel
eagerly.
"She said they were going to be
married in that window in two hours;
that would be one o'clock Thursday.
a. m. you know; twas Eugene.s idea,
and everything was fixed.
"You know, Mandy, human nature
is mighty selfish thing, and first
thing thought of was poor me left
there with her pa; but l didn't say
anything, and she went on to tell me
that DR.. Holmes knew all about it,
and that he was coming, and Eugene's
brother, and that she and were to
go down to the store and let them in
and then they were going to Niagara.
Then she went on with a lot of stuff
about dying before she let her we'd
ding be made show of-she always
was real sentimental wound up
by asking If thought she had told
her pa q story. T. .',.:5s.%> i: -.
Il told her twas mighty like whip.
ping the Old Boy round the stump;
that she was fooling her pa, and that,
IL NY OPAAAOOaA1 SIG MlSAI Dis Well run
away and be done with it. '.~ =.%
"That made her cry d little, but all
the same she went to work and
dressed up in her new spring dress
twas q gray jacket suit and milky
sort Of green silk waist, and hat
trimmed in violets. rput on my
Sunday clothes, too, and she carried
big bunch Of violets he had brought
her that evening, and we stole down
stairs and let them In; and, as sure
as you live, just as the clock struck
one they was standing there under
that big bunch Of electric lights and
getting married for dear life. And i
will say, twas asA pretty 4 wedding as
r ever saw. and as pretty bride,
too. 81.
well, - declare! 4 Is calculated the
thin Rachel; but, Carrie, thought
you. started out to toll me about your
own marriage. 8
so Z did. Well. when Ill was Over,
ssand ! had locked up again. u went back
upstairs and eat . little smack and
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outside. The crew have already been
driven back from rescuing me ~ tho
smoke and flames. No, sthey are back
at II again almost within reach Of me,
but the smoke and heat are fearful. y
.'Oh, Elise; girl, our quarrel was ali
q mistake. It was my fault for /:
should have insisted on explaining
that I was, interceding with Kate for
young Dick Halle. You know they
were engaged, but had had . lovers
quarrel. Goodbye, sweetheart Ihave
never loved any but you. Forgive my.
obstinate anger. ] can write no more.
The flames are all about me- Good
bye-till---'' z :. .5:E 5T1z<-z s. b.
The smoke strangled him. Ester
ley handed his notebook to the con-
ductor with the request that it be
forwarded. With singed hair and eye
brows the trainmen pried at the tim
bers which held him: The heat was
uncomfortable, and Esterley fell back
unconscious just as grimy hands
reached for him. 49,.
Esterley lay for days in a semi
preston that Elise was lowering about
the room, and he was told afterward
that he called continually for her. The
third morning after the accident he
opened his eyes to an understanding
of what was passing. Elise bent over
him, smiling happily. The doctors had
just told her that Ned would get well.
"You, Elise? What are you doing
here?" .y
Taking care Of you"
"Of me? What's the matter with
oh, there was an accident, wasn't
there? How did you know Of it?"
"The conductor sent me your note
book"
"And-about Kate"
"It's all right, Ned. She came and
told me all about it after you left. Will
you forgive me, dear?"
He nodded, eyes shining with Joy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-06
Dust-Borne Disease,

In the discussion at the recent con-
gress of surgeons in Berlin on the
first aid to the wounded on the bat
tlefeld it was brought out by Burns,
Bartelsmann and others that the dan
ger in modern warfare is not SO much
from primary infection by the small.
caliber projectile of rapid-flre rifles
as from secondary infection by con.
tamination of the wound from the
clothing or the dust of the battle.
field. The effort of the field surgeon
is therefore more to exclude septic
and tetanus germs than to d4sinfect
the wound. But to come nearer home,
the danger Of dust is emphasized by
the report that New York City has
over $50 street sweepers on the sick
list with diseases due to the inhala,
ton Of Infectious dust. A number of
affections are SO commonly conveyed
in dust as to merit the designation
of "dust diseases" OF these cerebro.
spinal meningitis is of frequent oc-
currence in cities during the spring
months.-American Medicine. s5s IT,.
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vsnt Is packing my trunk. 4 had been
there mont Inland want going to-
stay there much Longer. anyway, but
naturally Il didnstt care to see Mr.. Fox,
though i wa MT anyways responsible
SO III the morning, as heard him
stirring, g. sent him Agnes note.
There want any train till evening,
and stayed In my room IN fear and
trembling. About nine o'clock Mr..
Fox !: sent for me. Ny sakes! he
want mad a bit; he told me after
wards he was just rip-snorting at
first; but, you see, reporter. hap
pened along and saw the wedding and
rushed back to the Office and wrote
it up with great big headlines, and
Mr.. Fox said 'twould advertise his
store like all the world.
Besides he said, I've been think
ing there might be a wedding after
ALL - - -"*7-~, ~.->.. il. i
Il was so relieved he want raging
felt real faint, so I dropped in a
chair and said I wished there could be.
He got red and sorter| hummed and
hawed, but soon l made out he want
ed he and to do it. You could have
knocked me down with a feather; /
didn't say word; and then he began
to beg and said it want anything
sudden with him-except of course
the window part-and / knew It want
either, and altogether it ended by my
doing it,
well, If that don't beat the beater!"
calculated the thin lady.
well. I amt ever regretted it." re.
sponded the other, positively. "You
ought to have seen that crowd, Mandy.
How did feel? Well, to tell the
truth, did feel fool-funny.''
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The Moment Of vision.
BY WILLIAM M'LEOD RAINE.

BY WILLIAM M'LEOD RA1NE.
copyright, 1902 by Daily Story Pub co.,
She held out the ring to him, sm1l-
ing in rather uncertain fashion, but
Esterley noticed that she was very
white. He was savagely glad of it,
for at the time he was cold as ice and
hard as iron.
HAS the last word been said?" he
asked without trace of emotion In
his voice. Are you going to turn me
away on account of little thing like
this?"
"You may call it little thing If you
like. don't. When one finds the
man she is engaged to marry flirting
With"
Il wasn't flirting. l have told you
that BEFORE" he answered doggedly.
But of one thing you may be sure,
Elise. If you send me away now I
shall not return to YOU"
you fatter yourself, sir, in think
Ing l shall want you back" she re-
torted. Shall lay the ring on the
table, or will you take it?' !
He dropped the ring into his vest
pocket, bowed coldly, and turned on
his heel. Next moment the street
door had changed behind him. The girl
sank into chair and covered her face
with her hands. Presently deep sobs
began to shake her. Meanwhile Ned
Esterley, in moody, frownlng silence,
strobe down to the Union Depot with
his suitcase in his hand. Fifteen min
CITES later he was on train bound for
OT2Dple Creek. He gazed out of the
window without seeing any of the
glory of the winter sunshine, which
fell in sheen of splendor on the
white-blue range of peaks in the dis
lance. He was sick at heart, and bit
ter against the girl who had misjudged
him. What right had she to SEN
tence him before she had heard his
vindication? What right to vote him
guilty of disloyalty because she had
found him with Kate Sanford's hand
in his, her eyes swimming in tears?
An hour passed, two hours; but
Esterley took no thought of the flight
of time. 1t might be five minutes
since he had entered the train, or
~ "ASAL OO ANC AOuI0 41O ASAtu0I
knew nor cared. His personal problem
drove from his mind other considera-
tons.
If Elise we're going to believe
There came a sudden jar, which
threw Esterley forward against the
seat in front of him. He did not need
to be told that the engine had been
reversed, and the airbrakes set. There
came to him the sharp grinding of
wheels on the track, and with it the
gradual lessening of speed. A moment
later there was horrible crash. The
floor of the car rose to meet the roof.
The last that Esterley remembered
was plunging forward through the air.
When he came to himself, he found
about him great pile of debris. He
was deep hidden in what remained of
the cara mass of broken timbers, of
torn iron and of wrenched steel rods
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litiuious John Bull.

AS race the English people mus,
be very litigious, for judicial figures
given out in recent parliamentary
return show that On the average, in
1900, one person in every twenty-five
in England and Wales went to law
during the course Of the year. These
are, of course, average figures, based
on the fact that there were 1.31O,68
civil cases begun during that year.
The London Express in explaining
these figures declares that the can
DANGEROUSLY litigious person and the
tradesman who is. unfortunate in the
number Of customers who will not
pay their debts bring up the average"