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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-04
Eddyviile.

Eddyville.
Eddyville, Sept. 4.-Van Saunders
returned home Monday from Abba
where he had been visiting relatives
fol- a few days.
Mrs. Frank Sipes and children, of
Oskaloosa, We're visiting in town Tues
day.
L. G.. Turner was transacting bust
ness in Eldon yesterday.
Mrs. A. May, of Macedonia is here
for an extended visit with Grandma
Kirfman and other relatives
Mrs. Wesley Donegan and daughter,
Grace, leave Thursday for Colorado
/ where they expect to make an extend
ed stay hoping that the climate will
; be more beneficial to their health.
Frank Hudson and family returned
/ home Saturday from Minnesota.
ed Kussart and sister. Miss Eva
We're in Oskaloosa on business yester.
day.
w. o. Roberts is tearing off the old
single roof of his building on the cor.
ner of Second and Main streets and
replacing it with sheet iron.
Francis G. Packer was born in Lu
cas- county, Ohio, August IA, 1887, and
died of paralysis September 2. 1902
aged 65 years 10 days. He came uc
northern Iowa in his boyhood days
and later, in 1857, came to southern
Iowa. In 1862 he enlisted in the civi
war and served to its close On De
cember 10. 1865, he was united in mar
riage to Miss Margaret Templeton. B,
this union five children We're born
three boys and two girls, two of whom
! preceded him in death Rev. Busl
/ conducted the services at the resi-
dence and was buried in the Highland
cemetery under the auspices of the G
/ A. r. post Thus in death this CON
munity loses one of its best citizens
always honorable and upright in his
dealings, kind and generous to his fam
lily. His bereaved wife and three sur
viving children have the sympathy q
! this entire cOmmunify
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Eldon,

Eldon Sept Mrs Frank Huey
has gone to Eldon, where she will re-
main for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cross and fam
lily of Kirksville are visiting friends
and relatives in Eldon.
Miss Carrie Stevens of Washington
is visiting old time friends in EIdon
Lester and Fred Hardsocg of Ottum-
wa are attending the Big Four fair i
Charley Pottorff of Valley Junction
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Corner Main and Green Streets.


was a mistake and oil 30 M. ~
nams friends will he olad 10 baor ~
good news.
Miss Livingston has returned II
her home in Nebraska after snendine.
a few DAYS with her friend Miss Min,
ME Larmore.
Miss H. M. PARCEL and Mrs r r
McReynolds went to LYONS Monday
for a few DAYS visit.
John Gobble and George Slater left
last week for Dakota.
Several of the people in this yfcin.
ity attended the Eldon fair.
Mr.. and Mrs G. w. Davis were In
Ottumwa on business Wednesday.
Mrs. c. A. Clark was in COMPETING
Tuesday.
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Milton.
Milton, Sept. 4.-Mr. and Mrs. VIII,
liam BISHOP OF South Prairie visited
recently at the M. e. parsonage.
Inc milton falf, Whlch was held
August 26 to ". was quite success.
The weather was rather unfavorable
at the beginning, but 1t soon cleared
and the fair proceeded nicely. The
Morey' Comedy company played each
nlght 10 large audiences.
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SunnySiGc.

Sunnyside, Sept. AIRS. Sarah
Shield died Thursday and was buried
Saturday at Coatsville, Mo.
Alonzo Kimball and wife are visiting
in Osceola this week
Columbus Fleming and wife attend
ed the state fair last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ballew and Mr.. and
Mrs. Sisson visited at the Penney home
Sunday.
Grandma Kimball is very low with
lung trouble
Miss Inez Sisson is spending the
week with Mrs. Martha Penney.
]. S. Penney left Monday for an eX
tended trip through the Dakotas and
Minnesota
Elmer Gray had the misfortune to
get his hand badly hurt while saving
wood at c. A. Yates.
Misses Howell Genevieve O'Hara,
Mary and Grace Ransom, Inez and Ena
! Sisson spent Sunday with Mrs. Cora
Harris.
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great grand children live to mourn the
loss of one whose life is a worthy ex-
ample and living testimony of true re-
ligion which was displayed in her
whole life.
Rev. Sparks, of Fairfield, preached
a very touching sermon and tears of
bitter grief We're shed by many old
friends who had known her so long.
Rev. Smith, presiding elder, preach
ed very interesting sermon here sun
Gay afternoon to an appreciative audi
encc.
John koontz and family, of Enid Ok
lahoma, arrived here this week for a
visit with Mr.. Koontz's sister, Mrs. sue
Walker. They go from here to Wyom.
ing.
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wedlock. The parties both lived near

wedlock. The parties both lived near
Blakesbure.
l,rot. Fansworth, OF Centerville, Sc
cured the principalship of The Union
Vile school for the coming year.
w. NJ Miller started for Oklahoma
Territory the last of the week where
he expects to purchase several head
Of cattle.
w. NJ. Morrison and j. c. Cross de
liveTed cattle at Moravla last Satur-
day.
A very elaborate wedding occurred
at the George Clancy home last sun
day evening when their daughter, Miss
Chloe, was united in marriage to John
Tucker. of Moravia. There were about
thirty invited guests who, after the
ceremony, did ample justice to most
bounteous repast. The young couple
have the well wishes of host OF
friends in their journey through life.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
CHARACTER AND REPUTATION.

The words character and reputation generally
applied to human individuals and, when thus APP
Piled they are regarded by many people as synony-
NOUS In some instances they so, but this on
ly happens when the tenor of the peoples talk is i'll
exact harmony with existing facts. More frequent
ly the true meanings of these words widely diff
erent.
To speak more definitely and clearly character is
the man as he really is, his inner SELF his true prin
cples and purposes just he stands revealed to the
eve of omniscier e. Reputation is only what Others
say of him. Therefore, man is often the crea-
ture of deception deluslon, it may be matter OF
no unusual occurrence that ones reputation is far
from being true picture of his character Fine APP
parel, polished manners and pleasing address will
too often easily enable most INSCRIPTIONS scoun-
drel to pass among enlightened persons the pos
SCISSOR of every Just aud manly virtue, while the alb
sence of these captivating exterors frequently
causes the purest and nobest being to be looked
not only with suspicion but with actual abhor-
renee.
But time reveals and cOrrects all errors, and soon
er or later the mistaken judgements of men will be
rghteously revised, and all who have patiently and
faithful bore the heat and labor of the day., will
ultimately reap their reward. They may be the OBJ
iects of the constant shafts of envy and calumny
through long and dreary years. but the day will surely
dawn when they shall be seen and known even as
they are and then their character and their reputa
ton will have the same true and gracious meaning.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
DEATH OF A CLEVER TAKIR.

Swami Vivekananda is dead. He person of
particular claim to notoriety, except as he figured
i'll clever little hoax upon the American people
during and Immediately following the worlds fair.
His success was so great that he came back for
another round of entertainments in 1896, when his
false assumptions were explained and his identify
disclosed.
Vivekananda was bright young Hindu who es-
poused Christianity long enough to secure educa-
ton in the best institutions of Calcutta. Like
many others who profit by these mission institu-
tons, he tossed aside his Christianity when it had
secured HIM all the benefits of the schools and be-
came once more Buddhist and an obscure lawyer
in Calcutta. few years later the worlds fair at
Chicago brought people of many nations to Ameri-
ca. Among them was Vivekananda and number
OF other sef-styled puudits of Hindustan. Viveka-
nands was smart handsome fellow. He dressed
admirably in the costumes of his country. He had
posted himself with regard to the character of the
American people and their curiosity regarding for
egn celebrities. He knew us we'll enough to under
stand that an obscure lawyer would cut very little
ice in the United States, while noble celebrity
of any sort would make the Americans fall over
each other to get look at him and indulge i'll a
scramble for the honor of entertaining him. Vive-
kananda did not choose title that would lead to
speedy exposure but assumed the role of monkish
religious order whose membership is limited to high
caste Brahmins. His craft as Swami and pre-
ceptor of religion worked beautifully during his first
visit. The young Christian who got his education
in the Christian missions had the nerve to appear at
congress of religions and argue for the supremacy
of the Buddhist doctrines.
The Swami went back to Calcutta presently and
told his boon companions of the lovely time he had
over among the Yankees. Then he came back i'll
1896. Calcutta newspapers got wind of his visit
They saw i'll American newspapers and in dispatches
that the Americans taking the Swami fol
straight goods, and they nearly killed themselves
making sport of us. They regarded the case very
much as the people of Putnam Co. would look upon
the report that some famous wag like Squire Burton
had gone over to Europe to pose American
prince or an archbishop. The Swami is dead. but
there countless other fakirs of his stripe and
are still the same curious, ndulgent and forgiving
American people.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
MODERN ALCHEMY.

The Rock Island Railroad Company will add $40
100000 to it's capital stock.
1t will not accomplish this feat by the stockhold-
ers going down into their pockets to pay over the
$40,0OO,O0O to the companys treasury. 1t will not
be done by adding to the earnings of the property
The process may be described as addition, divis-
ion and silence" By the hocus pocus of 'Presto |!
changed" forty millions of dollars will be made by
watering the stock. vote of the board of direc-
tors and gulible public will be the combination.
The old achemsts simmered themselves for u
lifetime over reduction tube seeking to know how
they might change the baser metals into gold.
Your modern Morgans do the trick by doubling or
treblng capital stock. putting it afloat Wall
street, the promoters and underwriters getting the
"rake Off" The har} st is great and the laborers
in the vineyard are not few. Is it sufficient
swer to say ''you would do the same thing if you
had chance?" No. You ought not to have the
chance Neither should any other man or set of
men have the chance. All money getting that is
without consideration is demoralising
The spectacle of financial baooning breeds dis
content. Many business men who by thrift and
economy have managed to make both ends meet
look with envoy on the promoter who makes a mill
ion out of nothing. "Why should't take flyer?
Why pursue old-fashioned methods when money is
to be had by scheming?"
The financial Generalization comes with the ex-
poson. The pyramid built with one merger on
top of another gets top-heavy and topples over.
The promoters are well out of the way of the crash
The cataclysm of disaster ruins thousands.
Is there no way by which government can pre-
vent such disaster? Is there way by which wild
initiation may be stopped?
The Rock Island company is not sinner above
all others. 1t is only one of a multitude.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
THE GIGGLE OF A GIRL.

Because Dora Godcher, young girl, glggles while
at work in Rogers Bros factory, at Meriden, Conn,
fortyfour burnishers and buffers, twentyeight men
and sixteen women, have gone a strike
The malcontents protested to the president of the
company against the girls gigging and the presi-
dent added to the injury by laughing himself. He
refused to discharge the girl for such trivial cause,
and Immediately the strike was on.
The president is game and is employing new burn
shers and buffers. This is not difficult, the strik
ers being non-uon and not organized except upon
this one proposition that girl must not gggle.
President Rogers right. Every girl i'll the land
who has fine teeth and silvery voice should be per-
mtted to gigge, and every who is man will
lend moral support. There is no more sacred right
than girls right to gggle Take that away and
the world would lose its sweetest music
Bird songs sweet, but they touch only the ear
of humanity. Instrumental music is sweet, but it
gratifes only tastes cultivated to its enjoyment.
But the gigge of the girl is sweeter than all, for
it comes from the heart and goes to the heart. 1t
is the signal Of joy that echoes and reechoes wher
ever human good feeling has abiding place. The
heart that rebels against it and refuses to receive it
is hoary with the rime of selfshness and hard with
callous hate of human cheer.
The affair at Merden is a triumph for more than
Dora Godcher, because principle has won. The
right of girl to gigge, even at work, has been
maintained.
Really no other outcome possible. President
Rogers might have discharged this girl and employ
ed another in her place, but the other would have
gigged, too, or been worthless, for the girl that
does not gigge is harp without its strings, and
as a worker sure to be a dull plodder.
A girls smile that shows pretty teeth, floods her
face with tint and brings the light of her soul
into her eyes, is the worlds best beauty, but the
girls giggles add to it the worlds best music.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
NO MORE CARPET TACKS.
IAdkAAa Inventor Claims to Have q
New scheme to Replace
Then

Harry o. Butler, of Franklin, Ind,
has invented an appliance for holding
carpets, and is intended to do away
with the old carpet tack system. The
idea is clear as the article is a plain
plate of light durable metal, one-half
by one-quarter of an inch in size, with
a hook which holds the carpet. In the
plate are holes for screws or small
nails, which hold the plate fast to the
hoor next to the quarter round. The
hook is pointed over so that the car
pet is laid on the floor and hooked on
these permanent hooks as the carpet
10 stretched. The carpet can be put
down or removed in a very short time.
and the person experiences no mashed
fingers or other painful accidents usual
in laying carpets. These small metal
hooks are made Of very durable metal
and will last several years. Mr.. But
Ter has already received several hand
some offers for his patent but has not
yet accepted any of them.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
SKY SCRAPER FOR LONDON.
American once Building VIII Be
Built tA the Great EaglisA
Metropolis.

That huge American office building
for London announced some time ago
and afterward declared to be impossi-
BILE, is not only to be built, but work on
1t IL to begin in August unless there is
come further hitch in the negotiations
with the London county council, the
body from whom the land must be rent
ed. The company wanted 999 years
lease of the land, but it is said that the
county council would listen to nothing
more than 80 years and that the bust
ness has been arranged on that basis.
The company is to pay $3.50, 900 year
rent for the land and at the expiration
Of the 80 years their $10,000000 build
ing will become the property of the mu-
nicipality. On the other hand, the site
on the Strand at the foot of the broad
thoroughfare now being cut through
to Holborn is undoubtedly the best
site in London for an Office building.
It Is said that the company expects
to have it's 16-story structure opened
ready for occupancy IS months from
the time the ground is broken.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14

lists, pomologists; and their numbers
are as the sands of the sea; ana theE
belong and are part of the agrictr :.
tnral department, WashingtOn-the
main part-the whole thing, in tac' ;
and they work the congress to fraz-
zle for appropriations to pay them,
while they sit in their back ofhces
/ ling out their tongues while err
tightening the sovereign squats on
the subject of farming. Didy ever
see an agricultural department. agfi-
culturalist? And did you ever see a.,
agricultural department garden seecf
Well, they both look like, A bag OF
two Of the agricultural department
garden seeds struck this town last
spring; and the packages were given
to the unsuspecting farmers rouha
about; and the returns are ust COM
ing in. Speaking of agricultural de-
partment "sweet cOrn"-a mixture OF
yellow and white Indian corn, eros =
ed with calico squaw, broom, hlni'
Kaffir, 9O-day Dent. Early White
kentucky. and every known an I'M
known variety grown on the cohtl,,
nent: and these old clabber-facCed
barnacles buy it by the ton and ship
it west as sweet corn. LORD help us
Eldorado, Kas., Weekly Republic
can.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
GRACE AND BEAUTY.

Miss Kate Beerng has been nominated by the re-
pubcans of Morris county, Kansas, for county treas
urer A dispatch, referring to her campaign for the
nomination, says:
1.-The young woman defeated three of the best
known and wealthiest men of the county, who inn
medately offered to go her bond of 100000
Miss Beering captured the convention with her
grace and beauty"
Grace and beauty. Beauty and the Beast Shall
these things be and overcome like a summer
cloud? :
Where is the proud boast of mans supremity
when grace and beauty counts for more than sitting
up with the boys and fixing things?" Where is
the lordship of the male when female grace and
beauty are syndicated? Who shall from
this untoward generation, when beauty and grace
prove more potent than pledges and campaign
cigars2
The Bulls Run of the Male Gender is in sight.
If masculinityi is to be captured by the Kate Beer
ings of politics the time may come when doodle"
may no longer be effective, when grace and beauty
will be stronger than the machine, and the bosses
may be compelled to abdicate, and decency and
honesty will rule. Alas and alack Grace and
beauty.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14

Senator James Mcmillan of Michigan died of heart
sNure at an early hour Sunday morning at his sum.
finer home, Manchester-by-ths-Se Mass Senator
Mcmillan had been a member of the U. S. Senate
since March 1889, and was chairman of the commit
tee of the District of Columbia in that body. He
was the political boss of Michigan, and though him.
self gentleman both by birth and education and a
man of wealth and refinement, he had surrounded
himself with aids who brought pass political
dtion in his state almost if not quite deplorable
that of the Quay cohorts IN Pennsylvania. His death
will probably result in the election of democratic
governor, as thousands of republicans had already
gone over to the democracy, and the republicans, al
ready on the defensive, will become demoralized now
that their leader is no more.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14

Sam Davis, who knew Bonanza
Mackay personally for nearly 30
years tells number of characteris-
tics stories of Mackay's mining days
in Virginia City.
Mackay's purse, Mr.. Davis says,
was always open, and he had lively
vein of humor running through
everything he did:
"He was great admirer of the
writings of Chester Hull, who was a
San Francisco humorist of quarter
of century ago. On the death OF
Hull, applied to Mackay for some
money for his widow. is she young
and Handsomely he asked. Neither,
was my reply. Then we must help
her, by all means. How much can
we give?' About $780, suggested.
All right he said, drawing his
check book; how shall we divide
it?' You furnish the check, and |
will supply the stamp on the letter.
He grinned at this, and | explained
that it seemed but proper segrega-
ton of the gift, considering our re-
spective incomes. He drew the
check for $500, and as l left the room
he called me back. Now, | don't
want any one to know of this. Tell
her you sent it, l replied that she
would know better, and then he
whispered, IN chuckle: We can
lay it onto old Sharon. Tell her
Sharon sent it, and when he gets the
letter of thanks he won't know what
hit him.
~ promised to do so, but thought
it best to let her know where the
money came from, and couple of
days later | saw Mackay standing in
front of the Curry office reading a
letter, and crying like schoolbOy.
You've blabbed on me, he said,
shaking the letter in my face.
Here, read this 1t was a very
touching letter, written by refined
woman whose heart fully appreci-
ated the kindness. Before | had
reached the bottom of the page my
eyes were moistening, and Mackay,
who suffered at times, broke in
with: There cr-cr-cry while
yourself, you lunatic, and see how
you Hike tt.'-San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
LoUp YoIoE FROM KANSAS,

The old clabber-faced barnacles
are all on the payroll. Bowlegged
agriculturists who can { farm; super
alnuated preachers, who can't
preach; ex-lawers, doctors and edi-
tors, deeayed Observation-Disclosures
ed, specialized, and bewhiskered-
who have grown old, blear-eyed, and
decrepit writing about the number of
kicks in a mules hind leg; the per-
cent of protein in a boiled cabbage;
the number of hammers in yellow
hammers hammer; and they are all
on the payroll, with big salaries, as
naturalists, archaeologtsts, zoolog-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
A Little Word.
,ove is such a little word;

Love is such a little word;
Oh, so very small;
Yet too large for one to bear it,
Large enough for two to share it,
Large enough for all.
Cupid, ever wise and knowing,
Found it in a garden growing,
Plucked it, Joined it to kiss,
Smiled upon it, named it Bliss.
O word of love! the gods above
Have set the crown of Venus DER
you,
With all the grace of Juno's race,
And all the charm that Psyche
bore you.
Love is such little word;
Lighter than a glance;
Vet twas never heard refusing
Those who know the art of using
Time and circumstance.
Simple swain and monarch mighty
Love the lisp of AphrOdite;
Fen the hermit in his cell
Loves it, though he dare not tell.
O word of love! the gods above
Have set the crown of Venus DER
YOU,
with all the grace of JunO's race,
And all the charm that Psyche
bore you.
Love is such little word,
Made of letters four;
Soft and tender, sweet and simple
Telling of a lip or dimple-
Who would ask for more?
Who could make it any longer?
Who could make it any stronger?
All the gods know none more sweet
Love is love-and loves complete!
o word of love! the gods above
Have set the crown of Venus ole,
YOU,
With all the grace Of Juno's race
And all the charm that Psych,
bore you.
Smart Set.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14

Lord Kitchener says to the British people: "You
may assure yourselves that you have nothing less
than the making of America in the southern
hemisphere" that is, in South Africa. There are
indeed, great possibilities in that country But let
Great Britain look to it that she does not produce
another George III, there will certainly arise in
South Africa another George Wsshington.-Ex.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
Is MARRIAGE A FAILURE?

Marriage a failure? Ask the young
mother as she crOous over her first
born. Ask the white-faced little wo-
man in black as she kisses the cheeks
of her stalwart son and sends him
into the world to conquer. "All is
lost but you, Mary" chokes out the
gray-bearded victim of a business
collapse. An arm steals about his
neck, and wrinkled hand strok es
his brow, and the sweetest lips he
ever knew whisper words of soulful
sympathy and courage in his ear.
Ask him about marriage. Cincin-
natl Post.