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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-18
Bloomfield.


Bloomfield, Dec 1S.-Dr. D. c. Garner,
of West Grove, was transacting business
in the city Wednesday.
Charles Williams, of Belknap, was in
the city Wednesday on business.
The fuel famine which has been staring
the people of It's city in the face for some
time, it seems, will now be averted, as
many loads of wood are being brought in
from the country. Earlier in the winter
the roads were in such condition that little
the people We're dependent almost eXclu-
sively upon the supply of coal. The
SHOWS of the past few days, however. has
done much toward putting the roads in
better condition, and as a result wood has
on the streets.
The Circle Club gave a dance at Wish
ards hall Tuesday night. very enjoya-
BILE time was had.
John III. Curl, Il prosperous farmer from
near Bunch, was in town Wednesday pur-
chasing holiday goods.
Frank Lester, who was called to this
city Il few days ago to attend the funeral
of his mother, Mrs. Rhoda Lester, depart
ed for his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, We'd
nesday morning.
A birthday dinner was given at the
home of r. ID. Swift, near Savannah, Fri
day, December 49, it being the occasion of
Russell's twenty sixth birthday. The din
ner was planned as a surprise for Mr..
Swift by his wife, and about thirty guests
were present to participate in the festiyi-
ties. Mr.. and Mrs. JAS. ii. Collins, of
Bloomfield, were present, Mrs. Collins be-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-18
PHONE GIRLS WIN STRIKE.
Company at Des Moines Grants All
Demands.

Des Moines, Dec. 1.-THE strike of
the operators of the Bell Telephone
company here, which has now been in
progress about six months was settled
last evening by representative of the
company and of the Trades and Labor
assembly. The telephone girls are to
be paid wages Is per cent in advance
of the scale, and all of the girls who
struck are to be taken back to work.
The company further agrees not to in
any way discriminate against the
strikers. The injunction suit to re-
strain the representatives of union la
Dor from boycotting the company is to
be dismissed.
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MINERS ON STAND
FATHER OF GIRL WITNESSES BE.
FORE COMMISSION.
Claim That the Wages Accredited
Them by Operators Had to Be ri.
vided Among Four to Six Men
Take Girls from Mills.

Scranton, Dec. 1.-THE miners to-
day put on the witness stand before
the coal strike commission the fathers
of the two little girls who had testified
Monday that they worked all night in
the silk mills. The operators yester-
day submitted wage statements show
ing that one of these men and his la
borer received S1,6S1 and the other
81, 400 last year. The men testified
that four to six men figured in the
division of those amounts. Both men
promised to take the girls out Of the
mills
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TO MEET IN oTTuMwA.
Funeral Directors Will Gather Here
February 10 and II.

The thirteenth annual meeting Of
the Sixth District Funeral associa-
ton will be held in this city February
10 and IL, 1908. Yesterday afternoon
at the Ballingall hotel the executive
committee met in conjunction with the
local undertakers and the preliminary
arrangements for the event were made.
The members of the executive com
mittee who were in attendance at the
meeting were: T. r. Osborne of New
Sharon, w. A. Cutter of Colfax and A.
d. Woodruff of Grinnell e. l.. Scott
of this city is president of the associ-
alton and he, with Frank L. Daggett
and J. M. Crowley of Ottumwa attend.
ed the session.
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Siuourney.

Sigourney, Dec. 1S.-A marriage license
was issued to Roy Downing, &c, and Ma
bel Graham, %.
A. S. Loveal returned today from his
West Virginia trip.
A. A. Hungerford, of Davenport will
move here next week. He is a former res
ident of Keswick.
have gone to California for the winter
Mary Hutchinson Ford, of What Cheer,
was in Sigourney Wednesday.
The Hayesville NJ. w. A. lodge will con-
solidate with the Sigourney lodge. rs they
have no meeting place in that town. This
will raise the membership of the post to
about ITO members.
Henry Wilson and Frank Pine, of Kes-
wick, were in town Sunday.
lllbridge Allen and daughters were down
from Kcswick yesterday.
Frank Pine at KeSwick received tele-
gram on last Sunday announcing that the
idaho supreme court affirmed the action
of the Iowa district court in appointing him
legal guardian of the Judge Brady chill
dren.
Miss Edna Dofe is visiting friends at
Newton.
Mrs. C. l.. Starr is at Des Moines, called
there by Inc death of her brother.
c. L.. Beall was initiated IN the third
degree in the Masonic lodge last Tuesday
evening.
NJ s. Bootin, of Fairfield, was in town
| Tuesday.
| A. Corey is still very sick.
\ Il. 3. Rossiter was at Oskaloosa on bsi-
| ness.
DR.. johnson moves into his new residence
property today.
| The Sigourney schools close tomorrow
| for two weeks vacation.
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Question Inspectors.

Several of the state mine inspectors
We're called, They were unanimous
in saying that the mining companies
had no rules requiring the miners to
stay in the mine all day. One of the
inspectors said that the miners in
his district did not average five hours
work day; that most of the accidents
were due to negligence or misjudg-
ment of the workmen themselves. The
inspectors said that they were some
times accompanied by the company
officials and many times they visited
the workings alone.
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TWO CANDIDATES FROM IOWA.
They Seek Positions in the National
Order of Mine Workers.

Secretary Wilson of the United
Mine Workers, has sent out the lists
of candidates from Indianapolis for
the coming election of national off
GERS. Among them are the following
Iowans: Auditor and credentials
committee, Lawrence Lone, Hooking;
delegates American Federation (seven
to be chosen) John r. Ream, Beacon,
Lawrence Lone, Hooking.
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SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL.
Mrs. Johnson, Evangelist, at the A. M.
e, Church This Week

The revival meetings at the A. M.
E. church continue to grow in interest
and in attendance. Mrs. Johnson. the
evangelist, is at home in her work and
always commands the closest atten-
ton of her hearers Bible readings
are being conducted each afternoon at
3 o'clock. The meetings are proving
a great success.
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am, Tuesday evening. The funeral SER
vices were conducted from the home of
the latter yesterday afternoon. when the,
remains were laid to rest in the Freedaml
cemetery.
Miss Stella Rocker. of Belinda. is in the
city Tor few days. caring for her grand
MOTHER who is quite sick.
Miss Mary Smith expects to leave to-
morrow for a few weeks visit with rela-
tives at Valley Junction.
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Report from the Reform School.

]. G. Gluck, superintendent, Prunty-
town, w. Va, writes: after trying
all other advertised cough medicines
we have decided to use Foley's Honey
and Tar exclusively in the West Vir-
ginia Reform School. | find it the
most effective and absolutely harm
less" For sale by Elliott, druggist,
corner Court and Main.
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KILLS SALOONS.
Butler County Will Have no Whisky
Shops.

Mason City, Dec. 17.-(SpeciaD-
After a fierce fight Butler county de-
feats the saloon petition. The anti
saloonists are jubilant.
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GLENN CASE POSTPONED.

Manila court-MartiaI Trial Goes Over
Until January.
Manila, Dec. 1.-THE trial of Major
Glenn of the Fifth infantry was today
postponed until January.
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$500 FOR 4 DEAD BANDIT.

Seattle Council contemplates Strong
Measure to End Lawlessness.
Seattle, Wish, Dec. 17.-An ordi-
nance has been introduced in the coun-
Gil providing for a $500 reward for the
delivery of the body of any highway
man or burglar at the city hall.
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DEATH FoREToLD IN DREAM.
Mrs. Mary Grant cramer Says She
Had STRANGE Experience.

East Orange N. j., Dec. 17.-Mrs.
Mary Grant Cramer, a sister of Gen.
Ulysses Simpson Grant. who lives with
her sister, Mrs. Virginia Grant Cor
bin. at 70 LenoX avenue, East Orange,
says the death of Mrs. Grant was fore
told to her in dream on December G.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-18

Bullock & Son, implement dealers
at Cushing, have assigned. Liabilities
81, 900; assets $500.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-18

We have the largest and most
complete line of Stoves, both
heating and cooking, devoting
one entire floor of our building
20 our stove exhibit. We can
suit you in any kind of a stove
and at lower prices than yon
can get at any other place
in OttutnWa.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
UGH WORK.

Russia is making very thorough work of Russianizing Finland. A correspon- dent of London paper, writing from Odessa, says that scarcely a week passes but some new imperial ukase, ministerial edict, or gubernatorial or der deprives the Films of one or an- sttutions, rights and privileges. Fin land, he says, can no longer be called an autonomous grand ducal appanage of the imperial crown The latest min isterial edict, promulgated at Helsing Finnish metropolitan police, who are to be forthwith replaced by Russians and the Russian system of organization. According to an announcement in the Hufoudstadsbladet the Imperial Gov ernment annual subsidies, for many years past granted, of three thousand pounds sterling to the Finnish Steam olilp '~olhpdlS lol hetplHS opcu tlt winter traffic between Hango and Stockholm, and of two thousand two hundred pounds sterling to the Bore" Company for maintaining winter com munlcation between Apo and Stock holm, have been withdrawn, The reason ostensibly assigned for this de- privation is that the companies in question permitted their vessels to be inspected and searched by the Finnish police, but refused the same right to the Russian gendarmes.
 The Bear can be pretty rough when he wants to be, and he seems to want to be in the case of Finland.
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most others Popularity as an author, even if ones productions have but the remOtest connection with the more se- rious work done in the world Of letters, seems also to be regarded as sufficient claim. The worst of all our abuses, however, he regards as the throwing about of the degree of doctor of divin- ity. The popular clergyman may be the least scholarly of men, yet if he have friends of some influence he can always get this degree. pr, Fullerton knows q number who enjoy this honor, and who are not even men of ordinary culture. They make no pretenslons to being scholars, In Europe the degree of S. T. D., which is another form Of our D. D., is perhaps the most highly respected and the most difficult to at tain. Our methods of conferring this honor are incomprehensible to German scholars. He believes that this nuis- ance will be abated in time, and he earnestly hopes that our institutions will come to some consensus of opinion which will keep them all under whole some check and make them feel re- sponsible to the public for their choice of those upon whom they elect to con- fer degrees.
 There is more truth than poetry in Dr. Fullerton's remarks. But if there should be any change in the degree business we sincerely hope that there will be no taking away of degrees which have already been thrown about. It would be needless cruelty to deprive some of the men who sport degrees of that which is their chief pride and solace, and that on which, as the boys say they travel"
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A0MM RNAL HMEnNM.

There is q good deal of Reform in New York and elsewhere that isn't very real, but there can be no question about the quality of that Reform in New York which is going to have the streets of the great city properly marked so that visitors from the country needn't have to rubber" excessively or ask too many questions in earnest effort to find out where they are at. The board of al- dermen have voted an appropriation of $50 GOO for the purchase and erection of street signs in Manhattan and Brook lyn. President Cantor will spend $4O,- GOO and President Swanstrom $4O,0O0 These two officials say that within a few months every street crossing in the two boroughs will be appropriately marked
 Good work. It will, we suppose, con- tinue easy to get morally lost in New York, but it will be very convenient for even those who go there and get moral ly lost to be able to know what street they are on.
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the top of a tree which has been blown
 down in a storm. But wherever 1t IS, the plumage of the sitting bird is sure to match her surroundings so closely that none but experienced eyes are like ly to notice her. And she seems to un- derstand and rely upon this protective coloration, for when we unWittingly ap- proach her, she will not arise until she is almost in danger of being trodden upon, Then she may finally burst away with loud report scattering the dry leaves all over her precious eggs, as she goes, or she may jump up, run rapidly for 2 short distance and then fly Whir- ring, away. In either case, we get a chance to see her large clutch of per haps dozen or fourteen buff eggs ly- ing in the nest of leaves. The young ones can run with the shells on their backs as the saying goes, and they follow their mother about after the manner of domestic chicks. No parents are more anxious for the safety of their children than are the parent grouse, and none are more full of expedients for their protection. If you happen to come upon a grouse family in the NpOuS, you may JtNSi SGI cNCil VI glimpse of it's younger members. The chances are that the father will burst into the air just in front of you with such a loud report that you are sure to raise your eyes to follow his vanishing form, and when you look down again you will probably see nothing but wounded grouse making desperate but apparently useless efforts to escape you, If you run forward to pick her up you can do so; that is, you are more than encouraged to try g second time. By a pure accident, however, you will miss her this time, too, and after two or three such accidents she will recover her health and fly away, leaving you in your sweet contemplation of the land escape, In tha meantime the title brlght-eyed chicks have been hiding with all their might amongst the leaves and grass, and they will not stir, even though you should step upon them, un- til long after you have gone, and until the trusted voice of their mother as- sures them that all danger is past.
 ERNEST HAROLD HAYNES.
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About the Sale {:

The sale made necessary by the retirement of certain int, ,rests is still in progress and much remains of value and interest to the person who would buy an object of lasting value. A few of the special articles may here be enumerated:
 A bow-knot brooch of Paris mounting, contains S4 diamonds and whole pearl center. The price on this has been reduced from s20O to $150.
 A brooch of 15 fine diamonds, re- duced from s260 to $200.
 A diamond and pearl brooch from $120 to $95.
 A diamond and sapphire cluster ring of ten stones, reduced from $200 to $150.
 A diamond sunburst, brooch and pendant very fine grade, reduced from $275 to $22O.
 Antique gold brooch and pendant of five large pearls and is diamonds, with finely wrought gold necklace, reduced from $175 to $135.
 A butterfly diamond, emerald, opal and ruby pin and pendant, reduced from $100 to $65.
 A diamond brooch of seven stones, reduced from $130 to $10O.
 All articles in the retirement sale at reductions of 20 to 50 per cent.
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DISSIPATION NEVER DIFFICULT.
But Runaway Soldiers are Sure to be
 Brought Back-Why They Go

But Runaway Soldiers are Sure to be
 Brought Back-Why They Go.
 There were about five thousand de- sertions from the United States army during the year of 1901. This is an in crease over the preceding years record, and, indeed, makes the worst record for many years. Since the heavy enlist ments beginning with the outbreak of the Spanish war; the assertions have been more and more frequent. Two problems have vexed the war depart ment--Why So many desert, and how to prevent them, or capture them once they are out? The first problem has been found the more difficult one, and many officers think it the more impor- tant one, for with it's answering the government will set to work to remove the cause of that itch to be rid of Un- cle San's uniform which seems to af- flict large number of soldiers every year
 But there is no cause for it in the service," exclaimed an army officer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
roo MANY DEC R EES.

Awhile ago some ministers in a Vir- ginia town got together and gave a fe- low minister the degree of Doctor Of Divinity, to which they thought he was well entitled. They considered that they had as good a right to give degrees as anybody, and they acted accordingly. Perhaps they acted as sensibly as some of the recognized degree givers do. It is being thought and said by some of the learned that there are too many de- grees given, and that they do not mean much. pr. George Stuart Fullerton, professor of philosophy in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, is one of the pro- testers, and q, vigorous one too He as serts that if one will examine the list of honorary degrees given every year by our American universities-and he cannot exclude even the greater ones one will find that vast number of men are receiving the degrees of D, D. II,
 D., etc, who scarcely make preten- sion to profound scholarship in any de- partment whatever, but whose cIain, appears to be based on the fact that they are men of prominence. or stand in the eye of the public Political emi- hence appears to be as good as claim as
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R ECOR DFD.

Patience-"What lovely hats she wears!" Patience-"Yes; you know her husband is landscape gardener, and he designs them. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
 Towne--"He's the most disagreeable fellow I ever played poker with" Brown-'A hard loser, eh?" Towne-- "No an easy winner. Philadelphia Press.
 Tess-'Bess is going to marry an op- tician" Jess-"Is he wealthy" Tess 1T think so; at any rate, she says there's a lot of money in sight for him. !" Philadelphia Press.
 He's grandfather, and yet he's go- ing to marry that young Miss Kittie Skittish."
 Yes, He's old enough not to know any etter,"-Chicago Post,
 Cravings. ngs.--"Goldslathers is going to put up a cottage for his wife in South ern California" What for?" Well, she wants another place that she will get tired of living in."-Puck,
 'So you are out of politics for good" said the friend
 We'll said the ex-boss, that is the way my enemies express it; for the good of politics. s."-Washington Star
 Crokers sailed away and left us,
 And he's spoke his valediction;
 But the public wink an optic,
 Simply saying nixey Nixon.
 Yonkers Statesman. What canal route do you favor?" asked the statesmans friend.
 T don't know yet was the answer "I have refrained from going on record before my constituents in the matter until I learn which route is likely to be adopted. ."-Washington Star.
 Ascum--"How did you make out with that story you sent to the Klap-trap Magazine?"
 Scribbler-"R Rejected. I fancy it was too clever"
 Ascum-"Too clever?'
 Scribber-"Yes. I suppose they were afraid it would distract attention from their advertising pages. s."-Philadelphia Press.
 An Important Point.--Mrs. Ascum- 50 you're going to send your daughter to Wellesley. Why not to Vassar?" Mrs. De Style-"The Vassar colors don't become her at all. ll."-Philadelphia Press.
 Affinity.--He-"I trust, my dear, we are not completely estranged?" "Oh, no! I would still rather quarrel with you than with anybody else."-Life,
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Too IIatc.

Bring no vain chaplet to my grave. Once. when you might, you could have
 blest
 A lonely life, an aching breast; But nothing now can help or save. Your love, when needed, was not given; And now who cares? Lifes bonds are
 rlNen. 4Ia z Shed OCT my dust no fruitless tears. An, once your pity had been sweet To bleeding hands and weary feet, Through all the joyless, bitter years. Nay, weep not for the mlght-haye- been: Gods rain will keep my grave-plot green. Breathe OCT me, dead, no word of praise. Once, living. l had leapt to hear The tones of love, the voice of cheer Make music through my sunless days; But now! the wind alone may sweep Over the daisies where I sleep. Q idle tears. 0 wreath too late, I care not now; the need is OCT; My need Is past--I feel no more The stress, the heat, the chill, the hate. 0 Love. in life ye came not nigh; And now, 'twere well to pass mo by.
 George Bird in Longman's.
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of changing his clothes and walking away.
 | Lewis, we'll call himr-I've forgotten his name-was @ soldier above the aver age in education and gentlemanly &C., compushments. l fancy it was some | debts or the usual women troubles that led him to enlist. He was ndolent and handsome, and he was sent to post on the plains There was same scandal about another woman; Lewis had to get
 his enjoyment out of life. Then, sud- denly, he gave out that he had been converted. He spent much time in the society of young Methodist minister of the village near the fort Now, this minister had 8 sister, a pretty. blue eyed little lady and she received more and more of the new soldier-conyert' attention. He made love to her, and the whole fort wondered, and, all sol- diers being gossps, took an eager inter- est.
 When Lewis disappeared there was more than the usual excitement The minister's sister was so undeniably happy that the old tragedy could not be offered as an explanation. The minister Nos SUI plIoCu, puL SluCh up TOT ms friend, the sin of deserting not appear ing very black to him. But week later he was startled on reading in the country paper long account of revi- val service in neighboring town. The services had been unusually marked by excitement and success, and the minis ter's name was given as leader. We didn't learn of this till later, for the minister had talk with his sister and kept silence. We were more than anx- ious to capture Lewis and put out extra efforts. Generally none are made. But no trace of the man could be found.
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