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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-08
Soap Creek.

4 Soap Creek. Oct Adam IIonl called
on his brother. George Houk, Monday
Mrs. Wray Blankinship. of near Belknap
who has been visiting her parents. neal
Blakesburg, the past week, returned home
Sunday.
Mrs. crist and daughter, Lydia, were
,Belknap callers Monday
Mrs. A. Cof7man and daughter Lizzie
were recent callers in Belknap.
Wray Nelson was a caller at Harry Sam
pies Monday
Christie Heckard was pleasant caller
at Harry Samples Sunday.
Roy Cayton and Charley Mains. of Iicl
Ridge were callers at j. A. Coffman's one
day last week.
Ross sutton was visitor at Jack Heck
ards Sunday.
Cbas. Davis, wife and daughter. of OF
tuniwa, spent Sunday with Mrs. Davis pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs ]. A. Coffman.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Coffman, of near Al
bia spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr.
Coffman's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. CoT
man.
Adam Houk, of near Ottumwa, called OF
R.T. Sample Monday.
Wray Blankinship has returned home
from the west
Cora and yerna Sample visited at Mrs
Girls Monday.
Mrs. John Sample was a visitor at Mrs
Chas. Nelson's Saturday.
Merit Boles was q caller at Chas. Nelson's
Saturday morning.
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in The Drakeville cemetery. Rev. ireland
conducted tile funeral services Mrs Latta
is critically ill with typhoid fever
Lory Sayles and children of Edon. Wis
tied Sunday with relatives.
A. l.. Russell aud wife visited Sunday
with their son. 0ris. and wife
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conpetine.

Competing. Oct. Miss Rebecca Cole
man returned to her home at Hillsboro
Saturday.
Alva Dickey. of Wenona, Illinois. visited
relatives here last week.
Rev Megan was at Brayton last week
assisting i'll revival meetings.
Frank Grade has moved from Ottumwa
to larson and is section foreman.
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Stopping of the nose OF running at
the nose?
Soreness or dryness of the throat?
Difficulty in breathing?
Shortness of breath.
Hacking of slime and mucous?
Tightness across the chest?
Cough and soreness in the chest?
Bad taste in the mouth and foul
breath?
Bloated feeling after eating?
Tired feeling in the morning?
This Is Catarrh
1t will terminate in consumption iG
you neglect it. Be treated and cured
now at a trifling cost.
Nervous Debility.
This affection destroys ambition. Or
ganic strength energy and hope. Fol-
lowing are some symptoms.
Do you feel weak? =.
Have you cold feet?
Have you backache?
Do you shun society?
Are you losing flesh?
Do you sleep poorly?
Are you low spirited?
Are your eyes sunken?
Do you have hot flashes?
Is your memory impaired?
Have you no manly vigor?
Do you have sick headache?
Is there nausea after eating?
DO your hands or feet sweat?
Has the brightness left your eyes?
Young Men, Middle Aged Med
Weak, Diseased, Despond-
ent Men 4.
suffering from premature decay, ex-
hausted or enfeebled power,
eases arising from habits of youth,
early vices, indiscretions or excuses,
all diseases causing losses weak or
failing memory, blotches, pimples, i'm.
pure blood. falling of hair, ETC.. should
visit him at once. BY his method and
medicines he guarantees each sufferer
immediate relief and permanent
cure
Varicoce1e
quickly cured without cutting, no pain,
no danger and no detention from bust
ness.
$500 forfeit for any case of varico-
cele DIR. Guthrie undertaks and fails
to cure.
Confidential Treatment
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tawa, ILL.,, are visiting in this city at
the home Of j. w. Hail.
Mrs. George Cnne was an Ottumwa
caller today
Mrs. j. j. Shillinger was an Ottum-
wa caller today.
Mrs. Laura Baker was an Ottumwa
visitor today.
Mrs. A. Flowers returned from a
business trip to Keokuk today.
Misses Blanche and Edith Harlan
left last evening for Keokuk to visit
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hall of Ottawa, H.,
are visiting at the home of their son,
j. w. Hail.
l.. w Hall left yesterday for Keo-
kull on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Moore of Mont
rose, Colo, are visiting in this city at
the home of Chas. Morrison.
West Van Buren,.
West Van Buren,. Oct &C r. Han
shaw and family of Leando visited friends
here Sunday
Paul Plowman ana family were guests
here Sunday of relatives
Mr. and Mrs. Wade III. IIarryman visited
friends mt Bloomfield few days last week
and attended the Carroll-De Vault wedding,
returning home Friday.
Miss Eva Hereford. of Leando. visited
over Sunday and Sunday night with her
friend. Miss Pearl Rollison.
Mr. Marshall is suffering from stroke
of paralysis at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Lee Roush
DR.. T. &. Mcclure was caller Sunday
evening.
V. y. Cassidy AMI fanny spent Sunday
with relatives in Milton.
Mr. Watts. of Mt. Zion, was caller here
Saturday.
Quite Il number from here attended the
Joe Swicr's sale Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. II. f. TIanshaw were in
Eldon on business Monday.
DR.. Bassett of Leando. was caller at
DR.. Shreeve's, near Troy. Monday evening
Mr.. Kerr and Mr.. Morrell. of Birming-
ham. were callers here the first of the
week.
Mrs. Johnson. of keosauqua. and Bessie
Keller. of Lebanon, visited friends here
this week.
+. S. Plowman and family transacted
business in Keosauqna one day the first
of the week.
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Hedric!s.

Hedric!s.
Hedrics. Oct. miss Mary Wilson is
visiting friends in Sigoulney.
j. r.. Brooks and l.. Il. Bowlin were in
Ottun,wa Monday on business,
Dale Cox. who is attending college at
Sunday.
II. ID. Watts left yesterday for an extend
cd vist through Ohio
Martin Reinert. of Sigourney, was in
town Saturday on business
Ernst Koch, of Ottumwa, was in town
yesterday.
n. Snakenberg and Wade Kirkpatrick
left yesterday for ulton. Missouri, on
business.
Mrs w II. Golliher was in Ottumwa yes
terday.
W. III. Young. Hon. John Morrison, Sen
ator Brooks. Raleigh Wilson. George
Matlock and John G. Foster went to Sig
Quincy Monday evening to hear Governor
Cummins.
Andrew and Daniel Ritter left yesterday
for an extended visit with friends in In
diana.
A. NJ Lafrerty. of Eddyville. was in town
yesterday.
Geo W. Harkins and D. J. Van Nostrand
were in Sigournev Monday attending court.
Oscar and Orian Glass of Martinsburg,
were in town Saturday evening attending
the DGnd concert
H. J.. Scott. of COMPETING, was in town
yesterday on business.
John Hook and ID. NJ. Bottorff were in
OF b.mwa Monday attending court.
James w. Morrison. of ciarkdale was in
town Sunday visiting with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs Jas. Morrison
T. c. Curtis has returned home after a
two months stay in California.
A. NJ. Roop has moved to Ollie to lake
,l,o, nf tbc PAX hotni which he
chased recently.
S. c. Chacey was in Oskaloosa yesterday
on business.
Miss Anna Hankammer and John Hid
will be united in marriage at the home OF
the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Han
hammer this evening. Tho contracting
PARTIES are well known here and have the
best wishes of their many friends.
Mrs. y. b. Spatard has been engaged to
teach music i'll the public schools.
The township board of trustees met Sat
ursiay evening and accepted the resignation
| of w. &. Hicks. clerk. Harry c. Lynn was
appointed to fill the vacancy,
The township democratic caucus Will be
held next Saturday afternoon AT Duke "
Dukes real estate office.
Charlton.
A. NJ. Savely and Ed Pearson of Ovid
were business visitors in the city
4 Tuesday.
| l.. NJ. Gates left yesterday fol
Kansas City, from which place he will
go south and look after matters Of
| business.
Miss Ada Miller of English town
ship, departed yesterday for an ex
tended visit with relatives in Brooks
county, Kansas.
Constable Willis Adams made an
official trip to Cleveland yesterday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Mowatt and children
returned last night from a visit il
| Humeston.
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NEW BISHOPS TO BE NAMED.
Vatican to Fill Vacant Sees of Mil
waukee and Columbus, o.

Rome. Oct. THE congregation of
the propaganda at it's November meet
ing will select bishops for the vacant
sees Of Milwaukee. Wis, and Column
bus, Ohio. They will also create new
diocese at Hartford. Conn, and erect
a portion of the see OF Dubuque, Iowa
into separate bishopric.
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Have You

Headache over the eyes?
Ringing in the ears or partial deaf
ness?
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DELIGHTED
Are Those Being Treated by DR.. Guthrie, the
Eminent Specialist.

Hundreds Enthusiastic and Gladly Recommend
Hin 10 Their Friends-His Treatment for Ca
tarrh and Chronic Diseases a
Grand Success.
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chauffeur in racing automobile is In
a paradise Of ease compared with him.
He must keep the boat in position
by his unaided strength. From the
time he gets the line until the ride Is
ended he drives INTO smOtlering
sheet of flying spray. When the sea is
high every billow is hit by the boat
with a smash that wrenches his arms.
The strain on the wet line cuts and
burns his hands. And If he let's foot
of it slip he is disgraced. Once he Is
in it, he is in it for good, with no
chance of help or relief till the wild ad-
venture is done.
Often the boat is hauled so close on
q harpooned whale that the harpooner
leans over and steadies himself by
resting one hand on the butt Of the
harpoon that Is sticking in the great
sea mammal, while with the other he
drives the killing lance. Again and
again the long weapon is buried deep
in the black sides. until suddenly
thick, black-red clots Of blood well
from the wound, showing that the
life" has been reached.
Then it is "back," sometimes for dear
life. A whale may take his death so
quietly. so passively. that it is pitiable
to see so mighty swimmer killed thus
easily by man. Or he may fight till the
boat seems only a black atom in the
sudden uproar that smites the ocean
and sends tons Of water rising till they
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-06-17
Evolution of the
Potato.
Some of the Macy and
Varied Uses Which
1t Is Serving.
O-DAY Germany fairly rivals

TO-DAY Germany fairly rivals
Ireland with its potato crop
and outdoes most other coun-
tries. Fully an eighth of the
arabic land of the empire is planted
to this nutritious vegetable. Half the
large yield Is used directly as human
food; considerable other portion is
given over to fattenlng stock. There
still remains an enormous surplus af-
ter that. however. and it is the success
with which the Germans have met in
turning this surplus into manufactured
products that is most remarkable.
Among these manufactured products
are starch, glucose, potato -four, dex-
trim and starch-sugar, each Of which
appears prominently on the list of
German exports, all together contrib
uting large sums every year to the
profits of German manufacturers and
exporters. But the alcohol which the
Germans make from the potato is the
most valuable and wonderful product
Of ALL This as light producer fairly
rivals the electric current it is said.
The apparatus for its practical use
includes lamps, chandeliers, street and
corner lights, in which alcoholic vapor
is burned like gas in hooded fame.
covered by q Welsbach mantle. So
used, potato alcohol is described as
burning with an incandescent fame
equaling the electric light in brilliancy.
Indeed, we are officially told now by
our Consul General at Berlin that po.
tato alcohol is competing with gas and
electricity with increasing success
every year.
In the problems of heat and power
production, too, the lowly potato has
been brought into use, and the alcohol
from it has been applied to warming
and cooking stoves, to steam locomo-
biles, to threshing, grinding. fuel-cut-
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spades, hatchets, knives and boat
hooks, all sharpened to the finest edge
the ships grindstone can give them
fill the boat. If the whale gets at IT
and hurls 1t into the air, the men find
themselves in murderous company
when the weapons come raining down
on them.
The harpoon line goes Kissing out-a
serpent of rope far more dangerous
than any cobra, for let but kink in the
Least and catch man and he will fly
overheard with it and out Of sight as
if he were q mere splinter of wood.
So there are enough sporting chances
in the whale to excite and content the
most exacting Of sportsmen. And the
size of the trophy If he "bags" whale
certainly leaves nothing to be desired.
Washington Star.
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HAWAIIAN LAW UPHELD.
Islands Old Laws in Force Until Con-
eress Enacted Others.

~
Washington, D. c. - The United
States Supreme Court. in an opinion
by Justice Brown, decided the case Of
the Territory OF Hawaii against Osaki
Mankichi, Japanese, who was con-
victed Of mansaughter and sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment under
the laws Of old Hawaiian Republic,
adversely to the claim Of the prisoner
that his conviction was illegal and in
valid. The conviction took place after
the resolution Of annexation was
adopted by Congress and before the
passage Of the act creating the Territory
Of Hawaii and establishing code Of
laws for it's government. Mankichi
was found guilty without indictment
by Grand Jury and by a majority
vote of the trial jury. The decision
was sharply criticised in dissenting
opinions by Chief Justice Fuller and
Justice Harlan. in which Justices
Brewer and Peckham concurred. JUS
ticc White also presented an individual
opinion, but concurred in the result.
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ting and other agricultural and me.
chanical appliances. The advantages
said to be found in it's use are immedi-
ate readiness for operation; dispensing
with coal, water and firemen; freedom
from odors and danger Of fire, and
greater economy of maintenance. Pos
sibly there is some exaggeration in
these claims. But figures given plainly
show that the potato, as cultivated in
Germany, has produced a real COM
petitor for at least benzine and petro-
leum for motor purposcs.-Proyidence
Journal.
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ing have given the sea giants chance
to recuperate, and that they were not
guilty of race suicide during their
time of rest is proved by the fact that
whales are plentiful in all the seas
again.
For a rich American. eager to try
real sport, there is great chance now.
Whaling, one of the oldest forms Of
big game hunting known, is the one
field which has not been flttingly ex-
! plotted by the amateur sportsman.
In time when lion and tiger shooting
are mere routine sporting affairs to
hundreds Of wealthy men, the whale
should appeal with great force.
To the man who has exhausted even
the delight Of the sixty-mile-an-hour
automobile, there Is an unlimited field.
The chances are that If he once gets
an opportunity to taste the unbridled
and terrific pleasure of Nantucket
sleigh ride" he will view his auto ma
chine as q tame thing ever afterward.
The Nantucket sleigh ride is so COM
mon an experience with whalers that
they are prone to speak Of it in disap-
pointtngly matter-of-fact language.
But for all that. there isn't an old
whaIer of them all whose nostrils will
not dilate with zest when he thinks
upon it. And the landsman who ever
has had the rare fortune to experience
one is not likely to find anything else
in all the rest Of his life that will not
seem tame compared with 1t.
Few landsmen ever have the oppo"-
tunity. When a whaleboat lowers to
fight q sixty-foot whale the business
Is too important to incumber the craft
with unskilled passengers. And not
many landsmen would really care to
60 into the whaleboat even if they
could, when they behold, wallowing in
the sea. the huge thing that is to be
attacked.
The ride begins after the whale has
been harpooned and when the boat
header considers it time to draw up
alongside and begin lancing. The first
thing that is done is to haul in upon
the harpoon line until the boat is
brought as close to the running whale
as is consistent with the extremely
delicate margin that the whaler al
lows for safety. Safety" to the
whaler really means to remain just
about an inch or two beyond the reach
Of the vast f1ukes with which the big
beast Is beating the sea.
Having hauled as far up on the
whale as possible. the boat-header
reaches over the bows and lifts the
line out of the chocks. Swiftly he
brings it around the outside of the
boat and passes it to the bow oars
man, who has faced around on his
thwart so that he looks forward.
He at once lays back On the line
and holds fast with all his might
And Immediately the boat dragged like
a railroad car by that mighty living
locomotive. begins to run parallel with
the side of the whale and just a few
feet away from him, being prevented
from running right on top Of him by
the oblique strain Of the line.
Now, If the harpoon is well forward
in the whale, the boat hangs in pre-
carious but sufficient arc Of safety.
for the swinging tail hammers the
ocean behind it and the wildly sweep
ing jaw unavailingly searches the sea
in front.
The boat-header braces himself in
the bows until he is based firmly as
the stem-post and begins to poise his
long, keen, razor-edged killing lance
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Personal Mention,

Emperor William has declined to ac-
cept legacy of $50O,O0O left to him
by the Baroness Oppenheim, and has
handed the money over to the military
charities.
Because he said that all the recent
Polish literature is worth nothing,
Henry SienkiewicZ. once the idol OF
Poland. has becomes It's most unpopu-
lar citizen.
When General Ludington retired
from the Quartcrmaster's Department
he received from the officers who
served under him a gold and silver
loving Gun
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CROP LOSS $4o,ooo,o 900
The Damage Done by the Floods il
the West
More Harm Done to Corn Than Whea,
in Kan.as-contlnued Wet Weather
Prevents Cultivation.

New York City.-A special dispatch
to the Tribune from Topeka. Kan,
says:
1t Is estimated that the total damage
to crops and live stock in the Kaw
Valley will be In the neigtborhood Of
s4O,0OO,OOO.
The damage to the wheat crop of this
State from the food will not be nearly
as great as many have estimated. In
the first place, many of the great wheat
counties were not in the flood district.
The food originated in the wheat belt,
but came through only the eastern
part of it. Then the upland wheat is
entirely free from the effects Of the
flood. even in the flooded counties. OF
course. in the bottoms. where a swift
current has washed over the fields the
crops are destroyed. but such fields
probably will not aggregate third Of
the acreage in the flooded counties,
while they will amount to only small
per cent. of the total acreage Of the
State.
A great danger to the wheat crop Is
that the continued cold. wet weather
has caused the wheat to rust. Whether
this is the case cannot be aScertained
on account Of the condition Of the tele-
graph wires, but it is probable that
considerable wheat rusted.
The damage to the corn has probably
been greater than that to the wheat.
Not nearly all the corn has been
planted, because of the wet weather,
but a great deal which has been
planted has either been washed up or
covered so deep that it will not grow,
and much of that which remains-is so
weedy because Of the continued wet
weather that it will be almost impossi-
bic to get the weeds out. If it stops
raining and dries out within a few
days considerable corn may yet he
planted, but. it looks as though the
acreages Of good corn will be- greatly
cut down. The flooded counties were
nearly all big corn producers. Gov
ernor Bailey says he has only 4 small
part Of his corn crop in on his farm In
Nemaha County. and does not know
whether he will get it in or not.
1 SdW ludly ueluS Ill ColuiuS diouhh
from Kansas City the other day." he
said. "that are worthless because OF
the weeds. 1t has been impossible to
cultivate them on account of the wet
weather. If what corn I have in on
my place is like that shall simply
have it blacklisted between the fur
rows and cover up corn, weeds and all.
That is the only way to get rid of the
mud
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PLENTY OF DANGER IN THE WORK.

boat has been towed for many miles.
1t does not require very much time to
tow q mile when a slxty-foot whale
is doing the towing.
AS long rs the whale runs in fairly
straight course the boat will hang to
him like terrier. He may champ and
bite and hammer the ocean into acres
Of froth with head and tlukes and tall
and never shake it off. His only chance
for retaliation is to run deep or to
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The length of the screwed part Of the
shank and the pitch are arranged in
such q manner that the movable pair
Of arms will shift from a cross position
when resting on the fixed pair Of arms,
to parallel position after having made
one fourth Of q revolution In moving
to the extremity Of the screwed part
Of the shank. The advantage Of this
arrangement is that the anchor is ca
pable of lying fat down on the deck
and of automatically assuming the
cross position when heaved overheard,
so that at least two tukes must take
hold.
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Rejected For Stamnering.

As stammering is cause Of rejec-
ton for military service its frequency
is shown by the statistics of the eXam-
nation Of recruits in different nations.
The number rejected as stammerers is
7.5O per thousand examined in France,
3.23 in Switzerland, 2.SI in England,
% in Austria, SO in Italy and but 10
in Russia.
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Joke Results In a Girls Suicide.

Mary McAndrew, aged seventeen
years, who is employed at one of the
factories at Scranton. Pa, felt i'll and
to tease her the other employees or the
factory told her that she was getting
smallpox, that disease being epidemic.
This so worried the girl that she went
home and her mother went to get Il
doctor for her. AS soon rs the mother
left the house the girl swallowed TWO
ounces of carbolic acid. She died three
hours later.
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Minor Mention.

The vo.umc of trade in Manchurla
has doubled. IN five years.
The twepty-seven railway bridges on
the Uganda (Africa) road are Ameri-
can.
Pneumonia las become so prevalent
in Chicago that it approaches an cpl
d:mic
'ailu:c Of crops, disease among the
aud over-populatien are causing
acute distress in Java.
Within six months 120 new compa-
mics have been incorporated whose
stork aQprapatps 81 :lO0 0UG.OO