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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Not understood. We move along asunder;
Our paths grow wider as the seasons
creep
Along the years; we marvel and we wonder
Why life Is life, and then we fall asleep
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false impres.
sions
And hug them closer, as the years 90 by.
Till virtues often seem to us transgres.
sons;
And thus men rise and .al and live and
die
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted
vision
Oft measure giants by their narrow
gauge;
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and deri-
Are oft impelled 'gainst those who mold
the age.
Not understood.
Not understood. The secret springs Of ac-
tion
Which lie beneath the surface and the
Arc disregarded With self-satisfaction
We judge our neighbors, and they often
Not understood
Not understood. How triies often change
us. sEHs
The thoughtless sentence or the fancied
slight
Destroy long years of friendship and es-
TRANCE u.s.
And on our souls there falls freezing
blight
Not understood.
Not understood. How many breasts are
aching
For lack of sympathy. As day by day,
How many cherries, lonely hearts ara
breaking!
How many noble spirits pass away.
Not understood.
0 God! that men would see a little clearer.
Or judge less harshly when they cannot
see!
o God! that men would draw nttle neares
To one another!-thcy'd be nearer Thee,
And understood.
Thomas bracken
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
THE RAID ON WOOD.


Lincoln Journal.-If Gen. Wood had
foreseen what tempest among the
irreconcilables in the United States
would result from his letter to the
general in command in the Philip.
pines, suggesting the propriety of
sending battery of artillery to Min,
danao, he would perhaps have man.
aged to wiggle along without it. Not
only does every anti-expansionist
newspaper in the country jump on
him, but all the anti-Roosevelt sheets
follow suit in declaring that, of their
own knowledge, the battery is not
needed in Mindanao and that the gen
eral must be coward il he wants
such thing. The number of mill
tary experts who understand the sit
uation in Mindanao better than the
man the President has sent out to
rule that island, is truly surprising.
But perhaps the general doesn't want
the artillery for fighting purposes, but
just to be able to fire the necessary
salutes when he is visited by a reign
ing sultan or a more than average
datto, or maybe the newspaper gen
tlemen do not know SO alfred much
about the situation as they think they
do
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
CARROLL D. wRieHT,s AWARD.

Burlington Hawk-Eye, The labor
world and the classes who employ lab
or are deeply concerned in the award
just issued by Carroll ID. Wright, the
umpire in several disputes involving
charges of discrimination against eX-
strikers seeking employment, arbitrary
reduction of pay and other alleged VIC
lations by the operators of the award
of the Gray anthracite commission.
Mr.. Wright's decisions favor the oper-
ators in all but one case. He rules
that the operators are bound by the
Gray award to give preference to all
their former employees who have not
been convicted of crime in connection
with the strike or are not under ar
rest awaiting trial, or are not incompe-
tent. At the same time he holds the
decision does not take away the op.
orators right of discharging employees,
upon due notice, with or without
cause.
This is the all important clause in
Mr.. Wright's award, for it has an i'm
portant bearing on the relation of the
union workingman with his employer.
The union member claims the right to
quit work at any time This claim is
conceded, reasonable notice being
given to the employer. Such conces-
sion carries with it the counter PROPOSE.
ton that an employer can discharge
man whenever and for whatever rea-
son he pleases, giving him reasonable
notice. On this point Mr., Wright
says:
"Any other view of the case would re-
suit in compelling men to work for an
employer when they did not wish to,
and thus enslave them, when, on the
other hand, it would compel employers
to employ men whether they had work
for them or not. and whether the men
were incompetent or not, and would
thus stagnate business and work to
the injury of all other employees"
Mr.. Wright's award is logical and
right, and is in accord with the provis-
ion of the constitution of the United
States bearing on the rights and priv
ileges of the American citizen.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
EuRoPE,s SHAME.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil-Is there
no humanity in Europe? Every day
for weeks horrible atrocities have
been committed at the very doorway
of the great powers Of the old world,
and yet not one step has been taken
to prevent. Men, women and chill
dren alike have been put to cruel
death by the hundreds and thousands,
and an entire country laid waste, and
yet England, Germany, Austria,
France, Italy and Russia stand by un-
moved while blood flows and the
heartrending cries of innocent VIC
tins pierce the air.
Yesterdays dispatches brought
more revolving tales of the barbara
ties of the Turkish soldiers in Mace
donia. Refugees coming into Sofia
ruins of their home when a Turkish
soldier slashed off the mans head and
threw it in the womans lap. The
Turks found servant girl and sew
eral children hiding in a ditch ,whereup-
on they outraged the girl and slaught-
cred all the children. These are but
two instances in horrible massacre
in which it is estimated that from 3O,-
600 to $4,000 people have already lost
their lives. More than 10000 men,
women and children are hiding in the
mountain and forests is mortal fear
that the dreaded Turkish soldiers may
find them and slaughter them.
And yet, amid all this carnage Eu-
rope stands idly by! 1t is almost be-
yond belief that not single hand
should be raised to defend the limo
cent and helpless against a mon
strous carnage. The Instruction is
no longer an affair which solely con-
Germs the Turk and his subjects-it
concerns the world of humanity. Eu-
ropes boosted civilization is made a
hollow mockery by its inaction. Ev-
cry torture, every outrage, every
death is blot upon it's name.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
INTERESTS OF OLD SOLDIERS.

Philadelphia Press. The interests
of the old soldiers are always we'll
cared for by congress, but they are
certain not to be neglected in the Fifty
eighth congress. Although the civil
war ended over thirty-eight wears ago
there will be seventy-seven men in
congress who fought in it. Forty-sev-
en- fought on the union side and thir-
ty served in the confederate army. In
the senate there are thirteen union SOL
diers and thirteen ex-confederates. But
in the house, where the representation
is more fairly apportioned, there are
thirty-four union veterans and seven
ex-confederates. The Grand Army has
declared in favor of service pension
for all union veterans over So years
old, and an effort will be made to pass
such bill. But as any veteran who
needs help gets it now, regardless of
age, there is poor prospect of the
success of such a measure.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

J. Il
max of its abuse of the republican
state platform by calling it bastard
republicanism. Almost the entire dis
cussion of campaign issues as conduct
ed by these newspapers has been in the
nature of chickering's among them
selves.
With their disagreements and their
rantankerousness, these unhappy news
papers present an unfortunate spec
tacle, indeed. They have reason to
be ashamed of themselves. At this
time. when campaign is on, there
should be no such exhibition of tenn
per. 1t is time to fight the common
enemy, and not to be at continual fault
finding with each other. This years
state platform violates no good princi-
pies of republicanism, 1t may not be
as strong as some republican plat
forms have been, but it is right, at any
rate, and it merits the united support
of all republicans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
HIS FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL.

She lost her little boy today:
Her eyes We're moist and sweet
And tender, when he Went away
To hurry down the street.
She stood there for the longest whine
And watched and watched him; then
She said-and tried to force a smile
He'll not come back again.
Inside the house, her tears would come
She sank into Il chair
And sobbed above the battered drum
And trumpet lying there.
.Ehe Sunshine stole into the place
1t only made her sad
with thinking of the pretty grace
His baby tresses had.
She minded all his little ways;
She Went to see his crib
Up in the attic: then to gaze
AT platter, spoon and bib.
And all the trinkets he had thought
So fair to look upon
Each one of them this murmur brought:
MY little boy has gone
She wandered through the house all day.
TO come on things he'd left.
And, oh, she missed his romping play
And felt herself bereft!
When he came home, with shining eyes.
To tell OF schools delight.
She kissed and held him motherwise
With something of alright
This is the pain in mothers hearts
When school days have begun;
Each knows the little boy departs
And baby days are done:
Each mother would fain close her ears
And bush the calling bell,
For, somehow. in its tsne she hears
The sounding of knsA.
w. D. Nesbit In the Chic6go Tribuae.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

Senator Hoar aptly says, in discuss.
ing the race problem, I'VE have got
this question to meet squarely at
home. The negro will stay. The Euro
pean and the Asiatic will come. You
cannot turn them out, and you cannot
keep them OUT
He scouts the visionary idea of Sc
gregation, put forward by John Temple
Graves. He recognizes the fact that
the negroes are here and here to stay
Their education is a pressing prob.
lem and one that must be met and
solved. There is no reason to doubt
that it will in the end be solved to the
benefit of all concerned as many other
questions have been worked out by
American manhood
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
POLITICS IN THE U. s.

Cedar Rapids Gazette.-Politics has
in general way been surrendered by
the bone. Drawn and brains of the
country to the men who have nothing
else to do. No other nation can show
men in large numbers who make poll
tics profession-who live by politics
whether elected to Office or not. The
house of commons in Great Britain is
more generally representative than is
the house of representatives in the
United States. The house of repre-
sentatives could not, by any stretch of
the imagination, be called house of
commons. 1t is more like a delegate
convention of the bar of the United
States, with the superb talent of the
country usually left at home for the
reason that the men possessing it are
in a position to make more money and
fame than they would secure in con-
gress.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
SHAW GAINS FAVOR.

Vinton Eagle. = Governor Shaw
seems to be meeting with favor with
the press of the country in his utter
ances SO far as they affect the opera
ton of the treasury department. His
keen, incisive mind seems especially
adapted to take hold and analyze the
monetary situation as it arises. There's
always more or less fear in changes
in the secretaryship of the treasury
and naturally so and this same fear
when Mr.. Shaw was appointed to sue
coed Mr. Gage. The fear is fast dis
appearing and Mr.. Shaw is establishing
himself in the confidence of the great
banking institutions of the country.
His mind runs along the channels Of
business and trade and it will be his
bent to make his department of the
government operate in the interest of
the people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
WHY HE FOUND LIFE DIsAP.
POINTING.

: He took life too seriously.
He did not choose upward.
He starved from mental poverty.
His social faculties atrophied from
disuse.
He saved his money but starved his
mind.
He did not develop his manhood
along with his business.
He murdered his capacity for happi-
ness in getting ready for it.
He was victim of habit and rou-
tine; he could never rise above his
vocation.
He never learned the art of extract
ing enjoyment from common things.
He sacrificed the friends of his
youth and had no time to make new
ones.
He had developed a colossal power
for receiving but had never learned
to give.
His only enjoyment was in repeat
ing what he had been doing all his
business life.
He had never learned to enjoy as
he went along; but found that post
poned happiness was delusion.-Suc-
cess,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
COUNTY CHAIRMAN HAMMOND

The wisdom of the delegates to the
Wapello county republican conven-
ton Saturday in selecting a chairman
for the county central committee was
evidenced in choosing l. H. Hammond
of Ottumwa to that position. Mr..
Hammond has for a number of years
been actively engaged in politics and
is amply qualified to direct the cam
paign work in such manner as to
insure success to the party. He is
an enthusiastic republican and will
do his utmost to secure the election
of the republican nominees for county
Office and will enlist the support OF
the republicans in this county for the
state ticket that, in the returns from
the election on November 8, Wapello
county viii do its share in placing
each Of the state candidates in of.
fee.
In this connection it will be well
for the rank and file of the republican
party in Wapello county to remember
that, able as is the county chairman
to perform his work, he needs the
support of every republican voter to
make the outcome of the campaign
the success it should be. Republic
cans of Wapello county have always
been found faithful to the interests
of the party and it is only to be
expected that in the coming campaign
they will be as loyal as they have
been in the past.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

office of Hon. o. L. Campbell, and
while conversing with the judge hap
py couple called and informed him
that cupid had OWNED that the SER
vices OF a magistrate should join them
in endless bliss. The judge tied the
knot as neat as any person, and many
of his friends fear he may decide to
change his profession from law and
politics to that of deacon of high es.
tate. Wapello county may we'll do hon
or to the judge who has acted as re-
publican county chairman for two
years and won success for his party,
and is known as one of the worthy
young republicans of the sixth dis
trict, even though his talents should
command the yesture at the vespers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
TELL HIM so.

If you have a word of cheer
That may light the pathway dreay
OF brother pilgrim here,
Let him know.
Show him You appreciate
What he does,and do not wait
Till the heavy hand of Fate
Lays him low.
If your heart contains a thought
That will brighter make his lot,
Then, in mercy, hlae 1t not
~ Tell him so.
Bide not till the end Of all
Carries him beyond recall,
When beside his sable pail,
TO avow
Your affection and acclaim
TO do honor to his name
And to place the wreath of fame
On his brow.
Rather speak to him today;
For the things You have to say
May assist him on his way;
Tell him now.
Life is hard enough at best:
But the love that is expressed
Makes 1t seem n pathway blest
To our feet;
And the troubles that we share
Seem the easier to bear.
Smile upon your neighbours care,
As you greet.
Rough and stony are our ways,
Dark and dreary are our days;
but another's love and praise
Make them sweet
nfr al Nail.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
.IoWANs, HEALTH.

DR.. J. F. Kennedy of Des Moines
secretary of the state board of health
says reports from various parts of the
state show that the health of Iowa PEG,
pie is better today than it has been fol-
years. He states that occasionally a
report is received indicating that scar
let fever and diphtheria has broken out
in some locality. but that as whole
the people of the Hawkeye state are
exceptionally healthy.
The cause, think is due to the
exceptionally wet weather of this year
and the year preceding, which in one
way at least has turned out to be {
blessing. A great deal of the refuse
that usually lies in the cutters an6
low places and serves as hotbeds foi
germs, has been carried OFF by thu
water, and the soil though moistel
than usual, is healthier than before al
result.
There has been also. a noticeable
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

falling off in smallpox in the state,
which | take to be attributable to three
| things: efficient quarantine, prompt
recognition of the disease when it ap-
pears by health officers. and the salts
| factory prevention secured by yaccin-
nation
In his consideration of the smallpox
DR.. Kennedy refers to that disease in
Porto Rico and figures to show that
that country, which has always been
considered hot bed of the disease, is
freer from that plague than is the
United States During the month past
there was not single death in Porto
Rico from smallpox, which is consider
ed to be proof that the 100000 vac
cinations made in the island have
stamped out the plague.
In the United States. exclusive of
its island possessions, according to a
report received by DR.. Kennedy in the
time between June 81 to September
4, there have been $3.50 cases of
smallpox with 1874 deaths. For the
same period Sc cases are reported for
Iowa with no deaths. This number is
small when compared with the num-
Der of cases which were found in the
state year ago.
The report from Porto Rico gives
other figures which are of more than
ordinary interest, as follows:
Population cd island, 953,243.
Births during the month, 2,7S9. of
which 1881 were legitimate and LIS
illegitimate. This is an average of al
most two births to death.
or the deaths, 46 were from pneu-
monia, 1OS from tuberculosis and 21S
from tropical anaemia. disease from
which the inhabitants of the tropical
countries are especial sufferers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The republican county convention
Saturday was a record breaker for the
harmony OF the meeting and the dis
patch with which the business was
transacted. With the exception of one
candidate, the nominations were made
by reclamation. The selection of q
candidate for county superintendent
however, was made by ballot and Miss
Emma Nye was nominated on the frs
count, by vote of 1923 to 43.
AS to the personnel of the county
ticket, which appears at the head OF
this column, nothing need be said. The
candidates are all well known to the
voters of Wapello county, with
one exception, in the offices to which
they ask to be again elected and for
which place the republicans consider
them amply capable. Wapello county
knows what it means to have A. w.
Buchanan as its representative in the
Iowa assembly. Always alive to the
interests of his constituents, Mr.. Blu
chanan has proven himself hard and
conscientious worker in the Iowa
house.
AS for the county officers, Sheriff
Cremcr, Treasurer Dana. Surveyor AL.
len, Coroner Mills and Supervisor Nc
Elroy, all of whom were renominated
by the republicans for the Offices they
now hold, have fully demonstrated
their efficiency in giving the people of
the county a thoroughly satisfactory
administration.
Miss Emma Nye who received her
1 first nomination for county superin-
tendent, has been connected with
school work in the county and Ottum-
wa for number of years and is thor
pughly alive to the needs of education
al work and fully qualified to direct
the affairs of the county superintend-
ent's Office to the advantage OF the
county schools.
Wapello county republicans united
In expressing their endorsement of
President Roosevelt's policies the
business-like administration of Gov.
Cnmmins and the state republican
platform and thereby aligned them
selves for the fight in the coming cam
paign for the party's success.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
LACEY ON HUNTING.

Des Moines Register and Leader
When Congressman Lacey was here
last week his attention was called to
the fact that the open hunting season
began on the day of the republican
conference. His fame as friend of
the birds and fishes has been embodied
in the form OF protective statutes
which have made him eulogized Of ey-
cry humane person as well as every
sportsman who is not a pot hunter Il
have just returned from Minnesota -
said Major Lacey, where have been
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
WILL EARN HIS SALARY.

Sioux City Journal-Joe Morcombe.
the Iowa newspaper man who is to
officiate as press agent for the sultan.
has been sufficiently to stipulate that a
years salary shall be paid him in ad-
vance. AS the press agents work
will be to popularize the sultan away
from home, there is little doubt Mr..
Moreombe will earn the salary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.

Washington Post.-With Bryan in
Ohio shouting for free silver, John H.
Clarke denouncing it as dead issue,
Tom Johnson urging single tax reforms
and Mr.. Monnett explaining his record
as Hopper, Senator Hanna is not par
ticularly disturbed over his physicians
ordering that he must take it easy in
the campaign.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
suLLlvAN's FIRST GUN.

With lengthy speech covering
nearly thirteen columns, j. B. Sullivan.
democratic candidate for governor. op-
ened the state campaign at Denison
Saturday. Taking this address as the
keynote OF what may be expected from
the democrats during the next few
weeks, 1t is evident that Mr.. Sullivan
and his followers intend TO fight the
campaign out on national issues, even
though this be but state Campaign
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

Mr.. Wennerstrum thinks the Swed-
ish population of Iowa know good
thing when they have it and predicts
that they will vote the republican tick
ct straight-and adds, .as they always
have done.'
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
ALL sHAMRocks BUT ONE,

Shamrock this,
Shamrock that,
Shamrock shoe,
Shamrock hat.
Shamrock cakes.
Shamrock pies.
Shamrock collars,
Shamrock ties.
Shamrock soda.
Shamrock shake,
Shamrock oats.
Shamrock fake,
Shamrock melons,
Shamrock beans,
Shamrock soap.
The best that cleans.
Shamrock watches,
:, Hhati'ock clocks,
Snamri'rk trousers,
Shamrock socks,
Shamrock autos,
Shamrock cars,
Shamrock pipes.
And sham cigars.
Shamrock Villa.
Shamrock Heights,
/, Shamrock Anti
Skeeterbites,
Shamrock button,
/, Shamrock pin
Everything
But a Shamrock win.
Newark News.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

Look out for the Iowa republicans
County gatherings are now the order
of the day and the skirmish line for
the state campaign is rapidly being laid
out and the battle will probably be
on without warning some of these
days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

Despite the interruption of a holi-
day, the week has brought increased
activity in many branches of business.
An encouraging symptom is the de-
creased complaint regarding collec--
lions, accompanied by more discount
ing of bills" This from Dun's Review
of last weeks trade. But then such
things are to be expected in republi4
can times.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

Men and officers of the army and
navy always stand at attention and
doff their hats when the Star Span
gled Banner" is played in their pres
ence. This mark of respect for the
national anthem and colors is most
impressive and might very appro-
priately be adopted by civilians.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17

1t is reported that $16,00O,OOO has al
ready accumulated under the provis-
ions of the new irrigation law 1t is
probable that time will show it to be
one of the most important laws ever
passed by congress.