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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-07

RECOMMENDS GLENNoN.
Propaganda to Propose His Appoint.
ment as Bishop Of ST. Louis.

Rome, April 6.-The congregation of
the propaganda unanimously decided
to propose to the pope the appoint
ment of Bishop Glennon of Kansas
City as coadjutor and bishop of ST.
Louis.
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Differences Over Part of the
Scale Cause for the
Action.
Operations at Mine Stopped Pending
Settlement-Men Left in Shaft to
Keep Mine Observation-Disclosures and
Operators Hold Conference.

Hilton. April6-(S Special because
the company maintains that it cannot
pay the 12N PER cent increase for de-
ticient work in rooms and entries at
the present time the mine belonging to
the Whitebreast Fuel Co., here, was
shut down this morning. and about 200
men We're thrown out OF employment.
Enough men were left at work to
keep it in workable condition. 1t is
stated that the matter has not taken
the form OF strike as the company
has no disagreement with the miners
but inasmuch as it feels that it cannot
pay the scale agreed upon at the Des
Moines convention it has decided
to shut down the mine at this point
pending decision by the Joint execu-
tive board
Question Considered.
At meeting of the members of
the local union held here Saturday
night this question was UP for consid-
Grafton. The meeting was attended by
John F. Reese, commissioner for the
operators, Edwin Perry and Joseph
Sharp, president and vice-president of
the miners district organization The
question was carefully gone over by
these in attendance at the conference
but the best efforts OF the conferees
failed TO bring about suitable ad-
justment of the differences.
Decide to Shut Down.
| It was decided at the meeting Satur-
| day night that the most satisfactory
way OF handling the matter would be
| to allow the mines to shut down pend
| ing a settlement Of the question. Ac-
cording to the Des Moines agreement
the matter viii come before the joint
executive board of the operators and
miners and should this body fail in ef-
fecting q settlement it will probably be
submitted to arbitration.
Inquiry at the local offices of the
| Whitebreast Fuel Co. discloses the
| fact that the situation at the mine at
Hilton is not considered serious. The
officials of the company state that
they do not feel that they can pay the
| increase for the class of work mention
ed at the present time, that was in
cluded in the scale, and it has been de-
cided best that the mine should be
closed during the investigation.
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J J : FENCES
,EK OF TRIP
5
LOUSY CAUSES A TRAGEDY.
Charles Mounton Shoots Divorced
Wife and Kills Self.

Ayers, Mass, April, 6.-Charles
Moulton this morning shot and probab-
ly fatally wounded his divorced wife
at the railroad station, and then shot
and killed himself. Jealousy is sup
posed to have caused the deed.
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him victim. After all. she was a
woman, and women listen % expIana-
lions from those they love He was a
victim. Why should his correct middle
age suffer for the folly OF a boy? 1t
was horrible injustice.
She sat at home and waited. Her sis
ter. her mother and her dearest friend
had come and gone. Her family had
wearied her with their indignation and
anger Her friend had been cool philo-
sophical, as her close friends must be
Ihis one was famous as woman who
despised sentiment. She had advised q
calm. chilly. digniied demand for peni-
tence, with prospect of forgiveness.
Incidentally, she mentioned cynicaIIy
that she herself had tried this very
thing with her own erring husband and
II had worked magnihcently She ad-
vised against divorce. IL was vulgar
Besides, one did not want to live eter-
nally alone. and in the long run one man
was much like another. He would pay
for his folly; he was paying for 1t now
in the publicity. Then the friend lifted
her perfumed furs and went away, her
carriage making way for the husband :
as IL drove under che porte cochere
He opened the door and came in walk
ing with confidence. She did not move
and he stopped as if to, kiss her. She
rose 10 her feet, turned from his ca
ress-beautiful. tall and white.
Henry" she said-and he thought he
had never heard her voice so full and
rich, the contralto note so thrilling
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THE DIFFERENCE

s pa: s.'s' s.. ss@: !, his s. s s.
shaped. clean-cut head stiff on
his shoulders. aud his arms folded close.
In years so far gone that they seemed
like part of another mans life he had
feared 10 enter upon public career be
cause OF the shadow OF that old folly;
bur even its memory had been dead for
a decade. The thought of 1t had been
loa thsomc 10 him and he had buried it.
How could others remember when he
had Forgotten
They had not remembered accurately,
but his ears were being tortured by the
cries OF the newSbOys whose wares told
the miserable story TO the world. II had
been telegraphed all over the country
and il might at this critical time change
the politics of a State. Stjll, the story
had been taken by the wrong end. He
could show that some of IL was false.
bur the bare skeleton left would Sc
riously in5ure him in the last instance
And there was Edith, AS he thought
OF her his head dropped; his beautiful,
stately wife. who had exchanged her
proud old name for his, which he had
dragged from obscurity by mere per-
sonal force. II was with u grain of COM
fort thai he remembered that all the
story had nSI been published and ne
could attack part as false. \ loophole
remained to him. She might consider
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there IS something l ought TO have
told you long ago. II was only today
that | could. You are a lust man 700
Just have sometimes thought" The
simple words too just" could not ex-
press the pent-up feelings of those years
IN which she never mad seen one devia-
ton from the path OF rectitude, in which
she mad feared to let an impulse show
itself 10 this cold and perfect man.
Do you think I mean TO say one
word to add to your worry" Her voice
almost broke; and then she went on
rapidly. i am not sorry. | know-no-
body can understand so well as what
temptation may have come to your
youth. It-it--" she let her proud
head fall. 1t also came TO mine.
was child. l loved another before |
knew you, and then, when / came TO
know YOU, you were so good. 1t has been
a bar between us all these years. Ah!''-
she sighed and held out her arms and
the tears were on her cheeks and in
her volce-'we can say to each other.
Forgive me, as / forgive you. We
were both children,"
He sprang forward and seized her
arms in yise-like grip.
Edith" he screamed, and his voice
was full OF horror, anger, unbelief.
Are you mad? What are you saying?'
And then. as he realized all OF her
meaning. he flung her from him as he
had dung that degraded sin of his youth
and with a curse in his throat turned
and left her there.-New York Press.
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safety while the car is moving as fast
as permitted within the city limits. The
inventor of the attachment for street
car collections is George B. McAllister,
of this city. and the device has been
actually tested during the last two weeks
on a car belonging to local line.
The continuance is a wide. shallow
mail-box fastened vertically to the side
OF the car. Its top, placed at a con-
yenient height from the ground. is
pierced by two long Slots about two
inches wide and four feet long. Al
though these slots are of necessity left
entirely open, no rain, snow, or wind
entering through them can iniure the
letters which have been dropped through
them. for the missives slip down to the
bottom of the box on narrow steel strips
liks the runners of an overturned sled
set close together, and between which
the rain is led off as though by minia-
ture cutters, without touching the mail.
4 screen prevents the letters being
blown out by the wind.
Persons who wish to mail letter
will go to the far side of the street
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not the side where the car makes its
regular stop for passengers, and wait
for the car to come along, which in
this city occurs every three minutes or
less during the day. The motorman will
accordingly slow down, though this is
not really necessary. without entirely
stopping. and the letter can be readily
deposited in the slots.
The committee Of postofice officials
which witnessed a test Of the device
some days ago has reported 1t as oper-
ating with perfect success 10 the assist
ant Secretary OF the department.. It
cannot as yet be stated whether funds
for its general installation viii be pro-
durable or not. and the probabilities
are that the matter will be left TO the
street car lines to adopt If it is thought
profitable by them to make such coIlec-
lions under governmental contract. No
large pieces of mail matter can be in
serted in the opening. and for such the
present corner boxes must always be re-
tanned.
The main use of the attachment will
be to get important letters to the cen
trail postof1ce in a hurry.
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POOR OLD WORLD.

The worlds a weary. dreary place
Where only poor men dwell;
There's not man who has the face
To say he's doing we'll
There's Brown, alas. The poor church
mouse
Was not as poor as he;
There's nothing in his splendid house
Worth turning round to see;
His grand piano, pictures. rugs.
His books and silver. too.
Are but the merest flimsy trash
The Tax Assessors cue
Poor Jones, who lives up yoHder, where
His palace walls loom high.
Has nothing that is precious there;
He looks with many a sigh
Upon the cheap and worthless things
That fill the place; he sees
His poor wife's hands ablaze with rings
Not worth their weight in cheesel
His horses and his carriages
Are hardly worth whoop-
That is to say. just now-the Tax
Assessors on the snoop.
But yesterday, perhaps. you passed,
Yon stately pile of stone.
And longing, envious chances cast,
And wished twere all your own.
All, put such idle thoughts aside
And go your happy way,
For want and poverty abide
Behind that granite gray.
The grandeur that you view is all
But worthless counterfeit.
Or Will be till the tax man comes
To ask concerning it.
Full many gem of purest ray
The ocean caverns bear,
But it would not be thus. if they
Had tax assessors there.
In heaven men have treasures, too;
Therefore it must be hard
For tax assessors to get through
Where Peter stands on guard
Down here upon this dismal earth
There's little men possess
That's worth a look from those who
come
To snoop and TO assess.
S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record
! Herald.
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n TO longer will the letter you
N wanted rushed off to your fam
lily, your sweetheart. or your
wife be forced to lie uncollected and
needlessly delayed in the mailbox on rhe
street corner while precious hours drag
by and mail train after mail train starts
away from Washington without the mis-
siye. No longer will you need TO fret
over wasted time and gnaw your nails in
Impotence while you wait for the gray
clad form of the mail carrier to come
slowly up the street, as fast as man
on foot can go. it is true, but still
seeming SO slow to you as you wait and
watch his snail's pace. For now con-
triyance has been devised by a Wash
ington man by which your letter can be
delivered at the city postofice building
in time for the first possible train, in
less than half an hour, even if you
were as far away as Georgetown when
you sealed the envelope. The device is
nothing more or less than a letterbox
attached to the side of a street car, into
which you drop your letter with perfect
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. HERE is very little in the way of
summer furniture that is not
made in the Wrought MilIow


summer furniture that is not
made in the hand-wrought willow
nowadays.
Willow is much more durable than
reed or rattan. It is tough and firm. and
by proper treatment beautiful color tones
can be obtained Greens and reds, browns
and ye1lows are the colors most used
and exquisite shades are obtained in
smooth. soft finish, almost giving the
impression that the willow has grown
in the colors in which the finished furni-
ture appears. Foreign workmen as a rule
country 1t must be made in a damp
place, and it requires IN artist in de-
signing TO furnish the shapes of the diff
ferent pieces and the color schemes
Green the Leading Color.
Green, always good for summer, is a
good color in decorations for the house
at any time. and it is in special favor
tins year. The green in which the willow
appears is OF a soft grayish shade. which
is particularly charming and blends
with whatever colors are used with it.
The red is a deep rich shade. called a
sealing wax red. and is approaching al
most to a Harvard crimson The brown
is soft and light. and the yellow is
beautiful. a bright light shade. like a
rGy of sunlight. But yellow requires
careful handling, and ii not properly
combined with other colors it may be-
come decorative tragedy. Entire suites
of furniture are made in this yellow will
lew. upholstered with some pretty cool
material in contrasting scolors. and
where here aad there chair is to be
found upholstered in yellow to match
the willow it is delightful.
Used in Heavy Furniture.
Even the largest and heaviest pieces
of furniture are' made in the willow.
and a double bed made of it is strong
and durable. and has. what is equally TO
the point, an appearance of stability.
Iron pieces are set into each corner of
the bedstead to support the mattress:
there are good-sized posts with big ball
ends at the four corners of the bedstead
supporting the head and foot boards.
and these, of solid willow work. have
strong round top pieces joining the
posts. There is an effective cross de-
sign in the willow work at the head ana
foot. design which is repeated with
good effect in many other pieces of the
willow furniture.
Green is the color usually TO be found
in bedrooms furnished in willow. There
will be in addition to the bedstead Z
pretty desk, and there are many designs
from which 10 choose, some with shelves
for books and small drawers at the back,
and others with 4 plain desk top and
drawers beneath. There are dressing
tables with strong willow covered posts
supporting the mirrors and with several
drawers beneath the table; there are
also touches in several designs and eaay
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4 have brought comfortable chairs out
onto the grass and placed them in sandy
places for the Marquise de Montholon
and the fine ladies who came to see
her. The ministers from other coun-
tries most all lived near here and their
wives, and their daughters, too, used TO
like to come and sit in our garden and
get flowers TO take home with them.
A Famous Trysting Place.
In those days when the famous old
garden was favorite trysting place for
| the ladies of the Diplomatic Corps,
| James. working quietly among his plants,
heard many a choice bit of gossip, but
| like the trees, the flowers, and the high
brick wall surrounding the grounds, he
| told no tales. He remembers the Won
| derful ball which was given by the order
of Louis Napoleon, when the Marquise de
! Montholon wore magnificent Paris
gown. covered with jeweIed fleur-de-lis
and across her breast the coat of arms
| OF Napoleon and that of the house of
| de Montholon. Sir Frederick Bruce.
minister from the Court of St. James,
! led the cotillon, which, on account OF
the large crowd, was not commenced
! till 3 o'clock in the morning. General
| Grant was there and danced with Miss
Harris. who was in the box at the thea
ter with President Lincoln the night OF
his assassination. The dancing lasted
till broad daylight, when a royal break
fast was served 10 the guests
| In speaking OF the late W ". Cor
coran. who purchased the place from
Daniel Webster, James O'Day said: He
was fine man, fine gentleman. And
don't l know? Didn't I work for him
| for twenty-five years after ne got back
from Europe?"
And surely nobody should be better
! qualified TO pass upon a fine gentle
man" than the man who worked for him
| for a quarter of a century.
Was "a Smart One, Too"
He was a smart one. TOO" continued
| the old gardener, with a smile OF ap-
! proVal lighting up his wrinkled face
He got out of here just in time. The
next day they was agoing TO arrest
him because he sympathized with the
South, and if he had once got locked
UP his money would not have done hin
much good. But he was TOO quick fol
EN-. He got the place rented to the
French government. too, else it would
have been all conhscated but with the
French minister here they did not dare
| to touch a thing"
1t is evident to see that the gardener
| as well as the master, also sympathized
with the South. But" said the old
man. Il see now it was better for the
Union to win. but those Southern sol
diers we're as fine gentlemen as I would
ever wish to see"
James O'Day came TO Washington
from Ireland just fifty years ago. He
has seen the city grow up as 1t were
and has particularly vivid memories o1
| the dreadful war days when the Capital
Of the Nation was white with tents anG
full of soldiers. He took out mis- natur-
alization papers as soon as possible
! after arriving but has made several
visits to his home country. On one re
turn trip he brought a bonny Irish girl
| back with him as his wife, and they
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willow FURNITURE POPULAR FOR SUMMER

chairs, simple desk and dressing table
chairs, and one or more small stands
or tables.
Glazed English Chintzes make one OF
the prettiest coverings for the furniture.
They come in brilliant colors, and fire.
quently in large and closely set de-
signs. Englishwomen delight in these
chintzes. and decorate entire rooms
with them. They are said TO have the
advantage of being washable in the
sense that If a little soiled the glazed
surface can be wiped off with damp
cloth. but. as a matter of fact, the glaze
comes off with the soil. and there is a.
dull spot in the bright surface How
ever. being highly glazed, they do not
collect dust and dirt as rougher ma
teriais do. Self-toned cotton jutes are
simple and inexpensive materials which
make excellent coverings for willow fur
nlture, and one delightful parlor or
drawing room suite of furniture in white
enameled willow is covered with a print
ed linen, which, il it would not be call
ed as pretty as the gayer chintzes, has
" WI 'aAA StSlt ludl - SACtiLeDl, ana
color tones which are delight Blue
ana green are the particular color tones
in this set; these upon white back
ground, a conventional design in squares
like small tiles. A style OF furniture
which may be mentioned here. and
which can be used with good effect to
furnish entire rooms in houses where
the willow furniture has been adopted,
is called cottage furniture, and is made
with no frame showing. the pieces COW
cred entirely with upholstery.
Variation in Shading.
One set OF cottage furniture is covered
with printed linen in the same design as
the blue and green on the white willow,
but this in green and pink, a delicate
shade of the pink and a soft color green
The furniture is short backed and has
short plaitings around the lower edges.
A piece or two combined with the willow
furniture is pretty.
Even the dining room comes into the
scheme of furnishing in willow. and de-
lightful sideboards are made of this ma
terial- They are after the style of the
Hepplewhite or Sheraton sideboard, very
long. standing upon four high legs. There
| is straight, smooth top with a back
several inches in height long center
drawer beneath, with two smaller draw
ers at the ends; beneath the last two
closed cupboards, and under the middle
drawer an open one. II makes pretty
piece of furniture.
Sofas and Settles in Willow.
There IS almost more variety to be
found in the willow furniture than that
made in the different woods Sofas and
settles are among the prettiest pieces,
and they vary indefinitely. Washington
Irving settle has a high. straight back
and high sides, and a Grantham settle is
shorter and has the high back. but low
arms at the ends, A Lansharn settle is
more on the order of a couch. and has a
| lev straight back which turns and cross
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IV particularly the old resi-
dents, view with regret the
destruction of the Corcoran garden on
the corner of Connecticut Avenue and H
ment house is to take it's place. Yet
10 one is more grieved at the sacrificing
Of this beautiful and historic spot to
the building interests than James O'Day
the cid gardener who has cared for the
place for the last forty years. He is
full of "reminiscences of the events
which have occurred there and the fami-
lies he has served. He knows that be-
fore his time, long ago in the early
State. occupied Corcoran house and
spent many a quiet. restful hour in the
old garden The faithful gardener can
point out each spot in the grounds that
has remained unaltered since the time of
Webster and show the interested Wis
ftor where the famous statesman used
10 search for the first spring blossoms,
with which he took great pride in adorn-
.ng his breakfast table.
How often thoughtful man like
Webster would seek the seclusion of the
garden for rest and recreation one can
well imagine. The family were in The
habit OF sitting in the summer house
and sometimes niece who spent much
time at the house on President S
square as it was then called would
read aloud, Charles Sprague's poems
being particularly enjoyed by Mr.. Web
ster.
An old garden in the heart OF a city
Is always an object of romantic interest.
over the high walls at this season the
passer-by gets tempting glimpses of a
wealth of towering trees, ma gnolias, and
other blossoms, that give touches of ex-
qGisitc coloring against the background
OF fresh green. 1t is a spot of beauty
and delight to those who live near it.
Within, il is place to dream of days
lcng past More stories are current of
this old garden than perhaps of any
oiher in the land except that of Mount
Vernon.
Retreat of Famous Men.
During the Webster period the old
Place was frequently the scene of bril-
liant entertainments, and such men as
Edward Everett, Rufus Cheate, William
Writ. and John Marshall were In the
habit of congregating there
Before and during the Mexican war
il was occupied by the British minister,
Alf. Pakenham. Here he kept open
house, and such festivities were INDUCED
in as will admit of no rivals even in
this day of lavish expenditures. James
ebay, however. does not think it pos
sible that any more notable or elegant
gatherings could ever have assembled in
the house and garden than those which
he himself has witnessed.
When he was first appointed TO the
position of gardener. which he has so
proudly held for so many years. NJ. de
Mobtholon, the then French minister
wax in possession Of the premises. And
many time" says the aged gardener,