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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-07
CONGRESSMAN HEPBURN.
The Way He Took to Pay compll
rnent to the Secretary of War.

Washington letter to the Chicago
Chronicle: Secretary Root and Rep.
resentative Hepburn of Iowa met in a
corridor of the war department few
days ago and exchanged greetings. Mr..
Hepburn had just returned from his
home and the two gentlemen were dis.
cussing the recent trip of the Presi-
dent through the west and the remark
able manner in which the chief exec.
utive had stood, the wear and tear in
cident to the long journey.
He has certainly set a pace that
will be hard to follow" said Secretary
Root admiringly.
THE limitations upon men for pub
lie offices grow more and more circum-
cribed," said Mr.. Hepburn. "It is
become SO now that only young man
can be president, only rich man am
bassador and only very patriotic
man a cabinet officer"
The last remark was intended as a
compliment for the secretary of war,
who, according to the popular belief,
remains in the cabinet against his own
personal wishes at the request of the
President. The duties of cabinet Of
ficer;; official and social, as they were
universally recognized here, were talk
ed over and incidentally Mr.. Hepburn
remarked that the secretary Of war
was working much harder than he had
worked during the practice of law. Mr.
Root was not inclined to agree with
Mr.. Hepburn, saying that he had work
ed as hard at his profession as he had
since entering the cabinet, but that the
work was of different character.
"The work of a cabinet officer is nev-
er finished" he said. and know that
while am doing my work today am
at the same time responsible for every
thing that occurred in the department
in the past and l also know that all |
do is subject to scrutiny in the future.
know that my record will become pub
lie property hereafter and be open to
criticism after | am no longer here
1t is a good thing, however, that our
business is conducted on that basis. 1t
makes every officer more careful"
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CROP BULLETIN,
Western Condition Very Favorable the
Past Week.

FdSL week.
Des Moines, July 2.-Though the
average temperature was below nor
NAL, the past week was favorable for
field work and advancement of crops.
The conditions have been equally IA
vorable for wheat, oats and barley,
and except in limited areas these
crops are doing we'll. The cultivation
of corn has been continued vigorous
ly with but little interruption from ex-
cessive moisture in the larger part of
the state, and AL reports indicate that
the crop as a whole has made fair
progress: The acreage of corn, in
Guiding the late planted area, is much
greater than was, deemed possible a
month ago, though. materially less
than last year. Notably good progress
has been made in cultivating the early
planted fields, and in size and general
condition this portion of the crop is
nearly up to the ten-year average in
this state.
Glover cutting has been general dur
ing the week, with heavy yield, and
the hay harvest is likely to crowd the
farmers, possibly to the detriment OF
the late planted cornfields, which will
need thorough cultivation to bring
good results. The general condition of
the apple crop is fairly good The
yield of strawberries has been very
large, and other small fruits are prom
Using. Potatoes and garden truck are
doing well.
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James Stillman and his associates
We're ready in spirit, If not by contract,
to underwrite Secretary Shaw's re
funding proposition, although there
can be no doubt of the absolute SINGER
ity Of the wish Of the Stillman group
that this plan should succeed if for no
other reason SO that there might be an
increase in national bank circulation.
But this. refunding operation contain
ed within it the germs of an, opportun.
ity for the securing of many millions
OF loanable funds not subject to the
restriction of 25 per cent reserve.
An illustration will show how this is
done, and 1t is safe to say that it has
not been done elsewhere than in New
YORK. unless there has been discovery
IN other cities of this opportunity The
owner Of approximately $1,000,000 in
3 per cent consols took these bonds
from a safety deposit vault where for
some years no other light than cleo.
trlclty has illuminated them, and au-
thorized their sale at the market price
With the intent to convert them into 2
per cents. They were thus converted
the owner receiving some $4,000 in
cash, representing the premium:. The
two per cents were then borrowed, the
owner of them receiving contract
binding the borrower to pay per cent
interest and premium of | per cent
in addition,so that the owner received
for these bonds as large interest as the
three per cents paid Immediately aft.
er that contract was executed and the
bonds delivered to the borrower he
sold them in the open market, receiv.
ing approximately s1,0OO,OOO for them
That million dollars was charged on
the books to a United States bond &C
count. 1t did not, therefore, qualify as
deposit upon which a reserve of %
per cent was required. 1t was posi-.
BILE to loan the whole million; it was
the intention to do that, in fact; it has
already been done. OF course, it must
be loaned at such rate as to pay the
lender per cent, and furnish rea
sonable profit to the borrower. II de
mand is ever made for these 2 per cent
bonds by the lender it will be neces
sary to go into the open market to buy
them.
In that way already seven millions
have been added to the available loan
able funds, and that amount will be
largely increased. The buyers of these
2 per cent bonds, it is noticed in m a
jority OF cases, are bankers of other
cities than New York. 1t is their in
tention to deposit them, or they have
already deposited them with the treas
ury department as basis for increas
ed national bank circulation.
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above the schoolhouses of the land.
Another national emblem would be
noatlng there and we would be ex-
pected to pay tribute to kings and
queens.
A Great Country.
Il am glad that the old linsey wool
sey of our fathers did not coyet the
silk stockings and red coats of their
British ancestry, but they did covet the
right to worship God according to the
dictates OF their own consciences, and
manage the affairs of government with
out interference of royalty. I would
not give the coon skin caps of the old
continental soldier for all the diamonds
in King Edwards crown. For / be-
lieve in the past, present and future of
the American people. We have handed
down to us the rich legacies of all the
old schools of art, literature and sci.
ence in the centuries gone by, and
from such storehouses we learn the
character of the people. In great cen
tiers was gathered all the learning of
the time. In great centers was found
the wealth and luxuries, but it all rep.
resents the blood and suffering of the
common people. Under that immortal
docum ent, the constitution of the Unit.
ed States, the greatest and most pro.
found legal document ever conceived
in the mind of men, there is not a
single red-headed, freckled-faced boy
but who can go into our common
schools and educate himself for the
business affairs OF life, and become a
man if he SO. wills, and SO l am well
informed, such boys ali have chance
at least at an unknown ratio to become
presidents of the United States. And
there is not fiaxen-haired girl but
can reach womannood, and in the cxer-
else OF her God given prerogatiyes at
least stand some cnance of marrying
one of these boys"
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WILL RAISE TRACKS.
Burlington Road to Elevate Grades in
Des Moines.

Des Moines. July 4.-The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy has voluntarily
come to the aid of the sufferers in the
factory district, have purchased new
gravel pits near Avon and mammoth
steam shovel for the purpose of raising
its tracks.
The entire length of the Burlington
railroad tracks in Des Moines between
the Burlington Coon river bridge and
the Des Moines Union junction, dis
lance of a quarter of mile, running
along one side of the factory district,
will be raised distance Of from two
to four feet.
Two big gravel trains of twenty cars
each have been set to work on the
raise, and are expected to finish the
job in about month. The tracks will
be raised high enough so that the river
cannot cover them again
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OF the tnrongS OF visitors who have
been lodging Niger chasers" storpe
does" and cannon crackers upon the
streets Of the city today will hear with
satisfaction that the Fourth Of July
pessed off very quietly in this place
fifty years ago" The sturdy pioneers
Of that date knew nothing of the new
light of the present generation. The
dynamite crackers which shatter the
air with their wicked and sudden ex.
plosion were unknown then hut in their
stead the great feature Of the cele.
brations was the ponderous deep-ton-
ed roar of the anvil batteries.
The Anvil Battery.
The anvil batteries were composed
of several pairs of blacksmith anvils.
Each pair was unit by itself One an.
vii was placed upon the ground. Upon
it's top, fiat surface a circle of wrought
iron three or four inches in diameter
and about 2 inches high was placed and
into this circle was poured ordinary
black gunpowder. Upon the top of the
wrought iron ring which formed the
receptacle for the powder the second
anvil of the pair was placed. A small
notch in the lower side of the ring
permitted small train of powder tc
lead of to the farthest point on the top
of the lower anvil. When all was
ready a match was applied and both
.canponeer and observers took to the
woods and awaited results. If there
was no break in the little train of pow.
der the result, was that there was a
roar like distant thunder, a shaking
of the ground for considerable dis.
lance all around and the fight of the
top anvil many feet in the air.
DR.. J. Williamson Present.
At the celebration fifty years ago
DR.. j. Williamson who resides at AIT
West Fourth street and who had just
arrived in Ottumwa during the pre-
yious October was present and along
with Rev. B. A.. Spaudling, one of the
first Ottumwa ministers, conducted q
basket picnic. The doctor was young
man in those days and Is the only
survivor of those mentioned in taking
part on that occasion. The doctor was
for many years one of the leading ply.
sicians of Ottumwa and his retirement
from active practice took place only
a few years ago.
The account of the day as it appear
ed in the Courier of July Z, is as fol
lows:
THE Fourth passed off very quietly
in this place. The rising genera,
ton had a dinner in grove below
town, under the supervision of Rev. B.
A. Spaulding and DR.. Williamson,
which we are informed passed off very
creditably to all concerned in getting
it up, and the Sunday school on the
South Side of the river had a dinner
in Overman's grove, near Richmond
which was numerously attended Rev
Dickinson delivered the address on
the occasion, which we hear spoken
of very highly Those who were pre-
sent on the occasion speak of it as be.
ing a delightful celebration. A stump,
tuous repast was prepared for the oc.
casion which was partaken Of by some
900 or more persons"
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"HoME-cuT HARP

You never see, 'em nowadays 1T
The bays with home-cut hair
But thirty years ago or more
We saw 'em everywhere.
In those days country barber shops
Wus few an for the men.
To have the barber cut boys hair
Wus hardly thought uf then.
You recollect how father ust
To set you on stool;
An apron hangin frum your neck,
Mas scissors for the tool.
You member how upon yer head
He placed the sugar bowl,
While round the edges snip by snip
The scissors deftly stole?
An in yer mind now don't yer see
The other children, too,
A-hidin' halfway hind the door
An pollin' fun at you?
An member when the job wus done
That you was always told
To duck your head beneath the pum]
To keep frum catchin cold?
There want no scented lotions then
To put upon yer hair;
No tonics, rubs an dandruff cures
/ To bring you lines Ut care.
Dad simply trimmed the edges off
To spruce you up bit,
An when he said, "Hop off the stool,
You knew that ended it, 80
In thirty years, it seems to me,
This world has changed a heap. +
Today should fathers cut sons, hair.
They'd be set down as Cheap"
But still, il dad was with us now,
I A stool I'd gladly take,
An let him use the bowl an all,
Jes' onct for old times sake.
Kansas City Star.
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4. ------- -
CALL HIM CRAZY.
Sisters Of ohioans On Trial For Wife
&. Murder Testify.

- ~ ,.tsft WUToSF tiSShlIystI
Hamilton, o., July 4.-The vagaries
of Alfred Knapp, on trial for wife MUIR
der, particularly with reference to his
mania for the stage, constituted the
feature of the eighth day of the trial.
Knapp's two sisters, Mrs. Martha
Reiss and Mrs. Sadie g.. Wenzel of
Cincinnati, held the stand all day Mrs.
Wenzel said that about 1886 Knapp
served as supernumerary in Houck' S
and Robinson's theaters and the Grand
opera house, Cincinnati. Mary Ander-
son, now Nine. Navarro, was then
playing at the Grand and Knapp was
doing work as super" One night
he came home elated after the perfor-
nance and announced that he had
been made leading man. Mrs. Wenzel
told of two early cases of causeless
violence on Knapp's part He as
saulted his brother-in-law, Edward
King, and pursued his father with a
Ratchet.
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PETRAM GETS CONTRACT.
Former ottumwan in Business at Lo
Angeles, Cal,

H. c. Petram, stone contractor
who formerly resided in South Ottum.
wa but who is now living. in Los An!
geles,. Cal, has secured the contract
for the erection of large flat at that
place.
The following from the Los Angeles
Times gives the details 4: IS
Architect Al. L. Haley has prepared
plans for a thfee,story cement-and.
plaster house that is to be. built fol
Daniel Samples, on, the northeast cor
ner OF Olive and Eleventh streets. 1t
will contain six, six room fats and is
to be finished Sept. IT,, The prin
cipal contract has been let to petram
Jones & Knapp for s10,os5 and the
house complete will cost about SIS,
600. y
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DOCTOR is PAID $4,000.
Ending of Famous Pittsburg Case ovel
Claim for $4,000.

Pittsburg, July EXECUTORS Of the
estate of G. l.. Magee have settled the
fight with DR.. Walter C. Browning, OF
Philadelphia, over fees for services
rendered the sick politician by paying
Attorney William B. Rodgers, counsel
for the doctor, a warrant for $4,000,
the amount of the recent award of the
Allegheny County Orphans court
judges. The amount settled the orig.
inal claim of DIR. Browning that the
estate of Mr.. Magee owed him $4,000
for medical services he had rendered.
The fight has been waged about two
years.
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Partially Manufactured.

While importations of iron and steel are
chiefly classed as manufactures" It should
be understood that they are almost exclu-
sively of the partially manufactured"
class. In the form of pig iron, ingots,
blooms. slabs. blllets, bars. etc., to be
used as working material by the manufac-
turers of the United States. The importa-
ton of pig iron shows n remarkable i'm
crease, the total value of pig iron imported
in the eleven months Of 1903 being over
S15.000,000, against less than $4,000, 900 In
the corresponding months of last year, and
a trihe above $1,0o0,0o0 in the same
months of 1901.
Articles Imported
The following table shows the principal
articles of iron and steel manufactures
Imported into the United States in the
eleven months ending with May, 1908, CONF
pared with the figures of the eleven months
ending with May. 1901:
Eleven months ending Mny
Articles Imported 1901. 1902.
Total iron s steel SIC 4os, GOO al, o12, 535
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There Is more catarr + in !, this section {

There Is more Catarrh In this section {.
the country than all other diseases put I'd
gether, and until the last few years, was
Supposed to be incurable. For great mani
years doctors pronounced 1t Il local disease.
and prescribed local remedies, and by con,
stanty falling g s. cure n. wtsh local treat
has proven catarrh to be q constitutional
disease, and therefore requires constitu-
tionil treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by +. ]. Cheney & Co., Tole.
do. Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure
on the market. 1t Is taken internallr in
doses from 10 drops, to teaspoonfui. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
dfed dollars for any case 1t fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address +. j. CHENEY. & CO.,
Toledo. Q.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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ADDRESSES TAMMANY.
Cleveland Notices New York Faction
After Long Silence.

New York, July 4.-For the first
time in ten years a letter from Grover
Cleveland was read at the Inpendence
day exercises of the Tammany socie-
ty held in Tammany hall today.
In his letter, which is addressed to
Judge James A. O'Gorman, the grand
sachem of the society, Mr.. Cleveland,
after going at length into the nature
of the celebration, writes:
''The Tammany society as a political
organization of vast influence cannot
escape the responsibility which its
powers and its glorious traditions Gre
ate. AS in the past, it should continue
to advocate the rights of the people,
and as it celebrates Independence day
again it should renew its determine
ton to serve the people well by con-
tributing all its power and influence
to the cause of good government"
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No False Claims.

The proprietors of Foley's Honey
and Tar do not advertise this as a
sure cure for consumption. They
do not claim 1T will cure this dread
complaint in advanced cases, but do
positively assert that 1t will cure in
the earlier stages and never fails to
give comfort and relief in the worst
cases. Foley's Honey and Tar is with.
out doubt the greatest throat and lung
remedy. Refuse substitutes. For sale
by w. D, Elliott, Cor. Main and Court
streets.
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MAY RESTORE METcALF.
Charges Against Him Being Cleared
Away by8Late DEVELOPMENTS.

Washington, d. c., July 2.-The impress
sion prevails here very generally that Jas
VI. Metcalf will soon be restored to his
former position as chief of the money order
division of the. postoffice department. 1t
now comes to light that committee of
the Typothetae, representing 100000 print
ers had long interview with the presi-
dent and the postmaster general recently
in which Metcalf's case was strongly pre-
sented 1t takes the position that this
government cannot afford to in effect Offer
a premium for, duplicity and uhderhand
work.
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Special one.Way coIonlsts, Rates.

On the first and third Tuesdays Of
each north to and including Seprem,
Der, 1908, the Iowa Central Railway
will sell colonists tickets to points in
Arkansas, Southwest Missouri. Okla
homa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dako.
ia, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, ETC., at extremely low
rates. Call on local agents or address
A. B. Cults, g. P, & T. A., Minneapolis.
MINI for rates and further informa-
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SHOT BY PosTMAsTE Rim IOWA.
Farm Hand is Wounded by Hans Ham
son at Almont and viii Die.

Clinton, July Adams Hanson, postmas-,
ter Of Almont. this county. Thursday
night. emRtied the contents of a shotgun
into the abdomen of George Lashelle, a
farm hand. Hanson gave himself up yes
terday and Is out on ball. Lashelle will
die assi
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A TIME TABLE CHANGE.
Rock Island Changes Trains 2o3 and
oO6.

A change in the Rock Island time
table has been announced for next
Monday morning, according to which
train No. 203 will cave the Union depot
at I O'Clock instead of 7:45 as at pres.
emit. Train No.. 206, which has been
leaving at 1925, has been changed to
10:45. All the other trains will arrive
and depart at the same time as at pres.
emit
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viii Make You Feel Youno.

Electric Bitters are marvellous
tonic, and work wonders for weak,
rundown system. Try them. Only
SOC. #. B. Clark.
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FOURTH AT ELDON
RAILROAD TOWN ENJOYS cELE-
RRATloN AS USUAL.
HON. /. ROMINCER MAKES ADDRESS
Bloomfield Attorney and Editor De.
livers a Forceful Grafton, Eulogiz-
ing America and the People Who
Founded it.

Eldon, July Especial. -Eldon
celebrated the Fourth of July today
in the enthusiastic manner which al
ways characterizes the observances of
the nations birthday, each year in
this city. The address of the occasion
was by Hon. Ellsworth Rominger Of
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Patriotic Celebration.

II believe in celebrating the Fourth
OF July, it provides an occasion, upon
which we cannot only review history
and retell the story of national strug-
giles and achievements, and bear tes-
timony as to our greatness and glory
but it gives US day when each and
all can demonstrate his patriotism
without regard to politics, church
creeds or previous conditions of servi-
tude. | know of no other day in our
calender that offers the same induce
ments for Joyous outburst of patriot
ism, the entire speaking race upon
the globe has an interest in this day
Yes, will add, there is not an indi-
vidual on this earth but has an inter
est in the perpetual observance of our
national independence day. 1t marks
the beginning of an era that has pro-
duced a mighty nation of mighty peo-
pie that stands before the entire
world, to battle for the God-given
rights Of man. The entire English
speaking people, who represent that
language of liberty, the language Of
freedom, the language of progress, the
language of modern civilization, could
we'll afford today, wherever their lot
may be cast, whether on the continent
of the old world or in the Orient or up-
on an isle of the sea, to tack the stars
and stripes to the Initial or their door
pests. For it is modern America as
represented by our people that has
given liberty her crown in this world.
A Right to Pride.
Surrounded as we are by bountiful
crops, with a fair return for our la
Dor, with national peace and prosperity
within our borders standing as it were
upon a great national pinnacle of
greatness. we have a right to eulogize
the handwork of our forefathers and
ourselves. For this country has grown
and developed under the industry Of
it's own citizenship, both native and
adopted. If BENJAMIN Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson and the Adamses
had been Weakened men, the Dec
laration of independence would never
have been written. They boldly de-
clared principles of government that
would have in an English tribunal
consigned them to felon's cell. When
they declared that governments, de-
rived their just powers from the con.
sent of the governed, they became
traitors to the English crown. This
government was born In blood--an ex-
pertinent among the nations of the
earth. If George Washington and the
farmers OF the original colonies, with
their flintlock muskets had not been
men Of iron will and indomitable cour.
age, history would not read as 1t does
today Your children and mine would
not be taught the songs of this repub.
lie as they are being taught today. The
stars and stripes would not be the en-
SIGN that kisses the hreezes of heaven
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PASSED QUIETLY.

The Fourth Fifty Years Ago Was a
Tame Affair.
Many of the citizens of nttnnwa and