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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-03

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-03
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
Grain Tickets.

. E. IS p q
The next ruling was made in re-
spouse to a communication from dep
uty collector in South Dakota in which
he stated that several grain companies
having headquarters in Minneapolis
and St. Paul have placed money in the
hands of local merchants to use in the
payment of grain receipts, which have
not been stamped. The letter says the
merchants are not employees of the
grain company but receive a small sal
airy for cashing the receipts; that they
are not in the grain business and the
transactions are made with the inten-
tion of defrauding the government.
The ruling says: "You are advised
that this Office has ruled that grain
tickets can be cashed by a regular en-
ploye of the company issuing same
without the liability of the stamp tax,
but If cashed by bank or any person
other than regular employee, then
said tickets. would require each to be
stamped with 2-cent stamp. In con-
nection with the above you are advised
that neither bank, nor banker, nor an
employe of bank, would be considered
a regular employe of grain company;
nor would a merchant who receives a
nominal salary for cashing grain tick
cts be. considered regular employee
The commissioner then directs that
steps be taken to ascertain the number
of receipts so issued by the grain com.
panies and report the same to the. Of
Ace for taxation. ii.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
THE PROBLEM of MILKING THE
b y rstE.ss COW y4G. .Aests Hi'.

p ~tsfss $50 - COW. SO : e.A@s- - -;
81 am going to sell my cows and
give up daIrying because cahnotf get
reliable help to milk the cows,1 said
a farmer to US the other day, Our
friend voiced a. very common com
plant. The average hired man hates
to milk, and when this !miKing Ifs
hitched on at the end Of a hard days
work in the field we do not blame him.
Many hired men will not contract to
work unless freed from this duty.
Others, disliking the work, are care
less about it, and the cows under their
care soon. shrink in their milk yield
and Secome Improbable. In one sense
dairying is agricultural slavery. Twice
day, Sunday and all. must the cows
be MIXED, and at regular hours, too, IL
best results are obtained. Our girls
that is, those Of the American breed
do not take kindly to the COW either,
and so it comes that many man who
would be glad to keep a dairy herd Is
right up against one Of the most diff
cult problems he has ever encountered
on the farm. The Increased values Of
beef will, with these men, have d
strong tendencylto make them change
over to the beef breeds sands let the
calves suck the cows 9th, Is VIII quit
keeping cows. The past season has
witnessed a marked shrinkage OF
creamery product, and next year is
likely to see 1t still greater. .. ,5''a
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
rHE RUIN powN. rARm.

Ifyou are thinking Of buying a farm;
you should not lose sight OF one i'm
portant, thing, and that is to what ex-
tent the land has been worked and
robbed Of its fertility. A farm which
has been skinned by an exclusive
grain culture for 40 years, even If 1t
were, land of the best quality at first,
is not, worth as much per acre. waiv-
ing the matter Of buildings and inn
proyements, by $40 or SIS as farm
which has either been only cropped
for four sor five years or one SO man
aged that the fertility of the soil has
been maintained. Most farms long
rented are to greater or lesser de-
gree impoverished, and most farms
upon billy land are more or less de-
pleted by erosion. We know Of plenty
of nice lying farms which have got
into the 25 bushel an acre class, SO far
as oats and corn are concerned, and
which cannot be got out of that class
by any other means than clover and
stock. Is We will put 1t this way: We
would rather buy raw prairie farm,
minus all improvements. than one of
the farms well improved above re-
ferred to at the same price per acre.
The difference in yield Of crops for
FIVE years would more than Offset all
improvements, and then it is much
easier to take care Of well farm than
to doctor and build up q sick one.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

Two unexpected and very interesting
facts have developed in connection
with the experiments made by the gov
eminent in the matter of rural mail de-
Everyone, that where routes are es-
tablished the amount of mail matter Is
in a short time always doubled and
often quadrupled; the other. that the
cost Of the service is no greater than
that of a city mail delivery. Two hun
dred of these rural mail routes are now
in operation and all proving successful
In the highest degree. It's probable
that the service will be greatly extend.
ed. When the American farmer has
the telephone in his house and the
daily paper delivered at his door, the
charge OF isolation will ba no longer
laid to life on the farm. He will rather
have the advantage of the man in the
town, In that he can enjoy degree OF
exclusiveness impossible to the resi-
dent Of the city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

department of applied Christianity can
remain in the college only by my Vol
untary retirement from the chair or
by my removal by the three special
trustees OF the endowment. To this
voluntary retirement Mrs. e. d. Rand
has finally consented. am entirely
unwilling to take this endowment OF
$4,000 from the college, and am hap
Ply to be able to leave it, through Mrs.
Rand's generosity. Upon my retire.
ment the endowment will be so
changed as to be turned over to the
college, without any conditions at
tached thereto. Iwould only ask that
the faculty and trustees, In selecting
my successor, give the gracious consid-
Grafton due to Mrs. Rand's wishes in
such a selection. i trust that, under
more conservative teaching, the depart
ment may have noble and abiding
history III the minds and ideals of the
generations of the students who shall.
come and go. And pray that my.
nearly seven years relation to Iowa
college may count for something in. the
services and memories of the college.
Out of justice to you as trustees, I
feel that ought to say to you that I
am not sure but that those who refuse
TO support my presence and freedom
TO teach in the college may
have right to refuse such
support. Anyhow, without re-
gard to the right of either Of us, con-
troversy is not good influence to be
about a college or university. And.
aside from controversy, question
whether an existing college or uniyer-
sity is any place for the sort of work
] am trying to do. As coll
lege education is now organized, how
ever, l question any mans right TO
teach that which the college constitu-
ency does not want. He may as an in
diyidual teach the people who care to
hear him, but not as member OF, an
educational institution which he does
not represent. In any case, i am as
sure of the right of men of wealth, and
of conservative political and religious
opinions, not to want me here, as am
of my right to want to stay. And,
though cannot remain in Iowa COLI
lege in peace, I leave it in peace, and
my deepest love will abide with II. In
whatever ways I may serve the college
without injury, I trust may be per-
mitted to do SO: I.want to be counted
as a devoted and abiding friend and de-
fender>of the coll sgsSss Il itlto which I have
put no little of my life. and in which
/ have spoken words, that are blood-
red with conviction and suffering"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

We know Of farm located near one
Of our large western cities-which
farm, containing so acres. is devoted to
the production of common farm crops,
dairy poultry and the like-which
would sell today for $4,000. The
owner has lived upon it for half a
century and absolutely refuses to sell
an acre Of IT for any purpose. He says
that he gets good living from the
farm, and that Is all he wants, and SO
he milks his COWS. makes his hay and
plows his corn with the roar and rush
Of the business Of great city on
three sides of him, happy and indie
pendent as a man can be. Fool, is hei
Well, we don't know, for mans life
CONSISTENT not in the abundance Of the
things which he possesseth, but rather
in contentment with that which he
hath. The old man will die pretty
soon, and then maybe the boys will
make short work of the old homestead
and what it brings. It is often that
way. -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
Cure forInsapity,

Centerville, Noy. DIR. R. Bernard,
whose cure Of insanity by resetting a
bone in the patients neck has excited
great interest among the physicians
of this section, has been invited to Wis
it the state asylum and examine the
patients there.
AT a professional dinner in this city
last night DR.. Bernard declared his be-
lief that two-thirds of the insanity
cases could be cured by the resetting Of
dislocated bones. ~.
The patient whose cure has brought
DR.. Bernard into notice is wealthy
farmer named Bart Neal, OF Plano,
who suddenly became maniacal and
was declared to be incurable. DR.. Ber-
nard had him restored to reason twen-
ty-four hours after resetting the dislo-
Gated bone in his neck. Several other
physicians We're present.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

A European syndicate composed of
French, German and Russian capital
lists has been formed, with capital OF
$20,000,000, to develop the hog bust.
ness in the countries named. Atten-
ton will be specially directed toward
the new country being opened up by
the Siberian railway in Russia, where
climatic, crop and soil conditions are
similar to the Poland-Ch territory
Of the northwest. TIE American hog
Is today without rival and has root.
ed his way into nearly every country
on earth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
LAST DAYS.

The beauty Of the dying year still
fingers with us. The snow king, the
great north wind, the frost elves amt
the blizzard demon, while all ready
to descend upon us, as did the Gauls
upon sunny Italy in the olden time,
still grant us little respite while the
Indian summer queen invests the land,
scape in q soft, delicious purple haze,
through which the sun glows like b
ball of carmine fire and the new moon
becomes bloody scimiter hung across
the western evening sky. A hush Of
expectancy is in the air, premonition
Of coming change, subtle feeling
that today is surely the last, just as to
the dying there comes sometimes a
brief, uncertain moment of transcend
ent intelligence and rapture ere they
pass away. All nature is hushed, for,
save the pirate crow, the saucy jay,
the CHEEKY little chickadee and the
sparrow, the birds have all gone, seek
Ing kindlier winter home. Here and
there in the woods q squirrel or a
chipmunk may be seen these last
bright days securing for his winter
store few more nuts and acorns.
The prairies look cold and gray and
scar, and the woods are full of the
delicious fragrance Of newly fallen
leaves, while here and there among the
all prevailing somber tone of color
may be seen stray leaf of a poison
ivy or Virginia creeper. blood red
and dying late, or yellow festoon Of
partridge berry twining across some
old, decaying stump like a golden chain
enlacing the breast Of a skeleton, lone
relics these of the late respIendent
pageant of color and beauty left like
fragments Of decoration in some de-
serted festival hail. A little while,
and the legions Of the north will fall
upon us, and as the snow king infolds
the earth in a mantle OF ermine, and
the great north wind roars tumuItu-
ously through the forest and over the
,prairies, and the frost elves trace
fairy geometric pictures on the win
dow and electroplate each tree and
bush and smallest twig with q scin-
tillant crystal, let us welcome the sea-
son of Thanksgiving, of holiday pleas
aure, of social intercourse. and cement
anew around the Preside those ties of
love, friendship and neighborly regard
which make life SO well worth living.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
TELLS OF. PROSPERITY.
Director of the Mint Asserts the Nation
ia Enjoying Good Times.

Des Moines, Nov. by all the
standards of the past" said George g.
Roberts, director of the mint, in an i'm
terNiew yesterday, "the country is en-,
joying great prosperity. The world
never saw such product II wealth,
such multiplication of the tomforts Of
life. or such widespread distribution Of
them as is going on now Id the United
States.
doubtless there will be better times
in. the future for with more capital
constantly available for asS and the ge-
MUS of man forever at work to devise
new means to increase production,
there must be more and more to divide.
1t is q great mistake to imagine that
capital can absorb, this increase. Capt.
tai can only find employment by serv-
ing the millions.
seOf course there are people who do
not know prosperity when they see ii.
1t is nothing new that great many
do not recognize a good thing until
they have lost it, but I think there are
enough practical voters in the country
to put veto on any experimental pol
icy for years to come. The country
cannot afford. to exchange certaintieaI
for uncertainties. It wants a steady
course. The people ought to be able
to leave what the government may do
out of the account in planning their
business operations. They can do 1t il
1t is clear that Mckinley will be re-
elected, while if there is a possibility
of getting Bryan and assiemocratic con.
gress all will be 9nsst tied.
[ .ttDon,,, o,ek ).
to Bryan have practically settled down
TO his nomination; There will be re-
viyal of hope among them If Nebraska
should go republican next month, but
they have made up their minds that he
will be on the ticket, and also to de-
feat him again, They hope that will
end him and his doctrine q
Bryan has a free and easy way of
settling difficult problems to his own
satisfaction. He talks. about .estab-
fishing republican III ePhilippines as
glTbly as he talks about establishing
bimetallism at 16 to 4, while
the conditions are just as impossible.
1t is an old saying that you cannot
make an omelet without eggs, and you
cannot create republic without q
homogeneous and intelligent people.
educated to some knowledge Of self
government, 1t is always best to deal
with facts as they exist 1t will take
generations of culture and advance
ment through the various stages Of
seh-government before the tribes of
the philippines are welded into ma
ton" IL 3
Speaking of the work of the minis,
Direstor Roberts, who was here on his
way to his home in Fort Dodge, to re-
main until;after election, said that all
of them were working overtime to sup,
ply the enormous demand for fraction
al silver coin, nickels and cents, indi-
eating activity in local trade. Gold
bullion is rapidly piling up in the
vaults, Mr.. Roberts says, in excess of
the demand, there hcing now more
than $130,oOo,OOO uneoined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

While New Zealand is a long, long
way off, its people are not SO very
slow, after all. A very curious con.
stitutional provision allows the gov
eminent to buy any mans land at 10
per cent above its market value. This,
it will be seen, prevents real estate
being undervalued for the purpose OF
taxation, as the owner never knows
when the government may take no.
ton to buy his farm at 10 per cent
above its assessed valuation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

Because the northwest was visited
with an unusually severe frost in Sep
TENDER it is no sign that we are to have
an unusually hard winter. We recall
an October blizzard, storm which
stopped all railway traffic and brought
ten days Of genuine January winter
weather in its trail, which was fol
lowed by one of the most mild and
open winters the northwest ever. had.
Don't be Jeremiah, always predicting
trouble a-coming.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

We notice very common mistake
which is being made in shocking the
fields of cut corn where 1t is in bun
dies as cut by the new machines-the
band on the shock is put too low down,
permitting the top to be opened by the
wind. The shock to keep well should
be in the shape Of perfect cone, to
secure whichtit should be tied as near
to the top as is possible. " - t,s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

A man, one of the representative
farmers of a western state, told us the
other day that the ground was SO. dry
on his farm that his fast walking
plow team Of three big horses made
the share Of his sulky plow SO hot that
all the temper was taken out Of the
metal and he had to quit. You can
believe this story or not, Just as seems
proper. We will not o. K. 1t.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

A certain feeder, who more frequent
ly than did any Of his neighbors got
the top Of the market on cattle, said,
in reply to query how he succeeded
in SO doing, that he let the calf suck
for two months and then never let it
get hungry afterward. 1t should be
added that in his case he paid fully as
much attention to breed as he did to
feed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

Albert Lea creamery is shipping but
Ter to China us an experiment. When
John Chinaman sets his chopsticks
into pail of that fine western extra,
we think we see him grin and say
s'belly good,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

The Wisconsin experiment station is
sues bulletin on the effects of the
late hard winter upon the different va
rieties Of apple trees. 1t is interest
ing to note that the Wealthy heads
the list Of the trees reported least In
jured.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
sANKRUPToy PRECEDENT.
Ono Established by Judge shlras al
Dubuque.

Dubuque, Nov. Judge Shiras re.
fused to Grant Dwight H. Skinner dis.
charge from bankruptcy On the trial
|ot civil case in state court ii was
showp that Skinner had transferred
his property TO his wife, withouts con-
sidefatfon, and with intent to defrand
his creditors. After doing this he fled
a petition in bankruptcy. The prop
erty transferred to his wife was in
cluded in his schedule OF assets, and
for this reason the court declined to
grant him discharge. The rul-
ing establishes precedent in bank.
ruptcy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

The fine and tender varieties Of tea
roses can be budded upon the common
wild rose with perfect success and so
budded will bloom profusely. We do
not, however, understand that the
CRAFTS are thereby rendered any
harder or that they may be thus win
tered out of doors in latitude AZ.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

An Iowa Judge in decision lately
rendered holds that mortgage given
on implanted crops is void. If this de.
cision is good law, it would seem to
apply to the increase Of q herd of
mortgaged cows or q flock of sheep as
well, the theory being apparently that
q thing must exist before 1t con be
incumbered.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

We note that one man cut 245 acres
of corn with corn harvester this sea-
son, this acreage including his own
crop and that Of his neighbors. This
work is the most distinctive and i'm
portant advance in western agricul-
ture the year 1890 has developed. In
side Of two or three years shocked corn
will be as common as shocked wheat
or oats.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

There are lots Of men who are think
ing of going into sheep. A word Of
caution right here-go in light. 4 A man
can raise hogs and still make failure
of sheep. Start with small flock,
and these Of tile best kind, and grow
into the business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

The English government has been
in the Chicago horse market for 5000
artillery horses to use in the probable
war Of subjugation IN South Africa.
We should think that We're these
American horses endowed with sufi-
cient intelligence every one Of them
would balk when ordered into action
on the firing line.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

The calf crop of the country at large
Is 20 per cent short this year, and this
fact effectually disposes of the sup
position that cattle are being produc-
ed in sufficient numbers to bring the
prices Of meats down to their former
level Beef has gone up to stay.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

The theory upon which a good deal
pf work is being done by the opera
fors of the new road grading machines
lis to do the most work on that part of
the highway where the machine works
the easiest and best, and that is in
yariably where it is least needed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

Improved methods are greatly Inn
proving the keeping qualities of both
butter and eggs placed in cold storage,
and this process is becoming to a
greater extent than ever before pow
erful equalizer Of prices Of both these
commodities. May and June eggs and
June butter are now held over for
the winter market in almost perfect
condition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

White clover is a weed killer as we'll
as a honey maker. More of it should be
grown. 1t is Of no value for hay and
will make the horses slobber IL pas
tured on it, but for other stock, espe-
cially for sheep, it makes a most ex-
cellent pasture grass.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

Lice are the bane Of the henhouse
and poultry yard. They are responsi-
BILE for most. Of the ills which affect
the fowls, and 1t Is surprising the
number of people there are who keep
chickens who are ignorant of this fact.