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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
TRUE EARN PHILOSOPHY.

If you have little farm and are out
of debt, don't fret and work yourself
and good wife into premature graves
for the sake of getting more land and
making more money. You have but
one life to live, and it is very brief
one at the best. Take a little comfort
rs you so along day by day, and try to
do little good to others. A morbid,
insatiate desire to possess the earth,
to grab everything in sight, lies at the
foundation of more unhappiness in
this world than any other one thing.
After you are gone the world will not
long remember you by the size of the
estate you have left behind you, but
good life well lived will long keep
your memory green.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

CINE and the crash Of the planer in the
big shop continued until 8 O'Clock.
Then the whistle blew, the engines
slowed down, and the mon dropped
their tools and ran for the blockhouee.
Alexander Powers heard the familia,
click. click, Of the blocks as the men
filed pass the window of the blockhouse
just outside. He said to his clerks
I'm not going just yet. I have some
thing extra tonight. :" He waited until
he heard the last man deposit his block.
The men behind the block case went
out. The engineer and his assistants
had work for half an hour, but they
went out at another door.
At 2 o'clock that evening any one
who had looked into the superintend-
ent's Office would have seen an unusual
sight He was kneeling down, and his
face was buried in his hands as he
bowed his head upon the papers on his
desk.
To be Continued. 80.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
Peculiar Marriage ceremony.

Northern India and the island of Benz
guey can certainly claim to have the most
peculiar marriage rites Of any country.
In the former a COW and calf are in
variably required at the marriage. The
animals are driven into narrow, run
ming stream, the priests and the betroth-
I'd couple also standing in the water.
The man and woman each catch hold
IF the cows tail and the priest pours wa
Ter out Of n glass vessel upon their joined
hands, while all present mutter certain
prayers. The young folks are then de-
stlared to be man and wife and the priest
claims the COW and calf as his fee. In
the island Of Banquey the officiating
priest takes sharp knife and with IL
makes small incision in, the right leg
Of the bride md bridegroom; from each
incision he gathers a few drops of blood
and transfers them to the other ones leg.
This operation, together with a short re-
ligiops formula, constitutes the whole OF
the marriage ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS En-,
Quirer..
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
A Limit Of Riches.

There is little hotel near one. of the
railroad stations in Washington. 1t is an
old fashioned place, to which an elevator
is unknown. and the hall boy on duty Mt
night is little old negro who has trav-
eled up and down the stairs with satchels
for more than 80 years. All the patrons
of the house know old 6Eph well. As he
was toiling ahead of one who had come
in at midnight his patient, bent, old look
rather touched a sympathetic cord some
where in the traveller, who said:
! "Eph, il you had 81 for every time
you've come up these stairs you'd be a
rich man, wouldn't your"
This was too much for Eph's imagina-
ton to take in. He dropped the satchels
on the floor and stood still in amazed
contemplation.
BOSS" he said, '.ef I.had a cent-ef I
only had cent fur envy time" and he
picked up the satchel and trudged along,
lost in a vision of what bloated bond
holder he would have been on cent a
,trip.-New York Sun
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
CoRNsTALks As A FERrIL1zER

Ansohjection is raised by some to
the utilization of cornstalks as fodder
because, it is claimed, these stalks are
needed to maintain the fertility of the
soil by blowing them under. The dry
stalk plowea under does very little
for the soil save to increase the humus
in the soil and in this way serves a
very good purpose on stiff clay soils.
Aside from this they are worth but
little as a fertilizer and can be far
more profitably used as fodder, to be
returned to the soil later on as barn
ward manure Further, the rotation
of the cornfcld with the clover field is
every way better as means of keep
ing up soil fertility than blowing I'M
DER the dry cornstalks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
swoRE ON A DEAD BIRD.
Unless on q Headless
Cockatoo,

The various forms of oath-taking,
even in this country, are of considerable
interest and would certainly form fas-
cinating chapter in connection with the
peculiarities Of legal lore, says the New
York Telegram. 1t would not, however,
be easy to find an instance in which
anything like SO queer a medium of
attestation was employed as q guillo-
tined black cockatoo.
But no less an extraordinary medium
than that was what the police of coun-
try district in New South Wales had to
provide the other day for a finical China.
man, who declined to swear on any
thing else. Headless fowls were
brought, but in vain, and, as the mat
ter was important, even q black swan,
a luxury surely for a Chinese witness,
was suggested, only to be Immediately
refused.
After some time had elapsed and
when the representatives of the law
seemed quite at their wits end, dead
cockatoo of the required hue was
strangely discovered in a hut of one of
the other celestials, who mulcted the
anxious officials for $3.50 for the bird.
Then the solemn and peculiar oath was
duly administered, on which the diff.
cult witness with bland and childlike
expression declared he knew nothing
about the case, and sat down smiling!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

1t is only very few years ago that
the agricultural department was en-
gagged in an experiment which cost the
government many thousands of dollars
trying to shoot rain out of the heavens.
Fact! The theory was that if it was
true that heavy rains almost invaria-
bly, followed great battles then all
needed was to get up q commotion in
the upper ali like that produced by the
discharge of artillery in an engage
ment and the skies would leak at once.
The fact was apparently lost sight of
that there must be moisture in the SUI
pervening air stratas in order totget 1t
out. and 80 the attempts to make rain
In the arid districts of the far west
proved most dismal failure. The
department 10 being run upon more
sensible lines nowadays.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
A MILLION PRIESTS.
It Is said That oae-sixth of the
Siamese Arc Dedicated to
Sacerdotalism.

According. to lecture on Siam de-
Iivered recently in London by John
Bartlett, that Asiatic country has more
than its share of priests. The popula-
ton of Siam, he said, amounted to about
100000, and curious feature was the
large preponderance of Chinese, more
especially in Bangkok. The Chinese
practically controlled all the trade and
commerce of the place. There were
hardly any Siamese merchants. One
million of the people were in the priest
hood. He had travelled up river through
the main territory of Siam for dis
lance of $50 miles, and during the jour-
ney it had been absolutely impossible to
get out of sight of a temple. In each
temple there were from 10 to 300 priests,
supported entirely by the people. OF
the 100000 priests only 100000 were
actively engaged. The remaining 7Oo,-
600 We're passing through the priest
hood. Siam was great stronghold of
Buddhism, but the king was very toll
Grant of other religions.
The Siamese government put but lit
tie restriction on trade, and an ordinary
foreigner could come and go all over the
kingdom without passport. The
greater part of the trade in Bangkok
at least soper cent. of twas brought
there by ships flying the British flag.
AS far as the imports Of the country
were concerned, there were great pros
poets of improvement, and the business
with Great Britain should be doubled
within rs years. The future of Siam de-
pended above all things upon the atti-
tude and policy of Great Britain.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
SHEEP FOR THE FARMER.

Only a small capital is required by
any farmer for feeding a few sheep.
Some poles covered with hay or straw
for shed, few racks, or If these con-
not be had, some fence panels around
a haystacls to give. coarse feed behind,
a few troughs for sshelled corn when
muddy, are all that are necessary.
The rest Of the time feed shock
corn on the dry ground, for the sheep
does not need Its grain either husked,
shelled or ground. If a grain crop
should fail, there is usually coarse
feed in plenty on which sheep can be
carried through until another year
and give crop of wool which will
more than pay their keep. If one dies,
he usually has wool enough on him to
pay what he has cost that year. Sheep
are emphatically the stock for >the
poor man who must start with few
conveniences, and If he will stand by
them they will build him comfort
able house and ample barns to shelter
all the feed and stock the best farm in
Kansas can produce. Where it can
be done, it is an advantage to bring
western sheep in early and give them
few months pasture to domesticate
them and fill them out
AS the pasture fails in the fall, grad
nally bring them on to grain; then turn
them into the corntields, where they
will clean up the weeds and grass
much better than the hired man will
and will gather their own corn without
any waste if the ground is dry. They
can be put on the market in November
or about Dec. 1, before many grain
fed sheep come. in.
Good natives or acclimated sheep do
not need a longer feeding period than
90 to 100 days, especially on corn.
Sheep direct from the range should
be roughed 60 to 80 days on a light
grain ration and plenty Of good forage.
They will make gain for some time, on
clover alone.
Glover and corn go admirably to.
gether and the best rotation for our
farms is corn followed by oats and
clover. CUT crop or two of hay,
pasture While the clover lasts with
sheep, then corn again and the land
will always be productive. says e. D.
King, writing from his own successful
experience in Kansas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

Many who read this item will be de-
batting whether to take the chances
and thrash their grain from the shock
or go TO work and stack it. 1t is large
ly question of weather for the next
thing to do. fit should be fine and
dry weather, shock thrashing is all
right. and the job is done at less cost
than in any other way, but if we get
some heavy rains and you are last on a
thrashing circuit you will wish that
you had stacked your grain.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

There is many a section in the south
which is 40 or 80 miles from railway
In the northwest it has come to the
point that a man located Is miles from
q railway depot keeps at it until he
interests capital, without very much
trouble, to build road to let him out
The average northwestern farmer has
the choice of two or more market
towns.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
The breeders on the cattle ranges ar

The >breeders on the cattle ranges are
ypaying vastly more attention to i'm
proving the quality of the stock which
they raise than does the average farm
er of the more thiclSly settled states.
These men are buying thoroughbred
beef sires by the hundred with the re-
suit that the Doddies. Herefords and
Shorthorns which come from these
ranges are now as finely graded ami
mails as cnn be found anywhere.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
Russia builds the great Siberian rail.

Russia builds the great Siberian rail,
way as a purely military enterprise
to solidify her power, transport her
armies. acquire new territory. Strange.
~, evolved and constructed as mill
tary enterprise as it was, it is going to
have far greater power and signif-
canoe as civilizer of the peoples OF
interior Russia and as a developer OF
their material resources than it will
ever have as military measure.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
DOING ONE rMrNG wELL.

Educate your boy for some one prac-
teal, specific thing. He should be
taught that excellence and expertness
in any one thing is of vastly more im-
portance than smattering knowledge
Of many things. 1t is 81 per day FOR
the man who knows nothing. $1.50 per
day for the man who can do most ey-
erything poorly, and $40 per day for
the man who can do some one thing
better than anybody else
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
MYoa SHOULD smnl.en

when you enter on discussion which
may lead to vehement remarks" said
Bismarck, you should smoke. With re-
gard to the mental condition it does not
deprive us of our intellectual capacity,
but it produces state of kindly repose.
The eye, is occupied, the hand is engaged,
the organ of smell is gratifed-one is
happy. In this state one is very disposed
to make concessions, and our business,
that of diplomatists, continually con-
lists in the making of mutual conces-
lions. - ismarck's Table Talk" by G..
Lowe.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

There was quite severe thunder
storm out or the Pacific coast not long
ago, and q house was struck by light
ming. The papers out there wrote the
storm up to the extent Of three cox
umns.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

The best all round shade tree for the
northwest is the common water elm.
The hard maple is perhaps more
snowy and densely, foliaged tree, but
one has to wait so long for them to be
Of any value. The elm is bug and
drought proof and if properly trimmed
when young will give as dense a shade
as need be desired.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

Any of the legumes, such as beans,
peas, clover and vetches, when grown,
always leave the land on which they
were grown more fertile than it was
before. The legumes are soil enrich
ers, not soil robbers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

The great apple orchard of ]. Z.
Stone, situated near Glcnwood, Ia,
bids fair to bring its owner in fine
fortune this season.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

Whether it comes or not, the north
west will be, in good shape to stand
the burden of lean year or two after
the present crop is all secured.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

The tramp, upon leaving the pest
house, was not wholly in lack of sym
pathy. He was at least pitted by the
smallpox.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

The best time to get rid OF the young
rooster is when you can get two of
them in frying pan, the frying to be
uone on your own cook stove.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

Cedar Falls is asking bids for j 200
yards of brick paving
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31

Emmetsburg is 10 have new twelve
room school house.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
BY ]. S. TR1GG.
. - @E

Land well plowed in July or August
receives most of the benefits of sum
mer fallow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-31
9S9>Ce&>e>&>e1G~e~&s<1(
: IN HIS STEPS. !
3Gs<1sSe~Ce>G>s>r9>S@(
Continued from page OIL

which he had posted up in various
places. and came largely ont Of curl
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-13
Glimpses of Work for Women and
Children In Foreign Lands.

The heroes of the late war We're so Of
ten represented to us by photographs and
sketches in the newspapers that we soon
became acquainted with many of them,
and We're eager for every item of news.
The sketches of our missionaries, pho
tographs, letters and reports, of past
years have made them so familiar that
we are sure this fresh account even
though it be only glimpses here and
there. will be eagerly welcomed
These pictures. taken in churches
schoolhouses, hospitals and homes show
the lights and shadows of missionary
work, contrasts of heathenism with
Christianity and reveal the transform
ing power Of the love Of God Behind
this simple story is an unWritten record
Of heroic faith and ChriSt-like devotion.
We are thankful when others share
our opinion of missionaries, and so quote
a recent noble tribute of Senator Hoar.
He says, "There is not story of true
heroism or glory in human annals which
can surpass the story of missionaries
sent forth as the servants of civilization
and piety. In this day of our exultation
at the deeds of our heroes in Manila and
Cuba, let us not forget that the Ameri-.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-13

Continued on Twelfth Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-13
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL

and His love. He has come into my
heart, and where it was dark as mid
night. His love makes it bright as noon
day."
She goes to her home rejoicing, be-
comes a messenger of Gods goodness,
and others are brought into the light of
truth.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-06

d )mestic habits, wan iv' th' ENJOYS
that ARE Employed in carrin' messages
firm tn Prisidint TO his fellow citizens
proceeds to tn pretty little American
village iv SUI, where he fnds Hadji
set,in' up on high chair surrounded
be wives. IT'S a domestic scene tha'o
make Brigham Young think he was a
bachelor. Hadji is smokin good see
gar an occasionally h'istin a drink iv
cider, an wan iv TIL ladies is playin'
guitar, an another is singing Il want
We, my Sulu,' an another is maxim a
tidy, an three or four hundred more
ARE SEWN patches on tn pants iv tn
aadji kids. An tn ambassadure he
says: Mos rile an luminous citizen,
here is copy iv tn annual Thanks
givin' proclamation, he says. "Tis
addressed to all tn hearty husband
men iv' our BELOVED counthry-m'a amin
you, among others he says, AN
here he says, lis tn revised Constitu-
ton, he says. 'The original wan,' he
says, was intinded FIR OF stick-in-the-
muds that wuddent know tn Offence
between harem an a hoe,' he says.
This wan,' he says, 'is more suited FIR
th' prisint gay an expansive times he
says. lit permits man. he says, 'to
cleave to as nanny wives he says, las
his rs ce, color, an previous condition
iv servitude will permit he says.
Thank ye kindly says Hadji. 'Pil
threasure these here papers a vallyable
meminto firm that far-distaDt home iv
mine which have nivver see,' he says,
I'D inthroduca ye to Mrs. Hadji wan
by wan he says, 'but 'twud be bet
Their, he says, 'f'r to stand up here an
be prisinted to her as a whole, he says,
Pr he says, Ills growing late, an l
want We to come up to tn house, he
says, AN pick a missionary with me-
he says. "A Baptist he says, raised
on th' farm he says. An Hadji holds
his job an looks for'rard to tn day
whin we have female suffrage an he
can cast tn solid vote iv Sulu FIR him
silf FIR Prisidint."
"Thin," said Mr.. Hennessy, 'ye'er
fri'nd Roberts ought to move to what
dye call.th'-place."
THAT'S what Pm thinkin'," said Mr..
Dooley. "But tits too bad FIR him he
was BORN at home."-F. P. dunno,
Harpers Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-06
NURSERY COOKERY.
FOR THE BABIES.
BY Christine Terhune Herirck.
Continued from last week.)
RICE PORRIDGE

l.
Mix two tablespoonfuls of rice flour
with a half-cup of cold water, stirring
them together by degrecA until they are
well blended. Have Not two cups OF
milk, in a double boiler. Stir the wet
rice flour into this, cook steadily for half
an hour, add salt to taste, and eat with
cream or milk. IF it is not feasible to pro-
cure the rice flour, a substitute may be
prepared from the ordinary rice Wash
1t thoroughly, lay it between the folds
of stout towel and hammer 1t with a
potato beetle or a rolling pin, until it is
reduced to powder.
II the child does not at first fancy the
new food, the mother should not allow
herself to be discouraged by a single
failure. To yield at the first repulse is
only to pave the way for the whimsical
ness in diet too common among chill
dren When the child turns away from
the new food, do not press the matter at
the time, but renew the attack later on.
Do this a number Of times before re-
signing the point, and even then, give it
up only for a season. The principle is
really of more value than the individual
success. Such caprices of appetite, when
unchecked in childhood, make their pos
SCISSOR, when he reaches manhood, a
WEAKNESS to the flesh of the housekeepe'
who has to cater for him.
Important as are cereals in a child 3
dietary, they alone are not enough for
him, as he grows older. Even before he
is allowed to eat much solid food he
should have soups and broths given
him. Not the heavier varieties such as
are served to his seniors, but something
more readily assimilated Beef juice may
be procured by broiling piece of tender,
juicy steak over a clear fire, for several
minutes, so as to coagulate the outside
and retain the juice. 1t may then be cut
into dice, and squeezed in a meat-press,
such as comes for this purpose, or even
be pressed in an ordinary lemon squeez-
er. The stimulating value of the beef
may also be obtained in beef tea, and
there are other soups that are of value,
for which recipes will be given later.
BEEF TEA
Put into a wide-mouthed glass jar a
pound of finely minced beef from the
round, with pint of cold water. Let
stand for an hour, stirring 1t from time
to time. Stand the jar then in an outer
vessel of boiling water, over the fire, and
let it boil very gently for an hour. Strain
off the liquid, salt to taste and in drink
ing take the fine sediment that is found
In the bottom of the vessel.
BEEF TEA WITH OATMEAL.
Mix together two tablespoonfuls OF
fine oatmeal and two Of cold water. Add
to them a pint of boiling hot beef tea
made by the preceding recipe. Put them
over the fire, boil for five minutes stir
ring all the time, season, and strain
through fine sieve.
This is very nutritious.
(To be continued next week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-06

l drove over the park bridge ycster-
day afternoon in one of these carry all
buses, tucked away In a back seat as
neatly as match in box. On the
front, beside the driver, sat three little
brown-eyed girls. Their mother was
squeezed in behind, by me. As we APP
preached the Detroit shore a sailboat
decided to go up the stream and the
gate was thrown across the bridge, as
the draw was swung.
The little girl on the end of the front
seat looked at the great mass of steel
and wood as it slipped by, open
mouthed; then, turning back, she said
to her mother, with tears just coming
into her eyes:
"Oh, mamma, see, the bridge is all
broke and Wen have to stay here for
ever."-Detroit Free Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-06
FIG PUDDING.

Chop finely one-quarter of pound Of
suet, one-half of a pound of figs and two
sour apples. Add three quarters of
cup stale bread crumbs. one-quarter of
a cup milk, two eggs we'll beaten one
quarter of pound of brown sugar, one
half of teaspoonful of salt and three
ounces of flour Put into buttered
mould, cover and steam four hours.
Serve with lemon sauce. Cream one
half cup butter, add gradually one cup
of sugar and two eggs slightly beaten.
Cook three quarters of cup of water
with the shaVings from the rind of a
lemon five minutes. Remove rind and
add water gradually to egg mixture.
Cook in a double boiler until slightly
thickened, add one and one-half table
spoonfuls of lemon Juice.