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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Richard L. Colburn, Stock Broker,
Room %. 10 w. End South. Tel. go.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Mines. dividend paying and invest
ment stocks. 10 w. End So. Tel. sos
Waterman Brothers, Stock Brokers,
Central Blk. Phone IS, rings.
Elmer E. Darling, Stock Broker,
loans; w. End South. Tel. sos.
F. j. Leonard g. Co., Stock Brokers,
SOS-SO4 Auerbach building.
Andrew, Lombard & Browning,
stock brokers, 2OS-2O9 Atlas block
P. j. Conway & Co., Stock Brokers,
10 West Second South street.
James NJ. O'Brien,
Mine contractor. Eureka, Utah.
Richard L. Colburn, Stock Broker,
Room %. 10 w. End South. Tel. go.
Bernard Sprenger, Mining Stock
Broker. No. 10 w. md South. Phone sos.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Bernard Sprenger, Mining Stock
Broker, No. 10 w. End South. Phone sos.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Waterman Brothers, Stock Brokers,
Central Blk. Phone 46, rings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

Bamherger sells coal right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02

y Sold throughout the world. POTTER DRun AND csrM
Cosr., Boston. How 70 Have Beautiful Hsnds," frss
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Open. High. Low Close.
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
OWNING HOWE.

The condition Of any community,
whether municipal or rural, is very
well indexed by the per cent Of the peo-
pie who own and live in their own
homes or on their own farms. Nor
does the value Of these homes or the
size of the farms have very much to do
with the matter either. Ownership Of
the home by the citizen develops q GER
tain reliable and patriotic quality Of
citizenship which is almost impossible
where such home ownership is want
ing. The moment q man becomes own
er of his home he also becomes directly
interested in all that pertains to good
government; he becomes more intelli-
gent voter; he becomes interested in
public Improvements and the public
schools as never before. 1t is his coun-
try now because he is an integral part
of it. Landlordism and tenancy may
be commercial necessities, but never
under any circumstances can they be
economic blessings. All legislation,
whether national or state, should be SO
ordered that it may be as easy as posi-
Bile for every citizen to own the home
in which he lives.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
SHOULD HAVE HELP.

We know of two or three old bach
elors, nice fellows in their way, living
on good farms, who won't get married.
They shin along on the farm year after
year. eating poorly cooked food and
monkeying around with the house.
work in a mans laundering sort of
way. There are plenty Of nice, compe-
tent girls who would marry them II
they would only muster up sand enough
to ask them, but they are mortally
afraid of the girls, and their case be-
comes more and more hopeless year
after year. There should be some way
in which to help these nice fellows out,
and we would favor giving the boer,l
of supervisors power to act in their be
half.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
EvERGREnNs ON THE FARM.

We know of farm Of 160 acres, re-
Gently sold, Which brought an extra
So an acre solely on account of the fact
that there was a 10-year-old evergreen
windbreals around the homestead
$500 for 200 evergreen trees, and cheap
at that. They cost only 15 cents each
in the first place and grew into money
III this way while the owner worked
and while he slept. The real value in
an economic way Of sucn q grove
around homestead on these north
western prairies can hardly be estimat-
ed. 1t saves fuel in the house, hay
and corn in the barn, and as comfort
producer is unexcelled both for man
and beast. STILL not one farm in a
hundred has such a grove. Can any
body tell why7, Don't get at 1t; that's
the reason. For less than 500 there
are plenty of nurserymen who would
plant you such grove and guarantee
every tree for five years, leaving moth
ing for you to do but cultivate the
trees while young through the summer.
Try your local nurseryman and see.
In ten years the trees would be worth
not less than 81 apiece. n
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

not be acting in way worthy of his
high Office.
II thought over the situation that
night, and when morning came called
on the doctor who was at the head Of
the hospital and told him that / wanted
to SEQ the differences between the four
presidents amicably settled. In place
like Porto Nuevo the head Of the hos
pital is always the most influential man
in town, with the exception of the pres.
ident and the chief of police. You see
that whenever a revolution breaks out
and the parties to it begin to shoot the
hospital fills up pretty rapidly, and the
wounded men are mighty anxious to be
on good terms with the doctor, SO that
he won't try any carving experiments
on them.
tYhis particular doctor was the most
level headed man in Torrizonia, and
when he and had talked things over
we agreed that the best thing to do
would be for me to arrange an interview
with the four presidents and induce
them to compromise their differences.
The doctor said that they would agree
to anything. provided the consideration
was large enough, and he thought that
if the four presidents were to form a
syndicate and govern the country in
partnership it would be a satisfactory
arrangement all round.
"I went back to the hotel and wrote
an invitation to each of the presidents to
dine with me on the next day but one,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
THE FUTURE OF THE coRNrrELp.

Ihere is no problem at present at
tracing SO much interest from the
farmers of the corn belt as that of
utilizing the corn fodder of their corn
fields. Up to the present time the evil
dent waste In the cornfelds has been
permitted because of the cheapness
and abundance of hay from the wild
grasses. These grasses are gone, and
the lands which once produced them
are now either converted into farms or,
II still pastnred. the native grasses ex-
terminated by the blue grass. Falling
back on to timothy and clover as sub
stitutes, it was soon discovered that
the ton and a half and more often less
OF timothy taken from an acre of land
made pretty high priced hay. Then
the farmer thought of his cornfield
and the last year or so has been
studying that and the possibilities con-
nected with 1t, and he has made some
very interesting discoveries. He found
out first that every acre of his corn
field produced him year by year. more
and better fodder than he could get
from an acre Of his timothy meadow.
This much is settled beyond dispute.
Now he is trying to find out the best
and most economical method Of saving
and using this new found fodder. One
tries the silo; another cuts and shreds;
another husks from the shock and
feeds the stalks; another tumbles the
bundles into the feed lot and lets
steers, cows, sheep. horses and young
stock do the husking and shredding.
The best way is not yet wholly deter
mined. 1t depends somewhat on the
kind Of stock it is to be fed to- The
silo has many advantages, especially
where a dairy herd is kept, hut first
cost Of silo and high priced labor to fill
1t are disadvantages. Shredding is
meeting with much favor, the corn be-
Ing very clearly huslsed and the fodder
put in the best possible shape for feed
ing. The objections to this method are
the cost of shredding and the difficulty
sometimes of keeping the shredded
fodder in good shape. These difficulties
we look to see largely overcome, and
we think the final solution of the corn
fodder problem will be this: The corn
will be cut up at the proper time with
a machine, just as is the grain. 1t
will be allowed to cure in the field until
late fall or early winter. 1t will be
then hauled to the barnyard and stack
ed in narrow stacks. Two or three
times during the winter the shredder
and husker will come, operated by the
owners Of thrdshing machines, and run
out lot of the corn. The ears will be
put in the crib and the fodder used in
place Of hay.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

But few people know that very
fine quality of tea can be and is now
being produced in the United States.
There is tea garden in operation at
Summerville, S. c., which the past sea-
son produced LOGO pounds of very
choice quality Of tea, worth not less
than 81 per pound. The government is
starting experiment tea gardens in
other southern states, and arthorough
test is to be made as to tie feasibility
Of America growing its own tea. Cheap
labor is absolutely Indispensable in tea
as the leaves Of tlk plant have to be
picked off one SsivrSone, the age and de-
yelGr.saent Of the leaf determining the
duality of the tea made from them. 1t
would seem as though this cheap labor
might be secured among the colored
children of the south.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
"A Family Gre.tly Blessed.

Many years ago, when oneness Of In.
terest characterized the relations be.
tween employers and house servants,
the cook at the Virginia home Of the
historic Harrisons was negro named
George. Master of his craft, George
was stately and even pompous in man
ner and speech, and an incident which
illustrates the mingled dignity and con-
ceit of his character has place in the
family records. A family festival in
honor of an anniversary had filled the
Harrison house with guests for several
days and tested the abundant larder to
what seemed to be its utmost possibili-
ties. On the very day that saw the de-.
parture Of the company communities
tion was received by Mrs. Harrison, in
forming her that the presidential party
might be expected on the morrow. She
summoned George and impaired the
startling news. He met it like an ebony
Gibraltar. VERY we'll, madam, your
orders shall be obeyed. !"
But, George, can we be ready for
them? There will be about 30 persons,
including the president Of the United
States and his cabinet
Gibraltar relaxed measurably. The
lady's apprehensions appealed to his
chivalric heart. 1t was his duty to allayl
them.
Every true, madam. But we must
bear in mind that we are greatly blessed
in our cook. /"
It is unnecessary to add that George
pobly sustained the sublime vaunt.
Marion Harland in "Some Colonial
Homesteads. -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
PAYING noAp TAxrs IN coRy

Z "A very general movement Is on foot
in more tina enc northwestern state to
secure the payment Of all road taxes i'll
cash, instead of allowing such taxes
to be worked out. The only kick on
this will come from the men who
think it is profitable thing to quit
blowing corn in June and go and work
on the road for $3.50 day to work out
their road tax. A man who will do this
lis not half smart, for there are three
weeks in June every day of which to
the corn raiser is worth not less than
81 and more often $40. We know Of
plenty Of cornfields which, for want Of
proper June care, will not give more
than half crop, the owner, as mat
ter Of fact, really paying $40 road
tax with SIS worth of corn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
Dancing and Smoking In Burma, =

In one village where we staid the
chief man arranged dance in our hon.
or. Neither he nor we danced. That
would have robbed us and him Of Dig
nifty. He paid somebody else to dance
instead. A troop of village girls, with
flowers stuck in their newly creased
hair and wearing their prettiest pieces
Of silk that serve as frocks, threw Them
selves into all kinds Of graceful and
other pastures. What little skirt there
was was tight fitting and hampering in
movement. Yet the girls had freer
swing Of the body than nantch girls,
and all the while they were twisting
themselves into fantastic attitudes they
were working their elbows and hands
and fingers twitchingly. The most
skillful dancer was the girl who could
stand statuelike, with face unmoved.
while her bosom rose and fell in pant.
ing excitement
Then some Of the youths danced.
First Of all they were seated, and after
lowering their heads as obeisance to us
they commenced song. Suddenly jump
ing to their feet and drawing handker-
chiefs from their waists, they began
pirouetting in the most demented fash
ion. While the women were stately in
their gyrations. moving languidly, the
men thought the chief merit was to
work themselves to pitch of frenzy by
throwing their legs about in . reckless
manner. During the dancing everybody
was smoking, men, women and chill
dren. There were little rascals who had
to hold on with both hands while they
sucked at q cheroot a foot ong.-Trayel.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
4 friend asked us this week whethe

A friend asked us this week whether
his investment in half section of par
tally improved, though somewhat wet,
prairie land in northeastern Iowa at
$22 per acre was good one 1t is
1t is a better Investment than the same
money put into an 8 per cent first mort
gage on any western farm. For a pc
Rod of ten years to come 1t will pay
him not less than s per cent and, be.
sides, will more than double in value.
Tie wet won't hurt 1t bit IL he can
drain It, northwestern frog ponds hav-
ing a way of turning out rs bushels Of
corn to the acre just as soon as the
water is taken from them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
WHAT is CHEAP LANDa

There is a tremendous demand these
days for so called cheap lard, and it
becomes question of much interest to
know what really constitutes cheap
land. The common idea seems to be
that it is land in q state of nature,
wholly, unimproved, remote from set
Elements and civilization, but little re-
gard being had to the quality Of the
soil or the climatic conditions. Very
much of this SO called cheap land is
really the highest priced land to be
found. Here are q few Illustrations:
A sandy farm, no matter how well To-
Gated, is hardly ever cheap farm.
Such soil is not congenial to any of the
grasses, and without grass it is hard to
keep stock, and without stock it is diff
cult to make any farm pay. Very
broken and rough farms are never
cheap. On such land cultivation of the
soil insures washing, and the native
fertility of such a farm is soon in the
creeks and on its way to the delta of
the Mississippi. Rolling lands where
the limestone or the gravel lies very
near the surface, cropping out on every
little elevation, are never cheap lands
In the long run, being specially sus-
ceptible to drought and hard to keep
In fertile condition. Wet land may
or may not be cheap land. If SO locat-
ed that perfect drainage may be Sc
cured, it is quite likely to prove to be
the very cheapest land which can be
bought, but iftsuch drainage is not pos
sible or, to be obtainsd only at very
great. outlay we should go slow on it.
There is this to be said for this class
OF land: When once reclaimed, 1t will
prove to be the best land to be had,
possessing stock of stored fertility
largely in excess of any other land. 1t
further is specially adapted to the
growth of all the grasses, and good
grass lands are never poor lands. A
run down farm is seldom cheap farm.
When q thrashing machine, the weed
crop and the skin reuter- have had their
way with a farm for 20 or more years,
the life is taken out of the soil, and
while, II originally good land, it's fer
tility may be restored in time, still it
will be an expensive process at best.
Land is never cheap where the water
supply is of poor quality or difficult to
obtain or where the educational advan-
tages for ones children are of the poor
est sort or where the social and reli-
gious customs and preferences of all
ones neighbors are wholly unlikable.
Land situated IN latitude where the
| rainfall is Unreliable, no matter how
excellent the quality of such land NAV
be, is never under airy circumstances
cheap land unless provision for irriga-
ton is secured with it. A deficiency of
moisture is fatal to all crops, and Id
those localities where the records for
a series of years show an uncertain
and meager rainfall 1T is supremest
! folly to attempt agriculture as usually
carried on. The really cheap farm
more likely than not is what seems to
be high priced one-good soil in a
good condition, desirable neighbors,
nearness to market. good climate, good
water. Better 40 acres under such
conditions than section where a
mans wife is always wanting to 70
back to her folks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
The Camel.

Before starting on journey across
the desert the Egyptians take care that
the humps Of their camels are in good
condition. This is the camel's reserve
supply of fat, which helps to sustain the
animal if in case Of emergency it is
temporarily debarred from food. The
camel can stow about l " gallons OF
water in it's capacious stomach, and iii
is satisfied if it can replenish this every
third day. Between these intervals it
will carry load Of about 400 pounds
distance Of 80 or so miles
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

From our point. of view. there seems
less excuse for keeping bulldog than
any other animal on four legs. A man
in Iowa got his two boys bull pup.
Tho pup grew. One day In rough
and tumble scufle between the boys
and the dog the nature of the beast
asserted itself, and trouble began. The
mother interfered to protect the boys,
and the brute fastened its teeth deep
In her flesh and could hardly be chok-
ed loose. Bulldogs belong to DULLES,
prizefghters and other brutes Of kin
dred nature, not to decent people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

On wide river bottom the other
day we saw in one large field over 100
stacks of hay. Not stack in the lot
had in it over four tons of hay. The
hay had evidently been gathered and
piled with a goodwill. With ordinary
fall and. winter weather there cannot
be a loss Of less than 25 per cent. The
hay la worth 81 per ton in the stack,
and the waste represents $500 at least,
or more than it cost to cut and secure
In this fashion the entire crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

The girl who does homework for
wages hopes to get married and have
home of her own, and the hired man
on the farm hopes soon to have farm
of his own, and it is this very honora-
BILE ambition on the part Of both which
largely unsettles this hired help ques-
ton. When the country gets to rails
ing old maids who don't want to get
married and hired men who don't want
to get ranches Of their own, there will
be no trouble with the hired help.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07
BY j. S. TR1GG.

. y . It
~ The special need of the farms in the
corn belt is greater variety of nitrog-
senous crops. Crops of this kind are
very limited in number which may be
successfully grown under the semi
tropical conditions of the corn belt ter
ritory. Clover is the principal stand
by, and this frequently fails owing to
the difficulty of getting good catch of
seed. Peas do not do we'll us a gen
eral thing, though more Of them might
be grown than there are. This terri
tory needs cheap substitute for bran,
some crop which may be surely and
easily raised to go with the corn
which SO. seldom fails. We feed too
much corn to hogs, to cows, to sheep,
to all young animals.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

While you have been gathering that
% bushel an acre crop of corn lately
has it occurred to you that picking
such corn ~sls Il pretty poor business?
Have You 'rip,l to find out why the
crop was 50 ,3or--whether it was poor
seed. poo. lsll. poor cultivation. or
whaty There's some reason for it, and
you ought TO find OFT what it is.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

We saw q man carting out to his
farm a load of evergreens the other
day to be planted, we suppose, for a
windbreak. Here was another big
blunder. Those trees will nearly all be
dead by spring in spite of all he can do.
Evergreens should be moved in the
spring, just after the new growth of
wood has made a good start. Some
agent lied and told this man that they
could be planted in the fall just as well
as at any other time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

The common people have not much
use for that class Of expert cooks who
compound savory dishes out Of calves
brains, sleeps kidneys, OK tails and
the like. The straight veal, mutton and
beef are good enough for them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

There is a good deal Of satisfaction
in looking at the well filled corncrib
while the first hard snowstorm is COW
ering the stalks of the field from which
the corn was taken.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

We saw sparrow building nest on
the 4th of November last. Birds with
an instinct of this sort can never be
exlerminated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

On general principles it may be as,
sumed that man who always has a
good pile of dry wood near the house is
pretty good to his WIFE,.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

The great crop of corn and rough
feed all through the western states
would under ordinary circumstances
result in cheapening beef, but the coun-
try is in such a prosperous condition
and the demand for good beef so far
exceeds the supply that the present
surplus of food for the stock is likely
to make but little difference in the
price.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

Oats fed In the sheaf are very nearly.
perfectly balanced ration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

No bird that we know of lives to so
good purpose as the Thanksgiving
turkey.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

The primary cause Of nearly all I'M
profitable farming in the northwest is
the effort to work too much land. The
20 acre farmer is scratching the back
of an 80. the 80 acre man is wrestling
with Il quarter, and the 100 acre man
Is trying to work section, always be-
hind always poorly rewarded, ever
lastingly III debt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-07

The model hired man may be treated
as an equal and as friend.