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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
FOLLOW THEIR LEADER.

A flock of blackbirds numbering at
least q thousand, massed for their fall
flight to southern ATTITUDES to pass the
winter, were sailing high overhead as
we watched them one evening recent
ly. All Mt once single bird left the
center of the flock and, flying at right
angles with the main flock, gracefully
lowered itself to the top of large
tree. Now, what curious impulse led
all that vast flock of birds to follow
that one? But down they all came
and in moment were all chattering in
the tree tops. We have fired into q
large flock of wild geese on the wing
and, wounding a single bird which has
sailed slowly to the earth from his
fellows, have seen him followed by
the-whole flock. A flock of sheep will
all persist in jumping over q break in
fence If the first one in the flock
does, even IL there be an open gate
close by through which they might
easily pass. We have seen single
decoy pigeon in the old pigeon days Of
the flfties call down 10000 birds fly
ing over at the height of half mile.
But these curious actions Of gregarl-
GUS birds and animals are not more
curious than those of gregarious man,
for time and again has lone man, by
striking out at right angles with tho
established order of things, soon found
himself followed by an army Of pa
triots intent on righting some wrong or
by frenzied mob intent only on brute
violence and savagery. 1t would seem
as though most gregarious animals and
birds let the few do the thinking for
the many
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

By some subtle process OF moral rea-
soning there are not few farm ten
ants who think 1t perfectly legitimate
to steal all they can from the man
whose farm they work. 1t is this evil
which makes the farm owner look with
so much favor upon the cash rent sys-
TEN. Thrasher men could tell some
funny stories, il they would, about the
tenant and the absentee landlord on
the share rent deal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

81 would like to see a light frost to
ripen up the corn" said farmer to
us the other day. Our friend was mis-
taken in thinking that frost under any
circumstances can be of benefit to the
corn plant. A frost which win but
slightly shrivel the leaves of the corn
is always positive injury to it, Corn
which is even slightly frozen. before
the maturity Of the ear will Invariably
have soft cob and be hard corn to
keep in crib. Moreover. the kernels
will be found to be loose on the cob.
Dry and hot weather will hurry corn
toward maturity, but frost never.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

With land worth $50 per acre timber
lots can hardly be maintained with
profit unless they can be pastured.
Blue grass will do well with the sur
face Of the ground at least half shad-
ed. We should learn how to better
combine the wood and the pasture lot.
Most Of us insist on having either all
grass and no trees or else all trees and
no grass. The two should be COM
hined tt.tli5s d, iss.f -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Closely fed blue grass pastures are
almost worthless in dry time. More
over, IL so fed the weeds are bound to
get q strong foothold. The divided
blue grass pasture is in every way bet
ter, letting one-half of the grass grow
and mature to be used during the dry
time. If old Bossy's opinion of blue
grass pasture could be obtained, 1t
would be that it needs to rain about
every other day to keep it In just the
right shape for her.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

In localities where water can only
be obtained for farm uses by the sink
ing of q deep and expensive well, the
artificial pond or reservoir as means
Of water supply is worth looking into.
Upon almost any rolling farm there
can be selected site for such pond
in some draw or ravine. Properly con-
structed and fenced in, they can be
made very valuable. 1t is not of much
use to try to make such o reservoir
unless the site selected possesses clay
subSoil.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

4 II you have an orchard Of young
trees. it will pay to look out for the
borer. Examine the tree just where
1T leaves the ground. If you find e
little pile of fine sawdust, there is q
borer, at work. Take your knife and
cut in until you find the little rascal
Mash him and, If not too high up on
The trunk of the tree where he COM
menced hts work. hill up the wound
with earth. This borer, is n literal
worm at the root and Is responsible
for the loss Of no end of our best fruit
trees. s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Man assumes the right to determine
what shall and what shall not be al
lowed to live on this earth, and too
many men are unwilling that anything
on land, in water or sky shall live I'M
less such life can be made to minister
to their personal profit. The right to
live is God given, and nature visits
some terrible penalties for mans Of
ficious interference with this right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
IowA's AIR SHIP. TO BE TRIED.
Prof. Brinton Will Launch Machine
at Warrington This Month.

Washington, Ia, Sept. 15.-(special.)
For ths past three years Prof. w. +
Brinton, a learned gentleman, has
worked on an air ship that would sue.
cessfully navigate the air. He at last
thinks he has solved the problem and
on September 20, at the fair grounds
in Washington, Iowa, will attempt tc
successfully launch the same. It is q
balloon and will be manned by very
simple car, attached to which are
huge wings and propeners, with q
gasoline engine for power. Excursions
will be run on all railroads.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
AGE NO BAR.
Everybody in Ottufnwa
Is Eligible.

Old people stopped with suffering.
Middle age courageously fighting il.
Youth, protesting impa,iently
Children unable to explain 1t.
Baby crying, can't tell why.
All in misery from their kidneys.
Only o little backache first.
Comes when you catch cold or strain it.
Doan's neglect bad back.
Backache Is the FIRST step of kidney trouble,
Many complications follow.
Urinary difficulties, diabetes, Brights dis
ease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure backache.
Cure every form OF kidney i'll.
Plenty of Ottumwa proof that this Is So.
Mr.. John Mitchell, of COL West Mechanic st.
says: lis with sincere pleasure, that eX
press my confidence in Doan's Kidney Pills u:
an excellent kidney medicine. a member OF
my family suffered for years with kidney com
plant ina pronounced form. The secretion.
from the kidneys were always unnatural IL
appearance and kidney palms were also pres
ent. Iprocured box OF Doan's Kidney Pills
at VIII L, Sargent's drug store and had him
use Them. We were surprised to note how
quickly the action of the kidneys was rlghted
and how soon the kidney secretions became
moro natural. After the use Of this remedy he
was much better, and anyone knowing the
particulars of the case could not help but b.
satisfied that as kidney remedy Doah's Kid.
ney Pills are reliable and effective. They Ger.
tainly did all shat could be expected and t.
them belongs the credit"
Deans Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers
Price so cts. Mailed by Foster MilDurn Co.,
Buffalo. N Y. Sole agents for the O. S. Re.
member the name Doan's ard take no other.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The profits possible in connection
with the dairy business were never
better illustrated than at the late Iowa
state fair, where, in, the dairy build
ing, thirsty crowd Of grangers crowd
ed the stands eager to pay a nickel for
a glass Of separated milk sweetened
and favored and handed to them foam
ing as milk shake. 1t was the big
gest bonanza on the grounds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
A BOUQUET OF WILD FLo,vERs.

There are about 40 varieties of gold
enrod growing in America. To tho man
who is all business they are weeds and
pasture pest alone. To him who has a
little foolish sentimentality in his make
up they come in all their golden beauty
to decorate the roadside and fence COR
ner with September grace, One may
Gull the garden of it's best floral prod
ucts and yet utterly fail to secure. from
our standpoint. so choice and delicate a
floral treasure as is the bouquet of Sep
TENDER wild flowers picked by roadside
in pasture lot and by timber edge as
laden orchards. harvest moons and
shortening days proclaim that the har-
vest is past and the summer ended.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Bishop nIcCabe IL Ill,

Council Bluffs, Sept. 14.-Bishop C. C.
McCabe, one of the best known and
most popular men in the Methodist
Episcopal church, is very sick, and is
threatened with an attack of malarial
fever. He occupied the pulpit in the
Broadway Methodist church Sunday
morning, but was taken sick during
the day and was unable to be out for
the evening service.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

/ A market gardener living near one OF
our western towns told us that the
most profitable crop which he raised
was lettuce, his sales of this vegetable
grown under glass and marketed dur
ing the winter season bringing him in
over 81 200 each year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

/ We saw man blowing under a crop
Of Hungarian grass the other day
which would have easily cut a ton and
D half IN acre. Just what he was do
ing 1t for we don't know. It seemed
alike waste Of good feed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

II the school advantages of your
neighbor are not just what you would
like for your children. supplement such
as you have with plenty of good books
and papers in your home. A reading
boy can never be an ignorant one.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

A man wanted some shade in his
pasture, and so he planted a half acre
of sag hole with willows. The trees
grew finely. and he thereby utilized
an entirely waste piece of land.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

We have not come across a more
significant fact in long time than
this one out of 200 boys and girls car
ed for by one of the northwestern
states as incorigibles at reform
schools not one was born on farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

+ West Virginia has furnished the
country with 100000 barrels of oil.
100000 tons of coke and 100000
tons of coal the past year, which are
worth more to the country at large
than any man whom she might have
furnished as president.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

| 1t may be remarked that the biggest
ears Of corn are usually obtained from
that part of the field where the seed
was the poorest. Nature is always try
Ing to compensate in some way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
F. e. Strong Writes Of the Cam
paign Of the Fifty-hrst.
ENEMY THICF N FRONT OF REGIMENT
Company M Has the Best Quarters in
Town-Centipedes and Other In
sects Thick During the
High Water.

The Courier presents tonight another
letter from f. Z. Strong, of Company
NJ, Fifty-frst Iowa, The letter was
written while the regiment was still at
San Fernando, on the firing line, and is
as follows:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

There Is q natural affinity between
b sheep and q head of foxtail grass.
and more farmers should bring them
together. 1t is good for the sheep
and just the thing for the foxtail.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Iowa is raising hundreds Of thou
sands Of doves and protecting them by
law which later on will migrate south
and afford unlimited sport for the pot
hunters Of Arkansas and Louisiana
next winter. seta
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The average life of a railroad tie is
seven years, and 100000 new ties
are required each year by American
railroads. They cost the roads about
80 cents apiece, and as long us they
can be obtained Mt about this figure
the steel tie which is being used in
timberless regions will not come into
general use.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

rne condensed milk FACTORY started
at Waverly, Ia, has been obliged to
stop the making Of condensed milk and
now makes butter, for the reason that
it could not secure from its patrons a
quality Of milk sufficiently clean and
pure to insure the manufacture Of q
salable article of condensed milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

! An American tourist asked an Eng
fish gardener how he managed to Sc
cure such O beautiful turf on the lawn
and was told that the lawn had been
rolled for hundred years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Ragweed will kill out blue grass.
Thus 1t will pay to run the mower
over the pasture couple Of times dur
Ing the summer if the ragweed has got
D foothold. 1t would be still better to.
have some sheep to do the work Of the
mower.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The number Of ribs which you can
see and count on the side of good
COW often correspond with the number
of pounds of butter she will make each
,Week.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The Scientific American curiously re-
4ers to the ella monster OF Arizona as
q snake, while it is q lizard.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

If there are patches Of big weeds
Ind stunted yellow corn on the farm,
fits a sign that you are trying to spoil
good grass land to make poor corn
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Z. Law terraces built on an angle of As
degrees are too steep to do well unless
they face the north.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

A good deal of ragweed milk gets to
THE creameries in August and early
September, and 1t is miserable stuff.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

We saw as many as a dozen orchards
last week. each one Of which was
headed for the brush pile as fast as it
could CO.. and all because the owner
bvas too greedy to give the trees the
use Of the lind and insisted on making
n blue grass pasture Of his orchard
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

1 he planted his corn over three times
just because he was not businesslike
enough to get good seed in the first
place. and today he has got three tons
of weeds and Is bushels Of corn to the
acre il the good Lord will keep the
frost off till Oct l. And still he lays
1t all to his bad luck.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The man who planted poor seed corn
in May is hoping the frost may hold
off 1til October.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

The very worst weed in many q corn
field is the fourth stalk Of corn in the
hill
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

''Two heads are better than one"
If the one you have is dull and heavy
you need Hoods Sarsaparilla. It will
give you prompt relief.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19

Grinnells cooperative store, which
has prospered Tor twenty-five years,
is to be closed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Who would tl,ink There

Who would think there
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-19
Copyright 1899. by J. S. Trige.
- -.
BY j. S. TR1GG

Porterhouse steak at 80 cents a
pound has got on to the terrapin list.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
TARTAR GOES TO SEA.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA cable to
the World from Hongkong says: The
transport Tartar sailed today with her
full complement of troops, clearance
having been allowed by the British
Government.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Clearance
papers have been allowed the Tartar
at Hongkong. 1t is expected that she
will proceed to the United States at
once The information that clearance
had been allowed came in a dispatch
TO Adjutant General Corbin this morn
ing from Colonel Metcalf commanding
the Twentieth Kansas, and the troops
aboard the transport
1t is supposed clearance papers were
allowed upon the suggestion OF the
British Foreign Office to the British
Governor at Hongkong that it would
be unwise to interfere with American
transports.
Another dispatch from Colonel Met
calf in reply to one sent yesterday
states that the Tartar was not over
crowded and that the food was as good
as on other transports leaving Manila
He said that the trouble arose among
the discharged regular soldiers, who
We're returning home on board the
ship.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
THAT STRANGE WORD.

What the meaning of the words
''hermorphroditic haphazard," applied
by the Bulletin to General Hartwell,
is, has not yet been explained. 1t would
be easier to get wool off the back
of a hydraulic ram than to fetch out
OF that journal any rational definition.
Why did it not initiate O'Connell and
call General Hartwell "parallelo-
gram?" The Opposition would
have been in ecstacy at the wit, and
General Hartwell would, of course, be
done up.
Has the Government organ any
thing outside that powerful word
BCojum to offer?" asks the Bulletin
OF Saturday. Yes; it offers you the
dictionary
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
MORE HARMONY.

Another of the movements towards
bringing labor and capital into har-
mOniOus relations is the issuance b.
the Baltimore e Ohio Railroad Com
pany of annual passes to engineers
and conductors, who have served the
company for one year or more. These
passes include the wives and children
of the engineers and conductors and
give the right to travel over 5000 miles
of road. The aggregate number of
persons who can use these passes is
about $4,000. The motive for this
large generosity is the desire to en-
courage engineers and firemen to use
great care and watchfulness in the
management of trains and the saving
OF the enormous costs Of accidents. A
proposition of this kind would have
been ridiculed twenty years ago as a
goody- goody philanthropy and a use
less expense to the company. Capt.
tai stupidity gazed at underpaid men,
at collisions and wrecks, which cost
fortunes and were generally the re-
suits OF false economy, but it was not
wise enough or generous enough to see
that every violation of the law of eco
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
THE MORGAN CITY.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept ia
quartermaster, yesterday from Maya
saki relative to the stranded trans
port Morgan City, dated September
18th. 1t is as follows:
Ship lies we'll sheltered. Her bow
is out of water, her stern submerged
Divers have been down and report fore
foot damaged. She can be raised
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15-The War
Department has abandoned the steam
ship Morgan City to her owners. She
lies in the inland sea below Nagasaki
the attempt to float her.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25

nCmic justice imposed its own penalty.
So, through strikes and frightful col
lisions and expensive wrecks and inf
mite worry, railroad capital sees the
need OF harmony between capital and
labor, and is now creating it, just as
it is extending by the creation of old
age pension funds for the employees.
In all this there may be a hint TO
the sugar plantations that the warfare
between labor and capital, which has
yet TO distress them, may be avoided
by methods which are approved by the
best rules of political economy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
AIR.

Those who are familiar with the
article order it by the gallon, which
proves beyond all doubt that it is the
proper thing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
DISINFECTINE

With the heat of summer comes the
foul and disease producing air from
the cesspool, vault and cellar. You
must De on your guard against the &C
emulation of trash, garbage, etc.; 1t
is dangerous to have around.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
AN AMERICAN IMPRISONED.

MAFEKING, Sept. 13.-Mr. Near
thur, who was recently arrested at Ze-
rust, in the Transvaal, as a spy and
sentenced to a years Imprisonment,
claims to be an American citizen. The
United States Consul at Kimberley is
investigating the matter. Mr.. Ellis,
his former companion, on being discov-
cred at a Boer meeting in Ladysmith,
was tarred and feathered.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
PLAGUE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

CAPE TOWN, Sept. 14.-In the Cape
House of Assembly today the Premier,
w. P. Schreiner, admitted that there
had been AZ deaths from bubOnic
plague at Magude, near Lorenzo Mar
quez, Delagoa bay. He said that every
person attacked had succumbed 10 the
disease.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
THIRTY CRUSHED TO DEATH.

BERLIN, Sept. 14.-Advices from
Kalisch, in Russian Poland, say that
death in a panic in a synagogue there
caused by the upsetting of a lamp. The
victims were all women and children
Many others were injured.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
WILL NOT GO TO PARIS.

ROME, Sept. 1.-THE Tribuna says
that Signor Tamassio Villa, president
of the Italian Commission to the Paris
Exposition, has resigned as a protest
against the verdict of the Rennes
cOurtmartial. .it3S :