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DIED poor.

He died and was buried last week.
He went at GO and had big funeral.
He had always been farmer and
commenced life as a hired hand on an
Indiana farm without q cent. He re-
solved to accumulate money at all haz-
ards and early schooled himself to self
denying, economical habits, which gave
him good start by the time he was
30. He was shrewd enough to see the
possibilities connected with cheap west
ern lands and added acre to acre. SO
that the probate court will have some
1.7OO acres to divide among his heirs.
His wife died when he was so, O vic
tim to his insatiate greed for land. His
boys would not stay with him, and his
daughters married and left the old
home without single regret. Els
home was never anything more than
just place to eat and sleep in. Find
ing himself left alone, he married q
smart, scheming widow who kept
house for him during his last few years
of life. The smart widow gets one
third Of the estate. and the children
get at last part of what they helped
him to accumulate. While the neigh
bors all turned out to the funeral, It
was noticeable that no comment was
made on this mans life save that he
had got a lot Of land and made q pile
of money. The parson had tough job
to preach the funeral sermon. He pro-
vided In his will that q monument to
cost $4,000 should be erected over his
grave. just US though anybody who had
known him while he lived would ever
forget him. The widow wore q whole
lot of Grape and made great deal of
fuss; but, SO far as one could see, no.
body shed single tear Of regret that
he was gone. The local paper gave
him as good send off as it could and
used the whitewash brush literally;
said that he was good and industri-
GUS man and had accumulated lot of
land and money. You knew him, did
you? Well, do not go and be a fool
like him, for his life, measured by a
true standard, was a most miserable
failure.
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Curiou. origin Of F1.xor..

Among the most remarkable glimpses,
into hidden corners of nature that RED
cent scientific advance has afforded arei
the frequent discoveries Of micro-or-
ganisms in unexpected places, where's
they produce phenomena heretofore
supposed to arise from other causes.
For instance, DR.. A. Petersen, of Up!
sala, Sweden, has ascertained that in
preparations Of meat and fish contain
ing, for purposes OF preservation, salt
to the amount of Is per cent, micro,
organisms grow luxuriantly, and hel
concludes that the favors and odors
that are peculiar to various salt con-
serves are due to the micro-orgaa.smx
with which they are crowded.
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been crying, but she came to him witt
firm, confident step, and put both
her hands in his.
1t IS all so wonderful" she said,
simply. II am actually too choked M
to speak. I've been laughing, crying,
and doubling the truth of it by turns
ever since Mr.. Redding went away
ut seems like a dream to me.a' he
made answer II am afraid I shall
wake and find myself back in my little
room over there on the farm"
Mrs. Lancaster told me just noy.n
said Evelyn, "that she had forgotten
to tell you your given name. She
asked me to inform you, but I hate
to pronounce it. shall never call
you anything but Ronald. Will that
suit you. sir?"
They were seated side by side on
the sofa.
Il shall never want you to call me
anything else," he smiled; shut I muso
own up to little curiosity as to what
] am legally entitled to-,
Charles Erskine," answered EVELYN.
Mrs. Lancaster was Miss Erskine.
How do you like it?''
ITS not bad" he laughed; "per-
haps I may grow up to it in time"
just then Hasbrooke looked in at
the door and limped towards them. an
almost boyish look Of embarrassment
on his face.
Il am going to beg your forgiveness
for what said the last time you were
here" he said.
II did not blame you, Col. Has
brooke" was the reply
But I blame you," Evelyn turned
on Ronald, suddenly. "If had known
your stupid reasons for giving me I'M,
l should never have consented neyerls
l thought it was because-because you
thought me too great responsible
ity, and a burden"
We'll, settle it between you" smiled
her father. And when he had Quilted
the room they did.
THE END.
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WhiteWaRh.

A good whitewash is made by putt
ting a piece Of lime weighing about five
pounds in O granite pan or bucket.
Pour on it gallon Of water, allow it to
boil and slack until the steaming is
over; then take from this two quarts
of the liquid lime, put it in wooden
or granite bucket and add sufficient
water to make 1t rather thin. Add o
small amount of pure indigo sufficient
to give 1t the proper color; add tea
spoonful of salt and half teaspoonful
of lampblack; stir well. If you wish
1t colored, add one Of the colorings
which can be purchased at any drug
gist's, stating that it is to be used with
lime.
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WHEN TO SELL.

1t Is not always easy to determine
just when to sell the products Of the
farm. 1t seems to be true that farm
products seldom go to rising market,
the owners thinking that they will get
still better prices. 1t is also true that
such products will rush in to falling
market, the owners hoping to get rid
of their stuff before it gets lower in
price. Where q farmer is SO situated
that he is not compelled to sell and can
choose his market this phase Of his
business should receive more attention
than 1T does. The first and most i'm
portant thing to do in the study of this
matter is to ascertain as near Us NAV
be possible just what his stuff has cost
him to produce, and there is a great
variation in cost price of farm COM
modities even on farms in the same
neighborhood. A safe rule for guild
ance is that when produce is selling
for less than it cost to produce it is safe
to hold it provided it can be so held
without deterioration and loss. Hay
in barn, corn in crib and grain in the
bin are examples. With live stock,
dairy products, roots and fruits the
case is different, animals when fit for
the market becoming daily expense
to longer keep and the other products
being perishable. 1t seldom pays to
hold potatoes over for spring market
If fair price can be obtained for them
in the field when dug. 1t will never
pay the farmer to hold butter, cheese
or fruits, and the sooner these are sold
the better. 1t does not pay to carry
over until winter 40 or so young roost-
ers and then sell them for less than
they would have brought in July as
broilers; it does not pay to keep stuff
ing corn into a $50 pound hog when it
will bring cents q pound; it does not
pay to keep milking COW which will
make only 125 pounds Of butter in q
year-it is time to market her any day;
1t never pays to sell well bred steer
calf for veal or keep for future beef
animal the low bred and i'll favored
one. 1t will pay to break in and fit up
the colt before he is sold, for there is
$50 in doing it if such colt is good
one. The good brood mare, the aged
SOW which has always raised a good
litter of pigs and the good COW should
not be sold even at fancy figures dur
ing their period of usefulness. The
markets of the country at large should
be watched and studied and possible
shortage Of any staple commodity an
ticipated. In conclusion, the average
farmer should not be Spectator.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19
NATURES SECTIONS.

When any form Of life perishes, ma
ture is wonderfully prompt to resolve
1T into its original elements as quickly
as possible. and both the animal and
vegetable worlds have agents which
work almost wholly on this line as
sections or undertakers. Thus we see
In the case Of the tree smitten by
blight an army of worms and bugs
which seek the decaying wood in
which to feed and propagate their
kind, these, in turn, sought as food by
the woodpeckers, which in a short time
tear and riddle the decaying stump,
while not infrequently Mother Nature
will plant vine to feed on the decay
Ing roots and tenderly hide the work
OF death with q wreath of greenery.
With dead animal the odor Of decom-
position is notice to the fly that there
is work for it to do, and out of this
comes the seeming paradox that sin
gle bluebottle fly will destroy dead
horse more quickly than would a lion.
Then we have the tireless winged gull
as an ocean scavenger, and the vulture
its counterpart on land, or we can look
down among the myriad pygmy life
underfoot and watch sexton beetle
busy at work, exercising knowledge
of engineering in accomplishing its her
culean task which is little short Of
marvellous. It is left for man alone to
abrogate the natural law on this thing
and by ingenious systems Of embalm-
Ing preserve his own dead for an in
definite length Of time. =
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19
CHAPTER XIX.

Another summer had come. Ronald
was now Redding' law partner, and lived
in town. He had put up no sign, having
told his partner that he would not do so
till he had found out his rigltful name.
Dave and. his mother and sisters had
moved to Texas and purchased good
farm from the sale OF their own place
and the insurance money.
One morning in July Redding hustled
into the Office as our hero sat reading
at his desk. The old man wore a look
OF suppressed excitement and looked as
il he were dying to have Ronald ask him
what had happened. But our hero only
gave him hurried good morning and
went on with his reading.
Redding sat down at his own desk and
threw up the roller top with great
clatter. "Well," he began you don't
have the least curiosity in the world
about anything. Why haven't you aAed
Teller whar he's been all mornin'?"
Ronald smiled as he looked up from
his book. Il thought you might be i'll.
I was going to send round to see about
you.'
"You couldn't guess, to save yore life.
The truth is, old Hasbrooke sent for me
just as was leaving the breakfast table,
an I went right out to the plaE1ation.
What he wanted, an what dropped on
to while I was thar, would fill wonder
book. He's laid up with sprained
ankle, or he would have come in to talk
over the matter with u.s.
The old lawyer pinched his nose sew
eral times and winked slyly into Rom
AIDS eNpectant face. "You had fool
notion, young man, that was dom a
sort of charity act in takin' you in with
me, but lsnowed which side my bread
was buttered on. knowed you'd draw
business, and plenty of it. Well, the
colonel opened up by sayin' that he'd al
ways felt big interest in you, an sence
you've made such rep with yore
speech on the Lester robbery case he's
made up his mind to hep push you
along"
Ronald's face had fallen. There was
something in the idea of Col. Has
brooke's patronage that offended his
pride.
II am sure have never expected aid
from him in any way, and it depends
on the nature of his proposition as to
| whether I shall"
Don't fly off the handle" grinned
Redding; tits only business for the
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I know you will want to kick me for
meddlin' in yore private affairs, but
the truth is, I got my foot in it before
thought. He was akin about yore
mother an the childern-I mean the
Fanshaws-an somehow felt SO good
over what he had done that up an
let yore cat out o. the bag. Iconfded
to him every blame thing you've told
me about Your family mystery, an the
search you'd made up in Tennessee for
the grave. Well, sir, the old man looked
like he was goin' to faint. never seed
abody act like he did; he jumped up
on his sore foot an began to yell half
the time in pain an the other half to
Miss Evelyn, who was in the j'inin'
room with Mrs. Lancaster. She got
hecr yesterday. They come to the
door Just as he got thar, an they all
went into the room an fell to jabberin'
like rips. After awhile heerd i'm veil
for camphor an water, an 1 lowed
somebody was dead. 1t turned out that
the old lady keeled over in dead swoon.
set thar for half an hour wonderin'
what on earth to do, till Hasbrooke
finally come in lookin' as peculiar out
o. the eyes as eff he'd been ketahed
stealin' sheep. He apologized for
keepin' me waitin', but said he stayed
to have talk with Mrs. Lancaster aft
er she come TO. He said he was sorry
he didn't feel at liberty to make full
explanation, but that the old lady want
ed me to ride to town an send you out
thar as fast as you could travel. He
followed me 10 the front steps, an then
he said: Tell Mr.. Fanshaw that she
can tell him all about his parentage-
tell him to make haste!'"
For moment both men stared into
each others eyes.
perhaps Mrs. Lancaster knew my
parents" Ronald said finally. "Mr.
Redding, you can understand that this
is of the greatest Importance to me. I
shall go out at once"
"rhat's right" agreed Redding. 81
left my boss hitched at the door. Go
ahead; I believe you are on the right
track to solution of that matter"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

South Dakota is making very rapid
strides in the dairy business and is fast
coming to the front as one Of the best
dairy states. There are now in opera
tion in the state ITO creameries, doing
business Of $4,5oo,0oo a year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

SIS We took from a wren's nest few
days since stick of wood seven inches
long and quarter Of an inch In diam
eter. 1t is very singular that SO small
and delicate bird should use such
rough material with which to construct
its nest. If an eagle should use mate
rial proportional to its size, its nest
would be made up of fence rails and
small saw logs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

5g A very pleasing improvement is no.
ticeable in the efforts being made to
decorate the depot grounds along the
lines Of railways through the west.
It is a pleasure when the train pulls
up at the station to be able to see a
bit Of well kept lawn and some nice
flowers instead Of the pile of empty
beer kegs, the little fool girl who meets
the trains, the chronic depot loafer
and rackety old bus or two.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19
cur1o.itie. of the Alphabet.

To those who have never considered
the subject 1t might appear that each
letter is Of equal Importance in the for
nation of words, but the relative pro-
portions required in the English lam
guage are these: q, 50; b, 10; c. 30; d.
"a; e, 120; I, %; 6, II; b, "a; /, 80; ], A;
k. 8; !, 40; m, 30; n, 80; o, so; p, II; q, 5;
r, 60; s, 80; t, 80; u, "a; v, -; W, 20; <,
A; y, 20; z, 2.
1t is this knowledge of how frequent
ly one letter is used compared with 9TH
ers that enables cryptogram readers to
unrayel many mysteries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

A railway track laid with rails
weighing 200 pounds to the yard, upon
which shall run an engine weighing
200 tons and hauling cars loaded with
100 tons Of freight is by no means an
unlikely thing In the future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

Here and there we come across some
township which has done away with
the old road district system and is now
operating it's highway machinery with
one MAJ to manage the work Of the en-
tire township, and we just wish to note
the fact that wherever this reform has
been introduced it gives entire satisfac-
ton and secures better and more
economical highway service than ever
was possible under the old system.
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The cleo men have had to tell con-
gress how cleo Is made. 1t proves to
be nice conglomeration Of lard, suet,
drugs and chemicals of more dubious
parentage than boarding house hash,
restaurant mince pie or Tueton sau-
sage.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

It Is said that there are about $50
different sorts Of insect pests which
forage in the garden and orchard, and
for a fact it sometimes seems as though
we had 200 Of them at work on our
ranch.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

A very pretty and desirable house
plant for winter blooming can be OBJ
tanned by planting some sweet peas in
pot in early September. They can be
trained on lattice and will furnish q
profusion OF bloom in midwinter. Try
o..
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

There are still lots of people who
think it is all right to mix some timo-
thy In their lawn grass seed when tim
Othy Is really one Of the biggest null
sances in lawn it is possible to get.
4 Only red clover is worse.
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Now here Is q sweet, mean trick If
ever there was one. A man in an east
ern town keeps a lot Of bees and has
discovered that If the bees can get glu-
8cose to eat they will not bother to for
age for the sweets Of the flowers, but
will work most industriously filling the
ready made comb furnished with glu-
cose honey!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

Bad roads do something to indirectly
help the stock interest. The more Diff
fcult it is for farmer to market his
grain the more willing he is to feed it
out on the farm. This is the only ar
sgnment in favor Of poor roads we know
& f
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19
+ Tennessee farmers find sorghum 81
lage better food than corn silage.

Vessels can make as much profit in
transporting one ton of freight one
mile for mill as the railways can do
ing the same thing for mills.
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An Inexpensive Orgy,

freddy, not another cake! You'll
be sickv'
well, ma, you needn't to care
There's half my medicine lef' from last
timew- Chicago Record.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

The good living which most Ameri-
cans enjoy will not improve them phys
ically. On the contrary, it may be said
that the liberal bill of fare provided
for them will have a deteriorating eff
feet. The average American eats too
much rich food and is either bilious,
dyspeptic or nervous and a victim of
the patent medicine habit. In Ireland
and Scotland q fine race of men have
been bred raised on pratles, oatmeal
and bonnyclabber, with cake, pie and
meats as unattainable luxuries. What
sort of people can you raise on ration
Of meat and hot biscuits three times a
day, with unlimited cake and pie, save
a race Of bilious, surfeited, physical
imbeciles? Reform your bill of fare,
use more oatmeal, milk, vegetables,
fruit and brown bread, get rid Of the
frying pan and the baking powder can
and sleep with the bedroom window
wide open.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-19

The click, click, click Of the corn
planter all over the great corn belt has
been May music for the west. The
seed has been planted for 100000,
COO bushel crop, the greatest crop in
the world; the brown fields. now trac-
ed with delicate lines Of green, later to
be mass Of royal tropical foliage, and
100 days from the click Of the planter
to the full ear. Think for moment of
all the hogs. beeves. butter, starch, glu-
cose and whisky these brown fields
will turn out in 100 days!
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OBITUIRY T.

William II. Ravens. an Old resident OF Ho-
boken. died on Friday night at his home, 900
Garden street, from apopleXy. He was born In
Hoboken on Oct. IA, 1898. and had lived In the
city all his life. He was employed by the
Hoboken Ferry Company when the boats were
ID rated by horse power. His father was one
OF the pilots employed on the ferry when
steam power was introduced. lie was con;
ductor on the old Morris and Essex Railroad
when 1t started and had charge OF the trst
train that ran over the roaa from honoSen 70
Hudson Gas Light Com pany when u was
organized in 1852 and was general manager
for the comGany nn,,I a teT months age @n Tnsn
Hooboken Common Conucil from 1871 to 1873
aud he also served as School Trustee i3r Twelve
years. For a number 81 yea re he was President
Of the Hoboken Cemetery Company.
Philip y. Armour. Jr., died at Montecito.
Cal, near Santa Barbara. on Friday. He was
il only tw~enty;ionr hours with congestion OF
aged Z AMI 3, he went to G California two weeks
ago. The elder child was 4. but, the father
was in the best Of health PHILIP ,; Armour.
Santa barbara. seventy-fiv" miles distant;
believing, the, climate there would he OF
mour, Jr.. was thirty-one years Of age. and
was horn in Milwaukee, coming with hts par
emit, to Chicago when a child. Hs stndiGd at
but n ter two wears left the university 70 travel
in Europe. He was a member OF he chicago.
lie Calumet. the Athletic and. the Wheaton
Colt cluns, and was ono OF the three membrrs
Of the firm Of Armour y co, the other Two
being his father and his brother. J. Ogden Ar
mour.
Martha Tallmadre Hunt, the widow OF pr.
sanford Is. Hunt. formerly editor 81 the
Nprdrk U1ilv idrertise', AM mother OF
William +. Hunt, editor OF the Ne''drk Snrday
can. died yesterday a. her home IN Bernhrds-
New York and will be buried hesi % her hus-
band in Fnirlavn Cemetery. Buffalo.
Joseph Shaw. captain OF the fr'boat william
/. HavempYer. died Ot nnenm onin AZ hs home.
23S East Eighty.cighth street, yesterday morn
ing. He wa- "A memher,pi the OF NolIaterr
was formed. was one Of the organizers OF En-
! CINE COMPANY II. In 1878 he was made as
s!stant foreman and in 1892 foreman.
DR.. Williams =. House died at his home in
Hayarstraw yesterday morning. aged ~!
wears. He was the eldest sou ~ capt. Garrett !.
House. who lives ~ Shokan, Ulster county,
lie ia survived by hiS wife, two sons and one
daughter. He was an active Free Mason. be-
longing 10 stony Point Lodg. OF Haverstraw.
Frederick Witteminr. Sr 'or thlrty. We years
engaged in the broom manufacturing business
/ at Triheshill, Montgomery county. n, Y, died
nm friday night He was ~ the heal OF the firm
OF +. Wittem'er& sons He IL survived ny hi-
widow. 1--WE sons and two daughters. II" was
90 years Of age.
Thomas Halliday. a well known Scottish
piper and a member of kiiwiuning Lodge. No
SDJ. +. and 4. H.. died on Friiay night nc hi
home, ~ J aspect street, BruoNiyn,
John II. Bogart, on OF the oldest builders IN
the Gowanua section IN. BROOKLYN. .dled 81
! Tridsy. nj his home. Ib5 Thirty-soyenth street
in his spyenty-nlnth year,
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LOvE FOX A BURLEsQUE ACTRESS.
Young Henry Rich spends All His Money
on a Girl and Then Lands in Jail.

On III A"o' H"h"S - W.
DETROIT. Mich. Jan. PA few years ago
Henry Rich. son OF a wealthy Chicago clothier.
saw a burlesque show in st. Louis. Acontor-
ton dancer. Marvel Princeton. captivated him.
She was a fairly good looking girl. and he soon
made her acquaintance. His father gave him
plenty OF money and he spent 1t on the bur-
~!esquer. She finally told him she would marry
him. He was happy but relatives In
tervenel, and Ly means Of a decoy
letter Henry was lured from his fascination.
He came 10 Detroit a year ago 70. forget her.
On SUNDAY Marvel appeared with her sister at
the Capt ID Square Theatre. Rich was th,sre.
He nodded 10 her and she returned IL. Next
Iay he got a letter from her protesting her un-
dying and un broken love for MIN. He replied
in person and she told him that she had never
cen married. that the letter that she was
angry was a subter uge. Henry was oyerJoyed.
He sent % his father for $3.50 and for four days
alterward Marvel lived In luxury .
dollar. He took Marvel to dinner at the Rus
Gel House. The bill amounted TO ~. He wrote
a cheek for It. signed u The Pearl Button
Company" and presented II to the clerk. II was
a clumsy IN rication. This morning Henry was
sep 10 lail and he WAS OF iged to telegraph his
father 70 come on TO get him out, Marvel went
with her company last night to 81. Louis. not
deigning to bid good bye to her lover and
totally Unconscious o. what awaited him In the
morning. He says he still loves the girl.