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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
SUDDEN DEATH.

On Monday evening about o'clock
Mr. Thomas Swan, well known shoe
maker Of this place, while walking
along on the sidewalk in front of Mr..
w. H HUMPHREYS store on Church
street, suddenly became paralyzed in
his arm He seated himself in chair
and the pain continued down his side
and leg. He was carried to his room
in rear of Mr.. Sloan Thompson's shoe
shop, and DR.. Nolan was sent for and
did what ne could for him. He soon
became unconscious and in little over
an hour he died. He had worked all
day, but several days before had COM
planned of severe pains in his head. He
was jovial all through the day and there
was no suspicion that death was so
near.
Mr.. Swan was born and raised in Ma
rietta and was about SO years of age
He was shoemaker and was in the
employ Of Mr.. Sloan Thompson. He
was years ago city marshal and subse-
quently he was on the police force of
Atlanta
He leaves five daughters, three of
whom are married. His wife is dead
His burial took place on Tuesday
afternoon at city cemetery. Dr. Wads-
worth conducted the funeral services.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

Cruelty to animals is heavy
tax, not only on farms but Iher-
ever these bearers are used.
Horses and mules are half fed,
overloaded and then beaten be-
cause they can't pull the load.
We never see man beating his
team without wishing the blows
were upon his own back. There
may he a little cruelty in the wish,
but it has in it the element of JUS
tica.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
LEGO BROTHERS.
Winter Dress Goods

Are suggested by the nipping
air. Fall will almost i'm
perceptibly merge into win
ter, and preparations for
seasonable clothing are in
order. You want them. We
have them for you. Come
and let us show them to you.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
Are You Dressed :? .
- - S 20 70

Are you dressed, or merely
covered ? Some Clothing
will dress and cover, too.
We have that kind, so come
and let us fix you up for the
cold weather, which is sure
to come. We believe that.
we have the best stock we
have ever shown you. :. :.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

Happiness is like a meteor. 1t
blazes and goes out and all is
blacker than before it came. Peo-
pie are often deceived as to their
true interests.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
: Stop that Cough :

Are you troubled with a
cough ? If so, why not
stop it by getting a bot
tie of DIR. Laws
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

Compound Syrup
White Pine and Tar.
Hundreds of coughs have
been cured by its use.
1t may prevent serious
results. Try it :.
Price 25c a bottle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

If you must be sick, it is better
to be home sick, for when you are
away from home sick you are
likely to be more than homesick
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
THAT THROBBING HEADACHE

Would quickly leave you if you used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Thousands
OF sufferers have proved their match
less merit for sick and nervous head
aches. They make pure blood and
strong nerves and build up your health.
Easy to take. Try them. Only 25c.
Money back if not cured. Sold by J.
w. Legg, druggist.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
: For the Complexion :

In order to keep the COM
plexion soft aud clear, the
pores of the skin must be
we'll oiled and soft
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18
EdelWeiSs Cream

EdelWeisS Cream
is a preparation that has
proven satisfactory for
years, and we sell it with
a guarantee not to injure
the skin in any way ;.
Price 25C a bottle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-18

Ideals are mind-pictures drawn
in the lights and shadows Of our
best thoughts,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
where woo1s Learned Poverty.

Michael Angelo Woolf. whose black
and white sketches of street waits en-
dowed with most of the ambitions of
more favored children have given him
lasting place in the hearts of the
people, knew what it was to be poor
himself. For many years lie was an
actor. Once his company was strand
ed as far away from civilization as
they could possibly get. Weeks after
ward Mr.. Woolf walked into New
York an artistic wreck. He was seedy.
polished with wear. but clean. He
was unshaved and were no shirt. His
boots consisted entirely of soles held
to his feet by fragments of uppers, and
his toes We're painted black so that
from a distance he looked like a man
with the govt to whom his shoemaker
had been uncommonly kind.
1t appeared that Woolf was the only
man in the company who had received
his salary in full. He had spent every
cent of it in paying the railroad fares
home of the women Of the company
and had walked back every step Of the
way.-Saturday Evening Post.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
..rHE RoLL1NG sroNE.n

The thing that allied him was that no
matter how good his chances were he
was never contented. always wanting
to change and be on the move. He
tried the Pacific coast. Michigan, Iowa,
Texas, always looking for some garden
of Eden or Ell Dorado and always find
ing that there is no section of the coun-
try having monopoly of all the good
things. He had no home in its best
sense. He forfeited all that is so de-
sirable growing out of continuity of
residence in community. He further
got little worse off financially all the
time. He was always making new ac-
quaintances, never enjoying old ones.
He is filter and failure both for
himself and his family. He is old now
and cannot move many more times,
and the chances are that the next move
he makes he will stay where he goes
Learn this lesson from him: That you
are only just one of 75.O00.OOO peo-
pie; that very large share of the
pleasure Of living comes from continui-
ty of residence. old friends and old as
sociations as we'll as prestige and in
fuence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
Five Foot Worm s.

Occasionally we see in our gardens
angleworms six inches long or more
and we think they are unusually big
fellows. Rut Madagascar sports an
angle or earth worm five feet long.
Australia has one which is four feet
long and as thick as ones finger. In
Sardinia these worms grow to length
Of two feet and half.
The old saying that never was any
creature created without having q pur-
pose and an excuse for living is ex-
emplitied by the work the angleworm
does in improving the soil. 1t eats
the earth and then deposits it in small
mounds on The surface. The mounds
of the Madagascar worm are from
three and half to five pounds in
weight. If left undisturbed, in half a
century these mounds would form a
strata Of fortified earth three feet
thick.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
A QUESTION OF TEMPERA-
TURE,

We are asked why it is that the
mercury during a heated term will
always show a higher degree of. tenn
perature at points in the Dakotas and
in the extreme northwest than in the
more southern section of the country,
this difference in August last being as
much as 8 or 10 degrees. The rea-.
son is this: During the heated term
referred to the wind blew continuously
from the south-southwcst. If one will
take map and, taking Pierre for the
northern point, lay ruler on the map
in the course Of such hot wind, it will
be found that it goes straight to the
deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and
western Texas, this wind robbed OF
every particle of moisture by the in
tense heat and radiation of the arid
and heated deserts. Coming north
northeast, it strikes the settlements of
western South Dakota like the breath
of a furnace and easily explains the
difference in temperature referred to.
1t is fact worth noting that, being an
absolutely dry heat temperature Of
105 at Pierre is far more endurable
than one of 90 ut Memphis. but the
Pierre hot wind is very hard on vegcta-
ton. Just so long as the treeless des-
erts Of Arizona and New Mexico exist
and the south-southwest wind blows in
the summer just so long will it be hot
ter at Pierre than it is in the country
farther east.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
TEA ROSES.

A large bed of tea roses in the writ
er's garden affords larger return for
the labor and time invested than any
thing else which we do in the way Of
flower culture. Nearly every day a
nice bouquet of the most beautiful and
fragrant roses can be obtained from
this bed-American Beauty, Perle de
Jardin, Bride, Kaiserin Victoria. Woo
ton, La France. Meteor. Golden Gate,
Sunset and dozen other varieties of
the choice roses. A spot of ground on
the lawn partially shaded from the aft
ernoon sun was selected for the bed.
The sod was removed and the bed
made Of a stiff clayey loan well mixed
with rotted cow manure. This was
well compacted and the plants set out.
They are thoroughly syringed every
evening with the garden hose and are
fortified with liquid manure dipped
up in the barnyard after rain. They
have been entirely free from insect
pests and have been a constant delight.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
THE COW AND pRospER1TY.

We hardly know just why it should
be SO, but 1t is an invariable rule that
when farmer turns from grain rails
ing and selling and commences to keep
dairy of cows just SO soon his finan-
cial condition is improved. He has
more ready money, pays cash for his
groceries. his land improves in fertil-
ity; keeping cows, he is compelled to
raise calves and feed hogs, and in q
very few years he is out Of debt and
letting the contract for new house
and building big red barn. We have
seen this thing done thousand times,
and it always wins. Dairying is hard
and combining work, perhaps more so
than any other work on the farm, but
it is the shortest and safest route to
agricultural independence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
THE WEALTHY APPLE.

The Wealthy apple is now just at it's
best and q fine fruit it is. We often
wonder what is the use-of fussing with
any other variety of apple of the sea-
son of the Wealthy, for not one in all
the long list of fall apples compares
with it in productiveness. in quality. in
beauty. If an apple were to be made
on purpose to suit the conditions Of
north Iowa, Minnesota. Wisconsin and
Illinois, it would be hard to improve
upon the Wealthy as we have it. We
picked Wealthy apples from the trees
on the last of October last year in per-
feet condition, giving them season of
21a months without any sort of care.
Cold storage will certainly easily carry
them through till spring, thus fully
and most satisfactorily settling the
problem of winter fruit for the terri
tory mentioned.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
America the Most Apt Nation.

Anglo-Saxons are considered the best
colonists. the most tolerant of violent
changes In climate and environment of
all races, because they have the stron-
gest power of self control. OF all ma
-tionalities OF mankind they have the
most universal adaptive aptitude, be-
cause they possess in the highest de-
gree the mastery OF mind over matter.
The American in time will Guido the
native of every cline in his own ma
tional game. He throws lasso better
than the Mexican and trails deer bet
ter than the Comanche. Jacksonville
Pioneer-U Union. az
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
A GOOD YEAR.

In a general way the season of 1900
Is probably one Of the most generous
and prolific ever known. Good crops
and good prices are making of agricul-
ture one Of the most lucrative of en-
pigments. The early and the later
rain has tempered the fierce summer
heat, the pests of earth and air have
been kept in allegiance, seasonable
weather has permitted the safe gather
ing of the products Of the fields, the
orchard trees are laden with fruit and
the forest trees with nuts, and peace
and plenty prevail. Save for the grim
shadow of war in the orient the world
is as nearly at the border land Of the
millennium as it has ever been or likely
to be Tor many year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Where milk is taken at the creamery
by weight and not by test the patron
who keeps lot of Holstein cows just
as effectually beats his brother patrons
as If he stopped at the pump every
morning and fixed his milk. Holstein
milk will average nearly one-fourth
poorer in butter fat than the milk of
the average COW of any other breed
This Is frequently more than made up
in the quantity given, still making the
Holstein one of the very best Of dairy
animals, but the milk should always
be bought by test.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Just as soon as any kind of fruit,
vegetable OF animal becomes generally
introduced, just SO soon will some sort
of pest or parasite originate to prey
upon it. Here is the sugar beet, for
instance; its culture in California is q
new thing and yet the crop this year is
very seriously injured by species Of
blight not heretofore known The
same thing will be noted with refer
ence to the Belgian hares over which
the country is going crazy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

which the eyes of both girls danced in
eager Interest," row of "a" tents on
the open prairie, long line of horses
tethered to the picket ropes, groups
of stalwart, sunburned men in rough
blue garb, silSen guidon Tapping by
the tents of the officers. 1t was one of
half dozen such camps of detached
troops they had been passing ever since
breakfast time-the camps of isolated
little commands guarding the new rail-
way on the climb to Cheyenne. Papa,
with one or two old cronies, was play
ing "old sledge" in the smoking COM
partment. At big station few miles
back two men in the uniform of officers
boarded the car, one of them burly, ro-
tund and sallow. He was shown to the
section just in front of the girls, andat
Pappoose he stared-stared long and
hard, SO that she bit her lip and turned
nervously away. The porter busted
the seat and disposed of the hand lug
gage and hung about the new arrivals
in adulation. The burly man was evil
IDENTIFY parsonage of Importance, and
his shoulder straps indicated that he
was major of the general staff. The
other, who followed somewhat diff
IDENTIFY, was a young lieutenant of in
fantry. whose trim frock coat snugly
fitted his slender figure.
ssAh, sit down here, Mr.-Mr. Loom
u.s." said the major, patronizingly. $50
you are going up to the Big Horn.
Well, sir, j hope we shall hear good ac-
counts of you. There's splendid field
for officers of the right sort there
and opportunities for distinction
every day."
AT sound of the staff officers voice
there reused up from the opposite sec
ton, where he had been doing over
paper, man of middle age, slim, ath-
letic, with heavy mustache and i'm
psr'al. just beginning to turn gray, with
deep-set eyes under bushy brows, aud
keen face, rather deeply lined. There
was look of dissipation there, a shade
ofshabbinessabout his clothes,a rallish
cut to the entire personality that
caused Folsom to glance distrustfully
at him more than once the previous
ultSlLooAs anu " hlSCb Win SoldllSoS
the tentatives permissible in fellow
travellers. The strangers morning
| had been lonesome. Now he held his
| newspaper where it would partly
shield his face, yet permit his watching
| the officers across the aisle. And some
thing in his st<althy scrutiny attracted
Pappoose.
"Ies," continued the major, | have
seen great deal of that country, and
Mr.. Dean, of whom you spoke, was at
tached to the troop escorting our COM
mission. He is hardly regret to have
to say it-er-what you imagine. We
We're, to put it mildly, much disap-
pointed in his conduct the day of our
meeting with the Sioux
y swift, surprised glance passed be-
tween the girls, a panied look shot
into the lieutenant's face, but before
the major could go on the man across
tie aisle arose and bent over him with
extended hand.
'Ah, Burleigh, thought knew the
voice." But the hand was not grasped
The major was drawing back, his face
| growing yellow-white with some
strange dismay.
You don't seem sure of my identity
Let me refresh your memory, Bur.
leigh. ! am Capt. Newhall. l see you
need drink, major-Ill take one with
YOU"
(To be Continued.)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The very best pound butter should be
made at the farm dairy where mat
ter Of is cows are kept and where the
separator is used, for there all the con-
ditions Indispensable to the production
of the finest butter are absolutely un-
der the control Of the dairyman-feed,
water, care Of the cows, milking, sepa-
rating and churning. At best co-opera-
tive dairying only does more or less to
partially obliterate the work and de-
fects of the careless, dirty and shiftless
patron.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

1t is great pity that every attempt
to propagate the blue joint grass of the
western prairies is a total failure.
Gould 1t be placed in the list Of tame
grasses it would be most valuable
addition. 1t suffers less from drought
and makes better quality of hay
than timothy. 1t will soon disappear
entirely from all the prairie section Of
the west, being unable to hold its own
with the blue grass in the pastures
and meadows.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Aside from a few scattered settle
ments on the frontier and possibly in
some lumber camps, the OK team Is no
longer used. 1t is now rare to see even
4-year-old steer. The agriculture OF
the west has passed rapidly from the
OK team stage to the two horse team,
and on all the level prairie sections the
work is largely done with four horse
teams. The breaking teams of the
pioneer days, when six yoke of oxen
hauled 20 inch plow, used to do
great work, though.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Coursing by greyhounds in series
of events was substituted for horse
racing at certain county fair in the
west last year with much success The
dogs made an honest race after the
jack rabbit and there was no jockeying
and monkey business. which is mo, e
than can be said of much Of the horse
racing at county fairs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

An effort which is likely to meet
with success is being made to get TO-
600 Beers from the Transvaal to en-
igrate to this country. These people
will most naturally select the latitude
of Texas as one most nearly CORE
spending to that of the land which
they leave
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Make it rule to be always observed
to sell only the poorest of the breeding
animals on the farm. The good brood
mare and sow, the best eve and dairy
cow, are nearly always badly sold even
at fancy price.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Years ago when gang of binders
followed the old Mccormick reaper the
good wife always sent out bite for
the hands in the field about 10 o'clock
and o'clock. Now a fellow is expect
ed to work from $50 to noon and nary
snack. The fellow who shocks all
day signs for the good old times.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

A Kansas man has a flock of 1000
turkeys which he hires out to his
neighbors at S25 per day to rid their
EARNS of grasshoppers. We seriously
doubt the truth of this story, our
selves.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The Belgians and the Eskimo are the
only peoples which have succeeded in
making the dog practical beast Of
burden. In Belgium the dog largely
supplants the horse as motive power
for carts, and the dog trains of the far
north alone make travel possible in tho
land Of ice and snow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

1t is time and money thrown away
for man who knows nothing about
fruit culture, and who is not willing
to post himself thereon, to set out
fruits of any kind. Successful fruit
culture requires thorough knowledge
and infinite care, and it matters not
whether it be in so called fruit grow
ing sections or not.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Feeding cow to the limit during one
period Of lactation is quite likely to in
jure her for the succeeding one. There
are reasonable limitations in this mat
ter as in everything else.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Give Wealthy and Duchess apple
tree equal age and equal chances as to
care, and the Wealthy will give you
two bushels of fruit where the Duchess
does one, and it will bring you just
twice as much per bushel in the mar
ket,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

When herds of Polled Angus and
Hereford cattle begin to show up on
the farms of community, it becomes
hard lines for the creamery of such
community right away.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The zone judge" plan Of awarding
premiums at county fairs is generally
meeting with approval. If the man So
lected as judge is the hired man of
some competing exhibitor, as in case
we came across last year, it does not
work SO well.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The sugar producing territory Oh
Hawaii is at best limited. Irrigation
plants, having capacity of lifting 3d.
100000 gallons OF water daily to a
height of 800 feet. are already in use to
produce the crops now raised.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The cannerles are now working full
time and through the west are working
on one of the best crops of sweet corn
ever raised. Four tons of ears to the
acre, at 81 to S4.50 per ton, represent
the cash return to the grower of the
crop, besides the two tons of the best
fodder in the world which he gets from
each acra
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

With ordinary 31a per cent milk SELL
Ing In the large cities at Z cents per
quart, enterprising dairymen have
found ready market for AZ per cent
milk put up in alright glass jars at
IL cents quart.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The good dairy COW is not apt to be a
handsome one. Such a COW puts her
food into the pail and not on to her
ribs. She should have clean cut and
delicate head and neck, but the home
lier the build Of her hind quarters the
better udder she will be likely to carry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The powerful artesian wells of South
Dakota, which are such an interesting
feature of that country, have been so
multiplied in number that the power
developed by them is becoming greatly
reduced. The source of this water sup
ply is not fully known, though it is gen
orally supposed to come from the Mis-
souri, river in the vicinity of Great
Falls, Mon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

The best test of the butter maker is
the quality Of his early August butter.
Not that he should be expected to
make extra goods out of hot weather
milk or cream, but that he should be
able to do the best possible with raw
material at Its worst.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

Thirteen pounds Of sugar for 81
should make every man take an inter-
est in the beet sugar business. We
should have 26 pounds instead of 10
for 2 dollar and may have just as well
as not il we will improve our oppor-
tunities.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

There is to be a general advance in
the price Of nursery stock. the greatly
increased demand and the losses Incl
dent to the winter Of 1898 and 1899
being the cause.