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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The western parts Of the two Dako-
tas offer good opportunities for young
men to engage in stock raising. While
provision should be made for winter
feed and protection, stock will still
largely get their own living through
the winter in that section. A thousand
dollars well invested in good grade
cattle or in sheep by young man who
is willing to "bach" it and rough it for
a few years would result in making
him pretty well of in ten years or en-
able him to make money faster than
he could with his $1,000 in any Of the
more settled and civilized portions of
the country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
WHAT IS A HEATHEN,

It is by no means an uncommon
thing in this Christian country to come
across cases of most brutal cruelty to
dumb animals. Then we send mission
aries to India to convert and civilize
them, as we term it, and yet SO kind
toward dumb brutes does the religion
Of Buddha make these heather that
an asylum for aged and infrm beasts
and birds is maintained near Calcutta,
in which are cared for 129 bulls, 3O7
cows, III calves, IS horses, 60 sheep,
Is goats, 141 pigeons, cats, mon
keys and dogs-cared for at public
expense by over 100 servants and a.,
veterinary surgeon. And while the
heather were doing this same old dea-
con, in good and regular standing, was
working his horse with collar gall as
large as your hand or letting his cows
shiver on the lee side of barbed wire
fence while he went to kirk. What is
heather, anyhow?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
WILL TAKE THE EASIEST ROUTE.

WILL TAKE THE EASIEST ROUTE.
1t is one Of the memorable laws Of
commerce that freight shipment will
always seek the path of least resist
ance; in other words, it will seek its
destination by that route which will
move it for the least money. Thus it
comes that no man is more interested
in new routes, new inventions and new
methods affecting transportation than
is the farmer. When some new i'm
provement permits the moving of a
bushel of grain from Omaha to- Liver.
pool for cent less than it has ever
been done before, the producer will
get, in spite of all combinations to
prevent it, at least half Of what is
saved. For this reason farmers can
afford to encourage all new Transports
ton enterprises, even If they are en-
gineered by corporations.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
SWEET CORN A COOP cRop.

Where one is so located that COM
tract can be made with q cannery,
there is no question about sweet corn
being profitable crop to raise. 1t has
several things which commend it. It is a
cash summer crop. 1t can be planted in
installments and can thus be harvested
without any special rush and fret. 1t
is a very easy crop on the land, the
removal Of the ears before they harden
up causing the drain on the soil to be
very light. 1t gives the grower valu--
able forage crop in addition to what
he receives for the corn. The crop
leaves the land in the best of shape
for succeeding one
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Some valuable tests were made at
the Iowa agricultural experiment sta
ton. last year-ene that shallow cult
walton of corn increased the yield eight
bushels per acre and another that oats
on rich land are benefited by moving
them at the proper time before the
seed stalk appears, the uncut portion
of; the field giving 46.7 bushels per
acre, that cut low 1914 bushels and that
cut high $50 bushels per acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

One Of the things which have been OBJ
tanned as the result of the acquisition
Of the Philippine Islands is immense
forests Of mahogany in which are
found trees from which boards 4 feet
wide and 20 feet long can be cut.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

While waiting for a train the other
day we went up to a section hand who
was repairing the roadbed near the de-
pot. He was Swede and about so
years Of age. Asked how long he had
worked as a section hand, he said,
Seventeen years." He said that he
got $1.10 day. and had a nice home
and some money besides saved up. He
said he was happy and contented.
Humble though the place filled by this
man was, he had solved one of the
most important problems of life.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

eagerly.
perhaps yon don't want me to say any
thing at ALL"
"The very sound of your dear voice
brings healing with it, Olivia"
"Then-then-oh, Tom, it's perfectly
horrid Of you to make me say it! But
deserve some sort of punishment.
Did you think 1 asked you to take
me-just because was sorry for you?
Did not you know II love you?
Didn't you know, Tom, I've always
loved you? No. You poor dear, how
could you when only found it out
myself that day after you got up and
went from me without once looking
back? You see, Tom, you treated me
too well at first. But-but- ;e you love
me. Tom, 1T will all come right ut last.
I said No to you once when I did
not know my own mind, and you said
No to me when you wanted to punish
me for being such frivolous weather
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Grabbing out brush land is mighty
hard work, and scheme that beats it
all to pieces is to fence the lot in and
turn In enough sheep to keep every
green thing eaten off as fast as it
sprouts. About three years of this sort
of treatment and you will have nice
blue grass pasture which you can
break up without trouble. Angora
goats will do the work a little quicker,
for they will pretty nearly climb tree
after the leaves.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The Japanese almost worship the
cherry tree, and small wonder, for
there Is no more beautiful sight than
when 1t is in bloom, unless it be when
its bright, scarlet fruit is artistically
mingled with its rich foliage.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

We often come across men who are
enthusiastically engaged in replacing
dead trees in the orchard. While this
may. do up to the time the trees are
4 years old, 1t is time wasted to do it
afterward. When the ground is once
occupied by the living trees, it is al
most impossible to get a later planted
one to grow and do well.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The Irishman and the shovel have
been in this country well nigh dis
placed by modern inventions as dirt
mover. In China today coal is brought
up from the depths Of the mine in
sacks on the backs of cody climbing
rickety ladder.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
CHAPTER Xxx.
CONCLUSION.

The parlor of the boarding house
which Tom called home, in Kansas
City, held fast by the traditions Of its
class. 1t was preternaturally stuffy,
with its woolly furnishings and super
fluffy Of cheap bric-a-brac, and set
about with all sorts Of traps for the
unwary cropping in its darkness fresh
from the sunlit world outside.
Miss Malvina and Ollie CROPPED their
way toward a distant sofa to await the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

There is no time SO good to make
friends with your neighbor, when he
is at outs with you, as when some
trouble has overtaken him. 1t is often
very hard to touch the best side Of
some people when they are prosperous,
but when trouble comes the ndghborly
kindness offered will not be refused.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

A storage tank for water placed at
the bottom of the haymow in the barn
and covered with the hay, with pipes
leading to it from the windmill and
from it to watering trough, solves
very effectively the question of the
freezing Of the tank in winter and a
supply, Of water when the wind is off
duty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

IT may be tramp" said Waggles,
"but under my ragged coat there is a
heart that beats. y
Stranger" said the farmer, under
the fence yonder is dog that bites."1
Philadelphia North American. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Some hogs travel on the railroads in
crates, some in stock cars and not a
few in the day coaches. We came
across one of these Poland hinas in
the day coach not long since-a whole
hog, occupying two full seats, with not
manners enough to give up one of them
to an old lady who was looking in vain
for seat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The ground sparrow is one of the
first birds to nest in the spring. The
robin comes next, the latter sometimes
having its young large enough to leave
the nest before there is leaf on the
trees.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
Her idea Of Hor.eae.b.

"Papa, won't you buy me a pony p
pleaded little Ethel Beechwood.
What would you feed it?" asked Mr..
Beechwood.
"Oh, I'd feed it horse radish and
horse chestnuts. Pittsburgh Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
The Infallible PreIiminary.

Nell-Do you know, really think I
will marry Harry. He is good-looking,
rich, and am rather fond of him.
Belle didn't know you were en-
gagged. s77s
ooh, it's not formal yet; but he has
told me I seem different from other
girls.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The few black walnut trees left in
the country are being all picked up at
high prices and are wanted by the gov
eminent for gunstock material. We
have not yet come to the prophetic
time Of the sword and the plowshare
and the spear and the pruning hook.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

BY ]. S. TR1GG.

Prosperity in the corn belt may be
summed up by being able to put eight
300 pound Poland China hogs in hog
rack and get s12O for them at the de-
pot stockyards, as can be done today.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Not the least objection to leaving the
stalks in the cornfleld is the bother
they are when the land is being pre-
pared for another crop. Whenthe stalks
are properly saved in the fall. this
trouble is done away with.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

A new fodder prepared in new
manner for shipment has been put up
on the market lately from Nebraska.
1t is shredded corn fodder pressed into
a cylindrical bale SO inches long and 18
inches in diameter and bound with
three wires. 1t is very closely pressed,
and such a bale weighs 300 pounds.
There is likely to be a large demand
for Il.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The wild game Of the country, both
birds and animals, is destined to COM
plete determination under our modern
agricultural development. AS we look
at it. all game laws are practically. a
farce.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Neither millet, sorghum nor Kaffir
corn is equal in value as a forage plant
to just common, everyday corn fodder.
A man is foolish to sow millet and let
his cornstalks go to waste.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Stock Of any sort permitted to con-
tinually tramp around trees will inva-
riably kill the trees, no matter Of what
sort they be. This fact should be bet
ter known than it is.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

A young man living in the city pro-
posed to a city girl % times before she
said Eyes" Now, there is one advan.
tage in counting country girls, and that
is a fellow don't have to ask them
more than twice before they will talk
business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

A scientist says the earth is shrink
ing at the rate of three inches year.
This may account for the anxiety of
some people to get possession of it be-
fore it dwindles away Chicago Daily
News. MI
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
Not Away. Redcoat Ia.

The British soldier has not always
worn red uniform. White was the
prevailing color under Henry VIII, and
dark green or russell in the time OF
Elizabeth.7!N. Y. Sun. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The girl from the country wearing a
new hat trimmed with violet ribbon
and plume and magenta silk waist
was in town few days ago. This col
or combination was just too rocky for
anything. This girl was fresh and
pretty, brunette; and,if she had only
chosen colors for hat and waist which
would have harmonized with her type
and with themselves she would have
looked sweet as a peach, but she was
just an old scarecrow as it was. See
here, you little girl in the country, it is
not difficult for you to learn this lesson
of harmony in colors, and when you'll
once learn it you will find it will have
very much to do with your attractive
ness of person. No woman looks WELL
In magenta. Mind that!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
A entity Conscience

'Rastus-Whad yo' t'ink is de mattah
wifi me, doctah?
Doctor-oh. nothing but. chicken
pox, guess.
'Rastus getting nervous)-I clare
on nah honah, doctah,,I hain't bin no.
whar I could ketch dat!- Judge.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

There are too many men who sell
their fat hogs to the hog buyer and
run meat bill at the local butchers,
in a sense buying back their own hogs,
after they have made the trip to Chi
cago, in the shape of side meat, bacon
and hams. Our fathers way Of kill
ing and curing their own hog meat
was something which modern inven-
ton has never improved upon Not
many men know how to do it nova
days. Armour never turned out meat
as finely cured as were those hams
and that bacon which 40 years ago
could be found in every well regulated
farm home.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

That pretty little grapevine which,
you are encouraging to climb that
shade tree will climb it all right and
will climb 1t to kill 1t. No known sortl
Of tree can carry a parasite grapevine
and live.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Under modern methods the hide Of
the horse has become Of great value.
The Cordovan shoe is made of horse
hide and for general use has largely
supplanted the old fashioned calfskin
shoe.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
Strange, Indeed.

McJigger-That's q funny thing.
Thingumbob-What is?
Miss Passey was an. old maid be-
fore she married. and now that her
husband is dead she has become .
young widow" Philadelphia Record.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

We were asked the other day why it
was that men who buy the farmers
grain and stock SO seldom make any
money. Options.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

1t is said that onions will promote
sleep If eaten before retiring, and the
chances are If you so eat them your
bedfellow, If you have one, will feel
tired also.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

If it was as much trouble to raise a
little pig as it is to raise a baby, pork
would sell for S. q pound.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

What the great northwest needs is
varieties Of spring wheat and oats
which will get ripe by the 4th Of July.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Russia raised 100000 bushels of
faxseed last year. The two Dakotas
and Minnesota raised about 100000
bushels,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The mule is the nest conspicuous ex.
ample Of how man is able to improve
on natures methods.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

It is noticeable that the increased in
terest in horse breeding is almost who'll
~ on the line of the draft horse.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

South Carolina will use 100000 tons
of commercial fertilizers on her crops
this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Here is a Biblical admonition as to
clover: I'm the morning SOW thy seed,
and at evening withhold not thy hand"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

The COW should always be prefer
red creditor among the farm stock.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
she was Boss.

Tommy-Let's play grand opera.
Ethel-All .rightseI'll be the boss.
''No; it takes a man to be the man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Cora-Do you know the one thing
that nearly every girl gives up during
Lent?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

Merritt-The diary she started to
keep at the beginning of the year.
Judge.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08

ager."
"ohl you can be the manager, but I
want to be what they cali the bella
donna" Catholic Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20
w. X. Akens Wanted In Ken
lucky on Murder Charge.
Arrested In Doniphan County
by Local officers.
CRIME OF A YEAR PAST.
Said to Have Killed a Woman
and Child There.
Public Feeling is Very Strong
Against Akens.

Denton, Kas-, Oct 20-WiIliam K.
Akens. a young man % years Of age and
wanted in Monfordville. Hart county,
Kentucky, for alleged murder Of a wo-
man and child committed there over
year ago, was arrested here by Con-
stables Lee Baird and Arvin Coy, and
taken to Troy and lodged in the county
Jail.
A reward of $3.50 is offered by Ken
lucky authorities for his capture. Akens
first came to this place some three
months ago and disappeared about the
time his real identity became known, and
although vigflant search for him has
been prosecuted by the local authorities,
he was not found until yesterday He
was greatly surprised when arrested
but submitted quietly and accompanied
the officers to the county jail without re-
sistance. When seen by a reporter last
evening he admitted his identity and
confessed that he was the party want
crime charged. He claimed he was ar
rested for this same crime shortly after
it was committed, but was acquitted at
a preliminary trial. He was later in
dicted by the grand jury, but left be-
fore a warrant could be served on him.
He says he will accompany officers to
Kentucky without requisition papers
from the governor. He says public feel
ing is very strong against him at the
scene of his alleged crime and that he
fears mob violence when taken back.
The constables who effected his capture
will likely receive the entire reward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20
ROBBED OF 1888.
Atchison Veteran Gets Back Pension
Which Quickly Disappears.

Atchison. Oct 2O--Bill Rearen, a well
known Atchison laborer, either lost or
was robbed of 1898 yesterday afternoon.
Dearen fought during the civil war with
company D, First Kansas volunteers. and
for several years has had in an appli-
cation for a pension. He was recently
allowed a pension of IS a month, and
yesterday he received a voucher for
$33S. As back pension.
He drew the money at the Exchange
National bank, receiving thirty ten dol
lar bills and some silver. Dearen was
happy over his good fortune, and began
drinking, and within two hours his
money was gone. His wife found him
shortly after he had drawn his money,
and she begged him to let her have some
of it for safe keeping, but he refused to
do it. He had the money in his outside
coat pocket. and frequently felt to see
if it was still there. Presently he felt
for the bills and they were gone. Dearen
had shown the money promiscuously,
and several men We're following him.
presumably waiting for chance to get
his money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20
FOR MANY YEARS
Physicians Have Been Seeking a
Reliable Pile Cure.

For years physicians have expert
mented in vain, seeking remedy
which would effectually cure piles and
similar rectal troubles without resorting
to surgical operations.
Many salves, ointments and other
remedies were found to give only tenn
porary relief but none could be depended
upon to make a lasting, satisfactory
cure.
Within the past few years however a
remedy called the Pyramid Pile Cure,
has been repeatedly tested in hundreds
of cases and with highly satisfactory
results.
The first effect Of this remedy is to in
stantly remove the pain and irritation
and from that time on the cure rapidly
progresses and before the patient is
hardly aware of it he is entirely cured.
The Pyramid Pile Cure seems to act
directly upon the nerves and blood yes
sells of the parts affected as it comes into
direct contact with them and sets up a
healthy action which in a perfectly
natural way reduces the swelling and IN
The Pyramid Pile Cure performs the
cure without pain or Inconvenience to
the sufferer and is justly considered one
of the most meritorious discoveries OF
modern medicine.
Piles is most annoying and often
times dangerous disease with which hui
mainly is afflicted If neglected it fire.
uuently develops into fistula or some
fatal or incurable rectal trouble, whereas
by the timely use Of this simple but
effective remedy no one need suffer
single day from any form of piles.
The Pyramid Pile Cure is perfectly
harmless, contains no mineral poison,
opiate or dangerous drug of any kind
1t is in suppository form composed OF
emollient oils and 'astringents, and Is ap-
piled at night and absorbed into the
parts affected during sleep.
Druggists everywhere sell full sized
treatments of the Pyramid Pile Cure at
so cents per package.
The uniform success of the remedy
has made 1t the most popular and best
known of any form Of treatment Tor
piles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20
LATHAM AS A WRITER
The Old St Louis Player Talks of His
Release From Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Oct. 20.-Arlie Latham.
once the star third baseman of the St
Louis club and who this year acted as
coach for Cincinnati in a letter to q
Cincinnati friend says:
kindly see Groundkeeper John
Schwab and ask him why my name does
not appear on the reserve list of the
Cincinnati club
Il would suggest that you send some
smart fellow like Tom Parrot to see
him in reference to the matter. Parrot
has a foxy way of getting information
and am sure he would get to Schwab
and ascertain what am vitality interest
ed in knowing. After the good record
that I made in the coaching box with
the Reds it seems strange that am not
retained for next year Between you
and me il looks as II some OF these cut
rate coachers are trying to undermine
me. don't care TO mention any names
but If I run across Tom Tucker or Bull
Chiles they viii hear from me have
received a large number Of letters from
Cincinnati friends asking why my name