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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
Marriage and Reformation.

"He's a bigamist," we urged.
81 shall marry him to reform him." re-
piled the girl steadfastly.
Here we burst into derisive laughter.
"Reform bigamist by marrying himr'
we exclaimed.
"A bigamist is as likely to be reformed
that way as anybody" said the girl with
quiet dignity.
All, perhaps she was right after ALL
Detroit Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
What Shall We Have for Dessert ?

This question arises in the family every
da y. Let us answer it today. Try JelI-O.
a delicious and healthful dessert. Pre-
pared in two minutes. No boiling no
baking simply add boiling water and
set to cool flayors:-Lemon. Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. Get pack
aga at your grocers today. 10 cts.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

''Ry the way. captain" said the sweet
young thing on the second day out with
smiling attempt to be chummy, where
does Mother Carey feed her chickensT
'In the trough OF the sea, young wom-
an" replied the captain OF the ocean
liner with solemn dignity.-Chicago Trib'
une.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
10 RECEIVE QUEEN.

Dublin, March 16.-At 9 meeting in
the mansion house today. the Lord Mayor
presiding, committee was appointed to
tittiDgly receive the Qcssn and lco
pounds was suhscri bed for decorations.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
A VISIT FROM A BEAR.
An Old Monster Invaded q Yell
lOWstOne Park Hotel.

As No Shooting IL Allowed On This
Government Reservation They Had
90 Put the Big Grinziy to Flight by
Turning the Hose on Hfna.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
AMERIOA BIDS EIvTY MILLIONS

New York. March lo.-J. Fierpont Nor
gan this morning announced the closing
of the British war loan. The amouat Of
applications received mere was about $780,
COO OOO
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-17
SALE OF IRON BEDS.

Special low price sale CT iron beds tc-
day and Monday at u. p. Tibbetts &
Company.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
Exactine thirteen Guns,

An admiral of our navy. old, crusty
and self important, took great delight
In hearing a salute to his flag. The
following story. told in the Boston Her.
aid, exhibits the man:
We had entered a port, and the old
gentleman was strutting up and down
the poop while salute in his honor
was being fred. After II guns the
firing ceased. The admiral was furi-
GUS. He had been counting them him.
self; so had the quartermaster and the
flag lieutenant. both of whom agreed
that only IL guns had been fired. His
salute was IS.
Don't answer that saluteW he roar
ed. Don't answer it. 1t was only IL
gunsp'
Pretty soon a boat put off from the
shore, and an officer demanded to know
why the salute had not been returned
He was told.
when / receive the proper salute, /
shall answer it," said the offended ad.
miral.
An hour afterward a solitary gun
doomed out. The admiral was salts.
fed, as this made the full ID, and the
salute was promptly returned.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
THE TEN ACRE TIMBER LOT.

For all that vast territory included in
the prairie region of the great west and
northwest-the upper Mississippi val
ley-there should be planted on each
quarter section farm not less than ten
acres of timber for use as fuel, as pro-
lection from storms and billiards., as a
very important factor in modifying ex-
tremes of climate. In general way
this timber tract should be planted
around the homestead and should not
contain single cottonwood, LON
hardy poplar, silver poplar or box elder
tree, but should be made up of maple,
white ash, black walnut, red elm,
larch, with good belt Of conifers-
red cedar, Scotch pine and white pine
running clear round the grove. Such q
ten acre timber tract will cost 5000 to
plant in the first place and will be
worth to any prairie farm the interest
annually on an investment of $4,000 SO
long as it is cared for. There is moth
ing the owner of prairie farm can do
which will so enhance the real value
Of his farm and contribute to his own
pleasure and comfort as to go intelli-
gently to work next spring and plant
this ten acre timber lot as indicated
above. Enough men have done this to
prove the truth of the assertion.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

insignificant, but in the aggregate
making during the year sum alto
gether too large to be wasted and lost.
We mention a few of these leaks. First
we place weeds-weeds galore by road
side, in fence corners, in dooryard, in
cornfield, in pasture-an army Of stall
wart and aggressive brigands, soil rob-
bers and crop reducers. Weeds are the
legitimate outcome of the effort to
work too much land, of carelessness in
the selection of seed, of lack of proper
rotation of crops, of slipshod tenant
farming. A few have clean farms,
enough to prove that weeds are not a
necessary evil. The remedy for weeds
on the roadside is to SO smooth down
that portion of the highway which Dor
ders the farm as to be able to run a
mower over 1t two or three times dur
ing the summer; for weeds in the door
three or four sheep into it, which will
keep 1T like a park all summer long
without any work; for weeds in the
corn and grain fields, clover and tim
othy rotation every fourth year and
flock of sheep to pasture the field and,
what is of almost equal Importance,
absolutely clean seed grain; for weeds
in the pastures, July and late Au-
gust running Of the mower over the
field. Fewer acres to work and bigger
crops is weed killing policy, as well
as July blowing of stubble ground.
A flock of 80 sheep on a quarter sec
ton farm will perhaps more than any
other thing aid In making clean
farm.
Leak No. may be designated as
poor seed. We have seen hundreds,
we might say thousands, of acres Of
corn this year of a great corn crop
which will yield only half crop for
the sole reason that poor seed was
used. Other acres have been limited
In their product because an inferior
variety oe seed was planted. Awful
big leak right here. Leak No. 3, keep
ing poorly bred stock, trying to make
beef out of scrub steers and running
dairy with 125 pound cows. Stop this
leak by buying a registered sire for the
herd and testing the cows. Leak No. 4
lies in selling the raw material pro-
duced on the farm-hay, oats, corn and
the like-when you should run farm
factory and convert such raw material
into finished products-beef, butter,
pork, milk, mutton, poultry, etc.
There are many other little leaks
running store bill, wasting the corn
fodder, buying fruit when you might
just as well raise it, trying to keep
more stock than you have either pas
ture or winter fodder for. Study the
leaks, for they represent lost profits.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
INCREASE OF INSECT PESTS.

The tremendous increase in all forms
of insect pests which prey on grain
field, meadow, orchard and garden and
rob the farmer of the fruit Of his la
bors makes the study Of entomology
one Of the most important as affecting
the interests of agriculture. 1t is too
late now to discuss the question wheth-
er the destruction of American birds is
responsible for this disastrous increase
in American bugs. The bug eating
birds are going-in fact, are almost
gone-tke victims Of woman's vanity
and ths pot hurting instincts of the
American sportsman. The mugs are
here, and more are coming esch year.
When single female aphis will In
crease her lousy tribe to the number Of
over billion in a single season, the
Importance Of having hungry wren in
the orchard to pick her before she gets
down to business becomes very evil
dent. 1t may be said that man, with
all attainable knowledge and science
at his command, can never by artificial
means invent substitute for natural
agencies designed by the Creator to
preserve the proper balance between
the different forms Of animal and in
sect life. Man may improve on the
Lords work in some particulars, but
not in this. Having disarranged the
natural order of things, man must now
do his best to mitigate the result of his
folly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
GO AND DO L1KEw1sE.

He was tired Of raising scrub cattle,
and though he had to borrow part Of
the money he went and invested $125
in q registered Polled Angus sire and
$50 in registered heifer of the same
breed. This was ten years ago. A short
time ago he sold seven S-month-old
calves from the herd which he had
built up from the two animals mention
ed for 5000 spot cash. He has left a
herd of pure blood and high grade
stock numbering 100 head, worth on a
forced sale not less than $40 per head.
1t has cost no more to feed and care
for this good stock than it did for the
scrub stock Of ten years ago. He is
making lots of money out of his stock.
Why don't you follow his example?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
COOPERATIVE COOKING.

No matter how refined and highly
civilized life we may aspire to, the
old problem of "what shall we eat and
three times day, and with American
women, many of them, unable to cook
for want of physical strength and
American girls unwilling to be hired to
do the cooking this question of getting
something to eat becomes the most Sc
rious problem Of family life to thou
sands of American families. 1t will
never be in this country that there
shall arise class of docile, competent
females who will contentedly for hire
do the needed Homework of the family,
such class Of servants as may be
found in abundance in all countries
where society is divided into classes.
An interesting attempt to solve the
cooking problem has been inaugurated
in one Of Chicagos suburban towns, IL
families having gone into copartner-
ship, each taking their meals at CEN
trail dining hall, where they have fami-
ly tables, the responsibility of deyising
the weekly menus being assumed by
the mistress of each home alternately.
At this dining hall men do all the work
under the direction Of competent
chef. The best Of meals are thus Sc
cured. the expense borne pro rata, and
- women are entirely rid Of all the
bother Of home cooking, dishwashing
and dining room work. So far the plan
gives entire satisfaction and really
seems to be the only practical solution
of this most vexing problem Of how
shall the family be fed. Cooperative
washing Of the family clothing might
very easily be worked in connection
with such plan. Possibly substitute
for this uncertain, capricious and hard
to get hired girl may herein be found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

est, if lowly, form Of breadwinning.
How could I ask you to share that
lot, even If had assurance of your re-
gard for me? Yet to be with you and
not betray my devotion at every turn
would be impossible"
"Your poverty does not count that"
And Miss Cartwright snapped her fin
gers in the air. But have carried my
head pretty high, and l should hate to
have my enemies, or my friends either,
say that l married waiter! oh, if
you had cared for me as you say, you
would not have put yourself in posi-
ton to make such hideous difficulty"
''Tell me, Miss Cartwright, Adele, if
l can come to you some time when this
period in my career is forgotten and
can prove to you that it can never give
you pang. Do you love me and will
you then accept me for your husband?"
Eyes. And if you will promise to
drop it and go abroad at once we can
be married there, and by the time we
come back it will be forgotten"
''rhen consider myself engaged as
courier for life to Mrs. George San
voordt" he exclaimed gayly. Excuse
me one moment"
Where are you going, George? she
asked anxiously.
"To secure proof that my servitude,
except to you, does not amount to
that" And he snapped his fingers
with gay energy.
In a moment he had returned and
handed her letter, which she read
eagerly:
My Dear Miss Cartwright-You made me lose a
wager last night at Mrs. Broadhurst's dinner. l
had bet club friend that gentleman could take
servants place and fulfill its duties perfectly.
Our contention waxed SO hot that agreed to put
ny belief to the test. So Blakey managed to get
one chance as extra man at this dinner at Mrs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
RAISE YOUR OWN FRUIT.

Everybody likes fruit Fruit fresh
from your own garden OF orchard Is al
ways better than that obtained In the
market. A few raise fruit, the many do
not This article is intended for all
farmers having plenty of ground and
for those city residents whose home
lot affords few square rods Of land
which may be utilized. No fruit is
easier to raise or more readily adapts
itself to all conditions of soil and loca-
ton than the strawberry; none brings
in SO rich return for the effort to
raise it. Two square rods of ground
will furnish oil the berries a family
of four can eat during the season, and
you can have them three times day.
Four square rods will give enough for
summer use and 40 or so cans for use
during the winter. A dozen bushes of
the Colusabia raspberry given half e
chance will give you four bushels of g
fruit which is hard to beat. A hats
dozen De Soto, Hawkeye, Stoddard or
Wyant plum trees will give an album
dance of fine fruit for fall use and for
canning. Twenty White Grape and red
Victoria currants require little or no
care and will bring in good return
each year. If there is room, set out by
the side of the fence or barn some
Worden, Niagara, Concord or Moore's
Early grapes. These will need pruning
and training and covering for winter,
but will give you lots of delicious fruit.
With more room. put out some apple
trees-Wealthy, Tetofsky, Duchess, No.
20, Northwestern Greening or Long
field for latitude AZ and north and 9TH
er still better varieties, though more
tender, for the latitude south of it.
Anyhow, quit buying fruit if you own
a piece of land upon which fruit will
grow. Any man with good farm who
comes to town and buys two boxes Of
strawberries for quarter is not living
up to his opportunities.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

Il suppose my sense CT humor is de-
fective," murmured Miss Cartwright.
II quite fail to grasp the iocose side of
1t; but, of course, it was not so dread
full after had the explanation. Tom
told it all very knowingly, and though l
still think it very unnecessary, l I'M
derstand it better than before
Tom?" said the young man, with
surprised Interrogation
Eyes; my cousin, Tom Blakely. When
l asked him for your address and told
him how we had met-that is, where l
had seen you the other night-he ex-
planned all the painful circumstances.
OF course need not tell you how deep
~ sympathize with you. That is one
reason why | asked you to call to-
night"
$50 Blakely is your cousin?"
Yes"
Pray, tell me what he said. You did
not get my note, then?"
mo. | have not heard from you.
What did you say?"
'Tell me first what your cousin said.
He may have told you the facts much
better than did"
He said that you had suffered the
most awful and sudden loss of all your
money; that you resolutely refused to
accept assistance from any one and
vowed you would do the only thing
you knew how until you could make
enough to do something better. OF
I o1r ,i,n ;,,Ia Il
ence of this stand, though l think it is
terrible! But have sent for you in
the hope that l may be of some assist
ance, since you have taken such q
quiXotic attitude"
The young fellow followed her with
the keenest attention, although he had
pulled out his handkerchief and was
constrained to hide his feelings at
times in its folds.
Noble soul. He has certainly ex-
planned far better than did in my
brief note. So you know the worst
now, Miss Cartwright Do tell me
what you had in mind in sending for
me-
First" said Miss Cartwright, speak
ing very rapidly and getting very red,
1--WE surely were such good friends last
summer that it would be perfectly
right for you to let me lend you some
money. You know l really have to
look out for ways of investing it, and
will ask you good interest on it
and all that-just straight business,
you know"
THAT cannot do, my dear Miss
Cartwright, though it is tremendously
nice Of you to think of it,
"Then, since you are so hatefully
proud, here is the other plan. 1t GER
calmly is more promising than the stu
the position you are now in"
"rhe situation am now int" echoed
the young man.
Eyes. A servant! Why do you force
me to say it?'
ooh. That! Oh, yes. OF course. Go
on, please"
MY aunt, Mrs. Parsons, wealthy
widow. is here with me, or, rather,
am here with her. We mean to stay
a month or six weeks in New York and
then go abroad for an indefinite time:
just drift about. you know, without
any fixed plan. She very rightly thinkE
we shall be ever SO much more com.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
OPEN THE BEDROOM WINDOW.

Lots of people are MORALLY afraid Of
fresh air and so sleep night after night
in bedrooms with door and windows
tightly closed for fear, as they say,
that they will catch cold. Many sal
low complexion. much nervous irrita-
bility and that tired in the morning
feeling are directly owing to lack Of
ventilation in the bedroom. Do not be
afraid of plenty of fresh air. Night air
is always pure air. Raise the sash when
you retire, place the bed out of the
draft, put on an extra coverlid and
sleep the sleep Of the just.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

YOUR POVERTY DOES NOT COUNT THAT"
Portable if we have a courier. Would
you be willing to go with us as one?
We, of course, would be the benefited
party"
"By Jove, you are the right sort of a
girlP' exclaimed the young fellow.
"But, my dear Miss Cartwright'-she
gave slight start at the familiar ex-
pletiVe-"though l am immensely
grateful for your consideration, there
is one objection to my accepting the
position. The courier would be In love
with his employer
Really, my aunt made this sug-
yestion seriously, and it isn't very nice
Of you to treat it with such fiippancy.''
1T is not fippancy, believe me. Miss
Cartwright, 1 thought when we met
again l should ask you to marry me,
because / love you with my whole
heart But we have met, and you look
upon me, poor and epgaged in an hon:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
There has never been a class of take

There has never been class of taxes
paid with less kicking than those de-
linquent taxes now being paid in so
many western communities as the re-
suit Of the work of the tax ferrets.
These delinquents have no one to tell
their troubles to and none to sympa-
thize with them. They knew all the
time they ought to pay their fair share
of the taxes and now when compelled
to. do so are glad to be honest with
their country and themselves.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

No killing frost visited the section of
country where the writer lives in
northern Iowa until the 4th day of
November, most unusual event, when
the goth of September nearly always
sees tender vegetation destroyed by
cold weather. On the Sd of November,
this year, we gathered from the garden
fresh radishes and self sown lettuce,
Soupert roses, English violets, pansies,
geraniums and mignonette.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

Natures methods Of preserving the
vitality of the kernels upon an ear of
corn are almost perfect. There is the
stout stalk to hold the ear suspended
from the ground. There are the inverted
position of the ear and the perfect COW
ering of the husk, making a rainproof
covering. There is the slight opening
Of the husks at the tip of the ear, per-
hitting a perfect circulation Of air.
Corn thus kept in the field, provided
that it ripens before frost, will invaria-
bly, grow the next season. One chief
reason why SO much seed corn loses its
vitality is because it is kept under un-
natural conditions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

The kickers on the farm are not as
hard to get along with as the kickers
In the towns. On the farm there are the
kicking COW and our long cared friend,
the mule, while in the town there is the
old mossback who wants all the privi-
leges Of municipal living without pay
ing for them and blocks SO far as he
can every municipal improvement. The
cow may be sold for the beef and the
mule traded for shotgun, but nothing
but funeral will get rid Of the town
kicker.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

We have an inquiry as to the merits
Of the Stoddard plum. This is one Of
the very best of the hardy American
plums, many growers placing it as the
very best. 1t should have place in ev-
cry orchard. 1t comes, with us, being
more nearly curculio proof than any
one of dozen varieties we have. The
tree should be obtained from some rep
utable nurseryman, otherwise you may
get some other sort TIC your chagrin
when the trees begin to bear.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
SHOOTING ARRAY at Abba,

Abba, Nov. 26.-(SpeciaD This
town was furnished some lively excite
ment for a short time Saturday night
Four men, John Dull, Pete Hillard
Jim Piper and Jim Moody tried to
clean out the chop house of Harry
Douglass, which resulted in Douglass
trying to shoot them, but the gun
failed to explode. The men then
broke and ran, and Douglass snapped
his gnu again, the charge exploding
this time, striking billiard in the foot
There were no arrests,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
Il Am AS RICH AS EVER WAS IN MY LIFE. I"

II Am AS RICE AS EVER WAS IN MY LIFE -
Broadhurst's, whom ! did not know at all and
where was not likely to meet soul knew. And
there were you, Of all beings! When you looked
at me with that proud. panied, yet friendly ex-
preston. ] filled woman's glass with champagne
until it oyerdowed and lost my wager. Let
me come to you soon and explain more fully
how was servant for one evening to Mrs. Broad.
hurst, but am always yours most dcyotedly,
GEORGE SANDvooRpr.
She looked up with a beaming face
and stretched forth her hand.
''Then you will take me as your cou-
rier for life. Adeie?'
She nodded. and. as there was no one
in sight, they INDUCED in brief but
ardent embrace.
ooh, George" she sighed. "What n
relief your poverty did not lead you to
such lengths! By the way, don't you
want me to draw a check for you, my
poor boy?" There was quicker in her
brow and a pathetic look in her face
He shook with laughter. although he
had to give her another quick embrace.
"You dear little girl" he cried, still
laughing. 81 am as rich as ever was
in my life-richer. for have you"
"But Tom Blakely told
"A corking lie. Adele. for which l
thank him. since it has proved that you
loved me. poor and in servitude. enough
to take me for myself
"But he made me suffer needlessly,
and will make him pay for it. Oh,
George. there is Baron Weyderlinck!
Call him. please. want to tell him
how / agree with him about you-to
congratulate him on his unerring judg.
ment on thoroughbreds."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
tree blights very badly. which sets
most fruit men against it.

The Oregon and Idaho bronchos at
$3.50 per head as they We're three years
ago went to the cannery and were ship
ped to France as horse meat. AT $40 q
head, which they are now worth, they
are sent by the thousand into the CEN
trail states to be used as drivers after
they are broken.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

When the well is eight rods from the
farmhouse and the wife has to lug all
the water she needs that far, things
are in about as bad shape on that farm
as though there was 10 per cent mort
gage eating 1t up.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

A good horse can be raised for less
money in America than in any other
country. The German government is
just finding this out and is now buying
here to supply the cavalry and artillery
services of that nation.