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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
AN OPTICAL pELus1oN.

While riding on the cars not long
since we saw in the distance a field Of
40 acres or more which from the dis
tant point of view seemed to be cover
ed with piles of manure lately hauled
out, and we felt like complimenting
the man who had gone into the fertiliz-
ing business on such an extensive
scale, but closer view of the field dis
closed the miserable fact that what we
thought were piles of manure were
nothing but shocks of oats which
heavy and persistent August rains had
converted into worthless heaps of half
rotted straw and grain. The owner Of
the field was one Of the fellows who
does not believe in stacking his grain
and for that matter does not know
how to and 80 had to trust to luck and
Providence to secure his crop after he
had been at all the trouble of raising
1t. This thing constitutes a wanton
and useless waste on many western
farm, and waiting for the machine to
thrash from the shock eats up the prof
its on many farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
WHOSE CH1CKrNss

farmer and town sport got into a
discussion the other day as to the own
ership Of the prairie chickens which
the sport knew might be found on the
land of the farmer and which the
farmer refused to let him shoot. The
sport claimed that from time immemo-
rial wild game had been regarded as
public property and that his right to
the birds was just exactly as good as
that Of the farmer. The granger warm
ly disputed this view of the matter and
reminded the town man that these
chickens had been raised not only on
the farm Of the granger but on his
grain, bugs and grasshoppers, and that
If anybody owned the birds he did, and,
further, inasmuch as the law gave him
the power to keep the town man from
killing his birds, he proposed to do it.
There is no doubt that the farmer had
the right Of this argument, and the
sooner town sports understand that
the right to enter upon a mans farm
and shoot the game is one granted
wholly from courtesy on the part Of
the owner of the land the better it will
be. A general and united action BY
land owners on this line is the only
thing which will prevent the complete
determination of all our game birds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
POTATOES AND BuoKwHEAT.

A decided novelty in the line of mix
ed crops is being successfully adopted
by friend of the writer's, being a
combination Of potatoes and buck
wheat. At the time of the last blowing
OF the potato crop, which is usually
along about the last of June, the field
is seeded with buckwheat and cult
waited in. The buckwheat takes COM
plete possession of the field by the time
the potatoes are ripe, prevents the
growth Of all weeds and when harvest
ed in September gives a good crop,
leaving the soil clean and melloK for
the digging Of the potatoes. FROM an
experiment with small patch the
acreage SO treated has grown from
year to year until this year IS acres of
this dual crop is being gathered. Our
friend reports the plan every way sue
cessful, and it would seem to be worth
a trial, for we have nearly all had an
experience with weedy potato patch
weeds which grow after the potato
crop is laid by. 1t may be noted that
neither of these crops is exhaustive
and SO does not wear On the land .ss-...s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
IMPROVE THE BREED OF CORN.

Many man who is doing good work
in improving the breed of the stock
which he keeps still keeps right on
raising scrub corn. Very many do not
realize the great difference there is
between common corn-corn of all col
ors and mongrel breed-and corn which
is Of distinct and well bred variety. A
few patient and enterprising men have
given much time and study to improv-
ing the breed of the corn plant and va
rieties are now to be obtained which
are as much superior to the common
corn as the Shorthorn is superior to a
scrub critter. Uniformity Of color early
maturity, depth Of kernel, smallness
of cob, alignment of the rows on the
ear and productiveness are some Of the
things which receive attention in the
effort to produce a well bred ear Of
corn. A distinct increase in yield may
be secured by planting the improved
varieties. -ss-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
THE work OF THE GOAT.

We passed by tract of brush land a
short time ago which presented most
peculiar appearance. 1t was difficult
to determine whether it had been hit
by summer cyclone, visited by a
swarm of grasshoppers or struck by a
hailstorm. The underbrush was strip
ped clean Of all leaves, small trees had
been bent over and peeled Of leaves
and bark, and what was once an al
most impenetrable thicket Of LEAKAGE
and verdure on the hillside and valley
looked like battlefield after the last
gun was fired. The solution of the
mystery lay in flock of Angora goats
which were lying down by the creek.
There is no doubt about it, man, if you
have got any brush land which you
want cleared get Angora goats to do it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
Letting Down a snoh.

A plumber who was sent to the
house of stock broker to execute
some repairs was taken by the butler
into the dining-room and was begin
ming his work when the lady of the
house entered. "John," said she, with
a suspicious glance toward the plumb
er, remove the silver from the side
board and lock it up at once" But
the man of lead was in nowise discon-
certed. "Tom," said he to his appren-
tice, who accompanied him, "take my
watch and chain and these coppers
home to my missus at once. There
seems to be dishonest people about
this house. &c Chicago Chronicle. .l-,.,-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
Shirt waists in Africa.

Helen Caddick, one of the few white
women who have ventured into the
heart of Africa, has recently written
about her trip from Zambesi to the
great lakes-a trip for pleasure. The
cotton blouses or waists which she
wore were washed and ''ironed" by
her native "boy," and the process was
extraordinary. The laundryman first
spread mat on the ground. Next
the clothes to be "ironed" were placed
on it and smoothed out as well as pos
sible. Then, placing towel or some
large cloth over the garment, he
rubbed his feet back and forth over
it, until he thought it was smooth
enough.-Youth's Companion.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The war whoops rang and reechoed
among the rocks, but all sounds of
cheering had long since died away. At
last, an hour after the fury of the fight
began, the colonel, gazing in specchless
grief through his field-glass, muttered
to the officer at his side:
Some of them are still left. They
are fighting for their lives along that
butte"
Only few, though. One by one the
dark dots among the powders ceased
to stir and move about. Little by lit
tie the fire slackened, and all but oc-
casional scattered shots died utterly
away. Then other forms, feathered
and bed;zened, were seen rushing in
numbers up the distant hillside, and
that meant all was over, and the brutal
knives were busily at work. Little by
little all sound of conflict, all sight Of
combatants disappeared entirely, and
the unclouded sunshine streamed down
upon scene on which the silence of
death indeed had fallen. When at last.
late that afternoon, the watchers re-
ported a vast body of Indians drifting
away eastward toward the distant
Powder river, and venturesome scouts
stole out to reconnoiter, backed by
skirmish lines from the stricken post,
they found the grassy slopes beyond
that curtaining ridge one broad field of
death, strewn with the stripped and
hacked and mangled forms of those
who had SO CALAMITY dashed forth to
the aid of comrade soldiery at the
break of day, SO torn and mutilated
and disfgured that only limited few
were identified. Officers and men, one
after another, had died in their tracks,
victims of Red Cloud and the Ogallalla
Sioux.
And all for what? Late that night
the quartermaster in wild agitation
sought his colonel's door, package in
his hands. "For Gods sake, sir, look at
this!" he cried.
The cords had just been cut, the
seals just broken, the stout paper care
fully opened and the contents of the
precious package exposed to view. 1t
held no money at all, nothing but layer
on layer of waste and worthless paper.
(To be Continued.)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

1t is an open question whether or not
the world would not be better off pro-
vided the old Leyitical law governing
the killing and use Of animals for food
was in operation. One thing is certain.
The Jews, who adhere most rigidly to
the old Israelitish custom touching the
use Of animal food, as people show a
most remarkable immunity from some
of the most destructive Of the diseases
which atflict the gentle world. This
old law classed as unclean and unfit
for food all animals which parted the
hoof and did not chew the cud, which
classification bars out the hog, and
those animals were also unclean which
chewed the cud and did not part the
hoof, such as the camel, the rabbit and
others.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The present prosperous condition Of
the farmers of the country should be
utilized by as many as possible to get
square with the world and hedge
against the proverbial rainy day which
is sure to come again. The very best
safeguard for a man on farm during
q siege Of low prices and hard times is
to be out of debt. Times have got to
be worse than we ever knew them if a
man who owes nothing cannot manage
to live and get along pretty well on a
farm even when banks are breaking,
merchants failing and labor unable to
get employment Hard times, like GER
tain epidemic diseases, come and go
about so often, and the wise man will
provide against them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
TREES ON THE LINE.

We have before us an inquiry like
this: "A1y neighbor some years ago
planted eight apple trees on the line
between his lot and mine, the trees be-
ing set just inside the line upon his lot.
They are now of bearing age, and one
half of the top Of these trees projects
over on to my lot, and one-half of the
fruit borne by them hangs over my
land. | wish you would tell me wheth-
er l have any rights in those trees and
their product" AS very many of our
readers are interested in this problem
OF line trees, shade as well as fruit
bearing trees, we give some of the law
points covering the matter.
If in the case referred to us the trees
stood exactly on the boundary line be-
tween the two lots, they would be the
property of both owners as tenants in
common, and neither could cut them
down or use their product without the
consent of the other. If such trees are
growing wholly on the neighbours lot
and only the branches overhang the
land of our correspondent, he thereby
acquires no right or title to the fruit
growing on such tree, the courts ignor-
ing the fact that such tree may be
drawing one-half of it's sustenance
from his land, and further he cannot
prevent his neighbor from entering up
on his premises to pick up the fallen
fruit or gather that which may hang
over on his side Of the line but he has
redress in this, that he may trim such
trees so as to prevent them from hang
ing over on to his land, and he may
further cut the roots of such trees if
satisfied they are doing him harm, or
he may. bring an action for damage
against his neighbor on account of the
maintenance of such trees.
A more common case involving the
points given is found all through the
prairie west where man plants will
low hedge or row of cottonwood or
soft maple trees close to the line of his
neighbours land, such trees when foot
through either by shading the soil or
exhausting its fertility making it i'm
possible to grow crop within two
rods of them. Men who are subjected
to this sort of an imposition clearly
have in law valid claim for damage
against their neighbor who thus i'm
poses upon them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

Try this If you like good cheese: Buy
a cheese of September make of medium
size and about 80 days old. Get lot
of jelly tumblers or pint fruit jars.
Cut the cheese up, removing the rind,
and press into the tumblers or jars just
as firmly as possible. Cover the tops
with coating of prepared paraffin
wax and set in cool corner in the eel
lar. II you were careful in selecting a
well made cheese, you will have the
incest cheese all winter you ever tast.
ed, and 1t will be in convenient shape
for use without waste.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
A lady friend who for many year

A lady friend who for many years
was the mistress Of a farm home said
to us recently, she now being a resi-
dent of a city, st costs us $40 month
to pay the ordinary household ex-
penses here in town, and we do not
live one-half as well as we did on the
farm either" There are lots of nice
things produced on the farm and used
in the farm home Of which little ac-
count is made, but which cost a good
deal Of money when purchased in the
city-fresh eggs, milk, cream, butter,
poultry, vegetables, fruit, flour, meal
and many kinds of meats.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

threw one fearful glance behind him,
one despairing look toward the COM
rades and the refuge still a quarter of
mile away and with shaking hand
he turned the brown revolver on his
own temple and pulled trigger, and
then Went tumbling earthward, a
corpse. There at least was one scalp
the Sioux could covet in vain, for, with
shouts of vengeance, the little squad
of infantry, deaf to all orders OF the
clamor of the bugle recall, dashed out
over the level beach firing furiously as
they ran, and, whether from the SUI
perstitious awe with which the In
dams view the suicide, or the dread
of close combat with the gallant
band of blue-coats, the mounted war
riors turned and scurried across the
prairie, and We're presently out of
range beyond the ridge again. Then
and not till they had reached and
lifted and borne the lifeless form of
the trooper did the little party CON
descend to answer the repeated sum-
mons from the fort. Then at last they
sio"iy Ieoullietl, uHfepuheu, LOT no
man had the heart to chide their dar-
ing.
Only once more was there further
sight of the one-sided battle. Half a
mile or more beyond the bare divide
there rose against the southern sky a
bold, oblong height or butte, studded
with powders and stunted pine, and
watchers at the fort became aware as
the sun climbed higher that the smoke
cloud, thinning gradually but percep-
tibly, was slowly drifting thither. The
fire, too, grew faint and scattering.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The big ears on the corn all through
the west Interfere to some extent with
the working of the corn harvesting ma
chimes, and more than the usual num-
Der Of ears are broken off in the at
tempt to cut the corn. This is one of
the troubles incident to prosperity.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

1t was entirely possible this year for
man had he only have known to have
bought well improved farm in the
best portion of the west at $50 per
acre, have sown the whole farm to fax
and have realized enough out of the
crop to have half paid for his farm
from the one crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

Invention and science working hand
in hand have made the seed product Of
the cotton plant worth almost as much
as the lint product, and the same agen-
cies working in the north will yet
make the stalk product of the corn
fields worth almost as much as the
cereal product.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

A friend of ours is getting a fine
herd of cattle at q small expense. He
Joins farms with man who is breed
er Of choice pedigreed stock who fur
nishes our friend the use of a pedi-
greed bull for his herd on the easy
condition that no bull shall be kept
upon our friends farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The people of neither England nor
the countries of Europe know any
thing about our sweet potatoes. A
small trial shipment has been recently
made by the agricultural department
to London and Paris, and it is thought
market for the yam may be found
abroad
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

About the cruelest business there is
going is the brutal manner adopted
by many horsemen to break in these
broncho horses from the plains. Grant
ed that these horses are hard to break
in, it does seem that gentler means
might be used.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The corn belt by reason of the tropic-
al character of the past summer has
been moved north easily 200 miles this
year, and good corn has been raised
where it is not looked upon as relia-
BILE crop to plant.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

It is an old Indian sign that when
the berries which grow wild in the
woods are very plenty as we'll as the
beech mast and the acorns q hard and
long winter is ON it's way. Whether
the old sign be true or not never was
such harvest of berries, acorns and
nuts ever seen as this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

1t is a good fair days work for a man
to milk and properly care for 20 cows,
and yet some men expect man who
has worked ten hours out in the hay
field or cornfield to milk six or eight
cows morning and night. This is what
makes the hired man kick on the COW.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

-Four years ago cotton was worth but
$22 per bale on the plantation where it
was grown. Today it is worth $55.
This change in price of the greet
southern staple has brought about very
prosperous times in the cotton produc-
ing territory.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

1t has been found that the new press
ed steel freight cars are not fitted for
the hauling of soft coal, the effect of
the contact of the coal with the steel
being to corrode it,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

There are hundreds of men who will
read this who If they can get out of
debt with the crop of this year had bet
ter stay out in future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

II it is the most worthless, the Ben
Davis is the best keeping apple of the
entire list, good illustration of the
toughness and durability of poor truck.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

The stunted farm boy has about as
poor show as the stunted calf.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

Missouri reports less than one-half a
crop of winter apples.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
Electro Thermal Baths.

ELECTRICITY applied to the entire
body while the sweating goes on.
arouses your circulation, cures cold
1t cures rheumatism, govt, aches and
pains, neuralgia, blood diseases. 1t
feet and hands, and improves the
condition of circulation in liver, kid
neys, heart and lungs, hence better
condition of the entire system.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
DIR. LAMBERT,
Eye and Ear Specialist.
Glasses Fitted.

CATARRH-Our treatment for catarrh,
nose and throat diseases has worked
wonders. Thousands have been cur
ed and remain cured. Lung diseases
treated by inhalation Of remedies.
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ed and remain cured. Lung diseases
treated by inhalation Of remedies.
RUPTURE CURED by our special
treatment. We cure to stay cured.
Trusses fitted to retain the parts
We have given over 1000 treatments
for rupture. There is no danger.
CHILDREN are readily cured of her
MIA or rupture. Why will you let
them go thru life ruptured when
they can be cured? Every child we
have treated has been cured. Don't
neglect the children.
VARICOCELE false rupture)-This
well known and common trouble
among men, causing weakness, drain
and dragging sensation, mental wor-
ry, etc. Our treatment restores the
parts. In ifty-six cases cured by
our special treatment, every cure is
in perfect condition.
PILES, FISTULA, all rectal diseases
in ten days. Fistula cured without a
knife. Itching diseases OF rectum
cured. Do not neglect such dis
eases, as tney are often more SER
ious than you think.
NERVOUS DISEASES-St Vitas'
dance, paralysis, nervous disorders
OF women, nervous disorders of men,
nervous diseases producing wasting
of the system, nervous diseases caus-
ed by excuses of any kind, cured.
DISEASES OF SNoMEN-such as bear
ing down pains, liberation, inaamma-
ton of womb, leucorrhoea, ovarian
pains, irregular mensus, tumors. etc.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09

Send for 40 page book of testimon-
ials Office hours a. m. to 9. p. IN.
Sundays 9 to IL.
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DISEASES OF WOMEN-Such as bear
ing down pains, liberation, infamma-
ton of womb, leucorrhoea, ovarian
pains, irregular mensus, tumors, etc.
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Arr We Depart
TT. Madison passenger. .....11:46 am 3:1spr
Fit. Madison accomn.. 6:07 pm OILS am
Trains run daily except Sunday.
G.. b. CHAPMAN. Apent
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Il a N aLEAvIN0 JEFFERSON sEkHaa
UNION STATION
MISCELLANEOUS

UICAGo Eft. MADISON & DES MONIES
Union Depot.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-02-14
HAPPY KANSAS MAN.
A Windfall of $35 100000 Drops at
His Feet.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 14.-Ilumphrey
Thomas of Salina has received notice
from London that he is one of ten
persons falling heir to an estate in
England and Wales valued at over
$3.50, 900, 900. The information iscor-
roborated by Judge S. J. Osborn,
speaker of the lower house of the
Kansas legislature, who is Thomas
attorney. Judge Osborn has been
working on the case several years.
The estate has been in chancery for
over 100 years, but now that all the
heirs have been found and their legal
rights established, it is to be taken
ont of the hands of the court and
divided up. Thomas share is some
thing over s35, 900, ,o0o.~ The estate
belonged to Humphrey Thomas, great
grandfather of the Kansas man. lie
was baronet, and was killed while at
war;
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-02-14
A STRANGE DISCOVERY.
A Supposed Tramp Found to be {
Millionaire

Chicago, Feb. 14.-The death of
sam Boswick an old and we'll known
character and charity patient at the
hospital, was followed by a queer
discovery on the part of. the author
tiles.
The old and battered clothing was
literally lined with gold and silver
certificates. ScWed in the vest were
$1,000 in bills and currency amounting
to 50. 600 was in the Innings.
Bonds, real estate and mortgages
worth three thousand. In a leather
pocket book stitched to the lining of
the coat, and in various portions OF
the clothing money was found,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-02-14
Bankrupt Petitions.

The following petitions in bank
ruptcy were filed in the Office of the
clerk Of the district court il. Burling-
ton yesterday.
Nehemiah Gilpatrick of St. Johns
bury. Liabilities 500; secured claims
$500, unsecured claims $2GS, debts
which ought to be paid 500. Assets
1899. 75; household goods $3.50 books,
etc, $40, debt due 379.75.
William Cassie granitgs manufac-
turer of Barre. Liabilities. S39Us. -
wages SiS2 s., secured claims, Sl025.
unsecured claims $240l. Assets,
32340.27 real estate, $500 stock, 500,
household goods 0o.machincry Sl00,
personal property $50, debts due
S2llO.o6.