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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09
The Cat DID the Rest.

Mother-stop pulling the cats tail
Reggie.
Reggie amt pullin' It; I'm jes'
holdin' it.-Syraeuse Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09
PARALYSIS

can be cured. You had bettor
prevent it. You can do both
prevent and cure it, if you obey
the Laws of Nature, Write me if
you think you want to know abou
this condition.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09
TRY Grain-o, TRY Gra no,

Ask your Grocer to show you package of
GRAlS-O the new food d. ink that takes the
place of coffee. The children may drink 1t with
out injury as well as the adult. All who try IL
ike 1t. GRAIN-O has the rich seal brown of
Mocha or Java, butt Is made from pue grains
and most delicate stomach receives 1t without
distress. \ ,hep price of coffee. 15c. and rs cts
pa ege. Sold by all groccrs. wi
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09

When Nature is overtaxed, she has
her own way of giving notice that assist
ance is needed. She does not ask for
Boils and pimples are an indication that
system is accommodating impurities which
{ they are an urgent appeal for assistance
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09

to retain me as his private physician?
Was he sufficiently wealthy to indulge
in such luxuries? His dress told moth
ing on that score. He might have
been thrifty mechanic or a million
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09
RHEUMATISM

All cases of it can be cured, not
with drugs and poisous that make
some rev condition, but with
herbal remedies shat will cleanse
your blood of its diseased and inn
pure conditions.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-03-09
sCR0FULA

SCR0FULA
is slow disease often ending in
consumption. If you desire to
know about these conditions, send
me a postal card and | will send
something that will be of interest
to you.
Booklet free.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
HOW TO IMPROVE THE COMMON
cow

Well, you cannot make her over, but
you can do much to improve her pro-
ductiye capacity. This improvement
will lie largely along the line of feed
ing her properly balanced milk pro-
ducing ration and giving her proper
care and attention. A COW is milk
producing machine, and her ability to
give milk is wholly dependent upon
how much food and what kind Of food
you put into her. She cannot make
milk out of straw, poor hay or stalks in
the cornfield; neither can she fill the
pail on diet of corn and hay, even if
she is fed all the corn she will eat. The
heterogeneous foods are the milk produc-
Ing foods-bran, clover hay, oats and
gluten meal. Corn makes fat, not milk.
Many poor COW, so called, il properly
fed would surprise her owner. Taking
the food stuffs as usually found on the
average farm, we should say that O
ration of ten pounds Of ground feed,
two-thirds oats and one-third corn, fed
twice day, with five pounds of bran
IL you can afford to buy it and all the
good corn fodder or clover hay the cow
will eat, will make cheap and first
class ration. If you are trying to run
dairy with corn in the bundle as the
sole ration, try this other.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

run away, to escape the bullets that
We're cutting us down, the animal in
stlnct, think, but now my pride began
to take control Of my feelings. turn
ed my face more than once toward the
enemy, and | found that it emboldened
me. The danger that l saw was less
terrible than the danger at my back.
Then | used both entreaties and
threats to make the men turn, but they
did not hear or If hearing they did not
heed. The rout went on. and the smoke
cloud and our disgrace alike infolded
us.
ITO the hills yonder! To the hills"
shouted the men. and they looked long
ingly at the broken ridges that lay be-.
fore us a mile away. They knew that
our main army was there. and the
thought in all their breasts was of ref
uge behind its numbers. We reached q
little brook and plunged across it in
such huddled mass that the water
flew up in shower, and then in an in
slant all of us were on the other side.
There we paused moment. A great
man on great white horse stood
across the path.
i Shall never forget the look of that
man as he sat there on his horse before
US, horse and man alike motionless and
the eyes of each seeming to blaze with
fire, as if they were one and the same
being. Every line of his large. strong
features showed in the dazzling sun
light, and l remember that | noticed
even then, although | had seen him
many times before, how massive and
powerful was the jaw and how clear
and penetrating the eye. His hand,
larger than the average mans and
grasping the bride rein, lay upon his
horses neck.
1t was General Washington, the com
mander in chief.
The horse did not move. The rider
was motionless in the saddle. He
merely sat there regarding us with
that calm, Jelly cold gaze which he
knew SO well how to assume and which
we feared more than bullets
We recoiled as if the enemy were be-
fore us and not behind US, and for the
moment we forgot the fire that had
driven us on. Then he spoke:
"May ask what this regiment is do
ing?" he said
His tones were calm, Jelly cold, like
his look, but full of scorn. We heard
them distinctly amid the cracking fire
from the British, although he had not
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
HOW TO GET RID OF A NEwsPA-
PER-

Many farmer is bothered by having
newspapers which he does not want
forced upon him by the publishers Of
such papers. There is simple way in
which to get rid of this nuisance. Have
your postmaster notify such publisher,
that the paper sent to your address Is
refused and make record of such no.
LITIGATION. If the paper is sent there,
after, the publisher cannot collect by
law from you, even if you do get his
paper in your mail Should he sue to
recover, the proof of the fact that he
was properly notified that the paper
was refused would defeat his claim. II
you have been a subscriber Of the pub
lisher's and owe him, you should first
pay him what you owe him and then
proceed as above. We knew of one
publisher who was fixed in this way by
q granger who had had much trouble
of this sort. The farmer wanted the
paper for year and wanted it stopped
when the time was out, SO in the re-
ceipt which the publisher gave him ho
had inserted this clause: Received,
ETC., 49, dollars for subscription to The
Leader to Dec. 81, 1891, and for SO long
time thereafter as the publisher. OF
said paper sees fit to send it TO my adj
dress" The paper was sent to him for
five years after his subscription had
expired, and when dunned for payment
this old receipt almost caused the pub
Usher to have fit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

which reduced our numbers so fast.
Our colonel was swearing at the men
and striking some with the fiat of his
sword in vain attempt to restore or
der, and then ! saw grayish color
oVerspread his face. He stopped quite
still for a moment, as if he had been
stricken with sudden paralysis, the
sword dropped from his outstretched
hand, and he pitched forward on his
face.
Our coloners killed! Our co1onel's
killed" ran wailing cry through the
regiment. We loved Colonel Carruthers,
and well he deserved our love. He had
led us through dozen battles, some
times in victory and sometimes in de-
feat, but always he had been the same
brave, patient, kindly man, watching
over us like father. When the bullet
struck him down, we felt as If we had
received the lead in our own bodies,
and the wailing cry was followed by
one great groan, coming from us all to-
gether
But the fire that converged upon us
grew hotter and hotter and deadlier
and deadlier. The bushes seemed to
spout death, innumerable little flashes
of fame appeared among them, mark
ing the activity Of the fitting sharp
shooters, and the shrill hiss of the bull
let's never ceased. Our numbers melted
rapidly, and although some tried to re-
store order and reform the ranks they
wasted both threats and appeals We
were veterans, but we had been thrown
into panic. 1t was not the fire of the
enemy, it was the surprise, the am
bush, and our routed regiment, a mob
of fugtives. streamed backward. Ieav-
ing behind it the trail of its dead and
wounded
Good God, Gordon, did think that
! would ever see such sight, And we
boasted that ours was the finest reg-
ment in the army toow groaned Cap
tain Hunter to me. There We're tears
on his face, and he struck fugitive
across the head with the fiat of his
sword. But the man, paying no atten-
ton to him, ran on.
! looked back and saw the British
pressing forward in swarm, their red
coats cleaning in the dazzling sun
light and their sharpshooters showing
the same deadly activity that had
marked them in the beginning. But
rank and file and sharpshooters alike
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
LINsEED OIL.

No satisfactory substitute for linseed
oil has yet been discovered. The con-
sumption of this oil Is outgrowing it's
production. 1t takes 4O,OO0,OOO gallons
annually to supply the needs Of this
country. Eighteen million bushels Of
flaxseed were raised here this year.
AS each bushal will make two gallons
of oil we are not producing enough for
home consumption. Present prices for
the oil make the growing Of fax one
of the most profitable crops. We think
1t safe to say that man can go west,
buy raw piece Of prairie in the newer
settled portions of the country and
nearly pay for the land the first season
with crop of fax if the crop is prop
erly cared for and the season favora-
BILE. We would not SOW this crop on
any well improved farm unless it was
for first crop on some piece of rich
old meadow which we wished to tame
down, and even then a crop of corn
would probably pay better. But in the
new countries, on the prairie sod when
first turned over, a fax crop is all
right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
ron THE G1RLs.

Quite a good many nice girls will
read this item, and we wish to impress
upon them the necessity Of learning
how to be good cook before they
promise John to marry him. We do not
SO much refer to the making of fancy
cakes, pastry and company dishes,
though 1t is well to be skilled in these
lines, but rather to the more homely,
everyday forms Of cooking, such as the
making Of good bread, the roasting,
broiling and boiling Of meats, the prep
aration of palatable meals from the
common food stuffs. Good cooking Is
fine art and in every way as much of
an accomplishment for young lady as
is the ability to paint picture, sing a
song or play upon the piano or organ.
1t takes very ardent type of affection
to patiently endure the ever present
annoyance Of poorly prepared food. For
your own sake, girls, and for Johns,
don't marry until you have learned this
q rf
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
MARR1Ep HIRED MEM.

Where a man is bothered about the
hired man question and tempted to
quit farming because Of the difficulty
Of getting competent help, as SO many
are, solution may be found by build
ing a neat little house on the farm and
employing married man, giving him
pasture for cow and an acre of land
for garden, with the privilege Of
keeping some poultry. This relieves
the wife and mother and will more Of
ten secure the services of good man
than will the common plan of hiring
single men and boarding them. We
had one man work for us thus for IL
years and never had more satisfactory
help.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

no longer sought concealment. There
was no need of it now. They saw that
we were beaten, panic stricken. and
they crowded upon us, pouring into us
a fire that added to our confusion and
the desire to run faster.
We were firing, too, but in a wild and
scattered way. and l fancy that few of
the bullets found British mark. The
smoke Of the musketry hung over us
and at times obscured our sight, but al
ways we beheld through it the red and
hostile uniforms pressing down upon
us in closer and heavier columns.
knocked suddenly against some one,
and then when the smoke cleared
away a little | saw it was Captain
Hunter again.
Cant you do something? Can't you
Go something, Gordon?" he cried in de-
spair ooh, that such thing should
happen to this of all regimentsn'
He raised his sword again to strike n
man, but the arm dropped back to his
side, shot through by musket ball.
Yet he still shouted to them and sought
to hold them back and form line of
resistance. | will confess that | had
suffered from the panic terror at first
when the volleys leaped from the mus
kets of the hidden sharpshooters in the
bushes, feeling that sudden impulse to
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

There are great possibilities connect
ed with agriculture in the south, espe-
cially in the line of fruit culture and
the production Of early vegetables for
the northern markets. We note a re-
turn this year from 125 acres of lend
in the state Of Mississippi planted to
early vegetables Of $4,000, and in sd
dition to this after the vegetable crop
was disposed of the land was planted
to cotton and produced over bale to
the acre. OF course land thus drawn
upon must be extensively fortified.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
LOST PROFITS IN BEEFMAK1Ne.

There is at the present time a differ-
ence of $1.50 per 100 pounds in favor Of
the well bred 1000 pound Polled Angus
steer over the 1900 pound native steer
in the principal stock markets OF the
country. And this is not all the differ
ence by any means, for the Angus steer
was sold at the age Of 20 months and
the native at the age of 36 months II
one is going to make beef, there must
be beef blood In the stock so fed In or
der to make the business profitable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The practical results connected with
the establishment of rural mail routes
are manifest in increased postal re-
ceipts, improvement in the highways,
better prices for farm produce and in
crease Of farm land values. Five years
hence will see all the well settled agri-
cultural portions of the country sup
Piled with this valuable government
service
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04
COPYRIGHT, 1900, ny JOSEPH A. AIrsurlEr.
SO GO 60 60 60 60 90 go go go go go

We looked before us and then to left
and right, and everywhere we saw the
smoke of the enemy's musketry ex-
tending like fire in field of dry grass,
while the little bullets sang like a
swarm of bees, cutting down our ranks
and driving the survivors into a hud-
died mass. 1t is one thing to fight the
foe In an open plain, where you can see
his face ARD the chances are even. 1t
is another thing to charge him in his
chosen position. with the flag waving
over you, the drum beating you on and
the hot blood singing in your veins, but
it is very different thing to have him
rise UP from the woods and thickets all
around you when you did not know OF
his presence and envelop you in fire
that burns and blinds you.
The torrent of the British musketry
grew alike in sweep and volume Our
surprise was complete overwhelming
and terrible. We had marched into the
ambush as If that were the only road
in the world, and our shattered lines
recoiled farther and farther We were
shouting to each other. firing random
shots at the enemy whom we could not
see and bending to the hail of bullets
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

Professor Voorhees, of the New Jer-
sey experiment station has decided
that there is a need for some method
of irrigation in the eastern states as
well as in those west Of the Mississip-
pi valley. He estimates that the loss
of hay in New Jersey by reason of the
drought of May and June, 1899, amount
ed to not less than $1,500,0O0, while
that on small fruits and vegetables
was much larger. He gives these fig
ures from the experiment farm. In
1897 and 1893, both wet seasons, the
hay crop averaged two tons = 1900
pounds per acre. In 1899 it was but
little over one ton. This was loss of
over $500 on 25 acres. Crimson clover
for forage averaged for the two wet
years 81a tons per acre, and for the
dry year the yield was but five tons.
The oat and pea forage gave six tons
per acre in the two first years and but
three tons-600 pounds-in 1899. On
small fruits the plats that were irri-
gated produce at the following rate
per acre more than those not irrigated:
Blackberries, 1,03S quarts, worth
$93.42; raspberries, 800 quarts, worth
$3.50; currants, S52 quarts, worth
$3.50. Thus on an acre Of each there.
would be gain Of $211.52 by irrtgat-i
ing. !
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

One of the most improbable animals
to keep upon farm is the unbroken
and unused 5-year-old gelding horse.
Such a horse cannot be kept for less
than $25 a year. The horse raised for
the market should be either sold as
3-year-old colt unbroken or fitted up,
broken and sold as 4-year-old.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

We have tried cutting up corn fodder
with machine into pieces half an
inch, three-quarters of an inch, one
inch and an inch and half in length
and find that so far as waste Is con-
cerned there is just as much when the
stalks are cut as when it is fed in the
bundle. Cut to any length less than
~ inches the cut fodder will give the
stock fed with it sore mouths. Shred
ding, thrashing or converting the fod-
der into ensilage is the only practical
method of manipulating the cornstalk
for feed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

You can buy porterhouse steak in
Chicago for IL cents q pound and for
any price up to 80 cents a pound, the
difference in price being wholly the diff
ference in the grade of animal from
which it was taken. The rest of the
carcass from which the - cent steak
is taken goes into cans and the render
ing tank,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

While it is true there are few men
so built that it is impossible to main
tain friendly relations with them, it Is
also true that most men can be made
into good neighbors by kind and fair
treatment and good line fences. The
golden rule carried out in all neighbour
ly transactions will always be found to
be q friend maker.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

Chicken stealing is generally consid-
cred pretty small business. Still nearly
every community has some sneak thief
engaged in the business. The owner of
a lot Of poultry in q western county
who had been missing his fowls sat up
with a shotgun, and the next day one
man was found dead in a cornfield near
by, and another was a good subject for
the surgeon. There will be no more
hens stolen in that community for a
long time
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The increase In live stock in this
country is not keeping pace with the
increase in population. This fact set
ties the question of whether the raising
of beef animals is likely to be profita-
BILE in the future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

Twice during the past % years has
England sought to develop the cotton
growing Industry in other countries
when the supply from America became
limited and high priced, first in Egypt
and at later period in India In nei-
Their case was the experiment sue
cess, the product of neither of these
countries ever being sufficient In guam
tity to affect the American product.
America for all time will remain the
great cotton producing country of the
world
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

Considering the ability of Iowa stock
men in raising fine beef critters and fat
hogs altogether too many of the boys
blow out the gas when they go into
Chicago with their stock.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The time will come in the great
northwest when farm of 160 acres
will be considered large farm. The
multiplying population of this territory
will compel the breaking up of the big
farms and the subdivision of the land.
The sooner that time comes the better.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The high bred Angora goat Lazarus
was sold for 500 at Kansas City late
ly. If men generally understood what
goats will do in clearing up brush
lands. there would be thousands more
of them kept.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

If farmer wants to buy 500 range
of stove peddler when he can get the
same article for SIG of his local hard
ware man, he should be allowed to do
so without being criticised. 1t is strict.
ly his business
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

A clover freak came under our notice
lately, that of crop of seed being OBJ
tanned from clover seeding with oats
last spring. The warm weather and
abundant moisture OF October made
this possible.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The almost total diversion of the wa
tiers of the rivers which empty into the
Great Salt lake in Utah for the pur-
poses of irrigation is resulting in the
drying up of that great inland body Of
water
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

As man gets old he likes better the
old and steady horse to drive and work
with. There is good deal of comfort
associated with the horse which will
stand without tying.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The inmates Of the North Carolina
penitentiary are largely employed in
raising peanuts, and they raise so many
of the COOLERS that the farmers of that
state are protesting against their being
thus employed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

Congressman Lacey Of Iowa has late
ly been presented with very fine
watch in recognition of the work done
by him at the last session Of congress
in behalf of the birds Of America.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The treasury department recently
ruled in case where COW and her
calf were imported from Mexico into
this country that such animals were
household effects and not subject to
duty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

If the politics of this country is like
the maple sirup furnished to go with
the bucllwheat cakes eaten by the
American people, the country is in a
pretty bad way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

A Rhode Island pot hunter was re-
Gently fined S25.45 for shooting robin
in that state, where these birds are
protected by law.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

If Americas 100000 people should
eat only one-fourth of pound of beef
a day, it would take 23,750 average
steers to furnish the meat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The government has 46772. 100 acres
Of land withdrawn from public entry
as forest reserves. The most valuable
of these lands are on the Pacific coast.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The year 1900 has given the cash
renter of farm good show. He has
been able to pay his rent and make
money.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

An orchard of Wealthy apple trees
ten acres in extent paid the owner an
even $1,000 this year. This was in
Minnesota. The trees were 10 years old.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

There is no better fertilizer for tile
garden or lawn than well rotted barn.
yard manure.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

The big ears of corn give very sat
isfying thump as they strike the throw
board this fall.