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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

| She looked up into his face sadly. 81
have been bad girl to yo', captain.
| Forgive me-
Forgive you? love even your harsh
Words
ooh, Helen" she said, 81 hope won't
die!"
You won't, surely, Jack"
Because if l do l can't dance any
mo- TO the coiored people. Who'll look
out fo' 'em, Helen? Papa's away, and
no one else cares fo' 'em as he and l
do"
They'll have you with them for
many a year. jack
An open wagon appeared in the road
aud drove up beside u.s. A doctor with
satchel in his hand got down and APP
preached Jaqueline Making hasty
examination of the wound, he ban
dagcd it, then told us to lift her into
the vehicle. The seats, except the front
one had been removed and their cush-
ions placed on the bottom. Some Of
the cavalrymen tossed in their blan-
kets, and / smoothed them over the
cushions. making comparatively COM
Portable bed. We placed little Jack up
on it. Helen got in with her, and, the
rest of us walking beside. the cavalry
acting as escort, we bore her to the
town and lodged her in q room in the
main hotel of the place.
We found the town agog with news
OF the first days battle at Pittsburg
Landing, and knew that my general
would hold himself ready to cooperate.
| determined to join my command at
once. Having been assured that Jacks
wound would not prove fatal, 1 ar
ranged for the transportation of the
party as soon as she could be moved,
then gathered my little force in her
room and announced my intended de-
parture.
II must now bid farewell" I said, 'to
my little army, every one of whom has
become dearer to me than life"
Like General George Washington"
said Buck, "sayin farewell to his ossi-
fers. There is picture of it in my
American school history"
"Goodby, Buck. Remember to get
book and pencil and break yourself of
the habit of saying bad Words
81 will, by thunder!!"
"Goodby, little girl" said to Jack,
bending down and kissing her on the
forehead.
"Where yo' going?"
81? Oh, I'm going away"
Helen's eyes were cleaning. where
are you going?' she asked, repeating
Jacks question, though in a different
tone
/ had managed to keep my connection
with the Union army thus far secret.
Now knew there was no need to keep
it longer.
ITO the Federal army, whore be-
long"
The mute agony on Helen's face told
what my disclosure had cost her. Ex-
tending my arms, I cried one word,
Sweetheart s
"Renegade" she Kissed.
Helen, dear love, hear me-"
She turned her back upon me and
swept out of the room.
II like yo' eff yo' are Yankee" Jack
cried after me.
left the hotel, my brain in tumult.
Coming up the road was a little knot
of troopers surrounding the guerrillas
whom they had run down and captur-
ed. A few hours ago 1 would have
cried out with delight. Now they were
no more to me than if 1 saw them in a
dream.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
Stopping the Music

Yes" said young Mrs. Torkins,
Charley used to come and serenade
me for hours every night. So at last 1
married him"
dear me!' rejoined Miss Cayenne.
Did he sing as badly as all thatr"-
Exchange.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
Eviaence to the contrarx.

Citizen-Madam, why do you persist
IN punching me with your umbrella?
Madam-1 want to make you look
around SO l can thank you for giving
me your seat. Now, sir, don't you go
on and say that women haven't any
Chicago Herald.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
EIGHTY ACRES MAKE $500.

Tho average gross return from AM
eighty acre farm in the central west.
will not vary very far from $40 per-
acre, take one year with another, outl
side of what may be consumed in the
living Of the family of the farm prod.
ucts. OF course there should be a
much greater return than this; but, as
matter of fact, there is not. Now it
is entirely possible to make this $500
off Of forty acres instead of eighty, and
ms farm land creeps up toward a value
of 500 per acre, the how to do this be-
comes subject of prime Importance.
In general way we may say that a
radical change in existing methods will
be involved-better cultivation of crops.
better seed. better grades of all farm
stock, Intelligent rotation of crops.
more clover, more poultry and better.
care for 1t, while the silo will have a.
place, and fertilizers will be used In
stead of being wasted, as is now so
often done. The bane of agriculture
all through the west is that man.
rates his success as farmer more byi
the number of acres which he can skin
over rather than by the quality and
quantity Of crops which he can produce
from an acre of land.
WHAT TWO PLUG HIRED MEN DID,
Here is the record made by two
brothers-hired men and foreigners
during the past six years: They drop.
ped down in America ignorant of the
English language and without money.
They We're healthy, husky and indus
trious and at once found places as
hired men on western farms. They
worked three years and saved every
cent Of their wages possible. At the
end of three years they had cash
capital between them of $1,000. They
then went up into central and western
Minnesota and bought 800 acres Of
land on easy terms and at low price
compared with its value today. They
have been favored with good health
and good crops and today are well
liked, discounting the future payments
due on their land and with a we'll i'm.
proved farm and a lot of valuable
stock as visible assets. These men
were not highly educated-just common
plug hands at the start. This is not
an exceptional case at all. It's counter.
part may be. found in almost any
western community.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The value Of any sort of new bug
may be determined by finding out what
other sort Of bug he wants for food.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Wanted.-some new bug to kill off
the box elder bug, which has come to
be an unmitigated nuisance wherever
box elder trees are grown.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The year 1901 shows up with a very
short crop of apples the country over
only 23,000,000 barrels against 4S,0OO,.
600 barrels a year ago.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

A crop of corn seems to be always
the best crop with which to follow a
crop of fax.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The corn crop Of the state of Iowa
foots up, according to the crop report
ing officials, about 225 ,57o, 900 bushels
an immense lot Of corn after all.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

A doctor who can tell a good store.
IS more likely to give value received.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
COWS AND THEIR VALUE.

A COW which will only make 100
pounds of butter in year is not worth
keeping by any man as milk COW; one
which will make 200 pounds is fairly
good average COW worth say, $35; one
which will make 300 pounds is su.
perior animal and is worth $50, and the
one which will make 400 pounds is a
first class COW and worth of any mans
money, 500. 1t should be said in con-
nection with the foregoing statement
that IL the 200 pound cow is Of the beef
breeds and produces good beef steer
her value is greater than the figures
above given
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The weather prophets are now being
heard from as to the sort of winter
weather in store. Just pay no atten-
ton to their predictions, for there is no
one who knows anything about the
weather ten days ahead. Just FIX UP
everything snug and warm and get in
shipshape for hard winter; then, IL
we should have mild one. there's no
harm done. North Of latitude 40 it is
SAFE to expect snug winter as gem
eral thing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Do not forget that il you want the
cats to catch the rats around the barns
and granaries they must have daily
ration Of new milk. The rats and the
milk make balanced ration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The government can far better af-
ford to appropriate money for irriga-
ton Of the fertile arid lands than to
spend it pulling snags out Of unnavi-
gable streams.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

California wines, like Chicago dress.
ed beef, are winning their way in the
markets of Europe, where alone 1t was
not long since thought good wines
could be produced.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
WILL STAY ON THE OLD FARM.

-. - O.S HHhHH VLD ThNHs 4
mo, sir; ! have lived on the old farm
since the time it was piece of wild
land in new country, and there 7
will stay" said good old friend Of
ours not long since when the question:
of moving from the farm into town
was under discussion. Continuing, he
said: Every tree on the old place 3
have planted, and have learned to
love them. The sunrise and sunset
views from the porch are more beauti1
full to me than from any other place.
True, cannot do much more hard
work, yet why should leave the scene
OF all my labor for forty years? lie
stay on the old place till the end
comes" Wise and happy old man! I'D
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Onions are, selling at so cents peck
all through country where 1t is en-
tirely possible to raise 300 bushels of
them on one acre Of land. There is a
cog loose here somewhere.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

II you want handsome cherry tree,
plant 1t on rich ground, but If you want
cherries put it on the poorest ground
you have. We have found this out by
experience.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The new president, from his thorough
knowledge of the conditions Of the
semiarid west, may reasonably be ex-
pected to cordially favor any move to
reclaim these unproductive lands by
system Of irrigation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The grosbeak is the only bird which
we have ever noted as eating potato
bugs. and he will eat one for sauce
while feasting on the early green peas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

When the house cat takes up the
business Of catching chickens, the SOON
er she is killed the better, for you can
never break her Of the habit when once
1t is acquired.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
PETS For CHILDREN.

A writer for prominent agricultu.
raj paper advises that all the younger
children Of the farm family be given
lambs as pets. We think that this 10
bad advice. Children should never be
given as pets any animal which in the
natural course Of things must sooner
or later be taken away, sold and killed.
This applies to sheep, chickens and
other poultry, pigs and quite often to
cats. A heifer calf may be kept as a
pet, or colt. but not the others nam
ed Then, If the pet sheep is of the
male sex, it will inside of six months
develop into the biggest nuisance
about the farm, for all the boys and
every hired man will put in their spare
time teaching 1t how to bunt, and some
fine morning In early winter the cody
head of the house will have the under
pinntng Knocked out from under him
as he goes to the barn, and there are
things said which would not look we'll
in print. The pet lamb is nuisance. 4
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

A friend Of ours had set out nice
young orchard Of apple trees. The
trees grew we'll and were nearly ready
to come into bearing when in the early
winter he had a grove of poplar trees
cut down which were growing adjoin-
ing the orchard. All the rabbits in the
country hocked there to peel the pop
lar branches, and when they had fin
ished up these they turned In on his
apple trees and had every tree girdled
and destroyed almost before he knew
1t. Young apple trees must have pro-
lection from the rabbits.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Apple orchards in Nebraska seeded
down with alfalfa show remarkable
thrift vigor and productiveness com
pared with apple trees on the same
Soil and under the same local condi-
lions simply cultivated and kept clean.
The alfalfa fertilizes. subsoils and
shades and cools the earth around the
trees. Where alfalfa will not grow
clover comes the nearest to doing the
same good work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Persons who wish to stock lakes
ponds or streams with food fish should
let the carp tribe alone. for we have
never heard Of or known a case where
these fish have been introduced that
they did not end in disappointment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

There is a recognized difference in
the quality of the meat of well bred
and well fatted steer of the standard
beef breeds and that Of an equally well
fatted scrub steer which the eaters of
beef are willing to pay for.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Frost as pulverizer of tough and
refractory soils can do better work
than any machine which man ever
made. For this reason all such soils
should be plowed in the fall of the
year, and the earlier the better.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

We have mentioned it before and will
clio it again-if a sure, certain stand of
clover or alfalfa is wanted 1t must be
sown without nurse crop. If wet
nurse did for the infant intrusted to
her care what the SO called nurse crop
usually does for the clover crop, she
would have nothing to show when fall
comes but little, starved, skinny
piece of humanity, which should be a
nice, fat baby.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

You have very great interest in the
man in your community or at least you
should have, who milks cow which
produces 400 pounds Of butter in a
year or the one who sells fat steer
for 500, or gets a yield of seventy-fve
bushels Of corn to the acre on forty
acre field, OF any man who in any way
makes very marked success ,of any
line of agriculture. If you are not able
to do these things, 1t is for your interest
to get acquainted with these men who
do. -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

We never know any craze to subsidc
more quietly and completely than the
late Belgian hare craze. The enthusi-
asts who put $3.50 into pedigreed ru-
fous brown Belgian buck hare a year
or SO ago are keeping very quiet. BY
the way. was there ever any demand
for hare meat at % cents pound?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

A recent invention which makes DOS
sible the utilization Of the straw pro-
duced on the treeless plains of the
northwest as fuel for domestic use
Is attracting some attention. The proc
ess involves the boiling and maceration
OF the straw and the pressing of the
product into suitable shape for use,
this straw fuel having. it is claimed,
an equal value with wood when SO
treated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

In general way we have just two
tests to apply to farm lands north and
south-for the north, VIII clover grow?
for the south, Will alfalfa grow7 If
not, such lands would have to be offer
ed very cheap to get us to invest in
them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

There is territory embraced In the
central parts of the states of Kansas
and Nebraska as large in area as one
good state for which alfalfa is to be-
come the modern redeemer, converting
lands of uncertain productiveness into
the garden spot of the continent. For
that region and for the people who live
there there are but one text and one SER
mon which needs preaching, and that is
that alfalfa-the one plant which defies
the drought and hot winds-does its
own irrigating by making every root a
subterranean pump, which always gives
to the soil more than 1t takes. We do
not often feel like advising as to loca-
ton and land investments but will say
that IL we were in search Of location
today we would look up these semiarid
cheap lands in the states mentioned,
where alfalfa will grow, for the cheap
est milk, beef and pork In America can
be there produced. "
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

There seems to be a chance of saw
ing portion of the forests of Califor-
mia by reason of the general use Of oil
for railway and furnace work. The
smelters in just one county in that
state have been using 100000 cords Of
wood annually and are hereafter to be
supplied with fuel oil in place of wood.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

II we were young man just start
ing In the stock business. either dairy
Ing or beef production. we would rath-
er have $500 invested In one thorough
bred COW than three scrubs at S33
each. 1t would take little longer to
get started, perhaps, but when once
started it would be on the right road
to success,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

There is an authenticated record of
chestnut tree cut down in the state
Of Ohio in the year 1S47 from which
were made 1000 fence rails, 1900
shingles and p cords of wood. There
ought to be pretty good collaterals
back of story Of this size. especially
as it was chestnut tree.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

Tile draining removes any excess of
moisture in wet time from the land
and conserves the moisture in the soil
In dry time. This seems like para
doxical statement, yet it is nevertheless
true, as any one may note on field SO
drained.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

The butchering of pig in a Mis-
souri, community on Sunday, because
OF the laundering manner in which the
Job was done and the great noise made
by the pig, set in operation the pro-
visions of a Sunday law and resulted
in the pig killers arrest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

In operating stock ranch in Texas
from fifteen to twenty-five acres of
pasture are required for each head of
stock. An acre Of Wisconsin or Min
nesota clover or the same amount Of
Iowa or Missouri blue grass will keep
the same animal In better condition.
The Iola register., 1901-06-21
SPEECH ABOUT CORN
Phillips of Chicago Addr esses Far
mers' Alliance.

Minneapolis, Minn., June 13.-A
number OF members of the National
Farmers Alliance listened to short
address tonight byiGeorge II. Phillips
of Chicago, at the West hotel. The
address dealt principally with corn
and corn CORNERS.
''Let the government, be said, "tax
the farmer d cent bushel on his crop
of corn and with the money build ele-
vaturs in which to store hundred
million bushels of corn and pay forty
cents, Chicago basis, for it, and the
world will pay the same price. There
is not so much of it that we need wor-
ry about an extra large crop or two.
" ith the government ready to pay
forty cents for it, the farmer can bor-
row thirty cents from his country
banker If heneeds the money. and car
ry the surplus for seven years If need
he -
The Iola register., 1901-06-21
KING EDWARD A CAPTIVE
England's Monarch is Charmed BY a
Famous Beanty.

London, June licking Edward
VII. is infatuated with the most beau
tiful woman of France, Nine. Liane
De Pougy, who won in the famous
Partisan beauty contest last year.
This new fancy of thelmonarch and a
decree which those on the social PIN
nacle of society pronounce mean, petty
tyranny has aroused the nobility and
the autocracy of Britain to furious in
dignation.
The King of England seems to be her
devoted slave. He has lunched and
supped with her several times and has
otherwise paid her most lattering at
tentions. The gossips are talking it
over with much avidity and are laugh
ing at the so-called pretense of the
monarch when he first ascended the
throne that he would insist on the pro-
prieties and would give the cold
shoulder at court to those with shady
records or those who did not walk the
marrow way.
The Iola register., 1901-06-21
KLONDYKE GOLD
IL VIII Reach the Great Sum of Fif-
teen Million Dollars this Season

Seattle, Washington, June 14.-The
Yukon is open from end to end, ac-
cording to news brought down by the
steamer Dolphin which arrived this
morning. The ship brought down
$40, 900 in gold dust.
The presence of $780, 600 of gold
dust in the banks at Dawson has
caused a renewal of speculation as to
what the total output of the Klondike
will be this year. Comparisons have
been made with the receipts in pre-
vious years to the corresponding date
and calculations made. 1t is held by
many that one-half of the total output
is now in the banks, and they figure
that the grand total will be in the
neighborhood of $l5, 200, 600. Many
persons, however, hold that between
$40, 600, 900 aud S25, 100000 would be
nearer the correct estimate.
Court open at Dawson on June 4.
Counsel for George O'Brien, accused
of the murder of Slayson, Olson and
Rolse, asked for a continuance of the
case for two months, in order to give
time to better prepare tho defense by
getting testimony alleged to be impor-
tant to show the defendart's inno-
cence. The court denied the request,
but granted n stay of proceedings for
one week. viii Slayson, brother of
one of the men, and prominent mer-
chant of Skagway, and about eighty
other witnesses for the crown are
now :in Dawson. They are being
ernment. O'Brien has asked the gov
ernment to send to Rome for three
witnesses for his defense, ana they
will be sent for.
The Iola register., 1901-06-21
PECK'S REPORT
1t Makes 1900 Pages Divided Into Six
Volumes.

Washington, June 14-Commission-
er General Peck's report on the Paris
exposition Of 1900 has all been put in
to type at the government printing
office, and the first volume is expected
to come from the bindery tomorrow,
The report makes over 5000 pages,
divided into six volumes and illustrat-
ted with 300 plates and fifty maps.
The law required the report to be de
livered to the president within four
months after the close of the exposi-
tion. This brought the report to the
last session of congress just before
adjournment and too late to secure Il
joint resolution authorizing copies to
be printed for general public distribu-
tion. AS consequence there will be
only one copy printed at this time for
each member of congress and the
usual number for the different depart
ments OF the government, and the pub
lie library repositories.
The Iola register., 1901-06-21
EXPELS HIS DISSENTERS
Two Deacons Who Doubt His Claim
Banished from Zion.

Chicago, H., June Is. 3.-According
to the latest issue of Leaves Of Heal
ing" John Alexander Dowie's pub
lication, he vas not sure he was Ell iah
III, when he announced it from the
platform in the Auditorium eight days
ago. So he called meeting of the
elders, overseers, deaconesses and
deacons one week ago. His story of
the conference says 223 women were
present, and that he talked to them
four and one-half hours, Then he
took ballot to see whether he was
Elijah II. or not, and found out he
was by vote of 259 to 5. The five
refused to make the vote unanimous,
and two of them, Elders lnouye aud
Kitano, when Dowie had fixed upon as
the heads of his sect in Japan, their
native country were expelled. The
others are on probation.
Dowie emphasizes that now that he
has been elected Elijah II. by his fol-
lowers he no longer speaks by per-
mission Of Cob, but by full authority
of completed divine commission.
He says he will live until Jesus Christ
returns to earth to rce'o"e all things.