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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24

The homecoming of Gen. Funston is
detracting somewhat from the popular
excitement regarding the advent of
Santa Claus.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
To Cure a Cold in One pav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves sig
nature is on each box. Csc.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24

A sensitive man will stay awake
nights to stick pins into himself.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
Abingdon.


Abingdon, Dec. l3.-Mrs. Harlan of
Rome visited Monday and Tuesday
with her daughter, Miss Lillian.
Jake Ramsey and son returned to
their home in Oklahoma after week S
visit with friends and relatives.
F. E. Osborn, of the Sioux City Seed
& Nursery Co., was in Abingdon Tues
day.
The home talent company is to give
a series of entertainments during the
holidays which promise to exceed any
thing of the kind ever given in Abing-
don. In addition to the entertain
ments there are to be two Christmas
trees on Christmas eve. The pro-
ceeds are to go to foreign missions.
All are cordially invited and good
time warranted.
School closed Friday for two weeks
vacation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
Rlakesburd.

Blakesburg, Dec. 2S.-Everybody is
preparing Tor Christmas, and the mer-
chants have by far the finest display
ever seen in this town.
Harry Townsend met with quite an
accident this week. \. hile out hunt
ing, he had his face uadly powder
burned almost destroying his eyesight.
Dr.. Payne is treating the eyes and
thinks he will save them both.
A Christmas tree with an entertain
ment will attract crowd at Russell
Chapel on Christmas eve.
Fritz e Shea had fine calf frozen
this week.
Some measles south of town. Most
of the cases are mild.
The town is full of hogs this week,
and most of them four legged hogs.
Several of the neighbors went
to Dakota last week in search of
cheaper land. Land in Iowa is not
selling any more for the old prices, yet
Iowa land is cheap at any price.
The new telephone line from Bloom
field, Drakeville, via Ashgrove is
now entering Blakesburg.
Protracted meetings are now in pro
gress at Christiansburg with good
interest
John Hecfart has sold his farm.
This cold snap was very severe
on cattle not weu sheltered. Why will
men neglect to provide shelter for
their stock? When they would save
feed enough in one winter to pay the
expense. A steer with nothing but a
wire fence for protection will lose as
much in two days as you can replace
with feed in two weeks.
r. j. Raymond and wife are going to
Illinois to spend Christmas.
Henry Wilson and wife have return
ed from California. Iowa is good
enough for them now.
Daniel, Carl has written from Den
yer that:he will return to Blakesburg
to spend the rest of his days
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
keosa uqua.

Keosauqua, Dec. 21.-The jury re-
turned verdict for the de-
PENDANT in the case of Thorn
as Robb, of Pennington VS.
VIM. Firoved of Monmouth, Ill. This
is the case in which the plaintiff sought
to recover $4,000 damages of the de-
PENDANT for alleged slanderous state
ments made by the defendant.
Judge Ben Mccoy, the tax ferret, of
Oskaloosa, is in this place again look
ing after delinquent taxes.
II. l.. McGrew has returned from a
business trip to Burlington
Hon. w. r. Wherry returned to
Chicago last evening, where he and
his family are making their home for
this winter Mr. Wherry has been
here attending court.
Mrs. Hattie Smith will return to
her home in Peoria, H., shortly after
two weeks visit with relatives in
this place.
Alex. Matheson, the father of Clerk
j. K. Matheson, is very low at his
home few miles south of this place,
and it is feared that he will not re.
cover
j. c. Mitchell and w. A. Work, of
Ottumwa, have been attending court
here
Al Cocherell, of Keosauqua, and Mrs.
Fl Geages of south of town, were unit
ed in marriage Wednesday by Squire
Brown, of Bentonsport.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
Found Dead in Bed.

Word has been received from Cleve.
land No. of the sudden death of
VIM. McDermit, resident of that
place, he having been found dead in
his bed. Mr.. McDermott had been
drinking very hard of late and it is
thought that this was the cause of his
death as he was seen the evening pre-
vious and appeared to be in his usual
good health though somewhat intoxi-
Gated. Coroner Stanton has gone to
Cleveland to investigate.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
ENGLISH rAvAL DIscIprrnE.
RcUtnrfSnhl~ Grasp 90 ri~~~ refafIs
Displayed ny Superior
ODc-rs.

The commando Of a hattleship in
She Mediterranean squadron the 9TH
er day saw reason to suspect. that a
mourning band worn by one Of The
mi9shipmen was too broad. re fcck
the MILDLY into his cabin. measured
the mourning band himself, fonnd
that il was sometime Ike a quarter
Of an inch too wide, and punished the
young gentleman hv stor inw weeks
leave. A few weeks later. saws a.
writer in London Trnth. She eagle eye
of this same officer detected micro
SCOPE portion N ciYilian waistcaat
Protruding below the monkey Jacket
Of one Of his officers. The offrer "
wearing the waistcoaf for the sake ~
warmth, The weather bt ng ehHv al
the time. TIE commander. having
harangued him for some minutes ~
the error Of his ways. ade he ofllc.
remove his moakey jacket ard walk
up and down The battery h. quar-
terdeck IN THAT copG,tic az hen
sent him below. to no n1use-
lnent OF an the Trmbers me sh'p's
company, who VI ere loeainy nut the
time. This way ~ treating an offlcer
hardly seems II ms eoa dpciye to the
maintenance cf d'sc nc. 1T the
same time, great source
of satisfaction 10 81! Of as that the
ships - mems ~ Which Britannia
rules the waves are commanded by
men with such remarkable powers of
vision ord such A remarkable orosa
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
THE BRONX ROCKING STONE.
Many Tons i'm Weight Yet Can BE
Easily Moved by One
strong Hand.

The rocking stone which stands on
the fat surface of an out-cropping
of rock on a little eminence in Bronx
park does not attract so much at
tention as the animals there do, by
any means; but there are, neverthe-
less, always interested people walk
ing around it., and trying to see if
they can move it, says the New York
Sun.
This great fragment of rock, which
weighs perhaps eight or ten tons, or
more, has in its general outlines a
form in some rough semblance to
an egg. 1t lies on it's side, and so
nicely balanced is it that one man
Of fair strength can readily move it;
and almost any two persons can start
it into the rocking movement of
which, through a small radius, it is
susceptible.
A woman comes up and lays her
gloved hands upon it and presses
gently; it doesn't bulge.
why, it doesn't move," she says,
But two or three women together
can set the great stone rocking
easily.
And no matter who it may be that
sets the rocking sCone in motion, he
is pretty sure to find in setting it
rocking sort of fascination.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
BEAVER TAIL SOUP.
A Michigan Lumber Camp DeIicncy
That Amazed and Pleased
Maryfander.

although / am Marylander, and
an Eastern Shore one at that" said
Chauncey X. Raynor, reports the New
York Sun, land consequently know
what good things to eat are, want
TO tell you that III have to take off my
lat to the lumber camp cook of the
upper Michigan peninsula as the dis
coverer, fabricator and dispenser Of a
dish that knocks the Eastern Shore
cuisine silly. And that rare lumber
camp dish is beaver tail soup.
II was with Col. Park, of Columbus,
O., deer hunting in the Rainy lake re-
gion Of Michigan one fall. We lived at
a lumber camp boarding shanty.
There were signs Of beaver at the
upper end Of the lake, and trapper
succeeded In trapping ons Of the willy
dam builders.
When the beaver was brought into
camp the camp cook went nearly wild.
And so did the lumbermen when they
heard the news. All because they had
been trying to trap a Aaver for weeks;
not for its fur. but for it's tail. as they
were pining, they said, for beaver tail
soup.
"The cook took that broad append
age of the beaver, mailed like an arma-
dillo, took from ii the underlying bone
and meat, and from il made such a
soup as never came from any other
stock, at the beck Of the most expert
and scientific chef that ever put ket-
tie on.
I'VE could do the same thing, and
perhaps better, on the Eastern Shore,
but we lack one thing. We haven't
got the beavers to yield us their tails"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
WHEN ALocoMoTlv1 LOWS UP
An Old Railroad Mans Account of
IA Casnstrophr That He
Witnessed.

81 am one of the very few persons
who ever saw locomotive blow up"
remarked an old railroad man to a
reporter OF the Baltimore sun the
other day. Generally the men who
witness the explosion of a steam en-
CINE are so dead when the smoke
has cleared away that they are never
able to give an account of the dis
aster.
Like many other accidents, the
one | saw was the result of care
lessness-low water in the boiler, for
the engine had gust come from the
shops and was in complete repair. 1t
was on railroad in West Virginia a
number of years ago. / was on a
locomotive some distance behind the
one which exploded, and was looking
ahead out of the cab window, so that
the Inflated engine was Immediately
before my eyes. Suddenly / saw the
machine rise in the air; it seemed to
me about as high as the telegraph
poles beside the track, which, as you
doubtless know, are not so high as
pm BoiNS III bii6 1ib1 lth
came a cloud of dense black smoke
and dust, which hi1 the engine from
view, and almost simultaneously
heard the roar of the explosion.
Both the engineer and the fire.
man were killed, and the locomotive
was fit for nothing much but the
scrap heap when it fell to the ground.
The crown sheet over the fireboX had
blown oHt.
"Thc strange thing about the ex.
plosion was that no white steam was
seen. You know that perfectly dry
steam is invisible, being like the air,
and before it had time to condense
it was probably smothered by the
cloud of smoke and dust raised .hy
the bursting of the boiler"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21

is FRIEND OF BIRDS.
Millionaire Colorado Miner Allows
None Killed ON His Mining
Property.

Thomas +. Walsh, of Washington,
mine in Colorado, gives evidence in
the naming of this marvelously rich
piece of gold-producing property of
his Observation-Disclosures so far as birds
and harmless beasts are concerned.
Not only has he named his mine after
the pests of his early prospecting
days, but all along the road leading
from the mine to the quartz mill are
posted notices which read
"Notice-Birds and harmless beasts
must not be killed on this property.
1t is cruel, also it is against the law.
Any employe of the Camp Bird mine
needlessly killing or cruelty treating
any bird or animal will be dis
charged"
Camp birds" are Mr.. Walsh's spe-
cial favorites. Long before he owned
the mine which has made him envied
by kings Mr.. Walsh found the soil
tude of the wilderness more endur.
able because of the presence of these
little camp followers. No prospector
is long in the mountains before being
discovered by these birds and having
a retinue of them in his train They
follow when he moves his camp, and
sometimes remain a whole season
with one miner. They live on the
refuse of the camp and soon become
so tame that they may be fed from
the hand. They are of most So
~ I
human companionship. Their chat
ter, says the Washington Star, which
closely resembles that OF magpie,
does much to relieve the oppressive
solitude of the mountains.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
BUY WATCHES AS TRINKETS.
Women Do Not Wear Them ms Time
keepers, Says n jew
eler

mo, / don't believe that there are
many women who buy a gold watch
TO keep time" declared an Eighth
street jeweler the other day, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record. "The
best proof of my assertion is in the
fact that while we sell quite a num-
Der of watches to women we have
very few women's watches in our re-
pairing department. Men, on the
other hand, come in every day to have
their watches repaired, and they keep
our repairing department busy the
whole day long. Some of them are
mighty particular, too, to have their
watches timed almost to the second.
Women, as rule, buy gold
watch as trinket. They pin it on
the breast like medal. Some wear
it at the waist with quantity of
other trinkets. You have no doubt
seen many such women on Chestnut
street. 1t is only the professional
woman whose business requires her
to have strict time who buys a time
piece for the purpose for which it
was made. A trained nurse is an in
stance. And as rule the profess
sional woman buys silver watch.
But women will be women, you
know!"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21

An Ottawa CORES ondent writes
shat intelligence has been received
from the Yukon of a strange discovery
that the language of the Nulato In
dams who live within the arctic circle
and that of the Apaches of New Mexico
and Arizona are the same. The facts
have come 10 light through the return
to Dawson City of Father John Rene.
project apostolic of the Roman Cath
odc church in Alaska. from journey
10 the fathers working among the
aboriginal tribes of the Lower Yukon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
CRITICS OF ORIENTAL RUGS.
! DIfrruIt and weII-Paid Vocation
Aided by the Fad of MIL
fonnires.

ITO be a critic of oriental rugs
said a osaiar, ''is as difficult as TO be
critic Of painting or Of music or Of
wine. ! know men who can tell in
lalIibIy the province in which rug
war iiade; it is lie knotting Of the
threads that they go by. These men
safU good deaf Of money, for their
services are in frequent demand and
TIE fees they get for their expert
op,n.ons are high.
We have a number of millionaires
in this city and in New York and
Chicago there a4e othgrs-who are
sitnOua tug collectors. They hang
taeir WIS with RUGS, and certainly
iaoae draperies are no. less beautiful
tilsn costly. The most valuable rug
u the world is in the South Kensing
ion museum. ] think that it is worth
@3a,0ss. Age improves these beautiful
Things, softening their colors and Civ.
ilB kind Of blur, kind OF atmos.
pierre to their design. Many of the
notable ones are hundreds of years
old. They did not wear ont in the
palaces and the mosques where they
were laid because no one walked upon
them with shoes on; they were prayer
rugs and were stepped on reyerently
With shoeless feet, the devotee then
kneeling. OF course with such gen
tie usage any sort of rug would last
a long time. These, made of the
purest woods and dyed with the finest
and costliest dyes, became more
charming as the yenrs passed.
Il don't know why it is" continued
the dealer, according to the Philadel.
phia Record, "but moths will not at
tack good old Persian rug
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
WILD ILLINOIS REGION.
Remarkable Tract of Land in Taze-
well County That Resembles
an African Jungle.

An African jungle transplanted to
central Illinois would be the best de-
scription that could be given to re-
markabe tract of land in Tazewell
county, lying along the Haclinaw riv-
er, near the village Of Lilly. This
tract, in local parlance, is known as
"the Lost Forty" 1t is without doubt
the widest piece of hand in all Illinois,
and consists of a continuous series of
abrupt and deep ravines, says the Hi
nois State Journal.
Not a foot of the tract could be cul-
tivated. The ridges are full of fox
dens, wolves are occasionally found,
and turkey buzgards hover over it in
large fiocks. Even people familiar
with the territory have been lost in
the dense forest. Except for few
giant oaks, the wood has no CONNER.
cial value.
The tract is known as 1.-The Lost
Forty" because no one knows who
owns it. For years it has been used
for trading purposes, and many un'
wary persons from a distance have
advanced money upon it and taken
mortgages in various sums, only to
receive questionable title to a worth
less piece of land. On the Tazewell
county tax books the 40 appears with
Owner unknown" The land is wa.
tered by innumerable springs and the
Mackinaw river, which winds its way
through it.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
TROUT KILLED CRAVINGS.
The Fish Commission Failed to Allow
for Poetic License and Lost
Their Fish.

Sportsmeu viii rejoice to know that
the governme nj fish commission seems
to have solved the problem Of propa-
eating grayling. There are very few
graylng streams in the world, and a
few Of those are in the United States.
Two OF the best are in northern
Michigan and the rest in Montana.
The grayling inhabits streams similar
to those in which trout thrive. They
are different from the trout in appear
ance, more delicate bur equally gamy.
and take practically the Same bait and
the same flies. In the Michigan
streams trout were PAINTED with the
grayling. says the New York lines,
for the fish commission believed that
If Teunysou's brook could hold
Here and there a lusty trout and here and
there graylng,'
The brooks Of Michigan could be made
to do likewise. But they failed to al
,ow for poetic license, and discovered
when TOO late thar the trout destroyed
their little rivals. An attempt was
made TO propagate the disapp airing
fish. but the attempt failed. Then
some one noticed that the craving Of
Montana seemed TO be of a different
variety, and more hardy. The commits
sion tried these and is succeeding adj
mirably in their propagation.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21

conscience money" in Great Brit
ain now amounts to thousands Of
pounds annually. The first sum no.
ticed was on March 30, 1889, when
6 $50 was carried to the public account
IN consequence of note received by
the chancellor The writer, with trou-
bled soul implored him, "as an hon
est man, to consider the money the
property Of the nation, and to be so
just as TO apply it to the use of the
state in such manner that the nation
may not suffer by its having been de-
tanned, and thus to ease the conscience
of an honest man
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
Yokohama Hotel nurned.

VICTORIA, Il. c., Dec. News is
given in advices from Japan of the
destruction by fire of the Oriental ho-
tel ut Yokohama. The hotel was ac-
counted the handsomest In Japan. The
fire occurred in the early morning, and
a number of guests escaped with moth
ing but their nightclothes. One Jap
anese nurse was burned to death. A
telegram from Sendai to the Japanese
Herald says an American missionary
named Snyder has been arrested for
assaulting Japanese hey by striking
him with Bible.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
NEW VOGUE IN POSTAL CARDS.
WV u~ed for PersenaI Messages
Hearing Picture Of sender,s
Residence.

Postal cards are coming to be con-
sidered good form. Whereas. thev
were formerly admissible only as a
means for dispatching an order to q
tradesman. they may now be used for
the transmission OF personal mes
sages. The stipulation, however. is
that they must bear reproduction Of
ones house, says the New York World.
This promises to make the fashion
an exclusive one. Anybody can con-
suit a heraldic expert and have his
family insignia discovered and trans
ferred to his note paper. But not
everybody lives in a mansion that
would form desirable decoration for
a postal card. In any case the suburb
an resident will, it is plain, have the
advantage.
Now that the use of the camera has
become universal, nothing is easier
than to secure a pretty country view,
and airy stationer can have such n
view reproduced at trifiing cost on
cards OF size suitable to be sent by
post.
IL VIII be no uncommon thing for
Jones, who has taken house in New
Jersey, to acquaint his friends with
its charms, not by lengthy descrip-
tions, but by sending them post cards
adorned with it's picture.
The size of the picture need only be
restricted by that Of thecard. Postal
authorities now allow cards of very
fair proportions to pase as post cards.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
GREAT WILD HORSE HUT.
An Expedition Sent to Central Asia
by Noted Dealer In Wild
beasts.

In recent years the catching of wild
animals for geological parks and cir
euses has by no means deteriorated
as an industry. In July of last year
Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, the
wild auimal dealer, sent an expedi-
tion to Mongolia for specimens Of the
wild horse to be found there, reports
the New York Sun.
The special kind of wild horse that
Mr.. HagenbeclS was after was more
than usually swift and elusive, and
to overcome the Difficult les in the
way of its capture his men hired
seven troops of Kireiiz horsemen.
numbering about 1900 in all, and
mounted on aninas almost as swift
as the wild horses.
The latest reports received here
are that the agents have secured 4G
colts, nearly equally divided between
males and females. Brood mares had
to be taken along, one for each colt,
to serve as adopted mothers for the
young captives.
When the expedition gets out of
Mongolia it will have to travel more
than two months through rough
country before it reaches the nearest
station on the Contra, Siberian rail-
way. After that the captive horses
will have to travel by rail nearly $500
miles 30 reach Hamburg.
Several of the captiyes have been
sold already, it is said, at about So 500
a pair, price that will buy a pretty
good blooded horse of almost the
best domestic stock.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
WITH BOW AND ARROW.
Hunters Arc Now Given 10 Matching
Their Skin Against Animal
Cunning.

A new class of sportsmen has been
growing up within the last few years,
whose distinguishing characteristic is
based upon the line followed by tDe
late Maurice Thompson, sportsman
and author, says the Chicago Journal
Thompson disdained to use the
shotgun on small game, preferring 10
match skill against cunning. He
made it practice not TO kill game
until he was close enough TO watch
and study it. SO he took a long bow
and went into the woods after quail
and grouse. He hunted rabbits in he
same manner, and was very success.
full.
When he went after quail he stole
upon the flock in its haunts and
picked off the birds with arrows that
made no noise and did not brighten
those that remained. In this way he
grew to know the haunts and hab.
5ts of his quarry as the shotgun
bunter never does. Rabbits he
stalked in similar manner. The
point TO be won was to see the rabbit
in the little form" where it spends
the day, in surroundings that render
II well-nigh Invisible, and shoot il be.
fore it could run away. For squirrels
he took an ancient fint-lock rifle
Most hunters are not handicapping
themselves TO this extent, but take
instead of bow or flintlock small
rifle with which the head may be
shipped off quail or grouse and
tiny puncture made in a rabbits
skull.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-12-21
hydrogen as an nIuminant.

The production of oxygen and hy-
lrogen on an industrial scale by the
decomposition of water with electro
lytic apparatus in Germany, says a
foreign exchange, has led to the sug-
gestion that hydrogen thus produced
may hnd wide field of employmt at
as lighting agent 1t is used for
initiating military balloons. For light"
ing purposes it is compressed in
steel cylinders. With proper burn
err it is said to be cheaper illum-
inant than acetylene, the relative cost
for equal Illuminating power being
as rs for hydrogen to SO for acety-
Iene.