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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25
Bladensburg

Bladensburg, July 24.--Rev. AM
mons filled the pulpit at the Christian
church Sunday morning and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Ingram of Ottum-
wa visited Mrs. Ingram's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Murray last Sunday.
Misses Lizzie Decker and Sadie
Fisher took their Sunday school
classes for a picnic last Wednesday.
A summer kitchen belonging to G.
T. Bedweli, west of town, was destroy
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25
Dehionega.

. Dahlonega, July 24.-J. K. Hawkins
and, family left for their new home
near Edna, Oklahoma, last week.
Miss Maude Lewis of Ottumwa is
spending the week with her grand
mother, Mrs Vim. Lewis, of this place.
The W. o. WIS will give an ice
cream social Friday evening, July rs.
Mrs. S. A. Fuaua, who has been sick
for some time, is getting better.
Charles and Lincoln Lewis, William
ands Edward Lowenberg, William
Smith and Ashford Mccoy have gone
to Oklahoma to take their chances on
getting claims.
! Lee Ockert has been nursing felon
for the last two weeks
Mrs. William L9Wenberg was visit
ing, her daughter, Mrs. Guy Kitterman,
of Tracey. ssnsfsh ., 10
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Pleasant Hill.

Pleasant Hill, jJuly 24.--Farmers are
mostly through with harvest. A good
many are baling their hay and straw,
as feed is very scarce.
Mrs. ,Passimore is improving slowly
!, c. Campbell is visiting at the home
of c. I. Vondevers.
Several, have gone from here to
Minnesota to help harvest the great
crop of wheat.
Miss; Wright of Keosauqua gave a
lecture in Selma Saturday night. She
is a graduate of the Methodist Train
ing school in Chicago and very able
speaker m 3@
Fred Salenbarger and wife visited
near While Elm Sunday. ~
Dudley Nicklin is at home here from
,Ottumwa suffering with very severe
bleeding of tooth which was remov-
ed.
Chris Kunzman and w. Nelson were
in Eldon Saturday.
John Johnson is visiting George Sea-
NOR near Douds.
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Douds.

0VuQSs
Douds, July 24.-Attorney Ed. Irish
of Keosauqua was in. town last We'd
nesday.
Rev. E. E. Doud and family of Craw-
louisville were visiting with relatives
here last Thursday.
Mrs. Bert Ruble of Selma was in
town Friday.
The Methodist Episcopal tent meet
ing at Leando closed Thursday night.
1t is, believed that much good was
done at these meetings. Rev. Minear
goes to Pulaski to hold series of tent
meetings at that place.
A. L. Doud and family visited with
relates at Fairfield oyer Sunday.
The thermometers here registered
113 in the shade, Sunday, and Monday
lis. This is the hottest ever known
here.
A car load of cedar bridge piline
was un1oaded here today to be used
in the erection Of six county bridges
in this part of the county as soon as
the bridges arrive. w. e. Booth Of
Harrington, who was county inspector
for the last three river bridges, has
the contract for these bridges.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
AMBROSE M'KAY'S CASE.

Rockbridge, Mo-, June 24th:-The
neighborhood and particularly the
members of Rockbridge Lodge, No.
435, A. +. & A. NJ, are feeling very
much pleased over the recovery of Mr..
Ambrose Mckay, a prominent citizen
and an honored member of the Ma
sonic Fraternity.
Mr.. Mckay had been suffering for
years with Diabetes and Rheumatism.
which recently threatened to end his
days. His limbs were so filled with
pain that he could not sleep. He was
very bad.
Just then, someone suggested a new
remedy-Dodd's Kidney Pills-which
has been much advertised recently, as
a cure for Bright's Disease, Diabetes
Dropsy, Rheumatism and Kidney
Trouble.
After Mr.. Mckay had used few
doses, he commenced to improve. His
pain all left him, and he is almost as
well as ever. He says Dodd's Kidney
Pills are worth much more than they
cost. They are certainly getting a
great reputation in Missouri, and
many very startling cures are being
reported.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY.

New Zealand's crown lands are now
disposed of for 900 years.
The Jewish population of London
has more than doubled within 20
years.
The population of the German en-
pire includes 100000 who use the
Polish language.
Germany and Holland are planning
to lay a new cable to connect with the
Dutch East Indies.
Berlin has 10000 dogs. The tax is
$3.50, but officers and those who use
dogs as draught animals pay no tax.
1t is estimated that the cost of re-
storing the papal palace at Avignon,
France, would be about ST 100000.
The British foreign office reports
that SO per cent. of the slaves of Fan
zibar and Pemba prefer to remain
slaves.
After the model of the Rowton
houses in London, Milan will soon have
an Albergo popolare, with room for
$50 men. 1t will have electric lights,
baths, clean linen, reading-room, etc.,
and the cost will be only ten cents q
day per person.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
HELPFUL FARM NOTES.

Rural free delivery places the pro-
Queer in daily touch with the worlds
markets.
The first great lesson for the av-
erage farmer to learn is that no per-
manent success is likely to be achieved
unless pencil and paper are made to
show the cost of production, since
careful management and accuracy are
essential to success.
Success in the Danish husbandry is
mainly due to the technical education
of the agriculturalists. which, in con-
nection with a cooperative system,
enables them to secure the advan-
tages of new scientific methods and
improved appliances, all of which tend
toward profitable production.
The time has now come when the
successful farmer must study crop
statistics gathered from all parts of
the world. The worlds supplies, sur
plus or deficiency and crop prospects
of coming harvests must be taken in
to consideration. No Rip Van Wrinkle
methods will serve the progressive
farmer of to-day.-Farm and Fire.
side.
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RIDING CART FOR NARROWING.

a riding cart, attaching it to the long
drawbar of the harrow, and it is prov
ing the most satisfactory method ever
tried. It adds but little to the draft
an extra horse may be put on it if
the team finds difficulty in pulling the
harrow-and the driver can better
manage his horses, as he is not re-
CURED to keep constant watch of his
steps, and he is always at an equal dis
lance from them.
The cart uses some wide-tired
wheels, old corn planter wheels being
just the thing. These wheels are
placed on an axle made on or bolted
to four by four, to which the seat is
bolted by means of standards running
from the seat to the four by four and
to the brace between the shafts which
connect the cart with the long draw
bar to which the evener and whiffle-
trees are hitched. 1t might seem at
glance as though the whiffletrees
might be caused to bump the horses
heels and cause other trouble, but this
is not the case, as the weight of the
cart keeps the drawbar and evener up
off the ground. Actual use in this re-
gion shows this riding cart to be both
practical and valuable.-Jim L. Irwin,
in Ohio Farmer.
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LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.
Its Advantages, Moral and Pecuninry,
Are Not Appreciated by I'm
skilled City LabOrers.

The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette
comments with rare good sense upon
this subject. After calling attention
to the scarcity of farm laborers it
says: ''It is a subject for regret, not
only upon the ground that agricultural
interests are hurt, but it is distinctly
unfortunate for large class of skilled
workmen in the various cities that the
advantages and opportunities of farm
work are not more generally sought.
Work of all classes in the cities is per-
formed in the main by specialists.
This is growing to be the case more
and more each year in every depart
ment of professional, commercial and
mechanical labor. In the cities only
the people with well-acquired trade
or profession stand a chance in the
competitions of life. Yet there is in
every city vast number of men who
are earning precarious living by do
ing the hardest sort of mental labor.
Their families are compelled to live
in narrow, squalid streets, and their
children are being reared in an at
mosphere that tends to produce moral
depravity. In the agricultural dis
tricts there are places for these peo-
pie which, compared with their pres
ent conditions, are positive Edens.
They would have to toll, but it is toll
under conditions of health and moral
cleanliness that compensate a thou
sand times over for the exertion."
The next question naturally is, why
do these laborers not make a change
that would be so beneficial to them
and their families? There are several
reasons. First. they do not realize
these advantages. The country wages
look low to them. The city papers do
not educate them as to the real advan-
tages of country life; on the contrary,
they are apt to poke fun at everything
from the country and to magnify the
city's advantages. Then, city laborers
are like all other classes of people,
they prefer to drift along rather than
change, always hoping for something
to turn up that will land them q
STEADY job" at good wages. But prob
ably the greatest hindrance of all is
the gregarious tendency of humanity.
They prefer the city, where society Of
some kind is always to be found, to the
isolation of the farm. There seems
to be no cure for this. While a good
many city people have turned to the
country of late years, the laborers
have not formed large proportion of
them.-National Stockman.
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A Heavy Tax ON Farmers.

At recent Wisconsin dairymen's
convention, Prof. Henry said that
smut in the oat crop cost the farmers
of that state more than $4,000 an
nually, and that they could avoid such
enormous loss by applying a simple
remedy to the seed grain, says the
Wisconsin Farmer. One pound of 40
per cent. formaldehyde dissolved in so
gallons of water sprinkled over so
bushels of oats and thoroughly SHOW
eled over, would kill the smut spores,
thus freeing the seed of the germ
that causes smut. Seventy-five cents
worth of the drug will treat so BUSH
els of seed. The farmer who knows
about this simple and inexpensive
remedy and fails to profit thereby
has not his own interest at heart.
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stefan. She cannot bring herself to
tell everything, and the physician is
at constant disadvantage. This is
why. for the past twenty-five years,
thousands of women have been con-
fiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham,
and whose advice has brought happi-
ness and health to countless women in
the United States.
Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, Ill,
whose portrait we publish, advises all
suffering women to seek Mrs. Pink
hams advice and use Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound, as they
and womb; she, therefore, speaks from
knowledge, and her experience ought
to give others confidence. Mrs. Pink
hams address is Lynn, Mass, and her
advice is absolutely free.
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it is so thickly seeded that the sun
cannot reach all parts of the growing
plant there is produced product
which is lacking in digestibility and
which is not relished by farm stock.
A few years ago some experiments
were conducted by the Cornell expert
ment station, the object being to de-
termine what method of planting corn
produced greatest food value. Certain
plats were drilled in thickly so that
no ears would develop, others were
planted with the rows 40 inches apart
and with the plants close together in
the row, and other plats were plant
ed in hills from three to 31s feet
apart. While a larger quantity of
produce was obtained per acre where
the corn was drilled in thickly, yet
it contained higher per cent. of mois-
ture and was deficient in protein and
in fat.
While the money value of the
broadcasted corn is not very different
from the value of that grown on the
other plat, this estimate does not take
into account the digestibility of the
various products.
The variety of corn which shall be
planted must be determined some
what by local conditions. In central
New York the Pride of,the North gives
very satisfactory results. Whatever
variety is selected, it should be one
which shall approach maturity before
frost. The man who plants so thickly
that he cuts it with the reaper is sure
ly failing to get best results, says
Country Gentleman, in conclusion to
the foregoing advice.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
TALK WITH FARMERS.
The Man Who Wrote 1t Is SOmeth ing
of a Grower, But He Tells Moth
ing But the Truth,

One must own enough farm imple-
ments and animals to do his work
rightly. A poor man cannot own
horses valued at $500 each, but his
poverty is no excuse for poor, ENACT
ated, half-killed stacks of bones"
Make barns more for comfort than
for style, but do not be afraid to
fix up your outhouses-barns, sheds
and chicken houses-so as to have the
appearance that indicates that a we'll
TODD farmer dwells there. Build your
barns with plenty of shed and imple-
ment room. Do all the fall breaking
you can. If need be, hire a man with
team and pillow to assist you. Do not
work your team to death. Do not
make the boys do the work while you
sit beneath the shade, idling away
the hours, and don't make your girls
get out in the field to the drudgery of
farm work. Do not say: 'Well feed
them for their work, and I'll just put
them to raking stalks or hoeing
corn" 1t is to be hoped young men
will see them if you do, and take pity
on the poor things. If they were
manly they would marry them to re-
lieve their father. and more especial
ly to relieve the girls of their obnox-
ious parent. Give your sons and
daughters good school education if
nothing more. Don't send them one
day and stop them another; better
keer them at home all the time. I
would tell you not to maltreat dumb
animals. but that story has grown
old, ever so old. and yet the farmer
mistreats his stock just the same. He
feeds them little and beats them
much; while we all know it should be
wee versa.-M. Louis Mertins, in prai-
RE Farmer
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CORN FOR THE SILO.
Variety to BE Selected Should BE One
That Shall Approach Maturity
Before Frost.

The more corn there is put into the
silo the greater will be the value of
the product removed from the silo.
There is popular notion that the en-
Staging of corn adds something to it's
value which is not contained in the
original material. This notion is
wrong, and the greater the feed value
of the product put into the silo the
greater the feed value of the ensilage
will be. Corn should be planted for
the silo but little, if any, thicker on
the ground than it should be planted
where the object is to produce grain.
Corn is distinctively sun plant, and if
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LATEST IN SUMMER WEAR.
ing What Is Being Worn in the
French Capital.

The dominant note of the new
fashions in respect to light summer
dresses is that the waists are very
simple and the skirts elaborate be-
yond words.
Nearly all the new summer waists
are shaped slightly at the left side,
and the skirts are covered with tucks,
insertions, plating, ruffles, stitched
bands and many founces.
AS for the new skirts, they are
trimmed with strapped bands, natur-
ally. Is there any place where a
strap might with any sort of sense of
propriety be made to go that 1T is not
put these days? The bands are put
on the skirt at regular intervals and
Here at the end of every pointed
strap fall plaits, so that the effect is
that of deep shaped rufle plated
at intervals. This is charming
model for any sort of summer dress,
says Miss De Forests Paris Letter,
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Separate lace waists were never
more popular than they are this sea-
son. The newest seem to be entire
ly of guipure, with the whole pattern
OVERLAND with cretonne flowers out
lined with a tiny gold thread.
Bolero jackets are quite as popu-
lar as at any time in their long and
triumphant existence, if not more so.
A jaunty model in lovely foulard is
fitted tightly in the back like the
waist of a dress. In the center,
slipped into a band, is large steel
buckle, put on over two tabs, each
four inches long.
Louis XVI. fichus are as much in
evidence as ever, and it goes without
saying that lace fichus, baby bows,
tiny knots of velvet, and so on, be-
long to summer things. The latter
are noticed particularly OH linens.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
AN IDEA FROM KANSAS.
Riding Cart for narrowing Which IL
Said to Save a Lot of Very
Hard Work.

Narrowing is job few farmers like,
and there are few jobs about farm
work that are more wearying where
the driver walks over soft ground.
Some men in the large fields of the
west ride an extra horse when the har-
rowing team is easily managed, but
this method has it's disadvantages.
Some of our farmers have constructed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
He stopped His Paper.

"Sir!" exclaimed the oldest citizen, as
he walked into the business Office of the
daily paper, II see in your sheet of to-day,
sir, an article to which 1 take exceptions,
and l want my paper stopped, sir! And
when James F. Anderson says stop, sir, he
means stop, STRIP
"Phil," YEARLY murmured the circula-
ton manager, ego out and tell Bobt' stop
tn press an lock up; Of man Anderson
has quit us"-Denver Times.
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why MRS. -PINKHAM
Is Able to Help Sick Women
When Doctors Fail.

How gladly would men fly to wo--
mans aid did they but understand a
woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities,
and peculiar organic disturbances.
Those things are known only to
women, and the aid man would give
is not at his command.
To treat case properly it is neces-
sary to know all about it, and full
information, many times, cannot be
given by woman to her family ply
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
The New Bicycle.

Bicycle manufacturers state that the BIZ
cycle for this year will be practically the
same model as 1900, as improvement seems
to be impossible. Precisely the same is true
OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t repre-
sents the limits of science, and it is impos-
sible to make better medicine for the stom-
ach, liver, kidneys and blood. Try it for
dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, fatu-
lency,. or sour stomach, and you will be con-
WINGED. Never take a substitute.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
Social Training.

Miss Gotrichkwick- Please, sir, is this
training school?
Principal-It is.
please, sir, I wish to learn how to eat
olives. columbus CO., State Journal.
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strawberrie. and Whipped cream

Line a glass dish with ladyfngers.
In the bottom of the dish place layer
of strawberries. Add layer of pow
dered sugar, then layer of dry,
whipped cream, then another layer of
berries, sugar and cream. Have the
cream heaped roughly on the top and
dot with berries. Sprinkle with sugar
and serve thoroughly chilled.-Wash-
ington Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
Do Your Feet Ache and Burne

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot Ease
a powder for the feet. It makes tight OF New
Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching,
Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
GEORGE wAsHINGToN's QUEUE.
1t Hid q Luxuriant Suit of Straigh
and Very Dark Hair.

oAu very OdrA 1SATs
The Father of his Country concealed a
luxuriant suit of hair beneath his queue wig
Many now wish the old fashion were in
vogue, to conceal thinned hair or badness.
Yet no one need have thin hair nor be bald,
if he cure the dandruff that causes both.
Dandruf cannot be cured by securing the
scalp, because it is germ disease, and the
germ has to be killed. Newbro's Herpicide
preparation will. Destroy the cause, you
remove the effect" There's no cure for
dandruff but to kill the germ
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
Her Lack.

The Illinois woman who called her hus-
band jackass and then get mad because
he called her his better half does not seem
to know such thing as justice.-Denver
Times
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
Used for all affections of the throat and
nngs.-Wm. o. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind,
Feb. 10, 1900.
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Don't say you work like slave; slaves
do not work very hard.-Atchison Globe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28

Charity's argument is short, but it has a
long reach.-Chicago Daily News
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Undersigned. who will mail you aliases pamphlets,
etc. free of cost. F. PEDLEY. supt Of Immigraf
Street. St. Paul. Mimi; T. o. CURRIE. Box "a
Milwaukee Wis
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In 3 or 4 Years an Independence Is Assured

If you take upyour homes,
in Western Canada. the
land of plenty. Illus
trated pamphlets. giving
experiences of farmers
who have become wealthy
in growing wheat, reports
of delegates, ETC.. and full
information as to reduced
railway rates can be had
On apnlicati0n to the >
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-03-15

first orange tree with oranges on just
before we reached the station. We
were kindly showed through one
orange packing house, where we saw
them asserting and packing and load
ing the cars with boxes of oranges
The oranges are poured into a large
bin from where they roll into a ma
chine, which has trough attached
with different sized holes in the bot
tom which the oranges fall though in
to other bins, where men stand and
wrap each orange in tissue paper and
pack them in boxes from 96, 126 to 15O,
At 1922 p. M, we left for Lakeland, 10
miles farther, reaching there at 8 p.
m. W. remained there that night and
next day went out two miles to the
Kinney Brothers. groves, which were
very pretty, as their place is situated
on beautiful little lake. They also had
seven acres in strawberries, some were
in bloom and some in fruit, and celery
and gardens which all looked fine. On
our return we called at Mr. Reynolds
grove of 70 acres. We stayed that
night in Lakeland and Wednesday at
I a. M, we took train, 81 miles, to
Pinto Gorda, the terminus of the
road, which we reached in the even
AAS' NCAU udy We WcuU UO"u vi Uuc
wharf and saw Capt L. P. Blackstone
loading three cars with fish and ice
They weigh from two to three pounds
apiece and sell for -33c each. They go
to Jacksonville. He has men with
boats fishing between Pinta Gorda and
Key West. Next we went through
the ice manufacturing plant, which
has capacity of 500 cakes of ice of 200
pounds each every three hours. Next
day we went out two miles and saw a
number of pineapple tneries, the larg-
est five acres of $1,000 pines. Tampa is
a city of 10000 population and build
ing very fast. There are five new
brick blocks going up on Main street,
also many other buildings. They have
very convenient, with goods displayed
with fine taste. The gardens are just
fine.