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Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09


nR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN, Medi-
- cal Examiner of the. U. s. Treas
ury department, graduate of Colum-
bia College, and who served three years
at West Point, has the following to
say of Peruna:
'.AIIow me to express mygrsfifgde to
You for the benefit derived from your
wonderful remedy One short month
has brought forth q vast change and I
now consider myself . well man after
months Of suffering. Fellow SAT.
ferers. Peruns will cure ,y0u.''
Peruna Immediately invigorates the
nerve-centers which give vitality to the
mucous membranes. Then catarrh
disappears. Then catarrh is perma-
nently cured.
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09

To Cure Cold I'm One Day
Take laxative Brcmo Quinine Tablets. Al
drnggistsre refund money Il It failsto cure. CSC
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09
Hoot, Mon, and Be wise.

BY its persistency of face repose. the
owl gets great reputation for wisdom.
But whoever heard of an owl doinr wise
thing? Moral: If the conversation Is too
deep for You, look owlish and hoot occa-
sionally Washington Post.
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09

1t is worth thousand pounds year to
have the habit of looking on the bright side
Of things. johnson.
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09
Making Reparation.

Customer Ito head waiter)-Here. gsir.
this clumsy fellow spilled over half 4 cup-
full of tea down my back.
Head Waiter Ito waiter, sternly) )-Brine
this gentleman . full cup Of tea instantly. =
London Punch.
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever
used for all affections Of the throat and
lnngs-Wm. @. Endsley, Vanbureh, Ind,
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09

In selling mixed lots of stock the
best always suffers by being sold with
the inferior.
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09

he who gives up the smallest part Of q
secret has the rest no longer in his power
Water Valley progress., 1902-08-09
SETTING BROKEN LEGS.
A Poultry Operation which Seems
Delicate, Hut II Really Easy
to Perform.

A broken leg Of 9 fine young pure
bred pullet was mended by winding
carefully with surgeons plaster, which
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
Got the BETTER Of Hotel c1err

wa LAG AsSsa$I va kAOtSA SASELs
"With all his faults" began Mr..
Fairchild, the hotel man is a first
class fellow, who will so long way
to keep his guests from shining too
much in public or from being seen by
doubtful guests. / recall an instance
which happened to ME III New York
not long ago. l had registered in the
morning and. leaving my key at the
hotel, came back again in the evening.
Finding the night clerk on, but not
on to me, asked him, giving him my
name, il l was H. Not knowing the
number of my room, decided this was
the way to find out.
.'He looked at me rather suspiciously.
Evidently the result of his inspection
was not reassuring, for, after making
a bluff at feeling in my box, he replied
quite stitiiy:
"'No, sir; Mr.. Fairchild is not in
sat down OH the lounge and said
calmly:
"'Well. when he comes in please tell
him that he is here looking for him
SELF
"The porter carried the clerk up
stairs. New York Tribune.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
CHAPTER XII

Noen Of Oct. % struck on the deep
toned bell of the city hall, Brentwood's
pride, and sharp at the sound every
hand In the railway shops, sheds and
yards followed suit and went out. 80
Gid the fires in the furnaces in the
course Of the night. for no man sue
ceeded in getting in to replenish them.
So did not tile trains freight or passen-
ger, on either Big Horn or Seattle, for
the rails were lather of soap, the boil
ers reek of foam. The casualty list
In the motive power showed % en-
gines killed" and the only wheels to
revolye east or west We're those trun-
dllag tie United States mail, the oper-
atiyes, with calm sagacity, Offering NO
objection to the running of postal cars,
yet firmly opposing everything else.
Following the traditions of the Big
Horn, the new general manager ap-
peared promptly on the scene, while he
OF the Seattle shifted the battle from
efar and staid there. Mr.. Burleigh
came to threaten and command, was
promptly h0isted aboard baggage ear
and hidden to address the meeting
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.

We came across disconnected and
fault finding farmer the other day, the
first we have met for nearly three
years. 1t seems that his oats got wet
and damaged in the shock, the frost
caught twenty acres of his corn and
some Of his potatoes rotted. He just
could not think of any of his blessings
only just these temporary losses. He
had very much to be thankful for. His
credit was gilt edged, he had good
health, his stock liked the soft corn he
had two crops Of hay instead of one,
his farm had doubled in value during
five years, he had plenty to eat and a
comfortable home tits so much better
to think Of ones blessings rather than
Of ones misfortunes. No one wants to
so through life tolling bell or playing
jeremiah. The bright, good world we
live in has no place for this sort of
thing. Look on the bright side and
keep stiff upper lip" should have been
made a part Of the sermon on the
mount,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
SOUTHERN FARM LANDS.

We are surprised that in connection
with the present craze for land there
is not more attention being paid to the
productive south. There are great pos
sibilities connected with the table
lands Of the Cumberland mountains in
Tennessee, with many sections Of Ar
kansas and the other southern states.
While the soil is not as fertile as that
Of the prairies Of the west, there is
much compensation in the certain rain
fall and the mildness and salubrity of
the climate, which so greatly extends
the farmers working season. We look
to see more attention paid to these
southern lands in the future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
The Best Remedy for Group.

(From the Atchiscn, Kan, Daily Globe)
This is the season when the woman
who knows the best remedies for
Group is in demand in every neighbor
hood. One of the most terrible things
in the world is to be awakened in the
middle of the night by whoop from
one of the children. The Group rene.
dies are almost as sure to
be lost in case of Group, as
a revolver is sure to be lost in
case of burglars. There used to be an
old fashioned remedy for Group known
as hive syrup and tolu, but some mod.
ern mothers say that Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is better, and does not
cost so much 1t causes the patient
to throw up the phlegm" quicker, and
gives relief in shorter time Give
this remedy as soon as the croupy
cough appears and 1t will prevent the
attack. 1t never fails and is pleasant
and safe to take. For sale by all
druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Don't burn the leaves in the fall.
Never mind the litter. The snow will
soon cover them UP. If you let them
alone, the winds will whirl them up
around the shrubs and plants and thus
furnish the incest sort Of winter pro-
lection. And, come to think of 1t, we
would not burn them even in the
spring. for they make the very best
mulching material to be had. Rake
them up and put them under the cur
rant and berry bushes, where they VIII
finally decay and form a rich leaf
mold. Leaves were never made to be
burned.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We once many years ago raised 1000
bushels Of wheat, hauled it thirty
miles to market and sold it for 45
cents bushel. Did it pay? No; it was
foolish piece of business. But in the
pioneer days wheat raising was thought
to be the only possible way in which to
raise ready money.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The cow is the poor farmers best
friend. She will do more to lift him
out of debt and set him on his hnan-
cial feet than, any other animal on the
farm. but just as soon as he can get
along without her he drops her, for not
one man in a hundred likes to milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

A friend told us the other day that
he once hauled load of farm produce
to town and got $1,001 for it. What
vast? Hops?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We raised enough stalks OH ten acres
of corn this year to have warmed the
house in good shape all winter long if
only there was some way to put them
in shape to be burned in stove or
furnace. Az it is, they will have to be
burned IN the field next spring, where
they will do very little good. Some
cheap and effective machine which
would tit this roughage for fuel would
be great blessing to the whole coun-
try.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Minnesota now takes the front place
as dairy state, this honor being re-
luctantly conceded to her by Iowa. One
reason is that Minnesota has more
Scandinavian citizens than any other
state, and they are all born dairymen-
soon as they are born.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The men who grow the sweet corn for
the canneries in the state Of Maine
have forced an advance in price for
their product for next year Of 33 per
cent and will next season get 2 cents
per pound, a price. which has always
been paid by the western canneries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The states of Colorado and Kansas
are having a tilt in the courts over the
right of the first named state to tap
the water supply of the rivers which
they own in common. Colorado is SO
thirsty that there is nothing left for
Kansas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

1t has been an unusually good fall
for the sowing of winter wheat in
Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, and
the acreage will be much larger than
last year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Another Scandinavian walks off with
the first prize at the Milwaukee but
ter makers convention. He exhibited
butter which scored 9S.12 and four
years ago was the greenest of green
men as a helper in a creamery. He
read, watched, studied and won.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The northwest will produce $4,000
600 bushels of flax this year, worth to
the producers $1.20 per bushel.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

One twenty acre tract of land at
Baku. Russia, has produced 100000
barrels of Oil. This beats Texas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
A good deal of live stock was killed
this year through the west by October
thunderstormS.

Florida will only show up with $780,
600 boxes of oranges this year, about
ene-half of the crop of 1901.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Try hunting with camera instead
of a gun. You will thus get rare pic
lures of wild life which to every hu-
name person will afford more pleasure
than the shedding of innocent blood.
But you want meat, you say. Well,
buy that at the butcher shop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

In talking with railroad section
hand lately he told us that the old ties
removed from the roadbed just about
supplied the hands on the section with
fuel, provided they: had Il section boss
who would give them a fair deal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

A good thing about poultry is that
the small flock of hens always does
better than the large one. thus making
it possible for the poor man and the
one with limited range to still make
the keeping of poultry profitable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

When blllygoat sells for 1900, as
was the case at Kansas City last
month, it is pertinent to ask, What
next? This particular billy was lord
mayor of his kind. clad in silky fleece
of finest texture and with lineage run
ming back to Billy the Conqueror and
all the rest of the other noted Billies.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

A few years ago 500 bushels of wheat
was thought to be big carload. Now
1900 bushels are carried in the mod
ern steel freight car.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Reports Of outbreaks of hog cholera
are beginning to come in, just as we
expected, as soon as the shotes were
fed all the new corn they would eat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

A few fruit men whom we know have
made a success of grating choice
varieties of apples on the wild crab,
but it is not at all harmonious union,
for the scions will outgrow the stock,
the crab being of very dwarfish habit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The potato raised on the timber lands
of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
is about the finest specimen of potato
there is raised-largc and smooth, full
of starch and mealy as flour. Great
crops they raise up there, too, 300 to
500 bushels to the acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Forty cent born and five dollar pork
make very good combination, not an
agricultural bonanza but good, legit-
innate, healthy business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

One wise man says the farm should
be fenced, subdivided into fields; an
other says that much fencing on the
farm produces many weeds and should
be avoided. Here is contradiction,
but If sheep are kept on the farm, as
they may be when it is we'll fenced,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Winter is the best time of the year
to thin out the sparrows. Batting and
shooting them is about as good a way
as any to get rid of lot Of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

Almost any crop will Dc we'll on
clover sod, especially wheat, potatoes
and corn. Oats are liable to grow too
much straw and fall down.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We are growing the blue Moldavka
(Russian) plum with success. 1t seems
to be perfectly hardy and bears large
purple plum Of good quality.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We learn that many of the big spout
ing wells of South Dakota furnish a
water supply 80 strongly tinctured with
magnesia and alkaline salts that such
water is entirely useless for the pur-
poses of irrigation, where so used the
soil becoming SO impregnated with
these properties as to render it infer
tile.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

There is a good deal of satisfaction
In watching che coming OF the first
sncw when one has the corn all in the
crib, the fuel in the woodhouse and the
roots in the cellar. Winter is not half
bad when one is prepared for it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
TWO ToUaH TRUsris.

Unless we miss cur guess the farmers
of the country are shortly going to1find
themselves UP against two tough propo-
sitions the meat itrusts7and esfarm
machinery trust These benevolent int
situations are not doing business foI
their health by long shot we look tt
see these two trusts kick upia bigger
row than all the otherssput together. rs
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The apple crop of the country this
year is placed at 45,o0o,OO0 barrels
against 27,OO0000 barrels last gear.
While the crop is large, it is not of tile
best quality.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The cows in Norway, it is said, will
eat and are fed dried Goldfish. From
this We infer that all that is needed to
secure nice Goldfish gravy is to thicken
their milk with -four.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The farmers Of South Dakota have
become so prosperous that money now
goes begging at 5 per cent where not SO
very long since 20 per cent was de-
manded and obtained.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
THE ROMANCE OF HORTICULTURE.

THE ROMANCE OF HORTICULTURE
Some Of the work of the agricultural
department at Washington reads al
most like a romance. From three tiny
trees of the navel or seedless orange i'm
ported from Brazil some years ago, only
one of which made a live of it, has de-
yeloped the enormous orange industry
of the Pacific coast, amounting to 90
900 carloads of fruit this year. mostly
navels. These trees We're threatened
by parasite five years ago for which
there seemed no remedy till n few lady
bugs We're imported from Australia and
turned into the orange orchards, where
they soon multiplied and made short
work of the parasite. Then the San
Jose scale, proof against any form Of
spraying, threatens not only the fruit
trees, but forest trees as well, and sci
enlist goes into far north China, where
the white man has but rarely set foot,
and there finds the scale held in sub
lection by another kind Of ladybug.
which he carefully collects and ships,
but fourteen of them reaching the de-
partment at Washington in safety, and
now the department is prepared to fur
nish any quantity of these bugs to any
locality affected with the San Jose
scale.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

If one takes UP one of the cut off
timber tracts in northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin, it will take about if
teen years to convert it into good
farm. The pine stumps rot very slowly.
Being an excellent grass country, the
clovers and timothy doing exceedingly
well, the clearing of the land with
stock is a comparatively easy matter
If man is only willing to wait.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

There is a great waste of the best Of
fertilizers in the dumping by the rail
way companies of the contents of their
cattle cars where they cannot be used.
With SO much poor, starved out land
this waste should be remedied.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The idea of planting fish under each
hill of corn as a fertilizer is calculated
to make the corn grower of the corn
belt smile, but this thing is sometimes
done on the Atlantic coast, where the
porgies are plenty, and the corn likes
this sort of treatment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We are told that one of the reasons
why more corn is not raised in the
southern states is the fact that after it
is raised it is very difficult to keep it
owing to great humidity of the atmos-
phere.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

One thing is dead sure, a young man
can never get start in life if he
spends all he earns. He must deny him
self somewhere. If he will save $500,
the doing Of which may take him two
or three years. he will ind it easier to
get ahead. The counting business
should be postponed until this $500 is
saved up.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

As soon as he had cut his oats in July
he sowed five acres of the stubble to
rye, putting the crop in with disk,
and when we saw the field in October
he had seventy-five head of nice shotes
just where they liked to be.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We never could just understand why
1t is that the natives of the tropics use
SO much red pepper in their food. The
curries and sauces Of India and the
soups and gravies of Mexico are hot
enough to almost burn the lining off 4
white mans stomach. One would
think that, with the mercury at 100 In
the shade, they would want to let red
pepper alone. What the Latin races
need is ginger, not pepper.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

The Kansas experiment station has
been securing some remarkable results
in feeding weak and run down calves
with sption of dried blood, product
of the packing houses. 1t would seem
to be very valuable agent in the rails
ing of calves.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

We came across the historic man the
other day who had actually moved his
barn to get rid of the piles of manure.
His crops were poor enough and need
ed all the fertilizer he could get. but
he had to put in so much time saving
the country, running to town and fish
ing that he had to move his barn to get
rid Of the manure.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25
FARM BoY AND COLLEGE.

Che man was Scandinavian. He
had worked his way up from absolute
poverty to one OF financial and agricul-
fixed as the owner of 800 acres of land
and good equipment Of stock. He
had a boy, a very commonplace, every.
day sort of boy, seventeen years old.
This boy had always worked on the
farm, and his education had been linn
tied to what he could learn in the
country school during the winter term.
1t was agreed between father and son
that the boy should go to one of the
best agricultural colleges in the west
and take a course Of thirteen weeks
each winter for two years, returning
to his farm work during the summer.
We met the father after the boy had
completed this course of study at the
college and asked him what it had
done for his boy. He said that 'it had
done wonders, that the boy was taking
up the farm work In different and
better way, that he could repair any
of the farm machinery, adjust the
Aoi III SCpolutol, tSoIt tAC k1iih anu LIE
COWS, had learned how to judge stock.
could pick out good COW on sight,
knew how to properly balance the ra-
lions fed, could treat the sick animals
on the farm and wanted me to take
five or six of the best agricultural pa
pers. He did all his work with moso
method and intelligence and SO accom-
plished more with less labor. He did
not get the big head and want to be-
come professor and teacher and has
settled down to his old farm work as
steady as an old clock. 1t cost me 1926
to give him this course of study, and
it was the best investment that 1 ever
made. The fact is the boy knows
more than l do. but he is kind enough
never to rub it in"