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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
CHAPTER XVII.

For week after Guy had taken
refuge at Sile Whittaker's nothing of
moment happened. The doctor came
regularly and Mr.. Vlandingham occa-
sionally casne with him. The squire
fwas at all times his jovial self, al
though Guy fancied that an undercur-
rent of restraint permeated his good
mature, at times. During those seven
days the young man neither saw nor
heard anything of Miss Betty. Her ia
Cher avoid cd mention of her-studi6us-
~. as Guy imayined-and pride re-
strained the inquiries which Guy often
mad at the end o. his. tongue.
This reticense and seeming neglect
hurt him, for ne yearned to set Miss
Betty right concerning that fateful
meeting on tho shore of Lake Eliza
beth. While Guy fretted much over
che devious course his true love was
Eaidng, yet this did not interfere with
his rapid Improvement.
4 The following saturday found Him
abIs TO sit up md walk with cane
about the house and out of doors,
where Whitaker .lways had a COM
Portable chair ready IN the shade of
the house. Barney was gone, by this
time, and Whitaker himself was at
tending to the wants o. his guest.
Or this particular Saturday two in
cidents occurred which effectually re-
aieve6 the tediuin of Guys con-
valescence and took his brooding
thoughts from Miss Betty.
The first of these incidents had to
DO with Abe Landy, ofAmityvi11e. Mr..
Land. was cousin of Sile Whittaker's
and drove over regularly once week
to argue the political question.
M. Landy was ford man with a
fringe of carroty whiskers about his
plamp face. Guy and Whitaker were
seated out of doors when he drove
along in his two-wheeleec cart.
'Howdy, Sile?" said Mr.. Landy.
Same to you, Abe" answered Whit
tinker.
"caiac over to see if you weren't
a'to"t READY to live on the other side
rs a. ;ile."
III you came for don't
SOP. u; i,sep movin'."
H1.s,,,' aoid Landy, jumping down
;t: j y. ,:is horse. 81 think too
.c. Z: yoa. sile, to abandon you to
AZ :oolishness."
.andy came forward, was intro
dnced to Guy and another chair was
brought from the house. In vain did
Whitaker seek to divert the converse
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HE,LL OWN a FARM.

We know commonplace sort Of
young man, neither well educated nor
skilled in any sort of trade or business.
The best thing he can do seems to be
to work for some man on a farm,
where he is first class hand. He has
worked for one man three years and
has saved up from his wages the sum
of $500, which he has in bank draw
ing low rate of interest. He attends
strictly to business and never goes out
on a high old time with the boys. He
is going to own good farm and make
a most successful farmer some of these
days, or we miss our guess.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Keever and Col. Dingle for their .af-
fair of honor?"
"a coincidence entirely. You will
forgive me, will you not. and forget
my hasty words at the lake? Please,
hurry, for must be going"
81 forgive you freely, although I
do not see how you could have acted
otherwise than as you did"
Your generosity prompts you to
say that. But you must not be too
generous. For instance, 1 would not
want you to think that you must
not strain every effort to win the
county seat contest. 1t is case of
Greek meeting Greek, you know;
and all is fair in war"
"And love!" added Guy
The color flew to her face.
81 like to see a man successful"
she added. "even if he is fighting
against me-"
II have done, and shall continue
to do, everything I can to keep the
county seat at Concord" averred
Guy.
"There!" she exclaimed; 81 like to
hear you say that and in just that
tone of voice. It sounds business
like and manly, you know, and that's
the way like to see people-some
people-that is, people in whom
take an interest, and-what am ]
SAYING" She bit her lip in vexation
and stamped her foot. "Please let
me CO." she said, attempting to with.
draw her hand.
He raised the gloved hand to his
lips. The scarlet flew to her cheeks
again and she turned and fed from
the house.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

"vote for Harmony and I'll see that
you get three good lots for doing it,
did Vlandingham send you to me?''
"Not exactly; but I've got an under
standing with him."
There's pointer for you, Mr.. Her
BERT" said Whitaker, winking at Guy.
Don't you know, Abe" he added, ad-
dressing his cousin, "that Mr.. Herbert
is Concord MANI"
Heard he was" replied Landy,
nibbling at a plug of tobacco. "I'll
see that he gets three lots, too, if
he'll only vote for Harmony"
! Guy smiled.
"Why," said he, 1--WE got about
twelve hundred lots in Concord, Mr..
Landy."
so I'm told" responded the un-
rufied Landy. "But the hull twelve
hundred won't be worth three Har.
mony lots after the election"
81 don't think I can accept your
offer even if that is fair statement
of the case" Just then Guy had a
bright thought. "There are IS voters
in AmityviTle, aren't there, Mr.. Ian
dy?" he asked.
Fifteen" corrected Landy, "and
I carry every vote in my pocket.
The population of the village is IS,
countin' men, women and children"
"How many Harmony lots did Mr..
Vlandingham give you for turning
these votes to his side?"
Landy jumped.
"What makes you think he gave
me any?" he asked, warily.
"I'm sure he did. He must have
given you good many, it strikes me,
for Amityville is the key to the Stu
alton"
you're right about our town be-
ing the key to the situation. Our
votes will settle the county seat
business-no doubt about that
1Now I should think" resumed
Guy, "that Mr.. vlandingham gave
you whole block in return for the
Amityville vote"
"a block!" gasped Landy.
eyes, or more.''
"Why, if had a block of Har-
mony lots I'd be independent rich
as soon as the county seat question
is settled and the boom sets in"
"Your Influence would be worth
it. Didn't you get block?"
mo, nor half block. I only got
six and was given two to transfer to
every voter in Amityville.'
"You don't say sol" exclaimed Guy,
''Is it possible that that is Mr..
vlandingham's idea Of fair treat
ment? Only six lots for gaining the
county seat for HARMONY Well,
WE'LL"
Guy leaned back in his chair and
looked at Landy alphabetically.
"Vlandingham has pulled the wool
over your eyes, Abe" chuckled Whit
taker, making due note Of his
cousins long face.
at doesn't look as though he had
treated me just right, does it, now?"
mumbled Landy.
"No, sir" said Guy, with emphasis.
"Did you make straight bargain
with Mr.. Ylandingham?"
Ihefe wasn't any bargain at all.
When Vlandingham got ready to
have his petition to the county com
missioners signed he handed me a
due bill for six lots, together with
Il other due bills for two lots each
for the rest of the voters in Amity-
vile. All he did was to slap me on
the back, and call me Abe, and say
how much he thought of me. Gosh!
And to think that he was maxim
game of me all the time"
1T is too bad, Mr.. Landy," re-
Joined Guy. For some time he had
been furtively taking Mr.. Landy's
measure and he was now ready to
| lay on the finishing stroke of a
hastily evolved plan. IF Amityville
votes for Concord" he went on, 'it's
almost certainty that Concord will
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
CHAPTER XVIII.

The election was to be held on
Tuesday, and the Monday immediate
ly preceding had been fraught with
matters of grave concern for Col.
Keeyer. The most momentous of
these matters was the strike of
Sampson for back pay and higher
wages; the most momentous be-
cause, like the newly-started snow
ball, the incident grew amazingly in
Importance until it ended in the
Colonels disgrace, his Punishment
from the town, and the wrecking of
the Blizzard.
To begin with, the Blizzard had
never been much of a financial sue
cess. 1t was a paper of Johnsonian
excellence; that is to say. so ponder
GUS in its utterance that it had to
be read with Webster-unabridg
at ones elbow. The little fishes
talked like whales on every line and
through every column. In a COM
munity necessarily deficient in it's
supply of Websters, the Blizzard was
venerated and feared because of it's
evident learning. For the same rea-
son, but few subscribed for it; and
SO small was the subscription list at
the time the unfeeling Sampson went
on strike and SO meager was the adj
vertising patronage that the Colonel
had barely two dollars that he could
call his own.
His printing "plant'' had cost him
$500, and he had paid all but $3.50 of
that debt. He had no lots in Con-
cord, and if called to strict ac-
counting by Guy it would have been
found that there were 100 or so
which had noe been turned over.
That very Monday, Pedro Smith had
pressed the Colonel for board bill
long past due; the news company
had sent his patent outsides" by
express, c. o. D., and the bundle was
still in the express office while the
forms waited in vain on the "Army'
press.
What was the Colonel going to do?
Racked by these worries he had en-
tered his Office only to be confronted
by Sampson who demanded money
and declared he would "stop work.
if he didn't get it.
This was the last straw. The
ColonePs patience gave way and hot
words were passed between him and
his printer. And then-well, he
struck Sampson with his cane, and
Sampson hit him with chair, and
threw him into one corner, and
shook fist in his face and vowed
revenge, r-r-revenge! After that,
Sampson went away in high dudgeon
and the Colonel picked himself up,
limped to his Office chair and sat
there for long time, bitterly re-
fecting. The sun went down, the
shadows of evening fell and still the
Colonel's acute mind had found no
loophole for escape from his present
difficulties.
1t was at this juncture that four
gentlemen from Harmony, all of
serious aspect and wearing black
SLOUGH hats, assembled the unsteady
stairs that led to the office of the
Blizzard. And one was very tall, and
one had a glass eye, and the third
stumped through life on wooden
pin, and the fourth carried an empty
sleeve. Business called them to Con-
cord and ill-fortune had prepared
the Colonel to greet them in recep-
tive mood.
(To Be Continued.)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
His Friend, The Enemy
By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK,
Author "Rosers of Butte" 1.-THE Necessity"
'tHIr. FIT, Astroioser," etc.
Copyright, 1901, by the S. S. Mcclure Co.,

ton to the weather, the crops, the do
ings of the territorial legislature, or
what not; Landy always swerved back
to the county question.
"The work I've laid out for myself .
observed Landy, els winnin' you over
to vote for Harmony. Election day is
comm. Sile; and I don't want you to
throw away your vote"
you're the worst man ever see to
stick and hang" returned Whitaker,
petulantly. "If I'm going to throw
away my vote by casting it for Con-
cord, what do you care?'
II don't want to see you do thing
you'll be sorry for. Look here" pro-
ceeded Landy, growing confidential,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Alfalfa is being raised successfully
in several localities in the state Of Min
nesota. This proves that it is not cold
weather which kills 1t.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
When a select ring gets hold of a
county fair association, it is soon all
day with the county fair.

1t is usually the homely COW which
fills the pail and makes the butter rec
ord. The handsome COW stands for
beef, not butter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Marked as has been the advance in
She price of beef, the advance in the
prices Of the foodstuffs which pro-
duced it have been still greater.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The advance in the prices of all
building material is operating to pre-
vent many substantial improvements
in both the cities and on the farms.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

A California cherry grower whose
trees We're irregular in bearing two
years ago placed several hundred
stands of bees in his orchard, and for
two years past his crops have been
very heavy,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The south is just beginning to wake
up and realize what splendid market
the north offers for the early vegeta-
bles and fruits which the south can
produce in such abundance.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
EAST AND WEST SIDE.

A river passing through a town,
while it adds materially to the scenic
beauty of the place, is of value in an
economic way in affording needed
drainage and sewerage and quite fire.
quently valuable power, is all too
often serious menace to the welfare
of the town in a political and munich
pal way, in that it divides the people
into two factions and creates rivalry
between the separated sections which
works to the serious disadvantage Of
the community as a whole.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Notwithstanding the great boom in
pork prices there is very little boom in
the highly bred breeding stock. When
that forty-five hundred dollar hog was
found after his sale to have tainted
pedigree a few years ago 1t put a
damper on fancy prices for Poland
Chinas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

1t is very remote corner of the
earth where may not be found the
products of this country in some form
or other.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

There is no reason why four or five
town families could not keep a CO.
operative town cow, thus securing a
supply. of pure milk at a minimum Of
cost.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The liquid fertilizer which may be
easily gathered up in barnyard after
a heavy rain makes one of the best Of
stimulants for the rose garden.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22
Blue grass, butter and bank accounts
are closely allied.

The deficient moral qualities of the
mule about Offset any benefit the cross
produces in physical way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

A man whom we know has about
ruined his small fruit business by his
miserable tricks in packing and mar
keting his fruit-short measure, dirty,
rotten berries and all that sort of fool
ishness and dishonesty. The consum-
er soon sizes up producer in these
matters.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Illustrating some of the possibilities
connected with vegetable gardening in
the southern states, we note that one
Florida gardener sold 951 crates of to-
matoes from two acre patch and that
they averaged him $1.5O per crate net,
or $I13 per acre. This is as much as
lots Of men make from an eighty acre
farm in the northwest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Critically noting the relative merits
of several varieties of strawberries
which we have fruited this season, we
find the Warfield well to the top of
the list.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

When white Brahma hen has laid
all winter long, raised nice brood Of
early chicks and will sell for 8 cents
pound in June for chicken stew,
she is pretty profitable sort of bird to
have on the farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

AS predicted when the experiment
was first tried, the Tanworth or bacon
hog when placed under corn belt con-
ditions and fed corn belt rations i'm
mediately begins to drop his Tan
worth characteristics and in a short
time SO kept will inevitably gravitate
into the type Of the corn fed or lard
hog.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

A friend in Pennsylvania sends us
the following as a successful remedy
for both the striped and big black
beetles which work such devastation
on the squash and melon tribe. 1t con-
sists of getting the fine tobacco clip
pings and offal from the cigar facto-
ries and placing some of it on each hill,
when the bugs let the vines alone.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

A six years drought in Australia has
converted large productive and fer
tile section of that continent into a
desert wilderness. The losses on stock
alone have been enormous.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The spring chicken is never killed to
so good purpose as when two Of
them will just fill a frying pan and
two people are supposed to make away
with them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The country owes much to the I'M
ceasing restlessness and discomfort of
the American farmer, the man who is
always migrating to some new section,
the uneasy fellow who is always will
ing to sell out no matter how well he
may be situated. Still in the long run
this migratory habit has been bad for
him, thousands Of men having at fifty
years of age little or nothing to show
for life spent in hard pioneer work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

Every farmers wife should realize
enough out Of her dover interest in the
farm while she lives to provide her
with modern and convenient accesso-
ries for doing her household work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

The Poles and Bohemians have
learned how to make money on the
sandy, timbered tracts in central Wis
consin. They coax growth of clover,
plow the clover under, plant potatoes
and raise the finest potato in the coun-
try; then sow to fall rye and clover
the land again. They are getting rich
off land which in an early day was
thought to be worthless for agricul-
tural purposes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

We noted skeleton barn for the
storing of hay lately. 1t was just a
well braced frame covered with a
board roof, the boards to be removed
when the hay was used up. 1t afforded
perfect shelter for eighty tons of hay
and did not cost over 500. Where
man cannot afford a well built barn
this method is worth trying.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

ALI through the section Of the coun-
try where the writer lives there are
thousands Of acres of oats at this date,
the last Of June, SO rank and heavy
that an ordinary summer wind and
rain storm would lay them out fat.
If this occurs, and it is quite likely to,
there will be a great waste. After
heading out, if so blown down, such a
crop can be made of more value made
into oat hay than to let the crop half
rot on the ground waiting for the har-
yester.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

There are lots of men chasing rain
bows in their constant effort to COM
bine all the good qualities in one ami
NAL. They want COW which will give
a maximum flow of milk and at the
same time produce the best sort of
calf for beef; they want sheep which
will combine all the excellencies of
both the wool and mutton breeds, hens
which will lay the year round and
then bring the highest prices when
killed, and in vain effort to secure
these results by cross breeding they
only succeed in running q scrub fac
-sry. -----.-- - -,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

While the system of cold storage
now so generally coming into use gives
the big corporations controlling such
plants the opportunity to corner and
fix the price to the consumer of the
commodities SO stored and held, there
is no disputing the fact that the proc
ess has been Of inestimable benefit to
the producer, as it has not only equal
lied but advanced prices. which often,
because Of the very perishable nature
Of eggs, butter, meats and fruits, were
SO low as to entail serious losses on
the producer.
We note that rnany of the towns of
the west have at some place on the
outskirts of the municipality a dump
ground whereon is thrown all the ref
use of the community, mostly manure,
street sweepings, leaves and rubbish.
1t seems strange to us that there is
not one man in the place shrewd
enough to have all this valuable fer
tilizer put on to his land near town.
Down east, where men are glad to pay
dollar load for stable manure and
haul it themselves, such things are
not to be seen.
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noticeable fall Off in that direction.
This fall the winds have been very
quiet and the days have been eX-
ceelingly scarce when the wind has
risen to any degree of velocity, and the
air is as pacific as any state in the
union.
The report made for September by
the Uni ed States wheather bureaus.
in various parts of the state proves
this conclusively. Following are the.
government figures at the various
stations:
The prevailing direction was from
the northwest. The averages hourly
velocity at regular weather bureau
stations was: Huron, 1876 miles,
Pierre, S.S; Rapid City, 100, and
Yankton, SO. The total monthly
movement at Huron was 9,lOS miles :.
Pierre, 6,325; Rapid City, 7,ls9, and
Yankton, $780, The highest velocity
at Huron was A miles an hour from
the south on the 5th, at Pierre, 81
from the northwest on the Sth; at
Rapid City, SO from the northwest
on the 7th, and at Yankton, q miles
from the south on the 9Th.
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POSSIBLY A NEW BISHOP
Report That Bishop O'Gorman Will
be Transferred to st. Paul in
Near Future.

Near Future.
A St. Paul dispatch gives credence
to rumors that have been rife for
some little time that there is to be a
change in the Catholic bishop of this
state. The elevation of Archbishop
Ireland to the head of the archdiocese
of Chicago paves the way, it is re-
ported, for Bishop O'Gorman to be
advanced. The st. Paul dispatch
states on positive authority that
Bishop O'Gorman will be transferred
to St. Paul. The vacancy in the
South Dakota diocese is to be filed
by the appointment of Rev. Patrick
r. Heffron., D. D., rector Of the ST.
Paul seminary.
Since his residence in South Dakota
Bishop O'Gorman has risen higher i'm
influence with the authorities at
Rome, and has been usted with
some very important matters. The
bishops many friends all over the
state will regret to lose him but will
rejoice with him in his elevation to
a more important diocese.