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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Harp tune himself into a discord
family suggestive of "We Won't Go
Home Till Morning." and then these
sounds died away and all was still.
Farther and farther the Colonel's
head bowed forward until, no longer
able to retain his seat, he fell under
the desk and lay there, melancholy
example of fallen greatness.
At. that moment the door leading
into the workroom opened softly and
Sampson, a cunning grin on his
freckled face, tiptoed into the sane
tum.
TITS my turn now, Colonel" he
muttered between his teeth as he
looked down on the sprawled-out
form of his former employer. Stoop-
ing over, he removed the crisp banis
note from the Colonel's vest pocket.
You owe me something Like $65, but
I'll apply this on account. And I'll
put this in my pocket, too," he added,
taking from the desk the paper that
had just been signed. "a tramp
printer isn't the man to be fooled
with, Colonel, and you'll understand
this before I'm done with you"
With that Sampson shook his fist
at the Colonel and strode from the
office.
Meanwhile, Col. Dingle and Mai.
Harp and Capt. Blue were riding
Harmony-ward in lethargic condi-
ton, while Mr.. Boomer, who had
fallen from the carriage unknown to
himself or his companions, was
peacefully sleeping by the roadside
some two miles out of Concord.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
A NEEDED EpucAT1oN.

Schools for the special teaching Of
women in the art of cutting and fitting
women's clothing are being established
in many parts of the country and are
doing a good work. The education
which the average girl is given has
never met this need, and she Is turned
loose on world which demands that
she be well dressed and leaves her at
the mercy of some other woman to do
it. AS between smattering of music
and the know how to cut and fit ones
own dress any wise girl will choose the
latter. Her chances Of marrying well
are better if she knows how to dress
well than they are if she does not and
can only pump an organ or pound a
piano.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
GavERNMENT IRRIGAr1oN.

Next to legislation providing for ia
iliteroceanic canal the law passed by
the late session of congress providing
struction and irrigation Of desert lands
is the most important. We have come
at last to the point where the well wa
tered and fertile arabic lands of the
country are all taken up and occupied
and very rapidly advancing in value.
There is no longer any Iowa, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Minnesota or Dakota for
the ever increasing surplus of popula-
tion to find homes in. True, there is
land enough still unoccupied and OF
the greatest fertility, but it lies in re-
gions where there is no rainfall suffi-
cient to mature crop. Water, the
product of the melting SHOWS of the
mountain ranges. there is in abun-
dance in many sections, but it runs to
waste in the rivers in the flood seasons
and is not in the clouds for distribution
in the form of rain. The intelligent i'm
pounding Of these wasted waters by
substantial dams erected under gov
ernment control and the irrigation of
tributary arabic lands are the object
of the recent legislation. The land so
brought under irrigation and made
productive will be sold and the pro-
ceeds further applied to the extension
of the system. Most of these reclaima.
BILE lands lie within the semitropical
belt, where ten acres under irrigation
can be made as profitable as forty
acres in the older and naturally wa
tered portion of the country. The prog
ress of this work will be watched witfr
the greatest interest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
INTEREST IN ALFALFA.

While alfalfa has always been looked
upon as specially suited to the semi
arid portions of the country, it is only
within the past year or SO that the
farmers where the rainfall is ample
have had their attention called to the
wonderful value of this forage plant,
and this year thousands of men are
experimenting with alfalfa all through
the northern and northwestern states.
1t seems to be not so much question
of climate as of soil adaptation in the
successful culture of this plant. A
perennial forage plant as rich in pro-
tein as is alfalfa cannot fail to be Of
the greatest value to every northern
farmer who can possibly grow it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

cord, vote them for Harmony. You
can do it. The great mind that built
up paper like the Blizzard can do
anything"
Col. Keever relapsed into silence
and did his best to think calmly
while the four gentlemen from Har-
mony awaited his reply in soulful
expectation.
"Two thousand?" asked Keever,
huslsily.
1.-TWO thousand" came an equally
husky reply.
s"Cash down."
"Fifty now and 1850 when the
votes are polled."
A long period of silence ensued to
he finally broken by Keever, with
the anxious query:
"Genlmen, is there any left?"
There was some left and libations
were renewed all around.
What is it, Colonel, yes or mop"
asked Dingle when the gurgling
period was over.
Through Col. Keever's mind there
fitted hazily the following items:
-Four hundred and fifty on account
of "plant;" twenty-eight sixty to
get that weeks issue out of pawn:
sixty some odd for Sampson, and
there was no knowing the amount
of Pedro Smiths bill. Why not?
He coughed, looked around him a
trifle nervously and then held out
his hand
"Gi'me the So"
A crisp bank note was rendered
him.
Here you are" said Dingle, "and
here are two documents-mere mat
ters of form, you know, one for us
and one for you = setting forth
what's to be done, what's to be paid.
and when. For your protection as
well as ours. Colonel. Sign there
Unsteadily the editor took up his
pen and scrawled two awkward sig.
natures, whereupon Col. Dingle
signed below him and the other
three attested the act as witnesses
Then, after drinking the last OF
the liquor, the four gentlemen from
Harmony bade Col. Keever an af.
fectionate Goo bye and left. Col
Keever heard Capt. Blue fall down
the full length of the stairs, heard
Col. Dingle whoop joyously and Maj
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued)

The committee of ways and means
dark ways and questionable means
came at night as befitted doers of
ignoble deeds. Their two-seated car
Yiage and team were left at the edge
of town and they were unseen by
any save Sampson. He still had a
key to the workroom and as they
entered by the front he entered at
the rear.
Col. Keever cherished no ill-feel-
ings and he greeted his callers cor
daily and humorously. Should he
put their names down for a years
subscription to his invaluable paper,
two dollars year, in advance.
No; the four gentlemen from Har-
mony had not called for any such
purpose.
Indeed! While his four callers
were unfortunate, in so far as they
resided in town with such a poor
outlook as Harmony, yet lack of
taste was not a crime, and Col.
Keever was glad to extend the right
hand of fellowship to Col. Dingle,
Maj. Harp, Capt. Blue and Mr..
Boomer.
Col. Dingle, Maj Harp, Capt. Blue
and Mr.. Boomer gratefully acknowl-
edged Col. Keever's amicable senti-
ments and begged to assure him of
their own. coupled with slight Of
fering in the way of liquid refresh
ments.
This preliminary matter arranged
to the voluble satisfaction of all
parties, Col. Dingle asked to know
if they were alone.
Col. Keever told him that they
could not be more utterly alone if
they were set down on the broad
bosom of the Sahara-with nothing
to drink.
Then they all laughed and clapped
Keever on the back and seemed to
think it an excellent joke, and Col.
Keever became bland and facstious
and informed them again of his ever
lasting regard.
After this, Mr.. Boomer went to
the door and looked out on the land
ing and down the stairs and came
back seemingly satisfied.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
THE ROCK ISLAND EXCURSIONS
Homeseekers' Excursion Tickets to
Points North. South. Southeast
and West.

Special summer excursion rates to
Denver: Colorado Springs, Pueblo.
Glenwood Springs. Salt Lake City, og.
den, Hot Springs and Deadwood. S.
D., commencing June /, 1902. Limit
for return October 81, at very cheap
rates. Call on or write the under.
signed for rates and dates of sale.
Biennial meeting, X. of p. San
Francisco. Cal, Aug. 11-22, 1902. Date
of sale Aug. 2 to inclusive. Final
limit Sept. 30. Round trip rate S48.
For full and complete informatios
regarding stop overs, dates of sale
different routings. through sleeping
car service and reservations for
berths call on or address.
w. s. Parker,
Ticket Agent. Union Depot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
A VALUABLE TOOL.

On all corn land where mullen, milk
weed, sunflowers, morning glory, cockle-
bur, wild roses and other deep rooted
and tall growing weeds prevail the
surface cultivator will be found an al
most Indispensable tool, its long, sharp
knives slicing these plants off below
the surface of the ground and effec-
tually annihilating them; but it will
not take the place Of the old four
shovel plow for the general cultivation
Of corn. Like the disk corn plow and
the weeder, there are times and places
where it will do better work in the
field than any other tool.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

There is likely to be before very
long sharp competition between the
COW on the farm and the paper maker
as to which shall have the heretofore
wasted stalks of the great cornflelds
Of the west The silo and the shredder
have solved the problem Of the conver-
sion Of these stalks into palatable
ration for the COW, and the paper man
has found out how to convert the dry
stalk into an excellent quality Of pa
per, ,--.---~r-- --,.--r--,1...
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The leakage from the barnyard, ii
permitted at all, should be diverted on
to the garden patch and not be al.
lowed to find its way into the creek.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

1t is a great help when trying to sing
gospel hymn when milking in fly
time to have string so fastened to
the stall post that the cows tail can
be kept from switching and swiping
your face.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The mellow condition of timber soils
when first cleared and cultivated is
owing to the humus in them, and the
source of this humus is the decaying
forest leaves.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Extremes in weather frequently fol
low each other. The great northwest
suffered last year from excessive. heat
and drought This year unreasonable
cold and excessive rains are doing
more injury to the crops than the heat
and drought did.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

We had man work for us once who
used up fully half an hour each work
ing day running his old corncob pipe,
filling up, relighting and all that. He
would not work unless he could smoke,
and he would smoke whether he
worked or not.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

An inch of rainfall weighs about 113
tons to the acre. and about 300 tons of
water are required to produce one ton
of dry matter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The people of Utah are harvesting a
new crop this summer, grasshoppers,
forewhich they are paid q bounty of 81
per bushel dead or alive.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

This is hired mans summer unless
the old man has plenty of work in the
barn for the many rainy days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The grape is produced on new wood
of the seasons growth, which in turn
usually arises from canes of the previ-
Gus years growth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

A milk dealer arrested in one of the
large cities for selling milk testing be-
low the fixed standard in the matter
of butter fat sought to make good
defense in court by introducing as evil
dence ten babies which were regular
patrons Of his milk cans The kids
We're lusty and thrifty, but did not
count with the jury, as some of this
body were raising equally lusty and
thrifty calves on separator milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
A wet summer is usually followed
by an early fall frost and deep SHOWS.

Dollar potatoes are almost invariably
followed by twenty-five cent ones the
next year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

1t is wise thing to fire the hired
man who persists in smoking around
the barn before he fires the barn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
q :. e.
Sweet corn is one of the very best
late summer forage plants. All stock
likes it. and it is very easily grown.

Any spot on the farm where water
Will stand for ten hours after heavy
rain should have either surface or tile
drainage.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Japan produced 23e, 100000 bushels of
rice last year, being twice the amount
of all other cereal crops grown.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
W. y. Z oIhGII
Ticket Agent. Union Depot.
Low Summer Excursion Rates to st,
Paul and Minneapolis.

Paul and Minneapolis.
The Iowa Central railway has placed
tickets Oh sale at very low rates to St.
Faul and Minneapolis and Minnesota
resorts, good returning to Oct 81. Tho
summer resorts of Minnesota are su.
perior TO any IN the country and with
the unusual opportunities offered in
the way Of Inv rates, all siiculd take
a trip for health, pleasure or recreation.
Fine fishing Consult Iowa Central
agents for further particulars
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The land craze has reached point
where suckers are paying Sc, So and
$40 an acre for western range lands
where, taking an average of seasons,
1t will take from six to twelve acres to
keep the breath of life in one steer.
oh. there'll be mourning by and by!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The best Strawberries are produced
on the year old plants. The two year
plants will bear some fruit, but the
-year-old plant is worth nothing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Different seasons bring different field
and garden and orchard pests. This
year there are no potato bugs, no aphis
on the plum trees, no butterflies in the
cabbage patch, but there is the most
widespread attack of blight among the
apple trees which we have ever known.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Through large part of the country
today it is on the poor and sandy soils,
worked by the shiftless and lazy own
er, where the most productive crops
will be produced. The good farmer on
rich land has produced too heavy a
growth Of straw for the good of his
small grain crops.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The man in the smaller towns is now
kicking and growing because he has to
pay $1.5O per year for a box at the
local postoftice and run after his mail
four or five times every day, while the
old granger eight miles out in the coun-
try has his mail delivered right at his
door. These kickers should move out
into the country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Where there is a growth of daisies,
goldenrod and sorrel the soil is quite
likely to be sour, a condition which
may be remedied by the application Of
lime or ashes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The high price of corn has not affect
ed the price of whisky, 20 cents worth
of corn Juice now having the same
power to raise the devil as when corn
was 10 cents bushel,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

By sinking bored well foot in di-
ameter In slough it can often be as
effectively drained as though it were
tiled. If after penetrating the clay
subsoil gravel stratum is reached,
such a well will be success as a
drainage system.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The writer's strawberry bed was not
large one, covered only seven square
rods of the garden, but it furnished an
unlimited supply of the finest fruit for
nearly thirty days, all that was needed
for canning, and enough berries were
sold to more than pay for all work put
upon the bed four times over. This
very satisfactory experience is possible
with any man or woman who can CON
troll that much garden space.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

1t sometimes seems as if the under
skirt We're worth the most money.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The increasing productiveness of the
agricultural sections of the west and
northwest is taxing the carrying ca
pacity Of the existing lines of railway
to the limit during the crop moving
season, and the time is not far distant
when the main arteries of such rail-
way systems will all have to be double
tracked in order to do the business of
fered them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The growing of the legumes-clover,
beans, peas-and the plowing under of
such crops in a green state furnish
nitrogen to the soil. Common wood
ashes are about the only home supply
Of potash, while phosphates must be
secured from outside the farm,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Western Canada produced last year
96,00O,000 bushels Of wheat Of the
very best quality, and not twentieth
part of its wheat producing area is
under cultivation. Western Canada
can easily furnish the mother country
with breadstuffs for years to come.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

, 1t is estimated that the enormous
sum of $150,0O0,000 will be available
in the next thirty years for irrigation
works under the new law without
further appropriations. The wealth
contingent upon the expenditure Of
this money for this purpose can hard
ly be estimated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29
His Friend, The Enemy
BY WILLIAM WALLACE COOK,
Author Rosers sutte,' "The Spur of Necessity,
"r1r. Fitt Astro1oser,''

Copyright, 1901, by the S. S. Mcclure Coz
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

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l4ah A&k9 91sRN #fM of the seasons
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wet summer ,s v followed when first cleared and cultivated
@ , sumner em e is usually a n.y. onowd
" carry IAN - m anu oeep SHOWS
Dollar invariably ~~ ~~
followed by twenty-five the
next year. gospel hymn milking il
This hired post that the tail can
many rainy days @ pe repu @ from switching ana vpg
rice last Being twice the up fully an hour each work
would
smoking around
the barnbe he fires the barn worked d
rainfall Extremes in weather frequently fol
low each other The northwest
suffered last from ezsvdhea
of dry matter and drought This year unreasonable
cold and excessive rains doing
The best injury the than the
the old and drought did,
plant plants will i bear fruit but
plant worth nothing The land has reached point
growth of daisies range
gdend and rel the soil where taking of
the application breath life one
lime or ashes Oh. therel be mourning by and by
Different seasons bring different field
ed the and garden and orchard nests This
tss ri:
widespread attack of blight among the
ameter In slough it
effectively drained though large part country
su the nes 11aay 5
will geeps m psodn n most Te oS ner crops
The growing Of the legumescover
ae .n peas-anu Tue proving unoe OF small grain crops
nogen S TO the so Common wood
potash phophates must be- @ ne mas to
oca, nostodce and run m after s mail
S oa bushels ea Of wheat of the has delivered
@ @ e ~ & M o t"enet door These kickers should move out
par OF IT'S wheat producing area is into the
VAN u m years 10 come. agricultural sections of the west and
estimated that the paeev % tbs ta5ss n the lines 1arsT
sum Of s15ooooooo will
h na5 a thirty ss se~ f s Wou sso % ma % @ not @ @
further
contingent the
this money for this purpose can hard fered them
| If a
a nng ed d soils M you I for M
m @ sDs @ sc ss you nas
really proper mechanical be found civil
If of the
~hn you
Du medcne
of
inmates VI sun
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of the garden but
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

Many so called impoverished soils
are poor because of lack Of proper till
age, whereby the plant food contained
in them may be made valuable, and
they really need proper mechanical
treatment rather than forced stimula-
tion. The blowing under of some green
crop in July and later plowing in late
August will often renovate such fields.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

If you are fool enough to bite at
proposition which proposes on its face
to give you something for nothing, you
deserve to get stuck, as you most sure
ly will, and yet ten such suckers can
be found in every civil township in the
country. If you are one of the ten,
don't solicit sympathy when you get
pinched, but take your medicine and
profit by the experience.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

The state institutions Of Iowa-the
reformatories, insane hospitals and
asylums-are being supplied with
large farms lying adjacent, it having
been found that the labor needed to
carry on such farms can be obtained
from the inmates of such institutions
under skilled superintendent and util-
lied to the profit of the state and the
marked benefit of the inmates.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

So long as man is going to the ex-
pense and bother Of feeding and caring
for an animal of any kind why not
have good kind9 This applies to all
kinds of farm stock and crops as well.
IN no line is there SO much possible i'm
provement and increase of profits as In
this. The difference in the price be-
tween the best things and the average
things is SO great that with high
priced farm land only the best can be
protitably produced. -.4.4-..x
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

, Hambletonian was the most noted
sire America has ever produced. OF
his 1888 colts 40 We're in the 2:3O
class, $50 of his sons produced 1,41S
trotters of standard speed, 80 of his
daughters produced ITO trotters in the
2:30 list, and it is estimated that $4,000
of the 1925 trotters now in the 2:3O
list trace blood back to this famous
horse.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

We have found this season the Gan.
dy strawberry to be valuable variety
to have in connection with others. 1t is
not heavy bearer, but the berries are
very large and of the very highest fla
vor, and what makes it worth more
than all else is that it is late berry,
coming on just as the other varieties
are all gone and when every one has
got an appetite sharpened up for
strawberries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1902-07-29

We know Of man who has thrown
,aIia good f1En and rented it and taken
& regal nes Tauts b eaa at 5000 per
Tszws tase aSas,1as q Hss trsNhle in
gessaRRx tass;s sas7 SO las tssn. We
wedld Sss assss Gal asasA ksst would
have seedsd tEe fsasa saosas. pu1j some
Angus cows in TIA pasture and let the
calves do the dairying. A man with a
good farm is simpleton to run mail
route unless he wants Office very badly.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-06-24
BURGLARS IN JAIL.
Suspects Arrefted Yesterday Be
lieved to be Right Parties.

The two men who were arrested
yesterday on suspicion of being the
burglars who entered several resi-
dences of Florence Sunday night were
today arraigned before Justice
Lockard. Attorney Champion ar
peared for the defendants, and asked
that the preliminary examination be
postponed for one week in order to
allow the prisoners time to secure
funds with which to defray the ex-
pense of trial. They claim to have
relatives in Kentucky and Mr.. Cham
pion has written to their people. If
funds can be raised Mr.. Champion
will represent the prisoners in the
courts. The hearing was put over
until one week from today at ? o'clock
Meanwhile the accused men will be
held int he county Jail at Canon.
The men gave their names as Harry
Russell and James Montgomery, and
they were arrested about O'Clock by
officers Tabor and Green. About
10:30 the men were discovered by
Officer Green near the old slaughter
house on the south mesa Their
actions aroused his suspicious and he
notified Marshal Tabor. Both men
then secured horses and trailed the
suspects around the south and west
edges of town to the residence of
Thos, Walters where they purchased
some milk and cakes, and also secured
a needle and thread to sew up rents
in their clothing From there the
officers followed the men to Seventh
street and overlook them between
Pixies Peak and Petroleum avenues
The prisoners each carried a 3S-cal-
iber double action Iver johnson revol-
ver and supply of extra cartridges
Between the two they had So. % in
money and one of the men carried u
small horn handled pocket knife.
Mrs Burley and Mrs. Carrethers
both feel positive that the officers
have the burglars.
The Florence daily tribune., 1902-06-24

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