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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

A man has made failure of living
If there is not a bigger crowd at his
funeral than there was at his wedding.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16
TIMER CULTURE.

The economic value of "a ten acre
grove Of timber on the prairie farm
cannot be refuted. The warmth, shell
ter and protection afforded by such
grove when located properly become
almost Invaluable returns. Such q
grove ten years from planting will fur
nish all the fuel needed by the owner
as we'll as wood for hundred and one
useful purposes on the farm. The will
low and cottonwood will bring in re-
turns the quickest, but the quality Of
the product Is poor. The soft maple
will grow almost as fast and Is much
better grade of timber. The white ash
but after that becomes one Of the very
best and most valuable forest trees to
use. The European larch has great
merit and at the end of thirty years
| would be worth several hundred dol
lars per acre for use as telephone and
telegraph poles. The catalpa up to the
limit of its northern growth is another
fine tree, well adapted to the latitude
south of ~. The black walnut on
rich, moist soils will prove a good
tree. but not on high, dry lands. The
white pine and the Austrian pine for
the better grade of soils and the red
cedar for the hillsides and knobs are
reliable evergreens. The elms make the
best of shade trees, but we would not
plant them for any other purpose. If
we were going to open up and develop
a quarter section prairie farm today,
we would divide it into four forty acre
tracts, planting row of timber-wil-
low cottonwood or soft napoleon the
line of each forty, trying to get the
neighbor who might join lands with
us to cooperate and own Jointly the
timber on the line dividing the farms.
This plan would make the equivalent
of thirteen and half acres of timber
OH the farm. allowing strip Of fifty
feet in width for the trees. A prairie
farm so planted will, without any
doubt whatever, produce more crops
and of better quality than If the whole
Of the land were in crop without
the trees. All through the west are
hundreds of instances this year where
the protecting influence of such row
of trees proved the salvation Of the
corn crop by modifying the effect of
the hot winds in August. The grain is
not blown down so badly by the sum.
iner storms, the snow is held on the
fields in winter and the bad effect of
the hot winds is prevented.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

There never has been in this country
so good q time as the present to pay up
debts and get square with the world
We know of lots of men who should
seize the opportunity and do just this
thing, Instead they are contracting
still more debt, foolishly assuming that
these good times will last forever.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

The man who last August was
cussing Providence and bewailing his
bad luck as he looked at his with
cred corntield and offered tc sell it.
and in not a few cases selling 1t at
the rate of So or "a an acre, in Novem-
Der found that the field yielded forty
| bushels of good corn to the acre, worth
| $50. and ton and half of fine fodder,
worth SD, or more than one-half what
his farm was worth at $50 per acre.
This was really the worst case of
agricultural grunting and cussing that
we ever came across
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

1t costs just rs much for ocean trans
portation to ship small sized beef ami
NAL to England as it does large one.
Each occupies stall and the tariff is
on tie number Of cubic feet of space
contained in the stall and not on the
weight Of the animal
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

If the owl made as much noise with
its wings as it seeks it's nightly meals
as does the migrating duck or the ruff
ed grouse or prairie hen. it would go
hungry, but the fan of the OWLS wing
| is the most noiscless motion in the
world, and it drops OIL its victim like
feather falling from the upper air.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

There is loss of from SO to So on
each steer fed for beef when it is not
followed by hog.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

The right way for a farmer to do
who desires to attend the farm ipsti-
tute is to hire man for a couple of
days to do all the chores and then take
his wife and attend all the sessions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

Keep that green boy of yours or the
careless hired man who thinks he
knows it all away from the corn shred
der. or the surgeon is likely to have =
Job
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

Would you try to fatten twenty 100
pound shotes this winter with corn at
So cents a bushel? No, we would not.
In the latitude of southern Minnesota
fattening of any animal during the
cold weather profitable operation.
We would winter these pigs over, keep
them growing, no more, and along the
first of April put them up and sell
the last of June as 300 pound hogs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

The long haired, frowzy yearlng colt
rustling in the winter stalkfeld is q
good illustration of many a twelve
ycar-old boy on the same farm-the
colt two years later will develop into
fine draft horse worth $3.50, while
the boy few years later will be the
owner of fine farm and running for
governor. The roughing it early in
life has something to do with later
worth and success.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16
A PREVENTION OF BLAcKLEe.

Texas stockman is working out
his theory that an infusion of buffalo
blood in our native cattle will render
them immune to attacks Of blackleg,
he claiming that the buffalo never has
this disease and that his grades with
one-sixteenth buffalo blood in them
seem to be blackleg proof. He pro-
poses to still further dilute this blood,
and the result is awaited with interest,
as this disease is a terror to the south
ern stockman.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

We are reminded that the ways Of
the world are far more humane than
ical conditions made an army of va
grants ana tramps in the time of King
Henry VIII. in England, and he dis
posed Of them by hanging them, no
less than $4,000 Migrants being hanged
during his reign of thirty-six years.
Times improved some during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, for she. hanged
only about 400 u year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

Chauncey Depew's smile will be ov-
erworked for awhile.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

The rabbit can got along all right
the ferret is bad medicine for him. A
twelve-year-old boy and ferret ex-
terminated 200 Dummies last winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16
without any Sort Of sense or reason

r Without any Sort of sense or reason
man manifests 4 the same 4ipyeterate
enmity toward, fall kinds Of hawks,
owls, eagles and their kind that he
does toward snakes. when. with the
exception of the few venomous snakes,
the entire list of birds referred to and
nonveuomous snakes should be rated
as among his best friends, as they con-
stitute natures most effective agency
to limit the number of the rodentia-
rabbits, mice, r;tTs. gophers. This is
lesson which needs preaching over
and over.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

While the corn crop of 1896. one Of
the largest ever raised. was worth
$491 100000 ON the farms where it was
produced. the crop of 1901. less than
one-half as great, is estimated to be
worth the sun Of S700,000,000, thereby
proving that half crop may be
blessing in disguise to the man who
raises it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

About the best product which is be-
ing turned out from the corntields Of
the country is the boys who plow and
care for the crop, who ,husk it when
ripe and graduate from the corntields
into legislature, senate chamber and
judicial bench; who become the brainy,
forceful managers of great business
enterprises and make history for their
country.
So rare thing is it that the ipor-
trait of a young man who graduated
with honor from one of our western
agricultural colleges and went straight
from the college back to his farm is
given in the papers. This thing will
not be so rare after awhile, for the
farm conducted along scientific lines
is in the near future going to- offer
better financial promise than are any
of the so called professions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

He cut up ten acres of corn, sowed the
field to rye, removed the shocks the
last of October and shredded the crop.
His cows had the finest kind Of a
late fall and early winter pasture. He
will sow clover early next spring, have
early pasture for his cows and be sure
of good stand of clover. More should
follow this mans example.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

When the stock die in the cornstalk
field, it becomes q very expensive pas
ture ground. They have died by the
thousand all over the corn belt recent
ly. whether from smut poison or from
impaction o" what it matters not, and
it does not seen, to have made any diff
ference whether care was used in in
Producing them TO the new feed. The
fact remains that there is death in the
cornstalls field. and if one can't cut the
stalks up he had better burn them up.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16
A Minnesota man claims that by the

A Minnesota man claims that by the
careful breeding of wheat he is going
to be able to supply a variety of
wheat which will produce fourfold
more than any we now have. We do
not believe that this can be done, and
if it could be it is doubtful If such
discovery would be of any real benefit.
Wheat pulls the life out of the best
of soils fast enough as it is and, one
year with another, is one Of the least
profitable crops Which can be raised.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

Wild blood does not render either
animal or bird life immune against the
diseases which beset domesticated va
rieties. The wild hogs OF Arkansas or
Virginia. usually healthy as roamers
of the woods. fall easy victims to the
cholera and swine plague when placed
under Poland-China conditions in the
corn belt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

Whenever the politician gets foot
hold in any farmers organization hav-
ing for its object the bettcrment of
the farmers condition it is all day
with it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

The year 1874 was year of short
crops for England. and she had no sup
ply of wheat to draw upon from Amer
lea. Wheat that year went up to ESQ
a quarter, or $3.50 u bushcl.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16

We have offered a premium of Ii
cents each for all rabbits killed in the
vicinity of our orchard. and if bunny
values his life he will keep away from
that territory.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
From the Mankato monitor.

Editor Vaughan of the Mankato
Monitor was delegate from Jewell
county to the Norton convention.
Here are few of his comments on
that notorious fiasco :
o. L. Benton's excuse for his action
as published in the Topeka Capital, is
so thin and false that it does not i'm
prove his position in the least.
The anti-Benton delegates from
Decatur county never betrayed their
constituents. They would not con-
slider voting for anybody else until
Reeder had thrown them over and
deprived them of the right to repre-
sent the majority of the honest
Republican voters of their county by
whom they were elected.
"Otis L. Benton is being censured
freely for the part he is accredited
with having taken in the convention,
but to many acquainted with the
facts tits well known that there are
others whose skirts are less Clean
Hoxie Sentinel"
1t is a poor defense of a man to say
Ol1CIO WSlC OOA1O1O JOOO cbO OclAs GOO II
there was any at the Norton con-
vention we would like to know their
names.
The word "never" means "ten'' &C
cording to the Russell Record. 1t
says the Decatur delegates were
pledged not to vote for Reeder for ten
votes. The facts are that they signed
an agreement NEVER to vote for
Reeder. There was no promise to
vote for White or any one else. Had
they voted blank they would not have
violated their pledge, but as it now
stands they cannot even be clasSed as
"honest politicians" as defined by the
Tammany chieftain.
The proposition was made by the
committee on credentials to the Ben
ton delegation, in whose favor the
contest had been decided by the con-
greSsionai committee that it would be
Seated if it would vote against Reeder.
-Hoxie Sentinel.
AS we happen to be chairman of
that committee we know positively
that the above stated proposition is
not correct, and ask Bro. McIvoy or
any member of the delegation to
state who made such proposition.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

winds blow and the rains forget to
come. We see how nobly nature bears
her misfortunes, and when times Of
adversely come we viii try to over
come them, to become stronger and
better.
In the autumn the flowers prepare
for death-they shed some of their
leaves and prepare seeds to live after
they are gone. We follow this example
and try TO do good in the world-when
winter comes we are ready to depart in
happiness, feeling that we will be amply
rewarded for all the good we have
done.
Nature is always striving after an
ideal-always trying to reach perfec-
ton. If she is not interfered with in
any way, she will produce perfect flow
ers, perfect fruit. If worm gets into
an apple, she will try to throw it out,
but if not successful at first she will
keep on trying, always doing her best,
never giving up.
When the nature student examines
the bud on a tree, if he will look on the
other side of it he will find another tiny
one. Now, if the big bud, the one that
nature intended should grow, is broken
of, this little one will grow and take
it's place
If corn is planted nature will grow
the incest kind of stalks Even though
the hot winds will come and spoil her
efforts, she will do the best she can.
When the corn begins to shoot for ears
she will send out many shoots, so that
if one dies there will be another to take
its place.
The person who is able to see these
things will always strive for the best.
He will let nothing go half done and if
he is unfortunate in one pursuit he will
have another to take its place.
'sTo him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gsyer hours
She has voice of gladneis, and smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides.
Into his darker musings, with mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
Pr0Pram

for the PhillipSburg-Mound township
S. S. Association to be held in the NJ.
E. church, Friday, May %, 1902:
1o;3O-Praise Meeting.
1:O0-Responsive reading and OPEN
ing exercises opened by @. M,
Cole. Discussion by Miss Towns
ley and Samuel LaRue.
12:O0-BaSket Dinner.
2:OO-PraiSe Service, Rev. Green.
2:15-Home Department, A. Quanz.
General discussion.
2:45-Song, Mrs. Lewis.
3:0O-How to successfully conduct
primary work, Miss Tadlock and
Mrs. NJ. L. Heath.
3:30-StepS in preparation Of the S. S.
lesson, Mrs. Bracken, Rev Homan
song, Miss Susie Townsley.
Remarks by County President.
Business.
Congregational music ledy by WV.
briggs. Mrs. E. GRANGER,
Secretary.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

1T. T. Kelley is guilty of half
that has been proven on him. he would
disgrace even the republican state
ticket. And if it is as he claims, a
prosecution by Boss Leland because
Kelley is anti-Leland, then the dis
grace on the party is still worse.
Take your choice.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

A young lady applicant for Miss
ouri country school was asked the
question: "What is your position
upon whipping children?" and her
reply was, ''My position is on chair,
with the child held firmly across my
knees, face downward" She got the
chool.-Kansas City w orld.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
EFFECT OF A LOVE OF NATURE on THE
CHARACTER.
William Henry REYNOLDS.

EFFECT OF LOVE OF NATURE on THE
CHARACTER.
William Henry Reynolds.
Mature is but the name for an effect
whose cause is God" At first glance
this statement will not seem true to
anyone who is not a lover of nature,
but to the student of nature the truth
of this statement is obvious. The same
kinds of plants and flowers are found
in the fields year after year, and the
same kinds of trees in the forests. It
has been thus through all ages
Red corn and white corn grow side
by side, IN the same field. in the same
kind of soil and under the same condi-
tions. Now, if we carefully analyze
the different germs we will find them
containing the same substances, yet
each will produce its kind and no other.
By this it will be seen that there is
some law behind these phenomena. No
human mind is capable Of solving the
mystery of how the law acts ;neverthe-
less every person knows the tact is
true.
When law of nature is broken the
effect is easily seen. If a young tree
grows too fast and does not take time
to build a proper foundation, 1t will be
blown down by the first violent wind.
On the other hand, if the tree takes
time to build a proper foundation,
fastens its roots firmly in the soil, it
will become the sturdy oak Of the tor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

Every fusion candidate for the legiS-
allure should pledge himself to favor
enacting state dispensary law SINH
lar to the original South Carolina
law. That will dispose of the ques-
tion in the interest of sobriety, and
forever stop the expensive litigation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

If President Roosevelt successfully
brings the meat trust to time, it may
encourage him to tackle some of the
others. Such course will make him
popular with the people, but very I'M
popular with the bosses of the repub-
lIcan party.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
Equalization Notice.

Notice is hereby given, that the
Board of county Commissioners will
meet at the office of the county clerk
in Phillipsburg, Monday June 2, 1902,
to equalize the assessment. All
persons feeling themselves aggrieyed
will meet the commissioners at that
time and have their wrongs rlghted.
J. f. RAMBo.
County Clerk.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

Glenwood Township Sunday school
will hold their convention
at the Friends church, May 81, 1902.
1920 Praise Service, led by a. Wool
man.
Prayer.
Song, by Convention.
Recitation, by Fay Lewis.
Recitation, by Members of Crow
school.
Address. by County President.
Song, by Crow School.
Basket Dinner.
1:30 Open by singing.
Prayer.
Song, by Pleasant Ridge Sunday
school.
Recitation, Members of Crow Sun
day school.
Topic for General Discussion:
"What course would you adopt in
union school when the lesson
proves sorongly denominational.'
Discussion, led by James Kissell.
Song, by Convention.
Recitation, by Maggie Duncan.
Recitation, by Bessie Whitney.
Song. by Crow Sunday school.
Recitation, by Belle Boston.
Topic: ''Some difficulties We meet
in Sunday school work, how best
to overcome them" Discussion
led by Mrs. J. J. Halbert.
Song, by Pleasant Ridge Sunday
school.
Recitation. by Members Of Crow
Sunday school.
Topic: "Best method of conducting
Quarterly Reviews - Discussion
led by Mr. or Mrs. Fred Kinsey.
Song, by Crow Sunday school.
Business Meeting.
Closing Song.
Everyone is invited to attend and
take part in the discussions.
By order of Executive Com.
GEORGIA HAwLEY. Sec.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
Delivered the Goods.

Congressman Reeder last week
carried out part of his contract by
recommending r. A. Marks for post
master at Oberlin.-Oberlin Eye.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

PopulistS and democrats should get
together this year if for no other pur-
pose than to wipe out than infamous
acknowledgements law.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21

President Roosevelt really seems in
earnest about prosecuting the trusts,
but his attorney general Knox on the
proceedings.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
NJ. TADLock, Publisher and Prop'r.

Boss Royce says not word about
that farm deal by which he and his
fridays were trying to rob the coun-
ty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
Democratic judicial Convention.

The democrats of the 18th judicial
district of Kansas will meet in dele
gate convention at Oberlin, Kansas,
June 10, 1902, for the purpose of NOM
mating candidate for judge of the
said district to be voted for at the
November 1902 election. The follow
ing basis of presentation was agreed
upon by the committee:
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-21
Program.

Glenwood Township Sunday school
association will hold their convention
at the Friends church, May q, 1902.
1890 Praise Service, led by a. Wool
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-22
N. r. boutwell,,
THE WESTMINSTER
INTERESTING TIMEPIEoEs.
Three Watches of Antiquity Exhib'
tied in Berlin. ..,
rrom the Chlengo CMonlcl

From the Chicago Chronicle, 'err
At the annual Theological exhibition
in Berlin this year, which had a larger
patronage than usual, there We're three
antique tme-pieces which attracted
much attention. One dates from the
seventeenth century, when 1t was
known as the cross watch, worn prin-
cipally by priests and clergymen. At
that time watches were not made
small enough to be carried in waist
coats, so the bulky things dangled down
over the knickerbockers and looked
quite imposing. The special watch of
this variety on exhibition was loaned To
the managers by Cologne Dome Mus
cum, having belonged to preacher of
that period, who bequeathed 1t to the
Cologne parish i'm 1912
OF equal oddity almost Is Il bulky sill
Yer watch, almost as big as small
modern nickel alarm clock. This dates
from the beginning of the eighteenth
century and was worn mostly by rich
peasants. A very pretty watch Is one
in the shape of mandolin. which
comes from the artistic days OF Louis
XIII of France. During that period
neurological artists made their time
pieces i'm all sorts of fantastic shapes
pyramids, madolins, tulips, pears, me-
Ions, etc. The three watches mentioned
here are TO shis day excellent tinlepieces
and worth thousands OF dollars piece.