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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-05

EIGHTEENTH.
Commercial news.
NINETEENTH.
Commercial news.
TWENTY-FlRST.
A review Of what purports to be an I'M
biased history.
TWENTY-SECOND.
An explanation of the Torrens system Of
land dtle.
TWENTY-THlRD.
Forecasts by Foster.
TWENTY-FoURTH.
Local society.
TWENTY-FlFTH.
Local society.
A Tete-a Tete with Musicians.
TWENTY-SIxTH.
Social news from Texas towns.
TWENTYSEVENTH.
The fashions.
rWENTY-EIGHTH.
Theatrical news and gossip.
TWENTY-NINTH.
Happvhammer letters.
THlRTlETH.
Mortuary report.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-05
WEATHER INFORMATION.
PROBABILITIES.

Probabilities.
Washington, January 4.--Esstern Texas
Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday. Mon
day probably rain: fresh east Winds.
Oklahoma. and Indian Territory-Tsir
and warmer Sunday. Monday probably
rain; winds mostly sasterly,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-05
Leaped TO His Death.

81. Louis, January 4-whle suffering with
the deluslon that some one was pursuing
him for the purpose Of murder, George
Jones. supposed 10 be from Nadisonvilie;
Ia leaned 10 his death from the third
door of the salvation Army barracks to-
day, Death wsA instantaneous.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
SYNOPSIS.

PART I.-Three rogues. Hayle. Kitwater
and Codd, meet at Singa pore. Latter two
have learned of existence of hidden treas
ure at Sengkor- Wat-old Burmese ruin
lieves account. but nevertheless agrees to
join in search.
PART I-Reaching Sengkor-Wat, the
men make their way through the ancient
streets and toward the once splendid pal
ace. Toward dusk after a most tedious
search they come upon secret entrance to
underground vaults, in which are d!scov-
cred great quantities of bar gold and uncut
rubieS and sapphires. Hayle fills borh
hands with gems and the men make their
find their two Burmese servants slain and
horribly mutilated, Chinese fashion. Dur
Ing the night Hayle secures treasure and
steals away into the jungle.
PART III.-Utterly exhausted and un-
conscious, Hayle is found by English off,
GERS near frontier station of Nampoung.
AS soon as able he leaves for Rangoon
and thence to England.
PART IV,-Two months later another
ofhcer at Nampoung, while out on hunt
comes across Kitwater and Codd. Kitwa-
ter explains they were traders who had
fallen into hands of Chinese who had put
out his own eyes and pulled out Colds
tongue After recovering somewhat from
efIects of exposure and fortunes they set
Off In pursuit of Hayle.
now he became detective in Australia
and finally came to open up an office in
London.
CHAPTER II.-Kitwater and Codd try
TO secure FairfaX's services. They repre-
sent themselves as missionaries returned
from China where rich native patron
turned over to them on his death a great
fortune which was stolen by guest
(Haylel at the mission. Fairfax almost
concludes not to take case.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
UNREST.

While not migratory in the sense that
Abraham and Lot were when they
dwelt in Canaan, the American people
are still the most restless and unset
tied Of all civilized peoples The bust
ness directory of any town will under
go almost complete change every ten
years. Nearly every farmer will sell
his farm and home If he can get his
price. The desire to change to see and
live in new countries. make new neigh
bors and friends. amounts almost to
craze. Our people do not seem to I'M
derstand the blessings of contentment,
no matter how well they may be fixed,
and so they sell and pike off to Tennes-
see or Texas, California or Canada,
only too often returning later on with
very little cash and very large chunk
of experience. Now, the truth is that
when any man has a fairly good farm,
be it large or small, is making good
living and saving little, has lot of
good friends and neighbors and bring
ing his family up right, he is well
enough fixed and has about all he is
fairly entitled to in this world, and his
efforts to get more and more are likely
to bring him more trouble than pleas
ure. The average man can fill only just
about SO much space in the old world
anyhow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
SOME DROUGHT DECISIONS.

Some lessons have been well learn
ed as the result Of the farreaching
drought of last year. One was that the
constant tillage of growing crops wher-
ever possible is just as good as if not
better than irrigation during drought;
another, that some sort of summer for
age crop for use for the dairy cows and
the calves and hogs is almost invalu-
able; another, that such dry time
may be used to great advantage in get
ting rid of sorre, quack grass and 9TH
er pests by constant worrying them
with plow or cultiyator while it-lasts;
another, that the fields deeply plowed
or semisubsoiled the year before can
stand the effects of such drought much
better than shallow soils.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
My Strangest Case
BY GUY BOOTHBY.
Author Of CDR NlKOLA' 1.-THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL
"PHAROs, THE EGYPTIAN" ETC.
BY GUY BOOTHBY.
1901, by Ward. Lock s Col

He heaved hea~y sigh and then
rose to depart.
Il must again express my graft
tude to you, Mr.. Fairfax" he said,
for having consented to take up the
case. feel certain you will u3ki-
mately be successful. ] will leave
you to imagine with what anxiety
we shall await any news you may
have to give u.s."
Il will communicate with you as
soon as l have anything to report
l answered. you may rely upon
my doing my best to serve you. By
the way, are you aware that your
niece called upon me this morning?"
He gave start of surprise.
No. | certainly did not know it,"
he replied. "She said nothing to US
of such an intention. I know that
she is heart and soul with us in our
desire to find Hayle. But since you
have seen her you probably know
that?"
Il think I do" I returned, for
some reason almost abruptly.
She is good girl said Kitwa-
ter, and then took from his pocket
an envelope which he handed to me.
by the way, I brought this with
me-" he said, Sin the hope that we
should be able to induce you to ac-
cede to our wishes. Inside you will
find e100 note, which should be
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
THIS MAN IS RIGHT.

One Of the most successful hog rails
ers of the state of Iowa says that it is
all mistake to assume, as is generally
done, that the most profitable hog to
produce is the six-month-ol 225 pound
pig. He for years has let his pigs grow
naturally until they We're year or
more old, living on clover and ranging,
making big, strong frames before they
were put up to fatten for the market,
claiming that the forcing process for
early marketing is a provoking cause
for disease. We believe he is everlast-
ingly right in his conclusions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
CEMETERIES AND EvERGREENs.

While the small evergreen seems to
many an appropriate tree to plant upon
a cemetery lot, it does not take many
years for the little tree to become q
large one, when its roots will take pos
session Of the whole lot, heave the
monuments out of plumb and so OBJ
scure the place with their dense fune-
real shade that one had as soon be bur-
led in the Great Dismal swamp. Don't
bury the sleepers in gloom. Let the
sunshine. which perchance they may
have had little enough of while living,
play over their resting place. Make the
sacred acre bright with grass and flow
ers, and if the trees must be planted
let them always be of the deciduous
types and not evergreens.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
RICH AND DOESN'T KNOW m

The richest man in America has to
chop wood SO that he may get up ap-
petite to eat bowl of crackers and
skimmiik. That's enjoying life, is it
not? You call yourself poor; but, COM
pared with this CrGsus, when you sit
down to your three square meals day
and return thanks not only for the
food, but for the good health and appe-
tite, which is one of the compensations
of hard work and hard knocks, you
are one of the richest men on earth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

sufficient to cover any preliminary
| expenses. If you need more, perhaps
you will be kind enough to commune
cate with me at once, and it shall be
sent you. A receipt can be forward
ed to me at your leisure"
/ thanked him and placed the en-
velope upon, the table. In my own
mind l felt that it would be an easy
matter to- guess whence the sum had
come, and for a reason that I could
not then analyze, and therefore am
unable to describe, the thought IT.
ritated me.
Having assured them that the
amount would be quite sufficient, in
the event of nothing unforeseen hap
pening, to last for some considerabl BILE
time to come, l conducted them to
the door, again repeating the prom
Use that / would communicate with
them so soon as 1 had anything to
report. If 1 had only known then,
that, at the very moment when they
stepped into the street, the man
they wanted me to find for them,
and whom they hated so desperately,
was standing in shop on the other
side of the road, keeping an eye on
my door, and evidently watching for
their departure, how much trouble
and vexation of spirit we should all
have been saved. But I did not know
this until long afterwards, and then
OF course the information came too
late to be of any service to us.
Next morning l was early at the
office, being DESTROYS of winding up
another little matter before I turned
my attention to the new affair. One
of my subordinates had just returned
from the continent whittier I had
sent him to keep an eye on a certain
pseudo-French marquis with whom I
expected to have dealings at no dis
tant date. He reported that the gen
tleman IN question had broken the
bank at Monte Carlo, had staked and
lost all his winnings next day, and
had shot himself on the promenade
on the evening following. With his
death the affair, on which had con-
tidently expected to be employed,
came to an end. could not say that
I was altogether sorry.
II shall want you TO leave on Fri
day, Turner, for St. Petersburg" 1
said, when he had finished his report
and had commented upon it. do
you remember Paulus Scevanovitch,
who was concerned in that attempt
to defraud the Partisan jewelers.,
Maurel & Co., two years ago?"
Eyes, sir, I remember him perfect
ly," Turner replied. "a tall burly
man, with bushy beard, the top of
his little finger on the left hand
missing. and long white scar over
| his right eyebrow"
"The same" 1 answered. ST see
you have not forgotten him. Well, 1
want you to find him out, and let me
have an exact account of his move
ments during the next three weeks.
The office will arrange your expenses
in the usual way, and you had better
leave by the mail train. In all prob
ability l shall see you off,
Every good sir" the man respond
ed, and withdrew.
he had scarcely gone before one of
my clerks entered the room and
handed me card. On it was printed
the name of Mr.. Edward BaYley, and
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

We know of a certain farm in the
west which is well fenced with wire
strung on posts set a rod apart. There
is nothing peculiar about this. but the
owner has painted all the posts barn
red and given them white cap, and so
every one who goes by the farm wants
to know whose farm that is, and they
can then turn toward the gable end Of
the big barn, and there is the name Of
the farm and the owner in big white
letters. In doing this he has made his
place landmark.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Pork and beans is we'll balanced
ration. So are oatmeal and cream,
roast pork and apple sauce, boiled beef
and potatoes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Even if your schoolma'am does get
ST for teaching your school five days in
a week she does not have as much
money left after all her bills are paid
as the girl in your kitchen who works
for $3.50 per week.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

There never were SO many men en-
gagged in farming who want to find
out better ways of doing their work
than at the present time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

The making of profitable baby beef is
only possible with high grade animals
of the strictly beef breeds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
THE BAD BOY AND THE SCHOOL

THE BAD BOY AND THE SCHOOL.
This item is for the fifteen-year-old
boy who thinks it is smart thing to
act up so mean at school that he wears
out the life of his teacher and destroys
the good work which the school was
intended to accomplish. This sort of
heather are found in country as well
as city schools. They are too big for
little woman to thrash and seem to
have no moral sense which may be APP
pealed to. Now, boys, you are the ar
chitects of your own fortunes. You
can improve the educational advan-
tages given you and become useful and
worthy citizens or you can raise Cain,
as you do in school, graduate from
there into brake beam tramp and
die dirty bum. You can make your
choice. The sure way to get into plen-
ty Of trouble when grown to manhood
is to make lots of trouble in the pub
lie schools. You ought to have the
meanness well licked out of you, but
the teacher can't do it, your father
won't, and the school board had rather
fire you than lick you. Fun and plen-
ty of it is birthright of the American
boy, but your type of meanness is not
fun; it is the outcropping of the hea-
then in you, and you belong with the
Moros or Tagals of the Philippines
rather than with the people of civiliz-
ed North America. Turn over a new
leaf.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
WHAT rHE AGE NEEns.

The law of supply and demand gets
in its work on all the professions, as
hundreds of nice young fellows who
have been educated for the law, the
ministry, teaching and medicine at an
expense of S1,5OO or $1,000 find out
as soon as they graduate. They find
that they have stuff to sell on an al
ready glutted market and that only a
few of them-really very few-can
make place, position and a good liv-
Eng. There is a great waste right here.
The world is clamoring for men in a
hundred departments of business, but
not this sort 1t is practical and con-
structive age, and it is the men who
can do things who are wanted = men
who caI open mines, assay ore, build
bridges and great buildings, buy, judge
and handle stock, raise big crops at the
smallest cost, economically utilize the
labor of other men, handle complex ma
chinery, originate new methods-rath-
er than those who know of and have to
do with the past as eXpounders of an
Gent theory or explorers in metaphys-
zeal mysteries. Call it a bread and
butter age if you will, the fact re-
mains that the essential spirit Of mod
ern progress deals almost wholly with
the future and not the past Leave the
past with the monks, the ritualists
and the dust Of cathedral sepulchers
and blaze out a new road, young man. /
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

The selling price of hay will largely
determine the value of the corn fod-
der. The logic of the situation sug-
gests that less hay be raised on the
average farm, the meadow acreage
planted to corn, the forage crop thus
secured and good crop Of corn be-
sides. In other words, the utilization
of the corn fodder may be made to
add new acres to every farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Old Aristotle knew that clover was a
fertilizer for the farm, and he has been
dead n long, long time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

A wild goose was recently shot in
Washington which had imbedded in its
breast the head of an arrow made of
ivory. evidently the work of some ma
tive hunter in the far north country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

If a young couple commence picking
up and saving every old thing in the
house and out of it which they think
may come into play some day, they
will need fire to help them clean
house inside of ten years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

The short crops of the past year have
been heightened out by moderate
winter and reduced consumption.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
HOGS AND sIxTY-sEvEN CENT coRN

1+1
A friend wants to know what price
hogs must bring to make profit on
feeding them 81 cent corn. Fed under
proper conditions, bushel of corn will
make ten pounds of pork. and for all
ordinary purposes this rule is accepted
as standard of measuring the relative
values of corn and pork. Thus the pork
SO made from 81 cent corn must bring
S6.7O per hundredweight in order to let
the feeder out. Under present condi-
tons We should try other rations for
the fatting hog. Wheat at So cents per
bushel will go further than corn at 81
cents. Barley at so cents is a cheaper
feed; also mill stuff and the low grades
of wheat and flour. There is a certain
loss In making pork which sells for
$3.50 out of 81 cent corn wholly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
UGLY. hut coon.

Utility and LONELINESS are often very
closely allied. The best COW we ever
owned was homely as hedge fence.
while the best hired girl we ever had
in our home could hardly with safety
look into a glass. The best and most
knowing dog we ever owned had eyes
of two colors, always had burs in his
tail and put in all his spare time
scratching for feas, while the most
faithful hired man had red hair, pug
nose, harelip and the catarrh. The
homely things in this old world de-
serve heap more credit than they get.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Three of the most extensive and
most successful cattle feeders in the
west have in institute talks this winter
proved almost beyond controversy that
in the making of beef there is a saving
of not less than 20 per cent in the
corn fed when it is ground with the
cob.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

The egg of the great aux is worth
$3.50, and it is not fresh egg either.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

A farm for which the owner has re-
fused $40 per acre is made to pay 10
per cent annually on this valuation by
stocking it with cows and selling the
milk at condensing factory near by.
The owner receives one-half of the
proceeds Of the farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

We feel sorry for the man on the
farm who has raised four nice boys
and cannot keep even one of them with
him to take up the farm work as the
father grows too old to carry it on.
The smartest boy on the farm is the
one who early resolves to stay by his
dad.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

The railroads Of this country are
planning to spend no less than $780,
100000 the coming season in new lines,
better equipment and improved tracks
This alone is going to make business
for vast number Of people who will
all be consumers of farm products.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18
CAN DO 1T If HE WILL ray.

1
A young man writes us from Illinois,
wanting to know whether it is possible
for him to work his own way through
one of our agricultural colleges. 1t is
if he is made of the right sort OF stuff.
and it has to be pretty good stuff. Most
of these colleges are SO managed that
all the work a student is able or will
ing to do upon the college farm lis Civ
en- him at a liberal rate of collpensa-
ton. A young man should get together
a fair outfit of clothes and rot less
than 500, however. before tackling
this job, for he could hardly expect to
do justice to his studies and spare more
time for labor than would suffice to
pay for his board and incidental ex-
penses. Then if he should be sick his
nest egg would come in handy. An ed
ucation thus dug out by hard knocks,
self denial and perseverance is always
worth more to the boy than when abb
sorbed at the expense of sighted drafts
upon the governor at home A course
Of study attempted on these lines
means no luxuries, mighty little athlet-
les, no girl business and quite likely
celluloid collars and ten dollar dress
and Sunday suit, Moses put in forty
years at this sort of work in the will
derness to fit him to lead his people,
and any young man who wants to be
somebody and do something can afford
to play the Moses act for three wears.
The very best training for young
man is to want a whole lot of things
real bad and not be able to get them.
Then after awhile he will learn to
want something worth having, will go
for it and get it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

An important fact has been develop
ed in the alfalfa regions Of Kansas and
Nebraska, and that is that the cheapest
produced pork in the world can be
made. out of just alfalfa and nothing
else, and if this were, not enough the
claim is, still further made that such
pork is, the best favored produced any
where. Now, if these claims are true
the hog raiser in the corn belt is going
to have run for his money.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

A railway company conveyed back to
the state of Minnesota lately certain
lands upon which were iron deposits of
the value of millions of dollars. This
conveyance was made because the COM
pany had to make it and not because
it wanted to. The land goes to the
credit of the state school fund.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Kaffir corn has no value where other
corn will grow and do WELL
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

A swarm Of sparrows. flock of pi-
geons. a wandering dog, an old black
crow or predatory wolf visiting an
infected hogyard can transmit the
cholera with as much certainty as
could diseased hog running at large.
and these agencies are pretty hard to
quarantine against.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

We are in no sense prophet, but we
will venture the prediction that there
will be the usual number of bugs, bee
ties borers and insect pests of high
and low degree to wage war on all veg
etable and animal life on the farm this
coming season. Between the weeds
and the bugs it is often nip and tuck
for the farmer to see where he comes
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

Read the Courier for news
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

1t is always bad for a man to settle
down discouraged and feeling that
there is no use for him to try to get
ahead in the world. The worlds great
est victories have been won on the
heels of it's worst defeats. 81 will' can
overcome almost any misfortune. The
world loves grit in a man and has no
time for wilmer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

A man will eat fried cat, thinking it
rabbit meat. and never kick, and the
people will eat oleomargarine when it
is sold TO them for butter and not kick,
but when they know what they are
eating, then it gags them, and they let
both tomcat and oleomargarine alone,
and this is the whole of this cleo bust
ness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

we Know OF two or three nice old
ladies whose failing years incline them
to use an old cob pipe for comfort. We
have never got reconciled to this, for
somehow what seems all right in the
case of the old man seems all wrong
in the case of the old lady. These
should stick to the teapot.
The shellbark hickory and che white
oak are very fastidious as to the soil
wherein they grow. These trees like
the same sort of soil. a stiff clay, and
one never need be looking for sand
pit anywhere near where they may be
found. White oak and shellbark hick-
DRY lands are nearly always good
wheat soils.