Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-07

sticks from under the rearward extern
sion of his umbrella-like sombrero will
be ruthlessly sacrificed and the bar
Der who gets it ought to able to sell
it for dollar strand.
When this happens he will not be
Colonel William F. Cody, Or Buffalo
Bill" any longer. He will be. just
plain William Cody, Of Wyoming, liv-
ing on his ranch, prosaically punching
cows and shipping steers to market.
! He will have his memories--many
of them-memories of long rides, of
cunning matched against Indian cum
ming, of desperate hand-to-hand af-
trays, of the sight of vast prairies
made brown by the backs of solidly
massed bisons stretching for miles in
seeming endless array. That is how
he got his nickname-pumping lead
into the ranks of the buffaloes.
In one season he and two compan-
ions killed more than 1000 of the
beasts, selling their hides and leaving
their carcasses to rot on the plains.
That was back in the '70s, when the
Union Pacific railway first started
west and made it easy for the hunt
ers to reach the American steppes.
When Buffalo Bill' cuts off his
hair and retires to private life the
small boy will have no other chance to
see genuine redskins, nor the Con
gress of Rough Riders of the World"
nor professional rough riders backing
those wonderful Fuckers, Jubilee and
Dynamite.
Never again will he see the rescue
party, too late to save Custer or hear
the steady cheers of the American
troops desperately stumbling up San
Juan Hill. The old stage coach, which
used to be attacked by Indians twice
day and spat fire at the whooping
warriors, will be taken to the ranch
and a fretful speckled hen will lay
eggs in it and hatch out yellow puff
balls of chickens.
, Even the stately sorrel horse-a
. present from General Miles-upon
which Buffalo Bill" would make his
glorious entry, will feed hereafter on
bunch grass and be hitched between
+ the shafts of country cart.
Johnny Baker, in breeches so
tight that the audience feared for him,
) must smash his glass balls elsewhere
and annie Oakley" his wife, must
sign with another Snowman.
. The glamour of il all must pass
Q away, the canvas which once looked so
| white in the glare of the lamps. The
o hair must come off. Buffalo Bill" is
;. getting old. More than sixty winters
v have helped to whiten that silver spin.
v die. The small boy shall be desolat
/ ed and many thousands of big boys
v shall feel that they, too, are older than
= they used to be.
q Cody offers no reason for his intend
v ed retirement except advancing years
The accident on West Virginia rail
o way some weeks ago will have nothing
o to do with it. On that occasion he
@ lost a good many bronchos, but they
n are not difficult to replace.
!, He does not see so well as formerly
i and therefore does not shoot so well
f His bones ache and he has reached {
a time of life when rest will be grateful
Il Thit is all, but the small boy would
: like to see him go on riding and bow
a ing and lifting his wide hat forever.
q Startling is the only word that will
e describe the result of certain expert
G. ments that have been made at TIL,
h archaeological laboratory of the Uni
S, versity of Michigan. 1t is no les
e than the discovery of an absolute an
IS tiseptic for all intestinal diseases
L. such as cholera, typhoid fever ant
S. dysentery.
e The ravages of typhoid fever ant
If dysentery in armies and the terribl,
r slaughter of Asiatic choleras hav,
" caused the medical profession mucl
it concern A few months ago DR.. Fred
S. erick G. Novy, q well-known bacterial
st ogist and Professor Paul c. Freer,
e chemist, announced that together the
lie had succeeded in preparing an intes
re final antiseptic that was successful o.
lie small animals inoculated with mites
70 final diseases.
is They gave the name of "benzozone
le to the preparation, but it's exact CON
le position is not yet made public TIL
lie proper degree of treatment in the hi
ID man person then became the stud
k. of DR.. Novy.
d. A person in his animal organism
ed naturally produces virulent poison
of Germs of disease can be found in tn
ne most healthy intestines and the col
it tinuance of good health depends upo
in whether Or not the intestines are j
"a such condition that the poisons ca
ne be rapidly and regularly eliminate
e. by nature. If something interrupt
distinctive action on these intestin;
poisons-if the kidneys or the live
T.: fail to perform their proper function
&c. disease will result.
of During the last week five soph
er more medical students who had volu
lis teered their services for experiment
at purposes, were treated with benz
er zone. They were allowed nothing
nd eat and were given only sterilized mi
of to drink. Each day at meal times tt
tn, five students went to the laboratol
he and took their doses of benzozone al
tn then drank the milk. Repeated chez
op- ical analysis showed total destru
y. ton of the intestinal poisons.
tn This is the first step in the expe
by ments upon human beings, and it's su
in cess has been such that every stude
who is making a study Of the ne
ire preparation Is enthusiastic. The ne
er- step will bt to try it on an actual ca
yer of disease il the human body. Its ST
nd cess on inocu'r 81 guinea pigs alrea
ny. has been taslUr3trated. Possib
9TH some s..;.,c. may offer himself as