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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
THE FARMER AND HIS FOLLY.

He lived in Iowa, had splendid
farm Of 800 acres. lots Of fine stock
registered Shorthorns. Percherons and
the Ikea good wife and fine home,
was a good business man and hus-
tier, but he would get full when he
went to town. He had always man
aged to find his way home until one
evening not long since. when in his
chemically fuddled condition he made
miscalculation as to the distance of
the fast mail train as he started to
cross the railway track. The tragedy
was completed in moment Of time.
Crushed and mutilated almost beyond
recognition, what was left of him
formed the center of interest at n big
funeral, not even the kind hearted par
son deeming it necessary to draw any.
moral. A monument which will cost
$1,000 will mark his grave. There are
others just like him.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

We have let single stalk of rape
grow in the garden this season to just
see what it would do. 1t grows in
very rich soil and has had an abundant
supply of moisture, and in the middle
of October it is three and one-half feet
high and nearly four feet in diameter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
IOWA CENTRAL RAILWAY.

IOVA Sf711S vi q '11fLW0I'
Time of trains carrying passengers at
Hedrick Iowa. Effective July LIST, 1901.
Going North.
No. Nilsson City Mai. (Ex Sum 2:1o 5. m m.
No. Way Freight (Ex SUM-. 500 D. m.
No. e-peoria Mail 7Ex SUM. ). 12:2o D. m.
No. Way Freight lex SUM. AS a. m m
No Peoria Express, td1a "a 80
rates. folder etc. call on or address
GEO. S. BATTY, II. II. KENNY.
Gen. Pass Tkt. Agt, Agent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

There is this morsel OF comfort for
the melon growers this year whose crop
was almost Il total failure-had tie
crop been large it would have been
drug on the market, for people will
not eat melons when the weather is as
cold as it has been this season.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Go be Contiued.)
aurlinuton Route Excursions,

One-Way Settlers Excursion Rates,
via Burlington Route. Very cheap one
way settlers rates will be on sale DUR
ing the months of September and Oc-
tober, to points in Montana, Utah,
Idaho, Oregon, Washington andCalifor-
mia. For rates and full information
call on OF address w. S. Parker,
Agt. Union Depot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The laws of most of the states are
very clear rs to the responsibility OF
the man who lets fire escape from
his control, and destroy property be-
longing to others. He has to pay the
damages caused by his carelessness
u tl;eS. can be collected from hll9.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The so called lard hog, rs represented
in the Poland-China breed, is as much
the natural outgrowth of environment
as is the long legged and speedy Az
kansas rooter, who simply has to be
able to oiltrun the colored brother who
is OUT of meat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The unusually cool summer had q
wonderfully restrictive influence on ali
forms Of insect life. There has not
been one fly this year where there are
usually ten, the chinch bugs have been
literally drowned out, not box elder
bug is TO be anywhere found and only
the mosquitoes have 1ourished.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The pack of canned swee. corn is
iekt this year While acreage was
large and the crop one of the biggest
ever grown. all the later paintings
were so hindered in development by
the cold weather or else nipped by the
early frosts as TO be unavoidable
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

For general farm work the broad
tired wagon is infinitely. superior to
the narrow tired one. 1t draws easier
on all soft and mellow ground and does
not cut up the fields and meadows.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC.
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION DEPOT.
A panL... A.an4

CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
Arrive. Depart.
milwaukee, ~; .d1:so a. m. be:5 a. m.
ids. etc ;,;........ blo:lou. m boss p IN.
Southwest -. ..b2:30 a. m. d1 80 a. m.
Kansas City and 20,
No. 90, east bound. leaves. -. 6:55 A. m.
No GA, east bound, leaves. 0:45 a. m.
No 81, west bound. leaves. $50. 6:45 a. m.
No. 81, west bound, leaves. ;. IL 80 a. nd.
These are freights leaving ottumwa
n Daily Except Sunday. Except
Monday.
ottumwa Junction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

An inclosed yard, with the barn as
part of one side and the rest with an
eight foot tight half she'd of size pro-
portioned to the number of head of
stock kept, with watering tank ac-
cessible. is our idea of farmyard.
Into this we would cart the straw, and
therein we would feed all the stock, so
far as possible. Try this instead of
the open and unprotected yard SO gen
orally used.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Railroad Time Tables
TRAINS LEAVING UNION DEPOT.
W.. S. Parker, Ticket Agent.

BURLINGTON ROUTE. C., d. Il @. r. IL.
Going East. Depart.
No. 24a--Fast mall. 1:l6 a. M.
No. 12b-Chicago. Peoria. St Louis,
Dubuque & Quincy. ......... 2:l0 a. N.
1Ga-Chicago -. ... $3.50 n m
92b-Local Freight ....... $40 a. M
1Ob-Peoria, Dubuque & Quincy 2:0l D. m.
6a-Chicago Limited $780,. 1850 p. nj.
4n-Ghicagn.3t Louis 4 Quincy I:20 p. m.
Sa-East mail S:3l p. III.
2a-Chicago, Peoria Rockford. IL 40 p IN.
Going West
5a-Omana, Council Bluffs and
Nebraska .......,,... $40 q. m.
l5a-Fast mail .............. 2:40 Il. III.
91b-Local Freight ,........ $50 u. M.
3a-Omaha, Kansas City. Den
YER, Hot Springs. Deadwoo..
Op~en, Portland q Cali
1a-Fast mail .............. 1852 a. m.
Limited .......... BIS p. m.
Council Bluffs .:...:....... $3.50 p m.
1a-Denyer & Omaha r. ..... IL :35 y. m,
Arrive.
9h-Peorla to Ottumwn.. 1:20 u. m.
a. Daily; b, except Sunday. Nos. z, g. l6
and "a do not carry passengers
CHICAGO, FIT. MADISON & DIES MONIES
Arrive. Depart.
FIT. Madison accomo. 500 p. NJ. 7:15 a. M.
Trains run daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Actual figures as to outlay and in
come in the poultry business are not
always easy to get. Here is one worth
noting: The man lived in town. He
kept thirty-three hens. He paid out for
food S45.32 during the year. He sold
eggs and chickens to the amount of
$1,000. Deducting cost Of feed, he
had net profit of $1.9S on each hen
kept. If any Of our readers can better
this statement, we would be glad to
have him report to us.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

There are lots of reclaimed lake beds
all through the prairie section of the
west az. northwest. upon which for
several years past good crops of corn.
potatoes and fax have been raised,
where this year there is water enough
to float a fat bottomed steamboat. The
reclaiming business will have to be
Gone over again and in different man.
ner
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

William Marks, a Sioux City tailor,
fell three stories down an elevator
shaft, but escaped without serious in
Jury
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The Northwestern Greening apple
seems to be steadily forging its way
into the good graces of western apple
groves. 1t seems to be hardy and pro-
duces . large apple of fair quality
which will keep under ordinary cellar
conditions until June Its quality is far
better than that of the Ben Davis. and
it seems to be adapted to a very large
section of the country where the Ben
Davis will not grow. The writer has
200 trees of this variety which look
very promising.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

An interesting experiment is reported
from the Missouri station. In Il feed
test on fattening steers it was found
that where bushel of corn fed with
timothy hay produced 4.9o pounds of
beef bushel Of corn fed with cowpeas
produced 6.59 pounds Of beef and with
clover GA pounds, and the beef made
on the clover ration was of better
quality. This is good illustration of
the profit connected with feeding a
properly balanced ration, The idea
brought out here is just as applicable
to the feeding and fattening OF hogs as
1t is OF beef cattle. Instead OF all corn
give the pigs a balanced ration and
they will make better animals, fatten
faster and be less liable to disease.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The idle money Of the GARNER of the
.vast and northwest has gone mostly
Ito investments in the cheap lands Of
lie north country, much of it into CO.
..adian lands.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

The climatic conditions which insure
big crop of spring wheat, potatoes
and choice apples are not conducive to
the growing of big crop of corn, the
moist. cool weather which the first
named crops delight in hindering and
preventing the proper development of
the corn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

1t is all the worst sort of foolshness
to go UP against the other mans game
and let ones avarice run away with
ones sense. The temptation to do this
comes to the farmer in hundred ways
politics, mining schemes, patent
rights, agencies-while if he attends
any of the so called fairs and carnivals
his cupidity is appealed to on every
hand to try to best the other fellow.
So long: rs this never has been done
and never will be done, why try it?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Arbitration is good means of set
Ting most of the difficulties which
come up between neighbors on the
farm. 1t seldom pays to go to law.
When the law is invoked, there is al
most sure to be little satisfaction in the
end for either party and almost GER
tain to be big bill of costs to pay.
When a controversy is submitted to
neighbors for settlement, they will al
ways try to smooth things down as
much as possible, while if the same
case gets into the courts the lawyers
will often do all they can to keep both
contestants in fighting trim.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Many American parents can learn a
most valuable lesson from the German
and Scandinavian people who come to
this country. These people believe that
It is a part of a boys and girls educa-
ton to learn how to work, and from
the time that their children are old
enough they are given employment of
some kind suited to their strength. The
result is that the children are kept out
of a world of temptation and mean
ness and become our most valuable
workers and citizens.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

g The new and the better agriculture
which is being taught by our agricul-
tural colleges, farm institutes and up
to date farm papers is showing how a
man may profitably work fewer acres
The omnipresent craze in all the newer
sections of the country is to spread the
labor of the worker over just as many
acres as possible, while the new dis
pensation reverses this process. Not
only education on agricultural lines,
but necessity. is compelling this
change. the increase of farm land val
ues making old methods of working
farm lands wholly Improbable. This
is progress in the right direction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

In all those sections of the country
where long winter commences bust
ness by the last of November and
keeps right at it until the last of March
there are of necessity great many
things to be done to get ready for it
on the farm. 1t is disagreeable and
wasteful work TO have to dig for fuel
and the straw. hay or corn fodder out
of snow banks in January. A supply
OF dry fuel under cover will do much
TIC make things pleasant in the house,
while the fodder handily stacked for
winter use makes it easier to keep a
good hired man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

A man who has grown the Wealthy
apple in northern Iowa for twenty
years reports that his $50 trees grow
ing on one and a quarter acres of land
have endured all the vicissitudes Of
climate, are healthy and prolific and
every other year average five bushels
of apples to the tree, which bring him
about GO cents per bushel in the or
chard. or $500 per acre. which is about
as good a return as is obtained from
the prune and orange orchards of Cali
fornia.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
NEEDS BOTH KINDS.

There are two kinds of education es-
sential to the making Of the most sue
cessful farmer-the one purely prac-
teal, which may be and must be the
result of doing the work pertaining to
the farm. Here is learned by daily
experience that certain things must
be done and certain other things not
done, but the why and the wherefore
are not learned. Where a man de-,
ponds wholly upon this type o. cdu-
cation he will ind in it much that
savors Of grandfather's way. ancient
precedent. credulity and sometimes
rank superstition. more or less moon
foolishness and Friday bad luck and
the blind and simple faith which
Longfellow SO nicely illustrates in his
"Hiawatha," Where Ninnehaha, dis
robed. steals out from the wigwam i'll
the dark. still night and walks around
the field of newly planted corn to keep
the crows and squirrels from pulling
it up. The other type of education is
the technical and scientific, whereby
a man is taught the reasons why
things are so. a knowledge which.
coupled with his practical work, dou-
bles his capacity for usefulness and
productivencss. The old prejudice
against what was termed book farming
is fast disappearing and it is fast COM
ing to be generally recognized that the
more q man can learn of the science
of agriculture the more successful will
he be and the more money will he
make.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
HOGS FOR TIE NORTH COUNTRY.


In the north country, and by this we
mean that portion of the country
where corn cannot for climatic reasons
be made staple crop, there is no good
reason why the growing of pork can
not be made very profitable part of
the farm production. The growth of
the Poland-C China hog in the state of
Iowa has done more to make the state
rich than any other one thing. The
north country is naturally better
clover country than Iowa; the farmers
can raise peas therein Iowa they
can't; they can raise better and bigger
crops of barley, rye and wheat, and
Any of these foods is better than
corn to build up the frame, the bone
and muscle of the pig than is corn,
While ration of cooked potatoes and
barley and pea meal will put fat on a
hog equal to any corn that ever grew.
Then it is unlikely that hogs so fed and
raised in this north country would ever
be afflicted with the diseases Which
sweep them off periodically by the mil
lion in the corn states. One year, with
another wheat will bring more than a
dollar bushel converted into pork.
while the profits connected with max
ing pork on clover, rye, barley and po-
tatoes are too evident to need elaborat-
ing. You north country fellows, try
the hog and get rid of your farm mort
gage, just as the farmers have in Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

We have just completed close and
critical examination of the $500 apple
trees in the orchard, looking for borers.
We found 300 trees in which the borers
we're at work, and the little pests were
dug out and destroyed. Had this work
been neglected there We're 800 trees
which inside of five years would have
either died or been broken off by the
wind. TIE borer is the worst enemy
of the apple tree and the one thing
witch must be most closely looked aft
er if one is to have Il healthy orchard.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Nihu. j l+e Dofef is tne WOfSC enemy
of the apple tree and the one thing
which must be most closely looked aft
er if one is to have healthy orchard.
1t is probable that more Of our peo-
pie are today seeking places for new
homes than ever before in the history
of the country. 1t is not a sort of mi
ssratory craze, such as peopled the
states of the west in the forties and
f.fties. but the effort to secure piece
Ut land and home of ones own. Thou
ENDS are moving to the newer sec
Ions. and thousands more would move
Kid they but know where to locate.
tIGre and more the people are coming
10 value farm land as Il source of OBJ
tanning areliable and good living.
it has been a very freaky year for
vegetation. The apple trees have
bloomed for second crop of fruit, po-
tatoes have grown above ground on
the vines, September strawberries and
raspberries have been common, sweet
peas have bloomed continuously from
June to middle October geraniums
and callas have hardly bloomed at all,
The second crop of clover and timothy
nay was better than the first, cucun-
Ders Kept OH producing from July to
October, melons utterly failed. Tt has
been year without a summer minus
sunshine and heat, and with an excess
of moisture.
There are hired men and hired men.
Here is one we know who is queer
freak. He is one of the most faithful
and steady fellows in the world, tends
right to his business, has no girl or
horse and buggy. He will work six
months at Il stretch. and then he
wants a lay off. Hethen goes to some
city. puts up at the best hotel and
sings his money like Stock Exchange
speculator during the few days while
it lasts He then returns to his work
of milking the cows and stopping the
hogs for another six months He says
that he would rather have all his fun
III lump than take II in installments.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

higher officials in Chicago. Langdon
was drinking again, Langdon was gam
bling, Langdon was specializing through
a broker in Omaha, and these, investi-
gated unbeknown to Langdon, fell fiat.
He had won the respect of the better
class Of men; lie had become an expert
trainhand; he minded his own BUSH
ness, yet was full of sympathy and in
terest in the affairs of the operatives
and the crews Of the trains. In March
the superintendent of the Seattle of
fered him similar berth at bigger pay
provided he would move to Sioux City,
and the offer was declined. In April
the great drill came off. The flag of
the rifles was trailed in the dust. They
were not even ''placed" by the judges,
and the great prize was won in almost
walkoyer by the Gunnison Grays.
Time and again Langdon had receiv-
ed warnings from the police that there
was a gang OH the south side ever
watching for chance to do him up"
and from mine host Of the Brentwood
that there were influential men on the
north side, potent in the councils of the
Big Horn, who would hurt him il they
could. One day there came curt sum
mons from a local lawyer to the effect
that bills to the amount OF $3.50 had
been placed in his hands for collection
and calling upon him to take immedi-
ate steps to meet them. Langdon called
to inquire and was CURLY, almost in
solently, received. He learned enough,
however, TO convince him that two Of
tile bills were those of dealers at Paw
nee to whom he had regularly and con
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-02-05
,s,u vb, N,mca .mcrtc,.

Few Americans are aware of the fact
that the name of their continent Is due
to German scholar In 1907 Martin
Waldseemuller, also known rs Hyla-
comylus. of st. Die. In the Vosges,
edited book called "Cosmogrnphim
Introductlo," in which he gave trans
latlon of Amerlgo Vespucci's descrip-
ton of his voyages.
That was Just the time when Ameri-
go's fame filed the world. while Colum-
bus disgrace overshadowed his merit,
and evidently his name had never
reached the quiet village in the Vosges
when Amerigo trumpeted forth his own
glory. So Hylacomylus proposed that.
since the new continent was, after all.
not part of the Indies no name would
suit 1t better than that of his famous
explorer, Amerigo.
The book was read far and wide. and
so quickly was the proposition accepted
that, when later on the true discoverer
was known, the name was already
rooted too deeply In general use to
be abolished. and was even extended
TO the north part of the continent, while
Hylacomylus had only meant 1t for
the present South America.-National
Geographic Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-02-05
For Tired Ewes,

Eyes will be greatly strengthened by
putting the face down into glass or
eyecup of water the first thing in the
morning and opening them under wa
ter. This Is somewhat difficult to do
at first. but If the water for two or
three days be tepld and gradually made
colder by imperceptible degrees until
1t is no shock to put the face into quite
cold water 1t will soon become quite
easy and is very invigorating and re-
freshing.
If done regularly every day, this
treatment alone will preserve the sight
into quite old age. There Is n right
and wrong way of wiplng the eyes
after this, too and the right way Is to
pass the soft towel very gently from
the outer angle inward toward the
nose.
If after long day the eyes feel SO
hot and tired that they seem dim when
one tries to read or to do little neces-
sary sewing for oneself. they should be
bathed with cold tea from which the
leaves have been removed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-02-05
A Street Parable.

A little girl stood at n window blow
ing soap bubbles. Beneath stood lit
tie boy, and as she blew bubbles to-
ward him he tried to catch them. They
broke and disappeared on all sides,
but the two laughed and kept up the
game. she smiling down and he gazing
upward eagerly.
Behold. a parable" said a man to
a woman. "The eternal relation of the
sexes! You blow beautiful bubbles
down to us from your height, and we
weary ourselves In trying vainly to
catch them. Poor little boyw
The pair played and laughed In the
sunshine until the boy grew tired. He
called out "Goodbyw gayly and ran
away to play with other boys and girls
in the street. The girl looked after him
wistfully, a shadow on her face. She
did not care to blow bubbles any more.
She leaned out TO watch him, and as
she did so she tipped over the bowl
of soapy water. She looked very lonely.
Behold. n parablep said the woman
to the man. "He has tired of the
game; not she. There is no other little
boy to blow bubbles to, and IL there
were she has no pretty bubbles left to
blow. Eternal relation of sexes! Poor
little girlv-New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-02-05
The Best Man.

For the origin Of "the best man at n
wedding" we must go back many CEN
turtles. to days when II was the amia-
BILE practice Of the budding bridegroom
TO dispense with the consent either Of
the lady or her father. He simply
waited for suitable opportunity to
capture her and make bolt with his
bride. In this enterprise he found 1t
helpful to have the services Of friend
who would assist him in the capture
and keep the pursuers at bay until he
had got sufficiently long start. This
friend was the prototype OF the best
man" OF our own unromantic day.
when his duties are limited to seeing
that the bridegroom doesn't leave the
ring behind him or leave the church
without taking his hat with him. How
times do change!