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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

1t is no snail thing in his favor that
the farmer never has to sell his produce
on tick or keep book accounts or dun
OF sue people. He just expects and
gets the cash for ali he has to sell,
while the merchant has to charge things
and carry a line of credit which often
amounts to as much as his capital
stock
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

One of the best farm tenants we
have come across is a Swede with a
large family. He has worked the same
farm for thirteen years and has al
ways made money for his landlord and
for himself, while the farm is in
more protective state than ever be-
fore. Thi landlord is wise enough to
treat his tenant literally, furnishing
him good stock and seed and such
share of the crop and farm income that
his tenant can prosper. The dairy and
chickens kept on this place alone con-
stitute a pretty good income.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

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 DC.
tober, to points in Montana, Utah,
Idaho Oregon Washington andCalifor.
mia. For rates and full information
call on or address w. 8. Parker,
Agt. Union Depot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The Gamma roots should now be taken
up and set on the floor of the cellar
Let them dry out, and they will be all
ready for planting next spring.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The pansy bed has been delight all
summer, the cool, moist season having
contributed to the very best develop
ment Of this favorite flower.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The geraniums which have bloomed
in the garden this summer may be
taken up, potted and if well cut back
will afford lot of bloom all winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

A cornfield infected with both pocket
gophers and wild morning glories is in
bad fix, and the sooner such field is
turned into pasture the better.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

There is quite risk in holding hogs
at this season of the year, and just as
soon as they are fit for market it is best
to let them go.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

Twenty thousand Americans have
invaded the Canadian northwest this
season and have either bought or
homesteaded vast tract of the fertile
land of that region.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

We sometimes think that mans
reputation suffers almost as much to
be known as small. mean and stingy
us to be rated as dishonest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

They say that a goose will live to be.
seventy years old, though just why this
bird should be SO long lived it is hard
to see when the more useful hen lays
and cackles herself out inside of four
or five years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The good times of 1902, when fat
hog brought $50. will long be remem-
bered.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

If the hogs of the northwest manage
to get away with all the soft corn
there is in the fields this year and not
get the cholera, it will be piece of
rare good fortune
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

A clover sod is an ideal preparation
for almost any sort of crop There
should be at least twenty acres of such
land available each year on every quar-
ter section farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

TIE travelling public will have to
reckon with the automobile as horse
scarer all over the country. These ma
chimes are going to come into general
use and before five years will be so re-
duced in price that common people
who can afford to keep a horse will
have them. The average horse is very
much afraid of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The buffalo grass and the blue joint
grass, the two principal native grasses
of the western prairies, have never, so
far as we know, been successfully
propagated from seed upon land which
has been under cultivation. Like other
wild things, they shun civilization and
disappear with the Indian, buffalo, coy
ote and rattlesnake.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14
A WET sUMMER,s CONVERSATIONS.

A WET SUMMERS CONVERSATIONS
While crop losses We're severe and
almost total in valley locations during
the past summer by reason of the I'M
usual floods all through the west and
northwest territory, the compensations
of u wet season are not to be over
looked. Throughout all the region SO
drenched five previous years of short
rainfall ruined the water powers, made
brooks of the rivers, dried up the
springs, exhausted the subsoil mois-
ture, converted lake beds into corn
fields, killed the trees both in grove
and orchard and ruined the pastures.
The downfall of thirty-six inches OF
water and in many localities much
more during the months of May, June.
July and August has wrought out n
marvellous transformation. The rivers
are once more bank full, every spring
a-spouting, the earth saturated to Il
depth of ten feet or more, the lake bed
corntield is converted into lake once
more, all tree life has made phenom-
email growth, and pastures have been
knee deep, as in June, all summer. 1t
is all in line with natures way of bal
ancing things up, and all will feel bet
ter to think on the blessings brought
by the rains rather than on the losses
they may have entailed
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

Great Britain imports yearly nearly
$1Oo,0oO,000 of butter. and Denmark
furnishes seven-tenths of it and makes
it largely out of dairy rations imported
from America. This ought to be stopped.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The Hibernal apple is every way as
poor as it looks to be. The most that
can be said in its favor is that it is SO
hardy that it will probably do fairly
well where other apples cannot be
grown.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

1t has been demonstrated the past
season that the soil Of Cuba will pro-
duce the much wanted sea island cot
ton in the greatest perfection, staple
three and a half inches in length being
grown. This fact makes any land
which viii grow this kind Of cotton
worth over 500 per acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

We came across properly fed rape
field the other day. 1t was full of
seemingly bare stalks of rape foot or
more high, these covered with little
buds and shoots, tender and toothsome,
which the hogs nipped with eagerness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

There are two things about which
nothing bad is ever said-the bronze
grass and alfalfa. The former is of al
most inestimable value to all that
large territory where timothy and the
clovers will not do well for lack of suf-
ticient moisture, while alfalfa is prov
ing the redeemer OF a principality of
heretofore worthless lands in the west.
No fact Is better proved than this
where grass can be made to grow
there will follow all other good things
in an agricultural way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14


cartridges"
heard as the train burrowed through
deep cutting. Then, louder, clearer,
nearer than before, it sounded on the
night and confused murnur of
Voices rose along the sleeps. Angered
and desperate as they We're, few of the
railway men could bear the thought of
that train, freighted with human life,
rushing on to destruction. A light as
Of a lantern shot suddenly into view on
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

A farmer friend of ours after thirty
years spent in peace and quiet on his
farm, having retired to live in town,
thought he would take an active inter-
est in politics this fall and so came up
as candidate for an Office He tells
us that Willie he knew there was a
good deal of meanness in men he still
had no idea of the depth of their total
depravity until he got into politics. He
says he can hardly now trust his best
friends.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

1t seems queer that a man will
work hard OH farm for thirty years
then fall an easy victim to some shell
game fakir whom he knows nothing
about. More men of sixty need guard
ians than have them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

The localities where the biggest crops
of corn were raised during the late
census year. taking an average yield
for whole county, were two counties
in Illinois, three in Indiana and one in
Pennsylvania, the average yield for
the five counties being over fifty-two
bushels per acre. Upton county, Ind,
leading with 53.7 bushels per acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14
HOW NE Gor a srAR-.

Ten years ago he was common In.
borcr living in small western town.
He lad wife and four children, and,
as his labor was of the unskilled sort,
he rarely received more than $50 per
day. Deducting his lost time, his aver
age earnings were not over $500 per
year. 1t is easy to-see that with such
small income he would have but little
left after barely supporting himself
and family. He had the honorable am
bition to do something better; but, be-
ing without capital to make start, it
seemed to be hopeless case. Finally
he hit on this plan: He rented five
acres Of good land near his home at Sc
per acre. He hired a man to pillow and
drag it, then he planted one acre Of
onions, one acre of. cabbage, one acre
of potatoes, one acre of popcorn, half
an acre of turnips and half an acre of
melons and cucumbers. Aside from
what he paid out to have some horse
cultivation of the crop he, with his
wife and children, took care of these
crops. Now here is the result: Three
500; cabbage crop, $50; potatoes, $50;
popcorn, $40; turnips, $50; melons and
cucumbers, $50; a total of S465, or as
much, deducting what he paid out for
rent and help, as he had ever earned in
q year when working for others by
the day. In addition he had all his
family wanted to use of the crops
grown. and the entire crop was grown
and disposed of inside of five months,
leaving him seven months to work out
as he had always done. OF course he
could have done better if he had had
his own team andS tools. The case is
cited just to show what a man can do
who has absolutely nothing but his
hands to work with. 1t proved get.
ting out of the woods, a step in ad.
vance for him, and others may do thu
same thing, perhaps not quite so well,
perhaps better.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

A split in the party is full of spin,
tiers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

Nineteen hundred and two has been
sort of freak season. We have noted
more abnormal growths among fruits,
grains and vegetables than we ever did
before. Potatoes appeared in large
nodules on the vines, corn grew unusu-
ally tall and set from two to four ears
ON a stalk, cabbage and celery have
gone to seed the first season, while
Strawberries and raspberies set sec
ond crop Of fruit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

Best beefsteak is quoted at "A cents
pound in the city of Berlin, the same
kind which is obtainable ill this coun-
try for 20 cents. Other meats are also
scarce and high priced. 1t seems queer
that for the benefit of the few stock
raisers in that country the government
should see fit to bar out the cheap
meat products of this and other coun-
tries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14
sss O. vi 20 S's S.ss-s q ne
BURLINGTON Route Excursions.

(To be Continued.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12

ex-Revenue doodle; Samuel Thompson,
negro politician; w. HI. Utley, former
Populist: Fletcher Lockhart, negro.
This was the work of the motley assem-
blage and it was accomplished by dick
ering and counter -dickering. Postmaster
Bailey got all he could on the delegations
and Ham Jones worked it so as to put
On a majority against Pritchard. The
State delegation is reported to stand
Postmaster Bailey and Claudius Dockery
somewhat weak for Pritchard: ]. G. Il.
Harris, Bill Chamblee, Ham Jones and
Dave Lane, against Pritchard. Ham, 1t
is said, will be heard or the floor OF
the State Convention and will tackle the
big Senatorial Boss"
Bailey, Lane and Young are said to
have feared. county convention, as they
could not have been made delegates and
hence they were more than willing to
placate Ham Jones' They got on the
delegations one of which is said to have
on it a white man who has hanging in
his parlor an enlarged picture of jim
Young Some of the delegates themselves
admit that the whole affair was irregu-
lar, and are doubtful as to whether or
not they will be allowed to sit in the
conventions For obvious reasons, they
say, it was thought best not to have any
county convention and to risk it in the
State Convention.
The meeting yesterday was fair sam
fple of Senator Pritchard's Lilly White
Republican party in Wake county. 1t
was study in black and white, and its
composition is shown by the character of
the two delegations elected.
list of the attendants at the meeting
was not to be had. There was no flourish
of trumpets about it, but it is known
that white Republicans of prominence IN
Raleigh were conspicuous by their abb
sence. 1t was the Federal offce-holding
crowd, backed up by the negroes, that
had the machine at work yesterday.
Whether the Republican party in Wake
will stand for yesterdays deal waits to
be SEEN There are those who say that
it won't, but that is another story, which
will be heard another day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
WE v0UCH
FOR THIS
Note what is known
h"v bpGv s1e to d dglly to a
leader in the medical
affairs of Raleigh.
BOBBITT- WYNNE DRUG co.

1t has been proven to us be-
yond the possibility of a doubt
that a new medicine quickly
clears up the worst skin affec-
tons. It's work seems astonish-
ing, amazing, almost miraculous.
Ut is a specific formula which,
because of its discovery by DIR.
Decatur Dennis, is known as ID.
d. d. ~ It's actual record sounds
like a story of magic. But there
is no room for doubt about it
whatever; full proofs, indisput-
able in every respect, have been
submitted regarding hundreds of
cases among them the two cases
illustrated in this announcement.
The one case shown here of the
adult (Mr. Charles Jacobs, psor-
iasis' of many years standing)
was cured in 45 days. The other
case of the boy { Sammy Minkey)
was cured in three weeks. The
results are not only complete, but
permanent; in the case of Mr..
Jacobs, which was one of the
earliest cured after the discovery
of this medicament, it is now
nearly three years since the dis
ease was cleared out of the skin,
and no faint of it has appeared
since.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
Filth is not
the cause.

afflicted with skin diseases. At
PENDANTS in lighthouses and bar
bers are examples that soap and
water are no protection. When
ever the skin becomes weakened
or impaired, then these parasites
are likely at any time to attack,
and if conditions are just wrong
they will thrive and some form
Of skin disease will result. Al
most all forms of it will spread
by contact.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
Roosevelt Rolls Up in a Blanket.
(By the Associated Press.)

Oyster Bay, Aug. 9.-President Roose-
welt, accompanied by his sons, Arch and
Kermit, and their cousin, Philip, left
Sycamore Hill late yesterday afternoon
iii a boat. They rowed across to Cold
Springs Harbor and after skirting the
beach for several miles landed for the
night. They cooked their own supper and
then at nine o'clock rolled themselves
in their blankets. From that time until
five o'clock this morning the President
of the United States slept on the bare
ground, guarded only by his sleeping
boys. After a typical camp breakfast
which the President himself prepared,
the party returned to Sycamore Hill.
Itcing, blind, bleeding or protruding
piles. Your druggist will refund your
money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure
you. so Coats. tuesday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
How skin diseases start in most cases

Any blotch in the skin which
sticks stubbornly at all should be
attended to. However trifling it
may seem, if it fingers long ten
chances to one it is a parasitic
start, and at any time it may
cover vour face or BODY. or both.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12

DOUi DI DONII'
The most hy-
gi nj C a n d
clearly people
are frequently
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
NoRTHWARD.

NOLe-laJ Daily, except ouhuay,
(b) Eastern time.
Connections at Jacksonville and Tampa
for all Florida East Coast points, and
Cuba and Porto Rico. At New Orleans
for all points in Texas, Mexico and Cali
fornia.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
This is not merely a COM
mereiaI matter, it is a
matter OF humanity

to tell everybody with skin dis
ease about this medicament.
Among the many cases proven to
me of astonishingly quick and
complete cures, all of which seem
to have been permanent, many
we're photographed in such con-
dition that a reproduction in a
newspaper would be perhaps too
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
NOTICE.

NOTICE
Having sold out my picture and ART
store, and wishing to close up all nv
outstanding accounts, I request all par
ties owing accounts to call at Watsou's
Photograph Gallery and settle same. I
am Obliged to the public for sast nat
ronage for twenty years.
q. A. MATsON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
s1.EEp1NG CAR SERVICE.

Tickets on sale to all points. Pullman
berths reserved and reservations MADE on
outgoing steamers from Norfolk. Bag
gage checked from hotels and residences
without extra CHI, rye at
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12

IQlS SHOWS loss Oh S00,4to lToH last
year. However, there is now unlisted
about 100000 which is perfectly good,
and taxes on which will surely be paid.
The amount for 1901 does not include
unlisted valuations, either, but there are
more that ae good this year, 1T is
thought, so that it is likely that this
years showing will in the end be slight
ly better than last.
The above figures do not include rail-
road or corporation property either for
1901 Or 1902. The 1902 totals are not
official, but they have been carefully
gone over and are doubtless correct.
In the rapid adding up of the page
totals from the listers books Friday
evening, the total for one whole page
was omitted, causing big error in the
figures published yesterday morning. OF
course, those figures, as the ones this
morning, were not given out as official,
and the error was not made by any Of
the county officers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
TRAINS ARRIVE RALEIGH AS FOL-

From North
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-12
SeabOard Air Line
Railway.
CAPITAL CITY ROUTE"

Short line to principal cities of the
South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba,
Texas, California and Mexico, reaching
the capitals of six States.
In effect March 5, 1902.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28

utes later the cookee scattered the
brands OF the FIRE from before a sleep
ing camp.
Before daylight Injin Charley drifted
into the cap to md <norpe already
out With a curt nod the Indian seated
himself by the fire. and. producing a
square plug Of tobacco and a knife, be-
gan leisure1y to Ill his pipe. Finally
min Charley spoke in the red mans
clear-cut, initiative English, a pause
between each sentence.
Il find trail three men, said he
Both dam, three men. One man go
down river. Those men have cork
boot One man no have cork boot He
boss"
The Indian suddenly threw his chin
out his head back. half closed his eyes
in a cynical squint. As by fash
Dyer, the scaler, leered insolently from
behind the Indians stolid mask.
How do you know said Thorpe
For answer the Indian threw his
shoulders forward in Dyer's nervous
fashion.
"He make trail big by toe. light by
the heel. He make trail big on in
side
Charley arose and walked after
Dyer's springy fashion. Illustrating his
point in the soft wood ashes of the i'm
mediate freside.
Thorpe looked doubtful. 81 believe
you are right, Charley" said he But
it is mighty little to go on. You can't
be sure"
II sure" replied Charley.
He pulled strongly at the heel Of his
smoke, then arose, and without fare
we'll disa ppeared in the forest.
Then began the wonderful struggle
against circumstances which has be-
come a by-wOrd among rivermen every
where A forty-day drive had TO go
out in ten A freshet drive had to
float out thirty million feet of logs. It
was tremendous. Fourteen, sixteen,
sometimes eighteen hours a day, the
men of the driving crew worked ike
demons. Jams had no chance to form.
OF course, under the pressure, the lower
dam had gone out Nothing was 10 be
depended on but sheer logged grit Far
up-river Sadler & Smith had hung their
drive for the season, and so had re-
signed themselves 10 a definite but not
extraordinary loss. Thorpe had at
least a clear river.
Wallace Carpenter could not under
stand how human flesh and blood en-
dured- The men themselves had long
since reached the point of practical ex-
haustion, but were carried through by
the fire Of their leader. Work was
logged until he stOrmed into sight;
then it became frenZied. When he
looked at man from his cavernous,
burning eyes, that man jumped
Go be continued next Sunday-)