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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION DEPOT.

~. u = eSOFNk1T S't 1NS5OIfS'
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE Il ST. PAUL
Arrive. Depart.
Milwaukee. -. al 80 a. m. BIZ: a. m
Chicago, Cedar Rap,
Kansas City &
Southwest -. ;.b2: 80 a. m. d1:s5 a. m.
Kansas City and 10
No. %, east bound, lenves..... 6:55 a. m.
No. Ga, east bound, leaves. -. .10:45 a. M
No. 81, west bound, leaves. 6:45 a. m
No. 81, west bound, leaves. -. IL 80 a. M
These are freights leaving ottumwi
Junction
Daily. b Except Sunday. Excep,
Freight trains arrive at and depart from
Ottumwa junction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Few have any correct idea of the
magnitude and Importance Of the meat
inspection work Of the government ex-
perts. During the past year 37.000,000
animals were inspected either before
or after being slaughtered. OF 5,250,-
900 cattle inspected oRly one-fourth of
per cent were condemned, of $780,
600 sheep only one-tenth of per cent
and Of 24.250,000 hogs only one-third Of
per cent failed to pass inspection, a
really remarkable showing of the good
health of the stock of the country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

There are three things which may
be done with few hours work round
many farm home which would i'm
prove the appearance of things 100 per
cent-repairing the fence around the
dooryard, trimming the trees and cut
ting the weeds around the premises
and clearing up the old ragtag and
bobtail lot of broken machinery, old
posts, wire, boards and the like. These
decorations do not harmonic with a
good house.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

A good many farmers could do more
to improve their condition by visiting
some successful farmer in some other
locality and studying his methods than
they could in any other way. The man
things and not the man who can only
tell how they should be done. We
never yet visited progressive and sue
cessful farmer but we found out some
things which We're of value.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Considering the titanic power of the
stroke and it's great freauen-
cy during the summer months, the
wonder is that more damage is not
done.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

With all the food in sight and all the
pigs and cattle. it must be that before
many months the price of meats will
get down to figure where they will
cease to be u luxury.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Careful experiments made show that
pigs weighing about fifty pounds each,
about twenty-five to the acre, placed
in ain alfalfa pasture, will make a gain
of 100 pounds each during the grow
ing eason. This on alfalfa alone. If
given supplemental feed of grain,
the gain will, of course, be still better.
This figures up fine return for the
use of an acre of alfnlfa-2,500 pounds
of pork, worth, at the low figure of 81
per hundredweight. 500. Another good
thing is that hogs so fed are almost
always free from disease.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

California is coming to the front
with a new crop of growing impor-
tance-the soft shelled almond. This
year the crop amounts to 267 carloads,
or 2,67o tons. worth about IL cents per
pound. ig
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

1t is claimed that the russell apples
make the best viaesar-rot stronger.
but better favored
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Z WheE'a man can get his dairy herd
up to an average of $50 pounds of but
ter per head, he can afford to entirely
ignore the beef side Of the business of
stock raising. Such COWS should be
bred to secure as many heifer calves as
possible which will do as well or bet
ter than their dams. The male calf
should meet theological fate--be dis
posed Of as DE- "",ls.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

There is one comfort for the poor
man this winter, even if his coal is
likely to be high priced, and that is
that he will be able TO get all the good
potatoes he wants at 80 cents a bushel
OF less.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

The government experts are working
on an irrigation problem on the Salt
river, in Arizona, which includes the
building of dam and reservoir in a
canyon in the mountains and the i'm
pounding of body Of water twelve
miles long, hundred feet deep and
three miles wide, or sufficient water to
irrigate 100000 acres Of desert land.
Coupled with the use of the water will
be the utilization Of the immense wa
ter power thus created, which, in the
language of the expert in charge, will
be such that the power created by the
discharge of the water needed to fri
gate one acre of land will be sufficient
when transmitted by electricity to
pump water from deep wells to irri-
gate another acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

The most expert chicken picker in
the country is employed in poultry
packing house in Chicago. His record
is fifty chickens in SIN. Is. 1t is GER
tain that the feathers fly when he gets
to work
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

A binding Irvine lighter in weight
and Of superior tensile strength to the
Irvine in ordinary use has been made
this season. from fax fiber alone. When
we consider the enormous amount of
Irvine now consumed and the fact that
the raw material from which it is
made is all the product Of some for
eign country and imported and the
further fact that 100000 or 100000
tons of flax straw are as good as vast
ed each year in this country, the i'm
portance of this discovery and inven-
ton may be in some measure realized.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Central Iowa seems to be the center
of the atmospheric disturbances and
unusual rainfall Of the year 1902, the
rainfall being reported at three feet
and even more in localities, doing i'm
mense damage to one of the finest
crops ever raised in the state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23
Railroad Timetables
TRAINS LEAVING UNION DEPOT.
w. S. Parker. Ticket Agent,

TRAINS. LEAVING UNION DEPOT.
w. S. Parker, Ticket Agent.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c.. d. 4 @. II. h.
NJ Ss zstasf aa Peoria st Louis, 1le a m
l Dubuque l \ Quincy ........... .2d9 a. IN.
11ssab -I ncaI Ereicht G es9 a. m,
10b-Peoria, Dubuque & Quincy. 1901 p. m.
6a-Chlcago Limited 1880 p. IN.
4a-Chicago.5 st. Louis & Quincy 7:20 p. m.
sa-c chSe Peoria ( Rockford ss ~ ?, m
5a.omaha, Council Bluffs and
=. Nebraska sI ~. ............ dlo a. m.
15a--Fast mail .............. 2:49-a m.
9lb-I4ocal Freight .......... $50 a. m.
3a-Omaha, Kansas City, Den
Yer, Hot Springs. Deadwooa,
0peen, Portland u Cali
7aNFast mail ... ...:... So s5s a. M
13a-Limited ...... .......... BPS p. IN.
liac cdanaI; n f{fE; St Joe and oa5 ) -
1a-Denver Il Omaha e.. ). II 80 p. IN.
Arrive.
9b-Peoria to Ottnmwa..... 1 30 p, m.
a, Daily; b, except Sunday. Nos. z, 8, II
and "a do not carry passengers.
CHICAGO, FIT. MADISON & DIES MoINE
FIT. Madison accomo. 500 p. IN T:15 q. M
Trains run daily except Sunday.
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND u PACIFIC.
Going East. ncpard
No. GOODIES Moines to Keokuk. 1910 a. p.
Freight ottumwa to Eldon $40 B. M
Going West.
SS1ksoRnk - to bes @oiees Ss M
233-Hrt. Eldon to Des Moines Sis II. - 4
2 2331 daily Eldon to Monroe sos p. -
daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

Rural mail routes will compel the
making Of better highways. The gov
iernmelt has not sentimental feelings
on this subject and simply gives the
alternative Of fixinglth roads or losing
the service
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

We have rid a large lawn of the
pesky squirreltail grass by persistent
moving during its seeding period and
burning up the cuttings. If you keep
this pest from going to seed, it will
disappear. SO l,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

The general government has finally
abandoned further efforts at the i'm
proyement Of navigation on the Mis-
souri, river. The railways have beaten
the boats and captured nearly all the
freight which was at one time carried
on the river.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

The freight car with ball bearings,
something we have often wondered
did not come to the front, is out at
last and is pronounced success and
If generally adopted is certain to still
further reduce the cost of freight trans
portation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

4 A heaping busheN basket Of dead
sparrows was gathered up in one sec
tion of small interior western town
after one Of the heavy storms of Au-
gust. Hail plays the mischief with
these birds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

The old poky way Of farming with
oxen and doing most of the farm work
by hand in France is at last giving
way to improved methods where the
horse supplants the OK and the modern
machine the hand labor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

club included the entire commissioned
list of the garrison-cavalry, artillery
and staff. Cat" Of course was presi-
dent, but Mrs. Cat" had her objections
to his giving much time to social enjoy
ment within its walls, and the doughty
veteran who had led dozen dashing
charges during the great war and who
bore the scars of more than one sharp
scrimmage with the redskins on the
| frontier was no match for his better
half in domestic encounter. Mrs. "Cat"
had convictions, one Of them being that
q married man should eat and drink
only in the presence and company Of
the partner Of his joys and woes. This
insured his getting only what was good
for him. Cat as consequence saw
very little Of the club. Its vice presi-
deHt, an easy going old soul, exercised
no control, he protesting to believe that
such powers We're vested only in the
chief. Melville but rarely set foot with
In its doors. When he did, however, it
was marvellous to note the effect. AL
tercation ceased, argument tempered,
| voices toned down and orders for
drinks diminished to next to nothing.
In its earlier stages the club had been
4 likened by witty and obseryant wo-
man to the Roaring Camp immortalized
ay Bret Harte, and occupants Of quar-
9r y contiguous to or within hail of its
IS were loud and frequent in their
hints. Roaring Camp" was still
anne by which the many garrison
j. $, mostly women, referred to it, and
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

4 The byproducts of the Chicago pack.
ing houses are worth $30,000,o00 per
year and are the sources of large prof
its connected with the business. Thir-
ty years ago most Of these byproducts
were wasted.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

If in a fit of public spirit you buy
wide tired wagon, your neighbors will
quite likely commend youi, public spirit
and keep right on using their old mar
row tired outfits, letting you smooth
the highways for them
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

ing dark gray glasses. A close black
toque rested on her fair hair and a
black veil swept loosely about her face.
The young woman seated herself at
one side of the room and the sister
assured her in a sweet, even voice,
that she would return in an hour
Then the sister went out softly and
closed the door.
The Englishman, after his first
glance at the two women, had turned
to the window and now as he stepped
back to seat himself he looked toward
the woman who was just throwing up
her black veil
Her face was partly turned from
him, but the beauty of her chin and
cheek turning away from him arrest
ed his attention and with a start that
was almost a jump. he noticed lit
tie mole marked clearly upon the pink
lobe of the ear and white thread of
a scar trailing it's way over the bloom
of the averted cheek
He had drawn in his breath with a
gasp when he saw the marks and the
girl turned sharply and looked at him.
A mantling flush passed swiftly over
her face as their eyes met, and the
man felt an equal confusion, yet both
looked steadily at one another as it
fascinated.
Then the man went straight to her.
and bending his shoulder, said, very
gently:
Il was in the train that day, you
remember. Whatever your secret
may be have no fear of
me. would quicker take my
own life than mention that
ever saw you. See," he added and
pulled from his inner pocket the little
handkerchief with its tell-tale l.. K.
Il asked the detective for it long aft
erwards."
The girl shrank back little, and
then changing suddenly as if from
within, she snatched her gray glasses
with wrench and looked up at him
bravely, with the sweetest eyes in the
world.
If l tell you will you believe me?
and will you be my friend?" she asked
eagerly.
The man sat down beside her and
said in voice that was filed. with
sort of awe and reVerence:
Il will believe everything that you
may say, and will give my whole life
to you If it be needed"
Il am sure 1 can trust you." she
said simply. II felt it that day on the
train" and she looked into his eyes
steadily.
After a little pause. she went on in a
low voice: THE murder was not COM
mitted by me-" She drew her lips in
at one side and bit it white against
her teeth as if the story hurt her in
the telling.
He was my husband. We had mar
ried only a few hours and the other
man mentioned in the account was NV
brother, who died the next day after
the tragedy, of apoplexy, in a New
York hotel.
I'VE had just arrived at the little
summer resort among the hills and be-
fore going to the hotel to register we
went up to the little pavilion and sat
down enjoying the beauty of the place
and talking over our plans / had nv
little revolver with me and had been
showing it to my husband and brother
and trying to convince them that was
good shot, which I failed to do and
so laid it on the ledge of the seat where
my husband was sitting
My brother was not to remain with
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

armed with great bellying ~b0&k3ea, Of
pineapple rum, to fish for market, but
they were devoting far more time to
the TASKS than to the fish lines. They
were anchored right on the edge of
the reef where it descended into the
depths: Now and then they would pull
up a gay fish-green, yellow, violet,
blue, scarlet--f1sh of a dozen colors
far more snowy than any rainbow that
ever was-fish of one color, some like
flames, some like the sky overhead,
some. like the sky at sunset.
Gradually the pineapple rum took
effect, and the three negroes began to
doze. One happened to awaken for
moment, took hold of his line and
tugged. He could not move it. After
working laZily for a moment or two
he decided that the hook was fast TO
coral on the bottom, and he settled
to another doze, in the hope that it
would work loose while he slept. But
he awoke to find the hook still fast.
Then he took the lead-jack. The
lead-jack is a hinged ring of lead, very
heavy, that the reef fishermen put
over their lines and send down to
the bottom to free their hooks
when they foul on submarine
distractions. The lead-jack plung-
ed down swiftly, but it did not
clear the nook. linen the three
fishermen grasped the stout line and
began to sway on it to break it.
The Fight.
To their amazement, it suddenly be-
gan to give, not easily, but with tre-
mendous swirlings and surgings deep
below. Pull as they would with all
their might, something in the water
was pulling harder than their six arms
could. Again and again the unseen
quarry overcame their efforts and shot
toward the bottom again.
Suddenly the thing ceased pulling and
came upward and toward the boat with
tremendous speed. And then it's head
shot above the surface, and with wide
open jaws it seemed to be heading
straight for the three men. One
shrieked, 1.-THE Debbil! The Debbil!"
and crawled to the extreme bow of the
boat, where he lay covering. The man
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20
THE TRAGEDY OF A TRAIN.
BY MARIE JOUREAU.

She came into the train and seated
herself in front of the man in the Nor
folk jacket.
The man was an Englishman Of
about thirty-seven. He had the British
cast all over and the set of his shout
aers was superb.
He was unfolding his paper to read
when the girl came in, and the reason
that he was tempted to look at her
was that an exquisitely delicate odor of
violets was waited across his senses
as she passed. He looked at her very
served every detail of her and her
attire. He noted the smallness of her
ear, turned slightly toward him, and
the delicate pink of it with a brown
mole implanted so bewitchingly on the
soft lobe; and later he discovered
slender white scar, like thread, that
marked its way across her rose-bloom
cheek and only served to accentuate
the beauty of it.
She sat as far away from the win
dow as possible, quite over against the
aisle, and watched the door with alert
eyes. The man fancied that she was
watching Tor some one TO JOIN her, out
the train started and she was still
alone.
She no longer watched the door, but
took out a folded newspaper and
spread it to read. Then she turned de-
liberately around and for a moment
gazed full and fair into the eyes of the
enchanted Englishman behind her, who
for a moment, felt as if something
were choking him, he was so surprised
by that fine, frank gaze, and when she
turned away he felt that never as long
as he lived could he ever forget those
grave, grave eyes, that seemed to look
to the very bottom of his soul and
made him feel ashamed that it was no
whittier for her sight.
The man still watched her when she
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

us at the hotel, where we ourselves in
tended to stop but a day or two, just
to rest and make our plans for the
future. l am an orphan and where we
went and where we stayed were of
very little moment to me.
I'VE had been sitting there but few
moments when a piece of bark fell
from the roof of the little pavilion and
struck upon my revolver. which was
cooked, and the shock discharged it fun
into the back of my husband. He reel
ed and fell forward with a cry of pain.
My brother and l ran to him and raised
his head, but he gave me one look of
agony and died.
THE shock to me was more terrible
than 1 can express. 1t seemed to stun
me and when my brother said with a
look of horror on his face: Lillian, you
must take the next train for New York
and leave all this to me- I obeyed
without a question; I was so dazed
that my own mind seemed to have no
sense of action and I depended entirely
on my brothers directions
II did not know, however, that my
brother lost his head and fled, leaving
the body of my husband where it had
fallen, until I saw the awful first ac-
counts in the New York papers as l
was going to the station to take the
train from New York to my home in
a western city. When the detectives
came on board the train l was terri
fled for l seemed to feel the guilt of a
murderer after the papers accused me
of it and my only instinct seemed to
be to flee.
II ran from the car in which l was
riding at the time into the toilet room
of the smoker ahead, and there put on
my brothers long linen travelling coat,
which l had had in my bag ever since
that fatal day. also had a soft crush
hat of his and in these things with
my skirts tucked up l passed as a
man, stepping down frRn the car with
other men, who had not yet learned
the reason for tagging the train, and
passing through the station to a train
that was at that moment drawing out
for New York
Upon my arrival in New York. I
went directly to the sisters in a con-
vent that had visited and have been
there ever since. They do not know my
story, for they rarely see the papers
and although they know have Sc
cret and that 7 have suffered some
great sorrow they have never pressed
me TO tell anything of myself. They
fee! that when the time comes and
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

credibly misshapen than even itWhere
it was caught there is high ledge of
coral and limestone, rising sheer out
of chasm 1920 feet deep. No doubt
the Channonmureana writhed it's way
upward to the top of the ledge mora
by accident than design, for rarely do
the fish that swim two hundred faith.
ons deep rise near to the surface vol
unfairly. Indeed, few of the deep sea
dwellers can do SO and live. For their
air bladders are adapted by nature to
Withstand the enormous pressures of
water where they dwell, and whensthey
ascend near the surface the effect OF
the decreased pressure on them is Just
as the effect of ascending to high aIti-
tudes in a balloon is on man. Blood
bursts forth from ears and nose and
1lnally the eyes. Were it possible to
ascend still higher, the aeronaut would
burst. Just so is it with the fish Those
that are seized by deep sea travis and
dredges always come to the surface
split and torn OPEN with their ewes
actually blown out of their heads and
their entrailS protruding. The more
delicate forms are generally ruined for
all purposes except those of mere sci
entific Identification.
However, for some unknown reason.
perhaps driven from its black caverns
ny scarcity OF 1000, this uncanny
monster did find its way upward until
it lay in what was shallow water in.
deeds shallow. enough to make its tiny
pin-points of eyes blink, dazzled by the
light that filtered down through the
wonderfully clear, light blue water.
for the depth over the shelf of rock
where the Channomuraena found it
self was only sixty-six feet And
there, winding in and out among
strange things. itself the strangest of
all, driving the butterfly fish and the
bride fish and the angel fish and par
rot fish, in all their gorgeous reef-liv-
cries, before it in terror, it found a
baited hook and snapped at it with
that mighty gaping mouth.
floating above it lay a fishing boat,
with a deep well in it's hull, SO chat
the captured fish might be kept alive
Three negro fishermen lolled in the
craft. They had sailed out to this spot,
seven miles northeast of Bermuda,