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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-14

league team celebrated Its Homecoming by
beating Cleveland handily.
Score Il II r
Baltimore .,.. ...32l COS OKLA Is /
Cleveland 800. co. UOl UOl- IL 3
Howell and Robinson; Smith, Hess and
Wood.
Dineen today.
Score Ii n
Boston ..... .... .OB2 100 oOx-- y . y
Chicago ...... ..... 900 90 OOu-. 3
Dineen and Crger Garvin, Callahan ana
sullivan.
Washington, August list. Louis was
more successful than the home club in
punching hits today.
Score IA h
Washington .... -. 900 OlO al o IL =
St Louis ......... 100 100 80 IL q
Carrlck ard Clark; Powell and Sugden.
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Southern League.

Little Rock August 13.-Little Rock took
both games of double header this after.
noon, winning both in the ninth inning,
with no one out. Brcitensten's error, fol.
lowed by Gilbert's three Dagger. gave the
winning run in the first game. Singles by
Gilbert Crozler, Lynch and Mccain IN
succession scored two runs in the ninth
inning Of the last game anu won for Little
Rock St VraIn did gate duty and occu-
pied seat on the Memphis bench during
the games. 80
!tie Rock - same same 900 100 oil ! q
memphis ..,...",,. .O10 O01 90 8 .
sni.
Lite Rock ..l. salns 600 oi2- - =
Memphis .........., .OO1 POI O2O- 9 ~ 4
Guese and Lynch; Mcintyre ana Arm.
strong,
Nashville, August 13-with anything Ike
proper support behind him, Smiths pitch ng
would have Won today's game for Birmlug
ham. He struck out eight men and held
the locals down TO five hits, at least two
OF which were questionable Ragg d field
Ing, however, told against bin. The cat
receipts were attached by Manager Frank
of the Memphis team Attendance 500.
Score n II ~
Nashville .....,... O12 OO1 cox ) =
| birmingham ....... coo POO COL S 4
Sanders and Fisher; Smith and Brown.
Atlanta, August 1S.-WilSon Of Atlanta
pitched a beautiful game :cday, striking
out eight men. Chattanooga played good
lall but lost. Attendance 20o0.
Score K II E
Atlanta ,........... 600 700 2Ox- . Is 3
Chattanooga .....,. POI $50 600 6 10 /
Wilson and Hurlburt Ely and Durett.
Shreveport, August 10, The Pellc Ms
could not hit Fisher. Doyle was hit at the
right time, Errors assisted Shreveport u
a victory.
Score Il II +
New Orleans ..,... oil 900 600 . .
| Shreveport .....,.. 900 81 COX . 10 .
Doyle, Dannehower aud Abbott; Fisher
and Mcclure.
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I ln@ p .eS; HSnan loo, Flop 100 Inv,s,r.
NInc'siS,ssab BOOB lnt, Mss Guido III.
ios Fson loS, Agnes Mack los. Two f lI
a. LARK los r Sa 10. ,iold Cockade 10.
c Ca, vsh id, ilc. zulma 10. Lsdy
. seven furlongs. sellinr-Doe s,tr n, -,
Poly B sS Sisgst Fl 20 Louis Wagner los,
Eya's Darling as, GieEssen' nj ioi nee s Ivy
A4u lol, Federalisi 1903. ''A" Ao''
ps le ana q sixteenth. Busch hana,c.n-
Beana lOI. Peaceful ii2. Kittr r TppnSaes ,p.
aaHe i i uSrn Myr ioI Colonel Bailuntyne 100
Coat lQ3, Tlckfnl iO3, lennen io ~ gam Sa,h
ton ,ef o. NO. Prosper Logoi 0S. Star Cot.
Nj, six furlongs selling-croix nor "a N,sv
The The Mormon %g Io4 u pod!s $. 9S Ampere 1T
MT MT 100 Miss Golightiy los. InStsr % I,,
Rain 1ifne ~ ~ Father wentker los, Jack
Nile and seventy ynrds-Moaero,or q.
q nq ssS Ta,,o los Audiphonc lo5, Lcaroyd
1c3. Annie 0ldneld 107 % "fe!lorse
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Cawthons at Beaumont Sunday.

The cnwthons have arranged q game with
Beaumont for Sunday IN the latter city.
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The games with Nacogdoches fell through
after being announced,
Edmondson of the Cawthons has signed
with Donaldsonville, La, for two months
at salary of S75 and expenses
Eddie Mcdonald OF the Beaumont team is
here for few days.
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The Harlem Track.


chiceEo. August l3.--one a tbe h,r,os,
eoups OF the local racing season came out
IN the third race at Harlem today when
erisaaier romped home eight lengths In
lfoht OF his field, after being lacked from
Q uown to TO l at post time nromi.
nsi ~, morse owner is said to have cleaned up
1SV.'Nu on the race here and ia Nav Sort
Inc Proviso stakes the fentur,, Of Tho Az
Wns Won by Sidney {. Love. tho fnyoritc
oeMlhE to q number OF scratche. m Tho
nIth race the event was declared on The
irSt race with fifteen starters. was spiif
IN Two ana run as the first and second
holding. ueep ana
I'VE fur!oaes Hattie Walker. Versiaer
chicago Girl Time 1903 3.5.
rive furlongs-Adios, Apple Sweet Lady
Churchill. Time LOG N'i' H'uS
SIX fnrongs- Brlgndlcr Emma r.. Fair.
bury. Time 1889
snort course, steeplechase-He!en Paxton.
oid FOX. Bristol. Time a:41.
rive and half furlongs. the Proyiso
Time 1:12. W. my
Mile and 100 yards-Guy H.. Pirates
queen. Silurian Time 1853 3-5.
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National League,

Brooklyn, August 13.-Brooklyn defeated
Chicago again today. Captain Lowe of the
Chicago team was ordered off the field for
protesting n decision.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
SYNOPSIS.


PART I.-Three rogues. Eayle, Kitwater
and Codd, meet at Singapore Latter two
have learned of existence of hidden treas
ure at Sengkor-Wat-old Burmese ruin
near Chinese border. Hayle only half be-
lteves account, but nevertheless agrees to
join In search.
PART u.-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 dlScov-
cred great quantities of bar gold and uncut
rubies and sapphires. Hayle fills both
hands with gems and the men make their
way outside again. On reaching camp they
horribly mutilated, Chinese fashion. Dur
Ing the night Hayle secures treasure and
steals away into the jungle.
PART III-Utterly exhausted and I'M
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
officer at Nampoung, while out on hunt
comes across Kitwater and CodG. Kitwa-
ter explains they were traders who had
fallen into hands of Chinese who had put
out his own eyes and pulled out Codd' s
. tongue. After recovering somewhat from
effects of exposure and tortures they set
off in pursuit of Hayle.
CHAPTER I.-George Fairfax relates
how he became a detective in Australia
and finally came to open up an office in
London
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HALE TIE LIVING.

When man is so situated that he
can keep good COW, two or three PIGS
fifty hens and have a small fruit and
vegetable garden, he has settled the
question of one-half of the living Of
himself and family. When the income
of the average wage Garner is drawn
upon to provide milk, butter, eggs
meat fruit and vegetables, it is pretty,
well riddled. It will Of course take
time and care to secure these aids to-
living. but the wife will do much I'M
this line, the children not little, and
good many hours during the year cam
be given by the head of the house
which more than likely he may have
spent in loafing before. We know Of,
men who have all the milk and butter,
they needSin their families and besides
sell enough milk during the year to:
pay for the pasturage and food of the
one COW kept. (,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
WHEN TO CUT CORN.

There is quite variation of opinion
as to when is just the right time to cut
up corn. We have always regarded
that stage of maturity of the corn
when the majority Of the husks were
well turned while the leaves and stalk
were still green as the best time, but
we have come across many men of late
who say that the stock will eat the
stalks up cleaner if the corn is cut at a
later period of development, when there
are many colored leaves as well as
husks. This later cutting would GER
tainly be to the advantage Of the ear
and insure better developed grain and
smaller per cent of shrinkage. With
much corn to care for, as with a crop
Of clover for hay, not all the corn can
be cut at exactly the right time.
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circumstance quite distinctly. I had
left the court and was proceeding down
the Old Bailey in the direction of
Ludgate Hill, when heard my name
pronounced.
| Turning round I discovered to my
astonishment the two men l had seen
in the court, and who had seemed to
| take such an interest in the case. The
smaller was guiding his friend along
ity that was plainly the outcome of a
long practice. When l stopped, they
| stopped also, and the blind man ad-
dressed me. His voice was deep, and
had note of pathos in it impossible
to describe. 1t may have been that
I was little sad that afternoon, for
both the men who had been condemned
to penal servitude had wives and
children, to whose pitiful condition
the learned judge had referred when
passing sentence.
"You are Mr. Fairfax, are you not ?"
inquired the taller of the men.
THAT is my name" I admitted.
"What can I do for your"
eff we could persuade you to vouch-
safe US an hour of your valuable time
we should be more grateful than we
could say" the man replied. "We have
an important piece of business which
it might possibly be to your adyanta. -
to take up. At any rate, it wor1d 5s
worthy of your consider. lion
|
..But why have you not come to me
before?" l inquired. You have seen
me in court every day. Why do you
| wait until the case is at an end?"
Because we wanted to be quite sure
of you" he answered. "Our case is so
large and of such vital importance to
| us, that we did not desire to run any
! risk of losing you. We thought we
| would wait and familiarize. ourselves
with all that you have done in this
affair before coming to you. Now we
are satisfied that we could not place
our case in better hands, and what we
are anxious to do is to induce you to
interest yourself in it and take it up"
You pay me very high compli-
ment," / said, "but | cannot give YOU
a decision at once. l must hear what
it is that you want me to do and have
time to think it over, before can an
swer you. That is my invaria BILE rule,
and never depart from it. Do you
| know my Officer"
= "We know it perfectly" returned the
blind man. ut would be strange if we
did not, seeing that we have stood out
side it repeatedly, trying to summon
up courage to enter. Would-it be pos
sible for you to grant us an interview
to-night?"
ST fear not" ] said ST am tired,
and stand in need of rest. If you care
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
A LESSON IN SIGNING PAPERS.

A most brazen attempt to swindlei
some fifty farmers out of the sum OF
$4,000 was recently made in west
ern state. A smooth tongued guy made
the rounds of the country and repre-
scnted that he was candidate for a
certain county Office, wanting the
names Of the farmers to his petition to.
become such candidate. He obtained,
strange as it may seem, fifty good
names. He, then cut the petition into
three parts and attached to the head Of
each regular promissory note form
and then left for the wicked city of
Chicago. The notes were sent on for
payment, and then there was blood on.
the moon. While 1t is not likely that
the signers will have to pay these
notes, they are still Inundated at hav-
ing been SO easily duped and will be at
quite little expense in protecting
themselves. Now, why sign any paper
for any stranger? Better knock him
down when asked and pay a five dollar
fine for the privilege.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
CLEAN HIP

When the farm was worth only SIS
per acre. and unstable at that, and;
you were nursing good, healthy mort
gage, there might have been some pos
sible excuse in your mind for letting
the yards, garden and buildings re-
lapse into the ramshackle style, though
even then we do not believe that il
ever paid so to do; but, now taat the
mortgage is paid, money in the bank
and three fellows after the place at
$50 per acre, for Moses sake fix the
old place up and make it look as
though somebody lived there. Get an
AK and saw and trim up the trees,
make a big bonfire and burn up ALI
that old truck, tear the old fences down
and rebuild them on straight lines, buy
some paint and paint the house and
outbuildings, move that hog lot from
the front to the rear of the premises,
name your farm and have such name
painted upon the gable end of the barn
or upon Il signboard placed over the
gateway to the home yard, get piece
of green lawn between your house and
the road, and if you have got lot Of
old wagons, buggies or wornout ma
chinery get them out of the front yard
and just clean up generally. You can
do it all in few days. you and the
! boys, and neither you nor your neigh
bors will know the place when you get
through. A fifteen thousand dollar
farm ought at least to be given clean
shirt and fifty cent necktie.
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Ny Straf1gest Case
BY GUY BOOTHBY.
Author OF DR.. NIKOLA," 1.-THE BEAUTIFUL. WHITE DEVIL,
"PHAROS THE EGYPTIAN" Etc.
Copyrighted, 1901, by Ward. Lock q: Col

BY GUY BOOTHBY.

creasing in interest. Day after dav
and, when the time came for me to
take my place in the witness-box and
describe the manner in which I had
led up to and effected the capture of
the offenders, the excitement rose to
! fever heat. l can see the whole scene
now as If it had occurred but yester-
day; the learned judge upon the bench,
the jury in their box, the rows of coun-
sells, and the benches full of inter-
ested spectators. l gave my evidence
and was examined by the counseis for
the prosecution and for the defense.
l described how l had traced the men
from England to their hiding place
abroad, and the various attempts that
had been made to prevent their extra
dltlon, and had just referred to GER
tain statement one of the prisoners
had made to me soon after his arrest
when an interruption caused me to
look behind at the rows of spectators.
AT the further end of the bench, near
est me, were two men; one was evil
IDENTIFY tall, the other very short The
taller was the possessor of silvery
white hair and long and venerable
beard. He was handsome-looking
man of about 40, and my first glance
at him told me that he was blind. AS
I have said, his companion was much
smaller man, with a smooth, almost
boyish face, a pair of twinkling eyes,
but a mouth rather hard set. Both
were evidently following the case close
ly, and when on the next day saw that
they were in the same place took an
even greater interest in them than be-
fore. 1t was not, however, until the trial
had finished and the pair of misera BILE
men had been sent to penal servitude
for lengthy term of years, that I
made the acquaintance of the men I
have just described. 1 remember the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
GOATS AND BRUSH.

Go and buy rough. brushy cheap
piece of land, young man. 1t can be
found in abundance in the central por-
lions of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Then buy some Angora goats, about
three to the acre, or even one, for they
will soon increase in number, and then
let them loose on your land and see
them reconstruct that land. These
beasts are high jumpers and will climb
the sharp edge Of 2 by 4 scantling
set up against the fence, and SO must
be we'll fenced in. Put in your time
taking out the timber over three inches
through, and by the time you have
your part done the goats will have the
rest of it ready for the plow. 1t will
take about five years to make fine
farm out of such an unpromising tract.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
THE swAMps REcLA1uED.

What were the waterlogged soils of
the prairie west in the sixties? Soils
which would then starve out any man
who attempted to cultivate them are
now the richest and best lands to be
found in all that country. Impaction
Of the spongy surface by continuous
pasturing, surface drainage by way Of
the cultivated field, the working Of the
highways and the building of the rail-
ways and by cooperative drainage eff
forts in the wetter sections have COM
pletely reclaimed these lands and made
Of them soils as productive as the val
ley Of the Nile.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
p1ErY AND pILFER1yG.

In the prairie regions of the west the
limited area Of timber land along the
rivers and creeks was counted by the
early settlers as very desirable proper
ty. Oftentimes spectators appropri-
ated these tracts, and then the specu,
lators' forty became anything but a
means of grace to that community
We know well Of one locality where il
was utterly impossible for the parsons
Of any denomination to maintain q
church or even get up revival of re-
ligion until the last stick of timber on
these SPECTATORS lands had been
stolen. After this timber was all dis
posed Of times changed, church was
built, and today it is law abiding and
God fearing community.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
TIE HEAVIEST BURDEN OF ALL.

The heaviest load of all for a man
to carry is not debt, poor crops or even
Ill health; it is to raise nice boy and
have him go to the dogs Il become a
worthless, ornery, lazy, dishonest
whelp. This is an ever present and
irremediable trouble : the disappoint-
ment, the disgrace of the thing, the
financial loss connected with it and,
worse than all, the ugly specter never
absent that the man himself was large
ly responsible for the boys failure and
ruin; too much licking, too much hard
work, a poor example, no friendship
between father and son-all seen when
it was everlastingly too late. This
man deserves sympathy. If your boys
are yet small. heed the warning, and
not only feed and clothe them, but be
their best friend and set, them a good
example every day. of your life. Then
the heaviest burden which can be
placed upon the back of man shall
not be yours to carry. ss.s,.,,fss. ,,,ss,,,.ss.a
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THE PROSPECT AHEAD.

We are asked about prices for farm
products for the coming year: Will
present values continue? Will the
change come with a new crop? Will
farm land still continue to advance In
price? Nobody knows just what Will
be the outcome. We can only guess, |
just as any one else may do. These[
facts are worth considering: The binsI
and cribs of the whole country will be-
all cleaned out by the time anotherj
crop is harvested-cleaned up more
closely than they have been for many
year. This fact will have its effect
upon the price of the new crop, no
matter how good it may be. Then
again, the country is in very pros
porous condition. Every man is at
work at big wages. This means a.
large consunptive ability and conse-
quent demand. Then the number of
such consumers and their ability toI
buy are increasing much faster than thel
productive power of the farms. These
facts, while not indicating mainte-I
nance of the present high price level,
still do presage prices for all farm COM
modities which will be highly remuner-i
alive to the farmer, and SO long asi
such conditions continue just so long
will farm lands be apt to steadily in
crease in value. From our point OF
view no year ever opened with more
promising prospects for the man on
the farm than this year of our Lord
1902.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
FLAX AS LAND RENoyAroR

Now here is q new use for fax
crop as land renovator. A man who
had field on the top of hill, where
the soil was an almost pure yellow
clay and SO impoverished that it would
grow neither small grain, corn nor grass,
as last resort sowed the land to fax.
To his great surprise, it made good
crop and, more, SO changed the nature
Of the soil that he was able to get good
crops Of both oats and barley for the
two succeeding crops. We should like
to have this rather curious fact ex-
planned, as it is the first time we have
ever heard of fax being Of any value
as the renovator of poor soils.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
THE BREATH OF THE PINES.

The grove Of pines on the farm has
a twofold mission it stands as the
best windbreak to be had, sturdy, re-
sistive; then there are it's odorous,
tonic, healing breath and the diapason
of the strong south wind as it roars
through the massive tops of the trees
All animal and bird life instinctiyely
seeks it for shelter, the crows come to
it to roost, the mourning dove to build
its nest, and the quail finds a snug shell
ter under the dropping branches as the
snow Sits down upon the grove in the
winter.
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CRAZY MEN AND POTATOES.

At a western insane hospital 1850
acres We're planted to potatoes last
year. The potato crop was almost al
total failure in the same locality be-
cause of the drought and excessive
heat. This asylum crop averaged $50
bushels per acre. Why? Well, $50 of
the inmates We're given hoes and kept
at work in that potato field all through
the dry spell; they were told that they
would have no potatoes to eat this
winter unless they hoed the crop well.
and never before did field receive
such a thorough cultivation. Now
please do not draw the inference that
IN order to raise potatoes in dry sea-
son you have got to have lot of crazy,
men to hoe them, for the same results
may be obtained by horse cultivation.
The whole secret lies in the constant.
stirring of the ground during the
drought.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

A very sensible bill has been pre-
scented to the Iowa legislature provid-
ing for the reduction of the width of
public highways from four to three
rods. Applied to the entire state, this
bill, If made operative as law, will re-
lease an immense amount Of the best
farm land in the world, will limit the
weed nuisance along the highway ana
in no manner interfere with the full use
of the roads by the travelling public. 1t
should become law without any oppo,
sitiOn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06
REFRIGERATION OF SOD GROUND.

In blowing the sod of meadow or
pasture for a corn crop we believe it
is every way better to plow deep and
turn the sod SO that it will lie smooth
and fat than to plow shallower and
kink the turf up. Turned flat, the field
can be far more easily disked and har-
rowed into a perfect seed bed for the
corn. Few men will put the work on
the kinked sodfield to get it in the
proper condition while the chunks CT
sod not disintegrated remain TO inter-
fere with good work both by the plant
er and the cultiyator. Then if the field
is ever to be deeply plowed the time
to do it is when the sod is turned over.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

In attending many farm institutes
and hearing the poultry question dis
cussed it develops that the income
from the poultry yard is almost invari-
ably assigned to or appropriated by
the woman on the farm, as it rightly
should be. Where the woman thinks
good deal of her husband, as in most
cases, it also appears that most of the
money so obtained is used either di-
rectly or indirectly for his benefit.
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Where the milk COW is out getting her
living in the stalktield and the hen is
roosting in the cottonwood tree by the
barn. there the dairy and poultry bust
ness doesn't pay, and the mortgage on
the place is quite likely to be sized up
by the amount the owner can borrow
on his land.
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An old friend of ours who was
western pioneer was telling us recently
what a time he used to have when
breaking up the prairies in an early
day. He was very poor and could not
afford to wear shoes, and as the I'M
plowed strip of prairie grew narrower
and narrower the grass would seem to
be fairly alive with rattlesnakes, and
then it was lively times for the bare
footed boy.