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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13
Boy Soldier. In South America.

In Venezuela, Colombia and other
South American countries it is no I'M
common thing to see boys Of ten or
twelve years Of age or even younger
carrying rifles and marching to battle
with the armies which fight In the civil
wars OF those lands These boy SOL
diers are usually of Indian blood, and
they fight quite as well as the Oldest
veteran.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

1t is always better to take day off
and go fishing with your boys than it is
to keep them at home and give them a
dollar to hoe out the potato patch.
They will remember that day in the
woods fishing as long as they live.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The day is past in the west when a
man with three horse outfit will un-
dertake to work 200 acre farm, and
it is good thing for the farm and
the man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

Mrs. Secondtime peevishly)-M first
husband used to let me have my own
way in everything.
Mr.. s.-And what were the conse-
quences?
Mrs. She diaI
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The feeding value Of the fodder on
forty acres of corn where clover and
timothy hay is worth So per ton is not
less than $500 where the corn is cut at
the proper time and cared for. If the
corn was put in the silo its value would
be still greater.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

We find that mourning doves bring
off three or four broods in season. So
late in the season as Sept. Is this year
we found nest Of these birds contain
ing two callow young.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

A good many men are now Of the
opinion that it is better to have $1,000
in the local bank drawing per cent
than to have the money tied up in
some doubtful mining or land PROPOSE
ton, and it has cost them something to
get to thinking this way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

Weeds not only hurt the farm which
grows them. but they hurt the sale of
the property. We know Of case
where this years crop Of weeds grown
around farm homestead cost the
owner not less than $3.50 and came
near spelling the sale of his place.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13
HE won OUT.

1t was a grasshopper year in tho
northwest. He was trying to hold on
to his farm in spite of discouraged
ments which We're wen nigh overS
wheiming. His house was sod shack
his barn a few poles and a pile 81
straw, his grain and corn fields and hiS
garden stripped clean by the grasshop3
per scourge. He was ragged and un3
kempt, and his poor wife and littld
ones, his>team and entire outfit, seern1
ed paralyzed with poverty. He had
nothing to offer us but some cold johnJ
nycake and cup of cold water wheH
we sought to obtain some refreshments
at his place. But with it all he was
gritty and said that he was going I'd
stick 1t out somehow. This was twenty
five years ago. Last year we were at
his place agein. There was nice largo
and comfortable farm home, big red
barn, wealth of cereal crops, focka
and herds, the grasshopper claim had
become a model western farm worth
SIS per acre and the grit and couraga
of the pioneer were at last splendidlH
rewarded. n
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13
Excessive rains nSTe greatly dam
aged and lessened the crops of Great
Britain this year.

It will pay the man on the farm as
never before to study how he can best
make horse and a machine do the
work of a man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The more limited a mans credit is
the more carefully should he protect it.
Credit is like an insurance policy-a
good thing to have even if one never
realizes on it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

SIXTY AND NOT WORTH A DOLLAR.
There is something wrong where al
man finds himself sixty years old and
not worth dollar in the world. 1t
wis never intended that this should be-.
There is no good reason why it eveE
should be save in the few cases where
some extraordinary calamity overtakes
man and wipes out the savings of d
lifetime. Still, there are lots of men Id
this fix, all too many. You know them.
and so do we-men dependent upou
others or else at a time when they moro
than ever need the comforts Of life
compelled to painfully toll for pitt
lance in competition with younger ana
stronger men to get the poorest sort OF
a living. The causes why there are SO
many of this kind are many and va,
ried. First may be named the habit of
lmprovidence, the failure to save and
economize when young, the living UNI
to every cent earned; then there is the
gambling and speculative mania which
possesses so many, the attempt to do 81
$4,000 business ON $500 capital, tho
reckless use Of credit, the changefuL
and migratory habit of SO many, theI
foolhardy attempt to conduct lines of
business in which men have not been
trained, the almost universal effort tdf
trot in class away above ones recordt
the discomfort with any line of busi4
ness which can only pay small and
sure profits. In these ways man'a
financial energy is frittered away, and
as he starts on the down grade OF LIFE
he becomes discouraged and is eithe4
compelled or permits himself to become
dependent upon others bounty. a
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The rainfall of the northwest bids
fair to be heavier for 1903 than it has
been since 1881. 1t was forty-t three
inches up to Sept. IL, and there are
three and half months yet to hear
from,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

Where it can be done we favor burn
Ing over all stubble fields before ploM-
ing. A clean sweep of the field by fire
is great weed and insect pest destroy
er. The value of the stubble as fer-
tilizer is small, and the loss by burning
is partly recouped by the ashes left.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The obligation rests upon you as a
good citizen to either cremate or bury
the dead animals on your farm and
not just haul them off and leave them
to become an offense to your neighbor.
The law will compel you to do this if
your neighbor sees fit to invoke Its aid.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

As between leaving a field of corn
two-thirds of the ears of which are
dented to take the chances of a Sep
TENDER frost and cutting it up before
the frost we shall do the latter, believ-
ing that the corn will be better saved
in the shock. The fodder will be of
much greater value anyway, and we
believe that the ears will ripen better
than if frosted and allowed to dry out
on the hill.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

A neighbor has five acres of potatoes
which are giving him yield of 200
bushels to the acre. He can sell them
for 40 cents as soon as dug. They have
cost no more to raise than field of
corn. The crop will sell for more than
the land is worth upon which they are
grown.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The common people of Germany are
entering a vigorous protest against the
laws which have shut out the cheap
meats of other countries. Phlegmatic
as the German is, he has come to the
point where he is at last tired of MUNICH
ing sausage made from old bus horses.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

A. wet summer is quite likely to be
followed by cold and snowy winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

Two acres Of willows planted on
some moist, rich spot on the farm,
spot which is worth but little for the
production of crops, can be made
very profitable investment for the
planter. BY cutting fifth of it off
clean each year lot of good summer
fuel, poles and posts can be obtained.
Such grove should not be thinned,
but cut off clean, as it will then quickly
reproduce itself.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

1t has been harvest time in the o.
chard of late, the gathering of the Ii;
apples, about the pleasantest work
which we find to do on the farm. We
had much rather do it than work at the
tail end Of straw carrier.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

1t is utter folly to keep writing and
talking about constructing mudproof
highways at an expense of 5000 or $500
per mile. 1t can't be done. The mud
proof highway. whether built of mac
adam or gravel, will cost much more
money, no matter how convenient the
supply of such material.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The careless hired man who is al
ways breaking or losing things is a
great nuisance on the farm. If it We're
easy to get hands the trouble could he
remedied by firing him, but where
help is scarce much of this kind Of
trouble will have to be endured.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

We noted a redheaded woodpecker
clinging to the base of an arc light
lamp the other day and found that he
was feasting on the bugs and beetles
which had met their death the night
before. The bird had struck soft snap
sure enough.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

He would not put the shingles on his
barn because "the moon was not right"
as he expressed it; he would not plant
his potatoes either until 1.-THE moon was
right" and he would starve before he
would sit down with twelve other per-
sons to meal and would forego the
benefit Of a low excursion rate on
railroad before he would start on a
journey on Friday, and yet he knew,
or claimed to know, just how the coun-
ty, state and nation should be run, be-
heyed in an overruling Providence,
read the daily papers and had good
deal to say about the enlightened age
In which he lived, when a foolish SUI
perstition dominated all his actions as
much as though he were a Zulu of
South Africa or Tagal in the Philip.
pines. Queer combination.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

The land intended for an onion crop
should be thoroughly prepared the pro-
vious year. 1t should be we'll fortified,
frequently cultivated and be kept abso-
lutely free from weeds. No crop is SO
hard to grow when the land is foul or
indifferently prepared.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13
wYGHT LEE.

The world of nature as one sees 1t by
day reveals only a part of its mystic
rious and manifold life. We say In
general way that when darkness falls
upon the earth all things sleep end rest
after fashion but really the advent
of the night is but the coming of the
morning-the waking up time-for,
countless forms OF animal, vegetable
and insect life. The nights of spring
and autumnal months witness most
marvellous nligrations of bird life. 1t
was cold and wintry yesterday, and
you wake in the morning feeling that
the winter is over at last because you
are greeted by the CHEEKY song of
bluebird or robin which has Travelled
hundreds of miles since sunset. You
stand out under a starlit sky in No
vember and the trained ear will detect
the whir of countless wings or the SID
nal call of the leader of myriad num-
bers of wild fowl, a! headed for sum
nier and warmer cline. Like an evil
spirit the owl in the dense, dark night
reads his owl world like an open book
and startles the belated traveller with
his uncanny call from some tree top
or silently fans himself through the in
visible air, a pirate of the night. An
army of bats the whole night long
chase down another army of night fly
ing bugs and beetles. while the whole
family of carniyora are night providers
and feeders. The life Of the night ID
full of mystery and tragedy, the wild
beast seeking its prey, while only then
will cereus unfold its exquisite bloom,
Longfellow evidently never copp1e.
hended the virility and activity of night
life when he wrote:
Darker and darker the black shadows
fall;
Sleep and oblivion reign over aN.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

Just couple of sumac leaves picked
by the roadside in early September, a
thing almost too common TO be worthy
of notice, yet when examined seen to
be masterpiece of natures handi-
work in rich and artistic coloring. Not
even Rubens could SO blend the gold.
purple and crimson as did the Septem-
Der sun on these leaves; with thou
sand leaves, a thousand color schemes.
each different, all artistic in the high
est sense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04

of the Madeira gold mine in Northern Mexico. and is undoubtedly the only wO- man in the world who makes mtne-hunt- ing and practical mining operations a life pursuit. What's more, she is a success. Some of the old-tlme soldiers of fortune who for long years have followed the delusive beckonings of the Goddess Luck from camp to camp all over the Vest from Chihauhau on the south to Klondike on the north-and have nothing but tat ters and bent backs and wrinkled faces to show for it, say that she Is simply a creature of fortune. Others shake their heads and assert that hers is only the reward of ability to know how and the ver-wearying grit to seek until she finds.
 Miss Vests career in the mining re- gions Is a long chapter, full of grim, ev- eryday heroism, gnawing privations and everlasting grit-how Mary West and her brother Joe searched during some four years among the Margarita and Apache mountains, a sullen, God-forSaken. fierce, uninhabited region. for ledges of golden Iore; how she and her brother. footsOre land weary, trave)ed over hundreds of square miles of mountain and desert. al- ways seeking evidences of buried mineral wealth beneath the sun-baked soil on the hot sandy wastes. It is chapter that tells how Mary West endured hunger and thirst beneath a lurid sky for weeks at a time; h;ow she and her brother braved terrific. blinding and suffocating sand storms that killed their burro: how they nearly died of cold while they camped on lofty mountain tops in midwinter; how many a time and oft, night after night. they slept amid cactus and whitened bowlders. with no human being (not even IndIans) nearer than fifty or more miles and with only the vault of Heaven as a roof above them.
 Miss West endured many haTdships She often went hungry and at one time was exceedingly Ill for several weeks, her only abiding place being an Indian hut and the only attention she received was that a kind-hearted squaw could be- stow. She finally struck rich mine. which she partially developed and sold for a handsome sum. Other good finds followed and she now has some $15O,0O0 to her credit in bank and interests that bring her in a handsome and constantly increasing income.
 Miss West dresses for her work. She wears a heavy blouse, short skirts. long leather-laced. heavy-soled boots and a sIo,,ch hat Half a dozen times day she travels up and down the deep mine shaft in an ore bucket, which is operated h,, a v,y,rn "a bIe on a Windlass. She keeps posted m the latest improvements in min inc and the library on metallurgy and Reoiogv of American mines that she has Accumulated at her home Is up to date | From dawn to dark sine is always busy
 In tbe assaying room, down in the mine, | in the office. Her evenings are spent In 1 inc home, where she finds delight in the | current literature
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
MEETING OF woMAN'S
 HOME ASSOCIATION.

The November meeting of the Working Woman's Home Association was held yes- terday afternoon.
 Quite a number were present and much interest manifested. One new inmate was admitted into the home.
 A full report of "Womans Home Day" was made by the reasurer, Mrs. W. C.. Pope. showing 124 new names and $42.7 added to the treasury. Mrs. c. H. Scott. secretary, rendered her resignation. which was accepted with much regret and Mrs. s. B. Gordon was chosen to fill the un- expired term. which will be until Februa- ry. .
 At this meeting the new matron. Mrs Sherman. took up her duties at the Home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
ALABAMA FEDERATION
 OF wOMEN'S CLUBS.

 Tuscaloosa, Nov. 3.-(Special.) )-Dele- E.ates to, the State Federation of Women's |,lubs have been arriving on every train I Eor the past twenty-four hours, and Tus- aloosa feels honored in entertaining be- ween seventy-ave and one hundred of Alabanna's most prominent and intellec- uai women. The City Hall, in which the Federation meetings are to be held, Is beautifully decorated in the Federation olors and a multitude of ferns and palms. This evening at s:30 o'clock the Federation will hold its first business meeting. The principal business to be transacted will be in regard to the Girls industrial School at Montevallo and the Boys Reformatory at East Lake. The #fficers of the Federation are as follows: President. Mrs. c. P. Orr. Birmingham; First vice-President. Mrs. J. L. Me- Montevallo; Second Vice Mrs. Rhett Goode, Mobile; Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. M. Falkner'
 Montgomery; Corresponding Secretary Hrs. Charles c. Browne. Birmingham; Treasurer, Mrs. Kate Jarvis. Selma; Au- Hitor, Miss Julia Clark, Selma; State Sec etary, Mrs. John D. Wyker, Decatur k,hairmen of the Standing Committees: Hrs. Phares Coleman. Reciprocity; Free &cholarships, Mrs. J. L. McConaughy #fontevallo; Legislation, Mrs. James $fardaway, Montgomery; Traveling Llord- Mes, Mrs. c. T. Randall, Birmingham' Domestic Science, Mrs. A. T. Goodwin, Montgomery; Education, Mrs. Kate Nor sissette, Montgomery; Art, Mrs. c. A. &:ary, Auburn.
 The program follows:
 Tuesday, Nov. Selecting of commit ee on credential, presided over by Mrs N. P Orr, president, and Mrs. Rhett #soode, second vice president. Tuesday afternoon, to 5-Mrs. J. w. #lbercrombie's reception to the Fedora Hon and her Tuscaloosa friends, at her ome at the University. l Tuesday evening S:90 p. m.-Invocation. Rev. s. B. McGlohone.
 l Song, selected, Mrs. W. A. Collier. ! Address of welcome. Mrs w. G. Coch- zane
 H Instrumental music. J. P. Ludebuchla. z Mayors address, Judge w. G. Coch- 4ane.
 ouartette, Messrs McEachin. Town send. Huthnance and Maxwell Response to address of welcome, Mrs. James Going.
 Song, selected, Mrs. Tom Hargrove. Presidents address, Mrs. c. P. Orr. Three-part song. Mrs. Fitts and Miss N. Searcy. Misses Harris and Majors, Hrs Leach and Miss Abbie Searcy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
Wot11en and Society.
BY MRS. J. M. DE COPIES.

Confederate States first resided, as an oncial home. She was "applauded to the echo" and congratulated upon so mo- ble an undertaking.
 The minutes were read and regular or der of business taken up. The Sscreta- rvs and Treasurer's reports were full and of great interest.
 The Treasurer, Mrs. c. A. Lanier, gave full report of all moneys, having bought Alabama A bonds with the bulk of it and the Association voted to have an ad. ditional $200 invested in the same way The fund raised by the lunch served at the Capitol during the last Legislature making the most of the amount. A rising vote of thanks was given Mrs. J. c. Fin ley and her co-workers in that work.
 A delightful surprise was the presenting to the Association a note for $500 by MT. Sidney Harris Phelan of Atlanta, Ga. and Mir. J. D. Beale of Montgomery This was rendered in consolation to the members of the Association in their dis appointment at the vetoing of the White House bill
 A resolution was passed to have the Secretary write a letter of sympathy to our Honorary President of the Alabama Division, U. D. C., Miss Sailie Jones, in the loss of her two noble brothers.
 A committee consisting of Mrs. J. O. Finley and Mrs. Warren Jones was form ed to take charge of the beautiful White House. souvenir spoons at Charleston. during the convention there, November II.
 Mrs Masselln Allen and Mrs. Albert Fillmore were appointed a committee to carry greetings from the Association to the convention and assist in selling the spoons.
 The name of Mrs. M E. Bragg was presented for membership.
 The matter of greatest interest to the Association was the reception of an in- vitation from Mrs. Behan. President of the Southern Confederated Memorial As sociations to the White House Assocla- ton (being a memorial association( to join the Confederation.
 A resolution was offered by Mrs. Watt that ''The Regent appoint a committee to investigate the Constitution, etc., of the Confederate Memorial Association and, if there was nothing to conflict with the rights of the Association. or restrict it's work. they would gladly accept the invi tation."
 Immediately after adjournment, the committee made all necessary investiga- tion and will instruct the Secretary to write at once the acceptance of the invi tation by the White House Association.
 A pleasant surprise was a charming lit tie souvenir of Hendersonville, N. C., presented to each member by Mrs. Beale.
 Mrs. George Raoul asked that the meet ing be called to order to offer the follow be given Mrs. Beale for kind thoughts and help to the Association during her stay in Hendersonvllle."
 At the conclusion of the business meet ing, Mrs. Beale entertained her guests delightfully."- at luncheon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04

erection of monument st chickamauga to the heroic soldiers of Alabama. who fought and fell on that bloody >heid, to be added to the Chickamauga fund. already collected by this Association and deposited in the Merchants and Planters Bank for that object. Said Mrs. J. C.. Lee Is also authorized to place moheys collected by her in the Fourth National Bank of which Colonel William Berney, a veteran comrade. is president, the same to be reported annually to this Associa- ton. By order of Mrs. M. D. Bibb. President Ladies Memorial Association.
 Mrs. I. M. P. Ockenden.
 Secretary,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
KEEPING OF THE COUNTRY CT,uH.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors |f the County Club yesterday afternoon nree additional directors were elected to Hil vacancies in the board. The Board h ow consists of F. B. Fisk. President; E. W. Craik. ice-President; w. M
 gilkerson, L. L. Gilbert. J. s. Wilcox. |k. F. Seibels. Phares Coleman, Horace
 trinsfelIow and s. J. Cassells. Jos. w. Holt was unanimously elected Secretary reasurer.
 President Fisk was authorized to ap- |oint a building committee of five mem CTS to arrange for the preparation of |lans for the club house. Messrs. Fisk, H1Ibert and Stringfellow were designated Is committee to formally close up the ontract for the purchase of the property |nder option.
 All matters pertaining to the erection Ia the club house and the preparation of Ele grounds will be vigorously pushed rom now on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
LETTING OF WHITE HOUSE ASSOCIATION

The regular monthly meeting of the yhite House Association was held at the loome of the Regent yesterday afternoon After the Lords Prayer was recited by n the members standing, as 1t the cus- bn of the Association, the meeting wa aIled to order.
 The Regent expressed great pleasure at
 Aing with them again after so long an 'osence at her mountain home. She told
 < a most interesting incident on her re irn. in Atlanta. where she was invited
 {, Regent of the First White House Asso ation in Montgomery Ala. to a seat
 the rostFum, when she spoke of her krnest interest and work in preserving Ae house where the President of the