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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-03-05

Assessors Meeting


8 AZ the annual meeting Of the assessors OF DICK
J. insou County, State Of Kansas held TINS oay' On
rol call all the townships except Liberty were
represented. -, .rrood
The following basis OF assessment was agreea
to-
uo,sss months old and under year. % 10 sio'
iiorsss wear old and under years, Si2 70 ~,
Horses wears old and under years, ~ 70 S4o'
{ Horses wears old and over, $40 to $50.
Mules same horses
stations Is times the insurance tee
1Tnrongbbred cattle at price double other cattie
Mat catile months old and under year 20 - Pao
Neat cattle, year old and unast e., 70 500
Neat cattle years old and under years. Si@ " s
Mat cattle 3 wears old and over, SIS to S59'
Sheep months old and over, ~.
Hogs per hundred pounds ~. 80. a,.s horse-
Farm implements thresh!ng machines engines, o %,
powers, wagons, pleasure cafiass' 49,
INDICTMENT OF assessor.
= Musical instruments at judgment OF assessor
Wheat 40 cents per pusneI
Corn IS cents per bushel.
Rye 80 cents per bushel
Oats 20 cents per bushel y@
Katfr corn 20 cents per busne,
Sorghum, 20 cents per busneL ,..
All other items at judgment of assessor
IN motion IL was voted to deduct the constitu-
6 .,ana, exemptiou from full value ON personal
nroperty and divide the remainder py 'hreo'
On motion assessors adjourned
eN3 ..G III b. ALDRICH, Chairman
.....t. H.W CoILARD, Clerk.
H. w. JACOBS,
rsrA11 County Clerk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-03-05
A Pleasant Party.

Eight young ladies we're very pleas.
.ptly entertained BY Miss Pearl O'Niel
At Der home on Second street last eve
ming. The evening was spent in
music and recitatiOns Delicious re-
tr.,hmeuss were served and all en-
ioyed the evening very much. The
.ss.,, we're: Misses Olive Every.
astl,s Ryns. FIorsses southrorsh.
~. Hol..d. Dsis5 MscAnnsl'
ND. Isr.sn Bsitts ed 0ree
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
BIRDS ON THE GRoUND.

How many of the boys and girls who
read these notes from week to week
ever noticed the difference in the gait,
of birds when they move about on the
ground? Nearly every kind of bird
has n gait peculiar to it alone. Just
watch it and see. The crow has a
stately walk, the sparrow moves as
though hopping on one leg, the kildeeri
makes fast run and an abrupt STOP
the robin takes six or seven short
jumps and then stops, as does the
brown thrasher; the grackle, being of
the crow family, walks deliberately
and stately, as does the crow; the pi-
geon walks as do hens, ducks, turkeys,
geese, prairie hens. quail, ruffedi
grouse, crane and other birds of their
kind; the humming bird flies never
saw one move any other way. Boys
and girls will find 1t very interesting
to watch the birds not only in this par.
icular, but also as to their habits Of
nest building and migration and note
the food they eat and their almost in
estimable value to man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

companion as they crossed the parade.
The other gave start and Gid not
look pleased. Then he instinctively
glanced toward the castle.
'The princess is at the Window! he
cried, catching Lorry's arm and point
ing back. But the other refused to
turn, walking on blinaly. eYou ought
not to have acted like that, Gren," said
Anguish a. few moments later. HShe
saw me call your attention to her, and
she saw you refuse to look back. /
don't think that you should have hurt
her." Lorry did not respond, and
there was no word between them until
they were outside the castle gates.
"You may leave tomorrow, Lorry. If
you like, but I'm going TO stay awhile
said Harry trifle confusedly.
Haven't you had enough Of the
placer
Il don't care whoop for the place.
You see, it's this way: I'm just as hard
hit as you, and it is not princess that
have to contend WITH
'You mean that you are in love with
the counTeSS:
'Emphatically"
"Pm sorry for you"
"Think she'll turn me DOWN."
UNLESS you buy a title of one of
these miserable counts or dukes.n
ooh, I'm not SO sure about that!
These counts and dukes come over and
marry our American girls. / don't see
why can't step in and pick out nice
little countess il want to-"
isle is not as avaricious as the
counts and dukes, Ell wager. She
cares nothing for your money"
WELL. she's as poor as a church
mouse" said the other doggedly.
"The countess poor? How do you
know?"
81 asked her one day, and she told
me all about it," said Anguish,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
CHAPTER XVI.
A CLASH AND ITS REsuLr,

n S'-saDh AMI LIS BESULI.
"R FEEL like spending the rest of
ID my days in that monastery up
H there said Lorry after dinner
that evening. They We're stroll
ing about the town. One was deter
mined to leave the city, The other firm
in his resolve to stay. The latter won
the day when he shrewdly if explosive
ly reminded the former that it was
their duty as men TO stay and protect
the princess from the Vaccinations of
Gabriel. that knave Of purgatory. Lor-
ry, at last recognizing the hopelessness
of his suit, was ready to throw down
his arms and abandon the field to supe-
rior odds. His presumption in aspiring
for the. hand of princess began to
touch his sense of humor, and he
laughed, not very mefrily, 1t is true, but
long and loudly, at bis folly. At first
he cursed the world and every one in
it, giving UP in despair, but later he
cursed only hiinsEif Yet as he de-
SPARED and scoffed he felt Within him
self an ever present hope that luck
might turn the tide OF battle.
This guEy "a grew perceptihly when
Anguish Brought him to feel that She
needed his protection from the man
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

"Is the day set?" asked Lorry brave
ly after moments silent inspection
of the dark browed victors.
Eyes, and there is to be no delay.
The marriage contract has already
been signed. The date is Nov. 20, the
day on which we are to account to
Bolaroz for our war debt The old
princes wedding gift to Graustark is
to be document favoring us with a
ten years extension" she said scorn-
fully.
"And where is she to live?"
'Here, of course. She is Graustark's
ruler, and here she insists on abiding.
Just contemplate our court! Overrun
with those Axphain dogs! All, she has
wounded Graustark more than she has
helped her.
There was nothing more to be said
or done, so after few moments the
Americans took their departure. The
countess babe them farewell, saying
that she must return to the princess.
"Pll see You tomorrow" said An
guish, with rare assurance and the air
of an old and Indispensable friend.
"And you, Mr.. Lorry?" she said curl
ously.
81 am very much occupied" he num-
bled.
"9ou do wrong in seeking to deceive
me-" she whispered as Anguish passed
through the door ahead of them. 81
know why you do not come"
Has she told you?"
II have guessed Would that it
could have been you and not the 9TH
err!
"One cannot be man and prince
at the same time, I fancy" he said
bitterly.
Nor can one be princess and a
woman"
Lorry recalled the conversation in
the sickroom two weeks before and
smiled ironically. The friendly girl
left them at the door, and they passed
out of the castle.
y shall leave Edelweiss tomorrow"
said one, more to himself than to his
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

"A lady reader writes and wants to
know how to rid her garden of horse
radish, which, she says, has SO spread
that 1t threatens to monopolize the
whole garden We have never had to
tackle this proposition and can only
suggest the remedies used to get rid
of quack grass, Canada thistles and
other pests, which, like the horse rad
ish, are propagated by suckers under
ground. If this garden lot can be put
in some crop which will permit of con-
tinuous hoeing and cultivation during
the entire growing season, never per-
uniting the horse radish shoots to get
two inches high, 1t VIII probably finish
them up, for unless plant can grow
above ground it will not make roots
and suckers under ground. Another
plan would be to smother it ont by
heavy fertitjzing and then growing a
crop OF sowed corn OF sorghum on the
LOT. We think two years Of this sort
of treatment would flush it up. There
is one other war, and that is to let the
STUFF grow and start horse radish
factory. The product is always In good
dernapd.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
BIRDS THAT AnE GONE.

BlHDS THAT ARE GONE.
We We're recently asked by a lady
friend what had become Of the night
hawks ana whippoorwifls which used
to be such common birds all through
the western country. Some way our
attention had not been called to the al
most entire disappearance of these
birds until this question was asked, but
it Is only too true that they are gone.
and probably gone for good. Possibly,
the destruction Of the woods may ac.
count for the disappearance of the
whippoorwili, whose quaint and al
most ghostly call used to break the pro-
found and solemn stiffness of the mid
summer evening-a call closely asso-,
ciated with the chir-r Of the tree toad,
the flashes from q low lying and dis
tant thundercloud and the fragrance of
June roses held captive by the huInidi-
ty of June night! In common with its
near relative, the night hawk, its habits
but Ill fitted it to survive contact with
mans benevolent sciyilization-his mer-
CHESS small boy, his prowling cats, his
barbaric partner who would have un-
feelingly worn wing from Noah's
dove were but such the fashion-oe
possibly these birds, even if in no man
ner molested by man, have, in common
with other types Of wild life, migrated
to sections of the country where nei-
ther man nor his work has marred the
fair face of nature. 5s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

We hardly know what best typifies
the fall Of the year. Sometimes we
think field Of shocked corn with ripe
pumpkins scattered around best does
it; that when we go into the orchard
and see Wealthy apple tree loaded
down with ripe red fruit, that's 1t; that
when we get of half a day and land a
string of black bass from the pool up
in the woods. that's fall doings; that
when we run across hedgerow of
goldenrod and wild aster or some
fringed gentian down by the creek, and
see the blood red south side of some
jack oak, or flush a coyey Of qnail, or
see lot of robins stripping the last
Of the fruit from the black cherry, or
have some candidate for county Office
come around, then we know fall is
here, or, better YET, when the evening
lengthens out, and little fire seems
pleasant, and pumpkin pies get on the
bill Of fare. and one hates TO get up in
the morning, thsFe is as Question but
the summer has gene ana Riptsr ts not
very far away. ''sts-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
chamberlain's Collie, Cholera an
Diarrhoea Remedy.

The uniform success of this prepar-
alton in the relief and cure of bowel
complaints has brought it into almost
universal use. 1t never fails and
when reduced with water and sweeten-
ed is pleasant to take. 1t is equally
valuable for children and adults. For
sale by all druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
Ohio and Indiana Home Visitors Excur
sions

On September 1, 8, Is and October
g, the Iowa Central will run their an
ual "Home-Visitors"' excursions to Ohio
and Indiana. Tickets will be on sale
on above dates with limit for return
thirty days from date of sale. For the
rates and details, call on agents or adj
dress A. B. Cults. G. P. & T. A., Iowa
Central Ry., Minneapolis, MINI.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

There is one problem which many a
man can study on during rainy day,
and that is how to secure more con-
venient water supply for the barn and
the home. Some men could make 500
in two hours doing this.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The state Of Minnesota has one Of
the best horticultural societies in the
country. 1t has 1900 members and is
very literally supported by the state.
1t is no wonder that they are making
apples grow in that state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The government crop report for Au-
gust gives average condition Of corn at
1877, wheat I'll, oats 100 for this year.
The ten yes.r average for these three
crops is: Corn S4.4. wheat S0.2, oats
S2.6. This indicates a fairly good crop
for this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The indications point to fifty cent
corn for the coming year and conse-
quent good prices for beef and pork.
The new corn crop will not exceed that
of 1902 and may be smaller.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The fate of millions Of acres Of corn
depends this year upon the date Of the
coming of the first fall frost. If it is
delayed all will be well, but if it comes
at the usual time widespread losses
will follow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

A tenant who gets possession of a
farm without any hog pasture wants
to know how to get the earliest avail
able hog pasture. We know of no bet
ter way than to sow the field with rye
right now and then sow clover on the
field next spring early. By the time
\ the rye is eaten down the clover will
be ready. xxx tel'sL
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

We have friend who has seventy
five thrifty shotes, and he Is giving
them all the freshly cut sorghum they
will eat, and it is surprising how fond
they are of it. This, with barley meal
and butternilk, seems to suit the pigs
to dot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
HOME cuRnp MEATS.

While it is a great convenieiice to
have the butcher kill and dress tie
meats needed on the farm, it is still
poor economy for the farmer to sell to
the butcher at Wholesale prices and
buy his meat back at retail figures.
The almost lost art of corning and
drying beef, of preparing sausage, salt
pork, smoked hams and bacon should
be revived at every farmhouse. No
packing house product compares in
quality with the old fashioned home
cured meats. We would not Wish to
bring back the old "hog killin' time. .
because all that is. far better done by
others, but the care of the meat and
It's preservation for future use should
be one of the farm economies. Ii IA sSs.. Z
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

At prevailing prices for eggs, taking
average prices for the past four years,
it looks to US as though poultry was
better worth keeping for the eggs than
for the meat, and so we would select
those varieties of fowls which have
the best reputation as layers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The more the meat products of the
farm can be made of grass and forage
crops the more profit there will be in
producing them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

Women these days are always break
ing out in some new place in the line
of doing something to enable them to
earn living without having to take
up with some stick of man. Here is
a California lady who has gone into
the frog business, and does business
which brings her in an income of ST..
800 per annum.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

A new idea is advanced for the de-
struction of burrowing vermin-go-
piers, moles, rats, mice and the like. A
highly poisonous gas is generated and
forced by an air pump into their bur-
rows, a plan which, it is said is very
successful. II something has been
found which will reach the pocket
gopher and the mole 1t will be good
thing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

A tenant never has to appeal to the
mercy of his landlord when he takes
the farm on share rent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22


II some men with very limited cap
ital want pointer as to how to get
into business let them go into north
ern Wisconsin or Minnesota and get a
piece Of the cheap land up there and
just raise Strawberries and potatoes.
The strawberries, being raised SO far
north, come into market after all the
other Strawberries are gone and, raised
up there, are Of the very choicest flavor
and quality, commanding high prices,
for the strawberry is the one berry
which people always want worse after
they have had them and can no longer
get them. The best potatoes in the
world are also raised on the new tim
Der lands Of that section. Go up there
and try Strawberries, potatoes, COWS
and chickens and make a living easier
than you have ever done working at
S1.75 day. Fuel is thrown In.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

"a good deal of the argument in favor
Of expensive public highways which
purports to give the money loss to the
farmers of the country because Of the
poor roads as they now exist seems to
entirely ignore the fact that farmers
have very generally learned how to
adjust their heavy hauling to existing
conditions and use the roads when they
are dry and in good condition for this
work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

The coming farmer in the corn belt
will demand his silo as much as he
will his barn. Recent experiments
show that silage is very superior ra-
ton for the, fattening steer as well as
being almost indispensable as ration
for the dairy COW. The fact is that
corn put in the silo and fed is worth
so much more and will go SO much fur
Their than corn fed the old way that it's
use will become almost imperative.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22
THE RURAL Mali. sysTr.rs..-

! The rural mail routes have now been
in operation long enough to enable one
to form some sort Of an opinion as toi
their effect upon the farmers as al
/ whole. The community in whieh vel
live was given five rural mail routes
ana seven farm telephone lines at theI
same time. These twin modern iu-I
provements are revolutionizing farm
| life. The business of the farm is norej
easily ana expeditiously transacted
much valuable time is saved, the daily
paper puts the farmer in touch with
what is going on In the world ana is,
widening his views of things and lift
ing him UP on to higher pfane of Aiv-i
ing. he Is given better knowledce;
of the markets and sells his produce toi
better advantage, the isolation Of farmS
life is in a large measure removed andl
the manand. his folks are in intimatei
touch with their fellows. The farm hasl
been given name and neatly printedi
stationery advertises the homestead.I
the owner and the sperialties In stock
or crops which it produces. The fam
lily is becoming more and more comtent-t
ed with farm life and is beginning TOT
appreciate the many advantages which
Its rural home and environment pos
sess. The farm home from which sol
many of the young people fed in theI
past years as soon as they could hasi
been thus changed and made attractive.
while the old folks, instead of moving
to town to live, are becoming c0ntentj
to end heirsdays on the old farm where
, they have lived and worked SO long.,l
To the wife and mother has the lar
gest measure of blessing come, ,eswho|
lived weary, lonesome and isolatedI
life. For her a new world has beenI
opened, and for the first time she finds
life worth living. In all it is safe to-
say that no particular branch of mod
ern progress has ever more henefcent-l
~ affected the interests Of the farm
than has the introduction of the agen-,,
cies referred to. Some critics, the kick,
ers say that the rural routes will new
en- pay their way. What il they do not 81
There are thousands Of POST Office,
routes which were, since they werel
started, run at a loss to the govern.
ment before the day of rural mail de-
livery. The men who lay the fouada-
tons for so much of the national pros-i
perity and business are entitled to con-
sideration, and any attempt to depriyel
them of the rural mail service will
start an insurfection and bury out of
sight any politicians who atteur,t. II !. j
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

An acre in early potatoes, another
acre in onions, another in early cab
bage, another in strawberries, hun
dred good hens and two cows will one
year with another give a family bet
ter living than they can get out of an
$500 salary and the head of the house
will have two-thirds of the year to
work at some other business. And
there would be not only better living,
but better health.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

A method whereby orange juice can
be saved and prepared SO as to retain
its original flavor, though long and pa
tiently sought for, has not been discov-
cred until lately. There is almost an
unlimited demand for this product
awaiting its introduction, and it will
prove an immense help to the orange
growers in affording market for sur
plus crops Of fruit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska will
harvest good crops of corn this year.
Iowa and illinois will have to take sec
ond place.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

, b =
i. One of the most interesting expert
ments being conducted under. the SUI
pervision Of the agricultural depart
ment is connected with the improve
ment of the grade Of tobacco raised in
the northern states. 1t has been dem
onstrated both in Connecticut and Wis
consin that where the tobacco plant is
grown under canvas of light cotton
cloth the value of the product is raised
from % cents pound to $2.25. The
first cost Of so preparing an acre of
ground Is about $780, The conditions
of warmth and humidity thus obtained
enable the Connecticut or Wisconsin
grower to produce a grade Of leaf
which equals the finest product of SUI
matra. The financial results are so
gratifying that the plan is likely to be
carried out on large scale.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

A reader wishes to know what to do
with wet land-land which during the
dry years was cropped and produced
large yields of corn and other cereals,
but which during the past two wet
years has gone back and is now a
wilderness of noXious weeds. Thou
sands of men are in this fix all
through the prairie west The best
thing to do. if one is able is to tile
drain these tracts, when they will at
once become the most reliable and pro-
ductive acres on the farm. II this for
any reason cannot be done, they should
be got into grass. preferably timothy,
just as soon as possible. Under nor
mai conditions these lsnds are too wet
for cultivation and only during dry
years can they be worked. These lands
should be piowed just as soon as pos
sible and be sewn with rye by the mid
die Of September and seeded with tim
otiiy. sss.f y SSH
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

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We are in receipt Of a letter from a
successful hog raiser who claims to
have. always been exempt from hog
cholera and attributes his exemption
to the providing Of the best sanitary
conditions for his pigs in the matter Of
food, shelter, bedding and yards, claim
ing that hog cholera is as purely a
filth disease with the hog as is the
same disease with man. While we Sc
riously doubt If even the most immacu-
late sanitary conditions will in al!
cases secure immunity from this trou-
bic, there is still so much to commend
in this method of treatment that we
give our friends antidote. The hog is
not naturally dirty animal If he is
given half chance. The trouble is
that most men will not give him a
chance to be clean.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-22

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