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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-28
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-FARMS AND FARM
lands in Franklin county, Mo-, 81
miles west Of st. Louis, Mo, on
Frisco railroad; prices range from
IS to $40 per acre. according to loca-
ton and improvements. For par.
ticulars address D. N. Gideon. Stan-
ton, Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-28

FOR SALE - FARM; AZ ACRES:
good house, well, cistern, outheuses;
acres orchard, most of the trees IL
years old; enough grapes, goose
berries, currants in garden for fam
lily use; price $45; also 55 acres, u
mile from this. $25; 3a4 miles from
Salem, IN miles from school. If in
terested address Robert Squibb, Salem,
Illinois.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-28

FOR sALElcAss COUNTY. NORTH
Dakota, 100 acres miles from
Fargo, all broken, being summer
acre. w. j. Lane, Fargo, N. d.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21
FACTS ABOUT GLASS.

The oldest specimen of glass, says
an authority on curious information.
IRE traced back from $500 to 1900
wears before Christ. These are Of
Egyptian origin Transparent glass Is
believed To have been first used about
$50 years before the Christian ere
The Phoenicians we're supposed by
the ancieuts 10 have been responsible
for the invention, ard the story VIII
be recalled Of the Phocnlcian mer,
chants who. resting their cooking pots
on blocks of natron, or subcarbonato
~ Ia found that the union under
heat Of the Glkali and the sand on the
shore produced glass. There Is little
dolbf. however. that the art Of glass.
making originated with the Egyptians.
II was introduced into Rome In the
time Of Cicero and reached remark.
able degree N perfection among the
Romans. who produced some Of the
most admirable specimens Of glass
ever manufactured an instance II the
famous Portland vase III the British
MuEeum. Glass was not used for win
dows until about A. u 200.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

way as they do today That, at least,
is the impression one sets from the
antiquities found during last year at
the SllcheSter excavations.
The most interesting discovery was
the building which formed apparently
the principal baths of the Roman
town. The exploration Of the baths
yielded a number of architectural frag,
ments, including a small altar, por-
tons of capitals and bases, part of a
large basin Of Purbeck marble, and
some singular pieces Of metal
In a flled,up hypoeaust were founa
at least 100 bone pins, which had evl,
IDENTITY been used to adjust the back
hair of Roman women who used the
baths. Probably they mad been
dropped in the way woman through,
out the ages has shed pins, and were
collected by the keeper Of the baths,
Some of them are quite three inches
long, and would make passable hat.
pins for the present fashion.
a pair of gold earrings With uncut
green gems are so bright that they
look as if they might have just come
out of a jewelers. shop in Bond street,
London Daily Chronicle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21
The Mystery soN i,

Not long ago the genial superinten.
dent Of public school was asked by
one Of his youthful friends TO listen 10
the latters rehearsal Of lesson, IN
which there was a reference 70 Atlas.
do you know who Atlas WASP
asked the superintendent.
"Yes, sir He was a giant who sup.
ported the world"
"Ah' Supported the world, did her.
went on the superintendent. Well.
tell me who supported Atlas2'
The little fellow looked as though
he had not given the subject any par.
tfcular attention, but showed Immedi-
ate willingness to think II over The
superintendent stood looking on. try
ing hard 10 keep back smile; but the
younRster finally frightened up and
answered:
well, think he must have married
n rich wife Life.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

Go b side is made 70 wash leather. II
frst drenched, then put into stocks
ana pounded until Il II partly drIer
8d tie Gbrous structure has become
uose and open, sawdlnt generally b.
VIZ employed 10 facilitate tie process
Fish oil IS now rubbed upon the
sgiDs in small Quantities as long Al
tae oil is absorbed The moisture
dries out as the OH IL absorbed the
slns being hung trp occasionally auc
exposed to the cir when the skins
lave absorbed enough oil they lose
heir limy odor and acquire peculiar
mnstardlike smell due 10 the oxida.
ton Of the oil They arc then packed
loosely In boxes, where they beat rap.
idly. and must be taken out and *.
posed TO the air TO prevent overhead
ing. During this time they give of
much pungent vapor and turn yellow.
They are then washed In warm soln.
ton alkall 10 remove the excess Of fat.
The oil removed ig liberated from the
oapy fluid and sold as sod OIL"
The skins are next oleached in the
IN. being bloistened occasionally with
i solution of potassium perDauganate.
followed ~ washing the snIphurous
acid or sodium peroxide The leather
IS then permanently softened and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

London, July 12,-Mrs. Maybrick
goes free on the S0th of this month
No other murder case has so deeply
interested he American people as that
for which Mrs. Florence L. MaybrcR
has suffered for nearly fifteen years
in London prison.
She is an American woman, who
was charged with poisoning her hus.
band, convicted at Liverpool of thu
crime, Aug, Z, 1889, and sentenced 20
death a few days later The death
sentence was committed to penal servl-
tude for life.
Worldwide Sympathy.
Worldwide sympathy was aroused,
The women of America took up the
prisoners cause. and throughout the
long years the English government
was bombarded with petitions and be-
sieged by powerful influences. Amerl
can ambassadors to the court of 81
Jamess labored unoficially in the
prisoners behalf, but home secretaries
in every succession turned deaf ear.
After the accession of King Edward
VII, the friends of Mrs. Maynrick
took fresh heart Confidence in the
kindheartedness of the English mon
arch has not been misplaced The re
lease of Mrs. Maybnck will excite
warm gratitude among the women OF
America
Pamphlets in no end have been writ
ten and printed in all English-speak-
ing communities. Gail Hamilton in.
terested herself and wrote a letter to
the queen; petitions were circulated
all over America and England benefits
were got up for defense funds-there
never was a case so celebrated.
If she poisoned her husband with
arsenic how was ii That some doctors
said he died of castro enteritis? II
she didn't poison him, what made her
buy so many fly papers before flies
had come? What was the reason for
so much arsenic about the house IN
food and drink? The widest theories
have been propounded. Here is one;
Perhaps Mr.. Maybrick had been at
tackled with Indian ringworm while in
America and was taking arsenic "a
cure It,
II was the greatest murder case Oh
the age, and it is connected with one
Of the most popular songs Nancy Lee
and with an immensely popular re.
ligious novel. The Prince Of the House
Of David, the anto-bellum prototype O
Ben Hur.
James Naybrick,s brother Michael
better known as ST ven Adams, com.
posed Nancy Leg VI the uncle 0,
Mrs Maybricks m-1er Rev. J. a.
Ingraham. rector or 81 Johns church
Mobile was the author Of The Prince
of the House Of David
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21
MOTOR MAIL CARS.

The Bavaran ministry Of transpor-
tatioa has recently issued tenders TO a
large number Of firms for the supply
Of railroad motor cars. For main roads
two sizes of motor cars are proposed
to be built and for branch roads one
size-however. in two patterns Of diff
ferent capacity. The large motor cars
for branch roads are required to pull
a trailer Of two tons and the smaller
ones each about three-Quarters Of a
ton TO one ton gross weight. The large
cars are intended to accommodate the
entire passenger. mail and freight ser
vice on small roads, while the smaller
cars are to be used on roads where a
separate passenger and freight service
may economically be maintained On
these lines the motor cars are TO serve
for the transportation of passengers
baggage and possibly also for the
transportation Of limited number OF
passengers, while the freight and regu-
lar parcel-post service will be main
tanned by local trains.
According TO the Deutsche Verkehrs.
zeitung the Ministry has further Is
sued tenders to large number Of
firms for the supply Of street motor
cars for mail service Five patterns OF
cars are intended to be utilized, of
which three are n be used for the ser.
vice In inner cities and two for the ser.
vice on highways in the country. The
cars for country service are intended
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

old darling
lie got better and then worse, go
out to business, and when she sent
him some beef tea in hts office he
took sick again,
Eleven days before he died he
wrote long rambling letter to his
brother Michael in London uho
stephen Adams of Nancy Lee famel
and told just when the first symptoms
Of sickness attacked him, how he was
attacked with numhness aud rightly OF
the limbs lie said;
This time nr. ---~-- can't say | am
suffering from violent attack OF In
digestion"
Michael was called down to see
his brother, He found James in bod
attended by n nurse
Mrs. Maybrick met him and his
brother Edward and went with them
to the bedroom.
Michael said Il think James IL not
getting treated properly"
Mrs. MaybriclS started and said:
What do you mean?'
Michael said he thought james
ought To have another nurse.
She said she thought she had o
right to nurse her husband and she
| had done SO.
Two doctors and nurse were called
by Michael the next day,
The new nurse said Il few thinBa To
Michael and he took away n bottle OF
brandy and n bottle of meat extract
Then he went out into the garden
When he came back he found Mrs
Maybrlclt changing some whlskey
from one bottle into another with Il
VIDE mouth and 4 different label
How dare you do such n thlng|
Michael asked
The nurses were changed again
but Mr. Maybriek got no better,
MAY II he died Just few hours
before that event Mrs Maybrlck gave
letter to Mrs Alice Yapp the nurs,
maid, 10 post It was addressed e
"a. Briefly, Esq. Iiuskisson street
Liverpool" The baby with the nurse
maid dropped the letter In the mud
or the nurse said so Thinking to pu
| it I'm n clean envelope, she tore off tho
muddy covering and read The
/ pcnclIad letter. Here II is
Letter That Was Dropped.
dearest: Your letter. under cove
10 -, came to hand Just after
haa written 10 you on Monday. die
not expect 10 hear from you so soon
/ and had delayed IN giving him th'
necessary Instructions, Since my re
turn | have been nursing day an,
night. He is sick unto death; th'
doctors held consultation yesterday
and now all depends upon how Ions
his strength will hold out Both m
/ broihorsin.law are here. and we are
terribly anxious Cannot answer you
/ letter fully today darling. but will r.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

! The merest tripiality set all the
world to talking, A baby dropped a
letter into a muddy street That mis-.
adventure set the machinery of the
courts to going, brought the baby :
mother under the shadow of the sal
lows and into prison for life ana ex
cited the whole habitable globe TO
sympathy and interest.
That baby was the offspring Of
James Maybrick and Florence Eliza
beth Maybrick, born Chandler.
James Maybrick.
James MaybriCk was n wealthy cot,
ton merchant in Liverpool, Coming
from America in 1881 he met Thome
Chandler with her mother tn"
Baroness Caroline Holhrook Chandler
Du Barry Won Rogue, Maybrick fell
in love with Florence. who was then
Is years old, and when she and her
mother got to London he followed
them and married the young woman in
st. James's, Piccadilly, The bride was
then described as being from Norfolk,
Va.
The Mother
Her mother, the baroness. had a
career of considerable romance. She
visited in Mobile In 1856 at the house
of her uncle, Rev. J. II. Ingraham,
and being very handsome and a good
conveTsationalist she got on very
well. She became acquainted with
young William G. Chandler, son of n
leading lawyer He followed her .
New York city and they were married,
/ He brought her back to Noble ana
she reigned in society.
The Maybri got along pretty well
together The wife became the
mother of two children, and husband
and wife were said to be very loving,
But March 90, 1889, Mrs. Chrstiana
Samuelson heard Mrs. Maybrick say
I'm give It to him hot and heavy
for speaking TO me like that IN
public"
/ It was spat about going to the
Grand National with a Mr. Albert
Briefly, who had been stopping az the
same hotel with them
It was about the same time that
Mrs Maybrick said that she hated her
husband
But this all came out later. Nobody
suspected anything was out of the
way, Nobody knew there was an
Albert Briefly
Maybri2k Falls Sick.
April p, 1889, Mr. Maybrlck began
to get sick He had just come back
from the Wirall races where he had
gol chilled He took some medicine
prescribed by n Or. Suler. Of London
ard dispensed by local chemist lie
was a great man to take medicine any.
how. Mrs Maybrick nmsed him and
rubbed his hands when be complained
Io numbness, and called him her silly
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21
MAKING OF cHAMols SKINS.
Long Process Before They Are Ready
for Toilet or Other Uses.

Science News--The sheepskin ~
first washed and the flesh side scraped
thoroughly to remove the feshy fibers
then the wet skins are hung IN warm
room for about week and "sweated
This loosens the wool so that most OF
IL can be pulled out easily The skins
are then soaked in milk of lime "a
loosen the rest Of the wool and n
swell the fbers and split them into
their constituent fbrlls
After lining the hair Is all removed
and the absorbed lime Is neutralized
with boric or hydrochloric acid and
the skin Is split into two thlcknesses
The outer Or grain side Is used for tie
manufacture Of thin. fancy feathers
used In bookblnding, ete.. while the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21
AFTER THE YALu BATTLE.

F. A Mckenzie in London Mail
The army surgeons We're busy. Field
hospitals were run up the German,
trained medical men, alert and cool,
opened their cases of instruments,
and the quick work began. No time
for dainty delay or tinicking hesitation
here.
The field surgeon needs to be one
prompt to think and to act Men were
dying around, every moment must be
paid for in human lives, and what was
to be done must be done quickly.
Here was no Joy of war. He who
sings of the delights of battle has not
stood in the hospital tent while the
wrecks made by man warning against
man are being patched up.
Cossack in gray shirt lay still be
side his erstwhile adversary in blue
coat. The Japanese was carried along
in the stretcher close to the Siberian
infantryman, the one shot through the
leg, the other in the side.
The first raised himself on his
shoulder and gaZed, smiling hopefully
and bravely, at the other, who could
do no more than turn his head. His
looks strove to make clear his
thoughts to the man of unintelligible
speech. They were thoughts, If face
proclaimed truly, not of triumph but
OF solderly cheer, echoing that il
bodies were not hulks duty had been
done.
Here lay young infantry man, his
face wearing in death look OF child
ish wonderment, his bayoneted rifle
close to him-where it had dropped
from his sharply paralyzed hand. His
legs were half drawn up, as his
muscles had spontaneously contracted
in the moment after he was struck
and before death took him.
Here was a Russian officer, his
slver-laced coat ripped off and thrown
by the doctors lightly over him, his
face graved with pain, every half-con,
scious thought merged in one de-
termination not to show signs of his
agony before his nations foes. A
japanese, whose uniform proclaimed
him high in the general staff, came up
and spoke gently and pitifully to him
in his own tongue. The surgeon
touched the shattered limb, and the
man was wrung with sharp pain MY
Cod he called, his clenched and DIT
lips opening and forcing, the words
from him, despite his volition, mot
that" And then the man was mas.
ter of himself again, and there was
silence.
Heaven help us, my masters It's a
sorry world.
Close to him lay German-speaking
Russian, shot through the shoulder
and through the head What brought
him from his Polish or Lithuanian
province? His mind went back to the
smoke curling from his own little
kitchen, and to the one woman in the
world praying there that night for
him, and waiting for his return,
"Meine lelibe he moaned My love,
my love- His voice sank to a NUT
tered prayer Then he started up. and
sought to raise himself "Wassar,
wasser' his hoarse and scarce
audible voice croaked A Japanese
soldier ran to fill a tin pannikin, an
Irishman by my side raised the mans
head as tenderly as though he had
been a woman and water came. with
It's momentary abatement of agony,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

chiefly to be utilized fm the transpor.
tatian Of passengers and mail, thus
covering the regular mail-coach routes.
In addition another class of smaller
cars VIII be built, INTENDED to deliver
and collect mail matter, and possibly
also freight at points having no rail.
road connection.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

Friend--W What makes yon think Tom
has broken HIS promise 70 keep
straight
Flancee- Well he brings me more
expensive presents than he used to-
Princeton Tiger
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

suited for all purposes Of toilet ~
cleansing uses,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-21

4airpins In an Old Roman BATH.
Women used to lose their hairpIns a
thousand years ago much in the same
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-16
Benny Gray-Back, a Pet from the Woods.

What forlorn baby squirrel it that Rob found,
wet and cold in the the foot of the tree
His natural guardian had fallen victim to in
the hands amateur sportsman, other babe
had already died OF cold and starvation.
will he eat milk, mother?" queried Rob, after
warming it in his hands and finding signs of life But
experiment proved poor founding could eat
nothing that was offered him. day the at
warm.
Then he seemed to rally bit, and Mrs. Strong
dipped bit OF twisted cloth into sweet cream and
forced it into the little mouth He ate greedily until
half teaspoonful taken, and the problem Of
nutrition solved
He grew rapidly after this, and was running
around the rooms jumping upon shelves or tables,
and running the shoulders of the children. He
named Benny, and not slow to learn that
when this called something good waiting
for him. Rob took him out to the big maple in the
yard and the little fellow showed inherited memories
and quick instinct by climbing to the higher branches
always returning however, at the well-known call.
fond of hiding in his masters pocket with his
head out, perhaps only his nose The sharp little
and visitor sent him promptly into his favorite
refuge.
On waking in the morning, after eating, he
fond of sitting in the sunlight the window sill, and
there would his toilet by washing his face
just a kitten does. he had perfect freedom
he often missing for days together. He seemed
to take long rambles in the adjoining woods and
then back thin in flesh, with a marvellous
appetite
He missing long time that thought
surely he had deserted his friends, but day
Strong in large clothes press when heard a
familiar chuckle, and after extended search she
discovered Ben curled up in the pocket Of dressing
gown. Another favorite hiding place the of a
mans sipper-ths peculiarly attractive for some
The autumn days came with russell tinge upon the
trees and soft haze in the atmosphere. Nuts were
falling in the woods, and long vstas opened
before the eyes of the furry folk Ben evidently
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-16
HOW JUNIORS EARN MONEY
Rushing thrifty of water routes One
way pennies.

r HREE small boys may be every day In a Ger
tain part Minneapolis trudgng cheerfully across
dusty square with three small carts rafting behind
them. The small carts laden with shiny brown
stone jugs holding gallon apiece, and being very
would be surprising, indeed II the
wheels did not complain and then about the size
of the load. And the boys small boys no doubt
they pant good deal they drag their loads up hill
and down dale.
They are water carriers, and shiny brown stone
jugs contain sparkling liquid fresh from artesian
Water carriers of the orient exceedingly pic
turesque their mousecoored donkeys with water
skins pannierfashon are so quaint as to
look twice and then twist his head way round
to look again. But nobody would ever think OF look
ing for a mouse donkey with water-skins
the of such up-and- doing city as Mnneapo-
lis, dear not Instead he would look for big zinc
wagon painted blushing red. and in so looking he
would probably gaze heads of these boy water
carriers this is a comparatively new field for
Juniors who want to earn money during vacation
This particular company of Junior water car
good deal of commentator for the very
practical they set about going into business They
carts themselves out of drygoods boxes and
any available wheels, of the vehicles having ele-
giant rubber. tired wheels from babys cast-o gocart
1t is not business either for the water has to
be hauled mile or more 10 the customers oii iot
days anything fun, it would not be if the
did not realize that they in business for them
and that their efforts depends the size
the pile of and nickels and dimes In their
home savings banks The pile is SMALL at best, for
eight customers at gallon two apiece daily,
do not very large weekly income. Still 80
dollar week not amounts to turn ones
at, especially when it is earned by real hard
work.
One of these another part of town
does business on larger SCALE He has fitted
express with zinc tank holding 30 gallons, and
having faucet in the for drawing it off, He has
customers, three-fourths of whom served
daily and his weekly proceeds amount to about $3.50
That is not always clear gain however as he occa-
sonally finds business rushing that he not at
personally, is forced to send supply
wagons in charge of little boys out short trips
brisk this time of year, the daily round
is brsler carriers all
the trade they can handle Nina B. Price