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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21
8lDW ELL.

Bidwell. May 10. - A. N Hendricks
is suffering with rheumatism
Mrs. Geo. II. Chisman and daughter
Beulah, returned Saturday on No. 5
from a brief visit with relatives in
OttumWa.
Charley Woods of Bobtown, visited
relatives in this community last week.
Miss Stella Potter visited friends in
High Point few days last week
Harve Grooms and Frank Smith will
complete the large new barn for Henry
Oswald this week
A surprise party was planned and
successfully carried out by Mrs. Lot.
tie Potter, in honor of her daughter and
son, Stella and Lowell Sunday even.
ing. The crowd left at eleven o'clock
all feeling they had spent a most de.
lightful evening. Those present were /:
Misses Mollie Odenbaugh, Fannie vii.
liams, Messrs. Earl Apley, Roy Gates
Harve Grooms, Burk Williams, Howard
Apley and Frank Johnston.
Willie, the Oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs Omer Johnston, accidentally fell
from she'd Saturday afternoon and
broke his right arm. DR.. Rambo OF
Chillicothe reduced the fracture. He
is thought to be getting along quite
we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Baldwell of
MunIerville, were Sunday guests al
the Selmon Lewis home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Webb of Blakes
burg, are enjoying visit at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Lottie Potter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas Johnston in com
pany with Miss Navy Small, visited
Sunday at Willard Ups in Blakes
burg.
The little granddaughter of Mrs
GlentZer is quite i'll with the lung fever
DR.. Will Newell of Ottumwa is attend
ing her.
Fred Smith of Pleasant Home. was
a visitor at the parental home Mon
day.
Douglass Chisman of South Ottum
wa, was q business caller here Tues
day.
Newton Grooms arrived home yes.
terday on No. 8 after q short business
trip in Ottumwa.
Mrs Catharine Lewis has had her
cottage moved to her property in Bid
well and has moved into the same.
Mrs. j. e. Perry and daughter of
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cHEoUEsT.


Chequest, May 19.-Rev. Win. Heger,
OF White Elm, preached a very able
ana interesting sermon at Union Sun
day to a very large and attentive con-
gregat1on. He will preach again in
two weeks.
DR.. Bassett. of Leando, was a pro-
fesslonal caller at the Ike Pool home
IN this place Sunday night.
County Auditor C. c. Rambo, wife
and little daughter Mary, and Mr..
Chas. kunzman and family, and Mr.
John Smith and family We're Sunday
visitors at j. E. Shaffer's.
w. B. Strait, wife and daughters
Misses Ora and Bessie took dinner
Sunday with the family of A. E. Nc
Cullough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Rambo, of Douds
visited Sunday at the parental G. w
Rambo home in Chequest.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Mccullough and
Mr.. and Mrs. o. o. Mccullough attend
ed the funeral of their cousin, Ira Nc
Cullough, near Selma, Tuesday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Pollock ane
daughter Cora spent over Sunday witt
friends and relatives near Liberty.
vile.
Messrs. w. HI. Harryman, Jr.. anc
Seth Harryman We're in the vicinity o.
Lebanon Tuesday on business.
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MAPLE GROVE.

Maple Grove. May 10. - Mrs. c. NJ.
DuVall spent Tuesday with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Dodd arrived
from Toledo, Monday for a few days
visit at the home of Mr.. Dodd's par.
ents.
Miss Maude Lowell returned TO her
home Sunday after a stay of several
months with her grandmother near
Unionville.
Several from here attended the base
ball game at Udell Sunday.
DR.. Smith was called to this place
Monday evening by the serious illness
OF Mr.. and Mrs. belongs baby.
A number Of young people from this
place attended the ice cream supper
at the Presbyterian church in Union
vile Tuesday night
School is progressing nicely under
the management of Miss Tarr.
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WEST VAN BUREN,.

West Van Buren,. May 1S.-Rev.
Heges, of White Elm, delivered a
grand discourse at the Union school
house Sunday after Sabbath school.
A few from this place attended the
Ira Mccullough funeral near Selma
last Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs Will Strait gave a
surprise party at their home Thurs
day evening in honor of their daughter
Katle's birthday, An enjoyable time
was passed by all.
Perry Keller has been spending a
few days recently with his son-inlaw,
0. Q. Mccullough.
Grant Hinshaw and family visited
c. R. Hinshaw and family Sunday.
Mrs. Ploss and son Tony, of White
Elm, visited relatives at this place
Sunday.
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NORWOOD.

Norwood, May 1s.-Rev. Dunn and
daughter, of Tacoma, We're guests of
Norwood friends the first of the week.
Miss Grace Wallace returned home
last week.
A few of Myrtle Eastman's pupils
took part in the spelling contest at
Charlton last Saturday Those who
went We're: Hattie Ashley, Bina Wal
lace, Oral Baxter, Tommy Arnold and
Wayne and Robert Close.
Mr.. Mitchman and wife We're Sun
day guests at S. +. Pennington's.
w. E. Ashby spent Sunday with his
wife and children
Cleve Haley and wife ate Sunday
dinner with E. J. Benway and wife.
There was only 80 present at Sun
day school Sunday afternoon.
Dick Pedigo. who is in business in
Charlton, spent Saturday and Sunday
with his wife and mother.
Garfield Crawford and Miss Lulu
spent Sunday with Garfeld's parents.
Several of the good people believing
that cleanliness is next to goodness
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{.
Yomah. Wis, will occupy the residence
vacated by Mrs. Lewis.
otto Lock visited friends in Ottum'
wa recently.
MISS Bessie Fisk who has been stay
ING at the Newton Johnston residence
and attending school in Chillicothe, re-
turned home Sunday.
Burk Williams and Ernest Smith at,
tended a grand ball in Willard Satur-
day night.
+. -. Perry began work again Mon.
DAY for the c., M. & St. P. as day op'
orator after an extended vacation. f.
u. Bell who had been working in his
place has been removed to Bramer. Mo
MI and Mrs. Everett Johnston de-
parted Tuesday over the Milwaukee for
Smith Center, Kansas, to make brief
sojourn with relatives.
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LEAN AND FAT YEARS.

Since the days of Pharaoh there have
been fat and lean years-years when
untimely frosts, floods, droughts and
insect pests have been held in abey-
ance, and nature. unfettered, has load
ed the land with her bounty. Then come
the lean years, when all goes wrong,
when floods overwhelm or drought
parches up or frost nips things coming
and going-years when the farm toll
has been all in vain. 1t will always be
this way, and the only fair way in
which to estimate the dividends of the
farm is to take series of years. This
country is so large and is possessed of
such variety of climatic conditions
that as a whole there never can be a
general crop failure. Neither will any
one year bring agricultural prosperity
to all sections
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MYSTIC.

Mystic, May 1S.-Mr. and Mrs. r. I
Reece, of Ottumwa, arrived Friday fol
a visit with relatives.
A. R. Scott has just completed ce
ment walk in front of his business
block.
The band boys gave an open air con,
cert Friday evening.
The pupils from the eighth and
ninth grades were entertained Friday
night by Miss Mary Llewellyn, at he1
home in the east part of town.
Graduating exercises will be held
May 81.
James Colagan went to Abba Thurs
day evening.
There will be union missionary lee.
ture given at the Methodist Episcopal
church Sunday evening.
Dr. Fenton from Lancaster, Mo-, has
located in the city
Work is very slack here. at present,
Some of the mines have shut down
for the summer.
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5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
100000 oooooooooo<
SIGOURNEY.

Sigourney. May 1S.-Great interest
is being manifested by Keokuk county
young people in the educational ex-
cursion planned by the county super
lntendent of schools. More than the
number required to secure the low
rates have reported as going.
Robert Juggenheimer is moving to
Oskaloosa. Bert Richardson takes
his place in the west side cloth
ing store, and ]. J. Rathbun takes the
position made vacant in j. S. Whites
grocery by Mr.. Richardson's change.
F. H. Maryland has opened up a
branch store in Delta.
Glen Selby had a runaway Saturday
The horse became excited on the post
office corner, kicked itself loose from
the buggy and ran through the hitch
rack around the court house ward. Not
much damage was done except to the
buggy.
Several republicans left last night
for Des Moines to attend the state
convention
Sigourney township has three pros
pective candidates for the office OF
county attorney on the republican
ticket and there promises to be live
ly time in the township convention
to select delegates to the county con-
vention.
NJ. l.. Hostetter told crowd of peo-
pie at the Christian church about his
"Misspent Life" No charges at the
door, but contributions accepted on
the inside.
Mrs. Lulu Ottenweller. sister of the
county recorder, has sold her millin.
cry business at Harlan. She is here
to visit and expects to stay about on,
month and then she will go for visi
at the parental home in Warsaw, In
diana. y
Frank Bashaw and family moved
from this town to Fairfield today.
Court adjourned Tuesday at Il
O'clock until next Monday. This is
part of the April term and will con
tinue from time to time during tn
summer.
A. c. Brady, of Richland, passe,
through Sigourney yesterday on hi.
way to the state convention.
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DUNREATH.

Dunreath, May 1S-Mrs Bessie Low
ensluger is on the sick list
Miss Clara Love went Sunday even
ing up near Runnells where she will
work.
Will Mayors moved his family from
where he has been living out at the
mine No. 2 to town Saturday
Mrs. Lucy Nichols went Monday
morning in the country north of town
of this place.
Peter Carey was Red Rock caller
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Buttery from
south of this place, was in town Tues
day
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BUTLER.

Butler, May 19.-Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Lawson and Miss Myrtle Bergman
were shopping in Ottumwa Saturday.
Mrs. J. c. Watts was caller at Jno.
Darner's Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Thomas, of Eldon, and daugh7
ter, Mrs. Waite and children. of Chi
cago, are visiting at Chas. Crawford's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Lawson and j. M.
Arganbright We're Sunday visitors at
Fred Bergman's.
Lulu We're in Hedrick Wednesday ev-
ening.
Mrs. Chas. Crawford and Miss Ella
Burgess were in Hedrick Wednesday.
Eighteen of Agnes Arganbrights
schoolmates of Ottumwa took dinner
with her Sunday at her home.
Roy Scott, of Hedrick, was at Butler
Tuesday.
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BATAVIA.

Batavia, May 1S.-Arthur Davidson,
of Chicago, is paying visit to his
home folks.
Edgar Under returned to his home
in Libertyville after an extended visit
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Farmer.
Milan Mott, of Stockport, spent Sun
day with his mother here.
Jacob Stepleton, southeast of town,
is reported quite sick with pneumonia.
W. A. Lewis will soon have the Hill
property ready to live in after several
days work remodeling and improving.
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klRkvIlLE.

Kirkville, May 10. - Mrs. James
Stephenson, of Kirksville, Mo, and Mrs.
w. T. Percy of Mountain View, Okla,
came in on the hack on Wednesday
May IS.
Mrs. Percy will move into her home
here and stay all summer.
There was free lecture in the town
hall last night. Charles C. Fairchild
speaking.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

repaired to the church last Saturday
and gave that edifice a thorough
cleaning and busting. Such efforts
should be appreciated by the public.
Basket meeting next Sunday at
Norwood. Everybody Is earnestly
urged to be present
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

A reader in southern Iowa wishes to
know which are the best varieties of
timber to plant for future fence post
timber. We would suggest red cedar,
black walnut, black locust, catalpa,
Usage orange, oil durable post timber.
The cedar, walnut and Usage orange
will take twenty years growth before
being available. while the locust and
catalpa will take from ten to twelve
years. The cedar alone may be grown
on billy or poor soils. the other should
have the best soil on the farm. The
Usage orange. while it makes crooked
and ungainly post, + at the same time
practically indestructible one The
quickest and easiest way to grow fence
posts is TO grow the white willow. cut
and peel in June. then season and soak
the butt in boiling hot coal tar before
setting out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

If your cows milk brings you in 50,
year she just pays her board. If sh,
brings you in $50 year she is an ami
NAL well worth $40.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

If you want fine and tender lettuce
set some young plants out in rich
and mellow soil and let them grow and
head up like cabbage.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The possession of cyclone cave and
a lightning rod often does much to
steady the nerves of those who are
afraid Of June winds and electric dis
plays.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

A friend tells us that If the ground
under plum tree is given good coat.
ing Of hen manure the curculio will
let the tree alone. We will give this
a trial and report.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The gopher which pulls up your corn
puts in good part of his time digging
the cutworms out of that which he
leaves.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

1t is rare that man plants tree
and does not take real pleasure in
watching Its growth and development.
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Trades unionism carried to extremes
is literally running New Zealand.

Strawberries are 81 per cent water.
Thank the Lord for the other per
cent!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The housekeeper who has only sof
coal for fuel in the kitchen has hare
job to keep things clean and neat
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21
THE SEXTON BRIGADE.

The undertaken and sexton each sus-
tains an important relation to man, end
grim and uncanny though their mis-
sion msy be it is none the less indis-
pensable. 1t is very interesting to note
in what an efficient way the same line
of service is provided for in the world
of nature. Here is a tree smitten by
lightning stroke or drought or old age,
and no sooner is its death assured
than beetle and borer make for it and
deposit their larvae, they quickly fol-
lowed by the woodpeeker, which, seek
ing such larvae for food, rends and
tears the dead tree, permitting the in
gress Of the rain, which still further
hastens the process Of decay, Here
lies dead bird or mouse, and il you
will watch you may see the sexton
beetle at work, laboriously digging
under the dead thing until a shallow
grave is made for it, then covering it
ur with earth after deposltlng clutch
OF beetle eggs in the carcass. Here are
the buzzard of the south country and
the vulture, in some mysterious man.
ner detecting either by sight or scent
from their sailing arena in the mile
high sky the animal from which life
has just departed and by some intri-
cate system Of buzzard telegraphy
summoning their fellows from far and
near, until few hours see but clean
picked pile Of bones. Nature is SO full
of life-life ever new and strenuous
that there is no place for the dead, and
save as the ice sheet may have en-
tombed some prehistoric mammoth or
some coal measure have captured the
delicate impression of the vegetation
| from which it was formed or some sea
floor become petrified into solid rock,
sealing up the diversified life Of the
ocean bed for biologists to wrangle
over, nature rarely speaks of her dead,
death in the natural world being
speedy obliteration.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

We wonder if the boys and girls ever
noticed that when a dove drinks ii
drinks just like a horse and never
takes sip of water and throws up its
head like most birds. You watch one
drink and see.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Cold storage eggs have gone into the
coolers this year at 1872 cents, and the
demand for this purpose has been sc
sharp that the producers have received
the best prices in years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The dry May makes the light hay
crop. There is one thing about the
light crop Of hay-what is secured j:
worth a third more than the rank
mushy growth Of wet season.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Poultry raisers bring in a justiflable
Indictment against the crow. This
black pest will make wretched work
with little chicks and is far more to be
feared than any Of our hawks. The
house cat also and the barn rat have
to be watched.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Where extra horses have to be kept in
reserve for emergencies in farm work
they should always be well bred draft
mares which can bring their owner a
good colt each year. The unused geld
ing is very improbable animal to
have on the farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21
WILDWOOD AND rANGLE.

Not the rarest skill Of the landscape
gardener is ever able to produce in
the grouping and development Of tree
and plant such exquisite harmony Of
setting and color as nature does in her
seemingly careless and Indifferent
way. A glen in the woods untouched
by the iconoclastic hand of man, a
wooded hillside, the craggy bank of a
river, a mountain meadow. some cathe-
dral aisle Of primeyal forest, the set
ting Of some lake or pond. the firing
ing of the timber tract as it blends
with the prairie, to the lover of nature
each presents evidence of her harmoni-
GUS and artistic work, and no land
scape gardening is SO attractive as that
which closely follows these models.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The biggest joke of the season on the
United States has been that we have
been dependent on old Ireland for our
potatoes since the middle Of winter
that is, the people Of eastern cities
have.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The predictions of any man thirty
Gays ahead on the weather are abso-
lutely valueless.
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BACTERIA AND BIG CROPS.

BACTERIA AND BIG CROPS.
Nitrogen is the most expensive and
at the same time the most valuable
Of all elements of soil fertility, and
nothing in nature is more abundant,
for the very air which we breathe is
made up Of four parts of nitrogen out
Of five. How to get this nitrogen front
the air and into the soil has been the
great problem of agriculture for ages.
Nature has provided way, however
one of her subtle and mysterious proc
esses, by which this may be done-giv-
en- us q group of plant life, the legumes,
which possess the curious power
through the agency of bacteria work
ing on their roots of drawing this ni-
trogen from the air and depositing it in
the soil as future supply of plant
food. This work is the mission of the
clovers, alfalfa, beans, peas and scores
of other widely different forms and
types of the legume family. Most men,
however ignorant in an agricultural
way, know that the application of
twelve loads of stable manure to an
acre of land will greatly increase the
crop grown on such land, but only a
few know that giving the same acre a
clover rotation, keeping it in clover for
two years, or during the natural life Of
the clover plant, will put as much fer
tility into the soil as by the manuring
process. This is the best and the cheap
est way to restore lost fertility to the
soil.
| CROPS FOR sEMIARID SECTIONS.
| The best authorities agree on the
fact that the country west of the one
hundredth degree of west longitude,
which is line easily traced on any
map and which bisects the two Dako-
tas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and
Texas, lies outside the territory where
the annual rainfall is sufficient to in
sure the success of ordinary crops.
During the past few years, however,
certain cereals and plants have been
introduced into the seniarid belt which
bid fair to regenerate much of that
country. There are the bronze grass for
pasture, alfalfa for hay, speltz to take
the place of oats, Kaffir corn to take
+ the place of Indian corn, macaroni
wheat for the wheatfelds, and the Sc
lection of such land for agricultural
use is no longer the hopeless problem
it was ten years ago
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Talk about reproduction! The cod
fish, which deposits 100000 eggs. is not
in the game with the common house
fly, which, if unhindered, would be
the progenitor of 100000 pesky flies
during the summer season.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The handsome prize of $4,000 is Of
fered for a process which will utilize
California grapes containing over 20
per cent of saccharine matter in the
production Of tartaric acid. This prop
csition has so far baffled the expert
chemists Of the country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

If the small boys in your neighbor.
hood do not like you it is not best for
you to plant melon patch very far
from your house, for there is no way
to the small boy which seems so proper
to get even with the cross old man as
to take it out in melons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The banana trade Of this country is
becoming very large, though just why
people have such hankering for such
tasteless fruit we could never I'M
derstand. or the 21,O0O,O0O punches
of bananas raised in Costa RIGA and
neighboring territory the United States
takes 2O,OOO,0OO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Because the high wheeled wagon
runs easier than the one with low
wheels it does not follow that the disk
harrow with eighteen inch disks runs
easier than the one with disks Of four
teen inches, the latter being Of much
lighter draft than the former, doing
the same work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

The state of Florida promises $780,
600 boxes of fine oranges for the next
crop. Inasmuch as this Florida fruit
is able to secure water transportation
instead of the long and expensive rail
way haul from the coast, it goes with
out saying that the Florida orange
grower has the advantage of his Cali
fornia brother.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

Where a man is able and knows
enough to work old bossy, old biddy
and good garden in happy conjunc-
ton, he is assured of more than half
the living for himself and family.
More good men should know how to do
this, for it would pay better than strik-
ing for higher wages or joining union.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-21

A western pastor who found it need
full to exc out small salary with a
little intensive agriculture writes US
that upon the parsonage grounds, COM
prising one acre Of land, the usual
area of it occupied with house. barn.
lawn, corncrib and outhouses. he grew
In one season 50 bushels of potatoes, IL
bushels of beets, 5 of carrots. 9 Of
kohl rabbi. of sweet corn. of turnips.
4 Of satisfy. of cucumbers. of pep
pers, bushels of grapes. 1GO quarts
of blackberries. 60 quarts of strawber-
, ries. 300 good heads OF cabbage. He
was fortunate that when his granger
supporters saw what he could do they
did not cut his salary down.