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Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11

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Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11
THE AwFuI.NEss or LONDON.

aIai@ ~ W = 1AfAftst'tf ~ 'fN>ete 49,
| find when speak in London II
is enough to fill all my thoughts. The
other day Scottish workingman
whom I have known for many years
paid his first visit to London although
he Is. think, about my own age, and
he wrote to me his impression OF this,
city.
He said London Is an awful place.
SO full of life and death. do not
know that among any OF the rhetori-
cel and eloquent descriptions ! lave
read of London anything has Inn
pressed me so much with their truth,
their vivid truth, as those simple
words. 1t Is an awful place--full Of
life and death. Every year there are
born into London I3a 900 lives; every
year there are in London $4,000
deaths great armies both coming in
aud passing forth. Lord Rosebery In
recent speech.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11

Detroit Aich., 1901
S Coar7bns,
s. is M
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11

nav h'tAb ttb liiiittuiltsiy uDDi1 tho
congested mucous membrane, restoring
1t to its normal state, would conseauent-
ly cure all these diseases. Catarrh il
eatarrs wherever located, whether II he
in the head, throat, lungs, stomach, kid
neys or pelvic organs. A remedy that
will cure 1t In one location will cure 1t
in all locations.
Tie Sisters Find Pe-rb-na Never Fail
Ing Safeguard
Peruna Is such q remedy. The Sisters
of Charity know this. When catarrhal
diseases make their appearance they are
not disconnected, but know exactly what
remedy to use. These wise and prudent
Sisters have found Peruna a never-fail-
ing safeguard. They realize that when
a disease is Of q catarrhal nature, Peruna
Is the remedy. Dyspepsia and female
weakness are considered by many TO DO
entirely different diseases. That dyspep-
STA is catarrh of the stomach and female
weakness is due TO catarrh of the pelvic
organs the Sisters are fully aware, cen
sequently Peruna is their remedy in both
these very common and annoying dis
| eases.
II you do not derive prompt and sads-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement Of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
| vice gratis.
Address Or. Hartman, President az
The Hartman Sanitariuln, Columbus,
! Ohio
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11
FOR SALE

One hundred high grade stock
steers and calves. one mile north o
Vanclevesville.
Robert l.. Van Metre
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11

as trained nurses in
their treatment OF dis
eases and are locked
upon as passengers
OF good c h eer by
countless patient suf-
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-11-11
SISTERS OF CHARITY
All Over United States Use Pe-ru-na
for Catarrh.

From a Catholic Institution In Ot,io
comes the following recommend from,
the Sister SUPERIOR:
"Some years ago a friend of our in
sGtnt!cH recommended 10 us Dir. Hart
mans Peruna as an excellent remedy
for the influenza of which we then had
several cases which threatened TO be
of a serious character.
awe began to use 1t and experienced
such wonderful results that since then
Peruna has become our faYorife medi-
cine for influenza, cataTf1, cod, cough
and bronchitis.
SISTER SUPERIOR.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
cArALpA FOR POSTS.

We have two or three inquiries as
to the value Of the catalpa as tree!
to be planted for post timber. Where
it will do well it is one of the most
valuable of trees for this purpose. TT
combines rapid growth with great
durability when used for this pur-I
pose. A tree planted fifteen years ago
by near neighbor on his lawn meas
ures ten inches through at the butt
and will furnish two post cuts or al
total of at least six first class posts.
North of latitude 40 there is some
difficulty in getting the tree well start
ed owing to the extreme cold Of the
winters killing the new growth back,
but after the tree gets six years old 1t
becomes harder and from that time on
seems to be as hardy as bur oak.
1t likes best rich and moist soil,
and there are hundreds of thousands
Of waste acres all over the country
which could not be put to better use
than to plant them with catalpa trees.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
THE SANDY FARM.

A friend writes us that last winter
he was persuaded to buy small farm.
when the ground was covered with
snow, on the representation of the
owner that it was good piece of land.
When the snow went off he made the
discovery that instead Of being good
soil 1t was sandy and almost worthless
for cultivation. The; funny thing was
that he was inclined to take the sellers
word as to the quality of the soil be-,
cause the man, his wife and twelve
children had made living on the farm,
for three years previously. Our tiend
wants to know what to do with this
poor soil. We have before said that a
sandy farm was by all odds the hardest
sort of farm proposition to handle.
The wet farm can be drained, the stump
and stony farm can be cleared, the
stiff clay farm can be rendered pro-
ductive by clover, manure and pasture.
| In Wisconsin the owners of sandy
farms are meeting with some success by
growing clover, rye and potatoes. By
a clover rotation every fifth year suffl-
cient humus and fertility are worked
into the sand so that it will grow a
good crop Of potatoes once in five years.
! We know Of nothing better than clover,
or possibly alfalfa, to use to get such
/; soils into productive shape.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
wYLLows AND swAMps.

We came across lately what we knew
thirty years ago as muskeg swamp,
Of four acres, an undrainable and ut.
terly worthless and unproductive plot
of land upon an otherwise good farm.
The owner, finding he could not drain
the swamp for lack Of outlet, did a.
novel thing. He waded in and stuck
cuttings Of the common white willow
all over it-this probably about twenty
years ago. AS we saw the old swamp
the other day the water stood three
feet deep all among as fine grove of.
thrifty willows as we ever saw, trees
forty feet high and almost a foot
through. The old bog, SO worthless,I
had been converted into very valua4
BILE timber tract which would furnish
at least sixty cords Of wood to the
acre and when cut off would imme-
diately proceed to renew itself. This
is novel type of forestry, but none
/, the less valuable for all that Thou
sands of farms all over the west offer
the chance for experiments as above
| Indicated
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
LIGHTNING LOSSES.

The season for lightning losses is at,
hand. A large share Of. the losses
which the farmers mutual insurance
companies are called upon to pay is
caused by loss of stock by lightning.
This results from the almost UNIVERSAL
use of wire fencing for the pastures
and the failure to properly ground the
wires, the wire on the fence being able
to carry a current heavy enough to
kill stock a half mile from the point
of discharge. A crowbar, some short
pieces Of wire, and a man can protect
any ordinary pasture in half day. A
piece of wire attached to the fence
wire put in the ground to depth Of
three feet will do the work If placed
every thirty or forty rods along the
fence
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

@1HORPE walked through the 81
lent group Of men without see
ing them. he had no thought
for what he had done, but for
the triumphant discovery he had made
in spite Of himself
1t was then about 6 o'clock in the
morning. Thorpe passed the board
ing house, the store and the Office, to
take himself as far as the little open
shed that served as railway station.
There he set the semaphore to flag the
east bound train from Duluth. At $780,
the train happening on time, he climb.
ed aboard. He dropped heavily into a
seat and stared straight in front OF
him until the conductor had spoken to
him twice.
where to, Mr.. Thorpe?" he asked.
ooh! Mackinaw City"
Thorpe descended at Mackinaw CITY
to find that the noon train had gone
He ate lunch at the hotel. borrowed
500 from the agent of Louis Sands. &
lumberman of his acquaintance, and
seated himself rigidly in the little wait
ing room, there to remain until the 9:2(
that night. When the cars were backed
down from the siding he boarded the
sleeper. In the doorway stood disap
proving colored porter.
"Yo'll fin the smokin' cab up fowu'd
sah." said the latter firmly barring til,
way.
| ITS generally forward answered
Thorpe.
"This yeaTs the sleepah," protested
! the functionary. "Yo' pays extry"
81 am aware of it," replied Thorp
CURLY. "Give me lower"
eyes, sah,' acquiesced the darky
giving way. but still in doubt. He fol
lowed Thorpe cautiously, peering int
the smoking room on him from time t
| time. A little after u his patienc
gave out. The stolid, gloomy man o
lower 6 seemed TO intend sitting up al
night.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
TRAMps AND srAnyAr1or.

A friend is disposed to criticise our
starvation remedy for the tramp nui-i
sance as un-C Christian. Desperate dis
eases demand heroic treatment. The
money changers were scourged out Of.
the temple, not coaxed or invited; the,
scribes and lawyers were anathema-,
tized. not pleaded with; Ananias was.
struck dead for lying. The average
tramp is in no sense the product Of un-'
healthy economic conditions, but just
parasite who will live on the labor
of others just so long as they will let
him-just hungry because he is lazy,
just lazy because he hates to work,
just unclean and repulsive because,
with human intelligence degraded, he
lacks an animal instinct to take its
place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
WHY WAS THIS THUS,

In a Minnesota town two men were,
running for an important local Office
last fall. one young lawyer who was
a typical son Of the soil, having been
raised on farm, had no bad habits,
was almost an ideal young man and
was an enterprising and public spirited
fellow, who paid out lots of money to-
the laboring element Of the community.
His opponent was blacksmith, whose
earnings went largely to the saloon
keeper, who never spent cent for
the town and paid no taxes. When the!
vote was counted the blacksmith had
GO per cent Of the votes. The explana-
ton Of this is that the American people
in matters of this sort are quite often
natural born fools.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The problem Of good roads does not
bother those countries which do not
have over twenty inches Of rainfall.
Good roads are one Of the compensa-
lions for drought.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The tsetse fly, fly no bigger than
a common house fly, is the great
scourge of South Africa, and has done
more to retard the white mans con-
quest of that country than any other
one thing. 1t is death to stock.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The three months of winter when
the man ON the southern farm can do
any sort of farm work give him a
very permanent and distinct advan-
tage over his northern brother, who
during that period can do nothing but
stuff stoves and stock and consume
the earnings Of the previous year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

One hundred and forty skunks and
civet cats were trapped the past winter
on one Iowa farm. Sweet scented
place that.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

1t is worth noting that during the
month of February last only $4,000
bushels of wheat left Atlantic ports for
Europe, while 1,1S7,954 bushels went
from ports on the gulf of Mexico.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

For the flower garden there is no soil
so nice as the upper four inches Of any
timbered bottom land.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The good horse and the good boy are
quite likely to both belong to the good
man. They are one of his earthly re-
wards.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The hog which will not eat is a pref
ty sick hog-been sick for week, prob
ably.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Nothing is better for filling the silo
than common field corn. While special
types of fodder corn, clover, alfalfa,
cowpeas and other green stuff may be
kept in the silo, the field corn will be
found to be the most satisfactory.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

1t is of small profit to work hard to
plant 50 worth of garden seeds and
then depend upon scythe to keep the
garden clean.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

If you have an evergreen grove, you
will be sure to have lots Of mourning
doves, which will seek the grove of
conifers as breeding place. You may
also have crows, which like such q
grove equally well, and that is a null
sance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

A hotbed which only took couple of
hours to make was by the middle Of
April furnishing us an abundance Of
nice radishes and lettuce, while there
were, besides, several hundred tomato,
cabbage and pepper plants. cauliaower
and eggplants, enough for our own
use and some for the neighbors. Worth
doing? Well. we should say so.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The actual cost of growing, shipping
and delivering to the retail dealer in
the central west of box of oranges
is 1920 From this it can be seen how
improbable the crop much have been
to the producer the present season.
The average price in New York city
has been $1.S3.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The wild grape, the plum, the rose
bush, the crabapple, all native to our
northern latitude, are extremely hardy.
No extreme Of either heat or cold i'm
pairs their vitality. Perhaps some day
we will develop types Of better fruit
which will possess the same degree Of
hardness. We have not got them as
yet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

We SOW radishes every ten days
from early spring up to July and then
again in September for fall use. In
this way we always have them nice
and tender.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Beet sugar costs nearly twice as
much to produce as cane sugar and al
ways will. The internal revenue tax
on sugar Of about 2 cents a pound is
kept there as burden on the common
people, not because the government ia
in need Of the revenue 1t produces, but
in the interest of the beet sugar grow
ers and the sugar trust. The United
States now has almost unlimited terri
tory wherein may be produced cane
sugar at the lowest possible cost. The
question is, Why should we have to
pay cents pound for sugar when we
might have it for 8 cents?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The sprouted kernel Of oats is ten
der thing, and it is probable that the
early sown crop Of the west, subjected
as it was to very severe freezing after
termination, is seriously injured.
Wheat and rye will stand what oats
will Lot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

There is much agricultural prosper
ity through the hop growing regions
Of the Pacific coast crop Of 1000
pounds Of hops to the acre, worth %
cents pound, being one Of the causes.
A gross return Of $500 per acre for a
field crop is very big thing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

We have been selling lot Of pota-
toes this spring for S1.20 per bushel.
This is the most extravagant price for
murphies we have ever known. No
body can afford to eat them at this
price, and only their use for seed JUS
titles it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Very high prices for any farm COM
modify one year will almost always be
followed by low prices for the same
product the next year, the average man
being fierce to buy high priced seed
and plant largely, thereby Cutting the
market. The best time to take up the
growing Of any special crop is when it
is selling below the cost Of production;
then the same man will not touch it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

All living things have their uses, we
are told, but we know Of some dogs
and some men whose unitarian rela-
ton to the world could be made prop
er subject for debate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

A ten instrument band has been or
gained at Buffalo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

At the average prices for pasture and
feed COW must make at least 100
pounds Of butter in a year to pay for
her keep and care. Unless she will
make more; than this man is worse
off with her than without her.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

In April Of this year man who
lived near the state line between Iowa
and Minnesota could shoot all the
ducks he wanted in Iowa, while he
could not lawfully catch fish, while
in Minnesota he could catch all the
fish he wanted, but could not shoot a
duck This well illustrates the need
of general laws for the protection Of
fish and game.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Patronize the Courier Want Column
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The tramping Of the soil by stock is
absolutely fatal to a large share Of our
forest and fruit trees.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The birds are not always wise. A
few days since we noted pair Of spar
rows engaged in constructing nest in
a crevice between the big rocks form
ing the abutment to bridge crossing
a river. The first rise in the river will
inundate their nest and destroy it.
Theoretically these birds should have
known better, yet, after all, they were
no bigger fools than lots Of men we
know
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17
CHAPTER XIV.

@1HORPE walked through the ST.
lent group Of men without see
ing them. Hc had no thought
for what he had done, but fol
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

1t is of considerable interest to know
that the bacteria associated with the
growth Of sweet clover are identical
with those connected with the growth
Of alfalfa and that the soil on which
the sweet clover grows is just as good
for the purpose Of inoculating field
Of alfalfa as though it had been pro-
cured from field where alfalfa was
we'll established. The sweet clover
may be found in abundance along the
railroad rights of way and by the road
sides all over the west. When young it
looks almost exactly like alfalfa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

In certain town where ample pro-
vision has been made Tor supplying
the horses with water from watering
troughs SO serious has been the loss
Of horses from CHAMBERS, which disease
has been traced to the use Of these
public watering troughs, that the city
council has ordered their removal. 1t
is easy to see how one diseased animal
could do vast deal of harm in this
manner.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Some men still plant by the moon
and swear by the long range weather
prophets.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

The objection to the Leghorn hens is
that they cannot be kept under CONTROL.
driven, herded and secured at night as
can other breeds. They are great
wanderers and foragers, stack strip
pers, tree ROSTERS and garden destroy
ers. No fence stops them. And while for
egg production no breed excels them
they are of little value for the table.
The Wyandottes. white or silver laced;
the Plymouth Rocks, barred or buff,
are better fowls for the average man
than the Leghorns.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Many folks run store bills all their
lives; think they have to. There Is in
every way better method-pay cash
MS you So. 1t will save you 10 per cent
in the long run, 5 per cent in not buy
Ing things and per cent in securing
the lowest prices the grocer or mer-
chant has to offer. If, as so many are
doing, you are eating up this month
that which you expect to earn next
month, do penance and fast for thirty
days, get even, pay cash and eat what
you have earned. This suggestion is
worth good money, at least $25 year,
tn any man who will try it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-17

Not far from where the writer lives
forty men applied for vacancy in the
position of principal Of the schools in
q town of 1000 people; there We're
eighteen applications for the position
Of policeman in another town, while a
storekeeper who wanted clerk and
bookkeeper had twenty-three applica-
tons. At the very same time there
We're scores of farmers wanting to hire
men at good wages, and they could not
get them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-14

She had been much worried over the health
OF her husband. who suffered with diabetes.
reference 10 which was made in recent
telegram from the admiral in which he said
he compelled TO disobey orders as 10
taking regular sleep. The admiral's death
s. also -nourned By his daughter Lille,
beautiful girl Of nineteen. who was the
belle OF Cronstadt. Both mother and
daughter will attend the requiem service at
tF- admiralty church tomorrow.
The coincidence is generally commented
upon that the ice-breaker Yermak. one Of
Vice Admiral Makaroff's greatest triumphs.
steamed majesticany up the Neya to-day.
having cut through the ice from Cron-
stadt. her enormous black hull dwarfing the
warships moored alongside. There's Ste
fan Osipovichs ship" cried the Moujiks,
who knew and loved Makaroff SO well that
they called him by his patronimic.
Rear Admiral ROjestvensh is man OF
an utterly different mold from Vice Ad-
miral Makarof. He is a very able sailor
not so popular with the jackies as was the
dead cCmmander-in-chief
Makaroff is believed TO have been in the
coming tower when the Petropavlovsk was
blown up.
Grand Duke Cyril probably owes his life
TO the fact that he is fine athlete and
splendid swimmer.
Duke Vladimir. will leave tomorrow 10
bring the Grand Duke Cyril home. Nothing
Is known OF the character of the grand
dukes injuries.