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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01
A run Down KENTUcKy FanM


A reader in Kentucky states his case
thus. He moved from the north and
bought run down farm in that state.
OrigiSaally timber and blue grass lad
and gc-sSasS soil, the cropping of
the land with tobacco, hemp and corn
has been so long continued, merciless
and exhaustive, coupled with years of
destructive erosion, that he finds he
has but skeleton Of farm left. He
wants to know how to renoyate the
land. 1t is not an attractive or easy
proposition. Still it may be done, for
1T has been done. If these clay hills
will grow alfalfa, and we think they
will, he should get them seeded down
with this valuable legume as soon as
possible. If not alfalfa, then clover If
clover will not grow he should try cow
peas or possibly the velvet bean. Barn
yard manure should be applied as far
as possible, green crops plowed un-
der, anything to restore the lost hui
mus to the soil. This land should be
got into grass of some sort as fast as
possible and the pillow kept out of it.
1t cannot be done in year. Only pa.
thence and time can do the work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01
SELL TO HIGHEST BIDDER.

1t would seem as though the govern
ment could devise some better way of
disposing Of its public land than BY
the race or the lottery plan. Why not
sell to the highest bidder conditioned
that such bidder shall be a bona fde
settler to comply with the residence
and occupancy clauses of the home
stead regulations, limiting one tract to
each bidder? The late wild craze over
the Rosebud reservation was in all
particulars a lottery pure and simple
and was mighty bad example for q
government to set before a people to
whom it bars turkey or church quilt
rattle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Volcanic soils are almost always rich
in plant food. The magnificent fruits
of Idaho are the product of these irri-
gated volcanic soils.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01
CONTINUED in next issue.)
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is intiamed you have a rumb-
ling sound or imperfect hearing, ard
when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inf1amma-
ton can be taken out and this tube
restored to it's normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Ca
tarrh, which is nothing but ar in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
we will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & co, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

If black absorbs heat, why are trop-
ical nations all dark skinned? Is their
color the effect OF heat? This is a
proposition where natural facts and
scientific theories clash.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The black locust makes very, dura-
BILE post timber, lasting from twenty
to forty years. The tree is bad suck
erer. which is it's principal objection.
1t is soil fertilizer in common with
the other members Of the legume fam
lily.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

1t is said that the American is dis
contented man on general principles,
always ready and often wanting to sell
his home or his farm or his business
and seek some new place. Rarely does
a business descend from father to son,
much less grandson. Visit the place
where ones boyhood was spent thirty
years later, and there is left but little
trace of old playmates, friends and
neighbors. In way this restless spir-
1t has been a great developing agency
for the country, and now that even the
most remote and heretofore unknown
sections of the country have been ex-
plored, settled and tested we look for a
greater degree of stability in the peo-
pie.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Fall weeds, those that terminate in
late August and early September,
usually have hard time Of it, as the
first fall frosts get them before they
can mature any seed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The blowing match is going out Of
date. The twelve-year-o boy with a
sulky pillow will do better work than
the best of the old time plowmen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The farmers of Alberta and Assini-
boia will realize S2O,oO0,OOO out of this
years wheat crop in spite of the rust
damage.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

A patron with dirty milk cans can
do as much mischief in creamery as
a tattling woman can in small coun-
try town. Both should be suppressed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The great corn crops of the corn
growing states have been the center of
interest of late. The successful matur-
ing of 2,50O0O0,OOO bushels of corn
means much to every business interest
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The seven weeks strike of the pack
ing house unions was complete fall
ure. 1t was bad thing for the men, a
bad thing for their employers and a
worse thing for the public-the pro-
ducers of stock and the consumers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Twot thirds Of the American people
would be far happier if they would
get out of debt and keep out. There is
lot of satisfaction in getting up in
the morning jingling couple Of dol
lars in your breaches pocket and real
izing that you owe no man a dollar.
Try it and see.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Minnesota, the great bread and but
ter state, also leads in the production
of iron ore, shipping the past year H.
371,39G tons of ore, valued at 1888, :
343.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

When hen bought in September
and well fed and cared for will lay
six dozen of twenty eight cent eggs
through the winter then raise brood
of March chickens and sell for 10
cents pound in June, she is money
making proposition if there is one.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

It has always been supposed that the
rare roast beef upon which the Eng
lishman feeds had much to do with
making him the scrapper, fighter and
bulldozer he is, but here comes little
Jap and on a ration of rice and fish
shouts "Banzai" in way calculated
to make the British lion take to the
woods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

What land the government has left
to dispose of are job lots, mostly lands
which should never have been taken
from the Indians and which taken up
by the white man always bring him
to grief.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The man VINO Keeps a vel. polished
hoe usually has a clean and well kept
garden.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

If this country had an illiteracy
clause in its naturalization and immi-
grafton laws it would shut out over
one-half of the Italians now coming
here in such large numbers And, Gu
riously, the fact that such law may
be enacted is stimulating the Italian
government to provide better educa-
tional facilities for it's people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

A cotton picking machine working
with air suction tubes bids fair to be d
practical thing. A number of these
flexible. tubes radiate from the pump,
and several hands can work, each han
ding one tube in each hand, touching
the open bolls, sucking the cotton in
and depositing it in the wagon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

In dietary way the American peo-
pie eat too much pork and not enough
beans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Proceedings attacking the constitu-
tionality of the new drainage law have
been begun in Woodbury. county.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The well titled acre is almost always
a productive and profitable acre,
whether it be dry year or wet one.
The draining takes care Of the surplus
moisture in wet year and conserves
the moisture for use in a dry one.
These lowlands which produce crop
failures and weeds in wet seasons may
be so drained at an expense of about
$40 y acre and are at once raised in
intrinsic value from $50 an acre to $75.
The best lands, the most productive
acres of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to-
day are the well drained and worth
less swamps of fifty years ago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Some day-perhaps not SO very far
away, after all-there will be a great
dam constructed on the upper Missouri
river, and the waters of that stream
will be diverted on to the fertile and
now mostly unproductive lands on the
Missouri slope. This project would
prove twofold blessing, limiting the
annual destruction by Missouri river
floods, while it reclaimed hundreds of
thousands Of acres Of land now fit for
nothing save stock range. The sue
cess which is sure to await the irriga-
ton schemes already undertaken by
the government will bring as fast as
possible the water and the desert into
fruitful conjunction wherever possible
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Some men had Just as soon plant
poor seed in their fields and use scrub
sires in their hooks and herds as not.
This is the unnatural thing to do. By
every effort nature always strives to
secure reproduction only from the very
best. She smothers and starves out
the weaklings in the vegetable world
SO that they cannot produce seed and
In the animal world sets the males to
lighting for supremacy, so that only
the victors become the progenitors of
the race. When man arbitrarily inter
feres with these processes and breeds
from the poorest the tendency to dete-
noration becomes most fearfully mark
ed and aggressive
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

How many men who raise pork, beef,
butter, poultry and field crops know
what these things cost to produce?
Mighty few. In general way they
understand that two dollar. and fifty
cent hogs, eighteen cent corn, three
dollar hay, forty cent wheat and twelve
centbutter obtained at loss. On the
other hand, they know that when hogs
bring Sc, corn so cents, hay 50, wheat
81 and butter % cents they are making
money. The farm is to all intents and
purposes a manufacturing plant, and
still, while in all other such plants the
cost of production Of given COM
modify is figured down to fraction of
cent scarcely any attention is paid
TO this important matter by the farmer.
knowing the cost Of production would
greatly aid in the intelligent selling of
farm products.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The only possible excuse for allowing
the weeds to grow rank and profuse OH
the prairie highways is that September
converts this growth into wilderness
of bloom and beauty-sunfower aster.
purple and white goldenrod black
eyed Susan and score of others-a
wild flower garden rarely equaled for
splendor and beauty.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

A college trained woman who was
up in higher mathematics, logic, politi-
cal economy, languages and history,
not finding when she faced the old
world either husband or a place,
took up the queer notion Of raising
hogs and has met with a remarkable
success in financial way as a breeder
of choice stock. Young ladies just out
of college and on the lookout for a
man or a job may get suggestion in
the foregoing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

An electrical storm Of unusual sever
ity passed over certain section of the
west last September, leaving in its
wake trail of burned barns well
filed. Some Of these barns were rod
ded, some not, rods seeming to be of
little protection. A point worth max
ing in connection with these heavy
losses is that it is bad practice to
bunch all the farm buildings, as for
want of any sort Of fire protection a
clean sweep is usually made when a
fire starts. By scattering barn, corn
cribs, hen and hog houses, machine
sheds, ETC., the loss is not total in case
of fire.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Nature never makes mistakes in her
color schemes. 1t may be the cloud tints
illumined by setting sun, no matter
whether portending a storm or fair
weather. 1t may be the riot OF color
with which she nantes wayside and
forest as the year grows old. 1t may
be vision Of storm swept ocean and
cloud rack or the tinting of birds
plumage or the fashion Of a flower.
The best the most gifted artist can do
Is to follow nature as closely as he
can, for art is nature and nature is art.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

We often wonder just where the in
ventive genius of the American people
will finally land them Are there pos
sibilities of development along mechan-
1cal and economic lines as momentous
and revolutionary as those which have
marked the past fifty years? Will all
the essentials Of living be produced
still more cheaply? Will the standard
of living for the common people be
raised still higher? Is it possible for
man to travel faster, communicate
more reality with his fellows far re-
moved? Will he fly? What will he do?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

The government revenue department
Is now having time to determine
whether radium is chemical COM
pound or crude mineral substance.
If the latter it can be imported free Of
duty. 1t is expected that the legal
sharps and scientific experts of the
department will have as big a time
over this rs they did some years ago
trying to settle the question whether
the tomato was vegetable or a fruit.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
Cured Of Bright'S Disease
/ Have Had No Return of the
Disease in Sixteen
Years.

had been troubled with kidney and
liver complaint for several years.
suffered with \ dull. heavy pain across
he back. had gradually become all
run down. A great deal of the time
my stomach WIS filed with gas and |
was growing very nervous and was
constantly suffering With headache.
Finally I discovered a white, stringy
sediment in my urine, which fright.
ened me, for knew then l had
Bright's disease. began taking
Thompson's Barosma at once and
three bottles seemed TO cure me, but
to insure a permanent cure l took
three bottles more. Although this was
16 years ago, have had no bad symp-
toms since and have been perfectly
free from pain.
FRANK K. STURGIS.
Sturtevant, Crawford Co., Pa.
All druggists. Price s1.00; 6 for IS.
Sold by Hill Brothers.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12

that number shall go into the
general fund. The machinery
trust is without doubt one of the
most pernicious in existence and
one commanding the least atten-
ton, SO subtlely and adroitly
have it's affairs been managed.
Farrar & Trefts, The Oil Well
Supply company, The Oil City
Boiler Works, The Titusville Iron
Works, The Erie City Boiler
Works, the Ajax Engine COM
pany, Bovaird & Seyfang COM
pany, Struthers Iron Works and
others of lesser reputation go to
make up this combination for
footing the oil producers. On all
sides. and with no effort toward
self-protection, the oil producers
have become such easy victims OF
the Standard that they are made
a mark by all classes OF trade, and
all from lack of organization and
confidence in each other. In
some localities feeble efforts have
been made to organize the oil pro-
ducers. Up in Venango county
an organization recently came
into existence for protection
against what is deemed unjust
taxation, and suits are now pend
ing in court as a result OF the or
carnations protest against an
assessment of $1,000 per barrel
valuation levied on oil produc-
ton. Since the valuation was tlx-
ed the oil market has declined So
cents per barrel and the County
Commissioners begin to realize
that the hilarious prosperity so
prevalent at the time OF their as
sessment is over, and even the tax
collector is not supreme.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
DEER PARK HOTEL,
DEER PARK, MD.

This famous Alegheney hostel
nv opened June Is, with pros
poets for a brilliant season. The
twelve cottages have been reno
waited and painted, inside and
out. Two of the choicest can be
secured if application is made at
once. Many suites of rooms have
been engaged in the hotel.
The popularity of this resort Ii
due to its splendid location, $500
feet above the sea level, out OF
range of malaria and mosquitoes.
Every convenience is provided
for guests. Delightful rooms and
an excellent cuisine. The hotel is
provided with all modern i'm.
provements for comfort; and
bowling alleys, billiard rooms,
tennis courts, golf links, swim
ming pools, etc., for amusement.
An entirely new livery equip
ment has been installed.
Three solid vestibuled trains
each way daily with Pullman cars
via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
between New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Cincin'
natl. Louisville and st. Louis.
Stop-overs allowed on all through
tickets.
Address W. E. Burwell, Mana
ger; Deer Park, Md. 6,1S3U
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.
to the
WORLDS FAIR.
Very Low Rates.

Various forms of excursion
tickets to st. Louis, via Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, now on sale from
Sistersville as follows:
Season Tickets, good to return
until December Is, 1904, to be
sold daily at rate of $23.5O round
trip.
Sixty Day excursion tickets,
final limit not later than Deem
Der Is, 1904, to be sold daily at
rate of $1S.75 round trip.
Fifteen Day excursion tickets,
to be sold daily at rate of $3.50
round trip.
Coach Excursion Tickets, with
return limit of seven days, will be
sold twice a week, every Tuesday
and Thursday, until July 31st, at
$11.5O for the round trip. These
tickets will be restricted to day
coaches in both directions, wheth-
er on regular or special trains.
For further particulars regard
ing stop-overs, time Of trains, etc,
call on or address nearest Baltl-
more & Ohio ticket agent. 7,5-tt
Subscribe for The Oil Review
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
TRUSTEES SALE
Of Valuable Oil and Gas Prop.
ertV.

By virtue of deed of trust ex-
ecuted to G. E. Bailey, trustee,
by Tamil Oil company, a corpOr-
alton, dated on the 23d day of
February, 1904, and recorded in
the Clerks office of the County
court of Tyler county, West Vir-
ginia, in Trust Deed Book No. II,
page 373, to secure the payment
of two certain promissory nego-
table notes, Of even date with
said trust, one of said notes call
ing for the sum of 81, 4S0.36, and
payable to the order of NJ. D.
Hanes at the Tyler County bank,
of Sistersville, w. Va, and the
other of said notes calling for the
sum of $1,6S9.45, and payable to
the order Of the Oil Well Supply
company, at the Peoples Ma
tional bank, of Sistersville, w.
Va, both of said notes to bear
go interest from date, and de-
fault having been made in the
payment of said notes, and being
required so to do by the holder
and assignee thereof, I, c. E..
Bailey, trustee, will, on SATUR-
DAY, the 3Oth DAY OF JULY,
1904, between the hours Of 10
O'CLOCK A. NJ. and 4 O'CLOCK
P. NJ, at the FRONT DOOR of
the FARMERS & PRODUCERS
NATIONAL BANK BUILDING,
in the CITY of SISTERSVILLE,
WEST VIRGINIA, proceed to
sell, by way of public auction, to
the highest bidder, the property
conveyed by said deed Of trust,
which consists of the leasehold
of the Darnell heirs tract of land
containing Is acres, on Woodburn
Run, in Ellsworth district, Tyler
, county, w. Va, one 20 horse
power boiler, one % horsepower
engine, two 1OO-barrel tanks, 40
feet 1O-inch casing, 1850 feet 614-
inch casing, $3.50 feet tubing and
rods, two pumping outfits COM
plete, 1850 feet S14-inch casing,
1,44O feet 63s-inch casing, lot OF
2-nch line pipe and fittings, lot OF
Inch line pipe and fittings, two
wood rigs complete, and all other
property mentioned and describ-
ed by said trust, including one
small oil well and one gas well,
located on said Darnell heirs tract
of land.
Terms of sale: Cash in hand
on day of sale.
CHAS. E. BAILEY,
Trustee.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
Weak Hearts

Are caused by indigestion. Ii
YOU eat a little too much, or II
you are subject to attacks OF IN
digestion, the stomach expands
swells, and puffs up against the
heart. Rapid heart beats and
heart disease is the final result.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests
what you eat, takes the strain
off the heart, cures indigestion,
dyspepsia, sour stomach, and con-
tributes nourishment, strength
and health to every organ OF the
body. Sold by Stotler & Corbett,
Opera House Drug store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
YosT's MEXICAN ECZEMA
AND DANDRUFF CURE

is not an ordinary hair tonic, but
it is the most effective skin and
scalp cure known. 1t will pene-
trate the skin and scalp, and it
contains the proper ingredients
to kill any disease germ, which is
the cause of it all. 1t is not greasy
nor sticky, and will positively
cure after everything else has
failed, or your money back.
At all barber shops and drug
stores: so cent and 81 bottles,
Manufactured only by
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
FRED Y S T,

1400 Market St., Wheeling, VIVA
- Beware of reflled and un-
labelled bottles q
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12

Mrs. Andrew A. Bruner and
children, Loretta and Louis, OF
Stocking avenue, have returned
from week s visit with Mrs. Bru-
ner's brother, D. c. McFadden,
and family, of McMechen.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
This Will Interest Many Men.

B. ]. Longwell, the Wheeling
publisher, says that if anyone at
ficted with varicocele or are
weak where perfect men are
strong will send their address to
him at Wheeling, W. Va, (send
no money he will direct them to
a perfect cure. He will tell you
how he was cured after years OF
search for relief. Hundreds have
tested this with success. Write
today. 2ld&W,d
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-12
18th DAY OF JULY, 1904,

at Grim's Barn, at Minnie, Wet
zen County, West Virginia (on
the Short Line railroad) proceed
to sell at public sale to the high
est and best bidder for CASH, a
certain lot of drilling tools, con-
sisting of stems, jars, bits, rope
sockets, sand lines, bailers, cables,
etc.
And like notice is further given
that in pursuance of said order
and decree, I will, on the 18th day
of July, 1904, at the Highly Ma
chine shop, at Wileyville, Wetzel
County, West Virginia Con said
Short Line railroad) likewise sell
at public sale to the highest and
best bidder for CASH another lot
or parcel of drilling tools, of like
kind and character, also three
head of horses, two wagons, two
sets harness, etc.
Notice is further given that, un-
der the terms and provisions OF
said order and decree, have the
power and authority to sell said
property or any part thereof at
private sale at any time prior to
the above dates fixed for public
sale, if satisfactory prices can be
obtained at private sale.
Given under my hand this 23d
day of June, 1904.
A. L. BOYD,
Special Receiver.
Ed. Young, Attorney. 6,24-tf