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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07
To be continued.)
MAPLE GROVE.

Maple Grove. June 2. - The enter
tainment and ice cream upper given
at the school house was a decided sue
cess and was enjoyed by all present.
Miss Estella Wilson returned to her
home in Unionville Tuesday, after a
visit with relatives at this place
D. EpDerly and family of Udell,
spent Sunday here.
The people from this place attended
Memorial services in Moravia Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs j. L. Dodd visited a
few days recently with Mr.. Dodd's par
ents.
Clyde Patterson and Miss Ona Hicks
from Morayia, spent Tuesday evening
at this place
Mr.. and Mrs. Harl Kicker and family
visited relatives near Derby Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Long spent Sunday
with their son. c. H. Long, at this
place.
Miss Elsie Astein is staying this
week with Miss Gladys Miller.
Luke Dodd was a business, visitor
east of here recently.
Mrs. Allie Pence visited with Mrs
S. F. Pence a few days ago.
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MOVING WEST.

TIE migration of the people today
from the older sections to the new
ones is no such momentous undertake
ing as it was fifty years ago. Today
car is ordered and loaded with the
stock and belongings of the mover, and
in a few hours he is landed within a
DAVIS Journey at-least of his new home.
In the old times this moving to the I'M
settled west meant the procuring of OK
teams and several wagons, which had
to be covered, the loading of these
wagons with the furniture and food
supplies. the farm tools and the chick
ems one wagon better fixed up tran
the rest for the family home for six
weeks pilgrimage. The stock was all
driven and soon learned to follow the
caravan. About twelve miles day
were made and sometimes not that, for
in the unbridged and nnworked condi-
ton of the roads 1t often happened
that all the oxen, six or eight yoke,
would have to be hitched to one wag-
on to pull it through the almost bot
tomless sloughs. Under such circum-
| stances not more than mile or so
| could be Travelled in day. There was
the camping out every night the kill
ing of some wild game for meat
prairie chickens, plover, wild ducks,
and often nice string Of fish from
some nearby lake, to the young folks
at least thoroughly enjoyable expert
ence At last the frontier was reached,
\ where fine land could be had for the
/ taking. and then came the building of
rough house, the breaking up Of the
prairie sod and all the discomforts as
we'll as the pleasures Of pioneer f1fe.
Fifty miles from market, ten miles
from a store and physician, no
school, no church, but such health and
appetites, such good neighbors, really
so very few wants compared with the
present.
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Indeed, yes"
Very well. Leave the matter in my
hands. / will go after the thing 10
done to Bokhara to obtain my reward
with you as my guide and to swear
that l deserve it"
But how will you get the glri anu
how will you get to the Caspian
Il have not vet determined that most
important matter. will visit you To-
morrow, or, if you wish, l Will pc
pleased to see you here. may nave
plan then"
Very we'll" said Milk, with crest
fallen air. Il can be trusted"
II will see you tomorrow" And Ha'
fiz Effendi waddled out Of the kahve.
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Real Estate Transfers.

Real estate transfers furnished by
Lowenberg G. Co.. real estate agents.
LOT South Court street
Nash, Thos. j. and wife to c. e.
Norton and d. D. Smith, part lot 34S,
block 81 Ottumwa, $4,000.
Darner, f. w. and wife to Cyrus n.
Sponsler. part northeast u southeast
ton s. -. -, $500 and exchange.
Sponsler. C. II. and wife to +. w.
Darner. lots &C. IL, IS, 49, So III. I.
Baker add Ottumwa, $500.
Baldridge, j, A, and wife to Jas. Eos
ter, lot T6, Robinson Sd add ottumwa'
$S25.
Hall. Geo. and wife to Eta r. Smith
5000.
Darner, T. W. and wife to G. G.
Besco. lot l52, Robinson 5th add OF
tumwa, $3.50.
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Inc ytTt Snitteu dFcHtU III NM
and so resemble the races inhabiting
this country that no suspicion will be
aroused They are faithful to the
ameer."
How can the vessel be distinguish
ed? Has it a name:'
There is no name. 1t is a long. black
vessel purchased from the Persians."
Tell me the name of the captain"
His name is karakal"
Good. Then when find this vessel
whose captain is Karakal can go on
board with my charge and proceed TO
Bokhara."
Certainly"
But | do not intend to do anything
Of that kind. my friend. That woulc.
/ be inviting my enemy OrskOff to slay
me. Can KGratlal be trusted to convey
the girl TO Bokhara and give her to the
ameer?"
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moored. 1t was substantial
enough vessel for the purposes for
which it was used-to convey mer-
chandise from one port on the Caspian
or its rivers to another. 1t had just !
brought cargo of goods to the bazaars
at the fair. 1t had high curved
PROV, with a strange looking carving
as tgurehead. 1t was broad amid
ships, and at the stern high deck COW
cred the cabin accommodations. 1t
was manned by dusky sailors, and the
captain was Hassan, Turk from Con-
stantinople.
Hassan was man we'll along in
years and had taken to the Caspian wa
ter trade as the best means of making
sufficient wealth with which to settle
down in his home at STEAMBOAT and en-
joy himself. Unfortunately for Hassan
the trade had not proved as profitable
as he expected, because the Russian
government had given rights and priv
they called them
to German company to run line Of
steamboats, from port port. Hassans
tield-or sea-of activity was therefore
limited to those occasions when the fair
at Titis or a sudden rush of goods to
Astrakhan made the usual boats unable
to accommodate the increase of trade.
A caravan from Trebizond had
brought to one of the Caspian ports a
vast amount of goods for the fair, and
Hassan had succeeded in getting some
Az In, hi 1.occ wing
delivered these. goods to the Persian,
Russian, Jewish and Turkish mer-
chants to whom they were assigned,
he lay at the wharf trying to pick up a
! return cargo.
/ The night of the day on which Hafiz
Effendi and Milk, from 'Bokhara, had
met, Hassan strolled on the upper deck
at the stern OF his vessel smoking a
cigarette. He was disconsolate and
was seriously contemplating leaving
the river and getting back to the Cas-
plan, for his chances of obtaining
cargo for any Caspian port seelnec
slight
Suddenly a figure clad in lons
black coat, bent and bearded like the
usual trading Jew at the fair, stole
from behind the shadow of a ware
house on the wharf and came cautious
ly toward the vessel. Hassan, bracint
himself and pulling from the folds Of
his garments dagger, advanced t.
the edge of the deck.
"What do you desire, stranger?" III
asked loudly.
'in the name of Allah, hold you
tongue" came reply in low tones
, "It-is l."
by that voice should say it wa
Hafiz Effendi," said Hassan hopefully
for he knew that if Hafiz Effendi ha
business that necessitated a DISCUS
it would pay well.
: II am Hafiz," said the old slave trad
: err as he walked upon the deck. ar
we alone:"
Sufficiently alone to talk. The me
] are asleep
3 LET us sit down and talk. | hav
j, come with an offer that no man VIII
is not fool will refuse. Hassan, ha:
thou a wife,"
"Thou knowest well have two"
care they well cared for?"
81 am poor and should have but on
was once better supplied wit
wealth..
tn ho continued \
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

EHendl led Milk, the agent OF the
ameer, to seat at the farther end of
the Persian divan and purchased to-
bacco and pipes, taking one himself
and filling the other for Milk.
''Sit where you are, watching at all
times the door of the large linen bazaar
opposite said Hafiz when the pipes
were smoking satisfactorily. There
you will see-what you will see
Milk kept his eyes on the object
spoken Of by the Turk. The linen ba-
zaar was larger, cleaner, better equip
ped and gave more evidence of pros
perity than any other portion of the
fair within sight. Bales of finest linen
were displayed. Near the end of long
table could be seen an elderly merchant
in Georgian costume watching his sew
eral employees handle and sell his
goods.
THAT, my friend from Bokhara,'
said Hatz, sis Ignatz Biartelkis, the
richest merchant in Tifiis."
''And will he supply that for which
+ l came:'
"He will"
Good Why do we not go to him in
stead of sitting idly here
"For the excellent reason. my friend,
that lie does not know he is going to
perform this generous act
IS Milk shook his head again. He did
not understand this slow and laborioNs
method. His way, the way Of his peo-
pie. would have been to attack Tifiis
and take what was wanted. Milk had
not get learned the power of tile arm
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said. with his usual Turkish saluta
ton. ut is one that brings the world
together"
Good enough; but remember there
is nothing sold here save what is ex-
hibited for SALE
The Turk opened his eyes wide, as If
in establishment. who could have
asked more? Is there not enough?" he
asked, gazing at pretty Circassian
who passed with soldier.
Yes, it seems enough; only remem-
ber," said Orskoff, walking off with
scant courtesy.
"Pigs! Dogs! These Muscovites are
unbearable!" growled Hafiz.
He left the busy portion of the fair,
went to the baths. returned to the ba-
zaar kept by his friend Muley and re-
sumed his pipe. The passing show
seemed endless. Officers in brilliant
uniforms, merchants, women of every
degree, crowded the thoroughfares.
The reverie Of Hafiz was interrupted.
How is the day? Does the sun shine
full upon thee, o Hafiz Effendi?" ask
ed soft voice at his side. He beheld
a warrior Of some peculiar race, dark
skinned and gayly uniformed.
"Ah, hast thou come, o Milk? The
day is well. The sun never fails to
shine upon the faithful" replied Hafiz.
ut is SO, o wise and mighty Hafiz."
"And how is my friend, the great and
heaven born ameer of Bokhara?" asked
Haflz.
"Our lord is well, but he is growing
impatient that thy mission has not
yet been fulfilled. 1t was told to me
in the sacred precincts of the palace
to come to Tiflis, seek out Hafiz Eff,
fendi and ascertain if he has found
what the ameer wishes"
"The prettiest woman in all Geor
gia," said Hafiz, with smile.
"For the bride Of our young Prince
Davonca. And thou hast been prom
ised much wealth, Hafiz Effendi."
at is true, and I have found the
young woman. But the accursed Mus
covite ruler has made a new law which
prohibits the sale of the women. W.
must work slowly and with caution
"Then is the thing that is so nea
the heart of my lord, that his son shall
have the most beautiful bride in tn
world, an impossibility
81 did not say it was an impossible
ty," said Hatiz testify. ut is danger
GUS Speak in low tone. Better
come to the kahve kept by my brother
There we can talk"
| Hafiz led the way to coffee house
where they resumed their chat.
1 "While you are in Tiflis look not VI
on the women said Hafiz. THE Mus
covite emperor has made this new law
and there are soldiers to spy upon u
and compel us to obey. 1t is absurd
for these women are happier when j.
the luxury their Osmanli husband
give them than with these pigs an
dogs, who are rude and have n
wealth."
but why has the car made thi
law"
Because he likes not the fact ths
our princes have more than one wife.
"And has he, the ruler of the grea
est country on earth, not more tina
one?"
sit has been said"
"By the horn of the sacred bull!'
"But come, if thou art refreshed wi
my brothers coffee, let us depart.
, would show you something"
"Ah, then you are choosing that bea
tiful one!'
: "She is chosen. Hold thy tongue al
= accompany me-"
And Milk, thinking hard upon tt
: new law, followed his guide from t
: kahve.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

California forestry is meeting with
much success in planting the .eucalyp-
tus, fast growing and valuable tim
Der specially suited to that country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The two men who introduced the
sparrow from England and the carp
from Germany should follow the ex-
ample of Judas of old.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The world is full of people who live
miserable, dirty and useless lives just
because they do not know any better.
1t is the mission of modern education
to lift men up toward a better and
higher conception of the possibilities
of life, and this applies nowhere with
greater force than to those who live
on the land.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The man with the automobile will al
ways find more fault with the roads
than the man with the team and wag-
ON, but the man with the auto never
does anything to make them better ex-
cept edit some paper to score the farm
ers for not doing more and better work
on the highways.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

At late public sale Of farm stuff
in Minnesota young calves sold for ~
cents each and old hens for Sc cents.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

No matter how fertile soil may be.
if it is not in the right mechanical con-
dition so that the plant food which 1t
contains is available poor crops w i
result If the soil is waterlogged or
baked and crusted or deficient in hui
mus, all fertile qualities are neutral
lied.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The great prairie region of the north
west does not have all the good things.
Here is the trailing arbutus, one of the
most beautiful and fragrant OF the ear
ly spring flowers, which shuns the
prairie region and finds its home among
the rocky, timbered and sterile soils of
the east, one Of natures delightful
Conversations
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Another 100000 has been allotted
by the interior department for irriga-
ton schemes in the west. In twenty
years from now this irrigation iegisla-
ton will be recognized as one OF the
most beneficial schemes ever under
taken by the general government.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Our friend has only three square
rods of ground for a garden, but it is
surprising what a large amount of ten
der and toothsome things he manages
to grow on this little plot by heavy
fertilizing and thorough cultivation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

it seems shame to cut down a
tree which was growing in this coun-
try when Moses was fussing with the
children of Israel ip the wilderness. but
it is being done in California and done
to make money out Of the lumber made
from it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The mother hen is just as much
afraid Of crow as hawk and has
good reason to be.
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One reason why good crops Of small
grain will usually follow a crop of corn
is that the cultivation Of the corn crop
has put the soil in good mechanical
condition, while the corn has made but
light draft upon soil fertility. The
same thing is true with regard to a po-
tato crop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

A very successful method Of destroy
ing gophers is to take water tank
such as is used with thrashing engines
and length of hose. find the COPPER
holes and turn in the hose, when out
springs the gopher, and the dog gets
him. A Minnesota farmer destroyed
200 of these rodents in one forenoon by
this method.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

, The acre or two of evergreen sweet
corn planted the LIST Of June alongside
the COW pasture where it may be hand
lily fed will make big difference in
the August and September cream
checks, more than you think for.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The older we grow the more pleasure
seems to be associated with being out
of debt. Better fewer acres, less style,
smaller sphere in which to move, a
smaller business and no debt to carry
than to cut a wide. swath and have
overdue notes to meet
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

1t would seem as though the.e are
two things vitality affecting the eco
nomic welfare of the American people
which they are altogether too indif-
fcrent about, one the destruction OF
our forests and the other the work of
the birds as insect destroyers Costly
bills will be paid in the future for
present ignorance and Indifference to
these two things.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

If a woman. finds she does not want
to teach school, take up typewriting or
dressmalking or wish TO marry some
chump of n man to work hard for him
the balance of her natural life for her
board and clothes let her take up the
hen business. Any bright woman who
can manage to get run for the fowls
can make good living keeping poultry
and do it in any part of the country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The meadow lark is of the birds
which like man and his civilization.
We have known them to nest5in pub
lie park time and again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Since we have seen what the Japa-
nese can do we feel like revising pre-
vious opinions as to the merits Of a
rice civilization. If rice and fish will
insure such results the American peo-
pie should use more Of them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Owing to the scarcity and high price
Of potatoes the past spring great
many men have found out how many
eyes potato has.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Put your best foot forward when the
stranger comes to you to sign SO call
ed order for goods, which later. on will
turn up as promissory note at your
local bank. Put both feet forward
then.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

ACID in his bazaar a Persian
merchant sat studying the
crowds that stopped and ex-
amined his goods when Hatiz
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Unless agriculture is scientifically
taught and scientifically followed the
land always grows poorer and less
productive as population increases. No
interest should receive so much atten-
ton i'll any country having a.hundred
million people or likely to have them
in a brief time us how to maintain the
fertility of the soil. The famine record
of the world is most frightful story
of tragedy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07
CHAPTER II.

A BEAUTIFUL GIRL AND A MYsTERroU
CONTRACT.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

They have railway in Palestine,
but the freight charges are SO ex-
orbitant that the wheat raiser Of Syria
finds it cheaper to load his wheat on
the backs of camels and give the camel
driver one half of the load for trans
porting the other half to the sea via
Nazareth Railway officials in that
country have not. yet got to the point
where freight charges are based upon
what the traffic will bear.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

u
A balky horse can infict world Of
vexation on his owner. We once
owned black mare which was true as
steel everywhere we could put her I'M
til we had to ford stream. Then.
when she got in the middle of the
stream, she would always balk and set
her hind legs to work and sling water
lke a fire nozzle. 1t was no use to lick
her One could not lead her out with
out getting soaked, and there was
nothing to do but let her kick it out.
There was always some wise man on
the bank to look on and give advice,
sometimes several of them. How did
! we cure her: We didn't; we sold her
j, to a man who did not have to ford
| rivers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Most of the beefsteak has the good
ness all fried out of it and is tough.
leathery wad unfit for food. Try this
plan: Trim off the fat, macerate until
the steak is even and tender. slip in n
broiler and scar both sides about two
minutes for each side. turning fire.
quently; put OH a hot plate. squeeze a
few drops of lemon juice over 1t and.
If you like 1t. few drops of worccs-
tershirc sauce; pepper and salt it and.
browning it with a liberal chunk OF
butter, set In hot oven for three min
utes. You will think you lave never
eaten good steak before.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Some way strawberries don't taste
real good until strawberry time comes.
The March and April berries from the
south country seem unreasonable and
never appeal to us. We want the June
greenery, the ORIOLES song in the big
elm, the first green peas and new pota-
toes to go with the strawberry. and we
want to pick them out of our own
patch, heaped up milk pans full, and
not have to return thanks for three
gritty berries and two wads of crust
and call it shortcake.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The value of the exports Of farm
products amounts to the large sum of
100000 for each day of the year.
We furnish bread for the European,
oats for his horses and his own break
fast, beef for his dinner, apples and
dried fruits for his dessert and cotton
to clothe the world with. Columbus
did great thing for the race when he
discovered this country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Most of the rape seed is grown in
Holland and England. The seed can
not be produced in the northern half of
the United States, as the plant, like
cabbage, does not produce seed until
the second year of its life, and the cold
winters destroy the roots. In Holland
and England the roots live over and
SO produce seed. The producing of
COLA, or rape seed, is one of the best
paying industries on the farms off, The
Netherlands reclaimed from the North
sea.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

There is hardly farm in the coun-
try where it would not pay to give
more attention to the poultry. The
hen is the greatest money maker on
American farms today. The country
cannot get enough eggs or chicken
meat or holiday turkeys. Trade off
some of those cows which only just
barely pay their board and get lumber,
sash and paint and build some modern
yards and houses for the fowls, then
get some good breed and stick to it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

The goose is the most ancient of our
domestic fowls. While Peter and the
old rooster are pretty far back it is Of
record that the gabbling of geese saved
ancient Rome, and recently unearthed
records Of the Babylonian era of date
1000 BIC. show that geese were COM
mon birds in that time. These birds
live to great age, and one which we
got hold of for Thanksgiving feast
a few years ago gave every evidence
Of Babylonian texture and flavor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07
CHAPTER III.

THE BOAT ON THE KUR.
IT one of the wharfs on the
Kur river, near Tifis, pc
81 culiarly shaped vessel lay
~ moored. 1t was substantial
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Germany lacks about % per cent OF
producing her own food supply, and it
does look queer that great country
so situated must needs bar out by tar
if and harsh inspection regulations the
cheap and abundant food supplies of
this country in order that her own
farmers may obtain exorbitant prices
for their products, while the common
people have to exist on beer. black
bread and horse sausage. Such work
far better justities revolution than
technical differences in religious be-
lief