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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28
THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE

THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE,
In the present controversy being
waged between the people and the
railroads over the matter of transpor-
tatlon 1t Is not SO much a matter of
rates as 1t is discriminating charges,
the favoring Of certain towns and inter-
ests and the consequent discrimination
against other communities and individ-
uals. While the railroads are and
should be protected in an unquestion-
ed title to their respective properties,
there is this difference between them
and a purely private business in that
the public, having bequeathed them
the most valuable franchises in the
whole couRtry and with such fran
chises bestowed extraordinary powers
and privileges to promote and secure
a great public utility and necessity,
has thereby acquired an inalienable
and important interest in such roads,
which gives 1t every right to demand
absolute fairness and impartiality in
their management. This right the peo-
pie have been rather backward and
slow to assert and possibly never
would were there no just causes for
complaint. AS 1t is. the people are
waking up, and such peaceable and
equitable adjustment will be secured
without doubt as will insure entire i'm
Partially in the administration of the
roads. Their power is SO omnipotent
and SO far reaching in the making or
the marring of the business success of
communities and individuals that moth
ing short of absolute equity for all will
ever satisfy the American people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

The Fairfeld Journal has changed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

The Davenport Times notes that 1t
is announced that Rojestvenskv is
to meet Admiral Togo.
Possibly the Russian commander has
made his WILL" says the Times,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

ANY cause must be in mighty bad
way that needs to be thus bolstered
up with perjury" says the Keokuk
Gate City, commenting on the admis-
sion Of President Smith. of the Nor
mon church, that he had given false
testimony in Washington.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28
INCREASING rIIn FARM INCOME.

A man owning 160 acre farm
writes us that his average gross in
come from his farm, taking series of
years, is about So per acre and wants
to know If there is any way practical
and available for him to increase this
really very small income He has for
many years been what is called a rails
er of grain and hay to sell, keeping but
little stock. AS result he has greatly
impaired the fertility Of his soil, and
thirty bushels of oats and corn to the
acre and ton of hay to the acre are
about all he gets even with fairly good
seasons There are so many men in
this fix all over the country that 1t
justfties a somewhat extended COM
ment by us. The system referred to is
all wrong. 1t goes from bad to worse
each year 1t is continued. There must
be radical change. In this case,
which may be taken as a type, there
should be from twenty-five to thirty
acres of clover sown this spring; there
should be hog pasture fenced off and
at least fifty hogs kept; dairy of six
teen cows should be set to work on the
farm, and coming right with these
cows will be the calves and the pigs;
half the acreage of corn should be
planted and twice as well cared for
ls ever before; every mouthful Of hay
and every kernel of grain produced on
the farm should be fed to some animal
right on the farm; system of crop
rotation should be adopted which will
include clover every fourth or fifth
year. While it will take three or four
years to get these reforms all brought
about, we will guarantee the result to
be that in the end the yield of crops
will be nearly doubled and the income
correspondingly increased. Thousands
Of men have done this, and other thou
sands are now engaged In this refoIm
work, and wehave never known the plan
to fail. But some may say they do not
like to take care of dairy-too much
bother. Well, then, try sheep or raising
beef animals, and If neither Of these
variations of the plan appeals to you
the best thing you can do is to sell the
farm and go to town and run for super
visor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

"Lafe Young has let the cat out of
bag" says the Marshalltown Times
Republican. "It was the Missouri re-
publicans who insisted on the Dobson
appointment. This lets Iowa down
easy, but alas! poor old Missoury!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28
All c. B. & @. and c. r. I. G. p. train.
depart from Washington Street I'm.
ion depot.
w. 8. Parker, Ticket Agent.

BURLINGTON ROUTE. c. 3. q q.
No. GOING East. Depart.
s2a-Ghicogo: Dubuque & Quincy 2:10 a. m.
Ieb-Rurlington & st. Loui..... 7:s5 Z. M M
a0b-Peoria. Dubuque & Quincy II 80 a. m.
aehIeasso s 81 Eea,s quincy 7 7f M
2a-Chic..go, Peoria & Rock
:oro ..... -. .............11:45 p. m
Going West.
ba-omaha Council Bluffs &
Nebraska 80. $500. 12:45 a. III.
aai1ss- -Eccssss, T Freight ;t .. a a:so n
sa-nmaha. Kansna CITY. Denver, ''0 - H.
Hot Hot Sprlngs. Deadwood. .Og-
den. PORTLAND & California. 7:4s a. Ia.
,ss n-psnI'a to creston 5:so ,. m
'1s-cbicaso to ottnmwai,' arrive 100 p D. M M
* La A. nn h-eSeept Sunday Nos. 4, SAND
10 10 NOT carry Passengers N
:. =, The .,. 6. Madison-ec;ns East.
st louis to Madison K.so
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

"Linevitch may be short of supplies
and ammunition. but he has bridges
to burn" notes the Sioux City Journal
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

An article in an agricultural journal
referred to the habit of Information as
characteristic Of the rodent family. We
hardly think that this statement is
justified. While many members of
this family will remain in their homes
during extreme cold weather, they can
be hardly said to hibernate. The rab-
bit, the squirrel, the rats and mice are
active all winter long. The gopher,
chipmunk and ground hog do hibernate
after fashion, but hardly In the same
manner that does the bear. Field mice
are just as active in winter as during
the summer and usually in conjunction
with the rabbit do more mischief dur
ing the winter than at any other sea-
son, as many man finds out who does
not properly protect his fruit trees.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

The corn which was saved for seed
last fall all through the western coun-
try was unusually full Of water-nearly
one-third water-when gathered. I'm
less special pains were taken to thor
oughly dry out this corn before cold
weather there will be found this spring
a large per cent of defective seed. A
lot of selected ears taken from crib
Of what would be called well matured
corn in southern Iowa, in the very
heart of the corn belt, gave when test
ed recently terminating power Of
only 10 per cent. The fact is that the
intensely cold weather Of this winter
has about ruined the seed corn where
it was either not previously we'll dried
or kept where it would not freeze.
This matter should be attended to right
now. Better find out now whether the
seed is poor than do it on the 18th Of
next May, after it is planted.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

A great fuss has been made over the
discovery Of q very large diamond in
South Africa, said to be worth mat
ter Of 100000, but there is county
up in north central Wisconsin,, which
only few years ago was wilderness
Of brush and pine stumps, which the
past year sold dairy products Of a
value of over 100000, and, what is
better, will do it every year right along.
When the lumbermen left it, it was
diamond in the rough, sure enough.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

"a local railroad man has lost all
respect for Oyama," says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. HE considers that
man who would take another mans
railroad away from him and would
then deny him a Tie pass is too mean
to live. 1t does look stingy."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

A problem on the farm In these DAYS
of scarce and high priced labor worth
constant study is how to substitute the
horse for the man. The horse one can
get and keep; the man one can some
times get and want to get rid of. The
manufacturers Of machinery are help
Ing the farmer out on this line In many
ways with the manure spreader, the
four and six horse cultivator, disk,
plow and drag, with the two row corn
cultivator and other tools which easily
double the effective working ability of
man. Up to date farming is becom-
ing more a question Of Intelligent ma
nipulation Of intricate machinery and
intelligent direction and management
of farm work than physical labor. Thus
1t Is good investment to send your
boy who is to become the farmer Of
the future to take course in farm
mechanics at some agricultural college.
It is one thing to get the good COW,
another to give her proper accommo-
dations and care, but the most impor-
tant thing of all is to learn how to
feed her so as to get her to do her best
work at the pail. On an average we
believe that there liz loss of not less
than 33 per cent in the butter product
Of our western diaries owing to the
one thing Of giving the COW an i'm
proper and unbalanced ration Corn is
the thing on which COW keepers fall
down. It is not milk producing ra-
ton, and the more the COW eats the
worse she is off. Corn fodder is a fair
milk ration; corn silage still better
ono, but still unbalanced, and must in
either case be balanced up with clover
hay, bran, oilmeal, gluten feed or oats
and, best Of all, alfalfa hay. II the
farm produces little but corn, sell it
and buy these other feeds If the COW
Is to be made profitable.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

"In Missouri there are 5000 children
named after President Roosevelt In
Germany there are 319 statues of the
kaiser. So much for strenuosity,"
says the Clinton Herald
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

"The addition of an apostrophe to
the Japanese field marshaTs name
O'Yama-would be presumptive evil
dence Of his right to march in a Saint
Patrick's day parade" says the Keo-
kuk Gate City, and again it calls
Oyama the high muck -a-muck of
Muckden."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

AS to George E. Roberts conclusion
that the retailers Of meat are our real
oppressors, the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican says: "As has been remarked
before: If this be true the butchers
as class have the art Of hiding
wealth down to a fine point"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28

Anyway Kuropatkin is a man clear
through and high quality Of man at
that" declares the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil. If he can't be the whole show
he is content to carry spear in the
rear rank
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
For Growing Girls.

West Pembroke, Me-. April "a
Mrs. A. l.. Smith, of this place, says
that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best
remedy for growing girls. Mrs. Smith
emphasizes her recommendation by
the following experience:
my daughter was thirteen years old
last November and 1t is now two years
since she was first taken with Crazy
Spells that would last a week and
would then pass off. In month che
would have the spells again. At these
times she would eat very little and
was very yellow; even the whites of
her eyes would be yellow.
THE doctors gave us no encourage
ment, they all said they could not help
her. After taking one box of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, she has not had one bad
spell. or course, we continued the
treatment until she had used in all
about a dozen boxes, and we still give
them to her occasionally. when she is
not feeling well. Dodd's Kidney Pills
are certainly the best medicine for
growing girls"
Mothers should heed the advice of
Mrs. Smith. for by so doing, they may
save their daughters much pain and
sickness and ensure healthy, happy
future for them.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
Observation-Disclosures
FORTUNE In FEW MINUTES
Divers Fee of $4,000 Earned in Comparatively
Easy Manner.

The most remarkable Of the few
human fishes in the world. called deep
sea divers, Is Hal Lefton of San Fran
cisco. He has dived for a living in
nearly all the different waters of this
planet. His specially of late years
has been "salving," that Is, recovering
treasure from sunken ships. He gets
commission on whatever he brings
to the surface. 1t was he who earned
$4,000 in single dive to the sunken
steamer Rio Janeiro. which went down
of San Francisco with all aboard, in
Guiding 100000 in gold from the
Klondike. His story as he told 1t to
the writer was amazing.
There is much known sunken treas
ure," said Lefton, (which cannot be
recovered by divers, because it lies
at too great a depth. There's the
steamer Oregon. wrecked in 1886.
with 100000 in gold; and the Erie,
burned to the waters edge in 1893
where she sank on Florida, there lies
fortune in gold on the sea-bed. The
marine insurance companies offer us
big commissions to dive for those two
deposits of treasure, but they lie too
deep. Our average safe depth is $50
feet. but have worked at 204 feet.
1.-THE Rio Janeiro, from which 1
made my big haul the other day, lies
at about ITO feet, and some five miles
off shore. There's more gold there
still, but after dive like that of the
other day I have to take at least
weeks rest. earned that money in
exactly ten minutes. and this is how:
my tug anchored at the right place.
Then put on this divers dress,
weighing 40 pounds; it has been
often described. for it is just like any
other diver wears. Well. l dlved. 1t
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
Flowers and Character.

That which surrounds us forms our
character. If we live in the midst of
filth we cannot keep it secret. The
world turns its knowing eye on us,
looks beneath the surface. sees our
inner selves. our degraded minds and
our cold. cruel hearts.
II we live surrounded by the beau
ties of life. the world knows. too. Our
hearts grow kind and sympathetic and
our thoughts high and pure.
We all know that this is true. Then
is it not our plain duty to surround
our little children with every lovable,
uplifting thing the world affords? Is
1t not our duty to ourselves to sur.
round ourselves with everything
which will refine our thoughts and
help to form within us an admirable
character? We owe it to our children
to ourselves and to society.
Probably the purest and most beau
tiful things on earth are flowers. Can
you not imagine character grown In
the midst of garden of flowers
Montreal Herald.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
Radium Solution for Cancer.

Experiments now under way at the
Flower hospital in New York City are
reported by the World to indicate the
discovery of an almost certain cure for
cancer. 1t consists of a new method
for the application of radium. Won
derful things were expected of radium.
and its discovery by Professor Curie
and his wife had barely been an
nounced when leading scientists be-
gan striving to find way in which the
new force could be used to destroy dis
ease germs. All these practically
failed. Now. however. chemist of
New York claims to have succeeded in
dissolving radium and that the result
ing solution exerted all the activity of
the pure radium.
Surgeons and physicians Of the
Flower hospital staff decided to give
the solution a trial and selected wo-
man eighty-two years old, who was
dying from a cancer on the instep OF
her left foot.
Six days after the treatment began.
the doctors say, the cancer dropped off
and showed healthy flesh beneath.
Nothing remained but to heal the It's
sue. which was finally accomplished.
although the treatment is still being
continued.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27

ceremony marked change in the pol
icy observed for eighty years. When
the university was founded Thomas
Jefferson established the plan that it
should not have a president. this be-
cause of his idea Of simplicity of gov
eminent. The school has been manag-
ed by board of regents that elected
a chairman annually from among the
professors. Its development has made
that plan impracticable. DIR. Alder
man was formerly head of Tulane uni
versity. At the installation banquet
announcement was made that John D..
Rockefeller had given 100000 to the
university ito found school to be
called the Curry Memorial School Of
Education of the University of Vir-
ginia, in commemoration of the great
and disinterested services of DR.. Curry
in behalf of popular education"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH.
Business Of That Section Very Largely
In Their Hands.

The young southerner is forging to
the front SO fast that 1t now is more
likely that he will crowd the strang-
ers out than that they will seriously
rival him. The young southern men,
often mere boys of 81 and %, are
running the banks. the stores, the
hotels. They are exploiting great
tracts of land, feeding vast forests
into the. sawmills. They are the rail-
road men. the promoters. the brokers.
Oil wells gush at their behest, towns
rise at their command. By men under
30 the greater part of the business of
the south is now being done. The
northern who thinks of emigrating
to the south because he believes he
can surpass the natives in business
capacity will find foemen worthy of
his steel-keen. untiring and full of
the nerve and enthusiasm of youth.
The south is the new part, the young
part, of our domain. The west has
become staid and middle-aged. The
young man has come to the front in
the south, and with him the south
comes into its own once more.-Les.
lies Weekly.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
Niagara Water Power.

The commissioners of Queen Victo-
ria park, on the Canadian side of NJ
agara falls, show proper sense of the
condition now affecting that majestic
cataract. They have just issued their
nineteenth annual report and laid it
before the Ontario Legislature, set
ting forth that halt must be called
in the granting Of franchises at the
falls and that too many have been
given away already. Three Of them
are now in the possession of private
companies and fourth, permitting the
creation of 100000 more horsepower
from the Chippewa river. is under con-
sideration. This will make an aggre-
gate on the Canadian side of ATS, 900
horsepower. which the commissioners
think should not, at the present time
be exceeded. If more are to be given
hereafter they should cost the grantees
more. and in particular care should be
taken that the shores above and be-
low the falls be not uarred by un-
slightly buildings.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
BY MARY pEVEREUX

are 20 return to the brig. and repor'
here at noon tomorrow"
AYE. sir" replied the boatswain.
Eight oars touched the water as one
and the English boat went her way
Pierre soon began to row more slow
Iy; and Jean asked, in continuation Of
their recent talk" Heard you ever OF
a more dastardly plan for white men
to map out"
Not l." growled Pierre. Even La
no. scoundrel as he was. never did a
worse thing And IL we decline this.
Jean, then what is 1t to be. or did they
not do us the honor of doubling our ac-
ceptance?"
'Barataria is to be overrun by the
English; our ships and property con-
fscated; and you and l. together with
our men. put to death as pirates, who
have merited the vengeance OF Great
Britain by our seizure of Spanish YES
sels''
sSo!" But Pierre's laugh had little
of mirth in it. Louisiana offers
price for your head. and England
threatens to hang you If you VIII not
help her destroy New Orleans, so that
she may have Louisiana by the throat.
A fine choice of favors. this. to select
from"
Under the low. cane-thatched roof
covering the abode of Beluche and
Dominique-You, they and the two La
fttes ate supper in comparative 81
lence, owing to the coming and going
OF the slave. Juniper who waited upon
them. But the meal over, with pipes
and bottles upon the cleared table,
and Juniper shut apart in his own do
main. they proceeded to discuss the
matter whose contemplation had
made their silence seem sullen.
When they were all seated. LATTE.
In a low tone, and to the accompani-
ment of occasional angry comments
and imprecations, read the two papers,
emitting, however, all mention of the
money offered to himself.
Now. tell us. Captain LATTE" spoke
up Beluche, who like Pierre. had been
smoking contemplatively. apparently
revolving what had been read, tell us
what you advise as the cause to be
pursued. But, first of all. declare
that never will l take up arms for
England, against America or any other
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
ARE BLoNDs TO oIsAPPEAR'
Probability That in the Future We
Shall All Be Brunettes,

snail All be brunetteS.
The somewhat startling statement
has been made that the blue eyed,
golden haired and light complexioned
variety of the human race is in the
course of extinction, and that, within
few more generations. blends are
likely to become so rare in the world S
population that they may be looked
upon as curiosities, somewhat as al
binos are today The blond type has
been so often chosen by artists and
poets to represent their noblest con
ceptions of human beauty that no one
can regard even the bare suggestion
of its extinction without dismay.
Moreover some of the worlds great
est races and many of its most mas
terful personalities have belonged to
this type. and its admirers have some
times gone so far as to aver that light
compilations, and In particular light
colored eyes. are the favored livery of
the highest genius.
This is undoubtedly an extreme and
untenable claim, yet it cannot be de
MED that history shows an extraor-
binary number of men and women OF
the first rank in all the higher fielaa
of intellect who possessed the chara<
teristic marks of the blond, and this
not only in countries where the light
type prevails, but also in lands like
Italy. where the general complexion OF
the population is dark-Success.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-04-27
CHAPTER XXI.

At sunrise a change had taken place
in the appearance of things about the
stockade. Before the now opened
gates Drawn Irishman. one OF Be.
luche's trusted followers. fully armed
guard before the locked d,ors of La
fittes house.
AS Pierre. Jean and the two under
captains were finishing breakfast. a
messenger came to tell the former
that the Star of the Gulf had come
to anchor in the harbor. and was fly
ing signal for his presence on board.
1T is Zendanner, from Mexico. at
last" he said, glancing at Jean, "and
| am glad to know of his safe arrival.
He should have been In a week ago.
will you go. or shall l." Pierre ask
ed, as Jean remained silent
The latter. like Pierre. knowing the
full meaning OF the signal. replied that
he would go aboard, and, leaving
Pierre in charge of matters at the
stockade, he took his way to the har-
Dor.
Returning in an hours time, he was
when he heard unmistakable sounds
of tumult followed by the roar of the
gun mounted upon a pivot in front of
his own house. as protection against
possible disturbances.
Pierre, Beluche and Dominique You
were standing upon the steps of the
house. shouting angrily at the rioters
for such they were, who, armed. and
filed with murderous lust, crowded
before them, demanding "The two
English spies!"
ITO be continued.)