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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
CHAPTER v.
REVENGE.

And full of black rage! Had she
only reproached me, or, turning On me
in the hour of my victory, said all she
had now said in the moment Of her
own, could have borne it. She might
have shamed me then, and / might
have taken the shame to myself and
forgiven her. But, as 1t was, | stood
there in the gathering dusk, between
the darkening hedges, baffled, tricked,
defeated! And by a woman! She had
pitted her wits against mine, her wom-
ans will against my experience, and
she had come off the victor. And then
she had reviled me. AS took it all
in and began to comprehend, also, the
more remote results, and how COM
pletely her move had made further
progress on my part impossible,
hated her. She had tricked me with
her gracious ways and her slow-com-
ing smile. And, after all-for what she
had said it was this mans life or mine.
What had done that another man
would not do? Mon Dieu! In the flu
ture there was nothing l would not
do. would make her smart for those
words of hers! would bring her to
her knees!
Still, hot as I was, an hour might
have, restored me to GOODNESS. But
when started to return l fell into
a rage, for | remember thatI did not
know my way out of the maze of
rides and paths into which she had
drawn me; and this and the mishaps
which followed kept my rage hot. For
full hour / wandered in the wood,
unable, though knew where the vii
slage lay, to find any track which led
continuously in one direction. When
ever, at the end of each attempt, the
thicket brought me up short, I fancied
heard her laughing on the farther
side OF the brake; and in the igno-
niny ofSthis chance punishment, the
check which, he confinement placed
on my rage, a1mSst maddened me. In
the darkness, fellsssnd rose cursing;
l tore my hands with thorns; I stained
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
LOOSE Eve.

We passed the place the c,tliet day..
farmyard filed with Il motley array ef
odds and ends. a broken down seetier,
hayraSe with one wheel missing and
most OF the teeth also, a defunct bind
err barn doors on one hinge, fences
patched with old rails, the front yard
grown up to brambles and tall grass
except where the pigs, which ran at
large there, had rooted clear space.
In the nearby fields we noticed TINT
the haystacks We're lopsidcd and that
the field had been poorly raked, and
In spite Of the fact that the time Was
past the middle of September d Held
OF oats, storm beaten and discolored,
still stood in the shock. An ovcrdrawn
picture, you say, or perhaps the homo
OF some shiftless renter. Neither, good
friends; merely the abiding place of
him who farms with loose ends. This
man owned his farm and was prac-
tcally out of debt; hence the excuse or
poverty cannot be urged What then7
Loose ends! The barn door and the
front yard wilderness, the patched
4euSe oAu tue unpalnJeQ mouse We're
still waiting for the rainy day, which
never came, when they should be re-
paired. The broken down and weather
beaten machinery gave mute evidence
Of the shed which was never built to
cover them, while the grain stood III tae
shock waiting for the thrashing ma
chine which was still coming. Just
such pictures as the above give a black
eye to life on the farm in the minds
OF many people, OF course none of
our readers has home In the least re-
sembling the one described. but per-
haps your neighbor has, and II you
think 1t would be Of any use you might
put this little word picture where lie
could cast his eye upon it, thereby Be-
Ing the means Of making HIM see his
place as Others see it and bringing
himself to the realization that the farm.
Ike other walks of life, calls FOR "a
careful attention to loose ends IL 1t Is
to be either pleasant or successful.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
The First Requisite of Beauty.

The first requisite of beauty is a
clear complexion. Orino Laxative Fruit
Syrup clears a sallow, blotched com
plexion as it stimulates the liver and
bowels, and the eyes become bright
and clear. You owe it te your friends
to take it if your complexion is bad.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not
nauseate or grippe and is very pleasant
to take. Refuse substitutes. w. D.
Elliott
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
SHEEP rnosrEcrs.

The sheep business has had its rms
and downs during the past fifty years.
We have sold wool for 81 a pound
and for 10 cents, have seen sheep sell
Tor % cents per head and at So FOL, the
run OIL the flock. The situation today Is
more encouraging than we have ever
before known it. The American people
are acquiring wonderful taste for
mutton, and the mutton chop or the
mutton roast, from being rarity on
bllls OF fare at hotels and restaurants.
Is becoming almost as common as SIR
loin or porterhouse steak So great is
the demand for mutton as meat food
that 1T Is said that we are steadily eat
ing up our tlocks We believe that sthe
sheep may now be taken up MS one Of
the most important and profitable of
all our domestic animals, with the cor
talnty that no future condition Is likely
to arise which will make the Keeping
OF them Improbable. There should be
q flock OF seventy-five well bred ewes
on every quarter section farm, ana
such a flock would prove to be as good
money makers as the hens in tie poul-
try yard or the dairy herd. In selecting
few sheep as the foundation for
hock reference should be had to their
meat making quality more than to
Their ability to produce focce.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
UNDER THE
RED ROBE
BY STANLEY j. wEYMAN
WEYMAN
Copyright, 1894, By Stanley J, weyman.)

tanley ], Weyman.)
reckoning in the time to come! 1
did not think she continued-he
every syllable like the lash of a whip
that there was anything so vile as
you in this world!"
stammered something-I do not
know what. Her words burned into
me-into my heart! Had she been a
man, I would have struck her dead
"You thought you deceived me yes
terday," she continued, lowering her
tone, but with no lessening of the pas
sion and contempt which curled her
lip and gave fullness to her voice. ''You
plotter! You surface trickster! You
thought it an easy task to delude a
woman-you find yourself deluded.
God give you shame that you may
suffer- she continued mercilessly.
"You talked of Clon, but Clon beside
you is the most honorable of men!"
Madam" said hoarsely-and l
know my face was gray as ashes-"let
us understand one another"
God Forbid" she cried, on the in
slant. II would not soil myself"
"Fie! Madam" said, trembling.
"But then, you are woman. That
should cost man his life!"
She laughed heartily.
"You say WELL" she retorted. 81 am
not man. Neither am madam.
Madam de Cocheforet has spent this
afternoon-thanks to your absence and
your imbecility-with her husband.
Yes, hope that hurts you'll" she went
on. savagely swapping her little white
teeth together. ITO spy and do vile
work, and do it i'll, Monsieur Mou-
chard-Monsieur de Mouchard, |
should say-I congratulate you!''
"You are not Madam de Cocheforet!"
cried, stunned-even in the midst OF
my shame and rage-by this blow.
No, Monsieur!" she answered grim.
ly. II am not! And permit me to
point out-for we do not all lie easily
that never said was. You deceived
yourself SO skillfully that we had no
need to trick YOU"
'Mademoiselle, them" I muttered.
els madam!" she cried. Yes. and
am Mademoiselle de Cocheforet. And
IN that character, and in all others,
beg from this moment to close our
acquaintance, Sir. When we meet
again--if ever we do meet-which God
Forbid" she cried, her eyes sparkling,
do not presume to speak to me, or
! will have you flogged by the grooms.
And do not stain our roof by sleep
ing under it again. You may lie to-
night in the inn. 1t shall not be said
that Cocheforet," she continued proud
ly, returned even treachery with in
hospitality;and l will give orders to
that end. Tomorrow begone back to
your master, like the whipped cur you
are! Spy and coward"
With the last fierce word she moved
away. would have said something, l
could almost have found it in my heart
to stop her and make her hear. Nay,
had dreadful thoughts; for l was the
stronger, and l might have done with
her as pleased. But she swept by me
SO fearlessly-as l might pass some
loathsome cripple in the road-that l
stood turned to stone Without look
Ing at me-without turning her head
to see whether l followed or remained,
or what l did-she went steadily down
the track until the trees and the shad-
ow and the growing darkness hid her
gray figure from me; and found my
self alone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

eyes blazed; her figure, as she con
pnted me, trembled with anger and
Hinite contempt.
tsYou sry!" she cried "You hound!
ou- gentleman! Oh, Mon Dieu! if
seou are one of us-if you are really
IAot canaille-we shall pay for this
sana davl We 4hau nay heavy
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

The poorest lands in the states of
Missouri and Arkansas grow the best
peaches, the rough and stony lands
which are impossible of cultivation In
any crop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
The good neighbor is the unseIffsh
one, and to get a good neighbor man
needs to be a bit unselfish himself.

Tho rule should be never to grow the
samo crop on the same land for, two
years in succession. Simply following
out this crude rule would do much to
conserve the fertility OF the soil.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

The good horse will always bring
more money If he is fat than il he is
just In good working condition. A
sleek hide and well rounded out form
always count with the buyer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

The question will never be settled
which is the best breed of cattle, Of
hogs, horses or hens. Any improved
breed is better than stock of no breed.
IT man has any likes<er dislikes this
way he will do the best to take the
breed which he likes the best.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

1t is getting to be snow time, and
one of the first duties Of a good citizen
is to see that his walks are kept free
from snow. If too busy to do it him
self, there are plenty of bright boys
who will be glad to earn dime or two
in this way. 1t is good idea to look
after the Widows sidewalk also.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

1t is almost impossible to secure a
fine quality of celery, white, tender and
nutty in flavor, when 1t is bleached In
any other way than with earth. The
use of boards, tile or paper for bleach
Ing is a mere makeshift. The best
celery literally grows underground, is
not grown above ground and afterward
bleached.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

This year the Kherzon oats, imported
from Russia to Nebraska few years
ago, have given an increased yield Of
fifteen bushels per acre over other
varieties where they have been planted
In the west.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

We regard all catch crops sown in the
cornfield, such as rape, cowpeas or even
clover, as injurious to the crop of corn
to greater or less extent. 1t may
be urged that such catch crops cannot
hurt the corn more than do weeds,
which is probably true, but then weeds
in the cornfield are ever and always
hurtful to the corn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

There are many old and abandoned
farms in Maine upon which are rem
nants Of once fine orchards. With the
abandonment of the farms has come
about quite reforesting Of much of
the country and with this an increase
of wild game. 1t is said that large
number Of bears have been killed this
fall in that section, and they are near
ly always found in these old apple
orchards, bruin being very fond Of
apples.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
Rack YARDS.


The tendency in connection with
most homes. whether in city or coun-
try, Is to have a back ynrd dedicated
TO dumping ground for all the odds,
ends and debris Of modern living. This
back yard is quite often the great blenl-
ish IN connection with otherwise pleas.
ant homes. There is really no real need
to permit this accumulation Of ash
piles, old shoes, boxes and barrels.
empty cans, bits Of lumber and trash
OF all kinds. BY having proper recep-
tacles for garbage and removing it
often the back yard may be easily made
just as attractive as the front yard.
II there are unsightly outbuildings ana
FENCES, a few vines will hide them.
Morning glories, hop vine, Virginia
creeper, or, better yet, grapevines,
have great mission in connection with
nearly all the back yards Of our Ameri-
can homes. The grape will thrive, lustl-
iy under the stimulus Of soapsuds.
dishwater and the castaway bones OF
the Kitchen. In some of our cities reg
ular campaign of back yard improve
meEt is being carried on to the won.
derful Improvement of every place
treated. The good citizen will not only
have an attractive front yard to his
home, but will also have q clean back
yard.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

Very satisfactory gas plants are now
being installed in many of the small
towns OF the country, the gas being
produced from byproduct of the oil
refineries known as gas oil. The cost
OF such plants Is not heavy, while the
gas SO produced furnishes an illumi-
nant Of the best quality.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

The settlers out in what may be prop
erly called the semiarid region Of the
west are making merry this year for
the reason that an abundant rainfall
has secured them very fine crop Tho
bad thing about this is that the dry or
the normal seasons are sure to return.
and when they come there is nothing
but disappointment and loss for the
men who try to cultivate the soil 1t
has been that way in the past and will
be again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

There Is lots of farming done with
out any definite plan or purpose as a
guide. Men SOW or plant this crop or
that crop governed by some temporary
condition or within. and the result is
that by SO doing they are utterly pre-
vented from carrying out any desirable
system of rotation of crops.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

If we had nice farm with good
buildings and pleasant home we
would not sell the privilege to some
falir. or agent of painting his adver-
tisemeht on the barn or disfguring the
pasture lot with billboard proclaim
ing the merit Of some brand Of cigar
or patent medicine. This is cheap
business. The whole country is mar
red with this sort of advertising, and
nowhere is it more out Of place than
on our nice farms.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

One OF the great wastes in the west
ern farms is the waste and loss Of al
most all the valuable fertilizer made in
the feed yards where cattle and hogs
are fattened for market. The common
way is to select q dry side hill for the
yard, In order that such yard may be
kept clean and dry, with the result that
all the manure Is washed out and in
solution goes into the creek. Where
this Is done there is waste Of fertility
which soon tells on the farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

We read much today about the trou-
bles Of the unemployed people Of Eng
land. It seems that there are hundreds
Of thousands of people with nothing to
do and nothing to eat. In this connec-
ton we note that the game preserves
of the nobility are constantly being en-
larged and vast areas Of fertile land
being inclosed and devoted solely to
the propagation Of game to make sport
for the lords and barons. Nothing bet
ter could be done for England today
than to break up these enormous reser-
vations included In these game pre-
serves and put these hungry people to
work on the land to produce food to
eat. A condition such as this would
produce an instruction in this country
and appeals loudly to the statesmen OF
England for correction.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26

Our experience has been that 1t is
very difficult to make a young fruit
tree grow where it is planted in an
orchard already partially occupied with
aged fruit trees, these seeming to have
SO monopolized the soil that no matter
how we'll the young tree may be cared
for 1t is simply starved out. OF hun
dred such young trees which we have
planted during the past four years
among trees eight years old we do not
believe 8 per cent have made live of
1t. and those which have lived give no
promise of ever making healthy, Wig
orous trees.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01

Some Bon Mots from 'ssIrs. Radigan."
 Fame is won easily with the pen,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01

ishment of men who conspired to ob- tain rebates will do more to destroy the practice than any legislation that MT. Roosevelt is likely to wiring from Congress at its coming session There is no better way of keeping the high ways of commerce open" than by en- forcing the laws which provide that they shall be kept open. Neither the President nor anybody else can say how much new legislation Is needed until the legislation already on the statute books Is rigidly enforced.
 The Government has only begun the work of punishing the men that de- mand rebates and discriminating ad- vantages of the railroad companies. It has not yet begun to punish the rail- roads that give rebates and discrimina- tions. In the Chicago case a moderate punishment was imposed The Gey- ernment can still wield the penalty of Imprisonment for similar offenses.
 MT, Roosevelt cnce thought that an amendment to the Constitution might be necessary to suppress trusts and combines. The Supreme Court in the Northern Securities case revealed the power the Government already pos sessed. If he were to throw himself with all his accustomed energy and en- thusiasm into the enforcement of the present interstate commerce laws he might find that a commission to fix rates would be superiuous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01
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born-smar Madison to be had only by six drear months of Dakota.
 Mrs. Radigan writes a novel
 There are authors in the Smart Set and their books sell by thousands. The ribbon counter and the factory always long for a word from the inside and eagerly snatch at what seems true tip from the knowing.
 There are a lot of smart folks to be met by the way of Monday Cotillions. a box at the Horse Show" a box at the opera, Westbury week ends. stop ping at Exudo, small dances at Flurry's There's Horny Lite, agent for cham pagne; there is the great family of Will liegilts. with a French Chateau on the spot of spots, in big New York for a French chateau to be; there are the old family Vanrendowns; the yesterday climbers, the Bruncheuses; tiny duke whose castle roofs are leaking there are the starters Styne. "Episcopa- Hans now, but they had berger" at the end of their name, and but recently took to the 'T"; Sally Bilberry who makes her living by bridge at the coun- try houses, and a lot more of the sort. There is love-making, strolling down Madison Avenue "the avenue of sentiment" the lover's lane of New York's favored few.
 Everybody who Is anybody Is in it. hardly perfumery, a brokerage house breakfast food, a real estate firm, a bank. or business combination of any kind in the city, that Is not represent ed'
 Sir Charles wigge of England has his say of the city: T had only to drive up Broadway. as you call your Strand, to realize why we did not care to keep NewYork :" Fifth Avenue, your Picca- dilly, 1t is your Piccadilly, believe, should be toned down"
 New York is good enough for Mrs. Rodgers who has forgotten Kansas City. It is doubtful if she could find in on the map. Happy she is, her do- ings never to be found on that limbo of social hopes the page where the club doings are told. We leave her with noble to the right of her. a noble to the left of her, and champagne to the front of her.
 Pearl rejects the Duke and Mamie the real estate agent. Miss Bruncheuses with ten million goes mending old castle roofs The smart set of today are the conservatives of tomorrow, the old fogies of the day after. Nelson Lloyd has told the story of their brief and golden summer in an inImitable, genial, humorous way of his own. 1 The second part of the book, extracts from the diary of J. Madison Murdison, have rather the appearance of being publishers filling, or authors padding. The pages are perhaps as witty as the foregoing, but they spoil the consecu-
 tiveness of plot and s~atter the readers
 interest on quite a new set of charac- ters
 MT Lloyd has chosen quite new | ground from that of his preceding nov el: Soldier of the Valley | This latest though perhaps more bril- liant, more bristling with epigram.
 more sparkling with satire, yet tells lthe tenderness. the warm human inter est of the Soldiers story.
 We take it that the wings of the
 authors mind are just growing useful in New York atmosphere, the wings of his heart that will later give wider flights for sympathy and pathos laref not yet unfurled to New York airs. I Some Bon Mots from ''SIrs. Radigan.' | ..EamA is won eaatlY with the pen
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01

five minutes. then to go and look on his front doorstep. He does so. and finds there a gun-metal cigar case set in tiny diamonds, "A pretty. artistic thing that he had looked at recently in jewellers window, with view to purchasing it. but his unlocked for mis- fortune had driven it out of his mind. He presses the spring, and finds with in 250 pounds It Is needless to add that he accepts the conditions imposed by the fair unknown. and carefully locking his front door, goes to fulfill his part of the queer bargain. Meet ing and conversing with a young wo- man in a dark room, receiving the re- mainder of his money. and returning home to find man dead In his con- servatory. is a part of what he under went in one night, to say nothing of the life of adventure he enters upon from that night on.
 But this is not all, there Is a flavor of mystery about Lady Littimer, tenant of an old North country mansion, Long dean Grange, who excites the curiosity of the entire countryside with her mournfully tolling bells, her great wild dogs that dwell in her thickets, and the general afr of secresy that sur rounds her ghost haunted ruin. The gun metal cigar case plays an impor- tant part in deepening the mystery in which David Steele finds himself en- tangled, since that unlucky night when he found the pretty bauble so myste- riously on his doorstep. The heroine. not always ineligible even to herself.
 the stolen Rembrandt, all add their quota to the exciting events that make up the book. A story in which love.
 duty. and high ideals fight with ma
 terialism, temptation, and low motives; but one the reader will follow with unfagging interest.
 Frankly, though, the work Is uneven.
 There are one must admit. good bits of
 character drawing. and some good dla- logue some of the scenes have plenty or spirit and thrill, but some of 1t could have been omitted, and the book great l ly improved thereby. There is too much monologue by the characters about themseves. and the super1uous sentiment could have been omitted with advantage. and certainly 1t would have
 been better had some of the events mar | rated been more In the realm of the
 probable The love affairs of the book are most defective. but a perusal will certainly furnish the reader with en- tertalnment.