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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-31

and evenly as a second cut is detri-
mental to the WOOL and if the shear
er should make miscut it is better
to leave the wool on than to try and
even it off. If shearing is done early
it is not advisable to shear too close
to the skin, for the sheep needs some
protection from the cold at night, and
the same applies il the shearing is
done. late in the season, for the hot
sun easily blisters the back. The
fleece should be taken off in one piece
and torn as little as possible.
Use Wool Irvine.
'In tying the fleece 1t is still Gus
tomary in Ohio and Eastern States to
use box, put the tags and rubbish
inside the fleece and use as much
heavy Irvine as would hang an ordi-
nary man. This system is falling into
disuse and being superseded by the
only and proper method. Turn the bel
sly part inside and roll the fleece flesh
side out and then tie with ordinary
wool Irvine made for the purpose.
Never use sisal or binding Irvine as
this is very detrimental to the sale of
the wool and is or scted to by all
manufacturers. When shearing and
tying, be very careful not to get any
hay straw or other veeetable mat
ter in the wool, for while 1t is easy
to get in. it is very hard to pick out
when once in.
''When The wool is sheared and tied,
place in clean, dry place, a wooden
floor is preferable to any other, but
this must be at least ten inches from
the ground as wool draws moisture
very readily and soon becomes damp
and smells nusty. If at this time 1t
is preferable to pack the wool in sacks
place each fleece in carefully and
tread as tight as possible, for il this
is done the wool keeps in better con-
dition and is easier handled.
Westerners Cooperate.
"In the central states where the
sheep are kept in small bands it is
easy to do things the right way. In the
western states where the focks are
larger, where there is a scarcity Of Ia.
Dor and where the season for shearing
is short, it is not so easy, but the
western sheepmen show their willing
ness to cooperate with the dealer and
the manufacturer and the result Is
their wool comes to market in better
merchantable form than do those from
the central states.
Steel Found in Wool
eve have during our career as WOO
merchants found packed in wool re
ceived by us nearly all kinds Of for
eign matter, from bricks and stones
to old bottles, but never any money
Last week we came across a piece Of
steel shafting from a gasoline engine
weighing % pounds, packed in a pur
chase. We hope, however, thai
through the good work your associa
tion is doing, our shipper may learr
better ways or at any rate may his
conscience trouble him, for we do MOI
want the remainder of his gasoline
engine in his next years wool"
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AGENCY.

Agency--Mr. and Mrs a. Humphrey
visited at Abba last week.
AS result Of the Sunday meetings
there We're fifteen united with the
Methodist Episcopal church here last
Sunday.
revival meeting has started at the
NJ. E. church. to run for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Marston spent
Christmas with friends in Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs H. III. Mcclure return
ed this week from Indianola, where
they have been visiting friends.
G. L. Nye was called to Lovilia re-
Gently on account of the illness and
death Of his brother r. G. Nye.
Mrs. s. J. Nye and daughter Miss
Fannie and son r. G. Nye and Mrs.
]. A. Stems attended the funeral OF
J. w. Nye at Lovilia Monday.
Mrs. L. M. Brass of Nebraska, is
here, called to attend the funeral of
her sister, Mrs. j. M. Dodd.
Mrs Rosa Walker, who formerly
lived here. was brought here Wednes-
day and buried in the Agency GEM
etery.
The Epworth League will hold Q
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EPWORTH LEAGUE AT Chill
LlcOTHE ELECTS OFFICERS.
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Mo. is visiting at the F. E. Perry
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones of East Main
street are the parents of a baby girl
bone on Christmas night.
Thirteen new members were taken
in the Christianburg church Sunday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnston spent
Christmas at the Willard Upp home
near BlaEesburg.
John Forsythe Of High Point visited
friends here Sunday.
Mrs. Catharine Lewis visited rela-
tives in Blakesburg Monday.
w. j. Taylor delivered hogs in OF
tunlWa Monday
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Secretary Wilson is Planning to Make
Further Reforms in Pure Food Products

there can be little ground urged for
serious complaint against such find
ings.
The referee board will look into the
question of what are the effects on
the human system of eating vegeta-
pies greened with copper salts. If it
Is found, as the department of agri-
culture officials insist is true, that the
effect is deleterious, then it may be
expected France will have to keep
her artiflcially greened vegetables at
home and that if one eats French peas
after that. he will find them lacking in
That bright green, lnster that makes
them SO attractive to the eye, how
ever they may effect the stomach.
An order has been issued that I'M
I'll further notice vegetables greened
with copper salts, but which do not
contain an excessive amount of cop
per, will be allowed entry into the
United States, if the label bears the
statement that sulphate Of copper or
other copper salts have been used to
color the vegetables.
To uplift the, Potato.
Secretary Wilson has tackled the
question Of the uplift of the potato.
1t might seem to casual thinker that
there was no large problem connect
ed with the potato but there is one
just the same.
The truth is the country is starting
on the road to a potato famine unless
something is done to head 1t off. 1t is
found by Secretary Wilson that the
United States is not producing enough
potatoes to feed itself. The result is
that many potatoes have to be import
ed from Europe.
It Is suggested that disaster in the
FORM OF great exodus of the Irish
from America may come if the potato
crop does not improve.
For 1908, the potato crop was 275.-
oOo,O00 bushels. a crop below the
average for series of preceding years.
1t is true this means several bushels
OF potatoes per annum for eyery man.
woman and child but it is not enough.
fhe chief seat of trouble is in the east
ern states, about. the large centers of
population. The yield per acre is
round to be decreasing there, One
might think potatoes could be shipped
IN from the western states but here
the question of freights on SO bulky an
article as potatoes comes in. The DO.
tatoes If raised for use in this country
must be raised near where they are
consumed.
Experts will be set to work to find
improved European varieties that are
adapted to growth here. Experts will
also confer with market gardeners
farmers and others and try to induce
improved methods Of raising potatoes.
Already, scientists of the department
of agriculture are trying to grow new
and better varieties.
j. G. Welliver.
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chillicothe- Epworth League
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RIDWELL.

Bidwell--Andrew Johnson and fam
lily and William Dixon and family of
near Munterville, and James Knox and
family of High Point, We're entertain
ed at the Mrs. Margaret Dixon home
Friday.
James Yenger of Blalesburg, visited
his brother Frank Wednesday.
Revival meetings are in progress at
Christiansburg by Rev. Petit, pastor
OF this circuit.
Mr.. adm Mrs. Daniel Rosecrans Were
In Blakesburg recently on business.
Miss Pearl Blackmsn of Lucerne
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SHERIFF is BUSY
over ACCOUNTS
JACKSON HUsTLING TO GET BILL
FOR FEES IN CLERKS HANDS
BEFORE JANUARY 1.

In frantic endeavor to figure up
all accounts and bill for them before
the close of the present year, Sheriff
w. w. Jackson and two assistants are
husily engaged over the books of the
department and have hopes of yet de-
feating the reported measure of the
supreme court, which rules that sher-
ifs cannot collect at the end of the
year for the mileage they have not
received in the past twelve months.
Jackson says 1t means a complete loss
to every sheriff of sums of money that
have been expended in carrying on
the work of 1.-THE Office and for which
the sheriff should not be held &C.
countable.
The law allows each sheriff 10 cents
a mile for mileage for civil services
and the county is given a certain rate,
so cents for the first service and
smaller amounts for each after SER
vice. When the costs are paid to the
county clerk, it has always been the
custom for the sheriffs to receive
back the mileage as taxed The re-
ported decision would knock this out,
and the sheriff would even be out liv-
cry hire.
The only remedy,is to collect fees
in advance. This was tried here for a
short time with the result that attor.
news took their papers to constabIes
and nrivate' officers and boycotted the
sheriff's Office, conseou ntly depriving
1.-The county of that so cents for each
service
The sheriffs may ask the legislature
to change the law in case the supreme
court has thus placed them at outs.
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UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
ottumwa, Iowa,

Ottumwa, Iowa,
December 80 1908.
Notice to patrons on Rural Routes
and 8:
Effective January 4th q new time
schedule will be put in effect. Carriers
turn to the office at 1870 p. IN.
Fred w. Wilson, P. NJ.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Cost Of Mine Timbers.

The cost of every ton of anthracite
Is increased eight cents by the ex-
pense of the mine timbers To sup
ply these timbers, says the Vegeta-
rian Magazine, requires each year
the product of approximately 10000
acres of forest
Timber is used for cross ties for
tram roads in the main haulage ways.
as wooden rollers and as props. set
of gangway timber consists of two
legs, commonly nine or ten feet long
and about 13 inches in diameter. and
collar six or seven feet long These
sets are placed on an average at in
tervals of five feet; one gangway fire.
quently contains 1000 sets, and ten
gangways to a colliery is not an un-
usual number
The average life of the timber is
hardly above two years. Forty five
per cent of the timbers are destroyed
by decay, while breakage, wear and
insects destroy the remainder BY
peeling the timbers and properly sea-
soning them and especially by giving
them a treatment in oils or chemical
salts, their length of service is materi-
ally increased.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
AN ADVERTISING TRICK FOR
WESTERN FARMERS.
Real Estate Agents" Go After
Men with Land for Sale and
Reap Rich Harvest.

A smooth scheme for separating
farmers from their money has been
worked with much success in South
Dakota. An oily CRATER calls on a
farmer and makes a bid for his land
The figures are absurdly low at first,
but by degrees are raised as high as
$50 an acre, and the farmer consents.
Then the visitor explains that he is
only an agent, but that he can sell the
land at the price named if the owner
will agree to pay for advertising at
the rate Of fifty cents an acre. The
agent" promises orally that the ad-
vertising money will not be payable
until the land is sold, but this stipula-
ton is not contained in a contract
that the farmer signs.
In few days he receives a copy Of
an ad and not over-courteous demand
for money. 1t is said that twenty
two agriculturists were caught with
this bait in Brown County and that
one of them gave up $500. Others de-
clare hotly that they will not pay but
they will make fight in the courts.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
MADE INTO STABLE
HUMBLE PURPOSE SERVED BY
MAUSOUEUM OF TYRANT.
Curious Memorial of the Ruin Soiano
Lopez Brought on Paraguay
Country Being Brought Back
Slowly to Prosperity.

A curious memorial of the tyrant
Solano Lopez, who wasted and depopu-
lated Paraguay between 1862 and 1870,
stands in the city of Asuncion, the
capital of the republic 1t is the large
and imposing mausoleum that he built
for the ultimate housing of his body
But it was never used for that pur-
pose. When Lopez was overtaken and
killed as he was fleeing his enemies
did not care to give him decent
burial.
DR.. Vallentin. the German geosraph-
err who has just written book on
Paraguay, says that it puzzled the peo-
pie to decide what to do with the
mausoleum. 1t was finally turned into
a stable and is still serving that
humble but useful purpose.
Grass is growing upon the Nty
cupola and weeds protrude from every
crevice in the walls. 1t is monu-
ment to the ruin Lopez brought upon
his country and himself.
Lopez has often been called the
Nero of the nineteenth century, but
some historians say that he was worse
than Nero. Dr. Baez the historian
of Paraguay, says that the tyranny of
Lopez was the most barbarous that
history records. The only excuse
ever made for him is that he was in
sane.
He was president of Paraguay and
intended to make himself king. He
provoked and waged five years var
with the united countries of Brazil,
Argentina and Uruguay. He had a
crown made in Paris to be ready for
| the coronation just as soon as he could
| declare himself king of more than
half of South America. His idea was
to build up great kingdom, not by
developing its resources, but by found
ing military despotism.
He became despot wholly unre-
strained by law. All his countrymen
who opposed him were shot or i'm
prisoned. He had his own mother
and one of his sisters publicly fiogged
in the street. Another sister was kept
a prisoner in chains.
Every boy and man who could carry
gun was impressed into the army
and as the end drew near he com
PEELED many hundreds of women tc
fight in the ranks. The whole com
try was in ruins when bullet ended
his life. In 1861 Paraguay had pop
ulation of over 100000 There were
only about 100000 human beings il
the country in 1872. The land wa:
nothing but a waste.
1t had been completely stripped O
cattle. horses, sheep and goats, not f;
| plantation was in cultivation ant
there was no money to buy seed, fol
Lopez. and the woman Lynch, whom
he had broug with him from Pari:
the year before he became president
had shipped all the remaining golt
and silver to England for rainy day
Paraguay has recovered slowly from
this experience. She now has a pop
ulation of 100000, immigrants ar,
coming in growing numbers and agri
culture and commerce are advancing
every year.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Relics Of a Great Composer.

Among life's largest ironies is the
fate that often befalls the manuscript
of a genius. OF no one is this truer
than of Beethoven. When this greatest
of composers was alive he was inces-
sanity in financial difficulty. After
his death all his manuscript were sold
at auction-over 200 of them there
were-yet they brought hardly $500
This would be at the rate of about
two dollars and half apiece. The
other day the manuscript of his G
major sonata for violin and piano,
written in r 2. was sold by man in
Leipsic to a man in Florence for 49,.
500 marks, or $4,000.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
The Ruling Passion.

Nanny Liza has lived with the
"fambly" long enough to acquire
words and expressions, which, used at
second hand, are sometimes fatal to
the family gravity. Recently men,
Der of the little circle had occasion to
call for the horse and surrey from
the livery stable. After waiting a
long while the order was repeated,
with no immediate result. Nanny,
having heard the conversation, and
knowing the impotence of her mis-
tress, expressed herself thus:
Huh! Dey's jes' no use countin' on
dem libery stable folks. dey's so dill.
litante."
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
What the Little Workers Do.

The bee, humble worker as he is,
yet last year paid the interest on the
national debt of the United States,
$24,310,326, and had surplus remain
ing of nearly 100000. This is almost
as much as the $2S,O0O,OOO which was
the value of raw cane sugar produced
in the country. Yet beside the farm
yard chicken the bee sinks into in
significance. Poultry products this
year are worth $500, OOO, 900, more than
any crop in the country except corn.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Neatly Put.

Homer Folks, the secretary OF the
State Charity Aid society of New
York. referred in recent address to
the awkwardness that charity work
ers feel in making public appeals for
funds.
and few charity workers." Mr..
Folks added, "can carry off that awk-
wardness with the neatness of the COL
ored preacher who reminded his con-
gregation that:
'Brudren, All KANT preach hyah
an board in heb'n.'"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

Mr.. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the
cause of economic reform has been in no wise
abated by the panic which he and his kind did
SO much to bring on, is out with an answer to
President Moffett, Of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana. The publication of this an
swer. it is officially given out. was delayed sew
eral weeks, "for business reasons" because it
was not deemed advisable to further excite
the public mind, which was profoundly dis
turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm
clouds have rolled by, however, the Commits
sioner rushes again into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief points
in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as
presented by President Moffett, we're "a that
the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to
East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard
Oil Company as the lawful rate by employees
of the Alton, (2) that the 1Scent rate on file
with the Interstate Commerce Commission was
a class and not commodity rate, never being
intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was
shipped in large quantities between Whiting
and East st. Louis over the Chicago & East
ern Illinois at 6A cents per hundred pounds,
which has been filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (D
that the 1Scent rate on oil was entirely out of
proportion to lawful rates on other commOdt-
ties between these points of a similar char
acter, and of greater value, such, for example.
as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was
eight cents. PRESIDENT Monet also stated tnaC
thousands of tons Of freight had been sent by
other shippers between these points under
substantially the same conditions governed
the shipments of the Standard Oil Company.
This defence of the Standard Oil Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert
ed powerful influence upon the public mind
Naturally the Administration, which has
staked the success of it's campaign against
the trusts upon the result of its attack upon
this company, endeavors to Offset this infu-
ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com
missioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebuff
tai argument is extremely weak, although as
strong, doubt, as the circumstances would
warrant. He answers the points made by Presi-
dent Moffett substantially as follows: "a The
Standard Oil Company had traffic department.
and should have known that the six-cent rate
had not been filed, (2) no answer, 90 the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois rate secret rate
because it read not from Whiting, but from
BOLTON, which is described "a village of
about 500 population just outside of Chicago.
It's only claim to note is that it has been for
many years the point of origin for this and
mits in describing this rate that there was a
note attached stating that the rate could also
be used from Whiting
The press has quite generally hailed this
statement Of the Commissioner of Corpora
tons conclusive refutation of what is evil
IDENTIFY recognized as the strongest rebuttal
argument advanced by the Standard.
In fact. it is as VIC ak and inconclusive as the
remainder of his argument The lines of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
cuTicURA CURED FOUR
ing, Burning Rash-Three Little
Babies Had Skin Troubles.

"My baby had running sore on his
neck and nothing that did for it took
effect until I used Cuticura My face
was nearly full of letter or some SIM
liar skin disease. 1t would itch and
burn so that could hardly stand 1t.
Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and box
OF Cuticura Ointment. cured me. Two
years after 1t broke out on my hands
and wrist. Sometimes would go
nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I
went back to my old standby. that
had never failed me-one set of Cuti-
cura Remedies did the work. One
set also cured my uncle's baby whose
head was cake of sores, and another
baby who was in the same fix. Mrs.
Lille Wilcher. 40 Eleventh ST., Chat
tanooga, Tenn, Feb. 16, 1907"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

King Leopold mas sent to view 1orN
for disulay a large collection of what
are said to be very valuable and in
teresting exhibits from the Congo.
So far as reported no SCARED and mu-
tilated natives are among them.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Chance to Show It.

Chance to Show 1t.
Mrs. Biggs-I hear Mrs. Hilow is
going to move again.
Mrs. Diggs-Yes, she moves every
month since she got her new furni-
ture.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

Many Old People Suffer from
Bronchial Affections particularly at
this time of year. Browns Bronchial
Troches give immediate relief.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case
of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in
to IA days or money refunded. Soc.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Moravian Barley and speltz.

two great cereals, makes growing and fat
tening hogs and cattle possible in Oak,
Mont, Ida, Colo, yes, everywhere, and
add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass,
the II ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which
produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre,
other rare farm seeds that they offer.
JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT
with lOc in stamps for packing, ETC., to the
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis,
and get their big catalog and lots of farm
seed samples. X. 4 w.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

However things may seem, no evil
thing is success, and no good thing
failure.-Samuel Longfellow.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

It may be the uncertainty of firt-
ing that appeals to girl;. she is
never quite sure but what she really
means it.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Not
For
Men


This is the law of benefits between
men: The one ought to forget at once
what he has given; the other ought
never to forget what he has received
Seneca
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

We Sell Guns and Traps Cheap
Buy furs and hides, or tan them for robes
& rugs. N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

What a man thinks he knows about
women a woman knows he doesn't
know.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Not for Murphy.

Not for Murphy.
Mr.. Murphy-Oi want to buy pair
of gloves.
Clerk-Here's something I believe
will just suit you. It's suede glove.
Mr.. Murphy-Niver, begorra! OF
want Irish gloves. Swade gloves, in
dade!-Kansas City Times.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

You can't make good ginger ale il
anything ails the ginger.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

The more judgment a man has, the
slower and the more careful will he be
to condemn.-Maurer.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

It's sweeping assertion to say that
a new broom sweeps clean.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
Signature sna,s &c os&AZzNu
In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31

Talk is cheap-unless lawyer is
handing it out.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-31
Those Delicious Lemon Pies,

Those Delicious Lemon Pies.
The kind that make your mouth wa
at least possible expense il you use
"OUR-PIE" Preparation. Don't hesitate.
Try it and tell your friends. At grocers,
10 cents. Three kinds: Lemon, Choco-
late and Custard.