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The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
STORING THE WATER.
Work Done at the North Platte Sub
Station

staten,
The Nebraska Experiment Station
has issued Bulletin No. ia, on Stor.
Ing Moisture In the Soil. This bulle-
tin Is a report of work done at the
Experimental Substation located at
North Platte.
This bulletin takes up the necessity
OF storing water in the soil during
periods OF wet weather to be used
during periods of drouth. A short de.
scription Is given of the type OF soil
found on the Substation farm, the
manner Of sampling, and the depth of
samplng. Some samples were taken
to a depth OF Is feet in order to reach
a point below which the crops could
not obtain water.
A map Is given showing the divi-
sion of the farm into fields and also
one showing the soil areas Of the
state. A brief discussion of the move
ments OF the water found in the soil
Is also given.
The charts show that water is con.
served in the soil through cultivation
and that it Is necessary TO keep the
surface of the soil loose and in q re-
ceptive condition to get the water
into the soil. Almost as much water
is gotten into the soil during the
early part of the season where cul.
;ivated crop is being grown as is con.
served by summer tillage. This is due
to tho fact that the surface soil is
kept loose enough to hold the water
that falls until 1t can get down into
the soil, and the loose soil on the
surface prevents evaporation; it is
also due to the fact that comparative.
ly few plants are being grown in
cultivated field and these do not draw
very heavily on the water supply DUR
ing the early part of their growth.
In a small grain field more plants
are grown, with the result that the
water Is used more rapidly and less
water Is gotten into the soil. In fields
growing alfalfa or bronze grass where
the number OF growing plants are
large and the surface of the soil is
smooth and hard, 1t is seldom that
enough water gets into the soil to
moisten the soil below two or three
feet. BY the method OF summer till
ing practiced. from 40 to so per cent
of the seasons rainfall has been
stored for the use of the subsequent
crop. On this type OF soil the water
Is available for the crop.
Several charts and tables are given
in the bulletin, to show the amount
Of precipitation at North Platte. One
table given shows the daily precipita-
ton during the period that this work
was being done. Charts showing the
annual precipitation and the average
precipitation by months are also
given.
T.is bulletin may be had free OF
cost by residents of Nebraska upon
application to the Nebraska Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, Lincoln
Neb.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
License Year In Omaha.

The supreme court has held that
the board of fire and police commits
sioners OF Omaha may issue liquor
license to run from January 1, 1910,
to January I. 1911. The case came up
on the application of Peter Johnson
OF Omaha for liquor license to run
for the period mentioned.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
civj, Service Examinations.

The United States civil service
commission announces the following
examinations: June Is, biologists,
geological survey; June Is. timer.
Phoenix school. Arizona, Indian SER
vice: June Is, assistant In dairying
(male) department of agriculture.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
Two Years for johnson.

DR.. William II. Johnson, convicted
of performing a criminal operation
which caused the death OF a 17.year,
penitentiary for two years. Sentence
was suspended pending appeal to the
supreme court.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02

Edmond, Alberta-Premier Ruther.
ford rendered his resignation as the
head OF the Alberta government cab.
met Thursday. Chief Justice Sifton
has been called on to form a new cab
met.
The resignation of Premier Ruther-
ford is the result OF agitation against
the governments guarantee Of the
Great Waterways railway bonds.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
Charter for Bank.

The Bostwick State bank OF the
town of Bostwick, Nuckolls county,
has obtained a charter from the state
banking board. The new bank will
have a paid up capital stock of $l0,.
900. The incorporators are ]. B. Nc.
Grew. c. II. Waldo and ]. w. Kirk.
bride
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
No Reduced Rates.

Walter Whitten, secretary of the
Lincoln Commercial club, has re.
ceived notice from the Western Pas.
senger association that the railroads
will make no reduction in fares next
October to the Farmers National
congress, which meets in Lincoln 81
that time
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
Damages Against a Newspaper.

The case of Thomas Dennison
against the Daily News Publishing
company of Omaha for libelous publi-
cation, in which the district court
found for the plaintiff, has been
affirmed by the supreme court.
Plaintiff Is awarded $4,000.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02

me n well WOUlaih
and 1 would like TO
tell the whole world
of it. i suffered
fromfemale trouble
and fearful painsin
my back. Ihad the
best doctors and
they all decided
that / had a tumor
in addition to my
female trouble, and
advised an opera
tion. Lydia Il.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
Gets In Out Of the Rain,

Knicker-Is Jones a man who quells
the storm and rides the thunder!
Bocker-No, but he borrows an UNI
brella.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02

The success OF a scheme depends
largely upon the man behind n.
The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02
AFTER
SUFFERING
ONE YEAR
Cured by Lydia E. Pink.
ham'sVegetable Compound

Milwaukee, wis. Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Catholic church that changed the OBJ
servance of the day from the seventh
to the first day? They claim 1t and
what authority have you to discredit
it? There is absolutely nothing in the
scriptures for us to observe the first
day as a Sabbath day. Some would
pull down the eternal heavens to
prove it if they could, and now let me
ask the readers of the Courier, have
any of you noticed single passage
that any of these Sunday advocates
have sighted us to that sustains the
first day as the Sabbath. No. not one!
Why? Because they have not got it
and they know it. and now in conclu-
sion | will say that am what pro-
fessed Christians term the worldian,
and could give my reasons for it ami
am very glad that worldly professors
cannot be the judges of the desires
and intents of my heart.
CARLISLE SMITH
Agency, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

He felt tired and detected, an old man,
as he turned from Nine. Brion's win.
dow
Then he stopped as a woman step
ped from the shop and into the glare
of the electric light He gave start.
What strange effects the blending OF
late afternoon and artificial light can
give! The dreams We're getting on his
nerves. The poise of the head how
like her! How like the Lucy of old
was the slender, gray-gowned little
figure! He would go nearer But no.
she would be startled. 1t would never
do to frighten lady even for the sake
of vague resemblance to one so dear
Meanwhile the lady paused moment
to gather her furs more closely about
her. gave little shake to her skirts
and was gone.
Jordan cursed himself for fool
Then he sprang forward. She had
dropped parcel. He would return it
to her. He reached her side in sec
ond. Madame" the lady raised her
head as the well-bred voice addressed
her. your parcel"
you are SO kind" she said Then in
the joy of recovering her treasure
she lost all sense of decorum as she
confided to the tall stranger, "It is d
plume. | prize it so. 1t is like one that
had when ] was a girl"
1t was Lucy, so dear, so sweet, with
only sprinkling of gray in the soft
hair and a deeper meaning to the love
ly eyes to distinguish her from the
Lucy of long ago.
Edwin Jordan had gained his power
in business for one dominant charac
teristic; he had never wasted time in
superfluities. He had always gone tc
the point with resistless confidence
Now he took the little lady's hand in
his and brought back all the days OF
long ago in few terse, conclusive
words. He ended briefly, his voice
shaking bit:
Lucy, it's long ago, long ago! Oh
the squalor, the inefficiency of the
twenty years | have wasted without
iyou"
And Lucy's voice shook, too, and il
her eyes were tears like dew upon vic
lets. She laughed, though, up into hi:
face as she answered: "And what o
the twenty years to Gomez"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
LENT

Council Bluffs Nonpareil. is a
matter Of more consequence to some
of us than to others of us. The Len
ten season of self-discipline, time
for testing the moral fiber and find
ing our whether it is there. Lent IS
only the application in the Christian
year of the fasting principle found in
all religions and in every effort 70
square life with moral ideals. You
find this principle manifest in the life
of the Puritan, in his abstinence all
the time from what we may con
veniently term worldly pleasures
Again in the more general practice to
stop now and then and take stock of
habits from the moral and spiritual
standpoint. For total abstinence of 1t
we have to look to the lives of those
people who never put on the brakes
and are sure to go to excess, to be-
come the slave of habit and of world
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
"Meat Strike Would Affect Prices of
iva

IiNC SCOCk.
| would like space in your valuable
paper to express few of my thoughts
regarding the present high prices We
have had railroad strikes, coal miners
strikes and most all kinds of strikes,
but this meat strike is the first strike
about something good to eat | ever
heard Of. 1t seems as though people
are never satisfied This meat strike,
if il should become general, will affect
the prices of live stock, and hurt the
common average farmer, who is com
PEELED to sell his stuff to meet his obli-
cations, let the prices be high or low
It will affect the feeder, that has had
the grit to get out and buy these high
priced cattle and high priced hogs, the
prices being governed by the scarcity
OF the stuff. Corn was never more
scarce in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska
than it ris now But the laboring class
OF people don't stop TO consider the
scarcity OF anything, but they think
what the farmer has ought to be sold
cheap. l can recollect q time when it
did sell cheap and very cheap, too.
And the laboring man was no more
able to eat it then, than he is today,
pSSaitoN ,iC was "olhiliS, lOl Il uOtldi
to a dollar and quarter day, and
working maybe two DAYS and a half
out of the week. and then he was eat
ing cheap meat. And those not work
ing. were walking with Coyey's army
| to Washington, hunting cheaper meat.
My opinion is that the present high
price of meat is due to the scarcity OF
hogs and cattle. Now, Mr.. LabQring
Man Just give us two good corn crops
in succession to fill up these old empty
corn cribs that have been empty for
several years, and then we will give
| you cheaper meat, and then the farm.
er will make more money and sell his
pork at half the price that he gets
/ today.
Never will you see cheaper meat
until you see cheaper corn, and you
will not see any cheaper corn until
you see better crops raised. The
farmers have one chance yet. There
is one country where they are surely
eating meat. One of my neighbors re.
ceived letter from Germany this
week, and it said hogs were selling al
| S24 hundred on foot. If they quit
eating meat in the United States, the
packers and farmers will grease up the
Germans skillets and pots.
L. R. Garrison.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

the receipts of hogs at ST. Joseph, the
1909 figures, 1,693,SS1, being % per
cent below those reported the year be-
Louis, 9,076,065 head, show a relative.
ly small decline of less than A per
cent from the 1908 total
The total receipts of cattle for the
year compared favorably with 1908,
but were considerably below the to.
tails of 1905, 1906 and 1907
The only branch of the livestock
family showing increased receipts for
the four years period were calves, the
heavy marketing Of which has played
large part in bringing about the
shortage in beef
The report also shows that the an,
nual aggregate shipments of packing
house products from Chicago, the larg.
est of the markets, were below those
reported for any of the five previous
years. The stock of meat. as reported
for the five principal packing centers
at the end of the year, 135,437, ,505
pounds, were below like figures report.
ed under the same dates in each of the
last five years. In addition to the de.
cline in live stock receipts. shipments
of grain received at fifteen principal
interior markets during the last year
were lower than for any year since
1904.
The report of the bureau of stats.
tics shows that the old natural law OF
supply and demand is still on the job
and is the first reason for the increas,
ed prices. Every year there are more
mouths to feed. Instead of increased
production of livestock to supply the
increasing demand, a decrease is
shown. 1t does not seem from this
showing that grand jury investiga
tions of tho packing combination will
be very effective in bringing about
reduced prices. The cure seems to be
to increase the production of livestock
sc as to keep step with the increased
demand.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

ly pleasures and to be found weak
morally, and probably physically also,
under any test that may be imposed
upon them Lent is a good thing. a
virtue might be made of the meat boy
colt. The comparison may be little
cheap. but it occurs nevertheless. Self
that way only may we
know ourselves and have wholesome
and useful control of ourselves. In
Lent we get back the perspective, pos
sibly often badly warped during the
year No religion has ever existed IN
civilized society which did not recog
nibe in some way the necessity for
fasting, for the discipline of the body
by disuse Of the lower supplies or lie
in whole or in part, temporarily, now
and then Those of us who make pro-
fession as well as those who do not,
have need many Of us to give thought
to these things. Lent is school Tor
aGversity 1t is good economies, as
well as good morals and good re-
ligitn. 1t is good patriotism, too. the
times are flush. The cost Of living is
high. We are going pretty stiff
pace. Do not forget, in the absence OF
economic necessity, the deep moral
and religious necessity for some at
tempt at the regulation of the habits
of life by disuse of things enjoyed that
a true balance may be attained or pre-
served. We pile up trouble and weak
ness if we do We cannot do better
than to attend and give heed to this
vital principle during the coming Len
ten season, and so regardless of our
church affiliations and even il we have
no such affiliations. 1t is a matter of
the conservation OF human health,
strength and happiness here on earth.
If there is any one thing certainly the
matter with the times, it is that we
have the throttle wide open, that the
brake Is rusty from disuse and that
we have fumbled our grip on self
control.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Hugh G. Van Pelt, state dairy eX-
pert, has issued statement in ex-
PLANTATION of the dairy train which will
be sent west over the Burlington, Feb.
10, starting from Burlington and max
ing stops at points along the line
where lectures will be delivered. Mr..
Van Pelt says:
Every farmer in southern Iowa will
have an opportunity to obtain some
facts relative to the Improvement that
should and will be made in milk and
butter production.
with the Iowa COW Welding an in
come to the state of S50,00000O, the
possibility of increasing her produc,
ton to insure an income of S100,000,,
600 lies within easy reach of the Iowa
farmer. The speakers will make plain
to the farmer how this result may be
accomplished The fact that one-third
of the 1,45O,000 COWS now being MIXED
in Iowa are scarcely paving for their
feed illustrates the possibility of i'm
provement. The average production OF
the Iowa COW is 140 pounds Of butter
per year. 1t should be 800 pounds and
can be made to reach that point if the
man who milks the COWS will heed sug
gestions offered for improving then
herds.''
The state legislature appropriated q
fund that made the dairy special pos
sible. 1t will be money well spent if ii
is the means of increasing the states
production of butter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
THE SHORTAGE IN LIVESTOCK.

THE Sf1OH AGE in LIVES OCk.
report issued today by the bureau
of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor calls marked at
tention to the shortage in marketable
live stock Receipts at seven leading
Interior markets during the year 1909
are shown to be the lowest since 1904
In the face of q constantly growing
demand. The largest decline was In
hogs. The receipts of hogs in these
seven markets fell to 1S,8S4,641 head
in 1909, while in 1908 the total re-
ceipts were 22,s63,7O1 head and in the
four years preceding the average re-
ceipts exceeded nineteen million.
The shortage, as compared with the
1908 figures, in the supply Of hogs, the
report declares, does not affect partic-
ularly any one of the markets consid,
cred AS compared with 1908 figures,
receipts at Chicago, 7O32,647 head,
show an absolute decrease of ], ,627 ,07i
head, or decline of 10 per cent; those
at Kansas City, 3.092,S35 head, a de.
crease of 622,274 head, or decline OF
IT per cent; those a. Omaha an abso,
lutte decrease of 2S9,35S head and a
relative decline of IL per cent The
largest per cent decrease is shown in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
DON'T BE JEALOUS OF SUCCESS.

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF SUCCESS.
DO not be jealous of a successful
firm in your city. 1t is a great deal
better for YOU to be working for a
firm that is successful than for .me
that is on the ragged edge of failure. y
This is one of the many coed things
that Mr.. Boyd. western manager for
the Saturday Evening Post told the
greater Des Moines committee at a
meeting last week He SAID that in
stead of trying to find fault. the whole
citizenship should try to build UP. One
OF the best ways to advertise city
is to tell of the firms there thae start
ed in q small way and have prospered
and grown. He dwelt on the state
ment that it is a great deal better and
more pleasant and profitable to do
business and work for a firm that is
successful and doing a good business,
than it is with one that is continuous
ly on the edge of failure. III conclu-
sion he said:
THE worst enemies the growth of
any city has, are those people who
continuously croak about and against
everything that is 2 success in the
community. Be glad they are sue,
cesses instead Of whining and show,
ing an envious spirit"
The greater Des Moines committee
has been addressed recently by a nun.
Der of prominent business men, and
Mr.. Boyd's talk was said to be one OF
the best that has been delivered.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
BLADENsRuRG.


The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Humble, who has been very sick. is
better.
Will Mcdowell has gone to Fearing
to visit his sister, and is coming back
through Des Moines to visit his daugh-
ter, Miss Flora, who is there attend
ing school.
Use the Courier want ads-write
your ad and send it in with ~ cent
word. DO it now.
Miss Mabel Smith of Abingdon is
here visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Campbell Glenn.
Eli Murray is sick with the
mumps at the home of his grandpar-
ents. Mr. and Mrs. John Allen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
TO PHYLLIS.
CAS- he dictated it.)

CAS- he dictated it.)
Phyllis. up in the morning,
Spirit of love and spring;
Phyllis, 1.-THE as the willow,
Voice like the birds that sing;
Phyllis. full of sunshine,
Sparkling like drops of dew;
Phyllis, Phyllis, 0 Phyllis!
This is a song for you.
Phyllis, why do you linger?
Why do your feet remain?
Phyllis, we wait your coming
over the bloom-decked plain.
Phyllis-a brimming beaker
Now your health we quaff
Setting our hearts all leaping
Lighter than windblown chaff.
DO FILL US.
CAS- his stenographer took it,
Fill us UP in the morning,
Spirits Of loving spring!
Fill us tight as pillow
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
SUBJECT FOR EXPERIMENTS.

(F'rom London Spare Moments
Patient-The examination seems to
have delighted you, doctor. / judge
from your happy countenance that
you can save my life.
DR.. Sawbones-I cannot promise you
that; but we must perform a number
of most interesting operations on you.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
LIVING COMES HIGH.

(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
An operation will cost you $500"
And is it absolutely necessary"
You can't live without it."
Say Doc, the high cost of living
can't all be blamed on the tariff, can
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

i Results from Iowa City state that
! three of the students may be given
chance to take their examinations
again. 1t is not stated whether they
failed to pass in their studies or in
| football
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
MUSICAL AMPUTATioNs TIRE
SOME.

(From the Cornell Widow)
Going up to hear that lecture on
appendicitis today?"
Nav. Pm tired of these organ re-
citals.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
AIR DIET THREATENED.

(From Washington, d. c., Starr
Bread brings dyspepsia, meat is dear
And sugar is snare,
So, orchidlike, ere long fear
I'll have to live on air
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

1910 Will be a big year for Ottum-
wa. You had better buy that piece of
property now. 1t will be higher 90
days from now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
Boys like the birds that sing.

I3UyS IIhe IHe UITUb LHaL SI0R,
Fill us full of moonshine,
Sparkling like dropsy due
Fill us, fill us, fill us!
This Is too strong for you.
Fill US! Why do you linger?
Why are your feet in pain?
Fill us! We wait your cunning
Over the gloom-necked plain.
Fill us a brimming beaker
Now to your healthy graft.
Sending our hartshorn leaping
Light as ringboned calf.
The Postal Record.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

The evicted mayor of Marengc
might have Jared even worse at the
hands of a jury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

The Nebraska State Journal offers
this advice to banquet entertainers
Say 1t and sit down. The Chicago
Tribune adds this further advice =
If you haven't anything to say,
don't try 10 say it,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Even losing his job does not keep
down the unconfirmed reports about
the sultan.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Pay your bills. That is one of the
best things you can do to boost the
city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

If Americans are to be sent to fine
the south pole. for goodness sake d,
let but one of them 20 at a time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

All conventions are invited to meet
in Ottumwa. The city wants them,
and will entertain them
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Ottumwa will have water power be-
fore Keokuk does yet. You'll see
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

i A. big liquor trust is being formed
J in Sweden. Look out for jump in
the price of alcohol
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12

Entered as second class matter
October II, 1853. at the postofhce. OF
suSnwa, Iowa. under the Act OF Congress
OF March 3. 1879.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
PEOPLES PULPIT

The Courier Will Publish Signed
or Unsigned Expressions From
Its Readers Upon Receipt; Name
of Writer Must Be Known to
the Publisher, However. e &
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-01-18
Judge Berry So States On
Saturday Morning
4 Partition Suit Is Filed In
Common Pleas
Other Items From The
Temple Of Justice

Probate Judge Berry, to whom the
matter was referred by Governor Har-
mon, whether or not the case of Harry
Blake, charged with petit larceny, was
extraditable, held on Saturday morn
ing that he had no jurisdiction in the
matter and recommended that it be
carried to a higher court. According
ly Judge Seward of Newark of the COM
mon pleas court will arrive in Mt Yer
non Saturday afternoon at 2:42 o'clock
and will hear the matter
Blake was indicted in Union coun-
ty, Indiana, on charge of petit lar
ceny and later broke Jail and came to
Mt. Vernon where he was arrested.
There has been considerable contro-
versy over the question of whether or
not the case was extraditable and it
is now up to the common pleas court
to determine. Sheriff Moss of Union
county, Indiana, arrived in Mt. Yer.
non on Saturday morning, expecting to
take the prisoner back with him, but
this will be delayed until the matter
is determined by the common pleas
court.