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Times Your Child Has Prom.
mot to Do II Again."

. his promises. But in the
his mental development you
Inn to know what a promise
b this stage is reached the
the associations should not
apened the performance for
this reason neither the word
let should be forced upon the
lid. We should neither exact
from him as a condition for
3 him to grace or as the cost
p. nor should we label our
j to him.
p without saying that the par
pmises to the child should al
kept. But the temptation to
opportunities or to distract
as attention from immediate
often makes US prophesy ia
I indulgences that we do not
tend to have realized. And
easy to concoct a plausible
But It 10 q dangerous advau-
et the parent takes when he
poses upon the ignorance and
|nuousness Of the child. For,
4 plausibls your excuses may
! experiences with a parental
that ends IN disappointment
PINE the thought that promises
|nded only tor immediate ad-
and not tor future obligations.
j child gEows older and comes
lstand 'tlat ''prsmIssr doss ear.
'St ~ e6llGA ~, ~ s3Ionld y
1ot y - ~ NJ UlSk ~.
Z. (. Z s.il q - y i5.,. p. 3. n
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
F. Q. B. Denver, Carload Price.

Hay.
Buying Prices.
Colorado upland. per ton. $14.V0016.00
Nebraska upland, per ton 12.00013.00
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. 11.50012.60
Timothy, per ton. ........ 16.OO01700
Alfalfa, per ton ........ 11.5o012.5o
South Park, choice. per
tOu ll.UUV16.VV
San Luis Valley, per ton. 1450016.50
Gunnison Valley, per ton. 15.50016.60
Straw, per ton. 1000 500
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SHAPING UP A STRAW STACK
Few Minutes Spent In Cleaning Up
VIII BE Well Paid For@straw
10 Valuable Property.

Every straw pile has quite a lot Of
straw strewn around the stack that
will be covered % BY snow and prac-
ticaliy wasted II It 10 not taken care
Of. This straw u worth money, and
4 few hours put n shaping up the
stack and picking up shs scattore1
STRAW Win = nisAH weil spsnA
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MODEL PLAN FOR FARMSTEAD
Sketch Shows Suitable Arrangement Of
Building, windbreaks, ETC., on
Small Farm.

In response to a query The Farmer
gives the following plan for placing
buildings on small farm:
We submit herewith a sketch show
Ing a suitable arrangement for build
ings, windbreaks, ETC., on a farm that
must face the north. A south or east
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ICE NECESSARY FOR SUMMER
to BE produeed-Two Tons Per
Cow u Milk 10 Shipped.

Store one-half ton Of Ice per COW II
cream Il to be produced. and two tons
Der COW II whole milk 10 to BE- shipped,
This quantity. Il properly stored.
should provide the Ice necessary ~
dairy and hoassAet1 ~ fcrsa yoask
ssah1ne d. allswaace ~ slil1ag
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U. 8. CAVALRY TO INTERCEPT
FILIBUsTERs CROSSING
TO MEXICO.
REBELSTORESATpARRAL
cARRANZA ENVOY PREDICTS
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF
BORDER TROUBLE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Ell Paso, Tex-Parral is expected to
be the scene OF the next general en-
gagement between the forces of Fran
cisco Villa and the Carranza troops of
the north under the command of Gen.
Francisco Murguia. Villa has fled to
that place, where he had sent eight
trains of loot from Torreon, and Gen.
Murguia is in pursuit. according to
the latest report received here by
Carranza Consul Soriano Bravo.
Laredo, Tex.-Four alleged Mexican
filibusters were either killed or badly
wounded in an encounter with troops
Of the First New Hampshire infantry
at Zapata, Tex, according to reports
reaching Laredo.
The same report says that Mexican
revolutionists have captured Ramilene
and Parral, two small villages about
ten miles below the border from "a
pata.
New York.-Nicifero Zamprano,
treasurer of the de facto government
in Mexico. recently sent to Washing
ton by Gen. Carranza as his personal
representative, issued statement in
which he predicted an early settlement
of the border difficulties. He based
his belief. he declared, on the fact
that the American government is con-
sidering seriously lifting at an early
date for the benefit of the Carranza
government the embargo placed by
President Wilson. on the shipment of
arms into Mexico, the recall Of Gen.
Pershing's expedition and the sending
to Mexico OF Ambassador Fletcher.
AS the result of his visit to Wash
ington Mr.. Zambrano said he had re-
ported to Gen. Carranza that prospects
for an early adjustment Of the exist
ing difficulties are very bright.
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Grain.

Wheat. ch. mill, 100 lbs, buying. .$2.S0
Rye, Colo. bulk, 100 lbs. buying. Its
Oats, Nebraska, 100 lbs, buying. zoo
Colorado oats, bulk, buying...... LIS
Corn chop, sack. selling. ........ 1.9S
Corn in sack, selling. ........... 1.90
Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs, sell
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Butter, Esss and Poultry

butt6r, Eggs ahd Poultry.
Chicago. = Butter - Creamery, ~;
@39c. ssS
Eggs Firsts. 40041c; ordinary
firsts, s5@sec: at mark. caess n.
cluded. 32040c. ;st
Poultry-Fowls. 1s0isxc: sprinsa.
l9c; turkeys. 23c. "
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Vegetables.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

Metal Market Quotations.
Silver, New York-75kc.
Lead. per 100 lbs.-$7.5O.
Copper, per 100 lbs.-$2s.37N,
Spelter, st. Louis, per 100 ~.
-$9.15.
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BEST PLACE FOR SEED CORN
Unused Room In House Where II viii
Escape Severe Freezing and Keep
Dry 10 Favored.

Seed corn must be stored In a dry
place where It is well enough pro-
tected to insure It from severe freez-
Ing. Lofts Of stables are not always
dry.
The best place to store seed corn IL
In an unused room In the house.
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Boulder-Tungsten concentrates. 60
per cent, SIS per unit; crude orea, %
per cent. SIS; 25 per cent. 500 70 e11.s
10 per cent. $50 to SO per unit.
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MADE IN AMERICA.

Uncle Sam does not hesitate to In
terfere with the personal liberty Of
paupers, criminals and lunatics from
other countries who want to come to
this country to make 1t their home. He
puts up the bars and refuses them
ndmittance. Is 1t right then to license
saloons to manufacture these paupers,
criminals and lunatics here at home
and out Of our own people3
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Live Poultry
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No. net, F o. B.
DenVef ~
Eggs, graded No. 2 net, F. o. B.
Denver .:..... 80
Eggs, case count, misc. cases,
less commission ....... :. 11.6o
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Chicago live stse. o..sssss...

Chicago.-Hogs-Bulk, 1onSO1o.1et
light, $s.50010.S0; naked to6&1 Y
1885; heavy, S1o.ooO Of0SG; llSSg y
t10.00@10.15; pigs. 15.eo0A8g X, ;ls|
Cattle Native besf ea$t1e
'l1.s0; Western stsefs, S51GD56 4
stockers and foedeRa 11& s
COWS and hsifsrs. - - =
$e.o0013.2 -. e { i,s a, II
\ GAsep Wsthers. Sezoz1 II Il ,l11
143eO1o,0e: lalA11 y X X
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Plan for Farmstead-(D House, (2)
Well, (3) Poultry House, (4) Wa
terino Trough, (5) Main Barn, (e)
Machine Shed, (7) Hog House, (s)
Corn Crib, (s) Granary.
face is very much to be preferred If it
can be had. We believe it is better to
have the farmstead next to the road,
about half way from either corner.
rather than to have 1t set back In rne
middle of the farm.
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WHY LlcENsK TIT .a
II alcoholism II . disease why "
cense trade to propagate ~
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Fruit.

Apples, Colo, fancy, box. 81. 100000
Pears, Colo, winter. box. 2.50@3.00
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. LIST grade. lb. .3s@39
Creameries. I'd grade. lb..... .34@35
Process ...... "a
Packing stock ............. =. "a
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|CgalpgtatlCe
= Mites .

Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
1--WE TOLD

The coal situation in the United
States, SO far as Dr. Garfield, national
flel administrator. is concerned, was
reduced to very few words yesterday
in statement in which he said:
If our industrial development
from the war and other causes has
grown beyond our 10 per cent in
crease in production over last year,
then we must go short We have no
figures at hand to tell what that
development has been.
In other words, the coal administra-
ton has found it's task too big for it to
handle. This does not mean. of neces-
sity, that DR.. Garfield was the wrong
man for the place. 1t does mean, very
definitely, that his early assurances Of
a bountiful supply of coal and the
echoed assurances from various
sources which have encouraged many
householders to delay their fuel pur-
chases for the winter have been based
on woeful lack Of information. 1t
means that the question of supply is
going to loom much larger than the
question of price.
1t puts the coal problem sharply up
to the individual consumer now. when
the country stands on the threshold of
winter. The Courier put the same
problem sharply up to the individual
consumer last August, when there was
ample time to make provision against
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such deliberate plotting could be coun-
tenanced by the highest authorities in
nation which, up to three years ago,
enjoyed the respect, confidence and
high admiration of the rest of the
world.
The three messages reproduced in
The Courier yesterday form the most
astounding chapter thus far in the long
Lansing is making at his pleasure and
Of which he still withholds part
They prove that Count Won Bernstorff
was the directing force in the United
States and Canada for the elaborate
organization Of spies, conspirators.
murderers, dynamiters and propagan-
dists who moved when Germany's
powerful general staff pulled the
strings. They prove that the details of
cold-blooded plots against life and
property and against the very exist
ence of the United States government
we're known and approved by the high
est powers in the German empire.
They prove that those same powers
employed American citizens in an eff
fort to influence congress.
Some seventy years ago, when Fred
eric II ruled Prussia, he wrote the fol-
lowing, which appears in Berlin edi-
ton of his works. published in 1S4S:
Il understand by the word policy that
one must make it his study to deceive
others; that is the way to get the bet.
ter of them" This same emperor. in a
letter to Minister Radziwill, wrote
thus: IF there is anything to be
gained by it, we will he honest: if de.
ception is necessary, let us be cheats. .
In seventy years. German ideals and
German culture" have held their iniq.
uitous own.
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I'VE REST OF us.

WApello county's start on the second
Liberty Loan campaign is an inspira-
ton and very encouraging sign that
the subscription in this district will
surpass the quota with a considerable
margin to spare. Today the commit
tees in every section Of the county
started on their canvass with the
knowledge that preliminary subscrip-
lions at Tuesday evenings meeting
had cut the total to be rased from
S807 ,625 to $472,625.
This does not mean that the task is
an easy one, nor does 1t decrease the
personal responsibility OF any man or
woman in the county whose name has
not been written on the list Of sub
scribers to the second Liberty Loan.
It does prove. however, that the
spirit of loyalty is abroad in this com.
munity, that Wapello county is capa-
BILE OF exceeding its quota and that uni
fled effort ON the part of all its citizens
can result in completing the work OF
the campaign within week.
At this time. as the call for sub
ecriptions goes forth to everyone in
the county, The Courier addresses that
Great proportion Of the citizenship to
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
MISSOURI HIRES
MORE COUNTY AGENTS

Jefferson City. Mo-. Oct. 13.-Linn
county has contracted for a county
agent. Work began October 10. Ross
Nichols has been assigned to that
county by the University Of Missouri
College OF Agriculture. Mr.. Nichols is
Missourian and graduate OF the
College of Agriculture. Adair county
has also contracted for an agent. but
a man has not yet been found to NIL
the position. These two counties to.
gether with Lincoln and Mississippi
which have already received agents,
comprise the first four counties which
took advantage of the opportunities to
obtain county agent.
Thirty-four counties have applied
for agents under the emergency food
production act of congress. The four
new counties together with the fifteen
which had agents under the old plan
make total Of nineteen Missouri
counties which have obtained agents.
There are also four district agents
who have charge Of several counties
each.
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whom investment in Liberty Bond
means personal sacrifice and self
denial, This includes all but a few OF
our citizens, for ours is distinctly a
community of individuals of moderate
means.
The first list of subscribers. whose
purchases total $335,000, is compare
lively a short one. 1t is representative
of the small proportion of the coun-
try's citizenship which is associated IN
our minds with the possession OF large
means. The subscriptions listed are
liberal and in proportion to the re-
sources of the investors.
The men whose names are IN that
list are the very men to whom many
of us would and do go for advice as 10
the safety of investments. Their own
financial success is evidence OF their
business Judgment. Their investment
in the Liberty Loan is the best indlca-
ton that they regard it as wise bust
ness move. It is evidence, too, that
they recognize their duty to their gov
eminent and are disposed to meet
their responsibility as citizens.
Are we any less loyal? Are our
rights as citizens any less than theirs
Is our duty and responsibility to our
government and to our families and
ourselves any less? Is there any rea'
son why we should not invest our
money as they have invested theirs
in proportion to our means and IN dls'
charge of our responsibilities?
Not all of us can lend our govern
ment $4,000, nor $4,000. nor 100000
Rut each of us can lend some amount
nroportionate to our resources. Eacn
Of us can muster enough money to buy
Liberty Bond-for $50, or $l0o, OF
$500. or s1,o0o-by saving and divert
ing portion of his or her income.
Suppose it involves self-denial for
few weeks or few months. Suppose
II means the sacrifice of a vacation
trin. or a new automobile, or entails
the wearing of last winters overcoa,
another season. Is any sacriflce o.
which we are capable too great tf
make for our country? Is our patriot
Ism to be measured by hesitation ovel
buying Liberty Bond when hundreds
Of Young men from our own commu
nity are offering their lives in defense
Dr. that same government which ASKS
only money from us?
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A SCRAP OF PAPER.

II copy of The Hague conventions
of 1899 and 1907 is available. glance at
its provisions at random and select any
one of them. The chances are that
you will find a solemn agreement to
which Germany and other nations sub
scribed only few years ago and which
Germany has violated openly and with
out apparent regret.
This, for instance, is the text Of Ar
ticle of the 1907 draft:
Prisoners of war are in the.
power of the hostile government,
but not of the individuals or corps
who capture them. They must be
humanely treated. All their per-
sonal belongings, except arms.
horses and military papers, remain
their property.
With this in mind, read the following
abstract from an article by Under Of
ficer Klemt, of the first company, 154th
German infantry 1t tells of fight in
which his regiment took part Septem-
Der "a, 1914, and was published in the
Jauersches Tageblatt of October 1S
After leaving Hannonville the regi.
ment was met suddenly by artillery
and infantry fire and suffered heavy
losses, but the enemy was invisible
At last, Officer Klemt says. French
soldiers were found to have climbed
into trees from which they were shoot
ing. He continued:
They are shot down from the
trees like squirrels. = No quar-
ter is given. . We come to a
hollow where dead and wounded
red-breeches are lying about in
heaps. The wounded are hammer
ed or stabbed because we know
these scoundrels will shoot us
from behind as soon as we pass
them There lies stretched out.
face to the ground. a Frenchman,
but he is only shamming dead.
The kick of sturdy musketeer
tells him we are there. Turning
over. he calls for quarter. but he
is told that he needs dose of
French medicine and is pinned to
the earth A weird noise near me
comes from blows that a soldier
of the 154th is raining upon the
bald head of a Frenchman with
dubbed rifle. Very wisely he has
appropriated tor this purpose, the
| Frenchman's gun, for fear of
breaking his own. Very soft
hearted men put the French
wounded out OF their misery with
bullets: the others hew and stab
whenever they can. At the.
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TOLD HOW TO
SAVE WHEAT
MISS HOPKINS DEMONSTRATES
USE OF SUBSTITUTES IN
MAKING BREADS.

IF each family win use one sack
of wheat flour this year where one ana
one-third sacks were used last year.
900 900 bushels Of wheat will be con-
served for the use of the soldiers ana
for the allies was one OF the per
tinept facts toward wheat conserva-
ton given out by Miss Mar1el hop
kins. county home demonstration
agent, in her wheat-saving demonstra-
ton conducted before large NUMBER
of women in the Commercial c1uo yes
terday afternoon.
This was the first Of series OF
demonstrations which Miss Hopkins
will conduct in the county In the IN
terests of conservation Of wheat and
other commodities Of which there .
shortage at present. An effort VIII %
made to reach every woman IN inc
county to impress upon her the lmpos-
lance of this sort of patriotism.
In the meeting yesterday Miss Hop
kins gave demonstrations IN the max
ing Of both yeast and quick oreaos
with wheat substitutes, showing eacn
process in the making Of yeast bread
from the making Of the sponge to the
baked loaf. Cornmeal and oatmeal as
wheat substitutes with equal food val.
ue were demonstrated, the use OF
these products being emphasized espe-
cially because they are Iowa products
Miss Hopkins urging that Iowa PROD
ucts should be used by Iowa people IN
preference to products of other local..
ties. These breads were pronounced
by the women present to be equal IN
flavor to wheat bread. Corn mufhns
and johnny cakes were demonstrated
as easily made and nutritious quick
breads.
Stress was laid on the necessity for
prevention of waste, and the women
were urged to influence their families
to eat one slice Of bread less each day.
and to see that no scraps OF bread hno
their way into the garbage can.
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OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS.

Whatever Shortcomings MS critics
NAV charge against Secretary Lansing.
he cannot be said to lack sense or
dramatic values. His announcement
of Yesterday, which merely made pub
lie three more Of the damning docu-
ments which prove Germany's iniquity,
would have been weakened by any
comment he could have added. Such
revelations are the more impressive
when the comment is supplied by the
indignant American citizen who reads
them.
Out Of their own mouths comes the
evidence to prove the guilt OF the Ger
mans. Were it not for the unimpeach-
able source Of the information the
state department has given to the pub.
lie 1t would be difficult to believe that
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
MILITARY RULES
AT GIRLS DORM

Grinnell. Oct. 13.-Why so many
"busy" signs at the girls dormitory
doors?
The mystery has been solved.
A system of military inspection
among the girls of Grinnell college.
whereby the offenders are compelled
to do all kinds of dirty work. has
been instituted in an effort to main
tain strict order in the rooms of the
dormitories at all times.
Disorder in any room is reported as
soon as discovered by the proctor OF
that building, and after two reports,
the name of the victim is posted. Also
she is warned. At the third report
she is compelled to scrub up the
kitchenet ''spick and span" for a
week.
That's why the busy signs.
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LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
nv LEE PAPE
The Park Ave. News.
Weather, Less f1ys.

The Park Ave. News.
Weather Less flys.
Sissiety Notes.
Big Skandil in Sissiety. MI. sam
Cross tore big hole in the sect OF his
pants on a male last Satidday aftlr'
noon. and was saw by Miss Mary Wat
kins and Miss Gertrood Simsin wawk-
ing home holding big peece OF news
paper in back Of him. MI. Leroy
Shooster has reserved silver watcn
with his initials on the back for his
BIRTHDAY, and he keeps on telling
everybody wat time it is weather they
wunt to know or not. Miss Maud
Jonson has had her hare bobbed, look
ing very fashnible. and sevrel sissiety
men was observed setting on her frunt
steps last Sundey AFTERNOON, amung
those present being Mr.. Benny Potts,
Mr.. Charles fPuds) Simkins, and Mr..
Artie Alexander.
WV not lern to tawk Chinee? Ed
Wernick will teetch you to tawk So
mulch like Chinee that nobody will
know the diffreuts unless they RELY
know Chinee. One sent lessin. Av'
vertizement.
Short Story
. for Sent
Hay. wat time is it and watts you
sucking on?
Its clock and I'm sucking on
sourball.
Hay, wat time is it now and watts yor
sucking on?
It's half past 6 and I'm sucking on the
same sourball.
Intristing Facks About Intristins
People. Lew Davis has got unklt
in the button bizniss and he Good gel
all the buttons he wunted if he wuntec
eny
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entrance of their leafy shelter
tents they lie, whining for mercy;
but whether they are slightly or
mortally wounded, our brave mus
keteers save the fatherland the
costly care of numerous enemies.
The writer then reports that Prince
Oscar Of Prussia, learning of the feats
performed by the 154th, declared them
to be worthy of the name, kings Bri'
gade." At the end of his narrative,
Officer Klemt obtained the following
attestation:
Above statement confirmed. De
Mem, lieutenant in command OF
the company.
To be sure, The Hague conventions
like the treaty establishing Belgium's
neutrality and supposed inviolability'
are only "a scrap Of paper Wilhelm
has said so.