Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25

The man with muscle to sell finds a
reader market for his wares than does
the man with brains-that Is, just COM
mon brains. The man with q tanned
skin, horny hands and knotted muscu-
lar arms was never before 30 nearly the
cock of the walk as he is today.
1t costs man 81 to order porter
house steak on railway dining car,
and after he has disposed Of 1t he is
forever after kicker at the quality,
cooking and service Of the average
beefsteak. A butcher whom we know,
who had cut tons Of steak in his time,
told us recently that until he had eaten
dining car steak he never realized the
possibilities connected with his bust
ness.
Things will never go just smooth in
this country until we get class of
young men willing to remain hired men
and nice girls equally willing to remain
hired girls, and this time is not COM
ing right away, for the flag and the
school, the pulpit and newspaper and
the air we breathe are each and all at
work to make discontinued hired men
and hired girls, and the glory OF Amer
lea Is that this is SO.
We noted on recent trip along the
right of way of western railway not
less than % varieties Of our native fora
which are wholly extinct save as they
may be found along such rights of way
of the roads. These narrow strips,
fenced in and never pastured, are pre-
serving not only the native flowers
which were so plentiful when the coun-
try was first settled, but also several
varieties of native grasses.
1t used to be very common thing
hundred years ago for the British
authorities to impress men into the
naval service of that country, but it
has remained for the farmers Of Kan
sas to seize the persons Of a gang Of
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them to leave the train upon which
they were travelling and go to work in
the Kansas wheatfields. 1t is not often
that agriculture gets on such a bel
ligerent streak.
A friend wants us to tell him how
to identify the old hens from the full
grown young hens in his large flock;
in other words, how to Gull out his two
year old hens. While there is no reli-
able mark or indication, as teeth in a
horse OF rings on a cows horn, there
Is still to the practiced eye a marked
difference in the appearance of the
aged hens as compared with the young
ones. They are more clumsy, heavier,
fatter. 1t is not hard to pick them out.
The weed is rank, coarse, aggressive,
lawless, and the delicate flower which
has to contest with 1t for sunshine and
fertility has but poor show, and so
we root up the weed and give the bet
ter thing a chance. 1t is just this way
in life. The coarse, the unrefined, the
vicious, riot in virility and sort of
brute strength, and unless checked and
eradicated easily smother out the beau
tiful and the good in the world. Pull
the weeds in the garden and pull those
other and worse weeds also.
A good deal depends upon just how
business is started, for here Is the
state Of Minnesota with its hundreds
of creameries as a general rule not OPP
Grating them upon the Sabbath, while
Iowa creameries are run continuously
just because the business was so start
ed years ago. This Sunday work is
not an easy problem to solve where
large numbers of cows are kept. About
as much work on the farm is involved
in caring for the milk over Sunday as
though it were taken to the creamery.
We have lying on the desk before US
as we write head of blue stem wheat,
large and well developed, taken from
n field Of growing succotash, or mixed
head in place of one of the wheat husks
is well developed husk of yellow oats
containing two perfectly formed kerr
nels. We have never come across any
such hybrid growth in cereal grains be-
fore. The men who believe that wheat
degenerates into chess might here find
some evidence to support their theory.
We know Of q man who Is past
master in the use of profane and OBJ
scene language who is engaged in the
very difficult task of trying to bring
up three nice boys to be good citizens.
He had better let out the job, for it
has always been and always will be
that boys will more readily adopt the
vices which their father practices rath-
er than the morality which he preach
es. The greatest privilege which the
American boy is in all fairness entitled
to is decent dad to pattern after.
| A leading horticulturist said to us
few days ago, ''The Clyde strawberry
| is one of the best things ever given to
the growers of small fruits" We are
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