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Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

Though President Roosevelt is the young
est chief magistrate this cosntry has ever
had, DE is not so youthful as the heads Of
some other governments The President Is
45 years Old bat Emperor William will
not be a. until the zgth of This month The
Car of Russia is only g. Emmanuel II Of
Italy win be 55 this coming November
Wilhemina Of Holland was 2I years old
last month and Alfouzo XIII of Spain, the
youngest of them all. was only IS May Y
last
Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20
A CRITICAL REVIEW.
OF the American Society Novel
Of the Present Day
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.

Professor of English Language aud
Literature boo abe Catholic Juiyor-
-lty of America Comprehensive
and Very Brilliant Analysis of the
American and European Product
rrom the Literary Point urNicw.
Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

Life is too short to learn the names Of the
Roosevelt children; there are six of them,
and Kermit aud Quinton are samples.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Nearly all ladies are fond of chrys-
anthemums-the queen of early winter
flowers. Follow these directions and
any lady can have profusion of beau
tiful blooms next Thanksgiving time:
Get tender little plants of ten varieties
OF your florist this spring; they will
cost 70 cents or less Set them out
in the garden and take care of them
just as If they We're cabbage plants
until August 80. Keep in shape by
pinching and pruning. Last of August
dig up and place in six inch pots; set
pots in the ground and shade for a
few days, watering them literally.
Let them remain out of doors as late
as possible. covering to protect from
early frosts. Finally remove into the
house, water them well and see them
bloom. Give them dose of liquid fer
tilizer after they are ported, about
once in two weeks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

1t is pity any man can be found
who could deliberately cut down trees
which are between 5000 and 5000
years old for such a pitiful purpose as
to sell the lumber which can be made
from them. yet this is being done with
many Of the giant sequoias Of Califor-
MIA. Just think of destroying a tree
which was in it's youth when Moses
and the prophets lived, which shaded
the Sierra hillside when Christ was on
earth; which, having survived earth
quake, the soaring touch of the thun-
dercloud, fire, tempest and wind, con-
temporaneous with the sphinx, the pyr-
amids, Babylon, the record of Sinai,
the wandering tribes in the wilderness.
Still lives and rears its fronded head
from its majestic trunk, kissed by the
breezes from the Pacific, the only liy
| Ing thing left Of all that dead past, at
last to fall victim to the greed of the
mercenary civilization of the twentieth
century! The heather Incas worshiped
the sun, the aboriginal Indian the
Great Spirit, and 1t is left for civiliz-
ed barbarian to wantonly desecrate
these apcient temples Of the Creator
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
ACCEPT A NEW REVELATION.
Mormons Adopt the Latest Instruc
tions of Prophet Joseph Smith.


Kansas City, Mo-, April 90 - The
revelation of President Joseph Smith
to his people has been read to the con-
ference of the reorganized church of
the Latter Day Saints at Independ-
ence, Mo. The revelation came to the
prophet after the saints had INDUCED
in season of feasting and prayer last
Sunday. 1t has been in the hands IF
the various quorums since Monday
and was approved by them. Today 1T
was opened by the conference without
a protest and it thus became part of
the religion of $4,000 persons, all of
whom believe it is of divine origin.
The revelation directs that Peter An
derson be chosen to fill the vacancy
in the quorum of twelve; that the
church provide tracts in Scandinavia,
German, Chinese, Japanese, Portu-
guese and other languages as the mis-
sions require and that Conner T. Crit.
fiths be sent to England in the inter.
ests of foreign missionary work Much
attention is given to the duties Of
evangelical ministers, their relations
to the church and the rules govern
ing them. Other questions of import.
ance to the church are given consid-
Grafton. After the revelation was ac-
copied the conference transacted rou-
tine business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
NATURES KINDLY WAYS,

Nature always deals kindly with the
waste places. Here is a gravel pit
scooped out to the depth of 20 feet by
steam shovel to the extent of two
or three acres. Unpromising spot this
for nature to work on, but the snow
drifts piled in in the winter, carrying
the rich soil of adjacent farms, and
the winds whirled in a harvest of
leaves, and the spot becoming reser-
voir for the surplus rainfall was en-
riched by the silt deposits, and so the
cottonwood seeds blown by the June
winds fell here and there in the pit,
and. In ten years from the time the
shovel left thick grove of thrifty
trees. filled Up the barren pit. and ma
lures benevolence shrouded mans des-
ecration and spoliation as though it
had not been.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
A BARBARoUs pRAcr1cn.

Shot at day by day from the time
they were Matched in some Manitoba
or Dakota swamp, in peril of their lives
every day as they slowly migrate to
the south in the fall, beset with pot
hunters all winter long in the bayons
of the south where they make their
winter home the poor wild fowls at last
start on their pilgrimage north only to
encounter continuous fusillade as they
seek their northern nesting place. This
slaughter of the birds in the spring
migration is the most pitiful and repre-
hensible sport INDUCED in by American
sportsmen, the birds being when killed
poor In flesh and of little value as food.
a national law should absolutely pro-
hibit spring shooting of wild fowls to
the end that they may not be utterly
wiped out of existence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
MAKING HIS PILE.

farmer friend of the writer, who
is OF middle age, is doing just about
two mems work every day on his big
farm. He is not doing it to rid himself
of big mortgage, for he does not owe
any man cent and could sugar off any
day with $4,000 to his credit he does
not Go it because he really likes work
better than anything else, for he adj
mlts that his life is little better than
civilized slavery, but he is doing it
solely that he may buy more land and
pile up more money. While he is our
friend, he is none the less an old fool.
He is too busy to take any comfort in
living, to enjoy such social pleasures as
are within his reach, too busy to read
anything save the market reports and
the local paper, too busy to take an out
ing and mingle with his fellows. He
will have to find time to be sick some
day soon, and if he lives until he is
TO he will be a broken down old man
one who has made his pile and in the
making of it has fixed himself so that
he has placed it utterly out of his pow
81 W euJoy amy lnluS Wllcn money can
secure for him. Our friend is no freak
in this matter, for his counterpart may
be found in almost every neighborhood,
and they are modern types of the old
man with the muck rake so forcibly
portrayed by Bunyan, who ever delved
in the mire, Indifferent to all the beau
tiful, enjoyable and eleyating things
overhead and all around him. Life is
very short. Nature is most relentless
in her penalties. Heirs are ever greedy;
lawyers legal vultures. watching the
last days of this slave of money Have
sense enough to know when you have
got money enough, and get something
out of life aside from the reputation
of being a man who made his pile.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
THE GAMMA BED.

A bed of cannas makes very snowy
and attractive lawn decoration and no
flowers are easier to grow and care for.
Spade up circular bed OH the lawn
and fertilize it literally. If the soil is
clayey or stiff, add two or three wheel
barrow loads of road sand Get for a
bed ten feet in diameter - plants of
your florist Of five or six varieties, not
ing what he says as to the height each
variety grows. Set the tall growing
varieties in the center and the dwarf
kinds on the outside of the bed. Plant
after all danger of frost is over and
hoe and water literally. A nice finish
for the outside of such bed is made
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
WANTS HIS NEIGHBoRs STIRRED

We are in receipt of a letter from q
reader down in the state of New
York who wishes we would say
something to stir up some of the lazy.
shiftless farmers in his neighborhood.
He says they are the worst sort OF
back numbers, keep poor stock, only,
half feeding the stock they haze, and
spend their time loafng around town
talking politics and chewing the rag
when they ought to be doing some
thing to improve their farms and their
condition. This is hard proposition
to tackle. There always have been
this sort and always will be as long
as time lasts. There is not much
which can be done for them anyhow.
They are of the same breed as the
poor whites of the southern states.
A mere living, and pretty poor one at
that, is all they will ever get in this
world. A bad feature of the case is
that they nearly always have large
families and there is no chance for
running the breed out This sort are
not peculiar to New York by any
Ahe4hs' iieS count Ut the pOilS, nelp
I'LL up the cemeteries and stand for
just as much as better men on cen
sus count. 1t is Of no use to waste
any time on the old fellows. The only
show is to try to do something for
their children, and such homes as
theirs are hard places to bring I'D
children in anyway. We would sug-
gest to our friend that instead of
roasting them he try setting u good
example. Sometimes that will work
wonders. While this sort will always
envy their more prosperous neighbor,
they are not all proof against the in
huence OF newfangled ways, as they
term it, when such newer and better
methods show good profits.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
Ratio the Same,
RULING BY YERkEs.
Revenue Commissioner Makes lmpor.
tant Decision Regarding Stamps.

Revenue Commissioner Makes lmpor-
tant Decision Regarding Stamps.
United States Revenue Commission
err Yerkes has decided what revenue
stamps will be required after July
on orders for the payment of money
The decision is very important, mas
much as the new revenue law which
goes into effect upon that date has
not been thoroughly understood and
there is some technical points in THAT
are liable to cause confusion. This
latest decision of Commissioner
Yerkes, explains in a very concise
manner just what instruments stamps
are required to be placed upon and
are as follows:
81. Orders for the payment of mon
ey drawn in the United States Gnclud-
ing Porto Rico and the Philippine is
lands, but not Cuba), drawn at sight
or on demand. require no revenue
stamps on and after said date.
y. All orders for the payment of
money, drawn in the United States,
but payable out of the United States
Qncluding Cuba and all other foreign
countries), drawn at sight or on de-
mand, or otherwise than at sight or
on demand, require stamps for sum
not exceeding 500, 2 cents, and for
each 500 or fractional part thereof in
excess of 800, 2 cents, on and after
said date.
80. On orders for the payment of
money, drawn or purporting to be
drawn in any foreign country, but
payable in the United States, drawn
otherwise than at sight or on demand,
there must affixed thereto before ac-
ceptance or payment a stamp equal to
2 cents for each 500 or fractional
part thereof of the face of the instru-
ment but on and after July l, 1901, no
tax will accrue on such orders for the
payment of money when drawn at
sight or on demand.
81. w. Yerkes. Commissioner"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
NOTABLE OLD CRIMINAL DEAD.
Man Who Entered on Career of Crime
Fifty Years AGO Dies.

Richmond, Ind, April 2O.-Jerse
Way, of Indiana. who was serving a
term in the Ohio penitentiary at Co
lumbus, is dead. He was about 80
years old and was native of Indiana.
He was the son of Anthony Way, one
of the most prominent Quakers of
that section His mother was a
preacher and was prominent in reli-
gious work throughout the state thir-
ty years or more ago. Ways first
crime was larceny, more than fifty
years ago. Then he served his first
term of five years. In less than a
year after he was arrested again, and
once more sent up. That was in Ohio.
Subsequently he served terms in the
prisons in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Missouri. Although
he had spent fifty years behind prison
bars, he made thousands of dollars of
base coin in his time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
ANIMAL IRREGULARITIES.

Nearly all OF the carnlVOra show their
anger by growing, but chipmunks,
squirrels, blue jays and parrots take
pleasure in scolding. The dog bowls
at night or, as it is termed. bays at
the moon" For what? Nothing, it be-
ing simply hereditary trait peculiar
to his ancestor, the wolf, which bowls
at night to either call his mate or as
semble his fellows for foraging expe-
dition. For the same reason the dog
will turn round and round several
times before he lies down, just as his
ancestor had to do in order to trample
down the grass to make place where
on to lie. Every action and look of the
lion is reproduced in the domestic cat
when she watches for and catches a
mouse, even to the playing with her
victim after it is in her clutches.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
THAT DIVORCE OPINION.
Separations Legally Obtained
States Are Good Anywhere

Washington. D. c., April 19.-The
written opinion of Justice Gray of the
United States supreme court on the
divorce cases passed on by the court
last Monday became available yester-
day, thus affording the first opportun-
ity for inspection of Justice Gray's
language. Two of the three decisions
were based on the fact that the di-
vorces had not been obtained accord
ing to the laws of the state where
suits were brought, and were invalid
for that reason. The decisions do not
question in any way the validity of
divorces in any state when obtained
according to the laws of the state
where suit is brought.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
BOGUS GOLD PIECES.
Abundance of Counterfeit Coins
Alarms Merchants,

Niles, Mich, April 22-The appear
ance of counterfeit SIS gold pieces in
great numbers in this part of the state
has resulted in so much loss and an
noyance to business men that most of
them fear to accept any of the yellow
metal. The coins are an excellent i'm
itation of the genuine. There is no
clew to the source of the bogus mon
ey, but the secret service men who
are working on the case are finding
plenty of evidence that the output is
large.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
Contract LET for BID Tua.

dubuque, April 22.-The Iowa Iron
Works has been awarded the contract
by the Monongahela River CONSOLE
dated Coal and Coke company for the
largest tugboat ever designed. 1t will
be 31S feet long, 61-foot beam, and will
draw Az feet Of water. 1t will be en-
tlrely of steel. 1t is to be used in the
lower river trade.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
Doctors Agree.

Madison, Wis, April 22.-An agree.
ment has been reached between the
regular physicians and the osteopaths
by which bill will be passed allow.
ing osteopaths to treat certain dis.
eases, and providing for the appoints
ment of one of their number on the
state board of medical examiners.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Pacific coast hop growers are refus-
ing offers Of IL cents for the 1901 crop
of hops.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
A BENEFAcToR GONE.

The death Of Mr.. John Stewart at
Spokane Falls recently will receive only
passing comment, still he should be
credited with laying the foundations Of
the present cooperative creamery sys-
TEN, which has completely revolution
lied dairying in this country. When in
1876 he took his own and his neigh
bors' milk and set it in cans in cold
water and made the butter which won
first prize at the Centennial exposition
at Philadelphia, he made possible the
vast wealth which the dairy interest
has since realized all through the west
ern states. Such man deserves some
thing more than gold medal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

The corn canneries are contracting
for SO per cent less acreage of corn for
the pack Of the coming season. The
business is .overSlone.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

We note the recent sale Of 800 acre
farm in Virginia, having good and COM
modious farm buildings and farm home,
for the paltry sum of $1,000. 1t would
seem as though it ought to have brought
more than this just for chicken ranch,
even If the soil was absolutely worth
less.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

The large condensing milk factories
at Dlgin. Ills, pay this year $1.O5 for
April milk per hundredweigh So cents
for May, 80 cents for June, 80 cents
for July, $1.05 for August and $1.15 for
September.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Penitentiary and tramp forced labor
should in every state be diverted to the
Improvement of the public highways
Just SO far as it is possible to do so.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Some road supervisors do not seem
to know that water will not run up hill.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

An advertisement which has been CO.
ing the rounds Of the agricultural press
offering q recipe to cure cholera hogs
.at the price Of 16 cents per head is as
near shell game as could well be
found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

It takes some salt to keen the Amer
lean people from getting too fresh,
there being produced last year 2O,905,-
079 barrels, worth $6.471 ,O98.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Liquid air has lately been given a
test as to.its value as refrigerator for
the overland fruit car lines. The test
Is reported to be success, both as to
cost as compared with ice and effective
ness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

The October options on fax are 81. 10,
which indicates that buyers are already
diseeunting the very large acreage
which will be sown this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

There are a good many sections of
the,west where it will not pay to To-
cate, even should the first crop pay for
the sland. It may be five years before
another crop may be obtained.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

The exports Of corn from this coun-
try climbed up last year to 100, 3s6, 489
bushels, Of the value Of $S4,2S4,733. If
to this is added the value Of exports
produced from corn, the total would be
immense. The crop Of corn is the
greatest crop grown on earth, and no
other country can grow it save this.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

It is poor way to test seed corn be.
hind the kitchen stove.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

The past so years have done fully as
much for the development Of agricul-
ture as they have for any other sci
ence or profession. The knowledge OBJ
tanned has but opened UP newer and
larger fields Of research, and nature is
having a harder time than she ever had
before to keep her secrets hidden from
man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Barbed wire and woven wire have
effectually settled the hedge question
air through the country. Hedges have
ceased to be regarded as available as a
method of fencing land.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Sergeant-at-Arms, ]. c. Webster,
Cresco
Doorkeeper, John M. Reed, Cedar
Rapids.
Ratio the Same.
The ratio will be the same as last
year and the number of delegates
therefore about 1,647. This will be de-
cided when the call is issued,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

Kind hearted and humane people
sometimes get a setback. An old fam
lily horse which had outlived it's useful
ness and seemed to be dying by inches
was ordered chloroformed by his own
er. No sooner had the dope begun to
get in its work than up jumped the old
nag, and away he went on a keen gal
lop out of the yard and up the high
way, showing more gimp and get up
that he had for two years. The veter-
mary surgeon and the owner were par
alyzed,. the surgeon finally remarking
that il bottle Of chloroform were
kept in the harm and properly used the
old horse was good for a whole lot
more service.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
cummins VIII Not Like 1t.

The other candidate who will not
like the location of the convention is
Cummins, or rather, his friends will
not like it. But it is much easier to
get up a big delegation to go from
Des Moines to Cedar Rapids than to
do the opposite. The friends of Cum
minis say they will be at Cedar Rapids
in force, and feel that nothing has
been lost, politically, by the location.
The friends of Herriott We're also very
anxious to have the convention in Des
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

A large mountain ash tree which we
have occasion to pass every day car
ried over until this Spring number
of punches of it's berries, and we Won
dered why this was. We have found
out. A big blizzard came up, bringing
with it six inches of snow after the
robins had migrated from the south.
Just after the storm. when food was
hard to find, we saw a flock of 20
busily engaged in disposing of these
dried mountain ash berries, finding
them perhaps not so toothsome NOR
sci as big fat earthworm, but still
better than no food at all.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

We notice no end of small boys out
with air guns looking for something
to shoot at. birds particularly. These
boys might crafty their love of sport,
SO called. and at the same time
render the general public service
by using the sparrows as targets.
These pests need thinning out Other
birds should be let alone, and the laws
OF the states which protect The in
sectivorous and song birds should be
strictly enforced.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

We have friend who owns a rooster
which has learned a new trick The
sparroWs swarm around the barnyard
where this rooster stays, and he has
got on to the trick. the sparrows not
being afraid of him, of shifting them
ON the head with his beak and killing
them, thereby securing many a meal
OF toothsome fresh meat We have
thought for some time that some agen-
cy would appear which would act as a
natural enemy of the sparrow, and
perhaps the rooster is to be it.