Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-06
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

i Senator George f Hoar of Massa,
4 chusettS-l can see no reason why the
/ workman should not combine to make
his bargain as to the rate of wages. as
] to the hours of labor and as to the
I comfort and safety of his occupation.
4 ! believe the sympathy of all true
Americans is on the side of labor and
/ its attempt to better its condition
Unless the American workman shall
/ have good wages and leisure and com,
7 fort shall have books in his home
: shall send his children to school
I can provide comfortably for his old
! age, the republic itself will be no long
er worth living in. Capital and wealth
will in the end take care of them
+ selves.
Bishop Henry G. Potter of New
/ York-Not all of the Bible is of equs.,
worth or pertinency; not all of it of
equal interest or utility. The old ira
1 dition that to read it through, mechan-
\ ically and undiscriminatingl two or
4 three times year had of itself some
/ occult and mysterious potency has
come to be recognized as belonging to
the kindred tradition that soldiers
lament carried in the left breast peck
ct because it was a testament; where,
as any other volume carried in the
! same place would have stopped bull
let quite as effectively But all the
4 while, the living, spiritual, quickening
force of the literature has endured and
j will endure. because it is, in every
higher note of it, the voice of the D,
/ vine.
4 DR.. Felix Adler of New York-The
world seems to be possessed by the
demon commercialism Commerce and
/ cOmmercialism are two different
4 things. The one is legitimate, the
other harmful. We may buy coal OF
the products of farm, but we cannot
rightly buy political preferment Mel
Their can we buy the love of a woman
When man becomes a political lead
er and says he is in for the profit to
be had from the place he may hold
we call that commercialism. If public
service is rendered from a sense of de.
votion to ones fellow men the com
mercialsm is eliminated When a
= church sets out to attract the wealthy
it has taken up commercialism. A
church of rich people is no church at
all. 1t is a commercial affair. Even
in our philanthropy we find CONNER
cialism. When man gives ostenta
i, tiously for some benefit that he eX
poets to receiye--that is commercial
ism; but still the world gapes and
lauds the mans seeming generosity
Centerylile Citizen: Prospects this
year for good shooting are not so very
bright. The extreme wet spring and
summer has had considerable effect
upon the young quail and has mater
. tally decreased them. In former years
it was no trouble to find eight or ter
coveys in a forty-acre field This year
according to all indications, it will be
hard to find two or three. A prosper
Gus covey should contain at least 8
dozen birds, but the writer not lons
ago saw coveys rise which had nc
more than three Or four in them
: Hunting is slowly but surely being ex
/. terminated in this vicinity. 80
Clear Lake Mirror: In the warm
balmy days the loafers have the finest
loafing place in town in front of the
bank, and the incest kind of a cement
walk to besmear with tobacco spit
Z. 1t is bad enough to chew tobacco but
!, why should man squirt the dirty stuff
wherever it becomes handy to him
without any sense OF propriety. with
out regard to the feelings of others
without any sense of the decenoy Of
: things. If a man must chew tobacco
, and must expectorate on something
! how would it do to spit in the street.
Or would that be too much trouble
Would that be asking too much?
Hampton Record The first farm
improved in the northwestern part o
Scott township was that OF Mr.. Demar
is, about 1875, and now owned by Jel
to Polls. Mr. Demaris started yroy;
as soon as possible after getting 10
Gated, and this grove has furnished
sufficient timber FOR firewood and fence
posts for the farm for ten years. ant
at the sale held by Mr.. Pals last Tues
day over $50 worth OF fence post
were sold. and it could hardly be seeI
where they came from 1t PAYS t,
raise timber in Iowa, ~