Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01

turn in counting the strokes which at
length brought forth the yellow lux
ury which waited only the magic of
patient fingers to turn it into work
of art and beauty.
Market Measures Value.
Surely the churning of milk bring
eth forth BUTTER said the royal sage
of Israel ages ago. do not believe
that any butter brought forth by the
methods mentioned in the scriptures
ever did the world any serious harm.
The market has an unerring way of
measuring it's value by it's quality and
condition. so that the inventive is al
ways present to correct it's faults by
care and labor. 1t always has been
true and is still true that those who
make bad butter eat the most of it
themselves.
Butter Is Honest.
81 am aware that in recent years
means have been invented to renovate
grades of homemade butter not be-
/ fore available. But whatever may be
! said against the sale of renovated
4 butter, one thing must not be over
/ looked, it is butter. surely the churn-
ing of milk has brought it forth. l do
not believe that it appears in the but
ter market under any subterfuges of
the trade. 1t is bought for cooking
and other immediate uses. 1t does not
bear the price of butter of the first
| quality and no merchant with fixed
place of business seeks to deceive his
customers in its sale. 1t reveals its
character to the senses and IL its
taste does not betray it the first day
/ its smell will the next. 1t cannot hide
| itself. In some tropical markets 1T
finds great favor being consumed in
melted form like the goat butter of
the ancients. of which Pliny says in
the twenty-eight book of his natural
history. the more rank it is in smell
the more highly it is esteemed.
The President and the Cows.
Not very long ago, the late Presi-
dent Mckinley made an historic jour
ney, passing through Iowa. on his way
to greet the returning regiments of
the volunteer Philippine army. One
morning as his guests were all assem-
bid in the smoking car. after an early
breakfast, and there were present be-
side the President, the members of his
cabinet, the governors of several
states. and senators and representa-
tives, nearly score in number, all OF
them famous il ,he public life of these
times. AS they were talking together
they saw the President laughing be-
nevolently to himself as he watched
the antics of two boys near the road
side who appeared to be warming their
feet in the plaoe-a sort of oasis in the
desert of frost-where an old COW had
been lying down all night. And turn
ing to his company the President said:
: Gentlemen, one of the most cheerful
; recollections of my boyhood is the eX
perience which those boys are now en-
joying the experience of warming
frost-bitten feet by soaring up the
cows Addressing himself to the
members of the cabinet and the res
| Oh the group of attentive listeners, he
said: 4 wonder how many of you have
had the Same exDerience2 And begin
{! ming with John Hay, who did his foot
: warming On the prairies of Illinois
and ending with Tama Jim Wilson, a
II we affectionately call the secretary O
= agriculture, in Iowa. who did his 0,
!. the heather of Scotland. every one Q
n them bore the same testimony and on
q after another the governors and sena
e tors and representatives of great state
n added theirs until before the exper
S ence meeting was interrupted ever
e one of them had borne the same mani
e testimony to tAeir recollections of tn
e Injuries of their own boyhood.
q 100000 People on the Farm.
3 THE twelfth census shows that fol
t, ty millions of our people live upon Ia
q farm. actually make their homes, brin
e up their families. and go about thei
i. daily labor, amid the surrounding
h which have been pictured here by tn
e refined and cultivated attorneys {
II tCwenty-seven oleo factories. as pitifr
d landscape of squalor and disease. BIT
,lese millions are not alone in the
troubles, for they have sent into ever
v city in the land the robust vigor {
"a their manhood to climb the heights
r the great professions, to master tn
h. problems of craftsmanship. to conque
d. the mysteries Of the arts and sciences
"a and wnen the old homestead calls IF
a. volunteers in its protection million
# of men and women answer the call 6
10 they think once more with cage
% hearts of far-off, unforgotten day
ir with song. they followed the proce
{. sion to the barnyard gate as the COW
r. came home.
Not Afraid of Honest Competition.
"Mr. President, the American far
go is not afraid to meet it's competito
re in an honest market-place; it has I
to anxiety lest the natural fruit of tt
y earth's bounty shall be forced out
v make room for the patent rights
of the laboratory. 1t is worried for fe
m the simpe bill of fare which Abraha
C. and Sarah set before three angels fro
OF heaven as they held picnic togeth
to under a friendly tree, at the very dav
he of history, will ever lose it's place
rs the menu Of civilized man. They a
e. willing to plant their fields, take the
Ill chances on the weather and acce
VI with resignation the fortunes of tt
ut harvest; but unless / have misinte
I'd preted their resolution they do not
no tend to allow horde of sneak-thiev
mt to follow them through the streets pl
MT Joining their trademark, hoodwinkil
ed their customers and leaving their me
S, chandise almost helpless in the ma
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