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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
THE COLLEGE QUESTION.
Value of Higher Education Depends on
Person Receiving 1t.

Should one send his son to college?
The answer depends on what kind of
a youth the son is, and what career he
is designed for, on the sort of man
the father is, and on other considera-
tions besides special and general.
AS most Americans are ambitious
to be business men, the utility of the
college course with reference to the
business life is a question of high
practical Importance. That is the reas-
on it has been debated to rags. Never
theless, it seems to me that it should
answer for itself to father who is
hard-headed enough to be guided by
his unassisted common sense. Sup
pose the sea to be in point instead of
the counter. Will it be asserted that
four years in college are as usefully
educating to young sailor as four
years aboard ship would be, with in
struction in the theory of navigation
accompanying its practice? Or what is
learned at college is as educating, for
the definite purposes of the lads life
as what he observes and undergoes in
his voyages from port to port? The
best place to train a business man to
pooihSpGs ciIiu puSlucSS. dh04 tWO
boys OF equal powers, put one in Har-
ward and the other in a merchant S
establishment, and if at the end of
four years you wanted a young man
for business purposes, which would
you as a business man, be likely to
choose? And the advantage OF the four
years start necessarily continues with
the specially trained buyer and seller
through the period of ambitious en-.
deayor, when the business mans stan.
dard for the future is, in all save ex-
ceptional instances determined.
The reply TO this is that business
man should have, must have, a life
apart from his business, and that the
education OF the college broadens his
mind and makes his existence larger
more enjoyable and useful. That is
as 1T may be. 1t assumes the debat
able point of the general worth of the
college education, on which shall
touch presently. The proposition that
the more one knows the better off he
is is as true, of course, of the business
man as others, but it is also true thai
the more business man knows about
ms business and the earlier he acquires
MS knowledge the better for his
chances of not being skinned and eat
en-. Competition is ferocious and moi
4 scrupulous. The college bred business
man who permits his interest in his
tory, science or literature to diver,
any OF his serious attention from his
mission, which is to get and keep al
the money he can, will find other bus
mess who are not college-bred in pos
session, and cheerfully leave him to
the high, if not enriching joys of the
intellect. To be able to grace ones
conversation with an occasional Latir
quotation may be gratifying if not es
peclally useful to a stock broker anG
skill in the dance, or on the violin un
doubtedly increases the charm OF a nj
rate in his biography, but that a shoe
MAKER should stick to his last still re
mains sound business maxim--Ar
thur McEwan, in the Pilgrim for Nav
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
hound TO INCREASE.

The insistence of some forms Of wild
life is remarkable. For instance take
the crow, a bird which does not multi
ply rapidly, yet so shrewd is this bird
that he is able to eyade all or nearly
all of his enemies and multiply in
number until he becomes nuisance.
Or take the English sparrow. beset by
cats, air guns, poison, owls, nets and
traps, and yet in spite Of all he is ev-
erywhere in ever increasing numbers.
Or take the rat, with cats. traps, poi
son, dogs, ferrets, each and all after
him relentlessly, and he is the biggest
nuisance of the three in spite of it all.
These types of animal and bird life
seem to thrive under persecution, al
ways closely in contact with man, not
withstanding man is their worst en-
envy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
THE PRAIRIE WOLF.

There is something remarkable in
the tenacity with which the prairie
wolf maintains its existence, even in
the well settled sections of the country.
One would think that with all the
hounds, guns and bounties offered for
its scalp it would become utterly Grad
icated, but every spring in nearly all
the prairie counties of the west some
old fellow shows up with batch of
the young wolves to collect the bounty,
the mother of which is better protect
ed than any other wild animal by the
man who knows her, because she is
worth from $15 to $40 to him each
spring.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
OAK AND H1ckoRY TREES.

a friend writes and wishes to know
if he can transplant some hickory and
bur oak trees. We doubt if he can do
so successfully. These two varieties of
trees are the most difficult to trans
plant of any that we know of, owing
to their having long taproots, which
go down deep in the ground, and few
if any surface fibrous roots. If we
wished to transplant them we would
prepare them one or two years pre-
yiously by cutting the taproot off two
or. more feet from the surface and com
pei them to throw out some surface
roots. To attempt to move them with
out doing this would be to lose nearly
if not quite all of them
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

fright, ran to the out house and found
his master weltering in his life blood
He died a few minutes after the assis.
tant reached him.
Mr.. Helt is a son of Nick Helt, and
is about 35 years of age. His father
is wealthy farmer, well known AM
respected by host of friends. The
young man had an excellent character
and mis- sad end will be mourned BY
hundreds. The funeral will be held
Tuesday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
Travelling is DANGEROUS.

Constant motion jars the kidneys
which are kept in place in the body by
delicate attachments. This is the rea
son that travellers, trainmen. street cal
men, teamsters, and all who drive
very much, suffer from kidney dis
ease in some form. Foley's Kidney
Cure strengthens the kidneys
and cures all forms of kidney and blad
der disease. Geo. E. Hausan, locomo
tive engineer, Lima. Ohio, writes
Constant vibration of the engine
caused me great deal of trouble will
my kidneys, and | got no relief unit
used Foley's Kidney Cure" For sale
by w. D. Elliott, corner Main and Court
streets.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
lnfIammatory Rheumatism Cured.

William Shaffer, brakeman of
Dennison, Ohio, was confined to his
bed for several weeks with inflamma-
tory rheumatism. 81 used many rene
dies he says. Finally | sent to Nc.
Caw's drug store for a bottle of Cham.
berlain's Pain Balm, at which time |
was unable to use hand foot, and in
one weeks time was able to go to work
as happy as clam" If troubled with
rheumatism give Pain Balm trial
One application relieves the pain For
sale by all druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Eleven years ago farmer in Illinois
purchased pure bred Percheron mare.
He has since sold $1,000 worth of
horses. the progeny of this one ami
NAL. This irem needs no comment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Foley's Honey and Tar is peculiarly
adapted for asthma, bronchitis and
hoarseness. For sale by w. d. Elliott,
corner Main and Court streets.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

A ccnstitutionally lazy man is hard
proposition the best way you can fix
1t. He is IF no use to the world and
for some reason almost always lives to
good old age.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

l. A move is on foot in several of the
states to secure the stamping of all
canned goods with the year in which
they We're put up. This will make
trouble.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

There's quite a difference in meat
pies. The kind with the light. tender
crust can be made of Seal of Mime.
sofa flour. For sale by e. NJ. Robert.
son, l12 s. Washington ST., Ottumwa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
MEETS SUDDEN DEATH.
George HeIt> Killed by Accidental Dis.
charne of Rifle

charge of Rifle.
Burlington, May 9.-While examin-
ing his rifle preparatory to shooting
chicken hawks, Charles Helt, promi.
nent farmer residing eight miles west
|of this city, was last night shot and
killed by the accidental discharge Of
the gun.
The bullet struck him in the right
|side of the head near the temple and
|ploughed its way through his skull,
coming out on the other side behind
the left ear.
Was Examining the Gun.
Mr.. Helt was loading several cars
of stock few minutes after supper
last evening to ship to market. No.
lticing some chicken hawks in the yard
and fearing the birds would get. into
his hen coops he repaired to his work
shop in the rear Of the dwelling to Sc
cure his gun. He pulled the weapon
from it's rack on the wall. unaware
that the rifle was loaded, and was in
THE act OF examining it in order to put
cartridges in the chamber, when the
trigger snapped and the heavy bullet
tore it's way through his brain,
! Finds Dying Man.
His hired man, hearing the shot,
land suspecting everything was not
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
Worlds Best Pile Cure.

Why endure torture from Piles till
you contract fatal disease when
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures, or M
pay. Csc. F. B. Clark.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

There are a few everyday agricul-
tural truths which, like the Ten Com
mandments, need to be learned by
heart and one of them is that the land
must be used fair and fed if a man
would have it feed him.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
AN UNEASY Lcr,

There is an unusual amouur of pull
ing up and moving around this spring
among the farmers, some leaving the
old farm and moving to town, thinking
that by so doing they will enjoy life
better-just where lots of them will be
fooled; some selling out and moving to
some new country where the money
will get them more acres when they
have had more land than they could
ever farm thoroughly on the old place;
some changing for climatic reasons
want to get where it is warm all the
year round so that they can enjoy their
laziness; the many thinking they can
do better, make more money, find bet
ter neighbors and all that somewhere
else. A few of all these will better
their condition, but the many will find
out that there is no heaven here below
and that every country has it's serious
drawbacks and lots of them will be
wishing they We're back in the old place
and mingling with the old neighbors
again before two years are gone. Rest
less, dissatisfied set, these Americans.
SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO.
. For the man at least it is not so
much question of renting the farm
and moving to town, which are easily
enough accomplished, as it is what he
shall do after he gets there, something
few men think of. Given any man
who has worked hard and long on the
farm for many years and place him
where he has nothing to do or occupy
his time except fuss around the house,
split a little wood and loaf up town,
and it is the next thing to cruelty For
man so raised reasonable amount
of physical toll is just as much neces-
sity after he is sixty D. before, only
that when he arrives at that age he
should have the privilege of doing just
that kind of work and only just so
much of it as he feels like doing and
no more, At that age it is pretty
good scheme to so arrange things that
one can boss the work and let some
one else do most of it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

4 When eggs can be bought for 10
cents a dozen no man living in town is
justified in keeping lot of hens to
worry and fret the life out of his neigh
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
A thoughtful Husband

Cured his wife of fainting and dizzy
spells, weakness, headache and back
ache with Electric Bitters. Try them.
SOC. F. B. Clark.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Malvern has voted to issue bonds
in the sum of $4,000 for the cree.
ton of new high school building.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

The more the hog can be grown on
clover or alfalfa the less will the pork
cost to produce and the healthier will
be the pig.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

FAe farmer In Persia still cuts his
>Swheat with a sickle, thrashes it out
with the tramp of oxen and winnows
( it in the wind. and we buy Persian
rugs as works of art.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Burglars robbed the Litzrodt drug
store at Burlington of $40 and several
boxes of cigars.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Some Danish milk dealers bar tur-
nips as food for cows and refuse milk
until the twenty fourth milking and
also when a COW gives less than six
pounds of milk per day The Danes
value their dairy reputation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Taking it all round, the best way to
handle the farm fertilizers is to haul
direct from the stable on to the pas
ture lands and work the pasture into.
Eve or six year crop rotation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

The Western Police Matrons asso.
citation will convene at Sioux City May
Is and 16.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

The employees of the Iowa Telephone
company in Boone county have been
given increases in wages.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

The most costly feed which farmer
ever gives his stock is to turn Ii on his
meadow land in the spring.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

There is enough for all in this world;
the everlasting contest is over the
question of its distribution. The big
hogs lie down in the feed trough, and
this sets the little fellows, who can
only get a smell, to squealing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

4 Government by irrigation is every
way to be preferred to government by
gfnjunction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Frank Farrell is under arrest N
Clinton on charge of horse stealing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Substitutes for wood will become a
necessity in the coming years owing
to the obliteration of the forests Rail
way ties will be made of some other
material than wood-steel or possibly
cement. Steel wire has already dis
placed wood in fences, while paper in
some form or other is likely to take
the place of boards in building.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

A state savings bank will be estab.
lished at Conesville.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

We always like to see a big estate
we'll scattered either by will or by pro-
bate court proceedings. The law of
entail may be necessity where they
breed lords and dukes. but is wholly
antagonistic to the best interests of a
free people. We have a great respect
for Il good, healthy Inheritance tax as
one distributing agency.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

A change in the administration of
road work in a western state makes
the township the unit and requires the
payment of all road taxes in cash. AS
result there are many advertisements
in the papers for men who are compe-
tent to intelligently supervise the road
work of township.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

About 300 pounds can be added to
the weight of a steer by giving him
proper feed and care up to the time
he is a year old and then we think
breed will add another 800 pounds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

y The roadside may be properly termed
the farmers show window, and the
merchant who would pile all his old
truck in his front window is not more
20 be criticised than the farmer who
lets the highways bordering his farm
become weed tapgles and rubbish
grounds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

While the much advertised moth
traps will destroy lots of insects, they
fail to kill those particular varieties
which are destructive to our fruit
crops and therefore Of no. practical
use. They simply cut down the food
supplies of the birds which do catch
the real enemies of the fruit grower.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

In a country like ours, where only
just so much law is ever enforced as
the public wish enforced and where
the rights of private ownership in any
game birds or animals are contemptu-
ously repudiated. it is impossible to
preserve this wild life, and it is at best
only question of a very few. years
until it will have been practically ex-
terminated in all the well settled por-
tons of the country
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Whore n stranger with any sort of a
schelne comes to the farmer lie always
comes with the express purpose OF ben
eiitilss himself and not the farmer and
a remembrance OF this fact would save
many man from being hooked and
3 rawly sWindled.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
MUST HAVE MORE wATER.

A writer for the press says that it
will be fine thing when all the re-
gion lying west of the Missouri in the
two Dakotas is settled upon and
farmed by enterprising farmers. It
will, but some arrangement will have
to be made with the weather clerk to
give that territory about twenty inches
more rainfall before this delectable sit
nation will materialize. 1t is a phys
ical impossibility to convert wild
prairie into well settled farming
community on ten inches of rainfall.
1t would be easier to raise peaches in
Manitoba. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Your local nursery man better than
any other man can advise you as to the
best varieties of fruit to set out in
your locality He has made study
Of this thing, and if you patronize him
he will take pride and interest in fur
nishing you with such kinds as will
best suit your conditions
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

Ten cows, costing st0o each, of any
standard breed, will, if properly cared
for. bring the owner in more money in
ten years than if he started with thirty
common cows at S33.33 apiece. We
have seen this thing tried.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

& The central Wisconsin sawmills
which a few years ago cut nothing
butswhite pine last year cut 100000
feet of hemlock and 6S,000,oo0 feet of
hard woods against 100000 feet of
pine.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

The birds have mostly disappeared
from the women's hats. This is good
move. Some day perhaps the men will
not want to kill every bit of wild life
they came across, from jacksnipe to
bald eagle, and that will be still bet
ter tG
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

About the toughest thing in the way
Of debt is where a father has to put
mortgage on his home to get way
ward son out of some scrape. We have
known some cases of this kind, and the
thing which is harder to bear than the
debt SO contracted is the feeling that
had the boy been brought up as he
should have been the trouble would
have been ayerted.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

What this country needs just now
more than anything else is people, both
men and women, who are willing to
be hewers of wood and drawers of wa
ter, people willing to do the dirty work
of life for the well to do crowd who
won't soil their hands if they can help
~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

There was one convert at the meet.
ing last evening and the large congre-
cation gave ample proof of the reli-
gious awakening now being felt in
Ottumwa. The music was especially
good. There were two solos by Evan.
gelist Geiger, one by Rev. J M. Bailey
and one by Rev. James Robertson,
d. d., of Edinburgh, Scotland. who is
in the city visiting Rev. John HASTE.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-12
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

R. D. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
OF trade says:
Mildcr weather not only accelerated
the demand for many lines OF merchan
disc, but reduced the pressure for fuel
which threatened to become serlou'
matter. and incidentally facilitated CT
forts TO reduce the freight congestion
Business fully maintains its gratifying
position. The people arc consuming
on a scale never before equalcd. Firm
ly held quotations also bear testimony
to the fact that demand is often create,
than supply.
Increased interest has been displayed
by purchasers Of all products OF iron
and steel, giving a decidedly firmer ton,
to the market, and in many instances
quotations have advanced. One of the
definite changes was a rise OF 81 tor
in wire products, which was not SUI.
prise, and a new ore schedule averag.
ing over rs cents ton higher. Thi;
makes every step OF the process more
expensive to the independent producer
ore. pig iron, coke. wages and frcights
having reached high position. To the
leading producer. however, the situa
ton is less disturbing, as most OF these
factors are under one control, and il
will be possible to hold prices OF fin.
ished steel at fairly conservative po.
sition. A very heavy tonnage OF pipe
has been moved on old orders, ant
considerable new business is reported
Few additional advances have occur.
red in quotations OF cotton goods, the
developments OF the week being chiefly
in the direction OF establishing the
market on the higher basis that was
suggested by earlier spssmodic ad.
vanccs. There is more conservatism
OH the part of buyers.
Business i'll woolens has fallen OF
unexpectedly. New England shoe
shops have secured moderate advance:
in several grades OF footwear, chiefly
Of all styles in demand by Western
buyers.
Failures for the week numbered 22i
in the United States, against 2Is last
year. and 2S in Canada, compared will
IS year ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-12
Nyfe ein l>.ckeis anu Dirns. 20.

That crack is a regular mint for
conductors and motormen," said the
conductor OF street car. pointing to
the deep crevice formed by the meet
ing OF the longitudinal cane scat and
back. People arc very careless with
money; they will frequently drop a
nickel or dime. 1t gets into that
crack. and once there. stays. No one
would expect the whole b"nch OF pas
sengcrs on that side to get UP and
hang onto a strap while the seat was
lifted in order to search for five or
ten cent piece. And so the conductor
and motorman reap the harvest.
"Thc first time | ran on one OF these
cars saw the motorman, at the end
OF the run, diligently turning over the
seats.
What are you looking for, Jim?' |
asked him.
Money he replied shortly. l
laughed at him. But pretty soon | saw
him pick UP nickel, then dime. I've
never failed to turn over the seats at
the end OF run from that day to this
We often realize pretty neat little
sum in the course OF days work,
and | tell you it comes in handy.