Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

lodges have already been organized
under the leadership Of the veteran
sportsman, artist and writer. These
boys will undoubtedly be heard from
organization is to formulate plans for
the protection and preservation of fin
fur, feather and bark.
An instance has just occurred Of the
use of The Century Magazine as a
campaign document with marked sue
cess. Frank M. Chapman's article on
photogra phing famingoes, which APP
peared in the December number of
The Century, has helped to secure le-
gal protection for these birds in their
haunts in the Bahamas. The Colonial
secretary has just notified Mr.. Chap
man of the passage Of an act which
provides a close season for flamingoes
and prohibits the shooting and killing
of all song and insectivorous birds at
all seasons. In the interest of the
passage of the act copies of the De-
cember Century were sent to all mem
bers of the Bahaman Assembly, and
the Colonial secretary writes to Mr..
Chapman: THE passing of this much
needed measure is due largely to your
efforts, and especially in the interest
aroused by your splendid work on the
flamingo breeding grounds at Andres"
The Irish fair Is pictured to the life
by Jane Barlow in her sketch, When
Paddy Goes to Market" printed in the
account of some of the things Paddy
does there is highly diverting. An
other sketch in the same number tells
how a small girl-"Gray-E yes"-in-
sisted on going fishing with the boy,
much to his disgust. She had the only
luck; but unselflshly turned over the
catch to her companion to save his
pride. yellow Handkerchief,' the
villain of Jack London's story in the
Chinese pirate, but his piracy was
confined to the capture of fish at I'M
lawful times and places. That he had
the qualities of pirate in the good old
sense is revealed in this stirring story
Of adventure in San Francisco Bay.
In 1890 / was directed by the gov
eminent to establish schools among
the Eskinlos north of the Arctic Cir
Gle. Upon visiting the country I found
the people in a semi starving condi-
ton. That they needed a new indus
try that would feed their bodies, as
we'll as books to feed the mind, was
cruelty apparent. The close proxin-
ity of Siberia, with it's thousands of
nomads supported by their herds of
domestic reindeer, suggested the plan
of introducing domestic reindeer into
Alaska.
Through many difficulties and much
encouragement, this has been success
fully fhN11ca mr.
two hundred and eighty reindeer were
purchased in Siberia and imported to
Alaska between 1892 and 1903. From
these deer and their offspring have
been born in Alaska 10,267 fawns. On
the Both of June, 1904, there were s.
1S9 domesticated reindeer in Alaska,
OF which number 2,2s4 We're fawns
born during that spring. These $3.50
deer are distributed in twelve herds at
eleven Central stations.-From the
Metropolitan Magazine for June.
A Hard Blow to Chicago.
Chicago claims grandly that the
strike is not injuring business, but the
world knows better. The sad story
told by the regular daily reports OF
the mercantile agencies reveals
secrets that bring tears to the eyes OF
sympathetic readers and sews up the
hearts Of the timid ones with fear lest
their United States bonds, even, may
not draw interest much longer. But
the most pathetic instance of hard
luck-hard not only for the one man
concerned, but also for the whole city
Of Chicago, is told in single line In
one of the reports, which conveys the
Information that Czeslaw Wojciechcw
icz has been compelled to mortgage
his bakery for $3.50 in order to buy
the necessities of life for himself and
Mrs. Wojciechowicz and the little Wo
jciechowiczes. Think of the heartaches
and the Wojciechowicz tears that were
shed ere that mortgage was properly
signed and executed Think of the fig
uring and planning Mr.. and Mrs Wo
jciechowicz did before they submitted
to the inevitable and admitted, ever
to themselves, that the strike has
forced them to the wall.
Time was, no doubt, when the name
of Czeslaw Wojciechowicz meant bust
ness stability and independence-but
that was before the strike. Time was
at least might have been-when the
name of Wojciechowicz was on every
/ lip. Perhaps 1t never got off the lip
or if it did, it probably came off in a
more disfigured shape than is the bak
cry with the mortgage plastered on
the oven door. Perhaps some Chicago
ans have gone black in the face and
have choked to death trying to pro
nounce it. Perhaps too much of the
bakers time was taken explaining II
to his friends and enemies how he
happened to come by the appellation
But the real reason for the mortgage
is the strike.
1t is indeed sad that Chicago bust
ness circles must be downcast by thu
misfortune that has befallen zone O
our leading bakers as the papers O
that town may refer to Mr.. Czeslav