Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14

"Shut the door quick now, honey,
or papa will have to do it,
~ won't do it; I'm playing
Please, now honey, shut the
door"
Il amt going to do it."
And that big fool of father got
up and shut that door, walked back,
picked up his book and started to
read. I wanted to borrow that kid
for just fifteen minutes.
Mothers Influence.
When the devil robs a boy, about
the last thing he will take away from
him will be the remembrance of his
mother and the influences that sur
rounded him when he was a child.
If we want the children to appear
well in public, they will show what
has been going on in private. A noble
and she was asked how she had
brought up such noble boys. She an
swered: 81 did it with prayer and a
good hickory" l don't think there are
two better instruments on the face Of
the earth than prayer and a good
hickory. Many boy or girl could
have been saved by this combination
Cow and Calf Comparison.
The other afternoon I looked out of
the carriage window and | saw an old
cow going down the street The
streets were thronged with people, car
riages, autos and delivery wagons.
That old COW went down the street
with her 'moo," moo" and / looked,
and there in the back end of the wag-
on, all curled up. was calf. And
that old cow wouldn't let her eyes off
that calf
looked across the street, and there
standing in front of the bar were
several young men, and lined up in
front were lot of young fellows
smoking cigarettes. I said: "That old
COW has more sense than the mothers
Of those young men. She knows where
her calf is; she is going to keep her
eye on her calf But the mothers Of
those boys don't know where they are.
Probably she is drinking wine or play
| ing cards, while they are, probably,
on the road to the penitentiary. The
mothers of those boys haven't as
| much sense as that old cow"
| Susanna Wesley was the mother OF
nineteen children. Say, you know it's
nature to follow. You have started
across the room and your little one
has started to follow you, and pretty
soon you hear a dull thud and you
look and there the little one Is sprawl
ing on the floor, but it seems to say
to you, GO on, papa, I'm coming"
Swan Out Too Far.
read the other day of when
Judge Alton B. Parker, the former
Democratic candidate for president
took his little grandson and went
out for a swim in the Hudson. He
swan out, then threw him on his
breast and let him stay there unit
he got rest, and in changing the
little one to his back again, the lad be
came strangled, and grasping his
grandfather about the neck, he al
most strangled him. They went down
then up, then down again, then up.
man on shore saw them and got {
boat and rowed as fast as he could
AS they we're going down for thu
third time he got them. The trouble
was he swan out too far, and that's
the trouble with a lot of people. YOU
are swimming in pleasure, societ.
unbelief and worldliness. In the nam,
of God. if can reach some of you be
fore you go down for the third time
I'll be glad l preached.
Look Out, Booze Fighter.
: A friend Of mine, a. clergyman
was one day making visits. He callet
at one home where they had littl
son, a boy with Fauntleroy hair that
an awful thing to make a kid wear
1t makes sissy out of him. That bo
got a pair of scissors and cut hi
own hair, and he had hills and valley
J all over his head. They asked hir
} why he did it and he said he. wante
to look like his papa. His papa wa
Daldheaded. Look out, old booze fig.
err they will have heads lust like w,
!, Want To Look Like Papa.
4 friend of mine told me that on
!, day he sat in his home when sudden
ly he heard the greatest shouts {
| laughter, and some one said: Com
, here; come here,' and he ran, an
j. there, coming down the stairs, we
c his little 5-year- old boy and he ha
n on his fathers coat and the sleeve
= of it were hanging down and tt
= tail of it dragged on the floor. H
= had on his fathers collar and
L looked like horse collar around
e mosquito The father said: That
q the most serious and solemn pictu
a ever looked upon. That tells n
$ tlat want to be careful for my sc
:, wants to look like his father" f
- u said to the nurse Take him to tt
u photographers and have his pictu
taken" and they did, and my frier
h has that picture hanging in front
" him, on his desk, and every time
!. is inclined to loosen up in his mora
. or in his loyalty to Jesus Christ
- looks at that picture and it seems
say: I'm coming up; l want to lo'
like you. papa
l. open the Windows and Doors.
I, Walk to the grog shop and TIL
;" will follow you in. I tel you. dol
shut the doors and windows of yo
= house for fear the sun will fade a lit
~ sixty-hve cent ingram carpet.
hate to go into a house where,
!. the paror, you will find the pictur
IS of the family and some wax f1owe
81 where they never open up the {
joint unless to air it out. tell yc