Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY

A lie travels fast and far and the
injured one pays the freight.
What the south needs is more hog
and ho,niny and less tobacco.
II is not SO much the blunder we
make as it is sticking to error when
we find it out.
The men who succeed in life are
those who say mo- more often than
they say yes"
The cabbage snake like the "sea
serpent, is never seen outside the col
umns of the daily newspaper.
No matter how deep a man may
imagine he is a woman's glance goes
clear to the bottom in short order.
Disking the meadow is good enough
in it's way. but it does not take the
place of the right kind of grass seed.
If the Institutes would every one
teach good cooking they would add
much 10 the happiness Of the world.
The successful larrner is generally
q, bit heavy at the top, while the I'M
successful man mostly runs to feet.
Elack rust in the wheat is like con-
sumption in a man. II does not begin
to show until the damage has been
done.
| We may sympat llize with our neigh
Dor who has poor crops, but we loan
our money to the man who has good
1 ones.
Selling off the fertility of the farm
in the milk can is about as sensible as
! trying to raise ones self by his boot
! straps.
The man who frets and worries
about the weather accomplishes moth
( ing moro than the cultivation Of a
! crouch.
Book farming is like gospel preach
/ ing. A good deal Of it is written by
men who do not know what the real
thing is.
/ Politicians had hard time this fall
4 cnaxing farmers away from tfeir fat
FIELDS to listen to windy oratory or
! hard times.
If your farm machinery is not worth
shelter in winter it is not worth keep
ing. Better trade it for dog and then
shoot the dog.
| We have known farmers who are sc
conceited that they never realized thei1
success was entirely due TO the good
sense of their wives.
The hog is neither clean nor beauti-
full, but he is ready money. There is
a Scotch saying: An monte hae d. bit
o dirt stickin' tae it,
John D. with his millions has moth
ing over the farmer who is free from
debt, has clear conscience and good
digestion. Don't worry.
Don't become puffed UP just be-
cause Your neighbor asks your ad-
vice He may he just trying to find
out how little you know.
The man who tries to improve on
Natures way of doing things has hard
Job She welcomes his assistance, but
insists on bossing the job.
| A farmer can no more keep his apple
trees in bearing condition without
spraying than he can keep himself
healthy without bathing.
The man who keeps his boy out OF
sch. oil t. husk corn is paving a price
! fcc his labor that can nevr" be made
UP. Give the boy a square deal.
| The farmer who has learned some
| thing new in his work and tells his
ineighbors about it at the institute is
good citizen and a power in the COM
munity.
No doubt the birds do destroy their
share of the bugs and worms. but it
| takes Il deal of optimism to view with
| completeness our cherry trees stripped
! clean by the feathered TRENDS.
The men who are prone to belittle
the work Of the women folk make
the biggest fuss if they are left to shift
for themselves for a single day while
the wife and daughter go visiting.
The farmer of to-day cannot succeed
! if he shuts his eyes TO the progress
that is going on all around him. He
must keep up yith the procession or
the steam roller will 1atten him out
The photographer who always urges
! us to "look pleasant" may be a Pessi-
mist and the man who writes bookc
on Glow to Get Rich" is generally
thankful il he can keep one lap ahead
of the sheriff.
The one horse farm in the south is
passing away over the route of the
hand corn planter and the hoe.--John
I3eebe.