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

of the vanished hands and sigh for the |
faces that have turned to dust. The |
saddest time in the life of young
man or a young woman is when home
Many Roosts, One Home.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: Man
has thousand roosts, but only one !
rest and that is Home
I read the other day where a Scotch |
regiment had gone to help the Eng |
lish soldiers, and they began to die,
but they were unable to find out the
cause of the deaths, although they |
brought to bear all that experience
would do. At last the discovery was
made that they were dying Of home |
sickness. The Scotch pipers were
playing annie Laurie" and Blue
Bells of Scotland and it reminded
and they were dying of homesick-
ness
Hear me, people of Ottumwa! ] love
you-listen to me!
You are drifting away from your
homes. Fathers are too busy; moth
ers are too busy. You are wrapped
up in politics, In the lodge. You. will
drinking beer and smoking, when
you ought to be at home with your
children, and you mothers turn your
children over to some nurse, while
you go around in the good-for-n
ing. rotten, empty world Of society
and let your children go to Hell,
mad when you get home. you find the
away and our children are going to
the devil. If we had our homes as
we should have them our children
would not be on the way to Hell.
Tom Moore says:
II remember the house where I was
born,
And the little window where the
sun came in at morn.
1t never came wink too soon or
stayed too long the day;
But now 1 often wish the night had
drawn my breath away.
I remember the fir trees. and how
used to think their slender top was
close against the sky.
1t was childish ignorance, but now it's
JOY,
To know I'm farther off from heaven
than when l was boy.
Mothers are Leaders.
Look out! No leader is more close
ly followed than the mother. George
Washington would have became
not been for his mother, and that site
on the banks of the Potomac would
bear different name to day. Mothers
are prototypes down to the Spartan
mother, whose son complained that his
sword was too short. She said: Add
step to it, my boy" Mothers are
prototypes with God in the creation OF
souls and the development of character
and no greater responsibility can de-
volve upon human being than to be
the mother Of child to train for glory.
Father may fail but IL the mother
fails God pity the boy and the girl.
The web Of this nation is made from
the thread that is spun in the home
If you run a private beer garden in
your home don't growl at the man that
runs a public beer garden.
Make the Home Good.
| The home ought to be a synonymous
with all that Is grand and good. The
grandest work In the world is to be
done by true mother. The training of
Martin Luther. or of John Bunyan,
or of Lincoln is greater than the
| training of Caesar or a Napoleon.
When touch a boy 1 see that touch
the future fifty years. I touch boy
and touch the future, rs years from to-
night It Is a great thing: it is a great
responsibility that God puts upon you.
The man who builds railroad does a
great thing; the man who builds a
battleship does great thing; but the
man or woman that builds character
does a greater thing-the greatest
thing in this world. 1t is a great thing
to launch battleship or a cruiser, but
1t is greater thing to launch boy or
girl for Jesus Christ.
/ One day father and his little son
were out walking when they came to a
crooked tree. The father said: "l
wonder what did that?" and the boy
said: 81 guess somebody stepped on il
when it was little"
The burden you put on child wher
it is small Will stick to it all it's days
You put burden on that child by the
atmosphere you live in. The natior
has no better friend than the mother
who teaches her child to pray. And the
world has no worse enemy than 6
good for nothing, cards going, dancing
theater-going, beer drinking, frivolous
mother.
Boy Like Vinegar.
, I heard a conundrum: why is
bov like vinegar" and the answer i
Because the more mother ne mas II
, him the better"
Mothers, hear me minute will you
! You are the home makers and tn
ome-keepers. Bob 1ngersol said: II
{ takes thousand men to make a reg
a iment, but only one mother to make
, home" What an honor upon you!
t John Randolph Of Roanoke, with hi
! be an infidel if it were not for tn
memory Of my godly mother, VIII
. taught me to kneel by her side, shu
:, M eyes and say: Our Father VIII
. art in heaven"
q World Owes Debt.
a The world owes debt of gratitud
! to our mothers and the greatest me
+ of the world were mother made me,
a Augustine Martin Luther, Constan
g tine, Oliver Cromwell, all mother mad
a men. Susanna Wesley was not onl
y the mother of John and Charles BIT
j, the mother Of Methodism as well.
You love to revel midst the paint
ings Of Benjamin West in Windsc
Castle, do you not? Yes. And as 20
y gaze upon them you are reminded {
t the fact that he said it was his mother
II kiss that made him an artist,
e That glittering palace on the bank
of the Potomac is not only Geore
n Washington's monument, but Martt
IS Washington's monument too, fc
s. what would he have been without h
d mother and her character to mou
u. and shape him?
IS Ex-President Loubet of France, use
lie to make many trips to the home of h
ss peasant mother and sit in the su
u rocked to sleep on her lap.
l. National Obligation.
st saw II TO YOU tonight my friend