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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01
A hurrx.up Medicine.

Every housekeeper recognizes the
need of effective. remedies to. be used
in emersencies--when something must
be done right away. Such remedy Is
Perry Davis Painkiller. for sprains
and bruises, for sprained muscles and
for the aches and pains resulting from
blows and falls. Burns and cuts are
Instantly relieved by it and helped to
healing. Its mission of mercv began
seventy years ago. 1t is used in all
countries and millions of bottles are
sold annually. There is but one Fam
killer, Perry Davis. Have you seen
tl.e new large 35c size2
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01

the home of Mrs. Donnelly's parents L.
M. Ware and family.
]. N. McDayitt spent Sunday in Bur
l'ngton.
Mrs. E. c. Crooks and children OF
Warren, are visiting home folks, S. S.
Troutman and family.
Lem Henry, Jr., was business Wis
itor in Ottumwa Thursday.
Miss Cora CASTOR of Bentonsport
was business visitor in town or
/. Friday.
VIM. Marriott of Silver City, Mexico
is visiting his grandparents JAS Ship
ley and wife.
Miss Tinte Cox went to Des Moines
Tuesday where she will visit several
days with friends.
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rendering less than full market value
in every transaction with the govern
ment, must be enrolled somewhere out
side of the rank of patriots.
$3.50
In the enjoyment of libertys prizes
men are tempted to shrink liberty's
pain. For the great rights which this
western world possesses under the law
may be maintained only at the cost of
watchfulness and service. The peril of
self-government is the Indifference of
the majority to the obligations of
citizenship. Men who would be among
the first to leap to the defense of the
land against foreign invasion view
with indifference the usurpation OF
their rights by professional politicians
and by INSCRIPTIONS corporations.
Love thou thy land with love far
brought
From out the storied past, and used
Within the present, but transfused
Thro' future time by power to thought.
Love thou thy land.
-Tennyson.
The man who throws banana skin
upon the sidewalk is distant cousin
of the capitalist who steals public
service franchise.
The poet is often more useful
| patriot than the major-general.
To help the children achieve a
happy, healthy and wholesome life is
L. 80 thn 20, Voc hi ~ q
ministrations Of patriotism.
s*a
Party regularity" is responsible for
most of the present political irregular.
tiles which Go hurt to the city and
| the state.
| The ACKNOWLEDGMENT be.
longs, not in the rank of patriots. but
| In the file of branded corruptionists,
The fundamental treason is to put self
above the common welfare.
| s**
The stress which Christian En-
deavor has laid upon good citizenship
has been of incalculable influence in
| the creation of the new and livelier
sense of civic obligation which pre-
walls in this our day. A strong body
/ of young men have taken up the
| duties of citizenship in a quiet, care
full, thorough-going manner that has
effected results. Some Of these have
gone into public life: nll of them have
made themselves force for righteous
ness. So they may fairly be rated as
one of the distinctive achievements O.
the Christian Endeavor movement.
The new patriot IS not lingo. His
horizon has broadened. To him. In
terest in all the nations Of the earth il
an expression of his patriotism. Fo
he knows himself to be not only sol
Of his own land. but also a brother o
all men.
The battles which the twentieth
century patriot must fight are harde
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01

all
The blood the Guc always healthy where the circulation free from
cannot perform its natural work Of nourhng the skin
Instead and naaes the delicate bres and tissues the
disease
The itching and singing often s affections are
blood hled
INTO the sensitive lying Just beneath the outer
the outer skin AFFORDS no relief from the itching and
goes into the circulation and removes the huno acids Which are
every variety skin affection Local can only sooe
reaches the trouble Book
Skin Diseases medical all
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.. ATLANTA, ca.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01

in Des Moines Saturday night. Her
little nephew, Virgil Lindernan, ac-
companied her.
Miss Ida WEIGH has gone to the Ex
position at Seattle, Washington.
VIII Chitwood went to Oskaloosa
Saturday night for short visit with
friends.
Mrs. V Crabill of Avery visited on
Saturday night for short visit With
friends.
Mrs. V. Crabill of Avery, visited the
latter part of last week at the N. A.
Thayer home.
l.. A. Andrews of Ottumwa was i'll
town Monday
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01
Time to GET Acquainted.

indianapolis News. You might as
well get used to Beverly, Mass for
in little while now you will be see
ing good deal Of it on the front page,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01
That man is great, and he alone.
Who serves greatness not his own
For neither praise nor Delf;
Content to know and be unknown,
Whole in himself.
owen Meredith,

If any man would be first, he shall
be last OF all, and servant OF all
Jesus
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-01
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

The most hopeless barrier to strife
is the steady indifference OF a man
who knows he has work to do, and who
goes on doing it irrespective of any
body's opinion. Agnes Repplier.
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rendering less than full market value
in every transaction with the govern
ment, must be enrolled somewhere out
side of the rank of patriots.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
INSECT sTlNGs.
Dangerous Always and Especial,
When One Is Run Down.

dangerous Always n Especially
When One Is Run Down.
Stings aud bites Of insects are ex-
tremely dangerous mt all times aud
especially when the system is not In q
condition to resist the poison injected.
In many insects the nature Of the
poison has not been as%certained. while
in most of them 1t is of an acid. irri-
tant nature, in others 1t may contain a
powerful cardiac Scdative and depres-
SAINT. and in still others organisms In
pure or mixed cultures may be intro-
duced with the sting or bite. Apart,
from The natural poison used by in
sccts it should not be forgotten that
flies and other insects that Tive on
carrion may easily carry ronlagion
and inoculate the persons whom they
bite or sting.
In the case of ordinary bites and
stings The chemical antidote is an
alkaline solution, such as Il strong so
luton OF b~icarhonate of soda or pot
.uSb. which counteracts the acid of the
sting. Suction at the wound In all
these varieties OF stings and bites viii!
draw u some of the poison and until
some antitoxin treatment can be found
which will prove an antidote 10 the
bacterial poison introduced little eau
be done beyond q stimulating and sup
porting treatment with attention to
symptoms.-Health.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
PLANT %BAR0METERs.
Tho Dandelion, Clover Leaves and ths
Scarlet Fimpernet,

Tho Dandelion, Clover Leaves and the
Scarlet PimperneI.
The dandeiion is a dandy barometer.
bic. 1t is when the blooms have seed
ed and are in the fluffy. trathery con-
dition that the weather prophet facti-
ties come to the fore. In tine weather
the bali extends to the full, but when
rain approaches it shuts like an UNI
brclia. IL the weather is inclined to
be showery 1t keeps shut all the time,
only opening when the danger from
the wet is past, says the Chicago Trib-
une.
The ordinary clover and all its va
%ricties, including the trefoil and the
shamrock, are also barometers. When
rain is coming the leaves shut together
open again until fine weather is as
surcd. For Il day or two before rain
comes their stems swell to an APP
preciable extent and stiffen so that the
leaves are borne more upright than
usual. This stem swelling when rain
is expected is u feature of many flow.
cring grasses.
The fingers Of which the leaves of
the horse chestnut are made up keep
fat and fanIike SO long as tine wealth
er is likely to continue. With the COM
ing of rain. however. they droop as If
to offer less resistance to the weather.
The scarlet pimpernel is nicklialned
the ':poor mans weather glass" or
wind cope and opens its flowers only
to fine weather. AS soon as rain is in
the air it shuts up and remains closed
until the shower or storm Is over.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
THE %KlNGFIsHER.
A Bird Whose Ways Are Most Difficult
to Observe,

A Bird Whose Ways Are Most Difficult
to Observe.
Perhaps there is nothing in nature
more difficult to observe than the ways
of the kinglisher. Any one may see
him CHANGING down midstream or max
ing his sudden arrow flight from bank
to bank under the bright June sun
shine, but to track him down 10 his Sc
cret fishing place aud watch him ut
work is Il vastly more difficult thing.
You come from the gold clad mead
ows into the shady river path as into
a cathedral aisle. The willows crowd
down to the waters edge. In the green
reeds IL scuge bird is trctting. There
is a low twittering song Of nestlings
all round you. And now. in the sha-
diest deep Of the willow wood. ~ shrill.
piping note cuts the silence. Il flash Of
emerald passes, n kingisher has gone
by on his way to his favorite pool.
A common notion is that he sits per-
fectly still on some branch %overhang-
Ing the water, a picture OF crafty vigil
ance. But this is rarely it ever the
case. The truth is, says u writer in
the London Chronicle. that the king
fisher. like the master he is. sets about
his work with an easy surety, almost
a n%onchalance. Pcering down upon
him .warily through the screen of
branches you would judge that the last
thing in the world he was thinking
about was the gliding brown water be-
low him. He twirls round on his
perch, making his vivid green and
turquoise and amber plumage scintil-
late like a dewdrop in the one beam OF
sunlight that has found him out.
He preens his feathers, stretches q
lazy wing now and again, looks about
him with a casual eye. and then, as
IL 1t were the merest trifing detail In
life, lie suddenly points his two inch
long fishing spear OF a bill at the wa
ter beneath him, plunges and is gone.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
NOTED BY A TOURIST
Some Of the Queer Things That Were
Observed Abroad.

Some of the Queer Things That Were
Observed Abroad.
About half ones time in travelling
abroad is spent In buying stamps. No
matter how many put on Il letter I
had no. faith to believe that it would
reach America. 1 found that | could
send a letter with one stamp on it il /
paid enough for 1t, also that ! could
get a denomination of which it would
take twenty. In Cairo | put fifteen
%sphinxes and pyramids on the front of
a letter and five on the back. AS for
postal cards. imagine asking for one
in the Belgian Wercldpost-
veroeniging.
But it is 10 IL Mohammedan country
that an American uiind needs read
justment. We woke one morning in
Constantinopie and found our calendar
nine days ahead of theirs, our watches
seven hours behind and the name Of
the month Ramadan. The Mohamme-
dams seem to live up to their religion In
a more definite way than we do. and
we soon learned what to expect. The
Rottct NOuIu NIOp ODeS lFuuh When
the muezzin called to prayer. The
s%aeredness of animal life compelled
us to walk around the hundreds of
lazy dogs asleep on the sidewalk. We
were required to take off our shoes in
stead Of our hats when entering a
mosque. Women were not allowed to
pray. because they "have no souls"
Friday was the day for Sunday. and u
camera was an evil eye" aud could
not be carried into any sacred place.
Our artist was once charged 20 cents
extra for Keeping an evil eye in his
room all night.
Before the journey ends the tourist
has lost his identity completely. At
first he is from "Kalamazoo. Mich.,"
then from "Micliisan," later 1.-The Unit
cd States" 500 the States" and the
writer was once introduced to a gen.
tleman from Tuscany us the lady
from North America" Delineator
Magazine.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
DANGER FROM ICE.
No Article of Food is so carelessly
Handjed.

No Article of Food Is So carelessiy
Handled.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly
emphasizes one cause of the danger
Of Infection from ice.
Scarcely another article of human
consumption receives 81 much direct
handling just before its use as does
this food. MILK and water, tea and
coffee ure poured. Bread. meat and
butter are cut. Bread, probably han
died more than any other food on the
list. has u hard crust which offers u
rather unfavorable lodging place for
germ life. Ice, on the contrary,
washes the hands of every person who
handles it and affords an ever ready
liquid medium for the immediate alb
sorption of the hosts of bacteria which
hands may carry. The carelessness of
the handlers of ice, their utter disre-
gard of the resting places where 1t
may receive infection. may be partly
due to their lack of realization that ice
is u food, as real a food Is meat.
Whatever the cause, few substances
which pass through the digestive proc
esses of man receive such treatment.
It's surface contaminated by the pas
sage of men and horses IN the cutting.
It's sides and base foulpd by muddlcd
platforms and smirched straw. cover
ed with the filth of black ice cars and
dust swept freight stations, your cake
Of ice commonly receives its only
cleaning just before it enters the ice
chest. So far as the iceman is CON
rerncd. this is ~gehcrally a hasty brush
with y time Worn whisk broom well
filled with the dust of the street and
b%luckened with constant use. Accord
Ing to the personal testimony Of vari-
GUS icemen. not even the %precuution Of
a momentary washing beneath the
faucet is ordinarily taken.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
ola Mail Rox.

Among the treasures held by the
Antiquarian society In Portsmouth.
N. H., there is an old box the history
Of which is given On a label which it
bears. The box is Of tin. painted
green, and shows signs of much usage.
which is not surprising when n con-
siders that 1t carried the United States
mail between Portsmouth and Boston
during the Revolution. 1t is about
nine inches long. four and a half
inches wide and a little more than
that in height. 1t was carried on
horseback BY Captain John Noble.
otherwise known as Deucon Noble,
who was post rider until 1883. This
box contained all the mail and made
every week n round trip, occupying
three days in the iourney-from Ports
mouth to Boston the first of the week
and three days at the end of the week
from Boston to Portsmouth. The dis
lance between the two places is a lit
tie more than fifty miles.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Tho Invention 81 tho Panorama.

The panorama was invented by a
Scotchman named Robert Barker, who
obtained a license In London in 1887
and erected a rotunda on Leicester
square. He was associated with Rob
ert8 Fulton. the practical inventor Of.
the steamboat, who introduced piano.
rlmas into Paris in 1906, but resigned
In favor Of Thayer perhaps In order
to give his attention to the application
OF steam to bouts. Thayer raised a
rotunda on the Boulevard Montmartre,
whence comes the name of the, Pas
sage des Panoramas, Honaparte caused.
plans to be drawn up for eight pano-
ratnas,! In which his conquests were to
be shown to the l'arisians,$whom he
always tried to Impress with the mag
Ditude of the achievements In order to
keep them faithful to his star. But
these projects were never realized.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
He Knew Mo Fear.

Prince Metternich was driving In
Vienna n day during the congress Of
1915 when the horses bolted. the car
riage was overturned and Mettern!ch
was thrown into the roadway. Finding
he had no bones broken. he picked him.
self up and walked quietly away. The
same evening he met the king Of Ma
pies, who had seen the accident.
How horribly frightened you must
have BEEN" said the King.
Not at ALL" answered Metternich.
ut is no merit Of mine. but l am con-
stitutionally inaccessible 10 fear"
ut is as l Thoughts" replied the king.
"You are a supernatural being"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
MISSION OF THE A NJ
To Produce Commodities For the serv'
ice of Mankind.

To Produce Commodities For the Serv.
ice of Mankind.
The mission of the land is to pro-
duce and keep on producing food. live
stock. lumber and other commodities
for the service of Il lie who owns
land and is Indifferent TO this Is guilty
Of u moral wrong. and he who takes
good land out of commission and suf-
fers 1t to lie unproductive and useless
is guilty Of a greater one. This is the
only criterion by which we car prop
to own land In urge tracts.
The good results attendant upon
small individual holdings are natural.
The purposes of nature In the upward
evolution OF mnn are usually better
carried out In this way. and not be-
cause, as Is so frequently argued.
every man has an Inherent right to its
ownership, The lazy. the incapable.
and the densely Ignorant asslredly
have no such right, and land is too
precious and its mission too high to be
thus wasted.
IL the cwner of a great country es-
tate can farm his land as well as or
better than ii 1t were In small hold
lngs; II, following the precept Of Swift.
he made two ears Of corn or two
blades Of grass grow where n grew
before; IL he supply his section with a
better breed Of horses, cattle or sheep,
well and good. No n with any
knowledge Of economics could say he
was doing any injury to the world or
mankind. 1t is not the amount OF land
that he owns. but what he does with
It for which he is morally responsible,
David Buffum In Atlantic.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Calves ascreamino.,

conldS talk Tor hours about my coun.,
Try and my own people. am SO fond
Of both. On my birthday mauy ot;them
cauae In procession to see me and \
danced what IS called the .bourreen
With them. They say such quaint
things. An old woman once, hearing
me sing. asked, Doesn't, II hurt YOU
10 scream Ike that?' peasant once
told me he was ure the PROPRIETOR Of.
ssthe g;rotto would give me rrnncs a
sslay 10 sing there.-4Calve 40 Londoh;
STANDARD. #S Ss8s
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Hard 70 Cat.

Not long ago at a village near Dur.
ham a quack doctor a selling recipes
for rheumatism. SO a pitman bought
n 1t told him to catch a common
housefy and tickle its ribs with a
clothes prop until 1t cried. Then catch
the tears in n teaspoon and rub the
part affected. and be would get instant
relief.-London Express.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
The whitening Wind.

The name of manhattan a been
given a periodical wind which blows
from the interior of Africa toward the
Atlantic during the three months Of
December, January and February. 1t
sets in with a fog or dry haze, which
sometimes %conceals the sun for whole
weeks together. Every plant, every
bit of grass and leaf in it's course is
withered as though it had been scared
by heat from a furnace. Often within
an hour after It begins to blow green
grass is dry enough to burn like paper.
Even the hardened natives lose all Of
the skin or exposed parts during the
prevalence of this whitening wind.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Painful Ai,ment.

Though govt is generally reckoned a
disease OF rich men and free livers.
n Of the worst OF sufferers from 1t
was a well known English minister
who died not long ago.
A friend n said to him, "Dr. So
and-so, what Is govt like|
The clergyman smiled sadly. IF
you put your hand in a vise." he said,
''and let a ma press IS hard as he
can. that is rheumatism. and II he can
be got to press a little harder. that Is
govt"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Why He Came Back.

WASN'T you here a few weeks ago?"
asked the woman OF the house at the
back door.
"Yes'm." =, replied the wanderer, ..but
I understood from a pnl that you've
got a new pastry cook Since thenww-
Yonkers Statesman
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Praise.

"Your glasses" she said. have
made a great difference in your up
pearance."
do you think so?" he asked.
Yes. You look so Intelligent with
them on.n-Chicago Record, Herald.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
siahtseeina.

Flow. did you manage to see every.
thing In Rome inside OF two daysY'
"sNell. You see. we got up early, my
wife went to the shops. my daughter
TO the picture galleries. and took in
the restaurants. Ip the evening we.
compared notes..-Faiegende Hlatter.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Tho Retort unkind.

Gerald-A gentleman is defined as
one who never gives pain. Geraldine
Then you're nc gentleman: you give.
me a pain every time you cali.-New
York Press.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-17
Findinu His level.

"A man allus finds his level, SON.
said Uncle Eben. "an' youts lucky to
be let down easy by experience In
stead of arrivin, Wit d jolt.n-Wash.
ington Star.