Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-05

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you go to the fields to haul in the
shocked corn.
A man in the state Of Missouri is the
owner of span of giant mules, their
weight being 1920 pounds each. He
has refused $3.50 for the team.
So far as mans popularity and use
fulness is concerned there are but
small odds between his being rated as
mean and stingy or as dishonest.
When young man has earned and
saved up $780, it is lots easier for him
to say mo" when tempted to spend his
money foolishly. Try it, young man,
and see.
Education of the higher sort will be
worth much more to the American
people when it is regarded as help to
success in any business in life rather
than as stepping stone to one of the
few professions.
We cannot interpret Scripture to
mean that we are to forgive our neigh
Dor seven or more times when it is a
case of his chickens scratching up our
garden. The rule may possibly apply
to other things, but not to the chicken
deal.
America furnished England meats,
oats, hay, mules, horses, flour and
many other things for the conduct of
the Boer war. We are inclined to be-
lieve that if we had also furnished the
ended.
Florida comes to the front with a fine
crop of her delicious oranges this year,
the trees having mostly recovered from
the baneful and destructive effects of
the great freeze of a few years ago.
The Florida orange Is one of the very
best of it's tribe.
The inexhaustible forests of Alaska
prove to be good deal of a myth, the
timber supply all along the Yukon riv-
err having already been so depleted in
supplying fuel for the steamers that
unless supplies of coal can be secured
the navigation Of that river will soon
| have to cease.
The experiment stations seem tc
agree that, weight for weight, the cobs
when ground up fine are worth as
much to feed as the corn. 1t is hard
for the average stockman to believe
this statement and harder for the COW
to whom he feeds it.
The bur oak tree, in keeping with it,
native ruggedness, rarely ever shows
any coloration of it's foliage in the au
tumn, the leaves passing from norma
green to rusty brown. The Jack oak
on the contrary, affords some Of tn,
most beautiful color schemes to b,
seen anywhere in the fall of the year.
Now comes a friend of the Englisl
sparrow and claims that these bird
will eat the box elder bugs. We seri
ously doubt the truth of this state
ment. We have watched both the bird
and the bugs closely and have neve
yet had the pleasure of seeing tn
sparrows making a meal off the bugs.
The adulteration Of food product
seems to find its largest development
in France of any country. OF 652 sam
pies of native wines recently teste
only ia were found pure. and of 81
samples of milk only 80 were not adu
terated. 1t is no wonder there ar
more deaths than births in that cour
try.
A late writer calls attention to tn
marked advance in live stock by citin
the fact that in the year 1900 in Grea
Britain a calf sold for as small SUI
as "a cents. This is not good evidence
for in the year 1895 it was commo
practice for the dairymen in the Ger
trail west to feed their calves to thei
hogs.
The little island of Porto Rico |
; showing this winter what she can
in the way of furnishing Uncle Sal
with nice oranges to eat. While tn
shipments this year will not be larg'
the fruit comes along the first of an
in the orange season and will be ia,
tor in this business Of considerable in
portance later on.
The government of this country
i more than likely to spend near 5000
100000 in the near future to get waite
Into canal across the isthmus {
) Panama, while the Dutch governmer