Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-20

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The horsepower Of the modern loco
motive is rated from $500 up.
Oregon and Washington hop growers
are in clover this year-a fine crop,
nearly ton to the acre, and Is cents
pound for the hops at tho press.
The wooden sidewalk in our towns
and cities will soon be as much OF
rarity as Is the old stake and rider
rail fence on our farms. The cement
sidewalk is here to stay.
The possibilities connected with cat
gut are illustrated in the case Of
Ysaye, the violinist, who gets 100000
for fifty concerts to be given the com
ing winter in this country.
It is a never ceasing wonder and
marvel how nature will take the rain
fall, the sunshine, the heat, and out
Of the same sort Of plant food make a
thistle, a rose, skunk cabbage or
peach.
A bullfghter in Spain has just re-
tired with fortune of $1,O0O,0O0 earn
ed in the arena. In this country it is
easy to find plenty of men who have
made more than this by just watering
the stock.
Both meat and bread will be high
priced this winter, but our old stand
by, the potato, bids fair to be cheap
enough. Pat is in evidence that pref
ty good men can be raised on praties
and skim milk.
The present war in the east Is Great
ing a market for American flour, the
Japs having discovered that, prepared
in the shape Of hard tack such as the
American soldier is furnished, it is
cheaper than rice, the standard Japa-
nese ration.
While a farmer must Of necessity
trust in Providence, he must needs put
in his best work and use bis best judy
ment If he would expect Providence to
give him q square deal. Successful
farming is always case of faith and
works, largely works.
War, In any way 1t can be put, Is al
ways impoverishing and destructive.
While it may be indispensable at times
to preserve the liberties and integrity
Of people and in way place them on
a higher plane, every man killed, every
shot fired, makes a nation that much
the poorer.
A leading stock paper recently pub
lished a diatribe against the mule and
referred to our old friend in most con.
temptuous and uncomplimentary terms
| While by no means perfect, the mule
still remains the one sole instance
where man improved upon the work OF
the Creator.
An old fruit grower claims that On
application of common salt to the roots
of apple and pear trees subject tc
blight will entirely prevent it; pint
once year for small tree up to hall
gallon for large one. 1t is such Q
simple remedy that 1t seems to be
worth a trial.
When a boy, well raised, goes wrong
it may sometimes be found that there
was an old rascal Of grandfather OF
either one side or other of the house
Anyway, the grandfather being deat
and the law Of heredity being no I'm
important factor, this becomes an cas-,
method of disposing Of such case.
A new labor field is opening. Eigh
thousand cotton pickers are wanted II
Oklahoma. The colored man is no
there to take up his old time work, ant
white men and women must be obtain
ed. The work appeals to the Italians
many Of whom are going south t,
work in these cotton fields. Goot
place for them. for they are children
Of the sun.
: 1t appears that Uncle Sam, uninten
tionally, Of course. worked regula
shell game on about $4,000 people il
connection with his Rosebud lotter,
land scheme. But little of the tract Il
) worth over 81 an acre and has no fu
: ture save as range pasture, and me-
tumbled over each other to get quar-
+. ter at 81 IN acre after living on /
) fourteen months.
Law Is queer thing. 1t is said tina
l Egyptian mummies of the time of tn
DluraOhS imD0rted into England a