Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

II The man VINO Keeps a ven polished
Z hoe usually has clean and well kept
81 garden.
Il The farmers of Alberta and Assini-
= boia will realize S20,0O0,OOO out of this
Il years wheat crop in spite of the rust
4 damage.
y A patron with dirty milk cans can
Il do as much mischief in a creamery as
4 tattling woman can in small coun-
try town. Both should be suppressed.
Fall weeds, those that terminate in
late August and early September,
usually have a hard time of it, as the
first fall frosts get them before they
can mature any seed.
!" The great corn crops Of the corn
40 growing states have been the center of
pb interest of late. The successful matur-
ing of 2,50O,OO0,OOO bushels of corn
means much to every business interest.
cb
its The seven weeks strike of the pack
ri ing house unions was a complete fail
ure. 1t was bad thing for the men,
bad thing for their employers and
of worse thing for the public-the pro
a ducers of stock and the consumers.
an
The black locust makes a very dura-
BILE post timber lasting from twenty
- to forty years. The tree is bad suck
an erer, which is it's principal objection.
Y 1t is soil fertilizer in common with
. the other members of the legume fam
y lily.
:. Two-thirds Of the American people
II. would be far happier if they would
get out Of debt and keep out. There is
"a lot of satisfaction in getting up in
the morning jingling a couple of dol
lars in your breaches pocket and real
:. izing that you owe no man a dollar.
= Try 1t and see.
Gil A cotton picking machine working
up with air suction tubes bids fair to be
in practical thing. A number of these
flexible. tubes radiate from the pump,
and several hands can work, each han
as the open bolls, sucking the cotton in
81 and depositing it in the wagon
cd
-. The only possible excuse for allowing
- the weeds to grow rank and profuse on
the prairie highways is that September
converts this growth into wilderness
ne of bloom and beauty-sunfower aster.
g purple and white goldenrod, black
III eyed Susan and score of others-a
nd wild flower garden rarely equaled for
lie splendor and beauty.
sh
Gu The government revenue department
ne Is now having a time to determine
whether radium is chemical COM
pound or crude mineral substance.
cy If the latter it can be imported free of
III duty. 1t is expected that the legal
CT sharps and scientific experts of the
w department will have as big time
~ over this as they did some years ago
ay trying to settle the question whether
an the tomato was vegetable or q fruit.
"a
A college trained woman who was
up in higher mathematics, logic, politi-
r. cal economy, languages and history,
ts world either husband or a place,
eli took up the queer notion Of raising
~. hogs and has met with a remarkable
ol success in a financial way as breeder
n of choice stock. Young ladies just out
Wy of college and on the lookout for q
" man or job may get suggestion in
OF the foregoing.
q
Nature never makes mistakes in her
II COLOR schan,os r. .vho ~ o,a 49,
ne illumined by a setting sun, no matter
DC whether portending storm or fair
weather 1t may be the riot OF color
with which she nantes wayside and
~ forest as the year grows old. 1t may
w be vision Of storm swept ocean and
". cloud rack or the tinting of birds
~ plumage or the fashion Of a flower.
" The best the most gifted artist can do
ry Is to follow nature as closely as he
ut can, for art is nature and na+,,ra 10 orr
Id
~ We often wonder just where the in
-, ~ ventive genius Of the American people
~ will finally land them. Are there pos
- slblllties of development along mechan-
= 1cal and economic lines as momentous
70 and revolutionary as those which have
- marked the past fifty years? Will all
the essentials of living be produced
still more cheaply? Will the standard
of living for the common people be
ar raised still higher? Is it possible for
at man to travel faster, communicate
ri more reality with his fellows far re-