Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-02

Minnesota has vast supplies Of fuel
locked up in her peat marshes. Some
day this peat will be utilized.
The majority Of men are followers,
not leaders. This is true on the farm.
If men would do more original thinking
and less Initiating, they would accom-
plish better results.
When you come across man who is
uneasy if he owes man dollar you
come across pretty good sort Of
citizen, even if he does not belong to
your church or vote your ticket.
We know men who take far better
care of their horses than they do Of
their boys and take more pride in
them too. The scrub sires are not all
confined to the stockyards by any
means.
Future improvement in the line Of
agriculture will lie in the improvement
of methods rather than in improved
facilities. About all that can be done
has been done in the line of improved
machinery.
The monarchial herd of Europe needs
new blood. The present sires are old
rakes, epileptics, some idiots, an in
bred generous, unhealthy lot. Reyer-
ence for royalty is strong when intelli-
gent nations will worship at such fes-
tering shrines.
Better get along with the old wife.
Here is Mr.. Hans Ivers suing for a di-
vorce. Lawyers show up in court list
of his property-mortgages moneys
and credits. Tax ferret gets list and
finds Ivers has been tax lodging. Re-
suit $4,000 back taxes as well as ALI
mony for Ivers to pay.
A man in Missouri gave his daughter
two chickens and agreed to feed the
increase for her for four years. He
evidently didn't realize just what sort
of contract he had entered into, for at
the end of two years the girl had $64
egg money in the bank and 200 chick
ems for the old man to winter.
Did you ever notice that the peculiar,
irregular and very attractive pattern
displayed on the tanned skin of the alli-
gator is exactly duplicated when var
nish shrinks on a painted door or when
slough? What law governs the forma-
ton Of ths isSsifaR gdi isass seagstH nattern7
We once had a very fine climbing
rose-a Prairie Queen-which we al
ways laid down and covered up for
the winter. We used straw to cover
this bush one winter, and when we I'M
covered it in the spring the stems were
peeled clean Of bark by the mice.
Since then we have used earth and not
straw for this purpose.
The woman a man wants for wife
Is not Martha, all engrossed with
cooking, scrubbing and the cares Of the
home, nor Mary absorbed with lit
erary tastes and ambitious to shine in
q social way, leaving fellow to wear
buttonless shirts and eat bakers bread.
There is a woman just about halfway
between these two types that fills the
bill.
Grant that the hog pays the mort
gage, buys the other forty and keeps
the boy at college, it is still no reason
why his squeal and grunt should dis
turb his owners daughter as she sits
in the hammock in the front yard with
her beau or that his odor of sanctity
should faint the summer evening air on
the front porch. Being hog and al
ways one, he should be kept in a hogs
place-out of sight, hearing and smell.
If one should stand on the shore Of
the Detroit river and watch the vessels
as they pass to and fro he would wit
ness phase of water transportation
the like Of which is not to be seen else
where on earth. Here pass during
each day no less than 1900 ships laden
with the products Of northwestern
mines and fields and the coal and
products Of the east.
This stretch Of river might aptly be
termed the jugular vein of the CONT
nent.
An experiment that will be watched
with q good deal Of interest by all
those who favor the governments
making an effort to rescue even a
small portion of the once grand forests
of the country is a contract recently
made between the United States de-
oartment OF agriculture and the Wey-
erhauser Lumber company of the state
IF Washington, where 100000 acres