Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-12

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We should like to know what these
cucumber and squash bee
les live on when we do not grow vines.
Ditching machines are doing more |
Tor many sections of the west than all
he pedagogues. parsons and politicians
in the wet sections.
Benevolent legislation in New Zea-
and gives the old iuffer Of siXty-ive
who spent all his earnings for booze
an annuity of $3.50 year SO long as he
lives.
There has been surfeit of good |
things the week this item Is written
green peas, sweet girl
graduates, June brides and house
cleaning.
The Champion of England peas we
sowed this spring along the picket
fence inclosing the garden are great
success. Four feet high, and half the
pods on the neighbors' side Of the fence
One bad phase Of the present war in
the far east is that the combatants
seem to be getting along without the
Missouri mule, and until this beast
takes hand in the scrap no one can
tell how it will end
Either the Japanese or the Chinese
would get rich in short order If they
could have the waste land on our high
ways and railroad rights of way to cul-
tiyate. Some day we shall be COM
PEELED to use these waste acres our
selves.
Whenever farmer gives note for
purchased he should always
be sure and see that it is made pay
able at his own bank or in his own
town. 1t not he is, in the event Of being
sued on it, liable to be trotted of
hundred miles or more to meet the
suit.
One packing house alone owns and
operates 1850 refrigerator cars for It's
outshipments of meats, and thus is
In shape to almost control the fruit
shipments In. The rates charged for
the use of these cars by fruit shippers
is calculated to make them hot enough
SO that thcy feel like getting in the
car to cool Off.
The average family cannot profitably
buy large quantities Of groceries at
any one time, even If little can be
saved by this method Of buying.
Spices, teas and coffees soon lose fia-
vor; dried fruits are apt to get wormy;
salt fish gets rancid. We tried this
plan once, buying six months supply
for family of seven, and while we
saved 81 in buying in large quantities
we lost So at the tail end on spoiled
ana ueterlorated goods.
The college athletes will give the
wheatf1elds Of Kansas another whirl
this summer. The fullback, the sprint
err, the pole vaulter and the dis
Gus whirier, wearing the laurels of
victory won on hard fought fields. will
find that life on Kansas farms Is real
and earnest from 4:30 a. m, to $50
p. M, even with four meals and $1.5O
per day. Most of them will wish at the
end Of the first week that they were
with Caesar crossing the Rubicon.
We all remember the Belgian hare
craze Of three years ago. get rich
quick scheme which was dandy, de-
pending upon being able to find suck
ers enough to sell the surplus to, to
raise more hares for still more suckers.
The ginseng craze, which just now Is
attracting not little attention, is
scheme Of the same stripe. If the corn
crop of the country was only as GER
tain each year as the crop of American
suckers it would not be worth 10 cents
bushel.
We had Job of pruning done on a
part of our orchard last September
which we do not want to have repeat
ed. A very vicious hailstorm swept
over 1t, the hailstones being rough and
Jagged and very large This 80 barked
and SCARED the new growth of wood
that most of it was dead last spring, tho
injury being done at time of the year
when the trees had no recuperatve or
healing power. and so the bruised
branches just dried up and persisted.
A very vigorous and healthy growth of
wood is pushing out. however, and the
damage will be repaired by another
year.
An old man. q miser. ever grasping
for more and denying himself the COM
forts Of life, is very pitiable sight,
h,1t HARDLY moro ca tl,on fhot oP tho