The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-02-01


u land in Florida last year and made
$4,000 raising tomatoes.
The mission of a second wife Is TIC
make man think more of the first one
than he ever did when she was alive.
The United States will have about
2OO,O00,000 bushels of the wheat crop OF
1900 to spare, the crop last year being
one of the largest ever grown.
The agricultural department places
the value of the corn crop of 1905 al
a billion dollars. No other crop grown
anywhere on earth is worth so large q
sum.
The intrinsic value Of any soil lies
in it's ability to produce grass. If grass
| can be made to grow on any soil it Is
all right. II grass will not grow 1t is
best let alone.
The country school where ten or IF.
teen little folks are taught by bright
woman is about the best kind of school
to be found. 1t Is better than q town
school where thirty pupils are depend.
ent upon the same woman.
The owners Of those western Kansas
cheap lands not long since considered
almost worthless are making fortunes
out of them from the fine crops Of win.
ter wheat which the unusual rains OF
the past three years have enabled them
to grow.
Millions of people in the northern
provinces Of Japan are in danger of
starvation. The officials of that coun-
try should get these unfortunates over
into Korea or Manchuria, where they
could find good land to work and a
decent climate to live under.
The United States will never have tc
meet any foreign competition In fur.
nishing the worlds supply Of cotton
The best efforts Of European nations
to find some part Of the earth where
cotton could be successfully grown
outside Of the United States have end
ed in failure
The irrigating works planned for and
many Of which are already under con.
struction by the government in this
country are destined to become among
the most noted engineering achieve
ments of the century. To carry the
life giving water on to worthless desert
more each is wonderful and benef-
cen. work
Cities which are located in the vicin.
ity of mines Of soft coal, where this
fuel, because Of its cheapness, excludes
others, and which are usually befouled
with the omnipresent SCOT and smoke
should devise some method Of general.
ing all the light, power and heat re-
quired by the city out at the mines and
transmit the same In the form of cleo
tricity and gas for USE 1t would seem
as though modern engineering skill was
equal to the solution of this problem.
We note the hiring of a farm hand
for a year at $50 per month, board and
washing. This is easily equivalent ia
the $40 per month paid to the clerk in
some city Office or store with the added
advantage that the farm hand can
save up So where the town man can
one. We recall the time when the
farmer could hire just as good hand
for SIP per month, and there were
more men after the twelve dollar job
than there are after the thirty dollar
one.
The other day we noticed a man IN
loading some crates of live poultry at
a depot. They were piling the crates
one on top of another, and as they
swung them up some of the chickens
heads which protruded from the lower
crates were torn off. A protest being
entered against such cruel method
of procedure, the reply was that 1T did
not make any difference, as the birds
were to be killed pretty soon any way .
There is altogether too much OF this
cruel, cold blooded barbarity prevalent
in connection with our treatment of
dumb animals. While they may have
to be slaughtered l3s food, there is ev-
cry obligation resting upon our modern
civilization to see that it is done In the
most humane manner possible
The future Of the million Of immi-
grants who came to this country last
year is a subject Of not little moment,
These immigrants are not Of the class
who have been heretofore gladly wei
coined, but Of that sort who shun the
country and converge in our cities to
still further add to the congestion OF
that ignorant and pauper class who are
such menace to our municipal life. Il
is going to be slow work and a hard
job to make over this class into the
kind of citizens whom America wants
They do not assimilate readily, as did
tie English, Scotch, Irish, German and
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