Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-13

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Some men farm their land as som
women make their bread-they give
running start, then leave it to shift
| for itself.
People practice economy good dea
as they wear their good clothes som,
don it every day, while others reve
In it only on special occasions.
The municipal ownership idea Ger
tainly has hold on Germany wher
its newspapers advocate the raising 81
swine by the city to supply the need
ed demand.
The walking over rough and muddy
ways in our goings and conings Is moi
unlike this life's pathway. But by
stepping high and sure we can com
pass much that is disagreeable and
forbidding without either slipping OF
becoming spattered.
On rolling and billy lands under the
pillow in regular rotation Of crops
nothing so well prevents the washing
of the soil as to have it we'll filed with
clover roots, and nothing else will be
SO good for the crop as source OF
humus and fertility.
There is not going to be- much hope
for the man who is content to raise
twenty-five bushels of corn to the acre
on land that will as easily produce
more than twice that amount. TWEEN.
ty-five bushels Of corn on hundred dol
lar an acre land is too much Of a para
dox to long survive.
In the hill countries where the land
is under the plow it is good policy to
keep all the draws and natural water.
ways in sod, even if the fields are
thereby broken up. The water must
find a way of during heavy rains, and
where these waterways are under the
pillow the loss by erosion Is very great.
TITS funny what little things will
make us show the white feather some
times. We can tackle the big Jobs with
courage, vim and even enthusiasm, but
we recoil from some of the minor calls
of duty with an unconquerable dread.
1t is these same little things that act as
our disciplinarians, wearing down the
rough corners and refining the uneven
surfaces Of our natures.
The little brown owl which has Its
home in your barn or in the hollow
tree by your house is the best mouse
and rat catcher around yoGr place,
worth more than even the cats and
dogs. Neither will he ever bother your
poultry, SO don't be foolish enough to
shoot him or let any one else do So
He will also keep the sparrows thinned
out, for he knows how to get them
after they have gone to roost.
Although possessed of the largest for
est area Of any country in the world
Siberia imported all the timber used
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of the Transsiberian railway from this
country, chiefly from Oregon. The
United States can Ill afford to export
lumber, as Its rapidly diminishing for.
est reserves clearly indicate. A far
better plan would be for her to import
and give her native timber chance to
restore itself.
It is an old saying that a cat has nine
lives, but little observation Of mar
and his habits and mode Of life would
indicate that he has sixteen. After
years Of hard work, dissipation and
disregard of all the rules of health we
still see man living out his fourscore
years and ten, often full of travail and
sorrow, which he would gladly have
been freed from years before. 1t would
almost seem in some cases that man
like the old house dog gone toothless
and blind, is far happier dead thar
alive.
I There is many man In our larger
cities drawing his So or less per day
who would be vastly better off If he
could locate himself in the country
where food is cheaper and of better
quality and where pure air and sun
shine are free to all. Likewise his chill
dren would be healthier in body and
mind and be more likely to turn out
good citizens than if boxed up in some
dingy tenement in the cities midst vice
and crime and deprived Of the birth
rights which it is Gods intention
should be free to all.
The tendency Of modern methods O
| education is to stuff the head and neg
lect the hand. The well educated DO,