Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-06

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Two Japs got hold Of small piece
Of land in Florida last year and made
$4,000 raising tomatoes.
The mission of second wife Is to
make man think more of the first one
than he ever did when she was alive.
The United States will have about
100000 bushels of the wheat crop Of
1905 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 at
a billion dollars. No other crop grown
on earth is worth SO large q
sum.
The intrinsic value Of any soil lies
in its ability to produce grass. If grass
can be made to grow on any soil it is
all right. If grass will not grow it is
best let alone.
The country school where ten or f1f-
teen little folks are taught by bright
woman is about the best kind Of school
to be found. 1t is better than a 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 win never have to
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
acres and make them worth 800 OF
more each Is wonderful and benefi-
cent 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 befoule6
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 ane
transmit the same in the form of cleo
tricity and gas for use. 1t would seen
as though modern engineering skill wal
equal to the solution of this problem.
We note the hiring Of farm hant
for year at $50 per month, board ans
washing. This is easily equivalent t,
the $45 per month paid to the clerk IL
some city Office or store with the added
advantage that the farm hand cal
save up So where the town man cal
one. We recall the time when tn,
farmer could hire Just as good hant
for $12 per month, and there wer
more men after the twelve dollar jol
than there are after the thirty dolla
one.
The other day we noticed a man IN
loading some crates Of live poultry a
q depot. They were piling the crate
one on top Of another. and as the,
swung them up some OF the chickens
heads which protruded from the lowe
crates were torn of. A protest be4n
entered against such cruel metho
of procedure, the reply was that at di
not make any difference, as the bird
were to be killed pretty soon any way.
There is altogether too much Of thi
| cruel, cold blooded barbarity prevalen
in connection with our treatment Q
dumb animals. While they may hav
to be slaughtered for food, there Is ey
cry obligation resting upon our moder
civilization to see that it Is done in th
most humane manner possible.
The future Of the million Of imm
grants who came to this country las
year is a subject of not little momen
i Thoao inn o,>a MIC ara not of the clas