Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-13
A Dakota Editors Needs.

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A Dakota Editors Needs.
Here is an editorial from the North
Dakota Flag of Freedom:
1t is reported that one Of the fastid-
ious ladies of this town kneads bread
with her gloves on This may be some
what peculiar, but there are others.
The editor of this paper needs bread
with his shoes on; he needs bread
with his shirt on; he needs bread with
his, pants on; and unless some of the
delinquent subscribers to the Flag of
Freedom pony up before long he will
need bread without damn thing on,
and North Dakota is no Garden of
Eden in winter time. either.
We boys who have been raised on
the farm, who have worked the churn
dasher up and down till we were
ready to run away from home, and
then in the afternoon, have turned the
grindstone while our big brother and
the hired man each took turns bearing
down on an old scythe and a dull ak.
can appreciate this story about the
old time yeast.
This story was found in magazine
and was written by e. G.. Chupney.
Mr.. Chupney has been there-he
knows.
is old fashioned yeast was purely
the property of the women folk. The
men around the house never butted
into this game at all. They were
afraid-they knew they couldn't han
die it. The power that small batch
of that yeast could develop was only
excelled by lyddite she'll
Mr.. Chupney's experience was as fol.
lows:
There are two kinds of campers:
men who camping in a well-selected
camping ground with q well-appointed
outfit with all the comforts Of home,
try to bring on few mild hardships
for the fun of the thing; and practical
workers who camp in the woods when
ever duty calls them, and camp be.
cause there is no other way to live.
Ours was a working camp. There
is a big difference between them.
have even heard city camper go SO
far as to say that camping was no fun
If you had a cook. He would not have
found anyone in our outfit to agree
with him We all wanted good cook
and we had him. He ruled the camp
with an iron hand, but no one ever
grumbled; he was boss Of the situa
ton and we all knew it. Cook for a
camping outfit is not very high
sounding title, but the qualifications
for the position are many and various
Mike had them all-all but one, he
4 could not sing. Ten years a sailor
and fisherman, he could spin yarns
till bedtime every night; five years 6
cook in, the Maine lumber woods, he
could tell the biggest hunting stories
on record and make a plum pudding
out of corn meal and kerosene. His
ready wit and good nature kept every
one in good humor.
| We had been eating baking powder
!. biscuits for about month-and the
proverb that familiarity breeds con
tempt" was never more true thar
. when applied to a baking powder bis
, cuit-when something happened tina
+ was to be the source of many an even
i ing's amusement in the old camp. W.
!. made strike for light bread! A de
3 mand for light bread in the heart O
]. the backwoods with a camp outfi
:
into a. towering rage and probabl
: have gotten us a good cussing. bu
. Mike was tickled to death with tn
e suggestion. He would make som
yeast!
No one ever knew exactly how h
started that yeast. but that he ha
started 1t was soon evident to ever.
one. A suspicious-looking brown Jul
located in dark corner of the coo
!. tent, gagged with heavy woode
: plug and throttled with piece of ia
n rope, would utter vicious, suppresse
shrieks at the most unexpected mi
$ ments. A man would stop his fork
9 mid-air as he gazed anxiously wit
open mouth into the dark corner. A
r every ominous warning Mike woul
9 20 into a mild form of commissions an
gurgle almost as much as the Jul
d Rubbing his hands together gleefull.
$ he would say, Boys and boys, but thu
y powerful stuff"
e This reign of terror had lasted
), couple Of days when Mike announce
y that he was going to open the jug
n once. The news that the famous il
was to be opened spread over the cam
Is like wildflre and the clans assemble
a L. see the fun. Since no one wante
: 20 be too near the jug or too far awe
! to see the whole show, the attempt
~ ~ find the exact distance for the be
: result caused nervous shifting
}, the little semi-circular crowd in fro
lie Of the cook tent. Mike was the mo
lie important man in the state as he strt
ted about the tent getting things reat
is for the conflict and laughing contenl
uously at our fears.
~ We had always known that Mi
: was a great man according to his oy
A. accounts, but now he was proving
l. When he finally picked up that j
e there was certain difference and j
lspect in his manner that we had ney