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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21
JUNIOR LETTERS.


Dear Editor:-As have never writ
ten before to the Juniors I will now
do so.
l am little boy Z years old. My
sister is writing this for me. I saw
two Of my friends letters In the
Courier Junior, their names being
Lee Gallop. and Ralph Johnston
Lee Gallop came over and played
all day with me today.
AS my letter is getting long I will
close.
Bruce Rafferty,
Birmingham, Iowa
Dear Editor AS have written
before will write again.
Our school is out. 1t was out the
22nd of February. received a pretty
card the last day.
Church is going on now and / have
gone every night. It has hasn raining.
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INSTINCT OF A HORSE

When papa. mamma and l we're
gong over the mountains we saw
several horses going across an ice
colo river and with them was little
colt Just two or three days old.
the other horses were across on
land but when the little colt got in
the middle Of the stream 1t was caught
IN the current which together with the
cold, hurled the colt on down the
stream, but finally it regained its
feet and stood still in the stream.
Then the mother seeing the danger
1t was IN went in below it and came
up and braced it until it got safely
through.
remain
Paul Berry, age IL,
Burlington. Kansas.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21
THE SOUVENIR PosTALs

We will send a souvenir album to
the first Junior who has twenty-five
cards sent by the Courier Junior.
Even if you're working in the other
contests you can work in the postal
contest. While we have a great many
recipes In the Junior box, we are only
publishing few today, but all the
contributors will receive souvenir
card.
We want more recipes, but the
Juniors must send only one recipe
at a time Each recipe must be &C.
companied by little story.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21
THE TRICKY BOY

George Norton was very fond Of
playing tricks He thought 1t was
fine fun to tie rope across q pas
sage, and see some one fall over it.
or to pin a little grrs apron to the
chair, so that it would tear when she
got up. He did not think OF care about
the danger of being hurt by the fall
or of the trouble of mending clothes
that were torn. AS his chief delight
was to tease others he was not liked
by anyone. At last, however he met
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21
THE HoMELY HOG

When l was about three years old,
papa gave sister and pet pig, Of
course it was the smallest and
ugliest one in the pen. We thought
it real nice and we named him Teddy.
We took good care of him, and fed
him everything that would make it
grow fast
1t would go out to the big pasture
with the big hogs md stay there I'M
til it would get hungry, then it would
come down the fence to the house
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21
BUTTER SCOTCH.

Three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful
of hot water, one half cupful of
vinegar Stir before putting on the
stove but not after. When partly
cooked add one tablespoonful Of but
ter and just before taking from the
stove stir one teaspoonful Of soda dis
solved in one teaspoonful of boiling
water. When cool enough to handle
pull until white.
Catherine Costello, age 9.
Melrose. Iowa
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just as fast as it could come, making
the most noise you ever herd pig
make and he would not let up on his
racket until he got all he could eat,
and then it would go back just as
fast as 1t came, only swifter
and not SO noisy.
One time l was out on the porch
eating bread and milk and Teddy came
and / gave him bite and then take
bite myself. When mamma found
it out she put stop to it.
How would you - to eat with a
pig?
Teddy grew to be a big hog and
papa butchered him and that was the
last Of Teddy.
Bertha Heger, age 9,
Do1ds.T ,eando
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CAKE RECIPE

!, Two eggs, one cup of sugar, butter
half the size of an egg, mix and
beat for five minutes, then add one
cup Of milk, teaspoon of navoring
and two teaspoons Of baking powder
in about a cup and a half of -four
Sieve into the above. Add more -four
until it is thick enough.
Edna Lewis,
New Avery Hotel,
Avery, Iowa
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poueHNUTs

One cup of sugar, three eggs. one
tablespoonful Of natter. five table,
spoonful of milk, two tablespoonfuls
of corn starch, a pinch Of salt, two
rounded teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der well sifted with a portion of the
flour, and nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger
or other flavoring to taste. Mix soft
and fry in hot lard.
Addie Bradbury,
R. R. No. 1,
Pulaski, Iowa
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over the fire for Is minutes or until
the mixture becomes brittle when
dropped into cold water. Add lemon
or vinalla flavoring after the cooking
is completed. Cool on dat buttered
tins and mark into squares before
cold so 1t can be easily broken.
This Is a cheap confect!on
Hazel Galpin,
R. Ed No. 1, Box No. So,
IN Floris, Iowa
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cHoco LATE MARBLE CAKE

Whites Of six eggs, one cup of but
.er, two cups of sugar, three cups of
flour, one half cup of sweet milk, two
teaspocnful Of DR.. Prices extract of
vanilla, one quarter cake of chocolate
grated and mixed into one half of
the batter, put into the cake pan in
layers of dark, then white.
Josephine Smith, age II.
Keswick, Iowa
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PEANUT rAFFY

One cup of husked peanuts thickly
spread on a buttered pan Boil two
cups of dry sugar, free from .ss..ps
and light yellow color. Pour quickly
over nuts, shaking the pan gently to
make the sugar cover them evenly.
Beatrice Lynch,
Oil Walton Avenue,
St Louis, Mo-
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Take two eggs, a1-2 cup of butter, 2
cups Of sugar, / cup of milk, cups
of flour, cup chopped nuts, one cup
Of raisins, teaspoonfuls OF baking
powder or / of soda and 2 of cream
Of tartar.
Your friend,
Grace Hightshol, age IA.
R. F. D. No. 2,
L Lamont, Iowa.
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PLUM PUDDING

cup suet, can sweet milk, i cup
molasses, cup sugar, l cup currants,
2 IL cups raisins, 4 cups flour, tea.
spoon each Of cinnamon, cloves and
allspice and / teaspoon soda; boil
three hours.
Alley Davis, age 10,
R. R. No. 2,
Hedrick, Iowa
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cocoANUT CAKE

One cup grated cocoanut, one of
butter, two of sugar, four and one
half cups flour, four eggs, two tea
spoonfuls baking powder, flavor with
lemon. ~
Leora Lewis. age IL,
r. R. No. Box SO,
Russell, Iowa
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THE BIRTHDAY MONTH.

There were more famous people
born in the month of February than
in any other month in the year and
that is why We call it the birthday
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Dear Editor
I have never written to the Junior
before.
am ten years old. When was ter
had a birthday party. have sister
and three brothers. Their names ara
Leonce and Keith and Harold and
Wells, and my brother and sister and
go to school every. day. My teachers
name is Nettie Russell. I like her
very much. My studies are language
and arithmetic and music and reading,
guess / will close, as my letter Is
getting long.
.Gerada Picken, age 10. \
r. r. d. No. s.,
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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today, but looks like it will clear Off
AS my letter is gettin~ lone / viii
close wishing the Courier Junior mucN
success. s4
Helen Johnson. age 10, n
Florts. low
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EvERToN TAFFY WITH BROWN
SUGAR

Put butter IA pound into suitable
di-h with brown sugar pound. Stir
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AN OLD MITE BOX

There is a beautiful story told of
poor woman In England who had a
loving heart and an open hand. She
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-21

and he didn't come back. He stayed
with little girl, about my size, bgt
couldn't get him to come home at
al
, Leila Harvard. age 10,
Douds-Leando
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A WORD PUZZLE

My first is in man, but not in boy;
My second is in anger. but not in joy;
My third is in rat, but not in mouse;
My fourth is in church. but not in house;
My fifth is in hat. but not in veil:
My sixth is in water. but not in pail;
My seventh is in, inch, but not in yard;
My eighth is in stone, but not in hard
My ninth is in dough, but not in cake;
My tenth is in yeast, but not in bake.
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Dear Editor and Juniors As Y
haven't written for a while, | thought
would write "a 4
I have been busy with my schoS
work and could not write.
/ go to the Douglas school and AT
in the sixth grade Ny teacherA
name is Miss Wagner. like her verN
much.
l received my postal card and
thought it very nice and thank you
very much.
Well. will close and write MT
recipe.
Yours truly,
Blanche Miller,
GIT Main st:
Ottumwa, Iowa
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P. A. Connolly in the National
Magazine for May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
Celebrate Anniversary.

Edwardsville, May 4-(Special. )-Ed- wardsyile lodge No. 210 I. O. O. F., cele- brated the eighty-eighth anniversary of the beloved order, at Edwardsville, April 26. An interesting programme was car ried out.
 The Rev. J. c. Johnson, presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal church, who made many interesting talks, was master of ceremonies. In behalf of the citizens of Edwardsville, Mayor W. c. McMa- han, in a very eloquent manner, extend ed most cordial welcome to all visiting brethren and friends. The Rev. J. H. Dunn, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, in a very impressive manner, ex- tended a welcome in behalf of the lodge John Woodrow, member of the home board of Birmingham, cheered the hearts of all present with very appropriate response. Grand Master w. M Crawford of Montgomery held the attention of the audience with his wit and oratory for an hour and a half. Mrs, Shropshire, pres ident of the Rebecca, also delivered a very interesting address that added mem- bers to the Rebecca degree which she in- stituted here that night.
 The secretary of the home board ex- plained many things which caused many, if possible, to love Odd Fellowship more tenderly.
 Edwardsville felt highly favored with the honor of the presence of those named above and extend to them an invitation to visit us again.
 Edwardsville Is hoping that the home will be located here and the citizens feel that should we get 1t the inmates would have home among some of the best men and women of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
ESCAPED CONVICT
 IS RECAPTURED
FlFTY-FlTH ANNUAL ALL-DAY SINGING WILL BE HELD AT FISH POND CHURCH NEAR ALExAN- DER CITY TODAY.

Alexander City, May -(Special)-Les- ser Robinson, negro boy of this city, about 1e years old who was convicted of theft and sentenced to a term at hard labor for twelve months, and who was serving his time with the Tenhessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, made his es- cape from Pratt City last week. He i'm mediately returned home, via the side door sleeper route, but had scarcely shook hands with himself on his eel-skin sue cess when Marshal Ogletree again had him in the tolls. A reward of $50 was offered by the Tennessee company for Lessers capture.
 Farming operations are at a standstill, and the farmers are behind in their work on account of rains. Some cotton will necessarily be replanted, and that work, of course, Is retarded.
 J. l. Donegan has been awarded the con tract tc erect a bridge over Town creek, on the Gamble road costing $75O
 Next Sunday at Fish Pond church, near here, will be held the annual all-day singing This singing has been held regularly and presided over each first Sunday in May for fifty-five years by Dr. A. G. Holloway.
 The commencement exercises of the Alexander City school will begin Wednes-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
THE PENALTY OF OVERWORK.

Work has been mans lot since the creation, but a day of toll should not have it's penalty of pain. Why is it. then, you ask, that backache so often follow? It is because the modern tendency is to overwork, to tear down faster than nature can rebuild. An unnatural strain is thrown upon the vital organs, and more especially upon the kidneys. which have the work of Altering the blood free of waste and poison.
 The heavy tax of overwork,--the strain upon the back that is so com mon to many trades and occupations is too great. The kidneys begin te fail in their work, and there Is double danger to health The poison ous matter collects in the system, and the kidneys themselves begin to break down.
 of trouble in the kindneys. An in- hammation has set in. and a dis ordered condition of the urine soon becomes apparent.
 Too much or too little urine. with constant desire to void the secre- tfons; any noticeable deviation from the normal color; the appearance of q sandy sediment, proves a disordered condition of the kidneys, that needs quick attention.
 If your work seems hard for you, if you have a lame. weak or aching back, if you seem tired and llstless,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
New York Has to Be Wicked.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 If the laws were as strictly enforced in New York as they are in Columbia, Greenville, Darlington or Clinton who would visit New York? Our observation is that a considerable proportion of the visitors who go to New York two or three times a year to have a good time' mean by the phrase the kind of time that they would be ashamed to have at home and which indulged where they are known would bring them into disrepute. These people pour torrents of money into New York's coffers and help to make possible not only the dens of vice but the respectable business establishments of the great town.
 We suppose that there is no doubt about New York being the wickedest place that Is or ever has been in this world. It says so itself, repeating 1t every day through the yellow journals and crimson magazines. It is fair to add, however. that ruralists meaning the in habitants of Kansas, South Carolina, Massachusetts and other remote locali- ties, may not upbraid New Workers. We are convinced that vice Is enthroned in Manhattan Island because a large part of the American people demand a place where they may temporarily strip them selves of restraint and enjoy the bliss of original sin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
A Gift That Wasn't Given.

From the Boston Post.
 Apropos of MT, Carneges latest gift. an editor. taking out his notebook, said the other day:
 "G can tell you of a gift of $l.50 than Mir Carnegie once refused to give. Let me read you the letter asking for this gift"
 With laugh he read;
 Dear Mir. Carnegie-Understan that you are blessed at present with an unusual surplus of income, and knowing well your generous spirit and desire to do good to those who will help them- selves. I want to ask you to make ms a contribution of s150
 When 1 was a young man my mother gave me a hymnbook which I faithfully used. It is now, thanks to my effortss worn out, and I think 1t should he re- placed and you are the man to do this. "Apreciating to the full the generous deeds that have made your name illus- trlous in this and other countries, and believing that in making me this dona- ton you will be carrying on the spirit of your work, I am yours faithfully,
 MARK TWAIN. 'P. s.-Don't send the hymnbook; send the $t.50 M. T."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

or the missing jewelry and feel sure that 1t can soon be restored to Mrs. Thomas.
 The following invitations have been is- sued to friends and patrons of the insti- tuition:
 You are cordially invited to be present at the closing exercises of the Seventh District Agricultural School, Albertville, Ala, May P to May 15. Programme Sunday, May 12 Il am, commencement sermon, Rev. S. E. Wasson, Tuscaloosa; Monday, May 13, pm, recital, music and elccution classes; Tuesday, May A. 1O:30 Inn, junior class exercises, presenta- ton of honor certificates; s:SO pm, col legiate entertainment; Wednesday, May 15, IJ:30 am, senior class exercises; Il :15 am, address to graduates, Rev. J. D. Simpson, Annston, Ala. presentation of diplomas. Graduates: Bernie Farrar, Bertha Mann, Oscar Horton, Maude Smith, Clyde Mann.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

There is a chance that Walter Wellman will beat him to the pole. He expects to be at his headquarters in Spitzbergen with his balloon by the middle of June. Trials. of his airship will be made in July and by the end of that month or the beginning of the next he expects to be ready to make the dash for the pole. Success or failure will come within a few days. Mr Wellman's polar activities are conducted more for advertising purposes than anything else and are never taken seriously. Peary is the earnest student of polar research. The navy records show that he has given only ten years and seven months of public service against fourteen years and seven months put down under the head of unemployed" The latter figures represent the time he has been engaged in his favorite work.
 The police court magistrates of New York are to wear gowns and hereafter there will be no difference in dress be- tween Battery Dan Finn" a notorious Tammany district leader, who is on the bench. and the chief justice of the su- preme court of the United States It has been suggested that colors be chosen for the gowns to suit the territory in which the magistrate happens to be sitting This scheme the author declares. would mean draperles of dark brown with white lights for the morning after in the Tenderloin. In other districts the gowns should be of melancholy blue, Elusive lavender or penitential gray
 Of interest in view of the perpetual agitation of the immigration problem are the figures gathered by the Italian gov ernment which give line on the largest single incoming alien element in 1906. In that year s2S7 ,090 persons left Italy for tn United States and 94,645 went back to Italy from the United States. Those returning as compared with the newcom- CTS was one to three. If this proportion prevailed among all classes of immigrants the yearly total would be 100000 instead of 100000 But this is not true, as the Russian Jews and others that could be named come to this country never to re- turn to the old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
NEGRO GIRL HELD
 ON THEFT CHARGE
ADMITS TAKING JEWELRY WORTH $500 FROM MRS. JOHN THOMAS. GOODS ARE NOT YET REcov- FRED.

Albertville, May 4.-(Special)-Julia Chandler, negress about b years of age, was arrested here yesterday by Mar shal Bob Amos, for stealing some jewelry from Mrs. John Thomas. The negro was nursing for Mrs. Thomas and when the jewelry was missed she was immediately suspected. She acknowledged her guilt and was released on a hearing bond. The iewelry was worth about $300 and has not been recovered yet, as she says she sold it to a woman who was here Satur- day with a show. Officers are in search
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

No better anywhere The Subway
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

day night. May 15. at the court house, and will continue three nigh%s.
 Mrs. Duncan the aged mother of MT. Frank Duncan, a prominent citizen. fell and broke her hip Monday. Mrs. Duncan is SS years of age.
 Mrs, Lizzie Bush has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs Kelly Kenne- dy. of Birmingham.
 Postmaster J. c. Manning is in New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05

But If hard times come next year would there be any democratic apathy? is asked. The logical answer is that there prob ably woulu not be- But if we go upon the theory that crises come periodically it is not yet time for a business slump. On this point a writer in Golfers Week. ly said recently:
 We had such disasters beginning in 1S19, in 1S37 in 1S57 in 1873, and in 1893. The normal interval between them is twenty years The shortest hitherto has been sixteen years, between 1857 and 1873, and the effects of the civil war furnished ample explantion of the curtailment in that case. According to experience we should not expect another severe crisis until some time between 1909 and 1913. There has usually been a mild reaction from the prevailing prosperity about half way between two ~~eat panics. We had one in 1884, little over half way from 1873 to 1893. The corresponding break in the present period of good times came in 1903. just ten years after the panic of 1S93 According to precedent that ought to last us for nine or ten years longer. Those who say 1t will not lay the blame for the abnormal conditions they think they see upon the Roosevelt agitation or the Hartman revelations, or some other trouble of our times which previous pe- Yious periods of disturbance did not have. But previous periods had troubles of their own. For fifteen years before the panic of 1893 there was an era of silver inf1a- ton, which seemed worse to the finan- eiers of that day than any of our dff- eulties with corporations would have ap- peared."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
THE WEEKS TALK
 IN NEW YORK CITY Democrats Do Not Grasp the
 Presidential Opportunity BUSINESS PANIC NOT DUE
That Is, on the Theory That Depres- sion Comes PeriodicaIy-McCIeI- lan's Political Funeral-Peary
 and His Next Polar Dash.
BY sEWELL HAeeARD.

New York, May 4.-(Special )-Old war horses of politics say that the prepara- tions for the presidential campaign of 1908 have been begun under conditions without parallel as far as they can re- call. In making this assertion they have in mind, first, the condition on the re- publican side, where the question is whether nomination can be forced upon President Roosevelt after he has repeat edly declared that he would not accept it. Col. Henry Watterson of the\ Louisville Courier-Journal says that the president told him that even if he were nominated he would refuse the nomination and force the holding of a second convention. On the Democratic side there are also odd features. The politicians point to the general feeling of apathy and the impress sion that seems to prevail in many quar- ters that there is no use in the democrats nomina ting any one for president.
 It has been a subject of much comment in the last few weeks that in view of the increasingly demoralzed condition of the republican party, due to the split between the president and other leaders over the candidacy of Taft, that the dem- ocrats do not arouse themselves from their apathy and grasp the opportunity. One explanation offered by local leaders is that every one is taking it for granted that the presidential election will be set tied in the republican convention. An other explanation is that the conserva- tive democrats do not want their party to win under present conditions They say that the greatest disaster the demo- cratic party ever suffered was it's vic- tory of 1892, when the country was drift ing toward a business panic. President Cleveland came into power just in time to bear the brunt of it and the republi- cans came back into power just in time to benefit by returning prosperity. Many democrats are of the opinion that hard times are not far distant and they want to see the depression come under re- publican administration. Then, they say the republican tariff would get the credit for the panic and the democratic tariff that would follow would get the credit for the restoration of prosperous condi- tions.