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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-08
LUELLA DOES NOT LIKE HER
TEACHER VERY WELL.

Dear Editor:
1 will write letter to the Courier
Junior as l have not written for q
long time l go to school. j don't
like my teacher very good. For pets
I have a cat, dog and horse. My
home is 21a miles northeast of Selma.
1t has flowers all around the house.
There are lots of flowers out now. |
will name some flowers: Viloets, blue.
bells, marigolds. pines. sweet peas and
Easter lilies. have three sisters and
three brothers. Their names ara
Fannie, Ola, Town, William, Samuel
and Emmer. Well as my letter is get
ting long I will close.
Luella Trout, age IA
Selma, Ia, R. R. No. l.
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LLOYD A FINE MUSICIAN FOR HIS
YEARS.

Dear Junior:
I am eight years old. l attend
school at the Grant building and am
in the fourth grade. l go to school
all week and on Saturday l take a
music lesson of Prof Charles Griffith
of Drake university. l haven't taken
two terms of lessons yet and can play
about twenty-five pieces without my
music and a number with my music.
also play trio with two little girls
and a duet with another little girl
On Sunday l attend Sunday school at
the First Presbyterian church.
have little spitz dog for pet. Il
is about the size of fox and has long
white fur. call her Snow BALI be.
cause when she is washed she is as
white as a snow ball.
AS my letter is getting long l will
close.
Lloyd Randolph
800 s.. Fifth ST., Abba, Ia. ),
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Age 8.
GOES TO BELINDA SCHOOL.

Dear Editor:
] am a little girl 10 years old. am
going to school. My teachers name
is Vera Witt. l have mile and a
quarter to walk to school. l 20 to the
Belinda school, district No. 4. There
are "a scholars in our school. ] am a
TriWeekly Junior.
Clet Carson,
Charlton, Ia.
r. F. D., No. s.
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care is taken of this plant through
the winter 1t will bloom several years.
China is known IS the flowery king
dom.
Myrtle McVeigh, age Is.
Keosauqua, Ia, r. Ed. No. /.
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THE OBSERVATION CONTEST.

Dear Juniors: Today we are CIV
ing YOU some of the splendid stories
written by the Juniors who have en-
tered the Observation contest, which
will run through the month Of May,
closing Monday May 81. Feeling sure
that there are many Juniors who
would like to enter the contest but
who are ranked among the "tardies,"
we have decided to let them have an
opportunity to work in the Observa-
hon contest If they start in this week:
But as reward for "Promptness,
which always characterizes the work
If
JuLiETTE EISENBElS.
MARY RANDEL.
FOREST WEBER.
MYRTLE M'VElGH.
f LEILA SAUM.
We will give them each splendid
srice. OF course they also will have
thance for the big prize at the end OF
he month If they continue to write OF
heir observations each week. The
rules for the Observation contest fol-
bw:
We hear you all ask, What is an
yObservation contest?" Well, observa-
don means taking notice; the act OF
Aeeing or of fixing the mind upon any
,Ahing. Therefore the Juniors working
IN the Conservation contest must
write on some interesting thing or per-
pon each week. For instance, In going
10 and from school you will observe
snany things. 1t may be person,
either a child or grown-up, an auto
mobile, flower, an animal, (horse,
COW, dog or cat.) 1t does not mat
ter what 1t is. Each Of the writer's
must select his or her own subjects.
We want the Juniors working in the
contest to write a story each week
during May.
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Belle Fouche, S. D.
Alzada mail route.
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Florence Mae Sklrvin, age Il
Ottumwa, Ia, R. r. NO. Z.
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SILK.

~ - Iffe1 ~. n. y &C
Agency, Ia, R. R. No. 2.
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LEILA GOES TO SCHOOL.

Age 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
WRECKED WHEEL
OVERTURNS CAR
HUNTERS INJURED IN AUTO
ACCIDENT
SAN FRANCISCAN sUsTAINs TWO
BROKEN RIBS
Party of Five Bound for Dove Hunt
Are Thrown Out and Machine
Is Wrecked When Wheels
Break Down

PASADENA, Aug. 14.-Bound for "a
hunting trip in the hills about Beau
mont in an automobile, five men were
thrown out and the machine was
wrecked at o'clock last night on East
Colorado and Wilson street, when the
motor car turned turtle.
G.. O. Eichelberger, $40 Eddy street,
San Francisco, the owner and driver of
the machine, sustained two broken ribs,
and two of his guests were badly
bruised and cut. Two escaped serious
injury, but none came off without some
token of the accident. Eichelberger
was taken to Los Angeles in an ambu
lance tonight, but the other members
of the party boarded car and returned
to their apartments.
All were anxious to avoid publicity
and refused to give their names, but 1t
was learned there were in the party,
beside Mr.. Eichelberger. Bert Chlts,
superintendent of the Puente OIL COM
pany; a Beaumont resident who was
guiding the party, a man from Los
Angeles who gave the name of Jones
and an employe of the Fairbanks Morse
company branch in Los Angeles.
The accident was caused by the loss
of the rims, spokes and tires of both
right hand wheels, when one of the
front wheels dropped into a chuck hole.
The weight of the heavily loaded car,
packed as it was with supplies, am
munition, guns and men, proved too
great a strain on the running gear and
the wheels were smashed. Going as no
was at high rate of speed the driver
was unable to stop in time to prevent
the overturning of his car. The latter,
Midland automobile, was badly
wrpCked
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
ARTICLE BY NURSE STRIKES
WRITER AS VERY HUMOROUS

LOS ANGELES Aug. S.-tEditor
Herald1: OF all the funny things SAID
for and against woman's right to gov
ern herself the article by Trained
Nurse is quite the most humorous.
Does NOT she know that had 1t not
been for the demand of suffragists for
equal rights for women the sphere OF
women would not now include that OF
a trained nurse?
Elizabeth Blackwell was ostracised
during the time she was studying med
icine-women holding aside their skirts
when they passed her on the street
the woman who understood the mecn-
anism of her own body being consld-
cred no better than an outcast. during
her three-year course of study the
women at her boarding house refused
to speak to her.
Yet here in Los Angeles is to be
found a woman prof1ting by the work
done by the pioneers of woman Suffrage
who calmly condemns the right OF 9TH
er women to vote to better their condl-
tion. go.
consistency, thou art a jewell"
Here is wage earning woman
whose business must of necessity heep
her from home objecting to other
women spending two or three hours
each year in dropping ballot in
box trying to better their condition,
because, forsooth, they will be away
from home during the time they are
Verify there are people in whom the,
sense of humor needs development! !
ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.l
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
ENTERPRISING PUBLISHER
CHARGED WITH SWINDLING
EndeaVored to Obtain Huge Circula-
tion for Book by Novel
Method

BERLIN. Aug. IA remarka BILE
trial is in progress at Munich i'm which
a publisher named Peter Ganter is ac-
cused of a colossal swindle. He got
hold of an insignificant novel called
Double Moral" a w ork without much
point or plot, and determined to obtain
for it an unparalleled circulation.
He wrote a letter in which the per-
sons. to whom it was sent were warned
that unless they took steps to quash
certain proceedings, at which Ganter
carkly hinted, they We're liable to be
involved in scandal Of a grave char
acter. This scandal had already in
volved certain people who are alleged
to be friends Of each addressee. Can
ter advised each person to obtain this
book and to see all that it contained.
Nearly half a million of these letters
We're sent to respectable people in Ber
lin, Munich. Dresden. Dusseldorf and
other large German cities with the re-
suit that tens of thousands of men
were in the deepest anxiety. 1t is stat
cd that the wives of persons who had
received this letter had fainting fits,
being in dread of impending revela-
tions, and one woman is said to have
died in consequence. Each letter was
written with great skill and was signed
with an illegible name.
The fraud was quickly exposed, and
Ganter's arrest followed Immediately.
An edition of q quarter of a million
copies of the book had been prepared.
but the arrest took place so quickly
that the sale never grew large. Only
a few copies were sold.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
WOMAN FATALLY
HURT BY FALL
ANITA B. STEWART BELIEVED
TO BE VICTIMS NAME
ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT SIXTH
AND FIGUERoA STREETS
Attempt to Leave Car in Motion Re-
suits in Fractured Skull and
Severe Internal ln-
jures

An unidentified woman, supposed to
be Miss Anita B. Stewart of Mon
mouth Ill, tripped and fell from a
southbound car of the Los Angeles
railway at Sixth and Figueroa streets
at 1880 o'clock last night and received
injuries from which she probably will
die.
The injured woman is about % years
of age and is thought to be q guest of
the family of H. L. Houck of 434 North
Occidental boulevard She was pas
senger on a westbound car and at
tempted to alight at Sixth and Fisue-
Toa streets while the car was still in
motion. She tripped on the edge of
her skirt, it is said, and was thrown
heavily to the pavement, striking on
her head and shoulders.
She was picked up in an unconscious
condition and hurried in the police am
bulance to the receiving hospital, where
Drs Wiley and Chamberlain attended
her. 1t was found that she had a basal
fracture of the skull and internal In
jurics, from which the surgeons state
she will not recover.
In her hand bag was found the ad-
dress of H L. Houck, but none of the
members of that family were at home
last night. There also were found re-
ceipts for registered packages sent by
Anita p. Stewart from Spokane Wash.
TO Mrs. W. e. Lindley, Livermore, Cal,
and to her own name at Monmouth, Ill.
She also had cards and receipts which
showed that she had been i'm Seattle
in June, Portland and Oakland in July
and that she arrived here early in
August.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
WRITER SAYS DoGMATIsTs
ARE BEING FORCED BACK

LONG BEACH, Aug. 13.-[Editor
Herald: The best argument against
the theory OF 'the survival of the fit
test" in the letter from Mr.. Smith In
The Herald of August 5, is that same
letter. He is evidently not a survival
of the fittest Smith" This is a free
country, and a man Is not obliged to
use common sense if he does not own
it, but 1t is a most dangerous thing
for man to do gross injustice to
very great and good man like Charles
Darwin, either from ignorance of the
wonderful additions that Darwin has
made to the worlds stock of scientific
truth, or from grief and rage because
some of his idols have been demolished
by the new light. 1t is dangerous, as
it is for the moth to attack the burn
ing torch. He gets scorched, but the
flame burns on. To be gentle with
this mistaken brother, it is possible
he has not studied the great English
master with the intelligent care that
is due to Darwin as we'll as to Smith.
The limits of this article will not
admit of a full discussion of this tre-
mendous subject, but the statement of
Dr. Humantas that perfection is not
evident in natural things is a fact as
certain as the sun. Perfection in any
thing is fallacy utterly ct war with
every principle of growth or advance
ment. The spirit that is dominant in
men, the striving after a better way,
more ideal result, is of itself proof
that there is no such dead condition as
perfection anywhere. Evolution is
written upon all forms of existence,
all life either of body or spirit.
In the eternal struggle that is con-
stant in the worlds of mind and mat
ter for life and continuation, the Sur
vival of the fittest''-a phrase borrowed
by Mr.. Darwin from Herbert Spencer -
the competition is not between ele-
plants and ants. or between men and
tigers, as Mr.. Smith seems to assert.
In the conflict of the ages, only those
atoms or bundles of atoms that have
a common destiny ahead indulge In
battle on the road. In that battle the
race is to the swift and the battle
to the strong" despite the ancients.
It Is no wonder men and institutions
that have survived from the ignorance
and superstition of the past, shudder
and turn pale at the sight of new
truths coming up the horizon. If there
is ANYTHING from the past that is fit
to survive, anything that is, in its
nature absolutely true, its immortality
is assured. Not an immortality of its
present shape, but continued I'M
mortality of progress, of growth, the
only immortality worth striving for,
the only Immortality that ever existed
or that can exist.
The only knowledge that exists in the
world has come to man through the
untiring Investigations of science.
There is not, and never was, there
never can be--as far as we know now
any other source of truth. In all
the record Of great souls whose lives
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
BRING TALE OF
FIRE AT OSAKA
TRAVELLERS TELL OF WOE OF
SURVIVORS
FIVE SQUARE MILES OF TERRl-
TORY BURNED
Thirteen Persons Died from Flames
and More Than 800 Were Injured.
Claim Made Temple Was
Saved MiraculousIy
tBy Associated Press.l


VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 14.-When
the steamer Empress of India, which
reached port this afternoon, was leav-
ing Kobe. sufferers from the fire that
burned over five square miles at Osaka,
causing thirteen deaths and injuring
main road around the bay and making
their way by junk and sampan to Kobe
for succor
The fire started at Tamadas hosiery
factory in Nichomo. northward, short
ly before daylight on July 81. and
spread rapidly, licking up the waffle
and bamboo houses, across six streets,
while the firemen from the Osaka wa
ter works We're using water drawn
with buckets from wells until the SOL
diers came from the Osaka garrison
and began dynamiting houses in the
path OF the fire.
The main building OF the great Ten
noji temple was saved and supersti-
tious Japanese declare this was due to
miraculous Intervention. The flames
reached the temple at 10:30 a. m. While
the crowds of priests were scurrying
to rescue the art treasures, remark
able scenes were witnessed in the
temple grounds.
Priests Invoke Spirits Aid
Finally, when the rear gate was
burned, a priest called upon the spirits
of the dead to stay the flames. Soon
afterward the wind veered increasing
in force and diverting the flames
toward Horikawa, a wide canal con-
nected with the Yedo river, on either
side of which Osaka is built.
The Shinto priests were all garbed
in their ceremonial white robes and
were assisted by 800 troops of the Os-
aka garrison sent TO aid them con-
vey the temple treasures to another
temple at Nakanoshi park, on an
island in the middle of the river. Here
General Iszu and his troops from the
garrison in Osaka castle safe from the
flames had their headquarters.
1t was hoped that the flames would be
stayed at the Konkawa canal, where a
great fight was made, but at 1890 the
fire leaped the canal and spread toward
the Ume Dal station. the great station
on the Tokkaido Ume.
Thence it pursued its course south
easterly to the commercial museum and
still farther westward, burning the
museum the Osaka court of appeals
and the northward district office, Il
newspaper office, the Rice exchange, a
commercial school, a girls high school,
the meteorological station, the gov
ernor's official residence and the Kaisei
hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE
FROM JANlTCR'S GANG
Men Working at City Prison EIude
Guards and Run Down
Alley

Jack McNulty, one of the regular
attendants at the city Jail. was ar
rested August T. on a charge of drunk
enness and on August 13 was sen
fenced to thirty days i'm the city jail
On the same day Louis Deosta was ar
rested for the same offense and at
the same time was given a sentence OF
five days in Jail.
Yesterday botlr men We're placed on
the ianitor gang at tho city prison
and an hour after having gone out to
help clean up the building they man
aged to escape the vigilance of the
janitor and escaped by running away
through the alleyWay leading back of
the Mason opera house and the Union
League club. They had NOT been APP
pretended by the police at "a late hour
last night, although a number of spe-
cial officers We're sent out to search
for them
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF
IRRIGATION CONGRESS

SPOKANE, Wash. Aug. 1A-Robert
Insinger of Spokane has been elected
chairman of the eHecutiye committee
of the national irrigation congress.
Arthur Hooker permanent secretary
of the congress, has been made seere-
tary Of the committee, composed of
one member from each state delega-
tion.
The congress has appointed r. In
singer of Spokane Dr. w. J. McGee
OF Washington, y. c., secretary Of the
inland waterways commission; Fred
J. KisseI Of ogden, Utah, and Harper
S Cunningham of Guthrie, Okla. to
act with President Fowler Secretary
Hooker and the chairman of the local
board of control Of Pueblo, as the board
of governors.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Generals Daughter Engaged

PARIS, Aug. 1.-THE engagement is
announced of Thomas, eldest son of Sir
Thomas George Fermer Hesketh, bar
onet, and Miss Florence Breckenridge.
daughter of Mrs. Frederick w. Shar-
on of San Francisco. and a grand
daughter of the late General John c.
Breckenridge. The wedding will take
place in the British embassy church
here September s.
S.i..|S++s tt I. r.. s..'..: s's'S.f's'
have been spent in honest and fear
less endeaVor to find the facts in the
worlds vast history, no one stands out
with grander proportions than that of
English Darwin, Patient, thorough.
counting no field of investigation too
humble for his study and his scholar
pen. Learning lessons from earth
worms today, and from planets tomor-
row. Leaving no field within reach
of his insatiate search uneXplored. No
event of the worlds history, past or
present, whether in mans kingdom or
that of the trees or the rocks, but was
forced to render to this pitiless deliver
the secrets of its birth and growth.
out of all this mining for the gold of
truth came this heroic man and laid
the treasures he had gathered on the
altar of science. Not with blatant
voice Of self conceit. nor clamor for
fame, but with the modest mien of the
man who has discovered a new world.
and is overawed by the splendor OF
his discovery.
Darwin is no dogmatist. He tells us
what he believes. and tells us why.
For every proposition he marshals
an array of facts to clinch his argu-
ment. He admits that his conclusions
may not always be right. Like all
trua scientists he SAYS, II think so.
Dogmatic theology is the curse of all
ages, the enemy of all progress. HaV-
ing the wisdom to see that this new
philosophy of life would be its utter
undoing, dogma has turned It's guns
on Darwin and his allies. and now, as
If that was not enough, comes Smith!
SENEX.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
GERMAN PUSHES CHILD
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
Starts with Baby of Two Years ano
Finishes with Girl of
Eleven

BERLIN, Aug. 14.-Hanns Liam, a
German, who started around the world
on foot with his wife and daughter
September 12, 1900, has reached his
home in Passau. He undertook to win
a wager that he could push his little
family in a cart round the globe,
Frau Liam died during the trip but
the daughter, baby of when the
trip began, has grown to be a vigor-
Gus child of IL years.
Liam claims to have walked over
10000 miles, and is about to come into
possession of $4,000 as a reward for
his endurance and industry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
RETIRED CAPITALIST
DIES MYSTERIOUSLY

< William Salter, 60 years old, <
4 we'll known retired capitalist, liv- :
! ing at 61Sh South Spring street, \
x was found dead this morning at :
\ about 2 o'clock at Sixth and Center x
!. streets. As he had considerable :
+ money and other valuables were x
:. not missing. the belief of the police :
x that he was the victim of knockout =
!. drops is not confirmed =
). He has lived in Los Angeles for =
\ forty years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Twenty-Five Persons Shot

PARIS, Aug. 1.-THE Mathis corrc-
spondent at Cerbero, near the spanish
frontier, says that % persons were shot
Wednesday in the Mont Juich fortress
at Barcelona for their share in the re-
cent revolt The correspondent adds
that the revolutionary agitation con-
tinues and that yesterday the gen.
darmes suffered a loss of five men
killed in a fight with reyoutionists.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Very Rude

"Going to call on your new noighbors next
door,
mot L They insulted me the day they
moved in"
LAS to how?'
ASKED me to occupy a sofa on the sidewalk
Said they feared I couldn't get good view
from behind the blinds. ."-Louisville Courier
journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Mlnht Have Been FrIahtened

Church, see some burglars ovcl in
Jersey City carried off a bandstand.
Gotham-It must be added for the
benefit of the burglars that the band
was not in it at the time.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Poor Man!

Mrs. Bacon: Il see two women who
appeared before a Paris magistrate
both claimed possession of a fiatiron."
Mr.. Bacon: Couldn't the man they
threw it at throw any light on the
subject ?'-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
A Romance

Eyes, was once engaged to a duke -
"And what fell fate came between
two loving hearts,
"Oh. nothing said the girl nom
chalantly. 1--WE Just let the option ex-
pire. kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication nust be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. the hes-
MD gives the widest m,aude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility Tor tho"
views.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Where Would We Be Z

Just supposed"
WHAT"
Just suppose that Patrick Henry,
instead of laundering in the crisis,
should have been content with leave
to print kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Rare June DAVIS

Church: "All June days are not rare
days"
Gotham: mo; some of them seem
to be fried to a crisp."-Yonkers States
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Not Fit for Publication

Racon-What kind of a cook is your
wife?
Egbert-She's a-a-
Go on and say it old man; ther are
no ladies' present.-Yonkers States
man
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
The Sole sianifIcance

"Do these intimations of renewed
Balkan troubles really mean any
thing?"
"Onlv that news IS slack."-Kansas
City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Grass Tickles Feet - Young

women of the Fine Arts society of Oak
Park. H., are TO aid in interpreting the
Gracian drama. "The Ladies of Ath-
ems August 2S, have tried dancing in
their bare feet They do not Ike It.
Therefore. although absolute fidelity to
the ancient Greek period will be OBJ
served in stage settings and costumes,
i'm that particular the artistic tradi-
tions will be violated. They declared
the grass tfckled their bare feet. At
rehearsals their g,ggles quite upset the
orchestra. and their efforts to get away
from the tickle on the sOles of their
feet interfered with the stateliness and
the grace of the rhythmic Greek dance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Blue Color Soothes-The late

Partisan "cure" is for bad temper
according to story in a Paris morn
ing paper. a husband who had been
living mharmoniously with his wife
consulted a doctor. No cause being
found for disagreements, the doctor
visited the patients home and there
found red paper on the walls. The doc
tor ordered a change. Red he said,
"excftes the temper; try blue" which
soothing experiment was made with
the result that the disposition of the
wife became angelic as before. Ac-
cording to the doctor, a blue room
tanes the most eXacting shrew.