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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-25
MAUDE SEEMS HAPPY.

Dear Editor:
Received the pretty post card which
you sent me and was glad to get 1t as
it was the first post card have receiv-
ed. We have taken the Courier for
about six or seven years. and l enjoy
reading the Courier Junior.
Loyce and Artie Parker and I play
school together. It is lots of fun. go
to the Agassiz school and am in the
sixth grade. My teachers name is Miss
Berry.
Maud McMaster. age II.
sos E. Williams St. OttumWa, Ia.
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THE PRIZE WINNERS.

The prise winners IN the short story
ar letter contests are: Veonne VIII
liarns. Forest Johnston, Dorothy
Christie, Anne Irelan, Nellie Boht ana
bertha Bishop. Genevieve Mincks gets
the biz prize for her sketch of AN
Old Orchard.
AS the other contest does not close
until Monday, January n, we Will re-
print the rules again:
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LoRErTA's FIRST LETTER.

Dear Editor and Juniors:
As have never written before~
Thought 7 would write. I go to school
every day. My schoolmates are Jean
nette Wagner, Mary Coyne and Imo-
gene Coyne am in the third reader
I go to Elm Grove school. My teachers
name is Myrtle Erbacher. I like her
very much. AS my letter is getting long
7 will close.
Loretta Larkin.
Chillicothe, Ia, r. No. I.
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q ADVENTURE -
FOR SHORT STORIES AND
kETTERS

We want the Juniors to continue
to write letters and short stories to
the Junior and to each other through
the Junior page. We have some splen.
did stories today. We will send out
post cards to all the writer's wnen'
ever their letters or stories appear.
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EFFIE VISITED HER SISTER IN
HIGHLAND.

Dear Juniors:
1t has been some time since I have
written to the Courier Junior. I go to
Liberty school. My studies are reading.
arithmetic, language and spelling. My
teachers name is Miss Farmer. I like
her fine. We had vacation last week
and I went to visit my sister in High
land
Effie E. Miller, age 8.
~ Ottumwa. Ia, r. No. I, Box "a.
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the city across from small park called
Alamo Plaza. Then we returned to OF
tumwa but in about two months we
moved to Dubuque where we now re-
side.
Marguerite Tracy,
1856 West 18th St., Dubuque. Iowa.
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GLADYS FIRST LETTER.
Dear Junior:

Dear Junior:
have never written before. l am 9
years old. l read the Junior page. I like
very much to read it. I have one broth
err His name is Ralph. Well l must
close. . ... .s-z
Gladys Sickels,
III S. Miner ST.. Ottumwa, Ia.
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MduU MIC 4WdStcI, nBc It
sos E. Williams ST.. Ottumwa, Ia.
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1913 East Main ST.. Ottumwa.
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THE BIN

Unionville, Iowa.
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GeneVleVe WlnCk5, Age IL.
Ottumwa. Iowa, Route No. 3, box IS.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
Colonel Roosevelt Knows His
COuntrymen
The People DO Want an Adequate Navy

Colonel Roosevelt at Bunker Hill chose fitting occasion to
speak behalf of larger navy The result of the Battle of
Bunker an object than the patriotism of
forefathers the battle because had artillery
and out of powder.
We had the courage, the intelligence the cause but we
needed also powder and big guns,
But when dragged the the snow from Fort
TconderOga UP Dorchester Heights WITH
POWER AND BALL THEM drove the redCOats out of
Boston and recaptured Bunker Hill.
Colonel Roosevelt said Bunker Hill the other night that
heznew countrymen and knew that they would
lec the defending righteous which an ade
quste navy, He said;
will never consent arbtrate national questions
and national interests more countrynen
Uncle will arbtrste slap
face navy punch
necessary the qualities which the
this
proverb spvk softly bot
alpOsibl oonnbins
TO policy
thing to
mighty Bunker HILL II is thing for
condition that show that
condition Aet
able what these did
anything resembinH politics. bat
TO Bunker Hill
radicals their which The only kind Of
hands the UlOok
right In the in such
them effective in reference to tho presents"
Mr. Roosevelt given ample evidence that he knows his
Counymen Those who have thought he did not know them
well learned their mistake sometimes to their
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

do when the first Of the month
comes. | can't stand it any more;
| simply cant stand it.
The Husband Grinned.
81 want to go home and give the
whole thing up. but l want to take
my little girl with me. Can't I
do it. judge. without people say
ing | am a bad woman"
And the woman's husband stood
in the court room and grinned
sheepishly when she told the court
that he wouldn't eat hash and
hated stews and wouldn't hear Of
fish balls for breakfast.
Steaks and chops and eggs and
hot bread he wants" sobbed the
poor little woman, and then when
he has to pay for them he blames
me-"
She was so little and so young
and so frightened and yet so des-
perately in earnest that by the
time she was through with her
foolish little story the husband
was the only one who had the
heart to smile.
The judge took the matter under
advisement. ! hope he'll advise
the little woman to go home and
stay awhile and let husband hire
someone to cook his steaks and
chops and eggs for him-and
worry over the bills, too. ] think
he'll begin to see the light before
very long.
1t isn't all a joke, this high cost
Of living. It's a serious thing in
some homes and it is a tragedy in
many.
Men and women quaIrel and
turn love into hate, respect into
contempt, peace into misery all
over the grocery bills.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

of Capella is not dark, but so
closely are they grappled that
only the. spectroscope is able to
show that there are two of them.
Whether these struggling suns
have accidentally met or were
created together is a question
that can not now be answered
/ am doing you a kindness when
advise you to go out the first
fair night and make acquaintance
with these wonders of the sky,
for no one ever studied, or even
looked at, the universe without
feeling the better for it. Aratus,
the Greek, declared more than
two thousands years ago that
from all quarters the heavens
SPEAK to man." and you will
find that il is strictly so.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

twin stars Castor and Pollux. in
the constellation Gemini. If our
sun were near either of them
it would fall captive. like
child in the hands of a giant. for
it is much smaller than they are.
Can Not Be Answered.
North of the point overhead is
the Great Dipper, formed by seven
stars of the constellation Ursa
Major, and the outer pair in the
bowl of the 'Dipper" point di-
reCtly TO the North or Pole Star
around which the whole heavens
appear to swing. This star. too. is
of enormous actual size. although
it does not appear as bright as
many Of the others.
At least two of the great stars
mentioned have very remarkable
companions Spica is attended by
"a huge dark or invisible. star.
with which it swings swiftly
round and round like black and
a white wrestler striving to trip
each other The companion sun
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
Battle of Families
BY DIR. T. B. GREGORY.

TINE battle OF Families, fought
May %, 1905, between MARI
borough and Villeroy, was
as decisive in its political results
as it was brilliant in its tactics
The English and their allies num-
bered about sixty thousand, the
French about sixty two thousand
The battle opened at l o'clock.
with an attack on the French left.
But it was only a trick: and pres
emily, when Villeroy was nicely
deceived. the allies got down to
the real business in powerful
onslaught upon the French right.
Shaving in that wing, the artillery
began an enfilade fire, and soon
the whole French line began reel
ing like a drunken man. At the
signal from Marlborough the
Dutch. Danish. Hanoverian and
British cavalry was launched
against the enemy like a thunder
bolt, and. utterly demoralized.
the French ran for their lives.
the cavalry at their heels. ours
ing, bowling. slashing at them like
a pack of devils.
Families was a great blow to
the prestige Of Louis the Four
teenth. Blenheim. that famous
victory" of two years before. had
broken his power in Germany. and
now Families had driven him
from The Netherlands A little.
later on Gibraltar was secured
forever to England. the French
forts were destroyed at Vigo. Eu-
gene crushed the French power
in Italy. and the naughty old des-
pot bowed his head and prepared
himself to die. And because
Families, more than any other
event. helped TO put the Old sin
ner down and out, II deserves to
be remembered with gratitude.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
The Great Capitals Of Space Are Now Before
Our Eyes if We Will Only Look

sun would be invisible, except
with the telescopes, for its light
would be diminished four mill
lion million timesl Yet Spica. at
that distance. is stin a bright
star TO the naked eye!
off i'm the eastern quarter close
to the horizon, you catch a bril-
liant red CLEAN. 1t comes from
the star Antares, in the constella-
ton Scorpio. That, too, is one of
the giant suns. and Il telescope
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

beautiful in the sky Because of
its brilliancy Vega might be call
ed the Paris of the Sky.
Low in the northwest you will
see Capella in the constellation
AUriga, just setting and flaming
magnifiCently on the horizon. The
sectroscope shows that Capella
closely resembles our sun in con-
stitution. but it is more than
hundred times brighter
To the right of Capella are the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
By WINIFRED BLACK.

a WOMAN killed herself in
~ Western city the other day
because she didn't dare face
her husband when he saw the last
months grocery bill!
Two respectable women we're
arrested in Berlin for shoplifting.
They said they couldn't pay the
grocers' bills and rather than to
tell their husbands that they were
running behind they had stolen
things in shops and were trying to
sell them to get the money to
make up the deficit in the bills.
A Kansas City woman went into
the divorce court and told the
Judge that she wanted to go to her
mother.
MY husband wants good things
to eat" said the Kansas City
woman, but he doesn't want to
paw the price for them. ] econo-
mize all / can. but the bills creep
higher and higher and l am al
most crazy trying to think what to
do when the first of the month
comes. can't stand it any more
/ simply can't stand it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
AWiSe Billion Pre-
venting Floods

throughout the entire country to the best method of flood
venon and river regulation It matter of vital consideration
the Lower Mississippi River where the old system of bank
protection and levee building has been pursued for
years. the vees growing higher every and yet inadequate
protect.
Orleans Item leading paper Mississippi
Valley has taken the cudge for the Newands river regu
on bill and has presented with great the best
for meeting the requirements of the country.
The propaganda of The Item meeting with response every
where just similar propaganda the Pacific Coast and in
other regions is reaching large proportions.
Senator Newlands received the approval of
eral legislatures boards of trade chambers
and waterway associations principal
had the approval of all the Secretaries War including
Taft and smsOn They have also received the approval of Sec
rotary of the Interior Fisher of Secretary Agriculture
and of the present Secretary of the Interior Mr.
provides a regulation board COM
posed scientific in any way
related water corps army engi
neers the Chief of the Reclamation Service Chief
Service the Chief the Geological Survey ETC.
This board is to bring into coordination all the
scientific the water with
view to comprehensive plans and cooperative also
provides for the cooperation of the board of regua
ton with similar organizations the various States
that not only the question of navigation shall be completely
covered but all the related subjects of arid swamp land
camaon development of water power preservation of forests
and others
provides for ample fund fifty million dollars
nuay for the next ten thus securing consecutive work and
apporon this fund between the watersheds
anc Coast the Gulf Coast the Mississippi Valley and the Pa
cc thus securing contemporaneou proven
and river regulation in all sections of the country
principles of this bill have upon favorably in
of the United States amendments to the
harbor bill and there would be no reason
why should Immediately upon big in big
way just entered upon the Panama enterprise In
practical application this viii bring about immediate
by the national Government which will safeguard the
Mississippi Valley and the Ohio River Valley repe
on of catasophes those which by
the foods of the past two years.
Senator Newands bill be broadly national
than efshy sectional be no small part
Of its wisdom and the promise of its deserved before
n.sress, ..-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
Spica Lies Southwark.

Here is a little chart which will
help you. 1t represents the whole
visible heavens at 9 O'Clock in the
evening The top is north, the
bottom south. the risht-hand west
and the left-hand east The cen
ter is the point overhead.
Look first toward the south
There YOU see. right on the me-
ridian. bright white star less
than half way from the horizon
TO the point overhead II is Spiga
IN the constellation Virgo. II is
a sun probably thousands of
times brighter than ours How
do we know that BY compar-
ing the amount of light that il
sends us with the light of the
sun. and then remembering that
the intensity Of light falls Oft as
the square of the distance. Put
the sun a thousand times as far
away as it really is and ills light
would be million times less
Jnan j., now appears. But Suj.8
is al least two million Times as
tar away as TIE sun. md we
know thar al that distance the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
BY GARRETT P. sERvIss.

v you would be ashamed if you
could not point out on a
map Of the earth the loca-
ton Of London, Paris. Berlin,
Rome. St. Petersburg, CONSTANT
nople. Calcutta. Pelin and Toxic.
You would feel that you were dis
gracefully ignorant if you did not
know something about the char
acter and appearance Of these
great foreign cities. even if you
had never visited them.
But over your heads on these
summer nights shine many of the
sun capitals Of the universe, ev-
cry one in plain sight, every one
magnificent to look upon, every
one different from all the others
and vet how many of them can
you recognize? How many of
them do you know by name, or
by appearance and surround
ings?
Yet the geography Of the heav-
ems is easier to learn than that
Of the earth. and this is good
time to begin. Just now, about
o'clock at night. there are no
great planets (Which are likely to
be confused with Stars) visible to
puzzle the beginner in learning
the real stars
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

shows that it has smaller
BRIGHT GREEN sun near it,
Nearly overhead. east of the
zenith. YOU see the great star
Arcturus. i'm the constellation
Bootes. 1t is another monstrous
sun. probably not as large as
Spica. but looking larger because
il is not so far away. Professor
simon Newcomh estimated its
real brightness at about a thou
sand times that of the sun
Rather low down in the west
shines the star Regulus. vast
sun i'm the constellation Leo. some
of whose other stars are 50
placed as to initiate the form of
u -f.l-1a
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bill of fare for the week, and Id
know what every single item on
that bill would cost, and I'd see
that he knew, too, when he or
dered 1t.
Asparagus-yes. my dear-let's
see, 10 cents bunch-four
punches, you always want at least
three helpings. Strawberries? A
shOrtcake. yes, that means butter
and cream extra-and sugar, too
that will run the bill up to-etc.
Make a business of it: put Il
down in dollars and cents, and
then IL you want to pay for II.
have 1t. If you don't want to pay
for It, go without and say no
more; that would be my plan.
What S the Use Talking7
Managing Oh yes, there is a
great deal in. that Lots Of wom-
en- have no more idea of manag-
ing than hens have Of arithmetic.
Let them learn that. Let them
find out that one egg more in the
cake counts. One chop left over
is that much thrown away. one
loaf Of bread left to get stale
means waste, and waste means
incompetence.
Also let the men Of the family
learn that a porterhouse steak
costs real money and that two
helpings to asparagus take Just
that much more money at the
end of the week
What's the use Of talking econ
omy and eating extravaganza?
! know men who rave madIy
over the weekly bills and make
life burden to the whole family
FOR a day or go after they have
been paid, and who never think
of paying less than 90 cents or
20 cents for luncheon for them
selves downtown They expect
wife and children to get some
thing out of the ice box for abou+
10 cents, and they don't see wbv
even that need be so very eIaho-
rate
Come home for luncheon a few
times. father. and see if Won
aren't just little bit ashamed of
your rawlings over the weekly
budget when you think of vour
English chop and picked wal
nuts etc, that seems such a mod
est affair to you when you drop
into "Henrys" for a bite az noon
Mother would think that was
feast at noon-and so would the
children.
We eat too much--every other
one of us. We make it too i'm
portant a thing what we eat
Good food is a fine thing. a com
Portable thing, a necessary thing.
but when it comes to giving your
whole life up TO squabbles over
it I'd rather live on stew and
hash the rest of my life and call
it well chosen.
We've an gone extravagance
mad. spending crazy-S3O FOR a
hat. IS for a pair of shoes. 80 for
raw steak-a dollar for the
mushrooms to go with it.
Walk? Never. A taxi. please
and be quick about it. Flowers
for the table every day; the
beauty woman twice week
Which will you have, red wine or
white? Every sort OF fruit from
every sort of cline And how
much better are you off than
your father, who never paid more
than 40 cents for the finest steak
he ever ate and who would have
as soon tried to eat diamonds
as to order fresh mushrooms al a
dollar the pound.
Where Is the Slave?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

The lesson of the recent floods
in Ohio and Indiana has not been
lost.
That mighty casualty has pro-
duced a food of discussion
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
Where Is the Slave?

Are you any wiser, any hap
pier? Do you live any the longer
love more deeply, laugh harder?
Is your heart lighter; do you sleep
more soundly than did he?
Click, click, they sound upon
the pavement. the little high
heeled slippers. Swish. they pass
US in the corridors, the silken gar
ments, birds Of paradise. paro-
quets Clash. clish. jingle-the
ornaments rattle like the chains
Of a galley slave.
Where is the slave who paws
for all this? In his galley rowing
with split hands, with bursting
heart, with aching head. Row
slave. row-break your back. but
bend to the oar-the great god
money is your master, and she
who pretends to love you sits
above there in the sunshine and
laughs to see him ply the lash
upon your shrinking skin.
Rich food, rich clothes. fine
feathers-misery. discord. despair
what couples they seem 10 run
in. don't they, in these brave DAYS
Of ours?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24
They Dine Comfortably.

Children are left homeless, and
old people wander in and out of
alnshouses all because of the few
extra cents on the price Of a
pound of meat; and everyone
seems to think of every kind of
remedy on earth except going
without the things that make so
much misery
What did you have for dinner
a week ago tonight? Day before
Yesterday, was it steak or a chop
or. let's see. a roast? You can't
think for the life of you, and yet
that very dinner may have cost
the woman who is trying to make
YOU happy and comfortable
whole heart full of anxious tears.
Why must we all have such eX-
pensive things TO eat?
have some friends in New
England, and every time | so to
S. visit them come home ten
pounds lighter. ten years younger
and happier than have been for
years.
Those friends eat to live: they
do not live to eat. They have
enough to satisfy hunger-and
that's ell
One chop. a couple of leaves of
lettuce. a tomato. a few berries
and we have dined-and dined
comfortably and prettily. too-and
ten minutes after dinner we've all
forgotten all about it.
They are strong, healthy. hap
by people. and they would laugh
at the idea of putting their very
hearts and souls and dispositions
and every dollar they have in the
world into the dinner pot ! Won
der why some of the rest of us
can't do the way they do?
Enough to eat, good wholesome
food-those aren't the things that
count up on the bills. It's the ex-
tras-the pie. the cake, the pre-
serves, the olives. the celery, the
artichokes. the endives. the as
paragus out of season-thars what
brings that bin up to desperation
point
II I had a husband who drove
me crazy over the household bills
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1913-06-13
OHIO TrnolosFuY Na,ylaoe.

Our good friend Mr.. John M,
Arnold evaded the argus eyes of
the Times news gatherer and was
happily married last week to Mrs.
Ameldie j. Hull by Rev. T. II.
Llpscomb' pastor of the Starkyille
Methodist Nc Church. The aaiep Of
Als M00rtFFhAy an!a popular couple il is
a source Of felicitation to their
many many friends in this community.
4le marriage was .. quiet one,
only q few intimate friends being
apprlsed of its occurrence. Ii good
wishes could accomplish a life Of
aaalloyed bliss; if esteem and con-
naence Of friends could assure
prosperity, then the married life of
mr. aud Mrs. Arnold would be
without care and all of the choicest
sltts OF heaven would be theirs,
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1913-06-13
]. J. HANNAH KIKLED.
Well Known Citizen of Choctaw
County Shot From Ambush,

Ackerman June i0-J. j, uoa
nan a prominent mill man ond
farmer OF Reform was assassinatod
TINS morning al 4 O'Clock. He
wss saot twice with a double.
earrelled shot gun white on his
way from home to his mill.
The dead man was we'll connect.
ed. He had served as mayor Of
Reform and was a son of Hon. 7,
Il, Hannah, former member of the
legislature and a member of the
convention ;of 1890,
LATER-An affidavit has been
made charging Walter Kellum with
the crime and4his preliminary trial
was to have taken place at Reform
Yesterday.