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Meade County news., 1917-02-08

rests upon two imperfect and appar-
entity conflicting narrutives-the Oillclal
and formal report of the Confederate
commissioners and the subsequent oral
and personal statement of Mr.. Steph-
ems. The disagreement, however. Is
easily explained. having, with its nt-
tendant controversy, arisen because
what Mr.. Stephens said was assumed
to be an attack upon Mr.. Davis. 1t
was never SO intended by Mr.. Stephens,
the aim being solely to throw light
upon the character and purposes of
Mr.. Lincoln.
1t should be borne in mind in this
connection that Mr. Stephens and Mr..
Lincoln were personal friends-old
Wing colleagues in cOngress-Lincoln
warm admirer of Stephens, whom he
wanted to ask to become a member
of his cabinet when he was elected
president. In the little cabin of the
river steamer where the conference
was being held the two had drawn
apart from the rest. stephens" said
Lincoln, as Mr.. Stephens related the
conversation to many of his friends,
you know / am fair man and know
you to be one. Both of us understand
the situation. Let me write Union at
the top of this page and you may write
below it whatever else you please. |
am sure you will write nothing which
| cannot agree to-" Mr.. Stephens re-
piled that the commissioners were linn
tied to treating upon the basis of the
recognition of the independence of the
Confederacy. "Then, Stephens" said
Lincoln, my hands are clean Of every
drop of blood spilled from this time
onward"
In the general rather desultory and,
in the end, wholly abortive, talk be-
tween the three Confederate commits
sioners and Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Sc
ward, Mr. Lincoln recurring to slavery
and the Emancipation Proclamation,
declared that he would be willing to be
taxed to pay the Southern people fair
matter of fact that he had already
prepared a Joint resolution to be rec
commended to the two houses of con-
gress apprOpriating $400,000,000 to
this purpose, and proclamation to be
issued by himself as president when
this had been adopted.
On his return to Washington he laid
these two papers before the cabinet.
Inevitably there was opposition. ''Why,
gentlemen" he said, "how long is the
war going to last? 1t Is not going to
end in one hundred days, is 1t? 1t is
costing us S4,000,000 day. There
you have the $400,000,000, not counting
the intervening loss of lives and prop
erty. But, you are all against me-
and | will say no more about It,"
Both papers still stand in his own
handwriting.
The South's True Friend.
The death of Lincoln removed from
the head of affairs the best, If not the
only, friend the Southern people had
at court. There came in his stead ar
old line southern Democrat-a verit-
able poor white"-breathing destruc-
tion to the ruling classes at the South,
yet constitutionalist of the school ot
Jefferson and as hostile to the negro
equality theories of the radical Repub-
licans as the most ultra Copperhead Of
the North. Secession had failed must
ii carry with it the failure also Of
institutional freedom? Liberating the
black man, must 1t enslave the white?
The plan to impeach Andrew Johnson
was little other than scheme to Mex
icanize the government. 1t came peril
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Constipation, Indigestion, sick-headache
and bilious conditions are overcome by a
course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring.
ADV.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.


The skylark and the woodlark are
thought to be the only birds which sing
as they fly.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

would that the spirit of the illus
trious dead whom we lament today
could speak from the grave in tones
which reach each and every heart;
My countrymen! Know one anoth-
er and you will lovetone another -
Lamar on the death of Sumner.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Men are born, but husbands are
made.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

A postal card to Garfield Tea Co., Brook.
lyn, N. Y, asking for sample win re.
pay you.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Scientific Guilt.

Mother-Were you in the jam closet?
TOmmy-Er-I had a few calories.-
New York Sun.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Sept. IA, 1915.
Prove What Swamp Root viii Do For You

Send Kimer bottle
will will a valuable
telling about the kidneys and bladder writing
Regular ffycent and onedlar size bottles for all
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Doomed.

II wrote this poem to kill time"
swell, you may be sure that time
will have revenge and kill the poem"
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
WoMANs GROWING GLORY

is her hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use La Gre
ole" Flair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Twenty-three operations are neces-
sary in the washing and ironing of a
collar.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Belgium's population at the outbreak
of the war was 100000.

Constipation can be cured without drugs.
Natures own remedy-selected herbs-is
Garfield Tea.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Rich veins of zinc are said to exist
In all parts of Japan.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Wise men make haste but never
hurry.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Economy of Wickedness.

Knicker-Why don't you turn over O
new leaf?
Bocker-With paper so expensive?
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
His Personal Appearance.

AS Virginia Carvel enters Mr. Lin
coins presence: "COuld this fantas-
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

HE LINES of thought and
feeling which led to the
reclamation of the birth
place of Abraham Lin
coin and the peaceful
scenes and unity of pur.
pose that attend it's trans
fer from the ownership
of an association to the
possession of the govern
nnanf of fha IInitpd StofpS
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
ProfessionaI Announcements.

Mrs. Knicker-What is your trader
Weary WILHELM a diet squad,
mum.-New York Sun.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Last year 7O0,0OOO0O feet of tim,
ber was cut on the national forests.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

contrast strangely with the passions
which illumined the period in which
his lot was cast, toward the close
breaking into volcano of blood and
flame, his tragic death unhappily not
the end; for we now know that, while
he was entertaining the most benevo-
lent intentions toward the beaten party
in the strife, his taking off gave at once
the signal and the pretext for letting
loose upon the vanQuished swarm of
evil spirits working ills even worse
than those of war itself.
For at least ten years before the
secession Of the Southern states the
two sectional extremes in and out of
congress talked like madmen, the raw
ing ranging from the abolition orators
melodpamatic "My curse be upon the
Constitution of these United States" to
the rodomontade OF the Southern senn-
tor WHO would not be pacified until he
could "call the muster roll of his slaves
beneath Bunker Hill monument"
AS the sectional pressure tightene,l
In national politics before the advent
OF actual hostilities those conservative
men who tried to avert the oncoming
clash OF arms were driven to the wall.
Neither extreme would listen to mod
crate counsels. The interposition of
the border states proved of doubtful
restraint and was of short duration.
During the war and after it was over
these patriotic men Jared no better
than the firebrands, the mass and body
OF the Southern people confounded
with the original secesslonists. Even
now the distinction that once existed
Is blurred, if not lost. Yet great
majority of the Southern people were
devoted to the Union and at least a
strong minority were opposed to slav-
cry.
No one understood this better than
Abraham Lincoln. He was himself of
Southern birth. He and all his tribe
were Southerners. Although he left
Kentucky when child, he was an old
child; he never was very young; nor
did he go very far, growing to man.
hood in Kentucky colony for what
is Illinois, what Chicago, but Ken
lucky colony, swollen somewhat out
of proportion? He was in no sense
what we used to call "a poor white"
Awkward, ungainly but aspiring, the
spirit of a hero within that rugged
easement; fine, far-reaching imagina-
ton behind those heavy brows; the
courage of lion beneath those patient,
kindly aspects; and, long before he
was of legal age, a leader among men.
His first love was Rutledge; his
wife was Todd.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08

Farming and pig-rearlng were the
staple industries of Serbia.
Meade County news., 1917-02-08
Philadelphia cleanup week cost the
taxpayers $4,000 for dlsposlng of co.
600 cubic yards of refuse.

It is said that SOM evils are neces-
sary Can you name one that Is?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Harry Martin - Compost
ton, William Cullen
Bryant
Dear Juniors:

Dear Juniors.
4 will send you a school composition
about William Cullen Bryant.
William Cullen Bryant was born at
Cummington. Mass Nov. 8, 1894
His father wished him to become a
doctor, but he became great poet
When he was one year and four
months old he knew the alphabet and
! could read at four He suffered with a
headache, probably caused by too much
study.
bath every morning. He did this until
he was fourteen. and he never had the
/, headache any more in his life.
his family to live with his grandfather
Squire Smell. He now went to district
school. He was fine speller and liked
(! geography too He was a lover of ma
! ture There was stream near the
school house.
He afterwards wrote a poem about
this brook.
In 1872 he attended Williams college
/ for about year. During this year he
wrote his noted poem "Thanatopsis.' "
His fathers poverty forced him to leave
college. He entered a law office but he
WAS never successful lawyer.
He wished to become literary man
He began writing for the North
American Review. Later he became
editor Of the Evening Post
Some of his noted poem are The
Death Of the Flowers" ITO the Water
Fowl" Food of the Years." ITO a
Finger Gentian'' and The Bobolink.'
Harry Martin. age 10.
Blakesburg Ia.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
HER TALIsMAN.

Red-haired Midget was solemnly
plodding her way to school when two
rosy children sprang out at her from
behind a hedge.
We've got the loveliest secret"
they chanted, "and you couldn't guess
it II you guessed thousand years"
Midget surveyed them with an en-
gaging smile and they relented.
Twill you promise never to tell any
one, live or die, black or blue?" de-
manded the older child.
Midget looked at her with tranquil
blue eyes.
'I1l just tell my mother" she said.
mo! MOI" shouted the other two.
with scorn. you can't tell anybody"
Midget stiffened her small back and
gave her red curls proud toss.
ri don't have secrets from my moth
err" she said firmly and marched on
ahead with an air of funny dignity.
The girls whispered together for .
minute, and then rushed after her, and
It was plain from Midget's radiant face
that her mother was to share "tho
loveliest secret"
Superstitious people sometimes car
ny talisman, or charm. which thee
believe keeps away harm. Midget )
carrying through school the best tails.
man against evil-'telling. mother"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
HOW THE WORLD SLEEPS.

Most people sleep on their sides.
with knees drawn up.
Elephants always, and horses COM
monty, sleep standing up.
Birds, with the exception Of owls and
the hanging parrots Of India, sleep
with their heads turned tailward over
the back, and the beak thrust among
the feathers between the wing and
the body.
Storks, gulls and other long legged
birds sleep standing on one leg.
Ducks sleep on open water. 10 avoid
drifting shoreward. they keep padding
with one foot. thus making them
move in circle
Sloths sleep hanging by their four
feet, the head tucked in between their
forelegs.
Foxes and wolves sleep curled up,
their noses and the soles Of their feet
close together and blanketed by their
bushy tails.
Hares, snakes and fish sleep with
their eyes wide open.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Frances Ellen's Nickel
Hides in the Long
Grass,

NV first home was In a mountain.
One day l felt something hitting me
and I saw a little light on miner s
cap. He dug me out OF the rock ana
dirt and put me in cart with some
other silver and donkey pulled US 70
a railroad train. We We're put into a
car and hauled to mint. l was put IN
hot furnace where I melted and ran
into a mould that made me ROUND.
Then they stamped a big on one
side and a womans head on the other
side Of me. Then l was sent to a BANK
where was put in a drawer with lot
Of other money I laid there two or
three days when man came into tne
bank to get check cashed. and was
given to him. He put me in his pocket
and took me to store and got some
candy for his little girl, so l was given
to the storekeeper. He took me and
nut me in a drawer with a lot Of other
money. That night a robber broke into
the store and got me and lot Of other
money. He put us in his pocket and
went to the depot and got on a frelght
train. dropped out of his pocket just
as the train started up. l laid there
two or three days. Then poor little
girl found and took me home to her
mother. Then her mother told her to go
up town to get some bread for dinner
but she lost me on the way in the
grass and could not find me and am
still here.
Frances Ellen Foutes. age 10.
Drakesville, Ia, r. No. 2.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Elizabeth Miller-Clev +
Dog Called Tige.

Dear Juniors
l will tell you a story about very
clever dog named Tiger. Tiger used 10
be sent every morning by his master to
the butchers shop with copper coin
to buy his breakfast. One morning as
usual he went for his breakfast and
found, for some reason, the shop closed
So Tiger went to another butcher But
no sooner had he laid down the copper
coin than the butcher took it and re-
fused to give Tiger his meat. The dog
did not take much notice at this treat
ment at that time, but the next morn
ing he went again to the cheating
butcher and put down his money with
his paw upon it and when the man had
given Tiger the meat, as he did this
time, and was about to take the money
Tiger quickly swallowed his breakfast
and went off with the coin in his mouth
as fast as he could.
Elizabeth Miller, age TO-
Blakesburg, Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
CAT KEPT OUT OF DANGER.

A writer in the Spectator. London,
tells the following story OF cat which
knew its way about:
When we were in the trenches in the
front line, black cat came up from
the support trench Il had seen her
there previously and wandered about
in and out amongst US, and the most
extraordinary thing was that during
the day she only wandered about be-
low the parapet--st would have been
fatal for her to have appeared above it.
as it was with us, for we were using
periscopes by day.
Well. directly it got dark and we
were able to look over and fire, she
would make no bones about running
along the very top, where all day she
would have been shot. This struck us
as being very interesting. thing the
old cat knew quite a lot about it. She
soon Disappeared, we didn't know
where: but dare say she still roams
about there, although it was trench
very near Hill go.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Melba Evans Says It Rained
Last Thanksgiving
Day.
Dear Juniors:

Dear Juniors:
/ like to read the Junior page for 1t
is interesting.
My name is Melba Bevans. / am 10
years old live in Batavia, Iowa.
It was raining last Thanksgiving so
went to Burlington and stayed a
week.
The people were all in the house and
did not have a good time. My little
trends lives in the county and she
said she had very good time. Thanks
giving is set for the last Thursday in
November of each year.
The Pilgrims had a big feast and in
vited the Indians to come. 1t was the
time of the year that we call Indian
summer. When the loud roll of the
drum was heard all the people went to
the place where the meeting was
held, and there they gave thanks to
God for rich harvest. In this way the
Pilgrims passed their first Thanksgiv-
ing day IN America.
Melba Bevans.
Batavia, Ia, Box 90.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Ralph Parry's Nickel Was
Made in 1911.
Dear Juniors !:

Dear Juniors:
am going to write about nickel.
lay In the side Of the Rocky Noun
tains 1t was very quiet there but soon
my rest was broken.
heard the picking of miners pick
Then / was picked up and put In a
car with some of my brothers,
then moved very fast. / was afraid
for I did not know where l was going.
Very soon we stopped and were taken
out.
l was very dirty but I was soon
washed and then / was sent to the
mint and was melted and put in a
mold. After I was cool was stamped
with Nv" on one side and Goddess
Of Liberty" on the other.
/ was made in 1911 and was sent
with nineteen other nickels to bank.
Then was given to a man as change.
He gave me to his little girl who gave
me to a man for some gum.
The man gave me to little boy with
some other money for change. The lit
tie boy gave me to his mother. Then
she gave me to the teacher for some
garden seed. Then the teacher gave me
to boy for sweeping. Then the boy put
me in his pocket and am still there
and Will be for some time I suppose.
Ralph Parrett, age H.
Elmer. Mo-, R. q
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Charles Dommer's Brother
Is a Soldier and Is At
Gettysburg.

My brother Christopher went to the
service of his country May s. He went
to Unionville to 30 to Centerville to
enlist in Co. D but after he got to
Unionville he heard that there was a
recruiting officer coming there, SO he
waited for him. There was three other
boys who went with him.
They left Unionville in the evening
and went to Ottumwa and from there
a while there and then went to Ell
Paso, Texas and from there to 0e<tys-
burg, Pa, where he Is now. He has been
in the camp hospital there for about
two weeks He ID IL years old. six feet
tall, dark hair and brown eyes.
Chas. B. Dommer. age II.
Untonville, Ia, r. 2.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Delpha Hoover-Big Guns
OF The Civil War.

Dear Juniors:
am going to write about story of
the big guns Of the civil war. don't
remember nay Grandpa Hoover as he
died in March and was born in April.
But he was soldier in the civil war
and my papa told me this about the big
guns that his father told him. They
loaded the guns with two large balls
connected with long heavy chain fiji
teen or twenty feet long. When the gun
was fired the balls would spread out the
length of the chain and NOW swath
in the southern lines which would be
filled with other soldiers Immediately.
1t took lot of men 70 load one Of these
guns. the soldiers in that vicinity
would stand on their toes with their
mouths open to keep from Earring their
teeth out. The first battle grandpa was
ever in was the battle at Lexington,
fought on the 9Th of April. He never
received but one wound and that was
on the jaw. He was at home while on
furlough when he was able to return
and serve until the close of the war.
Delpha Hoover, age, II,
Drakesville, Ia, r. No. 2.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Everett Grammer-Broth
er Goat and Brother
Rabbit.
August.

Dear Juniors:
AS I have not written to the Courier
Junior before l thought l would write
about Brother Goat and Brother Rab-
bit
One day Brother Goat met Brother
Rabbit and invited him to dinner.
While they We're eating Brother Rab-
bit asked Brother Goat how he liked
his meal. Brother Goat said he could
ask for no more, my dear host, but my
throat is awful dry. Brother Rabbit
said he did not have any well and he
did not drink while he ate. Brother
Goat said he did not have any well
either.
He said to Brother Rabbit, let us go
to that tree over yonder and dig well
together.
Brother Rabbit said no. Brother Goat
said he would dig it for himself and use
1t for himself.
So he went over to the tree and be-
gan to dig. 1t got bigger and bigger
and deeper and deeper. The water was
coming out and it got full. Brother Goat
drank and drank until he was salts
fed
Then he went home and he came
back In the morning and he saw some
tracks of Brother Rabbit He went
home and took his tools and made him
a doll out Of food and put black tar on
| it and then went down and set it on
the edge Of the we'll and he hid behind
the trees.
Brother Rabbit thought it was time
to take his bucket and go to Brother
Goats well and get some water.
He went to the we'll and he saw the
doll. He stopped and looked and looked.
The leaves and grass were silent. He
, went up and looked into the water and
the doll looked In too Brother Rabbit
said il you look in the water again
will hit you in the nose. He looked in
the water and the doll looked In too.
Brother Rabbit hit him in the nose and
his hand stuck fast He said let me go
or I will hit you in the eye with my
other hand
He hit him in the eye His hand stuck
fast. Brother Rabbit said let me go or
win kick you in the stomach. He
kicked him and his foot stuck also.
He said let me go or ! will kick with
my other foot. He kicked him and his
foot stuck fast He hit him with his
forehead and it stuck also. The next
morning Brother Goat came to get some
water and he saw Brother Rabbit
there.
Brother Goat went into the woods
and built fire. He came back to get
Brother Rabbit to burn him alive. But
when he was going through the woods
Brother Goat met his daughter. She
said for him to come and eat and throw
Brother Rabbit into the brier patch.
He threw him into the patch. Brother
Rabbit rolled down in the briers and
Brother Rabbit said long beard is
not always a sign of wisdom.
Everett Grammar. age II.
Batavia Iowa r. No. 3.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Esther Scoles's Nickel Fell
To the Bottom of
the Sea.

Dear Juniors:
This is the first time I have written
to the Juniors and am going to write
about nickel. The first thing that !
remember l was in a big dark place
that I have heard since called mine.
Then l was dug out with lot Of other
metal and dirt, cleaned and sent to
mint, where I was pressed into shape.
1 was given with a lot Of other nickels
to a bank where man came and gave
the man in the bank piece OF paper
and was given with some other money
to the man who came after me.
Then he gave me to his little girl
who got some candy with me. Next !
was given to a soldier boy who said he
was going to France with General
Pershing in two days. He put me In MS
pocket and carried me around with
him, never touching me until one day
we were on big shin and ! dropped
out of his pocket when he leaned over
the railing around the ship. And fell
to the bottom Of the sea where lie
now.
Esther Scoles, age 12,
Bloomfield, Iowa,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-03
Lawrence Wise's Nickel in
Bottom of River.
Dear Juniors

Dear Juniors:
| am going to write about a nickel.
Once there was a piece of nickel silver
in the ground. One day he felt some
thing strike him and he was lifted out
of the ground by a miner. He loaded
him and some more pieces on a car and
was drawn to the top of the ground.
He was sent to the mint and was made
into a shining buffalo nickel 1t was
dated 1916. He was first sent to rail-
road company where 1t was given to
a man who had worked hard. The man
gave it to baker for a loaf of bread.
The baker put it in the savings bank.
One day it was taken from the bank
and given to boy. The boy put it in
his pocket and went swimming. The
nickel rolled through a hole in his
pocket and fell into the river. For all |
know 1t is still theia.
Lawrence Wise, age II,
Eldon, la, Box 1856.