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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05
SPRING FOOTWEAR
1904 STYLES ARE DISTINCTIVE
AND CANNOT BE WHOLLY
IGNORED.
Tan Shoes Return After Four Years of
Complete Punishment and Will
Prove Welcome to Many - The
GracefuIness Expressed in Footwear

One of the most difficult things in
the world for the average person to
anticipate with any reasonable certain
ty is the fashion in shoes, SO rapidly
does it change and SO unexpectedly
are the departures. To post particu-
lar folks on the really correct models
and designs is the purpose of this ar
ticle. If it enables those who read to
form their choice and avoid the neces-
sity of taking the word of salespeople
as to what is good form" the writer
will feel repaid. s.
Right at the beginning it may be
said that this springs shoes strongly
show the return to common sense prin-
ciples, from which the designers have
drifted widely during the past five
years. And this applies equally to foot
wear for men and women. 1t means
that the recognized designers, whose
models are accepted by people of taste
are falling back to the more slender,
natural lasts. 1t does not mean that
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heart gripping qualities of Guy de Maui
PEASANT There is lifting tenderness
to her love passages as expressed by
the dainty chiffon effects on the
ground work of the story. The con
trasts are we'll marked and splendidly
handled. Madame Blanqua has those
deft Stevensonian touches that fairly
grip the throat. This is particularly
noticeable in the dainty strings that
tie under the chin. The Trimmed Hat
is bound in crushed levant. deckle
edged, uncut leaves. A special auto
graphed edition de luxe is soon to he
issued within a few days as soon as
the Partisan importation arrives. III
The editorial writer supplied this as
his share:
our attention has been called TO the
TACT that Easter is only few DAYS
distant and that already the market is
being crowded with Easter hats. We
have no hesitation in giving this our
unqualified approval. The very safety
OF the nation, it's constitutional bull.
warks and the integrity of, the home.
depend upon the supply and demand of
Easter hats and bonnets. Nothing is
too good for the American woman. She
Is queen and every American man is
her humble and loyal subject. That
Easter hats are prettier than ever this
season is only fitting tribute to Amer
lean femininity. There was a time in
barbaric and prehistoric days when
woman was looked upon simply as the
child bearer Times, have changed.
"Tempus fugit,' as the philosopher said.
Today woman's lot has changed. 1t is
in an entirely different block. There
fore we say ID Pluribus Unum.' The
national liberty and safety are intact
and the future is bright with hope"
The bright genius who contributes
daily recipes to the cooks and house
hold matrons is the author Of this Eas-
ter hat recipe:
Il am SO frequently requested by
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ELDON.

Eldon, April Mrs. ]. Jaques and
children, of Ottumwa, are visiting rela-
tives in this city.
Mrs. G.. Martin returned yesterday
from visit with relatives in Trenton
Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Huey and daughter
Agnes left last evening for, Wilton to
visit relatives and friends.
The young people gave a dance at
the K. of P. hall last evening in honor
of Miss Cora Ball, of Fairfield who is
visiting her friend. Miss Maud Bald
win.
Mrs. G. Dowell and children, of Ruth
land, are visiting at the home of J.
Farmer and family.
The Methodist ladies will give a ba-
zaar and supper in the Calvert build
ing this afternoon and evening. Every
body invited.
The E. H. S. boys will give a dance
at the K. p. hall this evening in honor
of Lee Dowell, of Rutland
Prof. c. e. Ahers, Misses Mabel Dim
mitt. Daisy Senouse and Nellie Miller
left for Muscatine Yesterday to attend
the S. E. T. association.
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or value in dollars. In the number of
Dozens Iowa is the leader of them all,
but 1t holds only second place in nuns
Der. of chickens owned.
Nevada, truculent old Nevada, hasn't
quite gotten down to the chicken vet.
1t has less than any other state. :
But it got the highest price for it's
eggs, for during the year it's average
was ~ $40 cents a dozen. Scarcity of
eggs does not explain high prices all
ways, for Montana leads eleven other
states IN egg production and yet got
6-l0 cents a DOZEN Il as,,----e---..4.as. \, j.
Eggs We're cheapest In Texas. where
they cost 7-10 cents a dozen on al
average. q
A Puzzle for Egg Eaters.
And now comes a puzzle for the
housewife.
Uncle Sam has figured out exactly
What the average price a dozen has
been for a year and he finds that 1t
was II 1900 cents dozen. Then why,
on, why. are eggs so high when you
buy them to eat?
Uncle Sam and all his men respect
fully decline to answer. / The census
bureau and the treasury department
and the secretary of the interior all
give 1t up.
And now to wind up the big wonder
story of the American hen and her true
blue American egg, here is q little won
der story. 1t is about Alaska
Inc census man went to Alaska and
found all the hens. 1t was hard job
TO lind them, but not bit hard to
count the total, for there were only 176
fowls in all Alaska on June l. 1900.
man could have put all the hens of
that country into cart and carried
them with ease. Their combined value
was $166. But that little pocket edition
of hennery. with its little toy shop
capital, produced a total income In one.
year of S539--$360 for eggs and $179 for
chickens.
Eggs were high there. They aver
aged AZ cents dozen. The chickens
that were Matched and sold averaged
$1.01 each. 1t was nice little BUSH
ness beating most banks In point Of
percentage of income
The rabbit is the great Easter beast
of poets and artists, but the American
hen has made good her claim to be
considered the Easter. bird of the world.
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ed States according to the last census
which enumerated them as well as the
rest of us.
The value in dollars of that noble
aggregation of laying talent was $7O,-
100000.
A Marvel of Eggs.
The wonderful flock of birds laid
more than one and one-quarter billion
dozens OF eggs in one year. This isn't
a dream-not even that kind of a
dream which begins ''it is estimated. -
For these figures are not ESTIMATED. %
They are exact statistics collected
through the various departments of
the government day by day as the eggs
were put on the market.
That would entitle every man. wo-
man and child in the country, from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from
Canada to Mexico, to .2O3 eggs in the
year.
Uncle Sam has figured UP not only
all the hens of laying age, but all the
poultry of all ages in the country, not
scorning ether the broilers or the
Methusalehs that pour into the market
after well spent and long life to pose
on the stalls as spring chickens.
AS the result OF his count he finds
that the poultry Of the United States
numbers more than quarter of a bill
lion, 250,6S1,593, to be exact, and the
value is $S5,S0O,O O0-enough to give
every inhabitant of this country a lit
tie more than SLIP as his share if they
We're sold for the account of the public.
Going back to the hens of egg-laying
age alone, and leaving out the tender
infants that are only consumers and
not producers, Uncle Sans men find
that these Industrious and nonstriking
workers have produced almost $751;
100000 in the form of marketable pro-
geny and little more than $144 ,0O0,-
600 worth of eggs. The exact total of
their production in dollars is $2S1 49,
247.
And that, on the original valuation Of
the "plant" Of $7O,000,o00, means that
the American hen has simply knocked
into cooked hat the income-producing
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over the plains Of Texas, over the
domain of railroad and slaughter
houses from Omaha to Chicago. Take
in with it the immense city of Chica-
go itself, with its duchies and prin-
CAPABILITIES of stock yards and abat-
toirs and factories and laboratories
and warehouses the shops and rail-
road yards and wharves and refriger.
atlng plants - all devoted to selling
the living beast and converting him to
a thousand uses. hide, horns, yhoof, tai
low and meat. a.,
Take in the roads, that bear miles
on miles of cars full of that product;
warehouses scattered along a tho,,-
sand miles OF land; warehouses front
Ing every navigable nook on the
oceans; refrigerator ships that are
monsters, all stuffed full as they can
hold; watch them tear through the
seas OF the world. flooding the ports
from London to Singapore.
The Hen Beats.
And then please go back to the dun
colored cackler that roosts in tiny ram
shackle houses and drops her golden
egg into any old box that the farmer
happens to have picked up; and be-
mold! all the tons of canned and fresh
and sailed beef; all the tallow; all the
bacon and hams; all the canned and
sailed pork; all the sausages and the
sausage meat; yes, and all the castings
Tor those sausages and the hundred
hxings" that are exported as the re-
suit Of the mad hustle, hustle, hustle,
across the continents of locomotive and
car, and exported by hundred differ
ent lines of ships, do not come within
10000 tons of the weight of the eggs
laid during the year in the United
States.
For the weight of all these animal
products is "only" $4,000 tons; and
the weight Of the 1,250OOO,O0O dozens
OF eggs, at the average weight of eight
to the pound, is 970,363 tons.
That would extinguish the entire
United States navy from the Kear-
sarge and Alabama down to the tiniest
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Z u
ed of D. Snakenberg. guardian. the S.
G. Chacey stock Of merchandise. After
inventory, Mr.. Dulin will give his per-
sonal attention to the business.
Harry Moore and Tom Kirkpatrick,
who are attending college at Ames, are
spending few days vacation at home.
w. III. Young was in Ottumwa Tues
day on business.
Mrs. w. p. Harrison, of Ottumwa is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. B.
Cremer.
D. 7. Stockman, of Sigourney, was
in Hedrick Wednesday on business.
Geo. Helscher, of Keota, was in town
yesterday.
T. NJ. Watts, a student of Drake uni
versity, is spending his vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Watts.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. r. Rockwell return
ed home yesterday from California,
where they have ben for the past four
months sightseeing.
John Stewart has purchased the w.
e. Fryer property on East street.
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BONAPARTE.

Bonaparte, April Mrs. Ada P. Nc
Connaughey returned to her duties as
school teacher in Henry county, after
several weeks spent here with relatives.
Miss Ida Wood left yesterday for
Loveland Iowa, called by the illness of
her sister.
Dan Cresap was business visitor in
Keosauqua yesterday.
Miss Bess Moore departed yesterday
for Moline, ILL.,, to visit several weeks
with her sister, Mrs. George Down
ing
L. C. Meek was in Pennington on
business Friday morning.
Mrs. Cad Rockafellow is visiting re-
latives in Keokuk.
Miss Frances Callen returned Friday
from Humeston, where she has been
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WORLDS EASTER BIRD = America" !

The mightiest Easter gift of the lot
is the Easter gift that the Ameri-
! can hen has presented to the United
States. 8,
If the government were to decide to
color up all the eggs that are being
laid by her in one day to present to
the children of the country the whole
regular army couldn't do the work I'M
less each soldier could manage to col
or 700 eggs, which is pretty big con-
tract, .s5,
!. AS the country tn consumed not
one days but several days laying of
eggs, the standing army would be lit
orally overwhelmed. hidden, crushed
by the work of the hen.
Her work produces enough eggs in
any two days to give one to every hui
man being from Alaska to Porto Rico
not leaving out the Eskimos of Boring
Straits.
Forty-two and one-half millions of
eggs a day is her average now. That
gigantic one days work weighs 1858
tons almost as much as the tonnage
of United States cruiser like the At
lanta.
While industrial combinations and
financial operations have filled the air
with their clamorous processes, the
hen has scratched along in humble pri-
vacy and has beaten even the record
Of King Wheat; for the value of her
modest speciality has turned out to be
greater than the. whole value Of the
whole wheat crop of twenty-eight
states and territories in one year.
The gold and silver mines of the
country aren't worth mentioning in
Comparison with the simple bird. Only
Snce in fifty years has the value of
gold and silver of the United States
beaten the value of its eggs.
Figures cannot give any idea of the
enormous value of this American citi-
zen, for the figures are too big to bring
delight or understanding to any one
except benighted and violent statis-
tican.s For instance, what does $685.
59S,005 mean? Yet that is the number
Of chickens of laying age in the Unit
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bined value, year by year, the value
or the tiny. white oval that is gath
cred in aprons and baskets every
morning in every hamlet, without a
single adventure that is worth the
telling.
only in one year-that of 1900
since records were kept by the govern
ment, has it happened that the Ameri-
can mines could beat the hen. In that
exceptional year the precious metals
were ahead by $9,500,O0O.
The GalIeon and the Chicken.
Even in the ages OF gold when gall
leon after galleon bore it from Africa
and the golden Americas, when bucca-
neers built pirate cities from the spoils
When the rich of earth counted their
wealth not by the ounces, but by ingots
and bars-even then all the gold and
silver that the whole world could pro-
duce, from hemisphere to hemisphere,
never came up in value to the combin-
ed value of the poultry and eggs in the
United States in the year past
Since America was discovered there
have been only two years-1S9S and
lS99-when the poultry and the poultry
products fell below the work of all the
mines Of all the world combined. In
the former, the mines outdid the hen
by almost $6,000,00O. In the latter year,
perfect wonder of a year for gold and
silver output. almost S26,0OO,000 mark
ed the excess over the value of the
poultry products.
OF course, the hen could pay for
whole war with her peaceful industry
in a year. More than that, she helped
to feed an army throughout one bitter
war that shook a continent. That was
in South Africa. Newspapers and
magazines and books We're full of the
battles, but nobody mentioned that, all
the time, the chickens of Missouri were
feeding the British army where it lay
in battle array. They fed it with crys-
tallized eggs, and the more Tommy At
kins ate the more the Missouri hens
laid.
And yet the state Of Missouri holds
only sixth place among the American
states in point of egg production. Ohio
is first in them. Missouri leads in
chickens and Ohio has to take third
place in that respect.
ohios leadership in eggs is in point
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American Hen Beats the Countrys Gold and Sizper
Mines and Cackles at the Wheat Cr0p

torpedo boat. If all the yolk were tic
be hurled down on it at once there
wouldn't be rivet left.
And in dollars those eggs equal 81
per cent of the entire income produced
by all the exports of all the meat pro.
ducts, from the pigs tail to the sirloin
steak. Add the value Of the poultry to
the eggs, and the meat products are
beaten.
Now throw in the remote animal pro
ducts that are exported annually
hoofs, horns, bristles, bones and ever
glue; add wool and things made out
of wool; then add every kind Of
leather; pile on it all even the exported
boots and shoes-and with all those
allies, the mass can beat the poultry
and poultry products by only $15,OO0,.
900.
Wool Isn't an It,"
Not SO many years ago, in the midst
OF a battle over tariffs, the whole coun-
try was shaken by the fight over wool;
and 1t was well worth while, for the
wool product amounts to $45,75O, 900
N.' sAAS PooiCiy oolo III ycdl DedIS
that by sol 100000, and the eggs beat
it by $98,5O0,OOO.
And all the worlds animal products
that have, in turn, come to these shores
from goats herded in Morocco and
Switzerland to leather from every
place where leather can be obtained,
including, too, all the cheeses made
from every land, even China-they ag-
gregate $127,909,553 in value, less than
half the value of chicken and egg.
1t is almost sad to think of the ar.
gonauts and all their strivings and bat
ties and passions; and of the Alaskan
adventurers, with their kIondikes and
Nomes, their ripping open of the froz-
en- north itself, their war against ice
and blizzard and wilderness for gold,
when we study the little seven-pound
hen and discover that all the gold and
silver that engineers and miners and
sluices and dynamite and laundering
stamp mills have wrested from a
whole continent do not equal in COM
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| spending the winter with Mrs. Walter

spending the winter with Mrs. Walter
Worthen..
Miss Mayme Peckmeyer of Farm
ington. visited here yesterday with her
sister, Mrs. Bert Chapman.
Mrs. Y. McCollum Of Greeley, Colo,
Mrs. J. r. Crawford, of Ripley, Okla,
and Mrs. George Prunty and daughter
Leila, of Pennington. are visiting in
the city with Mrs A. ]. Page.
The school board met and transact
ed some business last night.
The dance at the Whitley opera
house last night was very enjoyable
affair to all present.
Miss Mary Carr will spend Sunday
in Keokuk with relatives.
Archie Huston is very sick with lung
fever.
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visited at the parental Steve Hastings
home Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Eberline was called to
South Ottumwa again by the severe ILL
ness of her cousin. Lizzie Berry.
Walter Mum is reported some worse
this week
Mrs. c. D. Nelson, the mail carrier
has not been able to make her through
trip on account Of the bad roads and
bridges being washed out
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ALBA.

Abba, April 2.-The Aid society of
the Methodist Episcopal church gave a
unique reception to the ladies Of Abba.
Thursday afternoon at the home of DR..
G. B. Powell. The invitations were in
poetical form, requesting the presence
of the recipient and also that she place
in the dainty silken bag enclosed, as
many cents as she was years old A
neat sum was added to the treasury of
the society, as many guests We're pres
ent. Dainty refreshments were sery-
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HEDRIck.

Hedrick, April Capt. e. Miller, of
Sigourney, was in town Tuesday.
Rev. III. N. Smith was in Tracy We'd
nesday.
Mrs. s. G. Sheets, of Rawley, is yis-
iting relatives in this vicinity
G. D. Dulin, of Webster, has purchas-
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slender, its proportions are admirable
and it is a pity we cannot keep it so,
but the memorable laws of fashion are
bound to continue the cutting down
process until it nears the vanishing
point in few more seasons.
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BREAKS ALL COINAGE RECORDS.
San Francisco Mint Turns Out s54,-
$4,000 in TWO Months.

San Francisco. April 2. = In a run
of two months the mint in this city has
broken all records of the world for
coinage in an equal period, so far as
Superintendent Leach can discover.
More than ITO tons Of gold coin. a to-
tai of .$54,693, 500 has been minted in
February and March and of this
amount $33,11S,500 was turned out in
March, an average of more than mil
lion dollars a day. In the last four
days the deliveries from the coming
department averaged $3.50, 900 daily.
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P. p Pupfer engineer at a Des
Moines factory, was fatally scalded by
the bursting of steam pipe.
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tCaoC, ilOI ySI.
Styles Are Graceful.
Beauty seems to be the object
sought; beauty and certain grace
o. dash that is sometimes called dis
tinctiveness. The styles. have more
swing and snap to them, more of the
quality that makes the shoe promin-
ent feature of the wearer's attire Time
was when almost any shoe so long as
it was trim and well kept, passed mus
ter without particular notice. This is
no longer true. The shoe of 1904 stands
out. 1t compels attention by certain
daring and originality of outline, so
the man or woman who dresses well
must need pay more attention in the
selection of shoes than ever before.
The Tan Shoe.
In another way this is true, also for
the tan shoe is again with u.s. After
four years of utter Punishment by So
ciety, the light colored articles comes
with something of a shock to the eye
accustomed to the sparkle of the pat
ent leather. But it is here, and we
must make the best of it. In. the east,
there was a marked revival of the tan
among the ultra-fashionable people last
spring, but it did not extend to the
vest But with the coming of the first
shoe drummer this spring came the
tan samples, whole trunkfuls of them
in every shade and pattern imagin-
able - atat
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Toes Are Narrower.

1t would be useless to deny that toes
are narrower, considerably narrower,
in fact than they have been for six
years. In the gradual pointing of the
toe, which is going on year by year,
the perfect has probably been attained
this spring. Neither too broad nor too
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we shall have to wear ''toothpick''
shoes or similar monstrosities at
Jooct nj vol
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-17
BIG Gun
Three Killed, Eight Injured, Mt Fort
Banks, winthrop, Mass.

Three Killed, Eight Injured, Mt. Tort
Banks, winthrop, Mass.
BOSTON, Oct. 17.-Three men have
been killed and eight Injured, one crit,
ically, by the explosion of Il mortar al
4 Foit Banks, Winthrop. The dead:
Sergeant George J. Nevins, Private
Edward Higgins, Private James w
Kelly.
The injured: Private Arthur Tomlin
son, critically; First Sergeant Thomas
Foley, Corporal Arthur Bannister, Pri
waite w. p. Sheehan, Private G. b
Kipps. Private Stanislaus Ross, Pri
waite John Clyde, Private William Bev
erly.
OF the injured none was dangerously
hurt except Tomlinson. The acciden
Mas due to u premature explosion o,
Jpowder as a ten inch mortar was bein.
: loaded.
The artillerymen were having the
customary morning practice in til,
mortar battery which oyerlooks the
entrance to Boston harbor. One sho;
had been fired, and the gun was being
reloaded for a second trial. AS the
breech block was being closed there
came a premature explosion in the
powder chamber of the mortar. The
breech was blown from the gun, and
every man Of its crew became a vic
tim of the accident.
1t is now believed that Private Ar
thur Tomlinson, who was thought to
have been fatally injured, will recover.
He will, however, lose the sight of both
eyes and always be a cripple. The 9TH
er soldiers who were injured, but sur
vived the explosion, are recovering.
The only possible explanation of the
explosion which. can be offered is that
possibly the cotton saeti in which the
charge of powder was Enclosed caught
fire from a spark which might have
been in the chamber after theyfiring of
the first shot. y