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The Breckenridge news., 1905-01-18
Copyright, 1901, By
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.

or the servants tnat tney should be-
have become turbulent and seditious
crowd, a legion of tyrants in miniature.
A man enslaved to his needs may best
be compared to bear with ring in
its nose, that is led about and made to
dance at will. The likeness is not fat
tering. but you will grant that 1t Is
true. 1t is in the train of their own
needs that so many of those men are
dragged along who rant for liberty,
progress and | don't know what else.
They cannot take a step without ask
ing themselves if it might not irritate
their masters. How many men and
women have gone on and on, even to
dishonesty. for the sole reason that
they had too many needs and could not
resign themselves to simple living.
There are many guests in the cham
bers of Mazas who could give us much
light OH the subject of too exigent
needs.
Let me tell you the story of an eX-
celent man whom | knew. He ten
derly loved his wife and children. and
they all lived together. in France, in
comfort and plenty, but with little of
the luxury the wife coveted. Always
short of money. though with little
management he might have been at
ease, he ended by exiling himself to a
distant colony, leaving his wife and
children in the mother country.
don't know how the poor man can feel
off there. but his family has a finer
apartment. more beautiful toilets and
what passes for an equipage. At pres
ent they are perfectly contented. but
soon they will be used to this luxury
rudimentary after all. Then madam
will find her furniture common and her
equipage mean. If this man loves his
wife. and that cannot be doubted. he
will migrate to the moon II there is
hope of n larger stipend. In other
cases the roles are reversed and the
wife and children are sacrificed to the
ravenOus needs of the head of the
family. whom an irregular life. play
and countless other costly follies have
robbed of all dignity. Between his ap-
petites and his role of father he has
decided for the former. and he slowly
drifts toward the most abject egoism.
This forGetfulness Of all responsible
ity. this gradual benumbing of noble
feeling. is not alone to be found among
pleasure seekers of the upper classes
the people also are infected. | know
more than one little household which
ought to be happy. where the mother
has only pain and heartache day and
night. the children are barefoot and
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simply the ordinary pleasure lover q
good fellow" but too obedient to ma
terial needs-that man or woman Is on
the downward way Of desire, and the
descent is fatal. Those who follow it
obey the same laws as a body on an
inclined plane. Dupes of an illusion
forever repeated. they think, Just a
few steps more, the last. toward the
thing down there that we covet; then
we will halt" But the velocity they
gain sweeps them on, and the farther
they go the less able they are to resist
it.
Here is the secret of the unrest, the
madness. of many of our contempora-
ries. Having condemned their will to
the service Of their appetites, they suf-
fer the penalty. They are delivered up
to violent passions which devour their
flesh, crush their bones. suck their
blood and cannot be sated. This is not
lofty moral denunciation ! have been
listening to what life says, and have
recorded as | heard them some of the
truths that resound i'm every square.
Has Drunkenness. inventive as it 10
of new drinks found the means of
quenching thirst? Not at all. 1t might
rather be called the art Of making
thirst ineXtinguishable. Frank libe"-
tinage. does ii deaden the sting OF the
senses? No; 1t envenoms ii. convert
natural desire into a morbid obsession
and makes it the dominant passion.
Let your needs rule you. pamper them,
you will see them multiply like insects
In the spr The more you give them
the more they demand. He is sense
less who seeks for happiness in mate
rial prosperity alone As well under
take to I'LL the cask OF the Danaides.
To those who have millions, millions
are wanting; TO those who have thou
sands, thousands. Others lack Il TWEEN
ty franc piece or hundred SOUS. When
they have a chicken I'm the pot they
ask for a goose; when they have the
goose they wish it were a turkey. and
so on. We shall never learn how fatal
this tendency is There are too many
humble people who wish to initiate tie
great, too many poor wOrkingmen who
ape the well to do middle classes. too
many shopgirls who play at being In
dies. too many clerks who act the club
man or sportsman, and among those in
easy circumstances and the rich are
too many people who forget that what |
they possess could serve n better pur- /
pose than procuring pleasure for them |
selves, only to find in the end that one !
never has enough. Our needs, in place
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CHANCE FOR THEM.

Many baseball players in Breckenridge
county remember that everything that
went up against the Canneiton Ponies
last summer from Breckenridge county
was considerably wo.sted. They also
remember that Cannelton's success was
due, in a large measure, TO one Geo. b
Collins, who pitched for Cannelton and
never lost a game. The news now comes
signed with Evansville to play the
coming ason al 500 month. This
will give Breckenridge teams a better
chance at the Ponies, rrovided, of
course, they don't get as good a pitcher
as Collins.
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Translated From the French by
Mary Louise Hendee.

geois ladder people reply to the ques-
ton, What is necessary to live? by
figures varying with the degree Of
their ambition or education, and by
education is oftenest understood the
outward customs of life, the style Of
house. dress, table-an education pre-
cisely skin deep. Upward from a GER
tain income. fee or salary life becomes
possible; below that II is impossible
We have seen men commit suicide be
cause their means had fallen under a
certain minimum. They preferred to
disappear rather than retrench. OBJ
serve that this minimum, the cause of
their despair, would have been suffi-
Client for others Of less exacting needs
and enviable to men whose tastes are
modest
On lofty mountains vegetation changes
with the altitude. There is the region
of ordinary fora, that of the forests,
that of pastures, that OF bare rocks and
glaciers. Above certain zone wheat
is no longer found, but the vine still
prospers. The oak ceases in the low
erable heights. Human life. with its
needs, reminds one of these phenomena
Of vegetation.
At a certain altitude Of fortune the
finanCier thrives. the clubman, the SO
ciety woman-all those, in short, for
whom the strictly necessary includes a
certain number OF domestics and
equipages as well as several town and
country houses. Further on fourishes
the rich upper middle class, with its
own standards and life. In other re-
gions we find men OF ample, moderate
or small means and very unlike eXl-
gencies. Then come the people. arti-
sans, day laborers, peasants-in short,
the masses-who live dense and serried
like the thick, sturdy growths on the
SUBMITS of the mountains, where the
larger vegetation can no longer find
nourishment. In all these different re-
giOns of society men live. and, no mat
ter in which particular regions they
flourish. all are alike human beings.
bearing the same mark. How strange
that among fellows there should be
such a prOdgious difference in require
ments. And here the analogies OF our
fail us. Plants and ami
mails of the same families have iden-
tical wants In human life we observe
quite the contrary. What conclusion
shall we draw from this If not thot
with uS there is considerable elastic !
ity in the nature and number of needs?
Is it well. is it favorable to the &C.
Of the individual and lis
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/ there Is great ado for bread. Why?
Because too much money is needed by
the father. To speak only of the ex-
penditure for alcohol, everybody knows
the proportions that has reached in the
last twenty years. The sums swallow
ed I'D in this gulf are fabulous-twice
the indemnity Of the war Of 1870. How
many legitimate needs could have been
satisfied with that which has been
thrown away on these artificial ones!
The reign Of wants is by no means
the reign of brotherhood. The more
things a man desires for himself, the
less he can do for his neighbor, and
even for those attached to him by ties
Of blood
The destruction of happiness. inde-
pendence. moral fneness, even OF the
sentiment of common interests-such Is
the result Of the reign of needs.
multitude of other unfortunate things
might be added. of which not the least
is the disturbance of the public wei
fare When society has too great
needs II is absorbed with the present,
sacrifices to it the conquests of the
past. immolates to it the future. After
us the deluge! TO raze the forests in
order to get gold; to squander your pat
rimony in youth destroying in day
the fruit of long years; to warm your
house by burning your furniture; to
burden the future with debts for the
sake of present pleasure; to live by ex-
pedients and SOW for the morrow trou-
BILE, sickness, ruin, envy and hate-the
enumeration Of all the misdeeds of this
fatal regime has no end.
On the other hand, If we hold to sim
pie needs we avoid all these evils and
replace them by measureless good.
That temperance and sObriety are the
best guardians of health is an old sto-
~. They spare him who observes them
many a misery that saddens existence.
They insure him health, love of action.
mental poise. Whether ii be a ques-
ton of food dress or dwelling, simple
ity of taste Is also source of inde-
pendence and safety. The more sim
ply you live the more secure is your fu-
ture. You are less at the mercy of
surprises and reverses. An illness or
a period Of idleness does not suffice to
dispossess you; change of position.
even considerable. does not put you
to confusion. Having simple needs.
you find ii less painful to accustom
yourself TO the hazards of fortune.
You remain a man. though you lose
your office or your income. because the
To be Continued.
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CHAPTER VI.
SIMPLE NEEDS


Y YIEN we buy Il bird of the
IA fancier. the good man tells
wv us briefly what Is necessary
for our new pensioner, and
the whole thing hygiene. food and the
rest-is comprehended in Il dozen words.
Likewise, TO sum up the necessities OF
most men, few concise lines would
answer. Their regime is in general Of
supreme simplicity, and SO long as the!
follow it all is well with them. rs with
every obedient child Of Mother Nature
Let them depart from it. complications
arise health fails, gayety vanishes
Only simple and natural living can
keep a body in full vigor. Instead of
remembering this basic principle we
fall into the Strangest alterations.
What material things does man
need to live under the best conditions? &?
A healthful diet, simple clothing, Il
sanitary dwelling place, air and eXer-
else. am not going to enter into by
gienic details, compose menus or dis
cuss model tenements and dress re-
form. My aim is to point out direc-
llOu diiu ltll Mudl duN duldSc MOulu
come TO each of us from ordering his
life in Il spirit of simplicity. To know
that this spirit does not rule i'm our
society we need but watch the lives
of men of all classes. Ask different
people of very unlike surroundings this
question: What do you need to live:
You will see how they respond. Moth
-
originals Of the Partisan asphalt there
is no life possible outside a region
bounded by certain boulevards. There
one finds the reSpirable air, the illumi-
mating light normal heat, classic cook
cry, and, in moderation. so many other
things without which it would not be
worth the while to promenade this
round ball.
On the various rungs Of the bour-
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material solicitude. gathering to its
arms from the wayside where it was
perishing, some bruised and forgotten
life; sometimes the humble patience of
long research. All that it touches bears
its seal, and the men it inspires know
that through it we live and have our
being. TO serve it is their pleasure
and reward. They are satisfied to ~
its instruments. and they no logger
look at the outward glory of their of
fec. well knowing that nothing is great
nothing small, but that our life and
our deeds are only of worth because Of
the spirit which breathes through them.
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PRIZE TOBACCO SOLD.

Three hoasheads of tobacco from
Kentucky which won grand prizes at the
st Louis exposition were sold in Louis.
vile last Wednesday as follows
Burley. 33Hc; II N Martin q Co.
Gfeen River, lie; f o. Esehelby To-
bscco Co., Covington.
One Sucker, l34c; Hail & Cotton,
brokers
The sale was held at the Central Ware
house, and was in charge of c. d. Camp
bell who had charge of the eS hibit at
the Exposition
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interior situation. Tne emperoris is still
apparently vacciliatins as to whether
he shall allow Witte full sway or permit
Prince Sviatopolk Mirsky to retire. The
lack of cohesion and alignment for this
is opposed to the existing state of things
and the mutual distrust in each others
program seems to make anything ap-
preaching an actual revolution ot the
present time unworthy OF serious con-
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A SUBLIME THOUGHT.

Skill in ones art, profession, or trade
is conscience applet; it is honesty.
veracity and fGel ty using the eye the
voice and the hand to reveal what lies
in the workers purpose and spirit. To
become an artist in dealing with tools
aud materials is not a matter OF choice
or privilege; it is moral necessity; for
a mans heart must be in his skill, and
a mans soul in his craftsmanship. -
Hamilton Wright Mahie
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Zero Weather

Is apt to freeze your ears, nose, hands
and oes. You don't notice it at the
time but latter on IT. is painful a nd
oitentimes dangerous 1t draws out
the frost because it opens the res of
the skin, induces perspiratlon, and
the circulation. Paracamph
prevents erysipelds and dreaded blooo
poisoning
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HER WRIST BROKEN.

Mrs. Clarence Sterett, wife of Editor
Clarence Sterett of the Hancock Clar-
ion, suffered a broken wrist last week
by fall on frozen ground in the yard
at her home.
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KILLED AT PHONE.

st. Louis, Jan. l2.-George Betz, en-
ployed at the plant of the Laclede Cas-
light company, was Instantly killed
yesterday at the telephone, which had
been charged with 1000 volts OF eiec-
tricity, caused by cross wires. George
Koran and John Fiplsyson sought to
aid him and were badly shocked. 1t is
believed they will die.
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TO CONTINUE WAR.

st. Petersburg, Ian. H. The govern
meut is seemi gly about to make an ir-
revocable decisin that the prestige a
broad and prestige at home will re-
quire the cont nuttion of war till peace
with dignity is possible. Beyond this
! o Mt confusion exists, especially regard
ing the immediate development of the
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NEW TRACTION LINE.

Cannelton, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE India
napolis and Ohio Valley Traction Conn
paw has been granite franchise in
Perry and Spencer counties Tor a trac.
ton line proposed from indianapolis 10
this city. Trains are to be running be.
tween Rockport ard Grandview by
Jgly l next.
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A GUARANTEED CURE FOR cdIlLs.

Itching, Blind, Beediug or Protruding
piles Druggists refund money II PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case. no matter
Of how long standing, inc 10 IL days First
application gives ease and rest. soc. II your
druggist hasn't IL send So, in stamps and il
sill be forwa sled Postpaid by Paris Medi-
cine Co., st. Louis. Mo.
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When bilious try dose of Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
and realize for once how quickly a
frst-classu, p-to-date medicine wi, cor.
rect the disorder. For sale by Short
q HAYNES.
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The Breckenridge News.
WEDNESDAY. January Is. 1905
TOBACCO REQUIRED.

An exchange furnishes a forecast of
the wants Of foreign and home manu-
facturers to fill their orders for 1904 as
follows
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-04-06
! ANIMALS; :. W i, ri
Rats the Most Neutrality-suspicious. ming.
Race With Death

Race With Death.
The fable Of the country mouse and
the town mouse has a foundation in
fact. Mice occasionally migrate in
large numbers when food grows scarce
and travel considerable distances to
fresh houses. Farmers in part Of
Perthshfre had good reason to be-
come aware of this fact when q couple
Of years ago vast swarms of mice in
vaded their cornfields at harvest time.
But the mouse only travels when 1t
has to. The rat, on the contrary, seems
to take yearly outing in very much
the same fashion as do human beings.
Rats are the most migratory creatures
In the world. Whole troops Of rats
leave the towns at the end Of summer
and spend month OF two in the coun-
try, apparently in order to enjoy the
change Of food, which the county af-
fords at that time Of the year in the
way Of fresh fruit and grain. Before
the cold weather sets in they are all
back in their old quarters.
Reindeer migrate with the same regu-
lartty as swallows. They move south
when winter sets in, but as soon as
ever the snow begins to melt they
travel steadily north, sometimes for us
much as thousand miles.
To end holiday by deliberate sui
eide IL SO strange phenomenon that
for a long time naturalists looked upon
the stories Of the migration of the lem
mings as an improbable fiction. Yet
the facts are beyond dispute. At ir-
regular intervals these rat-like crea-
lures start out from their homes in the
Businesses Of northern Scandinavia in
huge droves. numbering tens of thou
sands, and travel steadily, southwark.
Death pursues them in hundred
forms. Hawks and other birds of prey
hover above them. Foxes, wolves and
man decimate them. Thousands are
drowned in rivers. Yet the rest strug.
gle on until they reach the sea. They
do not stop. They plunge in, swim out
and struggle on until at last their
strength fails and they drown. Not
one ever returns from this journey of
0aath.-LondOn Answers.
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Summons.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
County OF Griggs
District Court. 9th Judicial District.
Ina NJ. Fenner. Plaintiff
VS. :.
Otto Fenner. Defendant
The State of North Dakota to the above NAM
ed defendant.
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the
above entitled action which is filed in the Of
fee of the clerk Of the district court for
Grlggs county and State OF North Dakota.
said 9. comnlant ON yh o. s,;scrier NJ his ONCE S
in the Village Of Cooperst0wn. in said county
and state. within thirty days after the service
of this summons upon you. exclusive OF the
day OF such service; and II you fai! to appear
aforesaid, Judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
Dated March 10th. 1905.
A. NJ. BALDWIN.
Plaintiffs Attorney. COOperstOwn. North Da
kota. a-s3
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Notice and Citation, Hearing Of
Final Account and Distribution.

Uu0S WvOOWUt 0ss0 OuOa1bWUtuVUe
sTATEOF NORTH DAKOTA.
County of Griggs.
In the matter OF the estate of Thore j. Ode
gard Deceased.
John 7. Odegard. II. 4. ode tion. Hearing Of
gard. euro Rukke, Annie Final Account
syyerson. Anne Thompson and distribution.
The State Of North Dakota to the above NAM
ed respondents:
You, the said John T. Odegard. II. I. ode
Thompson and Thora Hallock are hereby no
titled that the final account of the admins
traitor Of the estate of Thore j Odegard. late
Of Griggs. and State Of North Dakota dece.s
ed, has been rendered to this court. therein
showing that the estate OF said deceased
ready for final settlement ana distri4atioa
the residue of said estate be distributed TO
the persons thereunto entitled. his admins
tration closed and he be discharged; that
O'Clock In the forenoon of that day. ut the
court rooms of this court in the court house.
in the village Of Cooperstown. County Of
duly appointed by this court for the settle
meit thereof. at which time and place any
person Interested in said estate may appear
and e hts exceptions In writing, to said '
GAnd you. the above named respondents
and each of you. are hereby cited and re.
quired then and there to he and appear before
why said account shall not be allowed the
residue Of said estate distributed the admin
istration of said estate closed, and said ad-
Dated the soth day Of March A. d. 1905
By the Court.
WILL II. CARLETON.
3-23 Judge Of the County Court.
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Ordinance In Regard to Sidewalks,


Upon motion the following ordin-
ance in relation to sidewalks and the
laying thereof was unanimously adopt
ed:
1t is hereby ordered that all side
walks hereafter laid in the Village of
Cooperstown be constructed of cement
or stone unless by special permission
of the board of trustees, which per-
mission shall be by resolution of the
said board of trustees duly adopted in
a regular or special session; that said
walks shall be laid upon a good and
substantial foundation of sand and
gravel of at least six inches in depth,
and the outside of said walks shall in
all cases, except on the north and west
side of blocks seventy-three, the north
and east side of block seyenty-four, on
the south and west side of block sixty,
and the south and east side of block
tifty-nine, be on a line ten feet from
the outer line of tile lots along which
the same is laid; that along said afOre-
said mentioned blocks on the north
ana south sides respectively, the outer
line Of said walks shall be twelve feet
from the outer line of the lots along
which the same is laid, and on the
east and west side of said blocks as
heretofore mentioned the outer line
Of said walks shall be ten feet from
the outer line of said lots along which
the same is laid, and built on an in
cline from the line of said lots to the
outer line of said walks SO as to shed
water. and that along said outer line
along said last mentioned blocks there
shali be constructed curb Of cement
or stone set well into the ground SO as
to prevent the same from sagging or
spreading out. That on the balance
Of said streets the curb shall be twenty
feet from the line of the lots and said
last mentioned walks shall be at least
four and one-half feet wide and all of
said walks shall be laid under the SUI:
peryision and direction of the village
marshal or the board of trustees.
Dated at Cooperstown, N. D., Aug.
9th, 1905.
WILL III. CARLETON, Clerk. ss III,
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Metiss 70 Creditors.

In the n after Of the Estate of Fanny Z. c.
Gilbert. deceased
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
VIM III. Ltghtner. executor of the Last Will
St. Paul. in the County Of Ramsey. and State b
Of Minnesota. deceased. To the creditors 0f
and all persons having claims against said
vouchers, within four months after the first
publication Of this notice. to said executor at
the Office of the County Judge. In the Village
of CoOperstown, Griggs County. North Oak
Ota.
WM. Fl. L[GHTNER.
4-6-13 Executor.