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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
EGGS SOAR TO so CENTS.
High Water Mark In Prices Reached
With Few Cases la SInht. -.

Chicago, Feb. IA. The price Of
fresh eggs scared yesterday and the
high water mark of so cents was
reached early in the day Even at this
figure the supply was limited and
many of the dealers were unable to
supply their customers at any price:
No eggs were received early yester-
day by freight and the consignments
by express were limited. A large per-
centage Of the eggs that did arrive
were frozen. The supply in Chicago is
rapidly decreasing. Most Of the deal-
ers who had a supply of eggs on hand.
commenced business yesterday by ask.
ing higher prices.
ut is impossible to get eggs to the
city during weather Of this kind" said
G. f. Hummel of Hummel & Co., 17T
South Water street Perhaps leaH
than 100 cases will arrive in Chicago
today. All that does come will be by.
express"
'If the weather would let up we
could get all the eggs every one wants
but it is almost impossible to do SO
now said representative to John
Muir, II South Water street
THE urgent demand for eggs will
continue as long as the extreme cold
weather continues. Even If the hens
were laying it would be impossible to
ship eggs this kind of weather with
out freezing"
Eve frankly acknowledge that our
supply of eggs is limited" is the state
ment Of Frank Rust & Co., 264 South
Water street, "and it is certain there
are but few eggs in Chicago or the
price would not be soaring"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
AGENCY.

strong is sick.
Mrs. e. E. Giltner, of osceola, is
visiting friends here.
The thermometer registered thirty
below zero Monday morning.
Several have united with the church
as reult Of the series of meetings
that have been held here.
The last number Of the Epworth
League lecture course will be delivered
in the M. E. church, Wednesday even
ing, February Is. by Rev. j. G.
Van Ess.
The Odd Fellows have a focial to-
night in town hall.
Miss Fannie Humphrey of Agency,
and E. e, Cash of Abba, are to be mar
ried at the residence of the brides
parents on Hazel street, Wednesday
evening at o'clock.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
Digests What You Eat

have been dyspepc all my le have tried all kinds Of
Dyspepsia remedies but continued to get worse Could eat
but little and suffered greatly. reduced in weight and
down nothing in strength. After using few bottles OF
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure began to improve and am now fully
restored in weight health and strength now able to do
my own work and eat whatever like.
MRS MARY S. cRIcK White Plains, KY.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
Real Estate Transfers.

Furnished by Lowenberg & Co., ,1o7
South Court. -
C. r. Tower and wife to l.. w. Roth
and May P. Roth, lot nineteen and part
of lot twelve, Hale addition Ottumwa.
$1,82500 s'-
Nellie G. Smith and E. E. Smith to
w. r. Hanshaw, lot twenty seven,
Richmond addition Ottumwa $4,000.
Nellie G. Smith and E. e. Smith to
S. L. Summer, lot twenty-ei Rich-s
mond addition, Ottumwa, $4,000 ~
Smily j. Best to Hannah P. Best,
part lot 2 Agency, s1.00.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
BISHOP M'LAREN is DYING.
Episcopal Divine Reported Near Death
In Advice to CHICAGO Friends,

Chicago, Feb. IA. - Word was re-
ceived in Chicago yesterday that
Bishop w. e. McLaren, head of the
Episcopal diocese of Chicago, is very
much worse at the residence on Madi-
son avenue, New York, where he has
been lying i'll for some time.
Advices received by friends are that
Bishop McLaren is sinking rapidly and
that his death is question Of only a
few hours at the moSt.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
No American Deaths on Isthmus.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE isthmian
canal commission yesterday received
cablegram from Governor Davis, of
the Panama canal zone, announcing
there had been no deaths during the
past month among employees from the
United States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-16
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE is ILL.,.
Kansas Editor Is Down With Eryslp..
elias in Manitou, Colo,

Manitou, Colo. Feb. 14--William Al.
len White, author and editor of the
Emporia (Kas.) Gazette, is seriously
i'll here with erysipelas. He came
here recently with his family.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
Fraud Exposed.

A few counterfeiters have lately
been making and trying to sell iml-
tations of DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, C)ughs and Colds,
and other medicines, thereby defraud-
ing the public. This is to warn you
to beware of such people, who seek
to profit, througn stealing the reputa-
tion of remedies which have been sue
cessfuliy curing disease, for over 30
years. A sure protection, to you, is
our name on the wrapper Look TO.
it, on all DR.. Kings, or Bucklen S
remedies, as all others are mere iml-
tations. H. h. Bucklen q 20. Chicago,
H., and Windsor, Canada.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
EAR TORN OFF.

c. L. Cornwell, 1fty years of age, was
knocked down by Poftland-avenue
car at Twenty-sixth street, about 7
o'clock last night and his right ear
was torn off. He was removed to his
home, 341S High avenue, where the ear
Uas sewed in place by Drs. C. +. Payne
and T.. c. Underwood. His injuries are
serious, but not necessarily fatal. Mr.
Cromwell is a civil engineer and is we'll
known. He superintended the con-
struction of much of the Louisville and
Nashville and Henderson Route aud
was for long time connected with the
Santa e.-Wednesday's Louisville
Times.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
TELL TRUTH IN SOUTH.

illustration of the way they get at
things by direct method rather than
circumlocution was told the other day
Sy a southern gentleman.
"They are plain truth tellers over in
North Carolina, if I may accept state
ment 1 read the other day in paper
published at Wilmington" the man
said, "and 10 YOU know like the fail
1ng,' if may use such word. While
the legislature of the state Was consid-
ering the distillery bill a citizen gave
out the blunt statement: The disti)lery
bill that was agreed upon will have the
effect of putting me out of business,
and ! intend to bring suit for 1000,
the amount of liquor furnished the
democrats during the last campaign by
me. am democrat, and when the
managers come to me and asked what
would contribute ! ask what they in
tended to do about the whiskey legisla-
ton. was assured by several demo-
Gratis that the Asheville liquor business
would be let alone With this under
standing l agreed to honor the orders
of the democrats for whiskey.I have now
on file more than 300 orders for whisky,
amounting to 600 gallons, that was fur
nished by me during the campaign.
These orders were signed by several
county Office holders and member of
the general assembly from Buncombe,
and may be examined by any one.' This
is what they would call talk with the
bark on it in Arkansas. and like the
fellow who ma lie the statement. If the
democrats fail to keep faith with him,
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
ODE Simple Life
By Charles Wagner.

He was a socialist Of the right sort
for there are two kinds of them. Those
who aspire to appropriate &c them
selves a part OF the goods Of others
are numerous and commonplace. To
belong to their order it sufiices to have
a big appetite. Those who are hun
gering to divide their own goods with
men who have none are rare and pre-
ciOus, for to enter this choice company
there is need of a brave and noble
heart free from selfishness and sensi-
tive to both the happiness and unhappi-
ness of its fellows. Fortunately the race
of these socialists is not extinct, and
feel an unalloyed satisfaction in offer
ing them a tribute they never claim.
l must be pardoned for dwelling up
on this. 1t does one good to offset the
bitterness of so many infamies, SO
many calumnies, so much charlatan-
ism, by resting the eyes upon some
thing more beautiful. breathing the
perfume of these stray corners where
simple goodness flowers.
A lady. foreigner, doubtless little
used to Partisan life just now told me
with what horror the things she sees
here inspire her 49, these vile posters,
these yellow" journals. these women
with bleached hair, this crowd rushing
to the races, to dance halls, to roulette
tables, to corruption-the whole flood
of superficial and mundane life. She
did not speak the word Babylon, but
doubtless it was out of pity for one Of
the inhabitants of this city of per.
dition.
"Alas. yes, madam; these things are
sad but you have not seen all"
Heaven preserve me from that"
"On the contrary, l wish you could
see everything, for, if the dark side
is very ugly. there is so much to
atone for it. And, believe me, madam.
you have simply to change your quar-
ter or observe it at another hour. For
instance, take the Paris of early morn.
ing. 1t will offer much to correct
your impressions of the Paris of the
night. Go see. among so many Other
working people, the street sweepers,
who come out at the hour when the
revelers and malefactors go in. OBJ
serve beneath these rags those cary
atid bodies, those austere faces! How
serious they are at their work of
sweeping away the refuse of the
nights revelry! One might liken
them to the prophets at Ahasuerus'
gates. There are women among them,
many old people When the air is cold
they stop to blow their fingers and then
go at it again. SO it is every day. And
they, too. are Inhabitants of Paris.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15

The man who finds his satisfaction in
things which glitter and hold his eyes
is lost, first, because he will thus see
evil before all else, then because lie
gets accustomed to the sight of only
such good as seeks for notice, and there
fore easily succumbs to the temptation
to live himself for appearances. Not
only must one be resigned to obscurity;
he must love it if he does not wish to
slip insensibly into the ranks of figu-
rants, who preserve their parts only
while under the eyes of the spectators
and put off in the wings the restraints
imposed on the stage.
Here we are in the presence of one
of the essential elements of the moral
life. And this which we say is true
not only for those who are called hum
BILE and whose lot it is to pass unre-
marked; it is just as true, and more
so, for the chief actors. If you would
not be a brilliant inutility, a man OF
gold lace and plumes, but empty inside,
you must play the star role in the sim
pie spirit of the most obscure of your
except on hours of parade is worth less
than nothing. Have we the perilous
honor of being always in view, Of
marching in the front ranks? Let US
take so much the greater care of the
sanctuary of silent good within us; let
us give to the structure whose facade
is seen of our fellow men wide foun-
10 . ST Of
ity, and then, out of sympathy, out of
gratitude, let us stay near our broth
ers who are unknown to fame. We
owe everything to them, do we not?
call to witness every one who has
found in life this encouraging expert
ence-that stones hidden in the soil hold
up the whole edifice. All those who
arrive at having a public and recog-
niZed value owe it to some humble
spiritual ancestors, to some forgotten
inspirers. A small number of the good,
among them simple women, peasants.
vanquished heroes, parents as modest
as they are revered, personify for us
beautiful and noble living; their exam
pie inspires us and gives us strength.
The remembrance Of them is forever
inseparable from that conscience be-
fore which we arraign ourselves. In
our hours of trial we think of them,
courageous and serene, and our bur
dens tighten. In clouds they compass
us about, these witnesses invisible and
beloved who keep us from stumbling
and our feet from falling in the battle,
and. day 10y day do they prove to us
To be Continued.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
Copyright, 1901, By
Mcclure, Phillips g. Co.

"Go next to the faubourgs, to the
factories. especially the smaller ones,
where the children or the employers
labor with the men, Watch the army
of workers marching to their tasks.
How ready and willing these young
girls seem as they come gayly down
from their distant quarters to tie
shops and stores and offices of the
city. Then visit the homes from which
they come. See the woman of the
people at her work. Her husbands
wages are modest, their dwelling Is
cramped, the children are many, the
father is often harsh Make a collec-
ton of the biographies of lowly peo-
pie, budgets of modest family life;
loook at them attentively and long.
after that go see the students. Those
who have scandaliZed you in the streets
are numerous, but those who labor
hard are legion, only they stay at
home and are not talked about. If
you knew the toll and dig of the Latin
quarter! You find the papers full of
the rumpus made by a certain set of
The papers say enough of those who
break windows, but why do they make
no mention of those who spend their
nights toiling over problems? Because
it wouldn't interest the public. Yes,
when now and then one of them, q
medical student perhaps, dies a victim
to professional duty the matter has
fx.~A Tn, 10 A hrI1n nj
brawl gets half column, with every
detail elaborated. Nothing is lacking
but the portraits of the heroes, and not
always that.
81 should never end were to try
to point out to you all that you must
go to see if you would see all. You
would needs make the tour of society
at large rich and poor, wise and ig-
norant. And certainly you would not
Judge so severely then. Paris Is a
world and here, as in the world in
general, the good hides away while the
evil haunts itself. Observing only the
surface, you sometimes ask how there
can possibly be so much riffraff. When,
on the contrary, you look into the
depths you are astonished that in this
troublous, obscure and sometimes
frightful life there can be so much
virtue"
But why linger over these things?
Am l not blowing trumpets for those
who hold trumpet blowing in horror?
Do not understand me so. My aim is
this: To make men think about un-
ostentatious goodness--above all, to
make them love it and practice it.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15

moment one is tempted to eXclalm
where will not the good hide away"
And. i'm truth, life offers here great
surprises and embarrassing contrasts
There are good men, officially so rec
ognized, quoted among their assocl-
ates-I had almost said guaranteed by
the government or the church - who
can be rcproached with nothing but
dry and hard hearts. while we are as
tonshed to encounter in certain fallen
human beings the most genuine ten
aerness and as it were, a thirst for
self devotion.
should like to speak next, apropos
of the inglOrious good, of class that
today if is thought quite fitting TO
treat with the utmost one sidedness.
mean the rich. Some people think the
last word is said when they have stig-
matized that infamy, capital. For
them. all who possess great fortunes
are monsters gorged with the blood OF
the miserable. Others, not so declama-
tory, persist. however, in confounding
riches with egoism and insensibility.
rOrs, be they involuntary or calculated.
No doubt there are rich men who con-
Germ themselves with nobody else, and
others who do good only with osten-
taton. Indeed, we know 1t too well.
But does their inhumanity or hypocrisy
take away the value Of the good that
others do and that they often hide with
modesty so perfect?
| knew a man to whom every mis-
fortune had come which can strike us
in our affections. He had lost be-
loved wife. had seen all his children
buried one after another. But lie had
a great fortune. the result of his own
labor Living I'm the utmost simple
lty. almost without personal wants, he
spent his time in searching for OppOr-
tunities to do good and profting by
them. How many people he surprised
l.: fragrant poverty. what means he
combined for relieving distress and
lighting up dark lives, with what
kindly thoughtfulness he took his
friends unawares. no one can imagine.
He liked to do good to others and en-
Joy their surprise when they did not
know whence the relief came. 1t
pleased him to repair the injustices of
fortune, to bring tears of happiness in
families pursued by mschance. He
was continually plotting contriving,
matchmaking in the dark with a child
lsh fear Of being caught with his hand
in the bag. The greater part of these
fine deeds We're not known till after
his death; the whole of them we shall
never know
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
Translated From the French by
Mary Louise Hendee.

mindlng us tnat others, very sensn,
take interest in nothing but their own
comfort and that of some cat or canary
upon which their powers of affection
center, and certainly these are not out
done i'm egoism by the most hardened
celibates of the stronger sex. But what
we oftenest forget is the amount Of
self sacrifice hidden modestly away in
so many of these truly admirable lives
Is it nothing TO be without home and
its love. without future, without per-
sonal ambition? to take upon oneself
that cross Of solitary life so hard to
bear, especially when there is added
the solitude OF the heart? to. forget
oneself and have no other interests
than the care Of the old, of orphans,
the poor, the infirm-those whom the
brutal mechanism of life casts out
among its waste? Seen from without
these apparently tame and lusterless
lives rouse pity rather than envy.
Those who approach gently sometimes
divine sad secrets, great trials under
gone, heavy burdens beneath which
only the side of shadow.
We should learn to know and value
this richness Of heart, this pure good
ness, this power to love, to console, to
hope, this joyful giving up Of self, this
persistence in sweetness and forgive
ness even toward the unworthy. Poor
old maids. How many wrecked lives
oil
have you healed, how many wanderers
have you gently led Alright, how many
naked have you clothed, how many
orphans have you taken in and how
many strangers who would have been
alone in the world but for yOu-yOu
who yourself are often remembered
OF no one. | mistake. Some one
knows you: 1t is that great mysterious
Pity which keeps watch over our lives
and suffers in our misfortunes. For
gotten like you. often blasphemed. it
has confded to you some of its heav-
enliest messages. and that perhaps Is
why above your gentle comings and
goings we sometimes seem to hear tha
rustling wings of ministering angels.
The good hides itself under so many
different forms that one has often as
much pains to discover it as to unearth
the best concealed crimes. a Rus
sian doctor who had passed ten years
of his life in Siberia. condemned for
political reasons to forced labor, used
to find great pleasure in telling Of the
courage and humanity he
had observed. not only among Il large
number of the condemned, but also
among the convict guards. For the
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
THIRD UNION IN COUNTY.

The farmers in the neighborhood Of
Browns schoolhouse in Tobin town.
ship, organized a local union Of the
American Society Of Equity last Satur-
day night, of ten members. Steve
Rutherford was chosen president and
Chas. Klein secretary. 1t is the third
local union in the county These local
unions are scattered all over Kentucky,
and their object is to have the farmers
get together and hold their products
until they get a certain satisfactory
price for them. 1t is nOn-partisan and
they have just as much right to COM
bine and raise the price on what they
raise as the trusts do after it is raised
Cannelton Telephone.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15

do not hesitate to say that the best of Colorado
have far more conscience in fulfilling their responsibilities
as voters than the of the class 1t is also true
that of standing in the community have great in
huence with the who particularly interested in
public affairs.
We constantly asked by visitors to Colorado, but
how do prominent women with their many duties and Obl
cations have time for poitcs TO speak to ones grocer
butcher staoner, a conductor to cabman,
takes only instant and it takes just about hour in
your to all the ballots necessary and allowable.
The women of the haf-world generally do vote. They
constantly changing their residences and their
They do wish give any data concerning themselves
their age number and street. they prefer to remain
unidentified Occasionally disrepuabe master COM
pels these slaves for his purposes but it
occurrence.
Has the vote wholly purified politics. and have
banhed saloons! No. to both questions 1t would be be-
yond expect such result Women have been in
churches and society since the beginning of time but there
still vicious minds and sinful deeds in both religious
and social circles. The most is that if pour
clear stream into muddy shall have moving of
the waters" for beement
There j. splendid womany independence in being
voting citizen, and absorbing interest in fulfilling the
duty of citizenship; and there is much chvalrous de-
voton and respect the part of men, who look upon their
sister, not paythug property, but equals and
felow-citizens.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15

me gOod, Tor ne was nummlng a song
as he broke his stones. We exchanged
a few words, and he said at the end:
"Well, goodby, my boy. Good courage
and good luck" Since then l have
passed and repassed along that same
route. under circumstances the most
diverse painful and joyful. The stu
dent has finished his course, the break
er of stones remains what he was. He
has taken few more precautions
against the seasons storms, n rush
mat protects his back, and his felt hat
is drawn farther down to shield his
face. But the forest is always send
ing back the echo of his valiant ham
mer. How many sudden tempests have
broken over his bent back. how much
adverse fate has fallen on his head
on his house, on his country. He con-
tinues To break his stones, and coming
and going find him by the roadside,
smiling in spite of his age and his
wrinkles. benevolent, speaking above
all In dark days-those simple words
Of brave men, which have 50 much cf-
feet when they are scanned to the
breaking of stones.
1t would he quite impossible TO eX-
press the emotion the sight of this sim
pie man gives me. and certainly he
has no suspicion of it. know Of moth
ing more reaSsuring and at the same
time more searching for the vanity
which ferments insOur hearts than this
coming face to face with an obscure
worker who does his task as the oak
grows and as the good God makes his
sun TO rise, without asking who is
looking on.
have known, too, a number Of old
teachers. men and women who have
passed their whole life at the same oc-
cupation. making the rudments Of hu-
man knowledge and a few principles
of conduct penetrate heads sometimes
harder than the rocks They have done
it with their whole soul throughout the
length of a hard life in which the at
tention Of men had little place. When
they lie i'm their unknown graves no
one remembers them but few humble
people like themselves, but their rec
ompense is i'm their love. No one is
greater than these unknown.
How many hidden virtues may one
not discOvcr-if he know how to search
among people Of class he often rid
icules without perceiving that in so do
ing he is guilty of cruelty, ingratitude
and stupidity! l mean old maids. Peo-
pie amuse themselves with remarking
the surprising dress and ways Of some
of them-things Of no consequence, for
that matter They persist also in re-
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR cdIlLs.

Itching, Blind, Bleediug or Pro:ruding
Piles. Druggists refund money If PAZO
OINTMENT fails TO cure any case, no matter
OF how long standing int 10 II days. First
application gives ease and rest. SOC. III your
druggist hasn't 1t send soc in stamps and 1t
will be forwarded postpaid by Paris Medi-
cine Co., st. Louis. Mo.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
GET WHAT DESERVE.

Last week August w. Machen, former
head of the free delivery system of the
postoffice department, who was indict-
ell as the result OF the postal investi-
cations, and Diiler b. Croft and Samuel
A. Croft, of Washington, who were con-
The Breckenridge news., 1905-02-15
DISASTROUS YEAR.

Because of low water aud ice few
boats have run longer tran three or
four months in the past twelve months.
The past year is said to have been the
most disastrous in the history of navi-
CATION on the Ohio.