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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-27
Markets Of the World
CHOICE P0RKERS
DOWN A NICKEL
ALL GRADES LOWER TODAY. 9TH
Err WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
PRICES UNCHANGED.

The local price for choice hogs fell
five cents on all grades today. The 9TH
er prices and all the retail prices are
unchanged. The prices are:
Hogs-120@15 LOO, $500; 10000, $3.50;
100000, $685.; 200@220, $500; 220@
900. s7.5 800 and over, $3.50; good
packers, $3.50; fair packers, $3.50
Catt.e-Choice corn fed heifers. $4.7S
@5.25; good heifers. $4@:.5o; common
fed cows $4.50@6: good cows, $4@4.50;
common to fair cows, $3@3.5O: Gamers
t2.60@3: bologna bulls, $4@4.50: butch
er bulls, s4.50@5: choice light calves,
$6;. good light calves, So; choice heavy
calves, 1904; common to fair heavy
calves. IS.
sheep-Choice lambs, s5.5o@6, good
lambs $505.50; common thin light
lambs, :s4@5; yea-lings. s4.5o@5: ewes.
Grain anc Hay.
Grain and hay-Street prices-Oats,
43@45c; straw, ton, 5000; corn, 100
75c; hay, $4,000; wheat, bu., 94@95c.
Hides. Wool and Taiiovv.
Hides-No. cured. lie: No. 2 cured
1oc: green NO. l. &c: green No. !. &C.
No. :. %
Wool Medium, unwashed, 22@23c;
coarse unwashed, 21@22c.
Beeswax and lallow-Beesw&x, Ne
I. Etc: No. &c: tallow No, SIC:
No. 3. &c.
Butter fat-r1o. I. soc: No. ,. sc.
Suster. Eggs ard Poultry
Creamery butter. zoe: country
butter, grocers pay, 20@22c.
Eggs-GrocersS pay, Ice.
Polltry-(These prices ara pale -
the producer)-Hens lie; ducks white
feathered, TO-; ducks, dark feathered.
SC; turkeys, 13c; geese, h., &c: guineas
each. zoe: springs. zoe: old ROSTERS, &c.
10c; old roosters. &c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-27
Rsta'y Prices.
, Flour and FooA

Flour and feed Graham flour, ~
sack, SOC: corn chops, per cwt., $1s5;
shorts per cwt., s1.75: bran, per
cwt.. $1.65; ear corn, per bu.. 81 10; shell
ed corn, per bu.. $1.10; hay, per cwt..
t1.1C; straw, per cNt. Soc: oats. 81,
soc; chicken feed, ground. 20 h., 40c;
clam she'll, per cwt.. 60c; meal, per
sack. 23c: corn and oat chop, 10 ID.
sack, 23c; corn and DAT chop, per cwt.,
s1.S5; straw, per cwt., SOC: oats, bu.,
soc: oat straw, bale, 75c; barley
$l.00: oil meal. per cwt., $40.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter. eggs and Cheese. Country
butter, 25@30c; Sept creamery,
butter, 30D3sc: eggs, per doz, 2Oc
Poultry--ieese. To-. 1914 @15c; tur.
keys. 18c. live springs. 15c: old hens,
dressed, zoe: ducks, dressed, zoe.
Fish.
white ash. pail. 6oc: herring. So;
goldfish, 10Gt18c; lake fish, pail. soc;
flnnan hsddie, h.. 15c.
Fresh f1sh-Catfish. h.. ISc; trout
tic; halibut. zoe.
Feuita
F'ruits-Bananas, 20@25c: lemons, soc;
oranges, 20@50c: apples. PIX. 2504oc
cranberries quart, 12hc; strawberries
red raspberries. zoe; black raspberries
15c: strawberries. 12kc; pineapples
15@20c; watermelons, 40c; cherries
So25@2.35.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
IDEAS OF APLAIN MAN
Waste Emotion.

There is a deal of waste emotion.
 Just as there is a deal of waste food. All food one takes that does not go to make force and healthy tissue clogs the system and breeds disease. And all emotion in which one indulges that does not get itself somehow transmit ed into action ferments and develops moral perversion-
 A man who has no religious feeling at all cannot be as wicked as the man who regularly experiences religious sentiment, but does not put it into
 practice.
 The one field where you cannot af- ford to be dilettante is morals. An ideal that never is put into your life steadily corrupts your character. A conviction that never works out into concrete deeds makes you worse and worse. Excessive indulgence in music, art i the theater or the romance, if it does not in some way get expressed in your words and fingers and actual human relations tends to make you morally ! f1abby.
 i William James says: Never to suffer ones self to have an emotion at a con- i cert, without expressing it afterward ir i some active way. Let the expression | be the least thing in the world-speak 1 ing genially to ones aunt, or giving UT ' one's seat in horse car, if nothing
 more heroic offers-but let it not fai
 to take place
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
WATER SUPPLIES.

Many places throughout the state are experiencing a shortage in their water supplies which threaten serious results If relief is not obtained. In this predicament Norwich knows how to sympathize with them after our experiences with a curtailed water supply for & number of months, and being obliged to resort to emergency sources and treated water in order to supply the needs of the households. It is situatiop which no community an- ticipates with pleasure or would vel come d repetition of, for aside from the inconvenience there is the added dan- ger of disease resulting from the con- dition of the supplies.
 It is a noticeable fact that with suc- ceeding years there is an increase in the number of dry seasons, and the question of water supplies resolves itself into one of providing sufficient storage capacity to supply the com munities through such periods of drought. Additional reservoirs where in the rainfall can be impounded when it comes will be needed to save the great quantity of water which goes to waste during heavy rains. Fortu- nately, Fairview reservoir was able to take care of all the heavy rains in the spring and now has several months supply in reserve, despite the fact that for many weeks practically no rain has fallen. Another season, and all future danger of depleted supply will be at an end. for by that time the Stony brook auxiliary should be able to double the quantity of water avail able. This provision is the proper thing to get through the dry seasons.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
UNITED STATES TRADE.

With the development of the trade of this country, an important condition is revealed by the fact that while there has been a large increase in foreign trade, there has been a much larger gain in the trade with the non-con- tiguous territories, than with foreign countries. For the calendar year, government statistics show that such trade will amount to 250 million dol- lars. This is an excess over decade ago of l50 per cent, while the trade with foreign countries in that period shows gain of but 75 per cent.
 Figures show that the trade with Porto Rico has increased from 2S million to about T5 million since 1908, the date when figures became availa- ble for non contiguous territories by reason of an act of congress. While the Porto Rican trade was tripling, that with Hawaii more than doubled. Jumping from 37 million to S5 million an increase of over 130 per cent With the Philippines, the trade in the nine years went from 15 million to about 4s million. while the Alaskan trade. which was 20 million in 1903, prom ises to be 45 million this year. this being exclusive of gold, which is likely to exceed all records.
 The years trade is based on the showing for the first eight months of the year. The merchandise sent to these territories to the first of Sep- tember totaled. "A million, while in return there was received 97 1-2 mil hon dollars worth, an increase of over twenty per cent While we are receiving an increased amount of goods from them the manufactures of this country are finding a much larger outlet in these territories.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
WANT NO DISASTER HERE.

It would seem from the frequent repetitions of their statements that the democrats hope to make the people believe many things concerning the tariff question which are not so. Their platform orators take occasion to refer to the republican promises as to tariff revision, and claim that in 1908 they promised ito revise the tariff downward, and instead they have re- vised 1t upward As a matter of fact, the republicans promised re- vision of the tariff for the removal of the inequalities. In doing this, they did revise it downward, and to an .ex- tent which stands out prominently by comparison. In 1908. the average rate of duty on all imports was 23.SS per cent. Instead of an increase. as the democrats claimed, the fiscal year of 1912 shows that the average was 1882 per cent. reduction on the average of 6.06 per, cent. There has also been an increase in the imports duty free of S.90 per cent, meaning over a quarter of billion in value.
 Thus 1t Is evident that the republi- can party has kept It's promise, though it is realized that all inequalities can not be removed at once, however good the intentions. Had the democratic house permitted, still more revisions would have been made. The slashing of the tariff, however, is not going to help this country. 1t will be sorry step and mean untold disaster in the United States. It is the voters for Wilson and those who vote for the candidate who is aiding Wilson who should consider well their step before inviting the conditions for the work ingman found in foreign countries.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
FARMERS INSTITUTES.

That is an excellent work which the board of agriculture is doing in the matter of furnishing speakers for farmers institutes to be held within the state. This assistance which the board offers is of immense value. be- ing open, as 1t is. to granges, farmers clubs, village improvement societies. business mems associations, and. in Tact, other societies which have an interest in matters which pertain to the development of Connecticut in dai- rying. fruit raising, poultry and agri- culture.
 There is no better way of stimuIat- ing an interest in getting back to the farm than to have those who have made an extensive study of the various pursuits connected with the develop rnent of the farm give their experi- ences and Ideas in connection there with and point out the possibilities which can be developed in any Sec ton by an interest and a close applj- . cation 10 the work Connecticut of fers an extensive field for operations in all these lines of which the board makes a speciality through it's speak CTS. The farmers glean much up tc date advice in the conduct of their business through the modern methods advocated. With them such insti- tutes should receive a wide apprecia ton, and every opportunity to get g better insight into their business fol the bettering of the soil, increasing the crops and enriching the bank ac- count should be jumped at. These in. stitutes should when properly received prove veritaple mortgage filters
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
OLD HAMPTON PAPERS
A Political Demonstration in 1s4o.

crossbar of which was chaiped a live coon, while the American flag floated from the mast. Slowly it came down the long ytreet. followed by a delighted crowd of cheering men and boys. When 1t reached the center of the green on Hampton Hill the procession halted, and proceedings were made for the barbecue.
 Directly in front of the entrance to the Bigelow road, where 1t meets the street, big hole had been dug in the ground, and there a great OK was roasted, which was afterwards served to the assembled crowd with mugs of hard cider and all the good things the i cooks of that day knew so well how to make.
 The women wore coonskin aprons and log cabin bonnets and waited on the crowd. Tine men wore coonslkin caps, and the young boys were not slow in appropriating such headgear l themselves.
 Tn the evening there was a great torchlight procession; the log cabin, with it's patient oxen, its indignant, protesting coon. and the patriotic float ing flag, again paraded the whole length of the street. Then it>returned to the green; local orators made fiery speeches, patriotic songs were sung to the music of the fife and drum, and the great crowd cheered madly for
 "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"
 The coon and the ash pole were SUD- posed to represent Ashland" Harri- sons home; and the log cabin parade and the hard cider barrel were in evi- dence all over the country where tho Harrison and Tv1pr narqdea Vvara held
 And when the news came that liar rison was elected, the Hampton men and boys celebrated the event with genuine joy, for they had done their part in electing him!
 SUSAN JEWETT HOWE.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
The Best Cough Jyrnp is Easily Made at Home Costs Little apd Acts Quickly. Money Refunded If It Falls.

This recipe makes a pint of cough syrup, and saves you about Sz.OO as coi2. pared with ordinary cough remedies. ls stops obstinate coughs--even whooplng cough--in hurry, and IS splenold TOT sore lungs, asthma, croup, hoarseneSa and other throat troubles. u
 Mix one pint of granulated sugar with 1a pint of warm water, and stir for minutes. Put 21a ounces of Pinex lnfty cents worth) in pint bottle, and add the Sugar Syrup. Take 8 teasPooniul every one, two or three hours. Tastes This takes right hold of a cough and gives almost instant relief. It stlmu- lates the appetite, and is slightly Iaxar tive-both excellent features. ,,
 Pinex, as perhaps you know, IS the most valuable concentrated compound or Norway white pine extract, rich In guaiacol and the other natural healing pine elements.
 No other preparation will do the work of Pinex in this recipe, although strained honey can be used instead of the sugar syrup, if desired
 Thousands of housewives in the United States and Canada now use this Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe. This plan has often been initiated, but the old success ful formula has never been edualed. lte low cost and quick results have mace N immensely popular
 A g;,pTan,v of absolute satisfaction, er money promptly refunded goes with this recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will get it for vnu. If not send to TAN Plnex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
THE BULLETINS SHORT STORY.
SHE HAD A MANIA

There is no question whatever" said Dwftter, that my wife has gone crazy on the jelly question. She"
 "Now, Henry" began Mrs. Dwitter defensively. Dwttter ignored her.
 T don't know where she got the germ" he proceeded, meditatively 'I suppose some other woman displayed her fruit cupboard last season to my wife, and Emiline was bitten by a plum jam bug. Anyhow, it took frightfully! Emiline began early last spring break ing out in remarks to the effect that she perfectly hated a winter like las% winter, when everything we had in the canned line was two jars of cher ries and six glasses of cuTrant jelly.
 That was because we went to Eu- rope. All the mountains of Switzer- land couldn't make up to Eniline for the temporary slump in the home pre- serve supply.
 "She began when strawberries were in the market. 1 left her one morning telephoning wildly to the grocer about crate of berries that had or hadn't come. When I got home that night Emiline was just emerging from the kitchen. At first I thought that she had stabbed the cook in a frenzy, but she said it was only strawberry juice that tdisfigtIred her face and arms. She said she was so tired she was ready l., drop, but that she made 35 glasses of strawberry preserves and I must come and look at them.
 1T don't know how she saved enough berry juice out of that crate to fill the glasses, for the whole kitchen was smeary and red and everything that l came out of it for days had smashed strawberries on it. Emiline couldc't go to the Wickers' card party that evening because her hands were Sc stained Every day she went down to the fruit cupboard and gloated over those 35 glasses until she got her crate of cherries. Do you know anything about pitting cherries? Tn ebest way is to take the ! cherry by the neck, step on 1t and yank the pit from it with dentist g forceps, but Emiline persisted in using
 a patent bitter. All the kitchen wall | was soon neatly speckled with cherry 1 jtrice in a polka dot pattern that rath
 CT clashed with the strawberry red l There were a dozen glasses each of :, cherry preserves and spiced cherries and I think Emiline then began burn- | ing incense every day before the shelves in the fruit cupboard.
 There was next an era of watermel- on pickles, and 1t impressed itself firm. | ly on my memory because Emiline
 made me help cut up the melon rind one evening, the cook having gone to
 a party. approve of melon rind when
 it is connected with the juicy crimson
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22

pulp of the melon, but I can't get up any enthusiasm at all about 1t when l; stands alone. To cut it up into small pieces you have to stab it with a fork, weight it down with a flat iron and then carve it while 1t writhes in agony. expected every minute to hear my piece of melon rind yelp, but we finally drowned 1t in soda water and left 1t for the night
 "Emiline boiled that stuff all the next day in everything from glue to carbolic acid, think, and at night she was dis solved in sticky tears. She said the pickle was all right, but the juice had been boiled away so much that she couldn't fill up the jars and the gro- ceTy was closed and she couldn't get any more vinegar. and if 1 asked her to go to the theater again she would simply die. She got more vinegar the next day and then we had to get an- other melon, because there was so much good juice left over that she mustn't waste it. The amount Of pick le and juice never matched for days, and the price of melons rose because we bought so many.
 After that came blackberry jam and plum jelly and jam from the dregs Of the plums. Then there were entrants that didn't jell and Emiline had hys- terics that night and then there were some more pickles made of cucumber5 and raisins and pearl buttons or some thing like that. I believe also heard something about spiced gooseberries I've forgotten the rest. was always pumping into boys delivering more jelly glasses at my house and Emiline lived in sugary daze.
 Tn her sleep she would shriek tri- umphantly, One hundred and four,one hundred and i've Then would know she was counting her treasure in the fruit cupboard in the basement and would soofhe her with firm hand by jamming a pillow into her classic coun- tenance. Emiline's hands got to be all the colors of the rainbow and we never went anywhere because if she wasn't finishing something in the fruit line
 she was beginning something or stick | ing labels or carrying the finished pro- duct downstairs. She"
 "Henry!" broke in Mrs. Dwitter. Its hateful of you to exaggerate so! I- Where are you going at this min ute?" Dwitter asked sternly. I'll bet two cookies and sardinet that you are on your way to buy more jelly glasses aren't you now,
 well" said Mrs Dwitter, defantly
 what if I am? There are crabpapples and grapes yet to come and .I knew it." groaned Dwitter. It's hopeless! We have only S06 cans and glasses of preserves nowl Heaven hell us!"-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22

run out of capital Is.
 He never favored a government by ME. for ME and of ME.
 He never questioned the authority of the supreme court.
 He never said If they want the sword they shall have it"
 He never insulted prominent citizens by calling them liars.
 He never was a radical in the west and conservative in the east.
 He never was accused of appropriat- ing to himself ideas launched by Bry- an.
 He never suffered from the delu- sion that the people were calling him.
 He never marched up to a national convention and then marched down again.
 He never had a friend in the sen ate who voted to defeat the peace treaty.
 He never thought himself great CT public figure than Washington or Lincoln.
 He never instructed the attorney general of the United States to halt a trust prosecution suit.
 He never thought that association with himself would turn corrupt political ''boss" into a party Header"
 He never tried to fool all of the peo- pie some of the time, nor some of the people all of the time, nor all of the people all the time.-Baltimore Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
WHAT TAFT HAS NOT DONE.

He never signed round robin. He never tried to muzzle the press. He never organized an Ananias club.
 He never compared himself to Lin- coin.
 He never organized Bull Moose party.
 He never advocated the recall of judges.
 He never capitalized his huntin% prowess.
 He never imagined himself the whole people. He never disgraced the general of the army.
 He never tried to dictate terms to the vatican.
 He never had a Wall street tainted money packer.
 He never told Great Britain how to govern Egypt
 He never encouraged muck kiny or muck-rakers. He never played the drum major to attract following.
 He never turned traitor to tho par ty that honored him.
 He never imagined himself the whole republican party.
 He never played the man on horse back to the galleries He never humlliated an dmtral after a brilliant victory,
 He never aroused the enthusiasm of the Harvester Trust.
 He never caused prlnLlnS otflcn te
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 In the intense interest of this pres ent campaign 1t is interesting to hear of the campaigns of bygone days, and to know that years make very little difference with the enthusiasms of po- litical celebrations. Human nature is the same from generation to genera ton, and each party Is loyal to it's candidate and to its creed.
 Probably Hampton was never more interested in a political campaign than 1t was in 1S40, when William Henry Harrison, of Log Cabin fame, was run by tho whig party against Martin Van Buren, the democratic candidate.
 Feeling was strong against Van Buren and many campaign ditties were sung, one being a refrain which ended
 And we'll beat Little Van.
 For we can; and we can.'
 The young boys of Hampton were greatly excited over the prospect of a Harrison barbecue. Ebenezer Jewett, George Holt Lucian Whitaker and William Ashley, all living yet in Hampton, were boys ranging in ages from ii years to Ia, and the following account is given by Mir. Jewett, who recalls the great night, a wonderful event of his boyhood. as if 1t was but yesterday:
 The town marshal had charge of the day and the great parade. For weeks the boys could think of nothing else and when the great day arrived they were present with all the rest of the countryside who believed in William Henry Harrison. or else wanted to sec the fun.
 Three OK teams finally appeared coming from the south end of the long street; they were gaily decorated witf evergreen, and they drew big log 1 cabin on wheels, the cabin being sur mounted by a white ash pole, on tho
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
POOR CAMPAIGN MATERIAL.

Regardless of the determination of other candidates to cease their politi- cal speaking at a critical time, as Woodrow Wilson has done, and the general display throughout the coun- try of deep regret for the Milwaukee incident, which came so close to a fatality, the leaders of the ColonePs party are making 1t their prominent campaign feature, and it is poor commentary upon their motives and the American people. It Is, as Sem ator Root said: Our whole system of constitutional freedom and order Is attacked. It will go down unless actively supported by those who be- lieve in government under the re- straint of declared principles as op- rule of law rather than the rule of man."
 When 1t comes to charging other parties, public speakers and news papers with being the cause of the attack upon him, because they op- posed the principles he advocates, 1t is devoid of reason. The New York Sun on that point well says:
 "The suggestion that these oppon- ents of MT. Roosevelt's policies are in any degree responsible for the as- sault upon him is simply infamous. So far as violence of expression Is con- cerned. their utterances have been mild as milk when compared with the characterization of his opponents in which MT. Roosevelt himself has hab- itually indulged.
 We refer to this matter reluctantly We should prefer at this time simply to await Mir. Roosevelt's full recov- cry in hopeful silence. Now, however the most active leaders in his new party are persisting in systematic | attempt to utilize the assault upon him for partisan purposes. Human sympathy and admiration for pluck and endurance should not be thus in- voked and abused"