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"Gent uptown telephones for an officer at once. Burglars In the house.' "Let me see," said the captain, reflectively "I've got four men censoring

plays, two inspecting the gowns at a society function and two more super­vising a tango tea Tell him I can send him an officer in about two hours." LOTS OF PEOPLE MAKE MONEY BY USING COURIER WANT ADS-

HALF CENT A WORD.

themes. Christ began his ministry by quoting scripture;, here, risen and tri­umphant, he still finds in the Old Tes­tament sufficient explanation of him­self.

Hospitality, and a Consequence. If the wayfarers had not hospitably

pressed their companion to enter their

THREE KEOKUK CO. iMorilS Williahlg WOMEN GET DIVORCES i Sigourney, April 8.—A number of di- i

vorce cases were heard in the district • JUST

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court on Tuesday afternoon. In the J home, they would' never have Known! case of Ida Moore vs. David E. Mcore that the Lord himself had walked by!a docree was granted to plaintiff on the their side. How much we miss when J ground of cruel treatment. In the case we fail of hospitality! In the blessings! of Florence Mitts vs. John Mitts a de of the frugal meal and in the breaking cree was granted on the ground of de

RECEIPT OF FOLLOWING TELEGRAM:

j;:-^ Lost.

ESTRAYED—SMALL BAY PONY, wt. about 800 lbs., bald face, blind in right eye. A. Seaburg, new phone 306-K.

ESTRAYED—BAY MARE, SMOOTH mouth and foot sore, escaped from Ennlg Sterner farm east of Agency, on March 31. Notify Ennis Sterner, Batavla, la., or J. F. Rugg. Phone 367-B, Ottumwa.

Wanted WANTED—PLACE ON FARM BY

experienced farm hand. $30; can give plenty of references. Address A-6-E Courier.

WANTED—EXPERIENCED COLOR-ed girl for housework. References re­quired.- Address-A-8-X care Courier.

WANTED—GIRL FOR GENERAL housework. Apply to Mrs. Carl F. Rauscher, 216 N. Marion St. Phono 758-x.

WANTED—TO BUY HIDES AND calves. Boston Market No. 1 at 123 East Second. Both phones 60.

For Sale FOjR SALE—110 ACRES ONE-HALF

mife from city. Call new phone 665-Y.

.ORPINGTONS, RICH GOLDEN Buffs, S. C. Splendid size and oolor. Prize winners. Foundation stocks cook, Statter, best pens, 15 eggs $2; 30 eggs $3.60. Colony flock $1 per sitting. Rev. Chas. Wheeler, Floris,

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For Sale

BARRED ROCK EGGS FOR SALE from big boned birds. 76c per 15. $4.60 per hundred. Grace Emmons, Liberty-ville, Iowa.

AMERICAN STANDARD FAWN AND White Indian Runher Duck eggs for hatching. $1 per 15. $6 per 100. Mrs. W. A. Fulmcr. Phone 10-Y Eddyville Iowa.

BRADLE'V'H PURE BRED R. C. REDS 'and Penciled Runner ducks have taken firsts wherever shown and are .bred to lay. Cockerels, baby chicks, eggs for sale. Send for mating list. Bradlej^ Poultry Farm, Mystic, la.

SINGLE *COMB WHITE LEGHORN eggs, af strictly choice flock of ma­tured winter layers. Raised on free range. Prices reasonable. W. H. Boon ••Batavia, Iowa. /

FOR SALE—R. I. RED EGGS, 50c per setting or three setting for $1.00. Mrs. William Given, Route No. 8, Ottumwa, Iowa. Or call Highland telephone.

FOR SALE— WHITE PEKIN DUCK eggs, 11 for 50c. Mrs. Newell Brown, Selma, la.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS, 75C per 15; $2 for 50; all orders for less than 50 sent by parcel post prepaid. Bertha Christy, Selma, la.

FOR SALE—TWO SHORTHORN yearling bulls. Eligible registry. Joe Schoech. Blakeaburg, R. No. 1.

C. D. GILTNER, OTTUMWA, IOWA, R. 1, phone 684-W. Breder or quality Buff Orplnsjtons. Eggs and stock for sale. Write me your wants.

FOR SALE—WHITE WYANDOTTE and Barred Rock eggs, 75c per sit­ting. Mrs. W. C. McMichael, 417 North Clay street. New phone 771-K

In The Religious World (REVIEW OF SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.)

If

' " ^ (By William T. Ellis.) . Two. men are walking with lowered

h^adfc toward the wes£. Their feet are | heavy, as if weighted. Dejection is

? written in their face, their attitude, | their tones. The fresh gray of the | olive orchards by the roadside has no

" beauty for them. They are blind to i th« effulgence of the spring flowers ! which carpet Judea's hills. A mood

of depression Is upon them, like a black cloud.

Behind them lies the city of David, where th6y had expected to see, at this very time, the wonder of wonders, the consummation of the hopes of the na-

•j tion, the assumption of kingly power | my the long-expected Deliverer. \ Instead they had seen Him who was

•heir hope executed as a 'common Hminal. The leaders of the nation ihich they expected He would restore '<ad been foremost in the dreadful pied. Their gentle Prophet was dead. (Iprough two long nights and a Sab-

Sth between that awful reality had awn clearer and clearer. Portents the sky had attended His death,

Instantiating his claims. All to no jtrail, He now was dead: xthey had >en Him laid in Joseph's new tomb.

>' Now nothing remained but to take fep...life's common round, a supreme - aope extinguished. These two men be-

I kpnged in the procession of disappoint-j eA ones, who nevertheless resume life's | diities in grim fortitude and faithful-

J neiss, even when all the lamps of the sojul have gone out. Until this third day they had remained with the com-pajny of comrades of Jesus; now they

t mi|ist.go back to Emmaus, their village ® home. High hopes had been extin­

guished, but at least blessed routine called them. And as they walked, they talked of what might have been.

When the Mood is Gray. It was like the ride home from the

cemetery, was this seven mile jour­ney. The dear dead man was the theme. The words, the little familiar tricks of voice and manner, the kindly thoughtfulness, the great deeds of Jestis, their crucified leader, filled their conversation. Over all hung the gray

pall. "It might have been!" Discouragement never sees clearly.

The mood of these men blinded their eyes. The great gift of holding to a ti'uth through all sorts of weather was not theirs. Only rare souls have this capacity. As I write these lines I sit propped up in a bed of Illness, and out-Blde the rain is falling; therefore, the Blaster note of jubilation does not Boynd so spontaneously as the lesson demands. A week hence I may forget that the sky was ever gray.

The disciples did not "feel" their religion; as if their feelings had aught to do with the Immutable love of God or the changeless truth of Christ. De­pression is always a foil to faith. Phys­ical moods blind us to spiritual reali­ties. The mental attitude of those two disciples intervened like a thick veil between;them and a clear vision of their Lord'.

The Talk By the Way. For the stranger who joined them

in .their walk, in the easy, familiar and democratic fashion of the plain peo­ple, was none other than the risen Christ himself, though they knew it not. He slipped naturally into the talk, with a few searching questions, and they told him all—their hopes, the tragedy of the crucifixion, their despondency, and the unsettling ru­mors concerning those who had been early at the grave, which they found empty.

Then, to their amazement, and joy, this new-found companion began to widen their knowledge by showing from the Old Testament that it was thus the Messiah should die and rise again. These men belonged to the large company of Christians unfamiliar with the study of the Bible. Like many others, they were discussing the profundities of religion in ignorance of the teachings of religion. A little less speculation and a little more read­ing of the Bible would clear up most of our spiritual perplexities. We miss a primary teaching of this particular lesson, unless we learn afresh the im­portance of looking into the Bible for authoritative' teaching upon religious

of the bread, their eyes were opened Perhaps they saw the prints of the nails in his hands; perhaps it was a familiar gesture; perhaps the new at-, titude at the meal gave them a clearer i from her husband Parley Crocker on vision. Somehow, they knew him. j the ground of desertion. Default was

sertion and alimony in the sura of $1,600. The alimony was adjusted out of court.

Zua Crocker teas granted a divorce

The Immortal Hope. Through the eyes of the two Em­

maus disciples we glimpse the glorious truth of the resurrection, and that "He is risen." This is the most preci­ous teaching of the New Testament. A contemporary essayist, E. S. Martin,

entered against the defendant, trial Vas had without a contest.

and

INSPECTS COMPANY H.

Chariton. April 8.—Company H, I N. (^underwent an inspection on Mon< day evening. Capt. Ball, U. S. inspec-

Chtcago, 111., April 8, 1914. Mtoris Williams:

Will you have any of my kind of horses in this week's sale?

Henry Levy. And for the benefit of our consignors

I will say "his kind" are cheap, plain, work horses, the sort we have had trouble in selling, from a $25 or $30 plug to a $100 or $125 work horse.

1 look for plenty of buyers for all classes this week. Bring them in. We will need them.

One of our buyers will be at Eddy­ville Saturday tho lltli.

MORRI8 WILLIAMS.

has freshly .expressed the place of this j tor wjj0 wa8 to have been the in-belief in lire. j specting officer, was unable to be here

"Beliefs of gre*t strength and influ- • on account of the death of his brother ence may lie dormant in the mind, un-j sergeant Wiener, of the U. S. A., in-responsive to surface questionings; j spected. the property and found things but accessible to the deep probings of: to be in good shape. Sixteen new re-great crises. So it is likely to be with f cruits have been added to the eom-the belief in our ability to survive pany recently and an effort will be death. It is the natural belief of peo­ple of our race and religion. We are born to it, and unless we wholly neg­lect it, or have taken thought long and deeply to eradicate and reject it. we live with it and die with it.

"And it is an invaluable item of our inheritance, an indispensable asset of our civilization. Men do not go along through life just the same, whether they believe in a future life or not. The perspective is different; the u, i wo

made to enlist eight more at once.

DEPART FOR "OLD COUNTRY." Des^ Moines. April 8.—Thirty-four

native^ of Austria, France and Italy left Des Moines this week for their homes via the Rock Island in a special car.' The men have been employed as miners in the several coal mines in the vicinity of Des Moines. According to •Rix Lamberti, agent for the steamship company, the men are going home on a social visit. The greater portion of

counts himself immortal, or able; them, he says, have been in this coun-to attain immortality, is bound to have I try four or five years and voluntarily a larger patience with earth, a some-1 decided to make a visit to their homes. what mitigated appetite for earthly; . ~TZZ . valuables. He is bound to care a little! GOVERNOR AT RAPIDS APRIL 21. less for the things he must leave be­hind and more for what he may take with him.

"And what is true of a man is true of a race or a civilization. It is the spiritual substance that is really tough, and the race in which spiritual­ity most persists and best tempers the ardors of acquisitiveness and ambition is the race of greatest promise, not on­ly for the purposes of heaven, but for those of earth. What makes Christian­ity the hope of our civilization is that it puts spiritual things before materi­al things; man before his works, char­acter ahead of all other acquisitions. We hope in it as the sole power strong enough to keep the balance in our world and to clear and soften and justi­fy the judgments of men."

STATE MEETING AT BURLINGTON MAY 25-26

Burlington, April 8.—The annual state convention of the Knights of Co­lumbus will be held in Burlington on the 25th and 26tli of May. On Sunday May the 24th a large class of candi­dates will be initiated into the order by past state deputy E. G. Dunn an<T-Mr. and Mrs. Martin Anderson and staff. The initiation will be followed by a banquet at which all the prominent members of the order in the state will make addresses. These officers will all be in Burlington for the convention which opens Monday morning. Special ctyurch services and music by a select choir of male voices will be held at St. John's church.

A large number of candidates from Mt. Pleasant, Fairfield, Fort Madison and Keokuk will be initiated and it is expected that fully 1,000 Knights will be present at this initiation.

SOKOLS TO MEET AT MARSHALLTOWN

Cedar Rapids, April 8.—At a meet-in- here the Cedar Rapids Sokol asso­ciation made plans to send a large delegation to Marshalltown on April 26 when the recently organized Marshall-town Sokols will be made members of the Middle division of the United States Sokol association.

John Pichner, president of the Cedar Rapids Sokol association, will repre­sent the Cedar Rapids Sokols. Joseph Halq, president of the middle division, will represent that body. Frank Snaj-berk of Cedar Rapids, who is the in­structor of the Marshalltown Sokols, have arranged for an elaborate cele­bration in which the Cedar Rapids Sokols will take a prominent part.

WALL FALLS; KILLS . BABE INSTANTLY

Cedar "Rapids, April 8.—There will be another big booster night at the Commercial club, on Tuesday evening April 21 and the chief speaker of that evening will be Gov. George W. Clarke of Iowa. It will be a booster evening in every sense of the word.

CHARITON.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Downard of St. Joseph, Mo., are visiting in Charlton with his parents Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Downard and other relatives and old friends. They formerly resided here. T1 ey are on their way to Michigan where they will be located for a time.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fleck and baby are spending a few days with relatives in Fairfield:

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Keller arrived last week from Yucapia, Calif., and will spend some time here. They formerly resided in this county.

Miss Iva Youtsey has returned from a few days' visit with friends in- Des Moines.

Floyd Bailey and family have moved to Des Moines where he has ac­cepted a position.

Mrs. J. r>. Elliott of Kirksville, Mo., formerly of this olty, is expected in a few days' for a visit with her parents

brother Enos Anderson and family. Lester Ream who is attending Par­

sons college at Fairfield is spending a few days wtili his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Ream.

Miss Leona Tedrow of Corydon is a guest of her sister Mrs. Clyde Duncan.

Miss Charlotte Williams of Albia, capie last evening for a visit with Mrs. Grace Glttinger Sugden.

The Misses Nellie Rea and Miriam Herr, teachers in the Chariton high school, went to Des Moines for a brief visit with friends.

Miss .Vici Williams .of Lacona return­ed home after a visit with her sister Mrs. Mont Enslow.

BLOOMFIELD.

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Winterset, April 8.—Everett McAdow the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mi-s. J. B. McAdow, of Lincoln township, was instantly killed by the falling wall of a ahed that hls^father. was teariijg down, for a few days, returned to her

Mrs. W. H. Slack and children went to Moscow, Iowa Thursday for a short visit VHh her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leimkenkler.

Claude Shields and family nof Bear Creek and O. K. Shields and family of Foster attended the funeral of their uncle, Harvey Shields here Thursday.

James Brown of Ottumwa was in this city Thursday.

Mrs. Delia Sowers and daughter Larue returned to their home in Mt. Pleasant Friday from a few days' visit at the home of the former's mother Mrs. Greenleaf.

Dossa Swlnney of Des Moines who has been visiting his parents Dr. and Mrs. Jode Swinney went to Des Moines Friday for a few days' stay.

Mrs. Naomi Day started Friday for Wapello, Iowa, to attend a meeting of the Home Missionary society of the Muscatine district of the M. E. church Saturday and Sunday and gave an ad­dress.

Miss Lillian Gilchrist who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Will Shreeveg

Announcement I am a candidate for the

nomination on the republi­can ticket for the office of sheriff of Davis county, la., subject to the republican voters at the June primary.

M. Dabney, West Grove, T*i.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

I am a candidate on the democratic ticket for sheriff of Wapello county subject to the decision of the voters at the June primary.

/ FRANK H. HARRIS.

Yonr Lawn Don't forget that now is

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SHEEP MANURE.

OTTUMWA SEED CO. 115 South Court Street

Political Announceiuv.^ I hereby announce my candidacy for

constable of Center township on the republican ticket subject to the June primary.

• C. A. ELLIOTT, Ex-Policeman

Birmingham Friday. T. E. Hall of Ottumwa was- in this

city Friday on business. Geo. Carsbn of Floris was in town

Friduy on business.

Reasonable prices and

best photographs have

doubled our trade.

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Main and Market

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Cnnla Office Bldg., Ottumvwa. Iowa.

NORTHERN GROWN' • SWEDISH SELECT.

Seed Oats Spelts, -Barley, Clover and

Timothy Seed and \ Garden Seed •r.

W. E. Jonft & at 307-309-311 West Main St.

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Norton & Smith Real E late Insurance and Land for Sale

First Natl.Bank Bid. \

Political Announcement I hereby announce my

candidacy for sheriff of Wa­pello county on the demo cratic ticket, subject to the

i voters at June primary. M. W. Criswell. *

Topliners on the Spring Style Bills r

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It Is as natural for a young man to seek

youthful style in clothes as it is for him to

enjoy baseball or tennis, or a high-speed

motor ride. „

In preparing our stock for the season, We

sought out a manufacturer of young men's

clothes whom we considered the beBt.

His clothes await your consideration. They

are known as Collegian Clothes, but you

must remember that they are acttially our

clothes and we personally recommend them.

In slim and trim lines—in elegance of

fashion—in big and small details, they are

perfect Easter clothes. "

If you are truly keen for the "unusual, in

styles, honor us with a review of our new­

est models.

We Pay Railroad Fare According Rules of Merchants' Association

to

Walk-Over Shoes for Men and Women $330 to SZ 00

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