Ottawa Evening Journal from Ottawa, Kansas • 6

EDITORIAL PAGE OTTAWA, KANSAS ttattra. I "America asks nothing for herself but what she has a right to ask JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she Memhur Nwinanr Fnlmn Member United Press for humanity itself." P.Tifw, lway the right; but our country, right or wrong." Member Newspaper Enterprise Woodrow Wilson. rublisners Stephen Decatur. Association ANCIENT EGG TRIES TO Confessions of a Wife HATCH A FINE ROMANCE THE MARKETS HAY, GRaTnTpRODUCE. Address Written in 1908 But Loves Warmth Gets in Cold Storage.

MY LETTER TO DICK. Latest quotations furnished by the United Press Leased Wires exclusively for the Journal. LIVESTOCK. Kansas City, P'eb, 7. The livestock market today was as follows: CATTLE Reictps 15,000.

Market steady to 10 cents lower. Steers $6 $9.25. Cows and heifers Stockers and feeders Calves HOGS Rceipts $11,000. Market steady to strong. Bulk of sales, $7.70 $7.95.

Heavy Mediums $7.607.90. KANSAS CITY CASH GRAIN. WHEAT Market lower. No. 2 hard No.

3 hard $U8 $1.28. No. 2 red No. 8 CORN Market lower. New York, Feb.

7. "How long does an egg in cold storage remain edible?" "Does an egg ever possess the power of a love cham?" These questions perplex Miss Leo-nore Kronfield of Summit, N. J. When employed in an egg packing house in 1908 Dale Bain of No. 905 North State street, Marion, 0., wrote his name and address on an egg.

Miss Leonore, a high school pupil and music teacher, bought that very egg and eleven others in a Summit grocery on Jan. 1 last. She did not eat the egg, for her parents have taught her to be reverent to age. But she wrote to Mr. Bain and he replied: "This is a funny episode.

The last time I wrote my address on an egg was in 1908. As you have survived the egg, I would like to hear from you again. Who knows but that I may be in New Jersey some day?" Miss Leonora admftted yesterday that she had answered Mr. Bain and would not deny that they might exchange photographs soon. She still has the egg.

TRACTOR SHOWS OPEN. I have been thinking much over what you have written me Dick, and I have come to the conclusion that you are right in one thing. A man tries to make his wife an angel while only a very human woman will satisfy his human nature. I have come to the conclusion also that the theory of the 'oneness' of a wedded is very beautiful, but that reality can never work it out to a perfect conclusion. Dick, I wonder if a man ever finds the woman that you say a man always adores as his wife has the traditional feet of clay.

Sometimes he does and then I think he feels quite as hurt as I do. Today after I read your letter for the third time my thoughts seemed' to resolve themselves into the form of the following rhyme. I do not know whether you'Will be angry or will laugh when you read it. I call it: HER IDOL. She crowned him with a laurel wreath And gazed into his eyes beneath To see his soul arise.

She laid her trusting head upon his heart And hoped that it might heal the smart Of grief in joy's disguise. She held to him her suppliant hands And said: "He always understands That good within me lies." Blindly she worshipped and adored And brought to him her whole great hoard Of love that never dies. She never knew his feet were clay Until one sad heartbreaking day She dropped her eyes And found a laughing little maid Who all unconscious there had strayed Making mud pies. That is what you made of me Dick, wasn't it? For me the laurel crowned head in the clouds, the adoration and the trusting heart. For "the other woman" the fun, the irresponsiveness, the childish joy, of making "mud pies." Perhaps Eleanor Fairlow was right Dick no one woman can be all things to any one man.

I am not going to believe it yet, however. But if that it so, don't hug to your heart that any one man can be all things to any one woman. I I have disappointed you Dick because you found your idol cold and Irresponsive and somewhat hard to reach on the pedestal on which you placed her, your disappointment is nothing to mine who found "the feet of clay." Margie. '( To be contiued.) together to vindicate the rights of mankind." But the great sensation of the tour was reserved for Topeka, Kas. What has already become known as the "Topeka Declaration" promises to become a historic document.

The president's remarks are said to be aimed at foreign interference with United States commerce. The declaration reads: "There is another thing that we ought to safeguard, and that is our right to sell what we produce in the open neutral markets of the world. "It may be necessary to use the force of the United States to vindicate the right of American citizens everywhere to enjoy the protection of international law." tection of international law." As he neared the conclusion of his work, the president's words semed to increase in forcefulness. At Kansas City, he referred to the embarrassments which he had to endure in connection with Mexican affairs: "What stands behind the president if he should have to set out in your behalf to enforce the demands of the United States for respect and right? An army so small that I have not had men enough to patrol the Mexican border." At St. Louis, he shaped his final appeal in these words: "I know you will come if I can call you, but will you, coming, know what you are doing and how to do it? "The plans now laid before the congress of the United States are merely plans not to throw the life of American youth away.

Those plans are going to be adopted. "The American navy ought, in my judgment, to be incomparably the greatest navy in the world." Whether the president's speeches are read in whole or in part, they produce a feeling of security the kind which comes from a realization of power and the knowledge of how to direct it in the best way. No. 2 mixed 69Jc. No.

3 mixed G71c G8. No. 2 white 70Jc71c. No. 3 white 70c.

KANSAS CITY FUTURE CLOSE. WHEAT May July Sept. $1,111. CORN May 715c; July 713c; Sept. 721c.

HAY MARKET. Market Unchanged. Receipts 219. Prairie choice, Alfalfa LOCAL MARKETS. Kansas City, Feb.

7. A big circus tent is the first thing visitors to Kansas City saw this morning, but it didn't cover a circus. Instead it houses the first tractor show ever staged in Kansas City. With Kansas and Missouri selling horses and mules at war prices, the tractor men are out to sell the former a substitute. ment will be in Hope cemetery.

The pallbearers will be: A. Willis, S. H. Lucas, L. Foy, E.

V. Sayers, D. A. Rose and T. Hughes.

AGED MAN DIES. Farm Produce. Eggs, doz 25c Hens, lb 12c Spring chickens, lb 10c Broilers, lb 14c Old roosters, lb 6c Ducks, lb. 8c Geese, lb. 0c Butterfat, lb 29 Packing butter, lb 16c Hides.

Salt cure, No. 1, lb 161c Salt cure, No. 2, lb 151c Green hides, lb. 14c Horse hides, each Poney and glue i Grain. New wheat, No.

2... $1.15 Yellow corn, bu 72c White and mixed corn, bu 70c Bran, per cwt $1.05 Flour, per cwt $3.20 Shorts, per cwt $1.30 Corn chops per cwt $1.50 WILLIS STUCKER DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Joshua Lott Gillet died at the county infirmary Friday night at 11 o'clock. Mr. Gillct was 79 years old and had been at the county infirmary since November 7, 1912. Bright's' disease was the cause of his death and he had been sick only a short time.

At one time he was in the horse business and owned a nice little home here. 1 He is survived by one son who lives in Humansville, who is expected to arrive here this morning or late last night. The funeral arrangements will not be made until the arrival of the son. The body is in the Chenoweth rooms. FORMER 0TTAWAN STARTLES CHICAGO (Continued from Page One.) Taking the figures prepared by the commission for its questionaire, Mr.

Shields proceeded to argue that if $300,000,000 is spent annually in the saloons of Chicago, that amount will be put to better use if national prohibition becomes a fact. Dr. Max Henius took exception to the total. "Those figures are a result of the figures you provide in your questionaire, upon which your investigation is based and I simply used them to prove them absurd," was the answering shot, and other members of the commission said he was right. "There is alcohol in bread," said Doctor Henius.

"If a man wants to eat enough bread to get a load on I'd be the last one to Btop him." "Are beer and wine as injurious as whisky?" asked Alderman W. E. Rodriguez. "Worse in the long run. Why, with beer in the blood the white corpuscles that surround a bit of poison and render it harmless, cut up something awful.

Under a microscope you'll see a white corpuscle make a pass at the piece of poison and miss it entirely. No sober white corpuscle would do that." Additional Correspondence. (Continued from Page 2.) Mrs. Walter 'Bell is here this week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Shockey. Thos Trotter and wife were in Lawrence Saturday visiting friends. Mrs. George Neff of Kansas City visited Mr.

and Mrs. W. N. Mason Saturday and Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. A. M. Gardner went to Carbondale Saturday evening to spend the week end visiting with the parents of Mr Gardner. The Reverend H.

F. Dorcus preached at Maple Hill Sunday for John Ashley, Ashley was unable to fill his appointment on account of sickness. J. G. Sleepy.

went to Vinland Saturday evening to spend the week end there with home folks. Mr. Sleepy works for the Baldwin steam laundry. C. C.

Stewart was down from Lawrence Saturday looking after his reg-luar business interests. THE PRESIDENT'S PREPAREDNESS PREACHMENT. The immediate, the conspicuous outcome of the president's preparedness tour has been to quiet the hysterical. The president took his message to the cities of seven states and even his most powerful and persistent political opponents could not confuse any of the people, east, west, north or south, as to the sincerity of the president's motives. Nor could they destroy the president's faith in the same judgment of the people themselves when they should hear the truth about the new need for improved methods of national defense.

Excited thousands gathered everywhere to hear the president speak. They listened to What he had to say about preparedness. Now we shall hear from the people after they have digested the national speech in its entirety for it was really one great speech in several parts. To condense and analyze the president's speeches, from first to last, would not be difficult because the president speaks with the simplicity and directness which the highly educated and the uneducated man have in common. But the cumulative substance and continuing spirit of what Woodrow Wilson said is given in his own thrilling words.

A few vivid excerpts tell the story. They follow the order of the cities visited. They produce a marvelous crescendo, from the first words of quiet warning to the exquisite tribute to our country's flag and the startling "Topeka Declaration." Addressing his Pittsburgh, audience, the president said "It amazes me to hear men speak as if America stood alone in the world and could follow her own life as she pleased. We are in the midst of a world that we did not make and we cannot alter, and its whole atmosphere and physical conditions are the conditions of our own life alao." In Cleveland, 0., the president emphasized his warning: "I do not wish to leave you with the impression that I am thinking of some particular danger. I merely want to leave you with this solemn impression that I know that we are daily treading amidst the most intricate dangers, and that the dangers that we are treading amongst are not of our making and are not under our control, and that no man in the United States knows what a single week, or a single day, or a single hour may bring forth." The longest, perhaps the most comprehensive speech of the tour, the president made in Chicago.

Referring to the "peculiar difficulties" of his position he said "We may have to assert the principles of right and of humanity at any time. What force is at the disposal of the United States to assert these things? The force of opinion. "I would not belittle the influences of opinion. It is very influential, but it will not stop this overwhelming flood. And if not the force of opinion, what force has America available to stop the flood from overflowing our own fair area? We have one considerable arm of force, namely, the splendid navy of the United States." The president then proceeded to outline his program for naval preparedness but this excerpt has be'en selected from the Milwaukee, speech as being the more condensed form: "We have been slowly building up a navy which in quality is second to no navy in the world.

The only thing it lacks is quantity. "What we are proposing now is not a sudden- creation of a navy, but a definite working out of a program by which within five years we will bring the navy to a fighting strength which otherwise might have taken eight or ten years." At Des Moines, the president paid a tribute to "the flag which promises to become a classic: "As I look upon that flag, I seem to see many characters upon it which are not visible to the physical eye. There seem to move ghostly visions of devoted men. And every grave of every brave man in the country would seem to have upon it the colors of the flag, if he were a true American would seem to have on it that stain of red, which means the true pulse of. blood; that patch of pure white which means the peace of the soul.

And then there seems to rise over the graves of those men and to hallow their memories that blue space of the sky in which swim those stars which exemplify for us the glorious galaxy of the states of the union, which stand Man Long Prominent in Ottawa Passes Away at Family Residence. LITTLE DAUGHTER DIES. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Able, Freda Ehurna died at the home of its parents, five miles north of Ottawa at 6 o'clock yesterday morning.

She was 17 months old and had been sick only about eight hours. Mr. and Mrs. Able have lived here only about eleven months. The funeral services were held at the Perry church today at 2 p.

m. Burial was in the Perry cemetery, at Perry, Kan. The funeral of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wood, 833 South Locust street was held at the home this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Burial was in Hope cemetery. CONSERVING THE GROUCHES. Doubtless the new play made froth Eleanor H. Porter's "Pollyanna" is carrying its lesson of the "glad game" to many persons who need it badly. Mrs.

Porter shows how King Grouch himself and several other very successful grouches are made human by the little "glad girl." Enthusiasts say that there is not in all literature a character of greater practical value than "Pollyanna" who is so happy that she carries happiness to others. This "gift of optimism raised to the nth power" is all very good. Of course nobody objects to reforming the grouches since we have got to live with 'em. But what we want now is a book and a play about those shamefully neglected persons who have always done their duty cheerfully, who have faced the worst of life without complaint, and who have never had a word of appreciation from anybody. Duty is the most one-sided word in the language.

In many homes it means that some conscientious person must assume the responsibilities which some perfectly conscienceless person is shirking. Conserving and converting the grouches is doubtless very good work, but now won't somebody say something kind about those commonplace and uncomplaining persons who do their daily duty cheerfully, and thus hold many a sad home of grouches together? Harold, you are right. poker is perilously close to with fire Outbursts of Everett True By Condo Willis Stucker died at his home, 1120 South Hickory street at 11 o'clock this morning. Mr. Stucker was born in Jefferson county Indiana, March 24, 1836 and was 80 years old.

He came to Iowa in 1846 and to Kansas in 1857. He was married to Julydia Bixler McClain in 1856. Besides a stepdaughter, Lena McClain, there were seven children, three only of whom are living. These are all in Ottawa, Mrs. J.

M. Leepcr, N. E. Stucker and the Rev. E.

S. Stucker. With a party of twenty-seven relatives and friends Mr. and Mrs. Stucker came to Kansas by the way of Nebraska, 59 years ago and settled on a claim near Emporia.

During the first year they endured all the privations and suffered all the hardships of frontier life a half century ago. Indians, poor crops, high prices and later the border troubles incident to the Civil war made life in Kansas hard in those years. With his father-in-law, Noah Bixler, a pioneer preacher he often held meetings in his one-room log house, or in that of some neighbor. Often he had to pay as high as $4 per bushel for seed potatoes, and earn his money to buy it by splitting rails at $1.50 per hundred. Of the original twenty-seven wh5 came from Iowa only six are now living.

Two of these are, Mr. Stucker's wife and his brother, Eli, who also lives in Ottawa. Mr. Stucker served on the state militia during the war and was in Ottawa and at Lawrence at the time of Price's raid and passed through Lawrence while it was still burning. He and other frontiersmen spent long weary months freighting by team before the advance of the railroads.

Mr. Stucker came to Ottawa in April 1870 and with the exception of the year 1876 which was spent at Emporia, has lived here ever since. His step-daughter Emma, died in Ottawa several years ago. Three other children had died in infancy. Mrs.

Ella Leeper has made her home in Ottawa since her childhood. E. Stucker came back to the town of his boyhood about twelve years ago and E. S. Stucker seven years ago.

Mr. Stucker RICHTER. J. Cartmill has been hauling hay to Richter this week. The carload of coal has been disposed of although rough roads has made hauling difficult.

Edgar Likes and Will Bennett spent Saturday in Ottawa. Etheyln Staadt, Gertude Likes, Nona Moore and Ellen Larson went to Ottawa Saturday to attend teachers' meeting. Mrs. Marshall who has been ill is improving steadily. The Richter Ladies' Aid met with Mrs.

J. Lovell last Friday afternoon. The revival meetings that have been held for the past five weeks have been quite successful. Much interest has been shown and many have been converted. Miss Hallie Reis who has been with her mother, Mrs.

Anna B. Reis, left for her home in Robinson last Mrs. Reis expects to leave this week. Freezing weather has made Silver lake and Appanoose creek ideal skating rinks. All who have had skates have taken advantage of it So far no serious accidents have been reported.

The farmers have been busy in the timber and wood piles during this cold Bnap. Mr. Weedrnan lost a valuable colt last week. It had received an injury which developed into lockjaw. A veterinary was called but nothing could save the animal.

Many in the neighborhood are busy With their butchering. Some have already completed this part of winter's work and others are commencing it. If the weather permits, Superintendent W. A. Vickers, will exhibit some lantern slides on "Alfalfa," "Stock" and other points of interest The exhibit will be held in the Silver Lake schoolhouse, Davy district and all other adjacent districts are invited by Silver Lake to be present This will be of interest to both young and old and all are urged to be present Miss Nona Moore spent Saturday night in Ottawa the guests of Miss Pearl Logan.

George Griffith who has been visiting at ths Marshall home returned to Ottawa. Mr. Hunter who has been carrying milk to Ottawa has changed his milk route the road one-half mile north of his former route. Going to bc 4ny I I'LL KICK LABEL 'EM. Did you hear the sad news from N' Yawk? Ushers at the Russian ballet, you know, wore dress suits, so as to make the performance more classy.

But goshdurn it; the society folks in the boxes and the pit kept taking the ushers for gentlemen. Really very disturbing. But that isn't the worst. Other people Other people began taking the gentlemen in dress suits for ushers! "These ain't my seats!" bawled an obese chap in a checkered suit to Reginald de Flyppe-Flyppe. And Reginald was so vexed he really couldn't think of a quick retort, and he walked haughtily away, while the' obese chap with the wrong seats fumed at usherly incompentence.

The Century management the next night had the ushers all plainly labeled, in neatly printed white ribbons: "Usher Now, to prevent any more mistakes, will the management please require all paying guests in dress suits to wear yellow ribbons labeled: had long been a member of the First Baptist church. Funeral services will be held from the parlors of the First Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. W. A.

Elliott will have charge of the services. Inter-.