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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28
STATE NEWS NOTES

Prof. Horatio S. Jones, well-known
educator of Detroit, is dead.
An explosion of gas in hi: store in
staAtly killed Frank Shaller al Grass
Lake.
August Weisner, long identified with
musical affairs of Owosso is dead af-
ter brief illness from abscess of the
brain.
Gus Johnson, 35 years of age, who
lived at Jennings, was accidentally
shot to death by Burt Benson. Benson
/ is but 16 years old.
The rich $4,000 Merchants G. Man
ufacturers' stake at the Detroit Blde
Ribbon races was won Tuesday by
Angle, horse owned by Calvary Nor
rfs of Cleveland.
Because fire destroyed beet sugar
factory in Minnesota nearly all the
crop of that state will be sent to The
factory of the Me1ominee River Sugar
Co. at Menominee.
William Wlckwire was sentenced to
Jackson prison in the circuit court in
Mt. Pleasant Tuesday for horse stea,-
ing. His sentence Is not less than one
year nor more than five years.
First sending her little daughter to
a neighbours on an errand, Mrs. Fay
Dubois committed suicide at her home
in Brooklyn by hanging herself in the
stairway. while temporarily insane.
Barney Mills, millionaire lumber
dealer, IS dead at Marysville, where
he was visiting relatives. His demise
was caused by heart disease. He was
rs years old.
Derk Wyienga, farmer near Grand
Rapids has finally committed suicide
after several unsuccessful attempts.
He attached a rope to a post, the1
fell to the ground and slowly stranglej.
A pledge to abstain from the use Of
liquor for life was the penalty i'm
posed bv County Judge Bullock on
Joseph Nea, of Lexington, the alternA
tive being heavy fine.
John Campbell. fell from one Of
Hickler Bros dredges at Sault Ste
Marie and was drowned in the river
He was % years old A diver is trying
to recover the body.
st. Ignace women who expected 10
vote at the election Of the school
board were surprised when at the polls
they were denied the right of suffer
age. A lively discussion Of the legality
While Ilaying in field where hsr
father was harvesting his hay crop,
the S.yeAr-old daughter of Albert La
Fountaine of Charleston, fell in front Of
the moving machine and her right
leg was rearly severed.
While carelessly handling a 3S-cali.
Der revolver John Hughes or Otsego
Lake was accidentally shot through
the right lung, the bullet lodging in
his shoulder. 1t is thought that he
will die.
The Michigan Association Of Sta.
tionery Engineers is holding its fourth
annual meeting in Lansing. There was
large attendance at the opening SEES
slOn rrlui! dllerEoon. a paHquet was
served in the evening.
Mrs. N. L. Dunn was Friday elected
queen Of Marshall home coming ceie-
bration, after an exciting contest OF
two weeks. She received 5,535 votes,
Miss Alice Brown coming in second
WIN 3.503
GA - ToEIA.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28
Every Hour of the Day.

Will E Collins 81 Co. the reliable
druggists of Owosso are having calls
for "HINDIPO," the new kidney cure.
and Nerve Tonic tina they are selling
under positive guarantee.
Its merits are becoming the talk of
the town and everybody wants to try
it, and why notI 1t costs nothing il
it don't do you good-not one cent.
They don't want your money IL it
does not benef you, and will cheerfully
refund the money.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28
PURIFYING Battle Creek.

Battle Creek, Mich, July 25.-The
police raided another gambling room
Monday but the proprietor, John
Schwalm, held the door while the
gamblers jumped to the ground from
rear window, twenty-six feet
Schwalm has been fined $40 or fifty
days.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28
Farmer browne.

Parma, Mich, July 24.-Marlon
Knowles, a well-to-do farmer, who re-
sides near here, was drowned in the
Gang lake Sunday morning. He had q
defective boat anil it sunk in the mid
die Of the lake. He was good swim.
mer but was unable to reach the shore.
He leaves a widow.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28

Resolved. by the common council OF the City
OF Owosso that the board of'public works be
andare hereby instructed TO lay four inch
water main on Gilbert street from Mason to
Oliver streets.
hereby agree to take from the water BOARD.
as manywater taps on water main on Gilbert
street as soon as the same Is laid, as are here
set opposite 10 my name. The location OF my
dwelling house being as follows;
AT No. Gilbert st. No taps. Name.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28

Marriage Liee"-~
Reinhard Qtul, Wis 80
\. Alma RosenYeld, Owosso. ........ 20
James Doan, Ontario. -. ......... 81
Frances ID. CLARK, Vernon. 1855. IS
Hurry Pillars, Owosso. ........... 25
Grace Patterson, Durand. ....... 20
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
TO BECOME 4 MILITARY POWER.

Already the Chinese government is
taking steps to become a military power.
A standing army is to be created and
its organization will be modelled upon
that of the japanese army. 1t is stated
that the young Chinese officers who,
having completed their military studies
in Japan, lately returned to China, are,
with the Japanese instructors placed
at the disposal of the Chinese govern
ment, busy organizing and training the
new levies.
This movement on the part of China
to prepare for self-defense and to adj
minister it's affairs with the protection
of its own army is the natural outcome
of the war. When that conflict came
China was in an utterly helpless con-
dition. Her territory was completely
at the mercy of the belligerents. Now
that this territory is to be restored to
her she intends to in future safeguard
1t and in the carrying out of this pur-
pose she is assured of the support of
Jdpdh' 1nS hlllildig eAdLnple VI iudt
power is the inspiration to China to
create a standing army strong enough
to protect her territory and her inter
ests. She will find little difficulty in
doing this, under the guidance of her
great neighbor. In few years she can
have, If deemed necessary, an army of
half million men, thoroughly dis
ciplined and emulating the spirit and
patriotism of the japanese. Out of her
vast population China can obtain sol
dlers who may be relied upon in any
emergency.
There will be some to see In this
movement menace to the western
world. 1t will be regarded as a phase
Of the yellow peril" as TO which EN-
peror William and some others profess
to be apprehensive. 1t will be said that
when China has become a military
power, under the influence and guidance
OF Japan, those nations will unite for an
aggressive policy against the rest of the
world. 1t is easy to coluure up a bogy
OF this kind but 1t is always to be
borne in mind that, so far at least as
Japan is concerned, her interests have
become almost as great in the western
as I'm the eastern world and the neces-
sity for remaining on terms Of peace
and amity with the former was never
before so strong as now. How we'll she
realizes this is shown in the alliance
with Great Britain. japan will keep
China in a proper course, by her own
example teaching that nation the wis
dom and expediency of strictly observ-
ing international obligations, respecting
the rights OF other nations and cultivat-
ing friendship with all.
Not only will there be no danger in
China becoming military power, but
its effect will be TO better assure the
maintenance OF peace in eastern Asia
1t will be a safeguard against any de-
signs on the part of European powers
upon the territory of the Chinese en-
pire. Had China possessed a large and
well disciplined army two years ago
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Honors are even in the Twin Cities One
newspaper in each town has given up the
weary struggle.
The Jih Shampoo OF Toxic has been
rubbed down and the staff reduced to
peace footing in jail.
The question. What shall we do with
our ex-presidents?" is respectfully passed
up to woman suffragists.
The fossil remains of hogs ten feet long
were found In Oregon. This tallies with
the end seat variety, supposed to be a
modern breed.
Chicago's majestic postofice, completed
after ten years of exhausting labor, is
now pronounced a "botch." The way Il
absorbed appropriations, however, demon
strated the skin of master minds
Two boys pulled OF roofs by kites and a
fisherman towed to sea by a shark were
features of the exciting finish OF the sea-
son at Coney Island. Life at Coney would
be stale without the unexpected
President stickney's remarks on the maxi
ing of freight rates has set all the freight
agents guessing, The railroad literary,
bureaus do not regard them as choice
morsels At for general circulat ton.
Eighteen thousand members of a society
paraded in Brooklyn one day last week
as a protest against profanity in speech.
Brooklyn nestles up TO COney Island and
does not realize that it's playmate has been
regenerated.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
oI7E SALARIES IN GREAT Bhrrl1v.


Invidious comparisons are frequently
made In this country between the eff
Client, economic and lncorruptible admin
istratlon of municipal government in
Great Britain and the fast and loose,
inefficient and corruption-ridden admins
istrations of American cities But all is
not gold that glitters and the popular
cutlery against municipal extravaganza
and graft is by no means confined to
American population centers.
Only four weeks ago a mass meeting
Of taxpayers was held in Edinburgh,
Scotland, to oppose and denounce a sal
airy grab by the city council and a pro-
posed increase of salaries of city Off
cials. Some of the speeches made at
this popular demonstration against mu-
nicipal disagreement are duplicates of
speeches periodically made In American
cities.
One Of the speakers, for example, de-
clared that there was a great and grow
ing expenditure in the city and for that
matter in the country; that the amounts
Of taxes levied for gas, water, cleo
trlcity, tramways and so on had come to
be exceedingly serious, and the people
were cautioned not to be overborne by
officialdom.
Another speaker said in secondlng the
resolution protesting against the salary
grab that thousands of taxpayers Of
Edinburgh were in many cases seriously
affected by the high rates, and he
thought his audience would agree with
him when he said that the town council
of Edinburgh had not the slightest idea
of economy. In support Of this asser-
salary list as follows: Chief constable,
or chief of police, from $425O year to
5000; deputy chief constable, from
$1,75O to $1,000 a year; clerk of police,
from $500 to $4,000; city chamberlain
(comptroller) from $1,000 to $6,25O a
year
AS counter comparison II was stated
that the city of Manchester, with pop
uldllOu VI HDOuJ OSO,OOO anu luuulClpul
debt of SIP, 100000, pays the city audi
tor 5000 per annum; Liverpool, 10000
population and $7O,OOO,OOO of debt, pays
its auditor $3.50; Birmingham, with
100000 population and $75,0O0,0OO of
debt, pays $1,000 per annum; Leigh,
100000 population and $6O,O0O,OO0 of
debt, pays $4,000; Sheffield, with popu-
lation of $4,000 and SAP 100000 debt,
pays $4,25O; Glasgow, $4,000 population
and $SO,OO0,OOO of debt pays $1,000,
while Edinburgh, with 333, 900 popula-
ton and $40, 100000 of debt, pays 5000.
When it is borne in mind that the pur-
chasing power of money is fully 80 per
cent greater in England than in Amer
lea, these municipal salaries would seem
TO be fully as high as those paid in
American cities Of equal population with
very rare exceptions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
wastefuI ways in Pubic once.


1t is a positive fact, and more than this,
a factor, that our public business is con-
Quoted in a manner that would make a man
in private business raise his hands in hor-
ror The impulse and feeder to this waste
full way, with its temptations and oppor-
tunities to go wrong, is the broad idea in
culcated in the popular mind that public
business is a chance for those that secure
the prosecution Of IL to make money over
and above what they would expect to make
in similar private business; for employees to
get higher pay and do less work, and so on
through the whole evil development. And
this springs from the misconception that
public business is exclusively a thing of
party control and responsibility and to be
so ordered to supply prizes for political
participation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Portland oregonian: The Albany Metho-
dist conference is making trouble because
a minister appropriated church cash to his
own use. Methodist preacher ought to
know better. Real money is not intended
for him.
Boston Transcript: Churches get no
more Of my money" declares standard
OIL" Rogers. Perhaps he regards them rs
did a client OF the late George NJ. stearns,
whom he was defending on a charge OF ille-
gal liquor selling. Pointing to one OF the
prominent city churches, he said: MI
stearns them's the BANKED things that's
ruinin' this country"
Baltimore American: A shrewd minister
in Jersey City appealed to the women OF
his church not 20 attend bareheaded, on
the ground that her hair being woman's
browning glory, she was more apt with
It's full attraction exposed to distract the
men with admiration OF her charms from
their prayers. Naturally the tactful in
situation that women should In the good
ness OF their hearts tighten mems dis
fractions by lessening as much as possible
their own excess of good looks appealed
too powerfully to the feminine heart to go
unreEarded.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
NOTHING WRONG.

w. F. Grimm in Milwaukee Sentinel.
l.
There is nothing at all the matter, my boy
The world goes plugging along
In the same old way from day to day,
Singing her good old song
maybe her songs grow old to you,
And maybe your hopes grow DIM
But there's nothing at all the matter, my
boy
It's only your foolish within.
II.
There is nothing at all the matter, my boy.
You have only lost your hold
Get back 20 the life and back to the strife,
Get back to your works enfold
There Is work laid out for your hands to do,
50 stick TO your task with vim:
There is nothing at all the matter, my boy
It's only your foolish within.
III.
There is nothing at all the matter, my boy
Stand by till your task is done;
It's the way for a place in the worlds
mad race
It's the way that the end is won.
There's place at the top, but the way is
long,
Don't rail If your star grows dim;
Don't say that the worlds all wrong, my
boy
It's only your foolish within.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
ADMINISTRATIVE REFoRMERS.

ADuiNiD Nv II HbHOH
That President Roosevelt acted judi
ciously in appointing a commission to
investigate departmental business meth
DDS the developments so far made amply
attest. There was no restriction placed
upon the authority of the commission in
prosecuting it's inquiries 1t was in
structed to make its investigation in the
several departments and bureaus thor
ough and this has been done. One
notable result has been the disclosure of
mismanagement and waste in the gov
eminent printing office, leading to a
change in the head of that establishment
and certain needed reforms in the adj
ministration of its affairs.
Another matter which the commission
has been looking into is that Of the sup
ply accounts of the several departments,
resulting in the discovery that no two
purchasing agents pay the same price
for articles bought by them. 1t is stated
that the investigation has already dis
closed startling discrepancies in the
prices paid for the Office supplies used
by the government. Purchasing agents
and chiefs of supply divisions explain
the differences in the prices paid on the
ground that some departments buy in
far larger quantities than others, but
this is scarcely a satisfactory eXplana-
ton. 1t is said the president has under
consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of estab-
fishing a general purchasing agency for
all government supplies and probably
will recommend to congress that this be
done. 1t is thought that the establish
ment of a single central bureau to act as
purchasing agent for all the depart
ments would result in an annual saving
to the government of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in the cost of articles
and also do away with much of the
labor required under thu present system.
1t is further pointed out that there
would be a notable advantage in bring
ing the governments purchases of sup
plies under the direct supervision Of one
responsible official.
President Roosevelt appears deter
mined to improve, wherever practicable,
the business methods in vogue in the
various departments and TO inaugurate
such reforms as are found to be desir-
able and expedlent. The commission he
appointed is composed of men expert
enced in the public business and well
qualified for the work entrusted to
them. 1t is expected that they will rec
ommend numerous and in some respects
radical changes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Half-hearted service is always heavy.
Fear vice most when she wears the veil
You may know a man by the friends he
drops.
Sunny souls are not troubled with doubt
damps
No creed that is worth publishing can be
put into type
There's a tack somewhere for every
pneumatic saint.
Without the sense of stewardship culture
becomes curse.
No man is going to buy your piety II your
peanuts are ancient.
The slumber of one saint is no excuse for
the sloth of another.
The best way to bear your cross is to
share another's cares.
The only things that are established are
those that never stand still.
When a man has religion in his heart he
will not need it on his hatband
The lightweight man always thinks that
his buoyancy is due to his wings.
The only version Of the Bible authorized
by heaven is the one on two rect
The devil makes a lot OF people believe
that his winking is their thinking.
Most men have less trouble in forgetting
their follies than in foregoing them.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
THE BUILDING OF CHARACTER.


Among the notable addresses at the
university openings was that of Presi-
dent Butler of Columbia, who urged that
the building of character is the most inn
portant work of our institutions of learn
ing. He said that If there is failure TO
form those traits and habits which to-
gether constitute character all our
learning is an evil. President Butler
said that just now the American people
are having brought home to them with
severe emphasis the distinction between
character and reputation. "Of late we
have been watching regulations melt
away like snow before the sun, and the
sun in this case is mere publicity. Men
who for years have beeen trusted i'm
plicitly by their fellows, and so placed
in positions of honor and grave respOn-
sibility, are seen to be mere. reckless
spectators with the money of others
and petty pilferers OF the savings of the
poor and needy" He declared that the
situation which confronts Americans to-
udN IL uuc W ldNh Vi luoIdl pIluClple,
that the greed for gain and the greed
for power have blinded men to the time
old distinction between right and
wrong. Both among business men and
at the bar are to be found advisers,
counted shrewd and successful, who
have substituted the penal code for the
moral law as the standard of conduct"
Severe as this indictment is 1t must
be admitted TO be just and 1t would be
well II more men. occupying such po-
sition as that of the president of Column
bia would with equal frankness, and
earnestness direct public attention to
that lack OF moral principle which
makes possible the faults Dr. Butler
pointed out. What is now being accom-
plished through the exposure OF men
who have been entrusted with positions
OF honor and responsibility cannot fail
to have a remedial effect, but the public
mind still needs to be kept aroused to a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01

The st. Louis police commission, act
ing under instructions from Governor
Folk will proceed with a more strict en-
forcement of the Sunday law by closing
down the lid in the st. Louis social
clubs and sealing up the entrances and
exits of the drug stores. After they
have accomplished this part of their
task they are directed to descend upon
the bucket shops and suppress all deals
In options and futures. Whether this is
to be followed By the closing of st,
Louis garages and livery stables and
the laying off OF the trolley line street
cars is a matter of conjecture.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01

there would have been no war in Man
churia, because Russia would not have
been permitted TO gain the foothold
there she did. II was Chinese helpless
ness that gave Russia her opportunity.
While there is no danger for perhaps a
generation to come of Russia again be-
that the Oriental powers give her no
chance TO do so. The fact that she still
has a foothold in that quarter Of the
world is not TO be lost sight of and
Russian ambition is sleepless and tire
less. China is unquestlonably pursuing
a judicious policy in building up an
army capable Of defending her territory
and protecting her interests.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01

John T. Morgan, the octogenarian sen
ator from Alabama, has no faith in the
Panama canal chiefly because he had
been for many years the incessant
champion of the Nicaraguan canal.
While the Panama canal may not be
opened for navigation during the life
time OF Mr.. Morgan it VIII be com
pleted very much sooner than the Me
araguan canal would have been If that
route had been given the preference by
the United States government
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01
AK-SAR-BEN.

Ak-Sar-Ben, with all that the word
means in gaiety and goodfellowshlp, in
instruction and enjoyment, in business
and pleasure, is again upon us, and we
mark the advent by hailing the carnival
king with all the tokens Of admiration.
Ak-SarBen has become the symbol of
all that is most enterprlslng and pro-
gressive in Omaha's business commun-
ity, the synonym for thorough hospital
ity and right royal entertainment.
To the visitors who are taking advan-
tage of the invitation to come to Omaha
at this gala season and participate in
the festivities that have been provided
warm welcome is extended. The loyal
subjects of Ak-Sar-Ben have no duty
higher than to make the stranger within
our gates perfectly at home and to re-
spond to his every wish.
Nor is the business side Of Ak-Sar-
Ben to be neglected. The occasion
serves to enable visitors to take advan-
tage of the unexampled offerings of all
our merchants and shopkeepers. Pc
rusal Of the announcements in the ad-
vertising columns of The Bee will indi-
cate where the attractive displays of
our leading merchants and shopkeepers
are to be found, at the same time en-
phasizing their various seasonable spe-
cialties.
In word, we feel safe in asserting
that no one who comes to Omaha to pay
court to Ak-Sar-Ben will go home dis
appointed or dissatisfied in any respect.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01

about prices? Mark down the sizes Make
the skies "threes," and so on-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
MY wife says l mustn't drink any more
coffee. She claims it makes me irritable
and unkind"
But does it?"
Il guess II does When she refused me a
cup this morning l burst right out and
said Darn 1t! cleveland Plain Dealer.
We'll, If she is ugly, and you've asked
her to marry you, and she's got money
make the best of 1t and put a good face
on the matter"
MY dear boy! Have you seen herT'-
Baltimore American.
Jane, do I not hear male voice in the
kitcheni"
It's only one of my brothers. sir"
Jane"
Neither was I until this morning sir
when you said in your sermon we was ali
brothers and sisters. London Tattler.
Say, paw"
well, son?'
What is frenZied finance?"
"Frenzied finance my son. is the wav
your mother goes after my pay envelope
every Saturday night. Now run along and
play. Sentinel
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-01

Last week Wednesday John u. Rookie
Teller declared to his admiring friends
that there are better things than amass-
ing wealth. Last week Friday the price
of crude petroleum was raised several
notches, which would seem to indicate
that benevolent plutocrats do not al
ways practice what they preach.