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The San Francisco call., 1909-02-24
ARCADIA RESULTS

SANTA ANITA PARK. Feb 2s-Seventy-
seventh Gay OF the winter meeting OF the Los
Angeles racing association. A. " Hamilton.
presiding judge J. J. HOtmsn starter. Weath-
.6r clear. Track fast
FIRST RACF-rYxa ans q bo1f furIony ys
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-24

MAN wanted TO learn barber business in barber
shop by practical barber who will teach you
quicker and better than any institution. Apply
667 Broadway, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-24
OAKLAND.

Girls to make overalls at our Oakland factory,
Sd st. near Clay. LEVI STRAUSS s. co. AD-
ply TO Mr.. Davis.
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EpDYVlLLE.

Eddyville.-Mrs. Frank Sloan and
babe, who have been visiting with Mrs.
Sloan's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. W.
belong ever since the Christmas tide
started for their home in Kansas City
Mo-, Saturday night on the Iowa Cen.
trail. Miss Gladys belong accompan.
led her sister as far as Abba, where
Miss Gladys spent Sunday.
Sam Akers returned recently from
Chandler, Lawton, and other Oklahoma
points where he base been visiting for
three or four weeks with relatives.
G. c. Palmer, stock dealer at this
place started Saturday on trip to the
Rockies. Mr.. Palmer will take in tn,
Live Stock show for the western
states at Denver, Colo, this week.
William McMains sold out his hard
ware stock and business to Messrs.
Charley Oldham and Henry Pickerell,
Saturday. Messrs. Oldham and Pick
erel will move their stock and fixtures
to the H. G. True building, where the
Stuber and Waugaman grocery now
is. Stuber and Waugaman will move
their stock of groceries into the hard
ware building.
Vic MCGEE was accidently shot Sun
day while hunting with Roscoe Hitter
man. Kitterman fell down discharg-
ing both barrels of his gun Part of
the shot landed in McGee's cheek, and
were afterward picked out
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EDDYVILLE.

Eddyville-The Bind Boone Concert
Co. rendered yer pleasing concert al
the opera house Monday night to a
well filled house. Bind Boone appear
ed here eighteen years ago, and he
still remembered some of the phys
icians of this place whom he had met
at that time. TIe displayed great mus
ical ability, and in addition to his eX
cellent rendition OF various musical
selections on the piano, he very clever
ly initiated number Of other musical
instruments and sounds on the piano
Members of his company also favored
the crowd with vocal solos.
q. S. Sarkenburg and Peter Meyer
of Prairie View, Kansas, formerly of
Pella. are here this week on business
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Chord and son
Ralph are visiting Mr.. Chords parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Chord as Oska-
loosa. Mrs. Chord will remain a
month at Oskaloosa while Mr. and
Mrs. G. Chord 90 ON trip to Oklaho-
ma.
Mrs. Joe Besco of Taylor county,
who was Ill last week at the home of
her hister, Mrs. Abigail Williams, has
had relapse and is now quite i'll with
an attack of la grippe at the home of
another sister, Mrs. M. L. Besco, so
she and her husband could not return
home as soon as they expected.
Miss Helen Butcher has returned to
st. Joseph's Academy at Ottumwa
after spending few days at home and
celebrating her twelfth birthday an
niversary last Saturday.
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Retirement of Chinese Bismarck
Regarded as Serious by Diplomats

given 1t solidarity of power which Is
impossible otherwise. He was of the
liberal cast of mind and that was his
offense against the Manchus.
The turning out of Yuan Is con-
strued to mean that there will be q
long period OF waiting and hesitation:
an interval during which the efforts
ofJapan to secure commercial domina-
ton of China will make rapid pro-
gress. The special embassy which re-
Gently came here, estensibly to thank
the government for renting the
Peking indemnity, really came 1t IL
well known among diplomats, for the
purpose of interceeding with this coun.
try to do something to protect China
from Japan. Not from any effort Of the
japanese at establishment of govern.
mental authority in China, but against
the Japanese effort TO engross the
commercial opportunities of the EN-.
plre, to establish themselves as the
guides and directors Of the newer and
better order of things. and to Hip
ponize the country. The Chinese idea
the Yuan idea-was that if 1t could
be protected for another generation or
Two, while 1T developed within itself,
CHINA would then be strong enough In
the new ideas to stand alone, and to
shake off the Japanese Influences and
develope along It's own lines.
o us. .E#z .t5b
But the Manchus are again in con-
troll. Unless the western world can
md pretext Cor interfering in China
and dispossessing them-and nobody
suspects that such thing will be
seriously proposed. much less under.
taken-they will continue to rule
China, They will keep it In a condi-
ton OF lethargy while Japan Is most
active. They will hold 1t in a sort
OF hypnotic trance while the Toxic
government works Its will with it. In
the end, Japanese domination will
nave been so thoroughly established
that when a new Bismarck Of China
arises he will find that he Is too late,
Just as Yuan was too early. Between
the two, Japan Will come to be tho
dominator of the east.
Germany has perhaps made closer
study of the far eastern problem in
recent time than any other country;
and wherever they are found, Ger
man diplomats are now convinced that
China must wait long time for its
awakening, and then awaken to And
itself Japanned. 1t will possibly have
exchanged a Manchu control for IA
Japanese. The Manchus have always
ruled China as the strongest, foreign
influences directed. That paramount
foreign influence is going to be- Japan.
and Japan will work through the
Manchus: 1t will allow just such
measure OF development and enter
prise and intellectual expansion as it
seems safe and fitting for its own
purposes. Fl.
j. C. Welliver. ii s
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BoBToWN.

Bobtown-Mr. and Mrs. John Wood
visited over Sunday at the Thompson
home.
Mrs. Will Walker visited friends and
relatives in Ottumwa last week.
Mrs. Nell alderman visited her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. P. Courtney Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Karsner have
moved here from Ottumwa and will
reside on the Fitzgerald farm.
Joe Walker and little son Jack Wis
tied the formers brother, Will Walker
Thursday.
Geo. Gordon was recent caller al
the Dunning home.
Bunk Dunning visited his father one
dav last week.
Charley Wood returned home from
Ottumwa Sunday.
Mrs. Fricke is on the sick list this
week.
Miss Josie Wood returned home on
Saturday after very pleasant visit
with friends and relatives in otturn-
wa.
Mr.. Fricke was in Ottumwa on bust
ness Friday.
Mrs. l.. S. Wood was a recent caller
at the Houston home
Miss Daisy Dunning called on Ada
Dunning Saturday evening.
Mrs. Ranch is seriously ILL.,
Mrs. Ada Dunning was recent yis-
itor at the Pitcher home.
Charley Gordon is still improving.
Jim Hawkins and family We're enter
tanned at the Pitcher home Saturday.
Francis Niles is very dangerously iii.
Hubert Fitzgerald called on his
aunt Mrs. Mollie Wood one day last
week.
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Many Revenue and Taxation Measures
FOR Consideration Before legislature
J. G. welliver.

very strong sentiment In favor OF the
bill. The day is now practically a
holiday in Iowa and all that is pro-
posed is to give it legal recognition.
1t Is legal holiday In Illinois, New
York, Massachusetts,, Colorado. Con
necticut, Delaware, Kansas Mime!
sofa, Nevada, New Jersey. North
Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington,
and Wyoming. "a
The proposal to have The visiting
committees 60 to the various state In.
situations at this time did not meet
the approval of the older members.
Ihey contend that this should not be
done until at least some of the ,ap-
preparation bills are presented. BE.
SIDES the short vacation is usually
taken at time when the state printer
is sWamped with work and he thus
mas time to catch up There Is also
some thought on the part of many,
members that there is really no need
OF visiting committees to any other
than the colleges and It NAV be that
the big end Of the junketing Will bs
cut off.
NA"5ci 'oili II. Lacey or TUSCALOOSA.
was an interested spectator Of the
proceedings in the joint assembly 81
the legislature yesterday when Cum.
minis was declared elected senator
and when he thanked the Legislature.
The presentation OF the bill to
centralize the power of removal Of
derelict county officials having to do
with the enforcement of the general
laws OF the state has stirred up
great deal Of discussion There seems
to be no doubt that the bill will 20
through the senate, possibly with
some modification, but the house will
accept 1t with reluctance Complain.
10 already made that by giving to ,fiye
citizens the power to initiate proceed.
ings to remove sheriff or county at
torney who will not do his duty the
way Is open for abuses, and this num-
Der may be increased to ten or fifteen.
The bill promises to furnish oppor-
tunity for some oratorical fireworks.
Ora Williams
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THE TAcTFuL TAFT.

Mr.. Taft has proved himself a won
derful success as president-elect. III
the limited field of activities afforded
him during his stay in the south he
has managed to gain popularity Tor
himself by endorsing the possum and
later and praising the southern girl.
He has not been asked to pass judg-
ment on the julep, another institution
of which the south is proud, because
of his recent decision to mount the
water wagon, else he doubtless would
have smacked his lips over this de-
coction and make the southerners his
friends for life.
President-elect Taft has that won
derful possession tact in a remarkable
degree Ottumwans were given an IL
lustration of that during the late cam
paign. When he got here he had cam
paigned so much there wasn't any
thing left of his voice but a whisper.
He couldn't talk, so he smiled, and
that smile won more votes than talk
could win. Last night he had another
opportunity to display this tact when
he was talking to the students Of a
high school for girls in Augusta. No
doubt some of the girls had freckles
and some were pug nosed, but the
eyes Of the president-elect were blind
to these beauty blemishes. Here is
the way he prefaced his remarks as
the Taft smile was allowed full scope:
my dear young ladies. I did not
come here to make prepared ad-
dress. l came here trusting to the in
sp:ration of the moment or what your
bright eyes and pretty faces and your
charming presence might bring out Of
me. ] trust am not too old yet to
yield to the charm of beauty and that
to which even a northern man MAJ
be awakened. l know there is a theory
that we are cold in the north, but ]
assure you It is not true.
"It might not be the worst To-!
should your fate ever carry you north
of Mason and Dixon's line, for we
know good thing when we see it,"
Of course, after that Introduction,
the president-elect could make any
old kind of a speech. He could tell
the. girls they ought to go in for wom-
ans suffrage, or Rooseveltian FAM
lilies, or making fudge. A president
elect who knows enough to make that
kind of speech to that kind of an
audience has tact enough to please
Hearst and Haskell. Roosevelt and
Foraker, Upton Sinclair and ChanceI-
lor Day, and Hartman all at the
same time.
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DUDLEY.

Dudley-Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Scamitz on last Saturday January 16
a son.
Mrs. John Gustafson was pas
isenger on No. Monday for Ottum.
wa.
Miss Ellen Fredrickson has beer
confined to her home with a severe
attack Of rheumatism the past week.
Mrs. John Nelson, who lives west of
here on the county line and who has
been dangerously i'll for some time is
reported as somewhat improved
John Miller. who had his arm ampu-
tated at the hospital in Ottumwa on
Monday OF last week is reported as
getting along very nicely.
Miss Alice Nelson of Omaha came
home last Saturday evening, because
of the illness Of her mother, Mrs. John
Nelson.
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Washington Bureau Of
The Ottumwa Courier
WASHINGTON. d. G Ian. 81


Washington, d. c.. Jan. q
1t is not generally known how SER
ious the chancelleries of the western
world regard the situation in China
which has been precipitated by the
passing of the emperor and dowager
empress and the retirement of Yuan
Shih Kai, grand chancellor of the en-
pire. Yuan Is looked upon as Bis
marck come perhaps a generation
ahead of his time. Possibly another de
cade's lease of power would have
been sufficient to enable him to per-
feet his plans. But he is an old man,
and the chance that, like Lii Hung
Chang, he will be able to come back
from retirement and disgrace and
carry farther the great work on which
he was engaged, is esteemed slight.
Yuan is cut off just at the time
when, orientalists believe, few years
ment everything to him. Withou,
doubt he aimed at the restoration of
the empire to the Chinese people, as
against the old Manchu dynasty that
has long been imposed on the empire.
1t Is no secret in Washington that
William W. Rockhill, the American
minister to Picking and this country's
foremost orientalist, is discouraged
about the prospect of success with the
great plans which he has had in mind
for the far east. Mr.. Rockhill has
believed that the time was fast ripen-
ing, for the Chinese people to awaken
to sense of nationality a realization
OF their possibilities, desire for pro-
gress and occidental civilization. In
the work of Yuan he saw the immed-
late prospect for realization of this
aspiration. and believed that great
! things were impending.
| But the situation in China has lat
terly been discouraging. The people
on the ground at Picking. like Mr..
Rockhill, realized long before the
event, that affairs were shaping them
selves to restore the era of reaction
whenever the dowager should pass
on. They anticipated, not indeed in
It's tragic details, but in all Its es.
sential features, the very thing that
has taken place. The dowager Ia
gone, the puppet emperor has left the
scene, and with them Yuan has been
sent to retirement and China, 1t is
felt, has fairly started on the back
track.
Without doubt the Manchu house, in
unloading Yuan, did the very thing
which self-interest would have dictat.
ed to any like interest in similar
situation. Yuan was not PLAYING
their game, and they knew it. He was
carrying on progress which contem-
plated practical education of his PEG.
PIE He was fast perfecting the or.
ganization of an imperial army which
taking the place Of the provincial
forces, would have furnished ce
ment to hold the empire together and
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Over in Lake Bluff, a Chicago su.
burb, they have armed every woman
with horn which she is to blow if a
burglar pays call. Every other WON
an will take the cue and toot her own
horn. The man nearest the fire bell
is to ring it when he hears the horns
and the church bells are to join in.
This will arouse daylight posse of
fifty to aid the town policeman and
town bloodhounds in chasing the
marauders. Lake Bluff must be nearly
as fierce place as some people are
trying to make Ottumwa out to be.
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the front rank of Iowa cities, the pa
per has grown from small weekly
news sheet to metropolitan daily,
published in its own building. Some
idea of the prosperous conditions in
Waterloo may be gained by the liberal
advertising done in the 64-page edi.
ton. Waterloo's claim as a factory
town is set forth by the figures which
show the 1908 output of the factories
reached the sum of $13,25O,0O0 and
that 1000 men and women are on the
payrolls of these institutions. The to
tai bank deposits of $6,1S4,076.99
shown in the annual bank statements
is another indication of the city's
pi osperous condition.
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4 aoLpEN ANNIVERSARY.

A notable anniversary has just been
celebrated by the Waterloo Courier.
by publishing az 64-page special edi-
ton. 1t is the golden anniversary of
the Courier made the more remark.
abe as during the entire fifty years
the paper has been under the owner
ship and management of the Hartman
family. w. H. Hartman. the father,
died few years ago, and since then
his son. ]. G. Hartman, has been the
publisher. The Courier has kept pace
with the remarkable growth of Wat
srloo and where the municipality has
grown from hamlet to place in
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Des Moines Bureau Of
The Ottumwa Courier.
DeS Mnine. Ian 6

| Revenue and taxation measure
have come to the front right at thu
outset and they promise to occupy {
large part of the time of the legis
lature. That the legislature will make
| 1t, possible for the state to have d
larger income without adding to the
direct taxes Of the people is certain
That which will be done will be in /.
/, large degree the elimination OF effort;
which have been made covering q
series Of years.
The corporation report and fee bill
introduced by Senator Fitchpatrick is
substantially the Ericsson bill of Last
session, but it has been more nearly
perfected. All cororations legally en-
gagged In business in Iowa must make
annual reports. Provision is made fol-
compelling them to report or to suf
fer forfeiture Of the right to engage
in business in the state. The mosi
important feature of this will be thai
twill give the state an actual record
of the live and going business enter
prises of the state SO that somebody
will be able to certify out that Il
corporation Is or is not doing business
legally. The fee ranges from $40 r
$25 for each corporation reporting
This is enough to give the state d
tidy sum each year. Henry Saberson
a former member of the house, now In
the Office of secretary Of state, has
worked on this bill.
The direct inheritance tax bill went
before the senate this time by Chill
land and in the house 1t will be father
ed by Lee. This is the bill which the
senate ways and means committee
introduced and which the senate
passed at the last session. 1t pro
vides for ! per cent inheritance tax
on a $4,000 estate and / per cent
additional for each $4,000 until a
maximum Of per cent Is reached
Gilliland would exempt real estate but
the house bill makes no exemptions.
The bill was, pushed through the
senate at the last session by Senator
Smith. and 1t was remarked that IL it
passed there was probably not mem.
Der of, either house with an estate that
would have to pay so heavily to the
state treasury as that of the man who
urged the bill.
Representative Ward of Sioux CITY
introduced the bill to provide for a
mortgage fee, and in the senate this
was introduced by Senator Hunter. It
provides for recording fee to be paid
when a mortgage is paid, and this is
to be in lieu Of all other taxes; in
other words, mortgage Is to paw it's
taxes when it is recorded and \. can.
not be recorded until the tax Is paid
In this way there can be no escape.
All three of these measures were
recommended in the message of the
governor to the general assembly.
o.
By unanimous consent the bill by
Senator Stuckslager to make OF
Lincoln's birthday a state holiday will
come up in the senate tomorrow with
out having gone to committee and
itSprobably will be passed There is
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RlRM IN CHAM.

Birmingham. E. Branner ana
William Beardsley left Tuesday for a
two weeks stay in Texas
Mrs. Mullinix and dauehter of
Downing. Mo-, Mrs. Jane Kracht and
child OF Fairfield, Mr.. and Mrs Jason
Still Of Bladensburg, and John Still
OF Krksville, Mo, are visiting with
Their father and brother. Nathan Still,
east of town.
]. Clarke is in Kansas on business
this week.
Walter Morrell and Charley Glotfelty
are in Kansas City on business.
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A BOOK OF BIG THINGS.
Terse Comments upon tho Christian
Endeavor Topic for January "a,
"life Lessons for mo From Tho
Sock OF Genesis" Gen. 4: 10,
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.


Conventionally pious advice is read
the Bible But the Bible is so big,
and so varied, and so full of things
hard to understand. that the very
magnitude of the task deters many
persons from undertaking it at all.
Why not go a step at aItime? Ignor-
ing, for a moment, all the other books
of the wonderful collection, let us
concentrate attention upon the first
volume of the immortal library. Here
Is the book of Genesis. which. EXCEPT
for some dry spots, Is most interesting
reading. 1t is one of the books which
person has to know IL he would
make any claim to being cultivated.
Ali literature Is full of illusions to 1t
and quotations from it. 1t is book
that has dared the biggest themes.
With divine audacity, it undertakes to
tell Of the beginning of he universe. of
God, of man, of sin, and of history S
snrings. The most that mankind
knows about first things it has learned
from this Book of Beginnings. !.
A wise person makes sure that n
proportion Of his reading is in the lit
erature OF power. That is to say, he
reads books which inspire him. This
old story of first things is such a char
acter-making book. 1t lifts the spirit
un to a vision of wide horizon. #
kind1es noble conceptions of God and
Of man and of destiny. In its paces
may be found light for the present
day.
The greatest books are those which
make the reader greater
The person who reads Genesis as a
textbook on geology may be disap-
pointed but e who accepts it as a
handbook of life will be satisfied.
Life's great end is learned when its
beginning is understood. Philosophy
has no greater lesson for man than
this statement with which Genesis
opens-"In the beginning, God"
Critics are complaining that most
of the characters in the present vol.
luminous output of literature are mere
manikins and puppets. They are not
real. They are clothed in modern
fashions, but not in flesh or blood. The
older books were otherwise. And this
oldest of books is distinguished by the
living reality Of the men rnd the wo-
men who walk through its pages. Alb
raham was "the friend of Cod" but he
is also the friend of every close read
er Of his biography. Jacob. was Just
such man.. in many ways, as one of
oar neighbors today His sons are too
human to have been invented as heads
of nations tribes. The pastoral
scenes in the Book of Genesis breathe
the very atmosphere Of the Orient.
And from this same book we learn
most of what "a commonly known
about Egypt. Joseph is a man of like
passions with ourselves; he lives more
vividly than any of the Pharaohs.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
A man only understands what liz
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Six Hundred Homes Destroyed.

Constantinople, Jan. 21.--An offic.A:
despatch reports that more than 600
houses were destroyed by The earth
quake yesterday at Phocaea near
Smyrna. The shocks continued and
the people are seeking refuge in the
mountains.
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E. H. Hartman says that young
man just out of college shouldn't ex-
pect to have an easy time if he enters
railroad work. 1t might be added that
the young man shouldn't go in for any
kind of work and expect to find It
NAV