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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
American Air Death Rate.

Twenty-Five per cent. of the fatal
aeroplane accidents are due to the
lack of ability of the pilots Of the ma
chimes, in the opinion Of Major Roche
of the French army aviation corps. He
classifies the causes Of accidents un-
der seven general heads. About one
third of the accidents, says Popular
Mechanics, he finds to have been
caused by faulty construction OF the
machines, which the French critic d.
vides under two heads Lack OF proper
rightly and solidity Of construction,
he believes, causes collapse of about
20 per cent. of the machines that fall.
and 13 per cent break because OF
radical errors OF construction. Aero
baltic displays in the air claim 6 per
cent. of the victims, he states; 10 to
IL per cent. lose their lives through
unfayorable conditions Of the atmos-
phere; lack Of presence Of mind
causes per cent. and 13 per cent. are
due to improper education Of the
pilots, while no cause is ascribed for
the remaining per cent Of fatalities.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
SENATOR'S GET CANNON.

The senate demanded cannon--and
got them. There we're cannon to the
right Of them, cannon to the left Of
them, cannon ahead of them, but the
only "volleying and laundering that
was done was the laundering OF In
dividual senators for more cannon. All
of the troubles of the waning session
were forgotten In the getting OF thu
guns. r~
Senator O'Gorman caused the troll
BILE when he called up bill granting
condemned cannon to half q hundred
towns throughout the country. to be
placed in public squares, the grounds
of public buildings and about state
armories. No sooner had the bill been
read than there arose chorus OF
mr.. President" from the floor. Sen
ator Jones Of Washington got cannon
for half a dozen towns in his state.
Senator Pomerene OF Ohio was grant
ed one gun. Senator Catron OF New
Mexico got two. Finally John sharp
Williams arose and drawled:
ard like a cannon for some place IN
Mississippi to be designated later.
There won't be enough cannon to
go round" remarked Senator MARITIME.
I'VE want to shoot some down IN
Kentucky" declared Senator Bradley.
1.-TWO cannon, suitably trimmed. for
Lancaster, KY" read the clerk.
Didn't say l wanted them trim
med?" said Bradley, but he accepted
the outfit OF cannon balls" when the
term was explained.
The bill finally disposed Of some 1o5
cannon.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Life Of London,

John L. Griffiths, formerly of Indian
apolis, now consul general at Lon
don, writes that greater London has a
population Of 7,25O,OO0. The county of
London comprises only a portion of
the metropolitan area. The county
councils abstract shows the following
interesting items: Population, 4,522,-
961; debt, s558,583,9S0; ratable value,
$217,O23,144; weddings year, 4O,2O1;
births, 1895; deaths, 61,909; deaths
by accidents, 1886; fires, 3,2O8; pau
pers. 140,56O; police, 1928; soldiers,
10,05S; postal employees, 49,969; fire.
men, 1866; motor cars, 1913; cattle.
1871; sheep, 2,941; pigs, 1913; Or
chards (acres). 1863; corn crops, 242;
postoffices, 1861; letters delivered,
S05,900,o00; post cards, 199.SOO,OOO;
kilograms, 25,e62,ooo. The imports in
to London constitute 1876 per cent of
the total imports into the United King.
dom, and more than half the income
tax on salaries is paid by London.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Greatness.

It is possible to say of Emerson. as
be said o. himself, that his sentences
are mutually repellant particles<that
he has 70 construction; OF Dickens
that Re runs too much to external
tags for character; of Jane Austen
that her stage is small; of Scott that
he ~is careless and long; even Of
Shakespeare that he is uneven, cares
nothing for the spiritual unity or
the universe, and sees life only as
panorama. And when you have said
all these things you have said moth
Ing. You have not approached the
thing that makes Emerson, or Dick
ems, or Shakespeare; the different
ness from the rest Of us; the size;
the greatness; the gift. that is ALL
Golfers Weekly.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13

ciety a vocation instead Of the amuse-
ment business. could possibly show
the genius in management and the
business ability to put on what Is no
doubt one Of the biggest single amuse-
ment projects ever witnessed In Eng
land
That the Bard of Avon has influ-
enced this woman successfully to car
ry out the festival that does honor to
his memory Is believed by all but the
most skeptical who have seen the ex-
hibition
II Shakspeare's spirit did not influ.
ence Mrs. West, what accounts for her
sudden inspiration to stage the pic
turesque scenes OF Elizabethan Eng
land at the cost OF hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars.
Giving up her social duties and
working nine hours each day and
many extra nights organizing the big
show on speculation.
Experimenting the construction Of
the buildings of that period.
Porting over works of history and
devoting days upon days to the de-
signing of certain costumes In order to
have the smallest detail historically
correct.
Leaving Mayfair and the brilliant
court of St. James after life OF idle
luxury and plunging into hard labor:
And, above all, showing genius In
no xr,hi &c cold h1ro vnartG tn
be worthy Of the great poet himself.
Mrs. West displayed such splendid
genius that many of her friends and
acquaintance believe that even with
the knowledge of English history she
has she could not have revived those
days Of tits and jousts with such &C.
curacy as she has shown.
The story is most mysterious be-
cause Mrs. West will neither deny nor
confirm 1t. This much, however. is
known: She spent months wandering
over every inch of the ground with its
ivy-grown cottages and gay gardens
that was beloved by the great Eng
lish poet; she spent hours visiting the
homes in which he once lived and
then took her books and read, and
meditated and talked Shakespeare with
everybody who loves the great English
dramatist and his works. 1t Is said
that when her work was completed
and she went back to London prior
to the pageant, Marie Corelli- said to
her: 1T will be wonderful success.
1t must be. for Shakespeare will be
with you at the pageant and will d.
rect the show, II you follow his in
struction you will be we'll rewarded,
for he will not leave you after the
pageant Is over. He Is with many
great writer's, inspiring them to do
their best, and he will remain with
you. If 1t were not for his great &c.
MUS and that Of others who have gone
to the great unknown there would be
few writer's in the world today. 1t Is
Shakespeare and the lesser lights who
have inspired me and others to do
their best"
Since everybody Is congratulating
Mrs. West on her splendid success.
she cannot forget the words that Ma
RE Core!li spoke to- her. She Is be-
ginning to wonder If there is some
half truth in these words, and that she
may yet be aided to do great works
with her pen.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
KN0TTY POINT HERE ).
Has Man of the House Right to
Discharge Cook7
or Can Domestic, Told by wife 70
Stick to Her Post, Hold the Fortf-
Matter Of Some Moment
to Husbands.

Our sympathy goes out to 1. n.
Dunkerly of Tacoma. This tree-porh
American citizen finds 1t Impossible
even with the help Of the courts, 70
rid himself of his cook. though &C.
cording to his allegations, her breaa
is "liks bricks and her biscuits ike
stones" When he attempted to put
the cook out OF the house she threat
ened him." and as he was a small per-
son 1t became necessary for MIN 10
appeal to the law When the constable
arrived with the warrant the COOK ao-
mitted that she had refused to leave
but said that she had been hired Dy
Mrs. Dunkerley, who was away from
home, but had ordered her not TO
leave under any circumstances.
The case is one of plainly connict-
ing jurisdiction. There seems to be
twilight zone within which positive
action, at least by the husband, 1s I'M
possible. AS rule, the wife employs
the servants. But whether she is IN
the legal sense the employer Is aouot-
full. AS a rule, the one who pays the
wages is the employer. If this rule
holds In domestic affairs, and II Mr..
Dunkerly was in truth the paymaster'
1t would seem as though 1t were Tor
him to say whether the cook should
| go or stay.
Yet the case is not free from COM
plexity. To insist on the rule IN It's
strictness would be to make the wl1e
the mere agent of the husband, which
of course, is not, in these days, to be
thought Of There are those who Will
argue that when a man gives his Vile
money with which to run the house
| the money Is hers. On that theory
she would be the employer. But 1t IS
not necessary to take this extreme
view. We may hold that all the mon
ey earned or possessed by either nus
band or wife belongs to both, and
that the money which was paid to
this cook was, when it was paid, the
property of Mrs. Dunkerley. At least
it was as much the wife's as 1t was
the husbands. AS it was part Of her
duty, as representative of the family,
to hire the COOK, and as she may De
held to have paid her wages and to
have been the employer, one may
fairly conclude that Dunkerley was
mere interloper in his own home.
But the case is sad one, and there
are, of course, many who will take the
other view than that here elaborated.
1t is hard to have to eat bread like
bricks and biscuits like stones. There
ought to be some redress besides re-
sort to the tavern, especially when
one feels that one Is paying for bread
and biscuit that are not like bricks
and stones But the appeal seems to
be to the lady of the house, and we
hope that it will not be in vain.-1ndi.
| annapolis News.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Rats and the Plague.

After hundreds of negative examina-
tons of rats made during the last few
weeks one rat carrying bubonic plague
bacilli was found in New Orleans, on
July e. and one in Philadelphia on
July 20. New cases Of plague have
been reported in both Porto Rico and
Cuba. At Porto Rico special examina-
ton will be given to freight to be
shipped to the United States. Large
forces of rat prisoners and rat catch
ers are at work and five hundred rats
are being examined daily. The Unit
ed States treasury department has or
dered that all vessels from ports in
South America, the West Indies, At
RIGA, Russia, China, India and the Pa
citic islands, while lying in United
States ports, shall have all lines or
hawsers leading to wharves or shore
protected by rat guards, and that all
gang planks shall be raised at night
unless men be placed nearby to de-
stroy escaping rats.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
TURKEYS FOR ARMY WORMS.

From a farmer at Groveland. Ca.
came a tip to congress of way to rid
the south Of the army worm.
M. M. Kicklighter wrote a letter. IN
red ink throughout, to the House or
Senate" telling OF his discovery.
Il saw your advertisement in the At
lanta paper for aid to check the army
worms" it began. Il had ten acres OF
corn and the army worms had just
started in. l drove my turkeys in my
field and they ate the army worms up
in two days, and If it had not been for
my turkeys 1 would have lost 500
bushels of corn by those worms.
80 please send me check for said
amount, for that is the only way to
destroy the army worms"
Congress recently appropriated $685.
900 to eliminate the worm.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
MUST LAY LARGER EGGS.

Poultry experts in the department
of agriculture have undertaken to
teach the farmers of the country how
to save about $5O,O00.000 on eggs a
year.
1T Is a conservative estimate" said
NJ. e. Pennington Of the poultry d.
vision OF the department, that more
than $45, 100000 are lost annually by
the handling Of eggs for the market"
Among other things the department
experts will urge the farmers to en-.
courage their hens to lay larger eggs.
and less sterile eggs for market pur'
poses.
BY the cooperation Of the farmer
and the hen, Mr.. Pennington argues.
the cost of living can be lowered to
the average man. II the $45, 100000 or
$50, 100000 now lost annually can be
saved every man. woman and child In
the United States will be at least SO
cents better of.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13

liza. So years old. arrived in New
York few days ago from Dublin, Ire
land. They had never before been to
the United States. When examined
by immigration inspectors at Ellis Is
land they said they had Sis between
them, but that they were going to be
cared for by their nephew, John
Francis Byrne, a New York newspaper
reporter. This did not satisfy Act
ing Commissioner Uhl, and he ques-
toned Mr.. Byrne. Mr.. Byrne said the
two maiden aunts had been the same
as parents to him when he was small
and that he was anxious to care for
them and that he had sent to Ireland
for them. He said he received $25 a
week IS a reporter and thought that
sufficient to support himself and his
aunts.
Commissioner Uhl reported to Sec
rotary Nagel that while the saunts
were very nice ladies and apparently
healthy, he did not think Byrne could
support them on s25 a week.
Secretary Nagel ruled that Byrne
could support them. and instructed
Commissioner Uhl to admit the two
aunts.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
WANTED ARTIFICIAL LEGS.

Charles Mitchell. Polish miner
who lost his legs in a West Virginia
mine several months ago, came here
the other day to get pair Of artificial
legs. He was told by friend In West
Virginia that Congressman had wood
en- legs, garden seeds, bulletins and
other things to 'give away. Upon be-
ing advised that artificial limbs are
not to be had at the Capitol for the
asking, Mitchell became downcast. He
was sent to a public lodging house by
police officers.
When told of the West Virginia Grip
pie Sam Pollard, the legless pencil
vendor on Pennsylvania avenue, said:
There is but one way to get 1T in
Washington, and that is work for It,
Fifteen years ago l was run over by
a steam boat and had both legs cut
off. but am still living. No congress-
man ever offered me pair OF wooden
legs"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Find Patients for Doctors.

A curious occupation has sprung up
in Paris. Several doctors have re-
ceived circular from newly formed
agency, which offers to find patients
for them. The fees are rather high.
They vary from $40 to 500. On re-
ceipt of the fee the doctor Is assured
list of twenty consumptives, twenty
epileptics, twenty people suffering
from cancer, etc. He Is then at lib
erty to call and offer his services. The
agency's circular declares that the
list of patients are compiled from
absolutely certain sources and that
the money will be returned IT there
are more than three mistakes In each
list. This is a rather grim proviso.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
sparrows Despoiled Pigeon.

Its feet held fast in soft tar which
had been melted by the sun on the
roof Of the supply house of the board
Of education, West Monroe street, a
pigeon was being shorn of its feathers
by a flock of sparrows when 1t was
sighted by policemen who were stand
ing in front of the patrol wagon barn
at the Desplaines street station. the
sparrows had plucked feather after
feather from the pigeon before the
policemen realized what was taking
place. Policemen Sullivan, Murphy
and Crotty finally liberated the pigeon
Chicago Daily News.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13

pose," the emperor writes, "the war
is uniting Islam against Christians
the world over. Morally 1t has been
a great mistake"
The letter was conveyed to Rome
by special court messenger, who re-
ceived a handsome gift from his holi.
ness. No intimation was made to the
nunciature here, owing to the peculiar
delicacy Of the situation and the de-
sire of the emperor to keep the ma
ture Of the correspondence secret.
The Nuncio was informed of
the emperor's act by q friend in
the papal secretariat Of state. He
feels deeply incensed, and has since
kept away from the imperial palace,
where he was previously a constant
visitor.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Typewriter Hindustani.

Being in great hurry-she was
constitutionally in a great hurry-she
ratified and banged the typewriter
with energy worthy Of grand cause.
Then she threw back the carriage and
read-or tried to:
"Sa Nezi Ayhnes Gmilore upts 1t:
Henw ash ash ainged oseth ghtsrt
ualeq tll1w enm tath sch 81 VINO me.
dandnig, hatw sha ownam to veig eth
rolwd nj turenr?"
1t looked so much like high caste
Hindustani that she was tempted to
let it go at that and learn the whole
language, but time pressed, so she
tried again and got this:
"As Inez Haynes Gilmore puts it:
When she has gained those rights
equal with men that she is now de-
manding, what has woman to give the
world In return?"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
NO MORE SACRIFICE.
Juggernaut Not Allowed to Claim
His Human Victims.
Journey Of the God to Country House
, Shorn Of rss Ancient Horrors,
Through Action Of the Brit
Ish Government.

Persons whose tender childish years
were nurtured upon tales Of the unfor-
gettable car Of Juggernaut, beneath
the wheels of which pious Hindus
flung themselves to be mangled into
Immortality, will hardly read without
q pang of regret the following report
from the ancient city of Puri, three
hundred miles south of Calcutta,
where Juggernaut las hal his shrine
since 1893 or earlier.
AT one place by the walls" says
the Christian Herald, lis a great fig.
ure of Juggernaut. carved in relief,
and standing eighteen feet high. An
almost horrible object it is, glossy
black except for its ape-like face,
which is brilliant red. Devout pill.
grims place fruit or rice before 1t,
press their foreheads to its feet, and
pass on, confident that they have ap.
peased this god on their long journey
to the Hindus paradise.
Outside the walls of the temple lie
remnants of this years great car
wheels, eight feet in diameter and a
foot thick. mounted on axles twenty
two feet long and fourteen inches in
diameter. One pictures the car as
carved from costly wood, black with
age, ornamented with gold and set
with precious stones.
"IE fact, a new car Is built every
year, in which the god Journeys the
two miles for fortnight's rest at
his garden or country house. Vast
numbers of pilgrims grasp the ropes
and the car moves slowly forward to
the cheers of thousands of spectators.
But the heavy wheels cut deep into
the sand and it slows down and stops.
Interest lags, the priest now accepting
a mere touching of the ropes as sufh-
cient service, and hired coolies COM
plete the Journey, two weeks being
sometimes necessary to traverse the
two miles, and an even greater time
to return. The British government
now prevents the sacrifice of life un-
der the car, which probably accounts
for the decline of the festival"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Iowa S,ate bystallu-4
BYsTANDER PUB. CO. Publishers
nra no,nra IOWA
LIVE LIFE OF THE BEASTS
With Bad Harvssts for Ten Years
siberian Settler Barely 70 Able
70 Exist.

In spite Of glowing ofncial re.
ports the Siberian colonists seem
to be far removed from Elysium,
writes q st. Petersburgh correspond.
emit Of the New York World. The
private societies which sent men
out to report give sad accounts OF
settlers troubles.
Most OF them arrive with nothing
but the $50 government capital,
which they eat up before they can
reap their harvest or build cottages.
Most OF them live In mud huts and
barely It, per cent have either a
plow or q horse after they have been
there two years. Neither have they
knowledge OF farming. being mostly
workmen from overcrowded indus
trial centers, driven from one life OF
penury to another.
Natives and older settlers are hos
tile and make newcomers pay ex-
horbitant prices for bare necessities.
To add to their misery they get only
an average Of four good harvests
each ten years. Siberian climate BE-
ing what 1t Is. Eight months win
ter means semistarvation for all. The
short summer Is taken up with SUI
perhuman efforts to gather In grain
and fodder amidst terrible pests. the
Siberian fly and the mosquito.
Though each male head of fam
lily gets a government grant OF b.
TWEEN twenty-ssven and forty acres,
scarcely one-third is fit for 1mme-
date cultivation. In many villages IN
the Irkutsk government people were
found sunk in the most terrible pow
erty, having neither plows, cattle nor
clothes. They lived more like
beasts than men, on potatoes with
out salt in summer and coarse marsh
grass in the winter.
When questioned. the poorest OF
them said, however, that they pre-
ferred their present misery to
what they bore as factory hands In
Europeon Russia. What must that
have been!
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13
Grouse In London.

Grouse are not allowed to be on
sale in London before August IL, the
opening of the shooting season, yet on
that xvery day. even before the birds
can be, shot on the wild moors, they
are on sale. And when thes> ssaS
are sold it is found that they are Two,
years old. When tte magic WORDS
"cold storage are uttered the mys'
terry Is resolved. They have been 1or;i
many months hanging in long, neat
rows in cold storage awaiting inc
new birth" The slow:going Briton
has caught on to some American me'n@
DDS.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-09-13

years has kept up brisk correspond
ence with many Washingtonians.
When his only son. called George
Washington Pezet. because he was
born on February 20, and because his
parents are fervent admirers Of the
great neighbor to the north and Its
founder, was Of college age he was
placed at Harvard, where two years
ago he graduated with high honors.
Young Mr.. Pezet has since resided
in Boston intending to take up litera'
ture as profession.
II return to Washington" remark.
ed Sonora Pezet, "as one comes back
to dearly loved spot filled with
pleasant memories. l find the city
changed but not sufficiently so to
make me feel strange except In a few
locations. In way feel as though
l left only a few months ago and ]
take up the thread of affairs with zeal
and energy engendered by complete
rest My home city is Lima, one OF
the oldest cities of the New World
and one Of the most fascinating. Less
than fifty years after Columbus dis.
covered this vast empire for Spain,
the first stone of the Cathedral of
Lima was laid by Pizarro, in January,
1886"
Senior and Sonora Pezet two years
ago celebrated the silver anniversary
of their wedding, but to see the
sonora suggests that she has discov-
cred Ponce de Icons spring of eter-
nal youth. Being a perfect blonde,
with deep blue eyes and fair skin, an
unusual type for Spanish-Am erican,
though often seen in Spain, she looks
as though she were entering her TWEEN
ties.
Sonora PeZet is the daughter of the
late Jose Maria Corbacho of Lima, a
prominent citizen and one who held
many offices of trust She bears the
pretty name Of Coraline, shortened
into Cora. She was educated at home
by governesses after the way of the
Latins. who never send their children
away from home until they are we'll
grown and her marriage to the min.
lister, who was the son Of neigh.
Dor, occurred before she reached the
dignity of attending a boarding
school. She spent a few. months,
however, with the madams of the
Sacred Heart and since coming to
this country, she frequently visits es.
adjustments of that. order near Phil.
adelphia and New York.
Senior and Sonora Pezet have fond
hopes OF their son, George Washing
ton Pezet, who has already developed
remarkable talent for the drama.
He writes entirely in English. He is
tall, slender youth bearing a mark.
ed resemblance to his mother.