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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
Obituary.
HON. JOHN r. LACEY.

E Rominger OF Bloomfield, a life
long friend Of the late Major J. F.
Lacey today submitted for publication
the following tribute to the departed
congressman:
Major Lacey, to use familiar term,
died as many wish to die-in the &C.
tive touch with business. The dis.
patches give the time, Monday 1880
at his home in Oskaloosa, surrounded
by those he loved best. A few min
utes before his death, he was greet
ing his neighbors and friends on the
street, going from his office to his
home. Resting on his couch without
an ache or pain, or word Of com.
plant he drops out of the pathway Of
life at the beckoning Of omnipotence.
His lifework is history. and we real.
lie. THAT the path OF glory leads but
to the grave"
He was one Of the best known
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
In The Religious World;
fREy1Ew OF SUNDAY SCHOOL LEssoN)

and then a reorganization Of your de.
partment, with more assistants to
whom you can delegate authority.
Cheer up, old man; this business Is not
going to the dogs am president and
/ know" @s
So Moses was instructed to install
seventy elders, to divide his work
with him, and to act as buffers be-
tween him and the irritating contact
with the crassness and ingratitude
and complaining of the people. Many
church and society needs what
Moses needed: more distributed re-
sponsibility and better system of
training up workers. The difference
between success and failure in some
Sunday school classes is the difference
between the teachers doing things
herself and getting the members of the
class to do them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
MANY ATTEND CONCERT.

Despite the fact that the season is
nearly at an end, goodly number
were gathered about the city park last
night to hear the pleasing concert by
the Fifty-fourth regiment band. al.
though two concerts are being given
each week in order to make up for
those missing when the band was
playing out of town engagements, the
number present at the park during the
evening when the band plays does not
diminish when the weather ID fair.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
IOWA MINISTER
GOES TO DETROIT

Upton, Oct. 1.-The upper Iowa NJ.
E.. conference, which has been in ses-
sion here for several days was brought
to a close Monday afternoon with the
announcement Of the appointments for
the coming year.
The most important proceedings oc-
CURED when the conference allowed
the transfer Of Rev. j. F. Caffyn from
Iowa Falls to the Detroit conference,
Rey. Caffyn viii be appointed to Glow
ersville, N. ", the second largest
church in the Detroit district. In ex-
change for Rev. Caffyn. Detroit sends
Rev. J.5E.% Wagner. formerly Of Sara
toga Springs, N. Y. He will be assign
ed to Mason City.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
RITCHIE CROSS
MATCH ADVANCED

Chicago, Oct. before leaving to-
dav for New York Willie Richie. the
lightweight champion, received word
that the date of his match with Leach
Cross had been advanced to October
Is from October 81. Richie last night
agreed to meet Ad Wolgast whom he
defeated for the title, or Packev Nc
'Fa1iand at Milwaukee on Nov. 10 or
II. "
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-02
LIGHTNING STRIKES BARNS.

Williamsburg. Oct During the
storm Monday night. lightning struck
the barn of Patrick Kilroy in the north
part of the city. Also very large
barn, four miles northwest of the city
on the farm occupied by Henry Peters.
Both were totally destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
Trade With Brazil

Information such as is furnished in
an article written by DR.. Lauro S.
Muller, Brazilian minister of foreign
affairs, and special envoy to the
United States, is calculated to attract
attention to our trade relations with
our southern sister and promote a
feeling of closer and stronger friend
ship than exists at present.
Omitting the figures which repre-
tsent the thousands and dealing solely
in the millions, it is shown that the
United States imports from Brazil are
vastly in excess of the exports to that
country.
In the year ending June 80, 1910,
the imports from Brazil were valued
at $108, 100000, and the exports to
Brazil $4,000, 900. In 1911 the United
States bought $1O1 100000 worth of
goods from Brazil and sold $27, 900, 900
worth in return. For the year ending
June 80, 1912, the imports from Brazil
reached $124,o0o.000 and the exports
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
ARMY POSTERS $

From the ST. Louis Times.
Thanks be, new poster has been de-
signed by those who conduct the campaign
for getting young men into the United
States army.
The public is somewhat painfully fa-
miliar with a picture of q group of lack
adaisieal young gentlemen scattered about
as features of charming landscape, who
are set forth as examples of the rarely
privileged. perfectly happy man of the
ranks. One or two of these young men
are engaged in what appears to be lit
erary pursuits. Others manifest a pleas
ure in natures aspects. Far away, above
beautiful foliage suggesting the tropcis.
there are glimpses of-strange architecture
"a mosque, maybe, or a pagoda.
The young men wear splck and span un-
forms and an air of we'll being.
The new poster presents somewhat real
soldiers in the act of charging a hill
an action almost If not quite as false
to the facts as the poster which has been
replaced. Still. the new picture suggests
duties and labor. and is therefore tre-
mendous Improvement.
We believe 1t is a fine experience for
young men of too much spirit and not
enough sense to serve in the army for an
enlistment or two; but we also hold that If
they are to make honest soldiers, they
ought to be reached by honest methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
ways That Are InexpIicabIe

There are many different elements en-
tering into the human makeup as to
character. department and fair play
said a man of wide experience, ''but there
is absolutely no rule OF guaging the fe-
male of the species.
ut is a strange part of life that wom-
en- will give their tenderest sympathies
to veritable criminal, and yet are most
pound-of-hesh exacting as to small Of
tenders. Ready to criticise others for
their acts, they often turn and do that
which is very frequently more to be con-
demned. Take the matter of children and
their department.; most mothers think
that their offspring should be free from
restraint, even when trespassing on the
rights of others or one thing the aver
age parent stands in awe that is police
men, for however much their children
may misbehave. without rebuke, or the
tolerating of friendly interference, the
policeman can exact proper department.
and without any scene either. That shows
that the woman rests upon a mistaken
idea of what she is entitled to, for II
she were right, she wouldn't stand in
awe of either policemen or police courts
for herself and her offending youngsters. ,,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
Where Bankers Disagree

Tho interview of w. P. G. Hard
ang published in Tuesdays Age
Herald. is filled with interest Il
shovs that even the bankers are no'
decided as to just what kind oil cur
rency bill they want.
Mr. Forgan, president of the flrs'
National bank of Chicago, MADE
sneech denouncing the Glass-oWen
hill as a measure of "damnable con-
+roction.n while Mr.. Dawes, former
con,ntroller of the currency, charac-
+o,.;1ed if as a scheme of Outrageous
expansion
Here indeed is a difference. but
Mr. REYNOLDS, president of the Con'l-
non+al and Commercial bank OF ohl-
caoo took a middle course. he dio
not agree with Mr.. Forgan or MI
Dawes that the bankers should write
the currency bill. He knew that such
+b;no would arouse the ire OF the
o,lo and that a measure drawn by
+be bankers and only in their inter-
.s+s would never be sanctioned by
Mr.. Wilson.
A disappointing feature of the con-
ference in Chicago was the lack Oh
Of
interest shown by the financlers Oh
the east. Only few were IN acVeh-
dance 1t may be that the bankers oil
that section have completely digesteo
the Glass-Owen bill and are not as
much afraid of it as are many Oh theh
brethren of the south and west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
SHARKS AS PRISON GUARDS

From the Wide World Magazine
Shark skin, shark teeth, shark oil, shark
meat and several other by-products of the
utility, but | have never heard of but one
instance where the living shark was put
to a practical use. This was when they
used him as prison guard in the old
days when British convicts were trans
ported to Australia, the monsters serv-
| ing this purpose for many years at the
| Port Arthur settlement. ten miles south
of Hobart, the present capital of Tas-
mania. The prisons at this point some
of which may still be seen, were situated
upon a peninsula whose only connection
strip OF sand called, from its confgura-
ton, the "E,aglehawk's Neck"
| The convicts were allowed considerable
liberty on the peninsula, but to prevent
! their escape to the mainland half-starved
bloodhounds were chained all the way
across the narrowest portion of the
Neck Several prisoners having avoided
the bloodhound zone" by swimming, the
authorities adopted the effective but grue-
some expedent of feeding the sharks at
this point several times a day. In few
weeks the place became illegally alive with
| the voracious man-eaters, and from that
time on the only convict who ever escaped
accomplished his purpose by rolling him
self up in kelp and working along, inch
| by inch, timing his movements to corre-
spond with those of the other heaps of sea-
weed that were being rolled by the surf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
The Merchants Convention

Birmingham is ready for the inva-
sion of the merchants. Plans have
been made for their royal entertain
ment, and nothing has been left un-
done to insure their having good
time.
Chairman Browns glad hand ideas
are right. The citizens of Birming-
ham should make the visitors feel
thoroughly at home; that the interests
of all Alabama are the interests of
this city and the interests of this city
are the interests of all Alabama.
Personal acquaintance is sure to
lead to better trade relations. The
jobbers and wholesalers here are anx-
ious to keep what the country mer-
chants want and to sell them goods
as cheap as they can be bought any
where.
Men from many Alabama towns
will be here. They will see magnif-
icent city, and they will be convinced
that it is as much their pride and
boast as it is of those who live here
the year round.
lhe merchants are most welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27

to that country $4,000, 900. Thus it
may be seen that in these three years
the trade balance between the United
States and Brazil is against the
United States to the tune of $249,-
100000. During these same years the
Brazilian trade with England and
Germany has shown large balance
in favor of these countries.
Doctor Muller assigns several rea-
sons for this condition and suggests
the remedies. He says that there is
American steamship service between
the two countries and that the Amer
lean flag is almost unknown in the
harbor of Rio de Janeiro, while the
British and German ensigns are flut-
tering from a thousand mastheads.
Another reason he gives is that Amer
lean manufacturers do not send the
right sort of agents, men familiar
with the language and customs of the
Brazilians, while the British and Ger
man agents are specially selected on
that account
Brazilian trade should be much
more valuable to us than Asiatic and
more easily obtained if gone after in
the proper manner, which means that
we much have the agents who can sell
our goods and our own ships to de-
liver them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
Exit Frank. Enter Caminetti.
NEMESIS

From the September Lippincott's
The grim, muscular looking man eyed
his victim malevolently. 81 have been
time when l should have you in my pow
err" he said relentlessly. You probably
thought yourself safe, because I kept
away from you SO long, didn't you?' he
went on sneeringly. But all this while
you were living in fanced security
have bided my time, knowing that sooner
or later l should get you where 1 wanted
you. And noW that I have got you. you
are going to die-do you hear me?"-his
voice rose harsh, raucous. inclsive ITO
die! And I purpose that others of your
family shall die with youl''
He paused and regarded his victim
gloatingly. The latter spoke no word, nor
showed signs OF shrinking from the fate
| that threatened him. although one might
have fancied that he east an appealing
glance at another man who stood not
far away. But although the latter must
have been eognizant of what was going
on, he showed no disposition to interfere.
Rather, he looked on with an amused.
cynical expression.
II shall waste no more time talking to
Iyou." resumed the first speaker vindic-
lively. II am too impatient to put an
end to your miserable existence for good
and all. I knew you wouldn't try to re-
sist," ne added eontemptuously
Then with a quick movement he brutally
seized his helpless victim and stabbed him
with such force that the sharp steel Dene-
trated clean through the body Then he
ate him.
For ii was September l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
CalhOun's Example

The county commissioners of Cal
houn have decided to spend at least
$4,000 year on public roads in the
future. The county will do its own
work. A competent supervisor has
been employed, and he will devote all
his time to the highways. Last year
Calhoun spent about $27 900 on its
roads. So satisfactory was. the in
vestment that hereafter the annual
expenditure will be practically dou-
| bled
As State Engineer Keller has
pointed out, every man is not a road
builder. Many deep questions of en-
gineering are constantly arising.
These can be settled only by experts.
Again, permanency should be the de-
sideratum of road construction. High
ways that disappear when the annual
freshets come are of little practical
Value. drainage must be taken into
consideration, and roads built in such
manner that they will withstand
the elements as well as traffic.
New enthusiasm for good roads has
been aroused in the last few months.
The recent good roads days. in this
state proved inspiring. Accounts of
what was accomplished in Missouri
also give impetus to the movement
for better highways.
1t is an excellent time for those who
believe that the Alabama convicts
should be taken from the mines and
put on the public roads to agitate that
forward step. At work on the public
roads, the prisoners would be labor
ing for all. In the mines they are of
benefit only to private corporations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27

For example. the Chattanooga postmaster
and the Birmingham postmaster receive
the same pay-S40Q0 a year But Birmng-
ham mas three postoffices inside the city
limits, one of them quite a large Office.
Ensley has a postoffice that is almost
up to the second class. Wylam has a
third class postoffice and Thomas an Of
flee of the fouth class. If these offices
We're all merged into the Birmingham
postoffice the postmasters salary would
be fully 5000. if not $1,000 Even as it IS
the revenues were only a little short Of
advancing the salary to SJ0oo on July /.
Chattanooga has an exceptionally large
postoffice business in the literature ae-
eompanying the business of proprietary
medicines. Chattanooga is the leading
patent medicine town in the south. Also
the Chattanooga postoffice has large reve-
nues growing out of the liquor business.
Tennessee being a prohibition state, a
large annual total passes through TIE
postoffice in the shape of money orders
for liquor. In the census of 1910 Chat
tanooga's population was only 4i6O4, as
against Birmingham's population of 132,
ss5.
Richmond has 5000 postmaster and
its population in 1910 was considerably
below Birmingham Richmond has a
very large jobbing trade in addition to its
industrial operations Also it is quite a
large publishing town. Nashville, by the
way, has $1,000 postmaster. It's immense
publishing business affects the postoffiee
revenues materially, as a matter of
course"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
Alfalfa in Alabama

MANY of the depleted cotton soils OF
Alabama, under proper treatment, re-
spond generously with profitable yields OF
alfalfa, while its accumulated nitrogen
and the tsubsolling it effects are making
the land more valuable, and giving back
to the soil the elements it has lost
through long periods of careless farming, .
said a well known citizen
Some attempts to grow alfalfa in this
state have resulted in failure and these
can be attributed in almost every in
stance to ignorance OF the requirements
of the plant or refusal to follow the sim
pie yet imperative rules which govern
it's successful and profitable cultivation
Proper drainage, innoculation with the
essential floral bacilli, and plenty of lime
in the soil are essential. Unless these three
requirements are met there can be no sue
cessful results obtained by growing al
falfa in the gulf states. though with these
elements combined many of the soils in
this section can be made to yield profit
able crops of this invaluable legume
There is a strip of soN known as the
prairie region of Alabama and Mississippi
running diagonally across this state thai
is sometimes referred to as the alfalfa
belt as in that area the production and
marketing of alfalfa has become recog-
nized industry.
1T is the presence of an abundance
of lime in this Houston clay soil that
gives its peculiar adaptability for tho
production of alfalfa; though it must moi
be inferred that this is the only area in
which alfalfa may be profitably grown.
prof P. G. Holden of Iowa, one of the
alfalfa experts who recently led move
ment in a portion of our prairie belt ad-
vocating alfalfa on every farm is au-
thority for the statement that with ths
addition of lime rock Or some other form
of lime to the soil many other sections
of the state can be made to produce good
crops of alfalfa.
1.-The fact that it is little affected by
drouth, its almost immediate help to the
livestock raising industry and its great
value both as a feed and commercial
product combine to make alfalfa the
great green hope of the boil weevil In
tested areas of the cotton belt. Still il
| is necessary that science and the results
of experience be applied, or the total o1
| losses through alfalfa in Alabama may
exceed the gains"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
Builders of Birmingham

The Traders National bank has this
interesting sketch in connection with
its September calendar i'm the series
entitled Builders of Birmingham.
John Hearst Miller was born at
Oak Hill, Wilcox county, Alabama, on
August II. 1868. He graduated from
Erskine college in Due West, S. e., and
took post graduate courses in law and
mathematics at the University of Vir-
ginia and at Johns Hopkins univer-
sity. After completing his college ca
reer he accepted the chair OF mathe-
matics at Erskine college. which he
occupied from 1881 to 1883, when he
moved to Birmingham TO practice law.
and has resided here continuously
since.
Judge Miller has taken an active
part in political matters and has served
as chairman of both the city and county
democratic executive COMMITTEES. He has
also been city recorder of Birmingham
and judge of the Tenth judicial district
of Alabama. In 1912 he gave up a
lucrative practice to become one of the
judges of the city court of Birming-
ham. to which office he was elected by
popular vote, and he has discharged the
duties of this important position with
marked fairness and ability.
Judge Miller is a director of the
Southern Indemnity association, the
Realty Trust company and the Traders
National bank, OF which he was one of
the incorporators. He is favorably
known over the state, a public speak
er of note. and a scholar having lit
erary and academic degrees from Err
skine college and from the University
of Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
The Viaduct Plans

Commissioner Weatherly expresses
himself as gratified by the lndofse-
wont which has been given the plans
for tbe elimination of the grade cross
;nos in the central section OF the eiey'
The nlans were drawn by experts VINO
have no interest in the railroads or IN
property where the improvements are
to be made. They have attempted 70
treat all with fairness.
The railroads and the citizens, Oh
course. are entitled to hearing. Inc
whole scheme will be thoroughly
+brashed out. AS Major Miner ex-
nresses it. it cannot be expected IN
movement Of this kind to please every
body. each individual will have his
own ideas about the subject, many OF
+ben, crude and without due knowl-
edge of the facts, and others IN
fluenced by personal interest.
But all should consider the problem
in the light of patriotism. The death
traps" so long as they are allowed
to continue, will be a great drawback
to Birmingham. Some property IN
terests may have to suffer for time,
but any temporary losses are bound to
be made up by the growth that will
follow the elimination of the grade
crossing.
Mr.. Motion suggests that Nine
teenth street be opened up. Certainly
this would be a most advantageous
step. Twenty-first street bridge
Twentieth street and Eighteenth
street are badly congested. If feas-
ible, Mr.. Notions suggestion should
be adopted. But action of some kind
is wanted above all things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
sTRANGE IDEA on TuN.


dilapidated cart of which all but the
wheels seemed to have heen "home-made"
ago by a diminutive pair of oxen. not
much larger than goats. The cart was
evidently used for hauling swill, as it
contained several malodorous buckets and
cans. On the narrow seat of the cart
was negro, evidently owner of the out
whip over the oxen was seated young
white man. Just behind him, crouched on
"a slop can, was another youth. Both
were very well dressed and did not appear
to be intoxicated. They were evidently
town-bred and their indifference to the
laughter of people who saw them, as
well as the fact that they seemed to be
taking their ride quite seriously, caused
remark.
do you suppose they think that's
ioke?" asked one man who got Whit
from the cart.
eThey don't seem to be drunk" observed
another pedestrian.
"Guess they must have made some sort
of bet" surmised thoughtful individual.
Then, with a disapproving shake of his
head, he continued on his way.
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Healthy business condilious

"The business conditions of this
country were never sounderi perhaps,
than they are today said J. F. shep-
person of Philadelphia.
AFTER spending nearly three weeks
in the south I do not hesitate to say
that this great section is more pros
porous than ever. My first visit to the
south was about 15 years ago. Pros
perity prevailed then. There had been
remarkable development since the war
but the strides that the south has made
in the last five years are indeed phe-
nomenal.
birmingham is a marvel Two years
ago when I was last here it Was grow
ing at fast rate, but its rapid growth
now is even more manifest"