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The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
SAVING TIME I'M EDUCATION.

There is a waste of at least two
years in the present plan OF American
education. This Is the conclusion
reached by committee of prominent
educators in a report on Economy
of Time in Education" just issued by
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton.
This conclusion follows an investi-
cation lasting nearly 10 years by a
committee of the National Education
Association, Of which President
James H. Baker, of the University of
Colorado, is chairman. The commit
tee have endeavored to form a plan
that would do away with the two-year
loss. They propose that six years
be assigned to the elementary school
instead of eight as at present; that
the high school period be from age II
to Is, divided into wo'parts, of four
and two years each; that college
work extend from IS to 20, or 16 to
20, according to the method Of dis
tributing the last two secondary
years; and that graduate or profess
sional work at a university cover the
years from 20 to "a. This would en-
dDl6 DOyo duu 6Illo W SCI e1lAPIC VIVA
tional training after the age Of IL; it
would enable those who go on to
college to get through their college
work at the age of 20; and it would
save the professional man from hay
ing to wait until 81 to start his pro-
fessional career.
The report insists that the present
elementary course is too long; that
the ground now covered in 8 years
can be covered Just as efficiently in
g. allowing secondary work to begin
at the age of IL. To save on ele-
mentary schooling they urge: Choose
the most important subjects and the
most important topics; make a dis
tinction between first-rate facts and
principles and tenth-rate. Confine the
period Of elementary education to
mastering the tools of education. In
clude the last two years of the pres
ent elementary school in the period
of secondary education and begin the
study of foreign language, element
airy algebra, constructive geometry,
elementary science, and history two
years earlier than at present
Emphasis is laid on the necessity
of concentrating on a few valuable
studies: "The great mistake. of our
education is to suppose that quantity
and strain constitute education. Ed
ucationa is a question of doing a few
essential things we'll and without
The college has commit
ted a grievous mistake in demanding
ever more in quantity rather than In
IS
healthy normal development"
The report takes up the problem Of
saving time in education from the
point of view Of the college, the
school, and society at large, as we'll
as of the individual pupil; and 1t con-
aims opinions on every phase Of the
question from representative school
men and the general public.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

break, except for gates. 1t begins in
the temperate regions and ends in
the tropics, and sometimes for nearly
a hundred miles it never passes a
human habitation. The fence is di
vided into sections, each of which is
under the control of an inspector.
These inspectors have boundary rid
ers, whose duty II Is to constantly
ride up and down their section of the
long barrier and keep 1t in effective
condition. Since the fence was erect
ed it has prevented hordes of rabbits
from oyerrunning and devastating the
region beyond.
Nine. Kin Seno. the only woman
who has attained the position of bank
president in Japan, aided in founding
the institution in 1912. The bank is
Situated in Tokyo, and in lending her
aid In its foundation Mime. Seno real.
lied the wises of her husband, who
died number of years ago. She was
born in 1912, converses well in Eng
lish, and has acquired many Euro
pean customs, but still clings to her
native costume.
20 -. -
East Africa has come forward with
a new wood suitable for lead pencils
at time when the supply of Ameri-
can cedar, so largely employed for
that purpose, is approaching exhaus-
ton.
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A bell in a temple in North China
has been kept ringing for a century.
A tax is levied in the district for pay
ing relays of ringers to work inces-
sanity day and night.
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Doctors coachmen in Berlin wear
white hats. This enables the public
to promptly recognize a physicians
vehicle in case his services are sud-
denly required.
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In the Philippines base ball has re-
placed cock fighting as the favorite
sport. The great American game
may even claim to be a moral agency.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The novel plan of increasing i'm.
ports of American cottonseed Oil into
northern Africa by introducing mod
ern depressing machinery and en-
couraging the natives to produce bet
ter grades of olives is proposed by
Commercial Agent Erwin w. Thomp-
son in monograph entitled Edible
Oils in the Mediterranean District
just issued by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, Department
of Commerce. The natives will sell
the high-grade olive abroad at excel
lent prices and then import cheaper
oils for their own use.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
BATTLE EXPECTED AT MINE
Armed Strikers Unframed by Speech
Made by Woman Are Marching
II ak. Upon Shaft in Colorado.

. Williamsburg, Colo, Nov. 12.-Be-
tween 200 and 800 armed strikers, In
famed by the speech of a woman So
cialist, left here to march upon the
Radiant mine, several miles south Of
here, to take forcible possession Of
the property. Thirteen armed mine
deputies and about twenty miners at
work there, ali armed, are awaiting
the arrival of the invaders. It is be-
lieved here that battle between the
two forces cannot be averted.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Chairman e. E. Clark, of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, and
an old time railroad employe, shock,
ed some and surprised other auditors
when he told the twenty.fifth annual
convention of the National Associa.
ton of Railway Commissioners in
Washington that he believed railroad
rates must be advanced. He insisted
that the railroads need millions OF
dollars for betterment, and this must
come from increased earnings which,
Of course, can be obtained only by an
increase In rates. II did not make
any difference. If the bad financial
condition Of railroads was due to
reckless financiering, the practical
question before the country, he said,
was the necessity of Improvement,
and that could only be made when
the roads earned more money.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
Bio Cholera Loss.

The loss to Fayette county farmers
through death Of hogs by cholera this
season is estimated at $4,000 by w.
G. Stewart, assistant state veterinars
ian. Fayette county has. suffered far
less than nearby counties to the
west, the principal loss being in lily
ria township.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
Hunters Respect Game Laws.

Deputy Game Warden Henry T.
Reichman, acting under instructions
from the state game warden, toured
a portion of Lee county last week and
reports that only two violations of
the hunting laws were discovered.
Ninety more Lee county hunters have
taken out licenses than during any
previous year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

One of the visitors from Po,'p
who attended the oskaloosa P. L. v,
meeting, said that last winter the
Pella chapter canvasSSd that town
to do charity work where needed.
After covering the town thoroughly
only, two families could be found that
were. destitute and in need of help
mis- surely speaks well for conditions
in this prosperous city of $500 people.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
Levy il Race AaaIn.t Root.

Washington, Nov. 10.-Represents-
tive Jefferson M. Levy OF New York
formally anpounced that he would be
d candidate to succeed Senator Root
at the primaries next fall
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The governors of Massachusetts
have suggested an apple day to boom
this kind of fruit. But some one has
discovered that the apple has always
held its own. 1t tempted Eve, and
William Tell did desperate feats be-
cause Of 1t. The apples of Hesper-
ides and other tabled apples played
their part in mythical history and al
together the apple has always doomed
itself pretty well,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.

At the annual review on July IA
Paris saw the black soldiery of
France for the first time. In six
years France has raised black army
OF practically 100000. and it Is now
proposed that each section-the SEN
egalese, the Madagascar troops and
others-shall send a delegation, and
that President Poincare shall pre-
sent each regiment with its flag. The
First Senegalese Regiment, which has
its flag already, will receive the insig-
MIA and the Legion OF Honor, which
decoration was recently gaZetted.
The army has been brought into be-
ing by Colonel Mangin, VINO was,
when a captain, second In command
OF Marchand's famous mission to
Fashoda in 1899. At the present time
II Is understood that the Senegalese
army is well over $4,000 strong and
could be doubled very quickly. There
are also regiments from the Soudan,
from Dahomey, from the Congo, from
French Guinea and the Ivory coast,
Algeria. Tunis and Morocco. There
are very few black officers.
Stretching across western Australia
Is a rabbittight fence. said 10 be the
longest In the world. II extends for
q distance Of 1900 miles, without a
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Sir Rufus Isaacs, who has been
appointed to tine post of lord chief
justice of England, is the first Jew to
hold this position. He is the second
of his faith to attain high place in
Great Britain, the other having been
Disraell, Lord Beaconsfield, Queen
Victoria's premier
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Washington Democrat: We are
in receipt of a pamphlet got out by
the Oskaloosa Herald, containing all
the splendid tributes to the memory
of Major Lacey. 1t is a very splen-
did little booklet that we read with
much pleasure.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

One of the largest and most val
liable timber trees of the country IS
the tulip tree, known to lumbermen
as yellow poplar. 1t is related to the
magnolias, but Is the only tree of its
kind in the world. One of these
trees stands on the III. c. Hull lawn,
on High avenue East.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13
TWICE TOLD TALES.

OF the hundreds of death certii-
Gates handled annually by the Wis
consin state board of health in max
ing its classification of diseases,
many, as filed out by local physicians
and mailed to the board. contain un-
usual comment as to the cause OF
death Some Of these found in the
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Health is no more and no less
than observance of natures laws"
says the Dubuque TelegraphHerald.
"0ne of these days it Is going to be
as mudh a disgrace to get sick as to
get drunk. Drunkenness, it is to be
remembered, is due solely to drink
ing too much liquor. What is the
moral difference between that and
eating too much food?"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

WIN. Jamison, of the Shenandoah
World. has gone and got himself
sued for libel in the sum of $4,000,
and all the other newspapers are
green with envy. He offers $4,000 to
anybody who will tell him where to
get the money.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

lin fireproof hotel construction the
state of Iowa ranks far ahead of any
other state In the union, according to
II. l.. Stevens. president OF the Stew
ems Construction company, Chicago.
He Is quoted as saying that within
the last three years there have been
eight absolutely ireproof hotels put
up IN Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

We have gone barefooted when
the frost was on the pumpkin; we
have broken the ice in the creek to
go swimming; we have even eaten
ice cream on Christmas day, but We
cannot understand how a fellow can
get along all winter without vest.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The little island Of Porto Rico
has one peak, according to the United
States Geological Survey, which is
1852 feet in height. This is the high
est point in the Luquillo Mountains.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Have you bought your new cut
lery and table linen for the Thanks
giving day festive board yet? Oska-
loosa merchants have the finest in
the land
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The Mason City Times suggests
that perhaps Colonel Roosevelt is fig
uring on coming up from the south
and attacking Huerta from the rear.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The thornless cactus and the
coreless apple and the stingless bee
are all right in their way, but why
not the wireless politicians?" en-
quires the Knoxville Express.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The state OF Iowa spends $1,000
for newspapers and magazines for the
various state institutions. Wonder
If it subscribes for the Keosauqua
Republican?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Anyone who spends less than he
earns. and saves the difference, and
pays as he goes, is on the way to in
dependence. Harvey A. Blodgett.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

fed by Miss Adah Hopkins. is at
tracing notice elsewhere and the city
Of Oskaloosa is endeavoring to secure
the installation of a similar system
in MahaSka county,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

An Oklahoma newspaper adver-
tises as follows: Full blooded COW,
for sale, giving milk, three tons of
hay, a lot Of chickens and several
stoyesn
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Speaking of base ball-if your
boosting percentage in this town were
as high as Ty Cobb's batting, how
much better the community would be.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

As reviewed by the Fairfield
Ledger, between pardon boards and
escapes it's a wonder Iowa keeps
that prison as full as she does.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

The Iowa City Republican wants
to know if it's the woman suffrage
idea which has put the mans hat
band bow on the rear of the hat?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

ACTIONS, looks, words - steps
from the alphabet by which you spell
aracter."-Layater.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

There are 10000 kinds of butter
flies in the world, not including the
human variety. .,....
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

According to the Enterprise, the
most polite lady in Brighton is col
lege graduate and she knocks at a
store door before entering.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

"A little change in the hand IS
worth more than a great change in
the weather. r&
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Alex Miller calls attention to the
fact that lots of important acting
men do not cut much ice.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

To secure a merit badge in for
estry, boy scouts are required among
other things, to identify rs kinds OF
trees.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

There were only 5000 homicides
In this country last year, while H.
900, 900 revolyers were sold.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

speaking of Sulzer, Tammany
giyeth and Tammany taketh away.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

According to Alex. Miller, moth
ing ruins a person as quickly as the
big head.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

Nothing is politically right which
is morally wrong.-Daniel O'Connell.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

= Grinnell Herald Poweshiek
county's plan of looking after the
poor which is being SO ably exempli-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

--Muca. talk delays action.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-11-13

In the Philippines base ball has re-
placed cock fighting as the favorite
sport The great American game
may even claim to be a moral agency.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
4 CHILD'S LAXATIVE
IS SYRUP OF FIGS"
Made From Fruit-Can't Harm
Tender Stomach, Liver
and Bowels.

If your little ones tongue is coated,
ii is a sure sign the stomach, liver and
bowels need a gentle, thorough cleans
ing at once. When your child is cross,
peevish, Hstless, pale. doesn't sleep,
eat or act naturally; if breath is bad,
stomach sour, system full of cold.
throat sore, or if feeverish, give tea
spoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" and in a few hours all the
clogged-up, cOnstipated waste, sour
bile and undigested food will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless fruit laxative"
Millions OF mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure. They also know a little
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask your druggist for 5O-cent bot
tie of California Syrup of Figs"
which contains directions for babies,
children of all ages and for grown
ups plainly on the bottle. Beware of
cOunterfeitS sold here. Get the gen
uine. made by California Fig Syrup
Company" Don't be foOled!-Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
PEDDLER is GIVEN ONE
MORE CHANCE BY JUDGE
Andrew Beunah Charged With De-
sorting Wife and Leaving Her
With only Cabbage TO Eat.

Andrew J. Beunah, 55. charged
with deserving his crippled wife last
week, and leaving her with only a
head OF cabbage 20 eat was arraigned
before Judge Farabaugh in police
court Thursday morning and plead
ed not guilty.
He asserted that poor circum-
stances made 1t impossible 10 pro-
vide better living for his wife and
that he often left the city TO canvass
other nearby towns. He is peddling
furniture polish, and said that he was
only out OF the city for the week sell
ing IL.
His wife was only able to get
around the house by crawling on her
hands and knees. The humane officer
was notified last Saturday and took
the woman to the county farm and
had a warrant sworn out for her hus-
band.
When Beunah returned from trip
through Benton HaTbOr he found his
wife at the county farm and that Of
ficers were looking for him. He is
believed TO be slightly demented.
The Judge released him for two
weeks on probation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
THE CALL OF LOVE LANDS
WILLARD BEFORE COURT

Willard Van Druff is in love with
Mrs. Bessie Hartman, he said in police
court Thursday morning, and that was
from South Bend. Once before the
judge ordered him out of the city, but
he returned and continued wooing
Mrs. Hartman. His affections grew to
blows last week when his attentions
were repulsed and he was arrested.
Mrs. Hartman said he had been
drinking and would not go when told
to. She tried TO get a bottle of whisky
away from him to destroy IL she said,
and he struck her. The Judge found
him guilty of assault and battery and
he was fined 50 and costs.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
FEAR AL. HARLIN'S
BOOKS MAY SHOW
100000 SHORT

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.)
conditions even worse in other cases.
The Damons hold 81 number of notes.
supposedly taken by Harlin for loans
of their money TO South Bend people,
but of people who insist that they
never had any such dealings with
him, or that they ever signed the pa
peTs in question.
The number of cases of this char
acter in connection with both the
Damon and Bverley estates, are UNI
available. but they are said TO run
up into the scores.
George ButZbach Hit.
George Butzbach, of the ButZbach
Fruit Co, recently adjudged bank
rupt. is also a reputed victim Of Har-
Inns methods. His case involves a
loan of $4,000 on some property in
Michigan. Instead of taking a mort
gage. however, Harlin took a deed to
his mOther-in-law. and gave back an
agreement 10 recOnVey. But this lat
ter is not of record. The mOther-in-
law then died and Harlin had the
property decided TO someone else-an
alleged dummy-and took a note and
mortgage for $1,000, which he dis
counted. Meanwhile he had also dis
posed of Butchbach's note. so he has
his money bac kOn that loan and
5000 besides ButZbach's property
is gone, or at least involved in a
tangle from which he may never be
able 10 extricate ii, and besides he
owes the $1,000 note. now in the
hands OF an innocent third party for
value.
Another case is that of a woman
on the south side, saiG>-tO earn her
living by washings. She secured a
loan from a local bank through Har-
lin, and through q term Of years kept
up the interest and finally paid most
OF the principal, aggregating approx
mately $1,000. Then she discovered
that while the interest has been paid
over to the bank right along, the prin-
cipal has been held back and now
the bank contends that Harlin was
her agent and not its, and that she
must pay the principal over again,
despite all her hardships.
Entanglements involving thee lots
in the west end of the city with a
mortgage TO Joseph Werwinski and
a contract given by Harlin that turned
up in the county recorders office a
short time ago for simultaneous dis
charge. brought 10 light a system of
duplication that puts the local man
in bad for money getting methods.
And those who claim TO have inside
information assert that these Incl
dents are a mere sort of letter OF in
PRODUCTION. Several widows in the
city that have trusted Harlin with
their investments are said 10 have
been badly misused. and some of
them left virtually penniless. If all
that is said OF his operations is true,
the grand jury viii have Considera BILE
10 pillow through if the matter ever
comes 10 its attention-somethin
that is declared more than probable.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11

No. 3-HARRISON CROCKETT.
4 never got the first money I earn
ed when / was boy. and don't sup
bose 1 ever Will" lamented Harrison
Crockett, the laundry man.
II still have dollar and a half
coming 20 me and IL probably will al
ways be coming and never arrive. I'M
less the farmer who owes tiff he
still lives-has an attack OF remOrse
and settles up.
1T took me three days to earn that
.money-50 cents a day-carrying
bundles Of wheat and laying them on
a pile IN the harvest field, and when
the job was done and ] asked for nv
pay. the farmer told me 10 come
around next week, and kept putting
me off and putting me off until / got
discouraged and gave ii up. No.
don't think I'll ever get my money
if I do the interest ought 10 amount
TO something"
What was your next job. Mr.
Crockett"
THE next job I got" he resumed.
was painting rOss-arms-telephOne
pole cross-arms-up in the old Law
ton & WalwOrth planning mill. They
were four foot long, and I had TO
give them two coats OF paint with a
brush--the surface was none too
smooth, either-and I got 80 cents a
hundred for the work. / kept at that
job all one summer vacation between
school terms. but when school began
I didn't have much more than when
I started. Spent most all of it,"
Mr.. Crockett then went on to tell
how, when he was on the road, he
used to call regularly on his old en-
plOyer located way up in Michigan,
and the latter never failed TO inquire
if he, Crockett, was looking for an
other job painting cross-arms.
The cross-arm trade seems to have
improved OF late-they are now given
only one coat, and dipped at that
and the workman gets about 90 cents
per hundred for the job.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
DARING FlREMEN SAVE
LIVES OF HOTEL GUESTS

ST. LOUIS. No. Dec. IA score
OF guests at the Lasalle hotel were in
jured and the lives Of q hundred
were saved by daring work OF fire.
men, who. Thursday morning carried
a score OF frantic women down fire
escapes and ladders while fire ragged
all around them
The guests reached the street half
clad and several were injured in the
wild rush 10 the lower floors. Miss
Hazel Chambers. who had a room on
the fifth floor. saved about loo guests.
The elevator man could not be found
and Miss Chambers made trip after
trip. bringing down guests Charles
Wehlborn fell 10 the ground in an
attempt 20 climb down gutter pipe
from the fifth floor. He will die. The
screams of Mrs Archie Mccain
who discovered the FIRE. sawed many
lives Among the injured were RI. l..
Knight. Mrs. w II. Gates and l.. G.
Ripley OF New York.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-11
MINING MAGNATE Is
MORALLY WOUNDED

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
Dec. 11.-Sir Lionel Phillips, South
African mining magnate and multi
millionaire. was shot three times and
probably fatally wounded by an as
sassin while in Commission st. Thurs
day. One Of the bullets lodged in Sir
LioneIs neck, causing a wound which
the physicians fear will prove mortal
The assailant was arrested. Sir
Lionel was one OF the group of five
men. including John Hays Hammond
Of New York. who were sentenced to
death for instigating the Jameson
raid in 1896, which brought on the
Boer war.