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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20

putting in some hard knocks. Accord,
ing to last nights Paris official com.
mun1cation they have held the Ger.
mans in an attempt to cross the river
User, southwest of Dixmude, Belgium
This was the first heard Of the Belgian
forces since the evacuation of Ant
Werp and now they are found an.
propriately and picturesquely defend.
Ing that little part of their own coun.
try that the invaders have not taken.
King Albert, unheard of for some
time lis said to have cheered the men
in the field.
Some of the London papers describe
the German evacuation of Ostend as a
retirement to the east on the theory
that the allies progress to the north
threatened to isolate the Ostend gar
rison making a retreat imperative.
The dispatches are far from unani.
nous on the direction of the retire
ment, however, most of them describ-
ing II as passage to the west
Allies Have Gunboats.
From various sources came reports,
none of which were confirmed that
some sort of naval craft are being pres
sed into use by the allies in the
canals of Flanders and perhaps from
the sea. Sunday dispatch direct
from Dunkirk said that heavy firing
could be heard there and it was be-
lieved that gunboats were being used
in the canals. It was added that heavy
fighting was progressing south of Os-
tend which if true meant the presence
of allied forces at a point further
north than heretofore suspected. This
is contradicted by the report that the
Germans are west of Furnes.
Anti-German Riots.
Though there was sporadic recur-
renee of the anti-German rioting in
parts of London early this morning,
police protection in such places has
been increased and no serious out
breaks were reported during the fore
noon in the city. At Saffron-Walde
in Essex, an English lawyers house
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20

Chicago, Oct. IA shortage OF
meat faces the world as result of the
European war, George l.. Mccarthy OF
New York, secretary Of the American
Meat Packers association, asserted
before the ninth annual convention,
which opened here today.
Europe will soon exhaust its own
food supply and then will drain the
world to feed it's huge armies and
helpless populations" Mr.. Mccarthy
said. "The results will be felt the
world over. Inasmuch as this country
is extremely short of food animals, the
prospects for an abundant supply
either in the United States or abroad
are not encouraging
Methods to be adopted to induce
farmers to raise more stock and the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20

London, Oct. 19.-From the point OF
view of the allied armies, so far as
could be learned from dispatches
reaching London today, the situation
in West Flanders and in France as far
south as Lille, seemed on this, the
seventy-seventh day of the war per-
haps more hopeful than at any time
since the German advance on Paris
was checked.
All tidings seem to indicate that the
German advance from Ostend on the
french coast towns has been blocked
temporarily at least while further
south in region that was week ago
extreme German right, the invaders
have been again compelled to give
ground before the allies wedge force
concentrating on Lille.
Several reports contend that the
Germans have withdrawn from this
town, but this is not confirmed nor is
the report that they evacuated Coudt-
raj, nearly 80 miles northwest. It
seems plain, however, that the menace
here became marked and that the Ger
man army operating along the coast
Of Flanders found itself in peril of
being cut off from the main body.
What opposition they met along the
sea is only guesswork for it has
never been disclosed in Great Britain
what forces the allies have, or at what
point they touch the coast. All re-
ports seem to agree that Ostend is
practically clear of Germans who ap-
parently are reforming to the south
with reinforcements and the siege
guns used to batter the Belgian forts
and that they now propose to hammer
on toward Dunkirk and Calais. One
report says that they are beyond
Furnes, less than 10 miles from Dun
kirk
Bombarding Lille?
Further south in France reinforce
ments from Brussels are said to have
been brought up before Lille which
the Germans are reported as lombard
ing in desperate attempt to re-take
The place.
The Belgians themselves have been
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
Meat Shortage Threatens the
World as a Result of War

effects of the war on the cost of food
are to be discussed by the convention.
More than seven hundred representa-
tives of five hundred packing and sup.
ply houses are attending. E. T. Cash
of st. Louis said that the young men
today have a good chance to get rich
by raising hogs.
There never was such chance af
forded," Mr.. Cash said. young. farm.
ers can make more money raising hogs
now than in any other line of farm
ing"
Among subjects up to be considered
by the convention will be request
for the government to make an ap.
preparation to stamp out tuberculosis
in cattle and to have the tax removed
from oleomargarine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
RAILROAD RATE
CASE RENEWED
Interstate Commerce Body
Again Hearing Plea to
Raise the Charges
CRISIS HERE SAY
RAIL OFFICIALS
Must Have Five Per Cent
Increase on Lines East
Of Mississippi River

Washington, d. c., Oct. 19.-Public
eastern railroads for increased freight
rates, which they contend are neces-
saryi because of the worldwide finan-
cial exigency, due in part to the
European war, were begun here to-
day before the interstate commerce
commission. The commission is hear
ing arguments only upon issues which
have arisen since It's decision in July
and which denied absolutely increases
east of Pittsburgh and Buffalo and
granted increases west from those
points to the Mississippi river.
All the commissioners except Chair.
man Harlan, who is i'll, were present,
Commissioner Clements presided. The
railway lines were represented by
their principal executives. Individual
shippers and shippers organizations
who oppose further increases were
represented by counsel, among them
Clifford Thorne, who led the opposi-
ton to the last application.
Todays hearing was given over to
a statement for the railroads. The
shippers and their representatives will
be heard later. Danlel Il. WIZARD,
president Of the Baltimore & Ohio,
made the opening statement for the
railroads.
Willard Outlines Case.
President Daniel E. Willard Of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, chairman
OF the committee Of railroad presi
dents, made the opening statement be
fore the commission today for the
eastern railways in their application
for Increased freight rates, based upon
the worldwide financial exigency due
in great measure to the European war
''The needs of the carriers are press.
ing and Immediate he declared. "The
actual situation has become extremely
critical
The roads are seeking a fiat in
crease Of 5 per cent in freight rates
throughout the territory east OF the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers.
Mr.. Willard called attention to the
decision of the committee in the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
SUBMARINE IS CAPTURED
Austrian Boat Sent to Bottom When
It Tries to Attack French Fleet
at Cattero.

Cettinje, Montenegro, Oct. 10. - An
Austrian submarine was sunk in the
Adriatic today by French cruiser.
Two submarine vessels went out
from the Bay Of Cattaro to attack a
French feet which was making it's
way along the Dalamatian coast. They
were quickly sighted, however, by the
French lookouts and we'll directed
shot sent one of them, the leader, to
the bottom. The other submarine
escaped.
The French fleet subsequently
recommended the bombardment of the
forts of Cattaro.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
GERMANS ARE Confident
Reported Revotts in British and Rus
sian Empires Cause Rejoic-
ing at Berlin.

Berlin, Oct. 19-(By wireless to Say
vile, L. I)-"Great Britain's cry for
help to Portugal the chaotic situa-
ton in South Africa and the "revolts
in India," according to announcement
made in Berlin today, are all tending
to raise German confidence. Reports
received here from Constantinople de-
clare that Great Britain has sent three
active battalions from Malta to India.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
MORE CANADIANS
ARRIVE IN ENGLAND

Avonmouth, England (via London) !,
Oct. ia well known Atlantic liner
arrived here today bringing large
number of Canadian troops to augment
those already encamped in England.
The first news the townspeople had
CT their arrival was the sound of the
fife and drum on the streets. The
men entrained Immediately for desti.
Nation not announced.
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Warships Cooperating With the Land Forces to StO
= Advance of the Invaders Down the Line Of the
Coast Toward Paris; Mine Field of Service
London War Office Claims Teutons Have Been Driven
Back Thirty Miles at One Point on the West
Wing of the Long Line of Battle in France

London, Oct 19-By reaching their tentacles out to
the seaboard the allied forces have established close con-
tact with the British navy which is the extreme
left of the line and seems from the London vew for the
moment to block effectualy further German effort to
turn this wing
That the Germans may have grasped this is perhaps
indicated in the otherwise unexplained appearance of
four OF their torpedo boat destroyers Saturday off the
Dutch coast bound south 1t is suggested that the object
was for the desroyers to convoy submarines which would
dispute the command Of the the Belgian littoral
Should the German navy undertake this venture, it
would be confronted with much the proposition
has met the British fleet since the Of the
war and it would the risks of colidng with
mines heretofore faced by the British alone because
the British mine field stretches right along the Belgian
coast from Ostend southwark
If, as the allies claim their left cannot now be
turned the only alternative left the Germans is to hack
way through the trio Of armies confronting hem and
General Won Kuck General Won Arnin or whoever
IN command of the German right seems in no way loath
to make the attempt. That they have made forward
move is now evident not only from the newspaper dis
patches but from confirmation of these dispatches in
Saturdays official communication from Paris which
stated that the Beans had repused several attempts of
the Germans to cross the Yser which ten miles nearer
the coast than Torout, Rouers and Menin ne which
they had occupied on the previous day.
AS an offset to this, the British official information
bureau in one of its communications saws that the
allies IN the northern have driven the Germans back
more than thirty miles. The precise locality of this ad-
vance and retreat is not Indicated but it can have been
only at some point this western wing where the Ger
mans are trying to their INTERRUPTED dash on
Paris by way of the coast towns
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-20
BRYAN ON THE STUMP.

Columbus, Kan, Oct. 19.-William
J. Bryan, secretary of state, opened
two days tour in behalf of the demo
Gratis of Kansas with an address here
this morning.
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FOreSee.s Great
H71n1il'''oos lso,is's'Sp iis''asp 81, s,s,s !.
QReSuh OF war

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 19.-
dieting that the close of the
European war will be the sig
nal for tremendous Jewish
immigration to American
shores, DR.. Joseph Krauskopf,
president of the national farm
school, yesterday urged that
plans be made at once for send
ing the thousands of immi-
grants back to the SOIL and
thus prevent congestion in the
tenement house districts OF
great eastern cities.
Zone of the results Of the
present war;" said Dr.. Kraus-
kopf, will be decline in in
dustrialism which will force
the people back to the soil.
eve are on the verge of the
largest immigration in the his
tory of our people. From all
over Europe, apd from the
whole starved orient they will
flock hither by the thousands
as soon as the avenues of
escape are open. When they
come, what shall we do with
them?''
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The TakachihO !

The Takachiho was built in 1885 and
refitted in 1900. She was vessel of
3,70O tons and was 300 feet long and
46 feet beam. Her main battery con-
sisted of eight 6-inch guns and her
speed was about 18 knots.
The Takachiho carried crew of
357 men, only ten of whom, according
to the official report, are known to
have been saved
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JAP CRUISER IS
SENT TO BOTTOM
STRIKES A MINE IN HARBOR OF
KIAo CHAU AND LOST WITH
MOST OF CREW..

Toxic, Oct. 19.-It is officially an
nounced that the Japanese cruiser
Takachiho was sunk by a mine in
Kiao-Chou bay on the night of October
II. Only ten members of the crew
are known to have been saved.
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CONTINUED on page 81
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Continued on page 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03

lican orators in the house and senate
had been picking out single months
during the past year and attempting
to show by the fiscal statistics of those
individual months what conditions
would be at the end OF a year.
Democrats attempted to warn these
republican fgurers that they were
treading on dangerous ground. since
there can be great variations in treas
ury figures from one year TO another
IN the same months of these years,
and yet not affect the annual figures.
The republicans, however, ran blindly
into the trap by comparing, for in
stance. treasury receipts and disburse-
ments for April OF this year with April
of last year. and then predicting de-
felt for the entire year.
Instead of a deficit there was sur
plus, and a good one. The receipts
for the year exceeded the ordinary dis
bursements by s33,7S4,452.O7. The re-
ceipts came within a million dollars of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03
ANOTHER TEA PARTY.

Boston should be an authority on
tea and the Transcript OF that city
says:
"A great international 'tea-fight' is
scheduled for the year 1915, place San
Francisco. In India. Ceylon and China
amy tea merchants are reported al
ready incubating elaborate schemes to
capture the American tea-table for
heir own, fact which shows 10 what
proportions our national propensity for
Cibber's soft. sober. sage and veneer
able liquid has grown. The japanese
are not only planning 10 make a Sc
ductiye exhibit with the encourage
ment Of the Japanese government,
building a tea-house worthy of the
cult of the tea-masters OF a dag that
is gone, but they will send 70 the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition ten tea experts
whose sole business will be to study
the methods of their rivals for the
tea-trade OF America. In spite OF this
the Japanese minister OF agriculture
has lately complained offifS A'y OF the
backwardness OF his country in indus
trial matters. OF the lack OF enter
prise. Says he: They all want TO try
get-rich-quick schemes. They Just
want 10 grab money by whatever way
they can and skip ON"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03
GOOD ROADS RETURNS.

~ No sound argument has ever been
urged against good roads while any
number OF reasons have been given
and continue to be given in favor OF
them The government department Of
agriculture has given some instructive
figures with reference to Spotsylvania
county in Virginia. Five years ego
this county voted 100000 to improve
forty miles Of road. Two years after
the completion OF the work the rail-
road took away in twelve months from
Fredericksburg. the county seat, II 900
tons OF agricultural and forest pro-
ducts. which was an increase OF 40 per
cent. Greater still was the increase
IN dairy products. In 1900 these pro-
ducts amounted to 1I4,S15 pounds. IN
1911 to 273.02s pounds, an increase Of
14O per cent in two years. Shipments
OF wheat. tobacco and lumber also
showed a large increase. IN addition
10 this there was a material decrease
In the cost OF hauling each ton OF pro-
duce. This amounted to cents a mile
or a total for the county OF S41. 600 a
year. In other terms the countys in
vestment OF 100000 IN good roads has
returned more than a 40 per cent divi-
dend annually. Opposition may devel-
op before a stretch OF hard road is
built. but when once the work IS com
pleted only satisfaction and approval
are heard. This is the universal ex-
psrience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03
LOVE OF THE CHILD
distinguished Massachusetts jurist,

A distinguished Massachusetts Jurist,
in granting a divorce to a husband,
gave the small child TO the erring
wife The unusual decision was eX-
planned in these words:
"A mothers love survives the deep
est degradation of which the female
nature is capable, and it is capable Of
a lower state than mans nature. When
woman comes into my court claim
ing the custody of her child. always
grant it. She may be a bad woman
and yet a good mother, at least the
best, If not the only mother the child
can have. In this way have at times
saved both mother and child. For the
sake of the child the mother will at
least strive to appear virtuous. 1t is
not a rare event for a father and son
to be engaged knowingly to each other
in crime; it is never the case with
mother and child
This may not universally be the law
of the land, but 1t is the infiexible law
OF nature.
Children bring out the best that Is
in us, particularly the mother. Fresh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03

been eliminated in Iowa to spur the
Iowan had an idea that the Sunday
closing law here was a misnomer and
that Gle sabbath, like the olden days.
brought the richest harvest of the
week. So confident was he of his
ground that the fact that his new
business place was located next door
TO the city hall did not cause him any
uneasiness. He was caught and his
saloon closed for 10 days as a pen
atty.
The new saloonkeeper squealed on
Others in his line of business who had
been selling on the quiet on Sunday.
A list OF names was furnished the po-
lice department. Saturday night an
order went out from police headquar-
tiers that the IL O'Clock and Sunday
closing laws must be strictly observed
and that II would go hard with any
found committing violations. The Or
der was given in a tone as II II was
meant That's the reason there were
no drunks reeling through the streets
yesterday.
Doubtless the majority OF the sa-
looms of Rock Island live up to the
laws, but they are made TO suffer with
the others in the eyes OF the general
public when the question Of living up
TO promises made before the recent
local option election are recalled.
Those who are obeying the laws are
entitled to protection. Therefore Il
strikes the average person that It is
up to the police authorities to apply
the screws.
Another suggestion TO the police de-
partment: Peoria's redlight district,
probably the most notorious OF any
city OF its size in the country, was
closed Saturday night. Over one hun
6red women were turned into the
streets. With them went their male
companions. Some OF the outcasts
doubtless sought homes In parts OF Pc
oria remote from the district from
which they were driven. But the ma
jority will wander to other and green
er fields. 1t is not unlikely that many
will turn their eyes towards Rock Is
land, and the local police ought to see
to It that those who arrive expecting to
find the welcome sign hanging out are
kept moving out faster than they came
in.
As The Argus has said on former
occasions, 1t is the drop-in that makes
most OF the trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03

from the hands of their Creator; pure
and sweet in their innocence and trust
and helplessness, not contaminated by
sinful life, they bloom about US like
flowers from paradise.
A wise man has told us that in our
old age, when the frame weakens and
the faculties decay, the mind returns
to it's early youth and then its child
hood. We pass from life as we en-
tered, and the mothers teaching goes
with us to the other life.
When one is born the world begins;
when one dies the world ends; and
sage and seer indeed is he who can
pass out as pure as he came in.
The wisest and best among us, as
well as the lowest and vilest, may
learn our higher lesson from the little
ones Their tender touch attunes our
heartstrings to the purest of the emo
tions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03
HEAETHTALK'
William Brady ND.
The AvoidabIe Hook Worm.

a large number of the lazy, enc
account, trifling, poverty-stricken'
class of people in the states south OF
the Potomac and Ohio rivers, in Ar
kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas
California, and in most tropic and
semi-tropic countries are so because
of the hookworm.
This parasite causes severe ane'
mia-weak blood; the weakness de
velops insidiously, SO that victims
hardly know just when the illness be-
gan. In the course of months the
victim become pale and puny, Ian
guild at work or play, inefficient, mo
account" Children, once bright and
active in school, lose their zeal and
mental alertness, fall behind, become
discouraged, are abused for their lazi-
ness, and finally give up school In des-
pair. The child with hookworm di-
sease is apt to have "angel wing"
shoulder blades and a "pot-belly."
His face is sallow. the eyes Hstless
and dull. often with a blank fsh-like
stare. His appetite is likely to crave
queer things. like salt, coffee grounds
or even clay.
How Hookworms Enter the Body.
The hookworm adult is about 1-3
inch long. and the size of No. 80 sew
ing thread. Its eggs are microscopic
in size; they are deposited in the soil
from the intestinal canal of infected
persons. In the soil the eggs hatch
into larval worms, which are also in
visible to the naked eyes. These min
ute larval worms will live for months
in warm. moist, sandy SOIL In clayey
soil they do not live so long.
The invisible larval worms enter
the body in several ways. They may
be carried into the mouth on food:
on dirty fingers. They may burrow
through the skin OF barefoot per-
son. thus reaching the blood, and be-
ing carried to the lungs. Here they
burrow into the air spaces, and crawl
along the throat, where they are swal-
lowed. and finally lodge in the small in
testines, where they fasten on the
walls and suck blood.
"Dew-itch" and "ground-itch" are
names given TO the skin irritation
or inflammation caused by the hook
worm burrowing through. Some eight