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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
COUNTY HAS
$4,000 FOR ROADS

Des Moines, Sept. 9.-Polk county
has almost $4,000 OF hand to spend in
graveling roads. That amount would
gravel almost f~orty-dve miles.
The county next year will have 345,-
600 more to spend in ~graveling roads.
Each year thereafter, 1t will have the
same amount.
There are 100 miles Of, roads in
Polk county. 1t costs about $1,000 a
mile to gravel. In five years Polk
county ear improve every mile Of road.
With the money now on hand 1t can
gravel practically all the main high
ways of travel inside the county.
The state highway commission has
a rule that no roads can be graveled
until they are put to grade.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
ROADS BEST
EN- ROUTE TO TEXAS

Sigourney, Sept. 9.-Mr. and Mrs.
H. l.. Snakenberg and daughter, Der.
nice, returned recently from their trip
to the Panhandle country in Texas.
The ~Snakebergs left here about the
first of June in their automobile and
made trips both coming and going in
their car. AS the distance from here
to the Panhandle country is about
1900 miles it took them about ten
days to make the trip each way. Mr..
Snakenberg found much bad road on
the way but says the Iowa roads were
better than in any other state through
he passed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
What, Actually, is to Become OF CHind?|
Too Great to Be Enslaved; Too Strong to Be Self
Destroyed
BY BISHOP J. w. BASHFORD
Methodist Episcopal Bishop Of Picking, China
make their own local regulations.
Destroyed

Hlake Lnelr own local regulations.
In these local regulations the auth.
ority of the family rested largely with
the father. AS the family multiplied
and became a clan the local authority
rested nominally with the Oldest faith
er. But as his clan was always in com.
petition with and sometimes in an
open struggle against neighboring
clans, the nominal ruler was accustom-
ed to select the man most acceptable to
the strong men in the clan as his rep
resentative; and this lieutenant xer-
cised the real authority. Sometimes
the clan leader was selected openly by
vote as in a New England town meet
ing. More generally his selection was
determined by conference of the faith
er and the strongest men in the clan
or village. 4
Along side OF the clans were the
guilds. Every business In China, save
farming, is organized into a guild and
the officers of the guilds are selected
by the members of the guild. Guild
government, therefore, is purely demo
cratic; and the guilds and clans in
every district in China formulate all
regulations governing business inter
ests, local improvements, crimes n
ofenses against society. Hence, the
Chinese people, despite the despotic
form Of their government, have been
accustomed for more than two thous-
and years to a large degree OF local
self-government. In 1911 they extend
ed this self-government to the pro-
vinoes and to the nation at large; and
the world was astonished at the ease
with which this extension was made
and at the self.control and moderation
which characterized the new govern
ment of the provinces and of the ma
ton.
The Chinese having resisted success
full conquest by any foreign nation for
over three thousand years; having ex-
ercised a large measure of local self
government for e two thousand
years, and now having extended self
government to the provinces and the
nation, are experiencing a remarkable
increase of patriotism. They are not
likely to drop back for any consider
able period to the despotism. A reason
able forecast, therefore, indicates that
China will maintain her integrity and
her independence and that her govern
ment will consist either of a constitu-
tional monarchy or, more prabably. of
a republic. The Chinese may face q
forty years journey in the wilderness,
and severe conflicts either among
themselves or against other nations.
But having now started on the journey,
with the numbers they possess and
with the qualities which characterized
them, probably they will not the
Journey until they reach the promised
land of democracy.
ional Editorial Service.)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
POOLS FOR NEW TRADE.

I'm all other countries with a large
foreign trade, the manufactures ana
The exporter have the government &C.
lively on their side, says James j. Hill
In an article on "Our Trade Wits South
America" in The South American for
September. 1t does not stop with CIV
Ing them information about markets
as ours now does to some extent. Mr.
Whelpley, In his excellent book on
1.-THE Trade of the World" SAYS: If an
exporter Of any German inland city
finds that by a slight saving here and
there he can compete in some foreign
market with the products Of other ma
lions, the government will do what 1t
can to help him scale down the cost
price. The railroad commission Will
reduce the rates on his raw material
and finished product, the steamship
companies will give him a special rate,
and the banks will adjust his credit ac-
cordingly. He is put to no trouble in
the shipping of his goods. = = His
goods will be delivered and payment
collected If he so desires. Trading
made easy is the motto of the German
government, and It Is being lived up to
wherever possible. 1t might also read
Competition made easy" for that Is
what it means in the trade of the
world.
The American business man does not
ask any such constant assistance, al
though it would make his task simple.
But he does protest against having his
hands tied instead. Every trade or
government circular, every South
American importer, every traveller has
enlarged upon the need Of American
Familiarity with the market, methods
NJ manufacture and packing, local de-
mand, popular peculiarities, particulars
of every nature, through ignorance of
which customers are either never OBJ
tanned or lost almost as soon as gained.
Now all this, Indispensable to any
marked growth in our export trade
with South America, implies a
thorough organization of the business
interests in the United States which
means to engage In 1t successfully.
Each concern cannot send out it's own
travelling men over a continent. make
all its own observations, maintain it's
own storehouses and pay its own
agents at each point where it hopes to
spick up q little business and make 1t
grow. The mere proposition Is absurd.
The building up Of such a trade re-
CURES those conducting it from this
end to form a close organization. pool
Interests and expenses and divide
these as well as profits. Without that,
expansion of trade in a vast and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
VOLTS PASS
THROUGH MANS r

Cedar Falls, Sept. d. B. Irwin.
aged 40. an employee of the Waterloo.
Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co.,
an electric road, was instantly killed
at the company's sub-station here
When his arm came in contact with a
live wire. A current of $4,000 volts
passed through his body.
Long association with the dangers
of his occupation had caused Irwin Ia
become careless, and he neglected to
cut off the current from the sub-sta.
ton before wiping the big converter
machines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

The western world underestimate
the strength of the Chinese. They
have maintained a civilization and ar
independent government for over three
thousand years and they have grown
to a population of from three to -four
hundred million people. Man for mar
in industry and trade, they are as
strong as any other people upon the
globe. During ninety-eight per cent OF
their history the Chinese have beer
stronger politically and as a military
power than the Japanese. 1t is not In
credible that during two thousand
years of history v en a strong nation
might suffer from illness and a smaller
nation might temporarily excel her In
military power. But it is quite incred
ible that a people so strong and vir1le
as the Chinese and now rapidly mas
tering modern civilization, should re
main permanently inferior even in mil
itary strength to a people not one-sixth
as numerous as themselves.
The Chinese are not the p%eaceable,
easily governed people they are com
monty represented to be. During the
last two thousand years of history they
have averaged a war, either external or
internal, every fifteen years. In the
TAPPING rebellion, 1852 to '65, the loss
was twenty millions according to Wells
Williams, perhaps the best American
authority upon China.
No wise nation will enter lightly and
hastily upon the conquest of a nation
as large as China with such a capac-
ity for fighting; and It is doubtful If
any modern nation ultimately will sur.
vive the attempt to conquer and rule
the Chinese. While China may be fac.
ing today disasters and wars and even
overthrow of the govern
ment, the Chinese people are not fac
ing permanent conquest by any foreign
nation.
AS to the type Of government, the
Chinese have been accustomed, to a
large extent, to local self government
for more than two thousand years.
Even during the long centuries in
which the government of China has
been in form and, to some extent, in
reality a despotism, that d%espotism,
has not gone below the Hsien, or dis.
trict city. The Hsien official was the
lowest official appointed by the EN-.
peror; and his duties were largely linn
tied to the collection of taxes and the
preservation of peace throughout his
district - a district averaging the size
of a county in the United States but
with the average population of a con
g%ressional district. Local self-govern-
ment, beginning with the family and
to the clan, to the wards
and the villages, met the descending
imperial authority in the Hsien city. If
the people paid the taxes and did not
start a rebellion they e free to
Copyright, 1915, by Ma
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
EARTH CRUST MOVING.

Iowa has a problem that has been
put up to the experts in the geological
department at Washington for solution.
It is a mysterious upheaval of the
tracks of the Burlington road between
Stanton and Red Oak. At this point
the track has bulged upward about
four feet and is still rising, making it
necessary for the railroad to keep cut
ting down the grade. Just what force
is forcing the ground up and whether
it is a real movement of a very small
portion of the earth's crust, remains
to be discovered.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
CLAIMED.

Sioux City, Sept. 9.-Failure on the
part of some employee Of the city to
notify the fire department that West
Fifth street was torn up at the corner
of Main street is blamed by firemen
for the death of little 1O-year old Lo-
retta Bates in the fire that destroyed
the Bates home at GA West First
street. The delay, while the firemen
were forced to lay planks across the
ditch, gave the fire a start that placed
1t beyond control.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
PARK RAILWAY FIGHT AGAIN.

Iowa City, Sept. 9.-The Iowa City
Railway Co., has asked that the rec
ords be corrected in the case of the
electric line and the city. The park
board granted the road the right to en-
ter the park. The city council attack
ed the franchise; Judge Willcoxsen of
Sigourney, prohibited the entry; and
now the company, supporting its case
with afidavits by four leading citizens,
say Judge Willcoxsen never ruled on
the point at issue.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
KILLS TwELvE a

New Market, Sept. 9.-Elmer Webb,
who lives about four miles north Of
town, has killed twelve r~attlesnakes
this season. Ten OF these were small
ones. The other two had five rattles
and a button.
When something happens to fright
en- a mother snake she will open her
mouth and allow her young to crawl
inside. Ten small snakes. several
weeks old, were found inside onl
snake Mr.. Webb killed last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

President Wilson has just restored
to the public domain about one-half of
the ten million acre Chugach National
forest reserve in Alaska. This is a
compromise with the anti-conservation-
alists in his party. That element has
been demanding that the entire forest
be thrown open to entry. The efforts
of the conservationalists have been. d.
rected toward keeping the great forest
intact on account of its great value to
the lands for hundreds of miles about
n
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
Thinner
6tOrie&
A man evidently laboring under
great excitement rushed up to the

policeman on duty at the railway sta
ton.
Somebody stole my car" he cried.
What kind of a car was it," asked
the officer.
"a Foolish Four"
rServes you right for being SO
careless" returned the cop. Didn't
you see them signs all yer the sta
ton: Look Out for Pickpockets?
That's a bright looking office boy
you've got"
Bright! Why, that boy has seen
every double header this season and
he hasn't given me the same excuse
twice."
Mr.. and Mrs. Gotrox had just set
tied down into their new mansion.
with billiard room, library and bou-
doir complete.
Proudly the good lady showed
some Of her new acquaintances over
the place, expatiating on the cost of
everything.
els your husband a bibliomaniac?"
asked one lady, when Mrs. Gotrox
showed them into the library, where
every book was a leather bound edi-
ton de luxe.
The hostess stared coldly at her
questioner.
"Certaily mott" she snapped, in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
HOGS FAST 1903 DAYS.

Vail, Sept. 81. w. Rundlett, a farm
er living near Vail, has two hogs which
says lived for 103 days without food
water, the circumstances being
these: Last spring when shipping
hogs, two of them went under a shed
without anyone having seen them. The
place was soon after boarded up. The
hogs were missed, but believed to have
been lost. One day this week the
hogs were discovered and taken out,
still alive, but weak and thin.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
KEROSENE ON FIRE, FATAL.

Mason City, Sept 9.-Neil Mcmillan
was instantly killed and Henry Lor-
n fatally injured here due to an ex-
plosion following McMillan's efforts to
start a kitchen fire with kerosene. He
was pouring the oil into the stove
from a five gallon can when the ex-
plosion occurred.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
MINES ARE SWEPT away
Steamer Reports Lying OF ArchangeI
Six Days While Trawlers
Hunt Explosives.

New York, Sept. 9.-The Russian
steamer Dwinsk, which arrived today
from Archangel, reported being detain-
ed six days outside Of Archangel while
trawlers swept German mines from the
channel entrance. After sailing, the
Dwinsk passed north of Iceland and
did not sight any German war vessels.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
sunNYsIDE DEDICATION SEPT. II

Forest City, Sept. 9.-Sunnyside
farm, an institution founded by Jasper
Thompson for the purpose of getting
the people back to the land, will be
formally dedicated Sept. II. At that
time it Is the intention of holding a
farmers and old settlers picnic, which
will last all day. Prominent speakers
from all over the United States have
promised to be present.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
GRAND JURY BUSY.

Sioux City, Sept. 9.-The grand jury
which has met here will have to work
overtime to clean up the business be-
fore 1t. There are 100 criminal cases
awaiting investigation. One is for
murder. The bulk of the remaining
are for liquor law violations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
COL. PALMER At OF

Keokuk, Sept. Col. D. J. Palmer,
commander of the G.. A. r., Of the Uni
ted States, was here to attend the
military funeral of Major Tyler, a
member of the Croker Brigade, who
died a year ago in the west and was
buried here pursuant to his request.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
RECOVERING FROM
LIGHTNING SHOCK
FRANK skYLEs, orTuMWA LINE
MAN INJURED At FAIRFIELD.
REPORTED IMPROVING,

Fairfield, Sept. Crank skies.
BEL telephone lineman, was severely
shocked by lightning during the storm
which struck Fairfield about 1:3d
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon. Skyles
was working on = telephone pole q
the intersection Of Adams street and
highland avenue only q short distance
from the jefferson county hospital.
Nurses and physicians at the hos.
pital witnessed the accident and hun
LED to assist his fellow workmen to n
lieve him. He lay UNCONSCIOUS Tor
ABOUT half an hour after being carried
TO the hospital, but late "wednesday
evening seemed to be improving.
skyles was sen out by the Bell reie-
phone Co.. from the Ottumva o16oa
n was working on their lines for RIA
company. They were promptly notified
OF the accident.
Leo skyles, son Of the injured l,na.
man, lett here Wednesday afternoon u
see MS father and will remain Win
MN until he shows permanent i'm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
EXPLOSION MAY CAUSE DEATH.

Oakland, Sept. 9.-John Lindsay, an
engineer, was seriously, II not fatally
injured and Hayes Evans, a fireman,
was hurled about thirty feet as the
result of a steam engine explosion near
here while pumping sand on the river
west Of town. The cause OF the ex-
plosion is not known.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

offended tones. "He doesn't bibble a
bit. Not that he won't take a drop
now and then with his meals, If the
rest do. But that's as far as he
goes"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS INDICTED

Council Bluffs, Sept. 9.-Twenty-two
indictments have been returned by the
grand jury so far this session. Break
ing and entering was the most serious
ofense. aAas
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

"Woman's place is in the home. AS
I was tellin' my wife"
"By the way, what's yer wife
dom now?"
"Workin' in the cannery."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

Automobiles should not pass a street
car while it is loading or unloading
passengers.
1t is not what you do but how you
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

Hope is all right in its way but men
who try to live on it are hopeless.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

do it that shows eff cheney.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

Entered as second class mattet oct
ober II, 1908, at the postoffice. Ottum-
wa, Iowa, under the Act Of Congress OF
March 3, 1879.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11

(Copyright, 1915, by Nat ional Editorial Service)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
SPLIT SESSION NOW IS
EXTREMELY UNI IKE, Y
BY L. s. BETTY

Montgomery, August 21-(Special)
With but 16 legislative days remain
ing and with a large number of i'm
portant measures yet to be passed, it
is now regarded as practically. certain
that there will not be another split
session. Moreover, ii is strongly prob
able that the legislature will consume
the remaining days with far greater
dispatch than has heretofore charac-
tcrized it's activities, for If the plan of
certain members is followed the as
sembly will complete it's labors with
in the next four weeks.
The house and senate calendars are
burdened with the weight of hun
dreds of bills, there being altogether
something like 1000 in number OF this
number only a small percentage will
pass, only the most important But the
passage of these measures will con-
sumo days of tedious labor will con-
sumo SO much time in fact, that the
Legislature will have little opportunity
of thinking of adjournment before the
90 constitutional days have been used.
1t is believed that it will take from
lour to six days to complete the pass
age OF the revenue bill. AS is known.
the senate has just begun the CON
sideration of this bill and it is thought
that 1T VIII take two days more to fin
ish the work on that important in
strument The bill, weighted down with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
STATE MILITIA
GETS APPROPRIATION

Montgomery, August 21.-tSpecIal.) Col
g. j. Hubbard, acting adjutant general,
has been notified by the United States
war department that the appropriation
for the encampments of the Alabama
National Guard soon to be held in Mont
gomery. will be available, ana that the
state militia has been restored to the
recognition which it formerly bad.
The state military department, under
the ne wgoyernment classification, will be
able to drop each year a certain amount
of clothing and equipment, without max
ing report to the war department
The new army classification with ref
erence to the Alabama National Guard
places the local militia in better standing
with the government than 1t has hereto
fore had, and the recognition given the
state is believed to have been due to
the untiring efforts of Colonel Hubbard
and Capt. William P. Screws, u. S. A.
in the collection of missing property
The action of the war department was
learned at the office of the military de-
partment with extreme pleasure, mas
much as the annual encampments of the
National Guard begin next Monday, when
the First infantry will go into camp
Companies will begin arriving in Mont
gomery tomorrow morning, and 1t is ex-
pected that by Sunday night all prepara-
tions will have been made for the week s
maneuvers.
1t is thought that the camp will be
named Camp Henderson" in compliment
to the governor. The Second and Fourth
regiments will follow the first encamp-
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
MUCH INTEREST
IN ROGERS BILL

Montgomery, August N.-(Speciai)
Much interest has been aroused in the
bill which Mr.. Rogers of Sumter will in
troduce Tuesday providing for the work
ing of convicts of the state in the mines
to be developed on the property of the
University of Alabama. With this bill as
a subject, Judge J. j. Mayfield and
Speaker Carmichael conferred this morn
ing, and it is announced that both concur
in the opinion that that plan, If put into
effect would make the state rich and
the university rich
Mr.. Rogers plan is to provide that the
university shall be paid a royalty on all
coal mined, and that when royalties
amount to more than 100000 per annum
the state would make no more appro
priations for the maintenance of the uni
versity
Judge Mayfield said this afternoon that
if corporations paying heavy royalties
big wages and tremendous railroad
charges for transportation could make q
fortune in mining University property
what could the state make in working
it's own convicts as miners, and in using
the water transportation made possible
by navigable Warrior river.