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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
.kE0KUk MAN HAS
HONOR SYSTEM
SHERIFF OF LEE COUNTY TELLS
PRISONERS THEY HAVE
CHANCE TO ESCAPE.

Keokuk. June 29.-An honor system
| is in force among the prisoners from
the Lee county Jail here, who are at
work on the roads in this neighbor-
hood. The gang was given a talking
to by Sheriff John c. Scott, before he
sent them out. They promised the
sheriff that they would not try to gain
their freedom. The prisoners know
of the tragedy at Joliet and OF the
fact that honor systems in general
are on trial.
Sheriff Scott told the prisoners that
he was planning to send them out on
the road work. He told them that
there would be deputy from the Of.
flee 70 with them as guard and fore
man. He explained to "the boys" as
he called them, that there was every
chance in the world for them to get
away. if they decided to take It.
The sheriff then went on to tell the
prisoners that if they did get away
| he would exhaust every effort possible
| to get them. and when they were
caught and brought back they would
have to expect to take their punish.
ment. which would be to the fullest
iextent possible.
| The prisoners told the sheriff they
realized what he had told them and
that he had been good to them and
ithey were going to show him they
!. could be trusted. They gave him
their promise that they would no
try to get away and that they woult
twork rs well as they knew how.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
MOBILIZE ALL DOCTORS.

A mobilization of all the doctors
in England is being talked OF. The
dearth of qualified physicians and sur
geons owing to the large numbers
taken for war work, has reached such
a stage that officers of the medical
council believe that some sort Of an
organization of the profession on war
footing will be necessary, especially
as the public health Is at the present
moment a matter of special import
ance.
The question OF rearranging the
work OF the doctors to meet both the
military and civil demands is admit
tedly difficult one. Neither doctors
nor patients are likely to be pleased
with any possible method Of dividing
up private medical work along what
might perhaps be called efficiency
lines.
Many physicians, especially in the
crowded parts of the cities, are already
as busy as they can be, and probably
in these cases no readjustment would
be advisable, but there are large num-
bers of practitioners in the suburban
and country districts who could be ad,
vantageously placed in sections where
special need is felt. If this involves
heavy loss to them, it may be posi-
BILE to arrange for government compen-
satiOn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
WEEps MUST RE CUT.

The attention Of property owners
is being called by the state highway
commission to the change in the iowa
law which requires weeds to be cut
between July and August l. The
announcement says:
The Iowa weed law as amended by
the thirty-sixth general assembly
places the Anal limit on weed cutting
Aug. /, two weeks earlier than former
", Weeds must be cut between July
! and Aug. l. Formerly the dates
were July Is to Aug. Is. The change
to the earlier dates was made because
It was found that the seeds OF many
noxious weeds were so far matured by
Aug. is that cutting on that date was
of little or no value in preventing the
spread of the weeds.
sThe land owner or the occupant
of the land Is responsible for the de-
struction of all weeds on his land or
on the highways adjoining. The
township trustees and the road ON
Gals are responsible if the land own
er or the occupant neglects his duty.
The trustee and the road ofnc1al
who neglects or fails to perform his
duty under the weed law may De
charged with misdemeanor and is
punishable by a fine not exceeding
500. Where the land owners or &C.
cupants refuse to cut the weeds the
law authorizes the trustees ana
county authorities to cut the weeds
and charge the expense against the
property"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
WAN AFFECTS POSTAL SERVICE.
War has had contrary effects on the

WAR AFFECTS POSTAL SERVICE
War has had contrary effects on the
postal service of France. Obstruc'
tions to commerce and industry result
ed In a great decrease in business
correspondence, but this Is more than
compensated by the increase In per
sonal letters between members OF dis.
persed families and the soldiers ana
their relatives. In a single day the
postal department handled fourteen
million letters, 100000 registered let
ters and packages, $4,000 newspapers,
and 81, 900 postal orders. The volume
of matter has steadily increased since
December.
But the moratorium, the closing OF
number Of financial establishments
and the suppression of discount has
also turned great food of collection
business to the postal department.
Naturally, dead letters" have also
larCely increased, partly through the
tmpossfbility of delivering the letters
or packages to their destination, but
largely on account Of defective ad'
dresses. Between December, 1914. and
May 9Th last, eight and half million
letters and nearly sixty thousand pack
ages were thrown into the refuse heap.
Among the letters that have gone to
the dead Letter Office" during that time
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
-soRRow MONEY PECULIARLY.

The Chinese government mas peeIl
adopting peculiar devices for the pur-
pose of obtaining loans from the
Chinese people, since it Is impossible
during the European war to obtain
them from abroad.
Besides introducing a lottery system
in order to obtain investments in the
national savings bank, they are now
offering decorations to merchants and
others who will buy the domestic
bonds" which the government is issu-
ing. The purchaser who buys several
thousand dollars worth of the bonds
receives sixth class or seventh class
decoration he who buys more re-
ceives a fifth class, and so 1t goes up TO
very large sums, in which. case special
decorations, something new and MIN
erto unprovided, are granted to the
men who trust the government with
hundreds Of thousands of Mexican dol
lars,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Moundridge. Each family brought
over a bushel or more of Crimean
wheat for seed, and from this seed was
grown the first crop of Kansas hard
winter wheat
Turkey wheat has for long time
been grown in Iowa, and it has been
claimed that it was introduced there
from Illinois even before its introduce
true or not, 1t could we'll have happen
ed, as the earliest Mennonite immi-
grants settled first in Illinois before
1870, and no doubt, as was their GUS
tom, brought seed of Turkey wheat
to that state. There is published
statement that Turkey wheat was
introduced from Mason county, ILL.,,
into Iowa in 1870. 1t is also re-
ported that George w. Franklin of At
lantic, Iowa, first distributed this
wheat in that state in 1885,"
The Kharkof strain of winter wheat
was obtained from the eastern Khark.
of government, Russia, by Carleton on
behalf Of the, department of agricul-
ture in 1900. The Kharkof district has
la climate characterized by great
drought and piercing cold winter
winds. This strain of wheat has there.
fore been able to stand the bad wealth.
or a little farther west and north in
this country than has the Turkey
wheat, which originates farther south
in Russia. About two-thirds of the
points where Kharkof and Turkey
wheats have been compared, during
the past few years, show the Kharkot
to be doing better in drought and cold.
For the year 1914, half Of the 1907
100000 bushels of wheat produced In
Kansas were of the Kharkof variety.
Carleton shows how gradually the
millers who Disseminated against
hard winter wheat have come to &C.
cept it on par with spring and soft
winter wheats. He declares that only
tle hard wheats can be grown in very
dry territory, and that with care the
area In which these can survive and
produce profltably will be largely ex.
tended
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Since the opening of the Panama
canal it has been noticed by shipping
agents in Panama City that the num-
Der of sailing ships to appear on the
seas mas rapidly increased. All of
these have at one time or another
passed through the waterway.
Shipping authorities attribute the
increase in sail tonnage to the high
freights due to the European war with
the consequent lack of steam bottoms
of neutral countries. 1t Is stated that
most of these sailing ships are of
American register They are employed
in carrying wheat and other grains
from United States Pacific ports to
England and case oils from the United
States ports to the far east.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
JUDGE Says WELL
IS NOT MERE HOLE
DISMISSES SUIT BECAUSE RESER
VOlR CONTAINED ONLY FEW
INCHES OF WATER,

Keokuk, June 29.-When a person
contracts for we'll he does not con.
tract merely for hole in the ground
Neither does hole in the ground
which, after three or four weeks con
tains four or five inches Of water
meet the definition Of a well, in the
mind Of James Burrows, justice OF
the peace, who decided in the case OF
B. F. Weldon VS.. Charles Best in favor
Of the defendant.
Weldon brought action in the court
OF Justice Burrows seeking to recov
er $25 which he claimed Best owed
him for sinking a we'll. Best refused
to pay the amount asked by Weldon
saying that Weldon had guaranteed
him plenty of water" Best did not
think the four or five inches that was
in sight came within this definition
Justice Burrows agreed with Best
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

If railroad train Is an hour late,
the passengers fume and fret and let
the newspapers hear of it. If rail
road does not deliyer freight till a
week after it is due, little mountain
of correspondence will accumulate. If
a man has a bill against the city gov
eminent and 1t Is unpaid, he interviews
his alderman and bids him get busy
On the other hand, If the administrator
of an estate neglects to turn over the
funds which he holds as trustee, the
heirs may have to spend four or five
years in persistent and expensive
court proceedings, before they can
compel the man to take his hands off
their money. Why do the American
people put up with the circumlocutions
and the losses d:.e 70 this chiftless
system? Why does civilized people
allow itself to be robbed and murdered
by criminals who If convicted, will al
most certainly stave off their SEN
fences for months or years?
The courts are as much the servants
of public as the councilmen and may.
ors and letter-carriers In other coun'
tries they accept that responsibility
In Great Britain single jury may dis.
pose of ten criminal suits in one day,
If the evidence is clear. In the United
States, one criminal, If he has money
to procure counsel, may keep jury on
the stretch for ten days.
A few examples will illustrate the
actual delays In 1900 the cashier of
a bank in Massachusetts, was tried for
wrecking the bank by stealing $146,.
900; he was duly convicted and SEN
fenced to nine years in the peniten.
tiary. Seven years later he was car.
rying on business, never having aerv.
ed a day in Jail, because he succeeded
in postponing the decision by techni-
calities year after year.
A southwestern lawyer is very proud
because he defended client who was
five times in succession tried, convict.
led and sentenced to death for the
same crime; and four successful ap-
peals were brought to higher court,
which every time annulled the proceed.
ings Of the lower court.
A brakeman injured by a railroad in
1882 was obliged to go through seven
trials occupying twenty years, before
the company would pay verdict.
A telegraph suit entered in 1876 was
still not settled after SO years.
For these delays there are several
reasons. Many courts are clogged with
damage suits against trolley lines and
railroads, which oblige them to keep
new cases waiting sometimes for sew.
COpyriRht 1919 by Nat
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

back too soon.
The writer points out the possibility
as the war progresses. that these cases
of war shock will become frequent
also among the population at homo.
THE censors know what they are do
ing when they suppress the grewsome
details and pictures Of Zeppelin raids.
Such action Is most important to
keep up the morals of the nation, and
is perfectly right from medical point
of view. Optimism is of the greatest
value to the nation as well as the in
dividual. The feeling that all is going
we'll is a great mental tonic"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
The Ldlp's Delays.
The Thaw Case Only One Episode in the Great
American Legal Game
BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART.
Professor Of Government University

eral years. Many courts sit too few
days In the year to clear their calen-
dars. Moreover the judges, who have
practically all been practicing lawyers,
sympathize with the desire of counsel
to have ample time for the prepare
|tior of their cases.
Lawyers also expect delays which
will make it convenient for them to
hold onto several cases which may be
assigned for about the same time.
Many good cases are thrown out or
sent back to lower court because OF
technicalities. II a jury finds that:
I'VE, your jury, beg leave to bring in
verdict of manslaughter," the yer.
dict may be set aside on the ground
that the verdict ought to have been
1--WE, your jury, return verdict OF
lmapslaughter.' The retirement of a
New York police officer, duly signed
by the examining physicians as
board of surgeons" is squashed by
| the court and the man Is allowed full
salary from the time of retirement, be-
cause it ought to have been signed
board of police surgeons" The liti
. gants who have the longest purses can
employ skilled counsel who can pick
flaws in the proceedings; and they are
best able to put up the necessary bonds
fo- appeals and court costs. Thus
courts, in an over-scrupulous endeavor
| to see that no innocent man is con
victed, and to give everybody a fail
chance, deprive thousands OF litigants
of substantial Justice.
Many committees of bar associations
have studied this matter, and have
tried to find remedy. In California
the judges of the supreme court can
not draw their salaries unless they Ger
| tify there are no undecided cases pend
ing In their court. The recall of judges
| in the states where 1t Is legal might
sometimes dispose of Judge who was
Iuncommonly dilatory The real trouble
however, is that the courts are apt tc
look upon legal proceedings as kind
of game. Their attention is not fixed
so much on the property or rights OF
the parties to the suit as on the rules
of pleading, evidence and the verbiage
of indictments. They consider them
selves simply umpire, whose function
is to apply the highly complicated
rules Of the game to the learned coun
sci engaged as champions. There
never will be any relief from the laws
delay, until the courts fix their minds
upon the interests Of the litigants, and
let the counsel take care of them
selves.
n a.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Mayor Thompson is in no doubt as
to the effect of the present democratic
tariff law. Needless of their former
errors" he declared, "and apparently
Indifferent to the history Of their party,
another tariff law was framed in &C
cordance with their theories. And,
singularly coincident, the bill was
prepared under another Professor Will
son, although he is not member OF
congress. Shall each generation learn
it's lesson In bitter experience"'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
VOTE $4,000 EoR SCHOOL

Ferguson. June 29.-At an election
held here the proposition to bond the
consolidated independent district OF
Ferguson, in the sum of $4,000. to
build and equip modern school build
Ing, carried by q majority OF fifty
three. The men voted as follows
For, So; against, ~. The women: For
55; against, 80.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

The war with Italy has brought out,
ready for action, body of men that
are perhaps unique the world over
the Tyrolese Sharp Shooters. Thou
sands Of these men, ranging from II
u } to old age, the members of the 406
royal and imperial Shooting stands"
constitute one of the most efficient
organizations Of their kind in Europe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

A considerable part of Germany's
efforts are now being concentrated up
on preparations for the campaign next
winter. Women in large numbers are
being employed in sewing new furs
for the army, while those used last
winter, which were carefully collected,
are being renovated and repaired at
the supply depots.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

The courses will include both his
tory and language, special stress be-
ing laid on Russia's economic growth
and the openings for trade between
that country and the United States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Columbia university announces that
such demand for practical instruc-
ton in Russian has arisen as result
of the European war that the univers-
itv is organizing work of this kind for
the summer session beginning July s.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

| were found bank bills to the amount of
100000 francs of which the department
has been able to return to it's owners
only about 10000.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

The hand, the heart and the head
form triangle that can bring untold
happiness, if used together. Ono
alone is not much service, any more
than one blade of scissors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01
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8 tort Q j

II hear Con Crete's comrades on the
baseball team gave him a great send
of when he got married"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

"They sure did. One OF them threw
a spiked shoe after the bridal carriage
and hit Con in the head. If 1t had hit
him anywhere else it would have killed
him"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

The colored preacher delivered an
eloquent sermon. An old colored wo-
man in a front pew, he observed sigh
ed and wiped her eyes frequently dur
ing the sermon, appearing to be much
affected. After the service the preach
err approached the old woman.
"My sermon seemed to affect you,
he said to her. "Win you tell mo
what part of it affected you so much?
ooh, pastor she snuhled, when
you was talkin' I just couldn't help
thinkin' oh my Floss. She got down
in the swamp and couldn't get her
out. Oh, oh! And such believing
as she set up before she died and
when you was hoilerin' there 1t mind.
ed me oh my poor old Floss. Couldn't
you git up donation to git me anoth,
err cow"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

England's recent failure to estab.
lish total abstinence for the duration
of the war led Robert w. Chambers
the novelist, to say at the Century club
in New York: tits just as we'll, per.
Ihaps. Total abstinence seems little
extreme. There's alcohol in every.
thing, you know. There's alcohol in
bread we eat!"
alcohol in bread!" said q banker.
poet, incredulously.
"Sure!" said Mr.. Chambers. Didn't
you ever see men get intoxicated from
drinking toasts?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

"Tll bet that Judge used to be
street car conductor said the bride
groom as they came out OF the once
of the justice of the peace.
What makes you think SOP asked
the bride.
When handed him his fee for mar
rying us, he asked me If I wanted a
transfer"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

"It is not uncommon with lawyers
when addressing jury to single out
one member who appears to them to
be the most intelligent, and therefore
the one most likely to be Influenced by
their appeals" said well known
jurist recently, as quoted in Lippin-
colts; but it does not always work
out advantageously," he continued.
"All the testimony in case recently
tried in Texas had been taken, the law
|yers for both sides summed up, and
the Judge had charged the jury, when
suddenly doomed up the aforesaid in
ttelligent juror, against whom both
counsel had Numbered their impassion-
ed appeals. He was thirsty for infor-
nation, and straightway addressed the
court: i have been bothered lot by
two words the lawyers use here all the
time What are they?' demanded the
court, expecting undoubtedly, to be
called upon to expound fortiori or
some other abstruse term.
Plaintiff and defendant said the
juror I don't know just what they
mean.'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Copyright, 1915, by National Editorial service)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

Wasn't your wife something of an
elocutionist before she married you?"
asked the man who had just returned
from an extended stay abroad.
''She is yet" answered the other sad
ly, thinking of her oratorical efforts
on the occasions when he had come
home late from the club.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-01

How many pancakes do you sup
pose you could eat at sitting in
quired Uncle George, as he watched
his little nephew slowing them away.
Il don't know said the boy. THE
most I ever had chance to eat was
twenty-four Ma won't let me try for
a record"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-09
LEARN TO FEED PROFlTABLY
Most Difficult Period in Feeding Starts With Baby Chicks-Good Mixture
 for Dry Mash.

Profitable feeding is something every farmer and poultryman must learn Without it the most vigorous chicks that were ever matched could not develop into standard, mature birds. The most difficult period in feeding starts with the baby chicks. If stunted when small, it is 'runty" forever; if fed and cared for properly when young it can rustic for itself to limited extent later
 The baby chick should never be fed until forty-eight hours old. and then a mash of coarse bran and charcoal mixed with hard boiled eggs is all it will need for two or three days. After the first few days it may be fed mixed grain five times daily, and the mash of bran and eggs three times daily. A good chick ration may be had by mix ing ten pounds cracked wheat. ten pounds cracked corn (sifted) and ten pounds, steel cut" oats The dry mash is made up of ten pounds bran, ten pounds shorts, five pounds corn meal, five pounds meat scraps and two and one-half pounds charcoal. Feed sour milk if available. giving chicks all they will consume