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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-23

A Passac husband, baked by his wife s
Eight from shooting her, filled her portrait
with bullet holes. An admirable scheme for
relieving the temper and conserving human
lifot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-23

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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY PAPE

Skinny Martin was away yestidday,
but us fellos was awl setting avn
his frunt steps jest the saim as if he
was thare, and big brown dawg
cain down the street looking as If it
wasent going enyware speshil, and a
littel wife dawg ran out at it barking
like enything and the big brown dawg
termed GROUND and ran back up the
street as If it was han scared to deth,
witch 1t proberly was.
G, wat doy no no about that, 1t wood
take moar than little wife dawg to
scare me If was big brown dawg.
sed Pubs Simkins.
It takes lot to scare me, sed Sam
Krawss, wy If was wawking alaWng
dark alley and robbir jumped out
at me I bet woodent be scared, Id
jest quick trip him up and run and
get cop.
I'm hard to scare, to, sed my cuzzin
Artie, I bet If was in the jungils and
lions jumped at me at wunts, |
woodent care as lawng as l had my
gun with me.
Wat if 4 lions did, sed Pubs Sim
kiIses sissy cuzzin Persey.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
POLITICAL hEREsY.

At special election in California
the vote was Overwhelmingly against
certain governmental changes foster
ed by Governor Hiram Johnson, run.
ming mate Of Theodore Roosevelt In
tho presidential campaign Of 1912
Principal among the measures voted
on was a proposition to make all
state Offices non-partisan. The gov.
ernor said that by eliminating party
appel1ations, genuine popular gov
eminent would be achieved and after
the results Of the election were made
known he issued statement in which
he said that the advocates of non-par-
tisan elections were right in their
contentious but were ahead of the
tines little bit
In seeking to destroy government
by party Governor Johnson shows his
unfitness for administrative position.
There are only two ways of successful
government-by one man as in a
monarchy, or by party as in repub-
lies and democracies. The govern
mental institutions of this nation are
based upon knowledge that govern
ment by party is the only method that
will prove efficient and satisfactory in
y
tain beliefs, certain principles and
they lend themselves to settlement
Of governmental issues. They en-
phasize the principle of government
and minimize the personal element.
Organized and permanent parties are
the vehicles through which and by
which the majority of the voters can
exercise their will.
In a nation numbering hundred
million souls, parties cannot be form
ed to meet every issue. If such could
bo, there would be different parties on
every issue and there would be null
tiplicity of parties which would re-
suit in chaos, and rule would pass out
of the hands of majority and into
the hands Of a few clever organizers.
Or course Governor Johnson may not
realize that by breaking down rule
by party, you build up rule by indi-
viduals.
Through the medium of permanent
and organized parties Of government,
al. issues can be satisfactorily de-
clded. When matters of policy arise
and there is a difference of opinion,
that difference Is bound to be reflect
ell in the platforms of the organized
parties. Where there is no differ
ence, there is no issue to decide.
Governor Johnson's party or ex-
party in common with the other gov
ernmental parties believe in organi-
zation among working men as the best
means of advancing and protecting
their interests, yet Governor Johnson
is 'preac ching DISCRIMINATION of vot-
ers as the best means Of advancing
and protecting the rights of the peo-
n1o
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30

1 lions eethir, sed my cuxzin Artie
bet woodent be scared even II !
herd berguler undir my bed. sed,
bet Id jest lay still and pertend to
be asleep and as soon as he had his
back termed Id snoek in and get pop
and the both Of us wood take his pds-
tol away frum him and give him to q
|pleeceman.
] woodent be scared Of 4 runaway
horse and Vaughn, Id run rite out in
the middil Of the street and wave
my arms and stop 1t, sed Persey.
Yes you wood, We awl sed.
Yes wood. to. sed Persey.
Wich jest then the doar opened in
back Of US. Skinny Martins farthir
was standing thare, beeing even skin
nier than wat Skinny is. with fearse
dlspersishin, and he said, w I, Of
awl the confowndid nerve. beet it. the
hole pack Of you, or III skin you alive.
Cheese it, We awl yelled and ran
like enything in about 10 diftrent d.
reckshins. Proving that no mattir
how brave you think you are, that's
ony wat you think.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
THINK CITY LIABLE
!. FOR CHIEFS DEATH
QUESTION ARlsGs UNDER WORK.
MEMS COMPENSATION ACT
At 0ALEseURo.

Galesburg, ILL.,. OCT 2s.--Is Gales
burg liable for tho murder of Chief
OF Police T. L Mathews under the
workinSmen's compensation act?
The question has been raised here
and Is arousing great deal Of inter
est. Although the city aldermen have
not been called upon to act upon the
matter, it Is underwood that they will
not raise serious objection to payment
Of damages to the widow. AS legal
question, however, 1t has won wide
attention. II tho aaty Ia liable the
maximum damage to b collected Is
$4,000. 8. B. Nelson, city attorney
for Galesburg. has refused to answer
tbs question, although he expects to
Be called upon by the council to give
q legal opinion and u working upon
1t now,
The question involved TN the discus
sion is whether or not cities and vii
lagos come under the Jurisdiction OF
the act. GalesburS il divided on It.,
and 1t is for this reason that It's legal
phases have been taken up in such
detail.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
WIRELESS INVENTOR
is AN IOWA YOUTH

Ft. Dodge, Oct. 2s.-Robert Woolver-
ton, federal wireless expert, whose re-
cent discoveries have been given wide
publicity along the Pacific coast, is a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Woolver-
ton Of Fl. Dodge. His wife formerly
was Miss Ruth James, Minneapolis
girl and a Vassar graduate.
The western newspapers proclaim
the discoveries Of young Woolverton
the most wonderful since Marconi's in
vention OF wireless telegraphy. 1t is
declared the new feature will revolu-
tionize wireless because it will obviate
The necessity for the expensive high
towers used for transmission. The
discovery also will affect the new wire
less telephone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
ALBA.

Mrs. Mary Baird returned the last
Of the week from visit with her
son in Missoula, Mont. She also Wis
tied with her friend, Mrs. Cresswell,
in Oregon and friends in Everett,
Wash, before returning home.
Mrs. Harry Caps Of Ottumwa is
still visiting at the home of her faith
er She came up last week to attend
tho funeral of her mother. Mrs. John
Hiclson.
Mrs. Rebecca Neil has returned to
her home in Fort Morgan after visit
here with friends.
Miss Grace Ramsay has returned to
Dee Moines after spending a month
with her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret
Ramsay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Kuyser of Belle
Paine, who have been here to attend
the funeral of Mrs. John Hickson,
have returned home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
(By William r. Ellis.)

The problem stated in the topic is
not only the problem of young peoples
societies, Of churches, of business en-.
terprises and Of all human organiza.
izations; it is the problem Of the indi-
vidual life. The wide awake person is
constantly bringing himself for self
examination to the bar of such ques-
tion. How can he make his life and
work bigger and better? In word,
how may he grow? When this ceases
to be matter of vital concern to per-
son. he turns his face towards the
graveyard of development and achieve
ment, in the realms Of both character
and service.
God writes the command, Grow in
every seed and star and creature, but
most of all In the human heart. 1t Is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30

If the early unanimous voice of the
American press expresses the views
of the American people, this country
does not want an American merchant
marine in foreign trade. 1t wants a
foreign marine instead, but with the
American flag floating over it. 1t
wants cheap marine, regardless
o. quality. Whether the American
flag attests fact or fraud over the
ships seems of no consequence.
The seamen's act requires that at
least seventy-five per cent of the
crews of American ships shall under
stand the orders Of their officers. With
Chinese crews, such as have manned
our trans-Pacific ships, this was i'm
possible. A Pacific Mail steamship
was wrecked with great loss of life
in the Colder Gate at the entrance
to San Francisco bay fifteen years
ago because her Asiatic crew did not
understand the orders of her officers.
The Pacific Mail steamships were
the finest under the American flag in
foreign trade, but manned by cheap
Chinese crews-crews unable to un-
derstand the orders of their officers.
Even at that the line has not earned
profit for fifteen or twenty years. 1t
was really owned by the Southern Pa
cific company, transcontlnental
American railroad willing to pocket
the losses of their operation under
our flag because of the business they
furnished the railroad and the extern
sion of the railroads service across
the Pacific. When the seamen's act,
for safety's sake. required ships I'M
der our flag to be manned by crews
the orders of the OIL
fcers the burden of expense became
too great for the Southern Pacific
company longer to operate its trans
Pacific line.
Robert Dollar owned a feet of ships
under the British flag, which he put
under the American flag when the
European war began, and while Ger
man cruisers were destroying British
merchant ships. Dollar also succeed
ed in persuading President Wilson,
and through him congress, that II
alien masters and officers were allow
ed to run newly naturalized "Amerl-
can" ships they thus could be operat-
ed as cheaply as under foreign flags
congress passed the laws necessary
to test Dollars idea, and the result
was that when the American nag
went up on foreign ships the pay OF
their alien masters, officers and crews
went up also to the American rate"
Dollarh has been fretting under this un-
looked for expense, German cruisers
no longer menace British merchant
,h;ps. and SO Dollar was glad to again
copyright, 1915, by the M
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now what you're getting"
TWO WAYS TO PUT RI.


This Is how Johnny wrote his compo.
sition in the public school class:
1.-THE COW is a good animal. She has
two horns and two eyes and gives milk,
which is good to drink. She has four
legs and eats grass and hay. Some
of them are red, and they have long
tails"
And this is how the teacher says he
ought to have written It:
"The female of the bovine genus Is
beneficisnt mammal. This ruminant
quadruped is possessed of corneous
protuberances, projecting from the oc-
ciput. Her vision is binocular and she
yields an edible and nutritious tactical
emulation. She is quadrupedal and
herbivorous, assimilating her food In
both the succulent and exiccated states
Some of them automatically cores.
pond to the seventh color of the spec.
trum, and they are endowed with eau.
dal appendages Of exaggerated longi
tudinality." - Pittsburgh Press.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
oRtNNELL ALUMNUs.

Iowa City, Oct. 2S-James E.
stronks Is In receipt Of q letter from
the battlefelds Of France, point un-
named, written by James N. Hall, a
former resident of Colfax and an
alumnus of Grinnell college, whore he
wns Mr.. Stronk's college mate. Mr..
Hall. who is contributor to Century,
merely writes that he has been with
the English army since mid August,
1914, and In active service In France
since June 1, 1915. He has not been
injured during the time he has been
taking part in what he calls indefln-
itely "holding an exceedingly interest
in. part of the line" He Is lance
corporal, machine gun section, Ninth
Royal Fusiliers, British expedition
airy force"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
BlDW ELL.

Mr.. and M1E. c. r. Chisman visited
Tuesday at the Elmer Rose home of
Pleasant Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Murray and little
daughter Evelyn attended the wedding
of Harry Payne and Miss Eliza Reinier
on Oct. IL at the home of the brides
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Alb Reinier of
Bladensburg.
Mrs Noyes Garfield who underwent a
surgical operation Friday at the OF
tumwa hospital is getting along nicely
Geo Brown and family Of Hopewell
visited Sunday at the parental John
Brown home.
Frank Johnston and mother Mrs
Catherine Johnston visited Sunday at
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
DAVIS co. APPLE
SHOW is ON NOW

Bloomfield, Oct. 28.-The apple show
now on in Bloomfield is the biggest
affair Of the kind ever pulled of by
Davis county pepole. There are over
eighty exhibits, the fruit showing up
particularly fine this year.
The merchants around the square
are showing keen interest which Is
evident by their window displays.
Beautiful, artistic and some very mi
que decorations are shown.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
PRINCETON WILL
HAVE EQUIPMENT

Princeton. Oct. 2S.-The Princeton
town council has decided upon the
purchase of fire apparatus and the
council members will visit various
cities and towns this week to deter
mine upon the kind Of apparatus tho
town needs. The first places visited
will be Davenport and McCausland.
Although MoCausland is small town
1t is we'll equipped for fire protection
and Princeton may buy q chemical
wagon similar to the one in use there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
put his ships under the British flag

put his ships under the British flag
for greater cheapness of operation.
The American steamship Mime
sota," owned by the Great Northerza
railroad, has been veritable white
elephant" actually eating her head
Off" But she served the needs OF a
great transcontinental American rail-
road willing to hold the bag, until it
nc longer was possible to employ Chi
nese crews. Rather than employ
white men the ship has been taken off
tho trans-Paclfic run. Neither the
Minnesota nor the Pacific Mail ships
could have continued in foreign trade
under our flag but for an ownership
willing to stand the losses they suf-
fered, and Dollars ships in any event
would have gone back under the Brit
ish flag, as will many others, belief
that explains the administration
persistent advocacy OF government
owned and government operated
American merchant marine. The ships
enumerated comprise the american
marine the seamen's act has driven
off the Pacific. The Spreckels Ameri.
can line from San Francisco to Aus.
tralia, which employs American
crews, has added another American
ship to it's trans Pacific fleet since the
sesmen's act was passed. The Ameri.
can press, seemingly. has no interest
in an American trans-Pacific line
whose ships are manned by Ameri>
cans.
There is something disquietingly
sinister in the way the American
press took its cue to denounce the
S ,amen's act, an act by no means per-
feet, needing wise revision, but not
as to the part that is chiefly denouno-
ed-the requirement that three-fourths
OF the crews shall understand the or
ders Of their officers. The American
pr. SIS has been colossally humbugged
by some very powerful and ''invis-
ible" influence, into depressing all
mention Of the seamy side Of Ameri-
can shipping disclosed, its dependence
upon Asiatics for crews in trans-Pa-
cific trade-but there alone-and the
uselessness of an American" mer-
chant marine wholly manned by Chi
nese for any effective national SER
vice in the moment Of our dire need
ii merchant ships for auxiliary naval
purposes. Our maritime laws now
permit an American merchant marine
g be composed of ships built Of for
elgn materials, by foreign workmen,
n foreign countries, ships owned,
commanded, officered and manned by
foreigners. Such an American mer-
chant marine is not worth having. 1t
8 a lie, cheat, a fraud and fake.
.ional Editorial Service.)
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the Orval Copeland home Of Pleasant
Home.
Clarence Patrick and family Of High
Point visited Sunday at the Omer
Johnston home.
Mrs. Henry Oswald pleasantly sur
prised her mother Mrs. Ellen Chisman
Sunday in honor Of her list birthday
anniversary. Dinner was served at
noon. Those present were relatives and
were as follows: Charles Harlan and
family and Elmer Rose anG family OF
Pleasant Home, Mrs. Jas. Knox and
son Ellis and Harold and Herbert CHS
man of High Point, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Green of South Ottumwa, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. r. Chisman, Geo. Chisman and
daughters Misses Romola and Mabel
Chisman, Carl Wilburn and PAU
Chisman of this place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
SELLS HORSERADISH
TO BUILD A HOUSE

Mason City, Oct. 28--To become
bvicklayers, carpenters, fathers. roof
ers and flnishers would present an in
SUI mountable obstacle to some peo-
pie, but not to Martin Wise, Is, and
his wife, 70, Of this city, who after
two years work are ready to occupy
their own home, built entirely by their
own labor. Even the material Was
ful nished by their own efforts, as
they sold $500 bottles of horseradish
to purchase lumber and other build
ing material
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
HUNTING FOR LooPHoLE.

Dispatches from Washington state
that the administration leaders are
meeting to discuss means for protect
ing American manufacturers from
foreign competition after the Euro
pean war is brought to close. One
p;an submitted contemplates applying
the antitrust laws to foreigners who
undertake to undersell home produc-
els. We thought they reduced the tar
in in order to encourage competition.
Now they are going to make it crimf
nal. why do they blind themselves to
the fact that a protective tariff is the
proper way Of attaining the desired
ends?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
CONTRACTOR TO
RUN FOR CITY PLACE

Sioux City, Oct. &c. F. Betz, rail
road contractor, who is widely known
throughout the northwest, will be a
candidate for commissioner of the
street department at the coming cleo
ton. He will run against p. 0. Yves
ley, the present incumbent.
Mr.. Betz has done railroad grading
work In many states. He recently fin
ished a big contract on state road
under the Minnesota highway COM
mission.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
Dr.D.E.Crahau,
Houro-o g u .. MI 60 Q D -
Gnnis once BLDG. ottuHswa. l0wa,
.CENTERV|LLE IS
IN A new COMPANY
BECAUSE OF GOOD WORK MEN
WILL DE TRANSFERRED 70
COMPANY D.

Ceuterville. Oct 2S.-Captain Ellis
Finley Of the local military company
hitherto known as tho nrst separate
company, received word yesterday
that it had been transferred to the
first battalion Of tho third regiment
and would from now on be known as
Co. D. The company at Grinnell,
which was formerly Co. d, will take
the local company's place ~ first sep
arate company.
This change is the result of the
good showing made by the boys at the
recent encampment at Des MONIES,
where they were in company with the
third regiment. Their appearance APP
parently greatly pleased Col. e. X.
Bennett, and when the opportunity
presented itself, he asked that they be
transferred to his regiment. They
will not be entire strangers in their
new quarters for there will be the
cttumwa company, the Oskaloosa COM
pany and Landers band of Clarinda in
the regiment, and these companies
were formerly in the old ffty-fourth
Iowa and so are well known to each
other.
The reason given for this change
is that Grinnell is planning on hav-
ing an aviation corps in that city
and since they are now practically
sure to get it, they took this oppor-
tunity to become freed from the
regiment proper. When this had been
done, Col. Bennett at once putin his
bid for the Centerville company before
someone else got ahead Of him.
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BURGLAR SCARED
OF CHLOROFORM

Sioux City, Oct. 2s.-A strong odor
of chloroform was detected after q
burglar had been frightened from the
residence of A. M. Wood, 2014 George
street The noise of the providers en-
trance aroused L. e. Anderson, a room
er, who rushed out just in time to SEQ
the burglar escaping by the window.
A cloth strongly saturated with chlor-
aform was found near where the man
had entered. He had dropped it In
his haste to leave.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
His Old Commandment, disobedience
to which spells death.

OF all the considerations moving
Christians to larger and better work
none, next to the will Of God, Is 80
important as the need which calls for
increased service. There are poor to
be fed, sick to be visited, prisoners to
be encouraged, gloomy lives to be
frightened, ignorant to be taught, lost
to be saved; all of which awaits upon
the birth of holy ambition In the
hearts of those who call themselves
disciples of the eager spirited Jesus.
-
Life consists In its relationships.
Apart from these, what we call life
would be nero existence, BY the mum.
Der of other lives. and other interests
than self, to which . spirit Is related
do we measure its worth. He who ID
sympathetically related to the great,
living or dead, we consider great. But
noblest OF all Is the spirit that 10 al
tuned to the Infinite. The life best
worth living Is the life that Is in clos.
est relationship with God. Such . one
shares the very interhow Of tho divine
nature. Close to God, one cannot be
far from all that Is NOSE desirable IN
two worlds.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
WALKS INTO HOME
AND DEMANDS MONEY

Burlington, Oct. 2s-Mrs. Kuntz,
wife of a well known farmer living
south of town, was robbed of s25 by
a well dressed young man who came
into her home and demanded she give
him the money or suffer harm. She
gave him $25, all she had in the house.
The thief then made his getaway,
leaving no clue. Mr.. and Mrs. Kuntz
are pioneer farmers of Des Moines
county and live alone. Mr.. Kuntz is
a cripple from rheumatism, and was
unable to render his wife aid when
she was threatened by the miscreant.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
KINGS WELL PROTECTED.

A lot of fuss is made over the fact
that the English king and the French
|president were SO close to the battle
Hines in northern France recently,
Etpat four German shells exploded
within two hundred yards of where
tae rulers stood. If the English king
pand the French president and the
Italian king and the German kaiser
and the Austrian emperor and few
Emore OF the rulers were compelled to
STAY within range of the guns through
out the continuance Of the war, 1t Is
safe guess that the war would end
|much sooner than it will under pres
lent conditions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30
GILBERT WELLS IS
I'm BAD" AGAIN

Quincy, Oct. 3S.-Glbert Wells
aud Howard d. Boksn1amp. the two
Burlington youths who Joined the I'm
Bad" club hero . fow months ago,
when they wrote worthless checks to
keep Wells racing car supplied with
sufficient gasoline for constant Joy
riding and for other things coming
under the head Of r. good time, /"
were fined In the county court on
charges Of obtaining money under
false pretenses. Wells was assessed
5000 and costs and Boksnkamp 500
and costs.