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Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1916-07-20

w TEN ma stromej sciezce, kt6
ra pedzil rycerz, dial sic slyszec
.tetent jakis odglos konskich ko-
PVT, uderzajacych W pedzie ska
~ granitu.
- Co to jest? - mysli baron
zdumiony - czyz drugi, mnie pc
dobny wybra1 sic W podr6z noca?
Coraz blizej i blizej, odwr6cil
sic. Tam ma zakrecie, PREY BIAS
ku b}yskawicy, dostrzeg1 dw6ch
jezdzc6w, pedzacych ku menu;
czarne rumaki j czarne ich zbro-:
je, twarze ich zakryte Garment
przylbicami, podwaja kroku, j
oni spiesza i tuz, tuz "a MIN owl
rycerze. Spojrza} a z pysk6w
konskich buchaja p}omienie, skry
z oczoW i z kopyt leca, pochyleni
ma koniach milcza rycerze.. wnet
doscigna, a kon rzy z trwogi on
podwaja szybkosci biegu prag--
ME wyminac poscig szalony.P PROF.
ne zabiegi, juz doscigneli i z kaz
DEF strony konia juz jada, lejce
wyrwali i W milczeniu ciagna z
SODA. Raynold chloe waleczny i
nieustraszony i tax niedawno sa
mego Lucypera wywolujacy W
szranki, przelak} sic, w4osy mu
powsta}y ma g1owie ma widok
tych dw6ch czarnych postaci.
= Kim %jestescie? = wrzas--
nah, wstrzymujac konia lejcami
usilujac oderwac sic: cd mich:
= Wyzwa}es Lucypera, my je
go podw}adni, cas wys}al W ia
nice z toba, jedi teraz, gdzie ka-
re-!
Skonczyli, rumaki zr6wna1y
sic z SODA, pedza wsr6d huku,
trzasku grzmot6w i piorun6w,
pedza i coraz PREDICT, coraz n.y.
zej leca. Grzywy czarnych ru
mak6w zdaja sic p}omienne, g1o-
wy i cake POSTAGE to Tor piekiel
ny = ogien pod niemi, ogien
doko1a. W rycerzu duch zamie--
"a, knew cisnie sic do skroni, "a
|luje slow niebacznych: "a p6zno
niestety! pedza jak huragan. z
szybkoscia b}yskawicy mijaja
cory i lasy.. burza sic uspoka--
ja.. i coraz PREDICT, gdyz mi
piekielna sic konczy.
W tenn, co to "a dzwiek GA
rowny rozlega sic wsr6d g6r i!
dalekiem echem zdaje sic plynac
W przestrzeni? To dzwon ma VIE
zy koscioika Matki Bozej W Elm
siedeln, budzi do modlitWy i ia
woluje ludzi do Boga. Ma odgios
tego dzwonu W SERGE rycerza
wstapila otucha.
- Maryo z Emsiedeln, ratuj II
- szepnely wargi, zbielale cd
trwogi - slubuje kosci6f w tenn
miejscu postawic, wybaw grzesz
nego!
Lecz coz, ledwie mia1 czas to
wypowiedziec, smiech szyderski
rozlegl sic w powietrzu. Znikneli
jezdzcy, zniknely rumaki, costa
wiajac pc sobie zapach siarki il
rycerza ma skraju drogi.
Pad} IA kolana i dlugo dzieko-
wal Bogu "a ocalenie. A ia tenn
miejscu, wsr6d urwisk niedostep
nych, wkr6tce stana1 kosci6l ma
Geese Maryi, o kt6rym wsr6d lu
du krazy ia legenda.
A w zamku mnich siwy Gala
noe krzyzem przelezal, blagajac
Boga "a. te zblakana dusze i Bog
so wysluchaf. Matka Boza wy
rwala re szpon djabelskich Ia
twardzialego grzesznika.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1916-07-20
Pielielna noe.

Gwarno i wcso}o by}o W zam-
ku %ksiazecym. Rycerze W glow
nej sail PREY d4ugim stole, zasta-
wionym srebrnemi i cynowemi
misami, zapomnieli 0 huraganie
szalejacym ma divorce. Ogien 60
rza} ma ogromnym kominie, a kie
Itchy krazy1y doko}a. Ksiaze hoj
ME <przyjmowal swych druh6w..
Wesolosc i swoboda panowaly u
dworu.
Alisci, wsr6d szczeku kieli--
chow i chrzestu zbroi, rozleg1 sic
BRICK }ancucha i slime uderzenie
mlota u wr6t. Obecni spojrzeli
pc sobie re zdziwieniem:
= Coz to by m6g1 bye "a gosc
podczas tel nawa1nicy?
= To pewno pielgrzym Tub
mnich jaki, wpuscic go tn, zaba
wimy sic MIN.
Pacho}kowie poskoczyli ola
spelnienia rozkazu i w kr6tce
wr6cili, wiodac z SODA starca
siwow}osego W habicie zakonnym
= Mech bedzie pochwalony
Jezus Chrystus - rzek1 cichem
g}osem przybyly, lecz szyderczy
smiech by1 mu odpowiedzia:
Coz ty, mnichu starry, bardzos
zmok} W tel bury, tw6j Chrys-
tus cie ME obronif cd deszczu i
nawa1nicy?
zarty i docinki sypaly sic ku
sfudze Bozemu, lecz on ME uwa-
zaf wcale ma liczne zgromadze-
ME, ma sarkania i pogr6zki, -
zblizy4 sic do komina i wpatrujac
sic W p1omien, poczaf odmawiac
pacierze. Kiedy mysla daleko juz
by1 cd otaczajaccych go i zato-
piony W Bogu, ME zwraca1 uwagi
ma swawolnik6w, nagle hulk stra-
szliwy rozleg} sic W powietrzu,
iasnosc cswieci4a zamek. kt6rv
wstrzasnaf sic W swych podsta-
wach. Ten i 6w spowaznia1, "a
przestaf zartowac, niejeden sic
p%rzezegnai cichaczem. Ale pan do
mu i jeden z jego przyjaci61 szy-
dill z nieba i ziemi Zakonnik "a
przestaf ma chwile modlitwy i
zwr5ci1 sic z surowem wejrze-
MEM do obecnych.
Dose tego!- zawo1a1 = DO
Bog karze strasznie bluzuiacych
Jego imieniu.
Lecz oni wysmiali sic z niego'
i dalej weso}o zartowac poczeli.
4 kazdym grzmotem, "a kazdym
trzaskiem, MOVIE bluzIierstwo,
nova obraza Boga, a zakonnik
wciaz sic modlif, biagajac Pana
"a mimi. Juz bi1a p61noc i nadesz
Ia godzina spoczynku.
- Gas spac, przyjaciele, czas
rozejsc sic chyba = i poczeli sic
2egnac. Geese gosci mia1a te noe
spedzac w komnatach zamko--
Wych.
Nieustraszony baron Raymond,
najzapalenszy bluznierca, wybie-
raj sic W droge.
= Baronie, przeczekaj burze!
= prosi} pan domu.
= Co, burza mnie wstrzyma
od powrotu, jeszcze to ME bywa-
10, zeby baron Raynold ulak1 sic
jakiego zywioiu!
= Barcnie = cichym glosem o.
dezwa1 sic zakonnik ~ zywio--
low sic ME lekaj, ale lekaj sic
Boga! zostan W zamku tel nocy.
= Ami Bog, ami djabef mnie
ME prZeralaia! WvzvWam w
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27

Are YOU married." asked the pro.
spective employer.
''Yas, sub, Use married." replied the
applicant, but nah wife IL out Of q
Job. OATS why Use got to shif' fob
mahself."
Elihu Root was discussing in New
York the recent constitutional conven.
ton.
But there was one group he said
- happily 1t saw reason later on -
but one group there was which had
about az true an idea of self sacrifice
as Smith.
Smiths wife said to him one eve-
ming, anxiously:
II know, John. dear, this high cost
of living Is. terrible. but do you really
think we can get along without q SER
vant?' s.
We'll have to- Smith answered,
firmly. unless I get = raise. Why.
hang it. II the worst comes to the
worst you can do the cooking for your
self and | can get my meals at . res
taurant.'"
A school teacher complained to the
head master that on the previous
evening he had seen one Of the older
boys flirting with Z young lady. The
head master accordingly spoke to the
boys Of the senior class in severe
terms on the impropriety Of such con-
duct and wound up by saying that, out
Of consideration for the parents. he
would not name the culprit; but invit-
ed him to come into his private room
At the close of the lesson. That after
noon six crestfallen boys presented
themselves at the private interview.
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ade," declaring certain coasts Of their
enemy closed, Just as they did . hun
dred years ago.. Then they could cap
.ture and confiscate American vessels
and cargoes found anywhere on the
seas II bound In or out Of those ports.
Such an actual blockade is not . like
Nhood; it is not international law; It
is not civilized warfare. It 10 simply
a device to break up a certain kind OF
American commerce, without going to
tho EXPENSE and danger Of the genuine
blockade which alone would justify
such captures.
There is at present, next to no
direct trade between the United
states and the German ports; and,
therefore It seems likely that the talk
about actual blockade is really
meant to cover an absolute prohibition
of American commerce to neutral u
tries in articles desired by the Ger
mans. John Bull advances q step In
h;s system of regulating the commerce
between the United States, Holland
and the Scandinavian countries. An
actual blockade" of the coasts Of Hol-
land or Sweden would be a virtual act
of war, although those powers might
not chose to accept it as such. Hence
it seems probable that the British
authorities have in mind neither a
paper blockade" nor an actual block
ade.'' but an order that no American
shipments shall be allowed to go to
neutral countries if it is likely that
they will find their way through to
Germany.
Another way OF whipping the devil
around the stump is by calling every
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27
GAlvANIZIN0 WITH CON-
PRESSED AIR.
CON-

An important new development in
the field Of galvanizing iron is a ma.
chine that does the trick by means Of
a combination of high heat, compress
ed air and powdered zinc. The appara-
tus consists Of = she'll shaped chamber
which holds thirty pounds Of pulver-
lied zinc, q special spraying nozzle
and a tube for introducing the CON-
pressed air. :
The nozzle is built with a tube with
in a tube. Through the inner aperture
spurts a stream of zinc dust drizen by
a twenty-five pound pressure Of com
pressed air, while the outside tube
carries a current of gas that burns with
a hot flame. When gas and metal
meet. the zinc particles atomize, blow.
ing through the air in the form OF mi
c%roscopic melted droplets. Striking the
cold metal to be coated, this current OF
what might be called zinc fog instantly
chills and condenses, adherng per
fectly..
Such . device is expected to be
especially useful for putting = zinc
coating on ironwork that has already
been set into place, - well as in re-
newing the zinc on old structural work
where it has been worn OF. Owing to
its light weight and flexible connec-
lions It can be carried into the most
awkward and inaccessible places.
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Euening Story
UNCLE JoE's PRIZE BEAUTY.
BY Jane Osborn.

Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
When Dave Brown left his off.se in
the big city for asday or two to revisit
the old homo town of Hardy's Corners
he always made tracks for the one
room headquarters Of the Hardy's Cor
ners Weekly Gazette, where his Uncle
Joe Brown, with the aid Of a single
ONCE boy, performed the entire opera
ton Of getting out the local news
sheet, all the way from circulation
boosting to running the press.
Well, now" began his uncle in his
Characteristic drawl, IL you really
want to help out q mite you might
hitch up the old nag and take a turn
out the pike to e the girl rye picked
for the winner Of the beauty contest.
You see, it's this way: Subscriptions
have been kind Of falling of since the
rural free delivery brought the city
papers around every day and for
some years I've got to do something
to help give things a boost. So hit
on the idea Of having some contests
Of interest to the women folks. I've
got a due bill on the dry goods en-
porium here for some advertisements
they have owed for going on two years
and I'll have the winners take out their
prizes that way.
well, the contest Is coming along
lne-especially the beauty one-and
I've got a drawer packed full of pic
lures of pretty girls from all around
here-only all Of them aren't SO pretty.
1--WE about decided on the winner.
/ stopped around to get . good look
at her after she'd sent in her photo
and, honest, you couldn't see a finer
looking girl II you spent a lifetime
looking. She's q regular O~ld-fashion-
ed, kind-beautiful eyes and-oh, we'll
you've got to see her to know. I've
picked her, and in the next number Of
the Gazette, that out on Satur-
day. I'm going to announce her win
ming, with a picture of the girl. and
the same afternoon we're going to
have the girl and some Of her friends
come down and blow them of to q
course dinner at the hotel and then
take them on q Joy ride.
"Now, suppose you go out this OFT
ing and see the girl and tell her she
has got the prize and take the due bill
on the emporium with you, and, il you
could, you might take her to the en-
porium and have her pick out a pretty
dress and hat and other fixings for the
prize. Be sure to get something pref
.ty and kind of SNOWY SO when folks
see them they will sort Of give the
Gazette q boost.
You'll have to stop at the house
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do not get that right from Great
Britain or from Germany or from the
Hague conference. 1t Is part Of our
character as a sovereign power which
is not obliged to 90 to war with either
Great Britain or Germany, or to be
treated as though we were at war. Be-
ing at peace with all the belligerents.
We q trade with them all.
Great Britain thinks that the com.
paratively small amount OF American
products that reach Germany Is an Of.
tense which must be punished by
creating new principles of capture.
Then what about the vastly greater
amount of material. both c~ontraband
and innocent, which Ia sent to Great
Britain! It Is our neutral right to ship
~contraband goods anywhere subject to
the danger of capture; and to ship non.
c~ontraband anywhere without danger
OF capture. II President Wilson's ad-
m~tntstration should fail to make that
clear to the British government, 1t
would give up one OF our clearest and
most essential rights. 1t is not for
John Bull to destroy II commerce be.
cause 1t is inconvenient to him that his
enemies should receive such supplies
as food stuffs, cotton and non-military
manufactures.
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BAD SEED CORN OFFERED.

W. B. Barney, state dairy and food
commissioner is warning the farmers
of the state that they must beware of
seed corn that ID being offered for sale
by certain spectators. These men are
taking advantage Of the seed corr
shortage to buy up 1914 corn where
ever they can ind 1t and offer it as
seed corn at high prices without tax.
ing the trouble to determine whether
1t win terminate or not. 1t is up to
the farmers to see they do not get
"stung."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27

thing useful, contraband. The United
States government from the beginning
Of the war has accepted the doctrine
that genuine contraband Of war may be
captured II bound to a neutral power,
with a probable destination In an
enemy's country. Our government has
therefore been remiss In not protest.
ing more directly and vigorously
against the British expansion Of the
list of contraband to cover rubber,
foodstufrs, cotton and many other
articles which might be used by an
army, but in all probability will be
used by the civil population. II the
British government intends to put
everything useful on the contraband
list, It will lay the cap stone on an
ediice Of disregard Of American
rights. London talks sagely about pre-
cedents found in the action Of the
United States during the civil a 1t
talks in vain. The only presidents are
the captures by United States vessels
of ships, mostly British, which were
carrying genuine contraband, intended
to be delivered eventually in a confed-
crate territory, though routed through
a neutral country. That principle has
not been denied in the present war
What the British are trying to do,
without right or reason, Is to stop non
contraband goods from reaching Ger.
many by any channel. E
Why should such goods not reach Ger.
many? We have an established inter.
national right to ship non-contraband,
either directly to any port of Germany
that is not actually b%lockaded, or in
directly through a neutral port. We
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pRvs SEE VICTORY AHEAD.

Davenport IL without saloons for the
hrst time and the confirmed drinkers
are getting their booze in Rock Island
and Moline. just across the river in
Illinois. The two Illinois towns will
shortly Join the dry column IL the eff.
forts of the local option forces win. An
other campaign for I vote on the
liquor question 10 being planned. It
will make the fourth time the question
has been put to = vote and each time
the drys have come q little closer to
winning. They say the next time will
500 the end Of the saloon.
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XII.
THE CHANGE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

XII.
THE CHANGE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Reading, Pa, Jan. 19.-In Pennsyl.
vania commission government has
been most thoroughly tried, for 1t was
imposed upon twenty-nine cities by an
act of the state legislature. Reading
is a typical example OF how it has
worked.
You should not get the idea, how.
ever. that commission government was
forced upon the Pennsylvania cities
without any initiative on their part.
Municipal government in this state
was particularly cumbersome before
the change, a. is attested by the fact
that forty-two cities. having a popula.
ton of more than 1900, had remained
boroughs rather than adopt the clumsy
municipal machinery provided by state
law.
All of the Pennsylvania cities were
awake to the disadvantages of the old
system. As long 8 as 1910, the
cities Of the third class, which includes
all of those with. less than = hundred
thousand population, held a convention
at Williamsport and organised an
Allied Civic. Bodies Committee for the
purpose of studying municipal reform.
The constitution Of the state of
Pennsylvania prohibits special legisla-
ton, and this makes 1t impossible to
pass q law which would leave the adop-
ton Of commission government option.
al with the cities. If the change were
going to be made. it would have to be
a sweeping one, compelling all the
cities of = certain class to change their
form OF government. After several
years of agitation, such a law was
passed in 1913. Twenty-nine cities Of
the third class, including all those in
Pennsylvania except Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and Scranton, were thus
summarily placed under commission
government in December, 1914.
The Pennsylvania law provides for a
mayor and four commissioners elected
at large on q non.partisan ballot. The
other city officials, with the exception
of the comptroller. are chosen by this
commission. The state act also pro.
vides for an initiative and referendum,
but there is no recall and no civil
service board.
This Wholesale change has been
emphatically . ucces Under the
new form Of government, Reading has
attained = municipal efficiency,
and what 10 more, a new municipal
spirit.
II you visit this city some June, for
example, you will witness one Of the
most interesting displays Of municipal
common sense and civic righteousness
that has v been staged in America
The people Of Reading, like people
everywhere else in the United States,
had been reading a lot about conserva-
ton for several years before tho COM
mission government law was passed.
Now they have acted on their informa-
ton. Instead Of sitting down and
pining because the magnificent hills
surrounding the town were denuded of
trees q generation ago by hungry lum-
bermen, they have undertaken the Job
of reforesting them. The city commits
sion runs a nursery where young trees
are raised, and every June tho school
children of Reading 90 out in the hills
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27
Managing the City
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKlN

and plant them. Thousands of trees
are planted every year, and by the
time school children of today are grand
fathers and grandmothers. the hills, at
the present rate, will again be beauti-
fully wooded.
Reading was rich and Easy picking
for railroads and street railroads
under the old form of government. The
thirty-three city fathers used to give
exclusive and perpetual franchises to
those who could master control, throw
ing away forever the right to uss
streets and public spaces. Every street
car extension and every right for track
OF siding granted by the commission Is
now limited to twenty-five years.
Under the old system all city sup
plies were bought by contracts made
az a result Of recommendations by
committees Of the council Of ~thirty-two
aldermen. The recommendation Of the.
committee could be accepted. or II;
could be rejected with . huge row in
council personal q~uarrels, vote swap
ping and petty politics as IN aftermath
with a good chance for no contract at
all. Under the commission, all pur.
chases for the city are made through
q central purchasing office, for which
one of the commissioners Is directly
responsible to the wholso commission
and to the town. The result Ia a bet
ter quality Of supplies at better prices.
A council OF thirty-two members was
not the only cumbersome body under
the old form Of government. There
was an Independent health board. an
independent park board and an indie
pendent water works commission.
These boards were usually composed
OF politicians, selected as q reward for
political services. When the clumsy
council was not busy with internal
quarrels it often spent it's time SCRAP
ping with the boards, till the poor
citizen was hopelessly b~ewildsred.
The commission government charter
provides for a health officer, . super
intendent of parks and q superin-
tendent OF water works. Each Of these
officers comes directly under one or
another Of the commissioners, who is
held responsible by the voters for the
work of his department. A competent
doctor with q competent assistant Ia
At the head Of the health department
and men specially qualified have been
chosen for. the other positions.
Since the commission started opera
tions 4 new reservoir for the city water.
system has been put in. Anew pipe
line for augmenting the supply has
been laid and water rates have
been reduced. Plans are being made
for 1 municipal slaughter house and .
municipal hospital. A garbage In
cineration plant, owned by the city but
not used for several years by the old
council, has been put to work, and
rates for collection Of garbage have
thereby been reduced. The rates for
public lighting have been cut 10 per
cent. Muddy, unsanitary alleys have
been paved and hundreds Of connec-
tons with sewers have been required.
viaducts across railroad tracks have
been built and more than 100 squares
Of asphalt, brick and macadam paving
have been laid.
Such are the principal results Of two
years Of commission government in
Reading.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27

. 1t would be interesting to hear what
the Iowans in California think of Cali.
fornia storms and foods. It would be
especially interesting II these same
1owans knew we are having here the
kind Of weather they left here to seek
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27

We are living in m age Of special
ism. The man who can do one thing
we'll advances faster than the man
who can do 4 number Of things but ID
not expert in any one Of them. The
Jack of all trades" has had his day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-27
70 BUILD NEW CHURCH.

Story City. Jan. 25.-Emanuel
Lutheran church here adopted plans
for the building of . new church to
cost 5000. Money for the church,
which will be completed in 9 year, has
been collected.