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,^ ?i j* f! I The Tri-Weekln Courier BY THE Cw,*°lER PRINTINO CV Founded Auou»i S. 18*® Member of the Lee Newspaper Syndicate. A. W. LEE Fotrsder AS. F. POWELL Pu«!fu«I R. D. MAC MANTTS. .Managing Kdltor Dally Courier. 1 year by mail. Trl-Weekly Courier. 1 yoar... .13.00 .. J.PO OFFICE: 117-119 East Second otreot Telephones— Business Office. *A Editorial Offices, 17*. Address, The Courier Printing Com pany, Oftumwa. Iowa. Entered as second class matter Oct ober 17, 1908, at the postoffice. Ottutn wa, Iowa, under the Act of Congress or March I, 1878. Foreign representatives: Cone- *nr«n ft Woodman. Mailers Building. Chicago 22s Fifth Ave.. New Torn City Gumbel Bldg.. Kansas City. Mo. When the administration spfllblnd- ropean war. Conditions then were so bad that President Wilson, himself. had to take cognizance of them and he did to the extent of branding the depression a "psychological" one, due to lack of confidence rather than to any tangible thing. force and it was giving a very fair fBample of what happens when foreign ^made goods are permitted to displace American made goods. The administration was frantic and there were threats against certain chimerical "big interests" that were alleged to be causing the panic. But a search for these "big interests" failed to reveal them and so finally, it was necessary to tell the people that the panic was just "psychological"— In other words that the causes were merely mental—people just thought they were hungry— and that the low tariff had nothing to do with it. But the fact really was that the American business man and the Amer ican manufacturer foresaw what was coming and -were preparing for it. That was what caused manufacturers to stop stocking their storehouses and to begin selling at cut prices. That wns what caused merchants to buy less and less as the day grew nearer when they could buy cheaper from Europe. Amertcau investors had their eyes ipen and they knew that money in vestor in American manufactories which were competing with European manufactories, was tlnsafe. Such com petition could not be otherwise than ruinous to Americans. And so, every wide awake American with invested money, whether it was ten dollars or ten million dollars, be •?$ gan playing safe in an en«feavor to get his money ofit before the crash came. And the result was the depression that preceded the war. That it would have developed into a disastrous pan ic had it gone a few months further, goes without fear of contradiction. Then came the war. What'the tariff failed to do, the war did. American manufacturers saw that they were safe from foreign competition for a time and that before long they would be invading European markets, in stead of having the Europeans over run our markets. Business picked up. It has been picking up ever since. The story of our wonderful trade with Eu rope and with markets that ordinarily belonged to Europe, is history now. To day there is no idle factory in the country. War orders provide work for every able»man. Contrast conditions today with con ditions a month before the war broke out. Contrast the state of competition today, with that which ruled .when Europe's workmen were busy at their' benches instead of in the trenches. Can you not see that in spite of our free trade tariff, American industry is today fully protected? Is it not our •afety from competition that is re sponsible for our present high tide of •prosperity? If you can make anything •lse out of it, we would be glad to It. Consider now, what will happfen when the war is over and war's pro tection for our industries ends. And after considering that, think well as to the important part the tar iff deserves in the political campaign now being waged. FRESH AIR FOR SCHOOLS. With the opening of the public and parochial schools of the state, the de partment of tuberculosis" of the state board of control is endeavoring to im press upon both parents and teachers the importance of the proper ventila tion and sanitation of school rooms.! Much has already been accomplish-j ed by boards of education in the recon-' ly have acquainted themselves with those simple methods by which, in tho absence of artificial systems of ventil ation, they are able to keep a supply of good air in the school room. The educators of the state have been giv ing very general attention to this im portant phase of school management. |nd beoaustf of this, much is being ac pmplished in the reduction of respira- W diseases of one kind or another, residing tuberculosis. It would bn'' well where medical inspection in -the schools is not. maintained, for parents to have their children thoroughly ex amined with special referencjTto thn eyes, ears, nose, throat, tp,th and especially the chest, cavity. Mpny phy sical defects which ininair ctildren's iealth will be discovered and removed. is a to a .. ,« headache till one o'clock. Then in struction of school buildings with a the balance of the night she had re view to an adequate and constant sup-, sponded to several calls for a drink a ply of fresh air to the scholars during doll and all the other nocturnal infan- school taskaf It 1B desirable as win ter comes^n that particular attention shall b» given to the Important mat ter ptschool ventilation. Remember tty*f fresh air is necessary to good ^(ealth. FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT. Suppose ten years ago, three men Lowden, Hull and Smith spent in Illi nois seeking the gubernatorial nomina tion. The whole nation would have held up its hands in horror. However, now. under the direct primary law, m^rru,ff00'of IMPORTANCE OF THE TARIFF. came in under the republican' tariff ers sing of the prosperity that is evi-.jng june dent throughout the land, the^y are 1664,000 worth of foreign merchandise apt to forget the conditions that pre- entered the United States without pay- vailed'before the outbreak of the Eu-1 ing jolted our ideas honesty in elec tions. And. mind you, the pri mary was adopted to give "the poor man a chance to be a candidate. a cent Business was decidedly on the ances which prevent the needless "blink." Manufacturing plants were tearing up of paving for things that closed, numerous big concerns were in should have been taken care of before desperate straits, many of them had it was put down. already gone to the wall and thou sands upon thousands of work men were hunting for jobs that did not i, exist. The Underwood tariff was in ators who are supposed to be discuss-, Thr Hawaiian''story has. been one of ing th)e Mexican situation, it might be pathos. A nature-people of unusual well to inquire whether they are being. mental ?n^ physical endowments, they paid for the time they put in or for the tried to meet civilization half-way report which they will submit. Jwhea it came to their island^ but tbe *£57$ such wholesale im« nf mon«v fnr -w'1?evotee tinn Zrr^al of.raoney for purposes, attracts no unusual comment. "Familiarity breeds contempt." By reason and through the work- in* nf tho „of rtmilN i„„, i"i5f,i^?_r^ary Lttn EASY FOR IMPORTERS. A Washington, D. C. dispatch of to-i" j, ,— ~v. dav declares that fiftv-one per cent iare more imports came in free of duty|have ]aw Jn force durtng the flacal year en(1 30 191 3 DUrjng 1916 SI 49, jnto ttle And vet, the' cost of living luis ad-1 Experience—the(1alcohol. knowledge gleaned every day through the happenings of the day and through the reading of newspapers—is what constitutes real education. A series of articles by Frederic J. Haskin on modern methods of dealing with crime, will begin in The Courier next Monday. Watch -for them and read them. The man who gets only a living out ™henJl!st The fall style show is in progress and as usual Ottumwa merchants hav% the best at the most reasonable prices. Ottumwa is an excellent place to trade. A great many men who think they are indispensable to a business, would be surprised at the .ease \frhich the establishment would get along in case they quit. Not all successful men save money, but practically every saving man is a successful one. One gets just, about as muqji out of life as one puts into it. Pfard luck hangs around waiting for the fellow who looks for it.. Can you justify your right to live in this world? The new pleasing to the ey I UTtxtxer I 8 I "Wnat have you to'say for yourself," asked the ind.'gnant householder, care fully covering the burglar jvith his re volver. "AftVr thoughtiully considering t.h« situation in its inherent aspects," said the burglac who came from Boston. "I am perforce inclined toward a pol icy of arbitration." A boy motorcycle rider went yo Court Hill so fast yesterday that he enough to keep them from idleness could probably have run over a man without even feeling the shock. For tunately everybody dodged him. Mrs. 6ommuter had Iain awake with school hours. Teachers very general- tile orders. At five in the morning, as pAAno MF.AR PTTY ARF! ly have acquainted themselves with sh* »KUAUO vll I she was just beginning to round out the first continuous hour of slumber, the little six ^ear old girl called soft ly from, her nearby crib: "Mother." No ansvfer. 'Again, a little louder: "Mother." Mother said nothing. Acain the child's voire, this time mezzo-forte: "Mother." "Well, what is it?" "Mother, isn't it roo bad that one of Harry McCole's polliwogs died?" .... What is it that throbs away, beats] ,°9vfr stopping, never ,fleaajjng. Sigourney, jSe#. 2j.^-AJarg' The district trustee was addressing a school in Ohio. "Children," said he, "I want to talk to you for a few moments about one ni?mTDT Ti~* AIM of the most wonderful, one of the most KHiJr BLtfV'iVLN lTlfillt 1 important, organs in the whole world.' N had snent in t'rvin* in i«'nnminiari I"* last few months, Hawaii seems to tive. Incidentally to walk across the for hfvf ln every 8 uring law- w®..have.be come indifferent to a condition that, c"Joying not known during the fiscal year 1916 under the'iscovered them, or at least since erated. This was apparently a cele democratic near-free-trade' law than!Marlt Tw»in the world ,au8hing Desnit« the ever- the federal treasury as ,known compared with $987,500,000 in 1913.1 aVerage wa,,nn vanced. I of a good grade of Kansas hay, and that they play ukulele! and slide So much new paving has been laid around in the oceai^ on flat boards—' In view of the numerous social en- rart. of the United States—and mean gagements being enjoyed by the medi-,tinie have been slowly disappearing, OTTUMWA COURIER, The Hawaiian Invasion Vi By Frederic J. Haskin Washington D. G., Sept. 22.—During He was court, legislature and execu- Invaded the United states. The shadow of his house was punishable wKulfrle, which was almost unknown by death, and all of his subjects lay at this time last year, may now be pur- prostrate lh his presence. He owned chased in every ipusic store from Tal- everything and levied terrible taxes boardln8 "'leged Hawaiian melodies, which are royal nostrils it was ynCopated imitations wide" advertising which they have been 8iven recently, how- Islands are really almost un- t0 the general public. The citizen is aware that the Ha- ladies wear short skirts made in Ottumwa this year, that it is'and that is about all. Little known]In war, they used clubs, spears and apropos to call attention to the ordin- !is the wonderful story of the Hawaiian people, who have-advanced "within a century from barbarism to civilization, who have lived under a barbaric em pire, a constitutional monarchy, And a republic, and have finally become a cpntact proved fatal. ,,„u„ ine man whose education "stopped1world brought them wealth and knowl-itintU in.lY95: be was in control of the wnen ne stopped school, really isn edge. but also disease and vice and ,entire archipelago. He did for Hawaii educated at ail. that th»re were nearly half a million people living upon them. Now there are not ten per oenf of that number of pure blooded Hawaiians. The Hawaii that makes such a good subject for songs and stories and plays, the Hawaii that takes ptich ready hold of the popular imagina tion, is that of over a centurv a'"^ the of his work, never advances very far. °1 One must get a little joy out of his work before it begins to pay more than a mere living. isl,^8 w*re them even tempered, fat and easy go ing. They had to work just hard but not hard enonugh to make life a burden. They had abundant opportun ity to develop their wonderful barbar ic gift for music and literature, to tell their folk tales, and sing their songs into which they wove the voices of surf and forest, making a .plaintive and unique sort of melody that will null uui^ur cui u[ uiciuuj uia The man who is so disposed, oan al-!jjve -when all of them are gone. tVfi fln/i Fitili Ti mill ... ways find fault. It will always exist. They were a tall fine people, with swhetber you wake or sleep, night OT day, ^eek In and week out, mo.nth in and month out. year in and year out, without any volition on your part, hid den away in the depths, as it were, un seen by you. throbbing, throbbing, throbbing, rhythmically all your life long?" During the pause for,oratorical ef fect a small voice was heard: "I know —it's the gas meter." BIDS O^TcLEANING BRIDGES OPENED The meeting of the city council was held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in stead of Friday morning as is usual. Bids for cleaning and painting Market street. Vine street and Blackhawk street bridges were opened and turn ed over to the city engineer for his consideration. Two companies bid for the jobs. The petition of L. R. Claus en, et al, was received and filed. Mr. Clausen and other property owners on Union street between Second and Fourth streets ask that a filler Of tar or asphaltum be used instead of the cement filler which is prescribed. NOW BEING REPAIJtED The work of grading the roads through Wildwood park and the new highway between Ottumwa and Rock Bluff is being carried on at present. The rough places in the Wildwood boulevard are being^ smoothed, especi ally near the bridge, and the ditches are being deepend. The new river road from Rock Bluff to the city has numerous rough spots which are rap idly being repaired 30 that the road will be a popular means of travel be fore winter sets In. lahassee to Oshkosh, from Tombstone upon his people- If some family had .Commercial club hearing of the Wil- to Patchoque, and has at least one carefully fattened a pig and the fra- "°Vllp house. Al- grance of its roasting reached the of the native for the royal chef to come and appro- folk chants, are sung everywhere. The priate the luxury for the royal table, musical review's In New York are feat-, A member of the Hawaiian chiefly Hawaiian acts, and there are class is an emperor literally as soon 'H»la-hula8 to be, seen in all the cab- as born. Stewart tells of seeing a aerts Nearlv all of the maearines voune nrinoA ahont thr««» vAsm The outside He conquered q^e island after another When Captain Cook discov- what Mazzinl did for Italy oni Bismark ered the islands in 1778. he estimated for Germanv. Under his rule. Hawaii discovered Pacific"' at that time to some "xt^t deserved its name. The islands 1"'1 a remarkably healthy and emp'i= r'i mate: they%were beautiful as alwafr: and they were devoid of all lar^e dangerous beasts while sWeee.t pota- there was a growing demand for con toes. yams, cocoanuts, and other tro"- ?titutional rights. Repeatedly these ical products could be raised by mod-1 were granted by the monarchs only to erate labor: As a result of these non ditions, life was easy and safe the people were largely vegetarians. Al though they had a few pigs and do*s: they had neither to hunt nor to fight natural-enemies. The effect of their largely vegetable diet was to make agitation was started for annexation to the United States. This, was re fused at first by our congress on the ground that the agitation was carried on by a few Americans whose inter ests were at stake. Queen Liliuokal great beauty of skin and feature, al-j United States and wrote an interest though their ideals of feminine beauty ing history of her,land. diverged1 somewhat from ours in that Since that time the islands have be they considered a large abdomen an come prosperous and Honolulu a great essential to physical perfection. The.find famous city. But they are over ruling class were vastly superior to all run with Chinese and Japanese. Com of the other people, both physically petin'g Avith the cheap Oriental labor and mentally, and this wasv the natur- on one hand, and with occidental en al result of centuries of the most ab-, terprise and capital on the otherv the solut^ rule in-the world. The power native Hawaiian race is steadily de of the IJawaiian monarch was abso-. creasing. The old Hawaii of abund lute, and his person was the most aflce and leisure and music has practi sacred thing known to bis subjects, cally disappeared. &..1 AT OSKALOOSA not uncommon iar« carrying articles about Hawaii, strolling through the streete of Hbn-i?"umwa on the same day that Mr. I and an*Hawaiian play recently made olulu clad in nothing but a pair (^Marshall speaks here. The telegram a record run. green morocco flippers and followed follows! It is hard tov explain. The Sand- by $ retinue of twenty-five servants! Ottumwa. Iowa, wich islands have been there all this carrying fans, rugs, umbrellas, spit- Sept. 23, 1916. time, but apparently we have just be- toons and other royal paraphernalia. «on. Thomas Walsh, Chairman gun to notice their existence. They When A monarch died, there fol- a popularity such as theyjiowed a reign of anarchy and crime, since Captain Cook during which time all vices were tol- rediscovered them and set bration to indicate that all power and with his famous lecture half a century ago. law reposed in the monarch and end ed with his life. The royal families lived in rich idle ness. and had various amusements which were reserved lor them alone. One of these was shooting mice with the bt)w, and arrow. The mouse was about the largest wild animal found in the islands, and the royal sport of bunting it was the only use made by the Hawaiians of the bow and arro-w javelins The first important step in the de velopment of the Hawaiian people oc curred in 1736 when the monarch Kamehameha I was born. He was on ly a minor chieftain, but a man of really ifreat gifts with a talent for or ganization that would have m'ade him a force In any community. He soon abandoned the hectoring warfare be tween the various islands, and set out with tremepdous determination and patience to weld them into an empire. was a unified and independent mon archy and if left fo themselves the Hawaiian people might have attained a hi«h degree of social and .political development. Brt in 1778 Cantnin Crok* came to tbe '«Iands, had a fight with the natives and loosed his sailors among the peo ple with .the, result that they were de I'nuched and infected with disease, ^rrm that time on the history of the Islands is that of a long, slow struggle between the ancient traditions and wav«j of life and the forcen of the in vading civilization. As the number of white men in the islands increased, be later violated again by them. Ha waii became a republic, for a brief space and then was made a monarchy again under the famous Queen Liliuo ka'ani, who was the last of the sov ereigns. During her reign a steady ani also passionatelv protested against the change, in which she saw the end of old Hawaii. Nevertheless, in 1898 a joint resolution providing for an nexation of the territory of Hawaii was passed, and the American flag was raised over the islands to remain there. Queen Liliuokalani came to the 1 tion of prominent republicans went to Oskaloosa Friday (to attend the dis trict meeting which the chairman of the republican committee called to meet there on that day. Those who attended the meeting were County Chairman S. W. Needham, C. C. Laf fer, R. L. Smith, John Fixmer, Chet Mendenhall, Harry M. Harlan, Roy D. Nordyke and H. F. Goeldner. ALLER VS. ALLER CASE IS ON AT SIGOURNEY —t Sigourney, Sept, 23.—On Thursday an action was filed in the district court for the October term that is attracting more than usual attention. The action is entitled Joseph Aller et al vs. Mary Aller and involves the ownership of a 160 acre farm in the east part of the cOunty. The plaintiffs are.five in num ber an* are the brothers and sisters of the defendant. They allege that their father. Hubert Aller, who died in April, 1916, was the owner of this land at the time of his death and are asking for partition, but the defend ant claims that in 1909 her father con veyed this land to her by deed and therefore she claims to be the sole owner thereof. This claim is denied by the plaintiffs and they contend that* the alleged deed was never delivered by the father to the defendant and is therefore void and of no effect. The farm is a valuable one and is estimat ed to be worth about $20,000 and every inch of the ground will bp hotly con tested when the case is tried. road. jWSST fk' -£±. WMIT PRESIDENT FOR SPEECH HERE The western tour of President Wil son includes a speech at Omaha Octo ber 5, two days before Vice President Marshall comes to Ottumwa and the 18 de8lr°u.s old'have *et the Democratic Western Headquarters, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: The newspapers announce President Wilson will speak in Omaha, October 5th. The Ottumwa Commercial club cordially Invites the president to speak In Ottumwa on that trip and suggest October 7 as an appropriate date as -Vice President Marshall will be here on that day. .Yours very truly, J. N. Weidenfeller, Secretary. YHT£S JURY ASKS MEN NOT CLEAR ON SALE SUP POSED TO HAVE BEEN MADE WITH SAWYER. (From Saturday's Daily.) The jury in the Yates case r« ported to Judge Vermilion In the district court this afternoon at 2:40 o'clock. The brothers were found guilty of larceny, as oharged in the indictment and the value of the horse fixed at $20 or less. After being out since 5:20 o'clock Friday evening the drstrict court jury in the case of the state vs. Lawrence and Leslie Yates, asked Judge C. W. Vermilion for further instructions at 10 o'clock this morning and after re ceiving them retired again. Enlightenment was sought on the question of a sale, supposed to have been made or contracted for by Yates brothers and Henry Sawyer. They were indicted and have been tried on the charge of stealing a horse belong ing to Sawyer and later selling it. CITY CLERK BACK FROM CONVENTION City Clerk .Frank Lynch has return ed from Dubuque after attending the three fay session of the nineteenth annual convention of the League of Iowa Municipalities. Mr. Lynch made a speech on the collection of poll tax and said that the method which is in U8.° *n this city is well thought of by A «*M 1 IL.l /\ii othe,rs towns, and that Ottumwa was by no means at the bottom of the list of Iowa municipalities. The annual election of officers was held with the following selections: President, May or-.!. D. Glasgow of Washington vice president, Mayor T. A. Potter of Ma son City secretary-treasurer, Mayor T. G. Pierce of Marshalltown trus tees, M'ayor John T, Ford of Ft. Dodge, Mayor George W. Koontz of Iowa city, and Mayor W. R. Law of Waterloo.: PICTURE SHOW ROBBED. Waterloo, Sept. 23.—Burglars early today broke into a large motion pic ture theater here and escaped with $300, most of it in nickels and dimes. About $150 worth of jewelry also was taken from the safe, which was blown by the burglars. 1 TYRS. SHEPARD~DTES New Haven, Conn., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Peter L. Shepard, mother of Finley Shepard. who married Helen Miller Gould, died here tod^y in her 86th year, from infirmities of age. Mrs. Shepard was the widow of Rev. Peter L. Shepard, an Episcopal clergy man of Cllntoni 1 ACTRESS TO MARRY IN NATIVE) CITY Marshalltown, Sept. 23. —Desiring to be married in the city in which she, was born, Miss Elsie Eddy Rocken fleld of Sioux City, an actress*with the "September Morn" company, will be married in this city tonight. The wedding will take place before the footlights, just before the begin ning of the performance of the com pany at the Odeon. Miss Rockenfleld or Miss Eddy, which is her stage name, will become the bride of Gatty Jones of Los Angeles, Cal., .also a member of the company. EYE WITNESSES TESTIF*. Centerville, Sept. 23—The murder trial in i^hich Frank Dangelo is accus ed of the murde- of Pearl Traxler has resulted in four eye witnesses testify ing. Three for the state, Silas and SPREAD TACKS ON roAn- I A tn ahootin* and another of the party she h$ let that lady go. thinking him such wr„.n7«.n5 Si.?' v'as with had revolver. The shoot- a baby that he hadn't ever been to the Wapello, Sept. 23. —William Fellen-, ing occurred at midnight as they were ser will spend, the next three months leaving a dance hall. iknew children. She was sure he would hard labor in the Burlington jail |, at as a result REOPEN BEACON CHURCH. against motorists. Some time ago. Beacon, Sept. 23. On, this Sunday I /'Yes, me an' the boys went one day the young Cairo farmer was arrested, the reopening and rededication of the There was a big groundhog as long charged with malicious mischief r%er Methodist church of Beacop will take 'as from here td that fence"—the dis he had scattered tack£ along a country place. For some time past" changes tance was about twenty feet—"an' the? ™LJsS Zt* ^th® Iand of a display bf ill will1 REOPEN BEACON CMifnrM ""Oh," she answered. I WAS standing outside of the segar store with 9!d Hunt, And Mr. Webb started to come down the street with Mm. Webbs funny looking little dawg on a chain, the little daws being a little yello dawg with long ears, and WoM Blrlnnm Imlik Pfeai-1 Mr. Webb being skinny tie ,man dent for a speech in Ottumwa also. with a red mushtash and white socks, State Chairman J. W. Reynolds of, and wt.i he came to the segar store. iCreston was communicated' with by I he went in. long distance phone and later a for-1 i.G he takes the funny looking perp mal invitation to the democrat nation- out wawklng every day, I woodent do al committee was telegraphed- to MW sed Sid. Thomas Walsh chairman asking to' Maybe you wood if you was Mrs. the president's Itinerary include W.S*'. husbind, I sed. Mrs. Webb be- put my very heart and soul in it to make it go. Well, they'll be in a pretty mess when I give it all up! There's not another one who'd have worked as hard as I have, and the club will all go to pieces if this entertain ment doesn't go through. I don't care —I'd be too glad for anything.! She had overtaken a boy of seven or eight—a dirty little boy, with mud dy shoes and worsted cap. Miss Car man's anger could not efface her inter est in youngsters, and especially in a boy who scuffed his feet so attractive ly. and who could balance a curved stick so cleverly, when he was not battling it against the fences he passed. He was walking in an lelsurly way that indicated ease of mind and plenty of, time to get home before dinner. As she neared him, the stick wavered and fell back, but was quickly caught. "I thought it was going to hit me," she said, and smiled. Then an irre sistable desire, to talk to the little fel low took possession of her. The more she thought of thobe elubwomen, the better she liked this boy. He glanced at her and smiled shyly. Although her elegance dismayed him, he recognised a promise of comrade shlip. "I know what that stick makes me think of," she said half to herself as sHe passed him. This was a subtle move and worked admirably. /"What?" he asked, running a little, to. as to catch up. She exerted herself to hold the little fellow's interests. It was soothing to feel that somebody appreciated her efforts, even if it was only a little boy. "Why," she said, looking ahead and speaking gravely—she had learned that to look a new child acquaintance 'straight in the eye was to embarass him—" why it makes me think of a bow, an Indian's bow, you know, that he strings up and shoots arrows with." "It makes me think of one, too!" exclaimed the boy. She slowed a little, but lmperoeptib ly—BO as to seem to be accomodating him. "Only," she went on, giving a swift glance at the stick and its owner, "It is. sawed in a curve It isn't a real rod, bent, to that shape. I don't be lieve I could string It up and use it for killing people." "I could," he assarted. "I'm strong. Me an' the boys go in the woods sometimes an' chop down trees. One boy chops on one side, an' another on t'other. Then we carry it off an' chop it up, an' sometimes we make bows an' play Indian. Once I went to the country." "Indeed!" said Miss Carman in mild surprise, and she smiled down »q him sympathetically. The boy smiled back and showed a gap in his front teeth, with the prom ise of further incisors gleaming from his pink gum. "Yes, an' I rode the pig an' he threw me off in the pond, an' the duck* all flew up all over me, an'— an'- In his excitement he met her eyen again, and a certain restraint fell on him. She felt that she had mr.de a hiistake to. look at him then, ao she said quietly: ,"l don't believe you ever went to the U*P Clarence Thomas and John Stevens all [earnestly across the street, declared it was Dangelo who fired the ihl'm time to recover. shot Lena Hirrkle was the first, wit-1 !'Yes, I have," he declared after a ness fo"r the defense. She is the 7ause, sweetheart of the man accused and it 'rattling his stick again on an iron was over that the trouble occurred, fence. "Say, I went there once," he She said that Dangelo fired no shots called as the distance, between them but that one of the Thomas boys was widened. She didn't turn. Should 1 haye leen I E E N N S N O E O O BY LEE PAPB a ,ow G, its getting lost, I sed. pompa" dore and a high voice. Maybe I wood, sed Sid. Wich jest then the litle dawg came out of the segar store by itself pulling its chain after it, and wawked up the street. Lets run after it and bring It back, G, he must of wunted to lose it, maybe we will get a reward, sed Sid.' Sid saying, G. Evening Story HIS OPINION. By Napoleon S. Zarick. (Copyright, 1916. by the McClure) Newspaper Syndicate.) As Miss Carman walked down the avenue, she held her skirts above her dainty patent leathers, and her head, with its jaunty bat, was held higher still, the color flaming high, too, in hdr round cheekB and showing off charmingly against the background of her chinchilla collar—which in Itself was a marvel of height and enegance as well. The rustle of her skirts, and the defiant, nodding plumes empha sized tbe annoyance in her voice. "I shall resign from the clnb-rthat's all—and. what's more. I'll resign from ever^ club I belong to! A woman's club—huh! A cat's club would be a better name! Nothing on earth would induce me to stay another day In the hateful thing,'and I'll resign as soon as I can reach pen and ink to do it returning to his story. with. Every one of them is inNleague' "Well, they threw me into the creak to see the whole thing fail because I've once, but I wasn't afraid. They ain't Then she gazed long and to give here." and then he fell behind a little, zQo. He ran up to her side. She cdme gay have been there/ in prog- hid to put1 concrete ufidJr the dirst to TN 3 And we ran up after the dawg thtf? cawt it. and jest then Mr. Webb cam«f out fthe aegar store and starttd toj wawk down the street fast as enythiBf/j O, look, hes looking for it and dootl know wich way It went, I sed. I he will give us a reward, all rite. Aill, we ran after him with the dawg Ing. Hay, hay. Ony Mr. Webb startvd to wawk faster insted of stopping, a«l^ we kepp on running till we cawt up to him. Heers your dawg, Mr. Webb. s«4 Sid. Heers your dawg, I sed. And the dawg started to wag its t«!«3 at Mr. Webb, and Mr. Webb looked' at me and sld mad as enythin gaud sed. Its a wonder you woodent lern to mind your own bizniss. And took a hold of the chain and him aattii the dawk kepp on going and me and Sid kepp on standing (here, me saying.' and say, he gnawred through everything. Say, did you ever go out with a lot of boys an' have them treat you mean* all day?" "No"—Miss Carman did not smilt^ "but I've been with grown-up folkiv who did." "Well, me an' the boys had lights $11 day. They wanted to pitch me into the mud all the time." "Just, like those grown-ups," .aiid Migg Carpaan. The boy looked at her for a moment in incredulous surprise. It wa« top deep a problem. He gave it up and went on: "An' I said if they didn't itop t'd(i home an' break up the whole gan#-—" Here he gave her a look to a«« If she had been paralyzed at his flrn* ness. Her mouth was tightly set. "Well, that's just what I said." "Well, I bet you didn't do it thoughtN "I'm just going home now to do it she answered. His incredulity doopr* "They ain't a speckof mud on yey," he announced after a critical survey "Well, what did you do?" said slit, mM snakes that can bite under, watir except water snakes, an' I hadn't aei^k any of them around, so I wasn't scared. I came out and dared 'em itN to fight, an* none of them would. Th«b I thought I'd miss a lot of fun if't went'home an' left them, so I stayed1 an' helped to push another boy: ink I'm head of the gang now, an"" I wouldn't been anything if I'd gone home that day." "Thank you," said Miss Carman ew. 1 phatically. 'r The boy looked up, surprised. "Wat, ma'am?" he eaid with suddatt* politeness. "So you thought you would haVf been lonesome if you had given it up? You were pretty plucky to sjUck it out," she said. "Maybe," he assented. Then It#' dropped behind to walk a low Coptic around a lawn. Misa Carman was musing and didn't miss him. Pluck, that was what abf needed—good American pluok and grit. She was acting in a frightfully indicative of the degfriera* tion of that quality which had ma4i her ancestors take their stand for lib erty and which more recently, h|4 brought her father his millions. Shoiud she let those women know they &s4 "pushed her into the oreek?" No, no, a hundred times no—she would "daife them a,ll round" first and be head *of the gang" for her efforts! She called to the boy as she turned in* to her gate. He jumped down afiif ran to her, brandishing his curtod stick. "It would have been lonesome. wouldn't it, to leave the gang—add cowardly besides?" "You bet!" he assented. "It *mMl have been worse having the smalV pox almost." Miss Carman went into the laughing, and the boy made up 1|J» lost time by racing down the atNit and whistling the gang's rally «rf through his missing teeth.. -N REGIMENTS MEET IN KEOSAUQUA SOON Keosauqua, Sept. 23 —The is the program for the following reunion of t&4 nineteenth and thirtieth ToluntMf regiments to be held In Keoaattqoft September 27 and 28: Wedneaday. 10:00 a. m.—Music by the band., 2:00 p. m.—Call to order, MaJ. R. IK Cramer. Invocation—Rev. J. C. Behr« Song—Lot Abraham. Address of welcome—S. E. Response—Maj. R. D. Crame.t! Mpsic—Buckner glee clubk Address—R. R. McBeth. vf Music—Glee club. Address—Rev. J. C. Behrens. Music—Glee club. Address—W. A. Work 4 Evening Campflre. 7:00—Music. -i 7:30—Call to order—Maf.' R.DM( Cramer. s: Invocation—Elder H. L. Lewis. Song—Lot Abraham. Address—The American Patriot of I 1861 and 1916, Rev. C. E. Perkins. Declamation—Mra. Piper, Beatrice McCullough. Address—Colonel Palmer. Song—James A. Fowler. luu 4 Address—iH. M. Havner. '/JkscSij Music—Glee club. Declamation— Barbara James D. Granfell. Freitchie, Thursday. 9:00 a, m.—Regimental proceedings. 10:00 a. m.—Music. invocation—Rev. C. E. Perkins. businett Song—Lot Abraham. Address—Elder H. L. Lewis. Address—Captain Jacques. 1:30 p. m.—Music by the band. Call to order, Maj. R. D. Cramer.' Music—Glee club and Martial baAd/rj Thirty minutes devote^ to short dresses. -o Fareweef —radL-n rr er. ta,