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The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
THE HONE MARKET-

The Bloomfield Republican sketches
scene in which every town Demo
crat in Iowa, in business, is always
found taking part. The Republiea
says:
swell it was amusing and interest
ing to sit by and watch Democratic
mayor and Democratic town attOT-
ney trying to collect license from a
nonresident peddler. The funny part
was not the collecting of the tax nor
the manner in which the OtfiCers per-
formed their work, but to hear two of
the leading tariff for revenue only"
Democrats of our city insist upon the
gentleman's paying the tax, not for the
purpose of helping to raise the revenue
necessary to meet the running ex-
penses of the town economically ad-
ministered" but for the protection
of our home merchants" We had ex-
pected to hear these apostles of tariff
reform expound to the peddler the doc.
trines Of their party, but imagine our
surprise when they deserted all of their
former teachings and sailed in upon
the gentleman with dose of protec-
tion argument which soon convinced
him that they meant business and did
not propose for any foreigner to receive
the benefits of our markets unless he
should pay for it. The lesson which
we learned from the teachings of these
two leaders of tariff reform is that
Bloomfield is not free trade city; that
the tariff is protective tariff and that
the foreigner pays it,as these gentleman
demanded of this foreign gentlemen
that he must either skip the town or
pay into the treasury 80 for the protec-
tion of our home interests"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
The eMWon0ire
AT YOUR GRoCER9-

FROM OKLAHOMA. Last month
Comrade Geo. w. Criss started from
this county in wagons, for his new
home at Okarche, Oklahoma. and on
August 2I he writes the following
note: ave reached Okarcho the 18th
of August, having travelled 635 miles
at an average of % Il miles per day.
The cost of the trip for food for our
selves and horses is just $22. We found
in Missouri the unevenest weather,
worst roads and the most sickness. The
best crops, both corn and small grain
were on each side of the Missouri river
fifty miles each way from Kansas City,
both In Missouri and Kansas. But the
best wheat was in about wichita. 1t
went IA to 40 bushels to the acIe. The
Cherokee outlet was by far the finest
land we passed over. 1t is 20 miles
wide by wagon road. Boomers are al
ready lying along the border, expect
ing it to open up in the spring. Okla
hOma has made wonderful progress for
a country three years old. Wheat is
its best crop. We passed several fine
fruit gardens between Hennts 'ey and
Okarche. Kinghsher is a thriving
plscs. Okarche is busy little place,
two churches are being built, Baptist
and Congregational. We are all pleas
ed with Oklahoma. Would be better
pie ssed if Methodism was represented
in Okarche, which is is not
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

an ice hole for short sail, and then haul
ing them out to be dragged over fields of
broken ice. At the end of two months the
party found themselves only ten miles from
the ship. About the middle of July the
boats were launched in a waterway be-
tween fields of ice SO broad that foes could
be pushed aside with poles, and some days
four miles were made. A warm rain fell
that rapidly dissolved the ice. Then the
foes became fewer and smaller, and not
having to cross them or work around them
the boats travelled some daystwelve miles
Early in August they discovered that the
ice fields arose and fell like the heaving of
the sea, and they knew that the navigable
ocean must be close at handl The fates
had more i'll luck in store for the poor fell
lows, however, and in the midst of their
joy a strong north wind sprang up and
drove the ice foes and bergs before it,
again blocking up the way.
The barrier finally opened on Aug. II,
and they sailed ON into larger ice holes,
where the foes and bergs were smaller
and the swell of the ocean so great as to
prevent the formation of ice fields But
there was still room for disaster. 1t had
been supposed on leaving the ship that
succoring vessels would be met with be-
fore the food supply should give out
None had been seen, and the rations on
hand were good for but ten days mere
The last hope, then, was to reach the
depot planted by the Isbjorn in 1872, on
Barentz island.
On the oath of August the food ON hand
was divided equally among the crew, and
the boats pulled out from a cove ON the
barren and uninhabited shore of Nova
Zembla for one last and desperate attempt
to win to place of refuge. On suddenly
turning high, rocky point, small boat
filled with men fishing greeted the eyes OF
the despairing mariners, and in the neigh,
boring sea the forlorn souls espied two
ships at anchor. That night all hands
slept on board the Russian schooner Niko-
lai, their first berths under shelter since
leaving the Tegetthoff ninety-six days be,
fore. Still their distress was not so much
due to a sleep famine as to food famine.
They were nearly starved.
The Tegetthoff was never heard from
again. She may be drifting yet on that
monster ice raft, round and round the pole,
or having broken loose in some arctic hur-
ricane be floating on in her snow white
castings, like phantom ship cruising that
mysterious polar sea.
GEORGE L. KILMER.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Tie father of the national Demo-
cratic free trade platform is Henry
WatersOn, Of the Louisville Courier
Journal. Differing from others he
does not dodge the issue, or the ques-
tion of what is to be done, should
Cleveland be elected. Here is what he
says on the sugar question. ~Just as
soon as the Democrats get the power
they will wipe out the atrocious Re-
publican sugar bounty system and re-
store the sugar duties. Instead of pay
ing millions Of bounty out Of the treas.
ury to sugar planters, We will re-estab-
lish the revenue tariff on sugar, yield
ing annually about fifty millions to the
treasury. While restoring the sugar
duties on wool, salt, lumber, coal, iron
will have TO come or" And continu-
ing in this wild harangue he says: "We
mean to rip up, exterminate. abolish,
annihilate, snd In the foulest lgnomy
and disgrace. every vestige Of the fraud
called protection Not until 'the rob-
Der tax is thing OF the past and Re-
publican protectionism is as dead az
African slavery. will the Democrats
pause when they once get In power. !"
The labor world will be glad to get the
authoritative information on what's
to be done. They viii act. also.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Mr.. w. o. Crosby. in his last let
ter from Washington, makes very
just and foTcible arraignment of the six
Democratic congressman from Iowa.
He calls attention to W at those six
Democratic congressman promised the
people if they would elect them and tO
the fact that every pretense and prom
ise they made has been falsiaed. They
denOunce the Mckinley bill and yet nc
one of them has made an effort to re-
peal it. They made professions and
pretensions in favor of free silver, and
except Judge Hayes, who has voted
steadily against free silver, the rest
have voted on all sides Of the question
with the expressed purpose Of doing
nothing at all. They denounced the
billion dollar Republican congress and
promised all sorts Of economy and re-
forms and they have voted for more and
larger appropriations than the billion
dollar congress made. Mr.. Crosby asks,
with shrewd directness, on what
grounds these six Democratic congress
men can 60 again to the people of Iowa
and ask q reelection.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
THE Funny FELLOWS.

There are scme very funy things al
ways cropping out in a campaign
where our Democratic friends take
part, and these are some of them:
When they take up an old copper
head for place, and that somewhat
notorious fact is mentioned. they at
once open out and below that such a
charge is persecution, untrue and all
that-yet with the plain record staring
them in the face 10 the contrary. The
Democratic opinion to- day of the cop
perhead apparently is not good one,
for they deny and defend as though the
Shiny fellows were mean as thieves.
Then how quick they ae to give
their candidates soldier records of the
greatest gaIlantry. They dorPed a
military career on to Mr.. Stephenson,
and it wasn't there. Then they gave
Mr.. Altgeld, the Democratic candidate
for governor of Illinois, an actual re-
cord in an Ohio regiment, but the
records failed to show up the name
anywhere in all that glorious army or
Ohio men.
Then when they do have asoldier up
for office they picture that fellow out
as having been the key stone to the
arch of the Union army, and if he had
not been out with his gun supporting
Grant, Sherman, Meade or Sheridan
then they would have fallen down with
smash. Doubtless he did his duty,
like million others, and that was all
there was about him. Yet when the
soldier gets on to the Republican ticket
and on that side all soldiers belong
by baptism and heredity-and the fact
is mentioned that he had worn blue
and did his duty, then it is the "bloOdy
shirt business. and no Democratic
paper does him even common courtesy
as rule.
The Democratic fellows are very
funny in these days of campaigning,
and now, like the bush whackers, ap-
pear now and then in uniforms not
their own by long shot.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

course had been northeaSterly across the
northern point of Nova Zembla, then west
| and then due north. The new land was
named after the Austrian emperor and
christened ''Kaiser Franz Joseph Land"
Although the Tegetthoff was forever
| docked in icy ways and the polar ocean
must remain unexplored, the fields of ad-
venture were opened by this discovery
Lieut.. Payer, who was the sledge captain
of the party, engaged in preliminary scouts
before the long night of 1884 drew on,
and with the first return of light in March
| 1874, began a series of journeys in the
frozen archipelago. He found land about
the size Of Spitzbergen, almost devoid of
vegetation and absolutely free from human
| inhabitants and of the signs that it had
| ever been visited by such. The surface is
mountainous, and between the mountains
vast glaciers roll down from the sides at
the rate of Two inches daily. The glaciers
| are so plastic that on separating to pass 6
| rock they unite beyond it without forming
| 3 crevasse. The only form of life met with
was the polar bear. The first one sighted
ran away carrying a bullet, but skillfully
| concealing his trail by stanching the flow
| Of blood. He was met with once or twice
bushed in q pass between two steep icy
| cliffs. The explorers barricaded the pass
with their sledges and packs and baited
his bearship with bread and meat SO that
he came within pistol shot.
Lieut.. Payer made a second sledge Jour-
| ney in April and another in May, travers-
ing the land for 450 miles. Even in the lat
ter month the cold was so intense in the
mountain region that rum became as thick
as molasses and as weak as milk.
The return of spring brought no hope
to the navigators of the fettered ship, and
| they abandoned her Oh May 20 and began
| to retreat to Nova Zembla. The outfit for
| the journey over ice and icebound tides
| consisted of four boats mounted ON sledges,
with baggage sledge attached to each.
The sledges carried a weight of 1900
pounds, of which 500 pounds was provision
for men and dogs.
The first days progress was only one
| mile, and on some days only half a mile
was made. The pathway was over ice
hummocks covered with crusted snow,
| into which men and sledges sank to the
depth of foot or more. After a roadway
had been broken the dog sledges could trot
back to the ship in couple of hours, and
in this way rations of food and spirits for
daily use were drawn from the abandoned
stores. Occasionally the travellers found
an ice hole and launched the boats, but in
the end they would find the channel
blocked by walls of ice rising at times
fifty feet from the water. At times also
the boats would be blOckaded in the water
and forced to lie still day or two.
Toward the end of June the weather was
so warm that snow quickly melted in YES
sells exposed to the sun. In days of idle
ness the pastime was reading old news
papers, smoking and talking Smoking
was luxury that at times had been i'm
possible in the far north, for at the 90th
parallel in winter cigar freezes between
the lips. The effort needed in travelling
was indescribabIe, now clambering over
deep assures, now launching the boats in
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

IS acres OF fine land 2K milee --or
OskRloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gen Iy yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Ii 4r and Bowels, cleanses the sys,
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head,
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C,
ccptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Fl gs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY VIEW YORK n.y.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

The intermediate pension act pass
ed by the present congress and signed
by President Harrison on July IA, is In
full text as follows:
THAT soldiers and sailors who are
shown to be totally incapacitated for
performing manual labor by reason of
injuries received or disease contracted
in the service of the United States and
in line of duty, and who are thereby
disabled to such a degree as to require
frequent and periodical, though not re-
gular and constant, personal aid and
attendance of another person, shall be
entitled to receive a pension of fifty
dollars per month from and after the
date of the certificate of the examin-
ing surgeons showing such degree Of
disability, and made subsequent to the
passage of the act"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Major Lacey spoke at Abba Satur-
day evening and the Union says that
he had "a court house full of people
Many farmers were present, some of
whom came distance of ten miles to
hear their favorite candidate for con.
gress. The Major spoke two hours and
covered all the issues involved in the
pending campaign" 1t was cOnVen-
tion day and the Republicans gave
Major Lacey a very fattering recep-
tion. The ticket nominated Is an ex-
ceptionally strong one. as follows:
CLERK, Henry McCahan; Auditor,
Frank Hickenlooper; Recorder, Ed. l..
Ramsay; Attorney, N. E. Kendall; for
member Board of Supervisors, Geo. L..
Robb.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

"A beautifully illustrated and
charmingly bound edition Of Longfell-
ow's "E7angeline," the most popular
long poem ever published by an Amer
lean author, and one of the most fam
GUS poems in the language, just pub
lished, is a pretty surprise for book
lovers. 1t is in large type, numerous
and excellent illustrations, very hne
and heavy paper, gilt edges. remark
ably handsome cloth binding, with
gilt title and ornaments. No illustra-
ted edition has ever before been pub
lished at less cost than 81 so, and that
is about what you might guess" the
price of this TO ne, but it isn't-it sells
for only 10 cents plus 6 cents for post
age, if by mail. This covers only
about the actual cost Of manufacture by
the 100000, the publishers object being
not profit, but to show the bOOk-lovlng
millions what we can do. His publ
cations are not sold by dealers. but on
ly direct; catalogue, over 100 pages, a
literary curiosity in its way, is sent for
2-cent stamp. Every home in the
land ought to have a copy OF this
Evan geline, so charmingly beautiful,
as q poem, as a collection OF artistic
illustrations. and as a product OF the
the book-making art. Address, JOHN
B. ALDEN, Publisher, 81 Rose st, New
York.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
RULINGS OF THE COURTS.

In Logan county, KY, no court has
been held for twenty-five years.
A MISSISSIPPI man who brought suit
against railroad company for the
value of the ticket which he bought
but could not use won his case.
A MAN in Dakota was lately sem
fenced to prison for half lifetime, and
the supreme court has decided that the
time means nineteen years, seven
months and four days.
THE treasury department has decided
that a resident of Canada who spends
his summers in the United States must
pay duty on horses that he brings over
for use while he is here.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

WoMAN's REPUBLICAN CLUB. The
colored women of Muchakinock have
organized the John F. Lacey club, with
fifty members, and are now uniformed
and ready to do splendid work for the
cause of Republicanism and good gov
eminent. This is the first woman'a
club in the county and will be found
one of the most enthuiastic and cap
able. They hold regular meetings on
Monday evening of each week, at
which papers are read and general dis
cussion INDUCED relative to pertinent
questions of politics and government
Mrs. Anna Barnett is president and
MRS. Lizzie Woodfork secretary. Here's
to the John F. Lacey club of good Re-
publican women!
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
Republican Campaign Principles.

The Republican national platform
was quite lengthy and it is little Diff
6cult sometimes to pick out Of cam.
paign plapks just what they really de-
clare for. This is what the platform
stands for when boiled down to the
briefest explicit statement of ii:
We believe in the American doctrine
of protection.
We believe that articles. except lux.
nries, which cannot be produced in the
United States, should be admitted free
Of duty.
We demand that on all imports com.
peting with the products of American
| labor, duties should be levied equal tO
the difference between wages at home
and abroad.
We ask the people to pronounce q
verdict upon the cowardly course OF
the democrats in attacking the tariff
piecemeal.
We believe in reciprocity. which has
| opened new markets for The prod ucts
of the workshop and the farm.
We believe in the use Of Doth gold
and silver money.
We demand that every dolIA:. " beth.
er OF gold, silver or paper .shaI hs equal
to every other dollar.
We believe in an international con-
ference to secure a parity OF gold and
silver throughout the world.
We demand that every citizeD, rich
or poor, native or foreign bOrD, wbita
or black, shall be permitted To cast one
ballot and have it counted "a he Cast it.
We propose to keep on tiVhting till
we have honest elections in every state.
We favor the revival of our foreign
commerce In American ships.
We demand navy to protect our
interests and maintain the honor Of
our flag.
We demand that arbitrary ccmbina-
tiOns of capital to control trade condi-
tiOns shall be rigidly regulated.
We believe in the wise and consist
ent civil service reform.
We believe in admitting all the ter
ritOries to the union as soon as they are
qualified for entrance.
We re-affirm the Monroe d ctrine.
We demand the restriction of Grim
ina, pauper and contract immigration.
We demand that the employees of
railroads, mines and factories. shall be
protected against all needless dangers.
We sympathize with the oppressed
in every land.
We demand freedom of spsech and
of the press.
We believe in popular education.
We favor the construction and con-
troll of the Nicaragua Canal by Am meri.
cans.
We sympathize with all legitimate
efforts to promote temperance and
morality.
We pledge to the loyal veterans of
the war of the union the recognition
that is theirs by right.
We are proud of President HarrisOn's
magnificent administration.
And we propose to give the country
another administration Just as good for
the next four years.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

The utter failure of the Buffalo
strike has sent several hundred men
out of permanent jobs-aud not one
person has been benefited by 1t. The
New York National Guard showed it's
efficiency by promptly needing the call
of the governor and giving protection
alike to property and person.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Henry Watterson says to"tell those
protection Democrats'-if you car
find them-that their room is better
than their company. They are not
Democrats at all. They are Republic,
ans, and, IT they be honest men. they
will vote for Harrison. We don't want
them"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

Judge Holman, the great objector
said: II admit that the results OF the
present session of Congress will not
fully meet the expectations of the Dem
Ocratic party" There will be no fill
clustering on the adoption of this as a
resolution, by the entire Democracy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

The lamentable death of young
Mr.. st. John, at Des Moines, by tie
accidental discharge of rife, on Tues
day will be deeply regretted by all. He
was member of "a" company, Third
regiment, and most worthy and high.
ly esteemed young man.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
WILL NOT RETALIATE.

The EhectIof President HarrEson's Proela-
nation on Canal Tolls Discussed by the
Canadian Cabinet.
OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 26-It has been
decided that the government viii re-
imburse the Canadian shippers for this
season for any loss they may sustain
through the imposition of tolls on
freight going to a Canadian port
through the st. Mary's canal. A
meeting of the cabinet was held
to discuss the outlook and the probable
effect of President Harrison's procla-
nation on Canadian lake shipping. A
member of the cabinet said that no at.
tempt at retaliation viii be made in
the direction of imposing discrimina-
tory tolls on American vessels passins
through the Welland canal
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
Doctor Uses cuticura

We have opened a drug store at this place and
are having splendid sale on CUTIcURA REMEDIES,
without your CUTICURA REsOLvENT, CUTICURA, !,
and CUTICURA SOAP for $500, just for the benefit it
did my little boy. When he was six months old
his face was covered with eczema, and CUTICURA
REMEDIES cured it. He is now three years old.
We still use the CUTICURA SOAP, and wash him
occasionally with it, TO prevent his skin from getting
rough. We have handled your medicines for five
years and never heard complaint against them, but
abundant praise. We sold our drug store in Kansas,
and will continue in the drug business here.
c. TEAGAR, N. D.,
Haler City, Snohomist Co., Warrington.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
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THE SHIP IN ICY ARNoR.

and when blasting was resorted to to free
them the saws were broken by the shock.
So much ice had been removed from about
the hull that the vessel was in danger of
going over. Finally sounding in the ice
showed it To be twenty seven feet thick at
least and solid below that. The summer
sun brought no relief, for the luckless ship
was driftiEy farther and farther north. A
heavy miS surrounded the vessel and OBJ
scared the outer world almost as COM
pletely as the winter darkness had done.
At length, on Aug. 80, 1873, the veil was
lifted and high rocky coast was sighted
northward i'll latitude 79 degs. 43min. longi-
tude SO degs. 33 min east from Greenwich.
After becoming fast in the ice drift the
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01

lIMPLES, black heads, red, rough, chapped, al
I'M oilY akin cured by CuTICuRA SOAP.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
The National Guard of New

The National Guard of New York
Pennsylvania and Tennessee are now
being tested as to their efficiciency as
peace preserVers. The Tennessee
Guard as a whole is poorly organized,
and hardly up to the work that is ap-
parently required of it. It's not kill
ing that is wanted. but a cool headed
use of power that will preserve peace
and bring order out of anarchy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-09-01
IS, c retarY of State McFarl

-S, cretary of State Mcfarland, the
Republican nominee for that office, has
challenged Wr. McCOnOlogue, the Dem
ocratic nominee, to joint debate, one
in each Congressional district, and we
hope that the matter can be arranged.
Mr.. Oummins, the Republican csndi-
date for electOr at large, has called out
MIR. Wilmer, the Democratic can
didate, to the same boust. This is all
right-our plan is to get them all at it.