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The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
THE LEGISLATURE.
Doings of the State Solons in Sesa
sion at Des Moines.

Des Moines, Jan 81. w. G. Jones
was yesterday made chairman of the
important house committee on cleo
tions, to which was referred the ques-
tion whether Scott or Lindsay was en-
titled to a seat in the house. The COM
mittee decided in favor of Scott, the
republican. Lindsay claimed that he
represented Monona county, but ac-
cording to the last apportionment
Monona was added to Ida in the 57th
district, and besides the code provides
for only 100 members of the house,
hence one of them had to be rejected.
The house has passed Santee's bill
authorizing boards of supervisors in
counties of more than 80, 900 popula-
ton to pay recorders more than 81 800
salary.
A resolution favoring the election
of United States senator's by the peo-
pie was made special order for Fri
day morning in the house
The house committee on banks and
banking has killed the Kendall bill.
This bill was to reduce the legal rate
of interest from to per cent. and
| the contract rate from, s tot.
The senate committee on schools
and text books will hear the friends
of the compulsory education bin on
Wednesday afternoon, February z.
The result of poll of the house by
Stallcop, of Sac county, makes the
future look very black for the normal
schools bill. Mr.. Stallcop has been
quietly looking the matter up for days,
and he declares positively the three
normal schools bill is beaten in the
house..
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Honor able Thomas B. Reed, in
writing to the Saturday Evening Post
of the modern trust, does not seem
to regard it either as an octopus"
or a bugaboo. "My notion" says
he, ''is that while Providence and
the higher laws which really govern
the universe are, in mems talk much
inferior to the Revised Statutes be-
fore they are enacted, they are al
ways found to be quite superior to
them after they are enacted. In fact
nature abhors monopoly as much
as it does a vacuum"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
THE CHRISTIAN. CALENDAR,

L. M. Gibbs hands us the following
clipping from the christian Work"
which will be new to most of our
readers:
There are some curious facts
about our calendar. 1t is said that
no century can begin on Wednesday,
Friday or Sunday. The same cal.
endars can be used every twenty
years. September always begins on
the same day of the week as Decem-
ber. The months of February, March
and November always begin on the
same days. May, June and August
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Prohibition Meeting

The prohibition club will meet at
the court house in the Supervisors
room, Saturday, Feb. at 2:3O p. M.
The meeting will be opened by sing
ing, followed by reading of scripture
and prayer.
Singing.
Reading of minutes.
Recitation by Charlie Southwick.
entitled "The Mystery"
Duet by Lena Ballinger and Eva
Prime.
Treasurer's report.
Election of officers.
Three minute speeches.
All members of the club are earn
estly requested to be present to elect.
officers for the ensuing term.
Collection.
Adjournment.
MRS. VIM. HILLIARD,
Chairman Program Com.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

-Des Moines Leader. REV. Nacey
Magee Waters, who at one time
honored Oskaloosa with his presence,
announced 10 Binghampton, N. Y,
audience the other night that new
prophet is at hand who will revolu-
tionize the wage system. The Rev.
Nacey Magee added that the new
prophet would greatly resemble
Abraham Lincoln, thus removing any
lingering suspicion that he might
have been looking into a mirror"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Of JUSTICE

AN APPLICATION OF FJUSTICE"
Under the above caption, the edi-
tor of the p E. o. Record comments
on talk by one of the members OF
the order at the supreme conven
ton. The comments are on mat
ter that will appeal to every printer
who has had work to do for traternal
societies for its pertinence and ap-
peal for Justice. We quote:
"If the individual woman often
pushes the price below the profit
level, always sending the burden
down on the heads of the poor al
last, much more do societies do
this. Not P. E. O.'s more than
others, but they do-sometimes. We
are always buying something, fDr our
decorations, or our banquets and
spreads, our charitable enterprises
our yearly books and other printing
and the many things needed to car
ry on our enterprises; then, too, We
are employers more directly of labor
very ofren and we do sometimes use
the indefensible argument, %, you
will surely let the society have that
little cheaper, won't you" An in
defensible argument, because there
is no ground for it. Why should a
thing be sold to or done cheaper for
twenty people than for one? Is it
not rather in strict justice the part of
the twenty be a little more gener-
GUS than the one, instead, seeing the
burden is very little of each? 1t is
hard for to one to yield, little by lit
tie, all but the bare cost to himself,
leaving no profit at all. He does it
because the future patronage, he
fears, of twenty people may depend
on his complaisance. This is un-
worthy or society, the employment
of base compulsion.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Concerning Buller's defeat t

Concerning Buller's defeat the
London Times says: "The retreat
across the Tugela must be taken to
show that no further attempt is in
immediate contemplation, and as
time is an important factor in the
case it can hardly be necessary to
dwell upon the extreme probability
that we shall learn sooner or later of
the catastrophe almost without
precedent in our military history
indeed, without a parallel except
the surrender at Yorktown"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The senate committee on judici-
ary has declared in favor of the bill
by Senator Blanchard, to change the
law governing election contests. The
bill provides that election contest
cases, when appealed to the district
court, shall be tried to the court
rather than to jury. AS the ques-
tions involved are always questions
of law the Judge should be better
able to pass on them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
IITEB4PY LEAVES

The publishers of McC!ure's Maga
zine say that nothing else they hav'
ever brought OUT has attracted such
wide attention and such hearty com.
mendation rs tine Life of the Mas
ter" by DR. John Watson ('Ian Mac
laren'O, A second installation ap
pears in the February number with
five illustrations in color and many
ia black and white, all from special
paintings and drawings by @. K. Lin
son.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

"A lot of swindlers are trying to
catch the unwary by flooding the
country with the announcement that
900 employees will soon be needed
by the census bureau, and that any
one sending a certain sum of money
can secure a position without having
to undergo examination. The state
ment that such advertisements are
fraudulent is authorized by Census
Director Merriman.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

date contained the following bit of
quaint early history. 1t says: ct.
w. Milburn, of Stansbury, Mo-, cali
ed at the Courier Office to-day. Mr..
Milburn was one of the earliest press
men employed in this office. This
was just after the close of the war.
and in the days when the principal
papers of the west were printed on
the old Washington hand presses.
He was then young man about 19
year old, but very large for one of his
age, and as this was a quality, ,Sneces-
sary to make good Washington
pressman, he was quite naturally as
signed to that portion of the work.
In fact that was the part that suited
Mr.. Milburn better than any other,
and he was envied by all visiting
pressmen at the Courier office in those
days. The Courier was then folio
sheet. One side was printed in the
and the other two pages in
the afternoon. Mr.. Milburn said he
worked in the Courier Office little
over three years, finally being COM
PEELED, on account of i'll health, to
abandon the trade. He one time
visited Oskaloosa and worked a half
day operating a Washington hand
press in THE HERALD Office in that
city. 1t was much larger than the
one then in use in The Courier office,
and as he was not accustomed to the
change, the extra efforts necessary
to operate the press resulted in
brief illness.'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
-Bishop Fowler. of the Metho.

Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist
Church, in Chicago interview last
week, said: "The three great mis-.
sionary movements of the Christian
era are: First, the conversion of st.
Paul, which opened the way to the
Gentiles; second, the firing on Fort
Sumter, which made the great Anglo
Saxon race fit to use; and third, the
blowing up of the Maine, which sent
us out into the world to distribute
the truth -
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

"A parent, patron and taxpayer
to-day calls attention to the unsani-
tary condition of our school buildings
particularly the one in the Fourth
ward. We trust every reader of THE
HERALD will carefully peruse the
same land also investigate the charges
set out, feeling that no parent can
rest easy after seeing and knowing
the conditions that exist.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
KILLED BY THE CARS.
L. L. Sherron, of Abba, Run
Down in the Central Yards.

L. L. Sherron, or Abba, was run
south part of the Iowa Central yards
Tuesday evening about O'Clock, and
he died of the enjuries received about
an hour later.
The accident occurred at the foot
of Fourth avenue near the puzzle
switch" The man was walking south
at the side of the track and the switch
engine, under Engineer Thos. Max
well and Fireman Williams, was back
ing. The man was seen walking at
the side of the track and there was
ample room for him to have passed
the engine. The tender had passed
the man and then the engine struck
him and he was knocked down. 1t
seems as though the man staggered
or fell into the engine and some part
of the machinery struck him fairly
between the eyes, crushing the bones
of the face into pulp. There was
also terrible scalp wound that ex-
tended from Immediately over the
nose to the back of the head. The
skull was also fractured and crushed
in. The left arm was broken at the
elbow and it is possible that this was
done by the wheels but the body did
not go under the engine.
The engine was stopped as soon as
the man was struck and he was pick
ed up and carried into the home of
Chas. Giles, No. Gil Fourth avenue
west. He lived about three quarters
of an hour and regained conscious
ness. When he was being taken from
the ira k he spo<e with Engineer
Maxwell and stated that he was from
Abba, and that it did not matter for
he had money to pay his way. He
told his name to Mrs. Giles, but stated
that he had no family.
Medical aid was called for but the
man was beyond that and soon died.
Coroner Cheesman was soon at the
place and the body was removed to
the McCurdy undertaking place
where attention was given it. The
clothing was searched and there were
found letters that gave the name Of
l.. l.. Sherrod, from Abba, There
was a Drovers' Journal of the date
of Monday, Jan. 80, that had been
sent to Ebert & Fall, of Abba. There
were also some circulars of religious
papers. Word was sent to Abba In
quiring for man named Sherrod,
and relatives were soon found. They
! came to the city this morning on the
Central passenger No. 1. The de-
ceased was stock buyer of Abba
and worked with the firm of Fall &
Wright purchasing agent. He has
two daughters who are living with
relatives in Creston. The wife is
living, but has been separated from
the deceased for a number Of years,
He was living with his mother Mrs.
M. j. Sherrod an old lady 90 years Of
age. He also mas sister in Abba,
| Mrs. M. n. Moon. j s. Moon and
Thos. @. Teas came TO the city and
took the remains to Abba this morn
ing on the Centerville train.
Mr.. Sherrod came to the city of
Oskaloosa yesterday with car load
of stock tnat had been consigned to
w. B. Shields, of this city. He was
man of so years of age and fairly
well dressed. The family are very
prominent in Abba. Mr.. Moon being
one of he leading merchants of the
place.
The funeral and interment will be
from Abba.
The coroner will hold an inquest
some time this afternoon. Leander
Eddy, M Bacon and T. F. Gilchrist
were sw Drn in as jurors for the in
quiry.
4 Il 4
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Since voting to try municipal
ownership of the water works about
a month ago, Cedar Rapids has al
ready spent about $4,000 in defend
ing injunctions and in an unsuccess-
full attempt to float the necessary
bonds. The Republican rightly re-
marks this money could have been
more profitably spent in trying to
build up the industries of the city.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Cold Weather,

Four cold waves in three days is
the record of the last week in Jan
Iary. The mercury last night re-
corded twelve to fifteen degrees be-
low zero, and it was as cold as any
nj ght OF the season.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

always begin on different days from
each other and from every other
month in the year. The first and last
days of the year are always the same.
These rules do not apply to leap
year, when comparison is made be-
tween days before and after Febru-
ary 29.,'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The Dubuque Water company has
agreed to accept the city's PROPOSE
ton to buy the plant at S545, 900. This
valuation is compromise between
the company and the committee re-
presenting the city.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
The Advertiser asserts

The Advertiser asserts that
"Creston spends $40, 900 per month"
on Colorado mines, and it expresses
the fear that serious loss will result
to that city if the wild speculation
continues. 1t is probable that Iowa
people have invested more than s400
for every 81 they have gained in gold
and silver mining. ...-.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The Waterloo Canning Company,
with paid up capital of $4,000, has
been organized. All details of the
organization are completed and the
company is ready to proceed with
building operations just as soon as
the weather will permit
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Government without the con-
sent of the governed" seems to be
rife in st. Louis. The Globe. Demo-
crat says: "First rob the citizen of
his money and then take away his
vote is the democratic regimen for
St T,ouia -
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Along with the ice men the hold
ers of eggs in cold storage are pray
ing for cold weather. 1t is estimated
that the warm days of January, and
the resumption of work by the faith
full hen has already cost the egg
packers of Chicago $3.50 900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The Marshalltown Times-Repub-
lican has adopted the Chicago Uni
-ersity's phonetic system of spelling,
and the Clinton Herald suggests that
if it will shorten it's name one-half it
will be practical in it's reform.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Among the l $50 Cubans who took
the census of the island were many
women and they received the regular
remuneration of s5 day. They ad-
mire Uncle Sam and, as has been re-
marked of their sex on former occa-
sions, are for annexation to a man.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

An auction of provisions in the
beseiged city of Ladysmith was held
on Christmas day and potatoes sold
for 20 cents apiece, eggs 10 cents,
cigarettes cents and whiskey 81 per
pint. Even at these prices the sup
ply did not meet the demand.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

paper telegraphed the editor that he
had new letter from Horace Boies
on the money question the e9itor
telegraphed back to the correspond
ent the one word Rats" o, what
a fail is there, my countrymen!
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Matters seem to even themselves
up pretty we'll after all. Just after
the saloons closed Tuesday, and a lot
of bar tenders were thrown out of a
job, the Bowery chop house flashed
big sign with the inscription "Dish-
washer WantedN -
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
The Des Moines Register saws

The Des Moines Register says it
is probable that the Iowa Republican
State convention to select delegates
to the National Republican conven-
tion will be called to meet in Des
Moines on March or IA. The con-
vention of 1896 was held on March
IL. 1t is desirable to have the con-
vention held while the Legislature is
in aaaai0u
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Prof. Angelo Heilprin, whose recen'
volume on" "Alaska andthe Klondike'
was so highly complimented for it
scientific value as well a1 for it's reao
ableness, contributes the first of tw
articles, giving the results of a seconc
visit TO this interesting and wonder
fully rich country to, the Februar
number of Appletons' Popular Sc
ence Monthly. A number of beautiful
illustrations accompany the text.
~
The February number of Every
body's Magazine is filed with tha,
enjoyable combination of amusing
and profitable reading for which the
publication is already well known.
The "Simple Explanation" for the
month is on the subject of trolley,
cars, and the writer explains in a re-
markably clear and graphic manner
just how electricity is generated, and
how it runs the car. No one can read
the article without interest and profit.
~
Scribner's Magazine for February
has for it's frontispiece a portrait of
Donald G, Mitchell, recently drawn
from life by A. l, Keller. This is
printed in tints, and is striking like
ness of the venerable author Of Rev
cries of Bachelor" 1t is accom-
panied with an article on "The Mas
ter of Edgewood," by Arthur Reed
Kimball.
~
The last of the "body" articles In
the February Century is the one that
will doubtless attract the most atten-
tion. This is the first instalment of
hitherto unpublished extracts from
the private diary of DR.. B. E. O'Meara,
Napolean Bonaparte's physician at
st. Helena. The original manuscript
of this journal, in eighteen little vol
umes, has come into the possession
of The Century Co., and is found to
afford surprisingly large amount OF
new material in the way of conversa-
tions with the exiled Emperor.
-
An older institution" than st.
Nicholas itself is pictured in the front.
ispiece of the February number of the
only American magazine for young
folks-to-wit,t the Sphinx; and pictur,
esque facts about that prehistoric
Egyptian creature-facts with which
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

There were a number of dry
towns in Iowa Tuesday, Des Moines,
however, being the worst. In addi
tion to all the saloons there closing,
the public pump at the court house
froZe M.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Complaint is made by Gen. War
rem of the character of the maps
furnished by the War department..
He certainly, through some cause,
picked out very poor road to Lady
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The postmaster at East Dubuque
received letter from an unknown
person, containing ten cents, which
the writer stated was to pay for a
water melon stolen from the post
master in 1919.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

If the State of Iowa wants any
printing done it can afford to pay for
it at living prices. 1t disgraces itself
when it asks anybody to work for it
for nothing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

There is likely to be sharp de-
cline in the demand for perfumes at
Washington, Iowa. Nine bales of
skunk hides were shipped from there
last week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Are You One?

The HERALD would like to have
tne names OF every subscriber who
mas TAKEN the paper since 1t was as-
eaonsned In 1850. II you are one.
please report. ~
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

But what is the use of trying to
get beet sugar factory, as long as
we have the injunction promoter
with us?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Keokuk Gate City: 1t pains one
to read that when the regular Iowa
orrespondent of Chicago news
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Mahaska County Fair, September
4, 5, 6 and z.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Andrew Carnegie says "of every
thousand dollars given to charity
$3.50 might as well be thrown into the
600 -
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The British just now seem to be
in more need of sympathy than the
Beers
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Arnold, with Illustrations by Harry
Fem and Malcolm Fraser.
#*#
The leading article in Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly for Febru-
airy is entitled "South Sea Bubbles in
Science, and sounds much-needed
warning against the credulity of the
general public toward anything label
ed science, and their readiness to put
money into enterprises depending on
processes about which they know
nothing. 1t is written by Prof, Trow-
bridge, of Harvard university.
x*x
Mr.. Hamilton W. Mabie's ''William
Shakespeare" which is appearing in
serial form in the Magazine Numbers
of The Outlook, is sure to receive a
wide reading, because it treats of the
vital phases of Shakespeare's life and
environment simply and with sure
literary touch. The second part is
printed in the February Magazine
Number of The Outlook. 1t deals with
Shakespeare's boyhood, education
and surroundings at Stratford, and is
illustrated with many pictures, some
quaint in their antiquity, some beau
tiful in their presentation of the STRAIT
ford of to- day. .'#
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Ainslee's Magazine for February is
notable for an extraordinarily varied
table of contents. Perhaps the most
valuable contribution is the character
sketch of Cecil Rhodes, by Allen San
gree. Harry Tnurston Peck, in an
article on "This Decades immortal
Books, "contends that this is the most
sterile decade of the century holding
that only two writer's of the period
will live. "Ee
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Eight thousand manuscripts were
received by The Ladies' Home Jour
nal during the year just closed. Each
was given a careful reading, but out
Of the entire number only eighty were
found worthy of publication. The
Manuscript Bureau of The Ladies'
Home Journal is operated at large
expense, but the hope of discovering
new writer's or some aspirants with
undeveloped talent warrants the out
lay. 1t can be seen that the articles
secured by such careful winnowing
process brings the cost of each up to
and above the remuneration paid our
oest writer's.
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Two soldiers careers are sketched
10 the February number OF the Review
Of Reviews; the long army service of
he late General Lawton is reviewed
ny his old commander, General o. 0.
toward, and the life story of Field
Marshal Lord Roberts, commander
ln-chief of the British forces in South
africa, is told i'll an unsigned article.
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The February Success is just issued
n its enlarged and greatly improved
;orm. It's leading article is entitled
A Workman's Marvellous Rise, !" the
workman referred to being Charles
l. Schwab president of the Carnegie
company, who, at thirty seven years
- age, is in charge of As, 900 men, ,and
las salary of about Sl00, 900 per an
.um. He commenced as a common
,orkman in the Carnegie shops, land,
Entirely through his own efforts, rec
gnized, as they were, by broad
linded and appreciative employer,
- has reached his present position of
.u-t and responsibility.
Child-Garden reaches our desk
very month. with it's bright, inter
sting and instructive little stories,
songs and poetry. 1t is truly mag
zine for the little ones, and one they
ever tire of reading or having read
them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
Hoffman, Brothers
Editors and Proprietors.
official County Paper.

Subscription, Two Dollars per Year,
Payable in Advance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01
THE HERALD

Published Weekly on Thursdays at
Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Two soldiers careers are sketched
in the February number OF the Review
Of Reviews; the long army service of
he late General Lawton is reviewed
oy his old commander, General o. o.
Toward, and the life story of Field
Marshal Lord Roberts, commander
In-chief of the British forces in South
africa, is told i'll an unsigned article,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

Child-Garden reaches our desk
very month. with it's bright, inter
sting and instructive little stories,
songs and poetry. 1t is truly mag
zine for the little ones, and one they
ever tire of reading or having read
them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

all children should be, but all are not,
familiar-are set forth by Emma j.
Arnold, with Illustrations by Harry
Fem and Malcolm Fraser.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-01

The ottumwa Courier of a rece ii