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The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05

ingenious, meritorious, useful. There
may be something funny about the
idea ofapplying such a device to a hen,
but it doubtless serves its purpose in
a very efficient manner. The device
is shown by Fig. /, reproduced from
the inventors original drawing.
In order to prevent poultry from
scratching up flower beds and garden
seed a piece of wire is bent upon itself
centrally to form loop to pass around
the leg Of the hen, and the two ends
extend out backward to trail on the
ground. When the hen raises her
right foot to scratch, the ends of the
wire strike the ground and push her
forward. If she insists in scratching,
the fetter will push her out of the
yard, and she will then have to make
her way back by trailing the fetter.
1t may be funny, but it works.
To prevent hens from sitting is a
subject which the inventor has given
some attention. Bill Nye once said
that the man who could cure a hen of
her burning passion to sit deserved
a monument. He also said that he
once set hen on white door-knob
and raised a country villa.
Quite an ingenious device, and one
which appears to be practicable, is
shown by Fig. 8. This invention con-
sists of a hoodwink, or blindfold, to
be applied to the hen to prevent her
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05

the lower part of the skirt, are of cloth
braided with silk to match. The tunic
is turned up on each side in front, and
also at the bottom, where it is fixed by
a Louis XIV. bow of black velvet. The
touue is Of pastel blue tulle spangled,
and is turned up in front with a
branch Of orchids.
Another is a spring costume for a
girl. 1t is made in soft pale graz
cloth. These cloths, as made to-G9v.
have no resemblance TO those &c 4de
previously. They are more liko satin
than cloth in suppleness, lightness and
brilliancy. This Is the class Of mate
rial that should be selected for the
spring. The costume in question is
composed of a short double breasted
bolero, fastened by two rows of pearl
buttons. The shawl collar is made of
liberty satin in fat plaits. Over the
upright collar, which is made of the
same satin, is a front Of white gath
cred lace. The waistband is Of gray
liberty satin, and is finished off with
scarf ends, tied in knot on the left
side of the skirt. The latter Is made
with fat plaits, stitched, which open
slightly just above the bottom. The
hat is of gray straw, turned up in
front, with a trift of black feathers and
a wreath of roses running round be-
meath the brim and resting on the
hair.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
OUR FASHION LETTER
INSPIRATION FROM THE PERIOD
WHEN LOUIS XVI WAS KING.

Necks Not SO High skirts Increased In
size-shining Embroideries Description
of some Beautiful Dresses COquettish
Boleros.
Every season there are radical
changes in certain parts Of the toilet.
1t is these changes that give the mote
nouvelle:" and one has only to OBJ
serve them to keep up to date with
Lady Fashion. To what graceful or
strange laws is the capricious goddess
about to subject US Has she decided
to shorten our sleeves, or diminish
their fulness, to increase or diminish
the length of our skirts? These and
similar questions are of thrilling in
terest and urgency, to which shall
attempt to reply, penetrating the mys-
teries in which the masters OF our
aesthetic destinies are still enyeloped.
They have, it is certain, derived
marvellous inspirations from the per
iod when Louis XVI. was King, when
fashion reached the apogee OF grace,
airy, clouded, adorable. We may await
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
List of Letters.

Rem dining unealled for in the post
Office at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Iowa, for
the week ending June 80.
GENTLEMEN's LIST.
Brown, joel Bushnell, A M
Dougherty, Pat DUNCAN, M
Hirsh, Sol J Monteith, J A
Nidiver, Frank Reed, Arthur
Whitaker, Ernest Watson, @ d
Williams, O.
LADIES' LIsY.
Allen, Florence MrsWhite, Lena
Grattice, Mary Mrs.
Parties calling for letters from this
list will please call attention to ad-
vertised list of this date. The above
letters will be held two weeks from
date and then sent to the dead letter
Office.
CHAs. V. HOFFMAN,, P. M.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Naughty BOYS.

A number of boys who are old
enough to know better have been an
noying Mrs. Herbig, corner of B
street and Third avenue. Monday
evening they entered her yard and
going to June apple tree proceeded
to rob the tree of its fruit. Endur-
ance ceased to be virture with Mrs.
Herbig and the police came to her
relief, and the young men in question
were before the mayor this afternoon
to answer for their conduct.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05

veloped by company which has form
ed plans for overhauling thousands of
tons Of submerged ore-bearing sand
during the coming season. Their prin-
cipal machine is an immense dredge or
scoop which is to be operated from
the shore. 1t will be anchored firmly
on shore near to the waters edge.
From this anchor an endless cable will
run out to heavy steel bar which win
be held in place by three big ships
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05

from flying upward to a nest. The
blindfold is made of soft leather, and
is so constructed and applied that the
hen is permitted to look downward
in order to feed, but cannot look up
ward. The inventor says in his spec
ifcation: when a hen is provided
with one of these improved hoods she
can see neither to the right nor to the
left nor upward, and she is thus pre-
vented from flying to any elevated
position. All nests in the modern
construction of heneries are located at
an elevation from the ground, and as
a fowl will not fly in a direction in
which it cannot at first look, the hen
will be prevented from flying up into
the nest. This device will also pre-
vent fowls from flying over fences and
into gardens and the like.-E. P. Bum
yea.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Lane NOT a Candidate

Davenport, July 3-Congressman
j. R. Lanes letter of refusal to be a
candidate again for congress from
the second district caused consider
able sensation here. To corres-
pendent Mr.. Lane said:
81 was compelled to choose be.
tween my business and the Office Of
congress. My business is permanenti
congress is not. favor no particular
candidite for the place."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
TOWNSHIP TICKET.
Republicans Meet and Nominate
Justices and Constables.
Justices Of the Peace,
IL. &. RICE
&. nj. BAUGH
COnstabIes,
J. o. GRANT
GEO. ANDREWS

Monday evening the republicans OF
Oskaloosa township met at the court
house as per previous call and placed
in nomination the above township
ticket.
The convention was called to order
by Chairman Walling, who named
H. II. Sheriff for temporary chair
man. G. V. Hoffman, and F. E.
Gordon were selected as secretaries
This organization was afterward
made permanent.
The committee on credentials, W.
N. Hall, II. r. Kendig, O. II. Hare,
w. w. Haskell and F. E. Gordon,
reported the following entitled dele.
gates:
First ward-J. H. Hensyl, Warren
Laffollett, Reuben Hill, VIM. N. Hall.
Second ward-Robt. McCord, VIM
Gilmore, Geo. Sterling, H. R. Ken
dig, r. p. Bacon, Geo. H. Baugh,
Martin Walraven.
Third ward-W. R. Cowan, James
Carroll, ] M. Heron, Phil Swayze,
VIM. Baugh, Frank Hoffman, Henry
Thatcher, VIM. Berkey, DIR. Hunter,
G.. H. Hare.
Fourth ward-M. E. Bennett, Jno
o. Malcolm, ]. W. Morgan, Ell
Hawkins, W. H. Pettichord, s. M
Cratic, W. W. Haskell, ]. H. War
rem, ]. O. Sellers, j. E. Bogard.
Fifth ward-Dr. Cole, F. E. Cor.
don, B. Cruzen, Noah Kimbrough,
VIM. Hamilton, Prof. E. H. Clifford
B. F. Cooper, Chas. Mason.
After the report of the committee
on credentials had been accepted, 8
motion prevailed that the convention
proceed to nominate two candidates
for justices of the peace and two fol
constables; that the vote be by roll
call and that one andidate be nomi
mated at time and that the first
ballot be informal.
The first informal ballot for justice
gave E. @. Rice 26, Geo. Il. Baugh s
and Chas. Stanley 8. The forma
ballot gave the same vote and Mr.
Rice was declared nominated.
The next informal ballot gave J
w. Laffollett IL, George H. Baugh IA
and Chas. Stanley ID. The frs
formal ballot gave Laffollett IL
Baugh 16 and Stanley IL. The sec
ond ballot nominated George II
Bsugh, he receiving 81 votes, Laffol
lett and Stanley 8.
The first informal ballot for con
stable resulted: Chas. Carr IL, j. o
Grant ~, ]. W. Bateman 2, Jerre
Carver 2, Dennis Robinson 8, Geo
Andrews 8.
The formal ballot nominated Jas
o. Grant, he receiving 20 votes, Car
IL; Bateman /, Carver 2, Robinson 1
Andrews 8.
The next inforn. ballot for con
stable was: Chas. Carr 10, j. @
Hoar 2, George Andrews 10, DENIM
Robinson Z, Jerrel Carver 4, A. A
Higgason 1. The formal ballot CAV
Carr IS, Andrews 10, Robinson 8
Carver 8. The second ballot CAV
Carr II, Andrews ID, Robinson 9
The third ballot nominated Georg
Andrews, giving him 20 votes, Car
IS, and Robinson 1.
The convention having disposed O
the business before it, adjourned.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
THEY ARE GOOD DEVICES.
FOR USE TO OVERCOME THE
HENS NATURAL TRAITS.
The Glen Pusher." While Comical in
Operation, win Do All and
More Than Is Ola med
For 1t.

There is patented device known in
the patent office as the "hen-pusher."
Much has been said and printed about
this patent, and it is usually regarded
as a grotesque and useless invention,
lacking in merit and utility. The pat
ent has been ridiculed and laughed at
by the examiners and others. Not
withstanding all this, the invention is
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05

The place of Robert Sims was
searched Monday evening on COM
plant that the place was disorderly.
The case win come up for hearing on
the 18th of the month. Rosa Cromer
who was found in the house was
placed in jail as an inmate of dis
orderly house,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
THREE ARE KILLED.
And thirty Others Hurt in Railway
Wreck.

BY scripps-McRae Press Association.
Butte, July BIN wreck on the
Montana Central, ~ miles from this
city, John Duoeski, of Great Falls,
and John L. Kelley and child were
killed. Over 80 others were injured.
Spreading rails caused the wreck.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Hear the Corn Grow.

Webster City Freeman-Tribune:
"If you want to hear the corn grow
says a Cass township farmer, "just
60 out into corn field one OF these
warm nights and you can distinctly
hear the swapping If the joints"
Try it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Greatly Improved.

James Bridges has made some re-
pairs and added improvements to his
South O street residence. The house,
the fence and the barn have also been
freshly painted, which greatly inn
proves the property and helps the
looks of that end of town.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Down with a Crash

The big maple trees in front of the
Quits property which was recently
purchased by DR.. Henderson are be-
ing removed. One of them was felled
into the street, during the rain yes
terday afternoon, and the crash
aroused the neighborhood.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-05
Hopeless and HELPLESS.

The consequences OF diseased condi-
ton of the stomach and digestive and
nutritiye system are most disastrous to
the whole body. One by one every
organ may become involved. The mis-
cry is maddening. The most extreme
cases of "stomach trouble" and the evils
resulting from it have been cured by DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
strengthens the stomach, purifes the
blood and builds up the body with sound
healthy flesh.
al was taken with severe headache writes
Thomas a. Swarts, Box Io3, Satisfaction c, Co
lumbus, Ohio, then cramps in the stomach, and
my food would not digest, then kidney and liver
trouble, and my back got weak 50 could
scarcely get around. ] just gave money to the
doctors whenever thought they would do me
any good, but the more doctored the worse
got until six years passed. I had become so
poorly could only walk in the house by the aid
Of chair, and got so thin had gfUen up TO die,
thinking that I could not be cured. Then saw
one of my neighbor boys and he said, U1Nake NV
advice and take DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and make a new man out of yourself y
The FIRST bottle helped me so thought would
get another, and after had taken eight bottles
In about six weeks / was weighed and found I
had gained twenty-seyen (27) pounds. / have
done more hard work In the past eleven months
than did in two years before, and am as stout
and healthy to-day, / think, as ever was"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure
biliousness.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
THE ONLY DAILY HswspApza IN ALABAMA
Schools of Jefferson County.

The report of County Superintendent Fountain covers single quarter of the year only Il. is not a report that the law requires, but it Is a report that carries much valuable information to the people information that has not heretofore been accessible to them-and Superintendent Fountain therefore prints it. Every tax payer, every parent of school children should study it.
 7 It is full of condensed information, and not the least interesting information is that which shows that any district can, even without the aid of the Bulger tax, have an absolutely free school six months in the , year. The trustee who next year makes 2 contract for vicious pay school should be promptly suspended and bounced out. The legislature should. in fact. make any such conduct illegal and void. It should be fer bidden. The Buger tax will be available in the next school year. and the trustee who then permits a pay school in any district will necessarily be either densely ignorant or vilely corrupt.
 , Superintendent Fountain is patiently, in- telligeatly and energeticaly striving to bring order out of chaos. He is trying to weed out the pay schools to grade all the schools, to procure an uniform series of text books, to compel the keeping of uni form records and to blend all of them in- to one harmonious progressive system. If the county keeps MT. Fountain in office full term the system he is bravely endeav
 uring to establish will be seen in all it's
 effectiveness and beauty.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
Gov. Johnston's Millions.

The millions that Governor Johnston claims to have brought into the state will scarcely stand a test. The claim is pre- sented with the utmost indebtedness, and it is impossible to do more than to call for details and specifications. If he did more den than any editor stands ready to do at any time-any good citizen for that mat ter-tl1en he does not make 1t known He encouraged the come-ons. no doubt up to the limit of his possibilities, and any other good citizen would nave done likewise-is doing likewise every time an opportunity offers.
 But the point at issue is this-neither the governor of the state nor any other citizen, in or out of office, has a right to utilize trusts in either school indemnity lands or in university lands, to bring millions of dollars into the state. The Age-Herald does not say that Governor Johnston has done so, but it does say that the alumni report points in that direction, and it fur
 
 brought out facts that call aloud for ex- planation on the part of the governor of the state, who Is committed to the policy of examination of all official acts.
 For the good reputation of the state and for the good of the young men and child ren of the state the acts named should be explained The governor of the state should not, on dnis own account, permit the alumni case to stand where it is, if another lool, can be given to 1t. The case as it stands is thoroughly condemnatory. The other side should be broadly and comprehensively stated. There must be another side, for there are two sides to all things in this world. Only one side of the university mat ter has been presented; and the governor of the state can i'll afford to keep his side from the people. He is certainly i'll ad. vised.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
Two American Miilionaires.

Within week of each other two men died in this country. each of advanced age, the one being John I. Blair, of New Jer- sey, who lacked but three four years of reaching the century mark; the other was John Spring Ford, of Massachusetts, the editer who saw and judged every line that went into The Youths Companion for over forty years. The one deved and schemed for the aecumula ton of dollars all his life long, living on their level, knowing noth- ing else; the other accumulated fortune through the shaping and training of yoGr g lives to manhood and womanhood. The one was known as a millionaire and to some extent as a political factor in connection with his monied schemes; the other lived unknown, doing his work by stealth; striv- ing through his favorite church and through the paper he had created to make the world better. The one was permeated with selfishness, the other with unselfsh- ness. That is the difference, and this world ,sioes not afford wider or more radical cone. s- When their work was done the one left Twill in which one big millionaire a son, was fastened upon the country. and the rest of his estate passed to other relatives. s-rhe estate of the other practically went to san organization devoted to work in the slums, in which the testatorehad long been Interested. It went to a brave and determ- ined effort to bring the masses, ''the sub merged" in particular, in touch again with church. It went to solve the hardest problem in our social life-the breaking down of caste in church organizations. The Youths Companion is to be maintain- ed, and its net profits are to be turned to an effort that means much for this coun- try, even if 1t be only partially successful. What a contrast between the two lives in the present or in the future! One wrought only for himself when alive, and his name will be forgotten except in his own family in a months time. The work of John Spring Ford upon an entire gen. eration through the columns of The Youths Companion is beyond even estimate, and his good works, now that he is gone will go on unchecked if men can be found with even a fraction of his unselfishness to carry them on. A wider gulf was never present. ed in the lives of two men, each in the mil- lionaire class.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

There has been issued from the press under democratic auspices a book on the currency question, which deserves the care ful consideration of all voters; as 1t pre- sentsi arguments that concern every citl- zen of the United States. The frontispiece to this new work is an excellently executed portrait of Hon. John w. Tomlinson, of Birmingham, the distinguished chairman Of the National Bimetallic committee and at present a candidate for governor of Alabama. Mir Tomlinson's friends in this state and throughout the country will be gratifed by this additional compliment to him, and the entire country will 'be in- terested.
 The Meyer-Marx company have pur- chased the vacant lot at the southeast cor ner of First avenue and Eighteenth street, and will proceed to erect thereon splen- did business building, to be used by tine firm as wholesale liquor, beer and wine stores. The lot immediately adjoins the building at present occupied by the Meyer Marx company, and the purchase of the property carries with it a half interest in the adjoining wall of the building in question, valued at $l,500 The lot adjoin- ing is one of the most desirable for a wholesale trade building in Birmingham, as it extends from First avenue to Morris avenue, or practically the railroad reser- walton. The price paid is understood to have been $1SOOO. The building to be erect ed will be of attractive architecture, three stories high, and will cost upwards of ESQ., O00 It will not cover the entire lot, as
 
 stables. The Meyer-Marx company is one of the largest and most enterprising whole sale liquor firms in Alabama or the south. It is the local agent flor the Anheuser- Busch Brewing Association of St. Louis, and during 1899 it sold in Birmingham 139 carloads of the St. Louis company's beer. The new building will add greatly to the lower business district of the city.
 The party of Birmingham men who went to Havana to enjoy the holidays have re- turned home, and each member has got much to tell, though all of them find it diff ficult as matter of course, to understand English. Alcalde Samuel E. Greene, Senor John Mcqueen, Senor Charles. w. Ferguson, and Senor Robert J. Lowe de- clare that they had glad time, but rejoice to get back to Birmingham. Senor Mc- Queen brought back long, folding deadly weapon that belonged to Maceo, machete, and other things. The other senors brought back pleasant memories. Alcalde Greene, ''he alone of all the conspirators," got sea- sick. So they say. Senor Ferguson and Senor Mcqueen were passing through one of the narrow streets of Havana when they saw darkey driving United States am- bulance wagon.
 ''Tll bet he's from Alabama,' remarked the Senor Ferguson.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
C0ntraband of War.

No more difficult question in internation- allaw presents itself in the South African war than the one relating to contraband of war. It is very difficult to draw the line-to say what Is and what is not contraband of war. Arms confessedly. are, and if arms are contraband of war, men who are to carry these arms must also be, and if yes- sels may be searched under the law of na- tions for the one, they certainly may be for the other.
 Then, again, if wagon loaded with flour attempted to go from Cape Colony to Kim berly, where four may be greatly needed, the Boers would without hesitation declare the entire outfit contraband of war. and if e wagon may be searched or seized why not a vessel bearing flour to the Boers be? This is very difficult question, however: and the seizure of three cargoes of Ameri- , can four in Delagoa Bay has been made the subject of an energetic protest and de- mand for reparation on the part of the American minister. When the British case is made it will then be seen on what evil dence the British war vessels were acting.
The age-herald., 1900-01-07
Census Enumeration of the City.

The desires of the Commercial club in re- spect to the enumeration of the population of Birmingham are natural enough; but its desires cannot, of course, be gratihed' The city limits are ridieulously narrow and inadequate, including not over one-half ol it's people and no remedy before next June is possible In many respects the district will be judged oy the population Of its central and focal city. Peop.e Will say that district whose central eoWn coh- talns less than fifty thousand people, ean not be district rich in mineral resources. They will think they have been misfed, and will turn away from it's possibilities without. further inquiry. Some will do so, and there is no help for it.
 The case should have been foreseen, and "a determined effort made to make the bounds of the city include all territor oc- cupied by people who depend upon the city itself as a means of living in one way or another Such an effort was not made in a determined way and the legislature list ened to the ,sax-shirkers, and the conson- dation bill went down.
 At present there is but one remedy, namely, nsistence upon the fact that the county is Greater Birmingham. The en- tire county Is within easy reach of the court house. Trolley lines. dummies and steam roads give almost every pant of tae county hourly access to the central point. This renders the entire county homogeneous, Of Lake Michigan it would have been con- soldated long ago. Let us then consider | the county Greater Birmingham, and pit it against any other county in the cotton states Orleans parish alone excepted. We will back it against Henrico county, the county of Richmond; Davidson, the county
 of Nashville: Shelby, the county of Mem phis; Fulton. the county of Atlanta, or any Texas county that wants to place itself within the census test. Estimates and school and police censuses are barred
 the census of the government shall decide; and if that test shall put Jefferson county ahead of every other county in the far south, Orleans parish alone excepted, that will be glory enough and on that we can afford to stand until the bounds of the city can be properly and adequately enlarged.