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Morris tribune., 1900-02-03
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1900.
SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION.

The past week has seen the brltlsn
beaten back and defeated in their at
tomnt to relieve Ladysmith' 1he
contest has been fought bravery Oh
both sides, and the veldt-men have
shown that they dare to advance
ocross the open in front of the British
branches as we'll as to defend trenches
themselves.
We lament at the homes Wnlcn
have been made desolate all Tor SO
little purpose, be that home British
or Boer. ''The pity of it all is per-
s;stent and insistent," says the Min
neapolis Times, "and never was there
war which compelled so mixed a
sentiment in the cis-Atlantic outsider
We revolt at the idea of the subJuga-
4;ou of SO brave a people as the Beers
have proved themselves to be-we
shudder at the possibility OF serious
and continued loss of prestige by
Great Britain. To imagine trultless'
a conflict so superb as that the Afrl-
handlers have made is distressing-to
think that the Victorian empire is in
decay and must give the pas to Ger
many, Russia or France is alarming.
T,uly it is a middle in which the
heart and the intellect are on op-
posite sides"
'The dispatches tell of the absolute
failure of the plan to relieve Lady
smith by turning the right flank OF
the Beers. They tell of the slaugh-
ter at Spion Kop and along the Tuge-
La; they recount the dangers OF the
enforced retreat beyond that river, to
win the northern side of which cost
40 much of blood and treasure; they
point out that Berlin critics were
right in assuming that Warren s army
was entering mouse trap and that
the willy Joubert knew what the emo
would be. Again we are shown the
awful military consequences that tol-
low action upon assumption instead
of upon absolute knowledge. Again
we recognize that valor can be wasted
and blood squandered as the result
of The absence of the commonest fore
sight and the most ordinary careful
ness. We confess to lack of pity for
General Butler. He has had more
opportunities than are given to most
generals to prove his weight and
worth and the balance of trial has
always found him wanting.
''What will Great Britain do in this
accented crisis? Fight on and brave
iy. The fail of destiny will beat out
the wheat from the chaff. War lords
will be made to give way for soldiers,
who can plan as we'll as fight, and
men and money will be sent to South
Africa until the Orange Free State
and the Transvaal will be over run
with Victoria's troops.
F'Let us never hear again the sheer
that the Beers can fight behind in
trenchments and on the defensive,
but are sure to go down before the
disciplined resistance of the British
when called upon to take the Of
fensive Read of that sturdy charge
of Joubert's/ men when ordered to
,retake Spion Kop. Butler does not
tell thereof in his word mongered dis
patch, but the advices from the side
of the victors compel belief and add
glorious page to the history OF the
various veldt men,"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

mud. We go out on occasional
"hikes" across the mountains. Last
week two hundred infantry men and
sixty cavalry men were .out on a trip
lasting two. days. 1t rained every
minute of the time and we plunged
through mud and water in pursuit of
a band of Insurgents. They were
warned of our approach, and after
forming and firing few volleys they
fed to the mountains. We burned
their camp and provisions, captured
few equipments and splashed back.
We slept in the mountains without
even blanket for cover and the rain
came down in torrents. We were wet
to the skin, our equipments.and ra-
tons we're soaked and we cursed our
existence, We arrived in camp the
next night, tired and hungry, fillad
up on good substantial afanyfrations,
got dry clothes and an extra dose Of
quinine, and.were soon singing camp
fire songs as happy as ever.
! understand we are toigo out on a
five-day "hike" soon and win bet we
will go hungry, for the country does
not contain as much as half-starved
chicken up in the mountains, and on
account of rocks and swamps we will
not be able to take pack train. But
we understand that our relief is soon
to arrive so we think that we can
stand this one. We have about forty
five men left to the troop. The rest
have been sent home wounded, sick,
discharged, etc. Those who are left
are game, hardy fellows,I assure you.
Our horses are gray and white, and
are daisies. We do not have any
drill now, in fact our drill is some
thing remarkable. Every man knows
his place and never asks or questions
any orders, but performs them in a
soldierly manner. Our horses do very
well and are steady under fire. They
can be depended on at any and all
times. 1t rains here nearly every
day and is very hot. live come home
this winter am afraid we will freeze
up, but keep Agood fire going and I
may pop in on you about Christmas.
My health is fine so far and 1 hope it
will continue until meet yon all at
home.
e. V. 0RyIs,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

In letter to his mother, e. V. Orvis,
of this city, former member of 90.
F, but now in the cavalry service
writes:
Santa Cruz, P. L., Oct. 10, 1900.
Dear Mother II received a letter
from you some time ago, in fact you
seem to write me regularly enough,
but our mail system is imperfect and
we sometimes get mail that is three
or four months old, and doubtless
there is great deal that we never
receive. have received mail that has
been to Porto Rico to the 18th Regi-
ment of Infantry And ss our regiment
is quite often split up the mail will go
the route because some bullet headed
army mail orderly don't appear to
know an L from g or an A from f I.
But of course there are many mis-.
takes made in addressing.
Our duties do not change in the
least. We go out on escort duty just
as we did year ago and sometimes
get ambushed, but the natives can It
get any advantage over these old SOL
diers. A party of about 200 of them
fred on a little squad of IL of our
men couple of weeks ago. The boys
sprang from their horses, handed them
over to three of the men to hold and
then sprang into the forest and fired
from behind trees and rocks just as
the insurgents had planned to do. AS
we were the best marksmen the enemy
drew back to a longer range and be-
gan volley firing at 200 yards, while
at first they were only 25 to 90 yards
from US. Our other men, stationed
four miles away, heard the firing,
and saddled and galloped to the
scene of action. They took the nigs
by surprise, killing thirty-five, and
wounding and capturing fifty more,
We always give them the worst of an
ambush.
Our main trouble is catching their
leaders. We start out on a campaign
and the natives scurry on ahead Civ
ing the alarm. Of course we can't
catch barefooted Negro, especially
in the wet season, las we cannot leave
the beaten path with our horses with
out going nearly out of sight in the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

All indications point to still lower
averages for the year 1900. No one
can examine the foregoing without
approaching, in some degree at least,
the extreme constituencies of the
railway situation. At the average
freight rate received during 1899, ac-
cording to the foregoing statement,
the railways had to perform trans
portation services equal to moving
more than 400, 900, 900 tons of freight
one mile in order TO obtain revenue
sufficient to meet the cost of oiling
the wheels Of their locomotives dur
ing the year, yet in seven years the
average freight rate has declined
over 10 per cent and the end is by
no means in sight. The difference
between the revenue received in 1899
and that which would have been col
lected at the rates of 1892 would have
paid all the railway dividends dis
tributed in the later year and met all
of the taxes levied upon them by the
various state and municipal govern
ments whose jurisdictions they
traverse. On the other hand, had
the freight traffic Of 1899 been so low
as that of 1894, the railways at the
rates of 1899 would have earned less
than they did by more than three
millions of dollars. Such deduction
from earnings would obviously have
thrown a very large portion of the
railway system into insolvency.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
The Des Moines Register G

The Des Moines Register claims
to have inside, information to the eff
feet that Iowa is to have an addi-
tional congressman. On the strength
of this it has been laying out new
Observation-Disclosures The Sixth,
as it would stand under the Regis.
ter's manipulation of the map, would
be composed of Mahaska, Marion,
Poweshiek, Tama, Marshall, Jasper,
Hardin and Grundy counties. TAX
ing the vote of 1898 as a basis, the
new district would have a republican
majority of 5,O9s; not bad thing to
have lying around handy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
THE ROUSTABOUT.

While attending strictly to his own
business the other day Roustabout
stumbled onto the reason why Rolla
M, Kendrick, of st. Louis, was not
MARI. in Europe. Rolla, who is
now editor of that department. of the
Globe-Democrat devoted to Music
and Drama, is former oskaloosa
boy who has hosts Of friends here
that win enjoy the joke. 1t win be
remembered that Mr.. Kendrick re-
Gently married the charming daughter
of Hon. John N. Irwin, of Keokuk,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The December EOptimist ( is the
best number yet issued of that spicy
little monthly, destined to be the
magazine of Iowa and the middle
west. 1t is ably edited by that old
slime newspaper man, Schneider,
Of Boone, Iowa.. and the Contribu-
tors for this month comprise such
well known persons as Pres. H. H,
Seerley, Johnson Bingham, Lewis
Worthington Smith, Bolton Hall and
others. Its subscription price is one
dollar a year and every Iowa reader
should have it.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

lone hundred years ago the pop
ulation of London was only 1874, S45;
that of New York 60,215; that of
Philadelphia 81 900, living in 9,s6s
dwellings. Chicago had a popula-
tion of one negro trapper who
tenanted log cabin onIthe site of
the future metropolis. u Paris had
S47, 756 inhabitants, decrease of
112, 244 in sixteen years, due to the
reign of terror.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
The committee of ten appoinr

The committee of ten appointed
to choose two of the most beautiful
zen in America, one to represent
and one South America on the
an-American exposition emblem,
hnally selected Maxine Elliott, the
famous stage beauty, and Miss Maude
@oleman Wood, of Charlottesville,
Va. But then, girls, as the Register
remarks, "there are thousands of you
just as pretty"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

According to a census made by
the Board of Control there are near
ly 5000 insane patients in the county,
private and state insane hospitals of
Iowa. These are confined in 81
county institutions, private hos
pitfalls and state institutions.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
-on Sunday Dec. ,, Dean Hag

-on Sunday Dec. 2, Dean Hag-
gard of Drake University officiated
at the dedication of the new Christ.
ian church at Delta. TheTstructure
cost So, 200, is all paid for, and would
be credit to town threeitimes the
size of Delta. Much1of the success
Of the enterprise is due to the de-
voted and hard work of the young
pastor, Rev. w. T. Fisher.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

1T is the duty of eve.. voter to
express his opinion on theN sanchise
next Monday. AS the franchises de-
pend one upon the other, it is essen
tial to vote either for or against all
of them. But remember the date and
exercise your right as an elector.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The medals given by the Home
SeiencesBureau of Chicago to all SER
wants who have been employed in one
family for ten years or more have
developed the fact that in the great
city of Chicago there are but forty
one servants who have worked for a
family that long.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
RelIetIn sIx Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease re-
lieved in six hours by.New Great South Amer
lean Kidney ture." 1t Is great surprise on
account of Its exceeding promptness in reliev
Ing pain In bladder, kidneys and back, in male
o female Believes retention of water almost
immediately III you want quick relief and
cure this 1. the remedy. Sold by Green q Rent
ley, druggists. Oskaloosa, Ia, 43yi
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

WYOR Wnter-Cutters and Sleighs..For SummerNew High
grade Traps Carriages and Buggies Landau Closed Car
parties for Train Service for ncemen weather,
up-to-dae Rigs, always frst-class....Do you
We take boarders and keep your animals in rscas
condition. The O. L. T. Barbershop exceled the
Funeral Ouftsthe only Frstclass in Mahaska County.
Calls answered ANY Hour, Day Night.
Orders for Hard Coal Receive Immediate Attention.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The destruction by fire of the
main building of the State Agricultural
College Saturday morning,is serious
loss to Iowa. The great botanical
collection, said to be the finest in the
United States, can never be replaced.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
+. w. sbultz. of wichita, RAMS,

j. w. Shultz, of Wichita, Kansas,
some time ago ground some alfalfa
seed into flour, out of which he made
cakes. They proved, however, to be
too bitter to be palatable, so he made
fluid extract from the seeds which
he declares will make everybody fat,
strong and healthy. z He is not will
ling to take ny--money for his dis
covery.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

rest upon higher charges than were
collected during the years of depres-
sion. The average rates per pas
senger and per ton of freight per
mile carried during each year from
1892 to 1890, the latest year for which
complete data are available, were as
follows:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
RAILR0ADS AND RApEs.

Gunton's Magazine: "It is to be
observed that the prosperity which
has attended railway operations
during the last year or two does not
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

From whatever point of view it is
regarded, the December North Amer
lean Review is a superb number
perhaps the best that has been pro-
duced under the brilliant editorial
management of Mr.. Harvey, though,
indeed, it is difficult to make any
sort of comparison of one issue of
the Review with another, since all
have reached a standard of excel
lence which has never been approach
ed by any similar periodical. The
opening article is an essay, hitherto
unpublished, in which Honore de
Balzac discusses the principles and
the methods of Modern Govern
ment," w. j. Bryan writes of the
causes which produced the republi-
can victory in 1.-THE Election of 1900, y
and the effect which the result of the
election may have upon the future OF
the country.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

therefore, are two unusual stories,
illustrating types of the strenuous
life which is so earnestly preached
nowadays. The hero of one of these
stories, Sam Weeks" is one of the
most individual characters which has
appeared in magazine literature for
long time.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The Roustabout has been in this
meek o. the woods" for a "consid.
cradle of SPELL" In fact he re-
members walking around on the
foundation Of the court house when
it was being built in order THAT he
might be able to point out to his
grand children what hero he really
was. But in all these years he has
never seen Oskaloosa confronted
with such field of opportunity as is
now spread out before her. In the
past ten years our population has
shown a gain of All per cent, the
largest of any city in Southeastern
Iowa, and al. better record can be
made in the next ten years by con-
certed action of ourl business men,
property holders and wage earners.
1t is not over estimating the situation
when it is stated that improvements
valued at half a million dollars are
in sight. If the proposed franchise
carries at the coming election, and
the company lives up to the agree
ments, by which they are bound their
electrict street car line means the in
vestment of 100000. Then follows
$4,000 Government building, $780,
900 worth of improvements for Penn
college, sac, 0O0 Y. MIC. A. build
ing, a S25, 900 jail, q new 500, 900 Epis-
copal church, $40, 900 hospital, and
street and private improvements that
will easily make up the other s115,-
900. On top of this there is but little
question of Burlington and Western
Railroad being broadenedl out and
made standard guage track and O.
b. & @. main line from Burlington
to Des Moines. The assumption of
control of the Iowa Central by the
Illinois Central also has much in
store for oskaloosa. SpeakEa good
word for your town work for it early
and late, and give as much as you
can to help along the charitable in
situations. Let no backward steps be
taken. Let coward and upward'
by your rallying cry. The harvest is
ripe, now is the time to garner the
grain. THE RoUsTABoUT.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

fact. the Laurie of her delightful
story, and to him Miss Alcott wrote
some of the most charming, revealing
letters that ever came from her pen.
Mr.. Whitman has just edited these
missives for publication in The Lad
ies' Home journal.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

In the December Review of Re-
views the editor comments on sew
eral important questions of the hour,
including the new army bill, the
problem of reapportionment in the
South, the Isthmian Canal, and other
matters that will engage the. atten-
ton of congress at the approaching
session; the results of the census OF
1900, with reference to the proposed
admission of new states and repres-
entation in congress-; the meaning OF
the national election; the Cuban Con-
stitutional Convention; the elections
in Porto Rico and Hawaii; the Lib
eral victories in Canada and New
foundland; the Chinese negotiations,
and European politics both internal
and international.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The Christmas cover of Success"
is one of the finest things of it's kind
which has ever come to this office. 1t
is by j. O. Leyendecker, the Chicago
artist who won first prize in the Cen.
fury poster competition recently, "a
contest in which seven hundred of
Americas ablest artists entered de-
signs. The cover represents the
three wise men of the East, and
Leyendecker has woven into it much
OF the beautiful Oriental mysticism
which properly belongs to subject
of this character. The Egyptian, the
Greek and the Hindoo, bearing gold,
frankincense and myrrh," are repre-
scented kneeling before the shrine.
The coloring is superb, and the whole
cover is fine example of the rich,
decorative art which has come to
make American magazines note
worthy the world over.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13
LITERARY LEAVES

On the 18th of October, the follow.
ing cable message from Sir Roberts
London representative to the Editor
of The Cosmopolitan was received:
"Sir Robert Hart has sent for Novem-
Der number Fortnightly, London, and
Cosmopolitan, New York, an impor'
tant article on siege of Picking, about
fifteen thousand words, which viii
post you tomorrow.
The MS. arrived in time to be in
cluded in the December issue. 1t vii
be read with the deepest interest
both by statesmen and the genera
public.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The Christmas (December) Century
is resplendent in an appropriate
colored cover designed by Herter;
and the frontispiece is one of a group
of full-page and minor decorations,
richly printed in colorand tints, Illus
strating the great ode "On the Morn
ing of Christ's Nativity" which is
reprinted from Masson's poems.
Most noteworthy among the other
contents is the opening instalment of
Augustine Birrell's "Down the
Rhine" written in the distinctively
humorous style of the authors" O5iter
Dicta," and lavishly illustrated by
Castaigne. An essay by Charles Dud-
ley Warner on 1.-THE Pursuit of Hap
pines" has timely interest as pro-
baby one of the latest things ever
produced by the genial satirist who
passed away last month.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

There is distinctive holiday flavor
about Ainslee's for December. Not
only do we find real Christmas stories
in" When Sanity CLAUS Went Wooing, /"
by Joe Lincoln, and "The Rag Doll, y
by Eugene Wood, but the contents in
general suggest the season. "The
Great Interrogation" by Jack Lon
don, is powerful love story of life
in Alaska, and "The DESERVING of
Sergeant Health" by W. A. Fraser,
is an admirable bit of sentiment and
humor.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

Some unpublished letters of Miss
Louisa M. Alcott, recently brought to
light, effectually correct a popular
fallacy as to the original of Laurie, Z"
in her famous "Little Woman"
Ladislas, Polish boy, always has
been thought to have been Laurie's
prototype, but these letters prove
that to be mistake. Alfred Whit
man, a Kansas man, who was Miss
Alcott's playmate at Concord, is, in
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

Frank r. Stockton contributes to
the December Scribners one of his
most amusing conceits. entitled "The
Vice-Consort," which is the story of
woman who was chosenifor the Sec
ond wife of their husbands by fond
but jealous wives. Henry van Dyke
tells story of the Hudson Bay region
in which the chief character is a
misunderstood dog, named "Pichou."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, whose fiction
is seldom seen of late, contributes
"An Untold Story'-a romantic in
cident connected with Budapesth.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

1t is peculiarly fitting that st. Mich
olas should celebrate the winter
holiday, SO we are prepared to find
the cover of the December number
respondent in five colors. The de-
sign, by Luis Mora, is called Bring
ing in the Yule Log" In the body of
the magazine, ballad by Ethel Par
ton, "The Rhyme of the Tory Toll
levers" telling how little patriot
saved her neighbors, is embellished
with tulip illustrations, borders
and head and tail-pieces arawn BY
Guernsey Moore, and as ga;zy colored
as the cover. Everything in the
magazine this month is illustrated,
including the popular departments OF
Nature and Science and the st. MIC
holas League.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-12-13

The Yale-Harvard game of foot
ball brought $780, 900 into New Haven,
to say nothing about SIS, 200 for car
fares and 81, 500 for violets.