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The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.

F. w. Bicknell the we'll known Des
Moines correspondent says: GAS the
canvass for supreme judge progresses
it becomes more and more evident
that Chancellor Emlin McClain, of
the state university, has an excellent
prospect of being nominated. He
has active, hustling friends, not only
in every county, but in almost every
town, little and big, throughout the
state. The graduates of the university
law school like the chancellor and
want him to receive the nomination.
They are in a peculiarly good position
to help him. They can get on the
delegation and they are pretty sure
to have some friends on with them
who will help them when the right
time comes. So many of the other
candidates are handicapped in vari-
Gus ways that this general, statewide
force cannot fail to have a decisive
effect, particularly as Chancellor Nc
Claim is in no way entangled with any
other contest in Iowa politics and his
nomination would not mean the sue
cess or failure of any faction. Senator
Blanchard, of Oskaloosa, is quite
generally considered next in point of
strength.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
STORY or MATT PARROTT'

Des Moines Capital: Governor
Parrott had no particular sense OF
humor, yet no one better enjoyed a
dry joke than he. He was a member
of the state senate at the time of the
impeachment trial of State Auditor
Brown, and being home on leave OF
absence and finding il impossible, to
return, he telegraphed to Lieutenant
Governor Hull, presiding officer OF
the senate, as follows:
"See Luke 14th chapter, 18th verse; u
When the above was received
Lieutenant Governor Hull procured
copy of the New Testament from
the state library and found the last
sentence of the 18th chapter of Luke
to read as follows:
81 pray thee, have me excused"
When the Bible was found, the
telegram and verse were read to the
senate, much to the enjoyment of al
present.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
al RLACK SLEEP

The Fairfield Ledger presented the
following story of a scrub sheep that
was rejected, but increased her own
value more than 800 per cent within
six months:
Last fall, in making a sale of a
bunch of sheep at SO per head, F. G..
HOLSTER, of Buchanan township, had
one eve rejected because she did not
come up to the standard. He cared
for her during the winter, and is as
well satisfied as if she had been taken
when sold. She had twin lambs in
January which weighed ninety pounds
at three months and sold at six cents
per pound, or $40. The eve her.
self weighed 140 pounds and brought
$3.50, while she sheared eight pounds
of wool which sold for twenty-three
and one-half cents per pound, or
S1.SS. Here is return from this
animal of S12.1S. There is nothing on
the Jefferson county farm which
gives better returns than the sheep
when properly handled-and under
Republican administration.
Charge this up to Mckinley also
while you are posting the administra
TONS account.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
GOLD Prediction.

Official reports to the director OF
the mint show that the gold yield OF
the American mines in Alaska in 1893
was $4,000, 900; similar reports to the
Dominion authorities show that the
gold product in the Klondike field
was $4,000, 200, making the total
product for the year in the Alaskan
field SCI 500, 000.t Conservative esti-
mates place the cleanup" this year
in the Klondike region at so per cent
more than last year, and with the
development of the Cape Nome field
that from American territory will
probably be double what it was last
year. 1t is notunlikely that the gross
product of the extreme northwest
this year will be $40, 900, 900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
JARNAGIN'iS JOKE.

Montezuma Republican.-A strange
woman appeared in Des Moines the
other day whose mission seemed to
be to kiss every one whom she met.
Freem Conway was first tackled
and "Barkus was willin." She then
made a dive for LATE Young and
after some resistance got in her work
on his cheek. Just at this junture
she spied Dick Clarkson coming up
the street and she made for him with
great enthusiasm. Dick tried.to save
himself but was about to fall victim
to her entreaties when aYpoliceman
arrested here. The officer told her
that'she was crazy. "What evidence
haveTyou that such is my condition."
she asked. The policeman told her
that all the evidence he needed was
er attempt to kiss Clarkson.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
WOODSON FOR ALTERNATE.

While there are number of candi-
dates in the Sixth district for the of
fee of delegate to the National Re-
publican convention, we have so far
heard of only one man who asks to
be an alternate, and that is Mr.. Geo.
Woodson, of Muchakinock, Iowa.
Monroe and Keokuk counties have
already endorsed his candidacy, and
his home county, Mahaska, will I'M
doubtedly unanimously instruct for
him. Mr.. Woodson is an attorney
of recognized ability, and is a good
public speaker. He is one of the
leading colored men in Iowa, and is
Republican on any and every oc-
casion. The Sixth district will do
we'll to recognize Mr.. Woodson's de-
sires as in his appointment the large
colored vote in the district will be
pleased and honored.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
FOLLY OF KTLLTNG BIRDS

Washington ID. O. Post. Repre-
sentative Lacey, of Iowa, is hearing
great deal these days about his bill
for the protection of insectivorous
and song birds and for a prohibition
of sales of game that has become
subject to interstate laws, unless that
game is killed in accordance with
state laws. Yesterday he held in his
hand an urgent telegram from the
Virginia Division League of American
Sportsmen, asking that the bill be
taken up and passed.
perhaps you have noticed" OBJ
served Mr.. Lacey, "that you can
hardly open an apple nowadays with
out finding cobwebs and ravages of
worms. The horticulturists say it is
due to the indiscriminate killing of
birds, which, until a year or two ago,
were sufficient to destroy many of
these natural enemies to growing
fruits. In the same way in many har-
bors along the coasts there are COM
plants at the disappearance of gulls
and terms, birds that by nature are
scavengers and keep the waters OF
the harbors free from many kinds OF
Objectionable refuse. These sea birds
are protected by state laws, but new
ertheless they are secretly killed and
shipped into other states. Atpresent
there is no law to punish the trans.
portation of game unlawfully killed.
"Horticulturists, and especially
farmers, from all over the country
are clamoring forlgreater protection
to birds. Their destruction is due to
more than the craze for millinery a,
dornnent. Hunters are depicting the
number of birds, and the balance long
maintained in the destruction of in
sects, has been disturbed"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

effort to be present. There is moth
ing that does a party SO much good
as to get started right, and the work
of this first gathering should be a
key note to the enthusiasm that will
mark the coming campaign. Dele
gates will be selected to the state
and district conventions, and indi-
rectly to the national convention, and
it therefore behooves all to take a
lively interest in affairs and see that
good Representatives are chosen for
the several offices. This is the pre-
liminary skirmish for state and ma
tional politics-let every man be at
his post so that the victory may be
complete from start to finish.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
REPURLTr4NS WILL WIN

Senator William B. Allison, who
talks little for publication, land whose
words for this reason are always
taken as authority, in recent inter.
view, said
1.-THE republican party will win be-
cause it should win. 1t has redeemed
it's promises, lived up to it's profess
sions. 1t has gained for the nation a
large addition of prestige and power
and extended the limits of the nation
al territory. 1t has created an inn
mense prosperity in the place of the
depression existing at its advent into
power. 1t can go before the country
confidently on the record it has made.
/ believe in the sense of the American
people, in their logic and understand
ing They will stand by the party
which has given them this prosperity,
this prestige and this great outlook
into the future"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

1t takes an enorm1 us amount of
feed to fatten the 5000 head of cat
tie, 1000 mead of sheep and 700 head
of hogs on the Payne and Sargisson
fattening ranch, near Sioux City.
The ranch consists of 5000 acres,
$500 of which are seeded to wheat
and 1000 planted to corn. During
the summer 1000 head of "stockers"
will be fattened on the ranch for the
beef shambles next fall.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Monthly Independent: Hon. H.
L. Waterman retires himself from
the list of congressional aspirants.
This leaves practically clear field
for Mr.. Lacey, who will no doubt be
nominated by reclamation. Mr..
Lacey, according to Amos j. Cum
mings, is one Of Henderson's right
hand men; in other words, he is as
sistant speaker of the house. Lacey
is intellectual; he is superior to Hull,
Dolliver, or to any other representa-
tive.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

1T is really wonderful the number
of brainy articles that the average
newspaper (the only one in your
city is offered for 81 per. Each one
of course, and they come about four
times day, is the chance of a life
time. For real down right interest
to the fellows who pay for the paper
we would rather have the unpublished
productions of the court reporter or
the society gossip.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Tits strange how many people de-
part this life without leaving enough
money to pay for their little six feet
of earth and without friends to give
them a bulial," says the Iowa State
Register. "a report just issued
shows that during the past year the
potter's field used for the burial of
the pauper dead of New York City
has received 1877 bodies, and since
the place was founded in 1869 the
number received has been 10, ST.. :"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
viding at the same time for future ex-
pansion in all departments.

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
May is bright and dainty Springtide
number, full of timeliness and variety.
"a Klondiker's Diary" from Seattle
to Dawson City, pictures step by step
the hard road travelled by the gold
seeker in Alaska. Joaquin Miller
writes upon the thoughtful and poetic
side of life in Klondike cabin.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
Booker T. Washington's school

Booker 7. Washington's school
at Tuskegee, Ala, the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute, has
received several handsome donations
since the meeting at the Mad
ison Square Garden concert hall in
it's behalf. Mr.. and Mrs. Coils P.
Huntington have given s5O, 900 toward
the endowment fund, and western
woman, whose name is not an
nounced, has made conditional gift
of S25, 900 more.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

The Bloomfield Democrat an
nounces in flaming headlines; "Pre-
sident Mckinley proclaims himself
King and assumes imperial powers. "
Hulle Gee! Where have we Rip Van
Wrinkles been? Shades of Liberty
bell, Ito think that only one man,
and he the editor of weekly news
paper, has been awake at his post.
% tempoTd, O Noresi
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
LITERARY LEAVES.

The May number of Everybody's
Magazine is full of that sugar-coated
information of which its conductors
are making speciality. There is not
dull page in the book nor one which
sounds educational" but no one can
read this number without adding
materially to his store of knowledge.
~
Adequate and becoming apparel
makes stronger impression on the
person it clothes than on any who
observes it," writes Mr.. Thomas b.
Bryan in The Saturday Evening Post.
"If every business man now going
about his affairs in garments which
are a little below the reasonable
standard of presentableness could be
clothed with those which fully meet
this requirement, the business world
would feel sudden and unaccount-
able impulse of no mean proportions. /"
w
due in the United States on the morn
ing of the 2sth of May next, will very
probably materially advance our
scientific knowledge of this strange
phenomenon. An article directly in
this line is published in Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly for May
written by Prof. F. H. Bigelow of the
United States Weather Bureau.
~
The April number of The Smart
Set, the new literary organ of New
York society, is quite as unique and
sensational in its contents as the first
number, which attracted such wide
spread attention a month ago. 1t
cannot be denied that The Smart Set
justifies its daring subtitle, GA Maya
zine of Cleverness."
~
In McClure's Magazine for May,
Prof. Dean @. Worcester, of the Phil
ippines Commission, give an account
of General Lawton and his last cam
paigns as Professor Worcester came
to know them in the course of his
intimate association with Lawton in
the Philippines. The article is illus
trated with series of portraits OF
Lawton and other pictures.
Nv
Among the timelier articles in The
Century for May is an essay by
Andrew Carnegie entitled Popular
Illusions About Trusts" The writer
contends that the popularl welfare is
increased by trusts; also, that such
aggregations of productive capital
are usually short-lived. "The only
people who have reason to fear trusts
he says, "are those who trust them
~.
Just II 500 square feet of floor space
are set apart for printing presses in
the building just erected for The
Ladies' Home Journal. 1t is in the
rear of the present publication office
eight stories in height,2 and within {
short time will be occupied by the
mechanical departments of the mag
azine. The constant, rapid growth
of the Journals circulation neces
STATED greatly extended facilities FOL
printing and mailing, Kand the new
structure meets these demands, pro
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
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COST OF Ia BOR WAR


The labor troubles in Chicago are
causing heavy loss to both employers
and employees, as the following esti-
mates indicate.
Number of men out of work
in Chicago. ........ 1OO. 0OO
Number of men outside Chi
cago unemployed. because of
Strik6. -.--,.............. so, 600
Number of people in families
of unemployed 1880. 49,. 750, 900
Capital of contractors ted.
up ..................,...s25. ooO, 900
Contractors made idle $3.50. 700
Loss In wages to workmen for
each day ...... $3.50 900
Loss to contractors q day -. s400, 900
The Chicago street railway CON-
pany report that it is losing 81 500 a
day as result of the labor trouble
and the Union Traction company
5000 a month. Department stores
ascribe decrease of rs to 40 per
cent in their normal business to the
strikes and other forms OF business
make similar companions.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
"A news renort saws:

"a cannon ball weighing three
pounds was found 40 feet below the
surface by well digger near Ham
burg few days ago. There has
never been we'll in that neighbor-
hood, and how the ball got there is a
mystery" s.
That's easy, it came from the OPP
ening gun of the campaign fired by
Horace Boise. .s...... s.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

On Thursday, April 26, the Odd
Fellows celebrated their S1st ami
versary in America. Odd Fellowship
had its birth in this country at Balti-
more, Maryland, where it was found
ed, with five men belonging to the
little lodge. To-day the lodges of the
country, which had their start in that
small band, number 1,O26,o men,
hers
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
The Metbodists will hold the

The Methodists will hold their
general conference in Chicago this
week, and one of the most import
ant matters to be considered will be
"Article number 24S" of the laws OF
the church, this article being the one
injected in 1877 for the purpose Of
forbidding the members Of the church
to dance. Many prominent Meth
odist ministers are going to the con-
ference with the intention of making
a fight against the article, for they
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Perry Heath calls attention to
the fact that the rural mail delivery
is one of the republican educational
movements which started under Pre-
sident Harrison, was stopped under
Cleveland and was revived under
Mckinley. The republican party be-
lieves in scattering information
among the masses.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Gov Shaw will issue parchment
commissions to all the officers of the
Iowa volunteer regiments serving
during the Spanish-American war.
The original commissions were on
ordinary paper and will be recalled.
There are about 200 such commits.
osnno
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
RE ON HAND

Much Importance attaches to the
Republican county convention to be
held in this city next Saturday, May
5, and every delegateliselected in all
the townships shouldImake a special
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

odd Fellowship was first institut-
ed in Iowa in the city of Burlington,
April A, 1874, Washington lodge No.
I, was the first lodge instituted. The
home of the grand lodge of Iowa was
frst located in the city of Muscatine,
Iowa, in 1866 it was relocated at Des
Moines
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

1.-THE withdrawal of Mr.. Water
man." says the Sioux City Journal,
Ensures the easy denomination of
Maj. Lacey, of Oskaloosa, whereby
it is believed in this quarter the best
interests of the district will be con-
conserved
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Palmer Brown of Marshalltown
is captain of guards at the United
States exhibit at heParis exposition.
He is a handsome, we'll built young
man standing 6 feet inches in his
stocking feet, and looks like a giant
by the side-of an average French
MON
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Monroe county will urge the Sc
lection of Hon. w. A. Nichol as dis
trict delegate to the national repub-
lican convention, Jasper county will
urge Chas. M Hinsdale, Davis county
will urge James A. Dunn, mayor of
Bloomfield. Three good men, and
worthy, but places for only two.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

believe it to be uncalled for and the
cause of the church losing thousands
of members. DIR. J. j. Reed of the
Washington Square Methodist church
of New York is at the head of the
movement.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Knoxville Express: The pro-
posed coinage of half-cents will fill a
long felt want. Many newspaper
men have conscientious scruples
about dropping pants buttons in the
contribution plate, and yet if they
go to church every spring and fall
whole penny is pretty big drain on
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

New York Tribune: There is
something worse than the "black re-
public" which has been held up as a
boyle. 1t is an illiterate republic,
and that, with vengeance, is what
Cuba would be today If it were made
independent and endowed with un-
iversal suffrage.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
TO THE MANOR BORN

The Washington correspondent of
the Globe-Democrat says that Major
Lacey of the Sixth Iowa district is a
born promoter of Legislation. When
he rises in the house and looks around,
the spirit of antagonism Gibbs. In
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
CHANGE IN FOUR YEARS,

The editor of the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican has been investigating pri-
ces as they were four years ago under
tariff reform andllcomparing them
with prices that obtain now. The
changed condition is.simply marvel
Gus.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

When Rev. ia. Sutton of Nashua
went to thattown five years ago there
was not Baptist family in the town
and he held his meetings in tent.
Today he has church numbering
z60 members, worshiping in fine
edifice on which there is no debt.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

The Iowa City Republican fears
John Herriott is turning to popu-
list. 1T seems certain, anyway"
says the Council Bluffs Nonpariel,
SHAT the populists are turning to
John Herriott."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
DUBUQUE TELEGRAPH:

Dubuque Telegraph: In looking
about for son-in-law, Mr.. Rookie
teller, like the late George M. Pull
man, has honored Iowa by selecting
Mr.. e. Parmelee Prentice, native of
Davenport. If Iowa can not always
achieve greatness, it Is able some
timet to marry it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

The fact that 5000, 200, 900 year
is annually paid for the ocean car
riage of our imports and exports, 92
per cent of which goes to others than
Americans, of itself shows that an
increase in the merchant marine of
the United States is to be desired,
and promoted by all possible means.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

1T is reported at Des Moines that
the state house janitors have been
notified by the governor that they
are expected to do six days honest
work every week. The governor is
right
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

The heirs of the late Charles F..
Blake of Ottumwa will receive $4,000
each as a result of the development
of copper mining claims owned by
the late banker.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Whether you think this is the
goth century or not, we would like to
ask you how to write 1900 in Roman
characters Year 1899 was written
MDCCCXCIX. Is MON proper for
1Qnn9
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
-In as much as the mumps hay

lin as much as the humps have
become cry prevalent in town, the
iS !, hs been suggested by a lady
Saay 5rhaps the virus with which
1.s-at -sswere vaccinated to ward off
small pox was taken from a lumpy
iaWed COW.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

I'm speech before the Demo
cratic convention Saturday, George
E. Taylor said he had worn the same
suit of clothes for four fears. How
many laboring men can wear clothes
that long, please ct nd up and be
counted. ~
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Three hundred weavers in car
pet mill in Lowell, Mass, are on a
strike because one of the members of
their union insists upon doing more
work every day than the rules of the
organization permit, and the mill
will not order her to do less work.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

1T is suspected that the burning
of DR.. Sheldon's barn last week was
the work ca on incendiary. AS there
was no Insurance on the building,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
ROW.
Absolutely AAHZNG-
Pure .P0ND<R
Absolutely
Pure

No inferior or impure ingredients are
used in Royal for the purpose of cheaper
ing its cost; only the most highly refined
and healthfu
Royal Baking Powder imparts that
peculiar sweetness, flavor and delicacy
noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls,
etc, which expert pastry cooks declare is
understandable by the use of any other
leavening agent.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

the st. Louis Globe Democrat thinks
the great preacher-editor is anxious
to get focus on the guilty man and
walk in his steps few minutes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03
VOL. so. NO. 40
Mahaska County Fair, September
4, 5, and z.

-Marshalltown's bill for small pox
cases during the past three months
has reached good-sized sum and
now stands between So, 900 and 81 900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

Alum is used in making cheap baking powders. II
you want to know the effect of alum upon the
tender Innings of the stomach, touch piece to
your tongue You raise biscuit with alum
baking powder, but at what a cost to health
The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-03

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST. new YoRk.
The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-03
is BRUNSWICK BAD

The TIMRs.CALL received a com.
munlcation from citizen yesterday
which read as follows
"Wt1l you please answer this ques.
tlon through columns Of your yaiu-
able paper, Is Brunswick worse than
other cities Of her slze?r
This gentleman will have to be more
explicit, VIII have 10 tell Us 10
what particular.
He must say exactly what he means
and then we will endeavor 10 answer
him although we could not be called
an authority on the 50 5iect.