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The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
THE PAIN OF MISSING

Burlington Hawk-Eye: One year
ago Wednesday Keokuk laid to rest
one of Iowa's most eminent journal
lists and statesman, Samuel M. Clark.
Thursday morning the Gate City, of
which Mr.. CLARK had been for so long
the able editor, printed thoughtful
communication from j. M. Shaffer, a
friend of the deceased, in which the
writer relates the sad fact of the
death and burial of the editor and Of
the mourning by his city and friends.
"It looked like serious question: ~
says Mr.. Shaffer, "what would the
city and the state do without the ac-
quired wisdom of dear Sam Clark"
He had "flled the measure of his
day and went into the silences, as
millions have done and millions more
who follow" And then the writer
adds the melancholy fact that "the
city, the state, the world keeps right
along, in their several orbits, without
jar, or hitch or stop. He was not
missed longer than a briefl day."
This, to the writer, seems right.
"Shall we," he asks, "who remain,
sigh and weep, and wish that Sam
M. Clark were alive to aid with his
trenchant pen, his eloquence, his
ready wit? By no means. 1t should
be our work to evolve a greater than
he, in all the elements in which him
self was great. None of all the
mightiest in letters, art, science,
government, who has passed, is
missed. Others fill the vacant chair.
The lesson is that the next man shall
be more excellent than the mar
whom we have buried; that the com,
ing man may appropriate the knowl,
edge and wisdom of those gone be-
fore, and may add to them something
worth handing down to their follow
ers," And to it all the Hawk-Eye
can bow assent; save, possibly, In
one or two particulars. While the
great world goes on filling up the
nitches made vacant by forms passed
on before, even placing in them
better and more useful workers in
the life, it cannot be said the former
occupants are not sadly missed, for
it is the missing that makes the
memory of such once dear. We get
along without them and sometimes
forget that they were necessary to
US; but there is many a time when
the blowing of the wind, the CLINT of
a sunbeam, the shadow of a passing
cloud, brings them up before us and
with the app arition comes the pain
of missing. Keokuk and the great
state of Iowa can get along without
Sam CLARK, but the records of the
present generation will draw to their
close ere the genial and wholesouled
editor and friend will have passed
beyond the yearning of those who
knew him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
TILE OLD FAITHFNL.

Despite pneumatic tires, storage
batteries and airships, the demand
for horses keeps up. When the trans
portation systems of the cities were
changed and thousands of horses
were thrown upon the market, it was
freely stated that the noble animal
had had his day, and so great was
the effect that many farmers and
breeders stopped raising horses.
Then, when the bicycle became uni
versal, another wave of prophecy
against the horse swept over the
country, with like effect. Following
this came the automobile, and the
prediction of horseless age was in the
mouth of every one. The explana-
tions were very reasonable. People
would travel by machinery and they
would not need horses. The multi
plication of trolley lines and the noise
and swiftness of the automobiles
would make driving too dangerous
for the average family. All the cir
cumstances and expectations were
/! against the use and future Of the
horse. .. ..
But in spite of these things the
horse has come TO the front again.
Recent wars have shown that man
cannot make much progress without
him. The bicycle corps and the
mechanical wagons and the road en-
gines are all right for some purposes,
but when an army has to move over
rough country, when quick work is
to be done, and where reliability is
required, the need of the horse or the
mule is absolute, and thus we have
the British army authorities purchas-
ing all over the world animals for
South Africa.
That, however, does not account
entirely for the revival of the horse.
People have found that neither the
trolley, the bicycle, nor the auto
mobile yield those pleasures which
come from driving. There is Joy in
handling the reins which is never
known to the man who simply moves
the lever, There is an intelligence in
the animal which can never exist in
machinery, however perfect, and
there is reliability about the horse
which is unknown to the motor
vehicle.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
EDRLN MANNING

Edwin Manning, the pioneer who
died at Keosauqua on Friday is
credited with being the richest man
in Iowa, his wealth being estimated
from s3,OOO,O 900 to $4,000, 900. The
story of the accumulation of this
wealth is practically the history OF
the state from the days of Black
Hawk to the present.
Mr.. Manning was of English
descent, and was born in South
Coventry, Conn, Feb, s, 1910. He
was brought up on farm and
educated in the public schools until
he was 16 years old, when he began
life at Bethany. Pa, as a clerk in
his uncle's store at $40 month.
Coming west in 1895, he made 9
short stop in Missouri, and then
settled in st. Francisyille, Lee
County, Iowa, where he bought some
land from Indians. He, with James
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
TIE SUDDEN CALL

The recent sudden death of two
prominent OskaloOsa business men
was terrible shock to the commu-
nifty. We read in the papers of such
occurrences elsewhere and pass them
by with only flickering sigh. But
when men whom we all know, per
fectly healthy and in the prime OF
life, are cut down without warning,
the event comes home to us with in-
describable vividness. However
careless the mind may be of the fu-
ture, however lightly the heart may
beat, an occasion of this kind will
crowd in to testify how delicate the
cord is that holds US suspended be-
tween earth and grave, and how
quickly that cord may be broken.
We think of death in our own case
as the eliminating circumstance of a
lingering illness, or the distant re-
suit of an injury. Not until we are
sick or suffering from an accident
are we disposed to think of the end,
or plan for what we would have done
when we are gone. Such Difference,
however, is not wholly wrong. God
did not intend that we should 60
moping through life, always plan.
ming for the end and worrying over
the future. 'The coward dies a
thousand deaths, the brave man
knows but one." A happy disposi-
tion is one of the roees providence
has placed on the roadside of oul
pilgrimage, and when the heart ID
right and the general course OF life
is kind and considerate-as they
were In the lives which we mourn
we have no fear OF the future.
The danger is not that We think tos
little Of death, but too much Of life
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22


Asked mis- opinion of the steel
strike Archbishop Ireland replied:
Equity and law are superior to the
personal welfare OF the individual or
an aggregation of individuals and
equity and law demand that the
personal freedom of the citizen, who
ever he is, be made sacred and se-
cure. Equity gives to every man the
right to select his employer, to work
or be idle as he chooses; to be free
from coercion, terrorism and over
persuasion in deciding the questions
Of whether he shall work or not,
where he shall work, for whom he
shall work, and what wages he shall
receive"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

%. ]. Laylander, who was nomin-
ated by the Black Hawk democrats
Saturday for county superintendent,
has written letter to the Waterloo
Courier declining the nomination and
declaring his intention of voting for
Hon. A. B. Cummins. Mr. Layland-
er is one of the best known school
men in Iowa. His refusal to take the
nomination has caused dismay in the
democratic ranks, coupled as it is
with his evident withdrawal from the
party.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

j. w. Johnson, formerly of this
city, but for the past six years editor
and proprietor of the Knoxville
Journal, has sold his plant to the
Iowa publishing Company, of which
Maurice Curtis, a Knoxville young
man is manager. During these years
Mr.. Johnson has gotten out splendid
paper, has built the plant up, and
leaves to his successors a successful
enterprise. Mr.. johnson has no de-
termined plans for the future, but
will never be found idle.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

rights of every prohibition county
and community.
Mr.. Cummins positively and author
itatively refutes, denies and disclafms
the idea that he is pledged to modi-
fication Of the mulct Law in favor of
the liquor interests. This charge
was repeatedly made during the ante
convention campaign. There is no
word of truth in it. On the contrary
Mr.. Cummins insists upon every
feature of it which operates in behalf
of temperance.
''It is untrue" said Mr.. Cummins
to representative of this paper who
interviewed him on the question,
that l am committed to a policy of
change in the mulct law to make it
less stringent. / am not so commit
ted, nor shall l be. / favored the
enactment and now favor the main
tenance of the mulct law as it stands
which, ! believe, protects the inter-
prohibitory sentiment dominates.
have no thought of recommending
an amendment to the mulct law de-
creasing the requirement from IS to
81 per cent, or of extending the
closing hours of saloons, or abolish
ing the provision against closing on
holidays, or permitting screens in
windows and tables and chairs in the
saloons, or opening the back doors,
or removing the Sunday closing pro-
vision.
II do not recall all of the provisions
which it has been charged to Pro-
hibitionists that / am in favor of
modifying, but reiterate, since you
ask me for a statement on the SUBJ
ject, that am in favor of leaving
the law as it is.
''It is inconceiyable that prejudice
against the party, it's platform and
its ticket can be induced by misre-
presentations of my position on these
matters. 1 stand by the position of
the party itself, and do not believe
that the Prohibitionists of Iowa-men
whom believe to be absolutely sim
cere and honest-will find it neces-
sary to destroy that maintenance of
prohibition in half the counties of
Iowa which is guaranteed by the
mulct law in order to voice opposition
to me. Certainly the interests of
temperance, the interests of pro-
hibition itself, indeed, and of the Re-
publican party are identical in this
campaign as they are in every con-
test"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

Philippines these days. None will
come after the Americans put their
scheme of civil government in ope-
ration. In all transfers of national
authority there is, at the outset, some
discomfort on the part of the trans
ferred. There was a very decided
and emphatic discontenti in Louisiana
when Bonaparte handed it over to
jefferson a century ago, but it dis
appeared eventually. Although the
Philippines will not be treated quite
the same as Louisiana was, the treat
ment will conform to the needs and
comfort of the people. There will be
no Aguinaldos in the islands after
the civil authority gets fairly in ope-
ration.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

st. Louis Globe-Democrat:-It is
noticed that some of the county dem
ocratic conventions in Iowa are in
dorsing the Kansas City platform.
The probability is that the coming
state convention in Iowa will reaffirm
the Kansas City deliverance. Many
of the states west of the Mississippi
are likely to do this. Missouri's con-
vention, if this state were to have a
democratic gathering of Importance
this year, would undoubtedly indorse
the Kansas City creed, and would
probably demand another nomina-
ton for the Kansas City candidate.
The democracy has not entirely
abolished Bryan yet.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

Mosquito incubation for the pre-
vention of yellow fever has been
suppressed at Havana. One man, a
Spaniard, tried the experiment and
died in few days. Another man
who'was bitten is also sufferingflrom a
very bad case. Both we're bitten by
insects which had been set apart for
the experiments of DR.. CaIdas, the
Brazilian expert, who has been ar
ranging to demonstrate the alleged
efficacy of serum as preventive
against yellow fever.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
CROP pROspEcTs BETrER.

According to letter to the Cincin-
natl Press Current matters are so ad-
justing themselves in Kansas and
Missouri that prices of fodder crops
may soon fall to level nearer the
normal. The writer points out, as
others have done, that the lugubrious
monthly crop report of the govern
ment under date of Aug. l, was made
up on the basis of reports forwarded
when everything and especially corn,
looked its worst. Scattered and
heavy showers since then have trans
formed things and the rain falling on
the heated earth has produced the
effect of a hotbed. Late-sown corn
and emergency fodder crops have
shot up and the corn crop will be by
no means so great failure as the
conditions on Aug. 1, indicated. The
writer also points out that farmers in
Kansas and Missouri have shipped so
many of their cattle that there is
probably more feed on hand already
than will be needed. At any rate the
farmers have to great extent stop
ped buying fodder. He estimates
that the number of cattle in Missouri
and Eastern Kansas to be fed next
winter will not be more than 5 or 10
per cent of what it usually is. But
not all of the other 80 to 50 per cent
have been sent to the shambles.
Large numbers are being fed in
Western Kansas off the alfalfa, so
that the loss of live stock will not be
great and the demand for fodder in
the stricken area which has driven
up the price of hay and oats and corn
will probably be lighter than was ex-
pected. Winter rye is being planted
in large quantities for fall and winter
pasture, and with favoring weather
the foodstuffs market is likely to ex-
perience relief.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
Horace Boies has been silent

Horace Boies has been silent a
long time, but he has broken out
again through the columns of the
Clinton Advertiser and he thus ad-
dresses the democrats of Iowa:
"Some things seem certain to me,
even in politics. In the first place l
am sure the democratic party must
become united party before there
is any hope for it's success here or
elsewhere, and in the second place 1t
will never become a united party so
long as bare majority there insist
upon reaffirmation of the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms on the
money question:" at
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
The ladies Of washington, 10,

The ladies of Washington, Iowa,
have inaugurated a nice thing. They
have fitted up 'rest rooms" for visit
ors to the city and have placed a
salaried NJ atron in charge. The rooms
are located in the court house and
are very attractive. Lace curtains
hang at the windows and plants
placed in them give the place cheer
full and inviting appearance. The
toilet and water closet accommoda-
tions are excellent. Pictures decor
ate the walls. Chairs, sofas and
tables are there for the free use OF
anybody and everybody. Reading
matter is also furnished.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

In driving about town evenings
one does not realize how far he goes
in the course of year. On August
15, 1900, Harry Little attached a
motometer to his single buggy. He
examined it last Thursday and was
surprised to learn that he had ridden
/ ,5SS miles. This is an average OF
over four miles a day, for the full
year, and about ten miles per day
during the driving season.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
OLD LOVE LETTERS.

JILL LIZ II LIZ 4 GISOs
Deep in the cedar chest they lie,
Far removed from the light of day,
The ink on their pages long since dry,
The soul of their longing fed away.
Lines that vary from grave to gay,
And yearnings tinged with the hearts
desire,
And words that promise and plead
and pray
These are the strings of Loves sad
Tyre.
Many a year has passed them by,
Many a month from March to May,
The SHOWS have gathered on hillocks
high,
And birds have sung in the orch.
ards gay,
Minstrels caroled their roundelay,
And nights grown black DER the sun
sets pyre;
Yet such as these have survived de-
cay
These are the strings of Love's sad
Tyre.
All too sacred for mortal eye,
Let them dream in the silence gray,
For love remains though the lovers
die,
Slow passing out from their house
of clay.
Prince, whom the lords of earth
obey,
Death, although thou art dark and
dire,
Here is that which disputes thy
sway
These are the strings of Loves sad
Tyre.
Pail Mall Magazine.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
REPUBLJCAN RIFLE.

Ex-senator Chandler's assertion
that the Republican party liberated
two races recently in Porto Rico and
the Orient, seems to bother some of
the Democratic papers. 1t is all
right, however. Porto Rico has had
something like four centuries of his
tory, but it never knew what real
freedom was until the Americans
gave it to them recently. The same
is true of the Philippines. The Porto
Ricans are not making any COM
plants about their treatment. Very
little complaint comes from the
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
DRUNKENNESS DECREASING

Commandant @. O, Horton of the
Soldiers Home in his annual report
says the drink habit is the root OF
nearly all the troubles at the institu-
tion. The percentage of drunkenness,
however, is less now than at any
time during the history of the home.
The new pension law which provides
for the withholding of pensions from
those twice convicted of drunkenness
has resulted in a number of this class
taking their discharge, and has proved
in general way beneficial to the best
interests of the home. The member
ship of the home on July 1, was 71S
men and 80 women. The average age
of members dying during the year
was 67.7. In 1900 it was 65.5. The
average of the living members on
June 80, 1901, was 64.4. The average
age of members admitted during the
year was 63.2. Fifty-six of the in
mates of the home have died in the
past year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

Frank Fousek, young fellow of
Jones county, took club and smash
ed a neighbours mail box on rural
mail route. Frank committe. une
depreciation after dark. But murder
will out and Frank is now in the GUS
tody of Postoffice Inspector Stewart
and has a good chance of going to
the penitentiary. 1t is as safe to
molest a rural mail box as it is to
burglarize a postoffice.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22
Total ................... 81 ,o1S, 900

An opinion from the Atchison
Globe on the dog: If man should
stand out in the street and talk in a
loud voice all night, the police would
arrest him as disturber of the peace.
Yet a dog is permitted to bark all
night, and the police do not seem to
care. There ia nothing so worthless
as dog, and no other animal has so
little to do, or has an equally good
time. A horse is compelled to work.
A COW is butchered, but a dog does
nothing but loaf, and bark at night,
and disturb tired people who want to
sleep. If dog kills sheep people
say, 90, it is dogs nature to kill
sheep; the owner should have kept
them up" but if hard working man
kills sheep there is howl about it
that can be heard from one end of
town to the other.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

United States Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge will visit Iowa during
the coming campaign, If the plans
which have been discussed between
him and Governor Leslie M. Shaw
are carried out. They have negotiated
for an exchange for part of the
campaign, Senator Lodge coming to
Iowa and Governor Shaw going to
Massachusetts,.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

There is more than a remote pos
sibility that General j B. Weaver, of
Colfax, will be settled on by the dem
ocrats at their convention August 81,
as the candidate for the governor
ship. Heis the only Barkus in sight,
and he can stand on any platform and
talk the other way equal to any other
man in the party.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

AT the beginning of July war tax
alton was largely reduced, but, never
theless, the treasury showing of the
month improved. Government re-
ceipts last month were $4,000, 900
larger than in 1900 and $4,000, 900
larger than in 1893. The months ex-
penditure was q, 900, 900 less than In
1900 and s4,5OO,OOO less than in 1899.
July is q month of heavy outgo, in
cluding interest and pensions, and
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

The Milwaukee Free Press isn't
altogether pleased that the Cream
City's greatest reputation should be
"for beer and license" 1t thinks
that with some of the money now
wasted on silly "carnivals," Mil
waukee might easily be made
famous" for it's great steel and
iron industries, its tanneries and
other manufacturing enterprises.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

Hall and others, entered a
claim and laid out the town of
Keosauqua, this being the Indian
name for the river at that place.
In 1889 Mr.. Manning purchased the
first stock of merchandise ever
brought to Keosauqua, shipping it by
way of the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mississippi River. He built the first
fat boat that ever passed out of the
Des Moines River, and in 1851 ran
loaded steamers between st. Louis
and Des Moines.
He dealt in lands and merchandise
and engaged in banking. He had
partnerships without numb nd
his enterprises were alwa. Js-
full. He had a store at nef dH> ry
town and village from Krd meea to
Eddyville.
Mr.. Manning never ran for office,
but always took deep interest in
politics. His son, "Car' Manning,
is a banker at Ottumwa, and was the
United States commissioner to Paris
for Iowa.
Mr.. Manning was known for his
steadfastness of purpose and for al
ways keeping his head in financial
crisis. AS manager of large inter-
ests he never overreached. He never
lost faith in Iowa real estate, and at
the time of his death owned thousands
of acres of the best Iowa lands. His
office was in his original bank build
ing, looking out on the Des Moines
River, the structure having been put
up in the days of steamboating. He
started many young men on success
full business careers.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

South Missouri is one of the
greatest tomato-canning districts OF
the whole country. There are %
factories in nine or ten counties,
which last year packed more than a
million cans each. This year they
will not pack any. The drought and
heat lasted so long that the vines
cannot recover.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

President John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
the course OF an article in the New
York Independent, expresses the
opinion that every great strike which
has taken place in our country could
have been avoided II each side had
been reasonable and honest with the
okhar
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

The Des Moines Leader says if
silver is ignored in the coming Dem
ocratic State convention and an Ohio
platform adopted there is a strong
likelihood the populists will revive
and ticket headed by men favorable
to the Kansas City platform will be
nominated.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-22

Congressman Lacey is in demand
as public speaker, especially where
old soldiers are gathered together.
He was at Lynnville this week, and
was the principle speaker at the old
settlers and soldiers reunion. He
will also address a similar gathering
at Leon, August 81.