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The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
A WAY THEY HAVE.
What this Oskaloosa Citizen
Says Only Corroborates the
Story of Thousands.

The particulars related by this
representative citizen of Oskaloosa
are similar to hundreds of others in
this city when there are scores of
people, all anxious to tell about the
benefits received from the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills, the greatest
skeptic in Oskaloosa must be con-
WINGED. Read this:
Mrs. J. Fenwick of SIS South D
street, says: From a backache with
which suffered much annoyance |
was given prompt relief through using
Doan's Kidney Pills. My husband
brought them home from Blakeslee
Brothers drug store, and, as l said,
their use for only short time was
entirely successful in freeing me from
pain. My faith has been established
from personal experience with Doan's
Kidney Pills and accordingly com
mend them to others troubled as l
was"
Sold by all druggists, Price so cents.
Foster Milburn Co , Buffalo, n. Y,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's, and take
no substitute.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

! Those who seek the great and ad.
4 mirable opochs of our history ought
not to seek them in the earlier days oi
the republic They are around us Just
behind us, and just before us. 1t is
not however, the part of wisdom to
| shut our eyes 10 the fact that we are
beset with grave problems and by dan
gers and difficulties new and strange.
But we ought not to approach these
problems and consider these dangers
and difficulties except in hope and
courage We ought not to capitulate
10 the national enemies, and, while yet
old soldiers of the Uuion army still
survive among us, allow our political
leaders to mournfully number the days
of the republic.
1t is proposed to consider what is
perhaps, the gravest peril which now
threatens the national safety; peril
so easily disguised as to escape notice,
and 50 insidious as to quiet all suggest
ions of alarm. 1t is obvious that the
healthful operation OF institutions such
as ours presupposes an intieXible popu-
lar adherence to the precepts OF up
right living. 1t presupposes also such
a state OF popular intelligence as will
enable the nation to deal with the ques-
tons many OF them complex and OBJ
scure, which concern the public well
fare
Sufficient progress has been made
in the system of public education, trans
planted from New England through
out the national boarders to warrant
the belief that our scheme of govern
ment will not be disturbed by an il
literate suffrage We have seen the
American people even in the midst of
commercial disasters affecting the
whole community, think as soberly of
the knotty problems of economy and
finance and solve them as wisely as the
cabinets of the best governed countries
of the world.
In most of the states which have
limited the right OF suffrage by edit
cational tests the common school sys-
TEN has been extended so universally
as to leave only few subjects to ex-
clusion from the privilege OF citizen
ship. There are states, il is true,
which have undertaken to drive litter
acy from the ballot-box without max
ing an adequate provision for the in
struction of the youth, and there are
a few states whose statutes upon this
subject have been so manifestly in bad
faith as TO have brought them into
well deserved contempt. Verify, they
have their reward; but they have yet
to settle with judgments whi:h will
one by one be entered under laws
somewhat higher than enactments OF
state legislatures or constitutional con-
ventions.
while we ought to be on our guard
against the evils OF an ignorant stuff
rage, these evils, speaking generally,
tend to correct themselves, and do not
constitute in any sense the most
formidable danger by which the ma
tional integrity is threatened. For in
the long run every state which shuts
out the illiterate from the right 10
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
Savings nnnlS Chimes

Westerly, Il. l., April 29.-The Me-
chanics' Savings bank of this town
will not open for business to-day. The
reason given is that the trustees, ow-
ing to the doubtful value of some of
the banks assets, have decided that it
is for the best interests of the de-
positors that the bank go into liqui-
dation. This action came as a great
surprise to the town, and great excite
ment prevails among small depositors
The estimated amount of deposits is
something less than $1,OOO,0O0, the Sc
Surities on their face values something
less than $1,1O0,0OO, the number of de-
positors about 1000. Many of the Sc
curities are western investments,
which are understood to have de-
creased in value year by year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

years pursued that great man of affairs
who has defied the storm of calumny
as the chairman of the republican ma
tional committee. Nor ought the cam
pagn fund to be abolished, for without
money it would be impossible even to
maintain political headquarters. But
the public safety requires the campaign
committee, the candidate for Office and
all others who seek to influer &c the
judgment of American voters to do
what they do in the light of day.
Nothing would more effectually
silence the noise of undeserved SANDER
and detraction than a plain, public
statement of all campaign receipts AMI
of all expenditures. There is no re-
proach in the fact that man who be-
lieves the prosperity and welfare of the
country to be threatened by partisan
agitators should contribute his time
and his money to defeat the dreams of
Missionaries and the schemes of adven-
turers; but what he does he ought to
do in broad daylight.
There is no discredit attached to
campaign contribution publicly made
for legitimate purposes; but there is an
un-speakable disgrace following every
made accepted with a contrast, eX-
pressed or implied, that. in considera-
ton of the money given, political
gated to propose and to carry through
legislative enactments of special in
terest to the contributors.
The light of day would kill an
abuse like that and put an end forever
80 thA ~l,x I,1 8 - II.
as bad as the abuse itself. Therefore,
let every dollar that is contributed be
set opposite the name of the contribu-
tor; let every dollar that is expended
be put down in a complete statement
of accounts, and let the light of pub
licity. under sanction of the law, fall
upon every political transaction which
involves the government OF the Ameri-
can people.
These things have been managed
in crude way, it is true, in other
countries. They can be managed here
in way vastly more effective than
anywhere else in the world The
young men of the United States who
within the next fifteen years will do
the thinking that is to control presi-
dents and congresses have it in their
power to put an end to the reign of
scandal in American politics by Great
ing public opinion so red-hot that po-
litical managers will not dare reap the
reward of an election bearing the faint
of dishonesty. 1t is in their power to
set up standard OF civic righteousness
that shall not only exalt the national
life. but remove the reproach which.
whether just or unjust, has for years
put under suspicion the headquarters
Of party leadership in the United
States
JONATHAN P. DoLLIvER.
Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

vote will enlarge its provisions for
| popular education, unless it chooses
to invite penalties too greviouS to be
| borne
There is another and vastly greater
plague spot in the national life, more
damaging by far than ignorance,
which tends to perpetuate itself and
extend the erea of its malignant in
fluence until it may at last corrupt the
national conscience. | refer to the
use OF money, by the managers of po-
litical parties, to secure the election
of public officers. | do not specially
include the common forms of bribery
by which the votes or irresponsible
persons are bought and sold The in q.
fanny of bribery ought not to be mini
mixed, but these offenses are all with
utes, and have no apologists at the
infect the national character, and they
need only to be discovered TO receive
the full reprobation of the law They
are not new in the catalogue of crime,
and aside from the vigilance of the
courts, there is no remedy for them
except the moral progress OF the whole
community.
1t is easy to overstate the dangers
arising from the buying and selling of
votes, for there is in the very nature
Of things an almost automatic pro-
lection of our form of government
against such corruptions. in view of
the fact that whoever is base enough
to buy a vote will as a general rule,
steal the money confded to him for
that purpose; and whoever has so far
lost his moral sense as to sell his vote
cannot be relied upon to deliver it.
The crime committed in secret becomes
an uncertain investment in the secrecy
OF the election day.
The safety of our government rests
in the fact that the bribery of voters,
on however large scale, attaches to
itself all the odium and degradation
Of felony. 1t needs only to be dis
covered in order to meet retribution;
and unless such offenses unhappily
gain respectability and at last win
the liberation OF courts and the Ian
guild acquiescence of the community,
they do not constitute a fatal invasion
Of our form of government.
Within the last thirty years an
abuse has grown up far more fatal
to our institutions than the buying and
selling of votes in the interest Of
anxious candidates for Office is ever
likely to become That abuse is the
campaign fund collected by national
committees and expended in the
management of our presidential cleo
tons. 1t is comparatively a new thing
In one of Miss Ida TarbelPs delightful
sketches of the life of Lincoln there
is preserved letter written by Mr..
Writ Dexter to his wife, in which the
size of the campaign fund collected
to aid Lincoln's second election is
stated. 1t appeares to have been $500
600, and the amount was regarded as
So unusual that the custodian of the
fund felt called upon to defend himself
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
A TIMELY TOPIC.
The Need of Publicity in Cam
paign Receipts and Ex-
penditures.

The Philadelphia Saturday Record
is publishing series OF exclusive ar
ticles BY public men on public ques-
tions. The last issue conetains Hon. ].
P. Delivers contribution to this ser
les and is entitled The Need OF Pub
licity in Campaign Expenditures" The
following is the article verbatim:
From the adoption Of the Constitu-
ton until the collapse of the rebellion
at Appomattox popular institutions in
the United States were in an expert
mental stage Nobody could tell
whether the government would last
another ten years or not. Statesmen
and people were in the dark together.
The Federalist and Madison papers
had been worn to the very covers in
a vain search for the foundations OF
the national structure, while upon the
pathway of the republic fell the sha-
dows OF doubt. uncertainty and fear.
The chief thing that we owe to the
Union army is the faith, made perfect
through suffering, that the flag of the
United States belongs to all the centur-
les that are to come Whatever pas
sions may disturb, whatever factions
may divide the national counsels the
life of the republic. made secure by in
finite sacrifice can never again be the
plaything Of party managers, or stake
IN desperate games OF political adj
venture
The figure of Abraham Lincoln stan :
ing on the field at Gettysburg by the
graves OF the Union dead, instead of
growing smaller and more indistinct
with time has increased TO the measure
of the colossal events which surround
ed him, until above the noises, clamors,
and tumults of the hour all generations
share IN the assurance OF his inspired
confidence that the government by the
people, OF the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
1t is hard 10 oyerestinate the value
Of this assurance. 1t forms a base
line from which all measurements may
be taken: it is the bedrock upon
which all hopes may be builded. The
wisest and greatest men of the period
Immediately preceding the civil war
never knew the comfort of this faith I;
if they could have forseen that when
the hour of trial came the nation would
not stop 10 compute the waste OF blood
and treasure, the note Of despair
which runs through our political liter
ature almost from the beginning would
have been less dominant and less per-
sistent AS at was the nation was
eighty years old before it produced a
statesman who dared TO look the future
IN the face without asking the gods for
death
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
FARMERS SUFFER.
High Water Causes Great Ruin in
Southern Indiana and
Kentucky.

Evansville, Ind, April 29.-The river
registers 42.4 feet. The greatest dam
age in this region is to farmers. 1t
is estimated that 100000 acres Of
wheat between this city and Paducah.
Ky, are destroyed. The losses to
houses is 100000. Over half mill
lion bushels of corn are destroyedin
the crib. The lumbermen along Green
river estimate their loss at 100000
Merchants in this city lose considera.
bly, by the water creeping through
cellars. The loss to farmers along
the Wabash river is heavy, 100000
bushels of corn being swept away.
Three farmhouses were destroyed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
COMMITTED MANY CRIMES.
They Pleaded Guilty 10 Burglary. and
breaking and Entering.

Humboldt, April 29.-In the district
court of Humboldt county Saturday
six members of gang of small
burglars and sneak thieves, who have
been operating in this county for
several years were sentenced as fol-
lows: William II. PATTERSON and
James Calder, eighteen months and
Walter Rose one year in the PEN
jtentiary; George PATTERSON and his
brother Charles, sons Of William Bat
terson, and Ed. Beebe, nine months
each.in the county jail. They pleaded
guilty to various crimes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
FALLS TO DEATH.
Bridge worker Killed at Boone--FaIIs
1855 Feet

Boone. April 29-Hugh McAlery, a
workman on the Chicago & North
western bridge over the Des Moines
river at.this place, the highest bridge
in America, fell from the top of the
structure to the water. a distance of
1856 feet, Saturday evening. He was
working on the middle span of the
bridge when he lost his footing and
fell through the false work, striking
timbers three times on the way.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
Bertscb-Boal Drug Go
nettcr nag for Cnrpenfers.

Pittsburgh, Pa, April 29.-Five
thousand organized carpenters in the
Pittsburgh district will, next Wednes-
day, May 1, work under a new scale,
carrying a substantial advance over
thepresentwage, and providing for an
eight-hour day. Under the new scale
agreement, to which nearly 1900 en-
ployers have assented, the journey
men carpenters will draw base
wage of three dollars for day of
eight hours, The average wage will
run about 1925. The present scale
is based at three dollars a day for
nine hours.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

Geo. L. Heard of High Tower, Georgia,
writes: Eczema broke out on my baby
covering his entire body Under treatment
of our family physician he got worse as
he could not sleep for the burning and
itching. We used a box Of BANNER
SALyE" on him and by the time it was
gone he was well. The doctor seeing it
was curing him said, "ctick to it for it is
done for him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
The Modern Way.

Coummends itself to the well-informed
to do pleasantly and effectually what
was formerly done in the crudest man
ner and disagreeably as well. 10
cleanse the system and break up colds,
headaches, and fevers without unpleas-
ant after effects, use the delightful Ii
quid laxative remedy, Syrup OF Figs
Made by California Ig Syrup Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
FATAL FALL
Bridge Walker Falls Through EDDY.
Vile Bridge and VIII Die

Ottumwa, April 27-Wm. Parker, a
railroad employe, fell from the Iowa
Central bridge at Eddyville this
morning, distance OF so feet. He
struck in pile of driftwood and sus-
tanned fatal internal Injuries.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
LAD KILLED AT PLAY.
Pile of Lumber at cedar Rapids Top
pies aud Falls on S-Year-OId BOY

Cedar Rapids, Ia, April 29.-W Willie
Hermanek, aged eight, was crushed
to death beneath the weight of load
of lumber being hauled along the
streets Friday evening. He was
walking along the street when load
of lumber toppled over onto him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
CONVICTED OF FORGERY.
Forger and Deserier of Invalid Wife
Found Guilty.

Marshalltown, April 29.-W. o.
Hedrick, who forged the name of
his wife and that of his sister in-law
to two drafts for $50 each, and after
securing the money deserted his in
valid wife, was convicted Saturday
and will be sentenced this week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
CUMMINS CARRIES POLK.
He WiH Have 81 Delegates TO state
Convention and Sid Foster, 10

Des Moines, April pa. B. Cum
minis, attorney for the Chicago Great
Western and the c., r. l. & P. Rail-
ways, carried the primaries here Sat
urday and he will have 81 of the GA
delegates to which this county is en-
titled. Sid Foster against whom the
entire political combination of the
county was centered will have 10 dele
gates.
II you want some Just as good" ."I
make it myself Remedy, try an imita-
ton Rocky Mountain Tea. Twill make
you sick and keep you sick.
Bertsch- Boal Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

Jennie = To have a round beautiful
neck wiggle your head from side to side
every night take Rocky Mountain Tea
It's short cut to graceful FORM 35c
Bertsch- Boal Drug 90.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
The Most Stubborn counhs.

resulting from an attack of la grippe or
heavy cold, must yield to the wonderful
healing properties of FoLEYS HONEY
AN DTAR, which strengthens the lungs and
makes them sound.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

The editor Of the Fordville, KY, Mis-
cellaneous, writes as postscript to a bus
mess letter: II was cured Of kidney
trouble by taking FoLEYs KIDNEY
CURE" Take nothing else.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
Correspondent. wantea.

Write to US II you want to learn what
DR.. caldwell's Syrup PepsIn viii do. or
call at our store and get a trial bottls
Ten doses loo, at
Green & Bentley Drug Store.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02
hest way 20 Cure Backache.

Backaches are caused by disorder in the
kidneys. F0LEYs KIDNEY CURE will
make the kidneys right. Take no substi-
fut~ Ut, 4 ealia1ln
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-05-02

Kindles anew the fires of youth, bal
ances lip the joys and sorrows of life.
It's vain and foolish not to use Rocky
Mountain Tea made by Madison Medi-
cine Co. CSC.
Bertscb- Boal Drug 90.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-25
RITA.
Fire.

Again Pembina's good luck and a
little lively work saved a conhagration.
Just at nine o'clock Wednesday morn
ing Charley Atkinson noticed smoke
coming out from around the windows Of
the basement of the First National Bank,
occupied by the Cakes Land company as
an Office. Cashier Carr was notified and
bursting in the door was then thrown
backward by volume of heat and
smoke. The fire alarm was given and
the fire started in the engine. Meantime
bucket brigade which found abund-
ance of water in large, out door cistern
in the rear Of the Pembina house began
throwing in water at the door and win
dows, and soon subdued the flames so
that they were able to enter and put out
the rest. The fire had extended to, two
walls and half of the ceiling, and was ex-
tinguished just in time to prevent its
burning through the upper floor into the
bank and stairway, where if it had once
entered it would have been pretty hard
to put out. The basement had Just been
renovated with paint and wall paper by
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-25
A number of teachers of this citv and

"A number OF teachers of this city and
country districts, of the locality, met
in the school building last Saturday to
discuss educational work. The Reading
Circle work was reviewed and some of
those present were assigned chapters to
read after which there was general dis.
cussion. This being the first meeting
the session was not long, but the next
meeting will occupy more time and be
more productive of real bene fit. Prof.
Keenan, presided and gave an outline OF
his method of teaching history. Those
present were.-Misses Mary Moran,
Ruth Townsend, E.May Nixon, Antonette
Branchaud and Mr.. Jas. c. Wardwell-
Pembina, Mr.. and Miss See-Carlisle,
Miss Thompson and Miss Lowe
toilette. l. was decided to meet every
month.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-25

=. u g5ts
the Bank and the Cakes Lard Co. had
just got IN two elegant new desks last
week. The latter's loss is about 800,
while The loss of the Bank is from 500
to $500 as the wood work is charred all
al around and will have to erenevated.
The cause of the fire was an oilsstove
used for temporary heating. Mr.. Cakes
left for Emerson about $50 but only
turned the slove down partially, know
ing that Miss Purdy the stenugrapher
would be at the Office by nine o'clock,
but at that time the fire had started;-
just how, however is not known. The!
stove may have leaked or the wainscot.
ting may have caught from the heat of
the stove.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-25
"Ten Nights in a Bar-room."

This masterpiece was thought to have
lost its usefulness, but like Gladstone
the grand old man." ripe with age and
full of healthy energy, it can indeed be
called the grand old drama" They
call it classic. Great minds have turned
to it as pleasing example of superb
dramatic sentiment, healthful and natural
comedy and as moral to everyone,
young and old. Comments from noted
men, including great divines, are regis
tered after the name of Ten nights in a
Bar-room," and it was Harry Ward
beecher himself who declared that the
lessons taught "were more powerful
than sermon" AT Kittson Hall. Sat-
urday, Nov End.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-25
Personal.

Mrs E.W.Conmy visited her daughter
Miss Mollie, who is at St. Mary's school
at Winnipeg.
Mrs. George McQuin expected to
leave for Grand Forks yesterday to visit
with her daughter.
Judge kneeshaw and family are ex-
pected home from their Ontario visit
the last of next week.
DR.. Falcon will be away during the
month of November. but will be back
ready for busidess Dec. 10.
w. H. Randall of Durand, Ill.,, who
was one Of the pioneers of this county,
was over from Hamilton this week.
IKE. Foster was trying to land some
thing in Pembina on Monday. IKE. is
busy these boom days ofPemb ina county
dirt.
Attorney Spring was located last week
at Portage la Prairie, Man. all right, but
no definite reason given for his sudden
spring across the line.
Miss Belle Mckay is slowly improving,
as is Judge Wallace. Mrs. c. G.
Thompson has been quite ill this week
with quinsy, but is getting better.
Mr.. Smith, of Osnabruck, has been
selling three car loads of bronchoes here
this week. DR.. Hunt got a nice pair
which he is training for driving team.
Joseph Gagne, aged p, son of !. D.
Gagne, near Neche, was brought before
the board Of insanity this week and will
doubtless be taken to Jamestown.
Mayor Mcdonald and Attorney Fergu.
son of Drayton, were visitors on Monday
Mr.. Mcdonald has been proposed by his
friends as candidate for county com.
missioner.
Mrs. H. E. Diemer, of Winnipeg
Junction, is visiting witl1>her parents
Miss Antonette Branchaud her sister who
has been visiting Mrs. Diemer returned
with her.
Mr.. Perrault Of the Bathgate Roller
Mills was over on Thursday on business
connected with the mill which he in
forms us is flourishing nicely under the
new management.
Messrs. E. X. Cavileer, ]. LaMoure jr.
and Mayor Chisholm have been up rivel
this week in the 'Chico" looking fol
ducks and geese. They ran to Draytor
and back on 10 gallons of gasoline anc
have considerable left.
Messrs. Thos. Roadhouse, Jos. Morgan,
DR.. Ewing and Geo. Corbett, spent ter
days across the line looking up prospect.
and went as far as Lethbridgs, N. w. T
They report fine country, excellent
soil, and rapid settlement Some of the
party including Mr.. Morgan invested il
land near Regina.