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The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11


morning via the Rock leland for Chi
cago where he will remain several
weeks looking after business matters
in a literary line.
Mrs. Anna Larson, John and Han
nah Peterson departed this morning
over the Iowa Central for Lake Park,
Mimi, where they viii make their
home in the future.
Miss Ida o. Hays returned to-day
from a weeks visit in Eddyville. She
was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs.
r. NJ. Patterson, of Utica, Nebraska,
who win visit here for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. O. Moore, Mrs.
John Spencer and Miss Mary Spen-
Ger returned to this city yesterday
after spending the summer at the
John Spencer home in Redlands, Cal
ifornia.
Mrs. W. NJ Robinson, of Laddsdale,
ia here for several days. visit with her
sister, Mrs. Ray Cartwright. Both
ladies went to Givin this morning for
a short visit with their mother, Mrs.
Lizzie Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Vernon, of Delta,
were in the city to-day attending to
business matters. Mrs. Vernon has
Just returned from q two months
visit with her sister, Mrs. Cole Van
Gordan, in Emmettsburg.
Miss Clara Banks and brother Will,
of Knoxville, and Edwin Banks, of
Pittsburg, who have been visiting at
the F. M. HennesB home northwest
of the city, left yesterday afternoon
for their respective homes.
Misses Helen Barnes, of Garner,
and Henrietta Sturgeon, of Clarion,
who have been guests of their friend,
Miss Elizabeth Burnside, left this af-
ternoon for Monmouth where they
will enter Monmouth college for the
coming year.
Hon. Cyrus Beede, United States
Indian inspector, is home from Mus
cogee, Indian Territory, where he has
been located for number of months.
He is enjoying good health, and &C.
cording to official reports his services
are highly satisfactory to the govern
ment.
Homer Rosenberger departed Sat
ur day evening for Whittier, Califor-
mia, where he has accepted the chair
of Science in Whittier college. He
has been spending the summer at
home here, the guest of his father,
President A. Rosenberger, of Penn
college.
Rev. and Mrs. II. H. Clouse de-
parted last night on the Iowa Central
for Kansas City on their way to Rainy
Mountain, Okla, where they have
been in the mission field for the past
seven years. Quite number of the
Baptist people of the city were at the
depot to bid them God speed.
II. H. Sheriff is confined to his
home by a Tefy severe attack of sci
ATTIC rheUssatism and has been a very
sick man, He has been confined to
his home for the past two weeks and
even IL improvement continues it will
require several more weeks for him
to be around and at work again.
B. 7. Dutton departed to-day for
visit with his daughter, Mrs. Alice
Murphy, of New York. On his way
home Mr.. Dutton expects to visit at
Washington during the G. A. r. en-
campment, and later will spend some
time among scenes of his younger
days in Ohio. He expects to be ab-
sent a couple of months.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11
SPRING CREEK.

Lewis Towns and family were Wis
itors at w. II. Morrow's last Sunday.
Chas. Hamaker is in these parts
again, swinging the paint brush.
The Buckeye school honse is being
repaired and painted, which will add
greatly TO its appearance. School be.
gins there next week.
Mrs, c. NJ. Borgess. is on the sick
list Her daughter, Miss Edna, and Mr..
Borgess. went to Omaha about two
weeks ago, and in less than a week
he was called home. Mrs. B. is some
better now.
Jas. Ferris has bought the old Carl
SCHULZ place, or rather the south end
of ii.
And still II rains. Looks as though
some Of tht farmers would have to
wait until cold weather to DO their
Some Of the corn is about ready to
cut. r
The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11
DEVILS Oranges.

Stephen Pomeroy, who has just re-
turned from pleasant trip to Kansas,
brought The HERALD a specimen of
"Devll's oranges" which may be seen
in our show window.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11

drills wells, rope holes and prospects
for coal. See him, or write in care
Gesman Bros, Oskaloosa, Ia. Our
prices reasonable and work guaran-
teed. 30tf
The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11
PEORIA.

We have been having fine weather
the past week.
The warm weather is just the kind
70 dry out the corn. II the frost
keeps on two or three weeks corn will
be safe. ThrashiDg rs progressing
The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11
Eugene
Fields
Views on Ambition and Dys-
pepsia.

Dyspepsia, wrote Eugene Field,
soften incapacitates a man for endeavor
and sometimes extingnishes the fire OF
ambition" Though great despite his
complaint Field suffered from indiges-
ton all his life. A weak, tired stomach
can't digest your food. 1t needs
rest. You can only rest it by the use
Of preparation like Kodol, which re-
lieves it of work by digesting your food.
Rest soon restores it to its normal tone.
strengthening,
Satisfying,
EnVigorating.
Prepared only by Z. G. DEWITT s. Co., Chicago
The ST.. bottle contains 2H times the 5Oc. Size
Green & Bentley Drug Company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
CHECK THE FIRE FIEND.

Newspapers of last Monday contained
accounts of several great eonf1agra tions
in part of the country where it would be
expected their results should not be so
frightful in the loss of human life and
property and in the human suffering.
For hours in the city of Paterson, N. j.,
there ragged on Sunday a fierce confia-
grafton which by. its terrible greed ate
up substance of one kind and another
valued at eight or ten million dollars.
Fire-fighters turned out in force and
spent vain, but none the less valiant eff
forts to stay the flames Reinforce
ments came from other places and lent
their services with equal eagerness to
beating back the fire.
At st. Louis early in the morning of
the same day eleven people persisted in
the destruction OF hotel, others being
obliged to flee for their lives into the
bitter cold of the day received injuries
that will never be charged up in the
known lists of sufferings or casualties.
Monday, the plant formerly owned by
the manufacturers OF a great reaper,
went up in smoke at Springfield, Ohio,
Other blazes of minor consequence oc-
CURED at other places.
There should be some way of getting
at this business and preventing the re-
currence of CONGREGATIONS so costly in
every way. To say that fire must be
done away with is, of course, foolish.
But on the other hand, it seems tie
proposition should be handled from the
point of building cities that would
greatly minimize their number and esI-
tent. There should be such rules
enforced as would not allow 1t to
get a start Then in case of danger
from fire there should be other condi-
lions covering the phase of a possi-
bility by which any spread would be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
LESSONS OF VALENTINE DAY.

The American people have habits:
good, bad and indifferent. The so-called
comic valentine" seems to be one of
the bad, very bad habits, but it is fast
giving way to good breeding.
The sending of the so-called comic
valentines is supposed to be childish
pastime. 1t has sometimes been adopt
ed by adults, however, as means once
a year of back-biting persons who are
subjects of their criticisms. The sending
of anonymous letters is conceded by ev-
eryone to be a cowardly thing to do
but some who would not stoop to the
sending of such letters will, however,
invest in the scurrilous and vulgar ith-
ographs holding people up to ridicule
under the safety of not being discov-
cred.
Why not send some pleasing bit OF
sentiment. an encouraging suggestion,
commentator for some good deeds done
and try and throw ray of brightness
across the persons life and in doing SO
be a gentleman and a good Samaritan
instead of a coward? 1t would make the
sender better, for certainly the attack
on persons feelings with a comic val
entine aR a weapon leaves the sender
less of man after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15

out of the question. The lesson of the
St. Louis disaster should be the
arrangement of tenement houses and
hotels whereby the occupants would
have the least trouble in finding exits
during a time of excitement and peril.
They should have the matter brought 20
their attention in such way that they
would know what to do for themselves
and those about them in an emergency
Then, if the departments of the cities
were properly trained there would De
not the least cause of complaint.
With all the destruction by ire when
is going ON, Topeka has reason to con-
graduate itself upon the excellent show
ing which Chief Wilmarths annual re-
port given out Thursday, shows. The
decrease in the losses over 1900 is in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The total loss
was $24, 64916, a figure which is surpris-
ingly low when everything is taken into
consideration. OF course Topeka Is
not as big as st. Louis, but its popula-
ton is nearly half that of Paterson and
with a force of firemen numbering only
about one-third as many. What makes
the comparatively small loss of Topeka
all the more reason for qualification Is
the fact that most Of it was covered by
Insurance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15

England now publicly and officially
denies the charge that she tried to or
game a coalition in favor of Spain.
Lord Cranborne. replying in the house
of commons yesterday to a question on
the subject of the action of the British
ambassador at Washington, Lord
Pauncefote, April Il, 1898, said: The
meeting which occurred April IA. 1885,
was convened by Lord Pauncefote as
dean of the an bassadors, at the verbal
suggestion of some of his colleagues.
Whatever opinions We're expressed by
Lord Pauncefote during the discussion,
which was of an informal character.
were personal to himself and not pdr-
suant to instructions from her maj
esty's government. The discussion re-
suited in an agreement to forward an
identical telegram to their respective
governments suggesting a further com
munication to the United States On
receipt of this message her majesty's
government Immediately replied by OBJ
jecting to the terms of the comnunica-
ton as injudicious- Two days later
Lord Pauncefote was inforne ed that her
majesty's government had decided to
take no action. We, at that time, had
no information of the attitude of the
German government"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record
The hair-raising story is the kind
that ought to appeal to the bald-headed
man.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and others thrust
themselves upon it.
When the weather man predicts d
storm and it turns up he feels that he
ought to have his salary raised.
Blobbs-''Are you going to do pen
ance during Lent?" Slobbs-''Well, i
expect to go to church every Sunday
Are you sure you love me for my
self alone?' asked the romantic young
woman. We'll" replied the practical
young man, Il don't think l love you
for anyone else"
wigg-"That messenger boy is the
Slowest thing alive. I wonder what will
become of him when he grows UP.
Wagg-"Maybe he will develop into
great chess player"
Sillicus-"People who lose their money
are always complaining to their friends
about it" Cynicus-'' Nonsensei Peo-
pie who lose their money never have
any friends left
In Lenten time my lady fair
Gives up her pleasures free.
And now 1 find, to my despair,
She's going to give up me.
Kelly-"Oi read a foine book last
noight. Twas full of foightin'. A man
named Cooper wrote it, Reilly-"Sure.
Last of Thin O'Higgins.,
trumps.
And players must be slick
For love is blind. and oft you'll find
That diamonds take the trick.
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ADRT DEFIES THE KING" THEN
Sac POI 10
IS GREATER THAN ROYALTY ITSELF.

of permitting favored subjects to kiss
his hand.
Federal court at ST. Louis decides reg
ular army officers cannot sit as mem
berS of courts martial to try volunteers.
Two hundred prisoners freed.
Imperial yacht Hohenzollern, Whicn
is to be the hone of Prince Henry DUR
ing his stay in New York, arrives in
the harbor.
City Savings bank of Detroit sus-
ponds business because of a shortage OF
81, 900 in the accounts of Frank Z.
Andrews, vice president.
ton meets in annual convention at
Washington.
Six persons killed and six more badly
wounded in fight between a sheriffs
posse and nountaineerS near Mindless
boro, Ky.
Lord Kitchener files report of efforts
to capture General De Wet, the oper-
atoms beginning February 4, and the
Boer leader breaking the GORDON two
days later.
Empire hotel, three-story lodging
house for men in st. Louis, is burned
and ten men and one woman are ere
mated.
Oleomargarine bill passed by the
house after its opponents amended 1t 20
require the inspection and branding oil
renovated butter.
Fire in Paterson, N. J., destroys 70
blocks, consuming 500 dwellings in adj
dition to the main business section of
the city, and causing loss OF $lO,UOO,-
900.
The announcement is made that
Wilder S. Metcalf is to take charge OF
the pension office on March 1.
Miss Lucy Dougherty resigns as reg
istrar of Washburn college. She is
succeeded by Miss Helen Morton
The Republican city central commit
tee levies an assessment of $50 from
each candidate for the city council.
Two Shawnee county farmers are
swindled in New York on a scheme to
extract gold from goldfish.
DR.. ]. D. Countermine breaches
sermon in which he denounces the the
DRY of evolution taught at Washburn
college
John Greif, a cigarmsker is assault
ed by footpads and severely wounded
Lincoln's birthday is celebrated by
the men bers of the Lincoln Day club,
an organization of prominent colored
people.
Mayor Parker refuses to sign pay
warrant for the amount of salary due
Col ]. w. r. Hughes when he retired
as mayor of Topeka
The county central committee of the
Republican party is to stand by the
nominations made last spring for the
election this fall
Mrs. F. G. McKibben, matron of
Christ hospital, resigns
Commercial club members begin a
campaign to double the membership of
the club.
The annual report of Fire Chief VIII
marth shows a fine record over that of
the preceding year
The Triple Tie Benefit association of
the United States, which convened here
this week. elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President. r. L.
NIarshrnan, of Kansas City. Kas.; vice
president ]. G. Rodemyer of Topeka;
secretary, G. NJ. Stratton, of Clay Cen
ter; treasurer, NJ. Delaney, of Water
vile.
Earl Mcfarland is appointed a stu
dent at West Point.
James Kay who is held on the
charge of numbering his wife, decides
to plead insanity in his defense wnen
the case comes to trial.
The Rock Island announces the oDen-
ing of passenger service on the Ell Paso
line as March 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

You can get encoura cement in many
a town where you can't get dollar.
If girl is really in love, she can be
coaxed to be marrHd by a strange
pastor.
A real old-fashioned cook has greater
contempt for a dinner served in courses
than for anything else in the world
Here is the trouble with most peo-
pie: Too much conceit, and too little
common fairness and everyday hon
eSty-
If a man wants to die a noble death,
let him commit suicide by going to ali
the parties his wife wants him to at
tend. and eat what she eats.
When a girl works down town all
week, her idea of a good time on Sun
day is to wash her hair, and have some
neighbor girl come in to gossip with
her while it dries.
Il can't amount to anything" an
Atchison drunkard said. 80 much Of
my time is taken up listening to good
advice. that 1 have no time left In
which TO work. Every man in town
wants to speak to me, at regular in
tervals,> and show me the folly of my
way, and I have no time left for any
thing else
The most miserable men in this town
are loafers. Notice the loafers you meet.
They look timid, as if expecting to be
run in for vagrancy. When they sit
down in an office or store, they know
that their room is better than their
company. Don't be a loafer. Men can't
stand it. Women can, but men cannot.
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display smacks of barbariSm. The saw
age belle hangs a pearly ring in her
nose and a couple more in her ears and
! thinks she is about the warnest thing
that ever came along the path. The
civilized maiden turns UP her little nose
at her savage sister and says the spec
tacle of the maiden from Borneo is
positively disgusting. What is the diff
ference except in degree between the
savage maiden who hangs rings in her
nose and in her ears and the millionaire
belle of modern civilization who covers
her outer garments with diamonds and
other precious stones?
The savage maiden and her civilized
sister are both wearing their jewelry
for display.
But we have no objection to the wear
ing of diamonds in itself. What we are
asking ourself is this: Has any man a
right, a moral right we mean, to make
a present of a diamond cluster, worth
$4,000 when there are men and wo-
men and children within gun shot of
him who are suffering for want of food
and clothing and who are sick for want
of proper shelter and care?
Has any woman a moral right to
wear for mere ornament cluster of
diamonds worth $15o,O00 when there is
want and misery within sound of her
voice that money would relieve?
$15e0o0 would buy good warm suits
of clothes, hats, shoes and all. for $4,000
men and children.
$150000 would buy 100000 meals better
in quality and quantity than the poor
of New York ever see.
Sometime there will be sentiment
among civilized men and women that
will make them ashamed to loll in lux
ury and deck themselves with baubles
like Indian rajas when close by their
own doors there are men and women
and children whose faces are pinched
with want and whose eyes are hollow
and lusterless from suffering.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
SNOW COVERED KANSAS.

Kansas is under a blanket of snow
which fell evenly with little drifting and
the drouth may again said Ito have
been broken" There was no cold wave
accompanying the precipitation and
stock win not suffer. neither win the
fruit or wheat be injured. In fact that
storm which extended pretty generally
over the state can safely be said to BE-
worth millions to Kansas.
Whether the snow stays on the ground
for a week or whether the suns RAYS
send it into the earth sooner it will be
of vast benefit to the farmer and ranch
men and to many towns throughout the
state where water is so badly needed.
Citizens OF the east are invited to come
west. not to drouthy Kansas, but to n
land where corn and wheat cover the
thousand hills and wales in their season
and cattle and hogs that are of the best
are also raised.
The prospects today in Kansas are as
bright as the farmer and stockraiser
could ask for and when the farmer pros
pers the residents of the cities have lit
tie to complain of. Kansas is on her
good behavior again and ready to boast
q rihe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
ABSOLUTE FAITH.
You Can Depend Upon the Word of
This Topeka Citizen.

He has had the experience
He has thoroughly tested the article.
He has found it as represented.
He has absolute faith in its merit.
Mr.. o. H. Baker of 121 West Seventh
street, jeweler. says, My kidneys and
bladder troubled me for some time. The
principal symptoms were irregularity
of and too frequent action of the kid
ney secretions, frequently accompanied
by pain. This disturbed my rest nights
and I arose in the mornings tired and
ur1refreshed. 1 saw Doan's Kidney Pills
advertised and procured-a box at Row
ley & SHOWS drug store. corner of
sixth and Kansas avenue. Half box
cured me of the attack. Some time af-
ter there was recurrence of the com
plant and I appealed to Doan's Kidney
Pills. They worked equally as effective
ly as they did in the first instance
Doan's Kidney Pills are the best rem
edy / ever had or knew about"
For sale by all dealers. 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 Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15

In discussing the recent bank failure
at Detroit brought about by Vice Presi-
dent Andrews the Grand Rapids Herald
says: Where the million and a half
went to is not a mystery. Andrews was
on the wrong side of the copper market,
and it appears that the bank backed
him. He was largely interested in
various promotion schemes, and the
bank backed him. He was a plunger
in real estate and the bank backed him.
He posed as a capitalist, dazzled the
populace with his dashing enterprise
and made the old financiers of Detroit
wink both eyes with his big deals, and
the bank backed him. And now he is
the hero of a failure that sums up into
the millions and no longer able to back
him, the bank seems to be mostly a
wreck. Things will end this way some
times when Napoleonic talents are con-
fronted with a demand for a show
down"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
M,NEAL AND MILLIoNA1REs

Tom McNeal, the Kansas humorist,
must have fallen from grace. When the
Populists found fault with the million
aires he was one of the men who held
them up to ridicule.
Now this same merry orator has been
stirred because a New York millionaire
presented his daughter-in-law with a
$4,000 diamond ornament. Mr.. McNeal
is right when he says that the money
would better have been spent to relieve
the hunger and misery in New York
only it sounds queer coming from Mr..
McNeal. His editorial which was pub
lished in the Mail and Breeze is worth
reading and is herewith reproduced:
There was a marriage of the son of
millionaire in New York the other day.
We notice among the list of presents
to the bride some sort of a diamond orn-
ament whose value was estimated at
$150000 The groom was also presented
by his uncle with a yacht worth we sup
pose a quarter of a million dollars, may
be a good deal more.
The diamond ornament is to be worn
we suppose by the bride.
At the time this $150,000 present was
being given we suppose there were ten
thousand people at the least calculation
in the city of New York who were hung
ry and who hadn't the price of a meal.
We haven't a doubt that at the very
hour the fond millionaire uncle was be-
slowing the right and title to that yacht
on his nephew there were ten thousand
sick. starved children in the city, crowd
ed into miserable tenements filed with
disease and poverty.
We have no doubt that at the time
the bride was adniring her $150,00O dia-
mcnd cluster there were more than
twice ten thousand people in the city OF
New York to whom a warm meal would
have seemed like gift from heaven and
a warm suit of cheap clothing luxury
beyond their widest dreams.
And why should any woman old or
young want a personal ornament that
costs $3.50. 600?