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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-01-16
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Births, Deaths, Marriages.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Following is the list of marriage IL
censes issued by the clerk since our
last report;
NO. NAME. RESIDENCE. AGE.
agra I e. A. Anderson, Oskaloosa. "a
WV Hattie Lyons, oskaloosa. -. 10
sa77 I Robert A. Crosby, oskaloosa 80
w Matte Cowens, Oskaloosa. 25
aero Austin Fox, New Sharon. :. %
~ Ida M. Ratcliff, New Sharon 20
ee7o Chester Kisor, Peoria. 49,. "a
WIZ Minnie X. Woodland, Peoria. 81
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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-01-16
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Tales of the Day Told by Telegraph
Picked Up a Raft.

Aberdeen, Wash, Jan. ia raft
of the Inflated steamer Walla Walla
has been brought into port by the
steamer Melville Dollar. The raft was
picked up on the 9th, 16 miles south
west of Crescent City, rs miles north
of the scene of the disaster. On the
raft were found coat, jacket, two
life, belts and felt hat belonging to
w. j. Shiels, waiter on the Walla
Walla
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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-01-16
Not mrs. Atehi.on

There was a confusion of relation
ship in the recent article in the HER;
AID concerning the ranting and the
consequent injury of Jack Atchison.
The woman he assaulted was not
Mrs. Atchison, he having no wife,
but Mrs. Carrie Brown. She was
sitting at her home alone when At
Gibson came in and proceeded to
break the furniture. He kicked the
stove down and it is now thought in
doing SO he broke his leg.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
TYING HORSE TO A HOLE.

swerable, and unless he has a wagon
to which he may tie his steed, he finds
himself in dilemma. Even if he ddes
have wagon the intense dryness Of
the air, especially in Death valley,
plays havoc with wood and a pros
pector frequently has his conveyances
fall apart piece by piece, leaving him
stranded without means. CT transport
ing his goods.
Fear and necessity comps; the desert
traveller to keep in motion for the sun
is relentless and treacherous, as is
the vulture that hovers above with an
anxious CLEAN of expectation in its
eyes. Over miles and miles of burning,
pathless sand he may be doomed to
wander, while the sun pursues in heat
ed vigilance. His horse is his only COM
panion. the only living thing besides
himself in the great heartless plain,
and he clings to it for safety. If ma
ture rebels against the struggle. and
the traveller must rest, the only posi-
BILE way he can think of to fasten hrs
horse, while he lies down to entice
brief sleep, is to tie the halter rope
around his arm, his leg or his body.
Animals require proportion OF
water equal to that of man, and be-
come crazed if their thirst is not
quenched, and in such cases they are
liable to plunge and careen wildly
away over the sands like ships in
gale, dragging men to destruction.
Such has been the experience OF
white men, but the desert Indians,
who have never been accredited with
superabundant wits, have for years
employed n method that is clever,
unique and effective, that of fastening
their animals to holes in the ground.
During a recent trip to the desert
photographer caught an Indian in the
very act, and for the first time pho
to was taken that illustrates the
scheme
Kneeling on the hot sand, the Indian
begins to dig with his hands. which
were as hard and tough and impervi-
Gus to pain as a dogs paws. he
worked energetically until he had
made a hole about two feet deep. He
then tied an immense knot in the end
of the halter rope, lowered it into the
bottom of the hole, filled the hole with
sand, and then jumped and stamped
upon it till the earth over the knot
was about as solid as the rock of Glib
| raltar.
1t was a curious performance, but
the skill of the idea merits applause,
for unless an equine is in particularly
frivolous state of mind, these subter-
ranean hitching posts will perform
| their duty quite as well as the conven-
tional city arrangement.-St. Louis
| GlobeDemocrat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
ROYAL RIVALS MEET.
Empress of Russia and Queen of
Italy Renew Acquaintance After
Several Years.

For the first time in many years
Helena of Montenegro, now queen of
Italy, and the empress of all the
Russias met at the state banquet
given by Emperor Nicholas to the
visiting sovereigns of Italy on the
evening of July Ia. The last pre-
vious meeting was upon the occasion
of the marriage of the young en-
peror to Princess AliX of Hesse.
That King Victor Emmanuel should
commence his visits to the foreign
courts by going to st. Petersburg is
probably owing to the fact that his
wife is n sort of adopted daughter of
the dowager czarina of Russia, under
whose maternal care and at whose
expense she was educated at the
Muscovite court. Moreover, it was
the czar who furnished her with that
sine qua non of all royal brides, a
dowry, upon her marriage to the
prince of Naples. For Queen Helena
the visit must have been sort of
compensation for the disappoint-
ment and humiliation she was COM
PEELED to undergo when AliX of Hesse
took the place on the Nuscovite
throne she had been brought up to
regard as her own. Indeed, while a
young girl at st. Petersburg she was
regarded by court and the royal fam
lily alike as the future czarina. To
the now widowed empress she has al
ways been an object of peculiar af-
fection and solicitude on this ac-
count, while the late czar was i'm
menseiy fond of his little Monte
negron savage" whom he treated
with the same elephantine playful
ness and kindness he bestowed upon
his own daughter Xenia. Helena and
Nenia were as devoted to each other
as sisters, and no one resents more
bitterly the ''usurpation," as she
terms it, of the Hessian princess
than the imperious and high-spirited
daughter of Alexander Ill.
When the moment came, however,
for Nicholas to fulfill the projects of
his parents, he raised such strenuous
objections that the cherished plan
of the czar had to be given up. He
had paid visit to his aunt at CO.
burg, and fallen under the fascina-
tion of her niece by marriage,
Princess Alix. For more than year
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19

after the marriage of Nicholas,
sion of her fathers palace in the
little capital of Montenegro. 1t was
not until two years after that she
gave her hand to Italy's present king,
The empress of Russia is called
the most beautiful royal woman in
all the courts of the old world, but
her loveliness and splendid state have
brought her very little happiness.
Through no fault of her own she is
unloved by her people, and thougl,
she has served them faithfully, they
are set against her as an English and
German alien. The fact that in a
land where women rulers are de.
tested she has given birth to four
daughters tells sadly against her.
The three principal parties of the
empire, the powerful clerical party,
the military party, at whose head is
Grand Duke Vladimir, and the fac.
tion headed by the dowager czarina
are all bitterly against her, though
she has used every effort to win their
kindness. And yet the czarina is a
woman of the marked ability and lib,
eral culture that one would expect
of granddaughter of Queen Vic,
toria; but she is sad, unhappy
woman, whose pomp and splendoI
are Il bitter irony to her real lone
liness among those whose show OF
friendliness masks deep-rooted dis
like, not to say hatred.
Upon her right hand at the ban
| quet which followed the reception ot
the royal guests there sat the WON
an who by some curious trick of fate
had missed the throne and the hus
band hat Drought nothing but sor
row to AliX of Hesse. An expires
sion of deep melancholy has long
since settled down upon the beauti
full face of the empress, while al
visitors to Rome comment upoI
Queen Helena's radiant beauty; il ii
well known that she has found fal
more happiness with Victor Emman
uel than usually falls to the lot o
o royal consort.-Detroit Free Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
JoHNNlE'S CHECKER STORY.

Paw he got the checkerboard.
An says: Now, come here. son.
Well spread tn pieces on tn squares
An show you how it's done"
So set down, an he moved first,
Men l give him man.
Men he jumped me and chuckled out:
Just beat me eff you can"
Men moved one, an he took that.
An said not to feel sore.
Jest then see a zlgzag line,
Men jumped-an' took four!
My paw-he rubbed his chin, an thought
Ar says: 'Um-m-m, lemme see!''
An when he moved, saw my jump,
An that time took three.
Men paw he moved another man,
An hitched up to the board.
1 took that, too, while nav looked on,
An maw-say, she Jest roared!
Men paw-th' king-row's where he wants
To get, like anything,
But fore he knows where am at,
1 says: Paw, crown that king"
Men Jest moved the way they do
Down there at Griggses store,
An first thing paw knows he amt got
No checkers any more.
Men paw gifts up, an slams the board!
l can't say what he said
Twas somepin' bout smart Aleck kide,''
Men he sent me to bed!
w. ID. Nesbit, in Woman's Home Com.
parion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19

face, she puts the end of her body out
of the water for an instant, then jerks
it quickly under with a bubble at
tached, crosses her hind legs over it,
and descends to the nest, into which
she then allows the bubble to es-
cape.
This is repeated until the nest is
filled with beautiful, shining, silvery
bubbles of air.
The spider has chosen this singular
abode to escape destruction by water
fowl. The leaves of most aquatic
plants lie fiat upon the water and Of
fer only few places where the spider
could hide from enemies.
The thought of house of silk filed
with air and anchored in crystalline,
sparkling liquid, would do for fairy.
land story, but here it is in real life
Boston Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
CLEVER INDIAN IDEA.
Desert AboriTincs Tie Their Horses
TO Hole In the Ground and
Keep Them Safe.

Tying ones horse to hole in the
ground is a strange proceeding, and
to the uninitiated seems impossible,
but in the great California deserts,
with their vast sand wastes and aka
line beds, where neither trees nor
shrubs have courage to grow, and
where sticks and even stones refuse to
exist, the demand for some efiicacious
method of hitching animals has been
Imperative.
The white man, with his ingenuity,
has always found the question of an
choring his horse on the desert unan-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
n,,,I. In Four Kew Tongues.

Four hitherto unknown tongues
so Gar as print is concerned-are now
beingsadded to the list of languages
in wlffch the British and Foreign Bible
society prints the Gospels, and of
these three are for the benefit of sub
iects of his majesty. The New Testa.
meet is to be turned into Nyanja, for
the tribes of the Shire River bank,
Nyassaland, and in this work the Liv-
ingstonia mission of the United Free
Church of Scotland, the Blantyre mis-
sion of the Established Church of Scot
land, and the Myera mission of the
Dutch Reformed church are collabo-
rating. A version in Yalunka is near
ly ready for natives of the Falaba dis
trict of Sierra Leone, and in BugotL
for the inhabitants of Ysabel island.
one of the Solomon group. Lastly, a
translation into Visayan, spoken by
some 100000 persons IN the Philip
pine archipelago, is being undertaken.
All are enterprises of great interest to
hilologists.-London Telegraph.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
THE RAIN.

Thank Coo fee the blessed rain!
1t comes In such gracious wise
That the grateful spires of dropping grass
Look upward with dewy eyes.
THE buzz of the bees Is hushed,
The locust no more complains:
The lilies together lean their heads,
And murmur: 1T rains, IL rains"
The blades of the serrled corn
That shrvel beneath the heat
Are tossing their graceful plumes aloft,
AS they rustle-"How sweet, how sweet!'
The aspens are clasping their hands;
The buds that had closed. have burst;
And the shrurken rivulet means no more
over mosses that faint with thirst.
Each daisy that stars the grass
Has plenished, its silver cup;
The birds that chlrped in the hawthorn
hedge
Are hushing their singing up.
As fra grant A nsw-mowr hay
Comes waited the meadows scent:
And the pasturing cattle snuff the air,
And below their wild content.
The cool of the freshening shower
Is wrapping the hills and plains;
The swoon in which Nature breathless lay
Is over: 1t rains--it rains!
Margaret ]. Preston, in Youths Compan-
ion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
PRINCESS OF WALES.
English People Are Glad That Tn eir
Future Queen Is So Much
Part of Them.

When Victoria Mary seats herself
in the gilded chair and receives the
golden crown upon her head the in-
signia will fall upon one of the most
interesting personages of modern
history.
The world is so accustomed to the
thought of old Queen Victoria, with
her ways and her wisdom, and to
Queen Alexandra, with her bearing
and her beauty, that the younger
woman has heretofore escaped atten-
ton.
Yet none deserves it more than
she. says the Chicago Chronicle.
Her characteristics are more pro-
nounced, her personality more capti.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
SPIDERS OF THE WATER.
They Dwell Below the Surface of
River and Pond and Carry Their
Air In Their Arms.

The water spider runs about on the
leaves of aquatic plants and catches
the insects that live among them;
but the nest in which this spider lives
is a silk bag filed with air, and it is
anchored beneath the water. Its
opening points directly downward so
that no air can escape when the spider
enters it.
After the nest has been made large
enough the spider proceeds to fill it
with air in the most remarkable way.
She carries it in, just as human people
might carry coal or wood or water int o
their houses. Going nearly to the sur
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19

USUET wit whic
4 all the
- halfway drop powders
longing seidlz The
through the funnel
OF cork funnel the little
the other of the little balls will the
until
In such of the the relieved and
ball will
In
balls shown
Tribune
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-19
Dyeinr 4. an Ancient Arr.

The art of dyeing was invented by
the Tyrians about 1900 b. c. In Eng
land the art OF dyeing was unknown
until 1910. Or. Hoffman, distinguished
German ch smist, was the first to dis
cover and uss sniline dyes.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
Artificial Lobster Culture.

For many years, both in Europe and
this country, the artificial propagation
Of Holsters has presented an unsolved
problem. Now, at last, Professor H
G. Bumpus of the American Museum
Of Natural History has discovered the
secret of success. His discovery comes
at an opportune moment, because for
five years past the supply Of Holsters
has been decreasing. The method Of
Professor Bumpus depends upon keep
ing the water in which the lobster fry
are placed after Matching in constant
motion, for, if allowed to settle, the
fry smother or devour one another. BY
this device the young Holsters are sue
cessfully reared until at the age Of
from nine to sixteen days they are
able to take IA of themselves. The
United States Fish commission is plan
ming to restock the depleted waters
along our coast with Holsters Matched
and reared in the M described.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
WnIes In Solid Metal.

Professor Roberts-Austen, in talking
before the institution of civil engi-
neers in London about advances in
metallurgy and engineering, demon
strated that solid metals might reveal
by their structure the vibrations to
Which they had been subjected. In ex-
planning this phenomenon experiments
We're shown proving that a beautiful
wave structure can be impaired to the
surface Of mercury by the vibrations
of 4 tuning fork and that even the sur
face of solid lead which has been SUBJ
jected to similar vibrations possesses
a structure resembling that Of a vi
brating surface of mercury. Mild steel
was defined by Professor Roberts
Austen as n "solid solution Of iron
and carbon, free from cinders. Metal
lurgists have doubled the strength Of
steel as it was known in it's early days.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
A Careful Old Lad<.

An old lady applied at a registry Of.
fee for a maid.
Il want a little girl, between eight.
cen and twenty-five years Of age, who
Is fond of mushrooms"
"Fond of mushrooms?" inquired the
agent. "That is something I never
inquire about from my applicants. I
don't understand"
"Well, l am very fond Of mushrooms
myself, and there are so many mis-
takes made. The idea came to me sew.
eral years ago, and it was a dispense.
ton OF Providence that it did or I
should have been killed. I make my
maid eat a portion of all mushrooms
brought to my house before any are
served to me. l always require it."
replied the old lady. Il have lost two
excellent maids from toadstools dur
ing the last five years, and, Of course,
1 could not think Of taking the risk Of
eating mushrooms unless I had a maid
to test them."-London Globe.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
VERY AN MOVING
This Hardly Expresses What Mitchell
People Say Of 1t.

Any itchiness OF the skin is annoy
ing.
Little danger in itching skin dis
eases.
But they make you miserable.
Doan's Ointment is a never failing
cure.
For piles eczema. all itching troub-
les.
Fargo, n. D.. citizens endorse it.
Mrs. Z. P. Ross. guest of the Fargo
House on North Front street. Fargo.
n. D., says:-''My husband suffered
intensely from itching hemorrhoidS.
He tried PHYSICIANS treatment. ONT
mentS innumberable. did everything
advised by friends and acquaintance
to rid himself Of the intolcrable an
noyance. but until he tried Deans
Ointment all his efforts were futile.
He used the ointment faithfully 50-
three weeks ami the itching was c1n-
pletely allayed. The henogrhozds
shrunk gradually away until c1e7
disappeared. The pleasure q S5
results can only BE uo5e-Esoo5 81
those who suffer similarly. Tt s-z-=
in this pleasure -1e-s IS c-zF TT
cougse 10 pursue II x al 1no15a5
with henovbo5is that dgzrss l. rz7
Deans Oi1ena1 Il MEssa-s Pig
IacT and this .asa1- R5L toZ3ow-
For SEE bT II 6sa5az = 81
ce1A Fas.e--Mzlo2-1 ca. Bzza-
" Y S9e @sn9 II In -azta
States
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
S~OfteninH the Blow.

The cashier of a certain firm had ab-
seconded, and the staff of clerks were
deciding on a fit and proper person to
acquaint the head of the firm Of the
fact on his arrival.
Ultimately the matter was left in
the hands Of the head clerk, possibly
because none Of the others cared to IN
dertake the responsibility.
There had been q dogfight tn the
street, and a small crowd was just dis
persing us the chiefs carriage dashed
up.
whats that crowd after. Jorkins"
demanded the head of the firm.
The chief clerk thought he recog-
nized a chance Of breaking the news
gently and seized it.
1.-THE vacancy. sir" be replied
Vacancy? What vacancyT
cashier. sir"
But we want no cashier, Jorkins."
BEG pardon. sir: but we've a vacan-
cy for one"
"Jorkins. are you mad?'
mo, Sir. That is. sir, l don't know,
sir. Fact is, sir-all the cash is gone
a~nd-and"-
"Well?"
"The cashiers gone with it, sir"
From the way the old mar 0 II
the clerk thought he might just as well
have blurted ii out at the start.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
New York's Sky Line.

fereschagin, the artist who is paint
Ing a large picture of the battle OF San
Juan Hill, with President Roosevelt as
the central figure, was very much de-
pressed over New York's sky line when
he visited the metropolis fifteen years
ago. He said that the occasional sky
scraper was a painful blot on the land
scape; that 1t made the sky line n
terrible thing to behold. The other
day after long contemplation Of it and
the scores of bis buildings which load
down the island Of Manhattan he is
said to have turned to a friend and
remarked, Really Ia pause] it begins
to be grand"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
.MIarjory's PrOviso.

Baby Marjory has been having her
first experience of rural sights. and
sounds, Of green things growing, of
flowers hiding in the grass, Of cows in
the pasture, of horses in the stable.
She was delighted with all but one Of
them, says Il writer in the Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The n exception was the big, surly
dog that keeps watch and ward over
the farm. She respected Hector in
his W place, but that place is at a
distance. She did not want him or his
kind to approach neal enough for in
innate acquaintance.
Having been invited by a lady of
the house to take a walk down to
the village, Marjory hesitated a little.
"Why, Marjory," exclaimed the lady,
in an injured tone of voice. don't you
want to go with mel"
eyes," replied the little maid, II
want to go, but Please don't let any
dogs happen to me"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-11-21
Sandwich Islands.

The term Sandwich Islands" recurs
in news items. scientific addresses and
In lectures with a frequency which
suggests some other than igno-
Of the fact that the early name
of the group has long been obsolete.
One cause of this survival, especially
where these islands are mentioned In
public speech. Is the inability of the
mainlander to pronounce "Hawaiian."
He usually says "Haywayian" and
knows that he Is wrong; SO to protect
himself from Il lingual infelicity he
says ~"Sandwich Islands" and lots them
60 ut that.