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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-27
CARD OF THAMES.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stumps desire 10
express their deepest gratitude to
friends and acquaintance for kind
nesses rendered and attentions upon
the occasion of their recent bereave-
ment, the death of their father, Peter
Stumps, and especially would they
convey an expression of thanks to
the members of the Odd Fellows or
ganization of the city.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOE STUMPs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-27
KembIe viii Improve.


Will Kemble of the OskR'oosa
green houses is planning to make
series of improvements at his prop
erty east of the city that will cost
several thousands of dollars. He is
planning the rebuilding of the greater
part of his plant during the summer.
He has placed an order for car load
of glass and expects to begin the
work of rebuilding some time in June.
The completing of the work will most
likely occupy about sixty days. The
houses will be rebuilt to be of more
perm anent nature than those now
standing and will be quite substantial
number of square feet covered will be
considerably increased over the ex-
tent of the present houses and the
equipment will all be of modern sort
through the houses. When the i'm
provement is completed Mr.. Kemble
will have one of the finest and most
enduring plants of the kind that can
, be found in the state.
Planning Mills Busy
Oskaloosa's planning mills have been
, busy all winter but just now business
is com mencing to pick up and orders
for early spring work have been COM
ing in at rapid until the prediction is
made that the shops will be over
crowded. The mill of the Oskaloosa
wood working company has been
working large force all winter and
has had no breathing spell until very
recently. The rush has commenced
again however and the promise is for
very busy spring season. Bart Sin
Clair is busy with the work
of the new post Office and in getting
out a lot of Handsome show furniture
for Davis Brothers new cigar store,
wall and show cases.
The Lacey Hotel.
w. R. Lacey is ready to begin the
erection of the new Hotel Lacey on
80 nth Market street with the opening
of the spring season. Work will be
common ced as soon as possible. All
material has been contracted for and
so far as possible 1t has been pur-
, chased at home, and of home people.
Contr actor Bart Sin Clair COM
menced work on the tearing out of
Huber & Kalbach old front this
morning.
Two New Houses.
O. P. Sipes has purchased the "old
Hornbostle house" at the corner Of
O street and First avenue. He will
, cut the house into two parts and re-
move them to lots in Gilmore's and
Crookham's additions south OF the
Rock island tracks and between O
and d streets. He will repair and re-
build the parts, make additions and
in other ways improve the houses at
cost Of about six hundred dollars
each. Work upon preparing the
houses was commencedlT Tuesday.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-27
REsoLuTIoNs on EEsPEcr.

whereas, Almighty God in his inin-
lite Providence has seen 1T to permit
the taking from us and his beloved
family our worthy and highly esteem
ed Brother Peter Stumps; that in his
death Commercial Lodge has lost a
true and faithful member. the widow
q loving husband and the children a
kind and loving father. Be II
ResoIssd, That we, the members OF
Commercial Lodge. No. 12S. /. o. o. F.
OF Oskaloosa. extend to the bereayeA
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-27

Births, Deaths, Marriages.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Following Is the list of marriage IL
censes issued by the clerk lsince our
last report:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-27

Feb. 2sth.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
His Ipjurie. Proved Fatal.

John Underwood died at Gloster,
Miss, from injuries received by fall
ing down his barn steps.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
a SONG OF The coTroN-FiELD.

yonder on de green s~lope-sheiter IN de
pines.
Hummin'-bird a-hummin' roun' de vf'lets
en- de vines;
Sunnower at de gate
Wild his torch Albumin late,
lfr chillun walt.
Hoe de con en- cotton
Sing scrost &c wheat;
Night time Is res time
Res at home is sweet,
l up ter meet de mawnin'. 10 de isnt
break overhead
Or de larks is gittin' restless: en- ketch de
sun in bed;
/ tell i'm: WORK ter do.
/ mus run de furrow true;
late ez youf"
singin' in de co'n-iel's,
'Crost de cotton white;
Day time IL work time
Res II come wild night
Mister Rabbit see me comm en- ten Inn
"Howdy-do?
Is you feelin' well dis mawnin'? Is yo'
family stirrin'. too?
You got rabbit-foots a heap
Fer ter hep me SOW en- reapF
o4N Lt lSnl9 Hdlo Si
fas' asleep!
Sowin' en- reapin-
Singin' in de sun;
Sweeter is de sleepin
Wen de work well done
All day 1 heah de chillun. ez happy ez Kin
be;
En- den nanny light de fire. en- she bake
de bread fer me:
En- no han is raised ter take 1t
'Cep' she bless 1t 'fo' she break 1t;
En- it's sweeter-oh, it's sweeter kaze / SOW
de seed dat make it,
Sowin' en- reapin'
Happy all de day;
De home lights bright en- shintn
But my HEARTH know de way!
So l workin' in de sunshine, I singin' In de
storm;
De CON II feed de chillun, en- de cotton
keep EN- warm.
Mister Rabbit, sun, good night
De crow done took his flight,
An singin' on de home-road whar de lamps
is shinin' bright!
Frank L.. Stanton, in Youths Companion.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
FEES IN LAW AND MEDICINE.
vexed Questions Which Distract the
Legal and Medical Pro-
fessf0ns.

A Philadelphia lawyer recently
charged an estate a fee of s10o, 600
for bringing about a settlement of
contested claims, the question most
prominently at issue being the legal
ity of the testator's will. His pro-
f~essional brethren agree that the fee
was a reasonable and just one and
was well earned. This happens at
a time when the nation offers half
a dozen or more of Americas great
est surgeons one-fourth of this
amount as their total combined COM
pensation for their professional
services to it's president.
One is amazed at the attitude of
the world toward medical men. Is
not the life of a man worth as much
to him and to his fellows as his
property? Is not the cost in money
and labor of the education and ex-
p~erience required by the physician as
great as that of the lawyer? Must
not the intellect and skill be as per-
feet? Is not the responsibility as
great? And the labor and physical
strain as long and as exacting?
Moreover, it should be added that it
is not of the surgeon that the ques-
ton is asked, whose work is often
over in an hour or a few days. but
especially of the family physician,
upon whose brain and heart the life
Of the patient may rest for months
or years. Only a united and organ
lied profession win be able to right
this injustice and teach the world
the value of the noblest of human
services.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
Dorian Antiquities.

The Prussian Knights of St. John,
who were formerly in possession of the
island of Cos, the modern Istankoi,
have contributed 5000 marks toward
the cost of the expedition which is to
make excavations in the island under
the leadership of Drs. Herzog and
Vosseler of the Tubingen university
and Herr Necht of Wurtemberg, the
architect. The expedition is being or
gained at the instance of the imperial
Berlin Archaeological institute. which
has given 5000 marks for the purpose.
A portion of any antiquities that may
be discovered will be presented to the
Royal Musedm of Antiquities at Wur-
temberg, which also contribute to the
cost. Prince Albert, of Prussia, grand
master of the Knights of ST. John, has
given $500 marks towards the cost of
publishing a report on the expedition.
London Standard.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
Not to Be

"How old would you take me to be
Mr.. Griffin" she lisped, looking unut-
terable things.
Don't know, I'm sure" responded
Griffin, Juggling nervously at his mus
tache.
81 am awfully old, l assure you" she
went on. 1--WE seen % summers"
"Then you ought to wear glasses"
responded Griffin, earnestly.
what! Glasses at %? Oh, Mr..
Griffin"
Yes, your eyesight must be bad"
I'm SUR | don't know why you
should think so," she pouted..
WELL" said Griffin, slowly, and look
ing for a safe exit meanwhile, I'm
afraid about 90 summers have gone by
without your noticing them."-London
Tit-Bits.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
FOUND bead In BE,

E. R. Smith, a Birmingham fAla.)
travelling man. was found dead in bed
1T Greenwood, Miss.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE.
Qualifications for the sieuth
Profession.

Sherlock Holmes has q promising rivali in a
barber known to the Philadelphia Record.
He astonished one of his customers the other
day by asking him if he were not left-hand-
ed. The man admitted that he was, and
suggested that the barber had probably
seen him hang up mis- hat.
Ne" said the barber; Il have other
ways OF finding out such things. Il see, too,
that you are a bookkeeper."
Yes admitted the customer, your
guesses are correct. How do you know?"
Its easy said the barber. "In sham
poolng your head | noticed ink on your hair
at the left temple. This ink, | concluded,
must have got there from a pen resting on
your left ear, which indicated that you were
a person who used a pen a great deal, as
only such persons use their ears as PEN
racks.
That didn't convince me that you were
a beokkeeper, however, because a literary
man might stick his pen behind his ear for
convenience. l learned Of your profession
when | applied the lather. This made the
ink on your hair wash out, and | discovered
two shades of ink-red and black. Nobody
but a bookkeeper uses red and black ink, so
1t was easy to class you as a bookkeper.
Il knew you were le~ft-handed because the
ink was on the left side-the side that a
left-handed writer would ~involuntarily use
when sticking his pen back of his ear
Wonderful, wonderful" said the Gus
toner. Now suppose you stop talking for
awhile, and finish shaving me-"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19

A brave man hazards life, but not his
conscience.-Schiller.
Audacity is the stepfather of success
Chicago Daily News.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
The Night of a
Thousand Years
By IRVING BACHELOR.
copyrighted by Daily Story Pub. Coz

lie WAS a nan Ihad been looking
for. i was entering upon dark
and unknown ways of life when I met
Riggs, who stood at the edge of the
darkness selling lanterns. They were
his speciality. He would sell you an
chors and fathoms of chain and rope
enough to hang you to the moon, but
of Riggs. He had every kind of Ian
tern that had ever swung IN land or
sea. After dark, when light was
streaming out of its open door and
sky window, Riggs looked like an old
time lantern itself. 1t was a rickety
frame house standing under a steep
roof close to the pavement. The peak
had sagged in the middle, and its caves
hung over the sidewalk in a warped
line that one might touch with his
hand in passing. An old ships Ian
tern swung on an iron crane above the
door. 1t was a low, broad door
planned for a time where men had big,
round bellies and nothing to do but
fill them and heads not yet too far
above their business. 1t challenged
the eye with its big knocker and mas
sive iron latch. The shop had one
little window gone blind with dust
and cobwebs, so that it resembled the
dim eye of age. A broken bowsprit
and a ships anchor leaned against the
bleaching .clapboards. Coils of rope
and rusty chain, blocks and heavy
bolts, a steering wheel and an old
brass compass lay near the door.
Inside were rows of lanterns hang
ing on the bare beams and rafters,
and Riggs, who sat beside a bench.
and gave orders to the lad who served
him, in a drawing, sleepy voice. Ap
old Dutch lantern, its light softened
with green glass, sent a silver beam
across the gloomy upper air of the
shop every evening. Riggs had been
blind for many years, but there was a
heaven full of light in him for all that.
! shall never forget that evening I
came to the little shop. The boy had
put out all the lights but one-an old
tin lantern with a spray of lights
bursting through its perforated sides.
Riggs was showing it to some
stranger. AS he held it aloft the
little lantern looked like a castle tow
err, its many windows lighted, and as
he set it down there was a golden
sprinkle on the floor. as il a stone had
splashed, upon some magic, sunlight
pool there in the darkness. Riggs
lifted the lantern presently, and stood
swinging it in his hand. Then it's rays
shone upon the darkness, falling ST.
lently into every nook and corner of
the gloomy shop and breaking into
flowing dapples on the roof and
walls.
Here is a little handful of daylight"
he said; and then came the words that
seemed to have been written for his
tongue:
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
IDEALISM and CHRIS
TIAN THEOLOGY !
By DR.. w. s. GROVE, ]
Pastor Church of the Eternal Hope, n. z.

For much the same reasons some scofers go SC tar as to sneer
at Christian theology. They point to the theolog1ans as the most
useless people o n earth because they deal with the unknown. They
would have nothing but discussions of chemistry, o the laws of
health. or something that, to them, it is possible to know something
about.
Did these scofers ever stop to realize that there was never a
more theologic race than the Scotch, unless it was the Dutch, and
what did the theoIogic drill of two centuries do for these two nations
TT MADE THEM THE GREATEST THINKERS OF THE
~WORLD-THE MOST PRACTICAL RACES THAT EVER
LIVED. with scholarship and business as exact as the laws Of ma
ture.
THEY GOT IT RON H BREADTH AND PRECISION
OF THEIR MISUNDERSTANDING.
The most extravagant ideaism that ever came into history was
the Gospel of Christ. That Is just why Christ has been honored and
adored as a dvinty-because he represented the complete ideaism
/ say that celestial dream of moral perfection has been the force above
all other forces in civilization. Such worthiness as the world has it
owes to the forms of love and beauty and goodness which the poets
and the artists and the evangels have seen in their dreams.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
MULES ARE VERY PRACTICAL.
h Animals Are Totally without
Imagination, Which Makes Them
the More Valuable.

People do not lavish enough graft
tude on mules, though according to an
old veterinary surgeon humanity is
under an immense load of obligation to
the long-eared animal with the danger
Gus heels. This-"vet" declared to a
writer for the New Orleans Times
Democrat that the mule has no imag-
ination and that many a life has been
saved because of that deficiency. "The
faculty of imagination" said he, "is not
at all uncommon among other animals,
as you are doubtless aware. For in
stance, dogs frequently show evidence
of possessing it. They hear imaginary
sounds because of ONE peculiar asso-
citation. Dogs have been known to
bristle up at shadows or at certain nat
ural formations which suggested the
idea of immediate attack. Every own
err of a dog is familiar with the dogs
dreaming habit. Horses, too, imagine
things and dream a great deal. They
have that more delicate and more SEN
sitive temperament which develops the
imagination and the faculty for dream
ing.
Now, the mule never imagines any
thing. He never dreams. He believes
simply in what he can see, feel, smell,
hear and taste. When the possibilities
of these senses are exhausted he is at
the end sof his row, as far as his mind
goes. He rarely shows nervousness,
and even at trying moments, at critical
times, he simply deals with the situa-
ton with stoical Indifference, making
no effort to go beyond the range of the
five senses. This fact has made him a
safe member. For instance, men who
are in the habit of riding through dan
gerous parts of the country, through
mountainous regions where there is
almost constant danger of falling owe
. precipice, would rather be astride a
species of the mule tribe. He is safe
footed in the first place and makes no
guesses. You simply cannot force
him into a place where he will lose
his balance and possibly his life and the
life Of his rider. He is not going to
shy around things as a horse will. 1t
is not a matter of courage with him.
He is not gamer than the horse. But
he is simply safer because he does moi
imagine vain things.
"He believes in the five senses at his
command and puts implicit trust in
them. He never dreams and this fact
has, no doubt, saved many lives under
circumstances which would have
worried the horse nm TO a nervous
pitch that would have caused him to
plunge over a precipice with his rider.
We owe much to the mule"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19

MISS LAURA HOWARD, CHICAGO.
knew one day how 1 would feel the
next. l was nervous and had no ap-
petite, neither could / sleep soundly
nights. Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, used in con-
junction with your Sanative Wash, did
more for me than all the medicines
and the skill of the doctors. For eight
months l have enjoyed perfect health.
/ verify believe that most of the doc
tors are guessing and experimenting
when they try to cur a woman with
an assortment of complications, such as
mine but you do not guess. How 1
wish all suffering women could only
know of your remedy there would be
less suffering l know."-LAURA How
ARD, 1i3 Newberry Ave, Chicago, Ill.
5000 forfeit " above Testimonial is not genuine.
Mrs. PinlSham invites all wo-
men who are i'll to write her for
advice. Address Lynn, Mass,
giving full particulars.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
VISION is
The Glare of the City Has nm Injur-
ious Effect Upon the HUI
man Eye.

Speaking of the practice of wearing
glasses" said a well-known optician,
according to the New Orleans Times
Democrat, "there is a curious thing
about the human eye that the average
person is constantly overlooking. We
talk a great deal about the influence of
color, about glare, and all that sort of
thing. PROFESSIONALLY color has a
great deal to do with the weakness of
the human eye at this time. Glare fig
ures as an important factor in the i'm
pairment of the human sight. In the
matter of color there is so much riot
ing in these latter days that the eye is
is violently red, green violently green.
and so IN, until the eye is simply
strained beyond the normal in an ef-
fort to visualize the hue, and hence the
optic nerves are, in a measure, strained
and injured. But this is not the great
est danger when we come to think of
modern tendencies so far as the hui
man eve is concerned. There are other
conditions which are infinitely more
injurious than the matter of color.
The glare is bad enough, too. The
electric and incandescent lights are
simply fearful IN ones eyesight. But
khe thing 1 quarrel with more than
with any other influence is the condi-
ton which limits the scope of ones
vision. The eye should have a broad
range. One should have the opportun-
ity of seeing a long distance. We are
denied this opportunity. We are
hemmed and hedged in until the dis
lance we are capable of seeing is very
short indeed. This is why I am a
strong advocate of parks of promen-
AIDES. Green is naturally a restful
color, and if the city could be provided
with long n and splendid parks,
where ones eyes could stretch out in
a long vista, it would be a great thing
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
David Harum. Jr.

A lady in a Sunday school has a class
of small boys. Not long ago, after the
lesson was over, as was her custom, she
began to tell them something about
God. This time she chose the power of
God as her theme. She told how He
turned the water into wine, opened
the eyes of the blind, made the lame
walk" and many other miracles, illus
trative of Gods power.
One little boy said: II know some
thing God can't do"
His teacher said: why, that is won.
derful. What is it? cannot conceive
of anything that God cannot do"
The little boy replied: HE can't
make a three-year-old colt in one day."
philadelphia Times.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
WONDERS OF A BEEHIVE.
The Mystery of the Production OF
Wax and Mathematical Con-
structfon of Cells.

The most diligent of all the scien-
fists who have devoted their lives to
the bee-and this wonderful insect
has been more written about and stud
led than any other member of the ami
NAL kingdom, with the simple excep-
ton of the egoist, man-have not been
able to fathom the mystery of the pro-
duction of the wax, of which the SYM
metrical walls are composed, nor to
understand the mental process by
which the little workers are able to
perform the mathematical wonder of
the cells, every advantage that could
possibly be desired with regard to the
stability of the structure and the
strength of each cell being procured
by its own formation and it's position
with reference to the others, says
Persons Magazine
Reamur, who was particularly in
terested in this aspect of the extraor-
binary intelligence of the bee,e gave
a problem to Koenig, the celebrated
German mathematician: of all hexa-
gonal cells with pyramidical base com
posed of three equal rhombs. to find
the one whose construction would
need the least material. Koenig cal
culated that the cell that had for its
base three rhombs whose large angle
was 100 degrees and 2e minutes, and
the small 20 degrees and "a minutes,
met the requirements proposed.
Then at Reamur's request, Maraldi,
another eminent ssvant, who was un-
aware what were Koenig's figures,
measured as exactly as possible the
angle Of the rhombs constructed by
the bees, and found the larger to be
100 degrees and rs minutes. and the
other 20 degrees and 80 minutes.
Maeterlinck says that the error, if
there is one, should be attributed to
Maraldi rather than the bees. since it
is impossible to measure the angles Of
the cells with absolute precision
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
Boy Fatally Wounded.

"
Boy Fatally Wounded.
John Brewer, aged 10, was shot and
fatally wounded at Lafayette, KY,
while scuffing with a playmate for
possession of a gun.
Tennessee Woman's Suicide.
Dependency over family trouble
caused the suicide of Miss Lou Gard
ner, aged IS, of GAINESVILLE, Tenn, she
taking laudanum.
Young Man Commits Suicide.
Arthur Guthrie, aged %, of Plain
view, Tex, committed suicide at his
home in that town by shooting him
self in the head.
Fatal Fight in Tennessee.
John F. Tinker was killed and Abe
Masters and /. R. Love were wounded
In a three cornered fight at Irwin,
Tenn.
Strike at Shreveport, La.
The street car motormen and con.
ductors are on a strike for higher
wages at Shreveport, La.
His Injuries Proved Fatal.
John Underwood died at Gloster,
Miss, from injuries received by fall
ing down his barn steps.
Found Dead In Bed.
E. R. Smith, a Birmingham {Ala.)
travelling man. was found dead in bed
1T Greenwood, Miss.
A Patal Runaway.
Samuel Kuhn, of Monroe, La, was
titled in a runaway accident.
Killed in . Runaway.
Mrs. L. Il. Stamps was killed in .
runaway at jackson, Miss.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
Negro Murderer Confesses.

George Roberts, aged IA, a negro,
stated on the witness stand at King
ston, Tenn, that he killed Mrs. John
Bailey, of Hartman. He said her
husband gave him a mule for COM
uniting the deed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19
Negro Murderer Captured.

Arthur Jones, the negro who killed
E. B. Lewis at Princeton, KY, on
April 81, was captured at Carbonate,
Ill. Jones returned to Princeton with
out requisition papers. Excitement
is high.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-19

Henry A. Salzer, the welEknown La
Crosse, Wis, scotsman, has given the lass
thousand dollars to wipe out the debt on
the La Crosse Y. NJ. c. A. Mr., Salzer,
though an extremely busy man, finds time to
encourage and assist educational and philan-
thropic enterprises frequently.