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The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
THE FREMONT BUDGET.
News Of Good Town Scissored
FroE the Gazette.

A marriage license was issued yes
terday to e. NJ Kirkpatrick, Of Kirk.
vile, and Adah G.. Slemmons, Of Ce.
dar
J. T. Fox went to Chicago Sunday
morning with three cars of cattle for
Purdin & Akerman. He returned
yesterday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Court White,
on Friday morning last, ten pound
boy All parties concerned doing
well-and especially Court.
Chas. Hale moved to Oskaloosa
Tuesday from the r. w. Phillips farm
and Berney Edison has moved to that
place and expects to farm it next
year.
J. r. Sims, Ed Gunsaulus and Bert
Brubaker, of Cedar, went to Chero.
kee, Oklahoma, Friday, where they
will stay this winter and work at the
carpenter trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.Heinzman came
down from Oskaloosa Saturday even.
ing to spend Sunday at the J.. A.Gunn
home Mr. Heinzman returned Mon
day but his wife is spending the week
with her sister, Mrs. w. J. Gordon,
east of town.
The walls of tue high school are
now adorned by four fine portraits.
Tho ,,,,r;Ie oro baI,>ino ~ Ynurnhau q q
the frames. These portraits are of
Washington, Longfellow, Irving anc
Hawthorne and are such as any
school might be proud of.
Off of three acres of ground A. C.
Ellison, northeast of town, raised 275
bushels of potatoes OF the White Gil.
ant variety. From one hill he dug
five potatoes which weighed more
than six pounds, the largest one OF
which tipped the scales at 2 pounds
and 1 ounce.
Last year F. B. Gordon, H. n, Ham,
iltCn, J. s. Reeves and J. d. Yeoman
went to the lakes in northern Iowa
lOl a. WSCh anu lCLuA hSu uA
most empty handed, having succeed
ed in getting only four or five of the
feathery tribe in that many days, and
told it. Last week they made anoth'
er trip, returning Sunday morning on
the early train and were loaded down
with game. Over two hundred ducks,
two prairie chickens, some jack snipe
and a jack rabbit were the victims
of their unerring aim.
We moved into our new Office this
week in the Akerman building and
are getting comfortably situated, ex-
pecting to be fixed up for good in a
week or so. 1t is no easy job to
move a printing office. A two and a
half ton press can't be tossed around
like box of unGerwea: or a 1000
pound paper cutter carried on ones
shoulder. George w. Akerman, the
real estate and insurance man; whom
all our readers likely know, built the
building this summer especially to
meet his and our needs. The fixtures
in the front Office are of the banking
style, made of polished oak by the
Oskaloosa Woodworking Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
A PoIiceman's Testimony.

J. N. Patterson, night policeman OF
Nashua, Ia, writes: Last winter had
a bad cold on my lungs and tried at
least nalf dozen advertised cough
medicines and had treatment from
two physicians without getting any
benefit. A friend recommended Fo
ley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds OF
a bottle cured me. consider it the
greatest cough and lung medicine in
the world" ..
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
BOY BADLY,HuRT
Receives Charge of Shot While
Playing Halloween Franks.

Eddyville, Nov. 3.--While he and a
number of other young men were in
dulging in Halloween pranks at Pc
kay, coal mining town a few miles
north of Eddyville, Saturday night,
VIM. Bell, the 1S-year-old son of Thos.
Bell, was fired upon from an upstairs
window and received charge of No.
A shot in the head, forehead. neck
and cheeks. Some of the shot just
grazed the collar bone.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Its Friends.

G. r. Foster was a business visit
or in the city Friday.
Rev. Slater took trip to Mucha-
KNOCK Saturday
Monthly Communion at Shorter
Chapel Sunday morning at 1880.
Mr.. j. H. Bates. Of Buxton, was
business visitor in the city this
week
Rev. o. A. johnson, of Des Moines,
was in the city on business this
week.
Miss Iona Marshall spent few
days with friends in Buxton this
week.
Editor Sharp, Of the Buxton Eagle,
was looking after the interests of his
paper in this city Friday and Satur-
day.
Mrs. Susie Allen, assisted by her
daughter, Mrs. Franklin, entertained
Rev. Slater and family and Prof.
Healing at dinner Tuesday at p. m.
Rev. Slater is infusing new spirit
ual life into Shorter A. M. e. Chapel.
Five members of the Sabbath school
were converted last Sunday after
noon.
q The members of Wesley Chapel
have re-opened their regular Friday
evening literary. A program will be
rendered each evening and refresh
ments served, a,a
Jas. Jones and his mother, Mrs,
Margaret Jones, of Kirksville, Mo-,
came in Saturday evening for a few
days visit with their cousins, Mrs.
Mollie Ringo and G. H. Jones.
Phil Pruett, of Burlington, was Wis
iting among friends in the city this
week. He says he likes Burlington
and is well employed there, but finds
it pleasant to visit Oskaloosa occa-
sionally.
Mrs. A. G.. Clark is home again
from Washington where she has
been for several weeks past in at
tendance at the bedside of her Sis
ter, Miss Harriet Moore. She re-
ports her sisters condition unim-
proved.
The Des Mcines Bystander of Oc-
tober 16 contains the following item:
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs s.Rollen Weeks,
an eight pound baby girl last Thurs
day morning. Mother and baby are
doing well. Rollen cannot be seen
now because ne is all smiles"
VIM. Williams, of Muchakinock,
and Miss Bertha Winson, Of Oska-
loosa, were married at the residence
Of the officiating minister, Rev. Geo.
w. Slater, Wednesday evening, Oct.
2S, 1903, at s o'clock, and went at
once to their home in Mucaakinock,
Prof. H. T. Healing was greeted
by an appreciative audience Tuesday
night at Shorter A. M. E. Chapel.
His facts, figures and illustrations
were well received by all. Many
false notions concerning the race
question were corrected. He attend
ed chapel at Penn college Wednesday
morning and in short address be-
fore the students electrified them.
On Thursday night he lectured in
Des Moines, Iowa. Rev. Slater is
planning to have him return some
time in December.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
-The foreign commerce

The foreign commerce of the
United States in coal, whether Of i'm
ports or exports, is extremely small
compared with the domestic produc-
tion, in which the United States now
exceeds any other country of the
world. Importatlons of coal have
never reached as much as two mil
lion tons in a single year prior to the
fiscal year 1908, when they were 81
j610,225 tons, or little more than ]
per cent of the domestic production,
while the highest figure ever reach
ed in exports was in 1901, when it
amounted to 7,675,549 tons.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

John z. Evans, of Hynes, is solv-
ing the school teachers wage prob
lem in his own way. In addition to
paying heavy tax for school pur-
poses he pays $40 per month extra
to one teacher above the school levy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

1t is the observation Of the Iowa
City Republican that while Secretary
Shaw makes strong republican
speech, he is listened to by more
democrats than any other public
speaker in the republican party. 1t
adds: "He always has something to
say that interests the people regard
less of their political preferences,
and then he is never offensive"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

The editor of a German newspa-
per at Schleswig has managed to
keep the wolf waiting outside the
front fence by running barber shop,
preaching funeral sermons, baptizing
children and clerking sales in con-
nection with his journalistic labors.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

1T is said that there are 100000
more tons of hay in the United
States this year than ever before,
which leads the Burlington Hawkeye
to remark that in addition to this es-
innate, there is John Hay whom the
Canadians regard as a superfiuous
crop.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

The newspapers were off in the
announcement that the Macedonian
leader Sarafoff had been killed off.
1t was one Petroff whose head was
blown off -Marshalltown Times-Re-
publican.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

AS sample of Iowa's versatility
in the fruit business Sidney woman
has been exhibiting an orange tree
with thirty-one fine oranges grown on
her farm in Fremont county.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

The Capital fears "at the rate
the Italians are coming to this coun-
try ere long there will be no one left
over there but the pope Of Rome"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

Fontanelle Observer: 1t may be
said that Jere Sullivan has made a
good campaign, but has a poor sup
porting company.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05

The Searsboro SUN has gone into
eclipse and the editor has returned
to his first love, the Lynnville Star.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
BRIGHT BITS.

-Biggs-"Your friend Dobbs seems
to be a very well-educated man.
Boggs-"I should say he is. He knows
so much that he doesn't believe any
thing. Judge.
Sure, Murphy was wrong, an he
knowed he was wrong, an he owned
up loike little mon." Did he. now?"
"Yis he licked the other mon fir-rst!'
Puck.
"A Non-combatant.- What is your
position in the choir?" asked the new
church member. Absolutely neutral
replied the mild tenor. II don't side
with either faction. philadelphia
Press.
Teacher (of art class)-"What do
you know of Alma-Tadema? New Pu-
pil-"Shes a girl in the sixth grade at
the Wentshaw School, only her last
name isn't Tadema. It's Taggart. -
Chicago Tribune.
Jason Mason-"There goes that city
preacher who's thinkin' NV acceptin'
a call here. His church in the city
wuz boycotted. Hiram Huskinby-
What? Great Gosh! A church boy
cotted? What fer?" Jason Mason
"Yew see. the street railway strikers
darn near killed a non-union feiler,
an that thoughtless preacher went an
comforted the poor chap durin' his last
hoursi"-Puck.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT.

The Manchurian incident is now re-
garded as closed. 1t is given out that
there was no foundation for the talk
that Russia intended to grab Manchu>
ria and disregard the rights of the 9TH
err Powers in that province of China.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, and Mr.. Hay, our Secretary of
State, are having conferences daily on
minor matters connected with the Incl
dent, and so far as the public knows
there is entire agreement between
them.
Count Cassini is quoted as saying
that the open door, policy will be
continued and that our trade interests
will be safeguarded insevery way. If
these promises are kept we shall have
no cause to complain. But will they
be kept? There seems to be a doubt
that they will, though why there
should be is not easy to explain. The
impression is strong that it is Russia s
policy to retain her hold on Manchuria.
She says, of course, that she has no
such intention, but if she hasn't it is
remarkable that there should have
been so much talk to that effect dur
ing the last few weeks.
1t is said that the conditions which
Russia named to China as those upon
which she would evacuate Manchuria
were quite different from those which
she recently named to our government.
China, it seems, called our attention to
these conditions-conditions with
which she could not comply-and in
that way the belief got abroad that
Russia was preparing to retain her
hold upon Manchuria. Count Cassini
is quite sure that there was a misun-
Outstanding, that either the govern
ment of China gave our minister at
Pekin a wrong impression or else our
minister misunderstood what was
communicated to him.
This explanation will of course be
accepted, but there seems to be an i'm
preston in Washington that the Rus
sian government had what is now
called misunderstanding given cir
culation for the purpose of seeing
what the effect would be. Having
discovered that the Powers would not
agree to her permanent occupation OF
Manchuria. or anything approaching
it, she takes the position that she new
er had any intention to retain possess
sion of the province.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
The "Nothing-Nevv'' Fad.

Every time I pick up newspaper
says a writer in the New York Tele-
graph, hear one of my idols crash to
the ground, remarked the man who
plays Hamlet when the audience is
drugged.
First came Edmond Gosse with the
bold statement that despite history
and tradition. he could demonstrate to
everyone's satisfaction that Sir Walter
Raleigh never set foot in America. Now
comes Arthur Evans, lecturer and ex-
plorer, with the announcement that the
huge two-storied palace of Minos, al
Cnossos, Crete. was fitted with a sys-
tenn of sanitation so perfect that after
the lapse of 5000 years it would be
difficult to improve on it.
Then the persons who say Bacon
wrote Shakespeare and that Homer
never lived add their walls to the weep
ing match, and the poor layman curls
up his toes and bids adieu to all his
cherished beliefs. Why, soon they'll
tell us that The School for Scandal
was written by Alfred the Great!
Here's a small list of the things
they'll be hurting at us soon if the pace
keeps up. They'll tell us
Boston baked beans were used at the
Lucullian feasts.
The nymphs were the original chorus
girls.
Highball was the nectar of the gods.
Pegasus was the original Hermis.
The Appian Way was better than
Broadway.
The Olympian games were merely a
race meet.
The catacombs were incomplete SUBJ
ways.
Orpheus was merely second viol in
a music hall orchestra.
Sophoc1es played in musical comedy.
Euripides was a monologist.
Antony was only a press agent for
Caesar.
Nero was only a stage villain.
The Capulets and Montagues were
only rival theatrical managers.
The hemlock drink of Socrates was
a scent West street whisky.
Damon and Pythias were the fore
runners of Weber and Fields.
Venus was "A show girl and Diana "A
society woman who followed the
hounds.
Juno played female heavy"
Midas made his money out OF stand
ard OIL
The cfntaurs composed Joye's string.
Herodotus wrote historical novels.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
VIII Risk one Brown Eye.

Several days ago, says the Washing
ton correspondence of the Baltimore
American, Postmaster General Payne
was informed that the wife of an en-
ploye of the Postoffice Department was
manufacturing and selling a patent
medicine. There were features of the
case which displeased Mr.. Payne, and
he accordingly notified the clerk that
either his wife must stop manufactur-
ing the medicine or he must leave the
employ of the government.
The clerk had a good place, and he
was unwilling to go; his wife was MAX
ing money selling her medicine, and
she was unwilling to abandon the bust
ness. So she wrote Mr.. Payne long
letter telling him that her medicine
was an excellent specific for the ills it
claimed to cure. and that she felt GER
tain he was acting under misappre-
hension. eff 1 could call on you and
talk to you about it," she wrote, 81
know I could persuade you. Grant
me an interview and let me but gaze
into your beautiful brown eyes, and
am certain you will be convinced
Mr.. Payne is in a quandary. He talk
ed the matter over with Secretary
Root, and yesterday morning he sent
him the letter: This morning Mr.
Payne received a note from Secretary
Root. He opened it. 1t read:
Dear Payne-RiSk one eye on her. ="
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Record Dem.)
says: LAS long as we shall persist in
keeping the Mormons in the territories
out of the Union, because they are
Mormons. we can hardly consistently
object to the act of the German gov
eminent in eXpelling Mormons from
Germany. And if we did object we
might be asked to look after our own
knitting"
The New York Journal of Commerce
Qnd) says: The policy of prescribing
by law the hours and wages of labor
in private employment, even though it
is engaged upon public work under
contract, is most pernicious meddling
with the natural laws of competition
as much so as would be a law pre-
scribing the price to be paid for ma
terials used. IL is a gratifying sign
that courts are showing a disposition
to hold legislation to established lines
in the exercise of public authority"
The Chattanooga Times (Dem) saws.
1.-The theory of all lynchers who think
at all-who are not seeking amusement
or excitement from the humdrum OF
rural life-is this, Let a past crime be
met with a present crime to prevent
a future crime This theory is fading
away before speedier trials and pub
lie education. The educational agen-
cies Of the country Will finally abolish
all lynchinss. Laws passed for the
purpose OF supDressing lynching have
generally been failures, and the chief
dependence must continue 10 be found
IN education
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Savannah Yacht Club
Georgia Historical Society.
Special Notices-How About a Nice
Roast. at Groot's; Tybee Train Service,
Clement Saussy. Superintendent; Pro-
posals for Lease of Store, j. Robert
Dreamer, Clerk of Council; Bank
Hours, John M. Hogan, Secretary; No
tice to Superior Court Jurors; Gard
ner's Menu; Vegetables, Jas. j. Joyce.
Business Notices-Our Delicious
Creams and Sherbets. Jerry George;
Whitmans White Nougat; Bicycle
Sundries, G. M. Thomas; In the South
ern Section, George H. Ellis.
Correct Clothes for Men-B. II. Levy
& Bro.
To Assure the Future-Savannah
Trust Co.
Amusements-Gra Concert by
Choir of First Presbyterian Church,
Tuesday, May 3.
Summer Resorts-Warm Springs,
Bath Co., Virginia.
What to Wear and Where To Get It
The Metropolitan. .a-.s
Correct in Performance-Walt
Watches.
If You Buy a Wheel-At Lattimore's.
enthusiastically Excursions, Sea-
board Air Line Railway
Auction Sales-Fine House at Guy
ton, Ga, by Youmans & Demmond,
Auctioneer; Oriental Rugs. Etc, by C.
H. Dorset, Auctioneer.
Silverware-The Gorham Co.
Pens-Esterbrook Pens.
Beer-Anheuser-Bu Busch Brewing Co.;
Schlitz Brewing Co.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy; Syrup of
Figs; Paine's Celery Compound.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02
NEW YoRK,s FRANCHISE TAX.

The corporations affected by the de-
cision of the Court of Appeals of New
York in the franchise tax case that
has been under consideration in the
courts of that state for three years.
say that it is their purpose to appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, but the opinion seems to pre-
vail that they will not do so. for the
reason that there is every proba bility
that the Supreme Court would sustain
the New York court. To appeal there
fore, would be simply to delay the col
lection of the tax few months longer.
1t is pointed out that the Supreme
Court follows, in state matters, the
latest decision of the highest court
of the state affected. Besides,
the decision of the New York
Court of Appeals was unan-
imous, and is based upon admirable
reasoning. Able lawyers have exam
ined 1t, and they do not find any flaws
in it. 1t is thought, therefore, that
corporations affected by it win accept
it.
AS is we'll known this franchise law
authorizes the taxation of what is des-
ignated as a special franchise. This
franchise is the privilege granted to
corporations to occupy public streets
and highways with facilities for trans
acting their business. It includes
tracks on. below and above the sur
face. 1t also includes poles, wires and
conduits. The tangible appliances are
linked with the intangible privilege
and thus joined they are termed real
estate and taxed as such.
This tax will bear heavily upon some
of the corporations for the reason that
their franchises are regarded as being
extremely valuable. The tax is levied
by the State Board of Tax Commits
.sioners, but the different communities
in which the franchises are in use will
get their share of the benefit of the
tax,
1t is probable that some of the cor
porations will find it difficult to pay
the tax since the entire burden falls
upon the stockholders. No doubt in
every instance the corporations are
capitalized to the full limit of their
earning power. If there had been such
a tax when the securities of the cor
porations were issued the rate of in
terest on the bonds would have been
less or else the bondholders would have
been required to pay part of the tax
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02

An effort is being made to induce the
Photographers Association of America
to hold it's annual convention, in Au-
gust, 1904, in the city OF Atlanta.
Southern photographers have been at
tending the conventions of this asso-
citation for years, and many of them
have won prizes in competition with
the best photographers of the world.
Yet the association has never held a
convention south of the Ohio river.
From an artistic point of view the
South is as attractive as any other
section of the country, and to the as
ISOLATION as a body it is UNEMPLOYED
ground. There would, therefore, be
new delights for the Northern and
Western members to come into the land
of pines and palms and sunshine. The
conventions are ordinarily attended by
some 5000 members-men and women
of brains and talent. The coming of
such a body into city could not be
otherwise than beneficial. 1t is to be
hoped Atlantas invitation to the pho
tographers will be accepted.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02

Thomas w. Lawson, the would-be
cup defender of 1901, may become a
candidate for Congress in the Seventh
Massachusetts district.
What is your objection to him
papa?" ''Why, the fellow can't make
enough money to support you" "But
neither can you. Life.
Lieut.. Col. Temple West of the
English Grenadier Guards, who recent
ly died in Nice, left more than $1,000,
600 for public purposes, largely for
the purchase of works of art to be
placed in the national gallery.
John C. Whittier, the Quaker poet,
once in describing the usages of the
Quakers in regard to speaking in
meeting" said that sometimes the vol
untary remarks were not quite to the
edification of the meeting. 1t once hap
PANIED that a certain George c. grew
rather wearisome in his exhortations,
and his prudent brethren, after sol
emn consultation, passed the following
resolution: at is the sense of this
meeting that George c. be advised
to remain silent until such time as the
Lord shall speak through him more to
our satisfaction and profit"
"A story current in London indicates
that Prince Edward of Wales, grand
son of the King, is a keen observer fol
one of his tender years. A governesS
was telling him of the future life
when all men and women are to De
equally happy. Young Edward consid.
cred for a minute and then asked
"Shall we all, everybody, be just
equal?" "Yes, all of u.s." Great grand.
ma and al1?" referring to the late
Queen Victoria. Eyes, dear, ever
great grandmamma." To this Prince
Edward replied with conviction: 90
am quite sure great-grandma won
like that at all-quite sure"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02

Apropos of the selection of President
Roosevelt as the permanent head of
Harvard after his country shall have
ceased to have greater claims upon
him, the Washington Post suggests the
following texts for sermons that he
might preach on those special occa-
sions provided for the purpose:
Thy servant slew both the lion and
the bear. II. Samuel xvii, Sc.
Thy children, like olive plants,
round thy table. Psalms cxxviii, 5.
with thee will break in pieces the
horse Jeremiah ii, 81.
Hanna CHI, why weepest thou?"-I.
Samuel i, 8.
$50 is my strength now for war;
Joshua xiv IL.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-02

Rev. DR.. Swallow, sometime prohl-
bitlon candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania, highly approves of the bill
passed by tho recent session of the
Legislature of that state increasing the
pay of the chaplains of that body from
SO to Sc per day. DR.. Swallow says it
is very tough on the chaplains to make
them pray in an atmosphere of ripper
bills, franchise grabs and press muz-
zlers,' hence they ought to be Wen
paid for it. Furthermore. the doctor
says the Sc prayers ought to be longer
than three minutes. the average of the
50 prayers, and much louder.