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The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
CONSUMPTION oE SUGAR.

More than 5,000,000,000 pounds of
sugar, valued at over $100,000,000
was brought into the United States
in the fiscal year just ended. This
is larger importation of sugar than at
any preceding year in the history Of
the country, and the value is greater
than in any preceding year except
1894. These figures include the sug-
ar brought from Porto Rico and the
Hawaiian Islands; and while the fig
ures Of the shipments from Porto
Rico and the Hawaiian Islands are
not included in the official statement
Of imports, they are properly Includ-
ed in the statement to show the
quantity of sugar coming into the
United States. The total number of
pounds of sugar brought into the
United States during the year was,
as shown by the records Of the de-
partment of commerce and labor
through its bureau Of statistics, s..
217,077,034, while in no earlier year
In the history Of the country has the
Importation Of sugar ever reached 6,
5000, 900 pounds ..'.
z The largest importation in any ear
lier year was that Of 1897, when tho
total was 4,918, ,905,733 pounds. Add.
ing to the enormous importations of
1903 600,000,000 pounds as the domes-
tic production, would give a totai
sugar supply of 5,S17, ,000,00 pounds
for the year or Sufficient to furnish
an average Of 70 pounds for each in
dividual in the United States, esti.
mating the present population at S0..
100000. +.-..." ."
The record Of sugar importations
for the year differs materially in GER
tain aspects from that of earlier
years. The total importation Of beet
sugar during the year was only ST.
100000 pounds, against 255,000, 900
pounds in the fiscal year 1902 and
90S,000,000 pounds in the fiscal year
1901. Cane sugar Of course compos-
ed the remainder, and the cane sugar
importations Of the fiscal year, exclu-
sive of that brought from Porto Rico
and the Hawaiian Islands, amounted
to 4,075, 100000 pounds against 1885,
100000 pounds in the fiscal year 1902,
and 2.956,0O0,000 pounds in 1901.
From Porto Rico the total sugar
brought into the United States
amounted to 226,148,so8 pounds, val
ued at $7,466,579, and from the Ha.
waiian Islands. 774.s25.420 pounds,
valued at $25,310,6S4. Thus. the to-
tai quantity Of sugar supplied by
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
&1Ol Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been abel to cure in all it's stages and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength b.
building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in Its
curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that il
fails to cure. Send for list of testimo
malls.
Address, F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
SEND FOR THE CORONER.

If that Council Bluffs Nonpareil
man is through at Deep River he
ought to be dispatched in all haste
to Abba. The News of that town
furnishes texts for several sermons
in the following heart to heart talk:
"If there is anything more obnox-
ious or unwholesome than a dirty al
ley in a town, it's two dirty alleys.
There is too much filth, too much
careless business in Abba. You can
stand on the square and look east,
west, north and south and see old
umbrellas, boots, dishpans, bricks,
sticks, manure piles, slop barrels or
slop drains and hundreds of other
things laying about in a way that is
a disgrace to the town. If the city
marshal or health officer or street
commissioner or somebody else does
not get after this condition of af-
fairs and clean up the town there
will be cholera, diphtheria, typhoid
fever or any old thing here before
fall. There is no excuse for living in
dirt. If cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness we are long way off from it in
some of the alleys. The man in the
moon holds his nose when he goes
over some of them"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
AGREEMENT REACHED.
Satisfactory Terms Made Between
Management and Men.

General Superintendent M. Swee-
ney of the Iowa Central and the M.
& st. L., came to the city Thursday
night to confer with the committee Of
the Iowa Central conductors con-
corning the revision of their schedule
of wages.
Mr.Sweeney opened the conference
during his visit to the city last week
and returned Thursday night to COM
plete the work. The conference was
ended last evening. The conductors
desired an increase in wages amount.
ing to about fifteen per cent.
The committee representing the
conductors was made up Of James A..
McCulloch, James Peacock, Samuel
Walton, Sidney Rowen and Win Rus
sell.
The schedule of wages or agree
ment was signed and the conference
concluded after the following changes
had been made:
Passenger conductors are advanced
from $115.OO to $1175O per month.
Through freight conductors are ad-
vanced from $500 to $3.15 per hun
dred miles of run.
Conductors on work trains have
been advanced from $500 to $3.50
per day.
The conductor of the Newton
Branch train has been advanced from
$4,000 to $500 per month.
The schedule is in ad irect ratio
with the advance that was given the
brakemen some time ago.
The relations between the conduc-
tors and the superintendent are OF
the most cordial nature. The con-
ference committee are quite pro-
nounced in their praises of Mr..
Sweeney and his treatment of them
during the discussions attendant up
on the conference. Mr.. Sweeney in
turn compliments the committee in
very positive terms.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands
amounted to 1,0O0.0O0,0Oo pounds or
about one-ffth Of the total brought
into the country, its value being
nearly $33,000,000.
Another marked characteristic OF
the years production of sugar is the
fact that the price Of sugar brought
from foreign countries has averaged
lower than in any preceding year.
The official statements of the bureau
of statistics have for many years
shown the average cost per pound
in foreign country" of the sugar i'm
ported. This average cost was in
1872 and 1873 over cents per pound.
From that period it ranged down
ward, averaging four and fraction
cents per pound, until 1883 when the
cost first fell below cents, being in
1884 SO cents per pound. From that
date forward it ranged downward, in
some years falling below 3 cents per
pound, the figure for 1894 being 2.9
cents as the years average rate of
cost. By 1901 the movement was
still slowly downward, the average
rate for 1901 being 2.3 cents per
pound, while in 1902 the average cost
was 1872 cents per pound, and in the
fiscal year just ended the average
cost in the country of production Of
the sugar imported from foreign
countries was LII cents per pound,
which is lower than IN any preceding
year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
WHAT ONE PAPER DID.

Burlington Hawkeye: Few papers
in the state have congratulated the
Oskaloosa Herald on the outcome OF
the recent republican convention.
The reason is, probably, that few
Iowa editors remember, if they ever
knew, that that paper was the one
which suggested that Senator Allison
be allowed to write the tariff plank.
Early in the spring the Herald
made its suggestion. The Ottumwa
Courier, the Burlington Hawkeye,
the Keokuk Gate City and several
other papers at once seconded the
motion, and the party leaders quickly
took the hint. The Herald's sugges-
ton was a timely inspiration. It
has borne fruit of which every republl-
can in Iowa is proud.
While it cannot be said that all
party differences have been settled
by it there is every reason to feel
that the harmony program has re-
suited practically in a reunited par
ty and in a much stronger fellowship
between all sections and a perceptI-
BILE decrease in factional feeling. 1t
will undoubtedly result in a hand
somely increased republican majority
this fall, and a Strengthening of par
ty lines for the presidential year.
For all these things the Oskaloosa
Herald should receive it's share of
praise. The Hawkeye for one ex-
tends it's congratulations to that en-
terprising and successful publication.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
LACEY AT cHAUTAuoUA.
Our Congressman Opens Big Gather.
inu at Clear Lake.

. Clear Lake, Ia, Aug. S.-The Clear
Lake Chautauqua assembly opened
with the largest attendance in the
history Of the Chautauqua. Major
Lacey delivered a powerful address
on Leading Men Of the Present Cen
tury." The address was supplement-
ed by songs from the Giant Quartette
Of Chicago and the Fisk Quartette Of
Kansas City. Every tent on the en-
tire resort is occupied. Following
the speech a steam launch race took
place on the lake. Eight miles were
run in forty minutes, Clausen win.
ming, Klemme second, Younglove
third. Next Tuesday is the great
naval parade in which Lieutenant
Hobson takes part.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
get much good out of the reading
matter.

Somebody must have been dis
turbing George D. Perkins avoirdu-
pois. In his Sioux City Journal he
says: "If the man in the end seat
more Familiarity known as the end
seat hog-must move over to let the
late conner have the choice position,
why not carry the policy to its log
ical conclusion. In that event the
man who had secured any sort of
seat will have to get UP and yield it
to the late conner who is unable TO
find a seat. While we are getting
politeness on the street cars let us
get plenty"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

pareil has him in its editorial den.
His touch of human nature is felt
every day under the heading oil
"Frolics of the Types" The follow.
ing little bit of philosophy is a fair
sample of his genius:
Il was sitting out on the side porch
of the Corn-Fed Philosophers coun.
try residence the other morning,
smoking friendly pipe with him,
when the rural mail carrier hove in
sight and deposited the daily bunch
in the box. walked out to the gate
with the old man and waited while
he looked at the corn market, and
then opened the rest of the mail
With it was paper at which he
glared viciously. Then he tossed II
into the dust without opening it.
What's the matter?" 1 asked.
Sample copy?"
mo, drat it," said the philosopher,
"jest leetle reminder of my youth.
full damphulishness. It's a minin
paper that hez cum fer five years an
won't never stop while live. It's
jest a p'lite way that TIL WhoopIn
Jane Mining and Milling Comp'ny
limited, hez Of rubbing it intew its
victims.
Il guess every man hez tew buy a
leetle minin' stock in his life, jest e2
he hez tew be in love cnce or twice,
and hez tew have tn measles" the
nj II
stock five years ago. blew in a cool
thousand on tn Whoopin' Jane. The
prospectus, which wuZ signed by
sum reliable citizens I knew, declar.
ed thet there wuz ninety-nine milli'n
dollars worth of pure gold lying out
in plain sight, beggin' tew be shovel
ed intew wheelbarrers. We fust fel.
lers wuz tew be let in Ger five cents
share nd then, when the company
he'd dug out few tons Nv gold, the
price w'u'd go up tew nine hundred
dollars share. took a cool thous.
and worth md used tew lay awake
nights figgerin' on how I c'u'd save
enuff tew build cribs tew hold my
money.
well, nothin' happened that year
but the next spring there wuz an as.
sessment. TIL comp'ny wanted tew
bore into tn mountain where tn
gold wuz purer an mixed with dia-
monds. An next year 1t wanted
money tew build a sump; and then
there wuz a call fer more stock, tew
buy tn superintendent new suit Of
clothes an timber the mine; an
buy a pump an more wheelbarrers,
and gosh knows what all. Ev'ry
month tn company sends that there
paper tellin' how jest one more thing
is needed before tn regler output Nv
FIVE cars NV gold bonds a minute is
begun. Civ up gettin' my money
back three years ago, an now can't
even get tn dod gasted paper stop
ped.
"On tn whole, I'm glad it comes.
Y see, it's a sort Nv disinfectant
'ganst emmy more mining gentlemen
thet should happen tew cum round.
Sort Of reminds me thet I've had min.
ing stock once and thet I'm-what do
yew call it-immune. Thet's it."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
1T BAN YoLLY GAME.

Ay lax base ball purity guide,
1t ban yolly game;
Ay skol roast dis umpire, tu;
Ven he ban to plane.
Ay skol betting saxty cents
Brewers skol vim flag.
Eff ay win on dis har bet,
Ay skol getting yag!
Yoe Cantillion, he tai me,
"Ay got winning team;
An ban after pennant, tn,
Dat ban no pipe dream!"
Yoe, he tai me eff ay lax
Base ball purity nice,
Ay can coming out to park
Eff ay skol have price!
Yesterday ay ban to game,
1t ban fine game, tu;
Ay skol seeing long home run
BY Yiggs Donahue.
Ay say 'Yiggs, yu ban all right,
Yu skol hold your yob!"
Faller sitting near me say
please sit down, yu slob!"
Vas, dis base ball ban all right,
Ay ban stuck on game;
All my friends skol stay downtown
Ay go yust the same!
Charlie Havenor he tai me,
''Yu ban no cheap FAM"
Ay skol go and pay my way,
Yust lax yentleman!
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
Trea. Your Kidneys for RheumatIsn

Treat Your Kidneys for rheumatism.
When you are suffering from rheu-
matism, the kidneys must be attended
to at once SO that they win eliminate
the uric acid from the blood. Foley's
Kidney Cure is the most effective rem
edy for this purpose. r. T. Hopkins.
of Polar, Wis, says: After unsuccess-
fully doctoring three years for rheu-
matism with the best doctors, tried
Foley's Kidney Cure and It cured me,
l cannot speak too highly Of this great
medicine" 1t purifes the blood by
straining out impurities and tones up
the whole system. Cures kidney and
bladder troubles. Sold by
Green q Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
catarrh Of tho Stomach,

When the stomach Is overloaded;
when food Is taken into It that fails
to digest, 1t decays and infiames the
mucous membrane, exposing the
nerves. and causes the glands TO 90
crete mucin, instead Of the natura
Juices Of digestion. This Is called Ca
tara of the Stomach. For years
suffered with Catarrh Of the Stomach
caused by indigestion. Doctors and
medicines failed to benefit me until
used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.-J. r
Rhea, Coppell, Tex. Sold by
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

car shop at Alexandria, Va. In 1854.
1t was iron clad, armour plate being
used between the inner and outer
walls to make IL bullet proof.
After the car was built the presi-
dent used it practically altogether
and his remains were taken TO
Springfield for burial In 1t. In 1864
it became the property Of the Union
Pacific and has only changed hands
within the last week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
LINCOLN CAR SOLD.
Union Pacific Company Disposes Of
Historic Reli'.

Omaha, Aug. 8.-The Union Pacific
has sold the Lincoln car" which has
been the property Of the road for the
last 81 years and it viii be placed on
exhibition on the pike" in st. Louis
next year as one of the main conces-
sions. ~
For years the car has stood on the
tracks near the Union Pacific shops
and it has attracted scarcely passing
notice of Omaha people, except when
it was on exhibition at the Trans
Mississippi exposition. It was also
exhibited in Chicago in 1898.
The car was built at the military
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

About five years ago Second
street in Ottumwa was paved with
asphalt. The same season D street
in Oskaloosa was paved with Oska-
loosa paving brick. The bill for re-
pairs on the asphalt pavement now
amounts to $21,619.&0, while the
brick street has not cost the city one
cent. Moral: When paving use Os-
kaloosa brick.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
The total amount of 3 and 4 T

The total amount of 3 and 4 per
cent bonds exchanged for per cents
in Secretary Shaw's late refunding
operations was $S1,000,0O0, or only
$19,O0O,000 short Of the limit set. At
the outset many Of the eastern fnan-
.cial experts said the plan was I'm
practicable and that the bondholders
weuld not be willing to make the ex-
change proposed. AS the old Regis
ter used to say: Keep your eye on
Shaw"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
-Marsha1ltown Times.Republican

-MdTSHdIICOWH IaMeS-H5puDIICdH'
"Mr. Dewitt c. Clark. originally
from the Nazareth of Oskaloosa,
whence he came to conduct lady
barber shop in Ottumwa, is crying a
new religion aloud in the wilderness
of the Wapello metropolis" Clark
ought to get 'em all either coming or
going. Cleanliness and godliness
make a strong team.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
A little Fort Dodge gil

"A little Fort Dodge girl is al
ways required to say her prayers be-
fore she goes to bed. One night, as
she laid her head on the pillow, she
said: Mamma, my prayers are SO
much longer than the one nurse says
in the morning. Can't I say hers
when I am tired?' Does nurse pray
in the morning?" inquired the moth.
er, with a puzzled look. "Yes," said
the little maid, "She says, Lord have
4 got to get up?'"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

Our good friend a2a former
fellow townsman, w. M. Springer, of
Galesburg, H., who is now in Eu-
rope looking after more fine horses
for his stables, has our thanks for a
copy of "LIllustration, Journal Uni
yersal, Hebdomadaire, Paris" We
have enjoyed the pictures very much
but the typesetter was such num-
skull that he so horribly butchered
the text, misspelling even the most
simple words-that we are unable to
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
Official reports on the exp

Official reports on the export
trade of the Philippine islands for
nine months ending March, 1908,
shows that the shipments amounted
to $46,969,4S5 against $42,300,30S for
the same period one year ago and
$40, 32,196 for that time in 1901 these
sums excluding the shipments Of
gold and silver and government sup
niles
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
HIa Rest Disturbed.

A. r. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind. had
TO get up ten or twelve times in the
night and had severe backache and
pains IN the Kidneys. Was cured by
Foley's Kidney Cure. It strengthens
the urinary organs and stops irregalar-
tiles. Sold by
Grcen q Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

The Davenport Democrat doesn't
believe it at all vital which day Is
selected for the Iowa celebration at
the st. Louis exposition, the anniver-
sary of June /, 1853, when the Black
Hawk Indians surrendered their
lands to the white settlers; June IL,
1888, when President Van Buren,
signed the bill creating the territory
of Iowa, or June IL, 1878, when the
upper Mississippi river was discover
ed by Marquette and Joliet.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

London is said to possess at pres
ent no less than 313 parks and open
spaces, while in 1884 their number
was only 103. They are reckoned to
have cost s1o,9s5,O0O On a rough
calculation there is an acre to 752
persons, reckoning to London a lit
tie more than 4,500, 200 souls.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

The FontanelIe Observer notes
that Judge Wade,t the only democrat
ic congressman from Iowa, rises to
the responsibilities of his position
and insists on good dollar"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

"A candidate for the legislature
in Kentucky declares he won't give
stick of candy for any mans vote" :"
We imagine so. Candy don't go in
that country.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

With cloudbursts and sunbursts
curiously intermingled, our climate
may be said to be fearfully and won
derfully made, observes the Gate
Tifv
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

The Clinton Age says that hay
will come mighty near being king IN
Iowa this year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13

Beschler sells Wan PApes.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-09-25
GEO. W. DE LONG POSTS
ANNUAL CAMPFIRE

De Long Post No. 49, G. A. r. had cosy and enjoyable time
reunion the E Hall last evening Commander
W. L. Eaton presided The night rainy that the attendance
small but there plenty Of music easng and patriotism and
those who braved the clements attend glad they did Coade
Bill Williams that everybody had his fill of coffee sand
wche dougnu and pumpkin and Comrad Cook and wife kept
the music going beginning with "Tentng the Old Camp Ground
with Mrs. Cook the accomplished soloist
In the absence of Camp Mckinley the THE
Army which first the program given Walter g. Smith
le Navy responded by Capt u S White who spoke the
great achievements War of the
character of the ships and of the certainty that years time the
Navy will be the best point guns structural eff
cheney He aroused much enthusiasm by his prediction of what Congress
would do in the way of Hawaiian Naval Station
Rally Round the Flag" sung by Mrs. Cook the audience
joining in Comrade Green then spoke with the eoqunce of
feeling the g. A. r. and appaued the echo After the
Star Spangd Banner been sung Editor Harrington of the Bull
n made mastery response he Press speaking of the
had borne through its correspondents the pleasant relations
had always had with the c. A. r. and the usefulness likely
develop in future chonicler OF Comrade Cook then
amid applause composition of his The concluding
he President of the United States brought from Attorney
General Andrews finished bit of oratory which he pointed the
qualities Presidential Office and the personal quail
tiles of the present Executive
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-09-25
MARSTON CAMPBELL BACK
FROM An EASTERN TRIP
Inspected Docks in New York and Chicago.
Need for CoaI-hand|ing Faci|ities---KnowI-
edge Gained Will Be Useful in Recon-
structng Wharves.

| ems ,naer. Mr.. whittemore, e.endei e,-
cry courtesy These docks and sheds
are constructed in such manner as to
be fire proof. They are tinquestioii-
ably the finest wharves and sheds In
New York harbor. 1 also investigated
the wharves and sheds of the Ameri-
can line.
I'm my investigations gave special
attention to the methods of loading
and unloading the large ocean steam
ers.
81 was enabled to view the construc-
ton of the subway, the Brooklyn bridge
and the North River tunnel by cour-
tesy of Mr.. Fry, engineer in charge.
II had the pleasure of meeting many
prominent engineers OF New York city
having in charge the construction of
various works, all of whom kindly as
sisted me in investigating these things
of value In the improvements now in
the hands of the Department of Public
Works for the Territory.
"The great marvel to me Of New York
is not its magnificent public works, it's
buildings, it's great bridges, subway
and tunnels under the rivers, but its
young men. 1t was my pleasure to
meet the heads of large manufacturing
concerns, their employees in RESPONSE
BILE positions, engineers, contractors,
and those Interested and employed in
prises, and to discover that they were
young men. The young man of New
York Is dominant factor in public
and professional life, especially those
of my own profession.
II spent some time with Mr.. Rudolph
Herring, who was the engineer who de-
signed the sewer system of Honolulu.
and he seemed to be much gratified Mt
the progress made in the construction
of the system, and hoped that the gov
eminent would soon be enabled to COM
plete the same. He complmented the
Department OF Public Works on the
method adopted for the care and in
spection Of the system, remarking that
this was equal to that OF any city I'm
the United States.
II gave more than special attention
to methods of handling coal from the
ships to storage and from storage to
the vessels. The present methods of
coal in Honolulu harbor are
crude and costly, and I believe 1t is the
duty of the government, in the recon-
of the wharf system, to SUP
ply its wharves with modern and Up
tO-date machinery for this purpose.
With the coming OF the great trans
Pacific steamers and the transports, the
question of coal handling and its cost
will become OF great Importance.
"My vacation has been delightful
one, and | return strengthened and
ready to resume my work with the de-
partment."