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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Charley Finch the erudte editor of the Lawrence Ga
zete seems be slowly convalescing his vrulen
attack mulligrubs We send thanksgiving tribute
of Nile of America forgetme-nots.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Carrie Nation IS billed for a number of speeches
Kansas week She made pile in California Some
day she will being arrested when her fall will
fat as that of any other old imbecile.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03
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things : ever saw
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

It seems TO be generally agreed that it wouldn't be
for General Miles talk freely nteTvewers even
if Admiral Dewey didn't get a regular call down.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Excluding editions and text books there are 900
1000 books published in this country every
Fortunately of them worth reading
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Senator Burton and senator Tillman are being booked
for ChauauqUa joint debates There may be some money
liz it for Burton. but certainly glory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

And a Kansas has patented a .steamboa
wheel of vertical paddles which, il is claimed will
iutionize lake and river navigation
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Anyhow Admiral Dewey acknowledged the interv
and did not try TO dscredIt the reporter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

It is given out that President Roosevelt prefers 8
feather bed mattress. That's the German side OF
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Oklahoma's new law is a drastic one No outsider
there without first obtaining the consent
of the owner OF the land.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Hettie Green is homeless widow whom the tax as
SCISSORS chasing all the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Topekas big Electromagnetic revival is about
fall down for OF funds The preachers prepaT
strike
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Another Chicago shonmsn's daughter has landed
impecunous prince Of the blood
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-03

Alice Roosevelt who sailed from Porto Rico yesterday
will find nobody at home when she gets back
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.


J. F. H. Taylor, of New Sharon, has
handled 1850 head of sheep during
the past six weeks, most of which he
has bought in MahasKa, Poweshiek
and Monroe counties. About 1,500 of
this number he has shipped to the
Chicago market. He reports the sheep
as doing much better now than during
the fall and early winter months, as
we'll as prices being much more salts
factory to sellers than they were
few months ago. He says the recent
advance in the price of wool in east
ern markets has caused a better teel-
ing among wool growers and although
the past season being so wet was dis
astrous to the sheep business, causing
many wool growers to dispose of their
fiocks, yet he thinks the present out
look promises good profits in future
to those who have held on to their
fiocks and who have given them prop
er attention. Mr.. Taylor also says if
much more of our rougher lands could
be so fenced as to enable the land
holders to carry small flocks of sheep
they would find it profitable both in a
point of immediate returns as we'll as
in the enriching of the soil on which
the flocks are pastured and fed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY.

The Montezuma Democrat comes
out this week with one-third Of its
front page covered with what it terms,
"The Future of Democracy" The ar
ticle is set in small plea, double col
umn and double loaded, and big
enough that he who runs may read.
AS editor Lon Boydston is recognized
as one of the best political writer's in
the democratic party in Iowa, and as
his essays always have a wide infiu-
ence, this article must be treated as
significant.
He leads out with the declaration
that:
Republican politicians have made
possible the future success of
democracy. The failure of the re-
publican party to give any tan
gible legislation touching the
great necessities of the people has
formed the battle ground.
The preponderance OF evidence
against such a statement is so patent
and so overwhelming that it is neces-
sary to mention only one piece Of leg
islatiOn-the enactment into law OF
the Dingley bill-which has opened the
mills and the mints and afforded the
United States a season of general pros
perity that has no precedent in all his
tory.
Even Mr.. Boydston himself makes
an open admission of the benefits OF
this measure when a little farther
down the column he says:
"The democracy must stand for
a tariff that will prevent trusts
and enforce fair competition in
trade"
With characteristic wisdom and
forethought Mr.. Boydston tackles the
money question and comes out boldly
with an endorsement of republican
men and measures, even though he
does try to make the coat fit the DEM
ocratic anamorpnosis. mere is his
idea:
"It seems to us that the money
question has been settled accord
ing to democratic teachings and
therefore should no longer be a
bone of contention. The safe and
sensible democratic policy is to
say nothing on the money ques-
tion until it has something to say
that will meet national necessities
and answer to popular demand"
That would do for climax If there
was not something better IN his declar-
tion of principles. The Philippines,
that great democratic bugaboo which
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
FARMERS INSTITUTE.

The Secretary of Agriculture has
created a new position in the Office of
Experiment Stations in order to bring
the United States Department of Agri-
culture into closer touch with the
great farmers institute movement
throughout the country. Last year
about 2,700 institutes were held in Al
states and were attended by over $780,
900 persons. The Institutes have thus
become a powerful agency for the
practical education of farmers and the
movement has reached a point where
it is felt that national Office cooper
ating with the state managers of in
stitutes may be of great benefit. Much
of the work of the institutes is done
with the aid of the agricultural col
leges and experiment stations, and it
was therefore deemed appropriate
that the department should extend aid
to the institutes through the office OF
Experiment stations, which represents
the Secretary in his relations to the
colleges and stations and which has
already done much to promote the
dl SSlo VI dSol SNu
cation in this country. The new Off
GER, who is to be called a farmers in
stitute specialist, will be under the
general supervision OF the Director
of the Office of Experiment Stations,
and have his headquarters at the De-
partment at Washington. AS the re-
suit of a Civil Service examination
held to fill this position, Prof. John
Hamilton, now Secretary of Agricul-
ture in the State of Pennsylvania, has
received the appointment and will
soon enter on his new duties. Prof.
Hamilton was born on farm in Juni-
alta county, Pennsylvania, and served
in the army of the Potomac for three
and one-half years, becoming a SER
geant major of the First Pennsylvania
Cavalry. He afterwards graduated at
the Pennsylvania State College, per-
forming the duties Of superintendent
of the college farm during an interval
in his course. He was then professor
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
CHOOSING YOUNG MEN.

Young blood is at a premium with
Pension Commissioner Ware. Thirty
four young men who are we'll read in
the law and five young doctors have
been named to fill vacancies in the
office Commissioner ware said yes
derday that he hoped to obtain addi-
tional young lawyers and doctors to
fill vacancies in his force as fast as
they occur. Il want men who work
with their heads and not with their
political pulls said Colonel Ware. 81
must have young men who have finish
ed courses in medical and law schools
and are thoroughly up to date. Under
the civil service rules can offer them
only 5000 year to start on, but of
course they will be promoted if they
show that they are capable. l had not
been in here long when 1 found that
clerks are needed who have special
knowledge in medical and legal pro-
fessions, and l called the civil service
commission to my assistance. The
commissioners prepared examinations
in law and medicine which were de-
signed especially to test men in the
subjects most required in the disposi-
tion of pension cases. There must
be lots of capable young men in the
United States who are especially fit
ted to carry on the work of this office,
and l hope to reach them through
these examinations"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
DOES MILK CAUSE 1T?
Fort Dodge Authorities are InVestigat-
~. ing Milk Sold by Dairymen.

Fort Dodge, March 3.--Dr. c. H.
Churchill, city physician, has made a
test Of milk sold by different dairy
men doing business in Fort Dodge.
The object Of the test by the city ply
sician is to determine if there is any
relation between the rather alarming
spread of typhoid and tne milk used
in the city. The results of the analy-
sis are not yet known. DR.. Churchill
has completed an analysis of the city
water and has made discoveries that
may show tNis &c he the cause of the
present large number Of cases of ILL.,
ness. Whatever impurities the city
water may have is thought to come
from an overflow On lie ice, reaching
the river above ,..e water station and
coming down the river on the surface
of the ice
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

of agriculture in the same institution
for about ten years, and has since
been business manager, treasurer and
trustee of the college. He was one of
the original members of the Pennsyl-
vania State Board of Agriculture, and
when the State Department of Agri-
culture was orga-lzed, he became dep
uty secretary and director Of farmers
institutes, and in 1899 he was appoint
ed Secretary of Agriculture by Cover
nor Stone. During his period of SER
vice in the State Department of Agri-
culture, the farmers Institutes of the
states have greatly increased in at
tendance and efficiency, and he has al
so been very active in promoting the
betterment of the rural schools, especi-
ally through the Introduction of nature
study relating to agriculture.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

Ignorant men rail out against i'm
proved lenses, just as they rallied
against the railroad, the steamboat
and the telegraph; and with about as
good reason. Let any skeptical one
call on Prof. Arnold, and he will be per-
suaded in a trice, that the old glass
lenses bear no comparison to crYs-
tai and pebble lenses in point of excel
lence.
It required the inceSsant labor of
more than forty years for Prof. Ar
mold to develop and perfect his present
admirable system of improving human
vision. With all his experience, Prof.
Arnold's prices are within reach ofall.
To treat many diseases of the eyes
medicines are not necessary. Inf1am-
nation of the eyes in many cases IS
first produced, kept up and constantly
aggravated by eye strain, the result OF
refractive error. To give medicine in
such cases does harm instead of good.
Eye water can be dropped in the eye
without instruments but the correc-
tion of an optical defect requires many
expensive appliances and cannot be
treated without any more than pho
tograph can be taken without cam
era. Prof. Arnold has allinstruments
necessary for perfect work in his spe-
cialty.
The old methods eff spectacle fitting
are miserable failures as rule. Guess
ing where eyesight is concerned isdan-
gerous and uncertain. Prof. Arnold's
method is an absolute certainty and
he will tell you at once If he cannot
helpyou.
Office across the street from H. L.
Spencer's wholesale grocery. soft
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
TROLLEY FREIGHT SERVICE.

New York Tribune In the rural
districts as well as in the large cities
of the United States there is steady
increase in the use of trolley lines for
transporting express and mail matter.
At large centers of population special
cars for such service have long been
a familiar sight. In the country the
evolution has not gone quite so far,
although for many years it has been
customary to carry trunks, mail bags
and baskets of fruit and vegetables on
the front platforms of passenger cars,
either into or out of town. An appre-
ciable advance is close at hand, how
ever, and it may not be many years
before the country outstrips the city
in this application o. electricity to the
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
SKIN TORTURED
BABIES
And Tired, Fretted
Mothers
Find Comfort in CutiCura Soap
and Ointment
When All Other Remedies and
Physicians Fail.

Instant relief and refreshing sleep
for skin-tortured babies and rest for
tired, worried mothers in warm baths
with Cuticura Soap, and gentle anoint-
ings with Cuticura Ointment, purest of
emollient skin cures, to be followed in
severe cases by mild doses of Cuticura
Resolvent Pills. This is the purest,
sweetest, most speedy, permanent and
economical treatment for torturing,
disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding,
scaly, crusted and pimply skin and
scaly humours, with loss of hair, of in
fants and children, as well as adults,
and is sure to succeed when all other
remedies and the best physicians fail.
The agonizing itching and burning
of the skin, as in eczema; the frightful
scaling, as in psoriasis; the loss Of hair
and crusting of the scalp, as in scaled
head; the facial Disagreement, as in
pimples and ringworm; the awful suf-
fering of infants, and anxiety of worm
out parents, as in milk crust, tetter and
salt rheum, all demand a remedy of
almost superhuman virtues to success
fully cope with them. That Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Pills are such
stands proven beyond all doubt. No
statement is made regarding them that
is not justified by the strongest evil
dence. The purity and sweetness, the
power to afford immediate relief, the
certainty of speedy and permanent
cure, the absolute safety and great
economy have made them the standard
skin cures and humour remedies of the
civilized world.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
PROF. ARNOLD, THE OpTlClAN.
Busy at His Office
Now in This City.

Every one will appreciate the value
Of consulting a scientific expert who
has devoted his life to the study and
practice Of a peculiar science. To be
suited with glasses which remedy the
defects of vision and enable a person
to see well who saw but indistinctly
before, is blessing. Then it is an
exceedingly comfortable reflection
that your case has been carefully con-
sidered by an optician who brings to
his aid great experience and eminent
scientific knowledge and skill. He
has that devotion to his profession
which promps him to seek for and
avail himself of all improvements
which the progress of scientific dis
covery has brought to light. Thus
prepared he is able to meet and over
come difficulties in the restoration Of
vision by the use of means which few,
If any, in his profession can command
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

The State Oratorical contest, such
as has just been held in Oskaloosa is
a great thing, and the colleges Of Iowa
are keeping up a record that other
states find it hard TO equal. Two
years ago Iowa very nearly won the
interstate oratorical contest, and last
year the representative of the state
university, won the Northern Oratori-
cal League contest. Mr.. Talley of
Simpson college, the winner of Fri
day nights contest, will represent
Iowa at the interstate contest which
is composed of the best orators from
ten of the central western states, ex-
tending from Ohio to Colorado. This
interstate contest is to be held in
Ohio this year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

needs of local commerce. For one of
the great interurban systems out in
Ohio, embracing three long lines
which concentrate at Cincinnati, a six
story terminal station is now going up
in that city. Besides the usual wait
| ing rooms and toilet accommodations
for passengers and a suitable apart
ment for the storage of express matter
there will be shed, measuring sixty
by eighty feet, exclusively for light
freight. The latter merchandise win
not be collected in one part of town
and carried by trolley TO another, but
it will come from farms and gardens
anywhere from five to thirty miles
away, and on reaching Cincinnati is
to be distributed by teams.
With a reasonable hope of success,
the company which is furnishing these
facilities might look for a large de-
velopment of patronage without TAX
ing further steps. Still, it has planned
to meet the farmer more than half
way. Elaborate provision is being
made in the surrounding country for
the coveted traffic. In front of i'm
portant farms which adjoin any of the
company's tracks platforms will be
constructed for the deposit of milk
cans, vegetable crates, fruit baskets
and other parcels of produce. Wagons
will bring freight to a few stations
from points a mile or two distant.
Special cars and trucks, like those
used for express service ON electric
roads in citles, will be put in opera
tion, and at certain seasons fifteen
minute schedule will probably be feas-
ible. A regular freight tariff has been
worked out, and stamps will be sold
for payment of charges. AS an addi-
tional attraction, the company will
adopt the way bill system to insure
protection to shippers. In short, it
will do as much as, or even more than,
the steam railroad companies for its
patrons.
OF hundreds of rural trolley lines
which already handle a little of this
sort of business the managers have
occasionally asked themselves just
how far it would be judicious to go in
the creation of special facilities. In
sparsely settled regions, or where the
officials were timid, the question has
not been seriously considered per-
haps. Elsewhere larger possibilities
have been recognized and bolder
spirit has prevailed, yet without active
measures being taken like those re-
ported from southern Ohio. Practical
experiment goes so much further than
theory that most of these people have
waited for someone else to make the
test. Within the next year or two,
therefore, a demonstration of great
value will be afforded. The country
will soon have chance to learn
whether it pays thus to cater to pa
irons or not, and to just what degree
it will be safe to follow the example
now about to be set. AS to the out
come there can be little doubt. There
is an immense amount OF produce
needing transportation to great rail-
way centers and electricity can do the
work cheaper and quicker than horses
can; hence it is only a question of
time when it will perform the service,
and when all the incidental expenses
of the new system will be readily met.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
The DEVIL.

Men don't believe in a devil now, as
their fathers used to do,
They have forced tn door of various
creeds to let His Majesty
through.
There isn't print of his cloyen foot,
or a fiery dart from his bow
To be found in earth or air today-for
the world has voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal draIght
that palsies heart and brain,
And loads the bier of each passing
year with ten hundred thousand
slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-
day with the fiery breath of hell,
If the devil isn't and never was? Won't
somebody rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint
and digs the pit for his feet?
Who sows the tares in the field of time
whenever God sows wheat?
The devil is voted not to be, and of
course the thing is true;
But who just now is doing the work
''.' the devil alone should do?
."-E .-t4~
We are told he does not go about like
a roaring lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible
for the everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church and
state, to the earth's remotest
bound,
If the devil by unanimous vote is no
where to be found?
Won't somebody step to the front
forthwith, and make their bow,
and show
How the frauds and crimes of single
day spring up? We want to
know
The devil was fairly voted out, and of
course the deVirs gone;
But simple people would like to know
who carries his business on.
.+...--.-+- Alfred ]. Hough.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

only two years ago threatened to dis
rupt the union, to frizzle up the S0,-
100000 people in the United States
and spew their remains into that sea
of oblivion and disgrace that once
gulped down the Roman empire-is
given the right hand of good fellow
ship by Mr. Boydston- and with the
dignity of conqueror he says:
The Philippine question, in so
far as the retention of the islands
is involved, is no longer an issu-
able one between the parties.
Events and an unmistakable pop
ular consensus have stamped it
with an Interchangeable political
character. We have the Philip
pines and no popular majority Can
ever be secured in favor of sur
rendering them out Of hand. The
American people are going to
hold onto them until, with their
best offices, they make something
satisfactory out of them.
Summing it all up Mr.. Boydston's
article, intended of course to be a
beacon for his distracted and foot
sore followers, is in reality one of the
strongest endorsements of the repub-
llcan party and it's many master
strokes of the past eight years. We
sincerely hope the New Democracy"
in Iowa will be erected on the founda-
tion our gifted friend and brother ed
itor has constructed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

-Colfax Clipper: After a news
paper man has hollered himself hoarse
in efforts to persuade people to patron
ize the home merchants, and accident
ally stumbles onto the fact that some
of the fellows whose interests he is
endeavoring to protect are sending
away for their job printing, it rather
shakes his faith in mankind and makes
reciprocity look Ike a penny with a
hole in it. ...
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
Another Record Breaker.

County Auditor Martin and Record
er l.. l.. McCord had another big day
with realty transfers, and the amount
of lands changing hands as represent
ed in the deeds filed for record
amounted to $149,633.33. This is an
other showing of unusual activity in
the realty market for the month.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

Scientists estimate that the
amount of water within the earth's
crust would, if placed on the surface,
flood the entire surface to depth of
from 5000 to $500 feet. Swim out
OGrady."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

The Democratic Dubuque Tele-
graph serves notice that "it may as
well be understood now as later on
that the Bryan democracy will not
support Wall street candidate for
President on the Democratic ticket"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

We had nice joke written up
about the weather but were afraid to
spring it, because before press time
the weather had changed three times
and the joke had been out of season
twice. Such is March.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

No less than eighty of the 250 col
lege students at Northwestern Uni
versity failed in spelling. "The Keo-
kuk Gate City calls this TOO much
superstructure and not enough under
pinning"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

tative declaration of a republican
creed and as chart by which the
government may be guided in dealing
with living and vital questions which
are presented to the American people
for settlement.