The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-04-09

naLural ana positive advantages that
the section held, and which could not
be well wrecked or frittered away.
l know that many enterprises were
started only to fail; have several evi-
dences of that fact somewhere that
cost good money; others have the
same; we paid for experience rather
expensiyely, but since it was paid for
and the lesson learned it is useless to
cry over the mutual losses suffered.
At that time we had to let the hope
bloom and blossom; some may have
found the protection of better luck,
but the great majority were out in the
wet and they chilled it out. 1t is graft
flying now to read that the town has
got royal hump on itself; is taking
its proper place as such in the general
menagerie of Iowa towns, and is all
right-"and then some!" And the
prosperity of the town and county car.
not grow so great but that shall say
that 1t Is because of its long and con-
tinued well deserving! If 1t was not
against the tenor of things with you
South American, should call on the
mozo of my house to see il he could
not find something in the "conserva-
tory fit and fizzing to the occasion,
a-d in that way let sunshine in or out,
as you will have it! You will prob
ably think that | had better get that
typewriter off my knee, from this
tenor of speech. but there are several
kinds of ype-writers- this is one
of the kind left in the house by my
better half, and therefore must be all
right, wherever have it. There are
others, and | like 'em ALL
(By the way, how rejoiced some of
the old Herald printers would be, who
used to handle my Spencerian (?)
scriblets, could they have had this
clear copy to toggle with, which now
flows cut of this machine as easily as
the milk from fresh COW AS Chris
tianizing institution this machine is
great one-and If wanted to be per-
sonal | could suggest to several old
friends to forsake the sin-making
paths of bad writing and get a ma
chine OF course they want one with
the correct speller" attachment)
Well, we are now in the midst of
cur fruit and melon season here. 1t
seems sort of funny to see melon
wagons on the streets in February,
for in the past this month has been
associated with snow shoveling, frost
ed ears and things of that sort. But
you see, you had the sun painting
things red and yellow last June and
the summer months on, and as all ma
ture is against monopolizing all things,
II is only fair that we poor mortals
should have the sun and its work here
even if it does give us melons in
February. But they are not like those
that my slim friend, George Godfrey,
used to coax into glorious fruitage
down on the Des Moines bottom. The
fact is that few of the fruits common
to both sides of the line, are as good
here as north but the peaches here
will do finely, as well as the straw
berry, which latter fruit you buy by
the hundred. The apples here have
Seeding sort of flavor; are generally
sub-acid, hardly ever get yellow, or
take on high color. They also take
on very stiff price-say from SOC to
60c per dozen-some Of you old vete-
ran apple eaters like Tom Beach, any
of the Primes, the Hoovers, Rowe
all of you-what do you think of that?
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son!
But if you want sweet meat, beef
and mutton-sweeter than you know
about-come down and we will kill
some anu feed for sure, and with
fullness that will tax the waistband.
This is the pastoral land of the world;
not even the old biblical estancieros
had any such 'lay ont" as may be
found here; where shelter is never re-
quired at any time, and where a full
grown steer will bring only SIT to $40,
and cows about one-half that. Much
of this good meat will soon find its way
ever to England in refrigerating ships,
and when l tell you that the River
Plate can kill one million eating steers
yeoy, and from six to ten million of
mutton, you will conclude that there
are other pebbles on the beach besides
the one owned-acOrding to several
tales oft told-by the meat trust.
Incidentally, want to say that you
are not the only ones who have to
do with a million dollar affair. The
year 1902 found this Consulate hand
ling a business "out" of $4,700,000-
all in golu values, and we closed the
last quarter with a record maker of
81, 700 ,000-all exports to the States.
These are large figures, but this coun-
try is one-third larger than Iowa, and
is right smart" cattle and sheep
country; has no timber; no coal; no
iron; no minerals-it's just plain good
country, and much of it looks like
Iowa in the central section, and rolls
away in a beautiful undulating way,
broken only by the tall eucalyptus
around some estancia, or the silvery
sheen of a winding river What a
promised land' this wTuld have been
for the wandering, wiz IL, disobedient
children of Israel!
We do business here in about
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