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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB
The Initial Meeting Held Last
Monday Evening.

Last Monday evening was the OPEN
ing meeting OF the season for the
Social Science Club The program for
the evening was paper on the An
thracite coal strike by Doane Robin
son, but owing to the inability Of
Mr.. Robinson to attend the meeting
it was resolved to request him to
read his paper at the next regular
meeting, In case DR.. Swckard, who
Is down ON the program for that even
ling, should be unable to present his
paper.
President Koehler, on behalf Of the
executive committee, requested mem
| bers present to suggest topics to aid
the committee in arranging the full
program for the coming season. 1t
was also suggested that anyone having
In mind some topic for discussion
would do the committee a favor by
communicating the same to Prof
i Koehler, chairman of the committee
by mail or otherwise. The attendance
| was not as good as usual, owing per
haps somewhat to the fact that man,
! OF the members were aware OF Mr
4 Robinson's absence from town. Sew
| Aral names were sent in for member
shin and it is evident that the .clut
Iwill be considerably increased in mem
lbership and that interest in the meet
Iings will be considerably augmented
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
|, ELEGANT EMPORIUM
New olwin Angel stor {
! Mecca of shop.going
crowds.

ne is now an opportunity In this
pmake a most happy combine
Of business and pleasure. The
us is the purchasing of goods
ne bright, clean. selected for the
with rare good judgement and
is reasonably as possible. The
he is to do business In q
Is elegant, as roomy and well
dss any in the whole north
The large stores In the big
surpass only in extent the
lAngell store. In fine fixtures
rniture and up-to-date applian-
ns Of them excel this suberb
Ven store.
sair.line cash and package sys-
has just been installed by an
tfrom Chicago house. A wire
t carrying cash and goods pur-
flies along wires from each Of
even departments on the drst
% the cashiers and wrappers
where all goods arc carefully
LII Z. 80
%, remeasured and wrapped up.
are purchased in several de.
aents, when the last purchase Il
goods have all been accumu'
checked and ready for the cus
new departments added since
0apancy Of the new building
Ws' S' mems furnishings, carpets
llllinery, the latter two being Of
pH' y moor where the department,
\ 1S and suits is also located.
~ y basement are packing ami
ang rooms, sample room and ,
,la %om 80 by 60 which will b,
tlumately for wholesaling, !,
company contemplates engaa
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
GAINED FORTY POUNDS INTHlRTY
DAYS

4 For several months our younger
brother had been troubled with indi-
qestior. He tried several remedies
hut got no benefit from them. We
purchased some of Chamberlain's
stomach and Liver Tablets and he
commenced taking them. Inside q
thirty days he had gained forty pounds
II fiesh. He is now fully recovered
We have q good trade on the Tablets.
-Holley Bros, Merchants, Long
branch. No. For sale by all druggists.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
CHICAGO THE WONDERFUL
The international Live Stock
Exposition.
one Of the Features of the Cit,
and the Greatest Exhibition
Of its Kind in the
World.

Chlcago no sooner gets the Ceten-
NAL Celebration Of the past week out
OF the way. than she begins to con-
slider means for making the Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition. to be
held this fall, better than ever held
in the past. This, for Chicago, is not
difficult to accomplish, for over s33 !.
COo,0OO OF live stock was handled at
the Union Stock Yards last year, al
most three hundred thousand car.
loads of live stock being received al
the Chicago market during this
period. This makes the city one OF.
greatest live stock centers in the
world.
The international Live Stock Ex-
position has been an educational
agency of the highest value to those
who have visited the show in recent
years from the cattle ranges, and
feeding grounds of the west. These
sources Of supply are placed within
easy reach of the city by such trunk
lines Of railway as the Chicago &
North Western, which brings to Chi
cago each year 5000 carloads Of live
stock, raised aud fed in the territory
1t teaches The people living in thia
rich agricultural region, tributary te
Chicago, are eyinciug each year more
interest In the betCerment Of theil
stock. The exhibition at the Uuior
| Stock Yards during the Internationa
Exposition this fall will be one of th,
most notable ever seen, and its chic
value will be along educational lines
looking to the improvement of breed
and raising ofstandards, which mean
!, just so much more money in the pock
cts of the producer.
Full particulars as to the program
of the International together wit
announcement Of low railway rate
via The North Western Line will 81
pear later.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
| ND[N TINE
|, ,ee Years ago this Week
,h,rdsen and Brown
| County.

r,;.. Of ,he Republican. Z, .
l,'s' as'.e ~ had commenced the
e''ly ". hrjck house on l'l his land
Essortn- Es;s western depot
!. stated tnat chas Hermance,
s''s .a creeks bonanza farmers
~ s,alt town every day with q ny
= Ueinlein s. FireY dis
''u W. : Firey continuing the
,,,ub]ican county convention
s'b stbeen putting up the 'olloW'
thet.
,,,,sr, NJ. P. stroupe Of Rondell
|ssr Of Deeds, D. G. Mckenzie
ksnbia. .,,a.ao.ns. !, Il
sts n, Judge, E. NJ. Spence, Fred
.so, ]. D. Mason, Bath,
la,lls;uperiniendent, R. w. Jones
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16

ing In when the proper time arrives.
The ample SHOW windows at the
front are of most modern design,
and when properly lighted and artis.
ticly arranged 1t is promised that they
will make display ofrare brilliancy.
Mr.. Ralph Macy, q very clever artist
In the .ltne Of window display has
been engaged.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
sHEclAL. FOR 30 DAYS.

s n FREE-Send ,your name and ad'
dress and you will receive by mail,
postpaid, is selected popular songs
and music.
CHICAGO FLAvoR1Na co.
Michigan Ave-, and ed St.. On lcago
Illinois. ocV1o-1o
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
VERY LOW RATES
TO KANSAS CITY, MO.

Via the Northwestern Line. E1-
cnrs,on tickets will be sold Oct. 10 70
q. inclusive, with very favorable re-
turn limits, on account Of American
Rnva, live Stock Exhibition. Apply
!. .,hicapo 4 North Western R'y.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16

Fora pleasant physic take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
Easy to take. Pleasant in effect.
For sale by all druggists.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-16
REPORT OF THE
South Dakota Sanltarlum
Company
FOR THE rloNTH OF SEPTEMBER

The following is an itemized list Of
the diseases treated during the month
at tile Sanitarium or at their homes
by the Sanitarium DOCTORS:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26

conceded that the mileage of electric
lines will multiply rapidly during the
next five years, hence in a few years
they will become important factors in
the rapid and satisfactory carrying OF
the mails, In Ohio SAT miles of cleo
trio railways are reported, some of
them with a forty limit, making
as good time as the steam cars, and as
they run mainly along the common
highways, they get nearer the people
and are the more popular common car
riers of the two. The revenue of the
Ohio lines from this source is $780,
252.42, eight times the Iowa receipts.
But the day of small beginnings is not
to be despised.
There are twice the number of posi-
offices in the United States that there
were in 1878, the present number foot
ing up 1924. The ratio of postal
clerks at the periods named is four to
one in favor of the present, the mum
Der being 9,4S5. The total number of
mail routes of all descriptions is a.
I'll, and the length of these routes is
over half a million miles, twenty times
the circumference of the earth And
the magnitude of the mail service may
be the better appreciated il it is in
evidence that these routes are all tray
ersed every lay and some Of them
30 times day.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26

Missouri Valley News: The News
would scarcely be doing it's duty il
it failed to point moral to the young
men of this community by referring to
the successful career of Hon. B. l..
Salinger, the speaker Of the K. Of p.
banquet Monday evening. We knew
him as waif over in northern Iowa,
when ambitious fire first began to
warm his youthful dreams of future
conquest. 1t was his early ambition
to be lawyer and an orator. With
out friends, or even friendly aid, with
apparently few gifts or graces to sus-
tain him, he forged along the lines
marked out for himself by himself,
and to the surprise of his warmest
friends soon found the opportunity
and became famous as lawyer, ora
tor and statesman. What Ben Sailing
er has done any other American boy
can do if gifted with the same genius
for hard work, self denial and unend-
ing perseverance.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
IOWA LEADS AL.

Iowa not only leads the nation and
the world as corn raising state, but
is now in the front rank as the great
est live stock state in the country. Ac-
cording to the statistician of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
the principal farm animals of Iowa are
worth $277 ,410 ,4S4, or $65,000,U00 more
than those of any other state, New
York ranking second.
In the number of its horses Iowa
leads in value and is second to Texas
in numbers. Iowa has 1,0f4,570
horses, valued at $50 each, or worth a
total of $40, 760,0ol. Texas has 1891
45S horses, but these are worth only
$38 sol ,293, or less than half the value
of Iowa horses. Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, featured in song and prose for
years as the great horse states of the
nation, are way GOWN in the column
both in number and value of horses
and in individual values, the horses OF
Iowa leading all other states in aver
age valuations.
In dairying Iowa now stands second
only to New York. The state has l.
390,912 mich cows, worth an average
each of $1,000, or total of SAL ,769,0 87.
New York's mich cows number 1876
500 and are valued at $55,619,000.
OF cattle other than mich COWS
Texas has the most, the total being
S,007,910, valued at 1870 each and
worth total of 500, 698,754. But in
the value of other cattle Iowa leads.
There are 3,574,O12 cattle other than
mich COWS in the state, worth an av-
erage of $23.10, or a total of $S2,544,.
655.
In the combined value of all classes
of cattle Iowa leeds all other states.
AS a mule producer the state does
not stand high. 1t is seventeenth
with but 45,914 mules, worth $3,4O0,'
365.
Sheep growing is also compare
lively small industry. The state has
only S9S,040 sheep, valued at $3.5S
each, total of $3,211,571. Montana
leads in the number and value OF
sheep.
But in the production of hogs the
state is far and away to the front
Iowa has 7,43S,655 hogs of an average
value of 1897 and total value Of $685..
724,735, while Illinois is second with
only 3,7470O0, valued at only S35,33S,
87S. Iowa has twice as many hogs as
any other state in the union and their
value is proportionately large.
The total given for the value OF
farm animals does not include poultry
or animals other than those desig
mated.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
The ROCK ISLAND BOLTS.

The Rock Island road, which recent
ly occasioned CONSERVATION by an
nouncing its withdrawal from the i'm
migrant pool, and its intention to go
it alone to secure its share of the emf
grant business to the Pacific coast has
SHE'D another one at the freight and
passenger associations. 1t has given
notice that it will not longer comply
with section of the railroad pass
agreement. This action prohibits the
giving of passes to shippers for the
purpose of influencing traffic.
The railroads in the agreement have
tried to prevent this course by the
Rock Island, insisting that its action
will precipitate system of pass CIV
ing, rebating, ETC., that will be disas-
trous to the railroad interests. The
Rock Islands answer has been that 1T
has undisputed proof that the railroads
making the protest have been guilty
of doing what they object to its doing,
and have in this way taken business
from it. The Rock Island officials
were told that Elkins anti-rebate bill,
recently passed, prohibits the giving
of rebates to patrons, and claims that
it is so worded as to cover the giving
of free transportation to shippers. The
reply of the Rock Island to this is
that the interstate commerce law now
covers this feature of the railroad bust
ness, and that it is not lived up to by
the railroads, and consequently it can
not be expected they will obey the
new law. The Rock Island announces
that it intends to do openly and above
board what other roads have been do
ing under cover, and that it has been
forced to do this to protect its inter-
ests.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
QUICK ACTION.

Washington Post: Representative
Lacey, of Iowa, has had a remarkable
experience with a book agent, and
thereby learned thing or two.
"The other day received a circular
letter from New York firm" said he,
calling my attention to certain pub
location, in which happened to be in
terested, and offering to send me a
prospectus. l answered one afternoon
that 1 should like to see the prospec-
tus.
THE next morning, before l had
risen, a book agent was pounding on
my door and had the time of my life
with him. 1t was the livliest prospec-
tus ever received, and about as quick
work in getting busy as 1 ever ex-
perienced."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
MORE SCHOOL ROOM.

The growth Of the city involves the
public with new responsibilities, and
there is none more important than
that of providing adequate school IA
cilities for the children. Greater Os-
kaloosa, which has been expanding in
many ways for the past two years, has
also had a wonderful increase in its
school population, and now finds its
school houses filed to their capacity,
and in some instances crowded. The
little folks must be accommodated and
cared for, and the best means to the
end is a proposition that now con-
fronts the school board, and ques.
ton that will seek settlement at the
school election early in March. The
Board has in mind the provision of a
building fund rather than the issuance
of bonds. This may make the tax a
little more for few years but will not
burden the future with a bonded in
debtedness and yearly interest cou-
pons to meet. One plan of charging
is to build an addition to the Fifth
ward school, and start the erection Of
a new building in South Side" on lots
recently purchased for school pur-
poses. 1t is figured that $4,000 WI
be needed as soon as that sum can be
collected in the regular process Of
taxation. The unsightly addition to
First ward building has led to con-
siderable opposition to any more i'm
provements of this kind, preference
being given to new buildings, even
though it may be a little more expen-
sive. More room is needed-this fact
is patent-and the best method of OBJ.
tanning it is matter our people should
think about and decide intelligently
at the coming election. .."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26

washington correspondence. Inc
Major by reason of his long service is
thoroughly informed upon parliament
airy rulings and is well equipped to
take care of any proposition that may
Unexpectedly arise. Mr.. Lacey is an
artist when it comes to dealing with
pension legislation. After the COM
mittee on invalid pensions has thresh-
ed out the numerous cases and re-
ported favorably upon bill, especially
If the report is unanimous, there is
practically nothing left but to go
through the required forms in laying
aside" reading" and passing" the
bill. However, when hundreds of bills
are to be passed, even when the ma
chinery has been creased and the ne
cessary formula of words reduced to
the smallest possible number, much
time is required to get through big
bunch of bills. 1t is very largely a
question Oh quickness of speech, of
.fleetness of tongue. Such a man as
Burton, of Ohio, who talks in DELHI
crate manner, would not get through
whereas the last pension day Major
Lacey cleaned up the calendar and
passed nearly $50 bills, an average of
more than three bills minute: When
you come to consider that the bill must
be read, that is ats title, name of bene-
ficiary and amount; must be put to the
house, read again and put on it's pass
age and that the house votes twice on
each bill, it can be assumed that the
speaker is doing some lightning talk
ing. Major Lacey was q in fine fettle
the last pension day and the process
of passing the bills was very much
like the murmuring of a brook. In
order that he should be able to hold
out for an hour and a half it was me-
Cessary that Major Lacey should pitch
his voice low and speak in tones but
little above a whisper. In time the
stereotyped lingo became so impress
ed upon the brain that no thought was
required and it was steady sing-song,
like the droning of professional auc-
tioneer selling Jewelry. There was
no pausing to call for the ayes and
nays. 1t was taken for granted that
everybody was voting aye, although in
fact nobody was voting at all, except
possibly the chairman or the congress
man who happened to be interested in
that particular bill. Nays were never
heard.
To the spectator in the gallery the
process of passing pension bills must
be mystifying in the extreme. The
speaker stands in his place and rattles
off in a low tone of voice, interrupted
every twenty seconds by the reading
clerk, who in the same tone and
,mumbling the words, a lingo, without
change of infection. Probably third
of the membership of the house may
be seen in the chamber, and they sit
there with their eyes fastened upon a
house calendar or newspaper The
chamber is very quiet; nobody is say
ing a word and if the visitor should de-
part from Washington without again
visiting the house he would gather the
impression that the house Of represen-
tatives is a sort of Quaker service.
After an hour and half of this col
orless proceeding, the end of the cal
endar is reached; the floor leader
moves the house adjourn and there is
rush for the cloak rooms. Three
hundred and fifty odd veterans have
been made happy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26

-PresiG ont Roosevelt was telling a
friend about his mail, which averages
500 or 600 letters day. "One Of the
most remarkable letters ever receiv-
ed" he said, arrived on the morning
the first full accounts of the Mar
Unique disaster were printed in the
The writer said he saw
that the American consul at Mar
Unique had been burned to death. He
applied for the place and wound up
with this sentence: I make this early
application so as to get in ahead OF
those loathsome creatures, the Office
seekers"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
HANDLING MAIL IN IOWA.

Iowa figures extensively in the pos
tai business, and includes railway
routes numbering from 143,001 up to
1916, lis in all. These include a
mileage of S,5S3.23, and the amount re-
ceived for mail service on all these
routes is 81, 305, 1O3.7S, just about fair
production of the total sum paid
throughout the country, taking every
thing into account. The most FORUM
ate beneficiary is the G. B. & Q. rail
way, which receives a lump sum Of
1924, 2S4.95 for carrying the mails from
Burlington to the U. p. transfer at
Council Bluffs, making thirCy-two de-
liyeries per week. This is regarded
as the "big contract" for which the
Chicago & Northwestern has been
making an earnest struggle. It's real
financial meaning is $1,000 per day,
nearly, and Jones pays the freight
and hires the hands" The Chicago,
Milwaukee C st. Paul railway pulls in
s65, PIT 81 on the haul from Savanna to
Union Pacific transfer; $45, 26S.13 from
North McGregor to Canton, South Da-
kota, and $45,162.10 from Marion to
Kansas City, Mo. The Rock lslana
captures $66, 10719 on mail carriage
from Davenport to Union Pacific trans
fer, and $5S ,270.92 from Davenport to
Kansas City, Mo. The Illinois Central
gets S54,843.90 for service between Du-
buuue and Sioux City. All OF these
lines have branches which the govern
ment uses and pays good stiff rates for
the same. The least amount is paid
to a new road operating between
Oneida and Manchester, eight miles
long, six times a week, sS49.26. The
most frequent delivery is between
East Dubuque, H., and Dubuque, 80
times per week. The mileage in Mis-
souri, is more than 1000 miles less
than in Iowa, and yet the allowance
for mail carriage is $4,000 the larger
in Missouri. In Illinois the mileage
exceeds that Of Iowa, 1000 miles, anc
the mail carrying allowance is more
than a million dollars in excess OF
what Iowa receives
There are five electric mail carrying
roads in Iowa, with total length OF
60 miles, and the government pays So,
500 per annum for mail service on
these lines. The largest amount Is
paid to the Des Moines City Railway
ICo., 27 miles long, s1,6sS.47. 1t Il
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
ALL HAVE TROUBLES.

Ii Dame Fortune treats you badly as
you travel on the way,
Do not let that fact disturb you, but
be cheerful all the day,
Never lose your pluck and courage
and whenever she may frown,
Just go on about your business and
she cannot put you down,
Yes refuse to treat with troubles in a
world so bright and fair
You will find there is no reason to be
loaded down with care.
You should tackle your misfortune and
should fight it out alone
Please remember all your comrades
have some troubles of their own.
Just go out and view the landscape
when you're feeling rather sad
For little of Gods sunshine will be
sure to make you glad.
You can call awhile on nature-ram-
BILE through wonderland
That will charm you with it's beauties,
though you do not understand,
Then your troubles will not linger anu
in fact, you will not know
How and when your troubles left you,
how you lost your weight of woe,
Yet if you are prone to nurse them
and to roam about and moan
Please remember there are others who
have troubles of their own.
If you fight all care with laughter,
then it cannot cloud your sky,
And will quickly vanish elsewhere
will be sure to pass you by.
Go and study souls with trouble
those who have it night and day;
Is it not because they hunt it? That
is why it comes their way.
That each soul must have trouble is
a truth that's oft confessed.
But we need not nurse it always-joy
may often be our guest.
And we do not need to sing it, or go
shutting round and groan.
For our friends and other people have
some troubles of their own.
st. Joseph Gazette.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26
The Marshalltown Times.Repu

The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can calls on the Iowa Association of
Travelling Men to give it's attention at
once to the enforcement of the present
law and the enactment Of another
more stringent in its provisions, for
the protection against fire in hotels.
There should be means of escape
from every window of hotel building.
To pass corridors full of smoke and
flame to ladder perhaps 100 feet dis
tant is manifest impossibility. Let
the travelling men who are most inter
ested in their betterment take vigor-
Gus action along this line"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-02-26

Knoxville Journal: Oskaloosa is
likely to build an electric road to BuX-
ton and White City. If Knoxville
don't watch out she will find an inter-
loper in the eastern section of this
county taking away the trade from the
coal fields that properly belongs to
her. Now is a good time to wake up
and realize the opportunity that we
have in this matter of the develop
ment of Marion county coal fields.