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The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
When to Commence.

Very often persons are afflicted
with kidney disease and do not real
lie the fact until those organs are par
TALLY destroyed, and that is why kid
ney diseases are so generally consid
cred fatal. When you have head
aches, backaches, dizziness and ca
PRECIOUS appetite, commence at once
the use of Foley's Kidney Cure and
you will escape the dangers OF kidney
disease.
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
CORN CUTTER INJURIES MAN
j. Hurd, of Crescent, Has Leg Badly
Lacerated-Tendon Above
Heel Severed

Crescent, Oct. 12.-Jesse Hurd, farm
hand, married, on the farm, John Lee
Osborne, two miles east of here, was
seriously injured IN a corn cutting ma
chine. In some manner the machine was
about to be upset when he jumped from
it and got his leg in front of the knife.
The tendon just above the heel was sew
cred and the limb otherwise badly lace
rated. Doctors who were called say
the chances are good for the wound to
heal without leaving the man cripple.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
MANY NEW LAWYERS.
Twenty-nine Disciples Of Blackstone
Admitted to Practice.

Des Moines, oct. 10.--Twenty-nine
successful candidates for admission
to the bar were sworn in by John G.
Crockett, clerk OF the Iowa supreme
court, Friday evening. Attorney Gen
eral G. w. MulIan, for the board Of ex-
aminers, presented the class to the
judges of the supreme court. Out OF
the thirty-three who took the exam
nation throughout, only four had
failed. No address was made to the
successful candidates.
Among those to whom diplomas
were granted was Hugh Ben Mccoy,
Of oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
Anxious Moments.

Some of the most anxious hours OF
a mothers life are those when the lit.
tie ones Of the household have the
Group. There is no other medicine
so effective in this terrible malady as
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t is house,
hold favorite for throat and lung
troubles, and as 1t contains no OPT
ates or other poiseus it can be safely
given.
Green G. Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
PAINTER SUFFERS BAD FALL
Rope Holding the Ladder Burned in
Two-Man Was Terribly
Injured

Cedar Falls, Oct. 12.-Cecil Keer fell
from scaffolding while painting a
smokestack and was terribly injured.
He alighted on George Wilson, who
was also badly hurt. A spark from the
stack burned the rope holding the scat
folding
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15

cept for the fact
that in such dire
distress many a
won a n h a $
found a way
back to health
and happiness by
the use of DIR.
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription.
This great REM
edy for wornanly
Ills has we'll been
called VA god
send to weak and
sick women" 1t
establishes repu-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
TRAGEDY AT CEDAR RAPIDS
Travelling Man Named ohalloran
Shoots Wife and Then Himself
jealousy Cause Of Deed

Cedar Rapids, Oct. 12.-Thomas b.
ohalloran, a travelling man. shot and
probably fatally wounded his wife and
then shot himself. The man will prob
ably recover, but there is little hope for
the wife. Jealousy was the cause of the
shooting
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
REAL ESTATE DEALS.
Transfers Of Mahaska County Lots
and Lands Filed for Record.

Mary Allen quit claim toFran-
ces Graham her interest in
ea of seq of s-77-14 ....--..... 1000 90
Frances and Morton Ora
ham quit claim to Mary
Allen their interest in VIZ
of seq of 8-77.14. ..,....,,..,,,.,.., 1900 90
Anna Brown to Fred Turner '
lot of out lot IL original
plat oskaloosa 2 600 90
William and Martha E Oils
to Thomas Garrett lot in
Houtz's I'd ad to Oskaloosa $50 90
Excelsior Coal Co. to Edward
Edris the sw u of the se u
8.76-15-4O acres. 80. 900 90
Il B and Anna Groves to IF
Larkins the sea of neH 20 ...
77-l5-40 acres -..---......-.....--.-..- 1,OOO UU
Henry and Eva Kriser to FL
III Sheriff land in 2-75-15 and
1-75-15 also II and 12.17-15. 4,010 90
Fred B and Emma TuruerYto
oskaloosa ...,,.,..--..'-,,.......-.,.,, 1000 90
u G and Minnie Fl Deck to
Burlington & Western Ry
strip of land 20 1t wide ex-
tending through the NV a
27-75,1i--.-,,--.-.,....---...-...... .. 1000 90
Louise Oswandel to Burling-
ton & Western Ry strip OF
land running through the
ne u of ne of 30-75-17.- "a 80
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
A WOMAN'S PRAYER.

II IS notable that in the dependency
caused by woman1y diseases, there seems
70 many a suffering woman no way Of
escape from pain except at the price OF
life itself. 1t would be sad to record
s,,ch 4 story of struggle and suffering ex-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15

ct was almost a miracle. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me Of a terrible
breaking out all over the body. | am
very grateful" Miss Julia Filbridge,
West Cornwell, Conn.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DEAD
L. D. Pierson of Anita Saw Turbulent
Times-only One Veteran Left
Now .

Anita, Oct. Ia. D. Pierson died at
his home here at an advanced age. Mr..
Pierson was one of the two surviving
members of the Mexican war residing
in Cass county, the other member being
Mr.. Allen of Atlantic.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15

Monarch over pain. Burns. cuts,
sprains, stings. Instant relief. Or.
Thomas Electric Oil. At any drug
store.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-10-15
UNKNOWN MAN WAS KILLED
An Unknown Man was Killed by
Interurban Near Colfax-Was
Not Identified

Des Moines, Oct. IAN unknown
man was killed by the electricinterur-
ban between Mitchellyille and colfax.
Nothing is known of the mans identity
and details of the accident are not OBJ
tainable at this hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30

To take bath at Tifiis is to court a
wonderful experience. Abundant
springs of water, strongly impregnated
with the sulphureted hydrogen. supply
the building, and in its vaulted cham
bers. far below the street, there is no
sound but the splash of the fountain
and the rolling echo of ones own
voice. Henry Norman gives a de-
scription of the masseur who presides
over the bath and makes its most &c
centric feature.
He Is a Persian. who speaks but a
word or two of Russian. His head is
shaved, rag is twisted round his
waist, and his feet are dyed orange.
First he rubs you. and then sud-
denly, as you lie face downward on
the marble slab, he is upon your back,
his feet dug into your spine, his hands
grasping your shoulders to increase
the pressure. Slowly. with skiliful
appreciation of every muscle. his feet
grind up and down your back They
encircie your neck; they are on your
head.
Then he vaults lightly of. and in a
moment, from linen bag filed with
soap, he has squeezed clouds Of per
fumed bubbles. and you are hidden
in them from head to foot as com
pletely as If you had fallen into a
snow-drift. You are not absolutely
bruised, but you are clean"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
AS THE FLAG WENT BY.

He had never been seen on lress parade.
His demeanor as grim as his vlsage, frayed
With smiles of goodness and kindliness
shown,
Condoning the fighting that once he had
known;
Sitting and watching,-a tear In the eye
AS uniformed marchers were passing by.
Each OF them heroes; he paused but to say:
I've known every one of EN-, many day;
I've fought with 'em, marched with 'em,
bled with 'em and
I've gone mighty near to the mystical
land
And just here he paused again,-asked for
his cane,
And went to the window, and peered
through the pane.
"Ah, Marthy," said he. to his partner of
years,
its hard that a pension won't come for
the tears;
We've waited and waited and tried time
again,
Bat never can be like one Of these men;
I'm crippled and heartsick, but some OF
know, have burden that makes their life
blue;
But, Marthy, I've always been lacking a
I never have Joined with the old G. A.. r.;
I've always worked hard, We know; didn't
have tirne,-
And lived in the country. ah, you of course
mind
All the reasons I've had for it-yes, you
But, Marthy, come nearer. there goes the
flag BY"
And he pondered an instant then raised to
his brow,
hand that was withered and palsled now;
Then the old man tottered and fell to the
floor,
But he raised With a dream of the days of
yore:
Forward Forward, Keep them In line!
Bring on the cavalry! Watch EN- behindf
As he stroked the gray hair OF his wife he
said:
Guess I'm a-dreamIn'-the Colonel is
dead"
All, such deliriuml Mist fore his eyes,
His mind far away where soldier lies
The crowd on the highway just then gave a
cheer
The old man was powerless meier would he
hear;
Unconscious Of passersby lay just inside
OF the window where he had once waved to
his bride.
Long long years ago. when a soldier he'd
be.
TO fight for the rights and the cause Of the
free
His old wife, tottering. aud aged as we'll
Pillowed his head In her arms where he
fell;
The last words he uttered were; ''Marthy.
/ de-
BIT iookl / can see it, The flags goin byg'
w NJ Fegarty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
DEGENERATION or Inderendence.

On July 9. 1776, Gen. Washington
drew up his little army in New York in
what is now the City Hall Park-then
the CommonS-where the brigades were
formed in hollow squares at what is now
the Park Row side and fronting where
stands the site of the Franklin statue.
A copy of the Declaration of lndepen-
dence, signed in Philadelphia. had just
reached New York City and it was to be
read to the Continentals.
Washington was on horseback in the
center of the brigade squares. where. at
q D m. on a delightful summer evening.
the Declaration was read to the troops,
a large fringe of the populaee standing
In the rear toward Broadway. Abide
Mai. Gen. Alexander f. Webb. now pres
ident of our City College. read the docu-
ment in ringing voice.
In the evening many incipisnt Sons
of Liberty who had listened to the read
ing made an impromptu expedition to
Bowling Green in order to vent their
pent-up indignation upon the equestrian
statue Of gilded lead that had been erect
ed half a dozen years previously in honor
OF George Ill. A few of the Continental
soldiers. who were afterward reprimand-
ed, aided in pulling the statue from its
PEDESTAL Eventually il was cast into
As, ZOO bullets. and. as melted majesty.
was fired at the Kings troops in the bat
ties that soon followed at Long Island.
Harlem. knights Bridge snd White
Plains. The pedestal itself during half
a century served as a doorstep for the
Van Worst family IN Jersey City.
The occupation by the British of New
York City from III 10 1873 prevented
any other reading Of the Declaration IN
I'll July 4. 1TS4 when Il was read sgain
In the park 10 great crowd AZ where
is now seen the park statue Of Nahum
He.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30

There is to be no further reduction in
wool rates this season. 1t is understood
that an agreement has been reached by
the rail asa water associations.
1t is announced that the Big Four will
begin double tracking the road on that
part Of the st. Louis division between
Terre Haute and indianapolis at once.
The Grand Trunk is applying to the
Dominion government for permission 10
increase its capital The increase will
be at least $5,000,000 and perhaps $10,
100000.
The Reading has adopted a new meth
cd for the redemption of unused tickets,
whereby they are paid for at once, with
out going through the red tape form in
force heretofore.
The Michigan Central viii double-track
its line between Kalamazoo and Lawton
the next two years. The cost of this
work, il is estimated, viii be between
100000 and S2,500,00o.
An official Of the 500 line states that
the work of replacing the light rails
which have been in use several years
with heavy steel is to be carried through
The passenger department of the At
lantic Coast Line has authorized the sale
of colonists and other settlers rates to
all points on that system. This includes
North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina
and Alabama.
The Federation Of Commercial Travel
ers of America have started a move
ment which has for its object the author
izstion Of a 3,000mile interchangeable
ticket on all trains in Western Passen-
ger Association territory.
Requests are coming to Chicago from
the great railroad centers in the East
for young men to take positions as stem
ographers in RE Offices of the roads.
Young men are wanted who have both
the ambition and the capacity 10 hn the
important places in the management of
the roads in the next ten or fifteen years.
There is a dearth Of this character Of
help in the East. There is decided pref
erence for men as stenographers in most
railroad Offices because Of the policy be-
ing pursued which makes this position
the avenue for promotion to responsible
places.
The annual demand for railway ties
Ia 400 for each mile Of track and the
average life OF a tie is seven years. It
is an unusual acre Of forest that his
800 trees that viii make three ties each,
and it takes fifty years to grow 4 tree
that wiIl make three ties. Therefore,
twenty-five acres Of FOREST are necessary
for every mile Of TRACK Electric rail-
wars included, there are In the United
States about zoo , niles Of read.
AT a recent meeting Of the per diem
committee Of the American Railway as
ISOLATION ct Cincinnati il was decided
that If cars are delivered. there 10 70 Be
no per diem charge on them. even IL way
biz Is NOT az hand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
MANY MILLIONS INVOLVED.
New York City to Sue 900 Tenement
Owners.

New York City to Sue 1000 Tenement
Owners.
In New York suits are being prepared
In the corporation counSels Office against
no less than 1000 tenement owners for
alleged violations of a sanitary clause of
the tenement house law. Expenditures
sggregating perhaps $10000,000 hinge on
these suits. Tenement house owners
have as a rule found no fault with the
provisions of the law Now, however,
the first serious concerted attempt to
nullify provision cf the tenement house
act is to be made
All the alleged violations of the sani-
tary clause occur in structures built I'M
der the provisions of the old law, since
the so-called new law" buildings ara
inspected so thoroughly as their con-
struction progresses that any illegal at
tempt on the part of builder is straight
way detected and remedied.
But it is not the provisions relating
to light or air or a score of other impor-
tant regulations which have led to the
combination to fight the law; it is solely
matter of sanitation.
Differences of opinion exist as to the
number of tenements against which vio-
lation is chargeable. The property own
ers concerned estimate that no less than
5000 houses are affected, while the Ten
ement House Commission places the
number at about 5000. Argument also
has arisen as to the cost of remedying
each case, the owners stating that it
would be about $4,000 while the Tene-
ment House Commission believes $1,000
to be liberal estimate.
From the viewpoint of the property
owner, 5000 houses each subjected to
an expenditure of 5000 would mean to
them cost of $1S,000,000. The esti-
mate Of cost made by the Tenement
House Commission is said to be about
$6,000,000.
1t is contended by the men who own
the tenement houses which are under
the ban of the law that a change from
the sanitary conditions complained of
would involve a useless expense, since
no more healthfulness might be obtained
thereby.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
NOVEL FOURTH OF JULY FRoLlc
Reviving Quaint Old English Custom

with ratriotic Features.
Katherine EEL Tippetts writing of "A
Patriotic Garden Party" in the Woman's
Home Companion, describes the chief di-
version of the afternoon thus:
after the formalities the hostess led
the way to the wel-shaded lawn, where
liberty-pole had been erected with Phry
gian cap of liberty at it's top. Innumer-
able red white and blue streamers had
been fastened under the liberty-cap and
stretched in every direction over the lawn
and the ends tied to trees, arbor, chairs,
tables or any convenient objects. A suf
ficient number had been left futtering
from the pole to serve as starting points.
To these were pinned slips of paper, each
bearing the first line of some patriotic
song, poem or address, and a number to
show how many other slips were required
to complete the quotation. The rest of
the lines had been pinned 20 the scattered
streamers.
Each guest selected familiar line
and began a tour of inspection of the
other red, white and blue streamers,
which was kept up until all the lines call
ed for had been collected. when a new
line could be selected from the liberty
pole. and when made up, a third, and so
ON. up to the expiration of time allowed.
The selections were taken from such pat
riotic poems as America The Star
Spangled Banner 'Warren's Address,
The Battle Hymn of the Republic and
The Song of Marion's Men
"A large bell hung aloft was rung as
? signal for the beginning of the game.
and soon the lawn was the scene of
laughter and activity, which became pat
rotism under the influence of the grow
ing sentiments expressed on the slips of
paper.
when the limit of time was up the
collected quotations were examined and
prize of silk liberty-cap was given and
placed on the head of the one who had
compiled the greatest number of verses
or sentences. So thoroughly imbued
were the compilers with their work by
this time that it naturally followed TO
Join hands around their successful COM
petitor and unite in singing America
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
AN oLp-eAsHloNeD FOURTH.

These newfangled notions are giving the
boys
A queer kind of Fourth-one without any
noise;
With speeches and picnics no patience
have l.
And / pine for an old-fashk Fourth of
July.
non came first
We packed it with powder till ready to
burst
And my, how the glass in the windows did
when it startled the echoes on Fourth of
July.
We hitched up old Dobbin, and all tumbleo
The roomy old wagon-the fat and the
thin
Even grandma was there, and as chi9per
AS any young maiden the Fourth q July.
We went to the barbecue--who cared for
showers
When the feast was a-hutter with banners
Ana if down came the rain in the midst Of
IT. why,
It was part of an old-fashioned Fourth Of
July.
The rockets and pinwheels and irccrackers,
AZ evening all Joined in the hullabaloo,
And Washington rode on his horse In the
sky
A figure in flame on the Fourth of July.
The band marching out In their uniforms
gay
STRUCK up by the light of the bonfres to
play
The Star spangled Banner and Sweet By
and By,
And so ended glorious Fourth of July.
Nina Irving.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
MANY IMPORTANT EVENTS
HAVE OCCURRED ON JULY A.

The fourth history
by Raleigh southern
On July 1754 commissioners assembled at
Albany
colonies which
ence
4, Declaration o
ISL Williamsburg
On July 1873 the Yankee American the British
O
o e
July 1SS of with Mexico
United States New Mexico, Arizona California
July 1s4s Washington
On July A. 1868, Vicksburg surrendered
1865 "Burlngame signed
opening O. Louis.
A, Of
On Center celeb ton at nenna
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
POSTAL SCANDAL Grows.
asristow's Ex pose of Corruption stir,
the On nifal

the Capital.
Postmaster General Payne Wednesday
announced the summary dismissal Of
James T. Metealf chief Of the money
order division Mr. Metcalf has been in
the employ Of the department for the
last twenty one years, most of the time
in the money order division, of which he
has been chief for several years For
efficiency. honesty ard integrity he has
had an enviable record The division
under his charge handles annually enor-
nous SUMS of money, last year the
amount Of money orders reaching $780,
100000. and the loss through fraud has
been enthusiastically small.
Action in the case Of Metcaf was
taken after President Roosevelt had been
consulted by Postmaster General Payne
and full investigation of the case viii
be made later. The dismissal is the re-
suit of acts of Mr.. Metealf in opposition
to the bid of Paul Herman of Ruther.
ford, n. j., the lowest bidder by $45. 600.
and in favor of the next highest bidder.
the Wynkoop. Hanenbeck, Crawford
Company Of New York, of which Mr..
Metealf's son IS an employee Mr.. Met
calf Indignantly denies being influenced
by this fact and claims that he was ac-
tuated solely by his desire to see the
government best served.
In connection with the new develop
ments Postmaster General Payne made
public all the documents and reports of
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow bearing on the Tulloch charges
as they are known, The features of these
documents are:
Mr.. Payne In memorandum accompanying
the report says some of Tulloch's charges
are directed against the late President
Mckinley, who needs no defense, and
against former Postmaster General Smith,
who has replied for himself.
The report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow tells in detail how the
inquiry was started at the time the Wash
ington postofiiee was transferred from
Postmaster Millett to Postmaster Merritt
Various exhibits are attached TO the report
composing the results of Investigations by
inspectors showing that efforts were made
by Mr.. Beavers and others to have irregu-
larities overlooked. and that IN one case
the names of Perry $. Heath and OF the
postmaster General himself We're used TO
back up threats.
The inspector. 1t is shown urged that the
responsibility for the many Illegal APP
pointments, the payment Of two salaries
TO one and the same person, and the dis
bursement Of thousands Of dollars for
which practically no service was per-
formed, should be placed where il prop
eriy belongs and the many abuses cor
rectel y
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-30
OUR FIRST STEEL MAeNATE.
Cornelius Atherton, Pioneer Manufao-
turer in the united States.

turer in the United States.
While in Alton, N. Y, last month W.
NJ. Atherton of Caaieago succeeded in
unearthing a contract made by Corne-
Illus Atherton in 1772 to learn and in
struct James and Ezra Reed in the art
of making steel. after its long 5eep of
1S2 years. The subject matter of the
contract was of great Importance to
the colonies at the time ii was written.
Our forefathers were entirely Deepen
dent upon Germany for all the steel
they used, and even the German steel
could reach them only through a
British port and British bottoms. How
Cornelius Atherton became possessed
of the secret of making steel is not
known; that he was the first manufac-
turer in the United States Is a fact
well authenticated. This contract
was drawn up by Thomas Barlow Of
Kent, Litchfield county, Conn. He
was a broiher of Joel Barlow the au-
thor of Columbia, who in 1911 was
our minister to France. The Reeds
We're merchants and carried on the
Dover iron works adjoining the town
OF Armenia. and the witness. Thomas
Delano, then Secretary of the Interior.
The old steel works were built by Cor
neliusAtnerton under this contract.
Cornelius Atherton was born in
Cambridge, Mass. A. D. 1886. and the
fourth in descent from General Hum
phrey Atherton of Boston. He came
to America in 1863, and became soon
after the manager of the Dover iron
works. In 1859 he returned to Bos-
ton, and in partnership with John and
Samuel Adams and John Hancock
commenced the manufacture of fire.
arms and cutlery. Here he made his
fist successful experiment in steel
At the end of six months the works
we're burned by an incendiary, sup
posed to be the British soldiers then
quartered in BOSTON. In ITO he re-
turned to Armenia and built the steel
works in the latter part of 1872 and in
1913 went to Plymouth, Ja., with his
family. He settled on the land upon
which the Shupps Mill was afterward
built. Here he made steel in small
quantities, and manufactured black
smiths anvils and made rifles for the
hunters. During his residence there
ne began to use anthracite coal in his
shop On the 4th of July, 1878, he
went to Florida, Orange County, N.
Y, where he remained until 1888, when
he returned to Taylorville, Pa. Dur
ing his residence there he constructed
the old Wright forge, also the forge,
of E. & B. Slocum, at Slocum Hollow,
now called Scranton, Pa. AT this
place he made steel in small quaint
ties. He died at South cambridge. N.
Y. (now Atom, on the 4th December,
1909. He was the father of Jabez
Atherton, killed at the Wyoming, Pa,
massacre, and of Cornelius Atherton,
Jr, of Alton, n Y, who died in 1881
Chicago Record Herald.