The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-08

phases of the trust question. Mr..
Butler is rapidly coming to the front
as humorist. His first hit was"The
Reformation of Uncle Billy" publish
ed in the Century, to which most Of
his work has been contributed. DR..
G.. Walter Barr of Keokuk contributes
a story, "The Victory of the Valiant, q
to the September Success. Frank G.
Moorhead has another Iowa political
story, "The Call of the Woods" in the
September National. Edwin L. Sabin
contributes poems to the September
issues of Smart Set, Good Housekeep-
ing and Leslie's Magazine. The Iowa
contributions are becoming more nu-
merous each month.
In twenty-five articles in the Sep.
TENDER number of The Cosmopolitan,
Mr.. John Brisben Walker gives to the
world the result of his personal stud
les at the Exposition, dictated to ste
nographers at the time.
The Pilgrim for September is one
of the very best magazines of the
month and Of itself is proof that a
popular magazine may be published
in the west without any lack of quail
ity or of interest.
asa IL.
Those who have not seen the fam
GUS Coney Island since its great fire
a year ago will gain good conception
of its glorious revival in an article
appearing in Golfers Weekly for
August 27, by Mr.. Arthur B. Ruhl.
President Roosevelt as Europe
Sees Him" is the title of an article in
the September ,view of Reviews by
Louis E. Van Norman, who n mmar-
ICES the most significant of Ae Euro
pean press comment on the FIRST
american president whose PERSONALITY
has really Interested continental as
well as British, Journalists.
| Overlooking with practical helpful
ness for the HOUSEWIVES is the Septem-
Der number of The Houselxeeper.
| Elizabeth w, Morrison and Mary Eos
ter Snider tell how to use the autumn
fruits.
Scribners Magazine for September
contains number of outdoor arti-
cles peculiarly suited to the culminat-
ing month of the recreation season.
Ri. .
The September st. Nicholas brings
interesting chapters in the two seri-
| ais, Gensai Murai's "Kibun Daizin, or
From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince"
| the story of Japanese boy for Amer
lean lads, and Mary Constance Du
Bois's charming tale for girls, "Elinor
Arden, Royalist."
The secret method of multiplying
millions by which the enormous for
tunes of Standard Oil and other big
| financial institutions were created
veritably out of nothing is the text
Of the September installment of"Fren-
zied Finance" by Thomas w. Lawson,
in Everybody's Magazine.
McClure's Magazine for September
is vigorous expression of American
life and interest, part fact, part fic-
ton, all entertaining Several seri-
GUS articles give it commanding i'm
portance and character
The Metropolitan Magazine for Sep
TENDER presents capital new sol
der" story by Rudyard Kipling, en-
titled Mrs. Bathurst" In this new
tale all Of the authors earlier strength
and fancy, and all of his later skill
and mastery of narrative, are happily
combined.
If you despise vacations and good
times in the open, you do not want to
read Outing. But if you are on a va
cation, or would like one and can not
have it--or, any way, If you are hot
and sweltering and tired of the dirty
! city--you will welcome the vacation
number of Outing.
The yellow Peril is found on the
cover of the September 10-Story Book
in the form Of Chinese Dragon of
most eccentric design. In this num-
Der the contents is strong and varied.
The current American Boy, publish
ED by the Sprague Publishing Com
pany, Detroit Michigan, is noteworthy
especially for its account of American
Boy Day at the st. Louis Exposition,
July 9Th, which was planned and car
ried out by the publishers Of that
periodical.