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The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
THE DELTA SCHOOLS.
Commencement Exercises Held or
Thursday Evening.

Delta, Ia, May 20.-The commence
ment exercises of the Delta high
school were held in the Christian
church last evening, and were largely
attended. There were four graduates
and they each delivered excellent ora
tons. The entire program was as fol
lows:
Voluntary .........M Mrs. DR.. Jarvis
Invocation ...... nv. H. A. Pallister
Solo ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" Springtime"
Miss Clara Stewart.
Grafton. "Tne Negro; From a South.
ern Standpoint. lawn G. Reed
Music ............. Keota Orchestra
Oration. electrical improvements"
Bertha b. Fritzler.
Solo ."Sing Me to Sleep"
Miss Stewart.
Grafton. Jack Horner Up To Date"
Alice M. Fisher.
Grafton America Among the Nations
G. G, Hamilton
Music Orchestra
Presentation of Diplomas.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
"NIP" AND TUCK"
New Fire Department Team is Learn
ing Work in Good Shape.

The new fire department team re.
Gently purchased for the Oskaloosa
fire department by the fire committee
of the city council, is working nicely,
--as nicely as can be expected. The
boys have named the greys Nip" and
Tuck" and they make great pair
They are not as large as some of the
steeds that have in past years pulled
the hose truck, but they are fast act
ors and have no difficulty in quickly
handling the truck when there is oc
casion for the work. Hoseman Nc
Cracker is making excellent progress
with the training Of the team, and
they are now practically broken into
the service.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

ing to pay, and the managers In those
towns should exert every EFFORT to ger
the crowds out. Citizens should have
enough interest in the welfare Of
their city's representative in this
combination of teams to give it sur
flcient support to keep It going.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Senator Allison attended the con-
yention Of 1860 as delegate and has
never been delegate to national
convention since. He was one Of the
secretaries Of the convention, and
was first to foot up the ballot and an
nounce it, that nominated Abraham
Lincoln.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

"A st. Louis daily paper asserts
that fifty cents is too high and re-
quests that the admission fee to the
Worlds Fair be reduced to quarter.
The World sensibly takes different
view and declares that the man who
would object to paying fifty cents to
see such marvellous exposition
would ask for a cut-rate ticket to
heaven itself.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS.

Iowa City, May 21.-Iowa City gets
the next high school meet. The ath-
letic board today voted to support the
protest of Chalmers, of the Capital
Park school, and winner of the discus
throw. There win be no bicycle
races in future meets.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
The Herald is glad to

principles it has fought for incorpo
rated in the Iowa platform, and hopes
that the tariff revisionists will give
the same cordial support to the tick
ct and platform this year as did the
other fellows last year to the things
that did not exactly suit them. Gov
ernor Culnmins has led off in splen
did way, by jumping "into the center
of the platform" and if all his friends
will do the same there will be-as
there should bono further cause fol
dissension.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Leap year is having its effect in
Centerville. A young man called on
a girl recently and she complimented
him about his new clothes. "They
look good enough to be wedding
suit" she said. But this is bust
ness suit" he replied "WeIl, then,
came from the girl, don't you think
that it's time you were talking bust
ness"
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1.-The republican party made til

The republican party made the
tariff when the country was in sore
need, and the republican party will
revise and amend the tariff in part
or in whole when convinced that
there is need for revision, and thai
the time for revision has come
From address of Temporary Chair
man Irwin, republican state conven
zion.
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COMES TO oskALoosA.
Educational Advantages Attract
Dayton, Ohio, Family.

w G. Dalton and family, of Dayton,
Ohio, have removed to the city Of os-
kaloosa and have purchased a home
southeast of the city. They come to
oskaloosa on account of its educa.
tional advantages.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

There were 6,537 potato distiller-
les in operation in Germany in 1901
OF; the output Of pure alcohol was
Ps,9e5,94O gallons. The production OF
sRhe potato iistilleries amounted to 70
Per cent Of the total production or
alcohol in the empire. The quantity
of potatoes used amounted to 113, 475,-
848 bushels.
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Reformed Church.

Owing to the Indictment weather.
no services were held in the Y. M. c..
A. auditorium, Sunday. May 8, as con-
templated by Rev. M. Loucks. Ser
vices will be held at the same place
one week from tomorrow, May 20, at
1880 a. m. Sec further announce
ments next week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
-Our exports for the nine mon

Our exports for the nine months
of the fiscal year ending with March
amounted to $1,167,760,O69, the larg-
est value ever recorded in a similar
period. Our favorable balance of
trade during this period amounted to
$422,297,610, the largest since 1901.
During the same period our imports
of gold were $73,407,2S2, the excess
Imports being $56,009,761.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
-apegpIte the fact that Burlingto!

Despite Ln6 Iact mat burlington
has been playing second time in most
OF the, games, the patronage accord
ed the team there has been most ex
cellent. This can not be said Of the
other towns of the SOUTH" says The
Marshalltown Times-Republican, Gin
which decided brace must be taken
If the matter of game guarantees is
going to be avoided. Attendance OF
less than 400 on week days is not go
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

New Sharon Star: The Mahaska
republican ticket is now in the field,
and it's good one. OF course just
as good men were defeated, but it is
always thus.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

--sAs further argument in favor
of the Roosevelt and Hit ticket,
where could you get better cam
paign slogan than Roosevelt and Hit,
and nit 'em hard ~ inquiries the Sioux
City Journal.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The socialist vote wasn't very
large in 1900 and will likely be less
this year in case Hearst should be
the democratic nominee. Four years
ago Debs, the candidate of the party
for president, didn't get an electoral
vote, and received only 1854 out of
the total popular vote OF 1861, 566.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The Second district dissented
from the tariff plank in the republic
can platform. But that is not sur
prising. The Second district elected a
democratic congressman two years
ago.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The dairy industry is in an ex-
tremely fiourishing condition in Hol-
land. In 1899 this country possessed
1,650,00O horned cattle. 100000 of
which were mich COWS valued at
$50 $50 900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

IF anything is to be done about
an interurban line, we must, as the
late d. w. Loring once well said at a
public meeting: "Act simultaneou
all together and at once
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Doctors everywhere recommend
HARPER Whisky for the enervating
effects of hot weather and as safe
guard against malaria-because of
purity.
Sold by
M. & M. Star Bottling Co.. Oskaloosa.
Iowa
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The Thompson Courier finds that
farmers and leap year girls are MAX
ing the same complaint-that of not
being able to find competent young
men.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The Wapello county grand jury re-
turned fourteen indictments for var
ious offenses, including one for muir
der in the first degree against John
Harris, colored, who killed Levi
Woods. following quarrel over q
load Of wood.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

"A pitcher that is 1000 years old
is being exhibited at the st. Louis
exposition. This is no reflection on
the Iowa base ball league.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The Iowa City Press gives notice
that it is not especially proud OF the
democratic state convention and its
work.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

--In the nine months ended Marcn
31,1904, there were exported from the
United States 410,S16 head of cattle,
as compared with 249.4s3 head during
the same period in 1902-03.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Port Arthur, in spite of the pres.
emit not spell there, is doubtless wor-
( rying over the probability of an early
fall.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The general conference OF the
German Congregational churches OF
America win convene at Ayoca May
rs to 30.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Editor Men, the new mayor OF
Kansas City, began his life as a aod-
carrier. The presumption is that he
was a good one
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26
Ngws oF THE CHURCHES.

The committee of fifteen, clerical
and lay members, appointed by the
general convention Of the Episcopal
church three years ago to consider a
proposal to change the name Of the
church, is reported to have decided to
recommend to the next convention in
Boston next fall, that the church
stand pat on it's title. "The Ameri-
can Church" "Tne Catholic American
Church." "The English Church in
America" and various other names
were suggested, but the old time.hon-
ored Protestant Episcopal Church
is good enough and will remain.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

A reunion Of the Thirty.6fth Iowa
viii be held at Muscatine in Seplsm-
Der
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

Keep the hospital in mind. You
may need 1t yourself some day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

The synod of the Reformed Presby-
terrain church will meet in Sparta, ILL.,,
on the last Wednesday in May. The
question Of the relation of members
to labor organizations, especially to
those organizations that have in them
the element of secrecy, will come be-
fore the synod on a case appealed
from the Pittsburg Presbytery. 1t is
said that the question will excite
warm discussion, since membership
in secret societies is not permitted by
standards Of the Reformed Presbyter-
ian church. This branch is one OF
the small Presbyterian bodies that
manage merely to hold their own, but
it is not yet willing to consider Pres
byterian unity, as are larger Presby-
terrain and reform bodies.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-26

AT their yearly meeting, recently
held, Philadelphia Orthodox Friends
reported the failure of their efforts to
improve the condition o. the Doukho-
bors in western Canada. The Quak.
ers, and especially those of Pennsyl.
vania, led in the movement to bring
these people from Russia in 1899,
partly because Of a sympathy of be-
lief. Tho Doukhobors. however, have
been slow to perceive the advantages
of education, and SO little, in fact, do
they care for it that Friends have vot.
ed to give up secular educational
work among them. Religious work
will be continued.
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lived He showed this IN the familiar episodes
Of daily intercourse. in his insulting treatment
of his officials and cOurtiers. in his contempt
for the people at large and he showed it still
more wildly when he proceeded to take hand
in the political and military game of his time
Mr.. Reddaway says the best that he can for
F'redericks freebOOtinS excursion across the 81
lesian border, but he is candid enough to dismiss
as worthless the pretence that the state was
necessary to Prussia, and in discussing the
question as to whether it was right for Fred
erick to attempt to make the ACQUISITION he
uses these forcible words:
Considerations Of right and vvron- co,,-+a, g.
little with Frederick himself There seems "a i b
no evidence that Frederick either in his nnbic az
ana morality What seemed to him profitable to
40 mat he did; what II seemed to him proftable
gained by Icing honest. let us be honest.
his words In the case of Si1esiS SiT are
to Podewis. who urged that some legal claim couid
yember the King writes: The Question IF on ri SH
droID is the affair OF the minister's it is Your af
Ialr; II Is time to work at it in secret for the
orders TO the troops are given
His attitude in this Silesian enterprise was his
attitude in everything that he undertook His
fame. therefore is that of the strong man who
is successful ard questions of principle must be
left In allegiance. But he would not be known
as Frederick the Great II he were merely a skill
ful pirate. His military genius and his states
manship take him quickly enough out OF the
latter category MIR. Reddaway gives a capital
account OF his hero's exploits as a soldier. law
ing stress upon the energy and the rapidity
which characterized Frederick in his Silesian
campaigns ana afterward In the Seven Years.
war Catastrophies like Kolin and Kunersdorf
no less than victories like Rossbach. Iieenitz
aho Iorsau. illuminate his biography with the
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brilliance OF personality intensely human IN
cessantly active. impetuous to an extreme. he
or lost his battles like athlete whose fall
triumph is essentially his own affair With
out those wonderful troops OF his. which he
made the finest in Europe. he could It Is true
have done nothing but it is equally true that
without him those same troops could have done
but little. Like Napoleon. he was a host in
himself, a man in whom the instinct for action
burned like a clear flame, and whose Iabors.
whether on the field or in the paths Of peace.
resemble the labors Of an artist. moulding clay
to his uses, and leaving the imprint OF his
finger on every inch of it
In his administration OF the state he made
many errors. This very energy of his. that led
him to treat his people and his territories as 50
much raw material to be used simply as he
fit, inflicted grievOus wounds upon the body poll
itic of Prussia Refusing to grant powers OF
initiative to his officials, he rendered them timid
and ineffective. and the results of his effort to
supervise every detail for himself were naturally
far from edifying. His economic theories were
sometimes feeble and sometimes actually per
nicious. He seems to have thought that he
could develop an Industrial fabric out OF hand
as he could reclaim a swamp and build vii
lage on its site. He thought that he could reg
ulate the movement of trade by edict Carry
ing out his plans with complete Indifference to
what his subjects thought OF them. he caused
discomfort well as practical troubles. and he
made the task of his successor dOUbly hard
But when all of Frederick's mistakes and limita-
tons have been given their due value, the
transcendant Importance of his services to Prus-
STA remains undiminished- In war and in di-
plomacy he worked increasingly with but
object in view, to preserve and aggTandize the
state, to give his people prosperity and peace.
and he succeeded IN his aim His duplicity
cites disgust. but as a type of kingly Devotion
courage, industry and resource he is sure.
only the great figures in history are sure. OF the
admiration OF mankind
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needless OF principle a man recalling IN MS
general tone and in many specific deeds the age
of the despOts in Italy.
For his mother and sister he steadily pre-
served an affection, in the light OF when ne
seems humanized and almost lovable, but IT is
not by his domestic relations that Frederick is
to be judged. They were, after ALL but Incl
dental to the life he led soldier and a states
man. The tender emotions, if not obliterated
from his nature by the brutality of his father
were at all events powerless to modify the broad
drift of his actions By the time the throne was
really his he was resolved to allow nothing to
interfere with his absorption in the aggrandize-
ment of the state. 1t is interesting to observe
the failure of that culture to which he was
so devoted really to soften the fibre of the man.
He wrote verses and much else besides; he
played the flute; he loved good talk and was
hospitable to men OF brains. His friendship
with Voltaire is famous. But 1t is significant
that when he broke with the great Frenchman
he descended to discourteses-to use the mild
est possible phrase in the circumstances-which
among all the rulers of Europe only the son OF
his father could have inflicted upon q guest
He was, In short, ruthless a type as ever
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more generally known the Great Elector. that
the emergence of the Prussian state from the
political conditions surrounding the old Mark of
Brandenburg is really to be attributed. But
Frederick it was who not only consolidated the
territories of Prussia along durable lines but
added to them and gave his country its place
among the nations. He accomplished his ends
by methods which. with his extraordinary per-
sonality behind them. may shock the moralist.
but Individually touch the magination with a
sense of heroic drama.
The paradox of Frederick's career lies In the
fact that he who to become the passionate
ly devoted guardian of Prussia began by seeking
to escape beyond it's frontiers. Never was the
youth of prince more profoundly embittered.
His father a violent and even bOorish man.
impatient of the lads aesthetic and philosophical
tastes, and so tyrannical in the management OF
his family that FrederCll's life at court became
intolerable. 1t seems at times if the King
could have looked with equanim:ty upon his
death. What wonder then. that he contem-
plated flight? He was only eighteen. and his
suferings were too great to permit him to look
into the future and possess his soul in patience
Fortunately for Prussia the princes project was
discovered. but. unfortunately for him. his
father imprisoned him under circumstances 81
cruel, and pursued him with a wrath so malig-
nant, that his character was permanently
warped. Though he had learned to dissimuIate
long before the period of this disastrous advent
of his he might have developed under the
right influences. into nobler man. Treated
by the King with irrational severity and scorn.
he came to the conclusion that he must put an
end to the situation at any cost, and left his
prison consummate hypocrite in order to hood
wink his exacting sire. From this time on
Frederick remains a cynic and a liar. utterly
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Since the breaking out of the RussO-Japanese
War called the attention of the world 10 the
Far East. more has been heard. but little IS
still known. OF the island Sakhalin, opposite
the mouth of the Amur. which is used
convict prison and settlement by Russia Nr.
Halves. the author of the present volume. IS the
first English traveller TO explore the northern
Interior, and his account of his travels among
the native tribes. OF his association with prison.
ers and exiles of various degrees and OF his
experiences with the Russian officials, forms a
record OF chronological research. combined with
lively adventure. that is as valuable in it's re-
suits it is thrilling in its details His ex-
posture of the Russian convict system. as carried
on in this remote outpost OF the "J-tteruOst
East" shows state of affairs as bad as any
thing revealed by George KEENAN, in his siberia
and the Exile System" The island. though
situated in the temperate ZOne,-AIexandrOvsk
the capital is on exactly the same parallel Of
latitude Brighton. EngIand.-has about the
same climate as Iceland. 1t has been so little
explored that until 1919 it was generally sup
posed TO be a peninsula All through its long
winters it is entirely cut Oft from Commun.ca-
ton with the mainland. except for the dog
train mail service across the frozen strait its
remoteness being emphasized by the inscription
on the postoffice. st Petersburg. 10 IS6 versts-
C. 752 miles,
The island is 800 miles long with an area a lit
tie less than that of Scotland and in 1895 il had
a total population. in round numbers, Of 60 OOO
In addition to the Russians five different peO-
pies found there-the Anus GiIyakS
OrochOns fungus and Yakuts. The Anus are
of the same race those found on the island
Of Yezo in Japan The fungus and Yakuts
came from Eastern Siberia The OrOchons
seemed to the author to be a tribe of fungus
origin, modified by intermarriage with various
neighbOrs Many of the GiIyaks bear a strong
resemblance to the Northwestern American
Indians. and philolOgists hold that their Ian
guage knits them in origin to the dweIIers on
the Pacific coasts of Northern Asia, America
and the Aleutian isles
In canoe trip down the River Tim running
north about one hundred miles TO the Sea OF
OkhOtsk. and thence for fifty miles along the
coast. Mr.. Halves came into close and friendly
association with members of the Gilyak and
OrochOn tribes, partaking of their hospitality
and making close study of their habits Gus
toms and traditions His Investigations throw
a great deal OF absolutely new light on these
little known tribes. who are even now yielding
to the influences of the civilization such as IL
Is. OF their Russian neighbors- Interesting as
Is the story of this boat voyage among these
strange tribes. with their curious superstitious
bear festivals and domestic life, II Is to thu
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FREDERICK THE GREAT.
An Impartial BOOk about His
Character and Reign.

FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THE RISE OF
PRUSSIA. BY w +. Reddaway. NJ. A. (HeroeS
of the Nations Series. SvO. pD, vi, 1858. q. F.
PUtnam'S Sons.
Mr. Reddaway has written a terse and pict-
uresque character study of the great Frederick
In the disposition of the light and shade which
give animation to his portrait of the King he is
at once sympathetic and critical, avoiding the
extremes of depreciation and panegyric For
impartialty and for interest this is one OF the
best volumes contributed to the Heroes of the
Nations series. He has. to be sure, everything
on his side Frederick. considered simply as
man. provides the writer with fruitful theme.
but Frederick as the presiding genius of a ma
tIonal eforescence is figure positively fascinat-
ing No doubt. as Mr. Reddaway is careful to
point out in his first chapter there effective
Hohenzolerns before Frederick. and. in fact. it
Is to his great grandfather Frederick William,
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GILYAKS md Conflicts.
Experiences among Mattress and En-
lies IN Sakhalin.

IN THE UTTERMOsT EAST. BEING An &C
COUNT OF INVESTIGATIONS AMONG THE
NATIVES AND RUSSIAN CONNECTS OF
THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN. WITH NOTES
OF TRAVEL IN KOREA. SIBERIA AND
MANCHURIA- BY Charles H Halves. WJh
70 illustrations and maps Svo. PIP XXX. fS
Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Bringing to a conclusion his recent address
before the British Association, reflections Sug-
Eested by the New Theory of Matter" Mr. Bal
four made remark which has in it much in,..-
rect suggestion for the student of literary
affairs. Il have been tempted he said. "to
hint my own personal opinion that as natural
science grows it leans more, not less, upon an
deaIistic Interpretation of the universe" Is not
current literature drawing more and more in
SEPARATION from what we may well regard as n
kindred impulse? 1t seems so to us. There is
visible in fiction where the issue between the
fact and the ideal has been most sharply drawn,
a disposition to bring the purely romantic mo-
tive to the front, and in books of every kind
desire to rise above the bleak conditions of bald
narrative. The scientific historian, who is more
scientific than historic, has worn out his well
come with unexpected rapidity. Even the most
severely trained writers are learning that they
must take account in their work of more things
than they can find recorded in black and white
that they must understand human passions and
aspirations as well as human documents" 1t
is more than question of style that is involved
here. Authors finding out that the imagina-
ton cannot be ignored. that they must satisfy
the spirit of man as well as his thirst for in
formation