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The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

the precinct of Black Oak where /
lived for thirty-six years, and the one
l live in now. The fourth precinct Of
the first ward of Des Moines. If the
republicans had polled one more vote
there would have been Just seven re-
publican votes to one democrat. We
thought that we would let them have
enough votes SO they could get on the
ballots at the next election without
having to petition for it.
I always like for the republicans to
have a good respectable majority, and
not get too greedy or take the whole
thing. So I rejoice with you on the
national result.
A few Mahaska friends have called
on us since we have been here.
Among the number were L. S. Walker,
Mrs. Lizzie Moody and son Frank, Mrs.
e. Smith, X. Yer Ploeg, Fred Butler,
and A. Clark. Mr.. and Mrs. R. ".
Coryell, of Winterset, also honored us
with a call. They used to live near
Leighton. They built them a fine
home in Winterest this summer. Mr..
and Mrs. Peter DeCook, Oh Leighton,
we're also among the above named
callers.
I was at Indianola last Saturday and
had a short visit with some Mahaska
county acquaintance who now live in
Indianola. Rev. r. l.. Adams and
daughter Ida, ]. H. Shultz and wife,
and Mrs. L. Biting and daughter
Mary. They all have very nice homes.
Mrs. Adams has been dead for several
years. George Shultz lives on his
own farm four miles northeast of In
dianola, and his brother Entie lives
on his fathers farm two miles beyond
Georges farm.
This has been one of the most de-
lightful falls that / have ever expert
enced. There has not been enough
snow to be hardly noticeable and only
a few nights that anything was frozen,
and ice was not frozen over half an
inch thick at any time. There has
not been very much rain for several
weeks.
This has been a great year here for
building residences, from small cot
tages up to fine homes worth eight,
ten and twelve thousand dollars.
There has been over two hundred
dwellings builded and our corner of
the city has taken the lead in num-
Der.
1 wa very much pleased to hear of
the very. enjoyable time the Herald
correspondents had at the home of
Chas. V. Hoffman, and his most excel
lent wife. May the tie between you
grow stronger as time passes by, and
may it be your fortune to enjoy many
more such meetinsg. I hope that at
some future time I may have the
pleasure of meeting with you.
My best wishes to you all.
w. d. Voorhees,.
("Not H. Giel.")
Des Moines, Nov. Is.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

IF the Royal Geographical socie-
ty will only let Capt. Scott continue
his work and complete the map of the
world by planting the union jack on
the south pole, and if Peary is allowed
to plant the stars and stripes on the
north pole, then the two ends of this
great world will be made to meet,
leaving the globe as it should be, in
the warm fraternal embrace of the
Anglo-Saxon race" - Ambassador
Choate.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

United States Consul Winslow
says that Belgium has eleven large
mills that grind American cor ex.
c~lusively, and that the product of
these mills is used for bread making.
One large bakery turns out 10000
loaves of bread weekly made of a
mixture Of 25 per cent corn -four and
rs per cent rye or wheat. Over 800
bakeries in Berlin are selling bread
made of this same mixture.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

The miners in the anthracite re-
gion of Pennsylvania did the right
thing by President Roosevelt. While
the gain for Roosevelt in the state at
large was 72 per cent, his gain in that
region was 365 per cent over four
years ago.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

-Debs boasts of the big vote he re-
ceiVed in the recent presidential cleo
ton. But when he reflects thai he
lacked 100000 of receiving as many
as did our W General Weaver, he
will no doubt be able to continue
wearing the same hat.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

One of the tragedies of the recent
landslide was the defeat of Esquire
William Huneke, of Burlington. He
was known throughout eastern Iowa
as the Marrying Squire" having
tiled 612 nuptial knots in his fourteen
years service as justice of the peace.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

than usual, the daily mean tempera-
ture being about 1 degree above nor
NAL, and the average rainfall for the
state 0.73 Of an inch below normal.
The northern section received the
largest amount, the average being
about 0.29 of an inch above the Octo-
Der normal. The first frost of the
month occurred on the morning OF
the 9Th.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

"A magazine writer suggests that
the man who will be president in 1910
is now a lad somewhere in the United
States and wonders what ne is doing.
That may be difficult to guess, but it
would be safe to bet that he isn't
smoking cigarettes.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

An Omaha minister advances the
idea of a new collection basket which,
when passed to a man too poor to
give, will allow him to take something
from it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

THE constitution will have a rest
now for four years." remarks the Keo-
kuk Gate-City. ct is never in peril
except when the democratic party
uses it for campaign purposes in pres,
idential years"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

"A Missouri paper has just discov-
cred that the initial letters Of Roose-
velt's and Fairbanks names stand for
Royal Flush. mo wonder we couldn't
beat 'em, even in Missouri" it ex-
claims.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

Noticing that a man VINO commit
ted suicide at Modale the other day
had a pair of husking gloves among
his effects, the Council Bluffs Nonpa-
reil suggests "the size Of Iowa's corn
crop probably scared him into the
act"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

North Iowa counties are reporting
the arrival of many ten-pound babies
and the catching of many ten-pound
pike in the rivers. According to Joe
Trigg the babies are always correctly
weighed, and sometimes the fish are.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

Where a stimulanti is indicated, the
doctor ~prescribes good, pure whiskey.
i. W. HARPER is the ideal liquor
none better.
Sold by
M. & M. Star Bottling Co.. oskaloosa,
Iowa
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

Under it's Church Notices" the
Centerville Citizen publishes a goo
pancake receipt" The Citizen is nc
doubt convinced that religion and
won't mix very well.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

The "Frolics of the Types" man
of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil main
tains that after a man has eaten off of
clean tablecloths and nice dishes for
awhile he simply has to get into his
old clothes, shoulder his duck-destroy-
er and go out where he can drink
ditch-water and let the dog lick of
the plates.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

THAT poor vaudeville team is go,
ing to play the electric route"
What route is that?"
81 don't know, but I bet it's a short
circuit. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

WHATS the matter with making
it unanimous and permanent" asks
the Ottumwa Democrat, whose editor
recently thought he was running for
congress. Nothing. We second the
motion.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

The Burlington Gazette has just
installed a new $4,000 p~erfecting
press, and takes occasion to remark,
in that connection, that it has been
published continuously since 1887.
That makes it one of the real veterans
of Iowa newspaperdom.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

-Enterprising Lake City citizens
are said to be making good money by
supplying eastern markets with snap
ping turtles labeled "terrapin."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

The Des Moines News uses just
seven words in preaching a powerf Il
sermon. Here is the full text: Booze
will bunco the smartest man alive"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

1.-THE biennial elections will not
cheat us out Of our annual school ana
town elections" thankfully reflects
the Wall Lake Blade.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

The Davenport Times suggests
that "the Sixth Iowa district voted to
keep Editor Brewster at home to tell
what Lacey is doing in congress-"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

Seventeen thousand bushels of pota'
toes were raised this year on the state
farm at the Cherokee hospital.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

| told her of the maid VINO chung
To the tongue Of the village bell;
OF the curfew that was never rung,
And the lover loved so we'll.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

And curfew was not rung that night,
And the reason I shall tell,
She held her tongue while I, you see,
Held on to the village belle.
Golfers Weekly.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

If the present rate of emigration
continues there will be 5O,OOO,O 900 per,
sons in Canada in 1850.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24
LACEY'S BIG VOTE.
Official Figures of Sixth District In
crease His Plurality.

The official figures from the various
counties of the Sixth district give Ma.
jor Lacey So more votes than the I'm,
official count reported, and increase
his plurality over Brewster to 1888.
The official figures are as follows:
The PluraIities.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

.october vas warmer and dryer
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-24

IT. NIOIs J
Des Moines, Nov. Is.
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sand strange chances that lead people
in their efforts TO earn a living"
While they cover in their dark, tomb
| like shelters ever the lamp-stoves fed
with seal and whale oil, they talk of
far away Copenhagen and Elsinore.
Thus you can imagine dImly what
a precious thing a letter IS TO them.
| Weeks and weeks before the carrier
can possibly return over his awful
route, they talk of the coming letters
| and wonder what news will come from
friends and relatives.
So, when David starts away from
ice-surrounded Upernavik in a week
or two, you may be sure that all the
inhabitants will gather to wish him a
good journey and that many prayers
will ascend for him.
For his part he goes off into lone
illness where there is no hand but his
own TO depend on; no voice but his
own to hear; no way to get food ex-
cept by his own efforts; no help from
any one should disaster overtake him.
If his dogs should die from the cpl
demic disease that sometimes sweeps
through a pack of Arctic dogs; or If
| his sled, with the provisions, fall
through a crack in the foe-ice and
sink down into the gray polar sea that
lies five hundred feet deep below the
ice, then David the mail carrier
knows that Yhst is before him is TO
wander, wander hopelessly on foot.
on and on, Until hunger makes him
too weak to walk any farther; then he
will fall to the snow and freeze there
or be torn by bears and foxes
Part of his journey is over inland
! ice, frozen into hills and hummocks
! till it looks like a billowy sea. Over
this he can 90 only at the rate of
few miles day. and at night, when
he makes camp, he is almost too
weary TO eat.
Or he may strike slush ice, too thick
for the skin boat and too thin for the
sled. Though a norther may be blow
| ing at the time, he must founder and
wade through il, pushing his sled be-
fore him. Then, behind rude shelter
and in the fame of a poor oil lamp.
he will dry his clothing sufficiently TO
permit him TO proceed
AS he gets south. the spring Will
meet him; but it will be no soft spring
like ours, with breaths OF flowers and
clear, smiling blue skies. Davids
| spring greeting Will be the thunder of
breaking glaciers and the vast noises
of cracking foes and grinding bergs
David's spring zephyr will be storm
that drives across a CHASTITY white sky,
with pale sun glazing from it. Sleet
and hail and icy snow will drive into
his face; the polar seas will rise along
his course and seek 10 drive him and
his frail craft, laden with sled and
dogs, far out, so that he may have TO
fight for hours TO round a headland
only few miles away.
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n ROSSlAN Siberia lives race
of reindeer breeders called Kor-
u jakS. These men, who are among
the richest and most naughty OF
the peoples of the cold north, have ex'
ceedingly violent tempers, and their
strength and wealth make them head.
strong and Indifferent to conse-
quences when they wish to revenge
themselves on enemies.
They have terrible and strange
method of doing this.
In the winter, the Korjaks seal the
small doorway into their huts with ice
and earth and let it freeze solid. Then
the only entrance and exit is the hole
in the roof of the huts, which permits
the escape of smoke.
Now, if a band of Korjaks feels Itself
injured i'll any way by another band
the avengers creep into a village al
night and Chamber softly up on the
roofs. There, with snow and hides
they close up the smoke hole and sea
il absolutely AS a result, il the oc'
cupants have not been awakened By
the noise, they smother in their sleep
If they do wake up and put out the
fire, there is no escape for them, fol
the moment they try TO climb on
through the roofs, the besiegers clut
them to death.
One OF the richest of the Korjak'
thus killed one of his enemies, slaugh
tering the entire family, consisting o.
the father, three wives and two chill
dren
This man afterward made his deco
subject of his boasts, and was &C
customed to tell the story at length
with all the details. Nobody tried t
punish him for it, because he was too
powerful. He owns 5000 reindeer, anC
with this wealth he commands respec
from all the headmen.
These Korjaks live in great comfort
as compared with the other inhabi
tants of their bleak country. The,
are never in danger OF famine, TO
their immense herds cannot be de
stroyed by even the fercest winter
so that, no matter how many thou
sands OF reindeer may die, there viii
always be more than enough for foo
and for breeding.
They have a queer way of hunting
the wild reindeer. They chase thes
animals not on land, but with canoe
in the water. The hunters wait unit
the herds begin TO swim a river in tn
summer and then paddle among then
and kill them with spears.
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ing the year, and Uncle Sam will have
them set out in various parts of Flor
ida during this year.
One of his men was sent all the way
to Turkestan to get seeds of the al
falfa of Bokhara. Another alfalfa
collector was sent to Algeria.
A queer wheat, called macaroni
wheat, was imported from Italy and
India and sent to farmers 10 try. The
cassava, dear to the heart of the read
ers of the Swiss Family Robinson, has
been carried from Jamaica, and is be-
ing grown in Florida in Uncle Sans
experimental gardens there
Among the purely ornamental i'm
portations are those of Dutch bulbs
and Towering cherries from Japan.
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mo is preparing for the hard
est mail-carrying trip in the world.
1t is the spring post" of the year.
The start of he carrier is made from
Upernavik, near the northern end OF
Baffin's Bay, every March; and the
man who carries it knows that he
starts on journey from which he
may not return alive.
The route O. this mail carrier is
uncertain as ID length and uncertain
even as to destination, for in his seal
skin bag he often bears letters ad-
dressed to whaling ships anchored
somewhere off the entrance to the bay,
perhaps a thousand miles TO the south.
There are letters to friends and rela-
tives in Godhn ven and Disco Bay and
| far away south in Frederiksdal, near
Cape Farewell.
Many of the letters have to travel
to Iceland and Denmark before they
reach their destination, for many OF
these people live in Greenland, having
moved there to carry on business,
such as buying seal and bear skins and
oil, drying and curing fish, etc, and
importing provisions and other goods
| to sell to the natives.
1t is only twice year that the peo-
PIE can send or receive letters. One
time is by the spring post" that is
preparing IN Upernayik while you
read this, and the second time is later
in the summer.
By this time, dog sleds are carrying
letters and messages into Upernavik
over the lonely ice, that lies so white
and desolate that a single bird will
loom up miles away like a man. Pos
sibly David the Whaler is braiding his
rawhide whips and lashing his sled
now, in preparation for the fight; that
lis, if David returned to Upernavik
alive last autumn when he left south
| eIn Greenland with the return mail
Since then, OF course, nobody in the
south has been able to hear anything
of him.
David is tn: best mail carrier OF
Greenland, and they say in that bleak
land that the spring greetings between
| Greenland AMI Denmark and Iceland
4 VIII ouiNiy NC NNllNCICQ ulllCSS Odhll
| dies on the way. Despite all the ter
rible dangers and pains of the journey
during parts OF which the mail carrier
must wade waist deep through slush
ice to get his kayak into free water
David has never lost letter.
| In this county, where any one car
send letter at any moment, with nc
more care about its delivery than &c
write the address so that it can be
read, it is difficult to realize what a
letter means in such place as northern
Greenland.
Here are people, dwelling in ice huts
amid the roar OF winds blowing
straight from the North Pole; people
who sec no new face once in ter
years; people who get food and cloth.
ing only by tremendous exertions or
the crashing ice floes-and twice {
year they have the opportunity tC
send word TO those they love and tc
hear from them in reply.
Remember that these people are no.
all natives-Eskimos. They are
peasants from Denmark and Iceland
who have drifted up into the Arctic
wilderness BY one of the many thou
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Date Garden are be-spectacIed men
with overalls on.
Forty-one different kinds of rice
have been imported by the good uncle.
He has gathered samples in japan and
China and India and Africa, and is try
ing them in plantations in Louisiana.
Another of his experiments is with
apricots from interior Mexico. In
California he has planted cuttings of
grape vines from Madeira, the Azores,
Portugal and France. A great ship
ment of Japanese bamboos has been
distributed by him in the South and
West, in the hope that he can raise
bamboo forests in this country.
Half a hundred fine, small mango
plants were carried from India dur
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Natural Scenery That Flanders

were there once and have disappeared
That volcanic islands have appeared
and disappeared in various parts of the
seven seas there is no doubt A Brit,
ish man-of-war once was sailing near
where such an event took place, and
its crew had a chance to witness that
seldom seen occurrence, the birth Of
an island.
AS soon as 1t was possible the Brit.
ish captain landed and formally an
nexed the new land to the British en-
pire. Then he hoisted the Union Jack
and sailed away
He expected TO be knighted for his
enterprise, but when another ship was
sent out to take look at the island
and report upon its availability as a
naval post for supplying passing ships,
the island hal vanished entirely.
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nj be supposed to be moderately
i permanent. has sometimes
done disappearing acts which
rival the legerdermain of the van
ishing lady" trick.
Lake Shirwa, a large body of water
some fifty miles long, lying on the
borders of Portuguese East Africa,
existed from the time of its discovery
by white men with every appearance
of continuing TO exist. But now re-
ports come that 1t has entirely van
ished, and that without any apparent
cause.
1t has not fallen through a hole in
the earth or run away by means of a
river; it has simply vanished, leaving
It's great bed lying invitingly open to
the settler, who hesitates, however, to
take advantage of the lakes absence
and cultivate the rich soil, for fear
that the original occupier OF the spot
may only be out making a call some
where and may return Unexpectedly
with disastrous consequences TO any
one found trespassing.
Off the New England coast, between
the island of Martha's Vineyard and
Muskeget, there sometimes is little
island called Skiff's Island, and some
times there is not-just as ii happens.
This island appears and disappears
IN a most bewildering manner, and
some of its disappearance have been
so timed that it seemed almost certain
that the little sandy islet had sense
of humor and is fond of a practical
Joke
Once the island remained at home
for several years, and this home-keep-
ing seemed TO agree with ii, for 1t in
creased wonderfully in size and solid
ity. Grass grew thickly upon it and
some shrubs even began TO make their
appearance.
Ii looked as il Skiff's Island had de-
termined TO wander from its own sea-
side no more, and some capitalists
pitched upon 1t as a good place TO
build a summer hotel.
All the plans were made and in the
spring the capitalists went down to
mark out the site of the hotel But,
as one of them afterward expressed it,
when we got 10 the island, 1t wasn't
there"
Not a vestige of the proposed sum-
mer resort could they find above
water-nothing but the rushing cur
rents, the tumbling waves and the low
lying, shady shores of Muskeget chan
mel met their eyes. The island was
not at home
Ii returned late that fall, but the
capitalists refused 10 have anything to
say to II.
Once a United States Coast Survey
officer, working in the neighborhood
said: Tomorrow we will make sur
vey of Skiff's Island" That night a
fierce storm came up and held them
prisoners in Edgartown for several
days before the sea was calm enough
TO take accurate soundings.
Then the scientists steamed out to
take a look at the island. Lo. and
beholdl the island had overheard their
expressed intention and had van
ished IN the storm.
A few weeks later it was in Its ole
place again, looking very worn and
puny and evidently suffering from the
effects OF It's outing. but still an island
On old charts of the Pacific there
are islands set down where now the
navigator can find none. Perhaps they
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21
Snow Flakes That Were Mistaken
for Butterflies.

Although Luzon is a tropical coun.
try, it sometimes gets cold enough
there TO make a sleeper crawl under
blanket, especially in the mountains.
There is an Official record OF rs hav-
ing showed in the province of Abra
twenty years ago, although no white
man saw H. The natives came TO
town and reported a swarm OF white
butterflies having descended from the
sky and disappeared into the earth.
Thus the Spaniards knew II had
showed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21

THERE isn't thing that grows
anywhere in the world that
j Uncle Sam isn't ready to
plant in his own garden to
try it and learn if it may not prove of
value TO him.
1t isn't so long ago that all the pa
pers were full of his experiments with
the date palms from the Sahara
Gases. The trees were set out in
Arizona, and now he has a beautiful
plantation there which Is known as the
United States Date Garder---a truly
Oriental name, bringing up ravishing
thoughts of bul-buls and beautiful
Arabic princesses. Alasl the Arabic
princesses to be seen in the American
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21
U'orLds Brouest Mail Carrier

A WAY n in Upernavik, the most
~ northern colony of Greenland,
4 y some brave and strong Eski-
mo is preparing for the hard
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K NATURAL scenery, which might
nj be supposed to be moderately
i permanent. has sometimes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21
Koridks' Queer Revenge

TN RUSSIAN Siberia lives a race
l of reindeer breeders called Kor-
III iakS. These men. who are among