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The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
BETTER CONDITIONS SHOWN
A MORE ENCOURAGING TRADE
SITUATION rs REPORTED.
Retail Business Benefited and Crop
Planting Aided by Better
Weather.

New York, May 14--Bradstreet' S says:
able, crop planting and growth have
maze lair progress and retail trade has
been benefited, the improvement ex-
tending in some lines to recorders from
jobbers. Dry goods, shoes and groceries
note relatively greatest activity. Rather
more is doing also in fall goods. Gen.
eral industry has remained rather quiet,
notably so in cotton, wooden and shoe
manufacturing. The iron trade is quiet
err as whole, with prices easier. Amin
mense area of fall sown wheat has had
to be abandoned, but this will probably
go into other crops. Prices show a
gradual drifting downward from the
high levels Of early spring. The serious
labor troubles of the week, and, in fact,
the most hurtful so far this year, is the
strike OF lake pilots and sailors. A long
continuance Of this trouble may have an
important effect upon the iron trade, as
it affects Semand for ore."
r. G. Dun &c Co., in their Weekly Re-
view of Trade, say: "Seasonable
weather has restored normal conditions
in many branches of retail trade, but the
improvement has not yet extended to
wholesale. jobhing or manufacturing
departments, except in special lines. 1t
Is difficult to find evidences of increased
activity in any Of the leading industries,
and there is more idle machinery. Traf-
fic conditions are little changed, railway
earnings in the first week falling rs per
cent. behind last year, and the late open
ing of lake navigation was further re-
tarded by strike. While many features
of the business situation make poor
comparisons with last year, it is worthy
Of note that few presidential years have
made better exhibit.
Commercial failures this week in the
United States are 236, against 207 last
week. 202 the preceding week and 1876
the corresponding week last year. Fail
ures in Canada number %, against 27
last week, 16 the preceding week and 13
last year"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

in deciding against the defendant
who had been sued for $3.50 and who
pleaded the section of a Missouri
statute which declares gambling obi.
cations void, Judge Shelton,at Macon
said: II don't think there ought to be
law to relieve men from the conse.
quences of a gambling debt. If a
man will play, and loses his money
he should pay. If he's a gentleman
he will do so, law or no law, and il
he isn't there ought to be law to
compel him."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
studying the question Of success Or

studying the question Of success or
failure.
In every village there are men who
are constantly complaining of the
lack Of something to do and are prac-
tically always out of employment.
When jobs are offered they are not
just the kind they want; there is al
ways an objection with either the
work or the compensation. They are
dissatisfied with the government ana
are sure that everything Is on the
road to ruin. When winter approaches
the flour barrel is empty and there
are no cured meats in the smoke
house. There is no wood in the shed.
In the same village there Is always
found a man who always has more
than he can do;the people are always
after him to secure his services; he
goes whistling and singing about his
work; makes things move; is not so
much concerned about what he re-
ceives for his work, but takes what
the market seems to fix as the proper
compensation at the time His flour
barrel is never empty; his family sup
plies are always ample. He always
has little money saved up. He feels
well towards the community and all
mankind. To him the world looks
bright. He enjoys his home and fam
lily. His children are in the public
schools. He takes and reads news
papers and magazines. He is not al
ways fretting because his own sue
cess is not equal to that of some 9TH
ers whom he knows. He is not al
ways imagining that those who en-
ploy him do not respect him. He
has no false pride and no wrong no
tions. This world and its affairs are
good enough for him.
Moral-It is not the soil that makes
the farmer, nor the luck that adj
vances the worker. The man is the
most important element in both cases.
Iowa Capital.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
Warninq.

You can not have good health un-
less your kidneys are sound. for the
kidneys filter the blood Of impurities
which otherwise act as irritating poi
sons and break down the delicate or
gans Of the body and cause serious
trouble. If you have kidney or blad-
der trouble and do not use Foley's
Kidney Cure. you will have only your,
self to blame for results, as it posi-.
lively cures all forms Of kidney and
bladder diseases. For sale by
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
THE MAN MOST IMPORTANT OF
ALL

Right beside every farmer who is a
failure in his work is another farmer
who is succeeding. There is no diff
ference in the soil held by each, and
no difference in the laws governing
both. The weather conditions are the
same always, therefore the success OF
one and the failure of the other is
not due to the elements. The ami
mails on the farm are obedient to the
harness and obey the word of COM
mand in the one case as we'll as in the
other. Therefore, where must one
look for the causes? The reply is,
The difference is in the farmer"
One attends to his work; understands
the theories of cultivation and is will
ing to do his part. The other does
not. One man leaves his reapers and
mowers standing unprotected in the
field where they were last used until
it is time to use them again. The
other does not; he puts his machin-
cry under a waterproof shed ana sees
that every boxing and all the gearing
are properly oiled or creased to pro-
tect them from rust. One man puts
in the rainy days fixing things in the
barn and mending his harness. The
other spends his rainy days sitting in
the house complaining because it
rains at the wrong time and assert
ing that the fates are against him,
and that the rains are planned espe-
cially to inerfere with his work. One
man regards every accident or misfor-
tune as having been specially sent
to confirm his belief in what he has
always called his bad luck" The
other wastes no time in looking back
ward, accepts the misfortunes that
come as incidental to his career and
has no belief in bad luck" knowing
that the neighbors pronounce the
Woodworking, successful man '1ucly"
and the indolent and unsuccessful
man "unlucky." These contrasts are
presented. in every community and
ought to be of value to men who are
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
RENEFlrs OF PRoTEcTIoN.

New York Commercial: Why should
there be any tampering with the
present tariff, as free traders are pro-
posing that there should? 1t is work
ing satisfactorily. All the strenuous
efforts that have been made to create
opposition to it in proteclionist ranks
have ended in failure. 1t is giving
American labor and American capital
the degree of protection that it was
designed to give; it is yielding the
government sufficient revenue; the
business of the country is adjusted to
it; and under it our foreign trade is
making progress unexampled in the
history of the republic. Why upset
these conditions in order to expert
ment with something unknown?
Do the opponents of the Dingley
law fully realize what has been ac-
complished under it and by it since It
went into effect? Since 1897 our man
ufactured exports have jumped from
$277, 100000 to $40S,000,000 for the
fiscal year 1903; our agricultural ex-
ports from 1884 100000 to $S73,0vo,-
900 and our total exports from 81, $780,
100000 to SLABS 100000. Our imports
in the same period have grown from
$765, 100000 to SLOPE, 900 ,U00-pretty
effectual evidence that the present
tariff is not shutting out foreign com
modities to any alarming extent, while
our total foreign trade has increased
from $1,S15, 100000 to nearly $780,
100000 Our exports to every quar-
ter of the globe, in this interval, have
grown amazingly-to Europe so per
cent to North America rs per cent,
to South America rs per cent, to Asia
and Oeeanica so per cent, to Africa
and other countries 100 per cent.
Since 1899 there has not been i
year that the Dingley law has por
produced ample revenue. In 1900 IT
yielded surplus of $S0,O0O,O0O, in
1901 a surplus of $7S,000,000, in 100!
surplus of SOL 100000, in 1908 sur.
plus of $54,000,000, and it promises to
yield a comfortable surplus during
the current fiscal year. BY means OF
the revenue that this law has pro-
duced, we have been enabled not only
to pay the ordinary expenses of gov
eminent, but to maintain a big gold
reserve-a thing absolutely indispens-
able to the maintenance of the integ-
rity of our enormous paper and silver
circulation; to put the new republic
of Cuba on it's feet; to restore peace
in the Philippines; to build up our
navy; to buy out the old Panama ca
nal company; to defray the cost Of
the war with Spain; and at the same
time keep down the national debt.
On June 80, 1903, the close Of the last
fiscal year, the net amount of the ma
tional debt was 1925 ,000,00O-a debt
smaller than that existing at the end
of the second Cleveland administra-
ton.
There is not nation on the globe
that does not view this showing with
pangs of jealousy. Great Britain
would willingly barter her birthright,
figuratively speaking, to De able to
make similar showing. Germany
France, and Austria-Hungary stand
astounded at the vast results that
have been achieved by the United
States under half decade of ding
leyism." Why is it that it is in our
own country alone that persons can
be found who cannot appreciate what
has been accomplished under the
present tariff?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Put in operation under his superyis-
ion. Later it was consolidated with
the Iowa Central and Mr.. Wallace
had charge Of operation as master of
trains. AT the time he was engineer
in charge of construction, one inter-
esting piece Of work was the construc-
ton Of a transfer over the Mississippi
river at Keithsbrug, Ill, in the sum-
mer time and temporary bridge dur
ing the winter, establishing uninter-
rupted handling of traffic.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
"A sample Of the way in which IL

"A sample of the way in which the
Iowa hen is helping to keep up gen
aral prosperity is shown in an item
from Yarmouth, Iowa, where in two
weeks from that immediate vicinity
were gathered one full carload oil
fresh eggs amounting to over 10000
dozen, or giving the actual fgures
10000 eggs. These eggs ed the
owners of the hens Is cents a Dozen
or total of $1,575.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

1t is reported from Des Moines
that LATE Young is slated for chair
man of the committee on resolutions
of the republican state convention of
May Is. 1t is to be hoped the state
ment is correct. Mr.. Young is entire
~ worthy the honor and his relation
to the attitude of the party in the
state on the tariff issue is such as to
fit him peculiarly for the position.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

"A travelling man is quoted as say.
ing that since the farmers have their
mail delivered daily at their doors,
they have begun to take daily papers,
and in consequence, are much better
posted on the trend Of affairs than
formerly. The drummer used ordi.
narily to be able to work off any old
chestnut on his rural customers, but
now re discovers that most of them
lnotT more of current events than he
whereas, he has time to nc
more than glance over the news, they
read, digest and remember it. The
rural delivery is, therefore, a great
educator.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

"A report on the progress of the
beet sugar industry In 1908, prepared
by the department of agriculture
shows there has been an increase in
the number Of beet sugar factories in
the United States from forty-three at
the close of 1902 to fifty-six at the be-
ginning of 1904. The amount of su.
gar made from the beet crop of 1908
was 240,604 tons, as compared with
21S,405 tons from the crop of 1902
and 1S4, sos tons from that of 1901.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

and move in solid column, armed
with the necessary determination OF
an early contamination Of this pro
ject.
1t now appears to me that in clos
ing we should extend our compli-
ments to the Ladies' Auxiliary, Y. M.
G. A., and all others contributing to
the success of the club dinner.
II r. r.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Warren county republicans by a
vote of three to one have decided to
abandon primaries for the nomination
of their county tickets and the selec'
ton of delegates and other party
work. Warren county has had the
primary arrangement for four or five
syears and the republicans there
tasaihhttd the conclusion that it was
not as good as the caucus system
That is a common experience.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
-Keokuk Gate City: Ten years ago

-Keokuk Gate City: Ten years ago
Kelly's "army" of tramps crossed
Iowa and was exploited by General
James B. Weaver. In Des Moines on
"Wednesday, General Weaver was in
the lime-light as virtual head of the
democratic party in the state. 1t is
somewhat unfortunate for that polit-
ical organization that it should be
represented so conspicuously by one
with so variegated a career.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Iowa seems to be healthy place
not only for the insured but for the
insurance companies as well. The
life companies doing business in this
state collected $6,409, 947.60 in pre-
miums from Iowa people in 1908
They paid back to the people of the
state in the form of losses $1,57S,
356.15. The losses were only 24.6 per
cent of the premiums collected.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

John Findley Wallace, of Chica-
go, who has just been appointed CHER
engineer Of the Panama canal at a
salary of $4,000 year, is known to
many in Oskaloosa. In 1879 Mr.. Wal
lace was appointed chief engineer Of
the Peoria G. Pennington railway,
which was located, constructed and
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
-"No modern city can afford to !

No modern city can afford to be
without a Commercial Club" says the
Des Moines Capital. well differed
such an institution is constantly
awake to every municipal need
There is always an eye open for new
enterprises which will augment the
population of the city and expand its
commercial resources. Des Moines
has never regretted the day its Com.
mercial Exchange was organized
She expects much through its influ.
ence in days to come"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Geo. F. Rhinehart, of Newton,
who declares he is the original Hearst
man of the country, is to be the dem
ocratic candidate for congress against
Major Lacey in this district. His
own county of Jasper is instructed for
him, and the other counties are ex-
pected to fall in line.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Information comes from Newton
to the effect that Senator Maytag de-
clined to indicate that he would not
support Governor Cummins for mem
Der of the national committee on res
olutions, on account of his views on
Canadian reciprocity, and for that
reason the delegation was not in
structed for him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Much has been said in favor of
the climate of California, but condi-
lions at Albany, N. Y, aren't so bad.
A man there who claims to be vet
eran of the war of 1912 is getting a
new head of hair and a new set of
teeth
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The Marion Register afirms that
there is nothing now here or ever
likely to be here in the line of trans
portation which can compete with a
trolley car which will stop at any
farmhouse and take on the farmers
wife and her basket of eggs.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The Burlington Hawk-Eye notes
that 'the Iowa democrats are SO de-
termined to be united they adopted
the unit rule" and suggests they re-
semble "the old gentleman who was
determined his family should kneel at
family prayers, even if he had to
knock them down"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
-sDo YOU remember. asked

do you remember" asked the
teacher, how many people came over
in the .Mayflower?" 81 don't Temem-
Der now" replied Johnny, 'but pa says
there must been about fifteen mil
lion, unless there's a whole lot Of
liars in this country"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Some idea of the immensely Of
the Louisiana Exposition can be
formed after one has comprehended
the astonishing statement that all of
the buildings at the Buffalo EXPOSE
ton could be placed in the Transpor-
tation palace at st. Louis.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
LET us have the platform shor

let us have the platform short
incisive. precise and concise" adj
vised President Roosevelt recently
during a conference with a number
of republican leaders in Washington
The president is right The platform
of the republican party this year
Mould be short. 1t should also be Sc
clear and firm that the planks could
not be warped all out of meaning by
those who have axes to grind.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

A church at Horse Prairie, Iowa,
has split into bitter factions over the
question Of human power, One fac
ton, "The Can't Help It's" declares
man is not responsible for his acts.
The Can Help It's" take the opposite
view. The two factions refuse to
worship together.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

There is at Let's a remarkable
organization of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The chapter
has sixteen members, all of one fam
lily and fourteen of these are descend
ants of a common ancestor of the rev.
olutionary war, Nehemiah Let's.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Repeated rains throughout the
country have caused the postpone
ment Of many ball games. BY way Of
consolation the Keokuk Gate City
suggests to some of the clubs that a
heavy rain is sometimes the better
part Of valor.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

Question for high school and col
lege debating societies, suggested by
Des Moines Capital: From Bryan to
Hearst: Evolution or Deterioration
which,"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

One of the best of Mahaska dem,
ocrats said to the New Sharon Star
a few days ago that he considered
Hearst absolutely unfit for president
and waund up by declaring him ''the
Herr Most of democratic politics."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil de
mics the rumor that the Japs have
taken Peruna and are now taking Sen
Sen. "The Japs," it continues, ''nev-
er take anything stronger than whis-
key"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
John I

John ]. Hamilton, for twenty
years the mainstay of the Des Moines
News, has retired from that paper
permanently and will henceforth be
on the editorial staff of the Iowa
Homestead and the other publications
issued by james M. Pierce.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The fact that aman dropped sixty
feet from the window of an abattoir
without being injured in the least is
all cleared. UP since it became known
that they were pigs feet.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The eloquence of Doctor Gunsau-
lus' prayer at the opening Of the st.
Louis exposition suggests to the
Sioux City Journal that it was adj
dressed to the crowd.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

"A Yale professor says people eat
too much. That's what the boarding
house keepers have been saying all
along.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

1T is quite safe to predict now
that General Kouropatkin will not
celebrate the Fourth Of July in Toxic.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

If the humorist of the Des Moines
News is to be believed, every man
falls in love sooner or later and every
woman sooner
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The real Queen of May is the
woman with a feather buster and
scrubbing brush.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

"A Buffalo man has aptly describ-
ed bonanza as hole in the ground
owned by a liar.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19

The Chauncey M. Depew WON
ems club or Des Moines has decided
that life itself Is form OF gambling.
Sort Of horse race, as it were.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
WAeE-EARNERs AND CHURCH.

The attitude of the wage-earner to-
ward the church is so often portrayed
as hostile that special interest at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Gossip of men aild l11atter$
slandarer of tha South.

stupid writer for New York news paper; one Allen Sangree, who has been following the New York baseball team about the country published slanderous article about his alleged experiences III Birmingham and several Southern news papers discussed the islander In no un- certain terms.
 Sangree, it appears, did not follow the New York baseball men to Montgomery Evidently 1t has occurred to him that the Southern people whom he misrepresented have seen enough of him.
 , This Is from The Birmingham Age-Her" aid of yesterday:
 SAIien sangres. alleged baseball au- thority of The New York Globe and Com mercial Advertiser, paid a visit to BIT mingham recently with the New fork National League baseball team, and while here proceeded to give his views of the South as it appeared to his superior op- tics, but lately removed from the Tree lunch resorts and the Tenderloin haunts of bad Gotham. Sangrees baseball sto- ries- were not brilliant, so he. perhaps. felt justified in turning his attention to Southern women and the status or CIV ilfzation in this benighted district of the country. It was commendaple m nm | endeavor to fill up certain amount or space In his paper oS'ery day, but he made a woeful mistake when he attempted to write of a subject about which he knows nothing at all. When Sangree and ms friends were in Birmingham they were shown every courtesy by the local news paper men and the citizens. Yet he plays the Judas hy writing. purely from imaE. nation, the most incredible drivel about the people here attending lynchings anu local hangings with the greatest gusto, carrying huge pistols around all the time, wearing sombrero hats. and conducting themselves in a manner close akin to say agery But more than this, he takes Il upon himself to critcise Southern women and tells of young girl of the smart set relating with the most astonishing naivete how she set fire to a negro one time. Ac- cordIng to this ass from Gotham, the so- cIetv belles of Birmingham will stand in front of a saloon and fan member of the New York baseball team or any body else after an introduction, and will call half across a theatre at hun when she catches q glimpse of his smirk . ing face. This Is only a part of what Sangree has to say about Southern so- clety. The rest Is no better and perhaps worse. If this self-inflated dope artist was really fortunate enough to get an ln- troductlon to the best people of Bir- mingham. it is to be sincerely regretted. The class he is writing about may be found in his familiar retreats in New York and Is characteristic of the Tender loin dives in all cities. The truth is that having DC come acquainted with the back door. Sangree confuses 1t with the front door. where he would have hard time in obtaining entrance should he ever return to Birmingham"