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The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27
SOCIETY or SIXTEEN.
Pella Has an Exclusive Set That
Should Please Roosevelt,

Pella, Iowa, April z2.--Mr. ana
Mrs. NJ. Verros became the parents
OF another boy yesterday, This IL
the sixteenth child born TO this cou>
pie. This makes four peiIa families
now in which there are sixteen chiI.
dren. Bart Donai Is also at the
head OF a family or sixteen, Henry
Gezel mustsrs a crowd Of the same
size. ?. 9, Lankelma is at the head
OF sixteen, and Mr.. and Mrs. verros
are the latest TO Join this exclusive
presidential class.
IL Ia safe 10 say that there Is mon
another town In the United States
OF the size OF PelIa mat can equat
this record.
President Roosevelt will bs notified
Of the Society Of Sixteen"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27
MINISTER'S MEET HERE
German Lutheran Conference In
oskaloosa May ga.

The German Lutheran church oi
this city will act as host TO the con
ference of the Southern Iowa Synod
TO be held in oskaloosa May and 4
About one hundred ministers and lay.
men are expected and an excellent
program has been arranged for the DC.
cagion.
The present officers Of the confer.
ence are:
President-Rev. II. JaDsen, Dog
Noines.
secretary-Rev. II. Struggles, Sharon
Center.
Treasurer--RsL J. Oyden, WJtcu.
The Program.
The program arranged for the coca.
E" on Is as foIlr%s:
Continued Exegesis on the First
EDBtle OF Peter" President Rev. II.
Japsen Of Des Moines.
THE AntlChrist, Conversion Of Is
rael and the Millennium" Rev. u.
Groth, State Center.
The Specific Difference Between
the Word and the SacTaments as
Means Of Grace" Rev. J. Haefner. OF
tumWa.
THE Future OF the German Luther.
an Church In America" Rev. f., Leh-
man, Fontanelle.
English Services at the Meeting OF
the Synod General" Rev. .. Reinsch,
Malcolm.
What Is the Relation Between the
Ministerial ONCE and the General
Priesthood" Rev. IT, Gentner, Ger
manvIlle.
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o. n. 9. Notes.

Evan Fleener and Eda Shilling have
left school.
Mr.. Hurt has added a new cabinet
10 the fixtures in his room.
Ada Yocum has returned 10 school
after visit In Oklahoma.
Miss leila Bradley, Of Penn, was
an o. II. 8. visitor ON Tuesday.
Laura Jones and Nellie Hunter, old
o, r. 8. students, were visitors on
Tuesday.
Mrs. a. D. Coleman and Mrs. G, W.
BoIlinger we're welcome o. L.. g. viz.
ltors on Friday.
Helen Abrams, a member Of the d
class, who has been I'll for some time,
is able TO be, about again.
The boys Of the A class have been
figuring with the clothing merchants
for their commencement "togs."
Albert McCampbelI, member Of
class 'O2, o. ~. s., but now a student
at the l. a. e., at Ames, was a wei
come visitor on Friday.
The o, H. s base ball team played
the Marshalltown high school team
at the ball park today. A good game
was promised, as me visitors are
swift ones
Track athletics arc promising this
season. A large number Of boys have
registered as contestants for the state
field meet which will be held at Iowa
city on May 10.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

Delta Pfesg; J. r. Hankins, over az
his BnOD Monday evening, got a new
pillow share ready for the emery wheel
IN just exactly one hour from the time
the biz BuIkey piOw came into the
shop. That's pretty good record,
lint u, you boys 1ho strike when the
iron q bOfg
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

National leagues games on Sunday:
At Chicago-C Chicago, i, 6, 3; Pittsburg,
%, 4, ]. At Cincinnati--st. Louis, u
~, 2; Cincinnati, 8, 2, A. At Brooklyn
Brooklyn, 4, 6, 2; Boston, 0, z, 9.
American league: At Chicago--De-
troit Q, 8, 0; Chicago, 2, 4, 2. At St
Lonis-st Louis, /, S, i; Cleveland,
0, a.
American association: At Toledo
Minneapolis, z, s, 2; Toledo, 2. II, 3.
AT Louisville Milwaukee, g, z, s.; Lou.
isyille, 3, 8, 8. At &c .d:nbus-Co lum.
bus. 2, 2, 2; Kansas city, 0, g..
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27
MISS TURNER PROMOTED.

Ames. Iowa, April 22.--Miss Pa.
thence Wormley, who mas been the
private secretary Of the president OF
the Iowa state college for four years,
has resigned her position and eft
for her home at Newton. Miss
wormley r. succeeded by Miss Mary
r. Turner OF Oskaloosa. VINO has
been Professor Holden's stenogra.
pher for the past year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27
More Mahaska Horses.

Goslett &c Sparks this morning ship
ped car load of horses to the Chica
go markets over the Central. The
horse shipping business is exceedingly
good for this time of year, and the
freight representatives Of the Central
are much gratified. Other live stock
shipments are not 30 good.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

lOLdlb ...s'.'sOt ~ UI
Summary Two.base hits, Moore
Buffers; first on balls off Thomas s.
off Kirk 10; struck out by Thomas o.
by Kirk 7; wild pitches, Kirk 3,Tnom.
as 1; passed balls, Reisman /, Kirk
2, Lyon i; lift by Kirk 4, Thomas /.
o o o
Lost Creek 3-SprIng Nreek 2.
In one of the best amateur ball
games ever played in Manaska county
Sunday afternoon the Lost Creek team
defeated the Spring Creek nine in a
twelye.inning game, by a score Of 3
to 2. The game was pitchers bat.
tie, and Clay Long, who twirled for
the Spring Creek team, struck out ID
men during the game. Wigner, Lost
Creeks twirler, has twelve scalps 20
the credit of his curves. Hits were
few, and errors were noticeable by
their absence.
Batteries-Lost Creek, Wigner and
McNeeley; Spring Creek, Long and
Rockefeller.
Score by innings
6789101112
Spring Cre'k.0 0000001 0 0 %
Lost Creek. 0O0001OU1 0 0 1--3
Iowa League Sunday Scores.
Des Moines 15-Keokuk 5.
Fort Dodge st. Joe 0.
Dubuque 10--Waterloo 3.
Burlington S-Cedar Rapids 0.
Ottumwa 5-Keokuk o.
Hopkins Bros. Boone /.
Davenport Crock Island /.
. q y
Results Elsewhere.
The following tables show the stand.
ing Of clubs Of various baseball organ.
izations. National league:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

State Veterinarian Koto, OF Forest
City, visited herd Of cattle north OF
Mason city and found that twenty OF
them we're suffering with tuberculosis.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

The Council Bluffs school, after CON
siderable discussion, has taken the
final Official action resulting in the re-
tirement Of the vertical style OF writ
ing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27
G. YER pLoEc,
At,orney.atLsw

over Pixies drug stors
once phone 544. Res 1885 black.
s94smo
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-04-27

cskslsesa's only ussluslNs op,lelsn
ard rysalph, specialist
Most successful ~ iowa Here 70
slay. ta years experience. Eyes "a
amlned free Opposite Epencers
isse. wholesale nmldlnn nye
medicines ftve 10 all free glaAses
FOR the poor Friday furuncons. bring
letter from doctor or pastor OF
church
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Results Elsewhere.

The following tables show the stand.
ing OF clubs. Of various baseball organ.
izations. National league:
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10
PERSONAL

NJ. Combes. recently Premier Of France. has re-
turned to the practice of medicine In his native
village. He is a physician.
DIR. Nicholas Sem has been elected professor Of
surgery in the University of Chicago.
Camille FIammarion. the celebrated astronomer
proposes to introduce in the French Chamber Of
Deputies a bill to make compulsory a perpetual
calendar Of his According TO his plan. the
should start at the verna equinox March 21)
and every quarter should contain months OF
thirty days and month Of thirty-One days
This would make ss4 days. and fete day. not to
be counted In any month, would complete the year.
while every leap year there would be such fete
Gays. Inc same dates would always occur on the
same days of the week and one calendar would
last lifetime.
r. B. De- East Indian. is IN New-Haven to
study tobacco raising at the Connecticut Agricult-
urai Experiment Station. and will make use OF
the knowledge acquired IN growing the weed ex-
tensively on his estates at home.
Cardinal Richelmy has started a movement to
raise funds to erect a monument to Columbus
St Peters Rome, TO commemorate the 44Oth
niversary of the discoverer's death.
Miss Bessie Bain who lives on a farm near
Chatham. N. Y. has been appointed an overseer
OF highways in her district. Miss Balm declares
she will see that the work is well done. She in
tends to have the best section Of road IN the
township. She will superintend the work in per-
tive 10 road construction
Professor Clifton +. Hodge urges the extinction
OF cats. on account OF their destruction Of birds
He says 1t has become a matter Of national conse-
Quence, and adds: I'VE need the German method
OF cat traps. like those that in one year killed
thirty thousand cats in Hamburg
General W. W. Blackmar, commander in chief
OF the Grand Army Of the Republic has left Bos-
ton for trip TO the Northwest, to visit camps as
far away as Sitka, Alaska.
The Federation OF French Alliances In the United
States has secured lecturer for next year III.
julien Ttersot, librarian of the Paris Conservatory
and Ana Ia Erav TN1ISF
guage and literature at the University OF Rennes.
Three editors aspire to the Democratic nomina-
ton for Governor Of Georgia. They are Hoke
Smith. who at time at the head Of THE
Atlanta Journal; Clark Howell, Of 1.-The Atlanta
Constitution" and J. r Estill, Editor of The
Savannah News"
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10

greatly does the British government trust the
faith and the prowess OF its japanese ally. of
course, this recall of the British ships leaves
the American fleet, which remains unchanged
easily second in Asian waters-such a potent
second that we might almost say there was no
third.
II Great Britain as Japan's ally, maintained
her feet at full power until the issue of the sea
war was decided il was natural that France,
the ally of Russia, should increase her feet
during the early part of the war. Now, how
ever, we see an extraordinary spectacle. 1t
might have been thought that with the destruc-
tlon of her alys feet France would still fur
ther have increased her own, so as 10 compen-
safe in some measure for Russia's losses and
to maintain the balance of naval power. She
has not done So On the contrary, she is said
to be actually withdrawing some of her ships
and reducing her strength to-perhaps even be-
low-what Ii was before the war. 1t might be
interesting TO speculate on whether that means
a slackening of the Franco-Russian alliance, or
a Franco-Japanese understanding. or perhaps
further development of the Anglo-trench un-
derstanding. Certainly 1t is noteworthy that
France the second naval power of Europe,
should reIinauish her vast colonial and CONNER
cial interests in the Far East to the mercies or
the protection Of the power which is at war
with her ally! We may not err If regard
that as an VI rIduCtS IA
the benevolent intentions Of Japan. Even the
German feet under the strenuous command of
the sovereign who has so vigorously warned all
Europe against the yellow peril" shows no in
dications of increase, but remains as 1T was, a
negligible quantity save for coast police pur-
poses.
The Asian seas, then, are practically left to
the Japanese and American fleets, between
which there is, of course, no danger Of clash
or of anything other than entire friendship.
Whether the other powers shall or shall not see
ft TO increase their fleets there one of these days
is a matter not Of supreme Importance The
advent in those waters of more European ships
would not be resented or regarded with dis
quiet by the two powers which are now dom1-
nant Neither would failure TO send ships I'M
peril the welfare Of the powers now represented
by such small fotillas. The interests and the
policies of both America and Japan in that part
Of the world lie in the direction Of peace with all
powers and of justice to all.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10
"FAKE" FIREMEN.

Attorney General Mayors opinion concerning
exempt fremen in the Civil Service is likely to
call halt TO the exodus of clerks in the Man
haitian public offices to Staten Island and Rock
away Some "sea lawyer" among the civil
servants discovered what seemed a beautiful
scheme to intrench himself and his fellows in
office The law gives TO exempt firemen the
protection of tenure in the Civil Service that 1T
gives TO Civil War veterans. They have not,
Ike the old soldiers, any preference in entering
the service, but take their turn in competition.
When they are once appointed, however, they
can be removed only on charges after trial,
with a right of appeal to the courts. While
such a tenure for any large body of the city
employees inevitably puts a premium on inefn-
cheney, 1t is, of course, greatly desired by the
employees themselves. Consequently an easy
method of securing status as exempt firemen
would naturally be popular.
The reported determination Of the city au-
thorities to abolish the volunteer fire companies
in the outlying boroughs and extend the opera
tions of the paid department seemed TO offer
the opportunity. Last winter a bill was pro-
posed TO give volunteer firemen thus mustered
out before completing their full term of service
the privileges they would have enjoyed at the
end of the five year term. Though that did not
pass it was believed that flremen whose ser
vice was cut short by the city authority might
possibly still assert their readiness TO serve,
and maintain the rights incident to full service.
Accordingly Manhattan clerks and stenogra-
pliers suddenly developed passion for fighting
fire. and the volunteer companies suddenly dis
covered the desirability of enlarged member
ship. Men who would never think of actually
going 10 fires for five years were ready TO enroll
In the expectation Of disbandment in a few
months after merely nominal service. The full
complement of hose companies is normally
thirty men, and of truck companies forty men,
but with the new popularity of fire fighting
these numbers were largely exceeded, and con-
troll OF a company organization became fertile
source of graft" The old members held up
the aspirants for initiation fees high as the
traffic would bear, sometimes $780, and some
times only S25. These fees the public employees
were ready TO pay as an insurance premium on
continuation in their places. The proceeds
were ar the disposal Of the company members.
Men Joined the companies without the least in-
tention of working. One man who is enrolled
in a Staten Island company is said TO live in
Queens and to be employed I'm the Office of the
Manhattan Borough President BY the time he
got 10 the hose cart at night Staten Island
would be devastated.
Now comes Attorney General Mayer to put
stop to this nonsense. 1t ought 10 have been
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10

stopped months ago by the city authorities, VINO
could have taken possession of the volunteer
companies rolls and permitted the election of
new members only to fill actual vacancies In
proper working forces. After long delay the
Fire Department has, we believe, taken Initial
steps In that direction. The Attorney General
holds that under the general law the volunteer
fireman must serve his full five years to obtain
special privileges in the Civil Service. Some
companies organized under special statutes,
may have further rights, but the Attorney Cen
eral significantly adds, 1T is safe to assume
that fraud would vitiate any transaction and
amy certificate which may be issued by fire
company TO one of its members who has never
actually served, and actually issued for the ul-
terror purpose OF giving them advantages un-
"der the Civil Service law to which they would
mot otherwise be entitled, would be void" !"
That plainly was the purpose of the great en-
roment of the last six months, and even if 1t
should be held that the full five years service
is not required when these Richmond and
Queens companies are dsbanded it will still
be the duty of all executive officers to refuse to
recognize any special privilege attaching to
civil servants who have rushed TO join these
organizations in their last days. Certainly the
courts would never give their mandate to sup
port such barefaced jugglery with the law.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10
SIMPLIFYING CUSTOMS INSPECTION.

Collector Stranahan illustrates the value OF
having in public office men Of common sense
and initiative in small matters These thlhSs'
which many officials think beneath their atten-
ton, are Of far more Importance than is COM
monty supposed in promoting the easy uansac-
ton Of business and the comfort OF the people
Just as Postmaster Willcox's recent circular
urging the early posting of business letters
has to a considerable extent relieved the con-
gestion of the office and facilitated more prompt
deliveries for everybody's benefit, so Collector
Stranahan's plan of sending abroad to every
tourist registered on the steamship lists
pamphlet clearly describing the customs regu-
Iations and instructing him as TO his rights ana
obligations in the matter of imports has re-
duced by more than half the usual friction be-
tween officials and returning travellers.
OF course, nobody expects the tariff laws to
be popular with tourists. No tax is popular.
II is not a question of tariff for protectlon or
for revenue only. Any duties at all on articles
which Americans wish to bring home would be
obnoxious. 1t is human nature to dislike the
Custom House. Yet If we are to collect any
customs revenue at all-and nobody proposes to
abandon 1.-THE traveller cannot be passed un-
inspected as a petty retail importer beneath
the notice of a great nation, for such course
would open the door to wholesale fraud There
have at times, indeed, been just complaints
against unnecessary restrictions and harsh
methods of administration, which have been
largely corrected. Most Of the trouble at the
piers has been due, however, to misunderstand-
ing. Travellers did not know what TO do. II
they made wholesale declarations, hoping to
pay and get through quickly, they subjected
themselves to the necessity of showing up
goods to the full measure Of the declaration.
often a difficult task And if they declared
nothing they provoked question about what
was in their baggage. If every traveller ar
ranges his goods so as to exhibit what he knows
is dutiable, and otherwise seeks to make
easy compliance with the necessary formalities,
his Journey through the customs lines will he
quicker and pleasanter for himself and the Off
ciaIs This adjustment Is what Collector Stran-
ahan has sought with great good sense, and ap-
parently he has secured ii, for the complaint
correspondence of the Custom House has been
cut down TO one-third of what it was before
be began sending out his pamphlet.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10
RAVIBS IN ASIAN SEAS.

A noteworthy feature of the war in the Far
East is seen in the changes effected in the naval
strength Of the various powers in Asian waters
not only since the beginning OF the war;
but, perhaps still more remarkably, since the
fall Of Port Arthur. If TO these changes we add
the present inclinatons and tendencies of the
European powers, we have a spectacle Of ex-
traordinary significance.
AT the outbreak Of the war, a year and a half
ago Russia had probably-on paper-the strong
est naval force in those waters. Japan was a
close second and Great Britain a close third
America was fourth, France was fifth and Ger
many was sixth, and on the part Of the last
two there was an obvious tendency TO increase
their armaments. The British feet was prob
ably as strong as all others after the Russian
and japanese and the American was much
stronger than the French and German united
The early operations at Chemupo and Port Ar
thur and at The Strait of Corea weakened the
Russian feet so as 10 put it in the third or per-
baps the fourth place, with Japan IN the first
At tie present time Japan is indisputably first
having made coed her losses in the war by the
capture Of Russian ships and the addition OF
ihem 10 her own navy. The Russian force has
practically disappeared. These are the direct
results Of the fighting. The other changes. in
the neutral fleets which we may regard as in
direct results, equally interesting.
II was natural that in the early stages OF
fhe war Great Britain should maintain in those
waters her powerful feet OF five great bat
tleships. But soon after the fall OF Port Ar
thur and the annihilation Of the Russian feet
there preparations were made for its with
drawal, and those preparations were put into
execution Immediately after the battle OF the
Sea Of Japan. All those British battleships have
been recalled 10 European waters, and for the
first tine in many years the British feet
Safeguarding the vast interests of the British
Empire in that part OF the world is reduced 10
q SQUADRON Of cruisers and gunboats. So
New-York tribune., 1905-07-10
DEFIANT AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS.

New-Jersey is fortunate enough to have among
her residents many owners of automobiles who
are not only law abiding, but also Jealous Of the
reputation of their State. Largely through their
influence the New-Jersey law regarding horse
less carriages was made more stringent last
spring than it was before, and now they want
TO see it vigorously enforced. One of the OBJ
staces if not the chief one, to the realization of
this desire is the difficulty of identifying some
of the violators of the statute. Drivers who
have injured person or property will occasion
ally hasten off before their numbers can be
read, or else will substitute a wrong number
for the right one after the accident. Thus they
evade arrest altogether or else delude the mag
istrate before whom they are arraigned.
To lessen the chance of such tricks it has
been proposed to ask the State to keep regis
ter of all persons who are licensed to operate
automobiles within the limits of the common
wealth, and to provide for furnishing all magis-
trates with revised lists of their names. If the
present law does not make the adoption of these
measures obligatory already, the advsability
of so amending it ought to be seriously cOnsid-
cred 1t would also be wise to attach severe
penalty to the crime of personating an inno-
cent man.
An awkward feature of the situation is that
many of the offences which occur In New-Jer-
sey are committed by residents of New-York
and Pennsylvania. 1t is a curious trait of hu-
man nature that the moral sense is prone TO
paralysis when one is away from home. The
rule holds good in the case of such AUTOMOBILE
lists as are naturally reckless. Hitherto 1t has
been less easy TO detect and capture in New
Jersey lawbreakers who are visitors from an
other State than those who live there perma-
nently The Tribunes Trenton correspondent
saws that there are several associations in the
State which would gladly meet the expense Of
identifying and extraditing these INSCRIPTIONS
outsiders.
The idea is an admirable one, and the move
ment cannot be organized too perfectly or too
SOON New-Jersey now gives to magistrates
large discretionary power and it makes i'm
prisonment one of the penalties that may be I'M
posed on offenders. Trace half dozen viola
tors of the law to their homes, take them over
to New-Jersey, incarcerate them for twenty
four hours and let the newspapers have the
facts. and conspicuous reform will be effected
in short order.>