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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-11-08
BARNES CITY.
SHARON CITY.

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Hill, Julia, OP sh and 4........14
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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-11-08
EDDYvILLE CITY.
COAL VALLEY.

Consolidation Coal Co., Coal Val. 1921
Consolidation Coal Co., Coal Val.
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Consolidation Coal Co., Coal Val.
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Chambers, Francis, est. Coal VAL. 6
Drew, Robert, Coal Valley. IL
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Evans, Elizabeth, Coal Valley !. .2,S
Greenway, Noah. cts, $500. 81, SO. "a
Greenway, Noah, est, s 20 # n 70ft25
Greenway, Noah, est, s rs # n 90ft25
Jones. w. p. est, 1t "a and pt..17
London, VIM. H., Coal Val. =. .1S
Luckak, Mamie, Coal Val....... .2S
Robert, Leonard, Coal Val ...... IA
Thomas Drug Co. Coal Val. n pit. rs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
A R T N 0 T E S.

The death OF Jules Breton, which oc-
CURED at Paris on the 9Th OF this month
removed a conspicuous figure from the field
OF modern art. Born at Courrieres. France,
on May-day. 1927, he early evineed an apti-
tude for painting and before he was thirty
years of age won, among the artists OF
Paris high honor and distinction His whole
life was n series OF successes-medal follow
ed medal one triumph was succeeded by
another-his pictures pleased the public and
were approved by his fellow painters. His
work was popular and yet at the same time
good Like Millet he gave his life 10 ptetur-
Ing the peasant people. but unlike him he
never showed them bending beneath the
burden OF toll. Either he did not know the
hardships OF labor or he preferred to forget
them for the themes he chose were almost
universally joyous and set forth the heyday
of life. They were, perhaps. not inspiring
or strengthening, bat they were restful and
attractive. II was the reverse of the shield
which he proclaimed-the JOY rather than
the WEAKNESS of living. Take for example
that characteristic canvas Returning from
the Field which the late Mr.. Walters pur-
chased at the Morgan sale and is still in
cluded in his sons collection. Three peas
ant girls are seen returning at evening
from the fields not work-worn and weary,
but vigorous and full of rejoicing. His peas
ants are always In accord with nature rath-
er than warning with the elements. Ro-
nance appealed 10 him, but not human
problems. With a keen sense OF the pic
torial he painted those things which were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
At FRENCH RESORTS
Customs That Obtain at the
Seaside.
BATHING WAGON ROCKED
Invented the Peignoir as a Substi-
tute.
THE NATIONS RIVAL MAIDS
Reason is Obvious That Straw Hats
and Stockings Are
Il! Equally Fast.
THE NATIONS RIVAL MAIDS
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
DIEPPE. Normandy, July l, 1906.
will tell you why French ladies go sea
bathing without stockings
1t is because they fear the English
While this statement may seem contra
dictory, its explanation is not complicated
The English come here in droves As
everywhere in the world, they have the
natives scared to a standstill. The French
lady breads the English lady s icy criticism
Therefore she tries to go sea bathing like
an English lady.
VOLTA! The beach is a betraying stretch
of sand between the bath house and the
ocean. To abolish It the English invented
the bathing wagon.
1t is a bath house on wheels The girl
gets into it. A horse pulls 1t out until the
sea is all around II hub-high Then the
girl undresses in its wave-surrounded soli-
tude. opens its door on a horizon of limit
less blue, and steps down its three steps
into the water.
1T is like bathing from a desert island
No wonder she battles without stockings.
The wonder is that they wear suit At
Brighton, when he unhitches the horse. the
white-whiskered old pirate of a bathing
master calls out:
Now. young ladies, you may be sure
that you Will be perfectly private!"
Battle on. my fair; / go to guard thy haunt,
To keep from thy recess each vagrant foot,
And each lceutious eye,
God save the king! And when three Eng
lish girls get into a machine together, they
have such larks, They jump into the
water, climb up the stepladder. and jump
In again. In the evening they tell with de
lictous clear-eyed candor: "Oh, such larks,
Mr.. Smith"
Now, the French lady attempting to con-
form to English ideals. began with the
bathing wagon. Naturally, she went bare
legged. Not even the English criticised her
nice serge Knockers or her Jersey tights
Was she not being hauled across the beach
unseen?
Invented the Peignoir.
All this was fifty years ago, when the
English were teaching the French to go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
AN AMERICAN REGULARITY"
Nations High Estimate of Learning
Source of Wonder to Englishmen.

Brander Matthews in The Reader.
The one note which recurs again and
again in the reports of the Mosely educa-
tional commission was that of surprise at
the esteem in which education was held in
America: and In private conversation the
members of that commission often de-
cIared that nothing of the sort could be
said about England. In Great Britain there
is scarcely even now anything that can
properly be called educational system:
and practical men seem to care little for
thorouahness of training.
A friend of mine in London told me two
or three years ago that his son was TO he
an engineer, going straight from Elton into
the works of a firm of worldwide reputa-
ton. I asked IL the lad was not to study
at all in any technical school; and the
father answered that the managers of the
works preferred to take him untaught and
break him in themselves. This hostility OF
practical men toward scientific preparation
is significant; it seems to imply either a
narrowness of outlook on the part of the
managers of the works or else obvious de-
ficiencies on the part of the chronological
schools of Great Britain. Here In tho
United States the entire graduating class
of a technical school is often engaged in
advance by single company. The British
seem to eXalt the practical far above the
theoretical and even to feel a certain con-
tempt for the latter. We Americans strive
to unite the two as best we can, knowing
by experience that the man of scientific
education can always sooner or later pick
up for himself the practice of the shop,
whereas the man with only shop-training
will be heavily handicapped when he may
later seek to attain the higher levels OF his
profession We can not refrain from Won
dering sometimes IL the British practically
and dislike of logic is not carried little
too far, and if they are not inclined to
think the acceptance of theory too high
price to pay for efficiency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14

ruined or abandoned. The most famous
are those OF Zuni, New Mexico and Tu-
sayan, Arizona.
Ancient Pueblos and Casa Grande.
According to records left by the Spaniards
who settled in Mexico four hundred years
ago, and who were the first whites to ex-
plore our southwest. there was Indian
servant of the then Spanish governor OF
Mexico, who told the governor of a strange
land lying far to the north. To the peoples
of this land the Indian said he had. a
boy, accompanied his father, a peddler OF
head plumes. There were seven large cit
les, he said, as large the City of Mexico
and filled with Rich and hourishlng people
On hearing these glowing accounts through
the governor Coronado. the great Spanish
general, set out to the north and found the
seven cities. These were the seven Zunf
pueblos studied some years ago by Frank
Hamilton Gushing of the bureau of ethnol-
ogy. While in these pueblos villages OF
the Zun!s Coronado learned that twenty
five leages still further to the north there
lay seven other fiourishing cities-the pueb-
los of Tusayan some of which were lately
excavated by DR.. J. w. Fewkes, also OF the
bureau of ethnology. Coronado. after re-
turning to Mexico. sent to each of the four
teen cities Catholic friars. to convert these
pueblo people to Christianity. Such of these
pueblos as are in ruins will become national
monuments along with the cliff houses and
cavate dwellings,. but those still occupied
by the Zuni and Tusayan Indians are to re-
main as they are under the Indian Office.
The famous Casa Grande ruin. In the
Lower ella valley, Arizona, has for severel
years been under the care of the govern
ment, which has temporarily repaired the
massive walls. The earliest definite infor-
nation covering Casa Grande from
cient Franciscan friar who came thither
from Mexico nearly four centuries ago. and
said mass within its walls when they were
practically in the same condition as today.
Some Natural Wonders.
The great natural curfosities OF this rich
southwestern region also to be thus
protected by the government. Foremost
among these is the great petrifed forest Of
Arizona, whose $4,000 acres are filled with
agatized trees, some of them $50 feet in
length and whose polished surfaces reflect
all the colors of the rainbow. The House
has passed four successive bills setting
aside this area national park but the
Senate for some uneXplainable reason has
never seen fit to approve the measure
Other natural wonders that VIII probably
be recommended for protection are the great
sandstone pillar near Fort Defiance, Artz.,
which has been gradually shaped by ero-
sion: also the wonderful natural bridges
lately discovered in Utah. The Augusta
bridge, one OF these engineering feats Of
Mother Nature, is so long and so high above
the valley which 1t spans that the national
Capitol could tower up beneath II without
touching its under surface.
JOHN ELFRETII WATKINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
Poisonous Postage Stamps.

Does the British government desire to poi
son it's unsuspecting subjects by the mil
lion? This would clearly seem to be the
result of the issue of a yellow stamp color
ed with poisonous lead pigment as noted
in The Lancet Says this paper:
at is an obvious counsel of perfection to
advise the public to relinquish the very
common and dirty practice of Licking post
age stamps, and 1t cannot be denied that
such an Objectionable habit may have dam
gerous consequences. Hitherto however
we had not been able to obtain direct salts
factory evidence of the presence of chemical
posons in the postage stamp or in its COL
oring matter, the cases of poisoning which
are on record having been traced to bac-
terial rather than to chemical entities. This
week, however, on the occasion of sending
to the churches advance proofs of our spe-
cial hospital Sunday supplement in parcels
requiring a three-penny postage stamp, we
were struck with the brilliancy of the yell
low coloring used in this stamp, and we
were somewhat startled to find on analysis
that this coioring was due to a poisonous
salt. chromate of lead Chrome Yellow
Nor Is the amount negligible, as will appear
from the following figures obtained on a
quantitatiye analysis. Each three-penny
grain, and the quantity of chromate of lead
present was found to be 2.53 per cent On
this basis seventy stamps would contain
one grain of poisonous lead salt. Cases of
fatal POISONING Dy CnrOHidle Oh ledO are on
record which illustrate the powerful poison
Gus effects of this salt. AS little as one
fifth of a grain proved fatal to two children
who had sucked the coloring from some
pastry adorned with ornaments containing
chrorrlate of lead. The ornaments were imi-
tations of bees or perhaps wasps and each
contained about one-sixteenth of grain of
chromate of lead. According to an analysis.
therefore, of the three-penny postage stamp
a fatal dose fone-ffth of grain of chro-
mate of lead would be contained In four
teen stamps 1t may be pointed out also
that the three-penny postage stamp Is in
considerable use owing to the fact that it
represents the minimum fee for posting
through the parcels post"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14

to these classes during the regular term,
but now in the vacation schools they are
receiving more attention. In many Of these
summer play schools the children are
taught to make many useful articles-bas-
kets, mats, bowls. frames and the like all
OF which. under guidance, they are permit
ted to design themselves. Their eyes are
opened on every side to the beauty which is
around them. and as they. learn from ma
ture the principles of true art their taste is
cultivated and their characters refined A
certain writer ascribes to this common
school training the Improvement In our
manufactures, and another declares that
among the younger artists It's influence Is
being demonstrated. Certainly art is uni
versai, and has message for every one.
rather than merely the chosen few.
The institution Of print divisions by the
several public libraries is another powerful
FACTOR In the diffusion of art knowledge.
Printed pictures are most nearly allied to
printed books and must of necessity be Iegi-
bic Reproductive methods have brought
the great works of art to the untraveled as
well as multiplied their worth The spIen-
did work of the print division OF the LIZ
orary of Congress is too well known in this
city to need rehearsal, but many may not
be aware that the New York Public L.
brary has similar department, which is
being conducted along parallel lines. AT the
Lenox Library there is always some ex-
hibition, and usually one which is both
timely and interesting. At present II is q
collection of reproductions OF Meissonier's
works which is on view. Etehings made
by such men as Jacquemart- Country, Ra-
Jon. Bracquemond. Toussaint and Blanc.
together with wood engrayings and photo
graphs AS usual In these exhibitions, liter
ature ON the subject Is shown as well as
the prints; the aim OF the whole being ito
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
College Students as Thinkers.

From the North American Review
1t is important for college teachers to pro-
mote the pursuit on the part of their stu
dents of such subjects as in their Inherent
character demand thinking and also to pro-
mote ouch pursuit of these subjects as
does promote thinking Mathematics is a
subject which demands thinking. II IS
thinking; it Is nothing else. History may
be presented as a matter of acquisition; IL
also may be presented q matter OF
weighing evidence study OF cause and
effect Economics is a subject which spe-
cially offers opportunities for such study as
develops thinking. It's phenomena are COM
pick and the causes which prevail Elm its
field are often obscure. These studies and
similar ones offer a special advantage in
creating and nourishing the power Of think
ing.
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pleasing to the eye-and yet he was some
timing better than picture maker, for what
he painted he painted well. He was an ex-
celient technician, good draughtsman and
an Industrious worker. The Luxembourg
owns several of his best works and into al
most every public gallery and private coll
lection of note one or more have found
their way. The Corcoran Gallery Is fortu-
nate in the possession of an exceptionally
fine eNample-a portrait study of Brit
tany Widow" who carries to the altar of
st. Ann the virgin patroness of Brittany
sailors, taper to the memory of her nus
band. 1t is strong, vigorous painting,
more profound In its sentiment than the
majority of Breton's work. and with all
more broadly painted. La Fin du Travail,
owned by Senator Clark and recently ex-
hibited in the loan collection at the Cor
coran Gallery, is another notable example,
while with some of his other best-known
works in America may be mentioned the
Peasant Girl knitting and the Religious
Procession I'm Brittany" in the Metropoli-
tan Museum, New York; the Rainbow.
owned by Mr.. George w. Vanderbilt, and
the Potato Harvest" which Is to be found
In the Pennsylvania Academy Of the Fine
Arts at Philadelphia
1t is quite remarkable to note how much
art is being taught outside of art schools
and academies. Without any intention of
making artists" of the students the pub
lie schools, both in this city and elsewhere,
are including a certain amount of art in
struction In their regular courses. Casts
and photographs OF the best examples of
sculpture and painting are exhibited from
time to time. and by more direct methods
the pupils are trained to see and recognize
the works which are most worthy. Owing
to the greater Importance Of other every
day studies only very brief time Is given
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What Annoyed Him.

From the Cleveland Leader
.Tt makes me red hot!' murmured the
horseshoe. angrily.
What doesf' sang the anvil.
.sOh the air that bellows puts on"
sighed the shoe.
Then the hammer struck him savage
blow. and he didn't try to be funny any
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01
Change in Sentiment.

The struggle to GUST the saloons has
been long and arduOus and both sides
have put forth the best that was in
them to win the battle. But aside
from the result of the legal contest,
which has been favorable to the tenn
perance element among our citizens,
the end of the saloon business has
been for some time foreshadowed.
There has been gradual change OF
sentiment. Five years experience
shows that either from money point
of view or as a conserver of good or
der and moral elevation the saloons
were poor proposition. All over
the state the temperance sentiment is
rising and in Atlantic the opinion is
growing stronger that even If the pop
ulation should go far above 5000 a
so per cent petition for saloons would
fail.-Atlantic Messenger.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01

The revival meetings which have
been held for four weeks closed last
Saturday night. The meeting on Fri
day night was one of the best, a num-
Der of young men being converted.
While the number of converts was
not very large, the meetings have
been of great benefit to the churches
and communit The ministers,
Messrs. Wendell, COnybeare and
Grant, as well as the members have
worked together in the most perfect
harmony, which is not always an easy
thing to do because of the different
forms of worship, and the different
temperaments of the people. The
fact that the meetings continued for
so long a time without jar or friction
speaks we'll for both preachers and
people. And we take this occasion TO
say that we agree with many comments
we have heard that the sermons have
been of very high grade both in
matter and delivery. The ministers
have put in an entire mouth of hard
and exacting labor and it is hoped
the people will appreciate their work
at its true value.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01
"Comrade Griffith of Whatchee

"COmrade Griffith of Watcher is
not very accurate on members of Iowa
regiments, said J. w. B. Cole of Aud
ubon TO the interviewer, referring to
a recent letter that appeared in the
Register and Leader. There were
four companies raised for the Forty
eighth,-A, B, G, and D, with lieu
tenant colonel, adjutant and quarter
master, surgeon, etc. The Forty first
had three companies, A, B, and G,
with 294 men afterward transferred to
the Seventh cavalry. The Forty
fourth Iowa had S67 men. There were
four companies afterward transferred.
There were few men enlisted for the
Forty -secOnd and Forty third, but no
companies. Twenty-Five hundred men
enlisted from Iowa in other state regi-
ments. The adjutant generals re-
ports for Iowa for the civil war are to
be had. If COmrade Griffith cannot
find them elsewhere, | have them and
full set of the rebellion records"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01

Among the interviews in the Regist-
er and Leader, d few days ago, we
lind the following: 81 did not know
that the Audubon county primary had
been even discussed anywhere until
saw the plan proposed in New York
City, in your newspaper" remarked
David G.. Mott, formerly Of the Audi
bon Republican. "The New York
people are evidently copying after
Audubon county. We have been in
the habit of giving to each precinct in
huence in proportion To the republic
an vote at the preceding election, and
then compelling the successful candi-
date at the primaries to have a plur-
atty of the points thus assigned. 1t
secures to each precinct its share of
influence, whether the vote that is out
is large or small" In reply to the
question whether it might not happen
that candidate would have major
ity of the precinct votes and his OPP
ponent have a majority of the pOpu-
lar vote, ne said he supposed it might
but that it never had in the short trial
of the law in Audubon county.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01

This Office acknowledges receipt Of
a copy of the report to the governor
of the Iowa Commission to the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition The report
is gotten up in attractive book form
and is very complete. The state APP
propriated Sl45, 900 for representa-
ton at the St. Louis exposition, and
Iowa had one of the finest state build
ings on the grounds and its exhibits
were all that could be desired. Yet
after paying nearly $4,000 in getting
out the final report, the commission
has balance uneXpended of over
$1,000. The exposition is past and
gone, but the record of what was ac-
cOmplished, especially when set forth
in such an attractive manner, will be
preserved ami shown as an interest
ing souvenir.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01
See Webster for hay. Phone 80.
Fl. Webster shipped number of his
MinOrca chickens to North dakota,
last week.

Miss Lille Graves, the twelve-year
old daughter of MIR. and Mrs. J. A.
Graves of Douglas township has just
received her seventh yearly certificate
from the county superintendent for
perfect attendance at school. Begin
ming when she was five years old, she
has had a perfect record for eight
months of each year, meaning that
she has been neither absent nor tardy
in all that time. This is d record that
probably cannot be equalled in this
county, and indeed in very few if any
counties in the state. If any county
can do SO OrgO it one better, we would
be glad to hear from it.