davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27

here Friday, settling the death loss of
the late Mayor c. L. Funk.
q F. K belong has moved from
rooms in the c. e. Robinson property
to a portion of Mrs. A: Caldwell's resi-
dence, on North Fourth street.
]. L. Jones, of near Pleasant Cor
ners, had the misfortune to fall Fri
day night and sustained the fracture
of the small bone of his left leg.
Miss Hazel Ogden, who was operat-
ed upon in the hospital at Ottumwa
two weeks ago for appendicitis, was
able to return home Thursday even
ing.
A telegram received Friday from
Rochester, Minnesota, stated that G.
W. Davis, who was operated upon, was
doing nicely, and it is thought that
he will now recover without further
trouble.
Mrs. Rachel Neat, of Oregon, ar
rived Saturday. night for a visit with
her sister, Mrs. M. ]. Mater. Ezra
Quarton and j. w. Hartsuck and fam
lilies, of Abba, also visited the Mater
families Sunday.
Miss Pleassie Boyd, who has been
training for a nurse in a hospital in
Chicago, arrived home Sunday morn
ing, and will accompany the Cowley
families to Los Angeles, California,
in few weeks to make her home and
enter a hospital there.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27

make no misleading statements, no deceptive
proposition, but guarantee Complete, Safe and
Permanent Cure. yIr}eI
DR.. Miser Cures Catarrh, Disease of the Eye, Ear,
Deafness, Nose, Throat, Heart, Stomach, Lungs,
Liver, Nerves. Kidney, Skin, Contagious Blood
Poison, Eczema, Disease of Women Sexual
Weakness. Cures Guaranteed.
DIR. mIsEh's OFFICE over Boyer Ciothing store,
Oskaloosa, Iowa
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27
EVANS.
Sept. %,

Little Leah Moulton is very sick.
Mrs, Seibert of Beacon was calling
among friends here Tuesday
Mrs. George Wilson of Bolton spent
Monday evening with Ben Wilson's.
Mrs. A. C. Noel and Grandma Fan
cher were in town shopping Tuesday.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27
HORSES AND MULES.
One Hundred and twenty-five Head
Are Shipped.

R. ]. Baker made several large
shipments Of horses this week Sun
day he sent three car loads Of horses
to New York City, and today he ship
ped two car loads Of horses and mules
to st. Louis. The total number OF
horses and mules shipped was 125
head.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27

Oskaloosa shippers sent several
hundred head of hogs to the markets
Monday and Tuesday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
LOADING BANANAS.

that are not essentially tropical. Or
anges, pineapples, grapes and bananas
might be made leading staples. OF
course one thing that formerly mill
tated against any extensive enterprise
was the lack Of transportation facili-
ties, a condition which Is being revolu-
tfonized, thanks chiefly to American
and English initiative. The opening Of
the trunk railroad traversing the back
bone of the island from east to west
has already been followed by good re-
suits from the industrial standpoint,
and If the scheme Of Sir William Van
Horne and his associates looking to
the upbuilding of a great system Of
small land holdings is carried to its
logical conclusion it will of itself tend
to inaugurate an era Of prosperity
hitherto unknown by the Cubans. The
building Of branch railroads Is pro-
ceeding apace, thus offering still great
er inducements to those who would
venture upon agricultural experiments.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
ANCIENT WATER VILLAGES.
Strange Relic of Old Customs Pre-
walls fA German Forest.

Strange Relic of Old Customs Pre-
walls fa German Forest.
"One of the most interesting regions
in the "Old Fatherland'' is the So
called "Spreewald," the forest Of the
Spree, situated not far from the Ger.
man capital, in the province Of Bran
denburg," says Fritz Morris in Tech
meal World Magazine. Each village
Is little Venice, every house a little
island; and these islets are connected
by bridges sufficiently raised to allow
boats to pass under them. Most of the
houses, with their barns and stables,
rest on piles; and there is generally a
strip Of artificial terra frma, either in
front or at the rear of every building.
the bridges, the slender land commune
cation Is kept throughout the district !;
but most of the business and amuse-
ment is carried on through the canals,
which not only form the main highways
but penetrate and cross and recross the
whole region. It is on these lagoons
that all traffic is conducted In boats,
during the period from spring, when tho
last yestiges Of frost and ice are disap-
pearing, until the end Of autumn. You
see the letter carrier shoot up and
down the canals, performing his duties
in his frail craft; the police glide
leisurely along the banks, watching ev-
erytning going on; peasants bring the
products of their toll to the nearest
towns; children go to and from school,
young mothers, dressed in their Sunday
clothes, are rowed to church, carrying
In their arms a small, queer-looking
bundle from which two large eyes in a
tiny face stare at the stranger in won,
.derment-- baby is going to be baptized,
an important event with this strongly
religious town"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
two or three times the present popu-
lation Of the United States.

The fact that 9,9S2 suicides were re-
ported In the United States last year,
a figure SURPRISING the total OF any
previous twelvemonth. is dark pic
ture, but there's a mildly bright side
to 1t. An expanding suicide rate is a
part Of the price paid for an advancing
civilization. Suicide follows civiliza-
ton as regularly as trade follows the
flag. And the reason is plain enough.
The more highly organized the social
order becomes the greater Is the num-
Der Of mans wants and desires and the
greater grows the likelihood that If
they are unsatisied he will prefer
death to continued life. Moreover, as
civilization moves forward the sense Of
dishonor, Of remorse and of .disappoint-
ment becomes keener-and these emo
tons frequently incite self-destruction.
Still further, high civilization promotes
delicacy Of nervous organization and
consequently exposes the Individual to
mental disorder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

num In very few years." Frightened
at the incredulity expressed on 1ne
faces of those who heard this wlia
prophecy, he hastily added, at least
eventually" Nine years later, In 1884,
only forty-four miles of road were III
operation. from which was received IN
that year the munifcent income OF S4s,-
1854 from passengers and S79,o4l.oo
for freight. The cost of operation ana
repairs was but sec, 945. The only other
great railways then were the Baltlmore
and Ohio and the road between MOSCOW
and st. Petersburg.
From that time on the road grew
slowly enough, like all the other new
roads. But, unlike them, 1T could not
combine with other local railroads.
Early construction in this country was
almost precisely like the development
of electric street railways during the
last decade. First were lot OF little
railroads between cities. Then came
connecting links, and finally an amalga-
nation of many roads into a trunk line
Of this procedure the New York Cen
trail is the best example. 1t was made
out of a chain Of ramshackle local
roads Of different gauges. The Erie It
self was forced to lease two roads con-
Meeting it with Jersey City, as It's pas
sengers disliked getting off at Pied
mont it's terminal, and coming down
the Hudson on a steamer to this city.
The ceremonies at the Fries compile
ton in 1851 were attended by President
Fillmore and four members of his cab
met, including his Secretary Of State,
Daniel Webster. Two palatial special
trains conducted the guests to Dun
kirk-with some difficulty, it is true,
as one engine, although a monster ca
pable Of pulling forty tons, gave out
early in the trip. But Elmira was
reached in ten hours, and on the second
day the remainder Of the forty-siX
miles was covered in seven hours. This
peaceful victory" said banner on the
special train from Newburg, lis more
glorious In It's triumph than Austerlitz
or Waterloo" Another declared that
this day wanting, the world had not
seen the extent Of human greatness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
COUSIN" GRAFT OF JAPs.
Secret Service System Among Yell
low Servants Amazing.

Secret Service System Among Yell
low Servants Amazing.
The hundreds Of japanese who are
doing their best to solve the servant
problem for the American cities, just
as they have solved it for the people
of the Pacific coast, form one Of the
most compact and dependable bureaus
Of general information that any city
has ever seen.
By virtue Of what is known as the
cousin system these Japanese house
boys, cooks and Wallets know absolute
~ everything that there is to be known
about the working conditions in houses
where not they, but other japanese,
who naturally might be expected to be
their rivals in business, are employed.
They know to the minute when any
other Japanese is to leave his position
and they know all about the habits Of
the household in which this Jap has
been employed.
Servants of no other nationality ever
kept such close tab on affairs. This
solicitude on their part to accumulate
all possible knowledge about every
thing is never known to their employ
ers until it becomes necessary for tho
Japanese own purposes to reveal the
same.
For instance, there is a broker who
for three years has had as general fac
totum in his bachelor establishment an
intelligent japanese. This little yellow
man has been getting 500 a month, ali
his employers old clothing, and other
perQuisites. The itch for culture at.
lacking the japanese, nothing would dc
but that he must go to the university
He would resign his place, he said, II
his employer would agree to engage in
his stead his cousin. The first cousin
proving unsatisfactory, exactly four.
teen more were submitted for inspec
ton. The fourteenth having proved
worse than the first, the original serv-
ant was steered from his higher
thought idea and lured back to pressing
clothes and setting bachelor table,
During the experience with the fl
teen the broker learned what everybody
on the Pacific coast has known for
years-that among the Japanese serv-
ants there exists an organized and won
derfully effective secret service, and
that the cousins, who are no more
cousins than they are deadly enemies,
are responsible for the dissemination
Of much knowledge about their en-
ployers. But they don't break their
trust either with him or themselves,
even If they are long on the distribu-
ton Of news that is useful to their
craft.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

ton gave to the recultivation Of the
leading staples has already had marked
effects, and then sugar and tobacco
plantations seem more like their old
selves than at any time since the close
Of the war 1t is stated, for example.
that $4,000 people find employment in
the tobacco fields. But from an econ
omic standpoint this does not mean SO
much as does the fact that an intelli-
gent effort is being made In the direc-
ton OF diversified farming, whereby the
island will not be so dependent upon
it's two principal products as has been
the case in the past.
Why such an effort was not made
during the long period of European
occupation it is somewhat difficult to
say. In the west end of the island are
to be found all the conditions requisite
to the successful cultivation on a large
scale of tropical fruits as we'll as fruits
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

In what James ]. Hill, the great rail-
road man, has had to say recently
about the future of this country there
Is an echo of Lord Macaulay's famous
omen. Mr. Hill asks, Where are the
immigrants rushing to our shores to
end up?" and answers, Not on the
land. We have no more to offer them.
They must crowd into the cities" Lord
Macaulay said that the real test of
American Institutions would come when
this country should be as densely pop
ulated as Europe. AS matter of fact,
Lord Macaulay had no reason and
James ]. Hill has hardly more reason
to indulge in pessimistie prophecies OF
the future Of this country. It is the
opinion of the best informed students
OF all the conditions of living here that
fhars is comfortable room for at least
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

They have solved the problem of lit
erary censorship in China by punish
ing the reader, as we'll as the writer,
Of an Objectionable book. The latter
Is rewarded for his efforts by 100 blows
with q heavy bamboo rod and Danish
ment for life, and, while the punish
ment of the reader is not so severe, it
T. sufficiently strong to act as deter
rent. The appetite for forbidden fruit
Is, apparently, under much better con-
troll in the land of the celestials than
1t is in this country, where everybody
In q literary law unto himself and
where the suggestion that a book Is
somewhat off color generally results In
its getting into the lists as one of the
seasons best sellers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
Generous Mar8.in.

The man who likes to look in shop
windows stopped at the sight Of large
pitcher in the center Of a collection of
andirons, pewter porringers, brass can
dlesticks and iron skillets.
The pitcher was adorned with head
and none too clear. At the side of this
treasure stood a placard bearing these
words:
Zone Of the fine genuine George
Washington pitchers, known to be 40
years Old"
Preparing for one Of his frequent
pleasures, the gentleman stepped into
the antique shop and accosted the deal
er.
Now see here" he said, agreeably,
that George Washington pitcher is da-
ted too far back. A hundred and forty
years ago people weren't making George
Washington pitchers. They didn't even
know then that he was going to be the
Father of his Country. You must be
more careful"
Il am the most particular man in this
business" said the old dealer, with dig
nifty. 1.-THE man that l bought that
pitcher from told me it had been In
his family since 1850. I thought he
might be exaggerating, and / made an
allowance of fifteen years. How much
more should you expect me to do?'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

Ola you ever Try TO reaIlze now many
Of your everyday actions, mental and
physical, are entirely involuntary and
determined by some previous impress
sion or habit? Do you know that in
the commonest things Of life we are
all slaves to habit-such abject slaves
as not even to suspect our slavery :?
Can you tell, for instance, whether you
habitually put on the right shoe or the
left shoe first? Can you tell on the
instant which Of the two you have
habitually taken off all your life?
Maybe it Is easier for you to realize
that you have been using only one side
of certain street Men and women
who walk to their business every day
for years fall into favorite routes that
they follow mechanically. The ordi-
nary housewife must have her sugar
bowl in a certain spot on a certain
shelf or her whole house seems out Of
order. The meal not ready at the regu-
lar time puts the entire family in Ill
temper. These are only a few Of the
innumerable little habits that make up
nine-tenths Of what we call living. Not
an impression, not an emotion, not an
opinion, not a resolution, not an action
Is possible to us that Is not Influenced,
colored and directed by fixed conditions
within ourselyes-habit of body or
mind. You cannot do, or say, or think,
CT feel anything without leaving a def
mite mark on the nervous organism
which more or less affects all sue
ceeding action or speech or thought
OF feeling. Nerve and muscle and
brain cell all grow to the modes in
which they have been exercised. If
you are not forming habits in one direc-
ton you are forming them in another j;
all your activities are making channels
in which your energy flows toward
good or evil. Depravity is not an in
heritance, but character formed by
persistent evil habits. Vices, at first
like cobwebs, become at last like
cables. Habit works either way with
equal force. A generous deed promotes
a succession Of generous deeds. Virtue
sweetens and becomes second nature.
Habits are not without their advant-
tages. Many a man has freely en-
ployed his mind in mapping out his
days work while his habit is putting
en- his shoes. There are disadvantages
as WELL Many man has hopefully
planned and nobly striven for high
success while his habits were drag
- III 4o Cot H. ~
try to avoid forming habits. 1t cannot
be done; and, anyway, mere negative
virtue Is poor stuff. Better fill your
life full Of good habits. They make
character, and character makes destiny.
Bad habits are chains holding us as
prisoners. Good habits are like a we'll
made harness, enabling us to do our
work in the world without friction or
waste Of energy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

The overgrown boy who now
Miller's lawn was unusually Slo
day. Ordinarily the task, stretc-
it's utmost limit, took exact
hours but on this occasion 1t re
almost four. When the job was
completed Tom requested pay 10
hours work at twenty cents an
"Brt," objected his employef'
usually NOW that lawn for forty
II l..aow it," returned Tom' "
his Gao, "but I'll have to cnals =
to-day. l was sick and couluD :
so fast"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
craft
Their Verdict.

It was the first case ever tried In
Stony Gulch and the jury had sat for
hours, arguing and disputing over it,
In tho bare little room at the rear Of
the court room. At last they struggled
back to their places, and the foreman,
tall mountaineer, voiced the general
opinion.
I'VE don't think he did ft,' he said
slowly, "for we allow he want there !;
but we think he would of eff he'd had
the chanst."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
"MIkE" SCORES CAKE"

Points OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tn
an Example OF EGotisI
Mike" the head baggage Is
at the Grand Central station, Il
scornfuIIy as he tackled run
an incoming train. The receipts
literally plastered with labels
ing that the owner had, pTesy
Travelled through many foreiga
There were labels from London
Berlin, Naples, Shanghai, any
Bangkok.
Another one of them fake
Mike" disgustedly.
What do you mean?" asked
apprentice.
What is labels for?' said /
by way of reply. Then he anSws
own question by adding "Ths
show the trainmen where the |
Is bound for, amt they? And
man goes from one city to anotl
baggagemen paste the proper Lay
the one that was there before.
wise, nobody could tell which 4
trunk was bound for. II tn
aboard should see a trunk or
labeled Vienna Paris or 'Lon'
at the same time, he'd have bral
trying to figure out where the
really was bound. They don't
brass check system over there
do here.
tits safe betting that the MI
owns this trunk is one OF tho
tistical asses who wants to SD
Perhaps he has made a trip 9
and while there he begged, borro
stole a lot Of labels and PasIe'
on his trunk to make people Del
has been in all those cities.
those who know he is simply al
ing the fact that he Is a chunp
first water" And Mike thT'
trunk on one side with more 1of'
was necessary.-New York Pres
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

It Is we'll known that q corpse is not
property, but what about an extracted
tooth? So far as we know the point
has not arisen in the courts Of this
country. At Gera, in Germany, how
evor, it has just been decided that the
tooth still belongs to the man after 1t
has left his jaw. The dentist contend
ed that tooth eyicted from occupancy
with the full consent Of its landlord
became owner1ess and derelict and as
the particular tooth In question was
curiously shaped he proposed to keep
1t. But the patient also wished to have
1t. And the patient won.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23

Argentinas exports Of wheat for the
calendar year 1905 exceed 113, 900
bushels, compared with about 93,OOO,-
900 bushels in 1904, which up to that
time exceeded all previous records. The
new crop is expected to prove much
larger than the last and exports for
the year may reach 100000 bushels
or so. Evidently that country Is I'M
dergoing a rapid development and may
very soon permanently supersede the
United States In the worlds grain
trade.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
EARLY DAYS OF THE ERIE.
What Beginnings of Railroads In
This Country Were Like.


The monument dedicated at Deposit
N. Y, Nov. 10, In commemoration of
the SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the begin
ming Of work on the Erie, marks an
important date in American railroad
ing, says the New York Evening Post.
Few, if any, roads have passed through
such vicissitudes as fell to the lot Of
the Erie from its very inception; none
has been more typical in its construc-
ton, and certainly none has been more
often or more ruthlessly plundered by
conscienceless financial managers. The
first passenger train with a locomotive
had been put In actual service in South
Carolina on Jan. Is, 1881. Two and
one half years later the New York and
Erie Company was organized, upon the
assurance that the desired road would
cost only 100000. As a hint of the
tawlessness to come, the organizers yio-
lated the act incorporating their COM
pany by beginning business with only
s per cent of It's capital subscribed, In
stead Of 10.
That James Gore King himself was a
visionary appears from the speech he
made as he dug up the first spadefuls
In the beautiful meadow" in which
the Inaugural ceremony took place.
That vale, he declared, would soon see
different spectacle track Of rails
with cars passing and repassing loaded
with merchandise and the produce OF
the country ''The freight" he contin-
ued, will amount TO 100000 per an
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
BOLT OF LIeH7N
welded n Broken Ron
Trainl0ad of De-.

Welded n Broken n.
TFainload of pasxa /.
When the S::23 limited
Wheatley, in this county \
1t was discovered, says MI
correspondent Of the St, m
Iress, that one of the yoa i
she last coach was brokon
ing been split off from Il
tnat there was a slightly n
the wheel, and, as it wac
broken wheel in pounding |
track had broken a rail. onl,
acle was the S;56 local saya
ing wrecked.
Three miles south of Ron41
tened wheel had broken oul
Oh ran ABOUT seven feet Ia,
1t OUT SO badly that it was
the spikes and lay across
where it was found five min,
the local was due by Willy.
boy of Il years, who lives
near by. The lad knew tia
soon would be along and he
ened. He put the piece of p,
and then started down the
ward the approaching train.
fast as he could. He ha(
twenty feet, however, when
a binding flash of lightni
dark cloud that covered III
he was struck down uncon
nearly bereft of life.
1t must have been ten !
fore he regained console
when he did 50 he saw the
ing toward him at great
staggered to his feet, the re
Of the broken rail still in
and waved his hands, but
did not stop, and, just as it
to crush him, he stepped fire.
and the train sped on.
But the engineer at the |
had seen the boy step out
gine's way, and, throwing 0
stopped the train after it h
eral hundred feet beyond t
the rail.
When the engineer jumpe
came running back to SCI
trouble was, young Schult
and showed him the place
rail had been broken; but
perfectly sound. The fas
ming that struck Schultz
the main portion of its #
track in the immediate Ice
the fracture was, and had
perfectly welded the brol
place at both ends. The tt
safe and solid as it was the
laid.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-23
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be acesnA
panied by the name of the author not necessarily foa
publication evidence of good faith on the par
of the writer Write only side Of the papsr ns
particularly careful in giving names and dates 10 nave
the letters and figures plain and distinct.