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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Lo. There is something in his gait
that disdains creases and turned-up
bottoms. ,',
They all have wagons and teams.
The Other day the Outside: saw a
fine new wagon on the streets to
which was hitched pair of horses
covered with a fly blanket. A pros
porous looking farmer was climbing
in it. He turned and behold, it was
one of our red brethren, the nations
wards. Fifty years ago my ancestors
would not have face1 his with such
pleased surprise as filed my thoughts.
So much for the men of me tribe,
the women are a different PROPOSE
ton The squaw does not assimilate
the fashions of ner white sister so
readily. True, they wear dresses, and
judging from appearances, as many
petticoaCs as the typical Holland frau.
But they never omit the blanket, ton
ing it down once in while with a
big blanket shawl of vivid colors.
O1e or two dusKy maidens have, rain
CT DIclIl ldNt5y DuI llC
immortalized in that fine statue OF
Hiawatha in the Minneapolis library,
that Minnehaha is a dream, at least
she was not a Sioux, if her father di /
dwell in the land of tie DakosaS.
The most interesting thing about
the Indians is tae various incongrui,
ties of their civilized life. The other
day with some friends the Observer
| crossed the lake anG saw something
of them. We passed one nome which
was perhaps typical There was a
decent sized log house evidently un
flhabitated, wall tent and a tepee
around which played brood of dusky
children, and there was woman in
the background. A fine farm wagon
and team, yellow AID white dog
something ike George Harris, tor
buggy and hay rack completed the
visible outfit Foremost of all, perch
ed on that riding nay rake, was a cop
per-colored son Of the SOIL raking the
fragrant wild hay into the same lolg
windows that characterize every mod
ern field
In another place we saw squav
man making hay, but he did no. have
hay rake ald he and his boy used
the common garden tool. AS the
meadow was not mucn larger tnan the
O5kaloosa base ball park, the tasi
did not seem tremendous.
II is Just lately that the Indians
have begun TO make hay and bring
it in to sell, or indeed to do anything
else frugal and money-producing
There Is really small need. tor Ulclt
Sam distributes about 100000 among
these people annually. If they were
! anything bus the veriest babies abou
spending they would live well. Bu
they are not AS sooa as they ge
their money the majority Of then
spend II for whatever suits their fan
cy. and taey pay whatever price 4
! asked. II is told that not long since
one OF them purchased a fiae piano
] and 1t was taken out and set up il
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

81 u Il % =
tory at Keosauqua, S. Witherell, has
his home in that city and is somewhat
opposed to moving the factory here
on that account, and it is as yet UNI
decided as to what will be done. The
firm have had their principal office in
this city for some time and are now
located over the Lewis & Van Sickle
jewelry store on the south side of
the square. According to their pres
ent plans, Mr.. Row will have charge
of the offices here, Mr. Witherell will
continue to manage the factory and
Mr.. Jones win be on the road most
of the time and have charge of the
selling.
The factory as now being operated
at Keosauqua is employing ten men
and they are rushed to fill their or
ders. Mr.. Jones is now planning to
make an eastern trip and experiment
with the sale of their article in the
markets of the larger cities and If
successful, as they have been in the
western territory, the demand for the
daubers will no doubt recessitate a
great increase in the number of work
men employed by the firm. 1t is I'M
derstood'that the men have been look
ing for room on West First avenue
in which to locate, but no lease has
as yet been made. With the encour-
agement which the promoters have re-
Eceived from the Commercial club and
individual business men, Oskaloosa
stands good chance of securing the
location of the factory.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
Broke His Arm.

While performing the leap for life
in the feature act of their amateur
circus yesterday morning. Warner
White, ten year-old son of S. w.
White, fell to the ground and suffered
painful injury in breaking his arm.
He was standing on the top of the
lawn swing in tae yard at his home
on North Third street and was in the
act of jumping to catch the limb of a
tree near by when the swing gave
way and he lost his balance, falling
to the ground. The fracture was
quite painful for a short time, but the
bones were soon set and the lad is
now able TO be around, although it
viii require some time for the wound
to heal
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

his tepee. With an Indians idea OF
music. it seems to us that phono-
graph would be the proper purchase.
If we were still in Oskaloosa we could
pick OUT few that might be shipped
to them as a free will offerilg-by
the neighbors.
WHAT lot ABOUT the wards OF the
nation when the climate, the scenery
and even the progress of our town has
not been touched upon. That drive
across the lake was most interesting
event in many ways. We drove to
point fully ten miles distant from
town and fingered there until the
timepiece marked quarter of seye1,
four miles to the narrows and the
bridge and we made it. For you must
know the sun does not set here until
7:30 and there Ia a reasonable twi-
light after tnat-reasonable-it would
be long in Oskaloosa. Why, they say
here, that IN June they can see to
read out of doris at 10 p. m. The sun
was just beginning to sink when we
reached the bridge, which is a long
causeway Of granite boulders, sand
and gravel cutting the lake practical
ly in TWO at this point Its general
direction is northwest and southeast
and crossing to the north side we had
the sinking sun on our left. There
was not cloud in me ky and as the
sun sank behind the wide placid ex.
panse of water, first slowly and mys-
tically, then with sudden dip,
very name of colors dyed the west
ern waters with The hues of tne rain
bow, running inversely up to the very
sun itself, gold AID red predominant
ing. Then when for a moment we
could force our eyes away from tae
wealth of beauty, the lake to the east
lay in a violet and amethyst glassi-
ness that was a glorious foil. Be-
tween these seas of color We rode in q
silence broken only by the rattle OF
our carriage wheels over the rough
cobble Stone bridge or the plash oil
the rippleS on the sand, or the fut-
ter of the wing. of the innumerable
gulls which inhabit the shores OF the
northern lake.
WHAT was there to say IN this Ma
lures art gallery? Who could ade-
uuately describe this never to be for
gotten sunset? There were no words
but the commonplace, and that seem
ed Dissertation.
We drove slowly across the bridge
AMI thea awoke to the realization OF
the industries of man. Two great
steam shoyels were there digging out
a load for a gravel train which stood
waiting. A group of boarding cars
ornamelted the siding, and half
dozen colored shirt'-tne weeks wasn
-ornamented the cars. TIE men
were at supper or out of sight, and
we drove homeward with a mental
comparison between the beauties o.
Nature and the works of man.
The Outsider knows by experience
the free space and the time of the
Herald In future letter you snail
hear the legend OF the Devils Lake
or Mllnuwaukon, as me Indians nam
ed it in a more reverential spirit
than ours. The Busy Outsider.
Devils Lake, N. ID. ...
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
THE BUSY OUTSIDER.

Editor Herald: Now tina. Cnau-
tauqua is over, and circus day has
co ne and gone, and Yearly Meeting is
thing of the past, and another Old
Settlers anniversary mas been cele
brated, Oskaloosa can perhaps stop
to lake a breath A. such a time,
when the voice of the multitude is
hushed, and wnen the noise of the
fourteen street cars with their clang-
ing bells is still, perhaps the Outsi Ter
might be neard-if not with pleasure,
at least with tolerance.
For the Outsider has become a
very rank outsider, as the politicians
say, and has nothing any more in
common with beautiful Iowa save love
and lmemory-wnile life's activities
are cenLered in this broad wheat field
North Dakota. A great wheat fell il
certainly is, for from the outskirts OF
the town to the east, west and north
as far as eye can reach, stretch acres
| upon acres of the golden grain shin
ing in the sun, nodding in tne wild
| ing in the sun, 1oddiag in the wind
| Something unusual, the old resident:
say, in this wind, and IN some cases
it has done much damage by threshing
out the barley before the farmer hat
time to cut it.
| South of the town there are no
many wheat fields, but an open, fla
prairie of rather poor soil, which
stretches to the present lake, an,
twenty-five years ago was a part of it!
bed. A short prairie grass cover!
thf5 and there seems to be no attemp
to cultivate IL, save IN high places
which were once islands. On two o
these little elevations the Outside
saw what was supposed to be a feel,
of corn. Iowa, my Iowa!" How I
=. White, Frank Everett and /. n
Taylor would groan over such ;
growth Or rather, how they woult
go straight TO their barns, get on
their plows and pillow up such an ey'
sore. They say that sweet corr
grows here pleltifully and in gu
J daily | read a fairy story about tn,
Indians marketing it, but a diligen
search revealed only some aaciel
withered ears from Minnesota, he'll
az the fancy price of 25c per dozen
, or the reduced rale prize of zoe.
: Corn is not product of North Da
kota at present The farmer live
much easier than by raising tn
+ bumper" crops of yellow dent, etc
that Iowa newspapers will soon be
gin 10 talk about The North Dakot
farmer plows his la1d, puts in nj
small grain and goes OFF on visi
, TO his relations in ne east, while M
I ture tends the bountiful crop-wnic
Is just now maturing. He does nc
have 10 worry about mis- stock. eithe
; for whea the grain Is in, he mus
. send it on to be pasturej in some c
, the fenced up lands which will nc
, produce wheat.
/ said they went of to visit thei
relations bYt really most Of them g
down here to Cnautauqua. That al
nual event occurs here in July, al
as this is the only Chautauqua Al
sembly In the state. the atSenianc
Is large, three or four thousand ever
i day, while $4,000 greeted WilliaI
Jennings Bryan a year or so ago--tha
in a republican state too; think OF II
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
IOWA RAAKs ARE Q. K.

An annual report with -eferenee to
the outlook for business and banking
in the state o. Iowa has been com
piled by tne Commercial National
Bank Of Chicago. George E. Roberts,
formerly editor Of the Fort Dodge Mes
senger aE1 ex-lirector of the U. s.
mint. is the president of the Chicago
Institution.
Il is agreed, in the report, that the
farmers crops ia this state this year
win not be SO great as last year bu:
more money will be realized because
Of the increase in price of farm pro
ducts.
The report indicates that tle aver
age increase in bank deposits ovel
loans is much greater. iproportiCaate
~. than last year which is sure in
dication OF the prosperity of the PEG
pie Of the state.
Bankers, in Iowa. have been loaninp
money 10 the people in the moaey
centers of the east. The report iadi
Gates that, in spite OF this fact, Iowa
banks viii have a surplus left sufn
Client for the accommodation Of her
own people who may have 20 secure
short loans for the moving of the
crops.
More than ffty5seyen per cent OF
our correspondents" says the report
"are In need OF bank credit note eur.
rency" Much comment On both
sides Of The question Il submitted il
the report.
Iowa banks report that land values
in the state bave greatly Increased.
The sale Of farm lands in the yicinity
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
Fine Garden Truck.

Big Jim McBurney, Of Cedar, has
fine garden and potato patch and
some fine squashes and musk melons.
He says there is no place like old
Mahaska to raise things good to eat
and thinks 1t beats even Ohio. He
received a package Of the little vel
low squash seed through the mail from
Hon. John f. Lacey, and says they are
Just fine.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
rHRAsHER ACCIDENT.
Scalded Man Will Die As Result Of
His Wounds.

Pella, Ia, Sept 9.--Caught in the
machinery when thrashing outfit
broke through a small culvert near
Durham, Joseph Robuck was scalded
from the hips down and will die. Hen
ry Neal sustained badly broken ankle
through which red hot steam pipe
was driven. He will lose his foot.
The men were in a hurry and did
not stop to plank the culvert.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

The government lobster hatchery
claims to have arrested the exter
mination of that animal and insured
a future supply of at least 5O,000,00O
within few years. Uncle Sans sci.
e1tific bureaus believe in getting
down to practical results.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Of Holstein has been brisk. Farm
laborers are reported very scarce and
such labor is higher this year than It
was last
In the matter of foreign invest.
ments the people OF the state are re
ported to have i1yestei largely dur
ing the past year, in farm lands in
the northwest and the southwest.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

George AIDES statement that he
is making money faster than he can
spend it makes the Knoxville Express
wonder why ne doesn't buy an auto
mobile.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

1t is announced that three hun,
bred men and one hundred and fifty
teams win be put to work construct
ing an electric railway between Fl
Madison and Nauyoo.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

why should not Iowa suggest the
nomination OF Governor Cummins tor
President ?" asks the Davenport
Times.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Chautauqua grounds are on the
lake shore five. miles from town
There is a railroa' connecting it with
the town and during the busy season
and on Sundays a regular train Is
run down every hour. A. other times
the road is traversed by what we
Iowans call, politely, "a small gaso-
line motor car " but what tne natives
refer to as the "iinky.' Well, the
''dinky" is all right, what there is OF
it, and it takes you to the Chautau-
qua grounds without any great waste
of time.
There is large auditorium On The
grounds much like the Holiness taber'
nacle at Oskaloosa. There is a
building where provisions of all kinds
are sold in various booths. There
are two hotels, summer hotels, large
1ennis ground, base ball park, rus,
tic seats scattered here and there for
weary people, and a lovers lane
think what lforesights III took to pro
vide that necessity Tor the moonlight
perambulations of the moonstruck
How mucn better than drive ending
in a mud bath!
And there are a great many cot
tages on the grounds. Professiona
and business men in the town move
down there in the early summer AM
stay till the bitter blasts begin tt
blow" riding to and fro on the di1ky
One of our neighbors maintains {
furnished cottage there at all season!
of the year,a reajy-to-iive-in nome or
fine farm near the lake, besides
their dwelling mere. Then they spent
the winter in Cuba or California. Tina
is what comes to the pioneer in Nortt
Dakota VINO put his faith in wheat
One of the features of the Chau
tauQua here is said to be the Indian.
who come out in force for the ocea
sion and have a ring of tepees al
around the base ball park inside tn,
Enclosure. They give gnost dance
or war dance, or dog stew, o.
something entertaining, the Outside
torgets just what, but TO an Iowan i
would have the charm of novelty.
y y y
These Indians are the remnant o
Sioux tribe and their reservation i
/ just across the lake. The bloody
minded Sioux" tney used to be called
ana deserved the name, too, for 1t wa,
they who committed the Minnesota
outrage along in the early days o
the war. One of the medicine mel
Little Fish, who urged on tnat dee
of horror, is living at the reservation
now, or was year or SO ago Thu
old chief who headed Il mas not beel
long gathered to his fathers.
TIL average Indian about town her
Is tame looking individual. Tn
men wear the clothes OF the oriflar.
farmer and some OF them even go 81
far as TO patronize the tailors and al
ray themselves like unto the Yanke
dude It is an inartistic fact. now
ever, that peg topped pa1Is do no
become the average specimen Of Poo
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Some one has noticed that a man
who asks for justice usually expects a
favor.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
AROUND THE CIRCUIT.

Fremont Gazette: In mentioning the
campers at the Oskaloosa Chautauqua
last week we inadvertently omitted the
names of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Dawson
and two children, which brings the
total up to 49 from this township.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Old papers at this office. Used in
fall house-cleaning,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Des Moines Tribune: The Oskaloosa
Daily Herald was twenty years old
Sept. 3. 1t has seen its town grow
from 6,112 to $4,000, and has itself
been enlarged to three times its orig
inal size. The Herald is good paper,
and worthy the loyal support of its
fftv
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Cedar Rapids Gazette: This is Sep.
TENDER, the month in which Hon. Lis
ton McMillen let's loose upon the UNI
suspecting people of Iowa his formal
announcement in favor of the For.
aker presidential boom.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12

Keokuk Gate City: The Iowa mule
is coming Into competition with the
long-eared Missouri animal as a source
OF revenue. Fred Wayman of Abba
sold span to Oskaloosa parties the
other day for S475.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
. y .

Burlington Hawk-Eye: A strike in
the coal mines around Buxton, which
involved 1900 men, was adjusted by
the officials of the union, after the
men had been out two days The
terms of the adjustment are said to
have been entirely acceptable TO both
parties. Buxton has rarely contribut.
ed news of this kind. While the cor,
respondents have been furnishing plen,
ty of Buxton news, it was not about
labor troubles, but about troubles the
men got into and the women also oc.
casionally, when not at labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27
IN CENTRAL LOCALITIES.
Questions About Handling Property of
This Class.

The improvements of. property in the
central portion of the city is a problem
which American municipalities have been
called upon to solve in comparatively re-
cent years. 1t calls for higher order of
expensive improvements, such as the coun-
try had not known until a few years ago.
1t is the very heart Of the most valuable
holdings in any city. 1t is the creme de Ia
creme of real estate investments. The area
in comparison bears a very small proper
ton TO the remaining area of the city
which pays tribute to it, but this relation
is positive and vital and must exist or
central property would have no more value
than suburban property.
The question of improving the most
valuable real estate in the very heart Of
our American cities in way at once to
meet the requirements of the present and
anticipate the future 50 that those who in
herit the property Will not suffer the loss
of income from an injudicious or an unwise
investment or expenditures, is one which
requires thoughtful consideration on the
part of the ableSt talent in the real estate
and financial world.
Heirs who have inherited corner lots
from pioneer ancestry frequently find
themselves face to face with a radical
change in the territory adjoining their in
terests and a proposition from some syn
dictate to pay them an annual rental for
or three times the sum they have been re-
ceiving from the primitive structures which
cucumber their holdings A delicate ques-
tion is often raised among such heirs as
TO the advisabilty of accepting such a
proposition, or whether, if such property
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27

building are successful, It may De imagined
that the home buyers do not leave a stone
unturned spare themselves an effort
which will aid them in achieving the goal.
The fact that a man undertakes to make
his own home is guarantee that he is. in
one respect. good citizen. He does not
always do it with the single idea of saving
rent; he sees his chance to become a land
owner on easy monthly payments and he
steps in and takes 1t. His future brghtenS,
and new world opens up to him before
he has paid for his house. His industrious
habits have insured him his situation as
long as he continues so, and his frugal
manner Of living has taught him to econo-
mize even after he has reached the point
/ where he might relax a little. He soon
i, finds himself a taxpayer and he breathes
freer
"A word here to the falsely proud. There
are many families who are living at the
top of their income in localities where their
purses and circumstances will not right
fully permit These people have false
pride and imagine that unless they are in
the same atmosphere as those above them
financially they will be out of the swim.
IF these people would at once make up
their minds to give their monthly rents to
building association or to a builder and
secure a house in of the select and
cheap residence quarters there would be a
few more happier people in this city next
year. Homes are cheaper now than they
will be next month or, perhaps. tomorrow,
and the opportunities here at this time VIII
never present themselves again. No one
who Is able TO pay rent should have any
reason In after years to regret not having
done what he can do now. Sink that false
pride stop paying rent, practice economy
and the nobler traits of character and buy
a home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27
Pointed Paragraphs.

From the Chicago News.
Probably the most unnatural of mothe )
is the incubator.
Even the dignihed man would rather
bend little than go broke
Distant relatives seldom attend the
funeral of man who dies poor
1t is far easier to say you do Just as You
please than it is to do il.
When a bachelor f1atters girl she is apr
to mistake him for Cupid's advance agent.
A man never boasts that he doesn't know
the meaning of fear when his wife is pres
ent.
You will always get the hearty approval
of at least one person when you please
yourself.
1t isn't always a case of Snakes" when
a man sees things double Perhaps he's
not a bachelor.
It's an easy matter to induce the worl 4
to laugh with you; all you have to do is
laugh at yourself.
Happiness is merely the ability to realiz ,
that things seldom half as bad as il f.
possible for them to be.
married man never fully realizes VIII At
he Is up against until after he has met
every one of his wifes relations.
The man who thinks he is always rg!li
does more harm than the one who is WI
ing to admit that he Ia sometimes IN
wrong.