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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09
EXTINCTION OF THE BUFFALO.

Within the memory of men who
are yet but little past middle age the
vast plains lying between the Missouri
river and the Rocky Mountains fairly
teemed with buffalo. Less than
twenty years ago the 'bone industry"
was fourishing in central and western
Nebraska, where prosperous cities
are now located. Huge stacks of
buffalo bones were piled along the
railroad tracks in the then new coun-
try, and were shipped by trainloads
to eastern mills to be ground into
fertilizer, while almost countless horns
were utilized in the button industry.
A statistician has recently submitted
figures to prove that fifty years ago
not less than $4,000, 900 head of buff
falo ranged the plains of Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and
the Dakotas. In less than half a
century the buffalo has all but disap-
peared, very few being reared in
captivity and few wild ones still
roaming the National Park under the
protection of the government. Re-
newed interest in the story of the
buffalo has been aroused by the fact
that H. T. Martin, of the Kansas
State University, has just succeeded,
through large patience and research,
in reconstructing the skeleton of
prehistoric buffalo. The bones were
found in Logan county, in 1895, and
shipped to the university, and Mr..
Martin at once set to work recon.
structing skeleton. He asserts tn
the buffalo lived 10000 years agoN
| A peculiar feature is that an arrow
head was imbedded in one shoulder
blade, and Mr.. Martin asserts that
this proves the existence of Indians
in Kansas 200 centuries ago. The
skeleton reveals buffalo considera-
bly, larger than those which roamed
the plains few years ago. 1t is
foot taller and nearly two feet longer,
and the horns have length of four
| feet.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

BE EXTRAORDINARY in your excel
lence if you like, but be ordinary IN
your display of it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

URcH1N. I bet if I wasn't here
the gentleman would kiss you.
Girl. You insolent boy 20
away this very minute.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

SOLITUDE is as needful to the i'm
agination as society is wholesome for
the character.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09
MORBIDNEss.

Thousands of people actually think
themselves to death every year by al
lowing their minds to dwell on NOR
bid subjects. The idea that one has
some incipient disease in ones sys-
TEN, the thought of financial ruin,
that one is getting on in life without
improving prospects-any OF these or
a thousand similar thoughts may car
nv a healthy man to premature
grave. A melancholy thought that
fixes itself upon ones mind needs as
much doctoring as physical disease.
It needs to be eradicated from the
mind or it will have just the same re-
suit as a neglected disease would
have. Every melancholy thought,
every morbid notion and every nag
ging worry should be resisted to the
utmost, and the patient should be
carefully protected by bright and
cheerful thoughts, of which there
ought to be bountiful store in every
ones possession. Bright compan-
ions are cheaper than drugs and plas.
tiers. The morbid condition of mind
produces morbid condition of body,
and if the disease does happen to be
in the system it receives every en-
couraeement to develop.-New Ha-
zen ReeiSte1.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

THE secret of being tiresome is in
telling everything.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09
HLisce1lanen11s.
EjeCtment Law Suits

One of the terms of the title guarantee policy
issued by the Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany Gf the title is found good Is this:
"The Company WILL at its own cost
and charge, and by its own counsel.
defend the Insured in all actions OF
ejectment or other proceedings
founded upon claim of title or in
cumbrance prior in date to this Policy
and not excepted herein; reserving,
however, the option of settling the
claim or paying the Policy in full"
How else or where else can purchaser of real
estate get protection like this How else or
where else, IL he is sued can he get his case de-
Tended without cost to him 2 And If loss oc-
c1fs. how else and where else can he be sure that
the loss will not be his loss?
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

MAMMA" queried little Willie,
"what is 'hush?' F"
"Why do you ask, dear :" said
his mother.
Because, explained the observ-
ing urchin, when I asked sister
what made her hair all mussed after
her beau was here this afternoon she
said, Hush, dear.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

"MARY has any one called while I
was out ~
eyes, ma'am Mr.. Biggs was
here"
"Mr. Biggs? I don't recall the
name"
''No, ma'am he called to see me,
ma'am."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

He IS GREAT who is what he is
from nature and who never reminds
us of others.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09
The examination of title made by the
TITLE GUARANTEE GUARANTEE COMPANY

is so complete and exhaustive that the p0ssibili
ty o. loss is reduced to a minimum; but it is the
unexpected that happens in title matters. as well
as in other matters, and If loss should occur 1t
would be the Com pany's loss, and not the loss of
the owner, ii he holds the title guarantee policy
of the Title Guarantee Company.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-09

W1FE-That new girl of ours is
caution.
Husbaud-What's she done now!
Wife-I told her to put the salad
oil on the table and she polished the
table top with it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
BEACON IS PICKING UP
The Interurban Is Bringing New
Era of Prosperity.

Business at Beacon is beginning TO
feel the impetus that has been given
by the coming OF the Interurban. 1t
is said that several new business en-
terprises are figuring upon suitable
locations in the town.
Tom Hartsnorn, however, takes
time by the forelock and has started
a restaurant place ia the east room
of the Price building. Tom will have
a sort of lunch counter, together
with tobacco and cigar stand. He
will serve soft drinks, and will have
sandwiches, pie, cake and such other
light lunch and refreshments as the
public may desire, In the meantime
he will have an admirable place for
an Interurbal waiting room.
John Price is contemplating consid-
cradle improvement to his drug store
He will do some little repairing dur.
ing the season and will install some
new wall cases and new shelving for
the better accommodation of his
goods.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
IS IN BUSINESS AGAIN
c. R. Lee Becomes Manager of
Pfeifer Dry Goods House.

A business change in the manage
ment of the Pfeifer Dry Goods Com
pany is announced today. Mr.. c. R.
Lee, formerly manager of the store
of the Oskaloosa Dry Goods company
on High avenue east, enters the man.
agement of the Pfeifer store, assist.
ing Henry Frankel in the direction of
the business of the big house.
Mr.. Lee is a man who las mad a
wide experience in the dry goods bus
mess. He'was very successful in his
direction of the business of the Oska-
loosa Dry Goods Company, and made
many friends while at lie head of
that property. His many friends will
be pleased to learn of his decision to
remain citizen of Oskaloosa, and OF
his return to the business activities
of the city.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21

to the clothing and food which they
could afford during the hard times
they would find that the cost of living
would be very little If any higher
now than then and that their savings
would mount up more rapidly.
But the rule Of life is easy comes
easy goes" and 1t is only with the
utmost frugality Of spirit and careful
business management that the wage
Garner to-day is able to keep from
allowing his good fortune to run
away with him.
With the present indulgence in ex-
ira living, because of the financial
ability to do so, increasing the cost
of living, it is not fair to lay the
blame to the policy that has created
the larger income. 1t is well in this
connection to consider the conditions
that confront the wage Garner in
other countries. The Kansas City
Star has obtained from reliable
source of list Of the wages of
twelve classes Of laborers, mechanics
and artisans in Germany, England
and the United States. The compar-
ison shows that the wage here is
more than double in the other coun-
tries named, while prices in Germany
are as follows: Beefsteak, &c cents a
pound; porksteak, 20 cents; bacon, 81
cents; ham, 20 cents; butter, 20
cents; coffee, 2S@4S cents; eggs. 20
cents dozen; potatoes, "a cents a
bushel; -four, SO per barrel. Little
comment in this case appears to be
necessary.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
OUR MARKET PLACE.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: oskaloosa
is to have a market place. The
council mas set aside a suitable sum
for this purpose and has authorized
the market committee to proceed
with the work. Strange how people
in the course of time get back to the
wisdom of their fathers. Almost ev-
cry older city in the Mississippi val.
ley had her market place and many of
her citizens were wont to gather in
the market place to lay in the days
supplies and to exchange greetings
and gossip. And then the younger
generation came to the conclusion
that the market place is an old-fash.
Toned institution, that has gone out of
date and outlived its usefulness, ana
It was done away with. AID of late
the people have again come to the
conclusion that the despised ways of
the fathers had after all very much
to commend them, and the market
place Is again coming into favor.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21

ana other points within 100 miles or
SO of the coal mines. The coal oper.
ators have conceived the idea of
misunderstanding electricity at the mines
where fuel is cheap and then market
ing it to all the country for miles
around. A big power plant is being
erected at HARDWOOD, ald lines of wire
will reach from the mines to heading,
Allentown, Sunbury. Mauch Chunk,
Pottsville, Shamokin, bloomsbury
and all the towns and hamlets where
electricity can be used. The idea of
the coal operators is that they can
manufacture and develop electricity
at such trifing cost that they can
undersell anyone else in the market
The men in the enterprise propose to
utilize the vast banks of culm and
rice coal that have accumulated DUR
ing the last century for producing
steam with which to run the electrical
works. There are millions of tons of
coal in the anthracite region that it
does not pay to ship to market. Ii
is the size known as rice" which is
so small that there is hardly any sale
for it. 1t is used principally at pres
ent at the boiler plants of the coal
companies. 1t contains from thirty
five to forty per cent slate, but makes
desirable fuel for large pants where
no cost of transportation is involved
1t is stated that it is the intention of
the projectors of this electrical
scheme to transmit their product to
Philadelphia and New York and dis
pose of it to companies in those cit.
les for power, heat and light. Their
first plan will be to invite manufac.
turers to locate in the coal regions
where they can get power at prices
SO far below what is paid in the Big
cities as to make it an object for
them to try that experiment.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
OUR FOREST RESERVES.

Congressman Lacey has been ole
of the most energetic and tireless
workers in securing the legislation
that has established and maintained
the forest reserves of the United
States. Clifford Pinchot, in charge of
the forestry bureau of the Agricultur-
al Department, estimates that the
forest reserves which already contain
127,000,000 acres, or about 100000
square miles, are worth $1,400000, 0UU,
and that the standing timber upon
them is worth $700,000,000. These
reserves have an area equivalent to
that of New England, New Yol.., Del
aware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland. Virginia and the District
of Columbia combined. He expects
not only to make the forest service
self-supporting, but to make an annual
income of $6,OOO,000 a year for the
pubnc treasury by selling the dead
and down timber and cutting out that
which is ripe and should be removed.
This money, after paying the expense
of maintenance, it is proposed to d.
vide between the federal treasury and
the states in which the forest reserves
are located In 1905 the revenue from
timber sold, the permits for grazing
and other sources amounted to $751;
600; in 1906 it was $763,533, and in
1907 it will probably amount to some
thing over a million dollars. Nor are
these the only possible sources of rev.
enue to the government from the for
est reserves. 1t is proposed to sell
the water power to manufacturing in
dustries at the rate of rs cents per
horse power per year, and that should
bring an additional income of several
million dollars.
1t is expected that the forest reserve
bureau of the Agricultural Department
will become self-sustaining by the
year 1911. Last year more than a
million dollars were appropriated for
it's support, and this year about $780,
900, reduction of 100000. The re-
yquirements will decrease more rapidly
in the future, as soon as the bureau
completes its organization and builds
system of roads, trails and bridges
by which the interior of the forests
may be reached. At present it is i'm
possible to get at much of the dead
and down timber, and enormous losses
from fire and wastage take place for
that reason every year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
FOUND DEAD AT HOME
Tom Buckler, of Beacon, Succumbs
While Alone.

Tom Buckler, about sixty years of
age, was found dead in mis- home in
Beacon about noon today. Coroner
Chas. Foehlinger was summoned and
an investigation is in progress this at
terloon.
Buckler was an old bachelor who
lived alone in the Chiffon estate"
house, about a block north of the
postoffice. The man was missed from
his usual haunts about town this
morning, and friends began to sus-
pect something wrong. The house
was closed and secured, no fire mad
been built, and no response was given
to knocking from without, on door or
window. Postmaster Tom Morris
was consulted and advised the friends
to force entrance. VIII Patton bursted
in a door and ne in company with
Martin Mendenhall and Newton Mat
tison, followed by number of others,
went into the house. Bucner was
found lying on the floor of one o. me
rooms and the con lition of the body
shows that life HAD passed away sew
eral hours before. The man mad evil
IDENTIFY been i'll during the night ana,
leaving his bed to relieve himself,
had fallen dead. The cause might
have been of the heart, or apoplexy.
Buckler was well known man
about lie town of Beacon. He had
worked as weigh boss at Beacon a
number of years ago and was an EN-,
ploye of W. A. Mcneil during num-
Der of years at Evans. During the
past several years he mad lived at
Beacon in a quiet way. He had not
worked to any great extent, but had
moved about a circle of acquaintance
in a quiet, unobtrusive way, and the
old fellow was well thought of in the
community.
lie deceased has a brother, Will
liam Buckler, who is in oregon, ha-
brother, Abram Chiffon, of De5
Moi es, and three half sisters.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
THE COST OF LIVING.

There has been much said of late
concerning the great increase in the
cost of living over the increase in
wages. Some people make this a
basis for an attack on the protective
tariff. They insist that the higher
cost of the necessities of life are
caused by the tariff duties.
But those who are advocates of
the protective tariff argue against
and such condition. They contend
that it is the protective tariff which
has given the country the great pros
perity that it now enjoys. This pros.
perity has enabled everyone to draw
good wages, where during periods of
hard times only a portion Of the peo-
pie in the country were receiving
anything like adequate financial in
come.
The whole country is now living
higher that it ever has in its history,
observes the Burlington Hawkeye.
Everybody, both capitalist and lab
orer, is INDUCING in greater Injuries
than ever. The wage Garner is eat
ing more meat and wearing better
clothing than he did twelve years
ago. he Is LdhluS more pleasure oul
of life, going on more vacations and
attending the theater, going on rail-
road journeys, and living nearer to
the line of individual comfort than
before. All of this costs money, and
consequently his expenses are very
much greater.
Ask man to name the particular
line of necessities Of life that cause
the increase in living and there will
be hesitation, and a vague declara-
ton that "all of them have advanced
in price," AS a matter of fact, how
ever, 1t will be found that the ad-
vance in the cost of living lies more
in the higher living INDUCED in by
the wage earners than In the greater
cost of the commodities. Were peo-
pie willing today to limit themselves
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21

--Des Moines advices say that the
insurance companies have begun a
campaign for the repeal of the Blanch.
ard law which prohibits insurance
companies to fix rates on insurance.
Pamphlets and circulars are being dis
tribued to members of the general as.
sembly in the hope of inducing them
to repeal the law. 1t is said that the
state officers will make a determined
fight against he repeal of the law if
any bill to that effect is introduced.
Since the supreme court held it to be
constitutional rates in Des Moinei
and elsewhere throughout the state
have been very considerably lowered.
Before the legislative commission,
which investigated the insurance
laws the past summer, witnesses ties.
titled that rates had been lowered as
much as fifty per cent and in some
instances more.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21

In the year 1905,according to Fed,
eral Commissioner Brown, this coun.
try spent $376,996,472 for education in
public and private schools. This sum
exceeds by more than $76,OO0,OOO the
total Of last years customs collec.
tons on imports. In the magnitude
of the expenditure is represented,
among other features of progress, a
growth from the 225 colleges and uni,
versities of 1860 to the 512 in 1905,
ami from 1882 college and university
students in the earlier year to 126,4O4
in the latter. THE last half cen,
tury," says the commissioner, has
been the remaking of our higher edu-
cation" 1t is good money we'll spent.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
THE CATHOLIC POPULATION.

The Catholic directory recently is
sued gives the Catholic population OF
the United States as 13,0S9,355 and
the total number of clergymen as 49,
093. ...
There were 1874 new Catholic
churches established last year, max
ing the total 12,14S. There are &c.
clesiastical seminaries, with sc stu
dents; 1854 parochial schools with an
aggregate attendance of 1,O96,S42, and
255 orphan asylums, with 10,5SS in
mates. There are 1,266,175 children
being educated in Catholic institu.
tions. TIE archdiocese of New
York and Chicago are each rated at
100000. Brooklyn and Queens. how
ever, form a separate diocese. Bos-
ton is third, with $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
X. OF p. AT FREMONT.
Hon. Carl F. kuehnIe Will Dedicate
the New Hall.

Fremont Gazette: Hon. Carl F..
Kuehnle, law and banking partner of
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw, has been secured by the com
mittee to make the principal address
at the formal opening of the beauti-
full new Pythian hall next Tuesday
evening, Mr. Kuehnle is one of the
Supreme Representatives of the grand
lodge of Iowa, and brilliant thinker
and eloquent talker. Everyone will
want to hear him, as his wit is noted
from one end of the Domain to the
other. Hon. ]. c. Williams, county
attorney of this county and mayor
of oskaloosa, will respond to the adj
dress of welcome and will say tnings
that will be relished by his listeners.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
MISSIONS IS THEME.
Christian Church People Are Absorb
ed In the Subject

The subject of missions is the alb.
sorbing theme of the mem.ers Oh the
Christian church at this time Again
ell, dfseoursed in the morning from
Isaiah 54:2: Enlarge the place OF
thy tent and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thy habitation; spare not,
lengthen thy cords and strengthen
thy states" He said in part: I'VE
think now in continents instead of
districts and townships. Christianity
has made 1t possible for the CONNER
cial world to plan in millions Of dol
lars instead of hundreds and tnous-
ands as il years past.
"The visions of commerce now in
clude the continents of the world.
Far-sighted men push ilto these OPP
portunities for enlarged wealth and
yaster Accommodations. The church
has commission from Christ, its liv-
ing head, for world conquest that
ought to inspire it to carry his mes
sage to every tribe of men in It's des-
erts, mountains or plains, or the isl.
ands of the sea. Princely sums are
now beginning to be given for mis-.
sions, but when the church awakens
to its real mission its gifts will be
multiplied many times over" He ex
planned the living link idea as being
the link which bound the church sup
porting its own missionary to the
foreign field.
Seventy-four Christian churches
now support as many missionaries on
the other side of the globe, In Rev.
Zendt's judgment the time has come
in the history of the Christian church
in Oskaloosa when 1t should support
at least one missionary in some land
where spiritual darkness reigns. 1ne
matter is nov under consideration by
the church.
Two persons united with the church
at the morning service and oae in the
evening. On Wednesday of this week
James T. Nichols, editor of the Chris.
tian Union, will lecture ON Bible
Lands" Mr.. Nichols mas been wide
awake traveller and will entertain and
instruct his hearers. The lecture Is
free.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
Some of the Burlington's extra

Some of the Burlington's extra
large new steel cars have made their
appearance along the main line load.
ed with coal. They are forty feet
long, of 100000 pounds capacity, and
are painted jet black. On one of
them a hobo had written some lines
not more than half bad, as follows:
"They built me for battle ship,
But l couldn't carry a gun,
So they turned me into a coal car
To carry hundred ton"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-21
LIST OF LETTERS.

Remaining uncalled for In the post
office at Oskaloosa, Iowa, for the
week ending February 9 1907.
Cent? Let.
Benson, Ii q Carver, ] w
Emmert, r G Ellis, A M
Farnsworth, Ed Hurst, O L
Hull, A R DR. Litchfield, A CG
Merrill, Stanley Martin, Fred
Putshall, Guy Sparks, L A
Smith, Lloyd Taylor, Earnest
Wilson, David
Marvel Still Furnace Co.
r. LaGleof List
Dyer, Mrs Day, MaryJ
Flint Herman Mrs Jones, Corelia
Morrison Geo Mrs Noe, Elmeda Mrs
Phillips, Matte Watson, Edith
Watson, J 81 Mrs Wilson, Agnes
Warren, Alice Mrs
Parties calling for letters from this
list win please call attention to adver-
tised list:of this date. The above let
tiers win be held twoiweeks from date
and then sent to the dead letter office.
CHAs. V. HoFFMANN, p. M.