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The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15
SOME DEALS IN DIRT
Record in RectAt Real Estate Trans.
terS in County.

G. B. Row and wife to A. F. n
tIanlbletOn, lot Z, |. s. SO
NV lS-75-l5 ............... 1900. 90
&c. II. WcstmOreland and wife
to Minnie BemOWs, lot S,blk.
l, liiatt's ad Sharon. ...... 111O.OO
Lulu b. Steele and husband to
R. J. Oldham, pit. ne NV ne
2S-I4-l5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 400. 90
M. l.. Shoemake to l. r. Gate
wood, lot SIS Rose Hill.... 400 90
Henry Veldhuizen and wife to
Jacob Andringa, NV sw
36-77-17 ..........t....... 1900 90
Jas. R. Ryan, Decd, by Heirs,
to Gerrit Van Der Wal, Q.
c. D. NV sw 1S-77-16........ 375. 90
A. w. Sanders and wife to
Addison K Rhoda Hill, pit.
lot 4, blk. Z, 0. P. New
Sharon ................... 14OO 90
F. w Ouren and wife to Geo.
A. Morrow, Q. c. d. pit lot
9, Myers & Smiths ad Osk 1000. 90
Sarah E. McKim and husband
and Lucinda Nelson to An
drew II. Olson, pit. lot l, |.
s., e1a NV sw 20-75-15. ..... 1000 90
J. H. Harrison to Chas. b.
McCulloCh, int. in lots IA,
Is, 23, SO and 39,nw 1866,
and lot /, blk. C, Modified ad
Oskaloosa .............. =, 5000. 90
VIM. II. Roof and wife to Eu-
gene Austin, pit. sw 14-74-14 1000 90
Central Holiness Univ. to Jno.
w. Leedy, lot 2S, Univ. Park 400. 90
Eugene f. Austin and wife to
Guy Roof, pt sw I4-74-14.. 100
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15
CARROLL IS COMING.
Candidate For Governor Will Be In
Oskaloosa October al.

Hon. B. f. Carroll. the present eff
cient Auditor of State, and candidate
for Governor on the republican ticket,
will speak in Oskaloosa on Wednes-
day, Oct. q. The meeting will. be
held in the afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Court House. Every voter in Ma
haska county should hear Mr.. Carroll.
He Is a native Iowan and a resident
of the Sixth District. He has a mes
sage to deliver that will please all
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15

VIM. Clark who had been a guest
at the NJ. T. Keeran home, returned
to his home in Decatur county Sun
day.
DR.. and Mrs. r. +. Shahan visited
at the parental J. S, McCombs home
at Agency Sunday and Monday
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15
Material Arrives.

Several car loads of the steel frame
work on the construction material for
the new scales of the Burlington rail
way, to be installed in the local yards,
have arrived and have been unloaded
near the tracks south of First avenue.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15
BID Demand For Stoves.

OskaloOsa hardware dealers and
house furnishers are experiencing an
unusual demand for stoves this sea,
son. Seems like the old stoves all
wore out at. once or else there are
many new houses in the county to be
heated this winter.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15

appreciate the voluminou5 duties
which these officers perform. Their
most important in the county and their
transactions of the greatest interest
to the taxpayers. The present in
cumbents on the board have done all
in their power to promote the public
welfare alta minimum expense to the
county and the records Of the county's
expenditures during the past two years
are strong testimonial in favor of
the present officials. Figures can be
50 easily misreprpsented that it is
impracticuble to cite any particular
transaction, but the records of their
proceedings are public and 4 thorough
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15

Sauerkraut of the 1908 brew is on
tap and is of excellent quality.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-15

Corgress.-A. S. Kepford, State Lee
turer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
GOVERNMENT CHARGED WITH
OPENING PRIVATE LETTERS

REDLANDS, Nov 22.-[Editor Her
add: In an article in the New York
Evening Call by a well known news
paper writer, who has made a special
study of the case of the Mexican revo-
lutionists now in jail in your city, 1
read the following:
mot only is the constitutional guar
antee of security from such invasion
OF the home violated, but their mail
is opened at will by spies in American
postoffices. This has been going on for
months. Villarrears sisters in st. Louis
have not received a letter addressed
in their own names since last June, for
the reason that everything so addressed
is opened before ii reaches them. Eu-
stolia Parez, a young Mexican Liberal
in Los Angeles, has the same expert
ence.
Through friendly clerk in the Los
Angeles postoffice, where most of the
Mexicans receive their mail, it has been
learned that the Mexican consul for
Los Angeles, Antonio LoZario. is per-
mitted to go to the boxes and inspect
the mail at pleasure. Ample proof ex-
lists in the cities of Ell Paso, Tex, St.
Louis, Mo-, and Los Angeles to con-
vince anyone that the government of
Mexico and the postoft1ce department
of the United States have entered into
disgraceful compact"
If this is true it represents a position
the danger of which it is impossible
to exaggerate. If the government VEN
lures to interfere with the mail OF pri-
vate citizens, no matter under what
pretence, then are we at the absolute
mercy of the central power. and it will
be possible to suppress every unwel-
come opinion.
GEORGE H. BRISCOE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
SEES GENUINE DANGER IN
POWERS TO BE CONFERRED

PASADENA, Nov. 26.-IEditor Her
add: "A Lawyer" Nov. 2S issue. re-
minds writer of a certain Judge. All
lawyers want to be judges, though
only about one in a century really sue
ceeds to national judgment, such as
Bacon, Coke and Holt possessed. The
Judge above referred to was called
old necessity" Why? Because neces-
sity knows no law.
Lawyer asserts that, under Social
ism, there could be no despotism he
cause there would be direct legisla-
ton in lieu Of representative govern
ment, such as we have now. "Oh, 81 tn
cuisses" Is a majority the whole
people? Can problems of public policy
not be so thoroughly befogged and be-
fuddled that ordinary average minds,
when voting for one thing, really be-
lieve they vote for something entirely
different?
Look at constitutional amendments
and propositions for bond issues, at
the misleading and incorporating
arguments used on platform pulpits
and in the press. The incongruities
and absurdities involved in the above
assertion are too manifold. Therefore
must the above suffice.
Under Socialism the industrial ty-
rants would be shorn of their power"
VelA' Ihdl ) CleVer. true, the present
type Of captains of industry would not
exist. But the bureaucratic admins
traitors of all economic resources and
processes of production would, for the
very conduct of their simplest official
duties have to possess enormous pow
ers, enabling them to exercise a ty-
ranny more insidious baneful and
penetrating into the smallest details of
personal privacy than anything posi-
BILE under our present hellish system.
The greatest dangers in any theory
for the organization of society do not
inhere in the principles professed, or
purposes aimed at, but in the powers
which necessarily must be conferred to
carry out the theory or system. So
long as human character remains as
1t is such powers will always be
abused. AVIS.
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SAYS .EMoTIoNALlSM AND
FEAR CAN ACCOMPLISH LITTLE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. '25.-[Editor
Herald: Many people have been
pleased to note the attitude of the diff
ferent churches regarding the Emman-
uel movement. 1t looked like hopeful
sign-1ooked as if at last they realized
that practice was better than precept,
that so-called faith without works is
dead; that practical Christianity is the
only form that can appeal to hungry
bodies and hungry souls that have so
long been fed on husks. Yet in the
face of this sign is another that blasts
all our cherished hopes. We are told
that what is known as the Church fed
GRAFTON Is behind the Torrey movement.
Fire and birthstone, literal hell-fire for
all who refuse to swallow archaic
teachings. What an inhuman, un-
thinkable imagination to be Haunted in
the face of an intelligent, long-suffer-
ing public in this the twentieth CEN
fury. How different from the preach
ing OF Christ, the loving, humble, meek
and lowly, who drew all men unto him.
We are led to wonder what the Mas
ter would say regarding rantings in
his name Has the contributing MEM
bership fallen off to that extent that
the churches have to resort to such
desperate methods to scare people into
them? We hope we have been misiIi-
formed, but indications are not en-
couraging. Many of us raised and tu-
tored in orthodoxy know how few OF
those captured through excitement
emotion and fear do not soon turn, Ike
the SOW that was washed, to her wal
lowing in the mire. A system based
on fear cannot endure. Such spasmodic
attempt as that OF Bulgin, and now
Torrey, only shows the inability to cope
with the situation. Only that which
sweetly works by love and helps tn
poor and needy should find place
Los Angeles. T. ]. POLLARD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
NATIONAL PERIL

n NE divorce to every dozen mar
riages Is now the proportion In
" the United States. The census
bureau in its review of marriage and
divorce statistics for the period from
1887 to 1906 says the number of divorces
is increasing three times as fast pro-
portionately as the number of popula-
ton. The divorce rate for each 100000
of the population increased from TWEEN
ty-nine in 1870 to eighty-two In 1908.
Some OF the churches still call matri-
mony "holy," but nationally viewed its
sanctity is merely nominal. There Is
still enough superstition in the United
States to make the burglary OF church
buildings the rarest of crimes; but the
actual sanctities of life are disregarded.
Now, there may be those who say
marriage is not the states business.
But 1t is the states business. The gov
eminent has made monogamy the law
of the nation. No man may have more
than one wife, and no woman more
than one husband-at a time. To tell
the truth, the law which Is intended
to prevent polygamy can be broken
and Is being broken every day. This
is plain, blunt language on what may
be considered a delicate topic, but 1t
is time for plain language. The Ameri-
can home is in danger; and If the
American home is in danger, the Amer
lean nation is in danger. Therefore,
divorce is not merely a national evil,
but a national peril. How is it to be
dealt with? In the first place, the
offender in divorce for cause should
be punished as criminal, and the ac-
cessory should also be punished. Home
wrecking should be a states prison
matter. In the second place, marriage
should be safeguarded.
1t is easier to buy a marriage GER
tificate than it is to vote at elections
or become q naturalized citizen of the
United States. 1t is one Of the marked
characteristics of human nature that
unless qualified and modified by mem
tai training and what is called bal
ance it is apt to lose respect for any
thing that is easy" Make matri-
mony at least as difficult as joining
church, or passing an examination for
citizenship or voting. Protect the
American home.
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COSTLY ABSURDITY

w HAT would happen If the British
w empire suddenly resolved to be-
come the British Federation of
Republics? And 1t is certain that SOON
er or later the British empire will be-
come the British Federation of Re-
publics. What will be done with the
reigning monarch? How can the reign
ing family be shelved without apparent
injustice? Uncle Sam has not only
given the English-speaking world a
precedent and model In the fedora
ton of self-governing or home-ruled
states, but established a precedent for
the treatment of kings or queens after
they have been told to stand aside and
write Eek" before their titles. Our
Uncle owns several former -soveFsigns,
the most prominent and best known of
whom is Liliuokalani of Hawaii. Upon
the annexation of Hawaii the queen
was pensioned anG the crown lands
were seized by the United States gov
eminent. They are valued at S2O,000,00
WHAT USE is BEING MADE OF
THEM BY THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES AND TERRITORIES IS NOT
APPARENT. Presumably 1t would be
beneath the dignity Of our Republican
administration during times of great
poverty and distress in the United
States TO convert into cash some of its
valuable assets and use them for the
people. Since the United States, that
is to say, every man, woman and child
under the Stars and Stripes, owns in
community as a nation a huge fortune,
why should there ever at any time
have been deaths from starvation or
restitution In the United States? Why
should there have been suffering? Is
it not evident that the social and eco
nomic mismanagement OF the United
States is atrocious? 1t seems incred-
ible that in the history of any civilized
country we should read of a period of
stress and starvation, with millions
upon millions of dollars of government
money-that is to say, national money
lying idle! Common sense is aghast
at this fantastic and foolish freakish-
ness; this absurd and stupid and cow
ardly trucking to "conventionality."
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HERALp. SANTA & co.

~ ANITA CLAUS viii give a fine en-
~ tertainment to the boys and girls
! ~ of Los Angeles. AS the saint is
too busy to attend to all the prepara-
tions personally he has deputed the
task to The Herald; so the Santa Claus
Christmas festival at the Y. M. c. A.
building viii be under the auspices OF
this newspaper. Many of The Herald's
readers have shown an active interest
in the festival and have sent word to
Santa Claus they viii give financial aid
to the festival or will contribute sub
stantially. All gifts win be welcomed
by The Herald, which will make prompt
acknowledgment of them and publish
the names of all givers. Some of our
friends are so bashful they don't care
to have their names printed. In that
case they may assume any name or
title that may suit their whim or fancy.
or may use their initials. We think,
however, subscribers to the fund should
allow us to print their names, because
it is more interesting to read that Mr..
Smith OF Mr.. Brown is taking a part in
the work and has sent food or money or
presents for the Christmas tree than it
is to read of the generosity OF Pro
Bono Publico'' and all the other old
newspaper standbys. But we do not
wish to dictate terms to our generous
friends. We only make a suggestion
which we think will add interest both
to the preparations for the festival and
to the festival itself. We do not think
anyone should refrain from giving De-
cause he cannot give much. We know
Christmas demands are many, and it is
impossible for citizens who have not
Rockefeller purses to do more than a
small part of what they would like to
do for the well-being of others at the
Christmas season. We thank all friends
who have already contributed or an
nounced their intention of contributing.
We promise The Herald will render a
good account of it's stewardship to
Santa Claus and that the festival will |
be highly appreciated by the old saint
as well as by his young friends for
whose benefit it is planned. Let US all |
work together with a will, so that the
boys and girls of Los Angeles may long
remember with joy The Herald's |
Christmas festival.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
FIREARMS

TN Stockton a man who had been
terribly wounded a few nights ago
\ by the accidental discharge of a
shotgun he had taken to bed with
him, died. Cases Of death from gum
shot and similar wounds are becoming
more and more common in the United
States. The revolver is responsible for
many deaths. It is also a fact that
deaths from the effect OF quick poisons,
such as cyanide, are becoming more and
more common.
Accidental deaths from such causes
are deplorable, but what shall be said
as to suicides? Is it possible that the
United States cannot be at least as
successful as the United Kingdom in
making suicide by pistol or by poison
more and more uncommon? 1t Is easy
to lessen the number of deaths by vio-
ience, whether caused by others or
self-inhicted. Make it more difficult
to obtain possession of deadly weapons
and poisons, and the number of deaths
from these causes will soon be reduced.
People who own firearms seem to
become careless. Familiarity breeds
contempt" Perhaps it is not usual for
men to take shotguns to bed with
them, but we suspect many intelligent
citizens go to sleep with revolvers under
their pillows or on chair or table at
the bedside. Wherever there is a re-
volver or a quick poison, there is a
suggestion of sudden death. The un-
necessary mortality in the United
States would be decreased greatly II
citizens were not allowed to be influ-
enced by suicidal or murderous sugges-
tons caused by deadly weapons OF
poisons.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
SPIRITS

DY the Metropolitan Psychical So
ciety Spiritualism is being reduced
to a practicable and prosaic level.
With the assistance of the Society of
American Magicians a long distance
orange-counting test has been ar
ranged. We are told a committee of
the society has arranged preliminary
ordeal. Two members have placed
certain articles in an open tray. Me-
diums who have in their control Job
serving spirits" are requested to send
the secretary a list of the objects and
also to tell the place, where the tray
may be found. From this we gather
that in time near at hand no human
household will be complete without an
observing spirit" Again we see how
the world swings round in circles
Long ago in Scotland observing spirits
Gas well as another kind) formed part
Of the paraphernalia of every house,
hold.
They were named brownies" The
name, but not the habit of using the
spirits as domestic servants, was re-
vived recently by an American artist
who made out Of it what is called "a
good thing" financially. The world
win await with anxiety the result OF
the orange counting test. The only
disturbing thought in connection with
the transaction is that the observing
spirits" seem to correspond with the
kind called by our ancestors familiar
spirits" and in clden times anyone
caught with a familiar spirit in his OF
her employ was burned at the stake.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
PLEASING POSSIBILITIES

When the afternoon is tagging
on its slow way toward the dusk,
And with wllted spirits sageing
You feel useless as husk
And as dry. you get to thinking
You might find little cheer
In the slow and quiet drinking
OF a little nice cold lithia water.
When the golden sunsets faded
And dusk's turning into dark
Leaving you still awful faded
And away below the mark
Then a feeling OF suspicion
In you's likely to begin
You could better your condition
With some seltzsr. lines and ice
And when time comes for your resting
FROM the days toll on your couch,
You are certain you're not testing
When you say you think your Crouch
would relax its awful fetter,
That you'd not feel near so bum
And you'd sleep whole lot better
For a slug Of demon Rpolllnaris.
Punk
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
RAILROAD TYRANNY

III HAT the Southern Pacific Railroad
corporation makes a practice of
n holding up a country instead of
developing it was the verdict of mass
meeting of citizens of Stockton. called
to consider the freight rate gouge. A
committee was appointed to compile
data as to every line of industry affect
ed by the new schedule. South Cali
fornia is as vitality interested in
this matter as is any other part OF the
state. Every industry is bound to be
affected by the new schedule. 1t is
impossible for any department of COM
mercial life to escape. Californians are
to be taxed coming and going, by in
creases on out-freights and in-freights.
The immediate result will be to en-
nance the cost of living, and there will
be no increase of wages, revenues or
profits to offset this additional burden
ON the people. The extra expense will
be railroad expense. 1t will go toward
filing the pockets of the railroad mag
mates, who have the audacity to say
that because they experienced losses
during the Republican financial depres-
sion, hard working citizens who suf-
feIed proportionately far more than the
railroads must make up the deficiency
in the incomes of the overlords!
This is baronialism with vengeance.
When Front de Boeuf in the castle
suffered financial reverses, the Saxon
peasant was harried in order that the
deficit in the treasury might be made
Up. 1.-The old knights are dust. their
war swords rust" but feudalism lives:
and the most UNANIMOUSLY oppressive
the industry gouging, rate-raising rail-
roads.
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We hope the business men of this
community will take advantage of the
opportunity for aiding in the work of
good government which will be given
them by the three-day conference of
members of the legislature in Los An
geles next month. One day will be de-
voted to a consideration of the needs
Of Los Angeles. This is an excellent
idea. To programmed legislation OBJ
tanned in such a manner no one can
have the slightest objection.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

An important meeting of Los Angeles
Bar association will be held this week.
Several matters of interest will be dis
cussed, among them the advisability of
increasing the number of superior
court judges in Los Angeles county
The Bar association fills an important
part in the life of Los Angeles, as it is
to a great extent the expert adviser OF
the public on legal and judicial sub
1ects
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AT The THEATERs

AUDTTORIUM-N0 Performance.
ELASCO-'sBrOwn Of Harvard"
MAJESTIC-"The Land Of Nod"
BURBANK-''The Halfbreed."
MASONIC performance
GRAND-'erhe Idols Eye"
ORPHEUM-Vaudevil
Los ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PEOPLE's--'|The Flaming Arrow"
FTsHER'S-"An Unwelcome Guest. +"
E1IPIRE-Vaudeville
UNIQUE-"A Scotch HighbaIl."
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Must SILL 400 Pianos

Come in and select piano for Christ
mas. Pay a deposit and get receipt
for double the amount paid up to 500.
Wholesale prices.
BARTLETT MUSIC CO.-The big ex-
elusive plano house. Opposite City
Hall on Broadway.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
A treat for Her

''Adr. Hnggard caught me in the dark han
last evening and kissed me-" said Miss Pas
say with affected indignation.
"Oh" remarked Miss Peppery. Il wouldn't
blame him II 1 were you"~-
you wouldn't blame him"
IT say II were you."-Catholic Stand
ard and TtmeA
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

This is Temperance Sunday" The
gains in the progress of the movement
to check the drink evil win be dis
cussed in many pulpits. Local option
states are now far more numerous
than liquor states in this enlightened
ana progressive country.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

When Dick Croker took his first ride
in the New York subway his emotions
at thought of the pie he missed by re-
turning to the British isles must have
been almost overwhelming. But tits OF
no use to cry over split milk and butt
subways DiclSie, aroOn acushla ma
vourneen machree pardon our eff
Terminate Irish. We don't know any
masculine epithets Of endearmentl
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

1t is alleged Long Beach doctor has
by means of hypnotism controlled the
directors of a company in which he
is interested. This is an agreeable
change from the company promotion
story so often told in courts in which.
as rule, the directors are blamed with
hypnotizing the public.
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The ublic Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Her.
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
enfs, but assumes responsibility for their
views. Letters must not exceed 800 words.