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The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-09-09
BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES
Marriage Licenses.

Following is the list of marriage
licenses issued by the clerk since our
last report:
No. Name. Residence. Age.
Geo. w. Beaver, Beacon. ......24
ACT and # ,..
Nellie G. Smith, Oskaloosa. 10
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-09-09

Jas. H. Wake, Givin.
46S and
Avis White, Beacon. ...........1 10
The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-09-09

Arthur Wisecarve, Grinnell. ....25
469 and ut
May Lyons, Grinnell. -. rs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
RUSSIAN COUNTRY HOUSE.
Series of Buildings Around a Circle and
Connected by Galleries

The approach to great house in Russia
is not marked by any signs visible to the
unaccTstomed eye, for Russia is a bound
less land in every sense. For a mile or
more we had noticed that the bitches
were deep and clean, with properly built
culverts, the bridges over wayside
streams were of sound timbers, with up
rights truly perpendicular and guard
rails intact, and other telltale details.
when we came at length upon the ave
nue. leading to the home park, and soon
reached the house, passing by ii monu-
ment erected by the peasantry to the
memory of Alexander H., the Gar eman.
cipator.
Built in the days of the great Cathe-
rine, the ancient house is rather curious
than imposing. Properly speaking. it
consists of series of houses built around
n circle and connected one with another
by galleries, closed and open. The circle
of buildings is broken only by the en-
trance gates, which are fianked by two
tall obelisks, repeated at the outer end
of the avenue of approach Opposite the
entrance gates stands the principal
house, a two-storied building containing
the state reception rooms and chambers
of honor.
From this on either side right around
in circle to the obelisks run the living
houses, which are one-storied buildings,
the whole simple to baroness, without
architectural pretensions of any kind.
The carriage drive is a perfect circle.
and the whole space left in the center
and at the sides is occupied by flower
garden such as can only be seen in great
houses after many generations of culture.
Field cannon, captured a century ago in
battle from the Turks, flank several of
the house doors. The prevailing impress
sion is of unpretentious comfort and
peace abiding.
You breakfast in one room or closed
gallery or open terrace, lunch in anoth-
err. dine in third-always in the sun
or in the shade, away from the wind or
the driving rain or snow, moving
around the circle according to the hour
of the day or the weather conditions OF
the changing seasons, as the fancy OF
those concerned may suggest There is one
striking popularity inherent in this form
of house; with the exception of the state
rooms, in the principal building there is
not a rectangular room to be found. The
front and back walls of the other build
ings are true arcs of a circle, and Incl
dentally have provided opportunity for
the inventiveness of the masters of the
cabinet makers art in the days when
beauty and utility were welded for all
time.-London Evening Standard.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
The Cult of Cloves.

The principal source of the world s
Glove supply is Zanzibar and the neigh
boring Island of Pemba, East Africa.
The seeds are planted in long trenches
and kept we'll watered, and in the course
of forty days the shoots appear above
the ground. They are carefully watered
and looked after for two years when
they should be about feet high. Then
they are transplanted in rows about
80 feet apart and well watered until they
require ordinary care.
In five or six years they come into
bearing, when they are of the size of
ordinary pear trees and very shapely.
Then the young plantation is a pretty
sight The leaves of various shades of
green tinged with red serve to set off
the clusters of dull red Glove buds.
The limbs of the trees being very brit
tie a peculiar four-sided ladder is used
in gathering As fast as the buds are coll
lected they are spread in the sun until
they assume a brownish color when they
are put into the storehouse ready for
market. A 10-year-old plantation should
produce 20 pounds of cloves to the tree.
Trees of twenty years frequently pro-
duce upward of 100 pounds each
Besides the buds the stems are gath
cred and form an article of commerce
commanding one-fifth of the price of
cloves and having about the same per-
centage of strength. To this is due the
fact that ground cloves can be pur>
chased in the home market at a lower
price than whole cloyes.-Harper's
Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
RIGHT FLOWER TO WEAR.
Some Old Favorites Discarded-The
Fashionable Buttonhole.

Men are revolving against the puri-
tanical simplicity they have been COM
PEELED to assume. The buttonhole is
fashionable once more. But the button
hole of today must be small. and the
choice allowed in color and the variety
of flower is limited.
Mauve is the color. There is almost
craze for mauve. How it began nobody
seems to know. Taste in these things
is like love, no one can tell how it be-
gins. just now the flower lover is in
fatuated with mauve. Orchid houses
have been looted of every mauve speci-
men to supply buttonholes for men. One
might suppose that there are fortunes
waiting for those who could supply or
chids in sufficient quantities-mauve or
chids.
Men who have been true to other
loves for years are iilting the rosebud
and her pink and red checked sisters
and are falling in line under the spell
of mauva. Mauve-one sees il every
where. 1T we walk down Bond street
on sunny afternoon we can count the
buttonholes of other cOlors, the mauye
ones are not TO be outnumbered If
we look round the stalls at the theater
we see mauve, mauve, tonjours mauve.
MauVe suits any complexion. The mo-
torist returns to town, wind whipped.
He doffs his furs and dons the black
ling healthily, but ABOVE the polished
plateau of shirt front it looks too high
~ colored, 4 red flower seems to make
his visage positively flame, but the balm
of mauve so0theS the contrast into n
beautiful harmony.
OF course every one does not wear or.
chids. Such exotics may we'll be re-
served for evening dress For day wear
in frock or morning" coat Parma
violets lmauve ones, naturally are the
fashionable buttonhole. The few con-
sentative minded men who. regardless
of their compilations, still wear red
wear the darkest carnations they can
obtain. The few who still think that
white flowers are the only ones a man
should wear favor gardenias. But such
men are rare. Mauve Parma violets and
mauve orchids are the fashionable but
tonholes of today.
And for ladies'? The leading florists
detect a tendency in favor of Malmai-
sons. lilies of the valley and orchids
London Daily Mail.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Depends good deal on ones appe-
tite,' pointed out
Does it? Perhaps it does One won't
always be hungry, though"
It's not half bad with Worcester
sauce.'
Worcester sauce?" She was somewhat
puzzled. | don't know if anybody else
had said it / should have understood it.
oh! ! see" she said, with a slight
flush. Eyes, perhaps it's not bad then"
| didn't point out Tin any case, |
would not have taken the risk that YOU
can't keep kisses in bottle for use as
you want them. It's not until you start
analyzing an analogy that you find it
isn't one.
What's the idea?" She had paused
irresolutelv on the bank.
IL don't think I'll 90 ON the river
after all. ! want to think. You don't
mind, do your"
As matter of fact I've been think
ing myself it's too hot for rowing I'll
go along to the Palfry's and play ten
mis-, | think"
~Will you. Will anybody be there
To play tennis with, | mean"
There's one thing to be said for the
Palfry girls, however they don't pro-
TESS to play tennis.
IN drag Ronaldson up with me; he's
been a bit down the last day or so.''
DO you know''-she seemed struck
with a brilliant idea-'I think I'll come
and play tennis, too. I'm bound to get
into row as it is, so l might as we'll
BE hanged for wolf as lamb"
sheep, you mean. If | creep up and
get my shoes, will you-?"
III get hold of Ronaldson."
"Will you? Don't forget. Oh but
there'n be nobody for you to play with"
That's all right" l said eheerfully.
."Fll get some practice with the Palfry
girls. r. Harris Deans in the Sketch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
The Marathon Craze.

The department of water supply, gas.
and electricity, which has jurisdiction
over the Central park reservoir, in New
York has been bothered by the Mara
thon craze There is a fine, level path
ON top of the embankment that runs
around the lower reservoir. The course
is just a mile and a half long, and scores
of runners have discovered it, Among
them are many women. The policeman
at the reservoir noticed that the number
of women has greatly increased of late
Many of them wear divided skirts au1
running shoes. 1t often happens that an
automobile or carriage will stop nearby
and the women go TO the reservoir path,
accompanied by maid, Upon reaching
the path the woman will shed her cloak
and display a costume suited for running.
Once around the reservoir seems to be
enough for most of the women. but
few so over the course twice. Police
mcu have learned that some of the wom-
en- came from the Plaza, Savoy, or
NptbprIand hotels
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Meme Keeshoo, the young Esquimau
who was brought down from the Arctics
by Commander Peary on his return from
one of his numerous poleward ventures,
has reversed his determination to hasten
northward on account of failing health.
and will study civil engineering with a
view to polar research. He says the
pole can be found only by going as far
north as possible during one summer, and
remaining in camp on the ice for another
squirt during the following year. This
seems as easy as taking new holt"
ON an axe helve after a spell of rest
but the main problem is the food supply
TO winter over the resting explorers
Meme will have to get more head learn.
ing" than civil engineering before he will
become a resourceful Arctic explorer, al
though he comes from people who can
exist ON allowances that would make
Europeans shrink to condition of help
lessnesS.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

kind. Feeling uneasy in the afternoon
about how the bear was standing the
cold after his long ride across country,
Director Hornaday sent keeper to see
if he was shivering. The newest bear
lay on the snow putting and painting
from the heat. Three keepers were as
signed to fan him until nightfall, when
the air became bit cooler to him. The
newest arrival came from a spot in the
ice and snow $50 miles northwest of
Nome, Alaska, a section never before
known to yield anything except white
polar bears. The new zoo bear. how
ever. is black. with some of the attri-
butes of the ordinary brown bear of the
warmer parts of Alaska. He has not
yet been classified He was captured by
a hunting party, from whom the zoo
bought him in San Francisco.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
The Professor in Bad Form.

When the North German lloyd liner
Barbarossa reached her Hoboken dock
from Mediterranean ports she had as a
patient of her ships physicians John d.
Rockefeller's son-in-law. Prof Charles
\. Strong. who has the chair of psy-
ehOlogy at Columbia university.
The skin was torn from his nose AMI
on his right cheek was large lacera-
ton. He was suffering also from merry.
Gus shock. In one of the staterooms Of
the Barbarossa, locked and carefully
guarded, was Louis Leite. said to be a
rich merchant of Sac Paulo. Brazil.
He attacked Prof. Strong when in
fit of insanity Saturday morning. In
jurieS to the professors nose were caus-
ed by the Brazilian's finger nails. and
the oddly shaped laceratiou on the
cheek was caused by Leites teeth. In
his unreasoning rage he bit kicked and
tore at Prof. Strong. There was no
quarrel In fact, the men had not spok
en- to each other. The Brazilap's at
tack was simply an outburst of mania.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Chicago commission merchants are
said to be wondering why householders
do not purchase apples freely. The rea-
son will be found in the fact that cold
storage spectators have for years been
holding applies so high during the win
ter that consumers have cut them out
and turned to oranges and bananas. The
winter apple market has been ruined by
manipulators, and nothing but a cult
walton of rational methods will bring
back the average consumer to the apple
barrel. With taxes to pay and fuel TO
purchase the head of family cannot
be expected to look at apples that are
held at from sixty to seventy cents 4
peck
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

A report from ConsUl-General w.
Broderiek Dorsey in which he states
that Shanghai has become the greatest
receiving and distributing center in China
because of her favorable situation at the
mouth of the Yangtze river, shows in
analysis of the steamship traffic at the
busy port that American enterprise in
that line is not Insignificant. There are
eight steamship lines plying between
Shanghai and Pacific coast ports of the
United States--the Pacific Mail Steam,
ship company, operating six steamers
American owned; the Great Northern
Steamship Company, operating one
steamer, American owned; the Standard
Oil company, operating seven steamers,
American owned; the Robert Dollar com.
pany, operating two steamers, American
owned; the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, oper
ating six steamers, japanese owned the
Togo Kisen Kaisha, operating four
steamers, japanese owned; La Cham
pagnie DIES Chargeurs Reunis, operating
nine steamers, French owned; the Cana
dian Pacific Railway company, operating
six vessels, British owned. With little
help, the American merchant marine
could be more conspicuous in POETS where
it has for many years been almost UNI
noticeable
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The supreme court of the United
States has granted the governments pc
tition for permission to intervene in the
case of New York against New Jersey
for the protection of New York bay
from the discharge of the proposed
Passaic valley trunk sewer. This case
is important, as it recognizes the inter-
est of the government in the matter of
preserving navigable channels from
injury by vast quantities of sludge. The
people of the Passaic valley should pat
tern after New York city and endeavor
to get rid of their sewage in disposal
tanks, and thus preserve the waters of
both New York bay and the Passaic
river against pollution.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

After drop of the mercury to the
neighborhood of 10 degrees above zero,
Alabama fruit-raisers report that straw
berries and vegetables have suffered in
jury as far south as The northern part Of
Florida, but that the cold weather will
be of inestimable benefit to the peach
crop. This is the first time that the fruit
raisers of the south nave ignored an OPP
portunity for predicting that the peach
crop will be a failure.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Operators of wireless telegraphy in
New York city report that they are
troubled by perfect babel of voices
which interferes with communication.
This complaint is timely, as it indicates
that there must be unifying of systems
and other regulations before compul-
sorry use can establish conditions favor
able to the employment of wireless tele'
graphy for distress signaling at sea.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The imposition of fine for the offense
of leaving an elevator shaft unguarded
is a warning in the interest of safety
for firemen who are often compelled to
feel their way through buildings in the
performance of their duties. Elevator
shafts and hatchways should always be
guarded, for this reason, and also for
the protection of employees during the
DAYTIME
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The mobbing of a japanese student
at the University of California, at Berke-
ley, is a deporable incident which may
be ascribed to the general condition of
the public mind in California anent so
cial relationships with Orientals. 1t is
III strong contrast with the comradeship
that is extended japanese students in
the University of Wisconsin, where a
representative of the Island Empire is
prominent in field and track athletics.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The "class rush" at Valparaiso, Indi-
ana. which has left one student in a dy-
ing condition and several severely injured,
Offered from other events of that nature
only in the fury of the onset. The rush"
is only another name for genuine fight,
in many cases. as members of classes
seive the opportunity to get even" in
displays of brutality.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The claim of the captain of the whale
hack steamer City of Everett that he
could have towed the lost steamer Re-
public into shoal water and thus saved
her, had the captain of the Republic ac-
cepted his offer, may compiicate insur
ance settlements. A ship in distress
must accept reasonable propositions to
save her from total loss, or the under
writers will ask why not?" The Incl
dent is of interest because the City of
Everett is a lake Nhaleback which was
built in Lake Superior yard, and which
has 4 voyage around the Horn to her
credit
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
ToMoRRow'S LAND.

Beyond the sunset is Tomorrow's Land.
Whose shores lie cleaning with their gold
en- sand.
dream-and an awakenng-and we
Have sailed unthinking Ger an unknown
seal
What joys, what hopes, what fears, gu.
hearts demand,
Are waiting-waiting in Tomorrows Landi
Roscoe Gilmore Scott in Putnam's and
The Reader.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

In a report to the Department of Agri-
culture, the United States superintend-
ent of warehouses in New York city
states that recent tests Of he Danysz
virus or germs for the determination OF
rats in one of the warehouses have been
remarkably successful. The warehouse
in question is absolutely free from rats
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Nature Study.
Mt pat tn Bumblebee

You mustn't pat tn Bumblebee
When he is busy with tn rose
Cause II might sturb him Now,-one dav
He didn't like ii muchl l s'pose
He's dill ent,--if he is all black
An furry.-like my puSSie's back
CCept where he's yellowl When he purrs
Ills song is diff'enter than hers
An, oh, his scratch is dreffle hot
| put some mud right on tn spot
Marie Louise Tompkins In Harper's
Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

During the month of January the pub
lie debt of the United States has in
creased $1G.776,4S2, and now amounts
to $1,O14126,23 It's light burden
for a great nation; the significance is in
the fact that at the present time the
great nation, despite its greatness, is not
paying its way, but is letting its expen-
ditures exceed its receipts.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

DIR. Herman G. Norman, a young and
wealthy physician of Fort Wayne, In
diana, argued that the colon or large in
testine is not only unnecessary to health.
but serves as a breeding ground for
diseases, and is therefore harmful. He
desired to have an operation performed
upon himself for the elimination of this
portion of his viscera, but found some
difficulty in securing a surgeon to I'M
dertake the operation. Finally he sue
ceeded. his colon was removed last
Tuesday, and yesterday his life came to
a full stop. Medical learning is fine
thing, and a certain degree of latitude
in speculation has its uses; but ply
sicians who think that they can improve
upon nature are immensely conceited. 1t
would be well if always their revolu-
tionary operations could be confined to
themselves.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

But the inspector is still unable to say
whether the rats which were driven from
the warehouse in which the test was
made spread the disease that carried
them off among the rodents in adjacent
warehouses. AS the virus has cleaned
out one warehouse it evidently has power
enough to make its use worth while.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

The supreme court decision, in the
case of the Continental Wall Paper
Company, that a corporation organized
contrary to the Sherman antitrust law
cannot use the court to collect debts is
likely to cause a futtering in the dove
rpfag
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Morton i. Plant, a prominent New
York yachtsman, has placed an order
for sailing yacht of the fifteen meter
class, and has engaged Charles Barr as
her master This has caused American
yachtsmen to sit up and take fresh in
terest in possible events for the ap,
preaching season. With Barr in Brit
ish cutter of the latest Fife design there
will be opportunity to get IL line" on
the progress of yacht designing on the
other side of the Atlantic especially if
the new craft races with an American
yacht of reputation as a flyer. The move
by Mr.. Plant may awaken interest
enough TO bring on another series of
races for the Americas cup, That is
what many yachtsmen on both sides or
the Atlantic are hoping for.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

And so milk is TO be 8 cents a quart
in Chicago after April LIST. Isn't that
enough to drive despairing folks to
j H.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
New York Zoo Has a New Bear.

The Bronx zoo, in New York has re-
ceiyed a new bear They put him in the
open air dens with the others of his
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Advertise in Your Home Paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-29
ON EARLY RAILROAD LINES
Passensers Tickets Were Practically
Waybiils-How They Were Filled
Out and Used.

The earliest railroad tickets DIFF.
fered entirely from those now in use.
The booking clerk was furnished with
q volume the pages of which were
divided down the center by perforat-
ed line, the outside half of each page
was again divided into slips about four
inches long by an inch and three-quar-
tiers in width, on each of which was
printed the name of the Issuing sta
ton; spaces were provided in which
the clerk had to write the destination,
passengers name, date Of issue and
the time the train was due to depart.
One of these slips. duly filed in, was
detached from the book and handed
over to each would-be passenger in ex-
change for his fare.
The traveller, having thus obtained
his ticket. was passed on to the guard
of the train by which he desired to
travel. This official was provided with
a kind Of waybin on which he entered
particulars Of all his passengers in
much the same way that a parcel is
served nowadays.
Incidentally, the similarity of treat
ment did not always end there, the
third class passengers had to travel in
an open carriage, frequently nothing
more than a goods truck attached to
a train which carried both passengers
and goods, more or less indiscrimin-
ately.-Railway Magazine.