The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-07-06


short time, he decided to write an
autobiography telling of his business
and political battles and of his war on
Privilege. That autobiography begins
in the July Hampton's Magazine.
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The July issue OF the Outing Maya.
zine is a most reliable guide to the
things worth while in outdoor life. DR..
Woods Hutchinson writes of the val,
ue of muscle in the human makeup.
Muscle Maketh Man" is the title.
For the fisherman there's "Harpoon.
ing the Tarpon,' Fishing with a
Gun" After the Rise" Catching the
Rainbow Trout"
In the July Amerisan Magazine
there is an article by Julian Leavitt
which ought to create a disturbance
in a good cause in at least five states.
1t is the story of how a great chair
manufacturing concern his been get.
ting it's goods manufactured in our
prisons at an average wage of g.
cents day for convict labor.
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In the July number of Popular Me-
chanics Magazine there are no less
than 277 articles describing the devel.
opments of month in science, me.
chanics and allied subjects. These
articles cover a wide range of activ.
ity and discuss matters of interest to
persons in every occupation.
The st. Nicholas League editors set
the great national holiday as the sub,
ject of the prose and verse contribu,
tions to the July number; and it is
triotic young members of the League
who chose the subject, The Best
Way to Celebrate the Fourth of July
are almost unanimously in favor of
the safe and sane Fourth"
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In the plant hunters head there is
also a weather map. He knows the
section of the United States where
long periods of drought would wither
quickly any form of introduced
vegetation whose life is moisture.
His is a work of selection, and it can
be said that in large part the judg-
ment of the plant finder has been
justified by results.-FrOm July Tech
nical World Magazine.
The July Woman's Home Compan-
ion contains the first OF a series OF
articles describing intimately the
girlhood of some OF our most famous
women singers. The, first article is
on Lillian Nordica. 70,
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Scrbner's Magazine for July con
tain5 paper by James Ford Rhodes,
the eminent historian, which reviews
with remarkable lucidity the almost
forgotten causes and effects of The
Railroad Riots of 1877" This was al
most an industrial revolution and the
strikers were finally. subdued by the
power of the National Government,
the militia having utterly failed.
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The divorce colony at Reno, New,
that is now attracting the nations at
tention, evokes a satire worth reading
in the July 10 Story Book, In The
Great KlankowerkZ," it's inventor had
a machine that would absorb all the
noises of San Francisco, but it unfOr-
tunately brought on the earthquake
also. Among The funny pieces are
the North Pole Bear Base Ball Club,
and the Artistic Temper ment"
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A base ball story of new sort,
concerned as it is with the Mother of
The League" a little old lady who
travels with the team, knits mittens
and talks base ball slang. is offered
by Hugh Fullerton, base ball expert,
in The Red Book Magazine for July.
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The chief feature of The Ladies'
World for July is a most interesting
paper on Thackeray, whose hun
dredth anniversary occurs during the
month. The writer is Clara E. Laugh
lin, and she has not given the usual
dry recitation of biographical facts,
but unusual incidents of the great
authors career, with enlightening
comments on some of his books.
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Harold McGrath's THE Carpet
From Bagdad!" Francico l. Madero,
Jr., leader of the Mexican Revolution
and, uni SIS all signs fail. the next
president of Mexico, in a signed state
ment on MeXicO'S relations with the
United States, etc. are set before the.
readers of the July Columbian.
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Political and economic conditions
are gradually growing better in Ire
land, and the island is becoming more
and more nearly able to support its
population. In fact, population con-
ditions of ireland are more encOurag-
ing than those of Scotland, which
shows a much smaller rate of in
crease than at any preceding census.
From American Review of Reviews
for July.
And now comes the vacation season,
when the out -ofdoors calls to us in
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