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The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
Due to Poisonous FORAGE.

DR.. J. l. Gibson, state veterinarian,
believes that the death of many
horses in southeastern Iowa is due to
poisoning and that in many cases pas
ture lands have been rendered unfit
for stock by reason of floods. He
thinks that the whole cause of the
peculiar disease will eventually be
found in the forage and that the cases
in Iowa are similar to those in west
,ern Kansas.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
CUTTERS ALL.

1t seems TO be the nature.
OF the tickle human race,
To cry, We've been cheated,
When we can't keep up the pace.
While everything goes swimmlngly'
This life is one glad song,
But what a lot of dubs We are,
When things start going wrong
Most any one can show smile,
When all the world seems bright,
It's never very hard to laugh
When things are going right.
It doesn't take much comedy
To make a fellow grin,
When circumstances indicate
That he is sure to win.
Most any one that's fortunate
In winning once or twice,
Can always give the losing side
A lot of good advice.
The victor with his spoils of war
Can heartily enthuse,
But hear him start to "hoiler"
When he's slated for the lose.
It's easy for a portly chap
Who never missed meal,
To tell a starving sufferer
How grateful he should feel.
And yet he makes an awful roar,
Because he has TO wait,
When someone says the dining car
Is thirty minutes late.
Most any one can stand and watch
A battle with delight
As long as he is certain
That his team will win the fight.
But watch him lose his nonchalance
To vail and gnash his teeth,
As soon as he discovers
That his dog is underneath. {.
Oh. give us back the good old days
When losers didn't yell;
The heroes of the past who had
Their boots on when they fell.
Alas, today, in every strife,
OF strategy or sword,
It's sure to cut a lot of ice.
Whose OK is being gored.
NAL Rose.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
pythiane To Build.

Interest will be taken in Pythian
circles over the state that Windsor
Lodge No. II of Hampton is to have
one OF the finest lodge homes in that
part OF Iowa, and at the same time
the citizens OF Hampton will be af-
forded opera house ACCOMMODATIONS,
which they have been denied for
some time The contract has been
let for : 100000 temple.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

I'm Christian county, Missouri,
Mrs Della Keitner is r1nning for Of
fee of county recorder. Mrs. Keitner
is the 1S-year-old widow of the late
recorder. who was appointed by Gov
ernor Hadley to fill out her husband
unexpired term. She is now making
a campaign to be elected herself for
n full form
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
.EDDYv|LLEETCH|NGS
MRS. w. HAWKINS, MRS. L. WEB.
Der AND MRS. L. lAFFERTY
ENTERTAIN FOR FRIENDS Wis
iTiNG IN THE CITY.

Eddyville, Sept. 17.-Mrs. VIM
Hawkins entertained at dinner on Sat,
urday MI. and Mrs. VIM. Burd and
two sons, of Charles City, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Chrisman and daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Noe and children
of near Dudley, and Mrs. Earl Wells
of Ottumwa.
| Mrs. Chas. Kussart and daughter
Mabel went to Knoxville Saturday for
a short visit with relatives.
Mrs w. Rapp and Mrs. G.. Garfield
of Ottumwa, Mrs. Frank Stevens OF
Knoxville and Lawrence Stevens OF
Des Moines are in Eddyville this week
at the bedside of their mother, Mrs
G. w. Stevens, who is seriously i'll.
Mrs. LYDIA Weber entertained at
dinner Saturday, Mrs. Fred Wilcox,
Mrs. Laura Elliot, Cornelia Goldbach
Lizzie Oldham and Ollie and Clara
Bolibaugh. -.
| Carl Foster of Guthrie Center join
ed his wife and children in Eddyville
Sunday for visit at the parental II,
G. True home.
Mr.. and Mrs. ReddiCk, who have
been spending the past month visit
ing Mrs Reddick's mother, Mrs. Lucy
Lafferty, left Monday morning for
their home at Rossville, Ga.
Mrs. Lucy Lafferty entertained a
number of relatives Sunday at the
Berry House Among the number
were II. G. True and son Marion, Mr.
add Mrs. G. Foster and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Reddick and John Lafferty.
Rev. VIM. Whitlock. of Kirkville,
was transactihg business in Eddyville
Saturday
holland Carroll and Miss Alta Gray
of Ottumwa, Mrs. NJ. Freeman of Des
Moines, are guests this week at the
Amos Gray home.
Mrs. Ben Pickens has returned to
her home in Colorado after visiting
relatives in the vicinity of Eddyville
and attending the Picken reunion.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hart
man, Saturday, Sept. 14fi 1912, son,
Mrs. Mary Barnett spent Sunday
visiting at the Geo. jaeger home in
Batavia.
Julius Kryne, 4who has been en-
ployed the past year in the Walker
& Co. store, returned to his home at
Richland Monday.
Miss Grace Grant went to Glad
brook Monday to remain indefinitely
having accepted a position at that
place. Gr'.- ....
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

-Grinnell Register: Grinnell is a
city of 5000 inhabitants and it does
not have decent place for a boy to
go in swimming on hot day. Yet We
claim to be civilized. (Say, brother,
that's hard on Oskaloosa. We have
10000 here and no swimming hole.)
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

William T. Haines, who headed
the republican ticket in Maine, is one
of the best known politicians OF the
state. He graduated from Maine
State College in 1875 and practiced
law in Oakland and later at Water
Vile. He was attorney general OF
Maine from 1896 to 1900
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

1t is said that an Eddyville boy
dreamed two nights. that he was TO
marry an Abba girl Believing in the
superstition that If one dreams the
same thing for three consecutive
nights it will come true, the follow
sat up all night the next night.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
Fair Not Up To Standard.

The Adams County Fair Associa.
ton closed its fair last Friday. There
We're fewer entries than at any pre-
vious year. Adams county has here
'tofore had the reputation of holding
"a most successful county fair, but
from some cause farmers did not
bring out their stock.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

OILED streets in Iowa towns when
there is no heavy haunng are proving
a success. At Charles City. Iowa, aft
er oiling part of one street, petitions
were presented to the council by prop
erty owners along six other streets
asking that they be oiled and the
council has granted all the requests.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

Sunday mail is mostly a habit"
says the Washington Democrat, land
if by doing away with it, the postal
employees gain day of rest so much
the better OF course, Sunday papers
will still be obtainable, as they come
by express, but if they were also cut
out, it would do no great amount of
harm"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

1t is alright to swat the fly, says
the Brighton Enterprise, but the fly
that hangs around the barn yard and
posters the cows at milking time is
a much greater nuisance
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

Mass meetings are frequent in
Germany to protest against the high
cost Of living. The politician on this
side of the water who has a sure
cure for the evil should be taken al
what his advice is really worth.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

needless expenditure and Mr.. Blattner
was informally instructed to desist
Offices will be properly lettered on
the doors of the interior of the build
ing, but there will be no more gold
signs placed in the windows.
Semi-monthly claims We're audited
and read and the council adjourned
to meet Friday evening.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

Alex Miller has noticed that half
the people are worrying about an
swers to their letters they never get
and the other half are worrying about
letters they have to write.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
We Enjoyed the Plums.

The Herald Is the recipient OF a
basket OF fine plums from |. N. Tay-
lor. The fruit is of the large red va
riety and Is certainly good. The
Herald wishes to extend its most sin.
lcere thanks 70 Mr.. Taylor for the
gift.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

The time to harvest seed corn for
next years planting is at hand. En-
perience has shown that it is best to
pick seed corn and hank it up the last
week in September or first few days
I'm October
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

The latest estimate OF the corn
crop is 1926, 100000 bushels, and 1t
will not be the fault of the September
thermometer if it is not thoroughly
rinened
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
each state for each year during that
periOd

The factories in Oskaloosa need
one hundred more men and women.
Does this SOUND like good reason
for putting an untried political party
i'm power?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

"A Canadian town has just erected
a monument to an apple tree. With
out knowing the facts, we would gyess
il was not a Ben Davis.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

Uncle Sam will, no doubt, fix Pa
mama tolls on a liberal basis, but he
will not overlook the fact that he
financed. built and owns the canal.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

The town of Bussey has citizen
by the name Of r. Z. Buss. The
enigma is not deeply hidden.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

1t will be noticed that the man
who can drink or leave it alone, sell
dom tries to prove it.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

1t is we'll to be thankful for some
things you do not have, as we'll as
those you have. Hay fever, for in
stance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

Eddyville, Sept E14.-Mrs. S. ]. Old
ham was a business caller in Douds-
'Leando Wednesday.
Mrs. Ida Roberts is in Oskaloosa
this week attending convention OF
the Christian church.
! The many friends 0s Mr. and Mrs.
H. Schafer are sorry TO learn of the
death of their three months Old baby
which occurr | at the Sander Smith
home Wednesday,. where Mrs. Schat-
err has been visiting. Mr.. and Mrs.
Schafer live in OttumWa, South Da-
kota. Mr.. Schafer Is expected to ar
rive in Eddyville Thursday.
The Fremont band which furnished
such excellent music for the Changers
picnic, gave band concert in the
park Wednesday evening.
Ed Shields was a business caller in
Des Moines Wednesday.
Rev. and Mrs. Koch, OF Lovilla,
were business calle"s inc Eddyvill
Thursday. Rev Koch will begin his
duties as pastor of the NJ. E. church
in Eddyville Sunday.
Mrs. Irene Noble and little daugh-
ter, OF Los Angeles, arrived in Eddy
vile Thursday for an extended visit
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Powell and
daughter went to Abba Thursday for
a short visit with relatives.
w. Donnegan returned Thursday
from an extended visit with relatives
in Nebraska and Colorado.
Rev. VIM. Whitlock and family
moved to Kirkville Friday where they
will make their home. Rev. White
lock becomes pastor of the NJ. f.
Church at that place. While the fam
lily have lived in Eddyville only ten
months they have made many friends
who regret to have them leave our
community.
Mrs. r. D. Hall left Friday for La
Piata, Mo, to attend family re-
union.
Mrs. Mary Bell is in Oskaloosa
this week attending convention of
the Christian church.
! VIM. Bird and family, of Charles
City, are visiting relates and friends
in Eddyville this week.
The Missionary Society of the Con
gregational church was entertained
on Thursday afternoon at the Chas.
Rolibaugh home east of Eddyville.
Mrs. Rolibaugh was assisted in en-
ltertaining by Mrs. Catherine Bihler,
Mrs. Chas. Tenant and Mrs. Grant
Bolibaugh. The subject of the pro-
gram was Women at Work" and was
in charge OF Mrs. LYDIA Weber A
very impressive memorial service for
Mrs. Anderson was given, Mrs. f. NJ.
Epperson acting as leader Fifty
were in attendance and spent a de-
ilightful afternoon.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

The poorer the preacher, the
longer his coat tails" according to
Alex Miller.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19

It's easier to down some men
than it is to keep them down
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-19
Don't Like Gold.

Objection was raised to the letter
ing of the windows OF the municipal
building, no matter II the reading
matter was done in gold leaf, A COM
mittee had been appointed to have
this work done. but the entire coun.
ell disapproyed the action, thought It
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13
CASTE-THE CURSE or INDIA
NBy RUBY ALICE DUNLAP

In most countries all traces of race
and class divisions disappear before
great disasters such as; shipwrecks,
famines, epidemics or earth quakes.
No one cares whether the distressed
persons are of his own nation or cir
Gle. This is not SO in India. In India
the ties of humanity have been crush
ed out of the systems of class and
rank. No man in India has anything
to do with another man who is not in
his caste, nor does man feel sorry
for another until he knows whether he
is of his own order or not.
If it becomes necessary to transact
business with man Of lower rank
the inferior man must throw the mon
will pick it up.
classes are inferior, while some are
unclean or untouchable.
Children born in an unclean caste
remain unclean and children born in
an inferior class remain as their par
ents were. Nothing that they can do
will change their position. They were
born unclean, their ancestors were
unclean, and their children will be
unclean. And what is it that makes
them unclean? The fact that they
work-nothing else.
To labor with their hands and be
of use is unclean. Hence all men that
labor are despised by those above
them.
| In India the son of a carpenter is a
carpenter; the son of a shoemaker is
a shoemaker; the son of barber is
a barber, and so on through all the
occupations.
A man might become the best shoe
maker in India, invent new ways of
making shoes, become a distinguished
scientiest, and men from other coun-
tries might come to see and to talk to
him and treat him with respect, but
! still in India he is shoemaker and is
unclean.
! If the housecleaner should sit on
the same bench with another man and
| find that the man was streetcleaner,
he must hasten to the temple to be
purified and he has lost caste and is
degraded.
In thousands of cases persons who
have lost their castes have committed
/ suicide or wandered along the roads
until death overlook them.
| A husband shares wifes degrade
| ton, wife goes down with her hus-
band.
For more than a hundred years a
Braham family of Santipin has been
ont caste because one member fell in
love with shoemaker
You may think that the British gov
ernment has nothing to do with all
this; that the British government has
no responsibility for caste in India.
Not for its origin but for the continu-
ed existence OF cast the British gov
ernment has every responsibility.
We are all glad that In our country
even the poorest have chance to
| rise
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13

1t saw the same crowd of children
marching to the cemetery On Neaor-
ial day with hags waving. II saw
many of Julesburg's pr0nineat peo-
pie coming to our school fair. vith
which they were we'll pleased. Thanks
giving il saw our mothers, county
superintendent and the wives of the
Board of Education coming to the
Boston Tea Party given by the class
of 1919.
One of the most beautiful things
they say in our room vas our coy
corner Ii contains cot with q pur-
pie and gold couch cover which has
pansies. our class flower. stenciled on
it. They saw our curtain. which also
ident. Gladys Johnson and our vice.
president. Ruth Dye. These curtains.
couch cover aud various other things
were sewed by US girls and with our
class needle which We prize very
much.
The town clock also saw the high
school choosing their colors. purple
and gold, which We consider a COM
pliment because our colors are purple
and gold
1t has seen US children going to and
from school for eight years. 1t now
sees the eighth grade Of the Julesburg
public schools marching to the high
school building to take part In the
closing exercises, where We will sing
our class song written by Mrs. Hend-
ricks, and receiving our diplomas
from Mrs. Babcock, our county super
intendent
1t has seen each of us grow until
now ten years have passed and we
find Carl Raymond mechanic. Ruth
Dye vocalist. Jessie McSparren a
governess, Maudie Barrett noted
suffragette, Ruby Dunlap Normal
teacher, Gladys Johnson stenograph-
er. Florence LundelI a house keeper,
Walter Phares senior from Colorado,
Helen Englehardt, noted boOkkeep-
er, Denver Wilson college Prof,
Cecil Dobell editor of the Ovid News,
and myself an old maid school teach
ef.
We are still bound by the purple
and gold, and are still being watched
by the old clock on the court house
tower.
Our class is going to have a reun-
ion at the home of Jessie Carlson and
our present teachers, Mr.. and Mrs
Tnger are coming from California to
be with us.
This will be the best scene the town
clock has beheld.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS WITH
THE WRIGHT AEKOPLANE
,KARL ENGELHARDT)

Supported by forty mile gale Or
vile Wright, the aviator. hung to a
motorless biplane over the crest of
Kill Devil HILL giant sand dune
some hundred odd feet above the
"banke" of the North Carolina.
The delcately made machine stayed
UP in the air for ten minutes; five
minutes as steady as though human
hand was holding it, two hundred feet
up in the air, while Loren Wright,
Ogilyic held watches which licked off
history-making minutes.
When Orville Wright finally drop
ped upon the meadow seven hundred
feet away as lightly as cotton, he
proved beyond all question that a man
may invade the bird realms in heav-
| ier-than-air machine, minus a motor
and stay there as long as the wind
blows sufficiently.
When Mr.. Wright was trying some
experiments with his machine, two ac-
cidents happened in which death
might have resulted had he not known
his machine.
When the machine was fifteen feet
up in the air it threw the Aviator for
ward and he fell to the ground. 81
could have hung to the stays but that
would have given me too much of a
shock" he said. as he picked himself
up. "Never try to stick to an aero
plane when it hits the ground or you
will be hurt
The second mishap happened from
inferior balance. When the machine
was twenty feet up in the air it turn
ed backward summersault and hit
the ground with crash. At the first
sign of trouble Mr.. Wright climbed
between the planes, turned over with
the machine and came down on his
feet. What Mr.. Wright was trying to
do was to make machine so per-
fectly balanced that it would tack in
10 the wind with its canvass planes as
Il ship tacks with sales.
Mr.. Wright does not hope that men
will master the bird sense, but he does
hope that they will be able to make a
machine heavier than air with which
they can soar around with the birds
i'll high winds.
Mr.. Wright cannot see why an ex-
perienced aviator cannot make ma
chine capable of flying ten hours or
indefinitely. He does not wish to
prophesy how soon this will be, but
he does admit that his experiments
are leading toward that.
Twenty-eight months previous he
could only go thirty feet above the
ground, and could only go twenty
eight miles an hour. and didn't dare
90 in high winds. On February 6, 1912.
he went 800 feet above the ground,
fifty mile an hour in a very strong
wind. With this same machine he
could skid on the ice or duck in the
water using the same rudder as in
the air.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13
THE WOMEN or THE REVOLUTION
(JESS NEWELL GILLETT)

The effects of the first resistance de-
pended largely upon the American
women.
The non-importation acts which En-
gland passed forbade the bringing in
Of many household goods and luNur-
les. If the women wanted them they
would be .smuggled into the country.
But the women said that they could
do without them.
They formed what would now be
called consumers league and they
pledged themselves to drink no tea
while the tax was on it. They said
they would do without anything that
came from England But pledgine
themselves to drink no tea was not all
they did.
From one end of the country to the
other women laid by their luxuries
and took up the spinning wheel and
knitting needle and made clothes fol
themselves and the soldiers.
! One woman made such good liner
that it was considered the best par
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13

of brides outfit. One woman sent
FIVE sons and eleven grandsons to war.
and she said that she had never
parted with them with greater pleas
ure before. She said she would rather
they would all be killed than have one
ccme back a coward.
Mrs. Mott of South Carolina. whose
beautiful home was taken by the Brit
ish as headquarters was told by an
American officer that her home must
be burned in order to destroy the Brit
:sh. Very WELL" she said. land will
furnish the fire So she brought out
d case of East India arrows which had
been presented to her and which
would burst into flames when they hit
anything. These she gave to the SOL
diers and told them to burn her home.
This was done and the British were
driven out and defeated
This shows what they were brave
enough to do.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-13

Inc Japanese have no fear of death.
They are very willing TO sacrifice
their lives in var. Suicides are fire.
Quent and under some circumstances
1t u and honorable thing for one to
taAe ais own life There about seven
thousand suicides yearly.
Japanese ladies would not think of
going to a ball in the fashion that
American ladies do: but it would be
proper Tor her to go barefooted.
Marriages are arranged by parents
and they are held at the home of the
groom. The wife's first duty is to
serve her husband. She NUS never
be jealous
The Japanese have no chairs. tables
nor beds in their houses. One room
may serve for drawing room, din
ing room and bed room.
BOOKS are not kept on end in rows,
but laid down and kept in piles. Jap
anese books are printed from right to
left. The end of our books would be
the beginning OF their books
The Japanese have their bach yard
in front Of the house and the front
yard back OF the house.
They are very polite; they think it
| better TO tell a lie than be impolite
No hostess will entertain a guest
| without many apologies for the mean
dirty food, when just like American
hostesses, she has planned and wor-
ried with all her energy to make it
superelegan
Etiquette demands self de-precia-
ion.
The following quotation is a sample
OF Japanese conversation that might
| occur between two men: ,AI | have
not had the pleasure of hanging my
| self in YOUR honorable eyes for a long
| time. 'Bb was exceedingly rude the
last time ! saw you. ca No, it was
surely | who was rude. Please excuse
me. b How is your August health
| (AJ Very good, thanks to your kind
| assistance. tB) Is the august lady
your honorable wife, well? (A) Yes.
thank You, the lazy old woman is
quite we'll. tB) | am now living on a
little back street and my house is aw-
full small and dirty. but If you can en-
dure it please honor me by a visit.
| tA) | am overcome with thanks, and
| will early ascend to your honorable
residence and impose my uninterest-
ing self upon your hospitality. 'B) ]
will now be very impolite and leave
you. CA If that is so, excuse me.