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The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Blind Convict an Heir.

Des Moines, April S.-Joseph Kin.
sey, blind man, under sentence of
five years in the penitentiary for
burglary, was notified that an uncle
who died recently in Ottumwa had
bequeathed him one.fifth OF his estate
|of $1,000. His four brothers and sis
tiers in Ottumwa will receive the re-
naming equal portions. Kinsey, who
recently entered store for money,
which he said was to keep him from
starvation, smiled when told of his
good fortune by the jailer. The lat
ter said 1t was the first time since his
incarceration that he had displayed
other than an expression of depres-
sion. Kinsey was taken to the circuit
court. where he voluntarily had his
mother named as guardian, so thai
she might take charge of the be-
quest. Today Kinsey will be taken
to prison.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

Ses To TAX the patience and ingenuity
of Earppe's most skillful diplomats
for some tinie 70 come. Nevertheless,
the foreign situation which lifted
money and depressed American
stocks last winter, has greatly i'm
proved; and as a result there has
been considerable repurchase of
American stocks during the past two
weeks by foreign buyers Fhis move:
ment may continue unless prices
Should be. pushedsup to level that
discourages foreign purchases, for
the European markets are we'll dis.
posed to American securities at pres
ent prices. These changes for the
better effectualfy checked gold ex-
ports, and the chances are that ere
long a portion of the gold sent to as
sist Germany will return to this side,
particularly n ftbe foreign purchases
of our stocks continue. Our foreign
trade Is in very satisfactory shape,
imports aud exports both being large
in volume, the excess of the latter
still running largely in our favor"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
The BUSINESS OUTLOOK,

THE somewhat dreaded April set
Elements were passed with scarcely
"a tremor," says Henry Clews in his
weekly New York letter Prepare
tions in anticipation had been so
carefully made that all undue strain
was successfully averted. At the
moment easier conditions prevail in
the money market, and are likely TO
continue for at least a period in spite
Iof the holding back OF grain by farm
ers. Funds are now returning from
the interior, and the legitimate or or
binary business requirements for ac-
Icommodation will probably continue
upon a moderate scale until next crop
requirements begin to assert them
selves four months hence. There has
also been an important Improvement
in the European monetary situation,
where the first of April was also a
period OF uncertainty. Germany ow-
ling to the great expansion OF trade
and credit felt the financial strain
arising from the Balkan war more
keenly than any other nation, and
disaster in Berlin was only ayerted
by the shrewd and careful caution OF
the great German banks. Some com
paratively unimportant failures oc-
CURED, but the German situation
now appears to be wen in hand, and
ali danger of collapse practically
ended; particularly as the vast sums
boarded during the past winter will
probably now 60 back into circulation.
While peace Is assured, IL Will be
some time before a satisfactory re-
ad justment OF territorial and financial
problems In Turkey and the Balkan
states Is finally reached. Turkey Is
threatened with bankruptcy unless
treated with justice and considera-
ltion, and the holders OF her bonds
are likely to show much anxiety
now that Turkey has lost so mach
territory and revenue. France and
Russia who provided most OF the out
side money for carrying on the war,
are largely interested In the develop
|menf OF Balkan and Turkish terri
tory. So. too, are England and, Ger,
many: and the final adjustment Of
political and financial affairs pron,is'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
.And IS.
WILSON CHARGES ON FILE
Secretary Bryan Admits Allegations
Against Ambassador to Mexico
Are In State Department.

Washington. April S.-Secretary Of
State Bryan acknowledged for the
first time last night that the charges
made by Luis Manuel Rojas against
Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador to
Mexico, were on file at the state de-
partment.
Mr.. Byran said that great deal OF
information had been received by the
department concerning the activities
of the American representative during
the close of the recent revolution
which ended with the assassination of
President Francisco !. Madero and
other high officials. Mr.. Bryan said
that no steps had been taken Jby this
government to protect Senof Rojas
from the political enemies who he
charges with the responsibility for
the death of Madero
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
CONGRESSIONAL poINos.

Washington, April s-The
senate convened st noon. Swore
in Lawrence Y Sherman OF I'LL
nois and Judge Nathan Cor of
West Virginia as senators. Re-
ceiyed currency reform bill in
troduced by Hitchcock OF Ne
braska, Passed concurrent res
olution providing for joint ses-
sion to hear presidents mes
sage.
The house elected Champ
Clark speaker elected house
officers; seated H, Olin Young
of Michigan: received tarifr re
vision and income tax meas
ures. also a resolution offered
by Henry of Texas providing
for leasing and furnishing Amer
lean embassies abroad, together
with other public bills. Passed
concurrent resolution providing
for joint session TO hear the
presidents message.
Representative Copley OF Hi
nois introduced resolution di-
recting the secretary of the
navy to accord to the battleship
Oregon the honor of leading the
naval parade OF all nations
through the Panama canal In
1915. The resolution provides
that the officers and men shall
be the same, as nearly as posi-
BILE, as the complement that
took the famous fighting vessel
on its record-breaking dash
around Cape Horn in 1908.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
MEN AND MUNICIPALITIES.

| The whirligig of time works many
lqueer changes in the fortunes OF men.
Several years ago Pat Leeny was a
switchman in the old Iowa Central
yards in 0skaloosa, unknown to fame
and probably never dreaming that he
would be mayor of a city OF 25,0OO
people. Then, too, the commission
plan of government for municipali-
ties also cuts some queer capers that
are not down on the program. In the
recent election held at Ottumwa an
iold-time citizen and business man OF
IOttumWa, H. l.. Waterman, was de-
feated by a comparative stranger In
the city. But such is life, and as Mr..
Leeny is well known to Oskaloosa
people, this sketch from an Ottumwa
paper viii be of interest locally:
"Twenty-siX years ago, April z, Pat
rick Leeny was passenger on what
The termed "side-door sleeper" that
lrolled into Ottumwa. He slipped out
lof the box car and into the gas. house
lin the Burlington road yards, and
there, with a brick as pillow, the l5-
lyear-old youth passed his first night
in the city Monday night when he
took the oath of Office as Ottumwas
first mayor under the commission
form of government he announced
that he will try to get even with the
brick pillow by starting official ma
chinery toward 81 gas for Ottumwa,
one of the plans in the platform on
which he wa selected over Senator
III, l.. Waterman to the mayoralty.
Ottumwa's new switchman-mayor
was left an orphan when years old.
| q 10
ing. His first Job was as waiter boy
with a section gang on the Rock Is
land railroad at Fairfield, near where
| he was born.
From that humble post he gradual
ed to full-fedged section hand, but
seven years of treading rough gravel
! inspired him to become driver of a
coal wagon. A year at this work con-
WINGED him that Fairfield did not Of
fer sufficient opportunities for his
energies. One night ne slipped into
Burlington box car and two hours
later he was conveyed into the yards
of Ottumwa. ..
After a night at the gas house
Leeny sought employment as COM
mon laborer. On his seventeenth
birthday he went to Eldon, where he
became brakeman. Eight years
ago he became a switchman.
Two years ago Leeny entered poll
tics as a democrat. He was elected
alderman of the Sixth ward.
| In the mayOralty campaign, which
he won by twenty-five votes, Mr..
Leeny waged a fight for dollar gas
and equal taxation and pleaded that
the laboring class in this manufacs
turing city should have a representa-
tive in office. He was opposed on the
grounds that he was uneducated.
1T is true that have no cap and
gown" says Mayor Leeny, but |
know the needs of the common people
and intend to give them a square
shake" .
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was Withdrawn and the tarIn duty

was withdrawn and the tariff duty
restored.
Notwithstanding the tariff, the
average price of sugar in the United
States is lower than in any European
country except the United Kingdom,
where there is no tariff A report
made to the Department of State at
Washington of the prices of sugar In
Il911, showed 1t was ~ cents in Rus
STA, 6.5 cents in Austria Hungary 5.9
cents in Germany (the greatest pro-
Queer of beet sugar In the world)
and the same In France. The price
in the United Kingdom was cents
and in the United States 81. sugar
consumption in the United States to
the head of population is about 81
pounds. England leads us with a
consumption of over Sc pounds per
capita.
The United States consumes in a
year three and half million tons
tOf this the domestic cane and beet
growers and the insuiar cane grow
lers furnish about one-half OF the
whole. The other half is imported,
bringing in a revenue of about S55,-
900 900. Commenting on the situa-
ton, such a stnlnch old democratic
paper as the New Orleans Piccayune
says: IF this source OF revenue be
taken from the tariff and extracted
from the income tax, il will mean
higher rents and higher costs of liy-
ing. Every tax laid upon property
and business Is got back from con-
sumers in higher costs for articles
of noe {"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
FIGHT FOR FREE SUGAR.

II is reported from Washington
that the various schedules of the tar.
III that are to be reduced or abro-
gated have been worked over by the
committee of the House, and are
ready 10 be reported to congress. In
the report as it stands sugar is to be
put on the free list.
That there are partisans who will
fight for steel, for wool, for lumber
and timber as well as for sugar is
binations among these various cham
lpions of protection for the several In
terests of their respective constitu'
encies is known, but what they can
accomplish, II anything, in a congress
which is radically opposed TO all tar
III protection is totally unknown.
Governor Hall, of Louisiana, has
gone to Washington to join with 9th
Ter Louisiana citizens to make fight
for sugar, which shows that the
movement in congress to put sugar on
the free list is regarded as menacing
to high degree.
1 Some decades ago congress took
up with a notion to provide free
l"breakfast table" as far as the tariff
was concerned, for the workingmen
THE beefsteak, the bread, the bacon
the hominy and all other articles
which are found ION the breakfast
tables of the. average of our Ameri
can fellow-citizens are home products
with the exception OF coffee and
sugar. Coffee is wholly a foreign
product, but our own people make q
considerable proportion of the sugar
which they consumed and that was
protected by tariff.
But congress removed the tariff
duty from both coffee and sugar, and
coffee still remains ON the free list
But the home growers of beet and
cane sugar represented that the in
PRODUCTION OF foreign sugar free Of
duty would work the downfall OF
American sugar production and cause
|irreparable loss TO the industries OF
many states, as well as to the sugar
growers themselves. In view OF these
Representations, congress by the act
ofs0ct. I. 1880. voted a, bounty Of, 2
eeptsua pound on aft cane, beet and
maple sugar made IN the United
States. Ia August, ls9& the bounty
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
FRIEDMAN LEAVES GOTHAM
9 lin Doctor Departs Suddenly From
Hotel With Serum Supposedly
for Providence, r. !.

New York, April S.--Dr. Frederick
Franz friedman, the Berlin tubercu-
iosis expert, Unexpectedly and mysteri-
ously left the Ansonia hotel. He took
with him all his baggage. his turtle
serum, his vaccine and his secrets.
His rooms we're declared vacant as
the doctor went down back stair
case and departed. 1t is believed, for
Providence, r. !.
1t was learned that a representative
OF Governor Pothier OF Rhode Island
had seen DR.. Freeman week ago
and invited him to visit Providence
and demonstrate his remedy before
the physicians there.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
TODAY.

Today ii matters not one whit
What other days have cost.
There's never time for worrying
If yesterday seemed lost.
There's too much present work to do
Along iife's rugged way,
For brooding Ger the failure Of
Some other wasted day.
Today, though but bubble
On rough and endless sea;
Though just tiny flash of light
In all eternity.
Yet all there Is in living
Is today, we must allow;
And the love of God it gives us,
And the good that's here and now.
1t matters not one whit today,
What future days may bring.
Twas given us for happiness,
And not for worrying. ...s..
To cope with present hardships
Is sufficient for today;
And to know that evil vanishes,
Where good has come to stay.
Forgetting wasted yesterday,
Its troubles and Its tears
Forgetting vague tomorrow, .r
And its hopes and doubts and fears.
When evening shadows gather
With each sunsets final ray;
Let's know that someone's happy
For the good we've done today.
Nal Rose.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Hiteman ,PostOtfice Robbed.

Hiteman. April S.-The postoffice
was robbed here Sunday night. The
robbers secured tools from the black.
smith shop, and pried the door open
and one. window. They were unsuc.
cessful in trying to blow the safe
open, but secured all the box rent
money and number of stamps. Post.
master John Roberts sent immediate
ly for Sheriff Griffin, of Abba, and
the postal inspector, J. w. Welborn.
at Ottumwa, who are working on the
case. Tracks in the mud between
the blacksmith shop and the post office
give the only clue to the robbers.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
May Open Button Plant.

Muscatine, April STIH. C. Meeker
was called to Muscatihe Monday to
confer with Messrs. KcKee and
Bliyen In regard to beginning opera
ton at the local button factory, Which
has been closed for some time. It is
probable that Mr.. Meeker' win man
age the local factory, as he is well
liked by the cutters and Is an exper-
fenced man. The factory closed as
the result of the resignation OF r. J..
Delhi, former manager, and Chas.
Reece, foreman. About eighty men
were thrown out of employment.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Saloon Cases May Go over.

Des Moines, April S.-Justice Gay.
nor, of the state supreme court, an.
nounced today that it may be impos-
sible to consider the Des Moines sa-
loon petition cases until the May
term of court, which convenes on the
9th day of next month. The April
term began yesterday, but there are
over one hundred cases pending,
which leaves a congested condition of
the docket and one which it will take
time to straighten out.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Girl Burned TO Death,

Barnes City, April S.-Burning ker.
osene, scattered over the clothing Of
Hazel Kirby, 16 years old, at the
home of her parents in Barnes City,
caused injuries from which Miss
Kirby died within a few hours. The
kerosene can out of which she was
pouring fuel on a blaze, exploded.
Her clothes were completely consum.
ed by flames.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
WOMEN LOSE IN BAY STATE
Equal Suffrage 10 Dead In Massaehu-
sets for at Least One
More Year.

Boston. April S.-The committee on
constitutional amendments reported
adversely on the votes for women"
measures and the state senate killed
all hopes of the suffragettes for at
least another year by accepting the re-
port. Ff.
The galleries OF the senate we're
crowded with women when the vote
was taken and their disappointment
wks plainly evident
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

The federal government made a
profit of nearly s6.500.000 on the coin
age of pennies. nickels, dimes, quar-
tiers and halves during the fiscal year
1912. George Il. Roberts. director OF
the mint, announces the treasury
earned total Of s5,652.000 during the
year on an Investment OF only $780,
900 for the operation Of the entire
mint service, or almost 45O per, GENT.
The cost Of the nickel Is an index OF
the governments profit in coinage OF
minor coin Out OF = pound Of A CON
pound Of nickel and copper, costing
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
FIRE DESTROYS
DUBUQUE HOTEL
POST OFFICE AT HiTEMAN ROB
BED; SAFE WAS NOT, sEoWN. Z.
OTTuMWA's NEW GOVERNMENT
Barnes City Girl Burned to Death
Council Bluffs Carpenters Work
Without Pay In Rebuilding
the Storm Damage.

Dubuque, April S.-The Julien hotel
was destroyed by fire shortly after
midnight. 1t was thought that all
the 200 or more guests and employees
have escaped, though many were for
ced to fee in the night clothes. 1t
was feared that other buildings in
the immediate neighborhood would be
destroyed. The hotel was erected
at cost of $3.50, 900.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

According to the Baxter New
Era 1t il always the neversweats, the
fellows who live by the way OF small
grafts--livery stable and goods box
statesmen-that can tell you just ex-
actIy how the Iowa legislature should
conduct its business and the kind OF
laws that should be enacted.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Directions Are Correct.

In the new telephone directories
the direction before and after street
and avenue names have been correct
ed and now read as they should,
|"High avenue West" North Third
street. etc. thanks 10 the care and
supervision Of General Manager Geo.
wv Gordon.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
The worlds Work Sunday SC

The Worlds Work Sunday school
association has chartered vessel for
the Worlds Seventh Sunday School
convention to be held this year In
July at Zurich, Switzerland. Four
hundred delegates win san ON this
ship and at least a dozen other ship
loads win leave during May and
June. There will be over 500 dele.
gates from the British Isles and Ger
many will send a good many dele
gates also.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

I'm going through the effects of
the late j. NJ. shaffer, Of Keokuk,
there was discovered Masonic
apron that was presented TO DR.. San
born by the grand lodge of Iowa in
the year 1858 at the close OF his term
as grand master and the apron is now
in the possession of Ralph Smith.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Work Without Pay.

Council Bluffs, April S.--One hun.
bred carpenters and masons of Council
Bluffs worked ten hours Monday
without pay rebuilding the homes OF
families in Council Bluffs, which were
destroyed in the recent tornado.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
Dies Harnessina Team.

Wapello, April 8.-P. o. Shipman, a
wealthy farmer living near here, died
Sunday of heart failure. He had gone
to the barn to prepare the horses for
driving to church and dropped dead
in the barn lot. He was ~ years old.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

One pint Of gasoline left in an IN.
coveted basin in room at normal
or average temperature will entirely
evaporate With "a hours. As gaso-
line vapor is denser than the sur
roandiEg -alEy-asnless disturbed by &C
tive air currents its presence in the
room may be detected for many
hours. One pint OF gasoline VIII
make 200 cubic feet OF explosive mix
ture and this mixture is seven times
more powerful than gunpowder.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

III man had said this he would
be lynched or ostercized. but II comes
from Mrs. Charles Henrotin, of Chica-
go: 'The spend craze Of American
women spells ruins Modern woman
Is recediDg from her sphere" she said.
n sphere Of susefulness a. q helpmept
for her husband. She has deteriorat.
ed IN a few decades 10 a spender pf
money e y. she has bsee,of Prem sate
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

"A newspaper man was called as
a witness IN the local courts the
other day, and the judge would not
let him tell thing. The judge was
kind, In sparing him the embarrass-
1nent OF exposing his ignorance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

The membership of ABS in the
House when. it conyenes April z, will
comprise 290 democrats, of whom 1O3
win be new members, and las repub-
licans, Of whom fifty-fiye will take
their seats for the first time.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

James Wilson, alias "Tama Jim"
and Henry Wallace are the two drom-
los OF Iowa. Both are Seotchnen,
one a farmer, the other a minister,
each nearing rs, and were grouped in
a picture taken at Des Moines recent,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

lowing comparative table, to show
reductions in tariff duties made on
necessaries, both the present taritr
and the proposed tariff having been
reduced in each item to an ad valores
basis:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.

4 NUM-
Oil producers and zrefners on the
iTampico fields of Mexico will lose
more than 100000 Because millions
of wild ducks migrated to Mexico
Iduring the cold weather thousands OF
them alighted in the great lakes OF
oil and persisted there. These I'M
numbered fiocks of dead water fowl
have ruined the crude oil, which, be-
cause OF the deconposed animal mat
tier, cannot be refined Many of the
Mexican poems employed about the
great dams of oil take the birds
which have just died from the shore
lime, carry them into the fields at a
safe distance; touch a match to the
Ioil-soaked feathers and roast the
fowls. This form of barbecued duck
lis said to be delicious, but none of the
American sportsmen of Tampico have
tried the game.
- - -
Have you ever heard of Ernest
IMensen? Sixty years ago his renown
Ispread all over Europe. His exploits
make the pedestrian feats of the pres
ent day look insignificant. He was a
man who first came under notice by
lance of 1850 miles, in thirteen days
and eighteen hours. In 1886 he ran
through Central Asia from Calcutta
to- Constantinople, bearing dispatches
for the East India Company. The dis
ItanceEis l5j5l5 miles, and he accomp-
llished it in fifty-nine days, one-third
of the time taken by the swiftest car
layan. ttE Il. tE
sg raE - - -
One spot in Japan stunned by all
! is the Fool of Tears" little pond
on the execution ground of an old
Iprison at Toxic. II never dries, and
Ieyens the hottest weather seems to
have little effect upon it. Since the
removal of the prison no buildings
ihave been erected on, the site, occupy
ing the brow of the hill. By night it
| is supposed TO be haunted by the
ghosts of the many prison victims,
and no person, it is related, is bold
enough to venture that way after
dark.
Consul General Snodgrass in Mos
COW reports that greater interest is
being shown in a new invention call
LIcB "hlSi -
frozen solution Of salt and various
grades OF concentration.
| .. - - -
Water is sold by the ton at Perm.
ambnco, Brazil. 1t is piped from
springs eight miles out from the city,
and Is furnished to ships at 81 cents
ton within the harbor.
| - - -
! Crete is as large as Delaware and
Rhode Island together All its 300.0 900
inhabitants are Greek, and nine
Itenths of them are Christian.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

"A correspondent wishes to know
il there Is more than one religious
denomination that believes in feet
washing. We don't know, but sin
cerely hope so.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

Ten thousand new coke ovens
are to be built in Connellsville, Pa,
at a cost of S20,000,000 .-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

---Mandayam ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
am Tirusnab Acharya applied for ma
turalization papers in New York and
got away with them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

Philadelphia next summer Will
give its 500 fire. and police horses a
farm vacation of two weeks.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

1t pays TO learn shorthand. Miss
Myrtle Spooner, a Seattle stenogra-
pher, has just fallen heir to $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

about % cents, the government coins
$4.55 worth of scent pieces.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

1T has also been observed that an
old man and his hair are soon parted
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

Truth Is stronger than fiction. II
often needs an introduction.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10

Consul General Snodgrass in Mos
Cow reports that greater interest is
being shown in a new invention call
ed minus ice," which represents a
frozen solution of salt and various
grades OF concentration.