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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

gresham from Oklahoma, when the
air is quivering with the love songs
of the birds and fragrant with the
odor of roses blown, to hear the mu-
sic of the churchgoing bells, an in
yitation to the world-wearied to enter
Gods temple and find peace, because
the instinct of worship Is in the heart
of man and the church is the temple
of the living God.
81 go to church because find peace
there, that peace which De Quincy de-
scribed as a resting from human
labors, a Sabbath of repose, respite
granted from the secret burdens OF
the heart, as If | stood at a distance
and aloof from the uproar of life; as
if the tumult and fever and strife were
suspended; as If there broded over
me a doveiike and halcyon calm.
Il go to church because ! love the
music that I hear there, the mighty
roll of the great organ, mingled with
the marvellous symphonies OF that
divine stringed instrument, the human
voice, untwisting all the chains that
tie the hidden soul of harmony.
Il go to church because delight to
hear the teachings of the preacher,
whose soul is dedicated to God, whose
fold is as wide as Gods universe,
whose theme is the destiny of man,
and whose words are the oracles oil
Fate. Marvellous is the spell of the
preacher to whom God has gwen
genius and conservation and the pow
er of Illustration drawn from the old,
sacred, immortal Book, and from the
miracles of nature, or less revealed
in the crimson-tipped flower turned
up by the plowshare of Robert Burns
upon the soil of Ayr than in the long
reaches of the star-girt skies.
81 go to church because the way Is
dark and | am far from home,i and
because the church is the polar star
to light my pathway in the rayless
Il go to- church because the church
ministers not only to the spiritual but
also to the material needs of life and
because it is there that the charities
that soothe and heal and bless are
scattered at the feet of man like
flowers. .. ; .. 10 -......
Il go to church because in that at
mosphere vice and crime wither and
die. .,s.. Deg 49, }... -.-I. LyIf
81 go to church to hear teachings
of the philosophy of Jesus, the incom-
parable man; and If you say his
teaching Is philosophy and not rel1g
ion and that he was man and not
god, then the philosophy OF that man
has redeemed the world from savag-
cry and blessed mankind with CHRIS
tian civilization, and, to my mind, 1t
is a thing worth while to hear.
81 go to church because ! find there
consolation and hope; because l see
there the dawn and not the sunset;
and 1t is better for man, If the hope
is baseless and the vision but an elu-
siye phantom, to. cherish dream so
glorious and beautiful than to, be
weighted down and crushed with the
quarried mountains of a world with
out hope and without God"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN.

Editor Etter, OF the democratic Sig
Quincy Review, says: Twenty years
ago we were well acquainted with w.
E. Cadmus, the gentleman who made
the Bull Moose speech in the court
square Saturday evening. At that
time to mention a reduction of tariff
in his presence was like waving red
flag before bull. Now he has come
partially over and said in his address
that the highest protected manufac-
turers in New England pay the poor
est wages. We told Cadmus that in
a few years more at that rate of pro-
gress he would be pretty good dem
ocrat Mr.. Cadmus is a good, bright
fellow and his business is now that
of national organizer for the Bull
Moose. 1t is strange how these fell
lows dislike to come entirely across
and be democrats even though they
may preach the democratic doc
trinp"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Three Tires; Two Wheels.

James DeBoard is telling the
"champeen" hard luck story of the
season. Mrs. DeBoard and son were
visiting in southeast Iowa. James
went after them in his car. On the
return trip things began to happen.
First one rear tire blew out and then
another and before much of the home
ward distance had been negotiated
James had exhausted his surplus sup
ply of extra tires. Three tires were
ruined. This did not stop the blow
outs, however. Jim was away out,
several leagues from assistance, and
no one had any extra tires. He was
forced to run in on the naked rims.
When he finally reached town he dis
covered that he had ruined two
wheels and that new ones would be
necessary What the repairs cost
will require three figures to write.
but Jim has more expressive way
of putting ifs
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
sLAerowN on rHE MAE.

The following excerpt from the
Shutdown" correspondence in the New
Sharon Star, proves that Mahasks
Z county is alive and well In all de.
partments:
This berg has experienced some
very hot weather, but business goes
on just the same. Corn is damaged
some and oats is hardly as good as
expected, but wheat, hay, dogs, chick
ems and cock,eburs have exceeded the
speed limit. Now We know also that
our little berg is still improving. Fred
Palmer has built new smoke house;
Chas. Musgrove has built an addition
10 his domieile, also a chicken house;
J. T. Allen has built grain house
and Byron Playle has done likewise;
John Steele has remodeIed and re
covered his barn; Shorty Butts Is
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
PICNIC AND CIRCUS,

. Pella Chronicle: when the White
Way picnic was held at Pella, the city
council granted the use of the park,
and no restrictions were placed upon
visitors which would tend to interfere
with their comfort and convenience.
But all cities do not treat visiting
crowds that way. Pella people who
went to Oskaloosa on the day OF
Barnum's show report that the police
men were stationed about the park
and absolutely prevented visitors
from standing on the grass in the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
WHERE rs HAPPlNESs7

Where is happiness? We ask,
Does ii wear shroud or mask?
Is endeavoring to bask
In its smile, hopeless task?
Worry, like a bird of prey.
Seeketh constantly to slay.
Stealing peace of mind away
Leaving hosts of temples gray,
Sorrows are the scars we find
Marked upon the human mind,
Made by worry, most unkind;
Heart-aches of the trail behind.
Trouble is a stubborn lie.
Learn to smite it hip and thigh.
Teach it what is true and why,
Soon twill crumble, droop and die.
Trouble, sorrow, grief and woe,
Qnick to come but slow to go.
Seem most real, unless we know
That thinking only makes them 80.
Doing good the whole day through,
Seeking right in all We do.
Loving all that's pure and true,
Strengthens blighted hopes anew.
Finding good is ever near,
Tears and heartaches disappear,
Showing happiness is here,
Every day of every year.
NAL Rose
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
,e WE BUT KNEW.

II we but knew what lies beyond the
hills,
That mark the boundary of this
If we but knew what all that vast
space fins,
What knowledge and what nm
suspected powers.
If we but knew how far our lightest
thought
Transcends the limits of this eartn
and time:
If we but knew with what our lives
are fraught,
With what eternal consequence sub
lime.
If we but knew that in our, deeper
mind
The longings that We foster or re-
28 press, sf@
Fen now are forging linked chains
to bind
Our spirits into giadness or dis
tress-- ....
Think you that We would waste the
precious years
That we may pass upon this paltry
U.s. earth. = -aa yrrs,r-
And freely give our labor and our
tears
For vanities that perish with their
birth?
Or think you that the very richest
prize
That earth alone can furnish to the
soul,
Can compensate us If the spirit dies,
Or fails at least to reach its destin
ed goal?
Los Angeles Times.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

"A few members Of any organiza-
ton always nave 70 carry the burden,
and because they so ahead and do
things the other members say they
are sef-eonceited and pulled up. If
everything goes right the other mem
bers take their share Of the credit.
but II things go wrong the loafers SIT
back and find fault and claim they
had nothing TO do with it, But such
is the penalty that people who do
things must pay.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

-Wellsyille, Kansas, has never
had Billy Sunday, but it has 700 peo-
pie, has high school costing S25,OOq'
a $4,000 church and beautiful homes.
1t has never had a saloon since 1t
was founded, forty-three years ago,
nor a pauper, nor q town drunkard,
nor a crime against women, nor a
thief, nor a knocker. ..r,.,.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

park or sitting down on it to eat their
lunch. Some were forced to stand
out in the street while the crowd was
greatest"
The Chronicle should bear in mind
that there is difference between a
White Way" picnic aud a circus.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

margin of profit, and also to hunt out
and stop all leaks that formerly en-
tered into the business. In other
words, everything about a newspaper
Office has undergone revolution with
the single exception of profits. which
are now sometimes an unknown, and
often a minus quantity.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

-Cyrenus Cole, former Pella boy
and afterwards associate editor of the
Des Moines Register, disposed OF his
stock and interests in the Cedar Rap
ids Republican and Times to his part
ner, Luther A. Brewer, who now
owns practically all the stock. Mr.
Cole will remain with the Rep Iblican
and Times as editor.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Cedar Rapids Republican: Let us
look at the rainbow on the sky. even
If the rainbow on the clouds may not
be there. The harvest shall not fail
us and there will be plenty in the
land, and some to spare to feed those
who are of lesser faith and who dwell
on less fertile soils than those OF
Towa stt-.a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Sir Thomas Upton at dinner
given TO him in New York City re-
Gently, paid a fine tribute to hts
American rivals and victors in the In
ternational yacht races. THE best
sportsmen on Gods earth are found
in America" he said. Il lost in each
race in which took part because the
other was the better boat" Sir Thorn
as announced his intention of trying
for the cup again in 1914.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

doing the threshing for this part of
the footstool, and F. A. Stilwell has
shipped in two car loads of fine cows
from Kansas City and on the way
home there was wreck and F. A.
got bump on the head, which was
a very close shave, If you please, as
there We're lots OF people very badly
hairf
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

The postal savings system has
now over 100000 deposits. Where
does it come from? The steady in
crease of deposits in private savings
banks has been going on steadily, so
we guess the old stocking must be
|"coughing up." H .. ..a '' .
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

In an increase in timber sales
this year and in a decrease in re-
ceipts from timber trespass as COM
pared with last year, national forest
officers see growing use OF the for.
ests and respect for the federal for
est nolicy
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

According TO the Patriot, THE
What Cheer electric light plant has
had a pebble in its craw for several
nights the past week and as a result
we have been without lights or late
getting them" Better hitch onto the
Oskaloosa circuit
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

"A dry goods firm in Norwalk.
Conn.,, gives its delivery horses a va
cation of a week ON a farm, every
year. During this week member OF
the firm delivers goods in his private
automobile, though many customer
are SO interested in the horses vaca-
ton that they insist on carrying their
parcels themselves.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Tut, Tut! This from the Monroe
Mirror is awful You can't fool a
girl when she goes to match deli
cate shade OF goods. But she will
wear bunch of black store hair with
her own colored home grown locks
and imagine no one can tell the dif-
ference"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

The Keosauqua Democrat tells OF
Mississippi river sturgeon being
caught in the Des Moines river near
that place recently and that other
strange fish are now to be found in
that locality. 1t thinks their habitat
has been changed by the big dam at
Keokuk and the obstruction of the
piUar
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Light burning of underbrush to
remove forest hitter had been prac-
ticed in India, with the idea that 1t
improves conditions for teak growing.
Now after long investigations forest
officials there say that the fires are
harmful, that full fire protection must
be extended everywhere, and that to
be really effective this protection
must be continuous.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat
has learned one thing about the In
dustriai Workers of the World, as
shown in the riot news from various
points. They work harder at not
working than others do at real work.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

AT Spencer, Iowa, recently, the
long distance drive in the road drag
ging contest was won by Lena Maui
rer, fourteen-year-old girl of Gillette
Grove township who arrived in town,
having driven fifty-two and half
miles. She left her fathers farm at
1902 am. and reported at the court
house at 1851. Several teams were
used in making the drive.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

OF LOO cases of removal from
country to city personally investigat-
ed by r. j. Coates, supervisor OF ru-
raj schools in Kentucky, more than
| 900 were caused by a desire for bet
ter school, church and social adyan-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Much of the surveying is complet-
ed and everything has been ready for
work on the state roads in the county
for months. People are enquiring
when the Board of Supervisors is go
ing to get busy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Alex Miller wants TO know what
has become OF the oid-fashioned man
that used to get rich raising Belgian
hares? He probably bought a cheap
farm in some land OF promise ana
cannot sell il for enough TO get back
m InW1
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

There is nothing like being hon
rest and outspoken. The What Cheer
Il Chronicle says: What Cheer has no
available timber at the present time
for congress Such idle talk Is rot OF
the purest kind"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

The Ottumwa Courier hit the
nail on the head when it remarked
that no banking or currency bill can
4 be so framed that IL will overcome
conditions created by destructive
tariff legislation.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

John Lind, the representative OF
President Wilson in Mexico, has but
one arm, but il the claims of his
friends are well founded this deficien
cy is more than compensated for by
the length OF his head.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

1t is reported that Kenyon and
Cummins do not agree on the tarlif
question. This indication OF indie;
.pendenee on the, part of Kenyon rs
quite alarming.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
ahHssssnIas TOO lFrapSs ptoanee

frOm one YeBtLaDIt OF easy CuIluIe
the beet, more sugar than their inhab
itants consume The upbuilding o
the sugar industry in this country II
sure If a similar protective policy /;
maintained co
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Two vital things that President
Wilson and the democratic party win
be called upon to explain In 1916 will
be general increase In taxes and no
decrease In the cost OF living.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

III is estimated that the volume OF
retail drug business done in the
United States annually amounts 10
$500, 000. 900. And this does not In
clude the soda fountain department.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

-'Flatter a. man. observes the
.Winterset Reporter, land he will for
get it. the next day; abuse him and he
will remember 1t for years"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Just now Senator Cummins OF
Iowa seems 20 be the biggest protec-
ZIONIST at Washington. The Fairfield
Ledger wonders II he thinks the pes
pie OF Iowa are taking him seriously.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

The Centerville Iowegian ought
to be good 1t gets correspondence
regularly from Mt. Ararat, Promise
City, Beulah and Palestine.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

are but dreams and that he is yet on
his old Iowa farm. And you couldn't
buy that mans farm today at any
price-it's not on the market
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

| "A man who makes big boasts and
does nothing may be classed with the
wooden cannon that is painted to look
| like the real thing.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

"A veteran editor once said: I'm
kind o. glad some merchants don't ad-
vertise. Else, what would ! use for
horrible examples"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Fox breeding has become nota-
Bile feature Of the fur trade and pair
of black foxes recently sold for s20-
900.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Iowa, as the Knoxville Express
has often remarked,is the state where
rain always falls when II is needed
badly enough.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

An exchange says that Cupid
gets a whole lot of credit that should
be given to the old hammock on the
! norch - " a z itsttt tl.Ff5
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

This is an age OF insurgency.
Even the weather refuses to be guild
ed by the Weather Bureau.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Anticipation is the best part OF
a summer vacation" concludes the
Ida Grove Pioneer.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

One of the "Don'ts" never to be
forgotten in hot weather is, Don't
deprive your horse or dog of water
when needed"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Washington Press: The saith is
the only regiment that floats "Mer'
rimac." The grand jury will sink It.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Don't advertise to please the edi-
tor, or any one else-adyertise to in
crease and build business.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

Enlisted men in the American
Navy serve as teachers in the Island
of Guam.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

..--rIf you would leave a monument
build a mile of good road.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28

II you would have good neigh
bors, you must be one.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
"wHY / ATTEND CHURCH.

II Is sweet on a summers morn.
ng," says Hon Gland Weaver. con.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-10-30
Her Opinion of Idaho.
Mrs. c. D. 0allentlne Writes FiuentIy
Her Impressions of this
Section.

Mrs. c. D. Gallentine, of Morrison ILL.,. =,
who recently enjoyed her first visit to
this section, upon her return home con-
tributed very interesting article for her
local paper, describing her impressions
of the North Side tract. The letter is
quite lengthy one, and we take pleas
ure in giving space to that portion OF it
relative to the jerome district especially.
l was requested by some of the former
Morrisonites, who now reside in the
Twin Falls country, to write something
. for The Sentinel so the people back home
would know "what was doing in Idaho.
At Jerome l must confess that the
first impression l received was the fact
that it is so dusty in Idaho. waiei
gingerly about in it and was constantly
brushing my clothes to the amusement
OF my friends, who said that everyone
who came out there acted that way at
first, that it was part OF Idaho, must re-
ceive due consideration and then be ig-
nored. No one pays any attention to
dust in that country, and the dust storms
become less frequent as the country de-
velops. Lots of water in the bitches,
fields of grain and alfalfa, lawns which
are made thick and beautiful by irriga-
ton, all tend to lessen dust and make
the country about Jerome as desirable as
that about Twin Falls, which is in
more advanced state OF development, be-
ing several years older. The lawns are
so thick and beautiful at Twin Falls they
have to be seen to be appreciated, and
they are being nursed along as carefully
at Jerome.
The flowers defy description; man.
moth sweet peas and asters are in great
profusion at present and their coloring is
exceptionally brilliant. A few weeks
ago the women of Jerome gave flower
show, which brought forth a wealth of
bloom from private gardens and was
well patronized.
This week their first Tri-County fair is
in progress which promises to be big
success. Many fine prizes are offered to
exhibitors, besides money, by the mer
chants, such as cut glass, silver, jewelry,
etc.
At Jerome the Women's Civic Club
care for two parks which they have had
seeded and set out to trees of naturally
rapid growth. The lawns are green now
and the parks will certainly add to the
beauty of Jerome, which is proud OF her
advantages afforded by churches, lodges
and fine school. Both at Jerome and