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The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
EXPENSES INCREASING.

The total payment for expenses of
the general departments of the 1876
cities having a population of 10000
and over in the report of Financial
Statistics Of Cities for 1912, recently
issued by Director William ]. Harris,
Bureau of the Census. Department OF
Commerce, was $508,543,04S The to-
tai per capita payments for expenses
other than OF public service enter
prises increased from $13.02 in 1912
to $l734 In 1912, gain of 1872 per
cent The per capita payments for
each year have shown an increase
over those Of preceding year, except
that those for 1909 were slightly less
than those for 1908. The per capita
payments for expenses OF the general
government, including those for courts
have increased quite uniformly during
the i1-year period, as have for the
most part those for the expenses OF
police and fire department, for con.
eeryation Of health and sanitation.
which includes sewers, sewage dis
posal and refuse disposal and for edu-
cation.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
IOWA CROP SERVICE
Review of the Past Week by d.
rector of Weather Bureau.

Des Moines. July 15.-This is the
hottest and one of the driest weeks
of the season. The average temper
ature was about degrees above the
normal, and the daily maximum tenn
peratures ranged from 80 to lO4 de-
grees. The rainfall was deficient ex-
Cept in a few localities, of small
area, where heavy local showers &C.
Cured. The excessive heat and dry
weather are beginning to show in
furious effects on corn in the south
ern counties, but the crop as whole
is making rapid growth and is still
in good condition. The early planted
fields, in all parts of the state, are
tasseling and are approaching that
stage of growth when rain will be
needed soon Favorable conditions
have prevailed for haying, harvesting
and, threshing. Considerable rust is
reported in late oats and smut Is
appearing in many localities where
the seed was not treated. The rust,
however, is the red variety and came
too late to do serious harm. In some
sections more or less rust is reported
in all small grain. The early potato
crop is nearly failure.
A summary of the reports on ap.
pies for July list shows the following
percentages of the 1913 crop in the
several districts: Northeastern, %;
north central, Al; northwestern, q;
west central. 81; central. IA; east
central, 30; southeast 80; south cen
trail, So; southwest, SO per cent. The
average of all reports received shows
an estimated production of 40 per
cent. Estimating from the assessors
reports for 1918. Iowa will harvest
this year million bushel apple
crop. The fruit is far in advance Of
the normal for this time of the year
and with normal rainfall should
reach good size by harvest time. The
Coddling moth is very bad in un-
sprayed orchards and the curculio
is reported as having done consider
able damage in parts Of the state. The
plum crop will be about 81 per cent
and grapes above 80 per cent of the
1913 crop.
Geo. NJ. Chapel, Director.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16

mere inspiring as the years go on
and which was written by Major BY
ers while In service.
Our campfires shown bright on the
mountains,
That frowned on the river below;
While We stood by our guns in the
morning
And eagerly watched for the foe.
When a rider came out of the dark
ness,
That hung over mountain and tree
And shout Boys up and be ready,
Fer sli1man will march to the
sea-
Then there are the sweet verses
to the little girl that died long ago,
contained in Happy Isles, and which
close with the lines
And many times my hand in hers
will be
And we will walk by pleasant ways
alone;
And | shall look into her face and
see
The dearest eyes that ever yet have
shown
And cheeks more sweet than any ros-
es bloom"
The volume is nicely arranged and
published by the Neal Company, of
New York, and is on sale at the local
book stores.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
The Koran.

In a recent number OF the London
Everyman Is a review of the Koran
and its author Mohammed It is a one
mans book, and that man not an i'm
aginative one. but essentially a man
Of action and lacking in invention
The Koran is jumbled mass of pre-
cepts, doctrines, threats, injunctions
divine commands, narrative, lyric and
epic poetry. Its heaven and hell are
too material for modern thought. "ob
viously," says Everyman, the Koran
Is meant not to be read with the eye,
but to be recited, when the repetitions
are not nearly 30 pronounced. II re.
fleets a social order, a system Of ideas
as remote from Rome and more espe-
cially from Greece, as our own are
from the North American Indian. But
neither time nor evolution can utterly
quench the fame of Mohammeds per
sonality, which carried his followers
to reckless excuses, to the SOW
ereignty OF empires which created an
art peculiar to Islam, and founded age
lonE traditions"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
NO wET.pRY TEST NOW.

The word now being passed around
in Washington is that there will be
no roll call in the house at the pres
ent session on the question of sub
hitting a national prohibitory am
endment for ratification by the stat
eS. The news is received with glee
by representatives of all parties, re
CARELESS of their attitude toward the
amendment. The feeling of all is
that a vote for or against the amend
ment might be fraught with unpleas-
ant political consequences.
While worried representatives are
glad to get a reprieve, the Sioux City
Journal doubts if there will be any
genuine mourning over the reported
postponement That the prohibition
leaders are in no hurry for a test
vote was indicated a few weeks ago
when the house leaders planned to
dispose of the issue before adjourn,
ment. At that time it was plainly in
timated by the drys that the plan for
an early vote originated with the
vets, who felt confident that the
amendment would be defeated. Rep
resentatiye Hobson and his associ-
ates wanted it understood that they
were not pressing for an early vote
and that if one were forced they
would regard it as an unfriendly act
on the part of the house leaders. In
view Of this recent attitude it will
not be feasible for the drys to make
political capital out of the present
postponement.
AS a matter of fact, there is no
practical reason why Washington
should make haste TO submit a pro-
hibitory amendment Like women
suffrage, prohibition can make its
most effective progress within the
states during the next few years.
When West Virginia went dry the
other day it became the ninth pro-
hibition state. A national prohibition
amendment would have to be ratified
by thirty six states. Until prohibition
as a state policy has made material
gains, prohibition as a national pol
icy can hardly be regarded as feas.
ible. The present prospect is that
great progress within state lines will
be made by prohibition, as well as
by woman suffrage, during the next
few years.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
GRANGE IS ORGANIZED
Wapello County Starts Out With
143 Members.

The Wapello County Grange per
fected organization Saturday after
noon in a meeting held at Ottumwa.
The meeting was presided over by
State Master A B. Judsen, of Balfour,
who was accompanied by State Treas
urer w. A. Caldwell, of Oskaloosa,
and |. N. Taylor, state lecturer, also
of OskalOosa.
The charter membership enrolled
at the final meeting showed that LAB
Wapello county farmers are allied
with the organization and the county
grange members left the meeting en-
Unused with the booster spirit and Will
make an effort to increase their mum.
bers in the county, both in number OF
local organizations and general mem.
bership.
Among the things taken up at the
meeting Saturday afternoon were the
plans for the benefit of the farmers
as class. Committees on buying ana
selling for the subordinate oranges
and for the farmers bank were apl
pointed. The next meeting will be
held the second Saturday In August.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
MAJOR aYERs, POEMS

Major S. H. M. Byers, formerly OF
Oskaloosa, but now of Des Moines,
has just issued a new volume OF
poems, containing practically all the
best of those that have heretofore
been published In book form. together
with many new ones which have been
written In late years Though the
Happy Isles" and 'Sherman's March
to the Sea-" the two poems whica
have made Major Byers famous, are
masterpieces OF poetry, they are no
more beautiful nor perfect than many
Others that have been collected in
the present volume His friends will
be glad OF the opportunity to thus Sc
cure In one cover the many finished
pieces OF verse that have come from
Major Byers' pen.
Local people are especially inter
ested In the success Of Major Byers
as he has spent much OF his life in
Oskaioosa. He lived here as a boy
and entered the Union army from this
city. After the war for many years
he continued to reside here, and has
always taken a keen interest In Ma
haska. county people and institutions,
No patriotic meeting IS complete
without thai old song, which grows
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16

mean When they speak of Austria,
Hungary, and to many the words
Austria and Hungary seem inter
changeable terms for. the same coun.
try.
The Austrian Empire is a cOnstitu.
tional monarchy formed of three
Kingdoms, Bohemia, GaliCia and Dial
malta, two archduchies, Upper and
Lower Austria, and a collection of
duchies, countships and margraves
of princely rank; all of them united
in the person of the Emperor Francis
Joseph. The adjacent and entirely
independent Kingdom of Hungary, in
addition to Hungary proper, includes
Croatia, Slavonia and Pennsylvania,
countries formerly independent, but
now, through intermarriage, conquest
and inheritance, all possessions of
the Apostolic King of Hungary, who
happens by purely historic chance
to be also sovereign of the Empire
of Austria. The possession of a uni
flying link in the person of their COM
mon ruler has led to the Ausgleich,
or Compromise" whereby the two
Countries, for mutual convenience,
have agreed to join forces in main
tanning joint diplomatic and naval
and military services. Beyond this
the two countries are entirely indie
pendent, each having its own consti-
tuition, legislature and administration.
No country in Europe except only
Hungary, contains within its bord
ers so many diverse nations and ton
CUES as the Austrian Empire. Each
of the three great ethnic stocks OF
Europe is representative Latin, the
German and the Slav, with the latter
predominating, as to it belong fifteen
out of twenty-six million people in
habiting the Empire. The Hungarian
or more properly, the, Magyar, is per
haps the keenest patriot in Europe
and he manifests his enthusiasm by
seeking to impose his language and
customs upon his SlavoniC fellOw-Citi-
zens with a persistence that neither
opposition nor passive resistance can
diminish
In these lands, so mixed in national
ity and language, there is no less a
variety of religion; Roman Catholics
predominant, but Greek Orthodox,
Uniat Greeks, Lutherans, Calvinists,
Jews and even Armenian Gregorians,
are found within their borders. The
customs, union between Austria and
Hungary has rendered these countries
a commercial unit; but. roughly
speaking, Hungary is the agricultural
and pastoral country, while Austria
is Industrial Hungary is also the
richest country in Europe in mineral
deposits, the range of which is sin
gularly wide Austria is, after Swift
erland, the most mountainous region
in Europe, more than four-tifths Of
her vast territory being over 600 feet
above sea level Mountain climbing
Is the great national game, like base
ball in the United States. Old, young,
middle aged. all take keen interest
in it,
Even in remotest corners of Aus
tria- Hungary, the strong arm of the
law is ever present, the river stretch
es and the back country is policed by
heavily armed constabulary.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
A Fine IDEA.

A suggestion coming from South
English was made to meeting OF
boosters at Sigourney the other even,
ing that it would be a fine thing for
all the towns of Keokuk county to
send representatives to the Great
White Way picnic that Is to be held
in Muscatine next month. The plan
talked of was that on the day Of the
picnic all persons going in autos
should meet at Keota, the eastern
point of Keokuk county, at a certain
hour of the morning. Then the
whole crowd could go in bunch and
enter Muscatine at the same time
and make a big noise for Keokuk
county. The Sigourney News adds:
1t is a good suggestion and the auto
cubs among the various towns OF the
county should take this up and make
1t the biggest thing that will be pull,
ed of that day. Lots of autos will
go, and we might as well all go to,
gether and make a big splurge. Let's
get busy on tails"
The. Herald would like TO suggest
something OF the same nature for Ma
haska county The Great White Way
means as much 20 the towns located
on IL as would line of railway. and
everything possible should be done to
promote dts interests.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
BOYS WIT SAVES LIFE
Hero OF Story Is Son Of A Former
Oskaloosa Girl.

The Daily Echo of June 18th, a
paper published in Bakersfield, Cal
IT,, contained an article in regard to
Elmer Jones, of Lorraine, Calf, lad
OF eleven years of age, who was the
means of saving a mans life. Young
Jones in company with Manual Bar
rutice, a neighbor. were three miles
away from their, home, when the lat
ter came running to Elmer, saying
he was bitten by rattlesnake. At
once the boy, out with his knife cut
his finger, to make IL bleed and suck.
ed the bite Then he helped the man
in "a buggy and started for home.
Barrutice was Unconscious in few
minutes. Upon reaching home, a doc
tor was telephoned for at Bakers
field, As miles away. The man was
placed in an auto and started to meet
the doctor which they did half way.
an emergency treatment was given
him on1the highway, then he was
taken to "a hospital, just two hours
from the time he was bitten. For
forty-eight hours very little hope Of
his recovery was entertained. But
in eight days he was able to return
home. The doctors we're loud in their
praise of the prompt work OF the lad
and said that was the real means
OF the mans life being saved.
Elmer Jones, the hero of this ar
ticle, is son of a former Oskaloosa
girl, Mabel Milliken Jones. Her home
was where; the Post ONCE now is
located, she was also a high school
GRADUATES. Mrs. Jones naturally feels
proud of her son. c,eea; i1
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
EDDYWLLE ACTIONS
DR.. AND MRS. BAY GO EAST FOR
. AN EXTENDED WSlT-FUNERAL
OF ROLAND BAKER WAS HELD
SUNDAY MORNING.

Eddyville, July 14.-County Record
err and Mrs, l.. E. Cawiey and chill
dren returned to their home in OF,
tumwa Sunday night after a short
visit here with relatives.
Ray Odem, of Charlton, spent Sun
day with Eddyville friends.
The funeral services of Boland
Baker, VINO died Friday at the Iowa
Soldiers Home at Marshalltown,,
were held Sunday morning at the
Christian church, Elder Geo. Barnett
officiating. lnterment was made in
Highland cemetery. Those from out
of town attending the funeral were
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellis, J. Williams
of Charlton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Harper, of Givin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, of Os'
kaloosa, spent Sunday here with rela,
tives.
Miss Beatrice Williams, of Oska'
loosa, was a Sunday visitor of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, c. A. Williams
Mrs. Ida Weber, who has been
visiting in Grinnell, returned home
Saturday night.
DR.. and Mrs. Z. l.. Bay and son
left Saturday night for Chicago and
other points for an indefinite visit.
Miss Mary Hall was an over Sun
day visitor at her home in Abba.
Andy Harper was caller in New
Sharon Saturday.
Mrs. H. r.. Wandling and children
who have been spending about a
month in Ltchfield, H., returned
home Friday night.
Mrs. N. M. Riggs, of Des Moines,
is visiting here this week at the
Chas. Kussart home.
Mrs. J. Harold, of Oskaloosa. spent
Saturday at the home of her son, II
n. Harold.
Arch Woodland was a passenger to
Abba Saturday night.
MISS Pearl Moore, of Ottumwa
spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs
Mary Moore.
w. S. Keller was an Oskaloosa
business caller Saturday night.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
NEW HAvEN'S BOOKS
OPEN TO U. S. MEM
J. P. Morgan Denies That Rec
'' ords Were Withheld.
NO CRIMINAL ACTION DUE
Department Of Justice at Washington
Declines to State Whether In
dIctnents viii Be Asked
Against Officials.

New York, July 15.-While ]. P. Nor
gan & Co. consistently refused to dis.
cuss the report Of the interstate com.
merce commission censuring directors
under the administration of Charles
s. Mellen for reckless and profiigate"
financial operations, estimated to have
cost stockholders from 65,000,000 to
MES the charge that the commissions
examiners were not accorded full &C
cess to the firms books bearing on the
New Haven.
Correspondence made public at
Washington told of Commissioner Nc
Chords directing the chief examiner
to cease the work as 1t was useless"
Mr.. Morgan issued this statement In
reply:
The information with regard to the
withdrawal Of the interstate commerce
commissions examiners from the ex-
animation of the books of our firm is
the first intimation I have had that
they have been recalled"
Mr.. Mellen's counsel J. w. H. Grim,
has issued a statement defending Mel
lens actions.
No Criminal Action Possible.
Washington, July Is. - Criminal
prosecution by the department OF JUS
tice OF New Haven directors and Off.
GERS, II begun at all, will be brought
upon the charge that these directors
and officials have conspired to violate
the antitrust law. No criminal action
can be brought In the federal courts
for conspiracy to violate any law
against the robbery Of stockholders,
because no such federal law exists.
This was declared at the depart
ment to be its position in answer to
the suggestion in the interstate com
merce commissions New Haven re-
port that the men responsible for the
loss of millions of the stockholders
money should be made criminally H.
able.
The department of Justice refused to
make any statement as to whether 1t
proposes to seek indictments
AILSuLlOh "db NhiiOu " SIntchAohI
Issued by Attorney General Mercy
nolds on January 7, In which he de-
clared:
There is no law under which the
department of justice can prosecute
the officers of a railroad for improvL
dent or dishonest management OF the
affairs OF the company"
This statement he repeated some
weeks later in letter to Senator Nor
ris, after a great number of stock
holders Of the New Haven and of 9th
er roads had asked for the beginning
Of such suits by the government
Attorney General McReynolds was
out of town, but the general statement
relating to recovery OF stockholders
money was declared at the department
to cover the rumor that suits would be
brought against the J. P. Morgan es-
tate to recover 100000 said to have
been paid out by check to bearer" IN
New Haven deals.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16

AIS short tons, valued at $153,S13,
this was an increase of 1890 tons in
quantity and of $685. in value. The
average price per ton reported to the
Survey In 1918 was $3.45 compared
with $500 in 1912 The total guam
tity refined barytes reported as sold
by mills in 1913 was 1898 short tons
valued at $685., 300, a decrease of L..
1S2 tons in quantity but an increase
of S29,4O5 in value, as compared with
1912.
The greater part of the barytes pro
duced in the United States is used as
a pigment in the manufacture OF mix
ed paints. II is also used in the man
ufaCture of lithopIone, a white pig
ment Wall paper manufacturers ale
are said to use some barytes for Civ
ing weight to their products. Other
uses for the mineral are in the man.
ufacture of rubber, asbestos cement.
and poker chips and in tanning leath-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
STAMPING OUT THE PLAGUE

A few years ago, a report that one
person had died in New Orleans
from the bubonic plague and that an
other was stricken would have sent
a SILVER of apprehension throughout
the country. But now it is only
mildly interesting" observes the st
Louis Globe-Democrat. Within few
hours after the announcement of the
appearance of the plague came an
other that Surgeon General Rupert
Blue of the Public Health Service
had been sent to take charge of the
situation. Apparatus for rat catching
and for fumigating was rushed to
the scene. All cities along the Miss
issippi were warned to eXtirpate the
rats and so the plague ended where
it began.
Years ago poets spoke OF the break
ing of the blessed seals that close
the pestilence" which made crowded
cities vail its stroke" In a more re.
mote period the plague was regarded
as a visitation by an angry Provi.
dence if il was not ascribed to malev'
client witchcraft. But the advance OF
medical science has flooded the sub
ject with light and nothing is now
more inexcusable than the plague.
The reclamation of Havana from its
terrors was the first signal demon
stration of the efficacy of sanitation.
Even more splendid work was done
at Panama, where pestilence once
held undisputed sway. The worst
month of last year, August, witnessed
the GROWING triumph of sanitation,
when not a single one of the 12,4S1
white American men, women and
children on the fsthmus died from
disease. But after the prompt and eff
ficient work of theP ublic Health Ser
vice the Ohio floods of last year
would have been followed by the
deaths of thousands, judging from ex-
perience elsewhere in the world and
at other times in the United States
In San Francisco, Oakland and Berk
eley the same work was done last
year that will be done in New Or
leans, averting the plague. The ser
vice captured 10000 rats in those
three cities, each a PRUDENTIAL carrier
of disease. The pied piper of Ham
elm was an amateur rat catcher
compared with the United States
health officers.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
Wheat Yield is Good.

Knoxville, Iowa. July 15.-Thresh-
ing operations opened up in this
section Thursday of last week and
some very good yields Of fall wheat
have been reported up to date. The
Ernest Convey field, near town, was
the first threshed and. the yield was
1886 bushels on a fractional eighty.
At the Charley Martin place, wholly
inside the Knoxville town limits, an
eighty acre tract averaging 401s bu.
per acre. William Jenkins at south
city limits, has eighty acres, a por-
ton of which was threshed yesterday
afternoon, showing yield of Al 2-3
bu. per acre,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16
THE DUAL MONARCHY

Austria Hungary, toward which the
eyes of the world are now turned be
cause OF the recent assassination oil
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir 10
the throne OF the dual monarchy, and
his consort. the Duchess OF Hohen
berg. is land OF strange contrast
according TO statement issued by
the National Geographic Society In
spite Of its Important position, both
geographically and politically, but
few people realize exactly what they
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16

Mrs. II. w. Robinson, wife of thu
editor Of the Colfax Clipper. has been
called to her reward. She had been
a sufferer from tuberculosis for sew,
eral years. and the disease had SO
fastened its fangs upon her that not
more than temporary relief could be
secured under the tenderest care
and best medical attention. Various
climates we're tried with only slight
temporary relief. The sympathy OF
the fraternity is extended Editor
Robinson. -.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-16

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