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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

farmers standpoint up for the consid.
Grafton of the second session of the
Sixty-third congress. If such a bill
had been introduced and become a
law a year ago, he believes II would
have saved the farmers of Iowa from
$l5,0O0,000 10 $20.OOO,0OO by the re,
duction of hog cholera losses during
the year 1913. II would have helped
in the following ways:
. l. 1t would have standardized SER
UNI and virus, something which is alb
solutely necessary at this time. Just
SO long as there is such wide varia-
ton i'm the potency of serum and vir-
us as has prevailed during the past
two years, there will be lack of con-
fidence on the part of a great many
farmers concerning the efficiency of
the serum treatment of hogs against
cholera.
2. Ii would have made II possible
for the farmers to have distinguished
between real serum and the many
fakes or so-called serums and hog
cholera cures that have been so gen
orally peddled from farm to farm by
agents, many of whom were carrying
the disease from infected herds TO
healthy herds.
3. 1t would have prevented many
of the outbreaks of hog cholera
caused by the use of a poor grade of
serum with good virus where the sim
ultaneous treatment was used.
4. The fact that the serum and
virus have been tested by government
employees would have insured its use
fulness and greatly enlarged the de-
mand for the same, thus materially
curtailng the ravages of the disease
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

II and do his part for the state that
protects him in the possession of a
great opportunity.
Farming is the basic industry In
Iowa. As the farms 60 so goes times.
A poor crop of corn affects every per.
son In the state. The merchant and
the butcher and the baker and all the
rest OF us depend on crops. The far.
mer has advantages. IL he neglects
his seed. all of us suffer because he
lives on an Iowa farm instead of an.
other man who would have raised
more corn.
Iowa isn't raising anywhere close
to the bushels of corn this soil Is
able to produce. The straight way TO
explain il is to say that Iowa isn't
being farmed up TO the opportunity
of her soil. One reason, even now
and after all the agitation and sane
conclusion regarding seed corn, is
that hundreds of bushels of inferior
seed is being planted every spring in
a soil that has no superior on the
face of the earth.
OF course, in time, the man who
refuses to farm up to the best of his
time must go and the other man who
can and does measure up to the OPP
portunity will take his place. That is
a simple process and takes a long
time like all evolutionary processes
Test your corn. Know what you
have. Don't plant any but the best
seed. You are not farming entirely
for yourself, but for all Iowa. II is a
big thing and carries real responsible
ity to own a quarter section of Iowa
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
DO IT NOW.

Marshalltown Times Republican:
Test that seed corn. OF course every
farmer knows more about testing seed
corn than any newspaper man Of
those who presume to offer the ad.
vice. Let IL go at that, and test the
corn. Now, the thing Is TO test il.
To plant good seed To get a stand
OF corn. This is not merely the corn
farmers business. but the business
OF every person who has interests in
Iowa.
The Iowa farmer is a lucky man.
Suppose he did work hard and pay
for the farm. Suppose he does own
II by reason OF industry and economy.
That doesn't let him out. Still he is
most fortunate In possessing o strip.
OF the best farming land In the world.
Il Is ap 10 him 10 make the best OF
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
HOG CHOLERA VIRUS.

The Kenyon bill In the United States
senate. introduced at the request of
the Iowa Swine Breeders association.
is given unqualified Endorsement by
Prof. w. J. Kennedy. OF Ames. The
swine breeders went on record as
favoring federal and state testing OF
all hog cholera serum and virus man
ufactured and sold by commercial
serum plants. This bill. II passed.
will insure the desired federal testing
and inspection OF serum and virus
made and sold by serum plants doing
an interstate business. II Is estimat-
ed that about 80 per cent OF the com
mercial serum used In Iowa would
come under this ruling. aes ~
In Mr.. Kennedy's Judgment there
is no more important measure from .
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
Doll a Factor In the World.

The doll remains pre-eminent az tn,
symbol OF childhood. and has been o.
incalculable Psychological value IL
the development of the young intel
lect throughout the ages, for no mat
ter how rude or primitive it's form, Il
furnished an association Of ideai
which stimulated the formation Of
mental pictures. serving to encourag,
the imagination, that most potent fac
tor OF human mentality.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

in the opinion of Henry Clews,
President Wilson's action on the Mex
lean question in removing the embar-
go would appear to be the best thing
To do under the circumstances. II
puts us in line with other great ma
lions in connection with Mexico and
removes the possibility Of interven.
ton, Il also confines the fighting
within Mexican borders, as it should
be, and the more desperately they
fight the sooner the trouble will be
ended
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

Chicago, FEB. 1S.-Wheat - No. 2
red, 96Ac; No 3 red, 94@95c; No. 2
hard, 93c; No. hard, 92@92Ac; No.
1 northern spring, 96@97c; No. 2
northern spring, 95@96hc; No. 2
soft, 94@95c; No. 3 soft, 931ac; No. l
velvet, 94@94%c; No. 2 velvet. 92@
durum, 90@91c.
Corn-NC. ,, Go@Glc; No. white,
.6f@G4kc; No. yellow, 61A @6qc;
No. 4, 5S1a 0G2c; No. white, $500
G2c; No. yellow, 5912 @60Ac; sam
pie, 4S@5oC.
Oats-No white, 1914 @39Rc;
No. white, 800; standard, 40Ac;
sample G, 37Ac.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
In Denmark the school teacher

is almost always furnished with a
house, barn, and a few acres of land
according to w. H. Smith. a recent
observer from the u. s. Bureau OF
Education. THE tenure of office OF
the teacher is for life or good behav-
Tor, and 10 per cent of the rural teach
ers are men who settle down in their
respective communities, cultivate the
small farm, act as choristers in the
country church. and easily and nat
urally become leaders in affairs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

Anything that is worth doing is
worth doing we'll In putting new
lighting conductors on St Pauls Ca
thedral, London, part of an old
lightning rod installed by Benjamin
Franklin l40 years ago was found.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

There are several bands OF the
Persian fat-tailed sheep on the nat
ional forests of southern Utah. The
large fatal sometimes weighs as
much as forty pounds, and, like the
hump on the camel, is a reserve
snnnlY of nourishment
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

--Iowa's corn crop in the period
from 1907 10 1913, valued at $685.
Ol2,ls2 would pay off the interest
bearing national debt of the United
States. This amounts to sl,029,575,-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

San Francisco is retrenching on
its school budget by reducing the sal
aries of teachers, and San Francisco
claims to be the most enlightened
spot in Johnson's land OF progress!
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
Horse Prices Weak.

Chicago, Feb. l8.-Horse prices
showed little weakness, as BUYERS
were scarce. There were not MANY
good horses offered, and business
moved slowly. sie Sales ranged from.
Si5omSs0. with the bulk OF the sales
at s175@22s. $3.50
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

1t is easy to sneer at and criti.
else diplomacy, but any kind OF word
battles that prevent wars and spare
the blood OF young men, are most de-
Sirahle
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
Red Cross stamps.

The sale of Red Cross stamps dur
ing the 1913 holiday season in Iowa
amounted TO s4,493.76, total of 449..
376 stamps having been sold, accord
ing 10 report made by Prof. A. +.
Kepford. In Des Moines. 74,050
stamps were sold. Dnbuqne. aG5 500;
burlington. 25.e22: Sioux Citya Al
800.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

The Pasadena Star insists that
no boy is worth much who does not
have to bump the bumps of advers'
ity in life,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

Gould you tell q stranger the
name of every street in town?'That's
why We need name plates on the cor
ners
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
Not oraspIna.

SHOW me de incomes, :, ssid yncls
Chez, AN Al be satisfied, to keen de
staAhse after psyis' Dc tax"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

LEWIS.-Martha &. Lewis, the in
FAINT daughter of Mresand Mrs. J. w.
Lewis, died Tuesday. February II,
1914, at $50 p. IN. at the home of her
parents, No 702 First avenue east.
lnterment was made in Forest GENE.
terry.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
eio Land Deal Made.

T., 8. Cartwright OF Luray sold his
ESQ acre farm To Mundy and Scott.
q real estate firm, for 100000.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

Wonder If the fans will love the
umpire as much as ever this year
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

MTCHELL.-Funer services for
the late Howard Mitchell, who died
at the home of the parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John b. Mitchell, Tuesday morn
ing, will be held at the Cheesman
Funeral Home, Thursday afternoon,
February 10, 1914, ut two o'clock.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

Anyway the six weeks will soon
he gone.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

FICKLING.-Born Sunday, Feb. 10.
1914, to Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Tickling,
n nine pound boy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
BIRTHS, DEATHS. MARRIAGES

Elmer anderson, Forest City %.
1892 and
Leila Faulkner, New Sharon z.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19
WEDNESDAY MARKET
QUOTATIONS ON STOCKS, GRAINS
AND PROVISIONS, CLEANED sY
WIRE FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE COUNTRY.
CHICAGO Grain Markets.

FURNISHED by he C. o. Patton
Grain Co., correspondents, Lamson
Bros. & Coz
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

KENT.-Word was received by rel
atives in this city of the death of
Mrs Nellie Kent, wife of George 4.
Kent, at their home in Mt. Gilead,
Ohio, at 1870 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Kent will be remembered as
Nellie Thomas, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. p. l.. Thomas, formerly
of Oskaloosa. The remains will prob
ably be brought to Oskal0osa for in
terment Further announcement
later. ..-.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-19

lone on Gods side is a majority"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
AID CLUB MAY DOUBLE FIGURESE1
ASH|GHMARK FOR SALE OF STOCK
one.Day Campaign Nets $4,000 in Honolulu with the Good
Work Still Going On and the Other Islands Yet TO Be
Heard Fron,-Many Firms Have Not Been Solicited -
HIo Board of Trade Expected to Pmge Heavily

Members of the Ad Club committee
are very jubilant over the splendid
success of yesterday. They expressed
their iubilation last night at the EAd
Club dinner and are repeating it to-
day. A. l. g. Atkinson. chairman OF
the committee, declared it to be one
of the greatest things Honolulu has
ever done, and H. L. Strange, secre-
tary, was equally enthusiastic.
The good feeling which had been
growing during the day as the stock
suh"3riptions poured in reached its
h:eh point at the dinner last night
The Ad Club members, and the women
who had assisted in the sales, assem-
bled in the upper banquet room OF
the Young hotel at o'clock, and it
was net until two hours later that
they left.
In that time speeches were heard
from many of the men who had taken
leading part in the whirl-wind cam
paign yesterday. President w. r. Far
ringtOn at the head of the table, with
Continued on page eight
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HAWAII COUNTY
TO Finish AUDIT
Especial star-BnIIetln Wireless


HILo, Jan. s.-Without a negative
vote, but with only passive support
given the measure, the Hawaii county
board Of supervisors today passed the
special appropriation Of 5000 to com.
pIete the audit Of Hawaii county H.
nancial affairs.
Because Of tire fact that the measure
was introduced with resolution cen:
sdrine the Hawaii probe Commission
and criticizing its work, the commits
sion's supporters on tire board were
not very active in uphoIding the ap-
preparation. The resolution Of eensure
later passed by vote Of four to three.
Supervisors Yates, Pritchard and Ly.
man opposed this resolution as use
less.
While very genefal. the resolution
is strong in Iangusserand extremely
wordy.
In the form that the appropriation
bill is passed, it does not specify
whether the probe commission, which
was named the last legislature to look
into Hawaii affairs, or the board Of
supervisors itself shall do the work
under the new sum appropriated.
However, 1t looks now as IT, H.. Good
ing Field, auditor of the commission,
will lose, because there b now but
one vote on the board In favor of re-
tanning him to carry on the audit.
The situation may switch.
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CARNIVAL committees ARE NOW
GETElNGDOWN 7OHARD WORK

will be canoe and sailboat races and
a variety of other water sports. The
committee is composed of Jack
Young, chairman; John Drew, F. w
klebahn, c.. p. Morse, r. w. zAtkin'
son, F. w. Wichman, Judge A. A.
Wilder, H. G. Plummer, D. l.. Mac,
Kaye, A. S. Robertson, W., N. Patten,
J. E. Jaeger, George McEldowney. G.
e. Schaefer, Henry N. Denison, Eben
p, Low, James w. Robertson, W.. NJ.
Buchanan and e. H. Steel.
Another committee which will hold
its initial meeting this evening will
be that recently appointed by Mr..
Dougherty to have charge of the fire.
works display to be held at Moiliili
park one night during the carnival.
Floral Parade Committee.
The Floral Parade committee, the
largest yet appointed, met for the
first time last evening and sub-divid-
Continued on page three)
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Personnel of Assistants Insures
Success of This Section of
the Floral Parade j..

G. r.. Frazier once more will head
the subcommittee of the Floral Pa
rade committee on floats and will un-
dertake the difficult task, which he
has so. ably handled in years gone by.
of securing elaborately decorated
horse-drawn and motor floats for the
crowning event of the 1914 Mid-Pa-
ciflc Carnival Other members Of this
committee are: Raymond G. Brown,
A. Richley, Norman E. Gedge. A. r.
Gurrey, Jr., W. F. Armstrong, Ed
Towse, ]. ]. Belser and T., NJ. Church.
Each member of this committee is
a "live-wire" and can be- depended
upon to take hold of the arIuous job
which faces him and work towards the
end that the float section of the 1914
parade shall be superior to all pre-
yious ones. The Job is a difficult one
and the members of the committee
fully realize it, however. They are
starting out with that enthusiasm that,
spells success, +. IL
Mr.. Frazier at first declined to serve
Continued on mage eight = =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-08
GOVERNOR PINKHAM
SAYS NOTHING NEW
ON SUGAR LAND LEASES

II have told through the public press
of Honolulu all that | have TO say at
the present time concerning public
lands" said Governor Pinkham today,
when he was asked concerning the
interview purpOrting to have been Civ
en- out by him at San Francisco on
his land policy in Hawaii which was
published this morning.
The governor said he had not read
the story and had not seen the San
Francisco paper containing the alleged
interview He added that he intends
proceeding slowly in formulating de-
tails Of his policies. particularly that
affecting the public domain of the
islands Until he had thoroughly de-
cided however, he asserted he did not
intend entering any public discussion
of the subject.
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Honolulu Appeals to Maids and
Matrons as Matrimonial Mart
LIFE COMPANIONS
SOUGHT IN LETTERS
TO STAR-BULLETIN

| Letters continue reaching here
from women who wish to marry but
are without fances. Within a short
time the Star-Bulietin has received a
| surprisingly large number OF such
missives, asking that young men
describing the particular kind desired
communicate with them. provided
they have matrimonial intentions" ."
Whether Honolulu is suddenly to
develop into a matrimonial mart or
whether there is a countrywide de-
mand just at this time for husbands,
or whether ii is a mere coincidence
that these letters have piled in all at
once, with nothing of economic or so
cial significance indicated by them,
arc possible questions which may be
answered easier and with more as
surance at a later date.
There is, in all these letters, some
thing of pathos and something of
humof. And the pathos is as un-
conscious as the humor. Now ii Is
OF the work which seems to be with
out Its reward and hardly providing
a livelihood, writing for a husband
to rescue her, from her present
sphere, and again 1t is little widow
sitting in the back room, yearning
for the company and care of a man.
The letters are all different and yet
all the same. The same thought
started each letter and finished it.
And though they may describe in
different ways their purpose in writ
ing, and lay emphasis on dissfmilar
points, and verbally blush and STAN
lner In degrees, they are all general
ly the same They want a husband
and are willing to write for one.
II am very lonely" writes a won.
an who later comedies in her missive
that she is widow and endowed
with personal attractiyeness. Il am
lonely and / wish to correspond with
nice gentleman"-the object being
matrimony..
And the shop girl who writes is
tired Of the unending work and In
an introspective moment finds that
she is not fitted for her position or
content with it, but that she is made
to be a wife and mother, that 1t is
her rightful heritage-and that with
out IL she will never be happy. Per |
haps there are no tear stains on her
letter but one wouldn't be surprised
TO find them there No doubt she
wept before she wrote and e.after.3
wards aand she may Be weeping now,
They are all, these letters, in al
way tragedies of the lonely heart,
and one who Is not struck with the
pathos or sadness of them must be
very dull or very cold. The world
has not played fair with them or they
have not played fair with the world,
and at last they have been aroused
to their own forlornness, their own
loneliness-and yearn for. a husband.
When they wrote the letters it must
have been with final, almost des-
pairing hope. The new meaning OF
life they have awakened to, of a hus' !
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VIII the $40,000-mark be reached
With 31,766 already subscribed for
stock in the Mid-Pacifc Carnival, due
to the whirl-wind campaign OF the
Ad Club yesterday, and the other isl
ands not heard from, and many local
firms and individuals still to be so
licited, the indications are more than
promising that the Ad Club will sell
twice the amount it undertook to sell
that it will hit the $40,000-mark.
Though the one-day campaign is
over, the work has not ended, the
sale teams have not stopped. Many of
them, unable to see all of the persons
on. their list yesterday, are out today,
and they will report the results to
Harry Strange late this afternoon. Mr..
Strange said this morning that sew
eral firms, particularly Japanese firms,
feeling that they had been left out,
had telephoned him to send a sales
man to them. Which, needless to say,
was done.
Returns from Kauai where E. E.
Nahum is busily engaged for the Ad
Club, are expected to be received by
wireless during the afternoon w O.
Aiken of Maui has sent word that it
will require few days more for him
to complete the island He intimates
that he is meeting with success at all
hands. G. H. Wears, the representa-
tive on Hawaii will not submit a final
report until Tuesday afternoon This
is due to a luncheon to be given al
that time by the Hilo board of trade
at which occasion Wears will appear
to urge all present to subscribe liberal
ly to the carnival stock
Having reached the S30OOO-mark
during the dinner Of the Ad Club last
evening. the statesmen are determined
to increase this Unexpectedly high to-
tai AS most Of the stock sold falls
under the assessable class-that is.
10 per cent paid down with the agree
ment to pay an additional 40 per cent
this year on an assessment. is such
an assessment is levied-it is to the
advantage of the subscribers that AS
much stock as possible be sold. The
more stock sold the less assessment
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band and love and children, must
have seemed almost out Of reach, a
height almost impossible to attain.
Their delay had been too long or
their awakening almost too late. So
they flung their letters to the world,
willing to pay the price of embarrass.
ment or possible humiliation, boldly
taking a long-shot chance stos win
what they might have easily won be-
fore. .<s.-@.@r =
And withal there is an unconscious
humor in the letters. One smiles at
the simple candor of them. The lit
tie widow in her missive processes a
lasting preference for Hawaiian mel
odies, and hopes that the man who
accepts her invitation for correspond.
ence is not bald. Her worthy and
deceased husband had such beautiful
hair, she confides. Yet the hair and
the melodies are only preferences
with her. She is lonely and wishes
a. husband, anu no doubt il an appii-
cant Were bald, or purblind, a hater
Of music she. would take him for her
spouse so long as he was pnice!"$t 4 :
one may feel skeptical about few
of the letters, perhaps for no good
reason. The idea occurs that they
are "adYenturesses." Adventuresses
one or two may be, fair or not fair
to see, but they are the rare excep-'
ton, like black sheep in a flock.
The very simpleness and frankness
of the great majority of the missfves
90 to show tnat the writer's are sim
cere in. their request. They want
and they have made bold to ask for
a husband-and they are wondering
if +bav haye tried for one too late,
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IMPORTANT If
TRUE IS THIS
CURRENT RlIMOR


That federal commission, namul
by President Wilson with the advice
of Secretary Lane or Secretary Hous
ton, is coming to Hawaii to conduct
an Investigation of business condi.
tions here resulting from Democratic
tariff legislation, is q rurnor current
in local business circles. 1t could not
be learned today that the Tumor is
based on any positive information
from Washington, and on the other
hand, Governor Pinkham said that he
has heard nothing of such an investi-
CATION. - g ,,s I s H., ~ ~. A., 80
:. When asked this Z S1nSrning reaggai' /
ing the report, the governor said
81 have had no intination of any
such action. would be inclined to
regard it as rather premature -.