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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-08-06

Streams Of the county that were
low are showing the result OF heavy
rains 10 the northwest Of MS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
PIONEERS OF THE FRONTIER
Red-Rlooded Men and Women Were
Those Who Carved an Empire
From Wilderness.

No doubt the run of the continent"
has improved the fiber of the Ameri-
can people. OF course, the well estab-
lished and the intellectuals had nc mo-
tive to seek the west; but in energy
and venturesomeness those who sought
the frontier were superior to the
average of those In their class who
stayed behind. 1t was the pike rather
than the carp that found their way
Of the pool. Now, in the main,
those who pushed through the open
door of opportunity left more children
than their fellows who did not. Often
themselves members of large families,
they had fecundity, as it were, in the
blood. With land abundant and the
outlook encouraging, they married
earlier. In the narrow life of the
young west, love and family were
stronger interests than in the older
society; hence all married. Thanks
to cheap living and to the need of
helpers, the big family was welcomed.
Living by agriculture, the west knew
little of cities. manufactures, social
rivalry, luxury and a serving class, all
foes Of rapid multiplication.-From
Origins of the American People," by
Prof. Edward A. Ross, in the Century.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
TOLD OF ULsTERMEN
suII Worthy of Any One From the
County OF Cork-"canny" About
Marriage Fees.

The FISHERMAN is not incapable Of
a bull, says the British Weekly. 1t
was an Ulster marquis who endeared
himself to his tenantry by the memoir
able bull uttered in his speech at all
agricultural dinner: Il wish my farm
ers would use iron plows, because
they last forever, and will afterwards
sell as old IRON"
1t was an fisherman who at a
funeral observed the awkward work
of an unaccustomed hand, and ex
claimed as he seized a shovel: Il
wasn't seven years counting a sex
toms daughter without learning to
sod a grave"
No matter how large the brides for
tune, the fisherman generally grum-
bled over the marriage fee.
wouldn't half a crown timpt YEP
asked a bridegroom Of the officiating
minister when the clerk demanded the
usual five shillings.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
GU0RMET TO SARCASM
Evidently French Restaurant Wine
Was Not Exactly the Quality
He Had Ordered.

William e. Corey praised at a Pitts.
burgh club the wines of California.
Aour California Wines" said the
steel magnate, ARE much better than
wines of a similar price in France
for French wines are SO ~adulterated
today that even a high-priced one
often tastes like burnt sugar and
water"
But the fine wines, the grand cru
wines are wonderful" a young banker
interrupted.
Mr.. Corey shook his head.
Not always" he said. "a friend
OF mine, a gourmet with whom
lunched not long ago at a fashionable
boulevard restaurant in Paris, ordered
a bottle of very old celebrated Mar.
gaux. Pouring out a little Of the wine
and rolling it on his tongue in true
gourmet fashion he made a wry face.
Waiter he demanded. What
wine is this you brought me?'
1T is what monsieur ordered was
the reply. 'Margaux 1895, grand cru.
Humph,' sneered my friend, how
lucky it is to be so old and to conceal
Its age SO WE'LL"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
uaIiness a Qualification.

Some bygone housewives appear to
have regarded ugliness as a quality
to be desired in their servants. When
Eliza Coke, daughter Of Coke Of Nor,
folk, was about to marry, she wrote
to her prospective mother-in-law:
Pray, have the goodness to decide
as you think best about the pretty
housemaid. l wish she were less
pretty and less fond Of dress, but if
her conduct and principles are good
neither are really Objectionable faults.
l think our establishment will be a
pattern of mortality, particularly if
Mr.. Stanhope engages the squirting
butler and the terrible housemaid he
mentioned to me-"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Ideals and Hoveis.
Albion Fellows Bacon in The Sur

Albion Fellows Bacon In The Survey.
II ia a wonder how one could expect any
Of the children Of our Sums to have any
true ideals. How could we expect that
out OF those thousands OF miserable
"homes' should be born ono architect or
artist. author, statesman, or even one de-
cent citizen7 How could we expect one OF
them. when they grow Up. to vote FOR
lido Improvement. or to stand Tor
churches or schools? How could we e1-
meet any OF them to be patriots?
Crowded into filthy sites, with no room
tor a family circle unless they sit on the
heds about the cook stove, with no sane.
titv Of home life. would your affairs and
,-n;,r fires" mean anything to them!
Wyyou,d "America2'' They know only the
straat cobble rocks" only the gutter
Ellis" and tho woods and tempted
bilIs' could have no place in im~aginauons
hi were atrophied in babyhood.
" used to long to give the children an
Aiaddin's lamp that would open to them
q doorway into a higher world. or at least
tive them a shining ladder by which they
.n,eht climb out of their gloomy prison
Rmf what fairy could ever be expected to
visit those sodden yards. where nothing
Down deep in my heart came y knowi.
adoe that I could never rest until l couId
Az Notwithstanding to wipe out me
Not = ~ the Stun. to lift the shadow, the
bnrror Of its ugliness-to give beauty fo1
ashes
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Critic Gets ReIiaion.

"Dowling's" burned out on Times
square the other night, and those who
for years had occupied rooms above
the famous old billiard hall were
forced to run for their lives in what
raiment they happened to be wearing
at that nocturnal moment. Among
them was Kid Critic, who was at one
time a fighter and is today the best
piano player between midnight and
one o'clock in an uptown music hall.
II did a nut trick" Critic is quoted
as saying. Il took two flights Of stairs
in two jumps, wi the fire bitin' at me.
If I'd been left at the post you coulda
buried me in a fryin' pan"
"And what did you get?" asked his
friend.
"0n them stairs" said Mr.. Critic, Il
gets a pair of singed hands and re.
Ggion."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

No Joke.

At the Chicago Athletic club a
game had been put up on a cynical
old bachelor. The man had waited
from eight to ten in the park on a
snowy evening in obedience to a
pale pink, violet-scented note that his
friends had faxed in order to see il
he was really as confirmed a woman
Halter as he claimed.
Turning up at the club for a night
cap, the duped and frozen bachelor
was very sullen and sulky when his
friends derided him. He saw no fun
whatever in the fake note.
George AIDE, noticing his black and
lowering looks, gave a loud laugh and
said:
What a skinfint you must be-!
Won't even laugh at a joke, eh, if it's
at your own ~expense?"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Grundy or Shaw,

Sydney Grundy has written a little
pamphlet in which he has gone for
Mr.. Bernard Shaw with a Ratchet.
He says: "Mr. Shaw is a spent force
"a closed chapter-a tale that is
told-a back number lost chord-a
fired rocket-an exploded mine-an
extinct volcano, vomiting only ashes
and dust. Mr.. Shaw is done. His
star is on the wane; his candle only
cutters in its socket; his beauty is
passe, his wheezes are chestnuts, his
sleights Of hand transparent, his
humors rheum. He Is running a race
with time, and gave himself twenty
years start, and time is beating. him
to a fragile.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Too Good.

ITO say that honesty is the best pol
icy-to say in other words, that the
more honest you are the richer you
will become-that is a silly and self
evident lie"
The speaker, Harvey Woodruff, the
well-known G. A. r. historian of Hous-
ton, had been discussing the honesty
Of George Washington. He continued:
ITO be virtuous means to be poor
and w%retched. Take the case of Auntie
Martha Washington Clay.
'Auntie Martha visited the Office of
a Nola Chucky lawyer and said:
"tAh wants a divorce from nah hus-
band Cal
why, %auntie, what has Cal been
doing"
Hes done got religion, sab, an an
hain't tasted chicken TO- free months .
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
LlFE'S ROAD
Smoothed by Change OF Food.

Worry is a big load to carry n an
unnecessary one When accompanied
by Indigestion it certainly is cause for
the blues.
But the whole trouble may be easily
thrown of and life's road be made
easy and comfortable by proper eating
and the cultivation Of good cheer.
Read what a Troy woman says:
1.-TWO years ago I made the acqualnt-
ence of Grape-Nuts and have used the
food once a day and sometimes twice,
ever since.
AT the time I began to use 1t life
was a burden. I was for years affict-
ed with bilious sick headache, caused
by indigestion, and nothing seemed to
relieve me.
'"The trouble became so severe
had TO leave my work for days at a
time.
My nerves were In such a state
could not sleep and the doctor said
was on the verge Of nervous prostra'
ton. I saw an adv. concerning Grape
Nuts and bought a package for trial
What Grape-Nuts has done for me
Is certainly marvellous. l a now
sleep like a child, am entirely free
from the old trouble and have not mao
a headache in over a year. / feel Ike
a new person. I have recommended IL
o others. One man I knew ate prln'
cipally Grape-Nuts while working OF
the Ice all winter, and said he never
felt better in his life"
Name given by Postum Co, Bafte
Creek, Mich. Read 1.-The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's q hea'
SON.
Ever read the above letterf A rev
one appears from time to t1me. They
are genuine, true, nnd run OK su"
interest.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
WATERY BLISTERS ON FACE

Smith-ille, Ind.-"Six months ago
our baby girl, one year old, had a few
red pimples come on her face which
gradually spread causing her face to
become very irritated and a fiery red
color. The pimples on the child's face
were at first small watery blisters, just
a small blotch on the skin. She kept
scratching at this until in a few days
her whole cheeks were fiery red color
and instead Of the little blisters the
skin was cracked and scaly looking
and seemed to itch and burn very
much.
I'VE used a number of remedies
which seemed to give relief for a short
time then leave her face worse than
ever. Finally we got a cake of Cuti-
cura Soap and a box Of Cuticura ONT
ment. l washed the child's face with
very warm water and Cuticura Soap,
then applied the Cuticura Ointment
very lightly. After doing this about
three times a day the itching and
burning seemed entirely gone in two
days time. Inside OF two weeks time
her face seemed well. That was eight
months ago and there has been no re-
turn of the trouble" (Signed) Mrs.
A. K. Wooden, Nov. 4, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Peace in That Family.

A little girl being lost, was taksn
the police station, where the o6aosu1
tried to learn her name. At Last, a1fM
many vain efforts, one Of them Aa1so
her:
Tell me, dear, what names 1oo4
your mother call your fatherr
She doesn't call him any na1AS
the child answered, ~innocently. -H4
likes him" 4
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
He Had Experience,

Once upon a time a small boy
about three years old was taken to the
church to be baptized. AS soon as
he caught sight Of the bowl of water
in the minister's hand he remembered
his antipathy for the bathtub and
Strengthened himself UP for the at,
tack.
When the minister approached him,
reverently dipping his hand in the wa.
ter, the little fellow said:
eff you put toap in my eyes III
bus you open."-National Monthly.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Nice Woman This.

Snapp-Well, all the fools are not
dead yet.
Mrs. Snapp-I'm glad Of it. l W.
did look we'll in black.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Welded.

Boob-Weak things become strong
when united.
Miss Tarte-Why don't you marry
Judge
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

A successful man must expect to be
envied and abused as we'll 8 to DC
admired and respected.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Then the Apparatus is in Demand.

A visitor was being SHOWN through
a lid lifting athletic club. The chief
attraction seemed to be the liquid
gymnastic department However, there
was a cheaply equipped gymnasium
which showed evidences of disuse.
There was dust on the Indian clubs
and cobwebs on the dumBbells.
Don't the members ever use this
equipment?" the visitor asked.
"Oh, yes, occasionally-when a fight
starts," was the reply.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
An Economical Man.

I'VE can't finish Europe. 1t will
cost entirely too much
I'VE gotta finish 1t. Amt going
to let this 81 guide book go to waste
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
So Obedient.

Stealthily Light-Fingered Sam
slipped up behind the strolling pedes-
trian.
My doctor said I needed a little
change, didn't he?" he murmured to
himself.
And then he took it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

Moggs-Has Younggold horse sense
Spoggs-No, he wears a horse
blanket overcoat.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Made a Good Bargain.

UIdHC q 1VV0 Ia 8d1f.
A mine, now said to be e~xceedtn62N
rich, was sold by it's native AfrfcaA
owner for a pair of trousers and q
cap.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

In 1910 there were rs wldow .
svery 100 wid0vsra IN inc oNi'a
StateG
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

The secret of getting a hearing is
in having little to say.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

When a girl jilts a young man she
may do him a great kindness-but he
doesn't realize 1t until later.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12

Anybody can dye successfully WIN
Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
hsaSIlSNkHkEY p 5es !

SIOUX CITY PIG. Co, NO. 11-1s17
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
Paradox.

And then he took it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08
What Governor Glynn Can't Defend.

Instead Of devotng the principal part of his
Labor Day speech to defence Of the workmen
compensation law, Governor Glynn should nave de-
Tended the machinery for enforcing it. The law
needs no defence No legislation Of so important
character can be perfect and manlfesty this
statute isn't. Yet it is probably, all things con-
sidered the best and most advanced law Of all
employers liability statutes in this country.
That makes it all the more lamentabe that the
machinery for enforcing it should have been turned
over to Tammany. The best law that ever existed
WAS no better than its enforcement. Tammany's
enforcement Of laws never has been the standard
set for this state. Perhaps that was why Governor
Glynn did not dwell on his appointment Of Mr..
Bowling. Murphy's friend as chairman Of the COM
mission. and Of DR.. Darlington Il Murphy Office
holder and Murphys candidate for Borough PreSi.
dent Of Manhattan, as member. Perhaps that
was why the Governor failed to mention that Frank
A. Spenser described as willing at any time to 20
the limit for us" i'll the famous Murphy letters
which found their way into print, got the job of
secretary to the commission Perhaps that was
why the Governor didn't tell his audience that
Patrick Whitney, Murphys friend and Tammany
iobholder; "Tom" brennan, a McCOOey adherent
forced out Of a city job by the Mitchell admins
tration; August Lauter, one of julius Harburger's
retainers George w. Batten an upstate wardmdn
Of NIurphy's, and Daniel Goulden, Murphy man,
have all landed Jobs at $4,000 a year as deputy
commissioners.
The Worknen's Compensation Commission,
through Governor Glynns appointments and their
appointments has become house Of refuge for
incompetents. These men utterly unfit either
by technical training or experience to administer
their important offices. The Governor should stop
talking about the terms Of the law which is 4
thing accomplished, and defend Tammany's grab
bing of the patronage to the manifest detriment of
the workingmans interest-if he thinks he can
defend It,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08
CONDEMNATION FOR ALL
English Blood Lust as Evl as Ger
many'S, Il Is Asserted.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If our newspapers are to take
the position of supporting all Things
British and denouncing all things
German, would it not be fair to their
readers to so state?
Germany is denounced for using
her Zeppelins for bomb throwing
Why was not France so called TO &C
count for using her aeroplanes at
the beginning of this war? True,
france has entered a denial within the
last few days, but this statement has
been so long delayed as to carry very
little weight. | am not attempting TO
defend this mode of warfare. war IS
hell"
Is there any difference between the
German ChancellOr's view Of the neu-
trality of Belgium and the statement
of the Japanese Embassy at Washing
ton re the neutrality of China?
Why such an attack of anglophobia !
President Wilson asked that we
should refrain from taking sides IN
this European situation. That is good
advice, and / have yet to hear an
American citizen complain. For some
reason The Tribune chose to ignore
this advice by printing the cable OF
Richard Harding Davis. That Mr.. Davis
should feel peeved at being arrested ls
natural, and as he was on English soil
he may have considered it good politics
to write as he did Had that cable and
the one from him printed in to-day's
pepper appeared side by side they would
have practically destroyed each other,
so far as any bias against any particu-
lar country was concerned.
Who does not deplore a holy wal"
such as will doubtless be waged by
Turkey? But why was not an editorial
such as that in to-day's issue launched
against England when Japan was
brought into this war? There has yet
to be brought forward any good reason
why Japan should have interfered
England, 1t is true, wants all the help
that she can get; but the same srgu-
ment holds true of Germany. Japan
has already violated her promise as
to respecting the neutrality of China
by landing troops outside of the war
zone. Yet we hear no protests. Why
is this?
Where lies the greatest menace to
these United States? A victorious Eng
land, with Japan as an appendage, or
Vlct0rlouS-and this seems lmpos-
sible-Germany, with Turkey as an
appendage? If it was necessary for
Germany and Austria, France, Russia
and Servia to 60 to war, why should
England join inn Because of her guar
antee Of Belgium's neutrality? |
think not, for she has also guaranteed
the neutrality Of China, which is being
violated, but she raises no protest. Has
she rot in the near past guaranteed
other neutralities which have been
violated, but with no protest from her?
Is not this entire conhict CONNER
Cialism gone mad, and will not the
victors pay a staggering price for a
feeting commercial supremacy? Why
should England call in Japan, and Ger
many call in Turkey? Can we call
coalition of England, Russia and japan
"hOly," and Germany and Turkey sun
holy?
Let as condemn the blood lust that
has seized all these countries, and that
in no unmeasured terms, but let as
make this condemnation impartial.
AMERICAN.
Newton, N. j., Sept. 4, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08
THE CAUCASIAN IN CHINA
The European Soldier as the Chinese
Saw Him in the Boxer Period.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We hear Of German atrocities
and barbarsm in time of war | sup
pose faults can be found as well on
the French side, although it is not
custom of the Latins in general to be
without heart regarding their enemies.
What | have to relate will tell more
than all the more or less true stories
we read in the newspapers. ! resided
in China after the war of 1900, when
the allies, including Germany, Eng
land. France, Japan, etc, were lighting
the Boxers.
In many curo shops of Canton,
China, anybody could buy litDe groups
of colored porcelain, showing soldiers
from the different countries at war
with China. One of them was the pict-
urc Of Il German soldier, with black
beard and terrible eyes, cutting the
throat of a Chinese woman. Another
was the picture of n French soldier,
with red trousers and little pointed
mustache, smile OIL his lips, carry
ing a couple of Chinese babies in his
arms. still another was a Russian
burning a house. A thin English ma
rine was filling his pockets with gold.
The Oriental point of view of the
different characters of foreign soldiers
as above has always fingered in my
memory, and | advise American tour
lists visiting cuTio shops of South China
to satisfy them selves as to the veracity
of my statement. LEO DURAN.
583 Riverside Drive, New York, Sept.
4, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08
The Atrocity Tales.

The signed statement of five American newspaper
correspondents who have been in Belgium, assert
ing that they had seen no evidences of German
cruelty. is impressive Reports of other American
and neutral correspondents who have been in the
rear of the German lines are to the same effect.
The probability is that most of the charges Of
atrocity are pure inventions and they would gain
little credence here if it had not been for Ger
many's one act of official sayagery, the sack and
burning of Louvain.
There are always individual cases of cruelty in
war Discipline cannot have an eye upon every
thing that happens and petty officers, like the
one who recently in times of peace saShed the
poor cripple in Alsace will always be found who
will be guilty of wanton acts Of cruelty against
civilians in an enemy's country. But no doubt
the instances in this have been multiplied
many times, for the sake of stirring UP martial
spirit in the countries opposed to Germany and
with a view to influencing opinion in this neutral
nation. The press here prints the stories that
come over for what they are worth, just as it
will print GermanyS tales Of Outrases when the
invasion of Germany begins, if it ever does begin.
The public here doubtless takes them all with
reservation The burning of Louyain DANA god
Germany in the eyes of Americans. 1t was an
official act officially admitted. But we question
whether any of the atrocity tales have produced
the slightest effect. Germany's real sin in Ameri-
can eyes is that she fights against all that America
stands for and that her victory would fasten
tighter than ever the terrible burden of militarsm
upon the world and place the fate of MANKIND
in the hands of arms manufacturers and military
coteries,