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THE HERALD }• k.aiak *a. Mahaska Co., lowa PI BUSH »u nv Herald Printing Company- THURSDAY. JUNE 16, 1881. Tlie Farm aid floossiielfl. £ 7%is Department of The Herald is edited by a practical farmer. All communications intended far the Agricultural F.ditor should be addressed to Lodi Hot No. 533 Farmer* are invited,to con tribute matters of interest -1 THE BARMPTON SHORT HORNS. The sale of short-horn rattle, to occur at the Fair Grounds, near this city, on Thursday, June 30, 1881, brings Into notice one of the oldest and best short horn families known to reputable breed ers and the record. The pedigree of these animals is traced by the books back to as far as 1750, in England—to the name of cow and sire, and very place where bred, making the corapletest chain that can be presented. Now these cattle, being so well bred, and bred by a responsible ui »u who lives among u.% and who has lived among us for the past thirty years, should be injected into Mahaska county herds, and not allowed to be taken away by out siders. We say this in the interest of breeding good and profitable cattle, and where these heads of herds can be had right here at home, the opportunity should be improved. These cattle are not the culls of eastern herds, with irregular, spurius or defective pedigrees —such as a number .carry which ha\c been palmed off by designing men as being pure bred. It should be remem bered by our friends that !.fr. Smith breeds and raises his own cattle, and does not buy to sell again. His herd is a re markably productive one, as this -state ment will illustrate, when he says : ••At the time of my i>ublt<' ?ale of .Shori-hoin cattle, on April Uth, 1877. 1 retained seventeen lemaies of different ages and Thorndale < Umax il«ca. Three of these died of old age and two proved barren. Since then I purchased three lemaies and Rose Duke 80aOi, and have sold Thorndale Climax and a number of young bulls and have now about seventy cattle of all age*. I now propose to sell fifty-five animals, mostly young ones, ail [excepting sixl of my own raising, many of which are my rvrg <>est animals ’’ This tiliows a wonderful increase, and the thinking farmer will he apt to make a note of it. It is a fair question to tusk: if the Barmptou blood is good, what do the leading Short-llorn authorities say about them, and what is their reputation with them. That is a fair test. Judge Jones, for many years the cattle editor of the National Live Stock Journal , says of the Barniptons, -‘The name is a very appro priate one. and the pedigree one of the very best—full of the richest blood of the early days, and running to the very foundation of Short-horn history to * * * a point bar k nf which no Short horn pedi gree extends. The sort, it will lie seen, is the old Colling Brighteyes, always and deservedly popular." Bailey’s Short-horn Reporter, on page 22, No. 3, Vol. 1, in referring to ‘-Lady Barmptons,” among other things states: •There is also a tendency to eavc the best old foundation pedigrees and top them with the most fashionable bulls. The Beauty by Do Veaux pedigree, an excellent one, with four crosses of Favourite, Is now being properly ap preciated, and is to be saved from further •plain’ top crosses.” From the same volume, on page 23, the same authority *<ays, speaking of the Lady Barmptons— "We are glad to see that tbe excellent Beauly by De Veaux family is being classified. It would be diflicult to find a richer pedigree, and it only wants bulls of the right sort on top to make it one of the leading American families. Use Dukes or pure Booths, gentlemen, and in ten years your five-cross heifers will sell at Loudon Duchess price? ” Hon. A. S. Mathews, of Wytheville, Va., one of the most learned gentlemen in America on pedigrees of Short-horns, who also possesses a very extensive and reliable personal knowledge in relation to many animals of the early importations, writes, among other items in a letter to Mr. Smith: **Tbe pedigree of Beauty by De Veaux is the Prince?s pedigree, and is one of the richest and best, and as good as any Prin cess pedigree. ’’ We aTe well satisfied that this strain ol Short-horns, in the hands of such careful bre&ler as Mr. Smith, will assume a rightful popularity. They represent the best blood now moving, and wise will be the men who will improve their herds by additions from this herd, and judicious • crosses. —All t over the country the agricultura ■offerers during the last winter found some consolation for its severity in the hope, generally felt and frequently expressed, that its unusual rigor would destroy or greatly diminish some of the multitudinous species of insects that injuie vegetation and the farmer. From present indications this hope appears to have been fallacious. Reports from most parts of the country declare that insect pests are already un usually numerous and destructive. In the East the potato beetle and the Army worm seem to be particularly aggressive, and chinch bugs and other grain-harming pests in the West and Northwest. Late reports from Colorado say that the State is also threatened with a grasshopper plague. In the frontier States and Terri tories some apprehensions are already felt of a locust visitation. A hot season, with dry westerly winds, is specially favorable to the easterly movement of these vora cious pests. In view of the fact that the loss from this scourge is calculated by the Entomological Commission that lately in vestigated the matter, at upwards of $45,- 000.000 in 1874, a like visitation this year would be ruinous to the afflicted region and disastrous to the nation at large. —The New Zealand GazetO contains that a bonus of £SOO ($2,500) will be given for the first 25 tons of but ter and the first 50 tons of chceae produc ed in a factory worked on the American principle, and to which any farmer, sub jeet to certain conditions, may send his milk, which shall be exported from New Zealand and sold at such prices in a for eign market as shall show that the articles are of fair quality. This shows how the farm industries in those far off countries are encouraged and developed And yet there are idiots in Congress who refused to vote a paltry sum in the test making in sorghum and sugar making Political death and oblivion ought to overtake every narrow-paled son of them —Most farmers, probably, believe that the great bulk of constituents of their crops are derived from the soil. This is a very great mistake. 'I ake, for instance, a hay or pasture field. The carbon, hy drogen and oxygen on the plants are de rived from the atmosphere, the nitrogen and mineral matter from the soil. This would be equivalent to 92 per cent of dry nay being derived from the atmosphere and only 8 per cent from the soil. From this it may be seen that the fatmer, who nas all these ingredients locked up in his manures, which he might apply to his land for plant food, hy letting it lie scat tered until decomposed and wasted, sends off 92 per cent of it to feed the plants of other lands, perhaps of farms a thousand miles away. —Think of it! The government of the United States annually appropriates less than one ninth as much mnnery for the promotion of agriculture as it does for tbe support of the army, consisting of 20,000 men. Compare this number of farmers who constitute the basis of the nation's wealth and prosperity, and devel oping our enormous agricultural in dustries which supply home demand* for food and feed hundreds of thousands in foreign lands! —Tbe Denver Colorado litier-Octun aaya that enough alfalfa has been sold in that State this year to seed 10,000 acres, which next year will give an increase of fuOOO tone of hay worth $1,250,tQ0 eati mating the yield at el* tons ai acre.. On eome farms near Denver it has produced and nine tons. SAVING MOTHER. The farmer sal m hi- easy cliuir Between the flro and the lamplight’s glare His face was rudy and lull and fair. His three small boy* in the chimney nook conned the lines of a picture book; His wife, the pride of Ids home and heart, Baked the biscuit and made the tart. Laid the table and steeped the tea. Deftly, swiftly, silently; Tired and weary and weak and faint Sho bore her trials without complatnt. Like mauy another household saint— Content, all seltlsb bliss above In the patient ministry ot love. At last between the clouds of smoke That wreathed his lips the husband spoke ‘ There's taxes to raise, and int’restto pay— And It there should come a rainy day, •Twouhl be mighty handy, I’m bound to say. ’T’have Bumthin' put by. For folks must die An' there’s funeral bills, and grave-stones to buy— Kuough to swamp a man, purty nigh. Beside there's Edward and Dick and foe To be provided for when we go. So ’f 1 was you, I’ll toll ye what I du: I’d be savin’ of wood as ever 1 could— Extra fires don’t do any good— I’d be savin’ of sopc an' savin’ ol lie. And run up sonic candles once In a while I’d l»p rather sparin' of coffee an’ tea. For sugar is high. And all to buy. “And eider Is good enough drink lor me I’d be kind o’careful about my clo’es And look out sharp how the money goes - Gewgaws is useless, nater knows: Extra trimmin’ ’S the bane of women.” ••I’d sell off the best of my cheese and honey. And eggs is as good, nigh about, as the money; And as to tlie carpet you wanted new— [ guess we ran make the old one du. And as for the washer, an’ sewin’ machine, Them smooth-tongued agent’s so pesky mean, You'd better git rid of ’em slick and clean What do they know about women’s work? I»u they ealkilate woman was born to shirk?" Dick and Edward and little doe Slat in the corner in a row. They saw the patient mother go On ceaseless errands to and fro. They 6aw that her form was bent and thin, Hertemples gray, her cheeks sunk in. They saw the quiver of lip and chin And then, with a wrath he could not smother, Outspoke the youngest, frailest brother— •You talk of sav in’ wood and ile An’ tea an’ sugar all the while, But v..u uever talk of savin’ mothc FERMENTATION IN CIDER Notwithstanding the bitter opposition of radical temperance people to the use of apple eider, there are many really temper ate people who dearly love a cup of sweet cider, fresh and cleanly made. And the Agricultural Editor would not kick over that cup if he could. It is not half so in jurious to the health as tea or coffee, and neither are to be compared with the heav enly excellence of a gourd of clear spring water! But a* cider will be made, and as one of our readers desires to know bow best to avert the fermantationof the juice, and so keep it sweet, we can only give him tin* benefit of our experience, and that of others, as it may be at our command. In the first place do not try to arrest the active fermentation in cider when the. juice has taste. It will be use less. Hut commence in good season, say three or four days after griuding, when the pomace will have settled to the bot tom and take your choice of the following varied applications: Isinglass and brim stone [one ounce of the former and two of the latter for 30 gallons, j after being reduced tine in a mortar, are stirred into the fermenting cider. Sulphite of lime, or, preferred by some, sulphite of potash, is also applied to arrest fermentation. Sulphur has a strong influence In arrest ing fermentation In all bodies, but if too much is used in cider it affects the taste somewhat disagreeably. Sulphur is also applied in the form of sulphurous acid gas, in the following manner: —Put two gal lons of the fermenting cider into a purified empty cask, then Introduce through the bung hole, a lighted sulphur match by means of a piece of wire not so long as to reach the fluid. The match is made of thick linen dipped into melted brimstone. The linen is wetted at the end attached to the wire, and when the brimstone is con sumed in the barrel, the wire is with drawn, the bung closed and the barrel rolled to and fro for some time to cause the absorption of the sulphurous gas by the cider. The barrel is then filled with the cider, and Is to remain quiet till the subsidence of the ferment effected by the sulphurous gas. But it sometimes re quires several repetitions, according to the degree of acidity. This was the plan used thirty years ago. But if the writer were to try the renovation of too-much fermented cider he would filter the elder first through rectifiers, wood charcoal, excluding the air as much as possible, and then apply one ounce of salicylic acid to 30 gallons. The filtering would reduce the ferment and purify the rider, and salicylic acid would prevent further fer mentation. This add is dry and very light and should be completely mixed in the cider before putting in barrels. In putting up cider in the Fall, after filtering out all pomace, if about six pounds of fine charcoal are put in each barrel and stir red up, it will look like ink at first, but alter it subsides it will be very clear and fermeniation will be slow, and is the best of all preservatives. —As ha- been frequently stated the im migration into America is this year larger than ever before, and the arrivals during May were larger than those of many whole years in the past. The Superin tendent of Castle Garden gave a reporter some curious statistics the other day with regard to the nationalities that are repre sented among the thousands now arriving, lie says, “the most remarkable exodus at present «eems to be from Sweden. We expect at least eO.OOO Swedes over here this year. lam told that entire villages' and districts have become depopulated, and this may be true, as the, population is only about 4,000,000. Compare the num ber we expect this year with the 139 ar rivals from Sweeden in 1847! Before last year, our annual reports rarely showed more than 5,000 emigrants from there. In 1878 we had only 4,000, and iu 1879, 1.°,000. In 18S0, the number rose sudden ly to 35,000, and this year we expect more than twice as many. In 1831, 163,000 Irishmen arrived here. Since then the nnmlier has been smaller. In 1877 it was only 8,221. From that time there has been a steady increase until last year there were over 06,000 Irish arrivals. There have also been some remarkable fluctua tions in German 'immigration. When France paid the enormous indemnity after the Franeo-Pmssian war, we supposed Germany would be so prosperous that the Germans would remain at home. But In 1872 we received over 132,000 German im migrants, or more than have ever arrived here in a single year. After that the num ber fell off to between 20,000 and 33,000, until last year, when it suddenly went np to 104,*.>64.” —The Hoyal Agricultural Society of Ireland has a new departure Ich is quite a novel feature for the dissemination of information in regard to butter-making. It consists of an “Educational Dairy,” which is under the direction ol a member of the society, and visits different parts of the country to give instruction in the manufacture, manipulation and packing of fresh hotter for the English market Ap plications arc received by the council of the society from snch localities as may desire instruction, and a programme is then arranged. Arrangements are made for the instruction of dalry-malds, and for the lessons a small fee is charged to help defray expenses. At the recent show held in April at Eallsbridge the traveling educational dairy, fso says the Irish Farming Gazette], was one of the most prominent features. It was exhibited at full work daily, and the operations were witnessed by constant crowds The but ter-making was done by an Irish dairy maid from the South, who has been care fully instructed in the improved modern system of dairying- About sixty pounds of hotter were produced per day and sold to visitors 2s [24 cents], the demand being quite eqnal to the supply. —Certain rcturm juat nude in England in reference to aixteea counties show that farms arc going a-begging There are no tenants to take them Good land in the ten district of Huntingdonshire, which formerly—five or seven years ago— brought from 32 to 40 shillings per acre, is now let with difficulty at from IS to 25 ibilUoKS, clay laud, which let at 30 shil lings may now be had at from 7to 10, if any one cau be got to take it- la Leices tershire things are not much better. A farm of. 160 ai§es, half grass, which had been let for 80 years at 35 shillings an acre, has just been rclet for 20 shillings. —Joseph Boyd, writing to us from Ex tra, Audubon county, June 7, says: “In traveling from Oskaloosa to this point, I have seen some good country and some not so good. As a general thing the crops are backward, but the weed crop seems to he doing well. A great deal depends now on the cultivator. The people up in this part of the country are still plowing for corn. Some are planting, some cultivat ing, while some are not yet through tusk ing Stock of all kinds seem to be doing well. As to quality 1 think Mahaska will stand on an even footing with any of them. The fall wheat seems to be a fail ure ; rye will not be an average crop. As to politics, I presume they are all Repub licans, as they ought to be.” —A Michigan farmer writes that he has just cleaned one of his fields of a lot of stumps that has been an eyesore aud an noyance. For the purpose he used dyna mite cartridges put up in waterproof oil ed muslin, much like a candle in appear ance. With a crowbar ho bored a hole under the stump, inserted a piece of cart ridge about an inch in diameter and from two to four inches long, according to the size of the stump, exploded it by means of a percussion cap inserted in one end, and the stump was blown out, often in fragments ITEMS OF THE FARM —An unsystematic farmer may live, but he cannot thrive —Oak is stronger than Iron, both pieces being of equal weight. This is not true. —lnvest in a pot of good red paint, and paint all tools that are exposed to the weather or the heat of the sun. —lt i.« estimated that the yield of sor ghum syrup In lowa during 1880 was from 120 to £OO gallons per acre. —A Kossuth county farmer, who runs a small butter and cheese factory of his own, says his profits from each of his cows in ISSC were SGO. —About Battle (’reek, Mich., sheep are dying in great numbers. They appear dumpish, refuse to eat, lie down and die. No remedy yet hit upon. —England imports 820,000,000 worth of fertilizers annually. Hence it is that the English farmer cannot compete with his American brother. His expense Is too great. —Several well-known Scotch farmers are about to start on a tour through this country with a view to obtain informa tion regarding the prospects of agricul tural immigration. —To all appearances the yield of straw berries aloug the valley of the Hudson this season will be the largest over ob tained, and the berries will also%* larger than those of last year. —A gardener of Tampa, Florida, cut recently a bunch of banauas with ninety fingers. The stalk bearing the bunch was a year old, and grew in his yard. It was of the “dwarf” variety and about four feet high. —Quail are very abundant in Santa Bar bara county, Cal. In some places the farmers are compelled to poison them in order to protect the growing crops. Five acres of Lima Beans were wholly destroy ed by these birds on one farm. —Wliat Northwestern lowa can do In cattle raising is shown in a small item representing the whole, when It is stated that Chas. Botink, ot Jefferson, lowa, sold 53 head of 1,407 pound steers, for $5.85 per hundred pounds at Chicago. —Secretary Allen, of the Omaha Board of Trade, estimates the grain crop of Ne braska for 1881 at 10.‘>,000,000 bushels, an increase over 1880 of fully 30 per cent. The wheat crop is estimated at 10,000.000 bushels, a gain of about 50 per cent. —The Galveston, Texas, Xew thus speaks of one of the-tiicks of the trade: —“Some Texas papers print fabulous ac counts of the weights of fleeces from Merino sheep. The discount for dust is not given. Texans seldom wash their sheep before shearing or scour the wool afterwards.” —According toorticial returns the crops in Bohemia, Lower Austria, North Tyrol, and Dalmatia have suffered somewhat from frost. The prospects In the Central and Southern zones are good. In the North wheat promises well. Excellent results are expected from the vintage and fruit harvest. —“Cream from the milk of a cow 1 mouths after calving,” says Prof. Arnold, ‘requires about one and a half the time for churning as at one month after calving.” The longer the time which has elapsed since calving, the longer, ns a general rule, the cream will bo in turning to but ter. , —Fanciers of the great butter produc ing strain of Jerseys may be interested in knowing that Polonius liap a son in Dav enport, at the head of the Richardson Bros.’ herd ; also that the breeding of the cow Palm Is identical to that of Crust 2d, owned by the same firm. These Alphea strain of Jerseys are at the very top ol the Jersey family —The anuna! reports of the New York Petroleum Exchange shows average daily production duiing the past year of 7.3,000 barrels. A stock of 21,000,000 barrels was held in pipe lines, and 4,000,000 more barrels at the wells, in private tanks and refineries. The estimated average daily consumption of crude oil throughout the world was 45,000 barrels. —The last panacea for the wuea of the British farmer Is that he should grow to bacco. A writer advocates its cultivation in the midland and Southern counties of England, and asserts that it would yield, If properly grown, a profit of £2O an acre. The cultivation of tobacco is at present forbidden in •ngland, under an old Act of Charles 11., and In Ireland by an Act of fifty years ago. Tobacco was cultivated In Ireland for some years previous to that date. —There is a growing interest In raising silk cocoons among American farmers. The American manufacturers decline to buy the raw silk in such small quantities as are furnished by individual growers. A new association, therefore, acts as mid dlemen, buys the coc#ons and sorts and forwards them in gross. A sure market Is thus provided for the small producer*. The price of cocoons varies with their size and quality, ranging from 8150 to 8250 per pound, and eggs from 84 to 85 per ponnd. —The hog ol a former day, say twenty years ago, was at once ugly and hardy. The hog of to-day is handsome, helpless, and Imbecile. Among the once hardy hogs about five per cent, might die of ac cident or disease. Among the present race of improved hogs, fifty per cent, mortality is nearer than five. A learned State Commission has been around, and the summary of their elaborate report is “Prevention is better than cure.” Quacks and specifics abound, but hogs are obsti nate and persist In dying- —By advices of May «, wheat and rye in the South of France had begun to ear. Weather generally favorable for the back crops. In Spain the prospects for the cereal crops were satisfactory. In Ger many the season was backward, but the wheat plant lad a satisfactory appear ance and rye also. In Hungary and Roumanla wheat was looking well. In Russian Western aud Southern Govern ments the crops appear to be in good eonj dition, but in the Eastern they have fared badly. —After repeated trials at Paris, it has just been decided that 20 eggs count as a kilogramme*, or 2 1-5 pounds. Tift breeds of fowls that lay large eggs, av eraging aeven to a pound, are La Fleche, Houdaus, Creve-Ctears, and Black Bpan ish; those laying medium-sized eggs, av eraglng eight or nine to tbe pound, are Leghorns, Cochins, Brahmas, Polands, Dorkings, Games, and Sultans; the Ham burgs lay about ten eggs to the pound. Duck eggs weigh from two to three ounces apiece; turkey eggs three to four ounces; goose eggs from four to six ounces. the biggest and best show on earth ! ► A MILLION DOLLAR AMUSEMENT POOL. t is S. H. BARRETT & CO’S New Great Pacific I It is Advertised to Exhibit in all its Vast Entirety at c; Oskaloosa, Saturday, June 25 i AND IT WILL SURELY COME. Railroad Menagerie and Circus *;. 011 Bilf 1 lim Ws lf Gril#l Elltll1[; ' Li ® 1111 Ttlls ' 1 Complete Menageries 7 1 * 'jLAIC Iu o,)e Vast Circle, and it Has Them. Si L___£jjoL A Grand Separate Circus of 100 Chiefs, i And It Employs Them. : The Only Living Whit© Nile Hippopotamus. And it has. and it Only, this $30,000 MONSTER BEHEMOTH OF HOLY WRIT. r l y And It Exhibits Them Free Every Day. 2Z SESffi s ’ —. The Largest Animal Known to plan, and it Has It. ; THRICE THE SMALLEST ELEPHANT EVES SEEM. AND IT HIS IT, r A Two-Ton Pair Of Arctic Mammoths, And it has Them. n ] The Great and only ROBERT STICKNEY, ; THE sensation of the nineteenth century. •' The Wonderful French Family, S, C ZE3I .A. IR, E S T , i |/x' Phenomenal Equillibrists, •: iT^,Bycicle on a Frail Wire, it * scarcely Prole lo Hi Him Eys, si a lira lull ol Sixty Pool d This alone is worth TEN TIMES the price oi‘ Admission, and it can only hi* witnessed with ihis- how. The Only Man and Woman Wate Wizzards, and it has Them, >r "The Great $30,000 Perfected Electric ii 5® . Light, and It Uses it and None Other, a gg, £ I fa ; A GRAND RAINBOW —RIVALING AVIARY, SSL, SfclfS' IjpffS " n AND iT HAS IT. $ £W ML i OVER 50 TORS OF EDUCATED FLESH %JJL j> And it Appears in its Arena. |s*?' Tii * hM S . , : Prof. Sara. Reinhardt's Mn of PeiTormißg; • nogs Fw} , * Monkeys, aiit das Tin. ' It A Monster Den of Hideous EQUATOR SAURIANS, THREE SUPERB MARTIAL MUSICAL BRIGADES. A QUARTER OF A MILLION STREET PROCESSION, One Colossal Tidal Wave of Splendors in Parade, It las been Advertised as lie Big Slow Coming, Soon. And Now it Conies Massing Millions and ONE TICKET—SOcts., Admits to all Advertised Shows. Children Under 9 Years Half Price. AFTERNOON AND EVENING EXHIBITIONS DAILY-NO POSTPONEMENT. Will also Exhibit at Dos Moines .June 17, Newton, 21, Marengo, 22, lowa City, 23, Sig - ourney, 24, Marshalltown, 27th. 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TRACTION ENGINES^ Strongest, most durable, and effieientever (Fjgfl w ode. bi 10, 13 Horse Power, :■/ Farmers tuid Threshermen are Invited to IJH < 1 mat** tbia matchless Thnistiin-r Macllifltry. Circulars sent free. Address NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO. Batt'e Creek, Michigan. n2i*tojull MEDICINAL. Made from liest Selected Grapes. Delicious in Flavor & Taste. A Popular Wine at Popular Prices. Agency for United States, 213 North Second St., SAINT LOUIS. For Sale at all FASKiONABLE RESORTS, By the Class or Bottle. n 2*hlstemoly BLACK TIP. $ 5,000,000. The American Shoe Tip Co. WAItUANT TUKIB Black I ip That la uow ao extensively worn on CHILDREN'S SHOES TO WEAB A 3 LONO A 8 THE METAL, Which wna Introduced by them, and by which the above amount baa been saved to parenta an nually. Thla Hlack Tip will .are still niarr, aa bueidea being woru on the coaraer grades it ia worn on ttae and easily ahoed where the Metal Tip on aocount of ita lookt would not be used. They all have our Trade Mark A. M. T. €’•- stamped ou front of Tip. ♦ Pareuta should ASK TOE SHOES with this BEAUTIFUL BLACK TIP ->u tham when purchasing for their children. RAILROADS. BURLINGTON ROUTE. No Changing Cars From Jttumwa to Council Bluffs.Omaha.Lin' coin, St. Joseph, Atchison, Tope ka, Kansas City, Where close connections are made for all ! J oints in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and California. The Short Line via Peoria for Indianap oils, Cincinnati, Louisville, and all Points in the South-East. rhe Shortest. Speediest and most Comfortable Route via Hannibal to Ft. Scott, Dcuison, Dallas. Houston, Austin. San Antonia, Gulveston, and all points in Texas. Ihe host Line for St Louis, where Direct Con nections are made in the Union Depot with Through Sleeping Car Lines for All Points South. FOR CHICAGO, Where Direct Connections are made with Through Sleeping Car Lines to New York Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and all Eastern Cities. The unequaled inducements offered by th Line toTravolers and Tourists, are as follow: The celebrated l'ullman (sixteen wheel) Palat Sleeping Cars, run only on this line, U , 15. & < Palace Drawing-Room Cars, with Horton's lb dining ( hairs. No extra charge for seats in R dining Chairs. The famous C., 15. & Q- Pala< Dining Cars, Gorgeous Smoking Cars, tllte with Elegant High-backed Rattan Itevolvii Chairs for the exclusive use of first-class pa: sengers. Steel track and superior equipment, combint with their great through car arrangement mak< this, above all others, the favorite route to tl East, South, South-West, and the Far West. Try it and you will Hud traveling a luxury i stead of a discomfort. Through Tickets via tins Celebrated Line f sale at all offices in the United States and <’a ada. All information about rates of fare, sleeph car accommodations, lime tables, Ac., will cheerfully given by applying to JAMES R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent, • liicae T. J POTTER, Gem ini Manager. Chicut WHO IS WITH TH£ (. t.GCkhPM t Of THIS COUNTRY V-/ILL SEC fcJY EXAWU.'iNC wAAP, THA I THr, X/ L A ~ r ~ ~ "“' ~^~‘"' ■'“ ‘'•‘j ■ ■ ~~~JLi~ ‘ 7-1 'eSo"T>to r(k n * I'l W ! \ l s --i r.> p . 1 r * < llt' H <G/ , Centre '-Jt I^ 'i > CHICAGO^ROCK ISLANdTpACIFIC BY Is The Great Connecting Link between the East and the West! It* multi line runs from Chicago t.» Council Sleeping Car* for sleeping purposes. amt /dilute Jllults pas- 1 upr Mirough .lolic-t, Ottawa, lai Salle, Ihntim Cars for ratine purposes only, cim other tiene-ao Moline l’.ock Island. I)aven|K>rt, West creat feature of our Palace Cars is a SMOKIMi I Iberty’iowaClly. Mareiigo.llrooklyn.linniiell. Saloon where you eau enjoy your " Havana ' Ires Sloines tthe capital of Iowa), Stuart, Allan- at all hours of the day tic ami Avoea- with branches from Bureau MagiiinceiitlionßrldgesspantheMississii.pl Junction lo Peoria; Wilton Junction to Musca- ami Missouri nvci sat all points crossed by this tine Washington, Kairlield Kldon. Belknap, line, and tran.sterHare avoided at Council Bluffs, Cetitrcville Princeton. Trenton,tiallatln. Canto- . Kansas City. Leavenworth and Alchlsou, eon rott Leavenworth. Atchison, and Kansas City; I tied ions being made In Union Hcpots. * Washington toSigourney, Oskaloosa. and Knox- Tlie ininelt.nl It. It. eonne«-lions ot viliei Keokuk to Karinliigtoti, iioiiaparie, lien- | thin (Treat Tl. rougli I.toe are an tnll.i»»- toiisiM.rt. 1 mlepcndeht, l-.ldon. Uttmnwa. Kddy- j At Cuioaho. with all d.veigii.g lines lot the vllle. Oskaloosa, Pella. Monroe, and lies Moines; Kast and South. , . . „ ... Mt. /ion to Kcosamjiia; Newton to Monroe; lies i At Kxi.LLivn.iD. with the L.S. AM s . ami 1., Moines to Indianola and Wintertct; Atlanticto l l<l. \V AC. It Itas. (iriswoid and Auduiarn; and Avoca lo Harlan ; At vy asiii.\i;uis II lights*, with f . t .v t and Carson. This is Positively the only Kali- L It. It. roail which owns, and operates a thiough line j At La Sai.T.e. with 111. cent. It. 1C f n ,ni Chicago into tlie State of Kansas. At Pnom a, wit li P. P. a J.; P. 1> a h . I La Through Kxpress Passenger Trains, with Pull- W,; ill. Mid.; and T. P. A W Kds. man PalaecCars attached, are run each wav daily i At Kook Island. with “Milwaukee and Bock between Cim ago and Pkoima. Kansas City. Island Short Line," and Hoek IsPd A Peo lids. COtfKCll, ItLL 1-k'S. I.EAVKN WOKI It and. V U 111- | At ll AVV NFOKT. With tile l.aVel.pol t L>! VI s IOU son Through cars are also inn t etweeu Mdwau- s O. M. A St. P. It. It. kee and Kansas City, via the • Milwaukee and At Wcf*T Lint KTY. with the B. C It. A N.K K. ItoeU Island Short Line.” , At Okikseli.. with Central lowa It. It The “tii eat Koek Island” is iimcuifiet-i.’ly At IHta Moines, witli 1». M. A K I*. It It i mlpped. Its road bed iss:n.|dy perfect, and it- 1 At COUNCIL ltLPKrs. with Lldon Paeihe It It track is laid with steel rails. i At Omaha, with It. & Mo. K. K.lt.. iln Net.,. \\ hat will please you most wll he the pleasure 1 At Cm t m kps JI'NOTION.w ill. Il l I.A -L I: of enjoying your meals, while pa-o-.iiiK over the At OT'TPMV.'A. with Central low.a It i. , ' -, ls-auliful i.rallies or Illinois and lowa. In one of St. I A Pae . and C-. Jt. and i>. li U.m our isiaKUiticent iHiiiug Cars that accompany .11 At Kkoki K. u ilh Tol.. Peo. A VV.ii >»aP .. inioUL'h Kxpress Trains. Vou e. tan entile Louis A Pae , and St. 1... Km. A N \' t- 1.-. meal, as good as is served in any first-elas hotel. At Cammio.v with 11. St. J. K. K. lor seventy-live eenls. j At Atchison, with Ateli.. lopekai Santare Appreciating the fact that a majoiity of the i Atch. A Nel... and Pen. Itr. t- 1 I. Kils jm ople preler separatea|»ailinimts tor ditlerent ai I.kavxmu.uth, witli Luiou I at. am. Kao. Piirooses (and the iiniu<-ie e passenger biisiness Cent. It. Itds. , ~ !f this line wariaiding ill. wear.* plea e.ltoau At Kansas CITV, with all lines for the Wes. hounco that this Company i uus l*u/l;woi! J-'oltK' ami Southwest. ... . .... ....... riILLMAN P thAl i: < Alts *>ro run Ili.ougU to BLOKIA. HtS MOINK», IDINPIL f.l.t SIS. KAAS AS I til ATiillsdN. und LLAY LN WOItTU. lie Lets via tl.ta Line. Known 11. : * .ireal 1.1-Jarul Koute. are aold Lf ■ell 1 ieket A gent s in tl.o United State.; mid Canada. Tor informal i»»n not olrtaiusljit ... .ear hm-.e «>xdee, address, II it. CAltl-i:, w ' l ’* . 1 vl ’' ' ILK FUNERAL DIRECTORS. 2 » n. 03 j J § MILLER & H A rcBACH, Rooms in Ilorald Block, make UNDERTAKING a,specialty in Jill its Modern Branches. Also keep one of the Largest ami Best Selected Stocks of FTTI^ISriTTTi^II! At tin* very Lowes! Cash Prices to la* found in tin* West (live us a call. n.Jdlf WINDMILLS. TEEBTOE —TO ' • Saw filing and Tool Grinding done on short notice in a supe-*- rior manner hy a competent ami experienced workman We make Patterns and Models of all kinds. Call and see us SOUTHWICK BROTHERS, Box Gl2, [n3oyl] Oskaloosa, lowa. THE MAILS. * Time of Arrival and Departure of Mail at Oskaloosa Post Office. ARRIVAL. K. & I). M., from west 10:30 a. m. “ “ south 12:00 m. C., R. I. A P.< from east 12:15 p. m. “ west 3:45 p. m Central lowa north LUO p ui •* -* south 2.is pm DEPARTURE. K & D. M., going south 0:00a.m. “ •* west ..10:30 a. *n. C., It. I. & P.,east 3:lSp. m. “ <• west 12:00 in. OVERLAND MAIL. Fremont. White Oak, Cedar, and Concert, arrive aud depart Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat urdays. F.veland Grove, Auburn, and Ferry, arrive and depart Tuesdays and Fridays. Indianapolis, leaves Rose Hill Tuesdays, . Thursdays and Fridays. Mauch Chunk, leaves Rose llill Tuesdays and Saturdays. Granville, Peoria and Flint, leaves New Sharon Tuesdays ami Fridays. Union Mills, leaves New Sharon Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. railroads! Tim© Table of Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific RAILROAD COMPANY. ■ *** ■ * &,* "O 00 j?ooc#S»2?2 - CD sssaa-*-. L*. i 8 +* xx. se a.... 01 « . ~ ‘* * IB L. w 4 T.r.-*.*f t. 2 111 K CC«< "C j I !_■ I ■ Nj -.uoitvts I lifffcoxe,-'* | -ft jjq ooiitusifi I : I Mi (fi 5:• •• • .A: "s : c is -.u m 1 o jgjfe-£s«§ ini % mm w% g; w I tmm l * Distance lr 5 X'.; V • Wilton. : S,X Xil ■ S • .|«-TT777ri =>-. «•, ' * a n mmm mm ■ g i — W. '-J - § -