• .A
Professional Cards.
Aovertlsemenu under this head will be oharged
at the following rates;:
Five ltnee or lean, per year *6 OO
Each additional line.... 1 OO
Z DEKTIBTS. Z
DR. W. H. REILLY,
Dentist
Offloe over Dodge's Boot and Shoe Store,
weat aide of the square, Oskalooaa, lowa. i«i 1
Wti. MILLAR,
. ' Dpntist J
Office oa south side of Square over Jones
A Co's., shoe store. Nitrous Oxide Gas nsed
for painfUl operation*. ,J 0
Drill jackbon.
Surgeon Dentist
Office In Exchange block, on Higk street,
Oskaioosa, lowa, over J. W. Morgan’s drug
atom. *>
M JOSEPHINE TENNEY, M. D-,
• Physician and Surgeon. *
Office on west side of public square, over
Miss Anderson's millinery store. Night calls
promptly attended. ‘A)
G fflO. J. TURNER, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office on Market street, over Boyer A Bsme*’
■ store. Result noe two blocks south and two
blocks west of poetoffloe. ®°
r '■ TAB J. O. BARRINGER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Oskaioosa, lowa. Office northeast corner at
square, middle rooms up stairs In new Masonic
building. Residence on Uigii street, 3 blocks
east of square. Telephone connection at offloe
and residence with all parts of the city. 80
DR. W. M. WELLS,
Catarrh, Throat & Lung Physician,
And Specialist for Chronic Diseases generally.
Consultation personally or by letter. Offloe
and Dispense 17 over Mays' Drug Store. West
High Street Office hours from 9tolB a. M., and
from Ito sr. m. Consultation free. nBO
D A Huffman, fcl. D. R.C. Horrsti.M.D.
|\RB. D. A. A R. C. HOKFMAN,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office two doors north of Simpson M. K.
ohuroh, near S. K corner of square, Oskaioosa,
lowa. Residence on Main street, three blocks
east of the public square. 20
J. L. Corn*. « J. s, Hodo*. j
COFFIN A HODOB,
Homeopathic Physicians A Surgeons.
Will attend all calls, day or night. Office in
the Frankel rooms in Union block. Dr. Coffin’s
residence, corner of Ellen and Jefferson; Dr.
Hodge's, residence on North Market Street. 80
' ATTORNEYS.
Dm. perdue,
• Attorney-at-Law,
„nd Notary Poblio, Bose Hill. lowa. 80
W. 8. Kbnwoktht. O. N. Downs.
IT BN WORTHY A DOWNS,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Front Rooms, over Mitch Wilson’s Dry Goods
House. SSylpd
y II CKALL A JONBS,
Attorney s-at-I^aw,
And Notaries Public. Offloe over Smith A
| Brewster's boot and shoe store, Oskaioosa. 20 I
/ 1 LRASON A HABKBLL.
'J Attorneys-at-Law.
Office in Phoenix block, Oskaioosa, lowa.
Business promptly attended to. 80
TOHN A. HOFFMAN,
** Attorney-at-Law,
and Notary’ Public. Office | Mook south of 8.
K. corner of Park. 20
J OHN O. MALCOLM,
" Attorney-atrJ^aw.
Collections promptly nttended to. Office on
> north side, over Frankel’s bank. 80 I
JkOLTON A MCCOY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskaioosa, lowa. Office over Knapp A 3pald
lug’s hardware store. 80
TJLANCHAKD * PRESTON,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskaioosa. lowa. Will practioe in all the
oourts. Office over the Oskaioosa National
Ban A; ao_
Tj» M. DAVENPORT,
• Attorney-at-Law,
Oskalooaa, lowa. Business attended to in both
State and Federal Court*. Office, rooms l and
8, over Weeks A Steward's store. 2t>
Oso. W. I.ArrBUTY. Obo. C. Morgan.
LAFFERTY A MORGAN,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Offloe over Oskaioosa National Bank, Oska
■•hfffl l3tffi,low|.
C. P. Searl*. L. A .Boott.
•» qearlk a boott,
Attorneys-at-Law,
and Notaries Public- Office first door west of
Recorder’s office. National Bank building,
Oabaloosa, lowa. "M
Robert kissick,
Attorney-at-Law,
and Notary Public, Oskaloosa, lowa. Office in
Centennial block, over Frankel’B clothing
•tore, north aide square. Practice in all of the
oeurti of the State. 80
JOHN F. LACEY,
Attorney-at-Law,
and government claim agent. Office in Boyer
A Barnes’ block, Oskaloosa, lowa. Prompt at
tention riven to collections. Probate business
will receive careful attention. Business at
tended to in the U. 8. and State courts. 20
T>HILLIPB A GREEK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
and Collection Agents. Attend to any leral
business lu the State and Federal Courts en
.rusted to them. Oflßce over N. Oppenbetmer
A Co.’s boot and shoe store. soutb side of "t
Otkaloosa, lowa. ‘A*
Janas carrcls.. Dann Davis.
CARROLL A DAVIS.
Atbomeys-at-Law.
Boh o*kaioo«a, lowa, will practice in all courts.
'oUnoßons made a special f eature. Office over
»rankcl A Co’s.. Bank. iiranen office at New
Sharon. *>_
I*- a. A. L. CROOKHan. J. G. CnooßHan.
CROOK HAM A CROOK HAM,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskaloosa. lowa Office over Mahaska County
Bank, southwest corner public square. Col
lections made and remitted promptly. Convey
ancing done. X
> BLANKING. ~ ~
Jmo HiR-.RU JMO. H. WaRRKH,
President. Cashier.
L. C. Blamohard, f ice-President.
The Farmers’ & Traders’
t NaTiCWAL bank,
OF OSkMiAIOSA. IOWA.
IIOO.OOO.
DIRmTOBS:
Jmo Sicbel. C. Blanohsrd,
T. J. »Uek»'* ; nr, \B. McPall,
H. W. McNeill, Mikthew Ploksß.
W. C. Sheppard Psttr .mps.
J. 8 WaltssorsV
OORHKH PON DE M
First National Bank. Chicago. _*-•
Metropolitan National Bank. \ kw Y»,V
70 Valiev National Bao»£XV£«aO.
BANKING HOU^fST
-OP- VbtAy
FBMIEL, BiCH i GO.'
- The Oldest Bank in Mahaska County.
Will raealve <to,.AiU and transact a general
baakimr. eiohutfe. and collection buainaM. the
/ an an incorporated bank
Bxchaajra on all the principal cities of the
m United States and all cities of Europe bought
and sold at same to suit the purohaners.
Passage tick eta to and from a'-• points In
Burope for sale at the lowest rates.
Oofo* tioos will receive prompt attention.
We do a strict!? legitimate banking business,
and give the warns of customers special a}.,)
\ land *
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Qskaloosa MM to.
OP OSK ALOOSA. IOWA.
waorotti
Wm. H Srrvrhs, J W.McMuixi*.
J. H. Gas aw. D. W. Loatao.
H. L. Mrsacaa, W. A. Liwui.r.
Jams* Mogulloom.
L CORKiWPON DENTS:
Pint National Bank, Now York.
V Gilman, Son A Oo. t Mew York.
first National Baa k. Cbtesfo.
|? Clttneo’s Nat*l BsakToes Moines.
f M Davenport Nst’l Bank, Davenport
a. A. jU CaooKUk, H. S. Howard,
Presideot. Y^Pres.
Joan K Banns. Cashier.
IAEiSIi CODNTT BUI,
OP OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
" , Organized Under the State Lave.
PAID UP CAPITAL, SIOO,OOO. !
Stockholders liable for doable the smoo.j,
of Capital Stoek.
i ‘it
DUtNCTOBS:
a. A u Croohkam. W. A. Seevers, John O
Malcolm. Milton Crookbam. Jacob Vernon.
W.C Bhiaehart, K. Redman, W.O.
L Rug land John Voorbees.
m John Nash, and
f W fff • Reward.
* J ICTECTOCK
» . Milliritrstoriltm
Thos. C. Beach, Proprietor.
MEDICAL.
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VOL. 37, NUMBER 29.
MONET, LAND, Ao.
Israel M. Gibbs, Broker.
Loans of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile
paper bought and sold. Room >, over Farmers
Traders’ Bank. Oskalooaa, lowa. 80
Chas. Phelps’
INSURANCE AND LOAN AGENCY.
Money to Loan In sums of SBOO and upwands
at lowest current rates of interest. Office north
side square, over Fran kel, Bach A Co’s., Bank,
Oskaioosa, lowa. lOtf
JOHI F. IMS HID IEEICT.
I have on my books a large number of farms
and bouses in town; also many thousand aores
of wild land. If yon have real estate to sail or
wish to buy, give me a call. I pay taxes in any
part of the State. Conveyancing done. Offloe
In Boyer A Barnes’ block, Oskaioosa, lowa.
One hundred nloe building lota In Laoey’a addi
tion to Oskalooaa. 80
Xfiimd JLgenoy
Farms and Town Property for
Sale, Taxes Paid, and
Conveyancing Done.
Office over Oskaioosa National Bank.
80 Lafferty A Morgan.
M. E. BENNETT,
Real Estate & Loan Apt
MONEY TO LOAN
in large or small amounts, on long or short
time, on Real Estate Security. 80
•100,000 in <IOO,OOO
Money to Loan f
At Six Per Cent Annual
Interest,
on 5 years’ time, in loans of S6OO and upwards;
with privilege of paying 8100 and aDove in an
nual payments, if desired.
20 JOHN P. HIATT.
Cowan & Hambleton’s
Loan & Abstract Office.
200,0*0 to loan at 6 per oent interest on live
years time; borrower having the op
tion to pay part or all of prin
cipal after first year.
We also have a complete set of Abstract Books
of all
Lands and Town Lots
in Mahaska County, lowa.
ABSRACTB OF TITLE MADE ON SHORT
NOTICE.
Offloe in front room of new Masonic building,
north-east oorner of Public Square.
nJO OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mahaska lodge no. is, i. o. o. r.,
meets every -Saturday evening at the Odd
Fellows’ Hall, one block Dorth of the Postofflce.
Visiting brothers cordially invited to attend.
Chas. w ray, W. L. Howl
Secretary. [6IJ N. G.
jjHAS. W. TRACY.
Civil Engineer.
Office and residence on High street, 3 blocks
east of Court House, Oskaloosa, lowa. 20
WATER-PROOF, STS
or rattle. !• >l*° A HI BSTITFTK for FLAMTKM
at Half the Coat. Ouilmu ih«- building. t'AItPKTS
»nd KI I>M t>f ..m- doubts the »rar of oil cloth. Catalof**
J. S. RICHARDSON »£**"£*.
Henry Walling*
Dealer in
Building Material of all Kinds,
and contractor of
BRICK AND RUBLE STONE
WORK.
Cisterns, Flues and Cellars
Built on short notion. Also have good Brick
for sale at lowest market prloe.
uM Oskaloosa lowa.
FAMILY GROCERIES.
FOR
Fresh Family an Fanoy
Groceries,
Queensware and Glassware,
Provisions of All Kinds
AND
FRESH VEGETABLES,
In their season, go to
A. W. MARTINSTEIN,
a) Southeast Corner of Squaro.
VERNON'S
MACHINE WORKS.
W. E. VERNON, Prop.
manufacturer of
Small Steam Engines, Steel Dies,
Models and all General
Job Work.
»tf OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
!«• Cook Sc Son,
Steam Plow Shops.
W-J make a SPECIALTY of
Plow, Reaper, and all kinds of
arm Machinery
ai ‘ Repairing.
Goods warranted to give satisfaction In all
cases. Come in and see us and
rive us a trial.
x L. Cook & Son.
A.. J. LYTLE.
‘rwji A>y tk if 1 ) iW F 1
GRAIN.
J. H. Sheak,
dealer ia
o-ttJLiJsr,
Will pay the highest market price In Cash
For all Ainds ol Grail
TOC WILL FIND THB
ELEVATOR
Oa the Central of lowa Railway Track, West
High Street. Oakalooaaulowa. a2O
GROCERIES.
Seevers & Neagle’s
PRICE LIST :
13 B>g Granulated Sugar $1 00
14 tt>B A Sugar 1 00
15 11*8 Whit© Extra C Sugar 1 00
16 11*3 Light Brown Sugar 1 00
20 ILs Good Brown Sugar 1 00
7 lbs Arbuckle’s Coffee 1 00
10 ILs Good Green Ooffee 1 00
8 lbs Choice Browned Coffee. 1 00
20 tbsßice 1 00
20 tt*s Prunes 1 00
20 lbs Dried Peacties 1 00
23 Bars White Russian Soap 1 00
12 lbs Lard 1 00
King of Dakota Flour per sack... 145
White Rose Flour per sack 1 40
n2lyl Southwest Corner Square.
H.Snyder&Son,
GROCERIES
Will sell as cheap as any other house in the
BEST FLOUR!
2° H. Snyder A Son.
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Order of publioetton of t!w» original notice.
Gbobob W. Oh zikr,
Judge of the C.'rcnil Coart.
QKiaiNAL NOTICE.
Breetua Coffin, Flalottfl,
William Wlndeor. at nl. Defendants. _
In ti*e Circuit Court oi lowa, to and for Ma
baaka County, April Term, A. D. I*6.
To William Wlndeor and the unknown heirs
and legal repreernutivee of said William
Windsor, now re-idonls ot the Mata of lowa.
Tou arc hereby a> tilled that there la now on
die a petition of Brasiua Coffin In the office of
the Clerk ot the Circuit Court of the State of
lowa. In and for Mahaska county, asking that
the title to the weet half of the northwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of section
fvot ty-two, (*») township seventy-sU, (76)
north of range sixteen (IS) west, be quited and
that the title thereto in lee Mmole be veeied In
him, ead that all the right, title and lntcreffi
you. or either of you, may otalro lo the same
be forever barred end divested out ot you.
That said«effitiooer baa been the legal owner
and possessor of said laud since KovemtarftO,
1687. Tuat William Wladsor and wifa sold *nd
conveyed said laad to Samuel Ooffln, petition*
er'sgraator, March IS, J»M, and by mistake in
the deed ounvoyod theW. H, K. ff.Jt,of».W.
J 4, Sec. «. To. 76, S. it. U) weet; aodto correct
*&ld mistake thW action is brongbt, and that
the ,sg*lUUe to said ia»d is now in said Wll
liam Windsor or bis heirs, and If aay of said
defendants here any right, title or Interest In
■aid land, it arose out of said misuse, and
from no other cause: and said petition asks
that petitioner's title be declared full, perfect,
Clear aad eompiete against all persons whom
soever. And said petitioner avers that said de
fendant* are ail non-residents of the State of
lowa, and that after diligent inquiry petitioner
baa been usable to learn the name ot p ace of
re aide cue of aay of said defendant#. And that
uuieas you appear thereto and defend be fore
noon of tfcehecood Day of the April Tons, A.
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-DEALERS IN—
city. If you want a sack of the
in the city, call on us.
Everything Fresh.
LUMBER.
The
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Red Star
TRADE ys£7 MARK.
COUGH fURE
-Free from Opiate*, Kinetic* and Poison.
sure. QKcts
PROMPT. /UO^‘
At Utueoim and Dealer*.
THE €ll ARLES A. VIMiKLEtt <XL, BALTI9OUK, KD.
CT JACOBS nil
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_ * Cures Rheumatism, Neuralqia,
LAI 1 If AI It Backache, Headache. Touthn. L.,
■UI | 0 !(I eTi'.sts-.
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THE ill AUI.KB A. VOUKI.SK CO., BALTIEOKK. »».
SCOTT’S
EMULSION
or PURE GOD LITER OIL
And Hypophosphites of Lime & Soda
Almost as Palatable as Milk.
The only preparation of C(fD LITER OIL that
can be taken readily and tolerated for a long time
by delicate stomachs,
AND AS A BKMEPY FOR COXSOIPTIO*,
StKOHLOIS AFFECTIONS, AXAKBI A, OEX
EHAL DEBILITY, COrOHS AND THROAT AF.
mTIEVS. and all WGitlVfl Dft6BDKM 6*
CHILDREN It is marvcUoas lnlt* resalts.
and endorsed by the beet Physician*
In the countries of the world.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
BE
Toroid condition of the Liver. ItCiuwDyft-^
Constipation,pn.oognciw. Jaundice, Headai'hr.klalArta,
Rheumatism Mora Dueaaea resultfrom an Unhealthy
Liver than any other eauM, Pr Sanford’* Llvcrlnvlg.
orator Rcfrolate* the Rowel*, Puri lie* the Blood, Assist*
Digestion, Ptrcn—then* the System. Prevent* Fever*.
Jfitu k Kti.iAHi.e and invaLOails Family Mthirwt
THOUSANDS OFTESTIMONIALSPROVEITSMEMT
a»y huuooisr v/iu. txu. you its sxptrrAnoM.
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Cares Female Complaints. A Great Sidney
Remedy. GT SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS,
elys catarrh
CREAM BALM ■■Hr■ .
Clenses the Wmm
■ Njj(n]
Inflammation
Restores theHf S
Sensea of Taste,yg
Smell, Hearing.
A quick Relief..
A positive Cure.NS^Y"FKVER
A particle is applied esch nostril and Is
agreeable to use. Price 50 cents bv mall or at
Druggists’. Send for circular, ELY BROTH
ERS, Druggists, Owego, N. Y nl-ly
~~ JMAREI^WORKS :
Oskaloosa lari Works.
F. W. McCall,
Dealer In
Monuments Tombs, Head Stones, Sootcb and
American Granite Monuments, As.
SO OSKALOOSA. IOWA
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interest
ed, that on tbe2Bd day of February, A. D. 1886,
the undersigned was appointed by the Circuit
Court of Mahaska County, lowa, Adminis
trator of the estate of Nelson Cox, de
ceased. late of said County. All persons In
debted to said estate will make payment to the
undersigned, and those having claims against
the same will present them legally authentica
ted to said Court for allowanoe.
Dated Mai oh 2,1886.
F. E. Smith, Jasper Cox,
28w3 Clerk. Administratrix.
Q RIG INAL NOTICE.
W. H. Warlnoer
vs.
M. E. Harlan et. al.
In the Circuit Court of the State of lowa, in
and for Mahaska County, April
Term, A. D., 1886.
To M. E. Harlan, E. B. Garrison. Helen M.Cutta,
Thomas Cutto. Lizzie Smith, Miller A Har
bach, Free Tufts, I. Frankel A Co., Bank of
Monroe:
You are hereby notified that on or before the
first day of April. 1886, a petition of W. H. War
inner will be filed In the office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court or the State of lowa. In and
for Mahaska county, claiming of you the fore
closure of a "-'rtain mortgage executed by W.
J. Cone P Burnside on February 1,18 T«,
«*•» *- ’ \r» Vs sub-division of block
« ,nd addition to Oskaloo-
V alng that the lien of said
Ablished superior and para-
M 1 liens of defendants; also
ask.-, ) certain Judgments In the
name u. *, against w. J. Cone, be
decreed n or liens on said real es
state, and for t, or equitable relief no per
sonal Judgment# Is asked* and that unless you
appear thereto and defend before noon of the
Second Day of the April Term, A. D., 1886. of
said Court, which will commence on the 8d Mon
day of April, 1886, default will be entered
against you and Judgment and decree rendered
thereon as prayed for In said petition.
Blanchard a Prrston,
Bwl Attorneys for Plaintiff.
OF INCOBPOBATION.
Notice is hereby given that a corporation for
peounlary profit has been organised by the un
de rstrued, under the laws orlowa, as follows:
1. The name of this corporation Is and shall
be the Kemble Floral and Seed Company, and
its principal place of business shall be the city
of Oskalooea, oounty of Mahaaka, and State of
lowa.
X The general nature of the business to be
transacted Is that of a general nursery, flower,
seed, vegetable and fruit business.
A The amount of capital stock authorized is
ton thousand dollars, and the said corporation
to eommenes business as soon as one thousand
dollars of the capital stock Is subscribed and
paid up. All subscribers for stock In exoass of
said one thousand dollars shall be paid at the
call of the directors thereof. The stock is to be
divided Into shares of one hundred dollars eac»..
4. The time of commencement of this corpor
ation shall be the JSd day of February 1886, and
shall continue for twenty years with the power
of renewal.
6. The affairs of this corporation shall be
conducted by a Board dFffiMfeators, consisting
of three persons, atoi -holdersrto be chosen by
stock-holders at a me, ig to be held on the
third Tuesday in January of each year; and
the said Board of Directors shall at their first
meeting, and annually thereafter, elect by bal
lot oae of their number President of the oom
pany, one of their number fieorotary of the com
pany, and one of their numbor Treasurer of the
eoupaay, who shall bold their said respective
offices for one year and until their successors
are elected.
6. The Board of Directors and offloers of this
corporation who are to hold office and manage
the affairs thereof up to the third Tuesday m
January, I*Bl, are the following named personas
Board of Directors—Wm. R Kemble, kTr.
Kemble, and Ira O. Kemble: President, Wm.
B. Kemble; Secretary, K K. Kemble; Treas
urer, K. K. Kemble.
t. The Indebtedness of this corporation shall
never exceed two-thirds of Its capital stock.
A The private property of the stock holders
shall not be liable for the debts of this corpora
tion.
9. This corporation shall have the right to
borrow money, to own. buy, sell, mortgage
and lease real and personal property, and to do
all things necessary for the prosecution of Its
said R Kmmua
Mr, LVSS&, I
Oskaioosa
OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY. MARCH 11, 1886.
THE RIVER OF LIFE.
I stand on tbe banka of a wonderful river,
Whose waters sweep down to the sea.
With a rhythmical voice and a tremulous
quiver.
That speak & real language to me.
Tls the current of life in masterful motion.
As it beats and then throbs with such force,
As it rushes on to an Infinite ocean,
Impelled from an Infinite source.
I listen to sounds that flow down from tbe
atfes.
That tell of the race when a child;
Rude, rough and barbaric were written those
pages.
In language half human, hall wild.
The stream was then low, sluggish and muddy,
With banks that loomed high on each side,
And again they were deep-Btalned and ruddy
From wounds that were gaping and wide.
But there’s a hush, then a musical murmur,
That ripples and rings like a bell.
In tones that each moment grow stronger and
firmer,
In Joyous and jubilant swell.
Of race-progress the voices are singing,
The contest of matter and mind;
Through the gates of the centuries bringing
Great laws and great forces combined.
Living truths for the soul, that are needful
To nourish the wants of to-day,
That the spirit grow wiser and heedful
Iu choosing the holler way.
Now, full up to Its banks, these deep-flowing
waters
Sweep onward In measureless course.
While high on the billows earth’s sons and her
daughters
Are borne by invisible force.
—Ella Dare.
SOME SIGHTS ABROAD.
A Paper Read Before Phil Kear
ney Post, by Major John F.
Lacey.
Comrades: Fhave been ordered by
the commander of the post to address
you upon this occasion, and although
he has ordered me to speak he has left
the subject of the address to me. A
journey to thfe old world was one of the
dreams of my childhood, and around
many a campfire in the dark days of the
war, 1 promised myself that when the
cruel war was over I would on the first
favorable opportunity indulge myself
in this often promised aspiration of mg
youth. To journey among strangers
alone is to rob yourself of half the
pleasure of travel. And who would be
so good a companion in foreign lands
as she with whom you have pledged
yourself to travel the long path of life.
More than once have I enjoyed this
often promised pleasure, but never with
such zest as on the first journey. A
crowd saw us slip our cable at the
pier aud
cheered us
as we backed out from the landing at
New York, but there was not a face in
all the throng that we knew. We
dropped quietly down the bay and in a
few hours were beating time to the
long roll of the ocean. The misery.‘ht
sea-sickness, with ail its horrors, was
upon us. We struggled for a time
against it, but yielded to the inevitable.
To mo a life on the ocean wave is sug
gestion of little but misery. On land I
know only by the instinct of hunger
that 1 have a stomach, on ocean my
stomach becomes a vast nerve centre
around which all my other faculties
revolve. It becomes the centre of my
universe. Dr. Johnson says, a voyage
at sea is like a term in jail, with the
additional possibility of being drowned
added to the sentence. Five per cent
of the human race can go to sea and eat
and be happy without the slightest
qualm of sea-sickness. To see this
favored class calmly and happily walk
ing around over the rolling and slip
pery decks, to hear them constantly
talking of what the next meal is to con
sist of is almost unbearable. You feel
that they ought to be
CAST OVhR
us incontinently as Jonah was. You
feel that as you have been feeding the
fishes they too ought to be turned into
bait. In the hurry and the bustle of
going on board there are but few faces
you will recognize and the most of the
passengers soon retire from view to
appear from time to time as they get
over their sea-sickness. With me three
or four days pass by and then life again
begins to hold out some inducements
for its continuance. Shovel-boards and
quoits make their appearance, and on a
sunny day the most of the passengers
begin to appear on deck in various
stages of dejection. Each day some
new faces break away from sea sick
ness in the bunks below and show
themselves on deck, and you wonder
where the vessel picked them up. You
are sure they must have been picked
up from some landing over night A
trip across the North Atlantic gives
but few opportunities for seeing the
wonders of
OLD OCEAN.
Crossing the Gulf stream occasional
schools of porpoises and flying fishes
are to be seen, and on one occasion we
saw a large number of black fin whales.
But the usual blank and dreary expanse
of sky and water, with nothing to re
lieve its monotony, is to a landsman
tiresom i the extreme. In a steam
voyage across the ocean you do not
have time enough to have your nerves
settled down to the enjoyment of a fife
on the ocean wave. On my last voy
age we ran a race with the Inman
Steamer City of Chicago, and for two
thousand miles we could either see her
smoke or her masts, and as our vessel
was a little faster than she, we enjoyed
the pleasure of catching sight of her
smoke in front and by a gradual gain
seeing it pass out of sight in the rear.
But a hot box compelled us to stop and
we passed into Queenstown Harbor
only a half an hour ahead.
THE OLIFFB AND HILLSIDES
of old Ireland appear rising like misty
clouds in the distance, and as we ap
proach they take shape and form, and
the ledge-rows finally mark up the
si * v into patch work as various in
form as a crazy patch work quilt of an
lowa school girl. The odd forms and
shapes of the fields were always a won
der to me. Iu lowa our square fields
are only varied by an occasional break
in the lines, and although it is said that
our old government surveyors ran the
lines, carrying a chain in one hand and
a jug of whisky in the other, yet the
regularity of our fields is almost op
pressive in its monotony. Not so with
the hedge-rows and stone walls of the
fatherland. All kinds of curves and
angles are adopted; squares, parallelo
grams, trapeziums and curved linep
combine to delight the eye, and wit
the long slope of a hillside thus cut up
into irregular figures, the eye
NEVER BECOMES WEARY.
In my first journey I passed by the
bleak shores of Northern Ireland, and,
sitting on the steamer’s deck with the
cold wind broken by a projecting cabin,
watched with a glass the basaltic Gi
ant’s Causeway rising out of the beat
ing waves and saw with pleasure the
white sea mews whirling in flocks
around our vessel. The Utile petrel or
Mother Carey’s chickens had followed
us 1,500 miles out from the American
side, and the sea mews came out to
meet us on the other side. But the
shores of Ireland soon became a misty
haze again, and the rocks of Scotland
began to rise in our front. As dark
came ou we took our pilot on board and
soon were steaming up the Clyde with
the vaat ship yards on either hand. In
the high latitude of Glasgow the days
‘is & | . -
are very long in July and the twilight
disappeared at ten o’clock to appear
again at two in the morning, and so
tired were we all of the sea that we
stayed up all night and watched the
PROGRESS OF OUR SHIP
until at early morning we*nade fast to
the pier at Glasgow. It was sun up,
and why did not the enterprising news
boy make his appearance and let us
know what the world had been doing ?
But it was very early yet, if it was day
light, and finally the custom officers
and newsboys made their appearance
and we were soon busily engaged in
the examination of our baggage. As
the officers were looking only for whis
ky, tobacco and revolvers, mine was
soon passed and we were free to seek
our first hotel and breakfast on shore.
On our second voyage the Chicago con
vention was just about to meet when
we sailed. When we arrived in Queens
town Harbor, the first news inquired
about was who was nominated, and the
newsboys handed us papers with the
announcement that the entries were
made up and that the race would be
between Blaine and Cleveland. But J
am not here to taik politics. But it
SEEMS A LITTLE BTRANGE
to know that a nomination has been
made for President for a full week and
that you cannot tell who it is. Shall I
describe my first day or two in Scot
land V The vessel landed the third of
July. No preparation for the 4th had
been made, and we were indeed in a
foreign land. The only thing to re
mind us of home was the fact that
many enterprising landlords had run
up the stars and stripes on their hotels
as a bid for American custom. Glas
gow is a great city of half a million
inhabitants and its growth has been
almost as marvelous as our own Chica
go. On every hand you see
GREAT BLOCKS O BUILDINGS
and paved streets, rea few years
ago were open fields. A great, bustling,
manufacturing and trading city it is.
A whisky-drinking, but honest and in
dustrious race are the Scotch. There
is one peculiarity about them they keep
in any climi« A Scotchman at Aspin
wall or Glasgow still retains his nation
al vitality and thrift. When Scotland’s
union with England became complete,
instead of being a union of the lamb
and lion, the lamb being inside, the
union was made the source of national
aggrandizement by the thrifty Scotch.
PECULIARITIES.
1 am asked what is it strikes you first
as peculiar in landing on the other side ?
To me it is the chimney pots. In New
York you see chimney pots occasion
ally, but in Glasgow a chimney with
out a tile pot on its top would not dare
to raise its abashed head. On every
shop window you see the sign Duncan
Wallace, by appointment, pepper dealer
to Her Majesty; John McTurk, by ap
pointment, shoemaker to His R. H. the
Prince of Wales, etc., etc., until you are
led to think that it is against the law
to do business except by special ap
pointment under charter from some
mejnber of the royal family. This sign
becomes very tiresome to American
eyes. On the 4th of July we celebrated
the day by a visit to Ayr, and drove
out to
BURNS’ BIRTHPLACE.
I have gone as a pilgrim to the tomb of
Swift, and stood with uncovered head
in the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, where
rest the remains of Sir Walter Scott ;
I have stood in the chancel of the old
church at Stratford, where the bones
of the immortal Shakespeare lie pro
tected by the well-known inscrition ; 1
have stood in the chapel of Henry VII.,
at Westminster Abbey, where lie the
kings and queens of England, whose
royal dust is honored by having in
terred among them the pure Addison ;
I have stood in the Poet’s Corner over
the remains of Dickens, Macaulay,
Sheridan, Garrick, Johnson, Dryden,
Spenser, and the host of great dead
who have made that corner the most
renowned spot on earth ; I have stood
under the gilded dome of the Invalides.
where Napoleon, in his sarcophagus of
Russian porphyry, lies “on the banks of
the Seine among the French people
whom he loved so well,” as he desired
it in his will; I have stood by the grave
of Ney and many a French Marshal
and poet as they lie entombed in the
little chapel-like vaults at Pere la
Chaise; I have stood in St. Denis,
where the kings of France for more
than a thousand years lie buried, where
their remains, scattered in the reign of
terror, were gathered up and buried in
one tomb under the high altar ; and
later, in Italy, I stood by the tombs of
Titian, of Raphael, of Michael Angelo,
of Galileo, and by the empty tombs of
Hadrian and Augustus, one of them
turned into a fort and the other into a
circus ; but by them all I never felt
moved as I did when I stood in the
little thatched cottage where Roberts
Burns passed his childhood in poverty
and neglect. It is a little, low walled
building, whitewashed and thatched
with straw. The interior looks as
though the poet in his boyhood had just
gone out to play. Near by stands his
monument, with a flight of stone steps
up which you may climb and enjoy a
distant view of Ayr, and see the church
where Tam O’Shan ter saw the dance
of witches, and the bridge across the
Bonny Doon where Tam escaped the
fury of the witch witfi the Cutty
Sark. Little Kirk Alloway stands roof
less and filled with growing young
trees, and is surrounded with the graves
of generations, among which I could
not help but hunt out the lowly tomb
of Sou ter Johnny, the worthy croney
of Tam O’Shanter. With what life
has the spirit of Burns peopled every
nook and corner of this part of Scot
land, and now the land where he was
alowed to starve is known as the
“LAND OF BURNS.”
In the old Canongate Cemetery, » few
days after, I was hunting the tomb of
Blair and Adam Smith, when I found
the grave stone erected by Burns over
the remains of Robert Ferguson, a
brother poet. The first money that
Burns received from the sale of his
first book of poems he expended in
marking the grave of a brother poet
whom he loved. When I think on
Burns his words—
M l» there, for honest poverty
That hangs his head ana, a' that;
The coward-slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a"*'
For a’ that, and a’ that
Our toll’s obscure, anv
The rank Is but * e gull
The man’s th«£, wa ft
“ ▲ prince can mat Mted
A marquis,
But an honest man’s aboon 1
Quid faith be mauna fa’ ta
I always loved Burns, and
drove back from his birth pk
passed the door of his two nieces, the
Misses Begg, who live in a little cot
tage near by, we could not resist the
temptation to stop and pay our respects
to these two old ladies, who are the
daughters o f Burns' sister. They re
semble Burns’ pictures very much.
They graciously acknowledged a visit
from friends from the newest part of
the new world, and were glad to hear
that their plowboy unde had so warm
a place in the hearts of Americans, for
Herald.
I assured them that no American li
brary was complete without a copy of
Burns. Burns has received that hom
age when dead, that Sir Walter Scott
did when living. Though Scott has
been honored both living and dead, and
his beautiful monument in Edinburgh
is one of the finest in the world, yet I
could not help but feel that the deeply
worn steps on Burns’ monument, al
most worn out in a single generation,
were
THE GRATEST TRIBUTE
that could be paid to him. I love Scot
land, and could talk to you all evening
about her scenery, her history and her
poetry. A day’s journey through the
highlands, through Loch Lomond, with
Ben Lomond towering in the clouds
above us, and silver rivulet strickling
down his green and mossy sides; Loch
Katrine among her heathery hills; the
Trossachs with their narrow pass; and
ending the day by going to rest under
the protection of Stirling Castle, where
Mary Queen of Scots held her turbu
lent and unhappy court. A few days
at Edinburgh, the Athens of the north,
would of itself suffice to occupy this
evening. One of the loveliest sights
on earth we beheld when we climbed
up Arthur’s Seat, a vast granite crag
which stands up in the plain near the
city and overlooks its tallest point.
Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill lay
below us. The hum of the city rose
through the smoke and haze, drowsy
like the murmur of a vast hive of bees.
The Firth of Forth on the other hand
lay shimmering in the distance. Below
on one hand was a vast park, and the
city on the other. The resemblance of
the city to what I had always under
stood Athens to have been is form this
point very striking. I can shut my
eyes and see this vision yet. I know of
no lar scape that a single view has so
imt ed on my memory as this view
from
ARTHUR’S SEAT.
Travel in Europe now, with the rapid
transit of railway trains, is like a
kaleidoscope. To-day all is English,
to-morrow all French, next day all Ger
mau, next day all Italian. However
long you stay in any one country,when
you do change the change is sudden
and surprising.
Let us take a long flight into Italy.
In 78 1 caught a brief glimpse of Italy.
We crossed the Splugen pass from Coire
to Ohiavenna and then went by way of
Como to Milan. The Splugen is one of
the grandest of all the Alpine passes.
A macadamized road winds backward
and forward by easy grades to the top
and passes through heavy stone snow
sheds at the top. I felt like a boy once
more as I passed up the beautiful
scenery of the headwaters of the Rhine.
Here and there was a small castle in
ruins upon the top of some command
ing eminence. The great chasm of the
Via Mala or Rad Way is passed, and
from time to time we passed from one
side of this narrow pass to the other by
a stone bridge. At the little town of
Splugen we stopped for dinner and had
a mess of speckled trout with the flavor
of Colorado or Lake Superior. Little
Swiss villages were all along our route.
A fountain stood in the centre of each,
from the spout of which poured a per
petual stream of pure water. The
town fountain seemed to be the com
mon centre of each of these little re
publics, and upon its side was posted
the notices and proclamations of all
kinds which were of interest to the
villagers. I enjoyed the
CLIMB UP TIIE MOUNTAIN
and would take the short route from
point to point and wait for the dili
gence to overtake me. The Alpine
scenery on this route is certainly as tine
as any on earth. Since then 1 have
crossed the St. Gothard, the Brenner,
the Arlberg and the Pontebba passes
but have found none of them to equal
in beauty of scenery the diligence
route over the Splugen. Looking down
into Italy on the other side the scene
opens out into fertile valleys, where
the olive and the vine give joy to the
heart of man. I could not but think
of the Gauls, the Goths and other bar
barians of the north, as they emerged
from the then unimproved passage
ways through the Alps, and, tired and
hungry, saw the rich plains of Italy
spread out before them. Here in the
plains of Lombardy for twenty-five
hundred years the land has been called
upon to yield its harvests and its fer
tility seems still as great as the plains
of Illinois or lowa. No wonder the
barbarian brought his family with him
and came to stay. We only had time
to visit Venice, Milan, Padua and
Verona upon this journey and turned
our backs unwillingly upon Italy, hop
ing at no distant day to return and
make a pilgrimage to
IMPERIAL ROME.
Let us take another long step to tbe
plains of Belgium. One morning I
said I must see the field of Waterloo. I
had long wished to look upon that
mighty battle field where Napoleon’s
greatness went down amid blood and
fire. Taking the train for Brain
L’Alleud I soon found myself standing
behind where Wellington’s army had
first been placed in line. In front of
me was the great mound erected over
the very spot where the Old Guard
died. This vast pyramid of earth was
erected as a monument to the dead by
Belgium, and on its summit approached
by a flight of stone steps stands a gi
gantic Belgian lion cast in bronze out
of the cannon captured at Waterloo. I
climbed this mound in company with a
young English lawyer from New Zea
land. He had been born and raised
under the
SOUTHERN OROSB,
in the land where June answers to De
cember and December to June. We
spoke the same language, practiced the
same profession, and lived under al
most the same forms of law in opposite
hemispheres, and both approached the
battle-field of Waterloo with a feeling
of regret that France had been so deep
ly humbled there. The plain of Water
loo, tbe farm of Hougomont, and La
Belle Alliance lay below us and the
field was covered with ripening grain.
To our right we could see where Jerome
charged, and the battered walls of the
farm house of Hougomont attest the
desperation of the contest The little
brick dwelling with a tile roof in front
of us was pointed out as La Belle Alli
ance, the headquarters of the Emperor.
The woods in which Wellington’s men
found so much shelter have been most
t cut down. The sunken road of Ohain
so graphically described by Victor
Hugo, where tbe French cavalry met
SUCH DREADFUL DISASTER,
was the sunken road no longer, because
the excavation of the earth to build
the great mound had lowered the sur
rounding land to the same level. And
away to our left we coiild see where
Grouchy was to come but came not,
where Blucher was looked for and ar
rived in time to turn the tide in favor
of the allies. With all his faults 1 al
ways held Napoleon to have been a
benefactor of his race. He taught the
Kings of the world that brains were a
higher title to rank than birth. He
taught the rulers of the world that if
they wish to build monuments to
themselves that will last they must
build highways, docks, and other places
for the comfort and convenience of
their people. Where a work is pointed
out in Europe as the work of Napol
eon, it is a work of utility and not of
idle ornament. To see the spot where
this greatest of all soldiers was brought
to earth is to view the scene of one of
the saddest tragedies of history. To
A SOLDIER OF THESE TIMES,
when rifled cannon and minie balls
make war dangerous regardless of dis
tance, it is wonderful to see how close
Napoleon’s and Wellington’s headquar
ters were together. 1 had to stop and
think of the difference between the
smooth-bore guns of 1815 and the rifies
of 1864 before 1 could understand why
these two generals could have placed
their headquarters in such close prox
imity. A chattering guide, supposing
us to be English, insisted on pointing
out the places of greatest interest, and
giving a color to everything that would
in his judgment best please the taste of
a Briton. Finally he was silenced by
the bribe of a franc, and I sat down
and for an hour studied the field as it
lay spread out like a map before me.
It seemed impossible that here in this
peaceful wheatfield such mighty car
nage had been wrought. And 1 thought
then of
SHILOH, GETTYSBURG, HELENA,
and a hundred battle-fields three thou
sand miles away, where the slaughter
of the past was forgotten, and the
robin, the blue bird, the mocking bird,
and all the other feathered friends of
man were enjoying the peace of the
present. And I looked up at the Bel
gian lion above me and his open mouth
was filled with straw; a bird had built
her nest in his silent jaws. The gigan
tic lion, cast from a hundred molten
cannon, held in his brazen lips the lit
tle home of a sparrow as an emblem of
peace.
Some Facta for Workers.
New York Musical Monitor.
Free traders say, abolish duties, give
us free trade, that will open the mark
ets of the world to us, and then we
shall have plenty to do. We would
ask, in what manufactured article can
we compete with the nations of Europe
as long as the wages of the working
people are higher here than there?
Can we produce any goods made of
iron, cotton or wood as cheaply as in
Europe if we are obliged to pay higher
wages?
Some who have not given the sabject
a thought, will perhaps say, have we
not a great advantage in cotton goods,
because we raise the cotton ourselves ?
No, we have not, for the reason that
the cost of transportation to Lowell,
Liverpool or Hamburg is so near the
same that the difference is of no im
portance. In fact, the cost of trans
portation either to or from Europe is
of so little moment that we need not
take it into consideration while speak
ing of our ability to compete with man
ufacturers of foreign nations.
The facts are, we can never compete
with the nations of Europe as long as
the mechanic, the laborer, the working
people, from the lowest to the highest,
clerics, bookkeepers, salemen, overseers,
boys, girls, packers, truckmen, every
body employed in the field, factory, and
salesroom, get higher wages here than
there.
Some writers have said, if we could
import iron and steel ships in this
country, so that we could compete with
the English. What is it that makes
iron and steel in Europe cheaper than
here? We have plenty of iron in our
ground that has not cost anybody a
cent. They have the same in Europe.
Now, gentlemen free traders, please
tell us now it happens that, we can
import either iron or steel at a cost less
than we can produce it? Of course it
is because our wages and salaries are
higher.
It would be a waste of time to take
up other industries, because it is the
same with everything we produce.
Trace the thing back to its natural or
crude state, it has cost nothing, that is
originally. But the moment you put
your Anger upon it, it has cost some
thing.
If this is true, who is it that is bene
fited by “protection ?” It is that per
son who does something with his hands
principally;the whole nation generally.
Is it not easy to see, that if iron and
steel can be produced cheaper in Eu
rope than here, and we should abolish
the duties on both, our manufacturers
must either reduce the wages of all
their employees or shut up shop. Have
we any advantages which will enable
us to compete with foreign manufac
tures, with the wages we pay, two or
three times higher than they pay? If
we have not, who would be the first to
suffer from free trade? The working
men, of course. He would be thrown
out of work and would be kept so, un
til he is ready to accept wages which
would enable his employer to compete
with manufacturers in Europe.
How is it that manufacturers in Eu
rope can produce goods cheaper than
we? Have they any advantage over
us other than the price of labor? Of
course not. Then who have we got to
“go for” in order to compete with them ?
Everybody who receives wages or sal
aries.
Are the working people in Europe
as well off as the same class in the
United States?
They say that our working people
would be just as well situated it they
had less wages, because then every
thing would cost less. Is there any
body who has ever lived in Germany
who thinks that tbe working people
there are as well situated as here?
Take the country towns and manufac
turing cities as a sample.
If the wages of the working people
remain about where they are, about the
same amount of money will certainly
be spent for necessities and luxuries.
Rich and well-to-do people spend about
the same every year auyway, we say
a6o«fthe same. Of course if some
thing happen that their business is
f;ood they will spend a little more, and
fit is poor, they will spend a little
less, but the difference will not be
great. The changing of one’s habits
is a terrible one.
How our working people would get
along with free trade and European
wages nobody can tell until it has been
tried, but with such facts as we have
before us, the idea that they would be
as well off is so devoid of all reason
that it seems too ridiculous to merit
argument.
It is true that at the end of the year
almost all of our population who live
off of wages and salaries have saved
nothing and it would be just the same
if they got twice as much. But that
fact has nothing to do with the ques
tion. They have had money and nave
enjoyed it. They have lived in a good,
comfortable house, have dressed them
selves, their wives, sons and daughters
nicely; have bought them presents,
taken them to places of amusment,
etc., etc., and all m good style. Can
the same be said of the workingmen of
Europe?
Go into any part of the United States
and take a thousand men just as they
come, and you have got a thousand or
very nearly a thousand good custom
ers. Do the same in Europe, outside
of the large cities, and what have the
thousand got to spend after support
ing their families in the most eco
nomical manner? Ask any German
who has lived in any of the smaller
towns of Germany.
Gentlemen—free traders—cut down
the wages of our workingmen, and we
have lost our best customers.
Never Give Up.
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and henceforth you will rejoice in the
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ESTABLISHED 1850.
Educational Department.
HOMER h' SEERLEY,
Superintendent Jof Osk&loosa City Schools,
News end Notes.
Compulsory attendance upon school
is one of the questions being consider
ed by the General Assembly.
The committee on appropriations
and work of the State University re
port in favor of passing a bill granting
$67,000 to this institution for the com
ing two years.
The teacher’s social at Mr. and Mrs.
.John Baer’s, the program of which was
given by the Third ward teachers, was
a very successful meeting. These
meetings of teachers and patrons are of
great value to the educational interests
of the district.
The dental department of the State
University gave its commencement
February 28. Eighteen persons re
ceived the degree of doctor of dental
surgery. Rev. A. B. Robbins, of Mus
catine, delivered the annual address
before the class.
The Chicago Herald of recent date
gave quite a fine descriptive article of
the Voice and Hearing school for the
Deaf at Englewood, Illinois. This is
the excellent and benevolent institu
tion of which Miss Mary McOowen, a
former lowa teacher, is principal and
in which Miss Theo. Roth is an assist
ant.
The high school entertainment will
occur at the opera house Friday even
ing, 19th inst. The classes under Miss
Knight’s management will give the
best exhibition of gymnastic exercises
ever presented in this city. The liter
ary and musical part of the program
will maintain the standard heretofore
given by high school classes.
Senator Allison proposed an amend
ment to the U. S. Senate bill for nation
al aid to education. The amendment
requires a distribution among colored
and white schools according to number
of illiterates in each race. It is now
supposed that this amendment will
prevent the bill getting much support
from the South. As a consequence,
the measure will fail and the present
conditions will remain.
Specimen original designs have been
sent to Keokuk, Washington, Sigour
ney, Albia and Centerville. This feat
ure of primary work used no where
else but in Oskaloosa is beginning to
attract outside attention. Last week,
on request, some copies were sent to
Chicago to see whether the work was
able to be adopted into a private
school. The success and development
of this new kind of work is entirely
due to the Oskaloosa primary teachers.
The board of regents of the state
university has closed up the discussion
concerning Prof. Gustavus Hinrichs
and the last summer’s action in remov
ing him from the chair of chemistry of
the collegiate department by also re
moving him from the professorship in
the medical and pharmaceutical depart
ments. He is thus not connected with
any of the faculties of the State Uni
versity and must make his fight on that
institution from the outside. Persons
well acquainted with the facts will ad
mit that the board of regents has been
very lenient in dealing with the re
bellious and contrary element with
which it has had to contend. Old stud
ents will sympathize with Professor
Hinrichs, but they will not uphold his
actions nor approve of the methods
being employed by his personal friends.
Law and order must prevail in the
faculty as well as among the students,
and it matters not how talented a man
may be if he does not use his talents to
good purposes and for the benefit of
the university.
The board of management of the Ma
haska county Agricultural Society are
generous enough to give encourage
ment to an exhibit of public school
work. They have selected Supt. Hedge
as superintendent of this branch of the
fair and it is due the fair that the
teachers take hold of this matter and
make the educational exhibit a grand
feature of the next exhibit.
To encourage the country schools,
the material necessary to make the ex
hibit will be furnished free of cost to a
limited number of schools on applica
tion to the county superintendent. The
work will then be bound and will be
put into fine shape so that the best pre
sentation possible will be made.
It is only expected that schools will
do the best they can. No perfection
can be expected by children and all
teachers should proudly take hold and
show what the Mahaska schools can
do. Advice and instruction will be
gladly given to all teachers who will
apply in person or by letter to the
county superintendent. Keep Mr.
Hedge busy telling what he wants you
to do.
Last week we called attention to the
question of text-books and their cost
An investigation into the schools of
this city and into the amounts paid by
the pupils has given to us this addi
tional information to impart on this
much abused topic.
Ten hundred and forty-eight pupils
in regular attendance upon the public
schools have reported how many and
what books they have bought, new and
second-hand, and what books they are
using that they have been furnished
by elder brothers and sisters, or that
they themselves have bought in former
years.
A great many persons suppose that
book-sellers have a bonanza business in
selling school books, and that there is
nothing to prevent them from becom
ing millionaires at an early date. The
figures that we have accumulated from
our pupils tell an entirely different
story, if we are not greatly mistaken.
These figures involve readers, spellers,
geographies, grammars, histories, etc.,
all the different text-books used from
the lowest primary grade to the last
term’s work in the high school.
These ten hundred and forty-eight
pupils report that 8912.21 have been
paid for new books, and 8234.40 have
been paid for second-hand books. Thus
the facts show that these pupils all
told have paid out eleven hundred and
forty-six dollars and sixty-one cents, or
at the rate of one dollar and ten cents
each. •
If we examine the aggregated ex
pense of the schools below the high
school department, we ascertain that
the oost per pupil averages sixty-nine
cents. In the high school department
more books are bought and as a conse
quence the average cost is much
higher, being three dollars and fifteen
cents.
These ten hnndred and forty-eight
pupils have in use a great many hooks
that they have not needed to buy this
year, as they were in the family, having
been need by an older brother or sister,
The County Fair.
Text-book Goat.
or they have themselves used the books
In previous years. To get at the cost
of these books, we estimated them at
the actual retail price charged in our
book-stores for new books, and find
their value at such figures as $1,143.30.
Of course such an estimate is unfair,
as it makes old books, much worn and
many times unfit for useful work, as
valuable as new ones, yet the most ar
dent advocate of the theory that school
books cost an immense amount of
money will naturally be satisfied with
our method in this case.
If all the books in the hands of these
ten hundred and forty-eight pupils
were bought at one time and were all
new, their entire cost would aggregate
$2,289.91, an amount very much below
most persons’ estimate.
Quite a good many pupils in the low
est primary grade have no books for at
least the first half of their beginning
school year, and as a consequence are
not reported here.
Books are a necessity to a good
school. We need to-day more books
rather than less. We need better books
rather than poorer, and it will never
impoverish a people to educate the
children for usefulness and intelligent
living. Despite these figures, we still
believe that in many cases the books
ought to be absolutely free to the child,
and that it is the duty of the State to
contrive a plan whereby this may be a
possibility without treating the child
as a pauper.
Indianapolis Schools.
Report of the grammar department of the
Indianapolis schools for the month ending Feb.
19, 1886:
Number of days t&nght 20
Total number enrolled 38
Average number belonging 35
Total number days present 650
Total number days absent 50
Average daily attendance 32H
Average daily absence
Names of those neither absent nor tardy:
Joe and Ruby Raker. Minnie Crew, Nellie El
der, Frank Emery, Eva Fisher, Lizzie, Nellie
and Nettle Hutchison, Stella Johnson and Dollie
Walden.
Names of those tardy but not absent:
Henry Maleby, Ella Piersel, Eddie Baker and
Jacob Emery. 8. A. Darland, Teacher.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Number days taught 20
Number enrolled 39
Number belonging 35
Average daily attendance 30
Names of those neither absent nor tardy:
Jimmie Walden, Hattie and Willie Collumber,
Eddie and Frank Mcßride, Florence Crew,
Zitpha Maleby and Minnie Athearn.
Tardy but not absent:
Warren Emery, Berta Taylor, John Walden,
Fred Taylor, Deale Powell, Willie Wadsworth.
Davie Griggs and Zollie Snodgrass.
Cassie Fry, Teacher.
A Mother’s Fatal Mistake.
Baltimore, Ml>.— Every Saturday
of this city, has an account of a sad
accident, which happened in a family
last week. A little child was threat
ened with croup, and the mother gave
it too large a dose of a cough mixture
which undoubtedly contained opium,
as the child sank into a comatose con
dition, and died. The Coroner spoke
strongly on the danger of such medi
cines, and remarked that the new cough
remedy,—Red Star Cough Cure, is free
from opiates or poison, that the gover
nor and many public men of Mary
land have warmly endorsed it, and that
physicians in hospitals have adopted
it in their treatment of throat and lung
troubles. It costs only twenty-five
cents a bottle.
Gold! Gold! Go! .!
Sam Small
The richest man that ever died in
America died upon a bed of languish
ing, and turned to his faithful wife and
asked her to sing, “Gome, ye sinners,
poor and needy, weak and wounded,
sick and sore.” And that was his dy
ing commentary upon the hundred
millions that he had heaped up. There
are no pockets in shrouds; and you can
only carry yourown miserable self into
eternity. We permit the clatter of the
myriad wheels that represent our rush
ing enterprise and energy, and the in
ventions of man’s wonderful mind and
all the things that his aitifice and that
his power to construct have brought
upon the world for its blessing, its
improvement, and its progress. We
permit the whir, and the whirl, and the
clatter of the wheels in the foundry, in
the factory, and on the railway to din
into our ears uutil we hear nothing ex
cept the wheels, and do not hear the
voice that is speaking to us through the
wheels. We take care of our manufac
turing enterprises; we take great care
of our transportation schemes; we take
great care of our foun lries and ma
chine shops; but amid all the bustle
and turmoil of them we lose the sound
of the tender voice of Jesus Christ call
ing us to a higher life, to a nobler ex
istence, and an eternity of bliss. We
do not have time to withdraw our ears
from this busy whirring of wheels and
give them to the simplicity of the Gos
pel as it is daily preached in our land.
We go on and on, thus accumulating,
thus inventing, thus using all the pow
ers of machinery to accumulate unto
ourselves the goods and the products of
this world and to make ourselves
wealthy and famous among our fellow
men. Wisely, appropriately, properly
may we pursue these things until we
become so infatuated with the whirr
of wheels that we do not see the living
spirit that is moving in the wheels.
We may be blameless in seeking and
and accumulating until we lost sight
of the fact that it is God who moves in
the wheels; that it is the voice of God
that sounds in the whirr of the ma
chinery; that it is due to Him and to
His mercies and to His providences
that we have all of these instrumen
talities about us; and we cease until to
look up through these inventions, these
mechanisms, to the Great Author of
all mechanics, and all mechanism, and
all machinery we cannot be saved.
A Great Discovery.
Mr. Wm. Thomas, of Newton, la.,
says: “My wife has been seriously af
flicted with a cough for twenty-five
years, and this spring more severely
than ever before. She had used many
remedies without relief, and being
urged to try Dr. King’s New Discov
ery, did so, with most gratifying re
sults. The first bottle relieved her
very much, and the second bottle ab
solutely cured her. She has not had
so good health for thirty years.” Trial
Bottles Free at Green & Bentley’s
Drug Store. Large size #I.OO. 6 .
A pretended relative of Jacob Snyder,
Keokuk, made him a visit, borrowed
#2B of him, stole all of his silverware
and skipped out.
If any lady in this community is
troubled with her throat or lungs, she
should at once ask Green & Bently for
Burks’ White Pine Balsam. It is pos
itively the best.
Some of the citizens of Woodbine
are raising a fund for the purpose of
boring a hole 2,000 feet deep to see
what they can lind.
Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches
of every kind cured in 30 minutes by
Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Use no
other. This never fails. Sold by Green
& Bentley, Druggist, Oskaloosa. 24-3 m
The Ottumwa Courier says that the
city council of that place conld save
S4OO a month by discharging the police
and buying a dog, ana the service
would be as efficient.
Easy to take and sure to please you.
Little Giant Cough Cure. Sold by W.
A. Wells A Co.
A Meriden man announces himself
a candidate for any office to which the
people will kindly elect him at the
coming election.
Wm. A. Morrison, Druggist and Ex-
Mayor of lowa City, says: “The largest
sale on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is to persons who have used it before
and know its curative powers.” Sold
by Green & Bentley. 17yl
David Rice, aged 81, and Mrs. It. M.
Davidson, aged 80, were licensed to
marry by the clerk of Lee county last
Wednesday.
A Clarion girl thinks she is an angel.
She caught sight of her ears in the
mirror and mistook them for wings.
Wild Cktny ud Tar.
Every body knows the virtues of
Wild Cherry and Tar as a relief and
cure for any affections of the Throat
and Lungs, combined with these two
ingredients area few simple healing
remedies in the composition of Dr.
Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup
making it just the article you should
always have in the house, for Coughs,
Colds, Croup and Bronchitis. Price 60
cents and SI.OO. Samples free. Sold
by W. A. Wells & Co. 6
Holstein has six saloons, each of
whioh nays into the city treasury S6O
a month in advance.
Easy to take as sugar—Little Apricot
Pills.