The Oskaloosa herald., December 20, 1888, Image 1

About The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919

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Professional Cards.
Five lines or leas. per year M OO
BMk id'lUkMitl line. 1 OO
attorneys.
LI irOK MeMILLEN.
Attornev-at-Law.
Beat K<Ute and Loan Agent. O»oe In Me-
Mltlea’s Block, Osktilooea. lowa. _
JL WASHES,
• Altorney-kt-Law.
das»*County tonk^S
JAMBS A. RICK.
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Office over M. Wltaoo’s store. Oskaloosa,
Dm. perdue,
• Attorney-at-Law,
an<l Hotary Public, aoee Hill, low.
MCFALL A JONES,
Attorney s-at-La w,
And Notaries Public. o*oe ov-er Smith k
Brewster’s boot and shoe store, Oskaloosa.
Bolton a mocot,
Attorneys- at-Law,
Oskaloosa, lowa. Office over Knapp A Spr
ing's hardware store.
OLIVER N. DOWNS,
Attornev-al-Law,
Oskaloosa. lowa Office over Mltoh *
N. E. oorner of Park. Faria and city P^PJ^ 7
for sale. .
Blanchard a preshin,
Attorney vat*Law,
Oskaloosa. lowa. WII practice In all the
eourts. OiHce over the Oskaloosa National
Bank. Z_
Georg r vy. laFFBRty,
Attorney-at-I/tw.
OBoe ovsr Oskalooen National Bank, Osks
loosa, lowa. *
W. HASKELL, W. A. GRBKB,
• County Attorney. Deputy.
HASKELL A GRKBR.
A ttorneys-at- La w.
OSce In Phoenix block, Oskaloosa, I™***
Business promptly attended to.
JOHN F. LACEY,
Attorney-at-lAW,
and government claim agent. OBoe in Boyer
A Barnes’ block. Oskaloosa, lowa. Prompt at
entlon riven to collections. Probate business
will receive careful attention. Business at
en ded to in the 0. S. and State oourts. A)
Jambs Carroll. Daribl Davis.
CARROLL A DAVIS.
Attorneys-at-Law.
Oskaloosa, .owa, will practice in ail courts.
Collections made a special feature. Office over
Frankel A Oo’a, Bank. Branch office at New
Sharon. *>
“ MEDICAL.
Dr. sbth cox.
Specialist in Cancer,
Scrofula, Piles and Chronic diseases. Office and
Residence on B Avenue West.—No. SOT.
81. REBOOT, M. D.
• H copathle Physician A Surgeon.
Calls day or night promptly attended to.
Found at office at nights. Office over Be* chier
Bros.' south side. Sill
J SEVAN,
• Physician and Snrgeon.
Office In era id Blook, over T K. .Smith’s jew
elry store. Resident, 8 -cood avenue, between
A aud B streets. Telephone No 80. *otf
MJOSEPIIIN TENNET, M. D,
• Physician and Surgeon.
Office on west side of public square, over
Miss Anderson's millinery store. Night calls
promptly attended- ‘JO
GBO. J. TURNER, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Id Bridges' building, one door west of
Far uer* and Trader* National Rank south side
sgnsre. Re idence 2 blocks south ana 1 blocks
west of Herald Block 20
•pvR J. C. BARRINGER.
” Physician and Surgeon,
Oskaloosa. lowa. Office northeast corner ot
square. middle rooms up stairs In new Masonic
bmldlsg. Residence on High street, 8 blocks
east «f square. Telephone connection at office
sad residence with -II parts of the city. 20
0. A. Howrah, M. i). R. C. Hoppmab M. D.
ME. D. A. A R. C. HOrFMAN
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office two doors north of Simpson M. E.
ehuroh, near S. B corner of square. Oskaloosa,
lowa. Residence on Main street, three blocks
east of the publio square. 20
J. L. Corns. A. H. Cowles.
COFFIN A/,OWLEB
Homeopathic Physicians.
Red Surgeons, will attend all calls.day or night.
Office over Hmesley's cigar snop; Telephone 59:
office hours of Dr. Coffin, from » o’clock to 9
•’stock A. M . and from 1:40 to 4 o’clock r. u. ;
Residence 40* south A street. Office Hours of
Dr. Cowles, from k to 12 a. m. and from 4 to 6 p.
ffi. Will sleep In uffloe. 88
pv B. J. W. MORGAN,
* 9 Eye and Ear Physician.
Ms* carefully tested and measured for specta
j .-les Oskaloosa. lowa. 90
BANKING.
* J. e JONBS. JNO. H. ffiUUI,
President. Cashier.
A P. Bacon, Vioe-Presidsnt.
The Farmers’ & Traders’
NATIONAL BANK,
OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
CAPITAL 1100,000.
CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Bank, Chicago.
Importers' and Traders' National Bank. N. T.
St Tailor National Bank, Deo Molne .
J. A. L. CnooABAH, H. 6. Howard,
Preoldont. V.-Preo.
Joe* H Barnbo. Cashier.
lAHASKA COONT7 BANK,
OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
Organized Under the State Laws.
paid up Capital, sioo.ooo.
- •toakholders liable for double the amount
of Capital Btook.
DIRECTORS:
J. A L Crookkam, W. A. Seerere. A H.
Olbba, Milton Crook ham, Jacob Vernon,
A. J. Jarvis, R. Redman, W.C.
England. John Toorheoa,
John Nash, and
H • Howard
H. L. Sravciß. C. B. Lon.and.
President. Oashler.
—THE—
' Oslaloosa National Bail,
OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
DIRECTORS:
Vm. H Sbstibs. J. W.MoMcllin,
J. H. Gases, D. W. Lorino,
Jno J. Price. Jr. H. L. Hr mom.
Jambs MsCollooe.
CORRESPONDENTS:
First National Bank, Now York.
Oilman, Son A Co., New York.
First National Bank, Chicago.
Clttaon’s Nat'l Bank, Or* Molne .
• Davenport Nat'l Baak, Davenport.
BANKING HOUSE
-OF-
I. FRANKEL,
*• scocssoos to
'l Frankel, Bach & Co.,
The Oldest Btnk in Mahaskt County.
WUi receive deposits and transact a general
Esakis*. exohange. aad collection business, the
same as an incorporated bank.
■kohangs on all tks principal cities of tke
Halted States aad all cities of Europe bought
and sold St sums to salt the purchasers.
Passage tickets to and from all potatt la
■arose for sals at tbs lowest rates.
OsUeciKms will receive prompt attention.
Ido a strictly legitimate banking business,
sms give tbs wants of eostomere special at
tention. '*>
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MONET, LAND fta
j¥«Tul[Fs¥«o¥ei(cT
I have ea my books n largo number of farms
aad bouses Is tews; also many thousand aores
mt wild lead, if yon have real estate to sell or
wish to buy. giro ms a call. I pay taxes in any
rt mt tbs Stats. Conveyancing done. OSes
Beyer A Btrees' block. Oekalooae. lowa.
Oas bandied nloe building lots in Laosy t addi-
Men to Oaknloosa. »
fIOOOOO Am SIOO4OO
Money to Loan!
At Six Per Cent Annual
Interest,
S» years time, la loans of *M> aad upwards;
id privilege of paying 6100 aad aoovs la sa
il payments, if desired.
•o JOHN P. HIATT.
M , Cowan b Hambleton’s
Lou A Abstract Office.
IMII non to loss at* pm esot Interest on Bvs
rears time; borrower having the op
-7 tioo to payjmrt or all of prtn
stpKCraret pear.
•m*» bare * sompiww Of Abstract Book*
Lands and Town Lots
AK&AOTS OF OX SHOE?
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THE OSALOOSA HERALD.
PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY
AT
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
C. Lbiohton, 1 _ _ .
A. W. Bwalm. VPubllstaers aad Proprietors.
W. M. Lbiohton. 1 _____
VOL. 39, NUMBER IS
JDENTISTS. ___
Ur G. MILLAR. • jfCjSjfc
. Dentist. f LE
Office over postoffice, In Times Block. Nl
rous oxide ga* usnd for painful operations. 20
R. M. L. JACKSON,
Surgeon Dentist.
Office in Exchange block, on Ulgh street,
Oskaloosa. lowa, over Rader A Mowry’s drug
store.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Israel M. Gibbs, Broker.
Loens of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile
paper bought and sold. Room 8, over Farmers
Trailers’ Bank, Oskaloosa, lowa. 20
M ahaska lodgi no. is, i. 0. o. r.,
meets every Saturday evening at the Odd
Fellows’ Hall, Exchange block. West H'gh ave.
Visiting brothers cordially invited to atteod.
O. r Bird, r »- A. Hikvit.
Secretary. plj
O’Haras losnraDce Agency
REPRESENTING
A Number of Old and Reliable
American and English
Companies.
Office at the Famous, 207 and kO9 B. High Aye.
Ralph and SamuklO Haha. 20tf
Capital City CommerciarCollege, i’« mmsm,
U» The Grmleal School of < omu»crcc la the West Special
Basra!hf Hall. Mad ooaipleie Bullion eracthsa Oepartmsot to
M hilt ll ooearoo mort oltuaUnßi for otudcaU Uananj other
Sahael Am sight oahoal lor Jar atadenu for eircolara
JL, M. Proprietor.
OTaaO li'o Y Lit S' GUIDE is
issued March and Bept..
each year. It is an ency
clopedia of useful infor
mation for all who pur
chase the luxuries or the
necessities of life. We
can clothe you and furnish you with
all the necessary and unnecessary
appliances to ride, walk, dance, sleep,
eat, fish, hunt, work, go to church,
or stay at home, and in various sizes,
styles and quantities. Just figure out
what is required to do all these things
COMFORTABLY, »nd you can make a fair
estimate of the value of the BUYERS’
GUIDE, which will be sent upon
receipt of 10 cents to pay postage,
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
111-lid "'■Tt«»-*tc-^tx Avenne. f’hloapo. 11l
VESRItfON’S
MACHINE WORKS.
W. E. VERNON, Prop.
MANUFACTURER OF
Small Steam Engines, Steel Dies
Models and all General
Job Work.
Oskalooaa, lowa 90
L* Cook & Son,
Steam Plow Shops.
We make a SPECIALTY of
Plow, Reaper, and all kinds of
Farm Machinery
Repairing.
Goods warranted to give satisfaction in |all
cases. Come in sod see ns and
rive us a trial.
*o L. Cook & Son.
SSOO Reward.
We will par the above reward for any cate of
liver comoiaint. dyspepsia. sick headache. Indi
gestion. constipation or coativeoess we cannot
cure with West's VegetniiU- Liver Pills, when
the directions arestriotlv complied with. They
are purely vegetable, and never fail to give sat
isfaction Large Imxes contain* 80 sugar
coated pills. *3c. Por sale by all druggists. Be
ware of counterfeits and imitations. The gen
uine manufactured only by JOHN C. WEST A
CO., 869 W. Mari'Son -t., Chicago 111. 50yl
ARBUCKLES’
name on a package of COFFEE is a
guarantee of excellence-
ARIOSA
COFFEE is kept in all first-ol&ss
stores from the Atlantic to the Paoifis.
COFFEE
is never good when exposed to the air.
Always buy this brand in hermetically
sealed ONE POUND PACKAGES.
•JM&BBLT ncc
iWr par WarranlaJ ll„, 7
MLqfT Oou Huo«m» cut
MMfcyi iM Jj St V r-cant .n.i ma* indent.
' I hl, ‘“ I.JIM U'tlUU HIM
, uiE rtkio.l
i MP iDWh locality ran aarnra naa
k j VKEE. II w i. ihl. poMlbi.t
6 S. tuvtr-v. vurt ow pe
ana In aach locality, la kaap to
m*P Sal n.aol >tu>* to Uwim aho emit, • complete llna oroar
valaahtoaad nry will SOI NGBOI.U SAMPLES.
Aw SfMM* wall u tba vtlrk n aend fm4M >IUr ysn
haw kept M Is r«ar born* *nr * naUi and ahowa Una
to Mato who mar ban eallad.lbey become yoor owl prepaid ri
M p passible to but, thla rrwat offer. aandlac Urn SOLID
SOLD wateb aad COST V eempl.dfrra.es tbesbowlacsf
On aampiM la sny locality, always rasslts la a tarfa trada hv
as, altor ear aemplea Kara torn Ina locality lor a mnalb aw lira
at asaally tat from gIOOO to gBOOO ta trada from tba
sarvaaaSlas coeetry. Thia, tba ntnat wontorful oSar aaa*
known,la aaada in or tor tr.ai oar eemplas may ba placed at <•*»
win, HMy caa ba an, all o.ar America Write at oaea, aad
meke>ere at tba chance. Reuter It aril Iba hardly any tranUs
law pen toebow uteeemplaa lotbw who may call at yaar baaaa
aad yaor raward will ba mwt aatletertory. A poetal card on
wblib to wrtta aaciala bat I cant and after ynataow all.tf yas
Ssnal eara to po farther, wby no barm la dona. Bat If yaw da
Sand yaar addrtaa at onea, yoa caaaarnra PMEE aaa at tba
bast solid fold walehas la tba arorid and oar larft Itaa at
CtBSTLV atnpl.BS. Wa pay sll ampraaa. rralfM, eta.
sea m Jibuti sou.Ses su, rosTLA*D, hairs
MARBLE WORKS.
(Maloosa Karma WofKs.
F. W. McCALL & SON,
Denier la
MonumeniL Tombs. Hestl (Mores Horde
Ante loan Urauite Monuments, Etc.
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RAILROADS.
CHANGE OF TIME B. & W. R. It.
ARRIVALS.
No. 1 fast mail arrives 1:10 p. m
No. 3 Accom. arrives 5:20p.m.
DEPARTURES.
No. 2 Chicago express departs 2:48 P. M.
No. 4 Accom. departs 6:50 a. m
272tf R. W. Price Agent.
CENTRAL IOWA RAILWAY
Passenger 1 rains leaving Oskaloosa station
NOHTH. SOUTH AND BAHT. M
No. 1 leaves... 7:66 A M No. 2 south 1v5.7:35 f M
No. 3 leaves... 9:uo pm No. 4 south Iv».6:(j«a m
No. 26 leaves.. 4:15 p m No. 4 east 1v5...8:t0 am
No. 26 ar at ...12:60 pm
NEWTON BRANCH.
North de 8:10 A m| South ar 8:40 pm
Freight Trellis Carrying Passengers:
NOR PH. I SOUTH AND BAST.
No. 6 11:20 A M|No,6 south.. .3:45 P. M.
No. 90 east., .to 30P. m.
(No. lo east ,8:20 A.M.
Througn sleepers and coaches between St.
Paul, St. Louis and Kaunas City. Nos. 1 and
2 daily.
K A. JONES. Agent.
C. B. I. & P. Tie Carl
ARRIVALS.
iio.24.Accommodation from Knoxville and a.m.
Intel mediate s' atlons 8:05
No. 52. passenger from Des Moines, Coun
ell KlufTs and lntermldate stations . .
No. 63, passenger from Keokuk, Kansas
City and Intermediate stations 9:55
No. 15. passenger from Cblcago and Inter
mediate stations it :30
No. 23. Accommodation from Washington p.m
and intermediate stations, fast freight .. 12:45
No. 16. passenger from Knoxville and Inter
mediate stations— 4:56
No. 26. Accommodation from Des Moines
and Intermediate stations 6:1
No. 25. Accommodation from Washington
and Intermediate stations.. . 4:50
No. 51, passenger from Keokuk Kansas
City and Intermediate stations 10:35
No. 54, passenger from Des Moines, Coun
cil Bluffs and intermediate stations ..10:06
DKPAKTUKRS.
No. 24, Accommodation for Washington a.m.
and intermediate stations < .to
No. 62. Passenger for Keokuk, Kansas City
and Intermediate stations 8:50
No. 63. Passenger for Des Moines, Council
Bluffs and in termed late stations 10:05
No. 15. Passenger for Knoxville and inter
mediate stations ll :35
No. 23, Accommodation for Knoxville and p. m
Intermediate stations i:is
No. 16. Passenger for Washington, Cblcago
and intermediate stations 5.00
No. 26, Accommodation for Washington
and Intermediate stations 6:30
No. 25. Accommodation for Des Moines
and Intermediate stations 5:15
No. 61, Passenger for Des Moines, Council
Bluffs and intermediate stations 10:45
No. 64. Passenger for Keokuk, Kansas City
and Intermediate stations, 10:’5
.1. M. Lyfopd, Agent.
The Line selected by the U. S Gov’t
the Fast Mail.
The Only Line Running Through Trains with
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and Ele
gant Coaches between
ST. LOUIS, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL
And SPIRIT LAKE
PASSING THROUGH
Hannibal r 'uino~ Keokuk, Burlinfirton,
Cedar Rapids, and Albert Lea,
the Principal Cities of
the Mississippi
Valle-.
Dlrect| v onncctlon Made at Kacb of its June}
tlon Points with Trains to and
from all Points in
Missouri, lows, Minnesota, Dakota
Illinois. Wisoonsin, Nebraska 1
Colorado, Arkansas,
Texas,
The Health Resorts of FLORIDA and al
SOUTHERN POINTS.
TbrouKb Trains and Direct Connections
between
St Louis and St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids,
Cheyenne,
St. Louis and Denver,
Portland. Lincoln, Omaha,
Sioux City,
Council Bluffs,
Keokuk, Quincy, Des Moines
and Ottumwa.
For tickets, rates, general information, etc.,
regarding the Burlington Route, call on any
ticket agent In the United Btates.
C. M. Lsvsy, Howard ElUott,
Superintendent, Gen’l Pass. Agent
KEOKUK. IOWA.
™ E CHICAGO A “°
MORTH-
Western
Penetrates the Centres ot Population^
ILLINOIS, IOWA, DAKOTA,
MICHIGAN WISCONSIN,
MINNESOTA,
AND WYOMING.
It* TRAIN SERVICE is Icarefnllf ar
ranged to meet reauirements of looal
travels*, well as to furnish the most at
tractive Routes for through travel between
important
TRADE CENTRES
Its EQUIPMENT of Day and Parloi
Oars, Dining and Palaoe Sleeping Oars ar
without rival.
Its ROAD-BED is perfection, of stone
ballasted Steel.
The North-Western is the favorite route
for the Oommercial Traveler, the Touris
and the Seekers after New ;Homes in the
Qolden Northwest.
Detailed formation cheerfully fur'
nished by
A. . PREST N,
Agent. Gainloro.
J .M.IWHITMAN. H ;C- WICKER.
E. P. WILSON,
General Passenger Agent
Union Pacific R’y,
THE'OVERLAND ROUTE
lks nlj Lin* Carrying tka United
States Orarland MaiL
Through Pullman Bleepers and Modern Dk
Coaches from the Missouri River
Making Direct Connections
TO
JDenver, Cheyenne,
Ogden, Salt Lake City,
Sacramento, San Francisco,
Loe Angeles, Portland and all
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada,
California, Washington Ter
ritory, and Pacific
Coast Points.
Baggage checked through from all
points in the east to points named.
Family SUnm FREE on tkressk
Trains.
For further tolormsUoo regarding the terri
tory traversed, rates of fare, descriptive ram.
pbtoto, etc., apply to the nearest agent ot ti #
Untou Pacific Railway, or connecting roads, ot
ad drnas
E. M. FORD, Travelling Pass. Agent.
218 Fourth St., Dei Moines, lows.
THOB. V KIMBALL, Acting Gob. Mg’t
X. L. LOMAX. J. 8. TRBBKTB,
A.O. r. AT. A. O.P.AT.A.
OMAHA. dAwtt
uorfcT
Notice la honhy giroa to all persona tntor
satod. that oa the 13th day of Dra. A. o.
lass. Ifce undersigned was appointed by too
District Court of Mahaska county, lowa. Ex
ecutor of the aetata of Sarah F Ktoker,
deceased, late of said Mahaska oounty. All
persons indebted to set* estate will make pay
■taut to tka under*lrued, and thooa having
dliM against the asms will present thaw
tagailv authenticated to said oourt tor allow
*lDatad Daat, IStk. 18**, ~ ,
i.risimS ' Wam #2i
The
MEDICAL
She Tried and Knows.
A leading chemist of New York
says: “No plasters of such merit as
the Ath-10-pno-ros Plasters haveever
before been produced.” They are
a novelty because they are not made
simply to sell cheap, they are the
best that science, skill and money
can produce, and will do what is
claimed for them. For sprains,
aches, weakness, lameness, etc.,
they are unequaled.
4M Fulton St„ Sandusky, 0., Nov. 21. *B7.
The Athlopboroe Planter acted liks
puurlc. It i« ttie bn* I ever tried and I
have used many kinds. Our druuylst
rdd “ planter* are all about the name "but
don’t think no now. 1 apraiued my arm
and Hhoulder in July, and it has been
painful since, but it does not pain meat
all now. Mta. Waus Mahiu.
tSt" Send 6 cents for the beautiful colored pic
ture, “ Moorish Maiden."
THE A THIQPUCfIOSCn 11? WoHS* N Y.
ely-s cataarh
Cleanses QUDrcCOVwi
Nasal Pasea-a|^t{vJ^Dxs'Sii t 's'l
Res. All av s
Pain and In FHWFEVErSIS
flammation.l^
Heals the £m
sores, restores mt S
the senses ot Wh—: —
Taste and
Smell-
TRY THE CURE. HJpr-FEVER
A particle is applied Into eacli nostril and Is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists; by
mail, registered, 60 cts. ELY BROTHEHB, 56
Warren Street, New York. 21yi
TOs Pills
Regulate The Bowels.
Coatlvenesa derange, the whole sys
tem and begets diseases, such aa
Sick Headache,
Dyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Diseases,
Bilions Colic, Malaria, etc.
Taft's Pills produre regular habit of
body and good digestion, without
which, no one can enjoy good health.
Have been enjoyed by the citizens of nearly every
town and city in the u. 8. and thousands of people
ntlU City 11. .
cao testify to the wonderfjil beating power of
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil.
It Cures Neuralaia, Toothache,
Headache, Catarrh, Croup, Sore Throat,
RHEUMATISM,
Lame Back, Stiff Joints, Sprains, Bruises,
Burns, Wounds, Old Sores and
All Aches and Pains.
Bold by Druggist*. SO ft* Bo.vo Book mailed free.
Address WIZARD OIL COMPANY CHICAGO.
TO H«yg
fj a ve^etaWo H?msnyforl.iv«inCc>mpTalmß nt
TorDld condition of the Liver. it Cures
Constipation,Bil.ousnesß, Jaundice, Headache Malaria,
Rheumatism Mon lnseasea resultfrorn an Unhealthy
Liver than arty o»her cause. |>r Hanford’* 1.1 verlnviij
orator I(esm 1 s tea the Rowels, Thirlfls the Blood,Assist*
_ , Ai
Ptren the Sy-dtem, Prprrnts Frrrrs.
jjanTis hn.nn.K andinvaLuablk family miiirnct,
THOUSANDS ON TESTIMONIAL STROVE ITS MERJT
ANY UKLUGIST VTLL TELIt YOB IT» AIPCTA UOK
Dr. E. C. West’s Nervr and Brain Treat
ment, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria. Diz
zlness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia
Headache. Nervous prostration oaused by the
use of alcohol or tobacoo, Wakefulness, Men
tal Depression, Softening of the Brain resulting
in Insanity and leading to misery, decay and
death. Premature Old Age, Barrenness, lossot
power In either sex. Involvntarv Losses and
•<pennatorrh«a caused bv over-exertion of th
brain, self-aouse or over-indulgence. Eaoli
box contains o- e month’s treatment. Sl.oo a
box, or six boxes for 85.00, sent by mall prepaid
on receipt of price.
WK GUARANTEE NIX BOXEN
To cure any case. With each order received by
us for sis boxes, accompanied with $3.00 we
will send the purchaser our written guarantee
to refund the money if the treatment does not
effect a oure. Guarantees issued only by Greco
k Bentley, Druggists, sole agents, Oskaloosa,
lowa me fiOyt
RAILWAY.
PEERLESS DYES Bold ax DacooisnL
w®
NEBRASKA,
OF EXPIRATION.
To John and Je«se Jackson
You are hereby notified that the following
described real estate, situated in Mahaska
county, lowa, to-wit:
The north west quarter of the south west
quarter of the south east quarter of section
one (i), townnhip '<4. range 14.
Was sold for the taxes of 1881 on the Ath day
of November, I&n3, to W. B. Sturgus, that the
certificates of sale thereof have been assigned
to and are now owned b-r J. A. Brown, and
that the right of redemptt n will exDire and a
treasurer’s deed for said land will be made,
unless redemption f,>rsuch sale be made within
00 days from the date of oompieted service ol
this notice. You will govern yourselves ao
eordtnrly.
Dated the 38th day of November A. D. IMS.
J. A. Brown,
lSwSpd Owner of Cerllfioat*.
pROBATE NOTICE.
In matters or the last will and testament of
Lydia Ream deceased.
Notice is hereby given that there Is now on
file in the office of tne clerk of the district court
of Mahaaka county, lowa, an instrument of
writing purporting to be the last will and tes
tament of Lydia Beam deceased, and the
•ame 1* set for hearing on the Ist day of the
next term of the district court to be begun
and held in Oskaloosa. on the nineteenth day
of February 1888. at which time objections can
be made to the approving of amid will
and its admission to probate.
17w8 F. E. Smith, Clerk.
Traffic 1M an ager
Resolution* of the Board.
November 16,1888, the Board of Supervisors
of Mahaska County lowa, on tbia day passed
by a nnanlmoua vote of the Board the foi'ow
ing preamh'e and resolutions:
Whkrcas. Certain persona claim to hato a
certain oontraot or contracts authorizing th m
to collect flues, coat* and fees due the ooun y,
and
Whbbbaa The present statute of low
makes It the duty of the County Attorney to
oolleot all monies due the County. Therefore
be It
KaaOLTCD. By the Board of Supervisors of
Mahaska County, that any contract or alleged
contract, any person or persons may claim to
have for the collection of flues, cost* or fee*,
due said county ara revoked, and all authority
to them U hereby withdrawn, and the collection
of all money due the county Is placed in the
bands of the County Attorney, aa provided by
law.
Mg it further resolved by the Board of Super
visors Of Mahaska County, that hereafter until
further notice, the Sheriff of said County is in
structed to farnWh to persons confined la the
County Jail on the charge of vagrancy, no other
rations except bread and water, and this rule
shall apply to toe Orst ten days of said confine
ment and the Auditor la Instructed to have
tbia resolution published for at least four weeks
la the oskaloosa Herald, Mew Hharon Star,
Saturday Olobe and Oskaloosa Time*.
Attest. „ _
John k. Baer, J. H. Evans,
Autitor. Chairman Board of
17 w 4 Supervisors.
pKOBATB NOTICE.
fn matters of the last will and tostauent of
Pi star fan da Geest, deceased.
If otto* is hereby given that there la now on
flla la the office of the clerk of the district oourt
of Mahaska oounty. lows, an iostrumapl of
writing purporting to be the last will and tss
tament of Pieter van de Ue«et, deceased, and
same is sat for hesrtag on the Ist day of the
next term of the district court to be begun and
hefei tfM »sk atoosa, on the ISth day of Fahy.
;*es. at which time objections eaube made to
the approving of said will sad tie admission to
r,R SMITH, Clerk.
OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1888.
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OSKALOOSA,
December 25,1888.
A TOUR SOUTH.
Between Missouri and the Mexican
border lies the great empire of Texas.
And it is an empire in fact, aud one
that contains a might in material ma
jesty that the ordinary reader little
comprehends. It is an area larger than
lowa by five tiroes, and has a diversity
of soil aud climate that presents an
assortment that should not fail to
please any sort of a climatic crank.
Here are some of the facts about Texas,
which we take from the undelivered
address of a distinguished and extin
guished Democrat, who has had access
to a reliable book of reference:
“Texas is bounded north by New
Mexico, the Indian Territory, and Ar
kansas; east by the Indian Territory,
Arkansas, and Louisiana; southeast by
the Gulf of Mexico; southwest b>
Mexico; and west by New Mexico.
Greatest length about 825 miles; great
est breadth about 740 miles; land area,
262,290 square miles. From the Sabine
river to the Trinity river is the great
timber region, generally level and sandy
in the south, rolling and fertile in the
north. From the Trinity to the Colo
rado is prairie, timbered along streams,
with an extensive forest in the north
called the “Cross Timbers.” Western
Texas embraces the counties between
the Colorado and ltio Grande; four
tiftbs of it is prairie; timber generally
contiued to banks ol streams. Between
the Colorado and the Brazos rivers are
the Comanche and Leon river moun
tain ranges. In the north and north
west are the Church and Double moun
tains, ami the surface is generally bro
ken until the Llano Estacado,or btaked
Plain, is reached, when the surface is
gently uudulating, and vegetation
scanty. Between the Pecos and Rio
Grande are several rauges, sometimes
attaining an elevation of 5,000 feet.
The chief crops are cotton, corn, and
wheat. The former two may be grown
in nearly any part of the State, hut
especially in the eastern and central
sections; the latter chiefly in the north
and center. Sea island cotton is grown
on the coast. Sugar cane is raised
chiefly on the Brazos and other rivers,
near their mouths, and rice in the
southeast. Oats, barley, tobacco, and
sweet and white potatoes are grown to
a moderate extent. Swine thrive on
the abundant mast of the forests. The
chief occupation westward is stock
raising and wool-growing. Figs and
oranges thrive in the south. Manufac
turing interests are increasing. The
number of manufacturing establish
ments in the State in 1880 was 2,996;
amount of capital invested in them,
$9,245,561; total number of hands em
ployed, 12,159; amount paid in wages,
$3,343,087; value of materials used,
$12,956 269; value of products, $20,719,-
828. There are immense deposits of
copper along the line of the Texas Pa
cific railroad; coal, timber, limestone,
soapstone aud iron are found in the
same region. Argentiferous galena is
found in large quantities in northwest
ern Texas; immense quantities of mag
netic Iron in Mason, Llano, and the
western counties. There is a field of
bituminous coal about 6,000 square
miles in extent, and a Held of anthra
cite in Brown, Coleman, Comanche, and
Hamilton counties. Salt is produced
in large quantities from springs in El
Paso, Lampasas, and Llano counties;
asphaltum is abundant. Large quanti
ties of saltpeter are found in Blanco
and Burnet counties; marble and roof
ing slate, grindstones, pot and fire clays,
marl, and other fertilizers are found in
great quantities. There 225 counties in
Texas. Newspapers are published in
137. Cities, towns, and villages in
which papers are published number
194.”
GREAT AND SUBSTANTIAL
BRAIN
are these facts. Texas presents »n im
mense and complete network of rail
ways, operated in every direction, so
that the actual mileage is scarcely sec
ond that of any State in the Union. It
has large and prosperous cities within
its borders. Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco,
Denison, Galveston, Houston and
Sau Antonio are the largest, and
they all show to a marked degree
evidences of real thrift and solid devel
opment. There is a lack of the manu
facturing interest, but when all the
conditions are considered the develop
ment in that direction may be set down
as satisfactory in the best degree. The
fuel problem, in connection with man
ufactures, is a serious one for Texas,
but no people could do better than they
are doing. Of course, the great cattle
industry is the over-shadowing busi
ness, and the millions invested therein
may be said to control matters at large
and generally. We noted that all the
smaller towns w*»re purely given to the
support of and by an agricultural trade
—with no diversity in business other
than that called for by the wants of the
planters and ranchmen. But there was
an apparent abundance of capital to
swing the great cotton crop, and hence
matters had a rosy and prosperous hue.
in the north half of Texas, and extend
ing in strips to the gulf coast, is a good
loam, rich in every way for cotton and
corn, and with a record of occasional
drouth which plays havoc there as well
as elsewhere. This past season there
has been an unusual rainfall—more
than in any one season for several
years. Some man, wise in weather lore,
argued for forty miles to establish the
fact that the great increase in steel
railroad tracks bad made the extra vis
itation of moisture, and that hence
Texas would hereafter be assured of
all the rain needed. That may or may
not be so. But at all events the surfaee
presentation of Texas, as a rule, is one
that pleases the eye, whatever the
many other couditions are needful to a
pleasant life on farm or in town. The
Texas railways make a great point in
looking after and building up Texas
business. They do this everywhere,
and the commercial interests as well as
the producers claimed great satisfac
tion. A state officer said that the rail
way managers had shown a disposition
to meet all the reasonable demands of
ail classes of people, and that they had
matters well along to a permanent set
tlement, unlike some of the northwest
ern states. Numerous cases of change
of conduct to the more liberal sort were
named, in all of which the commercial
and business interests of the people
were well considered and well served.
Of all southern states Texas possesses
the greatest school fund of permanent
character. The educational problem
receives the closest consideration and
the common school is looked upon with
jealous care and watchful eye. The
men of Texas know that ignorance is a
reproach to any people, and in good
time there will be general results in
every way flattering. In the cities and
towns just as good report can be made
for the schools as from lowa, and noth
ing better need be said than that. In
some portions of the state the fields are
putting on the green of fall sown crops,
while the oaks are generally dotted
with bunches of mistletoe—that queer
plant that livee on something else than
rooting itself in the ground. Many of
the streams were of the clearest kind,
IOWA:
SECOND ARTICLE.
TIIE STATE.
THE 801 L
having their head waters in the moun
the mountains away off. In some of
the sections the farm houses were of
the kind that indicated comfort and ro
ll nement—places where the stranger
could always dud a welcome that had
no discount to it. The towns of the
smaller kind made a favorable impres
sion. Denton, Waco, Braunfels and a
number of others were pleasant and
prosperous in looks. The two first were
specially attractive, and we were told
that much of the population hailed
from the uorthern states. However
that may bo, every evidence of cheery
hospitality w’as not found wanting.
Leaving out San Antonio for a special
article, we leave Texas with this pre
diction, that when Texas shall have
reached development easily possible in
every section, it will be found to l>e one
of the richest as well as the greatest
states in every way. Of course it has
a brutal Democratic majority but the
sunlight of progress will knock that
down to something decent and conquer
able.
AT A BULL FIGHT.
TIIIRD ARTICLE.
Brutal sports have been noted as a
part of the history of nearly all the
people who have Oiled places in the
history of the world. Who that reads
the graphic descriptions of the gladi
atorial combats, man pitted against
beast, and man against man, in tbecol
loßseum and Roman circus, in those
harsh and bloody days, but is shocked
and rowelled with indignation at tbe
brutalities then practiced? For cent
uries these ring-encircled cruelties
were popular, but with the coming of
a gentler civilization, slowly winning
its way, came a gradual diminution of
the sports more distinctively brutal.
The northern nations were first to yield
to the benign influences, and it is only
among the southern nations—those
coming from a Spanish cross—where
brutes are used in public sports and
most cruelly and barbarously treated—
amidst the applause of the attending
thousands. The bull fight of Spai u and
of Mexico are the last relics of the
brutal sports that found their greatest
glory, their highest patrouage, and
crueleet development in the hand of the
Romans—that people in whose hearts
and consciences seemed stilled all
those sensibilties that now move men
and nations, and open up all tbe font
of pity, and of charity.
BEING IN MEXICO CITY
on Sunday, December 2, 1888, in this
year of grace, and of all things, we de
termined to fall in with the temptations
of the day, do as the Mexicans did, and
nearly every one else—goto church in
the morning, chip in a quarter, and to
the bull fight in the afternoon at a cost
of $1.50 for a reserved seat—safe away
from the bulls, and where an Ameri
can party of seven lowa editors could
see the slaughter, give free expression
to their opinions on the brutes—both
kinds, and also hide their disgust of
which they soon had quantity suf
ficient. We take our readers into our
confidence fully about this matter.
Had we returned from the land of the
Montezumas and not seen a bull fight
when the opportunity offered, so that
we might tell you all about it—you
would have been found condemning
us for want of consideration of your de
sires. Knowing all these things we or
dered the dragoman to secure a box,and
prepare for the visitation of the party.
THE PARTICULAR PLACE
visited to observe the bull fight was out
ou the fine Faseo—one of the finest
drives in any country—along which the
aqueduct is carried from Chepultepec
to the city, and about which was fought
a hot battle in the takiog of the city in
1847. In a general way the building in
which the people meet to observe men
practice cruelty on bulls, is modeled
after the old Roman circus. Say, a
ring nearly circular, two huudred feet
in diameter, with boxes and comfort
able seats on the shady side, and ordin
ary seats on the sunny side for the great
mob only williug to pay a quarter for a
seat. It was a
BRIGHT, SUNNY AFTERNOON,
and don’t for a moment think that the
audience was made up of a Mexican
mob and seven lowa editors, for let us
tell you that while we occupied box 21,
forty or fifty other boxes were occupied
by splendidly dressed men and women
—specially women, while many children
also graced (?) the occasion with their
cheerful presence. So, after all, our
company was quite select—for such a
place. A few boxes away was the box
occupied by the aldermau under whose
personal supervision the fight was to
be conducted. He was accompanied by
his family, and a bugler, whose shrill
notes gave the signal for the onset. As
the first notes of the bugle died away
and the cheers of the crowd bad ended,
the doors to the arena were thrown
open, an 1 in marched,
in gala procession,
the men who were to take the part of
bull fighters. First came the two chief
matadors, the men who kill the bulls;
then the banderillors, the men who
torture thebu'.ls, and then the capas,
the men who fling red capes into the
face of the charging and enraged
animal. The picadores are mounted on
poor horses, and carry a pole with a
sharp prod in the end. Their duty is to
protect their horses from the charge of
the bulls—the horses being somewhat
protected all around with a heavy leath
er apron. Other attendants are in the
procession, and they all salute the
smiling alderman in the official box.
The favorites of the public are greeted
with various favorite calls, and some
who do not stand high in public esteem
hear some frank opinions very loudly
expressed. The crowd numbers
NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND,
and two-thirds are over across in the
sunny quarter, and, ye Gods! what
voices they have! Have you ever read
the graphic descriptions given of those
early Homan scenes of such like char
acter 't How the mob shook with a roar
more brute than human, the cry for the
bloody contest to begin ? How above
the volume of harsh and penetrating
noise there would rise the voice of
some extaordinary bully—Vulcan
lunged and fog-horned in tune? Well,
we could readily imagine
the same clamor
that awaited the gladiators, who with
sword, net, and oestus, were ready to
do and die, had been handed down
through the intervening ages to cheer
on the sport of having bandy-legged
Spaniards attempt the killing of the
bulls. M EI toroa! El toros!" was
the demand, and the bugle sounded
forth the call for the bull to be sent
out Opposite is a great wooden gate
that leads to the den of the bull. It is
dark. The door is opened, and the bull
sees the light. He makes for it. As
his head comes out he is held a moment
by the half opened door, jnstlong
enough for a lusty armed assistant to
drive
a gaily-colored bakderills
into his neck, and on he comes, mad
dened and charging at everything he
may see. These men that we have
Herald.
described are in the ring, but remain
near protecting targets, on the inner
wall of the ring, for there are two
walls. A foot rail gives them a pur
chase, and when hard pressed they vault
over into the space between this and
tbe outer wall, and, uufortunaleTy, are
safe! We shall only describe one tight
out of tbe six bulls killed. A large,
long horned black bull was sent out
fiercest of all of them. Stabbed deeply
by the barb, he went at everything
with a terrible earnestness. One charge
at a mounted picadore, and be has
ripped a great hole in the breast of the
horse, and
THE BLOOD CAME IN BIIOWKRS.
A second charge and another horse
went down, and so with the third—two
of them being killed. Such destruction
maddened the whooping crowd—and
the scene was one that, only a Dore
could fairly catch. It seemed as if the
blood of the bull and horses had mad
dened tbe great, yelling crowd—and
here we heard the only cheers that
came to our ears while iu that country I
Three horses down, and the alderman
ordered the horses away, and then
came the
WORK OF TOE BANDERILLOS.
Each one of these handsomely dressed
fellows took two da ts, each two feet in
length, and loaded at one end. The
duty of this particular brute in gilded
tights was to advance on the bull, and
as tbe animal came at him, plant those
barbs in the upper portions of his neck.
Well planted they instantly drop over
and are fastened for good. As well
to try to shake out a great, heavy
fish hook! As the barbs are
driven into tbe bull his temper is not
improved, and the pain drives him to
frantic action. He sees the red cape
near, and charges; but the agile fellows
are away and he only has the cape to
gore. This goes on until six of the
barbs are placed in the bull—he always
on the charge—when the bugle calls
THE MATADOR
to bis work of killing the maddened
beast. He doffs his hat at the aider
man, then throws it down with a “here’s*
for-you” air to the bull, and armed with
a red flag and a straight-30 inch sword,
faces the now panting bull. He waves
the red flag, and does all that he can to
make the bellowing fellow charge. For
the matador cannot strike only save
when the bull charges. He does charge,
and the sword jumps into his neck from
the top. One stioke out of the many
only was fatal—all the others requiring
several before a fatal spot was reached.
In one case it was necessary to lasso
and throw the bull, when he was killed
by the butcher. Thus six bulls were
killed—and two sent in who would not
fight, and were sent back. Tbe brave
bull always died but tbe coward he
escaped. We staid it all out—but
candor compels us to say that our pray
er and hope was that each bull would
kill a man or two engaged in the torture.
Every element of disgust was aroused
iu us, and we have seen tbe first and
last bull fight. It is
BRUTAL IN TIIE EXTREME.
It is cowardly, for it gives no bull a
fair chance. Man has everything on
bis side—unlike the old Roman battles,
when matters were made as near even
as possible. The mules who were used
to drag the dead bulls out, one by one,
just after the killing, seemed to be em
bued with great decency, for they
wanted to bolt at each time away from
the unsavory job.
—Still, there were thousands of peo
ple there—and many of them delicate
ladies, and their children. Queer ways
and queer feelings that could take
elegant ladies to a scene of brutal
butchery I
—We have confessed, and here prom
ise never more to see a bull fight, Sun
day or any other day, place, country or
time. One is enough for a life time
save, unless there should be a guar
antee that the bull would kill the whole
outfit. 1c that case we would want to
be there to hurrah for the bull I
Oar Soldiers Visit Maj. Looey
2few Sharon Star.
At the last meeting of Henry C.
Leighton Tost, G. A. It., it was resolved
to visit Maj. J. F. Lacey, Congressman
elect from this District. Friday after
noon, Dec. 7, was the time fixed and in
vitations were given to all old soldiers.
The boys’ drum corps, consisting of
Masters Clyde Conaway, Burt Wood,
Frank, Del and Clark Adams, were se
cured and at 12 o’clock the procession
was formed and marched to the depot
headed by the boy band. The banner
and flag of the post were carried at the
front and then followed forty old vet
erans.
At Oskaloosa they were met by Geo.
C. Morgan and escorted to the residence
of Maj. Lacey, who with his estimable
lady, assisted by Mrs. Gen. S. A. Rice
and Mrs. Henry C. Leighton, warmly
welcomed the company and extended
to them the freedom of their home.
The moments sped swiftly and pleas
santly by and soon Mrs. Lacey in
sisted upon lunching the old comrades
of her gallant husband. The Maj. gave
command and his orders were prompt
ly obeyed. In the spacious dining halls
were found three large tables loaded
down with everything that could tempt
the most delicate appetite. The boys
are of the opinion that Maj. Lacey’s
“lunch” is good enough for a “square
meal” for them, but they wonder what
their Congressman-elect calls a regular
dinner.
We were present by invitation of
members of the post and feel highly
honored at being able to share the
pleasure of the occasion with old
veterans. There is no class of men on
earth who know better how to enjoy life
than do they, and they improved the
opportunity to the highest degree.
As entertainers Maj. and Mrs. Lacey
are noted and they were ably assisted
by the widows of the lamented Gen.
Rice and H. C. Leighton, whose presence
did honor to the veteran comrades of
their husbands.
At 4 p. m. the Maj. made very appro-
Eriate remarks, thanking the comrades
eartily for their call and assuring
them he would faithfully guard their
interests as he understood them while
he should represent the District. He
was always glad to meet an old soldier
and felt honored with the presence of
so many.
At the close of his remarks the la
dies were bade adieu and the Maj. took
his place in the ranks escorting his vis
itors to the depot, where we said good
bye to our generous, gallant host and re
turned to our homes ever to remember
Friday, Dec. 8,1888, at the Lacey home
as one of the brightest and happiest
days of our lives.
The following resolutions by the
members of C. Leighton Post,
No. 199, G. A. B, and other ex-soldiers
of New Sharon and vicinity were unan
imously adopted:
Resolved, that we most heartily return our
th&uks to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lacey for the
splendid manner In which they entertained us
during our social call at their pleasant nome.
Resolved, that we extend our slneere thanks
to Mrs, Sami. Rice for honoring us with her pres
ence on that occasion. We will ever hold dear
to our hearts the memory of her Illustrious
husband, Gen. Rice, who lost his life In the de
fence of the flag we lore and adore.
Remtlved, that we extend to Mrs. Henry G.
Leighton our thanks for being with us on the oc
casion. It was In honor of her belovod hus
band we named our Post, and hts name adorns
our banner In letters of gold.
Resolved, tli at a copy ot these resolutions bo
presented to Maj. Laoey and be published in the
New Sharon Star.
Mr. J. F. Wood, of Saylorville, lowa
cured two persons of neuralgia and a
young lady of a severe attack of sore
throat with a fifty cent bottle of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm. One of the per
sons cured of neuralgia was almost
erased with pain. For sale by Oreen k>
Bentley.
BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY.
CHAPTER VI.
A DAY OFF.
Jane Graves was putting on her hat and
faded plaid shawl for another dreary day’s
work. She hated it with all the passion of
her nature. She saw nothing in it but
slavery and degradation, and in her impa
tience thought she would rather die than
drag out her life thus. Somebody must do
the work, but not such as she, surely.
“Come here, my dear.”
She had been lingering aimlessly, only
that she dreaded to turn her feet toward the
factory, whose tolling bell rang sternly in
her ears. Now she approached her mother’s
bed with a gentler expression on her face.
Tho thin hands wero laid on her arm, and
the sick woman drew the girl’s head down on
the pillow beside her own.
“Was I ever so pretty as you, I wonder?"
she said wistfully. “They used to say I was
the prettiest in the village.” And the sunken
eyes brightened at sweet memories, the
■weetest in the world to a woman.
“It did you little good, mother,” said ttye
girl in a muffled voice.
In a moment more she started up-
“There, mother, I am late again; a quarter
day’s pay lost, and a scolding gained.”
The tick woman’s eyes opened wide, and
the girl waited one sad minute more, to see
how terribly white the poor face looked even
against her pillow.
“I had something to say, I thought," said
the woman eagerly, “but I can’t remember,
I am so sick. But perhaps it wasn’t any
thing. You may go now, dear; lam sorry I
kept you.”
The girl pinned her shawl about her. What
good of looking in the glass! It could only
tell her she was pretty, as her mother used to
be, and remind her what a fool she was to
expect a different fate. Fifteen years, and
she might be sick and broken on this very
bed, perhaps telling her own unhappy child
how pretty she used to be. The girl shud
dered at the picture as she went out of her
mother’s room.
“Oh! I remember now," called the sick
woman.
“Did you want the tea put near you!”
asked the girl, coming back wearily.
“It is not that—but—but you are not to go
to work today. Somebody is coming to see
you. He wants you to live with him.”
“What, to marry me?” exclaimed the girl
in astonishment.
“He didn’t speak of that,” smiled her
mother, languidly, “but I can’t talk any
more, I am so tired."
Jane Graves had learned one lesson of pov
erty, not to hope. So after this strange an
nouncement of her mother's she only laid off
her hat and shawl, and waited. After look
ing idly out of the window for a while, and
seeing nothing that had not worn itseH into
her very soul years ago, the vague woman
instinct stirred in her and she moved about
the house arranging things. She found a
little map that hung in the sitting room a
little awry and straightened it. It was a
dingy map of China that had come once with
a pound of tea, and she wanted to throw it
away, but the wall looked too bare without
anything. She took down a couple of ugly
little gift chromos her father had placed on
the mantelpiece and tore them up in disgust.
There seemed nothing else to do, there was
so little to arrange. She wasn’t so sure but it
was better in the mill—perhaps it was a
blessing the poor were kept so many hours in
its grim walls, where at least there was but
little chance to think. What was there to
long for in such homes and such leisure as
this?
She stepped to the closet and took out a
well thumbed book and sat down. She turn
ed two or three pages, and then counted how
many times she had read them before, and
she felt sick with the foolish hopes and
dreams the oft read book had used to wake in
her.
She laid it away with a sigh and picked up
an old newspaper. How slow the forenoon
went.
She read down the advertising columns.
How many beautiful things in the world, and
all for sale! Somebody must have the money
to buy them or the stores wouldn’t be run
ning. Where was it all? Did anybody work
any harder for it than her father and herself?
Jane Graves opened her little pocketbook and
shook it over the table; but it was as empty
as the day she bought it
Then there came a light tap on the street
door. This must be the “gentleman,” this
tall, elegant figure in a checked summer suit;
and he actually lifted his hat to her.
“My name is Ellingsworth.”
Ho needn't have told her; ho had figured
in the girl’s fancy for years as the very im
personation of rank and wealth.
“I called about a maid. Mr. Graves gave
me leave to speak with his daughter. Is she
in?”
"I suppose lam the one. Will you come
in?”
She watched him as he crossed the room to
the nearest chair. How much lighter he
walked than she could; and one might have
thought from his unconsciousness that he had
been used to just such a miserable room as
this all his life. He showed no surprise at
her being the prospective maid servant; n©
doubt he knew it all the time, and the way
he spoke was only a part of his good man
ners. But then she could not imagine hi*
showing surprise at anything.
“There will be but little to do,” Mr. El
lingsworth continued, looking at her face and
not seeming to see how ill she was dressed.
‘There is only my daughter; you may have
seen her, yes? and myself. The wages will
be small,” and he named them and smiled
apologetically, as if he expected her to de
cline. “Your father spoke to me as if you
did not like the factories.”
Out at service; well, why not? Could it be
any more degrading than the life she lived?
•nd such wages, too. Why, she could dress
quite prettily then; and her girlish heart
fluttered. And she could leave ugly thing*
and rude people, and breathe perfumes and
have only graceful surroundings; what mat
ter if they were not hers?
She would be lifted right up in the very
atmosphere she longed for. Yesterday she
had envied the Ellingsworths, to-morrow she
could share their beautiful life with thotp
Why not?
She lifted her bright eyes to his face. It
was in half profile at this moment, and she
could see his hair was just touched with gray.
How could meu in this world ever grow old?
He was smooth shaved, she wing in full effect
the delicate, cynical curve of his thin lip and
the clearly defined outlines of his chin. He
must have been very oddly affected by the
poverty pictured so unmistakably about him;
but there was not the smallest sign of it on
his well bred face.
“I will go,” she said abruptly; “when do
you want me?”
“I shall be away for a fortnight," be said,
rising, with his own admirable smile. “You
can come when I return.”
She rose too, but could think of nothing
proper to say. But how poverty stricken she
would look in her factory clothes. Her
spirits had fallen already.
“By the way,” Mr. Ellingsworth turned, as
If a sudden business item had struck him. It
was a peculiar expressionless monotone he
used sometimes when on delicate subjects
that seemed to have as little personal quality
as a printed page. “I always pay in advance;
be kind enough to accept your first month’s
wages and our bargain will be closed.”
inegirt round nenelf alone, i<x>king at the
crisp, fresh looking bank bills he had placed
in her hands. “How thoughtful these rich
people are. They have time for It, I sup
pose.”
Her wardrobe was very simple. Thera
hung over the back of the chair the dull
check of a merino, chosen long ago to endure
the most service with the least show of it
On the bureau before the mirror was a paper
box holding a discarded ribbon or two, pink
or cardinal, and two or three pieces of cheap
jewelry the girl was too proud to wear.
“It won’t take me long to pack,” she said
aloud.
Bhe suddenly took a pretty attitude of lis
tening. She had closed the door into the
sick chamber in a moment more and stood in
the middle of the sitting room when Curran
came in.
“Why, you don’t look vary sick, Jennie; I
have to walk to Lockout by 8 o’clock, but
thought I would look in just a minute.”
“I am going to leave the mill.” How pre
occupied he seemed to-night. “I am going to
leave the mill, Mr. Curran,” the girl repeated
with beating heart. He might not like her
new plan, and at the very thought of. his die
approval sne reit an Her Bright Hopes taking
to themselves wings; end the old dreary pk>
ture of factory gates and soiled calioo dresses
came back.
“Going away, little girl?” He seemed to
■peak with a slight effort, as if his mind was
not on what he said. “Well, I suppose yon
can’t be any worn off, but w* shad mim
you.”
And was that all he had to say when he
thought die was going forever or* of his life
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“I am not going far,” she began hurriedly.
“There would be no use going far." He
had seated himself on the other side of the
table from her, and rested his face on his
hand. “It is just the same everywhere.
Wherever there are a thousand souls ten will
grind the rest. I don’t suppose the rich
mean to be so unjust, not all of them; they
don’t stop to notice that they are getting all
the good things in the world. It never oc
curs to them to wonder why the great earth
seems to produce only for them.”
Jane Graves sat back in her chair, her
hands crossed in her lap. Why didn’t he
talk about her just a little? She looked up
at his absorbed face wistfully.
“Why, Jennie, sometimes I get so tired
trying to stand up against it all, so sick of
my own heartache, that I can make nobody
share with me.” He had risen to his feet and
was walking moodily across the room. That
very night he must pour out all the precious
energy of his soul into dull, stolid ears, that
seemed so slow to understand. A hall full
of strange faces would look up coldly at him,
and his hot words would be quenched as they
fell from his lips, in the unmoved depths of
their hearts. It seemed so vain, all he could
do or say, and he felt so tired to-night, long
ing, instead, to rest his head on some gentle
breast, and be soothed with some foolish
words of comfort and tenderness.
The girl had risen, too, and stood resting
the back of her hand on the table. But her
eyes dared not Jift to his. She tried to
speak, and her lips trembled so that her
voice came strange and unfamiliar.
“I am sorry for you. Is there no one, no
woman?” she half whispered.
“Women do not care for such as I,” he
said, smiling a little bitterly. “They love
light and pleasant things. lam too serious.
I should only frighten them; they could not
understand.”
Then he came toward her with a softer
light in his eyes.
“ v ou are a good little girl, Jennie.” He
had taken her trembling hands, which only
trembled the more. “I shall miss you very
much. What is the trouble with your eyes,
Jennie, you can’t look at me? lam going
now.”
Then she raised her eyes, like lightning, to
his face.
“Oh, let me comfort you," she cried. “I
would die for you. I will ask nothing back
but a smile now and then. Nobody can ever
love you like me.”
His face was troubled, but cold and im
passive as rock. He still held her hands, as
she sank in a heart breaking flood of tears at
his feet
After a moment he bent down in pity, and
githered her trembling form in his arms.
ow the sobs seemed to shake her. He
smoothed back* her wavy hair from the low
forehead, and even kissed her wet cheeks.
But all he said was:
“Poor little girl, poor little Jennie."
For an instant she lay still as a nestling
child. Then she sprang back from him, and
fled into her mother's room, and wept and
moaned for shame and heartache, until tbs
calm of weariness came over her, as nature’s
blessed gift to her hopeless children.
CHAPTER VIL
A TEST.
“Isn’t your father going?"
It was the same evening, and Philip Breton
was assisting Bertha into his beach wagon
for a twilight drive.
“Father has left town for a few days.
Didn’t you know? Suppose you let me have
the back seat. The world is large enough to
afford us a seat apiece to-night.”
Bertha adjusted her wraps and the horses
stepped off down the street as gayly as if
their driver had not been disappointed.
There was not very much conversation to
day; indeed there never was unless Philip
afforded it. Bertha considered she did her
part in looking well, smiling prettily at his
witticisms, with now and then a remark, if
she felt inclined. But today Philip was
moody and silent. So Bertha gave herself
up to the sensuous delight of riding, and only
spoke in mild exclamations of admiration of
the scenery as they left the village behind
and followed up the winding river.
But suddenly Philip saw a man’s form
swaying easily while he took great strides
along the footpath.
“Curran,” he exclaimed, and stopped his
horses close beside him. The man turned, and
one might have thought he did not recognize
the Occupants of the carriage, except that
there was the least bit of a flush on his face,
which bore the lines of interrupted medita
tion. Then he bowed slightly to Philip.
“And you don’t recollect me, I suppose,”
smiled Bertha.
“I am not so stupid," he said, letting his
steel blue eyes rest admiringly upon her.
“We are going to Lockout, too. You must
get in with us.”
“No, I won't crowd you; don’t move.”
And he turned a little away from them as if
to continue his walk.
“Certainly you must!” said Bertha; “see, I
have a whole seat to myself and it is so stupid.
Please.”
And Curran took the seat she offered him,
bolding back her wraps till he was seated,
and then releasing them.
“Do you think I shall ever learn to weave
cotton cloth r asked Philip, to call his atten
tion to their day’s work together
“I presume so, if you really mean to. But
It is lucky you haven’t got your board to pay
meanwhile.”
But Curran did not smile, and was very ill
at ease. He seemed to be lifted, body and
soul, into the very life he was accustomed to
rebuke. The beautiful horses of the rich
were harnessed today to his pleasure with
their gold plate trimmings. What right had
he here? He said nothing of it, but felt intense
ly the falseness of his position. The delicate
springs hurt him, and every sign of lavish
wealth in the dress of his companions. He
wanted no interests with the rich; his life
work must be against them; he desired no
association with a luxurious manner of life
which he ought to upbraid. There must not
be one chain of gold to unite him with the
wealthy class in whom he saw the enemies of
the people.
And yet he was taking delight in this wo
man’s presence, a new delight, such as the
women of the poor had never given him.
And was not she the very essence of luxury
and refinement? He hated himself for it, but
for all he tried to look elsewhere he kept see
ing the sparkle of the diamonds on the
whitest hand he had ever seen. He enjoyed
the lilies of the valley set in mosaic at her
throat, which showed its creamy white
against the delicate ruffles, and the comb
with its band of Roman gold almost the
shade of the rippling hair it restrained. But
were not these the very extravagances the
poor had to struggle to earn for her? He
ought to be fulminating withering sentences
for such as she.
“I will get out at the rocks and walk the
rest of the way," said Curran at last, as they
could catch a glimpse of Lookout In the dis
tance. “The workmen I want to talk to
would hardly understand my coming with a
carriage and pair.”
Th'' “rocks” came but a mile from Lock
out and the horses trotted so well that the
spot was reached in a few moments more. The
road at this point had been cut through a
side hill of sandstone by dint of great blast
ing and the jagged edges jutted out angrily
at the passers by.
“There must be a wonderful landscape on
the other side of the rocks,” said Bertha, as
Philip stopped his horses for Curran to
alight. “Have you plenty of time?" she
asked, before the workman could express his
thanks.
“An hour to spare.”
She looked wistfully at the envious rocks
that shut them in and then at Curran’s
grave face.
“I would so like to see that view from the
top of the rocks if I had some one to help
me."
Curran’s face suddenly flushed with
pleasure. “I should like to help you.”
In a minute more Bertha was climbing the
rocks with her strange escort, and Philip sat
holding his horses quite a little distance back.
“You duln’t talk very much during our
drive," spd Bertha, as she stood with her
companion looking off down the valley. “Is
it so wicked of us to be rich!"
He shot a sudden deprecating look at her.
“Don’t force me so far. I cannot say it
now.”
Bertha smiled. “Then leave me out of it;
say Philip instead.”
“He is enjoying the fruits of terrible injus
tice.”
“But would his father have been rich un
less he had deserved it?” asked Bertha.
“Is it a just reward of merit, then, that a
thousand human creatures should wall nigh
starve, and he be rich? If he has deserved to
be rich, you must say they have merited star
vation.”!
The girl liked to hear his earnest, thrilling
tones, and watch his eyes and his uae
trils dilate with such rare passion.
“Is it just,” he went on, “that no matter
how unweariedly a [laborer works, his idle
neighbor, es surely as the sun seta, should
lay intolerable tribute on his profits so that
he must stay forever poor! Is a day’s work
worth nothin*? Then why does it brinsr in
some capitalist thousands of dollars for a
stroke of his pen?”
Bertha understood but little of what he
wes saying, but she oould look Intently at
him with wide open blue eyes, which bed a
pretty trick of changing uprtwioii alia
"oreat wealth is made up of 10,000 trick
ling streams, drained from the paltry earn
ings of as many defrauded workmen. Mere
cunning scheming ought not enable a man to
turn aside the great river of Uentv. which
uows tor an men. \v tiy these shrewd busi
ness men, whom so many praise, have so in
geniously placed their chains on the laborer,
that the harder he struggles to escape from
poverty, he only turns the faster the wheel
that grinds out fortunes for his masters, and
draws him in at last to be crushed.”
He hesitated for her to ask him some ques
tions, and perhaps it wa* already as plain to
her as to him. At any rate, she only looked
off to the west where the glow of sunset was
fast fading, and then back into his face re
gretfully.
“I suppose we ought to go down,” she said.
“Why, yes, I had forgotten whether it wae
night or day.”
He took her hand gently as if ho touched a
holy thing, and his face softened like a
child’s. He would not have let her fall for
the world She had taught him, how he did
not stop to think, that there was a rare and
exquisite strain of joy in life. She had
spiritualized womanhood to him; ho sud
denly saw in it ap essence so pure and fine it
might redeem the world An hour ago, he
had been so wretched, and now a vague,
sweet hope he cared not to define was born
in him. As he stood upon the road bed «nd
reached up his hands to help Bertha down,
their eyes met for a moment, and then she
trusted herself to him in such gentle sur
render that a mist floated before his sight.
She almost fell, and he must needs gather her
perfect form in his arms to save her.
Philip had been idly snapping his whip
and looking up the road. Ho thought he
saw in the distance a number of men with
guns hurrying in his direction and before
them—yes, it must be a dog; an odd hour of
the day for hunting. He might as well have
his horses turned about; he could see Currai
and Bertha clambering down from the rocks.
So it happened that at the moment Bertha
came so near falling—in fact, did fall, into
Curran's arms—Philip was sitting with his
back toward them, faced toward home.
But by this time the hunters with guns
were nearer; the blacksmith had rushed out
of his shop to look at the dog who bounded
along with his mouth to the ground drop
ping foam as he ran.
The dog was mad. Bertha saw the great
white creature, and grew pale as death, and
pressed back against tho rocky wall in de
spair. Curran saw him too, and had not
even to make up his mind to die to save this
woman. It was a matter of course. He
stepped out directly in front of her without
one word, and bending forward, waited. The
mad dog might pass by. But no, in an in
stant more the beast was upon him, and like
lightning Curran had reached out his hands
of iron and caught his shaggy throat as in a
vise.
The creature rose upon its hind legs and
snapped ravenously at his captor, great drops
of foam, specked with blood, dropping from
his jaws. With one rapid glance Curran saw
the men with guns, running at full speed,
and almost at hand. If he could hold him
but one moment more he might yet be saved,
if those glistening teeth, distilling poison and
madness, would spare his flesh one moment
more. His arms and wrists were corded like
a giant’s; his head thrown back to escape the
venomous fangs, while he listened with fast
sickening heart to tho sound of approaching
feet. He heard, too, the quick breathing of
the woman behind him; thank God, he could
save her from such a fate, and she might
think kindly of him sometimes, even if he
must die like a dog, since it was for her.
But now his arms trembled with the terri
ble strain upon them and the dog struggled
more fiercely, so that the man felt his hot,
fetid breath on bis cheek, and in an instant
more the deadly jaws seemed closing over his
arm. Suddenly there came a loud report and
a cloud of smoke, and the mangled creature
fell upon the ground in his death a-reny.
The madness had gone out of hh Lig, brown
eyes which looked up pitifully the man he
would have slain.
“They were just in time with their guns,"
exclaimed Philip, rushing up and wringing
his hand.
But the man made no response, nor e ven
looked around for one sign of gratitude from
the woman he had risked his life for. He
had no answers or smiles for the admir
ing crowd that had seemed to gather so
quickly when the danger was over, but hit
face grew quite pale as he walked up the
road. At the blacksmith’s shop a thought
seemed to strike him. He hesitated amo
ment and then went in.
When tho crowd came up and followed
him in, they found him before the glowing
forge. His sleeve' was rolled up, revealing
an arm almost like the smith’s, but how
closely he was studying it. Just below the
elbow were the marks of a dog’s fangs, out of
which slowly oozed two great drops of blood.
No one dared to speak; all looked on him as a
man devoted, and half expected to see al
ready the signs of madness on his calm, pale
face. The men with the guns had come in
with the rest, and stood under the rows of
horse shoes that lined the blackened walla.
Thank God, he could save her from such
a fate.
with horrified eyes riveted on the print of
the poisoned fangs. The blacksmith Rtood
by his anvil, hammer in hand, as if frozen,
and even Philip Breton was stunned and
baffled at the sudden revelation of the fate
stamped on this man who had given his life
for Bertha’s. Philip had been devising how
rare a gift of undying friendship he could
give him in token of his gratitude, and now a
terrible death must be his only reward.
But the face of the victim was as com
posed as if death had already claimed him.
He did not seem to see one of the silent
forms that thronged the little shop. Then he
looked carefully at the wound in his arm and
pressed out the drops of poisoned blood. In
another instant he had reached out his right
hand toward his forge and grasped the end
of a bar of iron that shone at white heat
where it touched the coals. He drew it out
before one could catch his breath and held it
close against the death mark in his quivering
flesh. A sickening hiss brought a cry of
sympathy from the astouished crowd, but
his lips never moved till the cure was com
pleted. He threw back the iron, and grind
ing his teeth in his agony turned on his heel
and went out.
At the door was a face paler than his.
Bertha Ellingsworth had seen it all. As he
looked at her white face and golden brows
and lashes, Curran thsbght of wreaths of
strands of gold on the driven snow. But
her eyes had a new fathomless expression
in them, and her lips were parted as if to
speak, if there were onlv words sweet and
gentle enough. His face flushed with a ae
licious gladness deeper than his pain, as she
made him hold out his arm for her, and
touched it with mysterious tenderness, and
bound her handkerchief about his charred
and aching wound.
“And you can’t disappoint your audiencef
How brave you are. But you will come to
me to-nuurow?”
“If a wish it." The crowd had gathered
outsitw. the door, and stood a little way off,
curiously watching them.
“I wish I could repay you,” she said, look
ing wistfully up at him.
But Curran’s face flushed crimson, and ha
drew back from her as if he had been stung.
As she looked at him, a flush slowly came
into her face, too. ’’Would you like tokiaa
me, just once?”
The man turned and drew her to his heart,
and her eyes fell till their long golden lashes
touched her cheek, as he stooped and kissed
her pouted red lips.
[To be Continued.]
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