Iowa State Bystander

VOL. 6. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER OBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BY- STANDS PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUNT STREETS, BOOMS $10 AND 211 MARQUARDT BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE' No. 899. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIP- FUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. P. & A. M. TECHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One.year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 78 Three months ..... 60 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. A. R. Dey Fluent, editor of the Journal, Doylestown, Ohio, suffered for a number of years from rheumatism in his right shoulder and side. He says: "My right arm at times was entirely useless. I tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and was surprised to receive relief almost immediately. The Pain Balm has been a constant companion of mine ever since and it never fails." For sale by all Druggists. CITY NEWS Henry Stanton has secured a position with the C. W. Rog drug store. Mrs. Susan White who has been ill is improving nicely. Mrs. Henry Brown is able to be up and out again after several weeks sickness. Rev. Henry McCraven opened the Senate with prayer last Friday morning. Get your winter coal at 1007 Center street. Iowa 'phone 255. Charley Harding, one of our old Des Moines boys, returned home last week from Kansas City. While in the city the Rev. Timothy Reeves will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coulson, of W. Center street. Bishop B. W. Arnett, of the A. M. E. church and the presiding bishop of this district and one of the leading men of his race, is expected to visit our city soon. Joshua Strauthers, one of our industrious young boys is leading electricity with a firm in the Good Block. Mr. B. J. Shepard is building a house on his property in Clive, when completed it will be a beautiful six room story and a half; he will live in it soon. Messra. Harding and Smith will open a first class saloon on Third Street next Tuesday. It will be the only colored saloon in the city. Mrs. John Walker who has been ill the past several months took a relapse this week and is worse at this writing. Mrs. Wilson Hughes who has been confined to her bed with neuralgia of the stomach for a `week` is able to be up again. Rev. Timothy Reeves of Keokuk, our much beloved and well liked ex-pastor will be in our city Monday and will preach at the A. M. E. church Monday evening. You are invited. Mr. Wm. E. Wright of Chicago, who has charge of "The Black Diamond Quartette," spent Sunday in our city. They are now in Illinois. Mr. Geo. Dunn, our entergetie clerk at Rogg's drug store, was laid up a few days the past week on account of running a nail into his foot. At this writing he is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. John Lemme of Davenport are in our city this week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. James R. Weeks on 763 W. Tenth street. Mrs. Lemme it will be remembered lived in this city a few years ago (Miss Daisy Hannan. Mrs. Wm. Mash the depot matron who has been quite sick for more then a week is not much better, her many friends are hoping for her speedy recovery. The H.B. S. Reading Circle met at Mrs. Alice Newton's March 22. After an interesting program and the transaction of important business, a most excellent lunch was served. The Club had adjourned to meet April 5, with Gat your coal at 1007 Center street. Arthur Early entertained a few of his friends last Thursday evening at the residence of his parents, 1049 West B Street. Many were present and a lovely evening of enjoyment was spent and refreshments were served at 7:30 in the evening also many presents were received; the little folks enjoyed a pleasant evening. TUSKEGEE'S NEW GIFT. A lady in Philadelphia has recently given Booker T. Washington $5,000 to add to the Endowment Fund of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. In this issue we publish a list of books and poems that have been written by the colored race of the United States, it is interesting and each should clip it out and past it in your scrap book. Mayor MacVicar laid off several policemen this week after election and among them were I. M. Jones of East Des Moines and Clay Lewis of West Des Moines. These were the only colored representatives we had on the force. Now we have none. Wonder what is the matter with the Mayor. Mr. Jones was a good man and Mr. Lewis was one of the oldest and best men on the force. Center Coal Mining Company, 1007 Center street is the best place to buy soal. When in Muchakinock, Iowa, stop at MRS. ADDIE JOHNSON'S RESTAURANT for good meals or short orders; also Ice Cream, Prompt attention given to all orders. Mrs. E. T. Banks president of the H. B. S. Reading Circle and one of our highly respected ladies assisted by her husband and Mrs. Lewis Blagburn entertained the club, their husbands and a few friends at their home on 1046 Enos Avenue. The invited friends present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepard, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Blagburn, Mrs. Chas. Ruff Misses Beatrice Hicklin, Zella Davis and Mr. J. L. Thompson, after a brief programme, social conversation was inulged in, later an excellent course of refreshments were served to the satisfaction of all and at a late hour each departed feeling well pleased with the pleasant manner in which the host and hostess entertained. Mrs. JOHNSON LEAVES. The evangelist Mrs. Mattie Johnson, of Chicago who has been conducting a very successful series of revival meetings, left last Monday for home. Her stay in our city has been only three weeks yet it was a very profitable and productive of much good spiritually and socially nearly 110 souls were brought to Christ through her work. Last Sunday night she preached her last sermon at the Y. M. C. A., Auditorium which to an aperciative audience more than one hundred of her friends escorted her to depot to bid her God speed. Mrs. Johnson's work as an evangelist has just commence and she is destined to do much good among her people. May the choice blessings of God's love and the power of truth remain with her. Telephone 255 Center street, for coal. POLITICS. J. Frank Blagburn was re-elected last Monday by a greatly increased majority over his election two years ago; this fact alone is very encouraging to the race in Des Moines when the head of the republican ticket, Mayor Mc Vicar, was defeated by over 700 vot s. A Blagburn rally was held last Thursday evening at the court house those who spoke were Attorneys I. E. Williamson and J. B. Rush, Mr. Geo Taylor and Mr. J. F. Blagburn. In Sioux City the colored candidate was defeated. The entire republican ticket was elected except four; we were Mr. W. McVicar's ally. In Colfax Geo. Terrill was elected Alderman, which we were pleased to hear and to our knowledge he is the only colored Councilman in Iowa. REV. SHELDON'S EDITION. For the past week nearly all the dailies and weekly papers have either criticised or complimented upon the Sheldon's Edition of the Daily Topeka Capitol, which recently appeared. Most of the papers criticised and ridiculed his method of operating a daily; however true it is was that the editions was devoid of any merit from a newspaper, point we have learned that a paper of that order could not live long and interest the public; for the public wants the news pure and simple as is transpiring all over the globe. A daily with a Sunday edition might meet the approval of the reading public yet we doubt it, for in this day and age people want to read something interesting, fascinating, and instructive. Last week Attorney I. E. Williamson who brought suit against a lunch house which had been discriminating against the colored people by charging exhorbant prices them to only. The case was where Mr. Williamson was compelled to pay ten cents for a piece of pie and white customers only five cents. The preliminary trial was held in Justice Aylesworth's court conducted by Williamson assisted by J L. Thompson; the defense was conducted by Clark and McLaughlin and a bitter hard fight was made by the defense, but they were bound over to the grand jury. It is indeed a shame and humiliating that in this age up here in Iowa that we have to resort to the courts to compel public inns to perform their simple duty. OBITUARY. With sorrow we chronicle the death of Mrs. Rachiel Williams, the wife of Louis Williams of South Dea Moines, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lewis Clive. She had been long suffering from the Dropsy, the funeral services was conducted by the Rev. J. E. Bell, from the East Side Baptist church of which the decease was a member of, the remains was laid to rest in the Oak Hill Cemetary south of the city. She was about 29 years old and leaves a huaband, four small children, relatives, and friends to mourn her sad lost, she was a dutiful wife, a loving mother, a kind neighbor and loved by all who knew her. REVIVAL OF TRADE. Industrial Ireland rejoices over existing conditions in Cuba. Under the Spanish misrule of that island it was impossible for the Belfast linen manufactures to do any business there owing to the preferential tariff in favor of Spain and the extra cost of gold for London bills of exchange, for Irish goods over Spanish currency payments. Cuban merchant are now buying where they can get the best goods at most reasonable prices and are remitting promptlp. A Belfast linen merchant attributes this "to the wise, able, and enlightened government of that country by the United States." WOMAN'S CONGRESS. Des Moines is fast becoming one of the leading city for holding large conventions and many important and representative conventions will meet here this year but by far the largest and most important is the Woman's Congress of America, which will convene in this city the latter part of May, for one week's session. While there will be thousands delegates present but below de givee few of the more prominent people; Admiala Dewey and wife, Gov. Rooseltvig(Rough Rider General) and wife, Mrs. Booker T. Washington is expected, Mrs. I. L. Hillis, of this city, who has charge of the convention and Mrs. E. R. Clapp, chairman on the entertainment committee states the following: "Nearly every large and progressive women's club from the Atlantic to the Pacific will send representatives The Des Moines ladies who enjoyed so thoroughly the hospitality of the Denver ladies at the last biennial will be glad to hear that the Denver Women's Club has appointed two delegates - Pida- BYSTANDER. 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SPORTING GOODS, SUNDRIES, CUTLERY, FISHING TACKLE, ETC. dena, will send three, although so far away, Mrs. Dwight, Mrs. Shaeffer, and Mrs. Smith, the patroness of the Pasdena kindergarten. Mrs. J. N. Porter, the state organizer of Texas, who resides at Hilsboro, has written she is coming, and possibly others from the Lone Star state Mrs. Mary Bourland of Pontiac, and Mrs. Erskine, of Racine are prominently known as club women and educators. Mrs. Frances Humphrey Gaffney, of New York city, president of the National Council of Women, will be still another distinguished guest. THE TRUE IDEAL OF NEGRO EDUCATION. Hampton does not intend make a white man out of the gro, but its aim rather is to him be himself, in the very sense. The so called "Educ Negro" is sometimes a path specimen of unhappiness and content. But the educated yo Negro of the Hampton typ Two colored women of national prominence are to appear upon the platform. They are Mrs. Anna E. Murray of Washington D. C., the promoter of kindergartens among colored children, whom congress recently gave $12,000 to carry on her work of establishing training schools for colored kindergartners. Mrs. Murray's photographs shows a most beautiful woman, with snow white hair that makes her face appear indeed young; there is not the faintest trace in the picture face of her colored ancestry. It is said she has in her veins some of the bluest blood also. The other distinguished colored woman to be here is Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, also from Washington. She is prominent as the president of the National Association for Colored Women. Much that is of feminine interest could be written of the personalities that will go to make up the coming congress. We have saved many doctor bills since we began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in our home. We keep a bottle open all the time and whenever any of my family or myself begin to catch cold we begin to use the Cough Remedy, and as a result we never have to send away for a doctor and inear a large doctor, bill, for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never fails to cure. It is certainly a medicine of great merit and worth. Dr. S. Meanslim, General Morcheah and farmer, Mattle, Bedford county, Pa. For sale by all, Druggist --- --- Look around, and then come in and see US. Phone 1144. Have received most of the new things for 1900, and have them open for inspection. Remember, Jennings does not make prices for a few days or a few minutes, but for the entire season. We will sell new goods representing 40 of the best manufacturers of the U. S. A. at prices of the other fellows' remnants sale. We Do a Wholesale Business. 316 7th Street. THE TRUE IDEAL OF NEGRO EDUCATION. Hampton does not intend to make a white man out of the Negro, but its aim rather is to help him be himself, in the very best sense. The so called "Educated Negro" is sometimes a pathetic specimen of unhappiness and discontent. But the educated young Negro of the Hampton type is more, rather then less, of a Negro than ever. He loves his race, and wants nothing better than the splendid chance he finds to-day in the United States to work with and for his people. He sees the true drift of things, and declines either to be despondent or defiant. While he must see that the people of his race have to under go some hardships and some injustice, he also sees that the white people of the South are in the main the Negro's friends and well wishers; and he is taught at Hampton that since the war the white people of the South have voluntarily paid out in taxes for the support of Negro schools something like $60,000,000. It is the concern of the Hampton Negro and those whom he represents to see that the colored teachers are provided who shall know exactly how to secure good results from the money that continues thus to be expended,—From "Learning by Doing' at Hampton," by Albert Shaw, in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for April. No.42. CITY ELECTION. The city election held last Monday in this city show some strange developments in our municipal election on the part of the Des Moines voters. One thing is true, that, whenever there has been a citizen's ticket put up against the regular ticket here it has been successful, at least for the past 20 years. Another thing out of the ordinary was to see such a large number of colored voters leave the republican nominee on the head of the ticket; while the Bystander will not condemn their action for, if they had a reason or principle in so doing they certainly had a perfect right to do so. We hope that the election of Mr. Hartenbower will prove to be friendly and profitable to the race, and that the race may receive its just reward. It is true that our race has not got a single appointment now under Mayor MacVicar. There were at one time five, but they have been cut off one by one, until the last ones were laid off this week, which saying the least is very ungreatful for the service of those who stood nobly for the straight ticket. Special to Bystander. Christianburg, Va. Editor of the Bystander;— Your readers will probably be interested in the work being done by the colored Baptists of this state for the cause of education. There are two great institutions, the Virginia Union University at Richmond and the Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg; the former is controlled by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York and its gigantic granite buildings are the finest of any institution, white or colored in the south. The colored Baptists have agreed to raise thirty thousand dollars for a dormitory of the University, and of this sum one five thousand dollars has been raised. The new buildings will be dedicated in May. The Seminary at Lynchburg is under the entire control of the colored Baptist, being maintained at present absolutely without assistance; the building is a large, beautiful brick, but is heavily encumbered; the first mortgage, ten thousand dollars, is held by a colored man, Mr. Humbles, who is chiefly concerned about the interest. The Seminary is the child of the State Convention and a determined effort is in progress to raise five thousand dollars at the next session. May the ninth Of this sum over thirteen hundred dollars has been subscribed by leading ministers of Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Pennsylvania; the church can be depended upon for the remainder. On Sunday, March 18, I preached in the morning and evening to the congregation of the High Street Church, Roanoke, Rev. W. W. Brown, pastor. It was an interesting sight to me to see in the evening over three hundred dollars placed on the table for education. The pastor is an earnest, progressive man, and deserves much credit for this noble effort. Of the sum mentioned, two hundred dollars is their gift to the Virginia Seminary on its debt, and with the remainder they pay the board and tuition of a young man who is a member of the church and a student at the Seminary I had the pleasure of meeting Prof. G. W. Hayes, president of Virginia Seminary; he is one of the most eloquent and scholarly men of the race and is exerting a magnetic influence in this state and the denominational work in the whole country. There is a strong prejudice in Virginia against our race and this prejudice is finding its way into law. But in spite of its our people are making wonderful progress. They are buying homes and farms, becoming educated, going into business and professional life, to an extent that those who believe in only menial callings for the race cannot enjoy. Success to the Bysander, its able editor and readers. Sincerely, T. L. GRIFFTH. Popular and High Class Music— Mandolins, Guitars, Banjos, Violins, Strings etc., call on The pursuit of happiness does not necessarily imply the pursuit of wealth. Real happiness is a matter of individual conscience entirely. Prof. R. S. Woodward, of Columbia university, in a recent paper shows reasons for thinking that the earth's atmosphere extends to a height varying with the distance from the equator. At the equator he estimates the height to be 26,000 miles, which diminishes to only 17,000 miles at the poles. But of course, beyond a few hundred miles above the ground, the density of the atmosphere becomes so slight that the effects are imperceptible. The Chinese strenuously object to gambling on future prices of articles of consumption, such as rice, wheat and corn. Recently six members of a Chinese bucket shop or board of trade rather, were summarily taken out and beheaded for making contracts to pay given prices as a given time without regard to the immutable laws of supply and demand. The Chinese are extreme in their methods, but are undoubtedly right as to the underlying principle. War, like the dyer's hand, is subdued to what it works in. The general sees in it the Victoria Cross or the Legion of Honor; the politician sees in it reelection; the manufacturer, a foreign market for his goods. "Do you take an interest in the war?" a London householder lately asked his cook, seeing a brightly colored map of South Africa in the kitchen. "No, sir," was the reply; but I mean to 'ave a skirt like that brown bit, and blouses like these reds and greens and yellows. I am just keepin' the map to match the patterns with when I get an evenn' off, sir." The immense profits amassed by various trusts have been often talked about in seemingly extravagant terms, but the most extravagant oratory of the anti-trust agitation has seldom, if ever, equaled the representations made in the courts by Mr. Frick, the partner of Mr. Carnegie in the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg. Mr. Frick's action is brought to prevent Mr. Carnegie from "freezing him out" of his interest in the concern and in order to make clear his case it becomes necessary to exhibit the profits of the company, thus in a sense "letting the cat out of the bag." According to Mr. Frick the net profit of 1899 was $21,000,000 and the net profits for 1900 will amount to $42,500,000. Mr. Carnegie is said to consider this latter somewhat excessive and fixes the profits for 1900 at the moderate sum of $40,000,000. At the annual dinner of the Silk Association of America recently, the chief guest was the Chinese minister to the United States, Wu Ting Fang. He made the speech of the evening. He contrasted the friendly attitude of the United States toward China with the aggressions of European nations, and said that so long as Americans kept on in their pacific policy of commerce and trade, they would be welcome everywhere, not only in China, but in Japan as well. Trade statistics indicate that the Chinese minister is right. China is buying now of American goods from five to six times as much as it bought ten years ago. Last year it bought four million dollars worth more than the year preceding. The gain was mostly in cotton goods, kerosene and flour. Foreign trade, of course, is not controlled by sentiment. People buy what they like best, where they can get it cheapest; but, other things being equal; they would rather buy of their friends than of those whom they may regard as enemies. A dozen or more years ago a farmer twisted a bit of iron about a wire fence, and noticed that his cattle avoided it. Thus originated the use of the barbed-wire fence, which has cut the great free prairies into ranches. It has lacerated and cut from water countless numbers of the wild animals that once roamed the prairies, and is now classed as war material by the nations. Both in Cuba and in South Africa the demoralization wrought by the deadly barbed-wire fence was greater than that of the most improved guns and powder. The position of fence cutter has promoted the drummer-boy into the forefront of danger. When Lieutenant Ord led his men in a rush up San Juan hill, a boy private by his side, fell, mortality wounded. Ord heard his faint cry and paused in his rush to say, "My poor fellow, I can do nothing for you." "I did not call you back for that," was the brave reply. "I am done for; but take my steel nippers. There may be another fence beyond that hill, and I won't be there to cut it for you." The boy lived to hear the shout of victory, but the gallant leader, with the boy's nippers in his hand and the boy's devotion last in his heart, lay dead not many yards away. There are a whole lot of men who are fond of telling you that "women are not what they used to be." Of course they mean to convey the impression that women are deteriorating. It is a curious fact, however, that nine out of ten of such philosophers are bachelors. Hetty Green says her daughter is not to become the wife of the Duke de Torre. The duke may need the money, but he ought nevertheless to and some comfort in the fact that Hetty is not to be his mother-in-law. THE NEWS IN IOWA St. Joseph Mo. March 25.—A lone robber, wearing a false face, with a huge black mustache painted on the mask, held up the south-bound Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs train four miles south of Hamburg, Iowa, at 1:30 o'clock a.m. The train was in charge of Conductor Billy McGee. Flagman Moore was first accosted by the robber at the rear end of the train. Using Moore as a shield, the robber went through the sleeper and chair car, getting $200 in cash and a gold watch. He pulled the bell cord and when the train slowed down jumped off and escaped in the darkness. The robber was reported to the Burlington general offices here from Langdon, the first station south of Hamburg. Dispatches to Council Bluffs estimate the gain of the robber at $500, and one received in Omaha puts it at $600. President Burt and Chief Engineer Berry of the Union Pacific road were among the passengers and Mr. Burt was held up for $50, while Mr. Berry managed to escape loss. STATE OFFICE APPOINTMENTS. Gov. Shaw Names C. F. Wennersturm for State Labor Commission. DES MOINES, March 29.—Official announcement is made of the appointment of C. F. Wennersturm for state labor commissioner, and J. W. Miller, J. A. Campbell and John Verner for state mind inspectors. The terms begin April 1. Mr. Wennersturm, who will be the new labor commissioner, succeeding W. E. O'Bleness, is a resident of Fort Dodge and comes from the governor's congressional district. He is a representative Scandinavian. He is the business manager of the Svithiod, the Swedish newspaper printed in Des Moines. Formerly he was in business in Fort Dodge. He is a member of labor organizations and has endorsements of this character. Governor Shaw determined to reappointment the old members of the board of state mine inspectors. THE ARMY POST. Bill Locating One at Des Moines Paisse the Senate. DES MOINES, March 26. The bill to establish a United States army post in Des Moines passed the seat in Washington Saturday, and the post is assured. There remains only the signature of President McKinley to be attached to the bill to make it a law, and there is no doubt that he will sign it at once. The post will be established and a regiment of United States troops will be located on the ground within eighteen miles of Des Moines, with $1,000,000 investment here and the addition of a town of 1,500 people to Des Moines. It will distribute $1,000,000 here every year. MORE THAN 100 ORPHANS SICK. Epidemic of Pneumonia Invades the St. Francis Asylum. DURUGE, March 29.—An epidemic of virulent pneumonia has invaded the St. Francis Orphanage. There are 140 children in the institution, and of this number 106 are suffering from a virulent form of pneumonia. In addition to these, sixteen sisters, including the esteemed Mother Elizabeth, are down with the malady. The disease asserted itself on the 23d, when forty children were overcome. Every day since then a few more have been added to the sick list, until the above alarming number has been reached. TAKES WOOLSON'S PLACE. Congress Smith McPherson Selected for Federal Judge. WASHINGTON, March 26.—Congressman Smith McPherson has been selected by the Iowa congressional delegation for the federal judgelship made vacant by the decease of John S. Woolson. There were present Senators Allison and Gear, Congressmen Hedge, Hill and Heller, McPherson and Dollier. In all forty-two ballots were taken. Congressman McPherson voted for Walter I. Smith until the last. New Building for Des Molnes. DES MOINES, March 28.—The contract for the new laboratory of the Chamberlain Medicine Co., to be erected this season at Sixth and Park streets, has been let to Garthwait & Co., contractors with offices in the Observatory building, for the sum of $39,125. This sum includes everything except plumbing and the heating plant. The building when completed and equipped with fixtures and ready for occupancy will not cost less than $75,000. Charged With Murder. DES MOINES, March 29.—Detective Ed. Johnson arrested Albert Thomas, alias "Humming Bill," on a telegram from Chicago, where Thomas is wanted on a charge of murder. The crime was committed last fall, and Thomas disappeared December. The man who killed was stabbed eight or ten times. Thomas has been working at the Kirkwood Hotel for a month. Accidentally Shot. Colfax, March 29.—The 17-year-old son of J. H. Lester, of Colfax, received a very severe wound in the foot while hunting for ducks on the river, near Colfax. He and an elder brother were together, and in creeping near to get in close range of the game the hammer of the gun in the hands of the brother who was in the rear was accidentally caught, discharging the entire load in the side of the younger brother. The head and condition would be necessary, but upon examination it was found the bone had not begun, injured. HERNIQTT'S PROTEST. His Position on the Railroad Assessment Set Forth. DES MOINES, March 29—State Treasurer John Herriott yesterday filed with the secretary of the executive council a statement of his views on the railroad assessment question and an exposition of what he declares to be the shameless subservience of the other members of the executive council to the interests of the Chicago & Northwestern road. The document is very long. He charges that time and again the railroad assessments have been made in the private office of the secretary of state, in consultation with one or two railroad attorneys. He enarges that his demands for an equitable assessment have been ignored because the other members of the council were anxious to preserve the advantage which has long been possessed by the railroad interests which they represent. Mr. Herriott's document was prepared for the records of the council in explanation of his relations to the recent sick-room assessment, in which he declined to take part. He says he did not want to meet with Mr. Merriam, prostrated by illness, because he knew a discussion would lead to a violence of denunciation which could not but grievously affect the nerves of a sick man. He takes up in detail the statement made by the governor and answers it, arguing that railroads do not pay more than other property, as the governor urges, and showing the lack of system in present assessment methods. He explains carefully his own plan and shows the alleged iniquities of the present distribution of taxation. In six years the Northwestern, he asserts, has been undertaxed $235,221.36, which has been made up by overtaxing the other roads. Mr. Herriott is unsparing in his denunciation of his associates in what he terms betraying the interests of the people and perpetrating a travesty on justice, for the sake of a corporation able to do political favors. After the publication of Mr. Herritt's statement the majority of the executive council, consisting of Governor Shaw, Secretary of State Dobson and Auditor of State Merriman fled a reply to his protest with the secretary of the council. They declare that Iowa railroads are higher taxed in proportion to other property and in proportion to the railroads of other states, and defined their method of assessing the railroads. Answering the charge of partiality to the Northwestern the reply says: "The treasurer charges that the council, as now constituted, is manifesting favoritism in behalf of the Northwestern railway. Since members of the present council have served thereon with the treasurer of state, the amount of the Northwestern railway has been increased $350,000, while the aggregate assessment of the Rock Island road, on which the treasurer resides, has been decreased over $400,000. Let the facts speak for themselves." NEW ROAD LAUNCHED. Articles Are Filed of Southern Iowa Railway. DES MOINES, March 30 — A new railway project was formally launched by the filing of articles of incorporation by the Southern Iowa railway. The new line is said to be a Chicago & Northwestern movement, and will extend from that company's road into Mahaska and Monroe counties for the purpose of tapping the valuable coal fields in that vicinity. The incorporators named in the articles are Daniel D. Bathrick and Henry V. Ferguson, and the headquarters of the new road company are in Monroe. This stock is placed at $100,000. This has been in contemplation for some time, but the filing of the articles of incorporation is the first tangible evidence that the Southern Iowa railway promoters really meant business. Fifty-six miles will be constructed at once and the one is expected to make very material contributions in the coal mining industry which is now carried on in that section. ROBBERS BURGLARIZE A BANK. Secured a Good Sum and Succeeded in Getting Away. MARON CITY, March 30.—The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, at Hanton-town, was robbed. Some time before 1 o'clock a. m. the bank was entered, the knob on the big sate pried off, nitro glycerine poured in and the doors blown off. The money chest was entered in the same manner, where $2.180, mostly in currency, was secured. The safe was covered with quilting, taken from a bed in the bank. A Northwestern naucan was secured, a Northwestern naucan was found about ten miles southeast of the place where the robbery was committed. A boy was sleeping within ten feet of the place when the explosion occurred but heard nothing of it. Volunteer Elections. DES MOINES, March 29.—The elections of the Forty-ninth and Fifty-first regiments of Iowa volunteers, resulted in the naming of Colonel Dows, of Cedar Rapids, to be commander of the Forty-ninth, and General James Rush Lincoln to be commander of the Fifty-first. A Cedar Rapids dispatch says: Cedar Rapids is having the first labor trouble in its history. Painters and paper hangers have been out ten days on a demand for a minimum scale of $2.50 and $3 per day. The bosses offered $2.25 and $2.50. Journeyman plumbers have served notice that they will demand ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, and the carpenters' union demand minimum hours of eight hours. Building is practically suspended because of the uncertainty, although hundreds of buildings will go up this season if a settlement is reached. NEWS IN GENERAL BOEES TAKE AGGRESSIVE. They Move South and Threaten Bloemfontein. LONDON, March 30.—The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Morning Post, telegraphing Wednesday, says: "President Krueger boasts his intention to retake Bloemfontein within a week and it appears probable that the Boers are advancing in force southward." LONDON, March 30.—The Boers are concentrating in force about fifteen miles north of Bloemfontein, in the rear of Glen, and Lord Roberts is sending forward troops to engage them. The Seventh infantry division and part of Gen. French's cavalry have been sent up to join the Fourteenth brigade and the two cavalry regiments that are holding Glen and its environs. It does not seem probable that the Boers will give serious battle in the fairly open country north of Glen. Still, their evident strength indicates more than a corps of observation. In small affairs the Boers are daringly aggressive in all parts of the field of war. The Johannesburg mounted police, esteemed by the Boers as their best mounted commando, are raiding the country near Bloemfontein, harassing the farmers who have given up their arms to the British and carrying off cattle. ROOT MOVES TO AID OTIS. Creates Army Division of Pacific, With Four Departments. WASHINGTON, March 29.—Secretary Root has directed the establishment of the military division of the Pacific, to include all of the Philippine archipelago. The division is subdivided into the department of northern Luzon, commanded by General MacArthur; the department of southern Luzon, commanded by General Bates; the department of Visayas, commanded by General Hughes, and the department of Mindanao and Jolo, commanded by General Kobbe. Major General Otis will retain the supreme command over these departments as division commander, occupying toward them a position corresponding closely to that occupied by General Miles toward the military departments in the United States. It is said at the war department that the purpose of the new order of things is to free General Otis of the many minor details incident to the administration of the islands, leaving him at liberty to devote more time to larger questions of policy and civil administration. POSITION DEFINED. British Flag Must Wave Over the Whole of South Africa. LONDON, March 20.—Speaking at a breakfast of liberal agents at Nottingham, Herbert Gladstone, son of the late Gladstone, and member of parliament for West Leeds, declared that nearly all the liberals had agreed in regard to the settlement of the South African question that it is the duty of the government to make a recurrence of the war impossible and show the world that British power in South Africa is predominant and that the British flag must wave over the whole of South Africa. BRITISH LOSSES UP TO DATE. A Grand Total of 16,652 of Dead, Missing, Wounded or Evacuated. LONDON, March 30.—The weekly casualty list shows that the British losses will be very heavy. Mr. Wyndham's original estimate that the year would be carried through at a cost of not more than 3,000 lives is bound to be very much exceeded. Up to Saturday the British forces had lost 2,130 men killed, while 9,807 were wounded, and 3,515 missing or prisoners, making a total of 15,453. To these must be added 1,200 deaths by disease, or a total of 15,652. Webster Davis Arrives Home. NEW YORK, March 30.—Among the passengers on the steamer Aller, from Genoa, was Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the department of the interior. Mr. Davis repeated his previous denials that his visit to the Boer republic was of an official nature. Mr. Davis believes that the Boers will be able to negotiate against the British for a considerable time in spite of recent reverses. No Pork in Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 30. —The porte has informed the United States legislation that in future the importation of American pork will be prohibited, giving as a reason for the prohibition that the meat is injurious to public health. Lloyd A. Cyrisom, Griscom, charged d'affaires, protested energetically, demanding the annulment of the measure. The Plague Rapidly Increasing. CALCUTTA, March 30. —Deaths from the plague here Tuesday numbered 217 and new cases reported 157. The total number of cases is 301. Heavy Penalty for Portugal. BERNE, Switzerland, March 30.—According to the Delagon Bay railroad award, Portugal is condemned to pay 15,314,000 francs. Miss Nethersole Indicted NEW YORK. March 24.—The grand jury reported an indictment against Olga Nethersole, Theodore Moss, Marquies Mayer and Hamilton Revelle, charging them with offending public decency. The offense is the production of the play Sapho" at Wallick's theater, of which Moss is manager; Mayer, Miss Nethersole's manager; Revelle, the leading man of her company. Woman, grammatically speaking, is not a part of speech; she's simply the whole oration. The busy man never finds the day too long. NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines. March 23—The senate devoted the entire day to consideration of the building and loan bill. No action was taken. JOUSS. The house voted against the bill to reimburse persons who paid for the return of the Fifty-first regiment after so amending it to as make it apply to our four town regiments. A motion will eventually pass. SENATE Des Moines, March 24—The building and loan bill passed the senate, after a debate of two months, and the governor approved the modification of the original committee bill. It repeals the legalizing act passed two years ago, which placed against loans which have been made at rates in excess of 8 per cent; it repeals the stricter 60th general assembly; it reduces to 8 per cent the maximum charge which may be made for the consolidation and liquidation of loans; it makes visions are made for the consolidation and liquidation of loans series and expense funds that may be expended. On the whole, the measure is no longer as drastic as the previous as a drastic one. The house joint resolution for the pardon of Cornellus Moelweni was the following: to transfer Hindenburg county from the Fourth to the Fifteenth judicial district to transfer Hindenburg county from the Fourth to the Fifteenth judicial district to ten times the amount of their capital stock and surplus, instead of capital deposits e-mail to ten times the amount of their companies to redeem regular tickets not used. The house passed the Trewin bill, which already passed the senate, to create school buses for the children of bills of minor importance, to which there was no opposition, were passed. Des Moines, March 25—The most important feature of the senate sessions was the passage of a bill that would allow municipal code commission for Iowa. The commission is empowered to recodify the laws making needed changes, together with an explanatory report and an analysis of the bill. The commission is also tasked with future employment of convict labor in this state in making pearl buttons and butter in the kitchen. The commission is also tasked with creating a new office to be ceded for the army post whose location at Des Moines has just been voted by congress to be moved to the bodies of dead people who are unclaimed by friends to report to the state board of health and deliver them to the colleges, physicians, etc., per the board's order. SENATE Des Moines, March 27. The question of transporting school children to and from the rural schools was discussed by the senate and a bill was passed to provide a grant fund for this purpose from five to ten dollars. The senate then took up as a special order the valued policy law, Brighton. The senate also ordered that the measure and in the afternoon it was passed 23 to 13. The ways and means committee measure for the taxation of insurance companies was disbanded at length without final action being taken. HOUSE. The house passed a bill relinquishing to the government the title of the state to such lands as may be selected for the Des Moines army commanded a considerable amount of routine business. SENATE. HOUSE. Hasselquist's bill, re-easing the present law relating to representative districts, was passed. Stuckleberg, a member of the board of monitors to low院 monitors on the battlefield of Shiloh, came up and after the adoption of amendments providing for the balance of the appropriation, if any, on the state monument, and may cause the regimental monuments to be constructed of granite and limestone. The final adjournment was reconsidered and Thursday, April 1 was held for the final adjournment. Among the monuments were the following: printing 48,000 for printing the proceedings of the Farmers' Congress; allowing 28,250 for the printing of the proceedings; providing that in counties having a population of 45,000 and over the board of supervisors may submit a copy of constitutional uncleavents on separate ballots; providing that the writing of a name on the charter, or the marking of a cross on the charter, or the marking of a cross on a blank without writing a name therein, or the unnecessary marking of a cross in the name of the circle, shall not affect the validity of the vote. SENATE Des Moines, March 20. "The senate passed, by a vote of 40 to 10, the collateral inheritance law," he said. The reform bill preventing the solicitation of campaign funds from state employees was passed. The bill also included an additional judge in the Seventh judicial district. A bill changing the special assessment court decision was passed. The senate, by a vote of 13 to 10, declined to take up the normal school bill of last year, the calendar, which is equivalent to defeat of the bill. HOUSE Anderson introduced a resolution requesting the court to the house. It was introduced in hope the house will recieve from its action. Hawk's bill to pass the law was passed. Bennett introduced a concurrent resolution as a remedy for the five mile limit resolution for a sifting committee was adopted. Belgian Attacks on Great Britain. BRUSSELS, March 30.—In the senate Mgr. Kossin, referring to the late peace conference at the Hague, said it could be regarded as having aborted because it had been followed by the South African war "in which numerous lives had been sacrificed for gold." Montefleuro Levy then protested against the attacks made by the Belgian press on Great Britain. The minister of foreign affairs, M. De Pavreau, said he concurred in this protest and deeply regretted these attacks. McKinley Recognizes Governor Taylor. WASHINGTON, March 29.—The president informed the Kentucky republicans that while he cannot interfere in Kentucky affairs to the extent of disfellowship, he is willing, so far as he can legitimately do so, to recognize the republican officials of that state as defacto officials. A VERMONT BANK WRECKED Cashier Short $145,000 and Langulhes in Jail. RUILAND, Vt., March 27.—With its doors closed fast and its cashier, Chas. W. Mussey, in jail, a defaulter for $154,000, the Merchants' National Bank, of this city, formerly one of the strongest institutions in the state, stands on the verge of ruin, unless its stockholders come to its assistance and help the remaining assets to pay off the $351,000 due its depositors. Mussey confessed his guilt to the entire board of directors. Adjutant General Byers has returned from Washington, D.C., satisfied with the success of his mission to the capital city. Adjutant generals from thirty-eight states in the union attended the conference which General Byers went to attend, the purpose of which was to secure an increase in the national guard appropriation. At present the guard of the United States receives an annual appropriation of $400,000, and it is hoped to raise this to $2,000,000. The bill has been reported favorably to both houses and simply awaits calling up to secure its passage, so General Byers says. Incidental to this mission, Iowa's adjutant general spent some time looking up Iowa claims for money expended on troops after they were mortally injured, about $38,000 in all. He was assured that in due time the state would get back the larger share of this and at least all actually expended in the interests of the federal government. A dispatch from Lincoln; Neb., says: After the banquet of the Abraham Lincoln club of this city, at which he spoke on the political situation of the country, Governor Shaw of Iowa in an interview called attention to an effort now being made to force a national issue out of the details of an economic measure for supplying revenue for the war; he also self as to the wisdom of the details of the bill, but he said it seems likely to be settled speedily and for all time, that the United States can, if it chooses, acquire territory, and congress can legislate for it as it pleases. "The question pending in congress," he said, "is not whether the tobacco products of Porto Rico in warehouses, shall pay 15 per cent of the Dingleyley, the same to be appropriated for the relief of the farmers of Porto Rico, who have been compelled to sell at prices dictated by these speculators, but whether, in fact, the United States possesses the inherent power to do whatever it wishes to manage its resources, acquired possessions for the interest of the people thereof in any manner not expressly prohibited by the constitution." J. F. Vincent, proprietor of the Des Moines Union Stock Yards, has filed a complaint with the Iowa railway commission against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway, charging that that railway refuses to receive freight by the company and that the Rock Island Union Stock Yards. Mr. Vincent says that the Rock Island does not desire to have freight brought in from non-competing points to a competing point, here to be redistributed, with the possibility that the Rock Island may lose the remainder of the hand. Mr. Vincent says that stock yards with railroads committees with railroads in every city where an effort has been made to establish union stock yards, the railroads wanting as few of them as possible. The settlement of the contest for the federal judgeship to succeed the late John S. Woolson having resulted in the agreement by the Iowa delegation in congress to recommend the appointment of Congressman Smith McPherson of the Ninth district, nearly a dozen candidates for the republican nomination for congress have been proposed to succeed him. The list at present consists of Colonel C. G. Saunders, Judge Walter I. Smith and Ernest E. Hart. Conner Jr. of White county; Senator J. M. Junkin, Red Oak; Lieutenant-Governor Milliman, Harrison county; Representatives II. W. Byers, Shelby county; T. B. Swan, Cass county, and ex-Congressman A. L. Hager, Adair county. Ex-Speaker Byers is the leading candidate. TAKE FAURESMITH. The Artillery and Ammunition Found in a Shaft. LONDON, March 30.—The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfonn-March 28: "General Clements occupied Fauresmith today without opposition. One nine pounder and one Martini Maxim were discovered in the prospecting shaft of a mine, were a large quantity of ammunition was being loaded. Arms are inhabitants settling down. Colonel Pilcher visited Ladybrand March 26. On leaving the town he was attacked by a part of the enemy, and one of his force was wounded and five are missing. "During the skirmish on Northumberland, the soldiers were wounded and five men of that regiment were taken prisoners. To Fortify Gum. NEW YORK, March 30.—The Tribune's Washington special says: The naval authorities have decided that Guam strategically is of scarcely less value than Hawaii, and have begun the preparation of plans to make it one of the most important naval bases on the Pacific. The projected improvements will involve an expenditure of several millions for breakwater at Port San Luis D'Apra, a coaling harp and repair shops, and shore batteries for protection against assault. THE STIKERS WIN CLEVELAND, O., March 26. - It is announced at headquarters of the striking machinists that all of the twelve concerns have granted the demand for a nine-hour day with ten hours pay. At these shops men have resumed work. About 2,500 machinists are employed in the establishments where the demand has been conceded. No disorder of any kind is reported. aie OEE Sa 4 Pea "ae sy a SH ee ee ne pipes al cu we erie "nu Gera’ Aree. omen mit ‘CHAPTER 'Vi-—(Continued), de was with had returned sether load. Rob heard them juttering among themselves, and he sked-“up to seo the cause, He wat , and felt a thrill of terror rust yr him, for there, standing with Cap- Elvin and ‘Torreyo, engaged {n jest conversation, was Lemuel e. ‘Now. Rob thought surely he would be led. He thought he now understood ¢ of the hatred he had incerred rng, Elvin and the captain of the ‘Black Cat” were all in one gang. wherefore, if Starne had any reeson wish his death, the others must wv the same reason, ‘There was no way to escape them ‘now. He could not turn back. When they were taking up thelr loads Torrevo rushed out and beat Rob with his rope’s end ¢0 that poor Rob kept his face bent down almost to the ground till he got clear of his tor- mentor, which was not until he was ‘part way up the ridge. The 'boy’s heart was broken with ‘grief and terror. What should he do? To continue in this way was simply to ‘be killed. Was there n0 hope of es- ‘cape. He went into the caverns again, ‘and this time the black ‘Interior seemed ‘tp the tortured fellow Itke a haven of rest. And. when the gang turned to Jeave a sudden inspiration came to Rob, ‘He knew that the last of the ‘cargo was not on {ts way to the cave, It wag possible that he would not be missed if he did not return. With no definite purpose, except to escape the blows and curses of Torrevo, he darted away from the gang and hid in a black recess, bebind a pile of bales of to- ‘bacco. ‘The men came in with thetr bur- dens, dnd then went out. Those who went out now did not return again. ‘The last of the contraband cargo was ”>—/ FEZ Ou (2a ZZ, Saw <a re Paes Spe ie 2 ares Zee 7a, == ee Z LE. Fe A IZ 7% eae Pe > Beva me LIT UP THE GLOOMY CAVERN. In. The last dlask fellow had gone. The caverns were as still as death, ex- cept for the trickling water on the rocky walls, Rob cruched in bis to him almost an entire day. ‘His iimbs ached. His face was sore from Torrevo's blows. His hands had swollen from the excessive Inbor he had performed. The yearinegs at last overcame him, Firat he fought against the drowsiness, then welcomed It, for it brought with It forgetfulness of his troubles, He found some bales of loth, took them into his hiding place, and lay down upon them. Soon he was fast, asleep. ; How fong the boy slept he did not Know. But he awoke at last with 0 start, and wondered how long he had een there. He left his nook and went toward the entrance to the caverns. ‘Then he made a discovery that made hfs heart almost stand still. The entrance had been closed with 8 great stone. a aa inched: We. For several minutes Rob stood there fa the dark caver looking at the thin streak ‘of light that came in through ‘a chink by the side of the blockad- ing rock, with a terrible sense of ter- ror. He was literally buried alive. He did not ‘know how often the smugelere, or pirates, or whatever the gang might be, came to this place. It thelr visits were limited to such ‘times as the “Black Cat” brought car- oes of smuggled goods, then It was certain that he would be confined there for weeks, and perhaps months, and that meant that he would die there. When the full sense of the disaster broke upon him, his boyish heart throbbed with fear. As a young and healthy, American, he loved life, He Joved his mother, and he had. looked forward to the day when, having by ‘skill and; attention to his uncle's bus!- ness, won wealth and. position, he could ‘make s comfortable home for that dear mother, for which she would ‘not be beholden to any one for char- ity. To @fe with this brilliant pros- ect bathe ‘him would te hard. Bot é sews \ CHAPTER VII. to die in that dark hole, a lingering, painful death by starvation. Ont it was) terrible. But Rob was a true American boy After the first few minutes! of stupe faction his spirits returned, and he Degan to think of finding a way out. He groped about the opening, now s0 well blocked by the heavy rock, but the largest aperature he could fin¢ ‘was simply large enough tor htm to pul his hand through, He could not move the rock an inch. While thus engaged in his futile ef forts the thought came to him that perhaps this was not an accident. Per haps, after all, Lemuel Starne ha¢ recognized him—had told Captain El vin who he was—and he had been missed, traced to the caverns and lock- ed In to await a terrible death by star- ‘vation, or to be kept until they saw At to release him and kill him some other way. Any way he looked at tt death seemed certain, ‘With a dull heart Rob left the open- Ing, now, alas! opening no longer, and groped his way in the darkness through the caverns. It was dark as ight, and darker. There were no moon and stars in this damp and grewsome place to shed a little light and cheeriness; All was dark and damp and d!smal. In his aimless ‘wanderings, Rob's téet struck against something, and he at once thought of the torches the men had used when they brought in the goods, The thing he had kicked sounded like one of these, He stooped and picked it up. It was just what he thought it wae—a torch made of tome kind of soft stuff Ike cotton waste, wrapped on a bar of tron and soaked in oll. ‘The odor trom it show- ed that it had been recently used— probably by the men who had been ‘with bin. But a smothered torch gives no light, ‘and Rob could not feel that he was any better off than before. He had never learned to smoke, and therefore carried no matches, It he only had a match! Suddenly it occurred to him that be id not have on his own clothes, but the fantastic garments given bim by Captain Torreyo, of the “Black Cat.” Instinetively he felt In the pockets of hls velvet jacket. First he brought out a package of Spanish cigarettes, which be threw away, not having any use for them. In another pocket—ob, joy! he dis- covered a box of matches. It was something to wear the jacket of a smoker, after all. With feverishly trembling fingers, Rob lighted a match and applied it to the torch. In an instant it burst into flame and lit up the gloomy cavern around him. The smoky flame, while It gave light enough for him to see, made the shadows even more terrible. And with the light held above his head Rob gazed with strained eyes into the Inky blackness of recesses cpening out on three sides. But Rob had been through the eav- ers when a dozen such torches had ‘been blazing, and he knew there was ‘nothing there that would harm him. ‘There were no wild bessts. So, bolster- ing up his courage witt. this one con- soling thought, he begen a thorowgh ‘exploration of the place, From one cave to another he went, closely ex- ‘amining the sides, always on the alert ‘to catch a glimpse of what might be ‘another opening. But he saw none. ‘There were the great stores of contra- band goods—enough tu make a dozen men rich if sold at fair prices, but ‘nothing that Rob wanted. To all the rest of his discomfort now came the pangs of hunger. He did not know how long he had slept; therefore he could not judge how, long he had beon in the caves. But he knew he was very hangry. He now applied himself to searching for something to eat. ‘There was plenty of tobacco, easily distinguished by. the odor, But Rob’ could-not eat this; | There }wore cadkseot, quer, me ho never ousted’ 8 roe and the battle of whlch there were many aid ‘not ea to point to & way | spare film any pain, He found plenty of bales of stuff ailke, cassimeres -and everything. {p that line that was dutlable, Bat not 4 thing to eat, After traversing room after room and vault after vault, Rob. entered s large rock chambor, dry and cool, and there he stood, more amazed than ever. It was an arsenal. Here were stored hundreds’ of rifles, pistols, swords knives—in fact every kind of weapon. ‘And around the sides of the chamber wore kegs—probably containing pow- der—and cases—probably containing cartridges. Even to Rob's young mind it wa evident that this was more than & mere smuggler's resort. AN those arms were there for a purpose—he knew not what, But he could not eat them, Weary, hungry and disheartened, Rob went back and examined his bed Finding it clean and dry, he dragged it to the opening, and extinguished his light. Rob's object in getting neat the opening was twofold. In the firs place, there was a lttle light there and {t was less grewsome than back {In the black recess he had slept in be fore, In the second place, he would be in the way of any person entering the cave, and could not be overlooked as he might be if he went to sleep in f@ hidden spot, And Rob had now be come so terror-stricken at the gravity of his situation, and the awful pros pect of starving to death in that place that he would have welcomed any one —even Lemuel Starne himself, if that worthy had appeared to let ‘him out, Rob sat on his bale of cloth for s long tie, blinking at the little streak of light, and lstening to the trickling and dropping of the water in the cav- erns around him. To his excited imag ination it seemed as if this nolse wat growing louder, and he thought per haps the root was breaking, and woul let in the water from the river. Thi meant a speedy. death by drowning. ‘All the events of his past life cam up before him. He thought of hi mother, and the tears ran down his cheeks, He wondered if his uncle hat missed him, and if a search would be made, But be dismissed this hope, fo it would surely have- been reported that he was lost overboard from the Royal Mall. ‘The weariness was too much for him fat Inst, and with great sobs shaking him he fell asleep. Byen this time he did not know how long he slept. But he was awakened by hearing some one outside the cave He sat up and listened intently. There was no mistake about it, Some on: was certainly outside. Rob's heart now beat violently. Wa this. some wandering native, wh¢ would release him from his prison, an enable him to go to Buenos Aires an¢ find his uncle? Or was it Lemuel Starne returned to finish his flendist work? The eagerness to get out was great er than fear of Starne, and Rob plac ed his mouth near the crack and gav a ioud “Halloo!” “Hot came in the well-knows voice of Captain Torreyo, of “El Gate Negro. “Are you there, after’ all?” “Oh, yes! Let me out! Let me out Please, Captain Torreyo, let me out!” “You are a jewel!” exclaimed Tor reyo ina tone that Rob did not un derstand. “Be easy.” Rob was now flushed with hope, ani looked, expecting to see the’ grea stone roll away, leaving him free. Bu the nolse suddenly ceased. Bob waite a moment longer, and then calle¢ again. “Captain Torreyo! Dear Captatn: Let me out, won't you?” (To be continued.) HONEYBEE’S WINGS. A Microscopie View of One of Nature's | ‘Wonderful Schemes. Ata meeting of the New York Microsopical Soclety the president of the organization exhibited, besides ther things, the honeybee's wing showing the hooklets by means of which the lower of the two wings of the bee is joined to the upper wing in fying thus making them prac- tically a single wing. The upper of the two wings Is about half an inct in length, the lower a little shorter. ‘The wings come together where they are Joined to the body; they are other- wise separate, When the bee goes into Its hive, It folds its wings together, one leaf over the other, so that they will take up less room. "When it goet ‘abroad, it spreads its’ wings’ and ceouptes them together with the hooks ‘When looked at under the microscope the upper edge of the. lower wing {s seen to be re-enforced as though I had an extra -plate or rib stretched ‘along there, and to this rib, spaced apart at regular intervals, though. they are all contained within a total space of little more than a quarter of ap inch, theré are attached nineteen or twenty tiny, bony hooks. There {6 ‘a little thickening at the base of each hook, where nature has strengthened it, and one {s inclined to regard the hooks as inset separately and to look for the rivets wherewith they were secured to the plate or rib from whlct they spring. ‘The lower edge of the upper wing, as looked at under the microscope, 18 seen to be curled ~up inte a fange or trough. When the bee conies out-of the hive, it hooks the hooks on the upper edge, of the lower wing into'the flange or’ trough at the lower edge of, the upper wing and so” makes the ‘two: wings practically one—New York Sun... |. COUBERT DEAD BOBS: READY British Advance ‘Likely, to Begin ‘on Monday, BOTHA AND KRUGER TO FRONT. Brita orem at loemtontsla and "Onder Buller Recaperated and Anxious to Tovude Transvasl—Matexing sate a iia London, March $0, — Gen. ‘Louis Botha, now in Natal, will probably succeed to: the active chlet command of the Boer armies, as Gen. Joubert's loss, it 1s expected, will atir up the younger burghers, who have always complained of Joubert’s slowness and eaution, Botha practically replaced ‘him some time ago. President Kruger himself, however, Is likely to assumé ‘nominal command. Though not a mil- itary tactitian, Oom Paul has always been a fighting man. His going to the front is sure to evoke intense en- thusiasm among the burghers. With the news of the death of the Boer commander-in-chfot comes the announcement that Lord Roberts has begun his long expected movement northward from Bloemfontein, Ten thousand troops, Including the Grena- ier and Coldstream guards, the Gor- don Highlanders and the cavalry bri- gade, moved ten miles north of Bloem- fontein on Sunday and Monday, and they will doubtless be followed by larger bodies of infantry and artillery. In other ways, too, the period of in- action at Bloemfontein 1s apparently coming to an end. The transports and stores are being collected at the ral head. ‘The men are in grand condition and the horses are picking up wonder- fully Gen. Buller’s preparations for a further advance in Natal are alsc nearly complete. From Pretoria, too, comes the news that Mafeking was heavily bombarded on Monday, March 23. This le good proof that Baden-Powell’s garrison wat ‘tafe three days ago. GEN. PIET JOURERT IS DEAD. Yamous Leader of the Boer Forces Dies Suddenly. Lorenzo Marques, March 29.—Gen. Joubert 1s dead. Pletrus Jacobus Joubert was 68 years old,and, with the addftion of some Pol- ish blood, was a typical Boer. He came of an old French Huguenot family long settled In South Africa, with a strong infusion of Dutch blood. Like Prest- dent Kruger, he was born in Cape Col- ony, He was bred on a farm and be- gan life as a farmer, but bis innate ability soon lifted him into public life. He became state's attorney to the South African Republic and afterward ‘vice-president, and in 1898 came with- in 881 votes of winning this honor trom the great Kruger himself. In the Jate '70s, during the trouble with Eng- land that culminated in the war under the memory of which England has smarted ever since, Joubert became a prominent figure In Transvaal affairs. He accompanied Kruger on his mem- orable visit to England, when the de- mand for the indepensience of the re- public was formulated. The demand Was refused, and Dec. 20, 1880, Kruger, Joubert and Pretorius formed them- selves into the triumvirate that de- clared the republic's independence. Si aa Pretoria, Monday, March 26.—United States Consul Hay and his secretary have gone to Kroonstad to make nec- essary arrangements for United States Fepresentation in the Free State. A ispatch recelved here from the Boer headquarters in Natal announce that the destruction continues of coal mines Ukely to be useful to the British. Dr. Layde Je in the Dark. Brussels, March 30.—Dr. Leyds, the diptomatic agent of the Transvaal, has returned from Paris. When questioned concerning the ‘Transvaal mission which is now en route to Europe, Dr. Leyds sald he regretted that he was not informed as to’ the existence of objects of the mission. ‘Sustease "Neuse Teneaeia: Terabe: ‘Washington, March 30.—In the sen- ate on Wednesday the Alaska bill was taken up, the pending question being the amendments in reference to the permits for excavation of the sand on the shore line at Cape Nome, which were agreed to without division. It provides that, subject only to such gen- eral limitations as may be necessary to exempt navigation from artificial in- struction, all land and shoal water be- low mean high tide on the shores, bays and inlets of Behring sea within the Jurisdiction of the United States shall be subject to exploration for gold and other prectous metals by citizens of the United States, or persons who have legally deciered thelr intentions to be- come such, and that all permits hereto- fore granted authorizing any person or persons, corporation or company, to excavate or mine under any of sald waters are hereby revoked and de- clared null and void, " gs,000 tor M. J. MoGrath. Washington, March 30—Maurice J. McGrath, chief of the general delivery in the Chicago postoffice, Wednesday secured, through Senator Mason, a ver- dict of $5,000 damages trom the Capl- tol Traction company of Washington, for injurles recelved in June, 1897, ‘elias Stcueee Oe Dike: ‘Washington, March 30.—The treas- ary department . received $6,549,250 worth of bonds Wednesday, in ex- change for the new 2 per cent bonds of 1930, The total amount received since ‘the enactment of the refunding law is azzsi720,— NEW GERMAN NAVY BIKE == Measure’ for More whips Comes Up” the- hocks ‘pacenten, Cate ee ere ee erie ttt, Yao At ee Berlin, March 30,—The budget com- mittee of the relchétag Wednesday de- bated the navy bill, the discussion turning chiefly on the relations be- tween Germany and Great Britain, which, {t {a supposed, was also the subject of confidential communications which Foreign’ Minister yon’ Buolow made to the committee Tuesday. Herr Bebel, the social democratic leader, contended that the bill was chlefly aimed at Great Britain, and he argued against Germany trying to rival that country as a naval power. In this con- tention he was supported by Herr Richter, the radical leader, while Count Werniguode, speaking for the conservatives, supported the measure without reserve. Premier von Buelow pointed to the Ameriéan naval policy as the kalser's best precedent and Jus- tification, and insisted that there was no thought of antagonizing England. Herr von Buelow reaffirmed that the bill was merely aimed at the mainte- nance of the peace and dignity of the empire. German diplomacy, he sald, was as prudent as was necessary. Pru- dence and dexterity, however, were in- adequate unless supported by material power. This alone was able to extin- guish frivolous and aggressive desires. ‘The clericals prudently abstained from committing themselves. aiaentin hae! Gioien wis aaa Frankfort, Ky., Mareh 30.—Intense rivalry has arisen among the lawyers, detectives and state officers at work on the so-called conspiracy cases. The $100,000 reward fund has resulted tn placing a small-sized army of man- hunters in the fleld. Judge Hazlerig, chief justice of the Court of Appeals, announces that the court, will meet in Louisville Monday to consider the case of Taylor and Beckham, involving the governorship, which was appealed from the city court of Jefferson county. President Auewers Kentuckians, Washington, March 30.—The presi- dent has informed Kentucky repub- ican that, while he cannot interfere in Kentucky affairs to the extent of disarming the militia of elther faction, he would give direction that mail ad- dressed to an official by title only, as to “The Governor” or “The Secretary State,” should be delivered to the de facto and not to the claimed office- ; holders. Siitnaciceess: Seemann Moke: Washington, March 30.—The senate on Wednesday in executive session spent more than an hour in a fruitless effort to confirm the nomination of William D. Bynum of Indiana, nom!- nated early in the session to be a member of the board of general ap- pralsers of New York, When an at- tempt was made to take a vote the democrats engaged in flibustering tec- tles, refused to answer to thelr names and broke a quorum, Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic national ‘committee, made a long speech, taking the ground that he was not a demo- erat, as the law required. Bynuim’s appointment was defended by Senators Spooner and Fairbanks, who asserted that at”any rate the nominee was not a republican, Coant de Renedett! t+ Dead. Parls, March 30.—Comte Vincent de Benedetti is dead. Benedett!, who was of Itallan extraction, was born in Cor- slea In 1815, and wae educated for the diplomatic service. He held various iplomatic posts up to 1864, when he was appointed French ambassador to the Prussian court and was the “agent provocateur” through whose machina- tions or maladroitness Louls Napoleon and Bismarck managed between them to precipitate the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. ———— Paris, March 30.—The first stone of the statute of Rochambeau, a comrade of Lafayette in the revolutionary war, was laid Wednesday with impressive ceremonies. French and American flags decorated the scaffolding, and telegrams of sympathy were sent by President McKinley and by Ambassa- dor Porter. Speeches recalling the common part France and America played in the revolution evoked much enthusiasm. Fire on = Ship mt Bem Halifax, March 30—The steamer Manchester Commerce had a narrow escape from being burned at sea. The fire started on Saturday among a lot of cotton wool stowed away with the other cargo, It was a hard fight all night, but ii the morning the blaze ‘was sufficiently checked to allow the sailors to go below and jettison the damaged freight, Death Came During Frayer. St. Louts, Mo. March 20.—George Epstein, a recluse, aged 48, was found dead Wednesday morning kneeling at his bedside. He had passed away while ‘engaged at his devotions,evidently some days ago. Rats had attacked the re- mains and torn the flesh in several places. The body was taken to the morgue. ‘esas “tack teva Maman. New York, March 30.—A. K. Muzsey of Syracuse, representing the children of the late Edward Noyes Wolcott, au- thor of “David Harum,” demanded an accounting for royalties ot the reor- ganization committee of the publish- ing firm of D. Appleton & Co., which recently failed. , Colorado Treasory Empty. Denver, Colo., March 30.—Appropria- tlons exceeding the revenue by $500,000 ‘were made by the fusion legislature of lnst-year. The state treasury 1s now ‘bankrupt, and atate Institutions are icapilese. + ~ “GENS JOUBERT DEAD. | He Had Bada Suttching’ Brgm Stowe ‘Losryzo Marquez, March 29,—Geny eral Joubert,died last night at 11:30, He had been suffering from stomach complaint. ‘The town is plunged into’ touring for the tras patrioh gallant general and upright, honorable geatle- man, General Pieterus Jacobus Joubert, commandant of the Transvaal forces, was born about 68 years ago He was Yorn in Cape Colony, but was taken by hie parents when seven years of age to the Orange Free State. In conse~ quence of the acquisition of Natal by the British, his family smoved from Natal und settled in the ‘Transvaal, Soon afterward he became a burgher of the South African republic and a daring fighter. He came 0 be 50 feared by the natives that the knowl evige that he was at the head of an ex: peilition, usually assured their surren- fer. It was during these wars, with the. natives that Joubert became ac~ quainted with Kruger and the two men became bosom friends. He was elected vice-president, of the Trans: Yaal in_ 1805, defeated Sir George Cal- ley at Majubs Hill in 1881, and acted as president of the republic iu 1983-84, during Kruger’s absence in Europe. Tonbert was always in favor of using foree instead of diplomacy and Kruger on several occasions had difficulty, in repressing his hot headed colleague, notably in 1879, when Joubert, to- gether with Kruger and Pretorius, ‘was planning a rebellion , to overthrow British rule tn the ‘Trani al. ‘he result was Majabe tiltand the ' practical independence of the ‘Transvaal. It was Joubert who or- ganized the army of the South African Tepublic, later on dividing the country {nto seventeen military departments and each of these departments into small divisions with - commandants, field cornets and lentenants of various ranks in charge. According to the general's plans, every man became & trained soldier without leaving. his farm and had his equipment ready at hand, To such a point of perfection was the system carried that within forty-eight hours after the present war was declared the Boer nation, was under arms. It was also due to Jou dert that the South African republics succeeded in amassing immense stores of wat munitions and provisions, which stood them in such good stead during the conflict now in progress, ‘MACRUM TELLS HIS STORY. Recounts ‘Indignitics Offered Him by British, ‘Wasitxotox, March 29,—Charles E. Macrum, Ameriean ex-consul to Pre- toria, appeared before the house for- eign affairs committee yesterday and told of the alleged indignities he suf- ferediat the hands of the British dur- ing his incumbency. He explained that when he asked for leave of aby sents he desied to come Homa for prle vate business reasons and also because he desired to place before the United States governntent certain facts which he deemed essential should be known here, He understood, he said, that the British had possession of our cable cipher. He was not certain of this, buthehad since had information which convinced him that his suspicions were correct: He also'desired information as to hin course ‘when » settlement came at the end of the war. Further, he had a petition from some American residents in the Transvaal asking that the Uniged States maintain absolute neutrality, which he wanted to present to the statedepartment. ‘The petition he read to the committee. It-was signed by Gordon, consular agent at Johannesburg. Pressed for specific information as to how he got intima- tion that the British were opening and delaying his mail, he replied that when the mail did not afrive he tele- graphed our consul at Lorenzo ‘Marquez, requesting him to inquire of Cape Town why it was being delayed. Consul at Lorenzo Marquez replied that he also had received no mail. Macrum said the delay of his mail created a conviction that the British authorities were responsible. The first actual evidence he had was the receipt of two opened letters. He produced the envelopes which he said contained these letters. Macrum also claimed the British authorities had possession of ‘the state department cipher code and cited incidents which convinced him that such was the case. RUSSIA'S WARLIKE PREPARATIONS Ready to Enforce Demands Against @askiens Sr, eer aes, 1 aN Lospox, March 29.—The Standard gives prominence to the following special dispatch from Odessa: ‘There can be no longer any doubt as to the object of the warlike, prepara: tions now being completed in Soutih Russia. Nearly 250,000 troops have already been mobilized for active. ser- ice. ‘The Hlacke Sea. squadron, with transports, is held in instant readiness. The tension in the relations between St. Petersburg and the sublime porte becomes every day more atute. ‘The position is looked upon with the Eravest apprehension, If the Ottoman fovernment, supported by Germany. Should prove stubbornly intractable ‘with regard to Tussia’s concessionary Gemands in Asia Minor. serious com plications must inevitably enave, ‘The wussian garrisons in the Caucasus and along the Armenian frontier have been increased fourfold and equipped for active service. Death of Judge 0. B. Ayres. ‘Des Moines, March 29.—A telegram has been received in Des Moines from Pasadena, Cal., announcing the death in that eity of Judge 0. B. Ayres, ot Des Moines, president of the State Insurance company, and well known in legal, circles. ‘Japan Unesey. Yoxouama, March 28.—The Russian squadron has arrived at Chemulpo, It {s believed this presages & demand for ‘& concession of iand at Messango, and is arousing uneasy commentsin Japan. First ward ..... 233 992 Second ward ..... 982 571 Third ward ..... 1314 1158 Fourth ward ..... 1117 1053 Fifth ward ..... 571 1063 Sixth ward ..... 801 1391 Seventh ward ..... 387 530 --- --- Totals ..... 6408 7097 Majority ..... 689 The Aldermanic Results. First ward— Fagen. Barnes. First precinct 71 37 Second precinct 350 125 Third precinct 451 192 Fourth precinct 330 215 Totals 1298 563 Fagen's majority 633 Second ward— Patrick. Brackett First 258 250 Second 354 255 Third 256 267 Totals 538 841 Patrick's majority 96 Third ward— Dorr. Klest. Belvel. First 169 2.5 111 Second 223 2.6 111 Third 272 196 67 Fourth 324 59 57 Fifth 118 188 65 Totals 1197 872 350 Dorr's plurality 325 Fourth ward— Monarch. Hall. First precinct 215 273 Second precinct 251 411 Third precinct 286 482 Fourth precinct 66 189 Totals 603 1061 Hall's majority 505 *Majority. Fifth ward— Rostberg. Bennett. First 115 225 Second 242 406 Third 244 254 Fourth 173 215 Totals 774 1094 Bennett's majority 210 Sixth ward— Breceton. First 106 Second 211 Third 288 Fourth 578 Fifth 181 Total 1461 SHALL CURFEW RING. Professor F. G. Kraege, Superintendant of the Public Schools of Greenbay, Wisconsin, in an article contributed to the Twentieth Century Quarterly, under the title, "Shall the Curfew ring to save the children?" Says that during three years of service as principal of the educational department of Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys where he had excellent opportunities for studying the matter, he became convinced that the leading cause of crime among the young the young in our larger cities is unlimited street roving after dark, and this alone leads to the engagement in vicious criminal pursuits, he also touches upon the many phrase of crime which children of larger cities are subject to and among them are the grouping together of large number of boys in a neighbor hood at first their viciousness is mild such as teasing and annoying and abusing smaller children and snatchfruits from the grocery store insulting girls doing many of these things because they think it is funny or smart and in many of our leading cities the police have fully realizes the dangerous results of permitting boys to congregate in the evening upon the streets, and have tried to introduce some remedy to prevent such, they believe there is scarcely any hopes of reforming many of the boys who have been giving the liberty for any length of time upon the streets. He says, that parental authority is first disregarded, then defied, home restraints are thrown off late hours, bad company and treason from school and their homes soon follows in quite a number of our larger towns and cities a Curfew law has been introduced and when it is properly enforced the number of boy criminal have been amazingly diminished and we believe that it should be the law in every town or city and that the officers should see to it that at certain nour every boy should be kept off of the streets for in many cases parents have not the controle over their children and if the law does not assist them they will go from bad to worse, and if the ringing of the Curfew will assist in saving our boys, we favor it. IMPOTANT TO COLORED PEOPLE. The coming census is a matter of great interest to the American Negro. He, will be expected to answer the enumerator when he comes next June, and naturally wishes to make a good showing in the big volumes that are to be printed about the people of the United States. "The population schedule" is the one which concerns everybody. On it are questions about name, age, sex, color-relationship to the head of the family and where each individual was born, as well as where the parents of each were born. The enumerators will ask who can read and write and how many months the children have gone to school. He will ask about the prosperity of the family, whether only the man works for money or whether the women and children do, too, and whether they own or rent the house they live in. All the enumerator can do with this information when he gets it will be to write it down, for he has sworn not to tell anything about it, and then the papers will be sent to Washington to be worked out by electricity. The great books, when printed, will show how fast the colored people have been improving and where they have made greatest progress. Colfax, Ia., March 19.—From Bethel Baptist church of Colfax, Ia. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that our Pastor Rev. A. M. Colston is duly authorized to sell funds for the purpose of paying off the debt now pending against the church. We appeal to your christian generosity to assist us as much as you are able. Any amount however small will thankfully be received. By order of church. A. M. COLSTON, Pastor. ALICE BOTTLE, Clerk. NEWTON NOTES. Mrs. Mary Waldan of St. Louis has returned to the city to remain indefinitely. Owing to the inclement weather the sociable Saturday evening was not largely attended but a good time was had by all. Miss Emma Mayes of this city was married in Des Moines last Monday to Mr. A. Fisher of that city; the bride was born and raised in this city and her many friends wish her much happiness. Misses May Mayes and Beulah Green returned to Marshalltown Monday morning after a pleasant visit with Newton friends. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carter of Sommerset are visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mrs. Mathews of Clarinda was a guest of Newton friends several days this week. she was accompanied by her brother, Mr. Harvey Davis. A theater party composed of the elite of our city attended Lincoln Carter's famous production. Remember the Maine, at Lister's Opera House, Wednesday evening. SIOUX CITY-ITEMS. The concert given by the choir, while quite a success, it was not as well attended as it might have been, but the few that availed themselves of the opetunity were well pleased. Rev. T. A. Clark spent a few days with his family at Des Mosues, last week. The sick this week are Mesdames Sutton, Cobin, and Thompson. Mr. G. C. Carr was confined to his home last week with la gripe. Great preparation are being made for Easter by the Sunday School. Prof. Francis E. Stewart, formally leading tenor of the original Tennessean, has charge of the singing at the First M. E. Church during their revival. Rev. T. C. Clark read a paper at the Ministerial meeting last Monday morning; his subject being, Providing for old age by way of competency; Rev. Pitlinger led with an interesting discussion which followed. Mr. S. Douglas has returned from Dalton, Minn. to take up his residence in Elgin City again. --- Only the best of material used. Kretchmer goods have a reputation. Do not compare my work with the cheap good-for-nothing tanks which the market is flooded with. Freight is only a small matter as tanks can be shipped knocked down. Send for catalogue and price list. Manufactured by E. KRETCHMER, - RED OAK, IOWA. Also a full line of bee-keepers' supplies. - Send for catalogue and price list. Mr. G. Griffin, better known as Black Purple, who was taken by the yankees at Clarissa, was cured and has returned to the city again. Mr. Griffin promises to lead a better life in the future. H. Fisher' was indicted for selling whisky to Indians, as this is his second offense he will be sent to the pennitentary to serve a term. The choir has been invited to sing at Whitfield M. E. Church on the 27, they will sing at Grace M. E. Morning Side in the near future. There is to be a donkey party soon. Mr. James Washington has been elected to serve his third term as N. G. of the G. N. O. of O. O. F. Mr. J. E. Mathews is P. E. S. The young men's meeting was held as usual on last Sunday afternoon. Now that election is over the agent hopes the delinquents will pay up; the Hystander needs help. Mr. Huas who has been parlyzed for some time is quite poorly. We are sorry to have anounce that Mr. Washinton was not elected as many of his friends had hoped. FT. MADISON RIPPLETS. (Last Week.) Mrs. Hattie Hoskins of Davenport who has been in our city with her moth, e: for quite awhile is so much batter- that she will return to her home soon. Mrs. Jennie Price is still quite slick Our Baptist Church is moving along slowly. The Pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Chicago, Rev. G. M. Davis formerly the pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church of Keokuk, visited us and preached an able sermon Wednesday evening March 14. The Church was filled with people and also with the Spirit; his subject, "Be sure your sins will find you out," Numbers 32-23. He returned to Keokuk where he has been assisting Rev. Phillips in a revival. Elder Muse, our pastor, left for Davenport to attend the board meeting. Last Sunday was Quarterly Meeting at the A. M. E. Church; Presiding Elder Macdonald was present, quite a number met and thanked him as a Christian man and zealous worker. Rev. Bell, the pastor, seemed much encouraged and is doing a good work. Mr. Ed. Jones, nephew of Mrs. Harriet McClelan, passed through the city enroute to Chicago. Mr. Jerry Strother who has been very sick is convalescent. FC. DODGE NEWS. Debate:— Resolve, Which is the most benefit to the human race, a cow or a horse. Affirmative. F. D. Jamerson, F. Noble; Negative, W. O. Mealy, and Ed Christmas. Affirmative won nine to five. Address by W. H. Jamerson, Solo by little Harry Davis, Recitation by Miss Flora Kennett, Solo little Ida Davis, Duett by Mrs. John Toliver and Mrs. Carrie Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cox was in our city visiting friends and attending to business, from Albert Lee, Minn. A reception was given at Mrs. J. Toliver in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Friday event; a delightful time was had by all present. Mrs. Lida Buckner entertained Mr. and Mrs. Cox at a cinch party. Saturday afternoon; the prize, a silver card case, was won by Mr. and Mrs. Cox. An elegant lunch was served. Mr. and Mrs. Towler entertained Mr. and Mrs. Cox at a swell ball. Saturday evening; they were also entertained at six o'clock dinner, Sunday by Mrs. Towler. ```markdown ``` OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED If you want to deal with us ask your neighbor about us, write the publisher of this paper or Metropolitan New York or New York University or German Exchange Bank, New York; or any railroad or express company in Chicago. We will accept any of the largest business bldgs in Chicago, and possibly nearly 1,400 people in our own area. We will accept all and everything is medical literature, organ, plane and medical instrument equipment. Adhere to our terms. Mr and Mrs Cox will leave for their hands Monday morning. Next Wednesday night will be given a grand ball and the walk at the Owatford Hall. A good many people will subscribe for the Bystander in the near future. The weather has been fine for the last week. Miss Lottie Sollers will leave for St. Paul in the near future. Mr. Zack Davis is improving slowly. ALBIA NEWS. A, M. E. Church people will give a social at the city hall on Saturday evening. April the 8, will be Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Roy Grayson and Nellie Grayson have been down several days with the mumps. A sad accident occurred at the Hocking Valley mines on last Monday. C. Perkins was almost instantly killed by falling slate. Mr. Wallace Davis is sick with the mum s. MUSCATINE NEWS. Mr. Rufus Phoenix of Moline, visited his mother, Mrs. P. Townley a few days. Mr. Ingram gave an interesting and helpful talk to the young people Sunday evening. Mrs. Rosetta Watson celebrated her seventy birthday anniversary Monday evening. A few friends spent a pleasant evening with her. Mr. Edward Baines is now employed at the Commercial Hotel. Mrs. Joseph Carr was quite sick a few days last week at her home on West Street, she is better at present. Mr. William Brooks has gone to Rock Island, Ill. where he will resume his duties as first Cabin boy on the "W. J. Young." There was a Literary entertainment given at the A. M. E. Church by the D. Y. W. Y. K. Club Thursday evening. The question for debate was, Which is the best promoter of crime, "Wealth, Poverty, or Ignorance?" Wealth was argued by Mr. W. H. Shakelford and Miss Gertrude Lee, Poverty by Mr. A. Seabrooks and Miss Daisy Lee and Ignorance by Rev. Gordon and Mr. S. Barnes; the judges decided that ignorance brought the strongest argument. A musical program was also rendered to an appreciative audience. Rev. Gordon held services in Iowa City, Sunday; his place being taken by I. P. Johnson. Rev. Gordon has organized clubs among the young people to help the church; he has appointed Miss Cora Phoenix, Captain of one club and Miss Florence White, Captain of another; these young ladies will do all they can to make their clubs a success. The D. W. Y. K. Club will give a reception at the home of Samuel Barnes, March 20, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Johnson entertained Mrs. Nelson Carr and Miss Cora Thomas, Sunday. Subscribe for the Bystander. Mrs. Alyce Maxie who has been quite sick is better. SURE CURE. Dr. J. M. Wilson, the Marvelous Healer, Successfully Cures Any and all Cases That have FAILED to be CURED by the usual methods, namely: Surgery, drugs, etc. Dr. Wilson postively cures where others have failed. Consultation free. In writing address Dr. J. M. WILSON'S INSTITUTE OF HEALING, Morgan House, Des Moines, Iowa. Enclose 2 cent stamp for free book of explanation. BILLAR and you like NEW makes, but dept., and if you ever saw any of the new makes, we $2.00 and so most DURABLE the illustration which you can form solid quarter of the new and look dome decorations and weigh 360 pounds. Principal, Coach, Sewell, ery Pipe King of K Smooth Shaker high- and more nest theod We true- but we WILL 6. 699 MINISTRY MANAGEMENT ORCAN Harris-Emery Co. DES MOINES, IOWA. 17c For 25c, 39c and 50c Leather Purses and combination card cases and pocket books, all colors and black. Some silver mounted. 79c For $1.00 26 and 28 inch linen cover umbrellas, steel rod, Paragon frame, various wood handles, stainless, perfect. 10c For 15c men's half hose, double thread, heel and toe, black and tan, shaped foot, 3 for 25c. Watch the Des Moines Daily Papers for our Grand Millinery Opening Announcements. SWALTER H. DUNN, COPYRIGHT NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION FROM TAX SALE To John Q. Thompson: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to will. Lot 14, block 3. Fairview addition, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for taxes of 1838 on the 4th day of December, 1894 to J. S. Coskery. That the certificate of purchase thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by B. F. Loose, and that the right of redemption will expire and a treasurer's deed for said real estate will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated the 12th day of March, A. D. 1900. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION FROM TAX SALE. To J. P. Baumgardner: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit: Lot 11, Ozone Ridge, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for taxes of 1895, on the 9th day of December, 1896, to George G. Wright; that he assigned the same to D. F. Patton, trustee. That the certificate of purchase thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by B. F. Loose, and that the right of redemption will expire, and a treasurer's deed for said real estate will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated November 23, A. D. 1899. B. F. LOOSE. By Ezra D. Marshall attorney. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION FROM TAX SALE. To J. P. Baumgardner: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit: Lot 12, Ozone Ridge, now included in and forming a part of the city of Des Molnes, Iowa, was sold for taxes of 1895, on the 9th day of December, 1896, to George G. Wright, who assigned the same to D. T. Patton, trustee. That the certificate of purchase thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by B. F. Loose, and that the right of redemption will expire, and a treasurer's deed for said real estate will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated the 23d day of November, A. D. 1899. B. F. LOOSE. By Ezra D. Marshall, attorney. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION FROM TAX SALE. To J. B. Sheley: You are hereby notified that the fol- lowing described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit: Lot 15. Preparing for company makes busy times in the kitchen, and is the occasion that the housewife likes to show her skill at culinary triumphs in light, white breads, flaky pies, rich and delicious cakes, and bake-stuffs, of all kinds. If you don't want to make a failure of your baking use FALCON FLOUR. It is pure and made from the best blue stem wheat. block 4. Foundry addition, now included in and forming part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for taxes of 1893, on the 4th day of December, 1894, to W. G. Hamlin, who assigned same to J. S. Cookery. That the certificate of purchase is now owned by B. F. Loose, and that the right of redemption will expire, and a treasurer's deed for said real estate will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 23d day of November A. D. 1899. B. F. LOOSE. By Ezra D. Marshall, attorney. The Doctors Are Here. Three Months Services are Offered Free to all Who Call on Them Before May 1. A staff of eminent physicians and surgeons from the British medical institute have, at the urgent solicitation of a large number of patients under their treatment in Des Moines, established a branch of the institute in this city, in the Marquardt block, room 204 and 205, on the second floor. These eminent gentlemen have decided to give their services entirely free for three months (medicines excepted) to all invalids who call upon them for treatment between now and May 1st. These services consist not only of consultation, examination and advice, but also of all minor surgical operations. The object in pursuing this course is to become rapidly and personally acquainted with the sick and afflicted, and under no condition whatever will any charge be made for any services rendered for three months, to all who call before May 1st. The doctors treat all forms of disease and deformities, and guarantee a cura in every case they undertake. At the first interview a thorough examination is made and if incurable you are frankly and kindly told so, also advised against spending your money for useless treatment. Male and female weakness, catarrh and catarrhal deafness, also cancer, without pain or cutting; all skin diseases, rupture, and all diseases of the rectum are positively cured by their new treatment. Dr. J. Boyd, the chief consulting surgeon of the institute will be in personal charge. Office hours from 8. m. to 9. m. No Sunday morning job req'd SPECIAL NOTICE—If you can not call hand off the job, please contact the home treatment a Lia bane} PO ee tae ea ee a, a a Te nT eT Sat Ae Me oem eke tre Ae See A wf eet Meany Pome < Soe eae ea A ; Hee prere NE ; a. a * mitted cea” peel tes Bydtander' some in Han oa “Unie ett chet 20 Ol agp, Iie sae, paid gxagotul: hte imesh {and rescued the i ym its previous | Eesnieteanloverser ward oak pest J andl we'would Nke:to hear the: posted Jasala, In these days of keen: artistic | appteciation there is no need that he kenlus ‘bloom unseen” or her. sweet hesg be wasted “‘on the desert air: ‘ Mra. Ida B, Wells-Barnett® returti trom ‘a, protonged visit through the principal cltles of the east, where she hhas been engaged in lecturing against lynching and other outrages that are constantly perpetrated. upon Afro- Americans in yarious parts of the United States. she has also found time to organize many of her intel Mgent countrywomen into clubs for the study of racial conditions and theif betterment. Mrs, Barnett's work 1s highly spoken of by representatives of both the Saxon and’ Afro-American presses. Uundoubtedly we have in Mrs. Barnett a woman of great aims, cone who possesses the elemenis of leadership; a woman that all admire and many ‘have learned to love. The Sheldon edition of the Topeka Capital was an earnest man’s effort at newspaper reform and as such It Is. destined to bear good fruit in the way. of cleaner and more wholesome news sheets. 1¢ Is the record of the past that nations have maintained their ascendancy as they have maintained their faith in a supreme deity, and our civilization of today will rise or fall accoruing to our faith in and practice of the doctrines and princl- ples of Him who came to be the light of the world, Jesus of Nazareth. 4 Mrs. A. J. Carey, wife of the pastor of Quinn chapel, Chicago, has begun & course of free lectures: for the bene- fit of women only, to be delivered weekly in the lecture room, All fe. males of 18 and over may attend. ‘The first lecture is entitled “Wise hood,” and will be delivered by a Miss Beritzhoff,, This 18 a commendablé step. Our churches must take the in- itiative in educational matters now, as they have in the past ‘The King’s Daughters and Sons gave a birthday-party at St John’s church, ‘Thureday evening, March 16, and net- ted $12.25, which they presented to the trustees of that church. The- lovers of peace will be glad when the wars between our country | and the Filipinos and the English and the Boers are at an end. It we critcise England for fighting with the Boers upon their own lana, may we not criticise the Boers for crushing the African upon his own so... or will we be one-sided in our sympathies? RNR Nira) 1 Nn ham eae URE ac) Ir eT eA SN TS eh ee yea en sh __YOQUNKER’S.-—: se CONOMY”?: BASEMENT ee Gna wet Ga } two dozen bargains from Younker’s Basement, Bargain Store tt ejtore that sells everything good, cheaper than.any other store. Stapderd calles ga sprai \ging- } Men's'and. Boy's Sweaters at 95e, shame atsifoandtcayard. " § dfen's “home made”. work ‘Table ON Cloth 156 wyard. |) |, pairs forte : Worsted ress Goods at 100.2, yard, } Ladies’ Wulbriggan Undersults, ot Remnanta of Choviota,’. percales,§ . 109 worth 25c, “ginghams, cambrice and zephyra$ Brown ‘Twilled Crash at 33408 yard, St Si-3eand 10c a yard—worth $ 2c Turkey Red table cloth linen at | double. i 20c's yard,’ 3 “Reminshts of Curtain Swisses and} Umbrelias for Men and.Women at Billcolines'at-7e, 81-30 ratid 100 83 - 296 and S00. | yard—worth double. 4.§ hoes tor Mon at 980 Ladies ani Childrens’ “home made”’3 ope ¢ ALIS 8 Dalz, ‘stookingsat 10c a pair—well worth § Shoes for Boys at 29¢ 9 pair, double. ; Shoes for Boys and Girls at 790 ® Velveteen Dress binding 30a yard-$ pair. Ladies ‘waanable Shirt walsta and § Shoes for Women at 700 pale ‘Wrappers at 25c, 39¢ and Svc each. Curtain ferim at 33/0, Se, 76 and 10¢ THINGS AT 1¢ EACH, yard. A paper of pine Men's Overalis and work Shirts A pkg. of needles worth @0c at 49°. A thimble Men's and Boy's work Shirts at 25 A good tablet . each, | ‘Agood led pencil, ‘Grand Millinery opening next Tuesday, April 3rd. YOUNKER BRos. OCA LNA OE eee eee oes ee Ns IDESSOSSOSSSOSOQTEOONSCS OES COOOOEEEsEEDCOONSPERECCND: eal THe aa i. e ?WVEEKLY INTER UCEAN: Hi coseedons LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ALL Senccoved 23 ca POLITICAL PAPERS IN THE WEST. 3 : Always American——Always Republican 3 e = ‘THE WEEKLY INTER OCEAN SUPPLIES ALL { tor | Foraewesuosunt coneererancrng | 3 Every Column is Bright, Clean and Packed with News 3 3. [The Literatare of its columns is 3 3° equal to that of the best maga- 3 3s zines. It is interesting to the 3 : & children as well as the parents. 3 3 INTER OCEAN is a WESTERN NEWSPAPER, and while # $ : I beings to the family THE NEWS OF THE WORLD and gives its $ 3 seaders the beat and ablest discussions of all questions of the day, it ts in $ $ full sympathy with the ideas and asp'ratious of Western people and discumes $ 3 Hteratues and’ politics from the Western standpoint, HAS AAAR RAR § : 3 ¢—-—$.00—PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR—$1.00—— Seeceqeces — set Pdeccvers 3 (S THE DAILY AND SUNDAY EDITIONS OF THE INTER OCFAN-$ "3 < $ ‘ARE VME BEST EVER SEEN IM THE WEST. 3 $3 s STHE INTER OCEAN'S NEWS IS EXCLUSIVE. ©. 3 t 3 Besar rta veto sr AO ponent 3 Bots oe Si teeday by waite eoprsar Sigh neeaneeeseonsenccocccecencececeoonoooeceeecoocboceccoes The Afro-American in the Northwest. Special to Bystander. Using the ecclesiastical term, the negroes this side of the Mason and Dixon ine are protesants against the southern slave question and _se- quences, Some of them ran away and came north in the ante-bellum days and others came since, and chat they meet with a new environment here goes without saying. They found the people of the north to be more soglable in some respects and les# in others than those of the south; the climate colder. and everything strange to them. But » notwithstanding - al of this these sturdy and determined Afro-Americans set about adjusting themselves to the new state in which they found themselves. This adjust ment has been gradual, but _ syste: matic, and tuelr children are becom: ing so well acclimated to the varied and rigorous climate of the north west, so in accord with Yankee man ners’and customs that no one would dispute, the negro’s ability to stand cold climate, to apprehend and util fze the most humane and righteous code of civil ethics. ‘The educational status of the north western negro Is good. Indeed, if 1 were to say the education of the north: ern negro was more uniform and broader than tha: of the negroes of any other section in America I would be felling’ the truth. I say this with ‘due deference for the feelings of my people in the south land and an in. expressable degree of appreciation for their great educational advancement. __ But here in Iowa, where the educa tional status has but one superior in the United States, and where the peo- ple, thelr genera. culture and acumen are the prototype of New England’s plus the western snap and go, the ne- gro keeps step with the music of ed. ueation. Iowa's great negroes, past. and pres ent, in my next. ‘T. _.EEVES. ee 1 Be ee RY ceah ae Sap PER? Rm ates i Heese. ea eo” CAN Viggo TE) > aos it fee &% 8 1? Goss cH WS eS =) iH) "SS tinea eel a 1 neal Priest Srey an ove oe ages sons aa mand ii {i Secs see ee (f gS MONTGOMERY wan Benner nest i! ' Seo ‘ (See COALFIELD NEWS. Editor, J. L. Thomqton, Dear Sir Ple-se allow epacein your pape te state the following news. On Tnesday morning at 9:42 Mr, 8. E Linticum a coal miner was killed by a fal of slate in: Black Diamond Coal mine humber one, Coalfield, hadgno family ;ba! was a member of the National protective Sootety of Bay City, Mich. Mr. J. B. Mitchell son-in-law of G, W. Banks of thiscity who has been visiting it this oly for three or four months, tes re turned to bis home In Moberly. ‘The mine here was idle Tuesday and Wednesday. ‘Mr. J. H. Lang of this»place is genera agent for National Protective Society Bay City, Blich, Rev. J. W. White agent at Hocking and Cedar Rypids. » The Affairs of Europ ../* “awe faithfully portrayed in the original and * <4. exclusive cable dispatches which THE CHE “). €aGO RECORD prints daily from the leading -» + capitals ofthe old world. This magnificent > special service is in process of being greatly | °° extended so as to include every important a city in Europe; and it is supplemented by / the full regular cable service of The, Asso- | The Chicago Record, alone of ait Americaa newspapers outside New York city, F mow, pelats ocigigal.and exclusive 3:2 2". ame Meath eablhale of Europes 02°" SY $33 Jasiongr wad If x0 teen Gwol ie ee FRASER. Miss Frankie Holland 1s in our midst again from Sayloryille. Mrs. C. Web expects to leave soon or & visit to Des Moiaes, Rey. Underwood will carry on his re vival meetipg another week as he 1 doing well in bis meetings. Mr.8, Ames left Inst Wednesda; morning for Déover, ‘Col. Mr. Amet expects to bave his» fumily with him s00n; be ja mueh waved by alla bs ha: seca ne ee Ree * has the pralee'sF betngr the beat'yar i fa Brgape a rwhite:ant bole seh nates rans eee she shop teen wlthle, (2b? 28 nn wit i irs abel pfiitor Dos Molnea,'ales fW. Austin and Mr, MoPersbsj,/50- ATHb Lolared Kolante of Py ching. ‘bad Mair memoripl sermon preapbed Sup day atteraoon, by,Rey.. Roey,. and. th sermon wag.grand it, being the, fire ‘every preached in, Fraser. 2, :.) Mra, Bell Jones moved to Saylorville Inst week where her hnaband hua been ‘working for some time. \ Mra, Liza Bell is expected in our city ona visit Saturday morning and will epend Sunday here. Mr. C.Grimett tool a short trip to Saylorvill, Saturday and returned Sat- urday night. Mr, Jenkins and E, Walker are) on the sick list. IOWA CITY BRIEFLETS. ; Mr, John Jones has come in fron the country where he has been living ‘all winter; he will go to Chicago thi week to visit his daughter, Miss Hiva Little Pauline Belle of Rock Island is visiting her grandmother on College Street. Mr. Fred Foy, of Moline, Ill., is be ing employed at the New St. Jame Hotel, as head cook. Mrs, Gus Hall of West Liberty, at tsoding the party at M's8 Belle’s Thur’ sday evening. ‘An exceedingly pleasant party was given at the home of Miss Lizzie Bell: ‘Thursday evening, March 22, every one reporte @ pleasant time. Mr. Elmer Browao made a business trip to Montezuma last week. ‘A number of the Iowa City have been and are entertaining the mumps among them are Misses Lena Berry, Messrs Charles Thompson, Jimmie Jones and Master Dewey MeNiel. CLINTON. The young ladies band of Bethel A. M.E. Church gave s most enjoyable social on Tuesday evening; a neat sur was realized and a good time was had by all, Rev. Taylor is visiting in Clinton this week. One of the late additions in mns‘o circle, is the orchestra recently organ: ized by Prof. Daymon; those who have listened to there music speak many ‘words of praise. ““G. D, MeDaed was reelected Mayor of Clinton, Monday over-W. K.. Miller Democrat by about 1500 majority the council remains about as before Dem ocratio a large Vote was polled in each Of the precincts. "Rey. Holley spent this week in Cedar ‘Rapids, "Shiller Emerson has accepted the Position of pianist with Prof, Daymon' ‘orchestra, Rane and Hblland’s: minstrels gave Bmost creditable performance in’ th | Economic Theater on the 19. “The rooms of N. Hancock are in’ the hands of painters and paper-hangers ‘Lhe Pantitorium which has met witt such unparlelled success in the Westor has been given into the charge of Bill Allen, who has been a valued employes of that institution for some time al ready improvement have been made siddihg much to the appearance of the rooms; Billy will ag of yore greet hi friendsin the Puntitorium Parlors. Clinton's much talked of publi Barlding, has been located on 5th Ave nue and 3rd Street; to the surprise anc rogret of many. Subscribe for the Mvstander. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Mr. I. L. Brown left for Muchakin- ‘ock to attend to some business. ‘Mrs, Howard aud daughter from Al- bin spent the Sunday with Mrs. G. W. Suiter, Mrs, 1. L, Brown bas purchased s fine new steel range. Little Guldie and Saul Greene are on the sick list. Mrs, W. D. Crawford has gone tc spend a week with her friends in Muc- hakigock. Mrs. Ellen Cottermus is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs, L, Johnson's baby is improving. ) All should subscribe for Bystander. Broad Vestibuled ; First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Santranctsco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. — l= al Leave Chicago on Big S.at 10:00 p. m. ‘All the best scenery of the Rocky Moun: ‘tains and the Sierra Nevada. by day light in both directions, ‘These cars are carried on the limited ‘trainsof the Great Rock Island Route Denever and Kio Gtandy (Scenic | ‘Route),- Rio. Grande Western _ and jjBouthern Paciticn, yoo ‘Dining ‘Car: Service’ Through Busters Library Oars. 6 93027 ch (SOHN SEBASTIAN, PA... nin aN eee Peg tank “Invited to Attend the" Grand Spring Opening , OF | FRANKEL’S | MONDAY, APRIL 4. : REMEMBER THE DATE. ee REPORT. ) EVANS ITEMS. | The ladies of the Third Baptist chureh gave a box social at the neat!residenoe of ‘Mr, and Mrs, Wm, Weathers on Eleventh and Faroum street Monday evening, quite a crowd was present and had one of the grandest time of the reason. Mr. C. F, Wright has secured position with the ‘Turkish Bath Club company here and has m.¢e this Lis home, he is now making preparations to move his better half here as soon as possible. ‘The Executive Board of District Grand Lodge number Third Grand Uuited order of Odd Fellows, met here the 24th to ar- ‘range t! eir yearly report afterthe session was over D, Master, 8, L. ‘Tigg of Rurlington, D, G. Secretary, W. D. Parkor of Dayeny ort; D. G. ‘Treasurer, J. W. Swith Keokuk all retired to Eareka Lodge room where they were received ‘honur and N.G. J.P, Mabry turned the ‘Gavel ever to the D.G. Mattsr. who teated the members and alter stated he had no fault to find whatever and Mr. and Mrs, M. Mathews entertained at dinner the Executive Board of the lowa Baptist as- sociation ond Mra. James Herrington o} this cxty the JGch-at their cosy residence 1720 Iowa street, ‘The young people of the Third Bapiist ‘chureh is preparing to organize aB. Y. P. U, Sunday at 6:80 P. M, everybody i! invited to come out and take s part witt them, Mra, Heywood is atill on the sick list but is just alittlebetter at this writing Miss Liazie Bell Tessher ofthe inter mediate class in the Third aptist Sunday Soboo!, Is eonfined, shie has’ the: sympath; of the entire schoul. | Eureka Lodge 3899 will move into thei new lodge room April 2 on Brady anc 5th street, also the House-hold of Ruth i thas been newly wall papered painted ang Painted and decorated through out and s new carpet helps to makes most beauti fal appearance, they will open thelr door ,0r public insp:ction in» few days alte hey get moved in, | Your Agent is improving very nicely but ys still on the sick list, a8 Malaria Fever is not a very good compauy at all Mra. B. Baker of Eleventh and Farnum street had a sad accidentlast week whil out at work, her bouse caugat fire sn¢ dest oyed a great many of ber things, sh had worked awful bard to furnish he house up nicely and had just got settled She is stopping temporarily with her sor ‘Ww. Baker 1720 Iowa street, BURLINGTON BRIEFLETS. St. John’s A, M, E. church ; is making managements for an elaborate Haste programme, Mr. Jackon Wilson an old and respect ed citizen of our city and and a member ofthe Olivet Baptist church died at his residence on South Fitth street at 5:3 Sunday evening. Mr, Wilson was 7 Sears of age and leaves wife and seven children to mourn bis lose, Ie was huried on Wednesday afternoon from the Olivet Baptiat church. ‘The sermon was preached by Rev. Higgins assisted by Rev. White. ‘The servico atthe cemetary were conducted by the Masonio’ Order of which deceased Was 8 member. Mrs, Higgins left on last Friday for Cincinnati where she was called by the serious illness ofher brother. She arrived there at 7;00 A. M. Saturday, her brotber died st 2:45 on the afternoon of the same day. He was buried on Wednesday after- ‘noon, ‘Mrs, Smith of Mt, Pleasant was in the city last week the guestof Mrs, G. Allen ‘and Mrs, Emanuel, Bishop B, W. Arnett of Wilberforce, Ohio is expected to be in tthe eity soon, Mrs, G, Allen is on tho sick list. The K. of P, Lodge had their annual sermon preached at the Olive Baptist church on last Sunday afternoon, the services wers conducted by Rev. White, St, John’s A. M, E. chureb Is being re painted this week, ‘The democrats elected their Mayor and the republicans their council un last Mon- day, bottt sldes think they have the vio: tory. : ‘Mesdames 8. Bird, Henry, Cariright, JL, Brooks, Drew and “Buly Tay’ who have been quite sick pre reported. better. ees “by. the Mite arin sd te wine awarded to Mies Ids Paliner and the besond fo 8. L. Tigg. ® EVANS ITEMS. Rev. Tate preached at the Baptias ‘church Sunday morning and night, | ‘The members of the Baptist church gave an entertainment Saturday evening, ‘and was well attended, Mr. 8, Erwin gave an entertainment at Bargge’s hall Sa‘urday. Mra, E. Young and husband loft-for Hawkins Tuesday. The ¥. M. and C. ©. gaves ball Monday aight and was well attended, quite a number of people of Uskalovas were presout. ‘Mr, Logan bas opened a new’ burber- shop at the Star Hall, fe | ‘The Evans drug store 1s improving.’ | ‘Those who were on the sick list are im- proving. Piaaso hand the news in to Mande Steele not later than Tuesday. DUBUQUE NEWS. Mrs, Morris entertained Rev and Mra. Johnson at dinner last Sunday. ‘Mr. sJas, Martin ix confiend to bis bed with sickness, Mr. Geo. Brown and family of Boone have moved to our city to make it their fature home and are located at 120 Al- pine atrest. Thoentertainmnnt given atfthe cburob last Thureday was grand. sucgess . 1b was given by tho society. ‘The pro- gramme was very interesting, the ‘Twilight Trio rendered beautiful music thronghous athe evening. Mize Blaneh Rober chairman of the committee, ‘Miss Bessie Aron wasn the.city fast week. Mr. Morgan of Ottamwa is in our city. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF: REDEMPTION. To (Being the person in possession of the real estate hereafter described) and to Mary B. Weeks, guardian, (in whose name the ‘same is taxed.) You and each of you are hereby notifed that on the ninth day of December A. D., 1896 the follow- ing described real estate to-wit: Lot three hundred and eleven (311) Mann's second addition to Lake Park, now in- cluded in and forming a partof the city of Des Moinesand all within the county ot Polk and state of Iowa, was sold for the then delinquent and unpaid tax of the year 1805 to A. H. Kelsey, that the undersigned is now the legal owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale and that the right of redemption will ex- pire and a deed for the land be made unless redeinption is made within pine- ty duys from completed service hereof. LOUIS MORGAN, Owner and holder of certificate. $2.75 BOX RAIN COAT Me, Feoor withers 82.15 ‘SEND NOMONEY, Cut tis ea, ous Scenery tet Caer Fiaiegpeaieenreones Tater cee, Stibeadt i obttcertet 2 Peprecented andthe mest wenserteh Sea eaten saree See obit rat ater isra, ot HUTT ron aso me Peli et tered Ena Tttstenge Goat, prweteae peepegtengedenmas babe fe: Re ieee "en's Mectistoaber sp to Stee Sits tecacresttag ee danitiewes ean eas IRS, ROEBUCK & Co. <inc.) CHICAGO: bg LS The Rock Island Wall Map of the United States Is the best offered to the public. Iv is very large and specially sdapted to school purposes, Every teacher o Zeograpby and every business office Should have one It will be sent post paid to any address on receipt of fifteen cents in postage stamps or coin. Address, Joun Senastian, G. P. A., Chicago, I. If. troubled with rheumatism; give Chamberlain's Pain Balm a trial, 18 will not’ cost you a cent if it does no good. One upplication will relieve the pain. . Is also cures sprains and bralses in one-third the time. required by any. other treatment... jCatte: Bashte frost bites, quinsey, palan in the sida oheat, was ie cut Cults eve . quickly’ “dobea? aya” Every, bobtig:warranted, Fries 2s aad 6 ete, For saleby all Draggiste, Comedy on the Moors. HE afternoon sun had dipped behind the broad shadow of the Ruchill and the strath below was plunged in shadow. It had been one of the halcyon days which THE afternoon sun had dipped behind the broad shadow of the Ruchill and the strath below was plunged in shadow. It had been one of the halcyon days which sometimes fall on the borderland of autumn and winter, when the sun shines with summer brilliance from a cloudless sky, when the now sombre landscape takes a younger and a brighter aspect, and to the worn out herbage there comes a touch of fresh life. The sun now ashes mounted the hillside and the sun's heat died from the earth, the harsh feeling of the late season asserted itself and there was a shiver in the air betokening a frost. The stream in the valley had lost its sparkle; cold and colorless its waters looked as they flowed full-lipped between their banks of dry gray bent; and even the hills were scarce relieved from monsoon stress by the dense of withered soft green turf of the burnside, and the clumps of dark pine which dotted their slopes. The shepherd of Kingsmur arouse lazily from the mossy bank where he had been reclining. He was returning from one of his rare visits to the nearest market town, and, as the way was long and the heat had been oppressive, he had sat himself down by the street and rested. He remembered the chill of evening reminded him that he must be getting on his way; so, wrapping his plaid more tightly around his broad shoulders, he prepared to resume his long journey. Before him in a straplining line the dock of sheep he had that day bought at the market solemnly cropped the roadside tilt, banked by two shaggy collies, who watched in jeansous rivalry. He was surprised the shepherd, as he surveyed their broad, well feeced backs, was filled with much content. "Meg-Don-away by wide," he cried in the mysterious language of herding. But as, at the order, the obedient dogs scampered off in a hairy whirlwind to recall stragglers and trim the flock for the march, something in the stream at his feet caught the shepherd's eye and made him bend cautiously lower. For the shepherd, though in many ways an exegetical subject and act of the law, he made one exception. The salmon laws, he held, were iniquitous, and there being few things in the world he loved better than salmon, he saw no reason why he should not capture them when and by what means he chose. The close season had begun, and on the lower streams the balfys were keeping strict watch for the unwary poacher. But here it was different. One such gentleman, I have heard, did in a fit of overzealousness from duty, and the lower streams his fate his successes took warning, and of late years these moorland streams and been a little overlooked. So it was with small fear of interruption from that quarter that the shepherd took out his hooks for the capture of the goodly salmon which lay invitingly in a convenient part of the stream. He was an old, experienced hand, and advanced confidently expecting an easy capture. Warily he approached the stream and carefully watched the fish he worked his hooks upward. But the salmon was a cunning fish, and resisted the efforts to land him. With each failure the shepherd grew the more determined, till at last, in the heat of the chase, he became oblivious to all else. So engrossed was he that he did not notice a short, thick-set man approach and stand watching him with a grim smile. The newcomer seemed strangely out of place in his surroundings. In his appearance there were none of those marks that he had seen, and distinguish him from other men. He had the air of one who had strayed from the smoke of a mining country into the midst of this great hill land; at any rate, he was certainly not a shepherd. He was short and squat, with a bull neck and an unlovely countenance unimproved by a most vicious cast in his eyes; and the leer which disfigured his face when the shepherd, his perseverance at last rewarded, drew his prize to land and an length turned round gave him a most sinister aspect. The shepherd eyed him with some astonishment. He had not heard him approach, and his silent behavior was ominous. But it was ridiculous to have any fears on the score of so insignificant a person; so, nothing daunted, he slipped the salmon into the road. Aggrandizing the road. As the other showed no sign of addressing him, he felt bound in civilty to venture a remark. "Extraordinär fine weather for the back-end," he said, affably. "There's nothing wrang wl' the wather," answered the stranger, rudely. "It's fine and clear for seeing poachers." The shepherd whistled softly. Could this man be possible, "Is it possible," he said slowly and deliberately "can you be what they ca' a bitter?" "As we'll sneeze find out." "Ay, man! Div ye ken, I never saw a bailiff afore, and I've any wondered what they were like. But I thocht they would pit on bigger men for the job. Dod! I took ye for that new tailorbody that's come to the murs." The bailiff was sensitive, and at the suggestion his eyes flashed. "Tailor! he began, with a snort of indignation, but checked himself. "In the meantime, he continued to forced politeness, "I'll teach ye for your name." "And what if I dina tell ye?" asked the shepherd, sweetly. "I'll be the warr for yourself!" I'll just ha'e to follow ye. "Aweel, it's a gey lonesoe bit o' the road onyway, and I'll be name the waur' o your company. We can ha'e a crack on the way. Ye see, he continued, as they set off to together, "I can afford to gang to the jail just the moo—the wather's ower gud; and I've nasl maller to waste on fines." "If ye canna pay the fine, to the jail ye maingue." "If we canna find some other way's said the shepherd, cheerly. "But we'll pock, crack about that the noak. "A fill, and he held out a stump of rank black tobacco. The bailiff was surfy and tactum. He was deeply wrathful at being compelled to follow, and he walked onward in stolid silence. The shepherd, on the other hand, was in a particular pleasant humor, and, together with his grave delinquency, his con- versation was light hearted to an unseemly degree. "Guld yowes!" he said, with a wave of his hand toward the flock. "The best sheep to be got in the market! An' ye waw scarcely believe it, but I boch them free the mast blackairy dealer in the country. It's a queer thing. It does 'na often happen; but I've managed it this time; and he poked at a goodly sheep with a grunt of satisfaction. 'na see ye're eyey! he continued 'na the animals! Man, are they no just beauties, bath o' them? It waw tak 'a lot to beat the black yin; and for Meg—there's no her marrow 'i the country-side aming sheep; she's a gleg yin, and a mony a story I could tell about her. You' ken that wild bit, awa' a' the head o' the watter, caed the Craig Shap? Weel it wa' ae dark winter's nicht'— And he rambled into some story not over creditable to himself. So he rattled on, from subject to subject, story to story, entirely reckless of the fact that he bribed sheep, the least attaition that minister of the law, abset at heart he felt somewhat apprehensive, preserved outwardly a dignified and scornful silence. The day was approaching the darkening, and the night frost was tingling in the faces of the two men when at last the shepherd halted. They had come to a place where the stream ran in pools and shallows, and as far as the turn in the water he heard one in light. "Mee," cried the shepherd, "watch that sheep, and he turned toward the stream. "Whaur are ye gain?" asked the balliff, suspiciously. "To catch saumon. Are ye comin'?" said the shepherd, cheerfully. He peered cautiously over the edge of the bank and drew in silence. "Huh!! Here's yin. Hae' ye gotten your heuks, balliff? No? Then I'll ha'e to lend ye mine." "What for?" "To catch that saumon." "Whae?" "You." The balliff laughed scornfully. "Whae?" said the shepherd. "I'll no' pte ya even. There a even. Ama' thing frights a saumon. But that's a deep pool yonder; and I'm thinkin' 'i' sey gcaid noo that the sun's doon. Will ye catch that saumon?" "Then it canna be helpt"; and, tucking the small man under his arm, the sheepher carried him kicking and wrigling to the edge of the pool. In another moment the unhappy balliff was standing waist deep in water. The sheepher, laying his watch on the grass, "I'll gle three minutes to mak' up your mind; and if by that time you're ae obstinate, head ower heels ye go into the deep bit." For a minute there was silence between the two men, broken only by the swish of the water against the balliff's body; then the sheepher broke out again. "No," he said, with the air of one who has been pondering a difficult question, "I canna for the life o' me mak' out what in the world garred ye venture sae far free hame. Ane afore—it was lang syne in the world garred ye venture sae far a warnin' to them that cam' after him. He was a big man; but what garred you, a man o' your size, daur I cannake. Ye wad dae weel eneuch, I've nae doot, amang the shilpt bodies that blade where you can' frae. But to come here-it's a perfect insult to the muirs. Just figure you and muckle Jock Shiel"—and at the end of the story he shepherd was convalsed with laughter. Meanwhile-for he was a conscientious man-a struggle was in progress in the ballill's heart. For the first minute his resolution stood firm by his duty. But gradually the ice cold of the water seeped through his clothes, through his skin, into his very bones. His legs ached and shivers went through his whole body. The cold crept steadily upward, seeming to grow larger. But it advanced his resolution began proportionately to wane, and he to think he had better make the best of a bad business. The struggle with his conscience was short. He looked at the dark, deep hole where the stream plashed into the pool, and shuddered. The struggle was over. He had by his duty long enough. Surely it would be folly to go further. So when the time had expired, and the shepherd asked his decision, "I suppose I'll have to do it." he said; "but I don't." He shuddered. "Never fash yourself' about that," said the shepherd. "Come no and we'll he's a crack wily 'yon saumon." With an ill grace the bailiff took the hooks and addressed himself to his unpleasant task. At first he made little attempt to catch the fish. He had a vague hope that in time relief would come for him, but the shepherd put off the evil moment. Meanwhile the shepherd taunted him from behind. "Eh, man! ye' he'a little skill. The saumon's playing wi' ye. Div ye no see he's fair launchin' at ye? And, by the way, bailiff—that visit of ours to the court—will it be sune, div ye think, or will we pit it off indefinitely? Personally I know the last way—but only way we like. But taunts were of no avail. The bailiff did not in the least feel his honor offended, and his efforts were still languid. At last the shepherd grew impatient. "See here," he said, "it's nae use delayin'. You've got to catch the saumon, and if ye dinaa be smart I'll put ye in the water again. But the way, he added that he would not be able to commit. If I were you I'd hurry up and catch that fusha onybody saw me." The bailiff glanced around and there, sure enough, the six foot of stalwart shepherd came in lureshy fashion down the road. His last hope fled. There was nothing to be expected from the new comer, but he was a notorious bounty. Besides, it was better that there should be no witness to his deed. So he doggedly recalled his ancient skill and set himself to catch the salmon with all speed. With much art he gradually drove the fish upward on to the shallows. "Fine, man!" said the shepherd, approvingly. "I keened ye were just shammin. It's no ill to see you've been at the business afores. Set a thief to catch a thief with a knife. I saw him with his hail, skill, after a', Great, man--greed! Just be cautious, noo--cautious--camp-- and there ye ha'he him." And just as Jock came up the ruttering back was landed at his feet. "Mam, Jock!" said the sheepard, "weeer lata. We've been his ein' grand sport, me and the balifl. He could gie points in saumon catchin' even to you." The balifl turned to Jock. "I take you witness that I has been forced to the'." "I ken noch about that," said Jock, smiling. "A' I ken is that I saw a ballill landin' a saumon." "Ay," quoted the shepherd irreverently; "he digged a pit for itthers and fell intl' t himself." The baliff glared savagely at the two men with impotent hatred in his face. Rage and a helpless longing for vengeance filled his heart and choked his utterance. Then he blurred out an oath and flung himself off. "Stop a minute, my bonny man," said the baliff. "You'll surely never lea' the this fine saunah attin yet. Weel, a wifu' man main gang his saint gin. But tak' my advice, and tell them that employs ye to plit on bigger men for balliffs, or the saunah winna he' muckle chance up the muirs." The plaintiff deigned not to reply. He set his shoulders square, drew up his he said oracularly, "tames a craw, and cauld watter a bum, and with his hepherd whistled on his dogs, and, collecting his ernant sheep, went chuckling up the moorland road—William Buchan. BRAVE BOER WOMEN. None but the elderly women among the Transvaal Boers can remember the great trek of 1836, when their fathers and grandfathers abandoned the homes they had made in Natal and toled up the passes to the lofty plateau where they founded their republic. Those days were more trying than any the Transvaal women ever saw until the present war began. They were still living in their tent渡渡 the Matabele branch with the Matabele branch of the Zulu tribe began, and no women could show more wonder!' spirit and constancy than those wives and mothers of the Boer pioneers in th- midst of appalling dangers and hardships which did not end until the Matabele had been driven north of the Crocodile river. Not a few of those women, and their children with them, perished by the assegles of savages; but not one of them would have dreamed of returning to the peaceful homes and gardens of the Boer people. The British had proclaimed that country their own, their colonists were pouring in and the Boers would die before they would come again under British rule. The wives and mothers of the soldiers who now confront the Brilish are the descendants of those stout-hearted women who loaded the guns of their husbands and boys while savages rushed upon the women, and the men who surrounded their lagers. Perhaps no women in the world have changed so little in two generations. The women of the Boer farmsteads now are just what their grandmothers were when the Matabele sought their lives. The Bible is still their only book, they still prefer a quiet, sedentary life. The Boer are modest homes, and they have scarcely risen in any respect above the plane of intellectual cultivation which their grandmothers occupied; and they are like their grandmothers, too, in the courage, constancy and sublime devotion with which they are facing the awful trials of an ancient period in the history of their people. A report sent by the French consul at Pretoria to his government, though brief, is perhaps the best statement yet received of the part the women of the Boers are taking in the present war. He says they are doing everything they can to aid the soldiers in the field. Indeed hundreds of them are in the field and form the majority of the working force in the ambulance and hospital service. In their denunciation of the British they are far more bitter and outspoken than the men themselves, but in their mission of mercy they know no enemies. All the wounded British soldiers who have fallen into their hands have been treated as prisoners and are more likely to extend to them the same care that they gave to their own stricken soldiers. We all know that dispatches from the British army have often referred to the kind treatment received by their wounded who are prisoners in the Boer camps. The French consul adds that the women throughout the two republics exerted a powerful influence in kindling enthusiastic support for the war when it became certain that the conflict could not be averted. They sent many of their sons into the commandos or militia organizations, even though the striplings had not quite reached the military duty. One day a crowd at the railroad station in Pretoria was cheering a commando that was going to join Joubert's army around Ladysmith. A mother in the throng saw her young son with a gun over his shoulder and wearing a cartridge belt, just as he was entering a car. She followed him to his seat and, laying her hand on his shoulder, said: "My boy, did you not tell me of this?" "Mother," he answered, "perhaps I was wrong, but I could not bear to陪 you good-bye. I had just been awake to leave. You see, mother, it was my duty to go sooner or later, and I thought the sooner the better. Forgive me if I have done wrong." "You are right, my son," the mother replied. "It is your duty to go and I am willing you should go, though I thought it might be better to wait a few months. Go, you have my blessing, but you should be well-behaved, well-kept, well-awell, and there as a smile on her face as she left the car, though tears stood in her eyes. Everywhere the movement of troops in Everywhere the movement of troops in the fighting lines, has been a triumphal procession. In all the towns and hamlets the women cannot do enough for the soldiers. They have marched with all the commands to the railroad stations. They visit all the camps before the start for the front, bringing and bits of handwork, from the back and bits of handwork, from the "housewives" many of our soldiers carried in the Civil war, containing mending material and implements compactly packed, and other things that may somewhat alleviate the discomforts of soldier life. The women of Bloemfontein, who, perhaps, are to-day expecting the speedy investment of their beautiful little town by the British army, are said to have been especially enthusiastic in cheering on their doing everything they power for their families, filling the ranks as full as possible. As long as the commands are within reach delegations of women from many towns are with them, helping in the commissary department, sewing and bringing fresh food from home for the companies in which their interest is especially centered. Other delegations or committees of women have been permitted to go from Pretoria or Bloomfontein almost to the fighting lines in charge of recruits or the hospital service, and of the distribution of supplies. By every means in their power the women of the two republics are working night and day to promote the interests of their cause, and if their good, honest hatred of the enemy might sap his strength and proyze his arms there would certainly be the British ranks. The following extract from a letter written by an educated woman at Pretoria, about a month after the war began, embodies a sentiment which all Boer women of every class express: "Up to this time all of my children who are old enough to study have studied English; but I pledge my word that if I can help it my youngest daughter shall not learn a word of the language we have cause to hate. If the English win, they will proscribe our language. If we succeed in driving them out of our country, they will drive all English words from our lips and from those of our children." Such words may perhaps be criticised as narrow and vindictive, says the New York Sun, but they illustrate the prevailing feeling among the women of a sturdy race whose hearts and lives are bound up in the success of their cause. While the battle rages around them and the enemy is pouring over their plateaus, the dauntless women of the past are the only women to stand steadfast as any woman of the past who have had the unhappy lot to be environed by the horrors of war. WOMEN SUPPLANTED BY MEN Employers Find Them Incompetent And are Dismissing Them. With carefully gleaned statistics, Edward Bok, in the Ladies Home Journal, shows that the number of women who will continue rapidly to grow less. "The tide of women rushing pell mell into all kinds of business has been stemmed—and in fact, it is already receding, and inceptively so," he contends. "It has already been asserted by female agitators that the growing tendency to dismiss women from various business positions is because they employ the employment of women. On the contrary, men were willing to have women go into business pursuits, and it was men who opened positions to them. Undoubtedly this was largely due to the selfish business reason that women would work for lower wages than men. But with the inflex there necessarily came the need for incompetent female help. For a time incompetency was overlooked because of the lower wages. Gradually, however, there came the inevitable wedding process, temporarily stayed by the business depression of the past few years. When prosperous times came it was different, and it is a very significant story which accurate to the fact that women discharged from business positions during the past year of prosperity, even taking into consideration the larger number employed, than in any previous year." FROM "THE FOREST." Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue and not nat; Next to that, to know vice well, To back that back spite expel. Which to effect (since no breast is so sure, Or safe but she'll procure Of thoughts to must plant a guard Of thoughts to watch and ward At the eye and ear, the ports unto the mind, Who is the reason to watch and ward Object arrive there, but the heart, our spy, Give knowledge instantly Make reason our affections' king; Who is the reason to watch and ward Will quickly taste the treason and commit Close, the cause of it, he causes it to we have. To make our sense our slave. But this true course is not embraced by many, For either the cause by any. For either our actions do rebel. Or else the sentiment That should ring inum to the heart, doth sleep. Or some great thought doth keep Back the intelligence and fairly swears Back the intelligence and fairly swears Whereof the royal conscience so complains. Thus, by these subtle trains And strike our reason blind. He that for love of goodness hath ill, Is more crown-worthy still Than he which for sin's penalty forbears; His heart sin, though he fears. B. Ben Johnson. Saw a Frozen River Explode. A farmer living near Banker, on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river, had a remarkably narrow escape from instant death as the result of an explosion—not of dynamite, but of a fireball. The Missouri river. Banker was driving across the river on an ice bridge. When about the center of the main channel he suddenly heard an ominous rumbling underneath the ice, and was not long in deciding that something unusual was about to happen. Lashing his horses into a wild run, he headed for the shore, which he had just reached in safety, when the explosion or "blow-up" occurred. It is said by those who witnessed the incident that large bodies of heavy ice in an area of about a square mile were thrown fully forty or fifty feet into the air by the force of the upheaval. The phenomenon was caused by the sudden and extreme change in the weather to colder, the ice forming so quickly and so solidly that no air-holes were left, the pressure of the imprisoned air finally becoming so great as to force its escape in the manner stated, by tossing hundreds of tons of ice into the air as though it were feathers.-Minneapolis Times. No Name for His Colonel's Home. The colonel of a well known Highland regiment, on retiring from the army, built for himself a snug villa which he named "The Retreat." His gardener, who was an old soldier from the same regiment, was shown the place for the first time by the colonel, was asked by the latter what he thought of the house. "Fine! But I dinna like that," said the old soldier, pointing to the name painted on the entrance gate. "Why, what's the matter with it?" "Weel, sir," replied the veteran, drawing himself up, "ye ken ye never heard that played on oor bugles."—Answers. Marital Economy. "The fact was finally borne in on Brasbon that stalls for two, with supper afterward, was not the way to save money." "And so he married?" And so he married. "Exactly. He didn't see the fun of paying-for two when they could be made one." - Judge. THE MAN WHO ASSAILED COUNT CASTELLANE. Deserted as a Quiet Cool Gentleman With the Best Interests of Society Near to His Heart—Responsible Editor of Tigaro. M. Fernand de Rodays, the Paris editor whom Count Bonti de Castellane threatens to thrash and who laughs at the count's wrath, is a quiet, cool gentleman who has fought many duels and who is well known for his courage and dexterity of alm when under fire. He is the responsible editor of the Figaro, which paper has published certain matters concerning the financial and other private affairs of the count calculated in no wise to tickle that young nobleman's vanity. Before his departure for home Count de Castellane threatened that he would call out Rodays on the field of honor, where he would shoot him or stab him according to the code. Rodays says he will accommodate the count and that all the stabbing or shooting will M. DE RODAYS. be effectually done from his site. It is probable that the duel if it takes place will be bloodier than the usual French affair of honor. Rodays is a fearless editor and is of noble family. He is fastidious in dress and is one of the best known of Parisians. The Count of Castellane is the husband of Anna Gould and has recently visited the Gould family in this country. For that reason his coming duel with the Figaro editor will be watched with interest. LAMP BULBS HIS WEAPON. Burglar Pot to Flight by Being Bom- barded by Them. "Of all the outlandish weapons ever employed in a fight," said a New Orleans business man. "I think I brought the most fantastic on record into play one night last week. My family are away on a visit at present and I am keeping bachelor hall out at the house. On the night to which I refer I was aroused at about 3 a. m. by a noise somewhere in the region of the dining room and, thinking I had shut up the dog there, I jumped up very foolishly and came down stairs in my night clothes, without so much as a pocket knife. When I opened the dining-room door I was startled to see a big, rough-looking man bending over the sideboard at the far end of the room, and after we had stood there en tableau for a moment the fellow made a rush at me. I leaped back into the hall and glared around for a weapon. On a table near by were a dozen incandescent light bulbs, which I had home to replace some that had burned out, and purely by instinct I grabbed one of them and threw it at the burglar. It hit the door casing close to his head and, to my amazement, exploded with a noise like a young lyddite shell. I suppose it was a still greater surprise to the other fellow, for he let out a yell and broke for the rear, followed by a rapid-fire bombardment of 16-candle power incandescentes, which I continued to chuck at him as long as he remained in range. They smashed against the furniture with a series of crashes that alarmed the whole neighborhood and I have been gathering up fragments of broken glass ever since. The burglar must have thought I was chasing him with hand grenades. It was the first time I ever knew incandescentes such a row when they broke. An electrician tells me it is caused by the air rushing into the vacuum." South Africa's Lafayette. Col. de Villebois-Mareull, Gen. Joubert's chief of staff, the Frenchman to whom undoubtedly the Boers owe a large-measure of the success that has attended their campaign against the British, is 52 years old. He was graduated from the military academy at St. Cyr in 1868, and began his career as a lieutenant of the marine infantry, serving in Cochln-China. Later he was transferred to the chasseurs, and as captain took part in the Loire battles in 1870. He was severely wounded at Blois, and for gallantry displayed in that action he received a decoration. Some years later he was made a major and acted as chief of the staff in Algiers. After 30 years of service he resigned, but was only out a short time when he resolved to use his experience in behalf of the Boers, who call him the "South African Lefayette" and "the Von Moltke of the Boers." He is said to have personally commanded the troops at Colenso, and is now with the Boers who are confronting Lord Roberts. The Penny Savings Society of Chicago last year received on deposit from the school children, through their teachers, the sum of $70,000. Teeth Made From Paper Are the latest in dentistry. 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A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy and in a short while his health improved and his neck healed so nicely that I stopped giving him the medicine. The sore broke out again, however, whereupon I again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a complete cure." Mrs. Nettie Chase, 4K St. N. E. Since Lord Leuchamp, the present British governor of New South Wales, has occupied the government house at Sidney, he has ordained that at official receptions only guests of a certain rank are permitted to approach the presence through designated doors. To these blue tickets are awarded; to others of inferior mold, white. At a recent function, through some mis management an important public man one was sent to his wife. When the pair reached the audience chamber, the lady declined to be separated from her husband, or to abandon the aristocratic blue ranks. An aid-dec camp endeavowed to reason with her, and explain the comotion that would occur if blue and white were sufficient to together. The fair, one was equal to the occasion. "Nonsense," said she, as she pressed forward; "what do you take you for, a sedilitz powder?" The aid collapsed. The road to hell is paved with good intentions; the road back is closed for repairs. A nose exactly in the middle of the face is abnormal. The general run of noses incline toward the right. General Quintin Bandera, the color Cuban revolutionist leader, has decided to accept an office under the American government of o cupation in Cuba. In the Baltic Sea there are more wrecks than in any other place in the world. PUTNAM FADLESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Woman, grammatically speaking, is not a part of speech; she's simply the whole oration. A Boor or Choice Recipe Sent free by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Derbyshire, Man. Hention this paper. 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Began with Small Farm—New Does Ex- tention Mixed Farming Within three miles of the town, going eastward, is the farm of Mr. W. Creamer, one of the municipality's largest and most prosperous mixed farmers. Mr. Creamer came to this country in 1880 and settled on a portion of the land which comprises his present enormous farm of 1,280 acres. In common with many others of a similar period, he experienced all the hardships and difficulties common to the absence of railway and market facilities. In no wise dawned, by energy, industry and indomitable will he was able to surmount all obstacles and has achieved an unparalleled success, and is known throughout the district as one of its pre-eminent farmers. His operations extend over 1,280 acres, two sections (the thought alone of so much land makes the eastern farmer dizzy); 800 acres of this is broken and the remainder is excellent pasture land and wood. This harvest he took off a crop of 500 acres of wheat and 200 of other grains. Four hundred acres are plowed and ready for wheat next spring. Mr. Creamer, as has been stated, a mixed farmer of no mean proportions, having at the present time forty horses, sixty head of cattle and fifty pigs. The most modern farm buildings are found on his premises, the main building being a barn fifty-five feet square on a foundation, containing stabling for sixteen horses and a large number of cattle. The loft is stored with twenty-nine loads of sheaf oats for feed, and tons of hay; there is also a cutting-box. Another building of large dimensions is the granary, in which, after teaming large quantities to market, he still has stored 3,000 bushels of wheat. A crushing machine is in the bulleing. There are a number of lesser buildings containing chicken house, pig pens and cattle sheds. The farm residence is a handsome frame structure of ample proportions; in connection with it is a woodshed. 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Washington, March 24—Pettigrew's resolution requesting the president, if not incompatible with public interest, to send to the senate the Philippine commission, together with the amounts paid each commissioner was agreed to. The conference report on the Porto Hican appropriation bill was adopted by a vote of 85 to 15. HOUSE. The house adopted a resolution calling upon the secretary of state for copies of letters on the appropriation bill, and the United States compiling of ill-treatment while in the South African republics. The house then proceeded with the pension bills. SENATE. Washington, March 24, the senator asked that the bill providing for a civil government for Porto Hico be recompiled, and this was agreed to. A measure was passed providing for the port to be designated for the mission to investigate the trade and commerce of the orient with a view to extension of American commerce. The closing hours of the 365th day of the commencement of institutions accepting from the state of Indiana a statue of Oliver P. Morton. HOUSE The house agreed to the conference report on the Porto Rican relief bill by a vote of 187 to 87. The bill turns over to the president for the use of Porto Rico, about $2,000,000 of customs receipts. The president will send the bill January 1 last, and such amounts as may hereafter accrue, until otherwise provided by law. An important bill passed during the day appropriates $10,000 for designs for a suitable memorial to the Arch of Triumph, being the first step in a movement to secure an arch similar to the Arch of Triumph in Paris, commemorating the illustrious soldier statesman. The resolution of Cummings, of New York, was passed, usiting the secretary of state to present the "open door" negotiations concerning China. SENATE. SENATE. Washington, March 37: "little progress was made by the senate to-day with the Porto Rico tariff and government bill. It was under discussion for nearly three hours, but the greater part of the vote was in favor of a free coinage amendment offered by Morgan. The amendment is still pending. HOUSE. There was some lively debate in the house during the consideration of the army appropriation bill. Little of it was pertinent to the measure. It covered a wide range of toques, including the war and the Philippines, and at times was quite heated. No action was taken. SENATE Washington, March 28.—The senate to-day agreed to vote on the Porto Rican government's proposal to abolish the Davis-Duke of Minnesota advocated free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. Morgan's free silver coinage amendment was defeated. HOUSE The house to-day devoted practically the whole day to the consideration of the army appropriation bill. Several minor amendments were adopted and about half the bill was considered. SENATE Washington, March 29.—The conference reaffirmed the proposition to abolish the appropriation bill was agreed to. Consideration of the Porto Rican tariff and government bill was resumed. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, adamantly opposed the proposition for free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. Later a direct vote was taken on the proposition to strike from the Porto Rico tariff. Senator Dingley and Dingley law duties on Porto Rico products. The proposition was defeated, 16 to 33. While the proposition was defeated as presuming the passage of the opposing final vote on the bill. HOUSE After four days of stormy debate the house passed the army appropriation bill. As passed the bill, the army was in which it came from the committee. One of the last amendments adopted opens the homes to the officers and men of the volunteer and military by service during or since the Spanish war. HORSE MEAT SOUP. Principal Sustenance of Those Imprisoned at Mafeking. LONDON, March 29.—The Daily Mail has received from its imprisoned correspondent at Mafeking. Lady Sarah Wilson, the following dispatch, which she by some means managed to get through the investing lines: MAFKING, March 14.—The news of the relief of Ladysmith was received here yesterday, but, while giving us the greatest satisfaction, it must be confessed that the civilian portion of the garrison feels disappointed at there being no immediate prospect of the relief of this town. These men have been night and day on trench duty for six months, and as the wet weather has contributed much to their discomfort, it is hardly surprising that the men have become worn out. The town remains closely invested, the Boers being reported as numerous and strongly intrenched between us and General Plumer's small force, of whose progress—we know from native runners. The food question has received careful consideration, and a soup composed of horseflesh and meal is sold to the well-to-do and given free to the indigent; but some die of starvation owing to their prejudice against horseflesh. For Assassination of Gochel. FRANKFORT, Ky., March 30.—"Tallow" Dick Coombs, who, according to the confession of Wharton Golden, was implicated in the assassination of Senator Goebel, has been arrested at Manchester. Gilbert Defeats Elliott. NEW YORK, March 30.—Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, In., defeated J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, in a hundred-bird match for the Dupont trophy at the Dexter park traps by a score of 99 to 96. LONDON, March 30.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Kobe, dated March 28, says: "Renewed trouble between Russia and Japan in Korea is imminent. The movements of the Russian fleet indicate the probability of the seizure of a Korean port. The war office officials at Tokyo are holding conferences, and there has been considerable military and naval activity in Japan this month." YOKAHAMA, March 30.—The mikado will review forty warships off Kobe toward the end of April. MRS. M'KINLEY'S ILLNESS. Has Not Recovered from the Grip—May Go South. Washington, March 30.—Mrs. McKinley is recovering very slowly from her attack of the grip. She had the dreaded epidemic in its most acute form, and as she has not been robust lately she is greatly enfeebled by her sickness. She sat up for a short time Tuesday, but the exertion tried her strength. The president would very much like to take Mrs. McKinley south, but at the present time it is impossible to leave his post. Mrs. McKinley is opposed to going without him, and in this lies the problem. A trip to Old Point Comfort for a few days is now under consideration. P. D. ARMOUR REGAINS HEALTH Physical Condition Better Than for the Last Two Years. Pasadena, Cal., March 30.—Phillip D. Armour's health is reported to be better than it has been at any time during the last two years. He came to Pasadena for rest and recreation, and says that he has found both. He is making large acquaintance with the salubrious climate, and is delighted with his California experience. Every morning he takes a walk of half a mile to visit his grandchildren. He expects to leave for Chicago about April 26 and to sail for Europe not later than May 10. NEARLY READY FOR THE JURY. Lawyers Begin Arguments in Horlocker- Morev Poison Case. Hastings, Neb., March 30.—Twenty-five witnesses were examined in the Horlocker - Morey poisoning case Wednesday morning, their testimony being introduced by the state in rebuttal of evidence tending to prove Miss Horlocker insane. At noon the case was concluded and the prosecuting attorney opened for the state, Judge Ragan following for the defense. Snowstorm Over a Wide Area. Clinton, Iowa, March 30.—Snow has been falling at intervals since Tuesday night, and the storm still continues. A foot of heavy, wet snow has fallen. Steam railway and street car traffic is considerably impeded. Sioux City, Iowa, March 29.—A remarkable fall of snow is reported from all points in South Dakota and in extreme northwestern Iowa. The storm abated at a late hour at Huron, S. D. The temperature is not much below freezing. Rollinger's "Girl" Married. Chicago, March 29.—A carefully concealed romance is revealed by the announcement that Lena Hecker, for whom a fatal passion led Michael Emil Rollinger to murder his wife, had been married to Albert Fridrich, proprietor of a basement saloon on Clark street, frequented by the downtown bohemian element. Rollinger paid on the gallows the penalty for his crime while the good-looking young woman for whom he had risked all drifted from public gaze. Tables Turned on Lynchers. Richmond, Va., March 30.—A lyncher was convicted in Patrick county and given five years in the penitentiary. He was W. M. Branch, who took part in the illegal execution of Lee Puckett, a half-witted white man, who was accused of assault on a white woman in September, 1898. There have been five previous convictions for this offense, and all the men are in the penitentiary. Stedge Held to Grand Jury. Chicago, March 30.—Albert Stedge, who killed William Hobson with a barrel stave because of insults to his mother, would have been exonerated by a coroner's jury but for Capt. Lavin of the stock yards police, who insisted that the boy be held to the grand jury. Mrs. Stedge testified to repeated acts of abuse on the part of Hobson, and said he had on many occasions insulted her grossly. Bank Robbers Get $2,000. Sioux City, Iowa, March 30.—The private bank of O. F. Ulland, at Hankontown, Iowa, was robbed of $2,000 in currency early Wednesday morning. The safe was blown open with dynamite. The loss will be made good by a bankers' insurance company. The robbers took a hand-car from the Northwestern section-house and went toward Mason City. Sugar Cut Five Points New York, March 30.—Sugar-trade circles were dumfounded Wednesday morning by the announcement that the Arbuckle brothers had made a further reduction in the price of all grades of refined sugar of five points. This action was taken in the face of a rising market for raw sugars, which made the transaction all the more incomprehensible. Venezuela's Revolution Grows. Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 30.—It is reported that the Hernandez revolutionary movement in Venezuela is increasing. The Venezuelan gunboats Miranda and Jamaora, with troops, have arrived here from Guanta. They are on their way to Bolivar. Connaught Arrives in Ireland. Cork, March 30.—The duke of Connaught, commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland, arrived in Cork for military inspection Wednesday. 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Below we will give a list of the books of Afro-American authors which are being gathered togath er, for the Paris Exposition by Cyrus Field Adams, of the Chicago Appeal. Which will show the progress made by the race in a literary way. Allensworth, Allen: The Kliss. Allen, F..: Chips of History. Allen, Richard) Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1858; Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1793. Anderson, Matthew: Presbyterianism Anderson, William: Appointed Anonymous: Narrative of Johanna, 180. Armstrong, J. H.: What Communion Rath Light with Darkness, Philadelphia, 1894. Arnet, Benj. W.: Life of Paul Quinn; Speeches and Addresses of Negroes collected and published (15 vols.); Orations and Speeches, J. M. Ashley. The Budget, 3 vols., 1881-4, 1885-6, 1887-8. Ayler, J. C.: Guide Lights, Princeton, 1887. Barnett, I. B. W.: The Reason Why, Chicago, 1893; Red Record, Chicago, 1895. Bailey, Ida D.: Atlanta Souvenir Cook Book Washington. D. C. Cook Book, Washington, D.C. Beadle, Sam'l Alfred: Sketches from Lle in Dixie. Benjamin, R. C. O.: The Loy Doctor; History of British West Indies; Future of the American Negro; The Southland; Africa, the Hope of the Negro; Life of Toussafat L'Overture; Poems; Historical Chart of Colored Race; Light After Darkness, Xenia, 1896; Ethnography, Lexington, 1899. Bias, J. J. Gould: Synopsis of Phrenology. Bell, J. Madison: Poems, Philadelphia. Bibb, Eloise: Poems, Boston, 1895. Binga, A.: Sermons, Richmond, 1889. Black, Andrew: Two Roads, Sumpter, S. C. Blackweil, G. L.: Model Homestead. Blyden, Edward: Liberia's Offering, London, 1862; Christianity, Islam and the Negro; From West Africa to Palestine. Booth, C. O.: Plain Theology for Plain People. Bowen, J. W. E.: Africa and the American Negro. Brent, Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Brooks, Chas. H.: History of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Philadelphia, 1893. Brown, Margaret: French Cook Book, Washington, D. C., 1886. Brown, William Wells: The Black Man, New York, 1863; The Negro in the Rebellion, Boston, 1867; Clotelle, Boston, 1867; The Rising Son, Philadelphia, 1874; Three Years in Europe, London, 1852; The Escape, Dough Face, Mirala, the Beautiful. Bruce, H. C.: The New man. Bibb, Henry: Autobiography. Cosart, W. Forrest: The Waiter's Manual, H. J. Bohn & Bro., Chicago, 1898. Campbell, Jabez P. Campbell, Echoes from the Cabin, etc. Campbell, R.: My Mother Land. Cannon, N. C. W.: Rock of Wisdom. Carson, Hannah: Glory in Affliction, Philadelphia, 1864. Chestnut, Chas. W.: The Conjure Woman; Life of Frederick Douglass; Wife of His Youth, etc. Clark, Peter H.: History of the Black Brigade. Coleman, L. H. N.: Poor Ben, Philadelphia, 1889. Coleman, W. H.: A Casket of Pulpit Thought, 1889. Coker, Daniel: Anti-Slavery Pamphlet, 1810. Cooper, Mrs. A. J.: A Voice from the South, Xenia, 1892. Coppin, Levi J.: Key to Scriptural Interpretation; Relation of Baptized Children to the Church, Nashville, 1890. Coston, W. H.: A Freeman yet a Slave. Council, W. H.: Lamp of Wisdom. Crogman, W. H.: Talks for the Times; Progress of a Race. romwell, John W.: History of Bethel Historical and Literary Association, 1895. Crosthwait, Wm. A.: The Negro Problem. Crummell, Alex.: The Greatness of Christ, 1871; Africa and America, 1861; Future of Africa; Civilization the Primal Need, etc., 1898. Cugoano, Ottobah: Narrative of Enslavement, 1787. Douglass, Fred.: Life and Times, etc.; My Bondage and My Freedom; Hayti; Lynchings in the South. Douglass, wm.: Annals of the First African Church, Philadelphia, 1862. Dube, John L.: A Talk on My Native Land, 1892. DuBois, Wm. E.B.: Suppression of the Slave Trade, etc.; Philadelphia Negro. Dunbar, Paul L.: Oak and Ivy; Majors and Minors; Lyrics of Lowly Life; Uncalled; Folks from Dixie; The Hearthside; Poems of Cabin and Field. Durham, John S.: How to Teach History. Dyson, J. F.: Richard Allen's Place in History; Unity of Human Race; etc. Earle, Victoria (Mrs. Matthews): Aunt Lindy, 1893. West Point. Fortune, T. T.: Negro in Politics; Black and White; Foots, Julia A.: Brand Plucked from Fire. Fredric, Frances: Fredric's Slave Life. Franklin, Jas. T.: Crimson Alcars, Memphis, 1895; Midday Gleanings, Memphis, 1893. White Man. Gaines, D. B.: Racial Possibilities. Garnet, Henry Highland: Pamphlet Addresses. Garnet, H. A.: Garnet's Memorial Discourse. 1865. Gregory, J. M.: Frederick Douglass, the Orator. Gresham, G. N.: Mathematics (textbook). Griggs, S. E.: Imperium in Imperio. Grimke, A. H.: Life of Charles Sumner; William Lloyd Garrison. Hagood, L. M.: Colored Man in the M. E. C.urch. Haley, James T.: Sparkling Gems (poems). Holsey, L. H.: Manual of Discipline; The Racial Problem. Hamilton, F. W.: Conversations on the C. M. E. C. Church; Plain Account of C. M. E. Church. Hayne, Jos. E.: The Black Man; Negro in Sacred History. Heard, Josie: Morning Glories, 1890. Henderson, John M.: The Black Man; Black Labor; His Own Daughter; Fables of the Negro. Jenson, Josiah: Father Henson's Story. Hood, J. W.: One Hundred Years, etc.; History of A. M. E. Z. Church; Negro in Christian Pulpit; Two Characters, Two Destinies. Howard, Jas. H.: Bond and Free, 1886. Jennings, Paul: Colored Man's Life of Madison. Johnson, E. A. (Mrs.): The Hazley Family; Family and Corinne. Johnson, Jas. H. A.: The Pine Tree Mission. Johnston, H. T.: The Divine Logos. Johnson, Wm.: Prominent Colored Men of Kentucky. Loney, Lucy C.: Struggles for Freedom, 1890. -angston, John M.: Freedom and Citizenship; From the Plantation to the Capitol; Lectures and Addresses. Leary, John S.: Croatans of North Carolina. Lewis, R. B.: Light and Truth, Boston, 1885. Lynk, M. W.: Afro-American Speaker. Mars, Ellijah P.: Life and History. McCllan, G. M.: Poems. Menard. J. Willis: Lays from Summer Lands. Mixon, M. H.: A Methodist Luminary; Moth of Ignorance Must Be Destroyed. Mossell, Mrs. N. F.: Work of Afro- American Women. Mosell, C. W.: Toussaint L'Overture. Myrick, D. J.: Scripture Baptism, 1882. Miller, Kelly: Review of Hoffman's Race Traits. Nell, W. C.: Colored Patriots of the Revolution, 1855. Anonymous: The Negro Pew, Boston, 1827. Newsom, J. T. C.: Know What You Want to Say, etc. Northrop, Soiomon: Twelve Years a Slave. Ousley, Benj.: Translation of Gospels and Acts. Paige, T. F.: Twenty-two Years of Freedom. Payne, Daniel A.: Recollections of Seventy Years; Treatise on Domestic Education; History of A. M. E. Church, 1891; Pleasures, and other Miscellaneous Poems, Baltimore, 1850. Punter, John H.: Joining the Navy. Penn, I. Garland: Afro-American Press, 1891; The Educator. Pennington, Jas. W. C.: Pamlets, Addresses. Perry, Rufus L.: The Cushite, 1893. Phillips, C. & I.: History Colored M. E. Church. Proctor, H. H.: The Negro and the War. Quadroon (anon(: A Colored Man Around the World. Randolph, E. A.: Life of Rev. John Jasper, Richmond, 1884. Randolph, Peter: Sketches of Slave Life, 1855. Ransom, R. C.: School Days at Wilberforce, 1892; Disadvantages and Opportunities of Colored Youth, Cleveland, 1894. Ray, H. Corde.ai: Lincoln (a poem), 1893; Sonnets, 1893. Rector, John K.: Chart of Negro Progress, 1898. Rowe, Geo. C.: Thoughts in Verse, 1887. Rudd, L. E.: Catholic Afro-American Congresses, 1893. Rush, Christopher: Rise and Progress of the A. M. E. Z. Church, 1892. Sampson, John P.: Temperament and Phrenology of Negro Race; Mixed Races, 1881. Scarborough, W. S.: First Greek Lessons, 1881; The Birds of Aristophanes. Scruggs, L. A.: Women of Distinction. Shorter, S. I.: Heroines of African Metodism. Seaton, D. P.: The Land of Promise. Sevelli, Capponi: Ham and Dixie. Shadd, Mary Ann: Conditions of colored people, Wilmington, Del., 49. Slimmons, W. J.; Men of Mark, 1887. Smith, Mr. Amanua; Amphibians, phrys, 1898. Smith, C. B.; Liberia in the light of Smith, C. B. S. Joules. Smith, L. H.: Earnest Pleas. Stallings: The African Trlubmh, 1892. Stevenson, J. W.: Church Financier-ing, 1896. Steward, T. G.: Genesis Re-read, 1855; Life of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, 1877; Gospel Among U. S. Soldiers, 1899. Stewart, Austin: Life of Solomon Northrop; Twenty-two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Freeman. Stewart, T. Mc.; Liberia, the Americo-African Republic. Still, William: The Underground Railroad. Starker, D. Augustus: New South Investigated, 1888; Treaty on Larceny of Dogs; Toussaint L'Overture, Tanner, Benjamin T.: Theological Lectures, Outlines and Government A. M. E. Church; Apology for African Methodism; Dispensation in the History of the Church; The Negro's Origin. Tyson, M. E.: Benjamin Banneker, Talley, Thos.W.: A Natural Trinity. Taylor, C. H. J. Taylor, J. T.: The Negro, Atlanta, Ga. Taylor, Marshall W.: Plantation Melodies, 1883; Universal Reign of Jesus; life of Downey; Negro Evangelist; Life of Mrs, Amanda Smith. Thomas, I. L.: Colored Man's Reply to Bishon Foster. Trotter, James M.: Music and Some Highly Musical People. Truth, Sojourner: Sojourner Truth's Narrative. Turner, Bishop H. M.: Methodist Polity, Philadelphia, 1885; The Negro in all Ages; Printed Speeches and Letters; Catechism o f the A. M. E. Church; Hymn Book for A. M. E. Church. Turner, H. H.: History of Good Samaritans, etc., 1881. Washon, Geo. B.: Pamphlets, Lectures, etc. Walker, David: Walker's Appeal. Wallace, John: Carpet-bag Rule in Florida, 1888. Ward, S. R.: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro, London, 1855 Washington, B. T.; Black-Belt Diamonds; Future of the American Negro; Address at Opening Atlanta Exposition. Wyman, Alex. W.: Cyclopedia of Methodism; Life of Bishop James A. Shorter; My Recollections. Wheatley, Phillis: Poems, London, 1773. Whitfield, James A.: Poems, Buffalo, 1853. Wilkes, L. :: Life of Frederick Douglass. Williams, D. B.: Freedom and Progress, 1890; The Ethiopians, Petersburg, 1890; Outlines of School Management, 1891; Science, Art and Elocution, Petersburg, 1894. Williams, Edward: John Brown, (Poem), 1899. Williams, Geo. W.: History of Negro Race, 1...; History of Negro Troops in Rebellion, 1888; Negro as a Political Factor. The American Negro from 1776 to 1876, Cincinnati, 1876. Wilson, C. B.: History of G. U. O. of Odd Fellows. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR DISTRICT Office Managers in this state to represent me in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $600, payable weekly. Desirable employment with unusual operational opportunities. Equal opportunity. Equal address addressed stamped envelope. S. A. Park 340 Carton Building Chicago It is very hard to stand idly by and see our dear ones suffer while awaiting the arrival of a doctor. An Albany (N. 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Below we will give a list of the books of Afro-American authors which are being gathered togather, for the Paris Exposition by Cyrus Field Adams, of the Chicago Appeal. Which will show the progress made by the race in a literary way. Allensworth, Allen: The Kiss. Allen, F. : Chips of History. Allen, Richard: Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1:45. Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1733. Melpima Anderson, Matthew: Presbyterianism Anderson, William: Appointed. Anonymous: Narrative of Johanna, Arnstrong, J. H.: What Communion Hath Light with Darkness, Philadelphia, 1894. Arnet, Benj, W.: Life of Paul Quinn; Speeches and Addresses of Negroes, collected and published (15 vols.). Orations and Speeches, J. M. Ashley. The Budget, 3 vols., 1851-4, 1855-6, 1857-8. Ayler, J. C.: Guide Lights, Princeton, 1857. Barnett, I. B. W.: The Reason Why, Chicago, 1893; Red Record, Chicago, 1898. Balley, Ida D.: Atlanta Souvenir Cook Book, Washington, D. C. Beadle, Sam'l Alfred: Sketches from Lie in Dixie. Benjamin, R. C. O.: The Loy Doctor; History of British West Indies; Future of the American Negro; Southland; Africa, the Hope of the Negro; Poems of Toussaint L'Overture; Poems; Historical Chart of Colored Race; Light After Darkness, Xonla, 1896; Ethnography, Lexington, 1899. Blas, J. J. Goud: Synopsis of Phrenology. Bell, J. Madison: Poems, Philadelphia. Blibb, Eloise: Poems, Boston, 1895. Blinga, A.: Sermons, Richmond, 1898. Black, Andrew: Two Roads, Sumper, S. Blyden, G. L.: Model Homestead. Blyden, Edward: Liberia's Offering, London, 1862; Christianity, Islam and the Negro; From West Africa to Palestine. Booth, C. O.: Plain Theology for Plain People. Bowen, J. W. E.: Africa and the American Negro. Brent, Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Brooks, Chas. H.: History of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Philadelphia, 1893. Brown, Margaret: French Cook Book, Washington, D. C., 1886. Brown, William Wells: The Black Man, New York, 1863; The Negro in the Rebellion, Boston, 1867; Clotelle, Boston, 1867; The Rising Son, Philadelphia, 1874; The Years in Europe, 1852; The Escape, Dough Face, Mirala, the Beautiful. Bruce, H. C.: The New Man. Bibb, Henry: Autobiography. Coart, W. Forrest: The Waiter's Manual, H. J. Bohn & Bro, Chicago, 1898. Campbell, Jazeb P. Campbell: Echoes from the Cabin, etc. Campbell, R.: My Mother Land. Cannon, N. C. W.: Rock o' Wisdom. Carson, Hannah: Glory in Affliction, Philadelphia, 1884. Carson, Boes. Chestnut, Chas. W.: The Conjure Woman, Life of Frederick Douglass; Wife of His Youth, etc. Clark, Peter H.: History of the Black Brigade. Coleman, L. H. N.: Poor Ben, Philadelphia, 1889. Coleman, W. H.: A Casket of Pulpit Thought, 1889. Coleman, N. and Coffin, A. O.: Native Plants of Marshall, Texas. Coker, Benjamin: Anti-Slavery Pamphlet,imore, 1820. Coker, Daniel: Anti-Slavery Pamphlet, 1810. Cooper, Mrs. A. J.: A Voice from the South, Xenia, 1892. Coppin, Levi J.: Key to Scriptural Interpretation; Relation of Baptized Children to the Church, Nashville, 1890. Coston, W. H.: A Freeman yet a Slave. Council, W. H.: Lamp of Wisdom. Crogman, W. H.: Talks for the Times, Progress of a Race. cooolman, John W.: History of Bethel Historical and Literary Association, 1895. Croothwait, Wm. A.: The Negro Problem. Crummell, Alex. The Greatness of Christ, 1871; Africa and America, 1861; Future of Africa; Civilization the Primal Need, etc., 1898. Cugoano, Ottobah: Narrative of Enslavement, 1787. Davis, D. Webster: Poems. Daleyan, Martin R.: Principles of Ethnology, 1879; Condition of the Colored People, 1852; Life — Dusenbak, Paul L.: Life and Times, etc.; My Bondage and My Freedom; Hayn, Lynchings in the South. Douglass, v.i.m.: Annals of the First African Church, Philadelphia, 1862. Dube, John L.: A Talk on My Native Land, 1892. Dunlop, M. E. B.: Suppression of the Slave Trade, etc.; Philadelphia Negro. Dunbar, Paul L.: Oak and Ivy; Majors and Minors; Lyrics of Lowly Life; Uncalled; Folks from Dixie; The Heartside; Poems of Cabin and Field. Durham, John S.: How to Teach History. Dyson, J. F.: Richard Allen's Place in History; Unity of Human Race; etc. Earle, Victoria (Mrs. Matthews): Aunt Lindy, 1833. Easton, William E.: Dessalines. Bembr, J. C.: Digest of Christian Theology; Our Father's House. Equiano, H. O.: Colored Cadet at West Point. Fortune, T. T.: Negro in Politics; Black and Whites. Foots, Julia A.: Brand Plucked from Fire. Fredric, Frances: Fredric's Slave Life. Franklin, Jas. T.: Crimson Altars, Memphis, 1895; Midday Gleanings, Memphis, 1893. Gaines, W. J.: African Methodist in the South; The Negro and the Gaines, D. B.: Racial Possibilities. Garnet, Henry Highland: Pamphlet Addresses. Garnet, H. n.: Garnet's Memorial Press, 1865. Gregory, J. M.: Frederick Douglass, the Orator. Gresham, G. N.: Mathematics (textbook), S. E.: Imperium in Imperio. Griggs, A. H.: Life of Charles Sumnor. William Lloyd Garrison. Hagood, L. M. : Colored Man is the M. E. C.urch. Haley, James T.: Sparkling Gems (poems). Holsey, L. H.: Manual of Discipline; The Racial Problem. Hamilton, F. W.: Conversations on the C. M. E. Church; Plain Account of C. M. E. Church. Harper, F. E. W.: Iola Leroy, 1892; Poems. Hayne, Jos. E.: The Black Man; Negro in Sacred History. Heard, Josie: Morning Glories, 1890. Henderson, John M.: The Black Man; Black Labor; His Own Daughter; Fables of the Negro. Lenson, Josiah: Father Henson's Story. Hood, J. W.: One Hundred Years, etc.; History of A. M. E. Church; Negro in Christian Pulpit; Two Characters, Two Destinies. Howard, Jas. H.: Bond and Free, 1886. Jasper. Joaquin. Smith. Jesse. Jason. Joseph. Men's Life of Madison. Johnson. E. A. (Mrs.) The Hazley Family; Clarence and Corinne. Johnson, Jas. H. A.: The Pine Tree Mission Johnston, H. T.: The Divine Logos. Johnson, H. T.: Frommien, Colored Johnson, H. T.: Frommien, Colored Loney, Lucy C.: Struggles for Freedom, 1890. angston, John M.: Freedom and Citizenship; From the Plantation to the Capitol; Lectures and Addresses. Leary, John S.: Croatans of North Carolina. Lewis, R. B.: Light and Truth, Boston, 1858. Loguen, J. W.: As a Slave and as a Freeman. Love, J. K.: History of the First African Baptist Church Lyndon, W.: Afro-American Speaker. Mars, Elijah P.: Life and History, McClellan, G. M.: Poems. Menard, J. Willis: Lays from Summer Lands. Mixon, H. H.: A Methodist Luminaries. Moth of Ignorance Must Be Destroyed. Mossell, Mrs. N. F.: Work of Afro-American Women. Mosell, C. W.: Toussaint L'Overture. Myrick, D. J.: Scripture Baptism, 1882. Miller Kelly: Review of Hoffman's Ree Traits. Nell, W. C.: Colored Patriots of the Revolution, 1855. Anonymous: The Negro Pew, Boston, 1837. Newsm, J. T. C.: Know What You Want to Say, etc. Northrop, Solomon: Twelve Years a Slave. Ousley Bani: Translation of Gospels and Acts. Paige, T. F.: Twenty-two Years of Freedom. Payne, Daniel A.: Recollections of Seventy Years; Treatise on Domestic Education; History of A. M. E. Church, 1891; Pleasures, and other Miscellaneous Poems, Baltimore, 1850. Parker, John H.: Joining the Navy, Penn, I. Garland: Afro-American Press, 1891; The Educator. rennington, Jas. W. C.: Pamlets, Addresses. Perry, Rufus L.: The Cushite, 1883. Phillips, C. H.: History Colored M. E. Church. rope, Larbara: Storlettes. Proctor, H. H.: The Negro and the War. Quadroon (anon(): A Colored Man Around the World. Ransom, R. C.: School Days at Wilberforce, 1892; Disadvantages and Opportunities of Colored Youth, Cleveland, 1894. Ray, H. Corde.ae: Lincoln (a poem), 1893: Sonnets, 1893. Rowe, Geo. C.: Thoughts in Verse, 1887. Rudd, L. E.: Catholic Afro-American Congresses, 1893. Rush, Christopher: Rise and Progress of the A. M. E. Z. Church, 1892. Sampson, John P.: Temperament and Phrenology of Negro Race; Mixed Races, 1881. Scarborough, W. S.: First Greek Lessons, 1881; The Birds of Aristophanes. Scruggs, L. A.: Women of Distinction. Shoer, S. I.: Heroines of African Metuodism. Seaton, D. P.: The Land of Promise. Sevelli, Capponl: Ham and Dixie. Shadd, Mary Ann. Conditions of colored people, Winstonham, Del. 49. Simmons, W. J. Men of Mark, 1857. Simmons, A. Amnesia, Autobiography, 1898. Smith, C. S.; Liberia in the life of Living Testimony, Monument of Bishop D. A. Payne, Sermons of Bishop D. A. Payne, Glimpses of Africa, 1895; Race Question Review, Nashville, 1899. Smith, ames McCune: Influence of Climate on Longevity. 1846. Climate on Longevity, 1846. Smith, W. : Sermons of Bishop T. T. Smith. Smith, L. H.; Earnest Pleas. Stallings: The African Triubmh, 1892. Stevenson, J. W.; Church Financier- ing, 1896. Stevens, T. G.; Genesis Re-read, 1855; Life of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, 1877; Gospel Among U. S. Soldiers, 1899. Stewart, Austin: Life of Solomon Northrop; Twenty-two years a slave, thirty years a Freeman. Steward T. M. Mc. Auberis, the Americo-African Republic. Still, William: The Underground Railroad. Starker, D. Augustus: New South Investigated, 1888; Treaty on Larceny of Dogs; Toussaint L'Overture, Tanner, Benjamin T.: Theological Lectures; Outlines and Government A. M. E. Church; Apology for African Methodism; Dispensation in the History of the Church; The Negro's Origin. Tyson, M. E.: Benjamin Banneker. Talley, Thos W.: A Natural Trinity. Taylor, C. H. J. Taylor, J. T.: The Negro, Atlanta, Ga. Taylor, Marshall W. : Plantation Melodies, 1883; Universal Reign of Jesus; life of Downey; Negro Evangelist; Life of Mrs. Amanda Smith. Thomas, I. L. : Colored Man's Reply to Bishop Foster. Trotter, M. W. : The White Negro, 1894. Trotter, James M. : Music and Some Highly Musical People. Truth, Sojourner: Sojourner Truth's Narrative. Turner, Bishop H. M. : Methodist Polity, Philadelphia, 1885; The Negro in all Ages; Printed Speeches and Letters; Catechism o the A. M. E. Church; Hymn book for A. M. Church. Turner, H. H. : History of Good Maritans, etc., 1881. Washon, Geo. B. : Pamphlets, Lectures, etc. Walker, David; Walker's Appeal. Wallace, John: Carpet-bag Rule in Florida, 1888. Ward, S. R.: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro, London, 1855. Ward, Samuel Ringgold: Occasional Papers. Washington, B. T.: Black-Belt Diamonds; Future of the American Negro; Address at Opening Atlanta Exposition. Wyman, Alex. W.: Cyclopedia of Methodism; Life of Bishop James A. Shorter; My Recollections. Wheatley, Phillis: Poems, London, 1773. Whitfield, James A.: Poems, Buffalo, 1853. Wilkes, L. :: Life of Frederick Douglass. Williams, D. B.: Freedom and Progress, 1890; The Ethiopians, Petersburg, 1890; Outlines of School Management, 1891; Science, Art and Elocution, Petersburg, 1894. Williams, Edward: John Brown, (Poem), 1899. Williams, Geo. W.: History of Negro Race, 1.1.; History of Negro Troops in Rebellion, 1888; Negro as a Political Factor. The American Negro from 1776 to 1876; Cincinnati, 1876. Wilson, C. B.: History of G. U. O. of Odd Fellows. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR DISTRICT Office Managers in this state to work with the Negro community. Willing to pay yearly 600, payable week. Desirable employment with unimposed office reference exchange. Enclose address addressed to the office envelope. S. A. Park 380 Carton Building Chicago It is very hard to stand idly by and see our dear ones suffer while awaiting the arrival of a doctor. An Albany (N. Y.) dairyman called at a drug store there for a doctor to come and see his child, than very sick with croup. Not finding the doctor in, he left word for him to come at once on his return. He also bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which he hoped would give some relief until the doctor should arrive. In a few hours he returned, saying the doctor need not come, as the child was much better. The druggist, Mr. Otto Scholz, says the family has since recommenced Cham bainlain's Cough Remedy to their neigh bors and friends until he has a constant demand for it from that part of the country. For saleby all Druggists Notice is hereby given that a corporation to be known as the Maple Leaf Mining company has been formed for pecuniary profit under the laws of the state of Iowa, with the principal place of business in the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. The general nature of this corporation is to buy, lease or otherwise secure mines, mining lands or the material for the prospecting or working the same mines, mining lands or the materials, and to sell or dispose of the products, the mines or mining lands or the materials used. The authorized capital stock of this corporation is fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one dollar each, one-tenth to be paid in at par upon the issue of stock, the balance to be issued at the discretion of the board of directors. The highest amount of indebtedness with the corporation may incur shall not at any time exceed thirds of the capital stock and the private property of stockholders shall be exempt from corporate debts. This corporation shall commence business upon the date of securing certificate of authenticity and the subscription payment of the tenth of the capital stock, and shall continue for a period of twenty years unless sooner dissolved according to law or a two-thirds vote of all stock in interest The secretary of the organization may be confined to a board of directors composed of the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and three other members, all of whom are to be chosen at the annual election which is to be held on the first Tuesday in March of each year. The present officers until March 6, 1900, are: Fred A. Cope, president; Geo. P. Swartzel, vice-president; W. P. Henry, secretary, and N. P. Collins, treasurer, and G. H. Cook, Fred L. Wells, J. E. Crows, directors. Signed this 24th day of February, A. D. 1900. FRED A. COPE. WANTED-SEVERAL BRIGHT AND bounty persons to represent us as Mana gets a year and expenses. Straight, bodee-fide, no more, no less salary. 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DELICATE, DAINY, DELICIOUS. OFFER TRIED, ALWAYS USED. Namii Lotion, a delightful toilet preparation for beautifying the complexion. Namii Lotion, for chapped hands, face, etc. Namii Face Powder, the best on the market. Saponeous Tooth Powder cleanse, whitens, and preserves the tooth; soothes, and preserves the tooth. ORDER NOW. DON'T WAIT FOR SHOW. SUNDAY, JULY 14. Write for Purchase Caterer DAY A DAY. Write for Purchase Caterer 18-17 to 875. SEARS, ROEBUCK & O. (Inc.), Chicago. (Sears, Roebuck & O. are thoroughly edible.) AGENTS WANTED. MANUFACTURED BY G. G. MERRICK & CO. 32-38 Clark St., CHICAGO, ILL. We want you to subscribe for the IOWA STANDARD