Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOUST. BOOK 405 MANQUARD BLOCK. Iowa 456 PHONE 800. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA. A. P. & A. M. TECHS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year.....$1.50 Six months.....75 Three months.....50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to The Iowa Brawn BYSTANDER Publishing Company Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. We will set, return rejected manuscript less accompanied by postage stamps. IOWA'S LEADING COLORED PAPER. CITY NEWS. Get your coal at 1007 Center street. □ Vote for H. H. Lewis for constable to-morrow. Mrs. R. N. Hyde has returned from Vincennes, Ind., this week. Vote for J, L. Thompson for Justice of Peace to-morrow. □ Every colored voter should vote for Thompson and Lewis Saturday afternoon. Levi Riley a janitor at the Y. M. C. A. building is the only new case of small-pox reported. Mr. N. Shininghouse was called to the sick bedside of his father Thursday by a telegram Miss Nettie Tolliver spent Friday in Clive visiting Mrs. C. H. Richardson and Miss Eldora Thompson. Hon. Geo. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa is in the city this week attending the colored meeting. Attorney Geo. H. Woodson of Mucha Kinock was a Capitol City visitor Thursday to attend the colored meeting. Mr. Geo. Wells one of our esteemed citizens was selected as a special police by the Mayor. We congratulate him. Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax of Omaha, Nebr., stopped over with her sister Mrs. E. Noble while enroute to her old home in Keokuk. Robert Raikes one of our old and highly cateem citizens from the East Side has been drawn on the May term of the grand jury. Quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. E. chureh Sunday. Rev. Williamson of Muchakinock will assist Dr. Peterson. Rev. J. Underwood and J. H. Mixon of Fraiser were in the city Thursday. The latter gentleman is thinking of starting a business enterprise here. Mr. C. W. Henry of East Des Moines has finished painting his house of a pale green, trimmed in dark green. It shows up very pretty. All members of the Marshall Band are requested to meet at N. E. Mortons on Tenth street to make arrangements for Decoration Day. The H. B. S. R. C. held a very pleasant and profitable meeting at the residence of Mrs. Ella Smith last Thursday. They will meet with Mrs. I. E. Williamson next Thursday all members are requested to be present, business of importance. The republican county primaries is Saturday April 23th from 1:00 to 7:00 P. M. at the regular voting places, don't forget the date. Rollen Weeks who has been pursuing a course in Shorthand and Typewriting at the Capital City Commercial College stopped last week as his term had expired, but will finish his course next fall. He is now one of the best penman among our race in the city. A few young friends of Fred Stanton surprised him last Tuesday evening by calling in a body and gave him a party as a reminder that it was his twenty-first birthday, a very enjoyable time was had by all present. Light refreshments was served, and at a late hour all departed leaving Fred wishing for them to call every birthday. Telephone 255 Center street, for coal. Mrs. Anna Humbles of Muchakinock visited a few days in our city last week while here she was the guest of Mr. S. M. Wilson. She likes Des Moines very much. Voters, do not forget to vote for John L. Thompson the only colored candidate for Justice of Peace. 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. Married, at the home of the bride's parents on School street. Miss Maud Cleggett to William Jones of Montazuma, Ia. It was a very quite affair as only the relatives and a very few friends were present, the ceremony was performed by Dr. F. J. Peterson. They left immediately for Montazuma where they will make their future home. The bride is one of Dos Mohes well known girls having been raised up here, while the groom is a studious barber in his town. We extend them our best wishes for their success in married life. Center Coal Mining Company, 1007 Center street is the best place to buy coal. If troubled with rheumatism, give Chamberlain's Pain Balm a trial. It will not cost you a cent if it does no good. One application will relieve the pain. It also cures sprains and bruises in one-third the time required by any other treatment. Cuts, burns, frost-bites, quinsey, pains in the side and chest, glandular and other swellings are quickly cured by applying it Every bottle warranted. Price, 25 and 50 ets. For sale by all Druggists. NFCROLOGY. Mrs. Patty Palmer Brooks, the wife of John L. Brooks, a prominent citizen of Burlington, died at their home Sunday April 15. She leaves a husband, four daughters and one son to mourn her loss. Mr. Brooks has the sympathy of his many friends in his deep sorrow, having just buried his son Theodore a week before. "There is no flock, however watched and tend- "There is no flock, however watched and tend ed But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." DR. R. C. RANSOM. Dr. R. C. Ransom of Bethel A. M. E. church, Chicago, is one of the leading candidates for editor of the Christian Recorder in Philadelphia, at the coming General Conference which will soon convene in Columbus. Ohio. We favor Dr. Ransom because he is an educated christian gentleman. He is one of the most eloquent pulpit orators in the conueotion; highly educated and polished, yet he has that social and congeal disposition which makes him pleasant with all classes, the lowest layman do not feel embarrassed in his presence. He is yet a young man and we earnestly hope, as we sincerel believe the members of the General Conference will reward Dr. Ransom. Than again he is a western man and the entire west should stand a unite for him. The hard struggle that he has had to reach the high plane of learning is commendable. Shall We Celebrate Shall We Celebrate The One Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of John Brown. While America has had many illustrious sons, but if we should be the judge but few if any has been more courageous, self-sacrificing and more loyal to humanity than the hero of Harper's Ferry and sage of Ossawattomie. The extreme hatred he had for slavery and the horrible hardships that he has endured while trying to free the poor slave, has never been excelled by human, and the tender love and swaet kindness he always had for our race. Therefore every colored church and society in every city and hamlet should prepare a good programme and appropriately celebrate his anniversary which is May 9, 1900. IMPROVEMENT OF OUR MERCHANT MARINE In view with the situation the United States now assumes, we need to turn our attention to our foreign commerce in other parts of the globe. The first and most important question is the improvement of our merchant marine. We need more vessels to export our products to foreign countries in American vessels and under the American flag. England, Germany and France years ago wisely seen the urgent necessity of improving their merchant marine, and, as a result those countries control all the African and export trade of Asia, and are now working hard to control China, Japan and the Archipelago. Our nation with such a great diversity of industries and manufactured products, with our abundant natural resources, and with such an industrials and increasing population,ought to increase the means of profitable disposing of its surplus production of every kind is self-evident. Therefore Congress ought to tak immediate steps to so enlarge and improve our merchant marine that American commerce will be carried in American vessels, made, owned and operated by Americans with the American flag floating above the vessel. ENCOURAGEMENT. Sigonrney, Iowa, April 23.—Messrs Thompson, & Shepard:—Dear Sirs, My time was out yesterday with your dear paper. Will you please send it on for another year, I like it very well and can not do without it. You will find enclose $1,50 for the arme. Your Truly, THOMAS H. M. BENTON. FOR COUNTY RECORDER. Mr. John P. Cook, one of our successful farmers, near Valley Junction, is a candidate for his second term as recorder. Mr. Cook was born in Des Moines in 1856 and lived in the county every since. In 1869 he moved to his farm in Walnut township. He is an influential and active republican, and was elected recorder two years ago and has made an efficient and good honest officer. He is sociable to all and we believe he will get the nomination, as no one else is out. He will be elected as an increase majority. FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY. Attorney John McLennan's name will come before the republican county convention for renomination for his second term as county attorney; as he has only held the office one term and has made an excellent officer; saving the county the expense of trials where there was no necessity or not sufficient evidence in the case. He is a very careful, painstaking lawyer and successful. Therefore for his past faithfulness to duty the party can pay no higher tribute than to renominate him by acclimation. A: OUEER MAGAZINE Our Dumb Animals, printed in Boston, is the name of a monthly magazine (white) that has recently come to our editorial table. Its motto is, "We speak for those that can not speak for themselves." It seeks to tell sinful, cruel and brutal treatment done to the poor dnbm animal that can not speak for themselves. To read of some of the cruel treatment almost shudder a man of a tender heart and a kindly disposition. Still when we reflect a moment and think that less than a half century ago our race and ancestors were then treated even worse then the dumb animals are today. It certainly makes us shudder. NEGRO COUNCIL ORGAN IZED. Pursuant to a call issued in the Bystander of last week, colored people from different parts of the state met here Thursday for a two days session, but finished their work in one day and adjourned sine die last night. The meeting was called to order by I. M. Jones, after some preliminaries attorney J. B. Rush delivered the opening address, responded to by Gee. E. Tay- The model house wife will keep abreast with the newest and up-to-date system of cooking. 1400 Gas Stoves and Ranges were sold in Des Moines during 1899. You can buy a gas range for $9.50. This price includes a fire supply pipe and no additional charge for connecting. Tattooed by Coal. Capital City Gas Light Go., 413·415 Locust. Remember the "NATIONAL" and that we do all repair work and guarantee every job. NATIONAL lor of Oskaloosa. There were about 7 visiting delegates. A hot discussion over the name whether it should be "Negro" or "Afro-American" Council, finally the former succeeded. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, G. H. Woodson of Muchakinock; vice president, G. E. Terrell, of Colfax: secretary Charles Woods of Des Moines; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. B. Rush Des Moines; treasurer, Ira Jones Des Moines; statistician, George E. Taylor of Oskaloosa. Ira Jones was temporary Chairman and Rev. Joseph Underwood, of Frasertemporary secretary. IOWA CITY BRIEFLETS. Mr. and Mrs. William Boone of Charleston, Mo., are visiting their parental home, i. e. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Patterson. Mr. Julius Roberts of Boston, Mass., has accepted a position as stone cutter on the new collegiate building. Miss Emma Boyd passed through our city from Mueatine to Cedar Rapids Thursday to attend the Clay-Davis wedding. Mrs. G. W. Mason and daughters, Misses Maggie and Bessie attended the wedding of their friend, Miss Amelia Etta Davis to Mr. Jeff Adam Clay of Chicago, last Thursday at Cedar Rapids. Walter Jones of Mairon was an Easter visitor in the city. Subribe for the Bystander. Mrs. Geo. Patterson and granddaughter litte Ethyl Jackson are visiting in Muscatine. Mr. Milton Thompson was in Cedar Rapids Thursday attending the Clay-Davis wedding. Miss Stywater of New York is now a resident of this city, Rev. M. B. Gordon and Mr. J. W. McNiel entertained about 800 people at a debate given at the Armory Monday evening. The question was "Resolved that a doctor is of more benefit to a community than a preacher." Mr. McNiel affirmed and Rev. Gordon denied. Mr. McNiel won. Miss Efa Mason has been entertaining mumps. Little Misses Beatrice and Selma and Master Reginald Weathers of Peoria, Ill., are visiting their grand parents Mr and Mrs. W. T. Patterson. Tattooed by Cord Tattooed by Coal. Gas Light Go., 15 Locust. All Goods, lies, Tennis, Tackle, Hammocks, Cutlery, etc. NAL" and that we do all see every job. ATIONAL S BROS., venth St. FT. MADISON NEWS. Miss Mollie Woods has gone to Davenport to visit Mrs. L. J. Sanaders. Mr. B. Winfrey has moved to Oak and 6th street. Miss Nellie McCleland is visiting her sister Mrs. Horkins in Davenport. Baster exeercises at both churches were very good. The pastor of the Second Baptist church ask for a settlement over two months ago as the members had but little work in the winter, they have not been able to do so, but expects to do so soon. Mrs. J. P.lee is still quite sick. Rev. E. Koney and J. H. Jones spent Sunday here and attended the Baptist church. Rev. J. W. Muse has gone to Jacksonville, Ill., on important business. Rev. McClelland will take charge of the church while he is gone. Rev. Chambers and wife who have been sick are out again. Mr. Bowman is still unable to use his hand yet. A few of the people are leaving and going to other places for work. ALBIA NEWS. Mrs. Lula Miller who spent a few days in Oskaloosa with her sick brother returned home on last Tuesday. Mr. Brittian Thomas and family spent a few days of this week in Albia. The A. M. E. Sunday School held their Easter exercises at the A. M. E. church this Sunday evening, the exercises were very good for the children. Messrs Burt Jones and Henry Brumer, attended the ball game in Pekay Sunday. A number of the Hocking Valley people attended the ball game in Albia on last Thursday afternoon. SIOUX CITY ITEMS Mrs. R. E. Early and children of Sioux Rapids Ia, arrived in the city Saturday morning and will spend two weeks visiting friends. Mr. Sam Douglass has returned to Minneapolis, Minn. Mesdames Carbin and Thompson are able to be out again. The A. M. E. church choir sang at Leeds on last Saturday evening to a large and appreciative audience. The Dixie Jubilee Concert company of Chicago will sing at Whitfield M. E. --- The Sunday School elected their delegate last Sunday, Mrs. Jas. Washington was elected delegate and the minister as alternate. Miss Mary Blair has returned from Fort Pierre South Dakota where she has been called on the account of the illness of her mother. The Donkey Social has been announced for May first. The handshaking social given by the ladies of the church on last Monday evening was well attended. Messrs Richard Downing and Milton Dowdy went to Chicago last week to enter the service of Mr. W. H. Dildense, formally proprietor of the Mondamis and Garrets-n Hotels of this city. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Mr. J. Arbuckle who has been very sick is a little better. Mrs. Wm. Harrison is improving a little. Mrs. Wm. Spotts has returned from a visit in Lincoln, Omaha and Council Bluffs, she was accompanied by her husband who visited in the city a few days. Mr. M Jones has recovered. Mrs. C. Reed is on the sios list. Mrs. Burnet of Burlington has joined her husband here. Mr. Perry Greenup of Burlington has spent last Sunday in the city. Last Sunday was Quarterly meeting Rev. G. W. Rhinehart was assisted by Rev. U. S. Smith of University who preached two excellent sermons which was greatly appreciated Miss May Carter has returned from a visit in Albia. Mr. Vern Wilbur had the misfortune to get his arm broken last week while boreing. Rev. J. Bundy preached Wednesday evening. MUCHAKINOCK NEWS. Britton Thomas and family and Pearl Thomas and family who were quarintined last week on account of being exposed to Small Fox was relieved last Faiday. All the men that have been out at the new mine near Lovillia were in the city Sunday and says that they have struck the finest coal that the C. C. company has had in the State they returned Monday. H. C. Lee left last Saturday to visit and to recuperate. Mrs. Nanny Brown visited in Muscatine last week. The Odd Fellows are preparing for a large demonstration the first Sunday in May, they are at present negotiating for the M. C. Band of thirty-one men. Mrs. Roland Diggs of Coalfield is visiting here at this writing. Britton Thomas and family spent Sunday in Albia. Prof. A. R. Jackson was in Oskaloosa Tuesday on business. Mrs. E. A. London and son Herbert was in Oskaloosa Wednesday visiting. Burt Jones of Aibia was in our city Sunday. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E- church. Rev. Williams of Oskaloosa preached an excellent sermon assisted by the pastor and Rev. Bingaman pastor of the U. V. B. church. Quite a number of the Oskaloosa people were down to attend the meeting. DISTRICT MEETING. DISTRICT MEETING. All members of the A. M. E. church, of the St. Paul District and adjoining A. M. E. churches are requested to meet at Davenport. Tuesday morning, May 8th, 1900, in the Masonic Hall, corner Second and Brady streets, to take in consideration the present dissatisfaction now existing, and have been for the last three years throughout the district of the mismanagement of our main head. And to petition the general conference to change certain clause in the law, that we, the layman, may enjoy all of the rights and privileges, accord to the letter and spirit of the law. Neither preachers or exalters will have a voice in this meeting. Meeting to be called to order Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. S. M. Cratic, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Chairman. Jesse Walden, of Newton, Iowa, Secretary. A. D. Corbin, of Davenport, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Spencer Carry, Muchakinock, Iowa, Treasurer. For particulars write A. D. Corbin, 331 W. Tenth street, Davenport, Iowa. Reception Committee at Davenport—Ben Hopkins, W. B. Hill, Henry Proctor, A. D. Corbin, Mrs. W. B. Parker. Mrs. A. D. Corbin, Mrs. Annie Hill. Every church is requested to be represented. Subscribe for the Bystander. ```markdown ``` The darkest hour of human misery comes just before the dawn of delivery. Boxing bouts which have been held in the basement of the South Division High school, Chicago, under the supervision of Principal Smith, have found favor in the eyes of the Board of Education authorities. Superintendent Andrews not only indoles the exercise, but says that he believes that boxing is the best sport in which the students can partake. Who are the ten greatest men in the nineteenth century? This is a favorite conundrum just now across the water, but we have seen only one attempt to solve it in print. It is by a Dublin, Ireland, editor, and names Lincoln, statesman; Napoleon, soldier; Darwin, scientist; Thackeray, novelist; Pasteur, medicine; Freebel, educator; Beethoven, musician; and Morse and Stephenson, first masters of electricity and steam. Consular reform is brought perceptibly nearer than it ever was before by the action of congressional committees. Both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives a favorable report has been made upon bills dealing with the organization of the consular service. The bills differ in details, but are one in purpose. They aim to make the foreign service of the United States something like a profession, for which men may fit themselves with a reasonable assurance of finding employment, and from which, when their fitness has been proved, they may not be dislodged by political caprice or the restless ambition of some one who wants a place. In Europe there are many young men whom fate has destined to be the rich men of the next century. For a long time it was supposed that Lord Belgrave, who inherited the wealth of the Duke of Westminster, would head the list, but since the duke's death it is reported that his fortune has been greatly overestimated. At present this young man is but 20 years of age, but it will not be many years before he will become one of the richest men in the world, according to accepted belief in England. At the same time he has succeeded to every rank in the British peerage from baron to duke, as well as to three of the finest estates in the united kingdom, and a racing stable that cannot be surpassed. A recent review of the progress of the University of Illinois reveals the fact that there are six different colleges and four schools united under one head. These are the College of Agriculture, College of Literature and Arts, College of Science, College of Engineering, College of Law, College of Medicine, the School of Library Science, School of Pharmacy, School of Music and the Preparatory School. The following official figures indicate the remarkable growth of the institution in number of students, during the last thirteen years: 1878-88, 377; 1888-89, 428; 1889-90, 469; 1890-91, 510; 1891-92, 583; 1893-94, 714; 1894-95, 810; 1895-96, 856; 1896-97, 1,075; 1897-98, 1,585; 1898-99, 1,824; 1899-00, 2,250. There is a general desire for a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine the question whether the new island possessions are a part of the United States, or its property. It was thought that a suit brought by a New York firm of importers to recover duties paid on Puerto Rican goods might furnish a basis for the desired interpretation; but this suit has been halted by the refusal of the lower court to grant the injunction which was applied for. A case has now arisen at San Francisco, occasioned by the collection of tonnage dues on vessels from Hawaii, in the same manner as from foreign countries, which may afford an opportunity for the settlement of the broad constitutional question. The free town library, one of the best educational gifts to the nineteenth century to the world, bids fair in the twentieth century to become still more than it is now a stimulant to intellectual progress. Collections of books for the scholar and the rich there have been from the earliest times; but a library belonging to the whole community, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, laborer and professional man, is purely a product of the last half century. Fifty years ago there were about a score in Massachusetts. Today all but seven of her 350 towns have a free library. In the whole country there are not less than 10,000 such libraries. But a mere collection of books, without a faithful librarian, however valuable, is like an undeveloped mine, practically of no use. The town librarian is, like the library itself, a product of the closing century, and has become a new intellectual leader in the community. To the dwellers in northern latitudes the coming of spring is like a release from prison. Barriers built by snow and ice are leveled, and doors sealed by the frost swing open. To all, doubtless, the season brings a feeling of emancipation; it is perhaps to the bicyclist that it speaks most directly of "fresh woods and pastures new." One who watches the wheelmen taking advantage of the first good weather and dry roads can hardly fall to notice the look of new-found liberty so often reflected in their faces. Des Moines, April 25.—The people's party of Iowa held a state convention in Observatory hall yesterday to select delegates to the national convention, which is to be held at Cincinnati May 9. L. H. Weller, of Nashua, was chairman, and A. W. Ricker, of Lone Tree, secretary of the convention. As members of the national committee from Iowa, the convention elected L. H. Weller, A. W. Ricker and L. M. Morris. Delegates were selected as follows: L. H. Weller, Nashua; Chas. A. Lloyd, Muscatine; A. W. Ricker, Iowa City; J. O. Beebe, Burlington; J. A. Gray, Wilton; S. W. Coomber, Cedar Falls; Orville Potter, Fredericksburg; C. Wirth, Van Horn; J. R. Norman, Albia; S. E. Tucker, Albia; T. G. Wheeler, Des Moines; Andrew Macomber, Ord; C. A. Wicks, Davis City; J. F. Syp, Aft; A. M. Hutchinson, Council Bluffs; William Murray, Wiota; M. E. Smith, Fort Dodge; A. Norellus, Kiro, Fred Hunt, Alta, and W. W. Smith, Hartley. The convention adopted no platform except to reaffirm the national platforms of 1892 and 1896, and to add the following resolutions: WRIGHT FOUND GUILTY. Muscatine Man Must Suffer for Murder of Mrs. Mr. Crippen. MUSCATINE, April 27.—The jury in the case of George Wright returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his sentence for life in the penitentiary. This was Wright's second trial. Last July Wright shot and killed Mrs. Nellie Crippen, the attractive young wife of a planing mill foreman, with whom he had maintained secret relations for some time. The crime was committed upon the eve of the departure of the woman and her husband for a new home in another state, the fatal shot being fired while the woman stood in the doorway of her home in the presence of her husband and seven witnesses. Wright has a family. His attorneys pleaded insanity. SUED FOR $50,000. Standard Oil Company Defendant in a Hirg. Sult. DES MOINES, April 27—Attorney F. S. Dunshee has filed in the district court a suit for $50,000 against the Standard Oil Company for alleged damages sustained by the Crystal Oil Company, of Des Moines, in which the plaintiff alleges that amount of damages was brought on by the destruction of the plaintiff's business. The suit is entitled F. S. Dunshee vs. the Standard Oil Company, Milton Storer, John D. Stewart, Lee Edington. In his petition, plaintiff states that the Standard Oil Company is the most wealthy, influential and potent corporation in this country or elsewhere, and possesses vast power and influence in the city of Des Moines. HE PREFERRED DEATH. Stephen Triplett Cuts His Throat Rather Than Go to Prison MARSHALLTOWN, April 25.—Rather than go to prison Stephen Triplett, who had pleaded guilty to the crime of incept, cut his throat with a razor in his cell in the county jail. Triplett had been a resident of Melbourne, in the southern part of the county. Seven years ago he married Mrs. Cutler, of Kansas, and at various times during the past five years had committed incept with his stepdaughter, Myrtle Cutler, who is now only 17 years old. He pleaded guilty in the district court and was to have been sentenced in a few days. Rock Island Rusher Work DES MOINES, April 26.—Two hundred and fifty teams and 600 men are at work grading the Rock Island extension from Gowrie to Sibley. Work trains are in hauled gravel from the pits at Grand Junction and ballasting the roadbed as fast as it is built, the expectation being that when the line is completed it will be in condition to accommodate traffic as heavy as that on the main line of the Fort Dodge division. The gravel is being spread twelve and fifteen inches in depth, and the track laid with 75-pound steel placed on oak ties. Whirled to Death: Oro. April 27. While playing around the mill, George Henry's four-year-old girl was caught in a wheel shaft and killed almost instantly. The shaft makes about 200 revolutions a minute and she was beaten to death on the ground before the machinery could be stopped. Drowned in a Tub of Water. Sioux City, April 27.—The 1-year-old son of William Metcalf, Hedges station, Morningside, fell into a tub of water and was drowned. Frances Shebeck Ends Life. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Frances Shebeck, who lived with her sister, Mrs. S. P. Ramsey, four miles west of Washington, took four ounces of carbolic acid. When her sister discovered her lying on the bed, she asked what she had done and the girl replied that she had taken carbolic acid and wanted to die. A physician was summoned, but nothing could be done to save her life and she died. She was a Bohemian girl about 18 years of age. No cause is known why the girl should commit such a deed. HON. MATT PABROTS SEAR. The ex-Lieutenant Governor of Iowa Passes Away. WATERLOO, April 24.—After an illness of several months, Hon. Matt Parrott, exiletenant governor of Iowa, died at 10:00 o'clock Saturday night at the sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., of Bright's disease. Mr. Parrott was an old-time resident of Waterloo, where his influence has been wide-felt as a newspaper man and a progressive, public-spirited citizen. He was'man of the people, of unblemished character, genial, kindhearted and ready to lend a hand to every good cause. He had long been a main-stay of the Episcopal church of Waterloo. While Mr. Parrott had been prominently in politics for years, he was first of all a newspaper man, understanding every department of the business, and training his sons to take up the work and carry it forward in his absence. A wife, who has been a companion and helper in every sense of the word, survives, also three sons, to all of whom Mr. Parrott was most devoted. [Matt Parrott was born in Schoahier county, New York, May 11, 1837. At thirteen years of age he left school and entered a printer's office to learn the trade. He went to Troy in 1857 and in a couple of years drifted west and worked in newspaper offices in Chicago, Burlington and Davenport. In 1869 he associated himself with J. Smart in publishing the Iowa State Reporter. Waterloo Waterloo with his assist at the time of his death. He held the office of state binder from 1879 to 1885. At the expiration of that time he was elected state senator from Blackhawk and Grundy counties. In 1895 he was elected lieutenant governor with Gov. F. M. Drake.] MATT PARROTT'S FUNERAL. Services Held in the Episcopal Church at Waterloo. WATERLOO, April 26. —The funeral services of Former Lieut. Governor Matt Parrott were held at the Episcopal church yesterday afternoon. Prominent men from all parts of the state were in attendance. During the forenoon the body was viewed at the home of the deceased by hundreds of friends. The services were beautiful in the extreme. The procession was led by the Knights Templar in full regalia. The pastor, Rev. Maderia, spoke without manuscript and paid a glowing tribute to the deceased who had for many years been an officer in his church. HULL WINS IN STORY. Defeats Payne for the Congressional Nomination. NEVADA, April 23.—The Story county primaries, held in accordance with the primary system in vogue in Story county, resulted in a decided victory for Captain J. A. T. Hull for congress. The total vote on congressman is as follows: J. A. T. Hull, 979; W. O. Payne, 561. The overwhelming victory of Captain Hull in Story county is conceded to assure his nomination without further contest. Des Moines Saloons Defeated Des moines saloona Devoted: DES MOINES, April 26.—Judge Bishop overruled the demurrier in the case of A. K. Campbell vs. the Polk county board of supervisors. The court held that inasmuch as the official notice was not published ten clear days previous to the date of the regular meeting of the board it was not acting within its jurisdiction. The proceedings in certiorari will now be heard. New Railroad in Iowa DES MOINES, April 26.—The secretary of the executive council has on file figures showing an increase of 843.678 miles of railroad in the state during the past year. This makes a total of 9,361 miles. BREVITIES. A verdict of $1,000 has been awarded Wm. H. Baily in his suit against the Des Moines street car company. He sued for $25,000. The Ottumwa Courier recently published a letter announcing the withdrawal of Hon. G. L. Waterman from the congressional race in the Sixth district on account of new business plans which will take him outside of the state most of the time. Sioux City dispatch: A $500 fine is probably all Ernest Meyer will have to pay for murdering his brother-in-law. Chris Bauer, on the night of March 10. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of assault with intent to murder his injury for which the maximum penalty is $500 fine or one year in jail. Des Moines dispatch: H. B. Knowlton, administrator of the estate of the late Charles Downs, killed by an electric wire belonging to the defendant, has begun action against the Des Moines Edison Electric Light company demanding damages to the amount of $25,000 alleged to be due him for the death of Downs. Plaintiff claims in petition that Downs's death was due to the negligence of the defendant. While in the employ of the Mutual Telephone company as heman, Downs came to the defense. He lives and works there belonging to the Edison company. He received 1,000 bolts of electricity, from the effect of which he instantly died. Centerville, the county seat of Apanocoose county, was visited a few days ago by a $40,000 fire which for a time threatened to consume the entire business portion of the city. The fire originated in an implement house on the south side of the square, but in what manner is unknown. The most of the buildings destroyed were old structures, else the loss would have been much greater. The facilities for coping with the fire were limited and the fire spread to the yards of the Lewis Lumber Company, which were also damaged; to the extent of several thousand dollars. CANADIAN CITY BURNED. Only a Few Monies Remain Standing in Well. OTTWA, Out, April 27. Five square miles of territory burned over; more than 2,200 dwellings, factories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to reach $20,000,000, and between 12,000 and 15,000 men, women and children homeless, is a summing up of the havoc wrought by the fire which has been raging at Hull and in Ottawa since 11 o'clock yesterday morning and at midnight was practically under control. Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Hull have disappeared and are now heaps of charred wood and ashes. Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the Hull waterworks, Hull court house and jail, postoffice, the convent, almost every business place and about 1,000 dwellings and shops in Hull have been destroyed. Indeed, practically nothing of Hull is left but a church and a few houses beyond it. The fire almost devastated the little settlement of St. Mary's village. The flames spread along the Richmond road, burning Martin & Warner's flour mill and extending almost to Skead's mill, some three miles beyond the city limits. At this time, 5 o'clock, there was almost a continuous line of fire from its starting place at Chaudiere street, Hull, to the St. Louis dam, and the experimental farm in one direction and through and beyond Hintonburg in another, a distance of nearly seven miles. In some places the fire was more than half a mile deep. NET FAILED TO WORK. Boers Leave Wepener and Escape to the North. LONDON, April 26.—It is now apparent that the chances of Lord Roberts catching the retreating Boers in a net are very slender. The Boers have everywhere retired at the first pressure of the British advance, and the hope that Gen. Rundle would be able to induce them to remain at DeWet's Dorp until they had been forced to fight or to surrender has been disappointing. No attempt was made to pursue the commando and others retiring from Wepener. LONDON, April 26.—The war office has issued the following from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein, April 25, 3:25 p. m.: The enemy retired from the front of Wepener's tight and this morning flew northwesterly along the Lady-brand road. Their number was between four and five thousand." DE WET'S DORP OCCUPIED. General Chermside Takes Possession Without Opposition LONDON, April 26.—The war office has received the following from Lord Roberts: "BIOEMFONTEIN, April 25.—Pole-Carew's division reported at Roodekop yesterday evening without casualties. Its advance was covered by cavalry and horse artillery, which drove back the enemy with heavy loss, their dead being left on the ground. The mounted troops halted for the night at Grootfontein and at 7:30 this morning were crossing Modder river at Valsbank in accordance with my instructions to French to place himself astride the enemy's lines of retreat. French's arrival near Modder evidently, however, alarmed the Boers, who evacuated their strong position near DWet's bridge the morning and it was captured by Chermside's division this morning. Mounted infantry drove the enemy off the kopies in the neighborhood of the water works without casualties on our side." BRITISH SUFFER DEFEAT. Bulletins From Pretoria Give Boers the Best of It. PRETORIA, April 25.—An official bulletin issued here saves: "The federals continue fighting at Wepener and have captured a herd of Brabant's cattle and horses. Dewet's losses at Dewet's Dorp were one killed and six wounded. Twenty British were captured. The British appear to be retiring beyond Dewet's Dorp. Cronje reports that with a strong command he has attacked the British northeast of Boshof. A heavy engagement followed and the British were driven from kopie to kopie. The federals displayed great courage and reservation and chased the enemy in the direction of Boshof. Two burgers were wounded. The British lost three killed and left three wounded. Eight prisoners are in the hands of the burgers." Boycott on Chicago's Dewey Day. CHICAGO, April 27.—The long-talked of boycott of the Dewey celebration by organized labor has taken form. The executive committee of district 8 of the International Association of Machinists issued an edict declaring the promoters of the celebration antagonistic to union labor and ordering members of the unions to take no part in it because the grand stands are being built by non-union labor. Succeed Roberts. WASHINGTON, April 26.—William H. King, who served in the Fifty-fifth congress from Utah, has been sworn in as a representative of that state to succeed Brigham H. Roberts. THE TURK AGREES TO PAY. "Under Same Conditions as in the Case of other Foreign Subjects." Foreign Subjects CONSTANTINOPLE, April 24.—The porte has replied to the American demands stating that Turkey will compensate the American missionaries under the same conditions as in the case of other foreign subjects. There is the greatest interest in political circles regarding the attitude of the States in the indemnity claim, and it is the power of the power having similar claims will support the American action. ENTRA PAY GIVEN OFFICER Secretary Root Registers to Resolutions of the Senate. WASHINGTON, April 27.—Secretary of War Root sent to the senate his reply to the resolution of April 21, as to whether officers of the United States army in Cuba or Porto Rico have received any compensation for their services there other than the compensation to which they were entitled by law to receive as salary and allowances; and if so asking the names and rank of the officers and the amounts received by them. The reply in part follows: Pursuant to the orders of the secretary of war, dated respectively March 1, 1899, April 19, 1899, and May 9, 1899, copies of which are annexed, allowances have been paid four officers, allowances have been required to live in the city of Havana and to perform important civil functions in connection with the administration of the government of Cuba, as follows: To the military governor of Cuba, at the rate of $8,500 per year. To the military governor of Havana, at the rate of 55,000 per year To the collector of customs for the island of Cuba, at the rate of $1,800 per year. The treasurer of the island of Cuba, at the rate of $1,800 per year. These payments were in addition to the salary and allowances which the said officers were entitled to as such to receive out of the treasury of the United States, or not the other, other sources of the character described in the resolution to any officers in Cuba. I annex hereto a report received some months since from the headquarters, division of Cuba, showing that none other have been made. The payment has been made monthly. The dates stated in said orders until the present time. No allowances have been made to any officers in Porto Rico other than the statutory salary and allowances out of the treasury of the United States. The said payments were authorized by the president of the United States upon oral advice of the attorney general, that the same were in all respects lawful. QUAY DEFEATED. Declared Not Entitled to a Seat in the Senate. WASHINGTON, April 25 — The resolution declaring M. S. Quay not entitled to a seat in the senate was adopted by the following vote: Yeas—Allen, Bacon, Bard, Bate, Berry, Burrows, Maler, Clay, Cook, Caldwell, Hale, Harris, Heitfeld, Hawley, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, McBride, McCumber, McEnery, McMillan, Martin, Money, Platt of Connecticut, Proctor, Quarles, Ross, Simon, Teller, Tillman, Turley, Turner, Vest, Wellington—33. Nays: Allison, Baker, Carter, Chandler, Clark of Wyoming, Cullom, Daniel, Davis, Deboe, Foraker, Frye, Gear, Hansborough, Jones of Nevada, McComas, McLaurin, Mason, Morgan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of New York, Scott, Swell, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Taliafero, Warren, Wetmore, Wolcott—32. Pairs were announced as follows, the first named in each instance being favorable to Mr. Quay and the second opposed to him: Pritchard with Gallinger, Depew with Hanna, Foster with Kean, Lodge with Thurston, Kenney with Caffery, Elkins with Chilton. Fairbanks with Mallory, Hoar with Pettus, Kyle with Rawlins. THE DEMOCRATIC ISSUES. Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Trusts Leading Questions. NEW YORK, April 25.—Following is a summary of the replies from twenty-three democratic national committee to the Journal and Advertiser's questions regarding the campaign issues and candidates: Anti-imperialism as the leading issue, 21; anti-trust as the leading issue, 21; the money question as the leading issue, 16; anti-militarism as the leading issue, 6. The Chicago platform will be reaffirmed, 20; non-committal as to Chicago platform, 3. The advocacy not taken seriously, 11; Dewey's candidacy would not hurt Bryan, 12. Bryan by acclamation. 8; Bryan unanimously or on first ballot. 13. Admiral Schley for vice-president. 2; no personal choice for vice-president. 3; Van Wyk. Williams. Pattison and Daniel for vice-president, each 1. BRITISH CLAIM A VICTORY. Say Brabant and Hart Turn Position of Boers. LONDON, April 25.—The report that the seige of Wepener had been practically raised was apparently premature. The Boer attack upon Colonel Dalgyer's northern position as described from Masuer, was probably a final attempt to rush the garrison before securing a safe retreat, and, as Colonel Dalgye successfully repulsed the attack, little further anxiety is felt on his account. Lord Roberts has now spread a net with some 40,000 or more men and 150 guns, covering the whole western semi-circle around Wepener, while General Hamilton has occupied the waterworks, practically without opposition. Lord Roberts reports that General Brabant and Hart have turned the position occupied by the Boers at Wepener, and it is now believed they cannot escape. Boera Near Kimberly. LONDON, April 26.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Kimberly, dated Wednesday, says: "Yesterday the Boers formed a new lager near Windsorton. The force there consists of Campbell and Griquiland rebels, about 500 strong." DeWet Reports a Victory. PARIS, April 26.—A dispatch from Pretoria says that General DeWet has General Brabant's horse isolated and has repulsed two attempts to relieve it, capturing fifty Britishers. Des Moines, April 27, 1900. Governor Shaw has named the members of three of the six commissions created by the legislature last winter—the library commission, which is to promote the general library interests of the state; the commission to locate the positions occupied by Iowa troops at the battle of Vicksburg and the Shiloh commission which carries an appropriation of $400 for the creedation of a museum to make the positions occupied by Iowa soldiers on the field at Shiloh, Captain H. H. Johnson, of Fort Dodge, president of the state library association; Mrs. D. W. Norris, of Grinnell; Mrs. H. M. Towner, of Corning, and Miss Jessie B. Wate, of Burlington, were appointed members of the library commission for terms of two, three, four and five years, as pro- spective members of the superintendent of public instruction, and president of the state university are ex-officio members. The law goes into effect July 1 and the commission will meet immediately after that. The governor has signed the bill by Representative Miller of Fayette, requiring that teachers in the public schools shall be instructed in the rudiments of music. It is not necessary that they shall be singers or performers on any instrument, but they must understand the rudiments of the art of reading music. The governor seriously considered the advisability of vetuing the bill, but found that President Scerley of the state normal school emphasized the theory strongly. Finding a considerable sentiment among teachers themselves in favor of the measure, he concluded to allow it to become law. The Vicksburg commission consists of one member of each of the Iowa regiments or batteries which fought on those fields, and three at large, making thirty-five; the Shiloh commission consists of one member from each regiment or battery, making eleven. Treasurer of State Herriot reports that every cent of the Agricultural College endowment funds have been loaned at 5 per cent. More than $200,000 was on hand when the legislature adjourned, but the law passed allowing the college to loan the money at the market rate resulted in the quick disposition of the funds. Dairy Commissioner Norton says there is but a very small amount of bogus butter sold in Iowa and that under the present revenue laws there is no tax on bogus butter where it is sold. Last year, according to official revenue department statistics, there was imported to Iowa 79,000 pounds of oleomargarine; no less than 80,000,000 pounds of regulation butter. Illinois leads in consumption of oleomargarine; no less than 18,000,000 pounds were used in that state, or about one-fifth of the entire product of the country. The secretary of the executive council has completed computing the railroad assessments for the year 1900; Forty-five systems are included in the assessment, and it makes an aggregate of $45,899,325. The assessments are of special interest this year because of the increasing number of Treasurer Herriott, who says they are unequally adjusted and not in conformity with the laws of the state. The largest assessments are as follows: Chicago & Northwestern, $7,937,590; C. R. I & P., $7,120,169; C. M. & St. Paul, $8,170,946; C. B. & Q., $4,913,794; C. B. & R., $4,913,794; C. B. & R., $1,720,169; Dubuque & Sioux City, $3,314,328; Chicago Great Western, $2,200,890; Kookuk & Western, $456,120; Wabash, $411,420. Attorney General Remley has handed down an opinion to the state board of control construing the pension law passed by the last general assembly and relating to the pension of members of the Soldier's Home. The board of control always declined to use any part of the pension funds and they accumulated under the rules of the trustees requiring all above $6 to be sent to relatives or given to the state. The new law, the attorney general says, requires the pensioners to give one half of their pension money to their dependent relatives if they have any. The other half of the reason that a pensioner who had been sending his extra $2 to his children in the Davenport home to keep from giving it to the state, wanted to retain all of his pension, whereas the law, as the board read it and as the attorney general construes it, forces him to give half of it, or $2 additional, to his children, although they do not need it. The question of paying the Iowa troops, at national guard rates, during the period of their service in the United States army, has been brought before the state auditor, and is now in a position which demands a ruling. For a long time some of the discharged troops have been claiming that they were entitled to national guard pay in the state of Iowa, and received from the government. A batch of claims have been filed with the auditor setting forth these claims on behalf of several members of Company M. Jof the Forty-ninth Iowa. The claims are filed by Eliza C. Johnson, of Maquoketa, as attorney for the claimants. The names of the claimants are Arthur Larkey, John Nims, James D. Frank VanEenburg, James D. VanEenburg, George Hopkins, and Elza C. Johnson. Mr. Johnson was captain of Company M. Mr. Foster was quarter master sergeant, Mr. Larkey was a private and Mr. Nims a private and artificer. Fighting Resumed in Africa. LONDON, April 21.—A special dispatch from Bloemfontein says that firing is reported to be in progress south of Karee siding, six miles north of Glen. The strength of the Boers is not known. British infantry, supported by artillery, hold a strong position on a large dam. Russo-Korean Agreement. SEOUL, April 21.—An agreement has been concluded between the Russian and Korean governments, Korea pledging herself not to alienate Kopje island, at the mouth of Sampho bay. Rob Cleverdale's Adventure. A "WHERE IS HE?" HE GASPED. SEIZING ELVIN'S ARM. CHAPTER XII. When his task was finished Rob was very nervous. He did not know how these letters were going to reach the post. There was no station near. Elvin came riding in—he had been to Buenos Ayres—about supper time, and came in where Rob was, still wearing his high boots and carrying his whip. Rob shuddered as he thought of what that whip would do if Elvin discovered the letter to his uncle. "Fliphead!" asked the Englishman, looking at the neat rows of letters Rob had arranged. "Yes, sir." Elvin took up some of the last ones, and looked them over. He nodded, and went to his own room. He had not touched the letters among which was hidden the one to David Horton. "Now, if it only gets into the post safely!" said Rob to himself. "But how is it going to be done?" No more was said about the letters that night, and Rob did not dare put his plan to escape into execution. He was so eager to have that letter off safely that he resolved to remain another day and watch events. And he knew that if he escaped before the letters were mailed Elvin would suspect something and examine them all. So he slept that night again in the little room off the office. The next morning at breakfast Elvin called a man who was working in the stables. He was a short, ugly fellow, almost black. "Govinov," said Elvin, "you see those letters in there on the desk?" "Me see plenty," he said. "Many letters." "Saddle a horse and ride to Dolores. Go to the postoffice and see Negora. Negora (a with us, and will send the letters without allowing the fact, to become known. Do you understand?" Govino went out and saddled a horse, and then came in and got the letters. Rob breathed freely when he saw the man ride off, for even if he did read the names on the envelopes, it was not likely that he would know that Horton was not to receive one, and perhaps he could not read anything. Elvin remained all that day around "WHERE IS HE?" HE GASP the place, and Rob found no opportunity to get away. He feared every moment that Lemuel Starne would return and recognize him. And now, when there was such hope of rescue, he did not want Starne to know who he was—and to be killed when everything was going along so well. He was glad when night came and he retired to his room. It was a warm night, and while his door was open and the lights still burning, and while Richard Elvin sat just outside smoking, he opened his window. Elvin heard it, but suspected nothing. Then Rob put out his light, shut his door and pretended to go to bed. That night about twelve o'clock the curious hoof-beats of a rapidly ridden horse sounded near the house. Some one leaped from him and thundered at the door. A moment later Lemuel Starne, with white face and panting bosom, stood before the astonished Richard Elvin. "Where is he? Where is he?" he gained, seizing Elvin's arm. "Where is who? What's the matter with you? What's happened?" "Where's this fine penman of yours? There's that lovely nephew of Torrevo who was educated in New York?" "In bed. What the mischief has got into you? Are you mad?" "No, but you are. Do you know what you've done?" "I generally know pretty well. To that special act do you refer?" "I refer to your excellent private secretary," gasp Starne, almost choker with rage. "That cub! That—that where is he?" "In bed, I tell you!" roared Elvin. "What about him?" "He is no more the nephew of Torr than I am. He is the nephew of Horton. he is the very cub I overboard from the Royal Mall. He is a good private secretary. He ```markdown ``` read your fool cipher, and sent the whole story—about me—and all—to Horton. He wrote a letter of his own, and sent it along with yours." Richard Elvin quivered with emotion. "Has Horton seen it?" he managed to gasp. "No. I caught it just in time. I'll tell you about it later. But where is he now? I will make sure of him now. I'll kill him within the next two minutes." With trembling finger Richard Elvin pointed toward the door of Rob's room. "In there!" he whispered. With an oath Starne drew a knife from under his riding coat and leaped toward the door of Rob's room. He flung it open. He stood there with the knife in his hand, stupefied with amazement. The window was open. The room was empty. The boy he was to kill in the next two minutes was not there to kill. CHAPTER XIII. For once in his life, Richard Elvin was staggered. "He's gone!" yelled Lemuel Starne. The elder man made no answer. "He's gone!" shouted Starne again. "Don't you see what a fool you've been?" Richard Elvin was at all times quick to resent a taunt. "Fool!" he echoed. "Why have I bea a fool? The boy may be outside." "Yes—a good way outside," replied Starne, in disgust. "Well, what do you mean, anyhow? You come here like a bellowing bull, rush around to stab people, and howl at me for being a fool. What have you learned?" With a sneer of bitterness too deep for words Starne drew a folded letter from his pocket. "Read that." he said. It was Rob's letter to his uncle. With trembling fingers Elvin held it, and read it through. He returned it to Starne without a word. "Why don't you speak?" demanded the son. "How do you feel, now that your foolishness has upset the whole scheme?" "But has it?" asked Elvin. "I cer- ED, SEIZING ELVIN'S ARM. tainly thought the fellow was all right. How did you get this letter?" "Why, since it became known—or supposed, as this indicates—that Rob Cleverdale was lost overboard and drowned, old Horton has been so broken in spirits that he can scarcely attend to business. He had to have someone near him whom he could trust—and that someone was myself. More and more have I worked into his confidence. Of late he has not been feeling well, and I have attended to all his correspondence. In the last mall yesterday this letter came. I opened it with many others. You can imagine my feelings when I read it. Of course I said nothing to Horton about it, but came directly here to find that cub and finish him. But now, with the same stupidity that has marked your course in the matter from the first, you have let him escape." "Perhaps no harm has been done. You got the letter and no one else has seen it." "But if he sent one to Horton, why not to the president or anyone else?" asked Starne. "I don't think so. He wrote that to his uncle to bring him to the rescue. No, I think we are still safe. I was blind, that I admit. But Torrevo swore he was his nephew. Torrevo, then, must be a traitor." "Where did Torrevo find him? I am sure there was no craft near when I threw him overboard. Still, I might have been mistaken. The 'Black Cat' sails swiftly, and it was a dark night. She would have no lights showing." "I don't understand it," said Elvin. "Torrevo brought him here—to the Bay—and he wore a pictureque Spanish garb. He seemed to look upon Torrevo as his uncle. Torrevo certainly treated him like a nephew, for he beat him unmercifully with a rope's end. --- He said the boy finished opening one of the crew of the 'Black Cat.' "But it is certain that Torrevo lied, for no one but Horton's nephew could have written that letter." "True. Stay! The first time the boy came to Black Cat Bay, Torrevo beat him. This time he did not. It may not be the same boy." "It was the same boy. Torrevo is no doubt playing a deep game. I think I can see through the whole thing. The 'Black Cat' happened to be near when I threw the boy overboard, and picked him up. He told Torrevo who he was, and Torrevo agreed to help him. Of course, knowing our power, Torrevo would not dare do anything while that power existed. It was agreed between them to have the cub remain with Torrevo till an opportunity arose to warn Horton what was going on. This would place Torrevo in the light of being true to Horton and the government, and if we failed, he would not be punished. He would be rewarded for his aid. This is clear enough to me. It was a put up job." "But how could it be? Torrevo did not suggest the boy to do the writing. I did. I saw the tally of the last cargo. The boy did it at Rio, I suppose while Torrevo was drunk." *(To be Continued.)* THEIR OWN MIXTURES. Smokers Who Have Tobacco Compound ad to Seltz Tester Tests The young and inexperienced are ever ready to smile incredulously at the seasoned smoker who offers his tobacco pouch with the remark, "Try some of my own mixture." In some cases "my own mixture" may really be only the smoker's "own" in the sense that he has paid for a few ounces of it, but in spite of the copyrighted and much-advertised special mixtures in these later days, it seems from what one of the most popular downtown tobacconists says, that the habit of buying one's own exclusive "mixture" is not so extinct as might be supposed, says the New York Tribune. "Here is a list of the special mixtures we make," says this authority, taking from a corner a large card, "you see, there are about fifty of them on this card. Each mixture is noted down, all the ingredients and the proportions in which they are to be used, and over each one is the name of the customer who first ordered it. The way of it is that a smoker makes his experiments on different combinations of tobacco until he hits upon something which just suits him. Sometimes he buys the ingredients and mixes them himself, but people have so much to do nowadays that more often they tell us what they want and we do the mixing. It takes weeks to sometimes for a customer to get to just the thing that is aiming at, and, of course, it is all guesswork in the know. You might be surprised to know how long a man will go on using the same mixture, once he has found out what suits him. This first name on the list does not belong to the mixture we have been making the longest; it comes first because the list is alphabetically arranged, but that recipe has been standing here for ten years to my knowledge. It was first ordered by an Englishman; his name still goes with it and he is still using it, but scores of other people also use it who have never heard of him. So, you see, it is possible for a man to be using another man's "particular mixture" and go on using it for years, thinking it his own exclusive mixture all the time. The way some of these mixtures gain popularity shows that it isn't quite exactly true that there are as many different tastes as tongues, for sometimes what exactly suits one man seems exactly to suit a hundred others. When we find a mixture becoming widely popular we sometimes make it up in quantities, but only rarely. And that, I suppose, is how new 'mixtures' get put on the market." Thirteen at Diener. Here is a nice, creepy story told by the son of Sir John Millais, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. There was a dinner party at the Millais house, and when all were seated a lady tremnously observed that there were thirteenth, at table. The painter asked his son to dine in another room, and he did so. When dinner was over, no one seemed anxious to be the first to rise, so Matthew Arnold, who was one of the guests, suggested that he and two stalwart undergraduates should get up simultaneously. The three men did so. Within a year each of them was dead—Arnold by heart disease, one of the lads by suicide, the other by drowning. But why did not fate seize upon Mr. Millais, who left the table first, and by all the rules of superstition should have held the forfeit with his life? Perhaps he was spared because of his amiability in leaving the table to please the worthy goose who called attention to the risk they were all running. How Dogs Fool One Another A correspondent noticing my stories of "Daxies" (who "make believe" in order to draw off each other's attention from desirable things, and to oust each other from comfortable arm chairs, promising burrows, and so forth, makes the following remarks: "Paddy" and the retriever pretend at rabbit holes, just like your dog friends. When one dog is at the hole that the other thinks likelest, the dog who is 'out in the cold,' as it were, gets up a scene, and thus humbugs the dog in possession, and then slips into his place."—London News. "The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." Talpine Matters: Who Made Form a Credit Card at Bank of America Capt. Mathew A. Batson, originator of the now celebrated Macabebes scouts, who played so important a part in the recent campaign in northern Luson, is now in this country and will submit a proposition to the secretary of war to the effect that a regiment of Macabebes cavalry be formed to fight the insurgents and ladrones on their own ground and after their own fashion. Capt. Batson is most enthusiastic in his commendation of the Macabebes as soldiers and he will urge the formation of a cavalry regiment as a result of his six months' experience at the head of the first command of Filipino soldiers ever enrolled under the Stars and Stripes. "The Macabebes are born swimmers," he says. "Whenever we came to a river there was never any hesitation about crossing it. The command would march up and into it with scarcely so much as a preliminary halt, and I found, to my astonishment, that every man could swim, and swim well. I rode a Filipino pony during the greater part of my service in the field with my Macabebes, and I soon learned that the ponies swam as well as the men, or very nearly so. The idea soon occurred to me that a powerful organization of Macabebes on Filipino ponies would be a most powerful force in ending the lawlessness in the island of Luzon. I know no more about the other Philippine islands than you do, and not so much, I'm sure. But Luzon I do know pretty well, and a regiment, as will I will urge, could follow the insurgents and ladrones wherever they might go and so rapidly as to effect their complete disorganization. You see, the Macabebes live on the country. They therefore require no wagon train and all they need is ammunition. They can live on very little and as for water, there is really no need to carry a special supply beyond that which each man carries in his canteen. Once in a while the men suffer a little for water, but these periods are never of long duration. The enemy will, as he is hard pressed, seek the swamps and bays and into and through these he must be pursued. There are no troops that we can muster in the United States so well adapted to this peculiar warfare as the Macabebes. They know the country and they hate the Tagalog, and they are splendid fighters. The ponies, besides, being good swimmers, are strong little brutes and every Macabebe can ride." BOOTBLACK TO SENATOR. Timothy "Dry Dollar" Sullivan is a unique figure in New York politics who has been brought into public notice lately by his antagonism to the movement against gambling and other forms of vice in the metropolis. It is but natural that Sullivan should not be in sympathy with such a campaign. He was born and has thrived in the atmosphere of which District Attorney Gardiner is trying to rid New York and he sees no harm in it. Sullivan began life as a bootblack. Now he is a leader in the state state. He was born in New York thirty-seven years ago and his boyhood was spent around the Five Points, where he blacked shoes and sold papers and was a leader of the gamins. As soon as he could vote the politicians took him up and at twenty-three he was able to demand a nomination for the assembly. He has been in office ever since, never tasting defeat. Since 1892 he has been in the senate. He has maintained his influence by befriending such of his constituents as ran afoul of the law, by organizing relief movements for the poor, and by giving "Dry Dollar" Sullivan picnics and balls to which the voters of his district are invited. He has a host of relatives, all of whom live in his district and every one of whom receives aid from the senator. When he moved into the upper house of the legislature he had his nephew, Timothy P. Sullivan, better known as "Boston Tim," elected to the assembly. Although he is looked up to as a very TIM SULLIVAN. generous man by his retainers, his emmen, once earned, attends his victim to the grave. His followers boast that he unhorshed Byrnes and drove McCullagh out. They will give you the names of half a dozen police captains who have suffered various forms of degradation because, as his henchmen say, they have interfered with Sullivan's interests, political or financial. In his own district, they look up to Sullivan as a feudal lord, and believe that neither money nor the law can defeat him. An Improvement. Dobbs—"I suppose you are a selfmade man?" Bobbs—"No; If I were I should have built my stomach to correspond with my appetite."—Baltimore, American. Last year the American people consumed 8,000,000 tons of sugar, of which 1,315,000 tons were made by the sugar farm. Millions for Baseball. A million of dollars are spent every year for baseball, but large as this is, it cannot equal the amount spent in search of health. We urge those who have spent much and lost hope to try Hostetler's Stomach Bitters. strengthens the stomach and digests any acid, and can dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness and weak kidneys. The Idaho prohibitionists want to send Miss Amanda Way to congress. A Mother's Tears. "I Would Cry Every Time I Washed My Baby." "When he was 8 months old, first feathers and then large bolls broke out on my baby's neck. The sores spread down his back until it became a mass of raw flesh. When I washed and powdered him I. would cry, realizing what pain he was in his pitiful walling was heart-rending. I had about given up hope of saving him when I was urged to give him Hood's Saraparilla, all other treatment having failed. I washed the sores with Hood's Medicated Soap, applied Hood's Olive Ointment and gave him Hood's Saraparilla. The child seemed to get better every day, and very soon the change was quite noticeable. The discharge grew lyes, inflammation went down, the skin took on a healthy color, and the raw flesh began to scale over and a thin skin formed as the scales dropped off. Less than two bottles of Hood's Saraparilla, aided by Hood's Medicated Soap and Hood's Olive Ointment, accomplished this wonderful cure. I cannot praise these medicines half enough." Mrs. GUERINOT, 8 Myrtle St., Rochester, N. Y. The above testimonial is very much condensed from Mrs. Guerinot's letter. As many mothers will be interested in reading the full letter, we will send it to anyone who sends request of us on a postal card, Mention this paper. PARALYSIS Locomotor Ataxia com disability in puzzling. Specialists in motorized learning DR.CRAIBES BLOOD AND NERVEFOOD and proof of cure for falls. DR. CHAIN, 224, OHIO. ...100,000 GOOD PEOPLE... To see our agents and get one of our policies Fidelity Insurance Co. Des Molines, Ia. LICENSE WANTED AGENTS WANTED. A. L. Tullis, See'y and Mgr. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM BEST COUGH CURE Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Communion, First shape, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use stance. You will see the excellent effect after taking the Kemp's Cough Cure everywhere. Large belts 20 cents and 50 cents. PISO'S CURE FOR GUNS WHERE ALL LINE FAKE. Because of the danger of fire, the time in use, food by drugstore. CONSUMPTION Washington, April 30—Bacon, of Georgia, offered two resolutions, one inquiring of the secretary of defense or had received salaries for the performance of civil duties in addition to their receiving or had received salaries for the guard to officers' expenses. Both resolutions were objected to and went over. A resolution by Gallifrey directing the secretary of the defense to derive from the war revenue act, regarding each subject of taxation to be stated separately, derived from the war revenue act, regarding during the greater part of to-day's session the conference report on the Hawaiian civil government measure. Culpm made an amendment to the bill. The report was the subject of sharp criticism. Final action upon it was postponed. HOUSE As a result of a protected struggle the provision of the armor is appropriate to correct the armor for the battleships Maine, Ohio and Mississippi. The price for $85 per ton, the price asked for Krupp armor, is out of the bill, as is the provision to request armor by the current law. SENADE Washington, April 21.—After a discussion lasting more than two hours the senate agreed to inform the Georgia calling upon the secretary of war to inform the senate whether United States army salaries or other compensation for their services in addition to their regular pay as officers; and the second calling upon the senate to inform the senate regarding the amounts expended for quarters, decorations of quarters and equipments, expended for army officers in Cuba or Puerto Rico. HOUSE The house passed the naval appropriations bill, and the senate approved the committee's recommendations in committee of the whole were agreed to. The remainder of the session was devoted to eulogies on the life of the late Representative Evan Ekett of Kentucky. SENATE Washington, April 23.—The day was spent in the Senate, where the senate voted to vanish a seat in the senate. Chandler of New Hampshire, Kenney of Delaware and Penny of Maryland spoke for Wisconsin, White Plate of Connecticut and Quaries of Wisconsin, opposed him. HOUSE Upon request of Heppburn, of Iowa, chairman of the interstate and foreign commerce commission, the Senate approved May 1 and 2 for the consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill. The post-office approving committee was an arrangement to close general debate to the SENATE. Washington, A. M., S. Quy-to-day was refused a seat in the United States senate on the appointment of the governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, A. M., S. Quy-to-day was devoted to debate upon the question, many of the greatest lawyers and orators in the body debating speeches. THE HOUSE adopted the Foraker emergency resolution to continue the present officers in the House of Representatives made under the civil government act as amended by the committee on insular affairs, and the postoffice appropriation bill were disposed of. SENATE Washington, April 23. -- The agricultural appropriation bill amounted to $8,000,000. The Hawaiian civil government bill was under consideration for an hour, but on May 1, the governor signed the bill on Hawaiian government bill was agreed to. HOUSE The house put its heel upon the pneumatic mall tube service now in operation in New York. The committee will stand the whole service will be crushed out. The postoffice committee will be recommended an increase of appropriation for this service from $23,500 to $725,000. SENATE Washington. April 26. Almost the entire session of the senate today was devoted to a conference of the senate in the State of New York to retain his seat in the Senate. A vote was not taken. HOUSE After four days of the conference the house today passed the postoffice appropriation bill. European Nations Showing Demands on Turkey. CONSTANTIONPLE, April 26.—In view of the steps taken by the United States government in regard to claims rising out of the Armenian massacres, the embassies of Great Zibritain, France, Austria, Italy and Germany have asked their governments for instructions as to their similar claims. The promulgation of the irade, authorizing the rebuilding of American structures burned at Kharbut and the enlargement of Roberts college is regarded as showing clearly the desire of the yildiz kiosh to be agreeable to the United States in the hope the latter will not press for indemnity. The United States government, however, has no intention of abandoning its claim. Natural Fortress Said to Have Been Entered by British Troops. LONDON, April 27.—The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, under Wednesday's date says: "Our mounted infantry entered the high mountain plateau of Thaba N'Chu today, almost without opposition. As Thaba N'Chu is a natural fortress, this must mean that the Boers have practically thrown up the sponge in this section of the country. If the force presses on to Ladysmith the whole country south of that point and in line with Bloemfontein will be completely in our hands. The difficulty is in the fact that the mandos immediately on finding themselves beaten, retreat to their farms and resume the roles of peaceful citizenship, hiding their rifles." SULTAN ORDERS PAYMENT. Authorizes Rebuilding of Destroyed Missionary Buildings. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 25.—An imperial irade has been issued authorizing the rebuilding of the property of the American missionaries that was burned at Harpoot. The construction of an annex to Roberts college is also authorized. WASHINGTON, April 25.—The state department has won its main point in the controversy with Turkey, as is shown by the dispatch from Constantinople stating that an imperial irade has just been promulgated granting permission to build the American property at Harpoot, and also to build an annex to Roberts college in Constantinople. To Advance Gen. Miles. WASHINGTON, April 21.—The senate committee on military affairs reached an agreement to report a bill for reorganization of the army with a number of amendments. The bill confers the rank of lieutenant general upon the senior major general, and that of major general upon the adjutant general of the army. Two Hundred Houses Wreaked. YOKOHAMA, April 12, via Victoria, April 34.—Through the explosion of a powder magazine at Kam Shu, China, recently, 224 houses were destroyed and thirty persons killed. 100 LABASTINE is the original and only durable wall coating, and it is also used in some comines. Ready for use in white or fourteen beautiful tints by adding cold water. ADIES naturally prefer ALKASTINE, because it is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry powdered form, in five-pound packages, because it is cheap. KALASIMINES are a cheap, temporary preparations made from whiting, chalks, etc., and stuck on walls with ALKASTINE. ALKASTINE is not a kalasimine. EWARE of the dealer who says he can sell you the "same thing" as anything just as good." He is either not posted or is trying to deceive you. ND IN OFFERING something to buy but the ALKASTINE's demands, he may not realize the damage you will suffer by a kalasimine on your walls. ENSIBLE dealer who sells you one by selling and consumers by using infringement. Alakastine Coating to mix with cold water. HE INTERIOR WALLS of every church and school, durable ALABASTINE. It safeguards health. Hundreds of tons used yearly in building customers. ALABASTINE, customers should avoid getting cheap kalsimson under it. Wood ceilings, having our goods in packages and properly labeled. UISANCE of wall paper is obviated by ALABASTINE. It allows wood ceilings, brick or canvas. A child can brush it on. It does not rub or scale off. STABILISHED in favor of a cleaner dealer or drugstret for tint card. Write us for interesting books. CO- Grand Rapids, Mich. Iowa State Bystander, 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and pondence from many different 24 towns in Iowa and corres from many different states. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. DBS MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS ARRIVE. 9:30 p.m. m...Chicago Limited. p:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. m...Night Express. *12:55 a.m. 12:40 p.m. m...Day Express. *1:00 p.m. Hawkeye Limited. 7:00 a.m. C.R.I. & I.P. 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CASE DROP CARPEN BURDICK SEWING MACHINE by freight, C.O.D. on sale now. You can examine it at your nearest freight depot and if fours are required, you can pay $15.50 for each bldg at $90.00, and THE GREATEST BARGAIN YOU HEARD OF, pay Special Offer Price $15.50 and freight charges $ Machine weighs 120 pounds and the freight will range 85 cents for each 500 miles. DIVE IN THREE MONTHS' TRIAL in the store and get a free gift. We'll refine it. Would diffract make and grade of Sewing Machines at $25.50, $10.00, $11.00, $13.00 and all fully described in our Free Sewing Machine. The greatest value ever offered by any house. All other trains daily except Sanday CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT North Star Lodge, No. 2, A. H. M. - Meets Third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall - East Second and Walnut. J. F. Blagburn, W. M.; G. M. H.Cleggt, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 5 - Meets Third Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Fred Jackson, M. C.; G. H. Cleggt, Rec. 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The druggist, Mr. Otto Soholz, says the family hae since recommenced Cham berlain'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 WANTED-SEVERAL BRIGHT AND honest persons to represent us as Mana- gers in this and close by counties. Salary $400 a year and expenses. Braight, bona-fide, no more, no less salary. Position permanent, mainly office work conducted at home. Re- ference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope The DOMINION COMPANY. Dept. 3, Chicago. The GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE has improved the equipment of its daylight service between Chicago and Des Moies by the addition of Parlor Cars to its train, No. 1., Westboug, leaving Chicago at 9:00 a.m. daily except Sun- EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. 220 THIRD ST. FHONE 579. KEOKUK ROUTE A. C. GOODBICH, Vice Pru & Gena'l Mar. A. McCRAE, Gena'l 1 Pru & Pru. Appr. W. C. GOODBICH, Just. 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CHICAGO. and those having dirty work to do. only removes it and stains it quickly, but so softens and invigorates We want to sell you your Millinery—your Corsets, your ready-to-wear clothes—in fact we want your trade and there's nothing too good for you in any section of this Great Store. But we are booming the Basement which is a wonderful store by itself—and we offer these Big Bargains for Monday—Take time to come and see what you can buy. The Basement has established a shoe department where you can buy good shoes at little prices—Monday we will sell One lot of Men's black or tan shoes worth $2.50 per pair for $1.98. One lot of Men's fine calf shoes worth $3.25 per pair for $2.48. Misses' Shoes 100 pairs of Misses' tan or black shirts at 79c. 5000 yards of fancy white goods—13 Monday at ... One case of fine Zehyr Swiss Ginghs Monday at ... Three cases of best 7c calicoes, in green Monday per yard ... Just received—100 doxen ladies' shirts, pinks and blues—while they last. 1000 men's and boy's sweaters in dark at ... Wash Goods—one case of colored w dark colorings—worth 12½c—for... SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. 100 pairs of Misses' tan or black shoes, worth $1.25 per pair, Monday at 79c. Just received—100 dozen ladies' shirtwaists in 'light colors— pinks and blues—while they last. 25c Telephones 656, 688 and 689. DES MOINES, 10. IOWA. RENNA, Jackson Co. W. Va. About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which confined her to her bed for over a month and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs being swollen to double their normal size. Mr. S. Maddox insisted on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I purchased a fifty-eent bottle and used it according to the directions and the next morning she walked to breakfast without assistance in any manner, and she has not had a similar attack since—A. B. PARSONS. For sale by all Druggists. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR RDIS tried our assistance in rescuing them in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay nearly $800. payable weekly. Desirable employment with unusual or opportunities. References exchanged. Enclose official letter of recommendation. S. A Park, $30 Carton Building, Chicago 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is patented or not. Patents strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of patent literature. Comes a year, four months, $1. Sold by all newsletters. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 655 F. St. Washington, D.C. TRUSSES, 65c, $1.25 AND UP 65c. We are selling the very finest Trusses made by our company. We are proud to offer the price charged by others, and WE GUARANTEE TO FIT YOU PERFECTLY. Say to our customers, "We have been made for you. We have been made for you. We have been made for you." ad. out and send to us with OUR SPECIAL PRICE saved, and we will ship to you at our New York Reverseable Knife Truss, illustrated above, cut this number inches around the body on a line with the rupture, whether rupture is large or small; also state we will send either truss, so you with the understanding. If it is not a perfect fit and equal to trusses that we will send, we will return you. will return your money. WRITE FOR FREE TRUSS CATALOGUE which shows all types of trusses, including the New $10.00 Lean Truss $2.75 that curves almost any one, and which we sell for SEARS, ROEBUCK & Co. CHICAGO REMARKABLE CURE hoes, worth $1.25 per pair, Monday ½c grade— 8½c rams—15c grade— 7½c rays, reds and blacks— 5c stwaists in'light colors— 25c ork colors— 19c each wash dimity—light and 8½c The Dunbar Literary Society has been organized in the Third Baptist church with Mr. M. B. Anderson President Mrs. Lizzie Bell Vice-president and Mrs. E. J. Saunders Secretary. Mrs. Mary Miller of Fairfield has been in the city sometime visiting her daughter Mrs. Lydia Moss of West 10th street. Miss Molle Woods of Ft. Madison arrived in our city the 21st, the guest of Mrs E. J. Saunders of East 11th street. The G. U. O. of O. F. is practicing for their Thanksgiving sermon which comes off the first Sunday in May. Mrs. Mary Wright of Sterling Ill. arrived here Saturday the 21st to visit her husband Mr. C. F. Wright of E. Pleasant street she returned to Sterling Tuesday. Rev. Christy pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church preached a sermon Sunday night to the railroad and hotel men beginning at 9:45 before he began Rev. Burton of the Third Baptist church was introduced and made a few remarks. Rev. Christy preached an able sermon Mrs. Marshall made the welcome addressed which was one of the best ever made in this city by a woman, W. D. Parker responded for the railroad men. The collection taken was $10.49. BURLINGTON BRIEFLETS. The Sunday School of St. John's A M. E. church kindly donated the paper and Mesdames Tigg, Drew, Kinney. Douglass and Watkins papered the church. Mr. Wm. Emanuel calcimined the ceiling and the German Methodist church donated some handsome chandelies, and the church looks very nice and cozy. Rev. Smith preached a very good sermon Sunday morning at St. John's A. M. E. church. Mr. T. L. Burnett of Washington St. spent several days in Mt. Pleasant visiting her husband and was the guest of Mrs. McCracken. Quarterly meeting, Sunday 29th Presiding Elder Bundy will be present. General Glass Friday night, Love Feast, Monday April 30th, Quarterly Conference Saturday evening. The ordinance of baptism will be administered to all that are to be baptized Sunday evening. Mrs. Jas. Higgins who was called very suddenly to Cincinnati Ohio to attend the bedside of her brother-in-law Edgar 1. Watson who did March 24th returned home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. R. Knight left for Milwaukee, Sunday evening. Rev. White of the Baptist church was called to Kansas City to the bedside of his mother, who is lying very low. He lost his brother a few days ago. The landlord with the Rev. and in the loss of his brother and the illness of his mother. Mesdames Jennie Drew H. Cooper, George Tyler and Mr. Rufus Wilson are still quite sick and confined to the bed. Mrs. Lizie Palmer of Des Moines was in the city Tuesday to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Paby Brooks was the guest of her father Rev. Jas. Higgins, she returned home Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Peter King had a very successful operation performed at the St. Francis Hospital, at this writing he has improved so much that he has returned to his home. Mrs. Lee Ridley of Chicago attended the funeral of her sister Jas. Jno. Brooks she returned home Saturday, while here was the guest of her mother Mrs. Mary Emmanuel. Don't forget the Canadian Jubilee Singers entertainment May 11th at the First M. E. church for the benefit of St. John's A. M. E. church. The Christian Endeavor Society of St. John's A. M. E. church held a very successful business meeting and social Tuesday evening. Mrs. Alice Newton of Des Moines is still in the city the guest of her mother, Mrs. Emanuel, she was called here by the death of her sister Mrs. Brooks. On Easter, Missionary day rendered a very appropriate programme in the evening. Papers were read by Mrs. Grace Allen, Mrs. Lenora Cooper and Mrs. John Carter. NEWTON NOTES.. James Renix of Des Moines spent Sunday in our city. Sunday the 29th will be quarterly meeting at the A M. E. church. The sociable given Saturday evening proved to be a financial and social success. Mrs. A. E. Fine has recovered from her recent illness. Miss Etta Mayes returned to Des Moines Tuesday morning after a brief visit with relatives. The many friends of Mr. Fred Green pleased to see him at Sunday School. C. J. Tolliver of Rock Island was an over Sunday visitor. [Last Week's Correspondence.] Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carter have returned to their home in Sumerset after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Mr. C. J. Tolliver of Rock Island was a guest of the Newton friends last Thursday. Mr. W. E. Fine of Ottumwa spent several days with his parents and friends returning home Wednesday. Mr. Clearance Miller who has been quite ill with throat trouble is better. The Easter programme at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening was one of the best given in our city. Mrs. A. E. Fine is very ill with inflama tory rheumatism, her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. Geo. Lucas of Ewart spent Easter with friends in the city. He will leave for Liverpool, England the last of this week. Mr. A. Hayes who has been a victim of rheumatism is ketter. Mrs. Thomas Watson has recovered from her recent illness. Mr. Fred Green is still improving- MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Rev. Boyd preached his farewell sermon last Sunday, he has been called to take the charge at Otumwa, he has the best wishes of the good citizens of our city. On last Monday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Brown a reception was given in honor of Rev. Boyd and family. Mrs. Carrie Suter has returned from Mason City to visit a while in our city. Miss Bertha Green of Toledo is very ill at this writing. Miss Delia Howard of Albion attended the reception of Rev. Boyd. Some one poisoned Mrs. G. L. Suter's dog, people are getting pretty low when it comes to killing dogs in this fashion. Rev. M. J. Burton has been in the city visiting his wife. There will be services at the A. M. E. church next Sunday evening all are invited to attend. Mrs. Ella Cottomus is sick at this writing. Mrs. Rese Hughlett has gone to Toledo to visit Miss Dertha Green, also Miss May Mayes who returned after a stay of a few days. It is rumored that Miss Sarah Cottomus contemplates starting a restaurant. COALFIELD NEWS J. H. Lang General Agent for National Protective Society of Bay City Mich., left here enroute to Keb, on another business trip. T. W. White the General Agent for the American Woolen Mill company of Chicago, Ill., are meeting with great success in the city, and Mr. Lang will be in Hocking on the 28 to stay three day on business for the National Protective Society of Bay City Michigan. Mr. I, B. Mitchell has left for Ottumwa where he will be employed in the hotel work. The Small pox scare is over at last. The revival meetings which are being carried on by Rev J. M. Haggard are doing great good for this place. The miners got a raise on April 11th of five cents a day men two cents, coal per ton eighty-five cents, drivers and other day men in side $2.43; mining ore running steady. REASON WELL. To the mermaid forms with their long green hair: And the sounds of summer; wore in the air. In the yellow heart of the afternoon. O days of pleasure! O days of June! What after days can with you compare? What draughts with the draughts from the sun-fire? Half way home from school! Friend, dear friend! Let us turn aside to the leads from the school-house door: Like sunset spilled in a sky of gray! And the regal trilliums, how they sway! And the red ananassa simper and bow, Like dancer that lead, scarce knowing In the minutest that the wind-harp play. Done for the day with lesson and rule— Half way home from school. house door: We must be half way home or more. Half way to dew-fall and eventide. Let us show in the shade where our paths divide. In the sweet old way that we did of yore. And we'll talk it over the way we've come Resting, half-way home. —New York Independent. Gallant Little Hale Robbins. By Charles Adams. nest in the tree-top, and immediately the peculiar whistling cries of the young were heard. "Oh, I hear 'em squeam!!" cried little Lois. "Don't they squeam high?" It was a large fish, and perhaps life was not wholly extinct in it; when torn by the young beaks and talons, it may have given a spasmoid flop. This was probably the reason that one of the small birds was dislodged from its place in the nest and fell. An instant later, it caught by its talons on a small, low limb of the tree and hung there, swinging and screaming. "One of 'em has tumbled out!" cried Hale, and boylike, he ran forward, followed by little Lois, both much excited; for the young bird was not more than twenty feet from the ground. Unable to fly as yet, it clung to the limb with its feet, flopping clumsily. Meantime, the parent eagle, after peering down from the nest, swooped past it, then rose. Another smaller eagle, too, the male bird, probably, appeared on the scene, and sailed around the tree. The eaglet's screams excited the children greatly, and they approached nearer, to get a better view. Several times the parent bird swooped close beside the suspended aglet, and rose as if to hear it aloft again; but the youngster clung obstinately and screamed continuously, while little Lois cried aloud, from sympathy or excitement. The noise seemed to rouse the ire of the old bird, and it swooped close to the head of the children, snapping a wrathful, yellow beak, and uttering short, hoarse screams. It came very close, flapping its great wings, and its savage eyes were so terrifying that Lois turned, orying, and ran back to where they had set down the bushel basket; but Hale caught up a stone and flung it high at the bird, shouting, "Keep off, old snapper-bill!" Immediately the eagle swooped again, so near that its talons clutched the straw hat on the boy's head, and one pinion brushed his face. Thereupon he seized a dry hemlock bough, and facing the bird, which rose no more than thirty or forty feet in the air, struck at it as it swooped a third time. But the eagle descended with such force that Hale was knocked over; and this time one of its talons to the brush from his hands, lacerating his right wrist. Screaming fiercely, the bird rose, carrying the dry bough high in the air, while the boy, alarmed and hurt, ran backward tq where little Lois stood. The other eagle swooped toward the children, but not close enough to strike with its claws. Lois was now crying loudly and looking for some place to hide herself, but on the burnt land there is little cover. While the female eagle was hovering above them, still holding the dry bough, the lad remembered the corncutter which was in the bushel basket along with the school-books and lunchbasket. He flourished it defiantly, shouting, "I'll cut your head off, old eagle!" and the morning sun may have cast a glint upward from the blate; for the female eagle, dropping the bough, swooped again more savagely than before. This time one claw clutched the boy's head, tearing two deep scratches in his forehead, and pulling out a great deal of his hair. He was knocked down and cried out from the pain, but struggled bravely to his feet and faced the fierce bird, which was now hovering almost directly over his head, so eaming and snapping with its beak. The other bird also stooped again, as it seconding the attack of its more formidable mate. The shrieks of the little girl only increased their exasperation. If the boy had wavered, it would probably have proved fatal to one or both of the children. But Hale cried, "Stop that crying, Lo, and put the bushel basket over your head!" Bareheaded and bleeding himself, he gallantly faced the hovering bird and brandished the corn-cutter. Down it swooped on him again; but the little fellow, learning from experience, dodged aside and struck as the eagle shot past. He hit it with the point of the blade, and felt the sudden joy of striking home for the first time. Enraged, the bird turned short in the air, screaming wildly, and dashed at him again. This time it fixed a talon in his back, knocked him off his feet, and dragged him till his clothing gave way. He fell hard upon some small loose stones, and for an instant lay prostrate—so frightening little BY THE LATE NOW you remember the way the book fades the loe of a laural lodge. With a wild dog-rose in the blackberry, hedge, And that hat like a shepherd's crook. And the story we read in a green-deaved book. With a buttercup border about its edge— Where we stopped to rest in the shadows dowel. Hall way home from school? The lovely laurie. I see it now. Like sunset spilled in a sky of gray! And the royal trilliums, how they away! And the red anacissim and bow, Like dancers that lead, scarce knowing how, In the air that the wind-harps play. Done for the day with lesson and rule— Hall way home from school. T HAT true hero, MasterHale Robbins has nearly recovered from the wounds received last August in his remarkable battle with two white-headed eagles, accounts of which were published at the time in several Maine newspapers. But it makes one's heart ache to see the scars on the little fellow—great, blue, livid scars that go to the bone; eight on his face and scalp, elevan on his right arm and shoulder, six on the other arm, three down his back and several others—over thirty in all! This lad of ten is indeed a "battle-scarred veteran!" Some of the scars he will carry to his grave—eloquent evidence of the pluck with which he fought the big birds of prey. But thanks to the boy's courage, his little sister Lois, in whose defence he made the fight, but has one light scar upon her cheek. The two or three red marks still visible on her haud and wrist, when contrasted with his wounds, show plainly how Hale took the aggressive and bore the brunt of the battle. The fight was fought to the finish. It was nearly an hour after the eagles first sweeped down that a last lucky blow of the corncutter brought the big female to the ground. A local taxidermist has mounted this eagle, and no ornithological collection within my knowledge possesses a more savage specimen of Haliaetus lucephalus. The wings, from tip to tip, spread fully six feet six inches. The assault was not wholly unprovoked, although the children were not to blame for it. By ill luck, the birds had just been disturbed by the fall of one of their young from the nest in the great elm-tree. The Robbinses live in a clearing on the St. Croix River, in eastern Maine. From their house to the district school the road is a long one for little six-year-old Lois Robbins, and for a mile and a half or more it traverses the forest. But up to the morning of the encounter the child had not missed a day of the summer term. Hale had been his sister's trusty guardian ever since she was large enough to toddle out-of-doors, and the child needed a protector there, for it is a rather wild sort of country, not wholly free from wild animals. The boy appears to have had no uncontrolled or wavering sense of his fraternal responsibility. Ever since he was seven years old he had undertaken "never to come home without little sister." That morning they set off for school just before eight o'clock. In addition to their dinner-pail and two books, they carried a light woven bushel basket and an old lush-hook, or corncutter, as they called it, because their father sometimes used it for cutting rows of sweet corn in the garden. The tool consisted of about fifteen inches cut from the point of a wormout hay soyte, so inserted in a rude wooden handle that blade and handle stood at right angles with each other. Grandma Robbins had asked Hale to stop on his way home from school at a swale near the run and cut a quantity of thoroughwort and snakehead, two herbs much prized by the old woman, which were then in flower, fit for gathering. The basket and cutting-hook were for this purpose, but the children were told not to take them to the schoolhouse, but to leave them at "Indian Jake's skane," just beyond the swale. The Indian is their nearest neighbor, but at the time he happened to be away from home, guiding tourists at the lakes. The eagle's nest was an object of constant interest to Hale, who often stopped to watch the birds come and go from the elm-tree, which stands on a bluff overlooking the river. As the children came along that morning little Lois espied one of the eagles flying heavily to the tree, bearing a fish in its talons, taken perhaps from some fish-hawk on the neighboring lake. "Oh, look!" the child exclaimed, dropping the handle of the basket and pointing with her finger. "There's the old eagle going to the nest, and it's got a great thing in its feet!" "It is going to feed the young ones," said Hale. "Now hark, and you'll hear 'em scream!" The eagle bore the fish to the big Lola that she ran toward him, partly raising the basket on her head. One of the eagles swooped at the same moment, struck its claws into the basket, tearing it away, and wounding the child's face. Her shriek of pain brought the dazed boy to his feet; but before he could strike, the eagle swooped again with great force. One claw buried itself in his upraised arm, and again he was dragged violently from his feet. The eagle, holding fast, with an angry scream, beat him hard with its wings, then sunk its hooked beak in his cheek. 4 Boy and bird fell and rolled over on the ground; and the boy grasped the bird's neck, and with his wounded arm dealt such blows as he could, and tore out handfuls of feathers until the eagle, struggling free from his grasp, rose a few feet. The relief was only for an instant, for the bird pounced down on him again, and yet again. The lad was thrown on his back, but kept on fighting, striking and kicking upward with both feet. The eagle, clutching his foot with its talons, dragged him for a number of yards, beating him terribly with its wings. It was while being thus dragged, his eyes nearly blinded with blood, that the boy, striking for dear life's sake with the ocn-corn, grove the point of it into the eagle under its wing. For a little time the wound appeared ineffective. The bird let go its hold and rose, but instantly pounced down again, tearing away great strips of his clothing, which it soon let drop to pounce on him again. The blood was pouring down Hale's face and he could hardly see; but whenever he discerned the shadow of the bird and felt the wind of its swoop, he kicked upward and struck out with the bush-hook. Cuts on the eagle's legs and head show that some of these desperate, raindon blows were effective. Again and again the eagle fell upon him. Had the male bird bird proved itself as force a fighter as its mate, neither of the children could have escaped. At length the eagle aligned on the ground near by. It was much hurt and could no longer keep the air; but it still strutted unsteadily forward to renew the attack, screaming viciously. Weak from the loss of blood, Hale could with difficulty get to his feet; but he used the corn-cutter as often as the bird approached within reach. After this manner they fought for half an hour, when the eagle beat a retreat, itself hardly able to walk, much less to fly away. The other bird had flown back to the nest. Calling Lois to him and taking her hand, the lad now attempted to get up and go home with her, but found that he could not stand alone. Lois, who was not so badly hurt herself, was frightened at the terrible appearance of her brother, and at the strange way in which he kept falling down. She left him at length, and running all of the way home, told mother that the cagles had picked Hale's eyes out! for Lois thought that he was blind. Mrs. Robbins rushed to the place and found Hale sitting very sober on a stone, a dreadful little object, not blind indeed, but very weak and hardly able to move on account of the stiffening of his wounds. His mother was obliged to carry him much of the way home. The doctor, who was sent for and saw the boy late the following evening, found it necessary in dressing his wounds to take not less than thirty stitches. Mr. Robbins, the father, found the female eagle the next day, "mumping" in a fir thicket near the river; it was too nearly dead to offer much resistance. —Youth's Companion. City Map and Country Maps The homing instinct in the blood is felt by hard-headed, shrewd and practical men, engaged in business in great towns, and apparently free from inconvenient sentiment. Yet, though they scan their newspapers with keen and eager relish, they throw them aside when read, while some little sheet, not particularly well printed, and put together as if jumbled in a scrap-basket, is slipped into the pocket and carried home. This is the country paper published up-country, and filled with intimate personal details, the pleasant and kindly neighborhood gossip which goes on at the postoffice and around the station when the train comes in. 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The largest item is salaries of expertise—$72,045. Bishop Walsham Howe, like the mothers of Pierre and Thomas in the "Bab Ballads," was "of decent size, though not particularly tall." He gives his height as five feet nine inches, but on his first visit to Almondbury to preach, the verger came to him in the vestry and said: "A've put a platform in t'u'mp for t'ye; you'll excuse me, but a little wan looks as if he was in a too." Uncomfortable beds are the rule in Manila. There are no springs, mat tresses or slats. A square of woven rattan, like that of a cane-seat chair, is stretched over a wooden frame. On the rattan a sheet is spread, and this is the bed. Henry Fielding was once asked by Lord Denbigh why he wrote his name "Fielding" instead of "Fielding," as his lordship's family used. "I can not tell, my lord," replied the novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." MORRIS CREEK BRIDGE. Bands of Indians Fought There Years Age, And Horrors Have Been Continued There Ever Since—Rendezvous of Robbers. Probably no place in the United States has been the scene of more crime than the Morris creek railroad bridge, near Montgomery, W. Va., which is soon to lose its identity at the hands of bridge builders engaged to remodel it, and the creek which it spans. The original owners were the Morris brothers, who held the patent from the state of Virginia, and from these brothers the creek bears its name. How many tragedies occurred here before the white man came is not known, but tradition says the creek was the scene of a number of conflicts between the Mingoes and the Shawnees, and the quantities of arrows and stone hatchets which can be found there bear out the correctness of this statement. At one time this creek was one of the prettiest bits of scenery in the Kanawha valley, but the railroads and coal mines have taken away much of the beauty which it once possessed, and the beautiful stream of water is now but a discolored drain for all the impurities of the different mines along its course. In August, 1894, Dr. J. W. Davis, a prominent physician of Montgomery, was returning from a professional visit up this creek, when he was fired upon and received wounds from which he died in a few hours. This assassination was carefully planned, and fire was opened upon the doctor by his invisible assailant before he had got into dangerous range. The doctor whipped up his horses and tried to escape, and in so doing was compelled to drive nearer to the ambush of his foe. He drove MORRIS CR through a hall of bullets, three of which took effect, wounding him mortally. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail of the assassin, and in a day or so Bud Clendennin, a man who but a short time before had recovered from an illness through which the kind-hearted doctor had treated him free of charge, was captured. He was tried, convicted at Charleston and given a life sentence in the penitentiary, where he subsequently died, protesting his innocence to the last. The fact that it was on the eve of an election, and that for some of the jurymen to vote it would be necessary for them to dispose of the case that night, saved Clendennin from the gallows, as 11 of the jury were for hanging, the other was not, and, declaring his intention of holding the fort, the rest in, so that they might vote. In the same year, and but a few months later, the body of Dr. J. C. Aultz, a well-known surgeon, was found a lifeless mass under the fatal bridge. Unknown parties attempted to blow up the bridge with dynamite during a strike in 1894, but owing to the fact that they were not familiar with the explosive the force of the explosion was unconfined, and though the bridge was somewhat weakened, comparatively little damage was done. During all the time that the Lewis gang of robbers and murderers existed this was their rendezvous, and every move which they made was planned under the shadow of the old bridge. Here it was that John Cochran, miner, was coaxed one night in March and murdered, robbed and then his lifeless body cast into the inky waters of the creek, and washed out into the bosom of the Kanawha river. VIers, who led the white element of this gang, made an effort to throw the responsibility for this murder upon an innocent man named Lewis, who was an enemy, but on the scaffold his nerve failed him, and he confessed that his former statements were false, and that Lewis had nothing to do with the murder. Back in 1880 the first lynching that ever took place in that section occurred within a few hundred yards of this bridge. Mart Lee, who had assaulted a white lady, was turned over to the sheriff of Fayette county by the sheriff of Kanawha on this bridge, which was then the dividing line between two counties. In a short time a mob overpowered the sheriff, and, taking Lee, swung him over the river from the first available tree. Many people have fallen between the tracks of this bridge, and sustained serious injuries. The last of these was only a few months ago, when an insane soldier from the Philippines, in charge of two guards, en route to one of the eastern army infirmaries at night, and while the train was passing over the bridge, leaped out, and was immediately followed by one of the guards, who was permanently injured. The insane man was never found. SNAKE'S LONG FAST. Venomous Indian Cobra Hasn't Eaten Anything for 28 Months All bona-fide fasting records have been broken by La Tosca, the great Indian cobra at the Zoo. This snake has been under close scientific observation for 22 months past, during all of which time the reptile has not tasted a morsel of food. Bacteriologists from several medical colleges and others representing pharmaceutical concerns have been endeavoring to secure specimens of the big snake's venom, which brings instant and horrible death to all forms of animal life, but La Tosca, in her voluntary fast of 22 months, has never once opened her mouth wide enough to enable these scientists to secure. the venom by any of the ordinary methods of snake handling. The venom-fang is a long, sharp conical tooth of the upper jaw, by means of which the poisonous fluid is injected into the punctured wound. This fang is attached to the maxillary bone, and may be thrown forward or laid flat by a peculiar mechanism by which the bones of the upper jaw change their relative position. This tooth or fang is folded upon itself, for the conveyance of the venom, and is also connected with the duct of the receptacle which contains the poisonous fluid. The mechanism of the bones is such that the opening of the snake's mouth widely causes the erection of the venom fang, and when the mouth is closed upon the object bitten the same movement injects the venom, and death ensues forthwith. Some of the bacteriologists seem to think that the EEK BRIDGE. venom might have some curative properties that would make it a valuable adjunct to the materia medica, and for that reason they are making renewed efforts to get some of the poison. La Tosca sleeps most of the time, and pays no attention to anything that is transpiring about her. She was brought here from Borneo about two years ago, and, after eating the three snakes that made the voyage with her, refused all descriptions of food, and seems to get along very well without it. This variety of reptiles never eats anything but snakes. They have been known to kill bears and horses, and are feared by all the natives of Borneo, Java and the smaller islands of the East Indies, where they are found. La Tosca is the only specimen of her kind in America, and, unless she can be induced to eat, must, sooner or later, die. She measures 14 feet in length.—Philadelphia Record. Confessed and Was Lynched. Conflicted and WAS Lynched. Charles Humphries, who entered the room of Miss McCoy, daughter of a wealthy farmer near Phoenix City, Ala., was lynched by a party of men. The young woman recognized Humphries, and a mob immediately started in pursuit. They came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed and was then strung up. Indians Charged with Murder. The steamer Cutch, which has arrived at Vancouver, B. C., from Skagway, brought news of the arrest of nine Indians, the perpetrators of a murder there last October. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Worthing, who were shot down over their fire at night. The bodies were hidden in a cave. Transvaal Horse Sickness. Horse sickness has broken out earlier than usual in South Africa. As a rule it comes in February. The Boers being entirely a mounted force, the trouble will affect them more than it will the English armies. Killed Husband. Shot Herself. Early the other morning Mrs. Leonard Wagner killed her husband and then shot herself at their home near Sandusky, O. The cause of the crime is believed to have been fealous. A Query. Edith—He says if I don't marry him he—he doesn't know what he'll do! Ethel—Ah! has the poor fellow no trade?—Puck. TOO OLD TO GO TO THIS WAR. Death of an Equine Veteran of the Civil War at the Age of 43. The only living war horse of the late war died a few days age at North East, Pa. The announcement of the death of old Ned will cause many a veteran to heave a sigh at the thought that another war veteran has fallen from the ranks of those left after the civil conflict of the sixties. Old Ned was not a pensioner, although he was entirely dependent. He was acknowledged to be the only surviving member of the equine race which did service in the late war. The steed lived to the remarkable age of 43 years, and died this month in the stable of his owner, B. F. Crawford, at North East, which had been the horse's home since the war closed. Ned served in the armies of both North and South, doing his duty as willingly for one side as for the other. Yet he was not a deserter from either. The old nag's history would make an interesting volume, as he had been exhibited all over the country. His teeth marks proclaimed him 9 years old when, in 1864, he was a beautiful black charger ridden by one of Early's raider, who was shot from his back in an encounter near Washington, and the horse fell into the hands of a victorious Federal brigade. After the fight, those who had lost their mounts in the battle were supplied with new horses captured from the enemy, Ned was given to B. F. Crawford, then a sergeant, who rode him through the rebellion. For several years past Mr. Crawford has paraded his pet animal in memorial events in different cities of the country, and the sagacious beast had learned to know a Decoration day celebration as well as anyone. The sound of martial music had a wonderfully resplenating effect on him. When in parades he could not be managed anywhere except directly behind and next to the band, and in that location he often marched unattended. Among other occasions which have been featured by the presence of this old war horse was the memorial attending the unveiling of the monument to the unrecognized dead of the Ashtabula disaster when he was as much of an attraction as was the monument. The bones of old Ned will be set up in the State University at Philadelphia, Pa., and Capt. Crawford will retain the hide, which he will have tanned.—Cleveland World. PICKING POCKETS WITH TOES. From the Boston Transcript: The Gauchos, or dwellers in the extensive plains of Buenos Ayres, are marvelously dexterous with both hands and feet. Many of them have acquired through long practice such skill in using their tails as if they were fingers that they can fling the lasso and even pick pockets with them. Some time ago a Frenchman who was fishing in one of the rivers of Buenos Ayres was warned against the light-fingered natives. 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At the naval ordnance proving ground, so long ago as 1884, repeated charges of dynamite, varying from five pounds to 100 pounds in weight, were detonated on the face of a vertical target consisting of eleven one-inch wrought-iron plates bolted to a twenty-inch oak backing, until 440 pounds of dynamite had been so detonated in contact with it, and yet the target remained practically uninjured, while at Braamfontein the accidental explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored in railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. Thus at Fort Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of dynamite placed in a chamber in the rock and tamped brought down 100,000 tons of the rock; at Lamberis, Wales, two tons and a half of gelatin dynamite, similarly placed, threw out 180,000 tons of rock, and at the Talcen Mawr, in Wales, seven tons of gunpowder placed in two chambers in the rock dislodged from 125,000 to 200,000 tons of rock. The Ages of Men. A great man does not always attain a ripe old age; in fact, hardy half of the greatest men of modern and ancient times have reached the limit of age set by the Bible. Among statesmen: Mirabean was 42; Pitt, 47; Caesar, 55; Richelle, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disraell, 75; Bismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51; Hannibal at 63; Marlborough at 72; Blucher at 76; Wellington at 83; Xenophon at 86; Molkte at 91. The age of the decease of philosophes was: Spinoza, 44; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 70; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 70; Gallileo, 78; Kant, 79; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 90. To painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37 to Tittion. SEND ONE DOLLAR CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman is to write the life of D. L. Moody. Bishop Edsall has just completed a highly successful mission at Jamestown, N. D. Tomkins Avenue Congregational church of Brooklyn raised over $27,000 for missions during the year. The death roll in the Congregational ministry in Great Britain was unusually heavy during the year 1899. A congress of the history of religion will be held at Paris, France during the first part of September next year. The receipts of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, for the year make a total of $38,000, of which $17,000 is from pew rents. The annual council of the South African churches was held at Graaf Reinet, and owing to the preoccupations of the war, only thirty-eight delegates aunched. Since his resignation from the Church of the Pilgrims relief from care has conduced to a marked improvement in the health of the venerable Dr. R. S. Storrs. WORRY AND GRAY HAIR. When Black Beauties White in a Devil Jewel Many persons are in the habit of taking stories of "hair turned white in a single night" with the traditional pinch of salt. As a matter of fact, there are numerous cases on record of fright or weird experience bleaching a man's raven locks. In battle not a few soldiers have experienced the old and unpleasant sensation of finding that within the course of a few days their raven or auburn "thatchers" have become white as the driven snow. Sir. H. M. Stanley entered upon his great march across Africa with jet-black hair. He emerged from his series of adventures in appearance twenty years or more older and with hair bleached pure white. It took nine years of anxious war correspondence and exciting experiences to bleach the hair of the late veteran "special," Archibald Forbes. But in not a few cases has the strange transformation come suddenly. There are some who insist they have reason to know that in those last terrible days at Khartoum the hair of valiant Gen. Gordon went snow-white! More authentic is the case of a young leieutenant, whose red locks were suddenly streaked with white on the eve of his first battle, which was against the Zulus in '79. A commissionaire in a London bank tells how his hair was changed from brown to iron-gray within a week as a result of his galling experiences during the Indian mutiny. One of the most eminent French generals became an old man, in appearance at any rate, when he was but 22, after taking part in one of the most sanguinary battles in the Franco-Prussian war. And there are several cases, authenticated by officers and surgeons, of Crimean soldiers whose hair changed color during that trying campaign.—Tit-Bits. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE AIR. Some Very Exciting Balloon Adventures on Record. One of the saddest of modern balloon tragedies was that in which Mr. Walter Powell of Malmesbury and a member of the house of commons lost his life. Mr. Powell, accompanied by Capt. Templar, ascended from Bath in the war balloon "Saladin." At Bridport the machine descended suddenly, and Capt. Templar was thrown out and severely injured. Before it could be secured, the "Saladin" rose swiftly again, carying its unconscious occupant—Mr. Powell—with it. For many weeks the fate of the M. P. was velled in mystery, and it was surmised he had fallen into the sea and was drowned. Fragments of a wrecked balloon were found on the outskirts of Spain some months, afterwards, but whether it was the unfortunate "Saladin" was not proved. In 1808 two Parisians had a dispute, and they decided to adjust it by a duel. Not content with the ordinary method of settling quarrels, a novel idea was ventilated and adopted. They obtained a pair of large balloons, and each man, accompanied by his seconds, entered one of the aerial chariots. When they had attained a height of 1,000 feet from the ground, and at a signal from the seconds, the combatants were to fire at each other with blunderbusses of formidable dimensions. After two or three shots had been fired one of them managed to put a hole through the balloon of his adversary. The silken covering was torn open, and the duellist, together with his seconds, was dashed to pieces on the roofs of the houses below. The other balloon sailed on, and came down some hours later in a field many miles from where it ascended. Color Sergeant Wanted Boots Color Sergeant Wanted Boots. Some fifty years ago Sir Harry Smith, after whose wife Ladysmith is named, was governor of the Cape Colony, and mainly responsible for quelling the Kaffir rebellions on the eastern frontier of the Cape. After one of these afduous campaigns, his troops returned to Cape Town in a terribly impoverished condition, as regarded their outfit—torn tunies, battered helmets, ragged trousers—many of them without boots. They were paraded for Sir Harry's inspection who congratulated them on their gallant conduct, their smart and soldierlike appearance, etc. This proved to much for an old color-sergeant, very much at heel, and an old favorite of the general. Stepping forward from the ranks, he respectfully saluted Sir Harry, and said: "Begging your pardon, Sir Arry, we don't want no gammon; we wants boots!"—Rochster Post-Express. Pauperism in London. The very latest statistics on London pauperism are not encouraging. A review of the last twelve monhs shows that although for four successive years the British metropolis has experienced good trade and open winters, there was no great diminution in the number seeking relief under the poor law. On the other hand, for the first four months the mass of pauperism was greater than it was for the same period of 1898, and stood at a higher figure than in more than half of the previous 42 years during which a record has been kept. Butterfly Parasols. One simply can't find anything more delicate and fetching than the butterfly parasol. A beauty which a lucky belle will carry is of silk with four exquisite butterfiles embroidered on every other gore. And such butterfiles as they were! Lovely, large creatures, embroidered in more pastel tints than one dreamed existed, and seemingly ready to take flight at the laintest move. But they can't. They must continue to adorn Beauty's sunshade Death of a Man Who Was a Maker of Coats-of-Mall. "About two years ago," said a business man to a New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter, "there died at the Charity hospital an eccentric old German who once upo a time followed the queerest trade in the world. He was a maker of coats of mail. Long before the war he had a little jewelry shop on the north side of Canal street and the coat of mail business was a sort of private side line. The armor he made was composed of small links of very hard steel, woven together so compactly that one could not thrust even a pin through the interstices, and it was said that the "coats" would turn either a knife or a bullet. They were fashioned something like a sleeveless undershirt, and were intended to be worn immediately beneath the outside garments. In those days the use of such devices was popularly attributed to fellows who wanted to secure an unfair advantage in duelling and the reputation of wearing one under any circumstances was fatal to a reputation for courage. Consequently the old German didn't go to any pains to exploit his business and his customers must have come to him through many devious channels. I knew the old chap quite well when I was a boy, and I have often seen him putting the mail together in his little back room. He got the links from Germany, and they came in long single strand chains, which he fastened together at the edges with small steel rings, thus building up a frbric, like knitting a stocking. The coats were made over a wooden form, shaped like a man's torso, and were astonishingly light. After the war broke out a good many men bought them openly, as a legitimate protection, and for a while the old man had more business than he could attend to." A DEPARTED SPIRIT Attends His Own Funeral and Thanks His Friends. Of peculiar interest were the funeral services of Gerry Valentine. Mr. Valentine was one of the early settlers of this place, and was more than 80 years old. He was an ardent Spiritualist, and when he died he left directions for his funeral, which were intended to be a practical demonstration of his belief. The services were held in the Universalist church. The preacher was Samuel Wheeler, a noted Spiritualist of Philadelphia, and he chose "The Rainbow Bridge" as his subject. Then the meeting was given over into the hands of Mrs. Minnie Brown, a clairvoyant from Philadelphia. Immediately after Mrs. Brown had taken her position several raps were heard. 'Our brother has a message for Cyrus F. Osgood,' said the medium. "He wishes to thank Mr. Osgood and the others for their care in carrying out his wishes in regard to his funeral ceremonies." Mrs. Brown then gave the information that Mr. Valentine was not alone, but that J. O. Ransome, Mr. Parkhurst and Mr. Wyatt, former friends of the dead man, had accompanied him on his "little journey in the world." Several other shades of departed Spiritualists had come with them. They reported that they had made homes like for Mr. Valentine, and gave messages to the friends of the latter which were intended to cheer and comfort them. The announcements were hailed by the many Spiritualists in the audience with pleasure, and after a few more congratulatory raps Mr. Valentine's spirit and its companions rapped "Adieu." Hammanton (N. J.) Special New York Herald. Grave Filling Device A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter so arranged as to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fall. The front is a flexible curtain, extending from the top to the gate, and designed to prevent the earth within from being seen. This receptacle is filled with earth previous to the ceremony and carried to a convenient point. When all is over and the grave is to be filled, the receptacle is placed over it, and the gates opened, thus gently closing the last sad scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a spade. Preacher Wants No Discounts. Preacher White No Discount Rev. Mr. Arthur Creasy of Oswego, Kan., said in a recent sermon: "The world's need is Christian manliness. Knowing this I shall no longer ride on railroads for half fare; what is good enough for you is good enough for me. Please do not discount goods to me because I am a preacher. I ought to pay my taxes, and my church should not be exempt. Christ did not borrow, beg, beseech His bread; He bought it like other men. If I am His follower I will pay my way as He did. Dear friends, for four long years your hearty support and the prompt kindness of your treasurer have enabled me to do business on a cash basis. I fear none; but stand in the power of my manhood alone." 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