Iowa State Bystander

VOL. 7. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOOCUT, ROOM 404 MAIN STREET BLOCK, IOWA "PHONE 800." OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA. J. L, THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post, fice order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE 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 not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. IOWA'S LEADING COLORED PAPER CITY NEWS Miss Con a Smith is some better this week. Mrs. Breckenridge is much improved at this writing. George and Fred Stanton returned home from Chicago this week. Miss Myrtle Claughton is taking vocal lessons of Prof. G. A. Preston. Mrs. Susan White who has been quite sick for the past few months is improving a little this week. Quite a number of people went out to Saylor mine to attend the entertainment given there the 4th. Messrs Martin and White of Garden Grove spent the 4th in the Capital City, the former visiting his wife. Attend the Midland Chataupua this summer which will begin next Tuesday. It will be interesting and instructive. William G. Buckner spent the 4th in Oskaloosa visiting old friends and relatives, returning home Thursday morning. A good programme will be given Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the A. M. E., S. S. by Mr. H. Gould's S. S. class. Quite a number of Des Moinesites will attend the Grand Lodge in Ottumwa, which convenes in that city July 10, 11 and 12. The Old Settlers will have their annual picnic on or about the first of August. A good time is anticipated All are requested to bring baskets. Robert Woods and his mother, Mrs. Mrs. Matilda Thomas returned to our city last week from Washington, D. C. where thy had gone to make their future home, but the charms of a western life was more attractive to them Mrs. Dunn, and little niece of Hamilton, Mo., who has been visiting with her son several weeks, returned home Thursday. She called on the Bystander office. Alice Morton accompanied her home. The reception to be tendered the newly elected Bishop Abram Grant Monday evening, the 16, at the A. M. E church, under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society, will be very interesting. Refreshments will served. The programme was printed in our last week's issue. Joseph Burton, a well known citizen of Red Oak, was a visitor in our city last week, en route from Perry, where he has been working at his trade, a mortar mixer. His skill commands good wages. Messrs. Lee Blagburn and Burt Williams, two of our leading young men, left our city last Saturday to seek a city where they can secure better wages. We are sorry too loose such worthy young men, yet we wish them success where ever they go. J. L. Thompson, who has been away in the interest of the BYSTANDER returnd Tuesday after spending a day in Alkany, Mo., and a day on his father's farm in Decatur City, in company with Prof. Hamm of Lineville, Iowa. Prof. Hamm had two of his high bred running horses with him. ```markdown ``` DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1900. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Lawther have gone to Hot Springs. South Dakota for the doctor's health. The doctor has been suffering for a long time. Miss Zella Davis was invited to a 5 o'clock dinner Thursday at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Rawson, (white) in the Oaks. She accepted and was the only colored person present. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Richardson entertained at their pleasant country home in Clive, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepard, Misses Annas Logan, Eldora Thompson, Messrs B. J. Shepard and John L. Thompson. DIED—At her home, 1337 E. Lyon street, July 3 at 10 o'clock p. m., Mrs. Salina Vance, of paralysis. She was about 61 years of age and an old citizen in Des Moines, and a member of Burn's M. E. church. The funeral services were held Friday. She leaves a husband, Henry Vance, and several distant relatives to mourn her loss. Next week there will be more strange colored people in our city than any other week this year. It is the annual meeting of the Odd Fellows, and in addition to the regular delegates there will be a large excursion from Muchakinock, Oksaloosa and Evans. Fully 200 excursionist are expected from Mahaska county, and Keokuk is expected to send an excursion. All the excursionist will arrive here July 11 and depart the 12. 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. DR. J. M. WILSON, HEALER OF ALL DISEASES. Office Hours from 3 p. m. to p. m. MORGAN HOUSE. DES MOINES, IOWA The Odd Fellows of our city are making preparations to entertain the 19th annual state meeting of the Odd Fellows. The programme is as follows: Tuesday, opening session. Address of Welcome by his excellency, Mayor J. J. Hartenbower; On Belfalf of the Delegates, W. D. Parker, D. G. S., of Davenport; Response by H. S. Clay of Des Moines. Wednesday is the continued session. Thursday is the main day; at 10 o'clock the special excursion from Muchakinock, carrying their lodge No. 2209. The most venerable Patriarches, numbering 100 and the famous Muchakinock band of 31 pieces Promptly at 2 o'clock p. m., a magnificent street parade through the principal streets of the city, headed by the finest colored band in the west. The day will conclude with installation of the District Grand officers. A trolley car party in the evening, also a banquet and promenade at Woodman's hall on 6th and Locust streets; short talk on Odd Fellowship by Geo. H. Woodson of Muchakinock, M. V. P., S. L. Tigg, D. G. M., of Burlington and J. B. Rush of Des Moines. W. R. Fraizer chairman of committee. Mrs. Jefferson and little Chester Woods left last week for Davenport to visit friends. Mrs. Mason and daughter Iona arrived in our city last week to visit with relatives, Mrs. D. Boamer and Mr. Geo. Mason. John L. Thompson will not speak at Essex. Iowa, as formally announced, but will deliver an oration in Bloomfield, Ia., August 8th, at a celebration. Dr. A. M. Molok preached at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday evening. You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain's Colie Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. All Druggists will refund your money if you are not satisfied after using it. It is everywhere admitted to be the most successful remedy for Bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It is pleasant sate and reliable. We want you to subscribe for the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER. Very Low Excursion Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo Via Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line, on June 19, 20, July 3, 9, 17 and August 1, 9 and 21, good returning until October 31, also very low rates on same dates to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Dead wood and Hot Springs. Quickest time. Best service. Apply to rgents Chicago & North-Western R'y. Editor's Observations AMONG OUR FRIENDS. On being delayed in Mahaska county, we spent Sunday in Mucha kinock, Iowa. The first thing Sunday morning to surprise the colored man is to hear the church bell tolling the hour of service from the colored brick church. Then to see them coming to church in their buggies and well kept teams. Some with rubber-tired, beautiful buggies, will forever register the impression on everybody, even our enemies, that the colored race is climbing and climbing rapidly. The two churches, the Baptist and Methodist are in a flourishing condition. Rev. Bingham has charge of the former, and Rev. Williamson, the latter. Sunday school at 9 o'clock. The Sunday Chicago dailies find ready sale each Sunday, here, and many other things that one might mention. Their band, with about 150 excursionists are making great preparations to spend two days in Des Moines, July 12-13, the Odd Fellows annual meeting. Monday morning found us in Coal Palace City. Here fully one thousand colored people are nestled away, some working in various places, but a large number find employment in Merrill & Co.'s packing house. Mr. Joseph Hopkins, who recently married the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hamilton, is one of the assistant book-keepers, he having worked there many years. Mr. Z. Taylor, one of the wealthiest men of color, still drives his express wagon. Z. Dodd, James Johnson, Jas. Hamilton, Wm. Bailey, Wells Fowler, H. Weeks, Mr. Owens and many others we do not now remember, owns nice homes, and are doing well in their line of work. Mr. Carpenter and J. H. Weeks, and Jeff Thomas, own their own tonsorial shops; the former a beautiful first-class shop. J. T. Harris is still employed to work in the post office. Mr. Henry King, one of the pioneer and successful farmers, owns a farm and is highly respected in his neighborhood, having lived there over a quarter of century. His example convinces us that if more of our people would become agricultris they would be better respected and more influential in the financial world. Ottumwa has a goodly number of young people, and their secret societies are in good condition. Mrs. Gilbert is still conducting the Bee Hive restaurant, with a good patronage. Miss Burnice Davis, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis, is one of the finest pianists in Ottumwa, and at the young age of sixteen, she is constantly busy filling engagements. Is employed this summer at the Orphean. She will pen the Ottumwa Musings for the Bystander. Tuesday found us enroute to Mt. Pleasant, but spent a few hours in Fairfield. Only a few colored peo are here. Mr. B. J. Fuller is a successful business man, owning a first-class barber-shop; also does Sam Sykes. They both have beautiful residences in the best part of town. Mr. Hutchins owns a feed stable, and we understand is doing well. Mr. Moss, Stevens and Jas. Deli are substantial citizens. In Mt. Pleasant we were there so short a time and it was raining, so we could not get a good report. Mount Pleasant holds the banner in Iowa. She is sending out efficient and more graduates of color than any other city in Iowa. There were four to finish the high school course. Mr. S. McCracken, and J. H. Mosely, are operating tonsorial shops. The former is building a new house on his other lot, which, when completed will be a beauty. In Burlington the people are doing very well, except the young men and they seem as they do in most all other cities to be loitering around and idyling away their time on the streets. In Keokuk society has been astir, as the A. M. E. S. S. convention and "Knights of Tabor" has just held their annual state meeting. It is a well known fact that the Gate City has more sdcret societies than any other town in Iowa. Among the colored people there are over thirty societies, and perhaps more wealth among the colored people there than any other city. Nearly all the citizens own their homes, and they are beautiful homes; some are brick, some fashionable frames, etc. It would take too much space this time to give a detail report of Keokuk. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. Several of our people enjoyed a picnic at Bever park last Thursday. They were conveyed to and from the park in carryal'. A most delightful time was had by all present, about fifty in all. Much credit should be given Mrs. Ben Hawkins, the projecture of the picnic, as she saw that everything went off first class. At a meeting of the Sunday School Board last Thursday evening Mesdames Ber Hawkins and Mattie Wade tendered their resignation as teachers and officers of the school. Quarterly meeting at the A.M. E. church was well attended last Sunday. Elder Bundy was present and assisted the pastor. Don't forget the grand rally at the A. M. E. church the last Sunday in July. Rev. Bass is using every available effort to make it a success, and he should have the assistance of all the members and friends in so doing. Mr. Wood is quite sick at his home on Tenth avenue. Mrs. Freeman, who has been here attending her sick sister, Mrs. Forester for the past two months, leaves this week for her home in Quincy, Ill. Mrs. Freeman has made many friends during her stay in the "Rapids" who are sorry to have her leave, and we hope she will come again. Mrs. W. H. Lavell is somewhat indisposed at this writing, having contracted a severe cold at the picnic. Why not subscribe for the Bystander and be up-to-date? It gives the news of our people in general throughout the state, besides other interesting newspaper matter. Now stop borrowing the paper and be an independent subscriber. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Forester of 0ak Hall is quite ill at this writing. O. B. Claire is meeting with success in his ice cream parlor and confectionery stand. We are proud of it, therefore if you want to keep cool just try a dish of his ice cream. Rev. Bundy was entertained by Mrs. Henry Brown during his stay in our city. He left here Sunday night for his home in Chiego. What is the matter with Muchakin-ock, is she dead or sleeping? Wake up and tell us the news. DAVENPORT REPORT. Mrs. F. J. Baker, one of the delegates to the Iowa Baptist S. S. convention, which was held in Des Moines last month, has returned home and reports a very pleasant time. Mrs. Chas Jefferson and her little grand son, Chester Woods, of Des Moines are in the city, the guest of Mr. end Mrs. Wm. Baker of 1720 Iowa street. Mrs. Jefferson has many friends here, as she so raily entertained the Davenport delegates while in Des Moines last month. The choir of the A. M. E. church will run a trolley party to Black Hawk watch tower July 11th, to raise money to finish paying for their new organ. Let everybody go and help them out. Hiram Lodge, No. 19 A. F. & A. M., had their annual sermon preached last Sunday at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, by Rev. Thomas of Rock Island, ill. who preached a very instructive sermon. P. M. James Bimery had charge of the service. P. M. Jessie Hall of Rock Island, also lectured to the younger Masons. Quite a crowd was present. Mrs. J. Terry Hammonds of Lebanon, Ill., arrived in the city last Saturday evening. She is the guest of her sister Mrs. H. M. Hughes of 723% Harrison Street. Owing to the fact that the officers of the Sabbath School were out of the city during June, Children's Day was postponed, and will be observed July 8th at 3:00 P. M. Everyone is welcome. The officers of the Eureka Lodge, G. U. O. of F for this quarter are as follows: N. G, James Thomas; V. G., M. B. Anderson; P. N. G., H. McGaw; N. F., J. T. Mabry; P. N. F., Wm. Ularis. The members of the Third Baptist Church have divided themselves into clubs to raise money for the remodeling of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Butler spent Friday in Oakaloosa. Miss Heneratta Jones is spending two weeks' visit in "Mucky." Mr. Roy Grayson spent a day in Oskaloosa. Mr. Britton Thomas and family contemplate on making Albia their future home. Quite a number of Coalfield people were seen on our streets Saturday. The Odd Fellows are making preparation for a big time on the 4th of July their anniversary. Miss Josie Meadows is spending a part of the week in "Muchy." Mr. Burt Jones is visiting in "Muchy" this week. MUSCATINE NEWS. Mrs. Maggie Pearson who has been quite sick for a couple of weeks is improving. Miss Mabel Hill and Mrs. Bright after a pleasant visit with Rev. and Mrs. Gordon returned to their home in Davenport Friday. Mr. Wesley White of Burlington is visiting his brother, F. E. White for a few days. Mrs. Simons has moved here from Burlington. She was accompanied by her daughter Mrs. Thomas. Mr. Richard Murphy has returned to the city. The colored people will hold a picnic at Hershey's pasture the 4th The Sabbath School rendered a programme Sunday which was very interesting. Mrs. Clarke of Knoxville is visiting her cousin Mrs. Gordon. Those who have not paid their subscript please do so this week. DUBUQUE NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks of East Dubuque are on the sick list. Miss Gertie Lewis left last week for Davenport where she will remain for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Mills entnratained a few of their friends last Friday evening at their home on west 8th St. Mr. J. M. Logan, the tonsorialist has removed his shop to 5th St. Mr. Dave Lewis of Cedar Rapids spent the 4th in our city visiting relatives. Mr. Norton of Galena is visiting Mrs. Aaron. There are a few strangers in the city, but their names have not been learned. Master George Allen, who has been ill, is not improved at this writing. Mr. I. Jones and son is laid up with the chicken-pox. The society, United Efforts, raised a neat little sum at their sociable for the benefit of Rey. Johnson. BURLINGTON, IOWA. (Special to the RYTSANDER ) Rev. Illgins preached an able sermon both morning and evening. Mr. Brown, the Grand Master, of Marshalltown was in onr city looking after the Masonic lodge. The A. M. E. picnic at Crispo park was enjoyed by every one. Miss Mary Brown returned from the S. S. convention very ill and was not able to make her report. She is better at this writing. Mr. Jean Williams was called home Saturday by the death of his father. Mr. and Mrs. Wilferd of Jacksonville, Florida has moved to Burlington. Mr. Wisley White leaves for Muscatine to-morrow morning to spend the Fourth with his brother, Mr. Ford White. Miss Unice Wilson left for Muscatine last Tuesday and returned Saturday on steamer W. J. Young Jr. Mr. Perry Greenup was taken to the Mercy hospital yesterday. The Stewardard board will give a concert Thursday evening Mr. J. L. Thompson of Des Moines, the editor of the Bystander, was in the city last week on business. Call again Mr. Thompson. Mr. Leonard Harris returned from Davenport last week, looking after his girl. Mrs. Lizzie Palmer, the Grand Matron, was in our city a few days ago. Burlington will entertain the Grand Court next season. Mrs. Kenney spent a few days in the country. Mrs. A. L. Drew arrived from Keokuk and received the grand honor of the tabernacles of the state. KEOKUK NOTES. The newly elected officers of Union Lodge, A. F. and A. M., were installed Monday evening, June 24th, at Gibbon's opera house, by the grand master I. W. Brown, of Marshalltown. A large number of excursionists came No. 4. up to our city from Quincy last Wednesday. They spent about three hours here viewing the various attractions and visiting friends. The officers for the ensuing year of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. orders were publicly installed at their hall, Thursday evening. Miss Ada Smith is home from Saint Joe for a short visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Trent, Misses Trent and Lee left Thursday for their home in Saint Joe, after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. M. W. Bland has gone to Saint Paul to stay indefinitely. Little Frances Reeder accompanied her. Mr. J. L. Thompson was a business visitor in our city, Friday. He added several new names to the Bystander's subscription list. Messrs. Wm. Wilkerson and John Turner have gone to Des Moines. Miss Ida Godfrey departed for Mount Pleasant, Tuesday, after a short visit with her aunt, Mrs. Beckley. She was accompanied by her grandmother, Mrs. Fiddler. Miss Carvie Smith who has been teaching the past two years in Columbia, Mo., is home for a short visit. Miss Ella Draine has been attending Teacher's institute in St. Charles, Mo., the past two weeks. Mrs. Henrietta Buckney will serve ice cream and cake at her heme, on the afternoon and evening of the Fourth for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. The Odd Fellows contemplate carrying an excursion to Des Moines, next week. The A. M. E. Sunday school will have their annual picnic, July 19th, at Rand Park. Sunday quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. Report your news items to the correspondent, Miss Benthan, so they will appear in Iowa's leading colored paper. Rev. Reeves' Normal class is progressing nicely. The special work on the last lesson by Mesdames Woodward and Bannister, and Miss Ware, was especially interesting. Rt. Rev. Bishop Grant will visit the A. M. E. church the 17th of this month. Miss Lacy Bland, of Cedar Rapids, came in Saturday, for a two week's visit in the Mason home. Rev. E. D. Wilson, of Rock Island, Ill., was in the city, Thursday. Mr. H. D. Short attended Forepaugh-Sells' cireus, Wednesday, at Rock Island, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Moore, formerly of Davenport, will spend the fourth with friend(s) in this city. Mr. Milton Thompson was in Cedar Rapids, Thursday, seeing the races. Prof. McNeil, the celebrated(?) debater, and Mr. Gilbert Baily, of Tennessee, debated a woman's rights question at Sharon Center, Thursday evening to a very large audience. It is needless to say the "Prof." won. Some say we do not get all of the news yet; they never tell us when any comes or goes, or anything happens. We would be obliged if those who have news, they would like published would write it on a slip of paper and send or hand to Maggie Mason, 914 Iowa Ave. INDIANOLA NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, Mrs. Kay and sons, Willie and Davie, spent the Fourth in Knoxville. Miss Louise Irwin has been spending a few days with her grand parents. Prof. G. W. Carver, a former student of Simpson and a graduate of Ames, and who has been doing fine work in our college in Tuskegee, Alabama, has been spending a few days in our city. He is looking for a competent teacher to help him in his work. Miss Zelmar Howell, who recently left for Chicago, writes that she is well pleased with the city and her visit with her sister and relatives. Mrs. Wm. Carter spent Monday in Des Moines. Little Allie Bolden has been quite ill but is rapidly improving. Mrs. Harvey Purtum has been spending a few days here. Rev. Irwin is making arrangements for holding a camp meeting here. Miss Mattie Flummer, who has been studying music in Oberlin, Ohio, for the last two years, is greatly pleased with the teachers of the conservatory, and anticipates staying another year before returning home. VERY LOW RATES TO CHARLESTON, S. C. Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold, on account of Annual Meeting N. E. A., to be held at Charleston, July 7-13. For dates of sale, limits of tickets, etc., apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. Subscribe for the Bystander. --- According to the London Chronicle there is now a garter vacant, and if a plibiscite decided on whom it should be bestowed there is not a doubt but that K. G. would be placed after the name of the field marshal commanding in south Africa, who most certainly merits the distinction quite as much as Lord Elgin, on whom it was so properly conferred by Lord Sallisbury. In the last two centuries the garter has been only thrice given for military services—to Mariborough, Wellington and Lord Anglesey—and, strange to say, no naval commander appears to have had it; not even Nelson. King of Robbers Antonio Bellacorcia, the notorious Corsican professional robber, who died a few days ago at Ajacolo from a paralytic stroke, had enjoyed for more than forty years the admiration of his fellow countrymen. It is only two years since he voluntarily presented himself before a Corsican court for trial. The forms of law were duly observed, but the jury unanimously acquitted him. When President Carnot visited Corsica Bellacorcia was solemnly presented to him as "the king of the mountains." Red Cross Founder Poor. Dr. Henri Duntan, who did so much to humanize war, is living almost peniless in the hospice of Helden in Appenzell, Switzerland. He was instrumental in founding the Red Cross society by a literary work called "Un Souvenirde Soferino," in which he described vividly the sufferings of the wounded and aroused the conscience of Europe. The Geneva convention of 1864 resulted, and the neutrality of hospital and ambulance service was established. French Daintiness. A French woman makes her toilet at night as carefully as if she were going to a reception, instead of to bed. Whether she be old or young, a well-bred daughter of France brushes and arranges her hair, cleans her teeth, rinses her mouth with some pleasant antiseptic wash,dons a berlbboned and face-frilled night dress and prepares herself for sleep with the care and deliberation of a girl attiring herself for her first ball. Legality of 8-Hour Day. A statute making it unlawful to work more than eight hours per day in mines or smelters is held, in re Morgan (Col.), 47 L. R. A. 52, to be in violation of constitutional guarantees of liberty, and the right to acquire, possess, and protect property, notwithstanding a decision of the supreme court of the United States holding that the federal constitution was not violated by such a statute. Japanese Love of Nature. The Japanese is a born lover of nature. Whatever he produces, from the most painstaking work of art to the simplest household utensil, is after natural models. In the representation of figures and scenes the Japanese display a perception which is astonishing. With a couple of strokes of the brush they reproduce what they see with a truth to life which is almost incredible. School Gardens in Europe. In kitchen gardens the Swedes alm especially to promote agriculture, while the French seek to advance the culture of fruit, vegetables and flowers. The school gardens in the country places of Switzerland are intended to give theoretical training in the grown on the most useful and important plants and to promote a love for horticulture and rural embellishments. Eyes of the House-Fly. The common house fly is said to be provided with 16,000 eyes; that is to say, his two compound eyes have each 8,000 facets. By this singular arrangement he is enabled to see in every direction, and to elude with great skill and success the many dangers that threaten his daily existence. Families of Modern Times. The worst famines of modern times were the famine in Ireland in 1846-47, in which 1,000,000 people perished; the Indian famine of 1866, which claimed 1,450,000 victims; the Indian famine of 1878, in which 500,000 people perished; and the great famine in China in 1878, in which 9,500,000 died. Improved Electric Lamp. An improved electric lamp has a pencil of refractory material suspended inside the bulb and surrounding the wires, the passage of the current through the latter heating the pencil and causing it to glow with a white light. Sold Below Cost The late Professor O. C. Marsh's collection of water colors,which he left to Yale university,has been sold for about $500. It is reported that it cost $10,000. Enterprising Jan Tea Dealers The Japanese tea merchants are contemplating establishing tea houses, after the Japanese style, in the large other the United States. THE NEWS IN IOWA Oliver H. McKinney, a farmer residing seven miles north of Hedrick, and J. W. Benson, of Eldon, were killed by a Burlington & Western passenger train at Hedrick. They were in a farm wagon and were returning to Mr. McKinney's home after having transacted some business at Hedrick. N. J. Leytem, mayor of Cascade, died suddenly a few days ago. He had taken a prominent part in the celebration of the Fourth, and, returning home, became ill and died while the doctor was writing a prescription. He was sixty-five years old and had resided in Cascade fifty years. Chas. Hartford of Boone, has been brought home on a stretcher, the result of a serious accident at Mason City. Hartford has been working as a brakeman on the northern division of the C. & N. W. While riding on a pilot near Mason City he fell off and was dragged about fifty feet. One foot was badly crushed, especially the heel. A jail breaking was prevented at the county jail at Sioux City by the discovery of a set of burglar's tools under the tin ceiling of the "bum cell" by Jailer Anderson. It is thought the tools were smuggled into the jail by a woman, and that they were intended for W. E. Bush and Thomas Beck, who are being held to await the action of the grand jury on the charge of robbery. The shocking death of the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Stoner occurred by drowning in a lard can at Fort Dodge a few days ago. The little one was playing about the kitchen and somehow fell over backwards into a lard can containing water. The mother heard the struggles of the child and rushed to the rescue, but too late to save the child's life. Although its head remained under water for but a few seconds, the time was sufficient to produce strangulation. At Denison a few days ago Mrs. J. B. Romans, wife of a prominent democratic politician, was very seriously burned by gasoline. Her clothing was entirely burned off of her and from her knees to her eyebrows she is badly scorched. It is feared that the accident will prove fatal. The accident was caused by the careless handling of gasoline by a child. An open dish filled with gasoline caught fire in the child's hand. Mrs. Romans told her to throw it away, and in her fright the child threw the burning fluid all over Mrs. Romans, who in an instant was a mass of flames. A fight on "Smoky Row" at Ottumwa may yet result in murder. Jim Todd, alias Jim Burton, colored, who did the shooting, is under arrest and will be held to await the outcome of his victim's injuries. The man who was shot is known as William Riley. He is white and is a stranger in Ottumwa. He became engaged in a quarrel with his assailant over a quarter. Without any provocation other than a few hot words, the colored man pulled his revolver and fired at close range. The ball entered Riley's left side, passing into the lung. The physicians have been unable to locate the bullet, and are inclined to believe that Riley's statement that he spit it up is true. It is thought that Riley will recover. A skin grafting operation has just been done at the Samaritan hospital at Sioux City, which is remarkable in that as a result the sores of forty years on a woman's leg have been cured and constant pain of that long standing relieved. The operation was performed by Dr. Van Buren Knott on Mrs. Mary J. Holbrook, a woman of little means. When Mrs. Holbrook was a baby of less than one year of age, she was the victim of an accident, in which her left leg was horribly burned. Since that day the leg has been covered with sores, which many doctors had pronounced incurable. She has not known what it is to be without pain for a day. The skin which was used on her sore leg was taken off her right leg. Homer Robb, alias Homer Chase, is locked up at Sioux City on the charge of conspiracy to rob and murder. His arrest is the result of an investigation which the police have been conducting since the Sunday of the big excursion into Sioux City, June 10. On that day Chris Schroeder, a tailor in the employ of Barrett Bros., at Dunlap, was taken by two strangers onto a sand bar in the Missouri river at a point north of the city. Schroeder was intoxicated. There the strangers stripped him of his clothes and robbed him of $40. They carried away his clothing and left the unconscious man to the mercy of the waters. He awoke the next morning, reached shore and managed to find his way to a farm house, where he got some clothes. Robb denies his guilt. Fred Mayne, a young man of Council Bluffs, was drowned recently at Lake Manawa by the capsizing of a small skiff in which he and seven others were being brought to shore from a steamer that had grounded in the middle of the lake. The other seven, one being a young woman, were rescued with difficulty. Milton Kelley, of Benton, while digging a well on the farm of John Bonfield, near that place, was accidentally killed by the bucket slipping away from the tender and falling some twenty feet, stalking him. JONES CASE IS TAKEN UP Investigation of Charges Made by Treasurer Herttott. DES MOINES, July 2.—Jesse Miller has filed with the governor his report concerning the conduct of the office of the clerk of the supreme court. The commission was made because of charges by Treasurer Herriott that fees belonging to the state were not turned into the state treasury. Mr Miller states he had free access to all the books in the clerk's office and that amounts received from all classes of fees are easily ascertainable therefrom. He finds that all but the following classes were turned into the treasury: Money received for copies of supreme court decisions furnished West Publishing Co. of St. Paul. Money received for copies furnished attorneys. A portion of the money received for certificates of admission of attorneys to the bar. Money received for making examinations of judgment docket as to judgments. Money received for making transcripts of cases appealed to the supreme court of the United States. The report states that copies were furnished the West Publishing Co. at 35 cents a page and that the amount received by the clerk from January, 1895, to January, 1900, was $3.196.66. The copies were furnished during the April term, 1900, by special contract with Miss Fanne Jones, the arangements being made by Chief Justice Granger. An investigation of how the present custom originated shows that ever since 1879 the West Publishing Co.'s business has been a personal matter with the clerk. The supreme court in 1885 over-rules an application from Blank Bros., law book publishers of New York, asking that the West Publishing Co. be denied the right to make copies of the opinions. $1,249.45 has been received by Mr. Jones for copies furnished attorneys. It is found that former clerks turned these fees over to the state. From January, 1895, to the present time 812 students have been admitted to the bar and the clerk has accounted for $405.50 of the fees. A small num ber paid no fee but it is believed they belonged to the class admitted or motion and of whom none was re required; $49.70 was received by the clerk for examinations as to whether there were judgements against certain persons. The report goes into a lengthy statement regarding the affairs of the office but is not sensational in character. The business with the West Publishing Co., is that of which most has been said and in it Mr. Jones is backed by the precedent of his office. The report resolves the matter into a question of law as to whether the clerk can make personal contracts and the chief justice of the supreme court evidently believes he can. The governor has not yet decided what action he will take. LIQUOR CACHED IN THE SAND. The Ministers of Boone Make an Important Discovery. BOONE, July 6.—Raiders consisting of six Boone ministers, under the leadership of Rev. Mr. Wilcox and accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Holmes, went down the river to near the new Northwestern bridge, where they made a big "catch" of intoxicants. The ministers were dressed in overalls and prepared for business. Two loads of the stuff were hauled upton and stored in the courthouse. After returning to the river fresh tracts were found, and upon digging in the sand several cases and kegs of beer were found. The party then went to a small tumble-down sort of a house. In a hole under the floor several more cases were found. These, with the plunder, were sent to the courthouse, where they now lie in state. The claim is that the liquor was sold in violation of the law. At Ottumwa a few days ago Judge Eichelberger rendered his decision in the case brought by some Ottumwa citizens through Messrs. Cornell and Leach by which they sought to restrain the city council and city officials from accepting the library proposition as adopted, on the ground that the election was illegal because woman voted unconstitutionally. The opinion holds that women had no right to vote in the library election because although the statute gives them that right the constitution does not recognize as voters any except male adult citizens. This election, Judge Eichelberger thinks, was an "election authorized by law," and therefore recognized by the constitution. As women are not recognized by the constitution as electors, they had, therefore, no right to vote in this election. Col. W. B. Humphrey has announced that the Fifty-second regiment enampment will be held at Perry and July 18-25 have been set as the dates. Adjutant General Byers has left the matter with Col. Humphrey. The July number of McClure's Magazine contains several notable features; among them a story by Rudyard Kipling, articles on W. J. Bryan, on railways in China, and on our diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Whereas a short time ago it was feared that the large plant of the Sioux City Starch company had shut down for good, it looks now as if the plant surely would be reopened and that several important improvements and enlargements will be made, and that the number of employees will be considerably increased. VON KETTELER IS DEAD Report of Murder of German Minister Officially Confirmed. SHANGHAI, July 3.—The British consul at Chel Foo telegraphs that Baron von Ketteler, German minister at Peking, was murdered by native troops June 18. Three legations—those of Britain, France and Germany—were still undestoyed June 23. The German minister was attacked while proceeding to the tsung-li-yamen, where he died. The American consul here states that Yung Lu telegraphed June 26 that the other ministers were safe that morning but the situation was desperate and he doubted whether the ministers could hold out twenty-four hours longer, as he and the empress could not longer give protection. WASHINGTON, July 3.—The navy department has received the following from Admiral Kempff, undated: "CHE Foo.—A runner from Peking reports the legations besieged; provisions nearly exhausted and the situation desperate. The army is being supported by Chinese soldiers. The American and Italian legations were burned. Twenty thousand Chinese soldiers are inside and 30,000 outside of Peking, and 3,000 are reported bound or Tien Siam. The American intervention with Tien Sixn tbx river and river is insecure." THREE HUNDRED MISSING Latest Reports Reveal Extent of the Hoboken Horror. NEW YORK, July 31—Sixty-seven bodies of victims of the Hoboken fire have been recovered. Each hour that passes witnesses additional recoveries of bodies, seared, maimed and burned beyond all semblance of humanity. And the half has not yet been told. as all the bodies brought to the surface yesterday were caught on grappling hooks. The list of missing is still placed at but few below the 300 mark, and when the bodies begin floating to the surface the grusomeness of the situation will be realized. The bodies recovered up to 11 o'clock last night include forty-one now in O'Donnell's undertaking establishment and some in Hoboken; ten in Hoffman's in the same city; twelve in the morgue in New York, and four deckhands of the Saale, which were recovered too late to be brought to either city. Of these, thirty-seven have been either positively or partially identified, most of them, so far as has been discovered, being victims from the steamship Saale. WASHINGTON, July 2.—The navy department received a cablegram from Captain Wilde, of the Oregon, dated She Foo, confirming the report that his ship is aground fifty miles from Taku. The Iris and another relief ship are now with the Oregon. Capt. Wilde says that there is much water in the forward compartment, with a hole in the side of the vessel and small holes through the bottom. Pinnacle rock, where the Oregon is aground, is about 25 feet high, encircled by a shoal, and should not be approached near than three cables. There is a strong current always prevalent in the vicinity, and this fact, together with the dense fog which prevailed at the time, greatly enhanced the danger in navigating the Oregon. The officials of the navy hydrographer's office say there is a great rise and fall of tide and it is possible the Oregon will be lifted off in this way. It is probable that she can be beaved if the weather does not become rough. Unfortunately this is the season of storms in Chinese waters. POWERS TO SEND 80,000 MEN. PARIS, July 1. A representative of the Associated Press was informed that as a result of negotiations between the powers, an agreement has been arrived at which provides for the maintenance of the status quo, as regards spheres of influence and commercial agreements, and also respecting the nature of the guarantees and compensations which will be demanded from China. According to the understanding, the international army of occupation will consist of 80,000 men. Russia and Japan will provide 12,000 each, Great Britain will provide 10,000 men, France 8,000 and Germany 4,000, the other powers 5,000 each. The Russian army corps in Siberia, which has just been mobilized, will only cross the Chinese frontier in the event of the crisis becoming aggra- [NDIAN UPRISING IS THREATENED. Jae Thousand Redakins Ready to Start on Warpath. MINNEAPOLIS, June 30.—A Times special from Rat Portage, Ontario, says: There is a threatened uprising of Indians on the Rainy river, Ontario. One thousand Indians are gathered at the mouth of Rainy river. Leech lake Indians are said to be among them, nicking them to murder and pillage the settlers, who are sending out their men and fifty reached Rat Portage on the Kelnora. The Indians are gathering at Rainy lake, the largest and most secret gathering ever known. Indian agents say they know of no grievance. Great alarm is felt by the settlers. NOT MOVING ON PEKING. Contrary to General Belief, the Allies Are Not Advancing. LONDON, July 4.—Mr. Broderick, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, states that the allies are not advancing to the relief of Peking—this despite the message the imprisoned legioners got through, dated nine days ago and saying: "The situation is desperate. Hasten relief. No reason on our side. The British office is preparing for news of a rightful tragedy—no less than the laughter of all the foreigners ineking. EMPEROR SUICIDED. Prince Tuan Compels Him' and the Emperess to Take Poison. SHANGHAI, July 6.—Emperor Kwang Su committed suicide by taking opium under compulsion of Prince Tuan on June 19. The empress dowrger also took poison but was still alive though reported insane from the effects of the drug. The above has been reported to the German consular staff. LONDON, July 6.—A dispatch received from Shanghai dated July 4 announced that the British legation at Peking with 1,600 refugees, was still safe when the message was sent. PARIS, July 6.—The French consul at Ghe Foo telegrams that a Chinaman who left Peking June 25 reports that all the ministers and residents were then assembled at the British legation, and the German, French and Japanese legations were guarded by their own detachments. The other legations, the custom house and missions had been burned. The foreign troops had lost six men killed and six wounded, including the commander of the British detachment. LONDON, July 6. — The oft repeated story of the massacre of all the whites in Peking is being retold with a circumstantiality that almost convinces those who have hitherto refused to credit the sickening tales. The only hopeful feature of the evil news is the fact that it comes from Chinese sources at Shanghai, but it is realized that even if the tragedy has not yet been enacted, it cannot long be delayed unless help comes from unknown sources. Even the holding of Tien Tsin against the overwhelming horde now seems to be a very remote possibility, while the safety of the other treaty ports is seriously threatened. GERMANY AS A SEA POWER. Emperor William Makes Some Emphatic Declarations. BERLIN, July 6—At a banquet at Wilhelmshaven of the officers of a club subsequent to the launching of the warship Wittelsbach, Emperor William in response to a toast proposed by Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, "To the head of the German navy," made some emphatic declarations upon the subject of Germany as a sea power, asserting that the ocean was indispensable to Germany's greatness and that it had been demonstrated that no great decision could ever again be reached in respect to the sea without consulting with Germany and the German emperor. "German people," said he, "did not conquer and shed blood thirty years ago in order to be thrust aside when great foreign problems are being settled. If that happens, then the position of the German empire as a world power would be at an end. I am not inclined to allow matters to reach such a pass. It is the emperor's duty and highest privilege to employ suitable and even the sharpest met hoods to prevent it." TERRIBLE GASOLINE EXPLOSION. Seven Persons Dead and Two More Will Die—Many Hurt. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., July 9.—The most horrible calamity that this city ever witnessed occurred at 7 a. m. Five men were blown to atoms, and one other so badly injured that he soon died, and two more are expected to die at any minute. The yards of the Ohio river railroad are spotted with pieces of torn flesh and sprayed with blood that was wiped up by the burning oil. The scene is a veritable charred spot, and descriptive powers failed to give any adequate conception and impression of its horrors. A car tank containing 6,000 gallons of oil was on the yard track for shipment. Train No. 26 was pulling a train of fast freight south bound. The engine, looked and saw that the main track was open and came slowly to ward the yards. The switch was open and the train ran into the side track, colliding with the tank car. The collision caused a hole to be bored in the top part of the tank, and the oil ignited, causing a terrific explosion. PREPARE FOR PROLONGED WAR. Extensive Preparations Are Being Made in South Africa. LONDON, June 30. —Outside of minor conflicts in the Orange River colony showing continued Boer activity in Senekal district, telegrams from South Africa merely indicate preparations for final operations and a tedious prolonged war. A Capetown dispatch reports an attempt by Boers to blow up the artillery barracks and magazine at Pretoria. An artilleryman who frustrated the attempt by withdrawing a lighted fuse, was killed by a Boer, whom the soldiers afterwards attempted to lynch. British authorities are deporting large numbers of Hollanders to Holland to be dealt with by their own government for not observing the state of neutrality declared by the Netherlands. Capetown reports that Kruger is still at Machadorp, "afraid to move for fear the bridges are undermined." SLAUGHTER ORDERED BY TUAN. Power Behind the Tirone is So Far Disbared by Nigrae WASHINGTON, July 3—The administration is advised from Shanghai that dispatches received there from various sources indicate that Prince Tuan, father of the Chinese heir apparent, seems to be absolutely in control at Peking, and that his attitude is the worst possible and most hostile to foreigners. It is even said that he issued an edict as far back as the 20th of June ordering all of the viceroys to attack the foreigners in their respective provinces—an order which has so far not been obeyed. APPALLING CATASTROPHE Scores of Lives Lost In Costly Dock Fire at Hoboken, N. J. NEW YORK, July 1.—Almost $10,000,000 worth of property was destroyed, many lives were lost, many persons were injured and at least 1,500 lives were imperilled by a fire that started among cotton bales under Pier 3 of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, in Hoboken, N. J., at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In less than fifteen minutes the flames covered an area a quarter of a mile in length, extending outward from the actual shore line to the bulkheads, from 600 to 1,000 feet away, and had caught four great ocean liners and a dozen or more smaller harbor craft in its grasp. Stories in regard to the loss of life are conflicting, the number being variously estimated at from fifty to 200. Up to midnight ten bodies had been recovered, but they were all burned and blackened so that identification was impossible. The hospitals in New York, Hoboken and Jersey City are crowded with the injured. The flames started so suddenly and gained such headway that the people on the piers and on the numerous vessels docked were unable to reach the street. There were great gangs of workmen on the piers, and these, together with a number of people who were at the docks on business and visiting the ships, scattered in all directions. As all means of exit were cut off by the flames, they were forced to jump overboard, and it is believed a great number of people were drowned. At the docks of the North German Lloyd were the Saale, a single screw passenger steamship of 4,965 gross tons; the Bremen, a twin-screw passenger and freight steamship of 10,525 tons, and the Main, a twin-screw freight and passenger steamship of 10,320 gross tons. They all caught fire and were burned to the water's edge. The Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse, which had just come in, was the only one of the big vessels at the dock that escaped, and it was slightly scorched. Then by a shift in the wind the flames were sent in the direction of the dock of the Hamburg-American line, at which the steamship Phenicia was docked. The flames got a good hold on the Phenicia and she was towed out into mid-stream ablaze, and was badly damaged, but not destroyed. Men working in the holds of the steamships were shut in by walls of flame and it was impossible to reach them. It probably never will be known how many men perished in the ships, as the flames were so fierce they would leave but few if any remnants of the human body. The loss of the North German Lloyd docks alone is placed at $2,000,000. The value of the great quantity cotton, oil and various other merchandise on the docks has not been emated at this time. The loss to North German Lloyd Steamship Co. pany alone will probably come close to $10,000,000. URGE SPEEDY SETTLEMENT. British Columbians Think Alaskan Boundary, Distance Should End. LONDON, June 30.—British Columbia has sent representatives to London to warn the imperial government that the unsettled Alaskan boundary question is still pregnant with danger, Robert Ward of the British Columbia board of trade in Victoria, who has come to urge the necessity for action at the congress of chambers of commerce of the British empire, now in session here, said to a correspondent: "The temporary agreement between the United States and Great Britain is wholly unsatisfactory to British subjects, on the ground that it is a source of constant irritation. While we believe that all points of difference are capable of adjustment by arbitration, the temporizing policy which seems to recommend itself to the home government is fraught with serious possibilities. The gold fields and the extension of the British trade which is certain to follow in its wake make an early final settlement of the matter of the most vital importance." OFFERS TO MAKE REPARATION. Chinese Minister's Message on Murder of Von Ketteler. BERLIN, July 6.—The Chinese ambassador at Berlin has expressed the regret of his government at the murder of Baron Von Ketteler in a telegram to the emperor. He adds that the Chinese government will make full reparation. The German press, in discussing the fact that the situation in China is steadily getting worse, expresses the opinion that Germany should confine itself to a joint action with the other powers and not sacrifice more German blood than is absolutely necessary. The Kreuz Zeitung says: "Under no circumstances should Germany take part in a conflict of the powers on account of the Chinese question if such a man cannot be avoided. His position is armed neutrality, resting on Kiau Chou and Shan Tung." Americans Take the Prize PARIS, June 30.—The greatest sur prise in exposition circles since the fair opened came when it was announced that the American silk exhibit will be awarded the gold medal over the French exhibit. This announcement of the triumph of the silk manufacturers of the United States, who competed with the French weavers in the home of the silk industry, gives an uncomfortable shock to Paris. Boca in Orange River Colony. LONDON, June 30.—Active Boer guerilla operations are reported from half a dozen points in Orange river colony. --- Had No Opposition in the Democratic Convention. Kansas City, July 5—W. J. Bryan of Nebraska was tonight unanimously placed in nomination for president of the United States by the democratic national convention. The nomination came as the culmination of a frenzied demonstration in honor of the party leader, the mayor, seven minutes and giving utterance to all the pent-up emotions of the vast multitude. When the call of states began Alabama yielded its place to Nebraska and Oldham of that state made the initial speeches. This was the signal for the demonstration of the day and in a common purpose the great concourse joined in a tribute of enthusiastic devotion to Mr. Bryan. This was the signal for the demonstration of the day and in a common purpose the great concourse joined in a tribute of enthusiastic devotion to Mr. Bryan. This was the signal for the demonstration of the day and in a common purpose the speeches seconding the nomination of Mr. Bryan were in order. These occupied some time, numerous party leaders being heard. The nomination of Mr. Bryan was accorded a splendid reception, the entire audience rising and cheering, with the single exception of the little group of Nebraska candidates throughout the cheering for their New York associate. When it came to voting, state after state recorded its vote in behalf of the Nebraska candidate, of all the states and territories. The convention managers had already agreed that this was sufficient work for the day, and the vice presidential nominee was allowed to go over tomorrow. Details of the Proceedings. As Mr. Davis concluded his address, pledging support to the democratic party, at the democratic national convention, this afternoon, the band struck up "Hall to the Chief," and he held an impromptu reception on the platform. Sergeant-at-Arms Martin then announced: "The next business before the convention is the nomination of a candidate for the presidency of the United States. The secretary will call the roll of states." So the secretary read the names of the members of the committee appointed by the chair to confer with the silver republicans and populists, in accordance with the resolution introduced by the committee to appoint secretaries at the morning session. They are: George Fred Williams of Massachusetts; J. G. Berry, Arkansas; W. H. Thompson, Nebraska; Charles Thomas, Colorado; J. S. Rose, Wisconsin; Thom. California; B. R. Tillman, J. J. McGuyre, California; B. R. Tillman, Carolina; Carter H. Harrison, Illinois. "Alabama," the secretary shouted, commencing the call of the roll. "The state of Alabama," said the chairman of the delegation of that state, Baskra the privilege of naming the nezz president of the United States." W. D. Oldham of Nebraska, who was to present the name of Mr. Bryan, expressed appreciation of the favor extended by the nurturing its time to the state of Mr. Bryan. Mr. Oldham Nominates Bryan Mr. Oldham Nominates Bryan. Thereupon he began his address and received the closest attention of the chamber. Mr. Chairman: More than a hundred years ago the continental congress of America adopted a declaration which had been written. party, and the joyous tones of theerty bell which greeted the act of surrender, world that a nation had been born. With hearts unchilled by the selfish desire have responded patriotically to each sentiment contained in democracy's first constitution, and in opening of this convention, and in view of the radical departure which the party in power had made from the principles of old—should, when choosing a leader, meet that we—true believers in the republic of old—should, when choosing a leader, meet the less battle of bailouts now impending, say in the language of one of the loved patriots at the head of the army and every sword shall be drawn from its scabbard, to contain it or to perish on the bed of honor. Much of the history of this republic shall be either made or marred by the presentations of the only party which is co-existent with the nation itself; the own ranks sufficient constructive statesmanship to create a nation in which each of the members of the party to the traditions you bear, in your platform set out in simple language, with a decide American accent, a plan for the future, a privilege and schism taught by the republican party. The plan contains not only the names and doctors of your faith. If, on platform, you place a candidate whose name is a pledge to the plain people that are, in good faith, will carry out the solemn covenants made in your hour of the triumph at hand. There is no greater honor reserved for a citizen of these United States than to the scroll of the immortals who are on the scroll of the immortals who are halo of the glory of all the illustrious achievements which that unconquered monarchs have conquered on every page of our nation's history. It entrusts to his keeping the name of that long line of statesmen and a blessing at democracy's shrine: "O. bright are the names of those heroes and sages That shine like stars through the dimness of ages. Whose deeds are inscribed on the pages of story. Forever to live in the sunlight of glory." Forrest must distraction not be unworthily bestowed. It must follow as a reward for noble actions bravely done, courageously displayed, made and strength displayed, for trusts discharged and pledges kept. We must live life most nearly exemplifies his party's highest ideals; who stands unqualifiedly pledged to the standard we place in his hands, even as the Black Douglas carried the sacred casket that enclosed the hallowed standard we place in his hands. He must not declare for free trade with Porto Rico, and then at the persuasive power of his sign a bill for a tariff on the products of that island. If he denounces a policy as one of "criminal aggression" and then at the demand of a power behind the throne pursue the policy of the state, while professing opposition to combine and conspirates against trade, send his emissaries to Laurent Dives' gates, for subscriptions to his campaign. He must not lend the moral support of his emissaries to Laurent Dives' gates, for subscriptions to his campaign. He must not lend the moral support of his emissaries to Laurent Dives' gates, for subscriptions to his campaign. He must ever sympathize with a, 'oople struggling for the right of self-governance. Instead of the republican policy of monometallism, he must offer the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, the gold that polished the winged sandals of Hermes, and the silver that glitters in the bow of Diana. Instead of a panto-breeding of the king, he must trust, he must offer government paper controlled by the people. by the people. He must be able to distinguish between democratic expansion and republican imperialism. The first is a natural growth of territory into every foot of which is carried the constitution, the flag and the territory into every foot of which is every inhabitant of the added territory is thrown a purple robe of sovereign authority in a purple robe of sovereign authority in eighteen stars to the field of blue in the "banner of the free" to symbolize the territory, annexed to the domain of this nation by the wisdom and statism of expansion that is bounded on the north by the constitution, and on the monroe doctrine, on the south by the Declaration of independence, and on the west by the ten How different this from the bandit policy of the republican imperialism, with its standing army, is its government of sufleen subjects against their will, by force and fraud; its denial to them of the protection and defence and which says: "Thou shalt not steal"—a policy that would send our Uncle Sam off his American range with a cowboy hat and brand and brand, over all the lesser islands of the orient, while hypocritically chanting the long-meter doxology. "Democratic skies" ringed with a red crown, than when we convention four years ago. Then a financial cataclysm had spread over the country, and usually traced to the errors and follies of the republican party, yet we were in power when it came, and were wrongly fortunate when it came, and were fortunate fortunes which followed in its wake. Torn asunder by dissensions within, and disasters without, our party faced a gloomy day, and to augur its dissolution. The problem then was to select a standard bearer enough to cover the retreat of a retreat, and save the party from destruction, if While discord with her flaming touch confused the counsels there, from out the sunset, and the chameleon, with the flaming host. With the strength of youth, and the wisdom of age, with knightly men and matchless all who saw him then with one accord did hall him "Chief," and gave our party's banner to his hand. And the confidence took the place where timorous fear had been; the broken and shattered columns formed again, and behind him laying caging cards, 500,000 valiant men that united fire. And the story of how well he fought, how fearlessly he fell, and how dearly the men he bought, has all gone out into history now. Back from his "First Battle" he came, a baffled but unconquered hero of the war, who was the first of his purpose, and cheered by the belief "that no issue is ever settled until it is resolved," he argued an unceasing warfare against the people's enemy; for four years he has held up the siege of the city, and has pointed to the hosts of democracy in every state and territory. When the trusts began to increase under the protection of a reserve force, he pointed to point out the danger and prescribe a remedy. He called the alarms of a war for humanity roused the heroic spirit of our land, he offered his sword to his country's captain, and when he saw the administration depart from the ancient landmarks of our institutions, in its enchanted voice, he called to raise a warning voice, and resigning his commission on the day the treaty of peace came into effect, he contested in the rescue of the republic. Realizing that imperialism, like the fabled Artisans, was born of earth, and that the plane of greed and gold it was of giant strength, and if thrown down would rise the plane of lofty patriotism we are a reunited democracy. raised it above the sordid sphere from which its strength was drawn and the plane of lofty patriotism he strangled it. With the issues now clearly drawn, no doubt remains as to the name of our candidate to question we are a reunited democracy. Already worthy allies differing from us in their views on the convention for our gallant leader again, and every state and territory has instructed its delegates to conventions for the convention. So it pronounces for Nebraska to pronounce the name that has been thundered forth from the foot of Bunker Hill to set slope, and that reverberates among the pine-clad, snow-capped hills of the flower-scented Savannahs of south and that name is the name of William Jennings Bryan, her best loved son. Jennings caused the fancy of the convention by stating that the government of this country is "bounded on the north by the constitution, on the east by the Monroe doctrine, on the south by the Declaration of Independence, and on the west by the Ten Commandments." As he approached the close of his watch, he saw the face of a man over his head and spoke slowly and with an energy that caused his voice to penetrate into every corner of the room. The Answering Cheer: "And-that-man-ls-William Jennings Bryan," he concluded, bringing his hands lower with each word until the last had been uttered, when he brought them up with a sweep, but quicker than his motion was the answering cheer that swept across the convention. It was a simultaneous roar from all parts of the hall. Up went the delegates upon their chairs, over their heads went the flags, and above them all soared and rang the cheers fo- Bryan. The band loyally perormers its share, but the noise of its creations were put in the lush, the torrent. The men from the state of Nebraska flung up a large banner bearing the likeness of Mr. Bryan. Round the hall started the Nebraska men with their huge banner, and catching up their state emblem the other delegations took up the march, wav- ing flags and hats and cheering at the top of their voices without cessation. Save for the breath necessary to a fresh outburst. The two women delegates from Utah joined in the parade, one of them car- rying a small bill banner, white, upon which he inscribed "Greetings to William J. Bryan from the Democratic Women of Utah." It was a demonstration fully equal in fervor to anything that had preceded. Twenty-seven minutes had elapsed from the instant Mr. Oldham had mentioned it, until the cloning had subsided and the convention was in order again. Perkins' Seconding Speech. Arkansas yielded to Texas and Mr. Perkins began a speech seconding Mr. Bryan. He said: The democracy of Texas comes to this convention defining J. Bryan as the president in November. To them this seems the one thing of supreme importance. But today the issues for the campaign are the same, the one voted on at Philadelphia and Kansas City cannot change them. To meet and act upon the issues here, the man must be greatness. For that, gregue, true, open, honest, courageous manhood is the only foundation. With greatness, the man must be greatness. We know the man we advocate. He came and mingled with my people. They have studied him-watch him. They have studied him-watch him. They found that he was endowed with manhood in a high degree. Had they not, no Texas vote would have been for him, and no Texas vote would have been for him, the first, but not the only test. They found also that, in intellectual culture, in the profound knowledge of the theory of government, and of the details of its practice, and patriotic devotion to his country, this man was the peer of the greatest statesman of the best days of the resurrection, the hero's claim to greatness rests upon past achievements. He may or may not deserve the honor. Besides, we want to fight to fight the present and coming battles of the people, they honor, and they trust. For now, the theory of the republic is called in question. Individual liberty and local self-government are gravely challenged. Not so much by On all issues the republican party has committed itself and the government to American interests, and against them is William J. Bryan. He favors a tariff for revenue only, so adjusted as to burden the government, and against the tacitive tariff, so laid as to burden the millions and benefit the few. He favors fair dealing and individual freedom in the state, and against the courage of trusts and combinations of capital, that controls the markets of humanity and liberty in the Cuban war. He favored intervention in behalf of humanity and liberty in the Cuban war for independence. Its opposition and prosecution shouldered arms and followed the flag to the Spanish war, and were only silenced forever when over the seas from Manila and the Philippines, and the acclaim of a people freed from tyranny. He went to the front as an ordinary volunteer soldier, with those who observed the best the nation could furnish. It negligently permitted unscrupulous dealers to supply the army in the field in a disgraceful way and to fatten upon them. He, with the soldiers and sailors, slechtly served his country. It permitted the bureauscrats, dwelling in ease and comfort of the navy department at home to wag their tongues and pens, in an at- tempt to dim the glory of him who sunk the Spanish feet of Santiago harbor. He favored honest, straightforward dealings with the people of the Philippines, such as was used by the great admiral while he held the chief command. It blundered and blustered and blilled, until it showed the world the spectacle of the great American nation engaged in a conflict with a lot of misguided and half-armed natives who courted a soldier's death, because they classed us with the blood-stained tyrant, Spain. He has continued to demand in the name of right and justice, that they should be told that we tender them the blessings of peace and freedom. It has answered this demand by continuing its policy, and by cabling home the sad and silent death rolls of the boys in blue. He has always advocated reliance upon the local constabulary in time of peace, and upon the volunteer soldiers in time of war. It, following the lead of the military-ridden countries of the old world, has demanded a large increase in the standing army. He insists that the letter and spirit of our proclamation of intervention in beating faithfully kept. It has tarnished the glory of that proclamation by commissioning, in some instances, military of the government, who have even fallen so low as to flick postage stamps. He declares that freedom follows the flag. It declares that trade follows the flag. Thus the issues culminate. For example, McKinley and a governmental trust. Let those who love their country choose the choice of theocracy of the state of Texas, which I have the honor to represent, we do now, and will in November, stand for William McKinley and follow the flag, the emblem of liberty. On motion, Mr. Bryan was nominated by acclamation. A scene of wild confusion and rage rose from their seats and cheered repeatedly. Then they began a grand march around the hall. The state standard was raised. The state cheers delegates marched up and down and around the ales. The spectators in the galleries joined in the cheering. Cries of "Bryan-he" filled the room. When order was finally restored, a motion to adjourn until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning was put and carried. Hill Receives an Ovation. Ex-Senator White of California then took the platform. He was heard distinctly, his big voice filling the hall, and at each of the telling points in his address applause broke forth. Colorado gave way to Illinois and Judge Thompson took the platform, while the audience again cried for "Hill." Judge Thompson did not take the ten minutes allotted him and when he finished Connecticut: yielded for David E. Hill. Even as the state yielded the ten minutes, he was allotted been on its tongue for two days. Flags waved and the delegates rose and cheered with the audience. The men in New York wearing the Tammany Hall uniform kept their seats. When the vast audience was seated, he began to speak, slowly, but clearly, and the attention given him was remarkable, was also always perfect silent. His laudation of Bryan was received with applause and cheers and when he said Bran "will have the suport of a united party" the convention will wild. His assertion has never been questioned. "asserted Mr. Hill and the audience yelled "That's so." His explanation of his position on the platform and his acquiescence with the majority called for heartier applause than had been evident before. "This nomination will meet the approval of the east," he said, and enthused his auditors. In closing, he "New York expects to join with you with her thirty-six electoral votes," and then, as he stepped down from the platform, the convention became a bedlam again. "Cries vice president," was one of the cries raised, and delegates all over were on their feet, except the five rows of Tammany men. When order was restored, the secretary of the convention proceeded with the call of the states. Tenent Lomax Tammany briefly seconded the nomination. W. B. Moore of North Carolina followed. Senator Daniel of Virginia followed, in a speech strongly eulogizing Mr. Bryan. Quick succession followed John H. Atwood of Kansas, J. L. Fuqua of Louisiana, Blair Lee of Maryland and Thomas E. Barkworth of Michigan. Ohio's Seconding Speech. There were no more seconding speeches until Ohio was reached, when W. C. Baker took the platform. He was followed by Former Governor Patison of Pennsylvania and Governor McMillin of Tennessee. W. F. Malone spoke for Vermont. The name L. G. Dohmrich for Wisconsin. Charles Slater of the District of Columbia spoke for a minute. John H. Wise spoke for the Hawaiian delegation walian delegation. Mrs. Cobyn of Utah made the con- roll of states on the ballot, for presidential nomination, the shouts of approval of the unanimity of the vote and the votes of the electors, the fairness palpitated with enthusiasm. The announcement of Chairman Richardson that Mr. Bryan had been nominated for president of the United States, a great applause, but it did not compare with previous demonstrations during the day. Richardson then announced that the convention had adjourned until 10:30 tomorrow. There are children who are dipk-mats. A little boy hit on an ingenious idea lately. He had been misbehaving in school and was kept in to write out a moral sentence a hundred times. In two minutes he appeared with his slate. "I've done." The teacher, in astonishment, took it up and read: "Please, teacher, will you come to tea tomorrow?" He was let off. Whatever may be the faults of Cecil Rhodes it is certain that his phrase, "facing the music," is one he lives up to. A story from Kimberley shows this. During the siege when food was scarce Mr. Rhodes strolled into the club and sat down at a table. This waiter at once brought him a plate of savory ham and eggs. "Hello!" said Mr. Rhodes, "what is this?" "Your luncheon, slr," replied the waiter. "Bring me another plate and napkin," said Mr. Rhodes. When these articles came he carefully covered the ham and eggs and tiled the napkin around the two plates. "Now bring me the usual ration," he said, and when he had finished his frugal meal he went off to the hospital carrying the plate-covered ham and eggs to rejoice the heart of some one of the many patients. Here is a Scotch story, in which the element of humor is to be found; though the humorist on this occasion was what is known in the north as a "half-wit." Scottish anecdote abounds in amusing stories of simpletons, and, in truth, many of them could give perfectly sane persons points in a context of wits. This one had met some women at a country house where they had been making a call one wintry afternoon, and he accompanied them as far as the burn they meant to cross on their way home if the ice was bearing, as this would save them a round-about journey. At the edge of the brook the women were uncertain whether they should venture on the ice, so they suggested that Andrew, the half-wit, might walk across first just to test it, and knowing that, even if it gave way, the water beneath would only take him up to the knees. "Na, na," said Andrew, wagging his head, "I've never been see ill-bred as to gang before the leddies, and I'll no begin till't noo." INTERESTING CONDENSATIONS Robert Stevenson, Jr., of Chicago has been voted the handiest man in Yale, 1900. Mrs. Langtry says the Americans cut her to the quick. And they cut quick, too. A new delicacy is promised for the British breakfast table in the shape of American tea. The average walking pace of a healthy man or woman is said to be 75 steps a minute. The Japanese are erecting a splendid monument to the horses killed in the Japan-China war. A girl at Marion, Kan., died from a wound on the hand made by the barb on the back of a catfish. A man in Beloit, Kas., reads every issue of the Congressional Record. He is trying to cure insomnia. The sweltest thing in Indianapolis is the Meridian street block pavement after a rain.—Indianapolis Press. The ice business in Costa Rica is small. There are factories in San Jose, Port Limon and Punta Arenas, and several smaller towns are supplied from these. The state superintendent of schools in Iowa says that the Iowa school teachers are paid lower salaries than in any other of the states of the middle west, excepting Ohio. It is estimated that the losses by business failures in the last ten years amount to $1,800,000,000, which is more than twice the amount of the country's circulating medium. During the past year nearly 29,000 persons paid for admission to Shakespeare's birthplace, representing forty-one nationalities, and over 11,000 visited Ann Hathaway's cottage. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS. Barker and Donnelly are both natives of Philadelphia. No state except Rhode Island and Mississippi requires more than one year's residence for citizens. In Minnesota only four months are required. There were 400 absentees from the Republican state convention in Massachusetts, and it has revived the agitation for a smaller convention than one of 1,800 delegates. Georgia, which has a large population of negroes of voting age (180,000 by the last federal census), is one of the southern states which have not adopted a constitutional restriction on suffrage. The lazy person who lives on sweets and does nothing is as busy as a bee—viz. drone. The desirability of electric light or gas is that a light is made for a caller without an apology from the hostess for the condition of the lamp chimney. If a woman keeps the same cook as long as six months, other envious women say that they wouldn't have such a cook in their homes five minutes. ALL IN PEKIN KILLED BY MOB SIXTY ARE HURLED 10 DEATH Massacre of Every European Is Reported. EMPRESS REPORTED POISONED Allies Gain at Tien-Tsin—Admiral Seymour Wounded by Chinese Sharpshooters While Jitting in His House at Tien-Tsin—Great Army Needed. London, July 6.—The latest Chinese reports received here from Shanghai say that "not a single foreigner is now alive in Pekin." It is said that the rooms of the British legation were filled with sick and wounded, the tilled lying unburied in heaps. The commanders of the allies in Tien-Tsin inform the correspondents that it would be suicide to attempt to teach Pekin with the troops now available in the face of the colossal force of imperial troops and "boxers" occupying the country between Tien-Tsin and Pekin. So far from taking the offensive the 2,000 international troops at Tien-Tsin and the 8,000 others at Taku and intermediate points barely can keep up communications, fighting incestantly with overwhelming numbers. Allies Gain at Tien-Teln. This telegram has been received, dated Shanghai, July 4, 1:10 a. m., vis Che-Foo: "Tlen-Tsin city fell between 7 and 8 o'clock on the morning of June 30." It is understood that this undoubtedly referred to the native city of Tlen-Tsin, from which the Chinese have been bombarding the foreign quarter, and the dispatch is taken to mean that the allies are more than aiding their own. Other advices, received by way of Shanghai, aver that the Chinese losses around Tlen-Tsin are between 7,000 and 8,000, according to official estimates. Tells of Attack on Legation. Tells of Attack on Legation. The Times' Shanghai correspondent, telegraphing under date of July 3, 10 p. m., says: "The following information has been communicated to me from a trustworthy quarter. It was brought by a special courier, who left Pekin June 27. He states that 15,004 'boxers' and Chir-*s* troops attacked the legations on that day. They were repulsed with loss. One gate of the inner palace only is open daily for a few hours. The emperor and empress dawager are there, surrounded by their personal attendants, all 'boxers'. The imperial princes have erected an altar in the palace, where 'boxer' rites are performed. The attack of the allied forces upon the native city of Tlen-Taln began at 8 a. m., June 30, and the city was taken at 2 p. m. The main object is the destruction of the city fort, from which the foreign settlement is shelled. I am informed that the total of the Japanese troops embarked is 15,000, and that a further force of 30,000 has been mobilized and is ready for embarkation." Authority of Massagre Report: Shanghai, July 6.—Three Chinese servants of foreigners, it is rumored from a good source, have escaped from Pekin. They report that all the foreigners, 1,000 in number, including 400 soldiers, 100 members of the Chinese customs staff and a number of women and children, held out till their ammunition was exhausted in the British legation. The legation finally was burned and all the foreigners were killed. It is reported that Kwan-Hsu and the dowager empress have been poisoned. Admiral Sermour Wounded. The correspondent of the Express at Che-Foo, telegraphing Wednesday, says Admiral Seymour was wounded by Chinese sharpshooters while sitting on his house at Tlen-Tsin. Official news received at Che-Foo shows that the Chinese have been guilty of horrible cruelty toward the wounded and captured, subjecting them to what is known as "ling che," or the slicing process. Under this hideous rite the bodies of the fallen have been mutilated. The Russians are retaliating by the wholesale shooting of natives. The situation, according to the Express correspondent, shows no signs of drifting into barbarism and savagery. Revolting stories are told of barbarians practiced upon Japanese and European prisoners captured on the way to Pekin, though it was not known before that Admiral Seymour lost any prisoners. Army of 500,000 Necessary. A dispatch to the Express from Shanghai says that according to the best military estimates 500,000 men will be necessary to subjugate northern China and even then it will take two or three years. The forces of the Chinese empire have gathered such motion that even Japan's full strength, launched now, will be unequal to the task of restoring order. Wheat Becoming Too Ripe. Springfield, Ill., July 6—The climate and crop bulletin for the Illinois section of the United States weather bureau, including the week ending July 2, says: "Wheat harvest has advanced as rapidly as the weather would permit, but much of that in the southern part of the state which remains uncut is becoming too ripe, while that in the shock is badly damaged by rain. In the central district thrashing has begun. The prospects for a large yield of oats continue excellent. Harvesting has begun in the central and southern part of the state, and many fields are becoming very weedy. The hay crop has continued to improve under the influence of the heavy rains." Car Filled with People Drops Into Chasm. IS TACOMA'S WORST ACCIDENT All the Passengers were Exercisitionists Out for Pleasure - Horrible Scenes in the Gulch and at the Hospital - Frenzy of Relatives - Sad Day for Many. Tacoma, Wash., July 6 - Nearly 100 persons, passengers on a car bound for this city, were plunged down a gulch at Twenty-sixth and C streets. Those who were standing on the platform dropped off, only to be bruised and wounded by the heavy body of the coach, while others inside were killed and maimed before they knew what had happened. The car jumped the track, and was smashed to kindling wood in the bottom of the chasm, over 100 feet below. The dead will number nearly three score, for there are many of the injured who will never recover and who are expected to die at any moment, and there are at least sixty passengers of the car now in the various hospitals and under the care of their own physicians. List of Those Killed. The dead are: Lois Drake, employee of telephone company, lives at South Tacoma; Annie Glass; Lettie Suter, South Tacoma; Dorley Dinger; Lois Dinger, Lakeview; Edward Bray; Carl Moser; Albert Moser; Richard Lee, South Tacoma; Mrs. Grossman, McNell's island; G. Bertoll, Hillhurst; Ols Larson, Parkland; Ole Ranseen, Lake Park; James Benston, Hisshurst; Charles Davis; William Williams, Tacoma; John Hisshurst, Tacoma; William Nesen, Lake Park; Robert Steele, South Tacoma; — Sledenberg, South Tacoma; Rev. Herbert Gregory, Lake Park; Griffith Vandershelden, Reservation; A. L Healy, Lake Park; G. McMullen, Tacoma; John J. Slaughter, Parkland; unknown man; W. H. Davis, Lakeview; Joseph McCann, Ballard; Roy Longerman, South Tacoma; Gordon Newton, South Tacoma; Richard Sanburni, South Tacoma; William Hardt, George Elbilt, 1317 South I street; Mrs. K. J, Slaughter, Parkland; J. D. Calhoun, conductor, Tacoma; identified woman. Besides these there are about sixty-five injured. All Pleasure Seekers. It was one of the most appalling accidents that has ever occurred in this city and it came at a time when it was least expected. The train was filled with happy people, residents of the near-by towns—Eldison, Lakeview, Parkland, Lake Park and other places—coming to Tacoma full of joy and patriotism to spend the Fourth of July. Their journey was nearly at an end when death came in a most frightful manner. Neither man, woman nor child was spared. Crushed, malmed and mangled, the unfortunates were dragged from beneath the wreck of the car and tender hands ministered to them until conveyances could be had to carry them to hospitals and to the homes of their friends. The dead were laid on the grass, but there were few in the crowds of spectators and rescuers who gathered at the scene at that time who knew who was dead and living. Such a spectacle of battered and mutilated humanity has scarcely ever been seen. Spectacle of Carriage Witnessed. Spectacle of carriage witnesses It was a spectacle of carnage such as it is scarcely ever observed in war, for car wheels and trucks and heavy timbers make more horrible wounds than bullet and shell. And the agonizing cries of the wounded and the dying as they lay on the sides of the gulch and on the bottom or were held down under heavy timbers that had once formed a part of the wrecked car could be heard for blocks away. There was help at hand a few moments after the accident occurred. Citizens, policemen, firemen, guardsmen, ex-volunteers and women and children aided. When the dead had been sorted from the living and the last one had been rescued from the wreck, excited men and women and children besieged the morgues, searching for missing friends. Some were successful in their sad quest and others who were not successful turned away with evidence of joy upon their faces. Woman and Boy Are Drowned. Springfield, Ill., July 6—At a reunion of the Thompson family at the Sangamon river, Mrs. George Thompson, aged 19 years, and her husband's 12-year-old nephew, Fred Thompson, were drowned and two others of the party narrowly escaped the same fate, Mrs. Thompson and two nephews, Fred and Frank, were boating on the river when their craft was capsized in a whirlpool. E. A. Thompson, father of the boys, went to the rescue and had Fred on his back when the two were caught in the eddies and the boy was drawn under the waters. The father swam ashore after a desperate struggle in the whirlpool. The other son was rescued by two fishermen who witnessed the accident and reached a pole to the boy. Eight Dead at Chicago. Chile. 0 July 6.—The aft math of the Fourth of July in this city shows: Fatalities due to the heat, 7; killed by reckless shooting, 1; number of heat prostrations, 10; number injured by firecrackers or other means of celebration, 41; number of accidents due to Pullman road race, 17; number of fires due to use of fireworks, 29. Frank. Knope, 12 years old, was struck by a stray bullet while visiting his aunt, Mrs. Felger, 3820 Ashland avenue, and died at the county hospital as the result of his injuries. From Sylvan Valley News, Brevrad, N. C.-It may be a question whether the editor of a newspaper has the right to publicly recommend any of the various proprietary medicines which flood the market, yet as a preventive of suffering we feel it a duty to say a good word for Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. We have known and used this medicine in our family for twenty years and have always found it reliable. 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ACUTE SENSES OF THE SAVAGE In his last lecture on the "Senses of Primitive Man" W. H. R. Rivers discussed the acuteness of hearing in savages. In this respect none of the Torres Straits natives were superior to one of the Europeans composing the expedition, while the majority were inferior. No great weight, however, could be attached to the observations, because all the people were divers—an occupation that certainly damaged the ears to some extent. To investigate their range of hearing a Galton's whistle was used, and it was shown that they could hear very high notes. Their sense of smell was tested by means of a series of tubes containing solutions, of varying strength, of odorous substances like valerian and camphor, and the results, while not altogether satisfactory, tended to show they had no marked superiority in this respect over the members of the expedition. With regard to taste it was very difficult to get information, as the natives, naturally enough, did not like strange objects being put into their mouths. One fact, however, was noticed, which was interesting when it was remembered that sweet and bitter were probably our most definite sensations and that was the complete absence of any word for bitter. For the sense of temperature the data were very scanty, but it was found that the natives had points on their skin specially sensitive to cold as was the case with Europeans. As to touch, when tested to see how close the points of a pair of compasses must be put on the skin before they ceased to be felt as two, their sensitiveness was in general better than Europeans, but there was always the doubt whether they were really able to bear pain with more fortitude. However, the conclusion that Murray islanders were distinctly less sensitive than the Europeans in the expedition was supported not only by their subjective statements, but also by object tests depending on the conditions of the blood pressure. In the discrimination of weight it was curious that these natives, who had no abstract idea of weight and no word to express it, and who, moreover, could have had no practice, were more accurate than a practiced European. Finally Dr. Rivers, while commenting on the defective knowledge of some of the senses he had treated and on the absence of comparative data, concluded that in general the sense organs of the savage were not markedly superior to those of the normal of average European, and that the recorded instances of apparent extraordinary acuteness were to be explained by his habits of observation and specialized knowledge. VERY LOW RATES TO ST. PAUL, MINN. Via the North-Western Line Excursion tickets will be sold July 15 to 17, inclusive, final return limit, under certain conditions, August 21, on account of Biennial Conventin National Republican League. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. SON CARLOS Renounces His Citizenship Rome, March 22.—Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has appeared in court at Lucca and renounced his Spanish citizenship, declaring himself an Austrian subject. Sultan Said to Have Yieldod to Cran London, March 22.—It is announced that the sultan has yielded "in all essential particulars" to the Russian demands respecting railway concessions in Asia Minor. Nine Nuns Receive White Veil. Dubuque, Iowa, March 22—Nine young women, six of whom are from Chicago, received the white veil and were admitted to the mother house of the Sisters of Charity Tuesday. The London Chronicle states that Queen Victoria's eyesight is becoming a matter of grave concern to those about her. Even the blue spectacles, with which Dublin and London are alike familiar, are falling of their old effect. All dispatches and all letters, except the most private, are read to her majesty, who now writes little more than her signature with her own hand. A famous foreign eye doctor has been lately consulted, but without any encouraging result. Not All Ring Devotees. While the Queensberry family is generally associated with prize fighting and personal eccentricities, there are members of it who have achieved distinction in other lines. One is the Hon. John Douglas, C. M. G., who has just published in Brisbane an interesting history of Thursday Island, the sentry guarding the northern approach to Australia, where he has been government resident for the last 15 years. New Material in Paper-Making. It has been demonstrated that paper can be manufactured in the south at a handsome profit—the mill at Pensacola, Fla., which has been in successful operation for some months, proves the fact beyond question. This mill is using pitch pine for pulp-making. Recent experiments have shown the availability of wild cane, which grows in vast quantities throughout the southern states, for this purpose. A Queer Advertisement. In an English contemporary is the following advertisement of a shooting school: "Forty acres in extent. Gun fitting a specialty. Instructions in the art of shooting. Patent try guns and targets. Most realistic coverties. Practice given at driven birds, high peasants, etc. Any number of sportsmen can be accommodated. Experienced gun fiters and instructors always in attendance." Seven Pines. On May 31, 1862, a severe but indecisive battle was fought between the union and confederate forces, under the command of Gen. McClellan and Gen. Johnson respectively, in a locality a few miles from Richmond, Va., on the Williamsburg road. Seven large pines were located there, and the locality derived its name from the pines. The Siambok Described. The sjambok, which is frequently mentioned in dispatches from South Africa, is a long whip, made from rhinoceros hide, and polished till it looks almost like amber. It is very tough and durable, and is used by the Boers upon animals and natives, and also for the chastisement of criminals. The crack of the sjambok sounds like a pistol shot. Selling American Frogs Abroad. One man connected with the Philadelphia zoo has crossed the Atlantic fifty times in charge of animals. He has sold many huge American frogs at $2.50 each to owners of German estates to be used for "decorative purposes" in the ponds and lakes. The basso profundo of our bullfrogs is highly abroad. Widows Do Not Remarry In China it is the rule of good society that widows do not remarry. 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Britain's New Halfpenny Stamp Britain's New Halffpenny Stamp Great Britain has issued a new halfpenny stamp, green in color; a new 1s bi-colored postage and revenue stamp will also be issued about midsummer, when the stock of the present single colored green stamp will be exhausted. Bent on Revenge. Indianapolis Journal: "The Dwigges are queer people." "What's the matter now?" "Well, somebody in the neighborhood broke their lawn mower last summer, and they are round taking up a collection to buy a new one." Snex Shipping Tolls: Receipts from shipping tolls at the Suez canal in the four first months of 1900 were $5,746,000, against $6,425,000 in the same period of 1899 and $5,705,000 in 1898. Phoenix Park. This is a fine public pleasure ground and favorite resort in Dublin, Ireland. It is one of the beauty spots of the city, and is much admired by tourists. A preparation prepared solely and distinctly to improve the condition of the hair of the negro race. 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SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO COLORADO, Utah, Black Hills, Yellow Stone Park and many other points in the North, West and Northwest. Special rates on certain dates. NEW TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, Daily Pullman Sleeper, Chicago to San Francisco, and weekly tourist sleeper, Chicago to Los Angeles, via the attractive Denver and Rio Grande Route, with its magnificent Colorado scenery. HOME SEEKERS' EXCURSION tickets on sale on the first and third Tuesdays of June, July and August. For particulars call upon F. L. GANNAWAY, City Passenger Agt., 400 Locust St. Des Moines, Iowa. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR DIS trict Office Managers in this state to rep resent me in their own and surrounding coun- ties. Willing to pay partly 8600 payable we ly. Desirable employment with unusual op portunities. References exchanged. Encloe self addressed stamped envelope. S. A. Park 320 Caxton Building Chicago Subscribe for the Bvstander. BEFORE AFTER OZONO! King of Hair Dressings. WHAT IS OZONO? 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Broad Vestibule First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Gtande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Dining Car Service Through Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. SEND ONE DOLLAR Cut this ad. out and send to us and we will send you this hickory wood ACME SCALE by freight. O. C. D., subject to examinations; you can contact us if found perfectly satisfactory, exactly as represented, by paying $35.00 to the railroad agent our special price, $77.75, less the $1.00, or shipping weight is 150 lbs. and the freight will average 750 for each 500 bales. We guarantee safe delivery. THE ACME for farm, store or best PLATFORM SCALE ARM is managed by and will last 10 years. Will weigh 100 lbs. by using all weights furnished. Brass beam weighs 50 lbs., has Sierres' Brass arm, adjustable chill bearings, has Denton steel plovets, most sensitive, accurate and durable scale made. We have beautifully finished throughout. Every farmer can graze cattle or sell and buys. ORDER AT ONE before the price is advanced. Catalogue of scales free for the farm. Address: Sears, Roebuck & Co. (line) Chicago, IL. TIME AND SPACE are practically annihilated by the ocean cables and land telegraph systems which now belt the circumference of Old Earth in so many different directions. "Foreign parts" are no longer foreign in the old meaning of the term. Europe, Africa, Asia, are "next door" to us. What happens there to-day we know to-morrow—if we read THE CHICAGO RECORD, whose Special Cable Correspondents are located in every important city in the world outside of the United States. No other American newspaper ever attempted so extensive a service; and it is supplemented by the regular foreign news service of The Associated Press. For accurate intelligence of the stirring events which are shaking the nations—of wars and rumors of wars—of the threatening dissolution of old governments and the establishment of new—of the onward sweep of the race in all parts of the world—the one medium of the most satisfactory information is the enterprising, "up-to-date" American newspaper, THE CHICAGO RECORD. FREE A large map of the world on Mercator's Projection, about 23% x 18% inches in size, beautifully printed in colors, with a large-scale map of Europe on the reverse side, will be mailed to any address free of charge on receipt of request accompanied by two 2-cent stamps to cover postage and use. The CHICAGO RECORD covers the entire civilized world. Address THE CHICAGO RECORD, 11 Madison street, Chicago. 411 N. Twenty-Third Street, RICHMOND, VA. DEATH OF MR. LUSTER WINSTON OF EVANS, IOWA. Fred Luster Winton was born in the year of 1807, in Louisiana county, Virginia; came to Iowa 17 years ago, and followed coal mining as his occupation. He was married to Miss Ella Bates, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Bates, October 21 1897. He professed a hope in Christ Feb. 17, 1897 at Pekay, Ia., at which place he was baptised into the Baptist faith the first Sunday in May, 1897, and came to Keb the same month to work in the mines. Here his activeness in religious work placed him in the confidence of the Christian workers of his faith to that extent that he was duly elected and ordained to the deaconship of the Mt. Gilliad Baptist church; he also served as superintendent of the S. S. of that church for two years and assistant superintendent until Monday June 25, at 5:55 p. m., at which time he departed this life very suddenly and surprising to all who knew him. As a companion he was most devoted, and an excellent provider for home comforts. As a Christian he was a light in his home, in his church and in the community. His funeral was conducted by Rev. D, J. Tate, pastor of the G. B. church, Wednesday June 27, at 10:00 a. m., and the remains were intered at Forest cemetery, Oskaloosa, Iowa. DOCTOR YOURSELF "Genova" Tablets are mailed and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Elgin, Ill., to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Whites, Lucorhoccra, unnatural discharges, irritations and ulcerations of the urinary organs and mucous membranes never gives stricture, harmless and painless. An internal remedy with injections combined; only one in the world. Sent per mail on receipt of price, $3 per package or 2 for $5. Don't fool with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of Hurlbut & McArthur, Des Moines, Ia. Via the North-Western Line. Exeursion tickets will be sold July 10 to 12, inclusive, final return limit August 10, on account of Annual Meeting B. Y. P. U. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'v. Explosives Combined and Unconfined There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high exposives. When unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight. 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 Lambers, 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, hardly 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, 53; Richelle, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disrael, 75; Bismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51, Hanibal at 83, Marlborough at 72, Blucher at 76, Wellington at 83, Xenophon at 86, Moltke at 91. The age of the decease of philosophers was: Spinoza, 42; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 68; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 70; Galileo, 78; Kant, 91; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 99. To painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37. to Titian at 99. High Collars Injurious. Doctors say that the high collars so much worn by both men and women are productive of dire physical results. The head is thus thrown forward to relieve the back of the neck, and this narrows the chest and decreases the size. AND E are practically annihilated by the ocean cables and land telegraph systems which now belt the circumference of Old Earth in "Foreign parts" are no longer of the term. Europe, Africa, Asia, that happens there to-day we know the CHICAGO RECORD, whose parts are located in every important part of the United States. No other attempted so extensive a service; the regular foreign news service for accurate intelligence of the taking the nations—of wars and listening dissolution of old govern- of new—of the onward sweep of world—the one medium of the is the enterprising, "up-to-date" CHICAGO RECORD. On Mercator's Projection, about 23½x16 printed in colors, with a large-scale map side, will be mailed to any address free of cost, accompanied by two 2-cent stamps to illustrate clearly how comprehensively the map covers the entire civilized world. Ad-street, Chicago. BEFORE. AFTER. less, offensive, obnoxious, greasy mass of man, benefit youth, and gladden old age, bring down with grease. OZONO indi-hair to its natural color. It will cause, humiliating Scalp Diseases, Dandruff, norn, and harmless as the rippling hair or scalp is covered with scurf and dandering with germs and microbes, that are go on, it is a crime. It is your place to and permanently remove all the diseases, other hair remedies, stands as high as the boxes to complete the treatment. boxes of OZONO. We will also send you it several shades lighter. Now, there is comfort this, and it would be miracu- Iowa State Bystander and the leading paper in the North-west. 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and pondence from many different Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. WANTED-SEVERAL BRIGHT AND honest persons to represent us as Mana ers in this and close by counties. Salary $900 year and expenses. Straight, bona-fide, no more, no less salary. Position permanent. our references, any bank in any town. It is necessary. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope the DOMINION COMPANY, Dent 3, Chicago. KEOKUK ROUTE A. C. GOODRICH, V. C. PREE, & G. C. MGR. A. M. CORYE, G. C. PREE, & P. AUGEN. W. C. GOODRICH, A. M. CORYE, P. PREE, & P. AUGEN. CHICAGO NORTH GRANTS BILBERT KOKUK GRANTS Ft. Madison T. Mackinnon PEORIA KEOKUK WM. R. R. CAINSVILLE Quincy La Cité ST. JOSEPH ATCHISON KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS, PEORIA, CHICAGO. KEOKUK W. C. GOODRICH, V. C. PREE, & G. C. MGR. A. M. CORYE, G. C. PREE, & P. AUGEN. W. C. GOODRICH, A. M. CORYE, P. PREE, & P. AUGEN. OMAHA, KANSAS CV, ST. LOUIS, PEORIA, CHICAGO. SEND US YOUR ORDER, state whether you wish lady's or man's wheel give color, height of frame and gear wanted and WE WILL SHIP THE WHEELS. We will accept any amine it fully before you accept it. If it is not all and more than we claim for it, and a better wheel than you can for any where near the warehouse, we express charge ourselves. The "MONTROSE" Bicycle at our Special Agent's sample price of $16.50 to any $40 wheel on the market, and you need not incur any pay a cent if you do not dutiful it as we represent. We are EXCLUSIVE BICYCLE MODELS and we accept any wheel at our 1900 MODELS. This offer of a sample wheel at this low price is made to secure a *RIDER AGENT* in each town to represent us. and take care of them. **SPEGIFICATIONS**. **Frame**, 32, 24 or 26 inch; ladies, 22 inch. Best conventions, flush joints, improved expander tube to fasten seat post and footboard. **Frame**, 32, 24 or 26 inch; ladies, 22 inch. The easiest running record; **Record "A4"** tires, the best and one of the most expensive tires on the market. The genuine **44" heater Hydraulic** frame, 32, 24 or 26 inch; ladies, 22 inch. The black, maroon or coach green, highly finished and ornamented; special finished nickelting on all bright parts. We thoroughly work every piece of material on the machine. Our binding year's guar- dance with each bicycle. FREE to any one sending the $16.50 cash in full with order we will send free a genuine Hardick 10,000 mile barrel pattern cyclometer; or a high grade floor pump. Your money all back if you are not perfectly satisfied. CHEAP WHEELS We do not manufacture the cheap department store kind of wheels, such as many new concerns and big supply houses advertise and sell as high grade. We can furnish them, however, at $5 to $7 stripped; or $2.75 to $12.50 complete. We do not guarantee nor recommend them. BEFORE ORDERING a bicycle of any one else, no matter who or how cheap, write us and let us tell you how much we can save you on the same machine. If you UNABLE to BUY a wheel we can assist you to EARN A BICYCLE by distribution that they are not as few days. are UNABLE TO BUY tributing catalogues for usa few days. We need one person to close each店 for this $10 to $15 each; also some showroom samples and 99 models very cheap. Send to Bargain List. OUR RELIABILITY IS unquestioned. We refer to any bank or business house in Chicago, or any express or palved company. We will deliver it to you. This low price and these special terms of shipment without deposit will SEND YOUR ORDER be withdrawn very soon. $17 Give name of this paper. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Chicago, ill. will close out as much as $10 each; also some shopworn samples and 99 OUR RELIABILITY is unquestioned. We refer to any bank or busi- nial railroad company. We will send you letters, a free brochure, or SEND YOUR ORDER be withdrawn very soon. ₹75 Give name J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY SEND-NO MONEY WITH YOUR ORDER we will send you GRADE DROP CABINET BURDICK SEWING MACHINE by freight. C.D. D. subject to delivery. We will send you a perfectly satisfactory, exactly as represented, equal to machine others sell as big as $60.00, and THE GREATEST BARGAIN YOU your freight agent our and freight charges. Machine weighs 120 pounds and the freight will be three MONTHS' TRIAL in your own home, and we will return your £15.00 satisfied. We sell different makes and grades of Sewing Machines at £8.50, and we sell free Sewing Machine Catalogue, but £15.00 for this BROP DESK CABINET BURDICK is the greatest value ever offered by any house. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS by unknown concerns only copy our advertisements, offering unknown machines under various man- tements, who are available and who are hired. Write some friend in Chicago masters who are available and who are hired. EVERY 600D POINT OF HEIGHT GIVEN WHICH MACHINE DEFECTS OF NON. Made by the best makers in America, from the best material/mon can buy. SOLID QUARTER SAWEN closed (head dropping from ceiling) either open with sewing, a fine saw, or bossed and decorated cabinet finish, casters, adjustable bearings, a positive four motion feet self bobbin winder, adjustable bearings, a positive four motion feet self patent dress guard, head is handmade, a RED solitaire machine under. Every kind of instruction Book tells just how many hits you can make. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING to see $9.99, and then if convinced that you are saving $2.50 to buy, WE TO RETURN YOUR $11.10 if at any time within three months you can DON'T DELAY. (Sears, Roebuck & Co. are thoroughly reliable--Edit Address, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. SOLID QUARTER SAWED OAK DROP DESK CABINET, plane polished, closed (head dropping from sight) to be used as a center table, a stash or desk, the other open with full length table and head in place for sewing. 4 fancy drawers, latest 1889 skeleton frame, carved, paneled, embossed and decorated cabinet finish, finest nickel draw peru, rests on four casters, adjustable treadle, genuine Smyth from stand. Flesset large High Arm head, positive four motion feed, self threading vibrating shuttle, automatic bobbin winder, adjustable bearings, patent tension liberator, improved loose wheel, adjustable pressure foot, improved shuttle carrier, patent needle bar, patent dress guard, head to handomely decorated and ornamented and beautifully mistrual, the QUARTER STEED the lightest running, most durable and neared, noiseless machine made. Everly Machinery is furnished and our Free Instruction Book tells just how anyone can do it. In the end of their play-boy kind of fancy work. A 30-Year Blinding Guarantee is sent with a machine. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING to see and examine this machine, compare it with those your storekeeper sells at $40.00 to $40.00. It is the same way you are not satisfied. ORDER TO DATE $6.00, and then if convinced that you are saving $5.00 to $6.00, pay your freight agent the $15.00 WE RETURN YOUR $15.15 if at any time within three months you say you are not satisfied. ORDER TO DON'T DELAY. (Sears, Roebuck & Co. are thoroughly reliable. Editor.) Address, SEARS' ROBUCK & CO. Inc., Chicago, IL. concerns and big however, at 85 to meet them. BE cheap, write us a if you UNABL are in Iowa and corres- any different states. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. The Corinthian baptist Church—situated on 11th St. between Crocker and School St. Preaching; at 11 A. M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching, at 7 P. M. Rev. S. Bates, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Street, Preaching at 6:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Epworth League at 7 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. F. J. Peterson, pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School and Fourth streets. Rev. F. Lomack pastor, Preaching 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school 2:33 p. m. M. E. Hou t. m., Superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8:00 p. m. Burn's M. E.-East Second and Des Moines street.,Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 4 p. m. Sunday School at 12:30. Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor, 250 Des Moines street. Mount Nebo Baptist Church-E. Second street. Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 12:30 p. m., Superintendent, Rose Johnson, preaching at 8 p. m., Rev. J, H, Bell, pastor, SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 2, A, F. A.-M. Meets Third Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. F. A.-M. Meets Third Thursday in Blagburn, W. M.; G. H.Cleggett, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 6. Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Frid Jackson, M.; G. H. Cleggett, Rec. Charity Lodge, No. 2192, G. U. O. of O. F.-Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Fellows hall on West Sixth and Wintown streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown, P. S. Naomi Court, No. 3-meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. J. H. Shard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary. Mc. Olive Court, No. 4-meets First Thursday of each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. Susan White, matron; Mrs. Fla Major, secretary. Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World No 178 Victoria Lodge-meets every Monday enlightens a corner of Tenth Avenue. Streams, Mrs. E. Good. Proctor. Mrs. Rose Johnson, Secretary. EAT this JOHN HIGH to examine $15 $15 THE INDUSTRY THE INDUSTRY THE INDUSTRY BROOK BROOK BROOK TER SAWED OAK BROP DESK CARINET, plane polished, bropping from sight) to be used as a center table, and her open with full length table and head in place for the drawers, latest 1899 skeleton frame, carved, paneled, em- cabinet finish, finest nickel drawer pulls, rests on four readable, genuine Shrimp from stand. Finesst large light arm tion fed, self-heading vibrating shuttle, automatic table bearings, patent tension liberator, improved loose essure foot, improved shuttle carrier, patent needle bar, and a randomly decorated and ornamented and beautifully RANTEED the lightest running, most durable and neared very known attachment is furnished and our Free In- sist just how any one can run it and do either plain or any A 30-Years' Binding Guarantee is sent with every machinc thing to see and examine this machine, compare it with those your storekeeper sells at $40.00 to 5.00 to $40.00, pay your freight agent the $15.50 monthly pay you are not satisfied. ORDER TO-DATE reliable. Editor. CK & CO. (Inc.' Chicago, IL) EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUN- DRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. 220 THIRD ST. PHONE 579. TRUSSES, 65c, $1.25 AND UP 65c. We are selling the very finest Trusses made at FACTORY FRICKS, less than one-third the price of the larger ones. We have a WARRANTY TO FIT YOU PERFECTLY. Say whether you wish our 65c Free Truss or our $1.25 New York Revere Truss. Send to us with OUR SPECIAL PRICE made, state your Height, Weight, Age, how long you have been rupture inches around the body on a line with the rupture, say whether rupture is on right or left side, and stand by it. It is not a perfect fit and equil. to trusses that retail at three times our price, you can return it and we will return our more. We write FOR FRIEND'S CATALOGUE which she includes, including the New 100 Leaf Truss $2.75 address almost any case, and we sell our $2.75 SEARS, ROEBUCK & Co. CHICAGO 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS COPYRIGHTS & C. TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an attorney, four private investigators, or attorneys 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 education of private investigators. Overseas a collection of private investigators. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office 852 E. St. Washington, D.C. $4.95 SEAL PLUSH SEND NO CUT THIS send to u send to u number body at and to Beautiful you Go ami exx on exp saf act charges with penis for 1.5 Brown & Black Alcoholic Flavoring PURE VANILLA PRODUCED BY B. HERRICK & CO. CINCINNATI, ILL. are pure and economical. Scientifically compounded from the Pure Fruit Juices. They retain their delicate aroma, which is easily lost in alcoholic or liquid flavors. Free from alcohol and all poisonous ingredients. ONCE TRIED, ALWAYS USED. Naomi Lotion, a delightful toilet preparation for beautifying the complexion. Hamamelis Lotion, for chapped hands, face, etc. Naomi Face Powder, the best on the market, containing mild poisons. Saponaceous Tooth Powder cleanses, whitens, and preserves the teeth; soothes, heals and hardens the gums. AGENTS WANTED. MANUFACTURED BY G. G. MERRICK & CO. 32-38 Clark St., CHICAGO, ILL. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR RDIS trict Office Managers in this state to rep resent them in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $600, payable weekly. Desirable employment with unusual op-mentation. Returns enclosed. Enclose adffaced stamped envelope. S. A. Park, $20 Caxton Building, Chicago $19.75 $19.75 SEND ONE DOLLAR table tilt and seat to us, and we will send you ONE NEW YORK LAND CUTTER by F. C. O. D., subject to examina- tion, to examine it for your验收, and if found equal to your price, send it where at 50 PER CENT MORE MONEY, and one of the handstones, strongest and most durable, to you, and freight charges, less the $1.00 sent with order, or $18.75 and freight. Our SPECIAL OFFER PRICE, $19.75, and freight charges, round throughout with best Norway from Highest stone, polished and plugged outward. In best stone, highly polished, neatly striped and ornamented, cushions, heavy dark green body cloth. SHAFTS well trimmed and finished. Weight about 175 lbs. ORDER NOW. DON'T WAIT FOR SNOW. Only a limited number can be sold at $1.95. DON'T WAIT FOR SNOW. DON'T WAIT FOR SNOW. @ $7.49. @ $7.49. @ $7.49. SEARS, BEAUCH & CO. (inc.), Chicago. (Sears, Beauch & Co. are thoroughly编辑-Editor). An Epidemic of Diarrhoea. Mr. A. Sanders, writing from Cocoanut Grove, Fla., says there has been quite an epidemic of diarrhea there. He had a severe attack and was cured by four doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea. Remedy. He says he also recommended it to others and they say it is the best medicine they ever used. For sale by all Druggists. THE DOCTORS EXTEND THEIR TIME. Owing to the Vast Number Who Have Been Unable to see the British Doctors, these Eminent Gentlemen Have Extended the Time for Giving Their Services Free for three Months to all Who call Before July 28th. Owing to the large number of invalids who have called upon the British Doctors at the office room, 204 and 205 Marquardt Block, and who have been unable to see them, these eminent gentlemen have, by request, consented to continue giving their services free for three months to all invalids who call upon them before July 28th. These services will consist not only of consultation, examination and advice, but also of all minor surgical operations. The object in pursuing this course is to become rapidly and personally acquainted with the sick and afflicted, and under no consideration whatever will any charges be made for any services rendered for three months, to all who call before July 28th. The doctors treat all forms of disease and deformities, and guarantee a cure in every case they undertake. At the first interview a thorough examination is made; and, if incurable you are frankly and kindly told so, also advised against spending your money for useless treatment. Male and female weakness, catarrhal deafness; also cancer without pain or cutting; all skin diseases, rupture and all diseases of the rectum are positively cured by their treatment. Dr. J. Boyd, the chief consulting surgeon of the institute, is in personal charge. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. No Sunday Hours. SPECIAL NOTICE—If you cannot call, send stamp for question blank for home treatment Subscribe for the Bystander. BE PROMPT Get your Gas Range now, so that you will not have to wait long for the necessary connections. Last year during the "rush" some orders were unavoidably delayed. This year's business is trebling that of last year's. So take time by the forelock. YOUR MONEY BACK if the Gas Rang purchased of us works unsatisfactorily and you return it within 30 days. Capital City Gas Light Company, 413--415 Locust Street. THOUGHTS OF LONELY HOURS. As I sat all a lone, Thinking of the future and home, No happier hours could there be. I sigh with a groan, And my heart sadly mourned For the loved ones I oft want to see. My first thought was mother, For there is no other, That I know is so kind and so true. She still waits for me, Her dear boy to see. And tells me our friends are quite few. We may roam the wide world, And oft times find a girl, We'd give our hand to be wed, Again think of home, From where you roam, And think of what dear mother said; She says my dear boy, The girl that you love, and loves you. She also has said, You had better be dead, If you marry a girl who don't love you. And now for the man, On sea and on land; A girl should be careful to see, And know her loved one, For love is no fun, Out of ten men there husbands may be. The subject is with you, Wives and husbands are few. Don't love unless it is true, For thousands of souls Are now stiff and cold, For the fault is with one of the two. H. J. PIERCE. --- IMPORTANT TO OOLORED MEN AND WOMEN. After a careful consideration and consultation with prominent colored people throughout the country it has been decided to organize what will be known as a National Negro Business League. The need of an organization that will bring the colored people who are engaged in business together for consultatin, and to secure information and inspiration from each other has long been felt. Out of this National organization, it is expected, will grow Local Business Leagues that will tend to improve the Negro as a business factor. Boston has been selected as the place of meeting because of its historic importance, its cool summer climate, and general favorable conditions. The date of the meeting will be Thursday and Fridy, August 23 and 24. Then too, nearly all the steamship lines and railroads have reduced their rates to Boston at that time to one fare for the round trip for the entire summer. Every individual engaged in business will be entitled to membership, but as far as possible the colored people in all the cities and towns of the country should take steps at once to organize Local business Leagues, where no such organizations already exist, and should see that these organizations send one or more delegates to represent them. It is very important that every line of business that any Negro man or woman is engaged in be represented. This meeting will present a great opportunity for us to show the world what progress we have made in business lines since our freedom. This organization is not in opposition to any other now in existence but is expected to do a distinct work that no other organization, now in existence, can do as well. Another circular giving further information as to program and other details of the meeting will be issued within a few weeks. All persons, whether men or women, interested in the movement are invited to correspond with, Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. NERVOUS WEAKNESS CURED. VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPO- TENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, rating for success and happiness in business professional, social and married life. **W** a package or 3 for $5. Ask your drugstuff, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Retail and wholesale by Hurlbut & McArthur, Des Moines, Ia. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Mrs. Logan and children have returned from a visit with mother in Laclede Mo. Rev. Miller occupied the pulpit at the Second Baptist Church, the latter prt of last week. Miss Agnes Mason returned home last week from Evanston, Illinois. She accompanied by little Helen Thomas of Chicago, and little Charlie Anderson of Evanston. Mrs. Robert Andersons' children have the whooping cough. Miss Fannie Robinson who has been very sick is better. Mrs. Chas. Fitzgerald has returned from Mnchakinock, Iowa, where she was called on account of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Reuben Jones. Mrs. Rhinehart has returned from a visit to Keokuk. Mrs. Alfred Mason, accompanied by by her daughter, Ione, left for Des Moines last Friday to visit Mrs. Mason's children, Mrs. David Boamer and Mr. Geo. Mason. The Misses Lyda and Nora Bartlett have returned from a very pleasant trip to Keokuk. Our Bystander Agent was a caller last week looking over the accounts of the year. Mr. James Johnson of Ottumwa was a business visitor in our city last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Robt. Anderson had another one one of his attacks last Friday night. He is better now. Mr. and Mrs. Fay Martin of Burlington were up one day last week. They were accompanied back by Mrs. Martin's sister, Miss Gertrude Reed. Miss Ida Golfey is home from Kansas City after an absence of nine months. Mrs. J. A. Carter left last Tuesday for a few days visit with her son, Hilly in Cleveland, Iowa, and with Mrs. Davis and family in Albia, Iowa. Mrs. Ida Hackley of Ottumwa is visiting with her mother, Mrs. M. Fidler. Mr. James Bartlett has returned from a trip to Chicago. BURLINGTON BRIEFLETS. Bishop B. W. Arnett and son B. W. Arnett, Jr., and Charles Smith, the Bishop's secretary, sailed July ad for London. England, to attend the Christian Endeavor convention. Mrs J. C. Carter returned Wednesday after a pleasant visit wite friends in Chicago. Mrs. Simmons left on Thursday morning to make her home in Muscatine, Iowa, with her son Willie Schackelford. July 5th a grand rally entertainment was given by the Stewardess. A good program was rendered. On July 12th a moonlight picnic will be given by the C. C. at the residence Mr. John L. Brooks, of Gertrude street, for the benefit os the pastor of Saint John's A. M. E. church. They say they will have spring chickens in abundance and all the friends and members are invited to come out and take supper with them. Mr. Thomas Wall visited his sister in Mt. Pleasant, this week, and since his return home he has been quite lame. He let a cake of ice fall on his foot. Mrs. Ellen Morris is visiting relatives in Keokuk. She is one of the faithful members of St. John's A. M. E. church, and her absence is felt in the community and especially at church. Mrs. Annie Burkhart, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. John Jones, who has been very sick, but is now able to be out again. The Cook County Marching club arrived in the city Monday night, and spent a couple of hours en route to Kansas City, Mo., to the democratic national convention. Miss Eunice Wilson is in Muscatine, visiting friends, and we learn her health is much improved. Mr. Wesley White left Tuesday morning for Muscatine to spend the 4th. Quarterly meeting at St. John's A M. E. church, July 15th, at which time the former pastor, Rev. T. Reeves of Keokuk, will assist. This is the last quarterly meeting of this conference year. J. L. Thompson, editor of the Iowa State Bystander was in the city circulating among his friends, and soliciting subscription and collecting old bills. Rev. Jas. Higgins, will leave Saturday to assist Rev. Reeves in his quarterly meeting. Miss Mary Brown has been quite sick since her return from Keokuk to the Sunday School convention, but at this writing is improving. Mr. Perry Greenup is quite sick at the Mercy hospital. Mr. Leonard Harris is in the city again circulating among his friends, after an absence of several weeks in Davenport. VERY LOW RATES TO TEXAS, VIA M. K. & T. R.Y., FROM KANSAS CITY. 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So Namarah entered silently, and took her way toward the apartment of her father Jephthah; and as she came unto his door, she turned and spake unto the maidens, bidding them stay without in the hall while she went in alone. And as she thrust open the door and came into the presence of her father Jephthah, behold he to was dressed in mourning garments, and he leaned upon the breast of the young man Adina, who was also clad in sackcloth; and the faces of both men were white as be the faces of the dead; and Adina had grown gaunt and hollow-cheeked and lost his ruddy color, while her father Jephthah was as one grown old before his time. And Namarah spake no word, but shuitting close the door behind her, she went and put her arms about the neck of her father, but her eyes she gave unto her lover. Her hood had fallen backward, and her white face rose from out its solemn mourning draperies as a fair flower springing out of earth; and her eyes, made large and luminous through fastings and vigils, seemed as the very windows of her spirit; and in their depth Adina read a love unspeakable, unquenchable and not to be surpassed. He understood her tender thought in clasping first her father before her touch sought his, for it was by reason of her father that this blow was come upon them, and she felt he had great need of comfort and the assurance of her deep, unchanged affection; but in that long, deep look into her lover's eyes, she gave him her whole self. For a moment they rested in that look, quiet and calm as the deeps of ocean, and then the maiden spake: "I pray thee shee me now, Adina," she saith, softly, as the voice of Jephthah her father brake into great sobs while she smoothed his snow-white hair, and stilled him as a mother might her babe. "I would be with him alone, that my courage fall not; for he hath more need of comfort than either thou or I. Return to me an hour after moonrise in the garden." And Adina bowed his head and went, with never so much as a touch of her hand to feed the mighty hunger of his love, howbeit that look in her eyes which rested on him still, even as he left her presence, was as a draught divine wherewith the thirst of his soul might be quenched. CHAPTER XII Even before the coming of the time appointed, just as the moon was coming up behind the distant horizon, Adina made his silent way into the garden of Jephthah's house, and stood and waited. The hour of moonrise was just what it had been two months before, on the night of their parting here, and in his ears were the same sounds of the babbling brook and of the doves in their house near by. Up and down the young man paced, his thumbs thrust into the belt wherewith his white tunic was held in place, and his whole body tense and strained with the mightiness of his hardly mastered excitement. A light glimmered in the room of Jephthah, and on this he kept his gaze, until presently it became in a moment softly shaded, as if to screen the eyes of one who slept. Namarah, indeed, had soothed her father into a gentle slumber, and when it was known unto her that he slept she stepped forth into the garden. She had even refreshed her from her journey and clothed herself in snow-white garments, perfumed with myrth and frankinense, in which she moved softly down the garden walks to meet him whom her soul did love. The grasses of summer bent beneath the soft pressure of her feet, and the vines divided themselves at the light touches of her hands. The trees above her were as the wall of her temple of love, and the moon pierced through to light it. Adina stood and waited in the spot made sacred to them by the early dawnings, as well as by the fruition of their love; and as the maiden, fair and white as if made of the rays of the moonlight, moved softly toward him, he stretched out his two arms. She came to them with full gladness and assurance, as one of her white doves, after long wandering, cometh home. And Adina spake no word; only he drew her to him, as though he would never lose her again. As she rested so, feeling against her heart the full throb of his, while that his close clasp tightened and his breath came quick, it seemed to her a moment of such rapture that the thought of her heart came forth in words, as she said, on the breath of a low-drawn sigh: "I would that I could die even now!" And Adina answered: "And I with thee, that our souls together might return to God who gave them." "It is most sure," said Namarah, earnestly. "It may not be such as we would choose or look for; but He hath heard that prayer of mine and thine ON THE VELDT A South African Love Story *** each time our hearts have breathed it, and the answer doth somewhere await us." She spake these words in solemn whisperings, more tender than the cooling of doves, more murmurous than the rippling of the brook. No eye saw the parting, when at last Adina wrenched his heart away from hers. They two were alone in the silence with God. Even the dove came not near them tonight, but remained apart and alone, as if it had knowledge of all and forbore to come between the beating of their hearts and the communion of their souls. At the rising of the sun next morning, the altar was made ready in the heart of a deep wood, and by it stood a priest resplendent in the robes of his office. The wood was in readiness, and the fire prepared, nor was the offering for the sacrifice wanting. She stood, a pure virgin, clad in stainless white, and on her left, the young man Adina. And the face of the maiden Namarah was calm and peaceful, and her eyes trustful and quiet as be the eyes of children when they know their parents are close by. And her face, for all its paleness, was more beauteous to look upon than ever it had been before, for the light that shone upon it was not wholly that cast by the rising sun, but, as it were, a light from within her soul. And Adina's face was radiant, too, so that it seemed as if one light illuminated them from within, even as the same sun from without. And Namarah's voice, as she spake, was tranquil and assured. "Make ready thy fire, O priest of God," Namarah said, "for all is ready." And she turned and kissed her father Jephthah full tenderly. Then, speaking once more unto the priest, she said: "I pray thee, while that the fire is kindling, suffer us to kneel and say one prayer—I and the young man Adina." And they knelt together, both in virgin white, their hands clasped close and their faces raised to heaven, and the prayer of their hearts, even as the fire blazed and crackled, and the knife gleamed sharp and threatened near by, was that the God in whom they trusted would deliver them in His own time and they knelt so long in silence that the priest, who wished not to interrupt their prayers, was fain at last to speak to them, lest the sacred fires should burn too low. But there came no answer to his words, and when he turned and looked into their faces, that In the kitchen of a Boer farm at Harrismith two brothers, Paul and Hendrick Hoopstad, sat in earnest conversation. "Will you come, Hendrick?" "I cannot leave, Paul; there is English in our veins, and, besides, to join the commando against the British would be taking up arms against the woman I love." "The woman we love, Hendrick, for God knows that I think of her every minute of my life. You and I have been all in all to each other ever since we were born; but this mutual love for Nancy Martin seems likely to divide us. Even supposing we put our chances to the test, if I win her you will hate me, and if you were successful my thoughts would turn to you in anger. Let us then take our riffes, join the commando, and for the time forget her, and perhaps when the war is over one of us may gain by death what the other could not give in life." "I will not fight against the English, Paul." "Think well, Hendrick. Nancy Martin has been in England for the last four years—is it not possible that she may have an English lover?" "We are being enticed and threatened into a foolhardy war by those who have their own ends to serve. I will take my rifle and fight, but it will be with the English." "Then, Hendrick, we must part, though we part in all affection. God bless you, my brother, and the woman we love." "Farewell, Paul, and God grant that we may not meet on the battlefield." Paul turned his horse toward Newcastle, while Hendrick rode in the opposite direction, with the intention of making his way to John Martin's farm, which lay on the banks of the Caladon river, between Basutol and Natal. Hendrick Hoopstad's love for Nancy, the only daughter of John Martin, of the Caladon farm, was the one thought that engrossed his mind. He loved her, and was willing to lay down his life for her without thought of re- wondrous light was gone from them; for their spirits had fled together, and the glare of sunshine upon them revealed that they were even the faces of the dead. And it was even so that God delivered them. This was His time and place, and he had chosen His own way. And that the vow which Jephthah had vowed might be accomplished, the body of the malden Namarah was laid upon the altar and with it the body of the young man Adina, a burnt offering unto the Lord. And as the fires upon the altar began to sink, an object that seemed to fall straight out from the sky dropped down and fell into the flames; and lo! it was the body of a snow-white dove, which had been even dead before it touched the fire upon the altar. MASCULINE CHARACTERISTICS. Begin to Show Themselves at an Early Age. The masculine characteristics, as well as the feminine, begin to show themselves at an early age. There are a small boy and girl in the city who, in conversation the other day, showed this very notably, says the New York Times. They are particularly bright children, a little son and daughter of clever parents, who talk to the children very much as they would to older people. So when in talking together the other day something was mentioned which they did not understand, the children immediately began to discuss the pros and cons. The little girl is seven and the boy a couple of years younger. The former has a habit while she is dressing of talking to herself. "Arm, go in," she will say, as she puts on one garment, and "Foot go in," as she puts on another. The small boy had noticed this, and spoke to her about it. "Why do you say, 'Foot, go in,' and 'Arm, go in?'" he inquired. Why don't you say, 'Me go in?' "Why, it isn't 'me' that goes in," replied the small girl, "it is just my arm or my foot. What is 'me,' anyway?" The small boy thought earnestly for a moment. "Why, 'me,' is your head and stomach," he finally answered. "No," said the small girl, "I think 'me' is your head and heart." Which proves positively that even in early years the ego of the man is his stomach and that of the woman her heart. His Letter to the Judge "Will you please, suh, lemme know," wrote a colored prisoner to the judge, "des wen my case'll come up for conviction? I been in jail, suh, 'bout eight months ez de crow fly, en I hez a sorter restless feelin' er wantin' ter know des wen my conviction'll come off. I writes dis, suh, kaze I feels it in my l'ints dat de spring season is comin' on, en hit come ter mat me dat you might go fashin' en fergit de time for my conviction. Do, ef you please, suh, keep me in min', in do by me yeuz 'spects ter be did by"—Atlanta Constitution. Polite Chinamen consider it a breach of etiquette to wear spectacles in company. ward. It might be as John had suggested, that Nancy had an English lover; well, time would show, and whatever happened he would always strive to be worthy of her, and be willing to serve her in any way in his power. In about three hours he had sighted John Martin's farm. Down the hill Hendrick let the reins drop on his horse's neck and proceeded at a walking pace. It was a calm, still evening, and the horse's hoofs made no sound on the soft sand. Reaching the orchard the sound of voices fell upon his ear, and almost mechanically he stopped his horse and listened. It was the voice of Nancy he heard. And standing in his stirrups he looked over the brush growth. Yes. Paul was right; she was standing beneath the shade of a spreading tree, a tall man, dressed in the British kharki uniform, held her in his arms, her head upon his shoulder and her lips unturned to his. "The time was so long, Dick, I thought you would never come." "Did you, darling? Well, I have come at last, though I could wish a more peaceful time for visiting my beautiful sweetheart. But when this war is over I will make you my wife." "My love for you, Dick, can never change. Since I left you it has lived on the memory of those sweet hours of delirious happiness when we used to sit together in the sunshine and plan the joyful future—when we two shall be always together." The man on the horse heard the words that pierced his heart like the stab of a dagger. For some moments he sat like a statue, his face grim and set, and his eyes staring into blankness. The steed moved forward of its own accord and wandered on for upwards of an hour, while its rider sat wrestling with himself. Then, with a sigh and a sob that almost choked him he gathered up the reins and once more turned towards John Martin's farm. (To be continued.) INDIA'S FREE COINAGE ABOLISHED IN FAVOR OF THE GOLD STANDARD. Policy Carried Out Under Unfavorable Conditions, But the Country Is Swamped with Gold and Currency Has Increased —Effect of the Change Beneficial. Consul General R. F. Pattison, who is at Calcutta, has reported as follows to the state department regarding the course taken by the government of India in the past seven years on the question of the free colonage of silver: In 1893 the mints of India, that had previously been open to the free colonage of silver, were closed, except to such colonage as was required by the government to supply the currency for the business of the country; and since that time the exchange value of the rupee has fluctuated greatly, although it has been the policy of the government to establish its fixed value at 1s. 4d. (38 cents), which it has now practically accomplished. Strong objections were made to sterotyping the rupes at 1s. 4d., on the ground that the normal value of trade required a rupes at a lower sterling value. It was further urged that a rupes appreciated to 1s. 4d. would check exports, and especially would exercise an evil influence on the opium trade with China—a silver currency country. The policy of the government has been carried out under the most adverse conditions, the plague covering many districts, and the failure of rains last year causing a distressing and disastrous famine in large areas; besides, the cotton spinning and weaving industry has been in a more or less critical condition the past year. In spite of these conditions, the total value of trade during the ten months ending December 31, compared with preceding years, has been, in round numbers: Imports. Exports. Total trade. $697-198 188-199 188-190 $22,000.00 $22,000.00 $67,000.00 $67,000.00 It was in its effect on the export trade that the enhancement of the value of the rupue was chiefly dreaded; but the figures do not justify the fears expressed, although there has been a serious decline in the export of wheat end of rice, owing—as regards the latter especially, which would otherwise have been exported—to its being required for the famine districts of India. But the statistics for opium do not support the allegation that the enhancement of the rupue and the fall in the exchange of China on India would check the opium trade. The demand has been brisker, and the average price higher the past year. The measure passed the 15th of last September to make gold a legal tender in India was the outcome of the Indian currency committee's report, but the government was subjected to considerable pressure to defer action when the report appeared. It was contended in making the sovereign legal tender, gold would be hoarded and would fall to reach the government depositories, so that its gradual accumulation would be arrested, and the government would be driven into borrowing for its stock of gold; but the measure was passed, and the result is known. Instead of gold ceasing to reach the government depositories, they have been nearly swamped with it, and the difficulty has arisen from its plethora—not from its scarcity. The amount of currency reserve on April 1, 1899, was about $10,000,000, and on March 7, 1900, it was about $35,000,000. The amount that had accumulated in London was about $4,500,000, making an aggregate of about $39,500,000. In a country like India, where it has been the custom of the native population to hoard silver, it will take longer to adjust itself to a gold standard; but it will be seen that the government is accumulating gold, and it is gradually going into circulation, now being a legal tender. By the action of the government, India has become a gold standard, and will gradually become a gold currency country, as the exchange value of the rupee is now fixed at the rate of fifteen rupees to the sovereign ($4.86), or, in other words, rupees are interchangeable at that rate at the government depositories, and, with normal conditions of trade, that rate will probably be maintained. India, which has been such a vast reservoir for silver, now being out of the list of silver standard countries, must have an important influence in deciding the fiscal policy of other countries, for her absorption of such ceased, though the rupee will continue to be the currency for the smaller transactions, its exchange value being fixed by the government. The Origin of Trusts Centuries ago, when the individual found that his business was growing too large for him to handle, he took a partner. They formed a trust in a small degree. Fifty years ago, the partnership form of business began to give way to the small corporation, as business men found that a corporation afforded better facilities and protection to their business. More recently corporations grew in size until we have experienced the very large corporations called trusts. In nearly every case these are neither more nor less than partnerships, the only difference being in extent and degree. The increase in the world's volume of business has compelled the growth from the original partnerships to large corporations. THE SOUTH AND SHIPPING. National Aid for Its Restoration to the Sea. The rapid growth of manufacturing in the South, and its beneficial effect upon other industries, are arousing in the minds of the people new thoughts and hopes for the future of their great section of the Union. One of the most reliable authorities on Southern progress and development is R. H. Edmonds, the well-known Baltimore publisher, who keeps in constant personal touch with the up-to-date sentiment of the leading manufacturers, bankers, and influential men of the South. It is his repeated declaration and as a result of his own observations that the SOUTHERN BUSINESS MEN SOUTHERN BUSINESS MEN are almost a unit in favor of national aid in the re-establishment of our ships upon the seas. He finds the sentiment among men representative of Southern industrial and commercial progress quite at variance with that disclosed by their representatives and senators in congress. The latter seem to represent a theoretical opposition to the utilization of modern methods for the advancement of industrial prosperity that has kept back Southern development for fully a generation. In the foreign trade of the United States, as conducted between Southern and foreign ports, one of the RAREST SIGHTS IS THE AMERI- CAN FLAG. floating from the sterns of the ships conducting that trade. That the demand has grown in the South for national legislation for the upbuilding of our merchant marine seems to Mr. Edmonds to be logical. He sees in the realization of the growing hopes of his people in this respect much of permanent benefit to the section he represents. He has made an especial study of ante-bellum sentiment on the subject of American maritime development, and was surprised to find that, as far back as SIXTY YEARS AGO SEXT TERMS AGO the sentiment in favor of safeguarding and promoting our merchant marine commended the thoughtful attention of the most advanced of Southern statesmen and business men. In an address before the Cotton Spinners' association at Charlotte, North Carolina, recently, Mr. Edmonds stated that in 1845 John C. Calhoun presided at a convention in Memphis at which the subject was discussed. In 1851 a report was made at a Virginia convention in favor of facilitating the mails through the establishment of steamship lines running between Hampton Roads and European ports. Another convention in Memphis held in 1853 favored GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROTECTION AND PROTECTION in the establishment of steamship lines between Southern and European ports. The Charleston convention of 1854 urged congress to encourage the establishment of mail steamships, even to the extent of granting state bounties in the form of rebates to shipers employing American vessels. In 1855 Louisiana's legislature passed an act paying $5 per ton bounty on all ships exceeding 100 tons burden built in the state. A report made to the legislature of Alabama as far back as 1838 showed that her citizens contributed $1,800,000 a year to get their cotton to Europe, and contained the query: "If this amount must be paid, why should it not be paid to our own citizens?" No wonder a score of years later Alabama's legislature passed an act granting a bounty of $4 per ton on all steamers built within that state. AT CHARLESTON IN 1839 Robert Y. Hayne discussed the subject before a commercial convention held in that city, in which he said that southern and southwestern states were producing nearly three-quarters of the domestic exports of the Union, although importing not to exceed one tenth of the foreign merchandise entering the United States, and that foreign commerce was "causing cities of other states to flourish while Southern cities were falling into decay." Lieutenant M. F. Maury, famous for his invaluable aids to mariners upon the oceans, was impressed with the IMMENSE BENEFITS SOUTHERN STATES would derive from the establishment of steamship lines between Southern and European ports. For many years he urged the investment of Southern capital in such lines, showing the great and growing power her rich foreign commerce was giving to New York, and deploring the fact that the South was missing its opportunities to share therein. He saw for Norfolk, Virginia, possibilities of development which have never been realized, but which it seems possible are likely of fulfillment through the growing scarcity of European coal and the inevitable dependence of the world in the future for the greater part of its coal supplies upon the United States. IN OUR TRADE WITH OTHER AMER- ICAN REPUBLICS Maury saw advantages even greater than those possible through our commercial intercourse with Europe, and he was never done urging upon the people of the South the wisdom of generously encouraging American maritime development through the establishment of steamship lines to the West Indies, Central and South America. He advocated a ship canal across the American Isthmus and predicted enormously beneficial results to our trade and shipping to follow. Away back in 1858 the assembly of Virginia incorporated $50,000,000 STEAMSHIP LINE under the name of the Atlantic Steam Ferry company, but which failed to carry out its designs because of the sectional differences between the A and South. The scheme involved immediate construction of four shi of the Great Eastern class, to regular run between Southern and European ports. Their great value as auxiliaries to our military resources were then clearly pointed out, as well as their usefulness as nurseries for American seamen who would be ready to respond to their country's call if needed. No wonder, in these circumstances, Mr. Edmonds in his speech made it very clear that the revival of our foreign-going shipping is NOT A SECTIONAL OR PARTISAN QUESTION. but is a purely industrial, commercial and auxiliary naval question. He said: "Originating, as the South is already doing, about $400,000,000 worth of foreign exports a year, shipped almost exclusively in vessels that fly the British, German, and other foreign flags, the South may well be deeply concerned in the upbuilding of a merchant marine, because of the magnitude of its present export trade." This trade he expected would rapidly multiply, and he predicted a cotton crop in the not distant future of 100,000,000 bales. It is not surprising to find that BOTH OF THE GREAT POLITICAL PARTIES are now vying with each other in their espousal of an American merchant marine. That the representative men in both parties have formally and finally rejected the suggestion of "free ships"—which means the purchase of British instead of American built ships for our maritime needs—may be taken as an indication of both the conservatism and progressiveness which augurs well for early effective and permanent legislation in behalf of our too long neglected shipping upon the seas. is this unanimity of sentiment converging upon a demand for legislation that will have become so insistent and imperative as to compel such legislation at the next session of congress. B FOREIGN TRADE. That o real Year Just Ending Largest Any Other on Record. The foreign commerce of the United States in the fiscal year which ends with this month will by far exceed that of any preceding year. Its exports will surpass those of any earlier year by more than $150,000,000, and its exports of manufactures will exceed those of any preceding year by more than $75,000,000. Its imports, owing to the demands of the manufacturers of the country for foreign raw material for use in their industries will also be large. Raw silk, unmanufactured fibers, crude rubber, glides and skins, pig tin for use in the plate establishments, cabinet wood, and the finer grades of cotton and the coarser grades of wool all show a lae increase. It is in the export slide, however that the year makes its greatest record. The total exports for the eleven months of the year amount to $1, $821,454, and should the June figure prove as large as those of May, would bring the total up to $1,400,000,000, or $173,000,000 greater than the banner year 1899. Montana's Prosperity Montana has not been behind hand in securing its share of prosperity under the present administration, as the following exhibit of its bank deposits and depositors shows: The Democrats would have the country believe that it is the Lord and not the Republican party to whom the country is indebted for the good times at present enjoyed. If such is the case where was He during the last administration? If He will not interest himself in the welfare of the country when there is a Democrat in the White house, the people must see to it that a Republican be elected. Idaho Farm Products. Idaho fruit sold at the Chicago market in 1896 for just enough money to pay the freight. This year it has been sold at $1.00 per crate of twenty-five pounds, the freight being $1.00 per 100 pounds. Hay sold in Idaho at $2.50 per ton in 1896. This year it has sold at $5 per ton. Hogs sold there for 3 cents per pound in 1896. Within the last few months similar hogs have sold for 4½ cents per pound. The Sugar We Buy. During the last ten years we have bought from foreign countries an average of 777,134 tons of sugar each year. Most of this has come from countries that buy little from us. Down on Grover. The Democratic party, as now constituted, denounces and discredits the only man it has been able to elect to the presidency since the war of the rebellion. Factory Products Selling. American manufactured goods to the value of $40,000,000 were shipped to foreign countries last April. That is a record breaker. The Reason Why He Wanted Her to Go First. It was quite a wildly excited throng which had gathered in the market place, says the New York Journal. A crowd with its brutal, its animal nature all aroused and with no trace in the dushed faces of its members of human charity or pity. Mounted men in uniform strove to keep the throng in check, but they and their horses were thrust aside as the mass of curious seekers after sensations pushed and elbowed their way forward. There was the honest peasant jostling without regard for politeness or policy the wealthy landlord, the grave-digger in his rude habiliments, brushing against the satin jacket of a noble, the maid servant and the countess all jumbled together, all concentrating their efforts to gaze on the awful scene before them, to sup full of horrors during the fearful tragedy which was about to be enacted before their very eyes. In the center of the great square a huge scaffold had been reared, that terrible implement of an outraged justice, with the horrible noose hanging limp and loose and the ghastly black cap flung carelessly down on the rude boards which formed the flooring. All about this awful object the eager crowd swayed and a dull, angry cry went up as the masked hangman mounted the platform. Just behind him came the culprits, a man and a woman, guarded by a score of lusty retainers. They were man and wife, both accused of murder! The tumult ceased, as if by magic, and a deathly silence fell. There was a universal craving of necks in the throng, for an untoward incident had occurred. The man had broken down and knelt trembling before the awful masked figure. He was pleading, pleading amid sobs that the woman, the weak, shrinking woman, should die first. The hangman's face grew stern and cold and the throng gazed on the unwonted sight in amazement. They were spell-bound. "Why do you ask this thing of me?" asked the dealer of death. "Yes, why?" This came in a road from the mob. The doomed man flushed painfully. He began to speak. "It is not cowardice," he faltered, "which makes me ask this. Nor is it my innate love for the conventional which causes me to crave you to allow it's lady to 'go first'; but only a des- sile, a burning desire to have, for once in that life, which you are about to cut ort, to have——" He almost broke down. "—— to have the last word!" There is something wrong with the small boy who can wait patiently for his dinner. What Will Become of China? None can foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over the division of China. It is interesting to watch the going to pieces of this race. Many people are also going to pieces because of dyspepsia constipa- tion and stomach diseases. Good health can be retained if we use Hos- sler's Stomach Bitters. Every young man should learn to hide his own canoe—but he should learn to swim first. Washing Day Will Have No Terrors If you use Maple City Self Washing Soap. It presses the clothes—try it and be convinced—your grocery has it. Unless a man keeps moving the world will soon throw him down. Ladles Can Wear Shoes. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corn and bunions. All drugists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Rainbows in the eyes indicate love in the heart. **Lane's Family Medicine.** Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Siam's crown prince is a student at Harrow, England. He is popular with his school fellows. AYERS Pills Look at yourself! Is your face covered with pimples? Your skin rough and blotchy? It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation, billiousness, and dyspepsia. 25c. All druggists. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Then use the BUCKINGHAM'S DYE for the Whiskers 50 CTS. OF DRUGSTOISTS, OR R. P. HALL A CO. RASHEL, N. H. A Swallow is one of the earliest harbingers of spring—an equally sure indication is that feeling of languid depression. Many swallows of HIRES Rootbeer are best for a spring tonic—and for a summer beverage. 5 gallons for 75 cents. Write for list of premium stores with the Charles E. Hires Co. Malvers, Pa. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL LAKE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Bold by druggists. CONSUMPTION NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL DES MOINES, July 6, 1900. Hon, Smith McPherson, judge of the federal court of the southern district of Iowa, was in the city a few days ago for the first time since taking his path of office. While in the city he announced the appointment of Miss Grace Woolson as his private secretary and also confirmed the announcement of the appointment of William Hampton as court bailiff. He will not remove to Des Moines, as it has been rumored, but will make his permanent headquarters at Red Oak. In an opinion recently submitted to the executive council by Attorney General Remley it was held that building and loan associations have no right to contract an indebtedness, other than the stock authorized to be issued in accordance to law. This is a question that has been causing trouble to the executive council. In amending their articles of incorporation many of the building and loan, and savings and loan associations have been insistent in demanding from the council that they be allowed to provide for indebtedness other than the stock. In some instances, they have asked that the limit of indebtedness which they should be allowed to contract, should be placed at as high a figure as 75 per cent of the stock. The council opposed this as illegal, and to settle the question finally asked for an opinion. Mr. Remley's opinion leaves no doubt on the subject. He comes out in flat-footed terms and opposes the legality of the method of contracting indebtedness such as the companies propose. Harry West has returned from New York, where he went to meet the parties with whom he is negotiating for the organization of a company which will operate the packing house properties in Des Moines. Mr. West said: "As a result of my trip I can say confidently that the packing houses will be opened this fall and operated during the winter season to their capacity. The company will be composed of experienced packing house men who have been engaged in the business for years, know the markets and have an outlet for their product and who will have sufficient capital to carry on the business. Further than this I cannot give out a great deal of information at this time. One of the gentlemen who will be interested in the project, and who will be at the head of the institution, is now effecting a settlement of his affairs to come to Des Moines to give the business his personal attention, and until he closes this matter he does not want to be known in the packing house deal." ALL LIKELY TO BE ACQUITTED. No Probability of Convictions in Cuban Custom Fraud Cases. HAVANA. July 2.—In the opinion of Havana lawyers generally the accused officials in the custom house fraud cases now on trial are likely to be acquitted. Apparently everything has been done to assist them against the prosecution, and it is openly asserted that the fiscal himself is determined that no one shall be convicted. As giving color to this assertion, it is pointed out that he has called Senior Manduley as a witness. Manduley is the attorney who came from Santiago at the request of Gov.-Gen. Wood to act as temporary fiscal in connection with the cases, owing to the difficulty of finding a competent prosecutor in Havana who was not related to one or more of the prisoners. For months it has been known that every effort was being made to secure the release of all. All belong to the best families of Cuba, many of them being members of the leading clubs, and some related even to the chief justice. WERE SAFE JUNE 25. An Imperial Decease Says the Ministers Were in Pekin at that Time. LONDON, June 30.—There is absolutely no authentic word as to the whereabouts of the members of the legations, although abundant reports from Chinese sources say that they were safe a few days ago. The Daily Mail's Shanghai correspondent says: "An imperial decree has been sent to all the viceroys advising them that the foreign ministers were safe in Peking on June 25, and affirming that the government would protect them. This is authentic and reliable. I received it through a high Chinese official having means of communication from Peking to Shanghai by courier to Pac Ting Fu, and thence by telegraph." There is no doubt that the Chinese government fully recognizes what the safety of the ministers implies at the present time, and for this reason there is less uneasiness about them. INDIAN UPRISING IS THREATENED. One Thousand Redkins Ready to Start on Warpath. MINNEAPOLIS, June 30.—A Times special from Rat Portage. Ontario, says: There is a threatened uprising of Indians on the Rainy river, Ontario. One thousand Indians are gathered at the mouth of Rainy river. Leech lake Indians are said to be among them, inciting them to murder and pillage the settlers, who are sending out their women and children. One hundred and fifty reached Rat Portage on the Kelnora. The Indians are gathering at Rainy lake, the largest and most secret gathering ever known. Indian agents say they know of no grievance. Great alarm is felt by the settlers. Americans Take the Prize. PARIS, June 30.—The greatest surprise in exposition circles since the fair opened came when it was announced that the American silk exhibit will be awarded the gold medal over the French exhibit. This announcement of the triumph of the silk manufacturers of the United States, who competed with the French weavers in the home of the silk industry, gives an uncomfortable shock to Paris. Boers in Orange River Colony. LONDON, June 30.—Active Boer guerilla operations are reported from Half a dozen points in Orange river colony. FASHION AND FURNITURE. "Fashion is responsible for any amount of bad furniture," writes Katherine B. Johnson in Woman's Home Companion. "For the wealthy it is Marie Antolynte and other period furniture, or Turkish, Japanese and other orate eastern styles, none of which is adapted to our habits and surroundings. Last year it was metal bedsteads; now they are tabooed and wood reigns. Today it is prima vera and curly birch; six months from now it may be black walnut and cherry again. Some fashions are bizarre and ugly, many more artistic and altogether charming; for instance, brass bedsteads are showy and dazzling and iron ones too suggestive of public institutions, where cleanliness is the main consideration. Wood bedsteads are more pleasing to the eye and give a chamber a cozier appearance. In short, given free reign, fashion is a tyrant here as elsewhere; made subservient to good taste and judgment it is a most helpful and profitable servant, and to no one more surely than the woman with refined tastes who must economize. The size and uses of a room must determine the kind and amount of furniture to be put into it. Furniture should be beautiful in itself, and beautiful as considered in connection with everything else in the room. A piece of furniture good in design, material and workmanship is always beautiful when appropriately used. Let use be the first consideration. Make no purchases hastily. Have a definite idea of what is both suitable and good; of the needs of the room and the sum you can afford to expend. Prefer hard wood and good workmanship every time to cheap decorations. If you must economize closely, let fashion be neither the first, second nor third consideration. The style, and air most conductive to the beauty and comfort of a room is of no small degree dependent upon the arrangement of its furniture. Any number of suggestions, but few explicit directions, for producing the desired results can be given, for while certain rules must be adhered to, success is far less dependent upon technical knowledge than upon the artistic sense and cleverness of the woman who produces them." Colonel W. O. Tolford tells a good story of a light-colored mulatto who wandered into one of the restaurants of Washington, D. C., the other day. When a waiter intimated to him in the gentlest way that he could not be served there, this conversation ensued: "Wha' cann' Ih be suvved heahe? " "It is against the rules." "G guess you tek me foh a colored man." "Aren't you?" "Me colored? No, suh, Ise uh Malay." "Malay, eh. Let's see; where do the Malays come from?" "Why, uh, from Malaria, ob course." His satanic majesty always smiles when a boy is whipped to make him attend church. Try Grain-o! Try Grain-o! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. We are made great or small by our own acts. YOU NEED A DAILY PAPER. This book is a citizen citizen needs a daily paper. The Des Moines Daily News is sent postpaid to any address for $1 a year. The Des Moines Daily News all the news condensed for the busy reader; daily markets by telegraph; interesting literary matter for the family. Address, The News Des Moines, Iowa. One frequently sees money-bags, but it never bags at the knee. FREE GOVERNMENT LANDS. There are still thousands of acres of government lands in the states of Washington and Oregon, also prairie and timber lands near railroad or water communication, that can be bought for $5 per acre and upwards. Finest climate in the United States. No failure of crops. If you wish to raise grain or the finest stock on earth, you will find locations in these two states where you can do this to perfection. Take your choice. I have no lands for sale, but if you want information where it is best to locate, call on me when in St. Paul or write me at corner Third and Rosabel streets, St. Paul, Minn. R. E. WERKMAN. He who is not true to himself is a traitor to heaven. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The women who are born to command always get married. The one new thing under the sun each day is the date. A vigorous growth and the original color given to the hair by PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM HANDSCOINS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. Never say die. Expire sounds much better. To Make Clothes Sweet and Clean Use Maple City Self Washing Soap. It makes washing day easy. All grocers. You can seldom judge a man by his actions away from home. RICH, BUT WRETCHED A man in a suit sits in a chair, holding a book and looking thoughtful. He is surrounded by a bookshelf and a table with a clock and a mirror. gives them new life; then they act regularly and naturally; that is what you want— it is guaranteed to be found in— THE IDEAL LAXATIVE CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Nemedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. The girl who doesn't wish to see callers must expect to be found out. Save Money, Time and Labor By using Maple City Self Washing Soap. Your grocery sells it. Many a man dresses more expensively than the men to whom he owes money. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Eve may have had her troubles, but Adam never brought his friends home to dinner unexpectedly. A Colonel in the British South African Army says that Adams' Tutti Frutti was a blessing to his men while marching. Never make pleasure an excuse for neglecting your business. No Man Likes to Be Bald. The best way to prevent it is to use Coke Dandruff Cure. All druggists at $1.00. A miss-take often leads to the divorce court. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J. Feb. 17, 1900. An empty purse is responsible for some matrimony failures. Each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better, too. Egypt, where some sort of plague is almost constantly in existence, was at one time free from the evil for two centuries. VERY LOW RATES TO TEXAS Via M. K. & T. Ry. FROM KANSAS CITY. Low rate excursion tickets and one way tickets will be sold by the M. K. & T. from Kansas City, July 7th, 8th and 9th, to Texas. The excursion rates to the more important points will be: Round Trip. Dennison, Sherman, Gainsville, Wichita Falls..... $10.00 Diallas, Fort Worth..... 12.00 Waco..... 13.00 Temple, Belton, Taylor..... 14.00 Houston, Galveston..... 15.00 Tickets good until July 30th returning. Good for ten days going and stop-over in Texas. One way tickets will be sold same dates at $2.00 less than the above. THIS OPPORTUNITY DOES NOT COME OFTEN. Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags," your liver is drying up and bowels wearing out, some day you will cry aloud for health, offering all your wealth, but you will not get it because you neglected Nature in your mad rush to get gold. No matter what you do, or what ails you, to-day is the day—every day is the day—to keep watch of Nature's wants—and help your bowels act regularly—CASCARETS will help Nature help you. Neglect means bile in the blood, foul breath, and awful pains in the back of the head with a loathing and bad feeling for all that is good in life. Don't care how rich or poor you are, you can't be well if you have bowel trouble, you will be regular if you take CASCARETS—get them to-day—CASCARETS—in metal box; cost 10 cents; take one, eat it like candy and it will work gently while you sleep. It cures; that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels and DOLLARS SAVED By buying your Doors, Windows, Nails and all kind of mounting materials for your furniture. Other goods in proportion. Send for price and send your estimate and we will quote your our price. STEEL ROOFING and SIDING. We have several cars bought at a low price and while they last we will send them to you. Roofing and siding for your home. Beaded Roofing, per square, $2.75. Standing beam Roofing, complete, $3.00. Roll and Cap Roofing, complete, $3.00. Roll and Cap Roofing, complete, $3.00. Roll and Cap Roofing, complete, $3.00. WANTED The names and address addresses of all who wish to buy goods at retail at wholesale prices. We will mail our 25-page Grocery Catalogue FREE to you. We will send our 25-page Grocery Catalogue FREE to you. CATCH FISH. We everything in fishing outfits and sporting goods. Send two cents for our SPECIAL CATALOGUE of Guns and Tents containing to pages, 11 of 11 inches; it will be sent per person. CATCH FISH. Minnesota. and Charming Summer Resorts. Those in search of health or recreation can do no better than to take an outing at one of the following popular resorts on the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. Waterville, Minn., Lake Tetonka. Splendid pike, crappie and bass fishing and boating. Maple Point Hotel or Tetonka Park Hotel provide the best of accommodations. Waconia, Minn., Clear Lake. The Coney Island Hotels are famous for good accommodations. Lake Minnetonka is best reached by the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. There are numerous first-class hotels at Deephaven, Cottagewood, Excelsior, Lake Park, etc. Frequent trains and reduced rate tickets on sale. For further information call on agents or write to A. B. Cutts, G. P. & T. A., M. & St. L. R. R. Minneapolis. Everyone thinks he works for a man who is mighty unappreciative. 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Are You Using Allergy Foot-Brace? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. If the girls who chew gum in the street cars only knew how ugly it makes them look, they wouldn't do it. Every Suffering Woman Should Read this Letter and be Convinced that Lydia M. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Does Cure Female Weakness. "I have been troubled with female weakness in its worst form for about ten years. I had leucorrhoea and was so weak that I could not do my housework. I also had falling of the womb and inflammation of aries al r y e and at menstrual periods I suffered terribly. At times my back would ache very hard. I could not lift anything or do any heavy work; was not able to stand on my feet. My husband spent hundreds of dollars for doctors but they did me no good. After a time I concluded to try your medicine and I can truly say it does all that you claim for it to do. Ten bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and seven packages of Sanative Wash have made a new woman of me. I have had no womb trouble since taking the fifth bottle. I weigh more than I have in years; can do all my own housework, sleep well, have a good appetite and now feel that life is worth living. I owe all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I feel that it has saved my life and would not be without it for anything. I am always glad to recommend your medicine to all my sex, for I know if they follow your directions, they will be cured."—MRS. ANNIE THOMPSON, South Hot Springs, Ark. Telephones have been placed in the French hospitals for infectious maladies, so that the sick may converse with their friends without danger of communicating disease. Afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully protected Pension Bureau 3 yr in civil war. 15 adjudicating Pension Bureau THE NEGRO OF THE NINE- TEENTH CENTURY. Special to Bristander. Dear Editor: I beg leave of you to allow me space in your valuable paper to speak a few words in regard to my roce, which has for the last forty years been striving to reach the topmost round in the ladder of prosperity. The first fact that I wish to speak of is that as the time goes by, instead the awful hatred and discrimination between the black and white races decreases, it seems to constantly increase. Some may wonder and ask why? It is because we stand today upon the dividing line of the antibellum day's of the (600's) and the privileges that we have fo nobly and bravely won for ourselves, during the last thirty-five years. It makes me feel so proud when I think of this age in which I live. There are no clouds overhead and no convulsions under foot, and oh! how reverently we return thanks to the Almighty Lord for the past for with confident and hopeful promises we shall march upon sure ground toward the future, and notice my friends how the simple fact of our progression the last few years have almost paralyzed the imagination of our white adversaries, or as history calls them our more favored brethren, and how we are now contemplating the vast accumulations of the coming centuries with awe and pride. Our population has grown from about two to nine millions and we are still moving onward and upwards. Since the year of 1865 count, the intelligent and renowned men and women of our race and of those fathers and forefathers never hesitated to think of the new ideas we have taken up. Compare the few log cabins of 35 years ago to the handsome mansions of today, and the exhaustless reservoirs of our progress and wealth. We are opening institutions every day for the poor and needy classes of our people and moreover our institutions furnish the full equipment of shield and spear for the battle of freedom, and absolute protection against the many opponents presenting themselves to us on every hand. The trouble is that today we need at the head of this government men with the spirit of Abraham Lincoln did he allow the curse of slavery to continue in its wretched way. No! he remembered that the rights of God as well as the will of men had to be recognized and this government is fastly perishing for men of his nature and spirit today. Does the constitution of the United States or the laws of God say that because the negro has a black face that he must be burned alive or lynched by a low, ill bred white men without a just recognition of the law being administered upon him—no! It says that the rights of all men shall be preserved and protected by the government regardless of race or color, but, who is to blame? Does the blame lay upon the poor laboring class of people, both white and black. I think not, the stain is placed over the heads of the officials of this government whom the good, honest people of the country, put their trust in believing them to be trie to their oaths and capable of handling the laws which are placed in their hands. Ah! my friends, do you agree with me when I sap that the negro has a perfect right to chastise and rebuke the white man for his treatment to our fellow citizens as well as the law allows them to take it into their hands; We must stop it. Afro-Americans, is it your intention to allow the humiliation of our unprotected kinsmen to go on and say nothing, if so we had better beg for the hardships of the fifties and sixties to take place again for then the negro did have some protection from the slave holder if there was no law to protect him. Weigh the subject and decide whether you would be better off living in servitude and some protection from the master than to live under the name of being in a free country and none at all, administered upon you, and the worst of all, my friends, is the fact that that she unmerciful humiliation instead of decreasing, is becoming to be a great spark in some of our southern states where the white man can so easily black himself to the mock of a negro and commit the most horrible crimes ever read of in the annals of history, and when the punishment comes in all probability, some poor innocent black is either burned alive or lynched by a set of people supposed to be civilized and living in a civilized century, and above all are honoring themselves as law-abiding citizens. Ask yourself what is civilization. What does it mean? Surely the civilization that Webster defines does not mean the act of becoming experts in the line of turning alive of human mortals—still it seems that way. And right here I must say emphatically that they are not worthy of being mentioned in a civil manner, but should be regarded as all other savages and not half so good as the Philippino negro whom their superior brethren speak of as heathens. I say to the whole sixty million (60,000,000) of the caucasian race when you look at the heathenism your own color is carrying on and see what it amounts to in the sight of other nations probably you will be able to judge for yourselves whether you are capable of enlightening a set of people who from appearances are more cultured in the way of civilization than your beautiful southern gentlemen. Then I turn to my subject the negro once more and say when we engage in the solemn study, of the history of our race, and the progress from our cradle in Africa to the limits of American civilization you behold us flying from from high to higher stages of the civil as well as religious thraldom, over mountains and seas, seeking rast and finding none but still pursuing the flying bow of promise to the glittering hills where it spans in hesperian climes. It can be quoted as the poet says: "Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past. A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Times noblest offspring is the last." (Continued in our next) Cheap Excursion Rates to Colorado. Cheap Excursion Rates to Colorado. 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Huebsen Bros. vs. J. M. Muggley, also known as J. M. Muckley, A. L. Muggley, also known as A. L. Muckley. To J. M. Muggley, also known as J. M. Muckley, and A. L. Muggley, also known as A. L. Muggley: You are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in its above entitled cause is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, claiming of you the sum of Two Hundred Seventy-eight and 16-100 dollars, as money justly due from you, and interest thereon at 6 per cent from the 9th day of October, A. D. 1899, upon your one joint and several promissory note executed and delivered to the above plaintiff for the sum of $310.00, bearing date October 9th, 1899, and due together with six per cent per annum, on December 1st. 1899, plaintiffs alleging that said note is still the property of these plaintiffs, past due and unpaid except the sum of $31.84, heretofore paid and credited on said note. 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The first important step was the preparation and sending out of the poll book for use in making the preliminary canvass of the state, which shall give to the campaign committee in the state, county, township and school districts accurate information upon which to base their future efforts. This campaign poll book is by far the best that has ever been prepared in Iowa. It combines the best features that have been in vogue in this and other states. The purpose of this record is to know as soon as possible the present inclination of all voters in the state, whether they are republicans, democrats, prohibitionists, middle-of-the-road populist, gold democrats, social democrats or populists, or whether they are doubtful. The record will also give the occupation of the voter under three heads, whether he is a farmer, business man or laborer, and will include his nationality, if he is German-American, Irish-American or Scandinavian, and will tell whether or not he is a soldier. Space is also given for remarks concerning individual voters. This record is to be made in ink and kept by the local worker for use during the campaign. A copy of this list is to be sent to the county chairman for reference, and as a guide in the distribution of literature during the campaign. This work must be completed so that the county chairmen can send their reports to the chairman of the state committee not later than the 4th day of September. The county chairmen will of course report only the aggregate numbers. This is the most important work of the presidential campaign, and Chairman Weaver urges that it be done with great care. The importance of perfecting a thorough organization in every township and school district is as great to every locality as it is to the state central committee, and it is indispensable to the best results in the state and in each locality. The attention given by the state committee to any county or part of a county depends upon the standing of the locality with the state committee. If it is well organized and has a live committeeman, the state committee will see that speakers and literature and all such things are supplied to the fullest extent that they can be used. On the other hand, if there is no local committeeman, or if the local committeeman does not answer the letters of the state committee and furnish the information requested, the state committee will conclude that something is wrong, and will not know what to do to help that community out. The state committee exists for the purpose of assisting the various localities in the state to do their best, but the state organization is powerless unless it is advised by a live local committeeman. Chairman Weaver has made early arrangements to secure plenty of the best literature for the information of speakers and voters. It is urged that lists of names to whom literature should be sent shall be forwarded to the state committee as soon as possible. A literary bureau has been established at headquarters in charge of men who have had years of experience in this work, and all the channels for reaching the people with complete, accurate and plain information upon all public issues will be used. This paper has made arrangements to secure a special political news service from Des Moines, which will give the latest information throughout the campaign, and may be relied upon at all times as strictly authentic. No unsupported assertions will be made through these columns. Every republican worker and every voter may depend upon statements herein made as being absolutely reliable. The republican national committee has suggested the early opening of campaign headquarters in all the states, so that the preliminary work of organization and the distribution of reliable literature be done before the heat of the campaign is upon us. The formal opening of the national campaign will not occur until some time in August, or about the first of September, but a great deal of good work will be done before that time, especially the dissemination of information among the people. Scores of young men of ability, energy and enthusiasm have volunteered to Chairman Weaver to assist in the campaign. Their services will be em- ployed with telling effect throughout the state. These, in addition to the army of trained campaigners, with which Iowa is better supplied than any other western state, will prove an irresistible force, leading the republican party to victory in November. One of the chief inspirations of republican effort in Iowa is the desire to maintain the standing the state has acquired in Washington. No state in the union is ahead of Iowa in its influence in the national government. This proud position has been attained by the loyal support given to such men as Senators Allison and Gear, Speaker Henderson and Congressmen Dolliver, Couisins, Hepburn, Hull and Lacey. They have commanded for the state the respect and admiration of the nation, and in the executive branch of the government, as well as in the congress, the voice of Iowa is heard throughout the land, speaking with authority. The continuance of the republican party in power in the nation and the maintenance of the good record of Iowa means that the benefits of this condition of affairs shall continue to be showered upon the state. Politicians, and, in fact, all who appreciate the value of this prominence in national affairs, are inspired to their best efforts to maintain the standing of the state. All of the congressmen have been renominated without opposition, and will enter the campaign prepared to exert their best efforts for the party in the state and in the nation. Iowa speakers will be heavily drafted for work in other and less fortunate states. It will be even difficult to secure the services of speakers of national reputation for the reason that they are needed in other states. To meet this emergency, Chairman Weaver has taken the precaution to secure early promises of some of the best campaigners in the nation, some of whom are most desired in every quarter of the country. Among these are Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, vice presidential candidate, who will spend some time in Iowa during the campaign and will make several speeches; Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the brilliant young orator of Indiana, who is the recognized authority on the Philippine question; Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin; Congressman Landis, of Indiana, and numerous others of equally high standing. With these eminent speakers and with the arrangements for the best class of literature, this campaign of education is already well started. It now remains for the local workers to do their part. The democrats promise to make a lively fight in some of the congressional districts, notably the Second, Sixth and Eighth, and possibly the First districts. In the Second district it is reported that Henry Vollmer, mayor of Davenport, is to be the candidate, and in the Eighth district the democrats are likely to nominate Senator Claude Porter, of Centerville. While there is no likelihood that the democrats can win in any Iowa district, it is not the year for republicans to indulge in carelessness in regard to any congressional district. The next congress will be republican, but not by a large majority, and it behoves every republican in every congressional district to leave nothing undone to promote the election of the republican nominee for congress. The fate of the party in the nation depends upon the results in the congressional districts, for the democrats have much more hope of carrying the lower house of congress than they have of electing a president this year. One of the most popular and inspiring features of this campaign will be the Rough Rider clubs that will be organized all over the state. This will be an attractive and delightful novelty that will appeal especially to the young men in the country who are provided with fine horses. The Rough Rider uniforms will soon be on the market at a very small price, and the republican state committee will supply a simple form of organization, so that it will be very easy to organize a Rough Rider club in any community. "What would be more inspiring," asked Chairman Weaver, "than the sight of a band of hearty young republicans clad in Rough Rider uniforms and mounted on good horses, led by some popular man in the neighborhood who has a taste and talent for military affairs?" These clubs will be the most conspicuous figures in political parades, and it will not be long until the state will be full of them. One is being organized in Des Moines, and will be commanded by Col. John C. Loper, who led the Fifty-first Iown volunteers on its campaign through the Philippines. In a short time the details of this feature of the campaign, inspired by the nomination of Teddy Roosevelt, the celebrated Rough Rider colonel, for vice president, will be worked out at state headquarters, and announcement will be made in this paper of the best way to go at it to organize a Rough Rider club. When Col. Roosevelt makes his tour during the campaign these clubs will appear with thousands of members to do him honor. Chairman Weaver's idea is that a Rough Rider club will be organized in every precinct. Precinct clubs will consist of at least 25 men, mounted, if possible, and many of them will have 50 or more members. These precinct or township clubs will be united in a big county organization, so that when important county meetings are held they may all be brought together and form a regiment. Then when there is to be a great district rally, the counties can send enough men from each regiment to form an army, and they can be organized into brigades and divisions, and these enthusiastic young soldiers will sweep everything before them in the opinion of those who have originated this scheme. Mr. Weaver has received general approval for the plan and expects great things from it. EXTRA FLOUR AI QUALITY FLOUR FLOUR FLOUR FLOUR ONE DOLLAR as with $1.00, and we will send you this NEW package with your freight depot, and represented, the greatest value you ever saw. 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