Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. --- VOL. 7. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FIDUARY by THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 405 MARQUARD BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE 69. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WOHSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year. $1.50 Six months. 75 Three months. 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L, THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post office 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 Levi Broomfield was in Omaha last week. The wedding bells will ring October the 4th, in our city. Miss Bessie Stewart was confined to her room the first part of the week by illness. Mrs. T. A. Clark and children are the guest of Mrs. McFadden, 737 Lake street Chicago, this week. Rev. Searcy of Albia passed through our city Tuesday en route to the general conference. Rev. Johnson of Clarinda stopped off in our city a day while on his way to Minneapolis. Miss Mary Bell returned this week from a visit with her parents in Dallas county. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. Rev. T. W. Lewis visited a day with his sister, Mrs. Martha Bass, before going to the general conference. WANTED—Reliable men to organize stastical Lodges. Address African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Iowa. Harry W. Hughes, who has been a sub mail carrier, has been made a regular carrier. We are glad to see young Hughes' success. WANTED—First class barber to go to Mason City, Ia. Married man preferred. Address Box 527, Mason City, Iowa. Rev. Walker, formerly of Pittsburg, Pa., but now pastor of the Baptist church at Muchakinock, paid this office a visit this week. Dr. Francis J. Peterson left Tuesday evening for Minneapolis, Minn., to attend the annual conference. There will be preaching at his church Sunday morning by Rev. H. McCraven, and in the evening Rev. Raikes will preach. We received an invitation announcing the marriage of Mr. Waldon of Newton te Miss Josie Whitsett, formerly of Newton, but now of Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 19. A party was given last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Woods. Eighth and Grand avenue, in honor of Miss Feren Harris of Keokuk. A large crowd was present and all had a jolly time. NEW—A a Secret Fraternal Insurance Society, exclusively for the colored race. African Monarch of America, Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. Coalson has been to Minneapolis to make arrangements for the excursion party to be taken care of. There will be a committee to meet the party out from Minneapolis, and accompany them to the city. After reaching the city they will be conducted to headquarters that have been arranged for them, and from there will be sent to the different stopping places. The Minneapolis people are not sparing any pains to make it as pleasant for the party as can be expected on such an occasion. The ladies must be sure to take heavy wraps as the evenings are very cool. Be sure to remember the time and place of leaving—Saturday, the 15th inst. at 9 p.m., over the Rock Island. --- CAUTION—Protect your loved ones by insuring in the African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Iowa. Colored Jeweler at 316 West Third street; will buy old gold or exchange for new. J. Frank Blagburn has changed the date of his report of the Afro-American Council to Wednesday evening. A SAD TRAGEDY. On last Sunday evening our city was thrown into confusion and astonishment by the shooting of Wm. R. Foster, a prominent young attorney, by Miss Hattie Mush, who alleges that Mr. Foster betrayed her. The shooting occurred in the restaurant at the northwest corner of Second and Grand avenue. dress, W. E. Miller; Music by band; Song of freedom of the four million slaves; Proclamation read by Miss Birdie Lucus, of Bedford; Song, "Father Abraham has Spoken;" Address, L. T. McCoun; Address, G. L. Finn; Music; Address by orator of the day, J. L. Yancy of of Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Campbell is on the sick Mrs. Person and daughter I Thursday for Tennessee. Misses Oliphant, Nellie Fow George Oliphant and Will went up the river Sund y even Miss Allie Price entertain evening a few friend in h The Lincoln club will meet in the Redhead block, next to the Valley bank, on Court avenue Monday, Sept. 17, at 8 o'clock sharp. Arrangements will be made for active business and speakers will be arranged for. This should be a campaign of education among the Negroes of Iowa and the United States The rights of the Negro as a man and a citizen are in the balances. Remember the day and date and come yourself and bring your friends. The H. B. S. Reading Circle held a very interesting meeting with Mrs. A. O. Smith. After an able paper on "Negro Literature" by Mrs. G. I. Holt, the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. R. A. Wilburn; Vice President, Mrs. E. T. Banks; Secretary, Mrs. W. H. Warichs; Assistant Sect'y, Mrs. Emma Jackson; Treasurer, Mrs. J. P. Hamilton; Editresses of the Oracle Mesdames Palmer and Denney. Mrs. Emma Jackson will be the next hostess and the following programme will be rendered: Quotations from foremost authors; Paper of the afternoon, subject "The Afro-American Council and the good it has accomplished," led by general discussion: Address on the subject by Mr. J. Frank Blagburn: Oracle by Mrs. L. R. Palmer. NOTICE. Those who contemplate going on the excursion to Minneapolis must not forget that the Rock Island route is the one to go over and not the Chicago Great Western Ry.; as they have advertised the same rate on the same date and hour, but would not do so with the committee that waited on them first, but just as soon as the Rock Island offered the $4.00 rate they offered the same. Now let us be men and Women and stand by the Rock Island. R'y. A NOTED HORSEMAN. Among the number of fine horses that were exhibited at the Horse Show this week, there were several that was trained on owned by a colored man, Mr. Thomas Bass of Mexico. Mo. Among those he exhibited were Rex Belleae, Rex Denmark and Columbus that has a wide reputation as a High School horse. The contest last Tuesday evening was very close between Columbus and Limestone Bell, in fact the larger portion of the audience seem to think that Columbus was entitled to first prize, and even the judges conceded that the contest was very close, yet they awarded the first prize to Limestone Bell. Mr. Bass has been dealing in fast horses since 1892, and horses won several first prizes at the Worlds' Fair. He has recently sold Annie Bridgford to Mr. Thomas F. Cook of Algona, Iowa, for $400.00. Mr. Bass owns a very beautiful home at Mexico, and has been very successful with his horses. He is assisted in caring for them by Mr. E. D. Cooper and others. At Granite, the new Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad town on Red River, in New Oklahoma, Sept. 19th, 20th and 21st. The second homesecker's excursion in September (Tuesday Sept. 18th) granus one-half rate plus $2.00 to that district, and tickets are good 21 days. You can arrive in Granite in time to see the Grand Comanche Indian Dance, the second day of the reunion. Remember that our route is through the beautiful Indian Reservation to be opened up for settlement early summer of 1901. Don't miss this chance to see this Reservation. Any C. R. I. & P. ticket agent will quote you rates, conditions, time and trains, etc., or address JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. 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 6 p. m. MORGAN HOUSE. DES MOINES, IOWA A SAD TRAGEDY On last Sunday evening our city was thrown into confusion and astonishment by the shooting of Wm. R. Foster, a prominent young attorney, by Miss Hattie Mush, who alleges that Mr. Foster betrayed her. The shooting occurred in the restaurant at the northwest corner of Second and Grand avenue. The girl claimed Foster has accomplished her ruin under promise of marriage and had just refused to fulfill his promise. She admits the crime was deliberate and says she intended to take her own life immediately upon killing her alleged betrayer. Her purpose was not accomplished either as to Foster or herself. Foster's wound did not prove fatal and he succeeded in disarming the girl before she could carry out her design against her own life. As an indirect result of the shooting, Mrs. M. A. Hayes and her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Putnam, received injuries which it was at first feared might prove fatal. The two women were run down by the wagon of Fire Chief Burnett who was driving Sergeant Morris of the police station at a furious gait in an effort to overtake the fleeing woman who had attempted Foster's life. The two women were in a buggy. The collision occurred at the corner of Seventh and Grand avenue. The women were thrown to the pavement and picked up unconscious, covered with blood from head to foot. Mrs. Hayes' head struck a street car rail and it appeared at first her skull had been fractured. The wound proved to be nothing more serious than a deep contusion and both women soon rallied under a physician's care and are rapidly progressing toward recovery. Mrs. Putnam is the wife of R. J. Putnam of the Bankers' Life association. When foster was shot and succeeded in wrestling the revolver from the girl after a fierce struggle in which one finger was shot off he was laboring under such great mental strain that he did not realize that he was shot. Mr. Foster's condition is critical. He is at Mercy hospital where the doctors performed an operation last Sunday night. No one is permitted to see him and hear his story of the tragedy, so we can only publish the girl's story as she related it to a newspaper reporter in the cell: "Will and I have been keeping company close to three years now. He has been going with me steadily for a year and a half and I was the only girl he waited upon during that time. We became engaged a year ago and finally the first of September was set as the date of our marriage. Our relations became intimate and as a result I am now in a delicate condition. "The first intimation that I had that he did not intend to keep his promise and marry me was about three weeks ago. It was then a week from the date we had agreed upon for our marriage. I have met him repeatedly since, but never could persuade him to change his determination. Friday night I was with him and he told me he would rather go to the penitentiary than marry me and said he was going to leave Des Moines and go to some other town to live. "No we did not quarrel any last night. The worst trouble we had was Friday night. I bought the revolver on Thursday and made up my mind to shoot him. I suppose the only reason I didn't shoot him Friday or Saturday was because I couldn't get my heart up to the point where I could do it." "But I made up my mind to shoot him Sunday night and I did it. That's all there is to it." LATER—Wm. R. Foster died at Mercy Hospital at 3 o'clock and will be buried in the city as soon as his sisters arrive from Missouri. We will say more in next issue. Subscribe for the Bystander. EMANCIPATION The colored people of Bedford and vacinity will hold their accustomed celebration of emancipation of 1900, at Court House Park, Bedford, Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 22. J. L. Thompson, of Des Moines, orator of the day. PROGRAMME. The procession will form in front of Steele's opera house at 10 o'clock a. m., and from thence up Main and Court streets to the court house park, headed by the Bedford band. Arriving at the park the programme will proceed as follows: Called to order by the president, D. Isom; Chorus, America; Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. E. Johnson; Song by chorus; Welcome address by the city mayor, B. F. Manley; Ad- dress, W. E. Miller; Music by band; Song of freedom of the four million slaves; Proclamation read by Miss Birdie Lucus, of Bedford; Song, "Father Abraham has Spoken;" Address, L. T. McCoun; Address, G. L. Finn; Music; Address by orator of the day, J. L. Thompson, of Des Moines. There will be amusements to please all. The Issue that Confronts the People. Imperialism and militaryism are only bubbles blown by Mr. Bryan to deceive the people and to draw their attention from the real issue, which is the 16 to 1 plank in their platform. If it were not, why did Mr. Bryan say that if it was not put in the Kansas City platform that he would not be a candidate. He was satisfied with any sort of a platform if the 16 to 1 was in it. But the issue which every honest man should consider, and the one that is over shadowing this country is "whether we shall abandon the policy which has brought this country to such a high pitch of prosperity, and has revived every branch of industry." This will be the question that every voter must consider before going to the polls on election day, is whether he wants national prosperity, that was brought about by McKinley and the Republican praty, or the 16 to 1 and the times of 1893 again. These are the real and only issues, consider them well. The colored man that has any race pride will not be long in making up his mind with which party to cast his vote, at the coming election. He will never vote with the party that is trying to rob him of his elective franchise. He can not at any time cast his vote in a way to effect his race or his manhood. The Democratic party all over this country is the real enemy of the colored man. The Tammany police were the real leaders of the disgraceful riot in New York. The leaders of Tammany Hall are the real criminals, the men who led the mob are followers of them. ALBIA NEWS. Mr. W. G. Davis of Denver, Colo., has returned home after three or four years in Denver. Mr. Doll Burk is back in our town again. Sunday being quarterly meeting day a number of our people took advantage of the cheap rates and made a trip to Oskaloosa. Miss Henerletta Jones, Mrs. Maggie Nelson, Messrs. Burt Jones and Reese Underwood have been attending the fair in Oskaloosa this week. TUSKEGEE NOTES. Everything is being put in readiness for the opening of school Tuesday, September 11th. On last Monday the industrial department resumed operation. Teachers and students are coming in daily, and everything is taking on form for the twentieth annual session of the school, which we look forward to as the most successful in the history of the school. Principal and Mrs. Washington have reached Tuskegee for the opening of school. The former from Indianapolis where he went to deliver an address before the Afro-American Council, after the National Negro Business League at Boston; and the latter from Detroit, where she has been in attendance at the meeting of the State Federation of Women's Club The German government has just applied to Principal Washington in a cabelgram for three Tuskegee graduates to take charge of and conduct a model farm in one of the German provinces on the West coast of Africa. This is a highly signifi cant incident. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. Mrs. Milligan gave a tea Friday evening in honor of Miss Nellie Fowler of Ottumwa. Mrs. Oliphant and daughter gave a two o'clock dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Nellie Fowler of Ottumwa and Mrs. Misses Oliphant, Nellie Fowler, Messrs, George Oliphant and Wilie Hollings went up the river Sund y evening. Miss Allie Price entertained Monday evening a tew friend in honor of Miss Nellie Fowler of Ottumwa. A picnic was given Thursday in honor of Mi-s Nellie Fowler and Mrs. Yancy. Mrs Yancy left Monday morning ter her home in Milwaukee, Wis. CLINTON ITEMS. A good size congregation was present Sunday evening to listen to the farewell sermon of the pastor, Rev. R. Holly, who upon this occasion was at his best, putting fourth what was considered the ablest effort of the year. At the conclusion of the discourse a most elegant zither solo was rendered by Prof. A. M. Damon. Bethel Literary society met in regular session Tuesday evening at the home of the President, Mrs. A. M. Damon; at the conclusion of business musical numbers were rendered, followed by the serving of refresments. Edward Henderson of Chicago visited the past week with his father, Wm Henderson and family. We congratulate the editor of the Bystander, John L. Thompson, on his appointment to a clerkship in the Treasurer's office in Des Moines. This is an instance where ambition and perseverance are evidenced as paving the way to success, and should be hailed with delight by all Afro-Americans of the state of Iowa. Band No. 1 of Bethel church entertained at a social Wednesday evening the 5th. A pleasant time was spent by those present. Mr. John Sayles is around again after two weeks of serious illness. Items of interest to the Bystander are solicited by the correspondent, same to be handed in not later than Tuesday afternoon of each week. Mrs. Beason we are pleased to note has opened a dressmaking establishment on Fifth street. BURLINGTON BRIEFLETS. Rev. Higgins farewell sermon was preached Sunday night from Acts 20th chapter and 32d verse. "And now, brethern, I recommending you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." Mr. Jackson Morgan of Dubuque is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell. Mrs. Carter after two weeks illness is able to be out again. Mr. Limmuel Reid will take his departure for Muscatine Friday to spend a few days with his brother-in-law. Mrs. Ubanks and Miss Williams of Ft. Madison made a pleasant call on Mrs. Kenney while visiting in Burlington last Thursday. Mother Langford is feeling somewhat indisposed this week. The Christian Endeavor presented to Mrs. Grace Morris Allen a handsome reference bible as the organist for the past year. Mrs. Allen responded to the Endeavor in a most religious way and gave to the Endeavor many an encouraging word. Rev. and Mrs. Higgins presented Miss Denora Smith a handsome bible for the church organist of the past year. The reception was given Monday evening for the minister. Miss Mary Brown is very ill. Mr. Wesley White spent a week in Muscatine visiting and attending the street fair. Mrs. Kenney has been very ill, but is better at this writing. Miss Jesse Dorsey of Quincy, Ill., is in the city having a pleasant visit with her cousins Mr. and Mrs. Gao, Tyler. Mr. Dave Jones and Harry Wicks returned home after several months absence. There came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Tiggs Tuesday, a ten pound milk maid and said, pupa you can not run the farm and carry mail too, so I come along to help you. Mother and baby are doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tyler, accompanied by Miss J. B. Dorsey of Quincy, spent a pleasant day in Peoria Sunday. Mrs. Warfield is taking her vacation. There is a great many strangers in our city at the present. Don't forget the Lincoln Club meeting Monday evening. $1.00 VIA SPECIAL TRAIN TO Farmers' Home Day, Iowa State Agricultural and Mechanical College Ames, Iowa, Thursday, Sept. 20th 1900. Vir the North-Western Line, Excursion tickets will be sold at the above name rate, good going and returning on special train, Sept 20th. Apply to agents, Chicago & North-Western Rv. ```markdown ``` No.13. I would like to draw attention to a bunch of immense trees in the mountains fifteen to twenty miles from my place, near Latourell, on the O. R. & N., says a correspondent of the Portland Oregonian. I used to make every year a trip to the mountains, lasting generally eight to ten days, and it was an one of my last trips, about four years ago, that I discovered on the northeast side of the divide, between the waters of the Bull run and the Hood river, this bunch of giant trees. The like I never saw before or since. Before I saw these giants I had measured from time to time some trees at home which glided 29 to 30 feet around about three feet from the base, but these trees could not be compared at all with the big trees I found in the mountains. They would appear as mere sticks against those giants. I honestly believe that those giants will glide 60 to 80 feet around near the base, and that they are 250 to 400 feet high. They stand on a kind of flat or bottom and this flat is well protected from discovery, as far as I could perceive, by steep and high bluffs not only from the Hood river side up, but from the main water divide down. These big trees are, in my mind, somewhere near the north line of the National park, but it is doubtful if they are in it. There are two species of the giant trees. One species has a yellowish and not very rough bark, is straight and round as a candle, has no limbs to an immense height, and has a nice, wonderful crown. The father of this very aristocratic species in our mountains is surely the emperor of our forest. People must not think that this tree is the so-called "noble fir," because I know not only the "noble fir," but many other mountain trees very well. Nor must they think that this species is one of the common trees in the mountains. I cannot say how many such giants there are. There may be hundreds, there may be thousands. On our way home one of my companions was drowned in the Bull run, and therefore I never went to the mountains again, but have always had a desire to go and investigate further about those big trees. Cedar is the second species of the big trees. They rival in size and grandeur the first species. But the most wonderful thing about them seems to be that they are, in spite of their immense diameter and age, seemingly sound and hard, through and through. The True Christian Spirit. A citizen of this republic is not permitted to be master of his own speech when language is to be conveyed by common carriers, such as the postoffice department and the telegraph. Yesterday a man who wanted to be vigorous started a telegram as follows: "To hell with likes and dislikes." It was in reply to an inquiry if he liked something. A ring brought a messenger, by whom the dispatch was taken to the sending office. Presently the boy returned, saying: "Mister, they can't send it like this; you'll have to change it." The astonished citizen cried: "Can't send it? Change what?" The boy blushingly placed his finger on "hell." Pink rushed to the office. "Look here, operator, what's the matter with this telegram? Why can't you send it? Are you a Sunday school superintendent?" "No, sir; I'm all right. I sent it as far down as 'hell,' when the chap at the other end of the wire challenged me. He refuses to receive it." And, to be accommodating the man made it read, "Hang likes and dislikes," which went through without burning the conscience of the receiver—New York Press. Caused by a Cow's Talk. Lock Haven (Pean.) Spe. Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. Joseph Ross, of Pleasant Gap, met with a most peculiar accident. When she went into the barnyard to do the milking a cow switched its tail, which caught in the handle of the milk bucket. The hook on the bucket handle caught in the palm of Mrs. Ross' hand. Then the heifer started to run, dragging Mrs. Ross about the barnyard until she was seriously if not fatally injured, the hook at last releasing her after tearing completely through the hand from the fleshy base of the thumb diagonally across to the little finger. Votes Counted by Tickets. Under the Pennsylvania election law votes are not counted for the candidate, but for the ticket or tickets on which his name appears. In the Chester county election all parties agreed upon Joseph Hemphill for common pleas judge, and this is the way the official vote was declared: Joseph Hemphill, republican, 8,162 votes; Joseph Hemphill, democrat, 4,371 votes; Joseph Hemphill, fusion, 1,643 votes; Joseph Hemphill, scattering, 374 votes. Oqail Arc Shy and Sly. Almost as soon as they are out of the shell quail seem to have the power of making themselves invisible at the wave of a wand. The ground may be as bare as a floor, but somehow they manage to vanish utterly from the eye. Subscribe for the Bystander --- Iowa State Bystander. BY BYSCANDER PUB. CO. KRUGER DEPARTS. President of Transvail Arrives at Lorrenzo Marques. Lorrenzo Marques, Sept. 13.—President Kruger arrived here last night, Washington, Sept. 13.—The following was received by the war department from the United States army officer, Reichman, who accompanied the Boers in their campaign as a military observer; "Lorenzo Marques, Sept. 13.—Events have required the departure of attaches from the Transvaal. Request instructions." This message is interpreted at the department to mean the complete collapse of the Boer resistance to England. Captain Reichman was cabled permission to start at once for the United States. The flight of President Kruger from what is now designated as the Vaal River colony and his arrival last night at Lorenzo Marques is regarded here as indicative of an early end to the hostilities in South Africa. RESUME OF THE DISASTER. Total Death List Will Never be Known Property. Loss $20,000,000. Chicago, Sept. 13.—The following statement was received at 11 o'clock fast night: "Galveston, Tex., Sept. 12.—Charles S. Diech, general manager of the Associated Press, Chicago.—A summary of the conditions prevailing at Galveston is more than human intelligence can master. Briefly stated, the damage to property is anywhere between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. The loss of life cannot be computed. The list could be kept and all simply gauded. The known out to sea and buried on the ground wherever found will reach the horrible total of at least 3,000 souls. "My estimate of the loss on the island of the city of Galveston and the immediate surrounding district is between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths. I do not make this statement in fright or excitement. The whole history will never be told because it cannot be told. The necessities of those living are total. Not a single individual escaped property loss. The property on the island is wrecked; fully one-half totally swept out of existence altogether. What our needs are can be computed by the world at large by the statement herewith submitted much better than I could possibly summarize them. The help must be immediate. (Signed) "Manager Galveston News. ASSASSIN CONFESSES. Says Murder of Von Kettler Was Ordered by Government Peking, Sept. 14.—The Japanese have arrested the assassin of Baron von Ketteler, late German minister to China. The assassin, who has been banded over to the Germans by the Japanese, confessed his guilt. He was arrested for trying to sell to a Japanese officer a watch with infiltrals, which he admitted taking from the body of Baron von Ketteler. He afterwards admitted the crime, saying that the imperial government had ordered the commission of the act. Coleol Priekton's party engaged five hundred Boxers seven miles from Machijo. The Boxers were armed only with swords and spars. The Russian cavalry charged them, killing many with sabres. The charge was made through a corn field, and the Russians succeeded in killing the commander of the enemy's forces. The assaults among the Boxers are estimated at 200. One Russian officer was wounded and two Cossacks killed. LI HAS AUTHORITY. Imperial Edict Gives Him Absolute Authority of Power Negotiations Washington, Sept. 11. The Chinese minister has received an imperial edict conferring on Li Hung Chang extraordinary power for a complete settlement of the Chinese trouble. It gives him authority to make any terms according to his own discretion without referring them to the emperor. This is unusual authority, and it is claimed at the Chinese legislation that it gives Li Hung Chang credentials adequate to meet all objections heretofore raised to his power to negotiate for peace. The edict is dated two weeks ago, but is just forwarded to Li Hung Chang Minister Wu delivered it to the state department this morning. The dispatches received from Hamburg today announce that Germany will send two additional detachments of 5,000 and 6,000 men respectively to China early in October. These troops, it is reported, have already been ordered to prepare for the journey. Russia's Indemnity. Peking, Sept. 13.—The Russo-Chinese bank, which closes here today and removes to Shanghai, will confiscate, as part indemnity to be paid Russia, the imperial university fund of 5,000,000 deposits, deposited with it against which the Chinese drew for the payment of their troops. Buller Captures Spatzkop. London, Sept. 11. The war office has received a report from Roberts saying that Buller, September 8, attacked and captured the Boer position at Spatzkop. The Boers retreated over a narrow causeway, losing heavily. The British had thirteen men killed and twenty-five wounded. Earl Li Ordered to Peking. Washington, Sept. 12.--Minister Wu received a dispatch from Li Hung Chang giving the imperial edict, signed by the emperor, directing him to proceed immediately to Peking to cooperate with Prince Ching toward peace negotiations and the settlement of all war difficulties. The edict is dated August 27. Accordingly Li asks the powers to co-operate in affording him personal protection and facilitating his journey. Minister Wu will probably ask that a United States gunbear be designated for Li's use. THE NEWS IN IOWA Sheriff C. H. Jackson and Chief of Police James Nelon of Sioux City arrived in St. Louis a few days ago armed with requisition papers for Frank Peyton, the self-confessed murderer of John Robson, a prominent merchant of Sioux City, and will take the prisoner to that city. The Kossuth county republican convention endorsed the candidacy of Harvey ingham for congress and gave him the naming of the delegates to the Fort Dodge convention. The convention was enthusiastic for its candidate and is confident of his making an excellent showing. Burglaries entered the dental office of Dr. P. P. Dorr at Fort Dodge and possessed themselves of a valuable amount of gold filling pellets. The entrance into the office was made through a window, which was pried open with a jimmy. No clue to the identity of the authors of the burglary, has been discovered. Sioux City has established a rather unenviable record in the matter of divorces. The clerk of the district court has made a summary of the divorce suits which have been filed this year, and finds that they number 230. This record is an appalling one when it is placed beside the number of marriage licenses issued in the same length of time. Governor Tanner has honored a requisition from Governor Shaw for the extradition of Alice M. Hamilton, charged with entering the room of E. M. Milhard of Ceuston, June 25, forcing open a valise and securing $2,200 in cash, then going to Afton, where she secured a livery team under pretense of driving to the home of an annu, but instead driving forty miles and abandoning the team and taking a train for Bloomington, Ill., where she now is. Mason City is rejoicing at the news received from Syracuse to the effect that the National Military college will be located in that city. The college is to be a memorial to soldiers and sailors and is to be run by their endowments. Two million dollars have already been pledged to the school, Mason City donated the location and gave $100,000. The plan was conceived by Col. Al Sartor, ex-grand commander of the National Sons of Veterans' association. Mason City organized about a year ago and has been persistently pushing the matter since. A settlement of the sensational damage case of D. A. Dillow vs. the Upper Iowa Ice company at Fort Dodge for personal injuries has been accomplished. Dillow sued for $3,000 damages for injuries received while in their employ last winter. Dillow was "riding the dog" and a broken rope resulted in the crushing of his foot. Plaintiff charged his employers with criminal carelessness in the character of the rope. The case was tried in the present term of the district court, the jury finally disagreeing after a protracted session. By the terms of the agreement the defendants pay Dillow $300 and agree to pay the costs in the case. At Des Moines a few days ago Mattie Mash, colored, shot and perhaps fatally wounded William Foster, a colored attorney. Immediately after the shooting the Mash woman jumped into a buggy and lashed the horse in desperate efforts to escape capture. Sergeant Morris and Fire Chief Burnett, in the chief's buggy, started after her, and at the corner of Seventh street and Grand avenue they collided with a buggy containing Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Putnam and Mrs. M. A. Hays. The occupants of the buggy were thrown to the pavement and the two ladies injured severely, but it is not thought fatally. Officer Livingstone continued the chase and captured the woman near Twelfth street and Grand avenue. The woman charges that Foster had accomplished her ruin under promise of marriage, and declined to keep his promise. A dispatch from Marshalltown says the canning season in Marshall county is practically over. It has been a busy and prosperous one. For the past five weeks the Marshall Canning company of that city has employed 200 hands night and day, putting up 50,000 cans of corn every twenty-four hours. The season's pack will be at least 1,000,000 cans. A larger business than usual has also been done by the Hawkeye Canning company of the same city, in both corn and tomatoes, while at Gilman, in the southern part of the county, a phenomenal season's run has been made, breaking all previous records. The Gilman concern is one of the most extensive in the state, and its product is almost invariably sold entire before a single can is sealed. Marshall county canned corn is in active demand in nearly all parts of the world. A mysterious case of poisoning happened at Delta recently which has ended in the arrest of the wife of the dead man on the charge of murder. The facts have just leaked out. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kuhn of Delta drove to What Cheer, where they purchased four bottles of beer, two of which were drunk on the road home. Just before reaching Delta Kuhn gave a scream and said that he had been poisoned and would die immediately helped. He was driven rapidly to Delta, where he was taken to the office of a physician, but expired in a few minutes. His last words were addressed to his wife and were: "You have poisoned me." A coroner's jury was empanelled the next morning and the evidence of physicians who had made a post mortem examination was taken. Mrs. Kuhn was arrested and placed in jail, charged with murder. It is said there is a man in the plot. Nine Michigan milkmen were recently held up and fined from $25 to $500 each for using formaldehyde in the milk which they sold to their customers. Mattie Mash, the colored girl who has been in jail at Des Moines, charged with assault with intent to commit murder, has been released, no one appearing to file information against her. Her former lover, William Foster, whom she severely injured, is still at Mercy hospital, and it is now thought that he stands a fair show for recovery. He refuses to prosecute the girl, and as a result she was given her freedom. A and which has startled the whole city was made on Central avenue at Fort Dodge. While searching among the straw, which had been left by a snake eating "freak" which was one of the attractions of the recent street fair, some boys discovered nine live young rattle snakes. Theodore Roosevelt, republican nominee for vice president, will deliver three speeches in Iowa October 5. The first will be at Waterloo in the afternoon, the second a short one from the train in Cedar Rapids, and the third an extensive address in Davenport in the evening. At Canton, Ill., a few days ago W. J. Ackley died in the county poor house. Thirty-five years ago Ackley with others founded the town of Ackley in Hardin county this state and it was there Ackley had the foundation for his future thousands. He was at one time reputed to be worth $100,000, and friends were numerous. Reverses came, and Ackley became practically penniless and about two years since he applied and was taken into the poor house as above stated. W. C. Campbell, a half breed, for whom the officers of the South Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls have been searching for more than two months has been captured in Sioux City. He escaped from the Sioux Falls prison July 3. He had yet to serve seven months of the sentence of two and a half years which he received on being found guilty of receiving stolen property. Campbell has been in Sioux City a month, unbeknown to the officers. A few days ago he was recognized by Charles Dodson, who has a wide acquaintance among the Indians of the vicinity. Dodson pointed him out to Detective Brott. Campbell made an attempt to escape after Brott placed him under arrest, but he did William Foster, the negro who was shot by ...attic Mash at Des Moines a few days ago, died at Mercy hospital. Immediately upon hearing of the death the police department started in search of the girl. After a hunt of an hour she was located in the restaurant where the shooting occurred and taken into custody. Considerable sympathy is expressed for the girl by some of the leading negroes of the town. It seems that Foster had promised to marry her and had accomplished her ruin and in a desperate paqadat si unq pqs aos juanou that Foster was responsible for the condition of one or two other colored girls of the city and not much sorrow is shown at his death. Robt. Brown and Rees Hoyt, two young men of Cumberland, were arrested and taken to the Cass county jail charged with being implicated in the death of Hattie Spies, 15 years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spies, living near Cumberland. The death of the young girl occurred under unusual circumstances. She died in a house in the country, three miles from town, with no one present but the two young men, who are charged with having had a hand in her taking off. It is the general opinion, based on testimony, that they tried to assist the girl to escape the disgrace which had come to her, and that in so doing they were accessories to her death. Leslie Eastburn, the young man charged with the murder of his sweetheart's father at Bloomfield several weeks ago, after having been convicted of manslaughter, has been granted a new trial and his appearance bond reduced from $10,000 to $4,000, which he gave and is at liberty, pending the new trial. The defense alleged that one of the jurors had expressed an opinion as to the guilt of the young man, whom the jury was empounded. This allegation was presented, with the result that a new trial was granted. It is well known that second trials generally result in acquittal, or a verdict amounting to the same thing. Bloomfield people think that Eastburn will go unpunished. A remarkably fortunate girl is Mrs. Grace Porter of Fort Dodge, who is the probable heir to a million dollar fortune. Telegrams have been received by Mrs. Porter announcing the death of her aunt, Mrs. Mary Adams, in South Bend, Ind. Mrs. Adams was extremely wealthy, and Mrs. Porter was her only near relative and a great favorite. The provisions of the will are not yet made known, but there is no doubt but what she will be made the principal heir of the big estate. Mrs. Porter is still very young and noted for her personal beauty. She was separated from her husband a short time ago, and at present is securing her living by employment in the office of the Iowa Telephone company as "hello" girl. She has gone to Indiana to look after her interests. About midnight a few nights ago three masked men, armed with ugly revolvers and coupling pins, proceeded a la Jesse James, to hold up the night operator, Mr. Daugherty, at the C. R. I. & P. depot in Newton. A small baggage bagche window, opening into the office, was open and the gang very swiftly followed their artillery through it. They riffed the safe and money drawer and then went through the pockets of Mr. Daugherty, securing in all between $30 and $40. They then marched Mr. Daugherty outside and locked him in a box car, where he stayed for about half an hour, until liberated by the vigorous use of his pedal extremities. An alarm was soon turned in and the deputy sheriff, with the Jasper county bloodhounds, soon gave chase. As a result five suspects are now in the county bastle. The bloodhounds are young and somewhat inexperienced, and not much faith is generally placed in them. This instance will probably prove their value. In an unfortunate family quarrel John Arthurof Dubuque struck his brother-in-law, Anton Leibet, with a club, killing him almost instantly. They were on good terms, but foolishly took up a squabble of their children. Secretary Gage of the United States treasury answers a query concerning the proposed sale of the Sioux City & Pacific railroad that there has not been a bid received. This is looked upon as meaning that the Chicago & Northwestern expects to get it without opposition and is in no hurry to bid. The sale should occur next month. RUSSIA PROVOKES CRICIS issues an Ultimatum Which Is Ignored by Li Hung Chang. Berlin, Sept. 14.—The news bureau sent to China by the German fleet society cables from Shanghai that it has received the following telegram from the Russian government. "The Russian government makes the following ultimatum: "The emperor of China shall resume the government himself and shall have Prince Tuan, the Boxer leader, arrested and punished and shall exclude the emprss from any influence upon his government. "Li Hung Chang has declared that all these demands are unacceptable, except the first, and has abandoned his proposed departure for the north." The Lokal Anzeiger has received the following from its Shanghai correspondent: "It is announced from Nanking that the viecroys apprehend action from Germany. The tatal of Nanking has ordered 3,000 men mustered into service and the same number recruited among the salt smugglers, whose chief has been appointed commander of thirty war junks. "The German protected cruiser Seedler passed Nanking with her decks cleared for action. "Li Hung Chang has abandoned the peace negotiations because Prince Tuan is opposed to them." Nothing is known here in official circles of such action on the part of Germany as is referred to by the advices to the Lokal Anzeiger. WORK OF RELIEF BEGUN Situation in Galveston Expected to Steadily Improve. Austin, Tex., Sept. 13. Governor Sayers has made the following statement to the Associated Press correspondent on the Galveston flood situation: "Conditions at Galveston are fully as bad as reported. Communication, however, has been re-established between the island and the mainland and hereafter the transportation of supplies will be less difficult. The work of clearing the city is progressing fairly well and Adjunct General Scurry, under direction of the mayor, is patrolling the city for the purpose of preventing depredations. The most conservative estimate as to the number of deaths places then at 2,000. Contributions from citizens of this state and from other states are coming in rapidly and liberally and it is confidently expected that within the next ten days the work of restoration by the people of Galveston will have begun in good earnest and with energy and success. Of course the destruction of property has been very great, not less than $10,000,000, but it is hoped and believed that even this great loss will be over-come through the energy and self-reliance of the people." ONLY ONE HOPE LEFT. Disinfectants Alone Can Save Galveston Survivors Dallas, Tex., Sept. 14.—The cry still comes from Galveston for disinfectants. It is the one hope of saving what is left of the population. Telegrams are pouring into Dallas and every other Texas city asking for lime, carolic acid and anything else that will operate to purify the stifling conditions. A new horror is confronting Galveston, that is, a second disposition of many of the dead. Bodies thrown into the sea continue to float back to the city. They must now be disposed of by burning. The state troops that have been on duty at Galveston are breaking down from their exertions and the unsanitary condition. Adjutant General Scurry called out the Dallas Rough Riders of the First Texas cavalry to relieve the exhausted Houston Light Guards. The rough riders, under command of Captain Paget, will at once start for Galveston. COTTON CROP RUINED. Plantations and Crops in Brazos Valley Leveled to the Ground. Waco, Tex., Sept. 11.-The chief damage done by the storm in this section was to fruit trees and the cotton crop. The big cotton plantations in the Brazos valley look as if armies had fought battles in them the plants being laid flat on the ground. The wind blow sixty to seventy miles an hour for fourteen hours before subsiding. The late peaches, which are plentiful and had been sold in advance, were swept clean from the trees. In central Texas 50,000 late peach trees have been planted within the last three years. The crop of fruit on these trees is all gone, and also other late fruit. The vineyards present a scene of desolation. AMERICANS KILL THIRTY. They Surprise Three Hundred Imperialists and a Battle Results. Peking, Sept, via Taku.—A troop of American cavalry sent to act as a convoy for cattle, surprised 300 imperialists quartered at Temple Shaoho. They killed 30 and captured 120 rifles. The enemy fled northward. Some of the Boxers recently attacked two companies of Russians who were guarding a railway working party at South Maipo station. Reinforcements succeeded in dispersing the attacking party. Two Russians were wounded. As this was not the first occasion, when attacks of this nature have occurred a punitive force under Colonel Pretiekoff was sent with orders to burn the surrounding towns. London is twelve miles broad one way and seventeen the other, and every year sees about twenty miles of new streets added to it. Prince Ching Captured. Peking, Sept. 13.—Via Taku, Sept. 10, and Shanghai, Tuesday, Sept. 11.—The Japanese found Prince Ching, leader of the conservative pro-foreign party, in the western hills, twenty-eight miles distant, and are holding him there with a view of a conference and in the hope that he may establish communication with the dowager empress. "I can't go to that church again; the pastor does not believe that people go to hell." "Oh! Don't say that; he believes that some go—" "Well, that is better than nothing!" GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED. Miners in Anthracite Region Go Out Almost to a Man. Indianapolis, Sept. 13. At 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon President Wilson of the United Mine Workers of America affixed their signature to the document which will call out 142,000 miners of the Pennsylvania anthracite region from their work Monday morning and precipitate one of the most gigantic strikes in the history of the labor world. The document was the official endorsement of the request of the anthracite districts to strike. It was considered by the national executive board of the mine workers last week and when the board adjourned all power to endorse the request for the strike was left in the hands of the national president and secretary. The three district presidents reported that of the 143,000 men in the three districts, 134,500 would go on a strike Monday. FIVE THOUSAND VICTIMS Death List at Galveston Increases Appallingly. Houston, Tex., Sept. 12.—The Post correspondent was instructed to forward the following address to the wartime of the United States: "Galveston, Tex., Sept. 11. It is my opinion, based on personal information, that 5,000 (5,000) people have lost their lives here. Approximately one-third of the residence portion of the city has been swept away. There are several hundred people who are homeless and destitute. How many there is no way of finding out. Arrangements are now being made to have the women and children sent to Houston and other places, but the means of transportation are limited. Thousands are still to be cared for here. We appeal to you for immediate aid. (Signed) Walter J. Jones." Mr. Jones is the mayor of Galveston. THE EMPRESS CAPTURED. A Dispatch States that the Russians Have Taken Her. London, Sept 12.—News agency dispatch from Nagasaki says it is reported that the dowager empress of China was captured by the Russians at Johol. London, Sept 12.—A Rome dispatch says the Italian cabinet has decided to initiate immediately negotiations with China. London, Sept. 12. France has formally adhered to the Russian proposal to withdraw from Peking to Tien Tsin. The Associated Press learns on unquestionable authority telegraphic instructions sent from Paris and St. Petersburg, to ministers from France and Russia at Peking, directing both ministers to take measures to withdraw legations and military contingents from both countries to Tien Tsin immediately if circumstances permit. Diplomatic circles in London are inclined to believe the step will lead to similar action upon the part of the United States and Japan, and while Germany may hold out until Field Marshal von Walderseer arrives in China she may ultimately asquire, leaving Great Britain little choice but to follow suit. FORTY NEGROES SHOT. Court Marshal at Galveston Makes Short Work of Ghouls Houston, Tex., Sept. 13.—Forry three negroes at Galveston were shot by order of the court martial. Their pockets were found to be full of human fingers and jewelry of which the dead had been stripped. Galveston, Sept. 14.—Tuesday night ninety negroes were shot by the citizen soldiery while looting and mutilating the bodies of the dead for plunder. The ninety probably do not represent a tenth of those who were engaged in the ghoulish practice. AFPAL OF LOCAL COMMITTEE. Conservative Estimate Puts Loss of Life at 3,000. Galveston, Sept. 12.—The following statement of conditions at Galveston and appeal for aid is issued by the local committee: "A conservative estimate of the loss of life is that it will reach 3,000; at least 5,000 families are shelterless and wholly destitute. The entire remainder of the population is suffering in greater or less degree. Not a single church, school or charitable institution of which Galveston had so many, is left intact. Not a building escaped damage, and half the whole number were entirely obliterated. There is immediate need for food, clothing and household goods of all kinds. If nearby cities will open asylums for women and children, the situation will be greatly relieved. Const cities should send us water as well as provisions, including kerosene oil, gasoline and candles." ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO RUSSIA Refuses to Withdraw from Peking Till Certain Conditions are Fulfilled. London, Sept. 14.—Great Britain's reply to the Russian proposition for the evacuation of Peking, sent two days ago, declines to evacuate Peking prior to receiving satisfactory guarantees from the Chinese government for the fulfillment of certain conditions. There is a general disposition here to accept as mainly true the statement that all the powers have now replied to the Russian proposal, that Great Britain and Germany have declined to evacuate Peking, Austria and Italy decided to be guided by Germany's decision, and others have agreed to more or less modified withdrawal as defining the attitude of the powers. Helen Gould Prompt to Aid New York, Sept. 13.—Colonel Amos S. Kimball, assistant quartermaster general, was informed by army contractors that Miss Helen Gould had purchased 50,000 army rations for the Galveston sufferers. The rations were started from the Pennsylvania railroad in Jersey City at 3 p. m. yesterday. Miss Gould went directly to the contractors who supply the army with provisions and ordered rations identical with those furnished for soldiers, consisting of bacon, canned meats, beans, hard bread and coffee. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, September 14, 1900. Adjutant General Byers is engaged in completing a statement of the claims payable in funds due the state of Iowa for its expenses in equipings and supporting the volunteer forces raised here during the period of the Spanish-American war. Aside from checking the statement over and securing necessary affidavits the work is completed and the plan is to certify the statement to Washington at once. Exclusive of quartermaster's stores, which the government will return in kind, the state's claims against the government arising from the Spanish-American war amounted to over $146,000. Of this amount $91,483.75 has been paid. It was turned over to the treasury of Iowa in one bulk in April, 1899. Since then nothing has been received. It is the plan of the adjutant general to embody in the present statement all claims that can be paid under the law, amounting approximately to $53,000. It is expected this amount will be paid the coming December. Outside of this there will be several thousands and dollars' worth of disallowed and disputed claims. An effort will be made to have these met next winter by an appropriation of congress. In these claims will be listed the expenses of the governor in his trip to the southern camps, the expenses of the commission that visited the southern hospitals, the expenses of the adjutant general when he investigated the condition of the Fifty-first regiment at San Francisco, and other items the war department will not authorize payment of on its own responsibility. The government has already returned to the state the tentage that is due it. There are still a large number of uniforms forthcoming and all other classes of quartermaster's supplies with which the state fitted out the volunteer or organizations. I. A. Willingham L. A. Wilkinson was removed from the office of secretary of the state board of control on September 3 by that body, which at once elected F. S. Treat to the vacancy and advanced A. B. McCown to the position of chief accountant, formerly held by Mr. Treat. The vote for Mr. Wilkinson's discharge was unanimous. He was notified that he would be given until September 30 to terminate the relations, and would be permitted to "resign" instead of having the record show that he was dismissed. Upon tendering his resignation Mr. Wilkinson delivered to the board a communication making many charges against certain members of the board. Among the charges was one that "tips" had been given to certain bidders by a member of the board, so that telegraphic changes in bids might be made to the favored one's advantage. Some time ago Mr. Wilkinson charged to the board that one of the other employees of the office had furnished the "tips." According to the testimony of members of the board, investigation revealed that the "tip" had been furnished by the bidder himself, innocently, to his competitor. Mr. Wilkinson also say that the board illegally allow changes in the bids. These and other charges are made the cause for a attack upon the members of the boon Mr. Cownie and Mr. Kinne deny charges and say they are prompted by a desire to get even with the members for discharging him. A meeting of the various temperance societies and the representative of about twenty of the churches of the city was held in the parloys of the Y. M. C. A. building for the purpose of dishessing plans for procuring funds to carry the fight against the saloons through the courts. Consid erable enthusiasm was manifested and the leaders of the movement are confident of making the liquor case come up for hearing. It is proposed to raise money by securing the pledge of 1,000 people to give 25 cents a month for four months, and in this way secure a fund large enough to carry the case to the supreme court if necessary. Secretary Van Houten of the State Agricultural society is sending out report blanks to the secretaries of the different county and district agricultural societies. The law passed by the last general assembly has made a change in reference to these reports and they must be forthcoming on or before November 1. In case any society fails to report at the required time, state aid is forfeited and no representation is allowed at the annual convention. The law provides that any county or district agricultural society upon filing with the auditor of state all-davits of its officers showing what sum was actually paid out for the current year for premiums and upon obtaining a certificate from the secretary of the state society, showing it has reported according to law, shall be entitled to receive from the state treasury a sum equal to 40 per cent of the sum paid in premiums. In no case is the sum paid to any society to exceed $200. This state aid will be forfeited this year in case of failure to report by November 1. Hero of Fashoda Sails. Marseilles, Sept. 11.—Major Marchand, of Fashoda fame, embarked here on a steamer bound for China, where he is going to represent France on the international commission composed of officers intrusted with the settlement of diplomatic questions and any difficulties arising between the different portions of the foreign corps. An immense crowd gave him a rousing send-off. Japan Willing to Withdraw. London, Sept. 12.—The Tokio correspondent of the Times, wiring September 8, says: "Japan replied that she will not object to the withdrawal of her minister from Peking and other measures recommended by concert of powers, and since her geographical position enables prompt adoption of necessary military measures, she is willing to withdraw superfluous troops. According to trustworthy rumors, Russia is preparing to winter 15,000 troops at Chih Pi." CHAPTER VIII.—(Continued.) But they were hardly prepared for the sight that met their eyes. In the shelter of the kopje, her face turned towards it, lay a young girl, her print down torn and stained, her face like that of the dead, her eyes closed, her hair falling in tangled masses about her face. She was frightfully pale, and it first they thought she was dead. "No, no! I shall die before I marry you—die a thousand times rather! O God, is there no help for me? Help me, merciful, kind God!" Then her voice sank to a whisper. "If Adain were here—ah, he would help me! He is good and brave. But he would never know now that I loved him." The voice trembled a little, and then silence—blessed silence—came. "Feel her heart, Preston," said Greene, in a whisper. "What an emaciated creature! Is she dead?" "I don't think so," said the other. "Quick! give me some water, Greene!" The other obeyed, and Preston put some to the white, stiff lips. The liquid seemed to bring back a feeble flicker of life. Her eyelids half closed, then shut again. "Quick! get her on my horse! We must take her with us," said young Preston quickly. "We cannot leave her here to die, even if she dies in our hands. Help me, old fellow!" The girl was a more featherweight. Greene uttered an exclamation as he lifted her. They carried her to Preston's horse, and managed to hoist her up in front of the saddle, Greene holding her while Preston mounted. "It's all right," said the latter. "I think I can manage. Get into your own saddle and let us ride as quickly as we can and rejoin the men, Precene." "I hope she won't die in our hands," said Greene, as he tumbled into his saddle. The two speculated as to the extraordinary occurrence as they rode onwards. They were young, and had perhaps a touch of romance in their prosocial English hearts, and the lingering traces of beauty in the seemingly dead face had touched them more than they would have confessed. "What's to be done with her when we get to camp? We have no place fit for a wounded girl, though our quarters may do for wounded men," said Greene. "Perhaps we can get her sent to Ladysmith. She could be looked after there," the other answered, reflectively. As they were nearing the camp, suddenly out of the darkness—it was coming out rapidly—two horses whirled toward them, a white man and native. "Halt! Who goes there?" said Preson, as the former galloped right in front of him. Then he added, with an exclamation: "Rothes, old chap, is it you? What on earth are you doing here? And you look ill! Are you!?" The other horseman's face was ghastly, and for a moment he seemed to stay in the saddle; but, recovering himself with a great effort, he pointed to the figure Preston was supporting with his one arm. "What have you there?" he asked, hoarsely. "I have been for six days scouring the veldt between this and He. th, seeking for some one who has been lost upon it; and now I fear you have found something. For pity's sake let me see her face, Lieutenant Preston!" Without a word the young man dismounted, still holding the inanimate figure securely; then, lifting her down, he laid her gently on the dry sand. Adair Rothes, who had sprung from his saddle, bent over her. A sound that was almost like a wild cry came from his lips; but no one heard it but Arthur Preston. "It is she!" he said in a moment, in a choked voice. "Thank God she is still living! You will give her into my charge. Lieutenant Preston?" CHAPTER IX There was a farmhouse not far from Newcastle, whose owner, a kindly Scotsman, Adair Rothes had known since he came out to Natal. It was thither he carried Bluebell, not knowing whether she would live or die. The farmer, Mr. Dalziel, learning the facts of the case—he had already heard of the tragedy of New Kelso—insisted on sending his "spider" at once for Miss Elizabeth, not withstanding the unsettled state of the country. Bluebell was laid in a pretty white bed in the little bedroom, which opened, like many South African bedrooms, out into the garden; and there she lay for many hours like one dead, with hardly a pulse to respond to Rothes' touch. The tide of her life was very low; it could not be much lower. When at last it began to rise again, so his alarm it was with a wildly ordered pulse. She was in a high fever, and raved deliriously and without cessation. How much the man watching her with agonized eyes and racked heart was to learn of all the poor child had come through! "Water, water!" she would moan. "Not a drop! O God, let me die soon! Don't let me endure this maddening thirst longer! Hark! that was a lion's roar! Oh, I hope it was! Better to die at once! And they say one doesn't feel pain. It is like a mouse in a cat's claws! Oh, anything—anything better than this awful burning thirst! My throat, it's like a re-hot coal!" Then she would imagine herself in Moore's power. A STORY OF THE BOER CAMPAIGN IN NATAL By H. B. Mackenzie "No, no! I shall die before I marry you—die a thousand times rather! O God, is there no help for me? Help me, merciful, kind God!" Then her voice sank to a whisper. "If Adair were here—ah, he would help me! He is good and brave. But he will never know now that I loved him." The voice trembled a little, and then silence—blessed silence—came. And Adair Rothes, with trembling hands, and eyes full of passionate, longing tenderness, bent over the unconscious girl with an agonized prayer. "Merciful God, spare her to me, if it be Thy will! My darling—my own darling! And she cried to me in her extremity, and I did not know of it! Bluebell, Bluebell!" Miss Elizabeth arrived in the spider twenty-four hours after, and could only wring Rothes' hand in silence, her thin, sallow, unlovely face working convulsively. "God will spare her, Miss Elizabeth," Rothes said huskily. "We both owe a debt we can never repay to the young fellow who found her, for you know it was not I who did so. We might never have seen her again but for Lieutenant Preston." Rothes knew his duty lay in Ladysmith, yet he could not tear himself from Bluebell's side until he knew whether it was to be life or death. Mercifully, the delirium did not last long, and on the third day, after a long sleep, she opened her eyes, that had full reason in them, upon her aunt. "Auntie, where am I? she asked feebly. Oh, what a fearful dream I have had!" When Miss Elizabeth ran for Rothes the strong man felt himself trembling like a child. He returned with her quickly, but he could not speak when Bluebell's eyes rose to his. "I have had such a fearful dream, Dr. Rothes," she whispered, her eyes appealing with dumb pathos to his trustful ones. "I am afraid it was a reality, though. Is my father dead? Did Mr. Moore carry me away? And was I dying in the veldt?" "It is all true"—holding the poor little weak hand in his own strong one—"but, God be thanked, you are safe now—safe and in good keeping. All you have to do is to get well." "Did you find me?" she whispered. And he felt the little hand quiver. He had determined not to speak, but the question upset all his determinations. He sank on his knees, holding the little hand to his lips. "I was seeking for you six days, Bluebell; but after all it was a young officer who found you and gave you to my keeping. Oh, Bluebell, my heart is torn in two when I think of all you have gone through and I unable to help you—not knowing at first you wanted help—I, who would give my life to save you pain! My darling! my own darling!" A little wave of color spread over her white face; her throat fluttered. "You—love me, then?" she whispered. "I have loved you ever since I first met you at Maritzburg, Bluebell; but I never dared to hope. Bluebell, it seems wrong to speak of it at this terrible time; but you do care a little, after all, about me?—do you?" The little, wasted hand stroked his cheek. "I love you with all my heart, Adair. I knew it that awful night when the Boers"—she paused, shuddering, "You'll take care of me, and not let that dreadful man come near me?" He folded the hand to his breast, and, bending, kissed again and again the pale little face, cheeks, and eyes and lips. Rothes went back to Ladysmith next day. The battle of Elandslanaghe had taken place, and the hospital in the little town was full. Mr. and Mrs. Dalziel were kindness itself, and insisted on the Leslies staying as long as ever they felt inclined. On the first day on which Bluebell is able to get up Adair Rothes appeared. It was two days after the battle of Ladysmith, of which word had been brought to the Dalziels. Bluebell welcomed him with a blush and a smile that made Rothes' heart throb. But there was something in his face which made Bluebell's heart fret with mingled fear and anxiety. "You have some news? What is it? Tell me quickly, Adair!" she breathed, lifting her face from its hiding place. "Yes, my darling," Rothes answered slowly; "I have strange news for you. I do not know how you will take it. Bluebell; something very terrible happened at the battle on Monday. Some one was killed there—some one whom you knew!" "It was Gerald Moore!" said Bluebell quickly. She turned very pale, and shivered a little. "I went up to him, when the battle was nearly over, hearing him groaning. I did not know who he was till I was beside him. He was moaning for water, and I turned to get him some. As I did so a wounded Boer near called: 'Look out, doctor!' I stepped aside, and as I did so a bullet whizzed past me, striking my ear. I turned and saw Moore on his elbow, a look of such unnatural hatred on his face as I shall never forget, his gun still in his hand. As I turned he ut- tered a strange sound, the gun dropped from his hand, and he fell back on the grassy knoll. When I reached him he was dead!" With a little cry Bluebell folded her arms about her lover's neck. "Oh, Adair, thank God! thank God, you were saved!" For a few minutes Rothes did not speak. His strong mouth quivered a little. At last he said: "Now comes the strange news I have for you, Bluebell. Papers were found upon Gerald Moore, and the officer into whose hands they fell—the general, Bluebell—sent for me. He knows me personally, and knows what you are to me. Those papers affect you, and you only." "Adair, what can you mean?" she asked, in startled surprise. Adair took her hand in his, and held it for a moment without speaking. "A barrier has risen up between you and me, Bluebell—a barrier such as I never dreamt of. I am a poor man—you are an helress." She uttered an incredulous exclamation. "It is true, Bluebell. Now we have the real reason of Moore's determination to marry you. He had seen an advertisement in an English paper, gone home, learned everything, and came here with his mind firmly made up as to his own course. As you know, your father always declared he had been done out of Tinlaverstock. His cousin has had it in his possession for fifteen years. Maurice Leslie had three sons. Your father never hoped to come into the property; but, by a strange fatality, these sons have all died since. Maurice Leslie, on whose mind it always preyed that he had cheated your father out of his inheritance, has made you his helress. You—not your father." "Oh, Adair!" The girl clung to him, her arms clasped round his neck. "I do not wish to be an heiress. I am happier as I am." "It seems," said Rothes, "that your father's cousin died a few months ago. The lawyers are now searching for you. You must write to them, Bluebell. And I have been thinking, dear, you and Miss Elizabeth are safer out of the country just now. We must get you to Durban, thence to Scotland." She uttered a little cry, her face deathly white. "Adair! You wish to get rid of me, then? Oh, and I thought—I thought—you loved me!" He clasped her close, covering the sweet face with passionate kisses. "My own darling! But, Bluebell, do you think I am so selfish as to wish to keep you here during this dark time that is coming upon us, when you might be living in luxury and safety at home?" "And you in danger, doing your duty here?" she half sobbed. "Adair, are you to have all the unselfishness and I none? No, dear, I shall not go. I have made up my mind." They were married. The bride's father had been but a month in his lonely grave, and they were themselves in the midst of that dark tragedy which had not then ended. But human love, next to divine, can lighten the darkest sorrows and the most terrible surroundings. "You are not afraid," he said, as, having bade farewell to the weeping Miss Elizabeth, who had agreed to go meantime to Maritzburg, he led his wife into the pretty little house that was beginning to look desolate and deserted in the forsaken town. She raised her sweet face to his. Her eyes were full of tears, but they had a smile in their depths. "I am sad at atping with poor auntie," she whispered. "But I am glad, so glad, to be beside you, Adalr, and I am not afraid with you, dear. Why should I be. We are together, and God is all over, and He can take care of us in the future as He has in the past." (The end.) Men's Shortsomings. A current monthly puts the blame of men's faults on women. It says: "Women make society; they are accountable largely for the faults of the male portion of it, at least for the growth and extent of fault. If men fall short it is because women have not demanded higher standards. And if the woman who works is not treated with the same courtesy as she whose delicately gloved hand holds her own bank book, it is the fault of that same dainty hand, which is not held out in kind comradeship to one that wields pencil or scissors. Men get their cue from woman's treatment of women. But men are rarely unkind; theirs is rather the absence of kindness; and of the two, the latter were preferable. Severe Scaled Instructions. There is a certain lawyer who in his youthful days liked to play hockey occasionally. Once being required to bring a written excuse he applied to a classmate to help him out. So his friend wrote: "Dear Mrs. G.: Please give Sam a whipping, and oblige his mother," and sealed it. Sam handed it in, perfectly satisfied; but imagine his consternation when the teacher proceeded to carry out instruction. All importances were of no avail. Sam caught a whipping and learned not to play hockey again. Worked Hard for It. "You seem to have quite a sum in your bank, Bobby," remarked the visitor. "Yes," said Bobby; "ma gives me 10 cents a week for coming to the table with clean hands and face." "Ten cents is a good deal of money for a little boy to earn every week." "Yes, ma'm, but I have to do a large amount of work for it." WOMAN and HOME There is a man in this town who is marvelling over the long range and the sharp range of feminine eyesight. His surprise is due to a little incident he witnessed the other afternoon. Two women boarded the open trolley in which he rode and took a seat directly in front of him. One was fat and spoke in a soft gurgle; the other was thin, nervous and sharp-voiced. Having finished reading his paper the man noted these things in that idle, trivial spirit which seems to possess the average trolley rider. Presently as the car whizzed along he saw the two women turn quickly, nod vigorously toward the sidewalk and hail one there with an eager "How do you do?" The car went buzzing by so fast that although the man glanced involuntarily in the same direction, caught only a flitting vision of pink-clad girlhood escorted by a something in trousers. But in that sixteenth of a second the two women in front saw! The man is wondering yet how they managed it. "Was that that the young fellow Marie is engaged to?" asked the fat woman of her companion. "Yes, John Blank's son. Fine looking, isn't he?" "Well, I never saw him before, but he struck me as being too thin and gawky. But that sort of hat makes a man appear like an overgrown schoolboy. Marie looked as though she thought he was plea." "I should say she did! By the way, how that girl has improved!" "Yes; she looked better today than I've ever seen her. A new dress does so much for a woman." "Why, that wasn't a new dress. That was the pink organdie she wore so much last summer. Don't you remember it? "Was it, really? It looked different to me, somehow. Hasn't she changed it a little? "Yes, I noticed she had put in a tucked yoke and sleeves." "It fitted her well, but I thought the deep shade of pink about her throat was rather trying." "Well, Marie never had much color, you know, and a pink hat does bring out the yellow in a woman's skin." "But those French roses on that Tus- AN AUTUMN WAIST. THE WORLD'S FINEST FASHION OF LIGHT-WEIGHT FLANELN, CUT WITH VERY SLIGHT FULLNESS AT THE BELT, FINISHED WITH TUCKS. What Two Women Say: can straw were exquisite. She never got those for a penny." "I should say not. She's an extravagant creature. As she held up her skirt I saw she wore a new taffeta simply lace cobwebs. Ruffles and ruffles——" The man in the rear blinked his eyes. What sort of X-ray penetration belonged to that sex, any way?—Dorothy Maddox in the Philadelphia Inquirer Importance of Cheerfulness. "Laugh and grow fat," is a proverb that is worthy of being made a part of one's creed for daily living. Proverbs are merely epitomes of human experience, and that particular saying commends itself to the observant mind. A laugh is complex in its workings, but direct in its result. It has a physical movement, causing the arteries to dilate and the flow of blood to hasten, thus promoting an increase of vital processes and a mental action through stimulating the blood vessels of the brain, says the New York Tribune. DOTTED PINK MUSLIN. In combination; black taffeta belt, black ribbon on the bodice; skirt laid in tucks. To remove grass stains soak and rub the spots in water and cream of tartar. Sprinkle salt on a wine stain and pour hot water through it until it is gone. Fruit stains may usually be removed by pouring boiling water through the stain. For mildew, wet the spot with lemon juice and expose to the sunlight. Or soak in water with chloride of lime, one tablespoonful to a gallon. To Remove Stains. THE GALVESTON HORROR Details Show that the City is Indeed a Wreck. Houston, Tex., Sept. 11.—The first reports from the appalling disaster which has stricken the city of Galveston do not seem to have been magnified. Communication was had with the island city by boats and reports received here last night indicate that the death list will exceed 1,500, while the property loss cannot be estimated, although it will reach several million dollars. The names of all who perished in Saturday's great storm will never be known. At the army barracks near San Antonio a report is current that more than 105 United States soldiers lost their lives in Galveston. This report, however, lacks confirmation. A mass meeting was held and liberal contributions were made for the immediate relief of the destitute. Governor Sayers appealed to President McKinley for aid. This appeal was met with a prompt response that 10,000 tents and 50,000 rations had been ordered to Galveston. Governor Sayers also addressed an appeal to each municipality in the state, asking for prompt assistance in caring for the sufferers. Telegrams of inquiry and sympathy have been pouring in throughout the day and night from every state in the union, and in almost every instance substantial relief has been offered. The stricken city is in humiliating a water famine and strenuous efforts are being made here to supply the sufferers. Reports from the interior confirm the loss of life and destruction of property reported in former dispatches. Houston, Tex., Sept. 11.—Advices by boat from Galveston say the storm commenced raging between 9 and 10 o'clock Saturday morning and by noon the waters from the Gulf had inundated the island as far inland as Twelfth street. From there the waters gradually encroached on the island, rising about fifteen inches an hour. At 6 p. m. there were thirty-six inches of water in the lobbies of the Tremont hotel, the highest point in the city. Across the street, where the ground is lower, a horse was drowned. At 9 o'clock the water on Market street was level with the seats of the street cars. After that it gradually receded, but the wind was cyclonic in its force. It reached a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour and then the instruments in the government observatory were the loss is apparent. The waterworks ruin and the eisterns are blown away, so that the lack of water is one of the most serious of the present troubles. Ruin is everywhere. Electric light and telegraph poles are nearly all prostrated and the streets are littered with timbers, slate, glass and every conceivable character of debris. There is hardly an inhabitable house in the entire city and nearly every business house is badly damaged. The school buildings are unroofed, such edifices as the Ball high school and Rosenburg school buildings being badly wrecked. The fine churches are almost in ruins. The elevators and warehouses are unfit for use. The electric light plant has collapsed and so has the cotton factory. From Tremont to P street, thence to the beach, not a vestige of a residence is to be seen. In the business section of the city the water was from three to ten feet deep in stores and stocks of all kinds, including foodstuffs, are total losses. While the Post correspondent was in Galveston Saturday night it was a common sight for him to see women and children emerging from once comfortable and happy homes dazed and bleeding from wounds, the women wading neck deep holding babies over their heads. To add, if possible, to the calamity, the city is cut off entirely from the world. The telegraph companies now connect with contracts Galveston with Mexico is cut. In sailing for Texas City the Post correspondent used a strong glass but could see nothing of any of the bridges which connect the island with the mainland, but where the bridge should be a big ocean vessel is stranded. DAMAGE TO HOSPITALS Great Loss of Life Reported From Large Institutions. Houston, Tex., Sept. 11.—An Associated Press correspondent who visited Galveston writes as follows: "The first hurried glance over the city showed that the largest structures supposed to be the most substantially built, suffered the greatest, "The Orphans' Home fell in like a house of cards. How many dead children and refugees are in the ruins could not be ascertained. "Of the sick in St. Mary's infirmary, together with the attendants, only eight are understood to have been saved. "The Old Women's Home on Rosenberg avenue collapsed and the Rosenberg school house is a mass of wreckage. The high school is but an empty shell, crushed and broken. Every church in the city, with possibly one or two exceptions, is in ruins. "At the forts nearly all the soldiers are reported dead, they having been in temporary quarters, which gave them no protection against the tempest or the flood. "No report has been received from the Catholic Orphan asylum down the island, but it seems impossible that it could have withstood the hurricane, if it fell in. the inmates were no doubt lost, for there was no aid within a mile. "The bay front from end to end is in ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreck of great warehouses remain. The elevators lost all their superworks and their stocks are damaged by water." SUSPECTED CASES OF PLAGUE. At Glasgow One Hundred Cases Aro Under Observation. Glasgow, Sept. 8.—It is officially announced that there are thirteen suspected cases of plague and 100 under observation. The authorities believe the spread of the plague to be checked. Three Norwegian sailors belonging to the trawler Hern of Bergen have become ill at Aberdeen, showing symptoms of bubonic plague. The health officer of that port expresses hope, however, that the outbreak will prove not to be the plague. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. RACE ECHOES. A $75,000 capital instalment and supply company has been organized by seven colored men at Newark, N. J. --- On the 2nd and 3rd of October the National Afro American Medical association will convene at St. Louis. --- Mr. Roscoe Conklin Bruce, son of the late B. K. Bruce, and a student at Harvard University, addressed the Men's Sunday club at Chicago last Sunday. His subject was, "Character of Abraham Lincoln." --- The German government has asked Prof. Booker T. Washington to send three of his graduates to take charge of and conduct a model farm in one of the German provinces, on the west coast of Africa, and yet some of our people say what is the use of being educated. DOCTOR YOURSELF "Gonora" 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. Glect. Whites, Lucorrhoea, 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. Full line of rubber goods: name what you want. CLINTON. (Special to the BYSTANDER.) Clinton, Iowa, Sept. 11.—The A. M. E. literary society met on the above named date at the home of Mr. Damon. North Second street. After the business of the society was transacted the following programme was rendered: 1 Recitation ... Mrs. J. T. Culberson 2 Solo ..... Viola Moreland 3 Instrumental ..... Helen Ely 4 Baritone solo.....Schiller Emerson 5 Instrumental.....Schiller Emerson By request Prof. Damon rendered some very choice selection on the cello, and Mr. Schiller Emerson and Miss Helen Ely entertained those present for the rest of the evening with piano solos. The society is prospering nicely socially and financially, and its special aim is to do all they can for the church and charitable purpose. The guests from out of the city were: Miss Estella Thomas os Monmouth and Miss Gracia Eleann: Gash of Galesburg, Ill. Refreshments were served Mesdames, Damon, Smith and Allen. At a late hour they departed after having a very enjoyable evening. Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Thirty Years of Suffering. "I suffered for thirty years with diarrhoea and thought I was past being cured," says John S. Halloway, of French Camp. Miss. "I had spent so much time and money and suffered so much that I had given up all hopes of recovery. I was so feeble from the effects of the diarrhoea that I could do no kind of labor, could not even travel, but by accident I was permitted to find a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and after taking several bottles I am entirely cured of that trouble. I am so pleased with the result that I am anxious that it be a reach of all who suffer as I have." For sale by all Druggists. Orange Free State Flag. The Orange Free State flag is a simple rectangle of vivid orange. An orange tree in full fruit is the most distinctive feature of the arms of the Orange Free State. Beneath the tree are on one side a lion and on the other a number of oxen. An ox-wagon similar to that on the Transvaal arms and three suspended horns complete the whole. "Spes Bona"—good hope—is written underneath the arms of Cape Colony, the chief feature of which is a lion rampant. A figure of Hope surmounts the shield, the "supporters of which are a couple of native animals." Venice has had three international art exhibitions since 1895, and all of them have been successful. The last one, which closed on Nov. 13, occasioned the sale of $70,000 worth of paintings, 19 per cent of which went into the pockets of non-Italian artists DANGER IN IOWA. Chairman Weaver Gives Warning to Republican Voters. What a Ten or Twenty Per Cent. Loss of Vote Will Do. Such a Falling Off Would Elect Several Democrats to Congress from Iowa. Urgent Necessity of Keeping Up Iowa's Republican Majority, Which Sustains the Credit of the State. Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 10.—"Did you ever take the trouble to calculate what would be the effect in the congressional districts of Iowa of a falling off in the republican vote of ten to twenty per cent.?" asked Chairman Weaver, of the republican state committee, as he took down a copy of the official register giving the vote by congressional districts in 1896 and 1898. "The only serious danger which confronts us as a party and as a campaign committee in Iowa this year is the apparent overconfidence of republican voters. They seem to think that it doesn't matter much whether they vote or not, that everything will be all right anyway. I think I can show these men the danger of the course they are pursuing and convince them that it is necessary for every man to have his vote counted this fall if he expects to be satisfied with the results. "Let us take the First congressional district. In 1896 the republican vote was 21,944 and the plurality 3,295. A falling off of 20 per cent, from that vote would give the district to the democrats by a large majority, for the full democratic vote will be polled this fall. In 1898 the republican vote was 17,817 and the plurality 3,249. Twenty per cent, loss from that vote would give the democrats a comfortable margin. They are counting on just this thing happening, and that is the reason why they are claiming that they will carry the First district. That district is made up very largely of strong republican counties, offset by some democratic strongholds. The democrats will all vote. The republicans up in the country are expected by the democrats to stay at home. Democratic expectations are based upon republican carelessness and a close organization on the part of the democrats. This they have throughout the state this year very much better than they have ever had before. Secretary Walsh, of the democratic national committee, boasts that he is in personal communication with 22,000 precinct workers in Iowa. "Take the Second district. In 1896 the republican vote was 23,202, a plurality of 3,320. In 1898 the republican vote was 18,790 and the plurality 1,282. Even a ten per cent loss here would defeat Capt. Rumple, the republican nominee. "It will be said that the Third district is safe because in 1896 it gave Col. Henderson a majority of 10.423 and in 1898 a majority of 6.941. But it has not always been so in this district. In 1890 Col. Henderson carried the district by a plurality of 198 and in 1892 by 1.459. If there is a heavy falling off in the republican vote in that district this year it will encourage the democrats to make another fight on Col. Henderson anu he will have to stay at home two years from now and defend his seat in congress. The same may be said of the Fourth and Fifth districts. They have good safe majorities now, but both of them have in recent years been carried by the democrats and if the republicans relax their hold for a single year, it will be necessary to make another big fight to hold those districts. In the Sixth district Maj. Lacey was elected in 1896 by a plurality of 1,201. His vote was 21,970. In 1898 he had a plurality of 1,417 over Gen. Weaver, the republican vote that year being 19,738. It does not require much figuring to show that a ten per cent, loss in the republican vote in that district this year would hand a democrat in congress. The democrats are making a special effort to carry the Sixth district. Col. Hephburn had 24,783 votes in the Eighth district in 1896, but his majority was only 827. In 1898 his vote was 22,327 and his majority 2,605. That is another district which democrats are claiming and will make a great effort to carry. If ten per cent, of the republicans in that district were to refrain from voting Col. Hephburn will be defeated. The same would be true in the Ninth district, where the republican vote in 1896 was 24,904 and the majority 2,245. Two years later Smith McPherson, with 21,976 votes, had a majority of 3,818. The district is now considered safely republican, but if there should be a slump in the republican vote this year it would be again placed in the doubtful column. The Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh districts have always been republican by large majorities in recent years. But there is no surer way to disrupt the politics of a district and make trouble for the party than for the republicans to show a lack of interest in the election of their congressman and allow his majority to reach low-water mark. "The records of the county votes here show that in many counties the republican county ticket has been elected by a small majority and that if five or ten per cent., that is one republican in ten or twenty, stays at home and does not vote the republican county ticket will be defeated and the party organization will thereby be demoralized and the democrats will be intrenched in a position of advantage for the future. "It is just as necessary to roll up a big majority in Iowa this year as it ever was. Iowa is now considered a sure republican state. Is there any republican who desires to participate in casting a cloud upon that title by reducing the majority to such a point that the democrats will be encouraged to claim that Iowa is veering around toward the democracy and may, by strenuous efforts on the part of the democrats, become a democratic state? It will be much easier and much more satisfactory for republicans to retain their hold by bringing out their full strength this fall than by permitting the state to slump and make a misleading record. Iowa's position in favor of sound money and protection has been worth millions of dollars to the credit of the state. Iowa farmers and business men can borrow money on better terms than any other state west of the Mississippi. This is because the policy of repudiation and national dishonor has never found any sympathy in Iowa. But let it appear that there is any chance of a reversal of this judgment, that free silver is gaining ground in Iowa, and the situation will be very different. Capitalists will look askance at Iowa securities." THE FARMERS' PROSPERITY. How Farm Products Have Gone Up in Price Under Republican Policies. Chicago, Sept. 10. The best showing of the change in the condition of the American farmer between the first nomination of Mr. McKinley and his renomination is a simple statement of the prices ruling for farm staples at each date. It is an argument against the abandonment of republican policies which cannot be met. The following table shows the current market price of different staple crops on June 1, 1896, and June 1, 1900, the quotations given being Chicago market quotations except in case of cotton and hops, which are New York quotations: Farm Products and Grade Quoted. Corn, No. 2-No. 2 in store, per bu ..... $27½$ 1900 $57½$ 37 Wheat, No. 2-No. 3 in store, per bu ..... 57 64½ 13 Oats—No. 2 in store, per bu ..... 17½$ 21½$ 23 Rye—No. 2 in store, per bu ..... 33 53 61 Barley—Fair to good malting, per bu ..... 28 40 42 Potatoes—Choice Burbank, per bu ..... 28 40 43 HGB—No. 1-No. 1- Timothy, per ton ..... 9 25 11 50 24 Flaxseed—No. 1 N. Werber, per ton ..... 82 1 80 110 Butter—Creamy firsts, per lb ..... 14½$ 18 26 Cheese—Full cream, choice, per lb ..... 6½$ 8½$ 20 love-packing, 100 lbs ..... 3 25 $12½$ 58 Live Cattle—Butcher steers, 100 lbs ..... 3 55 $32½$ 58 Sheep—Westerns, per 100 lbs ..... 3 25 $49½$ 55 Clover seed—Prime contract, per 100 lbs ..... 7 40 7 50 1 Cotton—Middling uplands, per lb ..... 7½$ 99 20 Broom corn—Self- working, fair to good, per corn ..... 32 50 180 00 454 Blooms—N. Y. state, choice, per lb ..... 7 12 72 Millet seed—German, per 100 lbs ..... 80 1 20 50 Eggs—Brown by fresh, per doz ..... 9½$ 10½$ 8 Wool—Fub washed, per lb ..... 16½$ 29 70 LIVE STOCK VALUES. How Prosperity Under McKinley Has Stimulated the Live Stock Market. Washington, Sept. 10.—After lands and improvements the greatest item of wealth of the American farmer is his live stock, and the value of such farm stock is a perfect barometer of his financial condition. Practically the highest point ever reached was at the close of 1892, the last year of the Harrison administration, when the valuation was $2,483,506,681, the country being prosperous, labor fully employed and wages good. The lowest point reached in the past 20 years was at the close of 1896, when mills were closed, fires drawn, labor idle, capital in hiding and business confidence destroyed by four years of democratic administration. In four years the shrinkage of this form of farm wealth had amounted to 33 per cent., making $828,091,000 the price which the owners of live stock paid for the democratic experiment of 1892. In the three years of industrial activity which followed the election of McKinley the value of live stock has kept pace upward with the increased earning and spending capacity of American labor, and on January 1, 1900, it had advanced to $2,288,375,413, or a rise of $632,900,000, or 38 per cent. from the depths of the depression. The figures in detail, as shown in the official reports of the department of agriculture, are as follows: VALUE OF LIVE STOCK. Jan. 1, 1857. Jan. 1, 1900. Total. Total. Horses 158,430,396 158,430,396 Mules 92,302,690 92,302,690 Cows 369,239,993 369,239,993 Cattle 507,929,421 507,929,421 Sheep 122,605,313 122,605,313 Hogs 166,272,770 166,272,770 $1,655,414,612 $1,655,414,612 Hon. Charles A. Towne is on his way to Washington, Oregon and California. If he is to beg the voters of those states to alarm themselves about Mr. Bryan's paramount issue, he has a hard task before him. The paramount issue is not calculated for the Pacific coast. - N. Y. Sun. Plenty of Hot Water in New Zealand. In New Zealand geysers and thermal springs are plentiful and portions of the country are constantly disturbed. In 1886 Tarawera was in violent eruption, covering villages with stones and ashes for many miles. The beautiful terraces near Mount Rotomahana, the admiration of many tourists, were destroyed. One township was covered with mud. Sixty square miles suffered from this eruption, and 100 people were killed. Floorlog Hued with Asz: There are millions of feet of flooring in the Philippine islands which have been hewed, out with the adz. Some of the floors of the best houses of Manila are of this kind. One can see the through places where the chips have been cut out, but the grain of the wood is so fine that, from daily sweeping and scrubbing, it has taken a polish like that of a plate-glass mirror. He Wasn't the Dog. A citizen walking past a butcher shop in Beatrice, Neb., saw the butcher and a customer rolling over the sawdust floor in a lively rough-and-tumble fashion. He pried them apart and then learned that the customer had come in to buy some dog meat. The butcher nonchalantly asked: "Do you wish to eat it here or shall I wrap it up?" Then the trouble began. To Filter Water. An easy way to filter water is to take a clean, deep flowerpot, and put a compressed sponge in the bottom. Over this put a layer of pebbles an inch thick, then an inch of coarse sand, a layer of charcoal, and over all another layer of pebbles. The water will filter pure and clear through the hole at the bottom of the flowerpot into another vessel below. Why They Are Cailed Hangers Why They Are Called Hangers. Wall paper does not hang, and yet the person whose business it is to paste it up is called a paper hanger. The reason is simple. Long before the introduction of wall papers Arras, a town in France, was famous for its tapestries, called "arras." These were used as wall coverings and the men who were employed to put them up were called hangers. Digging Baked Potatoes Near Binghamton, N. Y., farmers are digging baked potatoes from their fields. The fields adjoin a peat bog and the peat runs back under the land. Recently the bog took fire and has been burning ever since. In places the fire has worked back under the potato patches and the potatoes have been nicely roasted in the ground. Mason and Dixon Line Prof. W. B. Clark of Johns Hopkins university has been appointed by the governor of Maryland commissioner on behalf of that state, to act with a similar commission of Pennsylvania and the superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey in the re-establishment of the old Mason and Dixon line. Takes Plant Boarders A Philadelphia woman makes a comfortable living in summer by taking plants to "board." When the wealthy residents of the city close their homes, preparatory to spending the season at the seaside, the woman calls and gets their plants and takes them to her own conservatory. Dr. Charles Atwood Kofold has been appointed assistant professor of embryology in the University of California. He is now completing his work as superintendent of the state natural history survey of Illinios, and will not assume his new duties until the first of next year. The Shab Is Progressive: The shah of Persia has sent an agent to this country for a brief examination of the electric trolley system of Greater New York. The shah purposes to establish a trolley car line between Teheran and a port on the Caspian sea, a distance of 93 miles. Japanese Art Japanese art, according to Albert East, is "great in small things, but small in great things." Among other things, it has never succeeded in successfully transferring to canvas the "human form divine." Tobacco as Brain Stimulant. Thomas Nelson Page is the latest author to testify to the virtues of tobacco as a brain stimulant. He is himself a smoker and always smokes just before taking up his pen and more or less while writing. To Honor Mrs. Glastone It is proposed to commemorate the late Mrs. Gladstone's useful and beautiful life by endowing a Catharine Gladstone ward in the Women's hospital in London as a fitting monument. Stevenson's Christian Name Adal E. Stevenson has a great deal of trouble with his acquaintances over the pronunciation of his Christian name. Not one person in a dozen, he says, pronounces it properly. Men Dye More Than Women. A New York druggist said recently that according to his experience men use hair dyes to a much greater extent than women. SUPER BEST FLOUR IS LIT COPYRIGHT SHANNON & MOTT Co. DES MOINES, IOWA. SEEKERS' RSIONS Burlington Route HOMESEEI EXCURSION HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS These are the days on which you can buy very cheap excursion tickets to NEBRASKA and other points in the West, including Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Leadville and Glenwood Springs, Colo., Deadwood and Hot Springs, So. Dak. Ask C. B. & Q. ticket agent for particulars. Go and look for a ka. a prosperous co ok for a New Home in Nebras-orous country, where a farm Go and look for a New Home in Nebraska, a prosperous country, where a farm can be bought for one year's rent of an eastern farm. OH, Ladies! 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It Goes Into 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns pondence from ma CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. 24 towns in Iowa and corres ce from many different states. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. The Corinthian naptist Church—situated on 11 st. between Crocker and School St. Preaching; at 11 A. M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at 1 F. M.; Bates, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.-Corner Second and Corner Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Epworth League at 1 p.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. F. M. J. Peterson, pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School and Fourth streets. Rev F. Lomack pastor. Preaching at 6 o'clock; School at 12:30 p.m. F. M. Houston; Subjectment; Young People's meeting 7 p.m., preaching 8:00 p.m. Burns M. E.-East Second and Dos Mines street, Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 12:30 p.m. F. M. Houston; Subjectment; All are welcome. Rev C. W. 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Hamamelis Lotion, for chapped hands, face, etc. Naomi Face Powder, the best on the market; containing no mineral poisons. Saponaceous Tooth Powder cleanses, whitens, and preserves the teeth; soothes, heals and hardens the gums. AGENTS WANTED. Subscribe for the Bystander. Cheap Excursion Rates to Colorado. On Aug. 1, 7 and 21, and Sept. 4 and 18, tickets from Chicago and points east of Missouri River to Denver Colorado Springs, Manitou, Pueblo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, and return, will be sold by the GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE --At rate of-- One Regular Fare Plus $2.00 for Round Trip. Return Limit October 31, 1900 SPECIAL TRAINS ONE NIGHT OUT TO COLORADO will leave Chicago at 4:45 p. m. for excursions of June 20, July 9, and 17, and August 1st. Tickets also good on regular trains. ONLY DIRECT LINE TO COLORADO SPRINGS AND MANITOU Take advantage of these cheap rates and spend your vacation in Colorado. Sleeping Car Reservations may be made now for any of the excursions. Write for full information and the beautiful book "COLORADO THE MAGNIFICENT"—sent free. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago SHANK BROS. Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 anl 689. DES MOINES, - - - IOWA FVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. 220 THIRD ST. PHONE 579. WANTED SEVERAL PERSONS FOR RDIS trict Office Managers in this state to rep resent me in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $800, payable week ly. Describe employment with unusual op portunity. Send resume to Enclosed. Enclo self-addressed stamped envelope. 5. A park $20 Caxton Building, Chicago Subscribe for the Bystander. NEBRASKA THE LAND OF PLENTY I wonder why it is that so many men spend their days working hard on rented farms, barely making enough to get along, with no great prospect ahead of owning their own homes, when within a few hours' journey is a land of plenty—NEBRASKA—where all kinds of grain and fruit can be raised with the least amount of labor; where cattle and hogs fed on corn bring a handsome profit; where the climate is healthful and churches and schools abound; where land is cheap and can be bought on very easy terms. Think of this, and if you want information about the country send to me for "The Corn Belt," a beautiful illustrated paper that tells all about Nebraska, and also for "The West Nebraska Grazing Country," an interesting illustrated booklet containing a large sectional map of Nebraska. On the first and third Tuesday of each month during the balance of this year cheap excursion tickets will be sold over our road to Nebraska, so that people may go and see for themselves. Ask your ticket agent about this. P. S. EUSTIS, Genl's Pass'r Agt. C. B. & Q. R. R. Chicago, Ill. DAVIS' MECHANICS SOAP? "The Greatest Dirt Killer." 290, a box of 3 Cakes. THE IDOL OF ALL MECHANICS DAVIS MECHANICS SOAP F. M. DAVIS SOAP CO CHICAGO. --- DOCTORS EXTEND TIME. DOCTORS EXTEND TIME Owing to the Vast Numbers 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 September 22nd. 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 September 22nd. 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, medicine excepted, to all who call before September 22nd. 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 CHAMBERLAIN'S COUCH REMEDY A GREAT FAVORITE. The soothing and healing properties of this remedy, its pleasant taste and prompt and permanent cures have made it a great favorite with people everywhere. It is especially prized by mothers of small children for colds, cough and whooping cough, it contains no opium or other harmful drug, it may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by all Drug-gists. Explosives Confined and Unconfined. There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high expositives. 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 1838, 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 Lamberls, 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 Age 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, 55; Richelle, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disnaell, 75; Bismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51, Hannibal at 63, Marlborough at 72, Blucher at 76, Wellington at 83, Xenophon at 86, Moltke at 91. The age of the decease of philosophers was: Spinoza, 44; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 68; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 78; Gallileu, 78; Kant, 79; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 90. To painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37 to Titian at 99. SEND ONE DOLLAR Cut this ad. out and send to us and we will send you your order. We will ship the SCALE by freight, C.O.D. by examinaton; you can examine it if you want it. We will ship the SCALE satisfactorily exactly as represented, and equal to scales that retail at price, $7.5, less the $1.00, or $6.75 and freight charges. The freight will average $105 for each 500 mile and we guarantee it delivery. Will weigh 100 lbs. by using all weights furnished Platform is 1623 inches, resting on adjustable chill bearings, has Denton steel pivots, most sensitive, platform and amenable scale, mounted on for- ward large wheels; they are nicely painted and ornamented and beautifully finished throughout. Every farmer can and宜able scale gauge, mounted on for- ward grain so sells and buys. ORDER AT ONCE before the prize is advanced. Call Roosevelt & Co. (800) 254-2544. (Sear, Incubus & Co. are thoroughly reliable., editor, I. We want you to subscribe for the IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. NEWTON NOTES. Mr. Paul Waldon departed for Indianapolis, Ind., last Monday, where he will make an extended visit with friends. Mr. Roy Hale has returned from his visit in Missouri, and reports a splendid time. Messrs and Mesdame: John Miller, W. E. Fine, Mr. Clarence Miller and Mrs. Waldon were Des Moines visitors last week. Mr. Marrion Mayes has returned home from Davenport. Miss Geneve Green has returned home from her visit in Rock Island, Moline and Davenport. Messrs Watson, Waldon, Hayes and Miss Hattie Mayes and Mrs. W. E. Fine were among those who went on the excursion to Oskaloosa last Sunday. Numerous visitors are expected in our city this week to attend the Jasper Co., fair. KNOXVILLE NOTES. Mr. Sim Jeffers returned home from Bussey Friday. Miss Jillyle Cooper is visiting friends in Albia and Chariton. Miss Jessie Jeffers entered school this week, also Miss Hallie Bird. Mr. Din Jeffers visited in Oskaloosa last week. Madam rumor reports a wedding here soon. Miss Ellie Jeffers is expected to return home soon Clarabell, Udell and Edgar Tomlin are on the sick list. Miss Lucile Jeffers returned to her home last week after a delightful visit in town. Mrs. W. P. Bird expects to visit in Quincy, Ill. soon. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Mr. J. L. Wallace was in our city a few d ys looking after business. Miss Clara Wilkerson gave a party in honor of Mr. J. L. Wallace, and those present voted it a grand success. Mr. H. R. Wright and wife returned to Iowa City Monday, where Mr. Wright is attending the law department. Mrs. Grundy went along to look after the cooking for the students. Mr. Thomas Colby, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is able to be out again. Mrs. G. L. Sutin visited over Sunday with her mother. Mrs. Howard of Albion. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Rev. James Higgins of Burlington was in our city one day last week, attending to business. Mesdame. M. Burnaugh and H. Clay returned home after a pleasant visit in Des Moines and Evans Iowa. Rev. Miller of Second Baptist church went to Keokuk last week to attend the Baptist association. Mr. A. Mason returned last week from G. A. R. encampment in Chicago and also a visit with his sons, Luther of that city and William of Evanston, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Drew of Burlington have come to our city to remain awhile. Mrs. J. Tally and daughter Alma have returned from n visit to Chicago and are making preparations to return there this week to make it their future home. After running a stand at the Henry county fair last week, Mr. and Mrs. Burnett went to Fairfield this week to run a stand at the Jefferson county fair. Mrs. C. Williams of Peoria, Ill., is visiting Mrs. Geo. Coalson. Mr. O. Folks of Burlington was engaged to sell schedules at the fair last week. Miss Ida M. Godfrey has returned to Kansas City to resume her duties. Miss Irene McNeal of Peoria, Ill., is visiting her parents Mr. and M s. E. McNeal. Miss Lulu Lewis returned to her home in Hannibal, Mo., last Tuesday, after a pleasant visit in this city. Miss Lewis is one of the teachers in public school of Hannibal. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mosely of Ottumwa were here last week. They went from here to Chicago. Mr. D. Fidler of Omaha, Neb., is in the city to assist in his brother Joe's barber shop. LADIES DON'T WORRY "Dr. Le Dues Genuine French Female Regulator" is positively guaranteed and mailed by Kidd Drug Co. Elgin, IL, to remove and relieve Monthly Stoppages. Female irregularities, Suppressed Menstruation, obstructions and suppressions, from whatever course, or send free medicine until cured if guaranteed lot does not relieve. Sent on receipt of price, $2 a package or $3 for $5.00. Retail and wholesale of Hurlbut & McArthur, Des Moines. Full line of rubber goods: name what you want. Subscribe for the Bystander CUTS AND BRUISES QUICKLY HEALED. Chamberlain's Pain Balm applied to a cut, bruise, burn scald or like injury will instantly allay the pain and will heal the parts in less time than any other treatment. Unless the injury is very severe it will not leave a scar. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism, sprains, swelling and lameness. For sale by all Druggists. ```markdown ``` Victoria's Eyesight Poor 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. Owner 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 coverts. Practice given at driven birds, high pheasants, etc. Any number of sportsmen can be accommodated. Experienced gun fiters and instructors always in attendance." Seven Pines. On May 21, 1802, 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 Siambook 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 valued abroad. Widows Do Not Remarry. In China it is the rule of good society that widows do not remarry. They are not forbidden to do so, but they are thought more highly of if they don't. In order to encourage them the government, when they have passed the age of 50, and have not remarried, confers on them a tablet containing a eulogy of their virtues. Raising the Hat an Ancient Salutation When a knight of old entered a company of ladies he removed his helmet to indicate that he considered himself among friends, and that there was no need to protect himself. This practice has survived in the custom of raising the hat when saluting a lady—June Ladies' Home Journal. Prince Rupert's Dislike Prince Rupert, the heir to the throne of Bavaria, dislikes the attentions of the White Rose league of England, which, because it recognizes the claims of the Stuarts to the British throne, persists, much to his disgust, in styling him "the rightful prince of Wales." Britain's New Halfpenny Stamp Great Britain has issued a new halfpenny stamp, green in color; a new is bi-colored postage and revenue stamp will also be issued about midsummer, when the stock of the present single colored green stamp will be issued. Bent on Revenge. Indianapolis Journal: "The Dwiggees are queer people." "What's the matter now?" "Well, somebody in the neighborhood broke their lawn mower last summer, and they are sound taking up a collection to buy a new one." Suez Shipping Tolla 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 $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 tl city, and is much admired by tourists. DEATH LIST MAY REACH 10,000. Galveston Horror the Worst Calamity of Century. All of the terrors of the previous practice. The situation had got be- LOOKING TOWARD VIRGINIA POINT, SHOWING THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S NEW TERMINALS. Perilous Trip Across the Bay. The latest news from floodswept Galveston increases the horror of the picture left by the terrible tidal wave. At least ten thousand persons were swept into eternity by the wind and wave that set in at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, and continued for twenty-four hours. The following report is from a correspondent at the scene of the dreadful calamity. The exodus of the people of Galveston, fleeing from hunger and pestilence and thousand-fold suffering, has begun in earnest. At least 1,000 men and women had taken advantage of the transportation facilities furnished by pressing into service all available small boats and sailed to Texas City and Virginia Point. Other thousands are ready to leave as soon as they can secure passage. Must Get Them Away: Mayor Jones says that there are at least 100 women and children and injured men whom it is imperative to take away at once to avoid great mortality among them. Their going is a blessing to them, and it will be an equal blessing to those who remain behind. The citizens' committee is using every effort to encourage the departure of all who will go, and especially of the women and children. It is furnishing free transportation to many, and in this it is assisted by the railroad companies. Survivors Taken North. Word was received from General Manager Trice of the International & Great Northern Railroad that sufferers would be carried free to Houston from Texas City, where most of the beats land, and that transportation to points still further north would be furnished to people unable to pay their way. The Galveston, Houston & Henderson real will also operate relief trains and carry refugees from Texas City to Houston. The establishment of this passenger service out of the city and of a relief freight service from Clinton to Galveston to living in supplies, which is promised, will greatly relieve the situation at Galveston, but it is still bad enough. May Convene Legislature. There is much talk of asking Gov. Sayers to call a special session of the legislature to come to the relief of Galveston and appropriate a large sum for it. District Judge William H. Stewart has telegraphed the request to him. All of the terrors of the previous LOOKING TOWARD VIRGINIA POINT CIFIC'S NEW T (Taken from Roof of S days are still with the sufferers. The lack of ice and medical supplies adds to the torture of the sick and injured. The stench from the many bodies unburied up to Wednesday was almost unendurable. The lack of disinfectants makes the peril of disease each day greater. Danger of Epidemic The danger of pestilence at Galveston now is frightful. All attempts to bury the dead in an ordinary way have been abandoned. Hundreds of corpses have been taken out to sea and thrown overboard. Some of them have been washed back upon the shore in a frightful condition. The safety of the living is a paramount consideration, and the work of disposing of the corpses of men and the carcasses of animals must be done. The work is almost too horrible to endure. Strong men faint after half an hour of it. Faces so discolored that whites cannot be told from black and swollen and di tortured bodies are seen everywhere. Die from Neglect. Many injured persons, perhaps fifty in all, although there is no way of keeping count, have died in the temporary hospitals since Sunday. Neglect. Perilous and sitting in the extreme was the voyage of the first messengers sent out of Galveston to tell the world of the city's great calamity. It consisted of Lieutenant J. J. Delaney of the Southern Pacific, E. G. Cox of the 3m of Thomas Taylor & Co., E. L. Porch, of Welch & Porch, and two newspaper men. Their boat was the steam yacht Pherabo, owned by Colonel W. L. Woody, and the crew was made up H. W. C. W. TREMONT STREET, GALVESTON, AS THE WATER RECEDED AFTER THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE. HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL COLLEGE, GALVESTON. though unavoidable neglect, killed most of them. That hundreds of others will die in the same way is probable, even if no pestilence breaks out. Several persons have already gone insane from their sufferings. But in immediate horror these things are trifles compared to the savagery of vandalism and the almost equal savagery of the punishment that must be meted out to offenders. Many roughs and criminals succeeded in reaching Galveston before the authorities awoke to the need of keeping them TREMONT STREET, GALVESTON, A out, and they, added to great numbers of the lowest negroes and most disreputable whites in the city, have been roaming at will, cutting off the fingers and ears of corpses for the jewelry upon them, assaulting women, robbing persons and houses and causing terror everywhere. Ninety Negroes Shot. Tuesday night ninety negroes were shot by the citizen soldiery while booting and mutilating the bodies of the dead for plunder. The ninety probably do not represent a tenth of those who were engaged in the ghoulish practice. The situation had got be- NT, SHOWING THE SOUTHERN PATERMINALS. Santa Fe Station. yond the control of the authorities. The powers in control had been quarreling. Tuesday night at 7 o'clock every citizen soldier under command of Mal. Paying was called in, disarmed and mustered out of service. Chief of Police Ketchum then took charge and the major was relieved of his command. During an hour and a half the city was unguarded and the looters held high carnival. As the major's work was unusually brilliant HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL Trip Across th of volunteers, Lawrence V. Elder, superintendent of the Galveston cotton mills, acting as engineer and all hands being stokers. Many squirrels struck the bay just as the Pherabo got out of the channel from the Galveston wharves to Texas City. The boat was at one time pointed toward the sky and the next moment downward. The engineer, declined to take the boat any further the citizens were furious. Tuesday night the main thoroughfare was intensely dark and deserted, not a lamp in the city being lighted. Life Is Held Cheap. Life is held cheap in Galveston. The awful presence of death of the great and small has made men callous, and a shooting or killing attracts little or no attention. No one walks the streets unarmed and no one is permitted to be about at all except on a pass first obtained from the mayor. Gen. McKibben, U. S. A., commander AS THE WATER RECEDED AFTER T of the department of the gulf, and Adjutant-General Scurry of Texas, are on the ground, and are advising with Mayor Jones and with Chief of Police Ketchum. In all other respects the city is worse off than on the morning after the tragedy. A terrible stench permeates the atmosphere. It comes from the bodies of a thousand unburied dead festering in the debris that cannot be removed for weeks on account of the paucity of laborers. The loss of life Thursday morning was estimated by conservative people at 8,000. Besides the thousand or more bodies yet pinned beneath the wreckage hundreds of cadavers, all putrid and bloated, float beneath smashed-up piers. Hundreds of bodies are floating in full view in the bay. Every tide brings scores back to the shore. During the early part of Wednesday trenches were dug and bodies thrown into them, but it soon became an impossibility to bury all the dead, and the health authorities decided upon cremation as an expedient. Funeral fires were built and torches applied. In one pile eighty-three bodies were incinerated. Thursday morning the charred remains of 1,000 victims lay smoking on the shore. Food Faming Is Oa. A food famine is now on, as well as tht of water. The best hotel in town served Thursday for breakfast to its 400 patrons a small cup of black coffee and one slice of bread. But one restaurant is open; unseasoned coffee is all that can be obtained here. Horses and cattle stray through the streets unethered. The water is so contaminated with filth that even these dumb beasts refuse to drink it. The committee on public safety has commandeered the food owned by merchants in the L COLLEG E, GALVESTON. the Bay. than Texas City, declaring that she could not live in such a sea. Lieutenant Delaney, who was an officer in the Japanese navy, and who commanded one of the war ships in the battle of the Yalu river, and who was later a lieutenant in the United States navy. said: "The trip across the bay was a far more desperate struggle for life than that during the hurricane of the night city. None can now be sold to anybody without consent of a special committee. The need of the city is dire, the destitution is awful. Not a business house is open. Warehouses are all wrecked with rare exceptions. Nearly all businesses is suspended. People are yet too busy mourning for the dead. The city treasurer when asked to estimate the loss to business property and real estate, said: "The assessed valuation and property was $2,000,-000. The loss will exceed two-thirds of that." It was learned upon unquestionable authority that the military under Adjutant-General Scurry had slain not less than seventy-five men, mostly negroes, guilty of robbing the dead. Two-thirds of this number were shot down in their acts of atrocity. Glye Thousands for Galveston. Liberal contributions are being made by the banks at St. Louis, in addition to the $10,000 secured by the Interstate Merchants' association. Milwaukee residents are determined to raise $50,000 inside of forty-eight hours for the Galveston sufferers. The Schlitz Brewing company wired $2,000 to the mayor of Galveston; the Pubst THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE. Brewing company $1,000; First National bank, Edward P. Allis company and Filer & Stowell Manufacturing company, $500 each. Many smaller offerings swelled the total to more than $10,000. J. C. Root, sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World at Omaha, has issued a call to all camps in the United States for immediate aid for Texas sufferers. California is responding generously to Galveston's cry for aid. Already $3,263 have been contributed, including a check for $1,000 sent by the San Francisco Theatrical Managers' association. The Santa Fe railroad will convey provisions free. Missouri's Governor Calis for Alt. Gov. Stephens has issued a proclamation calling upon the mayors of all Missouri towns and cities, the exchanges, commercial clubs, churches and citizens generally to contribute liberally to the storm sufferers of Texas. Thee hamber of commerce at Knoxville, Tenn., started a Galveston relief fund with $300 and appointed a committee to solicit funds. The chamber of commerce at Knoxphis, Tenn., more than $2,000 was subscribed for the immediate relief of Texas' destitute. Dallas, Texas, has subscribed nearly $15,000 in cash and six car loads of clothing for the south Texas flood sufferers. Indiana Liberal in Its Gifts The people of Indiana are responding liberally to Gov. Mount's proclamation asking aid for Texas storm victims. A carload of provisions and clothing for the storm-striken people of Galveston left New York city over the New York Central. The car was sent by the New York World. The special relief train sent by the New York Journal and Advertiser left the same night. In the sleepers were twenty-eight doctors and nurses. In the express car were barrels and boxes of medicines and luxuries. Public subscriptions to the city's relief fund now amount to $20,000. Mayor Weaver of Louisville, expressed to the mayor of Galveston a draft for $10,000, the donation of Louisville to the sufferers. The people of Nashville, Tenn., have so far contributed $1,465 to the fund for the relief of the sufferers in Texas. Chicago, not forgetful of its own great disaster in 1871, has subscribed money high in the thousands and sent a whole train load of provisions direct to Galveston. before. In all my experience at sea I never knew of a craft surviving through such a strain. To get into Texas City we had to break a way through a lot of wreckage and then had to make our way for fifty or seventy-five feet walking on wreckage before we could get to shore." Richmond and Hitchcock each report sixteen lives lost. Alta Loma, Arcadia, Seabrooke, Velasco, Belleville, Arcola and many other towns have from one to eight dead t s STORM HORROR INCREASES. Latest Estimate of the Dead Is 8,000. NINETY NEGROES ARE SHOT. An Earlier Report Said Only Fifty Looters Were Shaken by the Authorities—City of Galveston in An Awful Condition—Dead May Reach 16,000. --- Galveston, Tex., Sept. 14.—(By boat to Texas City and express train to Houston.)—The last days of Pompeii were not as terrible as the last days of Galveston. Bonfires are burning all over the city. These are the funeral pyres of a thousand corps cast back on shore at tide. The cremation has been a necessity to prevent epidemic. The negroes refuse to work and the townspeople are paralyzed with fright and suffering, or are making preparations to leave the doomed island. A thousand men, women and children have crowded into catboats, lifeboats, sloops, schooners and a single steamboat, the Lawrence, all bent on escaping from the city. Nearly all of them have lost some member of their family. Not one of them carried a vallse. The women wear not hats, are unkempt and ill clad. They look as if haunted. Ninety Negrocs Shot. At night ninety negroes were shot by the citizen soldier while looting and mutilating the bodies of the dead for plunder. The ninety probably do not represent a tenth of those who were engaged in the ghoulish practices. The situation has got beyond the control of the authorities. The powers in control have been quarreling. Last night at 7 o'clock every citizen soldier under command of Major Fayling was called in, disarmed and mustered out of service. Chief of Police Ketchum then took charge and the major was relieved of his command. During an hour and a half the city was unguarded and the looters held high carnival. As the major's work was unusually brilliant, the citizens are furious. Last night the main thoroughfare was intensely dark and deserted, not a lamp in the city being lighted. Life Is Held Cheap. Life is held cheap in Galveston. The awful presence of death of the great and the small has made men callous, and a shooting or killing attracts little or no attention. No one walks the streets unarmed and no one is permitted to be about at all except on a pass first obtained from the mayor. General McKibben, U, S. A., commander of the department of the gulf, and Adjutant-General Scurry of Texas, are on the ground and are advising with Mayor Jones and Chief of Police Ketchum. The loss of life this morning is estimated by conservative people at 8,000. HELP FOR GALVESTON. The Standard Oil Company Contributes $10,000. New York, Sept. 14.—The Merchants' association of this city was notified that word had been sent to Gov. Sayers of Texas by the Standard Oil company, authorizing him to draw upon the company for $10,000. The subscriptions received by the Merchants' association amount to $4,850. A carload of provisions and clothing for the stern-striken people of Galveston left over the New York Central. The car goes via Buffalo, where it was switched to the Lake Shore, and from thence will go through East St. Louis to Galveston, which point, it is thought, will be reached in five days. This car was sent by the New York World, and this paper will send three more cars and a special express train on Saturday. The special relief train sent to Galveston by the New York Journal and Advertiser left by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad. It was made up of two Pullman sleepers and an express car. In the sleepers were twenty-sight doctors and nurses fully equipped. In the express car were barrels and boxes of the medicines and luxuries that invalids need. After reaching Buffalo the train was taken over the Wabash to St. Louis and over the Iron Mountain system to Houston, Texas. May Convene Legislature. Galveston, Texas, Sep. 12 (via Houston, Sept. 14).—District Judge William H. Stewart has telegraphed to Gov. Sayers asking him to convene legislature in special session to make large appropriation for the relief of Galveston. HELP FROM MANY SOURCES San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 14.—California is responding generously to Galveston's cry for aid. Already $3,268 has been contributed, including a check for $1,000 sent by the San Francisco Theatrical Managers' association in advance of the combined benefit to be given in a few days. The Santa Fe Railroad company has tendered the free use of a full train to convey provisions and goods of all kinds, and these are being freely contributed. Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 14.—Gov. Stephens has issued a proclamation calling upon the mayors of all Missouri towns and cities, the exchanges, commercial clubs, churches and citizen generally, to contribute liberally to t. storm sufferers of Texas. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 14.—The Commercial club has appointed committees to solicit funds for the relief of Texas storm sufferers, and a thorough can- vass of the city is being made, with liberal responses. A good-sized scc will be forwarded. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 14.—The Commercial-Appeal has opened a relief fund for the benefit of the destitute in Galveston. The paper heads the contributions with a subscription of $250. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 14.—The chamber of commerce started a relief fund with $300 and appointed a committee to solicit funds and called a mass-meeting for tonight to further the work. Dallas, Texas, Sept. 14.—This city has subscribed nearly $15,000 in cash and six carloads of clothing for the south Texas flood sufferers. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 14.—As a result of a citizens' meeting a subscription list was started for storm victims in Texas. The Studebaker's Bros. Manufacturing company started the city's fund by a donation of $500 and the Oliver Chilled Plow company added $200. DECLARES 10,000 ARE DEAD Capt. Charles Clarke Makes a Report from the Stricken City. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 11 (via Houston, Tex., Sept. 13).—Captain Charles Clarke, a veteran boat owner of Galveston, declares that 10,000 persons were killed in this city by hurricane and tidal waves. He has been about on boats in the waters around Galveston day and night since the storm and bases his statement on what he thus has seen. The newspaper statements from here have been too conservative. In their effort to guard against extravagance or exaggeration the newspaper men have so far fallen short in their estimates of the loss of life. Reports at first placed the death list at about 1,000. Many persons gave much higher figures, but it was feared that they were exaggerations, hence the reporters made allowances for excited mental conditions and cut down the estimates. It is beginning now to be recognized that the big figures were nearer correct. FIFTY GHOULS SHOT DOWN. Adorned Fingers of Victims. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 11 (via Houston, Sept. 13).—Ten ghouls—eight negroes and two whites—were caught after robbing bodies. Their pockets were filled with fingers and ears, cut from corpses. These pieces of flesh bore rings and jewels. The negroes were shot down. In all about fifty ghouls, despoilers of the dead, have been shot down, and a negro who attacked a woman has been killed. Martial law reigns here. Flends who, like buzzards, thrive such times as this, are shown no mercy, are given no trial. The orders are to shoot them down and theders are obeyed. A horde of negro rowdies attack squad of soldiers guarding St. M hospital, Monday night. Hundred shots were fired and sixteen ney were killed. Every hour during other shootings of negro thieves were reported at headquarters. Tuesday morning a negro attacked a white woman and murdered her in the most cold-blooded manner. The soldiers caught him and blew his head off. Reports of many similar cases have reached headquarters. The public is used to terrible crimes. It is almost unmoved by these reports. Eight marauders caught looting the bodies and wrecking stores Tuesday night were killed by the soldiers. The pillagers have become bold, cutting off fingers to secure diamond rings. Houston, Sept. 13.—A reporter has telegraphed from Laporte the story of the robbery and mutilation of the dead in Galveston and the death of the offenders. The ghouls were holding an orgle over the dead. The majority of these men were negroes, but there were also whites, who took part in the desecration of the dead. Some of them were natives and some had been allowed to go over from the mainland under the guise of "relief" work. Not only did they rob dead, but they mutilated bodies in order to secure their ghoulish booty. A party of ten negroes were returning from a booting expedition. They had stripped corpses of all valuables, and the pockets of some of the looters were fairly bulging out with fingers of the dead, which has been cut off because they were so swollen the rings could not be removed. Incensed at this desecration and mutilation of the dead the looters were shot down and it has been determined that all found in the act of robbing the dead shall be summarily shot. Will Carry Messages Free. Galveston, Texas, Sept. 14—Col. R. C. Clowry, vice-president and general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, has tendered the free use of its wires to the governor of Texas, the mayors of Galveston and Houston, and all relief committees for the transportation of messages in aid of the sufferers by the recent calamity in Texas. Train Hold En by Lone Robber. Train Held Up by Lone Robber. Denver, Sept. 13.—Burlington train No. 1, known as the Overland Flyer, was held up by a lone highwayman at 2 o'clock, five miles east of Haligh- nt Neb, near the Colorado line. The $600 in cash and Using the train to arrive, both tough both sleepers, but did not meet the chair cars. The railroad of officials have offered $1,000 for his capture, and posses have started out in all directions. STORIETTS. James McNeill Whistler was once painting a portrait of a distinguished novelist, who was extremely clever but also extremely ill-favored. When the portrait was finished, the sitter did not seem satisfied with it, "You don't seem to like it," Whistler said. The sitter confessed that he did not, and said in self-justification: "You must admit that it is a bad work of art." "Yes," Whistler replied; "but I think you must admit that you are a bad work of nature." Among all the horrors of war, humorous situations often occur. An English army surgeon in South Africa tell an amusing story of an Englishwoman of high rank who was engrossed by the charms of amateur nursing. One morning, on approaching the cot of a soldier to whom she had given especial attention, she found him with his eyes tightly closed and a piece of paper pinned on the sheet, on which was written: "Too ill to be nursed today. Respectfully, J. L." The late John J. Ingalls was employed by certain flash newspapers to write accounts of all sorts of events and sign his name to them. 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His excellency ranks Herbert Spencer next to Confucius. He says he went down to Brighton one day "to shake hands with the greatest man in England and to tell him that his works were full of Confucianism." Lofengluh's diplomatic career extends over twenty-five years. He was Li Hung Chang's first secretary on several important foreign missions, including that of peace negotiations at Shimonekzi, Japan, in 1895. He accompa- The baby tower here illustrated emphasizes the much talked of cruelty of the Chinese. Here a very large per cent of the female infants of their country are consigned to die. These towers are found in many parts of China, but nowhere else in larger numbers than in Fukien province, where this picture was taken. It has been estimated that from 25 to 40 per cent, in some sections, of all the female babies born are put to death. There is no law against infanticide, at least none that is enforced, although there is a sort of maxim that a reward will be meted out to all who preserve the lives of their daughters. This reward lies in the kindness and love the daughters show in after life to their parents, for it is true that the love and affection of the sons in China is not to be compared to that of the daughters. There are different methods of disposing of infants. Some are drowned, but the favorite way seems to be to take them to the tower situated outside the city and place them on the window sill near the top, where they will be pushed in by the next corner. In years past it has not been an uncommon sight to see babies' bodies floating in the river. In spite of the prevalence of infanticide there are many Chinese who never destroy their children. In fact, when residing in houseboats, they often place a sort of life preserver about children's bodies, to protect them in case they fall into the water, as they often do. Poverty is one of the chief excuses given by those who allow their infants to perish in the tower. They say if they are trapped to womanhood in their circumstances it would be but to sell them into slavery, and that it is better they should die young. It is one line of work carried on by the missionaries in China to rescue the infants in the window of the tower and rear them to become native missionaries. Thousands of little ones have been saved from destruction by the foreigners. To do this work, the missionaries must keep a watch on the baby towers almost day and night. Joseffy, the famous pianist, has just returned to New York after a visit to Europe. Most of his time was spent with his parents in Buda-Pesth. Josef- THE LIGHTHOUSE nled Earl Li on his congratulatory embassy to the coronation of the czar and on his subsequent European and American tour in 1896. His turn for abstract thinking is shown in his book, "Solutions of Problems by Indeterminate Equations." Several descendants of the poet Long-fellow have been enjoying the hospitality of the Ojibway Indians away up at Desbarata, Ont. These Indians are descendants of the Sagamores so picturesquely treated in "Hlawatha." Miss Long-fellow, the poet's daughter, has been formally adopted into the tribe. A select corps of chiefs, braves, squaws and pappoes gave in presence of the visitors and beneath the E BABY fy says Dewey's victory has enlightened central Europe wonderfully as to the existence of the United States. There is, however, much amazing ignorance of America in evidence, and he says it was difficult for him to convince some people in Hungary that there was such a thing as true musical art here. They were incredulous when told that America had perhaps the finest orchestra in the world. Joseffy did not give any recitals while abroad. Extortioners of Italy. Italian hotel-keepers recently met in Rome to devise means to attract visitors to their country. Strangers leave $61,200,000 every year, most of it to beggars and extortionate hotel men. The hotel men of Italy are following the example of their Swiss brothers in combining. It is toss-up which class contains the larger liars. If Italy is sincere in wishing to attract strangers the government should take a hand in the movement and whip every lazy, dirty beggar from the streets. It should limit the number of guides and license them. It should imprison any hotel man or carriage driver who extorts anything over a lawful price. Let these nuisances be abolished and then traveling in Italy may become a real pleasure. Rebecca Lynn is tollgate keeper at a bridge over the Delaware river. The --- primeval trees of Desbaratas islands dramatization of the famous poem. The performers were garbed in buckskin costumes, with headdresses of feathers. Queer Monument. Mrs. Susie Bartlett is buried near Atlanta, Ga., and has one of the queercest monuments ever erected. Her husband is a confederate veteran and lives near his wife's burial place. Every day he visits it and takes some new ornament to lay on the pile of articles which have accumulated over the grave in the last five years. Broken china and glassware of every description form the strange monument. Relles of household goods in the shape of broken dishes, lamp shades, chimmens, mirrors, pitchers, cups, glasses, bottles—all these ornament Mrs. Bartlett's grave. Fakes Skill to Drink Among the miners in the Sonthal Purgunnahs—a district in Bengal—drinking is ranked as a high accom- plishment, and the man who can drink the most in the shortest time is looked upon with great admiration. But the matter does not end with the mere drinking; the would-be champion must be a juggler of a sort, as A man is tying a rope around a man's waist. the accompanying Drinking in Bengal picture shows. The natives drink in this manner at all times, but on festive occasions they split up into parties and compete one against the other. The reason why the grog is served through a hole in this manner is because the hard and fast law of cast does not allow a man of one caste to touch anything that a man of different caste has handled. The pot, which contains about three quarts, is first held quite close to the mouth, though not coming into actual contact with it; and then, taking his finger away, the server allows the grog to flow into the man's mouth, raising the pot higher and higher in order to put a head on the liquor. Often the distance between the jar and the drinker's mouth is three feet or four feet. Modern Warfare Merciful. One of the most distinguished British surgeons in South Africa says the things that have impressed him most are the merciful wounds made by the rifles in use, the popularity of the X-ray and the ineffectiveness of artillery to destroy life. The loss in killed is insignificant in comparison with the battles of the past. London newsboys swear by the duke of Portland and Lord Arthur Hill, who are giving the youngsters a week's outing at the seaside. They go in squads of 100, accompanied by a band, and are given every comfort and opportunity to enjoy their holiday to the full TOWER other day a crowd of thirty railroad laborers attempted to pass without paying their way. When Miss Lynn shoved a revolver under the leading rowdy's nose they all changed their minds. Princeton's Large Enrollment. The university authorities at Princeton have made up their figures of applicants for examination in the various parts of the country to date, as follows: Full entrance, freshmen, 435; preliminaries, 339; upper classes, 11; total number examined, 785. This is the largest number of applicants Princeton ever had, and should make the freshmen class about 400 next fall. These figures do not include the large number of post-graduates both from Princeton and other institutions, who will be registered in the autumn, nor the several hundred students in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. During the sixty years that Judge Reagan of Texas has been in public life he has kept up his farm. He now has a fine ranch of 800 acres near Palestine, Anderson county, to which he will retire when he surrenders his office of railroad commissioner. The first Littish church in this country was recently organized in Philadelphia. The congregation consists of immigrants from the Baltic province in Russia. 900 DROPS CASTORIA Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Parte of Old Dr. SAMUEL FITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alfalfa Seed - Ricotta Salad - Anise Seed - Apricot Seed - Bilberry Seed - Where Seed - Clarified Sugar Wildflower Thiep. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Flitcher. NEW YORK. A 6-months old 35 Doses - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. The Mother of Disease More diseases originate in the stomach than anywhere else. Cure the ailments of the stomach and nearly all of the others will vanish. It is the source of health as well as disease. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Bowel Troubles, Headache, Kidney and Liver Complaints, all spring more or less directly from the stomach. The grandest Stomach, Remedy in the world is Taber's Pepsin Compound It cleans out, the fermenting matter from the stomach and bowels, sweetens the breath, keeps the bowels moving freely and naturally, stimulates the Liver and Kidneys to healthy action, tones up the whole system and brings renewed energy and eagerness for work. We know it will help you. You is our guaranty with every bottle: If, after using half of the contents of this bottle of Taber's Pestin Compound, you can still see the white substance on the surface, and address below, the droplet from whom you purchase it will refund your money in full. below, the druggist from whom you purchased it will refund your money in full. Taber's Pepsin Compound is for sale by druggists at 50c, and $1.00 per bottle, or will be sent on receipt of price. If you wish to it before buying, send postal card or free sample bottle to DR. TABER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Peoria, Illinois. Elephants have only eight teeth two below and two above on each side. The elephant's baby teeth fall out when the animal is about fourteen years old, and a new set grows. Wise is the young attorney who peruses old books. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fumination, allays pain, curts wind colic. See a bottle. A woman always knows more than her neighbor and she knows that she knows it. Ten Greatest American Railroads A table showing the mileage controlled by the principal railroad companies of this country on July, 1900, has been compiled by the Railway Age. The ten largest systems are as follows: New York Central. 10,430 Pennsylvania. 10,392 Canadian Pacific. 10,018 Southern Pacific. 9,362 Chicago and Northwestern. 8,463 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 8,001 Southern Railway. 7,887 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. 7,880 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 6,437 Union Pacific. 6,584 —From the New York Sun. The less a man boasts the more true worth he possesses. Ladies who take pride in beautiful, clear white clothing and Rusc Bleaching Blue. Retire imitations. Sold by all grocers. Good nature is a glow worm that sheds light in the darkest places. Drepespa. Indication and all stomach troubles positively cured by Tabers' Pepsin Compound. Sample bottle sent by mail free. Write Dr. Taber, Peoria, Ill. A lovers' quarrel is the sauce that seasons the courtship. Have you ever experienced the joyful sensation of a good appetite? You will if you chew Adams' Pepsin Tutti Fruttu. Society is a fashionable game in which diamonds are wagered against hearts. Hall's Catarrh Curo Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. The pensive maiden sometimes becomes the expensive wife. Luxuriant hair with its youthful color assured by hair extensions. HINDEROWNS, the best cure for corn. 150s. It isn't wise to rush the growler in dog days. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J. Feb. 17, 1900. A high churchman—the steeple climber. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. A hen may be made to lay perpetually by hitting her on the head with a stout club. Ladies 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, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Women Think In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are communi floating with A Woman A woman whose experience in treating female illis is greater than that of any living person, male or female. She has fifty thousand such testimonial letters as we are constantly publishing showing that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is daily relieving hundreds of suffering women. Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Pinkham has restored to health. Mrs. Pinkham makes no statements she cannot prove. Her advice is free. Lydia E. Pinkham Med Co, Lynn, Masa To promote hilarity and good feeling, a party of Poles brought three bottles of wood alcohol to a picnic at South Fork, Pa. They drank of it freely and four men and one woman died from the effects of the poisonous beverage. A pretty black cat is the much admired pet of a lady of St. Louis, Mrs. Anita Comfort. The owner has had he cat's ears pierced, and now pussy sports a pair of diamond earrings which glitter attractively against her dark fur. Miniature Bibles are worn as watch charms in Russia. They are each one inch long, three-fourths of an inch wide and three-eighths of an inch thick, and contain the first five books of the Old Testament. The text is in Hebrew, and can be read with the aid of a magnifying glass. TOE-GUM Cures Comas it; all Druggets (It falls- it is free) STUDENTS WANTED for fall season Special offer tools and position with each scholarship. Iowa bar College, 819 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. Baby's Bath Tub Finished in White labor, recommended by Nurses. Nurses. Send for chro- lar. CRANE BROS. Linenoid Mfs., Westfield, Mass. Afflicted with | Thompson's Eye Water sore eyes, use W. N. U., Des Moines, No. 37—1900 OTTUMWA NEWS. Mrs. Jas. Hamilton and grand-daughter Lilly Fields returned Monday and reported a nice time, also Mrs. Chas. Taylor. Mr. J. Gilbert died Monday morning at three o'clock and was buried Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. H. Johnson of Keosauqua and Mrs. Mary McRoy were here and attended the funeral. Mr. Williams died Saturday evening at 5 o'clock and was taken to Dalton, Mo., for burial. Mr. Williams' brother is in bed with consumption. Mr. Johnny Davis has returned. He has been visiting friends. Miss May Campbell has returned from Cedar Rapids where she has been visiting relative, and reports a lovey time. DAVENPORT REPORT. The R. L. & P. ran an excursion to Peoria Sunday. A large crowd of colored people went to see the sights of the second city in Illinois. Messrs. G. W. Chesterfield, Wm. Baker and Joe Saunders are all three bachelors at present, as their wives are visiting in Keokuk. The Odd Fellows and Masons are meeting with great success in arranging for the grand emancipation celebration. Mrs. Wm. Harris of West Tenth street is entertaining her mother who returned with her Sunday on the excursion from Peoria. Mr. J. S. Roberts of 4221 East Fourth street is improving very nicely. We hope to see him out very soon. J. T. Mabry addressed the Zion Baptist S. S. in Peoria, Ill., Sunday, of which he was formerly a member. Don't forget the grand emancipation celebration at N. W. Turner's Garden, Sept. 22. The welcome address will be delivered by Mayor Heinz. Sunday was off day with the officers of the Third Baptist Sunday School. Supt. J. T. Mabry was in Peoria; Rev. Burton, the pastor; the Assistant Supt. Mrs. F. Baker; the secretary Miss Ella C. Baker and the treasurer Mrs. G. W. Chesterfield were all in Keokuk and the assistant secretary Mrs. R. Baker is in Fairfield. The wedding bells will ring here next month if reports are all true and we hope they are. Tuesday night Sept. 11. was monthly meeting of the colored Old Fellows. The officers for the last quarter 1900 are as follows: James Thomas, N. G.; M. B. Anderson, V. G.; H. McGaw, P. N. G.; Will Brown, E. S.; Wm. Harris, N. F. and John T. Mabry, P. N. F. NERVOUS WEAKNESS CURED. VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPOTENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, fitting for success and happiness in business; professional, social and married life. $2 a package or 3 for $5. Ask your druggist, 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, In. Full line of rubber goods; name what you want. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAN State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Edgar Shearer: We are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D 1897, the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896, which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: East half (E. 1/2) Lot nineteen (19) Block Fifty-eight (58) Stewarts Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by J. H. Phillips and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS. Lawful holder and ower of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To E. J. Yard: You are here by notified that on the 7th day of December. A. D. 1897, the following described real estate, situated in Polk county. Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896, which real estate is described as follows to-wit: Lot Ten (10) Block Thirty-four (34) Stewarts Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale,urchased by J. H. Phillips and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and he is now he owner and holder of said certificate,rd the right of redemption will exur, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service herof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. AS TRUE AS COSPEL Speak well of your friend, of your enemy, say nothing. He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like. A man's manners are the mirror in which he shows his portrait. If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inopportunity. ```markdown ``` Electors-at-large John M. Baldwin of Council Bluffs and Ole O. Roe of Des Molines. District electors: First district—E. V. Tucker of Louise Second district—A. L. Bartholomew of Jackson. Third district—L. B. Raymond of Franklin. Fourth district—C. H McNider of Cerro Gordo. Fifth district—H. H. Rood of Linn. Sixth district—S. H. Harper of Wapelo. Seventh district—C. Rynsburger of Marion. Eighth district—Marion F. Stookey of Decatur. Ninth district—P. L. Seever of Guthrie. Tenth district—Thomas Way of Crawford. Eleventh district—George E. Bowers of Sioux Secretary of state—W. B. Martin of Adair. Treasurer of state—G. S. Gilbertson of Winnebago. Auditor of state—F. F. Meriam of Delaware. Attorney general—C. W. Mullan of Black Hawk. Supreme judge—Emlin McClain of Johnson. Railroad commissioner—D. J. Palmer of Washington. COUNTY TICKET. Auditor—Fred Cope. Clerk—John C. Tate. Recorder—John Cook. Attorney—John McLennan. The soothing and healing properties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. its pleasant taste and prompt and permanent cures, have made it a great favorite with the people everywhere. For sale by all Druggists. AFTER THE STORMY WEATHER. It is after the stormy camp's still and the fighting done: And we're closer—thank God! together, in the joy o' the battle won. Under the flag united—friendly as friends may be. The man who marched with Sherman, and the man who followed Lee. It is after the stormy weather. See now where the skie bend blue. And light the stars of the flag that wave splendidly over you: The battle-thunders have died away—the folds of the flag float free. And fainter now are the echoes of the guns from over the sea. After the stormy weather! Peace on the plains and hills: No crimson drops on the daisies, no red on the ripple rills. Only one thought for the country; waves the flag from shore to shore; Wrongs righted, and love united, we are bothers forevermore! One thought! Let sea-winds wing it over echoing deep: One thought! Let the river sing it where the dreaming valleys sleep? Thrilled to the stars in music, after the rough ways trod. We are all at home in the country under the smile of God. Written for the sake of our negligent city by S. L. Terry. Beone. Iowa. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. There is always compensation. Our angels go out that our archangels may come in. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mein, inventions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it is to pass over the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is transitory good, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for one sex which does not apply equally to the other, so perfectly alike in nature are men and women. the dif ference is only in circumstances. Wireless Telegraph at Sea. A Wireless GSM service has been opened between the German island on Borkum and the Borkum west 1 light ship, in the North sea. Ships are reported by this means between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. A great tribute was paid to engineering skill when a man committed suicide the other day by drowning himself in the Chicago river. OZONO IS KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS BE WARNED. By honest methods and is to-day the only gen-ence, and possessing the confidence of the colored excited the capidity of the unprincipled, who, to get injurious to the hair and skin, and dangerous to health and life. Be warned; don't send your money to get only in return a mass of lard and tallow and animal fats, that injure your hair and cause it to fall out, destroy its growth, and cause you to become bald. Deal with a legitimate firm, who will treat you fairly and give you value for your money. We do solemnly swear that our remedies are true to all we claim for them; that they do not contain any animal fat or injurious drugs, and we will return the money for every case of disas-istaction. We refer to Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va., or to the editor of this paper. The word OZONO and the cuts shown in this advertisement are registered as our trade-mark in U. S. Patent Office. Any infringement will be promptly prosecuted. OZONO positively straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky, Stubborn, Harsh, Refractory Hair. No injurious hot irons are necessary to produce this effect. OZONO does the work alone, and the use does not have to be kept up after the hair becomes stright, and washing the hair hastens the treatment, doing it good in every way. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, and all itching, running, scaly, humiliating Scalp Diseases; causes the hair to grow long and straight, soft, fine, and beautiful as an April morning. Price, 50c. a box; 4 boxes does the work. OZONO cannot fail. Read our grand offer: Cut out this advertisement and send to us with $1.00, and we will send you immediately four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up black skin several shades; also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, &c. It makes the aged look young, and the young look younger. We will also, to show our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body—such as feet, arm-pits, &c.; cures Sore Throat and Mouth, Womb Diseases, Sore and Frosted Feet, &c. This grand combination, worth $3.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollar, to introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $3.00 will receive four lots. Register your letters. AGENTS WANTED. BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 E.BROAD ST.RICHMOND,VA. OZONO KING OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS ABSOLUTELY PURE OZONO YOUNG AND OLD PETER H. WANING and they NEED To consult skilful Specialista like Dr. Fellows & Fellows, that the strength, vigor and power of manhood may be restored to them. SPERMATORRHOEA Is a diseased condition of the sexual organs of the male, where they are so weak as to permit of a relaxation of the muscles, ducts and fabers, as to allow a leakage of seminal fluid. This loss saps the vitality, undermines the constitution and wrecks the general health. Nine men out of every ten suffers in this way. VARICOCELE Is an enlargement of the veins of the scrotum, it is very painful and if permitted to enlarge, will gradually grow worse, and finally rob a man of his power. IMPOTENCY This condition which renders a man useless, as his power is now gone, may be removed by so strengthening the entire sexual organism as to fully restore the desired v.gor. PRIVATE DISEASE All secret, nerves, and private discases of men, whether acute or sub-acute, speedily and permanently cured. Everything confid- ential. Consultation and examination free. Write or call to day. Home Treatment sent by mail or express. Drs. Fellows & Fellows DES MOINES IOWA, 413-415 Walnut St. BURLINGTON ROUTE EXCURSIONS EXCURSION TICKETS VIA THE Burlington Route. Reservations for sleeping car berths should be made early with ticket agents. NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT G. A. A. R., Chscago. Tickets on sale, August 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENT Philadelphia. Pa. Tickets on sale June 14, 15 and 16. PROHIBITION NATIONAL CONVENT Chicago, Ill. Tickets on sale June 25, 26 and 27. ANNUAL MEETING, NATIONAL Education association, Charleston, S.C. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENT. Baptist Young People' Union of America, Cincinnati, Ohio. Tickets on sale July 10, 11, 12 and 13. BIENNIAL CONCLAVE KNIGHTS OF Pythias, Detroit, Mich. Tickets on sale August 25, 26, 27 and 28. ANNUAL CONVENTION. YOUNG People's Christian Union of the United Presbyterian church of North America, Denver, Colo. Tickets on sale July 23 and 24. 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 DISTRICT Office Managers in this state to represent me in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $0.0, payable weekly. Wishable employment in unusual op. position. Referral exchange. Enclose self address d stamped envelope. S. A. Park 320 Caxon Building Chicago Subscribe for the rvstander. ARRIVE. 9:30 p. m. ..Chicago Limited. ..*4:35 p. m 12:40 p. m. ..Downtown Mail. ..*12:55 p. m 12:40 p. m. ..Night Express. ..*12:55 p. m 12:40 p. m. ..Day Express. ..*1:00 p. m ..... Hawkeye Limited. ..7:30 a. m C. R. I. & P. GOING WEST. 8:30 a. m. ..Deuer Limited. ..*8:35 a. m 8:35 p. m. ..Night Limited Express. ..6:40 a. m 8:35 p. m. ..Rocky Mountain Limited. *1:00 a. m *11:40 a. m. ..Fast Mail. C. R. I. & P. KEOKUK. 11:52 a. m. ..Eldon. ..6:55 p. m 3:50 p. m. ..Keokuk. ..7:10 a. m DES MOINES & FORT DOUG. 6:30 p. m.Rutben Mail & Express.12:10 p. m 6:40 p. m.Munon, and St. Paul. ..*9:00 p. m 6:40 a. m.St. Paul and Mun. Flyer.8:30 a. m INDIANA & WINTERST BRANCH. 12:20 a. m. ..Mall. ..4:40 p. m 6:40 p. m.Winterst Accommodation.8:45 a. m 7:03 p. m..Indulsoa Express. ..8:40 a. m CHICAGO & WINTERST-NORTH 8:15 p. m.Chester and St. Paul Ex. ..8:30 a. m Chicago and St. Paul Ex. ..8:30 a. m *2:23 p. m.Twin Cities Special. ..*2:00 a. m CHICAGO GREAT WINTERST-SOUTH 8:50 a. m.Kansas City Limited. ..*7:00 a. m 1:30 a. m..Day. Express. ..*11:40 a. m 7:50 p. m..Night Express. ..8:45 p. m *12 15 p m. Abia and Burlington Pass *13 15 p m. *15 p m. Chicago and Peoria Express. 8.00 a m *7 00 p m. Albia Accommodation ... 5.45 a m KEOKUK & WESTERN 10.00 a m. Mall and Express. ... 3.30 p m *6 00 a m. Mall and Express. ... 3.30 p m CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN CHICAGU & NORTH WESTERN 6 15 m Chicago Limited *9 00 p.m. 1 01 p.m Colorado Special *4 10 p.m *11 30 a.m Chicago Limited *9 00 p.m. 0 33 m Dakota Limited 2 00 a.m *7 53 p.m Chicago Express *9 00 a.m 6 15 m Chicago Express *9 00 p.m 7 56 p.m Chicago Express *9 00 p.m *11 30 a.m "Fast Mall" *9 00 a.m C & M & ST. P.-FONDA LINE. 11 05 a.m Fonda Express *4 10 p.m 5 43 p.m Fonda Express *2 35 a.m C & M & ST. B-BOONE LINE. C & M & ST P-BOONE LIME 11 30 a m — Boone Mall and Express — 3:40 a m 7:25 p m — Mail and Express — 8:00 a m 4:50 a m — Chicago Limited — 11:15 a *Daily, †Daily All other trains daily except Sanday Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY— 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 Glande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Westerna and Southern Pacific. This Circular Plush Cape is very latest style for Fall Sale and Frank. 20 inches long and tall, wool, lined throughout with Deserted Silk in black, bine or red. Very elaborately embroidered with austable braid and blush locking as if flimflaxed. "Tinned all around with extra fine Black Tibet Fur, heavily interlined with wadding and fiber champs. Write for free Clok Catalog. Address: SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., ONIGA CO. (Bears, Roebuck & Co. are thoroughly reliable--Edition.) **SPECIFICATIONS** lindas, lindas, 22 inch. connected connections, flush joints, improved device device to fasten, and handle bay, keyless, the celebrated Mavis hub and handle bay, known by the name Mavis. The cost of one of the most expensive nickel on the market. The genuine $15.00 saddle; pedals, tools and accessories the best obtainable; special nickel on all bright parts. We throw away every piece of material that goes into this machine. Our blanks are 1 year's worth of material one sending the $6.00 cash in. **FREE** send free a genuine blackjack card in full with order we will send free a genuine blackjack card. Your money all lack if you are not perfectly satisfied. send free a genuine blackjack card in full with order we will **CHEAP WHEELS** do not manufacture the cheap deserts concerns and big supply houses advertise and sell as high grade. We can furnish them, recommend them, BEFORE ORDERING a bicycle of any one else, no matter what if they are not HARLEY or RUY. A wheel we can assist you to EARN a Bicycle by购买 them. GREAP WHEELS, a new concern made by supply houses, however, are not supplied or to be sold immediately. BEFORE ORDERING a bicycle, write and let us know how much you want it. UNABLE TO BUY are invited to each town for this purpose. We have several hundred RECORD will close out at $45 to $100 each; also some shopwarm samples and our RELIABILITY is unquestioned. We will send you letters of reference direct from our national company. We will send you letters of reference direct from SEND YOUR ORDER be withdrawn very soon. Give me so many different directions. "For foreign in the old meaning of the term are 'next door' to us. What happens to-morrow—if we read THE CHICAGO SPECIAL Cable Correspondents are in city in the world outside of the U.S. American newspaper ever attempted and it is supplemented by the regs of The Associated Press. For accost stirring events which are shaking the rumors of wars—of the threatening events and the establishment of new the race in all parts of the world—most satisfactory information is the American newspaper, THE CHICAGO. FREE A large map of the world on Map inches in size, beautifully printed of Europe on the reverse side, with our receipt of receipt of returned newspapers and wringing. The main Illustrated special cable service of THE CHICAGO RECORD covers dress. THE CHICAGO RECORD, 11 Madison street, CHICAGO. are UNABLE TO BUILD catalogues for us a few days. We need one person to each town for this fund. I will build catalogues for us which we will close out at $10 each; also some shopworn samples and 99 models very cheap. Send URE RELIABILITY is unquestioned. We refer to any bank or business house in Chicago, or any express or postal bank. We will send you a copy of the book you wish it. Send YOUR ORDER with withdrawn very soon. This low price and these special terms of shipment without deposit will send your order to: L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Ohioapolis. 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 Monterey's Protection, about 325,000 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 seven stamps to cover postage and mailing. The book will be completely redeemed for the special trade services of THE CHICAGO RECORD covers the entire civilized world. Address: 1111 W. 14th Street, Chicago. $1.00 BICYCLES 50 7 KUP SEND Cut this ad. out and a bicycles at $5.00, $6.00, $7.50, $8.00 and $9.00, the new 1900 Classic AT $13.75 is by. By the greatest bargain ever offered at the p circumference of the bicycle, the Bicycle Store, Bellevue, Washington. Crane Saddle, Pedals, Handle Bar, Tools and Toolbag. Enameled OTHER BICYCLE advertised is this paper or in any catalogue, write us and w YOU CALL US AT $50.00. OR IN TAX. Sell this bicycle at $55.00. Address, SEARS, RO TANKS Water Tanks, P and $0.00, the new 1900 Chevron complete at $11.75. Yet our ARC JEWEL orgain ever offered at the price. It is covered by a BISING hardware warranty. We offer warranty for installed Panasonic Turtles, high is and Toolbag. Enameled black, green or maroon. IF YOU WANT AY is any catalogue, write us and we will save you at least $2.00 to $10.00 on its YEAR address, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago, IL. TANKS! Water Tanks, Pine, Cypress or Steel. For stock, reservoir tanks, thresher tanks, either round, square or half round, or any size, for all purposes, at lowest prices. Only the best of material used. Kretchmer goods have a reputation. Do not compare my work with the cheap good-for-nothing tanks which the market is flooded with. Freight is only a small matter as tanks can be shipped knocked down. Send for catalogue and price list. to us stand at whether you wish GEXN '00 and we will. HIGH GRADE 1900 MODEL ACME BIGYCLE, by express, examination. You can examine a exercise, and if found perfectly excellent, exe office, and if found perfectly excellent, exe every one or heard of, equal to bicycles that retail as high as 40,000. If you think you would express agent our $43,000 PRICE, $13,750 express charges. While our Special Bicycle Catalogue, mailed for the asking, shows