Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYNAMER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PAPER AND LOCUST, BOUND NO. 60 MANQUANT BLOCK. IOWA - PROMO 160. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PRO- TATIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORTHFUL UNITED GRAND LOGOS OF IOWA. A F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year. . $1.50 Three months. . $6.00 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post fax order, money order, express or draft, to the IOWA STATE BYNAMER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the publisher. We will not return reed:ed manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. IOWA'S LEADING COLORED PAPER CITY NEWS Mason's, Bonets and Hat 609 Locust. The wedding bells still continue to ring. Mr. J. L. Thompson is building a house on his lot on Eighteenth street. Mrs. E. T. Banks has been very sick in week. Our beautiful fall weather has given away to the rigor of winter. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 310 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. Mr. C. W. Webb of Saylor was in the city this week, he hasJOcharge of the boarding house at that place. We are informed that Miss Nina Ham illon is confined to her home by illness. We hope it is not serious. Rev. J. M. Haggard of Fraser was in the city Thursday, he is conducting revival meetings and there has been several conversions. Miss Stella Pierson of Greenfield is visiting in our city, the guest of her her brother A. Pierson. Mrs. Mattie Sheldon of Fraser returned to her home last week, after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends here. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarchs of America, Sixon City, Ia. Midway Coal, 212 W. 7th street, both Phonea. Mesdames Jas. Woods and John McCain gave a party at their home on 8th and Grand Avenue Tuesday evening and a large crowd was present and all enjoyed the evening. Mrs. R. Turner was married to Mr. Issaun Neson, Sunday Nov., 4th at 4:00 o'clock at the home of Rev. Bates, only a few friends were present. They went immediately to house keeping on 11th St. Mr. James Weeks wh has been living at 762 W. Tenth for several years, has removed to 1307 W. Twenty-first street, where he has purchased a home. The entertainment that was given at Webster's Hall last Tuesday night for the benefit of Corinthian Baptist church was well attended, and the program was very good. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson entertained the young peoples' Social Club last Friday evening at their cozy home on Des Mones street A very enjoyable time was reported, as the host and hostess are very good entertainers. Mr. E. W. Thompson made a business trip to Newton, Colafax, Boone and Fraser the first of this week, in the interest of the Bystander. Mr. John T. Washington, formerly of Boone, but who is now clerking in Mr. Wells' large store in Machakinock, was a visitor in the capital city last Tuesday. W. L. Morris the florist has removed to 639 W. Walnut street. Miss Zoo Richardson, who has been employed by the State Central Committee as stenographer, has resumed her work at the Bystander office. The Commitee speaks highly of Miss Richardson's qualification and her work was entirely satisfactory with the Committee. GLOVE INFORMATION Why pay big prices at retail stores for your gloves and mittens when you are given the opportunity of getting them direct from the manufacturers at nearly one-half the cost, and again you assume no risk. The manufacturer guarantees every pair. Fully three-fourths of the people of Des Moines are now wearing a "Cownie Glove." Why?—because they have learned that they can get a better glove for less money at our store than any place else. Come to our store and we will convince you. J. H. Cownie Glove Co. Retail Store 514 Walnut Street. Dealers in Coal, wholesale and retail $2.75 per ton and up. Iowa 'phone 899, room 405 Marquardt Block, Fifth and Locust street. Your Orders Sollicited. Prompt Delivery. LADIES GOODS. A big line of Ladies fine kid gloves, all colors, all sizes ..... 59c Fine kid mittens, wool lined, plain top ..... 25c Fine kid mittens, fur top, wool lined ..... 50c Wool mittens, single ..... 5c Wool mittens, double ..... 10c Children's mittens in kid fancy colors ..... 25c J. H. Cownie Glov 514 Walnu THOMPSON BROS Dealers in Coal, wholesale a up. Iowa '899, roo Fifth and Locust street. Your Orders Sollicited. SECRET Fraternal Beneficiary lodge for the colored people only. African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Ia. Rev. Long, pastor of the A. M. E. church in Keyteville, Mo., was called here to the bed-side of his sick mother last Saturday. He attended the A. M. E. church Sunday and gave a short talk at Sunday school and an excellent address at the Christian Endeavor. The reverand also preached an able sermon Wednesday evening. GERMAN REMEDY Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Male and Female Weakness. Send $1.50 German Medicine Co. Des Moines, Ia. Attorney Geo. H. Woodson of Muchainkock was in our city Tuesday on legal business. He said that the Mahaska republicans had not got through counting the republican votes yet. They had reached 20,000 republican majority, then he left them still counting and came up here to see if Polk county wanted any republican votes. Send in your orders for coni to the Thompson Bros., 405 Marquardt block. AT THE RECEPTION A reception was given last night under the direction of Mrs. L. Denney assisted by members of the A. M. E. church in honor of Mrs. Rev. L. J. Phillips at the church, Mr. C. B. Woods presiding, Mrs. Theodore Williams made the welcome address and the response was made by Mrs. L. J. Phillips in a very brilliant manner, the refreshments were served free but the service could have been more efficient. WRITE The African Meadows of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Ia. AMUSEMENTS. The attendance at the mirror theatre has been very good all week considering the cold weather and the cast that presented Monte Coristo was a good one and the audiences showed their appreciation by the hearty applause that they gave theators. "Old Louisiana" is the bill for tonight and to-morrow night, there will be a matinee tomorrow at 2:30 P. M., admission 10 cents, the prices for every eve, performances are 10, 20 and 30 cents. This has been the opening week at the Auditorium and on Monday night the boxes had the appearance of a theatre, where a grand opera was being proposed one of the best Vandeville show that has yet been beer is being presented there this week. Come and be made happy yourself. The mutual Perfecting Association, 312 West Seventh street, will give 25 per cent of all orders for piano tuning and perfecting musical instruments, for 30 days. Address manager, 312 West Seventh street. (Montana Iowa State Bystander.) Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples, our prices are the lowest GENTS GOODS. Gents fine kid gloves, lined and unlined, plain and fancy colors. 50c Real kid mittens, wool lined, congress wrist. . . . . . . . . . . . 50c The swellest kid glove in Des Moines for. . . . . . . . . . . . $1 00 A big line of working men's gloves and mittens, lined and unlined, including our popular line of mule skin goods, the greatest wearers on earth. . . . . . . . . . . . 25c FROM FRANKELS The Co. Retail Store out Street. and retail $2.75 per ton and from 405 Marquardt Block. Prompt Delivery. THE ELITE Restaurant, 314 W. Third street. Best 150 meal in the city. A trial will convince you. E. G. McAFEE Prop. WAITER'S COLUMN. "How much do you get for a tip, as a rule?" "The waiter's eyes sparkled; he rubbed his hands together and replied: "Well, sir, we generally get at least sixpence, but sometimes nice, genteel, prosperous-looking gents like you give us a bob." "Then what did this fellow do but put on his hat and say: "Thanks, I merely wanted to know how much I was going to save by not giving you anything?"—Londo Tit Biss. Well gentlemen owing to the excitement of the past two weeks, you all realize that a waiter-politician is always in demand. I have not had the opportunity to look after my newspaper work as I desired, but as I draw no salary for this, (it is only practice) I can work as "Dad" ittibs works—"just when ever I feel like it"—Now, may be gentlemen "Dad" don't like for me to be after him so much, so I believe I will have to go up to the Savery and pick on some one there. I have looked over the field and picked out "Judge" Straighter. Now, the "Judge" will not be very well pleased to see this, but if he takes it cool I'll not bother him, but if he does not—I am afraid he will have to leave that "little" book home some day and hunt me up, woe be unto him. I again appeal to you waiters to help me out in this column. Address Amo U, Bystander. Mr. Doug Miller, head waiter of the Savery, has been confined at his home this week. He is getting along nicely now and will soon be at his post. Our "Jack" Rogers of the Kirkwood acted as one of the clerks of the election. Mr. Roy Watts, formerly of the Savery Cafe, is now in Council Bluffs. Richard Buford of the Rock Island has quit and gone to Davenport. The snow the past week causes the boys to wonder what they did with last summer's wages. Those who have worked for Mr. Jordan, formerly of the Palmer House in Chicago, were compelled to think and speak of him. Mr. Shelby and his estimable wife are contemplating on leaving our city in the spring. We are always sorry to loose such good citizens and trust before the time comes they shall have changed their minds. Of all of the cities in the West; Des Moines is the best. Mr. I. E. Williamson, one of our old waiters, is manager of the Enterprise Investment Company. The C. G. W. contemplates putting another train on between Des Moines and Kansas City. We are expecting to see them put another dining car on, if so some of our boys will get work. Say boys how about a Reading Room for this winter? You know it is going to be aawful cold and the nights are going to be, oh, so long. Suppose by common consent you appoint headwaiters Wilson and Miller to call the boys (waiters, cooks and porters) to greather and talk the matter over. I belleve it can be made a success. You get a room and Amo U will attend to reading matter, and some of our good ladies will assist in furnishing it. You can give two or three entertainments this winter and pay what expenses you have. Mr. John Rogers of the K/Z wood expects to take a civil service examination soon. We trust he will be successful and get a high percentage. The waiters were loyal on election day and showed their colors. They seem to have a "dark way" (A. Smith) of showing them, but they are always there. Mr. C. C. Lewis, formerly of the Burnett in Cincinnati, is now head-writer at the Albany Hotel in Denver, Colo. L. A. Walker, late headwaiter of the Hotel Kaaterskill, Catskill Mountains, N. Y., will soon be in charge of the dining room of the Hotel Royal Pomciana, Palm Reach, Fla., this winter. The waiters at the Clarendon Hotel Memphis, Tenn., went on a strike recently because the head-waiter would not reinstate a discharged waiter. The striking crew was replaced by a new one with little inconvenience to the hotel—Hotel World. The colored hotel waiters of Columbus, O. have organized and incorporated a club for the purpose of which is social entertainment and intellectual improvement. Des Moines waiters, go thou and do like wise. Mr. Robert Martin, formerly of Omaha, has accepted a position at the Kirkwood. Boys look out for N. V. Waugh. He is getting ready to fool you, at least it looks that way. Mr. Jno. W. Thompson is expected in the city soon. He will again work for Mr. Geo. Wilson of the Kirkwood. He is now in Detroit, Mich. Mr. Henry Sheely, the popular second of the Savery has charge of the "boys" this week, during the absence of Mr. Miller. The waiters of the Kirkwood are looking forward to the completions of their new individual lockers, coat room and shower-bath. Boys that will be nice, you must show your appreciation by using the same, especially the bath part. Mr. Theodore Williams is now running regular on the Great Western. Mr. Lilman Shearp will spend two days in Omaha during his lay off this month. Mr. Clarence Arthur will take his run for him. Mr. Horace H. Lewis is getting a crew together to go to Idaho to take charge of a new hotel. We wish them well in their wristen home. Subscribe for the Bystander before you go. Mose Fachay and Mr. Harris will leave for Kansas City next week. The Kirkwood waiters felt very proud of their fellow waiter M. Jackson at the entertainment given at Webster's hall last Tuesday evening. Mr. Oliver who has been working at the Savery has gone to Kansas City. Mr. Jesse Reed late with the Rock Island is now at the Savery Cafe. Let more waiters subscribe for the Bystander and stop borrowing your friend's paper to read the waiter's column. GONE TO OKLAHOMA. Sometime ago we mention about one of our successful colored farmers from southern Iowa to move to Oklahoma. On last Satur lay evching the neighbors, both white and colored in the vicinity of Gravity met at the beautiful home of Samuel Shackelford and tendered them the last party and farewell, a large number were present, Editor John L. Thompson and wife were urged to be present but owing to business they could not attend which they regrett very much. A lovely time is reported and the family will spend the winter in Oklahoma, their oldest son will remain in Simpson College. BURLINGTON ROUTE To all western points and the Pacific coast, embodies the very acme of comfort, speed add scenic splendor. Two through trains leave Des Moines every week day. Tourist sleeping cars run every Monday and Thursday. For full particulars, address F. L. Ganaway, City Passenger Agent, Burlington Route, 400 Locust St, Des Moines, IA. The Iowa STATE BY-TANDER will be on sale at A. F. Tervalon's oligar store, 2826 State street, Chicago. CHINESE DRIED OYSTERS Said to Be Very Good as Cooked by Chinamen. "A few years ago," said a New Orleans Bohemian, "I dropped in to see my friend Lee Yip, who keeps what he calls a 'glocely stol,' which is as near as he can come to grocery store. He gave me an excellent cigar and presently he said: 'You like dye dystel?' What in the name of Conclusus is 'dystel' I asked before I realised that he was talking about dried oysters, 'Come!' I show, he replied; and opening the lid of a big box, he took out a handful of what looked exactly oysters carved in mahogany. They were not shriveled and warped, like other dried foods, but were as plump and symmetrical as any well-conditioned bivalve fresh from the deep sea. The only difference was that they were dark brown in color and as hard as bricks. When Lee Yip tossed them back into the box, the oysters like a handful of marbles. Of course, I was greatly surprised, and before I left I took pains to find out all about them. The oysters are caught and prepared at the big native shrimperies on the other side of the lake. The process is a trade secret, but as nearly as I could gather from Lee they are spread on the tops of large sheds and exposed to the sun for several weeks. What prevents decomposition I do not know, for they come out of the operation as sweet and brown as nuts. Last night I tried some by special invitation in the backroom of a laundry run by another Mongolian friend of mine. They were brought in in a bowl and formed a sort of stew or saute, which was really delicious. The oysters themselves were firm but exceedingly tender, and had a peculiar peppery flavor, differing from nothing else I ever tasted. The Chinaman who did the cooking told me he had simply bolled the dried oysters in water and added a small strip of pork and 'seasoning.' When I tried to probe into the seasoning feature he suddenly lost command of English, so there. I suspect, the secret resides. I am told that the local colony consumes many barrels of these oysters every month and that large quantities of them are sold in San Francisco and New York—New Orleans Times-Democrat. PEWTER THE RAGE. If you ever received a bonbonniere, a tray, an ash receiver, a mug or a plate in pewter for a gift, consider yourself unusually blessed. Pewter is the rage in Paris, just now, and every conceivable knick-knack that has ever been made up in silver has now been reproduced in pewter. "The most desirable pieces are modeled to show the fleur-de-lis of the Bourbons or the graceful wreaths and hanging baskets of flowers trimmed with the double Le of Louis Quinze. A French correspondent writes that in France this rage for pewter is little short of madness, that fashionable women are hanging the side walls of their dining rooms with all sorts of rare and beautiful pewter mugs and with shelves decorated with old pewter plates. There is also a great fad for figures in pewter, modeled from life or the antique, and at the last Paris Salon a pewter figure, known as "The Creole," created a profound sensation. The figure was modeled from life, and was a charmingly sympathetic bit. Since this figure appeared a number of titled women have been modeled in pewter. The results have been very satisfactory, the materialis is soft and pliable, the soft grayness adding wonderfully to the artistic results. To keep pewter clean it should be rubbed with chamois once in two or three weeks. Russell Sage as a Farmer. Russell Sage as a Farmer. A handsome but simple frame house at Lawrence, Long Island, surrounded by five some acres of land, is the quiet retreat where the tired Wall street magnate, Russell Sage, has enjoyed his summers for many years. Here he is a typical Long Island farmer in old clothes and straw hat. Many a man farming for a bare living could gain information in his own business from Russell Sage. He has no use for orchids, and costly fads, but he watches the development of every field within a radius of many miles about his country home. In the stable are half a dozen horses, raised and broken to harness by the great financier, and he shows the delight of a boy in hitching them up and driving over the country roads. There are a goodly number of domestic pets. It may be said that there are two Russell Sages, one the financier familiar to New York, the other the man of leisure in his country home. BURLINGTON ROUTE Will run special Homeseekers excursions to Nebraskas most fertile farming lands, and Colorado's garden spots on Nov. 6th, and 20th, December 4th and 18th. If you want an ideal home and productive farm, go on one of these popular excursions. For particulars, address F. L. Gannaway, City Passen ger Agent, Burlington Route, 400 Locust street, Des Moines, Ia. No.22. GLASQASON WOOLEN MILLS CO. WORLD'S LARGEST TAILOR. 55 Stores in America, 16 Stores in Europe. Seller and Oversees to Order No More $15 No Loss FROM MILLS TO MAN DIRECT. 710 Walnut Street, Den Moines, In. Open Evenings until 9 o'clock. BURLINGTON MOUTE Affords you a most enjoyable trip to California in the shortest as well as the quickest possible manner. It is peaceless in its accommodations and high class service from Des Moines. Tourist cars run every Monday and Thursday, affording luxurious comfort at small expense. For particulars address F. L. Gannaway, City Passenger agent Bur, lington Route, 400 Loust St, Des Moines, Ia. SOME CIANT TREES. From 80 to 300 Felt in Diameter and More than 250 Felt Tack More than 350 Feet Talk. I would like to draw attention to a bunch of immense trees in the mountains fifteen to twenty miles from my place, near Latourell, 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 girdled 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 more sticks against those giants. I honestly believe that those giants will girdle 60 to 80 feet around near the base, and that they are 350 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, in my mind, somewhere near the north line of the National park, but it is doubtful that they are in it. There are two species of the giant trees. One species has a yellow limb 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? Changa 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. GTON ROU NERVOUS WEAKNESS CURED. 'EAKNESS VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is VIRTUMA is a friendly treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPOTENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, taking for success and happiness in business professional and married life. $2 a package or for $3. Ask your drug, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Retail and wholesale by J. T. Harbutt Baber Goods, name what you want. olesale by J. Ir. Full what you ~ ; i Spm eS sips tame smasnimstashatn\ Wiese aa) i Saal " ond, 1 Tae, Wp lte NRA lowg State Bystander, Lots of people who are TRclined ne Go goed keep putting it, off until to Tt ts claimed in Denver that $1,000; (000 were wagered.in that city om the esalt of the Presidential election: ‘A minister shakes your hand anda Jawyer pulls your leg, ‘bat a politician ‘will sbake your hand one miauie and pall your leg the next, oper. money is at's premium at Neme. Miners find It more convenient than gold and pay as much as 2 per ‘enat in excess of ite face value for it, Buaday laws are strictly enforced In Wonolulu. Not only are all saloon ‘end bars kept tightly closed and store forbidden to sell, but anyone who at- tempts to play ball or indulge in any ‘ther sport on Sunday is carried be- fore a magistrate to pay a fine or go to fall Sweden 1s suffering from the effects fs boom in manufacturing which has drawn thousands of the country people to the larger towns'and caused Roum rents to advancé’20 to 30 per cent. Many of the manufacturers have fmvested beyond their capital and are to distress. Money {a very scarce and "= cali ba taneubaneh: ‘Train robberies have become #0 fre- quent in the west that one railroad, the Oregon railroad and Navigation eompany, regards an investment in Bloodhounds advisable A litter of the ‘puppies has been distributed ‘among the agents along the line, with Anstruetions to rear them for the sole purpose of man catching. ‘Microbe light 1s the latest Paris in- yention. A French ehem‘st, Raphael Dubois, has found a way of nourish- 4ng phosphorescent animalcules in glans vessels, which soon emit a light about as bright as the moon. He ex- pects to Increase its Intensity and be- eves that its being entirely free from heat will give it a scientific value. ‘New Zealand scems to be prosperous. ‘The revenue for the year shows a rec- ord surplus equal to more than $3,000,- 00 over expenditure. The public debt of the colony stands at £47,000,090 9228,715,000) and the financial state- went proposes that parliament should euthorize another £1,000,000 ($4,866,- 000) loan to be expended chiefly in the extension of railways. The loan will no doubt be authorized. ‘Two of the old cannon which the aglish took trom the French in 1745 ‘and threw into the harbor of Louls- Bourg have been brought to Toronto. ‘They are among a number recently fiahed out of Loulsbourg harbor and have Deen purchased by the govern- ment, The cannon have been lying ‘at the bottom of the sea for 150 years. Each cannon {s about nine feet long and weighs over 3,000 pounds, ‘A frm in Lyons, France, takes ad- rantage of the shortening of cotton ‘Hera under nonmercerized treatment ‘ey caustic potash to produce in silk webs certain peculiar and very rich embossed effects, The silken webs ‘have cotton threads at fixed distances, which, when the chemical solution is panel shrink, while the silk, keep- {ts original length, 1s gathered in taay folds In this way the most dl: ‘versified patterns ara produced, AKN o Fr - bot! reed snd y ons i b, fie asine: life, ourd a of pr rug d ealot . hi what; ‘When the Roosevelt train pulled ont ef Greeley, Col., a woman climbed on the back platform in order to give 8 home-made cake to the governor. The train gained such momentum that ‘when the time came for her to get eft she was obbliged to make a fiyinz trapeze leap for terra firma, She rolled ever a few times in the sand, got up and smiled at Roosevelt as he stood worried for her safety on the back platform. Then she waved hor hand- Kerchlef in evident delight, and be- eame the envy of a hundred womon who bad watched her acrobatic ef. fort. . R IT) at be 2 vrrive . Pay, hter: eldon me ft saving: terwot 1 rete has. to wo | mad <— Bankruptcy proceedings are ofter prolific in enmities, They are not, » @ rule,partioularly conducive to friend ahip between creditor and debtor, ever ff the relations between the person faterested have been amicxble. Som: @ankraptcies are fraudulent, no doubt vet in many cases genuine misfortun fa the cause, and the tusolvency in solves no dishonor. The Philadelpht Resord describes a scone at the Alin; ef-s petition In bankruptcy, One 0 the credittors was'the debtor when th papers wore filed. Both were Quaker: ‘There goes thy inoney, brother,” sal: ‘the debtor, “Yes,” responded th ereditor, “but I know that thee woul: pay me If thee could.” Then the tw men shook hands. It {s a pleasant pic ‘tare to hang beside many sketche ‘ail Semel. IND | iibur ¢ LL bas fai misaio | ro aie ug the: a the ( Britalt the yer e histe Paris, © Septem | lyn ) year b $17.0 nell of ras he eto t mly thi grime ae ef 2 ma ahs totat cast ct the Pan-Americs: ‘expouttion to be held ta Buffalo nex year is estimated at $10,000,000, an: John N. Scatcherd, who is chafrma of the executive committes, says the ‘the resources now in sight amount t bout $6,009,000. Progress on the wor ot constriction is proceeding rapidt early 5,000 werkmen now being ew ployed. ‘The “midway” st the expos! (tion will cost $3,000,000. ‘The expos’ ‘don grounds will be half s mile wid and A mile and 0 quarter jong, ao ‘will ‘comprise 260 acres, It will ope. Piey 1, 19801. al ire | FOUND) HIDDEN JEWELRE. Oifanwe Woman Uneurthe Stolen Rings A ta Garden, Zottumws, Nov. 14—A prominent uth Ottumwa woman, while dig lok fn her garden, unearthed ant , jJeweled'nnd plain gold rings. $ is no doubt the climax ry ile has remalned Un eee the past six months, Early feet dune the jewelry store of Field on. Main street waa robbed of geveral hundred dollars’ worth» of Jewelry, ‘consisting mostly of Anger Tinga of various yalues, ‘The son of ‘well known South Ottumwa man, who had been accustomed to staying ‘round the store, was accused of the fobbery. ‘The matter at the time es- eaped publication, and as the boy's father ‘refunded part of the stolen jewelry and made good the balance tn money, Mr, Field decided to re frain from prosecuting the youth. In all probability the boy buried the yest in the garden, amd has since been ao frightened with the conse- quences of his act that he hes been Sfraid and ashamed to disclose the hiding place of the property. BAD Fink AT MT. AYR Ee ONE ne a eee Ue RY ae Pe BLL Be Property Vrstroyed. Mt. Ayr, Nov. 15.—A disastrous con- Aagration’ occurred here yesterday, resulting in the total destruction of the Mt. Ayr bank and the A. E. Hol- den Cosh store, a net loss of | at Teast $40,000. It is understood the loss is only partially covered by in- surance. The fire started from a fur- nace beneath the Holden Cash store. The flames ate their way upward with wonderful rapidity, and it was but a short time until the eatire store was in flames. Adjoining the store was Allen Bros.’ bank, in which Sen- ator Allen is interested, and it went up in smoke. The bank officials suc- ceeded in saving the funda and boos belonging to the bank as well ae the valuable papers, but there was noth- ing whatever saved of the stock of the dry good store, Boor 18 FOUND GUILTY. Convicted on the Charge of Assault With Intent to Commit Marder. Waterloo, Nov. 14.—In the case of the state vs. Jerome W. Hoot a ver- dict was rendered finding the defend. ‘ant guilty of assault with intent to commit murder. He was charged with attempting to kill his wife by means of an infernal machine, sent to her by express. The defense of- fered little evidence in comparison with that offered by the state. About the only line pursued was to show that the same party who wrote the letter and addressed the express package could not have written other documenta which were -proved ‘to have been inscribed by Hoot. The ar- gumente presented by the attorneve were listened to by a court room full of spectators, including a large num- ber of ladies. AN eae on ae ee) ke Waterloo, Nov, 14.—A vecaliar fea- ture of the mulet law bas ‘been brought to light by Evangelist Whar- ton, who has had charge of the union meetings here for several weeks. As fone of the features of the work, he decided to make a visit to the fifteen grog shops of the city and conduct Gospel services, He selected a chorus Of his best songsters and started on his singular mission, but struck a snag at the first saloon he entered, where he was informed by the pro- Prietor that he could not dispense Sweet strains. His audience was not averse to music, but the law under which he waa operating a whistle- molstening establishment provided that singing should not be allowed. Both the preacher and the followers were inclined to take the matter as 2 joke until a copy of the law was Produced, which plainly stated that ho singing should be allowed within the walle of a mulet saloon, tape Taken to Recover Funds. Towa City, Nov. 15—The meeting of the rural school directors ut Towa Gity discussed the condition of the county school fund at some length Tt wae decided to appoint a com: mittee to consult an attorney and take steps to recover the amount of money altered by “County: Superin tendent Whiting to have been over- drawn by the fown City school dis trict from 1874 to 1888. Superintend. ent Whiting’s minimum estimate of this sum is $39,000. ‘Three-fourths of this, he says, was taken from the rural schools, being raised by the county tax. ‘The other fourth was taken from the state at large, being from the county's share of the state school fund. 1 PG ary ear Eee Waterloo, Nov. 14.—A ccpy of .an order issued by the state board of control releasing Rev. George E. Seott from the hospital for the in- sane at Independence, has been re- ceived by the clerk of the district court, ‘Two years ago Scott was pam tor of the First M. E. church and eloped with Daisy Dorlan, a young and pretty member of his flock. The sair were arrested at LaPorte, Ind., and Scott was indicted on the charge nf weduction. The indictment still stands and it in expected Scott will how be rearrested and prosecuted. The prosecuting attorney has an- nounced he will investigate. Fatal Ageident at Manson. Manson, Nov. 12.—Mollic Aden, a Aomestic ‘at the Bianden farm, wan thrown frome loaded wagon, which ‘oaned over her head and chest, kill- ing her instantly. amber Firm Quits Dubaque, Dabuque, Nov. 13.—It is announced that the Knapp & Stout Lumber Co. will give up itn yards here and con- ‘entrate its whole business in * fouia, ‘The company is the largent sné oldest lumber firm in’ the Mix isaippi valley. Tt has been it busi- seas, in Dubuque for nearly itty sears. Toat ae Arm. Mason City, Nov. 13-—Gordon Cul- ‘er, chief clerk for Robert Braden, ‘uperintendent of the Northwesteri oad here, accidentally shot hia right rm off while hunting at Worthing- ans. tans” STARTLING ERROR FOUND Titus Amendment Extends Terms oti bole Ontidarn: struction of the language of the bi- ennial election amendment to the ‘constitution of Towa which seems to have Leen adopted by the people at ‘the election November 6, will. con- tinue in offize for another year every ‘official whose successor was. elected ‘At that election. It will affect about 2,000 township, county and state off- ‘clals. It will at teast'cut off one-halt ‘of the tenure of office of all theso 2,000, for they cannot take their seats ‘until 1902, if then, And these are bus ‘a few of the amazing remults of’ an ‘astounding defect in the amendment. “According to ita language Secretary ‘of State Dobson, ‘Treasurer of State Herriott and Attorney General. Rem- ‘ey are entitled to another year ten- ure of office; and ft is doubtful if Bee- retary of State-Hlect Martin, Treae- urer of, State-Flect Gilbertson. and Attorney-General-Elect Mullan will be entitled to thelr offices without an- ‘other election. And this. statement ‘applies not only to the three atatio otficers. mentioned, but to the 2,000 township and county officials whose ‘successors the people voted for at the recent election. ‘The biennial election ‘amendment provides as follows: “The terma of office ot the judges of the supreme court which would otherwise explre in odd numbered years and all other elective state, Zounty and townshin officers whoss ‘terms of office would otherwise ex- pire in the year 1901, arid members [bf the general assembly whose auc- ‘cessora would otherwise be choren inthe year 1903, are hereby ‘extended one year and until. thelr successors are elected and qualified.” ‘This mens that all state, county ‘and township officers whose term e- pire in 1901 ball serve for an addi- tional year. Every officer, almost, for whose successor the people voted At the recent election, goes out of office the first Monday In January and his successor goes in en that fay, under the Inw as it stands, The firat Monday in January of the com- ing year is January. 7. Therefore, every ofMfeer now incumbent, will, un- der thé biennial election amendment, remain in office for another year, while the men who were elected on November 6 to succeed them, munt wait for a year before taking their offices. Returaa from eighty-five counties on the constitutional convention suestion give a total of 150.150 fn favor of the convention and 148.740 against. Returns from eiehty-eleht countien on the Titus amendment for Wiennial elections give a total of 161.760 In_ favor of it and 134.747 against. ‘This indicates that the last pronosition has carried by considera. Mo majority and that the convention will he carried by a moll margin, Des Moines, Nov. 1%—Attorn-y General Remley hes issued a lenethy oninion an the effect of the Titty Biennial elections amendment, ho'd- ing, in brief, that the manifest in- tention of the legislature must gov- ern and that the terms of office of those officers elected in 1698 are not in any manner affected by the conati- tutional amendment. Further @*. he holds that it is the terms of omce of all those officers who were elected at the general election in November, 1800, that are extended for one year. On both legal and ethical grounds, Attorney General Remley maintains the officers whose terms exvire the first Monday in: January, 1901, mut step down and out at this time.’ He characterizes it as morally wrong for ‘any man who has filled the full term Of his office to attempt to defeat tho will of the people, merely by force ‘of what is at best a technical error. Attorney General Remley’s opinion in addressed to J. J. Crossley of Win- terset, Madison county, where the question was first formally raised ua to an error in the amendment, ‘THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. By the Governor—A Proclamation. ‘The most remarkable century in the flight of time closes with the most happy and prosperous year in the history of our nation and our state. Very abundant has been the yield from our lands, great has been the product of our mines, the output of our factories, and the increase of our herds. Our people have advanced in all that pertains to material pror- perity, and have become wiser and better as the years have come and gone; and nowy at the close of Anno Domini nineteen hundred, standing at this elevation, with increased hope and yet loftier aspiration, it is but reasonable that a great and apprecia- tive people tarry tor a day to give thanks to the Great Giver of all that is good and the Preserver of all that is best. T therefore recommend that on ‘Thursday, November 28, the people of the ebibmonwealth of Iowa assemble, ‘as far as shall be convenient, in theit Places of worship, and there, and in ‘their homes, render grateful praise ‘and thanksgiving to Almighty Gol for blessings past and present, and make devout supplication for a con- tintation of that providential guid- ‘ance which has made us already great and on which we must rely for yet grander achievement, In testimony whereof, T have here- unto set my hand and ‘caused to oe affixed the great seal of the state ot Towa, thin twelfth day of November, in{the year of our Lord one thous: ‘and nine hundred, of the independ. nea OE the Lnltad AAgeN the one hundred and twenty-fifth, and of the state of lowe the fifty-tourth. (Seal) Leslie ME. haw. By the Governor: G. LE Dotson: Secretasy of State. “Alleged Forger (nptared. Ottumwa, Nov. 12,—After an excit. ing chase of. nearly a mile Chief of Polfce. Williams and Officers Black and Schwart captured = man who gave his name as Emil 0. Jennett, whose home is near Bonavarte, and who is charged with having passed two forged checks. Jennett went into the business houses and after making small purchases tendered cheek In payment and which was ao- cepted, while the difference was giv- en him in money. Shortly afterwards the checks were found to be worth- less, and the case was put into the hands of the police, with the above re- sult, NEWS IN —o Fee gaat, London, Noy. 15—The Globe this afternoon publishes s letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been traveling to Peking vio the Trans- Siberian railroad, He describes, un- der date of September 6, what he saw” in the Amur river, His accounts sur- Pige jn horror thove previously, pub- lished. ‘The scenes I have witnessed dur- ing the thres’days xince the steamer left’ Blagovetcliensk,” he edys, * are horrible beyond the power of | de, scription, it is the closing tableau Of a fearful tragedy. ‘Two thousand were deliberately drowned at Morxo, 2,000 at Rabe and 8,000 around Blag- oretchentk, a total of 12,000 corpses encumbering the river, among which were thousands of women and chil- dren, Navigation wos almost Impos- sible, Last week a boat had to plow ita way through a tangled and man- led mass of corpses lashed together by their. long hair. The banks were Hterally covered with corpses. Tn the curves of the stream were dark, putrid, smelling masses of human flesh and bone, surging and swaying in the steamer’s wake. ‘The captain vainly ordered full epzed ahead. The sight and amell will be ever with us. “Krom Blagovetchensk to Aigun, forty-five kilomtters, numerous. vil: lnges studded the bank, witha thriv- ing, industrious population of | over 100,000. ‘That of Aigun was 20,000. ‘No one will ever know the number of those who perished by shot, sword ‘and fire, Not a village is left. The silence of death was around us, The amoking ruins of Aigun were on the tient, with broken down, crumbling ee yr oA chattasad vooises houses.” OZARK EVENS THINGS OP. His, Present Winews Shows His Meat ‘Wolkht, Interwattonatty. London, Nov. 16—The serious ap- prehension with which the announce- ment was made of the fact that the czar was euftering from typhoid fever filled Europe, emphasizes how much the price of the world is believed to be dependent on him. But for the statement contained in the official bulletin that his malady wastaking a thordoughly favorable course, the news of his illness would have created nothing less than consternation. Tt js generally felt at the present crit- feal state of international affairs that even the temporary weakening of the influence of 60 favorable a factor in the maintenance of the world’s puace, justifies grave anxiety, especially a8 ‘the czar is regarded in Europe aa kind of counterpoise to Emperor Wil- liam, Public anxiety will, therefore, remain strained until the none too robust monarch recovers, In political circles any other issue! of his majes- ty's malady is regarded as nightmar. The London newspaners comment on ‘the czar’s illness with peculiar sym- pathy.. The Times remarks it bas ‘lways been believed in Fugland that the czar “reciprocated nutional sentiment toward the cherished veal regard and reverence for our beloved, queen.” MILLIONS MAWiGWAaen. Ehe Chinese North’: of. Pekia\ Ase: ts Imminent Drager. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 13.—Orientai advices received by steamer report that 6,000.00 Chinese north of Pe- king are in danger of starving, their crops having been a total failure. One million Picuis of tribute rice were to be dispatched from Shanghai and istributed among these hungry hordes from Tien Tain and Pek'ng, but the military officers at Shanghai rave orders that no rice should be sent out of central China, There is grave danger that an im- mense swarm of robbers will be sent out of the famine district, as usually happens. EARLY DATE LOOKED FoR. Conger Exprets Negotiations Wilt be ‘Taken Up Keon. Peking, Nov, 15.—A protracted con- ference of foreign ministers was held yesterday. at the conclusion of which there was @ general expression of gratification at the progress made toward reaching o settlement. Min- ister Conger sald he was encouraged to believe the propositions would be ready to be submitted to the Chinese plenipotentiaries at an earller date than he had heretofore hoped. Reliable information from Nvi Chwang indicates a disturbed condi- tion of affairs there. ‘Guleces gucanine aemieen® Chicago, Nov. 16.—Louis Housman, manager of Tattersalls, secured the signature of Corbett to articles of agreement calling for a six-round bout between the ex-champion aud Jeffries, the present champion. They will meet at Tattersall, Chicago, Jan- uary 15th, for $0 per cent of the gate receipts. the winner to take 75 per cent and the lover 25 per cent. Fifty tond Reonvered at Hone Kone, Hong Kong, Nov. 15.—The bodies of twenty-two persons who, were killed .by: the collapse of Houres on tha shore in the typhoon which struck Hong Kong last Fridiy night havo been Féebvered. More than fifty Dodies have been taken from the Lorhor, andthe remainé of many victims are still to be found. ‘The damage to property and crops Is enormous." Deiawares Plarality. Wilmington, Del., Nov, 15.—The of ficial vote of Delaware gives MeKin- ley, 22,457, and Bryan 19,858, McKin. Jey's plurality fs 3601. Fonr years ‘ago the plurality for McKinley was 2.716. The prohibition ticket received 527 votes and the social democratic, at. Rogiand'’s Racrmens War Fand. London, Nov. 14—Parliament will assemble ‘on December 3 to vote the expenses of the war in South Africa. which are now exnected to amotmt to fully £100,000,000. Before Christ- max an adjournment will be taken ‘util the-end of Janvary: aa ae 4 — ‘LARGE OUTLAY ON NAVY, Fated tenbylpeiniaboat a hea ahs #40 hee aes ENT By Big Mzpradivares, Washington Nove ihe report of ‘Admiral Bradtord, chief of the naval bureau of equipment, records unpre- codently large expenditures by erult- {ng abive during tho last fecal: year and the disbursement of | lurgs amounts for freight involved in the transportation of stores. ; Admiral Bradford sete forth the de- sirability of a naval station ct Guom, emphasizing the iioportance of the island as @ naval base, He also re- counts rapid improvement in equlj- ment work at the Cavite naval station and the cold storage house al Juyo- Pago on the i#land of Tutuila, Samoa. ‘A new floating dry d ek for, the pa- val station at Algiers, Lan. In 10 be completed by May, 130%. ‘The amount of coal being conxumed by the navy is ing-easiny year by year and its cost last sear averamed nearly $2 a ton mo>9 thah during the fiscal year of 1898. Adma.ral Hradford again renews bls recommendations for new naval coaling depots. ‘The bureau recommends the inxtallation of the Marconi system of witelers telegraphy on board several ahipx of the navy provided it caa be done at a reasonable cost, ‘The report says that the survey made by the United States steamer, Nero, for a trans-Pacific xubmarine telegraph cable between Honolulu and the Philippines was most suo- cessfully.accomplished and that « rat- ‘sfactory route for an all Amerivan cable to connect the Pacifiz with the outlying colonial poszersious of the United States in the Pacific. avd with China and Japan, bas been discovered, thoroughly explored, surveyed and mopned. The bureau ia now ready to lay the eable at any time. , NO DISAGREEMENT OF PUWERS. United Btates Doon Not Odjeot’ to the Froposals a0 Far Made. * Washinigton, Noy. 16:—The rather severe criticisms of the English press upon the attitude of the United States government “relative to the Uhinese complications, based upon the advices of their American correspon- dents, have naturally attracted a good ‘deal of attention here. With ‘a view to ascertaining what basis there might. be for these eriticisms inguiry has been made in an authori- tative’ quarter, with the following result: ‘The comments are founded on o complete ‘misunderstanding. 80 fac from the government interposing any obstacles to an agreement among the powers at Peking, Minister Conger has been instructed frequently and in urgent terms to do everything pos- sible to bring about a speedy agree- ment with the pawers in demanding severe punishment of the princinal wrong-doers, indemnity for the past and security for the future. Tt does not, however. at this distance, pre- ime to decide who are most guilty, ext the punishment must he infileted ft each narticular case with rentences if possible of execution. These mat- ters are left to the negotiators on the spot. It is to be presumed that they will not exact reparation, either personal of necunfary, which would be beyond the power of China to carry out, Witt EareN eu Paninas Emperor, Kwang, Oa nad Kmprow Dow: larer No Deelde. Tien Tein, Nov. 15.—It is reported that an imperial edict has been issued ‘announcing that Emperor Kwang Su and the empress dowager will return to Peking. A Russian column which left “here November 4 returned No- vember 9, having: engaged the Chi- nese. At Hei Tsang the Russians fought 2,000 Chinese troops. diepersing them and’ killing 200, ‘The ‘Russiase had no casualt'en. ‘The population of the city of Tien ‘Tsin now reachen 600.000 Chinese, and the allfer are strengthening the garri- son against possible surprise. It is sunnosed that two-thirds of the in- habjtants are Boxers. 3M KENTUCKY, Canvass of the Voto Will be Watched Closely by Hoth Parties, Frankfort, Kys, Nov. 14.—The state election board will meet December 3 to canvass the returna and officially declare the result of the election in this state. While the republicans have formally conceded :the election of J. C. W. Beckham as governor, and announced. that there would be no contest, both republicans and demo- erate will be represented by counsel at the canvass of the vote. Every phase of the election will be clorely ‘watched by both sides, os matters may arise which will have a direct bearing on the contests for congress. men in two districts—the Third and the Ninth, Governor Reckham will be inaugu- rated December 11. WEKINLEY LIKES HIS CABINET. ‘Tells Members He Hopes Vhey Will Hemnin Another Pour Years. Washington, Nov. 15.—At the reeu- lar meeting of the cabinet President McKinley, discussing the recent elec- tions and’ their results, expressed the hope that every member of the cabl- net would remain in his officiat fam- fly during the next four years. He regarded the result of the electinn as an indorsement not only of his ‘own fdeas and policies, but also of the administration of every depart ment of the government. The presi- dents annunt message was discuseed at the meeting. McKinley's Neply to ryan. Washington, Nov. 10.—President McKinley yesterday’ answered Mr. Bryon’s message of congratulation fn the following dispatch: “Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C,,.Nov. 9—Hon, William J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.: I acknowledge with cordial thanks your message of con- gratulation and exteni you my good wishes. William McKinley.” Seah mipaines Cs dent reached Canton after Mr. Me- Kinley had started for Washington, ond was forwarded to him here. ENVOYS. LAY DOWN Teg Protlnainiary ‘Bests for Nopotdl ig neh ae ee? ee London, Nov. 13—Dy yn) | wiring 0 the ‘Titmey Sora anys: a om ag ‘Pressed by a comtadn deuirg gg: edy terminntion et Pree t fice! the Re envoys hay “ agreed to the following tnmgsany Presented In 0 conjoint sonia te subject to the approval of is ge overnments, will be rea Ching as the basis of a brane ee treaty. relay 5 Cihiun will erect a mosnteat iy Parou von Ketteler on ihe ag eee he Wan murdered; snd sent ay eS perial prince to Germany 4g ‘ 8a, apology. ar “She shall inflct the death pe upon eleven princes and often Feady named, and siepend prone examinations for five yearn where. outrages occurred, ‘ “inthe {ature a oftae taiog to prevent antoreiga mt Within their jurisdiction salt eke, missed and punished, (This nn ae Wication ‘of Minister Conger pe Per a states, corporations ad’ Vy aigdaata Be teuneM-yamen shall he Ished, and Ste functions vesten i's foreign minister. ‘Rational intercourse sat by i mitted with the emperor, as in feed comttlen e “The forts at Taku and other to ‘on the coast of Chi-Li shall be sorte and the Importntion of arse wea war material protibited, “Permanent legation guard shal be maintained and. also. suerte op communication ‘between Pelt act the sea. “Imperial proclamations shall be posted for two vearn throughout tke Empire sunpressing Boxers “The indemnity is to include com- pensation for Chinese who ruffered through being employed by foreign: ers, but not compensation for native Chrietinns. “The words ‘missionary’ and ‘Chris- tians’ do not occur in the note,” Commenting on what it calls Mr, Conger's “excellent xugzestion for the diemiseal of offciale nermitting anti-foreign outrages,” the Times re- marks that “this is the only consider. able addition to the terma which the minixters pronosed to eubaat ve China ast month," Tt says that. “American sense of Justice and humanity ts ton strong and American intelligencs ton keen to be deluded by the nitifnl Chinese Ament neningt th evecution of the Pao Ting Fu officials.” MOROCCO REFUSES TO PAY, Warship to be font to Press Uncle tam’ Claim for Inderanity. 4 Washington, Nov, 15—The govern- ment. of Morocco has again declined to meet the demands of the Unite States for the payment of an indem: ‘nity on account of the killing by a mob of Marcis Escagin, « naturalize American citizen. ‘The last reque was made by United States Cons Gammerevand the Inte! deting 4 f tplosoots ‘accompanied is ‘an intimaticn oNits freedom from liability under the terms of the convention between Mo: Toceo and Spain. ‘The state department has come tc ‘the conclusion that the consul’s rep- sesentations will be more effectiss if he is supnorted morally by the presence in Moroccan waters of a United States warship. and it fs nrob: able that he will make his visit to Fez to again present the case as 2 passenger on a vessel 0 be selected by the navy depirtment for that nur- ‘pore, which will nroceed to the port nearest to the Moroccan capital. ‘WAM COST ENGLAND HKAVILY. Chancellor of Kxchrquer Intimates Bad ‘Eat WIL Have to he Inerens-¢. London, Nov. 15.—Sir Michael Hieks-Beach, chancellor of the ex- echequer, speaking in Bristol, sai¢ it would not be his privilege in the next budget to relieve the taxpayers. ‘He wished he could say that he wae not about to increase the huilget; but the government's expenditures had Been. enormons, especially in Chine and South Africa, He declared em- phatically, however, that the wealth Of the ‘Transvaal would have to bear ‘Part of the South African expenses. “Of course,” said Sir Michael, “we must not spoil the future of | the Transvaal by attempting to impose upon ft a greater burden than it can Fearonably bear. ‘That would, be cutting our.own throats... Therefore, the British taxpayers must necessar, fly bear n larger part of the costs of ‘the war.” ‘He also emphasized the fact that ‘the maintenance of e strong army and nary would involve ¢ further con- ‘siderable expenditure. Cat Their Heads OF Berlin, Nov. 4.—The Lokal Anzel- ger Zeitung publishes the following from its Shanghal correspondent: SThe natives from Wankow say that the empress beheaded number of telegraph officials who accented 3 ‘secret message from Emperor Kwang ‘Su to. Count, von Waldersee. inform- fng him that he (the emperor) was being kept a prisoner, and he was therefore unable to return to Pe King. They aleo say that other exe eutions occurred in connection with ‘the matter.” ReMi Ga aa Chicago, Nov. 14.—7e oe east figures show the popular, rote cast fat the recent election: | MoKinley’s ‘Plurality in republican states, 1454 Bio; Bryan's plurality. ia, democratio states, 614,120; McKinley's plurality over Bryan, 40.500. “Boers Wit Hard Rothaville, Nov. 10—There bas ‘been heavy fighting since November 6, resulting in the defest of tho Boers, who lost twenty-three killed. thirty. wounded ond one hundred taken prisoners. Seven of their guns fvere sino captured. The British lost three officers and four men Killed. Four Chinamen softer Deaths Peking, Nov. 10—Four leading of- ficials of Poo Ting Fu, » including Ting Yang, acting vieeroy of Pe Cot Li, and General Kusi Hing, were exe cuted November § under sentence Impoeed by the tribunal of allies. Revival services are being conducted at the A. M. E. church by Mrs. H. B. Myers Evangelist of Chicago. Bw. Bliagraman of the Baptist church preached the Conversion of Paul by request last Sunday night. Mrs. Julia Souball from Buxtontown is canvassing a book in our town by the name of The Close of the Nineteenth Century, we wish her much success. Quiet a number of people from Buxtontown were the guest of friends here last Sunday. What is the matter with the Big Four Club? A party should be on loot for Thanksgiving. Messas John Rhodes and Liaford Wills attended the party given at Colon last Friday night, but report a good time. Mr. John Toliver and wife, old settlers of Muchahinock have moved from Ft. Dodge to dwell with us again. Swane Quartets gave a grand concert at the Baptist church last Monday night. At the Bupress School Little daughter of Mr. Guys departed this life last Saturday evening, funeral was presected at the Baptist church last Monday afternoon by Rev. Bingaman. Mr. Guy extends his many thanks to the friends who administered so kindly to his family during the illness of his little daughter. William Lee, musician of the famous M. C. Band event to Des Moines last Monday to take examination in stationary Engineering. Geo. Roberts of this place has returned from Des Moines where he has been a student of Art under Mr. Stepp. Mr. Geo. H. Woodson was in Buxton last week on business Watch for date of M. C. Band concert for November, Messrs Wm. Thomas, E. A London and Lewis London soloist of theevening. What has become of the P. O N. B. club? It is time President Wright was gathering them in for Thanksgiving. News was somewhat scarce last week hence our silence. Mrs. Louisa Perkins entertained the Industrial Circle a couple of weeks ago, and while there the ladies nearly completed the quilting of their quilt which is quite handsome. Miss Ada Brickle arrived Saturday evening from Muffreesboro, Tenn., to spend the winter with her Aunt Mrs. Hattie Persons. If Des Moines has decided to take down her plumage and hang her harp on the willows and refuse to sing the Lord's songs in her once boasted place, Cedar Rapids will now step forth and claim the first place as the best choir in the State. Mrs. Thomas Sadler is visiting friends in Chicago. Mr. Frank Sadler met with quite a painful accident Monday morning while at his work in B. C. R. N. shops while moving a heavy steel wheel, it slipped and fell on his leg injuring his ankle, he was at once removed home where he is resting easy, we hope nothing serious will result and that may soon be able to be at his work again. Mesdames Fannie Hawkins and Mattie Wade went to Tredeo Tuesday on business. Sunday was quarterly meeting and in the absence of the Presiding Elder Rev. Bass was assisted in services by Rev. A. Ford and Geo. H. Wade. Mrs. Ford preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday night two weeks ago to a good sized audience, her discourse was quite effective. Rev. Holly was in the "Rapids" to cast his vote. Miss Ellis Lewis departed for her home in Corning, after spending a few days visiting with Mrs. Daisy Martin and Mrs. A. Ford. Harry Mareshall and wife, accompanied by the latter's sister passed through our city last week onroute from Dubuque to Belle, Plaine. ALBIA NEWS. Miss Eliza Brown returned to Clarinda on last Tuesday after a few weeks visit in Albia. Clarence Henry of Oskaloosa spent Sunday in our town the gaest of C. Thomas family. A reception was tendered Mr. and Mrs. O. Marshall at the A. M. E. church on last Tuesday evening by the citizens of Albia and their many friends from Hocking before they left for their new home in Denver, Colo. The committee consisting of Miss Cora Thomas, chairman, Mrs. Anna Jones, Mrs. E. F. Butler, Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Lulu Miller had decorated the church with cut flowers the picture of Wm. McKinley and the American flag, the table extended the full length of the church as the first table was seated, Miss Cora played all song and Rev Scary said grace and all were seated, after supper a few ten ts were given to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall both being members of he A. M. E. church for a number of years, also Mr. Marshall a member of the Odd Fellows and Mrs. Marshall a member of the Household. Rocking hand furnished the music throughout the evening. A few of our young people attended the cake walk in Hocking Saturday evening. CLINTON ITEMS. Master Harry son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Stepp is ill with dypheria. Rev. P. P. Taylor has returned to Monmouth, Ill., to resume his charge after a pleasant visit with his family and friends. We know of nothing nicer for Christmas present for your friend or sell than a years subscription to the Bystander. Mrs. A. M. Dayman was on the sick list week. T. W. Stepp arrived home last week in time to aid in increasing McKinley's ma jority in Iowa, Mr. Stepp has not been a home for sometime, his friends were therefore glad to see him, he reports having had success in his profession in the cities visited while away. The steward's tendered a complimentary entertainment, to Dr. F. J. Peterson and family on last Wednesday evening at Bethel church, a musical programme was rendered by the choir during the evening, refreshments were served and a fair sum realized which was given to the pastor. Owing to a misunderstanding the arrangements to observe Educational Day on Sunday was not carried out, however the event will take place on the 25th. Bethel church choir rendered a most delightful programme on Sunday night, they were able assisted by Mrs. H. S. Anderson and Miss Bun, We inadvertently omitted last week in our correspondence to mention that Miss Emma Sayles of this city who for sometime past has been holding a position in Dixon visited relatives and friends for a short time the week prior. We are informed that Miss Myrtle Hampton is confined to her home by illness, we hope nothing serious. Quarterly meeting will be held Sunday, Daymon's Orchestra played in Morrison and Albany last week, there date book shows there time about all taken for the balance of the month and they are meeting with great success. The stewardess, stewardess and trustee of the A. M. E. church meet on Monday to arrange for their Thanksgiving dinner. F. E. McNeil is in Chicago this week on business. The members of the Second Baptist church gave an entertainment at the church last Friday night. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Mr. Alfred Coalson is re-modeling the house he recently bought of the late Mr. H. Johnson. Mrs. Dora Smith Rice went to Burlington last Sunday to visit a short while with friends. Mrs. Wm. Doughless and sister Miss Maggie Adams of Chicago are visiting their father Mr. N. Adams. Mr. and M.s. J. W. Fidler's little daughter Ione May has been very sick with the croup. The Stewardess and young ladies of the A. M. E. church are making arrangements for Thanksgiving. Mr. J. Owens and daughter Miss Cora left last Saturday night for their future home in Omaha, Neor. FRASER Rev. J. Underwood taken his departure Tuesday for Des Moines also Roy. E. Roey made a flying trip to Des Moines on business. Mrs. Lula Floyd has again joined her husband in our city. Mr. Urish Coleman met with an accident Friday in the mines which has laid him off for a few days. The republicans here are preparing to join the torchlight procession in Boone on the 14th, for the first time Fraser ever went republican. Come again Mr. Bryant you are expected up the river to meet your votes going down. OUR TRIP We left here at 7:00 A. M. Monday morning a few minuets before '8:00 A. M. we were in Colfax and went to Mrs. W. R. Battle's boarding house for breakfast. She will soon open a much larger and more commodious house for her guests. Mrs. Battle has just returned from North Dakota, where she had been looking after her property, her son Leo Welker is at Grimlin attending college, he is a member of the foot ball team. Mr. Geo. Terrell and family who formerly lived here is now at Colfax and owns property there Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Banks who have lived there for eighteen years owns sever, all lots and are preparing to build houses on them, Mr. Banks who has been cooking at the Mason's House for several years is taking a much needed rest, they say the Bystancer is all right. The Misses Dongsi, Coleman and Dysert are attending the High School the latter is a niece of Mrs. Battle. The mice will soon be opened and a great many former residents will return. Mrs. J. H. Broddus is a new subscriber and as usual the Bystander will be a weekly visitor at the homes of the Messra L. Morris, Geo. Terrell, M. F. Banks and Mrs. Battle and several others have promised The Wilkins Store In The Bargain Basement. Wilkins Brothers' Bargain Basement is generally a big center of attraction—It's on account of the prices that people always can take the little extra time to visit the Basement. Now its prices like these: Wooden Clothes Pins, per doz ... 1c 50 foot Clothes Lines ... 3c 100 Towel Rollers ... 9c 100 Pipe Rolling pins, each ... 4c Enamel Tail Pot, 9 ibs ... 17 Tin Match Safes ... 4c Coat Hooks, dozen ... 10c Screw Drivers ... 5c Padlocks, for the coal house ... 9c Shelf Brackets, japaned, set ... 9c Hand scales, 12s, capacity ... 14c Iron Handled Mincing Knife ... 9c Vegetable Graters ... 3c Cake Spoons ... 4c Coffee Mills ... 23c Cake Turners ... 3c Tin Coffee Pot, 5-quart ... 8c Tin Coffee Pot, Dippers ... 8c Kerusee Oil Can, 1 gallon ... 12c Tall Quart Cup ... 13c Graduate Quart Measure ... 7c Copper Bottom Tea, Kettle, large ... 4c 9 Gallon Milk Cans ... 30c Metallic Plastic Wash Boiler ... 40c 100 Steel Plastic Pipes, each ... 17c Enamel Tail Pot, 9 ibs ... 17 14-inch Knail Spoon ... 8c Sugar Dish Dishes, per set ... 18c -or, each ... 9c Glass Creamer, large size ... 9c Glass Sugar Bowl ... 9c Glass Butter Dish ... 100 piece Dinner Set - a soft green decoration - very beautiful - $100 value-for ... $7.48 55-piece Dinner Set - English porcelain - worth $5.30 for ... $8.93 1-Table Towel per set ... 8c Cups and Sauce Pan, set ... 8c Large size $1.00 Bowl and pitcher ... 7c 1-Gallon Stone Jar ... 5c 1-Gallon Stone Milk Pan ... 5c 4-Gallon Jar ... 25c size 20c Champion Colanders 9c Quart Milk Cans 9c Gallon Milk Cans 17c Special Inducement in all kinds of Underwear, Blank Goods, Coats, Capes, Ladies' S Try WILKINS BROTHE all kinds of Underwear, Blankets, Hosiery, Heavy Dress Goods, Coats, Capes, Ladies' Suits and Jackets, and Shoes. Try WILKINS BROTHERS this week. to become subscribers. On arriving at Newton we went to the home of Mrs. Jason Green her son Fred who has been sick for sometime is improving the Misses Lottie and Eidora are at home, the former will spend the winter in Arizona. The families of the Messrs S. J. Fines, Ale Cunningham, D. Hudson, all read the Bytander. Mrs. D. B. Carpenter died very sad dently Friday Nov. 9th and was, buried the 11th from the Baptist church. Mrs. Carpenter had a paralytic stroke Wednesday a blood-vessel broke in the brain. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband and three children, Bertha, Stella and William, who are very thankful to their friends who helped them in the sickness and sympathize wish them in their berea- vement. AT REST. In memory of a brother Jordan S, Porter. An angel of the Heavenly Rest Came to our home one day, It broke our blessed home circle, then And took one link a way. Our oldest brother who has been His mother's pride and joy The one who brushed away her tears When he was but a boy. How oft, when but a little child, He'd find some task to do. And do it gladly so that tired Mother would get through. When older grown he still would seek To smooth her rugged away, And ease the cares that came to her Poor heart, from day to day. He always went to mother with His doubts and his fear, And she would always help him With a loving word of cheer. But he no more will soil her. His work is finished here. His words of loving sympathy Can no more calm her fear. Sleep brother, now and take your rest Your labors here are through. We will not mourn your absence, For you would not want us to For God saw best that you should go. O may his will be done. And as the chain is broken here, We'll join you, one by one. A Sister, Clara Porter LADIES DON'T WORRY "Dr. Le Dues Genuine French Female Regulator" is positively guaranteed and mailed by Kidd Drug Co., Eligin, lll., to remove and relieve pathological Monthly Stoppages. Female irregularities 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 $.50 Retail and wholesale of Murray Co., Des Moines. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. IF YOU WANT a good smoke or play a game of pool, why not go where can get the best cigars and tobacco in the city for the money. .....318 West Third Street.... YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED. W. P. LEWIS, Proprietor. OTTUMWA AT REST. 9 Gallon Milk Cans. 33c Metallic Bottom Wash Boiler. 40c 60 steel Paring Knives, each. 50 Enamel Tea Pot, 9 quart. 17c 14-inch Enamel Spoon. 8c Glass Sauce Dishas, per set. 18c —or, each. 2c Glass Creamer, large size. 9c Glass Sugar Bowl. 9c Glass Butter Dish. 9c 100 piece Dinner Set—a soft green green glove—very beautiful — $7.48 55-piece Dinner Set—English por- celain—worth $5.50—$3.92 7-inch Pitches, per set. 33c Cups and Saucers, per set. 33c Large size $1.00 Bowl and pitcher 70c 1-Gallon Stone Jar. 50 1 Gallon Stone Milk Pan. 50 4-Gallon Jar. 25c Wicker Clothes Basket. 19c Star Clothes Wringer. $1.39 Large Water Pitcher. 13c FLOWER POT CHAP inkets, Hosiery, Heavy Dress Suits and Jackets, and Shoes. RRS this week. THE MIRACULOUSCURES Have Already been Effected by the British Doctors at Rooms 204 & 205 Marquardt Blk. They are giving their Service Free for three Months to all Invalids who call Before Nov. 15th. 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 November 15th. 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 November 15th. The doctors treat all forms of disease and deformities, and guarantee a care 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, catarral 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 described real estate, situated in Polk county, N.J. Lot Sixty-2 (62) in J. F. Kennedy's second addition to Lake Park, being included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, N.J. The property is located on the second day of December 1878 to W. H. Boyle; that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned and held by the property owner. The depletion will expire, and a Treasurer's deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 24th day of October A. D. 1900. Born at St. Peter, PA. Boyed by Geo. Harnagel, his agent. Notice of Expiration of Right of Redemption. Notice of Expiration of Right of Redemption. McCaul, W. S. McCaul and Alfred Ednburgh. You are hereby notified. That the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, New York, is Lot Thirty-three (33) in T. M. Walker's addition to the City of Des Moines, Iowa, in 1876, and the seventh day of December 1876, 1876, that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned and held by Daniel W. Patton, and that the right of resale from such sale will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of the service. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 24th day of October A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton, by Geo. Harnagel, his agent. 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. Something Hold the Scoutner Posed to the Spok The moon was riding at the very seahill, says the Century, and it dizzed us to look up to it. Each one stood evenly within the circle of his own clear-cut shadow on the ground, at that moment of the moon's transit, and the bore was due, but it was a calm night, and it was three-quarters of an hour after our unaccustomed ears had caught the first far-distant, muttering undertone before the white thing was seen, a ghastly line advancing as evenly over the water, and as quickly, as the dark shadow of an eclipse sweeps over a landscape. Nearer and nearer it roared, growing greater and whiter, until we could see the whole cascading, bubbling, frothing front, with spray-drops showering from the crest higher up in the moonlight. With the roar of awful waters the dread thing came on, raising its white crest higher and higher as it licked the edges of the piles beyond which the junks lay. There were shouts and yells, and the usual boatmen's pandemonium let loose on the junks as the roaring wave approached, a roaring, some fire-crackers sputtered and gongs resounded, but all small sound of earth's creatures were drowned as the fearful white thing crashed past, and a frightful hissing, a seething, lashing and swirling of still higher billows succeeded—the most sinister sound of water ever heard, irresistibly in. As the ten-foot wall of foam reached the edge of the piling and the junk platform, it floated the junk loose at the instant. Each junk rode to the flood's fury bow on, and continued to rise, to lift itself bodily up, up along the sea wall before one's fascinated gaze. In the force after降水, the water went swifter and more swiftly by, until one had a dizzying sense of danger to come, but past fleeing from. Something held one fascinated to the spot, although in the fewest minutes, barely a quarter of an hour, two-thirds of the whole body and mass of the flood-tide had flung itself against the wall, and, it seemed, might continue to rise with the same force for hours. A salt, fresh smell of the sea, the breath of the ocean's coolest, deepest underworld, came in with the awful tide. A ghastly mist succeeded. Shreds of vapor soured over the trumpet moon, and the sea's curtain fell on one of the most sensational, spectacular performances the Pacific ocean: did the moon ever make together. OOM PAUL'S HUMOR. How He Fooled a Lobbyist at a Hotel. Many years ago, when President Kruger was in England, he was approached concerning some concession, railway or otherwise, by a business man here in London. The negotiations lasted for some time. One evening the Londoner, who was staying at the same hotel, having spent many hours with Mr. Kruger and his companion, went to bed much exhausted, and feeling he had not got quite all he wanted. Next morning he arose at 9 and went along the corridor to Mr Kruger's bedroom. To his astonishment it was empty and all the luggage was gone. "Oh, sir," said the chambermaid, "Mr. Kruger and his friend left at 6 this morning." Then, with a gig of amused reminiscence, the girl added: "They was a queer couple, sir, and no mistake. When 'e passed your door, sir, Mr. Kruger, 'e started dancy' right outside your door, sir, 'e and his friend. They didn't know as any one saw them, sir, but Bessie and I see them, unbeknown, from the top of the stairs. Then they went downstairs, sir, fairly splittin' their sides with laughin', though they didn't say a word." -London Daily News. A New Idea in Rat Traps A rat and mouse trap which has been patented in all the countries throughout the civilized world issuing patents, the invention of Heinrich Bensecker, of Behrnode, Germany, is really an ingenious arrangement, as the animal never gets a chance even to nibble at the bat, and when it once gets into the trap it is automatically locked there without a possible chance of escape. A modified form of this bottle-shaped trap, however, is employed for catching rats and vermin in the house. The small end of the field trap is inserted in the mouse hole, the tubular passageway forming a continuation of the underground passages. The animal in trying to get the bait naturally enters the hole and is thus induced to enter the tubular passage from which it cannot escape. A Bad In Entertainment. An ingenious woman in Cincinnati has inaugurated a "luncheon day." She has sent out cards to her most intimate friends reading "Tuesdays in April. Luncheon from 1 till 3 p. m." The table is to be set with extra places, and at 1 o'clock the hostess will take her seat with those who may be present. As friends drop in they will go directly to the dining-room, and, after greeting the hostess, will sit where they please at table. The affairs promise to be delightfully informal. The menu will never be elaborate, and those who have had the good fortune to receive cards will not fall to drop in between the hours named, for they are doubly sure of congenial company. Sleep Protects Them. A medical paper says that in railway collisions nearly all the passengers who are asleep escape the bad effects of shaking and concussion, nature's own anesthetic preserving them. NOTICE OF EXFIRATION OF MORE REDEMPTION. To Marilyn Jo Martin Gering: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, located in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: No. Twenty-six (20) in Godfrey Park City of Dex Mines, was sold for the taxes of 1895 on the 9th day of December, 1896 to J. H. Illum, that the certificate of sale there has been assigned to and is now owned by J. G. Bounds and that the right of reservation will expire, and a Treasurer's Deal for said land will be made united redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated 7th day of November, A.D. 1900. J. G. Rounds. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Martin Gering: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, in Lot N. Twenty-seven (27), in Godfrey's Park City of Des Moines, was made for the taxes of 1895 on the 9th day of December 1896 to E. R. Bennett, that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by J. Rounds and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Dead for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completion service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated 7th day of November, A. D. 1000. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. J. G. Rounds. 1906. Trustee: You are hereby hereby told that the following described resale is instituted in Polk county, Iowa, to wit: *J. Twenty-eight* (28), in *Goddess Park*, City of Des Moines, was sold for the taxes of 1859 on the 9th day of Decem- ber, A. Porter, that the certificate of sale the thirteenth was assigned to and is now owned by Rounds and that the right of redemption will expire, and a *Treasurer's* Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made on ninety days from the date of completion of the notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated 7th day of November, A. D. 1900. J. G. Rounds. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION To A. W. Crawford, Trustee: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit: Lot No. Twenty-nine (39), in Godfrey's Park in Des Moines, was sold for the taxes of 1805 the day of December, 1806 to G. H. France that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by J. G. Rounds and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated 7th day of November, A. A. 1000. J.G. Rounds NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF BLDG OF REDEMPTION To A. W. Crawford, Trustee: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to wit: Lot No. Thirty-seven (37), in Godfrey's Park, City of Des Moines, was sold for the taxes of 1593 on the 8th day of December 1896 to Geo. Mattern, that the property there was signed to and is now owned by J. G. Rounds and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated, 7th day of November, A. D. 1000. J. G. Rounds. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Martin Gering: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit, Ln. No. Thirty-four (34), in Dale County, Iowa, sold for the taxes of 1895 on the 9th day of December, 1890 to E. J. Boynton Agent, that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by J. G. Rounds and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless depletion from such sale occurs within ninety days from the date of complete satisfaction of this notice. You will present yourself accordingly. B. Dated, 7th day of November, A. D. 1900. J. G. Rounds. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Martin Gering: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wait Lot No. Thirty 9, Gainesville, Park City of Texas, W. Iowa, was sold for the tenes of 1895 on the 9th day of December 1896 to W. G. Hamlin, that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by J. G. Rounds and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unlawful from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern your property. Dated 7th day of November, A. D. 1001. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Marin Dering. You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, N.J., to-wit: Lot No. Twenty-Five (5) in Godfrey's Park, City of Mesa, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1895 on the 9th day of December 1896 to E. G. Zellhoefer that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned by J. G. Rounds and that the right of reservation will expire, and the treasurer Deed for said land be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You yourself accordingly. with governor lasted 7th day of November, A. D. J. G. Rounds. BE CURED. Positively cures all Mental and Nervous trouble, restores Eyesight and Hearing; cures Lung, Heart, Liver, Stomach and Kidney trouble; Rheumatism, St. Vitus Dance, Paralysis, Aches, Pains and swelling. Disease of every form cured. Office Hours from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. City calls made. Iowa Telephone 506. DES MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS C. R. I & P., GOING EAST. ARRIVE 9:30 p.m. Chicago Limited.....9:35 p.m 4:35 p.m. Day Express & Mail.....4:45 p.m 4:35 p.m. Night Express.....4:55 p.m 13:45 p.m. New York Express.....4:55 p.m 13:45 p.m. Hawkeye Limited.....7:30 p.m C. R. I & P., GOING WEST. 10:05 a m ... Malt and Express. 30 p m 10:05 a m ... Malt and Express. 30 p m CHICAGO & NOTHWESTERN CHICAGO & NOTHWESTERN CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN 6:15 p.m. Chicago Limited. 9:00 p.m. 1:10 p.m. Colorado Special. 9:40 p.m. *1:10 a.m. Chicago Limited. 9:00 p.m. *1:30 a.m. Chicago Limited. 9:00 p.m. 7:55 p.m. Chicago Limited. 9:00 p.m. *5:40 a.m. Chicago Night Express. 9:00 p.m. 7:55 p.m. Chicago Special. 11:00 a.m. *11:30 a.m. "Fast Mail" 9:00 a.m. *11:05 a.m. & St. Louis City Lim. 4:00 p.m. *5:45 p.m.-Fonda & Slous City Lim. -9:35 a.m. *C M & ST B -BOONE LINE NEW YORK 11:30 a.m - Moose Mail and 12:30 p.m - Mail and expr-ss. - 3:30 a.m 4:30 a.m - Chicago Limited. - 11:15 a. *Daily.* Daily. All other trains daily except Sanday CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibulated First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Gtando (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Dining Car Service Through Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. The Corinthian baptist Church — attested on 11th St. between Crocker and School St. Preaching; at 11 A. M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at B. M., o'clock Preaching; at F. M., Pastor, B. P. tor. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Epworth Leagus at 3 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. L. J. Phillips, pastor. First African Baptist Church — Corner School Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school at 3:30 p. m., Mr. M. E. Houston, Superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 80 yrs. Burry U. M. E.—East Second and Molines street — Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a. m. and 4 p. m. Sunday School at 12:30 p. m., Superintendent; Rose Johnson. All are welcome. Rev. D. W. Holmes, pastor, $30 Molines street. Mount Nebo Baptist Church — E. Second street, between Lucent and Grand Avenue — Sunday services, preaching at 12:30 p. m., Superintendent, Rose Johnson. Preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. H. Bell, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, NO. 3, A. F. A. M. — Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic School. W. M. J. L. — School, Sherwood W. M. J. L. — School, secretary. Ring Solomon Commandery, No. 6—Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month of each year. Frud Jackson, M.; G. G.; H. Clegget. C. Charity Lodge, No. 212. G. U. of O. of F. month at Odell Powns hall on West Sick and Walnut streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown, P. S. No. 3—Meets Second Monday in each month at masonic hall, Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secre. Mt. Olive Court, No. 4—Meets First Thursday of each month at masonic hall, Mrs. Susan white, matron. Mrs. Flora Majors, secre Nights and Ladies of Honor of the World No. 178 Victoria Lodge-meets every Monday evening at Webster Hall, corner of Tenth Center streets. Mrs. E. A. Wood, Proctor. Mrs Rose Johnson, Secretary. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 689. DES MOINES, - - - IOWA. MORGAN HOUSE, Des Moines Iowa. To remove a troublesome cor or bunion: First soak the corn or bunion in warm water to soften it, then pare it down as closely as possible without drawing blood and apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice daily; rubbing vigorously for five minutes at each application. A corn plaster should be worn for a few days, to protect it from the shoe. As a general lilinum for sprains, bruises, lameness and rheumatism, Pain Balm is unequaled. For sale by all Druggists. CALIFORNIA First-Class Sleepers Daily between CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO Without Change are carried on the limited trains of the GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE D. & B. G.—R. G. W.—Sou. Pac. Best Scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. By Daylight in Both Directions. Best Dining Car service Buffet Library Cars. Send for "Chicago to Cal ifornia," describing the journey through. Low Rate PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS To San Francisco and Los Angeles. Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Scenic Route Leave Chicago Thursdays via Sesic Route. Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Southern Route, Improved Tourist Cars—Fast Trains. Write for itinerary and "Tourist Dictionary." JOEN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. CHICAGO NELSONS STRAIGHTINE THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KIMMY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT. BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTHIT is a safe, certain and rela- tive preparation. It is absolutely free and easy to prepare. It is just as justure the most delicate head. It not only straightens the hair, but removes Dandruff, removes itchy skin, falls out, falls out, falling out, and produces a rich, long and luxurious head of hair. Cures all kinds of dandruff, it is a great remedy for fumed, and is in every an elegant article for the toilet. It has been tested by thou- sands with the unanimous verdict that it is absolutely safe. It is used at drug stores, or sent by mail to any address for 30 cents in stamps. Address, NELSON ARROTS. Arrots wrote. Write for terms. Bent on Revenge. Indianapolis Journal: "The Dwigues are queer people." "What's the matter now?" "Well, somebody in the neighborhood broke their lawn mower last summer, and they are round taking up a collection to buy a new one." Suex Shipping Tolls. Receipts from shipping tolls at the Suez canal in the four first months of 1900 were $5,745,000, against $6,425,000 in the same period of 1899 and $5,-705,000 in 1898. Fhoenix Park This is a fine public pleasure ground and favorite resort in Dublin, Ireland it is one of the beauty spots of the city, and is much admired by tourists Flno Taru n Fishing: All of the nimrous in Tampa are much exercised over the tarpon fishing in the bay, at the very doors of the city, says the Florida Times-Union. Capt. Warner, who tends the buoys in the bay, reported that Monday he encountered a school of fifteen or twenty of them, and lost every hook he had in an effort to land at least one. Yesterday he saw another large number playing in the bay, no further away than the third light. This is something new in the tarpon line, for they have never before been so near the city. Our job department motto is promi service, good work and low prices. A trial will convince you. --- Easy Payment Plan Make us your bankers. Buy what you need for your home and pay us as you would deposit your savings in a savings bank—There's the simplicity of our easy payment plan. Hundreds of Des Moines homes have been furnished in that way. We sell only good furniture. There is no room for trashy furniture, gandy rugs and "cheap" stoves in this store. We sell reliable goods and guarantee them. This is not an "installment house." It is a furniture store—a seven-story store filled with the best and most dependable of everything for the home, and our prices are as low as our goods are good. We want your business and the business of your friends—See us and save time, trouble and money. Bear in mind that we sell everything for the home—stoves, furniture, carpets, curtains, draperies, pictures, dishes, lamps and kitchen utensils. 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns pondence from m Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy an find it to be a great medicine," says Mr. E. S. Phipps, of Poteau, Ark. "I it cured it cured me of bloody flu. I cannot speak too high of it." This remedy always win the good opinion, if not praise, of those who use it. The quick cures which it effects even in the most severe cases make it a favorite everywhere. For sale by a Druggist. Explosives Confined and Enclosed Explosives Confined and Unconfined There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high exposives. When unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight. At the naval ordinance proving ground, so long ago as 1884, repeated charges of dynamite, varying from five pounds to 100 pounds in weight, were detonated on the face of a vertical target consisting of eleven one-inch wrought-iron plates boiled 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 geltan, which was stored in railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. At Fort St. Louis, 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 Lumberis, 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. 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; Cassar, 55; Richelieu, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disrael, 75; Bismarck, 83; Tallayrend, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51; Hanibal at 33; 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, 70; Gallileo, 78; Kant, 75; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varities from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 90. To painters death set at ages varying from Raphael at 37, to Titian at 92. ```markdown ``` The Ages of Men. ACUTE SENSES OF THE SAVAGE Scientific View of Their Alleged Supers- portivity to Civilized Man. In his last lecture on the "Senses of Primitive Man" W. H. R. Rivers discussed the acuteness of hearing in savages. In this respect none of the Torres Straita natives were superior to one of the Europeans composing the expedition, while the majority were inferior. No great weight, however could be attached to the observations because all the people were divers—an occupation that certainly damaged the ears to some extent. To investigate their range of hearing a Galton's whistle was used, and it was shown that they could hear very high notes. Their sense of smell was tested by means of a series of tubes containing solutions of varying strength, of odorous substances like valerian and camphor, and the results, while not altogether satisfactory, tended to show they had no marked superiority in this respect over the members of the expedition. With regard to taste it was very difficult to get information, as the natives, naturally enough, did not like strange objects. One fact, however, was noticed, which was interesting when it was remembered that sweet and bitter were probably our most definite sensations and that was the complete absence of any word for bitter. For the natives of temperature the data were very scanty, but it was found that the natives had points on their skin specially sensitive to cold exactly as was the case with Europeans. As to touch, when tested to how close the points of a pair of compasses must be put on the skin before they ceased to be felt as two, their sensitiveness was in general better than Europeans, but there was always the doubt whether they were really able to bear pain with more fortitude. However, the conclusion that the Murray islanders were distinctly less sensitive than the Europeans in the expedition was supported not only by their subjective statements, but also by object tests depending on the conditions of the blood pressure. In the discrimination of weight it was curious that these natives, who had no abstract idea of weight and no word to express it, and who, moreover, could have had no practice, were more accurate than a practiced European. Finally Dr. Rivers, while commenting on the defective knowledge of some of the senses he had treated and on the absence of comparative data, concluded that in general the sense organs of the savages were not markedly superior to those of the normal of average European, and that the recorded instances of apparent extraordinary acuteness, were to be explained by his habits of observation specialized knowledge. British of the Career of the Hon. Daniel I. H. McMillan. The birthplace of Col. W. H. McMillan, the new lieutenant governor of Manitoba, was in the county of Ontario, near the town of Whitby, in the Province of Ontario. The years of his boyhood and early manhood, however, were spent in the town of Colingwood. He received his education in the public schools and the collegiate institute of that town and in the city of Toronto. His early ambitions were largely towards military life; and it was his cherished desire to enter the British army. He took a course of training in the military schools of Toronto, where he was eminently successful, obtaining first class certificates in both the infantry and the cavalry schools. He was identified with military organizations in Ontario for a number of years, and served there during the Fenian raids at Niagara in 1864, and at Fort Colborne in March and Fort Erie in June, 1866. In 1870 he was selected for the position of captain in the first Red River expedition under the Colonel Woolaeley. The young captain remained in Winnipeg with the force for a year, and returned to Ontario in the summer of 1871. Coming to Manitoba again in 1874, Mr. McMillan engaged in Winnipeg in the mill and grain business, with which he remained connected from 1875 until 1876, the first flour mill ever erected in the province; and, in the following year, exported to Minnesota the first shipment, as a commercial transaction, of Manitoba's wheat. He did not, meanwhile, lose his interest in military matters, but was ready for active service whenever troops were required. He was major of the Nineteenth Battalion until just before the Northwest rebellion in 1885, when he resigned, intending to give up military affairs; but when the trouble broke out, the old martial spirit was revived, and he organized, along with Col. Scott, the Ninety-fifth Battalion, and went with that force to the Northwest. He was then senior major, but was afterwards in command of the battalion—Montreal Herald and Star. DOGS WEAR SHOES Alaskan Animals hold Up] Feet to Have Shoes Ft Qq. In Alaska shoes for dogs have been introduced. The use of shoes for animals in the far north country is not merely out of kindness to the dogs. It is a matter of necessity, for one of the greatest dangers to travelers in Alaska is that the dogs which draw sledges or transport goods freeze their feet by contact with the ice. This sometimes renders the animals practically useless and leaves the traveler without means of transit over the fields of ice. Before the introduction of the shoes it was the custom to wrap the feet of the dogs in cloth, but this was a poor measure at best, as the cloths often came off, leaving the poor beasts unprotected. The cloths also interfered with the free locomotion of the dogs. Since the gold fields opened more dogs have been used and great speed in travel has become necessary. The dog's shoe was invented to meet the requirements. The lachings are at the touch to give free play to the dog's legs. The wonderful intelligence of these faithful animals is shown by their readiness in taking to the shoes. They become so accustomed to them that they are unacuse without them. On the trail the dogs have frequently been known to come to the driver in the morning and hold out their legs to have their shoes put on. If the shoes happen to be laced too tight, they will whine and make their discomfort manifest, wagging their tails for joy when the laces are fixed to their liking. A Nowaboy Evangelist. St. Louis has a newsbay evangelist His name is Earl Jamison and he is 11 years old. Several weeks ago young Earl went to one of his neighbors and asked him if he could not use his barn for religious services. His request was granted and every evening since meetings have been held by the young evangelist, except on Sunday nights. Earl does the preaching and praying and leads the singing. His service continues about an hour and he generally has a fair-sized congregation. Those who attend, both young and old, are impressed by the fervor of the youthful preacher. Earl is a sturdy built little fellow, with light hair and frank, fearless manner. His serious men is like that of a white-haired judge. He is a good talker and can quote the scriptures freely. He has collected money during his evangelistic career for the famine-striken people of India. Honored as an Essayist. Carolyn King, daughter of General Charles King, has been accorded an unusual honor. Miss King finished her course at the Sorbonne in June and then entered for competition in the Alliance Francaise, which meets every summer and confers its diplomas on such foreigners as can pass its rigid examinations after attending lectures and submitting essays on severa of the standard authors and dramatists. Mollere, Rache, Cornelle, L.Rochefoucauld, and J.Rousseau were assigned to Miss King, and it was her essay on Cornelle which was given first place unanimously by the judges. Mrs. Fremont Formanently Crippled. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, who is now in her sixty-ninth year, is living in Los Angeles. She is permanently crippled, as the result of an accident she met with early in the summer. "Gonora" Tablets are mailed and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Bign. Ill., to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorhoe, Gleast, Whites, Lucorhce, unnatural discharges, irritations and ulcerations of the urinary organs and mucous membranes given by patients 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 $6. Don't fool with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of J. T. Haribbott Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. If you are going to give an entertainment or serve dinner Thanksgiving you will need tickets and dodgers. Come to the Bystander office, our samples and prices will suit you. A WASH OUT by inexperienced hands means loss of color in some goods, loss of soft- ness in others and destruction of texture in all fabrics. THE NORTH-WESTERN employees are skilled in their special line of work, and each is ambitious to excel. The laudering of all classes of goods is done in thoroughly satisfactory manner. THE NORTH WESTERN PHONES { Mutual 907 LAUNDRY 407-411 Iowa 1922. Grand Ave. Victoria's Eyesight Poem. 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 Devices. While the Queensberry family is generally associated with prize fighting and personal eccentricities, there are members of it who have achieved distinction in other lines. One is the Hon. John Douglas, C. M. G., who has just published in Brisbane an interesting history of Thursday Island, the sentry guarding the northern approach to Australia, where he has been government resident for the last 15 years. New Material in Paper-Making It has been demonstrated that paper can be manufactured in the south at a handsome profit—the mill at Pensacola, Fla., which has been in successful operation for some months, proves the fact beyond question. This mill is using pitch pine for pulp-making. Recent experiments have shown the availability of wild cane, which grows in vast quantities throughout the southern states, for this purpose. A Queer Advertisement. In an English contemporary is the following advertisement of a shooting school: "Forty acres in extent. Gun fitting a specialty. Instructions in the art of shooting. Patent try guns and targets. Most realistic coverts. Practice given at driver birds, high phaeants, etc. Any number of sportsmen can be accommodated. Experienced gun fitters and instructors always in attendance." RLING Sevcn Pines. On May 31, 1862, a severe but indecisive battle was fought between the union and confederate forces, under the command of Gen. McClellan and Gen. Johnson respectively, in a locality a few miles from Richmond, Va., on the Williamsburg road. Seven large pines were located there, and the locality derived its name from the pines. The Slambok 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 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. Armed with a Hatchet, He Defies Tioga's Crew. HOLDS THE SAILORS AT BAY. Police Called on Hipi's Arrival in Chicago and They Disarm and Arrest the Man, Who Says He Is John Kerala of Buffalo. Chicago, Nov. 16—Barricated in a small room in the steamer Tilga, John Kerwin, a cemented stowaway, armed with a hatchet, defied the crow of the boat and threatened death to any one who interfered with him. When the steamer reached Chicago and tied up at the Rush street bridge Kerwin was still raving, and an appeal for aid was sent to the East Chicago avenue police station. Policechauca Shaus and Maher were sent to the boat to take the demented man into custody. Kerwin was still in the room, armed with the hatchet, and he warned the police to keep away. He was finally captured by Schauss, who climbed over the side of the boat and entered the room from the rear through a window hole. Kerwin was occupied in watching the persons in front of him and he did not notice the policeman approaching from behind until he was seized. He was overpowered and disarmed. He was taken to the East Chicago avenue police station, where he continued his ravings, and it was necessary to place him in a strait jacket. Captain John Wulke, in charge of the steamer, found Kerwin on the boat shortly after it left Buffalo on Saturday. He was hidden in the hold, and when discovered pleaded not to be sent back to Buffalo, and agreed to work for his passage to Chicago. Kerwin was given employment and worked almost unceasingly until nearly into Chicago. Last evening he appeared on deck and threatened to kill the entire crew. Second Mate James Burns attempted to pacify the man, but he warned every one away from him and brandished the hatchet threateningly. Members of the crew sized him from behind and he was overpowered and placed in a room below. A hatchet had been left in the room and, securing this, he broke down the door. Then, placing two chairs in front of him, he defied the members of the crew to molest him. At times he would threaten to come out and attack the crew, and when the harbor was reached he still refused to be pacified. Kerwin is 32 years old and asserts that his family is well connected in Buffalo. He had been drinking heavily for some time previous to hiding himself on the boat and declared that he desired to leave Buffalo for good. The steamer Tigla is the boat that 'blew up several years ago, killing nearly thirty men. Fire in Stock Yards. Chicago, Nov. 16—A fire which started in the tankhouse of Library, McNell & Libby's packing establishment, at Packers' avenue and Broadway, in the stock yards, last night for a time seriously threatened destruction to the whole plant and did about $15,000 worth of damage before it was extinguished. Located in the very heart of the stock yards, millions of dollars of property was endangered, and in less than half an hour twenty-five engines were at work pumping water upon the flames. Thomas Konetka, with his clothing afire, leaped from the blazing building. He died from the burns and internal injuries. New York, Nov. 16.—Justice Andrews in the Supreme court has appointed Edward A. Treat receiver for the firm of W. L. Strong & Co. His bond was named at $250,000. His sureties are Edward A. Treat, August Jullard, John Claflin and Cornellus N. Bliss. Receiver Edward T. Treat, when asked about a report to the effect that the liabilities of the house of W. L. Strong & Co. might amount to $6,000,000, said that reports of this kind were all guesswork. He said the liabilities not be one-half that, perhaps not one-quarter. Jalore 15,000 Buildings: Injures 15,000 Buildings. Washington, Nov. 16—Mr. Russell, United States charge d'affaires at Caracas, reports that the earthquake in Colombia last month was very much more severe than at first described. The people deserted their houses and slept in the streets and between 12,000 and 15,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged. Population of Ohio and Georgia. Washington, D. C. Nov. 16—The population of Ohio, as announced today by the census bureau, is 4,157,545, as against 3,672,316 in 1890. This is an increase of 485,229, or 13.2 per cent. The population of Georgia is 2,215,821, as against 1,837,353 in 1890. This is an increase of 373,978, or 20.6 per cent. Inter Ocean to Have New Home Chicago, Nov. 16.—The Inter Ocean is to have a new home. On or before the first day of next May that paper will move into a new building that is to be immediately built, for its use, on the site at No. 106 Monroe street, formerly occupied by the Columbia theater. Aged Man Burns to Death Rock Island, Ill., Nov. 16.—John C. Collins, aged 80, was burned to death in his home in the outskirts of the city, of which he was the sole occupant. The charred body was found in the ruins. It is supposed the bed clothing caught fire from his pipe. Young Men of Exceptional Discs Will Have Free Tuition New Haven, Conn., Nov. 15—Yale will educate free of charge five Filipinos, provided young men of exceptional fitness and high character be selected by Judge Taft of the Philippine commission. This announcement came from the secretary, the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., after the Yale university corporation adjourned its autumn session. It is hoped that those selected will be on hand at the beginning of the next college year. The corporation hopes by this pioneer work to induce the civil service commission in Washington to make an effort to obtain the co-operation of leading American colleges in a general plan to do for the Filipinos just what was done some years ago for the young Chinese and Japanese who were educated at Yale. The influence of Judge Taft, who is himself a Yale alumnus, class of 1879, is seen in this movement. The report of Morris F. Tyler, treasurer, showed that for the fiscal year ended July 31, 1900, the permanent funds of the university have been increased by the sum of $427,336. The general university funds have received $210,983 of the increase, the principal additions being from the estate of the late Cornellus Vanderbilt, $100,000; from Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes and Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes for the erection of Woodbridge hall, $100,000; and $30,000 from William E. Dodge for a specific course of lectures. IMPERIL PORTO RICO SCHOOLS Worthless Teachers and Dangerous Pollutants. Deconneed. Washington, D. C., Nov. 15—M. G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of education for Porto Rico, says the school system now in operation there includes 800 teachers and 38,000 pupils. This is only a beginning, as there are 300,000 children of school age without school facilities. The report says the present school law should be abolished at the coming session of the insular legislature and a new law passed. A change in the licensing of teachers is needed to protect good teachers "from the competitions and machinations of worthless teachers and from the pernicious interference of politicians." The report urges closer supervision. One group of American teachers is called "seekers after novelty and new experiences, mere adventurers, who imposed upon the administration and the children, and who used the salary and position of teacher solely to see a new country for a year and then return." "Fortunately these are gone," the report continues, "and the better teachers remain to carry on a really helpful and arduous task. The people of Porto Rico have patiently borne with these adventurers and quietly longed for their departure." Thousands of children in the island, the report says, are half-clothed, half-fed, and half-housed. At least 80 percent of all the people are illiterate. There are no public school buildings, and no public colleges or universities. SEARCH FOR INDIAN-TREASURE Daughters of Chief Flashaway Visit Old Home in Indiana. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 15.—Julia and Lizzie Flashaway, daughters of John Flashaway, one of the most celebrated Potatoatwain chiefs, have been here over a week encamped upon their old home farm on the north branch of the river in this city, the farm now being occupied by ex-Mayor Leeper and mother. When the tribe went west John Flashaway remained behind with his family, and took up land, which, piece by piece got away from him and when he died, about twenty-five years ago, little was left and the family separated. The daughters had reason to believe that money had been hidden by their father and a clairvoyant's predictions caused them to return to look for the alleged hidden wealth. For over a week they were camped there seeking the missing treasure, being assisted by a man in their digging, but their quest was valin, as far as can be learned. PLANS FOR DALY FUNERAL. Body to Be Lald Temporarily in J. W. Mackay's Mausoleum. New York, Nov. 15.—The body of the late Marcus Daly will be placed in the receiving vault in Greenwood cemetery, where it will remain until the family shall decide upon interment. It was stated by members of the family that the body would not be sent to Montana. The funeral will take place at 11:45 o'clock from St. Patrick's cathedral. The family and a few of the most intimate friends of Mr. Daly will accompany the body to Greenwood cemetery, where it will be placed in John W. Mackay's mausoleum. Later a plat will be purchased in Greenwood and the body will be interred there. Methodists In Conference. New York, Nov. 15—The annual meeting of the general missionary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church, which is to continue for a week, began today at the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church, in this city. The purposes of the meeting are for the appropriation of money for missionary work for the ensuing year and the apportionment of this appropriation at home and abroad. Bishop Charles H. Fowler of Buffalo presided. Killed at a Bull Fight. Alantec, Spain, Nov. 15—During the progress of a bull fight given by women toress at Pedragran, near the city, yesterday, the beaches collapsed and eight persons were killed and 200 injured. THE KAISER ON CHINA WAR. Emperor Tells the Reichstag of His Action. WANTS CULPRITS PUNISHED. Celestials Must Give Guarantees for Future Behavior—Gullity Leaders Must Be Fulfilled for Their Crimes—Withdrawal or Troop! Completed. Berlin, Nov. 16.—Emperor William's speech at the reassembling of the reckstag is calculated to give little comfort to those who advocate a lukewarm policy in China. The emperor dwelt largely upon the events that have happened in the celestial empire and stated his policy to be one of revenge and the exaction of adequate reparation for the death of Baron Von Kettler and the destruction of German property. Nor did the emperor have any apologies to make for having acted in China without first gaining the consent of the reichstag to the expenditure involved. He brushed this subject aside in a few words, which intimated that the necessities of the case demanded instant riotion and he was sure the reichstag would approve the necessary credits for the expedition. The emperor said: "Fanical hate and dark superstition, incited by unscrupulous advisers of the court, have driven misguided masses of Chinese to acts of atrocity against the outposts of western civilization and Christian worship dwelling peacefully in their midst. "My minister died at the hand of an assassin, in a courageous attempt to overcome the rising peril. The foreigners at the capital saw themselves threatened, life and limb. These things of horror united the civilized community where otherwise there was a divergence. All nations against which the unparalleled onslaught was directed drew closer. Their sons fought with one mind, shoulder to shoulder, even as yonder standards float side by side. So the governments show themselves in council, united, with the sole wish to restore an orderly state of things as speedily as possible, and, after the punishment of the chief culpits, avert a recurrence in the future of such a disturbance of the peace of the world." In announcing that the relations of Germany with all the powers are good, the speech recalls his majesty's sorrow at the assassination of King Humbert of Italy, saying he was "my ally and dear friend, who fell a victim to a damnable outrage." The speech then proceeds: The speech then proceeds: "I would sooner have consulted the rechstag on the measures in China, but for the necessity of prompt action and the difficulty of furnishing reliable information. Whenever the rechstag could form decisions or estimate the expenditure required, the government felt confident that the representatives would not refuse their subsequent sanction to the necessary expenditure." Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.—According to dispatches received by the quartermaster general of the army, four companies of the Flitteenth infantry have left Taku, China, for Manila, and the transport Summer has sailed from Nagasaki for Manila, with four troops of the Sixth cavalry, which also sow service in China, and four batteries of the Third artillery. This completes the withdrawal of the American troops from China, with the exception of the legation guard at Pekin. Indiana Has Dowle Victim. Indians Has Died Victim Laporte, Ind. Nov. 15-J. Warren Moore, Jr., 16 years old, son of J. Warren Moore, of Ligonier, died yesterday of diphtheria, having had no medical attention. The father is a recent convert to Dowleism. No physician was called until a few hours before the boy's death. The physician refused to take charge of the case at that hour, when death was at hand. Mr. Moore recently lost a younger son for whom no physician was called. Both children died in great agony. The authorities will begin an investigation. Clare Barton Gunn East Class. Barton Goes East. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 16—Miss Clara Barton left for her home in Washington today, accompanied by her associates in the National Red Cross, who have been assisting her in the Galveston relief work. In the Barton party were Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Barton, Dr. Dillinger, Mr. Marsh, Mrs. Ward and Miss Comba. The party occupied a special car. The departure of Miss Barton will not interfere with the relief work of the society in the city, which will be directed by Miss Barton from Washington. Senators at White House. Washington, D. C., Nov. 16.—Senators Platt of New York, Fairbanks of Indiana, Foraker of Ohio and Tauruson of Nebraska were at the white house. Senator Fairbanks said that in his judgment at the short session of congress an army reorganization bill and the reapportionment bill certainly would be passed and that the Nicaragua canal bill probably would pass. Fire Makes 500 Men Lite. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 15.—Fire which started in the engine room of the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works early today did between $6,500 and $7,500 damage. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment. The loss is covered by insurance. Repairs will be begun immediately and the works started again as soon as possible. METEOR DISPLAY IS BRILLIANT Astronomers at Northfield, Minn., Charr Skily of the Leonid. Northfield, Minn., Nov. 15—Profs. W. W. Payne and H C Wilson at Goods- sell observatory, with assisting students, noted and charted sixty Leonid meteors between midnight and day- break this morning. Some of them were of good magnitude and brilliance, leaving long trails of sparks behind them. The maximum is expected tonight, and if conditions are favorable the astronomers expect to observe many of the Leonids from 5 to 6 a. m. tomorrow. It was impossible to make any satisfactory photographs this morning, but if the appearance of the meteors is more frequent tomorrow attempts at photographing them will be made. Urge Possibility for Nation. Madrid, Nov. 16.—After a prolonged debate the arbitration committee of the Ibero-American congress has welcomed the suggestion made by the Peruvian official delegates, backed by the other Hispano-Americans, that it is necessary to create a respect for the decisions of the contemplated court of arbitration, by declaring outlawed the nation that resists its ruling. A league of all the other contracting powers should be made, continues the suggestion in question, and this league should intervene to force the decision upon the nation outlawed. Reports on Crime in Army. Reports on Crime in Army. Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.—Surgeon-General Sternberg has prepared statistics, making a comparison of cases of suicides and homicides recorded in the army during the years of 1898 and 1899, against those of the ten years between 1888 and 1897. It shows that there were relatively fewer homicides during those two years than during the previous decade. The average number of suicides a year in an army of 27,116 men for the ten years was 17. In 1898 the number of homicides was 19 and in 1899 it was 23 a,1,000. To Build Six Tornado Hooks New York, Nov. 15.—The Electric Boat company of Manhattan has contracted for a site for a permanent testing plant at New Suffolk, L. I. The company controls the torpedo boat Holland. A breakwater and basin will be built and half an acre of new land made. About fifty men will be employed during the coming season. It is announced that six boats of substantially the same pattern as that of the Holland will be built. There will be experiments of various kinds in Peconic bay. Carnegie Plans Big School. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 16—Andrew Carnegie, it is stated on unquestionable authority, has another surprise for Pittsburg, and in its accomplishment may spend several millions of dollars. His purpose is said to be the establishment of a polytechnic school for instruction in practical mechanics and industrial sciences. The amount of money which it is said will be spent by Mr. Carnegie in founding and endowing the school is $3,000,000. Details of the proposition are expected to be made public tomorrow. Divorces Barred Out. New York, Nov. 18. 16—Episcopalian authorities have taken preliminary steps to forbid rectors of that faith from performing the ceremony of marriage when either of the contracting parties is a divorcee. Episcopalians who have been divorced and remarry are to be excommunicated by the church save when the person so remarrying is the innocent party to a divorce secured on the grounds of adultery. Fire Loss at Genera $250,000. Geneva, Ill., Nov. 16.—Fire last night totally destroyed the plant of the Appleton Manufacturing company in this city. It started in the paintshop at 8 o'clock. The loss is $250,000. The company manufactured farm machinery. Quartermaster Booth Dead. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 16.—Major Charles Alfred Booth, quartermaster, United States army, in charge of the United States arsenal at St. Louis, died of pneumonia at the home of his father-in-law, ex-Gov. John Young Brown. Virginia College, in Ashburn Virginia College in Kansas Roanoke, Va., Nov. 16—Virginia college burned to the ground. The young women students saved practically nothing of their effects. No lives were lost. The loss is about $75,000, partly covered by insurance. Root on a Cuban Trip. Havana, Nov. 15—Secretary Root, Gov. Wood and party left here for Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara, by special train at 10 a. m. today. There the Viking will be boarded for a trip along the coast. Beaten and Robbed of $2,100. Stevens Point, Wis., Nov. 16—Bartholmew Popowoski, a retired farmer, was held up by an unknown man last night, beaten into insensibility and robbed of $2,100. No arrests have been made. Exotus of Flins Is Ended. St. Petersburg, Nov. 16.—Reports from the Viborg district say the exodus of Flins to the United States has ceased, and that the migration agents have left that district. Czar in Fever's Grass. London, Nov. 16.—A dispatch to the Central News from St. Petersburg says the Official Messenger announces that the czar is suffering with abdominal typhus fever. New York broker found wife he supposed dead for fifteen years. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines. November 13, 1900. Harry West, owner of the packing house properties, has received letters from the eastern gentlemen who will be associated with him in the formation of a new company to operate the plants, saying they will be in Des Moines in the next ten days. It is expected that soon after their arrival arrangements will be completed for the opening of the house and keeping it in operation continuously. Mr. West said it would not take a week from the completion of the details preliminary to opening the house. He says that it has been kept in first class repair, and that so far as the machinery is concerned it will have full capacity in twenty-four hours. If the working force was ready and there were hogs on hand to make a run. He says it will take some days to get a crew together and to commence to get hogs coming to Des Moines. He expects the house to be in full operation not later than December 1. Attorney General Remley disagrees with the people of Iowa on the biennial elections proposition. He says if the biennial elections amendment carries and the constitutional convention fails, and latest returns indicate that is the way it will stand, some sorry complications will result. Biennial elections, the attorney general says, demand that the term of state officers should be made four years. Under the Titus amendment it will be possible for a complete change in the state house and chaos would result. The attorney general also thinks the constitution of Iowa needs fixing. It was made forty-three years ago and the state has outrown it. The law on corporations, he says, is very bad, and in many respects a change is desirable. He holds a convention would not be dangerous, as delegates are elected by the people and what they do will be satisfied by the An attempt would be made by the woman suffragists and prohibitionists to have the constitution amended to their liking, but it would be a straight fight made in the same way it has always been made before the legislature. An action has been brought in the district court, presumably in the interest of the Mutual Telephone company, to oust the Iowa Telephone company from the streets, alleys and public places of the city of Des Moines. It is charged that the Iowa Telephone company is now maintaining poles, wires, cables and conduits in the city, right, that it has no franchise, and that it is enjoying privileges to which it has no right and is unlawfully carrying on its business. The title of the case is the state of Iowa, ex ret, C. E. Campbell and F. M. Hubbell as the Iowa Telephone company. Attorney McLennan, in whose name actions of this kind are generally brought, has been placed in a position placed the plaintiffs in a position they desired. They represented the conditions to the court and an order was made forthwith, authorizing the commencement of the suit by Messas Hubbell and Campbell, both of whom are stockholders in the Mutual Telephone company and vitally interested in the ground on the ground that the city council has repeatedly recoized its existence since the franchise expired, and also on the ground of vested rights, having more than $100,000 invested in its plants. Steps toward most important changes in the National Guard organizations of the different states will be taken December 13, at a meeting of the Inter-state National Guard association at Washington. Adjutant General Byers will attend this meeting from Iowa and the adjutants general of nearly all the other states will be present, these officers being ex-officio members of the Interstate association. At this time the adjutants general will confer with General Miles, the General Corbin, with General leading officer of the regular army and the navy and will members of congress for the purpose of promoting national legislation that promises to work sweeping changes in the national guard of the country and convert it into nothing less than a reserve force for the regular army. Secretary Van Houten of the agricultural department has been commissioned by the governor to attend the national good roads and improvement convention which meets in Chicago Nov. 19, and also the national irrigation congress meeting in Chicago Nov. 21. Mr. Van Houten will attend the meeting of the American Associations of Fairs and Expositions which will be held in Chicago Dec. 6 and 7. Fight Over Senatorship Beginn. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 15.—The contest for the United States senatorship, to succeed Hon. Lucien Baker, whose term expires next March, was begun here in earnest today, when the adherents of Baker opened headquarters. Charles L. Burton is Baker's most familiar operative, W. E. Stanley, who has just been re-elected, simplified the situation somewhat when he declared positively today that he was not a candidate. Mrs. Jesse James Dend. Kansas City, Nov. 14.—Mrs. Zerelda James, widow of Jesse James, the noted southwestern bandit, died at her home here yesterday of a complication of diseases. Jeffries Wants to Flight. New York, Nov. 11.—J. James J. Jeffries, the world's heavy weight, has decided to re-center the ring and when he arrives in New York from his long theatrical tour will issue a challenge to all comers. It is said that the champion is anxious to get back into the game, and that it is his desire to arrange a match or two, to take place after he closes the theatrical season. Fitzpatrick will give the preference, and according to intimate friends of the former champion, "Lanky Bob" will accept Jeffries' defl and enter into another championship battle. The status of Liberty in New York harbor has sprained her shoulder and her arm is reported to be about 30 feet out of plum. A New Fire-Rating author. A scientist augusts that milk be used to extinguish the flames of kerosene, to milk forms an emulsion with it which makes it accomplish its object more quickly. The best medicine to quickly cure constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliacus or wafers lenov, is iliostatler's Stomach Bitters. Try it also for malaria, fever and agnus. Two half truths do not necessarily constitute the whole truth. I am sure Fire's Cause for Consumption served my life three years ago. Mr. Tross, Room, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1864. Even the cream of society will turn sour. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Taka LAXAVANA QUIMINE ROMANA drurgits refund the money if it fails. K. 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Suez, Nov, moe, Dutch cruiser Gelderland, with ex-President Krugar on board, has arrived here. ‘New York, Nov. 15, —Michael Davitt, M, P., hes cabled trom Paris to the Journal and Advertiser as follows: “It is a unique testimony to the great in- dividuality of rresident. Kruger. that his voyage to Burope is watched with more intense interest by the continely tal press than {s the, progress ot the war in China, ae “The daily calculationmag the. speed of the Gelderland, with: {tw Miaagitc Progress, have two main imspinaGowe namely, curlosity as to what Cad domitable president may eayctieiml People and against England’ when | lands at Marseilles, and the probsble effect of this upon the attitude of the European powers, and the military Policy of the British in the further Prosecution of the war, “All speculation agrees upon ‘two Points: ‘There are to be important revelations” In one well informed quarter it {s asserted that Mr. Cham- berlain will soon have an opportunity of reading private ietters found in Jo- hannesburg that will placo the active complicity of the colonial office in the Jameson raid beyond further dispute, Proof will also be adduced that Kruger purchased the ammunition for the Boer armies from Birmingham firms, in which the family and friends of the colonial secretary have a large di- rect interest. “The Gelderland will stop at Port Said only to receive dispatches and will proceed in a few hours to Mareetl- lea, where she 1s expected to arrive Nov. 19. Kruger is not likely to pub- sh any statement until after consult- ing the members of the Boer govern- ment already in, Europe, all of whom will meet him on landing.” ROYAL COUSINS ARE TO MARRY Engagement of Prince George snd Princess Viotoria Annoanced. London, Nov. 15.—Royalty 1s inter- ested today in the unofficial an- nouncement of the engagement of Prince George of Greece and Princess Victoria of Wales. They are first cau- ‘sins, Rumors and denials of the story have been plenty, but the report’ now seems to be rellable. Another week or so, {t {s’sald, and the formal and off- cial announcement will be made. ‘The foncy of romance and of plctur- eque wooing has prevailed in this roy- al alliance, Manly and vigorous of mien, Prince George captivated hi: fair flancee as they listened to the coo- ing of the birds in the gardens around the castle of Fredensburg in Denmark this summer, And when the princess with her mother, the princess of Wales, returned to Sandringham, the selon from Greece hurried thither on the next train. It is reported that the sanction of the princess’ parents was obtained soon after the arrival. Late today the princess of Wales, Prince George and possibly Princess. Victoria will. visit Queen Victoria, at Windsor, and, it is believed, they are going for the cole purpose of gaining her consent to the royal wedding. TURKISH CONTRACTS IN COURT Gult for Titie to Them Is Brought at Newark, N. J. New York, Nov, 15.—Vice-Chancel- lor Stevens of Newark, N. J., next Wednesday will hear an action In chancery involving title to contracts with the Turkish government said to be valued at more than $600,000, The International. Emery and Corundum company has applied for an order di- recting the Natlonal Abrosive com- pany toassign to it the contracts in question. The suit is brought in New Jersey because doth are organized un- der its laws. The contracts, it is asserted, were originally secured from the Turkish government by W. F. and A. H. Kim- ball of Tifin, O. The International company obtained an option on an as- signment of them. This option, the present defendants declare, expired through failure of the complalaing company in allowing it to lapse. lag Springfield, Ill, Nov. 16,—The Illi- nols Live Stock Breeders’ assoclation met this morning and elected officers for the ensuing years as follows: Pres- ident, A. P. Grout, Winchester; first vice-president, John H. Kincaid, Ath- ens; third vice-president, Jacob Zolg- ler, Clinton; secretary, Fred H. Ran- kin, Athens: treasurer, 8. Noble King, Bloomington; executive committee, A. P. Grout, Winchester; John H. Kin- cald, Athens; Jerome Leland, Spring- field; Fred H, Rankin, Athens; George Williams, Athens; J. H. Pickrell, Charles F, Mills and Frank 8, Spring- er, Springfield, ‘Threat Acalost Beckham. Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 16—A threat has been communicated to Gov. Beck- ham through a personal friend, who reports the words as coming dlroct from Berry Howard, indicted as one of the accessories to the murder of William Goebel. Howard is said to have declared that Beckham wou'd aot be governor long. BURIED ALIVE FORTY HOURS, Hep 2 0 Well” Hane Remarkable i Experience, allivan, Ind., Noy, 16—Atter forty hours at the bottom of a well, buried under a heap of sand that finally feaohed two feet above us head, ‘Thomas MoPhetors was rescued, little thie worse for his long imprisonment ‘The escape of the well-digger wa: Tetnarkable, as several timés the res cue party gave up all hope of bringine tim to the surface alive. When thi firét cave-in came and tons of sauc filled the bottom of the well the toards used for a wall were forced i: and formed a roof which prevented thi erushing ont' of McPheter's life. A small opening at one side permittec the carrying on of conversation, anc a two-inch rubber hose was let dow. to convey water and food to the Im: prigoned man. McPheters finally ex trleated himself from the broker boards, but as he gained his fect an‘ alood erect another fall of sand burte! ‘hm to.the neck. He got the end o} ‘the: hose to his mouth, when agaln éame a cave-in, and the top of his head was two feet below the surface of the sand. The rubber tube gave bin ‘air, and water and food were poured In ‘when he asked for them. After forty ‘hours the second well was completec ‘by the rescuers and a tunnel was. cu: to the shaft in which McPheters wai a prisoner. The walls of the tunne. were boarded up and the sand dus away until the man was released fror! his strange prison, McPheters, who Is a resident of Paicstine, I, was com pleting the digging of a well on 4 farm near/ thls city when the acclder! befell him. He Is expected to recover éitan the injuries sustained: DALY MARKET REPORT. Chicago Hoard of Trade. ‘Wheat— Open, High. Low. Close Nov .... .72% 72% 72) 72 Dec... .. 73% 78% 672% «72% Tan, .... 73% 13% 73.13% Com— Nov.. .. 39 38% 38% © .39% Dec, .... 85% 86 85% 85% Moy.. .5 06% 36% 36% 20% Oats | NOVi6 ve Ferre veeee cosee | BLK Dec, .... 22%, 22% 21% 22 May.. .. 26 | 2h 0.238% 28% Pork— Nov.. ..10.20 10.40% 12.20 10.37% Jan... ..1140 11.60 1140 11.60 May. ..1147% |11.65 11.47% 11.57% Lard— Nov.. .. 6.95 7.05 6.95 7.05 Dec, .... 6.80 6.92% 6.80 690. May.. .. 6.72% 6.85 6.72% 6.87% 8. Ribs— Nov.. .. 6.75 6.92% 6.76 6.92% Jan, .... 605 6.17% 6.05 6.15 Jeffries to Plight Sharkey. New York, Nov, 16,—A match wai made in thia city today between Jamet J, Jeffries, champion puglist, and Tor, Sharkey. The terms of the agreement are that the winner shall take the en- tire purse, The battle will be decide’ next May before the club offering the largest purse. If the battle takes place in Nevada it will be to a finish. Each principal deposited $2,500 to in- sure bis appearance in the ring. ‘The articles also contained the provisioa that ahovld Jeffries make'a match with either Bob Fitzsimmons or Gus Ruh- Un, that battle would be decided be- fore the present one, The same condl- tlons.previal in regard to 2 poss:bla match’ being made between Sharkey and Ruhlin; Jim Jeffries is sald to have lost $7,000 with a well-known ‘Wall street broker yesterday, but in the course ofa couple. of weeks tho big fighter hopes his wad will be in- creased ten fold. Jeff won't teil what bis wealth-producing stock 1s. ta mea ae eat Detrolt, Mich., Nov. 16.—About 100 members of the army of the Tennes- see assembled here for their thirty- second reunion, which wifl last unt! this evening. The business sessions are belng held in the Hotel Cadillact At the first session the appointment ot the usual committee was the only business transccted. Among the prominent members present are: Speaker Henderson of the house ot representatives, Gen, John C. Black of Chicago, Gen. John W. Noble of St. Louls, Col. Charles Parsons of St. Lous, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge ol New York and Gen. A, Hickenlooper of Cincinnatt. Factions Hold Conventions. Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 16—The Parsons and Hayes factions of the Knighta of Labor are still holding their eeparate and distinct conventions without Interference with one another, ‘The Hayes wing ignores the Parsons faction and the Parsons wing appears content to take things easy, waiting on the ultimate decision to be reached in the courts when the controversy comes up for hearing. PL saa Ti de San Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 16—The first secsion of the eeventh annual con- vention of the United Daughters. of the Confederacy was called to order in the house of representatives by M:s Edwin G. 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Pinkham’ Q 4 just simply x = has made i Ve worl is now ae \ eae p, her ty ant MP Fall ee 7 jess gufferin PPA Al fay rellef I have [miss eran. coup |} Ram's Nene MISS PEARL GOOD. Cor. 20th Ave A 0 0 0 Sten shee Testimonial revere pec On a clear doy a pigeon can see 200 miles, 1a Tite Worth Fiviog ? There is no more severe or stub born pain than neuralgia. A remedy that will cure it will cure any pain. Dr. G. 8. Stivers, dentist, Louisville, ky., says: “My wife suffered over twi years from very severe neuralgia, which several physicians failed to re- lieve. I then got Morley's Wonderful Eight, which relieved her in five min- utes and soon effected a permanent cure. Sold by agent in every town. Worcs are the blossoms and deeds are the fruite, ‘Ana labor vaver Maplo City Se't Wach- Sng Soap haw uo equal, and it does not in- jure theclothes, “Avk’ your dealer for it and try it according to directions, All Rood groce:srell it ‘The clothing of a growing boy re- fuses to grow with him, ea ead ace ae Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c, When a barber cuts, his acquaint ance he generally apologizes for do- ing it. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! Sbective for THE KIOWA CHILY, devoted ta Infor: [sibertbe for THE KIOWA CHIEF, devoted ta infor: ees ec Scie ee See eee pemies Speereri eae ‘Guide) with Spe sectional up, eo. Map 2-0 Ail Sheet ris eee fee LOUIS EKrAKUET & © WINCHESTER GUNS, = pie St eaten aac remediate meal rner Retna rah eee ee eee esmes Tit aTh He w anately and ws ation « ing of He w e Post. -an TT. innt vis = We ¥ majo s 7 Hing sirele. elect iter; 5 held; t tary, 1 tary, J superi al, met also 8 WH nthe s i MI n Cooj hus n er Hol ns_wil esday tin Rt and, T Waike wer, I the ye mplati ars 80 tybody Hanks chure Haga’ dat, for ranks, Bates » First a.m, 24 per Al be ‘The ¢ L. J. reach E EL aird si city. My ig to existe lg wa ‘Rev. I home > are we tl F the tme, neon Emer: rably ‘dave Parso has > fthe 's Na t the * eve re al ‘vices on Su fieve 3 Mr. a ag ray Prof. ¥ soci bof u less vere ¢ at on -h chi ore wa ound Pp: f Mrs. Rev. hursda e. It | 3, The vas g nmitt xe of ernoc f the Tibe 1 lored. \, The Happy Result. home February 10th, 1900. pare Ins. PrxxmAm:—I cannot praise Lydia me: tt s Vegetuble Compound enough. It is £ the wonderful the change your medicine pee me. I feel like another person. My ‘Bean a pleasure to me, while before using Emer: ne it was a burden, To-day I am a rably hoppy girl, I thimic if more women a aye ur SRerable Coropaung Cheke weld be Parsol g in the world. I cannot express the has experienced by using Lydia ES Pinks > fthe table Compounid.”— Nias Prant Goo, ua Nai enue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. t the * eve IAD Sates Fe al ‘people have from tine to time questioned, vices Mie menuineneas of the castlevania! eaters on Su the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mats.” Sjcom, pore oe ee eee ee Mra pedtiaions—vpia E. Piarsinn, Mpoicins Cor i Prof. J $, A) rs S iD ZH08s D E UNION MADE. ‘The rest worth of W. Ey ewpies $3.00 and 53.50 thoes compared Slit other snakes is Ei'c0 to'4.00. Gare ciit#ageLine Say price: Gverd000,- 00 Eatisited wearers. Se One pric of Wb. 0 FS \ pon aime edna, Dee NS aad Rina mn TT Fiseee mc ealacatal) ‘Woare the largest makers of men's 83 and 23150 shoes Ls the world. We manke Ehdechimoredaand Gu Boshoer thnn any Slit two tonnafacturers inthe U- Te repaiation of W-2. pest |zatecetes ee ghee BEST sug eecisires ite atte $3.50 | Sov brs eee Be esse] $3.00 is stated Seceaistn ane SHOE. | ec “teeter er wes | SHOES Beare ek ge toes gTBE Manarcia mas inbaoy SEES SEE PUENNES, Netra thst cy AR Didstate teccarsaisin aektr praaetts Siva te Spe oe in Hiyour desier vill not get them for you. 0d dinette Hzee felt eect doe Safar age, Serils Pearce W. Ee Douglas Hoe Co. Brockton, Mase W. N.U.,Des Moines, No. 46—190¢ lowa State Bystander, MY BUTANDER FOR. 0G prs MOINES = owas, er en Ata re ena Sd eS ee peer eee et ORD Quite a colony of colored people has sailed for Cape Nome this “year, and before the season shell have closed, not less than 500 ‘Negroes will be in Nome, with ‘equally us many in Dawson City, eee ‘The oldest employe in point of service of the United States naval ‘acadoiy at Annapolis, Md., is George Brown, a colored man who began his daties as janitor in 1845 when the naval school was founded. eee Governor Sayers (Democratic governor of Texas) sent to Spanish Camp, Wharton county, $1500 to Harry Gillis Roseway and S. M. Martin, all colored, ‘said amount ‘to be used in helping the Negro saffere:s to rebuild. The colored people of Minnea- polis, Minn., havo organized a joint stock company and will soon ‘open a targe grocery store. J. ©. Reed is President and J. Ford in Secretary. see Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the young uegro composer of London, who married an English woman a ‘year ugo, lias lately become the father of ason. He has followed Wagoer's example of naming his first born after one of his heroes, and the boy wili go through life to the name ot Hiawatha Coleridge Taylor. The appointment of James H. Wolfie, oue of Boston's Negro lawyers as judge advocate general ‘of the National Department of the Grand Army of the Republic is ot more siguifiance. than it could otherwise be because the appoint- ament is the act ofa Southera man -who might very naturally be sup~ posed to be in sympathy with the color prejudice of his section. One of the principal objections which Jhas come from the South against the reunion of the ex-Confeder ates with the Grand Army is the equality of the black man which obtains in that organization.— Bostoh Transcript. -Charies F. Kimball, a oroker at =92 LaSalle street Chicago, was made ticher by $25.000 by the will of his mother, Laura C. F. Kimball, filed for probate yester: day. Of the estate of $60,000 the son was the largest beneficiary. _A grand child, Masa Cowan, re- -eeived $10,000, and the residue of the estate’was left to the Ameri- sean Female Guardian society ot New York for the purpose of mak “ing life members of poor colored -ehildren. Preference for children of New Liberian families is made. AKN oF bot eed nd ons b, fi aaine life. par d tes. ot pt rag sale’ om hat : Orange Free State Fins. ‘The Orange Free State flag is a sim- le rectangle of vivid orange. Aa Grange (see in full fruit is the most ‘distinctive feature of tho arms of the range Free State. Beneath the tree are on one side a lion and on the other ‘m number of oxen. An ox-wagon sim- Har to that on the Transvaal arms and three suspended horns completo the ‘whole. “Spes Bona"—good hope—ts written dnderaeath the arms of Cape ‘Colony, the chiet feature of which is ‘a lien tamrant. A figure of Hope sur- moun's the shield, the “supporters of ‘which ur a couple of native animals.” bur Lt ws jo nisal al soe UNriog Menognees) His Cilzesshin re Rome, March 22—Don Carlos, the st ‘Spanish pretender, bas appeared ta . ‘eoart at Lucea and renounced his Span- en fab Citizenship, declaring himself an n austrian subject. 7) ‘Gottan fild to Tiave Fieldoa to Cahn London, Blarch 22,—It is announced é that the sulten has ylelded “fn all ex ; sential particulars” to the Russian de- i mands reepceting railway ‘concessions 4 fm Asia Minor, Ning Shoe Recelre whlto Yet tes Duduave, lows, «March 22—Nine a ca]. oni ween, Ax Ot: whots.-are: trom po, Slangin secaived the white voll and 2 A f “a og ne 4 i s MABRIED WITHOUT COAT. Bat He) Hing) to Walt ifty) Years ter rain Gad hanat eipaababs ‘The whirllgig of time that cvont- ually’ makes all things even made It possible ‘for both Thomas. Hartigan ‘and Susan Thompson to keop thelr vows that prevented them for half a century from’ matrying, and yet per- ‘mitted them, only a week ago, to wed after all. Fifty years. ago Thomas Hartigan, in a sort of boylh prank, declared that he should marry in hia ahirt sleeves. His bride, Susan Thomp- ‘gon, went to the church on her wed- ding day, never thinking that her lover was serious in what ho sald, but whon he appeared at the altar and declared that he should n>vor marry except in his shirt aleeves, thea she sald sho would never marry him it be did not put on a coat. So there was no wodding. All this happened in the Cascade valley, near Renva, Pa, After winning- wealth in Call- fornia Hartigan returned to the Cas- cade valley threo years ago. Susan Thompson was still there. They talk- ed of marrying, but each was still firm fn the declaration in regatd to the shirt sleeves they had made 50 years ago. Last summer the shirtwaist man appeared. ‘Thomas Hartlc~u decided that if he wore a shirtwaist at his woiding he would be tuldliing his vow of marrying in his shirt sleeves to the letter. Miss Thompson decided that fashion had given tho shirt waist the dignity of a coat, and that she could marry a man wearing a ehirt waist without breaking her vow ‘never to marry Tom Hartigan unless he wore a coat. And so they were married, and Tom Hartigan wore the most elaborate shirt walst that the store- Keoper In Renova could get in Phila- delphia. So the male shirtwalst has eat Hives tas vain, WOMEN MAY WOO, era ae pe EN art heen it Herseit. Of course women have to dispose of themselves in marriage, but should the woman ever propose? asks a mas- culine writer. Sometimes, oven when {tts not leap year, they should, ‘There {8 first of all tho ease of queens; they must do s0, and very prettily did Queen Victoria fuldl the task, says the Washington Post. But the sox 1s 80 good-natured In helping Iame dogs over a stllo! An righ girl did tt in this way. She thought that her boy was slow in com- ng to the point, eo she said, “It I were you, Jack, and you were me, we'd be married long ago.” Another shy man aald,to tho Indy of his choice: “I wish wofere on such terms of intimacy that you wouldn't mind calling me by my first name.” “Oh,” she answered, “your second is good enough for me.’ Shakespeare's heroines are remark- ably ready to take the Initiative in this most serious business, Helena demands the hand of Bertram as the price of her wonder-working prescrip- tion, Desdemona hints broadly that she is to be had for the asking. Miran- dada tells her patient logman that she {his wife if he will marry her. Olivia says to her lover's masqueradiug mes: senger: ! ‘Would you undertake another sult, [I rathor hear you to solicit “Than musle from the spheres!” ‘Then, finding Sebastian himself more pliable’ than his falr double, sho fetches a priest to make sure of him while he is in tho humor. Jullet, caught thinking aloud, declares her willingness to lay her fortunes at Romeo's feet if he will but say wher and where the holy nian shall make thes Gas: Belang Persieem: ‘The refining of petroleum is an in- teresting process. The petroleum is put into'a tank, under which 1s a slow fire, burning the gas from the oll itself. ‘As the latter warms ap, the vapors pass through a long plpe, and are cooled in the process, condensing It §nto liquid again. The first thing that “comes over” is a gs which ts used ‘aga fuel in the works. Next, the vary: ing grades of naphtha; next (the prod- ‘uct becoming heavier and heavier all the time), the gasoline grades, then tho low-test kerosenes, then the high- grade kerosenes, Then comes a long list of neavier oils, eading with the heaviest and thickest of lubricants. ‘Thore is left in the tank paraffine and a black, dense, sticky substance which Is little more than asphalt. From thess bi-products, after the refiniag of oll, are made more than 150 substances of value, intluding such familiar tings fas dyes, soap, vaseline, ointment, and chewing gum. Re Berta teh fs Molten wood iva new invention by Mr. de*Gall, inspector of forests at ‘Lemur, France. By means of dry dts- tillation and high preasure the escape of developing gaees 1s prevented,there- by reducing tho wood toa molten con- ditioa.- After cooling off the muse ‘agsumes the charicter of coal, yot without showing a trace of tho organto structure of that mineral. This now body fs hard, but canbe shaped and polished at will: {s impervious to water and aclds, and Is 3 perfect eleo- trical non-conductor, Great results are expected from this new discovery — United States Consular Reports, “> Passion tiy's Financlal Remie Oueraustergan fa3, Veen casting up the: gcpoitnts of this’ year's Passion Play. ‘Ther2 were forty-clght pertorm= ances and 200,000 violtors, who patd $300,000 for ailmieston, The profits of the village from Todgers, the sale of trinkets, ete, wore. Detwocn $750,000 and $1,000,000. Munich and Bavarian allroads have also profited, the Iatter ‘eho ‘g surplus of $2,500,000," FOR SLEEPLESS ONES. rene ‘The old tradition that the doura \ot slesp before midnight are hours. jot “beauty leep” mesns only that late hours take away beauty. ‘Thousands of night workers will testify that elght hours ot sleep’ from 10 to 6 1s worth ten hours taken: after retiring at 4 o'clock in the morning, Darknees is ‘the proper time for the sleep that does the most good. It is not well to sleep {n a room In which plants are grow. lng, Tholr food 1s carbonic acld gas, It they can live there the room 1s 8 ‘bad place for you to sleep in, Besides, plants use up a good deal of oxygen and give off effuvia and pollen irritat- ing to the human system. ‘The sound- ‘eat sleep is during the first three or four. hours after going to bed. This has been ascertained by sclentific ex- periment, though most. people think they: slesp soundest just before the time when consclence tells them to-get up. Insomla often comes from over- cating. A little dleting may do more good than a lot of doctors’ prescrip- tlons. More persons sufter trom over- ‘eating than trom overworking. Long, deep breath! g Kept up a9 long as pos- sible by will power is the most gen- erally recommended remedy: for occa- stonal sleeplessness. ‘The main aim in such cases is to keep the mind from thinking. ‘This is sometimes accom- plished by the strain of Keeping the eye fixed on some polnt in the cefling ‘or keeping the will fixed on the effort not to movo even the smallest muscle. Monotony will put any man to sleep In splte of himself. Most psychologists acknowledge that deep study of any subject just before going to sleep may result in something like a revelation as to some phase of tho subject, the mind through tinconselous cerebration accomplishing wonders without the as- sistanco of the will. Passages to be momorized should be ropeated several times before going to bed. Sometimes the sleeplessnss ‘of children 1s, owing to excitation of the digestive organs. In that case it 1s a good plan to allow only vegetable foods at the evening ‘aaal: LIVING EXPENSES. Previsions Are Cheaper Now ‘Than They ‘Were Thirty Kears Ago, The interesting disclosure is mado that the cost of living is less in the United States todaysthan it was in the 1860, Carefully compiled statisties show that articles costing $100 then cost $75 now. It is truo that 2 few things are moro expensive, but com- modities consumed generally by fam- files, such as breadstufts, sugar, viee, salt, woolen and cotton goods, boots and shoes, and silk and rubber goods, are considerably cheaper now thai they were thirty years ago. Ali manti- factured goods, with hardly an excop- tion, are cheaper, mainly because of improved processes of manufacture which enable the maker to reduce the ost. to the lowest point, says Leslie's Weekly. ‘The development of our vast arable territory in the west, north: west and southwest, and the striking results of irrigation, when applied to what wore formerly ‘considered deseit ands, have increased our crop sup- plies more rapidly than the increase of population. Despite the dire predie- tlons that pricos of wheat, corn and ‘cotton must incvitably advance le- ‘eauge little land remained:to bo cult vated in the west and south, the fact {ng tillage. In Texas alone an area ‘almost as extensive as that of the ‘original thirteen states is virgin soli ‘The emigrant may have to go farther and work harder to establish a home- stead in the United States, but Uncle Sam is stil rich enough to give every able-bodied, industrious neweomer a chance’ te own actara * Here's a Worrled Citizen, ‘This is an age of hustlo, bustle and sweat. A man hustles from early dawn until the katydids sing.in the twilight for three meals a day and a place in which to He awake at night and worry about it, It he doesn’t over- work hie 1s called lazy, and if he does overwork he goes crazy, He tolls and saves through the days of his youth s0 that when he grows old he can wear a silk hat and sit on the knee of lux- ury, but when his hair turns to snow and his whiskers grow thin and gray in Mfe’s late afternoon, he finds he has been victimized‘and grievously bunkoed by his own calculations, and that rheumatism and poor relations have shattered all his dreams and punetured his long hopes.—Dallas City (ML) Review. Mang of Watch Ginsses. Wateh glasses ought not to be ex- pensive, and are not, In the produc- tion of common. watch giasses, the glass is blown into a sphere about a meter in diameter, sufficient materia being taken to give the desired thick- nese, ag the case may be: Disks are then cut out from the sphete with the ald of a palr of compasses, having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. ‘There is a knack of detaching the disc after it has been cut. A good work- ‘man will, {t is sald, cut 6,000 glasses fnaday. 1 ame Ai eeree eR Re ‘remarkable _ record was tha: which had been gained by the ste John Lancombe, tor 38 years cashier of tho government printing office at Washington. and an employe of the in- stitution In some capacity: since ‘Its establishment. His record lay in the fact that a5 cashier of the printing of- fice he disbursed more than $50,009,070, and without tho disallowanes or sus- pension’ of @ single acount turned in by him to the auditors of the treasury, All Drnggists guurantees every bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and will refund ‘the monoy to anyone who iu nt satlified after using two-thirds of the contents, This is the best rem: edp in the world for In gripe, coughs, eolds, croup .and whooping cough and je plonsant and safe totake, It pre- venta any tendency oss cold to result in pneumonia, EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGEB'S LAUN- DRY is tho ‘best in the city, Try them ‘and be decided. 220 THIRD ST. PHONE 679, xg We want you to subscribe for the lowa Stars ByeranpEr. "Oa Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave ‘Kansas City via the M. K. and 7. By. ‘every Saturday at 0:03 P, M. for San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francie oo, First Sleeper leaves Kansas Oi ty Nov. ard. RURLINGTON ROUTE Is the shortest, most satisfactory and pleasantest line to the Black Hills Deadwood, Montana and the northwest ‘Sumptuous chair cars and superior ser- vieo every day in the week. For par- ticulars call on F. L. Gannaway, City Passenger Agent, Burlington Ronte 400 Locust St. Des Moines Ia, A Village Blacksmith Saved Hi: Little Son's Life. Mr. IL. B. Black, the well-Known vil- lage blacksmith ot Grahamsville, Sul- liven Co,, N. ¥., says: “Our little son, five years old, has always been subject treroup, and so bad have the attacks been that we feared many times that he would die, We have had the doctor and used many medicines, but Cham- berlain’s Cough Remedy is now our sole reliance It ¢cems to dissolve the tough mucus and by giving frequent doses when the croupy symptoms ap- pear we have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gots settled.” ‘There is no danger in giving this rem- edy for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently to.o babe as toan adult, For sale by all Druggists. Widows Do Not Remarry. ‘In China it is the rule of good so- cfety 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 re- married, confers on them a tablet con- taining a eulogy of their virtues, Ratsiog tho Hat an Anciont 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. Winco Rupert's Misilkes, Prince Rupert, the heir to the throne cf Bavaria, dislikes the atten- tons of the White Rose league of Eng- land, 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.” sf misitehida Sete’ Mhattuaaine: ‘tbseums: Great Britain has issued a new halt- penny stamp, green in color; a now 1s bl-colored postage and revenue stamp Will also be issued about mid- summer, when the stock of the pres- ent single colored yreen stamp will be oxhausted. Grave Filing Dovloe, : ‘A devies for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Towa, is de- algned to fill the grave with earth atter the coffin has been lowered, and tc conceal as far a3 possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the cofin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony . to the bereaved mourners, It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and agate in the latter s¢ arranged as’ to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fall. The front is a flexible curtain, extending trom the top to the gate, and designed to pre- vent the earth within from being’ seen, ‘This receptacle is filled with earth. previous to the ceremony and carried to a convenient point, When all is' over and tho grave is to be filled, the receptacle 1s placed over it, and the gates opened, thus gently closing the last sad scene n'a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold- hearted return of the earth with o spade. £ AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. peak well of your. friend, of your wwemy, say nothing. He who saya what he likes will Hear what ke doesnot like. A man’s manners are the mirror t= which he shows liis portrait, It cheerfulness knocks for ndmie- slon, we should open our hearts wide to recaive it, tor It never comes inop~ chara ie Regs | IT’S A MATTER OF PRIDE eh ro with us that no flouriin. the tne (aii | Withvas shall exeet that manufac. ies 5 tued at the Des Moines Rolle WED wy Mills. It's no leis a matter of Ny eZ, | busmess, Valen flour mnt Sy) OWD SZ | tried mens repetitions ang one’ = Vg BOND © | accuse, note co ek = ee E | cates of its many merits, hence yy gS E | our every increasing demang z fs oF = hence a spread. of contentment 2 = Sawin S throughout our “sphere’ of inf, Be, oh 2 ence.” Pn Yea? 2 ‘Ask your grocer for Falcon, x We Kr Pg Made and guaranteed by “AK SHANNON & MOTT Co, Rorvndent. 4 DES MOINES, Iowa, i . ee? 1 Money to Loan by the Enterprise Jvestment Co, on al, chattel and otber seour- es ore ro pe ‘be renewed upon payment of exten- sion, Easy payments, pooataly, or weekly. I. E. WILLIAMSON, 18-30 ‘Business Manager. 211 4th, street. Des Moines. | EIRAPRAS To John Leonard: Your are Mery notified, that the following described realestate, situated jin Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot ‘Thirteen (13) in Block Fifty: four (54) of ‘Stewarc’s addition to the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the seventh day of December 1897 to E. G. Zellehoeffer; that said E. G@. Zellehoeffer is still the owner and holder of the. cersidepte, of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and pire, an.a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made withio ninety ‘days from the date of completed service ‘of this notice. You will govern yourself ais ees Dated this 19th day of peplomvar: A. D. 1900. E. G, Zellehoeffer. By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. SG nea ae oe Jobn Harmon: You are hereby notified, that the following described real-estate, sitaat- ed in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Sixty-two (62) in Gray's. Subdivision of Lot tty (G0) and part of Tot sixty-two (62) of Brooks & Company's addition, beiug incladed in and forming » part of the City of Des. Moines, Towa, was sold for the taxes of 1895 on the Sixth day of December, 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said’ Daniel ‘T, Patton is still the owner and holder of the cer- tiflcate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be monde unless redemp- tion from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice, You willlgovern yourself accordingly. Dated this 17th day of October, A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton, By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF ‘REDEMPTION. ‘To EB. Switzer: You are hereby notified, that the fol- lowing described real estate, situated in Polk Crunty, Jowa, to-wit: Lot One (1) in lock Six (6) of Foundry addition, being included in and forming at part of the City of Des Moines, Lowa, wat sold for the taxes of 1896 on the seventh day ot December 1807 to Daniel 'T. Patton; that said Daniel 'T. Patton is stil] the owner and holer of the cer- tifleate of purchase issued in pursuance of seid sale, and that the right of re demption willexpire. aud a Treasurer's Deed for said lend will be made unless redemption from such salo be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordiogly. - Dated this 16th day of October A. D. 1900, Daniel 'T. Patton, By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. SPO nee a yaaa re aaa ean at am Te Ea! REDEMPTION, ToLottie M. Dingee and Emma B. Dingee: You are hereby notified, that the fo lowing described real estate, situated in Polk County, Towa, to-wit: Lot Bight (8) in Glenwooa Place, being {0- cluded in und formings part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxesof 1806 on the seventh day of December. 1897 to Daviel ‘T. Patton; that saii Daniel 'T. Patton fe still. the owner-and holder of the certificate, of purchase issued in pursuanct of said sale, and that the right of rededaption will expire, and a ‘Treasurer's Deed. for said lund will be made unless redemp- tion from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this otive. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 16th day of October, A. D. 1000. Daniel T. Patton. ‘By Geo, Harnagel, bis agent, M. K. & T. REDUCES RATES IN INDIAN TERRITORY. Eyery since the construction of the M. K.& T, Ry. ‘through the Indian Territory its local passenger rate be- tween stations in the Indian Territory has been on the basis of fire cents & mile. The customary irate of passen- ger fares on railroads, except in sparce Jy settled country, is three cents o mile, The population of the Indian Territory. during the past few years has grown rapidly; there has been 8 lange increase 1a passencer traffic on this acconnt, and thé Katy officials, recogniziug the wants of the people and the justice of fo doing, have volun- tarily stranged to reduce the local passenger rule to a’ baeis of three cents a mile, This reduction will take place on'or about-November first, ‘there will be great rejoicing among the resi- dents along the line of the M. K. &T DES = Ro ee NOTICE TO REDEEM FRow 74, SALE. : State of lows, Poll County, ss: ‘Ko Billa Bennett: You are hereby notified that on th day of December. “A.D. 1997 ihe following described real estate, sitear' in Polle county, Towa, iwas told for the taxes for the year i800, waich rect catate is described as follows, wort Lot Twenty-one (21) Twinings Adei- tion now forming a part of the eity ot Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, ‘That the some was, at such sale, purchased by Gy Hunter and’ omit Neate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polke county, Iowa, and by the sais Hunter the certificate was daly assign ed. I, Wallace J. Berry am now tho owner and holder of the certificate, and the right of redemption will ext pire and a Treasurer's Deed for said Property will be. made, unless redemp- tion from such sale be, made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. WallsceJ. Berry, Lavwtul holder and owner of said eer- tificate. aN NOTICE TO BEOBEM FROM TAX SALE. State of lows, Polk County, as: To Geo, A. Daaner: You are hereiy notified that on the ‘Wh-day of December A. D 1807 the following desribed real catate, situat- ed in Poli county, fowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1898, which real estate is described as follows to-wit: Lot Sixteen (10) Block Six (6) Fairciew ‘Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moises, Polk county, Towa. ‘That the same was, at auch sale, purcbased by C. M. Catheart nnd a cer Titleate issued tovhim by the Treasurer of Polk-county, lowa, and by the said Cutheart the certifvate was daly as- signed:to J. Hf, Phillips, and he is now the owner and holler of saidcertificate and the right of redemption will ex: pire and a, Treasurer's Deed for sig Property will be made, unless redenn’4 Vion from such sale be m do with ninety days from the completed servi fered Hr Pauls Lawfal holder and owner of eaij Tifleates nis etre NOTICE TO REVEEM FELow Tax SALE. State of Iowa. Polk County, ss: To Geo, A, Danuer: You are hereby notified that on the ‘7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situat- in Polle county, lows, was 8uld for the taxes for the year 1896,» which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Fifteen (15) Block Six (6) Fairview ‘Addition to, and now forming a part of tho ety of Des Moines, Poi county, ows, ‘That the same was, at such sale, parchased by C. M. Cathcart and a cer- tifleate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Jows, and by the said Cathcart the certificate was duly as- signed to J. 8. Paillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate and the right of redemption: will ex- pire, and a Treasurer's Devd for said property will be made, unless redomp- tion from such sale ‘be made withio ninety days trom the completed service hereof. ‘J. HL. Philips, Lawfal holder and owner of cerli- ficate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To J. W. Morris: ve ‘You are hereby notified that the: fol- lowing described real estate, sitasted tn Polk county, Towa and described 8x follows: Lots No.7, 8.11, in Block.E. ‘Des Moines Uo. Addition to Polk City, was sold. for. taxes: on the Oth day of Desember, 1807 to-J- L. Wilson, that, the certificate of sale therrof is now, owned by said J. L: Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, end ‘Treasurer's Deed. for said lots will be made, unless redemption from sush sale be made within ninety days {rom ‘the date of completed service of this notice, é ‘Dated this 2ad day of November A, D.1000.. J. L. Wilson, Des Muines, Lows. Ni i Sten eae cee NOTICE 10 REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To E. W. Smith: é ‘You are hereby novifed that the. fol- lowing described real estaté, situated in Polk county, Lows, and described a8 follows: Lots’ No. 9, 10,12 aad 13 in Block E, Des Moines. Co, Addition to Pole City, was sold for the taxes on the Gth day of December 1807 to-J. L. Wil; fon, that the certificate of sale thereof I now owned by Jb Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and & Treasurer's Deck for sald’ lote will be ‘made, uojess redemption trom such falo be made witnid ninety days from the date of completed. service of this notice. ‘Dated this 2nd day of November. ‘A. D. 1900. 3, Le Wilson, f ‘Des Moines, Town: ee WHRLINGTON ROUTE Makes a specialty of personally cop: ducted excursions to California aud Pa cific coast pointaon Thursday of eich week. ‘Through tourist sleepers are run every Monday and Thursday, af fording excursionists with, Tuxurious comfort at minim cost). Kor. prtlen- jare uddress . I, Gannaway, Ol y Pas- songer Avent, Burll gos Houte, 408 Locust street Des Moinet, In: RACE ECHOES. Quite a colony of colored people has sailed for Cape Nome this year, and before the season shall have closed, not less than 500 Negroes will be in Nome, with equally as many in Dawson City. The oldest employee in point of service of the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., is George Brown, a colored man who began his duties as janitor in 1845 when the naval school was founded. Governor, Sayers (Democratic governor of Texas) sent to Spanish Camp, Wharton county, $1500 to Harry Gillis Roseway and S. M. Martin, all colored, said amount to be used in helping the Negro sufferers to rebuild. The colored people of Minneapolis, Minn., have organized a joint stock company and will soon open a large grocery store. J. C. Reed is President and J. Ford is Secretary. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the young negro composer of London, who married an English woman a year ago, has lately become the father of a son. He has followed Wagner's example of naming his first born after one of his heroes, and the boy will go through life to the name of Hiawatha Coleridge Taylor. The appointment of James H. Wolfe, one of Boston's Negro lawyers as judge advocate general of the National Department of the Grand Army of the Republic is of more signifiance than it could otherwise be because the appointment is the act of a Southern man who might very naturally be supposed to be in sympathy with the color prejudice of his section. One of the principal objections which has come from the South against the reunion of the ex Confederates with the Grand Army is the equality of the black man which obtains in that organization.—Boston Transcript. --- Charles F. Kimball, a broker at 92 LaSalle street Chicago, was made richer by $25,000 by the will of his mother, Laura C. F. Kimball, filed for probate yesterday. Of the estate of $60,000 the son was the largest beneficiary. A grand child, Musa Cowan, received $10,000, and the residue of the estate was left to the American Female Guardian society of New York for the purpose of making life members of poor colored children. Preference for children of New Liberian families is made. 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." **VARIOUS REMEMBRANCES His Citizenship Rome, March 22—Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has appeared in court at Lucca and renounced his Spanish citizenship, declaring himself an Austrian subject.** Gordon Said to Have Yielded to Cate London, March 22—It is announced that the suitan has yielded "in all essential particulars" to the Russian demands respecting railway concessions in Asia Minor. Nina Nase Receives White Vid. Duhugue, Iowa, March 22—Nina young women, six of whom are from Chicago, received the white veil and permitted to the mother house of parents of Chichester Tuesday. But He Hed to Wake Fifty Years for His Bride's Consent. The whirligig of time that eventually makes all things even made it possible for both Thomas Hartigan and Susan Thompson to keep their vows that prevented them for half a century from marrying, and yet permitted them, only a week ago, to wed after all. Fifty years ago Thomas Hartigan, in a sort of boyish prank, declared that he should marry in his shirt sleeves. His bride, Susan Thompson, went to the church on her wedding day, never thinking that her lover was serious in what he said, but when he appeared at the altar and declared that he should never marry except in his shirt sleeves, then she said she would never marry him if he did not put on a coat. So there was no wedding. All this happened in the Cascade valley, near Renva, Pa. After winning wealth in California Hartigan returned to the Cascade valley three years ago. Susan Thompson was still there. They talked of marrying, but each was still firm in the declaration in regard to the shirt sleeves they had made 50 years ago. Last summer the shirtwalt man appeared. Thomas Hartigan decided that if he wore a shirtwalt at his wedding he would be fulfilling his vow of marrying in his shirt sleeves to the letter. Miss Thompson decided that fashion had given the shirt waist the dignity of a coat, and that she could marry a man wearing a shirt waist without breaking her vow never to marry Tom Hartigan unless he wore a coat. And so they were married, and Tom Hartigan wore the most elaborate shirt waist that the storekeeper in Renova could get in Philadelphia. So the male shirtwalt has not lived in vain. WOMEN MAY WOO. So One of Them Thinks, and Expresses Herself. Of course women have to dispose of themselves in marriage, but should the woman ever propose? asks a masculine writer. Sometimes, even when it is not leap year, they should. There is first of all the case of queens; they must do so, and very prettily did Queen Victoria fulfill the task, says the Washington Post. But the sex is so good-natured in helping lame dogs over a stall! An Irish girl did it in this way. She thought that her boy was slow in coming to the point, so she said, "If I were you, Jack, and you were me, we'd be married long ago." Another shy man said to the lady of his choice: "I wish we were on such terms of intimacy that you wouldn't mind calling me by my first name." "Oh," she answered, "your second is good enough for me. Shakespeare's heroes are remarkably ready to take the initiative in this most serious business. Helena demands the hand of Bertram as the price of her wonder-working prescription. Desdemona hints broadly that she is to be had for the asking. Mirandada tells her patient logman that she is his wife if he will marry her. Olivia says to her lover's masquerading messenger: ' "Would you undertake another suit, I rather hear you to solicit Than music from the spheres!" Then, finding Sebastian himself more pliable than his fair double, she fetches a priest to make sure of him while he is in the humor. Juliet, caught thinking aloud, declares her willingness to lay her fortunes at Romeo's feet if he will but say when and where the holy man shall make them one. Refining Petroleum. The refining of petroleum is an interesting process. The petroleum is put into a tank, under which is a slow fire, burning the gas from the oil itself. As the latter warms up, the vapors pass through a long pipe, and are cooled in the process, condensing it into liquid again. The first thing that "comes over" is a gas which is used as a fuel in the works. Next, the varying grades of naphtha; next (the product becoming heavier and heavier all the time), the gasoline grades, then the low-test kerosenes, then the high-grade kerosenes. Then comes a long list of heavier oils, ending with the heaviest and thickest of lubricants. There is left in the tank paraffine and a black, dense, sticky substance which is little more than asphalt. From these bi-products, after the refining of oil, are made more than 150 substances of value, including such familiar things as dyes, soap, vaseline, ointment, and chewing gum. Molten wood is a new invention by Mr. de'Gall, inspector of forests at Lemur, France. By means of dry distillation and high pressure the escape of developing gases is prevented, thereby reducing the wood to a molten condition. After cooling off the mass assumes the character of coal, yet without showing a trace of the organic structure of that mineral. This new body is hard, but can be shaped and polished at will; is impervious to water and acids, and is a perfect electrical non-conductor. Great results are expected from this new discovery—United States Connual Reports. Paslon truly kindhearted helen. Obermargeran has been casting up the accounts of this year's Passion Play. Theres many forty-eight perform- ances and 200,000 visitors, who paid $300,000 for admission. The profits of the village from lodgers, the sale of trinkets, etc., were between $750,000 and $1,000,000. Munich and Bavarian yallroads have also profited, the latter showing a surplus of $2,500,000. FOR SLEEPLESS ONES. Darkness the Proper Time for Refreshing sleep. The old tradition that the hours of sleep before midnight are hours of "beauty sleep" means only that late hours take away beauty. Thousands of night workers will testify that eight hours of sleep from 10 to 6 is worth ten hours taken after retiring at 4 o'clock in the morning. Darkness is the proper time for the sleep that does the most good. It is not well to sleep in a room in which plants are growing. Their food is carbonic acid gas. If they can live there the room is a bad place for you to sleep in. Besides, plants use up a good deal of oxygen and give off effluence and pollen irritating to the human system. The soundest sleep is during the first three or four hours after going to bed. This has been ascertained by scientific experiment, though most people think they sleep soundest just before the time when conscience tells them to get up. Insomnia often comes from overeating. A little dieting may do more good than a lot of doctors' prescriptions. More persons suffer from overeating from overworking. Long, breathless he kept up as long as possible by will power is the most generally recommended remedy for occasional sleeplessness. The main aim in such cases is to keep the mind from thriving. This is sometimes accomplished by the strain of keeping the eye fixed on some point in the ceiling or keeping the will fixed on the effort not to move even the smallest muscle. Monotony will put any man to sleep in spite of himself. Most psychologists acknowledge that deep study of any subject just before going to sleep may result in something like a revelation as to some phase of the subject, the mind through unconscious cerebration accomplishing wonders without the assistance of the will. Passages to be memorized should be repeated several times before going to bed. Sometimes the sleeplessness of children is owing to excitation of the digestive organs. In that case it is a good plan to allow only vegetable foods at the evening meal. LIVING EXPENSES Provisions Are Cheaper Now Then They Were Thirty Years Ago. The interesting disclosure is made that the cost of living is less in the United States today than it was in the 1860. Carefully compiled statistics show that articles costing $100 then cost $75 now. It is true that a few things are more expensive, but commodities consumed generally by families, such as breadstuffs, sugar, rice, salt, woolen and cotton goods, boots and shoes, and silk and rubber goods, are considerably cheaper now than they were thirty years ago. Ali manufactured goods, with hardly an exception, are cheaper, mainly because of improved processes of manufacture which enable the maker to reduce the cost to the lowest point, says Leslie's Weekly. The development of our vast arable territory in the west, northwest and southwest, and the striking results of irrigation, when applied to what were formerly considered desert lands, have increased our crop supplies more rapidly than the increase of population. Despite the dire predictions that prices of wheat, corn and cotton must inevitably advance because little land remained to be cultivated in the west and south, the fact is that millions of acres are still awaiting tillage. In Texas alone an area almost as extensive as that of the original thirteen states is virgin soil. The emigrant may have to go farther and work harder to establish a homestead in the United States, but Uncle Sam is still rich enough to give every able-bodied, industrious newcomer a chance to own a farm. - Here's a Worried Citizen Here's a Worried Citizen. This is an age of hustle, bustle and sweat. A man hustles from early dawn until the katyldies sing in the twilight for three meals a day and a place in which to lie awake at night and worry about it. If he doesn't overwork he is called lazy, and if he does overwork he goes crazy. He toils and saves through the days of his youth so that when he grows old he can wear a silk hat and sit on the knee of luxury, but when his hair turns to snow and his whiskers grow thin and gray in life's late afternoon, he finds he has been victimized and grievously bunked by his own calculations, and that rheumatism and poor relations have shattered all his dreams and punctured his long hopes.—Dallas City (Ill.) Review. Making of Watch Glasses Making of Wear glasses. Watch glasses ought not to be expensive, and are not. In the production of common watch glasses, the glass is blown into a sphere about a meter in diameter, sufficient material being taken to give the desired thickness, as the case may be. Disks are then cut out from the sphere with the aid of a pair of compasses, having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. There is a knack of detaching the disc after it has been cut. A good workman will, it is said, cut 6,000 glasses in a day. Had Handled $50,000,000. A remarkable record was that which had been gained by the late John Lancamie, for 38 years cashier of the government printing office at Washington and an employee of the institution in some capacity since its establishment. His record lay in the fact that as cashier of the printing office he disbursed more than $50,000,000, and without the disallowance or suspension of a single account turned in by him to the auditors of the treasury. All Drugstats guarantees every bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and will refund the money to anyone who is not satisfied after using two-thirds of the contents. This is the best remedy in the world for the la grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency as a cold to result in pneumonia. EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUN-DRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. We want you to subscribe for the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER. Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave Kansas City via the M. K. and T. R. every Saturday at 9:05 P. M. for San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francisco. First Sleeper leaves Kansas City Nov. 3rd. BURLINGTON ROUTE Is the shortest, most satisfactory and pleasantest line to the Black Hills Deadwood, Montana and the northwest Sumptuous chair cars and superior service every day in the week. For particulars call on F. L. Gannaway, City Passenger Agent, Burlington Route 400 Locust St. Des Moines Ia. A Village Blacksmith Saved Hir Little Son's Life. Mr. H. H. Black, the well-known village blacksmith at Grahamsville, Sullivan Co., N. Y., says: "Our little son, five years old, has always been subject to croup, and so bad have the attacks been that we feared many times that he would die. We have had the doctor and used many medicines, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is now our sole reliance. It seems to dissolve the tough mucus and by giving frequent doses when the croupy symptoms appear we have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gets settled." There is no danger in giving this remedy for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently to a babe as to an adult. For sale by all Druggists. Widowa 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 Diallkee Prince Rupert, the heir to the throne of Bavaria, dislikes the attentions of the White Ross 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 bi-colored postage and revenue stamp will also be issued about mid-summer, when the stock of the present single colored green stamp will be exhausted. Gravo Filling Device A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter sc. arranged as to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fall. The front is a flexible curtain, extending from the top to the gate, and designed to prevent the earth within from being seen. This receptacle is filled with earth previous to the ceremony and carried to a convenient point. When all is over and the grave is to be filled, the receptacle is placed over it, and the gates opened, thus gently closing the last scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a shade. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL 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 inop- FARMING FILLING COFFEE COPYRIGHT. Money to Loan by the Enterprise Investment Co. on personal, chattel and other securities. Everything private. Loans can be renewed upon payment of extension. Easy payments, monthly or weekly. I. E. WILLIAMSON. 18-30 Business Manager. 211 4th, street. Des Moines. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To John Leonard: Your are her-by notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Thirteen (13) in Block Fifty four (54) of Stewart's addition to the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the seventh day of December 1897 to E. G. Zellehoeffer; that said E. G. Zellehoeffer is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and that the right of sale of remission will expire. Measureer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 19th day of September, A. Boye, Harnawi, his coffer H. Boye, Harnawi, his coffer NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Sixty-two (50) in Gray's Subdivision of Lot fifty (50) and part of Lot Sixty-two (62) of Brooks & Company's addition, being included in and forming a part of the property of the taxes of 1896 on the Sixth day of December, 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such land is obtained by the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 17th day of October, A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. Corn Hearing. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. Yo E. Switzer. You are hereby notified, that the following real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot One (1) in Block Six (6) of Foundry addition, being included in and forming at part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the seventh day or December 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of sale said, and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 16th day of October A. D. 1000. Daniel T. Patton, By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Lottie M. Dinges and Emma B. Dinges: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Eight (8) in Glenwood Place, being included in and forming part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for $249,000 on December, 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption is obtained ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 16th day of October, A. D. 1000. Daniel T. Patton. Corn Harness. M. K. & T. REDUCES RATES IN INDIAN TERRITORY. Every since the construction of the M. K. & T, Ry. through the Indian Territory its local passenger rate between stations in the Indian Territory has been on the basis of five cents a mile. The customary rate of passenger fares on railroads, except in sparsely settled country, is three cents a mile. The population of the Indian Territory during the past few years has grown rapidly; there has been a large increase in passenger traffic on this account, and the Katy officials, recognizing the wants of the people and the justice of so doing, have voluntarily arranged to reduce the local passenger rate to a basis of three cents a mile. This reduction will take place on or about November first. There will be great rejoicing among the residents along the line of the M. K. & T IT'S A MATTER OF PRIDE with us that no flour in the land with us shall excel that manufactured at the Des Moines Roller Mills. It's no less a matter of business. Falcon flour once tried means repetitions and constant use, no less consistent advocates of its many merits; hence our every increasing demand; hence a spread of contentment throughout our "sphere of influence." Ask your grocer for Falcon. Made and guaranteed by SHANNON & MOTT Co. DES MOINES, IOWA NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Ellis Bannett. You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1896, which re- al estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Twenty-one (21) Twinings Addition now forming a part of the city of Deer trees, Polk County, Iowa. at such sale, purchased by Guy Hunters, a certi- ficate issued to him by the Tren- tress Polk county, Iowa, and by the Salt Hunter the certificate was duly assigned. I. Wallace J. Berry am now the owner and holder of the certificate, and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redem- ment made within ninety days from the com- pany's service hereof. J. Wallace J. Berry. Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa. Polk County, ss: To Goo. A. Dauer: You are here: notified that on the 7th day of December A. D 1897 the following described real estate, siti- ated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for 1989 for the property. Which real estate is described as followi Lot Sixteen (10) Block Six (6) Fairview 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 C. M. Catcath and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Catcath the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate from the Treasurer's fire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless reduction from such sale be made within ninety days from the complied serviereof. J. H. Phillip Lawful holder and owner of said tificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Goo, A. Danner; You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situat- ing in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1898, which real State tax describes the value of the said 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 C. M. Catcart and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Catcart the certificate was duly as- signed to J. H. Phillips, and he is 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 owner of certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To J. W. Morris: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa and described as follows; Lots N. 7, 8.11, in Block E. Des Moines Co. Addition to Polk City, was sold for taxes on the 6th day of December, 1897 to J. L. Wilson, that the certificate of sale thereof is not owned by said J. L. Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed may, said lots will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. notice. Dated this 2nd day of November A. D. 1900. J. L. Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa. To E. W. Smith: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, and described follows: Lots N. 9, 10, 12 and 13 in Block E. Des Moines Co. to addition to Polk City, was sold for the taxes on the 6th day of December 1897 to J. L. Wilson, that the certificate of sale thereof is now owned by J. W. Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said lots will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Died this 2nd day of November. A. D. 1900. J. L. Wilson. Des Moines, Iowa. BURLINGTON ROUTE Makes a speciality of personally conducted excursions to California and Pacific coast points on Thursday of each week. Through tourist sleepers are run every Monday and Thursday, affording excursionists with luxurious comfort at minimum cost. For piculars address P. L. Gannaway, Oi y Passenger Agent, Burlil gton Routes, 408 Locust street Des Moines, Ia.