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 It is claimed in Denver that $1,000,000 were wagered in that city on the result of the Presidential election. A minister shakes your hand and a lawyer pulls your leg, but a politician will shake your hand one minute and pull your leg the next. Paper money is at a premium at Nema. Miners find it more convenient than gold and pay as much as 2 per cent in excess of its face value for it. Sunday laws are strictly enforced in Monolulu. Not only are all saloons and bars kept tightly closed and stores forbidden to sell, but anyone who attempts to play ball or indulge in any other sport on Sunday is carried before a magistrate to pay a fine or go to fail. Sweden is suffering from the effects of a boom in manufacturing which has drawn thousands of the country people to the larger towns and caused house rents to advance 30 to 30 per cent. Many of the manufacturers have invested beyond their capital and are in distress. Money is very scarce and a crisis is threatened. Train robberies have become so frequent in the west that one railroad, the Oregon railroad and Navigation company, regards an investment in bloodhounds advisable. A litter of the puppies has been distributed among the agents along the line, with instructions to rear them for the sole purpose of man catching. Microbe light is the latest Paris invention. A French chemist, Raphael Dubois, has found a way of nourishing phosphorescent animalcules in glass vessels, which soon emit a light about as bright as the moon. He expects to increase its intensity and believes that its being entirely free from heat will give it a scientific value. New Zealand seems to be prosperous. The revenue for the year shows a record surplus equal to more than $3,000,000 over expenditure. The public debt of the colony stands at £47,000,000 ($228,715,000) and the financial statement proposes that parliament should authorize 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 English took from the French in 1745 and threw into the harbor of Louisbourg have been brought to Toronto. They are among a number recently issued out of Louisbourg harbor and have been purchased by the government. The cannon have been lying at the bottom of the sea for 150 years. Each cannon is about nine feet long and weighs over 3,000 pounds. A firm in Lyona, France, takes advantage of the shortening of cotton fibers under nonmercerized treatment by 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 applied, shrink, while the silk, keeping its original length, is gathered in tiny folds. In this way the most diversified patterns are produced. When the Roosevelt train pulled out of Greeley, Col., a woman climbed on the back platform in order to give a home-made cake to the governor. The train gained such momentum that when the time came for her to get off she was obliged to make a flying trapse leap for terra firma. She rolled over 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 her hand-kerchief in evident delight, and became the envy of a hundred women who had watched her acrobatic effort. Bankruptcy proceedings are often prolific in emmities. They are not, at a rule particularly conducive to friendship between creditor and debtor, even if the relations between the person interested have been amicable. Some bankrupts are fraudulent no doubt yet in many cases genuine misfortune is the cause, and the insolvency involves no dishonor. The Philadelphia Record describes a scene at the filing of a petition in bankruptcy. One of the creditors was the debtor when the papers were filed. Both were Quakers "There goes thy money, brother," said the debtor. "Yes," responded the creditor, "but I know that thee would pay me if thee could." Then the two men shook hands. It is a pleasant picture to hang beside many sketches which repel. The total cost of the Pan-America expedition to be held in Buffalo next year is estimated at $10,000,000, an John N. Scatcherd, who is chairman of the executive committee, says the resources now in sight amount it about $4,000,000. Progress on the work of construction is proceeding rapidly, nearly 5,000 work now being employed. The "midway" at the expiration will cost $3,000,000. The expiration grounds will be half a mile wide and a mile and a quarter long, an will comprise 350 acres. It will open May 1, 1961. THE NEWS IN IOWA FOUND HIDDEN JEWELRY. in Garden. Ottumwa, Nw. 14. A prominent South Ottumwa woman, while digging in her garden, unearthed several valuable jewelled and plain gold rings. The discovery is no doubt the olimax of a mystery which has remained unsolved for the past six months. Early last June the jewelry store of R. B. Field on Main street was robbed of several hundred dollars worth of jewelry, consisting mostly of ring rings of various sizes. The son of a bounty hunter South Ottumwa man, who had been accustomed to staying around the store, was accused of the robbery. The matter at the time escaped publication, and as the boy's father refunded part of the stolen jewelry and made good the balance in money, Mr. Field decided to refrain from prosecuting the youth. In all probability the youth the rent in the property and has since frightened with the consequences of his act that he has been afraid and ashamed to disclose the hiding place of the property. BAD FIRE AT MT. AVR. Forty Thousand Dollars' Worth of Property Destroyed M. Aty. Nov. 15.—A disastrous conflagration occurred here yesterday, resulting in the total destruction of the M. Aty. bank and the A. E. Holden Cash store, a net loss of at least $40,000. It is understood the loss is only partially covered by insurance. The fire started from a furnace beneath the Holden Cash store. The flames ate their way upward with wonderful rapidity, and but a short time later the fire store was taken. Adjoining the store Allen Bros.' bank, in which Senator Allen is interested, and it went up in smoke. The bank officials succeeded in saving the funds and books belonging to the bank as well as the valuable papers, but there was nothing whatever saved of the stock of the dry good store. HOOT IS FOUND GUILTY. Convicted on the Charge of Assaults to the European Commission Vanden With interest to commit Waterloo, Jeroen W. Hoot a verdict was rendered finding the defendant 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 offered 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 documents which were proved to have been inscribed by the court or the attorneys were listened to by a court room full of spectators, including a large number of ladies. Can't Ning in Iowa Falcons. Watson is on Nov. 14.—A peculiar feature of the mluet law has been brought to light by Evangelist Wharton, who has had charge of the union meetings here for several weeks. As one 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 proprietor that he could not dispense sweet strains. His audience was not averse to music, but the law under which he was charged was enabling establishment provided that singing should not be allowed. Both the preacher and the followers were inclined to take the matter as a joke until a copy of the law was produced, which plainly stated that no singing should be allowed within the walls of a mulet saloon. Steps Taken to Recover Funds. Iowa City News -- The timing of the university school directors at Iowa City discussed the condition of the county school fund at some length. It was decided to appoint a committee to consult an attorney and take steps to recover the amount of money alleged by County Superintendent Whiting to have been overdrawn by the Iowa City school district from 1874 to 1888. Superintendent Whiting's minimum estimate of this sum is $39,000. Three-fourths of this, he says, was taken from the county tax. The other fourth was taken from the state at large, being from the county's share of the state school fund. Minister Must Defend Now. Waterloo, Nov. 14.—A copy of an order issued by the state board of control releasing Rever. George E. Scott from the hospital for the insane at Independence, has been received by the clerk of the district court. Two years ago Scott was pastor of the First M. E. church and eloped with Daisy Dorlan, a young and pretty member of his flock. The pair were arrested at LaPorte, Ind., and Scott was indicted on the charge of will stand and it is expected Scott will now be rearrested and prosecuted. The prosecuting attorney has announced he will investigate. Fatal Accident at Blancon, Manson, Nov. 12.—Mollie Aden, a domestic at the Blanden farm, was thrown from a loaded wagon, which passed over her head and chest, killing her instantly. Lumber Firm Quail Dubuque Dubuque, Nov. 13. It is announced that the Knapp & Stout Lumber Co. will give up its yards here and concentrate its whole business in Dubuque. The company is the largest and oldest lumber firm in the Mississippi valley. It has been in business in Dubuque for nearly fifty years. Lost an Arm Mason City, Nov. 13. Gordon Culter, chief clerk for Robert Braden, superintendent of the Northwestern road, here accidentally shot his right arm off while hunting at Worthing-on, Minn. STARTLING ERROR FOUND Titus Amendment Extends Terms of Wrong Officers. Des Moines, Nov. 14.—A literal construction of the language of the biennial election amendment to the constitution of Iowa which seems to have been adopted by the people at the election November 6, will continue in office for another year every official whose successor was elected at that election. It will affect about 10,000 of the official officials. It will at least cut off one-half of the tenure of office of all these 2,000, for they cannot take their seats until 1923, if then. And these are but a few of the amazing results of an astounding defect in the amendment. According to its language Secretary of State Dobson, Treasurer of State Herriott and Attorney General Remley are entitled to another year tenure of office; and it is doubtful if Secretary of State-Elect Martin, Treasurer Attorney-General-Elect Mullan will be entitled to their offices without another election. And this statement applies not only to the three state officers mentioned, but to the 2,000 township and county officials whose successors the people voted for at the recent election. The biennial election amendment provider follows: "The terms of office of the judges of the supreme court which would otherwise expire in odd numbered years and all other elective state, county and township officers whose terms of office would otherwise expire in the year 1901, and members of the general assembly whose successors in the year 1903, are hereby extended one year and until their successors are elected and qualified." This means that all state, county and township officers whose term expire in 1901 hall serve for an additional 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 on that day. Every officer, almost, for whose successor the people voted at the first Monday in January of the coming year is January 7. Therefore, every officer now incumbent, will, under the biennial election amendment, remain in office for another year, while the men who were elected on November 6 to succeed them, must wait for a year before taking their offices. Returns from eighty-five counties on the constitutional convention question give a total of 150,150 in favor of the convention and 140,760 against. Returns from eighty-five counties on the Titus amendment elections give a total of 140,760 in favor of it and 134,747 against. This indicates that the last proposition has carried by considerable majority and that the convention will be carried by a small margin. Des Moines. Nov. 15.—Attorney General Remley has issued a lengthy opinion an the effect of the Titus biennial elections amendment, holding, in brief, that the manifest intention of the legislature must govern the officers elected in 1988 are not in any manner affected by the constitutional amendment. Furthermore, he holds that it is the terms of office of all those officers who were elected at the general election in November, 1899, that are extended for one year. On both legal and ethical grounds, Attorney General Remley maintains that first Monday in January, 1901, must 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 the will of the people, merely by force of what is at best a technical error. Attorney General Remley's opinion of his office was witnessed. Madison county, where the question was first formally raised as 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 country. 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 prosperity, and have become wiser and better as the years have come and gone; and now, at the close of Anno Domini nineteen hundred, standing at this elevation, with increased hopes and yet loftier aspiration, it is reasonable that a great and appreciative nation thanks to the Great Giver of all that is good and the Preserver of all that is best. I therefore recommend that on Thursday, November 29, the people of the commonwealth of Iowa assemble, as far as shall be convenient, in their places of worship, and there, and in their homes, render grateful praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for blessings past and present, and for the guidance and direction of that providential guidance which has made us already great and on which we must rely for yet grander achievement. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Iowa in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred, of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-one, and of the state of Iowa the fifty-seven, of the seal (Seal) Leslie M. Shaw (Sta) By the Governor: G. L. Dobson, Secretary of State. Allerged Forger Amputated. Ottumwa, Nov. 12.—After an exciting chase of nearly a mile Chief of Police, William and Officers Black and Schwart captured a man who gave his name as Emil O. Jennett, whose home is near Bonauarte, and who is charged with having passed two forged checks. Jennett went into the business houses and after making small purchases tendered a check in payment and which was accepted, while the difference was given him in money. Shortly afterwards the checks were found to be worthless, and the case was put into the hands of the police, with the above re- NEWS IN GENERAL SOREN WAS TERRIBLE. Belgian Describes Massacre by the Russian Soldier. London, Nov. 15.—The Globe this afternoon publishes a letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been travelling to Fekin via the Trans-Siberian railroad. He describes, under date of September 6, what he saw in the Amur river, and that a pass in horror those previously published. "The scenes I have witnessed during the three days since the steamer left Blagovetchenak," he says, "are horribly beyond the power of description. It is the closing tableau of a fearful tragedy. Two thousand were deliberately drowned at Morxo, 2,000 at Rabe and 8,000 around Blagovetchenak, a total of 12,000 corpses encumbering the river, among which were thousands of women and children. Navigation was almost impossible. Last week a boat had to plow its way through a tangled gled mass of corpses and together the banks were literally covered with corpses. In 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 rped ahead. The sight and smell will be ever with us. "From Blagovetchensk to Aligun, forty-five kilometers, numerous villages studded the bank, with a thriving, industrious population of over 100,000. That of Aligun 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 smoking ruin of Aligun were on the right, with broken down, crumbling walls and shattered, rooftop houses." CZAR EVENS THINGS UP. His Present Illness Shows His Real Weight. Internationally. London, Nov. 16.—The serious apprehension with which the announcement was made of the fact that the czar was suffering 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 was taking a thoroughly favorable course, the news of his illness would have created nothing less than consternation. It is generally felt at the present critical state of international affairs that even the temporary weakening of the influence of so favorable a factor in the maintenance of the world's peace, justifies grave anxiety, especially as the czar is regarded in Europe as a kind of counterpulse to Emperor William. Public anxiety will, therefore, remain strained until the non-robust monarch is replaced by political issues or other issue of his majesty's malady is regarded as nightmare. The London newspapers comment on the czar's illness with peculiar sympathy. The Times remarks it has always been believed in England that the czar "recircated national sentiment toward the cherished real regard and reverence for our beloved queen." MILLIONS MAY STARVE. The Chinese North of Pekin Are in imminent Danger. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 13.—Oriental advises received by steamer report that 6,000,000 Chinese north of Peking are in danger of starving, their crops having been a total failure. One million Picula of tribute rice were to be dispatched from Shanghai and distributed among these hungry borders from Tien Tsin and Pek ng, but the military officers at Shanghai gave orders that no rice should be sent out of central China. There is grave danger that an immense swarm of robbers will be sent out of the famine district, as usually happens. EARLY DATE LOOKED FOR. Conger Expects Negotiations Will be Taken Up Soon. Peking, Nov. 15.—A protracted conference of foreign ministers was held yesterday, at the conclusion of which there was a general expression of gratification at the progress made toward reaching a settlement. Minister Conger said he was encouraged to believe the propositions would be ready to be submitted to the Chinese plenipotentiaries at an earlier date than he had heretofore hoped. Reliable information from Nel Chwang indicates a disturbed condition of affairs there. Corbett to Meet Jeffries 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 and Jeffries, the present champion. They will meet at Tattersall, Chicago, January 15th, for 50 per cent of the gate receipts, the winner to take 75 per cent and the loser 25 per cent. Fifty Head Recovered at Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Nov. 15.—The bodies of twenty-two persons who were killed by the collapse of houses on the shore in the typhoon which struck Hong Kong. Fidelity might have been recovered. More than fifty bodies have been taken from the harbor, and the remains of many victims are still to be found. The damage to property and crops is enormous. Wilmington, Del. Nov. 15—The official vote of Delaware gives McKinley 22,457, and Bryan 18,856. McKinley's plurality is 3,601. Four years ago the plurality for McKinley was 3,716. The prohibition ticket received 527 votes and the social democratic, 57. England's Enormous War Fund. London, Nov. 14—Parliament will assemble on December 3 to vote the expenses of the war in South Africa, which are now expected to amount to fully £100,000,000. Before Christmas an adjournment will be taken until the end of January. LARGE OUTLAY ON NAVI. Report of Admiral Bradford Records Big Expansion Washington, Nov. 16.—the report of Admiral Bradford, chief of the naval bureau of equipment, records unprecedented large expenditures by cruising ships during the last fiscal year and the disbursement of large amounts for freight involved in the transportation of stores. Admiral Bradford sets forth the desirability of a naval station at thunn, emphasizing the importance of the island as a base. He also recommends the improvement in equipment work at the Cavite naval station and the cold storage house at Lugo-Pago on the island of Tutunla, Samana. A new floating dry dock for the naval station at Aligiers, La., is to be completed by May, 1301. The amount of coal being consumed by the navy is increasing year by year and its cost last year averaged nearly $2 a ton more than during the fiscal year of 1898. Admiral Bradford again renews his recommendations for new naval cooling depots. The bureau recommends the installation of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy on board several ships of the navy provided it can be done at a reasonable cost. The report says that the survey made by the United States steamer, Nero, for a trans-Pacific submarine telegraph cable between Honolulu and the Philippines was most successfully accomplished and that a satisfactory route for an all American cable to connect the Pacific with the outlying colonial possessions of the United States in the Pacific, and with China and Japan, has been discovered, thoroughly explored, surveyed and mapped. The bureau is now ready to lay the cable at any time. NO DISAGREEMENT OF POWERS. United States Does Not Object to the Proposals so Far Made. Washington, Nov. 15.—The rather severe criticisms of the English press upon the attitude of the United States government relative to the Chinese complications, based upon the advice of their American correspondents, have naturally attracted a view of attention here. With a view to ascertaining what basis there might be for these criticisms inquiry has been made in an authoritative quarter, with the following result: The comments are founded on a complete misunderstanding. So far 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 a speedy agreement with the powers in demanding severe punishment of the principal wrong-doers, indemnity for the past and security for the future. It does not seem to decide who are most guilty, but the punishment must be inflicted in each marticular case with sentences if possible of execution. These matters are left to the negotiators on the spot. It is to be presumed that they will not exact separation, either personal of necquarium, which would be beyond the power of China to carry out. WILL RETURN TO PEKING. Emperor Kwang Su and Empress Dow agree to Decide Tien Tsin, 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 November 9, having engaged the Chinese. At Hsi Tsang the Russians fought 2,000 Chinese troops, dispersing them and killing 200. The Russians had no casualty'e. The population of the city of Tien Tsin now reaches 600,000 Chinese, and the calls are strengthening the garrison. It is summoned that two-thirds of the inhabitants are Boxers. IN KENTUCKY. Canvass of the Vote Will be Watched Closeby by Both Parties. Frankfort, Ky, Nov. 14—The state election board will meet December 3 to canvass the returns 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 democrats will be represented by counsel at the canvass of the vote. Every phase of the election will be closely watched by both sides, as matters become clear when the debate bearing on the contests for congressmen in two districts—the Third and the Ninth. Governor Beckham will be inaugurated December 11. M'KINLEY LIKES HIS CABINET. Tells Members He Hope's They Will Hemala, Another, Ever Young Washington, Nov. 15.—At the regular message of the cabinet President McKinley, discussing the observations and their results, expressed the hope that every member of the cabinet would remain in his official family during the next four years. He regarded the election of the election as an indorsement not only of his own ideas and policies, but also of the administration of every department of the government. The president's annual message was discussed at the meeting. McKinley's Reply to Bryan. Washington, Nov. 10.—President McKinley yesterday answered Mr. Bryan's message of congratulation in the following dispatch: "Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9.—Hon. William J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.: I acknowledge with cordial thanks your message of congratulation and extend you my good wishes. William McKinley." Mr. Bryan's message to the president reached Canton after Mr. McKinley had started for Washington, and was forwarded to him here. Preliminary Basis for Negotiation for DoD For Peace. London, Nov. 13.—Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Peking, says: "Pressed by a common desire for a speedy termination of press conditions, the foreign envoy has agreed to the following terms, to be subject to the conjoint note, which subject to the conjoint note of the several governments, will be pressed on China as the basis of a preliminary treaty. "China will erect a monument to Baron von Kettenler on the site where he was murdered; and send an imperial prince to Germany to convey an apology. "She shall inflict the death penalty upon eleven princes and officials already named, and suspend provincial actions for five years where outrages occurred. "In the future all officials failing to prevent anti-foreign outrages within their juridiction shall be dismissed and punished. (This is a modification of Minister, Conger's proposal.)" "Indemnity shall be paid to the states, corporations and private individuals." The taung-ll-yamen shall be abol- ished and functions vested in a labor minister "Rational intercourse shall be permitted with the emperor, as in civilized countries. "The forts at Taka and other forts on the coast of Chilis shall be raided and the importation of arms and war material prohibited. "Permanent legation guards shall be maintained and also guards of communication between Peking and the sea. "Intermarial proclamations shall be posted for two years under the empire surrendering Boxers. "The indemnity is to include compensation for Chinese who suffered through being employed by foreigners, but not compensation for native men. "The words 'missionary' and 'Christians' do not occur in the notes." Commenting on what it calls Mr. Conger's "excellent suggestion for the dismissal of official permitting anti-foreign outrages," the Times remarks that "this is the only considerable addition to the terms which the ministers promised to submit to China last month." It says that "American sense of justice and humanity is too strong and American intelligence too keen to be deluded by the pitiful Chinese appeal against the execution of the Pao Ting Fu officials." MOROCCO REFUSES TO PAY Warship to be sent to Press Unicis Sam's Claim for Indemnity. Washington, Nov. 15—The government of Morocco has again declined to meet the demands of the United States for the payment of an indemnity on account of the killing by a mob of Marcus Essagin, a naturalized American citizen. The last request was made by United States Consul Cummere, and the latest declamation accompanied by an intimation on freedom from liability under the terms of the convention between Morocco and Spain. The state department has come to the conclusion that the consul's representations will be more effective if he is supported morally by the presence in Moroccan waters. State officials and it is probable that he will make his visit to Fez to again present the case as a passenger on a vessel to be selected by the navy department for that purpose, which will proceed to the port nearest to the Moroccan capital. WAR COST ENGLAND HEAVILY. Chancellor of Exchequer Intimates Bud Will still be to be Increased. London, Nov. 15—Sir Michael Ricke's Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking in Bristol, said it would not be his privilege in the next budget to relieve the taxpayers. He wished he could say that he was not about to increase the budget; but the government's expenditure has been enormous, especially in China he declared emphatically, 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 it a greater burden than it can reasonably hear. That is cutting our own throats. Therefore, the British taxpayers must necessarily bear a larger part of the costs of He also emphasized the fact that the maintenance of a strong army and navy would involve a further considerable expenditure. **Cut Their Heads Off.** Berlin, Nov. 14.—The Lokal Anzelger Zeitung publishes the following from its Shanghai correspondent: "The natives from Hankow say that the empress beheaded a number of telegraph officials who accented a secret message from Emperor Kwang Su to Count von Waldersse, informing him that he (the emperor) was being a prisoner, and he was therefore unable to return to Peking. They also say that other executions occurred in connection with the matter." McKinley's Pillar Chicago, Nov. 14.—The following figures show the popular vote cast at the recent election: McKinley's plurality in Republican states, 1454, 400; Bryan's plurality in democratic states, 614,120; McKinley's plurality over Bryan, 840,390. McKinley Hill Hard. Bothaville, Nov. 10.—There has been heavy fighting since November 6, resulting in the defeat of the Boers, who lost twenty-three killed, thirty wounded and one hundred taken prisoners. Seven of their guns were also captured. The British lost three officers and four men killed. Four Chinmen under Death. Pikin, Nov. 10.—Four leading officials of Pao Ting Fu, including Ting Yang, acting vicector of Pe Chi Li, and General Kui Hing, were executed November 5 under sentence imposed by the tribunal of allies. The Only Way A Fascinating Romance by Alan Adair... CHAPTER VIII.—(Continued.) Not the strictest purist on the earth could cavil at his writing to her. As he felt—that is, from his heart—so he wrote to her: when he was removed from the temptation of seeing Joyce, and when he might now and again hear from her. And as he sat in the corner of his carriage he thought he saw a familiar My Own Joyce: I am breaking my self-imposed resolution to tell you that I am leaving England for Australia on the Condor, which sails next week. I cannot live this life any longer. Do you know I come out at night just to look at the house that contains you? There is no joy for anything, and I am afraid of breaking down under the strain. I must work, sweetheart; I must do something. Life is too hard. Joyce, I do not wish to see you again. If I saw you again I should never leave you; but I must hear from you to know if you are well, dearest. I ought to say to you that you should try and forget me, and be happy with some other man, but I cannot. It is tremendous selfishness on my part; but it would kill me if you were to look at another man. But it is not for that I am writing, but to tell you I am leaving. Your own ALAN. When Joyce received this letter she sat quite still for a little time. She felt as if her heart must break when she thought of Alan. She knew what his unrest meant; she knew that if it were possible that he could lay his head against her shoulder, and feel her hand upon his brow, all his troubles would vanish. But this might not be. Never again could they go through the agony of another parting, never again would they look into each other's eyes and see what it was costing them to walk the path of duty—the only way for them. But she—she must look upon his face again. She would go down to Southampton, and then she would try and get a glimpse of his dear face, so that she could see for herself how he looked. She told no one of her project. It was not a wise thing to do, but it was a thing she must do. Veronica was resting in her room; the boy was with her. Now she had a nurse for him, and she had a pretty house and all comforts; but she looked more haggard than in the old days, when she eked out a miserable existence by teaching. Then there was something to live for, now she had nothing. She heard a tap at the door that made her tremble. Hutchinson had been a frequent visitor lately—since she had been prosperous. His visits always left her poorer and sadder. She did not mind the money, having a childish ignorance on the subject; but she did mind the way he spoke of Alan. She padded herself for battle when she heard his knock. He came in, looking more bloated and excited than ever. Lately he had drank very heavily. Today he was sober enough but he looked more angry than he had done of late. "So that fellow thinks he is going to elude me!" he said, as he came into the room: "but he makes a mistake!" Veronica turned pale. She knew he was speaking of Alan, and that he was thgeatingen him. "What do you mean?" she asked boldly. "Do you mean to say that you don't know that that precious husband of yours means to sail in the Condor on Friday? I dare say he wants to desert you, and to go off with that other woman!" "Alan would not do that," said Veronica, quickly. "However much he and she suffer, they will no nothing wrong." "I dare say he is a saint!" sneered Hutchinson. "Well, he will have a chance of going to heaven quickly, for I've sworn to do for him, and this is my last chance!" Veronica listened. Hutchinson had spoken like this before, and it had come to nothing; still, it was possible that he might be desperate now. He looked it, and if he meant mischief to Alan she must warn him. Not a hair of Alan's dear head should fall by this man's hand. Still, she knew that she must not let Hutchinson suspect that she was on the alert. "So he sails on Friday?" she said quietly. "From Southampton, is it not? He wrote to wish me good-by." "It will be a longer good-by than he knows of," said the man. "Lend me two pounds, Veronica." Veronica hesitated. He might be asking for money in order to kill her husband; but she had often lent him money before, so she rose slowly and went to the writing table and took it out. "I suppose he has made a settlement upon you?" he asked, with cunning leer. And poor Veronica, falling into the trap, answered. "Then it's all right," he said, and went out. Veronica sprang up from her chair the instant the hall door clamped after him. She knew he meant mischief to Alan. She kissed he boy many, many times before giving him in charge of his nurse. She was always loth to let him out of her sight; but today she almost felt as if she would never look upon him again. At the same time she felt strangely happy, for it seemed as if at last she were able to do something for Alan. Alan had taken his seat in the train without thinking much of leaving England. It had ceased to be home to him; he thought he might be happier when he was removed from the temptation of seeing Joyce, and when he might now and again hear from her. And as he sat in the corner of his carriage he thought he saw a familiar figure pass. It was Hutchinson's clutch, but he did not think much about it. He pulled his cap over his eyes, and pretended to go to sleep; but although he kept his eyes shut no sleep came to him. Southampton, it seemed to him, was soon reached. He got out of the train and began collecting his belongings. He was turning to go when suddenly he heard the sound of a report and then a woman's cry. In an instant all was commotion. A woman had fallen close beside him—a dark-haired, slight woman. He rushed forward to help her up, quite unconscious then that the shot that had been fired was meant for him, and that the woman had intercepted it. He had a dim idea, too, that he saw Hutchinson slipping away somewhere; but he, as well as every one else, was occupied by the fallen woman. Here the arms that helped her up, and his were the eyes that recognized Veronica. "My God!" he cried. And when they said "Do you know her?" he answered "Yes, and the shot has killed her was meant for me!" He cried her to a room near, and when he laid her down she opened her eyes and smiled. "I am so happy," she said, softly. "Alan, I never thought to feel your arms round me again." "Veronica," he said, remorsefully. "I would gladly have given my life if this had not happened!" "I know it," she said, "but think of me for one instant, Alan. You see, I love you, darling. I am dying, so that it does not matter, and my life made you unhappy. By dying for you I make you and her happy. It is the only way, Alan—the only way." "But, Veronica—" he urged. But she would not let him speak. "I don't think I have long, dear. Let me die like this in your arms, my head upon your shoulder—so. You think I'm pretty still, don't you What was I saying? Oh, that it will not matter, except for the boy. But I know you and she will be good to him. I should have liked to have seen him just once again. You know Hutchinson sword he would be revenged on you, and so I followed him; and when he fired at you I threw myself between. I was so happy, Alain, dear. The happiest moment of my life was when I felt that I might die for you." "veronica," he said, touched to the heart, "I don't deserve it—indeed I don't!" "You see," she went on, "I made you so unhappy by living—it is the only way." And when the doctor came a few moments after Alan could see there was no hope. The bullet had pierced her side, and she was bleeding internally. She fell into a state of semi-consciousness; but towards midnight she opened her eyes suddenly. "Kiss me, Alan," she said, "and love my boy." And whilst his lips touched hars her spirit passed away. Joyce, waiting at the docks for a glimpse of the man she loved, saw the great vessel glide out to sea without him. Something must have happened to delay him, she thought! Full of fear and anxiety, she returned home, wondering what had detained him; but the next day she had a telegram with these words: "Veronica died last night. I am coming at once." And then she knew that something serious had occurred. Alan came to her, chastened, grey-haired; but still Alan. And when he told her the simple, touching story of poor Veronica's self-sacrifice and death they wopt together. And Joyce resolved then and there to be a good and loving mother to Alan and Veronica's boy, which vow she nobly kept. Indeed, there was nothing stepmotherly about Joyce, and she could say truly that she had had nothing but pity for poor Veronica, even whilst she was keeping Alan and herself apart. Alan lost no time in marrying Joyce again. "They had suffered so much," he said, "there was no need to prolong their suffering." Now, indeed, their life is the ideal life of married people, whose strong love for each other is not stronger than their love of duty, and who did not scruple to sacrifice everything they loved best for what they knew to be right. And as for Veronica's boy, he is like Joyce's own. Indeed, if anything, she spoils him more than her own children. "His mother saved your life, dear," she said once, in after days, when Alan expostulated with her, "and he is a dear boy, and he is yours, so you see I have three of the most excellent reasons for spoiling him." Hutchinson was never seen again. There was a hue-and-cry after him, but he was never found. Whether he knew that the shot meant for Alan had been received by Veronica no one could tell. He disappeared, and Joyce and Alan were glad that it should be so. They had suffered so much that they wanted a little peace. Most of all, they did not want revenge. It was poor Veronica who had paid the debt, and she had done it gladly, saying that it was "The Only Way." (The End.) The most fary author—Burna M. B. Device For Umbrellas. Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado mine owner, has the distinction, if report says true, of being the business partner of no less a personage than King Leopold of Belgium. Mr. Walsh, it is said, has signed contracts with the king whereby the latter places several million dollars in the hands of the American for investment. Mr. Walsh, although immensely wealthy, is a hard worker and an energetic man of business. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1851 and came to America at A Week or Ten Days Is the Correct Now that among fashionable—as well as busy people—the regulation length for the honeymoon is being made shorter and shorter, till a week or ten days has come to be considered the correct thing, one begins to wonder if it will soon be done away with altogether, and whether we shall revert to the custom of our great-grandmothers days, who drove from the wedding breakfast to their new home. Still and for all that, as they say in the Green Isle, I fancy there will always be many who will uphold the pretty—if modern fashion, which dedicates a whole month—if not to the actual "drinking of honey mead," at least to becoming properly acquainted with one another without any outside distracting, and under the benign patronage of the god Hymen. There is always something exceedingly novel in the way of engagement rings. Three rings fit one over the other so as to look like one joined by clasped hands in the middle or by a diamond stud. On drawing this aside the ring opens and you see two enameled hearts, with the joint initials, the date of the engagement and a motto. These are both pretty and exclusive. BRITON'S FOOD SUPPLY. A careful study of the question of the food supply of the United Kingdom, leading to results somewhat at variance with ideas entertained on the subject in some quarters, is contributed to the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society by Mr. R. F. Crawford. The writer begins by estimating the amounts received at home and imported from abroad of the four fundamental articles of food—wheat, meat, potatoes and milk—for all these must he holds, be considered in the study of the problem. The results obtained show that the home contribution is, in the case of wheat, less than 25 per cent of the whole consumption; of meat, as regards which the state of things is much more satisfactory, about 62 per cent; of milk (including butter and cheese), about 55 per cent; and of potatoes, practically the whole. But even these figures are too favorable, for the live stock raised in this country has largely to depend on food. Many a person chooses an umbrella or cane with a crook in the handle simply because it is more convenient to hang up on a rack or hook into the pocket of the coat when it is desired to use both hands for some other purpose. If the handle of the cane or umbrella were provided with the device shown in the illustration the crook would not be needed and it would be possible for the buyers to choose a style of handle more desirable than the crook. The arrangement of the device is such that the hook is concealed when not in use forming a smooth joint with the surface of the stick. A slight downward pressure on the button projecting through the opening below releases the catch and the hook is forced outward by the action of the internal spring. To replace the hook in its pocket again it is only necessary to press it in with the hand, the catch automatically Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado Leopold's Agent.9999 WALSH. eighteen. He first settled at Worcester, Mass, but soon afterward went to Colorado, where by good fortune in mining and close attention to business he has accumulated riches enough to flirt the imagination of the most avaricious. His income is upward of $1,200,000 a year. This he spends freely, reinvests judiciously, and uses for the entertainment of his friends and for his own amusement. His hislavish dinners at Paris during the exposition were the talk of Europa. stuffs grown abroad. In view of the difficulty of obtaining the value of these in their converted form, Mr. Crawford attempts to calculate the acreage that would be necessary to produce an equal amount of foodstuffs at a home, finally adding, this to the area required to produce an equivalent of the imported supplies in wheat, meat and milk. The total number of acres so obtained is 22,990,000, this being considered a distinctly moderate estimate. Therefore, as the area now under crops and grass is 47,600,000 acres, it is clear that we could not, as has been thought possible by some, add to our productive surface anything approaching the area represented by the imports of wheat, meat and milk. On the other hand, the law of diminishing returns precludes the possibility of any large increase of productivity through radical changes in methods of farming, etc. At the end of his paper Mr. Crawford compares the state of agriculture in the United Kingdom with that prevailing in Belgium, Germany and France, showing that there is no foundation for the idea that the first named is able to nearly feed her people from her own soil, and that, judged from the standpoint of productivity, the system of farming in this country is, if anything, superior to that of Belgium and far ahead of those of France and Germany. Wes Bradden • Prolific Writer Miss Braddon has published over sixty novels since 1862. Previous to trying literature, however, Miss Braddon appeared on the stage. There is a doubt in the matter, but "An Old Player" writes that the future novelist made her debut at the Brighton Theater Royal in 1857, and that during the five following months she impersonated as many as fifty-eight distinct characters. Her stage name was Mary Leyton, and, though now known as Miss M. E. Braddon, she is really Mrs Maxwell and a widow. Mining and Miners. There are 365,000 men employed in mining coal in the United States. Of these 125,000 are in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. No women have ever been employed in American mines, though they were so employed in France, England and Scotland until quite recently. Umbrellas. CONCEALED HOOK FOR HANDLES. locking it in place again. The British government has granted a patent on the invention. CONCEALED HOOK FOR HANDLES, locking it in place again. The British government has granted a patent on the invention. Bwine Iioma A Marengo, Ia., correspondent writes that hogs in his locality are healthy and are going to market in nice shape and bringing good prices. The season's crop of young pigs is about ten per cent larger than last year's. In New Zealand many of the swine growers have, combined and established pork markets in which is sold mostly dairy fed pork. Such pork finds a ready sale, as the people prefer it to much of the other pork obtainable on the markets. On a farm with reasonably good buildings and a clover pasture the cost of a gain of a pound of live weight on a hog up to 150 pounds is not very much in excess of two cents, says an exchange. To this must be added the interest on the value of the brood sow, the cost of her keep, the risk of accident, the cost of the grass, etc. The Australian coasting steamer Kameruka, while going from Eden to Sydney, traveling at full speed, struck on a reef at Moruya Head. There being no rockets on the ship the captain tied a life-line to some pigs which formed part of the cargo, and had the animals put overboard. The pigs swam to the shore, taking the lines with them, and by establishing communication every soul on board was saved. Statistics embodied in a recent report of livestock in Great Britain show a considerable decrease in the pig stocks for the year. Among the Scottish counties, Ayrshire has the largest pig population, her numbers being 13,920 head, Aberdeenshire follows with 12,346 head, and is closely followed by Wigtownshire, which has 12,020 head, while Dumfrieshire comes fourth with 10,915 head. At the Dominion Experiment Station at Ottawa feeding experiments have been undertaken with hogs to determine the causes of soft pork. One hundred animals are being experimented with. Some are being fed on tape and grain, some on clover and some on grain and a variety of grains is being used. Combinations including barley, clover, oats and peas are used and one lot has been turned into a field of artichokes. Among the special features of the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo next year will be a fine swine exhibit which will be held the latter part of September, and which it is expected will attract a large representation of twelve different breeds of swine, including the Suffolk, Victorias and Tamworths which are but little known in the United States. Canadian farmers are better acquainted with them and will doubtless contribute exhibits. A special exhibit of hogs adapted to the production of bacon is promised. The managers of this department of the great show count on not less than 1,500 animals. New Enemy of Tobacco Professor Garman of the Kentucky Experiment Station recently discovered a green bug wilting the tobacco Tobacco spit worms, adult both above, below on right, pupae below at left, side view of worm on right, pupae all covered in an experimental plat. The insect is known as Euschistus variolarius. It is believed that the insect is responsible for a good deal of the damage done to the tobacco crop during recent years. Injury from Dash A close student of the habits of swine and of their diseases asserts that much injury is done swine by the dust that is allowed to form in feeding yards and air passages to the lungs to such an extent that mechanical pneumonia is produced, from which a good many deaths result. Neither hogs nor any other animals should be made to inhabit quarters where such conditions exist. A man that keeps his swine under the conditions mentioned and finds his hog getting what is apparently pneumonia should change the conditions at once as the first step in treatment. Also when hogs in such conditions, apparently sick in pneumonia, are being treated for the trouble, the dust if permitted to continue its work will most certainly off-set anything that can be done for their relief. Butter: Pat Louise 1 found during my work of inspection some large factories were losing as much as 87 pounds of butter-fat per day; this would be in factories making from $1 \frac{1}{2}$ to 2 tons per day. In other factories turning out less than half a ton of butter per day losses of 27 pounds to 3 pounds were found. The following are some of the causes for such losses: 1. Insufficient speed of the separator. 2. Irregular speed of the engine, caused in many cases by poor and worn out governors. 3. Boilers too small to furnish sufficient steam for the engine. 4. Irregular feed of the milk and irregular temperatures. 5. By churning mixed cream at different degrees of ripeness. 6. By churning at high temperature, especially with sweet cream—Dairy Commissioner of New Zealand. The farmer should have as many luxuries as he can afford. What is the use of trying to get along with a tumble-down shack for a barn when the money is at hand to build a good, serviceable structure? Two thousand gallons of air are a grown-person's allowance for 24 hours. A married couple living near Throop, Pa. who were children, have adopted fourteen children. "Virginiana" Tablets cure great pain. Increases heart rate in men and women. Great restorative for weak people. Don't be scared cheaper. Mailed by B. M. Bighill, Lt. J. B. Darrington, B. D. Bostone, Iowa. Any photographer will tell you that lots of people will sit for a picture and then won't stand for it. Best for the Lowes. No matter what all you need, headache to a caerer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The widow's veil isn't always a vale of tears. We refund 100 for every package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE that falls to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Uniway, Mo. Good advice is often suspected when given by a disinterested person. Jell-O, the New Desserts, please all the family. Four flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocer. 10 cts. Try it today. Even the thermometer has been known to take a droon too much. by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Tubes is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constipation. When the ear is inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed and when it is inflamed condition of the mucus lining, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by cataract, and an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any easter basket we can bury. We will be buryed by Hall's Caterrch. Send for the basket. circumscribed, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Ball by Dr. Grolsta, Tae. Hall & Family Plills are the best Solomon when arrayed in all his royal glory never wore a shirt waist. Neuralgia Banished. There is no more severe or stubborn pain than neuralgia. A remedy that will cure it will cure any pain, Dr. G. S. Stivera, dentist, Louisville, Ky., says we need fewer of these medicines with very severe neuralgia, which several physicians failed to relieve. I then got Morley's Wonderful Eight, which relieved her in five minutes and soon effected a permanent cure. Sold by agent in every town. Too often we value outward show more than inward worth. How a Loyal Engineer Did His Brother's Great Service. Meadville, Pa., Nov. 12.—(Special)—The Loyalty of the Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is proverbial. A circumstance occurred in this city some days ago, which emphasizes this feeling. Frank J. Zeiler, in Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers No. 143. He is extremely popular among his fellow railway men, and one of the best known Engineers running out of Meadville. When the announcement was made a short time ago that Frank was pretty sick, it caused a great deal of regret among the boys. Soon he was missed from school. "I was 'lay off' on account of his back. A brotherly way, took with him a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the Remedy which had cured them, with the result that after seven boxes had been used, he was entirely well, and able to work. In an interview Mr. Zeller states: "I had suffered for four years with this affliction, being often kept awake at night with pains, and at times unable to work. I suffered several weeks that they did me no earthly good. Finally, a member of our Order, who had been aured of Kidney Disease by Dodd's Kidney Pills brought me a box, and asked me to try them. I had little faith in them, but as a drowning man graps at a straw to help him, so took the Pills several times, and today as well as strong a man as there is in Pennsylvania." Naturally, Mr. Zeller feels very grateful, and his complete recovery has delighted his many friends, and none more than the good Brother, who feels that he was instrumental in saving the life of the Chief. With Pills never fall to cure Kidney Trouble. Sold for 50 cents a box. All dealers. The wedding ring always fits the hand of fate. Drypepsia, Indigestion, all stomach and bowel troubles positively cured by Talent Pennis Coop. Dr. Taker, Foerli, Ill. The electric fan now ceases to put on airs. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at delays are dangerous. The homely girl is usually to be found at home. Insist on having Maple City Soap if you want the best. If your dealer does not keep it he will get it for you. All grocers. When a fellow borrows trouble there is often the devil to pay. Ask your grocer for Rus' Bleaching Blue, do not be deceived by fraudulent imitations, that the name Rus appears on all packages. It doesn't always pay the supercilious doctor to cut his patients. ACENTS WANTED For Trege's Famous Cal Dehorner. $50 per week and expenses on liberal commission. sample 20 cents, circulals and terms free; write us; it will pay you. Trege Dehorner Co. Burt, Iowa Fools give up realities and chase shadows. MARRIAGE PAPER. Best Seller PAPER. J. W. GUNNEL, Toledo, Ohio 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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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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What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it today. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthy dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocer, 10 cts. To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.—Amiel. When you go to buy bluing insist upon having Rows of blushing blue and not an imitation. Sold by all grocers. There are about 30,000 lepers in the Philippines. Handsome women are not always the most amiable. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrups. For children teething, soften the gums, reduces fumigation, allays pain, causes wind cools. So a bottle The man with the hoe is entitled to a grub stake. Remove the causes that make your hair lifeless and turn the TURNER Hair Balancher HINDERCOURT is the best cure for dandruff. 150s Adam was the only man ever married on his wedding Eve. Ladies. 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A pea mute paying position for laces or dress or armor. At costs you nothing to get details. Idealable employment is wanted made suture the Fort Pearlborn Job Co. 415 Dearborn street, Chicago, ill. There is a vast difference between the lay of a poet and the lay of a pullet. Tired and Nervous People will derive great benefit from taking Garfield headache Powders; they are made from Herbs: they are the tired nerve. We have an idea that disease germs have less dislike of carbolic acid than they have of the smell of cabbage. Coming of Kruger Causes Alarm in England. HE ARRIVES AT SUEZ. EGYPT. Outch and French Nation Will Pay Defiant Tribute to the "Grand Old Man" of the Transvaal—Will Beach Marsellies This Week. Suez, Nov. 15.—The Dutch cruiser Gelderland, with ex-President Krugar on board, has arrived here. New York, Nov. 15.—Michael Davitt, M. P., has cabled from Paris to the Journal and Advertiser as follows: "It is a unique testimony to the great individuality of president Kruger that his voyage to Europe is watched with more intense interest by the continental press than is the progress of the war in China. "The daily calculations of the speed of the Gelderland, with its Unfortunates progress, have two main inspirations—namely, curiosity as to what the domitable president may say for the people and against England when he lands at Marselles, and the probable 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 is asserted that Mr. Chamberlain will soon have an opportunity of reading private letters found in Johannesburg that will place 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 direct interest. "The Gelderland will stop at Port Said only to receive dispatches and will proceed in a few hours to Marsellis, where she is expected to arrive Nov. 19. Kruger is not likely to publish any statement until after consulting the members of the Boer government already in Europe, all of whom will meet him on landing." ROYAL COUSINS ARE TO MARRY Engagement of Prince George and Princess Victoria Announced. London, Nov. 15.—Royalty is interested today in the unofficial announcement of the engagement of Prince George of Greece and Princess Victoria of Wales. They are first cousins. Rumors and denials of the story have been plenty, but the report now seems to be reliable. Another week or so, it is said, and the formal and official announcement will be made. The fancy of romance and of pictureque wooing has prevailed in this royal alliance. Manly and vigorous of men, Prince George captivated his fair faince as they listened to the cooing 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 sclon 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 Suit for Title to Them Is Brought at Newark, N. J. New York, Nov. 15.—Vice-Chancellor 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 directing the National Abrosive company to assign to it the contracts in question. The suit is brought in New Jersey because both are organized under its laws. The contracts, it is asserted, were originally secured from the Turkish government by W. F. and A. H. Kimball of Tiffin, O. The international company obtained an option on an assignment of them. This option, the present defendants declare, expired through failure of the complaining company in allowing it to lapse. Elects Officers for Yeaw Springfield, Ill., Nov. 15—The Illinois Live Stock Breeders' association met this morning and elected officers for the ensuing years as follows: President, A. P. Grout, Winchester; first vice-president, John H. Kincail, Athens; third vice-president, Jacob Zeigler, Clinton; secretary, Fred H. Rankin, Athens; treasurer, S. Noble King, Bloomington; executive committee, A. P. Grout, Winchester; John H. Kincaid, Athens; Jerome Leland, Springfield; Fred H. Rankin, Athens; Georgia Williams, Athens; J. H. Pickrell, Charles F. Mills and Frank S. Springer, Springfield. Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 16.—A threat has been communicated to Gov. Beckham through a personal friend, who reports the words as coming direct from Berry Howard, indicted as one of the accessories to the murder of William Goebel. Howard is said to have declared that Beckham would not be governor long. Experience, Gallivan, Ind., Nov. 16.—After forty hours at the bottom of a well, buried under a heap of sand that finally reached two feet above his head. Thomas McPhetters was rescued, little the worse for his long imprisonment The escape of the well-digger was remarkable, as several times the rescue party gave up all hope of bringing him to the surface alive. When the first cave-in came and tons of sand filled the bottom of the well the boards used for a wall were forced in, and formed a roof which prevented the crushing out of McPheter's life. A small opening at one side permitted the carrying on of conversation, and a two-inch rubber hose was let down to convey water and food to the imprisoned man. McPheters finally extricated himself from the broker boards, but as he gained his feet and stood erect another fall of sand buries him to the neck. He got the end of the hose to his mouth, when again came a cave-in, and the top of his head was two feet below the surface of the sand. The rubber tube gave him air, and water and food were poured in when he asked for them. After forty hours the second well was completed by the rescuers and a tunnel was cut to the shaft in which McPheters was a prisoner. The walls of the tunnel were boarded up and the sand dug away until the man was released from his strange prison. McPheters, who is a resident of Palestine, Ill., was completing the digging of a well on a farm near this city when the accident befallen him. He is expected to recover from the injuries sustained. DA LY MARKET REPORT. Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close Nov ... .72% .72% .72 .72 Dec. ... .73% .73% .72% .72% Jan. ... .73% .73% .73% .73% Corn— Nov. ... .39 .38% .38% .39% Dec. ... .35% .36 .35% .35% May. ... .36% .36% .36% .36% Oats— Nov. ... ... ... ... ... .21% Dec. ... .22% .22% .21% .22% May. ... .24 .24 .23% .23% Pork— Nov. ... 10.20 10.40% 12.20 10.37% Jan. ... 11.40 11.60 11.40 11.50 May. ... 11.47% 11.65 11.47% 11.57% Lard— Nov. ... 6.95 7.05 6.95 7.05 Dec. ... 6.80 6.92% 6.80 6.90 May. ... 6.72% 6.85 6.72% 6.87% S. Ribs— Nov. ... 6.75 6.92% 6.75 6.92% Jan. ... 6.05 6.17% 6.05 6.15 New York, Nov. 16.—A match was made in this city today between James J. Jeffries, champion pugilist, and Tom Sharkey. The terms of the agreement are that the winner shall take the entire purse. The battle will be decided 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 insure his appearance in the ring. The articles also contained the provision that should Jeffries make a match with either Bob Fitzsimmons or Gus Ruhlin, that battle would be decided before the present one. The same conditions prevail in regard to a possible match being made between Sharkey and Ruhlin. Jim Jeffries is said to have lost $7,000 with a well-known Wall street broker yesterday, but in the course of a couple of weeks the big fighter hopes his wad will be increased ten fold. Jeff won't tell what his wealth-producing stock is. Army of Tennessee Reunions Detroit, Mich., Nov. 16.—About 100 members of the army of the Tennessee assembled here for their thirty-second reunion, which will last until this evening. The business sessions are being held in the Hotel Cadillac. At the first session the appointment of the usual committee was the only business transacted. Among the prominent members present are: Speaker Henderson of the house of representatives, Gen. John C. Black of Chicago, Gen. John W. Noble of St. Louis, Col. Charles Parsons of St. Louis, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge of New York and Gen. A. Hickenlooper of Cincinnati. Factions Hold Conventions. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 16.—The Parsons and Hayes factions of the Knights of Labor are still holding their separate 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. Use Bible That Swores Davis. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 16.—The first session of the seventh annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was called to order in the house of representatives by Mr. Edwin G. Weed, general president. The Bible from which the scripture lesson was read was the same upon which Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as president of the confederate states. Fact with United States Up. Santo Domingo, Republic of Santo Domingo, Nov. 14 (via Haytien cable). —The Dominican congress will meet in special session Nov. 26 to discuss the reciprocity treaty with the United States. Leovigildo Cuello has been appointed minister of posts and telegraphs. Harvesting of the sugar crop will begin early in December. THE CAT AND THE DOG Every mother possesses information of vital value to her young daughter. That daughter is a precious legacy, and the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of the mother. The mysterious change that develops the thoughtless girl into the thoughtful woman should find the mother on the watch day and night. As she cares for the physical well-being of her daughter, so will the woman be, and her children also. When the young girl's thoughts become sluggish, when she experiences headaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for the society of other girls. when she is a mystery to herself and friends, then the mother should go to her aid promptly. At such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young system for the coming change, and is the surest reliance in this hour of trial. The following letters from Miss Good are practical proof of Mrs. Pinkham's efficient advice to young women. Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for Help. "DEAR MIS. PINKHAM:-I have been very much bothered for some time with my monthly periods being irregular. I will tell you all about it, and put myself in your care, for I have heard so much of you. Each month menstruation would become less and less, until it entirely stopped for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have become very nervous and of a very bad color. I am a young girl and have always had to work very hard. I would be very much pleased if you would tell me what to do."-Miss Pearl Good, Cor. 29th Avenue and Yesiar Way, Seattl3, Wash. February 10th, 1908. "Dear MIR. PINKHAM: I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enough. It is just simply wonderful the change your medicine has made in me. I feel like doing the work is now a pleasure to me, while before using your medicine it was a burden. To-day I am a healthy and happy girl. I think if more women would use your Vegetable Compound there would be less suffering in the world. I cannot express the relief I have experienced by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." -Miss Pearl Good, Cor. 29th Avenue and Yeslar Wash, Seattle, Wash. deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, which will be paid to any pern w. wh. can show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission, - LYDIA E. PINKMAN MEDICINAL CO. On a clear day a pigeon can see 200 miles. Is life Worth Living ? There is no more severe or stub born pain than neuralgia. A remedy that will cure it will cure any pain. Dr. G. S. Stivers, dentist, Louisville, Ky., says: "My wife suffered over two years from very severe neuralgia, which several physicians failed to relieve. I then got Morley's Wonderful Eight, which relieved her in five minutes and soon effected a permanent cure. 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Now is the hunting season—Write at Once. One of our prizes: $4 New American Gun, Single Gun, $4.49 Briquet Loading Double Gun, Top Snap, Machine Made, Figure Twist, 12 Gun. $7.75. Everything else same pop-ups. THE MEAT MAIN N more W. L. Douglas $3.99 and $3.99. THIS BLEEP, our dealer should keep them here. We give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. If your dealer will not get them for you, and direct to the State kind of leather, and width, plain or cap toe. Our shop will reach. W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. Brockleton, Maine. TABER'S PEPSIN COMPOUND Contains Pepsin, Bismuth, Nux Vomica, Diastase and other valuable remedies for the cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Headache, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Constipation and all Stomach and Bowel Troubles. Brings back rosy cheeks and youthful spirits. It is not a patent medicine—formula is on every bottle. 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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 significance 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. 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 trees 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 lion rampant. A figure of Hope surmounts the shield, the "supporters of which are a couple of native animals." VARIOUS REMONISES 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. Gottan Said to Have Yielded to Cain London, March 22.—It is announced that the sultan has yielded "in all es- sential particulars" to the Russian de- mands respecting railway concessions in Asia Minor. Nine Nuns Receive White Velt Dubuque, Iowa, March 22.—Nine young women, six of whom are from Chicago and seven of whom are white veil and monastic. But He Had to Wait 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 boyhail 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 shirtwalst man appeared. Thomas Hartigan decided that if he wore a shirtwalst 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 shirtwalst 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 fulfil 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. Miranda 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 Atromeo'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 in France. 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 Consular Reports. Passion Plays' Financial Results. Oberammergan has been casting up the accounts of this year's Passion Play. There were forty-eight perform- ances and 200,000 visitors, who paid $500,000 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 railroads have also profited, the latter showing a surplus of $2,500,000. 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 effluus 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 g 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 th'king. 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. Monctony 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 Than 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 cost $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, wool 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. * Hern's a Worried Citizen Here's a worried Christ. This is an age of hustle, bustle and sweat. A man hustles from early dawn until the katyldids 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. 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. Iad Handled $50,000,000. A remarkable record was that which had been gained by the late John Lanceme, for 33 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 Druggators guarantee 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 in the grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency on a cold to result in pneumonia. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY 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. Rye. every Saturday at 9:05 P. M. for San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francisco. First Sleeper leaves Kansas Clty 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 Loust St. Des Moines Ia. A Village Blacksmith Saved Hi! 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 group, 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 cronyy symptoms appear we have found that the dreaded group 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 Drugists. Widows Do Not Remarry. In China it is the rule of good society that widows do not remarry. They are not forbidden to do so, but they are thought more highly of if they don't. In order to encourage them the government, when they have passed the age of 50, and have not remarried, confers on them a tablet containing a eulogy of their virtues. Raising the Hat an Ancient Salutation When a knight of old entered a company of ladies he removed his helmet to indicate that he considered himself among friends, and that there was no need to protect himself. This practice has survived in the custom of raising the hat when saluting a lady. -June Ladics' Home Journal. Prince Rupert's Dislikes Prince Rupert, the heir to the throne of Bavaria, dislikes the attentions of the White Rose league of England, which, because it recognizes the claims of the Stuarts to the British throne, persists, much to his disgust, in styling him "the rightful prince of Wales." Britain's New Halfpenny Stamp Great Britain has issued a new halfpenny stamp, green in color; a new 1s 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. Grave Filling Device A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter as 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 and scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a spade. 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- FAMILY WHEEL GROUND FILM 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. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To John Leonard: Your are hereby 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 Moine, 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 the right of redemption will expire at the 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 19th day of September, A. D. 1900. Harnay, Harnay, his magnificent loeffer. 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 sold for the taxes of 1899 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 pursance of said sale, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption is obtained within ninety days from 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. Daniel T. Patton. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To E. Switzer: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, vicinity of Richland One (1), Block Six (6) of Foundry addition, being included in and forming at part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, 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 said sale, 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 Patton, W. Geo. Harvanel, his great NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Lottie M. Dingee and Emma B. Dingee 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 formings 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. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. 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 bussiness. 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 REDEMEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Ellis Bennett: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1896, which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Twenty-one (21) Twinings Addition now forming a part of the city of Polk County, Iowa. That the same such sale, purchased by Guy Hunter and the certificate issued to him by the Tressman Polk county, Iowa, and by the said 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 the Deed for said property will be made upon redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO BEDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, as: To Geo. A. Danner: You are here by notified that on the 7th day of December A. D 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1898, which real estate described as follows to wit: Lot Sister (10) Block S (9) Briarview Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purbased 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 assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate right of collection expire and a Treasurer's Dead property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed servi-herof. J. H. Phillip Lawful holder and owner of sale tificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, as: To Goo, A. Danner; You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situat- n in Polk county, Iowa, was sid for the taxes for the year 1896, which real real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Beeen (15) in Polk county (9) Eikairy Addition and now forming a view of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by C. M. Cathcart and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Cathcart the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certifie- and right of redemption will serve, 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: 63. W. W. hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa and described as follows: Lots No. 7, 8, 11, in Block E. Moina Moe 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 now owned by said J. L. Wilson, and the right of redemption with rights, and Treasurer's Decree that said lots will be made, unless redemption from such lot be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Dated this 2nd day of November A. D. 1900. J. L. Wilson. Des Moines, Iowa. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To E. W. Smith: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, and described as follows: Lots No. 9, 10, and 13 in Block E. Des Moines, 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 or may be by J. L. Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for lots will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Dated this 2nd day of November, A. D. 1900. Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa. BURLINGTON ROUTE Makes a specialty 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 p riculars address F. L. Gannaway, Gly Passenger Agent, Buril gton Route, 408 Locust street Des Moines, Ia.