Iowa State Bystander

IOWA VOL. 7. FREE HAC FREE HEA FREE SER IOWA STATE BYSTANDER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 405 MANQUAND BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE 899. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIFFUL UNITED GRAND LOCUE OF IOWA, A F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year. $1.50 Six months. 75 Three months. 50 All subscription payable in advance. Send money by post office order, money order, express or draft, to the IOWA STATE BYSTANDER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. IOWA'S LEADING COLORED PAPER CITY NEWS Mason's, Bonets and Hat 609 Locust. Mr. E. W. Thompson made a brief trip to Mahaska county this week. First quarterly meeting at the A. M. E, church next Sunday. Midway Coal, 212 W. 7th street, both Phones. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wilburn were the hosts of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Blagburn last Saturday evening. Mrs. W. B. Watson and children of Omaha are visiting her sister Mrs. Alice Barnett. SECRET Fraternal Beneficiary lodge for the colored people only. African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Ia. Editor J. L. Thompson and wife spent Thanksgiven at his father's home in Decatur. The night school has opened and quite a number of colored people are attending, and we hope before the first of next month more will be going. We are in receipt of a letter from Mrs. Joseph Patterson, stating that they have moved to St. Paul. Mr. Patterson has secured a lucrative position in that city. Mr. Babe Houston of Macon, Mo., is visiting his sister Mrs. Faunie Smith and his son Babe Houston, better known as White Stanton. Mr. and Mrs. Curtney, of West Fifth street, left Tuesday morning to spend Thanksgiving in Denver, Colo. They will be gone about a week or ten days. The H. B S. R. C. will meet next Thursday Dec. 6, with Mrs. L. R. Palmer. Mrs. Warricks, See. Mrs. Wilburn, Pres. FOR SALE—Ladies' cloaks, capes coats must be sold to satisfy mortgage. Come early and have your choice, and get a bargain. 220, East 5th street. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Ia. The Annie Murray's Aid Society will meet at the residence of Mrs. Sam Lewis, 1548 Des Moines street, Dec. 7. All members are requested to be present By order of the president, Mrs. C. S. Stewart. The A. M. E. Sunday School is preparing to give an entertainment Dec. 13, which promises to be one of the best of the season. The program will consist of chours, quartets, duets, solos and tableaus, to which the public is inveted. Mrs. Underwood, the wife of the Rev Joseph Underwood, who has been visiting with relatives in this city, left last Wednesday to join her husband in Ft. Madison, where he has been called to take charge of the Baptist chu.eh. --- STATE 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. THOMPSON BROS. 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. 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 Glove 514 Walnut THOMPSON BROS. Dealers in Coal, wholesale and up. Iowa 'phone 899, room Fifth and Locust street. Your Orders Sollicited. New Meat Market. 1012 CENTER STREET has opened a New Meat Market. He carries all grades of meat and delivers to any part of the city. The H. B. S. R. C. will entertain the young girls of Des Moines Friday after noon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Holt, Third and Grand avenue. GERMAN REMEDY Cures Rheumatism Neuralgia, Male and Female Weakness. Send $1.50; German Medicine Co. Des Moines, Ia. The Iowa State Bystander will print one of the nicest and most beautiful illustrated edition in its history. Those who wish for sample copies or have cuts of their homes or any thing else should write to the office at once for no matter will be used after the 14th of December. WRITE The African Monarchs of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Ia. Send in your orders for coat to the Thompson Bros., 405 Marquardt block. WHAT SOCIETY AND CHURCH PEOPLE ARE DOING. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hardin entertained last night at their home 762 W. Tenth street. A number of young people were at Clive yesterday the guests of Miss Zoe Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Humburd of 1696 Sixth avenue will entertain Wednesday evening Dec. 5th, in honor of their niece Miss Lula Nesbett. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Birney announce the engagement of their niece Miss Maud Miller Williams to Mr. Frank H. Johnson. The wedding will occur Dec. 26th 1900, at High Noon, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Birney, 1924 Crocker street. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Soward entertained at Thanksgiving dinner Mr. and Mrs. John McClain, Mr. and Mrs. James Woods, Miss Olliver and Mr. Franklin. A five course dinner was served. In the evening they entertained a whist party. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Stewart announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Bess Genora to Mr. Harold Wilson Hughes. Both young people are well known, having been born and reared in Des Moines. Miss Stewart who was a member of the class of '96 of the West D. M. High school is quite talented musician, possessed of a lovable disposition and a charming and vivacious --- Porter & Tetley, UNDERTAKERS. We offer you the service of W. L. Tetley, who passed a higher examination before the Iowa Board than any undertaker in Des Moines. The finest Funeral Car in the city and Five Hacks free with each casket. Our caskets are sold as cheap as any undertaker in the city can sell them. Gents fine kid gloves, lined and unlined, plain and fancy colors. 500 Real kid mittens, wool lined, congress wrist. 500 The swellest kid glove in Des Moines for $1 000. 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. 250 FROM FRANKELS Love Co. Retail Store out Street. and retail $2.75 per ton and from 405 Marquardt Block. Prompt Delivery. manner, she easily became a favorite among her circle of friends. Mr. Hughes is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hughes of 2014 Center street. After graduating with the class of 90 of the West D. M. High School he entered the employ of the W. L. White Shoe Co., where he remained until he resigned, having secured a position as letter carrier. The wedding will occur at High Noon on Dec. 19, 1900, at the home of the bride's parents, 1019 25th street. They will be at home to their friends after Jan. 15, 1901, at 2014 Center St. W. L. Morris the florist has removed to 609 W. Walnut street. I have several small houses with 3 to 6 rooms that can be sold on payments and targains. Stop paying rent and take the money you are paying rent with, and pay for a home. Also have several nice desirable residence lots, will sell on payments. If you will write me stating what you want. I will call and see you and give you prices and terms. This is equal to savings bank. W. R. BIGGS, Room 49 Clapp Block. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. HELP THE GALVESTON RELIEF. 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. (Mention Iowa State Bystander.) THE ELITE Restaurant, 314 W. Third street. Best 15c meal in the city. A trial will convince you. E. G. McAfee Prop. 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. WAITER'S COLUMN. Another week has passed by and I again appear before you. News this week is somewhat scarce. I am almost persuaded to believe all the BYSTANDER. 1113-1115-117 LOCUST STREET. waiters are get'ing ready to get married. Yet in conversation with Mr. John Waller or the Savery he said "Not me." Mr. Frank Jackson o. the Rock Ishand says "Not me" and Our Jack says, "I am sure it taint me. I am oo much taken up with this examination business. Come around and see me later on; yet I do wish this was leap year, as I have not got the courage." "Judge" Straughter says let all waiters appear before him and he will advise them. "Dad" Tibbs says, "Boys, go slow, 'tis a mighty risky business. You all know I have been there for these many years." The railroad boys all report a big business. People have begun migrating to the west. Mr. Will Smith of the Rock Island reports his farm a decided success for the first year. We are glad to see it and trust business on the farm will so increase that he will be compelled to devote his whole time to. Mr. Doug Miller is slowly recovering from his sickness. he went to work too soon and was compelled to lay off again this week. Mr. Failay and Mr. Harris of the Savery took the first degree in Masonry last Monday night and the second last Wednesday night. From their looks, the Lord only knows when they will take the third. Yet they say it is a grand thing and have kindly advised Amo U. to come and see. Well, boys, it is a good thing and when you get through I'll be with you. The individual who invents a dining room floor that is firm, but yielding, easily cleaned, durable and neat in appearance will soon be a millionaire if he manages the thing aright. -Hotel World. Yes, and we think if a Des Moines waiter would invent a pair of shoes that would save our feet he would be a billionaire, as shoes would wear out soon. Put your heads together boys, Amo U. will buy the first pair. Do you know that Mr. Alex Griffin of the Kirkwood was the first colored child born in Iowa. Quite a distinguishe gentleman. His name should be recorded in the history of Iowa. We think it is about time that the Iowa hotel was changing the service of its dining room from girls to boys. No hotel can be classed as first class that has girl waiters. Boys, get next to some of your traveling men friends and get them to make the kisk. You will get it sure. Robert Martin lately of Omaha, who was working at the Kirkwood, left Saturday night for Cleveland, Ohio. He thought Des Moines too slow for him. The Kirkwood boys are much clated over the prospective recovery of Mr. Macartney, who was operated on in Chicago and trust he will soon be seen around the hotel again. While getting your work done at Al Smole's shop just let him know what is going on and Amo U. will get it. You know Al is a great talker and we will be willing for him know all. Boys you must try to do something about a reading room. Some one take up the question and talk it among the boys. If more read the Bystander they would know of it. As I work among the boys I never hear them talk of the "Waiters Column." This is done for your mutual interest and I again invite your operation. Amo U. GAVE IT UP. To the public: Several weeks ago there appeared in one of our daily papers an elaborate write-up advertising a grand rag time ball to be given under the supervision of Messrs. Will Chase and Mills. The other papers took it up and the people were asked to see what would be done. At our first opportunity we denounced the scheme, later City Superintendent of Market J. Frank Blagburn, who is always defending the race, came out in a very strong letter which was published by the Des Moines Leader, after which Messrs. Chase and Mills immediately gave up the enterprise. After Mr. Blagburn was satisfied it was a thing of the past he addressed a letter to Mr. Chase expressing his appreciation and also the appreciation of the colored citizens. In justice to Mr. Chase we here with publish his answer to Mr. Blagburn. Des Moines, Nov. 23, 1900. Mr. Frank Blagburn, Market Master, city. My Dear Frank: I have just returned from Denver this afternoon, and find your letter of the 16th. I thank you for your kind expression of approval of my course in giving up the "Rag-time Ball," and should never have considered such a proposition had I known that you and the better class of colored people in general were opposed to such an affair. A number of the colored boys came to me along in September and important me to put one on in the Auditorium, saying that they were all "go elsewhere. I took hold of the idea with a vim, expecting, of course, that it would be a very popular event, I in some way the papers gave the impression that it was to be more for the white than ; the colored people, and went so far as to separate certain parts of the house for each. As soon as I noticed the opposition which was offered, I gave it up. I am glad you appreciate my action. Yours very truly, W. P. Cause. A NEW UNDERTAKING. Messra, Porter & Tetley, who operate a large livery and undertaking business at 1113, 1115 and 1117 West Locust street, are waking up the trust undertakers of the city in a lively manner. It can hardly be said they are offering inducements to people to die, but, those who are compelled to patronize the undertaker it is consoling that they are not met with exorbitant charges for every item connexed with the services of such undertaker. It will be noticed in the advertisement that this firm furnishes free hearse, five free hacks and the services of the undertaker is also free. They guarantee that the price of caskets will at all times be as reasonable as the same can be bought at any other place in the city. People who have had the sad experience of funerals know something of the rate of charges that has prevailed here. They can not help but feel that the firm of Porter & Tetley is doing the fair thing by the public. They are both fine gentlemen to met. Give them a call. MUSCATINE NEWS Rev. Wiley Hunt of Burlington arrived last week and is assisting Rev. Gordon in his revival services. Margo Holen Jobson is visiting rel Miss Helen Johnson is visiting relatives in Des Moines. Mr. Edward aker left for Kansas Monday morning. Mrs. Peter Townley entertained her friends Saturday evening in honor of her birthday anniversary. A splendid supper was served and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. Townley received many nice presents. Subscribers who promised to pay their subscriptions and failed to do so please bear in mind that the agent will collect next Monday. Mrs. Rosetta watson is on the sick list. SIoux CITY Evangelist C. N. Hunt of Minneapolis is holding a general religious campaign in this city and thousands of people are attending the meetings. He was formerly a lawyer and he argues his texts from a lawyer's standpoint. Mr. Hunt is assisted by Rev Ernest Quick and C. H. Coulters, who has charge of the musical portion of the sessions. About thirty Sioux City churches are united in this movement and there is a promise that they will accomplish more than any other one of the kind in the history of the city. Those who are not attending these meetings are missing a great deal. Rev. Quick and Mr. Coulters conducted a meeting at the A. M. E. church Wednesday evening and at the Baptist church Thursday evening. The choir at the A. M. E. church was highly complimented by Mr. Coulters and he invited them to sing with the choir at the Whitfield M. E. church Friday evening, and all colored singers have been invited to take part in the chorus and assist during these meetings. Mr. R. H. Moulden came down from Minneapolis Wednesday evening to visit Miss E. Watkins. He will be a guest at the home of Mr. R. H. Early until after Thanksgiving. We are sorry not to have been able to announce the Thanksgiving which was given at the church, as the arrangements were not completed. Mr. Jas. Washington took a flying trip to Yankton last week, remaining over Sunday. He reported the church in a lively condition. The grand opening of the dancing academy, which was given by the Young Men's club, will long be remembered by all dance goers. The club gives another dance Thanksgiving night. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Young will come up from LeMars tor Thanksgiving. The agent has been authorized to call upon all delinquent subscribers, so please be ready when she comes, and oblige not me, but the Bystander. The Young People's Literary society is getting along nicely, but expect to do better after Thanksgiving. The Sunday school expects to have their concert in two weeks. Tickets are now out. They promise a grand treat. IOWA CITY ITEMS Our new past r, Rev R. Holly, is getting pretty well established upon the work and although he is only with us every third Sunday he has arranged with the several young men of our race that are in attendance in the various colleges of the State university to entertain his congregation upon the Sunday evenings that he is away at his other appointment—Washington. Upon Sunday the 18th the pulpit was occupied by Mr. S. Joe Brown of the graduate and law colleges with an address upon "The Family in the Scriptures and in the Law." Upon last Sunday evening a very interesting and instructive address was delivered by Mr. Edward A. Carter of Muchakinoch, now a student in the College of Liberal Arts. We understand that there are also more to follow by Mr. Herbert Wright of the College of Law and Mr. Wesley Thompson of the College of Liberal Arts. Rev. Holly is a wide awake pastor and believes in utilizing all the material at hand. Our pastor will be with us in person next Sunday and it is hoped that the friends will turn out again and contribute as liberally as they did upon that occasion as comparatively a small number contributed nearly $10 at the evening service. Mr. William Mason is visiting with his parents in this city. Miss Belle Simpson of Memphis, Mo., has recently taken up her residence here as a member of th Mason family. Mr. Frank Clark of Ottumwa is chef at the "New St. James." A very successful social and donation party was given by the young ladies for the benefit of the pastor Tuesday evening. Miss Aleyandra Goosaley, a native of Manila, P. I., is in the city with the family of Captain Ely, U. S. A., who is now doing service in the Philippines. BOONE. Wm. Robinson now has charge of the Butler house kitchen. Last week Mrs. Thomas Patton fell on the sidewalk and received a painful sprain; she is much improved at present. Miss Anna Coleman will spend Thanksgiving in Indianola, the guest of her sister, Miss Bessie Coleman. The marriage of Miss Mary E Mayes and Mr. S. L. Terry was solemnized Thursday evening at the home of the groom's parents. Rev. Joplin performed the ceremony. The bride wore a gown of white mull and carried a bouquet of carnations. Just the r elatives and intimate friends of the family were present. The wedding supper was served at 10:30 o'clock. Th bride was a former resident of Newton and will surely make friends in our city. It is needless to say Mr. Terry is one of our popular and intelligent young men. At present he is employed by the railroad company. The correspondent and many friends wish Mr. and Mrs. Terry much joy and success in their new home. Mrs. Cowan, one of the cooks at the Butler house, received a sever burn which has compelled her to take a few days' vacation. z L. F. Anthony. SAYLOR Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your columns to announce the following: The First Baptist church have organized a choir, Miss Blossom Jenkins is our organist. The young people of Saylor are taking great interest in the church work. Mr. Lee Garrett, the superintendent, was very much pleased to have the Sabbath school missionaries with us last Sunday. We wish to return heartfelt thanks to Mr. Flemming, superintendent of the Saylor mines, for the nice library that has been given for the benefit of the school—a donation of a hundred books. The people of Saylor are preparing for the holiday rapidly. Mrs. Addie Jenkins is visiting friends in Hocking, Iowa. Mrs. Nancy Strites and Mrs. Etta Holland are in the city today on a literary and the topics are interbusiness. The young people have organized a literary and the topics are interesting. The young men and ladies take great interest in the divine services. The first Sunday in the month will be a regular covenant and in the evening communion. Rev. Haggard, our pastor, is thinking about visiting Hockings in a few days. We have night school here now and the young men are taking great interest. The Rev. Mrs. Phillips of Des Moines preached for us Sunday and the people enjoyed her sermon very much. "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy an find it to be a great medicine," says Mr. E. SPa ipps, of Potean, Ark. "It cured it cured me of bloody flux. I cannot speak too highly of it." This remedy always win the good opinion, if not praise, of those who use it. The quiet cures which it effects even in the most severe cases make it a favorite everywhere. For sale by all Druggists. Maude Adams has a new play upon which the New York dramatic critics are unable to agree. She is a fortunate woman. The reason for the advance in prices is by no means complicated. The Chicago packers simply feel that they need the money. After being out 102 hours and falling to reach a decision a jury in Scranton, Pa., was discharged. Later empty whisky bottles were discovered in the jury room. Absolute amnesty has been granted by the Peruvian legislature to all persons who may have been concerned in any political transgression or offenses, with the right to fill public offices. All political prisoners confined at Lima have been set at liberty. When a new postoffice is to be named the people of the neighborhood have the right to choose its name. There are Schleys, Roosevelts and Funatons all over the country. Now some Virginians have named their postoffice Tuan, in honor of the anti-foreign Chinese prince, and the name has to stand. Clark of Montana is going to make another effort to obtain a seat in the United States senate. As far as the legislature of Montana is concerned, Clark's case is already won. A majority of the members of that body are of Clark's choosing, and they will undoubtedly give him a set of credentials to carry to Washington. There is one comfort in the coming on of cold weather. Statistics indicate that outbreaks of insanity are most frequent in the hot season, and that suicides in the summer months as compared with the winter months are as three to two. Whence it would appear that even our reason and our love of life are best kept on ice. Christmas trees are already being cut down in Washington county, Me., and the season's output from that section will amount to 400 car loads, with 860 bunches to a car. Each bunch consists of from two to six trees. The trees are sent to New York and Boston, where they will retail for about ten times as much as they are worth on board the cars in Maine. A street in Chicago, not far from the "Archey road," immortalized by Dooley, has been known for twenty years as "Take" street, in honor of a certain business man bearing that name. The word has come to have so injurious a significance of late years that the residents and property owners in that neighborhood have prayed the city authorities to give the street a new name. Twenty-one persons died in Massachusetts last year aged 100 years or more. Sixtea of the twenty-one were women—three of the sixteen never having been married. Eight of the twenty-one were born in Ireland, three in Canada and three in other foreign countries—leaving seven native-born, six of whom were of Massachusetts nativity. The oldest was two months over 106 years. The perfunctory manner in which witnesses are sworn in English courts was illustrated recently in a London court after some twenty witnesses had given their evidence. It was then discovered that all had solemnly sworn on and had kissed a guide to the law of landlord and tenant. The mistake came to light only when a court official saw that the supposed Bible was much more clean than usual, and, as a consequence, looked closely at the book. Miss Alice Sinclair of Cincinnati, O., who acted as bridesmaid at the wedding of a friend, found a thimble in the piece of bride's cake which she ate. This was regarded as proof that she would be an old maid. To prove that the sign was false she agreed to marry William Keeler, to whom she was engaged, at once, and invited all the wedding guests to be present at her marriage. A minister was found within three hours of the time when she was acting as bridesmaid. The failing of the elevators is perhaps not the only danger associated with life in the modern sky-scraper. Some physicians, in making physical examinations for life insurance companies, think they have discovered that elevator boys and others who make many trips a day are peculiarly liable to heart-disease and premature degeneration of the arteries. They do not know whether this is due to change in atmospheric pressure in passing from basement to roof and down again, to the disturbances caused by the sudden starts and stops and the rapid descent, or to some as yet unsuspected cause. Telephones are being fitted on the electric cars of one of the suburban lines in St. Louis. The instrument is placed in the rear of each car, the negative connection being through the wheels to the rail, and the positive connection being secured through a simple device, like a jointed fishpole, and an overhead wire, paralleling the trolley. Thus the motorman is able at all times to communicate with the office, the sheds and the wrecking crew. Later it is intended to connect this line with the public service and so permit its use by passengers. THE NEWS IN IOWA Joseph Cabelka, 6 years old, of Cedar Rapids, while playing with a rifle, accidentally discharged the weapon. The bullet struck the boy in the stomach and lodged in the abdomen, inflicting a probably fatal wound. The Des Moines Daily News has made arrangements for the full leased wired service of the Associated Press, vastly improving its market reports and other telegraphic news. The subscription price, however, remains $1 a year, 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for three months—the lowest price of any daily in the world. As a result of a boiler explosion in the plant of the Glucose Sugar Refining company at Davenport two men were killed and five seriously injured. The boiler house was demolished by the force of the explosion and paws of the engine for the plant. The damage to the plant will reach $25,000. The dead are James Coleman, engineer, and D. D. Cook, machinist. The injured are John Peters, Charles Peters, Victor Kiefer, Joe Wohl and Charles Gibberstein. W. H. Linter of Cedar Rapids, accompanied by his wife, on the way to the depot at Burlington to leave for home after spending Thanksgiving with relatives at the latter place, was held up by a footpad and on resisting Mr. Linter was shot through the heart, dying instantly. Mrs. Linter ran but was shot in the back, and is now dying at a hospital. The assassin escaped. A man was captured at Patterson, six miles south of Burlington, who gave his name as George Anderson, who had two reeves and two exploded shells. He practically confessed to shooting the Linters. An ultimatum has been issued to the alumatum of Sioux City that after December 1 next they must comply with every provision of the Martin mulet law. This proclamation went forth from the Anti-Saloon league, which are taken upon itself the enforcement of the law in Woodbury county. Its officers say that if December 1 finds any saloon violating the law with reference to screens, decorations, opening and closing or in any other particular they will close it up by injunction. They set an example of what the expected outcome is in keeping Kenseth saloon—the largest in the city. They brought injunction proceedings against this place and won out. It is the only one in town that closes at 10 o'clock and otherwise obeys the law. Trouble may result from this attempted enforcement. Between lawyers and familiar lawyers and the league, the saloonkeepers are getting desperate. A skull and a few partially burned bones are all that are left of Peter Peters of Reinbeek, who started a few days ago in an emigrant car containing three horses, six ows and his household furniture from Reinbeek for Salem, S. D. The car was switched in on a siding at Gladbrook thence to be taken by the C. & N. W. to the destination. Early the next morning a pile of ows in an enormous evening there had been a car. Some time during the night the car had caught fire and it, together with its contents, had been entirely destroyed. Mr. Peters was an industrious German farmer and by careful management had accumulated sufficient to buy a farm for himself in South Dakota to which he was en route at the time of the accident. He leaves a wife and seven small children, the oldest 12 years of age. The farm he purchased from him and he also had some money in the bank which is left to the widow. The loss of the contents of the car will amount to about $1,500. Dr. H. A. Hamilton, one of the leading citizens of Marville, a village in Marion county, was shot down in cold blood a few days ago. Alfred Alin, also a prominent resident of the place, has been placed under arrest on suspicion of having committed the crime. It is claimed by residents of the place that Alin believed Hamilton to have been the cause of a separation between Alin and his wife and he is said to have made numerous threats to the police, the report of Dr. Hamilton had just enten breakfast and was on his way to the barn where his horses were kept, preparatory to making a drive in the country and when he entered the wood which surrounded the barn the report of a rifle rang out on the frosty air. Notwithstanding the bullet passed through the doctor's head, he managed to greet the police when he died when making an effort to open the door. The sound of his falling on the step attracted the attention of his wife and children, who soon gathered about him. Without a word of explanation the doctor passed away. The members of the family gave a hurried alarm and the people of the village turned out quickly to the murderer, but no one was seen in the vicinity who was supposed to have done the awful work. Later in the day Alin was arrested, a number of persons testifying to the fact that they had heard him make threats against the doctor's life. Alin was placed in jail; he had nothing to say, but it is believed by the Marion county police of the dead man that when given a sweatbox session he will make a confession. In the district court at Marshallstown the Gray jury found Joe Gray guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Joseph Williams. Williams, who was a negro, several weeks ago rebuked a crowd of tramps for interfering with four little girls. The tramps were drunk and Williams was shot four times. The would not be convicted on the evidence, from a legal standpoint, but the veract is applauded. Joe Dunn will be tried as an accessory. Time is but a narrow ruffle on the edge of eternity. Ed Warner and his hired man Charles Hofeditz, were instantly killed at a crossing three miles east of Iowa City, by passenger train No. 1, pulled by engine No. 472. Warner and his man had been out to the farm, gathered a load of corn and started toward town, approximately dark and the roads rough, it is supposed that the on coming train was not noticed. The train was stopped and backed to the crossing, where the bodies of the two men were found about twenty feet from the track. The wagon was broken into pieces, the man was killed in the escaping injury. Both men leave families. The train was behind time and was running at a high rate of speed. the robbing of the department store of Colonel Brant at Cedar Falls has brought to the surface an organized band of juvenile robbers. Most of the stolen property was found hidden in the old paper mill and some was found on the river bank. In making search of the land, the district which had been constructed by the young thieves and a raft made from number stolen from the Cedar Falls Lumber company. The door to the cave had been appropriated from one of the slaughter houses. The officers are of the opinion that the robbers are of tender years and are victims of the dime novel. A similar organization was formed. No arrests have been made, but the police say they will round up the gang in a bunch. The worst wreck the Northwestern ever suffered on the northern Iowa division occurred in the yards at Toledo a few days ago. A double-header, with three refrigerator cars and twenty-two cars of stock, ran head end into the way freight, which was unloading merchandise. The engines, Nos. 553, 446 and 467, were piled up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt. One car on the way freight and two refrigerator cars on the other train were badly damaged. Fortunately none of the stock cars left the track. The firemen and engineers all jumped, escaping uninjured, except the go-go driver who made it. And they stayed in not one would have escaped. Some stockmen and the conductor were in the caboose of the stock train and were well shaken up, but not hurt. The damage is estimated at $100,000. Charles kocker, a hired man, who once worked for August Schroeder at Doon, is charged with the murder of his employer last June, in an answer filed in a $0,000 uamage suit in the courts of this district, of Woodbury county. Schroeder was found dead in his barn last June, with a rope about his neck. His wife and the hired man said it was a case of suicide, but his employers, Fred said, the twain had murdered him. Rocker brought a damage suit, and now the brothers set up as a fact that the hired man did kill his employer, and that his wife was also implicated in the crime. The attorneys for the brothers say that Rocker and the dead man's wife are now living together on a farm near Redfield, S. D., which was bought with the money held by the dead man. Sensual developments are expected when the trial is held. A dispatch from Des Moines says: A few dealers have resumed the sale of cigarettes and announced that they will pay the $75 quarterly tax for the last three months of 1900. In order to do this, however, they have doubled the price of cigarettes. Since it is certain that only a few dealers can afford to pay the tax, they will not meet with the competition that has heretofore existed. A few other dealers are still selling cigarettes "on the sly" but they will soon be suppressed. If any attempt is made to collect the back tax it is said that dealer is seeking however from the American Tobacco Company the taxes or fines that may be assessed and collected against them. They say that the American Tobacco Company guaranteed to protect them against damage if they went ahead and sold that company's cigarettes. The lack taxes can be collected the American Tobacco Company will be made defendant in scores of suits aggregating many thousands of dollars. This i. the reason the company is so ashamed to sell the dealers to quit selling, the latter are now doing business at their own risk. There was wild excitement in Albia a row days ago, when Sheriff Donor arrived from Fort Madison in charge of Alva Brooker, a negro who is alleged to have committed rape on the person of Mrs. Sarah Hovel of Albia. The sheriff was assisted in guarding the prisoner for safety's sake by a detail of members of Company G, Iowa National Guard, from Ottumwa. A large crowd of infuriated Albia people met the official party at the depot on its arrival there, and meant by them lynching, by being very vigorously made, but the appearance of the soldiers with their bayonetted guns and the expostulations of the sheriff had the effect of keeping the crowd at bay. The prisoner was marched to the court house in a hollow square. The proceedings there were frequently interrupted by yells of a fiery nature, but the absence of a leader resulted in no rush being made. The prisoner's attorneys, Edward Morrison of Oklahoma, filed a judgment of prejudice, upon which a change of venue was granted to Wapello county. Immediately the sheriff, soldiers and prisoner returned to Ottumwa on a Burlington train, where Brooker was jailed. Attorneys Mullan & Pickett of Waterloo have filed a petition asking for a new trial for their client, Jerome W. Hoot. They enumerate thirteen reasons why the petition should be granted. Archbishop Keane has positively denied the report that he had received a communication from Rome directing the division of the archdiocese of Dubuque and the erection on the seat of Sioux City, and opposed the suffragan bishops of the province and his own council to meet in Dubuque to nominate candidates for the Sioux City bishopric. BOERS GAIN BIG VICTORY Capture Entire British Garrison at Dewetsdorn London, Nov. 30.—Lord Roberts cables from Johannesburg, under date of Wednesday, November 28: "The Dewetsdorp garrison of two guns of the Sixty-eighth field battery, with detachments of the Gloucestershire regiment, the Highland light infantry and Irish rifles, 400 in all, surrendered at 5:30 p. m., November 23. Our losses were fifteen men killed and forty-two wounded, including Major Hansen and Captain Digby. The enemy is said to be 2,500 strong. Four hundred men were dispatched from Edenburg to relieve Dewetsdorp, but they did not succeed in reaching there in time. Knox joined this force and found Dewetsdorp evacuated. Seventy-five sick and wounded had been left there. Knox pursued and is reported to have successfullly attacked the enemy and the Water Vaalbank, November 27. They retired west and southwest. Knox's messenger failed to get through, so I have no details." London, Nov. 30.--The disaster at Dewtsdorp has sent a hit of alarm through Great Britain. The censorship continues so strict that there is no hope of arriving at a clear conception of the actual position of affairs in South Africa. For instance, independent accounts show the subsequent Dewtsdorp give ample details, not omitting to announce the capture of two Boer wagons and a quantity of loot, but there is not the slightest mention of the surrender of 400 British troops and two guns, which were not even disabled, inasmuch as the Boers were able to use them against the British relief forces. It seems again to have gotten away, and, so far, there is no news that the captured British have been liberated. Taking into consideration the enginematical military situation north of the Orange river, the smouldering rebellion in Cape Colony, the rumors that France has promised Kruger to press arbitration on England if he is able to obtain the support of Germany and Italy, the French officer to be given the chief command in South Africa, the British government will meet the new parliament next week at an exceedingly in-opportune moment. PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT. Letter Received Giving an Anarchist Scheune Away New York, Nov. 28.—The police of Hoboken, N. J., have received a letter alleging the existence of a plot to assassinate McKinley. The letter, which is illegibly signed, is as follows: "Sirs—Having almost thoroughly assured myself of an anarchist plot to exterminate his excellency President McKinley, I consider it my duty to advise you of the name of one who is more than suspected of being the leader, whose name is found in the enclosed sup. He is a fugitive from justice, and a dangerous man, having been convicted several times and on the last occasion sentenced to five years' imprisonment or an anarachtism. My statement can be verified on appealing to the prefect of police at Paris. "In the course of the past year he had concealed with him a man named Francois, author of an anarchist attempt at Scorentan, where he mortally wounded an agent of the police." My statement, is located and his story will be investigated. KREGER MAY VISIT US. Mr. Pearson Declares He is Coming Across the Ocean. New York, Nov. 28.—Samuel Pearson formerly commerically general of the Transvaal army, who has just arrived in this country, with a number of friends, for the statement that President Krueger will probably soon seek refuge and a permanent home here. "President Krueger will leave Paris very soon, I believe," said General Pearson, "and come to America, where with his wife, he will make his home more comfortable, he will triumphed and he can return to South Africa to take up again his office as chief executive of the Boers." THIRTEEN KILLED OUTRIGHT. Fifty Others Injured In a San Francisco Accident. San Francisco, Nov. 20.—Thirteen people were killed and fifty badly injured by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific glass works, on Fifteenth street yesterday, while it was crowded with men and boys watching a football game on the field adjoining. About seventy-five people fell through the roof upon the red-hot roof and glass vats below. All were horribly burned and it is feared that in addition to the thirteen deaths already reported, there will be several more. FRANCE WILL MAKE A MOVE. Will Probably Take Initiative to Secure Arbitration for Boers. Paris, Nov. 29.—The general council of the Seine has unanimously adopted a resolution that the French government should take the initiative in an endeavor to bring about an arbitration of the issues between Great Britain and the Boeotia. Nov. 30.—The chamber of deputies yesterday unanimously adopted a vote of sympathy with Mr. Kruger. Twenty are said to be Dead. Beaver, Penn, Nov. 28.—Late last night a Cleveland & Pittsburgh flyer went into the Ohio river at this place. Three Cleveland men, Engineer Coucheour, Fireman Allen and Express Messenger Casey, were killed. Nineteen others are reported dead and the entire train is said to be in the river. London, Nov. 26.—General Buller's home newspaper, the North Devon Herald, says it understands the genius of the New Year's honor list is issued, and that he will assume the title of Lord Buller of Ladysmith. United States Cruiser Yosemite Lost During the Storm. New York, Nov. 29.—Advices have been received here from Mama that the island of Guam was visited by a typhoon on November 23, which wrecked thousands of homes, among them being the headquarters of Governor Schroeder. The towns of Indrajan and Terrafoara were swept away, and it is estimated that hundreds of the native population in various parts o. the island met their deaths. The coconut crops were rendered worthless and vegetables of the fruit filled by salt water. The storm came up in the foreonon and swept across the island with amazing rapidity. The United States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite, which was anchored adjacent to the collier Justin, dragged her anchor and was driven around 150 yards from the reef, her bows being crushed in. A launch with a crew of five men had previously left the ship to endeavor to find a safe anchorage for the vessel, the indications being that anchors would not hold her where she was. The men were not seen after they left the ship and it is practically certain that a vessel would have to storm the locked up swamped the launch. The bodies of Coxswain *e*. Swanson and Seaman Gauan Anhel were recovered after the typhoon subsided. All *e*'forts to save the ship were futile and she was finally scuttled and abandoned. CONGER WILL HOLD THE PLACE. No Danger That He Will Be Recalled from Peking. Washington, Nov. 29.—There is no truth to the story that Conger intends to return home. The department has given the matter an emphatic denial. There is no difference of opinion, and the administration is most satisfied with the work being performed by Iowa's distinguished diplomat. It developed yesterday the chief point in the exchanges concerning China which have been going on during the last few days among the powers relates to the wisdom of delivering an ultimatum to China, using the expression "ultimatum" in the text of the demand to be handed to the Chinese envoy, involving the possibility of resulting in a declaration of war against China in case the demanded to be handed with. It appears some of the powers desired the express use of the word "ultimatum" in the demand relative to the decapitation or other extreme punishment of eleven princes or other high officials responsible for the outrages, and this view of using the most extreme term of diplomacy seems to have found favor with the ministers at Peking. When it became known at several capitals a considerable dissent became manifest. About a week ago Japan took the indication that the government of the country. This received favorable consideration of the United States, France, Russia and probably Great Britain. About the same time Secretary Hay took steps to express the view of this government t wais inadvisable to proceed to the extent of an ultimatum against China, but the demand should not be beyond what China reasonably might have the power to comply with. The unanimity of sentiment among the ministers in the belief that the demands of the ministers will be modified by the omission of the term "ultimatum," although it is not yet clear what the final attitude of the remaining powers, Germany, Austria and Italy, will be. REFUSED TO SEND MORE TROOPS British Government Said to Have Declined Lord Roberts' Request. London, Nov. 27.—"We understand," says the Daily Express, "that Lord Roberts recently requested the government to send 20,000 regulars to South Africa to relieve the same number still in the field, but that his request was declined on the score of expense." Condemning the government's refusal as "ruinous economy," the Daily Express goes on to describe Lord Kitchener's "drastic plan of operation." "He will endeavor to isolate the commandes," it says, "and to move suspected Boer families into garrisons in some districts, confining the population in langer if necessary, and will take or destroy all food supplies, punish treachery by death or transportation, raze villages guilty of theft, and kill all farms in the vicinity of railway or telegraph cutting." TURKEY WILLING TO SETTLE. Imperial Trade Issued Ordering Cruisier in the United States. Constantinople, Nov. 30.—The arrival of the United States battleship Kentucky at Smyrna has so shaken up the palace that indications are accumulating of a desire to hasten a settlement to the satisfaction of the United. An irade has been issued calling for the purchase of a cruiser at Philadelphia, the price for which is to include the $90,000 Armenian indemnity. This is regarded as a subterfuge designed for local consumption in order to save the face of the enemy. Nevertheless it is now believed that Turkey will find the money and order a cruiser in the hope of propitiating the United States. Despite the dispute the relations between the United States legation and the porte continue cordial. No woman ever admitted she laced too tight. Conger skid to or be coming Home. New York, Nov. 27—A Washington dispatch to the World says: Minister Conger probably will return to the United States. His relations with the administration have not been harmonious since the relief of Peking. Mr. Conger advocates measures which the president regards as too radical, and he has not taken kindly to the fact that his views have not been endorsed at Washington. Some people are like clocks; they are going all the time but never get anywhere. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Dei Molina. November 30, 1900. Scott Laughter was sent to jail for twenty days by Judge McPherson of the court for contempt. It was said that he got drunk and returned to his home at Colfax, and later had been arrested on the charge of resisting an officer. The officers say that John Cline of Colfax who has held for illegal sales, is suspected of conspiring to get Slaughter out of the way as a witness against him in a whisky case. Joseph S. Trigg, editor of the Rockford Register, who is famous in Town as an agriculturist writer and editorial philosopher, is announced as a judge for secretary, and board of agriculture directed George H. Van Houten. The state agricultural convention will be held in Dei Molina December 10, 11, 12 and 13. This convention elects the directors and the directors elect the secretary. The city's share of the mullet tax on cigarettes, which is now due from every dealer in the city who has been handling cigarettes since October 1 will amount to between $12,000 and $15,000. The city receives one-half of the tax collected. It is estimated that 300 retail dealers in the city have been handling "coffin nails" and each one will be asked to pay the quarterly $75. It is announced by attorneys representing the saloon and anti-saloon interests that a mutual agreement has been reached in the statement of consent decision and appeal from the board of supervisors, and the matter will not come up until the January turnout. This properly prevents efforts toward closing the saloons again until the middle of January, when it is expected the case will beocketed. A representative of the anti-saloon forces says, however, the matter will be pushed with all vigor at the January term. W. B. Martin, secretary of state elect, has decided to appoint D. A. Hites as his deputy, thus insuring the retention of Mr. Hites in the office he now holds under Secretary Dobson. At the same time G. S. Gilbertson, the treasurer of state elect, insured the retention of McQuiston of Des Moines, county auditor of Polk county, as his deputy. Dr. Lewis Schooler, chairman of the general army post committee, has sent word to Captain J. A. T. Hull that the committee has selected a site for an army post and has secured the money necessary for its purchase. The site selected is the Drisco-Denny property, located about three and one-half miles south of the city of Denver, the city where the step toward securing the post will be the appointment of a commission by the government to visit this city and decide if the army post committee proposition is to be accepted. No one anticipates that there will be any objection. On the other hand, the government may any way with the movement expect the spring of 1901, or at least the early summer, to see an army post, composed of a regiment of cavalry, completely established and in full operation within walking distance of Des Moines. In establishing the post, the government will probably begin with a little less than $1,000,000. After it is established the money spent in its management will amount to over $50,000 a month. The official figures show that the proposition to hold a convention to revise and amend the constitution was lost by 555 votes. The first rough draft of the official figures showed the convention had been carried by a narrow margin. But when the abstracts were checked over it was found there had been errors in transcribing the returns from the abstracts for the purpose of getting at official results. The chief source of the trouble was in the returns from Tama county. This had been credited with 1,000 too many votes for the convention, a "400" having been missed. The Tama county cast for the convention according to the official figures was 176,337 and the total vote against it was 176,892. The official figures on the Titus amendment do not alter materially the semi-official figures given out, the majority for the amendment being upwards of 30,000. Two handsome pieces of marble statuary, the busts of ex-Governor William Larrabee and Mrs. Larrabee, have arrived at the historical building. They are the gifts of the ex-governor to the historical department. Their arrival was an entire surprise to Curator Charles Aldrich, who is highly pleased at receiving them. They will occupy prominent places in the art room. The figures are of life size and are of the purest sculptures. They are sculptured at Florence, Italy, the sculptors being Pugi Freres, artists at that city. All those who have seen the figures agree they are striking likenesses of ex-Governor Larrabee and his wife. Germanny Dusen the Sultan. Constaninople, Nov. 27.—A difficulty has arisen between Germany and Turkey. The Ottoman government objects to Germany using Far San island, in the Red sea, as a cooling station and wishes to establish there a Turkish deposit accessible to all the powers. Germany, however, insists that she will not abandon the island. Plot to Kill Roberts. London, Nov. 28.—According to a special edition of the Evening Standard, a plot to assassinate Lord Roberts, in which two foreigners are concerned, was discovered. It appears the conspirators, laid a mine which was designed to be blown up Sunday while Roberts was in church at Johannesburg. But the police and Roberts' body-guard frustrated the conspiracy. Ten men, mostly Italians, were arrested. These details, the Evening Standard says, it is unable to verify. A Sacrifice To Conscience H. B. Welsh CHAPTER II.—(Continued.) She hesitated. And he saw her bare hands—they were very small hands he had noticed, with slenderly-shaped fingers—wiring themselves together as if in overwhelming distress or perplexity. Then she spoke in a half-stiffed voice: "I think I shall go home to him. I am afraid to bring another doctor. I—I shall do what I can for him myself." A thought struck Enderby and he said quickly, with a shade of embarrassment: "If you are afraid of Doctor Howard's charges, Miss Lloyd, I think you can let your mind be easy about that. He is, I believe, a very kindly and generous man." He saw the girl start and flinch a little, as if his words had stung her. Then she said: "It is not that. I think I had better go straight home." Enderby stopped the driver and stepped out. The gaslight fell full on the girl's face as he turned to look at it. What a ghastly, pale, troubled young face it was! Yet it struck him that it might under certain circumstances, be beautiful. The features were small and aquiline, the brow childishly smooth and white, the mouth and chin softly and roundly formed, though the former and a strange expression of self-rejection now; the eyes were weird and dark, though the hair seemed aururn, the brows above them of startling blackness. And what a child she looked! Hardly sixteen, he thought, as he looked at her. "What address shall I give the man?" he asked. "Burden Mansions," she answered. They are only about five minutes' talk from here." Underby knew them well by name—all flats, mostly occupied by needy erkers and poor working women. He stood still for a moment think- "I hope your foot will be all right," said then, "and that your father be no worse. May I call in a few eyes and see?" She gave him a quick, almost terrified glance, then suddenly her lips be- to tremble pitifully, and she tried inside her head. "How kind you have been!" she said, "and I have never thanked you. She put out her hand as if im-ively, then drew it back before I could touch it. "It is kind of you to call," she said. "Yes, I be very grateful if you do. We two stories up." "How will you get up with that limbed foot of yours?" he asked. "What you think I had better come in you and help you?" Oh, it is not much," she said, her face faltering; but without another hand, Enderby got in again, and they wee on to Burdon Mansions. They were a pile of dull, dreary baking buildings. Enderby paid the man and helped the girl, who limped painfully within the buildings. But when they attempted to climb the hairs, he saw that it cost her terrible pain, and he turned to her, saying quietly: "Will you allow me to carry you up?" It is the easiest and speediest way. A little crimson patch suddenly bowed on her cheek, like the mark of warm finger; she put up her own hand and rubbed it feverishly as if it turned. "No, no; you mustn't" she said, but Enderby had already stooped and taken her in his arms. How light she was—not so heavy as many a child of ten! Enderby had never had a woman in his arms before, and he was almost stonished himself to find how tender they enfolded this girl. But for the sake of one woman Enderby was tenor to all. They were soon at the landing of the second flat. Enderby set her own, and she stood leaning on the wall, her face deadly pale again, but her eyes shining strangely. "I cannot thank you," she said, her trembling oddly and uncontrollably. "But perhaps God will repay me for your kindness to me—aanger of whom you know nothing. shall wait for a moment here," Enderby, with a sudden resen- "And you will come out and tell if your father is any better. Perhaps I can do something yet to help you." She turned away and opened the door on the left with a lachkey, then used it gently. Enderby remained there he was. In a few minutes the door opened again, and the girl stood the entrance. "He is sleeping," she said, whispering. "Perhaps he will be better now." "That is good," Enderby answered, scartly. "May I call in a few days?" "Yes; but my father does not wish anyone to know where he is. You don't tell anyone about us?" she "You may depend upon me," said Enderby, heartily. "Good night." He put out his hand, the girl laid her small, slim one in it, and Enderby gave it a friendly pressure. Then he went away. As he emerged into the open air again he fancied a shadow flitted noiselessly round a corner of the mansions. Then he drew himself together with a short laugh, for a disagreeable thrill had run through him at the fancy. He had bidden the hansom wait, and he went up to the man, who was sitting drowsily before him. "Did you notice a man go round the mansions as I came out, driver?" Cabby shook his drowsy head. "No, sir, I haven't. W'y, all wise folks is in their beds in this 'ere locality hours ago, I should say,' he retorted, with a touch of personal feeling. Enderby got in, and was soon being driven to his rooms in the West End. Somehow, the strange incidents of the night had oddly unsettled him. Even when he went to bed his dreams were disturbed by strange, uncomfortable reproductions of these incidents, grotesquely and even horribly deformed. For so matter-of-fact a man Paul Enderby was oddly fanciful over them. Still, undoubtedly the experience had been rather a peculiar one. He felt sure the girl was refined and of gentle birth; it is not difficult to detect the signs of these. Her accent was not exactly an English one, yet it was not peculiar enough to be pronounced un-English. Who was she? Who was her father? What reason could she have for absolutely refusing to allow another doctor but this Doctor Lyndon to see her father? Who was this Doctor Lyndon? With the morning the incidents of the night before seemed to have drifted off into the same region as that in which dreams are made; but one reminiscence of them remained with Enderby, and oddly annoyed him. It was the memory of the man who had passed in the hansom while he was speaking to the girl who called herself by the name of Lloyd. Enderby sauntered along to the Courts, where he assumed gown and wig, and listened to the cases. He was not absolutely a brieffess harrister and he was considered very clever. But, besides that, Paul Enderby came of a very good family, and was not, though he himself was poor, so very far removed from the Barony of Eglin, having only five lives between him and it. So that Enderby was somewhat of a spoiled child of society, being a good-looking, straight-limbed, handsome fellow enough after the pure Saxon type, and without a taint upon his name. He was coming out of the Courts when some one tapped him on the shoulder. "Ah, Enderby, going to the club, are you? I'm due there at five and have one or two engagements after dinner. I suppose you will put in an appearance at the Penningtons toonight?" Enderby's pleasant, fresh-complexioned face had been overshadowed by a look of annoyance as the newcomer addressed him. He was a man a little older than himself—not above middle height, and slender with it, with a pale, dark face, black eyes placed rather close together, and a smooth, straight, unpleasant mouth, which had a disagreeable habit of curling upwards when he laughed. He was Digby Dalton, and was by profession also a barrister. "I dare say I shall look in at the Penningtons," he answered, drilly. "But I have another engagement." "Miss Lennox's reception?" smiled Dalton. "Yes, of course, you will be there, Enderby. What a man you are for being asked out! By the by, had you anything on last night?" Enderby looked straight into the smiling face. "Perhaps I had. May I ask why you inquire, Mr. Dalton?" "Oh, nothing!" The other shrugged his shoulders. "Only curious, wasn't it? I was driving over Westminster about half past one, and I saw a man with a girl on the bridge. I could have sworn it it was you. Curlous, wasn't it?" "Not at all," Enderby answered coldly. "It was I." "Oh, I beg your pardon! I really would not have mentioned it if I had thought that was the case," said Dalton, as if with regret. "Of course, we men of the world don't inquire too narrowly into each other's affairs; but you know there are a few men whose lives seem open to every one and whose slightest action will bear investigation. I don't require to tell you, Enderby, that we all consider you are one of those. In fact, your membership at the Bayard Club is sufficient proof. Well, I shall not detain you. I have a little matter of business to settle in the Strand." And lifting his hat with elaborate politeness, he disappeared. Enderby knew every word he had spoken had been armed with a venomous tip. Dalton had hated him from the first time they had met. That hatred had become deepened into something vindictive and malignant when, through Enderby, though more by accident than choice, Dalton had been dismissed from the club, which was sometimes mockingly called the "Bayard," on account of having been found cheating at cards. "He recognized me, of course," Enderby said to himself. "And he will go to-night to Miss Lennox, and tell her. Well, she has more than an ordinary woman's sense of fairness. She will let me speak for myself. And will she believe him? Or will her heart have something to say on my behalf? Cecil, Cecil!" He whispered the name to himself as a devotee might whisper the name of a sacred shrine. For to Paul Underby, to whom all womanhood was sacred, Cecil Lennox was the incarnation of all that was noblest, purest and fairest in woman. So little does the simple, straightforward nature of a good man understand a woman. CHAPTER III. It was two days after the reception at the West End mansion of Sir Henry Lennox, the well-known Queen's Counsel, who was considered one of the wealthiest men connected with the legal profession. Enderby had seen Cecil Lennox but for a few minutes, but she had then been able to utter the words that thrilled Enderby through as no other words could have done. "Come to see me on Friday. It is not my day at home, but I shall be at home—to you." Paul Enderby was thirty, was a barrister, and was prosac, yet his heart and pulses throbbed like those of a sentimental boy of twenty as he was admitted into the presence of Cecil Lennox. She was certainly a very beautiful woman. As she came forward to greet him, her tea-gown of pale sea-green and billowy lace falling in graceful folds about her, Enderby thought that no woman who ever lived could have excelled her in beauty and grace. But there were others who might have thought that the beauty of Cecil Lenox—of the soft, exquisitely tinted face, of the rounded chin and throat the red-lipped, smiling mouth, the deep, changeful, soft, violet eyes—has something sensuous and voluptuous in it. Enderby did not think so. He loved the woman—or was it the woman he imagined her to be?—and that wa enough. Cecil let her soft little hand lie in his for a moment, then she drew him towards the silk-covered couch from which she had risen. "It was good of you to come," she said, in her low, caressing voice. "We shall have tea presently. I suppose I needn't ask you how you enjoyed my crush? People never do enjoy crushes. Why do we give them at all? Oh, I often wish I had the courage of my convictions, and could throw off this yoke of social fashions and conventions, and be what I should like best to be—a simple human being, asking to my house only those I really cared for, and being able to interchange thought and friendly kindness with them!" As a matter of fact, Miss Lennox would not have given up her "social fashions and conventions" for anything that could have been given her in exchange. But she was clever enough to suit her tastes, as well as her conversation, to the individual characters of her companions. How Plants Gain Weight. As far as is known the first botanical experiment ever performed was conducted by a Dutchman. He placed in a pot 200 pounds of dried earth, and in it he planted a willow branch which weighed five pounds. He kept the whole covered up and daily watered the earth with rainwater. After five years' growth the willow was again weighed and was found to have gained 164 pounds. The earth in the pot was dried and weighed and had lost only two ounces. The experimentalist, therefore, looked upon this experiment as supporting the theory that plants required no food but water. But he was wrong. Later it was discovered that much of the increase in weight of plants was derived from carbonic acid gas in the air. Vegetable cells contain a liquid known as "cell sap," which is water holding in solution various materials which have been taken up from without by the roots and leaves. Thus it is in the living cells of the plant that those "digestive" processes are carried on which were once believed to occur in the soil. Coachman Obeyed Orders. From Downs there is reported an instance of "carrying a message to Garcia," which did not result so satisfactorily as it might. G. W. Young telegraphed his coachman at Downs to "meet me tonight with team at Salem," Salem being a small town a few miles away. But when the coachman received the message it read, "Meet me tonight with team at Salina," a big town ninety-six miles away. The coachman asked the telegraph operator to have the message repeated, and it came "Sallina" again, whereupon he started for that place and reached it by night, though he rulled both horses in the finest team of Osborne county.—Kansas City Journal. Hundreds of Families Homeless and Damage to Property Is Widespread—Roster of the Dead—Thrilling Scenes and Escapes. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 28.—After three days of incessant rain a flood unprecedented for this season of the year and unexpected swept down the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers last night. In their mad rush the waters ruined hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, caused the loss of at least three lives, temporarily throw out of employment thousands of workmen by the forced suspension of the many industrial establishments lining the banks of both streams, and made hundreds of families homeless. JOSEPH DAVIS and JOSEPH FLOCKER, mill workers, drowned by the capsizing of a skiff in the Allegheny. A November flood is common, but it rarely reaches the danger line, and for this reason the steady rains of the last few days caused no alarm. The precipitation had been heavier than usual in the mountains at the headwaters of both rivers, however, and it was not until late yesterday that the warning came. Caught Without Notice. The message was sent out that both streams were getting beyond their banks and that there was a dangerous flood threatened. The fast-rising waters caught many persons wholly unprepared and much valuable property was carried away. The danger line is 24 feet, and this was passed about 3 a.m., and seven hours later the marks at Davis island dam registered 25 feet 7 inches. Both rivers were stationary and it was thought that the worst was over and before nightfall the waters would be receding. The low lands in Pittsburg, Allegheny, South Pittsburg, Sharpsburg and McKeesport are inundated and nearly every plant fronting the two rivers has been forced to shut down. Upper Floors and Skiffs Used. Hundreds of families in these districts have either been driven from their homes or are living in the upper floors and using skiffs. There were many narrow escapes from drowning and several men are reported to the police as missing. Davis and Flocker with three companions attempted to row across the Allegheny in a skiff which became unmanageable and collided with a coal boat. The men were thrown into the river and Davis and Flocker drowned. The others clung to the upturned boat and were rescued after being carried two miles down the river. At Neville island a four-span railroad bridge in course of construction was swept away. It was being erected for the American Steel and Wire company, and was also to be used for passenger traffic by the Pittsburg & Lake Erle railroad company. Seven Meet Death in Lake Erie. Toledo, O., Nov. 29.—The entire crew of the schooner Maumee Valley, which sunk in shallow water on the Point Au Polee middle ground, has been lost. There were seven of them, including the officers. The schooner was owned and commanded by Captain Henry Scanlan. The rest of the men are not known. Scanlan lived here, but it is not known where he shipped his crew. The northwest gale of yesterday finished the schooner Chicago Board of Trade, ashore on Niagara reef. Tell Tales of Awful Perll. Columbus, O., Nov. 29.—Eleven men and two women shipwrecked, cold and almost perishing of exposure, were brought into port at Sandusky late last night, victims of yesterday's terrible storm on Lake Erie. They constituted the crews of the lumber barges Melvina and Charles Spademan. Half frozen and drenched to the skin by waves which rose twenty feet high, the crew of the Melvina were found clinging to the rigging, the vessel's upper works and deck load of lumber having been carried away. The sailors were landed on Cedarpoint beach. Then the life-savers put out again and rescued the crew of the Spademan. DAILY MARKET REPORT. Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. Nov. ..... 70% ..... 70% ..... 70% Dec. ..... 70% ..... 70% ..... 70% Corn— Nov. ..... 49 ..... 51 ..... 49 ..... 50 Dec. ..... 36% ..... 36% ..... 35% ..... 36 May ..... 36% ..... 36% ..... 36% Oats— Nov. ..... 21% ..... 21% ..... 21% Dec. ..... 21% ..... 22 ..... 21% ..... 21% May. ..... 24 ..... 24% ..... 24 Pork— Nov. ..... 12.15 ..... 12.12 ..... 11.25 Jan. ..... 12.15 ..... 12.12 ..... 11.97% ..... 12.10 May. ..... 12.02% ..... 12.12% ..... 11.97% ..... 12.10 Lard— Nov. ..... 7.02% ..... 7.05 ..... 7.00 ..... 7.00 Nov. ..... 7.02% ..... 7.05 ..... 7.00 Dec. ..... 7.00 ..... 7.05 ..... 6.97% ..... 6.97% Jan. ..... 6.85 ..... 6.90 ..... 6.82% ..... 6.87% S. Ribs— Nov. ..... 7.63% ..... 7.63 ..... 7.63 Jan. ..... 6.35 ..... 6.40 ..... 6.35 ..... 6.37% PLOT ON M'KINLEY'S LIFE. Hoboken Police Informed of Conspiracy to Stay President. New York, Nov. 28.-The police of Hoboken, N. J., have received a letter alleging the existence of a plot to assassinate President McKinley. The writer of the letter gave in his communication the name of the alleged chief conspirator, which the police refuse to make public at this time. The letter, which is illegibly signed, is as follows: "Sir: Having almost thoroughly assured myself of an anarchist plot against his excellency, McKinley, I consider it my duty to advise you of the name of one who is more than suspected of being a leader, whose name is found in the inclosed slip. He is a fugitive from justice and a dangerous man, having been convicted several times, and on the last occasion being sentenced to five years' imprisonment for an anarchist attempt. "My statement can be verified on appealing to the prefect of police at Paris, France. In the course of the last year he had concealed with him a man named Francois, the author of an anarchist attempt at Scranton, where he mortally wounded an agent of the police." The writer of this letter, the police say, has been located, and his story will be investigated. TO FIGHT SUNDAY THEATERS. Actora' Church Alliance of America Be- alas Activa Campaign New York, Nov. 28.—The Actors' Church Alliance of America has begun an active campaign against Sunday theatrical performances, and its members promise to keep it u punit actors have one day of rest in seven, the same as persons in the ordinary avocations of life. It claims to have caused the arrests which have been made at New York theaters the past three Sundays, and it is now keeping an eye on the prosecution of these cases. Rev. Francis J. Clay Moran, chairman of the law committee, has given out a copy of a letter which he had sent to Deputy Chief Cortwright last Friday, dealing with the subject. It had been stated that the arrests in question were due to the actions of the Tammany purity committee and Mr. Moran took occasion to correct this impression. He said that the law committee of the alliance had not had any communication with the Tammany committee in any way and knew nothing of its actions. PLAN TO KILL OFF BRYAN. Gold Faction of Party Said to Be Preparing for a Battle Washington, D. C., Nov. 28.—Democratic senators and congressmen opposed to William J. Bryan are said to have come to an understanding to strike at the Nebraskan over the head of Senator Jones, and so kill him off as a Democratic possibility for another nomination. It is said the best way they can break down Bryan's influence will be to oppose Jones in every way possible, the senator being the representative of Bryan's views in Washington. They want more positive assurances than Jones has yet given that Bryan will not be a candidate in 1904. This hostility to Bryan is likely to be shown in the short session of congress and may influence a number of Democrats to vote with the Republicans on the army bill and other measures. GIETS BY HELEN GOULD. Over $3,000 Worth of Presents Sent to Soldiers in Philippines. New York, Nov. 28.—Miss Helen Gould, accompanied by her maid, has purchased over $3,000 worth of clothing and toilet articles which she has ordered dispatched to the distributing officer of the United States army at Manila, Philippine islands. The goods will be presented with Helen Gould's compliments and Christmas greeting to the New Yorkers of the troops in the Philippines. Miss Gould personally selected every article, and in each case bought the best quality obtainable. She carefully examined the clothing in order to see, she explained, that it was of suitable weight. Tramps Set Factory A4rs. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 29.—Forty tramps camped in the north part of town getting ready for a Thanksgiving feast set fire to their roost last night and had a close call for their lives. The frames spread to the stock room of the Indiana Fibre Leather and Paper Board factory and destroyed it, with a loss of $15,000. Insurance, $12,000. The vagabonds fled to another town leaving a keg of beer and a quantity of eatables behind. Fire Destroy Ink Plant Chicago, Nov. 29.—The plant of the Sanford Manufacturing company, makers of ink, mollage and sealing wax at 219 to 225 Fulton street, was destroyed by fire last evening. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Thirty thousand dollars of this amount is on the building, $75,000 to the contents and $20,000 to the machinery. The building was owned by the Culver estate and all of the losses are covered by insurance. New York Editor Dead. New York, Nov. 28.—Robert E. A. Dorr, president of the Mail and Express company and publisher of that paper, died at his home in this city today. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Dorr had been in ill-health for about six months. Mrs. Mary E. Lease Quils "Mr." Wichita, Kas., Nov. 28.—The Wichita Eagle says divorce proceedings will be instituted this week by Mrs. Mary E. Lease on the grounds of nou-support, and that her husband will make no contest. The tallest man in the world is Lewis Wilkina, a young farmer, who lives near St. Paul, Minn. His height is 8 feet 11½ mohes. Siberian Prisons Abolished. Siberia is no longer to be a penal colony. The decree abolishing it is the result of the building of the Siberian railroad. Nothing can compare to the rapid settlement of the vast plains, unless it be rapid growth of that famous dyspepsia cure, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Try it for con-tipation, indigestion, dyspepsia or flatulency. The vicar of Wenbley, England, objects to the word "died" on tombstones. He says that it is a denial of the Christian belief in immortality, and insists on the substitution of such phrases as "entered into rest," "passed away," or "departed this life." One irreverent wag suggested "passed in his checks" as a substitute. A very popular Israelite died in the Tenth ward of New York city last week, and a number of mourners followed his remains on foot to the Grand street ferry, intending to cross to Brooklyn and ride to the cemetery in the trolley oars. The gate keeper found seven thrifty gentlemen in the curtained hearse, serenely seated on the coffin, smoking cigarettes. They had adopted this means to save their ferrage. A new needle, which must be a delight to housewives, has been invented in Germany. It has a prolongation behind the eye of smaller diameter than the bored part of the needle, with grooves in it to receive the thread. The object of it is to facilitate the passing of the needle through the holes in buttons, when sewing them on. The thread lies in the grooves, and hence the needle passes much more easily and rapidly. A LIFE SAVED. 4 Drugglist's Timely and Straight-For - Prominent Citizen. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26.—(Special) Among the Catholic Foresters in this city, none is better known or more universally esteemed, than Mr. S. P. Rush, Conductor (President) of Holy Name Court, Number 26. His many friends, inside the Order and outside of its ranks, were, therefore, much startled to learn that his life was in danger, he having Bright's Disease, that most terrible and fatal disease. Mr. Rush, however, made a grand struggle for his life, taking prescriptions, and pills and powders, until his stomach refused food. At last, his local druggist, guided by the numerous inquiries being made at his store for Dodd's Kidney Pills, advised Mr. Rush to buy and try some. This he did, and to his delight he was restored to health and strength. Mr. Rush says that after commencing the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills, he felt much better, but it took two months to effect a cure. "I took nothing else but Dodd's Kidney Pills during that time, so I know that I owe life and health to them." What this wonderful remedy has done for Mr. Rush, it will certainly de for anyone. It is the only remedy that has never failed to cure Bright's Disease. Mr. Rush is just now receiving the congratulations of his friends, but always finds time to say a good word for the Medicine that saved his life. Sold for 50 cents a box. All dealers. No one holds the position which he thinks he deserves. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. The Buffalo Bird Protective society defends the English sparrow, ascribing to the birds the disappearance from that vicinity of the canker worm. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of See Fao-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as snug. CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVEN. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION PRICE $1 Cents Purify Vegetable. GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. DON'T STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY It injures nervous system to do so. BACO-CURO is the only cure that YURE CURES and notifies you when to keep hold with a guarantee that three weeks will cure any case. BACO-CURO is vegetable and harmless. It has cured thousands, it will cure you. At all drugs or by mail paid, at a box, shows or photocopied free. Write EURENA CHEMICAL CO., LA GROSS, WILLIE SELF HYPNOTIC HEALING. I have made a into discovery that enables all to discover that the cure is in themselves, awaken at any desired time and thereby cure all known diseases and bad habits. Anyone can induce this sleep in grease and bad habits. All can induce this sleep in grease and the minds of friends and enemies, visit any part of the earth, solve hand questions and problems, with the minds of friends and enemies. These-called Mental When Leaning will be he made to anyone for the sake, actually cach him to do the above without further charge. Ptr. B. D. BUTTLE, Shorewood, WI THE MIRACULOUSCREES 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 cure in every case they undertake. At the first interview a thorough examination is made; and, if incurable you are frankly and kindly told so, also advised against spending your money for useless treatment. Male and female weakness, catarrhal deafness; also cancer without pain or cutting; all skin diseases, rupture and all diseases of the rectum are positively cured by their treatment. Dr. J. Boyd, the chief consulting surgeon of the institute, is in personal charge. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. No Sunday Hours. SPECIAL NOTICE—If you cannot call, send stamp for question blank for home treatment OGDEN, UTALI To the Editor: Ogden is fast coming to the front as a railroad center. The roads running into Ogden giving employment to a large number of colored men are the Union Pacific railroad, the Southern Pacific railroad, Rio Grande and Western and the Oregon Short Line railroad. The positions or cooks and waiters are filled by our race on the dining cars of the aforesaid roads. A large number of men are also employed as porters, buffet men and composite car men. On an average 60 to 75 men run into and lay over in Ogden daily. During the past eight months about 30 men with their families have taken up their residence in Ogden. Socially we have a very pleasant time in the city. Surprise parties and afternoon luncheons being our chief source of amusement. We have a Non-denominational mission called the Union mission. We hold services every Sunday evening and prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. We have two nice well-lighted rooms in the Public Library building as our place of worship. Ogden can also boast of a colored club, the Eureka club by name, run by Doc Tanner and J. Battles. A restaurant and rooming house is connected with the club. Everything is run in first-class order. Among the families residing in Og- den are: Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Terrell. Mr. and Mrs. D. Carter and daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Spinks. Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Earnest. Mr. and Mrs. L. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. G. Green. Mr. and Mrs. H. Brady and daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. A. Redd and son. Mr. and Mrs. G. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. E. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. Long. Mr. and Mrs. J. White. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. J. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. N. Tillman and son. Mr. and Mrs. J. Carr. Mr. and Mrs. A. Townsend. Mr. and Mrs. A. Neumus. Mr. and Mrs. A. Carper and daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. F. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. D. Tanner. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ross. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. We do not understand why news is so scarce among our people and still every one expects the correspondent to have items every week. Henry Forester is ill at his home on Oak Hill. Cedar Rapids is in need of a good literary society among our people. Who will be the promoter of such? Roscoe Roper, late bugler with the Twenty-fifth United States infantry, arrived in our city last week from St. Louis to visit his relatives. Roscoe was partly reared in the Rapids. He joined the Twenty-fifth regiment about three years ago and was with the company when they made the daring charge on El Caney. He was mustered out of service November 4 in San Antonio, Texas. His many friends are glad to have him in their midst again. The experiences were great as well as beneficial ones to Roscoe, as he is only about 19 years of age. The Sunday school board of the A. M. E. church met after Sunday school last Sabbath to arrange for Christmas exercises. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Wade entertained at tea Monday evening Roscoe Roper. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Boone are happy parents of a bright bouncing boy. Miss Myrtle Cooper is meeting with much success in her canvassing. She will make her first delivery next Great Purchase of 112 Pieces of COLORED DRESS GOODS From Jamestown Worsted Mills Goes on Sale this Morning. We were able to secure these at a phenomenally low price, owing to the fact that it was the remainder stock left on hand after the mills were bending their energies to make spring goods. Care should be taken not to confuse the high grade woolens made by the Jamestown Warsted Mills with cheaper and poorer fabrics made by other mills in Jamestown. Jamestown is one of the greatest woolen centers in the United states, and, of course, there are a great many kinds of Jamestown woolens, most of them being the shoddy or mixed cotton and woolen material. Our selections from this great line comprise all the new shades and the new effects in plain goods, which are now so popular. Mail Orders Filled on These Lines. Harris-Emery Co. Samples Mailed Any. where on Request. ```markdown ``` Mail Orders Filled on These Lines. $1.95 { Venetians, Broadcloths, Kid Cloths, $1.95{ Venetians, worth Broadeloths, Kid Cloths, } $3.50 Instead of $3.50 for 52-inch extra fine Venetiana, Broadeloths and Kid Cloth, manufactured especially for fine tailor gowns and costumes. There are 15 pieces in the lot, each piece a different and desirable shade. We have sold similar goods all season at $3.50 a yard, and this great purchase enables us to sell them for $1.95 a yard. 68c} $ \begin{array}{l} \mathrm {Serges} \\ \mathrm {Foule.} \\ \mathrm {Homespun.} \end{array} $ Instead of $1.25 for 46 and 50 inch Foule, Serges, Camel's Hair, Checks, Tailor Suitings, fancy Cheviots and Homespuns. This lot comprises 29 pieces, including 'every street shade. The makers to close out winter goods gives us the chance to make the price. week, so be prepared to meet her. Rev. A. Ford filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. The teachers of Tyler school had a delightful spread last Friday noon in honor of Roscoe Roper, who was formerly a student in the school, and was well thought of among the teachers and scholars. Rev. Ford has joined the list of the Rapids subscribers to the Bystander. Brother Ford knows a good thing when he sees it and delights in pushing it along. We wish we had more such men as Brother Ford in the Rapids. The Bystander collector will call upon all delinquent subscribers in a very few days. Please be ready to settle up. Mrs. Horn of Ottumwa arrived in our city Monday night to spend a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. noone. h NONYL E NOTES Mrs. Nelson Tonlin and son Udell are on the sick list. Clarence Fields of Oskaloosa is in the city visiting friends. Miss Amena Jeffers is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Givens held an at home at their residence in South Knoxville Friday, November 11. No colored people were there as the color line is tightly drawn by some people in this town. She received about 200 of the wealthy people of the city. "Two Married Women," headed by Billy Rice, the black-faced comedian, will play here Monday, November 25. Mr. SS. P. Bird expects to visit in Des Mones soon. Subscribe for the Bystander and get the news of Iowa. ALBIA NEWS. Lawyer Barber of Missouri was a guest at the Thomas' home a few days this week. Grandmaster Dickenson of Muchakinocs and Luxton visited the Albia Odd Fellows this week and was a guest at the Thomas home. On Thursday evening at A. M. E. church people will have supper and refreshments served at the church. The M. E. church has extended an invitation to the A. M. E. church to attend the union services at that church. On Saturday evening the D. of T. will give a social at the Masonic hall. Miss Flora Thomas, with a few other co-workers, is getting up an entertainment for the holidays. Messrs. Reese Underwood and Zack Taylor of Hoeking spent Sunday in Albia. A few strangers come into our city every week. TUSKEGEE Thanksgiving day was observed in the usual manner at Tuskegee. Aside from devotional exercises, football and other games were indulged in by teachers and students. The annual agricultural institute fair, which was held on Tuesday last at the institution's new barn, was a marked success. Varieties of farm products were exhibited, when indicated improvement among the farmers of the "Black Belt." The members of the rivers and harbors committtee of the house of representatives visited Tuskegee Saturday of this week. After an inspection of the various departments of the institution to their delight and satisfaction, addresses were delivered in the chapel by members of the committee and others, which were inspiring and helpful to all present. Instead of $2.50 a yard for 52-inch Camel's Hair. Venentian Cloths, Cheviots and Zibelines. The materials that are so popular for tailor gowns and separate skirts. There are 17 pieces in the lot, including many choice mixtures, as well as solid colors. The loss sustained by Hall & Co., enables to make this great offer. 54C} Granites. Silk and Wool Novelties. } Worth $1.00 Justsad of $1.00 for 38 and 44 inch fancy Cheviots and Tailor Suitings, Granites, Mixtures and Fancy Silk and Wool Novelties, one of the best lots in the entire purchase and 27 pieces strong. Nearly 50 per cent saved to you because the manufacturers accepted our very low offer. Mr. Wiles Turner met with a serious accident last Wednesday, which proved fatal. He was on his way out of the mines when a shot was discharged from a room on the entry which blew him through the t door. He died from injuries last Thursday morning. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his absence. His funeral was preached at the Baptist church last Sunday. He was buried with all the honors of the United Mine Workers of America, who turned out over 300 strong, led by the famous M. C. band. Mrs. Etta M. Jacson spent Thanksgiving at the house of Mrs. Thanksgiving in 100e, Iowa. The A. M. E. church gave a grand entertainment and debate Thanksgiving night at the opera house. Mr. James Beckley and Brisco Miller are improving slowly over their injuries, which they received last week by the explosion of a shot at mine No. 8. Expiosives Confined and Unconfined Explosives Confined and Cautious. There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high expositives. When unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight. At the naval ordnance proving ground, so long ago as 1834, repeated charges of dynamite, varying from five pounds to 100 pounds in weight, were detonated on the face of a vertical target consisting of eleven one-inch wrought-iron plates bolted to a twenty-inch oak backing, until 440 pounds of dynamite had been so detonated in contact with it, and yet the target remained practically uninjured, while at Braamfontein the accidental explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored in railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. Thus at Fort Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of dynamite placed in a chamber in the rock and tamped brought down 100,000 tons of the rock; at Lambers, Wales, two tons and a half of gelatin dynamite, similarly placed, threw out 180,000 tons of rock, and at the Talcen Mawr, in Wales, seven tons of gunpowder placed in two chambers in the rock dislodged from 123,600 to 200,000 tons of rock. The Ages of Men. A great man does not always attain a ripe old age; in fact, hardly half of the greatest men of modern and ancient times have reached the limit of age set by the Bible. Among statesmen: Mirabean was 42; Pitt, 47; Caesar, 55; Richelleu, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Dignell, 75; Bismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51; Hanibal at 63; Marlborough at 72; Blucher at 76; Wellington at 83; Xenophon at 86; Molkte at 91. The age of the decease of philosophers was: Spinoza, 44; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 61; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 70; Galleio, 78; Kant, 79; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 90. T painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37, to Titian. Mr. H. B. Black, the well-known vil- Instead of $2.25 a yard for 52 inch fine Venetiane, Broadcloths, Vigereaux, and Foules. There are 23 pieces in the lot: comprising the following shades, among others, Castors, grays, nationals, navies and purple, browns, greens automobile redc, correct for tailor suits and fancy costumes, The Mills' loose makes saving possible to you and us. Instead of 65c and 75c for 38 and 45 inch Novelty Suitings, fancy Granites, Wool Plaids, Iridescent Serges. There are 32 pieces in this lot, and nothing could be more choice for Misses' and Children's wear. Save the money the makers loses by buying these lage blacksmith at Grahamsville, Sullivan Co., N. J., says: "Our little son, five years old, has always been subject to croup, and so bad have the attacks been that we feared many times that he would die. We have had the doctor and used many medicines, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is now our sole reliance. It seems to dissolve the tough mucus and by giving frequent doses when the croupy symptoms appear we have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gets settled." There is no danger in giving this remedy for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently to a babe as to an adult. For sale by all Drugs. ACUTE SENSES OF THE SAVAGE Scientific View of Their Alleged Super- orty 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 Straits natives were superior to one of the Europeans composing the expedition, while the majority were inferior. No great weight, however, could be attached to the observations because all the people were divers—an occupation that certainly damaged the ears to some extent. To investigate their range of hearing a Galton's whistle was used, and it was shown that they could hear very high notes. Their sense of smell was tested by means of a series of tubes containing solutions, of varying strength, of odorous substances like valerian and camphor, and the results, while not altogether satisfactory, tended to show they had no marked superiority in this respect over the members of the expedition. With regard to taste it was very difficult to get information, as the natives, naturally enough, did not like strange objects being put into their mouths. One fact, however, was noticed, which was interesting when it was remembered that sweet and bitter were probably our definite sensations and that was the complete absence of any word for bitter. For the sense of temperature the data were very scanty, but it was found that the natives had points on their skin specially sensitive to cold exactly as was the case with Europeans. As to touch, when tested to see how close the points of a pair of compasses must be put on the skin before they ceased to be felt as two, their sensitivity 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. Samples Mailed Any where on Request. 87c} Chevrons, Camel's Hair, Whipcords, } $1.75 Instead of $1.50 and $1.75 a yard for 46 and 48-inch Chevrons, Zibelines, Granites, Camel's hair, Cheviots, Whipcords and plain tailor suitings, including many fancy mixtures. These fabrics have been popular this fall for ladies and misses. Jamestown Worsted Mills are the losers, for their acceptance of our offer enables us to make the price. 33c } Fancy Check Cheviots Whipcords. 33c} Fancy Check Cheviots Whipcords. } Worth 58c Insteas of 58c for 88-inch fancy Granites, Fancy Checks, Cheviots, Whipcords, etc. There are 28 pieces in this lot, comprising all the new fall combinations. The materials are suitable for fancy wasts, separate skirts and whole dresses. The makers' loss is your gain. A POSTAL CARD will bring our wagon (or messenger) for your LAUNDRY work. And within four days, or sooner if there is pressing need, it will be returned, beautifully laundred absolutely uninjured, and smelling sweet. Chemicals or other deleterious things take no part in the cleansing process here. Pure soap and water are our principal agents, aided in the finishing by fine blue, starch, etc. THE NORTH WESTERN PHONES { Mutual 907 LAUNDRY Iowa 1922. 407-411 Grand Ave. Notice of Expiration of Right of Redemption. To G. W. Smith. You are hereby notified. That the following real estate, situated in Polk county, 100-95, will be Lot Skiy-two (622) in J. F. Kennedy's second addition to Lake Park, being included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, and the tenth day of December 1897 to W. H. Boyle; that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned and held by Daniel T. Patton, and that the right of redemption will apply. You will govern yourself 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 24th day of October A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton, by Geo. Harnagel, his agent. Russell Sage is a Farmer. A handsome but simple frame house at Lawrence, Long Island, surrounded by some five 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. try here. The old tradition that the hours of sleep before midnight are hours of "beauty sleep" may mean 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 effluva 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 than persons suffer from overworking. Long, deep breathi 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 thinking. This is sometimes accomplished by the strain of keeping the eye fixed on some point in the ceiling or keeping the will fixed on the effort not to move even the smallest muscle. Monotony will put any man to sleep in spite of himself. Most psychologists acknowledge that deep study of any subject just before going to sleep may result in something like a revelation as to some phase of the subject, the mind through unconscious cerebration accomplishing wonders without the assistance of the will. Passages to be memorized should be repeated several times before going to bed. Sometimes the sleeplessness of children is owing to excitation of the digestive organs. In that case it is a good plan to allow only vegetable foods at the evening meal. LIVING EXPENSES Provisions Are Cheaper Now Then They Were Thirty Years Ago The interesting disclosure is made that the cost of living is less in the United States today than it was in the 1860. Carefully compiled statistics show that articles cost $100 then cost $75 now. It is true that a few things are more expensive, but commodities consumed generally by families, such as breadstuff, sugar, rice, salt, woolen and cotton goods, boots and shoes, and silk and rubber goods, are considerably cheaper now than they were thirty years ago. All manufactured goods, with hardly an exception, are cheaper, mainly because the improved processes of manufacture which enable the maker to reduce the cost to the lowest point, says Lesley Weekly. The development of our desirable territory in the west, northwest and southwest, and the striking results of irrigation, when applied to what were formerly considered desert lands, have increased our crop supplies more rapidly than the increase of population. Despite the dire predictions that prices of wheat, corn and cotton must inevitably advance because little land remained to be cultivated in the west and south, the fact is that millions of acres are still awaiting tillage. In Texas alone an area almost as extensive as that of the original thirteen states is virgin soil. The emigrant may have to go farther and work harder to establish a homestead in the United States, but Uncle Sam is still rich enough to give every able-bodied, industrious newcomer a chance to own a farm. Here's a Worried Citizen. This is an age of hustle, bustle and sweat. A man hustles from early dawn until the katydids sing in the twilight for three meals a day and a place in which to lie awake at night and worry about it. If he doesn't work he is called lazy, and if he does work 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. Motion of Watch Glasses. Making of Wearable Glasses Watch glasses ought not to be expensive, and are not. In the production of common watch glasses, the glass is blown into a sphere about a meter in diameter, sufficient material being taken to give the desired thickness, as the case may be. Disks are then cut out from the sphere with the aid of a pair of compasses, having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. There is a knack of detaching the disc after it has been cut. A good workman will, it is said, cut 6,000 glasses in a day. Had Handled $50,000,000. A remarkable record was that which had been gained by the late John兰来堡, 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. BE CURED. DR. J. M. WILSON, Natural Healer Positively cures all Mental and Nervous trouble, restores Eyesight and Hearing; cures Lung, Heart, Liver, Stomach and Kidney trouble; Rheumatism, St. Vitus Dance, Paralysis, Aches, Pains and swelling. Disease of every form cured. Office Hours from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. City calls made. Iowa Telephone 506. DES MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS C. R. I. & P., GOING EAST. ADRIVE. 9:30 p.m., Chicago Limited, 4:35 p.m. 9:30 p.m., Day Express & Mail, 4:49 p.m. 12:50 p.m., Night Express, 12:55 p.m. 13:40 p.m., Day Express, 1:00 p.m. 14:00 p.m., 7:00 a.m. C.R.I. & P., GOING WEST. 8:30 a.m., Denver Limited, 6:35 a.m. 9:50 p.m., Night Limited Express, 6:40 a.m. 12:40 p.m., Day Express, 12:50 p.m. 13:50 p.m., Rocky Mountain Limited, 4:00 a.m. 11:10 a.m., First Mail. C.R.I. & P., FOKEOK. 11:53 p.m., Eidon, 6:55 p.m. 12:00 p.m., 7:10 a.m., Kookuk & PORT DODGE. 6:30 p.m., 7:10 a.m., Ruthen Mall & Express, 12:10 p.m. 10:45 p.m., Twin and Fort Doyle, 12:45 p.m. 8:20 p.m., 8:40 p.m., St. Paul and St. Paul, 9:00 p.m. 6:40 p.m., St. Paul and St. Paul Flyer, 8:30 a.m. INDIANOLA & WINTERSET BRANCH. 11:00 a.m., Mail, 4:40 p.m. 6:40 p.m., Winterset Accommodation, 8:35 a.m. 7:00 p.m., Indinola Express, 8:40 a.m. 8:40 p.m., Chicago Great Western North, 8:35 p.m., Chicago and St. Paul, 8:30 p.m., 8:23 a.m., Twin Cities Special, 8:20 a.m., Chicago Great Western South, 6:50 a.m., Kansas City Limited, 7:00 a.m., 8:30 p.m., Day Express, 11:40 a.m., 7:50 p.m., 8:40 p.m., 8:45 p.m., 8:50 p.m., 8:55 p.m., 8:58 p.m., 8:60 p.m., 8:65 p.m., 8:70 p.m., 8:75 p.m., 8:80 p.m., 8:85 p.m., 8:90 p.m., 8:95 p.m., 8:10 p.m., 8:11 p.m., 8:12 p.m., 8:13 p.m., 8:14 p.m., 8:15 p.m., 8:16 p.m., 8:17 p.m., 8:18 p.m., 8:19 p.m., 8:20 p.m., 8:21 p.m., 8:22 p.m., 8:23 p.m., 8:24 p.m., 8:25 p.m., 8:26 p.m., 8:27 p.m., 8:28 p.m., 8:29 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 8:31 p.m., 8:32 p.m., 8:33 p.m., 8:34 p.m., 8:35 p.m., 8:36 p.m., 8:37 p.m., 8:38 p.m., 8:39 p.m., 8:40 p.m., 8:41 p.m., 8:42 p.m CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY 5:45 p m .Chicago and Peoria Express.8:00 a m 7:00 p m .Albia Accommodation...5:45 a m KEOKUK & WESTERN 10:05 a m .Mall and Express...5:40 p m 10:45 a m .Mall and Express...5:40 p m CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN CHICAGO NORTH ST. NASHVILLE 9:15 p.m. Chicago Special. 9:00 a.m. 1:10 p.m. Colorado W. Special. 9:40 p.m. *11:30 a.m. Chicago Limited. 9:00 p.m. 1:05 a.m. Dakota Limited. 2:00 a.m. *7:55 p.m. Chicago Express. 7:00 a.m. *5:40 a.m. Chicago Night Express. 9:00 p.m. Chicago. Chicago. Fast Mall! 9:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Fast Mall! 9:00 a.m. C. M & ST. P. - FONDA LINE. 11:05 a m... Fonda Express ... 4·10 p m 5·45 p m... Fonda & Stoux City Lim... 1·30 C & M & ST B-POOEN LIME 11:30 a m... Boone Express ... 4·00 p m 7:25 a m... Mall & Express... 8:00 a m 4·50 a m... Chicago Limited ... 11:15 a *Daily.* †Daily. All other trains daily except Sanday CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY- Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Gande (Seaic 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 - situated on 11th St, between 11th A.M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at 11 A.M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at 7 P.M. Rev. S. Bates, P. tor. St. Paul A. M. E. - Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School at 5 o'clock Epworth League at 9 p.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. L. E. J. Phillippe, pastor. First African Baptist Church - Corner School and Fourth streets. Rev. F. Lomack pastor. Preaching 10:30 a.m.; Sunday school 9:30 p.m., Mr. M. E. Houston, Superintendent: Young People's meeting 7 p.m., preaching 90 p.m. Bura's M. E. - East Second and Des Molines street. Preaching 7 p.m.; Sunday School at 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday School at 12:30 Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p.m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor, 320 Des Molines street. Mount Nebo Baptist Church - E. Second street, service, preaching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 12:30 p.m., Superintendent, Rose Johnson. Preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. H. Bell, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 2, A. F. A. M.-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall- Fourth and Court avenue. J. H. Shepard, W. M.; J. L. Thompson, secretary. Ring Solomon Commandery, No. 6- Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Fred Jackson, M. C.; G. H. Clegget, Rec. Charity Lodge, No. 3192, G. U. of O. F.- Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and streets. D. Buras, N. G.; F. Brown, P. S. Naomi Court, No. 3- meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary. Mt. Olive Court, No. 4- Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. Susan Worth, matron; Mrs. Flaora Majors, secretary. Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World No. 173 Victoria Lodge-meets every Monday for a center of tenth Center streets. Mrs. E. A. Wood, Proctor; Mrs. Rose Johnson, Secretary. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 689. DES MOINES, IOWA. MORGAN-HOUSE, Des Molnes Iowa. To remove a troublesome cor or bunion: First soak the corn or bunion in warm water to soften it, then pare it down as closely as possible without drawing blood and apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice daily; rubbing vigorously for five minutes at each application. A corn plaster should be worn for a few days, to protect it from the shoe. As a general liniment for sprains, bruises, lameness and rheumatism, Pain Balm is unequaled. For sale by all Druggists. CALIFORNIA First-Class Sleepers Daily between are carried on the limited trains of the GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE D. & R. G.--R. G. W.--Son. Pac. Best Scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada By Daylight in Both Directions. Best Dining Car service Buffet Library Cars. Send for "Chicago to Cal ifornia," describing the journey through. Low Rate PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS To San Francisco and Los Angeles. Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Sculce Route Leave Chicago Thursdays via Sonic Route. Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Southern Route. Improved Tourist Cars—Fast Trains. Write for itinerary and "Tourist Dictionary." JOEN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. CHICAGO NELSONS STRAIGHTINE THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KINNY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is a safe, certain and reliable preparation. It is absolutely free from all injurious chemicals, and cannot injure the most delicate skin, not only straightens the hair, but removes Bandhid stimulates the roots of the hair, keeps it from falling out, and produces a rich, long and luxurious head of hair. Cures all kinds of colly diseases, dissolves it, fumes, and is in every way an elegant article for the toilet. It has been tested by thousands with the unanimous verdict that it is the best preparation made. Price, 28 cents at drugs stores, or send by mail, supplying for 30 cents in stamps. Address, NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. Agents wanted. Write for terms. Bent on Revenge Indianapolis Journal: "The Dwigues are queer people." "What's the matter now?" "Well, somebody in the neighborhood broke their lawn mower last summer, and they are round taking up a collection to buy a new one." Snex Shipping Tolls. Receipts from shipping tolls at the Suez canal in the four first months of 1900 were $5,746,000, against $6,425,000 in the same period of 1899 and $5,-705,000 in 1898. Phoenix Park This is a fine public pleasure ground and favorite resort in Dublin, Ireland It is one of the beauty spots of the city, and is much admired by tourists Flue Tare Fishing: All of the nimbus in Tampa are much exercised over the tarp 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 tarp line, for they have never before been so near the city. Our job department motto is prompt service, good work and low prices. A trial will convince you. Iowa State Bystander and the leading paper in the North-west. It Goes Into 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns pondence from ma LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. Sketch of the Career of the Hon. Dan lal H. McMillan. The birthplace of Col. D. 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 Collingwood. 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 Fenlan raids at Niagara in 1864, and at Port 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 Colonel Wollseley. 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 1871, Mr. McMillan engaged in Winnipeg in the milling and grain business, with which he remained connected from 1875 until three or four years ago. He built, in 1870, the first flour mill ever erected in the province; and, in the following year, exported to Newapolis 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 Ninetieth 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. In China it is the rule of good society that widows do not remarry. They are not forbidden to do so, but they are thought more highly of if they don't. In order to encourage them the government, when they have passed the age of 50, and have not remarried, confers on them a tablet containing a eulogy of their virtues. Raising the Hat an Ancient Salutation When a knight of old entered a company of ladies he removed his helmet to indicate that he considered himself among friends, and that there was no need to protect himself. This practice has survived in the custom of raising the hat when saluting a lady.—June Ladies' Home Journal. Prince Rupert, the heir to the throne of Bavaria, dislikes the attentions of the White Rose league of England, which, because it recognizes the claims of the Stuarts to the British throne, persists, much to his disgust, in styling him "the rightful prince of Wales." Britain's New Halfpenny Stamp Great Britain has issued a new halfpenny stamp, green in color; a new is bi-colored postage and revenue stamp will also be issued about mid-summer, when the stock of the present single colored green stamp will be exhausted. Widowa Do Not Remarry Prince Rupert's Disliker "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 dly ostel?' What in the name of Confucius is 'dly ostel?' I asked before I realized 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 like 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 they rattled 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 sauce, which was really delicious. The oysters themselves were firm but exceedingly tender, and had a peculiar peppery flavor, differing from anything else I ever tasted. The Chinaman who did the cooking told me he had simply boiled 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. Titled Women in France Modeled in This Material. If you ever received a bonbonnère, a tray, an ansh 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 La 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 odd 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, as the material 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. The Iowa STATE BYSTANDER will be on sale at A. F. Tervalon', cigar store, 2826 State Street, Chicago. Six women and four men, accused of patronizing a bucket-shop in the Rialto building, were fined the costs by Justice Martin yesterday. One of the women, who gave her name as Maria Jones, attempted to leave the courtroom without paying the costs. Detective Wooldridge saw her and he pursued and overtook her at the door. He took her to a cell, where she was kept until she paid the necessary amount—Chicago Tribune. Diamond Polishing Tedious Work. Diamond polishing is a lengthy process. The workmen sit at long tables with their backs to the light and have in front of them small iron wheels revolving with terrible rapidity—1,500 times a minute. The rounded diamonds are dipped in oil and diamond dust, soldered to a handle and placed against the wheel. The many sides of the stone are given here and it is a tedious process. Barratry Case Is Not Pushed. When the charge of barratry, which means the encouragement of lawsuits, made by W. Van Kirk against Attorney Robert E. Cantwell came up for hearing before Justice Severson yesterday a nonsuit was entered by the complainant. Cantwell, it is said, advertised to conduct bankruptcy cases free of charge for any city employees who were in debt to money lenders.—Chicago Journal. Bound to Join the Army A recruit for the British army was taken to be sworn in recently by the magistrate. Everything was going swimmingly till the magistrate asked the man, "Have you ever been in prison?" At this the man looked startled, but quickly recovering himself, he blurted out, "No, sir, I have never been in jail, but I don't mind doing a few days if you think it necessary." A Kaffir Newspaper. It is not generally known that the Kaffirs of south Africa, popularly supposed to be a tribe of wild savages, publish a newspaper. It is called the Imvo and has for its editors Tengo Jabalale and Mr. Makubalo. Contrary to the reports of the leanings of the Kaffirs in the present war, the Imvo strongly sympathizes with the Boers. Clothes Brushes in Cars. The South Chicago Street Railway Company has introduced into its cars whiskbrooms and clothes brushes. These useful articles are placed in a small cabinet in the forward end of the car, within easy reach of the passengers, with an announcement beneath notifying travelers that the brushes are at their disposal. Nine Barrels of Stamps A dealer has purchased nine harleys full of United States stamps, but this mammoth transaction has not created a ripple on the market. There are no Brattleboros, St. Louis, New Haven—nothing but plain every-day stamps, and the dealer intends to sell them by the thousand. They will come in handy to decorate furniture. Treaty Elm A monument now marks the place where stood the famous tree in the environs of Philadelphia, Pa., under which William Penn negotiated the treaty with the Indian chiefs, of which it has been said that it is "the only one ever made without an oath, and the only one never broken." Tolstol's Daughters Assist Count Leo Tolstoi is assisted in his literary work by his two daughters Tatjana and Marcha, who have more than ordinary talent. "However great I may be or not be as a novelist," said Tolstoi recently, "I am much greater as a correspondent, because my two daughters write all my letters." Growth of Book Publishing. During the past few years the book publishing industry has increased, like all others. In 1897 and 1898 the industry was at a low ebb, less than 3,000 new books being put on the market in either year; but in 1899 no fewer than 6,000 books were published in this country. The feeling in Germany against the wholesale slaughter of birds in Italy is getting very bitter. This year very few swallows have come from the south, and it is feared that in a few years they will be practically exterminated. Gotham Might Not Approve. It is said that Commissioner Peck hesitated to offer champagne to his guests at the opening of the United States pavilion at the exposition, "as he was afraid that it would not be approved in New York." A Billion Dollars Employed. A good English authority estimates that $1,000,000,000 foreign capital is now operating in Russia in manufacturing, industrial, steamship and other enterprises. Prince of Wales Studying Law Princes of Wales studying law. The prince of Wales still pursues his law studies most systematically. He was chosen a bencher of the middle temple a number of years ago. Great Britain's Insane For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in the number of Great Britain's insane. "Gonova" Tablets are mailed and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Begin, 111, to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorrhoea, Gloeet, Whites, Lucorhoeas, unnatural discharges, irritations and ulcerations of the urinary organs, and mucous membranes never gives stricture, harmless and painless. An internal remedy with injections combined; only one in the world. Sent per mail on receipt of price, $3 per package or $2 for $6. Don't fool with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of J. T. Hurlbut $6. Des Moines, la. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. SOME GIANT TREES. From 80 to 30 Feet in Diameter and More Than 340 Free 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, on the O. R. & N., says a correspondent of the Portland Oregonian. I used to make every year a trip to the mountains, lasting generally eight to ten days, and it was on one of my last trips, about four years ago, that I discovered on the northeast side of the divide, between the waters of the Bull run and the Hood river, this bunch of giant trees. The like I never saw before or since. Before I saw these giants I had measured from time to time some trees at home which glided 29 to 30 feet around about three feet from the base, but these trees could not be compared at all with the big trees I found in the mountains. They would appear as mere sticks against those giants. I honestly believe that those giants will 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 my mind, somewhere near the north line of the National park, but it is doubtful if they are in it. There are two species of the giant trees. One species has a yellowish and not very rough bark, is straight and round as a candle, has no limbs to an immense height, and has a nice, wonderful crown. The father of this very aristocratic species in our mountains is surely the emperor of our forest. People must not think that this tree is the so-called "noble fir," because I know not only the "noble fir," but many other mountain trees very well. Nor must they think that this species is one of the common trees in the mountains. I cannot say how many such giants there are. There may be hundreds, there may be thousands. 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He had suffered greatly during his sickness and gradually sunk away, being unconscious for several hours before death, and so far as could be known suffering no pain. Appreciating the approach of the end, Mrs. Davis sent for the venerable T. H. M. Villiers Appleby, archacheon of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Minnesota, and the Rev. Theodore Sedgwick, rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. An attempt had been made to secure the attendance of Bishop Whipple, but that venerable prelate was in Florida. Upon the arrival of archacheon Appleby and the Rev. Mr. Sedgwick, Senator Davis was for a time sufficiently rational to express his grateful appreciation of their ministrations. In his delirium he raved of his congressional work. He would declare in vigorous phrases fragments of the nation's foreign policy. There was, of course, no coherence. A sentence about the Philippines would be followed by a comment upon the Monroe doctrine or a suggestion of an impending war with Spain. But always, in his diseased mind, his patriotic and official duties were with him. Born In New York State. Cushman Kellogg Davis was born at Henderson, Jefferson county, N. Y., June 16, 1838. His father removed to Wisconsin in 1838 and settled in Waukesha on a farm, where the son was brought up. Cushman K. passed his first three collegiate years in Carrollton college, Waukesha, and went thence to the University of Michigan, where he graduated in the classical course in 1857. He studied law with Alexander W. Randall, afterward the war governor of Wisconsin, and was admitted to practice in 1859. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. After a thorough preparation he commenced the practice of law in Waukesha. In 1862 he closed his law office and wont into the war as first lieutenant, company B, 28th Wisconsin infantry. He served nearly two years in the Army of the Tennessee. In 1864, being disabled by the hardships of the service, he resigned from the army, and sought and found in Minnesota a restorative of health thus impaired. In 1864 C. K. Davis came to St. Paul and formed a co-partnership with his late chief in the army service, GW. A. Gorman, ex-governor of Minnesota territory. A. Governor of Minnesota. In June, 1873, Davis was nominated as the Republican candidate for governor after a lively contest. He was duly elected governor, and his official record was in every respect honorable. It was decided to present Gov. Davis as a candidate before the legislature of 1875 for United States senator against Alexander Ramsey, who had for twelve years held that office. The contest was a memorable one. Ramsey, Davis, W. D. Washburn and Austin were candidates. The battle was carried from the caucus into the open legislature. Here, after many days of fruitless voting, a compromise was effected by which Chief Justice S. J. R. McMinnan was chosen. After his defeat for the senatorship Gov. Davis declined a renomination and retired to private life at the end of his two years' term. He resumed the practice of law, but his eloquent voice and pen were in frequent demand on occasions of public ceremony. Elected United States Senator. In 1884 the Blaine men of Minnesota selected C. K. Davis as their standard-bearer and sent him as delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention. He made the principal nominating speech for Blaine. During all of 1886 the state press, with striking unanimity, advocated the election of C. K. Davis as United States senator, and the legislature of 1887 elected him for the term of six years commencing March 4, 1887. Work Strong in Foreign Affairs. After his appointment to a position on the committee on foreign relations Senator Davis came to the front as an authority on diplomacy and international law. During the controversies attendant on the Chilean dispute and the Bering sea matter Senator Davis was the trusted confident and legal adviser of President Harrison and Secretary Blaine, furnishing at their request briefs on some of the most intricate questions, involved, which were gratefully acknowledged as very important contributions toward strengthening the case of the government. On the Paris Peace Commission. During the last four years Senator Davis' position as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the state, and lister as one of the Paris commissioners, have kept him prom- inently before the public of all nations. He was re-elected without opposition in 1899 for his third term. Senator Davis had been twice married. His first wife was Miss Laura Bowman, and after she had secured a divorce from him he married, in 1880, Miss Anna Malcolm Agnew. The Senator's Lost Words. The Senator Davis's last conscious utterance was the expression of a wish to live; not for the sake of life itself, but because he believed his country needed him. His words were: "Oh, that I might live five years more for my country's sake." Must Name Two Senators. must Name two Senators. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 29.—A number of names have been informally put forth for the place left vacant by the death of Senator Davis. Among those who have been mentioned are Former Senator W. D. Washburn, Thomas Lowry, the street railway magnate; P. H. Peavey, the millionaire grain-elevator man; Congressman Loren Fletcher, all of Minneapolis; Director of the Census W. H. Merriam and State Senator H. F. Stevens of St. Paul. The legislature must name two senators, as Nelson's term expires March 4. May Make Cpllom Chairman. Washington, D. C., Nov. 28—Senator Davis' death leaves the committee on foreign relations without a chairman. Senator Frye of Maine is the ranking member, but he is also president pro tem. of the senate. The next member is Senator Cullom, and it is likely that he and Senator Lodge will have charge of the fight for the ratification of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. President McKinley was informed of the senator's demise and sent a telegram of condolence to the widow. COMMISSIONER WILSON DEAD. Gained Fame as an Expert on Internal Revenue Matters. Washington, D. C., Nov. 28.—George Washington Wilson, commissioner of internal revenue, died at 9:30 a.m. today. Pneumonia, following a severe cold caught last Thursday, was responsible for death. Mr. Wilson was 57 years old and a native of Ohio. He entered the union, army when 18 years old as a private in the 54th Ohio volunteer infantry and served throughout the war, coming out a first lieutenant. In 1866 he took up the practice of law and in 1869 entered the internal revenue service. He acted in various capacities, rising from one important position to another until he became the head of the bureau. Commissioner Wilson was regarded as the most thoroughly informed man on internal revenue subjects that ever entered the government service, and was consulted on all measures affecting the revenues that have been before congress for many years. WARSHIP IMPRESSES SULTAN. He Still Refuses Exequatur to American Consul at Harpoor. Constantinople, Nov. 28.—The relations between the United States government and the gritse are becoming acute. Mr. Griscom, the American charge d'affaires, went to the Yildiz palace Sunday and had an interview with Tewfik Pasha, minister of foreign affairs, and Tahsin Bey, first secretary at the palace. The interview, however, was barren of result. While the porte outwardly persists in the attitude it has assumed regarding the questions of granting an exquatur to the United States consul at Harpoot, there is reason to believe that the dispatch of the battleship Kentucky to Smyrna has made a marked impression in official circles. CZAR IS IMPROVING DAILY. His Condition and General Strength Arc Satisfactory. Livadia, European Russia, Nov. 28. The improvement in the czar's condition continues, judging from the following bulletin, issued today: "The czar passed a good day yesterday. At nine o'clock in the evening his temperature was 97.9; pulse, 66. During the night his majesty slept well. This morning the emperor's condition and general strength were perfectly satisfactory. Temperature, 96.8; pulse, 66." Ryan Gets Decision. Chicago, Nov. 29.—Tommy Ryan made a clever, masterful and aggressive fight against youthful "Kid" Carter of Brooklyn at Tattersall's last night and won in six rounds. He was forced to extend himself farther than he has done since he faced "Kid" McCoy in the same ring. Carter was willing to swap blows and was game to the core. Senator Morgan Re-elected. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 29.—John T. Morgan will again represent the state of Alabama in the United States senate. The state legislature today in separate houses voted for senator, and Mr. Morgan received every vote cast. The result will be formally announced in joint session. Plot in the Belgian Army. Brussels, Nov. 29.—An anarchistic plot has been discovered at Bouillon in the province of Namur among the soldiers of the infantry regiments stationed there. It is stated that the plotters had arranged to poison and shoot a fellow-officer and some of the leading citizens. Rebels Ambush Infantry Manila, Nov. 29.—A detachment of the Third United States infantry was ambushed on Sunday near Malolos. The Ladrones fired a volley at the Americans, killing two privatees of Company F and wounding three. The insurgents escaped into a swamp. SENATOR DAVIS IS DEAD He Passed Away After an Illness of Over Two Months. St. Paul, Mnn., Nov. 28.-United States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the senate, died at his home in this city, last evening at 8:48 o'clock after an illness of two months. He has suffered greatly during his sickness, and gradually away, seeing, being for several hours more death, and, so far as could be known, suffering no pain. For more than a week it has been known that the death of Senator Davis was certain to occur within a short time. Although the bulletins issued by Dr. Stone from day to day and the effect, they nevertheless gave the impression that the case was a hopeless one. However, the announcement came as a profound shock to the friends and fellow townsmen of the distinguished statesman, who had been devoted wife, and devoted wife, who had been in constant attendance upon his sick bed, had never lost hope. The senator, in his moments of acuity, expressed a strong determination to recover, and within a week tolled United States District attorney Evans, who had limited the time to take his positive he would soon be well. The serious kidney affection which developed on November 11 had refused to yield to treatment, and his weakened frame was unable to withstand the poisons left in his system by these organs failing to perform their functions. On Sunday, November 18, a serious change occurred, and from that time on it was evident that he could not recover. Mr. Davis was elected United States senator in 1887. Throughout his first term he was chairman of the committee on pensions. As a member of the committee on territories, Senator Davis led the fight for the admission of the Dakotas to statehood, making his first speech in the senate on that subject. At the beginning of his second term, he joined the committee on foreign relations and when Senator Sherman was transferred to the cabinet of President McKinley, Senator Davis was placed at the head of that important committee. In 1895-'96 many friends of the senator pressed his name for the press,ential nomination, but before the state convention to name delegates met, he withdrew and McKinley delegated the nomination. During the past four years Senator Davis' position as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate and later as one of the Paris peace commissioners have kept him prominently before the public of all nations. He was re-elected without opposition in 1889 for his thrd term. CHAMPION FOR PAUL KRUGER. President Loubet of France Yields to Public Sentiment Paris, Nov. 25.—President Kruger's reception in Paris was another grand ovation, such as he had witnessed at every point along the road from Marseilles. 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Kruger's car is carried away by public sentiment, Premier Waldeck-Rousseau scorns public opinion and is unmoved by sentiment. The scene in the cabinet meeting between Loubet and his premier will be memorable. With only three members of his cabinet on his side Loubet carried the day on the question of Kruger as a member of state. There is intense excitement in Paris. The Conservative Temps declares that Loubet's attitude changes the character of Kruger's visit and may effectively secure intervention by arbitration, and adds: "The skepticism and egotism of the government may be forced aside by the current of popular opinion, which, more generous than the cabinets of Europe, may at least obtain the same ameliorations in the face of the acceptance of ML de Thiers, which secured a modification of the German demands. Kruger grows hourly more determined in his mission. 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Refuse substitutes. IS SURE Evacuation Oil cures Rheumatism. 15 & 25 cts. 300 W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES $350 UNION MADE M. B. H. The real worth of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes compared with other makes is Our $4.00 Gilt Edge Lime cannot be equalled at any price. Over 1,000 satisfied wearers. USE FAST COLOR EYELETS FACTORY, SHROCKTON, MASS We are the largest makers of men's shoes. We make the most comfortable shoe and sell more $3 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the U. S. The reputation of W. L. BEST BEST $3.50 shoe. They have to give better satisfaction the standard has always been the best. We expect more for their money than they can get elsewhere. One pair of W. L. BEST $3 or $3.50 shoes will will positively outwear two pairs of ordinary $3 or $50 shoes. THE MEASON more W. L. Dougus $ and $.20 THE BEST. Your dealer should keep me; we give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Dougus shoes with price stamped on bottom. Dougus shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. If your dealer will not get them for you, send direct to society, enclosing price stamped on bottom, size and width, and print or cante. Our shoes will reach you anywhere. Catalogue Free. W. L. Dougus Shoe Co. Brockton, Mass. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY gives quick relief and cures wounds. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS' treatment. DE. R. H. GREEN'S SONS, BF E, Atlantic, Ga. Without interfering with your regular duties, you can make money by means of our offer of $17,500 FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS. Send for full particulars. THE DELINIATOR 7 to 17 W. 13th St., New York, PISOIS CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Gough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Bold by druggists. CONSUMPTION MRS. E. J. GOODEN, Ackley, Iowa." WARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the importance of the testimonial letters we are constantly publishing, we have with the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $,5,000 be paid to any person who will show that the above is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the special permission. -LYDIA R. PUNZZAM MEDICINE Co. A rural editor says that cider is the spirit of the press. Don't Spoil Your Clothes By using inferior soaps. Maple City Self Washing Soap is absolutely pure and is guaranteed not to injure the finest fabrics. All grocers sell it. "Tis sweet to meet a loved one, but heart-breaking to part. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in flammation, allays pain, cures wind colds in a bottle. The talkative bore is the worst kind of a pneumatic tire. SEVERE HEADACHES of any kind are caused by disordered Kidneys. Look out also for backache, scalding urine, dizziness and brick-dust or other sediment in urine which has been allowed to stand. Heed these warnings before it is too late. reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleeplessness, weakness, loss of vitality, impatient kidney, bladder function, that cannot be cured by MORTOWS $50 KID-NE-OIDS the great scientific discovery for shattered nerves and thin impermeable blood. 100% people enured by Kid-no-olds. In writing them please enure them damped addressed nerves. George Launder, Blacksmith, Fort Dodge. Mrs. Thos. Ward, 11th St. & 3d Ave., Fort Dodge. Bruce Dale, Blacksmith, Fort Dodge. J. R. Munk, Teacher, Fort Dodge. Mrs. Holsler, 237 13th St., South, Fort Dodge. John Kling, Carpenter, Independence. J. R. Mean, Engineer, Independence. Morrow's Kid-ne-olds are not pills, but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box at drug stores. JOHN MOBROW & CO. CHEMISTS. Springfield, O. KRUGER ASKS POWERS' AID. London Hears That He Petitions for Arbitration UNDER HAGUE CONVENTION. It Is Reported Two Nations Have Acceded to the Request—Boer Chief Calls on French Premier and is Feted by Paris Council. London, Nov. 23.—The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says he hears that President Kruger has petitioned the powers for arbitration under the The Hague convention, that two powers acceded to his request, but that all the others rejected the petition. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail wires that he had a conversation with Mr. Kruger yesterday and that the Boer statesman grew excited and vehement when the reporter hinted that England would ignore all attempts to secure arbitration and would fight any combination of powers rather than give up the republics. "Mr. Kruger insisted," says the correspondent, "that Mr. Chamberlain had signed The Hague convention and could not withdraw. He said that England had earned a just punishment and that if there was a God she would be punished." Calls On the Premier Paris, Nov. 29.—Mr. Kruger began a busy day by making an official call. Before 9 o'clock he departed from the Hotel Scribe, driving in a landau surrounded by republican guards and bicycle policemen, to visit the premier, M. Waldeck-Roussau. He was accompanied by Dr. Leyds, Dr. Van Hammel and Delegate Fischer. The party was met at the entrance to the premier's saloon by M. Ulrich, director of the cabinet, who introduced the visitors to the prime minister. The interview took place in M. Waldeck-Roussau's private study and lasted ten minutes. At 9:30 o'clock the premier, accompanied by M. Ulrich, returned the call. The officials of the municipal council of Paris and of the general council of the Scline were received at 10 a. m. by Mr. Kruger in the Hotel Scribe. The interview was private and brief. Immediately after the visitors had departed Mr. Kruger drove to the Hotel de Ville. He received an ovation from a large crowd massed in the square in front of the edifice. Mr. Kruger was conducted to the debating hall, where he was given the arm chair reserved for representatives of governments. The municipal councilors and the people in the public galleries loudly cheered the distinguished visitor. Vice President Escudler delivered an eloquent address, saying Paris had given Mr. Kruger a welcome worthy of his noble character and the grandeur of his cause. He also said: "You have heard the heart of Paris beat. It is the heart of France. Let the peoples speak and speak loudly and arbitration will impose itself as a necessary satisfaction to justice and civilization." Mr. Kruger said: "Ah, why cannot they hear your acclamations? It would redouble their courage." Henri Rochefort, accompanied by a deputation, including Deputies Millevoye and Paulin Mery, Senator Provost Delauney and MM. Coppee and Lemaitre, today presented Mr. Kruger with a sword of honor destined for General Cronje, now a prisoner on the island of St. Helena. KRUGER COMING HERE. Will Probably Seek Refuge and a Permanent Home in America. New York, Nov. 28.—Samuel Pearson, formerly commissary-general of the Transvaal army, who has just arrived in this country with a number of other Boer refugees, is responsible for the statement that President Kruger will probably soon seek refuge and a permanent home here. "President Kruger will leave Paris very soon, I believe," said Gen. Pearson, "and come to America, where with his wife he will make a home until such time as our arms have triumphed and he can return to the South African Republic to take up again his office as chief executive of the Boers." DEATH VISITS DOWIE. "Divine Healer's" Sister, Recently Wed Expires at Sea. Chicago, Nov. 29.—"Dr. John Alexander Dowie, who pretends to be possessed of the power of "divine healing," has had the misfortune to have death visit his family and remove his sister, Mrs. Samuel Stevenson, who was recently wedded. Mr. Stevenson is a lace manufacturer, formerly of Beoston Notts, England, who was known at the Michigan avenue Zion as "Deacon" Stevenson. He became interested in the proposed lace industries at the new Zion city, near Waukegan, Ill., and the couple were married a few months ago and accompanied Dowie on his English proselytizing trip and incidentally to arrange for the shipping of lacemaking machines and the importation of lace workers. On the return ocean voyage Mrs. Stevenson became ill with pneumonia. Medical treatment was denied and she died within a few days. She was buried at sea, and Mr. Stevenson reached New York a few days later. He is expected in Chicago today. Portuguese Out After Dowet. Lorenzo Marques, Nov. 29.—A detachment of eighty mounted Portuguese troops, with two guns, crossed the river this morning to Catembo. It is reported Gen. Dewet is in Portuguese territory, and in that district. If you want a beautiful complication, a bright eye, a good appetite, an active liver, bowels regular as clockwork, and vigorous, healthy body, use Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial, the great system renovator. It cures all diseases to which women are subject, such as weakness, debility, melancholy, nervous prostration, etc. Sold by agent in every town. Women's wrongs are of more importance than women's rights. 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 healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. It is harder for some to save money than to earn it. Dysppeala, Indication, all stomach and bowel troubles positively cured by Taber's Pensin Compound. Sample bottle sent by Eall free. Write Dr. Tater, Peoria, Ill. There are many beings on earth who consider their folly wisdom. To Promote Good Digestion. If after Thanksgiving Day the appetite is poor take Garfield Tea; it will cleanse the system and stimulate the appetite. Practical Christianity is when you trends on your corn. Russ' Bleaching Blue makes clothes whiter than snow, delights the launress. All grocers sell it in 5 and 10 cent packages. The iceman is seldom voted for his freezing politeness. Hint to Housekeepers To preserve woolens, etc., use Maple City Self Washing Soap. All grocers sell it. Few women are cheerful in getting over a love affair. Conquering 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 once; delays are dangerous. A woman with a bad temper is seldom the rage. Carter's Ink is used by millions, which is a sure proof of its quality. Send for free booklet, "Inklings." Address Carter's Ink Co., Boston, Mass. Some people go around as if life were a perpetual funeral. "Genovia" Tablets are guaranteed by the Kidd Drew Co. With the help of their clichés, and fannations of the urinary system, binder, etc. Internal with injection. Per mail £5, or 2 for £5. Retail and wholesale of J. K. Harbut Co. Des Moines, Iowa. It may not hurt a joke to crack it, but some of the crackers ought to be hurt. Whole Wholesale Prices CATALOGUE AND BUYER'S GUIDE WINTER 1901 1901 MONTGOMERY WARD & GO. CHICAGO. The building shown on the cover is owned and exclusively occupied by us. It is the tallest mercantile building in the world. Our sole business is done by mail, with out-of-town buyers, and we charge wholesale prices only. Enterprise Food C I.2 Everybody the Enter- best of all peas. In everywhere ual price chops any coat m dod ute In with chopping knife. All hand- ned; has dura bearings; weighs Order C6498P Order C6498P This is one of the leaders among our hanging armatures with steel bolts bronze with gold finish; patent improved spring extension. Length closed, length closed. 14-inch done shade fancy, fountage to match; cut glass prisms; large No. 25 sun armature. 14-inch wick and ordinary No. 25 sun chinch. Cut this slip out and send it to us Montgomery Ward & Co., Michigan Enclosed find 15 cents for partial postage or expire Huyerr Guido No. 63 for Fall and Winter 1903-01. Name (Be sure to write Postoffice County. If there is an express office at above address, we press. You should receive notice from the express- before writing for another catalogue. Is sure to ou This slip was clipped from W. N. U. Montgomery W Cut this ship out and send it to us with 15 cents in stamps. Montgomery Ward & Co., Michigan Ave., and Madison St., Chicago Enclosed find 15 cents for partial postage or expressage on your zipper catalogue and Buyer Gate Number 08 for Fall and Winter 1900-01. *Postoffice.* County. State. If there is an express office at above address, we will probably send the catalogue by express mail. If there is an express greet if you do not, please inquire of him before writing for another catalogue. It is prior to use this slip in an envelop. This slip was cliped from W. F. U. To Promote Good Digestion. Carter's Ink Ha Or Pr A booklet giving the population or all cities of the United States of 25,000 and over according to the census of 1900, has just been issued by the Passenger department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained by sending your address, with two-cent stamp to pay postage, to the General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago. 11 It is always in order to attend to your own affairs. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constituting a hearing aid. A hearing aid can be inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is not possible. A tube can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by eartrash, which can be inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot hear Hall's Catarrh Cure Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A pistol is doubly dangerous when the owner is loaded. BIG MONEY made in gold mining. Write C H. Crabtree, Des Moine, Ia., for particulars. Many a novel writer never wrote a novel. FITS Personally can sell its ownvoices after first dog's use of Dr. Kine's great Nerve Restore, for SEND for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatie. DR. R. H. KLISK, Ltd., 981 Archs. Philadelphia, Pa. When a man is as hungry as a bear he is just about as cross. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! $3,000 new lands now to settlement. Giving information about these lands. One year, $1,000. Single copy. Ic. Subscribers receive free illustrated book on Oklahoma. Morgan's Manual (310 page settlers' guide). Subscribers receive a book on above $1.75. Address Dick T. Morgan, Perry, O. T. ROCKEFELLI 35 cent sellers. They press, create and keep the trous looking always like new. Apply quickly if best terrific BB Monroe Street, Depart ROCKEFELLER'S Patent trousers forms are making a whirlwind of dollars for agent's. Unconsolidated looking always like new. Apply quickly for best territory. STANDARD WIRE WORKS 188 Monroe Street, Department A D, Chicago, III. TABER'S PEPSIN COMPOUND Contains Pepsin, Bismuth, Nux Vomica, Diasase 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. Buy one bottle, and if not satisfied, the druggist will refund it first, send us your name and address bottle. Mention this paper and write esale P On 70,000 Send for Our Catalogue with 1,200 Pages. We are the largest store in the world doing an sales; no agents; no branch stores. This is 28 years ago; and our sales exceed those of States combined. Let us give you some figures. at £3,500,000. We occupy 25 acres of floor space, ea customers who buy from us by mail. From 15,000 daily. Our average daily shipments are 2,600 paying mail—total of 15,000 package daily. And this business has been built by selling to users our catalogue for anything is about what your dealer's profit. We sell practically everything—of the things that you eat—and we save you from that each article is as represented; and we exhue transportation, if you find it otherwise. We make We have just issued a new catalogue—No. 05 book of its kind ever published. It contains 1,500 purely and truthful descriptions of 70,000 things for everything. This catalogue would be free of fees to mail it. Each book delivered costs us about 15 cents—less than the postage—and we will sell prepaid. If it disappoints you we will send the 15 cents $100 per year by it. The prices and pictures below order any article from this advertisement, please each article, enclose the price stated, and the goods it first, send us your name and address and we will mail you a free sample bottle. Mention this paper and write DR. TABER MFG. CO., Peoria, IL. Send for Our Catalogue with 1,200 Pages, 17,000 Pictures, 70,000 Prices. We are the largest store in the world doing an exclusive Mail Order business. No city sales; no agents; no branch stores. This is the original Catalogue business, founded 28 years ago; and our sales exceed those of all other mail order houses in the United States combined. Let us give you some figures. The store contains merchandise valued at $2,500,000. We occupy 25 acres of floor space, employ 2,000 clerks and have two million customers who buy from us by mail. From 15,000 to $30,000 orders and letters come to us daily. Our average daily shipments are 2,500 packages by freight, 4,000 by express and 0,500 by mail—a total of 15,000 packages daily. Annual sales, $12,000,000,000, has been made in all wholesale prices. The price given in our catalogue for each item is about what your dealer buys. We save you the dealer's profit. We soll practically everything—all the things that you wear or use; most of the things that you eat—and we save you from 15 to 50 per cent on all. We guarantee that each article is as represented; and we exchange, or pay your money back with all transportation, if you find it otherwise. We make it a pleasure to deal with us. We have just issued a new catalogue—No. 63—the largest, finest, and most complete book of its kind ever published. It contains 1,500 pages with 17,000 pictures. It gives wholesale prices and truthful descriptions of 70,000 things. It will tell you what your dealer pays for everything. This catalogue would be free if you could call for it, but we must pay $2 cents to mail it. Each book delivered costs us about $1. We ask you, therefore, to send us 15 cents to mail it. The catalogue by mail or express prepaid. If it disappoints you we will send the 15 cents back. Almost all family and friends pay $100 per year by it. The prices and pictures below are taken from this catalogue. If you order any article from this advertisement, please give the order number as stated under each article, enclose the price stated, and the goods will be promptly shipped. with 15 cents in stamps. Ave., and Madison St., Chicago message on your 120-page Catalogue and very plainly.) State. will probably send the catalogue by ex- port. If you do not, please inquire of him was this slip in an envelope. Ward & Co. Michigan & Madison "The Lakeide" is the famous watch made on the island of Lakeland, made after the larch match. It is a 12-jewel nickel movement, it is a 12-jewel watch, wind and set. At this price we fit it in a dust-proof silver case, for prices with other cases face, for prices with other cases face. No. 08 General Catalogue. B Order X112P Deafness Cannot Be Cared Lakeside Watch Cut out the slip below this, fill it out carefully, enclose it to us with 15 coins and dampens it on coins and express or express prepaid, our mammoth catalogue. It would be free if you can hold it all the postage alone costs us $2 cents. You will then have in one book the price on almost everything that anybody buys. Send today, be prepared if you are disappointed when you get it we will return your 15 cents. COME AND GO In many forms Rheumatism Neuralgia Lumbago Sciatica make up a large part of human suffering. They come suddenly, but they go promptly by the use of St. Jacobs Oil which is a certain sure cure. THE MERCHANTS TRANSFER CO. of Des Moines, IA, and the Western agents for the American Forwarding & Mercantile Co., Chicago, III. Parties moving to the coast and intermediate points will find it greatly to their advantage to write to The Merchants Transfer Co. Des Moines, IA, for particulars, rates, etc. PATENTS WITHOUT FEE unless successful MILO B. STEVENE & CO., Estab. 1864, Dv. of Chicago, N.J. Branch offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. W. N. U., Des Moines, No. 48-1900 ER'S Patent trousers forms are making a whole office of forgeries. Unqualified trousers STANDARD WIRE WORKS Territory. Department A D, Chicago, III. 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. Buy one bottle, and if not satisfied, the druggist will refund your money—or, if you want to try Press and we will mail you a free sample DR. TABER MFG. CO., Peoria, Ill. DR. TABER MFG. CO., Peoria, Ill. Prices 10 Things. Prices, 17,000 Pictures, 70,000 Prices. An exclusive Mail Order business. No city is the original Catalogue business, founded of all other mail order houses in the United States. The store contains merchandise valued up to $2,000 clocks and have two million to $8,300 orders and letters come to us 10 packages by freight, 4,000 by express and Annual sales, $12,000,000. Users at wholesale prices. The price given in dealer pays the wholesaler. We save you the great all the things that you wear or use; most from 15 to 50 per cent on all. We guarantee cheapest back with all make it a pleasure to deal with us. 0.65—the largest, finest, and most complete 200 pages with 17,000 images. It gives whole- lings. It will tell you what your dealer pays it will call for it, but we must pay $2 about $1. We ask you, therefore, to send us when you buy the catalogue by mail or express It makes up almost any family can save low are taken from the catalogue. If you please give the order number as stated under goods will be promptly shipped. 1.50 This is a genuine Tyrian, the famous KU mountain Syrinx, two quart size, with globe spray vaginal pipe, vaginal irrigator, rectal pipes for child and adult, and finishing size tubing to permit rapid flow of water. Put up in polished hardwood box. Order S2407P.....Price $1.50 Postage, extra. 28 cents. Avenue son Street, Chicago 4.75 This is one of the newest and one of the swellest of storm collars, and we have ordered in order the belief that thousands will want them. Our cost was so low that we can afford a price attractive. Made in imitation fox, light gray in color; style like how we want collars the prettiest and most becoming collars that we know of. It combines light and warmth. We think that no woman can find a style that she likes better at anywhere near such a price. Order X112P Price $4.75 --- on personal, chattel and other securities. Everything private. Loans can be renewed upon payment of extension. Easy payment on mortgages or 18-30 I. E. WILLIAMSON 18-30 Business Manager. 21 11th street, Des Moines. RACE ECHOES. Only one colored soldier wears the Victoria cross, Vance Sergean Gordon of the West Indian regiment. When the monument of Lafayette was presented to France by the school children of America at Paris last summer, the two little girls of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Calloway, were in the official orchestra of the platform as representatives of our race. --- The Alabama State Fair meets at Birmingham next month. This year, as never before, a Negro building will be erected. Mr. George W. Albert Johnson, a graduate of Tuskegee, has been appointed Negro commissioner. --- The Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational Society met at Newark, N. J. last week and the following appropriations were made for academies for the colored people: Central Alabama Academy, Huntsville, Ala., $900; Cookman Academy, Jacksonville, Fla., $2,100; Gilbert Academy, Winsted, La., $2,000; Havan Academy Wayensboro, Ga., $125; La Grang Academy, La Grand, Ga., $100; Meridian Academy, Meridian, Miss., $700; Morristown Academy Morristown, Tenn., $3,000; Samuel Houston Academy, Austin, Texas, $900; West Tennessee Academy, Mason, Tenn., $75. Lake Charles, La. — William Daniels and Ross Johnson were today convicted of murder and sentenced to the state penitentiary for life. This is the first instance in this state where would-be lynchers have been caught, tried and convicted. On Sept. 27 of this year an attempt was made by a Negro here to assault a white woman. The Negro was immediately captured and lodged in jail. At night a mob gathered and attempted to break into the prison The sheriff's deputies resisted, and during the melee one of their number was killed. Daniels and Johnson were convicted of doing the killing. VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPOTENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, fitting for success and happiness in business; professional, social and married life. $2 a package or $3 for $5. Ask your druggist, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Treated and wholesale by J. T. Husburt Co. Des Moines, In. Full line or Rubber Goods; name what you want. Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples, our prices are the lowest Grave Filling Device. A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter so arranged as to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fall. The front is a flexible curtain, extending from the top to the gate, and designed to prevent the earth within from being seen. This receptacle is filled with earth previous to the ceremony and carried to a convenient point. When all is over and the grave is to be filled, the receptacle is placed over it, and the gates opened, thus gently closing the last and scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-bearied return of the earth with a made Des Moines, Ia., July 31, 1900. The city of Des Moines has his representatives during the last two weeks from every part of the state. First in occurrence, if not in importance, was the Chautauqua Assembly, and while the management reports a very small cash balance, the educational interests were quite marked and highly appreciated by those who attended. Last week the races at the mile track were perhaps the best in the history of the organization. There were many horses from a distance and many people from a distance also, while a fairly good interest was manifested by the city itself. This week more than a usual number of outside people are in Des Moines—most of them being called to attend the republican convention. Many candidates and active interest brings many more than the delegates, and while the contests are animated they are good natured. Many of the managers of the State Fair are in the city making preparations for the annual fair, to occur in the last of August and ending September 1st. The grounds have been greatly improved; several new buildings erected; water pipes laid and many conveniences provided for the coming fair. The camp grounds will be especially fitted up, and it is expected that a very large number of the people of the state will avail themselves of the splendid camping facilities and remain on the fair grounds the entire fair. Tents can be rented ready put up at reasonable prices; wood and water are free, and supplies of all kinds can be bought delivered in the camp. The stock interests of the state will be well represented by probably larger and better displays than ever before; while grains, grasses and vegetables will fill to overflowing the large Agricultural hall. The Exposition building promises to be finer and with better displays than ever before. The new Art hall will take many things heretofore put in the Exposition building and will, in part, relieve the demand for space. The special attraction features of the fair have been looked after with the view of excluding all fakes and undesirable shows. Ten side shows have already been granted license, and, in addition to that, there will be a full fledged Midway, but of more interest to fair visitors than the Midway will be the splendid free attractions offered by the society itself. These will consist of a circus and twelve other leading attractions, in addition to races, and the famous Fifty-first band furnishing music. The races are expected to draw many fast horses and attract much attention because the purses are liberal, the lowest for harness races being $600. Chicago, St. Luois and Minneapolis are all represented or will be during the conference of fair officers in regard to the fire works attractions which is to be one of the special, free features of the state fair. The program now under consideration will surpass anything ever seen before in the state, and the set pieces to be provided for being new and novel will attract special attention. The secretary of the state society has had prepared a large lot of electrotypes giving views of the grounds and the buildings, and will send sam to papers in the state desiring to use them; and these pictures give a fair idea of the location of the grounds. Many will probably avail themselves of the opportunity to present the grounds more clearly to their readers. Several folders have been prepared and distributed and the demand has exhausted the supply, although they have been printed in large numbers, but a new one will be prepared as soon as the fire works program has been prepared, and will be sent to all applicants. Full information along any line in connection with the fair will be given by addressing the Secretary of the State Fair Society Des Moines, Iowa. When a baby cries without shedding any tears it is generally reasonably safe to spank him. A conceived young lady says the men are a covet-us lot. To marry for money and miss it it is less painful than to marry for love and miss it. Teplitz, a small watering place in Bohemia, claims the honor of being Gen. Cronej's birthplace. "Fiftyh inch" doesn't mean gold. It means bank bills after they have been in circulation for a dozen years. Be a philosopher, but amldst al your philosophy, be still a man. A life of pleasures is the most unpleasant life in the world. If you are going to give an entertain ment or serve dinner Thanksgiving you will need tickets and dodgers. Com to the Bystander office, our sample and prices will suit you. Subscribe for the Bystander. TIDAL WAVE IN A RIVER. Something Hold the Screetmaster Facinated on the Bank. The moon was riding at the very semith, says the Century, and it dizzied 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 plies beyond which the junks lay. There were shouts and yells, and the usual boatman's pandemonium let loose on the junks as the roaring wave approached. A rocket drops, 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, seething, and a flicking and swirling of still higher billows succeeded—the most sinister sound of sound heard—all speeding, rushing, whirling madly,反复恐临. As the ten-foot wall of foam reached the edge of the pling and the junk platform, it floated the junk loose at the instant. Each junk rode to the flood's fury bow on, bodily up, up, along the sea wall before one's fascinated gaze. In the fierce after-rush, 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 the flood-tide had fungi 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 scudded over the trumpet moon, and the sea's curtain fell on one of the most sensational, spectacular performances the Pacific ocean and 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 giggle 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 dancin' 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, fairly splitkin' their sides with laughin', though they didn't say a word."—London Daily News. A New Idea in Bat Traps A rat and mouse trap which has been patented in all the countries throughout the civilized world issuing patents, the invention of Heinrich Benseler, of Behnrode, Germany, is really an ingenious arrangement, as the animal never gets a chance even to nibble at the bait, and when it once gets into the trap it is automatically locked there without a possible chance of escape. A modified form or 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 rad in Entertaining. An ingenious woman in Cincinnati has inaugurated a "uncheon 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. Keep 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, measure's own anaesthetic 'preserving them.' All Druggista guarantees every bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and will refund the money to anyone who is not satisfied after using two-thirds of the contente. This is the best remedy in the world for la gripe, coughs, colds, group and whooping cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency os a cold to result in pneumonia. Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave Kansas City via the M. K. and T. Ry. every Saturday at 9:05 P. M. for San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francisco. First Sleeper leaves Kansas City nov. 3rd. 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 failing of their old effect. All dispatches and all letters, except the most private, are read to her majesty, who now writes little more than her signature with her own hand. A famous foreign eye doctor has been lately consulted, but without any encouraging result. Not All Ring Devotees While the Queensberry family is generally associated with prize fighting and personal eccentricities, there are members of it who have achieved distinction in other lines. One is the Hon. John Douglas, C. M. G., who has just published in Brisbane an interesting history of Thursday Island, the sentry guarding the northern approach to Australia, where he has been government resident for the last 15 years. New Material in Paper-Making. It has been demonstrated that paper can be manufactured in the south at a handsome profit—the mill at Pensacola, Fla., which has been in successful operation for some months, proves the fact beyond question. This mill is using pitch pine for pulp-making. Recent experiments have shown the availability of wild cane, which grows in vast quantities throughout the southern states, for this purpose. A Queer Advertisement In an English contemporary is the following advertisement of a shooting school: "Forty acres in extent. Gun fitting a specialty. Instructions in the art of shooting. Patent try guns and targets. Most realistic coverts. Practice given at driven birds, high peaants, etc. Any number of sportsmen can be accommodated. Experienced gun fitters and instructors always in attendance." Seven Pines. On May 31, 1862, a severe but indecisive battle was fought between the union and confederate forces, under the command of Gen. McClellan and Gen. Johnson respectively, in a locality a few miles from Richmond, Va. on the Williamsburg road. Seven large pines were located there, and the locality derived its name from the pines. The Siambok Described The sjambok, which is frequently mentioned in dispatches from South Africa, is a long whip, made from rhinoceros hide, and polished till it looks almost like amber. It is very tough and durable, and is used by the Boers upon animals and natives, and also for the chastisement of criminals. The crack of the sjambok sounds like a pistol shot. Selling American Frogs Abroad. One man connected with the Philadelphia zoo has crossed the Atlantic fifty times in charge of animals. He has sold many huge American frogs at $2.50 each to owners of German catates to be used for "decorative purposes" in the ponds and lakes. The basso profundo of our bullfrogs is highly valued abroad. 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 telegraph as follows: "To hell with likes and dislikes." It was in reply to an inquiry if he liked something. A ring brought a messenger, by whom the dispatch was taken to the sending office. Presently the boy returned, saying: "Mister, they can't send it like this; you'll have to change it." The astonished citizen cried: "Can't send it? Change what?" The boy blushingly placed his finger on "hell." Pink rushed to the office. "Look here, operator, what's the matter with this telegraph? Why can't you send it? Are you a Sunday school superintendent?" "No, sir; I am 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. BURLINGTON ROUTE Is the shortest, most satisfactory and pleasantest line to the Black Hills Deadwood, Montana and the northwest Sumptuous chair cars and superior service every day in the week. For particulars call on F. L. Gannaway, City Passenger Agent, Burlington Route 400 Locust St. Des Moines In. ENOELA EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. 220 THIRD ST. PHONE 579. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF RBDEMPTION. 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 Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1890 on the seventh day of December 1890. G Zeillehoff 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, an a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days of the date of publication of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 19th day of September, A. Dyne, Harnas, his coffer Dyne, Harnas, his coffer NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. John Harmon: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Sixty-two (62) in Gray's Subdivision of Lot fifty (50) and part of Lot Sixty-two (62) of Brooks & Company's addition, being included in the Doe's Impoundation. Doe's Impoundation is sold for the taxes of 1896 on the Sixth day of December, 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for such sale will be made from such sale be made 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 H. Patton. Henry A. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To E. Switzer: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wait: Lot One (1) in Block Six (6) of Foundry addition, being included in and forming at part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of on the basis of the 1897 ad valorem 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 the land be made by the owner, which may come from the completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 10th day of October A. D. 1900 John H. Harrison, philograp 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 forming part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold or sold on January 1, 2013 by 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 sale will be made 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. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. Gene Harnack. 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 reents along the line of the M. K & T But man is so constituted—has still so much of the animal in him—that contentment depends not a littleupon his food. To make a man thoroughly dissatisfied with his life and lot, give him bread made from moldy or ill prepared flour. Write "contentment" on his face by baking only "FALCON" flour—always pure and clean and made with care. Milled only by SHANNON & MOTT Co. DES MOINES, IOWA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. NOTICE TO REDEEM 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 Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. The property is hereby sold, purchased by Gun Hunter and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of 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 exert upon me. The property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Wallace J. Berry. Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEME FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Goe. A. Dauner. You are here: notified 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 real estate is described as follows to-wit: Lot Sixteen (10) Block Six (6) Fairview Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of De Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by C. M. Catcath and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Catcath the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within many days from the completed service hereof. J. H. Phillips. Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Geo. A. Danner You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situatin in Folk county, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1896, which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Fifteen (15) Block six (6) Fairview Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by C. M. Catheat and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Catheat the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. Phillips, Lawful holder and owner of certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To J. W. Morris: You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa and described as follows: Lots N. 7, 8. 11, in Block E. Des Moines Co. Addition to Polk City, was sold for taxes on the 6th day of December, 1897 to J. L. Wilson, that the certificate of sale thereof is now owned by said J. L. Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said lots will be made unless redemption 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 N. 9, 10, 13 and 13 in Block E. Des Moines Co. Addition to Polk City, was sold for the taxes on the land, on the condition that the certificate of sale thereof is now owned by J. L. Wilson, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said lots will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Deed this 2nd day of November, A. D. 1900. J. L. Wilson, Des Moines, Iowa 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 particulars address F. L. Gannaway, City Passenger Agent, Burlington Route, 400 Locust street Dan Neal, Ina